bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Fructooligosaccharide (FOS) Intake Improves Bifidobacteria Colonization in Gut and Reduces Diarrhoea and Common Cold Incidence in Undernourished School Children
Authors: Sheth Mini , Shree Singh Tanu
Published: April 2017

Ninety per cent of the immune system resides in the gut and improvement in the gut health may lead to reduced incidence of infection. Hence the present study was undertaken to evaluate Fructooligosaccharide (FOS) supplementation on gut health impacting diarrhoeal morbidities, common cold and nutritional status of school going children (SGC). A randomized clinical trial was used to study 60 undernourished SGC who were randomly stratified into placebo (PG) and experimental group (EG). Incidence of diarrhoea and common cold were recorded for one month and during intervention. PG and EG were supplemented with plain sugar ice cream and FOS incorporated ice cream (100 ml) for 30 days respectively. Lactic acid bacteria; Bifidobacteria and E.coli in stool samples were analyzed using standard methods. Children who consumed ice cream with FOS showed significant improvement in the mean log counts of beneficial gut microbiota i.e. Bifidobacteria and Lactic acid bacteria by 29% (p=0.000) and 2.56% (p<0.04) respectively, along with 2.38% (p=0.000) reduction in E.coli. Diarrhoeal episodes were significantly lowered by 79.6% in EG. Common cold was reduced by 82.38% (p=0.000) in EG and 57.86% (p=0.000) in PG. FOS intervention however did not show any improvement in the anthropometric measurements. Daily consumption of 10 g of FOS for 30 days effectively enhanced the counts of Bifidobacteria and Lactic acid bacteria in the gut and may have impacted significant reduction in diarrhoeal episodes and counts of E.coli in SGC of low income families.
Breastfeeding Practices and Nutritional Status of Children Aged One to Five Years in Jaffna District, Sri Lanka
Authors: Karthigesu Kandeepan , Sandrasegarampillai Balakumar , Arasaratnam Vasanthy
Published: April 2017

Breastfeeding is essential to break the vicious cycle of under nutrition of children. This study was aimed to assess the breastfeeding practices and nutritional status of children aged one to five years in Jaffna district. The study design was descriptive cross sectional. Height, weight, haemoglobin, albumin and serum ferritin of children were measured. Structured interviewer administered questionnaire was used to obtain socio-demographic factors, breastfeeding practices and dietary pattern. Among the total of 846 children (414 boys), 64.4% (545) were exclusively breastfed for 6 months. Among 585 children who were breastfed, 55.6% were breastfed beyond two years while 12.6% were breastfed beyond three years. Working mothers (13.7%) had discontinued the exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) before the completion of six months (45.7%) when compared with the non-working mothers (67.4%). The prevalence of underweight, wasting and stunting was 33, 22 and 26% respectively. Prevalence of under nutrition was significantly high (54.2%) in non-EBF children. Prevalence of anaemia was high among non-EBF children (45.8%). Furthermore the early cessation of EBF before six months depended on the type of family (nucleated or extended) and wealth class of the households (p<0.05). The rate of EBF was low in Jaffna District and duration of breastfeeding of most of the children had not reached 2 yrs. Prevalence of under nutrition was significantly high among the non-exclusively breastfed children. EBF for six months was not practised due to several factors and have contributed to high prevalence of malnutrition in Jaffna district.
Study of Mango Kernel Flour (MKF) Incorporated Wheat Crackers
Authors: Yatnatti Shilpa , Vijayalakshmi D.
Published: April 2017

India is the largest producer of mangoes with 44.14 % of the total world production. The kernel obtained after decortication of mango stone can be utilized as a supplement to wheat flour. Present study was undertaken with the objective to study sensory properties and shelf life of Mango Kernel Flour (MKF) incorporated wheat crackers (baked food product). Mango kernel accounts for 9 % of total weight of mango fruit. Flour recovery from mango seed kernel is 80.6 %. Except for water absorption capacity, functional properties of MKF and wheat flour differed significantly. Sensory scores obtained for 20 % incorporation level was observed to be on par with the control. At the 15th day there was slight decrease but statistically significant difference was noticed between initial and 30th day for sensory scores of crackers. But both control and MKF incorporated crackers had acceptable sensory scores for all the parameters, indicating shelf life of one month. Less microbial load on MKF crackers at the end of 30 days of storage period may be attributed to the presence of polyphenols, which exhibits antimicrobial activity. MKF can be utilized as wheat flour supplement up to 20 % in crackers, with least effect on sensory properties and exhibited shelf life of one month.
Genomic Selection for Yield and Seed Protein Content in Soybean: A Study of Breeding Program Data and Assessment of Prediction Accuracy
Authors: Duhnen Alexandra , Gras Amandine , Teyssèdre Simon , Romestant Michel , Claustres Bruno , Daydé Jean , Mangin Brigitte
Published: April 2017

