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Intelligence Systems: Trends and Challenges
Authors: Benferhat Salem , Tabia Karim , Ali Moonis
Published: December 2017

This report summarizes the events of the 30th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering, and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE‐2017), which was held in Arras, France, June 25–30, 2017.
Danny Bobrow: A Personal Recollection
Authors: Bobrow Rusty
Published: December 2017

Danny Bobrow was a renowned computer and cognitive scientist, with many honors and firsts in his vita, but to those lucky enough to know him personally, his warmth, caring, and humor were at least as important as his undoubted creativity and intellectual ability. His brother Rusty, a long‐time AI researcher himself, pays personal tribute to all these aspects of Danny's personality.
Remembering the Elephant: Animal Reason before the Eighteenth Century
Authors: Alkemeyer Bryan
Published: December 2017

Especially before the eighteenth century, many European writers regarded not apes but elephants as the most humanlike animals because of their high intelligence, even rationality. The largely forgotten rational elephant can help us read early modern anthropocentrism against itself and distinguish early modernity from modernity in ways that historicize—and denaturalize—these periods' different speciesisms. Giovanni Battista Gelli's La Circe (1549), for instance, produces a philosophy of human exceptionalism by suppressing the elephant's natural history—whether propagandistically or ironically. Subsequent texts by writers from Montaigne, in the sixteenth century, to Pope, Buffon, and Pennant, in the eighteenth, demonstrate that the rational elephant threatens human exceptionalism even after Descartes's seventeenth-century and Linnaeus's eighteenth-century interventions. Though speciesist itself, the rational elephant reveals a bygone paradigm more capable than the modern one of acknowledging rationality across bodily differences. It also provides a historically grounded vantage point from which the primacy of the primates can be overthrown.
What Is the New Redistribution?
Authors: Nersessian Anahid
Published: December 2017

About six years ago I was having lunch with a colleague who ended our conversation by announcing that she was headed over to a symposium on Lucretius and modernity. “You don't sound too enthusiastic,” I said. “Well,” she sighed, “it's the new good materialism, right?”
Three Unresolved Debates
Authors: Levine Caroline
Published: December 2017

It is such an honor to have Forms chosen for a special feature in PMLA, and I am grateful for the time and energy these scholars put into their thoughtful responses. Taken together, these contributions point to three core questions that divide us in the field today: What is politics? How should we understand agency? And what is the value and purpose of literature and literary studies?
Os fundamentos para a reforma total das decisões recursais proferidas em processos de autos de infração sanitária em portos, aeroportos e fronteiras
Authors: Zago Lóes de Albuquerque Anna Luísa
Published: December 2017

Objetivo – Conhecer os principais fundamentos que levaram a Diretoria Colegiada da Anvisa a decidir, nos anos de 2015 e 2016, pela reforma total da decisão em processos de auto de infração sanitária lavrados em portos, aeroportos e fronteiras. Métodos – Foi realizado estudo exploratório, descritivo-analítico, com análise bibliográfica e documental, desenvolvido a partir da análise das atas das reuniões da Diretoria Colegiada da Anvisa ocorridas nos anos de 2015 e 2016, e dos pareceres da área técnica que subsidiaram tais decisões. Resultados – Os resultados demonstraram que os principais fundamentos para a reforma total das decisões foram: a ausência de individualização da pena, a atipicidade da conduta, a prescrição intercorrente, a ausência de adequada manifestação do servidor autuante, a descrição da conduta de forma genérica, e a ilegitimidade passiva. Conclusões – Observou-se um significativo percentual de processos julgados pela Diretoria Colegiada nos anos de 2015 e 2016 que tiveram suas decisões totalmente reformadas, demonstrando a existência de falhas no procedimento administrativo para a apuração de infrações sanitárias em portos, aeroportos e fronteiras.
Política Nacional de Atenção Integral à Saúde das Pessoas Privadas de Liberdade no Sistema Prisional: Uma análise sobre a evolução normativa
Authors: Gomes Oliveira de Carvalho Nathália
Published: December 2017

Objetivo: Verificar quais as mudanças normativas trazidas pela Política Nacional de Atenção Integral à Saúde das Pessoas Privadas de Liberdade no Sistema Prisional (PNAISP), instituída pela Portaria Interministerial n.º 1, de 2 de janeiro de 2014, em relação ao Plano Nacional de Saúde no Sistema Penitenciário (PNSSP), instituído por meio da Portaria Interministerial n.º 1.777, de 9 de setembro de 2003, a partir da descrição do estado da arte da Assistência à Saúde no âmbito prisional. Método: Desenvolveu-se um estudo analítico-descritivo, de caráter qualitativo, baseado em pesquisa documental, de comparação legislativa, e bibliográfica que recaiu sobre dois marcos fundamentais das políticas públicas de saúde no âmbito do sistema prisional: o Plano, de 2003, e a Política, de 2014. Resultado: A PNAISP nasceu da avaliação de uma década de aplicação do PNSSP, quando se verificou o esgotamento deste modelo, que se mostrou restrito por não contemplar em suas ações, entre outros aspectos, a totalidade do itinerário carcerário. Conclusão: A experiência de 12 anos de PNSSP inspirou a formulação e a implementação da PNAISP, trazendo avanços no acesso das pessoas privadas de liberdade no sistema prisional ao cuidado integral no SUS.
A Critical Review of Recent Literature on Populism
Authors: Abromeit John
Published: December 2017

