bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
INFLUENCIA DA CONCENTRAÇÃO DE ALB2, TITÂNIO E ESTRÔNCIO NA MACRO E MICROESTRUTURA DE UMA LIGA ALUMÍNIO-SILÍCIO
Authors: Quadro Alexandre Leão , Sabariz Antônio Luís Ribeiro , Raposo Marco Túlio
Published: March 2016

Com o objetivo de verificar o efeito das possíveis interações entre AlB2, Ti e Sr sobre a macro e a microestrutura de uma liga Al-Si quase-eutética, foram feitos testes de refino de grão da Aluminum Association, variando-se a concentração de AlB2 (de 40 a 280 ppm de B), Ti (de 100 a 700 ppm) e Sr (de 50 a 200 ppm). O tamanho médio de grão das amostras foi medido através do método do intercepto e a modificação da estrutura eutética foi avaliada utilizando-se padrões internacionais. Observa-se que um aumento no teor de Ti favorece o refino da fase primária Al-alfa pelo AlB2. Para níveis de 300 ppm de Ti e 120 ppm de B, a modificação da estrutura eutética pelo Sr não foi deteriorada após a adição do AlB2, o que ocorre para taxas mais altas de adição de AlB2, devido a formação da fase SrB6. Portanto a adição de Ti é recomendada (quando propriedades elétricas e térmicas não são requisitos), por permitir trabalhar com taxas mais baixas de adição de AlB2 (120 ppm de B), obtendo excelente de refino de grão ( ~ 200 microns) e sem que ocorra o envenenamento do Sr pelo AlB2.
CAPACIDADE DO SISTEMA DE LEVANTE HIDRÁULICO DOS TRATORES AGRÍCOLAS DE PNEUS NO BRASIL
Authors: Veit André Augusto , Alonço Airton Dos Santos , Francetto Tiago Rodrigo , Becker Rafael Sobroza , Bellé Mateus Potrich
Published: March 2016

O sistema hidráulico do trator se torna importante por ser um modo de acoplamento de alguns implementos agrícolas, além de transmitir potência. Por isso, objetivou-se verificar as variações da potência do motor relacionadas com a capacidade de levante dos três pontos, pressão máxima e vazão máxima da bomba. Também observar a capacidade de levante em função da massa do trator sem lastro. Para isto, foram coletados dados de 171 modelos de 11 marcas diferentes de tratores agrícolas de pneus. Estes foram classificados pela potência do motor segundo a ANFAVEA (Associação nacional dos fabricantes de veículos automotores). Foi construída uma planilha eletrônica para coletar as variáveis a serem estudadas. A vazão máxima da bomba foi a variável a qual menos foram encontrados dados, variando de 39,13 a 62,16% nas diferentes classes. Tratores da classe II e III apresentaram as melhores relações quando uma das variáveis era capacidade de levante. A variação média da vazão máxima da bomba relacionada à potência motora é proporcional, ou seja, tanto a vazão quanto a potência se elevaram igualmente, com valores médios de 0,79 até 1,09, nas diferentes classes.
Avaliação da rotulagem nutricional e das características físico-químicas e microbiológicas de diferentes marcas de leite pasteurizado e leite UHT
Authors: Weschenfelder Simone , Paim Marcelo Pinto , Gerhardt Carin , Wiest José Maria
Published: March 2016

O objetivo do estudo foi verificar se diferentes marcas de leite pasteurizado e leite UHT integral atendem aos parâmetros de rotulagem e ao regulamento técnico de identidade e qualidade estabelecido pela legislação brasileira. Foram avaliadas dez marcas de leite integral, sendo duas de leite pasteurizado e oito de leite UHT. Quanto à rotulagem, todas as marcas apresentaram conformidade em relação aos parâmetros exigidos pela legislação. Uma marca de leite pasteurizado e três de leite UHT não estavam em conformidade em pelo menos dois, dos cinco lotes avaliados para parâmetros como percentual de gordura, extrato seco desengordurado, peroxidase e contagem de micro-organismos mesófilos aeróbios estritos e facultativos viáveis. Os resultados encontradosapontam que, em quatro das dez marcas avaliadas, existe a necessidade de maior monitoramento das etapas de beneficiamento do leite, uma vez que os alimentos industrializados oferecidos à população devem atender aos parâmetros estabelecidos pela legislação, sendo sinônimos de qualidade e segurança para quem os consome.
Penggunaan Accelerometer MMA7361 sebagai Alternatif Pengukuran Lendutan pada Jembatan Secara Nirkabel Berbasis ATmega32
Authors: Syaryadhi Mohd , Hasibuan Purwandy , Suhardi Suhardi
Published: March 2016

A bridge is planned and built with a certain capability against vehicles through it. The vehicles movement causes vibration and vertical deflection on certain parts of the bridge. If the vibration occurs continuously in a great value, then the bridge will be damaged sooner than had been planned. This research reports a design of a vertical deflection measuring system prototype on bridge, employing an accelerometer MMA7361 sensor which is controlledby ATmega32. The system was tested by manually loading the trial bridge with 1 m of length. The loading deflects down the bridge to maximum 15 cm from the reference point. Sensor readout data was sent wirelessly using ZigBee real time to computer in a graphical display for easy analysis. The research give an alternative method in vertical deflection measuring on the bridge that can be utilized by stakeholder in policy decision.
Correlates of Problematic Mobile Phone Use among Korean College Students
Authors: Cho Sunhee , Jeon Gyeong-Suk
Published: March 2016

