bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A participação social na implantação do banheiro seco como alternativa para promoção de saúde em dez comunidades rurais maranhenses
Authors: Sousa Carlos Di Stefano Silva , Mota João José Pessoa , Silva Alessandro Costa da
Published: December 2022

A participação social de comunidades rurais maranhenses na implantação do banheiro seco como alternativa para a promoção de saúde foi analisada. A pesquisa apresenta os resultados alcançados pelo projeto A participação social de comunidades rurais maranhenses na implantação do banheiro seco como alternativa para a promoção de saúde foi analisada. A pesquisa apresenta os resultados alcançados pelo projeto Tecnologias Alternativas para o Tratamento de Ãgua e Dejetos Humanos na Região do Baixo Munim-MA, desenvolvido pela Universidade Estadual do Maranhão e financiada pelo CNPq, entre os anos de 2010 e 2012. Para implantação dos banheiros secos, foram usadas diretrizes sociais e ambientais contemporâneas que permitiram a participação social no processo de implantação da tecnologia. A partir de uma leitura técnica e acadêmica, e considerando a realidade socioeconômica e sanitária das comunidades-alvo, o banheiro seco, modelo Bason, apresenta-se como uma alternativa adequada para a promoção de saúde nas comunidades pelos seus pressupostos de baixo impacto ambiental, melhoria das condições sanitárias da população local, e possibilidades de participação social no processo. Entretanto, no que diz respeito a seu uso nas dez comunidades percebeu-se acentuada limitação na medida em que os banheiros não estão sendo utilizados com grande frequência. Por fim, pode-se inferir que essa realidade está vinculada a pouca difusão de informações sobre o tema.
The conditioning features of ditches processes at the sedimentary structures of the peripheral depression in Rio Grande do Sul
Authors: Cabral Ivaniza de Lourdes Lazzarotto , Ross Jurandyr Luciano Sanches , Robaina Luis Eduardo , Medeiros Edgardo
Published: December 2022

Aiming to define the conditioning features responsible for the different erosion

processes actuating at the drain heads between Jacuí and Ibicuí rivers - at Peripheral

Depression in Rio Grande do Sul, we analysed the geologic/geomorphologic aspects defining

a set of marks due to the relief evolution, in which the details are presented as interfluvial

depressions - pseudokarstic forms, rill erosion and large burrows, all of them interlaced to the

hydrodynamic system. Based on a cartographic chart, satellite images, structural analysis of

the sedimentary components and the examination of the hardness presented by several

samples of water collected at, approximately, 15 and 48 meters deep, we verified the

existence of complex surface structures (approximately 30 meters deep) associated to the

apparently simple topographic forms (hills with ample areas of captivation and long ramps),

geological events as fault lines and the stratigraphic arrangement of the sedimentary materials.

These are the predisposing elements of the erosion forms here analysed, showing that the

origin of these forms is beyond the anthropogenic action scale, becoming necessary the

realization of systematic interconnected stratigraphic and surface geometry studies.

Key-Words: erosion factors, burrows, landscape evolution.
Multitemporal analysis of land covering and vegetation areas under quaternary superficial formation - a study of the hydrographic basin stream Puitã, Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil
Authors: Martins Rafael Lacerda , Bittencourt Helio Radke , Guasselli Laurindo Antonio
Published: December 2022

The hydrographic basin of stream Puitã, located in the southwest of the state of R

Grande do Sul - Brazil, is characterized by quaternary superficial formation. The

formations are dominated by erosive features and sand strands located in the geologic

compartment of hills as well by bushes located on the hillside and ciliary's bushes locate

along the course of the water together with the campestre vegetation. The use of the lan

stands out with plots of land used to agriculture, intensified in the last decades. Th

agricultural activities left the soil fragile, causing erosive features. This study aims to identi

he existent relationship between the type of vegetation and the soil degradation in the regio

of the hydrographic basin. The methodology is based on digital classification of Landsat-T

satellite images, data acquired between 1984 e 2004, on the correlation analysis betwee

degraded areas, classes of land use and vegetation's types.

The results showed thematic maps that allowed identifying the different fragilities an

susceptible areas to the sandification process. The multitemporal approach allowed

evaluate the modifications of the mapping classes and to identify the expansion or retractin

of sand strands and erosive processes. It was detected that the agricultural use is th

responsible agent for the amplification of the soil fragility.
Evolutive an regressive soil sequences for assessment of soil degradation in desertifield areas of Canary Islands (Spain)
Authors: Guerra J.A. , Arbelo C.D. , Mora J.L. , Notario J.S.
Published: December 2022

The assessment of soil degradation in natural ecosystems must necessarily be

performed from a non-conventional perspective, focused on agricultural productivity. Thus,

the assessment of soil degradation in natural ecosystems requires the definition of standards

with which to compare other soils and thus evaluate their quality. In order to define these

standards and manage appropriately the processes involved in the degradation and variation of

soil quality, it is necessary to understand and establish in detail the genetic processes that have

taken place in that area and have led to the formation of a mature soil, which would be

considered to be standard, as a non-degraded soil. In accordance with these ideas, we present

in this work the evolutive and regressive succession of the soils and examples of the

utilization of this methodology to evaluate soil degradation in arid zones and those in high

desertification risk in the Canary Islands.
Los titanosaurideos (dinosauria, titanosauria) del grupo Bauru y sus relaciones paleogeograficas con los géneros de la Patagonia Argentina / Titanosaurs (Dinosauria, Titanosauria) from the Bauru Group and their palaeogoegraphic relationships of the Patagonia, Argentina genus
Authors: Candeiro Carlos Roberto A.
Published: December 2022

