bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Do mito à razão: a lógica da ambiguidade e a lógica da não contradição
Authors: Caimi Claudia Luiza
Published: December 2017

Este texto propõe a discussão do lugar da imaginação e do lúdico na formação do saber. Apresenta o discurso filosófico grego como a origem do pensamento racional ocidental, que se constitui a partir da oposição com o pensamento veiculado no discurso mito-poético. Caracteriza o discurso da razão a partir de um a lógica da não contradição e o discurso mito-poético constituído por u m a lógica da ambiguidade. Também é evidenciada a continuidade dessa divisão no pensamento do séc. XVII, a partir da afirmação da confiança em um a razão que se funda na lógica causal e opositiva, contraposta por Vico, através da caracterização do pensamento poético, que apresenta um a lógica da semelhança, em que a analogia e repetição constituem os universais poéticos. O saber produzido pelo pensamento mito-poético acolhe a experiência e as possibilidades de produzir conhecimento oferecidas pela abertura à pluralidade, à alteridade e ao descentramento da subjetividade
História ou literatura? O caráter épico da biografia
Authors: Oliveira Manoela Hoffmann
Published: December 2017

A biografia é um gênero literário constituído por excelência no interior da ciência histórica. Pretendemos discutir este tema a partir de duas biografias, as de Trotsky e Ben Gurion, aproximando-as da tradição literária em que a História assume maior relevo: a épica.
By speech and by signs: first encounters between indians and europeans on coastal Brazil, 1500–1530s
Authors: Lee M. Kittiya
Published: December 2017

Este artigo considera a tópica da comunicação interétnica. Ele examina os textos dos viajantes do século XVI e do início do século XVII, as cartas dos jesuítas e os textos em língua indígena para sugerir o domínio das variantes costeiras da família lingüística Tupi-Guarani como língua franca entre índios e europeus.
Yam Suf, o mar da travessia bíblica dos israelitas
Authors: Hubner Manu Marcus
Published: December 2017

A literatura bíblica, da qual faz parte o livro do Êxodo, está repleta de situações milagrosas, das quais faz parte o relato incrível da abertura do mar e a travessia dos israelitas, fugindo da perseguição do faraó e de seu exército. Como não existem evidências extrabíblicas de que este evento tenha ocorrido, podemos estudar o significado do nome do local, detalhes históricos, geográficos e arqueológicos, além da própria narrativa bíblica, na tentativa de obtermos um melhor entendimento deste fantástico evento.
Recensão crítica do livro "O português e o tupi no Brasil"
Authors: Navarro Eduardo De Almeida , Trevisan Rodrigo Godinho , Fonseca Renato Da Silva
Published: December 2017

Recensão crítica do livro "O português e o tupi no Brasil, de Volker Noll e Wolfdietrich (Org.). Editora Contexto, São Paulo, 2010, 240 páginas.
Event-related Electroencephalographic Lateralizations Mark Individual Differences in Spatial and Nonspatial Visual Selection
Authors: Wiegand Iris , Napiórkowski Natan , Töllner Thomas , Petersen Anders , Habekost Thomas , Müller Hermann J. , Finke Kathrin
Published: December 2017

Selective attention controls the distribution of our visual system's limited processing resources to stimuli in the visual field. Two independent parameters of visual selection can be quantified by modeling an individual's performance in a partial-report task based on the computational theory of visual attention (TVA): (i) top–down control α, the relative attentional weighting of relevant over irrelevant stimuli, and (ii) spatial bias wλ, the relative attentional weighting of stimuli in the left versus right hemifield. In this study, we found that visual event-related electroencephalographic lateralizations marked interindividual differences in these two functions. First, individuals with better top–down control showed higher amplitudes of the posterior contralateral negativity than individuals with poorer top–down control. Second, differences in spatial bias were reflected in asymmetries in earlier visual event-related lateralizations depending on the hemifield position of targets; specifically, individuals showed a positivity contralateral to targets presented in their prioritized hemifield and a negativity contralateral to targets presented in their nonprioritized hemifield. Thus, our findings demonstrate that two functionally different aspects of attentional weighting quantified in the respective TVA parameters are reflected in two different neurophysiological measures: The observer-dependent spatial bias influences selection by a bottom–up processing advantage of stimuli appearing in the prioritized hemifield. By contrast, task-related target selection governed by top–down control involves active enhancement of target, and/or suppression of distractor, processing. These results confirm basic assumptions of the TVA framework, complement the functional interpretation of event-related lateralization components in selective attention studies, and are of relevance for the development of neurocognitive attentional assessment procedures.
Limits of the Universal: The Promises and Pitfalls of Postcolonial Theory and Its Critique
Authors: Anievas Alexander , Nişancıoğlu Kerem
Published: December 2017

This article seeks to reassess the potential merits and weaknesses of the Subaltern Studies project through the prism of Vivek Chibber’s much-publicised and controversial bookPostcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital. By critically examining Chibber’s work, the article aims to better pinpoint exactly what is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ with the Subaltern Studies project, while drawing out some productive points of engagement between Marxism and postcolonial theory more generally. In particular, we argue that an understanding of the origins of capitalist modernity remains a relatively unexplored omission within postcolonial thought that problematises their broader project of ‘provincialising Europe’. Against this backdrop, the article explores the affinities between Leon Trotsky’s notion of uneven and combined development and postcolonialism, demonstrating how the former can provide a theoretical solution to the problem of Eurocentrism that the Subaltern Studies project correctly identifies but inadequately conceptualises.
Offering hospitality to strangers: Hugo Grotius’s draft regulations for the Jews
Authors: de Wilde Marc
Published: December 2017

