bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Proactive maintenance method for fatigue cracks to steel bridge deck without traffic disruption
Authors: Nakata Ryo , Adachi Yukio
Published: March 2021

Fatigue damage is a major topic in bridge maintenance. The fatigue damage to steel bridge deck has been dramatically increasing since the first fatigue damage was observed in Hanshin expressway in early 2000s. Insufficient knowledge of bridge fatigue design and unexpected increase of traffic demand and heavy vehicle could be the cause of the fatigue damage.

Replacement of base pavement course to steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) has been generally used for strengthening of steel decks; however, the countermeasure from the topside of the bridge deck could make serious traffic disruption. Therefore, reactive and proactive maintenance for such steel decks has not been well progressed so far.

According to the background above, Hanshin expressway has been making an effort on developing new method by strengthening steel deck from the bottom side. The idea of the new method is to enhance fatigue resistance by improving the weld joint between deck plate and U-rib plate. Three potential methods were identified and the effectiveness of those methods was studied in field for making sure of not only fatigue resistance improvement but also field construction.

This paper will introduce the new retrofit methods for steel deck and describe the effectiveness of those methods.
A CREATIVE EXPRESSION OF CELEBRATIONS: RANGOLI
Authors: Thakur Meenakshi
Published: March 2021

Indian art has combined local tradition with outside influences, and has evolved along with a civilization, which has been remarkably innovative in all areas. The art has developed in the courts by the professional artists but folk art has developed in houses, worship places, courtyards, villages, among illiterate race. It is in fact an essential aspect of the celebrations in the family. India is a sub-continent and is composed of people with different cultures, different social customs and traditions and speaking different languages. Yet a stream of unity seems to run through the length and breadth of the country. It is this stream which in spite of all diversity keeps the country united. In Rangoli one can see the aesthetic expression of this unifying stream, with variation in styles and forms in different parts of the country. Rangoli is an Indian traditional - folk art, generally created on a floor on special festive occasions. The origin of this art can be traced to the “PURANAS”. The tradition of Rangoli originated in Maharashtra state and slowly disseminated to other parts of India. Almost invariably these are practiced only by women and take the form of drawings on the floor or on the walls of the house reflecting their creative artistic expressions. Their style and quality depended on the materials available in the place in which they were executed, these very factors that helps to identify the region. In Maharashtra it is called Rangoli, Sathiya in Gujrat, Mandma in Rajasthan, Alpanan in Bengal, Chowkapurna in Madhya Pradesh, Chaitrangana in Maharashtra, Puvidal in Kerala, Muggu in Andhra Pradesh, Rangoli in Karnataka, Kolam in Tamilnadu, Ahapan in Bihar. This decoration is done in every home in the nook and corner of the country though the decorative shapes and designs differ from place to place. The aim is to worship and celebrate the spiritual and divine existence by making the designs beautifully.
COREL PAINTER: FOR THE WHOLE SKETCHING AND COLORING
Authors: Chouhan Manorama , Gupta Sonali
Published: March 2021

Corel Painter is a raster-based digital art application created to simulate as accurately as possible the appearance and behavior of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking. It is intended to be used in real-time by professional digital artists as a functional creative tool. The current version is Painter X3, released on July 2013.Corel Painter emulates the visual characteristics of traditional media, such as oil paint, pastel sticks, air brush, charcoal, felt pens, and other traditional artists' materials on various textured surfaces. Many of these emulated media types work with the advanced features of Wacom tablets. For instance, the airbrush tool in Painter responds to pressure as well as tilt, velocity and rotation. Corel History:
COLOURS IN INTERIOR DECORATION AND VAASTU
Authors: Sharma Rekha
Published: March 2021

Colours are nothing but lights of different frequencies and wavelengths. Every colour is a kind of radiation and so, colours used for walls do have a profound influence on people living in the space. Important aspects such as decision-making, cheerfulness, calmness and vibrancy can be achieved by the right use of colors. Vastu, which is based on principles of energies and radiations, gives precise guidelines about use of colours depending on the directional aspect and usage pattern of the room.Colors according to Vaastu Shastra play an imperative role in bringing balance to our minds as well as bodies and to stimulate our energy. Therefore colors in a Home, Office, Factory, and Shop should be coordinated with the colors of respective planets and elements associated with different directions.Colors have a huge impact on our lives. Colors possess the power to lift our mood, raise our energy levels and increase our productivity. Vastu shastra prescribes certain floor and wall colors for the home to promote prosperity, good health and well-being. Colour scheme is an arrangement or pattern of colors or colored objects conceived of as forming an integrated whole or a combination of colours that has been chosen for a particular room
COLOR'S DELIGHTFUL PORTRAYAL OF THE MELODY OF THE MUSIC BY COLOR
Authors: Verma Vinita
Published: March 2021

That is to say, the vision of different arts, acting Angopag etc. together form a parametra. Because music is the most subtle and emotional feature of all the arts. For example, playing vocal properties or musical instruments in such a way that in terms of proportion, balance harmony, tone, rhythm, the fine vocal combination and melody of a raga-ragini is expressed with the right intensity, volume and variety. Due to the beauty, beauty and liveliness, the painting has been written with special grace and superior than other arts.

