bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Program Director Perceptions of Proficiency in the Core Entrustable Professional Activities
Authors: Pearlman R. Ellen , Pawelczak Melissa , Yacht Andrew C. , Akbar Salaahuddin , Farina Gino A.
Published: August 2017

Background 

The Association of American Medical Colleges describes 13 core entrustable professional activities (EPAs) that every graduating medical student should be expected to perform proficiently on day 1 of residency, regardless of chosen specialty. Studies have shown wide variability in program director (PD) confidence in interns' abilities to perform these core EPAs. Little is known regarding comparison of United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) scores with proficiency in EPAs.

Objective 

We determined if PDs from a large health system felt confident in their postgraduate year 1 residents' abilities to perform the 13 core EPAs, and compared perceived EPA proficiency with USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 scores.

Methods 

The PDs were asked to rate their residents' proficiency in each EPA and to provide residents' USMLE scores. Timing coincided with the reporting period for resident milestones.

Results 

Surveys were completed on 204 of 328 residents (62%). PDs reported that 69% of residents (140 of 204) were prepared for EPA 4 (orders/prescriptions), 61% (117 of 192) for EPA 7 (form clinical questions), 68% (135 of 198) for EPA 8 (handovers), 63% (116 of 185) for EPA 11 (consent), and 38% (49 of 129) for EPA 13 (patient safety). EPA ratings and USMLE 1 and 2 were negatively correlated (r(101) = −0.23, P = .031).

Conclusions 

PDs felt that a significant percentage of residents were not adequately prepared in order writing, forming clinical questions, handoffs, informed consent, and promoting a culture of patient safety. We found no positive association between USMLE scores and EPA ratings.
Delivery and Measurement of High-Value Care in Standardized Patient Encounters
Authors: Baldwin Jennifer DeLuca , Cox Jaclyn , Wu Zhao Helen , Kenny Anne , Angus Steven
Published: August 2017

Background 

Residencies have incorporated high-value care (HVC) training to contain health care expenditures. Assessment methods of HVC curricula are limited.

Objective 

In our clinical skills laboratory, we evaluated the effectiveness of HVC curricula using standardized patients (SPs) to determine if there is a correlation with performance in counseling, history and physical, HVC knowledge, and demographics.

Methods 

Through ambulatory cases, SPs evaluated postgraduate year 2 (PGY-2) residents using checklists to determine if they obtained the chief complaint, medical and social history, focused physical examination, and conveyed information regarding patient management. Investigators scored knowledge-based questions on the need for imaging in low back pain, annual stress testing in coronary artery disease, and chest x-ray for gastroesophageal reflux disease. Univariate analysis was used to calculate percentage distribution of residents' ordering of inappropriate tests.

Results 

All 56 PGY-2 residents participated in the study and completed at least 2 of 3 HVC cases. Analysis showed that 48% (27 of 56) ordered at least 1 inappropriate test. Residents who ordered unnecessary testing had similar performance in history and physical as well as knowledge of HVC. Inappropriate ordering was significantly associated with poorer performance in counseling (mean percentage counseling score of 68% versus 56% for those who ordered inappropriately, P < .001) and communication skills (mean percentage communication score of 74% versus 71% for those who ordered inappropriately, P < .003). There were no patterns for ordering by demographics.

Conclusions 

Our evaluation of residents during SP encounters found a correlation between the use of inappropriate testing and lower counseling and communication skills.
A Free Clinic Continuity Experience During Residency Is Associated With Practice in Underserved Areas
Authors: Petrany Stephen M. , Gress Todd , Poole Daniel
Published: August 2017

Background 

Exposure to underserved areas during training may increase residents' likelihood of practice in these settings. The Marshall University Family Medicine Residency offers a supplemental continuity experience at a local free clinic to interested residents.

Objective 

We assessed the association of such an experience with graduate practice choices.

Methods 

We evaluated all residency graduates (N = 138) who completed our family medicine program from 1997 through 2014 and compared participants in the free clinic experience to nonparticipants. Various characteristics and outcome measures were collected retrospectively from resident records maintained for program accreditation.

Results 

A total of 43 residents participated in the free clinic experience compared with 95 nonparticipants. Postgraduation practice in an area of need was seen for 56% (24 of 43) of participants compared with 31% (29 of 95) of nonparticipants (P = .005). The 53 graduates practicing in areas of need were nearly twice as likely to have taken part in the free clinic experience (45% [24 of 53] versus 22% [19 of 85], P = .005). Participants were more likely to practice in rural areas (63%, 27 of 43) than residents who did not participate (43% [41 of 95], P = .033). Board certification rates were high for both free clinic participants (98%, 42 of 43) and nonparticipants (95% [90 of 95], P = .43).

