bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Balancing Competing Needs
Authors: Lewis Laura Foran
Published: December 2015

BACKGROUND: More than 20% of individuals experience a mood disorder in their lifetime. Qualitative studies have explored the experience of being a partner to an individual with a mood disorder, but these studies remain isolated pieces of a larger puzzle. AIMS: In this metasynthesis, I aimed to integrate current qualitative research to describe the experience of being a partner to an individual with a mood disorder. METHOD: A systematic search was conducted to identify qualitative research. Noblit and Hare’s meta-ethnography was used to translate key metaphors from individual studies into a single set of metaphors to describe the experience. RESULTS: Results indicated that these partners are disenfranchised caregivers balancing their own needs with partners’ perceived and reported needs to strive for a stasis of guarded stability. CONCLUSIONS: Future research must explore ways to support these partners and include them in the health care team.
The objects that lived: The 9/11 Museum and material transformation
Authors: Sturken Marita
Published: December 2015

This essay analyzes the September 11 Memorial and Museum at Ground Zero in New York through the framework of memory and materiality. The 9/11 memorial and museum are both sites through which the material transformation of 9/11 is mediated—through preservation, re-creation, and fetishization and through narratives of absence, presence, and remains. I examine the meanings of material transformation in the dust that emerged in the wake of the twin towers’ fall, the design focus on absence, the material objects on display in the museum as survivor objects, and the merchandise for sale in the museum gift shop. The museum is a project of many contradictions in its varied roles as a historical museum, a tribute to those who died, a tourist destination, a patriotic nationalist project, and the repository of unidentified remains. This essay aims to reveal how 9/11 is defined through narratives of exceptionalism and material transformation.
Guidebooks, postcards, and panoramas: The building of Montserrat through modern mass media
Authors: Garcia-Fuentes Josep-Maria
Published: December 2015

This article demonstrates how guidebooks, postcards, and panoramas have mediated spiritual, cultural, and nationalistic narratives of Montserrat, a mountain and monastery-shrine near Barcelona, Spain. Montserrat—as a place and as an idea—was shaped as a national symbol in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a struggle among shifting religious, cultural, and political forces. These struggles have influenced individual and collective memories while they have informed the architectural grammar used in the reconstruction of the modern monastery-shrine, influencing the work of the Catalan architects Antoni Gaudí and Josep Puig i Cadafalch and informing the alterations of the sites that these mass media represent and idealize.
Atomic childhood around 1980
Authors: Freeman Lindsey A
Published: December 2015

In On Hashish, Walter Benjamin writes that he would “like to write something that comes from things the way wine comes from grapes.” Here I try a similar project by squeezing things from my past that have been fermented over time with memory to show the intoxication of an atomic childhood. I take as the starting point objects and spaces from my experiences in and around the atomic city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which may or may not be shared by others who encountered atomic Appalachia. Stretching beyond my own experience, I seek to add to the growing body of thinking about the connections between materiality and memory by adding the atomic as a dynamic example of matter’s vibrancy.
The fabric of our memories: Leather, kinship, and queer material history
Authors: Van Doorn Niels
Published: December 2015

This article examines how the practices of self-preservation and other-directed care within Baltimore’s gay leather community are entangled with the material fabric of leather. I argue that leather forms a mnemonic technology that mediates between intimate experience and collective memory, thereby enabling leathermen to develop affective attachments to both the past and the future of their shared form of life. Ultimately, my aim is to attend to the relation between memory and materiality, asking how the material qualities of leather, as treated animal skin, evoke, store, and shape memories and, vice versa, how such memories imbue leather items with emotional, cultural, and political values.
Microbial degradation of cellulosic material under intermediate-level waste simulated conditions
Authors: Bassil Naji M. , Bewsher Alastair D. , Thompson Olivia R. , Lloyd Jonathan R.
Published: December 2015

Under the alkaline conditions expected in an intermediate-level waste repository, cellulosic material will undergo chemical hydrolysis. This will produce hydrolysis products, some of which can form soluble complexes with some radionuclides. Analyses of samples containing autoclaved tissue and cotton wool incubated in a saturated solution of Ca(OH)2 ( pH > 12) confirmed previous reports that isosaccharinic acid (ISA) is produced from these cellulose polymers at high pH. However, when inoculated with a sediment sample from a hyperalkaline site contaminated with lime-kiln waste, microbial activity was implicated in the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose and the subsequent production of acetate. This in turn led to acidification of the microcosms and a marked decrease in ISA production from the abiotic alkali hydrolysis of cellulose. DNA analyses of microbial communities present in the microcosms further support the hypothesis that bacterial activities can have a controlling influence on the formation of organic acids, including ISA, via an interplay between direct and indirect mechanisms. These and previous results imply that microorganisms could have a role in attenuating the mobility of some radionuclides in and around a geological disposal facility, via either the direct biodegradation of ISA or by catalysing cellulose fermentation and therefore preventing the formation of ISA.
A mechanism for bentonite buffer erosion in a fracture with a naturally varying aperture
Authors: Reid Christopher , Lunn Rebecca , El Mountassir Gráinne , Tarantino Alessandro
Published: December 2015

