bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Effect of salt stress on germination and initial development of Ruta graveolens L
Authors: Barichello Henrique Araujo , Stefanello Raquel , Bastiani Géssica Gaboardi de , Neves Luiz Augusto Salles das
Published: June 2021

ABSTRACT Salinization occurring through irrigation on arable land has been a growing concern worldwide. This study aimed to evaluate the germination and initial development of common rue subjected to different saline concentrations. Two salts (sodium chloride and calcium chloride) and five saline concentrations (zero,-0.1,-0.2,-0.3, and-0.4 MPa) were utilized. Germination tests, first germination count, seedling length and dry weight were employed to assess seed responses to the studied variations. Based on the results, the excess of salt reduces the germination percentage and the initial development of common rue seedlings, regardless of the substance used for stress induction.
Carnavalizando a promoção de saúde nas Escolas de Samba: uma revisão bibliográfica
Authors: Cordeiro Marcos , Silva Thiago Roseiro da , Silva Adriana Ilha da , Lima Rita de Cássia Duarte
Published: June 2021

Este trabalho trata-se de uma revisão bibliográfica sistemática que buscou analisar artigos produzidos no campo das Ciências da Saúde, em especial na Saúde Coletiva, que tiveram por temática o carnaval e as escolas de samba. Objetivou-se analisar como as pesquisas em saúde tem retratado o processo de saúde-doença nas escolas de samba e no carnaval. Foram analisados 11 artigos que se relacionavam com o escopo desta pesquisa. Assim, foram encontradas produções científicas relacionados a temática com questões ligadas às ISTs e HIV-AIDS, à saúde auditiva dos trabalhadores de escolas de samba, perspectivas históricas sobre o carnaval de 1919 e a gripe espanhola de 1918, ainda estudos que possibilitam observar a promoção de saúde nas escolas de saúde e o carnaval para além de um evento, mas sim como um processo. A análise teve por fundamental objetivo deslocar o entendimento de saúde enquanto negativo da doença, para saúde como afirmação da vida. Assim como, desmistificar entendimentos preconceituosos sobre o carnaval e as escolas de samba no que se refere a saúde daqueles que produzem e participam do evento.
Freedom to Know Me: The Conflict between Identity and Mennonite Culture in Miriam Toews’ A Complicated Kindness
Authors: Dirks Rita
Published: June 2021

In Miriam Toews’s A Complicated Kindness (2004; Giller Prize finalist; winner of Canada's Governor General's Award) Nomi Nickel, a sixteen-year-old Mennonite girl from southern Manitoba, Canada, tells the story of her short life before her excommunication from the closed community of the fictional East Village. East Village is based on a real town in southern Manitoba called Steinbach (where Toews was born), where Mennonite culture remains segregated from the rest of the world to protect its distinctive Anabaptist Protestantism and to keep its language, Mennonite Low German or Plattdeutsch, a living language, one which is both linguistically demotic yet ethnically hieratic because of its role in Mennonite faith. Since the Reformation, and more precisely the work of Menno Simons after whom this ethno-religious group was christened, Mennonites have used their particular brand of Low German to separate themselves from the rest of humankind. Toews constructs her novel as a multilingual narrative, to represent the cultural and religious tensions within. Set in the early 1980s, A Complicated Kindness details the events that lead up to Nomi’s excommunication, or shunning; Nomi’s exclusion is partly due to her embracing of the “English” culture through popular, mostly 1970s, music and books such as J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Insofar as Toews’s novel presents the conflict between the teenaged narrator and the patriarchal, conservative Mennonite culture, the books stands at the crossroads of negative and positive freedom. Put succinctly, since the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation, Mennonites have sought negative freedom, or freedom from persecution, yet its own tenets foreclose on the positive freedom of its individual members. This problem reaches its most intense expression in contemporary Mennonitism, both in Canada and in the EU, for Mennonite culture returns constantly to its founding precepts, even through the passage of time, coupled with diasporic history. Toews presents this conflict between this early modern religious subculture and postmodern liberal democracy through the eyes of a sarcastic, satirical Nomi, who, in this Bildungsroman, must solve the dialectic of her very identity: literally, the negative freedom of No Me or positive freedom of Know Me. As Mennonite writing in Canada is a relatively new phenomenon, about 50 years old, the question for those who call themselves Mennonite writers arises in terms of deciding between new, migrant, separate-group writing and writing as English-speaking Canadians.
From the Secular to the Sacred: The Influence of Sufism on the Work of Leila Aboulela
Authors: Gray Billy
Published: June 2021

