bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Análise do processo de implementação de reformas em organizações públicas: os casos do Poupatempo e do Detran -SP
Authors: Rodrigues Dênis Alves , Lotta Gabriela Spanghero
Published: August 2017

Este artigo tem como objetivo compreender o processo de implementação de reformas organizacionais no setor público, enfocando dois casos emblemáticos do governo do Estado de São Paulo: a estruturação do Poupatempo e a reforma do Detran.SP. Para tanto, baseando-se na literatura sobre implementação de políticas públicas, procura identificar as variáveis e determinantes que incidem sobre os processos de implementação de reformas organizacionais. Assim, foram analisados os objetivos, valores e princípios que as orientam, bem como elas são levadas a cabo a partir de diversas variáveis, como os atores, seu papel, perfil e atuação As categorias utilizadas para a análise permitiram identificar as variáveis que condicionam essas reformas, identificando questões comuns aos dois estudos e os elementos importantes para o seu sucesso.
Conselho tutelar e “escolhas trágicas”: relatos de conselheiros em Montes Claros/MG
Authors: Ferreira Francielle Vieira Borges , Couto Felipe Fróes
Published: August 2017

O foco que nos interessa no presente artigo é o tratamento da infância e da juventude por meio do mecanismo de Conselhos Tutelares. O Conselho Tutelar (CT) se configura como uma das mais importantes ferramentas institucionais para a efetivação do sistema de garantias dos direitos da criança e do adolescente. O objetivo geral é analisar, segundo a percepção dos Conselheiros Tutelares de Montes Claros/MG, como se dá a atuação do órgão no município. Para a realização do presente trabalho, propôs-se uma pesquisa de natureza qualitativa, pois busca-se obter compreensão dos significados a partir dos atores envolvidos. Foram entrevistados cinco dos oito Conselheiros Tutelares Municipais da cidade de Montes Claros. Observou-se que, no caso analisado, a notória falta de condições leva a situações de “escolhas trágicas”: para cada criança em situação “prioritária” atendida rapidamente, alguma criança em situação não prioritária continua a ser submetida a situações de risco, cujos efeitos são imprevisíveis em longo prazo. A definição subjetiva dos casos prioritários mostra-se como um efeito de um sistema que, de certa forma, imputa ao Conselheiro o paradoxo de, na posição de agente público, sentir-se hábil a intervir em determinadas situações e sentir-se incapaz de atender a outros casos de extrema vulnerabilidade. De certo modo, essa situação cria uma percepção no Conselheiro de que cabe a ele a decisão de “qual vida salvar”.
Orçamento impositivo: a experiência da saúde
Authors: Helcias Côrtes Gonzaga Sagastume Mariana , Brito Rodrigo Lino de , Delgado Rodrigo Morais Lima , Moraes Bruno Pinto de
Published: August 2017

O cenário do financiamento público foi alterado em 2015, quando se tornou obrigatória a execução do montante financeiro aportado por emendas parlamentares individuais. Assim, é razoável antever que a destinação dessas emendas precisará ser gerenciada, buscando alinhamento com as políticas públicas. O contexto da saúde foi selecionado para este trabalho exploratório, dado o potencial impacto dessa alteração no campo sanitário. Analisou-se em que medida as emendas parlamentares ao Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), entre 2012 e 2015, estavam alinhadas à agenda do sistema e como isso aponta para os alinhamentos entre o Executivo e o Legislativo. Foram realizadas análises quantitativas e qualitativas, procurando responder a se as emendas impositivas contribuem para o fortalecimento do financiamento da política de saúde e para o alcance da sua pauta prioritária.
O programa farmácia popular: alcance e limites como alternativa de acesso a medicamentos essenciais
Authors: De Almeida Silvia Rebouças Pereira , Véras Maura Pardini Bicudo
Published: August 2017

Tendo como premissa que o Estado brasileiro reconhece o direito à saúde como uma das garantias de cidadania, o presente artigo analisa o Programa Farmácia Popular do Brasil, implantado em 2004, como política pública de acesso a medicamentos. Avaliou-se o programa com base em pesquisa documental, bibliográfica e entrevistas com atores-chave, para identificar seus alcances e limites. Ao objetivar a distribuição de medicamentos essenciais para o tratamento de doenças crônicas não transmissíveis, o programa apresentou algumas vantagens na eficiência logística, garantindo a disponibilidade de medicamentos, facilidade de acesso às farmácias conveniadas, mas denotou que os usuários do sistema público de saúde, que deveriam estar utilizando a assistência farmacêutica pública convencional, que distribui gratuitamente remédios à população, necessitavam de outra forma de atendimento, por causa das deficiências nessa assistência pública. Embora o programa tenha sido considerado importante como alternativa, foram sugeridas melhorias operacionais e estratégicas para que este se torne mais efetivo no acesso aos remédios pela população brasileira.
A primer on infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms
Authors: Hertzer Norman R
Published: August 2017

Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms have an alarmingly high mortality rate that often exceeds 50%, even when patients survive long enough to be transported to hospitals. Historical data have shown that ruptures are especially likely to occur with aneurysms measuring ≥6 cm in diameter, but there are so many exceptions to this that several randomized clinical trials have been done in an attempt to determine whether smaller aneurysms should be repaired electively as soon as they are discovered. More recently, further trials have been conducted in order to compare the relative benefits and disadvantages of modern endovascular aneurysm repair to those of traditional open surgery. This review summarizes current evidence from randomized trials and large population-based datasets regarding two questions that are uppermost in the mind of virtually every patient who is found to have an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Should it be fixed? What are the risks?
A empresa está crescendo, o que fazer agora?
Authors: Bueno Janaina Maria , Domingues Carlos Roberto , Vieira Juliana , Barcelos Matheus
Published: August 2017

Este caso de ensino visa promover a capacidade de análise e tomada de decisão frente às mudanças na estrutura organizacional, com base na teoria de Mintzberg (2003). O caso tem como pano de fundo a história e as mudanças ocorridas em uma pizzaria com mais de trinta anos, que possui oito filiais e mais de cem empregados, situada na segunda maior cidade de Minas Gerais. Os dados foram obtidos em entrevista com a gestora da empresa. Devido às diferentes configurações que a empresa adotou ao longo dos anos, ela se torna um excelente instrumento para professores e alunos de graduação em administração analisarem e trabalharem alternativas para reestruturações organizacionais. Também são sugeridas abordagens alternativas de análise como processo sucessório e estratégia de franchising.
Alternativas para a saúde no Brasil
Authors: Friedrich Marcos Paulo , Da Silva Renato Luiz , De Guimarães Julio Cesar Ferro , Basso Kenny
Published: August 2017

Em 2011 a Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar (ANS) lançou a resolução nº 259 que regulamenta os prazos máximos para o agendamento de consultas, exames e cirurgias, buscando fiscalizar melhor o setor privado da área de saúde no Brasil. Devido a esta regulamentação, o mercado de saúde privada criou o cartão de descontos, que não se enquadra na fiscalização da ANS. Nesse contexto, o Centro Assistencial SM, que hoje oferece um cartão de descontos para atendimentos ambulatoriais para a população das classes C e D, precisa definir se vai diversificar os produtos oferecidos, abrangendo também as classes A e B. O objetivo deste caso de ensino é proporcionar a reflexão e discussões sobre os temas como empreendedorismo, estratégias de mercado, contexto do setor da saúde no Brasil e marketing de produtos e serviços, além das dificuldades enfrentadas por gestores para tomar decisões estratégicas.
Historical background of the geopolitical potential of the Russian Cossacks
Authors: Терновая  , Tyernovaya Lyudmila
Published: August 2017

The book presents fragments of the past and modern life of the Russian Cossacks, which, together, reveal the sources of the geopolitical potential of the Russian Cossacks and allow us to understand the features of the modern Cossack movement.
The book is intended for specialists in the field of history, culture, geopolitics and regional studies, as well as for a wide range of readers interested in the traditions of peoples and regions of Russia.
Uno, dos, tres…
Authors: Harries Judith
Published: August 2017

The second article in this language series looks at using maths to introduce Spanish. This is the second largest spoken language after Mandarin and so a few words and phrases might come in useful!
A clean sweep
Authors: Hart Karen
Published: August 2017

Children love sweeping up and this can be a useful hook for learning about how people care for the environment. It's also a great excuse to introduce Julia Donaldson's book, Room on the Broom.
AskFuse origins: system barriers to providing the research that public health practice and policy partners say they need
Authors: Rushmer Rosemary , Shucksmith Janet
Published: August 2017

In this paper the development of askFuse is used as a case study to illustrate contextual and system barriers to universities providing useful, usable and timely research evidence in response to local practice and policy partners’ stated public health research needs. Entrenched systems (research excellence framework, academic career pathways, procurement processes) proved to be considerable obstacles. Issues discussed in the successful operationalising of askFuse included: reputational risks, uncertainty; working round system barriers; dilemmas in costing the research; and an opportunity to re-think what counts as valuable research, effective public health research methods, and the creation of a new evidence base.
Future Education Leaders' Needs in Serving Students With Severe Disabilities: A Call for Intentional Preparation
Authors: Robertson Phyllis M. , McCaleb Karen N. , Smith Nancy J.
Published: August 2017

Qualitative analysis of three discipline-specific focus groups (graduate students in educational leadership/educational administration, curriculum and instruction, and counseling) revealed that these participants are largely unprepared to serve students with extensive and pervasive support needs. Rather, these professionals reported relying upon their ability to learn from others, their personal experiences, and their capacity to “take risks and fake it.” They cited numerous barriers to effective implementation of inclusion revealing that they were often afraid to ask for clarification and support; had limited opportunities for meaningful collaboration; engaged with a system that often placed form over function; and worked with students who experienced segregation, neglect, and isolation. Participants offered suggestions for improving university-based preparation, enhancing professional development, and increasing hands-on learning opportunities along with the need to create a supportive system for educators, students, and their families.
Practice-infused drawing research: ‘Being present’ and ‘making present’
Authors: Bullen Duncan , Fox Jane , Lyon Philippa
Published: August 2017

