bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
MANIFESTAÇÕES ORAIS DE USUÁRIOS DE DROGAS ILÍCITAS: UMA REVISÃO DE LITERATURA NARRATIVA
Authors: Melo Caio Felipe Dourado , Camapum Deonice Monteiro , Araujo Emille Thayna Araujo e , Costa Cyrene Piazera Silva
Published: November 2017

O abuso no consumo de drogas tem sido considerado um grave problema de saúde pública, já que os usuários mudam seu comportamento e se descuidam da saúde geral e bucal. Desta forma, o sistema estomatognático dos usuários de drogas apresenta diversas lesões causadas por essas substâncias químicas. Este estudo tem por objetivo demonstrar as manifestações orais consequentes do uso abusivo de drogas ilícitas por meio de uma revisão literatura narrativa, afim de mostrar a importância do cirurgião-dentista na equipe multidisciplinar de tratamento desses indivíduos.  Ao término desta revisão foi possível evidenciar alterações bucais como: redução do fluxo salivar, cárie e doença periodontal.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Dependentes químicos. Saúde bucal. Alterações bucais em dependentes químicos.
A REFORMA DO ENSINO MÉDIO E A FORMAÇÃO DOS ESTUDANTES: Desvelando a ideologia das competências e da empregabilidade.
Authors: Costa Kaline Silva Azevedo
Published: November 2017

A recém-criada Base Nacional Comum Curricular objetivou estabelecer um plano educativo para dirigir os currículos das escolas públicas e particulares de educação infantil, fundamental e médio, com vistas a enfatizar competências e habilidades. Aliás, um plano educativo que se arrastava no Congresso nacional há 20 anos.Um exame nacional e um programa de origem oficial, dirigidos a Estados e municípios, são ideias antigas, a exemplo do que foi posto em prática no Estado Novo de Getúlio Vargas pelo então ministro de Educação e Cultura, Gustavo Capanema. O ENEM, o Enade e outros certames investigativos são tentativas que o MEC põe em execução para aferir a qualidade do ensino e da aprendizagem. Revelam-se exames que imitam o SAT (Standard Admission Test) americano, o Baecalauréat, francês etc.Com esse pano de fundo cultural a Professora Maria Cardoso partiu para redigir um trabalho de fôlego sobre as propostas de reforma do ensino médio.Em 276 páginas, um Prefácio, uma Apresentação, uma Introdução, 5 capítulos, uma seção de Considerações Finais e um Anexo de Referências, reforçados por tabelas e quadros, a autora disserta sobre a reforma, pontuando as necessidades do Capitalismo atual que busca atender, em sua opinião, ás demandas dos Pós-Fordismo e do progresso tecnológico.Com base em Marx, Althusser, Bourdien, Gramsci e urna plêiade de pensadores e pesquisadores da Educação, a autora discute as novas ideias para a formação de um novo trabalho com competências de caráter geral. Insurge-se ela contra a centralidade da educação “como o bem-capital fundamental do atual padrão de desenvolvimento e econômico”.Situa as várias reformas como “originadas das diretrizes dos organismos internacionais”, sob a nova ordem da Globalização. Põe em cena a atuação do Banco Mundial e seus técnicos, os quais, segundo a expositora, impõem diretrizes educativas às nações em desenvolvimento, incluindo-se o Brasil, haja vista, por exemplo, o documento (2003) Estratégia de Assistência ao país (EAP) para o Brasil (2004-2007).No capítulo 3 – A Reforma do Ensino Médio – a pesquisadora analisa, com profundidade e acurácia epistemológica, as várias normas, diretrizes, pareceres etc., principalmente sob o governo de Fernando Henrique Cardoso (LDB - Lei nº 9.394/96), examinando as contradições, incongruências, incertezas político-educativas etc., das reformas postas em cena.Cidadania plena, a questão do trabalho, o ensino profissionalizante, as articulações ensino médio – universidade, o baixo rendimento da escola pública, valorização dos conteúdos curriculares da educação básica e outros pontos mais são exaustivamente considerados pela pesquisadora. Outrossim, as conclusões são pouco otimistas.A leitura do alentado trabalho dissertativo da professora Maria Cardoso se impõe, não só pela honestidade dos propósitos científicos, quanto também por ser genuíno patriotismo educativo.
Análise in silico do DNA genômico de três espécies do gênero Candida para verificação de ocorrência de microssatélites e observação de semelhanças interespecíficas
Authors: Barbosa Letícia Vieira , Farias Vale Mendes Iven Neylla , Alves Marcia Barros , Campelo Bruno Carvalho , Fonseca Moura Karol Cristina , Nogueira Naiza Maria Castro , Monteiro Cristina De Andrade
Published: November 2017

