bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Between Tradition and Law: The Sociolegal Conditions of Bank Confidentiality in Monaco
Authors: Donaghy Matthew
Published: January 2017

This article adopts a sociolegal perspective in analysing the sociological conditions underpinning the emergence of a bank confidentiality law in the 'offshore' financial centre of Monaco. It utilizes three analytical distinctions in approaching the social, legal and political dimensions of the law and moves beyond superficial claims that Monaco's proposed law merely represents a codification of hitherto informal principles and practices. Issues surrounding the globalization of Monaco's banking market and its effects upon the legal culture of confidentiality are explored. However, changes in the legal culture of offshore financial centres should not be equated with an erosion of the state, which is shown to play a constitutive role in sociolegal transformations. In the final section of the article, the implications of the discussion for the sociolegal dimensions of offshore financial centres are drawn out, offering a blueprint for future comparative study on the legal cultures of globalized financial centres.
Law's Progressive Potential: The Value of Engagement with the Law for Domestic Violence
Authors: Lewis Ruth , Dobash Rebecca Emerson , Dobash Russell P , Cavanagh Kate
Published: January 2017

Can the law be usefully employed to help women who experience domestic violence achieve 'justice'? This question has been at the heart of debates about domestic violence over the last few decades. In this paper, we review the positions of those who cautiously welcome engagement with the law - 'feminist realists', arrest studies researchers, 'sceptical reformers' and rehabilitation proponents - and those who see no value in legal intervention - 'abstentionists' and 'community justice' proponents. We argue that such pessimism is both theoretically misguided and empirically unsubstantiated and reflects the lack of cross-fertilization amongst writers from these various positions. In contrast to traditional research in this area, we argue that effective contributions to debates should address both women's and men's experiences of the justice system, should examine the process as well as outcome of legal intervention and should recognise women as survivors engaged in a process of 'active negotiation and strategic resistance' rather than as passive victim's of men's violence. These elements will enable research which better reveals the experiences of engaging with the justice system and which can make more useful contributions to a programme of social and legal change.
Constituting Sexuality through Social Policy: The Case of Lone Motherhood 1834 and Today
Authors: Carabine Jean
Published: January 2017

Adopting a poststructural approach this article explores the intersection of sexuality and social policy, particularly the role of policies in constituting sexual norms and through these, deserving and undeserving gendered welfare subjects. It examines unmarried and lone motherhood discourses of two periods - the 1830s and the 1990s - and shows that not only do particular representations of lone motherhood persist across the centuries but also that welfare policies perform a normalizing and regulatory role in relation to sexuality. It illustrates also how policy makers dismiss the moral, economic and sexual rationalities of welfare subjects, preferring instead to impose their own set of moral values. In exploring the sexuality-social policy dynamic it demonstrates that not only is social policy 'shot through' with sexuality but also that the two are mutually constitutive. Further, the article demonstrates the shifting dynamics of the normalization process whereby that which was once abhorred is embraced, as well as the ways that sexuality is regulated through social policy without resorting to the power of law or legal method.
Colonization through Disclosure: Confidential Records, Sexual Assault Complainants and Canadian Law
Authors: Gotell Lise
Published: January 2017

This article explores the Canadian experience of widened access to sexual assault complainants' private records. It dissects legal developments from the mid-1990s, when the Canadian Supreme Court established a liberalized disclosure regime in the landmark O'Connor decision. A legislative reform passed in 1997 that sought to establish a stricter regime was recently upheld and at the same time weakened by the Supreme Court in Mills. The article contends that access to complainants' records stands as a critical example of how a liberal legalistic discourse of sexual assault is extending its hegemony by colonizing and silencing, in particular, feminist and therapeutic discourses. At issue is the relative status of legal 'Truth' and dissonant and emergent feminist narratives, as well as our ability to understand and speak about sexual violation outside of the narrow confines of law.
Bring it on Home: Home Drug Testing and the Relocation of the War on Drugs
Authors: Moore Dawn , Haggerty Kevin D.
Published: January 2017

While the war on drugs is often claimed to have failed in multifarious ways, anti-drug strategies in the United States continue. The discourses through which anti-drug sentiments and policies are forwarded are, however, being reinvented in light of this failure, favoring an inclusionary and less state-centered disease trope for certain populations of drug users. In this article we argue that the privileging of the disease trope within anti-drug rhetoric facilitates the introduction of home drug testing as a means of 'state-free' drug regulation offered to specific populations. The advent of home drug testing is congruent with neoliberal trends towards mobilizing private entities like the family to engage in regulatory practices that were previously concerns of the state. A market for home drug testing has evolved out of rhetoric around private security, and the commodification of notions of safety. Home drug testing is theorized as a tool of surveillance that offers a very particular scientific gaze trained on the seemingly indefensible adolescent body. Teens, however, are not defenseless in this scheme. We document the concomitant rise of resistance technologies and tactics designed to assist teens and others to 'beat' the tests.
Problems of Access to Courts in Nigeria: Results of a Survey of Legal Practitioners
Authors: Frynas Jedrzej George
Published: January 2017

