bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Are lateral compartment osteophytes a predictor for lateral cartilage damage in varus osteoarthritic knees?
Authors: Faschingbauer M. , Renner L. , Waldstein W. , Boettner F.
Published: December 2015

We studied whether the presence of lateral osteophytes on plain radiographs was a predictor for the quality of cartilage in the lateral compartment of patients with varus osteoarthritic of the knee (Kellgren and Lawrence grade 2 to 3).

The baseline MRIs of 344 patients from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) who had varus osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee on hip-knee-ankle radiographs were reviewed. Patients were categorised using the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) osteophyte grading system into 174 patients with grade 0 (no osteophytes), 128 grade 1 (mild osteophytes), 28 grade 2 (moderate osteophytes) and 14 grade 3 (severe osteophytes) in the lateral compartment (tibia). All patients had Kellgren and Lawrence grade 2 or 3 arthritis of the medial compartment. The thickness and volume of the lateral cartilage and the percentage of full-thickness cartilage defects in the lateral compartment was analysed.

There was no difference in the cartilage thickness or cartilage volume between knees with osteophyte grades 0 to 3. The percentage of full-thickness cartilage defects on the tibial side increased from < 2% for grade 0 and 1 to 10% for grade 3.

The lateral compartment cartilage volume and thickness is not influenced by the presence of lateral compartment osteophytes in patients with varus OA of the knee. Large lateral compartment osteophytes (grade 3) increase the likelihood of full-thickness cartilage defects in the lateral compartment.

Cite this article: Bone Joint J 2015;97-B:1634–9.
Conference Précis
Authors: Kale Gül , Amygdalou Kalliopi
Published: December 2015

‘FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURES OF LEARNING IN ISLAMIC ART’, FOURTH BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM, HISTORIANS OF ISLAMIC ART ASSOCIATION, Aga Khan Museum , Toronto , Canada , OCTOBER 16–18, 2014

‘THE LEVANTINES: COMMERCE & DIPLOMACY’, FIRST INTERNATIONAL LEVANTINE CONFERENCE, THE LEVANTINE HERITAGE FOUNDATION, BRITISH CONSULATE-GENERAL, ISTANBUL AND ITALIAN INSTITUTE OF CULTURE, ISTANBUL, TURKEY, NOVEMBER 3–5, 2014
The Jordan Gate Towers of Amman: Surrendering Public Space to Build a Neoliberal Ruin
Authors: Abu-Hamdi Eliana
Published: December 2015

The Jordan Gate Towers of Amman, a luxury development, provide a case study of forms of planning practice undertaken as part of neoliberal processes in a city aspiring for regional relevance, well timed with the receipt of transnational capital investment. Deregulated planning practice in Amman became a vehicle for the inversion of the process of eminent domain and the subsequent appropriation of public property for private profit. The result is a compromise of public interest in favor of government collaboration with private developers, a conundrum examined in this article through the case of the Jordan Gate Towers. Findings are based upon data and documents collected from the municipality, and interviews with city officials.
A Danish perspective of culture and health – towards an interdisciplinary approach
Authors: Jensen Anita , Wille Gitte Grönfeld
Published: December 2015

This article considers how arts and cultural activities can arguably play a significant role in addressing public health issues. While culture and health projects gather momentum in the rest of Scandinavia, it appears that Denmark is lacking behind. This article looks at why this might be, reflecting on the structure of the health care system and policy-making in the health sector in Denmark. In the process, the article identifies the sociopolitical situation and recommends a way forward requiring an interdisciplinary approach, recognizing that while some initiatives are happening the lack of a cross-sector approach makes it difficult to develop a strategic field for arts and health in Denmark. This article makes recommendations for a national and a Scandinavian network, to inform decision-making processes for an interdisciplinary political approach, and to uncover untapped potential in arts and health projects.
Five Ghontological scribbles
Authors: Hazra Abhishek
Published: December 2015

The Ghanada stories, a landmark series in Bengali science fiction, authored by Premendra Mitra (1904–1988; poet, short story writer, filmmaker) between mid-forties and mid-eighties, often feature intriguing, single worded titles like Insect, Hole or Phial. One is drawn precisely to the incredulity of the contrast between these apparently banal objects and their supposed role in events and process of historical significance, often rendered with a strong counterfactual flavour: a contrast that serves well as the narrative fulcrum of these ‘tall tales’. However, one could also read these stories as sites where these objects are actively foregrounded as objects in themselves, as artefacts arising as dense nodes in a web of networks and actants. Playing with the neologism of ‘Ghontology’, this piece of speculative fiction is guided by the image of a room where one could potentially listen to a conversation between objects that frequent the Ghanada universe: a wonder cabinet where phials and umbrellas jostle with dormant volcanoes and green algae. Sitting in this room, the reverberations and feedback loops might also tempt the reader to reflect on monads and hydraulics in diamond mines.
E-administration activities and sustainable management: The case for a multidimensional approach
Authors: Bouzidi Laïd , Boulesnane Sabrina
Published: December 2015

