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L'espace didactique et la transposition
Authors: Halté Jean-François
Published: September 2018

La dette des didactiques disciplinaires envers la théorie de la transposition didactique est reconnue. Cette thèse a cependant généré des malentendus qui, semble-t-il, se maintiennent dans ses aménagements. Partie d'entre eux tiennent à l'exportation de la théorie vers des didactiques émergentes, alors que la didactique des mathématiques disposait d'une expérience déjà longue. S'il n'y a guère de sens à se déclarer «contre » la transposition, il demeure néanmoins des points de résistance forte. La délimitation des notions de savoir, d'enseignable, de connaissance paraît délicate, voire contestable, d'autant que dans des matières comme le français, d'autres objets se rencontrent. Par ailleurs, la volonté de fon- der en droit et en raison une «science » didactique, occulte les préoccupations plus praticiennes : c'est à cerner l'espace didactique où se joue l'apprentissage qu'ils mesurent la pertinence didactique. La notion d'élaboration didactique, proposée en fin de parcours, pare à certaines des critiques énoncées.
Genomic Analysis and Prediction within a US Public Collaborative Winter Wheat Regional Testing Nursery
Authors: Rife Trevor W. , Graybosch Robert A. , Poland Jesse A.
Published: September 2018

The development of inexpensive, whole‐genome profiling enables a transition to allele‐based breeding using genomic prediction models. These models consider alleles shared between lines to predict phenotypes and select new lines based on estimated breeding values. This approach can leverage highly unbalanced datasets that are common to breeding programs. The Southern Regional Performance Nursery (SRPN) is a public nursery established by the USDA–ARS in 1931 to characterize performance and quality of near‐release wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) varieties from breeding programs in the US Central Plains. New entries are submitted annually and can be re‐entered only once. The trial is grown at >30 locations each year and lines are evaluated for grain yield, disease resistance, and agronomic traits. Overall genetic gain is measured across years by including common check cultivars for comparison. We have generated whole‐genome profiles via genotyping‐by‐sequencing (GBS) for 939 SPRN entries dating back to 1992 to explore the potential use of the nursery as a genomic selection (GS) training population (TP). The GS prediction models across years (average r = 0.33) outperformed year‐to‐year phenotypic correlation for yield (r = 0.27) for a majority of the years evaluated, suggesting that genomic selection has the potential to outperform low heritability selection on yield in these highly variable environments. We also examined the predictability of programs using both program‐specific and whole‐set TPs. Generally, the predictability of a program was similar with both approaches. These results suggest that wheat breeding programs can collaboratively leverage the immense datasets that are generated from regional testing networks.
H2CO Ortho-to-para Ratio in the Protoplanetary Disk HD 163296
Authors: Guzmán V. V. , Öberg K. I. , Carpenter J. , Gal R. Le , Qi C. , Pagues J.
Published: September 2018

Ortho-to-para (o/p) ratios of species like water, ammonia, and formaldehyde (

) are believed to encode information about the formation history of the molecule. Measurements of o/p ratios in protoplanetary disks could thus be used to constrain their physical and chemical histories. We present the first measurement of the

o/p ratio in a protoplanetary disk, using three ortho and two para lines observed with the Submillimeter Array (SMA) combined with one highly resolved measurement of a single

line with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) toward the disk around Herbig Ae star HD 163296. We find a disk-averaged

o/p ratio of 1.8–2.8 (depending on the assumed disk structure), corresponding to a spin temperature of 11–22 K. We also derive a rotational temperature of 24 K from the flux ratio of the three ortho lines. The observed spatial distribution, as seen by ALMA, as well as the rotational temperature and the o/p ratio, at the large scales the SMA is most sensitive to, are consistent with a low-temperature formation pathway, most likely grain surface chemistry, of

in this disk.
Survey of Intersex (Testicular Oocytes) in Black Crappie Collected from the Illinois River Waterway
Authors: Fritts Mark W. , Fritts Andrea K. , Pendleton Richard M. , VanMiddlesworth Todd D. , Solomon Levi E. , DeBoer Jason A. , Casper Andrew F.
Published: September 2018

Researchers have documented intersex (testicular oocytes) in male fishes in many species worldwide and prevalence of the condition is strongly related to exposure to endocrine-disrupting compounds in aquatic ecosystems. There is no available knowledge about the incidence of intersex in Black Crappie Pomoxis nigromaculatus, an important North American sport fish. The objective of this survey was to investigate the prevalence and distribution of the intersex condition in Black Crappie collected from portions of the Illinois River waterway. We collected and examined 83 Black Crappie. We observed testicular oocytes in 22 individuals (27% intersex), representing the first documentation of intersex condition in wild Black Crappie. The number of oocytes that we observed in intersex Black Crappie ranged from 1 to 67. We documented intersex in individuals collected from all habitats, but there were no significant differences in the prevalence of the condition (Kruskal–Wallis P = 0.56) or the number of oocytes present (P = 0.25) in intersex males from the different habitats. Permutational multivariate analysis of variance indicated that morphometric parameters varied significantly among locations (P = 0.0001), but did not vary significantly between intersex and normal males. We have little information about the current distribution of endocrine-disrupting compounds in the specific regions where we collected Black Crappie for our study. However, we believe our study represents a valuable effort to detect the condition in an important sport fish and lays a foundation for future research.
Social Media as Political Participation Tool Among Millennials
Authors: Awad Tamer Abbas , Farghaly Enas Kamel
Published: September 2018

