bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Whole genome resequencing of a laboratory-adapted Drosophila melanogaster population sample
Authors: Gilks William P. , Pennell Tanya M. , Flis Ilona , Webster Matthew T. , Morrow Edward H.
Published: November 2016

As part of a study into the molecular genetics of sexually dimorphic complex traits, we used next-generation sequencing to obtain data on genomic variation in an outbred laboratory-adapted fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) population. We successfully resequenced the whole genome of 220 hemiclonal females that were heterozygous for the same Berkeley reference line genome (BDGP6/dm6), and a unique haplotype from the outbred base population (LHM). The use of a static and known genetic background enabled us to obtain sequences from whole genome phased haplotypes. We used a BWA-Picard-GATK pipeline for mapping sequence reads to the dm6 reference genome assembly, at a median depth of coverage of 31X, and have made the resulting data publicly-available in the NCBI Short Read Archive (Accession number SRP058502). We used Haplotype Caller to discover and genotype 1,726,931 small genomic variants (SNPs and indels, <200bp). Additionally we detected and genotyped 167 large structural variants (1-100Kb in size) using GenomeStrip/2.0. Sequence and genotype data are publicly-available at the corresponding NCBI databases: Short Read Archive, dbSNP and dbVar (BioProject PRJNA282591). We have also released the unfiltered genotype data, and the code and logs for data processing and summary statistics (https://zenodo.org/communities/sussex_drosophila_sequencing/).
The Hierarchical Mixed Rural Postman Problem
Authors: Colombi Marco , Corberán Ángel , Mansini Renata , Plana Isaac , Sanchis José M.
Published: November 2016

In this paper, we study a generalization of the Hierarchical Chinese Postman Problem on a mixed graph where only a subset of arcs and edges require a service to be accomplished following a hierarchical order. The problem, called the Hierarchical Mixed Rural Postman Problem, also generalizes the Rural Postman Problem and thus is NP-hard. We propose a new mathematical formulation, and introduce two effective solution algorithms. The first procedure is a matheuristic that is based on the exact solution of a variant of the Mixed Rural Postman Problem for each hierarchy. The second approach is a tabu search algorithm based on different improvement and diversification strategies. Computational results on an extended set of instances show how the proposed solution methods are quite effective and efficient when compared to the solutions of a branch-and-cut algorithm stopped after one hour of computation.
Mid-face rejuvenation should be a priority for the management of global facial ageing
Authors: Fiore Giuseppe , Chantrey Jonquille
Published: November 2016

To achieve a true aesthetic result, it is imperative that practitioners understand the mechanisms behind mid-facial ageing. Cosmetic correction of the mid-face can not only enhance this area directly, but also indirectly correct other anatomical regions, such as the lid-cheek junction and lower face. Giuseppe Fiore and Jonquille Chantrey explore key treatment options and anatomical considerations
When it all makes sense
Authors: Cosgrave Rebecca
Published: November 2016

Grammar does not have to be a dry archaic subject. Text books such as Raintree's No Nonsense Grammar support an approach that is fun and enlightening.
Anti–Cardiac Troponin Autoantibodies Are Specific to the Conformational Epitopes Formed by Cardiac Troponin I and Troponin T in the Ternary Troponin Complex
Authors: Vylegzhanina Alexandra V , Kogan Alexander E , Katrukha Ivan A , Antipova Olga V , Kara Andrey N , Bereznikova Anastasia V , Koshkina Ekaterina V , Katrukha Alexey G
Published: November 2016

BACKGROUND

Autoantibodies to cardiac troponins (TnAAbs) could negatively affect cardiac troponin I (cTnI) measurements by TnAAbs-sensitive immunoassays. We investigated the epitope specificity of TnAAbs and its influence on cTnI immunodetection in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI).

METHODS

The specificity of TnAAbs was studied in immunoassays and gel-filtration experiments. The influence of TnAAbs on endogenous troponin measurements was studied in 35 plasma samples from 15 patients with AMI.

RESULTS

The inhibitory effect of TnAAbs on the cTnI immunodetection was observed only for the ternary cardiac troponin complex (I–T–C) and not for the binary cardiac troponin complex (I–C) or free cTnI. In the same TnAAbs-containing samples, the immunodetection of cardiac troponin T (cTnT) added in the form of I–T–C (but not free cTnT) was also inhibited in the assays that used monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) specific to the 223–242 epitope. The negative effects of TnAAbs on the measurements of endogenous cTnI in AMI samples were less than on the measurements of isolated I–T–C and decreased with time after the onset of symptoms. Early AMI blood samples might contain a mixture of the I–T–C and I–C complexes with the ratio gradually changing with the progression of the disease in favor of I–C.