Se actualiza el conocimiento sobre los dinosaurios titanosáuridos registrados en las Formaciones

Adamantina y Marília (Grupo Bauru). La similitud de los titanosáuridos de estas formaciones con

los de las unidades geológica Argentinas del Cretácico Superior, sugiere contemporaneidad

entre las faunas de Brasil Central y la Patagonia Argentina. El género Aeolosaurus es el taxón

presente en rocas de Argentina y Brasil que con otros titanosáuridos indica la conexión faunística

entre estas dos áreas durante el Cretácico Tardío.
O "modelo" da agricultura modernizada no Chapadão do Distrito de Santo Antônio do Rio Verde - Catalão (GO) : o Grupo Rampelotti
Authors: Matos Patrícia Francisca de , Pessôa Vera Lúcia Salazar
Published: December 2022

O trabalho apresenta reflexões sobre o papel que o Grupo Rampelotti exerceu/e na (re) organização

do espaço agrário do município de Catalão (GO), tendo em vista que esse Grupo é um dos

maiores conglomerados empresariais do setor agrícola do município, faz uso das mais modernas

tecnologias de produção e constitui-se o maior produtor de grãos de Catalão.
Uso do solo e cobertura vegetal na área de influência do AHE CAPIM BRANCO I / Land use and vegetal cover in the Area Influence of AHE Capim Branco I
Authors: Rosa Roberto , Brito Jorge Luis Silva , Lima Samuel do Carmo
Published: December 2022

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo identificar, delimitar, mapear e avaliar as diferentes

categorias de uso do solo e cobertura vegetal presentes na área de influência do Aproveitamento

Hidrelétrico (AHE) Capim Branco I, utilizando técnicas de sensoriamento remoto e

geoprocessamento. Este empreendimento localiza-se entre coordenadas geográficas de 18º 43' -

18º 59' de latitude sul e 47º 57' - 48º 13' de longitude oeste do meridiano de Greenwich. Ã? área

total de mapeamento compreende 455,20 km2, abrangendo parte dos municípios mineiros de

Uberlândia, Araguari e Indianópolis. O trabalho foi desenvolvido por meio das seguintes etapas:

aquisição das imagens CCD/CBERS, processamento das mesmas por meio do SPRING, para o

georreferenciamento, realce, composição colorida, elaboração da carta imagem e interpretação

visual em "telaâ€?. A base cartográfica foi elaborada a partir de Cartas Topográficas escala 1:25.000

e convertidas para o meio digital com o CARTALINX. A apresentação do mapa final foi feita com

o ARCVIEW. As categorias de Uso do Solo e Cobertura Vegetal, presentes na área de estudo e que

foram mapeadas são: mata/cerradão, cerrado, campo cerrado, vegetação em regeneração,

pastagem, cultura anual, cultura perene, hortifruticulturas, corpos d' água, reflorestamento, áreas

urbanas e de uso misto, canteiro de obras e área desmatada. A partir do mapeamento, verificou-se

que a pastagem foi a categoria de maior expressão areal, ocupando 48,7% da área, seguida de

mata/cerradão, com 19,2%, cultura anual com 17,9%, vegetação em regeneração com 3,4% e

cultura perene com 3,3% . Os demais usos aparecem com percentuais bem menores, podendo-se

ainda destacar, áreas urbanas e de uso misto com 2,4% e hortifruticultura com 2,0%. Para concluir,

podemos verificar, que os procedimentos adotados, bem como os materiais utilizados, especialmente

as imagens CCD/CBERS, mostraram-se satisfatórios para o desenvolvimento do trabalho.
VARIABILIDADE PLUVIOMÉTRICA DE ALGUNS MUNICÍPIOS DA REGIÃO METROPOLITANA DE CAMPINAS (SP) EM DOIS PERÍODOS HOMOGÊNEOS
Authors: Aguiar Daniel Alves de , Nunes Lucí Hidalgo
Published: December 2022

O estudo avaliou a variação espaço-temporal da chuva em alguns municípios da Região

Metropolitana de Campinas, SP, a partir de dados de alguns postos pluviométricos da área,

analisados nos níveis anual e sazonal, de modo a comparar as diferenças tanto no tempo como no

espaço geográfico. Escolheu-se seis postos, nas cidades de Americana (1), Santa Bárbara d'Oeste

(2), Cosmópolis (1), Jaguariúna (1) e Holambra (1). O período total de estudo abrange os anos de

1953 a 1997, dividido em dois períodos menores comparados entre si: PI (1953-1974) e PII (1975-

1997). Os períodos com menor volume pluviométrico têm os maiores coeficientes de variação, ou

seja, há maior heterogeneidade na distribuição da precipitação nos anos menos chuvosos e no

inverno. O PII foi mais variável, o que poderia estar associado à atuação de alguns fenômenos de

grande escala (PDO e/ou El NiÃ±o). Os resultados podem ser usados por diferentes instâncias

