bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Prevalence and risk factors to Leptospira sp. infection in dogs attended at veterinary clinics in João Pessoa, Paraíba State, Northeastern Brazil
Authors: Brasil Arthur Willian de Lima , Da Costa Diego Figueiredo , Pimenta Carla Lauise Rodrigues Menezes , Parentoni Roberta Nunes , Alves Clebert José , Santos Carolina de Sousa Américo Batista , De Azevedo Sérgio Santos
Published: November 2018

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors associated with Leptospira sp. in dogs attended at veterinary clinics in the city of João Pessoa, State of Paraíba, Northeast Brazil.  A total of 384 blood samples from dogs from 34 veterinary clinics were used from April 2015 to May 2016. The diagnosis of Leptospira sp. was carried out through Microscopic Agglutination Test (MAT), using a collection of 20 pathogenic antigens and adopting a 1: 100 dilution as cutoff point. An epidemiological questionnaire was applied to the owners of the animals to obtain data to be used in the analysis of risk factors. The prevalence of seropositive animals was 11.7% (45/384), with reactions for serogroups Icterohaemorrhagiae (62.3%), Grippotyphosa (22.2%), Canicola (13.3%), Djasiman 2%) and Pomona (2.2%). The following risk factors were identified: age from 49 to 72 months (odds ratio = 2.74), Age > 72 months (odds ratio = 3.22), and monthly cleaning of the environment where the animals are kept (odds ratio = 10,70). It is concluded that dogs attended at veterinary clinics in João Pessoa are exposed to infection by Leptospira sp., with predominance of serogroups kept by wild animals, and it is suggested that the periodic cleaning of the environment where the animals are kept.
Participação social na política de patrimônio imaterial do Iphan
Authors: Cunha Juliana Da Mata
Published: November 2018

Este artigo se propõe a apresentar análise crítica acerca das instâncias de participação social na Política de Patrimônio Imaterial do Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (Iphan). Tendo em vista a legislação que fundamenta a atuação do Iphan na identificação, reconhecimento e salvaguarda do patrimônio imaterial, abordamos as dificuldades em garantir a ampla participação da sociedade prevista nas diretrizes e princípios da política. Embora o Programa Nacional de Patrimônio Imaterial tenha avançado bastante nestes dezoito anos de existência, ainda é possível identificar várias questões e dilemas de ordem prática, legal e burocrática que precisam ser superadas. Nesse sentido, são indicadas novas possibilidades de atuação junto à sociedade, visando sobretudo à democratização e ampliação do acesso à política pública de patrimônio.
O chão que continua
Authors: Andrade Francisco
Published: November 2018

Este artigo busca mostrar como a arquitetura vernacular foi tratada como imagem ideal das aspirações dos arquitetos modernistas brasileiros. Eleita símbolo da síntese entre tradição e modernidade, tornou-se um ícone da visão modernista do passado arquitetônico brasileiro. Não obstante, foi também empregada como ferramenta metodológica para a reconstituição de aspectos pouco conhecidos da história das técnicas construtivas, corroborando até mesmo intervenções de restauro hoje controvertidas.
O Rei da Vela, A Navalha na Carne e a evolução do personagem homossexual no teatro brasileiro
Authors: Ferraresi Carolina De Melo
Published: November 2018

Este artigo aborda dois personagens interpretados pelo ator Edgard Gurgel Aranha, falecido em 1990, em duas peças estreadas em 1967, O rei da vela e A navalha na carne. A partir de entrevistas com o próprio Edgard e com o ator Sérgio Mamberti, notícias de jornal e críticas da época, traça-se um panorama da evolução do personagem homossexual, refletindo o momento atual com base em obras tão emblemáticas e importantes para o teatro nacional.

Palavras-chave: Teatro Brasileiro, Homossexualidade, História do Teatro Brasileiro.
Compondo o gênero
Authors: Lacerda Luísa Damaceno de
Published: November 2018

Este artigo relata, a partir de entrevistas e de observação participante, trajetórias de cantoras-compositoras na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, com o objetivo de analisar como as relações de gênero interferem na vida dessas artistas. Discutiremos como a crescente criação de coletivos e eventos musicais protagonizados por mulheres podem transformar as desigualdades do atual cenário profissional da área. A valorização da história de vida e das narrativas individuais se torna uma importante fonte de conhecimento para a área da musicologia, ressaltando trajetórias pouco reconhecidas na história da música.

Palavras-chave: Canção, Memória individual, Pesquisa em musicologia, Relações de gênero.
Quando as anormais vão para a escola
Authors: Silva Robson Guedes da
Published: November 2018

Pode um anormal ir à escola? O pátio acolhe todos os que querem lá brincar? Este ensaio busca apresentar algumas discussões em torno da escola em seus processos de subjetivação e exclusão para com os corpos queer: bichas, sapatões, travestis, transexuais, não-bináries. Busca igualmente evidenciar como no cotidiano escolar a violência, o currículo e o silenciamento colaboram para expulsar corpos, que não se enquadram em uma heterossexualidade compulsória, de seu espaço descrito como inclusivo.

