bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Adaptive integral sliding mode fault-tolerant control for diesel engine air path system via disturbance observer
Authors: Wang Shaoping , Wu Wenjie , Zhang Yuwei , Wang Xingjian , Zhang Jian
Published: September 2023

This paper proposes a fault-tolerant control strategy for the air path
system of a turbocharged diesel engine, considering the simultaneous
presence of matched and mismatched external disturbances, additive and
loss of effectiveness fault modes in the EGR and VGT subsystems.
Firstly, a disturbance observer based on H ∞ theory is designed for
estimating additive faults and external disturbances, and the upper
bound of observation error is obtained. Based on the observation
information, an integral sliding mode surface is designed, and the
effectiveness of the sliding mode surface is analyzed. For the loss of
effectiveness faults in the actuators, a novel adaptive update sliding
mode controller is designed. The proposed control algorithm can get the
fault information of the system and achieve fault-tolerant control of
through controller reconstruction. Ultimately, the effectiveness of the
proposed method is validated through simulations and comparative
analysis.
Water supply and firefighting: Early lessons from the 2023 Maui fires
Authors: Sowby Robert B. , Porter Braxton W.
Published: September 2023

Even though drinking water utilities are not meant to fight wildfires,
they quickly become stakeholders, if not first responders, when their
resources are needed for firefighting. The August 2023 wildfires on the
island of Maui, Hawaii, USA, have highlighted weaknesses at this
intersection. We analyze this extreme case to support disaster-response
lessons for water utilities and to guide further research and policy.
First, emergency water releases were not available in a timely manner.
Second, fire and wind toppled power lines, causing power outages that
inhibited pumping water. Third, many structures were a total loss
despite water doused on them, consuming valuable water. Finally, water
was lost through damaged premise plumbing in burned structures, further
reducing system pressure. These conditions emphasize that water
utilities need to access emergency water supplies quickly, establish
reliable backup electricity, coordinate with firefighters on priority
water uses, and shut valves in burned areas to preserve water. While
further research will certainly follow, we present these early lessons
as starting points.
Fast and efficient photocatalytic degradation of Brilliant blue dye, under solar light irradiation, with bismuth doped ZnO.
Authors: Alamzeb Muhammad , Faryad Sabahat , Ullah Ihsan , Ali Saqib , Adnan * , Omer Muhammad , Khan Behramand
Published: September 2023

Brilliant blue dye (BB) is being extensively used in textile and
cosmetic industries. Recently BB has been reported to be carcinogenic
and asthma causing agent. Hence, its use has been banned in several
European countries. During the current study ZnO and Bi-ZnO were
synthesized by using sol-gel method. The synthesized catalysts were
characterized by x-ray diffraction spectroscopy (XRD), scanning electron
microscopy (SEM), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), energy
dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDX), and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface
area analysis (BET). Both ZnO and Bi-ZnO were used for the
photocatalytic degradation of BB under solar light irradiation.
Different parameters affecting the photocatalytic degradation of BB like
contact time, dye concentration, catalyst concentration, and pH were
evaluated and optimized. Both catalysts degraded BB efficiently but
Bi-ZnO displayed better degradation potential (maximum 92 %) than ZnO
(maximum 76 %). The band gap for ZnO and Bi-ZnO was found to be 3.10
and 2.95 eV, respectively. Surface area and pore size for ZnO and Bi-ZnO
were determined to be 104.03 m /g and 199 nm, and
114.67 m /g and 203 nm, respectively. Kinetics
analysis of the experimental data revealed that the photocatalytic
degradation of BB followed pseudo-first-order kinetics (R
= 0.9581). The value of first order rate constant (k
) was found to be 3.14 x 10 min
. The results of the scavenging studies indicated
that superoxide radicals ( O ) and hydroxyl radicals ( OH)
produced by Bi-ZnO are mainly responsible for the degradation of BB.
Finally, the current field challenges are presented, along with widely
applied recommendations and detailed concluding remarks.
FL-VLD: A Novel Voice Liveness Detection Framework Based on Asynchronous Federated Learning
Authors: Zong Lifang , Li Zhigang , Zhu Kaiyu , Sun Xiaochuan
Published: September 2023

Voice Liveness Detection (VLD) has become one of the hot research topics
in the Internet of Things era. Conventional VLD methods are centralized
solutions that are trained on abundant data collected from local clients
and stored on the server, however, they have the risk of causing data
islands and privacy leakage. To address this problem, we propose a novel
word-level VLD framework based on asynchronous federated learning (FL)
with pop noise, named FL-VLD. Structurally, FL-VLD takes the
preprocessed voice for local model training and constructs a global
model by only transmitting the learned weights after differential
privacy with FL’s central server in an asynchronous manner. In addition,
the local network of the framework incorporates the residual network and
the spatial grouping enhancement module to optimize the complexity and
accuracy of the global model. With the advantage of FL’s distributed
structure, FL-VLD solves the data island problem in VLD scenario without
threatening users’ privacy. Experimental results on the popular POCO
dataset show that our proposal is clearly superior to the traditional
centralized methods as well as overperforming other federated schemes in
terms of fairness, stability, accuracy, and lightweightness. Further,
for attacks involving far-field replay, synthesis, and conversion,
FL-VLD has high generalisation capabilities. Finally, the ablation study
attests to its efficacy.
Tidal behavior of a well in a relatively thick semiconfined aquifer
Authors: Lu Xunfeng , Sato Kozo , Horne Roland Nicholas
Published: September 2023

