99 research outputs found
On the recipient passive in the Kashubian Language: Annex to Milka Ivić's syntactic inventory for Slavonic dialectology
Full text linkThis paper deals with grammaticalization of the recipient passive such as òn to dostôł (òd ni) przëdzeloné and its place in the verbal system of the Kashubian language. Taking as a starting point Milka Ivić's typological studies of Slavonic syntax, the author of this paper describes and analyses the Kashubian recipient passive and shows its grammatical and semantic features from a comparative viewpoint
Amygdalin - the truth behind the nut
No full textIntroduction: Amygdalin, a cyanogenic glycoside, is a compound found in the seeds of plants belonging to the Rosaceae family. In recent years the compound provoked scientific disputes because of the controversial data related to its effects on human health.Materials and Methods: This systematic review is based on the available scientific literature and clinical case reports of amygdalin beneficial and adverse effects. Results: Some of the studies reveal that amygdalin possesses antitumor potential by inducing the cancer cells apoptosis. The action of the compound on different tumor cell lines is not identical and depends on the tumor cells composition. However, there are many clinical cases of cyanide poisoning after usage of amyg-dalin as a cancer drug. After a large dose application of amygdalin, the prussic acid and the cyanide acid de-liberated in digestive system may lead to a fatal toxicity. Conclusions: The in vivo and in vitro studies of amygdalin antitumor effects are at the beginning. The pharmacological mechanism of action of the compound remains to be elucidated. Its effects on normal cells are still unclear
Milka Ivić’s Grammar Research – Prepositional Case System and Non-Omissible Determiners in the Serbian Language
No full textThis paper presents one aspect of Milka Ivić’s grammar research, namely, the one that
the author considers to have been an essential point of interest for the renowned expert
in the Serbian language and general linguistics. This is the research on the Serbian prepositional
case system and the phenomenon of non-omissible determiners; what is also
considered is the theoretical and methodological approach applied in the examined papers.
The impact of these investigations on more recent research in the Serbian studies
is singled out as particularly important.У раду се указује на један аспект граматичких истраживања Милке Ивић, и
то онај који се аутору овог рада чини окосницом интересовања овог великог познаваоца српског језика и опште лингвистике. Осврћемо се на истраживања предлошко-падежног система српског језика, на разматрање појаве
обавезне детерминације, на теоријско-методолошки поступак примењиван у
посматраним радовима. Као посебно важан посматра се и утицај поменутих
истраживања на каснија истраживања у науци о српском језику
RESEARCH ON THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF SULFUR-CONTAINING MINERAL WATERS FROM THE VARNA BASIN ON HUMAN METABOLISM IN REGARD TO THEIR USE AS A DRINKING REMEDY
No full textThe mineral waters from the Bulgarian region of the Northern Black Sea comprise almost a quarter of the hydro-mineral resource of Bulgaria, the second richest country in the world in natural resources of mineral waters with balneologic and healing potential. The Varna Basin mineral waters belong to the category of the so-called sulphur waters, containing hydrogen sulfide and soluble sulfides. Experimental data from models, systems or interventional studies on the biological effects of these type of mineral waters is lacking. At the same time, thousands of people actively use them daily as drinking water.The aim of the current research is to explore the molecular mechanisms of the impact of the sulfur-containing mineral waters from the Varna Basin on the human metabolism and thus elucidate their health effects as reported by the traditional medicine.After a detailed physico-chemical analysis of the mineral water from the Varna Basin, up to 50 healthy volunteers are to be enrolled in a 12-week intervention study with the mineral water replacing their daily drinking water. Blood and urine samples collected before and after the intervention period will be analyzed for markers for oxidative status, inflammation, lipid metabolism and vascular tone. Gene expression analyses of factors involved in nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-kB) dependent signaling pathways will be focusing on the mechanisms of mineral water metabolic effects.The research will provide new knowledge regarding the impact and the mechanisms of the effects of Varna Basin sulfur-containing mineral water on human metabolism.Acknowledgements: Bulgarian National Research Fund support, Project DN 01/12 - 16/12/201
Phytoestrogens: Health benefits and possible adverse effect
Full text linkФитоестрогените са полифенолни нестероидни растителни съединения, за които е установено, че имат способността селективно да свързват естрогеновите рецептори и да проявяват естрогено-подобно или антиестрогеново действие. Консумацията на храни богати на фитоестрогени се асоциира с намален риск от сърдечно-съдови заболявания, остеопороза, диабет, хормон-зависим рак на гърдата и др. Все пак, някои учени алармират, че наред с благотворните си ефекти, фитоестрогените могат да причинят ендокринни нарушения. Нстоящата обзорна статия обобщава съвременните научни данни за здравните ползи и нежеланите ефекти за човешкото здраве от консумацията на храни богати на фитоестрогени.Phytoestrogens are nonsteroidal plant polyphenolic compounds that are found to bind selectively estrogen receptors and thus to exert estrogen-like or anti-estrogen action. Consumption of phytoestrogens rich foods is associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, diabetes, hormone-dependent breast cancer, etc. However, some scientists have warned that along with the beneficial effects, phytoestrogens can cause endocrine disturbances. Present review summarizes the scientific evidences about health benefits and adverse effects of phytoestrogens consumption on the human health
