bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Histórias em quadrinhos produzidas por alunos de ensino médio: identificando sentidos e indicadores de alfabetização científica
Authors: Fochi dos Santos Maria Bethânia de Siqueira Leite , Bortoletto Adriana Bortoletto , Kondarzewsky Isabel Cristina de Castro
Published: April 2022

Pesquisa realizada em uma escola rural do Vale do Paraíba, Estado de São Paulo (Brasil), avaliou como as histórias em quadrinhosproduzidas por alunos podem ser analisadas por meio da análise de discurso e indicadores de alfabetização científica. Como resultado,constatou-se que os alunos não reconhecem os conteúdos da Física como importantes para a explicação dos fatos do cotidiano, alémdas questões de gênero relacionadas às ciências. Ficaram evidentes também os poucos indicadores de letramento científico que puderamser encontrados nos textos produzidos pelos alunos, o que sugere graves lacunas de aprendizagem em ciências.
Um estudo acerca da linguagem como facilitadora das aulas de Física para alunos com deficiência visual
Authors: Hallais Sofia , Vilar Artur Batista , Barbosa-Lima Maria da Conceição
Published: April 2022

Nosso objetivo neste estudo foi pesquisar como a linguagem pode facilitar a aprendizagem desses estudantes. Nos remetemos nabusca de algumas alternativas de comunicação que possuam a finalidade de dar condições à uma participação total e efetiva do alunocom deficiência visual, das quais se destacam: audiodescrição, exploração dos sentidos remanescentes, bem como a utilização demúsicas e poesias com temas voltados para a Física, Química e Biologia, permitindo a implementação de intervenções trans e interdisciplinaresque envolvam as Ciências Sociais, a Educação Socioambiental ou qualquer outra área do conhecimento. A fim de corroborarcom esta estratégia de ensino, buscamos alguns referenciais, como Vygotsky e Bakhtin, que realçam a importância de ampliar, atravésda linguagem, as habilidades funcionais destes alunos.
Aprendizaje Activo de la Física y análisis de Rasch para circuitos eléctricos mediante physlets
Authors: Mora César , Moreira Marco Antonio , Meneses-Villagrá Jesús Ángel
Published: April 2022

Mostramos algunos resultados de investigación en educación en física sobre análisis de Rasch y aprendizaje activo de circuitos eléctricos utilizando physlets, con estudiantes de educación media superior del Instituto Politécnico Nacional de México. Las metodologías de aprendizaje activo son importantes, porque existen buenos resultados en la literatura sobre su implementación en diferentes niveles educativos. Además, el utilizar physlets es una forma de innovar la clase de física, y el modelo de Rasch nos ayuda a apreciar los avances que tienen los estudiantes en sus conocimientos sobre circuitos eléctricos, al utilizar una metodología de enseñanza activa en el aula.
Os jogos no ensino da física: uma proposta sobre o consumo de energia elétrica
Authors: Pasuck Benassi Cassiane Beatrís , Bonfante Bório André , Strieder Dulce Maria
Published: April 2022

O presente artigo tem o objetivo de discutir sobre a utilização de jogos no ensino de física, os quais podem ser utilizados como um recurso que auxilia positivamente nos processos de ensino e de aprendizagem, tornando as aulas mais dinâmicas e participativas. A pesquisa possui uma abordagem qualitativa, com a apresentação de uma proposta de ensino relacionado ao consumo de energia elétrica, baseada em um jogo de tabuleiro com cartas que contêm questões que variam de níveis e que são associadas a atitudes e práticas do cotidiano do estudante. Tal pesquisa considera o jogo uma ferramenta de apoio didático, utilizando-se de abordagens ativas como norteadoras do processo de ensino. Além de ser uma ferramenta lúdica, a utilização dos jogos proporciona a investigação de situações-problemas, a avaliação de aplicações do conhecimento científico e tecnológico e suas implicações no mundo.
Los desafíos de la evaluación en el formato de enseñanza virtual en una Física introductoria
Authors: Villegas Myriam Villegas , Arce Adriana Arce , Lucero Ana Paula , Benegas Julio Benegas
Published: April 2022

El desafío de acompañar a los estudiantes en la no presencialidad y la adhesión a la evaluación formativa hicieron que buscásemosestrategias para revisar y reorientar la evaluación en la materia Introducción a la Física, de la Licenciatura y Profesorado en Física y del Profesorado en Matemáticas. Presentamos un primer análisis de los resultados obtenidos, tanto desde el punto de vista del aprendizaje conceptual de los temas tratados en la materia, como los logros en la verbalización de los problemas evaluados y el análisis de videos. Se presentan también los resultados de una encuesta de opinión sobre el sistema evaluativo utilizado, así como sobre el trabajo en grupo en los exámenes parciales.
Creación de un prototipo de realidad virtual sobre mecánica rotacional en el ballet mediante la investigación basada en diseño
Authors: Herrero-Villarreal Diana
Published: April 2022