The purpose of this study was to explore correlates of problematic mobile phone use among Korean college students. A cross-sectional descriptive survey was conducted. A sample size of 122 male and 106 female students residing in Jeollaman-do province completed the instruments of problematic mobile phone use, depressive symptoms, anxiety, interpersonal relationship, and alcohol drinking. Data was analyzed by multiple logistic regressions. Approximately 17% of college students reported problematic mobile phone use, and female (25%) were more likely to report problematic mobile phone use compared with male (9%). Depressive symptoms, interpersonal relationship, alcohol use, and female were significantly associated with problematic mobile phone use after controlling for other covariates. We call for special effort on early detection and monitoring of problematic mobile phone use among college students. In addition, specific strategies focused on psychological approach for problematic mobile phone use should be developed. (Korean J Str Res 2016;24:13∼22)
Development and Evaluation of Cognitive Behavioral Group Treatment to Reduce Psychological Stress of Emotion Labor Workers: A Preliminary Study
Authors: Lee Jungeun , Kim Myeongsook , Shin Jaeeun , Jo Moonhan , Lee Injae
Published: March 2016

The current study aims to develop and evaluate cognitive behavioral group treatment to reduce psychological stress of emotion labor workers, considering lack of interventions for emotion labor workers in South Korea. The participants were social workers (N=26) and intra-company telemarketers (N=22) who are considered as representative emotion labor workers. A two day treatment based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy targeting depression, anxiety, anger, and stress level was developed. Assessments were done pre-to-post treatment. As a result, perceived stress, anger, and anxiety decreased significantly and participants reported high satisfaction with the program. Limitations and suggestions for further study were included. (Korean J Str Res 2016;24:35∼ 45)
Diferença de Classe no SUS: Discursos favoráveis em audiência pública no STF em 2014.
Authors: Martins Mayara Mota
Published: March 2016

Diante do pedido do Conselho Regional de Medicina do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, que demanda a instituição da chamada ‘Diferença de classe no SUS’, o Supremo Tribunal Federal convocou audiência pública para a oitiva de especialistas e pessoas com experiência na área da saúde a fim de subsidiar a decisão desta corte. A diferença de classe consiste na melhoria de acomodação recebida pelo usuário no caso da sua internação, e a contratação do profissional médico de sua preferência mediante o pagamento da respectiva diferença. Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar os argumentos favoráveis à diferença de classe no SUS proferidos na audiência pública ‘Internação Hospitalar com diferença de classe no SUS’ realizada no dia 26 de maio de 2014 no STF, e fazer uma reflexão sobre de que forma essa medida poderia impactar o SUS frente aos seus princípios e diretrizes, por meio da análise de discurso. Verificou-se que a diferença de classe se mostra incompatível com o SUS, já que este tem como diretrizes a igualdade e universalidade do atendimento sem privilégios de qualquer espécie. Ademais, a instituição da diferença de classe no SUS não somente fere a legislação brasileira, como representa um retrocesso no que tange os direitos sociais. Com esse entendimento a Suprema Corte aboliu a diferença de classe julgando favoravelmente ao SUS.
Ministério Público e Políticas de Saúde
Authors: Barbosa Silva Oswaldo José
Published: March 2016

Resenha do livro Ministério Público e Políticas de Saúde de autoria de Luciano Moreira Oliveira
Editorial
Authors: Delduque Maria Célia
Published: March 2016

Editora Científica
Biographical Self-Reflection as a Resource for Personal Development in Adults
Authors: Klementyeva M.V.
Published: March 2016

The paper focuses on the stages in the development of mind in adults related to biographical self-reflection. The hypothesis of the study was that biographical self-reflection affects meaning-making, self-regulation and adaptation in the adults. The sample consisted of 480 individuals aged 25—65 years. The study measured indicators of biographical self-reflection, social psychological adaptation, life meaningfulness and self-regu- lation. We have found that in the age period of 46-65 years there is a shift from self-reflection on the path of life to self-reflection on life experience, which reinforces the influence of biographical self-reflection on the meaningfulness of life and self-regulation in the adults. Our study also revealed increases in biographical self-reflection at the beginning of age crises in adulthood (30—35, 40—45, 55—60 years) when, as a result of reflective analysis, the adult realizes the need for change in his/her life.
Reproducibility of Psychological Experiments as a Problem of Post-Nonclassical Science
Authors: Vachkov I. , Vachkova S.N.
Published: March 2016

A fundamental project on reproducibility carried out in the USA by Brian Nosek in 2015 (the Reproducibility Project) revealed a serious methodological problem in psychology: the issue of replication of psycho- logical experiments. Reproducibility has been traditionally perceived as one of the basic principles of the scientific method. However, methodological analysis of the modern post-nonclassical stage in the development of science suggests that this might be a bit too uncompromising as applied to psychology. It seems that the very criteria of scientific research need to be reconsidered with regard to the specifics of post-nonclassical science, and, as the authors put it, as a result, reproducibility might lose its key status or even be excluded at all. The reviewed problem and the proposed ways of coping with it are of high importance to research and practice in psychology as they define the strategies for organizing, conducting and evaluating experimental research.
Ways of development of linguistics in the field of professional communication
Authors: Galizina E.G.
Published: March 2016

Competent approach, foreign professional communication, teaching and stages of its formation of skills for students of non-languages specialties are considered in this article.
Communication and hermeneutics for inclusion
Authors: Salmeri S.
Published: March 2016

