The article details experiences of the US musicologists who applied for the travel grant that was established in the wake of the Lacy-Zarubin agreement (1958). Highly competitive, these grants ...propelled the careers of the future trend-setters in Russian and Soviet music studies, including Malcolm Hamrick Brown, Laurel Fay, and Richard Taruskin. The funded research topics reflected what was seen as respectable musicological scholarship in the 1960s United States. Contrary to later musicological trends, the selected proposals avoided political subject matter altogether. First, the article analyzes how Cold War politics were manifested through biopolitics. Those who went on exchange were to function as "sources of unbiased information" for Soviet citizenry about the "American way of life"-a concept that was raced, gendered, and conformed to strict standards of sexuality, ability, and mental health. The second half of the article deals with the lens through which the American musicologists perceived the disciplines of music history and theory in the Soviet Union, as well as personal connections resulting from the exchange program. Results of such exposure would come to fruition during the 1980s and 1990s, when the former exchange participants put forth less othering, less Cold-War-prone approaches to Soviet music.
This article aims to study possible relationships between character accentuations and psychological defense mechanisms in university students. The Leonhard–Shmishek test questionnaire “Personality ...Accentuations” and the Plutchik–Kellerman–Conte questionnaire “Life Style Index” were used. The results were analyzed using correlation, for which the Spearman r-coefficient was used. The significance of differences between the groups was calculated using the Kruskal–Wallis H-test, and a comparative analysis of the indicator percentages was also conducted. It was found that hyperthymic, emotive, and exalted accentuations prevailed among the students surveyed. Furthermore, it was concluded that students with hyperthymic accentuation tend to use the denial defense mechanism; rationalization is inherent in students with emotive accentuation, and substitution is inherent in students with exalted accentuation. The data obtained allow for the following conclusion: the characteristic features of accentuations can influence the choice and use of certain defense mechanisms. The research results expand the possibilities in psychological and pedagogical work at the university to help students who have difficulty adapting, in academic performance, and in self-determination.
Received: 21 August 2023 / Accepted: 24 November 2023 / Published: 5 January 2024
Clinical Outcomes in Patients With COVID-19 and Hematologic Disease Aleshina, Olga A.; Zakurdaeva, Kristina; Vasileva, Anastasia N. ...
Clinical lymphoma myeloma & leukemia/Clinical lymphoma, myeloma and leukemia,
August 2023, 2023-Aug, 2023-08-00, 20230801, Letnik:
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•Patients with hematologic disease and COVID-19 have high all-cause mortality at short-term follow-up, predominantly due to COVID-19 complications.•Patients with nonmalignant hematologic disease, ...remission of any hematologic disease, as well as no concomitant conditions have a more favorable prognosis.•At a longer follow-up, no significant impact of COVID-19 on the course of a hematologic disease was demonstrated.•Prevention of SARS-CoV-2 is a crucial part of successful hematologic disease management during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Patients with hematologic diseases are at higher risk of the SARS-CoV-2 infection and more severe clinical outcomes of the coronavirus disease. CHRONOS19 is an observational prospective cohort study with the aim to determine the short and longer-term clinical outcomes, risk factors for disease severity and mortality, and rates of postinfectious immunity in patients with malignant and nonmalignant hematologic diseases and COVID-19.
: Overall, 666 patients were enrolled in the study, of which 626 were included in the final data analysis. The primary endpoint was 30-days all-cause mortality. Secondary endpoints included COVID-19 complications, rates of ICU admission and mechanical ventilation, outcomes of a hematologic disease in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients, overall survival, and risk factors for disease severity and mortality. Data from 15 centers were collected at 30, 90, and 180 days after COVID-19 was diagnosed and were managed using a web-based e-data capture platform. All evaluations were performed in the pre-omicron period of COVID-19 pandemic.
Thirty-days all-cause mortality was 18.9%. The predominant cause of death (in 80% of cases) were COVID-19 complications. At 180 days, the majority (70%) of additional deaths were due to hematologic disease progression. At a median follow-up of 5.7 0.03-19.04 months, 6-months overall survival was 72% 95% CI: 0.69-0.76. One-third of patients had severe SARS-CoV-2 disease. The rate of ICU admission was 22% with 77% of these patients requiring mechanical ventilation, with poor survival rate. A univariate analysis revealed that older age (≥ 60 years), male sex, malignant hematologic disease, myelotoxic agranulocytosis, transfusion dependence, refractory disease or relapse, diabetes among comorbidities, any complications, especially ARDS alone or in combination with CRS, admission to an ICU, and mechanical ventilation were associated with higher risks of mortality. Treatment of the hematologic disease was changed, postponed, or canceled in 63% of patients. At a longer follow-up (90 and 180 days), the status of the hematologic disease changed in 7.5% of patients.
