bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Índices de producción para el sector metalmecánica en Colombia
Authors: Redondo Ramírez Marlen Isabel , Díaz Restrepo Carlos Andrés , Buchelli Lozano Gerardo Antonio
Published: October 2021

El índice de producción industrial recopila y procesa la evolución mensual de la actividad productiva real de la industria manufacturera, mediante un conjunto de productos característicos de la actividad. La investigación tuvo como objetivo, analizar con métodos estadísticos la variación de los índices de producción para el sector metalmecánico en Colombia, en el periodo 2020-2022. Es una investigación de tipo documental y descriptiva, con datos referenciales de la industria metalmecánica, base promedio mensual 2018=100. Los resultados del modelo de Garch mostraron una probabilidad de 81.8% para el sector fabricación de vehículos automotores y sus motores, mientras que un 84.9% fue de productos elaborados de metal. Asimismo, la cointegración de Johansen en el sector metalmecánico es la que más se ajusta al ideal con un valor-p de 0.781. En conclusión, se estima una recuperación total en el sector manufacturero post Covid-19, en el índice de producción del sector para enero 2022 en la República de Colombia.
Género, precariedad y exclusión: experiencias de mujeres que utilizan comedores sociales
Authors: Verthein Ursula , De Moraes Prata Gaspar Maria Clara
Published: October 2021

Este estudio tiene como objetivo describir y analizar cómo las situaciones de exclusión identificadas por mujeres usuarias y trabajadoras de servicios asistenciales para la alimentación −comedores sociales de la ciudad de Barcelona − influyen en sus vidas en general, y en sus prácticas alimentarias en particular. El trabajo se ha desarrollado a partir de una metodología cualitativa de aproximación etnográfica. El trabajo de campo se ha llevado a cabo durante 2018 en dos comedores sociales públicos de la ciudad de Barcelona. Las narrativas hacen referencia a una suma de situaciones de exclusión en sus frecuencias diarias a estos comedores sociales, como discriminaciones relacionadas con la clase social, el género, la edad y el origen, si son extranjeras. En conclusión, establecemos relaciones entre los contextos de consumo alimentario en los comedores sociales y sus efectos en las prácticas alimentarias de las mujeres que utilizan los servicios ofrecidos por estos centros asistenciales. Analizamos con especial atención las situaciones de exclusión en dichos contextos que, consecuentemente, afectan el comer
Transitar es hacer pasado
Authors: Fernández de las Heras Ion
Published: October 2021

Muñoz Morán, Óscar. (2020). “Caminos con barro, trabajo y fame”. Usos y desusos del territorio en el Concejo de Quirós, Ediciones de la Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo.
"Are we doing enough": An evaluation of the utilization of employee assistance programs to support the mental health needs of employees during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Brooks C. Darren , Ling Jeff
Published: October 2021

The purpose of this study was to examine EAP utilization as a result of the pandemic. Specifically, it looked at whether the EAP utilization has increased in a post-pandemic environment, whether demographic factors age, gender, or race/ethnicity influence EAP utilization, and how employers promote EAP benefits to support employee mental health needs during the pandemic.
Director networks and credit ratings of insurance companies
Authors: Gatzlaff Kevin M. , Kemper Kristopher J. , Simkins Betty , Iyer Subramanian Rama
Published: October 2021

Previous finance literature has found that a firm's credit rating is influenced by the connectedness of its board members. Due to the subjective nature of credit ratings, qualitative information like a board's connections can influence a rating agency's decision making. We investigate the impact of four dimensions of board connectedness on credit ratings in the highly-regulated insurance industry. We find mixed evidence regarding the relationship between board connectedness and credit ratings in the insurance industry. As is the case for non-financial companies, we find some evidence that board connectedness is positively related to credit ratings for property/casualty (P/C) insurers, in line with social capital theory. However, for life insurers, we find that board connectedness is negatively associated with credit ratings, which supports the "board-busyness" theory. We suggest that the differing relationships between board connectedness and credit ratings among insurers are due to the short-term and riskier nature of property insurers, and that the disconnect between life insurers and non-financial companies is explained by life insurers' greater size, lower liquidity and higher leverage.
The Influence Factors of Consumers’ Subjective Effect toward Brand Extension
Authors: Chen Tser-Yieth , Huang Yu-Chen
Published: October 2021

This study investigates the cause and effect relationship among fit (product-country match, prototype fit and exemplar fit), brand trust (process-based trust, characteristic-based trust, and institutional-based trust) and perceived value and uses the multiple regression analysis to test the cause and effect relationship among every variable. This study focuses on those consumers who shopping at department stores in four areas in Taipei city in Taiwan using the quota sampling method. Empirical results indicate positive relationships to the targeted hypothesis: the three variables of product-country match, prototype fit, and exemplar fit will enhance perceived value through brand trust while a business launch a new product and the most important variable to affect perceived value is product-country match. Consequently, the managerial implications of this study can provide appropriate suggestions for global enterprises to develop their brand extension strategy to build positive and strong value for consumers.
Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure among Large Korean Companies
Authors: Y Lee Diane
Published: October 2021

