bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Structural filtering of functional data offered discriminative features for autism spectrum disorder
Authors: Talesh Jafadideh Alireza , Mohammadzadeh Asl Babak
Published: December 2022

This study attempted to answer the question, "Can filtering the functional data through the frequency bands of the structural graph provide data with valuable features which are not valuable in unfiltered data"?. The valuable features discriminate between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typically control (TC) groups. The resting-state fMRI data was passed through the structural graph’s low, middle, and high-frequency band (LFB, MFB, and HFB) filters to answer the posed question. The structural graph was computed using the diffusion tensor imaging data. Then, the global metrics of functional graphs and metrics of functional triadic interactions were computed for filtered and unfiltered rfMRI data. Compared to TCs, ASDs had significantly higher clustering coefficients in the MFB, higher efficiencies and strengths in the MFB and HFB, and lower small-world propensity in the HFB. These results show over-connectivity, more global integration, and decreased local specialization in ASDs compared to TCs. Triadic analysis showed that the numbers of unbalanced triads were significantly lower for ASDs in the MFB. This finding may indicate the reason for restricted and repetitive behavior in ASDs. Also, in the MFB and HFB, the numbers of balanced triads and the energies of triadic interactions were significantly higher and lower for ASDs, respectively. These findings may reflect the disruption of the optimum balance between functional integration and specialization. There was no significant difference between ASDs and TCs when using the unfiltered data. All of these results demonstrated that significant differences between ASDs and TCs existed in the MFB and HFB of the structural graph when analyzing the global metrics of the functional graph and triadic interaction metrics. Also, these results demonstrated that frequency bands of the structural graph could offer significant findings which were not found in the unfiltered data. In conclusion, the results demonstrated the promising perspective of using structural graph frequency bands for attaining discriminative features and new knowledge, especially in the case of ASD.
The effectiveness of a theory-based intervention program for pregnant women with anemia: A randomized control trial
Authors: Abd Rahman Raudah , Idris Idayu Badilla , Md Isa Zaleha , Abd Rahman Rahana
Published: December 2022

Anemia in pregnancy is a public health concern. It has been diagnosed in 27% of pregnant women in Malaysia and up to 40% of pregnant women globally. This study aimed to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention initiative based on the health belief model. The MyPinkMom program was disseminated through a mobile messaging application to pregnant women to educate them on the prevention of anemia in pregnancy. We conducted a two-arm cluster-assignment, single-blinded, randomized control trial at two government antenatal clinics in Selangor. One clinic was randomly chosen as the intervention group, and the other was chosen as the control group. Sixty pregnant women with anemia from the intervention group received the MyPinkMom intervention program in the form of six infographic video clips, and 60 pregnant women with anemia from the control group received routine counseling on anemia in pregnancy. Pregnant women who had anemia secondary to hemoglobinopathy or other chronic diseases were excluded from this study. MANOVA showed significant increases in hemoglobin, knowledge, attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control scores for adherence to iron supplements, dietary iron, and dietary vitamin C intake (p < 0.001) in the intervention group at week 6. A significant reduction also occurred in dietary tannin intake (p < 0.001) in the intervention group at week 6. The intervention group at week 6 showed a large effect on hemoglobin level increments (partial eta squared, Ƞp2 0.268), dietary iron intake (Ƞp2 0.213), knowledge of anemia in pregnancy (Ƞp2 0.622), subjective norm scores for adherence to iron supplements (Ƞp2 0.167), and reduction in dietary tannin intake (Ƞp2 0.353). Similarly, repeated measures ANOVA showed that changes in hemoglobin levels were significantly different over time (i.e., at baseline, week 6, and week 12) between the intervention and control groups (p < 0.001). Hemoglobin increased rapidly over time among participants in the intervention group but gradually in the control group. To conclude, the newly developed MyPinkMom program that was delivered through a messaging application showed effectiveness in preventing anemia during pregnancy.
Assessing future technological impacts of patents based on the classification algorithms in machine learning: The case of electric vehicle domain
Authors: Han Fang , Zhang Shengtai , Yuan Junpeng , Wang Li
Published: December 2022

Introduction

Identifying the technologies that will drive technological changes over the coming years is important for the optimal allocation of firms’ R&D resources and the deployment of innovation strategies. The citation frequency of a patent is widely recognized as representative of the patent’s value. Thus, identifying potential highly cited patents is an important goal. A number of studies have attempted to distinguish highly cited patents from others based on statistical models, but a more effective and applicable method needs to be further developed.

Methods

This paper treats the prediction of later patent citations as a classification problem and proposes a novel framework based on machine learning methods. First, a indices system to identify highly cited patents is constructed using multiple factors that are believed to influence citation frequency. Second, various machine learning models are utilized to identify highly cited patents. The optimized model with the best generalization capability is selected to predict the future impacts of newly applied patents, which may be representative of emerging significant technologies. Finally, we select the electric vehicle (EV) domain as a case study to empirically test the validity of this framework.

Results

The optimized support vector machine (SVM) model performs well in identifying highly cited EV patents. Technological frontiers in the EV domain are identified, which are related to the topics of information systems, batteries, stability control, wireless charging, and vehicle operation.

