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Shifting embodied perspectives in dance teaching
Authors: Roche Jenny
Published: January 2017

Drawing on somatics, phenomenology, psychology, personal teaching strategies and feedback from dance students, this article discusses crossing the objectifying divide between first-person and third-person perspectives of embodiment in dance teaching. Traditionally, western dance training encodes a Cartesian object body, which can potentially confine dancers within an interior landscape that may be multifaceted and complex but not easily integrated or verbally articulated. This can be an objectifying experience for both student and teacher, and counterproductive within a third level education environment where students need to engage critically with new ideas and develop autonomous outlooks in order to be prepared for professional practice. Writing as a dance lecturer on a Bachelor of Fine Arts dance programme with a professional training focus, I chart some of my experiences of teaching, outlining the circumstances that have enabled the objectifying processes to soften and more open engagement with students to unfold.
Sensorial document: An embodied practice in dance and philosophy from collaboration in After Kaprow: The Silent Room by Rosemary Butcher (2012)
Authors: Mira Ana
Published: January 2017

The article ‘Sensorial document: An embodied practice in dance and philosophy from collaboration in After Kaprow: The Silent Room by Rosemary Butcher (2012)’, consists of an approach to a dance and philosophy practice, through the lens of analysis of Gil’s philosophy, and aims at reflecting upon the notion of danced gesture and its formation through a change of scale from a macroscopic to a microscopic level of the corporeal phenomena. The embodied practice in dance and philosophy exposed in this article features a translation of sensations and images of dance experience into verbal language – sensorial document – followed by a philosophical analysis of the procedures that led to the formation of danced gesture and its transcription. This research was developed from dance collaboration with choreographer and visual artist Rosemary Butcher, in the context of the piece After Kaprow: The Silent Room (2012).
Embodied values and ethical principles in somatic dance classes: Considering implicit motor learning
Authors: Barbour Karen
Published: January 2017

Articulating the embodied ways of knowing integral to living in the world, as a dancer, has been a long-term commitment in my own research and practice as both an artist and an educator. Consideration of how somatic practices might be integrated into the institutional structures and knowledge in higher education has led me to investigate underlying values in somatic dance and related movement pedagogies. I have been interested to extend discussion about what is valued in somatic dance education, what movement we choose to teach and for what purposes in higher education, and how we might teach movement ethically and inclusively. An initial discussion about embodied somatic values and ethical principles frames description of somatic dance classes. I then ‘massage’ particular ‘tensions’ between different pedagogical approaches including facilitated experiential, discovery-based somatic processes and motor skill learning, to offer some reflections on embodied values and ethical principles for somatic dance.
Subverting authority in illustrations of Dante’s Commedia
Authors: Collins Matthew
Published: January 2017

In this article, illustrations of Dante’s Commedia are viewed from the particular angle of textual subversion, which increased in degree over time. After beginning with a consideration of Dante’s own subversive habits in the context of the medieval literary world in order to highlight the fact that illustrators who visually undermined the letter of the text were in ironic harmony with the spirit of this work, the article turns to instances of late medieval and early modern illuminators and illustrators who, in these earlier stages, more subtly punctured the authoritative status which Dante’s text obtained almost immediately following its completion. The article moves on to show that by Dante’s renaissance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries illustrators felt far freer to blatantly meld their own imaginations with that of the original author, and by the mid-twentieth century, certain Commedia illustrations subjected text to image in varying ways.
Book Reviews
Authors: Vasek Cheri , Lynch Julie , Bartlett Djurdja
Published: January 2017

Fashioning Bollywood: The Making and Meaning of Hindi Film Costume, Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber (2014) London, New Delhi, New York and Sydney: Bloomsbury, 212 pp., 978-1-847-88697-2, p/bk

Shakespeare and Costume, Patricia Lennox and Bella Mirabella (2015) London and New York: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury Publishing, 291 pp., ISBN: 978-1-472-52507-9, h/bk

Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-garde, Juliet Bellow (2013) Surrey and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 280 pp., 67 b&w and 18 colour illustrations, ISBN: 978-1-409-40911-3, h/bk, ISBN: 978-1-138-24736-9, p/bk
Big possibility: Moscow, and musical theatre’s subjunctive dramaturgy
Authors: Dorsey Zachary A.
Published: January 2017

Grammatically speaking, many, many key songs and moments in musical theatre rely on the subjunctive, a grammatical mood that is used variously to express openness, hopefulness, wishfulness and possibility, as well as doubts, opinions, judgements and fears. Tevye’s ‘If I Were a Rich Man’ from Fiddler on the Roof is such a prime example of the subjunctive that it is often invoked in grammar guides and textbooks that seek to teach the proper use of this mood. This article explores the phenomenon that I describe as ‘subjunctive dramaturgy’ – the way that the spirit of the subjunctive mood underpins and crackles through the musical genre. I argue that particularly when amplified by speech, song and dance, the subjunctive mood helps to join character, actor and audience in a shared affective experience. One big intervention that subjunctive dramaturgy makes is that it encourages practitioners, audiences and musical theatre scholars to look beyond always pursuing temporal enquiries, such as with the musical’s often investigated nostalgic impulses or utopic drives. The subjunctive sits adjacent to time, and its study reveals the large meaning-making possibility and untapped potential in understanding the expansive, contradictory, messy and multi-directional nature and energies of the musical form. In this article, I analyse subjunctive moments from a number of classic American musicals, and I examine as case study Nick Salamone and Maury R. McIntyre’s Moscow, a seldom-produced musical from 1998 that I contend both reveals and teaches to its audience the merits of seeing and singing the subjunctive.
Book Reviews
Authors: Everett William A. , Karantonis Pamela , Laird Paul
Published: January 2017