There are various definitions and schools of thoughts regarding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). With regards to CSR, cases for diverse stakeholders, not limited to primary traditional stakeholders such as shareholders or employees, should be made. Much progress has been made in response to CSR in Korea in the last decade after the Asian Financial Crisis. Also, the CSR practices in Korea somewhat resonate with those of Americans or Japanese due to Korea’s history. In this article, website disclosure about CSR and reference to various stakeholders alluded to in GRI index at UN has been analyzed – in other words, content analysis of disclosure on the websites of large Korean companies have been made. Also, simple empirical analysis has been carried out with regards to the firm’s performance and CSR degree and although the influence proved to be insignificant.
A Theoretical Model for Dividend Policy
Authors: Jiang Jun
Published: October 2021

Interactive determinations, featured in the corporation’s investing, financing and operating activities, explicitly lead firm’s decision ambiguity of payout policy as the result of benefit pursuit and competing among investors, agencies, and firm’s decision making. The study initiates and develops theoretical decision model through consolidating the segmented optimal decisions of, shareholders, agencies, and firms, recognizing the capital structure, tax effects, cash flows allocation effects, and executives’ utility optimality. It results the constructive implications for the implementation of payout policy, which consist of, equity capital turnover rate, taxes, cost of capital, and sustainable growth rate, and so on.
CRAFTING A SUSTAINABLE CORPORATE PERFORMANCE: The value of corporate stakeholders
Authors: Khomba J Kamwachale , Kangaude-Ulaya Ella C , Hanif Rabiya
Published: October 2021

Stakeholders play critical roles in sustaining operations of an organisation. Thus, there is an increasing insistence on the need for organisations to run their operations with their stakeholders in mind. This study aimed at establishing how different stakeholders are valued and treated by various companies operating in Malawi. The study findings reveal that most business executives recognise the vital roles that different stakeholders play for the success and sustainability of their operations. Corporate managers also recognise the interdependence of relationships of their stakeholders. However, some stakeholders such as debt financiers, community and natural environment receive lower rankings by corporate managers. The study findings suggest that there is a need to carry out another similar study after some time to assess the impact of new provisions of the good corporate governance that propagate inclusion of an integrated reporting system within corporate reports. It is envisaged that the study results will facilitate the change of mindsets in corporate planning and performance measurement systems and also change of approaches in academic and business research programmes.
Federal Employee Motivation during Government Downsizing: A Literature Review
Authors: Bratton Darrell
Published: October 2021

The federal budget crisis has come to a boiling point and federal employees are feeling the pain as well. Motivation of federal employees is a current topic that needs to be addressed as the government is downsizing at an ever increasing rate. With pay freezes, pay cuts, and now downsizing, Herzberg’s research based on the Motivation/Hygiene theory will be looked at as a way of predicting how to motivate federal employees while the government is downsizing. There is a dearth of current research related to the motivation of federal employees during downsizing. Seminal research is reviewed as well as some recent research on motivation and downsizing. From this literature review, the gap in the research reveals that future research can be based on data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management; however, the study should be longitudinal and specific to an agency so that a representative sample can be analyzed.
The Effect of Corporate Governance on Bank's Dividend Policy: Evidence from Jordan
Authors: Daradkah Demeh Ahmad , Ajlouni Moh'd Mahmoud
Published: October 2021

This study aims at investigating the relationship between corporate governance measures and dividends policy, along with other control variables, such as tax charges, growth rate, market valuation of the bank’s book value and profitability. Using all banks listed in Amman Stock Exchange during the period 2001-2009, the analysis is performed by employing each of the institutional ownership and top shareholders, separately, as a proxy of corporate governance (GC) and dividends payout ratio (DPR) as a proxy for the dividends. The empirical results show strong evidence on the importance of one simple CG measure, i.e. institutional ownership concentration or top shareholders, on bank’s DPR. Similarly, there were evidences on the effect of tax charges, total assets growth rate, market valuation (MVBV) and profitability (ROE) on dividends policy. Thus, banks with more institutional investors or top shareholders have higher DPR, which is consistent with agency models of dividends. In addition, taxes, market valuation and profitability are negatively associated with DPR, which is consistent with stock valuation models.
The Impact of External Drivers on Women Entrepreneurs Perception towards Supplier Performance in Nigerian SME Practices: The Mediating Effect of Enforcement Mechanisms
Authors: Umar Mohammed Sangiru , Abdul Hamid Abu Bakar , Chikaji Aliyu Isah , Kaigama Nana Aisha , Mohammed Jummai Aliyu
Published: October 2021

The purpose of this study is to critically examine the influence of government policies, customers, competitors as a driver and to some extent interventions to women entrepreneurship motivation in relation to its impact on social enforcement mechanism and supplier performance. The environment where women embark on entrepreneurial activities was articulated as one of the conditioned factors. Coupled with the harsh credit facilities and segregated opportunity prevailing itself to curtailed the untold hardships faced by women entrepreneurs for the success of their respective businesses which is not far from SME. This in turn influences the women entrepreneurs towards utilization of the available governance mechanism in nurturing their channel network relationship in achieving supplier performance. Even with burgeon of empirical investigation of the impact of institutional pressures on environmental practices, how these drivers affects social assets towards realization of supplier performance remains unclear. Social enforcement is seen as one of the alternatives used to curtailed supplier opportunism in realization of superior supplier performance. How does the social enforcement enhance supplier performance as a result of institutional pressures in the Nigerian women’s micro, small and medium scale enterprise is still novel and unexplored?
The Effects of Globalization on Inflation in Selected OPEC Member Countries during 1998-2007
Authors: Monsef Abdalali , Googerdchian Ahmad , Moghaddam Zohreh Alami
Published: October 2021