(governo, setor privado, sociedade) e embasar planos de habitação, de ocupação industrial,

ocupação agrícola e projetos municipais diversos.
Christ's Body Keeps the Score
Authors: Hill Preston
Published: December 2022

Recent findings in neuroscience and psychology indicate that “the body keeps the score” of PTSD. Concurrently, trauma-informed theology to date has deployed pneumatology to explain how God experiences trauma in the Christian narrative of salvation. Yet, in Christian theology the divine person of the Holy Spirit has no assumed human body. This raises an important question as to whether a body is needed for God to keep the score of posttraumatic stress in a manner consistent with neuroscience and how this might shape one’s account of trauma in Christian soteriology. In this article, I take an analytic science-engaged approach to assess the viability of dominant proposals in trauma-informed theology which deploy trauma theory to assert God’s experience of trauma and explain this experience with exclusive reference to pneumatology. After reviewing clinical and scientific research on the neuroscience of PTSD which has been neglected in these approaches, I argue that Christology is a more obviously fitting locus for suggesting God’s experience of trauma within Christian soteriology than the person of the Holy Spirit. I conclude that since the body keeps the score of trauma from a scientific perspective, Christ’s body keeps the score of trauma from a science-engaged theology perspective.
Aircraft Parameter Estimation using Feedforward Neural Networks With Lyapunov Stability Analysis
Authors: George Sara Mohan , S Sethu Selvi , Raol Jitendra R
Published: December 2022

Aerodynamic parameter estimation is critical in the aviation sector, especially in design and development programs of defense-military aircraft. In this paper, new results of the application of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) to the field of aircraft parameter estimation are presented. The performances of Feedforward Neural Network (FFNN) with Backpropagation and FFNN with Backpropagation using Recursive Least Square (RLS) are investigated for aerodynamic parameter estimation. The methods are validated on flight data simulated using MATLAB implementations. The normalized Lyapunov energy functional has been used to derive the convergence conditions for both the ANN-based estimation algorithms. The estimation results are compared on the basis of performance metrics and computation time. The performance of FFNN-RLS has been observed to be approximately 10% better than FFNN-BPN. Simulation results from both algorithms have been found to be highly satisfactory and pave the way for further applications to real flight test data.
An Optimal Retinanet Model For Automatic Satellite Image Based Missile Site Detection
Authors: Yadav Ashwin , Jain Kamal , Pandey Akshay , Ranyal Eshta , Majumdar Joydeep
Published: December 2022

Satellite image processing is a manually tedious job and offers scope for automation as part of the information extraction process from satellite images. The process of information extraction involves object detection and one of the challenges is ascertaining the minimum number of images required to train the deep learning model to achieve a certain minimum accuracy. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, work in missile site detection is relatively limited, with an existing exploration of the latest one-shot detection methods, such as RetinaNet, being absent. This work proposes an optimal deep learning model based on the RetinaNet framework and training on a minimal dataset. A comparative analysis with previous work paves the road for future research in one-shot methods and optimally trained models. As part of the study, the key findings are that an optimal training scheme based on a minimal training dataset is possible. This step enables a reduction in training time for the development of an optimal missile site detection model is concerned. One of the many techniques to determine the minimal number of training images required to train the object detection model is plotting the number of training images versus the mean average precision. The same is validated in our work. Further, a hybrid scheme based on the two-model concept is tested wherein one model prioritizes Recall while the other prioritizes Precision. Thus a combination of both models to detect a set of targets provides an optimal framework for object detection. Lastly, the study finds that the single-stage RetinaNet algorithm offers the advantage of balancing speed and accuracy over erstwhile two-stage and other single-stage methods.
“I found the fish in Pronunciation Quiz #3!” Examining the effect of a
game-informed site on young learners’ L2 pronunciation
Authors: Barcomb Mike , Cardoso Walcir
Published: December 2022

This paper examines the impact that a game-informed pronunciation site
has on the acquisition of English /r/-/l/. Twenty-three Japanese-speaking
English learners completed a series of pronunciation activities directed at
improving their phonological awareness and oral production of the /r/-/l/
contrast. The activities included game-informed tasks that rewarded learners
with points, badges, and scavenger hunt items. For control, eight students
completed the same activities without game-informed affordances. The study
followed a mixed-methods approach with a pre-, post-, and delayed post-test
design. Qualitative results indicate that learners in the game-informed
group developed metaphonological awareness and perceived the proposed
learning environment positively. For production, the quantitative results
indicate that participants in the game-informed group improved their
pronunciation of /r/-/l/ items. Pedagogical implications for the use of
game-informed environments for L2 pronunciation instruction are
discussed.
Evaluation of the DDL training workshop for in-service Chinese language
teachers
Authors: Chang Li-ping , Chou Chun-Ting
Published: December 2022