SAVOY CURTAIN-RAISERS (MUSICA BRITANICA XCIX), CHRISTOPHER O’BRIEN (ED.) (2015) London: Stainer and Bell, 204 pp., ISBN: 978 0 85249 943 6, h/bk, £100

POSTOPERA: REINVENTING THE VOICE-BODY, JELENA NOVAK (2015) London: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera, 173 pp., ISBN: 9781472441034, h/bk, £60

AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATER, JAMES LEVE (2016) New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 426 pp., ISBN: 9780195379600, p/bk, $59.95
The Futures of Portugal in and beyond Europe
Authors: Vasconcelos Álvaro de
Published: January 2017

https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-6336_15-1_1
Sensory analysis and postharvest of potted gerbera based on fertilization
Authors: Santos Francielly Torres , Costa Luiz Antonio de Mendonça , Costa Mônica Sarolli Silva de Mendonça
Published: January 2017

The cultivation of gerberas as cut flowers has been broadly studied. With the purpose of assess the production and visual quality of potted gerberas conducted with different fertilizations, the experiment was performed in a greenhouse located at UNIOESTE – Campus of Cascavel – Parana - Brazil. The experimental design was done in randomized blocks with four repetitions and five treatments. The treatments were defined based on the fertilization source: mineral (NPK) or organic. The organic fertilizations were obtained with the dilution of four organic composts derived from the composting process of agro-industrial wastes in water. The agro-industrial waste, used in different percentages in each treatment, were: grains pre-cleaning residues (corn meal and wheat husk); hatchery waste; flotation sludge; cellulose casing (sausage covering); solid fraction of pig slurry (Piglet Producer Unit) and truck washing; coal and ash remaining from boiler; poultry litter and sugarcane bagasse. The growth parameters were evaluated at the commercialization phase (plant height and diameter, stem height, capitulum number, and capitulum and stem diameter) and sensory analysis through trait and preference assessment tests. The use of liquid organic fertilizers are a feasible alternative to substitute conventional mineral fertilization. Farmers should observe EC values and K, Ca, Mg ratio for better quality assurance according to the results obtained in T5 . The T5 (Boiler remaining ash + Hatchery residue) has a larger amount of boiler remaining ash, whereas the chemical elements in mineral form are already readily available to the plants, this fact may have contributed to better visual development of plants grown in this treatment.
The Tangible Map Exhibit
Authors: Dooley Matt , Coolidge Jake , Rose Caroline
Published: January 2017

The Tangible Map Exhibit highlighted the importance of tangible, physical works in modern cartography and celebrated visually stunning, artistic maps created by contemporary makers. The exhibit was a part of the Map Gallery at the 2015 NACIS Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which was open to the public for the first time ever. It featured over fifteen works created by more than a dozen cartographers across North America and beyond.
Plastometric tests for plasticine as physical
modelling material
Authors: Wójcik Łukasz , Lis Konrad , Pater Zbigniew
Published: January 2017

This paper presents results of plastometric tests
for plasticine, used as material for physical modelling
of metal forming processes. The test was conducted by
means of compressing by flat dies of cylindrical billets at
various temperatures. The aim of the conducted research
was comparison of yield stresses and course of material
flow curves. Tests were made for plasticine in black and
white colour. On the basis of the obtained experimental results,
the influence of forming parameters change on flow
curves course was determined. Sensitivity of yield stresses
change in function of material deformation, caused by
forging temperature change within the scope of 0&C ÷ 20&C
and differentiation of strain rate for ˙ɛ = 0.563; ˙ɛ = 0.0563; ˙ɛ
= 0.0056s−1,was evaluated. Experimental curves obtained
in compression test were described by constitutive equations.
On the basis of the obtained results the function
which most favourably describes flow curves was chosen.
Creating Visual Work Instructions to Ensure Safe
and Fluent Operation of the Semi-automatic
Production Lines
Authors: Beluško Matúš , Hegedüš Matúš , Fedorko Gabriel
Published: January 2017