Nos últimos anos, estudos epidemiológicos apontam a contribuição relevante que fungos do gênero Candida, especialmente Candida albicans, vêm dando às infecções hospitalares e comunitárias, seguidas de altas taxas de morbidade e mortalidade, principalmente de lactentes e pacientes imunocomprometidos. Os protocolos comumente conhecidos para análise e identificação das espécies são muito caros e demorados e, por isso, estudos in silico dos microssatélites ou SSR (Simple Sequence Repeat) se tornaram importantes marcadores moleculares proporcionando à engenharia genética uma estratégia para ligar variações do genótipo às variações fenotípicas sem a utilização de métodos caros e demorados de análise. O presente trabalho avaliou a presença de SSR em sequências de DNA de diferentes espécies de Candida depositadas no GenBank a fim de detectar possíveis diferenças entre elas através de programas específicos. Em Candida albicans foram identificados maior número de SSR além de maior variedade de motivos (repetições). Foi detectado um número reduzido de microssatélites em C. tropicalis (cinco) e nenhum foi encontrado em C. parapsilosis. A utilização de SSR como ferramenta de identificação de Candida foi considerada satisfatória, pois revelou importantes diferenças entre as espécies analisadas quanto a presença e os tipos de SSR.Palavras-chave: Candida, microssatélite, SSR, Candidíase
ФОРМУВАННЯ СОЦІОКУЛЬТУРНОЇ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІ МАЙБУТНІХ МОЛОДШИХ СПЕЦІАЛІСТІВ З ЖУРНАЛІСТИКИ НА ЗАНЯТТЯХ З УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ МОВИ
Authors: ПОНОМАРЕНКО Наталія
Published: November 2017

У статті акцентовано увагу на важливості формування соціокультурної компетентності студентів спеціальності 061 Журналістика у процесі вивчення української мови у вищих навчальних закладах І-ІІ рівнів акредитації. Окреслено сутність соціокультурної компетентності майбутніх молодших спеціалістів з журналістики, що сприяє усвідомленню себе як носія національних цінностей; формуванню загальної культури, загальнолюдських цінностей, відповідальності за майбутнє Батьківщини; опануванню етики та етичних норм; принципів діалогу з представниками різних поглядів, націй, культур, релігій; формуванню широкого спектру мовленнєвих навичок і умінь; умінь управляти інноваційними процесами та інноваційною діяльністю. Зосереджено увагу на формах і методах навчання, які уможливлюють соціокультурний розвиток української мовної особистості студента.
СОЦІОКУЛЬТУРНИЙ КОМПОНЕНТ У ПРОФЕСІЙНО- КОМУНІКАТИНІЙ ПІДГОТОВЦІ ВЧИТЕЛЯ ПОЧАТКОВОЇ ШКОЛИ
Authors: ФЕДУРКО Марія , КУШНІРЧУК Мар’яна
Published: November 2017

У статті йдеться про актуальність соціокультурної підготовки в процесі фахового становлення вчителя початкової школи. Зауважено, що для успішного розв’язання її завдань важливо створити у виші відповідне соціокультурне середовище. Показано вагу занять з української мови з практикумом у його створенні. Виокремлено вузлові моменти дидактичної моделі формування соціокультурної компетентності майбутніх педагогів на заняттях з української мови з практикумом. Продемонстровано взірець її використання під час вивчення розділу «Синтаксис української мови».
СИМВОЛИ У СЛОВ’ЯНСЬКІЙ ФРАЗЕОСИСТЕМІ (НА МАТЕРІАЛІ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ, РОСІЙСЬКОЇ ТА ПОЛЬСЬКОЇ МОВ): ЛІНГВОКУЛЬТУРОЛОГІЧНИЙ АСПЕКТ
Authors: ПАТЕН Ірина
Published: November 2017

У статті проаналізовано поняття символ; доведено, що символіка займає важливе місце у мовленнєвій системі людини; описано роль символу у процесі творення фразеологізмів; з’ясовано, що специфіка фразеологічного символу полягає в його багатозначності, спричиненої тим, що він сформований на основі різноджерельних уявлень. Значну увагу у статті приділено зоофразеологізмам; обґрунтовано, що одна і та ж тварина у різних мовах є еталонами різних якостей і властивостей, що пояснюється ентонаціональними відмінностями когнітивного світосприйняття.
АВТОРСЬКИЙ КОМЕНТАР В КОНТЕКСТІ ІНТИМІЗАЦІЇ ЩОДЕННИКОВОГО ДИСКУРСУ
Authors: СИРКО Ірина
Published: November 2017

У статті порушено питання онтології, стратифікації та механізмів мовної актуалізації авторського коментаря в контексті проблеми інтимізації щоденникового дискурсу. Проаналізовано найбільш продуктивні позатекстові (передмови, епіграфи, примітки, подяки) та текстові (доповнення, оцінки) різновиди авторського коментаря.
СПЕЦИФІКА ПЕРЕКЛАДУ БЕЗЕКВІВАЛЕНТНИХ ЛЕКСИЧНИХ ОДИНИЦЬ ПОЕТИЧНОГО ТЕКСТУ
Authors: ТУПИЦЯ Олександр
Published: November 2017

У статті з’ясовано й доповнено визначення явища безеквівалентності в лексичній системі мови. На основі аналізу поетичних контекстів та іншомовних текстів-перекладів визначено безеквівалентну лексику як один із видів сильних позицій. Зіставлення іншомовних контекстів дало змогу з’ясувати композиційну роль безеквівалентної лексики в поетичному тексті як сильної позиції, що створює етнокультурну картину світу в межах поетичної моделі. Виявлена специфіка безеквівалентних лексичних одиниць визначає особливості їх перекладу.
АНТРОПОЛОГІЧНІ АСПЕКТИ ІНТЕРПРЕТАЦІЇ РОМАНУ ЕДІТ ВОРТОН "ДІМ РАДОСТІ"
Authors: БІЛИНСЬКА Христина
Published: November 2017

