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The novels of Alexander Weltman after a century
No full textThe article presents a tentative analysis and evaluation of the literary production of the Russian writer Alexander
Weltman (1800-1870), the author of numerous poems, poetic tales, dramas, novels, and short stories. This writer,
who has now fallen almost in to entire oblivion, was among the most fertile and most widely read representatives of
nineteenth-century Russian fiction.
The author of the article records the present state of research on this writer’s work, cites the principal facts
and events of his life, describes his personality and general outlook, and analyses his literary production. Her
attention has been centered on his novels, the most important portion of Weltman’s literary heritage.
There are three periods to be distinguished in Weltman’s work. During the first the writer was under the influence
of Romanticism; the second period was of transitory character: Weltman was oscillating beetwen the romantic and the
realistic visions of reality; in the third period his works were written in the realistic convention. The author
has tried to bring to light the most outstanding of the writer’s achievements for each successive period. Thus,
Weltman the romantic writer created a new literary genre, consisting of a combination of certain elements of the
historical novel with elements of a fairytale; in his mature years he was sometimes able to achieve a synthesis of
the best attainments of Romanticism and Realism; finally, in the last period he strove to create a novel of a new
type, founded on the experience of both picaresque novels and prose of social and psychological character,
depicting the morals and manners of his time.
The analysis of this writer’s work permits to conclude that Weltman deserves a place in the history of Russian
literature
Trends Toward World Citizenship in the Contemporary World
No full textThis paper, Trends Toward World Citizenship in the Contemporary World, by Mickey Weltman, explores the evolving concept of world citizenship, defined as both a mindset recognizing global interdependence and a practical framework for international cooperation. The study is grounded in the context of increasing global interconnectedness due to advances in technology, communication, economics, and transnational challenges such as environmental degradation and nuclear threats.
Weltman examines three key trends contributing to the development of global citizenship: religious and idealistic traditions promoting the brotherhood of humanity, the role of international organizations such as the United Nations, and the influence of multinational corporations (MNCs). Each trend is analyzed for its historical roots, current relevance, practical applications, and limitations. The author highlights that while religious and philosophical traditions have long advocated for human unity, their implementation has been inconsistent. International organizations have contributed significantly to global cooperation, peacekeeping, and consciousness-raising, though they remain limited by the sovereignty of nation-states. Multinational corporations demonstrate the most efficient model for global integration through economic operations but often provoke criticism for perpetuating inequality and undermining local governance.
The paper argues that nationalism remains a substantial barrier to achieving true global citizenship, perpetuated by education systems and political institutions. However, it concludes on a cautiously optimistic note, suggesting that the imperative of survival in a shared and fragile world may push humanity toward deeper cooperation. Weltman calls for increased awareness, institutional reform, and a shift in values to foster a more inclusive and globally oriented citizenry
Entrevista com Adam Przeworski
No full textEntrevista concedida a Fernando Lattman-Weltman. Nova York, outubro de 201
Victorians on Broadway: Literature, Adaptation, and the Modern American Musical
No full textBroadway productions of musicals such as The King and I, Oliver!, Sweeney Todd, and Jekyll and Hyde became huge theatrical hits. Remarkably, all were based on one-hundred-year-old British novels or memoirs. What could possibly explain their enormous success?
Victorians on Broadway is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of live stage musicals from the mid- to late twentieth century adapted from British literature written between 1837 and 1886. Investigating musical dramatizations of works by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others, Sharon Aronofsky Weltman reveals what these musicals teach us about the Victorian books from which they derive and considers their enduring popularity and impact on our modern culture.