Soybean [Glycine max(L.) Merr.] is a major crop with high seed protein content. Genomic selection is expected to be a valuable tool in improving the efficiency of breeding programs, especially for complex traits such as yield. This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of genomic selection for yield and seed protein content in a soybean breeding population. Having a structured population, we compared genomic prediction accuracy obtained using models calibrated across or within two subpopulations: early lines and late lines. Calibrations within subpopulations were more efficient. Using a medium density of markers and genomic best linear unbiased prediction (GBLUP) model, which assumes an additive polygenic architecture, we predicted ∼32 and 39% of phenotypic variation among late lines for seed protein content and yield, respectively. Prediction accuracy was further improved by including epistasis in the GBLUP model. Further, we assessed accuracies obtained using several Bayesian models that assume different distributions for marker effects: Bayesian ridge regression, Bayesian LASSO, BayesCπ, and BayesR. Overall, these approaches did not improve prediction accuracy. In this study, we reported preliminary results relevant to the study of the efficiency of genomic selection use in a breeding program.
Interactions of Single Mepiquat Chloride Application at Different Growth Stages with Climate, Cultivar, and Plant Population for Cotton Yield
Authors: Zhao Wenchao , Du Mingwei , Xu Dongyong , Lu Huaiyu , Tian Xiaoli , Li Zhaohu
Published: April 2017

Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) yield responses to the plant growth regulator mepiquat chloride (1,1‐dimethyl piperidinium chloride, MC) are associated with climate, cultivar, and plant population. However, the interactions of these factors with MC for yield are inconsistent or unexpected. We hypothesize that climate (mainly precipitation), cultivar, and plant density only interact with MC applied at specific growth stages to affect yield. Experiments were thus conducted in two contrasting years (2013–2014). Mepiquat chloride was applied at the seedling, squaring, early bloom, full bloom, and post‐topping of the main stem (close to the time of cutout) stages. Plant populations were 6.5 and 11.4 plants m−2, and the two cultivars SCRC36 and Han7860 were used. The results showed that the yield averaged over all treatments significantly increased by 5.6, 5.0, and 6.1% because of MC application at the seedling, early bloom, and full bloom stages, respectively. Additionally, the interaction of the year (climate) × MC for yield occurred when MC was applied at the early bloom and full bloom stages. Cultivars differed in yield responses to MC applied at the full bloom and post‐topping stages. Plant density influenced yield response to early MC application at the seedling stage. These results supported our hypothesis, which is helpful in guiding the rational combination of multiple MC applications according to varying conditions in view of yield formation.
Credit risk estimate using internal explicit knowledge
Authors: Al-Shawabkeh Abdallah , Kanungo Rama
Published: April 2017

Jordanian banks traditionally use a set of indicators, based on their internal explicit knowledge to examine the credit risk caused by default loans of individual borrowers. The banks are reliant on the personal and financial information of the borrowers, obtained by knowing them, often referred as internal explicit knowledge. Internal explicit knowledge characterizes both financial and non-financial indicators of individual borrowers, such as; loan amount, educational level, occupation, income, marital status, age, and gender. The authors studied 2755 default or non-performing personal loan profiles obtained from Jordanian Banks over a period of 1999 to 2014. The results show that low earning unemployed borrowers are very likely to default and contribute to non-performing loans by increasing the chances of credit risk. In addition, it is found that the unmarried, younger borrowers and moderate loan amount increase the probability of non-performing loans. On the contrary, borrowers employed in private sector and at least educated to a degree level are most likely to mitigate the credit risk. The study suggests improving the decision making process of Jordanian banks by making it more quantitative and dependable, instead of using only subjective or judgemental based understanding of borrowers.
Investment evaluation in renewable projects under uncertainty, using real options analysis: the case of wind power industry
Authors: Kinias Ioannis , Tsakalos Ioannis , Konstantopoulos Nikolaos
Published: April 2017

Investment analysis is a crucial process for any investment’s success. This process can be supported by both the discounted cash flow analysis and the real options analysis. Many researchers have point out restrictions for the first one, in cases of uncertainty in the entrepreneurial environment. The main types of uncertainty, concerning the wind energy sector, include uncertainties related to the price of electriticity by RES, the public policy regulatory policies, the demand, the initial capital costs, the technological progress, the weather conditions, the political and economical situations and generally the RES market structure. In this paper, we try to find the optimal investment strategy in a liberalized global electricity market, where the price of electricity is uncertain while the other parameters are configured separately in each country. The authors consider about the factors of the time for investment and the electricity’s price level, in wind energy by using the real options theory. The authors select a variety of data for the wind energy industry from different countries in several continents, and also create a model for the investment analysis in this entrepreneurial sector.
Integrated sensing technologies for detection and location of leaks in water distribution networks
Authors: Hawari Alaa , Khader Mohammad , Hirzallah Walaa , Zayed Tarek , Moselhi Osama
Published: April 2017

Water distribution networks (WDNs) are infrastructure systems that have high socioeconomic values, for which efficient operation and management are required to ensure minimal amounts of waste which can be represented in the form of leaks. Leak detection is considered as one of the challenges faced by municipalities operating WDNs because it either involves shutting down the system or requires using expensive equipment and technologies. In this paper, a novel noninvasive and nondestructive methodology for detecting leaks in water pipes was tested. Ground penetrating radar was used for accurate determination of pipe location, followed by infrared (IR) thermographic imaging for determining the leak location using four different operating conditions. Results were statistically analyzed using analysis of variance and pairwise comparison methods. Several factors were found to affect the accuracy of the proposed methodology in predicting the leak location, namely, the characteristics of the studied surface (i.e. emissivity), the characteristics of the surrounding environment (i.e. ambient temperature and relative humidity), and the operating conditions of the IR camera (i.e. speed and height of the camera). The results obtained in this study have also shown that under high ambient temperatures and high relative humidity conditions, a higher speed of the IR camera would reduce the impact of noise on the collected thermal contrast and therefore, would give better leak location prediction results. The tested methodology proved the flexibility of the approach and the ability of accurately predicting the leak locations under different conditions.
Del legado institucional al modelo relacional: una exploración de la trayectoria reciente del Museo Municipal de Arte Decorativo Firma y Odilo Estévez (Rosario, Argentina, 1968-2010)
Authors: Zapata Horacio Miguel Hernán
Published: April 2017

