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Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: Saving the Australian dream
No full textMark and Marija discuss Scott Morrison's exit from politics, before housing affordability campaigner Maiy Azize joins us to propose solutions to Australia's housing crisis.
Will Australia's political leaders have the ambition and ability to sell substantial housing policy changes to the public? What might a fairer system look like? And how will Scott Morrison fashion his career post-parliament? On this episode of Democracy Sausage, Maiy Azize, author of a new report recommending changes to tax and investment policies for housing, joins Professor Mark Kenny and Marija Taflaga to discuss the policy and politics of Australia’s housing crisis.
Maiy Azize is the Deputy Director of the Anglicare Australia and spokesperson for Everybody’s Home, a national campaign that aims to fix the housing crisis
Cihan Aktaş’ın "Azize’nin Son Günü" adlı öykü kitabında Azerbaycan ve Azeriler
Full text linkDüşünce, inceleme kitaplarıyla olduğu kadar öyküleriyle de tanınan Cihan Aktaş, 1992 – 2009 yılları arasında dokuz öykü kitabı yayımlamıştır. Özellikle Azize’nin Son Günü (1997) adlı öykü kitabında olmak üzere, öykülerinde Azerbaycan’dan ve Azeri Türklerinden bahseden yazar, bu metinlerde gerek Azeri Türklerinden ilginç portreleri edebiyatımıza kazandırmakta, gerekse Azerbaycan kültürüyle, folkloruyla, sosyal ve siyasi hayatıyla, ekonomik şartlarıyla ilgili önemli bilgiler aktarmaktadır. Ayrıca başta Baku olmak üzere Azerbaycan coğrafyasına ve çevre bölgelere ilişkin izlenimlerini öyküleştirmektedir. Bu makalede, Cihan Aktaş’ın Azize’nin Son Günü adlı öykü kitabına yansıyan Azerbaycan ve Azeri Türkü imgesi/algısı incelenmeye çalışılacaktır.Cihan Aktaş who is known by his books of thought and review as well as short stories published nine short story books between 1992 and 2009. The author, who refers to Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis, especially in his short story book titled the Last Day of Azize (1997), either brought interesting portraits of Azerbaijani Turks in these texts or conveyed important information related to the culture, folklore, social and political life and economical conditions of Azerbaijan. He also narrated his impressions related to Azerbaijan geography and environmental area, especially to Baku. In this article, we will attempt to understand image/perception of Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis reflecting on the book of Cihan Aktaş titled “the Last Day of Azize”
Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis in the short story book of Cihan Aktaş titled
Full text linkDüşünce, inceleme kitaplarıyla olduğu kadar öyküleriyle de tanınan Cihan Aktaş, 1992 – 2009 yılları arasında dokuz öykü kitabı yayımlamıştır. Özellikle Azize’nin Son Günü (1997) adlı öykü kitabında olmak üzere, öykülerinde Azerbaycan’dan ve Azeri Türklerinden bahseden yazar, bu metinlerde gerek Azeri Türklerinden ilginç portreleri edebiyatımıza kazandırmakta, gerekse Azerbaycan kültürüyle, folkloruyla, sosyal ve siyasi hayatıyla, ekonomik şartlarıyla ilgili önemli bilgiler aktarmaktadır. Ayrıca başta Baku olmak üzere Azerbaycan coğrafyasına ve çevre bölgelere ilişkin izlenimlerini öyküleştirmektedir. Bu makalede, Cihan Aktaş’ın Azize’nin Son Günü adlı öykü kitabına yansıyan Azerbaycan ve Azeri Türkü imgesi/algısı incelenmeye çalışılacaktır.Cihan Aktaş who is known by his books of thought and review as well as short stories published nine short story books between 1992 and 2009. The author, who refers to Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis, especially in his short story book titled the Last Day of Azize (1997), either brought interesting portraits of Azerbaijani Turks in these texts or conveyed important information related to the culture, folklore, social and political life and economical conditions of Azerbaijan. He also narrated his impressions related to Azerbaijan geography and environmental area, especially to Baku. In this article, we will attempt to understand image/perception of Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis reflecting on the book of Cihan Aktaş titled “the Last Day of Azize”
Improved Stable Read Range of the RFID Tag Using Slot Apertures and Capacitive Gaps for Outdoor Localization Applications
