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Evaluation of (power) side-channels in cryptographic implementations
Authors: Bache Florian , Plump Christina , Wloka Jonas , Güneysu Tim , Drechsler Rolf
Published: January 2019

Side-channel attacks enable powerful adversarial strategies against cryptographic devices and encounter an ever-growing attack surface in today’s world of digitalization and the internet of things. While the employment of provably secure side-channel countermeasures like masking have become increasingly popular in recent years, great care must be taken when implementing these in actual devices. The reasons for this are two-fold: The models on which these countermeasures rely do not fully capture the physical reality and compliance with the requirements of the countermeasures is non-trivial in complex implementations. Therefore, it is imperative to validate the SCA-security of concrete instantiations of cryptographic devices using measurements on the actual device. In this article we propose a side-channel evaluation framework that combines an efficient data acquisition process with state-of-the-art confidence interval based leakage assessment. Our approach allows a sound assessment of the potential susceptibility of cryptographic implementations to side-channel attacks and is robust against noise in the evaluation system. We illustrate the steps in the evaluation process by applying them to a protected implementation of AES.
Bioceramics: from bone substitutes to nanoparticles for drug delivery
Authors: Vallet-Regí María
Published: January 2019

Since the second half of the 20thcentury, bioceramics are used for bone repair and regeneration. Inspired by bones and teeth, and aimed at mimicking their structure and composition, several artificial bioceramics were developed for biomedical applications. And nowadays, in the 21stcentury, with the increasing prominence of nanoscience and nanotechnology, certain bioceramics are being used to build smart drug delivery systems, among other applications. This minireview will mainly describe both tendencies through the research work carried out by the research team of María Vallet-Regí.
Hydrogen-bond pattern to characterize water network
Authors: Aida Misako , Akase Dai
Published: January 2019

Hydrogen-bond (HB) patterns correspond to topologically distinct isomers of water clusters, and can be expressed by digraphs. The HB pattern is used to divide the configuration space of water cluster at a finite temperature. The populations of the HB patterns are transformed into the relative Helmholtz energies. The method is based on the combination of molecular simulation with graph theory. At a finite temperature it can be observed that other isomers than local minimum structures on the potential energy surface are highly populated. The dipole moment of a constituent molecule in a water cluster is enhanced depending on the local HB network around the water molecule. Rooted digraph is used to represent topologically distinct isomers of protonated water (PW) clusters. O–H bonds of PW clusters are classified into 10 topological types based on the combination of the local HB types of the contributing water molecules to the O–H bond. If the topological type is the same, vibrational frequencies of those O–H bonds of PW clusters are similar even in different isomers; i.e. vibrational frequency of O–H bond is transferable, and can be used as a vibrational spectral signature of PW clusters.
Cyborg Mantras, Technologies, and the Temporalities of Tradition
Authors: Ramnarine Tina K.
Published: January 2019

This article takes it point of departure from conversations with Gumbula that centred on the transmission of tradition and British imperial histories. It focuses on examples from India and its diaspora, discussing the mantra, in particular. This is a traditional genre evoking cultural and spiritual heritages, but it is also connected with cyber technologies. The discussion concludes with observations on post-national thinking and predictions from physicists on the future of humanity as a multi-planet species.
Collaboration with the Past, Collaboration for the Future: Joseph Neparrŋa Gumbula’s Makarr-garma Exhibition
Authors: Conway Rebecca
Published: January 2019

The Yolŋu elder and academic Joseph Neparrŋa Gumbula curated the exhibition, Makarr-garma: Aboriginal Collections from a Yolŋu Perspective (Makarr-garma), staged at the University of Sydney’s Macleay Museum from 29 November 2009 to 15 May 2010. This article describes this exhibition’s development and curatorial rationale. A product of his 2007 Australian Research Council (ARC) Indigenous Research Fellowship at the University, Makarr-garma reflected Gumbula’s Yolŋu philosophies as applied to collections in the Gallery, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector. Employing artworks, cultural objects, historic photographs, natural history specimens and his own manikay (songs), he framed this show as a garma (open) ceremonial performance that spanned an archetypal Yolŋu day. The exhibition was immersive and “culturally resonant” (Gilchrist, Indigenising), and provides intellectual and practical insights for the GLAM sector’s representation and management of Indigenous collections.
“This is the Circle of the Art World”: Joe Gumbula and the Value of Digital Repatriation in Australia and Beyond
Authors: De Largy Healy Jessica
Published: January 2019

The title of this article was inspired by a filmed interview that I conducted with Joe Gumbula in France in July 2007 during one of his ARC-funded research trips in response to a sceptical European curator who wanted to know why the Yolŋu wanted to have their materials back. Was it because they had lost their culture? Drawing on Joe’s eloquent response, I outline his pioneering perspective on museum collaborations and the digital repatriation of knowledge. Rather than transfixing things on computers, repatriation processes should be seen as modern pathways that link Indigenous peoples to their past, as well as present and future visions, enabling renewed performances of culture. This article has been adapted from my closing plenary address in tribute to Joe Gumbula at the 2017 Information Technologies and Indigenous Communities Symposium in Melbourne.
Joe Gumbula, the Inaugural Liya-ŋärra’mirri Visiting Fellow
Authors: Langton Marcia
Published: January 2019

