bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Observation-derived ice growth curves show patterns and trends in maximum ice thickness and safe travel duration of Alaskan lakes and rivers
Authors: Arp Christopher D. , Cherry Jessica E. , Brown Dana R. N. , Bondurant Allen C. , Endres Karen L.
Published: October 2020

Abstract. The formation, growth, and decay of freshwater ice on lakes and
rivers are fundamental processes of northern regions with wide-ranging
implications for socio-ecological systems. Ice thickness at the end of
winter is perhaps the best integration of cold-season weather and climate,
while the duration of thick and growing ice cover is a useful indicator for
the winter travel and recreation season. Both maximum ice thickness (MIT)
and ice travel duration (ITD) can be estimated from temperature-driven ice
growth curves fit to ice thickness observations. We simulated and analyzed
ice growth curves based on ice thickness data collected from a range of
observation programs throughout Alaska spanning the past 20–60 years to
understand patterns and trends in lake and river ice. Results suggest
reductions in MIT (thinning) in several northern, interior, and coastal
regions of Alaska and overall greater interannual variability in rivers
compared to lakes. Interior regions generally showed less variability in MIT
and even slightly increasing trends in at least one river site. Average ITD
ranged from 214 d in the northernmost lakes to 114 d across
southernmost lakes, with significant decreases in duration for half of
sites. River ITD showed low regional variability but high interannual
variability, underscoring the challenges with predicting
seasonally consistent river travel. Standardization and analysis of these
ice observation data provide a comprehensive summary for understanding
changes in winter climate and its impact on freshwater ice services.
Operational-based annual energy production uncertainty: are its components actually uncorrelated?
Authors: Bodini Nicola , Optis Mike
Published: October 2020

Abstract. Calculations of annual energy production (AEP) from a wind power plant – whether based on preconstruction or operational data – are critical for wind plant financial transactions. The uncertainty in the AEP calculation is especially important in quantifying risk and is a key factor in determining financing terms. A popular industry practice is to assume that different uncertainty components within an AEP calculation are uncorrelated and can therefore be combined as the sum of their squares. We assess the practical validity of this assumption for operational-based uncertainty by performing operational AEP estimates for more than 470 wind plants in the United States, mostly in simple terrain. We apply a Monte Carlo approach to quantify uncertainty in five categories: revenue meter data, wind speed data, regression relationship between density-corrected wind speed (from reanalysis data) and measured wind power, length of long-term-correction data set, and future interannual variability. We identify correlations between categories by comparing the results across all 470 wind plants. We observe a positive correlation between interannual variability and the linearized long-term correction; a negative correlation between wind resource interannual variability and linear regression; and a positive correlation between reference wind speed uncertainty and linear regression. Then, we contrast total operational AEP uncertainty values calculated by omitting and considering correlations between the uncertainty components. We quantify that ignoring these correlations leads to an underestimation of total AEP uncertainty of, on average, 0.1 % and as large as 0.5 % for specific sites. Although these are not large increases, these would still impact wind plant financing rates; further, we expect these values to increase for wind plants in complex terrain. Based on these results, we conclude that correlations between the identified uncertainty components should be considered when computing the total AEP uncertainty.
Assessing Student Performance Between Face-to-Face and Online Course Formats in a College-Level Communications Course
Authors: Milz Sabine
Published: October 2020

This observational study adds to a small number of college-specific studies comparing student performance in online and face-to-face versions of the same course. It also complements more large-scale college-based studies that compare the delivery formats across courses, disciplines, and institutions. Using descriptive statistics and the chi-square and ANOVA methods, the author examined comparative educational outcomes by measuring student performance and key factors of student performance in the same mandatory professional communications course taught simultaneously in an online and face-to-face format over a 5-semester time frame. The findings are consistent with other comparative studies that have established that in comparison to face-to-face students, online students are generally more academically prepared; more mature; and more commonly full-time employed, fluent in the English language, and female. Similar to other studies, the factors of gender, age, education, and writing proficiency are significant indicators of student achievement; the factors of employment hours, native language, and direct/indirect entry are not, which shows some discrepancy with other studies. In terms of overall student performance, online and face-to-face-component students earned similar grades and had similar completion and retention rates. This finding does not concur with a number of studies that show that online students are significantly less likely to successfully complete courses than their face-to-face counterparts. Course type (mandatory, elective, remedial, regular), advancement in a course of study (lower year, upper year), and delivery mode choice (fully online vs. mix of online and face-to-face) are probed as explanatory variables for differences in findings.
Exploring Leadership Learning in an Undergraduate Kinesiology Course
Authors: Laidlaw Liam , Din Cari
Published: October 2020