Subsurface tidal analysis requires only continuous pressure monitoring
data and therefore can be a cost-effective technique for estimating
aquifer properties. The tidal behavior of a well in a semiconfined
aquifer can be described by a diffusion equation that includes a leakage
term. This approach is valid for thin aquifers, as long as the overlying
layer has low permeability relative to the main aquifer. However, in
cases where the aquifer is not thin and the permeability of the
overlying layer is not low, using the existing solutions based on these
approximations may lead to unsatisfactory outcomes. Alternative
solutions for both vertical and horizontal wells were obtained by
solving the standard diffusion equation, with leakage expressed as a
boundary condition. Furthermore, a nondimensional number was derived
mathematically, which forms the basis for a quantitative criterion to
assess the applicability of the existing solutions. In the case of a
vertical well, the existing solution exhibits acceptable error only if
the nondimensional number is less than 0.245. Our new solution extends
this upper limitation to 0.475. However, when the number is greater than
0.475, both the existing solution and our new solution are invalid due
to the invalid uniform flowrate assumption. For a horizontal well, when
the number is less than 0.245, the existing solution is suitable with
acceptable error. Our new solution effectively overcomes this
limitation. Finally, the new solution was applied to the case of the
Arbuckle aquifer to demonstrate the improved validity of the new
solution compared to the existing one.
Seismic evidence for velocity heterogeneity along ~40 Ma old oceanic crustal segment formed at the slow-spreading Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean from full waveform inversion of ocean bottom seismic data
Authors: Guo Peng , Singh Satish Chandra
Published: September 2023

The magmatically accreted oceanic crust contains two distinct layers,
the upper and the lower crust, whereas the tectonically controlled crust
may have gabbros and serpentinite close to the seafloor. Using full
waveform inversion applied to ocean bottom seismometer data, we reveal
the presence of a strong lateral variability in the 40 – 48 Ma old
oceanic crust in the slow-spreading equatorial Atlantic. Over a 120
km-long section we observe four distinct 20-30 km long crustal segments.
The segment affected by the St Paul FZ consists of three layers, 2 km
thick layer with velocity <6 km/s, 1.5 km thick middle crust
with velocity 6-6.5 km/s, and an underlying layer with velocity
~7 km/s in the lower crust. The segment associated with
an abyssal hill morphology contains high velocity ~7
km/s from a shallow depth of 2 – 2.5 km below the basement, indicating
the presence of either serpentinized peridotite or primitive gabbro
close to the seafloor. The segment associated with a low basement
morphology has 5.5 – 6 km/s velocity starting near the basement
extending down to a depth of 4 km, indicating chemically distinct crust.
The segment close to the Romanche transform fault, a normal oceanic
crust with velocity 4.5-5 km/s near the seafloor indicates a magmatic
origin. The four distinct crustal segments have a good correlation with
the overlying seafloor morphology features. These observed strong
crustal heterogeneities could result from alternate tectonic and
magmatic processes along the ridge axis, possibly modulated by chemical
variations in the mantle.
Ecosistemas tropicales y sus conflictos: estudios de caso en el piedemonte de la Orinoquia
Authors: Vélez-López Eliud Daniel , Ortiz-Moreno Martha Lucía
Published: September 2023

Los ecosistemas de la Orinoquia prestan servicios ambientales asociados a la regulación, provisión y la cultura. Las reservas naturales en la Orinoquia son áreas protegidas de importancia para la vida silvestre, especialmente aquellas en riesgo de extinción. Son áreas que prestan servicios ecosistémicos al casco urbano de Villavicencio y, al mismo tiempo, son ejemplos de conservación ambiental y escenarios de bienestar. Por otro lado, los agroecosistemas poseen una alta riqueza biológica. Sin embargo, las actividades antrópicas, como la introducción de especies exóticas, la contaminación, la tala ilegal, la minería, los incendios forestales y la urbanización por el crecimiento poblacional, han disminuido las especies de fauna y flora de todos los grupos biológicos. Es por ello, que la academia desempeña un papel fundamental en la formación de seres conscientes de la fragilidad de la riqueza natural y del uso sustentable de los recursos biológicos. Ecosistemas tropicales y sus conflictos: estudios de caso en el Piedemonte de la Orinoquía es un libro que recoge los resultados de muestreo y análisis sobre las áreas de gran importancia ecológica de la Orinoquia, específicamente del municipio de Villavicencio.
Mi jardín cálido de aromáticas, medicinales y condimentarias
Authors: Pardo Carrasco Fidela Patricia
Published: September 2023

