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Cloud Computing Technology for Green Enterprises
Authors: Chaturvedi Prachi
Published: January 2019

Computing technology acting a very vital role in our day to day activities. Later the associated high volume of energy consumption has become a major concern every economically and environmentally. Green computing is associate rising application in computing effectively that leads to very important greenhouse gas reduction. In toughened computing has become an important half that has got to be thought of seriously by ordered generation data and communication technology designers. Green computing is to use computer and connected resources in atmosphere, friendly ways in which. Such practices embrace the implementation of energy-efficient central method unit (CPU), servers and peripheral any as finding innovative ways in which of reducing resource consumption and proper disposal of electronic waste. Many IT manufacturers and vendors endlessly invest in designing energy economical computing devices, reducing the use of dangerous material, and galvanizing the recyclability of digital devices and printing papers.
Green Practices Implementation as Prerequisite to Sustain Firm Competitive Advantages
Authors: Lumbanbatu Kardison , Aryanto Vincent Didiek Wiet
Published: January 2019

Encompassing firms to apply green policy in a holistic management practices are strongly required in order to maintain competitive advantages and experience long-term marketing performance. This current empirical research is aimed to fill the lack of empirical findings and empirical studies on firm's innovative concept. Green-based product innovation, green management practices and green corporate image are presented as the antecedents and postulated as the sources of sustaining firm competitive advantages. A questionnaire-based survey was deployed to collect data from Large Scale Enterprises in Indonesia with Top Management, Operational and Marketing Managers served as respondents. 500 questionnaires were mailed and 388 were valid for further analysis. Data was analyzed by using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) via AMOS statistical software. Statistical findings demonstrated that green-based product innovation, green management practices and green corporate image significantly has a positive affect to sustain firm competitive advantages which is led to enhance long term marketing performance. However, green-based product innovation plays insignificant direct relationship on long term marketing performance. This study discusses some managerial implications for enterprises and recommendations on a basis of green implementation.
Educated Young Consumer Purchase Behavior Towards Green Products
Authors: Kushwaha Gyaneshwar Singh , Sharma Nagendra Kumar
Published: January 2019

Green marketing is one of the emerging fields in India. Educated young consumers are very advantageous segment for green marketing. This paper aims to evaluate the purchase behavior and reactions of educated young consumers towards ‘green products' which is an essential element of the green marketing. Various variables have been found on the basis of the literature review. The survey questionnaire was designed with the help of literature and expert's inputs and got 343 actual respondents. An exploratory factor analysis and linear regression analysis has been used to bring the findings of the study. The result of the study shows that EYCs (Educated young consumers) purchase behavior towards green product is positive. Green product awareness, Eco-labels and satisfaction and all these found significantly associated with the purchase behavior or intention, but premium price and consumer (those who are highly concern towards environment) has insignificant relationship with the purchase behavior. The concept of green marketing in India is emerging and the study can be a meaningful guide.
Improving the Supply Chain (SC) Stream With Green Product Design (GPD) Strategy
Authors: Villanueva Rodrigo , Jimenez-Macias Emilio , Blanco-Fernandez Julio
Published: January 2019

The current Supply Chain (SC) is under change. The traditional way to generate a product contained the following stages: product design, raw material selection, material transportation, manufacturability, distribution and disposition at end of life. Product design for instance, is considered an extremely important stage of a product, being that, it directs the way the product can potentially be managed along the SC. It defines the raw material to be used, the possible supplier to select, the industrial processes involved in its fabrication, the packaging for its transportation and the newest stage where the product reaches its end of life and needs to be disposed. The Product design then becomes Green Product Design (GPD), where energy, time, resources become critical for a company. GPD takes into account the whole product life cycle. This chapter presents the importance of having a GPD process into the SC, the way to incorporate it, and the benefits of implementing it into the SC.
Ethical Practices, Buyer-Supplier Relationship, and Innovative Green Procurement Performance
Authors: Bag Surajit , Venkatesh V. G. , Luthra Sunil , Anand Neeraj
Published: January 2019

This study aims to examine how ethics and buyer-supplier relationship can contribute to enhanced innovative green procurement performance in the South African context. The hypotheses of this study were tested based on the data collected from manufacturing companies. Data collection involved convenience sampling and survey methodology in a research setting using procurement managers as subjects. The construct measures were based on existing measures and previous research studies. The reliability and validity of items were tested using exploratory factor analysis. Further the output of exploratory factor analysis was used as an input in the regression analysis using SPSS 20.0 version. The findings suggest that that supplier subtle practices; buyer-supplier bonding; continuous education and training and creativity and innovation are found to be strong determinants of innovative green procurement performance. The present study is unique in terms of scope and its contribution to both buyer-supplier relationship theory and practice.
Green Innovation and Ethical Responsibility
Authors: Tullani Harsh , Saha Raiswa , Dahiya Richa
Published: January 2019