Access to courts constitutes a key test of the quality of a legal system. However, there is a dearth of empirical studies on access problems in developing countries. This article identifies the main problems of access to courts in Nigeria on the basis of a survey of 154 Nigerian legal practitioners, an analysis of Nigerian court cases and two field trips to Nigeria. It focuses on one specific type of litigation: litigation related to the Nigerian crude oil industry. The survey results suggest that the main constraints of access to courts in Nigeria are financial problems as well as the lack of education and information of potential litigants, which falls in line with the results of other empirical studies in developed countries.
Social Housing as Crime Control: An Examination of the Role of Housing Management in Policing Sex Offenders
Authors: Cowan David , Pantazis Christina , Gilroy Rose
Published: January 2017

This article considers the ways in which social housing has in recent years become inextricably linked with the process of crime control. Drawing on case study research into the rehousing of sex offenders, the authors provide evidence illustrating why and how social housing management has become increasingly drawn into the fold of crime control. The article then highlights some serious but often neglected concerns stemming from the adoption by social housing management of more crime control responsibilities. Whilst protection of individuals and communities should always remain paramount, the article concludes with a discussion about the implications of what these processes may mean for social housing.
Law, Politics and Professional Projects: The Legal Profession in Hong Kong
Authors: Sin Wai Man
Published: January 2017

This article attempts to theorize on the Hong Kong legal profession by examining the changing positions and roles of lawyers in three episodes of Hong Kong's recent legal history: use of Chinese as a legal language, the right of abode issue and the right of audience debate. In developing an indigenous theory (or indigenizing western theories), I suggest, attention must be paid to the social context - the long use of English as the sole legal language in a predominately Chinese-speaking society, and the special social-political functions of law in defending Hong Kong from China and of being a source of legitimacy for the government - in which Hong Kong lawyers find themselves and which distinguish them from their western counterparts. Thus, the theoretical framework I develop is one based on the concept of professional project, with due recognition to the social-political functions of the law in Hong Kong. I also argue that the concept of 'social capital' could provide a crucial connection between a Weberian self-interested reading and a Durkheimian altruistic reading of Hong Kong lawyers. It is further suggested that the framework, though inevitably of limited applicability to other societies, may shed light on the role of lawyers in other countries where law has also assumed a particular significance as a source of legitimacy for government.
The Possibilities and Desirability of Mediator Neutrality - Towards an Ethic of Partiality?
Authors: Mulcahy Linda
Published: January 2017

This article draws on an empirical study of community mediation to question the possibility and desirability of mediator neutrality. It argues that, although the notion of neutrality is central to discussions of adjudication and mediation, debate on the topic remains intellectually flawed and empirically problematic. Emphasis on the aspirational nature of neutrality encourages us to ignore the suggestion that rather than facilitating fair process and outcome the standard of neutrality could serve to exacerbate existing inequalities between disputants. When discussed in the context of mediation the ideal becomes even more suspect as mediation promises 'alternatives' to the inadequacies of court-based adjudication. This article explores the questions raised by a group of mediators who rejected the possibility and desirability of mediation in favour of a more reflexive approach to third-party intervention in disputes. It suggests that, rather than aspiring to the empty goal of neutrality, we should be debating the possibility of partiality as an ethical standard to govern dispute resolution.
How to Write an Effective Referee Report and Improve the Scientific Review Process
Authors: Berk Jonathan B. , Harvey Campbell R. , Hirshleifer David
Published: January 2017

The review process for academic journals in economics has grown vastly more extensive over time. Journals demand more revisions, and papers have become bloated with numerous robustness checks and extensions. Even if the extra resulting revisions do on average lead to improved papers—a claim that is debatable—the cost is enormous. We argue that much of the time involved in these revisions is a waste of research effort. Another cause for concern is the level of disagreement amongst referees, a pattern that suggests a high level of arbitrariness in the review process. To identify and highlight what is going right and what is going wrong in the reviewing process, we wrote to a sample of former editors of the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics, and asked them for their thoughts about what might improve the process. We found a rough consensus that referees for top journals in economics tend to make similar, correctable mistakes. The italicized quotations throughout this paper are drawn from our correspondence with these editors and our own experience. Their insights are consistent with our own experiences as editors at the Journal of Finance and the Review of Financial Studies. Our objective is to highlight these mistakes and provide a roadmap for how to avoid them.
GEOPHYSICAL STUDIES AND TECTONISM OF THE HELLENIDES
Authors: Makris J.
Published: January 2017