El libro que tiene en sus manos nace del deseo de compartir lo que con tanto interés y cariño he aprendido en varios años de trabajo y trasmito a mis estudiantes en el curso de Plantas Aromáticas, Medicinales y Condimentarias (PAMC) en el Programa de Ingeniería Agronómica de la Universidad de los Llanos. Siempre me entusiasma enseñar al que quiere aprender y que pueda disfrutar de la satisfacción de saber sembrar, cosechar y aprovechar las plantas que son de su interés. En este libro trato, de la manera más sencilla y clara, sin dejar de ser técnica y con el apoyo de una gran cantidad de fotografías propias, los aspectos más importantes de 14 especies vegetales, como la flor de Jamaica, deliciosa bebida, dulce y vino; la cúrcuma, hermoso pigmento y grandiosa medicina; el jengibre, exquisito sabor cítrico picante; el pronto alivio, para la plácida digestión; el romero, de fuerte impronta; la albahaca, suave condimento digestivo; la coca, que es descanso y medicina; la limonaria, sabor y aroma relajante; la citronela, gran repelente y ambientador; el ají, delicioso acompañante; el achiote, colorido pigmento; el bore, gran contenido proteínico; la sábila, de gran aporte para la belleza; y la moringa, un buen complemento nutricional. Se espera poder abrir la mente de los lectores a las posibilidades; hay mucho por hacer y por aprender.
Zeno’s paradoxes and the quantum microworld: What the aporias convey
Authors: Karpenko Ivan
Published: September 2023

The article considers new approaches to four of Zeno?s paradoxes: the Arrow,
Achilles and the Tortoise, the Dichotomy, and the Stadium. The paradoxes are
analyzed in the light of current research in the field of elementary
particle physics and some promising directions in the development of the
quantum gravity. Physical theories, provided with the necessary
philosophical interpretation, are used in order to clarify Zeno?s paradoxes
and to search for answers to them. The text shows that using modern
approaches to solve the paradoxes is not effective, because the paradoxes
become irrelevant when analyzed in the context of microworld physics, at
very small scales. The main part of the paper is devoted to demonstrating
this circum?stance - that the questions posed by the paradoxes are
impossible to answer (at least in their classical interpretation). As a
possible explanation, the article puts forward that in the formulation of
the paradoxes, the properties of the macroworld and the microworld are mixed
(which is historically justified, given the intuitive homogeneity of the
large and the small, and the fact that non-classical physics - quantum
mechanics - did not emerge until the twentieth century); that is, from the
observation of large physical objects, a transition is made to the
infinitely small in terms of discreteness and continuity. However, the
principles of organization of space at very small scales are beginning to be
clarified in general terms only now, and, perhaps, these principles may turn
out to be quite far from the classical ideas about fundamental physical
reality.
Nature as the source of Mysterium Tremendum: An essay on the poetic works of Blackwood, Smith and Campbell
Authors: Pisev Marko
Published: September 2023

This paper is an attempt to analyze three horror classics - Algernon
Blackwood?s ?The Willows? (1907), Clark Ashton Smith?s ?Genius Loci? (1936)
and Ramsey Campbell?s ?The Voice of the Beach? (1977) - in which the
landscape is envisioned as the abode of supernatural power. The common
thread between these stories is the concept of natural scenery which merges
and blends the real and unreal, the mind, flesh and the phenomenal world. As
landscape is a major component of the plot, rather than mere background to
the stories, the authors use it to formulate certain metaphysical ideas
about existence and the nature of reality itself. My objective is to
historically and epistemologically contextualize these ideas, clarify them
and relate them to particular recent developments in philosophy and social
theory. My second aim is to examine the semantics of space particular to
each narrative, the association and partition of its structural elements,
and the latent level of meaning arising from the organization of the
stories? mise-en-sc?ne.
Whitehead on perishing
Authors: Losoncz Mark
Published: September 2023

This article deals with the problem of cessation in Whitehead?s philosophy.
By focusing on his Process and Reality, but also on his other works,
different temporal, mereological and other aspects of perishing are
analyzed, with special attention to the annihilation of subjective
directness. The article also focuses on the complementary character of
creation and cessation, by taking into consideration the various
(subjective, objective, superjective or divine) layers of cessation. By
relying upon the critical reception of Whitehead, the article formulates
certain dilemmas with regard to the status of ceased events or entities,
and also in relation to the general possibility and the discreet character
of perishing.
Transport properties and permeability of textile materials
Authors: Stankovic Snezana
Published: September 2023

Heat and mass transfer through textile fabrics play a crucial role in
achieving optimal thermal comfort perception by a person. The governing
properties of textile fabrics by which they influence heat and mass transfer
from the human skin to the environment are thermal transport capacity, water
vapor permeability, and air permeability. The transfer of liquid moisture
through textiles is important for thermal comfort during frequent changes in
physical activity or climate. Despite numerous studies on the transport
properties of textile materials over the past years, investigation in this
subject area is still needed. This special issue includes five articles that
offer valuable information on the subject. Both commercial and specially
designed textile structures were investigated within the presented studies
with the ambitious goal of providing a new understanding of their transport
properties. Within the first four papers presented, certain aspects of heat
and mass transfer through textile materials were analyzed at the three scale
levels: microscopic (fiber type), mesoscopic (yarn geometry and fineness),
and macroscopic (fabric porosity) levels. The fifth article dealt with the
influence of the seam type and the sewing thread fineness on the transport
properties of the seamed structure.
Narcissism, Communion, and Perceptions of Accounting Information Source Reliability
Authors: Johnson Eric N. , Reckers Philip M. J. , Festa Mackenzie M.
Published: September 2023