The article aims at finding whether it's green innovation or ethical consideration of the business that predominantly affects consumer's choice for green purchase intentions. Does it act as a precursor to green marketing practices, and how it can impact consumers green purchase intentions? This article contributes a conceptual model focusing on three main variables under study i.e., green innovation, ethical responsibility and green purchase intentions. The study employs qualitative literature review followed by a quantitative survey of 250 consumers through 7-point Likert scale. The study results support that ethical responsibility has a positive impact on green purchase intentions. Green innovation has also got a positive relationship with green purchase intentions. However, green innovation and ethical responsibility are also significantly associated with green purchase intention. In a nutshell, both factors conjointly affect consumer's green purchase intentions. The study has functional and social implications for policymakers, citizen action public, businesses, stakeholders and the public in general. Environmental awareness, sense of trust & corporate image can be studied as a mediator or moderator to get a holistic view of the phenomenon. As per the understanding of the researchers, this is a naive study that explores, tests and contributes an empirically tested conceptual model supporting the combined effect of ethical responsibility and green innovation on green purchase intentions.
Driving Green Marketing in a Developing Country
Authors: Pandey Shweta , Chawla Deepak
Published: January 2019

Despite having a pro-environment attitude, customers may not consistently reflect the same in their behaviour. This chapter explores the applicability of the social-normalisation theory to reduce the attitude-behaviour gap of customers for driving green behaviour in India. The theory argues that green behaviour can be driven by positioning green activities as normal. The chapter details the findings of an empirical study done across 496 customers pan India. Analysis done based on various techniques (Heat maps, factor analysis and regression) indicates that while a broader consensus existed among customers about what is green, the conceptions of normality of the activities vary thereby, corroborating the existence of an attitude-behaviour gap. Results shows that perceptions of what is normal have a significantly higher impact than perceptions of what is green and hence, social-normalisation theory can be applied to drive green marketing in developing countries like India.
Perception of Romanian Consumers on Ecological Products
Authors: Sima Violeta , Gheorghe Ileana Georgiana
Published: January 2019

This chapter aimed to investigate perceptions and attitudes of Romanian consumers about organic products, in order to study the connection between knowledge and attitudes of consumers and their place in purchase decision-making system to understand their behavior toward organic food. In the first part, after a brief introduction, the authors tried to perform a review of the literature in the field, starting from the presentation of the concept of green or ecological consumption behavior and the notions related to it. A synthetic scheme of the drivers of the green market was proposed as a conclusion of this introductory part. The main concern is about consumption of the ecological products in Romania. The authors identified a number of 17 relevant studies performed in Romania in order to help them substantiate their work. They took into account two issues, namely, Ecological Non-Food Products and Ecological Food Products.
Drivers and Barriers to Green Supply Chain Management Practices
Authors: Esen Selin Kucukkancabas , El Barky Sahar Sobhy
Published: January 2019

The main purpose of this chapter is to extend the literature on drivers and barriers to GSCM from a different cultural framework, namely Egypt. The chapter is structured as follows. First, the importance and the components of GSCM are discussed briefly. Next, the benefits of GSCM and the main pressures/drivers that force the business sector to migrate its traditional supply chain activities to be green are highlighted. Next, the key theme of this chapter, the barriers and challenges facing the global business sector for extending green supply chain practices are discussed. Then, the results of multiple interviews that were conducted in multinational Turkish and Egyptian companies operating in Egypt are revealed in order to explore the drivers, benefits and barriers of GSCM and to propose the strategies for overcoming the barriers toward green economy. Finally, the chapter concludes with discussion and recommendations.
Assessing the Maturity of Green IT Adoption Within the Philippine Manufacturing Industry
Authors: Hernandez Alexander A.
Published: January 2019

Green IT is the sustainable use of computing resources in organizations with minimal or no impact on the environment. The role of Green IT is recognized to achieve sustainability in organizations. This study presents the extent of Green IT adoption in a developing country. This study used GIT maturity model to assess the overall level of Green IT maturity among manufacturing organizations. The results suggest that participants recognized Green IT, however, a low level of maturity is found within the manufacturing organizations. To further Green IT adoption in organizations, practical and research implications are presented.
Survey of State-of-Art in Green Cloud Computing
Authors: Ahuja Sanjay P. , Muthiah Karthika
Published: January 2019

Cloud computing is witnessing tremendous growth at one time when climate change and reducing emissions from energy use is gaining attention. With the growth of the cloud, however, comes an increase in demand for energy. There is growing global awareness about reducing greenhouse gas emissions and healthy environments. Green computing in general aims to reduce the consumption of energy and carbon emission and also to recycle and reuse the energy usage in a beneficial and efficient way. Energy consumption is a bottleneck in internet computing technology. Green cloud computing related technology arose as an improvement to cloud computing. Cloud data centers consume inordinate amounts of energy and have significant CO2 emissions as they have a huge network of servers. Furthermore, these data centers are tightly linked to provide high performance services, outsourcing and sharing resources to multiple users through the internet. This paper gives an overview about green cloud computing and its evolution, surveys related work, discusses associated integrated green cloud architecture – Green Cloud Framework, innovations, and technologies, and highlights future work and challenges that need to be addressed to sustain an eco-friendly cloud computing environment that is poised for significant growth.
Multi-Criteria Decision Making Techniques for Green Supply Chain Management
Authors: Güner Samet , Cebeci Halil İbrahim
Published: January 2019