Conclusions 

Resident participation in a supplemental continuity experience at a free clinic was associated with practicing in areas of need and rural communities after graduation.
Modeling and Projecting the Onset and Subsequent Failure Rate of Corroding Bridge Post-Tension Tendons Arising from Deficient Grout
Authors: Hartt William H. , Lee Seung-Kyoung
Published: August 2017

Post-tensioning (PT) has become an important approach to affecting integrity of large reinforced concrete structures, including bridges. While there are a number of advantages to PT construction compared to conventional reinforcement, corrosion caused bridge tendon failures have recently been reported, in some cases within but a few years of construction, as a consequence of either chemically or physically deficient grout (or a combination of the two), where the former involves elevated concentration of chlorides or free sulfates (or both) and the latter voids with free water, and soft, chalky, segregated, separated grout. The present paper reviews a predictive model that was developed to project the onset and subsequent rate of wire and strand fractures and tendon failures as a function of time, given information regarding the present extent of corrosion. Inputs to the model are the mean and standard deviation of, first, remaining cross-section area at the most corroded location on individual wires and, second, an experimentally determined relationship between residual fracture stress and remaining cross-section area of corroded wires, both of which are represented as distributions. Particular emphasis is placed upon fracture and failure rates subsequent to first occurrence, because these can provide useful information for assuring timely intervention and integrity assurance of PT structures with corrosion issues. The results indicate that tendon failures, once initiated, can occur at an unmanageable rate even for relatively modest rates of corrosion.
Large-scale subsidence promotes convection in sub-Arctic
mixed-phase stratocumulus via enhanced below-cloud rain
evaporation
Authors: Young Gillian , Connolly Paul J. , Dearden Christopher , Choularton Thomas W.
Published: August 2017

Abstract. Large-scale subsidence, associated with high pressure systems, is often imposed in large-eddy simulation (LES) models to maintain the height of boundary layer (BL) clouds. Previous studies have considered the influence of subsidence on warm, liquid clouds in subtropical regions; however, the relationship between subsidence and microphysics has not specifically been studied, especially in mixed-phase clouds. For the first time, we investigate how widespread subsidence associated with synoptic-scale meteorological features can affect the microphysics of sub-Arctic marine mixed-phase stratocumulus (Sc) clouds. Modelled with LES, four idealised scenarios – a stable Sc, varied droplet (Ndrop) or ice (Nice) number concentrations, and a warming surface – were subjected to different levels of subsidence to investigate the cloud microphysical response. We find strong microphysical sensitivities to large-scale subsidence, indicating that high pressure systems in the ocean-exposed low-, or sub-, Arctic regions have the potential to generate turbulence and changes in cloud microphysics in any resident BL mixed-phase clouds. Increased convection is modelled within the clouds with increased subsidence, driven by radiative cooling at cloud top and rain evaporative cooling below cloud base. Subsidence strengthens the BL temperature inversion, reducing entrainment and allowing the liquid- and ice-water paths (LWP, IWP) to increase. Through increased cloud top radiative cooling and subsequent convective overturning, precipitation production is enhanced: rain particle number concentrations (Nrain), in-cloud production rates, and below-cloud evaporation rates increase with increased subsidence. In these liquid-dominated mixed-phase clouds, subsidence contributes towards increased BL inversion strength, BL turbulent kinetic energy (TKE), and cloud LWP. Ice number concentrations, Nice, play an important role, as greater concentrations suppress the liquid phase; therefore, Nice acts to mediate the strength of turbulent overturning induced by subsidence and longwave radiative cooling in the modelled mixed-phase clouds. With a warming surface, a lack of – or low – subsidence allows for rapid BL TKE coupling, leading to a heterogeneous cloud layer, cloud top ascent, and cumuli formation below the Sc cloud. In these scenarios, higher levels of subsidence act to stabilise the Sc layer: the combination of these two forcings counteract one another to produce a stable, yet dynamic, Sc layer.
Atmospheric circulation and hydroclimate impacts of alternative warming scenarios for the Eocene
Authors: Carlson Henrik , Caballero Rodrigo
Published: August 2017

Abstract. Recent work in modelling the warm climates of the early Eocene shows that it is possible to obtain a reasonable global match between model surface temperature and proxy reconstructions, but only by using extremely high atmospheric CO2 concentrations or more modest CO2 levels complemented by a reduction in global cloud albedo. Understanding the mix of radiative forcing that gave rise to Eocene warmth has important implications for constraining Earth's climate sensitivity, but progress in this direction is hampered by the lack of direct proxy constraints on cloud properties. Here, we explore the potential for distinguishing among different radiative forcing scenarios via their impact on regional climate changes. We do this by comparing climate model simulations of two end-member scenarios: one in which the climate is warmed entirely by CO2 (which we refer to as the greenhouse gas (GHG) scenario) and another in which it is warmed entirely by reduced cloud albedo (which we refer to as the low CO2–thin clouds or LCTC scenario) . The two simulations have an almost identical global-mean surface temperature and equator-to-pole temperature difference, but the LCTC scenario has  ∼  11 % greater global-mean precipitation than the GHG scenario. The LCTC scenario also has cooler midlatitude continents and warmer oceans than the GHG scenario and a tropical climate which is significantly more El Niño-like. Extremely high warm-season temperatures in the subtropics are mitigated in the LCTC scenario, while cool-season temperatures are lower at all latitudes. These changes appear large enough to motivate further, more detailed study using other climate models and a more realistic set of modelling assumptions.
Towards Cyber Physical Era: Soft Computing framework based Multi-Sensor Array for Water Quality Monitoring
Authors: Bhardwaj Jyotirmoy , Gupta Karunesh K. , Gupta Rajiv
Published: August 2017