The purpose of this study was to explore and evaluate learning in an undergraduate leadership course in a kinesiology faculty. The research question driving this study was: What do students feel influences learning in this evidence-informed leadership course? We collected and analyzed 12 students’ perspectives on their learning experiences over one semester by conducting focus groups at the end of term. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to interpret and analyze responses. The influences on student learning shared by participants in this research included course design and learning activities, instructor behaviours, peers, project work, and student agency. The course was described as a valuable social learning space. Findings may be applied to improve leadership learning in kinesiology and similar disciplines in higher education.
Impact of the Lead TA Program on the Perceived Disciplinary Instructional Competence of Graduate Teaching Assistants
Authors: Haque Aisha , Meadows Ken N.
Published: October 2020

Graduate teaching assistant (GTA) training initiatives such as the Lead TA Program seek to enhance the instructional competence of GTAs at a disciplinary level. This paper outlines the results of a mixed-method study conducted to evaluate the perceived impact of the Lead TA Program on GTAs during a two-year pilot implementation stage at a large, research-intensive Canadian university. As a result of participating in programming offered by Lead TAs, GTAs reported overall gains in their confidence as an instructor as well as increased disciplinary instructional competence. GTAs’ perceived benefits in relation to disciplinary instructional competence included: (a) increased knowledge of the TA role in the context of their department, (b) gains in pedagogical content knowledge, and (c) increased classroom management skills when facilitating disciplinary tasks or discussions. The study points to the potential for the Lead TA Program to enhance the general, domain, and topic-specific pedagogical content knowledge of GTAs. Unique challenges of implementing discipline-specific programming are addressed and recommendations are offered for establishing similar programs at other universities.
Project-Based Teaching-Learning Model: Seven Educational Principles for Knowledge Building Skills Development
Authors: Barbier Pierre-Yves
Published: October 2020

This article examines the project-based teaching approach as applied in more than 160 education research projects completed as part of three qualitative methodology courses. Expanding on the application of this teaching approach through statements from students on their learning and through theoretical considerations, the purposes of this article are to present a project-based teaching model by drawing on the grounded theory and to identify the contribution of strategic knowledge in the specific form of phronesis or practical wisdom. The seven educational principles involved in the model deal with: the functions of the educational framework, the connection to prior knowledge, the reflexive journey, confrontation with reality, the crossroads between knowledge and skills, the community of learners, and the forms of supervision. According to the hermeneutic tradition, such practical wisdom would only be developed with the experience lived.
Using an Innovative Intervention to Promote Active Learning in an Introductory Microbiology Course
Authors: Bull Harold , Premkumar Kalyani , Acharibasam Jeremiah Wezenamo
Published: October 2020

We found that actively engaging students in our introductory microbiology course was a challenge given our large class sizes and many non-majors taking the course as a program requirement.  Therefore, we introduced a novel active learning strategy to our course. Students grouped into teams of three had to create PowerPoint virtual posters on one of three themes: (a) a report on a microbe or immunology story in the news, b) interview a research scientist, or c) research a microbiological topic of their choice. To assess the intervention’s effectiveness, a pre- and post-course assessment was done. Pre-posttest analysis revealed a significant drop in surface learning and rise in deep learning. Also, there was a drop in the extrinsic (grade-dependent) goal orientation and affective (test anxiety) components. We found a decline in task value, self-efficacy for learning and performance, organization, critical thinking, time and study environment, and help seeking in students’ post-test scores. Qualitative findings also indicated the importance of group activity, gaining extra knowledge outside the curriculum, and long-term course content retention. In conclusion, we propose that the creation of digital posters in teams is an effective strategy to increase student engagement in large classes.
Examining Academic Integrity Using Course-Level Learning Outcomes
Authors: Clark Angela , Goodfellow Jamie , Shoufani Sandra
Published: October 2020

This paper describes a comprehensive review of academic integrity across course-level learning outcomes for all courses at one institution. The authors developed a taxonomy based on The International Center for Academic Integrity’s (ICAI) fundamental values of academic integrity to audit course-level learning outcomes for evidence of academic integrity instruction. Approximately 23% of the 3379 courses examined demonstrated a clear component of academic integrity and instruction varied across Faculties and levels of study. The study provides insights into academic integrity instruction and opportunities for academic institutions to better understand, utilize, and integrate academic integrity instruction into their courses and programs.
Transforming Confirmation Bias to Generate Critical Consciousness in News/Information Literacy and Social Science Courses
Authors: Wittebols James H.
Published: October 2020

This paper synthesizes theory and research on confirmation bias (CB), curiosity, and news/information literacy education with the goal of understanding how helping students critique their tendency to engage in CB spurs curiosity and critical consciousness about learning. Curiosity about the self is spurred when people realize their CB tendencies. Curiosity about the larger social world is spurred when students learn how CB affects the way they look at the world. A flipped classroom approach reflects the work of Paulo Freire, who argued critical education should be experiential with faculty playing a facilitating, rather than an “expert” role.
The Hakuna Kama Mama Project: Producing Technologies of Resistance to Maternal Mortality in East Africa
Authors: Jaksch Marla L.
Published: October 2020