Palavras-chave: Corpos queer, Educação, Normatividade.
Iluminação cênica e desobediências de gênero
Authors: Leal Dodi Tavares Borges
Published: November 2018

Este texto apresenta alguns achados de pesquisa de doutorado recém-concluída sobre transgeneridades e recepção teatral. Um dos aspectos nevrálgicos dos resultados da investigação éo potencial performativo da luz cênica como força lírica de expressão das visualidades de desobediências de gênero. A partir da crítica ao paradigma patológico de “transexualidade”, que reduz a amplitude das transgeneridades à modificação corporal, aventamos a corruptela “luzvesti” (luz + travesti) como operadora do aparato estético da iluminação cênica sobre desobediências de gênero. Nessa mesma direção, embasando-nos em uma perspectiva contrassexual, a ideia de diversidade sexual representada por siglas éposta em xeque em seu produtivismo cardapialista, monossexual e em escala. A partir da análise dos efeitos de luz das encenações A demência dos touros (Cia. Teatro do Perverto, 2017) e As 3 Uiaras de SP City (Laboratório de Técnica Dramática, 2018), tendo ambas abordado as transgeneridades como problemática urbana, pretende-se neste artigo indicar os aportes da iluminação cênica ao redimensionamento teórico dos estudos de gênero a partir das visualidades. Assim, o que se entende por autodesignação identitária em função do desejo ou de práticas sexuais passa a ser tensionado com processos subjetivos e sociais de performatividade e de recepção contrassexuais, percebendo a luz como um elemento de desenho espacial do gênero. A iluminação como traje de cena (vestir-se de luz) éentão vista como uma possível resultante espacial de desobediência de gênero entre a dramaturgia da luz e a atuação da recepção teatral.

Palavras-chave: Iluminação cênica, Transgeneridades, Contrassexualidade, Performance de gênero, Recepção teatral.
Ser estando feminista
Authors: Caetano Nina
Published: November 2018

Este texto trata de alguns trabalhos feministas que desenvolvo, notadamente a performance de rua Espaço do silêncio, pensando-as como práticas “estético-políticas de rexistência”, ou seja, como ações em que se entrelaçam às dimensões artísticas, não somente questões de ordem ética, mas também aquelas relacionadas à nossa presença no mundo e as possibilidades de nele inventar políticas de rexistência.
Representando a representatividade
Authors: Lemos Jr. Urbano , Gosciola Vicente
Published: November 2018

Nota-se, atualmente, um aumento significativo na quantidade de personagens transgêneros em filmes, séries e novelas. No entanto, essas representações são, quase sempre, entregues a atores cisgêneros. Renata Carvalho, atriz trans que estrela a peça O Evangelho segundo Jesus, Rainha do Céu, enceta um manifesto contra essa prática. Para ela, a ideia é promover uma reflexão, fazer com que atores cisgêneros entendam a causa e não aceitem papéis que poderiam ser representados por artistas transgêneros.

Palavras-chave: Abjeto, Censura, Entrevista, Inclusão, Transgênero.
Princípio da proteção da confiança - fundamentos para limitação dos poderes constituídos na modificação de direitos sociais em tempo de crise
Authors: Quintiliano Leonardo David
Published: November 2018

O presente artigo analisa a construção jurisprudencial e doutrinária do princípio da proteção da confiança, bem como seu desenvolvimento em Portugal como limitação à atuação dos poderes constituídos na modificação de leis concretizadoras de direitos sociais. A partir do pioneiro desenvolvimento, pelo Tribunal Constitucional português, de critérios para aplicação desse princípio aos casos concretos, especialmente na supressão ou redução de direitos sociais em tempos de crise, compara-se o recurso ao princípio pela jurisprudência constitucional brasileira.
The Amerindians and International Law:
Authors: Casella Paulo Borba
Published: November 2018

The paper strives to bring a historic perspective about the International Law treatment on Amerindians, from the «discovery», going through the renowned authors of the American colonial period, such as Francisco de Vitoria and Bartolomé de las Casas, to the present condition of the Amerindians in Brazil, within the Constitution (1988) and with the multilateral international efforts to regulate the subject, via the UN´s General Assembly or via the European Parliament.
Exclusión legal del indígena en el proceso de codificación en México
Authors: Narváez Hernández José Ramón
Published: November 2018

The article demonstrates how European enlightenment thinking affected the Mexican codification process in the 19th century, with negative consequences for the recognition of indigenous identity and its rights, which was suppressed for the benefit of a modern civil identity that contrasted with the social and ethnic complexity existing. In this context, it is argued that the codification and its way of thinking alienated the jurist from reality, justifying an equality between unequals through legal formulas that today need to be questioned and reformulated, so that an ontologically correct Mexican law prevails.
Aceitação e renúncia de herança: relevância e questões controvertidas
Authors: Jafet Danilo Haddad
Published: November 2018