In 1615, the States of Holland and West-Vriesland commissioned Hugo Grotius to draft a set of legal regulations for the Jews in their province. This article analyzes Grotius’s draft, entitled Remonstrance. It examines how Grotius understood and justified the rights of Jews and to what extent his approach was novel. More particularly, it shows how Grotius developed the concept of a natural duty to offer hospitality to strangers to advocate admission and toleration of Jews. He borrowed this concept from the sixteenth-century jurist and theologian Francisco de Vitoria, who had used it to justify the Spanish colonization of the Americas. While Vitoria had suggested that the Indians had violated their natural duty to offer hospitality to strangers by refusing to admit the Spanish merchants to their lands, Grotius argued that the provinces of Holland and West-Vriesland had a natural duty to offer hospitality to the Jews who had been expelled from their communities for religious reasons. Unlike Vitoria, Grotius recognized the natural duty to offer hospitality to strangers as the natural foundation of the right to asylum, which applied irrespective of religion. This enabled him to argue that these Jews, as religious exiles, had to be admitted to the provinces of Holland and West-Vriesland, and granted particular rights, including the freedom of (private) worship.
The ‘generalis hypotheca’ and the sale of pledged assets in Roman law
Authors: van Hoof V.J.M.
Published: December 2017

A Roman debtor and his creditor could tailor their contract of pledge to fit their needs. If the parties specified the pledged asset in the contract, they wanted to restrict the debtor’s right to dispose of the pledged asset. The debtor would transfer pledged assets subject to pledge if he acted without permission of the creditor. The creditor could recover the pledged asset from any third-party possessor. If the parties pledged all of the debtor’s present and future assets, they wanted to enable the debtor to dispose of pledged assets in his ordinary course of business.
Local Governments’ Strategy for the Development of Social Organizations
Authors: Yan Kegao , Lin Shunhao , Ren Binbin
Published: December 2017

In recent years, the central government encourages local governments to innovate the system for social organization management propitious to the development of social organizations, but social organizations are double-edged, which can both alleviate the social management pressure of local governments and challenge their authority. Therefore, local governments have to implement the strategy of differential control for managing social organizations. The theory of differential control is an important paradigm for explaining the government-society relationship in China, as it provides a theoretical framework for understanding local governments’ behavioral logic of developing social organizations, but local governments’ specific application and change of the strategy about differential control still need to be further explored. Based on the above observation, by collecting the panel data of 312 prefecture-level cities of China in 2008-2014, we have discovered that local governments, on the whole, have adopted the development strategy of “developing quantity and restraining capability.” They give priority to developing social organizations promoting economic development and social service, but implement strict control over environmental, legal, and international foreign-related organizations affecting the realization of economic goals or political stability. With a more developed economy and better fiscal revenues, a more lenient environment is given to social organizations by local governments, and social organizations are more developed. But the control over environmental social organizations does not change with the changes of economic development or fiscal revenues. This study not only expands the theory of differential control and provides a new understanding of the relations between government and social organizations, but also reveals local governments’ behavioral logic of developing social organizations, which also provides a new perspective for understanding local governments’ behaviors in developing social organizations.
The Background, Dilemma and Path for Buddhist Charities to Engage in Social Protection of the Children in Plight
Authors: Chen Jing , Lan Qing
Published: December 2017

The state, the market, the family and social organizations play exchangeable and mutually complimentary roles in provision of social welfare to children. The Buddhist charities play an increasingly important role in offering social protection to the children in plight, from ensuring the basic livelihood for the children and meeting the children’s need for development to guaranteeing the children social security and encouraging and facilitating the children’s social engagement. Due to the constraints of charity systems, the stereotypical impression about religions and the defects in the internal governance structure of the Buddhist charities, such charities face a host of problems in joining in the endeavor to protect the children in plight, such as the failure to get registered in a timely and legal manner, their marginal existence leading to inadequate protection to the children in plight and the distortion of their organization culture. This article, based on a case study of Hongde Homeland offering aid to the orphans in poverty-stricken mountainous areas, explores the background and strategy for the Buddhist charities to protect the children in plight and makes policy proposals on the appropriate ways to offer the children in plight religious welfare as a part of social protection.
Ochre Resources, Behavioural Complexity and Regional Patterns in the Howiesons Poort
Authors: Dayet Bouillot Laure , Wurz Sarah , Daniel Floréal
Published: December 2017

The widespread use of ochre during Oxygen Isotope Stage 5 and 4 in South Africa has often been interpreted as reflecting complex behaviours amongst modern human populations. The Howiesons Poort is one of the most documented techno-complexes identified within this timeframe. It is associated with an intensification of a combination of innovative technical and symbolic behaviours. Despite the notable focus on ochre use, detailed analyses of Howiesons Poort assemblages in this respect are rare. New data on ochre exploitation from the Howiesons Poort of Klasies River main site are presented in this paper. We used non-destructive microscopic, colorimetric and chemical analyses (sem-eds,xrd) in order to describe the raw materials and the transformation of a selected sample from the Singer and Wymer ochre collection. This sample is composed of red and yellow ferruginous rocks (shale, ferricrete, siltstone and sandstone), along with whitish lumps (calcium phosphates). These lumps may have an anthropogenic origin and may be considered as pigments. Some of the red ochre pieces were probably deliberately heated. Our results enhance the impression of complexity emerging from the technical processes mastered by Howiesons Poort populations. Comparison with other Howiesons Poort ochre assemblages allows a discussion of regional variability and ‘connections’ between the sites. The scale and organization of social interactions in the Howiesons Poort are questioned.
Sustainable Livestock Farming as Normative Practice
Authors: Rademaker Corné J. , Glas Gerrit , Jochemsen Henk
Published: December 2017

