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Looking ahead in games research
2021
This thematic issue presents a number of emerging scholarships into the study of digital gaming. The articles are based on a 2019 symposium on game studies hosted by the Digital Games Research section of ECREA. As the phenomena related to digital gaming keep on evolving and emerging, so must research keep up with the times and constantly challenge itself. Whether speaking about validating previously developed research methods, imagining totally new ones, or even challenging the whole philosophy of science on which research is being done, there is a constant need for reappraisal and introspection within games research. As a cultural medium that has become deeply embedded into the social fabr…
Effects of ectopic expression of NGAL on doxorubicin sensitivity.
2012
Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL, a.k.a Lnc2) is a member of the lipocalin family which has diverse roles including stabilizing matrix metalloproteinase-9 from auto-degradation and as siderocalins which are important in the transport of iron. NGAL also has important biological functions involved in immunity and inflammation as well as responses to kidney damage. NGAL expression has also been associated with certain neoplasia and is important in the metastasis of breast cancer. Many advanced cancer patients have elevated levels of NGAL in their urine and it has been proposed that NGAL may be a prognostic indicator for certain cancers (e.g. breast, brain, and others). NGAL exp…
Assessing the profitability of investment projects using ordered fuzzy numbers
2019
Wstęp: U podstaw rozważań leży stwierdzenie, że większość podejść do budżetowania kapitałowego ma charakter deterministyczny. W rzeczywistości problemowi budżetowania towarzyszy niepewność i ryzyko związane z przetwarzaniem nieprecyzyjnych danych. Uwzględnienie tej niepewności nie tylko pomaga lepiej zmierzyć efektywność projektów inwestycyjnych, ale także rozszerzyć zastosowanie metod budżetowania kapitałowego w warunkach rzeczywistych lub niepewnych. Głównym celem artykułu jest opracowanie nowatorskiego podejścia do oceny opłacalności projektu inwestycyjnego w warunkach niepewności. Metody: Prezentujemy nowatorskie podejście uwzględniające niepewność w ocenie opłacalności projektów inwest…
Hierarchies of knowledge, incommensurabilities and silences in South African ECD policy: Whose knowledge counts?
2017
AbstractPolicy for young children in South Africa is now receiving high-level government support through the ANC’s renewed commitment to redress poverty and inequity and creating ‘a better life for all’ as promised before the 1994 election. In this article, I explore the power relations, knowledge hierarchies and discourses of childhood, family and society in National Curriculum Framework (NCF) as it relates to children’s everyday contexts. I throw light on how the curriculum’s discourses relate to the diverse South African settings, child rearing practices and world-views, and how they interact with normative discourses of South African policy and global early childhood frameworks. The NCF…
Participation in Social Media: Studying Explicit and Implicit Forms of Participation in Communicative Social Networks
2016
The diverse forms of participation in social media raise many methodological and ethical issues that should be acknowledged in research. In this paper, participation in social media is studied by utilising the framework of explicit and implicit participation. The focus is on the communicative and communal aspects of social media. The aim of the paper is to promote the reconsideration of what constitutes participation when online users create connections rather than content. The underlying argument is that research on social media and the development of methods should concentrate more on implicit forms of participation.
The Translation of Chinese Medical Terms into English. Linguistic Considerations on the Language of TCM
2009
The growing diffusion of TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) in the Western world on the one hand, and the major role of English as the language of scientific communication and international exchange on the other, have led to the need for accuracy and standardization in the English terminology of Chinese medical concepts. The complexity of Chinese medical language, not only due to the innumerable quantity of ideograms1, but above all to their correct interpretation and to the philosophical foundations which TCM is based upon, has raised several debates among linguists, translators and physicians. One of the main issues concerns the approach to be adopted in the translation of Chinese terms i…
La relació entre història de la llengua i història literària
2021
La relació entre la disciplina història de la llengua i la disciplina història de la literatura ha estat una relació de subordinació, tant des del punt vista conceptual com metodològic. La primera ha estat subordinada a la segona. En aquest article tractem en primer lloc de les circumstàncies i els esdeveniments històrics que han determinat aquesta situació de subordinació: la identificació cultural entre llengua i literatura (però amb la supeditació de la primera a la segona), el naixement de la lingüística romànica (que, paradoxalment, no va afavorir l’autonomia de la història de la llengua) i la desclosa de les cultures nacionals, que també van donar prioritat a la literatura nacional. E…
Specyfika języka finansów na przykładzie terminologii stosowanej w strategiach inwestycyjnych
2018
W artykule zostaje podjęta próba przedstawienia istoty języków specjalistycznych. Jako że samo pojęcie języków specjalistycznych jest bardzo złożone i definiowane w zależności od przyjętych kryteriów, w pierwszej części referatu przedstawiona będzie krótka ich charakterystyka, a następnie omówiona zostanie specyfika jednego spośród nich, a mianowicie języka finansów. Jak niemal każdy również język finansów jest dość rozbudowanym systemem obejmującym zarówno teksty mówione (również istotne są tu teksty niewerbalne), jak i pisane. Do grupy tych ostatnich zalicza się akty prawne, zapisy notowań, analizy i komentarze do nich, teksty ogólne dotyczące np. giełdy. Dla celów niniejszego artykułu wy…
Туристические кластеры западной Украины и их научно-образовательное обеспечение
2020
The issue of forming cluster structures is very relevant for tourist destinations and certain forms of tourism in Ukraine. The scope of the study is the tourist clusters of Western Ukraine, which are characterized by high tourist attractiveness. The purpose of the study is to analyze the factors of tourist clusters formation and to develop guidelines for their scientific and educational support. Methodological and procedural framework was used to develop cluster models, as well as to typify them and assess formal and informal connections between scientific, educational institutions and cluster subjects. The typification of tourist clusters of the region is presented according to the criteri…
Quantitative reconstruction of hydroclimate variability over the last 200 kyr in the West Mediterranean
2022
The data show the quantitative annual, winter and summer precipitation reconstructions (mm/yr) from southern Iberian Peninsula for the last ~200,000 years (Camuera et al., 2022), based on the previously published fossil pollen data from the Padul-15-05 lake sediment record (Ramos-Román et al., 2018a, b; Camuera et al., 2019, 2021). The Padul-15-05 record, located in southern Spain (37º00'39''N, 3º36'14''W, 726 masl), was retrieved during summer 2015 from the current edge of the lake using a Rolatec RL-48-L hydraulic percussion coring machine. The quantitative precipitation reconstructions were performed using the performance statistics of the Weighted Averaging-Partial Least Squares (WA-PLS…