Abstract. New concepts and techniques are replacing traditional methods of water quality parameters measurement systems. This paper introduces the Cyber Physical System (CPS) approach for water quality assessment in distribution network. The proposed CPS consist of (a.) Sensing framework (b.) Soft Computing framework for computational modelling and data analysis. Sensing frame work consist of integrated Multi Sensor Array (MSA) and Soft Computing framework utilizes the applications of Python for user interface and Fuzzy Sciences for decision making. Extensive research suggest that pH, Dissolved Oxygen (D.O.), Electrical Conductivity (E.C.), Oxygen Reduction Potential (O.R.P.) and Temperature are suitable water quality parameters. Therefore, individual sensor of each parameter has been integrated to form Integrated MSA. Soft Computing mainly consist of Python framework for user interface and fuzzy logic for decision support system. Target of this proposed research is to provide simple, efficient, cost effective and socially acceptable means to detect the presence of contamination in water distribution network using applications of CPS.
Use of an external organic carbon source in the removal of nitrates in Bio-sand filters (BSF)
Authors: Mutsvangwa Crispen , Matope Evans
Published: August 2017

Abstract. Bio-sand filters (BSF) are point of use (POU) potable water filtration systems commonly used in low-income communities at household level. The principle of operation is similar to that of a slow sand filter and the major difference is that they are operated intermittently at the point of use. It is one of the emerging low cost technologies which makes use of readily and locally available construction materials but is poor in the removal of nitrates. In order to enhance the removal of nitrates through de-nitrification, a modified bio-sand filter with ethanol as an external carbon source at C / N ratios of 1.1 and 1.8 was investigated. In the absence of an external carbon source, the nitrate removal efficiency was 32 % whilst removal efficiencies at C / N ratios of 1.1 and 1.8 were 44 % and 53 % respectively. The inflow rate reduced significantly from an initial flow rate of 0.04m3/hr to 0.01m3/hr. The reduction in the inflow rate was mainly due to the growth of the biological layer on the filter media. The study showed that the use of an external carbon source like ethanol in biosand filtration enhances the removal of nitrates in potable water.
A synthetic map of the northwest European Shelf sedimentary
environment for applications in marine science
Authors: Wilson Robert J. , Speirs Douglas C. , Sabatino Alessandro , Heath Michael R.
Published: August 2017

Abstract. Seabed sediment mapping is important for a wide range of marine policy, planning and scientific issues, and there has been considerable national and international investment around the world in the collation and synthesis of sediment data sets. However, in Europe at least, much of this effort has been directed towards seabed classification and mapping of discrete habitats. Scientific users often have to resort to reverse-engineering these classifications to recover continuous variables such as mud content and median grain size that are required for many ecological and biophysical studies. Here we present a new set of 0.125 by 0.125° resolution synthetic maps of continuous properties of the northwest European sedimentary environment, extending from the Bay of Biscay to the northern limits of the North Sea and the Faroe Islands. The maps are a blend of gridded survey data, and statistically modelled values based on distributions of bed shear stress due to tidal currents and waves, and bathymetric properties. Recent work has shown that statistical models can predict sediment composition in British waters and the North Sea with high accuracy, and here we extend this to the entire shelf and to the mapping of other key seabed parameters. The maps include percentage compositions of mud, sand and gravel; porosity and permeability; median grain size of the whole-sediment and of the sand and the gravel fractions; carbon and nitrogen content of sediments; percentage of seabed area covered by rock; mean and maximum depth-averaged tidal velocity and wave-orbital velocity at the seabed; and mean monthly natural disturbance rates. A number of applications for these maps exist, including species distribution modelling and the more accurate representation of seafloor biogeochemistry in ecosystem models. The data products are available from doi:10.15129/07bc686e-a354-40de-8c08-372ced7aad64.
Multibeam bathymetry and CTD measurements in two fjord systems in southeastern Greenland
Authors: Kjeldsen Kristian Kjellerup , Weinrebe Reimer Wilhelm , Bendtsen Jørgen , Bjørk Anders Anker , Kjær Kurt Henrik
Published: August 2017

Abstract. We present bathymetry and hydrological observations collected in the summer of 2014 from two fjord systems in southeastern Greenland with a multibeam sonar system. Our results provide a detailed bathymetric map of the fjord complex around the island of Skjoldungen in Skjoldungen Fjord and the outer part of Timmiarmiut Fjord and show far greater depths compared to the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean. The hydrography collected shows different properties in the fjords with the bottom water masses below 240 m in Timmiarmiut Fjord being 1–2 °C warmer than in the two fjords around Skjoldungen, but data also illustrate the influence of sills on the exchange of deeper water masses within fjords. Moreover, evidence of subglacial discharge in Timmiarmiut Fjord, which is consistent with satellite observations of ice mélange set into motion, adds to our increasing understanding of the distribution of subglacial meltwater. Data are available through the PANGAEA website at https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.860627.
A surface model for water and energy balance in cold regions
accounting for vapor diffusion
Authors: Dandar Enkhbayar , Saaltink Maarten W. , Carrera Jesús , Nemer Buyankhishig
Published: August 2017