La realidad virtual y el aprendizaje basado en juegos tienen gran potencial para una enseñanza de la física que trascienda la transmisióndel conocimiento. En un contexto de educación a distancia como el de la Universidad Estatal a Distancia de Costa Rica, donde la mayoríade estudiantes son mujeres, tomando en cuenta la Educación CTIAM, desde una enseñanza de las ciencias con enfoque de género sedecide retomar una rama feminizada del saber para enseñar física: el ballet. Mediante la metodología de la investigación basada en eldiseño, se estructura un proceso interdisciplinario en colaboración con un espacio Maker de la UNED el FabLab Kätrare, para desarrollarun prototipo de realidad virtual y abordar dos temas de mecánica rotacional en el ballet: relación entre el centro de masa y el equilibrioestático y conservación del momento angular. Se desarrolla un prototipo de una aplicación de realidad virtual inmersiva, filmada concámara 360°, que incorpora animaciones, explicaciones teóricas, demostraciones de ballet y un espacio de Juego. El prototipo puedeincorporarse en procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje a distancia de tipo aprendizaje basado en juegos.
Una revisión sistemática sobre las experiencias lúdicas para la enseñanza de física y química en la escuela media
Authors: Araoz Marcelo , Olguín Valeria
Published: April 2022

Desde una concepción constructivista, el alumno que realiza experiencias prácticas mejora su rendimiento académico. Se hipote-tiza además que el uso del juego como estrategia didáctica colabora con la creatividad y factores emocionales. El presente estu-dio de revisión sistemática tiene por objetivo analizar el estado de situación respecto al uso de laboratorios lúdicos en la ense-ñanza de la física para la educación media. Además, se consideró pertinente incluir artículos de la enseñanza de la química por cercanía temática. Se analizaron artículos nacionales e internacionales que abordan la temática, utilizando la metodología PRISMA-NMA. Se relevaron 22 trabajos de investigación en español pertenecientes a cinco reconocidas bases bibliográficas. Los resultados dan muestra en todos los casos de los beneficios sobre el uso de experiencias lúdicas. En este sentido, se observa que las prácticas de laboratorio lúdicos pueden favorecer el proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje de la física y la química. Se concluye que estos artículos revelan la importancia de continuar investigando y profundizando el uso de experiencias lúdicas en el aula.
Simuladores digitais no contexto epistemológico de Gagné e Vygotsky: uma proposta de intervenção didática sobre eletricidade e circuitos elétricos
Authors: Ferreira Marcello , Filho Olavo L. S. , Strapasson Alexandre , Oliveira Portugal Khalil , Maciel Ane Caroline
Published: April 2022

Este artigo apresenta uma proposta de intervenção didática, usando como referenciais teóricos Robert Gagné e Lev Vygotsky, envolvendo a utilização de simuladores experimentais como recurso didático. Tais referenciais são harmonizados entre si e, dessa harmonização, emergem importantes elementos ao processo de ensino e aprendizagem em física. A utilização de simula-dores leva em consideração o crescente uso das Tecnologias Digitais da Informação e Comunicação pelos estudantes na cultura digital, bem como sua relevância ao desenvolvimento de habilidades sociointeracionistas, que formam eixo central da perspecti-va de Vygotsky. A intervenção didática sugerida trata do tema eletricidade e construção de circuitos elétricos, como exemplo prático de aplicação de simuladores no processo pedagógico. Além disso, condizente com o referencial teórico adotado, é utili-zado o conceito de Zona de Desenvolvimento Proximal, para avaliação tantos dos estudantes, quanto da didática do professor.
Importance of the peer review process in scientific publications - proposed way of working for a new journal
Authors: SESTRAS Paul
Published: April 2022

Typically, in scientific publications, peer review processes are used to maintain the quality standards of the research activity and its results presented in manuscripts submitted for publication, to improve performance, relevance and give them credibility. The peer review helps the publisher (editor-in-chief and editors, respectively the editorial board) decide whether the submissions should be accepted, considered acceptable with revisions (minor or major), or rejected. For many journals, all manuscripts submitted are subjected to a double-blind peer-review process, in which the authors and reviewers’ identities are kept secret from each other. The goal of double-blind peer review is for submitted papers to be judged on their scientific merit alone, and thus reducing publication bias (minimizing bias) and protecting identities. The double-blind peer-review model implies that the author's name and affiliation are not revealed to reviewers, and, in turn, the reviewers' name or any other information is never disclosed to the author or other reviewers of the manuscript. In order to ensure the quality of the publications, editors require that the reviewers have expert knowledge in their fields of research and have authored a substantial number of peer-reviewed publications. The selection of reviewers is the responsibility of the editor-in-chief, the editors and the editorial board, respectively.
Evacuating Vulnerable People During a Tsunami Disaster in Japan: A Simulation Using Wheelchairs
Authors: OHTSU Nobuhito , HOKUGO Akihiko
Published: April 2022