अर्थात् विभिन्न कलाओं की दृष्टि, अभिनय अंगोपाग आदि मिलकर एक परमचित्र का निर्माण करते हैं। क्योंकि सभी कलाओं में संगीत ही सबसे अधिक सूक्ष्म एवं भावप्रधान विशेषताओं से अंलकृत हैं। जैसे स्वर के गुण अथवा वाद्य यंत्रो को इस प्रकार बजाना कि अनुपात, संतुलन समरसता आलाप, तान लय ताल की दृष्टि से किसी राग-रागिनी का बारीक स्वर संयोजन और सुरीलापन ठीक प्रबलता, मात्रा और वैविध्य के साथ अभिव्यक्त हो जाये।साथ ही अपने ओज माधुर्य सौन्दर्य तथा सजीवता के कारण चित्रकला को विशेष शोभामय तथा अन्य कलाओ की तुलना में श्रेष्ठ मानकर लिखा गया है
COLORFUL COMBINATION IN INDIAN FILM MUSIC
Authors: Khanwalkar Smita
Published: March 2021

Along with human civilization, arts developed. In the sixty-four arts, music, painting and poetry have special importance. Music-art is also more influential among them. There is no knowledge as much as music is capable of awakening dormant feelings in the heart of man. The expressions which cannot be expressed through pictures, can be expressed through poetry or language, and the expressions which the language is also unable to express, the music can express it easily. It is to say - "Only music is such an art, which is directly related to the audience. It does not require any medium. "Touched by the artist's intimacy, the listener touches the listener's heart and establishes him in the divine world.

मानव-सभ्यता के साथ-साथ कलाओं का विकास हुआ। चैसठ कलाओं में संगीत-कला, चित्र-कला और काव्य-कला विषेष महत्व रखती हैं। इनमें भी संगीत-कला अधिक प्रभाव डालने वाली कला है। मनुष्य के हृदय में सुप्त भावों को जागृत करने में संगीत जितना सक्षम है, उतनी और कोई विद्या नहीं। जो भाव चित्र के माध्यम से व्यक्त नहीं किये जा सकते, उन्हें काव्य या भाषा के माध्यम से अभिव्यक्त किया जा सकता हैं और जिन भावों को व्यक्त करने में भाषा भी असमर्थ रहती है, उन्हें संगीत सहज ही व्यक्त कर देता है।।शाॅपेन हाॅवर का कहना है - ’’केवल संगीत ही ऐसी कला है, जो श्रोताओं से सीधा संबंध रखती है। इसे किसी भी माध्यम की आवष्यकता नहीं होती।’’कलाकार के अंतरंग से छेड़ा हुआ सुर श्रोता के अंतस् को छूकर उसे दिव्य लोक में प्रतिष्ठित कर देता है।
THE COMBINATION OF COLORS IN THE PAINTINGS (WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE PAINTER "RAJA RAVI VARMA")
Authors: Aggarwal Sangita
Published: March 2021

In the illustration, Rajaravivarma, the painter who created Rango's "Sparse Creating Property", was born on 29 April 1848 in Kilimannur. His painting interest was promoted by his maternal uncle, his uncle Rajavarma. Seeing his interest in painting, his maternal uncle was very happy and said, "Nothing comes from just teaching man." Some qualities are inherent in it. I will teach you to make colors, colors are made from leaves, flowers, chemical scenes, many castes and colored soils, but the artist has to find the color of his choice. "

चित्रण में रंगो की ‘‘ स्प्रेस क्रिएटिंग प्रापर्टी ’’ को रचने वाले चित्रकार राजारविवर्मा का जन्म 29 अप्रैल 1848 ई. में किलीमन्नूर में हुआ। उनकी चित्रकला रूचि को उनकी चित्रांकन रूचि उनके मामा राजवर्मा ने बढावा दिया। चित्रकला रूचि को देखकर उनके मामा अत्यंत प्रसन्नचित्त हुये और कहा कि ‘‘मनुष्य को केवल सिखा देने से कुछ नहीं आता। कुछ गुण उसमें पैदाइशी होते हैं। मैं तुझे रंग बनाना सिखाऊॅंगा, पत्ते, फूल, रासायनिक दृव्य अनेक जाति और रंग की मिट्टी आदि से रंग तैयार होते हैं, लेकिन अपनी मर्जी का रंग तो कलाकार को ही खोजना पड़ता है।’’
COLOR COMBINATION IN RAJASTHANI PAINTING
Authors: Pawar Vasundhara
Published: March 2021

"Sumeru in the mountains, Garun among birds, Raja is superior in individuals, in the same way" painting "is considered superior." The name of human perception of feeling is art. Kumar Swamy has said that art not only displays emotions but is also the carrier of spiritual message. The word Kala is mentioned in the eighth circle of the Rigveda. By the time of Mahajanapada period, the counting of 64 arts had begun. The nature of Indian painting is as expansive as its history. The earliest specimens of painting in India are found in prehistoric rock paintings. In which Mirzapur, Bhimvetika and tiger caves are prominent. With the development, beautiful paintings were done in Ajanta caves from the Shung period to the Gupta period in the historical era. The production of paintings on paper began in the 11th-12th century, and most of the pictures related to Jainism were made in Gujarat and its surrounding areas.