Discussion

The good performance in prediction accuracy and generalization capability of the method proposed in this paper verifies its effectiveness and feasibility.
Carbonyl sulfide (COS) emissions in two agroecosystems in central France
Authors: Belviso Sauveur , Abadie Camille , Montagne David , Hadjar Dalila , Tropée Didier , Vialettes Laurence , Kazan Victor , Delmotte Marc , Maignan Fabienne , Remaud Marine , Ramonet Michel , Lopez Morgan , Yver-Kwok Camille , Ciais Philippe
Published: December 2022

Carbonyl sulfide (COS) fluxes simulated by vegetation and soil component models, both implemented in the ORCHIDEE land surface model, were evaluated against field observations at two agroecosystems in central France. The dynamics of a biogenic process not yet accounted for by this model, i.e., COS emissions from croplands, was examined in the context of three independent and complementary approaches. First, during the growing seasons of 2019 and 2020, monthly variations in the nighttime ratio of vertical mole fraction gradients of COS and carbon dioxide measured between 5 and 180 m height (GradCOS/GradCO2), a proxy of the ratio of their respective nocturnal net fluxes, were monitored at a rural tall tower site near Orléans (i.e., a “profile vs. model” approach). Second, field observations of COS nocturnal fluxes, obtained by the Radon Tracer Method (RTM) at a sub-urban site near Paris, were used for that same purpose (i.e., a “RTM vs. model” approach of unaccounted biogenic emissions). This site has observations going back to 2014. Third, during the growing seasons of 2019, 2020 and 2021, horizontal mole fraction gradients of COS were calculated from downwind-upwind surveys of wheat and rapeseed crops as a proxy of their respective exchange rates at the plot scale (i.e., a “crop based” comparative approach). The “profile vs. model” approach suggests that the nocturnal net COS uptake gradually weakens during the peak growing season and recovers from August on. The “RTM vs. model” approach suggests that there exists a biogenic source of COS, the intensity of which culminates in late June early July. Our “crop based” comparative approach demonstrates that rapeseed crops shift from COS uptake to emission in early summer during the late stages of growth (ripening and senescence) while wheat crops uptake capacities lower markedly. Hence, rapeseed appears to be a much larger source of COS than wheat at the plot scale. Nevertheless, compared to current estimates of the largest COS sources (i.e., marine and anthropogenic emissions), agricultural emissions during the late stages of growth are of secondary importance.
Population structure and genetic diversity characterization of soybean for seed longevity
Authors: T. V. Naflath , S. Rajendra Prasad , R. L. Ravikumar
Published: December 2022

Seed longevity is an important trait in the context of germplasm conservation and economics of seed production. The identification of populations with high level of genetic variability for seed longevity and associated traits will become a valuable resource for superior alleles for seed longevity. In this study, Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS)-single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) approach, simple sequence repeats (SSR) markers and agro-morphological traits have been explored to investigate the diversity and population structure of assembled 96 genotypes. The GBS technique performed on 96 genotypes of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) resulted in 37,897 SNPs on sequences aligned to the reference genome sequence. The average genome coverage was 6.81X with a mapping rate of 99.56% covering the entire genome. Totally, 29,955 high quality SNPs were identified after stringent filtering and most of them were detected in non-coding regions. The 96 genotypes were phenotyped for eight quantitative and ten qualitative traits by growing in field by following augmented design. The STRUCTURE (Bayesian-model based algorithm), UPGMA (Un-weighed Pair Group Method with Arithmetic mean) and principal component analysis (PCA) approaches using SSR, SNP as well as quantitative and qualitative traits revealed population structure and diversity in assembled population. The Bayesian-model based STRUCTURE using SNP markers could effectively identify clusters with higher seed longevity associated with seed coat colour and size which were subsequently validated by UPGMA and PCA based on SSR and agro-morphological traits. The results of STRUCTURE, PCA and UPGMA cluster analysis showed high degree of similarity and provided complementary data that helped to identify genotypes with higher longevity. Six black colour genotypes, viz., Local black soybean, Kalitur, ACC Nos. 39, 109, 101 and 37 showed higher seed longevity during accelerated ageing. Higher coefficient of variability observed for plant height, number of pods per plant, seed yield per plant, 100 seed weight and seed longevity confirms the diversity in assembled population and its suitability for quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping.
Impact of Covid-19 on informal employment: A case study of women domestic workers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Authors: Dogar Adnan Ahmad , Shah Ikram , Mahmood Tahir , Elahi Noor , Alam Arif , Jadoon Urooj Gul
Published: December 2022

COVID-19 indiscriminately impacted all the segments of the global society. Due to the unstructured job market, women in the informal sector were at high risk to experience the adverse effects of the pandemic. This paper aims to explore the impact of COVID-19 on women domestic workers and their families. Semi structured interviews conducted with fifty-four women domestic workers in three districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan were analyzed in five themes: disruption caused by lockdown, loss of livelihood, economic hardships, social support mechanism, and challenges faced during the pandemic. The study underlines that the pandemic left severe impacts on access to basic services, employment, food security at household level and pattern of expenditures. The plummeting economic activities led to sudden drops in earnings that forced families to sell their assets and incur debts. Respondents lamented over the social support system and considered it a necessary but not sufficient condition for uplifting the lives of the poor. Strains in marital relationships led to stress, anxiety and domestic violence among families. The utmost concern was the restoration of economic activities and urgent policy interventions to strengthen social safety measures for the vulnerable segments of society.
Untrammelled ways: Reflecting on the written text, nourishment and care in online teaching
Authors: Bell Rebecca
Published: December 2022