À primeira vista, a aceitação e a renúncia de herança podem parecer institutos sem muita utilidade prática no Direito Contemporâneo. De um lado, o Código Civil prestigiou o princípio da saisine, que torna automática a transferência da herança aos herdeiros, no momento da morte. De outro, também por força legal, o herdeiro não responderá por encargos superiores à força da herança. Este artigo analisará a relevância das figuras, além de conceituá-las e discutir questões controvertidas como sua natureza jurídica e a necessidade de outorga conjugal na renúncia.
Villa-Lobos e Tom Jobim
Authors: Ripke Juliana
Published: November 2018

A influência de Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) em compositores de música popular brasileira, especialmente Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927-1994), é algo já bastante comentado, tornando-se praticamente um senso-comum. Apesar disso não encontramos, ainda, trabalhos de análise voltados de forma aprofundada para esta comparação entre obras dos dois compositores, além de outros aspectos. Desta forma, abordaremos alguns diferentes aspectos a respeito de possíveis análises sobre a influência de um sobre o outro, e vice-versa. A primeira parte deste artigo pretende discutir, então, a respeito das conexões entre Villa-Lobos e Tom Jobim a partir do conceito de influência, sob dois aspectos diferentes. O primeiro é a partir de reflexões sobre a influência que Tom Jobim sofreu de Villa-Lobos, seja mediante depoimentos feitos pelo próprio Jobim – ou por amigos e colegas músicos que possuíram alguma ligação com o compositor–, seja por meio de estudos analíticos feitos por estudiosos acadêmicos de Villa-Lobos e Tom Jobim. O segundo consiste em comentar de que modo a obra de Villa-Lobos tem sido lida nas últimas décadas como tendo um viés de música popular (com uma influência diacrônica de Jobim sobre Villa-Lobos), mudando a forma de recepção e de apropriação da obra (e mesmo da imagem) de Villa-Lobos. A segunda parte do artigo traz algumas análises comparativas entre trechos de determinadas obras dos dois compositores, empregando ferramentas analíticas como a teoria dos conjuntos e a teoria neoriemanniana.
Contribuições da rítmica de Dalcroze à preparação do colaborador musical
Authors: Berg Silvia , Nicoletti Daniela Amaral Rodrigues
Published: November 2018

O presente artigo, pautado na pesquisa da obra de Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, trata das contribuições que sua Rítmica pode vir a oferecer à preparação do pianista, com foco na colaboração musical, à medida que tem por objetivos a superação de arritmias, automatismos e a integração entre o corpo e a audição, bem como o desenvolvimento da escuta e da criatividade. Para isso, são delineadas as particularidades dessa atuação artística, tomando como principal referência teórica a obra de Martin Katz. Entende-se que essas contribuições podem, do mesmo modo, ser aplicadas a outros instrumentistas que se dedicam à música de câmara, pelas suas semelhanças performáticas, no que diz respeito especialmente à necessidade de perceber e corresponder musicalmente ao outro em uma interpretação conjunta.
Estimating the Intrinsic Limit of Predictability Using a Stochastic Convection Scheme
Authors: Selz Tobias
Published: November 2018

Global model simulations together with a stochastic convection scheme are used to assess the intrinsic limit of predictability that originates from convection up to planetary scales. The stochastic convection scheme has been shown to introduce an appropriate amount of variability onto the model grid without the need to resolve the convection explicitly. This largely reduces computational costs and enables a set of 12 cases equally distributed over 1 year with five ensemble members for each case, generated by the stochastic convection scheme. As a metric, difference kinetic energy at 300 hPa over the midlatitudes, both north and south, is used. With this metric the intrinsic limit is estimated to be about 17 days when a threshold of 80% of the saturation level is applied. The error level at 3.5 days roughly compares to the initial-condition uncertainty of the current ECMWF data assimilation system, which suggests a potential improvement of 3.5 forecast days through perfecting the initial conditions. Error-growth experiments that use a deterministic convection scheme show smaller errors of about half the size at early forecast times and an estimate of intrinsic predictability that is about 10% longer, confirming the overconfidence of deterministic convection schemes.
Weak El Niño and Winter Climate in the Mid- to High Latitudes of Eurasia
Authors: Zhang Peng , Wang Bin , Wu Zhiwei
Published: November 2018

According to the sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) intensity in the Niño-3.4 region and the east–west gradient across the Pacific, three types of El Niño are identified in this work. An event with larger than average intensity is defined as a strong El Niño, all others are considered to be weak events. Almost all strong El Niños are concurrent with a large gradient, which is featured by negative SSTAs in the western Pacific and positive SSTAs in the equatorial eastern Pacific (EP) and Indian Ocean (IO). According to the east–west gradient, the weak events can be subdivided into gradient-weak (GW) El Niño and equatorial-weak (EW) El Niño. The GW El Niño characterizes a great east–west gradient without a significant IO SSTA. In contrast, the EW event features a positive SSTA over the tropical IO and EP. The impact of GW El Niño on the North Atlantic–Eurasia continent (NA–Eurasia) displays a negative North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)-like atmospheric anomaly, resulting in a drier and cooler-than-normal winter over Eurasia. Observational and numerical evidence indicate that the prolonged subtropical jet from the North Pacific to NA acts as a waveguide that captures the planetary Rossby waves generated by the GW El Niño. This waveguide favors the propagation of the perturbations into the downstream regions, which would affect the NA–Eurasian climate. However, the EW El Niño is accompanied by a relatively weak subtropical jet that cannot impact the NA–Eurasian climate significantly. For the strong El Niño, the absence of the NAO signal can be attributed to the counteracting of the teleconnections triggered by the Pacific and the tropical IO.
Advertising Effectiveness—How Can it be Measured?
Authors: Eldridge Clarence E.
Published: November 2018