The current article is an applied study that conducted on 480 Egyptian Millennials who randomly volunteered as participants. The main objective of the research is to test the effect of social media usage on the level of political expression and consequently on online and offline participation. A self-administered questionnaire has been used to collect responses to be analyzed and the results show that there is no significance of relation between social media and political expression and participation for the sample units of the study. Also, findings confirmed the significant correlation between expression and participation in its two forms; online and offline.
Social Media Ambiance Can Make Strong Message for Consumer Brand Purchase Behavior
Authors: Singh Gursimranjit , Singh Maninder
Published: September 2018

The advent of the internet has revolutionized the business environment as social media is becoming an ingrained aspect of every sphere of life whether we talk of political campaigns, defense strategies, brand management and even intra company communication; social media is all pervasive. With the sophisticated technology available the usage of social media has increased. In line with the current trends, this article examines how social media as a platform for marketing communication can make a strong case for consumer brand purchase behavior. Based on the existing literature, the article proposes a chain of hypothesis examining the relationship between the various constructs and their impact on the consumer-brand metrics. The study has far-ranging consequences for both academicians and strategic brand retailers by delineating the various factors that influence the integration of consumer-brand metrics with social media.
The Effects of Task Characteristics on the Continuous Usage of Mobile Applications
Authors: Wang Chen-Ya
Published: September 2018

While many studies have focused on mobile apps acceptance and the moderating effects of individual factors, little is known about the effects of different users' objectives, i.e. task characteristics in this article, on users' behavioral model. The main purpose of this article was to explore the effects of utilitarian/hedonic task characteristics on continuous usage of mobile apps. This study employed multi-group analysis to explore the effects of utilitarian/hedonic tasks. The results validated the different effects of utilitarian/hedonic tasks. A strategy that focuses not just on reinforcing and enhancing the determinants of users' continuous usage intention but also on complementary aspects that cater to users' motivations, is essential. The representative universal policy that treats everyone as being the same have to be replaced by a group alignment strategy.
A saúde sexual de mulheres com transtornos mentais: rompendo tabus / The sexual health of mentally challenged women: breaking taboos
Authors: Maidana Júnior João Nunes , Viana Diogo Da Rosa , Siniak Débora Schlotefeldt , Lipinski Jussara Mendes
Published: September 2018

Este estudo teve o objetivo de conhecer a percepção de mulheres com transtornos mentais acerca da sua saúde sexual. Estudo de campo, descritivo, de abordagem qualitativa, realizado em um CAPS II na fronteira oeste do RS. Foram entrevistadas oito mulheres com diagnóstico médico de algum transtorno mental, maiores de 18 anos e com vida sexual ativa. A coleta de dados foi realizada em abril de 2017 através de entrevista com roteiro semiestruturado. As mulheres demonstraram algum conhecimento sobre o que é saúde sexual. Dentre os métodos para prevenção da gestação, o anticoncepcional injetável foi relatado como o mais utilizado. As mulheres identificaram que estavam em situação de vulnerabilidade e conheciam os riscos a que estavam expostas em relações desprotegidas.As mulheres participantes deste estudo demonstraram conhecimentos acerca dos riscos de HIV/Aids e indicaram fragilidades no conhecimento das demais doenças. Identificou-se, também, que a não utilização de preservativos de barreira estava associada à fidelidade ao parceiro e também à não aceitação do parceiro em usar.
A dança e o envelhecimento: benefícios descritos na literatura / The dance and the aging: benefits described in the literature
Authors: Silva Kelly Maciel , Nitchske Rosane Gonçalves , Santos Silvia Maria Azevedo dos
Published: September 2018

Este estudo objetiva conhecer os benefícios apresentados pelas publicações científicas a respeito da dança na terceira idade. Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa da literatura, com busca realizada nos meses de janeiro e fevereiro de 2017, de artigos publicados entre os anos de 2004 e 2016, nas bases de dados Scientific Eletronic Library Online (SciELO), Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS), Bases de Dados em Enfermagem (BDENF), Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), PubMed, SCOPUS e Web of Science. Os 74 artigos selecionados foram submetidos à análise temática, emergindo as seguintes categorias: Benefícios da dança para o corpo; Dança e interação social; Dança na comunicação e expressão cultural; Dança como terapia. A dança aparece como uma atividade física positivamente associada à melhoria da saúde e qualidade de vida dos idosos. Estudos de diferentes localidades e metodologias evidenciaram os benefícios da dança para os idosos nos aspectos físicos, sociais e emocionais.
Centro regional de referência de enfrentamento ao crack e outras drogas: Relato de Experiência/ The regional center of reference for coping to crack and other drugs: Experience Report
Authors: Terra Marlene Gomes , Mello Amanda De Lemos , Siqueira Daiana Foggiato de , Beck Carmem Lúcia Colomé , Marinho Lionara de Cássia Paim , Tisott Zaira Letícia
Published: September 2018