As the COVID-19 pandemic gathered momentum in 2020, it became clear that online teaching spaces risked a distancing from the embodied knowledge so necessary to creative education. Teaching written texts to creative practitioners is a process that calls for alternative spatial and visual literacies, for ontological methods, for honouring experience and reflection – especially in a neo-liberal climate of higher education. In my teaching practice, as well as writing and painting practices, I like so many others have sought spaces for nourishment during this era. Through my teaching and a collaborative research group, one space in which I located this was via hope. This is a time to ask if we can use this moment in history to encourage thinking in an untrammelled manner and to move more freely in the unfamiliar, to transform the classroom; to seek materiality as a method of interpretation, even online; to encourage fearlessness, plurality and relationality; to use craft methods; and to enter a space of care and emotional openness. This contribution will consider creative allyship between staff and students, with the written text as a place of beginning. This is a deliberately open-ended, exploratory, personal and reflective piece of writing, gathered during teaching and research from 2020 to 2022. ‘Ways of Writing’ are explored both through the method of this article as well as its content.
‘I came here to do art, not English’: Antecedent subject subcultures meet current practices of writing in art and design education
Authors: Rintoul Jenny
Published: December 2022

A writing/making divide, within the broader theory/practice myth, is part of the historical narrative in art and design education that both clashes with, and persists in, current practices of writing in art and design. The theory/practice myth separates thinking from doing, head from hand, and writing from making, causing internal frictions in art and design subjects. This article provides a historical and contextual mapping of the writing/making binary in creative practice, drawing on Ivor Goodson’s (, , , 2002) work on ‘antecedent subject subcultures’ to discuss the formation and maintenance of subject cultures and – ultimately – their potential to change.
A coisa não é bem essa
Authors: Marques Marta
Published: December 2022

O presente artigo visa analisar algumas das incertezas que percorrem a crónica contemporânea, nomeadamente no que diz respeito à sua identificação enquanto género literário e aos binómios que a caracterizam: ficção/ mimese do real; jornal/livro; autonomia/dependência.
Requiem, or The Temptation of Antonio (Tabucchi)
Authors: Tabacchini Paolo
Published: December 2022

Among the various distorting mirrors that characterize his works, in the novel Requiem, Antonio Tabucchi places an Egyptian saint (St. Antony the Abbot), a Nordic school altarpiece (Hieronymus Bosch’s Temptation of St. Antony) and a postmodern writer (himself), three interdependent elements within the semantic horizon of this work. The article intends to deepen this theme, showing how the investigation of the relationship between factors scattered around the four corners of Europe can prove to be a key to reading this work and, maybe, also shed light on the mechanisms of Tabucchian writing in general.
For a reading of Inverno, uncertainty in Sereni's Frontiera
Authors: Pozzessere Giorgio
Published: December 2022

The article aims to highlight the feeling of uncertainty and existential disturbance of Vittorio Sereni di Frontiera. The dissertation starts from the use that the poet makes of natural elements in the first collection of his poems to exemplify, through the reading of Inverno, the opening poem of the collection, how the “fog” concretizes a vague feeling of foreseen events but not yet experienced, nor clearly seen.
Parole chiave: Vittorio Sereni; Frontiera; Incertezza; Transizione; Separazione.
The article aims to highlight the feeling of uncertainty and existential disturbance of Vittorio Sereni di Frontiera. The dissertation starts from the use that the poet makes of natural elements in the first collection of his poems to exemplify, through the reading of Inverno, the opening poem of the collection, how the “fog” concretizes a vague feeling of foreseen events but not yet experienced, nor clearly seen.
Key-word: Vittorio Sereni; Frontiera; Incertitude; Transition; Severence.
Turismo Rural em Portugal no contexto de incerteza decorrente da COVID-19
Authors: Silva Susana , Carvalho Paulo
Published: December 2022

Este artigo associa o conceito de incerteza aos territórios rurais, ao turismo e à situação pandémica atual, e tem como objetivo principal refletir sobre o desenvolvimento do turismo rural em Portugal num contexto de incerteza, marcado pela COVID-19, sob uma perspetiva evolutiva no tempo e espaço, com base em literatura da especialidade, estatísticas oficiais e inquéritos por questionário. Em particular pretende-se demonstrar que a incerteza é uma condição intrínseca do meio rural e da própria atividade turística, com a qual têm convivido, mas que se agudiza no contexto particular da crise pandémica que, não obstante o forte impacte territorial e sectorial, tem proporcionado um conjunto de desafios e oportunidades estimulados, justamente, por essa incerteza subjacente.
Humanidades Digitais e Digitalização Tridimensional (3D)
Authors: Luro Marta , Borges Maria Manuel
Published: December 2022

As Humanidades Digitais são genericamente consideradas como a aplicação de métodos e tecnologias digitais às áreas mais tradicionais dos estudos em Humanidades. O objetivo principal deste trabalho é investigar se, e de que forma, a digitalização tridimensional (3D) contribui para a afirmação das Humanidades Digitais. Como objetivos específicos procurámos avançar com uma definição de Humanidades Digitais e Digitalização tridimensional (3D) e refletir de que forma é que estes dois conceitos se articulam.