This study demonstrates that perceived accounting information reliability is biased by the information user’s assessments of the information provider’s narcissism as well as the user’s own narcissism levels. We examine the specific subtypes of user narcissism driving these biases. Ninety-nine business professionals acting as information users read a simulated interview with an information provider (a corporate accountant) focused on a possible revenue misstatement and then assessed the perceived reliability of the information. We also examined the influence of perceived provider communion on reliability assessments. Consistent with narcissistic tolerance, information reliability assessments were higher when both the user and provider were higher in agentic narcissism. Consistent with narcissistic hypocrisy, assessments were lower when both the perceiver and provider were higher in antagonistic narcissism. Also, perceived provider communion was positively associated with reliability assessments. We discuss the theoretical and practical significance of these findings for future management accounting research and practice.

Data Availability: Data are available from the first author.

JEL Classifications: M41.
Do Enterprise Risk Assessments Affect Tax Aggressiveness? Evidence from U.S. ORSA Regulation
Authors: Krupa Trent J.
Published: September 2023

Tax aggressiveness presents nontax risks to firms’ cash flow. Evaluating these risks requires information beyond the accounting function’s expertise, resulting in high processing costs to acquire and integrate risk information relevant to tax strategies. Managers can rationally adapt by making assumptions about risk information, potentially resulting in decision biases when evaluating the risk-reward tradeoff of tax aggressiveness. Using a novel regulatory setting in the U.S. insurance industry, I examine whether the adoption of mandated enterprise risk assessments updates managers’ prior beliefs about the nontax risks of tax aggressiveness. I find that as regulation requires managers to accept processing costs to acquire and integrate risk information, managers learn about previously underestimated nontax risks and significantly reduce tax aggressiveness. Results suggest that absent firm-wide internal risk information, managers can use aggressive tax positions without fully considering nontax risks.

Data Availability: Data used in this study are available from public sources identified in the paper.

JEL Classifications: G22; G32; H25; M41.
Challenges and actions for developing the rehabilitation workforce in eastern Europe and central Asia
Authors: Gosling Justine , Mishra Satish
Published: September 2023

Abstract is not available
Aluminum alloy oxidation prediction during laser welding process based on random forest regression analysis of spectral signals
Authors: Zeng Lixue , Gao Yanfeng , Xiong Genliang , Zhang Hua , Pan Hao , Long Zhiwu , Tao Donglin
Published: September 2023

Aluminum alloys are one of the most important materials in modern industries; however, they are susceptible to oxidation during the welding process. In an automated welding process, the online monitoring and prediction of weld bead oxidation degree are particularly important. This study proposes a novel method to real-timely predict the oxidation degree of the aluminum alloy during the laser welding process based on the laser plasma spectral signals. First, the characteristics of laser plasma spectral signals are analyzed under various oxidation degree conditions. And then, a random forest regression model is built to extract the principal characteristic wavelengths of spectral signals and predict the oxidation degree of weld bead based on these spectral signals. Finally, through experiments, the prediction validity of the proposed method is verified.
Use of Fetal Occiput – Spinal Angle at Early Active Phase of First Stage of Labour in Predicting the Labour Outcome – A CrossSectional Observational Study
Authors: JTN Senevirathne
Published: September 2023

Introduction: Fetal head deflexion plays an important role during the labour process and predicts the outcome of labour. Though traditionally it was assessed via digital examination, recent advancements in medicine have shown ultrasonographic parameters might be useful to measure of head flexion via fetal occiput-spine angle (OSA). Aim of this study was to evaluate its role. Method: We conducted a cross-sectional observational study on 292 uncomplicated singleton pregnant mothers without occiput posterior position. At early active phase of labour (OS= 4 – 6cm), angle between two tangential lines to the occipital bone and the vertebral body of the first cervical vertebra was measured as OSA. Labour progression and mode of delivery was monitored. Association between OSA and labour outcome along with the inter-observer difference was evaluated. Results: The mean OSA value was 133.88 ± 7.39°. The OSA measurement showed good inter-observer agreement (r = 0.99; p<0.001). The mean OSA was significantly less for the group of patients who had to undergo operative delivery (instrumental and cesarean) due to labour dystocia (n=37) as compared to women who had vaginal delivery (n=251), (128 ± 7.28° vs 134.83 ± 6.97°, P<0.001). The mean OSA was significantly greater for the group of patients who had a normal labour progression (n=32) as compared to women who had an abnormal progression (n=260), (134.67 ± 7.06° vs 127.47 ± 6.99°, P<0.001). Sonographic assessment of deflexion using OSA was found to be an independent predictor of labour outcome according to multivariate regression analysis. OSA value less than 127.8° was associated with abnormal labour progression and operative delivery with a good sensitivity of 86.5% & 85% respectively. However negative predictive value for operative delivery being 6.8%, suggests that multiple clinical parameters should be considered when the decision of caesarean section is made. Conclusion: Sonographic assessment of fetal head deflexion during early active phase can be used as reproducible, feasible screening parameter to predict labour progression and mode of delivery. Decision for operative delivery should be made using multiple clinical assessments.
Trends of Contraceptive Usage among Women in Tertiary Hospital in Nnewi, Nigeria: A Five-Year Retrospective CrossSectional Study
Authors: CB Oguejiofor
Published: September 2023

