bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Consumption of animal products and frauds: DNA-based methods for the investigation of authenticity and traceability in dairy and meat-derived products – a review
Authors: Carvalho Ana Carolina Da Silva , Gennari Solange Maria , Paschoalin Vânia Margaret Flosi
Published: October 2015

O aumento do poder de compra da população, especialmente em países emergentes como o Brasil, foi seguido pelo crescente consumo de carnes, leites e seus derivados, assim como pela maior exigência por padrões de qualidade destes produtos. Os diferentes tipos de fraude podem comprometer a qualidade e ferir os direitos do consumidor, sendo relevante a aplicação de métodos mais sensíveis e específicos para investigação da autenticidade de gêneros alimentícios de origem animal. A substituição total ou parcial de carne, leite ou derivados, de outra espécie animal que não a declarada no rótulo dos produtos, compromete a natureza e a qualidade destes produtos, prejudicando os direitos de escolha dos consumidores, que podem estar relacionados a recomendações médicas e nutricionais, ao valor econômico do produto ou sobre os hábitos e/ou restrições alimentares específicos de cada cultura. A identificação das espécies animais que deram origem aos produtos cárneos e lácteos e importante para a rastreabilidade dos alimentos. Embora matrizes alimentares tenham composição complexa e variável, técnicas biomoleculares têm sido cada vez mais utilizadas para a identificação de espécies animais, uma vez que tem sido demonstrada a confiabilidade, especificidade, rapidez e alta sensibilidade, mesmo quando utilizadas em amostras mistas. Esta revisão teve como objetivo apresentar os principais métodos moleculares que podem ser utilizados para a detecção da adulteração de espécies em derivados cárneos e lácteos, incluindo métodos já bem estabelecidos, tais como a reação em cadeia da polimerase (PCR), bem como as tecnologias mais avançadas, como a PCR em tempo real, os métodos de sequenciamento de DNA de ultima geração e o biochip de DNA ou DNA microarray. Esses métodos moleculares vêm sendo utilizados, com sucesso, na detecção e quantificação de DNA exógeno em amostras de alimentos, mesmo que este DNA esteja presente em pequenas quantidades.
Morfologia da placenta a termo e da interface materno-fetal da jumenta Pêga
Authors: Toledo Carmen Zilda Pereira de , Girardi Annita Morais , Toniollo Gilson Hélio , Orlandi Cássia Maria Barroso , Machado Marcia Rita Fernandes
Published: October 2015

O presente trabalho descreveu a morfologia placentária e a interface materno-fetal de jumentas da raça Pêga, quanto aos aspectos macroscópicos e microscópicos ao final da gestação. Foram avaliadas onze placentas, colhendo-se quatro fragmentos por placenta em duplicata, correspondentes ao corno uterino prenhe e ao corno uterino não prenhe. Fragmentos da interface materno-fetal, oriundos de uma jumenta com gestação a termo, foram obtidos durante o procedimento de cesariana. Os fragmentos foram examinados por microscopia de luz e microscopia eletrônica de varredura. Na macroscopia, foi observado microcotilédone na interface com o endométrio caracterizando placentação difusa. À microscopia de luz na membrana corioalantoide foi observado o córion do tipo viloso, com vilos organizados em tufos vilosos, estroma de tecido conjuntivo e células trofoblásticas. Na interface materno-fetal, microplacentônios, formados pela interdigitação dos tufos vilosos, limitados pelas criptas maternas, circundados pelas arcadas, compostos por uma parte fetal trofoblástica e uma parte interna, observando-se a abertura de glândulas endometriais. À microscopia eletrônica de varredura, foi constatado que a membrana corioalantoide se encontrava coberta por tufos vilosos. Nos ápices dos vilos fetais, foram observadas protrusões de células do trofoblasto, carreando debris de tecidos maternos. Em corte transversal da interface materno-fetal, foi verificada a intrincada interdigitação dos vilos com as finas estruturas das carúnculas maternas, formando os microplacentônios. Os aspectos macro e microscópicos da placenta da jumenta, assim como as descrições da interface materno-fetal apresentaram similaridades com os observados na égua.
Caracterização dos sistemas de criação de bovinos com atividade reprodutiva na região Centro-Sul do Brasil
Authors: Braga Guilherme Basseto , Neto José Soares Ferreira , Ferreira Fernando , Amaku Marcos , Dias Ricardo Augusto
Published: October 2015

Entre outubro de 2001 e dezembro de 2004, o Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento realizou um estudo visando conhecer a situação epidemiológica da brucelose bovina em 14 Unidades Federativas do Brasil. O trabalho incluiu um questionário epidemiológico com a intenção de avaliar possíveis fatores de risco para a doença nos rebanhos. O mesmo possibilitou a realização de uma análise descritiva da pecuária em diversas regiões. Os resultados demonstraram a alta heterogeneidade da cadeia produtiva e as desigualdades produtivas entre diversos atores da cadeia. De maneira geral, observou-se que a maior parte das propriedades cria extensivamente poucos animais, com baixo investimento em tecnologia, em especialização e intensificação dos manejos. Considerando a crescente participação brasileira no cenário da produção de alimentos, os resultados refletem uma perspectiva otimista acerca do potencial de crescimento da produção de carne e leite pelo país caso políticas voltadas para o incremento nos índices de produtividade dos pequenos produtores sejam instituídas. Tendo em vista a escassez de projetos desse tipo, reflete-se a respeito da necessidade de outros trabalhos com esse enfoque e da criação de um sistema integrado de informações sobre a sanidade, produtividade e característica das criações de bovinos, considerando que quanto maior for o conhecimento a respeito do ambiente sobre o qual as criações estão inseridas, mais efetivas serão as atitudes tomadas frente aos problemas encontrados no setor.
Analise da adesão às tendências da Ciência pelos repositórios institucionais brasileiros
Authors: Shintaku Milton , Duque Claudio , Suaiden Emir José
Published: October 2015