O artigo busca contribuir com a reflexão sobre o papel do museu como uma instituição que atua, simultaneamente, nas tarefas de conservação, exibição e difusão de um patrimônio artístico e histórico cuja missão é gerar relatos a respeito desse patrimônio. Como estudo de caso, o texto explora a trajetória recente do Museu Municipal de Arte Decorativo Firma y Odilo Estévez, da cidade de Rosário (Argentina), por um enfoque que conjuga as contribuições da história social e dos estudos museológicos do patrimônio cultural. Centra-se em algumas das mudanças que vêm se dando no museu, desde sua instalação como entidade pública, em 1968, até o ano de 2010, com o objetivo de refletir sobre o papel que tem hoje como “lugar de memória” para o conjunto da sociedade de Rosário.
Museu da Língua Portuguesa: tecnologia como atratividade turística na cidade de São Paulo
Authors: Cavenaghi Airton José , Mirna Nascimento Alline , Bruna Pereira Vanessa
Published: April 2017

Esta pesquisa, de caráter exploratório e qualitativo, com referencial documental bibliográfico e uso de entrevistas de campo semiestruturadas, visou identificar a influência da tecnologia sobre a atratividade turística na cidade de São Paulo, utilizando como objeto de estudo o Museu da Língua Portuguesa, por ser um dos museus que utilizam instalações altamente interativas e tecnológicas em seu acervo. As referências bibliográficas apresentam os principais conceitos de turismo, hospitalidade e patrimônio cultural. E, por surgir o conceito de turismo virtual, menciona-se como tal atividade se desenvolve. Como principal objeto de estudo, a história da formação e os principais atrativos do Museu da Língua Portuguesa são apresentados no decorrer do trabalho, além do modo como a tecnologia influencia suas exposições. Os resultados das pesquisas de campo mostram que a interatividade aumenta a percepção do público perante o que é exposto e que a tecnologia é um importante elemento de diferenciação com relação ao museu tradicional, funcionando como fator de atratividade turística.
Intervenções urbanas: a arte aponta para o futuro
Authors: De Paula Dalvit Greiner
Published: April 2017

Este artigo propõe-se a discutir a cidade como o lugar do encontro e do exercício do direito. Por constituir tal lugar, a cidade não pode escolher quem pretende ser parte dela, mas deve acolher com dignidade todos aqueles que a buscam por segurança e, em troca, oferece seus talentos. Dessa maneira, criando uma cultura oposta à rusticidade rural, a principal característica da cidade é ser plural e diversa. Pensar a homogeneidade significa pensar a morte da cidade. O grande desafio é garantir o acesso e a fruição da cultura e do espaço urbano, uma vez que nem todos usufruem igualmente o direito à cidade. Trata-se, pois, de indagar como e por que vários grupos e espaços foram sendo invisibilizados pelo capital, impedindo os cidadãos de se apropriarem dos espaços públicos. Essas reflexões, entre outros aspectos, mostram-nos como as intervenções artísticas urbanas, surgidas na segunda metade do século XX, resultam de uma nova consciência política contestatória, tanto do liberalismo quanto do socialismo, e propõem novas formas de ver e sentir a cidade, consolidando a ideia de intervenção urbana como estratégia de transformação física e tática de uso da cidade e da sua cultura.
O Museu dos Compatriotas Emigrantes no Brasil – República Tcheca: uma experiência social
Authors: Sambati Douglas Neander , Guedes Sandra Paschoal Leite de Camargo , Polakovič Petr
Published: April 2017

No ano de 2010, no vilarejo de Náhlov – localizado na região da Boêmia, norte da República Tcheca –, foi fundado o Museu dos Compatriotas Emigrantes no Brasil. Por intermédio de revisão de literatura sobre migração, museologia, além de pesquisa de campo no museu, discutimos neste artigo o papel social que esse espaço de memória vem desempenhando na comunidade local, que é composta na atualidade principalmente por população rom. Uma característica que torna tal museu de interesse para esta pesquisa é o fato de utilizar o Brasil como objeto de sua exposição, a qual é composta por uma série de fotos que representam a migração daquela região para o Brasil, principalmente no século XIX, e tem como principal objetivo melhorar a qualidade de vida da população local, por meio da atração de turistas. A instituição promove palestras e festas com o objetivo de divulgar a cultura brasileira e possui um café cujo nome é Café Brasil. Este artigo discute como essa instituição se tornou um palco para a população local, um centro de socialização, de troca entre os moradores e entre estes e os turistas.
Museu e ensino de História: pensar o museu como local de conhecimento e aprendizagem
Authors: Chicareli Larissa Salgado , Romeiro Kauana Candido
Published: April 2017