Giving birth can be a life or death matter for many pregnant women. As a consequence of the high rates of maternal death in many countries, death in childbirth has come to be understood as an unfortunate yet accepted part of the contemporary maternal health landscape. Globally, the high rates of maternal death comprise many overlapping historical and systemic features that are not always easy to disentangle. Adding to the complexity are entrenched approaches to maternal mortality that tend toward one-size-fits-all strategies, approaches that minimize or erase the specificity of local and regional differences. This trend is problematic as Western biomedical approaches often demand that women perform assigned roles and operate under systems not of their own control or making—ignoring long histories, behaviors, and cultural beliefs that have preexisted this moment and have supported women’s authoritative knowledge. As an intervention into this landscape, this discussion introduces an ongoing project, Hakuna Kama Mama (HKM), which expands dominant framings by populating the healthscape with localized understandings of maternal health because African women are often regarded as the objects of expert knowledge rather than the subjects of their own stories. The HKM project centers upon the participants’ subjective perspectives of motherhood in their daily lives because they are knowledgeable subjects who desire to be seen as capable, responsible experts—as mothers and hard-working contributors to their community.
My Mobile Phone, My Life: Deconstructing Development (Maendeleo) and Gender Narratives among the Marakwet in Kenya
Authors: Komen Leah Jerop
Published: October 2020

The increased adoption of mobile telephony for development is based on the assumption that mobile telephony has the potential to foster social change. To some, such technology can aid most developing countries to leapfrog stages of development. Yet to others, the technology is at most counterproductive: development has been understood differently by the developed in comparison to the underdeveloped. Missing in this narrative is the people’s own conceptualization of the term development as well as their gender roles, often a component of development programs. This study presents findings on an alternative conceptualization of development, dubbed maendeleo, a Swahili term that denotes process, participation, progress, growth, change, and improved standard of living—as defined by the people or women themselves as they interact with mobile telephony in rural Kenya. Using Manuel DeLanda’s assemblage theory to analyze interviews, this study proposes an alternative conceptualization of development. This different perspective on development denotes both process and emergence, through the processes and roles that mobile telephony plays in the techno-social interactions of users, context, and other factors as they form social assemblages that are fluid in nature, hence challenging the Western proposition that new technologies produce development understood as social transformation.
Foreword by the Editor/Prólogo del editor
Authors: García-Caro Pedro
Published: October 2020

Foreword to the second issue
Unsheltered: Visions of Future Scarcity in the Past. Pablo Berger's Blancanieves and Jesús Carrasco's Intemperie
Authors: Barker Jesse
Published: October 2020

This article connects the dehistoricized pasts in Pablo Berger's film Blancanieves (2014) and Jesús Carrasco's novel Intemperie (2013) to the present economic, cultural and ecological crises occurring within Spain and at a worldwide level. Both film and novel can be linked to contemporary anxieties: Blancanievesto an image-obsessed society of consumer abundance facing a present and future of increasing scarcity; Intemperie to the threat of environmental collapse. Their invoking of the past suggests that economic and ecological strife bring back the specter of past violence and misery, unleashing the negative affects that pervade an individualist society based on competition and inequality. The aesthetics of verbal silence in both texts encourage a raw affective engagement and are analyzed here as a critical response to the individualist culture at the root of current crises, proposing alternative ethics of empathy and intersubjectivity. The social-political projects underlying these texts can thus be related to the 15M movement in Spain. They construct similar landscapes of anguish and hope, and they confront the same destructive ethos of fear, envy and domination that operate simultaneously on a societal level and within the self.
Militancia femenina contra la dictadura de Pinochet: Legitimación memorística de La mujer metralleta
Authors: Corbalán Ana
Published: October 2020

This essay analyzes the representation of female activism in La mujer metralleta, a documentary by Chilean Francisco López Balló that reconstructs the biography of Marcela Rodríguez Valdivieso, a guerrilla who has succumbed to the oblivion in Chile. It is necessary to highlight her anti-dictatorial fight in order to recover her name and that of so many other militants. My study aims to eliminate the prevailing silence around the exiles who also contributed to the redemocratization processes in Chile and participated in the resistance against Pinochet. Despite their constant political activism, women have been excluded from official historiography. This essay claims a place in the world to one of the many activists who experienced the process of Chilean exile and whose biography contributes to a better understanding of female activism. This documentary offers a new approach to the past is constructed that questions the relations between the State and the revolutionary position of women, despite the fact that women have historically played a marginal role in war conflicts. My paper points out the relevance of this guerrilla, how this documentary contributes to reconstructing history and how exile affects the transmission of memories.
El paraíso perdido: La adaptación a la pantalla de Las viudas de los jueves
Authors: Deveny Thomas
Published: October 2020