Repositórios institucionais tem se tornado o locus para depósito da produção acadêmica das universidades e institutos de pesquisa, tornando-se um instrumento valioso para a disseminação da informação científica. Entretanto, como ferramentas informatizadas, requerem constante atualização, vistos ao dinamismo tecnológico. Da mesma forma, por servir a disseminação da informação  científica, deve estar em consonância com as tendências da ciência. Nesse sentido, o presente estudo visa levantar e analisar a adesão dos repositórios brasileiros em relação a: Dados Abertos; Arquivos Abertos; Acesso Aberto; Ciência Aberta; Curadoria Digital e e-science. Para tanto, faz uso de uma abordagem quantitativa, utilizando um survey com os gestores dos repositórios institucionais brasileiros. Revelou-se, assim, um cenário ainda incipiente, mas promissor na adesão às tendências da Ciência, em que a maior adesão dá-se ao Acesso Aberto. Assim, o presente estudo contribui para a discussão sobre os repositórios institucionais brasileiros.
Histórias de vida: da educação para a comunicação
Authors: Oliveira Conceição
Published: October 2015

A historiadora, educadora, autora de coleções didáticas e ativista Conceição Oliveira define-se, acima de tudo, feminista e feminina. Nascida em Santos, de família de migrantes nordestinos, ela possui mais de vinte anos de experiência no magistério. Sua experiência com livros didáticos rendeu dois Prêmios Jabutis, na categoria “Didático e Paradidático Ensino Fundamental e Médio”, com as coleções “Paratodos-História” (Editora Scipione), em 2005, e “História em Projetos” (Editora Ática), em 2008. Inquieta com as adversidades do mundo contemporâneo, criou em 2004 o blog Maria Frô, onde analisa e discute jornalismo, política, culturas africanas e afro-brasileiras, entre outras paixões que são narradas neste depoimento.

 
O potencial significativo de games da educação: análise do Minecraft
Authors: Souza Luciana Coutinho Pagliarini de , Caniello Angelica
Published: October 2015

O presente artigo apresenta reflexões sobre o potencial significativo de games introduzidos no ambiente escolar como prática interdisciplinar. Para fins de análise, utilizamos os princípios de aprendizagem dos bons games, listados por Gee e delimitamos este estudo qualitativo na análise da linguagem de um game voltado para adolescentes que cursam o ensino fundamental II: ‘Minecraft’. Entre os resultados, destacamos que os games podem proporcionar diferentes tipos de experiência, aprendizagem e níveis de interação e ludicidade. A inserção de uma linguagem educacional (formal e informal) dialógica, lúdica, hipermidiática possibilita que o aluno seja um agente ativo do seu aprendizado, produtor e multiplicador de novos conhecimentos.

 
IMPACTO DAS IFRS NA ASSIMETRIA DE INFORMAÇÃO EVIDENCIADA NO MERCADO DE CAPITAIS BRASILEIRO
Authors: De Rezende Celso Vieira , Almeida Neirilaine Silva de , Lemes Sirlei
Published: October 2015

Este estudo tem o objetivo de verificar os impactos da adoção das International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) na assimetria informacional no mercado de capitais brasileiro por meio de uma pesquisa descritiva com abordagem quantitativa e usando um levantamento de dados das empresas pertencentes ao Índice Bovespa (IBOVESPA) no período de 2008 a 2011. Utilizou-se regressão linear para verificar se a variação no spread de compra e venda era explicada pelas variáveis: nível de Governança Corporativa;  divulgação de informações em consonância com as IFRS; negociação de American Depositary Receipt (ADR) na New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) e classificação como empresa Blue Chips. Verificou-se que apenas a adoção obrigatória das IFRS e o fato de a empresa ser considerada uma Blue Chips estavam relacionados com a redução da assimetria informacional nas empresas brasileiras abordadas na pesquisa.
REPUTAÇÃO CORPORATIVA NEGATIVA E O DESEMPENHO EMPRESARIAL
Authors: Bandeira Matheus Tanaques da Silva Souza , Góis Alan Diógenes , De Luca Márcia Martins Mendes , Vasconcelos Alessandra Carvalho de
Published: October 2015