Tem-se como objetivo relatar a experiência da equipe pedagógica sobre os cursos ofertados pelo Centro Regional de Referência de Enfrentamento ao Crack e Outras Drogas da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, por meio da estratégia de Educação Permanente em Saúde. Trata-se de um relato de experiência profissional acerca dos cursos desenvolvidos no ano de 2016. Foram desenvolvidos três cursos de formação a partir da lógica da Educação Permanente em Saúde aos profissionais da saúde, aos professores de escolas públicas e privadas de ensino fundamental e médio e profissionais da segurança pública. A experiência considerou os cursos ofertados como uma estratégia de Educação Permanente em Saúde, além de possibilitar a relação entre pessoas, no sentido de reconhecimento do outro para a construção coletiva. Acredita-se que compartilhar experiências dos integrantes dos cursos pode inspirar a construção de outras possibilidades na área da atenção psicossocial como, por exemplo, a construção de redes.
ESCUTANDO OS SUBTERRÂNEOS DA CULTURA: RACISMO E SUSPEIÇÃO EM UMA COMUNIDADE ESCOLAR
Authors: Braga Ana Paula Musatti , Rosa Miriam Debieux
Published: September 2018

ResumoEste artigo pretende abordar alguns desdobramentos de um dispositivo de intervenção clínico-político em uma escola municipal de São Paulo. Utilizando um Grupo de Conversas com adolescentes foi possível observar e escutar uma cena que se repetia à exaustão e a partir dela supor um não dito social sobre os estudantes, suas mães e suas configurações familiares. Seguindo as indicações de Freud, Lacan, Benjamin e Gagnebin, consideramos o não dito que paira sobre elas como um modo de o passado perdurar de maneira não reconciliada no presente, acarretando uma contiguidade social e simbólica da mucama até as mulheres negras de hoje. O imaginário social sobre estas mulheres aponta para uma concepção de servidão e de corpo à disposição que, apesar de tantas mudanças históricas e conquistas femininas, ainda permanece e se transmite nos subterrâneos da nossa cultura. Recolocar tanto as falas e os atos dos estudantes, como os de suas mães, como prenhez de sentido e inscritos numa rede discursiva política e libidinal, nos permite reencontrar a potência e a capacidade de resistir desses sujeitos. Torna-se fundamental discernir o que é o sujeito colocado no lugar de resto no discurso social e o que é uma subjetivação da falta, pois enquanto esta última é o que promove o desejo, a primeira, é o que violenta e silencia o sujeito.Palavras-chave: Psicanálise e política; racismo; escola
CONSIDERAÇÕES ACERCA DAS CRÍTICAS ENDEREÇADAS AO LACANISMO EM O ANTI-ÉDIPO
Authors: Dutra Wagner Honorato , Couto Luis Flávio Silva
Published: September 2018

Abordamos nesse artigo as críticas que Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari dirigem ao lacanismo em O Anti-Édipo. Analisamos as particularidades teórico-conceituais desse embate com base em um itinerário metodológico composto por dois procedimentos interligados. O primeiro consiste na identificação dos autores, das obras e dos conteúdos visados por Deleuze e Guattari. Esta ação tem cunho propedêutico, pois permite delimitar os campos temáticos a partir dos quais as maquinações antiedipianas se conectam com algumas versões do ensino de Lacan. No segundo procedimento, vinculado ao anterior, avaliamos esses temas em consonância com os contextos argumentativos nos quais são trabalhados. Mostramos como os embates desenvolvidos nas fronteiras entre a psicanálise, a linguística e a antropologia se articulam ao gesto deleuzo-guattariano que reabilita a função do Real nos âmbitos analítico, do desejo e da produção. Para tanto, investigamos alguns livros escritos em uma época ainda fortemente influenciada pelo programa estruturalista. Constatamos que essas obras são criticadas em O Anti-Édipo por reduzirem o inconsciente à dimensão estrutural-simbólica.
VULNERABILIDADES ACERCA DO CUIDADO NA PERSPECTIVA DE MÃES DE BEBÊS COM MICROCEFALIA
Authors: Pimentel Pollyana Ludmilla Batista , Furtado Francisca Marina Freire , Saldanha Ana Alayde Werba
Published: September 2018

O objetivo geral deste estudo foi compreender elementos de vulnerabilidades envolvidas no cuidado de crianças com microcefalia, a partir da perspectiva das mães. Tratou-se de um estudo exploratório, com abordagem qualitativa. Para a coleta dos dados fez-se uso de questionário sociodemográfico e entrevista baseada no Método de Cenas. A análise das entrevistas foi realizada por meio da técnica de análise categorial temática. Participaram 13 mães com média de idade de 25 anos, variando entre 16 e 37 anos. Observou-se, nas falas das participantes, elementos de vulnerabilidades, relacionadas às dúvidas e tensões acerca do descobrimento da malformação congênita no filho, sobretudo, diante do despreparo da equipe de saúde no momento do diagnóstico; bem como em relação à falta de confirmação acerca das causas da microcefalia. Além disso, foram observadas deficiências relacionadas ao apoio social como família e/ou companheiro, exigindo destas mulheres uma dedicação exclusiva no cuidado dos filhos, principalmente diante de uma rotina diária de cuidados. Conclui-se apontando para a relevância deste estudo, uma vez que ao se referir a uma epidemia recente, tais dados podem servir de auxílio para a prática de profissionais de saúde, além de poder contribuir para a construção, atualização e efetivação de políticas públicas direcionadas para as crianças com microcefalia e, consequentemente, suas famílias.
A ENTRADA NO CAMPO E A FABRICAÇÃO DE DISPOSITIVOS EM PESQUISAS SOCIOCLÍNICAS
Authors: Borges Flávio Adriano , Rézio Larissa de Almeida , L'Abbate Solange , Fortuna Cinira Magali
Published: September 2018