Hermeneutic pedagogy represents a problematical and critical approach. Hermeneutics allows to look at education as a possibility rather than a necessity, ensuring respect to the weakest and the difference. The hermeneutic paradigm is thus a strategy for critical emancipation and for conscientization.
Introdução de Espécies em Ecossistemas Aquáticos: Causas, Prevenção e Medidas de Controle
Authors: Bellay Sybelle , Rosa Rafael Rogério , Bozza André Nogueira , Fernandes Sue Ellen Prata , Silveira Márcio José
Published: March 2016

Espécies não nativas causam danos imprevisíveis sobre os ecossistemas e são consideradas pela IUCN como a segunda maior causa mundial de perda de biodiversidade. Os ecossistemas aquáticos são particularmente vulneráveis a esse impacto e muitas pesquisas mostram que essas espécies não nativas podem alterar a composição das comunidades nativas. A proposta deste estudo é apresentar as principais causas de introduções de espécies em ecossistemas aquáticos e possíveis medidas de prevenção e controle de espécies invasoras. Em ambientes aquáticos destacam-se como causas de introduções: destruição de barreiras geográficas como construções de reservatórios e canais de transposição de rios; criação e melhoria dos estoques naturais, devido à falta de planejamento na construção e manutenção dos locais de criação; aquariofilia e ornamentação de paisagens. Além disso, o turismo através da pesca esportiva, o controle biológico na tentativa de exterminar outra espécie já introduzida, a fauna associada a qual é transportada junto com a água, substratos ou hospedeiros e água de lastro principalmente proveniente de navios mercantis, também contribuem para as introduções de espécies. Medidas de controle de espécies não nativas são escassas e a identificação de vetores, monitoramento, políticas públicas e estudos são algumas estratégias que podem ajudar a diminuir os impactos ambientais causados por espécies não nativas em ecossistemas aquáticos. A divulgação e orientação sobre os impactos ambientais causados por espécies não nativas direcionadas para a população leiga e científica faz-se necessário, sendo a Internet uma ferramenta imprescindível e prioritária no combate a espécies não nativas.
Avenida 9 de julho, n° 1066
Authors: Senra Angela Maria De Freitas
Published: March 2016

Avenida 9 de julho, n° 1066 por Angela Senra
Tropical
Authors: Oliveira Luiz Cláudio Vieira de
Published: March 2016

Tropical por Luiz Clâudio Vieira de Oliveira
A construção da tenda ficcional em Léguas da promissão de Adonias Filho
Authors: Figueiredo Maria do Carmo Lanna
Published: March 2016

Resumo: Este trabalho é a re-estruturação de uma parte da dissertação de Mestrado, "Léguas da Promissão: o encantatório a serviço da narrativa'", apresentada ao Curso de Pós-Graduação da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais em 1980, onde se procurou mostrar que é a partir do tema da violência e para escapar a ela que a ficção se organiza. O ensaio focaliza a narrativa como um jogo em que a utilização de elementos encantatórios é especialmente significativa, destacando-se como criadores destes recursos o mito, o rito, o folclore, a música, o ponto de vista das narrativas entre outros.Résumé: Dans l'analyse de Léguas da Promissão, ensemble de nouvelle d'Adonias Filho, nous essayons de détacher la symbolique de l'espace romanesque à travers l'étude du rite, du mythe, du folklore, du théatre et de la musique. La violence, toujours présente dans l'espace romanesque de les nouvelles, est considerée comme point de départ pour etablir la structure du texte. Nous cherchons à montrer que c'est à partir de la violence et pour lui échapper que la fiction s'organise, une fiction qui a la nature d'un jeu, où l'utilisation des éléments de sorcellerie esttellement significative que nous pourrions dire que dans le recueil Léguas da Promissão, "l'incantatoire est au service du récit."
Procedimentos narrativos em "os sinais da agonia": vozes e modos da enunciação
Authors: Marques Reinaldo Martiniano
Published: March 2016

Resumo: O presente trabalho constitui parte de um capítulo da dissertação apresentada para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Literatura Brasileira na Faculdade de Letras da UFMG, em outubro de 1984, sob o título "Os sinos da agonia: técnica narrativa e consciência trágica na ficção de Autran Dourado". Aqui pretende-se evidenciar alguns procedimentos da técnica narrativa autraniana em Os sinos da agonia, particularmente o tratamento concedido às vozes da narrativa e aos modos do narrar, recorrendo-se a uma analogia esclarecedora com a narrativa cinematográfica.Résumé: Ce travail constitue une partie d'un chapitre de ma dissertation, présentée en vue de ma maitrise en Litterature Brésilienne, faite à la Faculté des Lettres de l'Université Fédérale de Minas Gerais. em octobre 1984, sous le titre: "Os sinos da agonia: technique narrative et conscience tragique dans l'oeuvre de fiction d'Autran Dourado". Nous avons comme but de méttre en évidence quelques procédés de technique narrative chez Autran Dourado dans Os sinos da agonia, tout particulièrement le traitement donné aux du pécit et aux façons de raconter, en nous aidant pour cela d'une analogie très éclairante faite avec le récit cinématographique.
Um modelo poético
Authors: Ramos Maria Luiza
Published: March 2016

Dentre as objeções que, ali e aqui, ainda se fazem ao estruturalismo com respeito à sua aplicação no campo da crítica literária, uma das mais frequentes é insistir-se em que o método não se pode prestar à análise de obras particulares, uma vez que pressupõe a existência de um conjunto de variantes.
AFRICA. Un continente con oportunidad y futuro
Authors: Nonell Torres Pedro , Acuña Barrantes Henry
Published: March 2016