Economists have considered globalization as one of effective factors on inflation in recent years. They believe that globalization reduces the role of domestic factors and increases the role of foreign factors. This research evaluates the impact of globalization on inflation in selected OPEC member countries included Iran for the period 1998-2007 and using modern panel data econometric techniques. Results of this research show that globalization and trade openness increase inflation considerably in these countries. Domestic output gap, political instability and GDP per worker as an indicator of development economic have not could affect on inflation significantly but foreign output gap have a weak and significant effect on inflation.
Exchange Rate Volatility in Nigeria: Evidence from a Parametric Measure
Authors: Oloba Olusola , Abogan Opeyemi
Published: October 2021

The study uses a parametric measure to discover the trend and possible causes of exchange rate volatility in Nigeria over the period 1986: 1-- 2009: 4. The study revealed that exchange rate has been volatile in Nigeria given the fact that the standard deviation of exchange rate has been unusually high and unusually low during the period under investigation. The parametric measure of exchange rate further confirmed a high degree of volatility which portrays higher risk to a risk-averse economic agent. The study therefore recommends that the government should always take a cognizance look at the frequent movement in the exchange rate with a view to regulating it because higher risks attached to high degree of volatility may scare off both domestic and foreign investors.
A Vivacious Delineation of Public Universities at Dhaka: An Emphatic Gaze on Quality Education
Authors: Mukul Abu Zafar Ahmed , Khan Abdullah Ishak , Sharmin Shahnaz , Islam Mohammad Tanjimul
Published: October 2021

Education is considered as a basic right of human being and perhaps it is the most important elementary need that human deserves. As society is flourishing its paragon of beauty for developing it towards a newer mould day by day human is in a need of more knowledge to reign over the world. Though education assists human to cope up with the vogue world a major portion of it is deprived of this facility. Due to some lacking students of the third world countries like Bangladesh are lying behind in higher education. In this paper we insisted on those factors having perceptible and beyond sight potency in quality of higher education such as criteria of choosing an institution, satisfaction about some criterion e.g. language proficiency, computer learning, professional knowledge, extra curricular activities etc. with some inevitable tests.
Occupational Mobility among Sales Employees in the Nigerian Banking Industry: Issues and Determinants
Authors: Ibok Ibok, Nkanikpo , Etuk Aniebiet J.
Published: October 2021

This study examined factors determining occupational mobility of marketing staff in the Nigerian banking industry. Using Pearson product moment correlation analysis and information obtained from a cross section of bank marketers, it is evident that perceived injustices in employment contract, transfers, promotional policies, job insecurity, unrealistic deposit mobilization target and welfare packages significantly influenced occupational mobility of marketing employees. These findings are a consolidation of earlier studies which provide an important insight and signals to Nigerian bank to achieve better performance and more importantly to compete favourably in keeping and retaining their highly valued sales employees. Based on this, we recommend among others that bank management should refocus their strategies on how best to create a favourable work climate for best talents to thrive. Future research agenda is also highlighted.
Study on the Crisis Management Performance Evaluation of the Engineering Project Demolition Based On Grey Model
Authors: Li Jun , Yang Fan , Yu HuaJie
Published: October 2021

According to the characteristics of engineering project demolition, the whole paper will concentrate on the analysis of crisis management in the new trend of research projects in the field of research and practice. The basic framework of the outline of the crisis management process of modern engineering project in China demolition system has been created from several aspects, the Balanced Scorecard theory construction project the evaluation index system of crisis management units on the performance. And establishes the evaluation model of crisis management organization project demolition performance through the use of AHP multi-level fuzzy evaluation method, evaluation index of factors related were quantified in the example analysis after application. We expect that accurate grasp and evaluation of engineering project crisis management can be used to deal with pollution emergency management level, and provide a useful reference for the formulation of strategies and measures of rational and efficient.
ASSESSMENT OF PUBLIC SAFE GROUNDWATER SOURCES IN BAUCHI STATE NIGERIA: A BASELINE STATUS FOR MONITORING PROGRESS TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 6
Authors: Ndububa O. I
Published: October 2021