A fabricação de dispositivos para produzir informações em pesquisas sociais e em saúde é algo que merece atenção por parte dos pesquisadores. Este artigo tem por objetivo analisar de que forma foram construídos dispositivos de pesquisa a partir do processo de entrada no campo de intervenção em duas pesquisas socioclínicas. Foram analisados os diários de campo de dois pesquisadores que desenvolveram suas pesquisas em dois campos de intervenção diferentes: Estratégia Saúde Família de um município mato-grossense e os 24 municípios que compõem o Departamento Regional de Saúde III do Estado de São Paulo. Para a análise, adotaram-se, além da elaboração de dispositivos de pesquisa, alguns conceitos do referencial teórico-metodológico da Análise Institucional, dentre os quais: analisador, atravessamento, transversalidade e implicação. Concluiu-se que a elaboração de dispositivos em pesquisas qualitativas na modalidade pesquisa-intervenção, como é o caso das pesquisas socioclínicas, devem abranger, ao mesmo tempo, ferramentas sensíveis à produção de informações e também modos de intervir na realidade em estudo, atribuindo assim uma especificidade ao arcabouço das pesquisas-intervenção. Acrescenta-se, ainda, que no caso das pesquisas socioclínicas, a construção dos dispositivos deve se dar processualmente, levando em consideração as inúmeras variáveis que podem atuar enquanto analisadores na condução desses estudos.
SUBJETIVIDADE E CONVERSÃO NO PENSAMENTO FOUCAULTIANO DO CUIDADO DE SI
Authors: Iauany Samuel Martins Silva , Veríssimo Danilo Saretta
Published: September 2018

No presente artigo, discutimos questões do fluxo teórico foucaultiano que preparam o terreno para seus trabalhos tardios, e analisamos, em seguida, o uso nocional que Foucault faz da categoria descritiva denominada conversão a si (se convertere ad se), bem como a sua influência no prisma ético estético do processo de subjetivação. Introduzimos a discussão da ideia de sujeito nas primeiras ontologias foucaultianas, referentes, segundo Deleuze (1986/2005), ao eixo do saber e ao eixo do poder. Neste contorno teórico, que abrange o homem como efeito de objeto/sujeito, a psicologia se destaca dentre os alvos da investigação e da crítica de Foucault, sendo utilizada como exemplo daquilo que as ciências modernas produziram enquanto ideia naturalizada de homem. Exploramos, por fim, a trama conceitual de A hermenêutica do sujeito, em que Foucault (1982/2010) alinhava uma nova dimensão da subjetividade, qual seja, a da relação consigo. Nestas preleções de 1982, ela aparece a partir de uma genealogia das práticas ocidentais de conexão entre sujeito e verdade, determinadas pela alternância entre os preceitos epimeléia heatoû (Cuidado de Si) e gnôthi seautón (Conhecimento de Si). Cada linha filosófica desdobrada destes princípios determina uma concepção de sujeito, e, nesse cenário, o filósofo se aproxima da perspectiva da “autossubjetivação” encontrada na conversão a si greco-romana, esta última inserida no espectro de predominância do cuidado de si.
Quality assurance of health management information system in Kayunga district, Uganda
Authors: Kagoya Harriet R. , Kibuule Dan
Published: September 2018

Background: An efficient health management information system (HMIS) improves health care delivery and outcomes. However, in most rural settings in Uganda, paper-based HMIS are widely used to monitor public health care services. Moreover, there are limited capabilities and capacity for quality HMIS in remote settings such as Kayunga district.Objectives: The quality assurance practices of HMIS in health centres (HCs) in Kayunga district were evaluated.Method: A cross-sectional descriptive study design was used to assess the quality of HMIS at 21 HCs in Kayunga district. Data were collected through in-depth interviews of HMIS focal persons as well as document analysis of HMIS records and guidelines between 15 June 2010 and 15 July 2010. The main outcomes were quality assurance practices, the HMIS programmatic challenges and opportunities. The practice of HMIS was assessed against a scale for good quality assurance practices. Qualitative data were coded and thematically analysed, whereas quantitative data were analysed by descriptive statistics using SPSS v22 software.Results: All the 21 HCs had manual paper-based HMIS. Less than 25% of HCs practised quality assurance measures during collection, compilation, analysis and dissemination of HMIS data. More than 50% of HCs were not practising any type of quality assurance during analysis and dissemination of data. The main challenges of the HMIS were the laborious and tedious manual system, the difficulty to archive and retrieve records, insufficient HMIS forms and difficulty in delivering hard copies of reports to relevant stakeholders influenced quality of data. Human resource challenges included understaffing where 43% of participating HCs did not have a designated HMIS staff.Conclusion: The HMIS quality assurance practices in Kayunga were suboptimal. Training and support supervision of HMIS focal persons is required to strengthen quality assurance of HMIS. Implementation of electronic HMIS dashboards with data quality checks should be integrated alongside the manual system.
The violence of the masculine ideal: A case for nomadic masculinities
Authors: Dube Siphiwe I.
Published: September 2018

