bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Les travertins de Saint-Antonin : séquence géobotanique et climato-anthropique holocène (Bouches-du-Rhône, France)
Authors: Guendon Jean-Louis , Ali Adam A. , Roiron Paul , Terral Jean-Frédéric , Anna André d' , Diaz del Olmo Fernando , Baena Escudero Rafael
Published: November 2018

Formés au cours de l'Holocène, entre le Préboréal et le Subboréal, les travertins de Saint-Antonin renferment des coquilles de gastéropodes, des vestiges néolithiques, des charbons de bois et des empreintes foliaires. De nouvelles datations et de récentes analyses, niveau par niveau, des divers macrorestes végétaux, couplées à l'étude détaillée des faciès sédimentaires, ont permis de préciser l'évolution des paléoenvironnements et de la dynamique morpho-sédimentaire au pied de la Sainte-Victoire au cours de cette période. Ces résultats sont confrontés aux rythmes des occupations humaines préhistoriques régionales et aux changements climatiques globaux.
Le jaugeage de débits torrentiels par dilution d'un colorant alimentaire (E110 : jaune orangé sunset) Application à l'exsurgence de la Doria (Massif des Bauges, France)
Authors: Fanget Bernard , Najib Molaï Hamid Reza , Mietton Michel
Published: November 2018

Measurement of torrential flows (Doria, Prealpes of Savoie , France) by dilution of a food colouring (E110 : yellow orange sunset).

The aim of this study is the measurement of torrential flows by dilution of a food yellow orange colouring (E110). Field measurements are realized in the Doria river, a moutain torrent in Savoie Prealpes. A limnimetric station, installed since ten years, is periodically calibrated by mechanical and chemical measurements. Moreover, the comparison of the concomitant mechanical and chemical methods allows the statistical validation of the proposed technique. The main advantages of this method are the lack of toxicity and the colour, comparable to the one of aquatic organic matter, and the low detection limit. This methods allows high flow measurement values when using suitable tank and adjutage.
Eléments de réflexion sur la morphogenèse des plateaux de Vaucluse (France) : les apports du karst superficiel
Authors: Depambour Christophe , Guendon Jean-Louis
Published: November 2018

About the genesis of Vaucluse plateaux : the lessons from karstic landforms. The study of the principal forms of the surface karst gives a first diagram of evolution of the plates of Vaucluse. Paleo-surfaces now perched and/or deformed are witnesses old major phases of flattening, in regional matter, undoubtedly of ante-miocene age. The whole of intermediate surfaces (850 m) seems to cut the miocene deposits (Burdigalien ) of the ditch of AureUSault. It thus reveals a major phase of post-miocene flattening. These surfaces of karstic flattening were to be in relation to the vast poljes of the sectors of Saint-Christol and the ditch of Sault. Their genesis, dependent on dysfunctions of the etidokarstic drainage, could be related to the pliocene transgression. Canyon of Nesque, structuring elements major landscape, present, on both sides Rocher du Cire, two distinct parts, having own morphologies. The downstream part, wide open, would have grown hollow by headwater erosion from a karstic steephead perhaps since the end of Miocene. The narrow upstream part would have incised itself, after capture of the polje of Sault, undoubtedly at the time of the cold phases of the Quaternary one.
Recherches sur le karst de l'Alpe du Lauzet. Massif des Cerces, Hautes-Alpes. Le traçage du gouffre du Clôt des Vaches
Authors: Flandin Jean-Louis , Martin Marie-Pierre , Mettetal Jean-Pierre
Published: November 2018

La découverte en 2002 du Gouffre du Clôt des Vaches et de sa perte active nous a donné l'idée de rechercher les émergences possibles et de procéder à un traçage pour identifier une partie des circulations souterraines du massif de L'Alpe du Lauzet. Ce traçage réussi a confirmé l'hypothèse d'une percée hydrogéologique avec les Sources de l'Alpe du Lauzet et ainsi de mettre en garde les propriétaires des chalets d'alpage contre un éventuel risque de contamination des eaux. Un lien avec les sources de Plan Chevalier semble probable mais beaucoup moins direct et rapide.
La table des courtisanes dans « La Comédie humaine »
Authors: Murata Kyoko
Published: November 2018