The contemporary Sudanese writer Jamal Mahjoub has used the term ’Transcultural’ to describe a specific form of Literature which he argues: demands more, both of reader and writer. It does not have the support of those cheering, waving crowds who would like you to be European or Third World, Black or African or Arab. It can rely only on that crack of light which lies between the spheres of reader and writer. Gradually that crack grows wider and where there was once only monochrome light, now there is a spectrum of colours. (Mahjoub, The Writer and Globalisation 1997) Leila Aboulela, whose first novel The Translator (2000) is a contemporary writer whose fiction has been defined as embodying predominant elements of the transcultural experience. Daughter of a Sudanese father and Egyptian mother, born in Cairo in 1964, Aboulela grew up in Khartoum but currently resides in Aberdeen, Scotland and her fiction is attuned to emerging female Muslim voices within the migrant communities of the West. Aboulela’s experience of Britain and British culture provides her with a terrain against which she attempts to articulate a specific identity: the Muslim Arab/African woman in exile. In her novels, the migrant experience serves as the foundation for a mystical but nonetheless assertive religiosity that functions as an antidote to hegemonic Western materialism. This religious frame offers not merely consolation and a firm sense of identity; it also, according to Geoffrey Nash (2012) ‘shapes an emerging awareness of difference and helps articulate an alternative to Western modernity’. According to Lleana Dimitriu (2014), the last decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest, both theoretical and creative, in the complexities of what she terms ‘faith based subject positions’, particularly in the context of global crises and mass migrations and Leila Aboulela’s fiction suggests that in the midst of postcolonial ruptures and mass migration, there is the possibility of alternative forms of ‘re-rooting’ and belonging, with ‘home’ perceived as a state of mind and identity as anchored in the tenets of religious faith. My article will engage with the manner in which Aboulela is preoccupied with the ethical dilemmas faced by Muslims currently residing in secular societies and how a mystical form of Islam –in particular Sufism – serves less as an ideological marker for her characters and more as a code of ethical behaviour and a central marker of identity.
“Bestimmt wird alles gut”: Journeys and Arrivals in Contemporary German Children’s Books
Authors: Fjordevik Anneli
Published: June 2021

In the last few years, many people from war-torn countries have left home to seek safety in distant countries. Refugees have come to Europe to an extent that has not been seen since World War II. It is estimated that around 50% of the refugees are children under eighteen and many of them have ended up in Germany. The fact that many people leave their homes and become foreigners in new countries is also noticeable in literature. In recent years, an increasing number of books on this topic have been published, not least children’s books. This chapter considers how escape from war and the arrival situation are depicted in eight picture books published 2016-2017 in German. My focus is on whether the fact that the families have to escape to a foreign country is problematised in any way: How do the children (and their families) in the books deal with the new language and with communication? Are there any difficulties concerning identity and “otherness”? What expectations/reflections (such as whether or not they made the right decision) on the new life – if any – are being related? How does the stress affect them and their families? And do the stories about leaving home and arriving in a foreign place have entirely happy endings?
COMPLEX ASSOCIATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS MAY EXPLAIN BLANCHARD'S CRICKET FROG, ACRIS BLANCHARDI, DECLINES AND DRIVE POPULATION RECOVERY
Authors: McCallum Malcolm , Trauth Stanley
Published: June 2021

Blanchard’s Cricket Frog, Acris blanchardi, is a small hylid frog that was once among the most common amphibians in any part of its range.  Today, it remains abundant in much of the southern portion of its range, but is now disappearing elsewhere.  Our analysis of habitat characters observed across several states revealed interesting relationships of these factors with the abundance or presence of Blanchard’s Cricket Frog.  Further, we later established two ½ acre ponds based on these relationships that led to immediate colonization of the ponds by cricket frogs followed by explosive production of juveniles less than a year later.  Our findings suggest that habitat management for this species should specifically manage the shoreline grade and especially the aquatic floating vegetation to maximize population growth and sustenance.
BRICS and Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Prospects for Trade with Least Developed Countries
Authors:   Scientific Research Financial Institute of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Morozkina Alexandra ,   National Research University Higher School of Economics, Skryabina Valentina ,   Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation; National Research University Higher School of Economics
Published: June 2021

The informal BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) is actively working to solve the most acute global problems. This is why opportunities for implementing the sustainable development goals (SDGs) at BRICS summits is a topic for urgent research. This article discusses the prospects for achieving SDG 17.11 by the least developed countries (LDCs) in the framework of mutual trade with BRICS. SDG 17.11, unlike other goals, was expected to be achieved in 2020, but World Trade Organization (WTO) estimates for 2018 showed that progress was too slow. Against the sharp drop in international trade in 2020 due to economic shutdowns, the implementation of this goal is especially high on the agenda. This article describes the current implementation of the SDG by BRICS. A general analysis of mutual trade between LDCs and BRICS shows the low involvement of least developed countries in trade with BRICS. The methodology for the study involves computations of two trade indices and the identification of new clusters of LDCs. The export propensity index and trade intensity index are calculated in order to identify the countries with the most promise to increase exports to BRICS. The authors selected 13 LDCs with prospects for trade development with BRICS—Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Bangladesh, Guinea, Mauritania, Nepal, Tanzania, Zambia, Bhutan, Lesotho, Malawi and Solomon Islands. Among 34 other LDCs, the authors identify five clusters based on their economic structure, including the role played in their economies by official development assistance (ODA) and personal remittances. Clustering allows BRICS to provide targeted support to LDCs in order to increase their export potential through the most effective mechanisms for each economy.
FINANCIAL AUTONOMY AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN OGUN STATE, NIGERIA: A STAKEHOLDER’S PERSPECTIVE
Authors:   Landmark University, Nigeria, Egbide Ben-Caleb , Joseph Ugochukwu Madugba ,   Landmark University, Nigeria, Olabode Olusegun Ajibode ,   Federal Polytechnic, Nigeria, Jane Ogochukwu Ben-Caleb ,   Landmark University, Nigeria
Published: June 2021