The process of robotics in the world, but also in
Slovakia is constantly increasing, and although new types
of robots are being developed, the human hand of those
work stations cannot be removed completely. Despite the
already developed and functioning collaborative robots
that allow safe operations side by side with humans, it is
necessary for a worker to known accurate, fast and safe
procedure of his working activities. Visual work instructions
(VWI) are made for this purpose. The worker must
be able to quickly understand the principle of work procedure
and get quick information about potential risks in
very short time. Therefore, great regard for the content of
VWI must be taken. At first glance, a simple visual work
instructions enable not only to increase safety at the workplace,
but also increase workers productivity.
Assessment of the Degree of the Divergence and Inequality of Household Income Distribution in Poland in the Years 2005–2013
Authors: Gęstwicki Filip Edmund , Wędrowska Ewa
Published: January 2017

The increase in income and wealth inequality observed in the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century is the subject of many analyses and discussions. Research shows that major changes in household incomes in Poland took place in the early years of transition (1990–1992), known as a ‘revolution in income’. The article focuses on the assessment of the degree of household income inequality after the Poland’s accession to the European Union. The most commonly used measures in income inequality studies are the measures of inequality based on the Lorenz function – a popular Gini coefficient and the Schutz ratio, measures using the concept of entropy, measures based on welfare function, or measures based on income distribution quantiles. The article proposes the possibility of broadening the measuring spectrum of income inequality analysis of the Csiszár’s divergence measures. The main research objective of the article is to assess the divergence in the distribution of household equivalent disposable income in Poland in the years 2005–2013. The data used in the analysis come from the European Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC).
Theoretical Model of Pricing Behavior on the Polish Wholesale Fuel Market
Authors: Bejger Sylwester
Published: January 2017

In this paper, we constructed a theoretical model of strategic pricing behavior of the players in a Polish wholesale fuel market. This model is consistent with the characteristics of the industry, the wholesale market, and the players. The model is based on the standard methodology of repeated games with a built-in adjustment to a focal price, which resembles the Import Parity Pricing (IPP) mechanism. From the equilibrium of the game, we conclude that the focal price policy implies a parallel pricing strategic behavior on the market.
Initial Experience with O-Arm Navigated Spinal Surgery - Report on Two Cases
Authors: Kehayov Ivo I. , Zhelyazkov Christo B. , Kalnev Borislav M. , Davarski Atanas N. , Kitov Borislav D. , Raykov Stefan D.
Published: January 2017

Image-guided spinal surgery is becoming increasingly popular because it allows surgeons to achieve minimal invasiveness and maximum precision in the performed procedures.

We present our initial experience with two cases operated on using O-arm-based spinal navigation at the Clinic of Neurosurgery in St George University Hospital, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. In the first case, we performed removal of extradural spinal tumor of the sixth thoracic vertebra and O-arm-navigated pedicle screw fixation. In the second case, we performed O-arm-navigated corpectomy of the fifth cervical vertebra and anterior spinal reconstruction and fusion with titanium expandable mesh and cervical plate in connection with degenerative narrowing of the cervical spinal canal that lead to clinically manifested myelopathy.

The initial experience allows us to conclude that O-arm-based image-guided spinal surgery can lead to considerably higher precision of spinal instrumented procedures. At the same time, it reduces the irradiation dose of the patient and surgical team.
Pathophysiological Role of Adiponectin, Leptin and Asymmetric Dimethylarginine in the Process of Atherosclerosis
Authors: Koleva Daniela Iv. , Orbetzova Maria M. , Nikolova Julia G. , Deneva Tanya I.
Published: January 2017

Adipose tissue is recognized as a rich source of proinflammatory mediators that may directly contribute to vascular injury, insulin resistance, and atherogenesis. Many studies have shown that adiponectin has antiatherogenic and anti-inflammatory properties. Adiponectin acts not only as a factor increasing insulin sensitivity, and the protective effect may result from its ability to suppress production of proinflammatory cytokines. It negatively regulates the expression of TNF-alpha and C-reactive protein (CRP) in adipose tissue; reduces expression of vascular and intracellular adhesion molecules (VCAM-1, ICAM-1), E-selectin, interleukin-8 (IL-8). Hyperleptinemia has been linked with the development of hypertension and endothelial dysfunction/atherosclerosis, two main pathophysiological conditions associated with cardiovascular disease development. Leptin-mediated increases in sympathetic nervous system activity may be among the principal mechanisms evoking obesity related hypertension. Leptin stimulates the secretion of proinflammatory cytokines, and increases the release of endothelin-1 (ET-1), which may promote hypertension. Increased serum levels of asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), a physiological regulator of the biosynthesis of nitric oxide (NO), promote the process of atherosclerosis, leading to the occurrence of endothelial dysfunction and cardiovascular disease.
Repetitive Transient Ischaemic Attacks Secondary to a Floating Carotid Artery Thrombus in a Young Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia
Authors: Bajkó Zoltán , Maier Smaranda , Moțățăianu Anca , Stoian Adina , Bărcuțean Laura , Bălașa Rodica
Published: January 2017