Este estudo investiga a associação entre a reputação corporativa negativa e o desempenho, nas empresas listadas na BM&FBovespa. Para a construção da reputação negativa, foram analisadas ações judiciais cíveis e trabalhistas consignadas nas notas explicativas às demonstrações contábeis, os dados do Sistema Nacional de Informações de Defesa do Consumidor, referentes ao triênio 2009-2011. Fez-se uso do banco de dados Economática® para determinar o desempenho empresarial. O estudo reúne 207 empresas, cujos dados foram submetidos à Análise de Correspondência. Os resultados mostraram que os setores Telecomunicação e Utilidade Pública possuem alta reputação corporativa negativa, e que as empresas com alta reputação negativa assinalam maior desempenho operacional, porém registram menor desempenho de mercado. Conclui-se que a reputação corporativa demonstra ser um recurso estratégico valioso, confirmando os pressupostos da Visão Baseada em Recursos, que surge a partir das expectativas sociais, e quando bem gerenciada tem a capacidade de gerar resultado superior e diferencial competitivo para as organizações.
Epac1 Deficiency Attenuated Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Migration and Neointimal Formation
Authors: Kato Yuko , Yokoyama Utako , Yanai Chiharu , Ishige Rina , Kurotaki Daisuke , Umemura Masanari , Fujita Takayuki , Kubota Tetsuo , Okumura Satoshi , Sata Masataka , Tamura Tomohiko , Ishikawa Yoshihiro
Published: October 2015

Objective—

Vascular smooth muscle cell (SMC) migration causes neointima, which is related to vascular remodeling after mechanical injury and atherosclerosis development. We previously reported that an exchange protein activated by cAMP (Epac) 1 was upregulated in mouse arterial neointima and promoted SMC migration. In this study, we examined the molecular mechanisms of Epac1-induced SMC migration and the effect of Epac1 deficiency on vascular remodeling in vivo.

Approach and Results—

Platelet-derived growth factor-BB promoted a 2-fold increase in SMC migration in a primary culture of aortic SMCs obtained from Epac1
+/+
mice (Epac1
+/+
-ASMCs), whereas there was only a 1.2-fold increase in Epac1
−/−
-ASMCs. The degree of platelet-derived growth factor-BB–induced increase in intracellular Ca
2+
was smaller in Fura2-labeled Epac1
−/−
-ASMCs than in Epac1
+/+
-ASMCs. In Epac1
+/+
-ASMCs, an Epac-selective cAMP analog or platelet-derived growth factor-BB increased lamellipodia accompanied by cofilin dephosphorylation, which is induced by Ca
2+
signaling, whereas these effects were rarely observed in Epac1
−/−
-ASMCs. Furthermore, 4 weeks after femoral artery injury, prominent neointima were formed in Epac1
+/+
mice, whereas neointima formation was significantly attenuated in Epac1
−/−
mice in which dephosphorylation of cofilin was inhibited. The chimeric mice generated by bone marrow cell transplantation from Epac1
+/+
into Epac1
−/−
mice and vice versa demonstrated that the genetic background of vascular tissues, including SMCs rather than of bone marrow–derived cells affected Epac1-mediated neointima formation.

Conclusions—

These data suggest that Epac1 deficiency attenuates neointima formation through, at least in part, inhibition of SMC migration, in which a decrease in Ca
2+
influx and a suppression of cofilin-mediated lamellipodia formation occur.
Generation glands of cordylid lizards: mechanism of secretion transfer to the environment
Authors: de Villiers André , Mouton P. le Fras N. , Flemming Alexander
Published: October 2015

Cordylid lizards possess two types of holocrine epidermal glands involved in chemical communication, femoral glands and generation glands. We investigated how the glandular products of generation glands are dispersed to the environment, as it is assumed in earlier studies that glandular material of cordylid generation glands is transferred to the substrate via abrasion, similar to the situation in femoral glands. By means of scanning electron microscopy, we established that the outer gland surfaces of adult Cordylus cordylus, Hemicordylus capensis and Pseudocordylus microlepidotus show only localized signs of wear and tear, indicative of a very low abrasion rate. Using standard histological techniques and light microscopy, we studied the appearance of multi-layer generation glands in a series of individuals of different ages in Cordylus macropholis. In this species, generation glands are already conspicuous in neonates. The significant relationship between SVL and the number of generation layers that we recorded for C. macropholis suggests that abrasion is not the routine method of dispersal of glandular material. We did record significant differences in cross-sectional area and height between the outer and inner layers of multi-layer generation glands of Cordylus macropholis, but this is more likely attributable to ‘desiccation’ of the outer layer, rather than abrasion. Although we found signs of abrasion in cordylid generation glands, these appear minor. Evidence seems to suggest that a substantial part of the mature glandular generations remains intact and that probably only a liquid/semi-liquid component is dispersed to the environment. More research is, however, needed to confirm this.
The Angolan Apocalypse
Authors: Blanes Ruy Llera
Published: October 2015

In this article I explore some convergences between religious and political apocalyptic thinking, taking as case study the inauguration of the cathedral of the ‘Tokoist Church’ in Luanda, Angola, in August 2012. Describing the marginal contestation to the otherwise triumphant current church leadership, I argue that it is part of a movement of social fracture and political contestation that is also part of contemporary, post-war Angolan society, and also suggest that apocalyptic thinking can be understood as an expression of political dissent and of a ‘transformative politics’ that postulates alternative temporalities.
À la recherche de l’historicité de l’Unita
Authors: Cahen Michel
Published: October 2015

