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Eurasian Integration and Problems of Civil Society
Authors: Stetsko Elena
Published: December 2019

The сhapter studies the relationship between the development of integration processes and the development of civil society in the post-Soviet space and, in particular, in the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union. It consists of five parts. The introduction presents the main trends and vectors of integration processes in the post-Soviet space. The first part considers the concept of “civil society” and its features in Western and Russian political thought. The second part highlights the features of building a civil society in the independent states of the EAEU. General points and differences in the emerging civil societies of the EAEU countries are revealed. Further, in the fourth part, the “Eurasian idea” is considered in terms of its compatibility with the peculiarities of the development of civil society in the post-Soviet space. The final part proposes a discussion topic on the possibility of political integration within the EAEU.
The End of the Corporation
Authors: Fenwick Mark , Vermeulen Erik P.
Published: December 2019

Corporate governance is undergoing a quiet, but quick transformation. The rise of digital technologies is forcing companies to reconsider existing business models, but also how they organize themselves and structure firm governance. This chapter introduces the main features of the modern corporation and corporate governance, outlines how digital technologies are disrupting this business form, and describes the new business “ecosystems” that are emerging to replace the modern corporation. The chapter argues that in a networked age, all businesses need to “go digital.” Companies need to become innovation machines, and this means that every firm needs to become a “tech” company and a “media” company. If they do not, younger and more agile competitors better attuned to the realities of the new digital world will replace them. For incumbents, the risks are existential. Established firms must adapt to the new digital environment by embracing the ecosystem model, or they will die.
The Cultural Clash
Authors: Bakunin Mikhail , Kuznetsov Mikhail Y.
Published: December 2019

Until recently, traditional automakers and digital companies have been working separately at their own pace, preserving their cultures and ways of doing business and driving innovation. In the early 2010s, younger generations of customers were spoilt by seamless ecosystems in digital and started wondering why they are still operating knobs while seated behind steering wheel. From this point, the process of interpenetration of two industries started, provoking transformation and cultural shifts in the traditional automakers industry. How far will it go? What are the main challenges of this transformation? What forms and principles of corporate culture will appear and dominate in the industry in the future?
Sovereign Bureaucrats vs. Global Tech Companies
Authors: Filatov Alexander A.
Published: December 2019

We live in a changing world. Disruptive technologies and digital platforms particularly are reshaping the world, making it more open and accessible on the one hand, but more fragile and uncertain on the other, rising risks of cybersecurity, personal data security. Do markets really need any kind of regulatory interventions under these circumstances? We see many cases where “state bureaucrats” impose restrictions on global companies based on digital platforms – technology champions. Are those actions effective, do they make sense in terms of global security, or it is only political game?
Modeling the Design Phase of Sustainable Supply Chains
Authors: Fiala Petr , Majovská Renata
Published: December 2019

The objective of supply chain sustainability is to create, protect, and grow long-term environmental, social, and economic value for all stakeholders involved in bringing products and services to market. This chapter creates a comprehensive model and solution methods for designing sustainable supply chains. Sustainable supply chains are modeled as network systems with multiple agents, which are evaluated according to multiple criteria. It is usually impossible to optimize all criteria together in a given system. Searching for a better portfolio of resources leads to reshaping of given system boundaries and better criteria values. Supply chain sustainability is also given by creating equilibrium relationships between agents. Biform games are used for searching an equilibrium in sustainable supply chains. Information sharing reduces inefficiencies and material flows, leading to less environmental pollution.
Research on Problems and Countermeasures of Green Logistics Development in China
Authors: Yu Zhang
Published: December 2019

China's logistics industry is in an important strategic opportunity period of transition from extensive traditional logistics to green logistics. In this context, from the perspective of green supply chain analysis of China's green logistics development problems, the government should put forward corresponding solutions. The research shows that the government should build a green logistics evaluation system, speed up the improvement of green logistics-related policies and regulations, and strengthen the construction of green logistics-related infrastructure. The conclusion can provide some strategic inspiration for the government to promote the development of green logistics.
Construction of Cooperative Environment and Institution for Green Building Supply Chain Subjects
Authors: Khan Syed Shahid
Published: December 2019

This chapter introduces the concept and connotation of the green building supply chain and summarizes its particularity. The author analyses the cooperation of stakeholders in the green building supply chain and discusses how to promote the cooperation of stakeholders in green building supply chain from two perspectives of environment construction and system construction, to further promote the stable development of green building supply chain. The chapter introduces the concept and connotation of the green building supply chain and summarizes its particularity. This chapter analyses the cooperation of stakeholders in the green building supply chain and discusses how to promote the cooperation of stakeholders in green building supply chain from two perspectives of environment construction and system construction, to further promote the stable development of green building supply chain.
Philosophy in the Knowledge Structure Pyramid
Authors: Lofaro Ronald John
Published: December 2019