A free-floating carotid artery thrombus is a very rare ultrasonographical finding in patients with acute ischemic cerebrovascular events. One of the main causes of this presentation is represented by the hypercoagulability status of the patients. We report the case of a young male patient who presented with several transient ischaemic attacks secondary to a mobile thrombus in the left carotid sinus. Two hematological abnormalities, essential thrombocytosis and methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase mutation were found to be related to the thrombus formation. The role of the latter in the pathogenesis of ischemic stroke is not well documented in the literature. Following antiplatelet and anticoagulant medication, there was a fast dissolution of the thrombus, followed by a favorable clinical outcome. Neurologists should be aware that young patients with stroke require extensive imagistic and laboratory screening for an accurate etiological diagnosis.
The Relationship Between Board Characteristics and Environmental Disclosure: Evidence from Turkish Listed Companies
Authors: Akbas Halil Emre
Published: January 2017

This study primarily aims to analyze the relationship between selected board characteristics and the extent of environmental disclosure in annual reports of Turkish companies, using a sample of 62 non-financial firms listed on the BIST-100 index at the end of 2011. The content analysis is used to measure the extent of environmental disclosure. Four board characteristics, namely board size, board independence, board gender diversity and audit committee independence, are considered as the independent variables that may have an impact on the extent of the environmental disclosures of Turkish companies. According to the results of the regression analysis, only board size has a statistically significant and positive relationship with the extent of environmental disclosure. This result implies that firms with larger boards disclose more environmental information than firms with smaller boards. On the other hand, the rest of the independent variables are found to be unrelated to the extent of environmental disclosure. The low degree of independence and gender diversity on the boards of the sample companies for the time period analyzed in the study could be one possible explanation for this result.
Competitiveness, Trade with the EU and Labour Markets: Challenges for the Western Balkans
Authors: Botrić Valerija , Broz Tanja
Published: January 2017

This paper focuses on the relationship between exporting and the labour markets of the Western Balkan economies within a macroeconomic and microeconomic framework. Within the macroeconomic framework we investigate the Western Balkan countries’ evolution of the bilateral intra-industry trade share with European Monetary Union members and compare this with the differences in bilateral unit labour cost dynamics. The microeconomic analysis rests on enterprise-level cross section data collected during the crisis period and investigates whether exporters help to create additional jobs in the region in comparison to entrepreneurs oriented towards national market. The results show that trade patterns between Western Balkan economies and EMU trading partners did not exhibit any significant changes in trend. On the other hand, it seems that during the recession period most Western Balkan economies adjusted their unit labour costs, probably in order to boost competitiveness. Microeconomic analysis revealed that, although there are some positive differences between exporters and non-exporters, exporters do not create additional employment.
Macroeconomic Determinants of Economic Growth: A Review of International Literature
Authors: Chirwa Themba G. , Odhiambo Nicholas M.
Published: January 2017

The paper conducts a qualitative narrative appraisal of the existing empirical literature on the key macroeconomic determinants of economic growth in developing and developed countries. Much as other empirical studies have investigated the determinants of economic growth using various econometric methods, the majority of these studies have not distinguished what drives or hinders economic growth in developing or developed countries. The study finds that the determinants of economic growth are different when this distinction is used. It reveals that in developing countries the key macroeconomic determinants of economic growth include foreign aid, foreign direct investment, fiscal policy, investment, trade, human capital development, demographics, monetary policy, natural resources, reforms and geographic, regional, political and financial factors. In developed countries, the study reveals that the key macroeconomic determinants that are associated with economic growth include physical capital, fiscal policy, human capital, trade, demographics, monetary policy and financial and technological factors.
An Empirical Analysis of Stock Market Development and Economic Growth: The Case of Macedonia
Authors: Lazarov Darko , Miteva-Kacarski Emilija , Nikoloski Krume
Published: January 2017

This paper has two goals. The first goal is to investigate the influence of stock market development on economic growth for a group of 14 transition economies from the Central and South-East European (CSEE) region in the period 2002-2012, while the second is to analyze the main characteristics and specificities of the stock market in the Republic of Macedonia. To fulfil the first goal, we apply panel regression models (fixed and random effects) and a dynamic panel model (Generalized Method of Moments – GMM), while we use a single country approach and comparative analysis to examine the main characteristics of the Macedonian stock market. The estimated results indicate that stock market development is positive and significantly correlated with economic growth. Additionally, the comparative analysis of the stock market in the Republic of Macedonia suggests that the Macedonian stock market is still underdeveloped and faces a number of challenges before it can enter a new phase of development after the negative impact of the global financial crisis. Those challenges include capital market regional integration and the harmonization of legal and institutional frameworks such as bankruptcy procedures, accounting and reporting standards, public sector regulatory bodies, corporate governance and a liberalized trade regime.
Key Stakeholders’ Attitudes towards Teacher Education Programs in TEFL: A Case Study of Farhangian University in Iran
Authors: Gholami Javad , Qurbanzada Isa
Published: January 2017