Safe, rapid evacuation during natural disasters is particularly challenging for people who are vulnerable and/or need assistance. This study evaluated the feasibility of an evacuation route from a residential area to a designated destination for wheelchair-bound people and their caregivers. Thirteen individuals participated in an evacuation simulation in which they pushed wheelchairs carrying individuals from a start point to a designated destination along a specified route. The simulation was implemented on September 9, 2018, between 9:00 AM and noon. The weather was recorded hourly. Individuals in the wheelchairs were weighted to equal the average weight for Japanese men aged ≥65 years. The route comprised three sections: two were within the predicted tsunami inundation zone and one was on higher ground. The gradients, distances, and altitudes of the three sections were determined using official documentation. Participants were videotaped as they traversed the route, and their speeds and times recorded as the wheelchairs crossed from one section to the next. Immediately upon reaching the destination, participants completed a questionnaire assessing the physical effects of the activity. The route was 280.6 m long with a total vertical increase of 13.9 m. Mean total transit time was 3 min 25 s, and the mean time taken to evacuate the predicted tsunami inundation zone (at 210.2 m) was 2 min 15 s. All participants’ speeds were slowest in the third section, which had the steepest gradient (11.14%). Ten participants reported moderate difficulty, difficulty pushing, and sweating. Nine participants reported shortness of breath. The results support use of the evacuation destination during a predicted earthquake tsunami ≥8 m high at landfall.
Particularitati ale marketingului educational in mediul rural din Romania
Authors: Ţurcanu Cristina
Published: April 2022

In aceasta lucrare privim educatia din mediul rural din perspectiva marketingului, o descompunem in elemente ale mixului de marketing si indreptam atentia cercetatorilor si factorilor de decizie catre complexitatea conditiilor in care se desfasoara invatamantul rural, incurajam reflectarea asupra unor actiuni sustenabile ca parte integranta a procesului de evolutie sociala intrucat o educatie incluziva si de calitate pentru toti, fara bariere de acces, disparitati, segregare scolara, reprezinta un element esential al dezvoltarii durabile. Scopul lucrarii este acela de a identifica masuri eficiente de imbunatatire a sistemului educational din mediul rural ce determina cresterea calitatii educatiei copiilor din acest mediu considerat defavorizat.
Aspecte teoretice privind imbunatatirea relatiilor cu clientii, ed a II-a revizuita si adaugita
Authors: Pascu Emilia
Published: April 2022

Anterior aparitiei managementului relatiilor cu clientii, clientii nu erau considerati de catre companii „tinte in miscare”. In prezent pietele sunt extrem de dinamice, cu segmente si nise al caror profil evolueaza permanent. In conditiile date, Managementul Relatiilor cu Clientii mizeaza pe atragerea si retentia de clienti profitabili, prin intermediul dezvoltarii de relatii pe termen lung si prin stimularea loialitatii clientilor, permitand firmelor sa‑i inteleaga pe clienti, sa‑l „izoleze“ pe cel mai bun client (dorim sa avem o relatie de lunga durata cu el), sa creeze o relatie reciproc avantajoasa pe termen lung cu acestia. Noile posibilitati oferite de tehnologia informatiei sustin fundamentarea celor mai potrivite strategii de dezvoltare a relatiilor cu fiecare client din cadrul portofoliului companiilor.
O USO DE SERVIÇO RESTFUL PARA GERENCIAR E GERAR CONTEÚDO TURÍSTICO PARA APLICATIVO MÓVEL
Authors: Xavier Maycon Rayone Rodrigues , Silva Francisco de Assis da , Almeida Leandro Luiz de , Pereira Danillo Roberto , Pazoti Mario Augusto
Published: April 2022

Nowadays there is a great technological evolution making it fundamental to provide information for different mobile devices with differently developed platforms. This evolution has given to the tourist area the expansion of its means of communication through all the technological media available. However, because it is a gigantic area and has different solutions for different situations, there is a large amount of data that needs to be filtered, so it has become slow to use a variety of solutions that search for destinations, verify reputation and create an itinerary. We look for with this work as a way to solve this demand the development of a computational solution that centralizes all tourist information. A mobile application and a Web Service were built that, through the Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture, uses transfer protocols to communicate. The results obtained demonstrate a significant efficiency of response time and agility in relation to the other solutions discussed. All data were validated in the laboratory based on a real case study in a small tourist town.
Prediction of Indoor Environmental Quality Using a Regression Model for Educational Buildings in Hot Arid Climate: A Case Study in the Al-Najaf Technical Institute – Iraq
Authors: Al-Isawi Rawaa H. K. , Al-Zubaidi Hussein A. M. , Idan Intidhar Jabir , Scholz Miklas
Published: April 2022

In hot climates, achieving a good indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in existing buildings is important especially with climate change challenges as future heat waves will increase in frequency, duration, and intensity. In educational buildings, there is much more focus on the IEQ parameters and the interactions among them that need to be in line with the continuously changing learning environment. This study assesses the IEQ parameters (represented by noise, temperature and humidity) at three selected campus areas (lecture rooms of an administrative department building (LR), main hall of a management department building (MH) and a central library building (CL)) at the Al-Najaf Technical Institute (NTI), Al-Najaf City, Iraq, for the period from May to December 2019. A statistical analysis using a multi-linear regression model was performed to determine the relationship between the selected IEQ parameters and explain the noise level behavior as a function of the temperature and relative humidity. The research indicated that the noise levels and temperature values exceeded the maximum standard limits in all buildings reflecting the displeasing sound and heating quality within the studied areas, while the readings for relative humidity within each building environment complied with standards. Moreover, for both LR and MH buildings (R2 ≥ 0.8, significance F ≤ 0.01), the noise values were satisfactorily modeled by temperature and relative humidity highlighting the interactions between temperature, humidity and noise under consistent conditions. However, the results for the CL building (R2 = 0.6, significance F = 0.1) showed no relationship between the IEQ parameters, highlighting the fact that this building is exposed to unsteady conditions (an irregular number of people using this building during the daytime) resulting in a high variation of data measurements. The current results demonstrate that detailed modeling can be helpful to predict IEQ parameters depending on other known parameters in buildings. The results of the predictive model aligned with the directly measured data. Therefore, its performance is equally effective, but with a significant reduction in cost and time consumed.
Experimental Study for the Effect of Additives Silica Fume on the Properties of the Synthetically Contaminated Soil
Authors: Hadi Nabaa S. , Awadh Huda H. , Khalil Amal H.
Published: April 2022