This is my account of collaborating with Joseph Neparrŋa Gumbula and, in tribute to him and his teaching and scholarship, a discussion of the methodological considerations for teaching and research-based teaching of Yolŋu culture. By privileging the agency and ontology of exegetes such as Gumbula and working in partnership, Yolŋu knowledge has become a part of the modern academic canon as well as a literary legacy for Yolŋu people. The invariable context of the scholarly encounter with Indigenous knowledge is an intercultural one attended by significant historical problems from experiences of the colonial and postcolonial capture of most indigenous societies in modern nation states. Indigenous exegetes hold knowledge systems that exist in situ, in places held in long traditions of customary land tenure and jural principles that predate colonial and postcolonial systems, and inherited in each generation by a few honoured and remarkable people who take up the arduous responsibility of learning and transmitting knowledge practices and their spoken, sung and performed vehicles of expression.
Joseph Neparrŋa Gumbula: Academic Career History and Publications
Authors: Corn Aaron , De Largy Healy Jessica
Published: January 2019

A bibliography of the academic career history and publications of Joseph Neparrŋa Gumbula.
Parametric Modeling and Dynamic Characteristics Analysis of a Power Turbine Rotor System
Authors: Huang Jingjing , Cui Lu , Li Suobin , Han Bingbing , Zheng Longxi
Published: January 2019

With the increasing requirements of aeroengine performance and working stability, the primary research task of the rotor system dynamics is to build a rotor system model that can reflect the actual situation and obtain the calculation results which can reflect the real dynamic characteristics of the rotor system. In this paper, the finite element analysis model of a power turbine rotor was established, and the dynamic model and dynamic characteristics of the complex rotor system were studied. The results indicated that the finite element model could reflect the real dynamic characteristics of the power turbine rotor. For the given design rotational speed, the critical speed had enough margin and the rotor system worked safely and smoothly. This research provided a reference and theoretical basis for the calculation of the dynamic characteristics of the similar rotor system.
Ecological and Construct Validity of a Repeated Sprint Test in Male Youth Soccer Players
Authors: Fernandes-Da-Silva Juliano , Castagna Carlo , Teixeira Anderson Santiago , Carminatti Lorival José , Francini Lorenzo , Póvoas Susana C.A. , Antonacci Guglielmo Luiz Guilherme
Published: January 2019

Fernandes-Da-Silva, J, Castagna, C, Teixeira, AS, Carminatti, LJ, Francini, L, Póvoas, SCA, and Antonacci Guglielmo, LG. Ecological and construct validity of a repeated sprint test in male youth soccer players. J Strength Cond Res 35(7): 2000–2009, 2021—This study aimed to examine the relationship between a repeated sprint ability (RSA) test (5 bouts of 30-m sprints interspersed by 30 seconds of recovery) and match-related physical performance in male youth soccer players. Although 60 outfield players were evaluated, only data from players who participated in the full matches (n = 39) were retained (8 central defenders, 7 external defenders, 8 central midfielders, 8 external midfielders, and 8 forwards). To verify the ecological validity of this RSA protocol, the association between the best (RSAbest) and mean (RSAmean) sprint time in the 5 × 30-m and physical match performance during friendly youth soccer games was examined. Physical match demands were assessed using global positioning system technology (10 Hz) considering distance covered in selected arbitrary speed categories. The absolute speed thresholds were the same for all the players. Players were categorized into 2 groups based on the 5 × 30-m performance: RSAmean times below (i.e., faster) and above (i.e., slower) the median value. Players with faster RSAmean times covered significantly more distance sprinting during friendly matches (606 ± 204 m, +47.0%; t = 4.953; effect size = 1.88, 1.24; 2.52, p ≤ 0.001) compared to their slower counterparts (322 ± 145 m). A large negative correlation (r = −0.63, −0.77; −0.44, p ≤ 0.001) was found between RSAbest time (4.59 ± 0.27 seconds) and match sprint distance (457 ± 229 m). Likewise, RSAmean time (4.76 ± 0.25 seconds) was also largely associated (r = −0.60, −0.75; −0.39; p ≤ 0.001) with in-game sprinting performance. The results of this study provided evidence to support the construct and ecological validity of the 5 × 30-m protocol in male youth soccer players. Furthermore, differences in 5 × 30-m performance explained the amount of sprinting activity performed during the match.
Size Effect of the Post-Peak Cyclic Behavior of Plain Concrete in Uniaxial Tension with Acoustic Emission Technique
Authors: Xu Lingyu , Chen Xudong , Chen Yuzhi
Published: January 2019