Abstract. Computation of recharge in subarctic climate regions is complicated by phase change and permafrost, causing conventional conceptual land surface models to be inaccurate. We conjecture that large vapor pressure gradients, driven by the large temperature difference between the soil surface and the thawing permafrost active layer, may cause a significant water and energy transfer during late spring and early summer. To analyze this conjecture, we develop a two-compartment water and energy balance model that accounts for freezing and melting and includes vapor diffusion as a water and energy transfer mechanism. It also accounts for the effect of slope orientation on radiation, which may be important for high latitude mountain areas. We apply this model to weather data from the Terelj station (Mongolia). We find that vapor diffusion plays an important quantitative role in the energy balance and a relevant qualitative role in the water balance. Except for snowmelt and a few large precipitation events, most of the continuous recharge is driven by vapor diffusion fluxes. Large vapor fluxes occur during spring and early summer, when surface temperatures are moderate, but the subsoil remains cold, creating large downwards vapor pressure gradients. Temperature gradients reverse in fall and early winter, but the vapor diffusion fluxes do not, because of the small vapor pressure differences at low temperature. The downwards latent heat flux associated to vapor diffusion is essential for the thawing of the active layer. On a yearly basis, it is largely compensated by heat conduction, which is much larger than in temperate regions and upwards on average. Furthermore, we find that total surface runoff is small and concentrated at the beginning of spring due to snowmelt. Recharge is relatively high and delayed with respect to snowmelt because a portion of it is associated to thawing at depth, which may occur much later.
The Impact of Corporate Board Size on Firm Performance: Evidence from Ghana and Nigeria
Authors: Badu LjEbenezer Agyemang , Appiah K.O.
Published: August 2017

This paper examines the impact of corporate board size on firm performance for a sample of 137 listed firms in Ghana and Nigeria. Our findings suggest a statistically significant and positive relationship between board size and firm performance, implying that in Ghana and Nigeria allowing corporate board size to be dependent of firm size tends to improve firm performance. Our findings are consistent across different kinds of models that deal with different types of endogeneities and corporate performance proxies. Our results provide empirical support for agency theory, which suggests that optimal corporate board size effectively advise, monitor and discipline management thereby improving firm performance.
Styles of Reasoning in Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and Sōseki's Kokoro
Authors: Mehl Scott
Published: August 2017

Adapting a term coined by Ian Hacking, this article analyzes certain of the styles of reasoning that appear in two novels, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Zapiski iz podpol'ya (Notes from Underground, 1864) and Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro (1914). The confession of the underground man, the protagonist of Dostoevsky's novel, includes an argument against the Chernyshevskian doctrine of rational egoism. The underground man's argument may, as this article shows, be analyzed using logical truth tables to demonstrate that, however thorough the underground man's argument may appear, it does not consider the counterexample of selfless altruism. This omission prepares the way for the underground man's rejection of Liza at the climax of the second part of the novel. Sōseki's novel, too, contains a confession, namely Sensei's testament, in which Sensei relates how he arrived at his belief that humanity is fundamentally selfish. Sensei's style of reasoning is primarily inductive, in contrast with that of other characters in Sōseki's novel, and the present article argues that Sensei's style of reasoning is a primary cause of his suicide. In each novel, then, there is a sustained consideration of how and to what extent a style of reasoning is bound up with a character's fate.
Voices of Rousseau and Temporality in Friedrich Hölderlin's “Der Rhein”
Authors: Kenosian David
Published: August 2017

This article discusses the significance of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's notion of the conscience Friedrich Hölderlin. In the eighteenth century, the soul was seen as an important source of energy and guidance in the intellectual life of individuals; Rousseau sees these energies as expressions (the voice of conscience) that lead to our moral betterment. Conscience is not only an ethical guide, rather it is also the basis of (self-)consciousness. For Hölderlin, the constituent elements of conscience have two divergent sets of possibilities: in excess, thanatos and eros bring about our ruin but alternatively, they can converge constructively to form conscience that enables us to become autonomous historical agents. Rousseau is a crucial figure for Hölderlin, especially in the poem “Der Rhein,” because in his writings, he finds a way of overcoming the destructive pull of eros and thanatos. Additionally, the reference to Rousseau's affirmation of conscience creates the basis of poetic self-reflexivity in “Der Rhein”: it is the moment that uncovers the temporal and phenomenological affinities between human consciousness and signs of the God in the mundane world. It is in this way that Hölderlin links poetic practice with historical agency.
Palabras del señor rector No.7
Authors: Loucel José Mauricio
Published: August 2017

La Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador, Utec, se complace sobremanera al presentar este nuevo número de la revista Kóot, que está dedicada a la investigación museológica y a la cultura en general, y que hoy ofrecemos a nuestra comunidad universitaria, especialmente a los docentes, investigadores científios y estudiantes, así como al público en general.Este año la Utec está celebrando el trigésimo quinto aniversario del inicio de su vida académica, y por ello es de particular interés recalcar que una de sus grandes apuestas ha estado focalizada en la creación, el fomento y desarrollo de las carreras especializadas de Antropología y Arqueología en nuestro país, por considerarlas disciplinas vinculadas con la investigación de nuestras huellas de identidad como nación.
A manera de presentación No.7
Authors: Rivas Ramón D.
Published: August 2017

Una vez más presentamos al público universitario, a la comunidad científia y a la opinión pública nacional e internacional este nuevo número de Kóot, recién salida de nuestra editorial.Se trata de una publicación internacional, académica y arbitrada de circulación semestral, cuyo objetivo principal es promover la difusión del conocimiento, los avances y las reflxiones en torno de la investigación, la práctica y la formación profesional en los campos y disciplinas afies a la museología, conservación, restauración, museografía, gestión y estudio del patrimonio cultural entre la comunidad académica salvadoreña y mundial.
Visión aristotélico-tomista de la economía
Authors: Fúnez Rubén
Published: August 2017