Este trabalho tem como finalidade refletir sobre o museu como ferramenta para o professor em suas práticas educacionais pensando esse espaço como lugar de memória coletiva que auxiliaria na formação sócio-histórica do educando. Para fundamentar nosso trabalho temos em mente as Diretrizes Curriculares da Educação Básica de História do Paraná de 2008, que propõem pensar o museu como ponte para empreender investigações e inquietações nos alunos. Contamos ainda com alguns autores que tratam sobre o museu, a prática educacional e a memória. Destacaremos também algumas perguntas que o professor poderá usar para dialogar com seus alunos: como são pensados os museus? Quais narrativas estão presentes? Como acontece a seleção de memória que se deseja preservar? Também analisamos algumas respostas de alunos a respeito de suas visões sobre o museu, por meio de questionários de conhecimentos prévios aplicados em um colégio da cidade de Londrina, pesquisa essa realizada durante projeto do Programa Institucional de Bolsa de Iniciação à Docência (Pibid). Dessa forma, tal análise se baseia em respeitar e utilizar os conhecimentos dos estudantes e suas capacidades críticas (FREIRE, 1997). Percebemos, por meio da análise dos questionários, que os alunos constataram alguns recortes e ausências de histórias no museu, criando sua própria forma de vê-lo.
“Os museus podem contribuir para a dignidade da pessoa humana, para a dignidade social”
Authors: Dias Maria Cristina
Published: April 2017

Entrevista com Mário Chagas(Referência em museologia, o Prof. Dr. Mário Chagas realizou aula inaugural do Mestrado em Patrimônio Cultural e Sociedade na Univille em 2014, tematizando a relação entre museus e movimentos sociais na contemporaneidade)
A memória da cidade de São Paulo: ensaios periféricos, palimpsesto e tabula rasa
Authors: Morcelli Danilo Da Costa
Published: April 2017

Na dinâmica de São Paulo há um processo de contínua destruição e reconstrução da cidade ao longo dos séculos, implicando a ideia de que tudo é novo e passível de ser substituído. Nesse processo a noção de tabula rasa (em que ocorre a destruição de partes da cidade para a construção do novo) e de palimpsesto (a cidade com suas diversas escritas, revelando tempos pretéritos) pode contribuir para as reflexões sobre as dinâmicas ocorridas em São Paulo. A prática do fazer tabula rasa é particularmente danosa para a cidade, ocorrendo o apagamento de partes significativas de sua memória e de sua história. Longe de evidenciar as partes “apagadas”, propõe-se aqui refletir sobre a dinâmica no processo de constituição da cidade por intermédio de um recorte memorialístico.Palavras-chave: São Paulo; memória; palimpsesto; tabula rasa.
Arquivos históricos municipais e seu affaire com as temáticas de imigração e colonização
Authors: Witt Marcos Antônio
Published: April 2017

O presente texto tem como objetivos historicizar e analisar a relação estabelecida entre os arquivos históricos municipais (AHMs) – locais de memória – e as temáticas de imigração e colonização. Tal relação pode ser analisada mediante uma longa e minuciosa investigação sobre a historiografia que se ocupou do processo de emigração/imigração para o Brasil. Por certo, cada um dos grupos historiográficos manteve um affaire diferenciado com os AHMs, resultando daí interpretações e publicações bastante díspares. Muito desse relacionamento tem a ver com a origem dos AHMs: uma parcela deles teve seu nascedouro ligado às iniciativas públicas, enquanto outros se originaram das ideias e práticas de pesquisadores municipalistas, e não raro alguns surgiram da combinação desses dois fatores. Com tais características, constituem-se locais de memória diferenciados. A fim de aprofundar a análise, tomou-se o Museu Histórico Visconde de São Leopoldo como lócus privilegiado de investigação.Palavras-chave: arquivos históricos municipais; memória; fontes; imigração; Brasil.
Turismo e direito como estratégias de preservação do patrimônio cultural arqueológico: o caso tapajônico
Authors: Soares Anauene Soares , De Oliveira Filipe Vieira
Published: April 2017

Este artigo discute duas estratégias acerca da proteção do patrimôniocultural arqueológico brasileiro: o turismo, como fonte de acesso e valorização do patrimônio cultural, e o direito, com a efetividade normativa concernente a proteger o patrimônio cultural, por conta de seu valor quanto a memória e identidade de uma comunidade. Assim, a ausência de organização das atividades turísticas e as práticas ilícitas, como o tráfico ilícito e o comércio ilegal de bens culturais, podem ser consideradas algumas das responsáveis pela deterioração e dilapidação desses bens, como é observado com o patrimônio arqueológico tapajônico de Santarém – Pará. A pesquisa foi descritiva exploratória, identificando que a efetiva aplicação da legislação e a organização das atividades de visitação poderiam ser estratégiaspara a preservação e a manutenção do patrimônio cultural brasileiro, principalmente do arqueológico.Palavras-chave: patrimônio arqueológico; turismo; direito; estratégias depreservação.
Os anúncios na cidade de Pouso Alegre (MG): a diversidade das atividades comerciais na primeira década do século XX
Authors: De Andrade Ana Eugênia Nunes
Published: April 2017

A proposta deste artigo é compreender as dinâmicas sociais do comércio em Pouso Alegre (MG) na primeira década do século XX com base no cotidiano dos trabalhadores informais e dos imigrantes na cidade. Nossas reflexões fundamentaram-se nas relações de poder entre a publicidade da época, o progresso técnico-econômico, o jogo de tensões políticas e as disputas sociais no ambiente urbano. Também buscamos entender as representações publicitárias e o cotidiano dos trabalhadores, assim como os mecanismos de dominação simbólica pautados nos ideais positivistas. Para o aprofundamento dos significados dos fatos cotidianos da época, o trabalho com a imprensa focando os anúncios foi imprescindível.Palavras-chave: comércio; anúncios; cidade.
Os caminhos da memória em busca da identidade em Le chercheur d’or
Authors: Corrêa Marília Alves
Published: April 2017