At present, studies about the size effect of concrete mainly focus on macroscopic mechanical behaviors like strength and fracture energy, while research on the size effect of the cyclic nonlinear properties of concrete is very rare. To further analyze the ambiguous concept of specimen size, three types of precut cylindrical concrete specimens with the same diameter but different heights, the same height but different crack depths, and the same aspect ratio but different volumes are used for the uniaxial post-peak cyclic tensile test. At the same time, the acoustic emission (AE) device is used to monitor and collect the AE signals in the loading process. According to the test results, no size effect exists in the accumulation of residual deformation, but the degradation of the unloading modulus is related to the specimen diameter. Meanwhile, the Kaiser effect is found in the analysis of AE signals. After the data analysis, a post-peak cyclic tensile model of concrete is proposed based on the size effect and damage evolution. The quantitative relationship among the model parameter, specimen aspect ratio, and damage is calculated. Finally, a good comparison is found between the predicted model and experimental result.
32-Bit One Instruction Core: A Low-Cost, Reliable, and Fault-Tolerant Core for Multicore Systems
Authors: Venkatesha Shashikiran , Parthasarathi Ranjani
Published: January 2019

Occurrences of both transient and permanent errors pose a major challenge in the wake of burgeoning growth in transistor density. Manufacturing defects and process variants lead to permanent faults, thereby lowering processor yields. In the arithmetic logic unit, single permanent faults result in the absolute failure of processors. Both low-energy neutrons and alpha particles from the cosmos induce transient errors by altering the state of the transistor. In wake of the implications, we postulate a new, reliable, fault-tolerant, low-cost 32-bit one instruction core (OIC) for a multicore system. “Low cost” here means low power and lower area. Notably, 32-bit OIC provides fault-free execution with triple redundant subtractors with one additional subtractor. It only executes one instruction called subleq repetitively in order to emulate the faulty instructions migrated into it by other cores. Hardware synthesis is undertaken to estimate leakage power, dynamic power, critical path delay, and area. The low-power 32-bit OIC consumes 1.3 mW, with a die area of 8,122 μm2. Apart from also adding performance overhead, 32-bit OIC outperforms its competitors with regard to reliability, area, power, and critical path delay. Additionally, the probabilistic estimate with link vulnerability factor—as a new parameter—is introduced to assess the effect of soft errors or transient faults on interconnect wires, which are then quantitatively analyzed to illuminate the resilience of 32-bit OIC hardware structure. Additionally, we propose new design alternatives (including existing ones) for heterogeneous multicore systems in order to develop low-cost solutions with a primary focus on reliability.
Autenticidad enunciativa y sociosemántica del pop-rock en español
Authors: Martínez Casas María
Published: January 2019

From a sociological perspective, the aesthetic value of authenticity is considered a key feature musicians must have in order to enter the pop-rock canon (Val, Noya & Pérez-Colman 2014; Appen & Doehring 2006). The present paper aims to identify and analyse different strategies employed to suggest authenticity regarding enunciation (Laferl 2005) and social semiotics (Halliday 1978) in pop-rock song lyrics. To this end, a 120.000-word corpus of 722 songs in Spanish was compiled and analysed in terms of frequencies, participants, key words and practice patterns.
Voltaire et l’opéra : ses livrets, adaptations opératiques de ses tragédies
Authors: Gier Albert
Published: January 2019

Voltaire wrote seven librettos, but only two minor texts were set to music by Rameau. – His tragedies do not have tragic heroes (in the Aristotelian sense), they present paragons of virtue and vice. In some of his tragédies larmoyantes (Ridgway), the villains triumph at the end (cf. Mahomet); in others, virtue is rewarded and evil punished (cf. Sémiramis). Therefore, Voltaire’s tragedies anticipate some features of the romantic melodrama. This may be the reason why they inspired librettists and composers of (Italian and French) opera mainly in the decades between 1780 and 1810 when French melodrama was created by Guilbert de Pixérécourt and others. – As examples for the technique of adaptation, the librettos of Tancredi (Rossini), Maometto (von Winter), and Semiramide (Rossini) are analysed in greater detail.
Deletion ofRipk3Prevents Motor Neuron DeathIn Vitrobut notIn Vivo
Authors: Dermentzaki Georgia , Politi Kristin A. , Lu Lei , Mishra Vartika , Pérez-Torres Eduardo J. , Sosunov Alexander A. , McKhann Guy M. , Lotti Francesco , Shneider Neil A. , Przedborski Serge
Published: January 2019

Increasing evidence suggests that necroptosis, a form of programmed cell death (PCD), contributes to neurodegeneration in several disorders, including ALS. Supporting this view, investigations in bothin vitroandin vivomodels of ALS have implicated key molecular determinants of necroptosis in the death of spinal motor neurons (MNs). Consistent with a pathogenic role of necroptosis in ALS, we showed increased mRNA levels for the three main necroptosis effectorsRipk1,Ripk3, andMlklin the spinal cord of mutant superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1G93A) transgenic mice (Tg), an established model of ALS. In addition, protein levels of receptor-interacting protein kinase 1 (RIPK1; but not of RIPK3, MLKL or activated MLKL) were elevated in spinal cord extracts from these Tg SOD1G93Amice. In postmortem motor cortex samples from sporadic and familial ALS patients, no change in protein levels of RIPK1 were detected. Silencing ofRipk3in cultured MNs protected them from toxicity associated with SOD1G93Aastrocytes. However, constitutive deletion ofRipk3in Tg SOD1G93Amice failed to provide behavioral or neuropathological improvement, demonstrating no similar benefit ofRipk3silencingin vivo. Lastly, we detected no genotype-specific myelin decompaction, proposed to be a proxy of necroptosis in ALS, in either Tg SOD1G93AorOptineurinknock-out mice, another ALS mouse model. These findings argue against a role for RIPK3 in Tg SOD1G93A-induced neurodegeneration and call for further preclinical investigations to determine if necroptosis plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of ALS.
Estradiol-Induced Potentiation of Dopamine Release in Dorsal Striatum Following Amphetamine Administration Requires Estradiol Receptors and mGlu5
Authors: Song Zhimin , Yang Hongyan , Peckham Elizabeth M. , Becker Jill B.
Published: January 2019