The Information and Communication Technologies’ (ICT) integration in administration activities provides different managerial implications. The use of ICT helps public services in transforming their ‘traditional’ into more effective and sustainable management practices. The experience of e-administration implementation taking into account a ‘Sustainable management’ dimension will require the adoption of multidimensional approach based on a Human, Activity and Technological dimensions. We associate to these different dimensions a transversal level: Green or sustainable dimension. The main challenge is the implementation of systems able to guarantee to citizens, companies, administrations and international institutions the real access to these systems based on sustainable uses and practices.
Alfonso Pérez-Agote y el oficio de sociólogo
Authors: Muriel Daniel
Published: December 2015

En este artículo reflexiono sobre los fundamentos del oficio de sociólogo a partir de un axioma extraído de los preceptos teóricos de Alfonso Pérez-Agote, por el que la labor esencial del científico social descansa en aproximarse a las representaciones sociales que hacen los actores de la realidad en la que viven sin definirla de antemano. Este principio es puesto bajo la lupa crítica de ciertas corrientes contemporáneas posestructuralistas y matizado en consecuencia, sin renunciar, por ello, a su validez como fundamento que ha de regir el oficio sociológico.
Trabajo, jóvenes e identidad en un contexto de crisis de los referentes modernos: una aproximación a la figura del emprendedor
Authors: Carbajo Padilla Diego , Santamaría López Elsa
Published: December 2015

Junto con cuestiones como el nacionalismo, las identidades o la secularización, uno los ejes transversales en la obra de Alfonso Pérez-Agote es el de los procesos de desinstitucionalización. Este artículo toma este eje como potente herramienta teórica para estudiar las transformaciones del mundo del trabajo y de la juventud y tiene como objetivo, a través de su análisis y discusión, actualizarlo y situarlo en una de las cuestiones que ha adquirido fuerza en los últimos años: el emprendimiento. Queremos evidenciar con ello que las contribuciones de Alfonso Pérez-Agote permiten desarrollar líneas de reflexión muy productivas para encarar sociológicamente cambios que, a día de hoy, se están produciendo en lo laboral y que también lo transcienden.
Las escalas de lo social
Authors: Barañano Margarita
Published: December 2015

Si bien el estudio de las transformaciones de lo social a partir de la noción de escala no es central en la obra de Pérez-Agote, cabe encontrar en ella análisis que resultan de utilidad al respecto. En primer lugar, se apoya en una consideración multiescalar y multidimensional de la vida social, que tiene en cuenta no sólo los aspectos socio-económicos o su delimitación político-administrativa sino también su fundamentación territorial, simbólica e identitaria. Esta aproximación le permite examinar algunas de las dislocaciones más debatidas de la modernidad, que la mundialización agudiza, como la derivada de la separación creciente entre la escala territorial, preferentemente local, en la que se despliegan nuestras vidas, de un lado, y aquellas otras escalas, cada vez más distantes, en las que se gestan muchos de los procesos que afectan de un modo central a dichas vidas. También facilita tener en cuenta la atención a distintas escalas emergentes, como la subestatal. Pérez-Agote ofrece, además, valiosos análisis para una comprensión multiescalar alejada de su equiparación con una suerte de jerarquización lineal y constante entre las distintas escalas, así como para comprender el “salto de escalas” y las “política de escala”. Por último, los debates sobre el estatuto científico de la noción de escala se asemejan a los referidos a conceptos estratégicos en su obra, como el de nación.
Nacionalismo y violencia en el País Vasco. Factores y mecanismos del auge y declive de ETA
Authors: Tejerina Benjamín
Published: December 2015

La violencia política, en sus múltiples manifestaciones, ha condicionado las prácticas sociales y el imaginario de la sociedad vasca en las últimas décadas. El inicio de este proceso se produce en pleno franquismo cuando el nacionalismo vasco experimenta una profunda mutación que ha marcado la vida cotidiana y la estructura institucional de la sociedad vasca desde entonces. Hace ahora cuatro años, el 20 de octubre de 2011, Euskadi ta Askatasuna (ETA) anuncia el cese definitivo de la utilización de la violencia. Se han realizado numerosas investigaciones sobre el origen y la evolución del nacionalismo vasco radical para entender los cambios que ha experimentado a lo largo del tiempo. En este artículo se analiza el proceso de expansión y declive de la actividad de ETA y de los apoyos sociales y políticos con los que ha contado a lo largo de este tiempo. A partir de las investigaciones sobre el nacionalismo vasco realizadas por Alfonso Pérez-Agote a lo largo de tres décadas tratamos de completar su explicación sobre la violencia política prestando atención a la movilización social en torno a ella. A partir de los resultados de varias investigaciones, y siguiendo una lógica histórica que arranca en la dictadura franquista y culmina en la primera década del siglo XXI, se analizan los mecanismos sociales (cognitivos, afectivos y prácticos) que han posibilitado su mantenimiento a lo largo del tiempo y su progresiva erosión.
A INFLUÊNCIA DA ESTRATÉGIA E DA CAPACIDADE DE EXECUTÁ-LA NO DESEMPENHO EMPRESARIAL DO SEGMENTO DE CONFECÇÕES
Authors: Costa Romulo Bernardino Lopes da , Batista Paulo César De Sousa , De Almeida Fátima Evaneide Barbosa
Published: December 2015