У статті проаналізовано антропологічні аспекти інтерпретації роману Едіт Вортон «Дім радості». З’ясовано, що досвід як категорія літературної антропології має ключове значення для антропологічного читання літературного тексту. За допомогою антропологічних категорій культурної пам’яті, травми та тілесності проінтерпретовано досвід головної героїні роману Е. Вортон «Дім радості» Лілі Барт.
ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ФОРМУВАННЯ СОЦІОКУЛЬТУРНОЇ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІ В УЧНІВ 4 КЛАСУ НА УРОКАХ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ МОВИ
Authors: ГІРНЯК Світлана
Published: November 2017

У статті розглянуто і теоретично обґрунтовано особливості формування соціокультурної компетентності учнів під час вивчення української мови; схарактеризовано особливості успішного формування в дітей молодшого шкільного віку соціокультурної компетентності; окреслено зміст соціокультурного аспекту навчання української мови учнів 4 класу початкової школи та виокремлено ефективні види роботи для формування соціокультурної компетенції молодших школярів на уроках української мови.
СПІРНІ ПИТАННЯ ФУНКЦІОНАЛЬНО-СЕМАНТИЧНОЇ КЛАСИФІКАЦІЇ ПРИСЛІВНИКІВ НА - О (- Е) // - LY
Authors: ФЕДУРКО Оксана
Published: November 2017

У статті розглядається проблема семантичної класифікації прислівників, яка залишається постійним об’єктом дискусій учених різних лінгвістичних течій. Систематизовано основні підходи українських та англійських мовознавців до аналізу функціонально-семантичних характеристик прислівників. Семантико-синтаксичний критерій, покладений в основу новітніх поглядів на природу морфологічних класів слів, дає змогу виділити 2 мегарозряди прислівникової лексики та виокремити підрозряди цих одиниць.
Letter To The Editor Vol.35(4)
Authors: Rahman Shariff Asfia , Hezbullah Muhammad
Published: November 2017

Abstract not availableJ Bangladesh Coll Phys Surg 2017; 35(4): 202
Time-Domain Functional Diffuse Optical Tomography System Based on Fiber-Free Silicon Photomultipliers
Authors: Farina Andrea , Tagliabue Susanna , Di Sieno Laura , Martinenghi Edoardo , Durduran Turgut , Arridge Simon , Martelli Fabrizio , Torricelli Alessandro , Pifferi Antonio , Dalla Mora Alberto
Published: November 2017

Based on recent developments in both single-photon detectors and timing electronic circuits, we designed a compact and cost effective time-domain diffuse optical tomography system operated at 1 Hz acquisition rate, based on eight silicon photomultipliers and an 8-channel time-to-digital converter. The compact detectors are directly hosted on the probe in a circular arrangement around a single light injection fiber, so to maximize light harvesting. Tomography is achieved exploiting the depth sensitivity that is encoded in the arrival time of detected photons. The system performances were evaluated on simulations to assess possible the limitations arising from the use of a single injection point, and then on phantoms and in vivo to prove the eligibility of these technologies for diffuse optical tomography.
Review and Classification of Emotion Recognition Based on EEG Brain-Computer Interface System Research: A Systematic Review
Authors: Al-Nafjan Abeer , Hosny Manar , Al-Ohali Yousef , Al-Wabil Areej
Published: November 2017

Recent developments and studies in brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies have facilitated emotion detection and classification. Many BCI studies have sought to investigate, detect, and recognize participants’ emotional affective states. The applied domains for these studies are varied, and include such fields as communication, education, entertainment, and medicine. To understand trends in electroencephalography (EEG)-based emotion recognition system research and to provide practitioners and researchers with insights into and future directions for emotion recognition systems, this study set out to review published articles on emotion detection, recognition, and classification. The study also reviews current and future trends and discusses how these trends may impact researchers and practitioners alike. We reviewed 285 articles, of which 160 were refereed journal articles that were published since the inception of affective computing research. The articles were classified based on a scheme consisting of two categories: research orientation and domains/applications. Our results show considerable growth of EEG-based emotion detection journal publications. This growth reflects an increased research interest in EEG-based emotion detection as a salient and legitimate research area. Such factors as the proliferation of wireless EEG devices, advances in computational intelligence techniques, and machine learning spurred this growth.
Assessing the Impact of Urban Improvement on Housing Values: A Hedonic Pricing and Multi-Attribute Analysis Model for the Historic Centre of Venice
Authors: Rosato Paolo , Breil Margaretha , Giupponi Carlo , Berto Raul
Published: November 2017

The Hedonic Pricing Method is one of the principal assessment methods for evaluating services and resources not normally exchanged on the market. However, the method is often unable to account for the great variety of qualities in an urban context and faces scarce and heterogeneous market data. This paper presents a model for the valuation of benefits generated by environmental and urban improvement investments adopting a mixed hedonic-multi-attribute procedure for modeling a value function of urban real estate values. The peculiarity of the model is that the independent variables are aggregated indicators, which synthetize more detailed characteristics. Using the expertise of real estate agents, all relevant variables influencing real estate values were weighted and synthetized in a set of cardinal indicators. Next, market prices were used to calibrate a hedonic function that transforms the cardinal indicators into real estate values. The valuation model was integrated into a GIS for mapping the housing value, and its variation induced by urban investment. The proposed model pointed out plausible and robust results, in particular, the possibility to use any available information, such as location, position, technical and economic characteristics of buildings, and organize it in a flexible and transparent way, and to keep evident the role of each characteristic through the hierarchical structure of the model. The model was applied to the real estate market of Venice to test the effects of the MOSE project (Electromechanical Experimental Module) for the protection of Venice from high tides. The results of the application showed a relevant increase in real estate values in the center of Venice, especially related to property in ground floor units, of about 1.4 billion €.
The Role of Climate in the Collapse of the Maya Civilization: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Scientific Discourse
Authors: Marx Werner , Haunschild Robin , Bornmann Lutz
Published: November 2017