In this study, we held a 12-hour workshop focused on training the
Data-Driven Learning (DDL) approach for in-service Chinese teachers aiming
to implement this pedagogy in Mandarin Chinese classrooms in the future. We
analyzed data from a postworkshop questionnaire to understand how the
individual-level traits of Chinese teachers (such as their experience,
ability, and motivations) relate to their integration of corpus-based
methods. The questionnaire results indicate that teacher confidence in using
the corpus is critical for the future application of DDL in teaching Chinese
as a second language. Teachers who use corpus-based pedagogies are more
positive at designing and guiding DDL activities and are more willing to
practice DDL in language classes.
A study of language, culture, and identity in technology-assisted video
presentations of international students learning Chinese as a second
language
Authors: Cheng Li
Published: December 2022

This paper reports a study in a technology-assisted Chinese teaching
context where one major teaching objective is to encourage international
students to participate in speech contests with the theme of ‘Tell China,
Tell Your Stories’. Results showed that through four weeks’ preparation, all
the students had a more robust method for presentation delivery and video
making than before the project. Moreover, meeting conventional presentation
standards was not only an issue of ‘language learning’, but also an issue of
identity construction and negotiation. Finally, all participants had
constructed positive ecocultural identities which encouraged respect for
individuals, collaborative working, and a sustainable society.
Evaluating a novel CALL tool for the development of oracy and academic
language in young English language learners
Authors: Feroce Nick , Liu Jenny , Chattergoon Rajendra
Published: December 2022

This study examines the relationship between English language
proficiency outcomes and the use of a Computer-Assisted Language Learning
(CALL) tool that is designed to strengthen the academic English and oral
proficiency skills of young English Learners (ELs). We compare scores on a
standardized English language proficiency assessment for 2,034 ELs from
kindergarten through Grade 5 in the US who either used the CALL tool during
the 2020-2021 academic school year (n=1,478) or did not (n=556). Descriptive
analyses show larger scores for students who used the program than those who
did not, and this was seen across student demographic subgroups. Statistical
analyses reveal that this difference is significant even when accounting for
student demographics and enrolled school and that greater program use is
related to higher proficiency scores. The largest effects are seen for oral
proficiency scores. The study raises implications for use of CALL tools in
contexts where English is the language of education.
Language instructors on their emergency remote teaching pedagogy during
the pandemic
Authors: Hamel Marie-Josée , Landry Jill , Bibeau Louis-David
Published: December 2022

In this paper, we report on a study that took place during the COVID-19
pandemic and for which we interviewed ten experienced, university level,
language instructors about their digital practices as they found themselves
teaching in an Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) mode. The study sought to
describe how, through their professional activities and experiences, they
developed new and/or further online competencies and how the ERT context
brought them to rethink their pedagogical practices and namely, their
Written Corrective Feedback (WCF). Our results show that language
instructors’ digital competencies are on a dynamic continuum of changes with
some who faced challenges, while others sought opportunities or provided
solutions during that unprecedented period. An adapted version of the SAMR
(Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition) model
(Puentedura, 2010) is suggested, which takes into consideration this ERT
context.
Comparative analysis of students’ views of online learning in the first
and second Covid-19 semesters: examples from Türkiye, Poland, Republic of
North Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Authors: Hatipoğlu Çiler , Gajek Elżbieta , Delibegović Džanić Nihada , Milosevska Lina
Published: December 2022

The abrupt change from face-to-face to Online Learning (OL) in the
emergency COVID-19 semester surprised and forced students to alter their
study habits. Then came the second online period, and students were expected
to be happier and more successful since now they were familiar with OL. Was
this the case? Had the ways students learned, their perceptions of human
interactions among teachers and students in OL, their opinions on the
learning environment and their computer literacy changed? Our paper aims to
answer those questions using comparative analyses of data sets from the
first and second OL periods and attempts to uncover the positive and
negative shifts and the topics that remained unchanged. The study’s findings
show that COVID-19 related educational changes had multidirectional
influences on students’ learning, ingroup interactions, and views about
education and OL. Hopefully, the empirical data collected in this study will
provide valuable information about OL’s immediate and prolonged
effects.
Using an online high-variability phonetic training program to develop L2
learners’ perception of English fricatives
Authors: Iino Atsushi , Wistner Brian
Published: December 2022

This study investigated the degree to which Japanese learners of English
accurately perceive English fricatives over time and the extent to which
fricatives were misidentified. To train and measure perception skills, an
online high-variability phonetic training program was used in an English as
a Foreign Language (EFL) class in Japan for eight weeks. The results
indicated that learners’ perception of some of the fricatives improved over
time, while others remained difficult to distinguish from other fricatives.
Implications for EFL pronunciation instruction are considered.
Strategies to build a community of learners in online classes
Authors: Irwin Bradley
Published: December 2022

This paper describes the use of screencast feedback to enhance teaching
presence and weekly self-reflection surveys to enhance social presence among
students and build a community of learners. These approaches were found to
diminish the feeling of isolation in online learning environments. Further
findings indicated that this multimodal approach to providing feedback
helped build a rapport between the teacher and students which led to
increased motivation and task engagement. These strategies to build a
community of learners will be of particular interest to educators looking
for innovative approaches to improving teaching and social presence in
online learning environments while also providing personalized, formative
feedback.
Motivation and reading in high-immersion virtual reality
Authors: Kaplan-Rakowski Regina , Gruber Alice
Published: December 2022