Currently, and with almost lightspeed, new advances in both human-centered and technology-driven efforts have led to new methods in obtaining, structuring, and using knowledge. This chapter will look at a newer knowledge structuring effort, the knowledge pyramid (KP), attempting to bring in a philosophy-based term, understanding. Knowledge management (KM) has incorporated the philosophy term ontology as a knowledge structuring tool. The chapter will look at how knowledge sets gotten via knowledge elicitation/management can be used and shared to make any organization more effective. The author will consider how the philosophical concept, understanding, can be used in the on-going debate about the structure of KP. The author's goal is to explicate a new model for eliciting, structuring, using, evaluating knowledge for organizational betterment. This resultant paradigm also points the way to future KP debate and research.
Distributed “Knowing in Practice” in Workshare Contexts
Authors: Goel Lakshmi
Published: December 2019

Many companies set up operations offshore and complete projects by 'worksharing' where responsibilities are split between geographically dispersed offices. This chapter looks at how knowledge management systems facilitate practices essential for collaborative, distributed work. A qualitative case study is conducted at a large multinational engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) company that has successfully implemented a knowledge management system. The study uses the framework of 'knowing in practice' to the context of worksharing. This chapter contributes to the practice by providing specific suggestions that can be implemented from a social technical perspective to facilitate worksharing, specifically, suggesting technological factors and efforts needed by users and managers in facilitating worksharing. This chapter contributes to research by applying the lens of 'knowing in practice' to the context of worksharing.
Knowledge Systems and Risk Management
Authors: Jennex Murray Eugene , Durcikova Alexandra
Published: December 2019

Knowledge is the most important asset that a company can have. Thus, it is imperative that this asset is safeguarded just like generic information assets. However, knowledge management (KM) and knowledge systems are different than traditional information systems with different threats and different operational requirements. Information security professionals recognize that risk assessment is the cornerstone to information security. The authors build on this perspective and propose that risk assessment techniques need to be applied to KM too to properly safeguard this asset. They discuss risk assessment frameworks and build on a KM/knowledge system specific risk assessment framework with a step-by-step guideline for KM/knowledge system specific threat assessment.
Media Literacy Among College Students
Authors: Punniyadeepa P. , Muthuvennila S.
Published: December 2019

The chapter discusses the impact of some of the selected the literacy of media literacy. It supports the students in developing the attitudes, values, and skills to solve the problems, decision making, and building their knowledge. The objective of the present study is to understand the practices on media literacy in college students in Sivagangai District. The chapter shows the respondent frequency of using the social media sites among the college students. Out the 112 respondents, 66 (58.93%) were female and 46 (41.07%) were male. Age wise distribution of respondents the table indicate 51.79% of respondents using social media of 17-20 category, 34.82% of respondents using social media of 21-25, 11.61% of the respondents in 26-30, 1.79% of respondents in above 31. As to the effects of using social media, location-wise distribution of the majority of respondents among 33 respondents, 35% village, 27.12% town, and 23.08% taluk are effects of waste of time. Among 32 respondents, 25% village, 32.20% town, and 23.08% taluk are effects of affecting academic performance.
Gender Differences of ICT Skills Among LIS Professionals in Universities of Tamil Nadu
Authors: Jeyshankar R.
Published: December 2019

The purpose of the chapter is to investigate the gender differences of ICT skills of LIS professionals working in the Universities of Tamil Nadu. The study covered 47 universities including 19 state universities, 2 central universities, and 26 deemed universities. In the present study, the data was collected from the respondents through a structured questionnaire using survey method and adopted simple random sampling. The questionnaire contains attitudes of communication skills, use of ICT and related gadgets, level of awareness/skill in the computer applications/services, attitude towards ICT implications, problems of implications of ICT, and areas of ICT skills where training is required among male and female respondents. Totally, 441 respondents are selected from these 47 universities including 325 male and 116 female respondents. The study used SPSS Ver. 23 was used for performing necessary statistical analysis means, s Ranks, Independent ‘T' Test, and Chi-Square Analysis the collected data to draw necessary inferences. It is brought to light that 100% of male and female respondents agree that they would like to know more about ICT. Around 90% of male and female respondents agree that ICT helps them to present research articles in the seminars/workshops/conferences and find it easy to select appropriate ICT resources related to work environment. About 85-90% of both female and male respondents agree that ICT motivates the library staff to learn effectively, it saves the time of the library staff in many ways, it provides high level security for library resources, and it facilitates easy information exchanges. Further, the chapter also provided a platform to LIS professionals to find out the area of focus to learn and update their ICT skills in digital environment and electronic resources by LIS professionals for efficient delivery of library services for the betterment of the library as a whole.
Assessing the Performance of a SAR Boat Location-Allocation Plan via Simulation
Authors: Karatas Mumtaz , Razi Nasuh , Tozan Hakan
Published: December 2019