The performance status of access to safe water sources in a community is determined by the percentage of the population using domestic water sources that meet international standards. Nigeria achieved a total of about 67% of the population with access to safe water sources by 2015 at the end of the period of the Millennium Development Goals. Ensuring universal access to safe and affordable drinking water for all requires investment inadequate infrastructure, this requirement led to the investigation of facilities currently available in Bauchi State of Nigeria. A baseline survey was conducted in the State towards monitoring progress on development goals, the baseline survey covered safe water sources and health facilities in State. It was found that Dambam Local Government Area recorded the highest access of 60.6% of the population with access to safe water sources, 33.33% of the population in Bauchi Local Government Area has access to public safe water sources while the lowest access recorded 5.26% in Toro Local Government Area. The functionality status of installed safe water sources in the State is currently low; Bauchi Local Government Area recorded a functionality status of 46% for the public motorized schemes and 66% functionality status for the handpump equipped boreholes. It was recommended that in working towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal number 6, massive repair and rehabilitation exercise is required to be carried out on non-functional water supply sources in the State to improve the access to safe water sources.
Corps déviants et force oppositionnelle dans quelques romans du xixe siècle
Authors: Auraix-Jonchière Pascale
Published: October 2021

Résumé : Comme l’ont montré les études sur le handicap, le corps handicapé, « déviant » en raison de sa déformation par rapport à la norme, est généralement un corps marginalisé, voire ostracisé. Jugé inutile ou à charge, il est considéré comme une entrave et jugé comme passif – du côté, donc, de la non-productivité. Dans le domaine de la fiction, il est pourtant des personnages (hommes ou femmes) qui incarnent par leur difformité et leur empêchement corporel une force oppositionnelle constructive au sein de la société matérialiste et productiviste du xixe siècle français. C’est sous cet angle que nous examinerons deux formes d’opposition qui dénoncent les limites de la norme sociale : l’opposition critique, d’une part, qui stigmatise par l’ironie les « idées reçues » de l’époque (et ce sont le pied-bot et l’aveugle de Madame Bovary) ; l’opposition « transcendante », d’autre part, qui dénonce la normalisation matérialiste du siècle chez Barbey d’Aurevilly (grâce à des figures comme celles de la Clotte ou de Julie la Gamase).
Le handicap au risque de l’amour Un combat incertain contre les représentations sociales du xixe siècle
Authors: MARTY Frédérique
Published: October 2021

Through two works taken from Balzac's Comédie humaine (César Birotteau and Modeste Mignon) our study seeks to demonstrate the power of ostracization of social representations against deviant bodies in the 19th century in Western societies. We question the tolerance scale for mild disability, the club-foot, in two parts, and then in the face of a deformity considered to be monstrous, that of a hunchbacked dwarf. If the first person with a disability manages to marry his sweetheart, he owes it to its intact validity, to a share of luck afforded by the novelist, but above all to the force of money! We will find this character in the Human comedy. The second only exists for the duration of the novel. Faced with the one he loves and the reader, he shines with the intelligence and sensitivity bestowed by the narrator. For happiness, he will have to be content to be the true craftsman of the one whom the one he loves aims for, without sharing it, because a monster, even bright and full of humor, remains a monster.
Influence of Tangible Ecosystem Goods Encroachment on Host Community Well-being: A Case of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Authors: F. Wanyera , C.R. Mutugi , D. Nadjima , N. Gichuki
Published: October 2021

The study was set out to investigate how encroachment on ecosystem tangible goods improves the host community well-being. The problem was that over harvesting of the tangible goods resulted in the degradation of the ecosystem and thus affected the quality and quantity of the tangible goods harvested and thus negatively affected the host community's wellbeing. The study had threefold objectives and these were; to describe the ecosystem destruction trends; to determine the driving forces behind the encroachment of the park ecosystems and, to ascertain the different ecosystem tangible goods harvested from the park. The literature of the study focused on local community wellbeing and encroachment as well as the causes of rampant encroachment of the ecosystems both in unprotected areas and in protected areas. The methodology of this study was majorly descriptive and considered the population of 40 households and a sample of 32 households as well the household used as a sampling unit. The results indicated that encroachment on ecosystems occurred and as a result the ecosystem size dwindled over the past three decades. Also, the results revealed that the major cause of this encroachment was scarcity of land and poverty. Whereas the most demanded ecosystem resources were timber and fuel wood. It was concluded that because there was no wellbeing amongst the host community due to poverty and scarcity of land, they were forced to encroach on the ecosystem resources. It was therefore recommended that the park and host community should find mechanisms to empower the host community in order to minimize encroachment rates.
Pandemic of Paradoxes: The Indirect Global Health Impacts of COVID-19
Authors: Leipnik M.R.
Published: October 2021

The indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on several public health issues will be examined in the context of its impacts on multiple nations around the world. Not all possible health aspects of COVID-19 that are indirectly related to the disease will be examined. The ones chosen are: I. influenza, II. suicide, III. alcohol consumption, IV. fatal automobile accidents and V. birth rates. In each of these cases COVID-19 has had a paradoxical impact. Although COVID-19 is a dangerous respiratory virus, there has not been a synergism with the influenza virus as initially feared by some public health experts. In fact, there has been a global nonappearance of seasonal flu; a good, though indirect, paradoxical consequence of COVID-19. But most other paradoxical health consequences of COVID-19 have been largely negative, these include an increase in suicide but unexpectedly an initial reduction and changes in suicide patterns in many countries, an increase in alcohol consumption but paradoxically a reduction in beer consumption, some evidence of an increase in fatal automobile accidents (at least on a per mile driven basis) and of monumental long term global consequence, a significant decline in births in many major nations.
فاعلية وسائل الاتصال الأجنبية في نقل الأخبار
Authors: احمد التجاني عمر عوض د. إباء
Published: October 2021

The media has a prominent impact on the society. It is effective ,as it paves the way for the change in all fields. This study aims at showing how the media conveys the information in all journalistic types; thus, Sudan can benefit from the media in publishing its news and information through bilateral agreements with effective world media.