This is a review article of the following five recent studies on populism: 1) Ruth Wodak’s The Politics of Fear: What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean (Sage, 2015); 2) Benjamin Moffitt’s The Global Rise of Populism: Performance, Political Style and Representation (Stanford University Press, 2016); 3) Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser’s Populism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017); 4) Jan-Werner Müller’s What is Populism? (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016); and 5) John B. Judis’ The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics (Columbia Global Reports, 2016). The review argues for a return to early Frankfurt School Critical Theory to address some of the shortcomings of these studies.
The Illiberal Turn or Swerve in Central Europe?
Authors: Bustikova Lenka , Guasti Petra
Published: December 2017

Scholars are coming to terms with the fact that something is rotten in the new democracies of Central Europe. The corrosion has multiple symptoms: declining trust in democratic institutions, emboldened uncivil society, the rise of oligarchs and populists as political leaders, assaults on an independent judiciary, the colonization of public administration by political proxies, increased political control over media, civic apathy, nationalistic contestation and Russian meddling. These processes signal that the liberal-democratic project in the so-called Visegrad Four (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) has been either stalled, diverted or reversed. This article investigates the “illiberal turn” in the Visegrad Four (V4) countries. It develops an analytical distinction between illiberal “turns” and “swerves”, with the former representing more permanent political changes, and offers evidence that Hungary is the only country in the V4 at the brink of a decisive illiberal turn.
On the Distinct Effects of Left-Wing and Right-Wing Populism on Democratic Quality
Authors: Huber Robert A. , Schimpf Christian H.
Published: December 2017

This study examines the differences and commonalities of how populist parties of the left and right relate to democracy. The focus is narrowed to the relationship between these parties and two aspects of democratic quality, minority rights and mutual constraints. Our argument is twofold: first, we contend that populist parties can exert distinct influences on minority rights, depending on whether they are left-wing or right-wing populist parties. Second, by contrast, we propose that the association between populist parties and mutual constraints is a consequence of the populist element and thus, we expect no differences between the left-wing and right-wing parties. We test our expectations against data from 30 European countries between 1990 and 2012. Our empirical findings support the argument for the proposed differences regarding minority rights and, to a lesser extent, the proposed similarities regarding mutual constraints. Therefore we conclude that, when examining the relationship between populism and democracy, populism should not be considered in isolation from its host ideology.
Liberal Illiberalism? The Reshaping of the Contemporary Populist Radical Right in Northern Europe
Authors: Moffitt Benjamin
Published: December 2017

Populism, particularly in its radical right-wing variants, is often posited as antithetical to the principles of liberalism. Yet a number of contemporary cases of populist radical right parties from Northern Europe complicate this characterisation of populism: rather than being directly opposed to liberalism, these parties selectively reconfigure traditionally liberal defences of discriminated-against groups—such as homosexuals or women—in their own image, positing these groups as part of ‘the people’ who must be protected, and presenting themselves as defenders of liberty, free speech and ‘Enlightenment values’. This article examines this situation, and argues that that while populist radical right parties in Northern Europe may only invoke such liberal values to opportunistically attack their enemies—in many of these cases, Muslims and ‘the elite’ who allegedly are abetting the ‘Islamisation’ of Europe’—this discursive shift represents a move towards a ‘liberal illiberalism’. Drawing on party manifestoes and press materials, it outlines the ways in which these actors articulate liberal illiberalism, the reasons they do so, and the ramifications of this shift.
‘Forced Car Ownership’ in the UK and Germany: Socio-Spatial Patterns and Potential Economic Stress Impacts
Authors: Mattioli Giulio
Published: December 2017

The notion of ‘forced car ownership’ (FCO), born out of transport research on UK rural areas, is used to define households who own cars despite limited economic resources. FCO is thought to result in households cutting expenditure on other necessities and/or reducing travel activity to the bare minimum, both of which may result in social exclusion. Social exclusion research, on the other hand, has paid much attention to ‘material deprivation’, i.e., the economic strain and enforced lack of durable goods arising from low income. However, the FCO phenomenon suggests that, among households with limited resources, the enforced possession and use of a durable good can be the cause of material deprivation, economic stress and vulnerability to fuel price increases. In this study, we use 2012 EU ‘Income and Living Conditions’ data (EU-SILC) to shed light on FCO in two European countries (UK and Germany). Through secondary data analysis we are able to show: the social and spatial patterns of FCO; key differences between FCO and ‘car deprived’ households; the intensity of social exclusion, material deprivation, and economic strain among FCO households; and overlaps between FCO and economic stress in other life domains (domestic fuel poverty, housing cost overburden). The results also show contrasting spatial patterns of FCO in Germany (higher incidence in rural areas) and UK (similar incidence in urban and rural areas), which can be explained in light of the different socio-spatial configurations prevalent in the two countries. We conclude by discussing implications for future research and policy-making.
Transport Infrastructure and Social Inclusion: A Case Study of Tourism in the Region of Gilgit-Baltistan
Authors: Hussain Asif , Fisher David , Espiner Stephen
Published: December 2017

