bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Investigating the influence of eating habits, body weight and television programme preferences on television viewing time and domestic computer usage
Authors: Raptou Elena , Papastefanou Georgios , Mattas Konstadinos
Published: March 2016

Background:

The present study explored the influence of eating habits, body weight and television programme preference on television viewing time and domestic computer usage, after adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics and home media environment indicators. In addition, potential substitution or complementarity in screen time was investigated.

Methods:

Individual level data were collected via questionnaires that were administered to a random sample of 2,946 Germans. The econometric analysis employed a seemingly unrelated bivariate ordered probit model to conjointly estimate television viewing time and time engaged in domestic computer usage.

Results:

Television viewing and domestic computer usage represent two independent behaviours in both genders and across all age groups. Dietary habits have a significant impact on television watching with less healthy food choices associated with increasing television viewing time. Body weight is found to be positively correlated with television screen time in both men and women, and overweight individuals have a higher propensity for heavy television viewing. Similar results were obtained for age groups where an increasing body mass index (BMI) in adults over 24 years old is more likely to be positively associated with a higher duration of television watching. With respect to dietary habits of domestic computer users, participants aged over 24 years of both genders seem to adopt more healthy dietary patterns. A downward trend in the BMI of domestic computer users was observed in women and adults aged 25–60 years. On the contrary, young domestic computer users 18–24 years old have a higher body weight than non-users. Television programme preferences also affect television screen time with clear differences to be observed between genders and across different age groups.

Conclusions:

In order to reduce total screen time, health interventions should target different types of screen viewing audiences separately.
Archbishop Edward Hanna of San Francisco: An Archetype for Twentieth Century American Catholicism
Authors: Gribble Richard
Published: March 2016

The ebb and flow of American Catholic life between 1850 and 1950, as characterized by the immigrant church, the battles over Americanism and theological Modernism, and the subsequent foundation of the National Catholic Welfare Council is found in the priestly and episcopal career of Edward Hanna. A Rochester, New York priest, Hanna’s career closely followed the ups and downs of the American Catholic Church he served. As a priest he ministered to Italian immigrants while simultaneously teaching dogmatics at St. Bernard’s Seminary. Hanna’s Modernist-leaning essays initially cost him the coadjutor position in San Francisco, but he eventually went to the City by the Bay, becoming local ordinary in 1915. Truly an archbishop of the people, Hanna served the city, the state of California in civic affairs, and the church in the United States as administrative chairman of the National Catholic Welfare Council, guiding this nascent body that typified the ascent of American Catholicism in numerous issues, both domestically and internationally. Archbishop Edward Hanna truly was an archetype of the American Church from the era of the Civil War to the post-World War II period.
“No Future”: Time, Punk Rock and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad
Authors: Moling Martin
Published: March 2016

This article presents a reading of Egan’s novel under the auspices of “time” as constitutive of both music and fiction writing. The rock songs that are quoted in the novel are investigated with regard to their ability to slow down time, dramatically enact pauses, and foreshorten experience. The article theorizes the literary forms Egan derives from punk rock – specifically a form of “punk time” – as an actual device for modulating time within the narrative. As such, Egan’s original incorporation of the aesthetics of punk into her novel as an “apocalyptic disruption” emerges as an attempt to both decelerate time and enact a thoroughgoing transformation of literary art in the face of a cultural climate informed by a pervasive “hyper-reality.”
Serial Women Writers and Racial Intimacy
Authors: Bauer Dale M.
Published: March 2016

This essay charts the intersection of how three of the most prominent 19th-century serial writers—E.D.E.N. Southworth, Ann Stephens, and Laura Jean Libbey—connect “brain fever” with racial intimacy, a narrative strategy registering cultural anxieties about social stability. A forgotten convention of serial fiction, such fevers introduce other symptoms, like insanity, amnesia, and syncope so that women especially might evade post-Civil War racial fears or desires. In all these novels, mental and psychic debilities signal a culture’s need for reconstruction. All of these writers draw on plots where characters at key moments are struck by “brain fever,” portrayed as lost consciousness, disempowered thinking, psychic damage, erasure of memory and personality—that reveal social dysfunction.
Travel Narratives, Travel Fictions: The Prescient Case of Paul Bowles
Authors: Alarcón Daniel Cooper
Published: March 2016

I use the term “travel fictions” to refer to the ways in which travel narratives often misrepresent, distort, and fabricate notions about the people and places they purport to describe, creating useful mythologies. I also use the term to refer to works of fiction that critique and investigate different types of travel, a genre that has received less critical attention than “non-fiction” travel narratives. I argue that both types of travel literature have been used by many authors to theorize and think critically about travel and migration—an aspect of travel literature that is often overlooked in contemporary criticism. This article discusses the ways in which Paul Bowles anticipated many of the ideas now central to critical studies of travel and migration by over two decades.
The Role of Relationship Type, Risk Perception, and Condom Use in Middle Socioeconomic Status Black Women’s HIV-prevention Strategies
Authors: Caldwell Kia , Mathews Allison
Published: March 2016

