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Understanding Hotel’ S Buffet Restaurant Assurance After Covid-19: A Case of Thailand
Authors: Sangpikul Aswin
Published: July 2023

Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine tourist expectations and perceptions of hotel’s buffet restaurant assurance to obtain an overall understanding of restaurant assurance after COVID-19 situation.
 
Theoretical framework: The concept of SERVQUAL, particularly assurance dimension, is employed to examine tourist expectations and perceptions of hotel’s buffet restaurant assurance. The study expects to expand the literature in the area of service quality of restaurant assurance.
 
Design/methodology/approach: The questionnaire survey is employed to collect data from 384 participants through a convenience sampling method. Factor analysis and t-test are used to analyse the data.
 
Findings: The results indicate that there are two factors associated with hotel’s buffet restaurant assurance, and they are identified as: 1) employee courtesy, knowledge, and service confidence and 2) sanitary restaurant environment. Both factors are related to common and new assurance attributes of buffet restaurant services.
 
Practical & Social implications:  The stuyd has expanded the knowledge of hotel’s buffet restaurant assurance based on the current situation. Assurance is a key element of several models used to assess restaurant service quality. The current finding helps to update the literature as well as assists restaurant managers to thoroughly understand tourists’ trust and confidence when dining in hotel buffet restaurants.
 
Originality: The value of the study is the identfication of the two factors associated with hotel’s buffet restaurant assurance. This is an initial study to integrate the new normal services into restaurant’s new assurance attributes by examining tourist expectations and perceptions of hotel’s buffet restaurant assurance based on the current situation (after COVID-19).
The Impact of International Financial Reporting Standards on Aggressive Accrual: Evidence from Saudi Security Exchange
Authors: Majed Ali , Al-Hamood Mundher , Ali Hashim
Published: July 2023

Purpose: This study investigated the impact of international financial reporting standards on aggressive accrual. The distinguishing feature of this research is the study of the recent adoption of international financial reporting standards in one of the most important economies and emerging markets in the world; the Saudi Security Exchange (Tadawul).
 
Theoretical framework: One important issue that has dominated accounting research for many years is the mandatory IFRS adoption. More specifically, the impact of mandatory IFRS adoption on accounting figures, notably accruals. Most of the studies document mixed effects resulting from IFRS adoption.
 
Design/methodology/methodology: This study focuses on Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Financial Market due to the recent mandatory adoption of the IFRS by Saudi companies in 2017, using 781 firm-year observations. Our study sample will cover 6 years from 2014-2019, three years before adoption (2014-2015-2016) and three years after adoption (2017-2018-2019).
 
Find: The findings of this study were consistent with previous accounting literature. The study shows a decrease in aggressiveness accruals after adopting international financial reporting standards. The study concluded that the companies listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul), especially after the adoption of international financial reporting standards, do not often provide inflated financial reports with distractions that could lead to customers making irrational decisions.
 
Research, practical and social implications:  This study put a spotlight on Aggressive Accrual resulting from mandatory IFRS adoption in emerging markets, such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Financial Market. Therefore, this study provides an exciting opportunity to advance standards setters’ knowledge of the quality of financial reporting in emerging markets.
 
Originality/value: This is the first study to use Aggressive Accrual around mandatory IFRS adoption. worth noting that apart from the prior literature, no study was devoted to the aggressive accrual in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Financial Market.
Moderation of Interest Rate Policy Towards Banking Profitability
Authors: Nurfadillah Mursidah , Setiadji Djoko , Paminto Ardi , Azis Musdalifah
Published: July 2023

Purpose: The study aims to analyze the factors that affect the profitability of the banking industry, by making interest rate policy a moderation.
 
Design/methodology/approach: This study uses Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis with panel data from 31 conventional banks in Indonesia during the period 2017-2021 and groups banks based on their core capital into 3 bank groups, namely small banks, medium banks and large banks.
 
Findings: The results showed that capitalization had a significant negative effect on profitability for small banks and medium banks, significantly positive for large banks. Liquidity risk has a significant negative effect on the profitability of large banks. Credit risk has a negative direction towards profitability, significant for small banks and large banks. The interest rate policy is significantly positive for profitability for small banks and mediating banks, negative for large banks. Interest rate policy is only able to moderate capital and credit risk to profitability for small banks. The results of the study explained that small banks are more sensitive and quick to react to changes in interest rate policy than large banks.
 
Research, Practical & Social implications: The research period includes the
pandemic period of 2020 - 2021 where the banking industry is impacted by it, so it is possible that there are several anomalous research results. The research implications suggest that banks as fundraisers and dealers are highly dependent on interest rate policy to generate profitability.
 
Originality/value: This study examines banks based on the core capital group owned, which is one of the first studies to include interest rate policy as a moderation variable that affects profitability.
The Advantages Comparative of Economic Sectors in Pinrang Regency at 2016 – 2020
Authors: Zakaria Junaiddin , Hasan Ismail
Published: July 2023

Purpose:  The objective of this study is to identify and analyze the sectors that have had a comparative advantage in Pinrang Regency in the last 5 years, using the location matching (LQ) method.
 