A narração autodiegética de Alexis, em Le chercheur d’or (1985), configuras e como um exemplo interessante e peculiar nos estudos acerca do papel da memória na literatura. Ao mostrar-se como uma narrativa que conta a história de um exilado na busca pelo “ouro” e as intempéries pelas quais passou em sua trajetória, o romance enfatiza a memória do protagonista sobre acontecimentos sociais e históricos, como o processo de urbanização acelerado, as consequências do sistema capitalista e a Primeira Guerra Mundial. Assim, percebe-se quais são as referências familiares e topográficas que estimulam a memória de Alexis e como isso se torna parte de sua identidade. Além disso, pontua-se a possibilidade de uma interferência proposital da memória do escritor Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, já que ele usa fatos de sua vida para inspirar-se na escritura da obra.Palavras-chave: lugares de memória; memória coletiva; identidade; narrativa contemporânea.
O acervo documental sob a guarda da Prelazia de Tefé (AM): patrimônio e memória da região amazônica
Authors: Teles Luciano Everton Costa , Teixeira Alcemir Arlijean Bezerra , De Abreu Tenner Inauhiny
Published: April 2017

O presente texto tem como finalidade apresentar alguns resultados queemergiram do projeto intitulado “Acervo, história e memória de Tefé/AM”. Nessa esteira buscou-se contextualizar o acervo da Prelazia de Tefé, localizado no prédio da Rádio Educação Rural, explicitando sua importância para a história da Amazônia e reconhecendo sua característica de patrimônio cultural.Palavras-chave: acervo; patrimônio cultural; Tefé.
O Laboratório de História Oral da PUCRS e algumas reflexões sobre a utilização da oralidade para estudos migratórios
Authors: De Ruggiero Antonio
Published: April 2017

No presente artigo pretendo apresentar a atividade desenvolvida pelo Laboratório de Pesquisa em História Oral do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), que desde a sua criação em 1997, representa uma referência e um apoio ao trabalho de pesquisadores de toda a universidade. Será enfatizada a importância de alguns projetos e de algumas pesquisas realizados a partir da metodologia da história oral e relacionados ao laboratório. Enfim, serão abordadas algumas questões relativas à utilização da oralidade para os estudos da imigração na América Latina e os resultados que tal espaço propiciou neste sentido.
A construção e a disputa pela hegemonia patrimonial em São Borja (RS): de primeiro dos Sete Povos Missioneiros à terra dos presidentes
Authors: Colvero Ronaldo Bernardino , Severo Marconi
Published: April 2017

A relação existente entre o patrimônio material e o imaterial no local em que estão inseridos propicia uma vasta gama de estudos de viés histórico-cultural e, em muitos casos, político-identitário. O caso do município de São Borja (RS), em virtude de seus mais de três séculos de história, em cujo local há um patrimônio considerável, possibilita compreender como se dá a interação entre a comunidade e seus respectivos patrimônios e, com base nisso, se há sobrevalorização de um determinado patrimônio sobre outro(s). Focar-se-á a análise em dois aspectos patrimoniais que caracterizam o município: ser o primeiro dos Sete Povos e também a terra dos presidentes, segundo o que consta no epíteto municipal. Observa-se que parte do patrimônio local se reflete no processo de identificação e pertencimento comunitário, por meio de uma construção conjunta em que a comunidade está intrinsicamente relacionada aos seus patrimônios. Em São Borja, atualmente, verifica-se também uma predominância patrimonial de “terra dos presidentes” sobre o missioneiro, por conta do que se constatou pela sua contemporaneidade e valorização político-identitária.
Bairro Histórico de Colônia do Sacramento, Uruguai: 20 anos de Patrimônio Cultural da Humanidade para qual humanidade?
Authors: Louzado Eduardo Alexandre , Wazenkeski Verlaine Fátima , Da Costa Heloisa Helena Fernandes Gonçalves
Published: April 2017

A mais antiga cidade uruguaia – Colônia do Sacramento, que é capital do departamento de Colônia – foi fundada em 1680 e mantém na atualidade, em seu denominado Bairro Histórico, um considerável conjunto de monumentos históricos, sendo alguns datados do século XVII. Em decorrência dessa preservação, a Unesco declarou em 1995 o Bairro Histórico como patrimônio cultural da humanidade. Considerando a importância cada vez maior que tem se dado ao patrimônio cultural como um dos vetores de mudança urbana, busca-se (re)pensar, com base no jubilato de 20 anos do tombamento do Bairro Histórico de Colônia do Sacramento/Uruguai como patrimônio cultural da humanidade, os possíveis impactos desse período na significativa salvaguarda dos patrimônios culturais locais, com base na reflexão de Costa (2012, p. 92): “onde se encontra a alma da cidade, aquela espécie de memória que não deveria desaparecer e pela qual vale a pena criar instrumentos de tombamento? Como proteger tantos tipos diferentes de patrimônios?”.
ROENTGENOGRAPHY POTENTIALITIES FOR EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF HIP PATHOLOGIES
Authors: Tikhilov R. M. , Shubnyakov I. I. , Pliev D. G. , Bogopolsky O. Y. , Guatsaev M. S.
Published: April 2017

Hip joint X-ray examination is one of the most accessible and prevalent method of roentgen diagnostics despite the emergence and development of new research options such as CT and MRT. X-ray study is the first method used for patients with hip pain. The main problem that arises in the analysis of radiographs is the incorrectly performed examination. Technically correct X-ray examination reveals the majority of changes contributing to the progression of deforming hip arthrosis, to identify changes in the early stage and to choose the best method of treatment. The article describes the basic X-ray studies and the required minimal measurements for assessing hip condition.
THE INFLUENCE OF COMPUTER-ASSISTED SURGERY ON CLINICAL AND RADIOGRAPHIC OUTCOMES OF PERIАRTICULAR FEMUR AND TIBIA OSTEOTOMIES IN OSTEOARTHRITIC PATIENTS (REVIEW)
Authors: Kochergin P. G. , Kornilov N. N. , Kulyaba T. A.
Published: April 2017