This research analyzes qualitative focus group and interview data from the Sister Circle Study—a pilot study that explored hiv risk among middle ses Black women ages 25–45 in North Carolina. Findings reveal that gendered relationship dynamics, perceptions of a sex ratio imbalance, and levels of trust in relationships may reduce some women’s ability to negotiate monogamy and condom use with their male partners. The research suggests that higher socioeconomic status does not fully buffer some middle ses Black women from hiv risk and highlights the role interpersonal and structural factors play in shaping hiv risk for this group.
Trabajo y vida en el mangle: “Madera negra” y carbón en Piñones (Loíza), Puerto Rico (1880-1950)
Authors: Cordero Juan Giusti
Published: March 2016

Cet article explore le travail et la vie des coupeurs de canne et des charbonniers de la Forêt de Piñones (Loíza) à la fin du XIXe siècle et début de XXe siècle. Les habitants des communautés centenaires noires de Piñones réalisaient des travaux forestiers à coté des plantations de canne à sucre, dont les propriétaires étaient titulaires d’une partie des mangroves. De 1870 jusqu’en 1920, les coupeurs de cannes extrayaient le « bois noir » du tronc de l’arbre úcar enraciné dans le sol boueux de la mangrove, ils coupaient des arbres pour préparer des bois de construction, des clôtures en bois, et ils produisaient le charbon végétal. Lors d’une deuxième période, de 1930 à 1950, Piñones devenait une des régions de canne à sucre les plus récentes et productives du pays grâce à la coupe du bois, à la production du charbon ainsi qu’au travail dans les champs de cannes limitrophes. La perspective de cet article diffère des approches essentiellement culturelle et raciale qui prévalent dans la recherche historique sur les portoricains noirs, car elle écarte les contextes les plus familiers de l’histoire afro-portoricaine, tels que: les plantations de canne à sucre et l’espace urbain. Cependant, l’article se concentre, sur la vie matérielle et l’activité productive de la mangrove vue comme un espace complexe grâce à son écologie et son histoire. La diversité et l’essentielle des activités productives des habitants de Piñones et leur transformation, reflètent la valeur et l’historicité de la relation travail-écologie sur le territoire emblématique de Loiza des dimensions peu connues de la culture afro-portoricaine.
Las ramas del Árbol de la Libertad: La Guerra de la Restauración en la República Dominicana y Haití
Authors: Eller Anne
Published: March 2016

Cet article examine deux moments-clés de la Guerre de la Restauration dominicaine (1863-1865), dans laquelle les Dominicains ont lutté contre la réoccupation espagnole obtenue à travers l’offre d’annexion de 1861. Cette période de lutte anticoloniale prouve l’existence d’une conscience aigüe des Dominicains, du contexte régional sous la république. Ils étaient très conscients de la menace de l’esclavage qui planait sur leur pays durant cette époque. Les documents révèlent également qu’une mémoire de l’institution existait déjà depuis longtemps. De nouveaux travaux d’archives promettent d’apporter plus d’informations sur la pensée populaire de l’époque, ainsi que sur les collaborations entre les citoyens et les institutions haïtiennes. La Guerre de la Restauration est un exemple des idées de fédération politique existantes depuis le début du siècle. C’est une histoire qui relie le mouvement radical des visions pan-caribéennes de l’époque de la Révolution haïtienne et des soulèvements de l’indépendance sur le continent aux autres mouvements datant de la fin du XIXe siècle et au-delà.
Increasing Personal Safety On Campus: Implementation Of A New Personal Security System On A University Campus
Authors: Zugazaga Carole , Werner Danilea , Clifford Janice E. , Weaver Greg S. , Ware Angela
Published: March 2016

Over the past decade, the frequency of violent crime on college campuses has escalated. Findings from a pilot study of an automated, cell-phone driven, personal security system tested on a college campus are presented here. Student participants (N=86) tested this system for 8 weeks and responded to questions regarding their feelings of personal safety on and off campus before and after participation in the study. Student parents (N=14) also responded to questions regarding student safety. Results indicate system users’ feelings of safety increased following participation in the pilot program. Implications for campus safety and administrative implementation are discussed.
Understanding Anticipatory Socialization for New Student Affairs Professionals
Authors: Lombardi Kara M. , Mather Peter C.
Published: March 2016

The purpose of this study was to develop a deeper understanding of how new student affairs professionals experience the process by which they enter their first position out of graduate school, also referred to as anticipatory socialization. In this constructivist grounded theory study, data were collected from participants who experienced and managed aspects of their anticipatory socialization. The results provide insight on hiring practices, strategies for preparing students for the job market, and provides understanding for new professionals transitioning to professional roles.
“A Scientifical View of the Whole”: Adam Smith, Indexing, and Technologies of Abstraction
Authors: Binder Jeffrey M. , Jennings Collin
Published: March 2016

While numerous literary scholars have raised concerns about the capacity of computational methods to reveal unrecognized features of literary form and content, few have explored the approach of interpreting these methods in relation to historical antecedents (such as the eighteenth-century subject index) that were similarly designed for comprehending and representing large amounts of text in easily intelligible formats. This essay compares methods of mapping the contents of texts from different historical periods by examining Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations (1776) from two perspectives: that of its 1784 index and that of a topic model generated from the text. We contend that this sort of comparative interpretation of models demonstrates a new way to consider computational methods not as heralding a break from print genres like the index but, instead, as participating in a longer tradition of practices that have sought to make massive amounts of text accessible for readers, whether they are human or machine.
Maria Edgeworth’s Poetics of Rent
Authors: Picken Cassidy
Published: March 2016