‘‘पर्वतों में सुमेरु, पक्षियों में गरुण, व्यक्तियों में राजा श्रेष्ठ है, वैसे ही कलाओं में ‘‘चित्रकला‘‘ श्रेष्ठ मानी गई है।‘‘ मानव की अनुभूतियों की अभिभक्ति का नाम कला है। कुमार स्वामी ने काहा है कि कला केवल भावों का प्रदर्शन ही नही करती अपितु अध्यात्मिक सन्देश की वाहक भी है। कला‘ शब्द का उल्लेख ऋग्वेद के आठवें मण्डल मे मिलता है। महाजनपद काल तक 64 कलाओं की गणना प्रारम्भ हो चुकी थी। भारतीय चित्रकला का स्वरूप जितना प्रशस्त है, उतना ही इसका इतिहास पुरातन है। भारत मे चित्रकला के प्राचिन्तम नमूने प्रागैतिहासिक शैल चित्रो मे मिलते है। जिनमें मिर्जापुर, भीमवेटिका तथा बाघ की गुफायें प्रमुख है।विकास के साथ ऐतिहासिक युग मे शुन्ग काल से गुप्त काल तक अजन्ता की गुफाओं मे सुन्दर चित्रकारी की गयी। कागज पर चित्रों का निर्मण 11 वीं 12 वीं शती मे शुरू हुआ, और जैन धर्म से सम्बन्धित अधिकाॅश चित्र गुजरात और उसके आसपास के क्षेत्र मे बनाये गये।
Perancangan Sistem Akuntansi Persediaan Dan Kartu Gudang Berbasis Komputer Pada Konveksi Tas
Authors: Endrawati  , Surya Firman , Putra Perta R. Widio
Published: March 2021

Bag is one of commodities produced by local industries in Indonesia in general, and in particular western Sumatra. However, the company, has several weaknesses related to the management and recording of inventory such as the lack of segregation of duties and responsibilities by each section, management procedures and record-keeping supplies inadequate and the lack of documents and records that support the transactions related to inventory , This research aims to design a card inventory accounting system and computer-based warehouse that will be applied to the sales system, purchasing system and system of material usage to fit the elements contained in the internal control system. Based on research that has been done, then the inventory accounting system designed in accordance with the elements contained in the internal control systems and computer-based warehouse cards are useful for recording the transfer of inventory stored in warehouse. Besides being able to produce information that is far more accurate than manual recording, computer-based warehouse card is also used in the savings and effectiveness of the use of the document processing time.
Perancangan Warning System Berbasis SMS Gateway Pada Pajak Kendaraan Bermotor Di Samsat Kota Padang
Authors: Rinaldi Dwi Putra Mooduto  , Irman Surya  , Rasyidah Mustika
Published: March 2021

This study aims to design, design, and test information service ased on SMS gateway so that it can help the SAMSAT Padang in improving services on motor vehicle tax collection process. The design of the system to be built, consist of table design, input design, and output design. Tests conducted using test data. The result of this research is the creation of an SMS gateway information system prototype that can provide information to SAMSAT Padang and owner of motor vehicle concerning their vehicle tax obligation.
Pengaruh ROE, EPS, OCF, Size, DER, CR dan Growth Terhadap Kebijakan Dividen Pada Perusahaan Manufaktur di Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI)
Authors: Armereo Crystha , Fitri Rahayu Pipit
Published: March 2021

The objective of this research is to identify the influence of return on equity, earnings per share, operating cash flow, size, debt to equity ratio, current ratio, and growth to dividend payout. Data collected from manufacturing companies that listed on Indonesian Stock Exchange for three years period 2014 to 2016. Sample selected by using purposive sampling method. There are 38 companies meet the criteria and used as sample. The statistical method used in this research is multiple regression. Result of this research showed that return on equity, earnings per share, and growth have influence dividend payout but operating cash flow, size, debt to equity ratio, and current ratio have no influence towards dividend policy.
Penambahan Omzet Usaha Jasa Penjahit Kebaya
Authors: Safitri Pratiwi Luh Putu , Nanik Hendayanti Ni Putu , Putu Suniantara I Ketut
Published: March 2021

Good marketing is one of the important things in the development and addition of income in entrepreneurship. The problem faced in the business of sewing clothes is that partners are not too focused on marketing management. Partners rely more on conventional marketing systems, even though the new location of the partner services business is not too strategic. This causes the field of business is difficult to be recognized by the wider community so that it becomes an obstacle in developing its business. The purpose of this activity is to provide solutions to the problems being faced, namely by implementing marketing management using Facebook pages. With the socialization and marketing management training, it is expected to be able to add insight into the actors in utilizing the internet as an online promotion media to introduce their business fields to the wider community in increasing their business income. The result of this activity was that the Partners were very enthusiastic, both from socialization to evaluation. Assistance with the use of the Facebook pages application is expected to continue to be used in a sustainable manner
NURTURING CONSUMERS‘ GREEN PURCHASE INTENTION ON NATURAL DYES BATIK DURING CRAFT SHOPPING TOUR IN THE BATIK CITY OF PEKALONGAN INDONESIA
Authors:   Universitas Jenderal Soedirman, Purwokerto, Indonesia, Universitas Pekalongan, Faculty of Engineering, Pekalongan, Indonesia, SUNARJO Wenti Ayu , MANALU Vigory Gloriman ,   Universitas Jenderal Soedirman, Purwokerto, Indonesia, Universitas Kuningan, Faculty of Economics, Kuningan, Indonesia, ADAWIYAH Wiwiek Rabiatul ,   Universitas Jenderal Soedirman, Faculty of Economics and Business, Purwokerto, Indonesia
Published: March 2021