In this article, I argue that a different kind of discourse on Christian masculinities in post-apartheid South Africa is possible despite the prevalence of largely idealised and politically conservative ideologies of masculinities promoted primarily through the public and private performance of violent masculinities. Drawing on a redacted critique of current prevalent discourses of transformation in critical masculinities studies such as alternatives masculinities, hegemonic masculinities, liberated masculinities and toxic masculinities, I underscore how these discourses are limited in their thinking on masculinities in general as they presume the ideal of what a liberated man should be like. Specifically, I argue that idealised masculine ideals, even in their liberatory forms, eschew mobility and fluidity and, therefore, end up restricting the possibility for transformative action. I propose, instead, that we reinscribe discourses of Christian masculinities with the notion of nomadic subjectivity, espoused by Rosi Braidotti, as a form of transpositional praxis of being in order to expand our linguistic repertoire of transformative masculinities. Such a shift in focus, as I demonstrate, has the propensity to aid us in constructing and implementing creative and imaginative programmes of engaging men in rethinking scripts of masculinities.
The social construction of Paul’s apostolic leadership in Corinth
Authors: Barentsen Jack
Published: September 2018

In a climate of institutional change and loss of authority, it is urgently needed to rethink the legitimacy of religious authority. This article offers a case study of Paul’s authority claims in Corinth, using French & Raven’s theory of social power, to offer new insights into the construction of religious leadership. Paul negotiated renewed acceptance as Corinth’s founder and apostle by appealing to legitimate power that he was a better leader than Moses, even Christ’s ambassador, and by undermining the legitimate power of his opponents who claimed Jewish descent and apostolic miracles as key leadership markers. Similarly, Paul appealed to referent power by portraying his suffering as a mark of Christ-embodying leadership and undermined the referent power of his opponents by denouncing status, patronage support and rhetoric as legitimation for leadership. Paul did not appeal to other power bases (informational, expert, reward and coercion), because he could not be sure to outrank his opponents on those counts. This analysis suggests that religious authority in the form of Paul’s founding apostleship was difficult to comprehend and embed in the social and cultural structures of Corinth at that time. Paul needed to engage in intense contention and negotiation to construct a socially and culturally viable model of leadership that would do justice to his vision of Christian identity. As a corollary, the evidence of the intensity of this conflict at various levels throughout the epistle can be interpreted as supporting the literary unity of the epistle.
Inventory decision-making by small Sowetan retailers
Authors: Eicker Themari , Cilliers J. Orpha
Published: September 2018

Background: The importance of South African small businesses, especially retailers, in improving communities’ standards of living necessitates sound business strategies to survive and remain competitive. Selecting appropriate business strategies is cardinal for the sustainable development and growth of all types of businesses, including small businesses. The supply chain strategy defines how operations in the supply chain will support the overall competitive strategy and is orientated to promote either responsiveness or cost-efficiency. It is imperative that all inventory decisions be aligned with the orientation of the selected supply chain strategy.Objectives: The aim of this article was firstly to determine how small retailers operating within the boundaries of Soweto, a township in Gauteng, South Africa, manage their inventory decisions considering the orientation of the supply chain strategy; and secondly, to investigate whether retail industries differ in terms of inventory decisions.Method: A survey was conducted among 650 formal, independent small businesses operating within Soweto of which 556 were classified as retailers based on the Standard Industrial Classification. Structured interviewer-completed questionnaires were used to obtain quantitative data from owners or managers. Both descriptive and inferential analyses were performed to determine the orientation of the retailers’ supply chain strategy based on their inventory decisions relating to the average rate of purchasing inventory, the amount of inventory purchased, as well as the quality and variety of products offered to customers. Five hypotheses were formulated to determine whether a difference exists between six industry groups with regard to the management of inventory.Results: It was established that small township retailers predominantly manage their inventory decisions responsively. It was also concluded that differences exist in terms of how small township retailers manage their inventory based on the industry in which they operate. The results showed that retail hardware stores are focused on making inventory decisions more cost-efficiently than the other industry groups, whereas retail general stores are focused on making inventory decisions more responsively than the other industry groups.Conclusion: The owners or managers of small township retailers need to be educated in terms of inventory management decisions. This article can be used as an educational platform to show how small township retailers can identify the aligned inventory decisions for supporting a selected supply chain strategy orientation. Generally, small township retailers may maintain their competitive advantage if they align all business strategies to promote responsiveness. Since the industry in which small retailers operate influences inventory management decisions in terms of responsiveness and cost-efficiency, owners or managers must consider the specific industry in which they operate before making such decisions.
Liner shipping cascading effect on Southern African Development Community port strategies
Authors: Goolam Nabee Sumayah , Walters Jackie
Published: September 2018