The issue of financial autonomy has always generated a lot of interest amongst stakeholders and it continues to do so. However, opinions on the association between financial autonomy and rural development are diverse. Hence, this study is fixated on investigating the perspectives of stakeholders regarding the nexus between Financial Autonomy and Rural Development inselected local governments in Ogun State. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey research design method. Data were obtained through the administration of 400 copies of a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire in three-selected local councils in Ogun State, Nigeria. Descriptive statistics as well as the Kruskal-Wallis H test were the analytical techniques adopted. The study reveals a consensus in the different occupation/workgroups, i.e. that financial autonomy accelerates rural development in Ogun State Local Governments. The result suggests that local councils will be better positioned to contribute to the national economy if their resources are managed with little or no interference from the state government. The paper recommends the enactment of legislation that will give autonomy to local governments to generate and manage their financial resources without undue meddling by other tiers of government, and hence, engender better service delivery and rural development.
Michael Field
Authors: Tempestoso Carla
Published: June 2021

The allure of the connection between literature, journey and the sister arts interlaces with the endeavours of human beings and with the act of writing about it, of transforming it into a story and sharing it with others (Pantini 1999). The poems included in the collection Sight and Song (1892) by Michael Field, male pseudonym of authoresses Katherine Harris Bradley and her niece Edith Emma Cooper, not only manage to celebrate the affiliation between literature and the figurative arts, but they also become a verbal representation of the visual art, namely of that ékphrasis deemed to be as an exchange between visual and textual cultures. In this analysis, the revolutionary ekphrastic inspiration of the two authoresses will validate the possibility of observing art and reality in a different way and translating it into poetic texts so as to allow the rise of that political capability of subverting Victorian identities and social hierarchies.
Metaphors of Psychological Deterioration
Authors: Tonon Cristiana
Published: June 2021

The present article aims at identifying and analysing the linguistic metaphorical behaviours of people living with depressive disorders. To this end, four online fora dealing with mental illnesses were selected in order to gather data on how individuals metaphorically describe their depressive states. The data were interpreted by means of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Self-determination Theory. Combining a linguistic theory with a psychological one allows to deepen our comprehension of depression and helps diagnose it: linguistic behaviour paves the way for accessing the psychological dimension of individuals while revealing a potential tendency towards harmonic or problematic mental states.
Parsing of OAI_DC metadata in OpenRefine from OJS articles v1
Authors: Moi Alessandra , not provided carlo.bianchini , Marchitelli Andrea
Published: June 2021

Abstract Protocols for parsing metadata in OAI_DC format of articles harvested from Open Journal Systems (OJS) in order to create entities in WikiData
NEBNext® ARTIC SARS-CoV-2 FS Library Prep Kit (Illumina®) E7658Express Protocol without PCR Bead Cleanup v1
Authors: Gautreau Isabel
Published: June 2021

This protocol details methods for the NEBNext® ARTIC SARS-CoV-2 FS Library Prep Kit (Illumina®), NEB #E7658S/L 24/96 reactions. This protocol does not include a cleanup step for each sample after cDNA synthesis and ligation. Performing the cleanup step creates libraries with higher yields and less likelihood for adaptor dimer. Skipping these steps reduces hands on time, but may require an extra cleanup at the end of library prep of the pooled sample and we have added an extra PCR cycle.
Majoritarian Epistemology on Religious Symbols. A Religiously-Based Stereotyping Technique to “Package Others’ Religious Rights”
Authors: Pirosa Rosaria
Published: June 2021

The paper will focus on a particular form of stereotyping technique which aims to narrow religious rights for non-Christian believers, moving from an exclusively Judeo-Christian epistemology on religious symbols that, no by chance, defines them as “ostensive”. According to this perspective, freedom of religion is eminently a heartfelt attitude, therefore the term “ostensiveness” is intended to emphasize not mandatory behaviors, which are conceived as a redundant way to live faith. Starting from its philosophical assumptions, the article deals with the stereotyping tools related to religion, functional to conceal the social complexity and to deny legal protection, through a legal and political concept like state neutrality. The piece seeks to show how the concept of religious right, when it cannot be declined as a majoritarian right, is rife with plural levels of intersecting stereotyping, concerning other categories of diversity like gender and ‘ethnicity’. This approach flatters each dimension and does not take into account coexisting identities within the same person, ignoring that intersectionality highlights the necessity of assessing religious diversity as fundamentally socially located. This stereotyping attitude can be traced back to the complex relationship between law and religion that provides a direct way to assess crucial issues like belonging, identity, community and authority. Law, as a cultural and non-neutral construct, regards religion as a valuable fact and worthy of legal protection since it is attributable to an individual phenomenon and as quintessentially private matter. Therefore, to assess identity or belonging in the fault lines of the interaction of law and religion means find an opportunity to legitimize targeting law related to religious diversity making it seems like a way to deal with religious ‘differences’ that cannot be assimilated. In this respect, we discuss about the radical secularist claims through a case-study, namely the “affaire Québécois” within the Canadian system, not only in a geographical sense, but in the theoretical field mapped out by religious pluralism as the focal point of the multiculturalist approach, on one hand, and the secularist revival, on the other hand.
Experimental tests of industrial-scale ripping of soil
Authors: Troyanovskaya I. P. , Raznoshinskaya A. V. , Kozminykh V. A. , Leshchenko E. A.
Published: June 2021