Maritime search and rescue (SAR) operation is a critical process that aims to minimize the loss of life, injury, and material damage by rendering aid to persons in distress or imminent danger at sea. Optimal allocation of SAR vessels is a strategic level process that is to be carried out with a plan to react rapidly. This chapter seeks to evaluate the performance of a SAR boat location plan using simulation. The proposed methodology in this chapter works in two stages: First, an optimal allocation scheme of SAR resources is determined via a multi-objective mathematical model. Next, simulation is used to test the performance of the analytical solution under stochastic demand. With the heaviest traffic and maritime risk, the methodology is applied to a case study in the Aegean Sea.
Novel First Responder Digital Forensics Tool as a Support to Law Enforcement
Authors: Bogdanoski Mitko , Stoilkovski Marjan , Risteski Aleksandar
Published: December 2019

There are many freeware and commercial tools which can be used to provide forensics information based on dead and live forensics acquisition. The main problem with these tools is that in many cases the investigator cannot explain the script functionality and generated results and information during the trial. Because of this reason there is an increased need for developing and using script which can be easy explained and adapted to any analysis which should be made by the examiners. The chapter presents a novel developed First Responder script which can be used to perform a live and dead forensics analysis in support of Law Enforcement during the investigation process.
Resources in Parks and Police Management Applying Decision Utility to Solve Problems With Limited Resources
Authors: Ozgur Ceyhun
Published: December 2019

This is the first research article that attempts to relate public service to managing an organization and explains systems with realistic yet simplistic examples. This article is the first of its kind to relate public service to managing organizations that relate public service such as parks and police. It measures and implements maximin value functions. A maximin value function applies when the criteria are totally non-substitutable: a decrease in a critical criterion cannot be compensated for by an increase in another criterion. This article illustrates situations where a maximin value function is an appropriate model, develops a method to measure a decision maker's maximin value function, and demonstrates how a maximin value function can be used in applications such as park and police systems. The measurement technique is easy to understand and most decision makers can complete the process in a short period of time. For quantitative scheduling techniques found in journals, their wider use in applications has been declining due to a variety of obstacles. This article will first list a number of these obstacles and then suggest ways to overcome them. Parks and Police departments are government agencies that both have limited and competing resources. In these circumstances, it is an ideal situation to share the resources as much as possible. In this article, examples are shown of where the limited resources may occur in both agencies, and how the manager may overcome these problems by sharing the resources. Examples of affective and just sharing of resources are given for both parks and police departments. In Parks Management, affective trade-offs are shown among trim mowing, tractor mowing, garbage collection and ball-field dragging. In Police departments affective trade-offs are shown among foot patrol, car patrol, detective analysis and office work.
Information Sharing Challenges in Government Cybersecurity Organizations
Authors: Lanzendorfer Quinn E.
Published: December 2019

Cyber-attacks happen faster and more spontaneously than traditional warfare. This cyber landscape offers new challenges to organizations due to its unique nature. Building organizations to defend against cyber terrorism and innovating offensive solutions calls for strong information sharing amongst government and military organizations, as well as industry partners. Using an innovative electronic method to collect quantitative and qualitative data from experts, this study seeks to explore the effectiveness and establishment of information sharing practices and procedures in U.S. government cybersecurity organizations. This study also considers the impact of media leaks and terrorism on information sharing practices and procedures.
The Strategy to Increase Investment in Indonesia and Obstacles of Perfection of Investment Law
Authors: Suradiyanto
Published: December 2019

This study aims to examine and find barriers to the refinement of investment law development as an effort to implement strategies to increase investment in Indonesia. This article is qualitative research. Examine and find barriers to the refinement of investment law development as an effort to implement strategies to increase investment in Indonesia.The reconstruction of the capital investment law is conducted by the issuance of Law Number 25 Year 2007 regarding investments which regulate domestic investment and foreign investment. The consideration of the appointment of BKPM as the only government agency that handles investment activities in the framework of PMA and PMDN is in order to increase the effectiveness in attracting investors to invest in Indonesia. Previous researches have not discussed the strategy of increasing capital investment so that it becomes the difference between this research and previous research (originality).
Detecting Expressional Anomie in Social Media via Fine-grained Content Mining
Authors: Zhou Qingqing , Jing Ming
Published: December 2019

Expression plays an important role in language inheritance, interpersonal communication, and social stability. With the rapid development of the Internet, people are becoming frequently interested in expressing themselves on social media. Meanwhile, massive anomic expressions are generated, which pollute network environments and even hinder social development. Hence, the purpose of this article is detecting anomic expressions in social media automatically, so as to reveal fine-grained status of online expressional anomie. Specifically, the authors used machine learning to detect anomic expressions and identify anomic types. Then, impacts of different factors (e.g. gender, region, time) on expressional anomie were analyzed. Finally, distributions and characteristics of expressional anomie about online contents were obtained. Empirical results indicate that the current situation of expressional anomie is severe, and scientific and effective treatments for anomic expression are necessary and urgently. Meanwhile, gender, region, and time should be taken into consideration in the formulation of treatments.
IMMAGINI DELLA CINA NEL PENSIERO POLITICO ITALIANO IN ETÀ MODERNA
Authors: Pissavino Paolo Costantino
Published: December 2019