How can we understand the pivotal value of touch and collaborative processes within two artists’ drawing practice and how do we articulate the generative nature of such practice-based research? Duncan Bullen’s drawing explores the relationship between hand, breath and surface, Jane Fox’s, the semi-resisted action of wind between paper and pencil. Both artists have a shared concern with non-representational drawing processes, an expanded notion of ‘material’ and a focus on the experience of reciprocity between the individual practitioner and the world in which they practice. These concerns are discussed in terms of ‘being present’ and ‘making present’, which this article attempts to conceptualize at an interim stage in the research with reference to theory about drawing, anthropology and meditation practice. The understanding of drawing mobilized here is one in which, as Jane Grisewood argues, ‘seeing’ is not a prerequisite. It is a practice of drawing that is about receiving and being. Lyon, Bullen and Fox are developing a collaborative methodology for this research in which their respective embodied, manual practices of drawing and writing are in dialogue.
Exploring drawing as a generative act: Articulating thought processes in the context of interdisciplinary approaches to drawing pedagogy
Authors: Sarkar Asmita
Published: August 2017

This article offers an approach to drawing pedagogy and presents case studies of drawings produced by students from Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, South India. The project aims to examine whether the conceptual and subjective aspects of drawing can be combined with contextual reading. Students were instructed to draw pictures inspired by texts related to cognitive psychology, anthropology, literature and philosophy. Their whimsical and speculative drawings incorporated conceptual elements from the texts beyond objective representation, demonstrating the influence of interdisciplinary course content on drawing. The results provide new insights into debates of visual literacy and drawing pedagogy.
Theodora Varnay Jones: Frottage
Authors: Gavish Michal
Published: August 2017

Theodora Varnay Jones experiments with frottage drawing in a series of graphite rubbings that she performs on surfaces of found objects. Using translucent paper, she layers her traced drawings and constructs them into abstract compositions. The gradual mechanical fashion, in which her images appear on the page during the progression of her drawing, is reminiscent of slow exposure photography. Through a monotonous pencil motion of crayon rubbing, she shifts her drawing from a perceptual practice into an automatic one. This strategy is part of her long-term intent of objectifying her mark making. As she undermines the conscious aspect of her work, she surrenders her function as a planner. Yet, this submission is not completely passive. While pursuing her work, she observes her new role as the labourer and examines her production. Using this detached method, she develops a new vocabulary with its formality dictated by her impressed surfaces. In the final stage of the work, the artist layers her copies and assembles them into new configurations, in which her images abandon their original literal meaning. She employs this contemplative part of her practice to build tension between the legible graphite tracings and the ultimate abstract form, which transcend them into hovering weightless shapes.
Noclip World: Drawing the disruptions of virtual video game environments
Authors: Pearson Luke Caspar
Published: August 2017

Modern video games give the player ever more realistic worlds to experience; yet they typically remain carefully cultivated virtual spaces. Cheaters and players who operate against the prevailing logic of the system often expose strange digital phenomena that come with attempts to replicate realistic spaces in game engine environments. Noclip World is an ongoing research project in which I seek to expose the underlying logics of video game spaces using hand drawing as a critical tool. The project explores games based on Valve Corporation’s Source Engine that made games from 2004 to 2016. Through a roving ‘counterplay’ using cheats to suspend in-game physics, I produce a taxonomy of behaviours that manifest in the virtual camera when navigated to the fringes of game worlds. The project references Flusser’s notion of the camera as a ‘black box’ and frames the inner coded workings of a virtual camera as equivocal in its opacity. I subsequently propose transcriptive drawing as a tool to unpick the logics of glitched virtual worlds. Protocols of architectural drawing are used to expose and reassemble the fragmentary spaces detailed in-game through the use of screenshots as preliminary ‘photographic’ recordings. Noclip World questions whether the architect producing drawings of these virtual spaces can become surrogates for the opaque zone of Flusser’s camera, becoming a ‘black box’ themselves. By using drawing to expose the disruption of virtual video game environments, the project ultimately seeks to uncover the contingency of even the most realistic digital depictions of space.
Envelopes of time: Drawing Boulez’s third milieu
Authors: Guerra-Valiente Juan Jose
Published: August 2017