Until the building of the Karakorum Highway (1958–78), the region of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, was extremely isolated, thus preserving distinct cultural traits. The few tourists accessing the area were primarily experienced mountaineers. The highway was established to provide a land link with China, principally as a result of turbulent geo-political rivalry. Once built, however, the road created a connexion to the outside world and allowed for many more visitors to the region. Whilst the road was not built with tourism in mind, it allowed easier access for tourists and necessitated the development of a service sector to provide for those using the road. As a consequence, a once subsistence and self-reliant economy became monetised, and modern consumer goods were introduced to the region. Increased access and mobility has facilitated change in the Gilgit-Baltistan, contributing to a degree of social inclusion not previously possible. Whilst there are multiple drivers of change observed here, tourism has provided an important means by which some of the more profound changes have occurred. Local people have adapted their livelihoods to the new, monetary economy resulting in a decline in traditional agricultural practices. More importantly, however, tourism has enabled the outside world to enter into the consciousness of local people. Visitors have become conduits of change and the world is now viewed via technologies made possible by the spoils of tourism. The road has also allowed for much easier movement of local people out of and back to Gilgit-Baltistan, thereby facilitating increased social inclusion with the wider world.
The Kindness of Strangers: Exploring Interdependencies and Shared Mobilities of Elderly People in Rural Japan
Authors: Yamamoto Fuyo (Jenny) , Zhang Junyi
Published: December 2017

For over forty years, most residents in rural areas of Japan have relied on private vehicles to meet their mobility needs. Today, however, the rapid ageing of the population, coupled with low birth rates and migration of young people to urban areas, is posing a variety of new transport challenges. Most notably, the proportion of drivers to non-drivers is getting smaller. This means that non-drivers who relied on family and neighbours for trips in the past, as well as elderly residents who give up their licenses, have fewer people to drive them. Current policy debates tend to focus on technological “solutions”, and underestimate the complex social, cultural and inter-personal relationships which underlie transport dependencies in these environments. Using a qualitative semi-structured survey, the current study explores the current mobilities of older people living in a small rural district in Shimane Prefecture, Japan. The resulting analysis reveals how cultural attitudes and social norms affect the ways in which older people manage their mobilities.
Comparing the Landscape Fragmentation and Accessibility of Green Spaces in Territories-in-Between across Europe
Authors: Wandl Alexander
Published: December 2017

To improve the positive effects provided by green spaces on human well-being in dispersed urban areas is a key challenge for sustainable spatial development in Europe. This article presents a methodology that allows for the comparison of the potential of green spaces in Territories-in-Between across Europe, in a way that crosses the fields of urban ecology and urbanism. The article adds to the existing knowledge and understanding of the relation between the spatial organisation of systems of green spaces and their accessibility to biodiversity and human well-being. Firstly, it adapts the fragmentation index in a way that it can be applied to the specific spatial characteristics of Territories-in-Between. Secondly, it combines the fragmentation index with an indicator for accessibility of green spaces, in order to integrate aspects of ecology, human well-being and the spatial heterogeneity of the relation between them. The methodology is applied to ten areas across western Europe in order to inform decision and policy makers including urban planners, designers and environmental agencies to be able to assess the potential of system of green spaces for biological diversity and human well-being in an integrated manner.
Psychological diagnosis as a counseling resource in developmental disorders in children
Authors: Korobeynikov I.A. , Babkina N.V.
Published: December 2017

We consider the issues of psychological assistance for children with intellectual disability who participate in integrated and inclusive schooling programs. The content of the teachers’ and parents’ typical queries to the psychologist is defined. We discover the meaning and the objectives of the psychologist’s diagnostic activity that is viewed both as a basic component of the main directions of psychological assistance and as a resource for special counseling practice. The model of functional diagnosis is proved to be expedient as it allows ordering the data obtained by clinical, psychological and pedagogical examination of the child and provides the productive interaction between specialists from various disciplinary fields. We describe the unified criteria and generalized parameters for typological differentiation of children with intellectual disability, which is essential in order to choose the educational path for the child and organize the special conditions for his/her studies.
Grief therapy: the history of formatiom and current practice in the foreign studies
Authors: Bakanova A.A.
Published: December 2017

Psychological assistance in grief is one of the highly solicited areas of practice in the field of psychology. Nevertheless, the modest amount of publications devoted to the conceptualization of grief, practical methods of assistance or the results of empirical research in the national psychological science still attest to the fact that this area of psychology requires further investigation. In this regard, we find it advisable to analyze the studies of our foreign counterparts in the field of grief therapy. Thus, the article describes three historical movements in the conceptualization of grief, as well as modern concepts of grief therapy, backed up by the findings provided by psychology students, psychotherapists, clients and members of online communities. There are examples and methodological recommendations on individual, group and online technologies of psychological help in the situation of grief. This review of foreign publications shows extensive prospects for the research in this area for the national psychology, but also provides some guidelines for practicing psychologists.
Factors of professional burnout of specialists (on the exaple of employees of the contact center)
Authors: Matyushkina E.Y.
Published: December 2017