CONCLUSIONS

The investigated TnAAbs are specific to the structural epitopes formed by cTnI and cTnT molecules in the I–T–C complex. AMI blood samples contain a mixture of I–C and I–T–C complexes. The concentrations of total cTnI at the early stage of AMI could be underestimated in approximately 5%–10% of patients if measured by TnAAbs-sensitive immunoassays.
Art and fashion
Authors: Collins Vishna
Published: November 2016

Straddling the boundaries between art and fashion, a group of young avant guard Australian fashion designers burst onto the scene in the 1970s – 1980s with a blur and blaze of spectacular colours, reflecting the spirit and vibrancy of Australia. Their dazzling brightly coloured one-of-a-kind art clothes captured Australia’s exuberance, its vitality and its pioneering spirit; a larrikin kind of quality that is so often inherent in the Australian character. The notion of fashion as art can be attributed to this group of visionaries who explored the broader aesthetics and expressive qualities associated with the visual arts and created a new language of fashion. Rather than following fashion trends, they consciously rejected mainstream norms, and created distinctive Australian art clothes and raised craft to the status of the fine arts. The paper examines the creative work of Australian designers Jenny Kee, Linda Jackson, Katie Pye and Jenny Bannister who created a unique vision of Australian dress that become part of Australian fashion history.
Book Reviews
Authors: Conomos John , Hine Miranda , Smith Natalie , North Stella , Findlay Rosie
Published: November 2016

MISE EN SCÈNE AND FILM STYLE, ADRIAN MARTIN (2014) London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, illus., paperback ISBN: 1349444170, 235 pp., £19

EPHEMERAL TRACES: BRISBANE’S ARTIST-RUN SCENE IN THE 1980s, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND ART MUSEUM, BRISBANE, 2 APRIL 2016–26 JUNE 2016

MARGARITA ROBERTSON: 3.33.12, DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY, DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND, 18 MARCH–17 APRIL 2016 Curated by Tim Pollock, Commercial Development Manager, Dunedin Public Art Gallery; Margarita Robertson, Creative Director, NOM*d

SKIN, SPACE, TRACE: REVIEW OF COLLETTE DINNIGAN: UNLACED, MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, 5 SEPTEMBER 2015–28 AUGUST 2016

STRANGE AND FAMILIAR: BRITAIN AS REVEALED BY INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS, CURATED BY MARTIN PARR, BARBICAN CENTRE, LONDON, 16 MARCH 2016–19 JUNE 2016
Reviews Film
Authors: Bennett John , Archer Sam , Nalbantoglu Karsu , Bye Joseph
Published: November 2016

The Lobster (2015) Ireland/UK/Greece/France/Netherlands/USA Director Yorgos Lanthimos Runtime 118 minutes

American Psycho (2000) USA Director Mary Harron Runtime 98 minutes

Whiplash (2014) United States Director Damian Chazelle Runtime 106 mins

The Babadook (2014) Australia Director Jennifer Kent Runtime 93 minutes
Reviews Film
Authors: Plantamura Lydia , Saller Chance , Anundson Abigail , Merchant Travis Richard
Published: November 2016

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) USA

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu Runtime 119 minutes

The Truly Transformative Tale of Kevin Smith

Tusk (2014) USA Director Kevin Smith Runtime 104 minutes

Gone Girl (2014) United States Director David Fincher Runtime 149 minutes

Force Majeure: A Dramatic, Humorous Dissection of Family

Force Majeure (2014) Sweden Director Ruben Östlund Runtime 119 minutes
Deictic transformers: Phenomenological analyses of time-shifts in video art installations
Authors: Ivanova Nevena
Published: November 2016

This article seeks to define a phenomenon in video installations that emerged during the 1990s. It is a type of audio-visual architecture that I call deictic transformer. Deictic transformers are not representations, they are events that trigger a specific type of effect, namely, a shift in time-consciousness, which is characterized as total engagement with the present moment in its impermanence, non-substantiality and self-differentiation. The article unfolds in the form of experiment. As a first step, phenomenological accounts of Christian icons are compared to phenomenological readings of Bill Viola’s ultra slow-motion video art installations. The reader is guided to experience how different media (religious paintings, video) generate different engagements with the present moment. The main subject of this article is ‘the now’. The article suggests that there are various ways of engaging with ‘the now’ and these ways trigger specific shifts in present-time consciousness. These shifts are closely related to the formation of subjectivity and thus demonstrate that temporality is not a given, but could be seen as a technology of the self. Christian icons are representative of a metaphysical approach to the present moment, predominant in the arts and philosophy of the western tradition before the twentieth century. Bill Viola’s video installations The Greeting (1995) and The Passions series (2000–2001) represent a new sensitivity towards time brought by electronic media. The dualist experience of time that is deeply embedded in the Christian tradition is recomposed via video and digital manipulation into a dynamically holistic temporality. The second step addresses other video-based examples of deictic transformers such as Gary Hill’s Viewer (1996) and David Claerbout’s Rocking Chair (2003). The third step examines the aesthetic strategies of these video installations and formulates a definition of their modus operandi. This article does not claim that deictic transformers represent the mainstream of video art installations. Deictic transformers, however, are seen as a growing tendency in new media art praxis that demands intensive engagement with the emerging dynamic of embodied presencing; a tendency that is relatively unprecedented in western culture, and that could be considered an (in)direct result of the technological capacities of video and digital media. In other words, the analyses of Viola, Hill, and Claerbout’s audiovisual experiments demonstrate that video and digital technologies of late twentieth century shift our perception of time from attempts to escape everyday impermanence and the search for permanent metaphysical presence towards an entanglement with the non-substantiality of presencing.
Reading the morphology of Ben Rivers’s chemical landscapes
Authors: Tarrant Patrick
Published: November 2016

