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Poetry Sycophants and the Authority [On Grovelling to Pavelić, Tito and Tuđman]

Sorel, Sanjin · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

In the analysis of Croatian political poetry, although the article speaks only about texts on the subject of Ante Pavelić, Josip Broz - Tito and Franjo Tuđman, I also refer to all those who have written or are still wri…

Voluntary Servitude and Totalitarianism in Dystopian Novels of the 20th Century: Status of the Literature in Brave New World, 1984 and Fahrenheit 451

Štahan, Matija · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article thematises the relationship of the will to rule and the will to be ruled in the aforementioned dystopian novels by Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and Ray Bradbury. The first part of the article points out Hann…

Ibsen's Pharmakon: Socrates and Stockmann

Tomljenović, Ana · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

Although An Enemy of the People has always been one of Ibsen's most popular plays, ibsenology often dismisses it as a revolutionary pamphlet and the critique of the tyranny of the compact majority and the mediocrity of…

Should Monsters, Mutants, and Ghosts Vote? Monstrous Croatian Lyric and the Principle of Democratic Equality

Vuković, Tvrtko · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The paper starts from the assumption that Croatian modern lyric, from Matoš to Maleš, is haunted by various monsters, phantoms and mutants, and possessed by ghosts. Phantasmal hair speaks, the body changed by illness ac…

Between Aesthetics and Politics: Socially Engaged Art on the Internet

Winiecka, Elżbieta · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The author discusses the changes in the model of democracy that have occurred since the Internet began. The hierarchical model of representative democracy is replaced on the Web by participatory democracy. On the exampl…

Romanticism in West and South Slavonic Literature as the Epoch of Democratization of Culture

Zieliński, Bogusław · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

If we regard democracy as tied with four functions: availability, representation, freedom, and education, then we can state that the Romanticism conceived as the intellectual formation and literary current has managed t…

Plamen Doynov - Generation and Poetry. 1956-1989

Алипиева, Антоанета · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article deals with Plamen Doynovʼs idea of the poetic generations during the time of the socialism. There are the connections between the administrative power and the poets, between the ideological directives and th…

Between Two Epochs

Fadel, Maurice · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

This review is a short presentation and an analysis of the book България - страна на розите, published in 2018. The book consists of three parts - a phototypical copy of the first Polish edition of the collective book f…

Historians on Contemporary Times. The Year of Dangerous Change (2010) according to Georges Mink and Timothy Snyd

Fiećko, Jerzy · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The author analyses the ways of depicting contemporary times in two monographs written by renown scholars: La Pologne au coeur de l'Europe. De 1914 à aujourd'hui, histoire politique et conflits de mémoire (Poland at the…

„Ложка страху в діжці мотороші", або кілька слів про найновішу українську антологію жахів

Горнятко-Шумилович, Анна · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The release of the newest anthology of macabre short stories "Вбивство на вулиці..." (2019) affirmed the superb state of homebred horror literature. The aim of this paper is to analyze and evaluate the seventeen stories…

Yavorov Post Mortem

Велкова-Гайдаржиева, Антония · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

Yavorov Year of Mourning by Mikhail Nedelchev is a ritual book dedicated to the most scorching deadly love affair in the history of the Bulgarian intelligentsia. This text is not a traditional literary-historical one, b…

Evaluating serum C-reactive protein level in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - A cross-sectional study

M, Karthika, Bhardwaj, Prakash Chandra, Sharma, Laimayum Amarnath, Sharma, Laimayum Amarnath, Kanan, W, Singh, W Asoka · International Journal of Current Research in Physiology and Pharmacology;

Abstract Patients with the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have ongoing systemic inflammation, which can be assessed by measuring serum C- reactive protein. Objective: To explore whether CRP could be used as an in…

Role of Udvartana, a diurnal Ayurveda practice in the prevention and management of diabetes mellitus

Bhat, Aditya, Kumari S, Geetha · International Journal of Current Research in Physiology and Pharmacology;

Diabetes is among the most common lifestyle disorders of the modern era. The current approach towards its prevention and management is largely based on diet and lifestyle modifications. As increased body weight and seru…

Public Health concern for a Nipah Virus disease

Rikhabchand Surana, Ajaykumar, Ramesh Kumbhare, Manoj, Uttamrao Abhale, Apurva, Ankush Bhoir, Ankita, Puranmalgi Agrawal, Shivam · International Journal of Current Research in Physiology and Pharmacology;

Nipah virus (NiV) is a pathogenic paramyxovirus that has been responsible for sporadic outbreaks of respiratory and encephalitic disease in tropical countries. Elevated case mortality rate has also been connected with r…