Theoretical framework:  The comparative advantage was Salvator (1997). Ricardo explained that if two countries trade with each other and export goods with a comparative advantage, they will be lucky.
 
Design/methodology/approach:  To determine the base sectors, it was carried out using the LQ formula where this technique presented a relative comparison between the capabilities of a sector with the same sector in Pinrang Regency/City.
 
Findings:  The results of this research are expected to be a source of scientific research for economic operators, especially in the field of regional planning. According to the results of the cocin-n (LQ) location, the primary sector of Pinrang Regency is agriculture. In addition to healthcare, food manufacturing, food manufacturing, electricity and electricity have become a source of transportation, a car factory, one of industrial and industrial facilities.
 
Research, Practical & Social implications:  The equitable distribution of regional economic development should take into account the problems and opportunities for specialization in the process of economic development in the area, with the comparative advantages of each area.
 
Originality/value:  The Queen of Pinrang is one of the 24 regenerations of South Sulawesi province. This area is an independent environment and the Government has the authority to establish governance and progress and provide services to the community to properly plan, manage and utilize the economic potential of the region.
Tourism Economy in Collaborative Governance Perspective
Authors: Saraswati Atik , Said Abdullah , Nuh Mohamad , Setyowati Endah
Published: June 2023

Purpose: This paper will explore the tourism economy in collaborative governance perspective.
 
Design/methodology/approach: This article is a theoretical study. The information is collected by the snowball method. All related theories and research are collected systematically. Data collected from secondary sources. The secondary resources are textbooks and research results. Textbooks are used to collect theories related to the research topic. Empirical research is used to link existing theories with the latest conditions in the field.
 
Findings: Public administration literature shows are five paradigms ``developed in public administration, namely: Old Public Administration (OPA), New Public Administration (NPA), New Public Management (NPM), New Public Services (NPS) and Governance.
 
Research limitations/implications: This is an theoretical study. This study is limited to theoretical examination for the the tourism economy in collaborative governance perspective. Therefore, future research should examine empirically to get confirmation for the theories.
 
Practical implications: This research can be used by future researcher as the basis to examine empirically tourism economy in collaborative governance perspective.
 
Social Implications: The results can enrich literature Collaborative governance, especially in the case of tourism economy.
 
Originality/value: This is an early compilation to examine the tourism economy in collaborative governance perspective.
Forensic Accounting, a Veritable Financial Tool for Qualitative Financial Reporting Systems in the 21st Century
Authors: Desi Augustine , Akintoye Rufus Ishola , Aguguom Theophilus Anaekenwa
Published: June 2023

Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the implications and effects of forensic accounting as a veritable financial tool for qualitative financial reporting in the 21st century. In this period, forensic accounting is playing a significant role in the trajectory efforts in building enduring confidence in the credibility of financial reporting systems.
 
Theoretical Framework: The quality of financial reporting is under critical threat as a result of reported financial scandals and the professional recklessness of a few unscrupulous individuals in the accounting profession.   The objective of the financial reporting system is to galvanize the reporting procedures and true application of accounting standards to improve the general acceptance of accounting information.  Forensic accounting bridges the gap as a veritable financial tool to enhance the quality of financial reporting.
 
Design/Methodology/Approach: The study employed used a survey research method, using a structured questionnaire administered through an online platform targeting a selection of forensic accounting investigators and forensic accountants. A total of 443 questionnaires were validated and used for the analyses. The reliability and validity of the instrument were confirmed with the use of Cronbach Alpha and descriptive statistics and inferential analysis were used for the study analyses of the data.
 
Findings: The result demonstrated that forensic accounting exerted significant effects on each of the qualitative characteristics and enhanced characteristics of financial reporting systems in the study. The study concluded that forensic accounting as a veritable financial tool significantly affected the quality of financial reporting systems in this 21st century.
 
Research Practical & Social Implication: The study with the possibility of application of forensic accounting during this contemporary period, the quality of financial reporting is enhanced. The implication of forensic accounting in safeguarding corporate financial risks should not be ignored, in providing novelty and oversight functions building quality and trust in reliance on the quality of financial reporting.
 
Implication/Originality/Value: The value of this study is assuring quality financial reporting in providing strong confidence and trust in the reliability and credibility of financial statements in making useful decisions capable of adding economic value to the stakeholders.
Reviewing Literature and Exploring Concept of Leadership for Learning to Organizational Values – HR Insights From Hospitality and Retail Industries in Hong Kong
Authors: Lau Ka Shing , Mackechnie Ian
Published: June 2023

Purpose: The aim of this study is to explore previous and latest literature, as well as examine the concept of leadership for learning to organizational values.
 