Este estudo buscou investigar a relação entre estratégia e desempenho por meio da identificação dos tipos de estratégia executados pelas empresas no segmento de confecções, bem como da capacidade de executá-las e da satisfação com o desempenho obtido. Além disso, buscou-se identificar a estratégia vencedora nesse segmento industrial, que vem sendo confrontado – com ampla desvantagem para as empresas brasileiras – com a competitividade das empresas asiáticas, sobretudo chinesas, na competição de baixo custo. Para atingir os objetivos da pesquisa, foi realizado um levantamento com empresários e executivos do ramo. O instrumento de coleta dos dados continha as escalas adaptadas de tipologia estratégica e de expectativa de desempenho usada por Parnell (2011) e da escala de mensuração da eficácia da execução estratégica proposta por Costa et al. (2012). Os dados foram tratados via estatística descritiva, análise fatorial exploratória e confirmatória e modelagem de equações estruturais. Os resultados evidenciaram que a capacidade de execução e a estratégia de diferenciação influenciam positivamente a satisfação com o desempenho empresarial. Por outro lado, não houve como confirmar ou negar o impacto da estratégia de liderança em custos e de enfoque no desempenho, dado que essas relações causais não se mostraram significativas.
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION PROCESS OF THE SUPPORT PROGRAM FOR EXCHANGE STUDENTS FROM THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ
Authors: Aguiar Italo Cavalcante , Lessa Bruno De Souza , Marino Pedro Barros Leal Pinheiro , Braga Danielle Soares Gonçalves , Cabral Augusto Cesar de Aquino , Dos Santos Sandra Maria
Published: December 2015

The Support Program for Exchange Students (PAI, in Portuguese) is an initiative of the School of Economics, Administration, Actuarial Sciences and Accounting (FEAAC, in Portuguese), run in partnership with the Coordination of International Affairs from the Federal University of Ceará (UFC, in Portuguese). The objective of this paper is to present the current stage of the PAI institutionalization process. The detailing of this institutionalization process was operationalized through the model proposed by Tolbert and Zucker (1999). This research was developed using a qualitative approach. In terms of methodology, it is an exploratory and descriptive study, using interviews as well as bibliographical, documental and field research as sources for the data collection, following the criteria established by Gil (2002) and Vergara (2007). The data were analysed utilizing Bardin’s technique of content analysis (2009). It was concluded that the process of internationalization is in the pre-institutionalization stage, given that it is developing standardized procedures for resolving issues related to the Program, which may be considered an active force in its habitualization process. This article contributes to academic knowledge by highlighting the relevance of giving support to foreign university students, as well as the importance of its institutionalization, enabling the replication of similar initiatives in other universities.
AÇÕES EM MARKETING SOCIAL DO PONTO DE VISTA DA LÓGICA DOMINADA PELO SERVIÇO: O CASO DO PROGRAMA “O JOVEM E A MOBILIDADE”
Authors: Higuchi Agnaldo Keiti , Dimeira Natalina Alice Couto , Macedo Reginaldo Morais de , Veiga Ricardo Teixeira
Published: December 2015

O marketing social visa promover a qualidade de vida das pessoas, por exemplo, visa convencer pessoas em risco social a adotar voluntariamente comportamentos que tragam segurança e bem-estar, individualmente e coletivamente. Entretanto, normalmente programas de marketing social são elaborados com base na Lógica Dominada pelo Produto (em inglês, ‘Good-Dominant Logic”, ou seja, GD-L), a qual, segundo Vargo e Lusch (2006, 2010), apresenta várias limitações. Uma delas é não considerar clientes como parceiros, capazes de auxiliar na provisão do serviço, nem como beneficiários que participam na cocriação de valor, auxiliando o provedor do serviço. Para superar essas e outras deficiências, Vargo e Lusch propõem nova perspectiva: a Lógica Dominada pelo Serviço (“Service-Dominant Logic”, abreviada, em português, como LDS). Este é um estudo descritivo e qualitativo, no qual o programa social “O Jovem e a Mobilidade” é analisado, adotando-se a LDS como estrutura teórica. Dados obtidos com pesquisa documental e entrevista semiestruturada foram analisados. Resultados mostram que alguns procedimentos do programa remetem a premissas da LDS, por exemplo, a importância atribuída pela coordenadora pedagógica à participação dos alunos na coprodução das atividades evidencia que ela considera os alunos como recursos operantes. Por outro lado, o conteúdo do relatório de atividades do programa revelou-se inteiramente voltado para a LDP, porque destaca a eficiência em vez da eficácia.
Entre velléité et opiniâtreté: La création du ministère des Colonies en France (1858–1894)
Authors: d'Andurain Julie
Published: December 2015

Even before the colonial expansion of the Third Republic, the question of forming a separate Ministry of the Colonies had already been raised. The creation of this ministry had been delayed for a long time due to the existence of an undersecretary for Colonial Affairs. The project of determining the duties and limits of a new ministry covering colonial issues in their entirety became a constitutional necessity in the early 1890s. Despite hesitations in the Senate, the parliamentary deputies of the “parti colonial” under the leadership of Eugène Etienne, the “pope of the colonialists,” organized themselves to create this indispensible ministry. However, the Ministry of Colonies appeared to be a “rump ministry” in its early years, due to the heavy influence of the “parti colonial” and the lack of a definitive settlement of the structure and role of the colonial army.
Linguistique coloniale au XIXe siècle: Le discours racialiste dans la recherche française sur les langues créoles
Authors: Krämer Philipp
Published: December 2015

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, a strong racist discourse was displayed in texts about Creole languages. Authors such as Mauritius-born Charles Baissac established explanations about the emergence of Creole languages and their specific structure, arguing that these particularities can only be seen as a result of contact between two races of different physical, mental, and social predispositions. As shown in Edward Said's “Orientalism,” scientific work in philology (and other disciplines) cannot be separated from structures of power and domination. Creole languages formed an urgent problem for colonial France as they initially emerged from the prestigious French language and yet had to be integrated into the paradigm of inferiority of colonized peoples and cultures. Linguistic descriptions of Creoles are therefore marked with a strong effort to reconcile the French heritage of these languages with the claim of domination over the community of Creole speakers.