Ripper attachments should ensure destruction of firm, frozen or rocky soil. Industrial rippers have the ability to forcibly penetrate the working body into soil in contrast to agricultural tillage machines. The ripper attachments have two-sided force closure. The resultant forces acting on the working tool from the side of soil depend on such ripping parameters as ripping depth and angle. Currently, these dependences are mainly studied experimentally. The article presents the experimental results on the ripping resistance force as a case-study of a tractor-mounted dozer–ripper manufactured at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. The scope of the experiment covers three ripping depths and eight angles. It has been experimentally found that the dependence of the ripping resistance force on each of these parameters is quadratic. The authors propose to study the ripping process using a complex parameter which is a product of the ripping depth and the ripping angle. The use of the complex parameter in the two-factor analysis allowed reducing the degree of the studied dependence while preserving the required accuracy. The complex parameter reflects the relationship between the design parameters of the ripper tooth, ripping depth and angle. The article shows that the vertical penetration resistance linearly depends on the horizontal traction resistance. The authors obtained this dependence for loam of medium density. The authors’ approach makes it possible undertake optimization of ripping process subject to soil type.
Pre-school education close to natural environment: Studying Parameters on Parental Choice and Dedication
Authors: Tsekouropoulos George , Kalouli Paraskevi , Andreopoulou Zacharoula S.
Published: June 2021

Preschool is a period of rapid development of skills and learning, the infant learns through family, school and especially through exploring the natural environment. The child, playing in an outdoor environment close to natural environment, naturally develops his talents, his creativity but also many motor skills, which otherwise, indoor learning environments would not give so many opportunities. Outdoor learning environments in natural environments contribute significantly to the learning of children, especially young children. This paper explains the importance of designing learning environments close to natural environment, something that parents have realized and now consciously choose such environments for their children's learning and development. This article examines the parameters involved, in detail which of the 7ps' elements of Educational Marketing most influence the choice of parents with children in East Thessaloniki to make decisions about their children attending Private Kindergartens with large yards, away from the urban environment and in areas close to natural environment and natural areas. The results of the research show that these parents are of a high educational level, graduates of a University or Technological Institute, with a Master's degree or Doctorate. Also, when parents are satisfied with the quality of the school space, the existence of pedagogical materials and toys for the employment of children, the existence of an outdoor large yard and outdoor activities with infrastructure and facilities away from the urban environment and close to natural environment then they choose this Pre-school education for their child's attendance, they recommend it voluntarily to acquaintances and friends and would choose their child to continue attending to a next level of education such as Primary School if there was one.
The Role of Agile Management in HRM Environment Change
Authors: Al Jafa Hasan , Jihad Fraij , Várallyai László
Published: June 2021

The Agile approach proved to be effective in building self-managed software development teams that can quickly respond to rapid changes and adapt to ambiguous and complex business environments with fast-changing requirements. After the pandemic, and as a cause of worldwide lockdown, companies struggled to survive. Most companies started shifting their work processes and environment to handle ambiguity using Agile methods and tools. The company’s transition to Agile is usually led by HR, which played an essential role in this change, managing the talent and choosing the best processes to benefit the organization and avoiding other rigid processes and consider them wastes. Some Agile methodologies can add tremendous value to the organizations, while applying other methods can be harmful. Today, companies seek to reinvent their working practices by incorporating the Agile approach to improve flexibility and meet increasingly competitive market demands. This study examines the Agile management role in the HRM environment transformation and its effect on the new reality of adopting technologies in all HRM.
The Training Program Promoting Students’ Self-Realization in the Integrated Educational Environment
Authors: Kuprieieva Olga
Published: June 2021

The article presents the training program (for personality-oriented training) developing psychological qualities and personal resources of students’ self-realization in the integrated educational environment: psychological hardiness, value-semantic and motivational resources (meaningfulness of life, motives for self-development, values of self-realization, time perspective); resources of self-regulation (self-attitude, self-efficacy, autonomy); active coping strategies. The study purpose was to reveal the content of the training program promoting students’ self-realization in the integrated educational environment and the features of its implementation.
The correlation analysis was used to identify links among the components of self-realization of students with disabilities and their personal characteristics – self-attitudes, life values and meanings, basic beliefs, psychological hardiness, time perspective, used coping strategies. The comprehensive empirical study involved 325 students with disabilities and 225 students without disabilities studying in integrated university groups (Kyiv). The targets for psychological influence and meaningful parts of the proposed training promoting self-realization were identified. The training program was a personality-oriented training and included a set of psychological techniques and methods promoting continuous personal growth, activating psychological mechanisms of self-development, self-improvement, self-activation and self-realization of potential capabilities. The training program was developed on the principles of humanistic and positive psychology; the proactive conceptual model of disability; the resource-oriented approach used in psychological counselling and psychotherapy; the concept of self-determined behaviour. The purpose of the proposed training program was to promote students’ self-realization via development of their psychological qualities and personal resources: psychological hardiness, value-semantic and motivational resources (meaningfulness of life, motives for self-development, values of self-realization, time perspective); resources of self-regulation (self-attitude, self-efficacy, autonomy); active coping strategies. The training program was based on self-realization components selected by us and consisted of three meaningfully related parts: «I and my inner world» (psychological resources of personal self-realization) including three modules; «I and the Other» (social resources of personal self-realization) with two modules; «I am in the World and Life» (instrumental resources maintaining life quality and psychological well-being) with two modules.
Approbation of the program has showed its high efficiency. The analysed components of students’ self-realization – psychological hardiness, self-attitude, self-acceptance, meaningful life goals, active coping – showed their significant growth, and as a consequence, improved students’ psychological well-being.
Conexiones filiales y transversalidades femeninas: Belén Moneo Feduchi, Marisa Sáenz Guerra y Cristina Vallejo Llopis
Authors: Hervás y Heras Josenia , Blanco-Agüeira Silvia
Published: June 2021