En el presente trabajo abordamos la visión económica tanto de Aristóteles como de Tomás de Aquino, con el propósito de encontrar aquel marco categorial que dé luces a la actual situación económica en la que nos encontramos.
Discurso: “Estados Unidos Hispano”
Authors: Ambroggio Luis Alberto
Published: August 2017

El presente discurso versa sobre el libro Estados Unidos Hispanos que intenta reunir los textos de ensayos previos, conferencias y artículos sobre la hispanidad de los Estados Unidos vivida y expresada bajo diferentes puntos de vista, dándoles algo de una cohesión formal que ejemplifique su título.
Evolución de la Sociología. Futuro e historia
Authors: Castro H. Pablo de Jesús
Published: August 2017

Esta síntesis pretende describir elementos muy generales sobre su origen histórico, desarrollo y futura proyección. En tres apartados destacamos:1) Surgimiento de élites intelectuales que dieron origen a la sociologíaCCSS clásica, que dejaron herencia a generaciones contemporáneas.2) Creación de su objeto de estudio con base en un sistema conceptual y categorial constructor de teorías, métodos, prácticas sociales y académicas.3) Destacar innovadores procesos de investigación científica productores de conocimientos y pensamiento sociológico que cualifican su status de ciencia social abierta a las necesidades y realidades del presente-futuro.
Ecos de la lírica política de Rubén Darío en algunos poemas de Juan Felipe Toruño
Authors: Toruño Haensly Rhina
Published: August 2017

Este artículo pone sobre la palestra los hechos históricos como un continuum inspirando la creación literaria. La autora leyendo la vida de Rubén Darío, constata que la guerra hispanoamericana de 1898 conmovió profundamente a este célebre literato. En sus artículos de El tiempo, Darío censuró acremente a los Estados Unidos: “No, no puedo, no quiero estar de parte de esos búfalos de dientes de plata. Son enemigos míos, son los aborrecedores de la sangre latina.”
Trauma nacional y cultura indígena. Los sucesos de 1932 en El Salvador
Authors: Hernández David
Published: August 2017

El presente trabajo parte del trauma nacional generado por la masacre de más de quince mil indígenas en 1932, de parte del gobierno del general Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, lo cual generó la virtual desaparición de los últimos restos de cultura indígena náhuat-pipil, principalmente su idioma, vestimentas, costumbres y tradiciones. Analiza las consecuencias de dicha masacre en la historia del país, contextualizada en las coyunturas político-económicas de la época.
The Hesiodic Shield of Heracles: The Text as Nightmarish Vision
Authors: Brockliss William
Published: August 2017

This paper seeks to account for the anomalous qualities of the Hesiodic Shield of Heracles, and particularly of the shield-description within the poem. Drawing on Khapaeva’s analysis of the nightmare in literature, I argue that the shield-description develops a nightmarish aesthetics: with its horrific themes, intense visuality, and broken structures, the description imitates a nightmare. Moreover, it encourages listeners to immerse themselves in the nightmarish world that it creates.
France and the Polish-Soviet War, 1919–1920
Authors: Wandycz Piotr S.
Published: August 2017

France emerged victorious from the First World war but had to face complex international problems of territorial, ideological, and military nature. The former Russian ally—a counterweight to a defeated but powerful Germany—was in the throes of a civil war, and the Bolsheviks were proclaiming a European revolution. The Red army advancing westward clashed with the nascent Polish state. To the Poles it was a conflict with both Communism and perennial Russian imperialism. The French army assisted Poland, viewed as a “place d’armes” against the Bolsheviks, and it contributed to some extent to Polish victory, but the Paris government was ambivalent as to contested territorial issues. To appreciate the nature of this Franco-Russian-Polish “triangle” it needs to be seen in a larger historical context in which the Poles were never an equal partner of the French.
Implementation of Transactional Planning Systems for the Plastics Industry
Authors: Romo Gonzalez Ana Eugenia , Villalobos-Alonzo Angeles
Published: August 2017

Transactional systems are an alternative process improvement for any industrial sector; however, due to the rapid growth of the plastics industry worldwide, this industry requires the automation of production with agile systems. This document presents a procedure to implement transactional tools of the Master Production Schedule (MPS) and Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) for the automation and control of the operations area processes in an organization. These processes are part of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tools that use connections to mobile devices and are often compatible with different customer support systems, allowing the integration of all business units to interact with the manufacturing control and purchasing. The method used in the research have a quantitative cut in which 15 companies were studied in the plastics sector in Mexico and was divided in three phases, these focused on the revision of the business processes and the analysis of the substantive processes of the organization that allowed the subsequent establishment of proposals for improvement. In the final proposal of implementation of the tool tansaccional included: the functional analysis of the systems, the planning and their evaluation.
A Unified Competitive Palestinian Strategy
Authors: Awad Samir A.
Published: August 2017