Numa primeira fase refletimos sobre o estado da arte e, para tal, recorremos a bibliografia especializada. Posteriormente foi feita uma análise a sites e locais pertinentes para o assunto visado. O artigo contempla uma reflexão sobre a temática a abordar, sendo para isso utilizado do ponto de vista metodológico, a pesquisa e análise documental.

Os principais resultados e conclusões desta investigação permitem-nos dizer que a digitalização tridimensional (3D) revoluciona a maneira como se faz hoje investigação em Humanidades porque permite ver diferentes perspetivas do que já existiu, possibilitando enormes avanços na pesquisa e investigação. É uma nova forma de abordar o passado, mas projetando-se no futuro. Surgem novos campos e temas de investigação e são criados materiais pedagógicos modernos e atrativos.
Use of the Remaining Sample from the Panbio COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test Device for the Molecular Screening of the SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern B.1.1.7
Authors: Montes Milagrosa , Marimón José M. , Piñeiro Luis D. , Martin-Peñaranda Tania , de Arbulo Marta Gomez-Ruiz , Cilla Gustavo , Montes Milagrosa , Marimón José M. , Piñeiro Luis D. , Cilla Gustavo
Published: December 2022

Objective
Real-time surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOC) is of essential public health importance. Rapid Antigen Detection Tests (RAgDT) have become first-line COVID-19 diagnostic methods in many regions, but this strategy can hamper the surveillance of the virus variants due to their decentralized performance. The aim of this study was to assess the usefulness of the remaining sample of a widely used RAgDT (Panbio) for the surveillance of the B.1.1.7 VOC using molecular methods.

Methods
Symptomatic individuals and asymptomatic close contacts of confirmed cases were routinely screened for SARS-CoV-2 infection using the RAgDT in Primary Health Care Centers. After performing the test, the extraction tubes containing the remaining biological material of RAgDT-positive cases were sent to the clinical microbiology laboratory where RT-PCRs detecting key mutations of the VOC were conducted.

Results
A valid result was obtained in 1770/1812 (97.7%) RAgDT-positive cases. Variant B.1.1.7 was detected in 34.7% of the patients, increasing from 0% to 87.7% between the weeks beginning January 4 and March 15, 2021.

Conclusion
The sample remaining after performing the Panbio RAgDT allowed to monitor the emergence and circulation of the B.1.1.7, greatly improving the population screened for the molecular study of SARS-CoV-2 variants.
Farinelli, F. (2021). Polifemo cegador. La geografía y los modelos del mundo.
Authors: Sunyer Martín Pere
Published: December 2022

Farinelli, F. (2021). Polifemo cegador. La geografía y los modelos del mundo. México: Instituto de Geografía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, (Colección Geografía para el siglo XXI. Serie Textos universitarios: 31). 205 pp. ISBN 978-607-30-5340-2
Método de Melhoria de Resultados e avaliação externa: estratégias neoliberais na definição da qualidade educacional
Authors: Rosa Sabrina Bucci , Pereira Maria Simone Ferraz
Published: December 2022

O presente artigo resulta de pesquisa que buscou analisar a concepção de qualidade presente no Método de Melhoria de Resultados (MMR), método de gestão de resultados implementado pela Secretaria da Educação de São Paulo, a partir de 2017. Nesta pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa, foi utilizada a pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, e identificou-se que o MMR integra amplo conjunto de políticas educacionais que têm sido implementadas na rede em consonância com o que preconizam os diferentes organismos multilaterais e o ideário neoliberal. Concluímos que a concepção de qualidade é reducionista no MMR, pois articula-se aos resultados mensuráveis e quantificáveis de testes padronizados, desconsiderando fatores e dimensões intra e extraescolares que interferem na qualidade da educação.
A democratização da gestão por dentro de uma escola pública municipal
Authors: Sousa Raimundo , Queiroz Luiz Miguel Galvão , Maia Anderson Madson Oliveira , Queiroz Rafael da Silva
Published: December 2022

Esse artigo discute sobre a gestão democrática no cotidiano escolar. O problema da investigação foi: a construção da democratização da gestão da escola favorece a transformação da realidade social? O estudo objetivou analisar o processo de democratização da gestão escolar pública. A metodologia ancorou-se na perspectiva do materialismo histórico e dialético, no qual, é possível descrever e analisar a realidade concreta dos fenômenos educacionais. Fez-se uso de questionários, os quais foram aplicados à coordenação pedagógica, gestor escolar, e representante de docentes no Conselho Escolar de uma escola pública municipal. Os resultados mostraram que o processo de democratização da gestão na escola observada é insuficiente para promover o fortalecimento da comunidade para a construção de uma escola identificada com os interesses das classes populares.
A relação dos professores das escolas do campo com o Programa Escola da Terra no contexto da gestão educacional no município de Dianópolis – Tocantins
Authors: Santos Daniel Barbosa dos , Carvalho Roberto Francisco de
Published: December 2022