This article argues that Maria Edgeworth’s first three Irish Tales Castle Rackrent (1800), Ennui (1809), and The Absentee (1812) respond to Adam Smith’s writings on economic rent by constructing a new poetics premised on the unequal conditions of colonial ownership. This poetics presents literary representation not asanindividual act of “making,” but rather through transactions of “rendering” between differently enfranchised makers and owners. After demonstrating the importance of Smith’s concept of rent to his theories of free trade and national development, I show how Edgeworth’s poetics of rent adopts the language of laissez-faire economics in order to re-sentimentalize damaged relations between Anglo-Irish landlords and their tenants. By following Smith in grounding national development in the economics of agricultural rent, the Irish Tales propose an alternative to the more familiar frameworks of liberal development put forward in the nineteenth century.
The Point of the Couplet: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Tusser’s A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie
Authors: Rosenberg Jessica
Published: March 2016

This article explores points of connection between the couplets of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1609) and the instructional literature of husbandry, arguing that Shakespeare shares with these practical genres a commitment to an aesthetic of didacticism and detachability. Through a reading of the Sonnets alongside Thomas Tusser’s Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie (1557), a popular handbook composed in rhyming couplets, I argue that a poetic tradition of practical fragmentation is embedded in Shakespeare’s couplets, and helps explain a longstanding critical dissatisfaction with the sonnets’ conclusions. Attending both to the imaginative practices of husbandry and to the material forms of the printed page (specifically, practices of indentation), I argue, generates new insights into the operations of a poetic memory performed not by a whole poem, but by detachable, and so storable, fragments.
The Mill on the Floss , Riparian Law, and the Difficulty of Judgment
Authors: brower Jordan
Published: March 2016

This essay studies the mysterious circumstances of Mr. Tulliver’s loss at court in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860). Where the social world of the novel deems Tulliver overzealous and wrongheaded in “going to law,” this essay suggests that Eliot incorporated contemporary (1850s) developments in riparian doctrine (the law pertaining to access to and use of rivers) into her novel, such that Tulliver seems to have held a legitimate position under a previous legal paradigm and been stymied by a new way of thinking about river water. This central but unelaborated problem ramifies through the Tulliver family in the form of siblings Maggie and Tom’s respective “judgment pathologies.”
The Artificial Life of Rhyme
Authors: Rosenfeld Colleen Ruth
Published: March 2016

Taking up Philip Sidney’s brief but provocative claim that the “chief life” of modern verse “standeth in that like sounding of words, which we call rhyme,” “The Artificial Life of Rhyme” asks what it might have meant to locate something called “life” in the notoriously conspicuous piece of artifice called rhyme. By coupling a study of early modern poetic and rhetorical theory with a close reading of the Maleger episode in book 2 of Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene , this essay argues that the Spenserian stanza acts as an engine of resurrection in a battle that ties the art of poetic production to the heretical longevity of Arthur’s foe. In conclusion, this essay proposes that artifice as its most conspicuous--literary ornament--also acted as cause, both material and formal, of early modern poiesis .
Ashura in the Malay-Indonesian World: The Ten Days of Muḥarram in Sumatra as Depicted by Nineteenth-Century Dutch Scholars
Authors: Daneshgar Majid , Shah Faisal Ahmad , Mol Arnold Yasin
Published: March 2016

There has been a dearth of studies in English on customs pertaining to the commemoration of the household of Muḥammad in Southeast Asia and the Malay-Indonesian world in the nineteenth century. This article aims to draw the attention of readers to an observation/report on the ten days of Muḥarram in Sumatra, Indonesia presented by nineteenth-century Dutch scholars. This work can be seen as a starting point for other researchers interested in investigating how Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Southeast Asian religious cultures and rituals are interlinked. In addition to describing the background and literature of the tābūt festival in Muḥarram and Dutch scholars’ observations, the English version of a Dutch article by Oscar Lewis Helfrich and his colleagues in 1888 is presented. It ends with a final word as well as a list of works on the tābūt in the Malay-Indonesian world.
New Light on the Collection and Authenticity of the Qurʾan: The Case for the Existence of a ‘Master Copy’ and how it Relates to the Reading of Ḥafṣ ibn Sulaymān from ʿĀṣim ibn Abī al-Nujūd
Authors: El-Wakil Ahmed
Published: March 2016

The established tradition of how the Qurʾan was collected is riddled with inconsistencies and there is no agreement in the Islamic sources as to whether or not the whole of the Qurʾan was written down before the Prophet Muḥammad’s death or if it was transmitted by memory. Some Companions of the Prophet had their own codices of the Qurʾan that did not agree with one another. Under ʿUthmān, a committee was established to produce a unified version of the Qurʾanic text. The hadith literature tells us that certain verses of the Qurʾan never made it into the ʿUthmānic canon, therefore rendering it incomplete. Following the completion of the ʿUthmānic canon, the alternative sources of the text were destroyed. This paper will examine the evidence that a Master Copy of the Qurʾan was collected during the Prophet’s lifetime, and whose reading, final arrangement and sequencing was transmitted to its custodian, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib. It is argued that this copy was also used by the committee set up by ʿUthmān. Deviating traditions in the Islamic sources will also be identified to link the reading of Ḥafṣ ibn Sulaymān from his teacher ʿĀsim ibn Abī al-Nujūd to the transmission of the Master Copy and its reading by the Prophet’s family. The case will be made that the reading of Ḥafṣ from his teacher ʿĀsim is the de facto reading of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib from the Master Copy which he inherited from the Prophet Muḥammad.
The Ṣāliḥiyyah School in Qazvīn and Shiʿi Religious Authority, with an Emphasis on Scholars from the Baraghānī Family
Authors: Jahangir Isa
Published: March 2016

