bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Scalable knowledge-defined orchestration for hybrid optical–electrical datacenter networks [Invited]
Authors: Li Qinhezi , Fang Hongqiang , Li Deyun , Peng Jianquan , Kong Jiawei , Lu Wei , Zhu Zuqing
Published: November 2019

To better provision fast-emerging network applications with various quality-of-service demands, datacenter network (DCN) operators need an effective network orchestration scheme that can coordinate IT and bandwidth resources for differentiated services in a timely manner. In this work, we consider a hybrid optical–electrical DCN (HOE-DCN) and study how to achieve scalable knowledge-defined network orchestration (KD-NO) for managing the delay-sensitive and delay-tolerant applications in it. For delay-sensitive applications, we leverage a multi-agent scheme to distribute the tasks of placing virtual machines (VMs) in server racks and routing VM traffic in electrical–optical inter-rack clouds to two cooperative deep reinforcement learning modules, respectively. Then, we utilize a classic-algorithm-based module to provision delay-tolerant applications with the residual resources in the HOE-DCN. We design the operation and coordination procedure of the KD-NO system and build a small HOE-DCN testbed that consists of four server racks to demonstrate its performance experimentally. Experimental results indicate that our KD-NO system can make timely and correct network orchestration decisions and have better convergence performance compared with the existing benchmark.
The role and capabilities of urban-based cooperatives as intermediary organizations: A multi-case study on university partnerships
Authors: Go Kevin Christopher L.
Published: November 2019

A broader understanding of innovation intermediaries is necessary to promote a more inclusive approach in innovation policy, especially in developing countries. This research examines the performance and capabilities of three urbanbased cooperatives as intermediary organizations for a university and a fourth helix actor (communities) in the Philippines. Semi-structured interviews with staff from the cooperatives and a university’s community-engagement office show cooperatives performing intermediary roles consistent with traditional intermediaries studied by other scholars. These cooperatives are also found to be capable of learning and developing key capabilities to enhance their organization’s resources and networks. This study finds that urban-based cooperatives are a viable intermediary organization that may help enhance an inclusive innovation network or system. The findings presented have implications for the organizations involved in the study, and organizations that plan on developing collaborations similar to that in this study may adopt these implications. Furthermore, the research also provides implications for governments that seek to widen their scope of intermediaries while promoting inclusive innovation.
Antioxidant influence on poultry liver morphology and hepatocyte ultrastructure
Authors: Skovorodin Evgeny , Bronnikova Guzel , Bazekin George , Dyudbin Oleg , Khokhlov Roman
Published: November 2019

Background and Aim: The poultry farming development is held back by necessity to use the concentrates with the increased number of crude protein, mycotoxicoses, and subclinical infections concentration. They make a significant impact on the liver, therefore affecting its morphofunctional condition. Antioxidants use can prevent the negative influence of these factors. This study aimed to examine the impact of feed supplements containing natural antioxidants and synthetic antioxidants. Materials and Methods: The Muscovy ducks, Hungarian White geese, and quails were the study object. Birds after hatching from eggs were split into two groups: Control and two experimental. The control group (40 birds of each species) received a normal diet in accordance with the type and age. The young ducklings, goslings, and quails of the first experimental group (30 birds of each species) received water with diisopropylammonium dichloroacetate (Dironax). The young ducklings, goslings, and quails of the second experimental group (30 birds of each species) received liquid multivitamin preparation, containing organic selenium form (Solvimin Selen) from the 1st day of the postembryonic development to the age of 60 days. We performed the weighing of the young ducklings, goslings, and quails, determined the live weight, liver weight, using the electronic scales (measurement inaccuracy is 0.02 g). To conduct the morphometric, histological, and electron microscopic studies liver, we killed the birds at the age of 1 day, 15 days, a month and 2 months during the postembryonic ontogenesis. Results: The performed overall studies allowed to determine the positive influence of the antioxidants on growth and development of the meat bird, whose body mass increased by 5-10% in comparison with the control parameters. The antioxidants use prevents the development of fatty, hydropic and parenchymal degeneration, hepatocyte and epithelial cells necrosis of the bile ducts, and connective tissue proliferation with its further fibrosis. Conclusion: This study proved that it is more effective to use well-digestible, fast-acting natural polyvitaminic antioxidant complex with selenium, starting from the 1st day of the postembryonic ontogeny.
Study on vector mosquito of zoonotic Brugia malayi in Musi Rawas, South Sumatera, Indonesia
Authors: Mulyaningsih Budi , Umniyati Sitti Rahmah , Hadisusanto Suwarno , Edyansyah Erwin
Published: November 2019

Background and Aim: Studies to determine abundance, distribution, species composition, and mosquito interactions are very important in understanding the risk of disease transmission to implement appropriate mosquito management in endemic areas. Lymphatic filarial worms are one of the parasites that are contracted and/or transmitted by mosquitoes when sucking the blood of infected humans or animals and then biting others. This research was conducted to study the abundance, species composition, mosquito biting cycles, density and periodicity of mosquitoes caught in Lubuk Pauh Village, Bulang Tengah Suku Ulu, Musi Rawas, South Sumatera, Indonesia, which is an endemic area of zoonotic Brugia malayi.