Palestinians need a strategy that will lift them out of their seemingly unending dilemma of prolonged Israeli settler-colonial occupation. Palestinian strategy needs to be re-positioned, to be part of a published strategic vision for a lasting solution that needs a national consensus on the requirements.The Palestinian struggle to achieve a viable independent state can be attained by engaging in a contest of credibility generating a long term sustainable advantage responding to the opportunities and threats, to achieve our objectives through capturing international political signals; or as Edward Said described it “Capturing the Imagination of the world”.The purpose of strategy is to gain some form of advantage; to maintain or protect assets or interests. Strategy is about gaining or maintaining an advantage or denying an advantage to the Israeli Occupation.To set a strategy, one usually employs past experience tactics whereby future probabilities, gains and losses are approximated in a given situation (game theory). A strategy is not routinely changeable or is quickly reversible. Nevertheless, a strategy must not stand still in the face major international events. On the contrary, a solid strategy must be capable of responding to changing events[1] in a manner whereby tactical threats could be turned into gains or opportunities. It is also necessary that a strategy ought to be, when formulated, based upon the strengths whist remaining mindful of weaknesses in order for it to deal with arising threats or challenges.For over two decades, since the signing of the Oslo Accords between the Palestinian Liberation Organization and Israel,  the Israeli military occupation, land confiscation and destruction, expansion of settlements, denial of Palestinian right to self-determination and control over natural resources remain in place.Israel continues with its settler-colonial project undeterred by the Palestinian resistance or the condemnation of most countries in the world. That has undermined the so-called “Peace process” and its ultimate objective of a two-state solution, leaving the Palestinians with a prospect of prolonged occupation, which leaves them helpless and hopeless.
O gênero discurso quadra popular: subsídios para leitura e escrita na escola
Authors: Cestari Wildman Dos Santos
Published: August 2017

Este artigo visa a caracterizar o gênero discursivo quadra popular a fim de que essa caracterização possa, futuramente, subsidiar a elaboração de sequências didáticas de leitura e produção escrita desse gênero. Atem-se à historicidade, às condições de produção, circulação, a elementos temáticos, enunciativos, composicionais e estilísticos. A pesquisa fundamentou-se no conceito bakhtiniano de gênero discursivo e em autores que dialogam sobre a versificação de formas poéticas orais, tradicionais e literárias em suas diversas manifestações sociais. Qualitativamente, investigou-se um corpus de 44 quadras populares coletadas de A Trova (1973), A Trova Popular (1974), Tradições Populares (1976), A trova do Brasil (1972), Música, doce música (1976), As melodias do boi e outras peças (1989), O Bumba-meu-boi som e movimento (2011), Música de Feitiçaria no Brasil (1963), Manual de Versificação Românica (2003), Manual de danças gaúchas (1955) e de + 1001 quadrinhas populares da Vovó Anita (2008). Os resultados mostram que a quadra popular no Brasil é um gênero discursivo que se caracteriza por ser plasmado no molde português, cujo afeiçoamento se dá por um processo formular, apoiado no princípio da variação. Conservando por “muletas iniciais” e “finais” ou “chavões” muitas temáticas de origem, mas com adaptações já nacionalizadas. Conclui-se que essas características do gênero discursivo quadra popular no Brasil podem subsidiar um trabalho de leitura e produção escrita em sala de aula nos Ensinos Fundamental e Médio.
Língua Portuguesa no ENEM: análise das questões das provas de 2006 a 2014
Authors: Oliveira Thiago Soares de
Published: August 2017

Esta pesquisa, por se tratar de um recorte de parte dos resultados da dissertação submetida ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Cognição e Linguagem, a fim de obter o grau de Mestre pela Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, tem por objetivo analisar o conteúdo das questões de Língua Portuguesa cobrados nas provas do ENEM entre os anos de 2006 e 2014, especificamente em relação aos conhecimentos gramaticais/linguísticos. Para isso, as próprias questões de Língua Portuguesa do exame, mais especificamente da seção Linguagens, Códigos e suas Tecnologias, serviram de corpora para essa parte do trabalho, que se valeu da pesquisa documental como metodologia capaz de dar conta do objetivo proposto, bem como em razão da fonte de dados escolhida. Além disso, a organização deste artigo partiu de análises anteriores cujos resultados sintéticos foram apresentados de forma introdutória à análise propriamente dita. Como referencial teórico da pesquisa de mestrado, linguistas da forma e do texto dividiram espaço entre consensos e contrapontos com o escopo bem embasar as discussões tecidas a posteriori, o que, com efeito, foi aqui mencionado em recorte sucinto, tendo em vista a extensão do trabalho dissertativo original. Por fim, como principais resultados e conclusões, verificou-se o esgotamento dos temas de Língua Portuguesa em três subcategorias (gramática/variedade padrão, níveis de linguagem e sociolinguística), sendo que, em todos os anos das provas submetidas à análise, sempre houve perguntas referentes à subcategoria gramática/variedade padrão, enquanto o aparecimento de questões nas demais subcategorias se comportou de forma intermitente.
“Dicas de saúde”: sua possível constituição enquanto um gênero textual
Authors: Khalil Lucas Martins Gama
Published: August 2017

