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GESTÃO PÚBLICA DE RESÍDUOS SÓLIDOS URBANOS NA REGIÃO DO GRANDE ABC
Authors: Guardabassio Eliana Vileide , Pereira Raquel da Silva
Published: December 2015

Este artigo traz os resultados de uma pesquisa descritiva realizada na Região do Grande ABC. Justifica-se em virtude da responsabilidade do poder público no tocante à gestão dos Resíduos Sólidos Urbanos (RSU), especialmente a partir da Lei 12.305/2010, a Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos – PNRS. Objetivou-se descrever e comparar as práticas adotadas pelas sete prefeituras dos municípios que integram a Região do Grande ABC em relação à gestão dos RSU. A conclusão foi de que a coleta seletiva ainda caminha a passos lentos na maioria dos municípios estudados, no tocante à implementação e institucionalização. Os representantes das cooperativas manifestaram que a dependência do poder público e a mudança de governos interferem diretamente no desempenho da coleta seletiva, pois precisam se adequar às novas gestões, as quais podem provocar descontinuidades, recomeços ou paralisações.
Fluctuations around Hartree states in the mean-field regime
Authors: Lewin Mathieu , Nam Phan Thành , Schlein Benjamin
Published: December 2015

We consider the dynamics of a large system of $N$ interacting bosons in the mean-field regime where the interaction
is of order $1/N$. We prove that the fluctuations around the nonlinear Hartree state are generated by an effective
quadratic Hamiltonian in Fock space, which is derived from Bogoliubov's approximation. We use a direct method in
the $N$-particle space, which is different from the one based on coherent states in Fock space.
Addendum to “Values of zeta functions of varieties over finite fields”
Authors: Milne J. S.
Published: December 2015

The original article [{\it Amer. J. Math.} {\bf 108} (1986), no. 2,
297--360] expressed the special values of the zeta function of a variety
over a finite field in terms of the $\widehat{\Bbb{Z}}$-cohomology of the
variety. As the article was being completed (September 1983), Lichtenbaum
conjectured the existence of complexes of sheaves ${\Bbb Z}(r)$ extending
the sequence ${\Bbb Z}$, ${\Bbb G}_{m}[-1],\ldots$. The complexes given by
Bloch's higher Chow groups are known to satisfy most of the axioms for
${\Bbb Z}(r)$. Using Lichtenbaum's Weil-\'{e}tale topology, we can now
give a beautiful restatement of the main theorem of the original article
in terms of ${\Bbb Z}$-cohomology groups.
Defining Metabiography in Historical Perspective: Between Biomyths and Documentary
Authors: Saunders Edward
Published: December 2015

There is a certain degree of confusion regarding the term “metabiography,” which has been used to refer to both comparative historiographical studies and postmodern narratives. While metabiography may come of age with postmodernism, its concerns with self-consciousness and fictionality are at once older and more universal.
Soviet Theories of Biography and the Aesthetics of Personality
Authors: Kalugin Dmitri
Published: December 2015

This article considers the history of Russian thinking on the genre of biography, focusing on the Romantic and post-Romantic intellectual tradition that grants to the biographical subject the power to craft one’s own self. This tradition can still be found to be operative in the work of Yuri Lotman and Lydia Ginzburg.
Slander, Buzz and Spin: Telegrams, politics and global communications in the Uganda Protectorate, 1945–55
Authors: Summers Carol
Published: December 2015

Ugandans, from the earliest days of empire, did not simply receive information and messages from a distant Britain. Instead, with methods rooted in pre-colonial understandings of communications as establishing personal, affective, social closeness and reciprocities, they invested in education, travel and correspondence and built wide-ranging information and communications networks. Networked, they understood imperial institutions and pushed their own priorities via both official and unofficial channels. By the 1940s, political activists combined these information networks with the modern technologies of newspapers, telegrams and global press campaigns to destabilize colonial hierarchies. Generating slanderous allegations, repeating them to generate popular buzz, interpreting and constructing evidence through repetition and spin, Ugandan information activists shaped the politics of the 1940s and 1950s through lobbying. The formal, structural characteristics of Ugandans’ late colonial information activism help explain the failures of Britain’s post–World War II scientific, progressive, centrally planned initiatives for development and control.
“I Had No Time to Pick Out the Worms”: Food adulteration in Singapore, 1900–1973
Authors: Tarulevicz Nicole
Published: December 2015

Food safety is a cultural construction, culturally and temporally specific. This paper is concerned with the particular food safety issue of food adulteration in the city-state of Singapore. Taking the five-part definition of food adulteration, published in a local newspaper in 1913 ahead of new legislation, as its structure, this paper examines how food adulteration was understood, subverted, regulated, prosecuted and eventually updated, to trace the institutional constructions and performances of food safety knowledges and their popular responses.
“The Indian’s Own Magna Carta”: Britishness and imperial citizenship in diasporic print culture, 1900–1914
Authors: Spector-Marks Irina
Published: December 2015