Demand on eco-friendly products is burgeoning, as a form adaptation to climate change mitigation strategy. Hence, environmental issues are still considered as an emerging topic that concerns the tourism sector. Planned Behavior Theory (TPB) describes the formation of environmentally friendly behavior intentions in green purchase intentions of natural batik dyes. Data were obtained from 200 visitors who ever purchased natural dyed batik during their craft shopping tours to the city of Batik, Pekalongan Indonesia. The data were further analyzed using the structural equation modeling (SEM) approach. The initial model's calculation results reveal that green subjective norm has no significant relationship on green purchase intention. Furthermore, green product knowledge and attitude positively impact green purse intention of batik products made from natural ingredients. The results showed that INELOC does not moderate the relationship between attitude (ATT) on green purchase intention. Craft shopping tour is becoming popular choice of sightseeing bundling offered by travel agents. Besides its positive value, increasing demand on the handicraft shopping also has a negative consequence on the environment. The destruction occurs as a result of rapid growth in consumption, hence, purchasing environmentally friendly products can be a way to minimize the climate change and balancing the ecosystems. Demand on eco-friendly products is burgeoning, as a form adaptation to climate change mitigation strategy. Realizing that the river pollution can endanger people's health, MSMEs have started producing batik with natural dyes. Although the number of MSMEs that produce natural dyed batik products is not high, the Pekalongan City Government is continually socialize the importance of reducing chemical waste and river pollution. These findings have important implications for marketers and policymakers of natural dye batik.
LONDON MAGAZINE «LIBERATION WAY» AND ITS PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF UKRAINIAN JOURNALISM ABROAD
Authors: Tymoshyk Mykola
Published: March 2021

One of the leading Western Ukrainian diaspora journals – London «Liberation Way», founded in January 1949, has become the subject of the study for the first time in journalism. Archival documents and materials of the Ukrainian Publishing Union in London and the British National Library (British Library) were also observed. The peculiarities of the magazine’s formation and the specifics of the editorial policy, founders and publishers are clarified. A group of OUN members who survived Hitler’s concentration camps and ended up in Great Britain after the end of World War II initiated the foundation of the magazine. Until April 1951, including issue 42, the Board of Foreign Parts of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists were the publishers of the magazine. From 1951 to the beginning of 2000 it was a socio-political monthly of the Ukrainian Publishing Union. From the mid-60’s of the twentieth century – a socio-political and scientific-literary monthly. In analyzing the programmatic principles of the magazine, the most acute issues of the Ukrainian national liberation movement, which have long separated the forces of Ukrainian emigration and from which the founders and publishers of the magazine from the beginning had clearly defined positions, namely: ideology of Ukrainian nationalism, the idea of ​​unity of Ukraine and Ukrainians, internal inter-party struggle among Ukrainian emigrants have been singled out. The review and systematization of the thematic palette of the magazine’s publications makes it possible to distinguish the following main semantic accents: the formation of the nationalist movement in exile; historical Ukrainian themes; the situation in sub-Soviet Ukraine; the problem of the unity of Ukrainians in the Western diaspora; mission and tasks of Ukrainian emigration in the context of its responsibilities to the Motherland. It also particularizes the peculiarities of the formation of the author’s assets of the magazine and its place in the history of Ukrainian national journalism.
Josep Carner, "Poems" (1962). Notes sobre l’antologia bilingüe de Pearse Hutchinson
Authors: Ortín Marcel
Published: March 2021

L’any 1962 Pearse Hutchinson, traductor de poesia a l’anglès i a l’irlandès i poeta ell mateix, va rebre l’encàrrec de fer una antologia bilingüe de la poesia lírica de Josep Carner, per a donar suport a la candidatura de Carner al Premi Nobel de Literatura. El propòsit d’aquestes notes és subratllar la importància de l’obra que en va resultar, Poems. S’hi dona ordenada la informació disponible sobre la gènesi del llibre, completada amb unes quantes dades inèdites; i s’hi descriuen breument les preferències de Hutchinson com a antòleg i traductor.
Social Representations of Digital Health Technology in different contexts: Why People Keep or Quit Using It?
Authors: Escriva-Boulley Géraldine , Bernetière Camille , Préau Marie , Paquienseguy Françoise , Leroy Tanguy
Published: March 2021

Objectives: The use of digital health technologies (DHT) is increasingly ubiquitous in intervention studies aimed at reducing health risks or improving the management of chronic diseases such as cancer. However, although DHT clearly show promises for a variety of applications, one third of users quit using DHT less than six months after the purchase, which may limit their effectiveness. This study aims to identify social representations (SR) of DHT, and to highlight why individuals adopt or are reluctant to adopt DHT, as well as the reasons for their drop-out.Methods: Five focus groups were lead with 18 participants (Mage = 43.72 years, Women = 13) whose personal uses of DHT were heterogeneous and controlled. They completed three tasks designed to elicit a wide range of SR of DHT.Results: Results showed that individuals’ concerns about DHT were focused on four themes: 1) health versus well-being purposes, 2) price, 3) data protection and, 4) difficulties for the elderly. The main reason for adopting DHT was that their use met a need, an interest. Most participants made a fairly strong distinction between the DHT which promote health and those promoting wellbeing. Reasons for reluctance and drop-out were related to a lack of knowledge, information, transparency and mastery.Conclusions: These findings may help DHT designers to understand what kind of information are needed and relevant to users. This study also highlights users’ SR of DHT, as well as their expectations and fears which should be taken into account when implementing interventions.
Seeing nature from low to high levels: Mechanisms underlying the restorative effects of viewing nature images
Authors: Menzel Claudia , Reese Gerhard
Published: March 2021

