bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Reading Antonio Gramsci as a Methodologist
Authors: Jubas Kaela
Published: July 2017

In this paper the author connects conceptual and methodological development, typically presented as distinct processes. She argues that these processes are—or should be—underpinned by a common philosophical and theoretical stance. Using Gramsci's The Prison Notebooks (1971), usually considered for its theory of social relations, the author outlines the work's epistemological tenets. She then discusses the methodological ramifications of Gramsci's perspective, relating his ideas to contemporary scholarship, especially by those working from feminist, critical race theory, and other critical perspectives. Because social theory and research methodology tend to be discussed as separate spheres and Gramsci's work generally is taken up for its social theory, much of the methodological work reviewed here is not identified as Gramscian. Nonetheless, Gramsci's ideas can have currency especially for qualitative researchers. An important message to take from The Prison Notebooks is to consider epistemology, theory, and methodology together rather than sequentially.
“What Did She Say? What Did She Say?” the Impact of Interpretation on Recruiting and Interviewing European Migrant Women in the United Kingdom
Authors: Almalik Mona , Kiger Alice , Tucker Janet
Published: July 2017

Although a few researchers mention that involving interpreters can have an impact on the research process and research findings, little is published regarding methods of assessing the interpretation work's quality and impact. The impact of lay volunteer interpreters used in audiorecorded semistructured interviews on collecting data and the data quality and subsequent analysis is examined. A new systematic approach is presented comparing original interview transcripts (conducted with volunteer interpreters) with independent transcripts, reinterpretations by professional interpreters. Findings indicate that involving volunteer interpreters had an impact on the validity and reliability of a portion of the data, the subsequent analysis, and some practical research aspects. Researchers involving interpreters should pay careful attention to the interpreters' influence on the research, the data produced, and critically bring this to bear in their analysis and interpretation. The systematic comparative approach is a cost-effective tool that can be used successfully to examine the influence's effects.
Indigenous Innovations in Qualitative Research Method: Investigating the Private World of Family Life
Authors: Jahnke Huia Tomlins , Gillies Annemarie
Published: July 2017

The researched are rarely provided the opportunity to take a role in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data they themselves provide to researchers. This article describes a novel indigenous research method, for a project in progress, which was developed to explore the relationships between intra-whānau (family) communication and whānau ora (family well-being) within eight whānau over a three year period. The relationships are explored through self-reflexive praxis where research participants are encouraged to think reflexively about their whānau conversations. Conversations that take place in the private world of whānau are audio-recorded by family members, without the imposition of an intrusive researcher. Whānau decide the extent to which their private lives are exposed to the researchers via the recordings and assist the researchers with an interpretation of their everyday conversations. This method offers an opportunity for both whānau and researchers to contribute to insights and understandings of the complex ecologies and realities of life for Māori families. This research methodology involves culturally-centred ethical practice drawn from both Western- and Māori-centred perspectives. Sensitive issues arising from the ways in which individuals perceived their role as active agents of research and the effects of self-reflection on the method are explored.
Using Qualitative Methods to Assess the Measurement Property of a New HIV Disability Questionnaire
Authors: O'Brien Kelly K. , Bereket Tarik , Swinton Marilyn , Solomon Patricia
Published: July 2017

The purpose of this article is to describe our experience using a qualitative team approach and predetermined theoretical framework to assess sensibility of a newly developed HIV disability questionnaire. Two interviewers conducted structured qualitative interviews with 22 adults living with HIV, asking participants how well the questionnaire characterized the disability they experienced living with HIV. Data collection and analysis occurred over six stages with four analysts who met throughout. Strengths of our approach included the ability to assess the sensibility of the questionnaire from the perspective of adults living with HIV, collect and analyze data across multiple sites, establish a systematic team analytical process, and enhance rigour through multiple coding, team reflexivity, and interviewer and analyst triangulation. Challenges included increased resources required to coordinate and implement this approach, differential recruitment rates, initial divergent analytical styles, and the potential to miss emerging codes given the structured nature of the analysis. This article offers a methodological process for researchers to use a qualitative team approach with directed content analysis to assess the sensibility of a new health status questionnaire.
A Delicate Balancing Act: Negotiating with Gatekeepers for Ethical Research When Researching Minority Communities
Authors: McAreavey Ruth , Das Chaitali
Published: July 2017

Research and processes of knowledge production are often based on racialised and imperialistic frameworks that have led to either the exclusion or the pathologisation of minority groups. Researchers address issues of exclusion by adopting recruitment strategies that involve negotiating with gatekeepers to ensure the inclusion of minority or marginalised groups. This often involves in-depth scrutiny of gatekeepers and requires the researchers to negotiate deals and to make personal disclosures. However, there remains relatively little discussion on the pragmatic ethical issues facing researchers in the field as a result of these interactions. This article suggests that interactions with gatekeepers present ethical issues that can be effectively addressed and managed by researchers through the exercise of phronesis. Phronesis allows researchers to make critical ethical decisions based on the specific characteristics of the research sites and subjects, not least of which are those issues that emerge as a consequence of researcher positionality. Such decisions are not necessarily identified or accommodated through bureaucratic processes which govern research ethics. We advance the notion of research ethics as an ongoing process that requires researcher skills and engagement, rather than a one-off bureaucratic exercise.
Situational Factors in Focus Group Studies: A Systematic Review
Authors: Orvik Arne , Larun Lillebeth , Berland Astrid , Ringsberg Karin C.
Published: July 2017