By constraining gravity modelling by Deep Seismic Soundings (DSS) and the Bouguer gravity field of Greece a 3-D density-velocity model of the crust and upper mantle was developed. It was shown that in the north Aegean Trough and the Thermaikos Basins the sediments exceed 7 km in thickness. The basins along the western Hellenides and the coastal regions of western Greece are filled with sediments of up to 10 km thickness, including the Prepulia and Alpine metamorphic limestones. The thickest sedimentary series however, were mapped offshore southwest and southeast of Crete and are of the order of 12 to 14 km. The crust along western Greece and the Peloponnese ranges between 42 and 32 km thickness while the Aegean region is floored by a stretched continental crust varying between 24 to 26 km in the north and eastern parts and thins to only 16 km at the central Cretan Sea. The upper mantle below the Aegean Sea is occupied by a lithothermal system of low density (3.25 gr/cm³) and Vp velocity (7.7 km/s), which is associated with the subducted Ionian lithosphere below the Aegean Sea. Isostasy is generally maintained at crustal and subcrustal levels except for the compressional domain of western Greece and the transition between the Mediterranean Ridge and the continental backstop. The isotherms computed from the Heat Flow density data and the density model showed a significant uplift of the temperature field below the Aegean domain. The 400°C isotherm is encountered at less than 10 Km depth. Tectonic deformation is controlled by dextral wrench faulting in the Aegean domain, while western Greece is dominated by compression and crustal shortening. Strike-slip and normal faults accommodate the western Hellenic thrusts and the westwards sliding of the Alpine napes, using the Triassic evaporates as lubricants.
GROUNDWATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN ARID COUNTRIES
Authors: Rausch R. , Schüth C. , Kallioras Α.
Published: January 2017

no abstract available
THE STATUS OF STRATIGRAPHY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Authors: Dermitzakis M.D
Published: January 2017

The 21st century geological time scale (GTS) will comprise an internationally agreed chronologic hierarchy. Correlation of events into the GTS will be undertaken using a wide variety of methods, including numeric dating, fossil occurrence, physical and chemical properties, tephrochronology and astrochronologic retrodictions. Chronostratigraphic subdivision of the sedimentary rock record should proceed in a bottom up hierarchical manner with lower units defining the boundaries of stratigraphically higher units. A moderate amount of work is required to improve the basis of the hierarchical subdivision of some Cenozoic series boundary subdivisions and to bring them in line with recommendations by the Stratigraphic Guide and recommendations by the International Committee of Stratigraphy (ICS).
THE FORGOTTEN GEOGRAPHIC AND PHYSICAL – OCEANOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE PREHISTORIC GREEKS
Authors: Mariolakos I.D
Published: January 2017

Many believe that the Greek Mythology is a figment of the vivid imagination of the ancient Greeks. Consequently, the Greek Myths are all fantastic stories. In my opinion, this view is erroneous, at least on the subject concerning the geographic and physical-oceanographic characteristics of the Atlantic Ocean, as these were described mainly by Homer, Hesiod, the Orphics and Plutarch. In the present paper (i) some of the references made by the above mentioned authors are selectively reported, and (ii) the physical and geological validation is given, based on the present-day scientific views and knowledge. Namely, the prehistoric Greeks knew about the Hyperboreans, the island of Ierne (Ireland), the British isle etc., by the Orphics. From the writings of Plutarch, they knew (i) the relative position of the present-day Iceland (Ogygia) and its distance from Britain, (ii) that to the west of Iceland, three other islands are located, where the sun sets for only an hour a day, (iii) that further to the west there is a “great continent”, which surrounds the Ocean and more. Homer and Hesiod wrote that (i) the Ocean is a “river” that flows continuously, (ii) that this river encircles the Earth and (iii) that its flow is turbulent not only on the surface, but in depth as well. Unfortunately, all this knowledge was gradually forgotten by all. This is the reason why Odyssey is considered just an entertaining poem and Ulysses’ nostos a fantastic story, with no trace of historic reality.
ATLANTIS IN SPAIN IV
Authors: Papamarinopoulos S.P
Published: January 2017

Many analysts in the past faced Atlantis’ main city with the same way they faced his idealised concentric cities which he described in his dialogues. However, Atlantis’ concentric city has a marked difference which is recognisable if the analyst has geological knowledge. For instance the concentric scheme, the geothermal springs and the black, white and red rocks correspond in volcanogenic, impactogenic and diapeirogenic craters. It is known that building material from rocks existing in the vicinity of the two first, from the three, types of craters have been used in the past. It is also known that cities have been developed both on volcanogenic craters such as Santorin in the Aegean Sea, or on impactogenic craters such as in Nordlichen in Germany and in Yemen’s capitol respectively. A simulation experiment was carried out exactly in the platonic geomorphological conditions assuming that the concentric scheme could be of impactogenic origin. The result showed that such multi-ringed crater exhibits the platonic characteristics presented in Critias. However, such solution is not unique because the other two types of craters have not been tested yet. The statistical criterion which may be applied in all three simulations in the described platonic environment will decide by itself which is the most optimal solution between all three. Many experts who know nothing about Plato’s views about science and mythology can not differentiate between genuine and fabricated myths utilised by Plato. Most of them do not understand that the multiringed crater called Atlantis too by Plato is revealed in the ancient myths prior to Plato and was placed by these writers West of the Gibraltar Straits. Philostratus, in Roman times, is the only Greek writer who described its geological nature in detail and presented its position in Southern Spain. That crater Geryonis was associated with Heracles’ visit in Iberia. In the latter’s sea environment there are several submerged gigantic diapeirogenic craters and a small one visible even today in Andalucía’s. The geological age of the submerged craters, in Cadiz, precedes the prehistoric Greeks’ and Iberians’ presence in the area. One of them possibly became the object of observations of prehistoric Greek mariners who passed Heracles’ Pillars and it was interpreted as Poseidon’s act. These Greek mariners were accustomed to interpret craters in the Aegean Sea such the Nisyros’, for instance, one as Poseidon’s act too.
THE CONTRIBUTION OF MARINE GEOLOGY TO THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF GREECE: MARINE RESOURCES, INFRASTRUCTURE, ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABILITY, CULTURAL HERITAGE
Authors: Ferentinos G.
Published: January 2017

no abstract available
SPRINGS (CLASSIFICATION, FUNCTION, CAPTURING)
Authors: Soulios G.
Published: January 2017