In 1914, the Vancouver paper The Hindustanee attacked Canadian immigration officials for violating Indians’ rights which were given to them “on the banks of the Runnymede” at the signing of the Magna Carta. This article contextualizes that claim by examining invocations of the Magna Carta as an integral part of Indians’ response to colonial anti-Asian legislation in the twentieth century. Imperial citizenship functioned for Indians as a Whitening device, offering by implication access to a package of values and rights that connoted Britishness. The racialized meanings of “imperial citizenship” emerged in a print culture that was simultaneously diasporic and imperial.
Health Care Engagement of Limited English Proficient Latino Families: Lessons Learned from Advisory Board Development
Authors: DeCamp Lisa Ross , Polk Sarah , Chrismer Marilyn Camacho , Giusti Flor , Thompson Darcy A. , Sibinga Erica
Published: December 2015

Background: Specific information on the development and evaluation of patient/family engagement in health care improvement for populations with limited English proficiency (LEP) is lacking. Objectives: We sought to provide information for use by other health care organizations aiming to engage LEP populations through advisory groups. Methods: Informed by community-based research principles, we formed a family advisory board of LEP Latino families and conducted a multimodal evaluation of initial implementation and partnership development. Results: The board met process measures goals for sustained engagement of LEP families and for establishing a group structure and process. Board outcomes included contributions to clinic educational materials and initiation of a project to increase the child friendliness of the physical space. Mothers on the board reported satisfaction with their participation. Conclusions: We successfully sustained engagement of LEP Latino families in health care improvement using an advisory board. To promote patient-centered care and address health care disparities, LEP populations should be included in patient engagement programs.
Electronic Health Records: Optimizing Communication to Support the Nonverbal Medical Patient With Developmental Disabilities
Authors: Calman Neil , Little Virna , Garozzo Salvatore
Published: December 2015

Background: A comprehensive look at health status in developmentally disabled populations shows poorer physical, oral, and vision health, and higher rates of heart disease and obesity. Generally, individuals with developmental disabilities have difficulty locating able providers, and face significant barriers in accessing health services. The health care system’s failure to achieve effective collaboration between medical, mental health, and residential providers too often results in substandard care and poor outcomes for these populations. Methods: A creative partnership between two organizations in rural upstate New York, Ulster Green ARC and the Institute for Family Health, has made substantial inroads toward addressing this problem. The organizations have transformed a relationship borne of a financially failing health care model into a successful, comprehensive care network for a severely developmentally disabled population-based in a Federally Qualified Health Center. Conclusions: The success of this effort is largely owing to an innovative use of health information technology to share information.
New Mexico Community Health Councils: Documenting Contributions to Systems Changes
Authors: Sánchez Victoria , Andrews Mark L. , Carrillo Christina , Hale Ron
Published: December 2015

Context: Coalition research has shifted from delineating structures and processes to identifying intermediate, systems changes (e.g., changes in policies) that contribute to longterm community health improvement. Objective: The University of New Mexico, the New Mexico Department of Health, and community health councils entered a multiyear participatory evaluation process to answer: What actions did health councils take that led to improving health through intermediate, systems changes? Design: The evaluation system was created over several phases through an iterative, participatory process. Data were collected for councils’ health priority areas (e.g., substance abuse) from 2009 to 2011. Participants: Twenty-three community health councils participated. Main Outcome Measures: Intermediate systems changes were measured: 1) networking and partnering, 2) joint planning of strategies, programs, and services, 3) leveraging resources, and 4) policy initiatives. Results: Health councils reported data for each intermediate outcome by health priority area. Data showed councils identified local public health priorities and addressed those priorities through strengthening networks and partnerships, which lead to the creation and enhancement of strategies, services, and programs. Data also showed councils influenced policies in several ways (e.g., developing policy, identifying new policy, or sponsoring informational forums). Additionally, data showed councils leveraged $1.10 for every dollar invested by the state. When funding was suspended in July 2010, data showed dramatic decreases in activity levels from 2010 to 2011. Conclusions: The data demonstrate the feasibility and utility of an Internet-based system designed to gather intermediate systems changes evaluation data. This process is a model for similar efforts to capture common outcomes across diverse coalitions and partnerships.
Engaging Underrepresented Minorities in Research: Our Vision for a “Research-Friendly Community”
Authors: Olson Mary , Cottoms Naomi , Sullivan Greer
Published: December 2015

This article introduces our “Research-Friendly Community” vision, placing research in the arena of social justice by giving citizens a voice and opportunity to actively determine research agendas in their community. The mission of Tri-County Rural Health Network, a minority-owned, community-based nonprofit serving 16 counties in Arkansas’ Mississippi River Delta region, is to increase access to health-related services and opportunities to both participate in and shape research. Tri-County has built trust with the community through the use of Deliberative Democracy Forums, a model devised by the Kettering Foundation and through a community health worker program called Community Connectors. Over time, a partnership was formed with investigators at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Tri-County serves as a boundary spanner to link community members, other community organizations, local politicians, policy maker, and researchers. We describe our experience for other nonprofits or universities who might want to develop a similar program.
A Participatory Model for Evaluating a Multilevel Farmers’ Market Intervention
Authors: Alia Kassandra A. , Freedman Darcy A. , Brandt Heather M. , Gibson-Haigler Patricia , Friedman Daniela B.
Published: December 2015