Designing performance: the semi-autonomous revenue authority model in Africa and Latin America
Full text linkDuring the past decade, diverse developing countries have introduced radical reforms in their collection of taxes. In more than 15 countries, traditional tax departments have been granted the status of semiautonomous revenue authorities (ARAs), which are designed with a number of autonomy-enhancing features, including self-financing mechanisms, boards of directors with high-ranking public and private sector representatives, and sui generis personnel systems. The author addresses gaps in the public management and tax administration literatures by closely examining ARA reforms in Kenya, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Uganda, and Venezuela from their inception to the early 2000s. Using the comparative case study method, he tackles three questions. First, what has motivated the wave of ARA reforms over the past decade? The author argues that from a public management perspective, reformers intended to use autonomy to enhance bureaucratic performance in low-capacity public sectors. Second, is there a connection between autonomy and performance? Focusing on revenue collection, compliance management, taxpayer services, human resource management, and administrative costs, the author suggests that autonomy is associated with higher levels of performance. He also makes the case that higher levels of autonomy are associated with higher levels of performance. Third, if there is a connection between autonomy and performance, which specific design features matter most and why? In spite of the popularity of the ARA reform, there is no consensus on best practice in organizational design. The author offers hypotheses based on the cases about why certain designs work better than others, and makes specific recommendations for the next generation of ARA reforms.Banks&Banking Reform,Municipal Financial Management,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Enterprise Development&Reform,Public Health Promotion,Banks&Banking Reform,National Governance,Municipal Financial Management,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Health Monitoring&Evaluation
A contribution to the problem of metaphor
Full text linkFocusing on the antonym pair 'bistar' 'limpid, not muddy, clear'/mutan 'muddy, turbid, unclear' and their metaphorical uses in (the spoken variety of) standard Serbocroatian, the author points to the fact that there are situations in which the figurative adjectival meaning belongs, respectively, to two unrelated conceptual domains. Such a state of affairs contradicts Kittay and Lehrer's claim that antonymic relations are preserved under metaphorical extension. The existence of sentences like 'On je bistar ali mutan' 'He has a quick intelligence but he is a fishy man' presents the most persuasive argument that 'mutan' describing humans is not the antonymous counterpart of 'bistar'.
The question arises as to why 'mutan' did not shift to the mental dimension, like 'bistar', but took on a moral meaning?
According to the author, in seeking to find the answer one should consider both the semantic relation existing between 'mutan' and 'prljav' 'dirty' and the fact that 'mutan' functions as antonym not only to 'bistar' but also to 'jasan' 'clear'. Both circumstances have determined the semantic development of 'mutan'
The cognitive and grammatical aspects of the evaluative use of dobar
No full textDrawing on a corpus of conversational Standard Serbian materials, the author examines the ways in which the adjective dobar performs its evaluative function. She points to the following hitherto unnoticed facts: If the evaluation concerns an adult human being dobar is perceived as a moral quality, whereas to say of a child that he is dobar is to praise his behavioral property. If nomina professionalis are concerned, although syntactically used as an attributive adjective, dobar semantically functions in fact as an adverbial modifier disclosing the appropriate performance of the activities which make the person under consideration properly qualified for his/her occupation
Folklorno gradivo iz Tera – 1940. Terenski zapisi Milka Matičetovega
No full textMilko Matičetov (1919-2014) collected the folklore material presented in this book among the people of Venetian Slovenia, more precisely the Ter/Torre Valley, as a student at the University of Padua in 1940, but until now it remained mostly unpublished.
Eight decades later, we now present it in a scientific critical edition, in phonetic transcription and translation into standard Slovenian, and with commentaries by the author of the collected material and supplemented by the editors. We have also added introductory texts that place this fieldwork material in the context of various aspects. The material is first analysed through the prism of historical and social conditions on the territory of Venetian Slovenia and the Ter/Torre Valley in the last century and a half. The following chapter focuses on Milko Matičetov's recollections and (self-)reflexive views on fieldwork in the Ter/Torre Valley in 1940 and his theoretical reflections. The chapter with an overview of the genres and motifs of these folklore units contains an analysis of the collected material, which includes 47 fairy tales and short stories, 22 of which were included in the international classification (ATU). The material is then presented from the point of view of Milko Matičetov's linguistic-editorial interventions and the brief description of the dialectal features of the Ter/Torre dialect. The central part of the book consists of folklore texts, accompanied by metadata and a list of selected dialect words from the texts.
Milko Matičetov's fieldwork material is now usable for scientific research, while the translations into standard Slovenian make the material accessible to a wide range of interested readers.Milko Matičetov (1919–2014) je folklorno gradivo, predstavljeno v tukajšnji knjigi, zapisal med ljudmi v Beneški Sloveniji, natančneje Terski dolini, že leta 1940 kot študent na Padovanski univerzi, a je doslej, z izjemo nekaj enot, ostalo neobjavljeno.