Patients with hematologic disease and COVID-19 have high mortality rates, predominantly due to COVID-19 complications. At a longer-term follow-up, no significant impact of COVID-19 on the course of a hematologic disease was revealed.
Patients with hematologic conditions are at a higher risk of mortality due to COVID-19 compared to the general population. Further research and implementation of appropriate interventions in order to prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 infection in this vulnerable patient population are warranted.
This article presents a model to plan the annual production of pulleys and gray iron bushings in an engineering company. The proposed model considers sales forecasts and the use of finite mixture ...distributions to determine the behavior of class A sales items and best service levels. The forecast model parameters and finite mixture distribution sales are calculated via a Monte Carlo simulation. The model provides the annual production planning and inventory, minimizing fixed and variable production, inventory holding and penalty costs for noncompliance. The design is implemented with historical class A sales items, determining that the best service level is 95%. This model expects an additional annual profit of approximately $277,000 Mexican pesos.
How Soviet Musicology became Marxist Panteleeva, Olga
The Slavonic and East European review (1928),
01/2019, Letnik:
97, Številka:
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Many Soviet musicologists of the 1920s embraced Marxist ideas enthusiastically — a fact that has been barely acknowledged in previous research. This article argues that these scholars heavily relied ...on the pre-revolutionary ideal of the rigorously scientific study of art, aiming to discover immutable laws that govern art and society. What made Marxist frameworks appealing to music scholars was the convergence between the positivist imperative to find laws of music and Soviet Marxist determinism. Whereas existing studies have tended to portray early Soviet musicologists either as voluntarily following ideological directives from the State or as victims of a total ideological crackdown on free scholarly thought, this article examines the ways in which musicologists themselves could be active agents of the ideological change.
In this article, the finite mixture model of Weibull distributions is studied, the identifiability of the model with m components is proven, and the parameter estimators for the case of two ...components resulted by several algorithms are compared. The parameter estimators are obtained with maximum likelihood performing calculations with different algorithms: expectation-maximization (EM), Fisher scoring, backfitting, optimization of k-nearest neighbor approach, and random walk algorithm using Monte Carlo simulation. The Akaike information criterion and the log-likelihood value are used to compare models. In general, the proposed random walk algorithm shows better performance in mean square error and bias. Finally, the results are applied to electronic component lifetime data.
In this paper we propose two bootstrap goodness of fit tests for the log-gamma distribution with three parameters, location, scale and shape. These tests are built using the properties of this ...distribution family and are based on the sample correlation coefficient which has the property of invariance with respect to location and scale transformations. Two estimators are proposed for the shape parameter and show that both are asymptotically unbiased and consistent in mean-squared error. The test size and power is estimated by simulation. The power of the two proposed tests against several alternative distributions is compared to that of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Anderson-Darling, and chi-square tests. Finally, an application to data from a production process of carbon fibers is presented.
The St. Petersburg Conservatory bears Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s name not only on account of the composer’s contribution to the Russian classical music canon, but because he is perceived as a ...progenitor of the institutionalized study of music in Russia—both practical and theoretical. His influential textbook,Principles of Orchestration, still serves as a reference point in Conservatory curricula. In fact, his longtime position as a reputable Conservatory professor and the reputation of his art as “learned” have tended to undercut his standing as artist, especially “compared to the mythic, tortured figure of the uncouth and untutored . . . Musorgsky.”¹ It
An increase of infertility and chronic pelvic pains syndrome, a growing level of latent diseases of this group, as well as a stably high percentage (up to 25 for infertility and up to 60 for the ...chronic pelvic pains syndrome) of undetermined origin raises the requirement for novel introscopic diagnostic techniques. We demonstrate abilities of optical coherence tomography (OCT) as a complementary technique to laparoscopy in diagnostics of fallopian tubes pathologies. We have acquired OCT images of different parts of fallopian tubes in norm and with morphologically proven pathology. Based on comparative analysis of the OCT data and the results of histological studies, we have worked out the subjective OCT criteria for distinguishing between unaltered and pathologic tissues. The developed criteria are verified in blind recognition tests. Diagnostic efficacy of OCT diagnostics in the case ofpelvic inflammatory diseases has been statistically evaluated, and high diagnostic accuracy (88 ) is shown. Basing of the subjective criteria, an attempt to develop independent criteria aimed for automated recognition of pathological states in fallopian tubes is undertaken. Enhanced diagnostic accuracy (96 ) of the developed independent criteria is demonstrated.
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