The present study aims at analyzing the relationship between the image of the Chinese Empire in the writings of travellers and Jesuits and the main themes (Reason of State, Utopianism, Mixed Constitution) of the Italian political thought during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries. The writings of travellers and Jesuits presented a complex view of the Empire, which impacts in various ways the spread of the Chinese myth in the political treatises of the Counter-Reformation era. The complexity is evident in the description the relations provide of sovereignty and the behaviour of the emperor. From the very beginning of Della entrata della Compagnia di Giesù e Christianità nella Cina is presented a complex image of the Chinese government: along with the absolutist delineation of the imperial power, there are conflicting images that, regarding either a distant past or current government practice, recognized other forms: a feudal style of monarchy, a sort of mixed constitution, or a form of dispotic govetrnment. Matteo Ricci and other Jesuits, as Martino Martini and Athanasius Kircher, presented the Mandarins as a slort of Kings-Philosophers of Plato’s Republic. Following the works composed by Jesuits, some authors pf Reason of State and utopist (Giovanni Botero and Ludovico Zuccolo) pointed out that the perfec tion of the Chinese political and social institutions could really preserve the Empire from corruption, an Empire that had to be considered a paradigm of a well ordered state, as another Jesuit, Daniello Bartoli, wrote in his book on China.
PETRARCA GHIBELLINO? ROMA E L’IMPERO NEI RERUM FAMILIARIUM LIBRI
Authors: Conetti Mario
Published: December 2019

A few, but very meaningful pieces from Petrarch’s Familiari deal with the Holy Roman Empire and its institutions, especially because of the role they played in italian politics. Although Petrarch is not a systematic political thinker, the imperial idea of Rome plays a pivotal role. It seems possible to demonstrare that Petrarch has been influenced by official documents by Henry VII, eventually Manfred of Suabia, and mostly by civil lawyers and the sources of Roman law. These last item belongs to Petrarch’s commitment towards a recovery for his present days of Roman classical heritage. All this said, political issues still play only an instrumental role, connected with the immediate needs of those powers, the Visconti household first and most but also emperor Charles IV himself, Petrarch was intimately connected to. Though Petrarch sincerely advocates Roman classical tradition, he is a ghibellino only for a matter of opportunity, or rather of the opportunity of those powers he decided to serve, and their immediate political needs.
IL RILANCIO DEL PROGETTO EUROPEO A 60 ANNI DAI TRATTATI DI ROMA
Authors: Martinelli Alberto
Published: December 2019

Written on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of 1957 Treaties of Rome, the essay reviews the main stages of Europe’s integration process, its achievements and failures, its crises and strategies for a necessary revival. The essay argues that the evolution toward an ever greater and diversified union was made possible by a compromise between the supranational-communitarian and the intergovernmental method of governance. The essay criticizes the fact that the transfer of quotas of national sovereignty to the supranational level has not be accompanied by an equivalent transfer of loyalty and commitment by member states’ citizens, who are at the same time EU citizens. The main cleavages within the EU are then analysed, which can be traced to different goals, interest and expectations of member states: the cleavage between those who view the union just as a single market and those who conceive it also as a supranational politiical project; and the cleavage between Northern creditor countries who hold fiscal austerity as a policy priority and Southern indebted countries who are mostly concerned with economic stagnation and unemployment. And it is argued that these cleavages have deepened because of three interconnected challenges: the economicfinancial crisis and its social implications (growth of inequalities, unemployment and underemployment), the migration pressure, and the threat of fundamentalist terrorism. The essay then analyses the upsurge of national-populism and euroskepticism and traces these phenomena to the democratic deficit of EU institutions and the inadequate development of a common European identity. Finally, the alternative strategies for the EU renewal, ougtlined in the Commission’ s White Paper are discussed, arguing that the one oriented toward a federal union to be achieved through the method of reinforced cooperation is to be preferred.
LA FUNZIONE INTERPRETATIVA DEL PENSIERO ‘PARLANTE’ E L’INCONSCIO COGNITIVO
Authors: Macchi Laura , Bagassi Maria
Published: December 2019

Macchi and Bagassi propose a conception of mind bounded by the qualitative constraint of relevance at conscious and unconscious levels. The core of this conception is an interpretative function in language and thought as adaptive characteristic of the human cognitive system. This perspective is supported by evidence from the authors' research on insight problem solving, which they consider a privileged route to understanding what kind of special unconscious thought produces the solution. During incubation, in the absence of conscious control, relevance constraint allows multilayered thinking to discover a new interpretation of the data that finally offers an exit from the impasse. The authors speculate that the creative act of restructuring implies a form of high-level unconscious thought, the unconscious analytic thought.
Sector Analogue of the Gauss–Lucas Theorem
Authors: Sendov Blagovest , Sendov Hristo
Published: December 2019

The classical Gauss–Lucas theorem states that the critical points of a polynomial with complex coefficients are in the convex hull of its zeros. This fundamental theorem follows from the fact that if all the zeros of a polynomial are in a half plane, then the same is true for its critical points. The main result of this work replaces the half plane with a sector as follows.