     This study used the historical-descriptive approach and the content analysis tool to collect data to reach results by analyzing the news contained in the report of the National Council for External Information between January and June 2009. Through this study, it can be said that one of the most important means of communication can be used to reflect the face of Sudan, are the that TV channels, radio stations, newspapers whether traditional or electronic social networking sites and the news agencies, which are among the most important sources of information.
التكتلات الإقليمية في أفريقيا من منظُور تاريخي
Authors: أحمد عيدروس د. اسامة
Published: October 2021

هذا البحث بعنوان (التكتلات الإقليمية في أفريقيا من منظور تاريخي) يعرض البحث صورة للتطورات السياسية والاقتصادية والأمنية التي دعت دول القارة الإفريقية للتكتل في شكل مجتمعات إقليمية مختلفة . ويتناول مع التحليل الحلم الإفريقي ببناء وحدة أفريقية تقود القارة نحو النهضة والتطور والتحرر السياسي والاقتصادي ؛ كما يقدم البحث تحليلاً لنشأة التكتلات الإقليمية في فترة ما قبل الاستعمار وخلال الهجمة الاستعمارية على أفريقيا والتي أدت إلى تقسيم القارة بصناعة حدوداً سياسية بالإضافة إلى تقسيمها لغويا إلى دول فرانكفونية وانجلوفونية بحسب الدول المستعمرة لها .

    ويحلل البحث العوامل التي قادت إلى تطور التكتلات الإقليمية في فترة ما بعد الاستقلال خصوصا تطور منظمة الوحدة الإفريقية إلى الاتحاد الأفريقية ونشأة المنظمات السياسية والاقتصادية مثل الايكواس في غرب أفريقيا والإيقاد في شرقها وسادك في جنوبها واتحاد المغرب العربي في شمال القارة وغيرها من المنظمات والتكتلات ذات الأغراض المتعددة . خلص البحث إلى أن التكتلات الاقليمية الحديثة في أفريقيا تؤدي أدوارا مهمة في الحفاظ على الأمن والتنمية الاقتصادية بدرجات متفاوتة من النجاح في أقاليم القارة المختلفة .
The Simultaneous Poetics of Jorge De Sena and Vilém Flusser: Anti-Nationalisms and The Vanguards of the Future
Authors: Martini Rodrigo
Published: October 2021

For six years between 1959 and 1965, Portuguese poet Jorge de Sena and Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser lived in the state of São Paulo, in Brazil, where an emergent nationalist movement instated a dictatorship. Even though poet and theorist never met, both simultaneously reflected on the nature of nationalism and immigration, theorizing nation as an impossible and artificial model of social division. Through a formalistic return to early avant-garde (Surrealism and Dada), Flusser's The Freedom of the Migrant: Objections to Nationalism (2005) and Sena's Peregrinatio ad loca infecta (1969) coincidentally suggest that nationalism works through a logic of inclusion/exclusion, which we inherited through a Western obsession with humanism. Nevertheless, with anti-humanist figures and an introspection into the human psyche, both poet and theorist ultimately propose that, in the labyrinthine world of language, we find the potential to subvert national identity and to question our age-long humanism. For them, the figure of the poet, theorist, and migrant are parallels: they indulge in wordplay and disestablish norms. In that sense their works produce a new form of thinking of migrants as “vanguards of the future.”
Figurations of Suffering in Concentration Camp Testimony
Authors: O'Donoghue Samuel
Published: October 2021

This article offers a close reading of the figurative language used to represent suffering in literary testimonies of the Nazi concentration camps. It begins with an overview of the debate over the legitimacy of figurative language in representations of the Holocaust and considers the arguments against metaphor by scholars in the field of pain research and Holocaust studies. Bringing into dialogue the disciplines of pain studies and Holocaust studies, the article advances the claim that figurative language is an effective means of expressing suffering and that an analysis of this language is valuable for understanding the experiences of the victims of Nazism. The article subsequently presents a comparative analysis of Se questo è un uomo (1947) by Primo Levi, Le grand voyage (1963) by Jorge Semprún, and K.L. Reich (1963) by Joaquim Amat-Piniella. It identifies two patterns in the representation of suffering by these author-survivors: first, the use of zoomorphic metaphors to describe bodily pain and, second, the depiction of anthropomorphized landscapes to portray psychological anguish.
Translating the Female Body: Margaret Tyler's Mirror of Princely Deeds and Knighthood
Authors: Collins Allison
Published: October 2021

Margaret Tyler's Mirror of Princely Deeds and Knighthood, an English translation of the Spanish romance by Diego Ortúñez de Calahorra, has most often been studied for its preface, which defends the right of women to translate. But does the translation itself share the feminist principles espoused in the preface, and if so, how? This article analyzes the presentation of the female body in Tyler's text, paying particular attention to her addition of medical symptoms and diagnoses to the translation. It argues that Tyler's translation presents interpretation and diagnosis of the female body as a form of control, while also proposing the medical condition of lovesickness as a means for women to regain agency over their bodies.
Stability Isn't Everything It's Glitched Up to Be: An Interview with Jamie Fenton
Authors: Cates jon , Kinkley Jonathan , Fenton Jamie
Published: October 2021