Nowadays the clinical application of digital technologies became a growing trend at every stage of orthopedic patient treatment: from diagnostic procedures and pre-operative planning to intra-operative control of surgical manipulations and evaluation of final results later. The aim of thi sresearch was to analyze the studies dedicated to application of computer-assisted surgery (CAS) for femur and tibial osteotomies in patients with gonarthrosis. The hypothesis was that CAS improves the precision of leg alignment correction in frontal and sagittal planes that positively influencing both functional result of treatment and longevity of clinical effect. The PubMed, PubMedCentral, GoogleScholar and eLIBRARY searched for relevant studies using following key words: knee, osteoarthritis, gonarthrosis, osteotomy, CAS, navigation and its russian analogs. The majority of publications favored CAS in comparison to traditional osteotomy techniques both for leg alignment and tibial slope control. Despite generally researchers paid less attention to functional results after CASosteotomies than to precision of surgical manipulations it is possible of confirm that there is strong tendency to better knee scores after navigation while the difference is not always statistically significant. Rare publications dedicated to long term results favor CAS: 10 years survival rate is 97% that correspond to outcomes of modern total knee arthroplasty. Hence, the current literature confirms the hypothesis of our study and don’t reveal increase of complications rate associated with CAS.
Living Experiments: Beauvoir, Freedom, and Science
Authors: MUDDE ANNA
Published: April 2017

In this paper, I argue for reading Simone de Beauvoir’s call, in The Ethics of Ambiguity, to assume our ambiguity as a call to live experimentally. This paper has three mutually reliant strands of analysis:  first, I draw attention to and catalogue some instances of Beauvoir’s use of scientific example; second, I derive, from a close and intertwined reading of those examples, implications about ambiguous subjectivity; in order to, third, suggest that those implications lead to the idea that the demand to assume our ambiguity can be read as a demand to take up an experimental ethos. I show that such an ethos is predicated on making claims about a world that always escapes us, in which freedom is concretely engaged as the capacity to find and make meaning.
Vie, désir et négation dans les ontologies de Renaud Barbaras et de Nicolas Grimaldi
Authors: LAPIERRE CHRISTOPHER
Published: April 2017

Cet article propose une confrontation inédite entre les dispositifs théoriques de deux philosophes contemporains, Renaud Barbaras et Nicolas Grimaldi, que l’auteur envisage en tant qu’ontologies de la vie. La singularité, dans le champ philosophique, de leur conception du désir conduit à un rapprochement, en dépit d’une différence dans les références philosophiques mobilisées. Le sujet vivant est en effet pensé par tous deux comme « désir », et il est par là interprété comme un certain manque, bien que celui-ci ne soit relatif à aucun objet ni, plus généralement, à rien qui se donne sur le mode de l’objet. Or, les options philosophiques de Barbaras et de Grimaldi divergent néanmoins quant à la réponse apportée au problème de l’articulation entre vie et désir, et plus précisément quant au sens accordé à la négativité. Alors que le premier envisage les êtres vivants à partir d’une négation-privation qui affecte l’archi-vie du monde sans avoir sa source en elle, le second comprend la vie, sous toutes ses modalités, à partir d’une négativité qui lui est intrinsèque. Autrement dit, si, pour Grimaldi, la vie est essentiellement désir, pour Barbaras le désir caractérise seulement la modalité d’être des vivants, non l’archi-vie du monde. Il en découle des différences importantes quant au statut de la temporalité et de l’affectivité chez les deux philosophes. C’est, d’après l’auteur, dans le sort que chacun réserve à l’hypothèse finaliste — écartée par Barbaras; étayée sur une analyse de la notion de tendance chez Grimaldi — que le différend philosophique prend sa source.
The Spectacle of Suffering: On Tragedy in Nietzsche’s Daybreak
Authors: Bartscherer Thomas
Published: April 2017

This paper argues that the passages on tragedy in Nietzsche's Daybreak, taken together, articulate a conception of tragic psychology that plays a pivotal role in the overarching argument of the book. I maintain that in Daybreak, Nietzsche construes tragedy as the embodiment of a superior alternative to the (modern, Christian) moral worldview that is the main target of his critique, and that in the curious phenomenon of tragic pleasure, Nietzsche identifies a potent antidote to what he calls the Circean seductions of morality.
The Tragic Double Bind of Heidegger’s Techne
Authors: Tabachnick David Edward
Published: April 2017

In this paper, I consider Heidegger's call for the recapturing of radical techne or "the original Greek essence of science" because, he argues, it reminds us of our tragic impotence in the face of nature—that humans are in the throws of a fate beyond their determination. For Heidegger, our thinking, our building, our politics, and our art must be episphalês (precarious and prone to fall)—that is, its aim must not be to protect against or hide from, but to stand firm against the collapse and confusion of Western thinking and civilization.
In the Presence of the Living Cockroach: The Moment of Aliveness and the Gendered Body in Agamben and Lispector
Authors: JONES EMMA R.
Published: April 2017