This article examines the discursive and aesthetic functions of the abstract material artefacts that emerge from Ben Rivers’s hand processing of his 16mm films, focusing on the various ways these abstract forms interact with photographic images to produce a compound and plastic textuality. Drawing upon Jean-François Lyotard’s theorization of the figural, which seeks to explain the relationship between a text and its own material image, it examines the oscillation between two registers of filmic discourse in Two Years At Sea (2011) and its short predecessor, This Is My Land (2006). In these films, images of people and landscape merge with textures and shapes that arise from hand processing to create newly thickened worlds upon a chemical landscape.
Alfabetização e Linguagem
Authors: Costa Francisca Ilka Oliveira Bezerra da , Oliveira Gislene Farias de
Published: November 2016

O presente artigo apresenta de forma clara e objetiva uma revisão bibliográfica sobre a inclusão social, focando as teorias de Piaget, Vygotsky, dentre outros, para um um melhor aprendizado em relação a educação inclusiva. Discute aspectos relacionados a uma escola do município de Juazeiro do Norte onde se constatatou uma dificuldade do professor em lidar com alunos portadores de necessidades especiais. Analisa-se situações de ensino procurando descrever as habilidades e competências dos alunos para lidar com suas limitações. Discute o papel do educador nesse processo, enfocando a interação social e a realidade linguística da criança, como de grande importância na sua formação escolar.  Conclui-se que as aulas devem se dar de forma democrática, sem preconceitos, visando sempre uma educação de qualidade que inclua o conhecimento social, interativo, de forma que juntos, professores e alunos, possam atender aos objetivos por ambos, almejados.
DEPLOYMENT OF ERTMS IN CZECH REPUBLIC
Authors: Vopava Jiří , Jánešová Mária , Kratochvíl Radek
Published: November 2016

The article describes current situation and expected deployment of international standard for automatic rail vehicle protection in Czech Republic for period 2014 – 2020. Article introduces expected status in 2020 and subsequent implementation of commitments until 2026. It introduces expected result of gradual implementation for tracks and vehicles. It also displays brief deployment overview of European Rail Traffic Management System in European Union countries for each level of European Train Control System.
Grass-Bed: A Poetic Compound in the Alliterative Tradition
Authors: Weiskott Eric
Published: November 2016

The compound word grass-bed occurs four times in Old and Middle English texts. In each case, grass-bed occurs in an alliterative poem; in each case, the word is used as a kenning for a site of bodily death (a battlefield or a grave). The chronologically and metrically uneven distribution of poetic words like grass-bed in the corpus of medieval English texts raises questions about the reliability of the extant written record, the historical resources of individual writers, and the cultural meanings of poetic traditions. Meanwhile, research in alliterative metrics has begun to suggest that the division of medieval English literary history into Old and Middle subperiods masks fundamental continuities between pre- and post-Conquest alliterative verse. Progress in alliterative metrics refocuses the historical problems attendant upon rare poetic words like grass-bed. Conversely, against the backdrop of technical argumentation in the field of metrics, the study of words offers a second way of understanding the continuity of the alliterative tradition. This article explores connections between metrical history and lexical history via a case study of one especially long-lived and metrically marked poetic word.
Dialect Boundaries and Dialect Translation: The Case of Middle Scots and Middle English
Authors: Machan Tim William
Published: November 2016

The late-medieval Scottish–English border had a porous impermeability. Politically, there was in theory a demarcation between Scotland and England that remained relatively fixed from the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries, though a zone of marches surrounded that demarcation, and border disputes continued throughout the period. On the English–Scottish linguistic border, such porous impermeability took several forms. The extremes would be works written primarily in either Scots or some form of English and arrayed between them is what might be called the interlinguistic marches: works written in a language neither entirely Scots nor entirely English that somehow depends on and elides any easy distinctions between the varieties. These marches, and what they say about the Scots–English linguistic border, are the focus of this paper. The paper begins by looking at several texts whose language challenges any easy pronouncements about Scots–English dialect boundaries. Originally written in one variety, they survive as well in copies wherein the text has been rewritten, in all or in part, in the other variety. These rewritings might be called ‘dialect translations’, though other terms also could apply, each of them reframing not only the rewritings but also the varieties and language dynamics they help create. From these examples the paper turns to the larger issue that is its primary concern: the medieval English linguistic repertoire, including the grammatical integrity and social significance of medieval English regional varieties in general. Language and dialect boundaries certainly do matter, but it is speakers who decide how and when.
‘Übersetzen’ als Kulturprozess: Thesen zur Dynamis gemachter Welten
Authors: Mahler Andreas
Published: November 2016

Cultures – though showing, as modern sociology has it, a strong tendency towards being treated as ‘reified’ – are not a pre-existent ‘given’, neither as an ‘entity’ nor as a ‘system’, but ought to be seen as ‘structures’ continuously built and re-built by their members in an endless collective process of appropriatory, and performative, construction and re-construction. It is in this sense that the constitution, tradition, and modification of cultures can be described as a never-ending process of ‘translation’. Drawing above all on Yuri Lotman’s dictum that “the elementary act of thinking is translation” (1990: 143), but also on Bruno Latour’s suggestion to see ‘society’ as a relational network of mediating actors ‘making others do’ things as well as on Patrick Hutton’s idea of seeing ‘history’ as an ongoing process of continuously structuring the previously unstructured, and on a concept of ‘discourse’ that defines it as a system of thought and argumentation predominantly articulated in texts, the article develops twelve theses trying to propose that what is conceived of as the constitution of ‘culture’ must be seen as an interminable dynamic process of an unfathomable plurality of individual hermeneutic acts (con/dissensually) translating ‘understanding’ into ‘understanding’.
Unity and Continuity in Aristotle
Authors: De Ribera-Martin Ignacio
Published: November 2016