Materials and Methods: The mosquito collection was done in July 2018 using the human landing collection method for 11 h from 18.00 pm to 5.00 am Western Indonesian Time. The catching of mosquitoes was done both indoors and outdoors, and mosquitoes were identified under a dissecting microscope using an identification key to confirm their species. Detection of B. malayi larvae in mosquitoes was confirmed by dissection and polymerase chain reaction methods.

Results: The caught mosquitoes consisted of four species: Armigeres subalbatus, Culex quinquefasciatus, Culex vishnui, and Mansonia uniformis. Based on the Shannon–Wiener index, Lubuk Pauh Village has low mosquito species diversity (0.210). Ar. subalbatus was the dominant mosquito in Lubuk Pauh Village with dominance number 95.08, and it had the most frequent activity in each of periods of indoor and outdoor collection, with the highest density (man-hour density) at 18.00-19.00 (51.750). B. malayi infective stage larvae were not found in all mosquito species caught.

Conclusion: Existence of Ar. subalbatus, Cx. quinquefasciatus, and Ma. uniformis in Lubuk Pauh Village which is an endemic area of B. malayi shows that the area is at risk of lymphatic filariasis transmission.
SISTEMA URUBU: A CIÊNCIA CIDADÃ EM PROL DA CONSERVAÇÃO DA BIODIVERSIDADE
Authors: Castro Érika Paula , Bager Alex
Published: November 2019

Atropelamento de animais em estradas é um dos impactos mais estudados emEcologia de Estradas no mundo. Atualmente diversos projetos e plataformas de ciência cidadã têm sido desenvolvidos para quantificar esse impacto, como é o caso do Sistema Urubu, a maior rede para conservação da biodiversidade brasileira. Trata-se de uma plataforma de ciência cidadã para coleta e gestão de dados de atropelamento de fauna selvagem, criada em 2014 pelo Centro Brasileiro de Estudos em Ecologia de Estradas. A principal ferramenta do sistema é um aplicativo, gratuito e disponível para Android e IOs, que conta hoje com mais de 23 mil usuários e mais de 24 mil registros. Seu grande diferencial, quando comparado a outros projetos e plataformas, está na confiabilidade dosdados, uma vez que possui um rigoroso processo de validação de registros realizado por especialistas das diferentes classes de fauna. Além disso, trata-se de uma plataforma que gerou publicação de vários artigos científicos, além de ter contribuído para estruturação da Estratégia Nacional para Mitigação de Impactos da Infraestrutura Viária na Biodiversidade (BioInfra Brasil) e para criação do Projeto de Lei 466/15, já aprovado pela Câmara dos Deputados.
MÍDIAS E TECNOLOGIAS: UMA PROPOSTA DE AVALIAÇÃO PARA CURSOS A DISTÂNCIA
Authors: Santos Flávia Giffoni de Abreu dos , Vilarinho Lúcia Regina Goulart
Published: November 2019

Este artigo discute a problemática da seleção de mídias e tecnologias parauso em situação de ensino-aprendizagem. Nesta direção, buscou na literatura autores que abordaram o tema e selecionou, em cada um deles, categorias avaliativas capazes de oferecer suporte ao planejamento do uso dessas tecnologias. Tais categorias foram desmembradas em indicadores e destes foi gerado um roteiro de perguntas a ser usado no momento da escolha das mídias e das tecnologias. O roteiro é sugestivo, podendo ser ampliado, refinado, ou apenas servir de suporte à construção de outras perguntas. O artigo, no entanto, teve, fundamentalmente, a intenção de chamar a atenção para a complexidade desta tarefa. A escolha de mídias e tecnologias não pode ficar atrelada, somente, ao bom senso de quem as escolhe.
MEDICINA E MÍDIA: UM ESTUDO SOBRE A FIGURA DO MÉDICO NA TV E NA PERCEPÇÃO DO PÚBLICO
Authors: Bertolini Jeferson
Published: November 2019

Este artigo destaca pesquisa sobre (a) como a figura do médico é apresentadaem programas de televisão sobre saúde e (b) como o público, entendido aqui como conjunto heterogêneo de indivíduos de uma população exposta à mídia de maneira direta ou indireta percebe a figura do médico. O trabalho usa análise de conteúdo do programa Bem-Estar, da Rede Globo (81 programas), e observação participante em supermercado e academia de ginástica (78 visitas diárias, em três meses) de Santa Catarina. O estudo analisa a questão sob o prisma do biopoder (FOUCAULT, 2012). Conclui que a televisão, ao dar amplo espaço aos médicos, colabora com o projeto biopolítico da construção de corpos melhorados ou economicamente ativos.
DADOS PSICOLÓGICOS EM PRONTUÁRIO MULTIPROFISSIONAL: RELATOS DE UMA EQUIPE DE SAÚDE
Authors: Sei Maíra Bonafé , Nascimento Ananda Kenney da Cunha , Alexandre Ana Clara Siena , Polezer Giovana Beni , Hemmig Nathalia Halmann , Yassumoto Patrícia , Chiodi Sofia Lira
Published: November 2019

