73 research outputs found
A comparative analysis of the use of formal and informal social services by persons in St. Thomas. U.S. Virgin islands regarding their social functioning, 2002
No full textThis study researches social service use in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands and San Juan, Puerto Rico. This study was designed to answer one question: Is there a difference between persons who use formal social services and persons who use informal social services with reference to their social functioning? Findings demonstrate that there was a statistically significant difference between users of formal social services and users of informal social services with reference to their social functioning in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The theoretical framework for this study was based on components of George Engel's expanded model of healing. In addition, this study also used social work Persons-in-Environment System of Social Functioning Problems (PIE) by James M. Karls and Karin E. Wandrei to support Engle's model. The hypothesis of the study was: there is no statistical significant difference between persons who use formal social services and persons who use informal social services with reference to their social functioning. This study determined social function by answering the following three questions: Do you need a companion to get around? Do you shop for yourself? Do you handle your own money? The independent variables were formal social services and informal social services. Formal social services were defined as those services provided by the healthcare system. Informal social services were services provided outside the healthcare system. The dependent variable was social functioning. Social functioning is defined as the way a person performs his or her role in society. Study participants were surveyed in four social service agencies in St. Thomas and one in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Data were analyzed utilizing the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS)
Adem Dema për Adem Demaçin
No full textFilan's Quantum Love is a biographical novel about the life of one of the most important personalities of the Albanian world of the 20th century.
Since the author is a participant in the events then the witnessing role of the novel is of particular importance. There is no other novel in Albanian literature that gives a better description of the situation in Kosovo after the Second World War.
The narrator recounts the events by skipping some of them. He fo- cuses on the events, which he selects for the impact they have had on his memory as well as their weight in people's lives.
The structure of the novel allows the author to say a lot in a few words. The novel is divided into two parts: the electronic letters sent to Dardha and the stories that tell about Filan's life. The first part deals with Filan's present, and the stories with his past.
There are many names in the novel, many characters that Filan's life has encountered, but there is only one character that is completely cons- tructed. Despite this some characters, though episodic, remain long in the reader's memory.
The events and situations that are narrated in the novel have a general character as well. They affect not only Filan's life, but also the lives of all the people.
Dialogue is an important component of the text. In many stories we have Filan's confrontation with a character. Such situations are characteri- zed by dialogues, which are in function of defining of the characters, but also in function of testimony for a while. The most frequent dialogues are in the form of questions-answers.
The variety of narrative perspectives sets Filan's Quantum Love apart. Different situations, meeting people of different profiles make the story, but also the dialogue to have the tone, color and discourse that ref- lects the situations, events and the general atmosphere.
In Filan's Quantum Love we also know the inner world of the man who has not hidden his actions and thoughts. Rare are personalities like Adem Demaçi who, throughout their lives, have had in full compliance the word and the action. As a novel about an extraordinary man and about an unusual time; as a novel of artistic and evidential value Filan's Quantum Love should be included in school curricula so that pupils and students, through art, recog- nize an important period in the life of the Albanian people and, why not, recognize one of the most special and important figures of the nation.
Despite the fact that the literary work is analyzed separately from the name of its author, the name of Adem Demaçi will always be in the mind of the reader whenever Adem Dema is read.Punimi trajton njërën prej veprave më të mira të Adem Demaçit: romanin autobiografik Dashuria kuantike e Filanit, në të cilën, duke rrëfyer me “kapërcime”, autori mbulon një kohë rreth gjysmëshekullore. Ngjarjet, situatat, mjedisi, personazhet janë të vërteta, natyrisht të plotësuara me tisin e fiksionit.
Autori është dëshmitar dhe pjesëmarrës i ngjarjeve, prandaj vlera doku- mentare e librit është e një rëndësie të veçantë. Adem Demaçi dëshmon përmes rrëfimit, por edhe përmes dialogëve e përsiatjeve.
Në këtë punim trajtohen tematika, dialogu, personazhet, vlera dëshmuese dhe përgjithësuese e romanit.
Adem Demaçi edhe kësaj radhe, pavarësisht se shkruan roman autobio- grafik, duke rrëfyer për ngjarjet dhe situatat në të cilat e ka shpënë jeta, jep imazhin dhe atmosferën e një kohe jo të zakonshme në historinë e popullit të
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On the problem of the Polish language standard: dema or demu?