French composer Pierre Boulez first formulated the concepts of the ‘smooth and the striated’ in his musical oeuvre as an expression of his concerns regarding the interaction between continuous and discontinuous musical parameters referred to time and space. Later on, Deleuze and Guattari further established new applications for these ideas relating them to a wide range of non-musical purposes. However, several questions arise such as how the smooth-striated communicate, transform and remain different; is there a third space that intermingles with the system ‘smooth-striated’? And in this instance, how could it be visualized? In order to give answers to these questions, this article explores a third milieu, also introduced by Boulez: the ‘fixed’ space-time that would allow the perception of the communication between the ‘smooth and the striated’. Additionally, this article argues that there is a strong link between the ‘fixed’ and the Deleuzian diagrams, through which the musical concepts could be visualized, presenting a series of drawings as case studies developed using analogical and digital techniques.
Illuminated paths: Using light to draw the intermovemental stages of skateboarding tricks
Authors: Chittenden Tara
Published: August 2017

By interrogating built form and using intuitive and artistic understandings of space to carve out new landscapes, skateboarders demonstrate how urban space can function in alternative ways. This article explores a way of capturing the divergent contours, peaks and valleys of skateboarders’ paths through space as a series of drawings that not only map variations of urban landscape, but also act as an expression of individuals’ experiential moments in time. My discussion focuses on the work of Buzzy Sullivan, a skateboarder and artist living in Oregon, USA, who shoots long exposure photographs of an LED light-clad skateboard during different skate tricks. In the resulting images the movement of the skateboard appears as a series of drawn light paths, resembling a 3D contour map of an alien terrain. Although these ephemeral light lines have obvious advantages due to their ability to make the sheer variation in contours of movement through space visible, they are reliant on photography for their preservation. Positioned as drawings, the lines of light enable us to visualize how skateboarders navigate environments and provide the DNA strands of each trick as it is being performed. These are drawings about the process of their own creation, acting as a fluid process that awakens new possibilities for sculpting and reading the city. I suggest that Sullivan’s images provide a method for research that captures the nuanced ‘intermovemental’ stages of skateboarding as drawings that help to explain what happens between the board and the ground in a skateboarder’s cartographic constitution of place.
The transmission of voicing in traditional Gwoka: Between identity and memory
Authors: Tahon Marie , Sitchet Pierre-Eugène
Published: August 2017

This article examines the transmission of voicing – the use of voice during the execution of a song – in Gwoka music. Considered at the time of French colonization as mizik a vié nèg (‘vagrants’ music’) this traditional music from Guadeloupe recently underwent a rehabilitation process that led to the idea that it reflected the ‘roots’ and the ‘authenticity’ of the Guadeloupean people. Gwoka music has since then become an important part of Guadeloupe’s cultural heritage, to the point that it is now listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The present work explores the relation between voicing in Gwoka and the questions of identity and memory. We suggest that traditional singers are chroniclers of their time, and memory smugglers who educate the audience by evoking values through their lyrics and voice. Gwoka music is strongly attached to political movements of resistance since its emergence. Previous generations of singers have not only transmitted vocal practice and lyrics, but also Creole language. Finally, we relate voicing to the preservation of Guadeloupean identity and to resistance in the face of Western domination.
Apropiación de la Redes sociales para la aplicación del método Socrático en el pensamiento crítico
Authors: Suárez López Diana , Colón López Clara , Cohen Jiménez Jesús , Colpas Emma
Published: August 2017

La presente investigación se llevó a cabo con el fin de implementar el uso de redes sociales como estrategia de aprendizaje para analizar el efecto del dialogo socrático en el pensamiento crítico en un grupo de estudiantes de primer semestre en educación superior. La metodología utilizada fue de enfoque cuantitativo con un diseño experimental en un grupo control y un grupo experimental; el grupo control trabajó en forma tradicional y el grupo experimental lo hizo a través de una estrategia de aprendizaje como lo es el diálogo socrático, mediado por el foro y el chat en un grupo de Facebook. Esta estrategia es aplicable en cualquier área del conocimiento, en pos del rendimiento académico de los estudiantes. Se concluyó que las evidencias de mejoras se reflejaron durante el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje en la competencia de comprensión lectora en ambos grupos
El análisis crítico del discurso en el escenario educativo
Authors: Moreno Mosquera Emilce
Published: August 2017

El análisis crítico del discurso (ACD) se ha ido constituyendo en un campo prometedor para la investigación educativa, en la medida en que permite describir, explicar y analizar las relaciones entre el lenguaje y temas educativos como las políticas educativas, las prácticas y los discursos enmarcados en instituciones educativas de diferentes niveles y su nexo con el sistema económico capitalista. En ese sentido, el ACD es un campo explicativo de las ideologías subyacentes a los discursos y los dispositivos retóricos y discursivos empleados para persuadir. De igual modo, posibilita el análisis crítico del modo en que las reformas y políticas educativas se adaptan a las decisiones de agencias internacionales como el Banco Mundial (BM), el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI), la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC), la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OCDE), el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), entre otras.
Las prácticas educativas con familia desde la escuela
Authors: Ospina Botero Mireya , Montoya Pavas Eliana
Published: August 2017