The aim of this study was to see how contextual factors are expressed, used, and analyzed in data collected in focus group discussions (FGDs). The study includes an assessment of how the methodological reporting of contextual factors might influence and improve the trustworthiness of articles. Articles reporting workplace health, stress, and coping among health professionals were identified in a systematic review and used in the analysis. By using Vicsek's framework of situational factors for analysis of focus group results as a starting point, we found that contextual factors were most frequently described in the method sections and less frequently in the results and discussion sections. Vicsek's framework for the analysis of focus group results covers six contextual and methodological dimensions: interactional factors, personal characteristics of the participants, the moderator, the environment, time factors, and the content of FGDs. We found that the framework does not include a consideration of psychological safety, ethical issues, or organizational information. To deepen the analysis of focus group results, we argue that contextual factors should be analyzed as methodological dimensions and be considered as a sensitizing concept. Credibility, confirmability, dependability, and transferability can be strengthened by using, reporting, and discussing contextual factors in detail. The study contributes to elucidating how reporting of contextual data may enrich the analysis of focus group results and strengthen the trustworthiness. Future research should focus on clear reporting of contextual factors as well as further develop Vicsek's model to enhance reporting accuracy and transferability.
Data Display in Qualitative Research
Authors: Verdinelli Susana , Scagnoli Norma I.
Published: July 2017

Visual displays help in the presentation of inferences and conclusions and represent ways of organizing, summarizing, simplifying, or transforming data. Data displays such as matrices and networks are often utilized to enhance data analysis and are more commonly seen in quantitative than in qualitative studies. This study reviewed the data displays used by three prestigious qualitative research journals within a period of three years. The findings include the types of displays used in these qualitative journals, the frequency of use, and the purposes for using visual displays as opposed to presenting data in text.
Location and Unlocation: Examining Gender and Telephony through Autoethnographic Textual and Visual Methods
Authors: Bryant Lia , Livholts Mona
Published: July 2017

Studies on gender and telephony tend to be quantitative and depict the purposes for which women and men use mobile telephones and landlines. Qualitative studies on the topic predominantly rely on face-to-face interviews to examine how telephone use genders space. We suggest these traditional methods of data collection leave unexamined the emotional and social relationships that emerge and are enabled by telephone use, which at times reconfigure and gender social spaces. In this article we present a collaborative autoethnographic inquiry based on our own telephone lives. We introduce a reflexive visual and textual methodological design, specifically diary notes, memory work, and photography, developed from our lives as researcher and researched. We examine an important theme in our findings, the physical placement of the telephone and the phone holder's awareness of the physicality of the telephone, which illustrates the importance of our methodological choices. We show how the placement of the phone by the users both genders space and creates emotional spaces.
Bridging Conceptions of Quality in Moments of Qualitative Research
Authors: Ravenek Michael John , Rudman Debbie Laliberte
Published: July 2017

Quality assessment in qualitative research has been, and remains, a contentious issue. The qualitative literature contains a diversity of opinions on definitions of and criteria for quality. This article attempts to organize this diversity, drawing on several examples of existing quality criteria, into four main approaches: qualitative as quantitative criteria, paradigm-specific criteria, individualized assessment, and bridging criteria. These different approaches can be mapped onto the historical transitions, or moments, in qualitative research presented by Denzin and Lincoln and, as such, they are presented alongside the various criteria reviewed. Socio-political conditions that have led us to a fractured future, where the value and significance of qualitative work may be marginalized, support the adoption of bridging criteria. These broadly applicable criteria provide means to assess quality and can be flexibly applied among the diversity of qualitative approaches used by researchers. Five categories that summarize the language used within bridging criteria are presented as a means to move forward in developing an approach to quality assessment that fosters communication and connections within the diversity of qualitative research, while simultaneously respecting and valuing paradigmatic and methodological diversity.
Employing Questionnaires in terms of a Constructivist Epistemological Stance: Reconsidering Researchers' Involvement in the Unfolding of Social Life
Authors: Romm Norma R. A.
Published: July 2017