Background: The cascading effect in the liner shipping industry has forced the ply of larger ships to Southern African Development Community (SADC) ports. This requires these ports to revise their strategic development to accommodate the resulting shifts in cargo flows to and from these strategic ports in conjunction with hinterland corridor development.Objectives: The purpose of this research was to understand the changing landscape of strategic SADC ports and develop future strategies with regard to liner shipping services.The main objective was to assess the future development needs of the SADC port system in relation to the cascading effect in liner shipping, linked to the development of hinterland corridors, identifying the limitations and opportunities of each port.Method: Descripto-exploratory research and analysis of secondary data were used. An extensive research of 552 sources (journal articles, research reports, books, newspaper and magazine articles and webpages) dating mostly from the year 2000 onwards were analysed.Results: Durban will remain the preferred container hub port for the foreseeable future if the port can increase its capacity and offer superior customer service in relation to competing ports in the region, such as Maputo, Walvis Bay and Ngqura. Durban is well adapted to accommodate the port and landside requirements resulting from the cascading effect. This is most evident in the depth of the port and port-side handling equipment. The findings confirm that the success of other SADC ports and corridors are subject to regional cooperation and integration without which the dominance of the port of Durban and the Maputo and North–South corridors will continue.Conclusion: The findings of the research indicate that Durban is ideally suited to develop further as a container hub port for the SADC region. This development is subject to a more competitive port landscape in the region as other ports such as Maputo, Walvis Bay and Ngqura improve their liner shipping service offering.
An analysis of competition, efficiency and soundness in the South African banking sector
Authors: Moyo Busani
Published: September 2018

Background: The banking sector plays an important role in economic activity: it mobilises savings and channels them to productive sectors thus encouraging the efficient allocation of resources. The competitive nature of the environment under which the banking sector operates is of paramount importance.Aim: The main aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between competition, efficiency and soundness in the South African banking sector.Setting: The setting for this study was the South African banking sector.Methods: We used a data set of 17 local and international banks for the period 2004–2015 and stochastic frontier models to analyse efficiency.Results: Results show that the impact of competition on efficiency depended on the measure of competition used. When using the Lerner index there was a negative effect of competition on efficiency while the opposite was true when using the theoretically robust Boone indicator.Conclusion: In the case of bank soundness, competition using the Boone indicator is negatively related to the Z score, implying that competition enhances bank soundness and these results supported the prudent and efficient management hypothesis.
The ‘firstness’ of male as automatic ordering: Gendered discourse in Southern African Business Studies school textbooks
Authors: Pillay Preya , Maistry Suriamurthee
Published: September 2018

There is little contention that gender equity continues to be a challenge in many societies across the Southern African region. Dominant discourses that perpetuate inequality are often reflected in school materials such as textbooks, which have the potential to socialise girls and boys into particular gender performances. The aim of the study being reported on was to examine representations of gender in a sample of Business Studies school textbooks. The textbooks were selected from four Southern African countries: Swaziland, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The study employed a sociolinguistic analytical framework, namely critical discourse analysis and was guided by the tenets of feminist poststructuralism in the analysis of this phenomenon. The findings of the study reveal superficial content changes in the texts under study. Gendered ideologies continue to prevail in a remarkably overt fashion. One key finding was at a semantic level, namely the mention of the male pronoun first in sentences and conversation and not the female pronoun, having the likely effect of endorsing the principle of the ‘firstness’ and superiority of the masculine. In the order of two words paired for sex such as ‘Mr and Mrs’, ‘brother and sister’ and ‘husband and wife’, the masculine word came first. This automatic ordering is likely to reinforce the second-place status of women. The article concludes with a discussion on the implications of these findings for pedagogy and the textbook publishing industry. The findings also have the potential to ignite debate, as it relates to re-imagining the programmatic curriculum (school textbooks) as a contested genre.
A travessia da autonomia da mulher na pós-modernidade: da superação de vulnerabilidades à afirmação de uma pauta positiva de emancipação
Authors: Brochado Teixeira Ana Carolina , Rodrigues Renata de Lima
Published: September 2018

O itinerário da mulher no Direito sempre foi marcado pela exclusão e invisibilidade. O presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar a travessia feminina em busca da ocupação do seu lugar como sujeito de direito concreto nos diversos influxos sociais e mudanças históricas. Pretende-se aprofundar em como as transformações influenciaram cronologicamente em aspectos específicos do desenvolvimento das mulheres. Além disso, objetivou-se verificar se, na contemporaneidade, houve evolução em busca da sua emancipação, principalmente no que toca à autonomia corporal, planejamento familiar e aborto.
Aspectos relevantes para a sistematização do lucro da intervenção no direito brasileiro
Authors: Schreiber Anderson , Silva Rodrigo da Guia
Published: September 2018