Although there are recent studies on the problem of unity and on the continuous taken separately, none of them focuses on the relationship between continuity and unity in Aristotle. Based on the analysis of relevant passages from the
Im Kielwasser des Verschlagenen: Odysseus’ Diskurs zwischen Schreiben und Kartografie
Authors: Wolf Burkhardt
Published: November 2016

A hallmark of the Odyssey’s topography is its deterritorialization. Assuming that, in antiquity, sailing manuals had to reckon with the nautical and existential disorientation experienced on the high seas, these nautical expedients must have been reflected in Homer’s epic. And in fact, technical manuals and poetical imagination, topos and tropus here translate into each other. But if the Odyssey is actually based upon those sailing manuals, then certainly not as a mere versification of their underlying sources. Rather, it discloses their ‘poetic’ character, viz. their creativity in determining and describing places within the ‘placeless’ sea. The Odyssey obviously has recourse to those manuals, but only in order to carry on the proto-cartographic operations of their writing. This principle of ‘recursion’ – harking back to a putative origin, in order to re-determine it in a self-referential way – also characterizes post-Homeric adaptations of the Odyssey. Whether in a Roman epic, or in medieval romance or in a modern novel – in any case, a new ‘original’ Odyssey is created to rely upon. But particularly in the highly reverberatory modern Odyssies, the charts are overstretched, the tools become dysfunctional, and explorations go methodically astray. The more complex modern world-description, the more fatal its shortcomings – as if Odysseus, at the edge of modern cartography, had returned to the state of deterritorialization that spurred his very first departure.
„We were a ghastly crew“: Gespenstige Schiffe und ruheloses Schreiben bei Samuel Taylor Coleridge und Arthur Rimbaud
Authors: Zapf Nora
Published: November 2016

Even though Coleridge’s fantastic romantic poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1798) and Rimbaud’s hallucinatory symbolist poem “Le bateau ivre” (1871) use very different procedures, both of them show, each in their own way, a ghostly movement of the ship: a movement that seems to lead into the vastness of the globe but finds itself confined to the narrowness of one’s own self. Both of these sea poems draw a route that in the end is aimless in its bouncing and circular movement. The haunted ghost ship as a wooden skeleton without crew flies over water in Coleridge’s ballad, or falls into unattainable depths in Rimbaud’s long poem. Can these poetic travel narratives be described as forms of a “haunted globalization,” in which leaving the known for the unknown turns out to mean always moving around the same – the self, the known, the own writing process? Even if in the self, there will always be found the other, the foreign, too.
‚ChristosDionysos‘: Hölderlin als Stifter einer neuen Religion
Authors: Witte Bernd
Published: November 2016

A close reading of Friedrich Hölderlin’s poems “Brod und Wein” and “Mnemosyne” demonstrates that Hölderlin intended to create a new religion as he and Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel had projected in their manifesto “Ältestes Systemprogramm.” This venture must be seen as part of the fight against monotheism and as an attempt to establish a counter-religion, characteristic for the threshold period between 1770 and 1800 in Western Europe. This attempt failed, as Hölderlin’s final desperation about the ambiguity of nature shows.
We Are Not Free to Choose: Class Determinism in Zadie Smith’s NW
Authors: Wang Hui
Published: November 2016

NW by Zadie Smith opens with a multicultural and multiracial scene and revolves around the crises in the lives of four people with longstanding connection to Northwest London. The Northwest London in NW is a besieged city, and the people therein could not see any possibility of getting out because the gate has been latched with the concept of social class. In NW, the social class is materialized as space, economic position and race. Geographically NW features the main areas of London, and considers the role of that city in shaping the consciousness of the major characters, a partly spatial configuring of identity. In addition, the major characters in NW also suffer from occupational exclusion and economic exploitation, which then lead to their lower-class position since social class is constructed in such a way that agents are distributed according to their positions in the statistical distribution based on the economic and cultural capital. Finally the racial discrimination encountered by the characters in NW shows that class relations shape the form that racial oppression takes. The racialization of class issues becomes a politically effective tool for the wealthy to divide and rule the lower classes. In NW, Smith thus has adopted a more political attitude than in her previous books, so the relatively new perspective of her fiction might be the attention she draws to the persistent obstacles to class crossing and the acknowledgment of the rigid lines that still define the social classes.
Open Access entlang bekannter Erwerbungspfade: Knowledge Unlatched
Authors: Fund Sven
Published: November 2016