Due to increasing importance of environmental issues, green practices became an important part of supply chain management. Today, various multi-criteria decision making techniques (MCDM) have been utilized for incorporation of green efforts in supply chain practices effectively. The purpose of this paper is examining the existing application areas of MCDM techniques in green supply chain management (GSCM) literature. Three questions will be investigated in relation to this issue: 1) Which MCDM techniques were prevalently applied in GSCM literature? 2) Which MCDM techniques have been overlooked in GSCM literature? 3) What are the major application areas of MCDM techniques in GSCM practices? To this aim, literature is reviewed between the period of 2008 and the first half of 2016. In total, ninety eight journal articles were examined. Consequently, this paper represents a detailed picture of application areas of MCDM techniques in GSCM practices and can definitely give a blueprint to researches in solving multiple objective problems effectively in the area of GSCM.
Awareness of Sustainability, Green IT, and Cloud Computing in Indian Organisations
Authors: Issa Tomayess , Tolani Girish , Chang Vanessa , Issa Theodora
Published: January 2019

This chapter examines the level of awareness that organizations in India have of the concepts, strengths and benefits of sustainability, green IT and cloud computing. Very few research papers have examined the sustainability, green IT awareness and cloud computing issues in India, and it has become necessary to ascertain just where Indian organizations stand when it comes to these concerns. Before determining whether these organisations are progressing towards sustainability, green IT and cloud computing, it is first necessary to determine whether, and to what extent, they are aware of these concepts. This research is to obtain answers, which hopefully will be a first step in a shift towards sustainability and green IT, via an online survey. Seventy-five respondents from public and private Indian organizations participated in this survey and confirmed that cloud computing is efficient, flexible and easy to maintain, although security and privacy are major concerns for Indian organizations.
Preparing Preservice Teachers to Become Self-Reflective of Their Technology Integration Practices
Authors: Amador Julie M. , Kimmons Royce , Miller Brant G. , Desjardins Christopher David , Hall Cassidy
Published: January 2019

The purpose of this chapter is to further understand how preservice teachers critically think about technology and their competence in technology integration. A mixed methods research design was employed to gather survey and performance task reflection data from preservice teachers. Data were analyzed using a categorization process based on preservice teachers' conceptualizations of technology as replacement, amplification, and transformation. Results revealed a significant overall effect of the selection of performance task upon whether it was applied in a transformative manner, but that no such overall effect existed for amplification and replacement. Descriptive analyses indicate preservice teachers were self-reflective about the extent to which technology influences students' learning. Conclusions indicate that teacher education programs should consider how they support preservice teachers to become self-reflective consumers of technology.
Transforming Preservice Mathematics Teacher Knowledge for and With the Enacted Curriculum
Authors: Edson Alden J. , Thomas Amanda
Published: January 2019

In a curriculum system, instructional materials and their enactment impacts students learning of school mathematics. In this chapter, the authors re-examine enacted curriculum in light of research on Digital Instructional Materials (DIMs) and the critical role of the mathematics teacher. This chapter documents research from two different studies suggesting that, while effectively leveraging digital materials may require teachers to think outside of their traditional views of how mathematics content is learned and communicated, doing so requires more than the resources themselves. In order to seize upon the potential for DIMs to support student learning in mathematics, teacher preparation must offer opportunities for teachers to develop and transform their technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) knowledge for and with DIMs. To this end, the authors propose specific recommendations for teacher preparation programs in the digital age.
Creativity, Digitality, and Teacher Professional Development
Authors: Mishra Punya , Henriksen Danah , Mehta Rohit
Published: January 2019

This article describes the development of a trans-disciplinary framework for creative teaching using technology. In recent years, the authors of this paper (and collaborators) have sought to better understand the role of creativity in educational technology. Our approach seeks to inform theory, research, and practice. In this piece we step back to provide a big-picture view of the process of developing a theoretical framework for creative, transformational teaching with digital technology. We describe the development of our ideas over time, through research projects focused on highly creative teachers and their practices. We describe how we have applied these ideas in teacher education courses devoted to creativity and technology, and developed rubrics for evaluating creative products. At a meta-level we aim to provide a rich example of the reciprocal nature of theory, research, and practice in educational technology. Through this we hope to provide one example of how such a theory/research/practice development process works, with the goal of informing future work of this type.
iTeach Literacy With iPad Devices
Authors: Santori Diane , Smith Carol , Schugar Heather
Published: January 2019