In 2005, Claudia Piñeiro published Las viudas de los jueves, a novel about the life in “countries” (gated neighborhoods) in the greater Buenos Aires, and in 2009, Marcelo Piñeyro adapted it to the screen. Athough Mavi, a real estate agent, describes life there as a paradise, we see that problems and hypocrisy dominate throughout the film. Piñeyro utilizes various cinematographic techniques to underscore the economic dichotomy between the “inside” and the “outside” and to emphasize the themes of sex and death. Dudley Andrew emphasizes the importance of “the sociology and aesthetics of adaptation,” and Piñeyro’s film, just like the original novel, reflects what sociological studies by Svampa and Castelo reveal about life in the “countries.” In addition, the film is made in a moment in which Argentina’s economic problems continue. Although Piñeiro’s work is not a detective novel, the structure of the two texts have elements in common with that genre. Although the film version does not have the moral weight of the original narrative, the film makes us see that life in the “countries” can be paradise lost.
From the Life to the Mind of the Writer in the Literary Biopic: Andrucha Waddington’s Lope and Ray Loriga’s Teresa
Authors: Simon Julien J
Published: October 2020

Lope (Andrucha Waddington 2010) and Teresa (Ray Loriga 2007) have much in common. Both biopics center on a revered literary figure of the Spanish Golden Age. However, in spite of their many commonalities, these films embody two distinct tendencies in the contemporary literary biopic genre: one more “typical,” represented by Lope, that focuses heavily on plot development and another, represented by Teresa, that aspires to visually transpose to the screen aspects that relate to the main character’s interiority. Although Teresa has features of the “typical” contemporary literary biopic, it innovates the genre significantly by moving its focus from the life to the mind of the writer. Loriga uses the language of cinematography to depict the imagery and affective qualities of the mysticism of Teresa de Ávila—the force behind her writings—, creating a film that emphasizes image and emotions over plot. Teresa thus brings a different sensitivity to the literary biopic, which deviates from more formulaic films. Centering on the author’s mind can indeed be a new path for filmmakers to innovate the biopic genre, particularly in its literary strand. Finally, these two biopics illustrate the need to expand the scholarly conversation about the contemporary literary biopic genre, as they both engage with and deviate from the formula established by Anglo-Saxon biopics.
The Directors Round Table at Cine-Lit with Film Directors Juan Carlos Valdivia, Celina Murga, Mariana Chenillo, Carlos Marqués-Marcet, Javier Corcuera and Gabriela Martínez Escobar
Authors: Membrez Nancy J.
Published: October 2020

Since its inception in 1991, the Cine-Lit film conference, sponsored by multiple Oregon universities, in conjunction with the Portland International Film Festival, has climaxed with the Directors Round Table of invitees, all auteurs, from Spain and Latin America after several days of screenings of films from these geographical areas and the presentation of academic papers. At Cine-Lit 8 (2015), we were fortunate to attend one of the best Directors Round Tables ever. Below the reader will find a translation of that conversation with six directors about problems of globalization, film financing in their countries and the local as well as the international distribution of their films.
Introduction
Authors: Herrmann Gina , Jaén-Portillo Isabel
Published: October 2020

This special issue of Periphērica, Image and Storytelling: New Approaches to Hispanic Cinema and Literature, features leading research by scholars of Hispanic cultures at the crossroads of literature, film, mind, and society. The collection showcases cutting-edge fields and themes including cognitive studies, affect studies, embodiment, and empathy, as well as new perspectives on adaptation, film typology, film teaching, gender, and genre. The research presented in this special issue underscores the excitement produced by crossing disciplinary boundaries in the study of verbal and visual narratives, moving beyond prevalent transnational approaches that do not sufficiently address key factors in the creation and reception of film narratives such as historical-sociological contexts, affective dynamics, psychological responses, and gender variables. The contributors include scholars whose professional and social relationships to the history, practices, and evolution of the moving image and new media vary widely, broaching a diversity of theories and methodologies and presenting readers with a comprehensive and innovative perspective on film art and the relationship between filmmakers, films, spectators, and contexts.
El nuevo mundo
Authors: Mejía Luz Stella
Published: October 2020

Poema
Investigation of differential evolution and particle swarm optimization in search performance
Authors: Sho Hiroshi
Published: October 2020