El artículo muestra los resultados de la investigación sobre las prácticas educativas implementadas en 4 instituciones educativas para promover el desarrollo Familiar; en él se muestran los propósitos o fines que han orientado dicho proceso educativo, alrededor de tres categorías emergentes en sus resultados: Condiciones y Calidad de Vida, Proyecto de Vida Familiar y Mejoramiento de Relaciones Familiares. En cada una de ellas se pone en evidencia la manera como los propósitos de las prácticas educativas, han respondido a intereses alrededor de asuntos como: capacitación para el trabajo, desarrollo humano y familiar, formación para la crianza e integración familiar.
La razón sensible en la educación científica: las potencialidades del teatro para la enseñanza de las ciencias
Authors: García García José Joaquín , Parada Moreno Nubia Jeannette
Published: August 2017

Este artículo presenta la necesidad de desarrollar en los estudiantes una razón sensible que mejore su formación como seres humanos. Para ello plantea la incorporación de las relaciones ciencia y arte en el proceso educativo. Como fundamento de la dicha propuesta se presenta una revisión bibliográfica sobre algunas de las relaciones existentes entre el teatro y las diversas áreas de la ciencia como la Física, la Química, la biología, y de otras como la medicina, la psicología o la historia. Además, se presentan aquí algunas relaciones establecidas entre el teatro y la ciencia ficción y entre el teatro y la divulgación de las ciencias y de sus resultados de investigación.
Interactions Between Climate Change, World Economics, and Climate Policy
Authors: Parapatits Zsolt
Published: August 2017

Climate change is a major current issue which affects natural, economic and social processes equally. Despite the widespread acclaim of the issue we still encounter economic and political solution models that are climate-sceptic and often contradict each other. As a result, national climate policies and social opinions constantly change in an active interaction with each other. Thus, this current study, based on the latest international literature, reviews and analyses the world economic tendencies, related social and political responses along which different official (national) standpoints are formed. Therefore, the interpretations of related scientific research results are often different, which can easily lead to unsuccessful problem solution.
Entwicklung und Evaluierung einer Plattform zur Vermittlung von Informationskompetenz: Vorstellung des von der Europäischen Union geförderten Projekts „Information Literacy Online“
Authors: Dreisiebner Stefan , Mandl Thomas
Published: August 2017

Im Rahmen des unter der Programmschiene Erasmus+ von der Europäischen Union geförderten Projekts „Information Literacy Online“ (ILO) wird derzeit ein europäisches Angebot in Form eines Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) zur Förderung der Informationskompetenz entwickelt. An dem von der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz koordinierten Projekt sind sechs europäische Partner beteiligt. Das Angebot wird unter offener Lizenz in mehreren Sprachen entwickelt und ebenso eine Assessment-Komponente und fachspezifische Vertiefungen enthalten. Der vorliegende Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die Ziele des Projekts sowie die Ergebnisse der Bedarfsanalyse.
Non-adaptive velocity tracking controller for a class of vehicles
Authors: Herman P. , Adamski W.
Published: August 2017

A non-adaptive controller for a class of vehicles is proposed in this paper. The velocity tracking controller is expressed in terms of the transformed equations of motion in which the obtained inertia matrix is diagonal. The control algorithm takes into account the dynamics of the system, which is included into the velocity gain matrix, and it can be applied for fully actuated vehicles. The considered class of systems includes underwater vehicles, fully actuated hovercrafts, and indoor airship moving with low velocity (below 3 m/s) and under assumption that the external disturbances are weak. The stability of the system under the designed controller is demonstrated by means of a Lyapunov-based argument. Some advantages arising from the use of the controller as well as the robustness to parameters uncertainty are also considered. The performance of the proposed controller is validated via simulation on a 6 DOF robotic indoor airship as well as for underwater vehicle model.
Outcomes and Complications after Intraarterial Thrombolysis for Limb Ischemia: a 4 Year Study at a Single Centre
Authors: Ligers Arturs , Ivanova Patricija , Bergs Gvido , Levis Andris , Ponomarjova Sanita , Kratovska Aina , Rudnicka Svetlana , Zvirgzdins Vitalijs
Published: August 2017

Introduction. The reason for using thrombolytic therapy is to eliminate vascular thrombosis and promote vascular permeability. Acute limb ischemia is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. ROCHESTER, STILE and TOPAS studies showed that thrombolytic therapy for acute limb ischemia decreases the rate of surgical interventions and significantly increases the rate of limb salvage.

Aim of the Study. The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy and outcomes of intra-arterial thrombolysis in the treatment of acute occlusions of the lower limb over a four-year period.

Material and Methods. We analysed 103 patients who had been treated in our department. There were acute ischemias of stage IIa and IIb according to the Rutherford classification. The data prior to, and after thrombolysis was analysed. We used Alteplase as a thrombolytic agent (mean dose 62 mg ±23.5). Procedural success was based on angiographic and clinical outcomes. Statistics were calculated by SPSS 16.