Nature can benefit human well-being and cognitive function. Merely watching images of nature compared to urban scenes, which differ in many lower-level processed properties, can have such effects. In two studies, we investigated the roles of lower- and higher-level processing on restorative effects evoked by nature and urban-related stimuli. In addition to nature and urban photographs, we used 1) versions that lack spatial information but retain certain image properties including those on regularity (i.e., phase-scrambled images), 2) line drawings that contain spatial information and thus allow for higher-level processing while lacking many diagnostic lower-level processed properties, and 3) words that lack any diagnostic image properties but allow higher cognitive processing and provide a mental image of the environment. We examined restoration after participants viewed either original, phase-scrambled, or line drawing versions of nature and urban images (Study 1), or nature- and urban-related words (Study 2). Although nature and urban scenes differed in several image properties, these did not evoke differences in perceived restoration when presented with phase-scrambled images. However, higher-level processing (i.e., recognizing the environment) led to stronger perceived restoration effects for nature compared to urban stimuli (original images, line drawings, and words). These findings contradict assumptions of nature-specific image properties explaining restorative effects and, therefore, have implications for current theories in the field.
Magic and empiricism in early Chinese rainmaking -- A cultural evolutionary analysis
Authors: Hong Kevin
Published: March 2021

Protocols aimed at rainmaking have been a recurrent sociocultural phenomenon across societies and back into history. Given the scientific understandings of precipitation indicate that such protocols were likely entirely ineffective, why did such rainmaking protocols repeatedly emerge and persist, sometimes over millennia even in populations with writing and record keeping? To address this puzzle, many scholars have argued that these protocols were not instrumental at all, and that their practitioners were not really endeavoring to bring them. Here, taking advantage of the wealth of historical records available in China, we argue to the contrary, that rainmaking is best viewed as an instrumental, means-end activity, and that people have always placed strong emphasis on outcomes of such activities. To account for persistence of rainmaking, we then present a set of cultural evolutionary explanations, rooted in human psychology, that can explain why people’s adaptive learning processes did not result in the elimination of ineffective rainmaking methods. We suggest that a commitment to a supernatural worldview provides theoretical support for the plausibility of various rainmaking methods, and people often over-estimate the efficacy of the rainmaking technologies because of statistical artefacts (some methods appear effective simply by chance) and under-reporting of disconfirmatory evidence (failures of rainmaking not reported/transmitted).
Nature as a Healer against Anthropocentric Disposition in Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain
Authors: Baral Raj Kumar
Published: March 2021

In her novel Fire on the Mountain, Anita Desai, by making her characters burn the images related to the ill and superstitious law of the anthropocentric world, intends to revere the natural world, which for her possesses healing capacity to revive the dying identity. Nanda Kaul, the protagonist and her great-granddaughter, finds pleasure with nothing else but with the barrenness, stillness, calmness and voice of silent breeze and music of nature itself. The fresh air of the quiet breeze in the naturally painted house wins the heart of the protagonist over the stale air of the electric fan in the artificially painted house. By utilizing theoretical ideas of ecofeminism in communication with deep ecology, the article concludes that the proper tribute to nature is possible when hierarchies between human and non-human blur and biocentric world view exists.
Dynamics of meaning-making in Nepali-English bilingual interactions
Authors: Vasseur Julian
Published: March 2021

A growing proportion of Nepali speakers settled in urban areas who were educated through English-medium boarding schools present a tendency to use numerous English expressions along with Nepali in their daily interactions. This is also the case in some specific socio-professional environments such as TV and radio entertainment broadcasts made for the latest generations. The speakers make use of a variety of discursive resources for expressive purposes. The combinatory properties of such mixed language practices allow them to construct meaning in order to fit the requirements of particularly demanding social interactions, where most speakers exhibit the knowledge of a complex linguistic repertoire. The purpose of this article is to introduce the sociolinguistic context of contemporary urban Nepalese society, based on the most recent studies which have attempted to apprehend the role of English in Nepal today. A brief analysis of several examples of interactions extracted from a media corpus is also presented to make visible the mechanisms of meaning-making in a conversation where the two participants alternate Nepali and English.
Diversity Management in Classroom: Exploration of Teacher's Role
Authors: Sherpa Dawa
Published: March 2021

Nepal is a country of diversity in terms of ideological, cultural, religious, caste, geographical and sexual orientation, ethnicity, class and language. Diversity is not merely a problem, it is an opportunity for exploring creativity of individuals who have cultural, racial, and ethnic differences. In this context, this study aims to explore the role of teacher in diversity management in the classroom. I chose purposive sampling to identify the participant for my study. Headteacher, teacher and the students are the participant in my study. Multicultural education, Fair treatment and respect of differences are key for living diversity. Differences of the individuals need to addressed inside and outside the classroom. Diversity is the property of the school from which teacher and students learn different idea information and knowledge form the diversified students in his school. Diversity need to celebrate in the school in the different functions.
POINTS CLOUD PRE-PROCESSING AND SAMPLING BASED ON DISTANCE ALGORITHM TECHNIQUE
Authors: M. Al-Bdairy Ali , A. A. Al-Duroobi Ahmed , A. Tawfiq Maan
Published: March 2021