Background: Maternal and infant mortality can be reduced with use of contraceptives which protects against unplanned pregnancies, high parity and high fertility and ensuring proper spacing between child births. Nigeria’s fertility rate is high, with 5.7 children per woman while the contraceptive prevalence rate is low, with a rate of 15%. Studying the trend will provide information on the uptake of diverse contraception approaches and provide information for counseling. Objective: To determine the trend and preferred methods of contraceptive usage among patients who attend the family planning clinic at Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH) Nnewi, Nigeria. Method: This is a retrospective cross-sectional study involving collection of data from the family planning register of women who attended family planning clinic at Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi, Nigeria, from 1st April 2014 to 1st March 2019. The information obtained from the case files were socio-demographic data such as the age and parity including the contraceptive methods, and yearly uptakes. The data obtained were analysed using statistical package SPSS version 26. Result: The total number of deliveries at the study center in the studied period was 3457, while the total number of contraceptive methods used was 578, giving an overall contraceptive prevalence rate of 16.7%. The prevalence rate showed a rise from 15.7% in 2014/2015 to as high as 19.1% in 2018/2019. The age group with most of the women from the study was 30 to 34 (29.2%) years. Majority of the women (251; 43.4%) used sub-dermal implants, 219 (37.9%) women used intrauterine contraceptive device (CUT380A), and this was followed by 96 (16.6%) women that used injectable hormonal contraceptive. We also observed an increase in preference for use of hormonal contraceptive methods (implants) as compared to the non hormonal methods (CUT380A). Conclusion: The trend so far, shows a rise in contraceptive use with the sub-dermal implants in the study center, with a notable improvement in the prevalence of contraceptive use within the last 5 years of the study. There is need for health information on the use of contraceptives to improve the uptake.
Overcoming ethical and legal obstacles to data linkage in health research: stakeholder perspectives
Authors: Smit Julie-Anne , Van der Graaf Rieke , Mostert Menno , Vaartjes Ilonca , Zuidgeest Mira , Grobbee Diederik , van Delden Johannes J.M.
Published: September 2023

IntroductionData linkage for health research purposes enables the answering of countless new research questions, is said to be cost effective and less intrusive than other means of data collection. Nevertheless, health researchers are currently dealing with a complicated, fragmented, and inconsistent regulatory landscape with regard to the processing of data, and progress in health research is hindered.
AimWe designed a qualitative study to assess what different stakeholders perceive as ethical and legal obstacles to data linkage for health research purposes, and how these obstacles could be overcome.
MethodsTwo focus groups and eighteen semi-structured in-depth interviews were held to collect opinions and insights of various stakeholders. An inductive thematic analysis approach was used to identify overarching themes.
ResultsThis study showed that the ambiguity regarding the `correct' interpretation of the law, the fragmentation of policies governing the processing of personal health data, and the demandingness of legal requirements are experienced as causes for the impediment of data linkage for research purposes by the participating stakeholders. To remove or reduce these obstacles authoritative interpretations of the laws and regulations governing data linkage should be issued. The participants furthermore encouraged the harmonisation of data linkage policies, as well as promoting trust and transparency and the enhancement of technical and organisational measures. Lastly, there is a demand for legislative and regulatory modifications amongst the participants.
ConclusionsTo overcome the obstacles in data linkage for scientific research purposes, perhaps we should shift the focus from adapting the current laws and regulations governing data linkage, or even designing completely new laws, towards creating a more thorough understanding of the law and making better use of the flexibilities within the existing legislation. Important steps in achieving this shift could be clarification of the legal provisions governing data linkage by issuing authoritative interpretations, as well as the strengthening of ethical-legal oversight bodies.
Responsabilidade compartilhada
Authors: Schaun Flavia da Silva , Craco Tania , Biegelmeyer Uiliam Hahn , Fidelis Andréa Cristina Fermiano , Munz Fernandes Alice , Camargo Maria Emilia
Published: September 2023

A logística reversa vem sendo pautada durante as últimas décadas pelas organizações e sociedade, objetivando minimizar os impactos ambientais. Baseado em diversas pesquisas é possível perceber que ainda existem dúvidas com o meio ambiente aumentado, mas quanto dúvidas quanto à responsabilidade no descarte de resíduos sólidos. Dessa forma, serão incluídos e escolhidos como estudo o estudo apresentado e os hábitos dos universitários Portugal, em a esse descarte adequado. Visando o alcance dos objetivos, foi realizada uma pesquisa analítica descritiva, operacionalizada através de uma pesquisa,com dados a partir de um casal de residentes e universitários brasileiros, majoritariamente residentes no estado do Rio de Janeiro. Após, foi realizado um comparativo entre os países, quanto à identidade das empresas de Portugal, ainda que os consumidores sejam quanto aos sólidos. Além disso, em ambos os países têm preferência por empresas que promovem ações de preservação ao meio ambiente, sendo de 36,2% dos consumidores que residem no Brasil e 37,2% dos que residem em Portugal. No descarte, o Brasil reconhece sua responsabilidade, mas é em Portugal que o índice é maior em relação ao descarte adequado.
Arts of letting live in the contemporary world of globalization
Authors: De Toni Júnior Claudio Noel
Published: September 2023