The potential effect of pandan wangi leaf "pandanus amaryllifolius roxb.'' extract from Indonesia as time sleep inductor

Sulistiyati, Nita Tri, Aisyah, Riandini, Sutrisna, EM · International Journal of Current Research in Physiology and Pharmacology;

Sleep plays a role in restoring the body's biochemical and physiological processes which decrease when awake. People is not familiar yet with sleep disturbances, so they rarely seek help. Sleep disturbances can cause fa…

Remarkable Hypokalemia among Sudanese Patients with Jaundice

Arjabey, Abdel-Moniem MS, Mohamed, Bashir · South East Asia Journal of Medical Sciences;

Background: Impairment of potassium levels is common in clinical practice, mainly encountered among hospitalized patients with a wide spectrum of sickness. Hypokalemia is a potentially dangerous irregularity that may ha…

A Narrow Escape. High-energy Comminuted Fractures of Sacrum and Pelvis - are they always associated with neurological deficits? A report of two cases.

Raj, Nijanth M, Chohan, Shakil A, Prasanna, Kappaganthu V · South East Asia Journal of Medical Sciences;

High-energy impact sacral fractures after polytrauma are often assumed to be associated with significant neurological damage especially when the fractures are in Denis Zones 2 & 3 where the sacral foramina and canal are…

Herpetofaunal diversity and community structure at Lake Nabugabo and surrounding Ramsar area wetlands in southern Uganda

Behangana, M., Aluziyo, C., Dendi, D., Luiselli, L., Hughes, D.F., Greenbaum, E. · Life and Environment;

Community ecology patterns are poorly understood in Uganda, as well as in the rest of East Africa. Therefore, the aim of the study was to determine the patterns of diversity and distribution of reptiles and amphibians i…

Truncatoflabellum madrasensis sp. nov. - A new ahermatypic coral species from India and a checklist of species of the genus Truncatoflabellum from the Indian Ocean

Yambem Tenjing, S., Krishnan, P., Deepak Samuel, V., Purvaja, R. · Life and Environment;

A new species of scleractinian coral of the genus Truncatoflabellum Cairns, 1989 (Family Flabellidae), Truncatoflabellum madrasensis sp. nov. was described based on specimens collected from Chennai (east coast of India)…

The distribution and systematic status of cichlid fishes (Teleostei, Cichliformes: Cichlidae) from Morocco

Louizi, H., Agnese, J.-F., Bitja Nyom, A. R., De Buron, I., Berrada Rkhami, O., Benhoussa, A., Qninba, A., Pariselle, A. · Life and Environment;

Cichlids in Morocco are relict populations of the fauna that was extant during the last glacial episodes. In recent millennia, these fishes underwent numerous bottleneck episodes that led to a significant reduction in t…

Reproductive characteristics of the anemone fishes Amphiprion ocellaris and A. Perideraion from eastern coast of Peninsular Malaysia

Tan, I.V., Arai, T. · Life and Environment;

In order to understand the reproductive ecology of the anemone fishes, Amphiprion ocellaris and A. perideraion, the maturation variables gonadosomatic index (GSI) and fecundity were examined throughout the year on the e…

Internal waves in the bay of La Paz, southern Gulf of California , Mexico

Coria-Monter, E., Salas De León, D.A., Monreal-Gómez, M.A., Durán-Campos, E. · Life and Environment;

Internal waves in the Bay of La Paz, southern Gulf of California, Mexico, are evidenced by variations in vertical profiles of chlorophyll-a and temperature, which showed vertical displacements between down-up cast profi…

Porcellio laevis (Crustacea, Isopoda) from soil detritivore to vegetable crop pest: case study of the melon (Cucumis melo L: Cucurbitaceae)

Amari, T., Zaabar, W., Semmar, N., Souty-Grosset, C., Achouri, M.S. · Life and Environment;

Terrestrial isopods play a particularly important ecosystem function in mineralizing organic matter but, according to the species and the cultivated agroecosystem, their status of pest is yet to be confirmed. In this co…

Biometric and diet of the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) in its arid wintering areas of North Africa

Bada, L., Si Bachir, A., Ghazi, C. · Life and Environment;

Biometric and diet of the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758) in its wintering areas in northeastern Algeria was studied following the body measurements and analysis of 117 gizzard contents from November…

Body mass and trophic level variations in relation to habitat disturbance in a set of mammal species

Battisti, C., Fanelli, G., Cerfolli, F., Amori, G., Luiselli, L. · Life and Environment;

ABSTRACT . - We tested whether the species linked to progressively disturbed environments differed in terms of their body size and trophic level. We used a set of mammal species from a region of central Italy (Latium),…