A certain historiography of Unita, the main Angolan rebellion fighting against the MPLA regime between 1975 and 2002, presents this movement as the natural product of an ethnic (ovimbundu) and religious (American congregationnalism) maturation in the central Highlands of Angola. Didier Péclard, in his book Les incertitudes de la nation en Angola. Aux racines sociales de l’Unita, deconstructs this argument methodically. He does not deny or underplay ethnic and religious factors, but he studies them in the longue durée, thus avoiding any teleological approach. It is not because Unita took root among the umbundu population and gained important support from a section of the American congregationalist church after 1975 that we can say that this destined to happen. Thereafter Didier Péclard offers us a fine historical sociology of politics which offers an excellently textured contribution to the history of Angola and, more specifically yet, of Unita: one of the Angolan liberation movements which remains the least studied.
Seeing Mission Work through a Gendered Lens
Authors: Pullen Ann Ellis , Robbins Sarah Ruffing
Published: October 2015

Nellie Arnott, who served as a Congregational mission teacher in the highlands of Angola from 1905–1912, left a rich archival record of her personal experiences, including private diaries and publications for women’s mission magazines. Her writings trace her evolving attitude toward gender roles for missionaries and for Umbundu women whom she taught. Arnott provides a highly personalized and feminized glimpse into a changing central Angola, as Portuguese authority extended into the region. As Arnott left Angola in 1912, her goal was to establish a girls’ boarding school there, but, while home on furlough, she married her long-time fiancé and did not return to Africa. Her candid personal writings allow a window into the development of her own social agency and a glimpse into the lives of Umbundu women (and men) as they negotiated evolving gender roles within an environment shaped by Portuguese political control as well as Congregational mission work.
The Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Colonial Angola (with a digression on the inception of Tokoism)
Authors: Pinto Pedro
Published: October 2015

The Portuguese regime used many human resources in Angola to limit and outlaw the activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses. This study aims to understand to what extent the Witnesses’ concept of neutrality and the way they viewed secular authorities resulted in their becoming a target for the police authorities in Angola, who did not tolerate the dissemination of ideologies which could challenge the sustainability of the colonial system.
New Hypogastruridae (Collembola) and first record of Cephalachorutes (Collembola: Neanuridae) for the Neotropical Region
Authors: Queiroz G.C. , Mendonça M.C.
Published: October 2015

The study of the Poduromorpha fauna of a sample from Paraná State, Brazil, and multiple samples from high altitude mountains of Southeast Brazil provided important data on Hypogastruridae, including a new record for Brazil ofCeratophysella engadinensis(Gisin 1949) and two new species belonging toXenyllaTullberg 1869,X. manuelaesp.n. andX. wandaesp.n. These last present a pair of remarkable creased cuticular structures on abdominal tergite IV, apparently unique among the genus. In addition, a new species of Pseudachorutinae,Cephalachorutes anneaesp.n., is the first Neotropical record ofCephalachorutesBedos & Deharveng 1991, corroborating its holotropical distribution. The set of characteristics displayed by this new species required the expansion of the genus diagnosis.
Audubon, Another Vision
Authors: Fumagalli Maria Cristina
Published: October 2015

In Derek Walcott’s “White Egrets” (2010) the titular birds play a central role in the conversation that the poet opens up with the ornithological artist John James Audubon. Audubon’s work is the fruit of complex negotiations between life and death, humans and animals, real presences and emblems. Walcott’s examination of these negotiations enables him to reconsider Audubon’s poetics and ethics of representation whilst rearticulating his own. Walcott referred to poetry (and painting) as “Adam’s task of giving things their names”: a statement that might be taken to suggest an exploitative perspective and an anthropocentric approach which dismisses the need to treat nonhumans ethically. “White Egrets,” instead, emphasizes interaction rather than prevarication, showing that “naming” the world can only be significant and regenerative if the “things” to be “named” play their part in the creative process rather than being sealed off from the human world in order to be reified and exploited.
Black Protestants in a Catholic Land
Authors: Davidson Christina Cecelia
Published: October 2015

The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, a black Church founded in the United States in 1816, was first established in eastern Haiti when over 6,000 black freemen emigrated from the United States to Hispaniola between 1824 and 1825. Almost a century later, the AME Church grew rapidly in the Dominican Republic as West Indians migrated to the Dominican southeast to work on sugar plantations. This article examines the links between African-American immigrant descendants, West Indians, and U.S.-based AME leaders between the years 1899–1916. In focusing on Afro-diasporic exchange in the Church and the hardships missionary leaders faced on the island, the article reveals the unequal power relations in the AME Church, demonstrates the significance of the southeast to Dominican AME history, and brings the Dominican Republic into larger discussions of Afro-diasporic exchange in the circum-Caribbean.
Seeing into Drawing: Perception and Communication
Authors: Riley Howard
Published: October 2015