We argue that an understanding of livestock farming as normative practice clarifies how sustainability is to be understood in livestock farming. The sustainability of livestock farming is first approached by investigating its identity. We argue that the economic aspect qualifies and the formative aspect founds the livestock farming practice. Observing the normativity related to these aspects will be the first task for the livestock farmer. In addition, we can distinguish conditioning norms applicable to the livestock farming practice which should be observed for competent performance of the practice. Failing to do justice to this normativity might affect the practice’s sustainability only in the long term—this is especially the case with conditioning norms. Motives to observe normativity have, therefore, the character of an ultimate conviction regarding the flourishing of the practice. Finally, the sustainability of the livestock farming practice crucially depends on the broader food system of which it is part.
Public and Institutional Aspects of Professional Responsibility in Medicine and Psychiatry
Authors: Glas Gerrit
Published: December 2017

The article develops fresh perspectives on the normative practice model (npm) by extending its application to meso- and macrocontexts. Health care-related interactions, negotiations, and activities in these contexts have their own internal structure. One of the origins of the crisis in medical professionalism is the disregard for norms that shape health care conditions: efficiency standards, rules for policy making, quality measures, and principles of distributive justice. Disconnecting the professional from the moral purposes of health care was another source of the crisis. Doctors are not engineers; technocratic and scientistic views on professionalism detract from the vocation of the physician, which is to heal, to diminish suffering, and to console. The npm does not offer a blueprint—rather, it serves as a heuristic device that helps professionals and administrators to orient themselves both conceptually and normatively. Differences between contexts lead to different constellations of normative principles and to different descriptions of core responsibilities of stakeholders.
The genus Odontidium (Bacillariophyta) in the Himalaya—a preliminary account of some taxa and their distribution
Authors: JÜTTNER INGRID , WILLIAMS D. M. , GURUNG S. , VAN DE VIJVER B. , LEVKOV Z. , SHARMA C. M. , SHARMA S. , COX E. J.
Published: December 2017

Four new species are described in the genus Odontidium from the Himalaya in Nepal, and the Garhwal and Kumaon regions in India using light and electron microscopy. We compare the Himalayan taxa to recently described species from the European Alps and Macedonia. In addition we illustrate some specimens of Diatoma rupestris, a species recently described from China, in the Nepalese Himalaya.
Some nomenclatural and taxonomic notes on Salvia dumetorum (Lamiaceae)
Authors: NACHYCHKO VIKTOR O. , HELESH MYROSLAVA B. , SOSNOVSKY YEVHEN V. , SHEVERA MYROSLAV V. , HONCHARENKO VITALIY I.
Published: December 2017

In this paper, some nomenclatural and taxonomic questions on Salvia dumetorum are discussed in order to avoid confusion in the use of its name. One collection from LECB is designated as a lectotype of S. dumetorum. Based on a complex of diagnostic features, it is proposed to consider S. dumetorum as a separate species which is distinct from its close relative S. pratensis.
Contrasting Polarimetric Observations of Stratiform Riming and Nonriming Events
Authors: Vogel Jonathan M. , Fabry Frédéric
Published: December 2017

This study investigates the how riming in stratiform precipitation impacts polarimetric signatures. Using a vertically pointing Doppler X-band radar, cases can be separated into one of three groups: unrimed to lightly rimed, riming with no bimodal spectra and fall speeds greater than 2.0 m s−1, and riming with bimodal velocity spectra. By averaging polarimetric variables over a 20° by 10-km box near the X-band radar, different signatures were documented for each of the three groups. These polarimetric signatures were then compared with a simplified T-matrix scattering model. Differential reflectivity ZDR was the one polarimetric variable to consistently vary across all three groups. Unrimed to lightly rimed cases had profiles of polarimetric signatures similar to numerous previous studies. Riming cases without detectable bimodal spectra had ZDR values on the order of 0.2 dB lower than unrimed to lightly rimed cases, while cases with bimodal spectra had ZDR values about 0.2–0.4 dB higher than unrimed to lightly rimed cases. Both signatures were reproduced using populations of aggregates, dendrites, and needles in the T-matrix scattering model. While these signatures show the potential to identify riming, they are not enough larger than measurement biases and case-to-case variability to be confidently used without confirmation from other data sources, such as a vertically pointing radar.
Evolutionary basis of HLA-DPB1 alleles affects acute GVHD in unrelated donor stem cell transplantation
Authors: Morishima Satoko , Shiina Takashi , Suzuki Shingo , Ogawa Seishi , Sato-Otsubo Aiko , Kashiwase Koichi , Azuma Fumihiro , Yabe Toshio , Satake Masahiro , Kato Shunichi , Kodera Yoshihisa , Sasazuki Takehiko , Morishima Yasuo
Published: December 2017