This chapter presents two unique cases of pre-service and in-service teachers utilizing iPad devices during literacy instruction, identifies numerous affordances and constraints of employing these devices, and offers suggestions for preparing teachers to integrate the iPad into literacy instruction. It is argued that iPad devices have the potential to truly transform literacy teaching and learning if used properly. If teachers are well prepared to use iPad devices effectively for literacy teaching, then their students will be able to utilize this mobile technology to enhance their literacy knowledge while also gaining technological skills essential for participation in our global society.
A Remote Mobile Experiment in Brazilian Public Basic Education
Authors: Nicolete Priscila Cadorin , Bento da Silva Juarez , Cristiano Marta Adriana da Silva , Bilessimo Simone Meister Sommer , Ferreira de Farias Giovanni , Filho Silvio Serafim da Luz
Published: January 2019

The STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) are very important for education, but the lack of experimental laboratories for these subjects in a school might decrease the interest of its students in STEM fields. This chapter explores these issues in the Brazilian context where, in order to address this issue, remote experiments are used to share real experiments manipulated through the Internet. Teachers and students can use remote laboratories, equipped with real experiments, to put in practice theoretical concepts learned in class. This chapter presents a report on a pilot project that aims to explore the use of Mobile Remote Experimentation (MRE) by teachers and students of public high schools in Brazil. It involves the use of mobile devices to access remote experiments in STEM subjects through the Internet. The report demonstrates the effectiveness of using such educational resources to improve pedagogical results by applying the TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) model to measure the impact of MRE by STEM teachers.
Using Web 2.0 Tools to Engage Content, Promote Self-Efficacy, and Implications for Intentional Student Learning
Authors: Parkison Paul , Thomas Jeff A.
Published: January 2019

This chapter defines Web 2.0 tools, their use in student learning, results from a study with university undergraduate students, and their implications for intentional student learning. Treatment subjects used a discussion board style site called TitanPad® to respond to a journal prompt after reading an article and before attending a subsequent class to discuss the journal article. Results are discussed for likelihood to read the assignment, amount of time spent reading, perception about being ready to discuss the material, perceived contribution to in-class work, and comprehension of the material. One inference was that with no additional time investment, instructors might increase student in-class participation using a Web 2.0 tool and students' self-efficacy with material in their profession. This has important implications for the manner in which students interact with text and content as significant intersubjective actors in the learning process.
A Phenomenological Study of Games, Simulations, and Virtual Environments Courses
Authors: Ritzhaupt Albert D. , Poling Nathaniel , Frey Christopher , Kang Youngju , Johnson Margeaux C.
Published: January 2019

Educational technology programs from across the United States are offering graduate courses in games, simulations, and virtual environments (GSVE) to their students. However, these courses, until now, have not been systematically studied. This research uses a hermeneutical phenomenological approach to answer the research question: “How do instructors describe their experience teaching GSVE courses?” Five professors of educational technology that have taught GSVE courses were interviewed using a semi-structured protocol based on the TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) framework. These data were analyzed both analytically and thematically. The results of the study showed a wide variety of topics, tools, and pedagogies are used within GSVE courses. The results had five themes emerge: Focus on Application and Theory, Experiential Learning and Constructivism, Instructor's Prior Experience with Games, Heterogeneous Student Populations, and Range of Technology Tools. These themes as well as these courses are highlighted within this paper. A discussion is provided.
Impact of Service Package Offered on Student Involvement: Case of Distance Education in Sri Lanka
Authors: Dassanayake H. C. , Nishantha B.
Published: January 2019

Despite its effectiveness, a higher student drop-out rate and lower student academic excellence are perceived as critical issues in the Distance Education (DE) system. Previous studies have emphasised on diverting attention towards core and peripheral services offered by DE institutes as a contextual solution. However, overcoming these issues only via the services offered is questionable as Students Involvement (SI) has been identified as a success factor in DE. Therefore, this paper investigates the impact core and peripheral services offered by DE institutes have on SI. Two hypotheses were developed through a literature review and, tested using a sample of 356 undergraduates of a DE institute, drawn using simple random technique. Data analysis supported the significant positive impact of peripheral services on SI yet, rejected that of core services. These findings are imperative in designing services offered by DE institutes and, thereby addressing the prevailing issues that hinder the system’s effectiveness.
Successful Implementation of the Balanced Scorecard in a Telecommunications Firm: An Institutional Theory Analysis
Authors: Thananchayan Kalani , Gooneratne Tharusha
Published: January 2019