The central theme of this article proposes that an amalgamation of aspects of visual perception theory and visual communication theory can inform the pedagogy of drawing in an art school context, and can empower the drawing practices of art students. The article explores James J. Gibson’s (1979) insights about how information contained within the structure of the arrays of light arriving at the eyes may be converted into geometric constructions used to represent our three-dimensional world upon a two-dimensional surface. The structure of these ambient arrays can be observed through three ways of seeing — modes of attention — that inform teaching strategies in the art school drawing studio. Roman Jakobson’s (1960) model of communication is introduced and adapted for use within a teaching programme that facilitates students’ understanding of how their compositional choices, informed by the three ways of seeing, and made in the process of drawing, can position viewers in terms of their mood and attitude towards the subject matter represented. These modes of attention are introduced to students as channels of vision through which they may focus upon levels of information pertaining to specific properties of the environment under observation. For example, we may notice some of the features of the constantly-changing arrays of light arriving at the eyes which afford us information about the nature of surfaces in the world — haptic values — softness, hardness, rigidity, plasticity. At another degree of abstraction, features affording information about our spatial position relative to surfaces and edges may be noticed: in general, the mode of attention tuned to information based upon distance-values. Some other features within the arrays of light relate to the interplay of line, shape, tone, texture and colour at the level of pattern and rhythm divorced from three-dimensional form: proximal values. The article is illustrated with student drawings and those of the author.
Family Matters: Peter Canisius as Confessor and Spiritual Guide in Early Modern Augsburg. A Case Study
Authors: Laqua-O’Donnell Simone
Published: October 2015

After Peter Canisius’s arrival in the bi-confessional city of Augsburg in 1559, he quickly succeeded in winning over a large number of converts to the Catholic Church through his impressive abilities as a preacher and confessor. One of his most remarkable successes was the conversion of Ursula Fugger, a member of the influential Fugger dynasty and a devout Protestant. This article examines the pastoral relationship that developed between Peter Canisius and Ursula Fugger as well as her family. It also analyzes the specific strategies developed by Canisius and his fellow Jesuits for guiding the different genders and generations belonging to this important Augsburg family.
Father of My Soul: Reason and Affect in a Shipboard Conversion Narrative
Authors: Michelle Molina J.
Published: October 2015

In 1768, a young Swedish Lutheran, inspired by Voltaire, took up life as a merchant to learn more about the world and to find “true religion” based upon reason. When he boarded a ship to Corsica, his travelling companions were two hundred Mexican Jesuits recently expelled from the Americas. In close confines with these members of the Society of Jesus for the duration of his five-week journey, Thjülen chose to convert to Catholicism and, shortly after arriving in Italy, he became a Jesuit. This essay explores the nature of his conversion, utilizing affect theory to argue that he converted less to Catholicism than to the Society of Jesus, or—more precisely—Thjülen converted to remain in proximity to a particular Mexican Jesuit named Manuel Mariano (Emmanuele) de Iturriaga.
Shaping the Spiritual Exercises: the Maisons des retraites in Brittany during the Seventeenth Century as a Gendered Pastoral Tool
Authors: Mostaccio Silvia
Published: October 2015

In the second half of the seventeenth century, on the periphery of Catholic Europe, Brittany was the site of intensive missionary activity aimed at both men and women. Based on a heterogeneous corpus of manuscripts, printed books, and iconographic sources, this article shows how, far from Rome, Jesuits and devout laywomen adopted a gendered perspective in reconceptualizing mission. In the city of Vannes, the Jesuit Vincent Huby and the aristocrat Catherine de Francheville instructed large groups of men and women in the Spiritual Exercises. They supervised two retreat houses to welcome them and created a “missionary kit” of moral images adapted to their gendered pastoral field. The Breton context presents a particularly good example of the importance of gender to missionary interactions. Here, the Jesuit “way of proceeding” allowed for the integration of local communitarian perspectives, in order to enhance the effectiveness of the mission.
A new species of the genus Anthaxia (Anthaxia) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from Republic of South Africa
Authors: OBOŘIL MARTIN , Baňař Petr
Published: October 2015

Anthaxia (Anthaxia) kamieserrima sp. nov., a new endemic species from Republic of South Africa is described. New synonymy of Anthaxia (Anthaxia) aterrima Kerremams, 1903 (= Anthaxia (Anthaxia) braunsi Obenberger, 1922 syn. nov.) is proposed. Lectotypes and paralectotypes of A. aterrima and A. braunsi are designated.
Revision of Neotropical species of ant-like stone beetles misplaced in Stenichnus and Scydmoraphes (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
Authors: JAŁOSZYŃSKI PAWEŁ
Published: October 2015

Genera Stenichnus and Scydmoraphes are distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, with a few rather peculiar species described from South America. Type series of Stenichnus andicola Franz, Scydmoraphes venezolanus Franz and Scydmoraphes peruanus Franz were examined and the first of these species is transferred to Sciacharis Broun, while two new generic names are established to accommodate the two latter species: Meridaphes gen. n. and Perumicrus gen. n. This results in three new combinations: Sciacharis (incertae sedis) andicola (Franz) comb. n., Meridaphes venezolanus (Franz) comb. n., and Perumicrus peruanus (Franz) comb. n. Morphological structures of all treated taxa are described and illustrated in detail.
Aircraft Observations and Numerical Simulations of the Developing Stage of a Southerly Surge near Southern California
Authors: Parish Thomas R. , Rahn David A. , Leon Dave
Published: October 2015

Summertime low-level winds in the marine boundary layer off the California coast are predominantly from the north. This pattern is interrupted periodically by southerly winds and low stratus that can propagate for hundreds of kilometers northward along the coast. These events have been termed coastally trapped disturbances, coastally trapped wind reversals, and southerly surges; their forcing has been the subject of extensive study and debate. Southerly surges remain difficult to forecast, yet have a significant impact on coastal activities.