Although the rapid development of reverse engineering techniques such as a modern 3D laser scanners, but can’t use this techniques immediately to generate a perfect surface model for the scanned parts, due to the huge data, the noisy data which associated to the scanning process, and the accuracy limitation of some scanning devices, so, the present paper present a points cloud pre-processing and sampling algorithms have been proposed based on distance calculations and statistical considerations to simplify the row points cloud which obtained using MATTER and FORM 3D laser scanner as a manner to obtain the required geometrical features and mathematical representation from the row points cloud of the scanned object through detection, isolating, and deleting the noised points. A MATLAB program has been constructed for executing the proposed algorithms implemented using a suggested case study with non-uniform shape. The results were proved the validity of the introduced distance algorithms for pre-processing and sampling process where the proficiency percent for pre-processing was (18.65%) with a single attempt, and the counted deviation value rang with the sampling process was (0.0002-0.3497mm).
FLEXURAL BEHAVIOR OF REINFORCED LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETE BEAMS MADE WITH ATTAPULGITE AND ALUMINUM WASTE
Authors: A. Mirza Zahraa , N. Khalid Nibras
Published: March 2021

Lightweight concrete reduces the total dead load of structural elements and seismic loads significantly. This paper presents the production Attapulgite Lightweight aggregate concrete (ALWAC) and its effect on the flexural behavior of reinforced concrete beams. Attapulgite was treated with sodium hypochlorite of 6% concentration for 24 hours. The variable considered was the aluminum waste (AW), used as a fiber, of fraction (0, 0.5 and 1%) by concrete volume. Behavior was investigated in terms of cracking and ultimate load, load-deflection relationship, failure mode, crack patterns and flexural ductility. The mechanical properties of the ALWAC were studied. It was observed that, Attapulgite improves the mechanical properties of concrete when comparing the experimental value with theoretical ones for the reference mixture. AW has a disparate effect on the mechanical properties of ALWAC. The increase in the proportions of AW showed an increase in the cracking load and decrease in the ultimate load by 37.14% and 22.45 %, respectively, at AW of 1%. Experimental value of ultimate load in all beams was higher than the theoretical value (ACI simplified method). AW increases the deflection at the same magnitude of applied load, and reduces the number and propagation of the flexural cracks in beams. All beams exhibited a typical tension failure mode and failed in ductile manner.
Rastros para una historia omitida de la minificción brasileña
Authors: Cechinel Francilene
Published: March 2021

La minificción brasileña es todavía un territorio a explorar. El incipiente interés editorial y académico por tales textos y el hecho de que las pocas antologías e investigaciones existentes abarquen apenas las producciones más recientes, propagan la idea de su reciente surgimiento y desarrollo en Brasil. Mientras tanto, entre las primeras experimentaciones con la hiperbrevedad y la microficción de la “generación de 90”, es posible encontrar rastros de una historia no contada. Este artículo reconstituye los caminos de la minificción brasileña entre las décadas de 60 y 80, resaltando el trabajo precursor de Elias José, Péricles Prade, Marina Colasanti y Adrino Aragão y buscando entender por qué la minificción de tales autores fue y continúa siendo omitida por la crítica literaria brasileña.
Microfictions de Régis Jauffret: apoteosis y perversión de un género.
Authors: Squarzina Anna Isabella
Published: March 2021

Este trabajo estudia algunos rasgos característicos de Microfictions de Régis Jauffret (Gallimard, 2007) que representan asimismo unas convenciones o vínculos típicos de los textos breves: el título, el ‘efecto recopilación’, el listado, la unidad, la pointe o chute (el final sorpresivo), el empleo del pronombre on, con el fin de analizar en qué manera Jauffret ‘pervierte’ estas convenciones. Algunas son características propias de los textos breves en general, mientras que otras son específicas del microrrelato. Detrás de los juegos basados en las convenciones de este género se detecta un rasgo constante: unos fenómenos de enunciación que pretendemos describir. Rompiendo estas convenciones de la microficción, sobrepasando y transgrediendo los límites que esta literatura à contrainte se impone a sí misma, nos asombra con unos textos cuya brevedad sirve esencialmente a amplificar los fenómenos enunciativos. Obligándonos a identificarnos, suscitando unos fenómenos de dialogismos, abatiendo nuestras defensas, graba nuestra piel con el cincel del moralista. Sus microrrelatos son asimismo meta-microrrelatos. Por otra parte, el hecho de ser marcadamente metaliterario es el destino de cualquier obra summa y ser a la vez la apoteosis de una forma, su cuestionamiento y su superación.
La presencia de Don Quijote de la Mancha en la microficción argentina
Authors: Remiro Fondevilla Sonia
Published: March 2021

Don Quijote de la Mancha ha ejercido una influencia fundamental a lo largo de la historia de la literatura, y lo sigue haciendo con los microrrelatos, un género actual y a priori tan apartado de sus características definitorias. Las historias y los personajes conocidos por los lectores permiten hacer elipsis a los microrrelatistas argentinos para centrarse en otros propósitos: rebatir, homenajear o intentar cambiar la historia original. Asimismo, los juegos de verdad-ficción de la novela cervantina también encuentran un lugar perfecto para seguir apareciendo en este nuevo género.
La técnica de despertar y seguir soñando. Lo onírico y lo fantástico en los microrrelatos de Ángel Olgoso (2007-2015)
Authors: Marques Viana Ferreira Ana Sofía
Published: March 2021

Es en el juego asociado a la indefinición y disolución de barreras entre realidad y ficción, realidad y sueño, realidad y fantasía que encontramos en Olgoso el motor de un prolífico homenaje a varios tópicos de la tradición literaria en su acepción más global. Entre ellos, nos interesa el recurso a los mundos hipotéticos como mecanismo de ruptura con una normalidad y estabilidad cotidianas y su consecuente efecto de desazón y zozobra en el lector. En este estudio proponemos un análisis a los mecanismos de inclusión de lo onírico y su relación con lo fantástico en microrrelatos de Olgoso que manifiesten esta relación, presentes en Astrolabio (2007), La máquina de languidecer (2009), Los líquenes del sueño (2010), Las frutas de la luna (2013) y Breviario Negro (2015) y ver cómo esa incorporación implica una acentuación de los efectos de conmoción producidos por lo fantástico, conduciendo a una poética del desencanto.
Entre lo micro y lo macro: hacia una tipología empírica del libro de aforismos como género de discurso
Authors: González José Ramón
Published: March 2021