Mujeres arquitectas, pero también hijas, hermanas, madres o esposas, nos permiten analizar las conexiones temporales, estéticas y materiales que se han producido en un ambiente de proximidad natural al mundo de la del mobiliario y del vanguardia interiorismo en España. En el caso de Belén Moneo, debemos señalar que en colaboración con Jeff Brock, ha dado soporte a la intervención de Rafael Moneo en el Museo de Arte Moderno y Arquitectura de Estocolmo (1991/98).  Por su parte, Marisa Sáenz Guerra y su hermano Vicente, también tuvieron el privilegio de trabajar con Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza en diversos proyectos y direcciones de obra. Finalmente, Cristina Vallejo Llopis ha colaborado con su padre en la dirección de obra de varios edificios, pero su conexión más estrecha con su progenitor, se halla en la silla Almería (1959), de estructura metálica, con asiento y respaldo encordado con esparto.
Some further studies about generalised spectral norms
Authors: Karioja K , Juuso E , Nissilä J
Published: June 2021

Spectral analysis is a very common tool in vibration monitoring. While useful in machine diagnostics, spectral analysis can be rather time consuming. Tasks that require an extensive amount of time are often considered too expensive, especially in modern industry. To achieve an automatic
monitoring system of some kind, different features, such as the root mean square (RMS) or the peak value of signals, are often monitored. These are special cases of generalised norms, which can be effective tools to determine whether a signal has shown some kind of change and how notable the
change is when compared to a previously measured signal, for example. However, no spectral information is obtained in this way and the question regarding the frequency in the signal at which the change has occurred remains unanswered. Generalised spectral norms are a frequency-domain application
of these norms and, as presented in this paper, provide a suitable way to perform automatic monitoring regarding the spectral information, for example.
A Methodology for the Development of 1D Reference VS Profiles Compatible with Ground-Motion Prediction Equations: Application to NGA-West2 GMPEs
Authors: Al Atik Linda , Abrahamson Norman
Published: June 2021

Site response in ground-motion prediction equations (GMPEs) is primarily characterized as a function of the time-averaged shear-wave velocity over the top 30 m of the site profile (VS30). Although the use of VS30 as a main site-response predictor parameter is practical, GMPE site adjustments to different target regions or target site conditions require characterization of the GMPE’s rock-site response in terms of host VS profile and host kappa. Regional VS profiles and kappa values have been traditionally used to characterize GMPEs host site conditions. These regional site properties may not reflect the average site response in GMPEs. We present a methodology, based on the quarter-wavelength principles, that allows the derivation of GMPE-compatible host 1D VS profiles and kappa values. This methodology is applied to the Next Generation Attenuation-West2 (NGA-West2) GMPEs to derive GMPE-specific host VS profiles and kappa for western United States (WUS) site conditions with VS30 of 360, 490, 620, 760, and 1100 m/s. This application uses, for input, the GMPEs’ site response in Fourier amplitude spectra domain relative to a reference VS30 of 1000 m/s and requires an assigned VS profile for the reference site condition. The impact of the choice of reference VS profile on the results is not large. Comparisons of the derived GMPE-specific VS profiles for VS30 of 760 m/s show differences in the host VS profiles among the NGA-West2 GMPEs for the same site condition in WUS. Differences are also observed when comparing the derived GMPE-compatible VS profiles with the commonly used profiles for WUS for VS30 of 760 m/s. These differences highlight the importance of using GMPE-compatible VS profiles and kappa in GMPE adjustments and in site-response analyses. Limitations of this approach for soft site conditions are discussed.
Between Coronavirus and COVID-19: Influence of Nigerian Newspapers’ Headline Construction on Audience Information-Seeking Behaviour
Authors: Ojebuyi B. R. , Lasisi M.I. , Ajetunmobi U.O.
Published: June 2021