A conversation with pioneering new media artist Jamie Fenton that explores how her Glitch Art grew out of computer operating systems and gaming consoles she herself had helped build.
From Cloth to Clay: Identities and (Im)permanence in Moche Ceramics
Authors: Scher Sarahh
Published: October 2021

Contemporary theories of the body and clothing help press at the limits of our knowledge about gender identity among the Moche, an ancient South American culture.
QUESTÃO SOCIOCIENTÍFICA SOBRE O USO MEDICINAL DA CANNABIS SATIVA: UMA PROPOSTA DIDÁTICA SEGUNDO A PEDAGOGIA HISTÓRICO-CRÍTICA,
Authors: Peixoto Dezyrê Mendes , Genovese Cinthia Leticia De Carvalho Roversi
Published: October 2021

Este trabalho aborda a questão sociocientífica (QSC) sobre o uso medicinal da Cannabis sativa e tem como objetivo apresentar e discutir uma proposta didática elaborada segundo a pedagogia histórico-critica (PHC), para ser implementada no Ensino Médio. Fundamentada no materialismo histórico, esta pedagogia também forneceu os instrumentos, técnicas e procedimentos de elaboração e análise dos dados. As aproximações e semelhanças que existem entre as QSC e a PHC foram discutidas a partir da análise da proposta. Os resultados demonstraram a importância da educação em ciências que inova ao discutir assuntos científicos controversos que estão presentes na sociedade, considerando aspectos históricos, culturais, econômicos, políticos, científicos, religiosos, entre outros. Incentivar a participação dos estudantes é fundamental no desenvolvimento da argumentação e autonomia.
Para quê história da ciência no ensino? Algumas direções a partir de uma perspectiva sociopolítica
Authors: Moura Cristiano B.
Published: October 2021

A partir da consolidação do campo de História, Filosofia e Sociologia na Educação em Ciências, é possível notar a solidificação dos argumentos que se utilizam comumente para defender a utilização de abordagens históricas na Educação em Ciências. Considerando as mudanças pelas quais passou o mundo desde os primórdios do campo e o momento crítico que vivemos hoje, este ensaio teórico direciona-se a investigar outras perspectivas e argumentos podem ser construídos hoje para as abordagens históricas na Educação Científica. Para isso, inicialmente retomo os argumentos mais comuns para defender o uso de abordagens históricas na Educação Científica, analisando-os à luz de alguns avanços do campo. Apresento o emergente turno sociopolítico na Educação Científica, apreciando possibilidades de expansão dos argumentos analisados inicialmente, em diálogo com autores do turno sociopolítico da Educação Científica. Por fim, são apresentados cinco argumentos abrangentes sobre por que abordar a história da ciência na Educação Científica.
Foguetes, satélites artificiais e telescópios através da libras: uma abordagem histórica para o ensino-aprendizagem de astronomia na cultura surda
Authors: Prestes Vivian Ellen Cristine , Leonel André Ary
Published: October 2021

Este trabalho tem o objetivo de evidenciar as contribuições de uma abordagem histórica sobre instrumentos astronômicos para o ensino-aprendizagem de Ciências para estudantes surdos(as), através de uma proposta com intervenções didático-pedagógicas bilíngues. Para isso, foram realizadas duas intervenções de ensino, extraclasse, sobre um tópico de Astronomia intitulado “Foguetes, satélites artificiais e telescópios: o que são, como funcionam e para que servem?”. Esse tópico faz parte de uma sequência didática construída e implementada durante uma pesquisa de mestrado desenvolvida pela professora-pesquisadora – que atuou como Física Educadora Bilíngue - com um grupo de quatro estudantes do Ensino Fundamental, todas meninas com idades entre 13 e 15 anos, sendo três surdas e uma ouvinte filha de pais surdos, em uma escola regular do interior do Rio Grande do Sul. O estudo teve o intuito de proporcionar às estudantes um entendimento sobre os instrumentos astronômicos – que foram construídos para melhorar a observação e o estudo do espaço pelo ser humano – através de uma perspectiva histórica sobre a importância, a origem e a utilização desses instrumentos nas Ciências, nas tecnologias, nas telecomunicações e na sociedade. As intervenções possibilitaram às estudantes a participação em um estudo histórico das Ciências, através da Astronomia, em um ambiente de Educação Bilíngue com uma Professora Bilíngue, que viabilizou e acessibilizou os conceitos científicos. Neste sentido, a relação entre a Educação Bilíngue e a Educação em Astronomia contribuiu potencialmente para a reconfiguração do ensino-aprendizagem científico de surdos, através da aproximação da Língua Brasileira de Sinais (Libras), da cultura surda e da cultura científica.
Mobile Math Game Prototype on the Base of Templates for Primary School
Authors:   University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”, Gocheva Margarita , Somova Elena ,   University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”, Kasakliev Nikolay ,   University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”, Angelova Vladimira ,   University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”
Published: October 2021