Todd, K (1980) proposed the following definition for springs: “a concentrated discharge of groundwater that emerges on the ground as a stream of water that flows freely”. Spring is distinguished from water leak that is a normally diffused but extended (linear or 2D) slower movement of groundwater towards the ground surface. Uprush is every groundwater emergence on the ground surface or through the bed of water bodies (river, lake, sea). In the context of hydrogeology springs and uprushes in general are in fact “overflows” of aquifers; hence they serve as aquifer discharge mechanisms. Springs emerge at the cross section of groundwater level with the topographic relief. Springs are a strong evidence of rich groundwater potential. A big number of small springs emerging at the margins of basins or the hill slopes are an evidence of a shallow aquifer of low hydraulic conductivity. On the contrary, big springs emerging at the bottom of valleys, i.e. the basic geomorphological level, are an indication of a high potential aquifer characterized by considerable values of hydraulic conductivity.
MEDICAL GEOCHEMISTRY A KEY IN THE PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES AGAINST THE DEVELOPMENT OF CANCER AND OTHER DISEASES
Authors: Varnavas S.
Published: January 2017

A considerable number of diseases are directly related to environmental impact. Toxic metals such as Hg, Pb, Cd, and As may damage significantly the human health when they exceed certain levels in the body. For example specific precautions should be taken for the diet of pregnant women and the children. Lead concentrations exceeding the safe values can cause severe damage to the development of central nervous system, as well as a general developmental delay of fetuses and young children, interfering with the functioning of almost every brain neurotransmitter. In particular for the pregnant women, it has been found that the exposure of the fetus on high lead values may cause, apart from neurological and behavioral problems, low birth weight, pre-term delivery, spontaneous abortion and stillbirth. Organic mercury (methyl mercury) is the most dangerous form of mercury, because it is the most easily absorbed orally and crosses into the brain and fetus so readily. Populations exposed to chemical compounds containing As, Ni, Cr, Cd, etc. are considered of high-risk in developing cancer. Environmental geochemical studies can help in assessing the quality of the environment as well as the determination of the sources of pollutants, their behaviour and other characteristics. This knowledge is necessary in any application of remediation methodologies and waste management for the prevention of pollutants in getting into the food chain. It is also used in determining safe criteria regarding the quality of soils, drinking water, construction of schools, playgrounds etc. In this work the importance of environmental geochemical research and its applications towards the protection of human health is demonstrated.
EXHUMATION OF THE HELLENIC ACCRETIONARY PRISM – EVIDENCE FROM FISSION-TRACK THERMOCHRONOLOGY
Authors: Marsellos A.E , Kidd W.S.F , Garver J.I. , Kyriakopoulos K.G.
Published: January 2017

Below the Potamos extensional detachment fault exposed in northern Kythera, the phyllite-quartzite unit (PQU) shows very consistent zircon FT cooling ages of c.11 Ma reflecting the time just after the rapid exhumation through the brittle-ductile transition. In contrast, a wide range of Mesozoic and some Paleozoic zircon FT cooling ages from Eocene-Oligocene Tripolis and Pindos flysch sandstones from above the detachment reflect sedimentary source ages. Early Miocene apatite fissiontrack cooling ages characterize the flysch sandstones, and show that early Miocene exhumation affected rocks above the detachment. The thermotectonic evolution of the flysch of Tripolis and Pindos units within the rocks above the Potamos detachment on Kythera is reconstructed using zircon and apatite fission-track (FT) thermochronology. The apatite FT data provide evidence for a burial depth of at least 6km for the samples, which were reset. Burial was not deeper than 11km, since the zircon fission-track system in the same rocks was not reset. The exposed rocks of Tripolis and Pindos flysch on Kythera represent part of an accretionary wedge with a burial shortly after deposition in or near the subduction trench, and a cooling history due to exhumation of the flysch in the early Miocene. The subsequent Mid-Late Miocene exhumation of the PQU unit follows from beneath the (mostly carbonate) Tripolis and Pindos sedimentary rocks.
DGPS AND MAGNETOTELLURIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE CONTEMPORARY TECTONICS OF THE SANTORINI VOLCANIC COMPLEX, GREECE
Authors: Papageorgiou E. , Tzanis A. , Sotiropoulos P. , Lagios Ε.
Published: January 2017