The purpose of this study is to clarify the search performance of differential evolution (DE) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) technologies for instinctively understanding the specificity of the used search methods. Due to achieve the task, here, the several search methods of both, i.e. DE/rand/1, DE/rand/2, DE/best/1, DE/best/2, the PSO, PSOIW, and CPSO, which are implemented in this paper. Therefore, many computer experiments are carried out for handling the given four benchmark problems. Through the analysis of the obtained experimental data, the detail search performance and characteristics of them are observed and compared, respectively. From the obtained results, it is found that the search methods of DE/best/1 and the PSO relatively have better search performance. Based on the findings and know-how, they can provide some important reference and key hint for encouraging development and improvement of both DE and PSO technologies in the near future. And as the applicative examples, the PSO is used to handle typical 2-bit and 3-bit parity problems for pattern classification.
Methods of Foreign Language Teaching to Linguistically Gifted Students
Authors: Gali Gulnara V. , Fakhrutdinova Anastasiya V. , Gali Askar I.
Published: October 2020

Purpose of the StudyThe aim of this research is investigating the methods  in Foreign Language Teaching To Linguistically Gifted Students.Methodology This is an analytical-logical research that has been done through content analysis. Also the data of this research have been obtained through the library.ResultsCommunicative language teaching can be set as a set of principles related to language learning goals, how to learn a language with a learner, the types of classroom activities that best facilitate learning, and the role of the learner and teacher.ApplicationsThis article is useful for students and teachers.
Educating the External Conditions in the Educational and Cultural Environment
Authors: Alfita Laili , Kadiyono Anissa Lestari , Nguyen Phong Thanh , Firdaus Winci , Wekke Ismail Suardi
Published: October 2020

Educational and cultural development is strongly influenced by external conditions such as social, cultural, economic, technological, and political. So, there is a strong need to educate their effect. Some of the effects of external conditions on education and culture can be explained. a higher population puts Indonesia in an increasingly important position in the global arena. In Indonesia, this wonder happens in light of the fact that the procedure of statistic progress that created since a couple of years back was quickened by our accomplishment in diminishing fruitfulness rates, improving the nature of wellbeing and the achievement of improvement programs since the New Order time as of recently. Along these lines, Indonesia has a statistic reward which is a reward or opportunity (fateful opening) appreciated by a nation because of the huge extent of the beneficial populace (age extend 15-64 years) in the development of the populace it encounters. At that point a parameter called "reliance proportion", which is the proportion that shows the correlation among beneficial and non-gainful age gatherings. This proportion likewise shows what number of inefficient individuals whose lives must be borne by the gainful age gathering. The lower the dependency ratio of a country, the more the country is to get a demographic bonus as future development capital.
Features of the Use of Modern Technology and Hardware at the Institute of Prosecution with the Aim of Prospering the Higher Education
Authors: Antonov Igor O. , Rakhmatullin Ramil R. , Burganova Guzel V. , N. Makolkin Nikita
Published: October 2020

In this article, the authors, identifying the features of the use of modern technologies and technical means at the prosecution institute, as a novel strategy emphasize that the principles and rules for the use of modern technologies and technical means in criminal proceedings should fully comply with the purpose of promoting the higher education. Otherwise, as the result the use of modern technologies and technical means in the course of investigative actions will be unlawful, and the evidence obtained in this case will not have legal force for the subsequent trial. From the author’s point of view, the approach to the formulation of the principles of promoting higher education in modern science education has not been definitively determined. The discussion on this issue in Russian legal literature and practice has never stopped, which in conclusion indicates the urgency of both this study and the issue as a whole for the functioning and development of higher education inextricably linked with generally recognized principles and norms of international law.
Peculiarities of Kazakh Reality Translation with Cultural-Historical Educational Components
Authors: Yerbulatova Ilmira Kanatovna , Gilazetdinova Gelinya Khajretdinovna , Bozbayeva Aigul Galimzhanovna
Published: October 2020

The development of intercultural relations and the globalization of multicultural civilization gives rise to the need for educational study the elements found in the language of each nation, not only in the national-cultural aspect but also in comparative translation. At the present stage of translation educational study development, special attention is paid to the issues of the national and historical specifics of the original work preservation and transmission in the process of translation into the language of another culture. This article discusses the linguistic realities and their role in the national and historical identity reflection of a different culture, presented in the context of a work of art. As the result of the study, the methods of Kazakh historical reality transmission are analyzed, and the specifics of their translation into Russian is described on the basis of the works of Kazakh writer Dukenbai Doszhan (XX century). The article highlights the sign of the “dual nature” of historical realities in archaized texts of fiction, on which the choice of a translation solution depends. The main results and conclusions of the study presented in this article show that the distance in time and space separating the source text from the text of translation inevitably leads to national-cultural biases, which should be taken into account during a text translation that must be adequate to the original text.
Educating Students with Disabilities Who Study at the University
Authors: Godovnikova Larisa V. , Gerasimova Aleksandra S. , Galchun Yana V. , Orekhova Victoria I.
Published: October 2020