No full textThis paper presents difficulties in adapting Ancient Greek borrowings in Polish and the problem with declension of some Hellenic loanwords in Polish. The Attic-Ionic lexeme δῆμος (Mycenaean da-mo [da:mos], Doric and Aeolic δᾶμος) m. ‘a country-district, country, land; the people of a country, the commons’, pl. ‘townships’, was adopted in the 19th or the 20th century into the Polish language in two forms: demos and dem. The former appellative is usually treated as an indeclinable noun and sometimes as a declinable noun (e.g. nom. sing. demos, gen. sing. demosu). The most popular form used in Polish is dem. Unfortunately, the declension of dem is not fi rmly established in the Polish dictionaries. Some of them recommend the declensional forms: dem, gen. sing. dema. However, a different declension (gen. sing. demu) can be found in numerous scientific and popular works devoted to Ancient Greece, as well as in Polish translations of the Hellenic literature. The author suggests the preservation of the traditional declensional paradigm: nom. sing. dem, gen. sing. demu
Stability of n-Dimensional Additive Functional Equation in Generalized 2-Normed Space
No full textIn this paper, the author established the general solution and generalized Ulam-Hyers-Rassias stability of n-dimensional additive functional equatio
Autoantibodies in SLE: Specificities, Isotypes and Receptors
No full textSystemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is characterized by a wide spectrum of auto-antibodies which recognize several cellular components. The production of these self-reactive antibodies fluctuates during the course of the disease and the involvement of different antibody-secreting cell populations are considered highly relevant for the disease pathogenesis. These cells are developed and stimulated through different ways leading to the secretion of a variety of isotypes, affinities and idiotypes. Each of them has a particular mechanism of action binding to a specific antigen and recognized by distinct receptors. The effector responses triggered lead to a chronic tissue inflammation. DsDNA autoantibodies are the most studied as well as the first in being characterized for its pathogenic role in Lupus nephritis. However, others are of growing interest since they have been associated with other organ-specific damage, such as anti-NMDAR antibodies in neuropsychiatric clinical manifestations or anti-β2GP1 antibodies in vascular symptomatology. In this review, we describe the different auto-antibodies reported to be involved in SLE. How autoantibody isotypes and affinity-binding to their antigen might result in different pathogenic responses is also discussed
The Finite Basis Problem for Kiselman Monoids
No full textIn an earlier paper, the second-named author has described the identities holding in the so-called Catalan monoids. Here we extend this description to a certain family of Hecke-Kiselman monoids including the Kiselman monoids Kn. As a consequence, we conclude that the identities of Kn are nonfinitely based for every n ≥4 and exhibit a finite identity basis for the identities of each of the monoids K2 and K3
Retracts of Ultrahomogeneous Structures in the Context of Katetov Functors
No full textIn this paper, we characterize retracts of a wide class of Fraïssé limits using the tools developed in a recent paper by W. Kubis and the present author, which we refer to as Katetov functors. This approach enables us to conclude that in many cases, a structure is a retract of a Fraïssé limit if and only if it is algebraically closed in the surrounding category
Sasakian structures a foliated approach
No full textRecent renewed interest in Sasakian manifolds is due mainly to the fact that they can provide examples
of generalized Einstein manifolds, manifolds which are of great interest in mathematical models of various aspects
of physical phenomena. Sasakian manifolds are odd dimensional counterparts of Kählerian manifolds to which they
are closely related. The paper presents a foliated approach to Sasakian manifolds on which the author gave several
lectures. The paper concentrates on cohomological properties of Sasakian manifolds and of transversely holomorphic
and Kählerian foliations. These properties permit to formulate obstructions to the existence of Sasakian structures
on compact manifolds
Approximation of Bounded Continuous Functions by Linear Combinations of Phillips Operators
No full textWe study the approximation properties of linear combinations of the so-called Phillips operators, which can be considered as genuine Szász-Mirakjan-Durrmeyer operators. As main result, we prove a direct estimate for the rate of approximation of bounded continuous functions f E C[0,x), measured in C|\[0,x)-norm and thus generalizing the results, proved earlier by Gupta, Agrawal, and Gairola in [3]. Our estimates rely on the recent results, obtained in the joint works of M. Heilmann and the author-[10, 11
On m-ω1-pω+n-Projective Abelian p-Groups
No full textFor any non-negative integers m and n, we define the classes of m-ω1-pω+n- projective groups and strongly m-ω1-pω+n-projective groups, which properly encompass the classes of ω1-pω+n-projectives introduced by Keef in J. Algebra Numb. Th. Acad. (2010) and strongly ω1-pω+n-projectives introduced by the present author in Hacettepe J. Math. Stat. (2014), respectively. The new group structures share many interesting properties, which are closely related to these of the aforementioned two own subclasses. Moreover, certain basic results in this direction are also established
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