Open Access ist in Bibliotheken hinsichtlich seiner Finanzierung und der Organisation von Prozessen nach wie vor mit Herausforderungen konfrontiert. Zwar wurde der „Erwerb“ von Publikationsrechten für Zeitschriftenartikel in den vergangenen Jahren zunehmend durch Spezialanbieter organisiert. Für Monographien in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften sind entsprechende Strukturen jedoch weiterhin schwach ausgeprägt. Eine mögliche Lösung bietet Knowledge Unlatched, eine international tätige Kooperative.
Development of S-ARIMA Model for Forecasting
Demand in a Beverage Supply Chain
Authors: Mircetic Dejan , Nikolicic Svetlana , Maslaric Marinko , Ralevic Nebojsa , Debelic Borna
Published: November 2016

Demand forecasting is one of the key activities
in planning the freight flows in supply chains, and
accordingly it is essential for planning and scheduling
of logistic activities within observed supply chain. Accurate
demand forecasting models directly influence the decrease
of logistics costs, since they provide an assessment
of customer demand. Customer demand is a key component
for planning all logistic processes in supply chain,
and therefore determining levels of customer demand is
of great interest for supply chain managers. In this paper
we deal with exactly this kind of problem, and we develop
the seasonal Autoregressive IntegratedMoving Average (SARIMA)
model for forecasting demand patterns of a major
product of an observed beverage company. The model is
easy to understand, flexible to use and appropriate for assisting
the expert in decision making process about consumer
demand in particular periods.
Supplying of Assembly Lines Using Train of Trucks
Authors: Čujan Zdeněk , Fedorko Gabriel
Published: November 2016

The typical supply system conceptions, i.e. the
concepts “Just-in-time” (JIT) and “Just-in-sequence” (JIS)
are very important factors with regard to a fluent operation
of the assembly lines. Therefore the contemporary intra
plant transport systems are being replaced by a new
kind of the transportation technology, namely by means
of the trains of trucks. The trains of trucks are used in two
possible operational modes: either with a driver or without
driver (fully automated). The trucks of the logistic trains
are also cheaper and they are able to carry a larger volume
and mass of the material at once. There are reduced in this
way not only the investment costs, but also the operational
expenses.
Stories in Clay: Mythological Characters on Ceramics in Archaic Etruria
Authors: Shipley Lucy
Published: November 2016

Attic vases were imported to Etruria in large numbers during the Archaic period (650–450 B. C. E.). A large corpus of decorative imagery has been scrupulously recorded in great detail, presenting a contrast with the antiquarian excavation methods which unearthed them. This article considers a corpus of imported ceramic vessels excavated at Chiusi, Tarquinia and Vulci to explore the presence of different characters and themes in Greek mythology within Etruria, examining the popularity of particular mythological motifs and images. These are then compared with a subsidiary corpus of comparable date from the Athenian Agora. The results of the analysis are interpreted to suggest that Etruscan consumers were deliberately acquiring iconographic content that related to indigenous Italian mythologies, values and ideals. The analysis proposes that the reception of imported mythology reflects themes of consequence in Etruscan mythology, closely related to the context of the use of these vessels in both feasts and funerals.
Thunder versus Lightning in Etruria
Authors: de Grummond Nancy T.
Published: November 2016

Recent scholarship on the Etruscans has produced important new insights into their practices of divination of the future by means of thunder and lightning. Not much attention has yet been given to how radically different these two natural phenomena were from the point of view of the systems that framed them and accordingly how different the appropriate rituals were. There was a highly complex system of interpreting lightning, based on the idea that there were nine Etruscan gods who could cast a bolt, and that even when one god wanted to do so, it often involved negotiations with others. It was very important for a diviner to know from which section of the sky the lightning originated and to have a full knowledge of its physical details and meanings. Thunder, on the other hand, was only a sound, and it was difficult to tell where it might have originated. Because it did not cause damage, it was seemingly not as dire as lightning. There does not seem to be a specific statement on which Etruscan deities might cause thunder, and so the diviner did not address the issue of which gods needed to be appeased. Instead, as far as we now know, thunder was judged by the day on which it was heard, and divination was thus carried out through calendrical reference, which did not require the kind of detailed training implied by the surviving texts on lightning. Since lightning is a visible phenomenon, it is not surprising that there are numerous depictions of it recognized in Etruscan mythological art. But while such examples may be duly noted, it is here argued that some images previously interpreted as lightning bolts are actually representations of thunder. A close look shows that, like the disciplines, the depictions of lightning and thunder are quite different from one another.
The Vicchio Stele: The Inscription
Authors: Maggiani Adriano
Published: November 2016

A recently discovered stele from Poggio Colla preserves one of the longest Etruscan inscriptions on stone, but because of its condition it presents challenges of transcription. Three areas of text are identified, and a preliminary reading of one of them is offered, confirming that it is a sacred text that relates to the cult at Poggio Colla. If this preliminary reading is correct, the names of two divinities, Tinia and Uni, are mentioned.
NEHRP Site Classification and Preliminary Soil Amplification Maps of Lamphun City, Northern Thailand
Authors: Thitimakorn Thanop , Raenak Thanabodi
Published: November 2016

The primary goal of this study is to generate the NEHRP soil classification map for Lamphun City using the average shear wave velocity values (Vs
Entre Pichincha y el Chimborazo: sujeto y naturaleza en el Ramillete de varias flores poéticas (1675) y “Mi delirio sobre el Chimborazo” (1822)
Authors: Jiménez Antonio Sánchez
Published: November 2016