Advertising continues to play an important role in our national economy. Therefore, the effectiveness of advertising is of great concern both to society and to the individuals who comprise our society. In spite of the progress that advertising has made over the years, there are two vital respects in which further improvement is needed: in its effectiveness, and in the evaluation of its effectiveness.

There are five indispensable ingredients of good advertising. Their presence in any advertisement gives as much assurance as can be given before the fact that the advertisement is a good one. Also, the author believes that by his suggested after-the-fact appraisal, the ultimate effectiveness of the advertising in advancing the objectives for which it was designed can be measured.

The author makes no extravagant claims for his method. He does not suggest that it is the last word, or that it provides a definitive solution to all the problems of improving and evaluating advertising. He merely hopes that it will provide one further modest step on the road to better advertising.
Mediocrity versus Change in Drug-Store Operating Ratios
Authors: Bass Frank M.
Published: November 2018

Horace Secrist showed many years ago that various retail stores whose expenses and gross margins were either far above or far below average in a particular year tended to move closer to the average of the group of stores in succeeding years. The present study uncovers this same tendency in drug-store data for the years 1948–1952. An attempt is also made to look into the causes behind this phenomenon.
The Forum…: A Survey of Smokers in Italy
Authors: Badenhop M. B.
Published: November 2018

In general, data are not available on tobacco preferences in other countries. The present study was carried out to provide such information regarding Italian smokers. The results are being applied in the marketing programs of U. S. manufacturers of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
Patterns behind “Income Refusals”
Authors: Skelton Vincent C.
Published: November 2018

Although income is an important variable in assessing marketing behavior, information about income is difficult to obtain through survey research.

This article examines refusals to income questions for significant patterns. Ways to reduce nonresponses are also suggested.
A Comparison of Japanese and U.S. Attitudes toward Foreign Products
Authors: Nagashima Akira
Published: November 2018

How are U.S. products perceived by foreign consumers? How do these product images affect international marketing strategies? What are the relationships between the “country product” image and international marketing strategies? These questions are of concern to all engaged in international business. This study measures the cross-cultural image of “made in …” products as perceived by both Japanese and U.S. businessmen.
Rating Scales and Information Recovery—How Many Scales and Response Categories to Use?
Authors: Green Paul E. , Rao Vithala R.
Published: November 2018

Managers and researchers concerned with marketing and attitudinal research frequently encounter the problem of determining the number of rating scales to use and the number of response categories to provide for each scale that is used. This article approaches the problem through a numerical simulation designed to measure the sensitivity of “solution recovery” to changes in these variables.
Marketing Functions and Marketing Systems: A Synthesis—A Comment
Authors: Sporleder Thomas L.
Published: November 2018

This is a commentary on “Marketing Functions and Marketing Systems: A Synthesis” published in the July, 1969 issue of the JOURNAL OF MARKETING. The author maintains that the conceptual framework for the functional approach to marketing in the original article is clarified and strengthened by explicitly recognizing that marketing activities performed by a firm are dependent on the nature of the firm's demand for its output.
Marketers’ Attitudes toward the Marketing Concept
Authors: Barksdale Hiram C. , Darden Bill
Published: November 2018

The marketing concept sparked the interest of business executives and marketing educators when introduced as a pioneering idea some twenty years ago. The doctrine has since influenced the thinking of businessmen and has changed the direction of marketing education. The authors report the results of a survey designed to measure current attitudes of executives and educators toward the marketing concept, its operational adequacy, and its contributions to business and to consumers.
Stratport: A Decision Support System for Strategic Planning
Authors: Larréché Jean-Claude , Srinivasan V.
Published: November 2018

The STRATPORT decision support system represents an extension and operationalization of current business portfolio approaches. It is designed to aid top managers and corporate planners in the evaluation and formulation of business portfolio strategies. It is an on-line computerized mathematical model utilizing empirical and (managerial) judgment-based data. A description of the basic structure of the STRATPORT model is presented, as well as an illustrative example of its use.
Analyzing Fashion Life Cycles—Principles and Perspectives
Authors: Sproles George B.
Published: November 2018

This paper reviews the evolution and current state of fashion theory focusing on fashion life cycles. Fashion cycles are analyzed in two time frames, long run secular trends spanning decades and centuries, and short run acceptance of specific styles lasting several months to years. The emergence of new styles is described alternatively as a phenomenon propagated by the fashion industry and independent consumer behavior. Some needed theoretical developments, research, and managerial applications are discussed.
An Examination of the Nature of Trust in Buyer–Seller Relationships
Authors: Doney Patricia M. , Cannon Joseph P.
Published: November 2018