La consideración del aforismo como género con entidad propia oscurece el hecho de que este rara vez se ofrece ante el lector como un texto autónomo y autosuficiente. El aforismo, en su funcionamiento social, suele presentarse agrupado series o recogido en libros de aforismos. El libro de aforismos viene a ser así el espacio verbal en el que viven los aforismos singulares, y en este trabajo se avanza, partiendo de un amplio corpus de libros de aforismos españoles publicados en los últimos treinta años, un esbozo tipológico que permite desvelar la complejidad y la riqueza de un género de discurso que ha alcanzado un nuevo auge en los últimos tiempos.
Tomás Segovia y el poema en prosa
Authors: De Orduña Fernández Nuria
Published: March 2021

En el presente trabajo examino el género del poema en prosa en la obra del escritor hispanomexicano Tomás Segovia. Para ello me centro en sus libros Historia y poemas (1958-1967), Anagnórisis (1964-1967), Figuras y melodías (1973-1976), Partición (1976), Cantata a solas (1983) y Orden del día (1986-1987), en donde el poema en prosa aparece como parte fundamental de la estructura compositiva de cada uno de ellos. Este género le sirve al poeta para presentar tanto la experiencia interior, como para describir la realidad circundante, pero también como  estructura narrativa. Por otra parte, analizo algunos ejemplos de  minificciones que se incluyen en sus libros de relatos. Mi propósito es mostrar la porosidad de los límites entre el poema en prosa y otras tipologías textuales en la obra segoviana.
Le miniature romane di Marie Luise Kaschnitz
Authors: Lozzi Gioliano
Published: March 2021

Partendo dalla predilezione di Marie Luise Kaschnitz per il racconto breve (Das dicke Kind, 1952), il contributo si propone di analizzare, su un piano formale, alcuni estratti dalla raccolta di riflessioni romane che la scrittrice intitola Engelsbrücke. Römische Betrachtungen (1955). Nei suoi “sguardi su Roma” Kaschnitz unisce la topografia di Roma a delle immagini narrative che, per brevità e intensità, rimandano al racconto breve piuttosto che alla narrativa di viaggio. Dalla fusione tra narrazione e immagine topografica nascono delle brevi forme prosastiche inedite, che definiremo “miniature”, nelle quali Kaschnitz mostra la propria abilità di narratrice e di poetessa.
Oralidad, minificción e historieta entre el Caribe y la Patagonia: Anancy y Kuanip
Authors: Sigot Matías
Published: March 2021

El trabajo se centra en el abordaje de las historias populares de Anancy (Costa Rica) y de Kuanip (Argentina) desde los protocolos de lectura de la minificción: Anancy, el Hermano Araña, es un personaje popular recurrente en los relatos costarricences, que Joice Anglin Edwards recogió en forma de microrrelatos bilingües, ilustrados por Eugenio Murillo Fuentes, en Anancy en Limón. Cuentos afro-costarricenses (2002); Kuanip pertenece a la tradición Selk’nam —pueblo aborigen fueguino—, recogida en forma de historietas brevísimas en las Leyendas de la Tierra del Fuego (2015), de Germán Pasti, Omar Hirsig y Federico Rodríguez (Patagonia Argentina). Considero las potencialidades de la minificción —tanto en la historieta como en el microrrelato— como vehículo que recupera esta literatura colectiva, popular y de tradición oral. Por último, realizo algunos aportes en relación con los soportes visuales de la ilustración y de la historieta.
Literatura, ilustración y cine: Los microrrelatos de La melancólica muerte del Chico Ostra de Tim Burton.
Authors: Eguren Hernández Carlos Javier , Romero Morales Yasmina
Published: March 2021

La melancólica muerte de Chico Ostra es una colección de veintitrés microrrelatos acompañados de una serie de ilustraciones de su autor: Tim Burton, director de cine conocido por películas como Eduardo Manostijeras (Edward Scissorhands, 1990), Big Fish (2003) o La novia cadáver (Corpse Bride, 2005).
Puede que más desconocida resulte su faceta como escritor de microrrelatos y poemas como el que inspiró su primer cortometraje, Vincent (Tim Burton, 1982), Pesadilla antes de Navidad de Tim Burton (Nightmare before Christmas, Henry Selick, 1994) o la obra que nos ocupa La melancólica muerte de Chico Ostra.
Como en la mayoría de la obra del artista estadounidense, lo visual ocupa un lugar muy importante en su trabajo, también en el literario, donde, a menudo, sus piezas escritas se ven complementadas con dibujos simplistas, pero con un estilo propio de trazo irregular que evoca las figuras tétricas del cine de Burton.
En este trabajo analizamos la conexión entre los microrrelatos poéticos de Burton y sus ilustraciones.
El surrealismo al servicio de la minificción: El fantasma de la libertad, de Luis Buñuel
Authors: Castells Molina Isabel
Published: March 2021