In this paper, I consider Giorgio Agamben's critique of Heidegger's understanding of animality, using Clarice Lispector's novel The Passion According to G.H. as an illustration. I argue that the present (living) moment itself separates the human from the animal for Heidegger, because, as Agamben notes, Heidegger subsumes this moment under the notion of "animal captivation" and thus fails to think the spontaneity of "bare life." But while Agamben goes on to argue that the creation of the human/animal binary is the primary move of the "anthropological machine," I argue that the man/woman dichotomy is equally basic and equally destructive.
Becoming-Grizzly: Bodily Molecularity and the Animal that Becomes
Authors: NEIMANIS ASTRIDA
Published: April 2017

Werner Herzog’s documentary film Grizzly Man about the life and death of Timothy Treadwell invites us to consider the relation between Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of becoming-animal and phenomenological accounts of lived embodiment. In this paper I begin with a general account of becoming-animal and suggest that this concept is helpfully elucidated by considering the ways in which some aspects of Deleuze and Guattari’s practice can be understood as a rhizomatic phenomenology of our lived experience that in part extends the work of Merleau-Ponty. What emerges between the two philosophies is the possibility of bodily "molecularity" as a mode of lived embodiment. I argue that this molecularity is what enables the potential interpermeation of bodies across their differences, such as occurs in the event of becoming-animal. Alphonso Lingis’s descriptions of our becoming-animal as lived experience serve here as an evocative source for clarifying this proposition further. I conclude by returning to Herzog’s film to consider the risks and consequences of becoming-animal--not only for the human who becomes, but also for the animal who, as Deleuze and Guattari note, is no less transformed.
La question du mal chez Hannah Arendt: rupture ou continuité?
Authors: CLOUTIER SOPHIE
Published: April 2017

La question du mal politique est devenue un thème central dans la pensée de Hannah Arendt. Lorsqu'elle travailla sur la compréhension du phénomène du totalitarisme, Arendt utilisa l'expression kantienne de «mal radical» afin de rendre compte de l'apparition d'une nouvelle forme extrême de mal politique. À la suite du procès du criminel nazi Adolf Eichmann, auquel elle assista à titre d'envoyée spéciale pour le New Yorker, Arendt se retrouva face à un nouveau concept, celui de «banalité du mal». Cet article propose donc de faire état de ces deux conceptions du mal en demandant si le passage d'un concept à l'autre marque une rupture ou une continuité dans l'oeuvre de Arendt.
Being Startled: Phenomenology at the Edge of Meaning
Authors: LOVE KEVIN
Published: April 2017

Opening with a consideration of the methodological stakes, the paper examines, in a preparatory way, the phenomenon of the startle as a limit case for phenomenological analysis. Taking a bearing from a traditional Husserlian schema, the analysis quickly finds itself twisting and turning, contorting the received phenomenological method in order to remain with the phenomenon. Elements of Heidegger’s “fundamental analysis of Dasein” are also tried out, but similarly find themselves dislocated by the peculiar phenomenological content of the startle. Thus unsettling the basic structures of phenomenology and temporality, the paper concludes by setting the scene for an encounter with Levinas’ perturbing notion of the il y a.
Between the Strange and the Familiar: A Journey with the Motel
Authors: TEAL RANDALL
Published: April 2017

The tension between the roadside motel’s uncanny and familiar features ensures it a memorable place in contemporary culture. The motel’s uncanniness has developed into a kind of mythology, which has been employed to great effect by popular media, particularly film. In this role the motel is frequently portrayed as a “between” that is structured by its being neither fully home nor fully elsewhere. This article explores how the motel’s betweenness allows it to transcend its own liabilities and afford visitors a unique opportunity to discover what it means to become heimisch (homely) within its walls.
Les objets intentionnels – à la frontière entre les actes et le monde
Authors: GYEMANT MARIA
Published: April 2017

En 1894 Twardowski et Husserl exposent leurs positions divergentes concernant les objets intentionnels tels qu’ils sont introduits par la psychologie brentanienne. Alors que, selon Twardowski, ces objets sont en un certain sens immanents à l’acte de la conscience, Husserl insiste sur le fait que ce n’est rien d’autre que l’objet réel lui-même qui devient intentionnel en tant que visé par un tel acte. Derrière cette controverse se cache, d’ailleurs, la question cruciale de savoir comment penser le passage de la conscience au monde, dont la réponse se trouve dans le concept d’intentionnalité.
Spirit and/or Flesh: Merleau-Ponty’s Encounter with Hegel
Authors: STOREY DAVID
Published: April 2017

This paper has four parts. First, I attempt to pinpoint how and why Merleau-Ponty was driven to go beyond Husserlian phenomenology, and did so for what are, largely, Hegelian reasons. Second, I trace the parallels between Hegel’s “metaphysics of Spirit” and Merleau-Ponty’s “ontology of the Flesh,” stressing the thinkers’ consensus about the nature of philosophical method. Third, I identify Merleau-Ponty’s criticisms of Hegel’s approach, and assay his claim that Hegel’s system actually constitutes a lapse into a pre-critical, pre-Kantian, naïve metaphysics. Fourth and finally, I examine how Merleau-Ponty’s critique of Hegel is tied to his investigation into the evolution of the concept of nature through the history of Western philosophy. My basic intention is to determine whether and to what extent Merleau-Ponty evades the very charges he levies against Hegel, and my basic claim is that he does. I conclude by suggesting some parallels between Merleau-Ponty’s later thought and the account of nature in Whitehead’s process philosophy that might tell us where to seek help for developing his later, enigmatic ideas once precedents in Continental thought have been exhausted.
Inter et Inter: A Report on the Metamorphosis of an Actress
Authors: BOWDITCH ISOBEL
Published: April 2017

In 1847, Johanne Luise Heiberg, a thirty-year old Danish actress and friend of Søren Kierkegaard, performed the role of Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in the Copenhagen theatre. She had played Juliet once before, aged 16, and it was this first performance which helped to launch her prestigious career. The 1847 performance prompted Kierkegaard to write an article for the newspaper Fædrelandet, called 'The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress' under the name of Inter et Inter. Its publication contradicted Kierkegaard’s resolve to cease his literary authorship and to write directly under his own name as a religious author.