No full textThis paper proposes a small-size UHF RFID tag antenna, which was designed to function in the frequency interval of 860–960 MHz, with a large-read range of up to 17 m. In this work, the effects of capacitive slots and gaps on the impedance matching between conventional industrial chips and a designed RFID antenna was investigated. Simulated and measured results provided a clear indication that these two techniques can efficiently improve the return loss parameter and the antenna impedance matching behavior at the UHF band. Three-dimensional electromagnetic (EM) simulations results further proved that a better impedance matching between an industrial chip and a proposed RFID antenna occurs at 870 MHz, where the estimated input antenna impedance was about Za = 16 + j184 (Ω), and the calculated read range reached a value of up to 17 m with a measured return loss value of –14 dB. The proposed RFID antenna can almost maintain the same read range value over a 180 degree angle variations on the horizontal plane owing to its omnidirectional radiation pattern. The fabrication and test stages of the antenna prototype were scheduled to validate the simulated characteristics. Experimental results confirmed the performances of our proposed RFID tag antenna and proved its potential ability for localization applications. EM simulations have been performed using the well-known commercial EM software simulator CST MWS
Bakı–1501 Romanının Tari?hsel Boyutu Üzeri?ne Bi?r I?nceleme
No full textTarihî romanın Azerbaycan edebiyatındaki en önemli temsilcilerinden biri Azize Caferzade’dir. Yazar, tarihî romanları ile tarihe ışık tutmuş ve tarihî olayları günümüze taşımıştır. Bakı-1501, Şah İsmail’in yaşamını ve 16. yüzyıldaki siyasî, toplumsal ve dinî hayatı konu edinen başarılı bir eserdir. Bu çalışmada Bakı-1501’in tarihî roman özellikleri incelenerek yapıtın sosyal, siyasal ve kültürel açıdan tarihsel boyutu değerlendirildi.Azize Caferzade is one of the most significant representatives of historical novel in the Azerbaijan literature. The author shed light on history and brought historical events to the present through his historical novels. Bakı-1501 is a succesful work that deals with the life of Shah İsmail and political, social and religious life in the 16th century. This study examines the historical novel characteristics of Bakı-1501 and its historical dimensions from a social, political and cultural perspective
Effects of Supervised Exercise on Body Composition in Patients Succeeding Bariatric Surgery 1 year Longitudinal Study
No full textThis study aims to investigate whether a supervised, multicomponent exercise program can provide additional benefits on body composition after bariatric surgery. 18-65 year; body mass index (BMI) >35 kg/m2; 54 patients (Exercise Group 29; Control Group 25) who had mini gastric bypass or Gastric Sleeve Surgery were included in the study. A verbal suggestion was made to the CG to increase physical activity, but this suggestion was not taken into consideration. The exercise group participated in a supervised multicomponent exercise program, 3 days a week, nonconsecutively, lasting 60 minutes each, for 11 months, starting 1 month after surgery. All variables were tested with two-way ANOVA test according to the effect of exercises on body weight (BW), fat mass (FM), fat-free mass (FFM) and BMI. After completion of descriptive statistics (mean ± SD), an independent t test was used to examine between-group differences in anthropometric components at baseline. Accordingly, there was no significant difference between the groups at baseline, including age, BW, BMI, FM and FFM (p>.05). Both groups experienced significant initial BW and FM loss, but these changes did not differ significantly between groups (p>0.05). On the other hand, FFM changes showed significant differences between groups (p<.05). Although there was no statistical difference in BW, FM and BMI values of the exercise group and the control group in this study, the positive change in the FFM of the exercise group was found to be significant compared to the control group. This clearly shows the importance of exercise in our study. © The Author(s) 2023
Ver um texto como literário: uma abordagem wittgensteiniana sobre aspectualidade e significação do conceito de literatura
Full text linkThis work investigates, in the light of the notions of noticing an aspect and its correlatives
(seeing-as and representation), found in Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy, in what sense the