Theoretical framework: This theoretical framework tentatively projects effective leadership to the development of learning aligning with organizational values within an organization, it specifically focuses on hospitality and retailing from HR in Hong Kong. The framework includes the alignment of learning, learning culture, leadership, organizational values, and HR practices.
 
Design/methodology/approach: The concept of leadership for learning to organizational values were explored by literature with a matrix created, and tentatively formed 6 items for data collection from HR and related professionals, with 116 responses. Exploratory factor analysis was carried out by SPSS software.
 
Findings: With the factor loading required at least over 0.6 (the actual value of each item was higher than 0.8) as well as the scale over 0.9, the results showed those 6 items as one component of leadership for learning to organizational values.
 
Research, Practical & Social implications: The study practically implied the importance of leadership to employee, team and organizational learning. The allowed HR be more insightful in future practice and policy, regarding the association of learning, culture, organizational value as well as leadership.
 
Originality/value: The value of the study significantly explored the interconnection of learning, culture, leadership and organizational values in the specified Hong Kong’s context in hospitality and retailing. It would be potentially valuable for HRM practices and promotional organizational success in the future.
Relational Climate and Organizational Performance - An Empirical Investigation in Oil and Gas Public Sector in India
Authors: Chourasia Anurag , Bahuguna Prakash Chandra
Published: June 2023

Purpose:The aim of the study is to look at the role relational climate might play in enhancing the organizational performance and understanding its influence on relationship between SHRM and organizational performance in the context of public sectors.
 
Theoretical Framework:This research has been anchored on the ‘Relational Models Theory’ of Fiske (1992) to explain relational climate and ‘Social interdependence Theory’ of Johnson & Johnson (2005) to comprehend how relational climate affects organisational performance.
 
Design/methodology/approach:Data were obtained from 327 Executives by means of a questionnaire survey from 10 public sector oil companies in India and analysed through SPSS and structural Equation Modelling (SEM).
 
Findings:This study established that relational climate strongly affects organizational performance. By empirically examining the notion of relational climate and demonstrating a strong positive correlation between relational climate and organisational performance, this study adds to the body of knowledge on relational HRM.
 
Research, Practical & Social implications: This study contributes by discussing practical implications that managers must build an effective relational climate which will facilitate in developing environment for shared purpose, shared vision, compassion and mutual respect in the workplace to improve organizational performance. The study's societal implications include the development of a supportive interpersonal environment that fosters cooperation, respect, and relational vibrancy at work.
 
Originality/Value: This study highlighted the effect of relational climate on organizational performance in the public sector context.
Service Strategy on Tourism Business Development: Empirical Study on Purbalingga Panyatan Waterfall Tourism Spot
Authors: Syah Donny Oktavian , Rustanto Agung Edi , Estiana Ria , Utami Rahayu Tri , Susbiyantoro
Published: June 2023

Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine the impact of service strategy rural tourism on tourism business development in Panyatan Waterfall in Purbalingga, Central Java, Indonesia

 

Theoretical framework: Previous study showed that service strategy has positive impact on tourism business development, especially in fomous and well-managed tourism site. However, there is still much to investigate if the situation is occurred in rural destination that not categorized tourism site, like Panyatan Waterfall.

 

Design/methodology/approach: This research is a primary research type. The authors conducted field research on April-June 2022 to interview and distribute questionnaire to visistors. There are 543 visitors who respond and answer our questionnaire.  The respondents were selected using an accidental sampling technique with the Lemeshow formula.  The data were analyzed using validity, reliability, and descriptive analyses, as well as simple linear regression.

 

Findings: The results showed that service strategy in rural tourism has significant effect to tourism business development in this area.

 

Research, Practical & Social implications: The study revealed that service strategy that conducted by local people surrounding tourist site in Panyatan Waterfall lead positively impact to the economy of community in Panyatan Waterfall.

 

Originality/value: The result of study indicated that the friendliness of the resident surrounding the tourist site become part of the external service of community, and it attract tourists to visit Panyatan Waterfall.
Application Strategy of BIM Technology in Municipal Road Design
Authors: Gan Wei , Ge Yunqi
Published: June 2023

The development of information technology provides certain convenient conditions in the design of municipal roads, and allow the achievements of high standards and requirements of current road design and construction. Among many information technologies, building information modeling (BIM) technology is more widely used in road design and has achieved good results. BIM technology can realize information sharing, allow the design of virtual models, discover design problems in time, and reduce the rate of design changes later or in late stage. At the same time, through the coordination and standardization of the design of road traffic and underground pipelines, it provides new design ideas for the development of municipal roads. This paper mainly analyzes the application advantages and status of BIM technology in municipal road design, and puts forward the application strategy of municipal road design.
Research on Infrared Image Fusion Technology Based on Road Crack Detection
Authors: Li Guangjun , Nan Lin , Zhang Lu , Feng Manman , Liu Yan , Meng Xu
Published: June 2023

