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The 'Nation of Poetry' : language, festival and subversion in Macedonia
No full textThis article critically examines the Struga Poetry Festival established in 1961 when it placed Macedonian poets and writers on the wider map of world poetry, international literature and language. With this the festival carried a subversive and an emancipatory task that not only promoted Macedonia's national poetry but also pushed the nation itself onto the world stage. Although highly politicized (and deeply political), the festival emerged as a seemingly apolitical event that celebrated the “universal language of poetry”. Yet, with its aesthetic form of an open event devoted to poetry, this festival (in a very Bakhtinian manner) pinpoints the obvious carnivalesque element in manoeuvring and subverting established social and political hierarchies. Initially, it allowed Macedonian language and poets to join established national states that have “undisputed” (or less disputed) literary traditions. The subversive nature of this festival after the 2001 military conflict in Macedonia changed the direction and intensity of the Albanian struggle for improving their status into the Macedonian society. This event has effectively allowed a minority group to initiate social movement and engage in serious identity politics related to territorial self-governance, language and cultural representation
Consuming ethnicity : loss, commodities and space in Macedonia
No full textIn this article, Rozita Dimova examines the rearticulation of class and ethnicity and how class distinctions produced by a free market and neoliberal economy in Macedonia have affected the interaction of Albanians and Macedonians in postsocialist Macedonia. Dimova highlights the ethnic dimensions of changing patterns of consumption by exploring the class mobility of one ethnic group (Albanians) and thus combines class, commodities, and consumption with notions of ethnicity. The process of articulating ethnicity and class is induced by the larger neoliberal context of the post-Cold War world in which the political economy of the "free" market and privatization inform local subjectivities. The domain of consumption, therefore, offers a place from which we can understand the complex interactions of multiple actors in Macedonia and see the various economic, performative, and symbolic significance of consumption in which the social mobility of the nouveaux riches Albanians has contributed to the loss of class privileges experienced by many ethnic Macedonians.</jats:p
'Nature' and 'nation' in the Republic of Moldova : rebirth and rebuilding through the international festival of music 'Mărţişor'
No full textThis article examines the political–pedagogical performance of the spring holiday “Mărţişor” in the Republic of Moldova, as part of Moldova's official nation-building project in the period 2001–2009. By analysing the International Festival of Music “Mărţişor”, we examine symbolic allegories between the celebration of the rebirth of nature—known in folklore as “the holiday of mărţişor”—and the (re)creation of “the Moldovan nation”. We argue that Moldova's official policies of the management of collective memory are based on an ideology that has a direct impact on symbols which are meant to be a source of enthusiasm and cohesion. During the Communist governments (2001–2005 and 2005–2009), the International Festival of Music “Mărţişor” was transformed into a symbolic space in which the Moldovan nation-building project was supposed to be implemented, and “Moldovenism” as a state ideology was intended to be promoted
Contested nation-building within the international 'Order of Things' : performance, festivals and legitimization in South-Eastern Europe
No full textThis volume is a collection of essays focusing on performance and public rituals in four South-Eastern European countries: Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The “ambiguous” nation-building of the four nation-states is a process of imagining the political community of the nations that “always necessitates—even presupposes—the imagining of an international community, a ‘Family of Nations’” (Malkki, Liisa. 1994. “Citizens of Humanity: Internationalism and the Imagined Community of Nations.” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 3: 41–68, 62). Thus, we offer an approach to nation-building that is revealing of how performance, rituals and politics are at the heart of the new and ambiguous nation-building in the region of South-Eastern Europe. The articles address the intersection between nation-building, the state and public performance/rituals in (post)socialist timeframes and show how sovereignty of a nation-state is constructed, performed, and disseminated through public rituals, festivals, and practices
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Psychologische und genetische Risikofaktoren und Konsequenzen postoperativer Schmerzen
No full textKumulative Dissertation, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 2016Zusammenfassung
Die vorliegende publikationsbasierte Dissertation umfasst eine Literaturübersicht und zwei klinische Studien, die in drei unabhängigen Publikationen veröffentlicht wurden. Die Publikationen werden zu Beginn des jeweiligen Kapitels zitiert, der die Inhalte der entsprechenden Publikation darstellt. Die vorliegende Dissertation befasst sich mit den wechselseitigen Beziehungen zwischen psychologischen und geneti-schen Risikofaktoren und dem postoperativen Schmerz. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Ermittlung klinisch relevanter Aussagen zur Verbesserung der Identifikation von Patienten mit erhöhtem Risiko für die Entwicklung chronischer Schmerzen infolge eines chirurgischen Eingriffs. Als Modell für postoperative Schmerzen wurde in den klinischen Studien die kosmetische Korrektur einer angeborenen Deformität des Brustkorbs, bekannt als Trichterbrust, verwendet. Diese Patienten sind jung und weisen präoperativ keine schwerwiegende Schmerzerfahrung auf. Aus diesem Grund bot dieses Operationsmodell herausragende Bedingungen für die Untersuchung des Übergangs zum chronischen Schmerz.