This paper aims at studying the impact of the reaction that occurs between contaminants present in the soil and silica fume added on the chemical, physical and mechanical properties of the soil. The soil samples were contaminated in the laboratory with nickel nitrate (Ni(NO3)2). Silica fume (SF) was added to three different ratios (3%, 5%, and 10%). Several laboratory experiments were conducted to study soil characteristics before and after adding silica fume to the contaminated soil. The results revealed that the increment percentage of liquid and plastic limits was obtained with an increase in the percentage of silica fume additive to the nickel-contaminated soil. Notably, the maximum dried densities were decreased by increasing silica fume ratios to the nickel-contaminated soil, while the optimum water content increased with increasing silica fume ratios to the nickel-contaminated soil. The value of organic matter for soil samples was roughly equal numbers ranging from 3.33% to 4.07% (i.e., no change in the organic matter for soil samples mixed with different ratios of silica fume). The coefficient of consolidation (Cv) increased from 0.0026 in a soil sample that was contaminated with nickel ions at a concentration equal to 750 mg/kg without adding silica fume to 0.0755 in a soil sample contaminated with nickel ions at a concentration of 750 mg/kg mixed with silica fume at a ratio of 5% and then decreased to 0.00531 in a soil sample contaminated with nickel ions at a concentration of 750 mg/kg mixed with silica fume at a ratio of 10%.
Chronic Toxicity Testing with Daphnia magna in Three Generations
Authors: Olkova Anna
Published: April 2022

This work shows the informativeness and predicted value of multigenerational testing on Daphnia magna Straus on exposure of 75 days in comparison with standard bioassays for chronic toxicity on exposure of 21–24 days. D. magna were exposed in water polluted with strontium chloride (1 and 2 mg Sr/L). No acute toxicity (death within 96 hours) and chronic toxicity (mortality and fertility within 24 days) were observed. In 50 days of the experiment, mortality of crustaceans was more than 30%, and fertility decreased by 2 times (P < 0.05). In 75 days of the experiment, mortality of the experimental daphnia was above 90%, and most of the individuals did not reproduce. The effects intensified in subsequent generations F2 and F3. In the third generation, the number of juveniles in 24 days of exposure (2 mg Sr/L) was only 9% of the control value (P = 0.03); then the juveniles did not appear. We also noted an increase in the number of abortive eggs and dead juveniles in generations F2 and F3 compared with F1. The totality of the observed effects testifies the delayed toxic effect of strontium. Delayed mortality and reduced fertility of the remaining individuals in a series of generations threaten the existence of the population of organisms. Therefore, chronic toxicity testing using D. magna is a method for detecting and predicting loss of biodiversity in the environment.
Lack of Association Between HMGB1 Gene Polymorphism and Risk of Henoch–Schönlein Purpura in Childhood
Authors: Peng Zhaoyang , Xue Qingxia , Li Wei , Hu Xiaoling
Published: April 2022

Background: High-mobility group box-1 (HMGB1), a nuclear protein, plays an important role in the pathogenesis of Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP). In a Chinese child population, the correlation between susceptibility to HSP and genetic variation in the HMGB1 gene and also the relationship between HMGB1 gene polymorphism and clinical heterogeneity of HSP were investigated. Methods:: We analyzed two HMGB1 tag single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs; rs3742305 and rs9508752) in 182 HSP patients and 202 healthy controls using the matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry method. Results: There were no significant differences between HSP patients and controls in the frequency of alleles, genotypes, and haplotypes of HMGB1 SNPs. In addition, there was a slight association between HMGB1 gene polymorphisms and the clinical manifestations of HSP. Conclusions: It is suggested that the variation of the HMGB1 gene was not highly correlated with the susceptibility of Chinese children to HSP.
And God Said
Authors: Hoyle Joe ,   After Dinner Conversation
Published: April 2022

How would the world change if God implanted the simple phrase, “You have no enemies” into everyone living person on earth, simultaneously? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, an impossible thing happens, every living creature on earth, from people to the animals, simultaneously have a phrase from God implanted into their minds. Everyone hears it, and no one doubts it is from God. The phrase is “You have no enemies.” While the basic nature of people does not change, many other things do. Wars become less common; discrimination becomes almost non-existence. People are kinder to each other and, while they still disagree, they do so in a civil way. Atheism is non-existent overnight. The question is, if this really did happen, would this really be the result?
The Wrong Shampoo
Authors: Kusmenko Amber ,   After Dinner Conversation
Published: April 2022