Key Points

HLA-DPB1 alleles diverged into 2 major groups according to highly conserved DNA sequences Ex3-3′UTR. Two evolutionarily different HLA-DPB1 gene regions complementarily affect aGVHD in HLA-DPB1 mismatch UR-HCT.
Incidence and predictors of failed second-generation endometrial ablation
Authors: Klebanoff Jordan , Makai Gretchen E. , Patel Nima R. , Hoffman Matthew K.
Published: December 2017

Background

The need for any treatment following an endometrial ablation is frequently cited as “failed therapy,” with the two most common secondary interventions being repeat ablation and hysterectomy. Since second-generation devices have become standard of care, no large cohort study has assessed treatment outcomes with regard to only these newer devices. We sought to determine the incidence and predictors of failed second-generation endometrial ablation, defined as the need for surgical re-intervention.

We performed a retrospective cohort study at a single academic-affiliated community hospital. Subjects included women undergoing second-generation endometrial ablation for benign indications between October 2003 and March 2016. Second-generation devices utilized during the study period included the radiofrequency ablation device (RFA), hydrothermal ablation device (HTA), and the uterine balloon ablation system (UBA).

Results

Five thousand nine hundred thirty-six women underwent endometrial ablation at a single institution (3757 RFA (63.3%), 1848 HTA (31.1%), and 331 UBA (5.6%)). The primary outcome assessed was surgical re-intervention, defined as hysterectomy or repeat endometrial ablation. Of the total 927 (15.6%) women who required re-intervention, 822 (13.9%) underwent hysterectomy and 105 (1.8%) underwent repeat endometrial ablation. Women who underwent re-intervention were younger (41.6 versus 42.9 years, p < .001), were more often African-American (21.8% versus 16.2%, p < .001), and were more likely to have had a primary radiofrequency ablation procedure (hazard ratio 1.37; 95%CI 1.01 to 1.86). Older age was associated with decreased risk for treatment failure with women older than 45 years of age having the lowest risk for failure (p < .001). Age between 35 and 40 years conferred the highest risk of treatment failure (HR 1.59, 95% CI 1.32–1.92). Indications for re-intervention following ablation included menorrhagia (81.8%), abnormal uterine bleeding (27.8%), polyps/fibroids (18.7%), and pain (9.5%).

Conclusion

Surgical re-intervention was required in 15.6% of women who underwent second-generation endometrial ablation. Age, ethnicity, and radiofrequency ablation were significant risk factors for failed endometrial ablation, and menorrhagia was the leading indication for re-intervention.
Probabilistic b-metric spaces and nonlinear contractions
Authors: Mbarki Abderrahim , Oubrahim Rachid
Published: December 2017

This work is for giving the probabilistic aspect to the known b-metric spaces (Czerwik in Atti Semin. Mat. Fis. Univ. Modena 46(2):263-276, 1998), which leads to studying the fixed point property for nonlinear contractions in this new class of spaces.
Draft genome sequence of the type strain of the sulfur-oxidizing acidophile, Acidithiobacillus albertensis (DSM 14366)
Authors: Castro Matías , Moya-Beltrán Ana , Covarrubias Paulo C. , Gonzalez Mónica , Cardenas Juan Pablo , Issotta Francisco , Nuñez Harold , Acuña Lillian G. , Encina Gonzalo , Holmes David S. , Johnson D. Barrie , Quatrini Raquel
Published: December 2017

Acidithiobacillus albertensis is an extremely acidophilic, mesophilic, obligatory autotrophic sulfur-oxidizer, with potential importance in the bioleaching of sulfidic metal ores, first described in the 1980s. Here we present the draft genome sequence of Acidithiobacillus albertensis DSM 14366T, thereby both filling a long-standing gap in the genomics of the acidithiobacilli, and providing further insight into the understanding of the biology of the non iron-oxidizing members of the Acidithiobacillus genus. The assembled genome is 3,1 Mb, and contains 47 tRNAs, tmRNA gene and 2 rRNA operons, along with 3149 protein-coding predicted genes. The Whole Genome Shotgun project was deposited in DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the accession MOAD00000000.
Draft genome sequence of Pseudomonas extremaustralis strain USBA-GBX 515 isolated from Superparamo soil samples in Colombian Andes
Authors: López Gina , Diaz-Cárdenas Carolina , Shapiro Nicole , Woyke Tanja , Kyrpides Nikos C. , David Alzate J. , González Laura N. , Restrepo Silvia , Baena Sandra
Published: December 2017