Since the onset of the new coronavirus, the mass media, across the globe, have continued to draw special attention to the disease by adopting different pragmatic and rhetoric strategies. In Nigeria for instance, the news media have continued to draw people’s attention to the virus by using COVID-19 and coronavirus as synonymous lexical entities in the headlines of their news stories. These lexical choices are believed to have some influence on how the audience understand and seek information about the virus. However, existing studies in media and health communication have not copiously explored the relationship between the lexical choices by media to report the COVID-19 pandemic and people’s information-seeking behaviour about the virus. This study was, therefore, designed to investigate how Nigerian journalists used coronavirus and COVID-19 as the key terms to report the virus and how the pragma-semantic implicatures of the lexical choices influenced audience information-seeking behaviours. Pragmatic Acts and Information-Seeking theories were employed as the theoretical framework while online survey and content analysis were adopted as methods. Findings show that although Nigerian journalists used coronavirus (SD=2.090) more often than COVID-19 (SD=1.924) in the headlines, the audience employed COVID-19 (M=2.23, SD=.810) more than coronavirus (M=1.88, SD=.783) while searching information about the virus. Besides, journalists’ use of COVID-19 in the headlines to educate (Chi-square =37.615, df=11, P<.000), warn (Chi-square =26.153, df=11, P<.006), assess (Chi-square= 24.350, df=11, P<.011) and sensitise (Chi-square =24.262, df=11, P<.012) facilitated audience interest in seeking information about the virus than when coronavirus is used as a keyword in the headlines. The lexical choices made by journalists to report a health crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic have implications for citizens’ knowledge about the crisis.
BİR DİJİTAL MÜZE ORTAMI OLARAK INSTAGRAM
Authors: Arslan Canan
Published: June 2021

İlk insanların mağara duvarlarına yaptıkları resimlerden günümüzde dijital ortamlarda oluşturulan ve sunulan sanat işlerine sanat, tarihi boyunca insanların duygularını, düşüncelerini, endişelerini, korkularını yansıtan, içinde oluştuğu çağların gerçekliklerini gözler önüne seren bir İletişim aracı olma görevini sürdürmüştür. Sanatın tarihi aynı zamanda insanlığın tarihini belgeler. Geçmişte yaşanan savaşlar ve pandemiler gibi trajik olayların insanlar üzerindeki etkilerini o dönemlerde yaşayan sanatçıların eserlerinden hatırlamak ve anlamak olasıdır. Örneğin Edvard Munch ve John Singer Sargent (1918-19) gibi ressamların tabloları İspanyol Gribi’nin insanlığı nasıl etkilediğini gerçek zamanda betimlerler. Öte yandan Amerikalı ressam Edward Hopper’in (1940- 1950) modernizmin kendisini yabancılaştırdığı, dış dünyadan soyutladığı, yalnızlaştırdığı insanları resmettiği eserleri, içinde bulunduğumuz günlerin bir kehanetidir adeta. Tüm dünyayı etkisi altına alan COVID- 19 pandemisi sürecinde de sanat bir kez daha insanların sığınacakları bir kale olma görevini üstlenmektedir. Bu süreçte yalnızlıklarının, karamsarlıklarının, korkularının üstesinden gelebilmek için görsel bir dil arayan insanlar evlerinde kapalı kaldıkları sürede yaratıcılıklarını sergilemeye ve bunları çevrimiçi olarak paylaşmaya yönelmektedirler. Bu küresel eylemi tek bir platformda toplamak amacıyla Instagram’da kurulan Covid Art Museum pandemi nedeniyle müzelere gidemeyen ziyaretçilere ve sanatını sergileyemeyen sanatçılara yeni bir ortam sunmaktadır. Ülkelerin sınırlarını kapattıkları bu zorlu dönemde kültür, sanat ve yaratıcılık kültürlerarası iletişim ve etkileşim sağlamada en etkin araç olmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, COVID- 19 döneminde Instagram üzerinde kurulan ve kendilerini “COVID- 19 karantina döneminde doğan dünyanın ilk sanat müzesi” olarak tanımlayan Covid Art Museum hesabı incelenecektir. 161 bin takipçisi ve 753 paylaşımı bulunan Covid Art Museum Instagram hesabında dünyanın farklı yerlerinde yaşayan sanatçıların illüstrasyonları, fotoğrafları, resimleri, çizimleri, videoları hesap üzerinden takipçilerle paylaşılmaktadır. Çalışmada bu hesapta yapılan paylaşımlar içerik analizi yöntemi ile incelenerek öne çıkan duygular, işlenen temalar ve görselleştirilen nesneler belirlenecektir. Çalışmanın, bu sıradışı döneme sanat işleri aracılığı ile ışık tutması ve gelecekte bu dönemin hatırlanmasına bir araç olması hedeflenmektedir.
Covid-19 Önlemleri ‘Maske Tak’ Piktogramları’nın Grafik Tasarım İlke ve Elemanları Açısından İncelenmesi
Authors: Sanağ Berfin
Published: June 2021

Covid-19 salgını Dünya da çeşitli önemler aldırmıştır. Alınan önemlerden olan ‘maske takma’ zorunluluğu salgında zorunlu gerçekleştirilen bir eylemdir. Piktogram, işaretlerin, nesnelerin resmedilerek sembol haline getirilmesine verilen addır. Sembollerle yazı kullanılmakta ise kullanılan bu yazı sistemine piktografi ismi verilmektedir. Covid-19 ile beraber maske sembolü hayatımıza girmiş ve ‘Maske Tak’ piktogramları kullanılmaya başlanmıştır. Piktogramlar evrensel nitelik taşımaktadır verdikleri mesaj herkes tarafından anlaşılabilir olmalıdır. ‘Maske Tak’ piktogram çok yeni bir ihtiyaç olduğundan evrensellik kazanamamış farklı tasarımlar ile karşılaşılmaktadır. Bu araştırmada ‘Maske Tak’ piktogramları’nın İzmir Buca esnafında sıklıkla kullanılan 5 farklı piktogram grafik tasarım ilke ve elemanlarına açısından nicel araştırma yöntemlerinden betimsel analiz yöntemi kullanılarak incelenmiştir. Araştırmada incelenen piktogramları grafik tasarım ilke ve elemanları yönünden incelenerek evrensellik kazanması için uygun olup olmadığı belirlenmiştir. 5 farklı ‘Maske Tak’ piktogramları’nın grafik tasarım ilke ve elemanları açısından işlevleri tartışılmıştır.
COVİD-19 SONRASI E-TİCARET ALTYAPI HİZMETİ SAĞLAYICISI SEÇİMİNDE MÜŞTERİ GEREKSİNİMLERİ FAKTÖRLERİ; BİR AHP UYGULAMASI
Authors: ERGENÇ Erkut
Published: June 2021