A educação brasileira é como uma pirâmide que tem sua construção e designação estrutural, e pode ser entendida como ideias sistêmicas cuja operacionalização ocorre na figura do gestor educacional. Assim sendo, o estudo propõe o diálogo com aprofundamento sobre a gestão escolar, ao contextualizar a relação entre os professores das escolas do campo e a gestão da educação municipal. Pretende-se examinar o modelo do ensino posto para as escolas do campo, bem como as relações do gestor com os professores que atuam nas escolas rurais. Assim, o presente artigo tem cunho descritivo de informações com relato da capacitação de professores da escola da terra, em 2018, no município de Dianópolis-TO. A disciplina Legislação da Educação do Campo desperta várias indagações referentes à temática aprofundada neste estudo. Propõe-se, então, estabelecer algumas ponderações das relações dos professores das escolas do campo com o Programa Escola da Terra, situando o nosso foco na gestão educacional. Tem-se, como resultados, as demandas que aparecem por meio dos trabalhos realizados com os cursistas.
A Educação do Campo e o estudo da realidade: o processo de formação continuada de educadores no programa Escola da Terra - Paraná
Authors: Hammel Ana Cristina , Finatto Roberto Antônio
Published: December 2022

Este artigo apresenta uma reflexão sobre a necessidade e a importância de se considerar a realidade (i)material da escola e da comunidade no trabalho pedagógico. O texto toma como base para a análise, as práticas, as experiências e as aprendizagens produzidas no programa Escola da Terra, no estado do Paraná, entre os anos de 2015 e 2021. O Programa, ao longo de suas quatro edições, desenvolveu um conjunto de ações com o objetivo de fortalecer a educação e a escola do campo como espaços de luta, resistência e de valorização dos diferentes tipos de conhecimento, sem desconsiderar a tarefa básica de socialização do conhecimento científico. A práxis desenvolvida permitiu tornar os/as sujeitos/as do campo e indígenas e os seus territórios como elementos estruturantes do fazer pedagógico. Diante do exposto, afirmamos a necessidade da política pública de formação continuada para a qualificação da educação básica e a construção de um projeto educativo onde o campo seja considerado como um território de vida.
Avaliação da política educacional: o Programa Escola da Terra e sua implementação no Estado de Pernambuco
Authors: Cunha Kátia Silva , Silva Janini Paula da
Published: December 2022

A presente pesquisa situa-se no campo da política educacional e se propôs avaliar o programa de formação docente Escola da Terra/PE em sua fase de implementação. Para tanto, fez-se necessário analisar documentos legais que normatizam o programa; acompanhar o momento formativo caracterizado como tempo universidade e; fazer uso do discurso enquanto categoria analítica. O estudo opera com o pós-estruturalismo e apresenta-se composto por três momentos onde (1) a partir de uma discussão teórica tecemos considerações acerca da avaliação de políticas públicas; (2) desenhamos a metodologia utilizada na pesquisa; (3) analisamos os dados produzidos. Concluímos apontando no programa problemas tradicionais no campo da política pública e alcances subjetivos que lhe atribuem sentidos na constituição de identificações entre os educadores do campo e o fazer docente nos territórios campesinos.
Escola da Terra no contexto da Amazônia Amapaense: entre tempos, espaços e saberes amazônicos
Authors: Macedo Pedro Clei Sanches , Bicalho Ramofly
Published: December 2022

O presente artigo é resultado de estudo sobre o Programa Escola da Terra na Amazônia Amapaense, enquanto política de formação continuada de educadores/educadoras de escolas do campo com classes multisseriadas e escolas quilombolas. A formação continuada intitulada “Escola da Terra, das Águas e das Florestas”, foi coordenada pela Universidade Federal do Amapá, em parceria com a secretaria estadual, secretarias municipais de educação e Ministério da Educação (MEC) e envolveu gestores municipais, diretores de escola, tutores, formadores e professores dos diferentes territórios do Amapá. No diálogo com esses atores, evidenciamos os desafios e os caminhos percorridos para a implementação, gestão colegiada e organização metodológica do Escola da Terra.
Programa Escola da Terra em São Paulo: educação continuada de professores do campo
Authors: Santos Maria Cristina dos
Published: December 2022

O Programa Escola da Terra é uma política pública de educação do campo criado em 2013 durante o primeiro mandato da presidente Dilma Rousseff, coordenado pela Secretaria Continuada de Alfabetização, Diversidade e Inclusão (SECADI) do Ministério da Educação (MEC) em parceria com municípios, estados e universidades públicas federais. É uma das ações do Programa Nacional de Educação do Campo (PRONACAMPO) e visa à qualificação da oferta de educação básica e superior às populações do campo. No estado de São Paulo, a execução do programa Escola da Terra ficou a cargo da Universidade Federal de São Carlos, a partir de 2017, ano que ofertamos a primeira formação para professores das escolas do campo paulistas. Neste texto apresento a experiência da UFSCar com o Escola da Terra, sua organização pedagógica e a concepção pedagógica adotada para a formação dos professores, a Pedagogia Histórico Crítica. Conclui-se que a mobilização coletiva em defesa da educação e da educação do campo, especificamente, é ainda mais necessária para a garantia e manutenção do direito a educação e, para isso, precisamos também de uma teoria pedagógica forte, que se contraponha às teorias hegemônicas que esvaziam a escola de sentido e os professores da autonomia intelectual para desempenhar o seu trabalho.
A revanche dos ventos - Destruição dos solos e formação de areais na Campanha Gaúcha
Authors: Ab`Saber Aziz Nacib
Published: December 2022