O registro psicológico em prontuário multiprofissional é imprescindível quando a atuação é realizada por uma equipe multiprofissional com funcionamento interdisciplinar. Com base na obrigatoriedade de documentar as ações do psicólogo em serviços de saúde, objetivamos descrever a prática de registroda Psicologia em prontuário multiprofissional no campo da saúde, destacar sua importância, apontaritens (des)necessários à elaboração da evolução clínicae listar os principais desafios e facilidades da prática em equipe multiprofissional. A partir do método de relato de experiência, percebemos que, apesar dosavanços científicos e das contribuições da nossa prática com registros em prontuário, temos limites significativos no que diz respeito à dificuldade de comunicaçãodevido à falta de padronização na linguagem utilizada nos documentos. Contudo, consideramos que o encontro entre a universidade e o serviço público tem sido uma experiência promotora de desenvolvimento do saberfazer psicológico no campo da saúde.
Representaciones culturales, narraciones y estéticas: Estéticas de vanguardia, cultura política y poéticas coloquiales en las revistas de la izquierda intelectual sesentista
Authors: Bonano Mariana
Published: November 2019

El presente artículo aspira a indagar en los proyectos de escritores constituidos en torno de tres publicaciones p eriódicas de la década de 1960 en Argentina, Zona de la poesía americana, El Barrilete y Hoy en la cultura, focalizando una dimensión común a todos ellos: el planteo programático de redefinición del trabajo poético, o bien del «problema de la referencialidad en la escritura» (Porrúa, 1992), en pos de la búsqueda de una forma nueva de hablar sobre el referente y desde una colocación contraria a la de las estéticas de vanguardia. Intenta inquirir en esta cuestión mediante el análisisy puesta en diálogo de textos programáticos, ensayos acerca de la teoría del arte, indagaciones sobre la relación entre el poeta y el poema, recogidos en las páginas de las tres revistas. Esta labor posibilitará en particular indagar en la vinculación que Zona..., El Barrilete y Hoy en la cultura establecen con la estética del surrealismo francés y con algunos de sus cultores más conspicuos.
Producción audiovisual, políticas culturales y de la memoria: Las políticas culturales en la industria cine- matográfica: la producción y exhibición de cine documental en Argentina (2001–2015)
Authors: Carril Alejandra Cecilia
Published: November 2019

El presente trabajo pretende dar cuenta de la política cultural impulsada en nuestro país a principios del XXI en relación a la industria cinematográfica. Interesa indagar un ámbito generalmente menospreciado en el presupuesto estatal, o al menos no tenido en cuenta al mismo nivel que la producción, circulación y difusión del cine de ficción: el campo del cine documental. Se trata de un campo que cobra relevancia en Argentina a partir de 2001, cuando a la producción de algunos realizadores que se venía desarrollando en la transición democrática, se suma la de numerosos colectivos de realizadores en la coyuntura de crisis política, social y económica que se gesta con el recrudecimiento del neo- liberalismo y en el marco de cambios estructurales en elcampo de la tecnología que dan lugar a nuevas formas de producción y distribución del material audiovisual. Las acciones político-militantes de las asociaciones representativas del sector -la mayoría constituidas entre fines de los ’90 y principios de los 2000- se traducirán en el período abordado en un reconocimiento y trato especial por parte del Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales para la producción documental, generándose una estrategia de promoción y subvención. En primer lugar se recorren algunas particularidades de la industria cinematográfica argentina, para explicar la alta concentración económica y geográfica que la caracteriza y la imperiosa necesidad de apoyo estatal para sostener la actividad cinematográfica en el tiempo. En segundo lugar se indaga en las políticas sostenidas en las últimas décadas desde el Estado argentino en el sector cinematográfico, que han marcado un desfasaje entre la producción y la comercialización. En tercer lugar se analizan los cambios producidos en la industria cinematográfica argentina y latinoamericana a partir de 2008 con el avance de la digitalización, que si bien representa en lo inmediato una mejora en las condicionesde exhibición, tiene a mediano y largo plazo consecuencias que acentúan la concentración oligopólica. En cuarto lugar se aborda el campo de la producción de cine documental, dando cuenta de las formas de trabajo y los circuitos de exhibición de los grupos de realizadores, que se consolidan en el marco de la crisis argentina de 2001 y los cambios que supone la tecnología digital. En quinto lugar se examinan los avances logrados en el período en función de las demandas de las asociaciones de documentalistas a través del Plan de Fomento del Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales, asícomo las cuentas pendientes sobre todo en materia de distribución y exhibición de cine documental.
The Hybrid Case Study of "Adam": Perspectives from Behavioral Activation and the Influence of Heteronormativity on LGB-Affirmative Therapy
Authors: Martell Christopher R.
Published: November 2019

In the hybrid case of "Adam," Mandel (2014) has provided an example of a comprehensive cognitive-behavioral treatment for a depressed, gay, man who is in the process of coming out and disclosing his sexual identity.  Affirmative therapies, however, are practiced within a broader context of a culture that presumes that heterosexuality is the norm by which sexual minorities are compared.  This commentary suggests an alternative approach to the comprehensive CBT approach, with a briefer behavioral activation treatment possibility.  Also, areas wherein a well-meaning, knowledgeable and skilled therapist still made possible missteps because of the influence of the overall heteronormative culture are discussed.
Social Cognitive Domain Coordination in Left-Behind Children: A Comparative Study of Left-Behind and Non-Left-Behind Children in Rural China
Authors: Liu Jianjin
Published: November 2019