Cet article se propose d’analyser la relation entre la nourriture et les courtisanes balzaciennes. On traite d’abord le banquet de Taillefer dans La Peau de chagrin, pour voir comment les courtisanes sont réduites au statut d’objets de consommation. Ensuite, on vérifie les traits particuliers de Flore Brazier dans La Rabouilleuse, qui s’efforce de pénétrer les secrets de la gastronomie pour mieux dominer son maître. Enfin, on examine l’embourgeoisement de Valérie Marneffe dans La Cousine Bette, à travers sa réussite socio-économique, étroitement liée à la nourriture et au repas. Ainsi comprend-on que dans La Comédie humaine où l’assouvissement alimentaire et la jouissance sexuelle ne sauraient être séparés, la présence des courtisanes soit indispensable.
Coordination model in Hinterland chain of hub-and-spoke global logistics
Authors: Sholihah Sita Aniisah , Samadhi T.M.A. Ari , Cakravastia Andi , Nur Bahagia Senator
Published: November 2018

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to develop an inter-organizational model of coordination in hinterland chain of hub-and-spoke in global logistics, where dryport works as a spoke and seaport as a hub.Design/methodology/approach: The model built will define a conceptual model in order to coordinate several actors involved in handling the flow of goods and the flow of information (documents) in exporting goods via dryport, where their activities are interdependence. Therefore the first step was to investigate an existing business process of export system via dryport. Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is used to identify bottleneck in existing system and simplify the process. The third step was benchmarking coordination in selected country that have similarity of hinterland characteristics with Indonesia (archipelago country), and exporting agricultural or animal products. After that several alternatives conceptual model of coordination will be proposed, of which the development based on inter-organizational system (IOS) approach. The model is then evaluated by experts to choose the best conceptual model of coordination that suits the real system, especially in Indonesia. The choosen model then being validated by developing simulation using agent-based approach and discrete-event simulation.Findings: The findings of this research is coordination mechanism in export process. There are two basic mechanisms in document preparation, three basic mechanisms in quarantine inspection, and three basic mechanisms in inland transportation and handling. The proposed model using a single connection and single submission to handling coordination among actors.Originality/value: The paper provide coordination of inter-organizational system among involved actors in handling physical flow of goods and flow of information (documents) in arranging exporting goods via dryport (hub-and-spoke typology). Moreover, scope of research is hinterland (outside seaport) with coordination that considering flow of information in hub-and-spoke concept was rarely done by other researchers.
Adolphe Combanaire (1859-1939). La gloire de l’explorateur.
Authors: Labrousse Pierre
Published: November 2018

Adolphe Combanaire (1859-1939) est surtout connu pour sa traversée de Bornéo en 1898 dans des conditions périlleuses et rocambolesques. Il illustre un type particulier d’explorateur, qui se développe à la fin du XIXe siècle sur le vecteur des entreprises coloniales. Mais alors que la plupart des voyageurs se protègent par des missions de la Société de géographie ou de l’Instruction publique, Adolphe Combanaire, lui, s’est entiché de la gutta percha qui commence à manquer dramatiquement pour les câbles téléphoniques. Il explore seul l’Asie du Sud-Est en joignant avec succès l’entreprise à l’aventure. Mais en même temps il veille soigneusement à sa réputation d’intrépidité par la publication du récit de ses aventures de Bornéo à Saïgon dans le Journal des voyages. Le dernier chapitre de ce parcours mouvementé se déplace sur le front de la Grande Guerre où il perd un bras. La fin de sa vie à Châteauroux est consacrée à ferrailler dans la politique locale, pour la défense des Poilus.
Jules Claine chez les Batak (1891) : un récit controversé
Authors: Perret Daniel
Published: November 2018