In this article the authors aim to analyze the ways of educating students with disabilities. Research activities at the university are the main type of educational and professional activities for students. Students with disabilities have difficulties in organizing research activities. Students have difficulties in self-regulation, their goals in research activities related to internal well-being. The communicative orientation is a leading emotional focus in research activities, and the motivation for research activities reduced. We have developed and implemented a program of training, which allowed us to develop the components of self-organization of research activities for students with disabilities. The development of such personal characteristics as self-regulation of behavior and emotional orientation positively influence the motivation of research activities among students with disabilities.
A Problem Based Learning (PBL) Model in Developing Students' Soft Skills Aspect
Authors: Sri Suryanti Hera Heru , Supeni Siti
Published: October 2020

This study aims to find out how to improve students' soft skills through Problem-Based Learning (PBL) of Educational Sciences in order to prepare superior Human Resources (HR). This research is qualitative research, the research subjects are students of the First Semester Guidance and Counseling Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Private University in Solo Raya. The object of research is the improvement of students' soft skills through PBL of Education Science courses in order to prepare for Superior HR. Data collection using interviews, observation, documentation, and test methods. The validity of the data uses method triangulation, source triangulation, and perseverance of observation. Analysis of the data using qualitative analysis. The results showed that PBL courses in education can improve students' soft skills which include aspects of self-awareness, trust, adaptability, critical thinking, organizational awareness, attitude, initiative, empathy, integrity, self-control, leadership, problem-solving, risk-taking, and Time management, in order to prepare superior HR.
O Glam Rock brasileiro: moda e comportamento andrógino na década de 1970
Authors: Barros Patrícia Marcondes de
Published: October 2020

A presente pesquisa analisa Moda e comportamento relacionado à androginia do gênero musical Glam rock, surgido na Inglaterra no final dos anos 1960, como uma provocação à estética naturalista hippie. Por meio de pesquisa qualitativa de cunho bibliográfico documental (documentários, impressos alternativos de época e peças publicitárias), analisaremos num primeiro momento a estética andrógina inerente ao Glam Rock que ganhou visibilidade com astros a exemplo de David Bowie, Marc Bolan e Lou Reed. Posteriormente, perscrutaremos a referida estética no Brasil, expressa por artistas como Ney Matogrosso, Edy Star e o grupo teatral Dzi Croquettes que escandalizaram o público brasileiro em tempos de ditadura militar com suas performances viscerais e figurinos extravagantes, transcendendo as fronteiras entre o feminino e o masculino. O Glam rock criou uma identidade rebelde através do corpo e da androginia, subvertendo ideias estabelecidas na vida e na Moda.
“Só morto sairei do catete!”: a morte de Getúlio Vargas pelo Jornal Ultima Hora (UH)
Authors: Fidelis Thiago
Published: October 2020

O artigo tem como objetivo analisar como o jornal Ultima Hora (UH) construiu e divulgou a morte de Getúlio Vargas, então presidente do Brasil, em 1954, com ênfase nas fotos publicadas em suas páginas, tanto no dia do suicídio como nos dias conseguintes. A ideia aqui desenvolvida é a de que a UH, que já utilizava a imagem como uma linguagem ativa e bastante significativa em suas edições, trabalhou com esse recurso para enfatizar seu ponto de vista sobre o desaparecimento do político, enaltecendo seu trabalho e buscando confirmar seu carisma e sua importância para a política brasileira.
Fotodocumentário: práxis e reflexões além da sala de aula
Authors: Popolin Cássia Maria , Pelegrini Sandra de Cássia Araújo
Published: October 2020

Este trabalho mostra o resultado parcial da práxis do fotodocumentário realizada por estudantes do segundo ano de Jornalismo da Universidade Estadual de Londrina. O projeto de pesquisa do professor Dr. Paulo Boni De Lewis Hine a Sebastião Salgado: o uso e as repercussões do fotodocumentarismo de denúncia social como instrumento de transformação na sociedade foi o ponto de partida para esta atividade. Seguindo as duas referências, Hine e Salgado, e aportes teóricos como Dubois, Sontag e Collier, os estudantes fotografaram catadores de lixo reciclável e a Cooper Região, em Londrina-PR para conhecer in loco as condições e os problemas dessa categoria. O objetivo foi ratificar o papel do jornalista de trazer à tona, imagens e situações do que acontecem na sociedade, para suscitar reflexões e interrogar a consciência da população.
Faces expressivas de uma experiência coletiva: artes plásticas e cinema em Belém dos anos 1960
Authors: Moraes Cleodir
Published: October 2020