Forty-seven left-behind children (LB) and 40 non-left-behind children (NL) in rural China were interviewed to evaluate moral, conventional, and personal violations by providing judgments and justifications. The results suggested that both LBs and NLs differentiate the rules of moral, conventional and personal domains. However, there are some differences: 1. The NL considered it acceptable to commit a personal infraction when there was no rue prohibiting it, while the LB considered it wrong; 2. The younger male LBs were more willing to accept situations without moral psychological rules, compared with younger female LBs, older male LBs, and younger male NLs. Age, sex differences were also found. The one out of our expectation is that younger males considered it more acceptable to commit a personal infraction than older males did and believed it all right if there was no explicit rule on it. Meanwhile, in providing reasons to support their judgments or evaluations, the findings revealed that: 1. More often LBs referred to social conventional reasoning even when evaluating moral and personal rules and violations, especially on personal issues; 2. LBs used more justifications of punishment and fewer justifications of personal growth. The implications of the results of the study for children’s moral development and education, especially for LBs, are discussed.
Schreiben als Nebentätigkeit eines Bibliothekars - mehr Lust als Last!
Authors: Sühl-Strohmenger Wilfried
Published: November 2019

Warum Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare zu fachlichen und beruflichen Themen schreiben und publizieren sollten, leuchtet nicht von vornherein ein, könnte auch als unnötige und zusätzliche Belastung neben den ohnehin wachsenden Anforderungen des täglichen Geschäfts gesehen werden. Eine solche Sichtweise würde jedoch der Bedeutung des Schreibens im und neben dem Beruf nicht annähernd gerecht, da Schreiben stets auch Metakognitionen hervorbringt, also ein kritisches Nachdenken über das eigene Denken und Handeln im bibliothekarischen Kontext. Sodann fördert das Schreiben die Klärung komplexer Zusammenhänge in der eigenen Bibliothek oder dem Bibliothekswesen generell, es trägt erheblich zu einer lebhaften internen und externen Kommunikation bei und vermittelt Impulse und Anregungen, die Neues hervorbringen können. In dem folgenden Beitrag schildert der Autor seine eigenen vielfältigen Schreiberfahrungen auf verschiedenen Ebenen und im Rahmen unterschiedlicher Genres - der Hauszeitschrift, dem Verbandsorgan, dem Fachartikel, dem Fachbuch und dem Sammelwerk.
Der Bibliothekar als Autor
Authors: Hauke Petra
Published: November 2019

Der Beitrag benennt aus der persönlichen Perspektive und eigenen Erfahrungen der Autorin Beweggründe dafür, warum es wichtig sein kann, dass sich bibliothekarisches Engagement über die klassischen bibliothekarischen Tätigkeiten hinaus auch in eigener Publikationstätigkeit niederschlägt.
„Hands-on“ und „connecting tissue“ - Wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken und Digitalisierung in den USA
Authors: Droß Patrick J. , Höhne Silvia , Naujoks Julian
Published: November 2019

Wie kann der digitale Wandel in wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken personell, organisatorisch und serviceorientiert gestaltet werden? Welche Auswirkungen hat die Digitalisierung für das professionelle Selbstverständnis? Drei Mitarbeiter*innen des Wissenschaftszentrums Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) haben renommierte Einrichtungen des US-amerikanischen Wissenschaftssystems in New York City und Boston besucht und Trends, Probleme und Erfahrungen erkundet.
Fachinformationsdienst Buch-, Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft - ein Werkstattbericht
Authors: Gierke Bettina , Mangei Johannes , Merz Dorian , Simon Sandra
Published: November 2019

Nach einem kurzen Rückblick auf die Vorgeschichte des Fachinformationsdienstes Buch-, Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft (FID BBI) sowie einer Skizze zum Stand der Fachinformationsdienste im Allgemeinen bietet der vorliegende Bericht aus der Werkstatt des FID BBI vor allem Aussagen zu den Erwerbungskriterien des Dienstes und Informationen zu dem kürzlich freigeschalteten Portal. Die Angaben sollen dem Austausch mit der bibliothekarischen und fachlichen Community dienen und schließen daher auch offene Fragen und noch unerreichte Meilensteine ein.
100 Jahre ZBW - Entwicklungsetappen einer wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek
Authors: Flieger Elisabeth
Published: November 2019

Am 1. Februar 2019 feierte die ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft ihren 100. Geburtstag und blickte zurück auf einhundert Jahre Bibliothekshistorie. 1919 gestartet als kleine Institutsbibliothek mit acht Angestellten als Abteilung des Instituts für Weltwirtschaft, ist die ZBW heute eine selbstständige Stiftung des öffentlichen Rechts und Mitglied der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft mit rund 300 Beschäftigten, einer Forschungsabteilung und Kooperationspartnern aus aller Welt.
The Role of Optimism and Pessimism in the Substitution Between Primary and Secondary Health Prevention Efforts
Authors: Chauvin Pauline , Chopard Bertrand , Tabo Augustin
Published: November 2019

We study how apparently healthy individuals arbitrate between primary and secondary health prevention under ambiguity. In our model, each individual simultaneously chooses the level of effort for the two types of prevention. Ambiguity relates to either the probability of disease occurrence or the effectiveness of secondary prevention. We find that pessimistic individuals invest more in primary prevention and less in secondary prevention when the effectiveness of secondary prevention is ambiguous. Conversely, pessimistic individuals invest more in secondary prevention and less in primary prevention when the probability of disease occurrence is ambiguous. When the effectiveness of secondary prevention is ambiguous, optimistic individuals invest more in secondary than primary prevention. We find also a substitution effect between the two types of prevention. The latter generates indirect effects of pessimism and optimism on each type of prevention which may reverse our results when they outweigh the direct effects.
Knowledge Obsolescence and Women’s Occupational Sorting: New Evidence from Citation Data
Authors: McFarland Amanda , Pearlman Sarah
Published: November 2019