The study of vertical and horizontal crustal movements at the Santorini Volcanic Complex (SVC), as deduced by Differential GPS measurements revealed that an intricate pattern of five distinct domains with different horizontal kinematics: The West SVC (Akrotiri peninsula and Therassia) with very significant NNW-ward motion, North Thera with rather significant NW-ward motion, East Thera (Monolithos), with significant SE-ward motion, South Thera with significant NW-ward motion and, finally, central Thera with small westward motion. An apparently dextral, NNW-SSE oblique-to-strike-slip fault emerges as a prominent tectonic structure, separating the West SVC from the rest of the complex; this is the “Santorini Fault Zone”. Additional insight is afforded by the results of MT and GDS surveys: a significant NNW-SSE conductive zone was detected, which is collocated with the purported NNW-SSE fault zone indicated by DGPS analysis and may be explained as an epiphenomenal conductivity anomaly. The observed deformation pattern enables the drafting of a qualitative model of contemporary tectonics, which is also presented and discussed. The model is plausible but certainly incomplete and pending verification with numerical modelling and additional observations
TECTONIC PROCESSES AND CRUSTAL EVOLUTION ON/OFFSHORE WESTERN PELOPONNESE DERIVED FROM ACTIVE AND PASSIVE SEISMICS
Authors: Papoulia J. , Makris J.
Published: January 2017

We developed velocity models of the crust and sediments offshore south western Greece, between the island of Zakynthos and Messinia. Using these velocity models and depth migrating the seismic data we delineated the main faults and associated them with the tectonic processes of western Greece. This active seismic experiment was essential for defining the limits between the continental domain of western Greece and the oceanic one of the deep Ionian Sea. We successfully linked the onshore with the offshore tectonics and for the first time it was possible to understand how the main dextral fault systems of Cephalonia and Andravida are responsible for the crustal deformation, and its link to the local seismicity. Most of the seismic activity is connected to thrusting, due to crustal shortening or strike-slip faulting that follows the two main dextral wrench faults of Cephalonia and Andravida. It was recognized that the back stop offshore western Peloponnese is floored by thinned continental crust of Preapulia and that the Hellenic Alpine napes do not extend in the back stop domain.
A CONTRIBUTION TO THE GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF CHIOS ISLAND, EASTERN AEGEAN SEA
Authors: Tselepidis V. , Rondoyanni Th.
Published: January 2017

Τhe island of Chios, in the eastern Aegean Sea, is of great geological interest due to the outcrops of the oldest Paleozoic rocks of the Hellenides. Three main geological units of Paleozoic and Mesozoic age dominate, that have a tectonic relationship: the Autochthonous unit is overthrusted by the Parautochthonous unit, which in turn is overthrusted by the Allochthonous unit. In this work, new geological and tectonic data concerning the Autochthonous unit and especially its part of the Paleozoic - Mesozoic transition are presented and evaluated. Due to the rare outcrops of this transition and the lack of sufficient palaeontological data, there are various and contradictory opinions concerning its normal or discordant character. Based on our field data and lithostratigraphic correlations, we can draw the following main results: Considering the Autochthonous unit, the transition of the Paleozoic formations to the Mesozoic ones is characterized by an angular unconformity as well as by a basal conglomerate. In some places there is a tectonic contact between them, this of a thrust fault. The Lower Triassic formations of the Parautochthonous unit belong to the Autochthonous unit, since they present similar palaeogeographic conditions. Moreover, the presence of the “Hallstatt” limestones in the Autochthonous unit can be explained by their local deposition in lenticular form.
SEGMENTATION AND INTERACTION OF NORMAL FAULTS IN CENTRAL GREECE
Authors: Kokkalas S.
Published: January 2017

The aim of this study is to improve our understanding on the mechanical interaction and linkage process between normal fault segments. Faults grow by the process of radial propagation and the linkage of segments, as strain increases, evolving to large fault systems. For this purpose we conducted a combined field and photogeological study on two major segmented fault zones in Central Greece, the Atalanti and Arkitsa fault zones. This approach includes effects of fault size and spatial distribution, scaling laws and footwall-hanginwall topography. Throw distribution and the geometry of the segmented fault arrays were analyzed in order to investigate the complexity of fault zones, the fault linkage process and the geometric characteristics of the relay zones formed between individual segments. The correlation of fault throw with fault length (D-L) and the ratios of overlap-separation (OL-S), separation-fault segment length (S-L) and relay displacement vs. separation (Dr-S) were examined in order to give an insight for fault segment interaction and linkage .
KASTORIA “BLIND” ACTIVE FAULT: HAZARDOUS SEISMOGENIC FAULT OF THE NW GREECE
Authors: Metaxas Ch. P. , Lalechos N.S. , Lalechos S.N.
Published: January 2017