Still, contradictions and nuances in the texts of late-nineteenth-century research on Creole languages, carried out often by native speakers who had grown up in the colonies, may help to identify statements that transport an individual view of the triangular relation between language, race, and mind. Even in its not quite institutionalized state as a discipline, early creolistics displays a remarkable degree of cross-national connections that demonstrate how difficult it is to classify philological branches along national affiliation.
Se souvenir de l'Indochine L'écriture des femmes engagées dans l'armée française, entre mémoire de guerre et récit de voyage
Authors: Jauneau Elodie
Published: December 2015

From 1945 to 1954, France was at war in Vietnam. Many women who enlisted in the French armed forces after 1940 joined the French Far Eastern Expedition Corps and served well beyond Europe. In 1954, the French-Vietnam war ended in a double loss for French soldiers—a personal as well as a military defeat. With more women serving in and with the military after World War II, women's memories of military service also included the testimony of veterans of the war in Indochina. Many of these women recalled their personal war experiences, sometimes immediately afterward, sometimes many years after the conflict. These memories of women at war are a previously unexplored set of sources of historical memories of the French-Vietnam war, which up to now have been produced mainly, if not exclusively, by men. This study thus shows how feminine authors in the French military expressed their views, between memories of war and travel accounts.
To “Dance with Lost Souls”: Liu Xiaobo, Charter 08, and the Contested Rhetorics of Democracy and Human Rights in China
Authors: Hartnett Stephen John
Published: December 2015

This essay addresses China's Nobel Peace Prize-winning and now imprisoned dissident, Liu Xiaobo, and his movement-launching manifesto, Charter 08, as test cases of the fate of democracy in China. By examining how the Chinese Communist Party attacked Liu and how international nongovernmental organizations and political allies rallied to his cause, the essay probes the limits of human rights discourse in an age of globalization, wherein transnational ideals of justice crash into nation states committed to local rather than global forms of governance. Such rhetorical concerns are tempered by China's increasing dominance of global markets, meaning this essay also studies the complicated relationships among local activists, international justice movements, and neoliberal capitalism. The essay therefore maps how China marshals the rhetoric of globalization to enter new markets even as it deploys the rhetoric of nationalism to block foreign influence. Nonetheless, Charter 08's prophetic rhetoric and Liu's heroic charisma have struck a chord internationally, thus opening a new chapter in the movement to call upon globalizing human rights in the name of building democracy in China.
“Out of Chaos Breathes Creation”: Human Agency, Mental Illness, and Conservative Arguments Locating Responsibility for the Tucson Massacre
Authors: Smith Francesca Marie , Hollihan Thomas A.
Published: December 2015

In this essay, we examine public responses to Jared Lee Loughner’s attempted assassination of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, focusing in particular on the rhetorical strategies employed by political conservatives. We argue that the most prominent conservative reactions either undermined the potential for reasoned debate and a cohesive narrative regarding the causes of the attack or, by emphasizing Loughner’s agency as an individual, deranged actor, painted the event in a way that failed to provide transformative redemption, foreclosed even the possibility of a rhetorically satisfying sense of justice, and preempted what could otherwise have been a rich, deliberative deployment of civility. We utilize Kenneth Burke’s dramatism in speculating about possible alternative interpretations of the situation, hopeful that such an analysis might offer both the public and the government more effective rhetorical resources for dealing with and even preventing such increasingly common tragedies. In particular, we advocate the use of a hybrid, tragicomic frame—a sort of Burkean Serenity Prayer in which we accept the things we cannot change while still finding the inspiration, strength, and wisdom to respond productively—alongside a multifaceted set of pentadic ratios to address the complex demands created by mental illness.
Facing Moloch: Barack Obama’s National Eulogies and Gun Violence
Authors: Frank David A.
Published: December 2015

During his first term as president, Barack Obama delivered four national eulogies at the sites of gun violence tragedies, two of which garnered considerable national attention: one delivered in Tucson, Arizona on January 12, 2011 (following the attack on Representative Gabrielle Giffords and an assembled crowd), and another in Newtown, Connecticut on December 16, 2012 (following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School). The deaths of innocents, the result of a host of causes, required the president to face the issue of gun violence, help the nation work through the trauma, and create the conditions of civility necessary for policy action. At Tucson, Obama drew from the book of Job to explain that the evil in Tucson happened “for reasons that defy human understanding.” In his Newtown address, Obama replaced the more fatalistic theology of his Tucson memorial with a spirit of perseverance and renewal rooted in 2 Corinthians. In this essay, I suggest that Obama’s eulogy at Newtown serves as a counterpart to the call Obama advanced in the Tucson address. I argue that, though the messages embedded in the Tucson speech serve as a legitimate theological and epistemological check on the presumptions of reason, the Newtown address better met the aspirations of civility because it led to a consideration of policies designed to reduce gun violence.
The Road Not Taken in Opinion Research: Mass-Observation in Great Britain, 1937–1940
Authors: Hogan J. Michael
Published: December 2015