Occupational sorting now is one of the main drivers of the gender wage gap. Differential rates of human capital depreciation, or knowledge obsolescence, have been put forward as one potential explanation. This paper provides new evidence on this relationship using a dataset on academic citations constructed by the authors. The dataset covers numerous fields and decades, making it a more recent and comprehensive measure of human capital depreciation. Using data on occupations from the ACS we find that higher rates of knowledge obsolescence are associated with reductions in women’s presence in a field. We also find that knowledge obsolescence reduces female presence in college majors at the undergraduate level.
From subjectivity to subjunctivity in children’s performatives: Peirce’s endoporeutic principle
Authors: West Donna E.
Published: November 2019

Peirce’s treatment of index as seme, pheme, and delome supplies convincing explanatory support for gestural performatives. His semiotics evidences how non-symbolic signs can present, urge, and submit propositions, absent more conventional signs. Peirce uses index as a powerful agent to establish and highlight the implicit intentions pregnant within communicative acts, especially obviated in the interpretants which unfold in intra- and intersubjective exchanges. This inquiry explores the ontogeny of children’s prelinguistic gestures and posits, as does Austin, that these acts alone qualify as performatives given their communicative purpose. These indexical gestures are so foundational to proposition-making that they imply predicates and ultimately scaffold the construction of arguments. In fact, the propositions and arguments that index (shapes implicitly or explicitly) facilitate social ends as articulated in Peirce’s endoporeutic principle. This endoporeutic principle materializes when sign producers influence interpreters, urging them to adopt or recommending that they adopt proposed propositions/arguments housed in gestural sequences (performatives). What these early performative gestures ultimately exemplify is a social, subjunctive effect. This incorporates the Peircean principle of “submitting,” not compelling (to the mind of another for adoption), potential habits of mind.
Au/TiO2 catalysts prepared by borohydride reduction for preferential CO oxidation at near-ambient temperature
Authors: Leal Georgia Barbalho , da Silva Daniela C. Loureiro , Watacabe Beatriz Naomy , Ciotti Ligia , Antoniassi Rodolfo M. , Giudici Reinaldo , Linardi Marcelo , Vaz Jorge Moreira , Spinacé Estevam V.
Published: November 2019

Au nanoparticles were prepared in solution using HAuCl4.3H2O as Au precursor, sodium citrate as stabilizing agent and sodium borohydride as reducing agent. The influence of synthesis parameters such as BH4:Au and Citrate:Au ratios were studied. In a further step, the stabilized Au nanoparticles were supported on TiO2 with different Au loadings (wt%). The resulting Au/TiO2 catalysts were characterized by Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and Transmission Electron Microscopy and tested for the preferential oxidation of carbon monoxide in hydrogen-rich stream. Au nanoparticles stabilized in solution were obtained with sizes in the range of 3-4 nm. After supported on TiO2, the Au nanoparticles size did not change and the Au/TiO2 catalysts exhibited excellent performance and stability in the temperature range of 20 - 50°C.
Mechanical and Electrochemical Characterization of Supersolidus Sintered Austenitic Stainless Steel (316 L)
Authors: Kandala S. Ramakrishna , Balani Kantesh , Upadhyaya Anish
Published: November 2019

The present study compares the mechanical properties and electrochemical behaviour of austenitic (AISI 316 L) stainless steel compacted at different pressures (200, 400 and 600 MPa), which are conventionally sintered at supersolidus temperature of 1,400°C. As expected, increase in compaction pressure (from 200 MPa) to 600 MPa has shown decreased shrinkage (from 7.3% to 4.2% radial and 5.5% to 3.4% axial, respectively) and increased densification (up to ~92%). Their electrochemical behaviour was investigated in 0.1 N H2SO4 solution by potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The mechanical properties (such as yield-, tensile- and transverse rupture strength) and electrochemical behaviour with pressure have been correlated with densification response and microstructure (pore type, volume and morphology). Highest densification (~92% theoretical) achieved at 600 MPa (compaction pressure) and 1,400°C (sintering temperature) resulted in excellent combination of tensile strength and ductility (456 ± 40 MPa and 25 ± 1.1% respectively), while showing lowest corrosion rate (0.1 mmpy or 4.7 mpy) due to the presence of isolated porosity in the sintered samples.
Friends or Foes of Transformation? Economic Elites in Post-Soviet Ukraine – an Introduction
Authors: Huss Oksana , Petrenko Olena
Published: November 2019

Economic elite is a crucial concept to the understanding of turbulent transformation processes in contemporary Ukraine. In this volume we follow central questions on the interface between research into elites and into transformation: What is the role of economic elites in regime development towards democracy or authoritarianism? What strategies of influence and legitimation do they exploit in society? We pursue the question of origins and continuity of contemporary economic elites in Ukraine. In order to address these issues, we combine historical analysis with theoretical approaches of transformation studies to explore contemporary societal changes in the long-time context. At the same time, methodological pluralism and inter-disciplinarity allow the role of economic elites from both actor-centred and structural perspectives to be addressed. The common assumption among articles is that economic elites in contemporary Ukraine, mainly represented by oligarchs, are characterised by high continuity despite repeated revolutionary upheavals in the country. This continuity is sustained by the close integration of economic and political elites, as well as by the flexible strategies of exerting influence and adapting their self-representation. In the historic context, the sustainability of contemporary economic elites in Ukraine is rather an exception, since the events of the 20th century were highly disruptive for the elite networks.
Sustaining Business-State Symbiosis in Times of Political Turmoil: the Case of Ukraine 2007-2018
Authors: Kostiuchenko Tetiana , Melnykovska Inna
Published: November 2019