What are the problems of dating some older than yourself? How do you know if the differences are related to age, or something else? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, Brady is dating her former college professor, Jeff. Jeff, unlike Brandy, has been out in the “real world” and worked for a living. Their relationship is just starting and Brandy is given a simple task, “buy shampoo for the weekend trip they, and Jeff’s friends, are going on.” This starts the ball rolling on Brandy’s insecurities about what kind of shampoo to buy? What do people with money buy? When she arrives to meet his friends, things don’t go much better as Brandy feels like an outsider and makes social mistakes because she is not accustomed to living in the out of college world. In the end, Jeff falls asleep on the couch and leaves Brandy to sleep on the floor, due to lack of space. Did he do this on purpose, or is Brandy simply reading too much into the entire experience?
The Seven Absent Sins
Authors: Ahlgrim Nathan ,   After Dinner Conversation
Published: April 2022

Is sin inherent in choice? Is sin simply a social construct or a function of limited resources? In this work of philosophical short fiction, there are 89 species in the Galactic Confederation of Intelligences and earth, as a way to protect its culture from being overrun by outside influence, has shut itself off from them. However a Jesuit Priest has decided to lock himself away with a copy of Encyclopedia of Sentient Species to try and better understand other species and to determine if there are other species that lack the ability to sin. In this pursuit, he painstakingly goes through and finds examples of species without the sin of Wrath, another without the sin of Lust, and so on. He is, however, unable to find any species without the sin of Pride.
Bound
Authors: Hoyt Joanna Michal ,   After Dinner Conversation
Published: April 2022

How do societies shift away from being a nation of gods and omens to one of rules and law? Is this the natural evolution of civil society? In this work of philosophical short fiction, a woman traveling along the river comes across an older man, the “Lord Keeper” with a tied-up boy he is about to kill after three days. The boy, it seems, learned the secrets of the community as part of his duties to become the new “Lord Keeper.” The secret of the community is that, in times long past, the society decided to, literally, brick their stone god up to be kept away from the community and to, instead, become a nation of laws, rather than a nation of seeking god’s favor. However, the “Lord Keeper” is designated, each day, to visit the caged god. This is why the new, “Lord Keeper” was scheduled for death, he learned the secret of the community as part of his training and was planning to tell the community of the long forgotten god they had caged away.
Structural-Epistemic Interdisciplinarity and the Nature of Interdisciplinary Challenges
Authors: Bărboianu Cătălin ,   Romanian Academy - Iasi Branch
Published: April 2022

Research on interdisciplinarity has been concentrated on the methodological and educational aspects of this complex phenomenon and less on its theoretical nature. Within a theoretical framework specific to the philosophy of science, I propose a structural scheme of how interdisciplinary processes go, focusing on the concepts of availability of the methods, concept linking, and theoretical modeling. In this model, the challenges interdisciplinarity is claimed to pose to its practitioners are of the same nature as the challenges scientists encounter within the evolution of their own disciplines.
Ontological Solutions to the Problem of Induction
Authors: Hatef Mohammad Mahdi ,   Romanian Academy - Iasi Branch
Published: April 2022

The idea of the uniformity of nature, as a solution to the problem of induction, has at least two contemporary versions: natural kinds and natural necessity. Then there are at least three alternative ontological ideas addressing the problem of induction. In this paper, I articulate how these ideas are used to justify the practice of inductive inference, and compare them, in terms of their applicability, to see whether each of them is preferred in addressing the problem of induction. Given the variety of contexts in which inductive inferences are made, from natural science to social science and to everyday thinking, I suggest that no singular idea is absolutely preferred, and a proper strategy is probably to welcome the plurality of ideas helpful to induction, and to take pragmatic considerations into account, in order to judge in every single case.
Alston, Aristotle, and Epistemic Normativity
Authors: McCraw Benjamin W. ,   Romanian Academy - Iasi Branch
Published: April 2022

Alston (2005) argues that there is no such thing as a single concept of epistemic justification. Instead, there is an irreducible plurality of epistemically valuable features of beliefs: ‘epistemic desiderata.’ I argue that this approach is problematic for meta-epistemological reasons. How, for instance, do we characterize epistemic evaluation and do we do we go about it if there’s no theoretical unity to epistemology? Alston’s response is to ground all epistemic desiderata, thereby unifying epistemology, in truth and truth-conduciveness. I argue that this move over-unifies epistemology, in effect, giving us a single criterion for epistemology on par with the epistemology-by-justification approach he rejects. Perhaps surprisingly, we find a similar theoretical worry in Aristotle’s argument about the science of metaphysics. Aristotle’s resolution in this problem by the ‘analogy of being’ provides a parallel framework to resolve the worries with Alston’s approach. In particular, I argue that we can focus epistemic evaluation on the person of epistemic virtue: this category will be focal, unifying the disparate desiderata, without reducing to one thing all epistemic values or relations that desiderate must bear to the central value. A virtue-centric account of epistemic normativity follows: one that can remain genuinely pluralistic and yet unified as well.
Names and Naming
Authors: Stojnić Una , Lepore Ernie ,   ProtoSociology Project
Published: April 2022