In this article, I delve into what it might mean to employ questionnaires without regarding them simply as a way of attempting to discern relationships of correlation or causality between defined variables (as in positivist and post-positivist conceptions of questionnaires). I shall consider the implications of researchers using questionnaires on the basis of alternative paradigmatic orientations. I shall discuss, in particular, interpretivist stances and more constructively-oriented stances (as qualitatively-oriented paradigmatic positions) with reference to different understandings of questionnaire use. I shall also reflect on how qualitative positions that embrace a constructivist epistemological stance can lead to a redirection of questionnaires in relation to more “usual” (post-positivist-directed) usages. In the course of the discussion I make a case, drawing on a version of constructivism, for researchers taking responsibility for their involvement—no matter what methods are used—in the unfolding of the social worlds of which research is a part. Taking into account the constructivist epistemological understanding that questionnaires—as well as other research methods—contribute to the construction of responses rather than merely “finding” responses from research participants, I suggest that some responsibility needs to be taken by those employing questionnaires for the potential social impact of these on research participants as well as wider audiences.
The True Self: A Psychological Concept Distinct From the Self
Authors: Strohminger Nina , Knobe Joshua , Newman George
Published: July 2017

A long tradition of psychological research has explored the distinction between characteristics that are part of the self and those that lie outside of it. Recently, a surge of research has begun examining a further distinction. Even among characteristics that are internal to the self, people pick out a subset as belonging to the true self. These factors are judged as making people who they really are, deep down. In this paper, we introduce the concept of the true self and identify features that distinguish people’s understanding of the true self from their understanding of the self more generally. In particular, we consider recent findings that the true self is perceived as positive and moral and that this tendency is actor-observer invariant and cross-culturally stable. We then explore possible explanations for these findings and discuss their implications for a variety of issues in psychology.
Travel television in a cosmopolitan perspective
Authors: Bakøy Eva
Published: July 2017

This article explores travel television as a space for intercultural understanding. Previous studies have argued that the genre has little to offer in this respect. Such a response can partly be explained by its affinity to the tourist industry and in part by economic priorities of television channels. In addition, there are considerable challenges involved in describing foreign countries that make the genre vulnerable to allegations of stereotyping and Orientalism. Using insights from moral cosmopolitanism, humour theory and politeness studies, this article examines the communicative strategies of three popular travel series which display a self-reflexive awareness of the difficulties involved in addressing the Others.
Legitimating genre
Authors: Howell Charlotte E
Published: July 2017

This essay analyses how this discourse of science fiction quality was created in the early 1990s through newspaper critics’ writings about Quantum Leap, Star Trek: The Next Generation and The X-Files. Nine categories of quality – positive or negative evaluations of the science fiction programmes – arise in the discourse, often using categories independent of or in opposition to genre as quality markers. These strategies make transparent the active process of legitimation within this particular historical moment, pushing the genre construction in relation to quality beyond The Twilight Zone and Star Trek as lone exemplars.
Building digital estates
Authors: Evans Elizabeth , Coughlan Tim , Coughlan Vicky
Published: July 2017

The UK television industry has increasingly integrated multiple screen technologies into multiplatform ‘digital estates’. Such ‘digital estates’ also emerge in domestic contexts. The complex, but mundane and ephemeral, nature of these domestic ‘digital estates’ requires new methodologies for understanding how they operate within the daily lives of audiences. This article uses an innovative, technologically enabled observation methodology to explore how domestic ‘digital estates’ are managed. Dominant throughout our sample is the use of multiple screen technologies to create deliberately passive and ephemeral experiences, highlighting the need to recognise and interrogate the place of ‘passivity’ within televisual and digital screen experiences.
Stiff-Person Syndrome and Graves’ Disease
Authors: Medeiros Lais Moreira , Morais Thulio Carvalho , Primo Arlete Esteves Lopes , Speltri Valeria Casella , Rocha Maria Sheila Guimaraes
Published: July 2017

A 9-year-old female child presented with a history of falls, weight loss, diffuse leg pain, and progressive gait disorder, following 1 previous event described as a tonic–clonic seizure. She had increased thyroid volume, brisk symmetric reflexes, abnormal gait, and painful spasms of the paraspinal musculature. Thyroid function tests indicated biochemical hyperthyroidism, and thyrotropin receptor antibodies were positive. Her electromyography showed continuous activation of normal motor units of the paraspinal and proximal lower extremity muscles. The patient had a diagnosis of Graves’ disease with associated stiff-person syndrome, with elevated anti–glutamic acid decarboxylase antibody levels. After intravenous immunoglobulin therapy, her ambulation was substantially improved and the symptoms of stiff-person syndrome decreased dramatically.
Simulation of Pharmaceutical Blister Pack Thermoforming Using a Non-Isothermal Integral Model
Authors: Christopherson Roy , Debbaut Benoit , Rubin Yves
Published: July 2017

A potential material change for a pharmaceutical blister pack required costly and time-consuming re-validation. One of the major issues associated with this is the water vapour barrier of a formed blister needed to guarantee an acceptable shelf life of the packaged drugs. This study considered a non-isothermal FEM analysis of the forming process, using the new model incorporated into the POLYFLOW simulation software, and taking into account plug assist forming. This was validated on current materials before being used for the new material. A new post processor was used to calculate the moisture barrier of each blister, and to evaluate the potential benefit of using a new material for medical packaging.
A MALT lymphoma prognostic index
Authors: Thieblemont Catherine , Cascione Luciano , Conconi Annarita , Kiesewetter Barbara , Raderer Markus , Gaidano Gianluca , Martelli Maurizio , Laszlo Daniele , Coiffier Bertrand , Lopez Guillermo Armando , Torri Valter , Cavalli Franco , Johnson Peter W. , Zucca Emanuele
Published: July 2017