This study aimed to propose road crack detection method based on infrared image fusion technology. By analyzing the characteristics of road crack images, this method uses a variety of infrared image fusion methods to process different types of images. The use of this method allows the detection of road cracks, which not only reduces the professional requirements for inspectors, but also improves the accuracy of road crack detection. Based on infrared image processing technology, on the basis of in-depth analysis of infrared image features, a road crack detection method is proposed, which can accurately identify the road crack location, direction, length, and other characteristic information. Experiments showed that this method has a good effect, and can meet the requirement of road crack detection.
Is Laparoscopic Oncological Surgery After an Open Surgery Possible?
Authors: Vargas-Rocha Vladimir Erik , Segales-Rojas Patricia , Vargas Rocha Brian E
Published: June 2023

This paper presents a case of a 55-year-old male patient with pain in the right lumbar region and hematuria. An abdominopelvic computed tomography was performed, and a tumor was discovered in the right renal pelvis. An open right radical nephrectomy was performed. She returned again with hematuria, thus cystoscopy, ureteroscopy, and selective cytology were performed, and local recurrence in the right ureter was documented. A radical right radical ureterectomy with laparoscopic bladder encirclement and extended lymphadenectomy was performed, with a histopathological report of right ureter with low-grade urothelial carcinoma. The patient showed satisfactory progress and was monitored. With this article, we stress that with adequate training, experience, and practice in laparoscopic surgery, excellent oncological and aesthetic results can be obtained, which is comparable to open surgery, but with the benefit of rapid recovery and less pain and bleeding. Therefore, we believe that with practice, laparoscopic oncological surgery after an open surgery is perfectly feasible.
Language as an Element of Culture
Authors: Mohammed Darezh Wrya
Published: June 2023

With the creation of human, language has emerged in order to communicate and meet their needs, although it has enhanced gradually in different stages until it reaches this level we have had now, so it can be said that language is one of the characteristics that distinguishes human beings from other creatures, this is mean that language is one of the basic human needs for social life and daily work.

In the anthropology filed, language occupies a wide space, since it is the study of human as an intelligent and cultured creature. Moreover, language is one of the basic cultural elements and at the same time the transmitter and disseminator of culture. It is also a means of communication and a builder of relationships, which is important in the field, since the social structure of societies is made based on relationships.

Language is of fundamental importance in human life. Although the characteristic of linguistics is that it studies language and analyses it at a deep linguistic level, it also becomes the field of anthropological research as a cultural element.  Hence, the subject of the research is how anthropology views the cultural element of language.  How does it fit into anthropology in relation to culture and as a cultural genre?  The aim of this study is to theoretically show the relationship between anthropology and language in general, to point out the structure and function of language as an important cultural element, and to show the situation of Kurdish language in relation to cultural identity.

Language and culture are in a dialectical relationship. Language is part of culture and at the same time the transmitter and protector of culture, since culture is the complex in whole that is received by individuals as member of society, language becomes important, since language is the main means of acceptance. The importance of language in identifying culture. It has been said that the language of a nation or society is the key to identifying their culture, it is also strongly linked to cultural and national identity and is considered a fundamental basis of identity. As a result, language has changed more under the influence of external factors, which has had a relative impact on all other cultural elements and social life
Renewing the Structure of Mustazad in Goran's poems
Authors: Khoshnaw Sarbaz Majeed , Hamadamin Yadgar Rasool
Published: June 2023

Mustazad as a poetic model, is not new in Kurdish literature. There are many classic Kurdish poets who wrote poems in the form of Al-Mustazad. Mullah Al-Jaziri was the first to organize a poetic in Mustazad in the history of Kurdish literature. But in the stage of renewal of Kurdish poetry after the First World War, Kurdish poets contributed to renewing the structure of the meter in terms of weight and rhymes and the formation of the different composition in terms of number and arrangement of verses and their component parts.

The title of the research (Renewing the Structure of Mustazad in Goran's poems) is an attempt to show the characteristics of the techniques of renewal and creativity of Goran the poet, and renew the structure of Al-Mustazad at this stage.

There is a clear gap in academic studies of literary theory of comparison to the creativity of Kurdish poets in this field. There are a number of studies that describe Mustazad among other poetic templates, but there is no specialized research in this poetic model to study the renewal techniques and creative attempts of the Kurdish poet.