A revanche dos ventos - Destruição dos solos e formação de areais na Campanha Gaúcha
Pesquisa empírica e trabalho de campo: algumas questões acerca do conhecimento geográfico
Authors: Santos Rosselvet José
Published: December 2022

Este texto tem por objetivo discutir as características básicas da pesquisa empírica e do trabalho de campo na Geografia................
Arroio Chuí: influência antrópica na manutenção de um ambiente estuarino / Arroio Chuí: humanÂ´s influence in the maintenance of a estuarine area
Authors: Hartmann Carlos , Pereira Luiz E.
Published: December 2022

Dos ambientes costeiros os estuários são áreas mais importantes. Alem de propiciarem maior biodiversidades, estas zonas sao utilizadas para a construção de portos, aglomerados urbanos e de lazer
Viagem philosophica: a esquecida expedição científica a América Portuguesa do século XVIII / Philosophical journey: the forgotten eighteenth-century scientific expedicion to the portuguese America
Authors: Santos Eulália Maria A. Morais dos
Published: December 2022

No curso das relações entre o velho e o novo mundo, as necessidades do reconhecimento engendram operações simbólicas e significações culturais..........
Solos e feições erosivas em Açailândia - Maranhão / Soils and erosion feitures in Açailândia Municipality - Maranhão State
Authors: Marçal Mônica do Santos , Botelho Rosângela Garrido Machado , Garcia Simone Ferreira , Guerra Antonio José Teixeira
Published: December 2022

Este trabalho trata das relações existentes tipos de solos e suas caracteristicas e feiçõe erosivas na bacia do alto curso do Rio Açailândia (Maranhão)
Perfis-ecológicos como técnica para o estudo da condições ambientais / Geo-ecological profiles as a technique for the study of the environmental conditions
Authors: Levighin Susimara Cristina , Viadana Adler Guilherme
Published: December 2022

Este trabalho tem como objetivo principal refletir sobre a importância dos perfis geo-ecologicos como técnica de estudo das condiçoes ambientais................
O desenvolvimento das atividades econômicas em Uberlândia-MG: os circuitos espaciais da produção, do comércio e serviços e da intermediação financeira / The evolution of the economic activities in Uberlândia - MG: the spatial circuit of production........
Authors: Bessa Kelly Cristine F. O. , Soares Beatriz Ribeiro
Published: December 2022

A partir da década de 1970, Uberlândia apresentou importante desenvolvimento econômico, caracterizado pela "produção material", agropecuária e industrial, e pela "produção não-material".................
Contribuição à análise critica de relatórios de impacto ambiental com enfoque em usinas hidrelétricas / Contribuition to the critical analysis of environmental impact focused on hidroeletric dams
Authors: Carrijo Beatriz Rodrigues
Published: December 2022

Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar algumas considerações sobre um dos instrumentos da Politica Nacional e meio ambiente .................
Recursos biológicos e biodiversidade: unidades fitoecológicas e composição faunística / Biological resources and bio diversity: the units of flora and fauna composition
Authors: Nascimento Flavio Rodrigues do
Published: December 2022

Os solos e a vegetação constituem os fatores de estabilidade do meio natural, ao tempo que dão suporte e colaboram para o manuseio da biodiversidade...............
Petróleo e gás na Eurásia: projetos estratégicos / Petroleum and natural gas in Central Asia: strategic projects
Authors: Cosenza Orlando N. , Neves Leonardo C.R.
Published: December 2022

A constatação de exuberantes reservas de petróleo e gás natural na Asia Central veio a publico logo após os ataques

terroristas no World Trade Center..........
Confidence Interval for the Difference Between Variances of Delta-Gamma Distribution
Authors: Khooriphan Wansiri , Niwitpong Sa-Aat , Niwitpong Suparat
Published: December 2022

Since environmental data are often right-skewed, the gamma distribution is commonly used to model them. However, rainfall data often contain zero observations, so the delta-gamma model is a better fit in these circumstances. Since the variance of delta-gamma distributions is a useful measure of rainfall dispersion, we focused on the difference between the variances of two delta-gamma populations for comparison of the precipitation in two areas in Thailand. We constructed the confidence interval for the difference between the variances of delta-gamma distributions by using various Bayesian and highest posterior density (HPD) methods based on the Jeffrey’s, uniform, or normal-gamma-beta priors and compared with the fiducial quantity (FQ) approach. The performances of the proposed confidence interval methods were evaluated by examining their coverage probabilities and average lengths via a Monte Carlo simulation study. The results indicate that for a small probability of zero observations (δ), the confidence intervals based on FQ and HPD with either the Jeffrey’s or uniform priors are suitable whereas for large δ, the HPD with the normal-gamma-beta prior is recommended. Rainfall data from Lamphun province, Thailand, are used to illustrate the practical efficacies of the proposed methods.
PEMIKIRAN HUKUM ISLAM ABU HANIFAH: Sebuah Kajian Sosio-Hostoris Seputar Hukum Keluarga
Authors: Juliansyahzen M. Iqbal
Published: December 2022