Estradiol potentiates behavioral sensitization to cocaine as well as self-administration of cocaine and other drugs of abuse in female rodents. Furthermore, stimulated dopamine (DA) in the dorsolateral striatum (DLS) is rapidly enhanced by estradiol, and it is hypothesized that this enhanced DA release mediates the more rapid escalation of drug taking seen in females, compared with males. The mechanisms mediating the effect of estradiol to enhance stimulated DA release were investigated in this study. Usingin vivomicrodialysis and high performance liquid chromatography coupled with electrochemical detection, we first examined the effect of estradiol on amphetamine-induced DA increase in the DLS of ovariectomized rats. We then tested whether the potentiation of this DA increase could be blocked by the estradiol receptor antagonist, ICI 182,780 (ICI), or an antagonist to the metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 (mGlu5), 2-methyl-6-(phenylethynyl)pyridine (MPEP). There is evidence that estradiol receptors collaborate with mGlu5 within caveoli in DLS and mGlu5 is hypothesized to mediate many of the effects of estradiol in the addiction processes in females. Our data show that estradiol enhances the DA response to amphetamine. Either ICI or MPEP prevented the effect of estradiol to enhance DA release. Importantly, our results also showed that neither ICI or MPEP alone is able to influence the DA response to amphetamine when estradiol is not administrated, suggesting that ICI and MPEP act via estradiol receptors. Together, our findings demonstrate that estradiol potentiates amphetamine-stimulated DA release in the DLS and this effect requires both estradiol receptors and mGlu5.
Enhanced Activation of HCN Channels Reduces Excitability and Spike-Timing Regularity in Maturing Vestibular Afferent Neurons
Authors: Ventura Christopher M. , Kalluri Radha
Published: January 2019

Vestibular ganglion neurons (VGNs) transmit information along parallel neuronal pathways whose signature distinction is variability in spike-timing; some fire at regular intervals while others fire at irregular intervals. The mechanisms driving timing differences are not fully understood but two opposing (but not mutually exclusive) hypotheses have emerged. In the first, regular-spiking is inversely correlated to the density of low-voltage-gated potassium currents (IKL). In the second, regular spiking is directly correlated to the density of hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-sensitive currents (IH). Supporting the idea that variations in ion channel composition shape spike-timing, VGNs from the first postnatal week respond to synaptic-noise-like current injections with irregular-firing patterns if they haveIKLand with more regular firing patterns if they do not. However,in vitrofiring patterns are not as regular as thosein vivo. Here we considered whether highly-regular spiking requiresIHcurrents and whether this dependence emerges later in development after channel expression matures. We recorded from rat VGN somata of either sex aged postnatal day (P)9–P21. Counter to expectation,in vitrofiring patterns were less diverse, more transient-spiking, and more irregular at older ages than at younger ages. Resting potentials hyperpolarized and resting conductance increased, consistent with developmental upregulation ofIKL. Activation ofIH(by increasing intracellular cAMP) increased spike rates but not spike-timing regularity. In a model, we found that activatingIHcounter-intuitively suppressed regularity by recruitingIKL. Developmental upregulation inIKLappears to overwhelmIH. These results counter previous hypotheses about howIHshapes vestibular afferent responses.

SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENTVestibular sensory information is conveyed on parallel neuronal pathways with irregularly-firing neurons encoding information using a temporal code and regularly-firing neurons using a rate code. This is a striking example of spike-timing statistics influencing information coding. Previous studies from immature vestibular ganglion neurons (VGNs) identified hyperpolarization-activated mixed cationic currents (IH) as driving highly-regular spiking and proposed that this influence grows with the current during maturation. We found thatIHbecomes less influential, likely because maturing VGNs also acquire low-voltage-gated potassium currents (IKL), whose inhibitory influence opposesIH. Because efferent activity can partly closeIKL, VGN firing patterns may become more receptive to extrinsic control. Spike-timing regularity likely relies on dynamic ion channel properties and complementary specializations in synaptic connectivity.
The Pain of Sleep Loss: A Brain Characterization in Humans
Authors: Krause Adam J. , Prather Aric A. , Wager Tor D. , Lindquist Martin A. , Walker Matthew P.
Published: January 2019