phenomenon of seeing a text as literary - that is, noticing the literary aspect of the textual
ensemble - can clarify the ways we mean the concept of literature. We intend to show that the
meaning of this concept, when viewed in Wittgensteinian terms, derives not from mere
intrinsic qualities of the literary text, but from possible attitudes that one adopts towards it in
specific circumstances of interactions between author, reader, intentions etc. Such attitudes
reveal an openness to diverse possible uses of the concept, anchored in our way of life and,
therefore, far from an essentialist perspective. The research is divided into three parts. In the
first, we briefly highlight, as a starting point, the distrust of some authors in the contemporary
philosophy of literature regarding the possibility of defining literary art precisely. In the next
section we outline a general exposition of Wittgenstein's philosophical method as developed
in the Philosophical Investigations, which is done with the support of Arley Moreno's
comments on the mentioned work. The last part, in turn, has the purpose of applying the
described method to the central question. It is suggested that, if there are several ways to read
a literary text, not all of them literary, one way to interpret the phenomenon of literary
apprehension is through the movement of noticing an aspect, according to which, from a
specific attitude in front of the text, its literary aspect is captured, and thus it comes to be seen
- and consequently read - as literature. What we see here is the breakdown of the essentialist
Image according to which the concept literature represents an entity or set of entities endowed
with intrinsic qualities immediately given to apprehension and arranged in a definition. By
dissolving this vision, demonstrating other possible uses for the concept under analysis, the
scope of its meaning is broadened, and its aspectuality is effectively verified. Finally, as an
example of this opening, we present Peter Lamarque's conception of literary art as practice,
reinforcing the hypothesis that literature is an aspectual concept.O presente trabalho investiga, à luz das noções de notar um aspecto e suas correlatas (ver-
como e representação), encontradas na filosofia de Ludwig Wittgenstein, em que sentido o
fenômeno de ver um texto como literário – isto é, notar o aspecto literário do conjunto textual
– pode esclarecer os modos como significamos o conceito de literatura. Pretende-se com isso
demonstrar que a significação desse conceito, quando encarada em termos wittgensteinianos,
decorre não de meras qualidades intrínsecas ao texto literário, mas de atitudes possíveis que se
adotam diante dele em circunstâncias específicas de interações entre autor, leitor, intenções
etc. Tais atitudes revelam uma abertura a diversos usos possíveis do conceito, ancorados em
nossa forma de vida e distantes, portanto, de uma perspectiva essencialista. A investigação
divide-se em três partes. Na primeira, destacamos brevemente, como ponto de partida, a
desconfiança de alguns autores da filosofia da literatura contemporânea quanto à possibilidade
de se definir com precisão a arte literária. Esboçamos, na seção seguinte, uma exposição geral
do método filosófico wittgensteiniano conforme desenvolvido nas Investigações Filosóficas,
o que se faz com amparo nos comentários de Arley Moreno à referida obra. A última parte,
por sua vez, tem por escopo aplicar o método descrito à questão central. Sugere-se então que,
se há vários modos de se ler um texto de literatura, nem todos eles propriamente literários,
uma maneira de interpretar o fenômeno da apreensão literária é pelo movimento de notar um
aspecto, segundo o qual, a partir de uma atitude específica frente ao texto, captura-se o seu
aspecto propriamente literário, e assim ele passa a ser visto – e consequentemente lido – como
literatura. O que se verifica aí é a quebra da Imagem essencialista segundo a qual o conceito
de literatura representaria uma entidade ou conjunto de entidades dotadas de qualidades
intrínsecas imediatamente dadas à apreensão e dispostas numa definição. Ao dissolver essa
visão, demonstrando outros usos possíveis para o conceito sob análise, amplia-se
potencialmente o escopo da sua significação, donde se verifica, efetivamente, a sua
aspectualidade. Por fim, como exemplo dessa abertura, apresentamos em linhas gerais a
concepção de Peter Lamarque sobre a arte literária como prática, reforçando a hipótese de que