Here we present the physiological features of Pseudomonas extremaustralis strain USBA-GBX-515 (CMPUJU 515), isolated from soils in Superparamo ecosystems, > 4000 m.a.s.l, in the northern Andes of South America, as well as the thorough analysis of the draft genome. Strain USBA-GBX-515 is a Gram-negative rod shaped bacterium of 1.0–3.0 μm × 0.5–1 μm, motile and unable to form spores, it grows aerobically and cells show one single flagellum. Several genetic indices, the phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence and the phenotypic characterization confirmed that USBA-GBX-515 is a member of Pseudomonas genus and, the similarity of the 16S rDNA sequence was 100% with P. extremaustralis strain CT14–3T. The draft genome of P. extremaustralis strain USBA-GBX-515 consisted of 6,143,638 Mb with a G + C content of 60.9 mol%. A total of 5665 genes were predicted and of those, 5544 were protein coding genes and 121 were RNA genes. The distribution of genes into COG functional categories showed that most genes were classified in the category of amino acid transport and metabolism (10.5%) followed by transcription (8.4%) and signal transduction mechanisms (7.3%). We performed experimental analyses of the lipolytic activity and results showed activity mainly on short chain fatty acids. The genome analysis demonstrated the existence of two genes, lip515A and est515A, related to a triacylglycerol lipase and carboxylesterase, respectively. Ammonification genes were also observed, mainly nitrate reductase genes. Genes related with synthesis of poly-hydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), especially poly-hydroxybutyrates (PHBs), were detected. The phaABC and phbABC operons also appeared complete in the genome. P. extremaustralis strain USBA-GBX-515 conserves the same gene organization of the type strain CT14–3T. We also thoroughly analyzed the potential for production of secondary metabolites finding close to 400 genes in 32 biosynthetic gene clusters involved in their production.
Control of the Effectiveness of the Educational Impact on Younger Schoolchildren of the Tourist and Local Lore Expedition
Authors: Ильяшенко И. , Il'yashenko I.
Published: December 2017

The article presents a methodology for pedagogical analysis and evaluation of the educational effect of the participation of younger schoolchildren in the tourist and local lore expedition, which is regarded as a new direction in the sports and recreational work of the educational institution, aimed at developing the personality of the student. The content of the assessed indicators, criteria and indicators of the effectiveness of tourism and local lore activities conducted with children is disclosed.
Arañando la superficie: subestimaciones sistemáticas en la política de restitución y sus fuentes
Authors: Gutiérrez Sanín Francisco , Marín Jaramillo Margarita , Perdomo Vaca Paola , Machuca Pérez Diana Ximena
Published: December 2017

El artículo tiene como propósito evaluar la política de restitución de cinco municipios de la costa Atlántica, a partir de la estimación local que se realiza del número de casos relacionados con la pérdida de la tierra. Mediante este ejercicio, el texto plantea algunos problemas de la política de restitución, entre los cuales se identifican: la debilidad en los conteos y en las cifras sobre los posibles beneficiarios; las demoras del proceso de restitución al momento de iniciar el trámite, y en las fases judiciales; la falta de información sobre el proceso de restitución; el continuo alineamiento de despojadores con las autoridades locales. Al considerar estas dificultades del proceso de restitución, los autores indican la necesidad de complementar estos esfuerzos de la política agraria, junto a otras reformas relacionadas con el acceso a la tierra.
Editorial
Authors: ESJ Equipo editorial
Published: December 2017

El año pasado nos dimos a la tarea de averiguar cómo se creó Estudios Socio-Jurídicos en la Facultad de Jurisprudencia de la Universidad del Rosario, para conmemorar 20 años de trabajo editorial de la revista. Parte de la investigación se realizó a partir de encuestas en profundidad con miembros de la facultad vinculados, entonces, como profesores de cátedra y quienes vieron nacer la publicación de la mano del Dr. Marco Gerardo Monroy Cabra. La idea de tener una revista de divulgación era, principalmente, hacer públicas las reflexiones de los profesores de esta facultad, además de establecer un diálogo de saberes que abriera el enfoque hacia otras disciplinas de las ciencias sociales.
Seeking evidence for school nursing
Authors: Turner Gillian , Mackay Sean
Published: December 2017

Gill Turner and Sean Mackay explain why robust evaluation and dissemination of school nurse interventions are essential and introduce a new toolkit.
Mental health: Six steps to sustainable recovery
Authors: Knightsmith Pooky
Published: December 2017

We can sometimes be too quick to think that a young person is recovered from a mental health problem. Dr Pooky Knightsmith offers six steps to supporting sustainable recovery from mental health issues.s
Investing in young people's mental health needs today for tomorrow
Authors: Peate Ian
Published: December 2017

This series provides an overview of a selection of relevant public health research and comments on the findings and methods. This month, Ian Peate looks at three articles focusing on mental health.
Will social services be able to cope with increasing demand?
Authors: Moss Debbie
Published: December 2017

As other vital children's services, social services are struggling to cope and the growing number of referrals is an alarming trend. Debbie Moss explains
O herói épico
Authors: Nagy Gregory , Neto Félix Jácome
Published: December 2017

As palavras “épica” e “herói” resistem a generalizações, especialmente as universali- zantes. Mesmo como conceitos gerais, “épico” e “herói” não estão necessariamente relacionados. Reconhecendo dificuldades desta natureza, a presente exposição explora os exemplos mais representativos dos constructos da poética antiga conheci- dos comumente como “heróis épicos”, ao se concentrar sobre Aquiles e Odisseu na Ilíada e na Odisseia de Homero. Pontos de comparação com estas figuras homéricas incluem: Gilgamesh e Enkidu nos registros cuneiformes sumérios, acadianos e hititas; Arjuna e os outros Pāṇḍava-s no épico indiano Mahābhārata; e Eneias na Eneida do poeta romano Virgílio.
POLÍTICAS DE FORMAÇÃO E TRABALHO DOCENTE NA CONTEMPORANEIDADE: UMA DISCUSSÃO A PARTIR DO CONCEITO GRAMSCIANO DE INTELECTUAL ORGÂNICO
Authors: Jung Hildegard Susana , Almeida Maria de Lourdes Pinto de
Published: December 2017