Results. The mean duration of symptoms prior to hospitalisation was 2.5 days (IQR 5-96 hours). The mean age at the time of thrombolysis was 63±11 for males 69±10 years for females. The success of intraarterial thrombolysis was defined by angiographic and clinical outcomes (successful in 86.4% and failed in 13.6%). Adjunctive angioplasty was performed on 39 (37.9%) patients, and immediate reconstructive surgery was required on 19 (18.4%) patients. The incidence of complications was 17,4 %, with the most common being-bleeding from the puncture side, the urinary tract or the gastrointestinal tract. Overall mortality was 8.7%. The women who required thrombolysis were older (p=0,034) and with a higher death rate (p=0.047). A CDT (catheter-directed thrombolysis) for an abdominal aorta thrombosis carries a significantly high mortality rate (p=0.00013). There were no statistically significant differences between the duration of symptoms and limb amputation and between other analysed data.

Conclusions. Intraarterial thrombolysis is an effective treatment method in acute limb ischemia for selected patients, as long as accurate procedural monitoring is ensured. Thrombolysis often leads to the discovery of underlying vascular lesions. A CDT for an abdominal aorta thrombosis carries a significantly high mortality rate.
Does Local Application of Strontium Increase Osteogenesis and Biomaterial Osteointegration in Osteoporotic and Other Bone Tissue Conditions: Review of Literature
Authors: Zarins Janis , Pilmane Mara , Sidhoma Elga , Salma Ilze
Published: August 2017

Osteoporosis and other pathological bone conditions can impair bone regeneration properties, consuming in increased morbidity and decreased quality of life. Changes of bone healing can result in poor osteointegration and surgical failures if implants are used. To overcome and facilitate bone regeneration, more attempts are made to develop an ideal synthetic scaffold with better biocompatibility, osteoconductivity, bioactivity, osteoinductivity and interconnected porosity. It is considered that strontium, being similar to calcium, can be incorporated into the mineral phase of the bone remodeling. This quality had led strontium to be used as an osteoporotic medication to improve quality of bone and to reduce the risk of bone fractures. Also local application of strontium has been widely used within different biomaterials in tissue engineering researches.

In this review authors wanted to provide an overview about strontium, its mechanisms of action in bone tissue and initiated changes of bone remodeling within biomaterials.
Symposium Discussion Report: First Session The State of the (Capital) Union
Authors: Kambjerre Andreas Sams
Published: August 2017

The president of the meeting,
The role of formal features in the acquisition of early L3 French DPs by adult Chinese speakers of L2 English
Authors: Kong Stano
Published: August 2017

This article seeks to account for asymmetrical interpretations in early L3 French Determiner Phrase (DP) and Adjectival Placement in relation to two hypotheses. The two theories in question are the Typological Primacy Model of Rothman (2011. L3 syntactic transfer selectivity and typological determinancy: the typological primacy model.Second Language Research27: 107–127) and the Interpretability Hypothesis of Tsimpli and Dimitrakopoulou (2007. The Interpretability Hypothesis: evidence from wh-interrogatives in second language acquisition.Second Language Research23: 215–242). Using an elicited production experiment and a grammaticality judgment task, it is argued that the asymmetrical definite-indefinite article interpretation in L3 French cannot be explained following the Typological Primacy Model, which stipulates that the perceived similarity between the acquired L2 English and the target L3 French gives rise to transfer in early L3 development. The article proposes, following Tsimpli and Dimitrakopoulou (2007. The Interpretability Hypothesis: evidence from wh-interrogatives in second language acquisition.Second Language Research23: 215–242), that the observed L3 behaviour results from an inaccessibility of article-associated syntactic features which are subject to critical period. The L3 interlanguage grammars involve the use of alternative resources made available by UG instead.
Detecting Dynamics of Hot Topics with Alluvial Diagrams: A Timeline Visualization
Authors: Ruan Wenjing , Hou Haiyan , Hu Zhigang
Published: August 2017

Purpose

In this paper, we combined the method of co-word analysis and alluvial diagram to detect hot topics and illustrate their dynamics.

Design/methodology/approach

Articles in the field of scientometrics were chosen as research cases in this study. A time-sliced co-word network was generated and then clustered. Afterwards, we generated an alluvial diagram to show dynamic changes of hot topics, including their merges and splits over time.

Findings

After analyzing the dynamic changes in the field of scientometrics from 2011 to 2015, we found that two clusters being merged did not mean that the old topics had disappeared and a totally new one had emerged. The topics were possibly still active the following year, but the newer topics had drawn more attention. The changes of hot topics reflected the shift in researchers’ interests. Research topics in scientometrics were constantly subdivided and re-merged. For example, a cluster involving “industry” was divided into several topics as research progressed.

Research limitations

When examining longer time periods, we encounter the problem of dealing with bigger data sets. Analyzing data year by year would be tedious, but if we combine, e.g. two years into one time slice, important details would be missed.

Practical implications

This method can be applied to any research field to illustrate the dynamics of hot topics. It can indicate the promising directions for researchers and provide guidance to decision makers.