In the deep geological disposal of nuclear waste in crystalline rock, erosion of the bentonite buffer may occur during periods of glaciation. Previous researchers have examined the mechanism and rates of extrusion and erosion for purified montmorillonite samples in smooth planar fractures. In this paper, we investigate the influence of using MX-80 material (as delivered, i.e. including accessory minerals) and a naturally varying aperture on bentonite erosion. A bespoke fracture flow cell was constructed for this purpose and flow through conducted with deionized water. Throughout the experiment, gravimetric analysis was undertaken on the effluent and the swelling pressure of the bentonite monitored. Quantitative image analysis of the extrusion process was also undertaken. When the swelling pressure data were analysed, alongside both the oscillations in erosion rate and the area of the accessory-mineral ring, a two-stage mechanism governing the erosion process became apparent. Once an accessory-mineral ring had formed at the edge of the extruded material, further increases in swelling pressure resulted in a breach in the accessory-mineral ring, triggering an erosive period during which, the mineral ring was supplemented with additional minerals. The cycle repeated until the ring was sufficiently strong that it remained intact. This observed process results in erosion rates one order of magnitude less than those currently used in long-term safetycase calculations.
An approach to modelling the impact of 14C release from reactor graphite in a geological disposal facility
Authors: Doulgeris Charalampos , Humphreys Paul , Rout Simon
Published: December 2015

Carbon-14 (C-14) is a key radionuclide in the assessment of a geological disposal facility (GDF) for radioactive waste. In the UK a significant proportion of the national C-14 inventory is associated with reactor-core graphite generated by the decommissioning of the UK's Magnox and AGR reactors.

There are a number of uncertainties associated with the fate and transport of C-14 in a post-closure disposal environment that need to be considered when calculating the radiological impacts of C-14-containing wastes. Some of these uncertainties are associated with the distribution of C-14-containing gaseous species such as 14CH4 and 14CO2 between the groundwater and gaseous release pathways. As part of the C14-BIG programme, a modelling framework has been developed to investigate these uncertainties. This framework consists of a biogeochemical near-field evolution model, incorporating a graphite carbon-14 release model, which interfaces with a geosphere/biosphere model. The model highlights the potential impact of the microbial reduction of 14CO2 to 14CH4, through the oxidation of H2, on C-14 transport. The modelling results could be used to inform the possible segregation of reactor graphite from other gasgenerating wastes.
Development of a Generic Safety Narrative for a UK Geological Disposal Facility
Authors: Bailey L.
Published: December 2015

The UK has published a generic Disposal System Safety Case for a geological disposal facility (NDA, 2010) and is planning to update this in 2016. However, it is a challenge to present a meaningful safety case when the location and hence the design of a geological disposal facility are not known. Consequently, this paper describes our aim to present a narrative, explaining how we can have confidence in the long-term safety of a geological disposal facility. This narrative is based on an understanding of the environmental safety functions of a geological disposal facility and the features, events and processes (FEPs) that support them. The highest level environmental safety functions required for a geological disposal facility are isolation and containment. By isolation we mean removal of the wastes from people and the surface environment. By containment we mean retaining the radioactivity from the wastes within various parts of the disposal facility for as long as required to achieve safety. Beneath these top-level environmental safety functions we have identified generic environmental safety functions associated with each of the key safety barriers within a geological disposal facility, namely: the wasteform, the container, the local buffer or backfill, the mass backfill (in the access tunnels and service ways), the plugs and seals and the geosphere. This paper discusses the application of environmental safety functions and FEPs to building a safety narrative and explains how it is proposed to use such an approach to develop a generic environmental safety case for the UK to provide confidence in the longterm safety of a geological disposal facility after it has been sealed and closed.
Designing Warning Messages for Detecting Biased Online Product Recommendations: An Empirical Investigation
Authors: Xiao Bo , Benbasat Izak
Published: December 2015

The increasing adoption of product recommendation agents (PRAs) by e-commerce merchants makes it an important area of study for information systems researchers. PRAs are a type of Web personalization technology that provides individual consumers with product recommendations based on their product-related needs and preferences expressed explicitly or implicitly. Whereas extant research mainly assumes that such recommendation technologies are designed to benefit consumers and focuses on the positive impact of PRAs on consumers’ decision quality and decision effort, this study represents an early effort to examine PRAs that are designed to produce their recommendations on the basis of benefiting e-commerce merchants (rather than benefiting consumers) and to investigate how the availability and the design of warning messages (a potential detection support mechanism) can enhance consumers’ performance in detecting such biased PRAs. Drawing on signal detection theory, the literature on warning messages, and the literature on message framing, we identified two content design characteristics of warning messages—the inclusion of risk-handling advice and the framing of risk-handling advice—and investigated how they influence consumers’ detection performance. The results of an online experiment reveal that a simple warning message without accompanying advice on how to detect bias is a double-edged sword, because it increases correct detection of biased PRAs (hits) at the cost of increased incorrect detection (false alarms). By contrast, including in warning messages risk-handling advice about how to check for bias (particularly when the advice is framed to emphasize the loss from not following the advice) increases correct detection and, more importantly, also decreases incorrect detection. The patterns of findings are in line with the predictions of signal detection theory. With an enriched understanding of how the availability and the content design of warning messages can assist consumers in the context of PRA-assisted online shopping, the results of this study serve as a basis for future theoretical development and yield valuable insights that can guide practice and the design of effective warning messages.
Do Organic Results Help or Hurt Sponsored Search Performance?
Authors: Agarwal Ashish , Hosanagar Kartik , Smith Michael D.
Published: December 2015