Sleep loss increases the experience of pain. However, the brain mechanisms underlying altered pain processing following sleep deprivation are unknown. Moreover, it remains unclear whether ecologically modest night-to-night changes in sleep, within an individual, confer consequential day-to-day changes in experienced pain. Here, we demonstrate that acute sleep deprivation amplifies pain reactivity within human (male and female) primary somatosensory cortex yet blunts pain reactivity in higher-order valuation and decision-making regions of the striatum and insula cortex. Consistent with this altered neural signature, we further show that sleep deprivation expands the temperature range for classifying a stimulus as painful, specifically through a lowering of pain thresholds. Moreover, the degree of amplified reactivity within somatosensory cortex following sleep deprivation significantly predicts this expansion of experienced pain across individuals. Finally, outside of the laboratory setting, we similarly show that even modest nightly changes in sleep quality (increases and decreases) within an individual determine consequential day-to-day changes in experienced pain (decreases and increases, respectively). Together, these data provide a novel framework underlying the impact of sleep loss on pain and, furthermore, establish that the association between sleep and pain is expressed in a night-to-day, bidirectional relationship within a sample of the general population. More broadly, our findings highlight sleep as a novel therapeutic target for pain management within and outside the clinic, including circumstances where sleep is frequently short yet pain is abundant (e.g., the hospital setting).

SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENTAre you experiencing pain? Did you have a bad night of sleep? This study provides underlying brain and behavioral mechanisms explaining this common co-occurrence. We show that sleep deprivation enhances pain responsivity within the primary sensing regions of the brain's cortex yet blunts activity in other regions that modulate pain processing, the striatum and insula. We further establish that even subtle night-to-night changes in sleep in a sample of the general population predict consequential day-to-day changes in pain (bidirectionally). Considering the societal rise in chronic pain conditions in lock-step with the decline in sleep time through the industrial world, our data support the hypothesis that these two trends may not simply be co-occurring but are significantly interrelated.
Genetic Regulation of Neuronal Progranulin Reveals a Critical Role for the Autophagy-Lysosome Pathway
Authors: Elia Lisa P. , Mason Amanda R. , Alijagic Amela , Finkbeiner Steven
Published: January 2019

Deficient progranulin levels cause dose-dependent neurological syndromes: haploinsufficiency leads to frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) and nullizygosity produces adult-onset neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis. Mechanisms controlling progranulin levels are largely unknown. To better understand progranulin regulation, we performed a genome-wide RNAi screen using an ELISA-based platform to discover genes that regulate progranulin levels in neurons. We identified 830 genes that raise or lower progranulin levels by at least 1.5-fold in Neuro2a cells. When inhibited by siRNA or some by submicromolar concentrations of small-molecule inhibitors, 33 genes of the druggable genome increased progranulin levels in mouse primary cortical neurons; several of these also raised progranulin levels in FTLD model mouse neurons. “Hit” genes regulated progranulin by transcriptional or posttranscriptional mechanisms. Pathway analysis revealed enrichment of hit genes from the autophagy–lysosome pathway (ALP), suggesting a key role for this pathway in regulating progranulin levels. Progranulin itself regulates lysosome function. We found progranulin deficiency in neurons increased autophagy and caused abnormally enlarged lysosomes and boosting progranulin levels restored autophagy and lysosome size to control levels. Our data link the ALP to neuronal progranulin: progranulin levels are regulated by autophagy and, in turn, progranulin regulates the ALP. Restoring progranulin levels by targeting genetic modifiers reversed FTLD functional deficits, opening up potential opportunities for future therapeutics development.

SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENTProgranulin regulates neuron and immune functions and is implicated in aging. Loss of one functional allele causes haploinsufficiency and leads to frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), the second leading cause of dementia. Progranulin gene polymorphisms are linked to Alzheimer's disease (AD) and complete loss of function causes neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis. Despite the critical role of progranulin levels in neurodegenerative disease risk, almost nothing is known about their regulation. We performed an unbiased screen and identified specific pathways controlling progranulin levels in neurons. Modulation of these pathways restored levels in progranulin-deficient neurons and reversed FTLD phenotypes. We provide a new comprehensive understanding of the genetic regulation of progranulin levels and identify potential targets to treat FTLD and other neurodegenerative diseases, including AD.
Planificación de un sistema de gestión integrado para una organización de investigación agropecuaria
Authors: Zambrano Farías José Iván
Published: January 2019

Este trabajo de investigación muestra el planteamiento para estructurar un sistema de gestión de calidad y gestión ambiental integrada bajo las normas técnicas ISO 9001:2015 e ISO 14001:2015, en una organización pública de investigación agropecuaria que produce semillas e investigaciones para contribuir a la seguridad alimentaria del Ecuador. La importancia de la investigación radica en el impacto social que tiene la organización en la producción de semillas, que se convertirán en alimentos para la población. A través de la estructuración de un sistema de gestión integrado se consolidará la imagen ante las partes interesadas generando confianza y garantizando que los productos y servicios que se entregan cumplan con estándares internacionales de gestión ambiental y de gestión de la calidad. Para lograr la estructuración del sistema de gestión integrado (SGI) se realiza un análisis individual de los modelos de gestión ambiental y gestión de la calidad, para encontrar convergencias que permitan proponer un modelo de gestión integrado bajo los requisitos de las normas técnicas ISO 9001:2015 e ISO 14001:2015. Luego, se efectúa un diagnóstico situacional a la organización para determinar el estado actual respecto a la gestión de la calidad y gestión ambiental de acuerdo con los requisitos establecidos por las normas técnicas ISO 9001:2015 e ISO 14001:2015, constituyéndose en un punto de partida para la estructuración del sistema y su posterior implementación. Como resultado se obtiene un sistema de gestión integrado con cuatro fases, que deben ser aplicadas secuencialmente, de las cuales se aplicaron dos en el presente estudio de investigación.
Medición del work engagement y su relación con la comunicación, liderazgo y TIC en una empresa editorial mexicana
Authors: Pérez Juárez Javier , Pedraza-Nájar Ximena Lucía
Published: January 2019