The authors integrate theory developed in several disciplines to determine five cognitive processes through which industrial buyers can develop trust of a supplier firm and its salesperson. These processes provide a theoretical framework used to identify antecedents of trust. The authors also examine the impact of supplier firm and salesperson trust on a buying firm's current supplier choice and future purchase intentions. The theoretical model is tested on data collected from more than 200 purchasing managers. The authors find that several variables influence the development of supplier firm and salesperson trust. Trust of the supplier firm and trust of the salesperson (operating indirectly through supplier firm trust) influence a buyer's anticipated future interaction with the supplier. However, after controlling for previous experience and supplier performance, neither trust of the selling firm nor its salesperson influence the current supplier selection decision.
Conditional Trend Analysis: A Breakdown by Initial Purchasing Level
Authors: Goodhardt G. J. , Ehrenberg A. S. C.
Published: November 2018

A method of analyzing the components of a trend in consumer purchasing is described. An empirically-based mathematical model is first used to predict the purchasing pattern in the absence of a trend. Comparison between the observed data and these predicted norms permits a detailed evaluation of the trend. Two examples of practical applications of the technique are presented.
Variable-Sum Game Models of Marketing Problems
Authors: Baligh Helmy H. , Richartz Leon E.
Published: November 2018

Constrained and unconstrained models of a variable-sum market game characterizing the problem of television programming are developed. Solutions are obtained through the introduction of a nonresponding pseudo-firm which turns the game into a constant-sum one. The relative values of competitive and noncompetitive models are then discussed.
Consumer Goals and Reactions to a Communication Source
Authors: Wilding John , Bauer Raymond A.
Published: November 2018

In an experiment with 292 housewives, need for social approval and cognitive task importance was used to divide respondents into groups with predominantly problem-solving or social goals. The first group reacted more to competence of the source of a persuasive message, the second more to its social attractiveness. Rejection of the message led to a less favorable view of the source by subjects with social goals.
Numerical Taxonomy in Marketing Analysis: A Review Article
Authors: Frank Ronald E. , Green Paul E.
Published: November 2018

Recent developments in numerical taxonomy appear to show applicability for many classification problems in marketing. This review article describes some of the approaches to numerical classification and presents illustrative marketing applications. Current limitations of the procedures are also discussed.
Choice Criteria, Decision Behavior, and Personality
Authors: Kernan Jerome B.
Published: November 2018

Do expected value, maximin, coefficient of optimism, and minimax regret describe real-world decision making, or are these terms limited to theoretical reasoning? This article reports a study designed to test the empirical correspondence of decision theory and the relationship between decision behavior and personality.
Market Learning of New Residents
Authors: Andreasen Alan R. , Durkson Peter G.
Published: November 2018

This cross-sectional study explores brand awareness and brand purchasing patterns for housewives at three points of residence in a new community. While the overall pattern of market learning shows movement toward community norms, substantial variation in the rate and kinds of learning was found among and within product categories.
A Conceptual Framework for Ad Agency Compensation
Authors: King William R.
Published: November 2018

The problems inherent in compensating advertising agencies for their services are treated in terms of criteria for risk sharing between advertiser and agency. A conceptual framework is developed which relates the degree of uncertainty and the degree of involvement of the agency to a general class of financial relationships between advertiser and agency.
On the Study of Consumer Typologies
Authors: Myers John G. , Nicosia Francesco M.
Published: November 2018

This article presents a new method of empirical classification, shows how it is used to develop a consumer typology, and tests the sensitivity of the typology to various changes in assumptions, operations, and procedures. These operational effects are considered from the viewpoint of their significance in typology generation and for the long-run potential of classification methods and procedures in marketing and market segmentation.
Influence of Commercial's Length and Position
Authors: Wheatley John J.
Published: November 2018

A laboratory experiment to measure the effect of varying the length of a TV commercial and its position within a program indicates both length and position influence effectiveness. However, differences in effectiveness attributable to greater length or island position in the program were generally small.
Computer Models in Advertising Media Selection
Authors: Gensch Dennis H.
Published: November 2018

There is a clear dichotomy between the optimizing and the nonoptimizing approaches. The four main methods using the optimizing approach are: (1) linear programming, (2) nonlinear programming, (3) iteration or marginal analysis, and (4) dynamic programming. The two major nonoptimizing approaches are (1) heuristic programming and (2) simulation. One of the known models using each approach is examined in detail. The relative merits of the various approaches are then discussed.
Multifirm Analysis of Competitive Decision Variables
Authors: Wildt Albert R.
Published: November 2018

Econometric methodology is applied to the data of a given industry, and equations representing the performance and decision variables of the major firms are simultaneously estimated. This study is unique with respect to the number and nature of the decision variables considered.
The Effect of Purchase Characteristics on Postdecision Product Reevaluation
Authors: Winter Frederick W.
Published: November 2018