This paper explores how a balanced scorecard (BSC) has been successfully implemented and institutionalised in a leading telecommunications company in Sri Lanka (Telinotec) through improvements over two phases (pre 2012 and post 2012). It adopts a qualitative methodology and case study approach and is founded upon the theoretical underpinnings of institutional theory, more specifically the institutionalisation model of Tolbert and Zucker (1996). The findings suggest that while the BSC was implemented in 2000, improvements via linking it to individual performance and the corporate strategy were done after 2012. This paper contributes to literature by illuminating how the BSC was initiated (habitualisation), translated into practice (objectification) and institutionalised (sedimentation) in a firm and offers insights to practitioners on making management accounting tools successful by continuously modifying to match managers’ expectations and the context of the firm.
THE USE OF HPLC AS A TOOL FOR NEONATAL CORD BLOOD SCREENING OF HAEMOGLOBINOPATHY - A VALIDATION STUDY
Authors: Al-Madhani A. , Pathare Anil , Alkindi Salam
Published: January 2019

Background: Newborn cord blood screening identifies infants with underlying haemoglobinopathies before they develop the characteristic symptoms or sequelae. Aims: This study was performed to validate the interpretation high-performance chromatography (HPLC) along with complete blood count (CBC) results as a tool for universal neonatal screening of hemoglobin disorders in Oman. Methods: HPLC and CBC data on subjects who participated in the National Neonatal screening program at birth were obtained from archival records. The results recorded at birth were compared with a second study performed on the same subjects, after approval from the local medical research and ethics committee.Results: Only 290 subjects from amongst the original cohort of 3740 newborns could be recalled between April 2010 to March 2011, to repeat HPLC and CBC, as well as perform confirmatory DNA studies, wherever necessary. All these subjects had been documented to show an initial abnormal result. 31 cases who had no HbA at birth on HPLC were confirmed as either homozygous β-thalassaemia major (n=5 subjects) or homozygous sickle cell anemia (n=26 subjects) by appropriate DNA analysis. Additionally, amongst 151 subjects, 72 subjects were studied in the initial study by Hb Bart’s quantitation using aalpha thalassaemia short program at birth. In this cohort, 42 subjects with Hb Bart’s >1% at birth could be confirmed as having either deletional or non-deletional thalassaemia by GAP PCR studies. No case of HbH was detected in this cohort. Further, carrier status for structural hemoglobin variants (HbS, HbC, HbD, HbE) (n=67) and beta thalassaemia allele with low HbA at birth (n=29 out of 41) were confirmed by relevant molecular studies.Conclusions: The study validated the earlier observation by 100% concordance with results of CBC and HPLC. Presence of Hb Bart’s at birth does not always mean the presence of alpha thalassemia, as subjects with Hb Bart’s was below 1% by quantitation, were shown to be normal by molecular studies. Key Words: Neonatal, screening, HPLC validation, haemoglobinopathy, sickle cell disease, thalassaemia
Disablement Model and Health-Related Quality of Life Classification for Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Instruments
Authors: Snyder Valier Alison R. , Bacon Cailee E. Welch , Lam Kenneth C.
Published: January 2019

Context

The National Institutes of Health created a medical research road map that included the development of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS). A key feature of PROMIS was the development of patient-reported outcome measures (PROs) addressing various aspects of health. Understanding disablement dimensions and health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) domains captured through PROMIS measures will help with instrument selection.

Objective

To evaluate the pediatric PROMIS PROs and determine the areas of disablement and HRQOL captured within each instrument.

Design

Descriptive laboratory study.

Setting

Laboratory.

Patients or Other Participants

Twenty-two pediatric PROMIS instruments (19 short forms and 3 profiles).

Main Outcome Measure(s)

Three raters independently reviewed the PROMIS instruments and categorized each question on each instrument according to the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health disablement model domains (body functions and structures, activity, participation, environmental factors, personal factors) and HRQOL (psychological, physical, social, spiritual, economic) dimensions. A consensus process determined the final question category. The frequencies of disablement model domains and HRQOL dimensions captured by questions on PROMIS instruments were reported.

Results

The most frequently reported disablement model domain was body function and structure, which was captured by questions in 16/22 (73%) pediatric PROMIS instruments, followed by activity (13/22 [59%] pediatric PROMIS instruments) and participation (9/22 [41%] pediatric PROMIS instruments). The most frequently captured HRQOL dimensions were physical and psychological health, both evaluated in 13/22 (59%) of the pediatric PROMIS instruments. The social dimension of HRQOL was assessed in 9/22 (41%) of the pediatric PROMIS instruments.