En este trabajo pretendemos analizar la función que el formato minificcional desempeña en El fantasma de la libertad, de Luis Buñuel. Compuesta por una serie de cortometrajes que se encadenan a través del azar, el humor y el sueño, la película exhibe una estructura propia de los “relatos integrados”. Nuestro propósito es analizar cómo este tipo de estructura puede aplicarse al medio audiovisual, prestando atención a estos cortometrajes tanto de forma autónoma como en el conjunto de la obra a la que pertenecen. Para ello, tendremos en cuenta la trayectoria global de Luis Buñuel, literaria y fílmica, en relación a las propuestas del surrealismo, movimiento que abordaremos desde una perspectiva interdisciplinar. El fantasma de la libertad, dentro de la estética de la brevedad, se sitúa en una encrucijada en la que convergen cine, pintura y literatura, lo que convierte, una vez más, a Luis Buñuel en un autor plenamente moderno.
De la pincelada individual a la "pincelada colectiva" en Red en el "artivismo": evolución de la expresión de denuncia social
Authors: Rodríguez Velasco María , Mazo Salmerón María Elena
Published: March 2021

El arte siempre ha sido instrumento de comunicación, adaptándose a las distintas plataformas de expresión de cada época. A partir de las pinceladas de Goya y Picasso, primero con carácter velado y después de forma explícita, se pueden advertir, siguiendo el método iconológico, los precedentes de las propuestas del “artivismo” de hoy en cuanto a la exposición de denuncia social. En este estudio se realiza un análisis comunicativo, partiendo de la resignificación de los muros de los palacios, proporcionando un contexto que lo diferencie del marco mediático cotidiano. En un primer momento interesa considerar esta actividad artística como expresión comunicativa privilegiada. Estos mensajes se incorporan a los nuevos medios de expresión y se les dota de un halo de excelencia que los distingue del ámbito mediático.
En un segundo plano se aporta un punto de vista comunicativo funcional, al considerar el arte como un vehículo de expresión de la crítica social. Estas obras podrían ser consideradas las huellas de los que importan -desde los reyes hasta los colectivos inconformistas-, pero sin el significado habitual de reproducción de lo establecido. Por último, se proporcionará una visión global de este peculiar proceso comunicativo cuyo objetivo es la protesta y sus herramientas experienciales y digitales son las diferentes formas de expresión artística que nuestra sociedad de hoy ofrece. En este sentido se analiza su función disruptiva, la creación y emisión de estos mensajes, su valor como «bandera» de la denuncia social, y la eficacia comunicativa que lo caracteriza. Este fenómeno plantea en la actualidad nuevos soportes para conseguir viejos objetivos de la sociología del conflicto. La “pintada colectiva” del “artivismo” queda con este trabajo dibujada por las dos disciplinas que lo afectan, el arte y la comunicación y, en nuestro siglo, será la comunicación digital la que proporcione el marco de interacción que estas formas de expresión necesitan.
Aperturas y cierres del aforismo mexicano: Eusebio Ruvalcaba y Armando González Torres
Authors: Gatica Cote Paulo
Published: March 2021

El aforismo contemporáneo concentra en poco espacio algunos de los grandes debates de la teoría literaria. Los límites genológicos han sido traspasados y fecundados por un nuevo concepto de frontera entendida como espacio de experimentación formal y estructural. Como bien puede comprobarse en los últimos creadores de aforismos, este tipo de textos oscila entre una visión clásica del aforismo y poéticas de la discontinuidad y de la fragmentación. Concretamente, en el presente artículo me centraré en la aforística de los mexicanos Eusebio Ruvalcaba y Armando González Torres, quienes, además de trascender el carácter cerrado de este género en sus libros, juegan con las posibilidades significativas de la macroestructura.
Monstruos (metafísicos) en Cuentos malvados de Espido Freire
Authors: Rodríguez Samuel
Published: March 2021

Los noventa y nueve “ramalazos” que componen Cuentos malvados son “un esbozo abstracto en la nada” sobre monstruos invisibles, angustiosos, capaces de hacer tambalear e incluso desmoronar los cimientos de la razón. Esos monstruos representan fobias, pesadillas nocturnas y diurnas, que remiten a diferentes rostros del mal. Así, las siete secciones desarrollan un particular monstruo metafísico (“El agua”, “Ángeles”, “Las voces”, “Arañas y mariposas”, “El espejo”, “Los cuentos” y “Dentro del laberinto”) en el que cada microrrelato se ofrece como una urna claustrofófica del mal para el personaje y el lector, atrapados en un laberinto sin salida.
Ecos de Anfitrión y tradición gótica en Manderley en venta de Patricia Esteban Erlés
Authors: Núñez de la Fuente Sara
Published: March 2021

Patricia Esteban Erlés presenta en Manderley en venta (2008) nuevas formas y significaciones del mito de Anfitrión relacionados, a su vez, con la novela Rebecca (1938) de Daphne du Maurier. Estos ecos y vínculos intertextuales se observan en el cuarto relato del volumen, “Historia de una breve alma en pena”, en el que la niña protagonista se ve forzada a suplantar la identidad de la hermana de su padre que murió cuando tenía siete años. También se observan en “Habitante”, donde la nueva inquilina de una casa adquiere la identidad de la mujer que habitó en ese mismo lugar antes de morir. Asimismo, “Línea 40” está protagonizado por un enfermo de cáncer que cambiaría su vida por la de cualquiera para evitar la muerte. Además, el afantasmamiento de los personajes recuerda a Los ingrávidos (2011), la primera novela de la escritora mexicana Valeria Luiselli, con la que se pueden establecer comparaciones.