literatura seja um conceito aspectual
Entre o normativo e o descritivo: o lugar do ético em Moritz Schlick
No full textEmbora Moritz Schlick seja notoriamente reconhecido como um autor vinculado à pauta verificacionista do Círculo de Viena, grupo do qual foi, inclusive, um dos seus principais expoentes, seus escritos sobre ética compõem, por outro lado, uma parte importante de sua obra, notadamente dedicada ao estabelecimento da felicidade como o verdadeiro sentido da vida. A ética schlickiana segue, assim, marcada por uma visão hedonista da existência associada a uma concepção naturalista da ação humana. Esta relação entre hedonismo e naturalismo motiva o estabelecimento da tese de que todo instinto humano busca a prevalência do prazer do indivíduo e, por conseguinte, motiva ações que o conduzem sempre em direção à felicidade. A visão de que todo homem age de acordo com seus instintos e marcha inexoravelmente rumo à sua felicidade individual serve como base para a elaboração de princípio morais universais que expressariam o que determinada sociedade concebe como moralmente aceitável ou não. Tais regras de conduta, expressas nestes princípios, variam de cultura para cultura, de comunidade para comunidade, embora partilhem, radicalmente, a mesma tendência ou finalidade de estabelecer uma vida de prazer e felicidade para os membros da sociedade. Esta dimensão ética do pensamento schlickiano, via de regra, tem sido considerada como uma incursão filosófica sem relações estreitas com a perspectiva de seu empirismo consistente, influenciado, sobretudo, pelo Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus de Ludwig Wittgenstein. Este distanciamento, ou mesmo estranhamento, entre as ideias sobre ética e o normativismo lógico de Schlick encontra suas razões, muitas vezes, em argumentos que pressupõem o debate sobre o significado das proposições éticas como algo impróprio ou mero contrassenso – portanto em aparente rota de colisão com a postura logicista do próprio Círculo de Viena; e em argumentos que fazem acreditar que os escritos éticos de Schlick compõem uma dimensão à margem do seu pensamento verificacionista, uma vez que seriam, no geral, produtos de suas tendências pessoais e políticas. Não obstante existam posições teóricas que ofertam argumentos razoáveis de justificação do distanciamento da ética schlickiana em relação ao núcleo lógico-empirista de seu pensamento, este nosso trabalho propõe estabelecer algum tipo de relação entre estas duas pontas deste espectro. Sendo assim, propomos reconhecer a ética schlickiana como uma instância filosófica em conexão com os princípios fundamentais do empirismo consistente de Schlick, apresentando, principalmente, a possibilidade de relacionar o método analítico de exame do sentido proposicional – a verificabilidade, descrita, principalmente, em Sentido e verificação – com a abordagem descritivista de inspeção do significado dos enunciados da ética, apresentada, especialmente, em Questões de ética. Para tanto, a noção de princípio moral segue fundamental para nossa reflexão, uma vez que o sentido particular de cada proposição ética pode, segundo Schlick, ser reduzido ao sentido expresso por tal princípio. Se nossa empreitada segue viável, esperamos poder, ao fim dela, estabelecer uma continuidade filosófica entre as ideias sobre lógica e ética de Schlick, propondo, ao cabo, que tanto o analítico quanto o descritivo constituem aspectos de uma mesma atitude filosófica schlickiana, qual seja: aclarar os pensamentos, dissolver pseudoproblemas, criar condições para que a ciência finalmente passe a operar livre de enigmas insolúveis e de sentenças carentes de sentido.Although Moritz Schlick is markedly recognized as an author linked to the verificationist topic of Vienna Circle, the group from which he was, indeed, one of the main exponents, by the other side, his writings about Ethics composes an important part of his work, clearly dedicated to setting the happiness as a true meaning of life. Schlick’s Ethics therefore follows, marked by a hedonistic vision of existence associated to a naturalistic conception of human action. That relation between hedonism and naturalism motivates the establishment of the thesis that all human instinct seeks the prevalence of individual pleasure and so, it motives actions that always conduct them to happiness. The perspective that all humankind acts according with one’s instincts and inexorably marches towards one’s individual