Conclusions

Pediatric PROMIS fixed-length instruments captured a variety of disablement domains and health dimensions, but, like most PRO instruments, no single PROMIS instrument captured them all. Clinicians and researchers must consider their goals when selecting PRO instruments, which may require implementing multiple instruments and those beyond PROMIS.
Los modelos familiares en la comedia televisiva española: (1990-2010)
Authors: Hidalgo-Marí Tatiana , Tous Rovirosa Anna , Morales Morante Luís Fernando
Published: January 2019

Este trabajo analiza la representación de los modelos familiares en la comedia familiar televisiva española y sus protagonismos. Metodología. El análisis se ha realizado sobre un estudio cualitativo de 46 comedias familiares de producción propia, emitidas en las cadenas generalistas desde la apertura del mercado televisivo (1990) hasta el apagón analógico (2010). Conclusiones y discusión. Los resultados devuelven una clasificación cronológica por periodos de la evolución de la familia en la comedia televisiva y confirman que la construcción de la familia en el seno de la comedia televisiva alterna el hiperrealismo con el conservadurismo.
Horizontal Precipitation Gradients in Alpine Valleys of Northwestern Slovenia
Authors: Ogrin Matej , Kozamernik Erika
Published: January 2019

Mountain landscapes are the areas characteristic for a great spatial variability of precipitation amounts. On the windward sides of orographic barriers there is intense rising of air, and on the lee sides air descends. The intensity of the two processes is manifested in great differences in precipitation amounts at short distances. Although the network of precipitation stations is the densest in the Alps of all mountain regions in the world, precipitation regime at the micro level continues to be poorly known at many a place. Precipitation stations in mountainous landscapes are the most numerous in lower-lying and settled areas, whereas they are rather few in the high-lying areas. Also the accuracy of measurements is problematic in the mountains. As a result, the information on precipitation regime is inadequate right in the areas with the largest precipitation amounts. This means that the estimation of water balance is inadequate, and it is difficult to forecast the precipitation-related processes, such as torrential floods, landslides, avalanches, and the like. The present paper deals with horizontal precipitation gradients in the Alpine valleys of Planica, Krnica and the stream Beli potok which are all situated in the north-western part of the Slovenian section of the Julian Alps.
Mary Hays, an Eighteenth-Century Woman Lexicographer at the Service of “the Female World”
Authors: Lasa Álvarez Begoña
Published: January 2019

The English reformist writer Mary Hays published a compilation of women’s biographies entitled Female Biography (1803), with the aim at providing other women with examples to emulate. she intended not only to convey her deepest convictions about women’s capacities and abilities, but also to leave her own stylistic imprint on the text. This study seeks to analyse diverse entries of Hays’s collection (Lady Dudleya North, Lady Damaris Masham, Margaret Roper, Aphra Behn, and Lady Rachel Russel) in order to elucidate her concerns as a data collector and biographer, and her techniques as a lexicographer, which are chiefly shaped by her concern about education and by her intended audience: women.
A Double ITCZ Phenomenology of Wind Errors in the Equatorial
Atlantic in Seasonal Forecasts with ECMWF Models
Authors: Shonk Jonathan K. P. , Demissie Teferi D. , Toniazzo Thomas
Published: January 2019

Abstract. Modern coupled general circulation models produce systematic biases in the tropical Atlantic that hamper the reliability of long-range predictions. This study focuses on a common springtime westerly wind bias in the equatorial Atlantic in seasonal hindcasts from two coupled models – ECMWF System 4 and EC-Earth v2.3 – and in hindcasts also based on System 4, but with prescribed sea-surface temperatures. The coupled models share common atmosphere and ocean components, although at different versions. We examine the sequence in which different biases appear during the development of the westerly bias in early April, which is marked by a rapid transition from a wintertime bias pattern with an equatorial cold tongue and an easterly wind bias to a springtime westerly bias regime displaying a marked double ITCZ. The transition is a seasonal feature of the model climatology (independent of start date), and is associated with the seasonal increase in rainfall around the start of April and the consequent enhancement of the southern branch of a double ITCZ, which generates excess off-equatorial convergence and redirects the trade winds away from the equator. There is no evidence of remote influences on the biases at the time of the transition. By contrast, there appears to be an association with a persistent dry bias north of the equator. Based on our analysis, a possible contribution to the springtime development of the double ITCZ and the westerly equatorial wind bias is a failure to correctly represent the meridional cross-equatorial flow, which can instigate a meridional rainfall bias pattern across the equator.
Watershed classification for the Canadian prairie
Authors: Wolfe Jared D. , Shook Kevin R. , Spence Chris , Whitfield Colin J.
Published: January 2019

Abstract. Classification and clustering approaches provide a means to group watersheds according to similar attributes, functions, or behaviours, and can aid in managing natural resources within these regions. While widely used, approaches based on hydrological response parameters restrict analyses to regions where well-developed hydrological records exist, and overlook factors contributing to other management concerns, including biogeochemistry and ecology. In the Canadian Prairie, hydrometric gauging is sparse and often seasonal, large areas are endorheic and the landscape is highly modified by human activity, complicating classification based solely on hydrological parameters. We compiled climate, geological, topographical, and land cover data from the Prairie and conducted a classification of watersheds using a hierarchical clustering of principal components. Seven classes were identified based on the clustering of watersheds, including those distinguishing southern Manitoba, the pothole region, river valleys, and grasslands. Important defining variables were climate, elevation, surficial geology, wetland distribution, and land cover. In particular, three classes occur almost exclusively within regions that tend not to contribute to major river systems, and collectively encompass the majority of the study area. The gross difference in key characteristics across the classes suggests that future water management and climate change may carry with them heterogeneous sets of implications for water security across the Prairies. This emphasizes the importance of developing management strategies that target sub-regions expected to behave coherently as current human-induced changes to the landscape will affect how watersheds react to change. This study provides the first classification of watersheds within the Prairie based on climatic and biophysical attributes, and our findings provide a foundation for addressing questions related to hydrological, biogeochemical, and ecological behaviours at a regional level.
Culture matters: Factors influencing natural hazard risk
preparedness – a survey of Swiss households
Authors: Maidl Elisabeth , Bresch David N. , Buchecker Matthias
Published: January 2019