Our focus is in this paper is in answering the question what is required of interlocutors in order for them to pick up a word, and use/apply it successfully. Putting our cards on the table, our answer will be not much.
Transparent and Opaque Contextual Sensitivity
Authors: King Jeffrey C. ,   ProtoSociology Project
Published: April 2022

Lots of contextually sensitive expressions appear to have context invariant meanings that do not by themselves suffice to secure semantic values for those expressions in context. For example, suppose I say 1. She is smart. where I do not demonstrate any female, I don’t intend that some female is the semantic value of my use of ‘she’, no female is uniquely salient in the context of utterance, and no female has been under discussion. It would appear in such a case that the context invariant meaning of ‘she’ does not secure a semantic value in context for my use of ‘she’, resulting in infelicity. After all, what would that semantic value in context be? This appears to show that the context invariant meaning of ‘she’ does not by itself secure semantic values in context for it. The class of expressions that are like ‘she’ in this respect is quite large. It arguably includes simple and complex demonstratives, tense, expressions taking implicit arguments (‘Molly is ready.’), gradable adjectives, quantifiers, ‘only’, possessives, conditionals, modals and more. I call these expressions supplementives to highlight the fact that their context invariant meanings need to be supplemented in context for them to secure semantic values in context. I claim that supplementives differ from each other in the following two ways: 1. The degree to which normal speakers are explicitly aware that the expression is contextually sensitive. 2. The degree to which ordinary speakers are explicitly aware of what sort of semantic value in context the expression takes. I hold the view that semantic values in context for supplementives are fixed by recognizable speaker intentions. However, I argue that given the differences between supplementives with respect to 1 and 2, the intentions fixing the semantic values in context of supplementives that differ with respect to 1 and 2 will themselves be different, while still all being speaker intentions that some entity o be the semantic value of the use of the supplementive in context.
Globalization, Secularization and Collective Identities
Authors: Liwerant Judit Bokser ,   ProtoSociology Project
Published: April 2022

The diverse and paradoxical nature of globalization processes has given rise to new social constellations that shape transnational, national and local spaces. The historicity of identities, their past and present conditions, the changes they went through, the ways they influence the feeling of full membership in a community and the differentiation derived from cultural diversity and pluralism underscore the need for revisiting theoretical explorations. This paper addresses past and present social, cultural and religious processes in an era of transformations derived from the complexity of today’s interconnected world and on the light of historical encounters. The need for revising the singularity of social and cultural trajectories and the religious trends gravitating in society is approached through snapshots of a twofold historical encounter: between Modernity and Latin America, and between Judaism and Modernity. Both express entrenched dilemmas of the binaries periphery-center and universal-particular. While one of them raised the issue of the dominant program of Modernity as a Western project, the other was entailed in the assumptions of one hegemonic religious constellation.
Globalization Discourse
Authors: Robertson Roland ,   ProtoSociology Project
Published: April 2022

Set in the immediate context of the recent UN conference on climate change (COP 2021) in Glasgow and the sudden emergence of the variant, Omicron, this paper involves discussion of the present state of discourse concerning globalization in the broadest sense. It begins by contrasting the approaches and substance of two specific books: Globalization Matters by Manfred Steger and Paul James and Grave New World by Stephen King. The difference between the two books is brought into sharp relief by the economism of the book by King and the multidimensionality of the volume by Steger and James. More generally, these recent books are chosen because they are almost complete opposites, the central difference being the adamant optimism about globalization in Globalization Matters and the extreme pessimism and negativity in Grave New World. It is also very important to emphasize the wide ranging and penetrative character of Globalization Matters compared with the latter. Also invoked is recent and very significant work by Dipesh Chakrabarty. Two themes are claimed here to be neglected, namely global history and the concept of glocalization. Attention is also drawn to the crucial omission of the fact that much of globalization talk began in the fields of religious study and theology. The disparity between these two latter fields of study and mainstream social science and conventional history is given attention. The contributions of other crucial commentators to the overall debate, Lovelock and Latour, are also invoked. The focus by Steger and James, on the one hand, and Chakrabarty on the other, on the Anthropocene is given attention. Overall, the article concludes by placing the global-local problematic at the centre of what is called here globalization discourse.
desafio cético moderno refletido no Argumento da linguagem Privada: uma interpretação da leitura de Saul Kripke das Investigações Filosóficas de Wittgenstein
Authors: Vollet Lucas Ribeiro
Published: April 2022

No artigo a seguir, exploramos a leitura de Kripke do argumento da linguagem privada. Nossa leitura afirma a seguinte linha de pensamento: o paradoxo cético sobre as regras que Kripke acreditava ter rastreado neste argumento se conecta com a velha questão cética da modernidade (David Hume), e dá à obra de Wittgenstein um distanciamento reflexivo para pensar sobre as condições em que um quebra-cabeça semântico pode ser resolvido. Argumentaremos que a resposta envolve uma mudança pragmática que termina definitivamente as ligações de Wittgenstein com o problema da "proposição" e o substitui por outro. Nossa visão é a de que a reflexão de Wittgenstein sobre os jogos de linguagem propõe um substituto pragmático para "proposições" que possa proteger a consistência das regras na predição do significado e das condições de verdade. O curso reflexivo do artigo passará pela filosofia da linguagem de Gilbert Ryle e seu conceito de erros categoriais. Finalmente, mostraremos solidariedade com a interpretação de Robert Brandon de Wittgenstein.
Analogy: the universal switch of Schopenhauerian thought
Authors: Batini Ugo
Published: April 2022