Este artículo tiene como propósito analizar la importancia del work engagement (llamado de ahora en adelante “compromiso en el trabajo”) y su relación con la comunicación, el liderazgo y el uso de tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación, variables que influyen en el comportamiento de los trabajadores. Estas variables precisan análisis estadísticos validándose por el análisis del coeficiente de alfa de Cronbach, posteriormente la correlación por rangos de las variables respecto al compromiso en el trabajo dentro de un coeficiente de correlación de rho de Spearman, finalmente la identificación del rango y su medición general de comprobación. En general, se utilizó el método mixto de investigación por las características de esta, pues el enfoque cualitativo y cuantitativo ayudan a la explicación clara del fenómeno realizado. Los resultados que se obtuvieron demuestran que dos de las variables analizadas tienen influencia significativa sobre el compromiso en el trabajo, lo que da una pauta de acción a la empresa editorial en la que se realiza este trabajo llevando a cabo acciones correctivas para mejorar el compromiso de los trabajadores.
Propuesta para fortalecer el sistema de gestión de la calidad organizacional en una entidad financiera del sector público colombiano
Authors: Callejas Acevedo Adriana
Published: January 2019

La mejora continua significa optimizar la efectividad y eficiencia para responder a las necesidades de los clientes asociados a productos y servicios, es un reto para toda organización. Las entidades públicas por norma deben cumplir con el sistema de gestión de la calidad (SGC) establecido en la norma NTCGP 1000:2009. Sin embargo, como en el caso de la entidad de estudio a partir de información histórica y de un instrumento de percepción, se evidenciaron deficiencias dada la ausencia de una metodología de mejora continua específica y a debilidades de la gestión con las personas respecto a la cultura de calidad, lo que ha provocado incumplimiento de requisitos y de principios de la norma y ha afectado la eficacia de algunos procesos, así como la satisfacción del ciudadano representado esto en entre 7.000 y 8.000 reclamaciones anuales y alrededor de 1.800 hallazgos en los últimos seis años con el agravante de no haber sido gestionados a tiempo o en algunos casos no haber cubierto adecuadamente el mejoramiento. Partiendo de lo anterior, este proyecto tuvo como objetivo diseñar una propuesta que conduzca realmente a la mejora de la eficacia de los procesos para entregar productos y servicios que cumplan las expectativas del cliente. La propuesta desarrollada cuenta con tres fases: diagnóstico del SGC, equipo gestor de mejora, diseño e implantación del proceso de mejora y un eje transversal gestión cultura de calidad. Cada fase se apoya en un conjunto de métodos y técnicas. Como resultado de su aplicación la organización debe mejorar la eficacia de sus actividades representada en mejores índices de satisfacción del cliente ciudadano.
La gestión integral como una herramienta de la productividad
Authors: Rodríguez Rojas Yuber Liliana
Published: January 2019

La gestión implica caminos lógicos en pro de la búsqueda de soluciones creativas ante los problemas de los procesos y la administración de la organización. Por lo cual, es indispensable contar con la participación de la alta dirección en la apropiación, por parte de la organización, de los sistemas de gestión basados en normas técnicas internacionales, entre ellos: calidad, ambiental, seguridad y salud en el trabajo como parte de la responsabilidad social empresarial. Aunado a ello, la investigación desarrollada por Ghodrati, Yiu y Wilkinson (2018) demuestra que la gestión laboral, la supervisión y el liderazgo y la planificación mejoran el nivel de rendimiento, de seguridad y salud en el trabajo.
A Shift in Aggregation Avoidance Strategy Marks a Long-Term Direction to Protein Evolution
Authors: Foy Scott G , Wilson Benjamin A , Bertram Jason , Cordes Matthew H J , Masel Joanna
Published: January 2019

The current consensus among biologists is that evolution does not have a direction. Here, Foy et al. compare recently-born gene families to genes that are chronologically “more evolved,” finding a striking directionality in the evolution...