Este documento tiene como propósito general, presentar las conductas, de personajes destacados y sus creencias religiosas del continente africano, se exteriorizan algunos hechos relativos al comercio intra-africano y se destacan las características específicas de la estructura empresarial entre los países de África que deberán tenerse en cuenta para promover ese comercio y la incursión de países de la BRICS; fue perfilado bajo el paradigma cualitativo y el enfoque hermenéutico. Se utilizó el método documental y descriptivo; el primero, por la consulta realizada a diferentes documentos científicos en internet; y el segundo porque de la información encontrada en la web se extrajo, describió e interpretó lo más trascendente de determinadas personalidades y sus dogmas (Cristiana, católica, ortodoxa, protestante, Islámica, Musulmana sunita, etc.) a su vez, se evidencian las oportunidades y desafíos de este territorio 
MultiSlice CAIPIRINHA Using View Angle Tilting Technique (CAIPIVAT)
Authors: Kim Min-Oh , Hong Taehwa , Kim Dong-Hyun
Published: March 2016

We aim to focus on improving the performance of slice parallel imaging while simultaneously correcting for spatial shift artifacts related to off-resonance. In multislice controlled aliasing in parallel imaging results in higher acceleration (CAIPIRINHA), simultaneously excited slices are shifted along the phase-encoding direction by varying the radiofrequency phase for each slice, thereby obtaining virtually shifted coil sensitivity information. Meanwhile, the view angle tilting (VAT) technique provides additional shifts in the readout direction to further spread an image overlap while correcting for field inhomogeneity-induced spatial misregistration using a compensation gradient. By combining these features of CAIPIRINHA and VAT, named CAIPIVAT, the excited individual slices are shifted along both phase-encoding and readout directions. Consequently, the number of aliased voxels is reduced, and the virtual coil sensitivity information is more effectively used. Blurring due to the compensation gradient in VAT was alleviated by using a constrained least square filter. The advantages of CAIPIVAT are shown by signal-to-noise ratio simulation, phantom experiments, and in vivo experiments. Thus, CAIPIVAT can be useful for multislice parallel imaging while providing the correction of off-resonance-related spatial shift artifact.
Radioactive Nanomaterials for Multimodality Imaging
Authors: Chen Daiqin , Dougherty Casey A. , Yang Dongzhi , Wu Hongwei , Hong Hao
Published: March 2016

Nuclear imaging techniques, primarily including positron emission tomography and single-photon emission computed tomography, can provide quantitative information for a biological event in vivo with ultrahigh sensitivity; however, the comparatively low spatial resolution is their major limitation in clinical application. With the convergence of nuclear imaging with other imaging modalities like computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and optical imaging, the hybrid imaging platforms can overcome the limitations of each individual imaging technique. Possessing versatile chemical linking ability and good cargo-loading capacity, radioactive nanomaterials can serve as ideal imaging contrast agents. Here, we provide a brief overview about the current state-of-the-art applications of radioactive nanomaterials in multimodality imaging. We present strategies for incorporation of radioisotope(s) into nanomaterials with the applications of radioactive nanomaterials in multimodal imaging. Advantages and limitations of radioactive nanomaterials for multimodal imaging applications are discussed. Finally, a future perspective of possible radioactive nanomaterial utilization is presented for improving diagnosis and patient management in a variety of diseases.
Default Risk Assessment of Tunisian Smes: Multiple Criteria Decision Making Approaches
Authors: HAMAD Salah BEN , TURKI Nesrine
Published: March 2016

The default risk is a reality as well for the companies as for the economy of a country. This paper has highlighted the fact that in spite of the many incentives to promote Tunisian SMEs, creation of these companies remains below expectations. Thus, a study assessing the risk of failure is imperative. A multicriteria methodology of decision-making in a sample of 41 small and medium-sized enterprises used financing by the Tunisian Solidarity Bank (BTS) as one of the financial support structures relative to investment credits. The results showed that the application of a policy of caution (pessimistic procedure) in the granting of loans by the BTS is the main obstacle to the creation, development and sustainability of the Tunisian SMEs.
ATRIBUTO NUTRICIONAL Y NUTRACÉUTICA DE PANQUÉ Y BARRITAS A BASE DE HARINA DE FRIJOL (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)/ NUTRITIONAL AND NUTRACEUTICAL ATTRIBUTE OF LOAF AND BARS MADE OF BEAN (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) FLOUR
Authors: Figueroa González Juan José , Guzmán Maldonado Salvador Horacio , Herrera Hernández Ma. Guadalupe
Published: March 2016

El consumo per cápita de frijol ha disminuido en los últimos años de 25 a 10 Kg por persona por año mientras que el número enfermedades crónico degenerativas sigue en aumento. Sin embargo, los estudios referentes al frijol están involucrados en la disminución de enfermedades cardiovasculares, diabetes, obesidad y cáncer. El objetivo de este trabajo fue desarrollar una barrita y un panqué a base de harina de frijol y evaluar los atributos nutricionales y nutracéuticos comparados con alimentos comerciales similares. Se elaboraron harinas compuestas de frijol Negro Frijozac/trigo: 80:20 para el panqué, y frijol Bayo Zacatecas/avena/frutos secos: 60:30:10 peso/peso para las barritas. Se evaluaron el contenido nutricional y el potencial nutracéutico de los productos elaborados y fueron comparados con alimentos existentes en el mercado y de mayor consumo por la población. El panqué de frijol presentó alto contenido de taninos y cinco veces más fibra, que el panqué comercial, mientras que la barrita presentó excelente contenido de proteína, fenoles totales y taninos. La elaboración de nuevos productos a base de esta leguminosa es importante por su alto potencial nutracéutico y rico contenido en fibra dietaria y proteína. Asimismo, permite ampliar el canal de comercialización de este tipo de grano.