How was the business-state symbiosis in Ukraine sustained throughout the political turbulences of the Orange Revolution and the Revolution of Dignity? Using the method of social network analysis (SNA), we demonstrate how the political – formal and informal – ties of Ukrainian big business to the different branches of state power evolved and what models of state-business relations developed during each presidency. The analysis covers the period of 2007-2018 and focuses on the comparison of the relational structures between political and business elites in Ukraine over a decade. We trace the visibility of various business cliques within political institutions during the last 10 years, and track changes in business-state relations through influential persons, positions, groups and network structures.
Handlungsspielräume in der Befehlswirtschaft – Die Hüttenwerke in der Ukraine unter deutscher Besatzung
Authors: Wixforth Harald
Published: November 2019

With the occupation of the western parts of the Soviet Union and the political und administrative reorganization of ministries in Berlin, a keen debate started on how to expropriate the new part of the “German Empire”. Especially the reconstruction and the exploitation of heavy industry in the Ukraine and its iron and steel works became subject to intensive dispute between several ministries in Berlin, local authorities in the Ukraine and the Reichswerke Hermann Göring, the most important of state-commanded heavy industries. However, in time the Reichwerke – and its decisive director Paul Pleiger – had to admit that the business figures required by the Berlin ministries could not be achieved. This opened up the opportunity for private enterprise to expand und invest in the Ukraine too. The different measures chosen to build up business in the Ukraine und the results of this expansion are the subject of the following article.
Connecting L1 and L2 acquisition: From the perspective of macro and micro narrative structure
Authors: Minami Masahiko
Published: November 2019

The studies presented in this paper connect the story-related quality and the language-related quality of narrative discourse. The term “coherence” refers to whether or not a text makes sense at a global level, whereas “cohesion” describes the linguistic relationships among clauses in a narrative, such as how the surface linguistic elements of a text are linked to one another at a local level. Using a content-based narrative analysis, a trilogy – a set of three independent but interrelated studies – introduced in this paper quantitatively analyze oral personal narratives through three lenses. As examples of devices for cohesion, the paper qualitatively examines the use of two linguistic devices, tense (past and non-past) and voice (active and passive), and tries to show how narrators deploy organizational strategies in the use of these linguistic forms. The paper (1) examines varied topics in different narrative contexts (genre, topic, oral or written), (2) reveals how both coherence and cohesion serve as the twin engines of narrative, and (3) emphasizes the significance of paying attention not only to the narrative content/structure but also to the appropriate use of linguistic devices so that we can fully grasp language-specific ways of expressing affective elements in narrative.
Correspondence between Topological and Discrete Connectivities in Hausdorff Discretization
Authors: Ronse Christian , Mazo Loic , Tajine Mohamed
Published: November 2019

We consider Hausdorff discretization from a metric space E to a discrete subspace D, which associates to a closed subset F of E any subset S of D minimizing the Hausdorff distance between F and S; this minimum distance, called the Hausdorff radius of F and written rH
(F), is bounded by the resolution of D. We call a closed set F separated if it can be partitioned into two non-empty closed subsets F
1 and F
2 whose mutual distances have a strictly positive lower bound. Assuming some minimal topological properties of E and D (satisfied in ℝ
n
and ℤ
n
), we show that given a non-separated closed subset F of E, for any r > rH
(F), every Hausdorff discretization of F is connected for the graph with edges linking pairs of points of D at distance at most 2r. When F is connected, this holds for r = rH
(F), and its greatest Hausdorff discretization belongs to the partial connection generated by the traces on D of the balls of radius rH
(F). However, when the closed set F is separated, the Hausdorff discretizations are disconnected whenever the resolution of D is small enough. In the particular case where E = ℝ
n
and D = ℤ
n
with norm-based distances, we generalize our previous results for n = 2. For a norm invariant under changes of signs of coordinates, the greatest Hausdorff discretization of a connected closed set is axially connected. For the so-called coordinate-homogeneous norms, which include the Lp
norms, we give an adjacency graph for which all Hausdorff discretizations of a connected closed set are connected.
Implementierung und Folgen elektronischer Überwachung
Authors: Wößner Gunda , Meuer Katharina
Published: November 2019

Vom 01. Oktober 2010 bis 30. März 2012 wurde in Baden-Württemberg der Einsatz der elektronischen Aufsicht im Vollzug der Freiheitsstrafe im Rahmen eines experimentell angelegten Modellprojekts erprobt. Das Gesetz über die elektronische Aufsicht im Vollzug der Freiheitsstrafe (EAStVollzG) in Baden-Württemberg ermöglichte die Anwendung der elektronischen Überwachung mittels GPS in den drei Anwendungsbereichen elektronisch überwachter Hausarrest als Entlassungsvorbereitung, elektronisch überwachte Vollzugslockerungen (Freigang) und elektronisch überwachter Hausarrest im Rahmen von Ersatzfreiheitsstrafen. Mit Abschluss der Begleitforschung werden im vorliegenden Aufsatz die Ergebnisse dieser experimentell angelegten Studie vorgestellt. Zunächst werden die Ergebnisse zur Implementation und Wirkungsevaluation des Modellprojekts dargestellt. Schließlich werden die Resultate der Rückfallanalyse nach Beendigung der Maßnahme theoretisch und empirisch aufbereitet und präsentiert.
Policing Violence against Women: The Indian Scenario
Authors: Mitra Arpita
Published: November 2019