The research consists of two chapters: the first chapter is concerned with defining Mustazad and its techniques in both the classical and modern stages, while the second chapter is concerned with Goran's creative attempts in this regard. Through this research, the researcher reached to new results on which this poetic form was based.
Perspectives of Academic Faculties toward Studying Gender in Media Departments
Authors: Mirdan Dunya Salahdin
Published: June 2023

Gender as a subject for study in the academic sphere gave importance and characteristics to the department that will be studied in. The main purpose of this research is to determine the importance of gender studies in media departments, in the public and private universities and colleges in the Kurdistan Region. Therefore, the main purpose of this research is to present the importance of gender studies as an independent subject in media departments. The researcher has attempted to discuss the importance of gender subject as an independent material in media departments in public and private colleges and universities in the Kurdistan Region, using a scientific quantitative and qualitative methods. The researcher has reached several conclusions: among all media departments (12 departments) in public and private universities and colleges in the Kurdistan Region, only one department is teaching gender as an independent subject. The issue of gender is unfamiliar, unfamiliar and not seriously considered. Gender is not considered as a necessary subject for some faculty members in these departments. However, proper understanding of the concept of gender in the academic setting itself is also complex and requires a scientific and objective understanding by academics and faculties. University teachers' understanding of the importance of gender and its philosophy along with their views on this issue, is of inevitable importance and needs to be considered.
A Feminist study of Female Bildungsroman in Toni Cade Bambara’s “The lesson”
Authors: Ahmed Shokhan Rasool
Published: June 2023

Every literary text can be considered as effective cultural and historical evidence to show human experiences in different ages. Likewise, African American Literature becomes a major tool to portray racial segregation and marginalizing women of colour. African American novelists have allowed women of colour to have their voices heard and their identities found.

Toni Cade Bambara is among the best Afro-American authors who has displayed the difficulties that women of colour such as racism, sexism, racial discrimination, ethnic segregation, gender inequality and loss of identity. This study principally analyzes Bambara’s “The Lesson” by considering a Feminist Bildungsroman approach to deal with gender roles and gender inequality of the female characters.

This paper investigates some questions such as: how does “The Lesson” ascribe to the beliefs of the Black Power Movement? What types of dialects have been used in the text to picture the life and culture of African American women? How is Female Bildungsroman employed by Bambara to build and reconstruct a new image for the characters to enable them to fulfil their dreams? The current study delineates the oppression and segregation of African American people under a white-dominated society. However, the author attempts to deconstruct the life of the characters again so that they can have a better and healthy life.
The Basic Forms of Poetry gener in the “Kurdistan” Newspaper of Tehran This paper is a part of master's thesis entitled:
Authors: Hassan Mariwan Omar , Mahmoud Awara Khadr
Published: June 2023

The term genre in the literary literature means (type, style, category, or literary element). genres include all the artistic frameworks and templates that poets and writers use to shape their thoughts, consciousness and emotions. In ancient times (classical age) the boundaries between literary genres are clearly defined on the basis of the purity of genres. In general, genres had enjoyed a kind of independence. However, in the later stages, the boundaries between genres were crossed since they merged, went into each other and lost their sanctity and independence. For example, a genre of epic or free verse poetry is a combination of the characteristics of two or more genres within one new literary genre. In addition, the four main genres of poetry, lyric, epic, drama, didactic form the general structure of the base of poetry, each of which has several different genres. This feature, of course, existed in the most publications of the 'Kurdistan Newspaper' in Tehran.
Condición física, percepción de apoyo, resiliencia y depresión post parto en puérperas de 18 a 30 años en Lima metropolitana, 2022
Authors: Araujo Robles Elizabeth Dany , Díaz Mujica Juana Yris
Published: June 2023

La presencia de la depresión puerperal afecta a las mujeres, por ello el estudio tuvo como objetivo determinar la relación entre las características físicas, el apoyo percibido y la resiliencia con la depresión puerperal en puérperas de 18 a 30 años en Lima Metropolitana durante el año 2022. Bajo la metodología descriptiva correlacional, con una muestra no probabilista de 44 puérperas de primer o segundo embarazo. Los resultados indican relación negativa y baja, entre la resiliencia y la depresión puerperal lo mismo entre la condición física de la madre y percepción de apoyo con la depresión puerperal.
Los fastos en el primer franquismo: celebraciones para conmemorar aniversarios históricos de la Guerra Civil
Authors: Vázquez Astorga Mónica
Published: June 2023

Resumen
Este artículo se centra en los actos de carácter cívico organizados durante el primer franquismo y, en concreto, en los celebrados para conmemorar fechas históricas que revestían un significado simbólico como el 18 de julio, 1º de abril, 1º de octubre o 12 de octubre, así como los que homenajeaban la muerte de algunos de los grandes ‘héroes de la causa nacional’. Se convirtieron en fiestas oficiales y, por tanto, en una cita ineludible donde se desplegaba, año tras año, la misma parafernalia. Estaban estratégicamente repartidas en el calendario de la vida española, viniendo a reafirmar y vivificar los valores y el ideario del régimen franquista. De este modo, se rescatan de la memoria algunas de las ceremonias más relevantes de este período, sus espacios de representación, su escenografía, su valor propagandístico y su significado. Estos actos constituyen una fuente de primer orden para conocer el sistema político franquista.
Abstract
This article explores the civic ceremonies organised during the early Franco period and, specifically, those commemorating historical dates with a symbolic meaning –such as 18 July, 1 April, 1 October and 12 October– and those honouring the death of some of the great ‘heroes of the national cause’. These ceremonies became official holidays and, therefore, unavoidable appointments deploying the same paraphernalia year after year. They were strategically distributed throughout the Spanish calendar, thus reaffirming and bringing new life to the values and ideology of Franco regime. This work retrieves from memory some of the most important ceremonies of the period, their spaces of representation, scenography, propaganda value and significance. These acts are first-rate sources of information on Franco’s political system.
Keywords
Early Franco period, Public acts, Official ceremonies, Anniversaries of historical dates, Commemorations.
El legado monumental de Pablo Serrano en Salamanca
Authors: Muñoz Pérez Laura
Published: June 2023