Estudiar las reacciones ante la naturaleza ecuatoriana en el
Subjetividad, imitatio y naturaleza en el siglo XVIII
Authors: Beltrán José Checa
Published: November 2016

La historiografía tradicional ha sostenido que la verdadera subjetividad literaria comenzó con el Romanticismo. Este artículo, cuyas fuentes primarias son los principales teóricos de la antigüedad griega y los tratadistas españoles del siglo XVIII, intenta mostrar cómo el pensamiento literario clásico y clasicista también contempló y propició la práctica de la subjetividad en la literatura a través de elementos como la noción de “naturaleza”, la “imitación universal”, la “idea naturalista” (o herencia de la “idea” platónica), el “furor poético” y la definición de la poesía lírica
Synthesis, spectroscopic studies, and single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis of a lead(II) based hybrid perovskite: morpholinium trichloroplumbate(II)
Authors: Ramalingam Kuppukkannu , Rizzoli Corrado , Rajaraman Thangarasu , Prabu Manikandan
Published: November 2016

Morpholinium trichloroplumbate(II), [
The development of a consensus definition for healthcare improvement science (HIS) in seven European countries: A consensus methods approach
Authors: Skela-Savič Brigita , Macrae Rhoda , Lillo-Crespo Manuel , Rooney Kevin D
Published: November 2016

Introduction

There is a limited body of research in the field of healthcare improvement science (HIS). Quality improvement and ‘change making’ should become an intrinsic part of everyone’s job, every day in all parts of the healthcare system. The lack of theoretical grounding may partly explain the minimal transfer of health research into health policy.

Methods

This article seeks to present the development of the definition for healthcare improvement science. A consensus method approach was adopted with a two-stage Delphi process, expert panel and consensus group techniques. A total of 18 participants were involved in the expert panel and consensus group, and 153 answers were analysed as a part of the Delphi survey. Participants were researchers, educators and healthcare professionals from Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Italy, England, Poland, and Romania.

Results

A high level of consensus was achieved for the broad definition in the 2nd Delphi iteration (86%). The final definition was agreed on by the consensus group: ‘Healthcare improvement science is the generation of knowledge to cultivate change and deliver person-centred care that is safe, effective, efficient, equitable and timely. It improves patient outcomes, health system performance and population health.’

Conclusions

The process of developing a consensus definition revealed different understandings of healthcare improvement science between the participants. Having a shared consensus definition of healthcare improvement science is an important step forward, bringing about a common understanding in order to advance the professional education and practice of healthcare improvement science.
NP ellipsis (effects) in Polish and Hungarian: FFs on Fs, Agree, and Chain Reduction
Authors: Ruda Marta
Published: November 2016

This paper offers an analysis of NP ellipsis with adjectival remnants in Polish and Hungarian based on an investigation of the featural composition of heads contained within the extended nominal and adjectival projections, as well as configurations resulting from an application of Agree and the Principle of Chain Reduction. Elliptical NPs are analysed as headed by categorising
Gestational stress, placental norepinephrine transporter and offspring fertility
Authors: Piquer Beatriz , Fonseca Jose L , Lara Hernán E
Published: November 2016

Chronic cold stress produces adrenergic overload that can affect fetal development. The placental norepinephrine transporter (NET) clears norepinephrine (NE) from both maternal circulation and the fetus during gestation. If this system fails, NE clearance can be reduced, leading to high fetal exposure to NE. The main aim of this study was to determine the changes in NET expression during gestation and their relationship with the functional capacity of NET to transport NE under stressful conditions. Additionally, this study correlated these findings with the reproductive capacity of 2nd-generation progeny. Pregnant rats were subjected to chronic cold stress at 4°C for 3 h each day throughout their pregnancies. We found that exposure of pregnant rats to sympathetic stress caused the following effects: increased NE and corticosterone levels throughout pregnancy, decreased capacity of the placenta to clear NE from the fetus to the mother’s circulation, altered NET protein levels depending on the sex of the fetus and increased placental and body weights of pups. For the first time, we also described the disrupted fertility of progeny as adults. Increased NE plasma levels during pregnancy under sympathetic stress conditions correlated with decreased NET functionality that provoked changes in the development of progeny and their fertility in adulthood.
Mitochondrial Function and Maize Kernel Development Requires Dek2, a Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein Involved in nad1 mRNA Splicing
Authors: Qi Weiwei , Yang Yang , Feng Xuzhen , Zhang Mingliang , Song Rentao
Published: November 2016

In flowering plants, many respiration-related proteins are encoded by the mitochondrial genome and the splicing of mitochondrion-encoded messenger RNA (mRNA) involves a complex collaboration with nuclear-encoded proteins. Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins have been implicated in these RNA–protein interactions. Maize defective kernel 2 (dek2) is a classic mutant with small kernels and delayed development. Through positional cloning and allelic confirmation, we found Dek2 encodes a novel P-type PPR protein that targets mitochondria. Mitochondrial transcript analysis indicated that dek2 mutation causes reduced splicing efficiency of mitochondrial nad1 intron 1. Mitochondrial complex analysis in dek2 immature kernels showed severe deficiency of complex I assembly. Dramatically up-regulated expression of alternative oxidases (AOXs), transcriptome data, and TEM analysis results revealed that proper splicing of nad1 is critical for mitochondrial functions and inner cristaes morphology. This study indicated that Dek2 is a new PPR protein that affects the splicing of mitochondrial nad1 intron 1 and is required for mitochondrial function and kernel development.
Síndrome metabólica em militares de uma unidade da polícia de Aracaju, Sergipe
Authors: Santos Fontes Ilva Santana , Sampaio Clarissa Gomes , Dos Santos Carla Geane , Sá Barros Angela Maria Melo , Fontes Diego Santos , Dos Santos Irlan Massai Calaça , Dos Santos Junior Luciano Jorge
Published: November 2016