ABSTRACT

Per capita beans consumption has fallen in recent years from 25 to 10 kg per person per year and also the increment in chronic degenerative diseases continues to rise. However, studies concerning beans are involved with decreased cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity and cancer. The objective of this work was to develop a bean fluor-based bar and a loaf and assess nutritional and nutraceutical attributes compared to similar commercial foods. For composite flour a 80:20 (w/w) ratio of Frijozac Black bean and wheat was developed for loaf; and a 60:30:10 (w/w) ratio of Bayo Zacatecas bean, oat and nut for bar. The product’s nutritional content and nutraceutical potential were evaluated and compared with commercially available products of high consumption by the population. The bean loaf presented high tannin content and five times more dietary fiber content than the commercial loaf, while the bar provided excellent protein content, total phenols and tannins. The development of new products based on this legume is important because flor its high nutraceutical potential and content of dietary fiber and protein. It also allows the expansion of marketing channel in this type of grain
Instructions for Authors
Authors: Socialist Studies -
Published: March 2016

Instructions for Authors
Left Behind By the Alter: Why Queers and Sociologists Need Materialist Feminism
Authors: Edwards Monica
Published: March 2016

The United States marriage rights movement just culminated in July 2015 with the Supreme Court declaring same-sex marriage constitutional.  The mainstream — the mainstream media and the mainstream LGBT rights movement — all applaud this trajectory, with no attention to those who get left behind in marriage politics.  In this paper, I will argue that same-sex marriage is in need of a materialist feminist analysis.  I will critique my discipline — Sociology — for failing to adequately theorize same-sex marriage as a key component of the 21st Century landscape of the capitalist mode of production.  I will also critique the mainstream LGBT rights movement and the media attention given same-sex marriage for their lack of attention to the classed relations embedded in marriage rights.  A materialist feminist analysis will allow us to see that there’s still a need for a larger, more emancipatory sexual politics. 
The Law is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons, by Colin Dayan
Authors: Pacione Darren
Published: March 2016

The Law is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons, by Colin Dayan
The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development, by Michael A. Lebowitz
Authors: Saucier P. Khalil
Published: March 2016

The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development, by Michael A. Lebowitz
Social Science and Social Struggle: Understanding the Necessary Confluence of Scholarship and Political Commitment
Authors: Clow Michael
Published: March 2016

Social scientists and historians are wary to acknowledge that political commitments play a part in their explanations of society. But we all know they do. Are we poor scientists? Not according to the Edinburgh School, which argues all successful scientific theories are but practical knowledge, shaped by the encounter of human purpose and empirical world. Practical knowledge always involves the uncertain, trial and error application of the intellectual resources drawn from exemplary solutions to new situations. Praxis is the only valid path to knowledge. But no matter how successful, practical knowledge is a theoretically and empirically limited ‘working knowledge' which cannot produce sure understanding of the generative processes producing what we see. What distinguishes studies of society from those of Nature is that the political purposes of conflicting scholarly traditions are so deeply and manifestly divergent. 

 

Implications? Above all we should be skeptical about any strong claims to theoretical certainty, on our part or by others. Dogmatism and sectarianism are epistemologically untenable in the Edinburgh view. Scientific debate would be advanced if we were as open about our political orientations as we are enjoined to be about research design and methodology. And demanded the same of others. This may be possible across ‘camps' in the same tradition and even ideological barriers, where goodwill prevails.  In the public sphere the Edinburgh perspective suggests the shifting of the grounds of debate and the framing/reframing of issues requires a tacit recognition that social knowledge is shaped by its political purposes and cannot simply be ‘the facts m'am, just the facts.'
Yee, Jessica, ed. 2011. Feminism for Real: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism.
Authors: Dowsett Julie E
Published: March 2016

Yee, Jessica, ed. 2011. Feminism for Real: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. ISBN 978-1-926888-49-1. Paperback: 15.00 CAD. Pages: 176.
Camfield, David. 2011. Canadian Labour in Crisis: Reinventing the Workers’ Movement
Authors: Ross Stephanie
Published: March 2016

Camfield, David. 2011. Canadian Labour in Crisis: Reinventing the Workers’ Movement. Halifax: Fernwood. ISBN 978-1-55266-416-2. Paperback: 19.95 CAD. Pages: 160.
Trade Unions in the Comfort Zone: Liberal Authority in Yeltsin’s Russia.
Authors: Baker Norma Jo
Published: March 2016