The article presents the results of a longitudinal study of the factors of professional burnout of contact center employees, such as length of service, intensity of activity, professional success and professional motivation. The research was conducted in 2 stages. The total sample size was 78 respondents: 53 of them were examined at the first stage, 25 — at the second stage. The study showed that professional burnout is a multifactorial and complex process that does not directly depend on such factors as work experience, professional effectiveness, and professional motivation level. The risk of professional burnout syndrome increases if the structure of professional motivation is dominated by external and narrowly social motives. On the other hand, it decreases significantly, if employees can realize personal motives, values, and meanings in their professional activities.
Co-experiencing psychotherapy as the theoretical basis of adolescent communicative competence development technique
Authors: Maslova A.A.
Published: December 2017

The article deals with the approach to the creation of a computer program for the development of adolescents’ communicative competence — the so-called «virtual interlocutor», which is the Other in terms of the dialogism of M.M. Bakhtin, and the intermediator, which mediates the introduction of a teenager to what may be called the ideal form of communicative culture in terms of cultural-historical psychology. The content of the toolkit is composed of communicative tasks and feedback, which is generated based on the principles of the co-experiencing psychotherapy developed by F.E. Vasilyuk. It’s concluded that the approach is relevant and promising considering the increasing role of Internet resources in the life of modern adolescents. The developed resource will contribute to the solution of problems related to the development of communication, the leading activity in adolescence, the success of which is caused primarily by the level of communicative competence development.
Devoted to the 85-th anniversary of Nikita Glebovich Alekseec
Authors: Zaretsky V.K.
Published: December 2017

We don’t claim this paper to be a complete review or thorough analysis of the works of Nikita Glebovich Alekseev. It is a personal view of his activity from one of his students, who had been collaborating with him on various actual issues of methodology, psychology, ergonomics, problem-solving, design etc for 28 years. Our aim is to communicate our view of the impact N.G. Alekseev had on the culture, science, and practice, the role he played in the lives of many of his students, the impact his works still make on the development of thinking as a cultural phenomenon.
Formas da expressão animatorial: o sentido dos movimentos na animação Disney / Forms of animatorial expression: the meaning of motion in Disney animation
Authors: Teodoro da Silva Junior Mário Sérgio
Published: December 2017

RESUMO: O presente artigo tem por objetivo explorar, dentro da perspectiva da semiótica discursiva, alguns conceitos de desenho animado, utilizados há longa data na produção de filmes de animação dos estúdios da Walt Disney, explicitados em Frank Thomas e Ollie Johnston (1981). Queremos compreender em que medida a composição das imagens em movimento – que é, em essência, a própria forma do movimento – produz sentido, configurando-se como signo, com significante e significado próprios. À luz do percurso gerativo de sentido, focando-se na dimensão semio-narrativa (GREIMAS; COURTÉS, 2013) e na semiótica tensiva (ZILBERBERG, 2006a, 2006b), com a conceitualização de valências e missividade, podemos notar como cada sequência do movimento animatorial organiza-se em um sintagma animatorial próprio. Por meio dessa ordenação sintática, que possui um fundo tensivo, formula-se um programa narrativo e revelam-se nitidamente seus valores, actantes e fazeres. Afirma-se, então, como a forma da expressão dos movimentos não é mero suporte a um plano de conteúdo, desfazendo-se com a eficácia da comunicação, mas sim o centro de que se origina e que norteia o sentido do conteúdo, com níveis de profundidade tanto no plano do conteúdo (níveis tensivo, missivo e narrativo) como no plano da expressão (níveis rítmico e motor).PALAVRAS-CHAVE: animação; tensividade; narratividade.ABSTRACT:In this article, we propose to explore some cartoon’s concepts used by the Walt Disney Animation Studios for a long time, which we find in Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston’s The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation (1981). By the perspective of Discoursive Semiotics, we can comprehend how the motion pictures’ composition, the form of motion, has its meaning, becoming a sign itself, with a signifier and a signified. Using traditional Greimasian Semiotics’ generative course (GREIMAS; COURTÉS, 2013), focusing on the semio-narrative level, and Zilberberg’s Tensive Semiotics and its valencies and missivity (ZILBERBERG, 2006a 2006b), we note that every motion sequence in a film organizes itself in a syntagm. Within this syntactic order with tensive base, narrative programs appear along with its values, actants and doings. Hence, we see how expression forms are not only support to content forms which disappear after effective communication, but that expression forms are, in this animatorial articulation, the originating center of meaning, with its own generative levels in the expression plane (rhythm and motor levels) and content plane (tensive, missive and narrative levels). It also opens a door to formulate a grammar for expression forms in SemioticsKEYWORDS: animation; tensivity; narrativity.
Arnaldo Antunes, poesia primitiva / Arnaldo Antunes, primitive poetry
Authors: Amaral Jorge Fernando Barbosa do
Published: December 2017