We study the impact of changes in the competitors’ listings in organic search results on the performance of sponsored search advertisements. Using data from an online retailer’s keyword advertising campaign, we measure the impact of organic competition on both click-through rate and conversion rate of sponsored search advertisements. We find that an increase in organic competition leads to a decrease in the click performance of sponsored advertisements. However, organic competition helps the conversion performance of sponsored ads and leads to higher revenue. We also find that organic competition has a higher negative effect on click performance than does sponsored competition. Our results inform advertisers on how the presence of organic results influences the performance of their sponsored advertisements. Specifically, we show that organic competition acts as a substitute for clicks, but has a complementary effect on the conversion performance.
Behavior-Based Pricing: An Analysis of the Impact of Peer-Induced Fairness
Authors: Li Krista J. , Jain Sanjay
Published: December 2015

Firms tracking consumer purchase information often use behavior-based pricing (BBP), i.e., price discriminate between consumers based on preferences revealed from purchase histories. However, behavioral research has shown that such pricing practices can lead to perceptions of unfairness when consumers are charged a higher price than other consumers for the same product. This paper studies the impact of consumers’ fairness concerns on firms’ behavior-based pricing strategy, profits, consumer surplus, and social welfare. Prior research shows that BBP often yields lower profits than profits without customer recognition or behavior-based price discrimination. By contrast, we find that firms’ profits from conducting BBP increase with consumers’ fairness concerns. When fairness concerns are sufficiently strong, practicing BBP is more profitable than without customer recognition. However, consumers’ fairness concerns decrease consumer surplus. In addition, when consumers’ fairness concerns are sufficiently strong, they reduce inefficient switching and improve social welfare.

This paper was accepted by J. Miguel Villas-Boas, marketing.
Effect of Plastic Mulch Color on Leaf Anatomy of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.)
Authors: Franquera Edmar , Mabesa Renato
Published: December 2015

Two lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) varieties (Looseleaf and Romaine) were grown with five colored (silver, red, orange, yellow, green) plastic mulches to determine their effects on the leaf anatomical structure of lettuce. The experiment was laid in a Split Plot Randomized Completely Block Design. The result of the study showed that Romaine lettuce (8.80) had a higher number of stomata compared with Looseleaf (6.73) however; in terms of stomata length the Looseleaf had longer stomata (18.63 µm) compared with Romaine (16.42 µm). More stomata were observed in lettuce grown with red plastic mulch. However, the number of stomata did not differ among the various colored plastic mulches. Longer stomata were observed in lettuce grown with red plastic mulch, compared with lettuce grown with the other colored plastic mulches. The study showed that the color of the plastic mulch had a significant effect on the leaf anatomy of lettuce and red plastic mulch could be used to enhance the length of the stomata which may affect the growth of the lettuce.
El radicalismo riocuartense: renovación partidaria, sectores conservadores y fascismo en los años treinta
Authors: Camaño Rebeca
Published: December 2015

Bajo el influjo de la renovación partidaria, en los años treinta los sectores tradicionales que hasta entonces habían dominado al radicalismo riocuartense fueron paulatinamente desplazados por lafracción sabattinista. En este proceso ocupó un rol importante la Juventud Radical como impulsora de la conformación de un frente único antifascista conjuntamente con demócratas, socialistas y comunistas que puso en evidencia y deslegitimó a aquellos radicales poco afectos a las instituciones liberales. Como respuesta a esto, y al progresivo relegamiento de los cargos partidarios y públicos,estos sectores buscaron nuevas estrategias para acceder al poder. Recurrieron entonces a prácticas que implicaron el quebranto de la disciplina partidaria y, finalmente, decidieron escindirse del radicalismo y conformar una nueva agrupación política. Consecuentemente, estos reacomodamientos no solamente provocaron cambios al interior del partido sino que además implicaron transformaciones en el escenario político riocuartense.
El Departamento Nacional del Trabajo y su relación con la Ley de Accidentes Laborales de 1915
Authors: MADDALENA PABLO
Published: December 2015

El artículo recorre los debates sobre accidentes laborales que sostuvieron técnicos y políticos argentinos desde principios del siglo XX hasta la promulgación de la ley 9.688 en 1915. Se analizan las ideas y saberes técnicos vinculados con la temática que se difundieron desde el Departamento Nacional del Trabajo, para analizar en qué medida actuaron como cimientos para la construcción de la política pública. Para ello se pone en diálogolas fuentes oficiales que otorgaron relevancia a los accidentes de trabajo y los proyectos legislativos que al respecto fueron impulsados desde divergentes sectores sociales y políticos. A su vez, se plantea el interrogante sobre si la ley produjo un giro novedoso al fijar mecanismos de resolución de litigios en casos de accidentes o por el contrario reafirmó prácticas establecidas previamente.Finalmente se discuten los argumentos que vinculan esta ley a un entramado legislativo proclive a resguardar los intereses de los trabajadores.
Sujetos, instituciones y derechos en la implementación de la ley de accidentes del trabajo en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (1915-1922)
Authors: Scheinkman Ludmila
Published: December 2015