While much has been written on the failure of the Yeltsin presidency and the transformation of Russian society since 1991, little work has been done that illustrates the participation of established liberal democracies in supporting Yeltsin’s authoritarian, politically unresponsive ‘superpresidentialism,’ or linking this support to the authoritarian nature of the modern liberal democratic project itself. By examining Russian trade union culture and history, as well as international trade union representative involvement, this paper argues that the persistent neglect of unions in the 1990s to challenge social relations of production can be understood as paradigmatic of an authoritarian dynamic focused on the political elite rather than on their membership. With international support, the regime’s concern was with the dismantling of Soviet economic relations and social institutions. Working from the culture and history of Russian trade unions, the unions’ efforts to retain a place in the new era through a strategy of ‘social partnership,’ combined with the collapse of the social welfare system, reinforced a top-down inertia characteristic of the unions. The result, predictably, was an era marked by a politics of irresponsibility, a political ethic is not indicative of an inherent Russian authoritarianism, but that of the authoritarian nature of the liberal modernity itself.
Facts, Principles and the Third Man
Authors: Ypi Lea
Published: March 2016

In the dialogue entitled “Parmenides” Plato introduces an objection to his own theory of ideas, one that he never managed to answer, dubbed by Aristotle as the “Third Man” argument. According to that objection, the theory of ideas is threatened with infinite regress when examining why a specific Platonic form (say, justice) is predicated of a particular set of facts. This article seeks to show how any defence of fact-insensitive principles like the one offered by G.A. Cohen in his recent book “Rescuing Justice and Equality” is vulnerable to a similar objection. Cohen wants to insist that, when showing why facts support principles, the process of reason-giving is finite and terminates in fact-independent comprehensive principles. But something like the Third Man argument undermines Cohen’s conclusion just as it does Plato’s. The search for ultimate fact-independent principles is indeed threatened by infinite regress. Dans le dialogue intitulé ‘Parmenides’ Platon introduit une objection à sa propre théorie des idées, à laquelle il n’a jamais réussi à répondre, appelée par Aristote l’argument du « troisième homme ». D’après cette objection, la théorie des idées est menacée par une régression à l’infini lorsque l’on examine comment une forme platonique spécifique (par exemple, la justice) s’établit à partir d’un ensemble particulier de faits. Cet article cherche à montrer que toute défense de principes insensibles aux faits, comme celle offerte par G.A. Cohen dans son livre récent, Rescuing Justice and Equality est vulnérable à une objection semblable. Cohen voudrait montrer que lorsque l’on montre pourquoi certains faits soutiennent des principes, le processus explicatif est fini et se termine dans des principes complets qui sont indépendants des faits. Mais, quelque chose de semblable à l’argument du troisième homme est susceptible de saper les conclusions de Cohen comme celles de Platon. La recherche pour des principes ultimes indépendants des faits est bien menacé par une régression à l’infini.
Marxism and Social Movements
Authors: Coburn Elaine
Published: March 2016

Marxists have sought to critically analyze and contribute to (left revolutionary) popular movements. Yet they have not explicitly theorized the term “movement” nor its relationships to other key Marxist concepts, such as class struggle and hegemony. This book seeks to fill that gap in a historical moment when there are worldwide “anti-systemic” movements against austerity, against inequality, against the “democracy deficit,” and to protect hard-won rights for subaltern classes, all within the context of the world’s most important economic crisis since the 1930s. Analysis helpfully moves back and forth between theory and empirical cases, with a view to informing more effective revolutionary political praxis. The empirical scope is deliberately and usefully broad. Cases are drawn from a range of national contexts in the global North and South and concern movements from the 19th century up to the present. The book’s major shortcoming, however, is its failure to draw upon the whole range of historical materialist theorizing, including work by Black socialists, feminist socialists and Indigenous communists, among others. Nonetheless Marxism and social movements makes a useful, if radically incomplete contribution to both social movement theory and historical materialism.
Good Marx for Striking Students?
Authors: Sears Alan
Published: March 2016

Good Marx for Striking Students?
Economic Inequality Matters: Reflections on Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century
Authors: Coburn Elaine
Published: March 2016

In Capital in the 21st Century, Piketty takes a central liberal claim about economic inequality seriously and asks: does capitalism reward merit? If true, we would expect salaries, presumably rooted in the reward of merit in the workplace, to be more important to personal wealth than inherited money and property, which is just luck. He concludes that capitalism does not reward merit more than inherited wealth. Piketty suggests that this is at once a political and moral problem. As such, it cannot be resolved through economics alone, especially in the profession’s current incarnation, characterized by mathematical fetishization. Instead, all of the social sciences and humanities will necessarily be mobilized to develop a full description and analysis of economic inequalities, which must then be made a central question for broad, public debate. This is an important epistemological and political argument, although Capital in the 21st Century has critical weaknesses, including an undertheorized empiricism, a tendency to treat economic inequality as a matter of money and not as a social relationship, and a failure to grasp how class, gender, race and age come together in social relationships of exploitation (and not merely statistical relationship of inequality).
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, by Mark Blyth
Authors: Aquanno Scott M.
Published: March 2016

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, by Mark Blyth
Lenin's Aggressive Unoriginality, 1914-1916
Authors: Lih Lars T
Published: March 2016