This paper introduces the Ṣāliḥiyyah school in Qazvīn, an innovative religious school founded in nineteenth-century Iran which taught both religious as well as academic subjects. Relying on memoirs by the descendants of its founder, Mullā Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Baraghānī, it traces the pivotal role of this seminary in Iranian religious and political affairs, as well as renowned graduates from this school, both male and female. It situates the school in the greater Shiʿi pre-modern debate between Uṣūlism versus Akhbārism, as well as the emerging Bābī movement, and shows how one of the great contemporary Muslim reformers, Sayyid Jamāl al-Dīn Asadābādī, was a direct product of this school.
Didactisation des arts visuels. Vers un nouveau paradigme?
Authors: Morel Maia
Published: March 2016

Tout enseignement exige un travail de didactisation, c’est-à-dire d’adaptation des contenus à enseigner au contexte et aux besoins du public scolaire: cette nécessité s’impose à l’éducation artistique comme aux autres disciplines. Dans un premier temps, et après avoir fourni divers repères historiques sur l’enseignement des arts plastiques, le texte expose quelles formes prend actuellement ce travail de didactisation dans le cas des arts visuels, en donnant l’exemple de quelques systèmes d’enseignement francophones. Il montre ensuite que les évolutions récentes dans le domaine de l’art contemporain remettent en cause cet enseignement tel qu’il est défini dans les programmes scolaires et appellent un changement de paradigme. Quelques pistes sont alors tracées pour permettre la réorientation du travail de didactisation en arts visuels par la priorité donnée au comprendre face à l’ apprendre .
Masculinités, homosexualité et homonationalisme dans Le Dernier Combat du Captain Ni’mat de Mohamed Leftah
Authors: Calargé Carla , Jean-François Emmanuel Bruno
Published: March 2016

Cet article a pour objet d’étude la corrélation entre les formes d’hégémonie culturelle, les types de masculinités et les définitions de la nation qui peuvent en découler dans Le Dernier Combat du Captain Ni’mat , roman posthume de l’écrivain marocain Mohamed Leftah. Dans un premier temps, notre étude cherche à démontrer les convergences de la quête du personnage principal et de l’engagement de l’écrivain en faveur d’une reconnaissance de la liberté sexuelle des individus, considérée comme une revendication déviante et défiante dans une société patriarcale traumatisée par plusieurs défaites militaires. Dans un second temps, cette analyse rappelle les risques plus subtils d’une récupération idéologique et homonationaliste du discours littéraire, dans un certain imaginaire de la mondialisation où la définition occidentale et fortement universalisée de l’homosexualité et des droits humains tend à soutenir des représentations biaisées et orientalistes des sociétés arabes comme incompatibles avec la modernité, la souveraineté nationale et la citoyenneté mondiale.
Une Littérature de l’incertain: Figures de la dégradation dans Bord de canal d’Alfred Alexandre
Authors: Tremblay Emmanuelle
Published: March 2016

Cette étude vise à montrer comment s’effectue la réappropriation d’un legs de souffrance dans Bord de canal (2004) du Martiniquais Alfred Alexandre. Dans ce roman, la communauté décrite offre une métaphore de la nation où la dégradation constitue la violence fondatrice d’une communauté de souffrance. L’analyse dégagera les figures de cette dégradation qui confèrent une dimension non seulement tragique mais aussi politique à la création romanesque. Plus précisément, il s’agira d’illustrer la démarche inhérente à l’œuvre de fiction que l’auteur de la postcréolité range sous le label de “littérature de l’incertain,” tout en montrant en quoi les figures de la dégradation contribuent à l’expression symbolique d’un “dépérissement existentiel” qui pose le problème de la responsabilité de l’écrivain face à la production des inégalités de la société de consommation postcoloniale.
Robert Lepage en cinéaste de la technologie et de la vie postmoderne: La Face cachée de la lune
Authors: Babana-Hampton Safoi
Published: March 2016

L’adaptation de la pièce de théâtre éponyme, La Face cachée de la lune (2003), réalisée par le Québécois Robert Lepage, est un film qui se donne à voir comme l’histoire d’une recherche fervente du poétique, entendue comme une quête de l’humain, dans un univers où prévalent la banalité, le conformisme, le matérialisme, l’anonymat et l’ennui. Montage de récits autoréflexifs et d’univers kaléidoscopiques, ce film entraîne le spectateur dans un périple fantastique où s’opposent et se concilient à la fois le fini et l’infini, le banal et le sublime, le terrestre et le céleste, le familier et le mystérieux. Cette étude est une analyse des procédés formels mis en place dans le film pour favoriser la lecture de l’histoire de Philippe, le personnage principal, comme une réinvention de soi ainsi que de l’expression poétique par le biais du technologique dans le monde contemporain.
Prioritizing Conservation Easement Recruitment Efforts: A Policy-Informed Conservation Assessment of Private Land
Authors: Hardy R. Dean , Hepinstall-Cymerman Jeffrey , Fowler Laurie
Published: March 2016