This bibliometric analysis deals with research on the collapse of the Maya civilization—a research topic with a long-lasting history, which has been boosted significantly by recent paleoclimatic research. The study is based on a publication set of 433 papers published between 1923 and 2016. The publications covered by the Web of Science (WoS) show a significant increase since 1990, reaching about 30 papers per year at present. The results show that the current discourse on the collapse of the Maya civilization is focused on the role of climate as a major factor for the demise of this ancient civilization. The bibliometric analyses also reveal that (1) paleoclimatic records become numerous and are increasingly better dated; (2) the explanatory power of the records has been significantly increased by analyzing samples from regions closer to the relevant Maya sites; and (3) interdisciplinary cooperation of the humanities (archeology, anthropology, history) with natural sciences disciplines (geoscience, ecology, paleoclimatology, meteorology) seems to be highly promising. The collapse of the Maya civilization is a good example of how natural sciences entered research in the humanities and social sciences (anthropology, archeology, history) and boosted research (and solutions) around long-discussed, but unsolved questions.
Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Luminescent Properties of 2D Zinc Coordination Polymers Based on Bis(1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)methane and 1,3-Bis(1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)propane
Authors: Semitut Evgeny , Sukhikh Taisiya , Filatov Evgeny , Ryadun Alexey , Potapov Andrei
Published: November 2017

Two new two-dimensional zinc(II) coordination polymers containing 2,5-thiophenedicarboxylate and bitopic ligands bis(1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)methane (btrm) or 1,3-bis(1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)propane (btrp) were synthesized. Synthesized compounds were characterized by IR spectroscopy, elemental analysis, powder X-ray diffraction, and thermal analysis. Crystal structures of coordination polymers were determined and their structural peculiarities are discussed. The differences in structural features, thermal behavior, and luminescent properties are discussed.
Crystallization of Calcium Carbonate in Alginate and Xanthan Hydrogels
Authors: Kosanović Cleo , Fermani Simona , Falini Giuseppe , Kralj Damir
Published: November 2017

Calcium carbonate polymorphs were crystallized in alginate and xanthan hydrogels in which a degree of entanglement was altered by the polysaccharide concentration. Both hydrogels contain functional groups (COOH and OH) attached at diverse proportions on saccharide units. In all systems, the precipitation process was initiated simultaneously with gelation, by the fast mixing of the calcium and carbonate solutions, which contain the polysaccharide molecules at respective concentrations. The initial supersaturation was adjusted to be relatively high in order to ensure the conditions suitable for nucleation of all CaCO3 polymorphs and amorphous phase(s). In the model systems (no polysaccharide), a mixture of calcite, vaterite and amorphous calcium carbonate initially precipitated, but after short time only calcite remained. In the presence of xanthan hydrogels, precipitation of either, calcite single crystals, porous polyhedral aggregates, or calcite/vaterite mixtures were observed after five days of ageing, because of different degrees of gel entanglement. At the highest xanthan concentrations applied, the vaterite content was significantly higher. In the alginate hydrogels, calcite microcrystalline aggregates, rosette-like and/or stuck-like monocrystals and vaterite/calcite mixtures precipitated as well. Time resolved crystallization experiments performed in alginate hydrogels indicated the initial formation of a mixture of calcite, vaterite and amorphous calcium carbonate, which transformed to calcite after 24 h of ageing.
Long-Term Multi-Band and Polarimetric View of Mkn 421: Motivations for an Integrated Open-Data Platform for Blazar Optical Polarimetry
Authors: Barres de Almeida Ulisses , Fraga Bernardo , Giommi Paolo , Sahakyan Narek , Gasparyan Sargis , Brandt Carlos
Published: November 2017

In this work, by making use of the large software and database resources made available through online facilities such as the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC), we present a novel approach to the modelling of blazar emission whereby the multi-epoch SED for Mkn 421 is modelled considering, in a self-consistent way, the temporal lags between bands (both in short and long-timescales). These are obtained via a detailed cross-correlation analysis, spanning data from radio to VHE gamma-rays from 2008 to 2015. In addition to that, long-term optical polarisation data is used to aid and complement our physical interpretation of the state and evolution of the source. Blazar studies constitute a clear example that astrophysics is becoming increasingly dominated by “big data”. Specific questions, such as the interpretation of polarimetric information—namely the evolution of the polarisation degree (PD) and specially the polarisation angle (PA) of a source—are very sensitive to the density of data coverage. Improving data accessibility and integration, in order to respond to these necessities, is thus extremely important and has a potentially large impact for blazar science. For this reason, we present also the project to create an open-access database for optical polarimetry, aiming to circumvent the issues raised above, by integrating long-term optical polarisation information on a number sources from several observatories and data providers in a consistent way. The platform, to be launched by the end of 2017 is built as part of the Brazilian Science Data Center (BSDC), a project hosted at CBPF, in Rio de Janeiro, and developed with the support of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and ICRANet. The BSDC is Virtual Observatory-compliant and is built in line with “Open Universe”, a global space science open-data initiative to be launched in November under the auspices of the United Nations.
Comparative Flight Activities and Pathogen Load of Two Stocks of Honey Bees Reared in Gamma-Irradiated Combs
Authors: De Guzman Lilia , Frake Amanda , Simone-Finstrom Michael
Published: November 2017

