Применение теории "гротескного тела" М. Бахтина в процессе научного осмысления прозы Иоахима Рингельнаца

The article responds to the previous discourse on the grotesque dimension o

Optimistic Christian Verticals and Destructive Secular Horizontals in Joachim Ringelnatz’s and Ödön von Horváth’s Experimental Fairy Tales

This article contributes to the discourse on experimental interwar fairy tales as a subgenre that undermines the anachronistic fairy-tale conventions to a selective negation or recontextualization in accordance with a contemporaneous cultural crisis. The contribution consists of demonstrating how fairy tales provide popular interwar religious authors with a platform to parallel the critical mirroring of their secular contemporaneous society with an articulation of a Christian, humanist optimism. A spatially focused comparison of Ödön von Horváth’s cycle of fairy tales Sportmärchen (1924–1926, published posthumously in 1972), and Joachim Ringelnatz’s Nervosipopel: Elf Angelegenheiten (1924) distinguishes the vertical and horizontal textual spaces to demonstrate that both authors reflect their metaphysically uprooted society through a negation of the genre\u27s characteristic orientation toward harmonic equilibriums on a horizontal spatial axis. However, by overlaying destructive horizontals with antinomic, transcendence-signifying Christian verticals, the tales also articulate a modality of nearness to God, even in the secular world. This symbolic and positive vertical motion correlates with preserving the genre\u27s characteristic idealization of a child

Application of AHP for evaluating passenger demand for public transport improvements in Mersin, Turkey

The supply quality of a public transport system can be characterized by a few frequently alluded factors. These factors are often not fully considered in emerging countries by decision makers, generally, the decisions are made through a top-down process, while preferences of the demand side would also be essential. This paper suggests an approach aiming to get an overview of passenger’s demands in Mersin city ‘Turkey’. As methodology, analytic hierarchy process has been applied based on created questionnaires that has been used regarding the hierarchy of quality factors, and as evaluators, the public and governmental decision makers have been involved in the survey. The degree of public satisfaction about public transport has been decided by analyzing collected data

A Systematic Review of the Latest Advancements on Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) Technique Focusing on Applications in Transportation Planning

Finding methods to develop transportation planning and accordingly attract more people to use sustainable transportation is one of the most important subjects for transportation planners and decision-makers in current studies. The Structural Equation Model (SEM) is a statistical approach to examining the relationship between observed variables and latent variables. SEM is not only a single process, but also a cluster of related statistical techniques. The potential of SEM techniques lies in the essence of several issues in transportation planning and in using it as a guide for authorities. The main aim of this study is to present a systematic review of the application of the SEM methods in the assessment of transportation planning in the past decades, consequently, encouraging researchers to further investigate.After conducting a review of 47 articles published in high-quality journals, from 2011–2020, the recorded articles are clustered into three main groups; perception, satisfaction and loyalty, and behavior related to mode choice. Further, these three groups are classified according to numerous key perspectives, containing published year, type of transportation mode, sample size, software and method.The result of this review article shows that since 2018 the usage of SEM approaches has significantly increased for the evaluation of public transportation service quality. Furthermore, recall findings in this article are recommended for researchers such as the improvement of the application and practice of SEM utilize methods in terms of transportation planning research to avoid imprecisions in a future study, particularly addressing the problems related to public transportation

Individual 17-Hydroxyprogesterone Responses to hCG Are Not Correlated With Follicle Size in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

Context:In women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), 17-hydroxyprogesterone (17-OHP) responses to gonadotropin stimulation vary from increased to indistinguishable compared with normal controls. Objective:To determine whether 17-OHP responses to recombinant-human chorionic gonadotropin (r-hCG) are individually correlated to the size of antral follicles among women with PCOS. Design Setting and Participants:A prospective study conducted in 19 women with PCOS and 20 normal controls at an academic medical center. Interventions:Blood samples were obtained before and 24 hours after administration of 25 μg of r-hCG. Ovarian imaging was conducted with three-dimensional pelvic ultrasonography. Each subject underwent a 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test. Main Outcome Measures:Basal and stimulated levels of 17-OHP, androgens, estradiol, progesterone, anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH), insulin, glucose, follicle number, and size. Results:In women with PCOS, mean antral follicle count (AFC) was greater than that of controls, although the size of cohort follicles within individual subjects was not correlated to 17-OHP responses. The numbers of 2- to 3-mm and 3- to 4-mm follicles in PCOS were significantly greater than in controls, whereas differences between larger follicles were not observed. Increased AMH in PCOS was correlated to AFC, but not 17-OHP responses. Insulin sensitivity did not correlate to r-hCG‒stimulated 17-OHP after adjustment for body mass index. Conclusions:17-OHP responses to hCG in individuals with PCOS were not correlated to the distribution of antral follicles. Greater numbers of small antral follicles in women with PCOS than in controls suggest an extension of accelerated growth from the preantral stage