Lenin received a severe shock in 1914 when the main parties of the socialist Second International supported the war effort of their respective governments. But the shock did not lead to his rejection of the prewar Marxist orthodoxy but rather to an outraged affirmation of this orthodoxy against those who (in Lenin’s view) had betrayed it. Lenin’s rhetorical stance can therefore be described as ‘aggressive unoriginality’. Lenin insisted that the key themes of ‘Left Zimmerwald’—the name given to the socialist current of which he was the principal spokesman from 1914 to 1916—were based squarely on the prewar consensus of ‘revolutionary Marxists’, particularly as expressed by Karl Kautsky. Among these themes are the underlying idea of a revolutionary situation, the assumption that the war had created a revolutionary situation, and the claim that ‘socialist patriotism’ during the war represented the triumph of prewar opportunism. Lénine a reçu un choc sévère en 1914 quand les principaux partis de la Deuxième Internationale socialiste ont soutenu l’effort de guerre de leurs gouvernements respectifs. Toutefois, le choc ne l’a pas amené à rejeter l’orthodoxie marxiste de l’avant-guerre mais plutôt à affirmer outrageusement cette orthodoxie contre ceux qui, de son point de vue, l’avaient trahie. La posture rhétorique de Lénine peut ainsi être décrite comme ‘banalement agressive.’ Lénine soutenait que les thèmes clés de la ‘Gauche de Zimmerwald’ – le nom donné au courant socialiste dont il était le principal porte-parole entre 1914 et 1916 – étaient fondamentalement basés sur le consensus d’avant-guerre des ‘Marxistes révolutionnaires,’ comme pouvait l’exprimer en particulier Karl Kautsky. Parmi ces thèmes figurent l’idée sous-jacente d’une situation révolutionnaire, l’hypothèse que cette situation révolutionnaire a été créée par la guerre, et l’argument selon lequel le ‘patriotisme socialiste’ d’alors correspondait au triomphe de l’opportunisme de l’avant-guerre.
The Canadian Parliamentary Crisis of 2008-09: Searching for a Left Response
Authors: Cooke Murray
Published: March 2016

Russell, Peter H. and Lorne Sossin, eds. 2009. Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN: 978-1-4426-1014-9. Paperback: 24.95 CAD. Pages: 201. Topp, Brian. 2010. How We Almost Gave the Tories the Boot: The Inside Story Behind the Coalition. Toronto: Lorimer. ISBN: 978-1-55277-502-8. Paperback: 24.95 CAD. Pages: 192.
Quiet No More: New Political Activism in Canada and Around the Globe, by Joel D. Harden
Authors: Carroll William K.
Published: March 2016

Quiet No More: New Political Activism in Canada and Around the Globe, by Joel D. Harden
Long Way From Home (Reprint)
Authors: LaRocque Emma
Published: March 2016

Long Way From Home (Reprint)
Reconsidering Knowledge: Feminism and the Academy, by Meg Luxton and Mary Jane Mossman
Authors: Scott Dayna Nadine
Published: March 2016

Reconsidering Knowledge: Feminism and the Academy, by Meg Luxton and Mary Jane Mossman
The ‘Great Recession,’ the Employers’ Offensive and Canadian Public Sector Unions
Authors: Camfield David
Published: March 2016

The global economic crisis and its effects have changed the context for public sector unions in Canada. There is evidence that an intensified offensive against public sector unions is beginning. Few public sector unions are prepared to respond adequately to such an offensive, as the important 2009 strike by Toronto municipal workers illustrates. In this more difficult context, change within public sector unions is increasingly urgent. The most promising direction for union renewal lies in the praxis of social movement unionism. However, there are very few signs of moves to promote this approach within Canadian public sector unions. La crise économique globale et ses effets ont changé le contexte pour les syndicats du secteur public au Canada. Il y a des signes qu’une attaque violente contre les syndicats du secteur public a commencé. Peu de syndicats du secteur public sont prêts à répondre dans une manière satisfaisante à cette attaque, comme le montre la grève importante des travailleurs municipaux à Toronto en 2009. Dans ce contexte plus difficile, des changements au sein des syndicats du secteur public sont de plus en plus urgents. La direction la plus prometteuse pour une renaissance syndicale est la pratique d’un syndicalisme de mouvement social. Toutefois, il y a très peu d’indices que les syndicats du secteur public au Canada s’inscrivent dans une telle approche.
Labour Market Policies in Denmark and Canada: Could Flexicurity be an Answer for Canadian Workers?
Authors: Nichols Leslie J
Published: March 2016

Abstract
The labour market in Canada is changing. Over the past decades there has been an increase in the number of precarious workers on short-term, part-time, contracts; jobs are created and lost, as employers deem necessary. As a result of these shifts in the organization of work, many workers are now forced to hold multiple jobs in order to make ends meet. This move away from long-term employment has created a situation where the majority of Canadian workers can no longer expect their employer to provide predictable support and security for them. At the same time, under the current Employment Insurance (EI) laws, they cannot expect support from the federal government either. How can workers gain some immediate protection through expanded social welfare programmes? With more and more workers, especially women, racialized workers and lower income people relegated to precarious employment, we must question current social policy. If, as it appears, EI does not work, we must strive to implement a viable alternative. Could an alternative system be modeled on the flexicurity system now in effect in Denmark? This paper draws on Nancy Fraser’s criteria for social justice for the globalized worker, to assess the ways that flexicurity could improve the security of the Canadian worker by offering alternatives to participation in the market nexus.
Poornography and the Entrenchment of Western Hegemony: Deconstructing the Kony 2012 Video
Authors: Akena Francis Adyanga
Published: March 2016