Este artigo sobre as políticas de formação e a profissão docente traz uma revisão da literatura a respeito do tema, com destaque para as exigências que se impõem a estes profissionais na prática pedagógica escolar contemporânea. De cunho teórico, o objetivo é levantar um debate sobre as exigências que a contemporaneidade demanda do docente e sobre a necessidade de formação e de profissionalização da sua prática. A tarefa de formar professores para atuar na escola da sociedade do século XXI tem se mostrado complexa, mas o legado da teoria gramsciana contribui para que coloquemos estes valores em xeque, especialmente quando estudamos os conceitos de intelectual orgânico. Com este debate espera-se que as políticas de formação sejam analisadas, não somente visando a teoria que o Estado dissemina sobre, mas sim, em uma perspectiva histórico-crítica, mostrando as contradições vigentes em uma tentativa de resgatar a identidade do professorado e sua profissionalidade, melhorando assim a qualidade da educação, para além do mercado.
FORMAÇÃO CONTINUADA EM UMA ESCOLA DE TEMPO INTEGRAL: NOTAS SOBRE UM ESTUDO DE CASO
Authors: Bernado Elisangela Da Silva , Vasconcellos Katia Regina Teixeira
Published: December 2017

O artigo oportuniza refletir sobre a formação dos professores que atuam em uma escola, que atende aos cinco primeiros anos do ensino fundamental em tempo integral, e se essa formação é suficiente para proporcionar aos docentes uma formação mais completa com a participação desses profissionais em cursos, palestras e encontros formativos e formações continuadas em serviço, assim, traremos alguns apontamentos de como esses profissionais percebem mudanças em sua prática pedagógica. Como questão problema, destacamos: como a formação continuada oferecida pela rede municipal de educação altera (ou não) a prática do professor?  Participaram do estudo qualitativo, em 2015/2016, dezenove professores de uma escola municipal, localizada no município de Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. Com relação aos instrumentos de pesquisa para o apanhado das informações, utilizamos questionários com questões fechadas e abertas e entrevistas semiestruturadas, além da observação dos espaços (escola e Fundação Municipal de Educação) para tentar fazer links entre a política e a prática de formação para os professores, propondo uma reflexão teórica e priorizando uma análise qualitativa. Em quase sua totalidade, os participantes relataram considerar sua formação inicial insuficiente para exercerem sua função. Percebemos aqui a necessidade de trocas e espaços formativos que fortaleçam os professores no sentido de valorizarem seus saberes desenvolvidos através de suas práticas diárias.
New aspects of an old dilemma: treatment of hypothyroidism with L-thyroxine combined with L-triiodothyronine
Authors: Duntas Leonidas H.
Published: December 2017

В данном обзоре приведена информация о последних исследованиях в области комбинированного лечения гипотиреоза L-тироксином и L-трийодтированином. Не смотря на то, что были опубликованы достоверные данные об эффективности комбинированной терапии Т3 и Т4 у крыс после тиреоидэктомии, последние исследования и мета-анализы не указывают на значимое преимущество комбинированной терапии по сравнению с монотерапией Т4. Более того, у пациентов, получающих комбинированную терапию, чаще развиваются побочные эффекты, такие как тахикардия, нервозность и общая слабость. Тем не менее, по сравнению с комбинированной терапией L-T4+L-T3, при монотерапии Т4 обычно наблюдается сниженный уровень свободного Т3 и повышенный уровень свободного Т4 сыворотки крови, при этом отношение свТ3/свТ4 ближе к показателям, характерным для здорового человека. Согласно рекомендациям ЕТА и АТА, на сегодняшний день монотерапия Т4 считается первоочередной в лечении гипотиреоза. Тем не менее, во многих случаях рекомендации не соблюдаются, и пациенты принимают высушенные экстракты щитовидной железы или разнообразные «препараты» Т3 доступные в интернете. Недавно было выявлено, что однонуклеотидный полиморфизм (ОНП) генов дейодиназы 1-го (Д1) и 2-го (Д2) типов, а также гена фосфодиэстеразы 8В ассоциированы со снижением уровня свободного Т3 и дисфункцией щитовидной железы. Данные наблюдения подчеркивают необходимость в дальнейших исследованиях эффективности применения готовых комбинированных препаратов, а также в разработке долгожданных формул L-T3 c отсроченным действием или низко-дозированных (капсулы или таблетки по 5 мкг) препаратов L-T3, с целью облегчения подбора правильной дозы при комбинированной терапии с препаратами L-Т4 в контексте персонализированного подхода к лечению. Последние данные о возможном влиянии ОНП генов дейодиназ или белков-переносчиков тиреоидных гормонов на концентрацию свободного Т3 в тканях открывают путь к генотипированию пациентов с тиреоидэктомией в анамнезе, предъявляющих характерные жалобы и имеющих низкое отношение свТ3/свТ4.
Em que atributos deve melhorar o nível de serviço? As concepções de gestores e alunos de uma IES privada
Authors: Pereira Filho Evadio , Ribeiro Dantas Marcel Lima , Pires Leonardo Doro , Lima Marivania Gomes da Silva , Costa Neto João Assunção
Published: December 2017