Gamma irradiation is known to inactivate various pathogens that negatively affect honey bee health. Bee pathogens, such as Deformed wing virus (DWV) and Nosema spp., have a deleterious impact on foraging activities and bee survival, and have been detected in combs. In this study, we assessed the effects of gamma irradiation on the flight activities, pathogen load, and survival of two honey bee stocks that were reared in irradiated and non-irradiated combs. Overall, bee genotype influenced the average number of daily flights, the total number of foraging flights, and total flight duration, in which the Russian honey bees outperformed the Italian honey bees. Exposing combs to gamma irradiation only affected the age at first flight, with worker bees that were reared in non-irradiated combs foraging prematurely compared to those reared in irradiated combs. Precocious foraging may be associated with the higher levels of DWV in bees reared in non-irradiated combs and also with the lower amount of pollen stores in colonies that used non-irradiated combs. These data suggest that gamma irradiation of combs can help minimize the negative impact of DWV in honey bees. Since colonies with irradiated combs stored more pollen than those with non-irradiated combs, crop pollination efficiency may be further improved when mite-resistant stocks are used, since they performed more flights and had longer flight durations.
Properties-Adjustable Alumina-Zirconia Nanolaminate Dielectric Fabricated by Spin-Coating
Authors: Peng Junbiao , Wei Jinglin , Zhu Zhennan , Ning Honglong , Cai Wei , Lu Kuankuan , Yao Rihui , Tao Hong , Zheng Yanqiong , Lu Xubing
Published: November 2017

In this paper, an alumina-zirconia (Al2O3-ZrO2) nanolaminate dielectric was fabricated by spin-coating and the performance was investigated. It was found that the properties of the dielectric can be adjusted by changing the content of Al2O3/ZrO2 in nanolaminates: when the content of Al2O3 was higher than 50%, the properties of nanolaminates, such as the optical energy gap, dielectric strength (Vds), capacitance density, and relative permittivity were relatively stable, while the change of these properties became larger when the content of Al2O3 was less than 50%. With the content of ZrO2 varying from 50% to 100%, the variation of these properties was up to 0.482 eV, 2.12 MV/cm, 135.35 nF/cm2, and 11.64, respectively. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that the dielectric strength of nanolaminates were influenced significantly by the number (n) of bilayers. Every increment of one Al2O3-ZrO2 bilayer will enhance the dielectric strength by around 0.39 MV/cm (Vds ≈ 0.86 + 0.39n). This could be contributed to the amorphous alumina which interrupted the grain boundaries of zirconia.
Combining Remote Sensing and Water-Balance Evapotranspiration Estimates for the Conterminous United States
Authors: Reitz Meredith , Senay Gabriel , Sanford Ward
Published: November 2017

Evapotranspiration (ET) is a key component of the hydrologic cycle, accounting for ~70% of precipitation in the conterminous U.S. (CONUS), but it has been a challenge to predict accurately across different spatio-temporal scales. The increasing availability of remotely sensed data has led to significant advances in the frequency and spatial resolution of ET estimates, derived from energy balance principles with variables such as temperature used to estimate surface latent heat flux. Although remote sensing methods excel at depicting spatial and temporal variability, estimation of ET independently of other water budget components can lead to inconsistency with other budget terms. Methods that rely on ground-based data better constrain long-term ET, but are unable to provide the same temporal resolution. Here we combine long-term ET estimates from a water-balance approach with the SSEBop (operational Simplified Surface Energy Balance) remote sensing-based ET product for 2000–2015. We test the new combined method, the original SSEBop product, and another remote sensing ET product (MOD16) against monthly measurements from 119 flux towers. The new product showed advantages especially in non-irrigated areas where the new method showed a coefficient of determination R2 of 0.44, compared to 0.41 for SSEBop or 0.35 for MOD16. The resulting monthly data set will be a useful, unique contribution to ET estimation, due to its combination of remote sensing-based variability and ground-based long-term water balance constraints.
Incentives for Developing Resilient Agritourism Entrepreneurship in Rural Communities in Romania in a European Context
Authors: Drăgoi Mihaela , Iamandi Irina-Eugenia , Munteanu Sebastian , Ciobanu Radu , Țarțavulea (Dieaconescu) Ramona , Lădaru Raluca
Published: November 2017

In a global setting where the requirements for development equally address the economic viability but also social and environmental sustainability, the healthy and efficient growth of rural communities poses substantial challenges. Our paper focuses on specific conditions and constraints that influence the progress of agritourism business initiatives as viable entrepreneurial solutions for self-sustainable rural communities in Romania. To assess the impact of economic, social and tourism-related factors on agritourism entrepreneurship for Romanian counties during 2010–2015 periods, we conducted several Ordinary Least Square regression models. The results emphasize that economic indicators like regional GDP and kilometers of national roads have a positive influence on the number of agritourism business units; also, a positive impact on agritourism entrepreneurship was identified for tourism-related factors like: number of employees and corresponding salaries in tourism, total tourists, share of tourism firms and their turnover in total firms and turnover of the region, as well as preference of tourists for agritourism. The conclusions highlight the direct link between resilient agritourism entrepreneurship and sustainable development of the region and open further research directions.
Eco-Innovation Indices as Tools for Measuring Eco-Innovation
Authors: Park Mi , Bleischwitz Raimund , Han Ki , Jang Eun , Joo Ji
Published: November 2017