En los Estados Unidos, los incentivos fiscales, combinados con la importancia ecológica de las tierras privadas están impulsando la expansión de las servidumbres de conservación en poder de los fideicomisos de tierras. Este desarrollo sugiere la necesidad de identificar más métodos eficientes para evaluar el valor de conservación de tierras privadas. Colaboramos con dos fideicomisos de tierras en una evaluación de la conservación de la Alta Cuenca del Oconee en el noreste de Georgia. Se identificaron nueve características de conservación a nivel de paisaje que eran importantes para las misiones de los fideicomisos de tierras. Para ponderar las características de conservación en la creación de un modelo de índice a nivel de parcela, hemos utilizado los criterios del Georgia Land Conservación Program. Fuera de las 32.657 parcelas analizadas, se identificaron 111 parcelas prioritarias que contienen 2–15 por ciento de cada objeto de conservación en la cuenca. Recomendamos estas parcelas prioritarias a los fideicomisos de tierras para su uso en sus campañas de reclutamiento de servidumbre y estrategias de conservación.
The Ring’s the Thing: Elizabeth I’s Virgin Knot and All’s Well That Ends Well
Authors: Peterson Kaara L.
Published: March 2016

This essay explores the Elizabethan cultural construction of the virgin’s ring, construed broadly within various literary, artistic, and historical works. Drawing on medical literature’s negative perspective of virginal bodies, the essay focuses first on the largely unexamined device of the virgin’s ring plot and its pointed relationship to bedtricks in Shakespearean comedy, particularly All’s Well That Ends Well , arguing that the presence of material ring props onstage is deeply informed by the complex cultural understanding of rings as over-determined symbols of both virginity and marital chastity since the advent of the “virgin queen’s” rhetorically invoked “marriage” to England. Turning to the visual arts for examples of portraits that depict rings prominently on their canvases, the essay explains how Elizabethan culture negotiated the queen’s possession of her virgin’s ring even as the aging Elizabeth’s hymeneal integrity threatened to devolve into a useless commodity.
The Imagination’s Arts: Poetry and Natural Philosophy in Bacon and Shakespeare
Authors: Cowan Jacqueline L.
Published: March 2016

This article argues that natural philosophy and poetry were complementary arts in the early seventeenth century. Together these arts harnessed the imagination to discover the natural order and to restore a legitimate model of sovereignty. I delineate this complementary relationship in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Francis Bacon’s Instauratio magna . I argue that Prospero’s ability to bring both fabled creatures and the natural elements under his sovereign rule dramatizes the complementarity between poetry and natural philosophy that Bacon codifies in his natural philosophical reforms.
Incarnational Apophatic : Rethinking Divine Accommodation in John Milton’s Paradise Lost
Authors: Cefalu Paul
Published: March 2016

This essay argues that John Milton’s Paradise Lost reveals both the limits and dangers of several modes of accommodating God to both angelic and human understanding. Not only does God fail successfully to accommodate himself and his internally efficient decrees during the celestial council, but the Son, who might otherwise serve as an agent of the special accommodation of redemption, also fails to accommodate the Father: the Son’s tendency to disclose several of God’s mysteries subverts the basic concealing-revealing function of accommodation, which otherwise aims to render some of God’s ways palatable to creaturely understanding even while ensuring the ontological and epistemological distance between creatures and God. Milton thus approaches accommodation skeptically, even testing its effectiveness and capaciousness as an exegetical device that might be of use in mimetic poetry.
“Here taketh the makere of this book his leve”: The Retraction and Chaucer’s Works in Tudor England
Authors: Cook Megan L.
Published: March 2016

The Retraction to the Canterbury Tales , a text in which Geoffrey Chaucer seems to take leave of writing and perhaps life itself, has long been a textual and interpretive problem for scholars. This essay explores the Retraction ’s absence from editions of Chaucer printed between 1532 and 1721, reading it alongside the 1561 appearance in print of the short poem Chaucer’s Words Unto Adam, His Own Scriveyn . I argue that, during the Retraction ’s absence, Adam Scriveyn came to serve as an alternative scene of authorial leave-taking, and that this allowed for a set of concerns about textual accuracy and a strong desire for authorial control to take the place of the Retraction ’s anxieties about reader response. Both the absence of the Retraction and the special placement of Adam Scriveyn should be accounted for when considering early modern readers’ understanding of Chaucer and his works.
INNOVATION MANAGEMENT: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE ANALYSIS OF THE INNOVATION MANAGEMENT EVOLUTION
Authors: Lopes Ana Paula Vilas Boas Viveiros , Kissimoto Kumiko Oshio , Salerno Mario Sergio , Carvalho Marly Monteiro de , Laurindo Fernando José Barbin
Published: March 2016