The Aliakmon river bed, as well as a series of certain parallel narrow grabens, striking NW-SE are filled with Neogene-Quaternary deposits; thus showing the existence of the covered, “blind”, fault zone, which borders the Eastern edge of Meso-Hellenic Trench and passes in close vicinity to the Kastoria town. Distribution of earthquakes epicentres (M≥4.0, for the period of 1930-2009) along this segmented rupture zone, proves the existence at depth of an active seismogenic fault which has generated some strong earthquakes in the past: 1709, M = 6.0; 1812, M = 6.5 and 1894, M = 6.1 (~ 100-year Recurrence Time events). The calculations of Lapsed Rate characterizing the stage of the fault seismic cycle (LR = 115%) show that the active Kastoria fault could be in a pre-seismic stage of its seismic cycle. Applying the seismicity rates model (time-independent Gutenberg-Richter recurrence model) and using the fault seismicity parameters, obtained inside the fault influence zone, as input in EZ-FRISK® software, the Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis has been carried out for the area of Kastoria town. The results show that calculated magnitude for event with 100- year recurrence time is ~6.1, which correspond to the magnitude of three events, occurred at the fault during the last 300 years (corresponding average slip rate . 3 mm/year). As the calculated Hazard Curve shows, the event of that range could give ground shaking in the Kastoria town in the order of 0.625 g at the spectral period of 0.3 sec.
GEOMORPHOLOGY AND SEDIMENTOLOGICAL PROCESSES ALONG THE COASTAL ZONE BETWEEN LIVANATES AND AGIOS KONSTANTINOS (N. EVOIKOS GULF, CENTRAL GREECE)
Authors: Tsanakas K. , Gaki-Papanastassiou K. , Poulos S.E. , Maroukian H.
Published: January 2017

This study deals with aspects of geomorphology and nearshore marine processes in the coastal zone located between Livanates and Agios Konstantinos (North Evoikos Gulf, central Greece). Evoikos Gulf is a tectonic graben bounded by WNW-ESE trending normal faults; it can be further characterized as semi-closed marine basin with water depths exceeding 400m.The Coastal geomorphology is affected by active tectonics with the most prominent morphological features being the uplifted marine terraces and the well-developed deltaic fan of Xerias torrent. In the present investigation, detailed geomorphological mapping at a scale of 1:5000 was performed together with granulometric analysis, while nearshore wave and current activity related to sediment dynamics has been determined on the basis of wind-generated wave regime. The examined coastal zone consists of a series of alluvial cones and fans, Xerias fan being the largest among them, low cliffs, a cuspate foreland and beach zones of limited length, often hosting beachrock formations. The formation and evolution of the study area seems to be controlled by the limited terrestrial influxes, the relatively weak wave regime due to limited wave fetches distances, and the associated longshore currents that induces limited sediment transport.
Από τον Μολιέρο στον Ιονέσκο: Πολεμική Θέατρο Θεωρία
Authors: Σιβετίδου Αφροδίτη
Published: January 2017

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Correlation between auroral activity and rate of development of a storm in its main phase
Authors: Бороев Роман , Boroev Roman
Published: January 2017

We investigated the relationship between the rate of storm development in its main phase (|ΔDst|/ΔT) and the average value (ΣAE/ΔT) of AE index for the main phase where |ΔDst| is a Dst-index variation, ΣAE is the total value of AE index for the main phase of magnetic storm, ΔT is the main phase duration. We considered storms initiated by corotating interaction region (CIR) and interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) (magnetic cloud and ejecta). For CIR events, the value of ΣAE/ΔT is shown to correlate with the rate of storm development in its main phase, in contrast to the storms initiated by the ICME. As found, there is a weak correlation between ΣAE/ΔT and the minimum value of Dst index for CIR and ICME events.
Modeling nightglow in atomic oxygen red and green lines under moderate disturbed geomagnetic conditions at midlatitudes
Authors: Тащилин Анатолий , Tashchilin Anatoliy , Леонович Людмила , Leonovich Lyudmila
Published: January 2017

We present results of a study of mid-latitude auroras. The study is based on optical measurements and theoretical modeling. The modeling shows that precipitation can indirectly generate airglow in red and green lines of atomic oxygen by increasing rates of ion formation and heating of thermal electrons. This causes an increase in the rate of dissociative recombination and thermal-electron-collision excitation of the 1D and 1S levels.
Political Interview as a Type of Public Dialogue in Communicative Practice
Authors: Романенко  , Romanenko A.
Published: January 2017

The article reveals the specifics of the political interview presenting its main features. The author tells the difference between the concepts “dialogue” and “discourse”, “emotion” and “expressiveness” and further defines the principles and indicates the laws of dialogue which carries information through audio and video components. The paper gives various definitions of political interview, which is represented by dialogue communication, exchange of remarks of interlocutors and subjective character of the information received that is explained by the influence of personal emotions and assessments. The author goes on to stress persuasiveness as a specific feature of political interview explaining that it aims at changing or building the recipient’s certain attitude to people, facts or events. In conclusion the paper states that political discourse studies do not only concentrate on principles, emotions and assessments — each political interview is characterized by a specific axiological situation that implies building a political interview model with a view of defining its axiological and ethno-lingual characteristics. That could serve as a cultural source for interpreters, translators and IR journalists. The genre of political interview taking a high position by its frequency of occurrence in the communicative practice expands its borders, occupying its own niche in the general political discourse.
Linguodidactical Potential of Informational and Communicational Facilities
Authors: Есенина  , Esenina N.
Published: January 2017