In March 2012, Invisible Children, a California-based humanitarian organization, created uproar when it posted and promoted Kony 2012, an online video depicting the suffering of Acholi children in northern Uganda at the hands of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan rebel group. The stated aim of the video was to make Joseph Kony, the leader of the LRA, known, thereby resulting in his apprehension by the end of 2012. To accomplish this goal, the narrator of the video calls for the deployment of American troops to Uganda to help Ugandan Army and regional forces track the LRA rebels. Within one month of being uploaded to YouTube, more than 112 million people across the globe had viewed Kony 2012, generating interest and criticism alike. This article extends the debates generated by this video, while examining how the resulting Kony 2012 phenomenon works to undermine African agency. Ultimately, Kony 2012 promotes Western hegemony in Africa by propagating false impressions that African problems can only be properly solved through Western intervention, under the guise of humanitarian concern. Such a dynamic continues to promote a neocolonial mentality in post-independence African societies and the fallacy of white superiority over non-whites. Kony 2012 misrepresents contemporary northern Uganda and the ability of the Acholi people to address their own problems. Instead of highlighting and supporting the efforts of the Acholi people to implement their own conflict mediation mechanism based on the philosophy of love, forgiveness, reconciliation and reintegration among adversaries, Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 promotes a Western military solution, advancing a neocolonial mindset reminiscent of the “White Man’s Burden.”
SS/ES 7 (1/2) 2011 Part Two
Authors: Administrator Admin
Published: March 2016

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Wright, Erik Olin. 2010. Envisioning Real Utopias
Authors: Noonan Jeff
Published: March 2016

Wright, Erik Olin. 2010. Envisioning Real Utopias. London: Verso. ISBN: 978-1-84467-617-0. Paperback: 33.50 CAD. Pages: 394.
Thinking About Class, Race, Gender: Himani Bannerji and G.A. Cohen on Capitalism and Socialism
Authors: Coburn Elaine
Published: March 2016

Thinking About Class, Race, Gender: Himani Bannerji and G.A. Cohen on Capitalism and Socialism
Powerful Silences: Becoming a Survivor Through the Construction of Story.
Authors: Avakian Arlene Voski
Published: March 2016

Survivors’ accounts of traumatic events function on many levels for both the teller and the hearer. By giving voice to what has been silenced, testimonies to the lived experience of trauma challenge dominant perspectives on the meaning and significance of both historical and contemporary events. The construction of these stories and their telling may also provide a means of countering the devastating psychological effects of the trauma. This paper will explore one story about the Turkish genocide of Armenians in 1915 as told to me by my grandmother, Elmas Tutuian. Remarkably consistent over the years of its telling, Tutuian’s story omits as much as it tells. Examining this narrative from both a psychological and a textual perspective, I suggest that by choosing to be silent about parts of her experience, Tutuian constructed herself as a survivor rather than a victim. In choosing to tell her narrative to me, she also shaped my sense of resistance to oppression. The article references works analyzing survivors’ accounts of trauma from a literary, psychological, sociological, theological, and historical perspective.
Lyon, Sarah and Mark Moberg, eds. 2010. Fair Trade and Social Justice: Global Ethnographies
Authors: Hussey Ian
Published: March 2016

Lyon, Sarah and Mark Moberg, eds. 2010. Fair Trade and Social Justice: Global Ethnographies. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-9621-4. Paperback: 25.00 USD. Pages: 320.
Socialist Studies - Winter 2016 - Complete Issue
Authors: Cain Sean
Published: March 2016

Socialist Studies - Winter 2016 - Complete Issue
Chazan, May; Lisa Helps, Anna Stanley and Sonali Thakkar, eds. 2011. Home and Native Land: Unsettling Multiculturalism in Canada.
Authors: Das Gupta Tania
Published: March 2016

Chazan, May; Lisa Helps, Anna Stanley and Sonali Thakkar, eds. 2011. Home and Native Land: Unsettling Multiculturalism in Canada.
The Principle of Liberal Imperialism: Human Rights and Human Freedom in the Age of Evangelical Capitalism
Authors: Noonan Jeff
Published: March 2016

The paper argues that the principle that underlies liberal imperialism is conceptually incoherent. The Principle of Liberal Imperialism claims that liberal nations have a duty to intervene in non-liberal nations in response to persistent human rights violations for the sake of creating the conditions in which the agency of the population can be realized. The legitimacy of such interventions, however, is rooted in a presupposition that denies the very agency of the oppressed in whose name the intervention is justified. In response to this incoherence the paper concludes with the outline of a materialist conception of agency that prioritises the capability of oppressed populations to find internal resources of critique and social transformation.
McNally, David. 2011. Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance
Authors: Burgess Bill
Published: March 2016

McNally, David. 2011. Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance. Oakland: PM Press. ISBN 978-1-60486-332-1. Paperback: 17.95 CAD. Pages: 230.
Neoliberalism and Ontario Teachers’ Unions: A “Not-So” Common Sense Revolution
Authors: MacLellan Duncan
Published: March 2016

This paper will critically analyze the degree to which the Ontario government, led by then Premier Mike Harris, embarked on a neoliberal agenda that led to a crisis in Ontario’s educational system. The period from 1995-2000 was one of the most contentious in Ontario’s educational history, and two pieces of legislation, The College of Teachers Act (Bill 31) and the Education Quality Improvement Act (Bill 160), pitted teacher unions, in particular, the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) and the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA), against the Harris government. Bill 160 led to a ten-day protest by teachers across Ontario, which signaled a dramatic shift in teacher and state relations that marked a crisis period in Ontario’s educational sector.
Instructions for Authors
Authors: Studies Socialist
Published: March 2016

Instructions for Authors
Razack, Sherene; Malinda Smith and Sunera Thobani, eds. 2010. States of Race: Critical Race Feminism for the 21st Century.
Authors: O'Connell Anne
Published: March 2016

Razack, Sherene; Malinda Smith and Sunera Thobani, eds. 2010. States of Race: Critical Race Feminism for the 21st Century.