Often perceived by its contradictors as the main fragility of its system, analogy constitutes however a driving element of the development of Schopenhauerian metaphysics, and makes it possible to avoid the pitfall of theoretical egoism in which any idealistic philosophy can sink. We will try to show, in accordance with the indications of paragraph 19 of The World as Will and Representation, how Schopenhauer understands the totality of the phenomena "by analogy with our body" and establishes the structure of his masterpiece from this analogical dynamic that puts in motion the primitive intuition of his thought.
Tetraspanin co029 expression as a tumor biomarker for monoclonal antibodies preparation: antigenic assessment in colorectal cancer cells
Authors: Coutinho Lucelia , Corsini Camila , Assis Jessica , Pedrosa Maria Luysa , Jeremias Wander , Santos Viviane , Cabral Monica , Mesquita Ana Sofia , Viviani Matheus , Nogueira-Rodrigues Angelica , Grenfell Rafaella
Published: April 2022

Introduction: The identification of innovative cancer biomarkers is a very relevant ongoing quest. Moreover, their role in cancer diagnosis and clinical management has been radically changed in the last few years with the major emphasis on cancer molecular classification, therapeutic target identification, and therapeutic protocol responsivity. tetraspanins are a family of transmembrane proteins correlated with tumor stage, tumor type and patient outcome affecting cell growth, morphology, invasion, and metastasis.

Methods: We expressed the 31kDa transmembrane human tetraspanin co029 antigen in Escherichia coli expression host cells using Gateway® platform. Western blotting and ELISA techniques, together with gene sequencing, confirmed the identity of TSP co029 recombinant protein. Forty clones producing antibodies against TSP co029 were obtained. These antibodies were incubated with human colorectal cancer cells in different conditions. ELISA and immunohistochemistry were also performed.

Results: The expressed tetraspanin had an appropriate conformation and antigenic integrity to produce antibodies with affinity to the native TSP co029 biomarker. The affinity of the purified recombinant protein and antibodies were confirmed by western blotting, florescent staining of human colorectal cancer cells in fluorescence and confocal microscopies and by ELISA and immunohistochemistry.

Conclusion: Our data showed that the recombinant protein and antibodies produced in this study allowed the confirmation of tetraspanin co029 protein presented on the surface of human colorectal cancer cells.
Percepción discente de una materia matemática
Authors: Delgado Pineda M. , Reviriego Batres A.
Published: April 2022

Este trabajo es un complemento discente a la memoria académica de la experiencia evaluadora desarrollada en la asignatura, Lenguaje Matemático, Conjuntos y Números, del grado de Matemáticas en el curso 2020-21 del grado de Matemáticas de la Universidad Nacional de educación a Distancia, UNED. En la Enseñanza No Presencial ocurre que la forma de evaluar condiciona la forma de estudiar de muchos estudiantes y esto se particulariza en la opinión de un estudiante que se vio afectado por ese sistema experimental de evaluación. También se recoge en este trabajo las creencia personales del estudiante sobre la enseñanza actual y las ideas personales de lo que es aprenden Matemáticas. Estas reflexiones son fruto de una interiorización personal que le han permitido evolucionar desde la autoformación hacia la cooperación en el marco de la enseñanza a distancia.

Abstract

This work contains a student complement to the academic memory of the evaluation experience developed in the subject, Mathematical Language, Sets and Numbers, of the degree of Mathematics in the course 2020-21 of the degree of Mathematics of the National University of Distance Education, UNED. In non face-to-face teaching, it happens that the way of evaluating conditions the way of studying of many students, and this is particularly reflected in the opinion of a student who was affected by this experimental evaluation system. This work also includes the student's personal beliefs about current teaching and personal ideas about what it is to learn Mathematics. These reflections are the result of a personal internalization that has allowed him to evolve from self-training to cooperation within the framework of distance learning.
Agustín-Luis Cauchy: El rigor en la Matemática
Authors: De María González J. L.
Published: April 2022

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El uso de video-tutoriales en la docencia de Matemáticas Financieras. Una valoración con PLS-SEM
Authors: Valls Martínez María del Carmen , Martín Cervantes Pedro Antonio , Sánchez Pérez Ana María , Martínez Victoria María del Carmen
Published: April 2022