RESUMO: O artigo analisa a poesia multimídia de Arnaldo Antunes a partir de seu exercício de manipulação dos recursos materiais da palavra, tendo como base o deslocamento do espaço fixo da página do livro para a liberdade do universo de atuação do hipertexto. O trabalho, a partir da análise do poema “sem saída”, de Augusto de Campos, investiga também a poesia interativa, disponibilizada na internet, que tem como condição de desenvolvimento, a interação direta com o interlocutor. Além disso, o artigo analisa a posição de Arnaldo Antunes sobre o aproveitamento dos mais modernos recursos tecnológicos para o estabelecimento da “arte primitiva”, baseada na ideia de “aldeia global”, de Marshall McLuhan.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Arnaldo Antunes; poesia multimídia; hipertexto; Marshall McLuhan; aldeia global.ABSTRACT: The article analyzes the multimedia poetry of Arnaldo Antunes from his exercise of manipulation of the word material resources, based on the displacement of fixed space from the page of the book to the freedom of the universe of hypertext performance. The work, from the analysis of the poem “sem saída”, by Augusto de Campos, also investigates interactive poetry, available on the internet, which has the direct interaction with the interlocutor as a condition of development. Furthermore, the article analyzes the position of Arnaldo Antunes on the use of the most modern technological resources for the establishment of the “primitive art”, based on the idea of “global village” of Marshall McLuhan.KEYWORDS: Arnaldo Antunes; multimedia poetry; hypertext; Marshall McLuhan; global village.
La poésie de Denis Roche. Proposition d’un protocole de lecture : une pragmatique érotique
Authors: Baquey Stéphane
Published: December 2017

La poésie de Denis Roche est à la fois une poésie qui appelle pour elle-même la relecture, par la force de son lyrisme, et une poésie qui, du structuralisme aux renouveaux actuels de l’esthétique, soulève des questions fondamentales pour la théorie et la critique. Compte tenu de lectures antérieures (C. Prigent, J.-M. Gleize, D. Kunz), un protocole de lecture, défini comme une pragmatique érotique, est ici proposé et illustré. Il est basé sur une dimension pragmatique du poème dont la pertinence ne repose pas sur la recherche d’une entente, mais se déroule sur la scène où se dit le désir, telle que l’a analysée Jacques Lacan. Il s’agit ainsi de suggérer que la scène de l’écriture ne peut être dissociée de la scène de la lecture, autrement dit l’esthétique d’une poétique, qui est toujours une poétique singulière.
Da metáfora, da literalidade: deslocamentos na poesia de Emmanuel Hocquard
Authors: Garcia Marília
Published: December 2017

Este artigo analisa, na obra do poeta francês Emmanuel Hocquard, o uso da metáfora e da literalidade. Nos dois casos, o autor busca refletir sobre alguns clichês presentes na tradição poética sem deixar de tensioná-los, lançando mão das duas figuras poéticas de modo crítico. Na presente leitura, são explorados os poemas “Deux étages avec terrasse et vue sur le détroit” e “Élégie VI”, além de textos críticos do próprio autor que dialogam diretamente com seus poemas, tais como “Ma vie privée” e “La bibliothèque de Trieste”. O modo como Emmanuel Hocquard utiliza os recursos citados opera um afastamento da persona lírica em relação ao texto enunciado.
El olvido de la demografía en los estudios de Sostenibilidad
Authors: Vilches Peña Amparo , Gil Pérez Daniel
Published: December 2017

A lo largo de la historia del Homo sapiens, su número se ha mantenido muy reducido y hubo que esperar a principios del siglo XIX para que alcanzara los mil millones. Se inició entonces un rápido crecimiento y durante el siglo XX la población se cuadriplicó, superando los 6000 millones, lo que llevó a estudiar los posibles efectos de esta explosión demográfica sobre el conjunto de la biosfera y la propia especie humana. Hoy, sin embargo, cuando se han sobrepasado los 7500 millones y la población mundial sigue aumentando en unos 80 millones cada año, la problemática demográfica ha dejado de tener una presencia relevante en los estudios y publicaciones sobre los problemas que caracterizan la grave situación de emergencia planetaria. En este trabajo intentamos profundizar en las razones de esta falta de atención a la problemática demográfica en la consideración de los límites del planeta y extraer las lecciones pertinentes para orientar la necesaria transición a sociedades sostenibles.
Del dicho al hecho en una propuesta sobre ecosistemas contextualizada en el huerto escolar
Authors: Sáez Bondía María José , Lucha López Pedro , Claver Giménez Ana María , Arasanz Broto Ángel , Iráizoz Esteban Rafael
Published: December 2017

El presente trabajo recoge el desarrollo de una propuesta sobre ecosistemas desde su diseño y planificación hasta su aplicación. Dicha propuesta, contextualizada en el huerto escolar, se fundamenta en el desarrollo del pensamiento sistémico de alumnos de 6º de Primaria y surge de la colaboración entre profesores universitarios y una maestra de Primaria. La implementación de secuencias que implican cierto grado de investigación por parte de los alumnos hace que durante el desarrollo de la actividad surjan dilemas por parte de los maestros sobre cómo continuar con lo planificado. Las decisiones tomadas para resolverlos determinan la secuencia llevada a cabo y  constituyen nuevas oportunidades de aprendizaje para los estudiantes de primaria, al mismo tiempo que permiten a los maestros y colaboradores reflexionar sobre las decisiones tomadas  de cara a futuras programaciones. Finalmente, se discuten los efectos del desarrollo de esta propuesta en la enseñanza y aprendizaje de los ecosistemas y en el pensamiento sistémico de los alumnos.
Conventional vs. endoscopic septoplasty: our experience
Authors: Suraneni Visweswara Rao , Kudamala Suneel , K. Srikanth
Published: December 2017

Background: A straight septum is the exception rather than the rule. A deviated septum can be asymptomatic or can cause functional and cosmetic abnormality. Different surgeries have been proposed for correction of deviated septum but septoplasty has been the procedure of choice. Septoplasty is a more conservative surgery with fewer complications and endoscopic septoplasty has become increasingly popular over the last few decades.