Innovation management has been received increasing attention in the operations management field during the last years. Academics and managers have long been discussing the innovation nature and its importance for the organization’s growth and competitive advantage. However, one issue that remains unclear is how to recognize what type of innovation management is necessary for each company or situation. One of the reasons for this issue is the different dimensions to which innovation can be addressed – technological, organizational, process and product, among others. Moreover, the differences between incremental and disruptive innovation lead to different ways of management. This paper examines the literature on innovation management in the last 38 years (1975 – 2013) aiming at identify and classify innovation management models. The methodological approach encompasses bibliometric and content analysis. The results show seven models’ categories: project management, organizational strategy, knowledge management, product management, types of innovation, technological innovation, and open innovation.
USING COST-VOLUME-PROFIT TO ANALYSE THE VIABILITY OF IMPLEMENTING A NEW DISTRIBUTION CENTER
Authors: Etges Ana Paula Beck da Silva , Calegari Rafael , Rhoden Marisa Ignez dos Santos , Cortimiglia Marcelo Nogueira
Published: March 2016

Firms are constantly improving their activities in order to become more competitive. With the diffusion of international competition and easier access to global markets, effective logistic and inventory management strategies become essential to all players. In this sense, there is a clear tradeoff between inventory costs and service level. A common strategy to address this issue is to locate distribution centers (DC) near key markets. However, the decision to build new DCs must be supported by clear and convincing analysis. In this context, this paper reports the use of cost-volume-profit analysis to assess the viability of establishing a new DC by a real company that manufactures radiopharmaceutical products. The researchers collected and analysed detailed financial information from the company and compared the current scenario with potential future scenarios using the cost-volume-profit technique. Next, expected firm profitability is compared for two scenarios: with and without the new DC.
AN IMPROVED METHODOLOGY TO DETERMINE THE WIGGLE FACTOR: AN APPLICATION FOR SPANISH ROAD TRANSPORT
Authors: Domínguez-Caamaño Pablo , Benavides José Antonio Comesana , Prado José Carlos Prado
Published: March 2016

The Wiggle Factor (WF) is a correction factor defined as the ratio between the real distance travelled by road and the straight line between the two points. It is commonly used to estimate route distances for land transport. Though WF is an approximation, certain degree of accuracy is required, because it is frequently used to calculate fuel costs (which represent approximately half of the total truck costs). Performing a statistical analysis with more than 10.000 routes, this article shows that the most common Wiggle Factor (1.2) is not a good approximation for Spanish roads, thus two different WF are presented: the first WF (1.36) characterizes mainly road infrastructure in rural areas while the second WF (1.29) characterizes high-capacity roads (typically motorways). In addition, we present a methodology to easily calculate a WF that can be applied to other countries or specific zones.
ORGANIZATIONAL INTEROPERABILITY IN SUPPORT OF COMPETITIVENESS
Authors: Pereira Elizangela Dias , Salum Maria Inacia Favila , Rodriguez Carlos Manoel Taboada
Published: March 2016

This paper presents a new context in the logistic field of organizations. This concept emerged due to the expansion of the application of the original concept proposed by the area of software development, in which the goal was to enable the exchange of information between different systems in such a way that no extra effort was needed. Therefore, this area of Information Technology (IT) is constituted by the standardization of programming language, commands, data storage format, among others. Eventually, principles that were already quite widespread in the sphere of IT gradually became used in different areas, untilit started being used amongst the business field. Thus, in order to make corporate processes interoperable, it has contributed to approach and facilitate the communication between companies based on some of the principles of the software field, such as standardization, form of communication, frequency of orders…etc. On the logistic field, which actually connects industrial and commercial companies through the flux of material and related information, the inoperability has by goal help on the resolution of problems regarding received and sent information management, fulfilling more rapidly the demands and opportunities of the market. In this context, we intend to define the part of interoperability on organizational competitiveness.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR APPLYING INTERNET OF THINGS IN PRODUCTION SYSTEMS FOR SENSING ENTERPRISES
Authors: Boza Andrés , Cortes Beatriz , Alemany Maria del Mar Eva , Cuenca Llanos
Published: March 2016

Sensing Enterprise is a new concept, which appears with the Internet of Things (IoT) application in industry. This technology applied in production sys- tems provides many benefits like better transparency or real time information. This approach proposes a conceptual framework for IoT application in Production Systems. The aim of this framework is helping enterprises to identify the main el- ements to apply IoT in Production Systems. To create this framework, a literature review has been made and the main components of IoT in Sensing Enterprise in production proposals have been identify. Thus, these elements and its relations have been the source for the conceptual framework proposed.
Combination of Steroids and Azathioprine in the Treatment of Ormond’s Disease – A Single Centre Retrospective Analysis
Authors: Průcha Miroslav , Kolombo Ivan , Štádler Petr
Published: March 2016