Key Points

The MALT-IPI was built by using 401 patients in the IELSG-19 randomized trial and validated in an independent set (N = 633). This novel disease-specific index efficiently discriminates patient with good, intermediate, and poor outcomes.
An AmI-based and privacy-preserving shopping mall model
Authors: Blundo Carlo , Orciuoli Francesco , Parente Mimmo
Published: July 2017

Nowadays, large shopping malls provide tools to help and boost customers to buy products. Some of these tools melt down digital operations with physical ones executed by customers into blended commerce experiences. On the other hand, ambient intelligence (AmI) represents a paradigm focused on equipping physical environments to define ergonomic spaces for people interacting with computer-based localized services which are ubiquitously accessible. In this context, we propose a framework based on cellular automata (CA), a very well known formal computational model, suitable to abstract services deployed into an AmI-based environment preserving certain privacy levels of shoppers’ information. CA-based algorithms are advantageous because they are distributed, scalable, on-line and require low costs to be deployed. This work proposes a recent application of CA, namely Cellular ANTomata, to implement a service by which shoppers are guided to find the suitable offerings for items in their shopping lists. A further result provided by this paper is the instantiation of a protocol for privacy-preserving shopping experience in the shopping mall.
Oncolytic virus-induced cell death and immunity: a match made in heaven?
Authors: De Munck Jolien , Binks Alex , McNeish Iain A , Aerts Joeri L
Published: July 2017

Our understanding of the mechanisms responsible for cancer development has increased enormously over the last decades. However, for many cancers, this has not been translated into a significant improvement in overall survival, and overall mortality remains high. Treatment for many malignancies remains based on surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. Significant progress has been made toward the development of more specific, more potent, and less invasive treatment modalities, but such targeted therapies remain the exception for most cancers. Thus, cancer therapies based on a different mechanism of action should be explored. The immune system plays an important role in keeping tumor growth at bay. However, in many cases, these responses are not strong enough to keep tumor growth under control. Thus, immunotherapy aims to boost the immune system to suppress tumor growth efficiently. This has been demonstrated by the recent successes of immune checkpoint therapy in several cancers. Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are another exciting class of immunotherapy agent. As well as replicating selectively within and killing tumor cells, OVs are able to elicit potent anti-tumor immune responses. Therapeutic vaccination with OVs, also referred to as cancer virotherapy, can thus be tailored to elicit vigorous cellular immune responses and even target individual malignancies in a personalized manner. In this review, we will describe the intricate link among oncolytic virotherapy, tumor immunology, and immunogenic cell death (ICD) and discuss ways to harness optimally their potential for future cancer therapy.
Framework Agreements in Procurement: An Auction Model and Design Recommendations
Authors: Gur Yonatan , Lu Lijian , Weintraub Gabriel Y.
Published: July 2017

Framework agreements (FAs) are procurement mechanisms commonly used by buying agencies around the world to satisfy demand that arises over a certain time horizon. This paper is one of the first in the literature that provides a formal understanding of FAs, with a particular focus on the cost uncertainty bidders face over the FA time horizon. We generalize standard auction models to include this salient feature of FAs and analyze this model theoretically and numerically. First, we show that FAs are subject to a sort of winner’s curse that in equilibrium induces higher expected buying prices relative to running first-price auctions as needs arise. Then, our results provide concrete design recommendations that alleviate this issue and decrease buying prices in FAs, highlighting the importance of (i) monitoring the price charged at the open market by the FA winner to bound the buying price; (ii) implementing price indexes for the random part of suppliers’ costs; and (iii) allowing suppliers the flexibility to reduce their prices to compete with the open market throughout the selling horizon. These prescriptions are already being used by the Chilean government procurement agency that buys US$2 billion worth of contracts yearly using FAs.

The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2017.0623 .
Re-using blood products as an alternative supplement in the optimisation of clinical-grade adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell culture
Authors: Phetfong J. , Tawonsawatruk T. , Seenprachawong K. , Srisarin A. , Isarankura-Na-Ayudhya C. , Supokawej A.
Published: July 2017

Objectives

Adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ADMSCs) are a promising strategy for orthopaedic applications, particularly in bone repair. Ex vivo expansion of ADMSCs is required to obtain sufficient cell numbers. Xenogenic supplements should be avoided in order to minimise the risk of infections and immunological reactions. Human platelet lysate and human plasma may be an excellent material source for ADMSC expansion. In the present study, use of blood products after their recommended transfusion date to prepare human platelet lysate (HPL) and human plasma (Hplasma) was evaluated for in vitro culture expansion and osteogenesis of ADMSCs.

Methods

Human ADMSCs were cultured in medium supplemented with HPL, Hplasma and a combination of HPL and Hplasma (HPL+Hplasma). Characteristics of these ADMSCs, including osteogenesis, were evaluated in comparison with those cultured in fetal bovine serum (FBS).