Methods: This is a comparative study conducted at a tertiary care centre over a period of 1 year on 100 cases to compare the efficacy of endoscopic septoplasty with conventional septoplasty. 50 cases underwent conventional septoplasty while the other 50 cases underwent endoscopic septoplasty. Relief from pre-operative symptoms, anatomical correction of deformity and intraoperative/postoperative complications were studied.  

Results: Patients belonging to endoscopic septoplasty group showed better symptomatic relief and lesser incidence of complications when compared to the conventional septoplasty group.

Conclusions: Endoscopic septoplasty has better illumination and additional magnification which aid in accurate identification of pathology and precise excision of the deviated septal part. It is also useful for correction of posterior and high deviations of septum and for revision surgeries. Coventional septoplasty has got its own merits like dealing with situations in which septal damage is more and post trauma. Though better patient compliance, better relief from symptoms and lesser rate of complications give an edge for endoscopic over conventional septoplasty, both the procedures need to be done together in some situations to achieve optimal results.
Francisco Javier Díaz Revorio, Estado, Constitución, Democracia. Tres conceptos que hay que actualizar, Palestra Editores, Lima, 2017, 125pp. ISBN: 9786124218705
Authors: García Ortiz Adrián
Published: December 2017

Durante los últimos años ha sido constante en la doctrina el esfuerzo por reformular los conceptos tradicionales que han dominado el Derecho Constitucional (Constitución, soberanía, democracia, Estado, nación). No obstante, dicha tendencia se agudizó tras el estallido de la crisis económica iniciada en 2008. Se evidenció entonces la urgente necesidad de reformular la clásica Teoría del Estado y de la Constitución. El testigo es recogido por el profesor Francisco Javier Díaz Revorio en su monografía «Estado, Constitución, Democracia. Tres conceptos que hay que actualizar» publicada por la limeña editorial Palestra.Publicación en línea: 27 diciembre 2017
Ciro Milione, El Derecho a la tutela judicial efectiva en la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos, Editorial Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2015, 221 pp, ISBN: 9788490862940
Authors: Cárdenas Cordón Alicia
Published: December 2017

La doctrina se ha dedicado ampliamente al estudio del derecho a la tutela judicial efectiva consagrado en el Art. 6 del Convenio Europeo de Derechos Humanos y Libertades Fundamentales (en adelante, CEDH o Convenio de Estrasburgo) y en el Art. 24 de la Constitución española (CE).Publicación en línea: 27 diciembre 2017
Joan Oliver Araujo, Las barreras electorales. Gobernabilidad versus representatividad, Editorial Tirant lo Blanch (colección «Ciencia Política», 73), Valencia, 2017, 244 pp (prólogo de Luis López Guerra)
Authors: Alegre Martínez Miguel Ángel
Published: December 2017

A estas alturas, no debería resultar difícil distinguir entre quienes se aproximan a la normativa electoral para escudriñarla con lupa en busca de grietas o resquicios de los que aprovecharse para favorecer sus intereses partidistas, y quienes lo hacen para detectar y criticar esas fisuras y carencias, proponiendo soluciones en beneficio de la salud y fortaleza del sistema democrático.Publicación en línea: 27 diciembre 2017
Rola stereotypów w percepcji miejsca a tożsamość mieszkańców w procesie rewitalizacji
Authors: Bernaciak Anna , Palicki Sławomir
Published: December 2017

Przestrzeń miasta, dzielnicy, osiedla przyczynia się do budowania tożsamości społeczności lokalnej, stanowiąc istotny element kultury materialnej i niematerialnej. Jej postrzeganie, oprócz czynników obiektywnych, jak jakość i dostępność przestrzenna, jest uzależnione w dużej mierze od czynników subiektywnych, którymi są wzorce i sposoby korzystania z przestrzeni, relacje w niej nawiązywane czy odczucia i oczekiwania, jakie względem niej są formułowane. W toku procesu rewitalizacji i towarzyszącego mu włączenia społecznego możliwe jest wpływanie na procesy postrzegania przez mieszkańców otaczających ich miejsc. Szczególnie ważna jest w tym zakresie właściwa diagnoza. W niniejszym opracowaniu podjęto próbę wskazania sposobów identyfikacji społecznych mechanizmów postrzegania przestrzeni oraz związanych z nimi stereotypów i błędnych przekonań. Zaprezentowano metody badania społecznego oraz jego wyniki w odniesieniu do programowania działań rewitalizacyjnych na osiedlu Grunwaldzkim w Gnieźnie. Przestawiono także kluczowe metody z zakresu pracy ze stereotypami.
Organizacja systemu pomocy społecznej w Łodzi
Authors: Michalak Dorota
Published: December 2017