Many language learners lack the motivation to read complex texts.
Because high-immersion Virtual Reality (VR) is increasingly reported to be
highly motivating, the goal of our study was to compare English as a Second
Language (ESL) learners’ (N=79) motivation while reading a story with
subtitles in VR (experimental group) versus reading the same story
screencast in two-dimensions (2D – control group). The Wilcoxon signed-rank
test revealed that learners’ motivation in VR was significantly higher
compared with the control group. Our finding confirmed that VR is highly
motivational in the context of reading foreign texts and can be useful for
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) researchers, practitioners, and
instructional designers. This analysis is a part of a larger study
(Kaplan-Rakowski & Gruber, 2023) on VR facilitating reading
tasks.
Learning L2 pronunciation with Google Translate
Authors: Khademi Hamidreza , Cardoso Walcir
Published: December 2022

This article, based on Khademi’s (2021) Master’s thesis, examines the
use of Google Translate (GT) and its speech capabilities, Text-to-Speech
Synthesis (TTS) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), in helping L2
learners acquire the pronunciation of English past -ed allomorphy (/t/, /d/,
/id/) in a semi-autonomous context, considering three levels of
pronunciation development: phonological awareness, perception, and
production. Our pre/posttest results indicate significant improvements in
the participants’ awareness and perception of the English past -ed, but no
improvements in production (except for /id/). These findings corroborate our
hypothesis that GT’s speech capabilities can be used as pedagogical tools to
help learners acquire the target pronunciation feature.
Religious beliefs: a barrier to cross-cultural communication in the
ClerKing telecollaborative project
Authors: Madden Oneil N.
Published: December 2022

Globalisation amplifies the need to improve Intercultural Communicative
Competences (ICC). However, telecollaborative cross-cultural communication
may be affected by different factors such as morals, values, and differences
in viewpoints, as observed in numerous European and North American projects.
Still, there is a dearth of experiments from the Anglophone Caribbean’s
stance. Therefore, this paper seeks to highlight how religious ideologies
affect international communication in ClerKing – a Franco-Jamaican
telecollaborative project that occurred in different phases over a
three-year period with learners of English from Clermont Auvergne University
(UCA) and learners of French from Shortwood Teachers’ College (STC) and the
University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona. Using the exploratory approach,
pre- and post-project questionnaires, learning and reflective journals, and
different multimodal exchanges were analysed. Preliminary findings suggest
that religion was a major theme highlighted in all phases of the project,
leading to challenged communication and somewhat negative perception of the
target culture.
An Corpas Cliste: creating a learner corpus for Irish from a new,
purpose-built iCALL platform
Authors: Ní Chiaráin Neasa
Published: December 2022

An Corpas Cliste (‘Clever Corpus’) is an Irish language learner corpus.
The corpus data comes from a purpose-built intelligent Computer Assisted
Language Learning (iCALL) platform called An Scéalaí (‘the Storyteller’) and
comprises both audio and text, produced by second and third level learners
of Irish. Metadata (e.g. L1, level of Irish, dialect preference, age) is
saved with every learner account, along with data on platform engagement
(e.g. speech/language technologies employed, time spent on task). This paper
illustrates how An Corpas Cliste is structured and is being prepared for
analysis and the methodologies and resources that are being used to exploit
it with a view to enhancing the learning experience.
Using the bilingual Corpus of Romanian Academic Genres (ROGER) platform
to improve students’ academic writing
Authors: Oravițan Alexandru , Chitez Mădălina , Bercuci Loredana , Rogobete Roxana
Published: December 2022

Learner corpora of written texts from academic writing assignments
provide a practical resource for students, particularly in fostering
academic writing skills. One such corpus is the newly available ROGER
(Corpus of Romanian Academic Genres), a bilingual comparable corpus
containing learner discipline-specific academic writing data in Romanian
native language (L1) and English as a foreign language (L2). This paper aims
to illustrate a series of academic writing teaching approaches supported by
the ROGER platform (launched in May 2022) to be applied by tutors in an
academic writing classroom setting. The results are structured according to
Ädel’s (2010) methodological model for fostering rhetorical functions and
specific phraseology in academic writing, coupled with addressing
metadiscourse markers to better assist in the enhancement of students’
academic writing skills at the university undergraduate level.
Enhancing EFL classroom instruction via the FeedBook: effects on language
development and communicative language use
Authors: Pili-Moss Diana , Schmidt Torben , Blume Carolyn , Middelanis Lisa , Meurers Detmar
Published: December 2022

The present exploratory study investigated the efficacy of secondary
face-to-face classroom-based English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction
digitally supported by the FeedBook, an interactive computer assisted
language learning web-based suite of exercises providing item-level
scaffolded feedback. Seventy-seven native (L1) German seventh-grade students
used the FeedBook during four two-week training periods (cycles, here we
analyse Cycle 2 and 3). Classroom and FeedBook practice occurred in
parallel, except for grammar constructions for which only FeedBook practice
was provided (controls). At the end of Cycle 3, students engaged in a
classroom-based communicative task for which the practised constructions
were relevant. Custom-designed pre- and post-tests, administered via the
FeedBook, assessed language accuracy in each cycle. Mixed-effect models
revealed significant pre-/post-test accuracy gains independent of the
learners’ proficiency in English, but not in controls. Gains from digitally
supported instruction were also positively related to accurate use of EFL
grammar constructions in the communicative task. Overall, the results
indicate learning benefits for face-to-face classroom-based instruction
supported by the FeedBook, evidenced both in grammar tests and in
communicative activities.
The Correlation Between Urban Development and Land Surface Temperature Change in Palembang City
Authors: Utami Nadiya Tri , Pigawati Bitta
Published: December 2022