Este trabajo aborda los años iniciales de implementación de la Ley de Accidentes del Trabajo en la ciudad de Buenos Aires (1915-1922). Se analiza en primer lugar, la peculiar interacción, diálogos y cruces entre el Departamento Nacional del Trabajo y el Departamento Nacional de Higiene –instituciones intervinientes en la aplicación de la ley–, a través de dos de sus voceros destacados: Alejandro Unsain y Augusto Bunge. Luego avanzamos en el análisis de juicios laborales por accidentes, deteniéndonos en las múltiples acciones emprendidas para obtener resarcimiento; como así también en las ideas de derecho y justicia que las guiaron. A partir de este análisis, sostenemos que las acciones judiciales y extra-judiciales emprendidas por los trabajadores tuvieron un papel central en la construcción práctica de la legislación, sirviendo desustento a las críticas y propuestas de reformas que llevaron a la modificación de la legislación.
La política de las enfermedades profesionales. Anquilostomiasis y silicosis en Chile, 1920-1940
Authors: ORTÚZAR DIEGO
Published: December 2015

El artículo revisa las dos primeras décadas del sistema legal, previsional e institucional destinado a proteger a los trabajadores que sufrían enfermedades profesionales en Chile. Se indaga en la anquilostomiasis de la región carbonífera y en la silicosis de las explotaciones del cobre, las dos enfermedades profesionales que primeramente alcanzaron notoriedad. Posteriormente se discute la medida en que estas enfermedades lograron ser prevenidas, asistidas y compensadas por los empleadores, tal como estipuló la legislación sobre accidentes del trabajo de 1924.Se verá que hasta la década de 1940 el sistema previsto para asistir a las enfermedades profesionales no logró imponerse, y que organismos de previsión financiados por los mismos trabajadores y el Estado se vieron forzados a socorrer a un sector de los trabajadores afectados.
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Transactional Reading in EFL Learning: A Path to Promote Critical Thinking through Urban Legends
Authors: Leal Hernandez Mariela , Gómez Rodríguez Luis Fernando
Published: December 2015

This article reports the research methodology and the findings of an action-research study conducted with a group of EFL eleventh graders’ at a public school in Bogotá. The study aimed at helping learners develop critical thinking through the implementation of the Transactional approach to reading. Individual and social transactions during the reading process of several urban legends enabled learners to discuss social conflicts that were also related to their lives, including, for instance, social irresponsibility, violence, drug consumption, and dishonesty. Data analysis from teachers’ observations, students’ opinions in an interview, and artifacts (workshops) completed in a pedagogical intervention show that the students fostered critical thinking. The main findings indicate that they criticized human behaviors, generated solutions to conflicts, and planned and produced new knowledge based on previous information. An equal significant finding is that they became critical learners when they used the foreign language.

 

 
Virilidad y Subjetividad revolucionaria: elementos conceptuales para el estudio del periodismo de oposición en México: la revista Política, 1960-1967
Authors: Sánchez Sierra Juan Carlos
Published: December 2015

En este artículo se examinan algunas facetas del ejercicio periodístico de oposición congregado alrededor de la revista Política. Con el uso de columnas periodísticas, editoriales, y cartas enviadas a la redacción de Política como insumo empírico, con este análisis se busca establecer la posible relación entre la formación de un perfil ideal de periodismo comprometido, y la formación de un modelo de subjetividad revolucionaria netamente masculino a comienzos de la década de 1960. A través de un examen de la emergencia de un arquetipo asociado con la idea del del Hombre Nuevo, se argumenta que los valores que marcaron el periodismo de la izquierda mexicana con un aura moral fortalecieron la vivencia subjetiva masculina de la militancia de izquierda y al periodismo como una de las facetas del heroísmo revolucionario. Con el estudio de los valores asociados al periodismo de oposición, y el efecto que la represión tuvo en periodistas y lectores, se intenta poner a prueba la funcionalidad de nociones tales como periodismo heroico, subjetividad revolucionaria, y esfera pública alternativa. 
Mercantilizacion, moda y mujer en la prensa bogotana durante las primeras décadas del siglo XX
Authors: Reina Carlos
Published: December 2015

Con el desarrollo de la sociedad capitalista, los procesos de mercantilización de la vida social fueron aumentando. Colombia, hombres y mujeres, jóvenes, ancianos y niños, se vieron envueltos en una avalancha de publicidad que los sometió a la compra y consumo de artefactos, productos o estilos de vida ajenos a las costumbres y tradiciones heredadas siglos atrás. En Bogotá, la prensa se especializó en hacer crónicas relacionadas con las mujeres, ofreciéndoles toda clase de productos a través de las páginas femeninas y de la publicidad. No se trataba de presentar y reconocer a la mujer como tal, sino de convertirla en objeto de los procesos de mercantilización que han caracterizado al capitalismo. Este proceso comenzó a ser evidente a principios del siglo XX. Este documento representa una aproximación a tal análisis.
Colombia en la ONU y la OEA: discontinuidades en la posición internacional 1945-1991
Authors: Antolinez Franco Johan Stephen
Published: December 2015