Po osmih desetletjih ga zdaj predstavljamo po konceptu znanstveno-kritične izdaje, torej v fonetičnem zapisu in knjižnem prevodu ter s komentarji, večino katerih je pripravil že avtor zapisov sam, uredniki pa smo jih dopolnili. Dodali smo tudi uvodna spremna besedila, ki terenske zapise postavljajo v kontekst različnih vidikov. Najprej je gradivo umeščeno v prostor Beneške Slovenije in znotraj nje Terske doline skozi prizmo zgodovinsko-družbenih razmer v zadnjem poldrugem stoletju. Sledi poglavje o zapisovalčevih spominih in (samo)reflektivnih pogledih na terensko delu v Teru 1940 in njegove teoretične premisleke. Oris vsebinsko motivnih značilnosti predstavi analizo zbranega gradiva, ki med drugim obsega 47 pravljic in povedk, med katerimi se jih kar 22 uvršča v mednarodno klasifikacijo ATU. Nato so pregledani zapisovalčevi jezikovnouredniški posegi, čemur je dodan opis glasovnih in naglasnih značilnosti terskega narečja. Osrednji del knjige predstavljajo besedila, opremljena z metapodatki in seznamom izbranih narečnih besed iz besedil.
Terenski zapisi Milka Matičetovega so tako pripravljeni za znanstvenoraziskovalno rabo, poknjiženi zapis in prilagojeni seznam narečnih besed pa omogočata dostopnost gradiva tudi (naj)širšemu krogu zainteresiranih bralcev.
Folklorno gradivo iz Tera – 1940. Terenski zapisi Milka Matičetovega
No full textMilko Matičetov (1919-2014) collected the folklore material presented in this book among the people of Venetian Slovenia, more precisely the Ter/Torre Valley, as a student at the University of Padua in 1940, but until now it remained mostly unpublished.
Eight decades later, we now present it in a scientific critical edition, in phonetic transcription and translation into standard Slovenian, and with commentaries by the author of the collected material and supplemented by the editors. We have also added introductory texts that place this fieldwork material in the context of various aspects. The material is first analysed through the prism of historical and social conditions on the territory of Venetian Slovenia and the Ter/Torre Valley in the last century and a half. The following chapter focuses on Milko Matičetov's recollections and (self-)reflexive views on fieldwork in the Ter/Torre Valley in 1940 and his theoretical reflections. The chapter with an overview of the genres and motifs of these folklore units contains an analysis of the collected material, which includes 47 fairy tales and short stories, 22 of which were included in the international classification (ATU). The material is then presented from the point of view of Milko Matičetov's linguistic-editorial interventions and the brief description of the dialectal features of the Ter/Torre dialect. The central part of the book consists of folklore texts, accompanied by metadata and a list of selected dialect words from the texts.
Milko Matičetov's fieldwork material is now usable for scientific research, while the translations into standard Slovenian make the material accessible to a wide range of interested readers.Milko Matičetov (1919–2014) je folklorno gradivo, predstavljeno v tukajšnji knjigi, zapisal med ljudmi v Beneški Sloveniji, natančneje Terski dolini, že leta 1940 kot študent na Padovanski univerzi, a je doslej, z izjemo nekaj enot, ostalo neobjavljeno.
Po osmih desetletjih ga zdaj predstavljamo po konceptu znanstveno-kritične izdaje, torej v fonetičnem zapisu in knjižnem prevodu ter s komentarji, večino katerih je pripravil že avtor zapisov sam, uredniki pa smo jih dopolnili. Dodali smo tudi uvodna spremna besedila, ki terenske zapise postavljajo v kontekst različnih vidikov. Najprej je gradivo umeščeno v prostor Beneške Slovenije in znotraj nje Terske doline skozi prizmo zgodovinsko-družbenih razmer v zadnjem poldrugem stoletju. Sledi poglavje o zapisovalčevih spominih in (samo)reflektivnih pogledih na terensko delu v Teru 1940 in njegove teoretične premisleke. Oris vsebinsko motivnih značilnosti predstavi analizo zbranega gradiva, ki med drugim obsega 47 pravljic in povedk, med katerimi se jih kar 22 uvršča v mednarodno klasifikacijo ATU. Nato so pregledani zapisovalčevi jezikovnouredniški posegi, čemur je dodan opis glasovnih in naglasnih značilnosti terskega narečja. Osrednji del knjige predstavljajo besedila, opremljena z metapodatki in seznamom izbranih narečnih besed iz besedil.
Terenski zapisi Milka Matičetovega so tako pripravljeni za znanstvenoraziskovalno rabo, poknjiženi zapis in prilagojeni seznam narečnih besed pa omogočata dostopnost gradiva tudi (naj)širšemu krogu zainteresiranih bralcev.
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