Originality/value

The use of alluvial diagrams is a distinctive and meaningful approach to detecting hot topics and especially to illustrating their dynamics.
Digitizing Dunhuang Cultural Heritage: A User Evaluation of Mogao Cave Panorama Digital Library
Authors: Hu Xiao , Ho Eric M. Y. , Qiao Chen
Published: August 2017

Purpose

This study is a user evaluation on the usability of the Mogao Cave Panorama Digital Library (DL), aiming to measure its effectiveness from the users’ perspective and to propose suggestions for improvement.

Design/methodology/approach

Usability tests were conducted based on a framework of evaluation criteria and a set of information seeking tasks designed for the Dunhuang cultural heritage, and interviews were conducted for soliciting in-depth opinions from participants.

Findings

The results of the usability tests indicate that the DL was more efficient in supporting simple information seeking tasks than those of higher-complexity levels. Statistical tests reveal that there were correlations among dimensions of usability criteria and user effectiveness measures. Moreover, interview discourses exposed specific usability issues of the DL.

Research limitations

This research is based on a relatively small sample size, resulting in a limited representativeness of user diversity. A larger sample size is needed for a systematic cross group comparison.

Practical implications

This study evaluated the usability of the Mogao Cave Panorama DL and proposed suggestions for its improvement for better experience. The results also provide a reference to other cultural heritage DLs with panorama functions.

Originality/value

This study is one of the first evaluating cultural heritage DLs from the perspective of user experience. It provides methodological references for relevant studies: the evaluation framework, the designed information seeking tasks, and the interview questions can be adopted or adapted in evaluating other visually centric DLs of cultural heritage.
Seseo, ceceo, anddistinciónin Andalusian Spanish: Free variation or sociolinguistic variation?
Authors: Sanchez Carmen Ruiz
Published: August 2017

Dialectal studies have traditionally divided Andalusia in three main areas based on the predominance ofseseo,ceceo, ordistinción. However, many speakers present a mix of the three phenomena in their speech, which has led to multiple opinions but has not been empirically studied yet. The purpose of this investigation is to demonstrate, by means of a quantitative sociolinguistic study, that the alternating use ofseseo,ceceo, anddistinciónis no free but that it can ben explained by means of linguistic and social factors. The corpus consists of 36 semi-casual interviews with native speakers of Alcalá de Guadaíra (Seville). The results indicate that these Andalusian speakers present a mix ofseseo,ceceo, anddistinción, but all of them tend to favordistinciónin formal contexts.Seseoanddistinciónwere found to be more positively valued in this community thanceceo, as they are more common among young speakers with education, especially women, whilececeois more characteristic of male speech and less education.
Methodological issues in the study of word stress correlates
Authors: Roettger Timo , Gordon Matthew
Published: August 2017

The investigation of acoustic correlates of word stress is a prominent area of research. The literature is rife with studies of the acoustic exponents of what is often referred to as stress but the methodological diversity of this research has created an unclear picture of the properties robustly associated with it. The present paper explores the methodological issues involved in examining word stress correlates with the goal of proposing a set of recommendations for future research. Based on a survey of 110 (sub-) studies on 75 languages, desiderata for research on the acoustics of stress are identified: descriptions of employed methods should be as detailed as possible, speech material should be designed to allow for teasing apart word level stress from phrase level prominence, and sample sizes should be chosen according to statistical considerations.
Acoustic correlates of word stress: A cross-linguistic survey
Authors: Gordon Matthew , Roettger Timo
Published: August 2017

The study of the acoustic correlates of word stress has been a fruitful area of phonetic research since the seminal research on American English by Dennis Fry over 50 years ago. This paper presents results of a cross-linguistic survey designed to distill a clearer picture of the relative robustness of different acoustic exponents of what has been referred to as word stress. Drawing on a survey of 110 (sub-) studies on 75 languages, we discuss the relative efficacy of various acoustic parameters in distinguishing stress levels.
In vivo Model Experiment Using Laying Hens Treated with Enterococcus faecium EM41 from Ostrich Faeces and its Enterocin EM41
Authors: Lauková Andrea , Kandričáková Anna , Ščerbová Jana , Szabóová Renáta , Plachá Iveta , Čobanová Klaudia , Simonová Monika Pogány , Strompfová Viola
Published: August 2017