A laboratory study employing a purchase simulation suggests that characteristics of the purchase such as choice superiority, brand homogeneity, and choice familiarity play a major role in postdecisional cognitive change. Evidence also indicates that new adoption purchases of minor importance items do represent the necessary level of decision commitment for favorable product reevaluation.
The subversive pencil: writing, prison and political status
Authors: Gordon Avery F.
Published: November 2018

The article offers a personal recollection of Barbara Harlow and her impact on the author’s intellectual development. Harlow’s book Barred: women, writing, and political detention (1992) and her later writings on the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay are revisited for their contemporary significance. The author situates Harlow as a unique literary critic whose sustained work was conjunctural reading, translating and writing across geopolitical and disciplinary borders; her interventions being made in commitment to her honed liberatory agendas and visions.
On repetition in the work of Zygmunt Bauman
Authors: Tester Keith
Published: November 2018

Some texts appear more than once across the corpus of Zygmunt Bauman’s work. This has led to accusations of self-plagiarism and a lack of scholarly rigour. This paper is an explanation of why texts reappear. It pays attention to a number of frequently overlooked texts from the 1970s which are of fundamental importance for any understanding of Bauman’s work. It is contended that if: (a) there is an understanding of the stakes and purpose of sociology as it is framed in Bauman’s work; and (b) attention is paid to the argument of Hermeneutics and Social Science; then (c) the repetition of texts across the work becomes explicable and unproblematic. The paper argues that dealings with Bauman’s work need to be more aware of the less well-known texts. They also need to be alert to different – and incommensurable – ways of practising sociology.
Factors Associated With Older Adults’ Enrollment in Balance Classes to Prevent Falls: Case-Control Study
Authors: Currie Dustin W. , Thoreson Sallie R. , Clark Lauren , Goss Cynthia W. , Marosits Mark J. , DiGuiseppi Carolyn G.
Published: November 2018

Balance training decreases fall risk among older adults, but few participate in such training. We examined the association of exposure to social marketing to promote balance classes, personal characteristics and other factors, with older adults’ balance class participation. Adults aged ⩾60 years were eligible for this case-control study if they attended any church enrolled in a trial testing the effect of social marketing on balance class participation. Cases attended balance classes during the study period; controls were randomly sampled congregants who did not join a class. Cases were more likely to attend churches that received the social marketing program, and were older, more often female, and more frequently experienced “near falls” than controls. Participation was also associated with increasing age of the church’s leader and rural church attendance. Programs to promote balance classes may need to be tailored to target some risk groups, including men and urban and suburban congregants.
Rheological behavior, mechanical properties, and nonisothermal crystallization behavior of poly(ethylene terephthalate)/modified carbon fiber composites
Authors: Lin GuoLiang , Li DongWei , Liu MinYi , Zhang XiaoYi , Zheng YuYing
Published: November 2018

Maleic anhydride-grafted carbon fiber (CF- g-MAH) was prepared by a solid-phase grafting method. The rheological behavior, morphology, mechanical properties, and nonisothermal crystallization behavior of pure poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) and PET/CF and PET/CF- g-MAH composites were investigated. The rheological analyses and mechanical tests show that the addition of CF or CF- g-MAH increased the complex viscosity and mechanical properties of PET. The morphology observations confirm that the introduction of the MAH group on the surfaces of the CF enhanced the interactions between the CF and PET, resulting in the fine dispersion of CF- g-MAH in the PET matrix. In addition, the analyses of the nonisothermal crystallization behavior of pure PET and the PET/CF and PET/CF- g-MAH composites show that CF or CF- g-MAH can act as a heterogeneous nucleating agent in PET and accelerate its crystallization. Compared to CF, CF- g-MAH is a more effective nucleator for PET.
Student Engagement in Internationalization of the Curriculum: Vietnamese Domestic Students’ Perspectives
Authors: Trinh Anh Ngoc , Conner Lindsey
Published: November 2018

Internationalization in higher education has shifted to focus on home initiatives that engage and benefit all students rather than cross-border mobility activities. The qualitative case study reported in this article employed Kahu’s model of student engagement (SE) to investigate SE in internationalization of the curriculum (IoC) from the perspectives of 23 domestic Vietnamese students taking an internationalized program in a Vietnamese university. From three focus groups and 23 individual interviews, this study found that SE in IoC varied according to diverse internal and external factors. The students’ awareness of the benefits of their engagement in the program, their acknowledgment of the program’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as their desire to have more SE revealed a possibility for students to act as partners in the program. The potential partnership between students and their lecturers as well as other institutional bodies, in both the formal and informal curriculum alongside more sustained engagement opportunities, could enhance consequential student experiences and outcomes. The findings suggest that students are prospective resources to cultivate diversity and inclusion in IoC because their engagement can offer multiple insights and possibilities to enhance IoC. We argue that SE is significant in informing the development of IoC and is possibly integral to effective IoC.
Mixed odontogenic tumors in four young dogs: ameloblastic fibroma and ameloblastic fibro-odontoma
Authors: Huang Patrick , Bell Cynthia , Wallace Vanessa , Murphy Brian G.
Published: November 2018