Este trabalho objetiva discutir se podemos conceber como gênero textual específico um conjunto de textos agrupados pela denominação comum “dicas de saúde”. Para tanto, realizaremos alguns apontamentos teóricos sobre tipologia textual, dando ênfase à conceituação de gênero. Estudos concernentes às superestruturas textuais (Van Dijk; Travaglia), à tipologia geral de textos (Travaglia) e à comunidade discursiva (Swales) também embasam teoricamente nossas reflexões e análises. Foram analisados vinte exemplares de “dicas de saúde” em formato de folheto, além de uma matéria de revista e de um programa televisivo que trazem em uma de suas seções algo semelhante ao que encontramos nos folhetos. Após análises, de cunho qualitativo, concluímos que tais textos podem ser concebidos como espécie de um gênero mais amplo, devido à existência de outras “dicas” que não necessariamente abordam a questão da saúde.
Um estudo da função de operadores argumentativos usados no gênero editorial enquanto recursos na construção do discurso persuasivo
Authors: Parreira Míriam Silveira
Published: August 2017

A proposta deste trabalho é analisar o uso de operadores argumentativos na construção de enunciados de editoriais, apresentando-os como correspondentes aos lugares da retórica clássica. Para tanto, objetivamos verificar de que forma eles podem funcionar enquanto recurso na construção do discurso persuasivo. O corpus que compõe esta pesquisa, de natureza qualitativa, compreende 03 editoriais extraídos de três jornais: Folha de S. Paulo, Estado de Minas e O Globo. Para a análise, tomamos como base os estudos de Koch (1984), ao abordar que pela linguagem, no processo de interação, procura-se a adesão do interlocutor, bem como na afirmação da autora de que há na língua mecanismos que podem ser usados na estruturação do texto para direcionar a argumentação. Usamos como base teórica os estudos de Perelman e Olbrecths-Tyteca (1999) que afirmam ser o discurso argumentativo escrito produzido com a finalidade de se obter a adesão de um interlocutor. As considerações feitas tendem a mostrar que o uso de operadores argumentativos pode tornar mais forte a argumentação dos editoriais de jornal, contribuindo para a persuasão.
Problematizações acerca do gênero do discurso história em quadrinhos não ficcional
Authors: Tavares Mayara Barbosa
Published: August 2017

A pesquisa objetiva a análise e a problematização do gênero do discurso história em quadrinhos não ficcional intitulada O incrível mensalão, de Angeli, veiculada no Jornal Folha de São Paulo, em 2012. A fundamentação teórica liga-se às obras de Bakhtin (2003, 2006) e a noção de gênero do discurso e outras. Para a teorização das histórias em quadrinhos, são utilizadas as obras de Eisner (2001, 2005), com foco nos conceitos de arte sequencial e narrativa gráfica; e de Ramos (2009a, 2009b), com as contribuições sobre a linguagem dos quadrinhos. É perceptível o uso do gênero do discurso história em quadrinhos para a abordagem de assuntos não ficcionais, como o caso do mensalão. As características que corroboram para o uso da história em quadrinhos não ficcional são a utilização da linguagem verbal e não verbal, a relação entre as forças centrípetas e centrífugas do gênero e a crescente aceitação do gênero na sociedade atual.
A diferença e a diversidade na sala de aula: identidades religiosas em jogo
Authors: Semechechem Jakeline A.
Published: August 2017

Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar como a diferença e a diversidade em sala de aula são expressas por meio da linguagem, pelo modo como os participantes interagem com as identidades sociais. Nessa perspectiva, o texto apresenta como alunos de uma turma de Ensino Médio de escola pública interagem tendo em vista as categorias de pertencimento religioso. Os pressupostos teóricos empregados são da Análise de Categorias de Pertencimento e os dados de interação utilizados na análise são resultantes de gravações audiovisuais de uma pesquisa qualitativa-interpretativa de cunho etnográfico. A análise mostra que a religião é um marcador social na sala de aula, o pertencimento a determinadas categorias religiosas são assumidos enquanto outros são omitidos, o que tem relação com o contexto no qual a escola está inserida. Esses resultados apontam para a relevância do olhar para a diversidade e a diferença na sala de aula.
Descrevendo processos de formação de sinais em Libras em uma variedade de Belém do Pará
Authors: Ferreira Sindy Rayane De Souza , Ferreira Marília de Nazaré De Oliveira
Published: August 2017

Este trabalho discute questões da Morfologia de Libras, a qual estuda a estrutura interna dos sinais e as regras que determinam a formação desses sinais. Alguns estudos sobre a estrutura morfológica e lexical das línguas de sinais constataram que a Libras apresenta um considerável número de processos que formam sinais, dentre as quais estão a derivação, a composição, a incorporação de numeral e a incorporação da negação. A partir do tratamento dado por Ferreira-Brito (1995), Quadros e Karnopp (2004) e Felipe (2006) aos processos formadores de sinais em Libras, o presente trabalho descreve a ocorrência de tais processos em sinais da variedade de Libras de Belém do Pará.
Observação da macro e microestrutura e análise da unidade léxica "Deus" no dicionário Aurélio
Authors: Blasque Roberta Maria Garcia , Pinho Ednéia De Cássia Santos , Storto Letícia Jovelina
Published: August 2017