Enterococcus faecium EM41 is an isolate from ostrich faeces. It produces a thermo-stable proteinaceous substance, bacteriocin (enterocin) EM41 with the highest inhibition activity in late logarithmic phase of growth (25 600 AU/ml). This strain and its enterocin have not been previously tested in animals. Lohmann Brown laying hens (aged 45 weeks) were involved in this model/pilot experiment, divided into 3 groups 6 birds in each. E. faecium EM41 applied was a variant treated with rifampicin (109 cfu/ml, dose 400 μl/animal/day) to differentiate it from the other enterococci. Partially-purified enterocin EM41 (Ent EM41, dose 40 μl/animal/day) and its producer were applied to water for 21 days. The experiment lasted 35 days. Sampling was performed at days 0-1, 21 (3 weeks of additive application), 35 (2 weeks after cessation of additive application) from every bird. E. faecium EM41 sufficiently colonized the intestinal tract of laying hens from the initial concentration 109 cfu/g, its count reached 4.30 log cfu/g at day 21. PCR genotypization confirmed the identity of the EM41 strain with the species Enterococcus faecium. E. faecium EM41 and its enterocin EM41 showed antimicrobial effects demonstrated by reduction of coagulase-positive and coagulase-negative staphylococci, coliforms, Pseudomonas spp., Aeromonas spp. and Campylobacter spp. The hens were Salmonella spp. free. After administration of both additives, phagocytic activity was stimulated with a significant increase. The additives did not negatively influence biochemical and haematological parameters or weight gains.
The impact of nation branding campaigns on country image. Case Study: Romania
Authors: Andrei Anca-Georgiana
Published: August 2017

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how a nation branding campaign can influence the image of a country and to highlight its positive or negative impact on industries such as tourism and on people’s perception. In order to accomplish this objective, Romania was taken as a case study. Five of the most important nation branding campaigns in Romania, after 1989, were examined in comparison, analyzing the same indicators. In the end, the paper shows that if nation branding campaigns do not follow a long-term strategy with all actors involved in the process, its impact in country image may be rather negative.
Corporate and supply chain network governance of third party logistics service providers: Effects on buyers’ intention to continue the relationship
Authors: Salih Börteçine Avci , İsmail İyigün
Published: August 2017

This study focuses on the impact of corporate governance, supply chain network governance and competencies such as sales and logistics competence on buyers’ intention to relationship continuity. A total number of 258 questionnaires were distributed to Turkish manufacturing firms, selected using cross-sectional sampling method from the Istanbul and Edirne Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Turkey. The data of survey was analysed using PLS-SEM model with WARP PLS 5.0 software. Our findings indicate that corporate governance and supply chain network governance seem to have a positive effect on sales competence and logistics competence, and together, they influence buyers’ intention to relationship continuity. In this respect, the outcomes of this study may provide valuable insights for the third-party logistics (3PL) literature in terms of buyers’ intention to relationship continuity.
Gerhard Richter’s Critical Artistic Strategies: Politics, Terrorism and War
Authors: Van Schepen Randall K.
Published: August 2017

The present paper analyzes two artistic strategies employed by Gerhard Richter to deal with painful recent cultural memory. Two works in particular reveal the relative success of Richter’s varied artistic strategies addressing contemporary political events: 18. Oktober 1977 (1988) and War Cut (2004). In his series of paintings on the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, Richter effectively employs his “photopainting” style to address the profoundly disturbing deaths of the Baader-Meinhof group in the 1970s. Richter chose mundane photographic sources for his imagery, denying a hierarchy of “correct” memories of the events and turning photographic indexicality against itself by employing a painterly medium, tinged with nostalgia, to represent it. Richter’s photopaintings of Baader-Meinhof thus use the “factual” nature of the photograph while also utilizing an elegiac painterly mist through which an indistinct emotional memory of the past seems to emerge. Richter’s blurring of images can thus be understood as a fulcrum on which the undecidability of history itself must be represented. Richter constructs War Cut (2004), on the other hand, as a work and aesthetic experience decidedly at odds with the iconicity of his Baader-Meinhof images by employing arbitrariness and conceptual abstraction.
Smart Partnership in Contracting: Thriving in a Period of Intense Policy Uncertainty
Authors: Saidel Judith
Published: August 2017

The smart partnership framework introduced in this article is derived from extensive, on-site interviews with nonprofit and public contract managers conducted in several grounded research projects between 2011 and 2015 and from the research literature on contracting. The framework demonstrates the continuing explanatory power of resource dependence theory that disentangles the formidable influence of the public policy environment on organizational action. It is intended to provide a coherent guide for practice by enabling nonprofit managers in the social services field to navigate the current intense environmental uncertainty in which cross-sector contracting relationships between government agencies and nonprofit organizations are embedded. By providing an accessible way to understand an extraordinarily complex set of inter-organizational dynamics, the model offers a research-based definition and clear visualization of what it means to be a smart partner. It highlights the necessity of understanding the norms, expectations, structures, processes, and culture within which sector counterpart contract managers operate. Fundamental to the range of managerial strategies that the framework calls for is the need explicitly to attend to relationship building, to patterns of variation in relationships over time, and to their probable consequences. The integrative model consists of three inter-related organizational competencies and a number of secondary competencies. Competency 1: understand the dynamic nature of contracting relationships; secondary competencies: recognize predictable variations in relationships; comprehend the importance of multiple institutional logics. Competency 2: develop and sustain capacity for strategic adaptation; secondary competencies: build external and internal learning capacity; discern power shifts in inter-organizational relationships; maintain capability for strategic repositioning. Competency 3: participate proactively in shaping policy change; secondary competencies: attend to relationship development and nurturance; build trust and credibility.