El artículo aborda la política exterior de Colombia en la Organización de Naciones Unidas – ONU y la Organización de Estados Americanos – OEA entre 1945 y 1991, periodo conocido como la Guerra Fría. Se propone la división del estudio en dos momentos diferentes, el primero desde 1945 hasta finales de la década de los 60, mientras el segundo desde principios de los 70 hasta 1991. El análisis se realiza a partir de cinco conjuntos de variables: sistémicas, de idiosincrasia, sociales, de función y gubernamentales; los cuales son utilizados para exponer los lineamientos de la política exterior del país en las Organizaciones Internacionales.
El centro penitenciario de Guantánamo: algunas reflexiones sobre la justificación ética a la enajenación de los Derechos Humanos
Authors: Blandón Lotero Laura Catalina , Molina Javier
Published: December 2015

El presente documento tiene por objeto develar y argumentar cómo el uso indiscriminado de la violencia funciona en los regímenes democráticos contemporáneos como un instrumento de  presión  para la comunidad internacional, legitimada a través de la política antiterrorista y su consecuente discurso del terror. Adicionalmente, tras el esbozo de los principales supuestos de la teoría del mal menor de Michael Ignatieff, y algunas reflexiones de carácter ético-políticas, se procurará establecer cómo el modelo de Estado democrático, representado por EEUU en la comunidad internacional, admite en su seno el uso indiscriminado de la fuerza y en esencia la expensa reducción de derechos civiles de sus ciudadanos, bajo la idea y “necesidad” de seguridad de su población frente a un posible ataque terrorista del medio oriente.
“Si algo caracteriza esta época es la falsedad” Entrevista a Armando Silva
Authors: Prieto Leopoldo
Published: December 2015

Ya no hay tiempo para los lamentos, el viejo periodismo escrito de largas crónicas y extensos reportajes perdió su público y declaró caduco su soporte, el papel. Pero no sólo eso, el oficio mismo, la propia profesión ha sucumbido devastada por los poderosos, por los pusilánimes, por los cínicos, así al menos lo teme Umberto Eco en su última novela Número cero, que regala una feroz mirada del estado del campo periodístico en los últimos años, un escenario denunciado como miserable por el influjo de poder y ambición que echó raíces sobre él, un campo devastado por la manipulación de la imperfecta democracia alguna vez vivida y ahora transmutada en farsa constantemente padecida.
Tiempo para la vida. La crisis ecológica en su dimensión temporal
Authors: Osorio Ardila Giselle
Published: December 2015

En tiempo para la vida, el  ecólogo, politólogo y poeta, Jorge Riechmann reúne  varios de sus escritos sobre la relación existente entre la manera imperante de concebir el  tiempo y la crisis ecológica mundial. La edición colombiana complementa la amena escritura de esta obra  con  ilustraciones de John Digby, cuyos  collages, en palabras de  Mutis Durán (en el epílogo de esta edición): “Son  metáforas de nuestra relación y convivencia con los animales, los bosques, los ríos, los insectos… relación que hoy se ha tornado dramática o atroz”.
Aportes para la comprensión de la violencia en periodos de posconflicto
Authors: Camelo Heyder Alfonso
Published: December 2015

La terminación de un conflicto armado no implica el fin de la violencia. De hecho, en un periodo de posconflicto, la violencia adquiere múltiples manifestaciones, entre ellas el cambio de tipos y de actores que recurren a su uso, las variaciones en su magnitud, y el impacto que tiene en la sociedad. Estas variaciones han sido objeto de estudio en la academia, y han sido abordadas, con miras a su comprensión, a través de tres enfoques: la cultura de la violencia, una violencia inmersa entre los vestigios del conflicto y la criminalidad, y una violencia que se encamina a la reanudación del conflicto. Esta literatura brinda elementos de análisis para el caso colombiano ante el eventual inicio de un periodo posconflicto.
Montaje o historia con imágenes. Sobre la posibilidad de representar la violencia en Colombia
Authors: Urueña Calderón Juan Felipe
Published: December 2015

El texto pretende esbozar un modo de disposición y exposición del archivo visual basado en la noción de montaje –deducido de la práctica metodológica de Walter Benjamín y Aby Warburg-. A partir de allí, se sugiere la posibilidad de construir un montaje de imágenes, producidas en diferentes contextos de circulación, con el motivo iconográfico de la lengua, con el que se alude a las relaciones entre memoria, violencia y silencio, y con el que se muestra que con este procedimiento es posible establecer correspondencias entre diferentes épocas de la violencia en Colombia, dando cuenta, de esta manera, de los retornos de algunas prácticas violentas.
El posconflicto y los desafíos de la protesta social en Colombia
Authors: Cruz Rodríguez Edwin
Published: December 2015