O escopo fundamental do presente estudo consiste no delineamento de perspectivas para uma sistematização do lucro da intervenção no direito brasileiro. Nessa empreitada. assume-se como premissa metodológica a análise funcional das obrigações, a possibilitar a identificação de três regimes jurídicos obrigacionais gerais – o negocial, o reparatório e o restitutório. Na sequência, investigam-se as propostas de enquadramento dogmático do lucro da intervenção na disciplina da responsabilidade civil ou na disciplina da vedação ao enriquecimento sem causa, concluindo-se pela sua vinculação ao regime restitutório. Analisa-se, ainda, a possibilidade de cumulação das pretensões restitutória e reparatória e aventam-se, por fim, alguns parâmetros relevantes para a quantificação da obrigação de restituir o lucro da intervenção.
Collectief handelingsvermogen in twee docententeams in het hbo
Authors: van Middelkoop Daniel , Portielje Mathieu , Horsselenberg Peter
Published: September 2018

Het handelen van docententeams heeft grote invloed op de kwaliteit van het onderwijs en het succes van studenten. Toch wordt in het hoger beroepsonderwijs relatief weinig aandacht besteed aan de vraag of en onder welke omstandigheden teams van docenten goed functioneren. In dit artikel
worden aan de hand van twee praktijkcases uit een longitudinaal actie-onderzoek de totstandkoming van het handelingsvermogen van teams verkend. We richten ons daarbij op de invloed van de kenmerken van het team zelf en van de organisatiestructuur. We sluiten af met de vraag hoe het vermogen
tot handelen van docententeams versterkt kan worden en wat de rol van HRM daarin is.
Organic and Inorganic Fertilizers Induced Yield Increment of Two Pearl Millet Varieties in Sudanian and Sahelian Agro-ecological Zones in Mali
Authors: Toure Halimatou Aboubacar , Traore Kalifa , Serme Idriss , Ouattara Korodjouma
Published: September 2018

Soil fertility is inherently low in sub Saharan Africa. The objective of this study was therefore to determine millet yield for two varieties in each zone using organic and inorganic fertiliser in two agro-ecological zones in Mali. A two-year experiment was conducted at Agricultural Research Station of Sotuba and Cinzana in 2013 and 2014. A combination of two pearl millet varieties and four fertilizer treatments were used. The fertilizers treatments used were: T1 Control (no application); T2 MANURE of 23:10:17 (5000 kg/ha); T3 NPK of 15: 15: 15 (50 kg/ha) and T4 combination of NPK + MANURE. The experiments were conducted in a randomised complete block design (RCBD) with four replications in a plot size of 10 m x 4.2 m. The varieties evaluated at Sotuba station were Sanioni, an improved local variety and Cho, a local variety while at Cinzana station Sosat, an improved variety form IER /ICRISAT and IBV8001, and an improved variety from ICRISAT were used. At Sotuba high grain with NPK+MANURE (1948 kg ha-1) followed by NPK (1281 kg ha-1), MANURE (1130 kg ha-1)and the Control (813 kg ha-1). In 2014, the grain yield NPK+MANURE) was 1602 kg ha-1, followed by NPK (1502 kg ha-1), MANURE (1466 kg ha-1) and the control (1440 kg ha-1). The grain yield gap for the Control treatment in 2013 (813 kg ha-1) and in 2014 (1440 kg ha1) was high compared to the NPK+MANURE, MANURE and NPK treatment grain yield gap for the same years. In Cinzana In 2013, higher grain yield with the treatments of NPK+MANURE, (1440 kgha-1)> NPK (1429 kg ha-1)> MANURE (1416 kg ha-1)>Control (1276 kg ha-1) were observed . In 2014, the highest grain yield with NPK+MANURE (1915 kg ha-1) followed by NPK (1561 kg ha-1), MANURE (1523 kg ha-1 1) and Control (1121 kg ha-1). The grain yield gap for the combined NPK+MANURE treatment in 2103 (1440 kg ha-1) and in 2014 (1915 kg ha1) was high compared to the others for the fertilizer grain yield gap for both years.
“Drop the Curtain”: Astonishment and the Anxieties of Authorship in Charles Dickens'sSketches by Boz
Authors: Jen Christina
Published: September 2018

This essay critically examines Sketches by Boz as Charles Dickens's self-conscious representation of the anxieties of authorship, especially in its early stages. At a time when the young, budding writer had launched his public career, hopeful of lasting celebrity and aware of the risks of the literary venture, Dickens's projection of uncertainty in his own particular formation and practice of the sketch sets up the sketch's dynamic relation to nineteenth-century theater and visual culture. “Astonishment,” the essay argues, emerges as a device Dickens borrows from the stage and adapts for the sketch. The many appearances of astonishment in his sketches, not limited to scenes of performance but also extended to depictions of the everyday, reveal his growing consciousness of unpredictability and impermanence in his work's public reception and potential for generating social transformation. In three sections, the essay analyzes the influence of theatrical anxieties and styles on the form and content of Sketches, locates the theatrical affect of astonishment in everyday contexts, and explores astonishment's capacity for activating social reform.
“This Schoolroom is a Nation”: Subverting the Catechistic Method in Dickens
Authors: Lorentzen Eric G.
Published: September 2018