Resumen

Este artículo estudia la faceta pública y monumental del escultor y académico turolense Pablo Serrano en la ciudad de Salamanca, a la que lo vinculan tres trabajos diferentes. Ello convierte a la ciudad en escenario idóneo en el que apreciar tanto las cualidades artísticas de Serrano como la evolución de su estética y estilo o la decantación de sus intereses creativos, dado que las citadas piezas pertenecen a momentos vitales dispares y proceden de procesos de encargo/compra nacidos en situaciones sociales y políticas, históricas, en definitiva, diferentes entre sí.

Abstract

This article shows the public and monumental facet of the sculptor and academic Pablo Serrano in Salamanca, city to which three different works link him. This fact makes the city an ideal setting in which to appreciate the artistic qualities of Serrano and his aesthetics and style evolution, besides his creative interests’ evolution. This is because the mentioned pieces belong to different moments and come from purchase/charge processes emerged from different social and political situations

Keywords

Sculpture, XX century, Public work.
The West and its Other: Literary Responses to 9/11
Authors: Ramanan Mohan G.
Published: June 2023

This paper initially considers Don de Lillo’s Faiing Man, John Updike’s Terrorist, Ian McEwan’s Saturday and shows how in spite of considerable fictional dexterity all three fail in various ways to respond to the trauma of 9/11. The paper argues that mainstream American and British responses are variously blighted by the Huntington thesis of the clash of civilizations, Baudrillardian hyper reality and pseudo-Islamic scholarship, and a pull away from the large events of our world into domesticity. If one wants a more satisfying response one must perhaps turn to an ethnic writer like Mohsin Hamid, whose The Reluctant Fundamentalist engages with 9/11 and terror more frontally. The paper goes on to consider the Pakistani woman Mukhtar Mai’s narrative In the Name of Honour: A Memoir, and the Afghan writer Khaled Hosseini’s two novels, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. It suggests that, while these insider texts are not about 9/11 centrally, but about a post 9/11 world dominated by fundamentalist Talibanism, they are heavily compromised by their dependence on American authenticating interventions and patronage. The exploration of these texts raises questions about whether terror and trauma can be represented at all, who may represent it, how much and to whom. These are centrally ethical considerations.
Civilizing America: Manners and Civility in American Literature and Culture
Authors: Ramanan Mohan
Published: June 2023

Dietmar Schloss, ed.Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter. American Studies. A Monograph Series. Vol. 178, 2009.
Translating Images: The Impact of the Image on the Translation of Disney's Alice in Wonderland into Spanish
Authors: M.ª Pilar González Vera
Published: June 2023

The aim of this paper is to analyse the Spanish dubbed version of the 1951 Disney animated film Alice in Wonderland, based largely on Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and on some passages from Through the Looking-Glass. The paper analyses the relationship between the visual and the verbal elements found throughout this film. Through an analysis of some examples taken from the Spanish dubbed version of the film, this article shows how the visual becomes a crucial issue in the translation of this film where visual elements merge into the verbal discourse.
The East Looks at the West, the Woman Looks at the Man: A Study of the Gaze in Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Authors: Pereira-Ares Noemí
Published: June 2023

The present contribution intends to study the subversive implications of the narratological technique of focalization in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. Relying on postcolonial and gender studies, I argue that, in Brick Lane, Ali uses focalization to subvert the prevailing centrality of both the white western gaze –the “imperial gaze” as defined by Kaplan (1997)– and the male gaze. To this effect, Ali has created a narrative in which the main focalizer, Nazneen, is a Spivakian subaltern female character, a character who, moreover, is recurrently looking at and scrutinizing western and eastern, dressed and undressed, male and female bodies.
Syntactic and Semantic Rules in Old English Adjective Formation
Authors: Raquel Vea Escarza
Published: June 2023