Background: Well-designed evaluation is necessary to document the impact of farmers’ markets (FMs) on health, economic, and community outcomes. However, the complex nature of FMs poses challenges for evaluation. Objective: Our goal is to describe a participatory, multilevel framework used to evaluate a FM implemented at a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in a rural community in the Southeastern United States. Methods: An iterative, collaborative process involving three feedback loops was used to engage community stakeholders in the development, implementation, and utilization of the multilevel evaluation plan. Lessons Learned: A participatory approach helped to navigate the complexities of evaluating FMs and promoted stakeholder engagement. The evaluation became a core element of the intervention that informed continuous quality improvement (CQI). The development of strong university– community partnerships facilitated the ongoing use of results. Conclusions: The evaluation framework presented may be used to promote community engagement and rigor for evaluation of future FMs.
A Community-Engaged Approach to Translating Research into Practice: A Physical Education Story
Authors: Cutforth Nick , Belansky Elaine S.
Published: December 2015

Background: The National Institutes of Health’s Clinical and Translational Sciences Award program emphasizes the need to speed up the process of putting evidence-based practices into place. One strategy they promote is community engagement; however, few studies describe a process for meaningfully engaging communities in the translation process. Objective: This article describes steps taken by a university– community partnership to create a plan for implementing evidence-based physical education (PE) practices in rural schools. This partnership’s efforts resulted in the acquisition of a $1.86 million grant to implement the plan. Methods: Qualitative data collected during the planning process were analyzed using content analysis. Results: Key steps included undertaking a baseline assessment of community needs, reviewing and selecting evidence-based practices, developing a multilevel, community-driven action plan and establishing its feasibility with community stakeholders. Lessons Learned: These steps could be applied to other health topics across a variety of settings. Several strategies that made the process successful are described. Recommendations are made for expanding the roles of Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) and local health foundations in supporting community-engaged translational research. Conclusions: University–community partnerships have the potential to create plans and obtain large-scale funding for translating evidence-based research into practice.
The Breath of Emily Dickinson’s Dashes
Authors: Jung Ena
Published: December 2015

“The Breath of Emily Dickinson’s Dashes” argues that the most idiosyncratic and erratic diacriticals in the Western literary canon can be theorized through two of Walter Benjamin’s terms—“gesture” and mimesis. Functioning as Benjaminian “gestures,” Dickinson’s dashes disrupt the context in which they are found, eliciting readers to reflect on their manifold roles. Reading Dickinson’s own statements about her dashes with Benjamin’s theory of mimetic language accounts for their variegated facets and multiple meanings. Benjamin’s theory encompasses the breadth of Dickinson’s dashes’ illustrative roles and even the common observation that they represent the author’s or speaker’s breath.
The Formation of the Malayan Chinese Association (MCA) Revisited
Authors: Ing Tan Miau
Published: December 2015

This article revisits the formation of the MCA, looking in particular at the roles played by Tan Cheng Lock and Lee Hau Shik (H. S. Lee). Their efforts to get such an organization off the ground in a Malayan Chinese society fragmented by language, political loyalties and economic interests highlight the communal and factional divisions they had to overcome, and explain how Tan Cheng Lock, a locally-born Peranakan who spoke no Chinese, became the body’s leader.
A Cenotaph for Singapore: Contestation and Community at the Straits Settlements War Memorial
Authors: Eaton Clay
Published: December 2015

The Singapore Cenotaph is a First World War memorial built when the island-city was a British colony. The design of the monument and its use in Remembrance Day celebrations by the British colonial administration departed from the less overtly patriotic commemorative practices common in Europe in the 1920s. Regardless of the social significance the British administration hoped to vest in the monument when it was commissioned, contemporary English- and Chinese-language sources indicate that British authorities had little control over this ‘sacred’ space at the heart of their administrative capital, and the Asian populations of Singapore freely interpreted it as they wished, sometimes reworking the official meaning to suit their own ends.
Social Memory and Indian Women from Malaya and Singapore in the Rani of Jhansi Regiment
Authors: Datta Arunima
Published: December 2015

The Rani of Jhansi Regiment (RJR) is scarcely visible in the social memory of the Japanese occupation in Southeast Asia and the activities of Subhash Chandra Bose on behalf of the Indian nationalist movement. The few memoirs that do exist were written by elite and well-educated RJR veterans, and they celebrate a sense of unity among Indians from various background who supported Bose’s efforts, including soldiers who came to the RJR from working class backgrounds in Malaya and Singapore. Using recollections from witnesses to and participants in the Indian nationalist movement in Japanese-occupied Malaya and Singapore, this article challenges the elite view by exploring alternative perceptions of Bose’s activities. Illustrating the importance of gender and socio-economic boundaries in Bose’s nationalist movement, this article argues that differences in class and caste estranged subaltern Indian women during the Occupation.
Wilding performance
Authors: Hopfinger Sarah
Published: December 2015

These Artist Pages are a response to the question, ‘how can a performance practice be ecological?’ By critically reflecting on a recent performance project, Wild Life, I conceptualise a ‘wilding performance practice’. I suggest an ecological ethics arises by attending to performance as an ongoing entanglement of human and non-human wills and trajectories.
Temporary home: An ethical investigation into the ecologies of a homemaking ‘between wheat and pine’
Authors: Andersen Mads Floor
Published: December 2015