Este trabalho apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa com os alunos do curso de Administração de uma IES privada com atuação no Rio Grande do Norte. Três questões norteiam o estudo: a) há distinção entre as expectativas dos discentes, matriculados em campus diferentes, sobre os serviços oferecidos? b) As percepções dos gestores sobre as expectativas dos alunos estão em consonância com as reais prioridades do corpo discente? c) Em quais atributos do serviço os gestores de cada campus devem aperfeiçoar com urgência? Para isto, foram entrevistados 69 discentes e os dois coordenadores de curso, tomando como base um conjunto de 22 atributos. Os achados apontam que há uma semelhança moderada entre os padrões de expectativas dos alunos de Administração matriculados em unidades distintas. Certificou-se ainda que, independente do campus, os coordenadores de curso pouco conhecem as prioridades dos estudantes. Os inexpressivos coeficientes de Spearman confirmam essa evidência. Os dois campus devem melhorar, de imediato, os níveis de serviço nos atributos: teoria e prática; atenção individualizada ofertada aos discentes; a compreensão de suas necessidades específicas e o atendimento dos funcionários da secretaria.
Concepções de Política Pública e Práticas Discursivas: Uma Análise sobre as Políticas para a Educação Superior nos Governos Lula (2003-2010)
Authors: Barcelos Márcio , Rodrigues Marcio Silva
Published: December 2017

Este trabalho tem como objetivo central analisar um conjunto de concepções e de práticas discursivas que estiveram na base da construção das políticas públicas para a área da educação superior durante os dois governos de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010). Para tanto, adota-se um olhar teórico-analítico oriundo de abordagens que têm sido definidas como pós-empiricistas, dando ênfase à dimensão das ideias, discursos e narrativas nos processos de formulação e implementação de políticas públicas. Essa abordagem é articulada à metodologia da análise crítica do discurso, com o propósito de examinar três políticas específicas: o SINAES, o PROUNI e o REUNI. A análise revela que, apesar de possuírem diferenças quanto à forma, as políticas públicas implementadas no governo Lula guardam um conjunto de concepções neoliberais estruturadas no Brasil ao longo da década de 1990, especialmente durante os dois governos de Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002).
Abstract Nonconforming Error Estimates and Application to Boundary Penalty Methods for Diffusion Equations and Time-Harmonic Maxwell’s Equations
Authors: Ern Alexandre , Guermond Jean-Luc
Published: December 2017

We devise a novel framework for the error analysis of finite element
approximations to low-regularity solutions in nonconforming settings
where the discrete trial and test spaces are not subspaces of their
exact counterparts. The key is to use face-to-cell extension
operators so as to give a weak meaning to the normal or tangential
trace on each mesh face individually for vector fields with minimal
regularity and then to prove the consistency of this new formulation
by means of some recently-derived mollification operators that
commute with the usual derivative operators. We illustrate the
technique on Nitsche’s boundary penalty method applied to a scalar
diffusion equation and to the time-harmonic Maxwell’s equations. In
both cases, the error estimates are robust in the case of
heterogeneous material properties. We also revisit the error
analysis framework proposed by Gudi where a trimming operator is
introduced to map discrete test functions into conforming test
functions. This technique also gives error estimates for minimal
regularity solutions, but the constants depend on the material
properties through contrast factors.
Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Congenital Heart Disease
Authors: Refaat Marwan M ,   Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology Division, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, Ballout Jad ,   Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology Division, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, Mansour Moussa ,   Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Published: December 2017

With improved surgical techniques and medical management for patients with congenital heart diseases, more patients are living longer and well into adulthood. This improved survival comes with a price of increased morbidity, mainly secondary to increased risk of tachyarrhythmias. One of the major arrhythmias commonly encountered in this subset of cardiac patients is AF. Similar to the general population, the risk of AF increases with advancing age, and is mainly secondary to the abnormal anatomy, abnormal pressure and volume parameters in the hearts of these patients and to the increased scarring and inflammation seen in the left atrium following multiple surgical procedures. Catheter ablation for AF has been shown to be a very effective treatment modality in patients with refractory AF. However, data and guidelines regarding catheter ablation in patients with congenital heart disease are not well established. This review will shed light on the procedural techniques, success rates and complications of AF catheter ablation in patients with different types of CHD, including atrial septal defects, tetralogy of Fallot, persistent left superior vena cava, heterotaxy syndrome and atrial isomerism, and Ebstein anomaly.
Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation Drivers
Authors: Baykaner Tina ,   Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA, Zaman Junaid A B ,   Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA, Wang Paul J ,   Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA, Narayan Sanjiv M ,   Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
Published: December 2017

Pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) is central to ablation approaches for atrial fibrillation (AF), yet many patients still have arrhythmia recurrence after one or more procedures, despite evolving technologies for PVI. Ablation of localised AF drivers, which lie outside the pulmonary veins in many patients, is a practical approach that has been shown to improve success by many groups. Such localised drivers lie in atrial regions shown mechanistically to sustain AF in optical mapping and clinical studies of human AF, as well as computational and animal studies. Clinical studies now verify rotational activation by multiple mapping approaches in the same patients, at sites where ablation terminates persistent AF. This review article provides a mechanistic and clinical rationale to ablate localised drivers, and describes successful techniques for their ablation as well as pitfalls to avoid, which may explain discrepancies between results from some centres. We hope that this review will serve as a platform for future improvements in the patient-tailored ablation for complex arrhythmias.
Minimally Invasive Epicardial Surgical Ablation Alone Versus Hybrid Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Authors: Pearman Charles M ,   Department of Cardiology, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital,   Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester, Poon Shi S ,   Department of Cardiology, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Bonnett Laura J ,   Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Haldar Shouvik ,   Heart Rhythm Centre, NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Institute of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science, Imperial College London, UK, Wong Tom ,   Heart Rhythm Centre, NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Institute of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science, Imperial College London, UK, Mediratta Neeraj ,   Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Gupta Dhiraj ,   Department of Cardiology, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital
Published: December 2017