Palembang city has experienced an increase in its population. Population growth results in an increase in activities which enlarge the built-up areas. The increase of built-up areas is one of the indicators of urban growth. The increase in built-up areas is inversely proportional to the vegetation area. Reduced vegetation area might cause an increase in land surface temperature. The aim of the study was to analyze the correlation between urban growth and changes in land surface temperature in Palembang City using descriptive quantitative method and spatial analysis on the data obtained from remote sensing images. The result shows that in 1998-2018, Palembang City has developed to the north (Sukarami District) and to the west (Ilir Barat I District). There has been an increase in the temperature, documented as 2.12°C. There is a correlation between urban growth and changes in land surface temperature in Palembang City
Konsep, Strategi, dan Realita Poros Maritim Dunia: Sebuah Resensi Buku
Authors: Hudaya Maula
Published: December 2022

Buku ini menyoroti visi sekaligus kebijakan utama Presiden Joko Widodo pada periode pertamanya yakni Poros Maritim Dunia (PMD) melalui sudut pandang yang unik. Penulis membedah PMD ke dalam tiga tataran yang berbeda namun saling berkesinambungan yaitu konsep, strategi, dan realita bagaimana visi tersebut berusaha untuk dicapai. “Kita sudah terlalu lama memunggungi laut, samudera, selat, dan teluk”, potongan pidato pelantikan Presiden Joko Widodo tersebut menyiratkan keinginan kuat untuk mengembalikan Indonesia pada kodratnya sebagai negara maritim.
Optimization of the synergistic effect of micro silica and fly ash on the behavior of concrete using response surface method
Authors: Harith Iman Kattoof , Hussein Mahdi J. , Hashim Mahmood S.
Published: December 2022

The impacts of different replacement levels of micro silica (MS), fly ash (FA), and the combined usage of MS and FA on the behavior of concrete were investigated. Design of experts has been used incorporating the response surface methodology to find the synergetic effect of FA and MS on fresh and hardened concrete properties. A total of 15 and 30% of the binder content were replaced by FA. As well as a total of 5 and 10% of the binder content were replaced by MS. Experimental results of concrete mixtures have been used to construct ANOVA models. These models have also been confirmed to expect the properties of concrete mixtures based on different fractions of FA ash and MS. All statistical models are significant because P-value is less than 5%, and the difference between predicted R
2 and adjusted R
2 is lower than 20%. The variation between confirmation tests for the optimized mixture and test results are lower than 5%.
The impact of soil, altitude, and climate on tree form and wood properties of plantation grown Pinus patula in Mpumalanga, South Africa
Authors: Merwe Jaco-Pierre van der , Germishuizen Ilaria , Clarke Charlie , Mansfield Shawn D.
Published: December 2022

Plantation forests were originally established in South Africa to meet an increasing demand for solid wood products as there was a limited supply from native forests. The majority of the commercial softwood plantations were established with Mexican Pinus patula. Since growing conditions are known to impact tree growth, tree form, and wood quality of P. patula, sample plots were established over a cross-section of plantations in the Lowveld Escarpment and Highveld forestry regions of South Africa that covered an array of geologies and altitudes. Each sample plot was classified according to soil properties, rainfall, and temperature, and trees within the plots were measured for growth, form, and wood properties. Soil, growing days, and temperature were found to have little impact on tree form and wood properties. However, rainfall and specifically, spring rainfall, was found to have a highly significant impact on late wood formation, proportion of juvenile core, and wood density. In addition, tree height was found to be strongly correlated with maximum annual temperature.
Effects of thulium (Tm) concentration and numerical aperture on the gain of thulium doped fiber amplifier (TDFA) for amplification in 2 µm region
Authors: Gupta Chahat , Singh Rajandeep , Kaur Ramandeep , Kaur Gurpreet
Published: December 2022

The effect of numerical aperture and doping concentration of thulium on the gain of TDFA with a single pump is investigated in this paper. Thulium doped fiber length of 10 m is analyzed for commonly used optical pumps of 1050 nm, 1560 nm, 1700 nm, and 1740 nm wavelengths with a power of 100 mW. Also, the thulium concentrations of 15.6 × 1024 m−3, 20 × 1024 m−3, 30 × 1024 m−3, and 40 × 1024 m−3, and numerical apertures of 0.3 and 0.4 are tried for each pump wavelength. It has been found the conventional 1050 nm pump is the least efficient. And in all the cases, the 0.4 numerical aperture is resulting in better gain as compared to the numerical aperture of 0.3. The results in terms of gain are compared for all pumping cases. It is observed that the highest gain of 28.27 dB is obtained at 1830 nm wavelength using pump wavelength of 1740 nm when the doping concentration of 40 × 1024 m−3 and numerical aperture of 0.4 is selected.
Psychologie der Überzeugung
Authors: Steinbrink Bernd
Published: December 2022