Measuring eco-innovation helps us understand the overall trends and raises awareness in society. Measuring eco-innovation at the national level and making comparisons across countries may allow us to benchmark performance and foster policy learning. This paper assesses two indices developed in two different regions: The ASEM Eco-Innovation Index (ASEI) by the ASEM SMEs Eco-Innovation Center, based in Republic of Korea; and the Eco-Innovation Scoreboard (Eco-IS) developed by the Eco-Innovation Observatory, based in the European Union. This paper aims to examine and compare the features of both and attempts to obtain insights on their strengths and weaknesses. Towards this aim, our paper assesses those scoreboards against four criteria stemming from innovation analysis: (1) relevance of areas and stakeholders covered; (2) ability to indicate changes; (3) directions towards common goals; and (4) ability to facilitate further changes. We conclude both are promising, despite data shortages, and have great potential to contribute towards the sustainable development goals (SDGs), particularly with regard to the SDGs on sustainable industrialization and sustainable consumption and production. In comparison, the ASEI covers more countries than the Eco-IS. However, the ASEI has limitations on measuring indicators due to limited data availability in Asian countries. The Eco-IS is closely linked with the regional and national policies for eco-innovation in Europe, while the ASEI’s impact appears more limited, as of now. In conclusion, the research results give insights into key areas, goals and applications of eco-innovation indices, and can help upgrading eco-innovation indices. This research helps interpret the scores of two indices better and facilitate application of the scores in the multiple ways. It is expected that this research contributes to developing and modifying a global eco-innovation index and enhancing the ability of these indices to facilitate eco-innovation strategies at national levels and across relevant actors.
Water Authorities’ Pricing Strategies to Recover Supply Costs in the Absence of Water Metering for Irrigated Agriculture
Authors: Lika Alban , Galioto Francesco , Viaggi Davide
Published: November 2017

Most of the irrigated agricultural regions in Europe are supplied by surface irrigation networks managed by local water authorities (WAs). Under such conditions, WAs are not able to fully monitor water usage and farmers have an information advantage vis-a-vis the WA. This results in the water authority suffering ‘pricing failure’ if it decides to apply an incentive pricing strategy (tariffs proportional to the alleged water uses). Indeed, farmers could exploit their information advantage by behaving in an opportunistic manner, withdrawing more water than declared, and ultimately paying less than they should. This situation could also undermine the efficacy and the efficiency of the WA incentive pricing strategies. This paper analyses incentive water pricing schemes under asymmetric information by the means of a Principal-Agent model. The Agency problem between the WA and farmers is addressed by introducing a monitoring strategy that would enable the WA to detect farms action. In doing so, we compare incentive strategies with flat rate water pricing and investigate under what conditions the WA might provide/not provide incentive water pricing in the absence of water metering.
Delimiting Urban Growth Boundary through Combining Land Suitability Evaluation and Cellular Automata
Authors: Zheng Qing , Yang Xuan , Wang Ke , Huang Lingyan , Shahtahmassebi Amir , Gan Muye , Weston Melanie
Published: November 2017

China’s domestic urban planning only worked on researches of urban space control, the scope definition of urban development is not clear enough. The purpose of this study is to present a new urban growth boundary (UGB) delimitation method which combined land suitability evaluation (LSE) and cellular automata (CA). This method gave credence to LSE’s advantage in sustainable land use, and CA’s advantage in objective dynamic simulation. The ecological limitation areas were defined by LSE, which were regarded as the restricted areas of urban growth; meanwhile, it was taken as an important model input to guide intensive land allocation in urban growth model (CA model). The future urban growth scenarios were predicted by CA model and the corresponding UGB lines were delineated by ArcGIS 10.1. The results indicated that this method had good performance in Ningbo’s urban growth simulation. When compared to the planned UGB in urban master planning, the simulated UGBs under port development and regulated scenarios showed more intensive and suitable spatial layout of land. Besides, the simulated UGB under regulated scenario had the most reasonable space structure and the largest ecological protection effect among the UGBs. Hence, the simulated UGBs were superior to the planned UGB. The study recommends that this UGB delimitation method can promote sustainability of land development and ecological environment in Chinese cities.
How Can Autonomous and Connected Vehicles, Electromobility, BRT, Hyperloop, Shared Use Mobility and Mobility-As-A-Service Shape Transport Futures for the Context of Smart Cities?
Authors: Nikitas Alexandros , Kougias Ioannis , Alyavina Elena , Njoya Tchouamou Eric
Published: November 2017