Jedną z istotnych ról państwa jest pomoc społeczna, która jest kierowana do osób starszych, niepełnosprawnych fizycznie i intelektualnie, sierot, rodzin wielodzietnych oraz bezdomnych. Zakres pomocy społecznej obejmuje świadczenia środowiskowe (zasiłki pieniężne i niepieniężne) oraz świadczenia instytucjonalne w formie pobytu w domach pomocy społecznej, schroniskach czy placówkach opiekuńczo-wychowawczych. Opracowanie ma charakter opisowy, jego celem jest prezentacja struktury organizacyjnej Miejskiego Ośrodka Pomocy Społecznej, struktury kosztów oraz skali pomocy gminy Łódź osobom potrzebującym. Do realizacji celów wykorzystano analizę danych zastanych, raportów finansowych udostępnionych przez łódzki MOPS. W Łodzi z pomocy społecznej korzysta ponad 56 tys. mieszkańców, co stanowi blisko 9% ogólnej populacji miasta. Niestety, mimo ciągle udoskonalanej i dopasowywanej do potrzeb, pomocy społecznej, wciąż zapotrzebowanie przewyższa środki, którymi dysponuje gmina.
Osoby starsze w strefie wielkomiejskiej Łodzi. Ujęcie przestrzenne
Authors: Lamprecht Mariusz
Published: December 2017

Rozważania podjęte w prezentowanym artykule koncentrują się na problemie starzenia się mieszkańców śródmiejskiego obszaru Łodzi. Miasto to należy do grona jednostek osadniczych szczególnie mocno dotkniętych procesem depopulacji. Jednocześnie populację Łodzi cechuje znaczący wzrost udziału osób najstarszych wśród mieszkańców. Skala tych zjawisk wymaga poszukiwania i wdrażania rozwiązań poprawiających m.in. jakość życia obecnych i nowych mieszkańców miasta. Celem badań jest analiza przestrzennego rozkładu populacji osób w wieku 60+ w centralnej części Łodzi. Jej wyniki wskazują m.in., że ta stosunkowo niewielka część terytorium miasta cechuje się istotnym wewnętrznym zróżnicowaniem populacji wg wieku, a dysproporcje w udziale osób najstarszych wśród ogółu populacji mogą wskazywać na kształtujące się procesy segregacji przestrzennej tej grupy wiekowej.
Starzenie się mieszkańców wielkich osiedli mieszkaniowych w mieście postsocjalistycznym. Przykład Łodzi
Authors: Szafrańska Ewa
Published: December 2017

Kwestia starości demograficznej jest jednym z podstawowych problemów większości współczesnych społeczeństw. W Polsce, podobnie jak w innych krajach Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, problem ten nasilił się wraz z początkiem transformacji ustrojowej na skutek wejścia tych krajów na ścieżkę rozwoju demograficznego charakterystyczną dla społeczeństw zachodnioeuropejskich. Procesy demograficznego starzenia szczególnie silnie zaznaczają się w dużych miastach, jednak większość analiz dotyczących procesów starzenia się miast obejmuje całe jednostki terytorialne, mniej natomiast uwagi poświęca się przemianom zachodzącym w mniejszej skali, czyli na poziomie dzielnic lub osiedli. Celem niniejszego opracowania jest analiza procesów starzenia się, które zaszły w ostatnim ćwierćwieczu w dziewięciu największych prefabrykowanych osiedlach mieszkaniowych Łodzi, powstałych w okresie realnego socjalizmu. Kwestia ta jest istotna ze względu na znaczący udział tej formy zabudowy w zasobach mieszkaniowych miasta i zamieszkiwanie w nich ponad ⅓ łodzian. Istotna jest także duża dynamika tego procesu, ponieważ Łódź jest najszybciej starzejącym się miastem w Polsce i jednym z najszybciej wśród miast Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. To sprawia, że proces ten powinno się stale monitorować w badaniach prowadzonych w różnej skali przestrzennej, nie tylko miejskiej, ale i wewnątrzmiejskiej.
The shapes of land lots within metropolitan space. The Łódź case
Authors: Dzieciuchowicz Jerzy , Dmochowska-Dudek Karolina
Published: December 2017

This study focuses on the spatial diversity of the shapes of land lots in metropolitan conditions viewed through the example of Łódź. The researchers placed particular attention on the diversity and compact of lot shapes. This issue was preceded by a brief discussion of the distribution, density and sizes of lots. The goal of the study was to assess the spatial variability of lots according to their shapes using GIS tools.
Gentrification, revitalization and children raising. Family gentrifiers in a post-socialist city
Authors: Bunio-Mroczek Paulino
Published: December 2017

The aim of the article is to provide a case study of a post-industrial, post-socialist city analyzing gentrification processes in their initial phase within the context of a large municipality-led revitalization program with focus on experiences of family gentrifiers. Inspired by Robert A. Beauregard’s framework (1986), the analysis concentrates on ‘the potentially gentrifiable neighborhoods’, ‘the potentially gentrified’, ‘the facilitators and active agents of gentrification’, and ‘the potential gentry themselves’. The empirical part of the text is based on qualitative study, that is, selected interviews collected within a research project on gentrifiers in the process of social revitalization, conducted in the city of Lodz (central Poland).
Recenzja książki: Magdalena Szpunar (2016) Kultura cyfrowego narcyzmu. Kraków: Wydawnictwa AGH
Authors: Cygan Magdalena
Published: December 2017

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Recenzja książki: Piotr Szenajch (2015) Trudne umieranie. Narracyjne przedstawienia choroby i śmierci a doświadczenie osób terminalnie chorych. Warszawa: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Fundacja Slawistyczna
Authors: Lange Łucja
Published: December 2017