We show that if the coefficients of a monic polynomial$p(z)$are in the sector {tei𝜓: 𝜓∈ [0, 𝜙],t⩾0}, for some$\unicode[STIX]{x1D719}\in [0,\unicode[STIX]{x1D70B})$, and the zeros are not in its interior, then the critical points of$p(z)$are also not in the interior of that sector.

In addition, we give a necessary condition for a polynomial to satisfy the premise of the main result.
Characteristics of Early Iron Age pottery from northeastern Slovenia through the prism of ceramic technology and petrography
Authors: Žibrat Gašparič Andreja , Vinazza Manca , Črešnar Matija
Published: December 2019

Pottery technology in the Early Iron Age remains understudied in Slovenian archaeology, especially in the combined use of description on a macroscopic level with the addition of petrographic thin sections analysis. In this study we focused on pottery technology of vessels from two Early Iron Age sites in north-eastern Slovenia, Poštela near Maribor and Novine above Šentilj (NE Slovenia). We analysed the clay pastes, inclusions in the clay, as well as surface treatment, firing properties, vessels shape, and decoration techniques using macroscopic description and ceramic petrography. Within the sites we looked at the different contexts, comparing pottery from settlements, i.e. hillforts, to pottery found within the adjacent cemeteries. The results show that potters from the two contemporaneous sites produced similarly shaped vessels using different pottery recipes from locally available raw materials. The use of grog as a possible chronological marker in the Early Iron Age is also discussed.
Teachers’ perception and background in chemistry: Implications for basic science education in primary schools
Authors: Igboegwu Ekene N.
Published: December 2019

Science, particularly chemistry had become the life wire of any nation. This study was prompted by the importance of a solid foundation of chemistry in Universal Basic Education (UBE) and the level of background in science by teachers in the primary school. 500 teachers in primary schools were selected from Anambra State for the study through random sampling. A questionnaire (QFPS) was used to collect data for the study. The QFPS consisted 3 sections; three research questions guided the study. Data collected were analyzed using means, standard deviations and percentages. The results showed that majority of the teachers of primary schools were not professionally trained science teachers. The teachers lack confidence to teach basic science even though they perceived science as an important subject for primary school pupils. They also had positive perception towards chemistry but lacked an effective pedagogical approach to it. Educational implications were discussed and recommendations made among which are: teachers who were professionally trained in science should be employed specifically to teach basic science classes instead of leaving the basic science teaching to class teacher who had no idea of science.
Definição de idades ótimas para expedição de mudas de Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) Kuntze (Araucariaceae) em função de sua qualidade e volume de recipientes
Authors: Schorn Lauri Amandio , Pandini Giulia , Bittencourt Ricardo , Fenilli Tatiele Anete Bergamo
Published: December 2019

O experimento teve como objetivo avaliar a qualidade e o desenvolvimento de mudas de Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) Kuntze, de diferentes idades e produzidas em diferentes volumes de tubetes, visando determinar a idade ótima de expedição das mudas. Foram usados três volumes de tubetes (50, 100 e 200 cm³), e consideradas quatro idades de expedição (90, 120, 150 e 180 dias). O delineamento experimental foi inteiramente casualizado, em esquema fatorial 3 x 2, com 12 tratamentos e cinco repetições por tratamento, totalizando 2.400 plantas no experimento. As avaliações foram realizadas mensalmente, utilizando-se cinco mudas de cada repetição e selecionadas aleatoriamente. Foram mensuradas e determinadas as seguintes variáveis em cada ocasião: altura, diâmetro do coleto, massa seca de raízes, massa seca aérea, número de raízes secundárias e índice de qualidade de Dickson. Somente as variáveis altura, massa seca aérea e número de raízes secundárias apresentaram diferenças significativas entre os tratamentos. As idades consideradas ótimas para expedição das mudas de araucária foram de 120 dias, quando em tubete de 50 cm³, e de 150 dias, quando em tubete de 100 cm³. Para a manutenção de mudas em viveiro por períodos superiores a 150 dias, o uso de tubetes de com volume de 200 cm³ foi considerado mais adequado.
The Feasibility of a Telehealth Exercise Program Aimed at Increasing Cardiorespiratory Fitness for People After Stroke
Authors: Galloway Margaret , Marsden Dianne L. , Callister Robin , Nilsson Michael , Erickson Kirk I. , English Coralie
Published: December 2019

Background: Accessing suitable fitness programs post-stroke is difficult for many. The feasibility of telehealth delivery has not been previously reported.Objectives: To assess the feasibility of, and level of satisfaction with home-based telehealth-supervised aerobic exercise training post-stroke.Methods: Twenty-one ambulant participants (?3 months post-stroke) participated in a home-based telehealth-supervised aerobic exercise program (3 d/week, moderate-vigorous intensity, 8-weeks) and provided feedback via questionnaire postintervention. Session details, technical issues, and adverse events were also recorded.Results: Feasibility was high (83% of volunteers met telehealth eligibility criteria, 85% of sessions were conducted by telehealth, and 95% of participants rated usability favourably). Ninety-five percent enjoyed telehealth exercise sessions and would recommend them to others. The preferred telehealth exercise program parameters were: frequency 3 d/week, duration 20-30 min/session, program length 6-12 weeks.Conclusion: The telehealth delivery of exercise sessions to people after stroke appears
AOTA/NBCOT Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact Initiative Moves Forward
Authors: Willmarth Chuck , Conway Shaun
Published: December 2019