Abstract. Building a culture of risk is an essential objective within the integrated risk management paradigm. Challenges arise both due to increasing damage from natural hazards and the complexity in interaction of different actors in risk management. In Switzerland, the Strategy for Natural Hazards Switzerland, aims to establish efficient protection of the population, natural resources and material goods. This requires that all actors are recognized and aware of their responsible role in risk management. However, previous, non-representative studies indicate that risk awareness and preparedness levels are rather low within the general population. For the first time, our nation-wide survey provides empirical data on factors that influ-ence individual risk preparedness. Multivariate analysis shows that taking responsibility for natural hazard risk prevention is not only related to personal experience and perceived probability of hazard events, but also crucially influenced by social forms of communication and integration. Therefore, we conclude that social capacity building needs to include such factors in order to render integrated risk management strategies successful.
Diplomacia cultural y circulación literaria: dos escritores brasileños en Buenos Aires entre los centenarios
Authors: Rodrigues João Paulo Coelho de Souza
Published: January 2019

El artículo analiza las visitas de los escritores Paulo Barreto (1915) y Julia Lopes de Almeida (1922) a Argentina, en el contexto de la diplomacia cultural informal desarrollada por los diarios de Buenos Aires y de Río de Janeiro, procurando establecer el impacto que pueden haber tenido en la circulación de la literatura brasileña en publicaciones periódicas argentinas. Se destaca la retórica de la gran prensa comercial y de los mencionados escritores sobre el periodismo y los viajes y se discute el papel que el mercado de lectores de Buenos Aires desempeñó en la formación del campo literario en Brasil.
La recepción temprana de Marcel Proust en el espacio de revistas culturales argentinas de los años veinte
Authors: Merbilhaá Margarita
Published: January 2019

Este trabajo analiza el fenómeno de lectura de En busca del tiempo perdido, de Marcel Proust, a partir de la centralidad que cobró su recepción en un arco muy diverso de publicaciones literarias y culturales aparecidas en Buenos Aires en la década de 1920. Analiza el modo en que a través de éstas las diversas colaboraciones encontraron en la lectura de esta obra distintos motivos para definir una sensibilidad emergente y, por otro lado, para pensar el lugar del arte en nueva cultura urbana y masiva. En este sentido, se describen dos claves de lectura, espiritualista y de apertura a la experimentación narrativa, que junto a un interés por teorizar acerca de la novedad en el arte, confirman disposiciones vanguardistas que van más allá del grupo nucleado en torno a la revista Martín Fierro(1924-1927). Por último, el análisis se detiene en la apropiación específica de algunas ideas de Proust desde una experiencia cultural periférica respecto de los centros europeos.
Benito Milla: un Ulises desgraciado en el Río de la Plata. De Cuadernos Internacionales a Mundo Nuevo, del socialismo libertario al humanismo antibelicista
Authors: Jannello Karina
Published: January 2019

El siguiente artículo se propone recuperar la gestión cultural del republicano español exiliado en Montevideo Benito Milla entre los años 1950 y 1965. Desde su arribo a Montevideo, alentado por sus ideales anarquistas, Milla configura un espacio de referencia para la cultura uruguaya que va reconfigurando una izquierda humanista y antibelicista. A través de sus revistas Cuadernos Internacionales, Deslinde, Letras 62, Número (2ª. época) y Temas,pero también a través de las editoriales que crea para la difusión de los nuevos talentos de la Generación del 45: Deslinde y Alfa, se constituye en un eslabón fundamental para comprender la fuerte expansión de la cultura uruguaya en esos años.
Escrituras de mujeres, las huellas del feminismo en las revistas de los Centros Académicos Independientes, Chile 1980-1990
Authors: Moyano Barahona Cristina
Published: January 2019