Este artículo analiza los desafíos de la protesta social en un eventual posconflicto en Colombia. En un escenario de posconflicto, que propenda por la consolidación de la democracia y la exclusión de la violencia como vía legítima para hacer política, es necesario acabar con el legado contrainsurgente de la Guerra Fría, promover una cultura política alejada de la mentalidad contrainsurgente que asuma la protesta como el ejercicio legítimo de un derecho y no como una amenaza interna, desprivatizar la función policial y acabar con el paramilitarismo en todas sus formas, desmilitarizar la policía y acoplar los marcos jurídicos a las necesidades razonables del derecho a la protesta.
Roles de la fuerza pública: de lo teórico a lo práctico
Authors: Zevooluni Rodriguez Joseph Mauricio
Published: December 2015

El presente documento busca analizar las estrategias implementadas por el Estado y las Fuerzas Armadas a la luz de cinco etapas de inflexión delimitadas por los eventos históricos del conflicto armado interno colombiano entre 1964 y 2014, con el propósito de distinguir su efectividad en cada período y fundamentar a partir de una base objetiva, los futuros roles que las instituciones del sector defensa podrán desempeñar en beneficio de la sociedad en el marco de un postconflicto inminente. Lo anterior, considerando nuevas funciones que la Comunidad Internacional deposita en el componente militar, entre ellas las misiones internacionales de paz, la atención de desastres, la preservación de recursos naturales y el apoyo a poblaciones aisladas vulnerables.
Escribir sobre paz: una costumbre en el posconflicto
Authors: Morales Leguizamón Karen Vanessa
Published: December 2015

Paz, paso a paso es una recopilación de ocho ensayos que estudian el conflicto colombiano desde dos perspectivas: la violencia como configurador de procesos sociales y la teoría como recurso que provee bases para el estudio de variables y posibles condicionantes. El análisis se propone, en un comienzo, considerar colectivos específicos que surgen a partir del llamado de organizaciones sociales para generar propuestas de paz en el marco de la reconciliación, y entender cómo son percibidas las dinámicas del conflicto, especialmente por parte de los jóvenes que viven en zonas donde se concentran altos índices de violencia.
La sicaresca: más allá de una propuesta de literatura emergente
Authors: Pérez Dimate Diana Camila
Published: December 2015

A lo largo de la historia, Colombia se ha adaptado a diferentes cambios en las esferas económicas, políticas, sociales y culturales. Tales transformaciones se han visto reflejadas en los comportamientos y manera de pensar de las masas que han plasmado estos cambios a través de diferentes recursos como la literatura. Es así como ha surgido una nueva narrativa: la sicaresca, la cual ha contribuido al estudio de diferentes fenómenos sociales para nada ajenos a nuestra realidad.
NEW HEURISTICS FOR THE NO-WAIT FLOWSHOP WITH SEQUENCE-DEPENDENT SETUP TIMES PROBLEM
Authors: Araújo Daniella Castro , Nagano Marcelo Seido
Published: December 2015

In this paper, we address the problem of scheduling jobs in a no-wait flowshop with sequence-dependent setup times with the objective of minimizing the makespan and the total flowtime. As this problem is well-known for being NP-hard, we present two new constructive heuristics in order to obtain good approximate solutions for the problem in a short CPU time, named GAPH and QUARTS. GAPH is based on a structural property for minimizing makespan and QUARTS breaks the problem in quartets in order to minimize the total flowtime. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed approachs over three of the best-know methods in the literature: BAH and BIH, from Bianco, Dell´Olmo and Giordani (1999) and TRIPS, by Brown, McGarvey and Ventura (2004).
PROJECTS AND OPERATIONS IN THE OIL AND GAS E&P SEGMENT: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC PANEL
Authors: De Castro Jose Francisco Tebaldi , Lima Claudio Benevenuto de Campos , Gutierrez Ruben Huamanchumo
Published: December 2015

This article provides a better understanding from the literature on the multi-disciplinary processes management and on large critical projects, in multiple environments, in an oil operator. A bibliographic panel was prepared, from a bibliometric research, focusing on portfolio, projects, operations and resources. The analysis of the literature was made from the perspective of integration of processes, taking as fundaments their interdependencies and multidisciplinary aspects. There was no evidence that integration is a reality in processes so large and multi-disciplinary, as well as in multiple environments with large projects. However, good practices were found and they are related to isolated cases. This study identified and separated issues that are inherent to the studied processes, from the ones that are result of poor integration and immaturity of the processes which are of vital importance for the construction of an integrated and multidisciplinary model. This article takes a critical look on how the treatment of such aspects add value through the identification of the interfaces, that are important in organizations that operate in multiple environments projects, together with production operations.
THE DESIGN THINKING AND THE HEALTH SERVICES: THE COMPETITIVE DIFFERENTIAL THROUGH THE HUMANIZATION OF PATIENT EXPERIENCE
Authors: Caulliraux Adriano Amaral , Meiriño Marcelo Jasmim
Published: December 2015