Ameloblastic fibroma (AF) and ameloblastic fibro-odontoma (AFO) are mixed odontogenic tumors (odontogenic tumors with induction) that are reported only rarely in dogs. These tumors are histologically complex and, to a degree, recapitulate the early stages of tooth development, comprising 2 types of tissue: neoplastic odontogenic epithelium, and induced ectomesenchyme (dental pulp). AFOs are distinguished from AFs by the additional presence of hard dental matrices such as dentin. Herein, we describe the key diagnostic features of AF and AFO in 4 young dogs.
Executive Insights: The Harmonization of Product Country Marking Statutes—Strategic Implications for International Marketers
Authors: Clarke Irvine , Owens Margaret , Ford John B.
Published: November 2018

The country marking displayed by a product repeatedly has been found to affect consumer product evaluations. This study provides a detailed examination of the “tests of transformation” statutes, which form the international basis for determination of country marking. Four major legal tests (name, character, and use; essence; value-added; and article of commerce) are presented, and practical examples are provided to illustrate their strategic uses. Finally, strategic guidelines are provided for global marketing strategists for obtaining appropriate country markings.
The Concepts of Qualitative Data: Challenges in Neoliberal Times for Qualitative Inquiry
Authors: Flick Uwe
Published: November 2018

Qualitative inquiry always used various kinds of data for understanding social issues and participants’ perspectives. Research and methodologies were debated for what data are adequate for studying social justice issues. Current challenges for concepts of data are new, for example, virtual and digital data, question traditional data (interviews, ethnography, etc.) in their relevance for understanding current life worlds. New methods produce new and other forms of data (e.g., mobile, virtual data). Neoliberal contexts produce questions about qualitative research and its data. What is an adequate and contemporary understanding of the concept of “data”? These questions are discussed in this special issue.
Low income as a determinant of exercise capacity in COPD
Authors: Porta Ana Sofia , Lam Nyanjok , Novotny Paul , Benzo Roberto ,   the NETT Research Group
Published: November 2018

Exercise capacity (EC) is a critical outcome in chronic obstructive lung disease (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)). It measures the impact of the disease and the effect of specific interventions like pulmonary rehabilitation (PR). EC determines COPD prognosis and is associated with health-care utilization and quality of life. Field walking tests and cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) are two ways to measure EC. The 6-minute walking test (6MWT) is the commonest and easiest field test. CPET has the advantage of assessing maximal aerobic capacity. Determinants of EC include age, gender, breathlessness, and lung function. Previous research suggests that socioeconomic status (SES), a meaningful factor in COPD, may also be associated with EC. However, those findings have not been replicated. We aimed to determine whether SES is an independent factor associated with EC in COPD. For this analysis, we used the National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT) database. NETT was a multicenter clinical trial where severe COPD patients were randomized to lung volume reduction surgery or medical therapy. Measures used were taken at baseline, postrehabilitation. Patients self-reported their income and were divided in two groups whether it was less or above US$30,000. Patients with a lower income had worse results in 6MWT ( p < 0.0001). We found an independent association between income and the 6MWT in patients with severe COPD after adjusting for age, gender, lung function, dyspnea, and living conditions ( p < 0.0007). One previous publication stated the relationship between income and EC. Our research confirms and extends previous publications associating EC with income by studying a large and well characterized cohort of severe COPD patients, also addressing EC by two different methods (maximal watts and 6MWT). Our results highlight the importance of addressing social determinants of health such as income when assessing COPD patients.
Statewide Public School Music Competitions/Festivals in Kansas and Oklahoma: The Beginnings of the School Music Contest Movement in the United States
Authors: McDow George H. , Stiffler Daniel L.
Published: November 2018

Music competitions have an ancient history dating back some two thousand years. In the United States, early music contests mimicked the German Saengerfests and Welsh Eistoddfods; however, some of the earliest continuously running music competitions held in America are the state contests for secondary school students. This article identifies for the first time Kansas and Oklahoma as holding the two earliest state school music competitions and corrects some long-standing erroneous information. It studies these two state events through historical analysis of primary sources and triangulates the data with secondary sources. Frank Beach at Kansas State Normal School in Emporia and Fredrik Holmberg at the University of Oklahoma were found to be the two initiators. These two state music contests were influenced by several things including the state track and field meets, previous music contests, the western pioneering spirit, European music systems, and the music specialties of the founders. In the end both contests were seen as promoting the cause of public school music by increasing both the quality and numbers of music education programs and as leading to the exponential growth of state music competitions throughout the United States.
Dong for Movements, Hua for Paintings: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Investigating Chinese Donghua
Authors: Kim Minhyoung
Published: November 2018