The article focuses on the role of psychological topics in the efforts of persuasion. Even Aristoteles mentioned psychology as an important part of rhetoric, but the research results of social psychology has been neglected during the adaption of rhetoric in the modern age. Introducing topics of this field, the article discusses exemplarily ways that lead to conviction, and that have been explored and described by different psychologist, with a special focus on Robert Cialdini’s „weapons of influence“ in his Psychology of Persuasion. The integration of the insights of social psychologists could lead to a new coalescence of the rhetorica docens and the rhetorica utens, helping to raise practical rhetoric on a more ambitious level.
Online-Rhetorik
Authors: Häusermann Jürg
Published: December 2022

When facing an audience instead of a single listener, students of public speaking encounter challenges that stem from differences in space. A larger space results in greater distance from the audience, and the need to fill a large room requires adaptation of posture, volume, dialogical elements, etc. When speaking online, however, there is no common space that is shared with the audience. The speaker addresses the listeners, wherever they are, from his or her own place. The main task is to connect these two or more separate spaces. This paper shows how this can be achieved using the verbal and visual tools available to teachers, bloggers and other non-professional speakers. It will be shown that spaces can only be connected if the speaker’s room is carefully designed, and details of the communication process cannot be misinterpreted.
Die Trauerrede in öffentlichen Deutungsmachtkonflikten
Authors: Bernstorf Matthias
Published: December 2022

The funeral is the only ritual worldwide that is bestowed upon almost all humans, irrespective of their denomination. For this reason, eulogies remain vital even in a post-denominational context. Due to the mediatisation of culture, eulogies constitute an area of interpretative authority that is rhetorically, politically, and medially relevant, as selected eulogies document: first of all, a speech delivered by the German President Frank Walter Steinmeier on the occasion of a state ceremony held in honour of the victims during the Covid-19 pandemic; second, a speech on the occasion of the sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk that was initially not intended to be given but eventually delivered by the Russian President Vladimir Putin; finally, an eulogy by the theologian Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, delivered on the occasion of the funeral obsequies for his son Nathanael, who died as an infant.
Strutture dell’indeterminatezza e cambiamento per elaborazione: lo sviluppo degli indefiniti di scelta libera in italiano antico
Authors: De Roberto Elisa
Published: December 2022

This paper describes some peculiarities of use of the indefinite pronouns of free choice (chiunque, qualunque, qualsiasi, etc.) in medieval Italo-Romance varieties. After discussing the semantic and pragmatic specificities of free-choice indefinites in current Italian and their evolution from classical Latin to Vulgar Latin and late Latin, the study discusses the data that emerged from the examination of the corpus of the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI). In most occurrences, free-choice indefinite pronouns behave as relative-indefinite pronouns (i. e., as introducers of relative clauses). Their absolute use (i. e., outside the relative clauses) seems instead marginal and concentrated in juridical texts, and in contexts in which the draftsman of the statute or act needs to maximise the scope of a rule or prohibition. It thus seems possible to hypothesise that the absolute use of free choice indefinite pronouns originated as an effect of the process of elaboration of the vulgar Italo-Romance varieties and started from formulary sequences, which by virtue of their high occurrence in particular types of texts gave rise to phenomena of ellipses and the use of relative-indefinite pronouns as “pure” pronouns.
Ahnungen an der Peripherie. Fülle und Leere in Jacques Rédas Les Ruines de Paris
Authors: Nagel Frank
Published: December 2022

Jacques Réda’s collection of prose poems Les Ruines de Paris (1977) can be related to a long tradition of literary works about the French capital evoking its transformation, setting out the contradictions between new industrial and still remaining older areas. These are also the urban topographies where the lonely stroller explores the ‚ruins of Paris‘, discovering less known streets and indeterminate wastelands on the edge of a rapidly changing city. However, precisely these strange zones produce often a vague feeling of epiphanies for the observer, the periphery thus acquires its own suggestive aura as it already did in surrealist writers like Aragon and Leiris, but also in the early Borges. Putting it in a more theoretical way in Les cinq points cardinaux (2003), Réda distinguishes between the different ways places may appear to an attentive mind, finding a sort of transcendental surplus in the specific atmosphere of the outskirts. Our essay shows this aesthetic fascination as a medium of poetic energy in Les Ruines de Paris, linking it to a historical moment after modernism when intuition and imminence have become supplements of plenitude.
Kolonialer Sprachkontakt: Spuren der indigenen Lebenswelt und der lenguas generales des historischen Paraguays im Spanischen der Jesuiten
Authors: Albers Marina
Published: December 2022

The aim of this contribution is to examine the contact situation between Spanish and indigenous languages in historical Paraguay, using a corpus of one hundred texts written by Jesuits in the 18th century. To overcome cultural and linguistic barriers, the members of the Jesuit Order used various strategies, especially learning the two lenguas generales Guaraní and Quichua for missionary work, which resulted in a certain multilingualism among the religious. The main focus is on the linguistic influences on colonial Spanish, coming from older indigenous varieties and especially from the lenguas generales Guaraní and Quichua, both widespread across the region in historical Paraguay. The traces of this historical contact situation can be found in toponymic designations, and as lexical and even morphological borrowings, which are still vital today, especially in the American varieties of Spanish.
The Spanish ‘present participle’: lexical elaboration of a morphosyntactic gap?
Authors: Pountain Christopher J.
Published: December 2022