Este artigo objetiva descrever a macro e a microestrutura do dicionário Aurélio e analisar a apresentação da unidade léxica “Deus” no dicionário. Para isso, elencamos como material de estudo três edições do Novo dicionário da língua portuguesa (1975 - primeira edição -, 1986 e 1999), duas edições do Novo dicionário eletrônico Aurélio (2004 e 2009) e uma edição do Miniaurélio (2008). Por meio da análise, foi possível observar que essa unidade lexical é explicada de maneira um pouco distinta de uma edição para outra. Além disso, há o acréscimo de palavras e pequenas mudanças tanto nas explicações de um mesmo verbete quanto na macro e na microestrutura do dicionário.
Contribuições da semântica argumentativa na compreensão de questões do Enem
Authors: Hübner Larissa Pontes
Published: August 2017

A principal competência usada na prova do ENEM é a compreensão leitora, buscando, portanto, destacar a leitura e a interpretação de textos variados. Suas questões são chamadas, dessa forma, de situações-problema, isto é, o estudante deve mobilizar todos os recursos que tem e tomar decisões favoráveis ao seu objetivo. Nessa perspectiva, este artigo fará uma reflexão acerca do ensino de Língua Portuguesa no Ensino Médio, partindo da análise de questões do ENEM com o propósito de testar se certas perguntas podem ser respondidas simplesmente por sua compreensão linguística, ou seja, se não seriam necessários conhecimentos prévios sobre o tema abordado. A fim de encontrar o sentido construído pelo linguístico do texto, foi utilizada como alicerce a Teoria da Argumentação na Língua (Semântica Argumentativa), de Oswald Ducrot e colaboradores, principalmente no que diz respeito à fase atual, a Teoria dos Blocos Semânticos, desenvolvida com Marion Carel. Nessa teoria, o autor postula que é o discurso que porta sentido, ou seja, para descrever o sentido devemos nos apoiar no linguístico.
Construção de sentido do texto literário: uma análise semiótica
Authors: Terra Ernani
Published: August 2017

Este artigo, denominado “Construção de sentido do texto literário: uma análise semiótica”, insere-se na linha de pesquisa Leitura do texto literário: fundamentos semióticos, desenvolvida pelo autor em nível de pós-doutoramento em semiótica discursiva e tem por objetivo mostrar a construção do sentido de textos literários com fundamento na semiótica de linha francesa. A metodologia empregada é a desmontagem e a remontagem de dois textos, um poema e um conto, num processo em que se analisam os três níveis do percurso gerativo do sentido. São também feitas relações com outros textos da autora. No nível fundamental, analisam-se os valores que serão assumidos por um sujeito e, posteriormente, discursivizados. No nível intermediário, o das estruturas narrativas, analisa-se o percurso do sujeito, que assume as axiologias, tornando o virtual (as axiologias) em valores atualizados. No nível mais superficial e concreto, o das estruturas discursivas, investiga-se a transformação do sujeito narrativo em ator, numa passagem do sujeito atualizado para um sujeito realizado. Nesse nível, investigam-se ainda as isotopias figurativas, responsáveis pela assunção que mais claramente expõem as determinações ideológicas. Os resultados obtidos mostram que o sentido dos textos se dá por um percurso que vai da decomposição do todo em fragmentos, que é negada, para a afirmação da totalidade.
A metáfora estrutural do conto Champavert, le lycanthrope (1833), de Pétrus Borel (1809-1859)
Authors: Lima Fernanda
Published: August 2017

O presente trabalho tem como foco de análise a composição da cenografia enunciativa (MAINGUENEAU, 2006) do conto Champavert, le lycanthrope (1833), escrito por Pétrus Borel, representante legítimo do romantismo frenético francês. A problemática central deste artigo vincula-se à saturação de metáforas do grotesco no conto em questão, em sua relação com a identidade enunciativa do autor. As metáforas que permeiam o conto Champavert, le lycanthrope referem-se às temáticas grotescas da metamorfose e da oposição ser-parecer. Essas metáforas tecem e orientam a legibilidade da narrativa (GENETTE, 1972, 1991), indiciando estratégias na composição de sua cenografia enunciativa. O processo de análise textual desvela o potencial estruturante e estrutural da metáfora da sociedade como um charco, enquanto “fio analógico condutor” (BORDAS, 2003) do conto selecionado.
Reflexão sobre o processo histórico que (des)une a língua portuguesa e a língua espanhola através dos tempos: alguns gestos de políticas linguísticas
Authors: Jacumasso Tadinei Daniel
Published: August 2017

Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar uma reflexão acerca do processo histórico que (des)une a língua portuguesa e a língua espanhola, valendo-se de alguns gestos políticos tomados pelos “gestores” dessas línguas. O referencial teórico usado para subsidiar a presente reflexão está centrado, entre outros, nos estudos de Calvet (2007), Woolard (2007) e Lagares (2013). A metodologia adotada consistiu no exame de alguns documentos e gestos político-linguísticos determinantes para o desenvolvimento e evolução das duas línguas analisadas. Como resultado dessa reflexão, é possível afirmar que a proximidade, digamos política, entre as duas línguas, por um lado tem sido fundamental nas tomadas de decisões acerca da preservação e expansão dessas línguas e, por outro, tal proximidade foi determinada politicamente desde a origem do português e do espanhol. A língua espanhola, amparada numa política vigorosa e silenciadora, prosperou largamente e isso fez com que a língua portuguesa, por sua vez, vivesse desde sempre e até pouco tempo atrás com uma sombra ameaçadora castelhana.