Results

HPL and HPL+Hplasma had a significantly greater growth-promoting effect than FBS, while Hplasma exhibited a similar growth-promoting effect to that of FBS. ADMSCs cultured in HPL and/or Hplasma generated more colony-forming unit fibroblasts (CFU-F) than those cultured in FBS. After long-term culture, ADMSCs cultured in HPL and/or Hplasma showed reduced cellular senescence, retained typical cell phenotypes, and retained differentiation capacities into osteogenic and adipogenic lineages.

Conclusion

HPL and Hplasma prepared from blood products after their recommended transfusion date can be used as an alternative and effective source for large-scale ex vivo expansion of ADMSCs. Cite this article: J. Phetfong, T. Tawonsawatruk, K. Seenprachawong, A. Srisarin, C. Isarankura-Na-Ayudhya, A. Supokawej. Re-using blood products as an alternative supplement in the optimisation of clinical-grade adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell culture. Bone Joint Res 2017;6:414–422. DOI: 10.1302/2046-3758.67.BJR-2016-0342.R1.
Archaeoentomological Perspectives on Dorset Occupations in Newfoundland: A Case Study from the Site of Phillip’s Garden (EeBi-1)
Authors: Dussault Frédéric , Bell Trevor J. , Grimes Vaughan
Published: July 2017

The Dorset Paleo-Inuit occupied the island of Newfoundland for over 800 years (1990 BP to 1180 BP), producing a unique and identifiable archaeological record. Despite this, our current understanding of this sea-mammal hunting population is essentially based on past analysis of architecture, artefacts, and animal remains. While these data show that the Dorset intensively used sites at different locations through the Arctic and Subarctic, very little information is known regarding their impact on their surroundings and the environment. Our research is based on soil samples collected at the site of Phillip’s Garden, which is considered to be one of the most intensely occupied sites within the Dorset culture’s geographic range. Beetles, which are known to be ecological specialists, were used as a proxy in this research in order to document the composition and fluctuation in vegetation, and environmental change through time at the site. The analysis demonstrates that the Dorset communities of Phillip’s Garden harvested trees, and modified the environment and the flora surrounding their settlement more intensively than previously thought.
Comparing the Effectiveness of Real Objects and Voice Output Aids for Non-symbolic Communicators with Severe Cerebral Palsy
Authors: Ko Chan-Young , Han Kyung-Im ,   Korean Society of Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Published: July 2017

Background and Objectives: The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of using real objects and voice output aids(VOCAs) for non-symbolic communicators with severe cerebral palsy. Method: Participants were two non-symbolic adolescents with severe cerebral palsy who had not used AAC aid. This study used alternating treatments design (ATD) between sessions. The intervention was composed with baseline, treatment Ⅰ, generalization Ⅰ, treatment Ⅱ, generalization Ⅱ and a maintenance phase. The intervention strategies were composed of the most-to-least prompt system in the treatment Ⅰ and the least-to-most prompt system in the treatment Ⅱ. Results: First, two adolescents revealed higher requesting in real objects than VOCAs at the beginning of intervention, but revealed higher requesting using VOCAs in generalization. Second, at the beginning of intervention, two adolescents barely produced spontaneous vocalization but revealed higher spontaneous vocalization using VOCAs than real objects in generalization. Conclusion: AAC intervention with VOCA impacted on an increase in requesting and spontaneous vocalization of adolescents with severe cerebral palsy. AAC intervention was needed for non-symbolic communicators to get the cause-and-effect concept and to develop into symbolic communicators.
The Effects of AAC Professional Education Program on Teaching Efficacy and Awareness of Vietnam Special Education Staff
Authors: Lee Jung Eun , Park Eun Hye ,   Korean Society of Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Published: July 2017

Background and Objectives: Special education teachers’ and AAC communication specialists’ specific knowledge, attitude, and professionality regarding AAC is required for its optimal application to students with severe disabilities. Vietnam is in an elementary stage regarding special education and AAC awareness. Thus, systematic AAC training and support is needed to increase appropriate AAC application in practice. This study identifies the effect of the AAC professional education program on AAC teaching efficiency and awareness of special education staff in Vietnam. Methods: Participants included 22 special education staff members at a single rehabilitation center located in Vietnam. The AAC professional education program was configured as AAC basic knowledge, theory and practical exercise, and application stage. Paired t-test analysis was used to compare a difference between AAC teaching efficiency and AAC awareness. Result: Participants’ AAC teaching efficiency and awareness level significantly increased after AAC professional education. Conclusions: This study showed the positive effect of AAC professional training in Vietnam, but had a limitation of no comparison group. Suggestions for future study are discussed.
Untersuchung des Entscheidungsverhaltens in kooperativen
Verkehrssituationen am Beispiel einer Engstelle
Authors: Imbsweiler Jonas , Palyafári Renáta , Puente León Fernando , Deml Barbara
Published: July 2017