The beginning stage of a southerly surge on 16 June 2012 was explored during the Precision Atmospheric Marine Boundary Layer Experiment. Measurements of the horizontal wind and pressure field in the marine layer offshore from Cape Arguello hours prior to the onset of the surge were made using the University of Wyoming King Air research aircraft. Airborne measurements show that a horizontal pressure field is established with higher pressure to the south just prior to the surge, supporting southerly ageostrophic winds and a south-to-north movement of marine stratus. Aircraft soundings and lidar returns confirm the existence of offshore flow of warm, continental air north of Point Arguello that alters the pressure field adjacent to the coast. The southerly surge originates near Point Arguello and propagates northward past San Francisco during the early morning hours on 17 June 2012. Results from the Weather Research and Forecasting Model are consistent with the King Air observations. Analyses and model output presented here confirm that the large-scale environment is critical to the initiation of these wind reversals.
Exemplary prisoner management
Authors: Taylor AJW , Rynne John
Published: October 2015

This paper focuses on the initiatives of a few idealistic prison managers in different countries who at different times braved the punitive tide to apply reformative principles. In support, it cites a growing number of compelling research studies from prisons and other places of confinement that bear on fair custodial management. It is presented in the hope of inspiring more managers to follow suit and to persuade administrators, personnel selectors, staff trainers, and others within the penal system to countenance systemic reform as their raison d'être. Following the halting progress of central and local governments in matters of penal reform, it could be seen as a third way of tackling a most vexatious humanitarian issue.
Toward a Village Consciousness
Authors: Goss Adrienne C.
Published: October 2015

School-to-prison pipeline research and scholarship point to a need for parent and community involvement in addressing school discipline policies and culturally sensitive approaches to reducing disparities in school discipline. The Parent Empowerment Program (PEP) was formed to raise awareness about these disparities and to educate community members about alternatives to suspension and expulsion. This study examined how the cultural heritage of PEP’s members informed the organization’s work, particularly its expression of a village consciousness, and how it influenced the interventions for which the group advocated. Through this study, I showed that the African American cultural heritage informed the foundation of the organization and the core ideology of the organization’s members. The group also identified interventions to prevent suspension and expulsion that resonated with their cultural position, particularly ways to support positive behavior in the home.
Luminescent sintered silica glass prepared by adsorbing Pr ions into mesoporous SiO2–PVA nanocomposite
Authors: Ikeda Hiroshi , Murata Takahiro , Fujino Shigeru
Published: October 2015

A monolithic silica glass doped with Pr3+ was prepared by immersing a mesoporous SiO2–polyvinly alcohol (PVA) nanocomposite in a Pr nitrate solution and then sintering it at 1100℃ in air. The sintered glass exhibited pink emission when excited by ultraviolet irradiation. The photoluminescence intensity of the glass depended on the total concentration of Pr ions, which was adjusted by changing the concentration of the Pr nitrate solution and the immersion time. The glass with the highest photoluminescence intensity was prepared by using a 1- or 10-mM Pr solution at an immersion time of 60 min. To reveal how the immersion conditions affected the photoluminescence intensity, we analyzed and discussed the adsorption kinetics of the Pr ions onto the surface of the mesoporous nanocomposite. At immersion times below 60 min, the Pr ions diffused into pores of the nanocomposite without aggregating. To prepare Pr3+-doped silica glass with high photoluminescence, both the concentration of the Pr solution and the immersion time must be controlled.
A postcolonial reading of the Great Commission (Matt 28:16–20) with a Korean myth
Authors: Chung Yonghan
Published: October 2015

This postcolonial reading of the Great Commission in conversation with a Korean myth encourages all readers—colonizing and colonized—to pay more attention to their world, the world that has emerged following the Great Commission, than to the world of Jesus behind the text, or the world of Matthew within the text, so that they can emancipate presupposed meanings derived from hierarchical, formulaic, and christocentric interpretation. Reading the two texts together helps both missionizing and missionized readers hold the Great Commission as a national myth of the kingdom of God for the sake of the welfare of all human beings (the Korean principle of Hongik Ingan).
Beyers Naudé (1915–2004): Christianity, violence, and reconciliation in South Africa
Authors: Müller Retief
Published: October 2015

Beyers Naudé was a well-known anti-apartheid Afrikaner clergyman, who spent seven years in the 1970s and 1980s under a banning order that was instituted against him by the South African government. Today he is revered as a model of racial reconciliation. However, in the 1960s he lost his status as minister in the Dutch Reformed Church because of his political stance. He then served as director of the Christian Institute, and as editor of the progressive journal, Pro Veritate. He also became an advocate of Black Consciousness and the black liberation movements in their struggle for equal rights. In all of this, the concept of violence was an underlying theme, and this article describes, from the point of view of his writings, how his understanding of the legitimate use of violence developed during the course of his public career. It is shown that the role of memory, particularly the transferred memory of his father’s participation in the Second Anglo-Boer War, was demonstrably influential in the son’s decision making, with special relevance for his evaluation of the role that violence might play in the process of liberation.
Water imagery and the power and presence of God in the Gospel of John
Authors: Brown Sherri
Published: October 2015