Maintaining sinus rhythm in patients with non-paroxysmal AF is an elusive goal. Some suggest that hybrid ablation, combining minimally invasive epicardial surgical ablation with endocardial catheter ablation, may be more effective than either modality alone. However, randomised trials are lacking. We investigated whether hybrid ablation is more effective than epicardial ablation alone at preventing recurrent AF by performing a systematic review and meta-analysis. The review was prospectively registered with PROSPERO (CRD42016043389). MEDLINE and EMBASE were searched for studies of standalone minimally invasive epicardial ablation of AF and/or hybrid ablation, identifying 41 non-overlapping studies comprising 2737 patients. A random-effects meta-analysis, meta-regression and sensitivity analysis were performed. Single-procedure survival free from atrial arrhythmias without antiarrhythmic drugs was similar between epicardial-alone and hybrid approaches at 12 months (epicardial alone 71.5 %; [95 % CI 66.1–76.9], hybrid 63.2 %; [95 % CI 51.5–75.0]) and 24 months (epicardial alone 68.5 %; [95 % CI 57.7–79.3], hybrid 57.0 %; [95 % CI 33.6–80.4]). Freedom from atrial arrhythmias with AADs and rates of unplanned additional catheter ablations were also similar between groups. Major complications occurred more often with hybrid ablation (epicardial alone 2.9 %; [95 % CI 1.9–3.9], hybrid 7.3 %; [95 % CI 4.2–10.5]). Meta-regression suggested that bipolar radiofrequency energy and thoracoscopic access were associated with greater efficacy, but adjusting for these factors did not unmask any difference between epicardial-alone and hybrid ablation. Hybrid and epicardial ablation alone appear to be equally effective treatments for AF, although hybrid ablation may be associated with higher complication rates. These data derived from observational studies should be verified with randomised data.
Depois do fim do platonismo fenomenológico: Hermann Lübbe e a descrição da aceleração civilizacional moderna
Authors: Da Mata Sergio
Published: December 2017

O objetivo do artigo é oferecer uma visão geral da obra filosófica de Hermann Lübbe. Para tanto, deu-se ênfase a dois de seus principais campos de investigação: história da filosofia e fenomenologia da experiência do tempo nas sociedades modernas. A exposição está organizada em quatro momentos: (1) contextualização intelectual, (2) as críticas de Habermas às suas posições, (3) o pluralismo metodológico de Lübbe e (4) sua descrição das consequências sociais e culturais da aceleração civilizacional moderna, bem como as possibilidades que se abrem para tal abordagem na análise das “jornadas de junho” de 2013.
From reciprocal recognition to a society that is properly ‘social’: on Axel Honneth's recent work
Authors: De Souza Luiz Gustavo Da Cunha
Published: December 2017

***Do reconhecimento recíproco à sociedade efetivamente social: considerações sobre a obra recente de Axel Honneth***Este artigo apresenta uma discussão sobre a obra recente de Axel Honneth. Começando por uma exposição de seu projeto teórico mais amplo, descrito em O direito da liberdade (2011) como uma teoria da justiça sociologicamente ancorada, o artigo demonstra como Honneth se move da ideia de uma luta por reconhecimento em direção à ideia de intersubjetividade institucional. Este movimento, porém, é acompanhado por críticas que vêm nesta passagem o abandono das ambições críticas de seu modelo e um compromisso reformista com a ordem capitalista de mercado. A fim de responder a estas objeções, Honneth propõe uma reatualização da ideia do socialismo (2015) a partir da noção de liberdade social, concluindo com uma distinção entre duas formas de luta por reconhecimento, uma interna e outra externa – e defendendo as vantagens da primeira.
Various modes of the foundation for Sociology: Weber, Parsons, and Schutz
Authors: Nasu Hisashi
Published: December 2017

***Vários modos de fundamentação para a Sociologia: Weber, Parsons e Schutz***A fundamentação de verstehende Soziologie apresentada pelo próprio Max Weber foi suficiente para que ele pudesse lidar com seus problemas sociológicos concretos. Contudo, pareceu ser insuficiente para Alfred Schutz assim como para Talcott Parsons, a despeito do reconhecimento de ambos em relação às ideias de Weber sobre essa sociologia enquanto tal. Schutz criticou que Weber pouco esclareceu sobre os fundamentos de seus conceitos mais importantes, enquanto Parsons criticou a tendência de Weber “de obscurecer o papel essencialmente não-ficcional do sistema de teoria generalizado”. O que significa a diferença entre eles? Esse artigo tenta dar uma resposta a esta questão comparando Weber e Parsons, Weber e Schutz e Schutz e Parsons, concentrando-se sobretudo nos conceitos de “Verstehen” (compreensão), “ação” e “significado subjetivo”. Com essa análise comparativa espera-se jogar luzes sobre contribuições da fenomenologia para a sociologia.
Sociology and Phenomenology
Authors: Dreher Jochen , Santos Hermílio
Published: December 2017

***Sociologia e Fenomenologia***