The present article is devoted to informational and communicational (ICT) facilities having not only functionalities but also linguodidactical capabilities. The relation between ICT facilities and education informatization facilities has been depicted. Taking into account the specific features of multimedia, hypertext, hypermedia and virtual reality realization in modern foreign language (MFL) teaching we have revealed the functions of didactical capabilities in MFL teaching. Eleven linguodidactical capabilities of education informatization facilities have been defined. The deep theoretical analysis of linguodidactical capabilities considered regardless of the linguistic informational resource possessing them have been done. The characteristics of every linguodidactical capability of education informatization facilities within the continuous ICT progress have been given. The prospects for further investigations in the field of creating and using of linguodidactically effective

education informatization facilities have been listed.
Effective Ways of Abstract Writing in the Process of Teaching German at the University
Authors: Шмаль  , Shmal Meri
Published: January 2017

This paper presents the results of analytical research of authentic sources on an issue of development of successful and correct writing of abstract in German for the purpose of habit formation of writing and communicative competence in the process of teaching students and post-graduate students.
PR and Entrepreneurship Ethics Development in Post-Soviet Russia
Authors: Чилингир  , Chilingir E.
Published: January 2017

The article links PR issue to business culture and entrepreneurship ethics, and compares the stages of PR development in modern Russia with those of entrepreneurship development.
El hábitat popular. Algunos aportes teóricos de la realidad habitacional de sectores desposeídos.
Authors: Miranda Gassull Virginia
Published: January 2017

Las diversas formas en que se aborda la problemática habitacional de los sectores populares, promueve la indagación sobre los diversos enfoques del hábitat popular, principalmente desde la formación de la disciplina de arquitectura. Los enfoques del hábitat popular que se han acuñado a lo largo de las últimas décadas en Latinoamérica se conciben desde las corrientes desarrollistas, desde la arquitectura como  disciplina técnico-social, los avances expuestos por organizaciones sociales de base dedicadas a esta temática y las nociones andinas (sumak kawsay y suma qamaña). Así mismo, se expresan cualitativamente la comparación entre las diferencias y encuentros respecto a los posicionamientos predominantes de cada uno. El fin último es construir un marco teórico en el que se establezcan los enfoques propuestos sobre el hábitat popular, incorporando la visión de los distintos organismos internacionales que han operado en la construcción académica en estos términos.
Cronología de las prácticas de Ordenamiento, conflicto e intratabilidad: el caso de la Reserva del Bosque Oriental de Bogotá
Authors: Rojas-Pinilla Humberto
Published: January 2017

Los principales rasgos de intratabilidad en los conflictos son: la larga duración, recurrencia y fracaso de los intentos de transformación, involucrar al Estado, la lucha por necesidades fundamentales, así como “fuertes elementos culturales y estructurales”. Este artículo elabora una cronología de las formas como se han intrincado los ingredientes en este conflicto para producir sus rasgos de intratabilidad. El artículo señala las maneras como se ha configurado este Habitus, consecuencia de elementos estructurales y coyunturales que han conspirado para configurar ciertas prácticas problemáticas de gestión del suelo, y la población en Bogotá y sus múltiples relaciones con el conflicto que supone la urbanización de predios afectados por la declaración en 1 976 de la Reserva natural de carácter nacional Bosque Oriental de Bogotá.
El ordenamiento territorial para la gestión del riesgo de desastres naturales en Colombia.
Authors: Calderon Ramirez Daniel Ricardo , Frey Klaus
Published: January 2017

En Colombia la Ley Orgánica de Ordenamiento Territorial  (LOOT), es una de las herramientas que permitió la restructuración del Sistema Nacional de Gestión del Riesgo, generando que los entes territoriales pudieran organizarse en una gestión conjunta al nivel central, bajo los principios de descentralización, coordinación, complementariedad y concurrencia; esto con el objetivo de fomentar acciones estratégicas coordinadas hacia el conocimiento del riesgo, reducción del riesgo y manejo de la emergencia. De esta manera, la LOOT ha permitido mejorar las competencias de los entes territoriales para la gestión del riesgo de desastres, por medio del traspaso de mayor autonomía del nivel nacional hacia los departamentos y municipios, así como el fortalecimiento de asociaciones municipales como el caso del Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá y su plan intermunicipal de gestión del riesgo -Red Riesgos-.
Espacio urbano, narrativas de desprecio y “limpieza social” en Bogotá
Authors: Pabón Suárez Ingrid Carolina
Published: January 2017

“Limpieza social” es una categoría usada ampliamente para referirse a la acción de asesinar sujetos considerados indeseables. Quienes la ejercen, esgrimen usualmente como argumento, velar por la seguridad de un grupo social. Sugiero que esta práctica tiene un carácter instrumental porque a través de ella se busca establecer un tipo de orden moral y social. Y expresivo, porque devela una estructura social jerarquizada y un sistema de clasificación que se soporta en la creencia de que hay unos sujetos que son fuente de peligro, los indeseables, y otros, que son quienes están en peligro. Como resultado de esta investigación etnográfica, cuyo escenario fue la Unidad de Planeamiento Zonal Patio Bonito, se concluye que esta acción violenta está mediada por construcciones discursivas que en este caso llamo narrativas de desprecio.
Modernización urbana y exclusión social en Cartagena de Indias, una mirada desde la prensa local
Authors: Valdelamar Villegas Fabricio Fabián
Published: January 2017