As experimentações artísticas verificadas em Belém, nos anos 1960, fornecem indícios de inquietações e propostas de renovação. Embora não constituíssem um corpus homogêneo em termos temáticos, procedimentais e materiais, elas deixaram transparecer traços em comum. Um dos mais evidente foi conceberem a cidade, espaço de transformações e contradições, como palco, mote e personagem. Em sintonia com essa perspectiva, estavam a mostra de jovens artistas plásticos, autodenominados “Grupo” (1966), e as realizações cinematográficas Brinquedo Perdido (1962), Vila da Barca (1965), Um dia qualquer (1965) e Belém 350 anos (1966). A partir das contribuições de WILLIAMS (1979), KOSELLECK (2006), entre outros, este artigo visa abordar aspectos socioculturais e estéticos dessas obras, que ajudam a refletir sobre as diferentes maneiras de perceber, ser e viver nesse espaço urbano.
Seismic considerations in the design of cryogenic pressure vessels
Authors: Webster John
Published: October 2020

The author has recently been involved in the analysis of the seismic performance of several standard types of cryogenic pressure vessel which were originally designed in the United States. Particular attention was accorded to the magnitude and distribution of the localised membrane and bending stresses developed in the inner and outer vessels near the points at which the internal and external support systems are attached. The analyses revealed that reinforcement would be required in certain critical areas in order to meet the design rules established by the relevant New Zealand government agency. Suitable modifications were made in these areas, although there seems reason to believe that the design rules may in some respects be unduly conservative.
Earthquake-soil structure interaction, spring and dashpot models, and real soil behaviour
Authors: Pender M. J.
Published: October 2020

The earthquake response of a simple soil-structure interaction system is discussed. The nonlinear hysteretic properties of the soil, on which the structure is founded, are modelled. It is found that the nonlinear soil behaviour leads to a reduction in the response of the structure.
How Does Immigration Affect Wages and the Unemployment Rate in Malaysia? A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Approach
Authors: Said Rusmawati , Hamid Kamarul Hidayah Abdul , Mazlan Nursyazwani
Published: October 2020

Malaysia had approximately 2 million migrants in 2018, and this number was increasing dramatically by 25 percent in 2019. Parallels with the aims of country policy to reduce migrant workers' dependency in 2020, managing the workers needs to be clarified. At the same time, the country still needs to keep them for specific sectors. These issues motivate us to analyze the migrant worker's requirements at different levels of skills and wages. Using Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modeling, at four-level nested CES production function, this study found high skilled migrants will harm wages for the high skilled and skilled groups while the opposite effect was observed for the semiskilled and low-skilled groups. However, when the migrant stock increases slightly below 1 percent, it will reduce the wages for semiskilled workers due to substitution effects. This study also found that the influx of low-skilled migrant workers will reduce salaries for semiskilled and low-skilled workers. The analysis also indicates that a small rise in high skilled immigrant labour will reduce the unemployment rate; likewise, increasing more than 4 percent will increase the unemployment rate. The results provide the policymaker guidelines to employ foreign workers' best skills to control the inequality of wages among skilled and low-skilled workers.
Monetary Policy and Financial Performance of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria
Authors: Alalade Yimka S. A. , Oseni Ezekiel , Adekunle Olusegun A.
Published: October 2020

This study considered the influence of monetary policy on the financial performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria. The study engaged the use of a time series data for 35 years, from the period 1984 to 2018; all deposit money banks as captured by the Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin (2015) were considered. The effect of liquidity ratio, lending rate, loan to deposit ratio and cash reserve ratio were examined on the financial performance of deposit money banks measured by their net worth and total credits. The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Based on the result of stationarity test, the ordinary least square method and the Autoregressive Distributed Lag method were employed. A short run model of net worth and long run model for both the log of net worth and the log of total credits were estimated. The results revealed that the mean of net worth and total credits are 5455.27 and 79608.63 respectively. In the long run, monetary policy variables including liquidity ratio, lending rate, loans to deposit ratio and cash reserve ratio had no significant effect on the log of net worth. However in the short run, variations in the liquidity ratio, loans to deposit ratio and the cash reserve ratio for previous years had significant effect on the log of net worth in the current year. When financial performance is measured as total credits, the liquidity ratio and loans to deposit ratio had positive significant effect in the long run. The cash reserve ratio had a negative significant effect in the long run. The log of lending rate was insignificant in both the long and short run. The study concluded that monetary policy significantly explains the financial performance of deposit money banks both in the short and long run.
Two Principles of Cultivating Young Marxists Among College Students
Authors: Gao Jie
Published: October 2020

The principle of cultivating young Marxists among college students means that the training work follows the policies and guidelines established by the characteristics and growth laws of young Marxists among college students. The cultivation of young Marxists among college students should adhere to the following two principles: one is to focus on combining the need for stimulating belief with the rational choice of guiding belief; the other is to focus on combining dynamic selection and classified cultivation.
Egalitarianism in the Mabadi Al-Irsyad: An Analytical Study on the Concept of Al-Musawah
Authors: Madi Faisol Nasar Bin , Elhady Aminullah
Published: October 2020