Recently, teacher training courses have attracted the researchers’ special attention, while teacher education programs have not received as much attention. The present study investigated the attitudes key stakeholders in a teacher education program (i.e., student teachers, in-service teachers, and teacher educators) hold toward the appropriateness of TEFL teacher education programs at an Iranian teacher education university and their relevance to and sustainable impact in the real teaching context. To this end, 62 pre-service teachers, 48 in-service teachers, and 28 teacher educators filled out the Foreign Language Teacher Education Program Evaluation questionnaire adapted from Peacock (2009). The results of ANOVA tests indicated that the pre-service teachers and teacher educators found courses with literary strands less relevant to English language teaching and believed that those courses should be modified or replaced by teaching more knowledge-building or knowledge-applying subjects. In addition, the in-service teachers harboured a negative perspective towards the courses which were not practical in the real classroom setting and considered them less empowering. All three groups found teaching-related courses, such as teaching methodology, of more sustainable nature and useful in the real teaching context. Besides, the participants believed that it is essential for the universities to incorporate several practical courses including practicum and classroom observations within the curriculum. This study suggests that accommodating key stakeholders’ preferences in a teacher education programs could lead to crafting more accountable and empowering teacher education programs.
Bringing Kano’s Perspective to AHP: The 2D-AHP Decision Model
Authors: Jung Uk , Yim Seongmin , Lim Sunguk , Kim Chongman
Published: January 2017

AHP and the Kano model are such prevalent TQM tools that it may be surprising that a true hybrid decision-making model has so far eluded researchers. The quest for a hybrid approach is complicated by the differing output perspective of each model, namely discrete ranking (AHP) versus a multi-dimensional picture (Kano). This paper presents a hybrid model of AHP and Kano model, so called two-dimension AHP (2D-AHP).

This paper first compares the two approaches and justifies a hybrid model based on a simple conceit drawn from the Kano perspective: given a decision hierarchy, child and parent elements can exhibit multi-dimension relationships under different circumstances. Based on this premise, the authors construct a hybrid two-dimension AHP model whereby a functional-dysfunctional question-pair technique is incorporated into a traditional AHP framework.

Using the proposed hybrid model, this paper provides a practical test case of its implementation. The 2D-AHP approach revealed important evaluation variances obscured through AHP, while a survey study confirmed that the 2D-AHP approach is both feasible and preferred in some respects by respondents.

Although there have been rich research efforts to combine AHP and Kano model, most of them is simply about a series of individual usage of each methodology. On the other hand, the type of hybridization between AHP and Kano model in this paper is quite unique in terms of the two dimensional perspective. The model provides a general approach with application possibilities far beyond the scope of the test case and its problem structure, and so calls for application and validation in new cases.
A Stepwise ISO-Based TQM Implementation Approach Using ISO 9001:2015
Authors: Chen Chi-kuang , Anchecta Karina , Lee Yuan-Duen , Dahlgaard Jens J.
Published: January 2017

The lack of an implementation roadmap always deters enterprises from choosing Total Quality Management (TQM) as its major management approach. This paper proposes a stepwise ISO-based TQM implementation approach which is based on the notion of the new three-dimensional overall business excellence framework developed by Dahlgaard et al. [1]. The proposed approach consists of nine steps comprising three categories: “TQM faith building”, “TQM tools and techniques learning”, and “system development”. The steps in each of the three categories are arranged to span across the proposed nine-step approach. The ISO 9001:2015 standard is used as a case study to demonstrate the proposed approach. The ideas and benefits of the proposed approach are further discussed in relation to this illustration.
Evolution of Machine Reliability and Life and Economics of Operational Use
Authors: Młynarski Stanisław
Published: January 2017

The article presents new assumptions for reliability and life of machines, resulting from the development of technology. The innovative approach to reliability and life design as well as warranty duration planning is presented on an example of vehicle reliability characteristics. A new algorithm is proposed for the replacement of repairable objects costs by the price of life and reliability of new unrepairable ones. For the planning of the life of innovative machines, an effective method of technical progress rate determination is proposed. In conclusion, necessary modifications of machine and vehicle use systems, resulting from technology evolution and technical progress, are indicated. Finally, recommendations and directions of indispensable research in engineering and management of technical means of production are formulated.
Review of Tremain, Foucault and the Government of Disability
Authors: Jones Clint
Published: January 2017

This reissue of Shelley Tremain’s vital collection of essays continues to focus on the importance of disability studies and while it has all the weight and significance of the original publication it also extends and builds upon those original essays. Tremain, rightly and accurately, characterizes the anniversary volume, like the original, as “a classic text in…critical disability theory and research”  (9). It is, quite simply, a must read.
Participación de las mujeres en la carrera de Ingeniería Informática de la Universidad Nacional y su desempeño en los cursos de programación
Authors: Mora-Rivera Sonia , Coto-Chotto Mayela , Villalobos-Murillo Johnny
Published: January 2017

It is well documented worldwide the low presence of women in informatics careers, and this phenomenon seems to have grown in recent years. This article describes the current situation in the Information Systems career in the School of Informatics at the National University of Costa Rica (UNA). The problem of low female participation is analyzed in two dimensions: recruitment and retention. To study recruitment, we have analyzed the institutional indices of application and admission. To study retention, we have analyzed student achievement in the programming area, because it is considered a central area in the curriculum and an area of difficulty for students. The analysis is performed using data obtained from the UNA Registration Department in a period of 8 years, from 2007 to 2014. The findings support the worldwide results about the underrepresentation of women in the career. Permanency patterns are similar for both sex, and women tend to be more effective in graduating. Additionally, the first two courses of programming seem to represent difficulties for all students, but women tend to have lower performance. In general, the study aims to be a starting point to propose educational actions to improve the rates of representation and permanence of women in the career, while increasing the number of graduates in the area; an issue that is of institutional, national and international interest.
Mirada de la comunidad educativa acerca del desempeño de directivas educativas: Algunas reflexiones
Authors: Vargas-Jiménez Ileana
Published: January 2017