Aims: To assess the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its components in the military officers of a police unit in Aracaju, Sergipe.Methods: A cross-sectional study involving a military police unit located in Aracaju, capital of Sergipe state, Brazil, was conducted in the period June-July 2016. All active military policemen in the unit who agreed to participate were selected for the study. To participate, they were asked to sign the consent form and should not be on leave, departure, vacation, or transfer process to another unit. For data collection a questionnaire with demographic information was used, and a form was filled with anthropometric data and results of laboratory tests carried out during the medical routine periodic review. Metabolic syndrome was defined according to criteria of the National Cholesterol Education Program's Adult Treatment Panel III. Univariate analysis was performed to examine associations between the variables of interest, using the Pearson's chi-square test and adopting the value of p< 0.05 as statistically significant.Results: During the study period 115 military policemen were stationed in the unit under study and 96 (83.5%) among them met the criteria for inclusion in the study. Of these, the majority were male (96.6%) with children (84.4%), married (52.2%), had education level through high school (35.4%), self-reported brown (61.5%), earned between five and six minimum wage (42.7%), were aged between 36 and 45 years (59.1%), and were soldiers (53.1%). A total of seven (7.3%) among the study participants had metabolic syndrome. Regarding the components of metabolic syndrome, increased waist circumference indicating risk for cardiovascular disease was identified in 34.4% of the participants; overweight was identified in 57.3%; hypertension in 11.5%; high triglycerides in 29.5%; decreased level of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in 60.4%; and high fasting blood glucose in 31.3%. The corporal rank was associated with metabolic syndrome: a military with corporal rank had a risk eleven times higher of having criteria for metabolic syndrome compared to other ranks (odds ratio 11.86; 95% confidence interval 10.88-12.84; p=0.005).Conclusions: The military policemen of the investigated sample had a lower prevalence of metabolic syndrome when compared to other Brazilian studies. The corporal rank had a higher risk of developing metabolic syndrome, which should be investigated in more depth by studies that look for the relationship between functional characteristics of each military rank and presence of clinical and laboratory components of metabolic syndrome.
Substytucja Lévinasa – substancjalna służba innemu?
Authors: Kaczmarczyk Krzysztof
Published: November 2016

Artykuł podejmuje centralny temat Lévinasowskiej etyki, jakim jest sub­stytucja. Porównuje ją najpierw z różnymi formami miłości: od miłości­‑eros, poprzez przyjaźń, miłość oblubieńczą, aż do chrześcijańskiej miłości­‑agape. Następnie, m.in. dzięki zagadnieniu miłosierdzia, przechodzi do omówienia postawy służby, zarówno czysto ludzkiej, jak i motywowanej religijnie. Takie zestawienie, zdaniem autora, pozwala najlepiej wniknąć w rozumienie substytucji, która jawi się odtąd raczej jako służba niż miłość drugiego. W przeciwieństwie do miłości służba jest bowiem przede wszystkim dziełem do wykonania. Nie wymaga natomiast ani wzajemności, ani intymnego poznania, do których dąży miłość. Substytucja jest jednak służbą nadzwyczajną, bo totalną: chce drugiego ocalić, biorąc go całego na siebie. Jak mesjasz. Czy jednak możliwą?
Improvisation, Adaptability, and Collaboration: Using AUMI in Community Music Therapy
Authors: Finch Mark , LeMessurier Quinn Susan , Waterman Ellen
Published: November 2016

Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI) is a digital instrument that facilitates independent music making for people with diverse ranges of mobility. Employing the camera tracking capabilities available on most digital devices, users with even very little voluntary mobility are able to create and perform music by controlling a visual cursor within adaptable parameters to trigger sounds. Instead of requiring players to conform to an instrument, AUMI’s flexibility enables it to adapt to divergent artistic impulses and individual bodies. Building on previous studies that examined AUMI in an educational setting (Oliveros et al. 2011) this article presents three case studies that explore AUMI’s use in a community music therapy context. In addition to assessing the instrument’s effectiveness in achieving specific music therapy goals, ethnographic research methods illuminated various socio-cultural implications of integrating digital instruments into a music therapy setting that challenge conventional notions of youth culture, independence, and collaboration. We conclude with a discussion of the notions of adaptability and universal design as they apply not only to AUMI’s functionality in the music therapy sessions, but also in view of the instrument's ongoing development.
Music Therapy Interventions for Deaf Clients with Dual Diagnosis
Authors: Ward Anna Johnson
Published: November 2016