Islamic teachings place all human beings physiologically and sociologically in the same status even though they have different backgrounds. This article analyzes the concept of al-musawah (equality) in Mabadi (basic principles) of Al-Irsyad, an Islamic social organization in Indonesia, most of whose members are of Arab descent. This study has an urgency to find a common thread between the inclusion of the concept of al-musawah in Mabadi and the circumstances behind it, as well as its relevance to plural life among Indonesian Arab descendants at present. This study was conducted using documentary and historical analysis methods. From this research it was found that the concept of al-musawah was included in Mabadi Al-Irsyad based on social settings, there was an assumption regarding differences in social stratification in Arab community originating from Hadramaut. Al-Irsyad formulated the concept of egalitarianism in Mabadi, which until now is still maintained. It is believed that the concept of al-musawah is compatible with the concept of humanism in Islam.
Effect of Corporate Sustainability on Corporate Reputation and Firm Performance of Companies in Thailand
Authors: Lamsam Nichanal
Published: October 2020

This research analyzes the contribution of corporate sustainability practice on corporate reputation and firm performance of companies in Thailand. This research is based on the Triple Bottom Line framework which conceptualizes sustainability into three dimensions: environmental, social, and economic. The data were obtained from a total of 196 firms through online questionnaires surveys. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was used for the data analysis. The results show that all three dimensions of corporate sustainability positively and significantly determine corporate reputation. Corporate reputation also positively and significantly determines firm performance. Lastly, corporate reputation is also found to mediates the linkage between all three dimensions of corporate sustainability practice and firm performance.
Quantitative Approach on Undergraduates' Student-Life Balance: Intervention for Academic Stress
Authors: Tan Emerald Sue Jane , Wong Siew Chin , Lim Chui Seong
Published: October 2020

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationships between social life, academic requirements, institutional support and student life balance amongst Malaysian undergraduate students. A sample size of 200 undergraduate students from both private and public universities located in Malaysia contributed to the research data. Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) is utilised to assess the influence of social life, academic requirements and institutional support on student-life balance. The results establish that social life and institutional support have a significant positive correlation to student-life balance whereas academic requirements have a significant negative correlation with student-life balance. Future research should focus on collecting qualitative data as it would provide a richer understanding that would assist universities and researchers in discovering other variables that may influence student-life balance. This study contributes to the Malaysian Education Blueprint (MEB) 2013-2025 as the current study is in line with the first objective of MEB, which is associated with student life balance and potential ways to reduce possible psychiatric symptoms among undergraduates.
Obstacles and Performance of Agribusiness Enterprises: Evidence from South-Kivu Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Authors: Sadiki Jacques , Vwima Stany , Lebailly Philippe
Published: October 2020

The objective of this study is to analyze differences between business obstacles and performance by their location using 92 food and agribusiness firms operating in rural and urban areas. Descriptive statistics, chi-square and analysis of variance are used to evaluate data collected through household surveys. Chi-square test are used to identify relationships between location and enterprises characteristics and business obstacles. Results reveal a less participation of female in ownership and management. Access to finance still the main obstacle faced by all firms. Scarcity of electricity, transportation cost and lack of equipment are perceived as severe and moderate obstacles. The analysis of variance show that urban firms are able generate higher profit margin than rural firms. These results are helpful for policymakers to promote food and agribusiness sector in order to reduce poverty and enable SME growth in Eastern of the Democratic Republic of Congo (South Kivu region).
Improving Quality in a Cytopathology Laboratory
Authors: Mohammedsaleh Zuhair M
Published: October 2020

Quality assurance in a cytopathology laboratory is achieved by involving all the parties that contributes to cytopathology procedures. Quality assurance measures start with the laboratory directors to the cytopathotechnologists at work. High-quality results are achieved when all the parties work together by following the Standard operation procedures failure to which quality is undermined. Laboratory directors in a cytopathology laboratory are responsible for risk analysis and management. Proper risk analysis techniques help the lab manager to identify the weak points among the technologists. Proper management involves giving out good guidelines or instructions on what should be done to solve the problems that have been identified. There is the need to accredit and comply with the international accepted policies and procedures and excellent documentation to help deal with malpractices. Modern health care has faced a revolution due to a variety of factors, some of which are: newest techniques in laboratory medicine, trained staff operating diagnostic medical laboratories and ultra-modern analytical equipment. A Quality Management System (QMS) has been suggested by the ISO 15189 International Standard, which if followed, can help sustain and improve the testing services offered by diagnostic laboratories, such as cytopathology laboratories. Cytopathology laboratories should only employ laboratory technologists have undergone through the recommended training and have licenses from the regulatory bodies. The staff members of cytopathology laboratory should follow the standard operating procedures. SOPs help in coming up with high-quality results.