happiness serves as basis to elaborate the universal Moral Principles that would express what is morally acceptable or not for a specific society. Such roles of conduction, expressed in these principles, change from one culture to another, from one community to another, although they radically partake the same tendency or finality to establish a life of pleasure and happiness to all the society members. That ethical dimension of Schlick’s thought, as a matter of course, has been considered as a philosophical incursion with no narrow relations with a perspective from his consistent empiricism, that is mainly influenced by the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus of Ludwig Wittgenstein. This distance or even strangeness between the ideas about ethics and the logical normativism of Schlick, often find its reasons in arguments that presuppose the debate about the ethical propositions meaning as an inappropriate thing or just nonsense, and so, apparently in a collision course with the typical logicist posture of Vienna Circle; and also in arguments that make believe the ethical writings of Schlick are part of a dimension apart from his verificationist thought, once they would be, in general, products from his personal and political tendencies. There are, notwithstanding, theoretical positions that offer reasonable arguments to justify the detachment of Schlick’s ethics from the center of his logical - empirical thought, our work here presented proposes to establish some kind of relation between these two parts of the spectrum. We therefore propose to recognize Schlick’s ethics as a philosophical instance connected with the fundamental principles of the consistent empiricism from Schlick, mostly presenting the possibility to relate the analytical method of exam the propositional meanings – the verifiability principally specified in Sense and Verification – with the descriptive approach to inspect the meaning of ethical formulations that are specially presented in Ethical Questions. The concept of moral principle is, therefore, fundamental to our reflections, since the particular sense of each ethical proposition, according to Schlick, can be reduced to the expressed sense by such principle. If our undertaking is viable, in the end of it we hope to be able to establish a philosophical continuity between Schlick’s ideas of logic and ethic, and propose that both the analytic and the descriptive are aspects from the same Schlick’s philosophical attitude, namely: to clarify the thoughts, to dissolve pseudo-problems, to create conditions for the science to finally operate free from insoluble puzzles and meaningless sentences.Programa de Aperfeiçoamento e Capacitação da Universidade do Estado da Bahi
Paricalcitol Protects Against Hydrogen Peroxide-Induced Injury in Endothelial Cells Through Suppression of Apoptosis
No full textThe vascular endothelium is one of the main targets of oxidative stress which plays an important role in the pathophysiology of vascular damage. Recent studies show that vitamin D can positively regulate endothelial functions in various chronic diseases and in cases of increased oxidative stress. In our study, we investigated the restorative and protective potentials of paricalcitol which is frequently used in patients with chronic renal failure, a vitamin D analogue, in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) before and after H2O2-induced oxidative stress. Paricalcitol treatment after the oxidative stress induced by H2O2 increased cell viability in endothelial cells depending on the dose that was used. While paricalcitol (500 nM) decreased caspase-3 activity and mitochondrial membrane potential loss, it increased nitric oxide (NO) production and reduced glutathione (GSH) levels. Paricalcitol treatment before oxidative stress increased cell viability. It increased NO production and mitochondrial membrane potential while significantly reducing caspase-3 activity. While paricalcitol caused a significant inhibition of protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) reductase activity in healthy endothelial cells, it did not cause a significant change on the PDI reductase activity under oxidative stress conditions. Present study showed that paricalcitol has restorative and protective effects on endothelial cells against oxidative injury, but these effects occur at high concentrations of paricalcitol.Marmara University Scientific Research Projects Unit [SAG-C-DRP-111115-0503]The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The study was supported by a grant from Marmara University Scientific Research Projects Unit (Project No: SAG-C-DRP-111115-0503).Science Citation Index Expande