Abu Hanifah (80H-150H) is one of the figures who made valuable contributions to the development of Islamic law. His legal thought more advanced aspects of rationality that is affected by geographic and demographic environment of Iraq. Many progressive thinking and different from other scholars, both on methodological aspects and results of ijtihad. Islamic legal methodology of Abu Hanifah is istihsan, that caused controversy among scholars of fiqh. Many of Abu Hanifah’s thought in the area of family law that had different from others are: the permissibility of marriage without a guardian, the need kafaah in marriage, as well as nasab a child out of wedlock. Marriage without a guardian is valid, but not perfect. Abu Hanifah kafa'ah concept emerged as a response to social differences (social distinction) which then shifts into legal issues (legal distinction). Position child out of wedlock was fixed to his father as a legitimate child. In taking the law, Abu Hanifah tend to use Burhani epistemology. The dominance of the realm usage paradigm Burhani certainly can not be separated by geographical location or state of Abu Hanifah’s life. Kufa and Baghdad is a metropolitan city that Imam Abu Hanifa have to deal with high rationality.
KEADILAN PEMBAGIAN HARTA WARISAN PERSPEKTIF HUKUM ISLAM DAN BURGERLIJK WETBOEK
Authors: Al-Mabruri M. Nasikhul Umam
Published: December 2022

The question of the distribution of heritage property from parents to their children, or from people who have died to the parties entitled to them is a complicated problem and often cause problems for many family members. Generally, the problems arising from the practice of inheritance share are because each party feels it does not get the inheritance as it should be (unfair). This paper examines the concept of justice in the distribution of inheritance under Islamic law and Burgerlijk Wetboek (BW). This paper has provided valuable information on the understanding and concept of justice existing in Islamic law and also in BW, in which the different concept of justice has given rise to different provisions in terms of inheritance division. In the Islamic heirs law, the concept of justice is based on the principle of equitable justice, while the concept of justice contained in Burgerlijk Wetboek is built on Western philosophies and ideas, especially the justice Aristotle made about the equality of rights between individuals. Therefore, the rights of the heirs are equal to the rights of the daughter's heirs. The difference in fairness in the distribution of inheritance is due to differences in the perspectives of justice and the legal basis of the two heirs. Islam considers that the obligation to provide family support is the responsibility of men so that it is appropriate if men doubled the share of women's heritage. Meanwhile, in the Western thinking that forms the BW heir system does not determine and imposes obligations to provide a family income only to men or women, so BW's heirs provide a share of inheritance equally between men and women.
SUNK COSTS OF CONSUMER SEARCH: ECONOMIC RATIONALITY OF SATISFICING DECISION
Authors: MALAKHOV Sergey
Published: December 2022

The paper argues that sunk costs’ sensitivity can lead to the optimal consumption-leisure choice underprice dispersion. The increase in quantity to be purchased with the extension of the time horizon of the consumption-leisure choice equalizes marginal costs of search with its marginal benefits. The implicit optimal choice results in the explicit satisficing decision. The transformation of cognitive mechanism of discouragement into satisficing happens only in the “common model” of consumer behavior. The paper argues that the cognitive mechanism of aspiration takes place when consumers try to get marginal savings on purchase greater than the wage rate and, therefore, they follow the “leisure model” of behavior where both the marginal utility of labor income and the marginal utility of consumption become negative.
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RENEWABLE ENERGY ENTERPRISES. A PORTER’S DIAMOND ANALYSIS
Authors: LIARGOVAS Panagiotis , APOSTOLOPOULOS Nikos
Published: December 2022

The purpose of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, it aims to highlight the significant role of regional parameters when analyzing the competitive advantage of renewable energy enterprises in Greece by applying Porter’s diamond model, and at the same time to implement the aforementioned model in the case of solar energy enterprises. The paper suggests that analysis should be spread to lower levels than the national one, because renewable energy production companies, either at the stage of installation or at the stage of operation, are fully affected by local conditions. Measuring or analyzing competiveness of this kind of enterprises is not always easy because there are essential differences in comparison with other types of industrial activity. In this paper, specific regional data are also incorporated in the analysis of the diamond model conditions, which affect competitiveness.
HOW BIG ARE THE EMPLOYMENT EFFECTS OF MICROLOANS? EVIDENCE FROM A CASE STUDY IN LATVIA
Authors: BALDI Guido , ŠIPILOVA Viktorija
Published: December 2022

Microloans to small and medium-sized enterprises have become popular in many countries. However, evidence on the economic and social impact of microfinance is scarce. In an attempt to partly fill this gap, this paper looks at a case study and analyzes the economic impacts of the microloan programme of the Latvian development bank Hipoteku Banka. In our analysis, we focus on the following questions: Did the microloan programme increase employment within the supported firms? And was it able to contribute to the economic development of rural areas and the decrease of economic inequalities across regions? We find that the firms that were granted a loan from Hipoteku Banka on average considerably increased their employment during the loan period, as well as the microloan programme made a successful contribution to the economic development of rural regions in Latvia.
SURFING ON THE TIDE? LEAST-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES TRADE DURING THE GREAT GLOBAL TRANSITION
Authors: ESCAITH Hubert , TAMENU Bekele
Published: December 2022