Günümüz karmaşık dünyasında işletmeler mal ve hizmetlerinin müşterilere ulaştırılmasında çeşitli yöntemleri aktif olarak kullanmaktadır. İnternetin hayatımıza aktif olarak girmesi ve son dönemde internet üzerinde gerçekleştirilen satın almaların sayısının artması nedeniyle işletmelerin rekabetçi üstünlük sağlayabilmeleri için interneti pazarlama faaliyetlerinde aktif bir şekilde kullanmak zorundadırlar. Özellikle Covid-19 sonrası birçok işletme faaliyetlerini halk sağlığı önlemleri nedeniyle internet üzerinden gerçekleştirmek zorunda kalmıştır. İnternetin tutundurma faaliyetlerine destek olmasının yanında doğrudan pazarlama ile ürünlerin müşteriler tarafından e-ticaret vasıtasıyla satın alınması ve bazı hizmetlerin online olarak ulaştırılması günümüzde rekabetçi bir strateji ve işletmeler tarafından da aktif olarak kullanılan yöntemlerden biri haline gelmiştir. Bu bağlamda işletmeler kendi e-ticaret sitelerini kurma konusunda eskisine göre daha istekli hale gelmiştir. Bu çalışma ile e-ticaret altyapısı seçiminde işletmelerin ihtiyaç duydukları özellikleri tespitinde kullanabilecekleri özelliklerin ortaya konulması hedeflenmiştir. Bu bağlamda ES-QUAL ve E-Recs-QUAL ölçeklerinde yer alan e-hizmet kalitesi boyutları bağlamında e-ticaret siteleri için 21 özellik kendi aralarında gruplandırılarak AHP yöntemi ile önem sıralaması gerçekleştirilmiştir.
Accommodating Disability at University
Authors: Bruce Cynthia , Aylward M. Lynn
Published: June 2021

Disabled students in Canadian universities obtain academic accommodations through an individualized service approach. The implementation of these learning supports is dependent on students' ability to navigate institutional policies and procedures that require engagement with faculty who are variably willing to respond. This study documents the experiences of disabled students and their professors as they worked to make these individual arrangements on three Nova Scotia university campuses. Findings centre the relational elements of accommodation procedures and expose their potential to reinforce and naturalize the marginal status of disabled learners while also elucidating the possibility for meaningful systemic change. Findings also situate the student/faculty relationship as an important site of inquiry and analysis for Canadian post-secondary institutions working to become more accessible for a diversity of disabled students.
Charles Barbier: A hidden story
Authors: Campsie Philippa
Published: June 2021

Charles Barbier (1767–1841), who invented raised-point writing and the tools for creating it, is remembered today only as a precursor of Louis Braille. Stories of his life and work are mainly variations on two accounts, one by Alexandre-René Pignier published in 1859 and one by Pierre Henri in 1952. The former misrepresented the relationship between Braille and Barbier and the latter hypothesized how Barbier might have developed his ideas and introduced them to Institution Royale des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris. These two accounts have distorted modern ideas about the invention of point writing and the role played by Braille. The author's study of Barbier's correspondence and publications shows that (1) the method that inspired Louis Braille was never intended for the military but was specifically designed for blind people; (2) Barbier did not demonstrate it at the Institution Royale des Jeunes Aveugles; (3) it was not used at the school in a phonetic version; and (4) Barbier and Braille met only after Braille had published his own system. These findings, drawn from primary documents, make it possible to draw a more accurate picture of the original inventor of the method and tools of point writing for people with visual impairments and thereby a more accurate picture of Braille's own achievements.
Attitudes towards Migrants during Crisis Times
Authors: Rodríguez Chatruc Marisol , Rozo Sandra
Published: June 2021

How are natives attitudes towards migrants shaped by economic crises? Natives could show more compassion towards migrants as everyone faces a common threat. Alternatively, natives prejudice could rise as competition for scarce economic opportunities increases. We conduct an online survey to 3,400 Colombian citizens and randomly prime half of them to think about the economic consequences of COVID-19, before eliciting their altruism and attitudes towards Venezuelan migrants. We find that natives attitudes towards migrants are substantially more negative in the treatment relative to the control group. Individuals ages 18 to 25 years, however, respond to the treatment by showing more altruism.
agir professoral e o trabalho de professores em formação inicial representados em relatórios do projeto residência pedagógica
Authors: Gomes Rosivaldo , Leurquin Eulália Vera Lúcia Fraga
Published: June 2021