Two educational institutions were selected with the aim of characterizing the performance of two principals from the perspective of the educational community: teachers, students, administrative assistant and parents. In order to carry out the study, it was necessary to consider how the members of the educational community of two schools evaluate the professional performance related to the exercise of leadership, communication processes and decision making, during the internship of two CIDE graduates of the UNA. We worked the interviews and the focus groups with twenty-eight participants; later, we used the ATLAS TI tool to interpret the analysis categories. The main conclusions are that a quality management must be a process of participation, teamwork, communication and approach from the school administration to the people involved. Likewise, it is conceived that a good performance means to consider students as a priority, to help others with humility and affection, to know how to listen, to provide confidence; and that the principal considers students as a priority, and is a negotiating person who knows how to delegate. In short, a good principal is the person who can lead an institution by exercising good leadership, and, therefore, will influence the proper management of communication and decision-making.
Exigencias didácticas del curso Defensa Civil impartido en la carrera de Medicina de la Universidad de Ciego de Ávila
Authors: Martínez-Díaz Yeniska , Pla-López Ramón
Published: January 2017

The article approaches the characteristics of the Civil Defense course given at the University of Medical Sciences of Ciego de Avila, set for the education of future doctors to face disasters and contingency situations. In previous studies, it was detected that students of medicine are not prepared to face tasks related to this when practicing their profession; that is why the objective of this article is to share with the scientific community the didactic requirements that must be assumed in the teaching-learning process of those who practice medicine, and in the educational development preparing them to face disasters and act accordingly in contingency situations from their own professional functions. The requirements aim to conceive the teaching-learning process in interrelation with the history of the medical profession; this implies a coherent and a creative way of developing historical elements and establishing empathic and interdisciplinary links with the study of the functions of today’s medicine, in which the role of academic, labor, and research components are enhanced. The research methodology implemented was the experimental approach in its variant of pedagogical pre-experiment, with pretest and posttest designs, with a group of students of the career of Medicine. These students took part in surveys and interviews and were observed during the teaching-learning process in order to elaborate the diagnosis. Documents were reviewed and contrasted with the didactic theory; the teaching-learning process was modeled with the new didactic requirements; finally, a pedagogical experiment was carried out, and it let improving the design of the Civil Defense course for the Medicine career. The posttest results show significant changes in the teaching-learning process, which confirmed the idea that the more participative and contextual is the process, the more effective is the education and the greater is the preparation the future doctors acquire to face disasters and contingency situations from their professional functions.
Estrategia de gestión de una facultad de ingeniería: Impacto de su aplicación
Authors: Dimas-Rangel María Isabel , Torres-Bugdud Arturo , Torres-Bugdud Arturo , Palomares-Ruíz María Blanca , Palomares-Ruíz María Blanca
Published: January 2017

The present investigation aims to expose the implementation of a management strategy, in which the objective was to strengthen the academic staff profile, guide professors in an educative context of a high education institution, and help their professional development, so that to contribute positively in the training of university students. For that purpose, it was necessary that the educative institution had an administrative-academic management that favored the integration of professors with the necessary profile for the formation of the university students. This work was based on the analysis of SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) results and polls carried out with the studied population allowing the implementation of a strategy. This, in turn, allowed the application of a theoretical-methodological system, having as a result the increase from 32% to 58% in the recognition of professors with an ideal profile, awarded by the “Programa para el Desarrollo Profesional Docente” (PRODEP), and an increment from 12% to 31% of the professor-researcher participation in the “Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología”.
PRODUKSI MASSAL Daphnia sp. DI KOLAM MENGGUNAKAN PAKAN TAMBAHAN YANG BERBEDA
Authors: Ridwan Ece , Surahman Agus
Published: January 2017

Abstrak bisa dilihat di Lampiran
Credit-Market Sentiment and the Business Cycle
Authors: López-Salido J. David , Stein Jeremy C. , Zakrajsek Egon
Published: January 2017

Using U.S. data from 1929 to 2015, we show that elevated credit-market sentiment in year t-2 is associated with a decline in economic activity in years t and t+1. Underlying this result is the existence of predictable mean reversion in credit-market conditions. When credit risk is aggressively priced, spreads subsequently widen. The timing of this widening is, in turn, closely tied to the onset of a contraction in economic activity. Exploring the mechanism, we find that buoyant credit-market sentiment in year t-2 also forecasts a change in the composition of external finance: Net debt issuance falls in year t, while net equity issuance increases, consistent with the reversal in credit-market conditions leading to an inward shift in credit supply. Unlike much of the current literature on the role of financial frictions in macroeconomics, this paper suggests that investor sentiment in credit markets can be an important driver of economic fluctuations.
La Innovación Evaluativa y el cambio de paradigma en la enseñanza contable
Authors: Iglesias Mora Merle , Iglesias Mora Pedro
Published: January 2017