Eine der zukünftigen Herausforderungen, um einen erfolgreichen
Mischverkehr zwischen automatisch geführten und von Menschen
geführten Fahrzeugen zu bewältigen, ist, dass in kooperativen
Situationen – z. B. an einer gleichrangigen Engstelle – die
Teilnehmer am Straßenverkehr das Fahrverhalten des Gegenübers
verstehen. Eine der Fragen, die Färber

Färber, B.
(2015). Kommunikationsprobleme zwischen autonomen
Fahrzeugen und menschlichen Fahrern. In: M. Maurer, J. C. Gerdes, B. Lenz & H. Winner
(Hrsg.), Autonomes Fahren. Technische, rechtliche und gesellschaftliche
Aspekte. Berlin: Springer Vieweg.

aufwirft, ist, ob
Menschen in der Lage sind, schwierige kooperative Situationen mit
automatisch geführten Autos zu bewältigen. Im täglichen
Straßenverkehr haben Verkehrsteilnehmer die Möglichkeit, sich
per expliziter oder impliziter Kommunikation an eine Engstelle zu
nähern und so dem Gegenüber die eigene Intention zu
vermitteln. In einem Quasi-Experiment (N = 22) wurden verschiedene
Annäherungsweisen an eine gleichrangige Engstelle untersucht und
u. a. das Entscheidungsverhalten sowie das Kommunikationsverhalten
analysiert, um Rückschlüsse darüber ziehen zu können,
wie sich automatisch geführte Autos in einer solchen Situation
verhalten sollten. Auf diese Weise sollen die Verhaltensweisen
herausgefiltert werden, die es ermöglichen, eine schwierig zu
lösende Situation für beide Verkehrsteilnehmer adäquat zu
bewältigen.
Modern energetics: current problems in energy conversion and utilization of produced energy
Authors: Alfimov Michail V. , Razumov Vladimir F.
Published: July 2017

In this study, we discussed the state-of-art in global energy industry in a historical retrospective and the forecast of its development for the next 25 years. At least in the nearest quarter of a century, the main source of primary energy will remain the chemical energy of different hydrocarbon fuels, including natural gas, coal, oil, and biofuels. In this context, of current importance becomes the problem of more rational utilization of produced energy. We analyzed the basic physical constraints that define a maximum efficiency of energy conversion and utiliztion of primary energy sources.
Slovenia. Occupation, Repression, Partisan Movement, Collaboration, and Civil War in Historical Research
Authors: Troha Nevenka
Published: July 2017

The author discusses recent Slovenian historiography on the Second World War, establishing that numerous high quality works were written before 1990, and before the breakup of Yugoslavia. These works, however, put the history of the liberation struggle into the foreground. In the 1980s, historians started to research several topics that had previously gone unstudied. This decade saw a process of democratization in Slovenia, and new archival materials became accessible. Scholars researching the war after 1990 can be roughly divided into three camps: those with a continued interest in the liberation movement and the partisan war; those who take an apologetic stance towards the issue of collaboration, maintaining that the war in the Slovenian lands was first of all a civil war that had been initiated by the communists; and, finally, those who have asked new questions and explored them in such a way that have put them at eye-level with European standards of scholarship.
Crystal structure and theoretical investigation of bis(cis-1,2-diaminocyclohexane)zinc(II) tetrachloridozincate(II)
Authors: Akhtar Muhammad , Zierkiewicz Wiktor , Michalczyk Mariusz , Rüffer Tobias , Lang Heinrich , Isab Anvarhusein A. , Mazhar Muhammad , Ahmad Saeed
Published: July 2017

A zinc(II) complex of cis-1,2-diaminocyclohexane (Dach), [Zn(Dach)2][ZnCl4] (1), was prepared and its structure was determined by X-ray crystallography. Theoretical (density functional theory) studies were performed for the two model compounds, [Zn(Dach)2][ZnCl4] (1) and {[Zn(Dach)2][ZnCl4]}3 (1

3
). The structure of complex 1 is composed of [Zn(Dach)2]2+ cations and [ZnCl4]2− anions. The Zn1 atom in the cationic complex adopts a severely distorted tetrahedral geometry, while in the anionic part, Zn2 displays only a slight distortion from tetrahedral coordination. The adjacent cations and anions are associated with each other through hydrogen bonding interactions to form a two-dimensional network in the solid state.
The Effect of Physical Activity Agains The Telomere Length in The Leukocytes Cells of KONI (Indonesian National Sports Committee) Athletes
Authors: Purwaningsih Endang , Djannatun Titiek , Widayanti Etty , Suciati Yulia , Zulhamidah Yenni
Published: July 2017