The current music therapy literature addresses the use of music with the Deaf population, particularly those with cochlear implants. However, few studies or descriptions of music therapy with Deaf individuals who are dually diagnosed with an emotional or behavioral disorder and an intellectual disability have been conducted. Given that music therapy has been found to be an effective intervention for both Deaf individuals and individuals with emotional or behavioral needs, ideas and resources for music therapists working with this population are needed. These case examples provide a description of music therapy for individuals who were dually diagnosed in a residential mental health facility. Music therapy experiences and their effectiveness for Deaf patients with dual diagnoses are presented as well as cultural aspects of music within the Deaf community and their implications for creating music therapy interventions.
Needs of Children Experiencing Homelessness who are Living in Shelters: A Qualitative Investigation of Perceptions of Care Workers to Inform Music Therapy Clinical Practice
Authors: Yates Greta Jean , Silverman Michael Joseph
Published: November 2016

On a single night in January in 2014 there were 194,000 children living with their families in shelters in the United States (National Center on Family Homelessness, 2015). A typical family experiencing homelessness consists of a single mother with two to three children. Children experiencing homelessness are more likely to face academic, social, and emotional problems compared to children in poverty. As there is currently a dearth of peer reviewed publications related to music therapy with children experiencing homelessness, the purpose of this study was to explore the perceived needs of children living in a homeless shelter through interviews with care workers and apply results to the music therapy clinical practice. Participants were seven staff members employed at a shelter for women and children experiencing homelessness in the Midwestern part of the United States. Data analysis was based upon Braun and Clarke’s (2006) six phases of thematic analysis. Emerging themes included: (a) staff need to be positive role models and provide trusting and affectionate relationships, (b) older children require programming and opportunities for communication and emotional support, (c) wellbeing must be screened and monitored, and (d) routine and expectations are needed to promote a calm living environment. Implications for music therapy clinical practice, limitations, and suggestions for future research concerning music therapy with children experiencing homelessness are provided.
Indicadores de governança mundial e sua relação com os indicadores socioeconômicos dos países do Brics
Authors: Marino Pedro de Barros Leal Pinheiro , Soares Rômulo Alves , Luca Márcia Martins Mendes De , Vasconcelos Alessandra Carvalho de
Published: November 2016

Resumo O estudo tem por objetivo investigar a relação entre os indicadores de governança do Banco Mundial e os indicadores de desenvolvimento socioeconômico nos países que formam o Brics. Foram utilizadas bases de dados de organizações internacionais do período de 2005 a 2012, aplicando-se a análise de dados em painel. Os resultados indicam relações positivas entre o IDH e os indicadores Eficácia do Governo e Controle da Corrupção e entre o PIB e o indicador Controle da Corrupção, além de uma relação negativa entre o PIB e os indicadores Voz e Responsabilização e Estabilidade Política. A capacidade explicativa das dimensões dos indicadores de governança em relação ao IDH é maior quando comparada à das dimensões dos indicadores de governança relacionadas com o PIB, o que pode ser entendido pelo fato de que o segundo indicador trata apenas da dimensão econômica, enquanto o IDH engloba outros fatores.
Elementos institucionais e desempenho da logística de uma rede pública de assistência farmacêutica
Authors: Fialho Regina Célia Nazar , Martins Ricardo S.
Published: November 2016

Resumo Este trabalho teve como objetivo investigar a influência de elementos institucionais no desempenho da logística de uma organização pública do Brasil. Por meio de uma abordagem quantitativa, utilizando a modelagem de equações estruturais, este estudo identificou que elementos institucionais de caráter regulativo e cognitivo têm influência sobre o desempenho da rede de distribuição de medicamentos, tendo o arranjo da rede um papel de mediação. Além de contribuir para uma melhor compreensão dos fenômenos associados à gestão de cadeias de suprimentos, tendo por base teorias organizacionais, os resultados da pesquisa contribuem para o entendimento de como sistemas simbólicos socialmente constituídos afetam a alocação de recursos e o desempenho de uma função organizacional.
A legitimidade do controle social da gestão pública: uma resposta a Herbert Wechsler
Authors: Pinheiro Douglas Antônio Rocha
Published: November 2016

Resumo Partindo do questionamento de Herbert Wechsler acerca da pertinência da crítica feita pelo cidadão comum em relação às decisões tomadas pelos governantes, o artigo formula uma resposta interdisciplinar ao jurista por meio da filosofia da responsabilidade, dos pilares da accountability e dos limites do sistema presidencialista com o intuito de legitimar o controle social da gestão pública.
Políticas de inovação social e desenvolvimento: o caso da Bolsa de Terras
Authors: Bittencourt Bernadete de Lourdes , Ronconi Luciana Francisco de Abreu
Published: November 2016

Resumo Políticas de inovação social têm dinamizado vastas discussões sobre o futuro do desenvolvimento socioeconômico europeu apesar dos poucos estudos que as relacionam com o desenvolvimento do território. Este artigo analisa como iniciativas de inovação social suscitam o desenvolvimento de políticas capazes de dinamizar o território. O estudo de caso, fundamentado por uma análise qualitativa, descreve a experiência da Bolsa de Terras que, tendo sido gerada no campo da economia social, com o objetivo de tornar úteis terras abandonadas, se transforma em uma política nacional portuguesa. Os resultados mostram as iniciativas de economia social como um motor econômico capaz de gerar sistemas de apoio local mais sustentáveis e identificam que a estrutura de rede, mediante a cooperação, aparece como o principal mecanismo na fomentação de políticas de inovação social.