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Analisis Perbandingan Risiko Nilai Tukar Kurs Dinar (Emas), Dolar AS, Euro dan Yuan (Periode 2010 – 2015)
Authors: Triyawan Andi , Rohmah Atina
Published: December 2017

Money is a tool intermediary humans to perform the transaction  payment  is national or international. In its development money undergoes several changes. Similarly, in the development of the world economy, there has been a financial crisis that hit in various countries, such as the global economic crisis. Crisis economic global is the crisis that occurred as a result of the problems of economic markets in the whole world who make entire sectors of the economy markets experienced a collapse and the impact on other sectors . Which becomes a problem in terms of this is the risk of the value of the exchange currency money and the occurrence of fluctuations in the value of exchange currency money internationally which led to a decrease in the value of the exchange currency for money in countries developing. That is, because the use of fiat money system based only on the belief of its value without any intrinsic value in fiat money form . The purpose of this research is to know how big is the risk of the value of exchange and volatility that is generated in the use of value exchange currency currency exchange rate of Dinar ( Gold ), Dollars USA, Euro and Yuan as the eyes of money internationally. This research is a study of Library Research with quantitative research type, by obtaining secondary data from site Internet. By taking samples as much as 60 months of each exchange Dinar Gold, Dollars USA, Euro and Yuan by way of purposive sampling and using the Analysis Time Series with Eviews 7.2. The results of the research of this is that the volatility of the value of the exchange currency for money top is Dinar Emas with value of 0.036590, while the volatility of most small is the value of the exchange currency Yuan with a value of 0.018472. Dinar Gold has a value of volatility and risk value of the exchange of the most high , so that when the dinar gold is used in terms of trade internationally and the company would have borne the risk of market which is bigger than use with US Dollars, and more. Suggestions of researchers is hopefully the research further more better and get the data the price of the commodity of gold that is more clear and accurate between the value of the price of gold that with the availability of a form of gold.
Pengaruh Pemberian Insentif dan Bonus Terhadap Tingkat Produktivitas Kerja Karyawan pada PT. Bank Pembiayaan Rakyat Syariah Bhakti Sumekar Sumenep
Authors: Qamariyah Siti , Fadllan Fadllan
Published: December 2017

In the increasingly tight globalization of competition within the company. Where the Company needs to pay special attention to Human Resources. In the company needs a stimulus that is in the form of incentives and bonuses. With these stimuli they can be motivated to work so that their needs are met, and generate high productivity   for a company / organization. This study aims: first, To determine whether the incentives and bonuses have an effect on the level   of employee productivity at PT. BPRS Bhakti sumekar. Second, To know how much influence the giving of incentives and bonus to level  employee work productivity at PT. BPRS Bhakti sumekar. The type of research used in this study using a quantitative approach with multiple linear regression analysis techniques. The type of data used is the primary data obtained through questionnaires and secondary data obtained from company data (documents). Respondents are employees of PT. Bhakti Sumekar BPRS which totals 36 employees, with sampling technique using saturated samples. From result of research indicate that there is influence of incentive and bonus to level of work productivity of employees at PT. BPRS Bhakti sumekar. Based on simultaneous test results show that the value of F arithmetic > F table ( 11,191 > 4,13)  with significant 0.000 <0.05. The t test results are partially incentive variables, where t arithmetic  1.690), and bonus variables where t arithmetic > t table ( 2.173 > 1.690), indicate that the incentive variable and bonus variable have the same effect significant to work productivity of employees at PT. BPRS Bhakti Sumekar . The test results of R 2 of 40.4%. From the results of multiple regression analysis variable X 1 (incentives) which has the greatest influence on employee productivity of 0 , 439(34.4%).
Etika Marketing Syariah
Authors: Nurhisam Luqman
Published: December 2017

Marketing activities (marketing) which is the activity of distributing goods and services ranging from producers to the hands of consumers. In this case there are some fundamental questions that encompass marketing activities (marketing); ranging from what is marketed, who is marketing, to how goods and services are marketed through the activities of marketing functions such as purchase, sales, transportation, and so forth. The problem that arises then is, most of the producers/the company with the marketers (marketers) who do not consider the moral and ethical aspects of marketing the products they offer, the most important for them is how to make the products they offer acceptable and successful and control the market share. Especially if the marketer is pressed by the target company that must be achieved and the bonus will be obtained, then to achieve the target, not infrequently a marketer doing various ways, to the point of crashing the signs and ethics that have been established in religion. This study aims to analyze how the ethical aspect in the concept and practice in marketing (marketing) sharia by the company / producer of goods and services. The research method used in this research is descriptive qualitative analysis, using linguistic or language approach that is describe the concept and structure of marketing language as it is. From this study it can be concluded that the majority of scholars allow the concepts and practices in sharia marketing, seen from the process of creation, the process of bidding, as well as the process of change of value (value) in sharia marketing there should be no things that conflict with the principles that exist in sharia. As long as it can be guaranteed, and deviation of principles in sharia does not occur in any transaction inside marketing, it can be allowed in syarak. As well as in the ethical aspect has also fulfilled the spiritual elements that are spiritual based, the divinity is sourced from the teachings of revelation as known by Islamic shari'ah (al-Qur'an and as-Sunnah).