The rebalancing of global demand towards large emerging countries and the resulting long-lasting cycle of high international commodity prices had a profound impact on LDC trade. This process contributed to a wider geographical diversification of LDCs' exports but led also to a greater reliance on those highly priced commodities. LDCs remain particularly vulnerable to external shocks; the 2008-2009 global crisis and the bumpy transitional recovery that followed illustrate the fragility of the recent trends. A slowdown in the growth of large emerging countries may end the commodity "super-cycle", deepening LDCs' structural trade imbalances. In such a perspective, renewed efforts towards extensive product diversification are called for. Fostering diversification has been supported for many years by preferential market access to develop and --more recently-- to emerging countries. But preferences alone are not sufficient to improve the supply-side capabilities of most LDCs. The new business models related to global value chains offer new opportunities to LDCs for export diversification and trade facilitation is one of the key components of this diversification strategy.
ANALYZING THE DYNAMICS OF GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GROWTH. A MIXED FREQUENCY MODEL APPROACH
Authors: FRANCO Ray John Gabriel , MAPA Dennis S.
Published: December 2022

Frequency mismatch has been a problem in time series econometrics. Many monthly economic and financial indicators are normally aggregated to match quarterly macroeconomic series such as Gross Domestic Product when performing econometric analysis. However, temporal aggregation, although widely accepted, is prone to information loss. To address this issue, mixed frequency modelling is employed by using state space models with time-varying parameters. Quarter-on-quarter growth rate of GDP estimates are treated as monthly series with missing observation. Using Kalman filter algorithm, state space models are estimated with eleven monthly economic indicators as explanatory variables. A one-step-ahead forecast for GDP growth rates is generated and as more indicators are included in the model, the predicted values became closer to the actual data. Further evaluation revealed that among the group competing models, using Consumer Price Index (CPI), growth rates of Philippine Stock Exchange Index (PSEi), Exchange Rate, Real Money Supply, Wholesale Price Index (WPI) and Merchandise Exports are the more important determinants of GDP growth and generated the most desirable forecasts (lower forecast errors).
Is There Excess Capacity Really?
Authors: TODOROVA Tamara
Published: December 2022

Excess capacity is viewed as a distinctive feature and an essential inefficiency of monopolistic competition as the large-group case of imperfect competition. Using a simple geometrical approach and studying the demand and cost curves faced by the individual firm, we find that there is little potential for excess capacity in monopolistically competitive markets, opposite to the common perception and wide coverage in the literature. We see monopolistic competition as the true type of competition in the presence of transaction costs where perfect competition is a hypothetical and ideal benchmark which cannot exist under positive transaction costs.
Is Foreign Portfolio Investment Beneficial to India’s Balance of Payments? An Exploratory Analysis
Authors: GEORGE Justine
Published: December 2022

As oppose to the expectation, financing of Balance of Payments (BoP) with foreign investment exerted huge cost on India’s BoP. Dividend and capital gain are found to be the two cost of FPI on BoP, in which latter would considered as cost on BoP only if it is repatriated. Foreign portfolio investment (FPI) earns huge capital gain as compared to dividend and has significant evidence for repatriation
Straight-Time and Overtime: A Sequential-Lottery Approach
Authors: VASILEV Aleksandar
Published: December 2022

This note explores the problem of aggregation with non-convex labor supply decisions in an economy with both straight time and overtime. In contrast to Hansen and Sargent (1988), the paper models this as a sequential decision. Instead of changing from one to infinity, with a sequential non-convexity, the aggregate elasticity of labor supply for overtime work is a function of overall participation rate, and the aggregate elasticity of labor supply for full-time work depends on the share of workers doing overtime.
DISCRETE TIME OR CONTINUOUS TIME, THAT IS THE QUESTION: THE CASE OF SAMUELSON’S MULTIPLIER-ACCELERATOR MODEL
Authors: LUO Yinghao , LUO Mingmin
Published: December 2022

A basic problem in economic dynamics is the choice of continuous-time or discrete-time in mathematical modeling. In this paper, we study the continuous-time Samuelson’s multiplier-accelerator model and compare this continuous-time model with its classical discrete-time model. We find that although time scales do not affect the probability of return to equilibrium solution in Samuelson’s multiplier-accelerator model, but time scales have an influence on the perfect symmetry of periodic motion.
AGGREGATION WITH SEQUENTIAL NON-CONVEX PUBLIC - AND PRIVATE - SECTOR LABOR SUPPLY DECISIONS
Authors: VASILEV Aleksandar
Published: December 2022

This paper explores the problem of non-convex labor supply decisions in an economy with both private and public sector jobs. In contrast to Vasilev (2015a), the sectoral labor choice is made in a sequential manner. Still, the micro-founded representation obtained from explicit aggregation over homogeneous individuals again features different disutility of labor across the two sectors. Thus, there is little merit in the timing of the sectoral non-convex labor choice.