We present a retrospective analysis of patients treated in our Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Haematology and Immunology, Na Homolce Hospital, during 1997–2013 for Ormond’s disease. We analyse the clinical history, diagnostic approaches, surgical, and immunosuppressive therapies and their subsequent effect on our patients. 28 patients treated for Ormond’s disease were included. Patients with established disease activity (26 patients) were given immunosuppressive treatment, using corticosteroids in combination with azathioprine. Treatment response was evaluated using clinical symptomatology, inflammatory parameters and imaging methods. In the cohort as a whole, immunosuppressive therapy was applied in 26 patients; in two patients it was not used as no inflammatory activity was found with the disease. In all 26 patients, computed tomography showed that immunosuppressive treatment resulted in partial or complete regression of inflammatory infiltrate. Out of the total number of 26 patients, two patients experienced disease exacerbation 7 and 16 months after the immunosuppressive treatment was discontinued. The longest follow-up period was 16 years; the shortest one was 21 months. Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis – Ormond’s disease – is a disease with serious complications. Standard treatment involves a combination of surgery and immunosuppressive treatment. The combination of corticosteroids and azathioprine represents a potentially safe and useful method of treatment.
On the peakon inverse problem for the Degasperis–Procesi equation
Authors: Mohajer Keivan
Published: March 2016

The peakon inverse problem for the Degasperis–Procesi equation
is solved directly on the real line, using Cauchy biorthogonal polynomials, without any additional transformation to a “string”-type boundary value problem known from prior works.
Computing quasisolutions of nonlinear inverse problems via efficient minimization of trust region problems
Authors: Kaltenbacher Barbara , Rendl Franz , Resmerita Elena
Published: March 2016

In this paper we present a method for the regularized solution of nonlinear inverse problems, based on Ivanov regularization (also called method of quasi solutions or constrained least squares regularization). This leads to the minimization of a nonconvex cost function under a norm constraint, where nonconvexity is caused by nonlinearity of the inverse problem. Minimization is done by iterative approximation, using (nonconvex) quadratic Taylor expansions of the cost function. This leads to repeated solution of quadratic trust region subproblems with possibly indefinite Hessian. Thus, the key step of the method consists in application of an efficient method for solving such quadratic subproblems, developed by Rendl and Wolkowicz [10]. We here present a convergence analysis of the overall method as well as numerical experiments.
Rekurrens glioblastomában szenvedő betegek kezelése bevacizumab-monoterápiával
Authors: Sinkó Dániel , Nemeskéri Csaba
Published: March 2016

Introduction: The prognosis of patients with recurrent glioblastoma is poor, as the median survival does not exceed 6 months. Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of bevacizumab monotherapy in patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme. Method: From April, 2012 to June, 2015, 40 patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme were treated with bevacizumab in a dose of 10 mg/kg every 2 weeks. Results: The average progression-free survival was 6.4 months (2–22 months), and the 6-month progression-free survival was 42.5%. The six-month overall survival was 82.5%, which corresponds to those published in the literature. Conclusions: Bevacizumab monotherapy improves progression-free survival in patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme. Orv. Hetil., 2016, 157(13), 500–503.
Brugada-fenokópia
Authors: Tomcsányi János
Published: March 2016

Brugada phenocopies are clinical entities that are different from the true Brugada syndrome which is a channelopathy. Brugada phenocopy has reversible underlying conditions and, if underlying conditions resolve, the ECG pattern disappears. In this paper the author reviews and illustrates the known Brugada phenocopies. The most important etiologic categories of Brugada phenocopy include metabolic abnormalities (most commonly hyperkalemia), myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism (massive), right ventricular mechanical compression, and others. The most important clinical issue is the different treatment of the Brugada syndrome and phenocopies in order to prevent cardiac death. In Brugada syndrome the implantable cardioverter defibrillator is the only effective treatment, while in Brugada phenocopies early, etiology-specific treatment can prevent cardiac death. Orv. Hetil., 2016, 157(13), 495–499.
A haláloki diagnózisok megbízhatóságának javítása a népegészségügyi hatóság és a Központi Statisztikai Hivatal együttműködésével
Authors: Szücs Mária , Pintérné Grósz Dojna , Sándor János
Published: March 2016

Introduction: The diagnosis of cause of death is based on the sequence of diagnoses declared by the physician who completes the death certificate that is processed by Central Statistical Office in Hungary. The validity control of the data requires the active involvement of the public health authority. Aim: The authors analyzed the death certificates from Tolna county in order to elaborate and evaluate methods for cause of death data validity control. Method: Diagnoses of cause of death declared by the physician, corrected by the social statistical review in the Central Statistical Office, and revised by public health authority were compared to evaluate the quality of cause of death data. Results: It was found that 5–10% of the cause of death diagnoses declared by physicians required some modification, resulting more than 1% change in county specific mortality statistics of the main International Classification of Diseases groups. Physicians who reported inaccurate cause of death data were identified. 10 indicators were defined to monitor the process elaborated in the project. Conclusions: Co-operation between the Central Statistical Office and public health authorities to improve the quality of cause of death data should be continued because evaluation of public health interventions needs more and more reliable and detailed cause of death statistics. Orv. Hetil., 2016, 157(13), 504–511.
Igazságosan vagy testvériesen? Szerzői szerepek és társszerzői részesedések a tudományos publikálásban
Authors: Schubert András
Published: March 2016

In the last decades the share of co-authored and, particularly, multi-authored papers has increased immensely. The paper deals with the causes and consequences of this phenomenon, specifically with those connected with scientometric analyses. Possibilities for fractional count of publications and citations, as well as problems of interpreting h-index and self-citation in case of multi-authored papers are focused upon. Orv. Hetil., 2016, 157(13), 512–516.
Fan-out constraints in quantum dot cellular automata circuit design
Authors: Dey Arijit , Das Kunal , De Debashis , De Mallika , Das Sanjoy
Published: March 2016