It is necessary to rethink the different experiences of patients in health care area. Feelings such as anxiety and fear, for example, are common in the interactions between caregivers and patients, which reflects the disparity between the offered and the necessary to meet the patients’ demands. In this article, there will be analyzed two cases of successful application of the Design Thinking in the Health Care area, the “Mayo Clinic” – elected the best hospital in the USA in 2014 -  and the “Humanization of the perioperative experience of the elective patient ” – a Master's thesis developed by the author at Fluminense Federal University (UFF) in 2015. It’s demonstrated the potential of using the Design Thinking for the systematic planning and re-planning of the health service, seeking to meet and transpose the human beings expectations, generating values for the clients, market spread and leveraging a competitive advantage.
A BOW-TIE BASED RISK FRAMEWORK INTEGRATED WITH A BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORK APPLIED TO THE PROBABILISTIC RISK ANALYSIS
Authors: Pereira Jose Cristiano , Lima Gilson Brito Alves , Santanna Annibal Parracho
Published: December 2015

The use of probabilistic risk analysis in the jet engines manufacturing process is essential to prevent failure. It has been observed in the literature about risk management that the standard risk assessment is normally inadequate to address the risks in this process. To remedy this problem, the methodology presented in this paper covers the construction of a probabilistic risk analysis model, based on Bayesian Belief Network coupled to a bow-tie diagram. It considers the effects of human, software and calibration reliability to identify critical risk factors in this process. The application of this methodology to a particular jet engine manufacturing process is presented to demonstrate the viability of the proposed approach.
NEW TECHNOLOGIES ADOPTION: A DIGITAL TV STUDY
Authors: Piloto Ronaldo Alípio Da Costa , Ribas José Roberto , Trinta José Luiz , Altaf Joyce Gonçalves , Troccoli Irene Raguenet
Published: December 2015

This paper reports on the role of socio-demographic and psychographic basis - the later achieved through the Value and Life Styles-2, or VALS-2 – as predictor of the consumers’ intention to migrate from the conventional analogical to digital TV broadcast. By means of validation, the sample was split in two groups, one used to estimate the logistic regression coefficients and the other used to confirm the model results and specification. It was observed that, among the alternatives of specification, the psychographic variable VALS-2 First Level and the demographic variables Age and Household Income provided a significant contribution on the discrimination of two segments – early adopters and non-adopters. The research concluded on the importance of using both demographic and psychographic segmentation basis in an integrated manner in order to research the attributes of consumers who declare their positive of migrating to innovating goods.
SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT: A CASE FROM INDIAN CEMENT INDUSTRY
Authors: Pathak Priyanka , Gupta Sumit , Dangayach Govind Sharan
Published: December 2015

Sustainability means meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, and Sustainable Waste Management is using waste produced efficiently so that use of amount of material resources get reduced. India, is the second amongst cement producers in the world with a total capacity of 245.40 Million Tonnes (MT), has a huge cement industry and produces about 7% of world’s total production. The Indian cement industry has on one hand, enormous pressure to increase profit and margins, while on other; there is considerable public interest on a sustainable and environment friendly usage of natural resources. The objective of this paper is to pursue sustainable waste management for a cement industry through replacement of coal with some alternative fuel, which actually belongs to the group of hazardous wastes and which could benefit the plant economically and environmentally, and improve sustainability of plant. The use of alternative fuels will help in reducing energy costs and providing a competitive edge for a cement plant. Furthermore, this will reduce the burden of waste disposal considerably. So, it also supports to fulfilling Sustainable Waste Management issues
ADVANCED PLANNING SYSTEMS (APS) FOR SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING: A CASE STUDY IN DAIRY INDUSTRY
Authors: Zago Cecília Farid , Mesquita Marco Aurélio de
Published: December 2015

This paper discusses which benefits the use of APS may bring to the S&OP, and the critical factors for the successful implementation. A case study was conducted in a major dairy company in the Brazilian food industry. Positioned in an environment of high market competition and narrow profit margins, the company strives for operational excellence, aimed at inventory reduction and increased service level. This supply chain includes several plants and has recently been through the deployment of an APS to support its S&OP process. The research has identified the main benefits of the APS: greater confidence and accuracy in planning, and better balancing of inventory throughout the supply chain. The deployment project went through specific difficulties that delayed its schedule. The study reinforces the importance of fully support from senior managers and the commitment of the planning staff to meet the challenges of customization and integration of the new system.
Drought and vegetation analysis in Tarsus River Basin (Southern Turkey) using GIS and Remote Sensing data
Authors: Duran Celalettin
Published: December 2015

In this study, the effects of topographic variables on drought and vegetation in dry season have been examined. Distributions of dry conditions in Tarsus River Basin were derived using the NDVI, NDMI indexes and LST (Land Surface Temperature) from landsat8 image bands.

There is large difference in elevation in the study area. Local climatic conditions are formed under the influence of altitude and morphological structure. Narrow and deep valleys in the topography create more moderate temperature/moisture conditions and are the main distribution area of tall forest vegetation. High radiation in the highest plateau system and, extreme temperature/moisture values led short-lived herbaceous vegetation to spread. Due to high insolation/temperature and restricted marine affect, establishment of scrub vegetation can be observed both in mid-elevation and south-sloping plateau of the study area. Anthropogenic agricultural fields form the land surface with the potential of high temperature/evapotranspiration rate in harvesting periods. Broadleaf plant species spread in areas close to the base of the valley stream. Plantation forest has been created in areas of near-shore sand dunes and very small delta (marsh).