En septembre 1891, la communication d’un explorateur français tout juste rentré d’une expédition au nord de Sumatra, fît sensation au congrès des orientalistes de Londres. Quelques mois plus tard, ce retentissement était sérieusement mis à mal par l’un des membres de l’expédition. Cet article tente de retracer le parcours de vie de l’explorateur en question, Jules Claine, en particulier le contexte et les raisons qui ont vu naître cette polémique probablement unique dans l’histoire de l’exploration de Sumatra à l’époque coloniale. C’est aussi l’occasion de s’interroger sur la biographie d’un personnage dont le milieu d’origine semble bien loin de présager un tel destin. Enfin, l’auteur retourne sur les pas de l’explorateur dans une région où ce dernier n’y reconnaîtrait sans doute que les volcans.
Nature Conservation in a Frontier Region of Java during the Colonial and Early Post-Colonial Periods
Authors: Nawiyanto
Published: November 2018

Given the changing environmental realities under colonial rule, Java was believed to have come close to a time of ecological crisis. Drawing upon a number of historical sources, this paper examines the development of nature conservation in a frontier region of Java called the Besuki Residency. It is argued that nature conservation in the region was a reflection of trends in a broader context. The challenges for nature conservation were not only due to the continuing contests over resources between the state and the people, but also to internal issues within the government. Up until around 1970 nature conservation remained very much state-centred and with a strong international thrust, rather than relying on popular support, and the primary problems were mostly encountered in the enforcement of the laws, rather than in the absence of a legal framework. The problems existing in the implementation of nature conservation both during the colonial and post-colonial periods essentially remained very much the same.
Mesurer la délinquance financière
Authors: Chaudieu Killian , Amicelle Anthony
Published: November 2018

Le présent article porte sur les dynamiques existantes entre les trois grands types d’intervenants dans la « lutte contre l’argent sale », à savoir les instances non étatiques sommées de dénoncer les opérations financières suspectes, l’instance administrative spécialisée dans le traitement et le renvoi de ces dénonciations et enfin les instances pénales autorisées à utiliser celles qui leur parviennent à des fins de poursuite judiciaire. Pour ce faire, la démonstration repose sur un accès inédit aux données concernant les dénonciations pour soupçon de blanchiment d’argent en Suisse qui, confrontées aux statistiques de condamnations pénales en la matière, font apparaître des écarts permettant d’envisager la mesure de la délinquance financière comme une exploration de la tension constante entre illégalisme et délinquance. À cet égard, il ressort du contexte suisse que certaines situations dénoncées résistent beaucoup mieux que d’autres à l’application d’une qualification d’infraction pénale en matière de blanchiment d’argent et, par extension, à l’objectivation en tant que figure de délinquance.
The Control of Public Spaces in Montreal in Times of Managerial Justice
Authors: Fortin Véronique
Published: November 2018

In Montreal, homeless people and protesters receive a disproportionate number of statements of offence. These statements of offence are issued by the Montreal police department for the homeless and protesters’ occupation of public spaces (such as sleeping in a park at night or participating in an unlawful assembly). However, those offences are rarely tried and most of the statements of offence are instead withdrawn through prosecutorial discretion, but not before several court hearings. This process seems to indicate that the police court network is departing from the adjudicative ideal to enter a managerial justice paradigm. Punishment seems to happen both at the moment of the arrest and during the pre-trial procedures. In times of managerial justice, the police are punishing certain illegalities and the court is managing marginalized populations.
Quel droit contre les discriminations ?
Authors: Chappe Vincent-Arnaud
Published: November 2018