El Plan Pearson de 1914  y el Plano Regulador de 1948  constituyeron los horizontes de la planificación urbana de la ciudad de Cartagena de Indias durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. El propósito de ambos proyectos, pese a  sus particulares disposiciones, estaba orientado hacia la modernización del entorno urbano. Empresa que, en el ideario de las élites locales y nacionales, estaba garantizada puesto que las dos propuestas de ciudad se acomodaban a los modelos urbanos euro centristas y  priorizaban el componente morfológico. Los ejes de  ésta pretendida restauración fueron la higienización, la implementación de servicios públicos y el equipamiento urbano. La adecuación de la superestructura y de la infraestructura urbana sería la base del despegue económico que por décadas le fue esquivo a la ciudad. Sin embargo, el ideario de las autoridades formulado tanto en el Plan Pearson como en el Plano Regulador contrastaría con la mirada crítica de la prensa local que, en muchos momentos, fungía como oposición política y en otros casos retrataba a través de sus plumas las verosimilitudes de una ciudad en donde la exclusión fue el rasgo sobresaliente de su vida social
El Centro Histórico de Quito en la planificación urbana (1942-1992). Discursos patrimoniales, cambios espaciales y desplazamientos socio culturales
Authors: Cabrera Hanna Jaime Santiago
Published: January 2017

Esta contribución analiza la construcción del discurso patrimonial autorizado sobre el Centro Histórico de Quito, mediante una indagación de su lugar en la planificación de la ciudad, desde sus primeros instrumentos, concebidos en la década de los cuarenta, por Jones Odriozola, hasta las consideraciones más reflexivas sobre las relaciones entre el manejo del patrimonio edificado de la ciudad y sus habitantes, con base en la apreciación de los procesos de integración, segregación y gentrificación sociales, justificados en el paradigma de la regeneración de la ciudad y el conservacionismo, en la década de los noventa.
A Stochastic Model for Interterminal Container Transportation
Authors: Mishra Nishant , Roy Debjit , van Ommeren Jan-Kees
Published: January 2017

We propose a novel semiopen queuing network (SOQN) model for the interterminal transportation (ITT) problem where multiple container terminals use a common fleet of vehicles (automated lift vehicles, automated guided vehicles, multitrailers, and barges) to transport containers between terminals. To solve the overall queuing network, our solution approach uses a network decomposition method where the original SOQN is decomposed to a closed and an open queuing network (with bulk-service capacity). To our knowledge, this is the first work that considers bulk service in SOQNs. We develop theoretical upper and lower bounds on the throughput time estimates of our model, and provide an extension for the case when service times at the terminal handling stations depend on the number of containers being loaded/unloaded. We numerically validate our model using simulated data where we find that our model results in errors of less than 5% for vehicle utilization. We also show that our model results in better estimates for the ITT problem when compared to existing approaches in the literature. Finally, we apply our model to real-world data from the Port of Rotterdam and show that it can be used to analyze throughput time trade-offs with alternate dwell point policies, different vehicle types, and variable vehicle capacities.

The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/trsc.2016.0726 .
When should a clinical learning environment be ‘rested’ from the student placement circuit?
Authors: Pisaneschi Laura , Scott Betsy , Rapson Terri
Published: January 2017

When healthcare failings occur there could be a need to consider the removal of a clinical environment from student nursing placement circuits. The decision to rest a clinical learning environment as a student education placement resulted in the need for a mechanism to support the process and so an algorithm was devised. Initially there were issues creating a flowchart to illustrate such a process and so external support was sought to enable further progress to be made. It was considered essential to have a clear and concise process that was easy to use. The algorithm was intended to contribute towards enhancing the regular internal and external quality monitoring mechanisms. The task to develop and implement the algorithm has demonstrated a willingness to promote strong cross-organisational and cross-discipline working.
Teaching practice: Hinge questions
Authors: Bromley Matt
Published: January 2017

Oil the hinge! Continuing his series on teaching practice, Matt Bromley now looks at how to make multiple-choice questions work in your classroom and your teaching
Assessment of the factors contributing to non- adherence of anti- retroviral therapy (ART) treatment among male patients at Katutura Health Centre, Khomas region
Authors: Maano Nghitanwa Emma , Elina N Niilonga
Published: January 2017

The purpose of this study was to assess and explore the contributing factors of non- adherence among male patients on Antiretroviral therapy (ART) treatment at Katutura Health Centre, Khomas Region. The objectives of this study were to determine and describe the factors contributing to non-adherence of ART treatment among male patients at Katutura Health Centre .Data were collected using the structured questionnaires.A purposive sampling technique was used. The collected data were entered in data sets and analyzed using Statistical (SPSS) version 23.0 software to describe the phenomena and to assess the magnitude of ART non-adherence among male patients.The study concluded that non-adherence of ART treatment among male patients in Katutura Health Centre, Khomas region is caused by different factors, such as, lack of food among patients on ART treatment, lack of transportation to the health facility for treatment and alcohol abuse. Therefore practical preventative interventions such as community education program should be developed and implemented to improve and ensure ART adherence.