Policing by police is an errand difficult to be met with the rise in atrocities against the peripherals with regard to women, children, aged and minorities. Countries showing different crime statistics on violence against women cannot be spared of explanations. Whether the incidences of violence against women is showing any change is a question of concern especially taking into consideration the dark figure of crime. The present study is an attempt to analyze violence against women in India and evaluate the measures undertaken by the police in India to combat the menace in recent times.
Das Gefängnis – (k)ein Ort zum Sterben?
Authors: Bereswill Mechthild , Neuber Anke
Published: November 2019

Im Mittelpunkt des Aufsatzes stehen die Ergebnisse einer qualitativen Pilotstudie zur Bedeutung von Tod und Sterben im Gefängnis aus der Perspektive von Professionellen der Strafvollzugsarbeit. Es wird deutlich, dass der Strafvollzug zukünftig vermehrt mit dem natürlichen Tod von Inhaftierten konfrontiert sein wird. Dies spitzt sich zudem für die Sicherungsverwahrung weiter zu. Vor diesem Hintergrund zeigen die analysierten Experteninterviews spezifische Spannungsverhältnisse zwischen dem gesellschaftlich etablierten Ideal des guten Sterbens und den restriktiven Bedingungen des Strafvollzugs und der Sicherungsverwahrung. Dabei suchen alle nach Lösungen und Wegen im Interesse der Selbstbestimmung von Inhaftierten und problematisieren zugleich die Grenzen der Institution.
Mechanical characterizations of braided composite stents made of helical polyethylene terephthalate strips and NiTi wires
Authors: Zheng Qingli , Dong Pengfei , Li Zhiqiang , Han Xinwei , Zhou Changchun , An Meiwen , Gu Linxia
Published: November 2019

The novel braided composite stent (BCS), woven with both nitinol wires and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) strips, were characterized and compared with the braided nitinol stent in the same weaving pattern. Finite element models simulating the stent compression and bending were developed to quantify its radial strength and longitudinal flexibility. The interaction between the nitinol wires and the PET strips were also delineated. Results showed that the PET strips enforced more constrains on the BCS and thus enhance its radial strength especially at a larger compression load. The longitudinal flexibility of the BCS was less sensitive to the presence of the PET strips. This work suggested that the novel design of the BCS could acquire the advantage of a covered stent without compromising its mechanical performance. The fundamental understanding of the braided composite stent will facilitate a better device design.
Systemic complications of the bidirectional intraoperative chemotherapy with intravenous ifosfamide and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) using cisplatin plus doxorubicin
Authors: Hakeam Hakeam , Ayman Azzam , Waleed Al Taweel , Amen Tarek
Published: November 2019

Background

Ifosfamide has recently used as the intravenous component of bidirectional intraoperative chemotherapy (BDIC) with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) using cisplatin plus doxorubicin. Little is known about the systemic toxicities of this BDIC regimen. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the toxicities of this treatment.

Methods

A prospective, cohort study, of patients who underwent the BDIC using intravenous ifosfamide 1,300 mg/m2 and a HIPEC regimen of cisplatin 50 mg/m2 plus doxorubicin 15 mg/m2, at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Incidences and severity of leukopenia, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, and erythrocytopenia were assessed over 45 days after BDIC. Nephrotoxicity was assessed according to the RIFLE (Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss of kidney function, and End-stage kidney disease) classification system. Haemorrhagic cystitis was assessed by cystoscopy.

Results

A total of 18 patients were enrolled in the study. Grade 1 leukopenia developed in 11.1% of the patients, with 5.5% developed neutropenia. Thrombocytopenia developed in 61.1% of patients; it was grade 1 or 2 in most patients, but grade 3 in 1 (5.5%) patient. All patients developed erythrocytopenia after BDIC. Leukopenia, neutropenia, and thrombocytopenia resolved without treatment in all patients. Nephrotoxicity developed in 33.3% of the patients. One patient progressed to the End-stage kidney disease classification. No patient developed haemorrhagic cystitis.

Conclusions

Intravenous ifosfamide combined with HIPEC using cisplatin plus doxorubicin yielded low rates of mild leukopenia. Mild thrombocytopenia was frequent, but severe suppression of platelets was uncommon. Nephrotoxicity developed in one-third of the patients, and haemorrhagic cystitis was absent.
Die Berliner Lederhandschrift
Authors: Graefe Erhart
Published: November 2019

The three lines I, 17–19 of Berlin P3029 are reconsidered, e. g. the value and meaning of two groups of hieratic signs whose interpretation to date is controversial. Furthermore, it is argued that this text of Middle Kingdom origin does not give any precise hint which kind of monument (ḥw.t) Sesostris I wanted to build in Heliopolis besides a canal or lake.
Supply–Demand Prediction for Agile Manufacturing with Deep Neural Network
Authors: Wen Rong , Yan Wenjing
Published: November 2019