How can we produce performance events in an ethical manner, which are built ofs dialogues between the event and the ecological processes in which the event will take place? This article is an investigation of this question through a reflection on the making of Nomadic Arts Festival, Poland 2014. It proposes that an ‘ethical creativity’ can be found in the relation between body and environment, in which an approach of nomadic homemaking is encouraged.
Ant-ic actions
Authors: MacDonald Fiona
Published: December 2015

These Artist Pages describe the process of, and the ethical problems raised by my creative interaction with wood ants (Formica rufa) in a Kent forest (England) in 2014. I draw on Haraway, Massumi, Baker and Jevbratt to touch on questions around collaboration, rules, knowing and responsibility.
Mother Earth tied to the train tracks: The scriptive implications of melodrama in climate change discourse
Authors: Mancus Shannon Davies
Published: December 2015

This article examines the way climate change narratives have mobilized melodramatic frameworks, by examining An Inconvenient Truth (Guggenheim, 2006) as paradigmatic. It engages with recent scholarship that recuperates melodrama from the realm of the pejorative to observe how it structures political discourse and expands on that scholarship by introducing a performance studies methodology to examine how melodrama offers the broad outlines of a script that the would-be hero is asked to improvise within. The essay examines the tropes of melodrama – which include Manichaean dichotomies of good and evil, the implication that suffering is a marker of virtue, and the imperative of a dialectic of pathos and action – in order to analyse their implications for the potential to solve the impending tragedy of devastating climate change. This essay engages in close readings of performances structured by generic scriptive discourse to argue that, for climate change activists, the forms that environmental narratives take, may communicate as much as the content of those narratives.
Euskokantauriar arroko eboluzio geologikoa II: konpresioaren eraginpean
Authors: Apraiz Arturo , Aranburu Arantza , Mendia Miren , Bodego Arantxa
Published: December 2015

Euskokantauriar arroaren eboluzioak oso iraupen luzea du. Goi Permiarrean hasi zen, eta azken prozesuak, Miozenoan gertatu ziren. 250 Ma inguru horietan zehar, aldaketa nabarmenak izan dira bai erregimen tektoniko nagusian (luzapena, konpresioa), bai plaken arteko muga aktiboarekiko distantzian (rifta, ertz pasiboa, ertz aktiboa), eta bai azpiko lurrazalaren izaeran (kontinentala eta hipermehetua). Euskokantauriar arroak, oro har, eboluzio-prozesu konplexua du, baldintza tektoniko nagusiei egokituz pixkanaka aldatu zena.
Enhancement and Optimization Mechanisms of Biogas Production for Rural Household Energy in Developing Countries: A review
Authors: Alemayehu Yitayal Addis
Published: December 2015

Anaerobic digestion is common but vital process used for biogas and fertilizer production as well as one method for waste treatment. The process is currently used in developing countries primarily for biogas production in the household level of rural people. The aim of this review is to indicate possible ways of including rural households who own less than four heads of cattle for the biogas programs in developing countries. The review provides different research out puts on using biogas substrates other than cow dung or its mix through different enhancement and optimization mechanisms. Many biodegradable materials have been studied for alternative methane production. Therefore, these substrates could be used for production by addressing the optimum conditions for each factor and each processes for enhanced and optimized biogas production.
Conocimiento de las personas que viven con el virus del VIH/SIDA sobre la enfermedad
Authors: Dávila L María Elena , Gil Manzanilla Maritza , Tagliaferro Zulay Antonieta
Published: December 2015

Objetivo Determinar el conocimiento de las personas que viven con VIH/SIDA (PVVS) sobre la enfermedad.

Métodos Se diseñó un estudio descriptivo transversal en una muestra de 260 personas. Se utilizó un instrumento tipo cuestionario elaborado por los investigadores y sometido a validación de expertos, el cual constaba de 35 preguntas sobre generalidades y modo de transmisión.

Resultados En su mayoría eran varones (59,6 %), el promedio de edad fue de 35,45±10,90 años y para el tiempo de diagnóstico de los participantes la mediana fue de 3 años; 30 % tenía un nivel educativo básico. Un 3,5 % presentaron un conocimiento general “bueno”. Se encontró diferencias estadísticamente significativas al relacionar el nivel educativo con el conocimiento “deficiente” y “regular” (p<0,000). Un 10,5 % de las mujeres no conocía que el “VIH se transmite por la leche materna”, se observó diferencia estadísticamente significativa entre ambos sexos (p<0,009); 67,6 % no conoce cuales enfermedades oportunistas de la cavidad bucal son frecuentes en las PVVS. No se encontró diferencia estadísticamente significativa (p>0,05) entre nivel educativo y de conocimiento sobre las preguntas relacionadas con las células CD4. Se observó diferencia estadísticamente significativa entre años de diagnóstico y transmisión a través de la leche materna.

Conclusión Se concluye sobre la base de los resultados, que existe la necesidad de desarrollar programas educativos dirigidos a las PVVS con el fin de mejorar su  conocimiento sobre la enfermedad y permita mejorar su calidad de vida.
Calidad del seguimiento clínico y neurológico en una cohorte de recién nacidos muy prematuros, 2002-2012
Authors: Charpak Nathalie , Montealegre-Pomar Adriana
Published: December 2015

Objetivo Explorar el curso clínico de una cohorte de recién-nacidos <1000gr o <29 semanas de edad gestacional al nacer, luego del alta del Programa Madre Canguro (PMC).