La investigación desarrollada gira en torno a los procesos de evaluación establecidos para la asignatura de Contabilidad como parte del área empresarial de algunas instituciones educativas que se convirtieron en el grupo objetivo del presente estudio. La observación de la problemática planteada se hizo a través de la verificación de las dificultades que presentan los estudiantes en el cumplimiento de los logros esperados, las cuales repercuten en los resultados de aprendizaje y a la vez provocan un alejamiento de los procesos de aula con la realidad del ámbito laboral, característica esencial de las asignaturas de tipo empresarial.

El objetivo planteado en la investigación  consistió en: analizar el sistema de evaluación que se aplica actualmente en la asignatura de contabilidad del área empresarial y su incidencia en el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes. El nivel de la investigación es exploratorio y descriptivo, ya que pretende precisar la situación investigada sin contar con antecedentes informativos previos al estudio; por su diseño es considerada de campo, basada en la recopilación de datos cuantitativos. Se aplican métodos generales como el inductivo-deductivo, analítico-sintético, además del método estadístico para la organización, tabulación, análisis e interpretación de los datos obtenidos mediante la aplicación de encuestas a estudiantes que participan en el proceso y entrevistas a profesionales especializados en educación. Los resultados obtenidos han permitido verificar las hipótesis planteadas y con tal antecedente se propone el diseño de nuevas estrategias de evaluación de los saberes, considerando los aspectos elementales de la evaluación educativa determinados por la Autoridad Nacional y  las experiencias logradas por los docentes de las distintas instituciones educativas.
Para um imanentismo aberto (O reducionismo solipsista)
Authors: Mourão José Augusto
Published: January 2017

A revolução galilaica era a «boa explicação». O reducionismo como método único e explicação única dos fenómenos parece ter entrado em crise. A situação actual da ciência implica uma multiplicidade de propostas de explicação. A linguística primeiro, a semiótica depois, cederam durante décadas ao desejo de um imanentismo metodológico, desenvolvendo representações arborescentes, nominalistas, do sentido. A hipótese localista de J. Petitot propõe sair deste solipsismo metodológico, reconhecendo que há entre o mundo real e a estrutura conceptual uma relação interactiva. Discutem-se aqui os limites do reducionismo fechado (solipsista), propondo-se um imanentismo aberto, via fenomenologia e ciências cognitivas.
Serviço público, TV comercial, e a implementação da lei
Authors: Sousa Helena
Published: January 2017

Este trabalho constitui uma breve reflexão sobre a distância, ou mesmo contradição, entre aquilo que é formalmente apresentado na Lei de Televisão e a actuação dos operadores, tanto público como privados. Depois de expormos as principais dificuldades inerentes à implementção da lei, iremos analisar as razões pelas quais a actividade televisiva não pode ter apenas «orientações políticas». É necessário criar ou desenvolver mecanismos que assegurem, de uma forma sistemática, a implementação da lei. Na parte final do trabalho, iremos apresentar algumas considerações relativas ao modelo de regulamentação britânico que poderão ser úteis para a análise do caso português.
As notícias regionais no Telejornal da RTP: que serviço público?
Authors: Lopes Felisbela
Published: January 2017

Considerando o serviço público de televisão algo de primordial em qualquer panorama audiovisual europeu, pretendemos, neste artigo, analisar quais os assuntos regionais que o canal público generalista português (RTP1) mediatizou no seu principal programa de informação: o Telejornal. 0 período de estudo remonta aos anos de 1988 (ano de absoluto monopólio) e de 1992 (ano em que Portugal recebe as emissões da primeira estação privada de televisão, a SIC). Antes de expormos os nossos resultados, faremos uma breve incursão pela génese do serviço público de televisão e pelos princípios e valores que a estruturam.
Metodologia para o estudo da recepção de telenovelas no Brasil
Authors: Lopes Maria Immacolata
Published: January 2017

Pretendemos neste texto resumir a estratégia metodológica utilizado no projeto de pesquisa intitulado Percepção de Telenovela - Uma Exploração Metodológica...
Opções metodológicas em análise do discurso - Instrumentos, pressupostos e implicações
Authors: Carvalho Anabela
Published: January 2017

"Análise de discurso" é uma designação comum a múltiplas formas de analisar a relação entre o sentido e a linguagem, bem como as suas repercussões sociais e políticas...
Linguagem da mídia e privacidade
Authors: Andrade Regina Glória Nunes de
Published: January 2017