This essay examines an early alternative to polling, Mass-Observation (M-O), that dramatically reported on the nuances, contradictions, and passions of public opinion during some of the most extraordinary times in British history. Between the Abdication Crisis of 1937 and the start of World War II, M-O’s combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, along with its emphasis on the cultural context of public opinion, produced a richer, more textured, and more deliberative rhetoric of public opinion than the Gallup poll’s survey techniques. In the process, M-O foreshadowed many of today’s scholarly trends, including the reflexive turn in social research, increased skepticism about the knowledge claims of science, and the emergence of more public scholarship.
As virtudes nas organizações
Authors: Cunha Miguel Pina e , Rego Arménio
Published: December 2015

O termo “virtudes” andou arredado do léxicoorganizacional. Todavia, mais recentemente, uma vaga de interesse motivada porescândalos no mundo empresarial (particularmente no setor financeiro) trouxe asvirtudes para o centro do palco. Neste artigo, discutimos a noção de virtude,apresentamos um quarteto de perspetivas complementares sobre a virtude enquantoprocesso organizacional, e discutimos formas possíveis de estimular a práticaorganizacional virtuosa numa perspetiva de comportamento organizacional.
Emoções em contexto académico: Relações com clima de sala de aula, autoconceito e resultados escolares.
Authors: Mata Lourdes , Peixoto Francisco , Monteiro Vera , Sanches Cristina , Pereira Marisa
Published: December 2015

As salas de aula são espaços onde os alunos interagem com o professor e com os colegas, enfrentandodesafios, dificuldades e objetivos a atingir, que conduzem a situações de maior ou menor sucesso,desencadeando emoções várias que poderão afetar a aprendizagem. Assim, na presente investigaçãoprocurámos compreender as caraterísticas das emoções na aula de matemática e perceber o papel devariáveis contextuais, como o clima de sala de aula, ou pessoais como o desempenho escolar, oautoconceito e autoestima, na diferenciação dessas emoções. Participaram neste estudo 717 alunosdo 7º e 8º anos de escolaridade sendo 355 do sexo masculino (49.5%). Foram utilizadas três escalas:uma de autoconceito e autoestima, uma de clima de sala de aula e uma sobre as emoções vivenciadasna sala de aula. Constatámos que o género não é uma variável importante para compreender asEmoções Positivas e Negativas ao contrário de variáveis como o desempenho e crenças pessoais (e.g.,Autoconceito Académico, Atitudes). Embora o maior valor explicativo das emoções decorresse dascrenças pessoais pudemos concluir que variáveis relacionais associadas ao apoio dos colegas eprofessor não podem ser descuradas. O conjunto destas variáveis permitiu ter uma visão mais completado contributo de cada uma delas e encontrar algumas especificidades para as Emoções Positivas e Negativas.
Scholar
Authors: McGann Jerome
Published: December 2015

A poem in honor of David Greetham
Bédier’s Contribution to the Accomplishment of Stemmatic Method, An Italian Perspective
Authors: Trovato Paolo
Published: December 2015

This paper is concerned with an aspects of Bédier’s legacy, possibly the least known in the English-speaking world. Bédier›s works of 1913 and 1928–29 did not just create a schism in the apparently peaceful context of textual scholarship: through his statements, critical editions produced with a single copy-text regained the academic prestige that Gaston Paris› adaptations of stemmatic method had taken away from them. Since then, Bédier›s objections have also forced meticulous textual critics to rethink their editorial practice: though retaining the method of shared errors, such scholars (often scarcely known outside Italy) have brought important progress in the methods of textual criticism.
Zur Nachnutzung von bibliographischen Katalog- und Normdaten für die persönliche Literaturverwaltung und Wissensorganisation
Authors: Zumstein Philipp , Stöhr Matti
Published: December 2015

Literaturverwaltungsprogramme haben sich zu funktionsmächtigen, alltäglichen Begleitern des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens sowie auch allgemein für die persönliche Wissensorganisation entwickelt. Eine seit jeher zentrale Funktion dieser Tools ist die Übernahme bibliographischer Daten aus Datenbanken, insbesondere aus elektronischen Bibliothekskatalogen (OPACs). Im Artikel werden die Möglichkeiten und die Qualität des Datenimports aus OPACs in die persönliche Literaturverwaltung diskutiert. Als ein wesentliches Desiderat wird dabei die Nachnutzung von Normdaten herausgearbeitet. Zudem wird eine Sensibilisierung für Anwendungen der persönlichen Literaturverwaltung bei der Katalogisierung oder Konzeption des Webkatalogs als notwendig erachtet.
Proposed Concept of Segmentation of Traditional Japanese Emissive Market for Managing Tourist Promotion of Mediterranean Countries
Authors: Šerić Neven , Vitner Marković Silvija , Tamari Tutnjević Svemir
Published: December 2015