Método Encuesta telefónica a padres de una cohorte retrospectiva de 569 prematuros manejados en tres PMC entre 2002 y 2012.

Resultados Se contactó 65,4 % de la cohorte a una mediana de edad de 4 años. 34 pacientes (6 %) fallecieron, 65 % en los primeros 6 meses de vida. Se rehospitalizaron 63 %. 32 % presentaban antecedente de hemorragia intraventricular, 30 % tenían enfermedad Pulmonar Crónica, 5,2 % parálisis cerebral o retardo mental y 2,7 % convulsiones. 72 % se controlaron por Pediatra, 65 % necesitaron terapia física y 39 % terapia del lenguaje. 7 % repitieron años escolares y 9 % de los mayores de 4 años no había iniciado escritura. 4 % de los que ya escribían, presentaba dificultades. 81 % de los mayores de 6 años presentaba dificultad para vestirse, 55 % no practicaba ningún deporte.

Discusión Los prematuros extremamente inmaduros o de bajo peso tienen una tasa elevada de secuelas respiratorias y neurológicas que impactan su calidad de vida y la de su familia. Es importante continuar con un seguimiento estricto después de 12 meses para detectar y manejar a tiempo las alteraciones del desarrollo neuro-psicomotor.  
Species richness and functional groups of angiosperms from the Paraná River Delta region (Argentina)
Authors: Madanes Nora , Quintana Rubén Darío , Kandus Patricia , Bó Roberto Fabián
Published: December 2015

We provide a checklist of angiosperms collected in the Paraná River Delta Region during the 1990s and early 2000s. Plants were taxonomically identified and classified according to their origin (native/endemic and exotic) and functional group based on their distribution, biological type, morpho-ecology, photosynthetic type and life cycle. A total of 79 families and 375 species were recorded, of which 87.5% were native (46.93% of subtropical-temperate distribution) and 12.5% were exotic (62.72% of temperate distribution). The herbaceous broadleaf and graminoid vegetation predominated in native (76.65%) and exotic (82.35%) species groups. There were only equisetoid herbaceous plants in native species group. Rooted emergent plants and the C3 functional group predominated among native (88.69% and 80.62%, respectively) and exotic (100% in both cases) species groups. Most of the native plants (85.23%) were perennials, while annuals and perennials were equally represented among the exotic species.
Möten via mellanhand - Kärlekens och dödens instrument i romanen Den engelske patienten och filmen Pianot
Authors: Klintborg Staffan
Published: December 2015

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Passion och kärlek - Om världslitteraturens eviga inspirationskälla
Authors: Bulle Alain
Published: December 2015

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Några ord om Heinrich von Kleist
Authors: Johansson Evald
Published: December 2015

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1600-talsmänniskan och den straffande Guden
Authors: Larsson Olle
Published: December 2015

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Korrekturläsning - en ögonöppnare?
Authors: Byrman Gunilla
Published: December 2015

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Att vara överens men ändå inte - Ett bidrag till en fortsatt diskussion om historieskrivning, normativitet och postmodernitet
Authors: Nilsson Roddy
Published: December 2015

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Svar på tal. Indianer och samer bemöter europeisk kolonisation
Authors: Fur Gunlög
Published: December 2015

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Det lokala globalt - om nyheter på webben
Authors: Byrman Gunilla , Virtanen Tuija
Published: December 2015

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Humanistiska notiser från Linnéuniversitetet
Authors: Hägerdal Hans
Published: December 2015

Charlotte Hommerberg, Persuasiveness in the discourse of wine. The rhetoric of Robert Parker (Växjö : Linnaeus University Press, 2011). Doktorsavhandling i engelska.

Wirginia Bogatic, Exilens dilemma: att stanna eller att återvända: beslut i Sverige av polska kvinnor som överlevde KZ-lägret Ravensbrück och räddades till Sverige 1945-1947 (Växjö : Linnaeus University Press, 2011). Doktorsavhandling i historia. 

Joakim Stoltz, L’alternance codique dans l’enseignement du FLE: étude quantitative et qualitative de la production orale d’interlocuteurs suédophones en classe de lycée (Växjö : Linnaeus University Press, 2011). Doktorsavhandling i franska. 

Anette Almgren White, Intermedial narration i den fotolyriska bilderboken. Jean Claude Arnault, Katarina Frostenson och Rut Hillarp (Växjö : Linnaeus University Press, 2011). Doktorsavhandling i litteraturvetenskap.

Fredrik Håkansson, Standing up to a Multinational Giant. The Saint-Gobain World Council and the American Window Glass Workers’ Strike in the American Saint Gobain Corporation in 1969 (Växjö : Linnaeus University Press, 2011). Doktorsavhandling i historia.

Zara Bersbo, ”Rätt för kvinnan att blifva människa - fullt och helt”: Svenska kvinnors ekonomiska medborgarskap 1921-1971 (Växjö : Linnaeus University Press, 2011). Doktorsavhandling i historia.