Variability in topography also increases the width of the combination of factors that shape the vegetation. This also enables the number of taxa to increase and unusual taxa to co-exist.
The analysis of children’s books in the context of how they reflect environmental issues
Çocuk edebiyatı yapıtlarının çevre sorunlarını yansıtışı bağlamında incelenmesi
Authors: Aslan Canan
Published: December 2015

Children’s books are among important variables that contribute to raising children as individuals sensitive to environment through providing aesthetic experiences. The purpose of this study is to analyze literary children’s books in the context of how they reflect environmental issues. The data sources of the study included the books covering environmental issues and first published in 2014 or 2015. The data were collected through document analysis that is a qualitative research method and were analyzed descriptively. As a result of the study it was seen that the analyzed books cover many topics related to environmental pollution and that environmental pollution is caused by lack of education, unawareness or insensitivity mostly for economic or arbitrary reasons. According to the books, everyone from administrators to large companies and local administrations is responsible for environmental pollution. The study showed that children and women are more sensitive to environment. The books of which the content is supported with quality visuals make children feel future problems and their solutions through the use of a literary language and in a way appropriate for the age and development of children.

 

Özet

Çocukların çevreye duyarlı bireyler olarak yetişmelerinde katkı sağlayacak önemli bir değişken de etkisini estetik yaşantı sağlayarak gösteren çocuk edebiyatı yapıtlarıdır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, yazınsal çocuk kitaplarını çevre sorunlarını yansıtışı bağlamında incelemektir. Çalışmanın veri kaynağını, 2014-2015 yıllarında ilk baskıları yapılan çevre sorunları konulu kitaplar oluşturmaktadır. Veriler, nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden doküman incelemesi yoluyla toplanmış, betimsel olarak çözümlenmiştir. Araştırma sonucunda incelenen kitaplarda çevre kirliliğine ilişkin birçok konunun ele alındığı ve çevrenin; eğitimsizliğin, bilinçsizliğin ve duyarsızlığın bir sonucu olarak çoğunlukla ekonomik ve keyfi nedenlerle kirletildiği saptanmıştır. Kitaplara göre, çevre kirliliğinden yöneticilerden zengin şirketlere, yerel yönetimlere kadar her kesimden insan sorumludur. Çevreye karşı özellikle çocuklar ve kadınlar daha duyarlıdır. İçeriğin nitelikli görsellerle desteklendiği bu kitaplarda gelecekte yaşanacak sorunlar ve bu sorunların çözüm yolları da yazınsal bir dille ve çocuğun yaş/gelişim düzeyine uygun biçimde duyumsatılmıştır.
Analysis of educational augmented reality applications: The case of Android operating system
Eğitsel artırılmış gerçeklik uygulamalarının incelenmesi: Android işletim sistemi örneği
Authors: Arslan Ahmet , Elibol Mehmet
Published: December 2015

The aim of this study is to examine the educational augmented reality applications developed for mobile devices. In accordance with this aim, mobile educational augmented reality applications restricted by Android operating system were searched under the keywords “Augmented Reality and Education” in the Google Play Store and the first 100 results enumerated according to the downloading number were taken under review and evaluated from different perspectives. This evaluation addresses the following points: (1) whether the evaluated applications have the characteristics of augmented reality, (2) market category of the applications where they are published, (3) the table formed as a result of classification of the researchers, (4) distribution of the subjects in the applications, (5) the area on which augmented reality application runs, (6) last update date of augmented reality applications and (7) downloading number of augmented reality applications. After evaluation of these points 18 applications which take much attention and are considered as important for the education have been evaluated in detail. As the result of study, it was concluded that augmented reality applications run mainly on paper and when the pointer on the paper is swiped as augmented reality they are video – playing applications.

 

Özet

Bu çalışmanın amacı mobil cihazlar için geliştirilmiş eğitsel artırılmış gerçeklik uygulamalarını incelemektir. Bu amaç doğrultusunda Android işletim sistemi ile sınırlandırılan mobil eğitsel arttırılmış gerçeklik uygulamaları Google Play Markette indirilme sayısına göre listelenen ilk 100 sonuç değerlendirmeye alınarak çeşitli açılardan incelenmiştir. Yapılan bu incelemeler şu noktaları kapsamaktadır: (1) incelemeye alınan uygulamaların artırılmış gerçeklik özelliği taşıyıp taşımadığı, (2) uygulamaların yayınlandıkları market kategorisi, (3) araştırmacıların kategorilendirme sonucu oluşan tablo, (4) uygulamalarda işlenen konuların dağılımı, (5) artırılmış gerçeklik uygulamasının çalıştığı alan, (6) artırılmış gerçeklik uygulamalarının son güncellenme tarihleri ve (7)artırılmış gerçeklik uygulamalarının indirilme sayıları. Bu noktalarda yapılan incelemelerin ardından dikkat çeken ve eğitim için önemli olduğu düşünülen 18 adet uygulama detaylıca incelenerek tanıtımları yapılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda, artırılmış gerçeklik uygulamalarının ağırlıklı olarak kağıt (kitap, dergi, çıktı) üzerinde çalıştığı ve artırılmış gerçeklik olarak kağıt üzerindeki işaretleyici okutulduğunda video oynatan uygulamalar şeklinde olduğu tespit edilmiştir.