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Physical Therapy Compact Licensure Update
Authors: Adrian Leslie
Published: December 2019

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Tormento y tormenta de amor: dos reescrituras de un soneto de Petrarca
Authors: Federici Marco
Published: December 2019

El artículo analiza dos versiones del soneto CXXXII de Petrarca, las de Pedro de Cartagena y Joan Boscán, de época anterior y contemporánea a la nueva orientación petrarquista respectivamente. Además del análisis con respecto al soneto original italiano, el discurso se detiene en el uso del verbo tratar en posición de rima, cuyo empleo y etomología parecen sugerir unas referencias a una tradición literaria distinta de la amorosa. El análisis demuestra que ambos poetas castellanos se concentran en un aspecto del soneto original, dejando al lado la imagen metafórica del navigium amoris, o para mejor decir, referiéndose a ella de manera mucho más alusiva.
L'uso di tecniche teatrali nell’insegnamento-apprendimento di una LS/L2
Authors: Milici Antonina
Published: December 2019

Oggi è oltremodo importante investigare sulle migliori strategie volte a facilitare l’acquisizione di competenza comunicativa in LS/L2, anche in considerazione delle più recenti politiche linguistiche europee. Il processo di insegnamento-apprendimento va ripensato in chiave sociolinguistica, pragmatica e interculturale. Come già acclarato dalla ricerca, la partecipazione emotiva dei discenti gioca un ruolo chiave per una maggiore efficacia negli esiti di apprendimento. Ciò è perfettamente in linea coi principi dell’approccio orientato all’azione che ritroviamo nel Quadro Comune Europeo di Riferimento per le Lingue e nel Companion Volume del 2018. Il presente contributo intende descrivere potenzialità e vantaggi delle tecniche teatrali impiegate in glottodidattica. Non sono moltissimi gli studi teorici in questo campo proprio perché esso si basa su esperienze pratiche che, oltre ad una buona padronanza in LS/L2, mirano ad ottenere risultati in ambito sociale, specialmente per gli stranieri, come la possibilità di un più rapido adattamento nel paese di accoglienza mantenendo il proprio bagaglio linguistico e culturale. La glottodidattica teatrale ha suscitato sempre maggior interesse perché rispondente in pieno alla promozione di un’educazione plurilinguistica e interculturale e della convivenza democratica.
Appunti contrastivi sui verbi valutativi suffissati italiani e spagnoli. Analisi di due corpora sincronici
Authors: Artusi Andrea
Published: December 2019

In questo lavoro si espone uno studio contrastivo italiano-spagnolo sui verbi del tipo canticchiare e canturrear, solitamente denominati verbi valutativi suffissati (VVS) o verbos apreciativos. A partire da due corpora sincronici, si svolge un’analisi quantitativa e qualitativa delle forme riscontrate, al fine di determinare quali siano i VVS più frequenti nelle due lingue in esame. Si analizzano, inoltre, possibili fenomeni di variazione lungo l’asse diafasico, diamesico, e diatopico, così come le caratteristiche semantico-azionali dei 25 VVS più ricorrenti.
Elogio de la apropiación. Prácticas impuras, flamenco y creación contemporánea
Authors: Ordóñez Eslava Pedro
Published: December 2019

De la denominada “música saturada” al trap experimental, del flamenco contemporáneo al arte sonoro, la electrónica o la música académica actual, podríamos afirmar que una parte considerablemente significativa de la realidad musical española, hoy en día, sería susceptible de ser considerada como resultado de un proceso de apropiación, una suerte de palimpsesto en continua reconstitución y resignificación.

Teniendo en cuenta conceptos tan heterogéneos entre sí como pureza, distinción o cuerpo, y desde una adaptación –crítica y actualizada– del análisis tripartito de Jean-Jacques Nattiez, nos centraremos en el análisis del rastro intertextual presente en varios ejemplos emblemáticos del flamenco actual y la creación académica contemporánea, como los que personifican Niño de Elche o Rocío Márquez y Mauricio Sotelo o José María Sánchez-Verdú.
Historia del "fake" audiovisual: "deepfake" y la mujer en un imaginario falsificado y perverso
Authors: Cerdán Martínez Víctor , Padilla Castillo Graciela
Published: December 2019

Un deepfake es un vídeo que superpone la cara de una persona en el cuerpo de otra. Es posible gracias a algoritmos gratuitos y fáciles de usar. Se ha empleado, eminentemente, para crear vídeos pornográficos, con el rostro de actrices famosas. Pero atenta contra la imagen cualquiera, construyendo un imaginario falsificado y perverso. Para validarlo, se emplea una metodología doble: exploración bibliográfica longitudinal sobre el origen de este tipo de fake; e indagación cuantitativa y correlacional, de las búsquedas en Google España. Los resultados confirman el deepfake como vía de descrédito, injuria y vilipendio contra las mujeres. Ellas protagonizan escenas eróticas y son cosificadas. Ellos pronuncian discursos de humor o política, mueven la acción, ostentan el poder y van vestidos.
Understanding Fake News: Technology, Affects, and the Politics of the Untruth
Authors: Arias Maldonado Manuel
Published: December 2019