The paper presents the first steps in the creation of a package with mobile math educational games for primary school. Examples of mobile math learning games in primary school are examined. The role of games and especially mobile games in learning and game specific elements are presented. Classification of game problems with 13 types, suitable for mobile software development, is shown. For each type, the software template is designed and developed, appropriate for the target group. The prototype of an educational game on the base of the templates is created, where learners have to pass levels, solve math problems and receive bonuses and virtual rewards.
Statistical Significance – is it a Panacea or a Pitfall?
Authors:   University of Economics – Varna, Lambova Margarita
Published: October 2021

Thoughts and considerations are presented about the term “statistical significance” – a common tool for “proving” the compatibility with practice of theoretical models designed on the ground of assumptions. In accordance with the set goal and based on the theoretical features and logics of the concept, there are revealed problematic issues and possibilities for abusing it when verifying statistical hypotheses. The suggested argumentation enables one to claim that the “prescriptive” verification of statistical hypotheses creates conditions for developing a pseudoscience supported by incorrect conclusions which are made on the ground of “statistically significant” results.
Qualitative Research of Conference Online Learning for Web Design Students
Authors:   University of Plovdiv „Paisii Hilendarski”, Hristov Hristo , Chochev Nikolay ,   University of Plovdiv „Paisii Hilendarski”
Published: October 2021

The topic of the present research is analysis of conference online learning using qualitative methods. The following methods are used: participating monitoring, questionnaire cards, interviewing and comparative analysis. The learning is carried out in the subject of „Web Design“. Teaching includes an online conference platform, web sources, digital cloud services, etc. Several key differences between the distant learning and conference online learning, used in regular education are pointed out. In the paper are discussed some basic characteristics of qualitative methods and conference online learning.
A Combinatorial Question Related to an Easter Tradition Led to a New Entry in OEIS
Authors:   Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Kortezov Ivaylo
Published: October 2021

In some regions of Bulgaria (at least) there is an Easter tradition, according to which in group of people first each one chooses a differently coloured egg, then each pair of people performs a swap (or swaps) by exchanging the eggs they currently have until everyone gets the originally chosen egg. This generates a natural question: if there are n people in the group, find the least number E(n) of swaps which makes this possible. We prove that E(n) is the least even number not less than n(n−1)/2. The sequence thus generated was added to the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences and linked from there to several seemingly distant combinatorial results.
Evolution of the Content and Quality of Standardized Tests in Mathematics in Ukraine
Authors:   National Dragomanov Pedagogical University, Shvets Vasyl , Shkolnyi Oleksandr ,   National Dragomanov Pedagogical University, Dremova Iryna ,   National Dragomanov Pedagogical University
Published: October 2021

The evolution of the content and quality of written state standardized final and entrance testing in mathematics in Ukraine, from the first attempt to implement in 1994 until now, is considered in the article. We describe the features and stages of development of Ukrainian standardized tests in mathematics (external independent assessment and state final attestation), analyze the causes of successes and failures and also prospects for their further improvement. Based on our own statistical experiment, we compare the quality of mathematical preparation of Ukrainian graduates who entered the pedagogical universities of Ukraine in 1994, 2005 and 2020. According to this experiment, we draw conclusions about the existing problems of ensuring the proper quality of mathematics education in Ukraine and give recommendations on possible solutions to these problems.
Where is the Error in my Solution? ─ a Talk with Oleg Mushkarov in Front of the White Board
Authors:   Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sendova Evgenia
Published: October 2021

The article is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Prof. Oleg Mushkarov – a full professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IMI-BAS) and a corresponding member of BAS. Currently, he is the Head of the Analysis, Geometry and Topology Department and Deputy Director of IMI-BAS. His main research interests are in the areas of Complex Analysis, Complex Differential Geometry, and Twistor theory. Another important aspect of Oleg’s professional involvements is his work with mathematically gifted high school students. He himself benefited from the Bulgarian system of identifying mathematical talents at an early age leading to his participation in IMO’1969, Romania. Since then, he has been involved in numerous activities dealing with nurturing and developing young mathematical talents. We present a conversation with him illustrating what his favorite problems are and why. Unlike the traditional situations in which the professor expects the students to come to a solution (possibly with his help), he presents a solution containing mistakes to a well-defined problem and “throw the gauntlet down” for them: Find the mistakes in the solution! We provide a specific example in support of his conviction that such problems are crucial in math education (since everyone, even a professional mathematician, makes errors on an everyday basis). The phases the talk in front of the white board went through were: To feel that something is wrong in his original solution. To discover where the mistake is. Finally, to find a correct solution to the problem. The very process of starting with a wrong idea, becoming aware of the error in reasoning, and finally, succeeding to correct it, which Oleg Mushkarov has kept reproducing when teaching a course on extracurricular math activities to his undergraduate students, reveals his dedication and talents to teaching in addition to his research achievements.
Elaboración de papel con seis variedades de pennisetum purpureum schumach en Veracruz, México
Authors: Capetillo-Burela A. , Zetina-Lezama R. , Reynolds-Chávez M. A. , Cadena-Zapata M. , López-López J. A. , Matilde-Hernández C. , Espinoza del Carmen A.
Published: October 2021