Aus der Literaturübersicht erwies sich das Auftreten chronischer Schmerzen nach Operationen als ein häufiges Phänomen mit einer Abhängigkeit der Epidemiologie von der Art des chirurgischen Eingriffs. Depressivität, sowie schmerzspezifische psychologische Faktoren zeigten eine starke Aussagekraft als Risikofaktoren. Die selbstberichtete Hypervigilanz im Sinne eines Monitoring des Schmerzes schien ein Risikofaktor für die langfristige schmerzassoziierte Beeinträchtigung darzustellen [Dimova, V. & Lautenbacher, S. (2010). Chronische Schmerzen nach Operationen. Epidemiologie unter besonderer Berücksichtigung psychologischer Risikofaktoren. AINS 45, 488-494]. In Studie 1 lieferten ausgewählte schmerz-assoziierte genetische Polymorphismen einen schwachen Beitrag für die Erklärung des Verlaufs postopera-tiven Outcomes bis zu 1 Jahr nach der Trichterbrustoperation. Im Vergleich konnte die selbstberichtete Vigilanz für Schmerz die längerfristig verbleibende Beeinträchti-gung durch den postoperativen Schmerz erklären [Dimova, V., Lötsch, J., Hühne, K., Winterpacht, A., Heesen, M., Parthum, A., Weber, P. G., Carbon, R., Griessinger, N., Sittl, R. & Lautenbacher, S. (2015). Associations of genetic and psychological factors with persistent pain after cosmetic thoracic surgery, Journal of Pain Research, 8, 829-844]. In Studie 2 trug der akute postoperative Schmerz als Konsequenz zur einen unmittelbaren kurzfristigen psychologischen Sensibilisierung in der Patientenpopulation bei. Dieser Befund weist auf die generelle Implikation hin, dass ein ein-maliges intensives Schmerzereignis zur Veränderung kognitiv-emotionaler Prozesse führen kann [Dimova, V., Horn, C., Parthum, A., Kunz, M., Schöfer, D., Carbon, R., Griessinger, N., Sittl, R. & Lautenbacher, S. (2013). Does severe acute pain provoke lasting changes in attentional and emotional mechanisms of pain-related processing? A longitudinal study. PAIN, 154 (12), 2737-2744].
Zusammenfassend hebt die vorliegenden Dissertation folgende drei wissenschaftli-che Befunde hervor: Schmerzspezifische psychologische Risikofaktoren stellen potente Prädiktoren für postoperative Schmerzen dar. Ihr Erklärungswert kann den schmerzassoziierter genetischer Marker übersteigen, wie es für die selbstberichtete Schmerzvigilanz gezeigt wurde. Eine einmalige intensive Schmerzepisode beeinflusst negativ die kognitiv-emotionale Schmerzverarbeitung.Abstract
In the present dissertation, the results of a literature survey and two clinical studies published as three separate scientific publications are reported. The publication corresponding to the respective study is cited at the beginning of the particular chapter describing this study. The aim of the studies was to investigate the relationships between psychological as well as genetic factors and postoperative pain with the purpose to identify patients at risk of developing chronic pain conditions after surgery, in the particular example of thoracic surgery for funnel chest correction. The cosmetic correction of congenital chest malformation known as funnel chest was used as a model for postoperative pain because the patients are usually young and without severe pain experience prior to surgery. These conditions allowed for investigating the relationships between postoperative pain and its risk factors without confounding effects of preoperatively existing pain.
The review of available studies suggested that an alarmingly high proportion of patients undergoing surgery develop chronic pain. The rates depend on the type of surgical manipulation. Mood as well as pain-related cognitive-emotional mechanisms seem to be potential risk factors for the development of chronic pain [Dimova, V. & Lautenbacher, S. (2010). Chronische Schmerzen nach Operationen. Epidemiologie unter besonderer Berücksichtigung psychologischer Risikofaktoren. AINS, 45, 488-494]. In study 1, genetic variants functionally related to pain showed no meaningful impact on the time course of pain intensity and disability up to one year after surgery. They exerted also only small effects on final postoperative outcome. In contrast, a higher level of self-reported pain vigilance was a risk factor for long-lasting pain disability [Dimova, V., Lötsch, J., Hühne, K., Winterpacht, A., Heesen, M., Parthum, A., Weber, P. G., Carbon, R., Griessinger, N., Sittl, R. & Lautenbacher, S. (2015). Associations of genetic and psychological factors with persistent pain after cosmetic thoracic surgery, Journal of Pain Research, 8, 829-844]. In study 2, the acute postoperative pain, representing in this clinical sample a singular major pain episode, provoked in turn changes in cognitive and emotional mechanisms of pain processing that could not outlast the acute postoperative phase. Even if such changes were short-lived, they may act as risk factors that adversely affect the patient’s postoperative recovery [Dimova, V., Horn, C., Parthum, A., Kunz, M., Schöfer, D., Carbon, R., Griessinger, N., Sittl, R. & Lautenbacher, S. (2013). Does severe acute pain provoke lasting changes in attentional and emotional mechanisms of pain-related processing? A longitudinal study. PAIN, 154 (12), 2737-2744].
Summarized, the present dissertation highlights the following aspects: Pain-related psychological risk factors seem to be powerful predictors of postoperative outcome. Their effects on long-term postoperative outcome may even exceed the effects of pain-related genetic markers as shown for the pain vigilance. An intense pain episode such as postoperative pain acts negatively on cognitive-emotional processing
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Modelling of earthquake-induced tsunami in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
No full textA number of tsunamigenic zones in the Eastern Mediterranean region were investigated. Historically, the strongest tsunami waves are excited in the Hellenic and Cyprus arcs, the Aegean Sea and the Levantine coast. We modelled the generation of tsunami specifying the epicenter, the focal mechanism, and the maximum of the observed magnitude for each considered tsunamigenic zone. Our approach is based on the numerical simulations of tsunami waves, performed by the code UBO-TSUFD, developed in the University of Bologna. Initial displacement of the sea floor is calculated in accordance with Okadàs formulas. We focused our discussion on the tsunami impact on the coasts of Karpathos, Cyprus and Levantine countries. Tsunami parameters are computed for each scenario and results are used to build maps of the computed maximum tsunami heights. Synthetic mareograms are simulated for several points near some important coastal cities of the study area
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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