The aim of this journal article is to offer a paradigmatic analysis of the formation of adjectives by means of affixation in Old English.  More specifically, the focus is on the change of meaning attributable to the processes of word-formation that turn out affixal adjectives. In a paradigmatic model, the formal modification of stems maps onto semantic and/or syntactic modifications, which are couched in terms of semantic and syntactic rules. After an analysis of the semantic and syntactic rules that apply in the formation of 3,365 derived adjectives, two conclusions are reached. In the first place, 19 prefixes out of 56 perform one derivational function, as opposed to 21 suffixes out of a total of 51, which means that the degree of polysemy displayed by prefixes is slightly higher than that of suffixes. Secondly, only two derivational functions are realized by one affix, which also shows that a one-to-one correspondence between affixes and derivational functions is the exception rather than the rule.
Vowel-colour Symbolism in English and Arabic: A Comparative Study
Authors: Pilar Mompeán Guillamón
Published: June 2023

Sound symbolism, or the non-arbitrary relationship between the formal and the semantic components of language, has traditionally been a neglected area, mostly due to the strong influence of Saussure’s structuralism during the 20th century. However, it is nowadays receiving strong attention and being subjected to relevant experimental work. The present paper aims at contributing to the field of sound symbolism by means of two experimental tasks with English and Arabic participants that analyse the connection between vowel sounds and colours. The data gathered suggest that participants strongly associate sounds and colours at a better than chance degree, and that although coincidences between the two languages studied exist, the association seems to be strongly influenced by linguistic, cultural and idiosyncratic factors
El tratamiento de los verbos de manera de movimiento y de los caminos en la traducción inglés-español de textos narrativos
Authors: Paula Cifuentes Férez
Published: June 2023

Se cree que las diferencias en los patrones de lexicalización de los acontecimientos de movimiento (Talmy 1985, 1991, 2000) en inglés y español dan lugar a dos estilos narrativos distintos (Slobin 1991, 1996, 2004). Por un lado, las narraciones en inglés proporcionan descripciones dinámicas cargadas de detalles sobre la manera de moverse y ricas trayectorias; por otro lado, en las novelas en español encontramos descripciones menos dinámicas que se centran principalmente en el punto final de la trayectoria y que contienen menos información sobre la manera de moverse. Mediante el uso de un corpus paralelo inglés-español, en este estudio exploramos (a) los problemas de traducción en un texto narrativo causados por los diferentes patrones de lexicalización de los eventos de movimiento, (b) las estrategias que utiliza el traductor para superar esos problemas a la vez que intenta ser fiel al estilo narrativo de la lengua meta, y (c) las diferencias entre el texto fuente inglés y el texto meta español en términos de dinamicidad. Además de corroborar los hallazgos previos de la bibliografía existente, esta investigación demuestra que en español la codificación de la información de modo más allá de la frase verbal cumple una función compensatoria, y algunos tipos de trayectos son candidatos propensos a perderse en la traducción.
On the Trigger of V-to-T
Authors: Concha Castillo Orihuela
Published: June 2023

This paper deals with the trigger of V-to-T movement and claims that rich morphology is the actual cause of verb-raising as occurring in core or narrow syntax. After rejecting a gross analysis of φ–features and/or τ–features as the cause of V-to-T, it is argued that the trigger of V-to-T lies in a stem-feature that T must value, which corresponds morphologically with the so-called thematic or stem vowel, and which is responsible for the availability (in V-moving languages) of productive stem verb classes. The relevant productivity lies in the systematic co-variation of φ–features and/or τ–features throughout the verbal paradigms of corresponding languages. The account proposed of the computation of T´s features in core or narrow syntax (among which is the cited T´s stem-feature) is based originally on Pesetsky and Torrego´s (2004b/2007) idea that T´s features can be interpretable though unvalued on T itself. The last Sections of the paper focus on the loss of V-to-T in the Germanic family of languages, which correlates with the demise in their productive stem verb classes. In the specific case of English, it is argued that the process of development of the new auxiliary do, which in turn depends on the reanalysis of modals, is responsible for the time-gap existing between the loss of T´s stem-feature and the loss of V-to-T in the language.
9/11 and the Power of the Network Society in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel
Authors: Urtiaga Rosa
Published: June 2023

In this article, I propose an analysis of Babel’s critique of unequal power relations in the global network society, in particular, after the 9/11 attacks. The events precipitated a new state-centered politics, which made military war on terror inevitable and justified, forgetting about the cosmopolitan concerns that, in the view of many, had started to flourish by the late 1990s, in the wake of the cold war. I draw on Manuel Castells’s belief that, although a network-based society is ideally a non-centered form of social structure, it is also a source of dramatic reorganization of power relationships. In this sense, my analysis suggests that Babel deviates from decentralized narrative conventions of ensemble movies, and that its uneven structure problematizes positions of domination and subordination in the global war on terror. In particular, Babel’s deviant structure is deconstructed as a parallel artifact of the film’s thematic critique of non-cosmopolitan power relations in the global network society.
The Cruelty of Kin: Rejection and Abjection in Rebecca Brown's Representations of Parent-Child Relationships
Authors: Xhonneux Lisa
Published: June 2023