This article explores the role of symbolism in the gospel narrative in general and the suggestion that symbolism lies at the core of the theology of the Gospel of John. In particular, the Fourth Evangelist’s use of water imagery is deeply rooted in his Jewish scripture, where control of the waters is the prerogative of God alone. Johannine use of water symbolism is therefore discussed in terms of creation, the Exodus, human longing for God, and the manifestation of God known as “theophany.” By way of application, the dialogue between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well about the presence of God in living water in John 4 and the sign of the power of God seen through Jesus walking on the water of the Sea of Galilee in John 6 are interpreted for their capacity to reveal the power and presence of God acting in reality through the mission and ministry of Jesus the Christ and Son of God.
Control of a gantry crane using input-shaping schemes with distributed delay
Authors: Maghsoudi MJ , Mohamed Z , Tokhi MO , Husain AR , Abidin MSZ
Published: October 2015

This paper presents simulation and real-time implementation of input-shaping schemes with a distributed delay for control of a gantry crane. Both open-loop and closed-loop input-shaping schemes are considered. Zero vibration and zero vibration derivative input shapers are designed for performance comparison in terms of trolley position response and level of sway reduction. Simulation and experimental results have shown that all the shapers are able to reduce payload sway significantly while maintaining satisfactory position response. Investigations with different cable lengths that correspond to ±20% changes in the sway frequency have shown the distributed delay-based shaper has asymmetric robustness behaviour. The shaper provides highest robustness for the case of 20% increase in the sway frequency but lower robustness for the case of 20% decrease. However, other schemes give symmetric robustness behaviour for both cases.
Teaching and research in mid-career management education
Authors: Quinn Bríd C
Published: October 2015

The apparent disconnect between teaching and research has implications for both curricular content and pedagogic practice and has particular salience in the field of mid-career education. To overcome this disconnect, faculty endeavour to integrate teaching and research. Pressure to do so stems from many sources. Benchmarks of professional excellence as well as the scholarship of teaching and learning champion such synergy. Institutions advocate teaching that is informed by research and research that is relevant to students. This article explores the conceptual and instrumental arguments for linking research and teaching. It discusses the benefits of such linkages and the challenges in effecting them. The exploration provides a conceptual base for other contributions in the volume which demonstrate specific research–teaching synergies in the Public Administration/Public Management classroom.
Governing Algorithms
Authors: Ziewitz Malte
Published: October 2015

Algorithms have developed into somewhat of a modern myth. On the one hand, they have been depicted as powerful entities that rule, sort, govern, shape, or otherwise control our lives. On the other hand, their alleged obscurity and inscrutability make it difficult to understand what exactly is at stake. What sustains their image as powerful yet inscrutable entities? And how to think about the politics and governance of something that is so difficult to grasp? This editorial essay provides a critical backdrop for the special issue, treating algorithms not only as computational artifacts but also as sensitizing devices that can help us rethink some entrenched assumptions about agency, transparency, and normativity.
Utility of Allergy Testing in Patients with Chronic Laryngopharyngeal Symptoms
Authors: Brook Christopher D. , Platt Michael P. , Reese Stephen , Noordzij J. Pieter
Published: October 2015

Objective

To determine the utility of allergy evaluation in patients with chronic refractory laryngeal symptoms.

Study Design

Case series with chart review.

Setting

Tertiary academic medical center.

Subjects

All patients who underwent in vitro allergy testing at a single institution from 2006 to 2010, for a total of 998 patients.

Methods

Charts of patients who underwent in vitro allergy testing were identified. The charts were reviewed for the primary indication for allergy testing, as categorized into rhinitis complaints, chronic sinusitis, otitis media, and refractory laryngeal symptoms (globus, cough, throat clearing, increased secretions, and hoarseness). Results of allergy tests and comorbid conditions were analyzed and compared among groups.

Results

The positive yield of allergy testing in patients with primary laryngeal indications was 51.8%, 63.3% for rhinitis, 60.9% for sinusitis, and 33.3% for otitis media. The odds ratio of having a positive test was not statistically different for patients with laryngeal symptoms, rhinitis, or sinusitis. Patients with chronic laryngeal symptoms and positive allergy testing were most often sensitized to dust mites (63%) and least often sensitized to molds (1.3%).

Conclusions

Allergy testing in patients with chronic laryngeal symptoms yields positive results in equivalent proportion to patients with other common presenting symptoms. Dust mites sensitization is the most common sensitization in patients with allergic laryngitis.
Video-assisted thoracic surgery for cancer after thoracic aortic aneurysm repair
Authors: Taylor Lauren J , Adesoye Taiwo , Maloney James D
Published: October 2015

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery is increasingly accepted as an alternative to open thoracotomy and has established efficacy in the management of non-small-cell lung cancer, but the presence of extensive intrapleural adhesions has been considered a deterrent to a minimally invasive approach. We report the successful use of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in 3 patients with history of open thoracic aortic aneurysm repair who presented with left lower lobe stage I non-small-cell lung cancer. While this approach is feasible, it is technically demanding and thus, at the present time, we recommend that its use be limited to high-volume video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery centers.
Allocentric Spatial Performance Higher in Early-Blind and Sighted Adults Than in Retinopathy-of-Prematurity Adults
Authors: Eardley Alison F. , Edwards Geoffrey , Malouin Francine , Kennedy John M.
Published: October 2015