The Latin present participle in‑nte(m)did not survive systematically in Romance. In Spanish, although a small number of forms in‑ntemay be considered inherited words, the overwhelming majority are cultured borrowings (cultismos) which hugely contributed to the elaboration of the written language; many have also diffused into everyday usage and are amongst the commonest words in the contemporary language. Such substantial cultural borrowing also paved the way for internal creations and later morphological calques from English forms in‑ing, as a result of which forms in‑nteare continuing to grow in both numbers and frequency. However, despite what may be seen as cultured experiments in the more systematic elaboration of a true present participle category in Spanish, forms in‑ntecame into competition with adjectives formed with the agentive suffix‑dor, in which they were subject to restrictions of both an aspectual and pragmatic nature. This article traces the successful diffusion of‑nteforms and suggests reasons which hindered their regaining total productivity.
An experimental study on the failure and enhancement mechanism of bolt-strengthening GFRP T-joint subjected to tensile loading
Authors: You Peiyu , Chen Chen , Wu Ye , Zhang Baohua , Tang Xiaojun , Zhu Dalei , Liu Zhenxue , Ma Yunsheng
Published: December 2022

The aim of this article is to investigate the failure and enhancement mechanism of bolt-strengthening glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) T-joints under quasi-static tension. One-step molding technology based on the vacuum-assisted resin infusion process is carried out to fabricate the GFRP T-joints structures. Then, a special fixture and constraint condition are set up to take the quasi-static tensile test with high reliability. Moreover, it is demonstrated that the T-joints structures may decrease their bearing capacity, resulting in interlaminar delamination at the corner region. Further, to strengthen the T-joints, the bolts are employed to effectively prevent the initiation and propagation of interlaminar delamination in the tensile loading. At the same time, as their enhancement and failure mechanisms are revealed deeply, the strengthening method is optimized as well.
Parameters of anger as related to sensory-affective components of pain
Authors: Fernandez Ephrem , Pham Tuan M. , Kolaparthi Krishna , Sun Renhao , Perez Brandon S. , Iwuala Emmanuel C. , Wu Wenbo , Shattuck Eric C.
Published: December 2022

Objectives

Comorbid with chronic pain are negative emotions, anger being particularly salient. To evaluate specific relationships between pain and anger, the present study deconstructed anger into five parameters and dichotomized pain into sensory vs. affective components. Hypotheses were (i) anger parameters would be significantly and positively correlated with affective pain more so than with sensory pain, and (ii) individual parameters would be differentially related to pain components.

Methods

The Anger Parameters Scale (APS) was used to rate five parameters of anger: frequency, duration, intensity, latency, and threshold. Also rated was the physical sensation of pain and the degree of distress from pain. The volunteer sample comprised n=51 chronic pain patients, varying in ethnicity/race and educational level.

Results

Descriptive statistics revealed: APS total M=71.52, SD=16.68, Sensory pain M=6.27, SD=2.15, Affective pain M=5.76, SD=2.28. Sensory and affective pain were highly correlated, r=0.70. APS total was significantly associated with affective pain (r=+0.28) but hardly with sensory pain (r=0.12). Two anger parameters significantly correlated with affective pain: anger frequency (r=+0.30, p<0.05) and anger threshold (r=+0.33, p<0.05). Secondarily, certain educational levels (but not gender and ethnicity/race) were associated with significantly higher APS total scores.

Conclusions

Scores for all variables were in the mid-range. As hypothesized, anger was more strongly correlated with distress/suffering of pain than with physical sensation of pain, though both pain components were closely coupled. Specific findings regarding frequency and threshold imply that being angry often and being oversensitive to provocation are associated with greater distress in this context. In deconstructing anger and dichotomizing pain, the present study extends previous research by elaborating on what aspects of anger are most related to which components of pain. Moreover, certain educational levels with higher levels of anger may need special attention. Further research could examine if treatment of anger might lead to corresponding changes in chronic pain.
Beyond the binarism: locating past, present and future sociolinguistic research on ideologies of communication
Authors: Spitzmüller Jürgen
Published: December 2022

This opinion piece discusses how research on language ideologies (or, for that matter, ideologies of communication in general) relates to micro/macro distinctions of both the research field and the discipline of sociolinguistics. Starting off from the thesis that both object and strand of research at stake here do not neatly fit this dichotomous distinction, the paper discusses the Fishmanian origins as well as the diverse and diverging definitions ofmicro- andmacro-sociolinguistics that ensued from Fishman’s proposal, considering the different assumptions that underlie the respective variants of the distinction. The piece discusses why language ideology research locates its object, and itself as a discipline, beyond the micro/macro binarism, and how/why it embraces a more scalar, relative and reflexive approach to social and linguistic juxtaposition, ordering and ranking. To this end, the concept of ‘social scales’ and its uptake by language ideology research are introduced and discussed. Finally, the paper provides an opinion on what the future of sociolinguistics should be like – independently from the particular strand at stake here – and about the role of this newly launched journal (with its long history as a yearbook) as the author wishes to see it being taken.