Providing a front row seat to the hits (as well as the flops), Weltman situates these adaptations within the history of musical theater: the Golden Age of Broadway, the concept musicals of the 1970s and 1980s, and the era of pop mega-musicals, revealing Broadway\u27s debt to melodrama. With an expertise in Victorian literature, Weltman draws on reviews, critical analyses, and interviews with such luminaries as Stephen Sondheim, Polly Pen, Frank Wildhorn, and Rowan Atkinson to understand this popular trend in American theater. Exploring themes of race, religion, gender, and class, Weltman focuses attention on how these theatrical adaptations fit into aesthetic and intellectual movements while demonstrating the complexity of their enduring legacy.https://repository.lsu.edu/facultybooks/1338/thumbnail.jp
Contributions of gender and systemic estradiol and testosterone concentrations to maximal secretagogue drive of burst-like growth hormone secretion in healthy middle-aged and older adults
No full textTo test whether concentrations of estradiol and testosterone predict GH responses to mechanistically distinct secretagogues in healthy older adults, we studied 16 volunteers (n = 10 men, n = 6 women, age 49-72 yr) in each of six randomly ordered sessions as follows: 1) saline; 2) L-arginine; 3) aerobic exercise; 4) GHRH; 5) GH-releasing peptide (GHRP)-2; and 6) somatostatin-induced rebound. Statistical comparisons disclosed that stimulus type (P < 0.001) and the interaction between gender and stimulus type (P = 0.023) determine GH secretion. In women, each secretagogue, except exercise and somatostatin-induced rebound, stimulated GH secretion by 2.6- to 6.4-fold over saline/rest (P < 0.023). In men, somatostatin-induced rebound drove GH secretion by 4.6-fold (P = 0.004), exercise by 16-fold (P < 0.001), and other secretagogues by 18- to 109-fold over saline/rest (each P < 0.001). Gender comparisons disclosed greater GH secretion in men than women after somatostatin-induced rebound (P = 0.008) and GHRP-2 injection (P < 0.001) and conversely greater GH secretion in women than men after saline (P = 0.013). Regression analysis showed that individual concentrations of estradiol (r = 0.80, P = 0.002) and testosterone (r = 0.63, P = 0.008) and their combination (r = 0.86, P < 0.001) strongly predict responses to GHRP-2 only. We conclude that among healthy middle-aged and older adults, the action of GHRP is uniquely determined by gender and physiological concentrations of testosterone and estradiol
Validação de equações antropométricas e de impedância bioelétrica para a estimativa da composição corporal em idosos
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Desportos. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Física.O aumento da população de idosos tem desencadeado a necessidade de aprofundamento nas questões que abrangem o envelhecimento. Neste contexto, a análise das alterações morfológicas com a idade tem sido amplamente discutida. Evidências apontam que são poucas as informações sobre métodos válidos para a estimativa da composição corporal em idosos no Brasil. Desse modo, o objetivo deste estudo foi analisar a validade cruzada de equações antropométricas e de impedância bioelétrica (IB) para a estimativa da gordura corporal (%G) e da massa livre de gordura (MLG) em uma amostra de idosos do Município de Florianópolis-SC, tendo como medida-critério a Absortometria de Radiológica de Dupla Energia (DEXA). Foram avaliados 180 idosos (60 homens e 120 mulheres) com idade entre 60 e 81 anos, selecionados de forma aleatória sistemática, pertencentes a quatro Grupos de Terceira Idade, por meio de uma entrevista realizada por telefone. As variáveis de estatura, massa corporal, perímetros corporais, espessura de dobras cutâneas, reactância e resistência foram mensuradas pelo período da manhã, junto ao Centro de Desportos da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. As medidas da DEXA foram realizadas no período da tarde no Centro de Diagnóstico por Imagem em Florianópolis-SC. Foi analisada a validade cruzada de 20 equações antropométricas e 8 equações de IB. Para as equações que estimam a densidade corporal, utilizaram-se a equação de Siri (1961) e a equação adaptada por