Este artículo revisa la red textual que constituyeron las revistas Proposiciones, Apuntes para el Trabajo Social y el área de documentos de Trabajo de Flacso. Este grupo constituyó parte de los espacios donde las mujeres intelectuales de las ciencias sociales, que realizaron investigación-acción, utilizaron como medio para difundir los debates respecto de las condiciones de vida de las mujeres populares, dialogando con el feminismo y con la izquierda en proceso de renovación.El objetivo central corresponde a la identificación de los corpus de debates en los participaron las mujeres intelectuales socialistas, junto con resaltar el esfuerzo para generar una intersección entre el género y la clase. Desde 1980 hasta 1990, las revistas tuvieron a las mujeres como un actor central, pese a que disputaron esos espacios con otros intelectuales de la época. Así lo más valioso de estas escrituras es su carácter abierto al debate en las ciencias sociales, donde se instalan las marcas de un feminismo que aspiraba a dotar de sentido a lo popular.
El acierto en el fracaso. La revista Imán (1931), un episodio de la historia literaria latinoamericana
Authors: Maíz Claudio
Published: January 2019

En este trabajo pretendemos poner de relieve que la fugacidad de la revista Imán, que apareció en París en 1931, editada por la argentina Elvira de Alvear (1907-1959) no mermó su capacidad en cuanto a los objetivos literarios que se había propuesto. Imánacertó cuando difundió fragmentos de obras de quienes formarían parte de la renovación de la prosa latinoamericana del siglo XX: Alejo Carpentier, Miguel Ángel Asturias y Arturo Uslar Pietri.
Presentación. Publicaciones periódicas del siglo XX: aspectos emergentes, miradas latinoamericanas
Authors: Rogers Geraldine
Published: January 2019

Presentación Dossier: Publicaciones periódicas y redes culturales en América Latina
REINFORCEMENT OF RUBBER USING REACTIVE OLIGO(β-ALANINE) SUPRAMOLECULAR FILLERS
Authors: Tan Xin , Zhao Yihong , Hamed Gary , Jia Li
Published: January 2019

Oligo(β-alanine)–based supramolecular fillers that possess an 11-mercaptoundecanoyl oleophilic moiety and an oligo(β-alanine) oleophobic moiety of varied lengths (SA1, SA2, and SA3, having a β-alanine unimer, dimer, and trimer moiety, respectively) have been systematically investigated for reinforcement of SBR. An analog of SA2 with 11-mercapto-undecanoyl being replaced by 3-mercaptopropanoyl, SA2′, was also studied for comparison. Fourier transform infrared evidence has confirmed that all supramolecular fillers exist exclusively as hydrogen-bonded β-sheets in the rubber composites. Differential scanning calorimetry studies have revealed that SA2, SA2′, and SA3 form crystalline domains in the SBR phase at all filler loadings, while SA1 only forms crystalline domains at >15 phr, indicating that microphase separation from the SBR phase is weaker for SA1 than for its higher congeners. Transmission electron microscopy investigations have shown that the filler crystalline domains are dispersed uniformly as short fibers in a continuous SBR phase. The widths of the fibers are below 10 nm, and the lengths range from a few tens to a couple of hundreds of nanometers. The oligo(β-alanine)–based supramolecular fillers exhibit diverse reinforcing characteristics among themselves and in comparison with carbon black. SA1 gives comparatively high extensibility and low tensile strength, while SA2 and SA3 give relatively low extensibility, high stiffness, and high strength. SA2′ behaves similarly to SA1 at low filler loadings but significantly compromises the extensibility at relatively high loadings. Cyclic tensile testing shows that SA1 gives high hysteresis and high set, while SA2 and SA3 give low hysteresis at low elongation and high hysteresis at high elongation in comparison with carbon black. Dynamic mechanical study at 2% strain shows that SA1, SA2, and SA3 result in markedly lower tan δ at 60 °C than carbon black. In addition, abrasion study shows that SA1 and SA2 result in lower weight loss than carbon black at 30 phr of filler loading.
Discourse Analysis of References in the Speech of Amir of Qatar Sheik Tamim Bin Hamad Al -Thani in the 72 Session of the United Nations General Assembly
Authors: Al-Khalidy Hatmal Odeh
Published: January 2019

Discourse as a connected speech which extends beyond the borders of a single sentence. Therefore, this study analyse references in the speech of Amir of Qatar Sheik Tamim Bin Hamad Al -Thani   in the 72 session of the United Nations General Assembly on 19- September 2017. The researcher will present personal, demonstratives and comparative references by analysing their frequency of occurrence as an analytical study. Basically, this study reveals that personal references are   most frequently used by Sheik Tamim, followed by demonstrative references. The comparative references happen to be the least occurring type.
Right to One's Own Image in Spain: What It Is and What It Is Not
Authors: Sánchez de Diego Manuel
Published: January 2019

The right to one's own image is a relatively young right that, in Spain, has its roots in the dignity of the person and it was first recognized in the 1978 Constitution. It is a right that arises from the self-determination of the human being and that is related with other rights such as the right to honor, privacy, protection of personal data, even with older ones such as the right to the inviolability of the home and the right to secrecy of communications. This characteristic makes it different from a purely commercial right, although it can't be denied that, possibly, this is the constitutional right with the greatest economic content.