To detect a direction to evolution, without the pitfalls of reconstructing ancestral states, we need to compare “more evolved” to “less evolved” entities. But because all extant species have the same common ancestor, none are chronologically more evolved than any other. However, different gene families were born at different times, allowing us to compare young protein-coding genes to those that are older and hence have been evolving for longer. To be retained during evolution, a protein must not only have a function, but must also avoid toxic dysfunction such as protein aggregation. There is conflict between the two requirements: hydrophobic amino acids form the cores of protein folds, but also promote aggregation. Young genes avoid strongly hydrophobic amino acids, which is presumably the simplest solution to the aggregation problem. Here we show that young genes’ few hydrophobic residues are clustered near one another along the primary sequence, presumably to assist folding. The higher aggregation risk created by the higher hydrophobicity of older genes is counteracted by more subtle effects in the ordering of the amino acids, including a reduction in the clustering of hydrophobic residues until they eventually become more interspersed than if distributed randomly. This interspersion has previously been reported to be a general property of proteins, but here we find that it is restricted to old genes. Quantitatively, the index of dispersion delineates a gradual trend, i.e., a decrease in the clustering of hydrophobic amino acids over billions of years.
Psychchologism, naturalism and nihilism (A phenomenological critique)
Authors: JONKUS Dalius
Published: January 2019

The article discusses Husserl’s criticism of Psychologism and the relationship that have with the contemporary crisis of values. In Lo­gical Investigation Husserl criticize not only a psychological foundation of science, but he expresses his preoccupation about rationality in general. Rationality according to Husserl is connected with ethical and political questions. Aron Gurwitsch research shows the existing connection between naturalistic psychology and nihilism. Naturalistic psychology induces a nihilistic conception of human being: hu­man as a biological functions mechanism. This point of view cause a totalitarian tendency in social life and politic.
Eccentric Europe and propaganda of faith. Considerations about Sacra Congregatio de propaganda fide and its influence on the European identity of Lithuania in XVII–XVIII centuries
Authors: Mažeikis Gintautas
Published: January 2019

The main thesis about common European identity is based on the maintaining of R. Brague that identities are formed on the borders. The main power for forming self consciousness of local people as Europeans was propaganda. Propaganda is considered as systemic, rational, long-term persuasions of thinking and self evaluation of people. Propaganda seeks to construct the discourse or propaganda subject and legitimate its suggestion and behavior. The Vatican institution of propaganda was formed by popes Gregory XIII and Gregory XV. Finally Congregatio de propaganda fide was established in 1622. The firsts principles of propaganda idea were directly related to the Renaissance Studia humanitatis. P. Neri and his Congregatio oratorium continued Florence’s Christian humanism and ecstatic rhetoric of G. Sovanarola. Neri also continued some ideas of L. Valla about rhetoric manifestation of the truth. Gregory XIII supported movement and ideas of Neri. From the other side he was a patron of Society of Jesus and he established first propaganda commission for the providing of Catholic faith on the borders of European world. Gregory XIII initiated propaganda through spreading of Jesuit’s and other Christian order’s missions, colleges, universities. The propaganda and Jesuits influence on Grand Duck of Lithuania is compared with Jesuits activities in the North America. Lithuanians were very pagans in the rural spheres in this time. The protestant movement was influenced in the cities. The Vatican Episcope’s power was not popular between Lithuanian noblemen and the influence of Protestant Livonia was significance. From the civilization point of view Russian or Eurasian pressing was felt all time and many of Grand Duke of Lithuania lands were Slavs. The article seeks to show how did Jesuits form the network of education, how they competed with other Catholic orders, how they make new discipline and communities of local people. Jesuits became very important power for forming European subject on the borders of Europe in the XVII and XVIII centuries. They created new religious, scientific, political, national discourses and educational networks necessary for interpellation of subject of European civilization. Thought Russian Imperia tried to build new identities and world feeling, new educational system and propaganda after occupation of Lithuania in 1795 the European identity of Lithuanians survived on the archeological level, history of education and myths.
Religious as a first philosophy accordering to Levinas
Authors: Čepulis Nerijus
Published: January 2019

The term metaphysics is ascribed to Aristotle, although it does not appear in his own texts. Historically it was introduced while sorting Aristotle’s works. In Greek t„ met„ t„ fusik@ means that which follows after physics. The author of the Metaphysics groups theoretical philosophy into three branches: mathematics, physics and theology. Theoretical sciences are more elevated than the other sciences, while the last one of the three is more elevated than the other two. If there were no substance that would superseed the nature, then physics would be the first among the sciences. If, however, there is sume unchanging substance, then the science of it undoubtedly will rise above all the other and will be called the first philosophy (filosof%a pr_th). Precisely this science has to look at the being as such,kaθ ’aÑtÊ in Greek.According to Levinas, the metaphtysical thinking seeks to think the being as radically separated, solitary and single (kaθ ’aÑtÊ), and this requires a special attention to the absolute exteriority and the other that refuses to be totalized. The metaphysical movement is transcendental, because as a desire for the goodness and generosity does not overcome and does not seek to overcome the primordial distance from the other. The metaphysical relation to the other for Levinas is a social one. The absolutely other first of all is the Other – the other person that is not bound with me neither by appropriation, nor by term, nor by any general level. Between us there is a distance separating the same and the other that is not to be covered. The possibility or the way to relate in this distance without abolishing or overcoming it is language. In the relation of the same to the absolutely other beyond the totality Levinas finds the essence of religion. Here religion coincides or at least closely relates to metaphysics. From this follows that religion can take the place of the first philosophy, without forgetting that the essence of both metaphysics and religion is the fundamental sociability.
Penguin and Proteus. Imagination as Otherness in me
Authors: Sabolius Kristupas
Published: January 2019