The concept of segmentation strategy of targeted emissive market is a usable starting point for efficient managing of promotion of receptive tourist destination. Growth in number of competing Mediterranean countries receptive tourist offers, conditions the need for the segmentation of specific emissive markets within the scope of the adjustment in the promotion itself. If this condition is not met, the presence of certain tourist segments may fail to meet the expectations. Segmentation becomes a strategic marketing tool of specialized tourist promotion of the receptive country itself when dealing with the emissive market characterized by the high non-accommodation, self-catering vacation rentals consumption. Promotion in tourism should send clear messages to the sought after, tourist segments regarding what is and how it is being offered. Undifferentiated marketing meant only for specific emissive market, weakens the tourist offers competitiveness and attractiveness. The strategic segments comprised in the process of segmentation, are selected in accordance with both the ability to meet the interests and trends in guests behaviour with available tourist resources of the receptive country. Tourist promotion thus takes over the role of the marketing tool in combining of the supply and demand, always in accordance with the goal strategic segment’s standards of the targeted emissive market. For the purpose of this paper the research of Japanese emissive market has been conducted. All tourist segments that can help Mediterranean countries, such as the Republic of Croatia to achieve the growth in tourist consumption and prolong the tourist season, are presented. Research and indepth analysis showed certain errors in the tourist promotion due to the neglect of the cultural specific quality and historic genesis of the targeted market. The fundamental research question is: there are enough segments on the Japanese emissive market for the efficient promotion of tourist resources of a typical Mediterranean country. All recommendable segments that can be classified as strategic are presented in this paper.
Safety Management Improvement Possibilities in Smes
Authors: Paas Õnnela , Reinhold Karin , Hartšenko Jelena , Tint Piia
Published: December 2015

The safety management system in 16 Estonian manufacturing companies (eight certified and eight noncertified in OHSAS (occupational health and safety management systems standard) 18001; four of the last corporated to the foreign firms) were investigated using the MISHA method. The results showed that if the advanced safety methods (like proposed by OHSAS 18001) are implemented by the initiative of the employers of the locally-owned Estonian SMEs, the level in safety performance, comparable with OHSAS certified companies could be achieved. The regression analysis showed strong correlation between the personnel management, safety activities in practice, communication, physical work environment, psychological working conditions, hazards analysis procedures and the safety level, R2= 0.7312-0.9596; medium correlation between the participation, personnel safety training, occupational accidents and illnesses, social work environment and the safety level (R2=0.3133-0.6044). Low correlation (R2= 0.2139) was recorded between the safety policy and the safety level and there was no correlation between the work ability of the employees and the safety level. The methods to improve the locally-owned enterprises’ safety level up to the corporated and OHSAS 18001 certified level are proposed. The cost of suitable safety measures is calculated. The MISHA method improvement possibilities for the use in the SMEs (small and medium size companies) are presented.
Consumers’ Attitudes Towards Cause-Related Marketing
Authors: Sinčić Ćorić Dubravka , Dropuljić Marija
Published: December 2015

The paper presents the development of 5-point Likert scale for measuring attitudes towards cause-related marketing, as well as its application on a sample of Croatian consumers. The results of the research show that respondents are familiar with cause-related marketing and regard it as a good investment in the community. They see cause-related marketing campaigns as a good communication tool; they find a cause to be relevant for their personal involvement in campaigns, although the match between the cause and the product’s characteristics seems to be less important. Finally, respondents do not find the size of the donation to be crucial for their participation in cause-related marketing campaigns, but they find it important to know about the size of the donation. The results of the research can serve to marketing managers, who need to thoroughly consider how to communicate specific elements of campaigns in order to achieve maximum understanding by the target group.
Financial Resource Allocation in a Project Portfolio: Analysing the Necessity to Integrate Sustainability into Resource Allocation
Authors: Dobrovolskienė Nomeda , Tamošiūnienė Rima
Published: December 2015

Resource allocation in a project portfolio is a complex decision-making process that is influenced by multiple and very often conflicting objectives. Furthermore, companies are coming under strong social pressure to integrate elements of sustainability into their decision-making process, which makes this process even more complex. Nowadays, the concept of sustainability is widely applied by many companies through their mission statement and strategy. It is also one of the most popular research fields for scholars. Despite the fact that sustainability is considered one of the most important challenges of our time, the integration of sustainability into project or project portfolio management (especially in resource allocation) is not fully recognised. This paper presents a literature-based analysis of the use of the sustainability concept in project management and therefore makes suggestions on how to integrate sustainability into resource allocation in a project portfolio.
Requirements for Cios' Competencies in the Czech Economy
Authors: Maryska Milos , Doucek Petr
Published: December 2015

Economy of the Czech Republic, just like the country’s ICT sector, underwent significant changes after 1990. The fall of socialism and transition to market economy had significant impact on development of ICT sector and its competitiveness. In the article, we analyze practical requirements in the field of strategic knowledge demanded from Chief Information Officers (CIOs). The analysis is based on a representative survey carried out among approximately 1,000 companies on the Czech market in 2006, 2010. The last survey in 2015 was performed in the form of interview in 147 corporations. The companies are divided by branch in economic sector, by dependence on ICT and by size. The requirements put on CIOs are divided into sixteen knowledge domains. The results of the survey indicate that ICT sector in Czech Republic has gone from centrally planned economy to almost advanced economy since 1990. This is evidenced by identified development of strategic knowledge and practical skills required from CIOs in Czech Republic between 2006, 2010 and 2015. Knowledge requirements on CIO’s degreased visible between year 2006 and 2015 but change between 2010 and 2015 is not noticeable. In general, we can say that requirements on CIO’s are in 2015 lower than in 2010 except domains like “Team leadership skills”, “IS/ICT knowledge”, “Knowledge in Business Sector” and “Law”.
Traveling Wave Solutions to the Burgers-αβ Equations
Authors: Moon Byungsoo
Published: December 2015