This paper provides epistemic and conceptual tools for a better understanding of fake news. It begins by looking for a definition of fake news that distinguishes between fabricated news stories and biased claims, showing that fake news "stricto sensu" is less frequent and influential than expected. Then a multicausal account is provided that identifies six main drivers for the multiplication and spread of fabricated news: erosion of truth, digitization, changes in journalism, digital illiteracy, emotional biases, rise of populism. Finally, the implications of fake news for democracy are explored. It is suggested that fakes, their statistical irrelevance notwithstanding, contribute to the weakening of trust and the epistemic disorientation of citizens in a digitized public sphere.
El caso Dreyfus: Intelectuales y prensa española de 1898
Authors: Fuentes Garzón Sara
Published: December 2019

La desmedida complejidad del asunto Dreyfus a finales del siglo XIX provocó un mayor interés social, la creciente participación de la opinión pública internacional y la consecuente determinación de los intelectuales por defender, criticar o colaborar en la causa. Con el fin de comprender la repercusión que suscitó en España, este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la actividad periodística de los diarios madrileños "La Correspondencia de España", "El Liberal" y "El Imparcial" en cuanto espacios de divulgación sobre la cuestión Dreyfus y del pensamiento intelectual de 1898.
Modesto Sánchez Ortiz, comunicador y tratadista del Periodismo
Authors: Cartes Barroso Manuel Jesús
Published: December 2019

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo abordar el prácticamente desconocido perfil biográfico de Modesto Sánchez Ortiz (Aljaraque, 1857-Madrid, 1937), un periodista onubense "hecho a sí mismo" en las últimas décadas del siglo XIX y comienzos de la siguiente centuria. Figura muy vinculada a la Política, de su recorrido periodístico cabe destacar, entre otros logros, la sabia dirección y modernización del diario "La Vanguardia", así como la redacción del libro "El Periodismo", un manual sobre la profesión periodística que le convierte en uno de los primeros tratadistas sobre el Periodismo en España. A pesar de ello es poco recordado en la actualidad, por lo que pretendemos rescatar, con nuevos datos inéditos, la trayectoria de quien iniciase una importante saga de periodistas y escritores que continúa en los días actuales.
Law, Medicine, and the Meaning of the Modern State in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: Bringing History and Humanity to Bear on Ideology
Authors: Ryle-Hodges William
Published: December 2019

Khaled Fahmy mounts a significant challenge to conventional assessments of the modern state in the Middle East. He does this by foregrounding the human bodily detail of the practice of the emerging modern state and bureaucracy in nineteenth-century Egypt. He tells a new story of the bottom-up and gradual construction of the modern state in the detail of everyday facts of being human: being born, getting ill, defecating, bad smells, proving your identity, and wanting justice for your loved ones. Modernizing practices of law and medicine are shown to have intersected in ways that materially and institutionally made possible new kinds of choices and values involving specific persons and predicaments. He thus brings to life what the emergence of the modern state meant in the messy reality of human living in a way that challenges prevailing ideologies that reduce modernity to the impersonal causality of ideas and essences.
Reference evapotranspiration during rainy and dry seasons in Mossoró, RN, Brazil
Authors: Oliveira Anna Kézia Soares de , Freitas Isaac Alves da Silva , Silva Tecla Ticiane Félix da , Sobrinho José Espínola , Maniçoba Rudah Marques , Santos Wesley de Oliveira , Bezerra Joel Medeiros , Silva Saulo Tasso Araújo da
Published: December 2019

Mossoró, RN, Brazil, is considered one of the fruit growing centers of the Northeast region. This municipality has a persistent water deficit, with the need to develop irrigated agriculture with efficient water use and rational management of irrigation. The objective of this study was to evaluate estimation methods of reference evapotranspiration (ETo) for different climate conditions of Mossoró, comparing them with the standard Penman-Monteith-FAO 56 method. A daily data series of two distinct years, a rainy (2011) and a dry year (2012), was used. The data were obtained from the weather station of the Federal Rural University of the Semi-Arid Region (UFERSA). An analysis was performed to identify methods that best fit those of Penman-Monteith-FAO 56, and for this, ten methods were evaluated using statistical indices. The Penman-Original, Radiation-Temperature, and Hargreaves-Original methods stood out and satisfactorily met ETo estimation for the rainy season, while the Jensen-Haise, Radiation-Temperature, and Hargreaves-Original methods achieved satisfactory performance for the dry season. The Hargreaves-Samani method did not demonstrate viability in the use of ETo estimation, as it was the worst method in both studied periods and is not recommended for irrigation management.
Seroprevalence and intercurrence of reproductive pathogens in cattle from family farms in North of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Authors: Haas Dionei Joaquim , Barbieri Jonata de Melo , Freitas Ermilton Junio Pereira de , Oliveira Mayra da Silva , Porto Bernardo Rodrigues , Rodrigues Rogério Oliveira , Heinemann Marcos Bryan , Almeida Anna Christina de , Lobato Zélia Inês Portela , Dorneles Elaine Maria Seles , Lage Andrey Pereira
Published: December 2019