Simon Hartling, L’Autorité dissimulée – l’autorité manifeste. L’écriture de la violence chez Yasmina Khadra (Växjö : Linnaeus University Press, 2012). Doktorsavhandling i fransk litteraturvetenskap.

Kirsten Husung, L’Ecriture comme seul pays. Construction et subversion des discours identitaires: hybridité et genre chez Assia Djebar et Nina Bouraoui (Växjö : Linnaeus University Press, 2012). Doktorsavhandling i franska.

Ewa Bergh Nestlog, Var är meningen? Elevtexter och undervisningspraktiker (Växjö : Linnaeus University Press, 2012). Doktorsavhandling i svenska.
Hur tänkte Tumme? Om runstenen i Tuna gärde
Authors: Hansson Martin
Published: December 2015

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Grand duches Olga Alexandrovna and Mariya Pavlovna as sisters of mercy during World War I
Authors: Blokhina N N
Published: December 2015

The article describes Romanov dynasty representatives work as the Sisters of Mercy: the sister of Emperor Nicholas II Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, and cousin of the Emperor Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, in the Russian military hospitals from the very first days of the First World War. Realizing that sick and wounded need care, they gave all their energy to service to them. Complying with hospitals everyday life order where they held the service, not distinguishing themselves, they lived everyday hospital life. August sisters seemed humane and kindred because they aspired to alleviate the suffering of the paternalized wounded, console them, show them kindness. The Romanov dynasty representatives personified for the wounded all near and dear to their hearts. They constituted that higher female creature which embodies the virtues of mother and wife, and at the same time the Christian service paragon, what was always much valued among Russian people. Both Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, Jr., the Red Cross Evgenevskiy community nurse, activities flowed in the tense daily work, difficult military life conditions and hardships. Sisters of Mercy of the Romanov dynasty - Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna - became exemplary models for all young sisters, who joined the road of charity in the grim days of First World War.
Commentary on “Does Seeing One Another’s Gaze Affect Group Dialogue? A Computational Approach”
Authors: Hoppe H. Ulrich
Published: December 2015

This commentary elaborates on the role of “grounding” as a focal theoretical concept and tries to contextualise the claims formulated by the paper at hand in previous CSCL discussions. It tries to give fingerposts for enriching and refining the concept of grounding from a pedagogical point view. It also suggests to use mutual awareness of eye-gaze in the context of dialogical learning.
Learning analytics to support teachers during synchronous CSCL: balancing between overview and overload
Authors: Van Leeuwen Anouschka
Published: December 2015

Learning analytics (LA) are summaries, visualizations, and analyses of student data that could improve learning in multiple ways, for example by supporting teachers. However, not much empirical evidence is available yet concerning the effects of LA on how teachers diagnose student progress and intervene during students’ learning activities. The goal of this paper is to summarize the empirical work that was undertaken recently concerning the effect of various types of LA tools on teacher regulation of collaboration groups of students, and to describe the theoretical mechanisms by which LA tools may support teachers in synchronous, moment-to-moment regulation of computer-supported collaborative learning. The hypothesized mechanisms are that LA tools can 1) aggregate information to a manageable level and thereby lower information load, 2) steer the focus of the teacher’s attention, and 3) increase the teacher’s confidence concerning the diagnosis of the situation. In the final section, the role of teacher goals and beliefs in the use of LA tools is discussed, which is argued should be kept in mind when implementing LA in classroom situations.
Beyond Time-on-Task: The Relationship Between Spaced Study and Certification in MOOCs
Authors: Miyamoto Yohsuke Roy , Coleman Cody , Williams Joseph Jay , Whitehill Jacob , Nesterko Sergiy , Reich Justin
Published: December 2015

A long history of laboratory and field experiments has demonstrated that dividing study time into many sessions is often superior to massing study time into few sessions, a phenomenon widely known as the “spacing effect.” Massive open online courses (MOOCs) collect abundant data about student activity over time, but little of its early research has used learning theory to interrogate these data. Taking inspiration from this psychology literature, here we use data collected from MOOCs to identify observational evidence for the benefits of spaced practice in educational settings. We investigated tracking logs from 20 HarvardX courses to examine whether there was any relationship between how students allocated their participation and what performance they achieved.  While controlling for the effect of total time on-site, we show that the number of sessions students initiate is an important predictor of certification rate, across students in all courses. Furthermore, we demonstrate that when students spend similar amounts of time in multiple courses, they perform better in courses where that time is distributed among more sessions, suggesting the benefit of spaced practice independently of student characteristics. We conclude by proposing interventions to guide students’ study schedules and for leveraging such an effect.
Commentary On "Beyond Time-on-Task: The Relationship Between Spaced Study and Certification in MOOCs"
Authors: Pardos Zachary A
Published: December 2015

In Miyamoto et al. (2015, this issue) the authors looked to substantiate the presence of the spacing effect, referenced from the Psychology literature, in several MOOCs. Their secondary analyses constituted a robust, empirical finding on the correspondence between session distribution and certification but with only a coarse, analogous relationship to the theory of distributed practice. This article underscores the difficulty of validating theory and inferring causation from data produced in the wild but also the resultant rigor necessitated by this difficulty.
Does Seeing One Another’s Gaze Affect Group Dialogue? A Computational Approach
Authors: Schneider Bertrand , Pea Roy
Published: December 2015