 Telomeres are strands of non coding DNA at the ends of chromosomes that have the primary function to protect DNA from damage and maintain chromosomal stability. Physical exercise will increase the antioxidant activity can increase telomere proteins, lengthen telomeres and or protein networks associated with telomere so that the telomere remains long, or stopping telomere shortening. Telomere length was also associated with age. The purpose of the research was to determine telomere length of leukocyte cells in the KONI athletes in Jakarta,
 The research method is descriptive, by measuring telomere length using quantitative PCR on leukocyte cells. Samples are KONI athletes from several sports, including men and women athletes, with ages between 15-20 years. Used a control group (not athletes) is students of the Faculty of Medicine, University of YARSI. The results showed that there was no significant difference (p> 0.05) between telomere length group of athletes with the control group in both sexes. Similarly, telomere length between athlete male with female athletes also showed no significant difference (p> 0.05). It was concluded that physical exercise in athletes KONI at the age of 15- 20 years had no effect on telomere length in leukocytes. The results of this study provide information about the telomere length  in Indonesian athletes at an early age
Diversity and Distribution of Myrmecophytes in Bengkulu Province
Authors: Safniyeti Safniyeti , Sulistijorini Sulistijorini , Chikmawati Tatik
Published: July 2017

Myrmecophyte is a common medicinal plant used by local people in Indonesia for treating various diseases especially in Papua. Bengkulu province is one of the myrmecophyte habitats, but there has no report on its identity and distribution. The objectives of this research were to identify the diversity and analyze the myrmecophytes distribution as well as factor affecting its presence. This study used purposive sampling method by exploring the area where myrmecophytes commonly found. The myrmecophyte distribution was analyzed using Morishita index and Arcgis 10.1, and the autecological analysis of abiotic factors was performed using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) generated from Minitab 16. The results of this research showed that there were two species of myrmecophytes in Bengkulu province, namely Hydnophytum formicarum and Myrmecodia tuberosa, as well as two variants of M. tuberosa i.e. M. tuberosa 'armata’ and M. tuberosa 'siberutensis'. The distribution of myrmecophytes was mostly randomly scattered in Central Bengkulu regency, Seluma, North Bengkulu, South Bengkulu, and Kaur. Their distributions were affected by light intensity and temperature. The data of this research can be used as basic information for carried out conservation efforts in Bengkulu province. The abundance of myrmecophytes is also used as a source of additional income for local people in Bengkulu province.      
Impact of transition on quality of life in patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia diagnosed during childhood
Authors: Bachelot Anne , Vialon Magaly , Baptiste Amandine , Tejedor Isabelle , Elie Caroline , Polak Michel , Touraine Philippe , _ _
Published: July 2017

Background

Health-related quality of life (QoL) in adult patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) has been variously reported. However, there is no study evaluating the impact of transition on quality of life.

Methods

Adult patients with classic or non-classic CAH diagnosed during childhood CAH, born between 1970 and 1990, were recruited from the registers of Pediatric departments belonging to the French reference center for endocrine rare disease. Primary end point was the QoL (WHOQOL-BREF).

Results

Seventy-three patients were included in the study, among them 59/73 were transferred to adult endocrinologist by their pediatricians for transition. WHOQOL-BREF scores were similar between patients with or without transition to specialist adult services, except for environment dimension score, which was slightly higher in CAH patients without transition. However, CAH patients with a regular follow-up had a better physical health, psychological health and environment score and item global QoL than the group without regular follow-up after transition.

Conclusion

Regular medical follow-up in adulthood is associated with the transition between pediatric and adult care and is associated with better QoL in adults with CAH.
Los primeros Juegos Deportivos Bolivarianos de Bogotá en 1938 y la Integración regional por medio del deporte
Authors: Hernández Acosta Andrés Felipe
Published: July 2017

El deporte durante el siglo XX creció y se desarrolló no solo como una herramienta para el acondicionamiento de los integrantes al interior de las comunidades nacionales a las condiciones de la modernidad urbana e industrial, sino como una estrategia diplomática y cultural que ayudó a la integración de los países en las diferentes regiones del globo. Así también sucedió en América Latina, por eso el presente escrito busca comprender el origen del deporte como instrumento diplomático para el desarrollo de las relaciones interregionales en los países bolivarianos en dos eventos deportivos de recordación histórica: los Juegos Olímpicos de Berlín 1936 y los Juegos Bolivarianos de 1938, realizados en Bogotá, Colombia.
Sprout density for the production of organic mini-cabbage from mother plant regrowth
Authors: Souza Jacimar Luis de , Guarçoni Rogério Carvalho , Favarato Luiz Fernando , Angeletti Maria da Penha , Bahiense Douglas Vianna , Ribeiro Camila de Souza
Published: July 2017

ABSTRACT: The method of producing organic mini-cabbages from regrowth of mother-plant was initiated at the Unidade de Referência em Agroecologia of the Incaper in 2013, possibly acting as an efficient alternative for the obtainment of cabbages with a more adequate average weight for the desires of the modern consumer. The aim of this study was to define sprout density in the mother plant, which allows better productivity and commercial standards for organic mini-cabbages. The experiment was developed during the period from September to November 2015, using the F1 Shinsei hybrid, in a design with randomized blocks, with five replications. Sprout density was determined following thinning, constituting the following treatments: two, three, four, five and six sprouts per plant. Best management of sprouts was the technique with four sprouts per plant, since it allowed greater productivity (52,997kg ha-1) and a greater number of commercial heads, together with a commercial standard of heads with average weight (414g) and median diameter (8.8cm) adequate for the standards demanded by the consumer.
Freshwater quality of a stream in agricultural area where organic compost from animal and vegetable wastes is used
Authors: Saran Luciana Maria , Meneghine Aylan Kener , Célico Amanda Schimidt , Pinheiro Daniel Guariz , Alves Lucia Maria Carareto
Published: July 2017