The ways of living or letting live have always been intertwined in historical and geographical aspects of the human race in defense of society, territory and control of bodies and space. It is addressed in the work that, since the time of mercantilism, nations have been exploited by subtracting from them all that there is of wealth, expropriating their people who remain throughout history at the height of socioeconomic problems triggered by the United Nations (UN) with its multiple variables for measuring the territories in their inequality of wealth, in the social and environmental scope. Afterwards, we see the repetition of the conquest of new territories in the modern and contemporary period by the European imperialist metropolises in favor of maintaining their own industrial revolutions in Africa and Asia, as well as the struggles for power and conquests among themselves in the interwar period, in the which was called the cold war and in the new neocolonialism of Globalization in which inequalities in the field of security are perpetuated, in which subjects are expelled from their own territories becoming political exiles in search of new horizons that can provide them with dignity. Period of jurisdictional imposition of the government with macropolitical issues arise from the option of the desire of its own nationals in search of supremacy that part of the population has always legitimized in the designs of prejudice of race, gender and institutions.
A RELAÇÃO ENTRE A INOVAÇÃO SOCIAL E OS ECOSSISTEMAS DE INOVAÇÃO: UMA REVISÃO BIBLIOMÉTRICA INTERNACIONAL
Authors: Paraol de Matos Guilherme
Published: September 2023

A inovação social (IS) pode expressar uma resposta às condições locais de exclusão e marginalização de grupos vulneráveis. A existência de ecossistemas de inovação que apoiam a inovação social são fundamentais para que as várias iniciativas de IS sejam desenvolvidas de forma colaborativa. O presente artigo visa analisar como os temas estão relacionados na literatura internacional. Para tanto, é realizado uma pesquisa bibliométrica nas bases de dados da Scopus e a Web of Science que reuniu 52 publicações. Como resultado, pode-se identificar as palavras-chaves principais sendo inovação; ecossistema de inovação; social entrepreneurship e social innovation. Os autores mais citados são Campolargo e Oliveira. Os países com maior número de publicações são Italia; Brasil; Alemanha e Espanha. Como conclusão, ambos os conceitos de inovação social e ecossistema de inovação são temas de interesse e possuem campo de pesquisa que pode ser explorado. Não há um grupo de atores que lidere as pesquisas nessa temática. Outra descoberta importante é o termo Social Entrepreneurship como recorrente ao lado de Social innovation e Innovation Ecosystem.
Inovação e empreendedorismo social
Authors: Almeida Carneiro Dênio
Published: September 2023

As lacunas deixadas pela inação do Estado em resolver problemas sociais tem estimulado tentativas da sociedade civil de buscar alternativas práticas que solucionem as necessidades sociais não respondidas pelas instituições governamentais. Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho é sintetizar a literatura sobre Empreendedorismo Social e Inovação por meio de uma revisão sistemática da literatura (RSL), compreendendo o período de 2000 a 2019, com 23 estudos, com a utilização do software VOSviewer para identificar as tendências da literatura e categorizá-las tematicamente. Os resultados foram analisados sob duas perspectivas: descritiva e de conteúdo. O estudo justifica-se pela importância da temática dentro da academia internacional, atraindo a atenção de várias disciplinas, com destaque aos 03 “Special Volumes” vinculados a seminários internacionais de grande envergadura mundial e a tendência de citações crescentes. No que diz respeito aos resultados, observa-se uma concentração de estudos em países da América (34%), em seguida países Europeus e Asiáticos com 22% cada. A Oceânia e a África tiveram a menor participação, com 11% cada do total da amostra. Esta RSL resultou na identificação de cinco linhas de pesquisa, objetivando responder as duas questões de investigação proposta por este estudo. Especial destaque aos Sistemas Nacionais de Inovação como catalisador do processo de inovação a nível mundial. As limitações deste estudo referem-se ao protocolo de pesquisa, que podem ter restringido o número de artigos que constituem a RSL, e ao papel da inovação no empreendedorismo social, como fragmento de umas das questões de investigação, sendo necessário dados empíricos que comprovem esta relação.
poder do empreendedorismo feminino escalando soluções para a saúde e bem-estar da mulher através de FEMTECHS
Authors: Ferraz de Tommaso Silvia , Paranhos de Oliveira Stéfani , Plonski Guilherme Ary
Published: September 2023