Agile manufacturing represents modern production systems that rapidly respond to a fast-moving marketplace and connect customers to production. The success of an agile manufacturing system relies on multisource data analytics, which provide smart data-driven decision-making strategies to guide manufacturing and the supply chain system. In order to implement rapid manufacturing processes to respond to customer orders, supply–demand gap prediction plays a critical role. In this article, we study the problem of predicting supply–demand gap with respect to product types, categories, and spatiotemporal attributes. To this end, we propose and develop an end-to-end framework using an extendable deep neural network architecture for supply–demand gap reduction. The framework can process multiple customized input factors and automatically discover spatiotemporal supply–demand patterns from historical transaction data. A set of customized features are employed to build a general training model to predict future demand. Embedding layers are used to map high dimensional features into a smaller subspace for input data consolidation. Fully connected layers with activation functions are used to build the training architecture of the model. Customized data attributes can be concatenated from different layers in the deep learning neural network. In this way, multisource input data can be integrated with outputs of internal layers for a comprehensive demand prediction. Experiments were conducted to evaluate the network with real supply and demand data, which were acquired from warehouses of a manufacturing company. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed network was able to reduce supply–demand gap and provide a practical solution to long-term customer demand prediction.
De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de ‘Oriente Medio’: el aporte de la perspectiva agonística para la deconstrucción de narrativas orientalistas
Authors: PRADO Carla
Published: November 2019

Cuarenta años tras su publicación (1978), Orientalismo sigue siendo considerada la obra maestra de Edward Said, así como una valiosa contribución para la reflexión sobre la construcción del “Otro” y el impacto de dicha construcción en la representación del espacio cultural e imaginado que se entiende como “Oriente Medio”. Este concepto es, según el autor, un producto de la colonización occidental profundamente cargado de connotaciones socioeconómicas y políticas. En los últimos veinte años, la narrativa dominante sobre Oriente Medio ha estado marcada por una mezcla de narrativas asociadas al fanatismo religioso y al relativismo cultural (especialmente en respeto a los Derechos Humanos), en la cual conceptos como el “embate de civilizaciones” o la presunta lucha por “acompañar” el progreso occidental han ganado mayor preeminencia. En este artículo debatiremos estas narrativas desde un punto de vista agonístico. Teniendo en cuenta su aportación a la reflexión sobre estructuras de poder y prácticas discursivas, intentaremos aplicar la teoría agonística para deconstruir narrativas referentes a Oriente Medio, enfocándonos particularmente en el período después del 11 de septiembre de 2001 y centrándonos en los agentes y modos de producción de discurso, especialmente dentro del escenario político; en seguida, explicaremos cómo la teoría agonística intenta combatir y cambiar las tendencias discursivas presentes en la (re)construcción identitaria estadunidense en relación a los países de Oriente Medio durante la llamada “Guerra al Terror”.
La influencia del poscolonialismo en el estudio de Israel/Palestina: de la perspectiva anticolonial al marco decolonial, pasando por el colonialismo de asentamiento
Authors: DOMÍNGUEZ DE OLAZÁBAL Itxaso
Published: November 2019

Aunque la presentación del denominado “conflicto palestino-israelí” o “árabe-israelí” como consecuencia del fenómeno sionista como una ideología colonialista se remonta a principios del siglo XX, con una mayor relevancia y profundidad intelectual en los años 1960-1970 gracias en particular al apoyo de estudios al respecto por parte de la Organización para la Liberación de Palestina, no es menos cierto que estos últimos años el estudio del conflicto ha sido testigo de un resurgimiento del marco conceptual del colonialismo. Este resurgimiento se inscribe dentro de la cada vez más concienzuda aplicación del marco de los estudios postcoloniales tanto en las relaciones internacionales en general como en Oriente Próximo en particular, para lo cual las aportaciones de Edward Said representaron un punto de inflexión clave, y muy particularmente dentro de una nueva subdisciplina como es la teoría del colonialismo de asentamientos. La utilización de este último marco epistemológico arroja sin embargo luz sobre varias de las diferencias en el estudio de la situación en la Palestina histórica a lo largo de las últimas décadas, como son la relevancia del elemento etnonacional, el peso cada vez mayor de los estudios indígenas y la importancia de las redes transnacionales y la interseccionalidad, además de un peso cada vez mayor de la perspectiva decolonial.
The official discourse of the Moroccan authorities and their allies in the greening of their public policies: modernisation of authoritarianism, international insertion and the fight against climate change
Authors: HEFFERNAN Andrew
Published: November 2019

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is one that is largely characterized by authoritarianregimes. Much traditional scholarship writes many of these regimes off as anti democratic, and hencenegate the possibility to work meaningfully and effectively with these regimes toward important globalgoals. By engaging in a post-democratic approach this paper looks beyond what Morocco is lacking inthe way of democratic principles and norms and instead focuses on the beneficial action it is taking tofight climate change domestically, and ultimately work with the international community to contributeto global climate goals. This paper explores the many initiatives the Moroccan regime is undertaking atits own behest, while exploring the key actors in these activities as well as the main impetus for doingso. Ultimately it builds data toward conclusions that although the Moroccan regime is doing this is largepart to further solidify and legitimize its own power, it is simultaneously taking important actions thatare beneficial to its own people as well as the rest of the world. In this sense the authoritarian Moroccanregime is combating climate change, as a means to maintain and bolster its own grip on power in theregion.