O objetivo deste texto centra-se em discutir representações do agir professoral e do trabalho de professores de Língua Portuguesa em formação inicial. De maneira mais específica, apresenta uma análise de segmentos de tratamento temáticos (BULEA, 2010) de dois relatórios escritos por acadêmicos participantes do Projeto Residência Pedagógica, subprojeto Letras/Língua Portuguesa, da Universidade Federal do Amapá. A base teórica fundamenta-se nas noções de trabalho docente, agir professoral (CICUREL, 2011; LEURQUIN, 2013) e nas categorias da Semântica do Agir do quadro do Interacionismo Sociodiscursivo (BRONCKART, 2008; 2006; MACHADO; BRONCKART, 2009; BRONCKART; MACHADO, 2004). O estudo caracteriza-se como qualitativo-interpretativista e situa-se no campo da Linguística Aplicada. Os resultados demonstram que as/os professoras/es em formação, a partir de seu agir professoral, planificam e ressignificam seu trabalho realizado em sala de aula não somente com base no que está prescrito em documentos oficiais voltados para o ensino de Língua Portuguesa, mas também em função das necessidades de ensino que se deparam nas escolas e das necessidades e possibilidades de aprendizagem dos alunos.
Can bilinguals rate their proficiency accurately in a language background questionnaire?
Authors: Scholl Ana Paula , Fontes Ana Beatriz Arêas da Luz , Finger Ingrid
Published: June 2021

Research with bilinguals apply different measures to assess proficiency, one of them being language background questionnaires, which include questions about individuals’ experience and self-rated proficiency. Studies suggest that bilinguals can report their proficiency consistently with objective measures (MARIAN et al., 2007; LUK et al., 2013; GERTKEN et al., 2014; BRANTMEIR et al., 2012). Within this context, the goal of the present study was to investigate the relationship between two distinct measures of proficiency. In order to do so, we correlated participants’ self-rated proficiency (N = 112) in the Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (QuExPLi - Questionário de Experiência e Proficiência Linguística) with their scores on the TOEFL ITP. We also carried out a simple linear regression between the mean scores of the two measures. Results show a significant weak correlation between participants’ self-rated proficiency and their scores on the TOEFL ITP, as well as a significant regression equation. Also, when the scores on individual skills were correlated with participants’ self-rated proficiency on those skills (N = 16), significant moderate to strong correlations were found. These results add to research that have found that bilinguals are able to report their proficiency accurately; however, more studies in different contexts are needed.
Entre o acadêmico e o digital:
Authors: Alexandre Leila Rachel Barbosa
Published: June 2021

O presente trabalho objetiva analisar as estratégias utilizadas por graduandos em Letras da Universidade Federal do Piauí em seus percursos de navegação em ambiente de busca online para realizar tarefas acadêmicas. Os resultados aqui apresentados são fruto de pesquisa cuja coleta de dados de 20 informantes (10 cursando o 6º período e 10 cursando o 9º período) foi realizada a partir de três etapas: aplicação de questionário pré-leitura; realização de tarefas de navegação, leitura e produção de texto; e aplicação de questionário pós-tarefa. Os caminhos utilizados pelos informantes observados na execução das tarefas da segunda etapa, analisados em conjunto com os dados da primeira e da terceira etapas evidenciam que não há como garantir que habilidades relacionadas ao letramento digital ou ao letramento acadêmico, tratados separadamente, são mais funcionais para que os alunos consigam atender aos seus objetivos de leitura. Em vez disso, numa perspectiva integrada e situada, ficou evidenciado que os dois tipos de letramento são mobilizados pelos alunos de maneira estratégica, a depender do seu repertório de habilidades e dos caminhos de navegação que escolhem percorrer.
Safety and efficacy of edaravone in well-defined Iranian patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A parallel-group single-blind trial
Authors: Eishi-Oskouei Alireza , Basiri Keivan
Published: June 2021

Background: This parallel-group single-blind trial evaluates the safety and efficacy of Edaravone, as a free radical scavenger, in a highly selective subgroup of Iranian patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Methods: The study was registered in ClinicalTrials.gov (registration number: NCT03272802) and Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials (registration number: IRCT20190324043105N). Patients were included into the study, who were diagnosed as probable or definite ALS (according to revised El Escorial criteria), mildly to moderately affected by the disease [according to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Health State Scale (ALS/HSS)], scored ≥ 2 points on all items of the Revised Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Functional Rating Scale (ALSFRS-R), and had forced vital capacity (FVC) of at least 80%. 20 patients (10 cases, 10 controls) were observed for 12 cycles (each cycle lasted four weeks). Cases received Edaravone for the first 14 days in the first cycle and for the first 10 days in the next cycles. In addition, all patients received Riluzole. The 40-item Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assessment Questionnaire (ALSAQ-40), ALSFRS-R, and Manual Muscle Testing (MMT) scores were measured every 3 cycles to evaluate the physical and functional status of the patients. Besides, injection reactions, adverse events (AEs), and serious adverse events (SAEs) were measured during the study.
Results: ALSAQ-40, ALSFRS-R, and MMT scores were not significantly different between cases and controls in 5 different time points. During the study, no injection reactions were observed. AEs and SAEs were not significantly different between cases and controls.