THE TRACES OF “FEMINITY” OF WOMAN TRANSLATORS FROM THE TANZIMAT TO THE SECOND CONSTITUTION IN OUR TRANSLATED LITERARY HISTORY
No full textBu makalenin amacı, Tanzimat Dönemi?nden İkinci Meşrutiyet Dönemi?ne kadar Batı dillerinden Osmanlı Türkçesine roman çevirisi yapan kadın çevirmenleri (“mütercimeleri”) ve bu çevirmenlerin çevirdikleri yapıtları ön sözler/son sözler tanıklığında incelemektir. İncelemeye neden olan sorunsal, anılan dönemde kültür ve edebiyat dizgemizde yayımlanan söz konusu yapıtlara ilişkin kadın çevirmen/mütercime kimliği ve ön söz/son söz odaklı bütünlüklü bir betimleyici çalışma yapılmamış olmasıdır. Tanzimat Dönemi?nden İkinci Meşrutiyet Dönemi?ne kadar Batı dillerinden Osmanlı Türkçesine roman çevirisi yapan kadın çevirmenlerimizin sayısı altıdır. Altı kadın çevirmenimizden yalnızca dördünün adı çeviri yapıtların ön kapaklarında okura doğrudan verilmiştir: Azize Hanım, Hâlide Edib, Madam Gülnar, Zeyneb Sünbül. İlgili dönemde çevirileri yayımlanan diğer iki çevirmenin kadın kimliği farklı şekillerde okura sunulmuştur: “Mütercimesi: Bir Kadın”/“Mütercime-i Merâm” ve “Bir Kız”. Bu bağlamda öncelikle ilgili dönemin kadın çevirmenleri ve bu çevirmenler tarafından yapılan çeviri yapıtlar hakkında niceliksel bilgi verilecektir. Daha sonra ise çevirmenlerin yapıtları ayrı ayrı ele alınarak ön sözler/son sözler bağlamında irdelenecektir. incelenen dönemdeki kaynak dil/kaynak kültür/kaynak edebiyat/yazar ile erek dil/erek kültür/erek edebiyat/çevirmen arasındaki bakışımlı/bakışımsız ilişkiler özellikle “çevirmen(ler)in sesi” (Theo Hermans (çev. Bulut), 1997: 63-68) açısından toplumsal cinsiyet vurgusuyla irdelenecektir. Bu çerçevede ön sözlerin/son sözlerin çeviriyazıları yapılacak ve bu çeviriyazıların tanıklığında dönemin sosyo-kültürel yapısı dikkate alınarak kadın çevirmenlerin çeviri/çevirmen algısı toplumsal cinsiyet odağıyla çeviri ön sözleri/son sözleri üzerinden okunmaya çalışılacaktır.This article aims to analyze the woman translators who translated from Western languages into Ottoman Turkish from the Tanzimat to the Second Constitution (II. Meşrutiyet) as well as the works translated by these translators which include their prefaces and epilogues.The problematic motive which led to this analysis is the lack of a comprehensive descriptive study in the books published in our literary and cultural system of the era in question which focuses on the identities of woman translators and the prefaces/epilogues written for their translated books. The number of woman translators who translated from Western languages into Ottoman Turkish from the Tanzimat to the Second Constitution is six. The names of only four woman translators out of six were revealed directly to the reader on the front cover, namely Azize Hanım, Hâlide Edip, Madam Gülnar, and Zeyneb Sünbül. On the other hand, the woman identities of the other two translators, whose translations were published in the mentioned era, were revealed indirectly to the reader in various implicit ways such as “Mütercimesi: Bir Kadın (The Woman Translator: A Woman)”/“Mütercime-i Merâm (The Woman Translator of Merâm)” ve “Bir Kız (A Girl)”. Thus, in this context, some information will be primarily given about the woman translators of the relevant era and subsequently some quantitative information about the books translated by these translators will be shared. Thereafter, the translated works by these translators will be handled individually in order to be investigated in the context of their prefaces and epilogues, respectively. The symmetrical/asymmetrical relations between source language/source culture/source literature/author and target language/target culture/target literature/translator in the period under discussion will be probed especially in terms of the voice of the translator(s) with an emphasis of social gender. Within this framework, the prefaces and epilogues of the books translated by the afore-mentioned woman translators will be transliterated and also the translation/translator perception of the relevant woman translators will be attempted to be read through the prefaces and epilogues of their translations by considering the socio-cultural structure of the era in question with a social gender focus