The Burgers-αβ equation, which was first introduced by Holm and Staley [4], is considered in the special case where

ν
=
0

${\nu=0}$

and

b
=
3

${b=3}$

. Traveling wave solutions are classified to the Burgers-αβ equation containing four parameters

b
,
α
,
ν

${b,\alpha,\nu}$

, and β, which is a nonintegrable nonlinear partial differential equation that coincides with the usual Burgers equation and viscous b-family of peakon equation, respectively, for two specific choices of the parameter

β
=
0

${\beta=0}$

and

β
=
1

${\beta=1}$

. Under the decay condition, it is shown that there are smooth, peaked and cusped traveling wave solutions of the Burgers-αβ equation with

ν
=
0

${\nu=0}$

and

b
=
3

${b=3}$

depending on the parameter β. Moreover, all traveling wave solutions without the decay condition are parametrized by the integration constant

k
1

∈
ℝ

${k_{1}\in\mathbb{R}}$

. In an appropriate limit

β
=
1

${\beta=1}$

, the previously known traveling wave solutions of the Degasperis–Procesi equation are recovered.
Multiple Solutions to (p,q)-Laplacian Problems with Resonant Concave Nonlinearity
Authors: Marano Salvatore A. , Mosconi Sunra J. N. , Papageorgiou Nikolaos S.
Published: December 2015

The existence of multiple solutions to a Dirichlet problem involving the

(
p
,
q
)

${(p,q)}$

-Laplacian is investigated via variational methods, truncation-comparison techniques, and Morse theory. The involved reaction term is resonant at infinity with respect to the first eigenvalue of

-

Δ
p

${-\Delta_{p}}$

in

W
0

1
,
p

⁢

(
Ω
)

${W^{1,p}_{0}(\Omega)}$

and exhibits a concave behavior near zero.
13. Partial Replacement of Soybean with Low-Tannin Faba Bean Varieties (Albus or Amulet): Effects on Growth Traits, Slaughtering Parameters and Meat Quality of Puławska Pigs
Authors: Milczarek Anna , Osek Maria
Published: December 2015

The study was carried out involving 48 fattening pigs split into 3 groups of equal size: one control (I) and two experimental (II and III). The experimental factor was low-tannin faba bean seeds of the Albus variety (group II) or Amulet variety (group III) introduced to experimental feed mixtures as a partial replacement for soybean meal - the only protein-rich material in the control diet. It was noticed that the partial replacement of soybean meal with faba bean meal had no statistically significant effect on: the daily gains of pigs, feed conversion, meatiness and fattening grades and meat acidity (pH1 and pH24), water holding capacity and muscle colour parameters (L*a*b*). However, the drip loss from longissimus muscles of pigs fed with diets containing low-tannin faba bean was lower and the difference between the group receiving Albus faba bean and the control group was confirmed to be statistically significant (P≤0.05). In the analysed longissimus lumborum muscle, no differences were recorded between the groups in terms of the content of protein, fat, minerals, or saturated and unsaturated fatty acids, including monounsaturated fatty acids. However, it was determined that the muscles of the animals from groups II and III contained more essential unsaturated fatty acids and polyunsaturated fatty acids (P≤0.05 - between groups I and III ). Albus faba bean seeds introduced to the feed mixture had a beneficial effect on the sensory characteristics of the evaluated muscle since, compared to the longissimus lumborum muscle from the control group, it was characterised by significantly (P≤0.05) improved juiciness, tenderness and palatability.
The Relevance of Methylation Profiles of Equine ITGAL Gene
Authors: Ząbek Tomasz , Semik Ewelina , Fornal Agnieszka , Gurgul Artur , Bugno-Poniewierska Monika
Published: December 2015

One of epigenetic features of mammalian genomes is methylation of DNA. This nucleotide modification might exert suppressive effect on gene transcription. We have described putative relevance of methylation of one of immune cells related gene (ITGAL) observed in the set of 11 equine tissues. Comparison between qualitative RT-PCR results and DNA bisulfite sequencing of investigated set of tissues pointed to potential correlations between tissue specific methylation and tissue specific transcription in ITGAL locus. These findings might be important for studies on genetic and epigenetic background of autoimmune disorders in the horse.
Investigations on heat and momentum transfer in CuO-water nanofluid
Authors: Dzido Grzegorz , Drzazga Michał , Lemanowicz Marcin , Gierczycki Andrzej T.
Published: December 2015

This paper presents results of investigations on the application of CuO-water nanofluids for intensification of convective heat transfer. Performance of nanofluids with 2.2 and 4.0 vol.% CuO NPs (nanoparticles) content were examined with regard to heat transfer coefficient and pressure losses in case of turbulent flow in a tube. Negligible impact of examined nanofluid on heat transfer improvement was found. Moreover, measured pressure losses significantly exceeded those determined for primary base liquid. The observations showed that application of nanofluid for heat transfer intensification with a relatively high solid load in the examined flow range is rather controversial.
Comparison of results of experimental research with numerical calculations of a model one-sided seal
Authors: Joachimiak Damian , Krzyślak Piotr
Published: December 2015