The catechistic method was a popular form of the rote memorization pedagogy which dominated Victorian schools, and sought to keep at-risk learners content with their marginalized social positions. In fact, this educational praxis became so popular that its tactics were embraced by many figures desiring social power beyond the schoolroom, a point upon which Dickens dwells at considerable length throughout his texts. This essay surveys a few varieties of catechistic primers that were designed for these disciplinary functions, and examines some of the more infamous ways catechism was utilized in early nineteenth-century British literature. Subsequently, the essay scrutinizes the almost overwhelming number of instances of the catechistic method in Dickens's novels to demonstrate both his critique of this question and answer power dynamic, and the ways in which his characters deploy, evade, co-opt, and subvert the ideological directives of catechism, as they strive for their own liberation and agency. By recognizing the evolution of Dickens's critique of catechistic method, both in and beyond the arena of the Victorian classroom, we can much better appreciate the extent of his cautionary tales about the ways in which education functioned as a normalizing force of social control.
The Handmade Landscape: Manual Labor and the Construction of Eden in Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit
Authors: Wilkinson Caroline
Published: September 2018

In his 1843 novel, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens used the pastoral mode to deliver a strong message about labor. To communicate this message, he employed the mode's many traits, including its retreat into and return from the rural landscape and its focus on the country worker, traditionally the shepherd. This essay follows the novel's pastoral retreat into the United States, where young Martin comes to understand the realities of manual labor through his physical interactions with the American landscape. His companion, Mark Tapley, meanwhile, performs the emotional labor of the servant by initially shielding middle-class Martin from this painful knowledge. Both men, however, must confront manual labor on a massive scale upon reaching “Eden,” a hideous landscape that Dickens constructed referring to passages from his travelogue about his 1842 trip to the United States, American Notes. The landscape in Eden documents the decaying atmosphere of slavery as recorded in Dickens's travelogue. It also recreates for Martin the physical experience that Dickens had as a child of entering a vast, foreign world of factory work. Ultimately, Dickens's uses the pastoral to uncover a horror that usually lies beneath a beautiful surface: that the civilized landscape demands enslaved or nearly enslaved labor for its construction.
“'Tis the Mind That Sees Things”: Flexible Epistemology as Social Reform in Charles Reade's It Is Never Too Late to Mend
Authors: Pond Kristen A.
Published: September 2018

Although Charles Reade was one of the most popular novelists of his day, he has gone the way of many other writers whose critical standing suffered because of their reliance on melodrama and sensationalism. His 1856 novel, It Is Never Too Late to Mend, which propelled Reade to fame, has received some limited attention, but critics tend to ignore the Australia plot in favor of the progressive social critique contained in the prison plot. This essay argues for the narrative power and significance of the Australia plot as the site of Reade's critique of epistemological certainty. First, I look at how nineteenth-century epistemology was connected to empire and the bildungsroman. Second, I examine the contrasting epistemologies of Robinson and George and trace how Robinson's flexible epistemology is connected to his transformation. Finally, I highlight a series of reversals at the novel's conclusion that revise the basis for progress in the bildungsroman and challenge the inflexibility of English perception. This essay positions Reade's novel as an important example of the complexity of Victorian epistemological perspectives. It also identifies Reade's revisions to the bildungsroman as an important aesthetic component of his narrative style and key part of his social reform.
The reliability of acceptability judgments across languages
Authors: Linzen Tal , Oseki Yohei
Published: September 2018

The reliability of acceptability judgments made by individual linguists has often been called into question. Recent large-scale replication studies conducted in response to this criticism have shown that the majority of published English acceptability judgments are robust. We make two observations about these replication studies. First, we raise the concern that English acceptability judgments may be more reliable than judgments in other languages. Second, we argue that it is unnecessary to replicate judgments that illustrate uncontroversial descriptive facts; rather, candidates for replication can emerge during formal or informal peer review. We present two experiments motivated by these arguments. Published Hebrew and Japanese acceptability contrasts considered questionable by the authors of the present paper were rated for acceptability by a large sample of naive participants. Approximately half of the contrasts did not replicate. We suggest that the reliability of acceptability judgments, especially in languages other than English, can be improved using a simple open review system, and that formal experiments are only necessary in controversial cases.
Approaches for Structural Investigations of Binary Data Using Confirmatory Factor Models
Authors: Schweizer Karl , Reiß Siegbert , Troche Stefan
Published: September 2018

An investigation of the suitability of threshold-based and threshold-free approaches for structural investigations of binary data is reported. Both approaches implicitly establish a relationship between binary data following the binomial distribution on one hand and continuous random variables assuming a normal distribution on the other hand. In two simulation studies we investigated: whether the fit results confirm the establishment of such a relationship, whether the differences between correct and incorrect models are retained and to what degree the sample size influences the results. Both approaches proved to establish the relationship. Using the threshold-free approach it was achieved by customary ML estimation whereas robust ML estimation was necessary in the threshold-based approach. Discrimination between correct and incorrect models was observed for both approaches. Larger CFI differences were found for the threshold-free approach than for the threshold-based approach. Dependency on sample size characterized the threshold-based approach but not the threshold-free approach. The threshold-based approach tended to perform better in large sample sizes, while the threshold-free approach performed better in smaller sample sizes.