La pandemia de Covid-19 ha afectado a todos los ámbitos de la vida, incluida la educación. Las universidades se han visto obligadas a impartir sus clases en un entorno semipresencial u online, lo que ha llevado a los profesores a adaptar sus metodologías tradicionales de enseñanza-aprendizaje. Los profesores de la asignatura Matemáticas de las Operaciones Financieras de la Universidad de Almería (España) han creado video-tutoriales para que los alumnos puedan pre-parar de forma autónoma la parte teórica de la asignatura, dejando las clases presenciales para los ejercicios prácticos. Este artículo pretende analizar la eficacia de los video-tutoriales y la autonomía que finalmente consiguen los alumnos en su aprendizaje. Para ello, se ha realizado un cuestionario en el que, a través de 21 preguntas, se han evaluado los constructos Autonomía, Eficacia, Profundidad, Formato, Reto y Uso. A partir de estas seis variables latentes, el modelo propuesto mediante la metodología de Modelización de Ecuaciones Estructurales por Mínimos Cuadrados Parciales (PLS-SEM) reveló que los estudiantes consideraban que el Formato y la Profundidad de los video-tutoriales eran cruciales para un aprendizaje realmente efectivo en su desempeño y para promover su autonomía. En cambio, las variables Reto y Uso fueron mal valoradas. Este artículo presenta un modelo de valoración original, que tiene la virtud de lograr una predicción del 78,6% y, además, tiene un alto poder predictivo.
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected all walks of life, including education. Universities have been forced to teach in a blended or online environment, which has led professors to adapt their traditional teaching-learning methodologies. The professors of the subject Mathematics of Financial Operations at the University of Almeria (Spain) have created video tutorials so that students can autonomously prepare the theoretical part of the subject, leaving the face-to-face classes for the practical exercises. This article aims to analyse the effectiveness of video tutorials and the autonomy finally achieved by students in their learning. For this purpose, a questionnaire was carried out in which, through 21 questions, the constructs Autonomy, Effectiveness, Depth, Format, Challenge and Use were assessed. Based on these six latent variables, the proposed model using the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) methodology revealed that students considered the Format and Depth of the video tutorials crucial for genuinely effective performance learning and promoting their autonomy. On the other hand, the variables Challenge and Use were poorly rated. This article presents an original valuation model, which has the virtue of achieving a prediction of 78.6% and, in addition, has high predictive power.
Sociology of Miracles: Holy Images
Authors: Liutikas Darius
Published: April 2022

The article analyses the social expressions of miraculous images. The focus is on the social interactions and functional interfaces of these images. The article also discusses the sociological concept of miracles, the tradition of crowning images, and the importance of religious souvenirs with copies of images. The author uses narratives and examples related to miraculous images in Lithuania. Miraculous and holy images are an important part of the social life of believers. In this article, images are analysed as social actors. They help to create miracles, as well as various social connections and networks. They define daily and festive times and encourage commercial activities that ensure the spread of their power and influence. Their celebrations of honour and exaltation (for example, coronation rites) become important social events, and their stories (biographies) become a field of research for historians and art critics. The person interacts with the social construct of the image, the representation they have created. Such a relationship with a miraculous image can last temporarily or permanently and manifests itself in reciprocal exchanges (requests, promises, and votive offerings versus miracles and graces). Religious souvenirs and devotionalias become spiritual and social mediators between the believer and the image, between the believer and the community. Socially empowered miraculous images manifest themselves in national culture and take root in the collective memory. The maintained connections between the image and the believers inevitably create various rituals and devotional practices, which the Catholic Church also seeks to control. Along with the narratives being created and disseminated, devotional practices help to empower the image. The abundance of narratives increases the popularity of the image until it is finally officially recognised as miraculous and usually crowned by the Catholic Church. While, on the one hand, such recognition also implies increased official control, on the other hand, the image consolidates its power and becomes part of a communal (regional or national) identity. The Catholic Church also appreciates the geographical space of the miraculous image: the churches become basilicas, as if increasing the significance of the place. The world of miracles is multi-layered and open to various interpretations. Theologians, psychologists, anthropologists, or philosophers have different ideas and theories on how to explain the phenomenon of miracles. Most importantly, despite scientific advances and technological development, the miracles continue to exist in modern society. For the believer, they are signs of God that affect their lives, and for the unbeliever, the phenomena of miracles are explained by various theories. In any case, miracles are a social fact that gives rise to social phenomena, which require further and deeper research.
Auditoria interna como ferramenta de gestão para as empresas
Authors: Batista Junior Juarez Vilela , Paula Anderson Nery da Silva de , Silva Anderson Santos da
Published: April 2022

Com todas as mudanças que ocorrem no mundo corporativo devido a globalização e a competitividade que está cada vez maior, é de suma importância que os administradores busquem ferramentas que sejam capazes de auxiliar no controle das organizações. Por conta disso, a atividade de auditoria interna passou a fazer parte das empresas modernas. Dessa forma, o objetivo geral do trabalho foi compreender as contribuições da auditoria interna como ferramenta de apoio para à gestão empresarial. A metodologia utilizada no presente trabalho compreendeu em uma Revisão Bibliográfica sobre o tema proposto, no qual essa foi dividida em três capítulos: primeiro se explicou a evolução, definição e tipos da auditoria contábil, em seguida se descreveu os procedimentos da auditoria interna nas empresas, por fim se caracterizou as contribuições da auditoria interna para à gestão empresarial. Nos tempos modernos a auditoria passou a ser uma ferramenta de suma importância que deve ser usada pela governança empresarial como um instrumento de controle. Sendo assim, a implantação de uma auditoria interna contribui para que a organização possa identificar erros ou fraudes reduzindo o risco  financeiro e operacional. Por meio dos relatórios que são elaborados pela auditoria é que os administradores passam a ter informações tempestivas, integras e que sejam mais confiáveis para o processo decisório.