En la actualidad el impacto ambiental de los combustibles fósiles ha generado la búsqueda de fuentes alternativas de energías como la biomasa de caña de azúcar y pastos forrajeros. Con el objetivo de generar alternativas para la producción de fibra y celulosa similares a la que se obtiene con el bagazo de caña de azúcar, fueron evaluadas a nivel laboratorio seis variedades de Pennisetum purpureum Schumach (OM-22, Camerún, Maralfalfa, CT-115, Roxo y Urockowona) a los 120, 150 y 200 días después de la siembra (dds). Las variedades fueron sembradas en punta y cola en cordón doble en franjas de 5 surcos de 1.2 metros entre surcos y  20 metros de longitud. El suelo fue clasificado como un vertisol con pH de 5.4, textura arcillosa y 2.6% de MO. Los resultados muestran que la OM-22, Camerun, Maralfalfa, Roxo y Urockowona presentaron buen potencial para la producción de fibra y celulosa a los 150 dds, descartando a la variedad CT-115. La variedad Urockowona, presento el mayor contenido de Fibra Apta y Seca (FAS) en las tres fechas de corte, sobresaliendo a los 150 dds con 34.4%; mientras que el resto no superaron el 25% en las tres fechas evaluadas. El rendimiento de biomasa total fue similar en las seis variedades evaluadas en su primer corte superando las 80 t ha-1 en verde a partir de los 150 dds. Se concluye que las variedades Urockowona, Camerun y Maralfalfa son las de mayor potencial para la producción de fibra y celulosa para hacer papel.
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF HPTLC METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION OF CEFIXIME AND OFLOXACIN IN THEIR COMBINED TABLET DOSAGE FORM
Authors:   Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Ultra College of Pharmacy, Madurai – 625 020, Tamil Nadu, India., Venkatachalam T , Lalitha K. G.
Published: October 2021

A simple, accurate and rapid high performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) -densitometry method was developed for separation and determination of cefixime (CEF) as an oral third generation cephalosporin antibiotic and ofloxacin (OFL) as a fluoroquinolone derivative used as antibacterial in pharmaceutical dosage forms. The compounds were separated on silica gel 60 GF254, HPTLC plates using a mixture of methanol: ethylacetate: ammonia solution (25%) (4:4.5:1.5 V/V/V) as the mobile phase. Compact spots of both cefixime (Rf=0.46±0.01) and ofloxacin (Rf=0.59±0.01) were obtained. A UV detection was performed at 295 nm. The method was validated in terms of linearity, precision, accuracy, limit of detection (LOD), and limit of quantification (LOQ). The calibration curves were linear in the range of 100-600 ng/spot for both drugs. For CEF recovery varied in range of 100.13-100.25% with % RSD0.21-0.31% and for OFL recovery varied in range of 99.61-99.89 % with% RSD0.24-0.38%. The LOD was found to be 25.45 ng and 32.42 ng spot for CEF and OFL, respectively. The LOQ was found to be 77.14 ng and 98.26 ng /spot for CEF and OFL, respectively. It was observed that the proposed HPTLC method could be used for efficient analysis and monitoring of the CEF and OFL in combined tablet dosage forms.
DETERMINATION AND VALIDATION OF NARINGIN IN RAT PLASMA BY RP-HPLC
Authors:   Department of Phytochemistry and Pharmacognosy, G. Pulla Reddy College of Pharmacy Mehdipatnam, Hyderabad-500 028 Andhra Pradesh, India., Venkatesh S , Pagilla B. , Reddy B. M. , Mullangi R.
Published: October 2021

A simple, accurate isocratic reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) method was developed for the determination of the plasma concentration of naringin, a flavanone glycoside in rat plasma. An assay procedure involved simple liquid–liquid extraction of naringin from plasma directly into methanol. The organic layer was separated, filtered and injected onto a Phenomenex-C18 column (4.6 × 250 mm, 5 μm). The mobile phase acetonitrile and water (30:70, V/V) was used at a flow rate of 1.0 mL/min for the effective separation of naringin. The detection of the analyte peak was achieved by monitoring the eluate using a UV detector at 283 nm. The peak area of analyte was used for quantification of plasma samples. The retention time of naringin was 4.7 min. The standard curve for naringin was linear (r2 = 0.9987) in the concentration range 100-2000 ng/mL. The absolute recoveries of naringin were in the range 85–115% from rat plasma. The lower limit of quantification (LLOQ) of naringin was 30 ng/mL. The intra and inter-assay precisions in the measurement of quality control samples of 100, 400, 900 and 1600 ng/mL, were in the range of 0.19-5.44% and 0.27-2.35% relative standard deviation (RSD), respectively. Accuracy in the measurement of quality control samples was in the range 98.40-107.9% of the spiked nominal values. The plasma concentration of naringin was increased with increase in test dose levels. From the results, maximum plasma concentration of naringin was found to be 289.03 and 757.3 ng/mL with 15 and 30 mg/kg, oral doses, respectively at 2 h. This method is simple and helps in determination of naringin in rat plasma.