The question of Otherness is usually taken into account while discussing the Ego’s relation with Others as well as with the World. This article is based on the premises that the function of phantasy melts the subjectivity, revealing the perspective of intersubjectivity within it. On this purpose Sartre’s, Husserl’s and Merleau-Ponty’s researches on the function of imagination, which elucidate the image as the boundary slipping from the centre of Ego, are compared to the story of Hollywood’ movie „Fight Club“. The penguin, which appears in one of the episodes, registers the moment of egological schism, thus becoming the revelation and incarnation of phantasy. While the playful, autonomous and multiform character of imaginary is cleared out, we can ascertain, speaking in Kantian terms, that it has not a complementary or intermediary function, but, in the genesis of transcendental subject, plays the paradoxical role of „allien innerness“ or „inner alienity“. Thought remaining always beside, imagination is a catalyzer which enables crystallization of transcendental forms.
Absolute alterity: E. Levinas and J. Derrida
Authors: Bacevičiūtė Danutė
Published: January 2019

The article deals with a notion of absolute alterity in E. Levinas and J. Derrida. It questions the origin of that notion by stressing its temporal aspect. The “phenomenon” of death as absolute alterity allows to find out here at work both phenomenological and speculative strategies. The article shows position of Levinas as the junction of these two strategies. It presents in detail speculative moment of Levinas thought, which usually slips researchers’ attention, discusses the “dialectic”, which allows to move from the absolute alterity of death to the absolute alterity of other person in ethical relation. Derrida reads Levinas’ claim for absolute alterity in horizon of finitude: every other (one) is every (bit) other. In response to uniqueness of the event deconstruction appears as interpretative, aporetical experience. That means that it must take place in the interval that separates calculation and incalculable, universality and singularity. So it is experience of the undecidable. The article investigates Derrida’s strategy of deconstructive reading and raises the question: does not the deconstruction itself take the place of undeconstructible alterity (absolute alterity)?
Critical interfaith pedagogy: pro & contra
Authors: Duoblienė Lilija
Published: January 2019

The article deals with the problem of religious education in the world and Lithuania from the critical pedagogy perspective. Firstly the situation of religious education in other states is analyzed, emphasizing new approach on religious education and it’s relation with religion education. Some suggestions to transform religious education in correspondence to the new approach of contemporary philosophers (Derrida, Gadamer, Vattimo) and critical pedagogues (McLaren, Giroux, Kincheloe, Apple), basing their view on critical theory, are introduced. Special interest is shown to critical pedagogy approach to transform religious education into interfaith critical education. Such suggestion and possibility to realize it is interpreted in the broadest context of different world organizations of religious / religion education and their strategies. In this context the situation of religious education in Lithuania is describing also, trying to evaluate possibilities to change it in correspondence with the challenges of globalization.
Religion and the disjunction of the facts and values in economics
Authors: Maldeikienė Aušra
Published: January 2019

The article an attempt to divulge the origins of the methodological and, in part, theoretical principles of the economics. In highlighting the methodological assumptions of the issue, economic studies expose the notion of distinction between utility and meaning: by disproportionately emphasizing the utility dimension, the plane of meaning is hidden or even eliminated, inevitably incorporating the religious component as well.Methodological origins of the utility/meaning distinction are encountered in the prevailing concept of economic basis and means, where particular consideration is given to the comprehension of a rational, economic individual, as well as to the distinction between positive and normative economies. This demonstrates how the internal contradiction of a rational individual’s comprehension and the distinction of positive/normative economy give rise to fact-value distinction that is particularly deeply rooted in the very foundation of mainstream economic theory.The study shows how the utility/meaning and, accordingly, the fact/value distinctions which have occupied the methodological field of economy are manifested as expressions of the active/passive, technical and meditative existence concealed within an individual’s economic being. Within this context there is also an endeavor to substantiate the specific circumstance of so-called Christian economics, when Christian philosophical and theological insights are used in an attempt to furnish solutions to particularly concrete economic problems.
Once again on the meaning of philosophy
Authors: Čepulis Nerijus
Published: January 2019

Traditional Western philosophy as upholding of the Greek wisdom at the same time is also a striving to being, totality, and completeness. Such thinking and its total attempt to be, that often becomes violence, nowadays is receiving more and more incredulity and criticism. The phenomenological thinker of Jewish descent E. Levinas radically resists totality as a continuous attempt at a universal synthesis in a whole history of philosophy. The Greek thinking always attempted to reduce any experience, everything, that has significance, into a complete system, and without leaving anything outside itself to become an absolute thinking. Levinas looks for an alternative. The concept of totality and any systematization in his alternative thinking are ruptured by the concept of Infinity that enables us to think otherwise and outside of being. Before looking at the world from the perspective of being it is necessary to question the being itself by starting from the other than being. The other than being, or the Good, is prior to being and gives it significance.
On boredom, faith and nihilism
Authors: Šerpytytė Rita
Published: January 2019

The article focuses anew to the question „What is a Boredom?“. By using different theoretical and „common sense“ approaches, the relationship between a Boredom and Melancholy as problematic one is being disclosed. The certain metamorphosis of Boredom – its converting or changing to Melancholy – expresses the crucial aspects of „ontology“ of a Boredom. By interpreting not only the theoretical attitudes, but also the works of art, the author reveals the relationship of a Boredom with Faith and religion as being actualized.