Esse trabalho tem como objetivo propor um modelo de desenvolvimento de femtechs, conciliando a habilidade de pesquisadoras acadêmicas com habilidades empreendedoras, dando ênfase a relevância do empreendedorismo feminino. Para chegar a esse objetivo, buscou-se (1) consolidar a definição do termo; (2) compreender as oportunidades e desafios; e (3) descrever um conjunto de boas práticas e diretrizes para a criação de femtechs. Utilizou-se o método de pesquisa Design Science para construir um artefato e prescrever soluções para aumentar a intenção empreendedora de pesquisadores da área das ciências biológicas.  Os resultados são: (1) definição, femtech é uma startup de base tecnológica cujos produtos e serviços atendam às necessidades de saúde específicas das pessoas do sexo biológico feminino e tenha como ponto central de desenvolvimento das soluções a mulher. (2) desafios, questões culturais de tabu e desafios inerentes ao ato de empreender. (3) oportunidades, exploração de soluções sobre o tema e empreendedorismo feminino. O Framework proposto tem dez setores. No centro está a mulher, um indivíduo do sexo biológico feminino. O ciclo de vida da femtech é dividido em três níveis,"olhe para dentro", "olhe para fora" e "olhe para longe". E três momentos "ideação", "formação de equipe" e "crescimento".
On Difficulties about the Soul: Books I–III
Authors: Kalligas Paul , Koutras Nickolaos
Published: September 2023

This chapter cites Porphyry's Vita Plotini that describes Plotinus' process of composition that reflects the way in which research and discussions were conducted during school meetings. It addresses how the transcendent, purely intellective character of the soul is reconciled with its presence and activity within the body. It also talks about the existence of multiple souls that evinces their departure from their unitary and indivisible intellective origin and constitutes an expression of their concern over the multiple material bodies. The chapter tackles questions pertaining to the way in which souls inhere in bodies, the function of sense-perception and memory, and the role of the souls in the organization and arrangement of the sensible world. It reviews Plotinus' treatise “On the Immortality of the Soul” wherein he provides arguments for the soul's incorporeal and intellective nature.
On the Intelligible Beauty
Authors: Kalligas Paul , Koutras Nickolaos
Published: September 2023

This chapter includes the treatise constituting the second of the four sections into which Porphyry divided Plotinus' so-called Great Treatise. It comprises the better part of an extensive digression, which is inserted between the first exposition of the transcendent One in chapters 9–11 of III 8 and the analysis of its nature in V 5.4ff. It also presents the hypostasis of Intellect as the object of the contemplation the soul can attain by following the upward progression recounted by Diotima in Plato's Symposium. The chapter describes beauty as the aspect of the intelligible realm that is most prominently highlighted, which is ultimately shown to be identical with Intellect. It examines the presence of the beautiful in art that has attracted intense interest in the work at hand, chiefly from the time of the Renaissance.
Introduction
Authors: Chowning Margaret
Published: September 2023

This chapter introduces the connection between Catholic politics and gender in Mexico from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It tackles the engagement of Catholic women in the culture wars of Mexico. Catholic women helped the church survive the lay association or confraternity after the war for independence resulting in the decline of male-led lay associations. The chapter acknowledges using social history and political discourse analysis to understand how women became politically active after women assumed new roles in local church institutions. It cites that new alliances between women and the church gave the church some of the power that the liberals hoped to undermine by caricaturing its relationship with women.
“Under No Circumstances Shall a Woman Be Elected”
Authors: Chowning Margaret
Published: September 2023

This chapter discusses gender roles in colonial urban cofradías. It explains the assumption that cofradías were masculine institutional spaces is fact for Mexico. Despite their wealth and social prestige, Hispanic and mestizo women were never members of the governing boards in the mixed-sex cofradías to which they belonged. According to historian Nicole von Germeten, men in cofradías increasingly rejected female leadership because it made their organizations look very different from confraternities led by their social betters of European descent. The chapter clarifies that even if women were included in many cofradías, Catholicism was not democracy.
“We Ladies who Sign Below Wish to Establish a Congregation”
Authors: Chowning Margaret
Published: September 2023

This chapter looks into the emergence of women as key actors in local religious culture. It explains that women increasingly formed separate branches of traditional cofradías, welcomed the foundation of new service organizations from Europe, and responded to the weakness of colonial cofradías by forming new pious associations with themselves as officers. The new ways of organizing local piety contributed to the transformed public and self-image of Catholic women. Thus, priests hold a crucial role in shaping and creating new roles for women. The chapter explains that priests managed to overcome strong cultural preferences for gender hierarchy and disdain for women's capacity to organize, administer, and lead.
“We’ll See Who Wins: Them with Their Laws, or Us with Our Protests”
Authors: Chowning Margaret
Published: September 2023

This chapter focuses on the role of lay associations played in the 1875 petition campaign. It explores how the liberal and Catholic press dealt with the reappearance of women in the political field. In December 1874, the congress passed a regulatory law, the Ley Orgánica de Adiciones Constitucionales to clarify and explain how the vaguer, forgotten or previously unenforced laws of Reform would now work, and to establish the principle of the subjection of the church to the state. As a result, Ley Orgánica set off the second great Catholic petition campaign. The chapter details the liberal and conservative press coverages on the petitions campaigns and gendered politics of religion.
Introduction
Authors: Kadivar Mohammad Ali
Published: September 2023