The work of the contemporary lesbian author Rebecca Brown can be read as a dramatization of the chosen nature of biological kinship ties –ties that are, in popular belief as in academic circles, still often considered “natural” and, therefore, dependable. Focusing on familial homophobia brings to the fore this element of choice: several of Brown’s lesbian protagonists find the “enduring solidarity” that anthropologist David Schneider famously attributed to the biological family radically contested. Brown further dissolves the naturalness of biological kinship through horrifying descriptions of childbirth, and through portrayals of her mother characters’ lack of attachment to their babies. Presenting these infants as abjects, Brown also steers clear of the passivity of the motherly “vessel” that is apparent from standard theoretical accounts on abjection, which inevitably relegate the mother’s body to the realm of the abject. Many of the babies of her lesbian protagonists, moreover, grow up to be monstrous kids. Thus Brown can be seen to contest the idea of the saintly child as our hope for the future for which everything has to be done –an ideology Lee Edelman has termed “reproductive futurism”, and which is frequently used against queers, whose sexuality is deemed incompatible with futurity.
Incidental Vocabulary Learning and Retention in Education-oriented L2 Communicative Tasks
Authors: Garcés-Manzanera Aitor
Published: June 2023

Vocabulary learning is pivotal for language learning as it is a cross-sectional aspect related to both receptive and productive skills. L2 vocabulary learning has given way to a substantial body of research in which the role of implicit and explicit instruction has been central. Bearing in mind the importance of communicative tasks as sources for vocabulary learning, this study will explore how vocabulary presented with context and without context is retained. 39 undergraduate students were assigned to each of these conditions, and after performing a communicative task which included a warm-up activity with a set of 15 target words, they completed a word meaning test (post-test) and repeated the same test after two weeks. The data gathered was analyzed using a quantitative approach. Findings indicate that the type of vocabulary test with context-embedded words is more effective for vocabulary retention in the short term. Nevertheless, multi-word items were better identified with the no-context vocabulary test, a finding supported by previous research. The present study raises the possibility that different vocabulary strategies are used by EFL learners, and that warm-up activities may contribute to L2 vocabulary learning.
Descrição fitossociológica da comunidade herbácea das dunas de Curupu, Raposa, Maranhão
Authors: Amorim Ingrid Fabiana Fonseca , Silva Antonio Fernando Costa da , Amorim Gabriela dos Santos , Guterres Aryana Vasque Frota , Almeida Jr Eduardo Bezerra
Published: June 2023

O Brasil apresenta uma imensa extensão territorial e grande faixa litorânea, com vegetação de dunas e restingas observadas ao longo da costa do país. O presente estudo teve como objetivo realizar um levantamento fitossociológico da vegetação herbácea das dunas da Ilha de Curupu, município de Raposa/MA, com o intuito de contribuir para a conservação da vegetação de dunas e ampliar as informações sobre a comunidade herbácea no Estado do Maranhão. Para o levantamento fitossociológico foi utilizado o método de parcelas 1x1m, sendo alocadas 50 parcelas. Foram analisados os seguintes parâmetros fitossociológicos: cobertura, frequência relativa, valor de importância, índice de diversidade de Shannon (H´c), equabilidade de Pielou (J´c) e riqueza total. Foram encontradas 25 espécies, distribuídas em 11 famílias. Com maior VI: Ipomoea pes-caprae (52,88%), Sporobolus virginicus (27,61%), Turnera pumilea (14,25%) e Cenchrus echinatus (11,28%). Os valores de diversidade foram: H'c de 2,47 nats/m² e de equabilidade J'c de 0,74. Apesar do estrato herbáceo das dunas de Curupu apresentar semelhança com outras áreas de dunas do Maranhão, essa composição contribui para a diversidade herbácea local.Palavras-chave: diversidade, restinga, arranjo estrutural. Phytosociological description of the herbaceous community of the dunes Curupu, Raposa, Maranhão state A B S T R A C TBrazil has a large territorial extension and immense coastal strip, with vegetation of dunes and restingas observed along the coast of the country. The present study aimed to carry out a phytosociological survey of the herbaceous vegetation of the dunes of Ilha de Curupu, municipality of Raposa /MA to contribute to the conservation of dune vegetation and to expand information on the herbaceous community for Maranhão state. For the phytosociological survey, the method of plots1x1m was used, 50 installments being allocated. The following phytosociological parameters were used: coverage, relative frequency, and importance value, diversity measures: Shannon diversity index (H´c), Pielou equability (J´c), and total richness. We found 25 species, distributed in 11 families. Ipomoea pes-caprae (52.88%), Sporobolus virginicus (27.61%), Turnera pumilea (14.25%), and Cenchrus echinatus (11.28%) are more representative in the area. The diversity values were H'c of 2.47 nats/m² and the equability J'c of 0.74. Although the herbaceous layer of the Curupu dunes is similar to other dune areas in Maranhão, this composition contributes to the local herbaceous diversity.