This article questions a longstanding definition of animation that lacks aspects of cultural diversity in part; it reexamines the socio-cultural formation of modern animation from less known regions of China and investigates Chinese animation known as donghua (动画). The goal is to demonstrate the transdisciplinary nature of donghua acquired through dynamic interactions in this heterogeneous site of production of visual culture in modern China. The author suggests a concept-based framework to more accurately describe animation in China composed of three specific dimensions of donghua: translinguality, transnationality and transmediality. To conclude, the author reveals that the study of donghua helps generate a more widely defined spectrum of the now divergent ‘cultural field’ of ‘animations’ and therefore leads to a ‘translocal imagining of animation’ appropriate for today’s increasingly mobile world.
Investigation of flame behavior and dynamics prior to lean blowout in a combustor with varying mixedness of reactants for the early detection of lean blowout
Authors: De Somnath , Bhattacharya Arijit , Mondal Sirshendu , Mukhopadhyay Achintya , Sen Swarnendu
Published: November 2018

Lean blowout is one of the major challenges faced when the gas turbine combustors are operated with lean fuel–air mixture to meet the emission norm. We experimentally study the flame behavior and the dynamics of heat release rate fluctuations during a transition to lean blowout. The study comprising flame visualization and estimating several measures to predict lean blowout for both premixed and partially premixed flames (using fuel ports F1 to F5) in a swirl stabilized dump combustor. To that end, we acquire unsteady heat release rate in terms of CH* chemiluminescence obtained through a photomultiplier tube with a narrow band-pass filter. For evaluating different statistical measures, we use National Instrument Labview software while acquiring the heat release rate oscillations. For premixed and partially premixed flames, such measures and the flame behavior show a different and, in some cases, even opposite trends as lean blowout is approached. However, in both premixed and partially premixed flames, the mean and root mean square values of the heat release rate fluctuation decrease as we decrease the equivalence ratio. Further, we show that the value of mean frequency calculated using Hilbert transform of the heat release rate fluctuations is a good indicator of lean blowout. Apart from the early prediction of lean blowout, different statistics of heat release rate oscillations, such as kurtosis and skewness, are shown to identify only the occurrence of lean blowout for premixed (F1 and F2) and flames with lower level of premixing (F3). They are not useful for the flames with high levels of unmixedness like F4 and F5. On the other side, probability density function is seen useful for both premixed and partially premixed flames. In short, we present the relative importance of different measures stated earlier for the identification and early prediction of lean blowout for both premixed and partially premixed flames.
Serum neprilysin and the risk of death in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of non-traumatic origin
Authors: Zelniker Thomas A , Spaich Sebastian , Stiepak Jan , Steger Florian , Katus Hugo A , Preusch Michael R
Published: November 2018

Background:

Early risk stratification remains an unmet clinical need in patients with in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. We hypothesised that soluble neprilysin may represent a promising biomarker in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of non-traumatic origin and provide new pathobiological insight.

Methods:

This pilot study was a biomarker analysis from the Heidelberg Resuscitation Registry. Serum soluble neprilysin levels on admission were measured in 144 patients with successful return of spontaneous circulation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of non-traumatic origin. The primary endpoint was time to all-cause mortality. KM Event Rates are reported. Cox models were adjusted for age, bystander resuscitation, initial ECG rhythm, baseline estimated glomerular filtration rate, baseline lactate, left ventricular function at baseline, and targeted temperature management.

Results:

In total, 90 (62.5%) patients died over a follow-up of at least 30 days. Soluble neprilysin correlated weakly with high-sensitivity troponin T (r=0.18, P=0.032) but did not correlate significantly with estimated glomerular filtration rate (r=−0.12) or lactate (r=0.11). Patients with elevated soluble neprilysin levels on admission were at significantly higher risk of all-cause mortality (Q4 69.1% vs. Q1 48.4%). After multivariable adjustment, soluble neprilysin in the top quartile (Q4) was significantly associated with all-cause mortality (Q4 vs. Q1: adjusted hazard ratio 2.48 (1.20–5.12)). In an adjusted multimarker model including high-sensitivity troponin T and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, soluble neprilysin and high-sensitivity troponin T remained independently associated with all-cause mortality (soluble neprilysin: adjusted hazard ratio 2.27 (1.08–4.78); high-sensitivity troponin T: adjusted hazard ratio 3.40 (1.63–7.09)).

Conclusion:

Soluble neprilysin, measured as early as on hospital admission, was independently associated with all-cause mortality in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of non-traumatic origin and may prove to be useful in the estimation of risk in these patients.
Postsecondary Education-Focused Transition Planning Experiences of English Learners With Disabilities
Authors: Trainor Audrey A. , Newman Lynn , Garcia Elisa , Woodley Heather H. , Traxler Rachel Elizabeth , Deschene D. Nicole
Published: November 2018

Transition planning is particularly important for dually identified English learners with disabilities, who frequently face additional challenges to postsecondary education success. This study examined postschool expectations, transition planning experiences, and supports of a nationally representative sample of English learners with disabilities, based on secondary analysis of the National Longitudinal Transition Study (NLTS) 2012. Results demonstrated that these students’ experiences were similar to other students with disabilities except that, according to parents, the transition component of the individualized education program (IEP) was likely to be developed by school personnel, with little input from students and family members, and necessary information about careers and financial aid was lacking. These findings underscore the intersectional identities and related experiences of this population and the implications for policy, transition education, and school services.