This chapter introduces the concept of democracy and the theory of the relation of protest mobilization and democratic transition. It highlights how the strength and proper functioning of democratic institutions depend on the balance of forces in political and civil society. A democratic transition occurs when a nondemocratic regime meets the minimum requirements of a formal democratic regime. Despite the consideration that mass mobilization is conducive to democratization, the elitist approach suggests that mass mobilization is harmful to democracy, since it may destabilize the political order and threaten the interests of authoritarian elites. The chapter explains how protest mobilization can raise the odds of a democratic transition through several mechanisms.
Political Stage, Actors, and Audience
Authors: Daly Sarah Zukerman
Published: September 2023

This chapter defines the backdrop of postwar democratic elections, the cast of characters, comprising nonbelligerent parties and rebel and government belligerent successors under various war outcomes. It establishes the assumptions and underlying definitions of the theory on forces that influence postwar electoral outcomes. It also explores the plot of the theory on how wars produce nonbelligerent and belligerent parties that prosecute and launder the bloodstained past to generate a reputation for competence on security. The chapter talks about how nonbelligerent and belligerent parties posture to own the salient valence issues, position themselves programmatically, target different sectors of the electorate, and recruit their political elite. It employs the tools of political behavior that reveal the pathway by which war outcomes influence the behavior of political parties and voters.
Postwar Voters and Survey Experiments
Authors: Daly Sarah Zukerman
Published: September 2023

This chapter reviews individual-voter-level hypotheses with experimental evidence from an original survey of fifteen hundred victims and nonvictims in Colombia. It evaluates whether war winners as candidates are able to shift voters' reference points in order to launder violent pasts and cultivate a reputation for security. With a series of survey experiments, the chapter also examines the party strategy of Restrained Leviathan, which comprises of military and civilian candidates and a platform convergent on the interests of the moderate voter. The chapter discusses whether the political strategy called the Tactical Immoderate, comprising civilian candidates, proves more successful for the militarily disadvantaged belligerent. It looks at alternative mechanisms of voter coercion and voter ignorance.
Prosody
Authors: Jackson Virginia
Published: September 2023

This chapter delves into the poetry of William Cullen Bryant, and especially to the Romantic prosody that Bryant borrowed from the British Romantics, a debt that earned him a reputation as “the American Wordsworth.” The chapter emphasizes that Bryant's use of the stanzaic and metrical structures made famous by Wordsworth, Robert Southey, and other Lake School poets made him into an institution of a new American Romantic poetics, “the father of American poetry.” The chapter also stresses that Bryant was a maker of new American cultural institutions: The New York Public Library, Central Park, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It then peeks at his other influential idea: the creation of the transatlantic White Romantic lyric in the 1820s and 1830s. Though Bryant was ostensibly a liberal antislavery activist, like many nineteenth-century abolitionists, the chapter argues that he was also a racist, and his racism became evident in his support of Andrew Jackson's genocidal removal policies.
Coda
Authors: Jackson Virginia
Published: September 2023

This chapter examines how poetic reading publics generated by spontaneous collective generic recognition began to turn into poetic reading publics generated by individual vicarious identification as genres of poems began to be gradually and unevenly replaced by genres of persons. Over the next two centuries, the chapter highlights that genres of verse that everyone could recognize were replaced by genres of persons that everyone and no one could recognize. That gradual and uneven exchange would transform all poetry into lyric poetry. The chapter then turns to Watkins's early published poem, “Ethiopia,” in order to discern the expressive outlines of a version of Watkins Harper's poetics that has been hiding all along in plain sight. If this split screen promises to be dizzying, that vertigo seems an appropriate response to the racialized conditions of mid-nineteenth-century American poetics, conditions that eventuated in the invention of American lyric.
The Descent into Deep Time in Darwin and Lubbock
Authors: Heringman Noah
Published: September 2023

This chapter shifts attention from the form and content of oral tradition to the physical capacity for song and other evolved human traits that helped to define species time for John Lubbock, Charles Darwin, and other evolutionary thinkers in the mid- to late nineteenth centuries. By the early nineteenth century, scholars and ballad enthusiasts had traced oral traditions in many parts of the world back to ancient times. Their claims are intrinsically hard to prove, but they firmly established the idea of oral tradition as a gateway to the deep human past. Yet in juxtaposing human evolution and the ballad revival, the chapter attempts not to anticipate evolutionary explanations for the arts but rather to historicize the geologically inflected narrative of origins consolidated by Darwin's Descent of Man (1871). This narrative retains key conjectural and figural elements inherited from its Enlightenment versions.
How Patrons Respond to Brokered Requests
Authors: Auerbach Adam Michael , Thachil Tariq
Published: September 2023

This chapter knits together a focus on elite responsiveness with an attentiveness to the organizational dynamics of machine networks. In particular, it focuses on examining distributive preferences of politicians when evaluating claims for local public goods made by brokers. The chapter considers elite responsiveness to brokered requests as important not only for their distributive consequences in shaping citizen access to public goods, but also because these interactions are formative of the machine networks studied in this book. As such, the chapter provides more in-depth descriptions of India's ward councilors—the “low patrons” of urban machines—based on interviews and survey data. The chapter focuses on describing these patrons' problem-solving activities, and the public resources they have at their disposal to meet resident demands. The data provided establishes these actors as key players in distributive politics, motivating the study of their distributive preferences.