Paper presents the results of experimental and numerical research of a model segment of a labyrinth seal for a different wear level. The analysis covers the extent of leakage and distribution of static pressure in the seal chambers and the planes upstream and downstream of the segment. The measurement data have been compared with the results of numerical calculations obtained using commercial software. Based on the flow conditions occurring in the area subjected to calculations, the size of the mesh defined by parameter y+has been analyzed and the selection of the turbulence model has been described. The numerical calculations were based on the measurable thermodynamic parameters in the seal segments of steam turbines. The work contains a comparison of the mass flow and distribution of static pressure in the seal chambers obtained during the measurement and calculated numerically in a model segment of the seal of different level of wear.
Comparative investigation of working fluids for an organic Rankine cycle with geothermal water
Authors: Liu Yan-Na , Xiao Song
Published: December 2015

In this paper, the thermodynamic investigation on the use of geothermal water (130 °C as maximum) for power generation through a basic Rankine has been presented together with obtained main results. Six typical organic working fluids (i.e., R245fa, R141b, R290, R600, R152a, and 134a) were studied with modifying the input pressure and temperature to the turbine. The results show that there are no significant changes taking place in the efficiency for these working fluids with overheating the inlet fluid to the turbine, i.e., efficiency is a weak function of temperature. However, with the increasing of pressure ratio in the turbine, the efficiency rises more sharply. The technical viability is shown of implementing this type of process for recovering low temperature heat resource.
A Kampfschwert from the 15th century – a reinterpretation of the so called ‘Teutonic estoc’ from the Princes Czartoryski Collection in Cracow, Poland
Authors: Talaga Maciej
Published: December 2015

The paper aims at reinterpreting the so called ‘Teutonic estoc’ (inventory number: MNK XIV-49) from the Czartoryski Princes Collection, Cracow, Poland. Due to the weapon’s unusual construction it has been necessary to draw up precise documentation - written, drawn and photographic. It has been supplemented with research in historical sources and scholarly literature on the subject.

The results obtained indicate that the researched weapon is not a typical estoc. It seems that it is a specialized anti-armour sword (Kampfschwert in German) designed for fighting against a heavy armoured opponent in judicial combat.

If this conclusion were correct, the ‘Teutonic estoc’ from Cracow would be the only known artefact of this kind to have survived from the Middle Ages. In order to falsify this hypothesis the artefact’s authenticity has been examined. An analysis of Royal Inventory records spanning from the year 1475 to 1792 and younger remarks about the researched weapon in press, private letters and scholarly literature has been conducted and briefly reported hereby. Its results seem to indicate that it is not a hoax.
A fifteenth-century fencing tournament in Strasburg
Authors: Dupuis Olivier
Published: December 2015

An undated paper from the archives of Strasburg contains a set of rules approved by fencing masters for a fencing tournament. The dating of this document is uncertain but could be established around 1470-71. A complete and unpublished transcription will be supplied and completed with a detailed study of the final set of rules but also the subset which received some modifications. Even if some key points remains obscure, it’s possible to find some comparison between this text and the contemporary knightly tournaments or the German Fechtschulen.
Thibault and Science I. Measure, Distances and Proportions in the Circle
Authors: Majár János , Várhelyi Zoltán
Published: December 2015

In this paper we investigate the basic mathematical and philosophical tool of Gérard Thibault d’Anvers, the Circle. One of our main goals was to describe the Circle with coordinate geometry, and to estimate the rate of accuracy of his work. Furthermore, we also wanted to test the statements made by Thibault in his fencing manual, Academy of the Sword [Thibault, 1630; Greer, 2005]. To do this, we compared his observations and calculations with the results of available modern day and historical anthropometrical data sets. Based on our results, we also want to give some practical information about Thibault system for the fencers who study his art in our time.
The Bolognese Societates Armatae of the Late 13th Century
Authors: Gassmann Jürg
Published: December 2015

The Bologna archives preserve the bye-laws of 24 „armed societies”, dating from between 1230 and the early 1300s, written in good notary Latin. Though known to exist in other Italian city-states, only few non-Bolognese armed society bye-laws are preserved. These armed societies had disappeared everywhere by the Late Middle Ages.

This article explores the function of these armed societies and the feudal law aspects of the bye-laws - was their function predominantly military, social or political? Why did they suddenly appear, and just as suddenly disappear? How did they fit into Bologna’s constitution - how did they relate to the civic authorities, the guilds?

How did these armed societies operate? Who were the members? What arms did they have? Did they participate in the warfare between the city-states, the battles of the Lombard League and the Holy Roman Empire, the struggles between the Emperor and the Pope, the feuds between the Ghibellines and the Guelphs?
Prediction of power consumption in mechanically agitated gassed reactor in viscous batch‡
Authors: Libor Labík , Tomáš Moucha , František J. Rejl , Lukáš Valenz
Published: December 2015

Transport characteristics such as volumetric mass transfer coefficients,
Continuous synthesis of N-ethylethylenediamine over supported Cu–Zn–La catalysts
Authors: Fang Wang-Wang , Mu Man-Man , Tian Jun , Chen Li-Gong , Li Yang
Published: December 2015

A series of Cu-based catalysts were prepared and employed in the