In a previous study, we found that real-time mutual gaze perception (i.e., being able to see the gaze of your partner in real time on a computer screen while solving a learning task) had a positive effect on students’ collaboration and learning (Schneider & Pea, 2013). The goals of this paper are to: 1) explore a variety of computational techniques for analyzing the transcripts of students’ discussions; 2) examine whether any of those measures sheds new light on our previous results; and 3) test whether those metrics have any predictive power regarding learning outcomes. Using various natural language processing algorithms, we found that linguistic coordination (i.e., the extent to which students mimic each other in terms of their grammatical structure) did not predict the quality of student collaboration or learning gains. However, we found that a simple computational measure of students’ verbal coherence (i.e., the extent to which students build on each others’ ideas) was positively correlated with their learning gains. Additionally, this measure was significantly different across our experimental conditions: students who could see the gaze of their partner in real time were more likely to develop a coherent discussion. Finally, using various language metrics, we were able to roughly predict (i.e., using a median-split) learning gains with a 94.4% accuracy using Support Vector Machine. The accuracy dropped to 75% when we used our model on a validation set. We conclude by discussing the benefits of using computational techniques on educational datasets.
El Enfoque de Competencias para formar Emprendedores: Evaluación del modelo de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, México (The role of competence focusing in entrepreneur shaping: Evaluating the University of Yucatan (Mexico) model)
Authors: Cantón Castillo Luis Carlos G. , García Lira Alan , Iuit González Magaly Carmen
Published: December 2015

El presente trabajo pretende aportar conoci- miento en la formación y evaluación de programas o modelos de emprendedores en el enfoque de com- petencias, y ofrece al lector la evaluación realizada al modelo de emprendedores de la UADY, cuyo objetivo es verificar si el programa y las vertientes del modelo de emprendedores actuales están alineadas con el nue- vo modelo educativo de la institución, MEFI, y si el programa provee al alumno de las competencias que este documento establece para emprender. Desde el punto de vista metodológico, se comparó los resulta- dos obtenidos en las diferentes vertientes del modelo de emprendedores con lo establecido en los ejes del MEFI, y en el caso de las competencias que desarrolla el estudiante, se aplicó una encuesta que, además de las competencias establecidas en el MEFI, adicionó las de otros autores a nivel internacional. Los principales hallazgos muestran que el programa emprendedor y las principales vertientes del modelo de emprendedores cumplen fehacientemente con los ejes del MEFI. Por otro lado, todos los estudiantes encuestados admiten beneficios de aprendizaje tras su participación en el programa, sea en la modalidad de adquisición o en la de mejoramiento.

 

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This work aims to increase current knowledge in establishing and evaluating models for entrepreneur shaping by competence focusing, and offers readers the evaluation made to the “UADY” model whose objective was to verify if the program and its outco- mes are aligned with the university’s new educational model or “MEFI”, and whether or not it provides students with the competences required to start up companies.  Results obtained in different outcomes of the entrepreneurial model were compared with ob-jectives established in the “MEFI” and with a survey done among students that incorporated competences recommended by internationally recognized authors added to the ones suggested by the model.  Results showed that both the entrepreneurial program and its outcomes closely followed the “MEFI” guidelines and that students surveyed showed a significant increase in learning after participating in the program, either acquiring or perfecting entrepreneurial knowledge.
¿Cómo potenciar el uso de las redes sociales como estrategia de marketing en empresas del sector hostelero? El re-descubrimiento de “Pinterest” (How to promote the use of social networks as a marketing strategy in companies in the hospitality industry)
Authors: Grandi Bustillos Claudia Vanesa , González Ladrón de Guevara Fernando , Segarra Oña María Del Val
Published: December 2015

Las acciones tradicionales del marketing de servicios han sufrido una revolución con la implantación de las nuevas tecnologías y, espe- cialmente, con el uso generalizado de las redes sociales. Hoy en día, los usuarios están influen- ciados por las opiniones vertidas a través de estas redes a la hora de adquirir servicios por internet. El sector hostelero se ha visto influenciado tam- bién por las redes sociales, pero muchas de sus empresas no han detectado todavía las oportu-
nidades que ofrecen. El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar el empleo de las redes sociales como parte de la estrategia de marketing a tra- vés de una revisión del estado de la cuestión. Las conclusiones indican que la red social Pinterest encaja perfectamente en el sector hostelero y se recomienda su uso en aquellas empresas que deseen la exposición y publicidad de la marca, y que posean gran calidad de contenido visual.