ABSTRACT Organic compost from biomass residues constitutes a viable alternative for partial or total replacement of mineral fertilizers for growing vegetables. This study evaluated the effects of compost on the water quality of a stream used mainly for irrigation of agricultural crops cultivated in nearby soil that has been treated with organic compost produced by carcasses, animal and vegetable waste for the last ten years. We sampled water biannually for two years, 2013 and 2014, from five locations along the stream. Physical variables and some chemical variables were analyzed. We also analyzed the total number of coliforms (Escherichia coli). Bacterial populations were compared by carbon substrate consumption. Total phosphorus contents in the samples from 2014 exceeded 0.1 mg L-1. The concentrations of other chemical species analyzed and the results for the physical variables were in accordance with the expected values compared with national and international water quality standards. The environment showed differential carbon source consumption and a high diversity of microorganisms, but our results did not show any evidence that the applied compost is changing the microbial population or its metabolic activity. This study shows that the use of the organic compost in agricultural areas seen does not negatively influence the quality of surface water in the study area. These results are important because the process of composting animal and vegetable waste and the use of compost obtained can be an alternative sustainable for adequate destination of these wastes.
Nutritional value of sorghum silage of different purposes
Authors: Behling Neto Arthur , Reis Rafael Henrique Pereira dos , Cabral Luciano da Silva , Abreu Joadil Gonçalves de , Sousa Daniel de Paula , Sousa Fabiano Gama de
Published: July 2017

ABSTRACT Sorghum is a crop that stands out as an alternative to corn due to lower soil fertility demand and increased tolerance to drought. Lack of information about the qualitative behaviour of sorghum hinders the recommendation of different purpose sorghum cultivars. The goal was to evaluate the chemical composition and in vitro digestibility of different purpose sorghum cultivar silages, at two cropping seasons. The trial was conducted at the Plant Production Department, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rondônia, Colorado do Oeste campus, and chemical analyses and in vitro incubation were performed at the Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Cuiabá campus. The experimental design was a randomized block with a split-plot arrangement and four replications. Plot treatments consisted of six different purpose sorghum cultivars (BRS 308 and BRS 310, grain sorghum; BR 655 and BRS 610, forage sorghum; and BRS 506 and CMSXS 647, sweet sorghum). Split-plot treatments consisted of two cropping periods (first crop and second crop). Forage sorghum cultivar BRS 655 demonstrated higher non-fiber carbohydrate content and lower potentially digestible fibre content than the other cultivars did. Sweet sorghum cultivars had higher levels of water soluble carbohydrates and non-protein nitrogen based on protein, lower indigestible neutral detergent fibre content at second crop, and higher in vitro dry matter digestibility than the other cultivars. The silages of sweet sorghum cultivars BRS 506 and CMSXS 647, and forage sorghum cultivar BRS 655 presented higher nutritional values.
O campo científico da administração: uma análise a partir do círculo das matrizes teóricas
Authors: Santos Elinaldo L.
Published: July 2017

Resumo Este ensaio é produto de uma reflexão sobre o desenvolvimento científico da administração. Propõe-se a analisar a trajetória do campo, a partir de suas bases teóricas, refletindo acerca da problemática epistemológica de estarmos diante de um saber que sequer tem claramente definido o seu objeto de estudo. Dessa forma, mediante inspiração no conceito de círculo das matrizes epistêmicas, concebido por Paes de Paula (2015), são realizadas análises com base em três matrizes de conhecimento (Estudos Ortodoxos, Estudos Organizacionais e Estudos Críticos), descrevendo suas trajetórias e destacando a necessidade de um (re)posicionamento e de uma ressignificação do seu objeto científico. Por fim, são feitas algumas considerações a respeito das discussões sobre o desenvolvimento do campo da administração, a fim de instigar os pesquisadores da área a fazerem reflexões mais profundas sobre as bases epistemológicas dessa ciência.
A teoria neosistêmica de Niklas Luhmann e a noção de autopoiese comunicativa nos estudos organizacionais
Authors: Vidal Josep Pont
Published: July 2017

Resumo Na teoria dos sistemas autorreferenciais, de Niklas Luhmann, a análise das organizações ocupa lugar de destaque, mas tem sido objeto de inúmeras controvérsias. Nos últimos anos, vêm sendo produzidos um diálogo e um cruzamento com os representantes da filosofia social pós-estruturalista, em particular, com aspectos referentes às possibilidades autorreferenciais das comunicações e da linguagem. Na atualidade, são diversos os pontos de vista teóricos que convergem para uma autodefinição construtivista, ecológica e sistêmica. Como possibilidade alternativa às limitações autopoiéticas na observação das organizações, propõe-se a ideia de autopoiese reflexiva.