The question as to whether people totally blind since infancy process allocentric or external spatial information like the sighted has caused considerable debate within the literature. Due to the extreme rarity of the population, researchers have often included individuals with retinopathy of prematurity (RoP—over oxygenation at birth) within the sample. However, RoP is inextricably confounded with prematurity per se. Prematurity, without visual disability, has been associated with spatial processing difficulties. In this experiment, blindfolded sighted participants and two groups of functionally totally blind participants heard text descriptions from a survey (allocentric) or route (egocentric) perspective. One blind group lost their sight due to RoP and a second group before 24 months of age. The accuracy of participants’ mental representations derived from the text descriptions was assessed via questions and maps. The RoP participants had lower scores than the sighted and early blind, who performed similarly. In other words, it was not visual impairment alone that resulted in impaired allocentric spatial performance in this task but visual impairment together with RoP. This finding may help explain the contradictions within the existing literature on the role of vision in allocentric spatial processing.
The Gates of Jerusalem: European revisionism and the populist radical Right
Authors: Shroufi Omran
Published: October 2015

In late 2010, the ‘European Freedom Alliance’, a group of four European politicians from populist radical right parties: Heinz-Christian Strache, Chairman of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ); Filip Dewinter, a senior leader in Belgium’s Vlaams Belang (VB); René Stadtkewitz, founder of Germany’s Die Freiheit; and Kent Ekeroth, the International Secretary for the Sweden Democrats (SD), travelled to Israel and the West Bank. Their trip culminated in the signing of the ‘Jerusalem Declaration’, a document conveying their staunch support for Israel and its right to defend itself against ‘Islamic aggression’. The author analyses key interviews and the Declaration to demonstrate how the event is indicative of a reformed and realigned populist radical Right. Open anti-Semitism, he argues, has been replaced by calls to prevent Islam’s supposed contamination of the nation’s cultural heritage and new positions are being adopted on post-national cooperation and European identity. Also, wider transformations in Western European politics have resulted in the populist radical Right increasingly framing the electorate’s insecurities as evidence of the cultural erosion of the nation state. Through comparing the experiences of Israelis with those of non-Muslims living in Europe, the Alliance argues for the need to toughen Europe’s defence against a common enemy.
One Nation Conservatism: a Gypsy, Roma and Traveller case study
Authors: Ryder Andrew
Published: October 2015

Gypsies, Travellers and Roma are amongst the most marginalised and vulnerable groups in society presenting something of a bellwether, an indicator of the fairness of society. This article charts the development of One Nation Conservatism in the post-war period and relations between the Conservative Party and Gypsies, Travellers and Roma communities to gain insights into the philosophical and moral influences on the current party of government in the UK. It draws on a recent report monitoring UK progress in achieving equality and inclusion for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma groups and concludes that the potential dilution of social justice and human rights agendas will accentuate exclusion.
The war on welfare and the war on asylum
Authors: Burnett Jon
Published: October 2015

The author draws parallels between the UK Conservative government’s war on welfare and war on asylum, in terms of the impact of destitution on lives and the rhetoric which punishes the ‘bogus’. In both cases, large private corporations now control people’s fates whilst a ‘disturbed morality’ encourages the wider public to support such a coercive system and inform on our neighbours.
Will LHINs ever become the “eyes and ears” of the Health Minister for local community wisdom?
Authors: Ball Ted
Published: October 2015

This commentary reflects on the intent of the legislation establishing the Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) and comments on the performance gap between the vision for what could have been and the actual performance. A nine-point action plan to restore the LHINs' potential role as a positive force for health system integration and transformation at the local level is provided.
Reducing transonic wind tunnel sting interference effects for concealed store release testing
Authors: Doig Graham , Bogdan Goran , Kabir Kaveh R , Snyder Murray R
Published: October 2015

Internal weapons bays are becoming increasingly common on aircraft for reasons of stealth and aerodynamic performance, and will be even more prevalent on coming generations of unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs). Wind tunnel testing of store releases to assess forces and moments for safety and clearance must be conducted with a store mounted to an angled strut rather than a conventional rear sting, to allow the full range of motion as the store “drops” from inside the aircraft. Interference from this strut can disrupt the flowfields and thus the reliability of moments obtained, and therefore an investigation was conducted to quantify the potential extent of discrepancies; original small-scale transonic wind tunnel testing was undertaken in a limited program which was supported by extensive numerical work. It was concluded that the precise geometry of the strut/store interface was of critical importance, with a typical design producing non-linear interference at high angles of attack. A simple improved design is proposed – making use of a blended interface and a more appropriate supercritical aerofoil strut cross section – yielding marked improvements in force and moment predictions.
A national survey of nurse-led and delivered services within sexual health across the United Kingdom
Authors: Wiggins H , Kell P , Joshi U , Rajamanoharan S ,   British Co-operative Clinical Group
Published: October 2015

This was a cross-sectional study using an online survey to evaluate the provision of nurse-led and delivered services within genitourinary medicine in the UK. Results showed that such services are being widely utilised and are generally well supported by medical staff. The delivery of nurse-led and delivered services appears to be quite variable. Clinical guidelines and standards may help to ensure a more uniform approach to these services and help to maintain high standards of care.