 

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The traditional service marketing actions have undergone a revolution with the introduction of new technologies and especially with the widespread use of social networks. Users are influenced by the opinions that are presented on these networks when purchasing services online. The hospitality industry has also been influenced by social networks, but many hospitality companies have not detected the opportunities
yet. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the use of social media as a component of the firms´ marketing strategy through a review of the state of the art. Results show that the social network Pinterest fits perfectly in the hospitality industry and its use is recommended for companies who want exposure and brand advertising with high quality visual content
A dinâmica da notícia nas redes sociais na internet: uma categorização das ações participativas dos usuários no Twitter e no Facebook
Authors: Sousa Maíra de Cássia Evangelista de
Published: December 2015

A dinâmica da notícia nas redes sociais na internet está relacionada à etapa de circulação a partir da forma de apresentação e do conteúdo das postagens e à recirculação a partir das ações participativas dos usuários. Neste artigo, o objetivo é apresentar uma proposta de categorização da recirculação no Twitter e no Facebook de acordo com as ações participativas dos usuários (filtro social e reverberação) e analisar como se dá essa recirculação nas redes sociais na internet. De caráter descritivo-analítico, o estudo combinou técnicas qualitativas e quantitativas. A análise foi realizada a partir de postagens publicadas em janeiro de 2013 nas contas do Twitter e do Facebook do portal jornalístico Estadão sobre o incêndio na Boate Kiss, ocorrido na cidade de Santa Maria (RS).
Per un’apologia della maschera
Authors: Bertò Alessio
Published: December 2015

Il presente studio si propone, attraverso una breve esegesi delle teorie sulla maschera e il processo di mascheratura, rivalutare la funzione dell'atto e la figura del travestimento e la maschera, ridotta oggi – se non relegata in un uno strumento di lavoro tecnico – a mero strumento, astratto o concreto, di falsificazione o inganno progettato per nascondere la vera identità dell'utente. Il proposito di maschera della maschera come chiave di accesso a una realtà interiore del soggetto e come una liberazione del sé in stretti canali prefigurati dalla società sempre più impegnato nella formazione di modelli predefiniti di identità, può essere intesa analizzando il significato psicologico della maschera, insieme agli studi antropologici che hanno permesso la scoperta di segreti e le funzioni di questa nelle società antiche, così come nella contemporanea. Questo viaggio ci porterà alla la porta del Sé, in cui la maschera non nasconde un'altra identità, ma apre la strada alla produzione della Persona, permettere il soggetto di porsi al concorso di tutti i giorni della realtà, l’espressione dell'Essere-in-Mondo, per per consentire l'adattamento e la sopravvivenza, garantire la libertà di espressione senza perdersi nell'anonimato di una maschera di morte, "il conformismo e le mode (ideologicos, culturales, sociales), sono i guardiani segreti".
Notas sobre a pirataria de games no Brasil
Authors: Messias José Carlos
Published: December 2015

O objetivo deste trabalho não é advogar sobre a pirataria sob um ponto de vista ético. Embora se reconheça a relevância deste debate, nossa análise se focará nas questões cognitivas e de produção de subjetividade ligadas às práticas piratas da cultura gamer. Defende-se que as subjetividades envolvidas na pirataria de games põem em movimento redes de sociabilidade, processos de autoformação e tutoria, manipulação de dispositivos técnicos complexos, além do estímulo a produção criativa e livre. O relato desta investigação em andamento se debruça sobre comunidades virtuais do site de relacionamento Orkut e sua comunidade Brazukas.
difícil sintonia entre a Responsabilidade Social Empresarial e a globalização da economia capitalista no discurso da comunicação organizacional
Authors: Sólio Marlene Branca
Published: December 2015

Este artigo é uma reflexão acerca da relação entre os conceitos de globalização, capitalismo, Responsabilidade Social Empresarial e comunicação organizacional. À luz de discussão teórica, busca analisar dados levantados em campo por meio de pesquisa qualitativa desenvolvida em dois momentos: primeiro, na análise de um grupo de entrevistas com líderes de Associações de Moradores de Bairro (Amobs) de Caxias do Sul, no estado do Rio Grande do Sul (RS), e, após, na análise do discurso e de conteúdo de peças promocionais de uma de três organizações inseridas no contexto dos entrevistados. A pesquisa objetivou comparar o discurso das organizações com o discurso dos líderes entrevistados (representantes da população de seus respectivos bairros) na tentativa de compreender o tipo de relação que se estabelece entre eles, em que nível ela denota a presença efetiva da Responsabilidade Social Empresarial de parte das organizações e, também, como os cidadãos percebem o comportamento destas organizações. Parece-nos importante uma reflexão nessa linha, na medida em que o discurso das organizações aparece disruptivo relativamente às suas práticas e na medida em que entendemos que as organizações subestimam a força de mudanças paradigmáticas que despontam na sociedade, bem como a capacidade de leituras transversais (pontos de fuga) dos sujeitos sociais.
Reflexões: os sentidos sociais da programação
Authors: Duarte Elizabeth Bastos
Published: December 2015

O presente trabalho propõe desenvolver uma reflexão sobre o modo de funcionamento, além de lógicas e funções que presidem a organização das grades de programação das emissoras generalistas, examinando com especial atenção as transformações pelas quais vem passando a programação da Rede Globo de Televisão (RGT), com a finalidade expressa de levantar hipóteses, a serem confirmadas em pesquisa posterior, que possibilitem uma melhor compreensão dos sentidos e das razões que norteiam as alterações em curso. Nessa perspectiva, procura analisar os investimentos feitos pela emissora na produção ficcional, nos remakes e, principalmente, nos programas de auditório, visto que atualmente a RGT coloca no ar, semanalmente, mais de 12 programas, ligados a esse subgênero televisual. Os apontamentos finais procuram apresentar justificativas para essas alterações.