This essay shows what was at stake for Kierkegaard in publishing 'The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress' and its pivotal status for him both as a writer and a Christian. Both ‘crises’ of the title refer to a metamorphosis as a return to ‘the beginning’ effected through a series of elliptical characters: the actress, Juliet, Inter et Inter, Kierkegaard himself and the reader. Kierkegaard’s commentary on Frau Heiberg’s performance of Juliet brings together categories of repetition and anxiety in order to understand how “the metamorphosis of the actress” is effected as a return to the 'beginning', mirroring Kierkegaard's own transition from 'literary' to 'religious' writer and ultimately reflecting back on the reader’s own condition as existing individual.
May ’68 and the One-Dimensional State
Authors: REYNOLDS CHRIS
Published: April 2017

This article draws out the link between the 1968 events, regional development and the Marcusian theories developed in his book One-Dimensional Man. Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man is often perceived as encapsulating the underlying frustrations that drove the events of 1968 around the world with the German philosopher described by some as the "guru" of the New Left. In France the theories of Marcuse and in particular his 1964 text became popular in the aftermath of the upheaval as people sought to make sense of what had just happened. Focussing on the provincial revolts of Strasbourg and Brest, this article will provide one example of why this text was perceived as relevant to the situation in France and thus so popular.
Sartre’s Pure Critical Theory
Authors: DUNCAN JOHN
Published: April 2017

The aim of this paper is to present Sartre’s early philosophical anthropology and later existential Marxism as part of the development of a pure Critical Theory that, with respect to its content and with respect to the context of its production, informs a trajectory that runs through the events of May ’68. Both Sartre’s pure Critical Theory and the events of May ’68 share deep commitments to possibility, agency, and ethics. A different trajectory that runs through May ’68 is the post-humanism of Foucault, which both contrasts directly with Sartrean Critical Theory, and traces useful boundaries around it and its application. In the twenty-first century, significant elements of a Critical Theory that remains committed to possibility, agency, and ethics, but that pays heed to Foucauldian boundaries, may be seen in the contestation of mainstream politics that at the same time stands on its own as an activism best exemplified by the alternative press. The contestation of propaganda is possible, and its completion requires that agents pit subjects against subjection as the way to a better future.
La solitude du discours amoureux aujourd’hui. Réflexions à partir de Roland Barthes et une critique
Authors: PIAZZESI CHIARA
Published: April 2017

L’article offre une discussion de l’affirmation qui ouvrait en 1977 les Fragments d’un discours amoureux de Roland Barthes, selon laquelle le discours amoureux se trouvait dans une condition d’extrême solitude. Afin de comprendre cette affirmation, on commence par un aperçu des caractéristiques du discours amoureux, pour montrer en quelle mesure son incohérence et sa fragmentation lui sont constitutives. Ensuite, on analyse le projet barthésien de restituer une dignité à ce discours et à l’expérience qu’il véhicule — de le soustraire à sa solitude. Pour conclure, on montre pourquoi certaines attaques moralisatrices contemporaines contre l’instabilité de l’expérience amoureuse actuelle, au lieu d’offrir un espace d’écoute au discours amoureux, finissent souvent par le réduire encore au silence.
Nobility and Decadence: The Vulnerabilities of Nietzsche’s Strong Type
Authors: ACHARYA VINOD
Published: April 2017

This paper argues that for Nietzsche it is only when the strong type decays on its own terms that it is possible for a weak type to come into dominance by inverting the values of the strong. It sets right a latent inconsistency in Deleuze’s work, Nietzsche and Philosophy, which traces back the origin of decadence to the subterranean struggle between reactive forces. I show that Deleuze’s reading runs contrary to his own contention that for Nietzsche the negative is a result of activity. I argue that the decadence of the strong is a consequence of its very creative activity and abundant health. Relying on Nietzsche’s later works, I isolate and analyze four typical traits of the strong type which not only determine this type as what it is but also make it vulnerable to decadence.
Heidegger, Wagner, and the History of Aesthetics
Authors: SALEM-WISEMAN JONATHAN
Published: April 2017

This article explores Heidegger’s ambivalent philosophical relationship with Richard Wagner. After showing how Heidegger situates Wagner within his larger critique of aesthetics, I will explain why Heidegger believes that Wagner’s operas, due to the dominance of music, could not attain the status of “great art.” Because music can do no more than stimulate or intensify feelings, it becomes, for Heidegger, the paradigm of what art has become under the influence of aesthetics. Heidegger’s views on music even motivate him to contest Nietzsche’s thesis that music was the origin of Greek tragedy. Heidegger dismisses Nietzsche’s developmental account and argues instead that poetry is the essence of tragic drama. To conclude, I will show that Heidegger’s exclusive focus on Wagner’s theoretical work is too narrow, for his music reveals ontological concerns that cannot be easily assimilated into Heidegger’s history of aesthetics, and in fact suggest possible affinities with Heidegger’s own philosophical insights.