The aims of the present study were: to estimate the seroprevalence of Bluetongue vírus (BTV), bovine alphaherpesvirus 1 (BoHV-1), bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), Brucella abortus and Leptospira spp. in cattle from family farms in North of Minas Gerais; to determine the intercurrence and association among these pathogens; and to assess the possible associated factors to seropositive herds and animals. For this, 476 cows from 46 farms were sampled and evaluated serologically. The seroprevalence in herds and cattle was, respectively, for BTV 100% and 52.0%, for BoHV-1 95.7% and 48.6%, for BVDV 78.3% and 46.1%, for Leptospira spp. 76.1% and 29.1%, and for B. abortus was 0% in herd and cattle. More than 65% of the herds was simultaneously seropositive for BTV, BoHV-1, BVDV and Leptospira spp. Seropositivity for BoHV-1, Leptospira spp. serovar Autumnalis and serovar Hardjoprajitno were associated with abortion, whereas seropositivity for BVDV was associated with BoHV-1. Moreover, association among seropositivity for BVDV, BoHV-1 and Leptospira spp. was also observed. In conclusion, BTV, BoHV-1, BVDV and Leptospira spp. are highly seroprevalent and occurred simultaneously in cattle from family farms in Minas Gerais, indicating the need for the implementation of control measures to avoid economic losses related to these diseases.
Morphology, morphometry, and membrane integrity of epididymal spermatozoa of spotted pacas (Cuniculus paca, Linnaeus 1766)
Authors: Santos Patrícia Andrade dos , Ribeiro Vânia Maria França , Alves Augusto Luiz Faino , Silva Vanessa Lima da , Nascimento Breno Kalyl Freitas , Satrapa Rafael Augusto , Souza Fernando Andrade
Published: December 2019

The objective of this study was to evaluate the morphology, morphometry, and membrane integrity of epididymal spermatozoa of spotted pacas using spermatic cells collected from the epididymal tails of five animals. The flotation method using the ACP-123® and Botusemen Special® extenders was performed, and samples were stained in Diff-Quick and eosin-nigrosine. Descriptive statistics of data were obtained and Student’s t-test was performed. The morphology of 200 Diff-Quick-stained spermatozoa showed that they had an oval head with three vesicles in the acrosomal region, a midpiece, an elongated tail; moreover, 27% of the spermatozoa exhibited cellular defects. The morphometry of 100 sperm cells (analyzed with an optical microscope and the EZ Leica LAS software for Windows) presented the following measurements (mean ± SD): total length 43.87 ± 4.91 ?m, head 7.54 ± 0.82 ?m, midpiece 5.35 ± 0.83 ?m, tail 30.72 ± 2.55 ?m, and head width 5.30 ± 0.68 ?m. Of the 2,000 cells stained with eosin-nigrosine for membrane integrity evaluation, 83.8% diluted in ACP-123® and 72.9% diluted in Botusemen® had intact membranes. The results of this study suggest that epididymal spermatozoa of pacas can be used in assisted reproduction programs; moreover, our study adds knowledge to the reproductive biology of wild animals, and encourages further research on the role of the three acrosomal vesicles present in this species.
Applications of polymerase chain reaction for the detection of equine Leishmania sp. infection
Authors: Escobar Taiane Acunha , Döwich Gabriela , Cantele Letícia Carvalho , Góss Geórgia Camargo , Porciúncula Marcelo Lameiro , Leite Carla Teixeira , Zuravski Luísa , Duarte Claudia Acosta , Lubeck Irina
Published: December 2019

Leishmaniasis is a neglected zoonotic disease caused by a variety of pathogenic Leishmania species. In the New World, especially in Brazil, visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is caused by Leishmania infantum. The pathogen can infect several animal species including dogs, foxes, rodents, primates, felines, equines and humans. Dogs act as the primary domestic reservoirs. This study aimed to use polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for detecting Leishmania infection in horses living in a canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL) endemic region. DNA samples from horse peripheral blood were used to perform PCR. Templates were amplified using primers for the kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) minicircles, which were able to detect different species of Leishmania. In addition, primers for internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of ribosomal DNA were used for detection of Trypanosomatidae sp. Amongst the 75 (39%) positive PCR samples from total 192 samples, 21 samples were positive for kDNA and 63 samples were positive for either ITS, ITS1, or ITS2 gene markers. The kDNA PCR and sequencing allowed the detection of L. infantum in horse blood samples. To our knowledge, this is the first report of equine infection with L. infantum in Southern Brazil. These results proved that L. infantum could also infect horses in addition to humans and dogs, as well as in European countries. This conclusion emphasizes the urgent need to follow up investigation of the infection in these animals.