Deurenberg et al., (1989) para conversão em %G. As análises foram realizadas no pacote estatístico SPSS versão 11.5, adotando-se um nível de significância de 5%. Os critérios de validação cruzada sugeridos por Lohman (1992) e a análise gráfica das dispersões em relação à média, por meio do método proposto por Bland e Altman (1986), foram utilizados. O grupo avaliado apresentou um índice de massa corporal entre 18,4kg/m2 e 39,3kg/m2. O %G médio foi de 23,1% (DP=5,8) nos homens e 37,3% (DP=6,9) nas mulheres, com uma variação entre 6% a 51,4%. As diferenças entre as estimativas das equações de conversão da densidade corporal em %G não foram significativas (p<0,05). As equações antropométricas generalizadas desenvolvidas por Tran e Weltman (1988) e Deurenberg et al., (1991) mostraram-se válidas para a estimativa do %G de homens idosos, apresentando um erro padrão de estimativa (EPE) entre 3,2% e 3,5% e uma correlação significativa r= 0,78 e r= 0,74, respectivamente, com a medida critério. Em relação ao grupo de mulheres idosas, foram válidas as equações antropométricas generalizadas de Durnin e Womersley (1974), Tran e Weltman (1988) e a equação específica de Gonçalves (2004). As mesmas apresentaram um EPE entre 3,26% e 3,50% , com um erro constante entre - 1,2% e 1,9%. Para a estimativa da MLG, as equações de Kyle et al., (2001), Dey et al., (2003) e Sun et al., (2003) não diferem estatisticamente da medida da DEXA em homens, tendo um erro constante entre - 0,7kg e 2,5kg. Já para mulheres, as equações de Kyle et al., (2001) e Dey et al., (2003) mostraram-se válidas (EC entre 0,3kg e 2,7kg). Em relação à análise das categorias de índice de massa corporal (IMC), as equações de Tran e Weltman (1988) e Durnin & Womersley (1974) superestimam o %G em homens com IMC<25kg/m2. O mesmo aconteceu com a equação de Gonçalves (2004) em mulheres idosas, demonstrando que nesses grupos específicos de idosos essas equação não são válidas para a estimativa do %G. As equações de IB válidas não foram influenciadas pelas categorias de IMC. Com isso, as equações validadas no presente estudo podem ser utilizadas na população de idosos nacionais
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
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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
Human growth hormone response to repeated bouts of aerobic exercise
No full text Kanaley, J. A., J. Y. Weltman, J. D. Veldhuis, A. D. Rogol, M. L. Hartman, and A. Weltman. Human growth hormone response to repeated bouts of aerobic exercise. J. Appl. Physiol. 83(5): 1756–1761, 1997.—We examined whether repeated bouts of exercise could override growth hormone (GH) auto-negative feedback. Seven moderately trained men were studied on three occasions: a control day (C), a sequential exercise day (SEB; at 1000, 1130, and 1300), and a delayed exercise day (DEB; at 1000, 1400, and 1800). The duration of each exercise bout was 30 min at 70% maximal O2 consumption (V˙o 2 max) on a cycle ergometer. Standard meals were provided at 0600 and 2200. GH was measured every 5–10 min for 24 h (0800–0800). Daytime (0800–2200) integrated GH concentrations were ∼150–160% greater during SEB and DEB than during C: 1,282 ± 345, 3,192 ± 669, and 3,389 ± 991 min ⋅ μg ⋅ l−1for C, SEB, and DEB, respectively [SEB > C ( P < 0.06), DEB > C ( P < 0.03)]. There were no differences in GH release during sleep (2300–0700). Deconvolution analysis revealed that the increase in 14-h integrated GH concentration on DEB was accounted for by an increase in the mass of GH secreted per pulse (per liter of distribution volume, lv): 7.0 ± 2.9 and 15.9 ± 2.6 μg/lv for C and DEB, respectively ( P < 0.01). Comparison of 1.5-h integrated GH concentrations on the SEB and DEB days (30 min exercise + 60 min recovery) revealed that, with each subsequent exercise bout, GH release apparently increased progressively, with a slightly greater increase on the DEB day [SEB vs. DEB: 497 ± 162 vs. 407 ± 166 ( bout 1), 566 ± 152 vs. 854 ± 184 ( bout 2), and 633 ± 149 vs. 1,030 ± 352 min ⋅ μg ⋅ l−1( bout 3), P < 0.05]. We conclude that the GH response to acute aerobic exercise is augmented with repeated bouts of exercise. </jats:p
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