A smarter transport system that caters for social, economic and environmental sustainability is arguably one of the most critical prerequisites for creating pathways to more livable urban futures. This paper aims to provide a state-of-the-art analysis of a selection of mobility initiatives that may dictate the future of urban transportation and make cities smarter. These are mechanisms either recently introduced with encouraging uptake so far and much greater potential to contribute in a shift to a better transport paradigm or still in an embryonic stage of their development and yet to be embraced as powerful mechanisms that could change travel behaviour norms. Autonomous and connected vehicles are set to revolutionise the urban landscape by allowing machines to take over driving that for over a century has been exclusively a human activity, while electrical vehicles are already helping decarbonising the transport sector. Bus rapid transit has been steadily reinventing and rebranding conventional bus services revitalising the use of the humblest form of public transport, while hyperloop is an entirely new, disruptive, and somewhat provocative, travel mode proposition based on the use of sealed tube systems through which pods could travel free of air resistance with speeds exceeding 1000 km/h. Shared use mobility mechanisms like car-sharing, ride-sharing, ride-sourcing and public bicycles can help establishing a culture for using mobility resources on an as-needed basis, while mobility-as-a-service will take this sharing culture a step further, offering tailored mobility and trip planning packages that could entirely replace the need for privately owned modes of transport.
A Proposal for Mapping IT Professionals' Competence Supported by Multiple Intelligences Theory
Authors: Ferreira Fabiano Rodrigues , Rady de Almeida Jr Jorge
Published: November 2017

Currently, many software development projects worldwide have problems with flaws, delays, and backlogs. This situation may create a highly demotivating work environment for technical workers and managers in general. This study is an attempt to better understand the reasons for these flaws and delays, by proposing the following research question: ‘Which aspects may be contributing to these flaws and delays?'. The proposed hypothesis for this article is: ‘In our IT community, professionals who have an affinity with Project Management generally do not have the essential abilities required to be a leader.' In order to address the research question and hypothesis, this article proposes a mapping /assessment of the IT professionals regarding their potentials and skills. Therefore, this article discusses a proposal for discovering IT workers' profile based on the Multiple Intelligences theory and clustering algorithms. The findings revealed correlations, which may indicate the reasons for such delays and flaws in software development projects.
Israel in the Middle East the Aftermath of the Arab Spring (2010-2017)
Authors: Zisser Eyal
Published: November 2017

This article describes how in the middle of the winter of 2010 the “Spring of the Arab Nations” suddenly erupted without any warning all over the Middle East. However, the momentum of the uprisings was impeded rather quickly, and the hopes held out for the “Spring of the Arab Nations” turned into frustration and disappointment. While many Israelis were focusing their attention in surprise, and some, with doubt and concern as well about what was happening in the region around them; suddenly, in Israel itself, at the height of the steamy summer of 2011, an “Israeli Spring” broke out. The protesters were young Israelis belonging to the Israeli middle class. Their demands revolved around the slogan, “Let us live in our land.” However, similar to what happened in the Arab world, the Israeli protest subsided little by little. The hassles of daily life and security and foreign affairs concerns once more became the focus of the public's attention. Therefore, the protesters' hopes were disappointed, and Israel's political, economic, and social order remained unshaken. Thus, towards the end of 2017, the memory of the “Israeli spring” was becoming faded and forgotten. However, while the Arab world was sinking into chaos marked by an ever deepening economic and social crisis that deprived its citizens of any sense of security and stability, Israel, by contrast, was experiencing years of stability in both political and security spheres, as well as economic growth and prosperity. This stability enabled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party to remain in power and to maintain the political and social status-quo in Israel.
Predicting Reasoner Performance on ABox Intensive OWL 2 EL Ontologies
Authors: Pan Jeff Z. , Bobed Carlos , Guclu Isa , Bobillo Fernando , Kollingbaum Martin J. , Mena Eduardo , Li Yuan-Fang
Published: November 2017

In this article, the authors introduce the notion of ABox intensity in the context of predicting reasoner performance to improve the representativeness of ontology metrics, and they develop new metrics that focus on ABox features of OWL 2 EL ontologies. Their experiments show that taking into account the intensity through the proposed metrics contributes to overall prediction accuracy for ABox intensive ontologies.
On Evaluating Web-Scale Extracted Knowledge Bases in a Comparative Way
Authors: Ruan Tong , Zhao Liang , Li Yang , Wang Haofen , Dong Xu
Published: November 2017

In this article, the authors design two metric sets considering Richness and Correctness based on a quasi-formal conceptual representation. They also design a novel metric set on overlapped instances of different KBs to make the metric results comparable. Finally, they use random sampling techniques to reduce human efforts for assessing the correctness. The authors evaluate three large Chinese KBs including DBpedia Chinese, Zhishi.me and SSCO comparatively, and further compare them with English KBs in terms of data set qualities. They also compare different versions of DBpedia and YAGO. The findings in these KBs not only give a detailed report of the current situation of extracted KBs, but also show the effectiveness of their methods in assessing the quality of Web-Scale KBs comparatively.
PROSE
Authors: Zhang Xiaowang , Feng Zhiyong , Wu Wenrui , Wang Xin , Rao Guozheng
Published: November 2017

The study of paraconsistent reasoning with ontologies is especially important for the Semantic Web since knowledge is not always perfect within it. However, classical OWL reasoners cannot support reasoning with inconsistent ontologies. In this article, the authors present a plugin-based framework called prose to provide rich paraconsistent reasoning services for OWL ontologies, whose architecture contains the three following parts: a classical OWL reasoner, a multi-valued transformer, and an OWL API connecting with them. Within the proposed framework prose, they implement different multi-valued paraconsistent reasoning in the OWL. Moreover, they select three popular classical OWL reasoners and two typical kinds of reasoning services for users. As the authors excepted, prose does exactly enable current classical OWL reasoners to tolerate inconsistency in a simple and convenient way. Finally, they evaluate the three reasoners in a united framework (prose) and, as a result, those results can amend the analysis of the three reasoners on inconsistent ontologies.
Приближение суммами сдвигов одной функции на окружности
Authors: Borodin Petr Anatolevich
Published: November 2017