Este artigo é um fragmento de pesquisas que articulam estudos do inconsciente e comunicação, especialmente questões sobre privacidade, mídia e linguagem. Para Sigmund Freud o mundo interno é considerado como pré determinado dentro das relações familiares. Há, porém, uma alternativa de liberdade - neurótica, a bem da verdade - que seria a necessidade do sujeito se libertar do jugo familiar através da imaginação e de atividades imaginativas. Um exemplo a ser discutido ocorreu recentemente, quando durante quase um ano e meio a imprensa mundial se ocupou do affair Bill Clinton e Monica Lewinski. Essa notícia trouxe inúmeras consequências para a notícia de uma maneira geral pois é um evento complexo. Apesar de ter o adultério como chamariz para a notícia, ela se compõe de variantes políticas, raciais, sociais, económicas e oferece uma oportunidade de reflexão sobre a linguagem da mídia neste fin-de-siècle e uma nova maneira de interagir com o público.
O movimento olímpico e os meios de comunicação de massa: a interdependência e a perpetuação do mito esportivo no Brasil, os aspectos rituais e míticos presentes no esporte
Authors: Camargo Vera Regina Toledo
Published: January 2017

Esta reflexão apresenta dois pontos centrais que passam a ser a linha condutora desse estudo. Inicialmente a questão do Olimpismo e sua importância enquanto um processo que resgata e atualiza o mito esportivo, apresentando-nos pressupostos para compreender os aspectos míticos e ritualísticos no esporte e outro de igual tónica, enfatiza as Meios de Comunicação de Massa e seu contexto com o esporte. Esses dois mecanismos, o movimento olímpico e as meios de comunicação de massa, atuam na perpetuação e veiculação dos valores do esporte, assim como a criação do mito esportivo, mas precisam ser revistos, uma vez que, assimilados de forma incorreta, poderão trazeraos estudos da área consequências na difusão e veiculação de seus pressupostos, acarretandoprejuízos na compreensão por parte do público aficionado pelo esporte. Apontamos também os mecanismos da ideologia e idolatria presentes nestes contextos.
O acontecimento como discurso
Authors: Chaparro Manuel Carlos
Published: January 2017

O direito à informação tem complexidades que a democracia e a lógica do mercado acentuaram...
Jornalismo e Internet. O espectro da redundância
Authors: Bastos Helder
Published: January 2017

O modelo tradicional da comunicação de massas tem sido marcado pela preponderância do emissor sobre o receptor...
As relações entre o jornalismo e o ensino superior: evolução ou confusão?
Authors: Lopes Anabela De Sousa
Published: January 2017

Na década de 80 iniciou-se em Portugal um novo percurso na área das Ciências Sociais e Humanas com o curso de Comunicação Social da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, hoje Ciências da Comunicação...
Vitalidade intelectual do grupo de São Bernardo. Actualização histórica como estratégia acadêmica
Authors: Melo José Marques de
Published: January 2017

O Grupo Comunicacional de São Bernardo é constituído pelos pesquisadores atuantes no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação Social (PÓSCOM) da Universidade Metodista de São Paulo (UMESP)...
Em torno da mediação e da constituição da experiência
Authors: Domingues José António
Published: January 2017

Há um pensamento que nos diz que onde quer que seja requerida uma organização há mediação...
Virtual: a realidade da imagem, ou o que nos impede de ver?
Authors: Cordeiro Edmundo
Published: January 2017

Propomos aqui o esboço de um ponto de convergência entre as reflexões de Marie-José Mondzain e as de Gilles Deleuze sobre a natureza das imagens...
A resistência da cultura aos media. Para o fim do paradigma sociológico nos estudos de comunicação
Authors: Lopes José Júlio
Published: January 2017

Quando uma televisão comercial termina o seu telejornal da hora de jantar com a frase apelativa: "resistir é vencer", algo precisa de ser urgentemente compreendido...
A Ética Da Discussão: Ideologia Ou Utopia?
Authors: Berten André
Published: January 2017

Nascemos, vivemos e comunicamos num mundo que não fizemos e que, quer queiramos ou não, exerce autoridade sobre nós. Basta que nos perguntemos de onde nos vem a quase totalidade das informações que recebemos: quase nenhuma e em primeira mão. Os conteúdos comunicacionais são a principal fonte das nossas crenças, de todo o nosso saber. Poderíamos distinguir, por um lado, entre os conteúdos imaginários, eventualmente ideológicos ou utópicos que nos são transmitidos pela tradição e, por outro, o carácter incontornável de um «mundo vivido», concebido formalmente como horizonte de sentido ou como fundo semântico de toda a enunciação e de toda a crença.
Dimensões do imaginário
Authors: Coelho Eduardo Prado
Published: January 2017

Propõe-se aqui a relação de cada um de nós com a proliferação das imagens em termos de vínculo a uma singularidade. Procurar saber o que faz com que certas imagens nos liguem mais a nós próprios do que outras, entrando no lugar da nossa intimidade, e uma questão para a qual, atraves de uma abordagem do conceito de imagem e das suas implicações ao nível do imaginário, se procura abrir caminho.
Nota de abertura
Authors: Martins Moisés de Lemos
Published: January 2017

Com este volume sobre o imaginário social, a revista Comunicação e Sociedade define-se como revista temática nas Ciências da Comunicação...