In this paper, fan-out constraints are demonstrated for robust and reliable quantum dot cellular automata (QCA) device design. These QCA devices can be used to implement large and complex circuits without affecting the expected result. The tile-based QCA nanostructures are more robust and reliable. In this paper, the Hopfield artificial neural network (HANN) model is proposed to find out the robustness and the reliability of QCA nanostructure devices. This proposed HANN model demonstrates that the tile nanostructures of QCA devices are more robust and reliable for driving multiple fan-outs from a particular QCA device. The Kink energy was used in computing the polarity when considering multiple fan-outs. The tile three-input majority voter, the triple fan-out butterfly tile, the multiple fan-out tile structure and the five-input majority voter are the most robust and reliable structures for solving the fan-out problem in QCA and are described in this paper by the proposed HANN model.
No sólo negros sino "Etíopes": la apariencia oscura de los demonios en la "Vida de Simeón el Loco", de Leoncio de Neápolis
Authors: Fuertes Francisco Javier
Published: March 2016

Este trabajo pretende estudiar las epifanías demoníacas contenidas en la Vida de Simeón el Loco, concentrándose especialmente en una característica común a todas ellas: la apariencia oscura, descrita en ocasiones como etíope, de los demonios en la obra. Tras situar las referencias demonológicas en el contexto narrativo del texto, el autor analiza, desde una perspectiva diacrónica y mediante el examen de paralelos textuales, las distintas tradiciones culturales y hagiográficas que explican y permiten comprender esta apariencia
A noite no imaginário português do final da idade média
Authors: Catarino Lopes Paulo Esmeraldo
Published: March 2016

Durante el giro de la Edad Media a la Edad Moderna, no cabe duda de que todas las acciones a bordo, fueron ejecutados por el marinero o por el almirante, eran inseparables de uno imaginario marcado por la fantasía, visiones y temores, especialmente de la noche oceánica. Un sustrato oscuro donde los factores dominantes no tenía nada cuantificable o medible. Fueron antes algo abstracto, que iba y venía en función de la intensidad emocional de las circunstancias y el peso mayor o menor de un patrimonio cultural que transmite una manera muy especial para detectar y reaccionar ante los fenómenos marino
Tres ámbitos para la intervención normativa urgente por el Consejo Real de Castilla: autos y acuerdos sobre universidad, abogacía e imprenta
Authors: Ezquerra Revilla Ignacio
Published: March 2016

Los autos y acuerdos se definen como disposiciones otorgadas por el Consejo en su doble condición de tribunal supremo y máximo órgano político-administrativo de Castilla. Constituían una suerte de intervención legislativa de urgencia en el espacio de continuidad cortesana, el próximo y el alejado del lugar más permanente de residencia real, ante conflictos o disfunciones no calculados previamente. Si vale el presentismo jurídico, eran un remedo de desarrollo reglamentario de disposiciones de mayor rango. En este trabajo me detengo en los relativos a tres importantes aspectos de la Castilla de los Austrias: Universidad, abogacía, e impresión de libro
Leoneses en cargos de gobierno indianos a finales del siglo XVII
Authors: Sanz Tapia Ángel
Published: March 2016

Entre 1674 y 1700 la Corona española adoptó el sistema del "beneficio" para efectuar los nombramientos de cargos políticos de Indias (gobernadores, corregidores y alcaldes mayores), que consistía en recibir de los aspirantes a funcionarios una cantidad de dinero como donativo para sufragar; las graves y urgentes necesidades de la real Hacienda. Tal práctica afectó en el último cuarto del siglo; XVII a las dos terceras partes de las provisiones para oficios políticos americanos, y supuso unos ingresos al Erario real superior a los 4 millones de pesos. Este artículo analiza, dentro del estudio general de toda la América española, los nombramientos de leoneses que fueron designados para dichos cargos, aunque no llegaran a tomar posesión efectiva
Un sol esplendoroso en León: el judio Hasday de Córdoba (941-956)
Authors: Carriedo Tejedo Manuel
Published: March 2016

El artículo sigue la trayectoria de Hasday b. Saprut, el judío más importante de la decima centuria, por las cortes de Ramiro II, Ordoño III y Sancho I de León y la aparición de la comunidad judía leonesa a mediados del siglo X
Corte, poder e utopia : " o Relox de Príncipes" (1529) de Fr. Antonio de Guevara e a sua fortuna na Europa do século XVI
Authors: Buescu Ana Isabel
Published: March 2016

Antonio de Guevara (1480?-1545) es una figura singular de la cultura ibérica del siglo XVI. La proximidad al emperador Carlos V marcará su trayectoria personal y su producción literaria. La publicación, en 1528, del Libro Aureo de Marco Aurelio, dará comienzo a una carrera literaria que hará de Guevara uno de los autores más leidos y apreciados de la Europa del siglo XVI. Procurando inscribir su carrera vital en la coyuntura histórica de la España de su tiempo, este texto analiza la trayectoria y fortuna del Relox de Príncipes, publicado en 1529, y su irradiación ibérica y europea, con especial incidencia para el caso portugués.