Исследуются аппроксимационные свойства сумм $\sum_{k=1}^nf(t-a_k)$ сдвигов одной функции $f$ в действительных пространствах $L_p(\mathbb{T})$ и $C(\mathbb{T})$ на окружности $\mathbb{T}=[0,2\pi)$, а также в комплексных пространствах функций, голоморфных в единичном круге. В терминах тригонометрических коэффициентов Фурье функции $f$ получены условия, достаточные для плотности указанных сумм в соответствующих подпространствах функций с нулевым средним. Исследуется точность этих условий. Предложен простой алгоритм приближения суммами плюс-минус сдвигов одной конкретной функции в $L_2(\mathbb{T})$ и получена оценка скорости приближения.
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Exodus to the “Promised Land:” Of the Devil and Other Monsters in Juan de Dios Mora’s Artworks
Authors: Miramontes Olivas Adriana , De Dios Mora Juan , Caplow Deborah
Published: November 2017

Juan de Dios Mora is a printmaker and a senior lecturer at The University of Texas at San Antonio, where he began teaching painting, drawing, and printmaking in 2010. Mora is a prolific artist whose prints have been published in numerous venues including the catalogs New Arte Nuevo: San Antonio 2010 and New Art/Arte Nuevo San Antonio 2012. In 2017, his work was exhibited at several venues, including the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas in Juan Mora: Culture Clash (June 8–August 13, 2017) and at The Cole Art Center, Reavley Gallery in Nacogdoches, Texas, in Juan de Dios Mora (organized by the Art Department at the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art, January 26–March 10, 2017). In 2016, Mora participated in the group show Los de Abajo: Garbage as an Artistic Source (From the Bottom: Garbage as an Artistic Source) at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio (June 10–July 29, 2016). Mora also curates the show Print It Up, which he organizes in the downtown area of San Antonio, thereby granting unprecedented exposure to numerous artists. For this exhibition, Mora mentors both students and alumni, guiding them through the exhibition process—from how to create a portfolio, frame and install artworks, to contracting with gallery owners, and selling artworks to the public. Adriana Miramontes Olivas is a doctoral student in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her BA at the University of Texas at El Paso and her MA at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research is in modern and contemporary global art with a focus on Latin America, gender studies, sexuality, and national identity.Dr. Deborah Caplow is an art historian and curator, and the author of a book about the Mexican printmaker, Leopoldo Méndez (Leopoldo Méndez: Revolutionary Art and the Mexican Print, University of Texas Press). She teaches art history at the University of Washington, Bothell. Areas of scholarship include twentieth-century Mexican art, the intersections between art and politics, and the history of photography. Currently, she is researching contemporary printmaking in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Tobacco Plain Packaging in Australia: JT International v Commonwealth and Beyond
Authors: Bond Catherine
Published: November 2017

For as long as plain packaging legislation had been floated as an option for tobacco products, tobacco companies had threatened legal action against such a regime. Those threats became action when, two tobacco companies separately commenced litigation in the High Court of Australia claiming that the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (Cth) breached section 51(xxxi) of the Australian Constitution. Yet, the Act survived that challenge and remains in force to this day. This article reviews the introduction of the Act and subsequent challenge, and closely analyses the judgments comprising the decision in JT International v Commonwealth. It then examines how plain packaging has operated in practice, including enforcement of the regime and unexpected legal issues arising from its application. This article concludes with a reflection on what the Commonwealth’s victory regarding plain packaging means for constitutional intellectual property issues more generally.
When the Law Advances Access to Learning: Locke and the Origins of Modern Copyright
Authors: Willinsky John
Published: November 2017

In light of the challenge and promise currently facing scholarly publishing’s move to digital models of greater openness, this paper offers a point of historical reflection on an earlier era of concern over sustainable access to learned works. It reports on a period of great turmoil in publishing that ran from the end of British book licensing in 1695, which unleashed a great wave of print piracy and sedition, to the legal remedy afforded by the Statute of Anne 1710, which introduced what we now think of as modern copyright law. The paper begins with John Locke’s lobbying of Parliament to end the effrontery of press censorship and monopoly maintained by the three-decade old Licensing Act of 1662. The scholar-friendly legal reforms of this act that Locke proposed in the 1690s were not taken up by Parliament when it allowed the act to expire in 1695. However, six years after Locke’s death in 1704, his and others’ proposed reforms were to find a place in the Statute of Anne 1710. This legislation was the first to vest authors with an exclusive, limited-term right to print copies of their work, while also protecting the access rights of scholars and the public to these and other works. I argue that the history of the statute reveals how the age of copyright began with striking a fine legislative balance between the interests of learning and those of commercial publishing, while also offering further insight into Locke’s influential work on property rights and limits. My hope is that this portrayal of Locke’s relatively effective political intervention as scholar-activist and public defender of learning in relation to the subsequent Statute of Anne might inspire and lend weight to the academic community’s current grappling with the growing commercial dominance of scholarly publishing.