La création en France en 2005 d’une « Haute autorité de lutte contre les discriminations et pour l’égalité » (Halde) a suscité d’importantes controverses au sein de l’espace militant. Accusée de dépénaliser les discriminations, l’analyse statistique de ses décisions et une enquête qualitative sur son fonctionnement ont permis d’objectiver une réalité plus complexe en interaction avec les spécificités des situations qualifiées, entre judiciarisation et déjudiciarisation, réactivité et proactivité. Plutôt qu’une dépénalisation stricte de la discrimination, il faut alors parler d’un accompagnement différencié à la judiciarisation, et in fine d’une reconfiguration partielle de la signification des discriminations et de leur qualification juridique, sur la base d’une solidarité plus organique que mécanique, en lien avec la montée en puissance d’un droit civil de la non-discrimination.
Depth Maps and Deep Learning for Facial Analysis
Authors: Brito Paulo C. , Carvalho Elizabeth S.
Published: November 2018

Gathering and examining progressively multi-modular sensor information of human faces is a critical issue in PC vision, with applications in examinations, entertainment, and security. However, due to the exigent nature of the problem, there is a lack of affordable and easy-to-use systems, with real-time, annotations capability, 3D analysis, replay capability and with a frame speed capable of detecting facial patterns in working behavior environments. In the context of an ongoing effort to develop tools to support the monitoring and evaluation of the human affective state in working environments, the authors investigate the applicability of a facial analysis approach to map and evaluate human facial patterns. The challenge is to interpret this multi-modal sensor data to classify it with deep learning algorithms and fulfill the following requirements: annotations capability, 3D analysis, and replay capability. In addition, the authors want to be able to continuously enhance the output result of the system with a training process in order to improve and evaluate different patterns of the human face.
Big Data Clustering Analysis Algorithm for Internet of Things Based on K-Means
Authors: Yu Zhanqiu
Published: November 2018

To explore the Internet of things logistics system application, an Internet of things big data clustering analysis algorithm based on K-mans was discussed. First of all, according to the complex event relation and processing technology, the big data processing of Internet of things was transformed into the extraction and analysis of complex relational schema, so as to provide support for simplifying the processing complexity of big data in Internet of things (IOT). The traditional K-means algorithm was optimized and improved to make it fit the demand of big data RFID data network. Based on Hadoop cloud cluster platform, a K-means cluster analysis was achieved. In addition, based on the traditional clustering algorithm, a center point selection technology suitable for RFID IOT data clustering was selected. The results showed that the clustering efficiency was improved to some extent. As a result, an RFID Internet of things clustering analysis prototype system is designed and realized, which further tests the feasibility.
Energy and SLA Efficient Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Environment Using Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm
Authors: Sharma Oshin , Saini Hemraj
Published: November 2018

To increase the availability of the resources and simultaneously to reduce the energy consumption of data centers by providing a good level of the service are one of the major challenges in the cloud environment. With the increasing data centers and their size around the world, the focus of the current research is to save the consumption of energy inside data centers. Thus, this article presents an energy-efficient VM placement algorithm for the mapping of virtual machines over physical machines. The idea of the mapping of virtual machines over physical machines is to lessen the count of physical machines used inside the data center. In the proposed algorithm, the problem of VM placement is formulated using a non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm based multi-objective optimization. The objectives are: optimization of the energy consumption, reduction of the level of SLA violation and the minimization of the migration count.
Towards Benefiting Both Cloud Users and Service Providers Through Resource Provisioning
Authors: Durga S.  , Mohan S.  , Dinesh Peter J.  , Nittala Martina Rebecca
Published: November 2018

Cloud users expect high Quality of service (QoS) levels within their budget and the cloud service providers (CSPs) to maximize their profits, always strive for the cost and energy minimization and better resource utilization. Any error in the management of resources causes Service Level Agreement (SLA) violations, high penalties, low customer satisfaction, and long-term losses. The objective of this article is to present a literature review on various resource provisioning strategies and also to present a novel cluster-based resource provisioning (CB-RP) technique that satisfies the needs of both cloud users and CSP. CB-RP employs a heart algorithm to cluster the arriving requests based on its characteristics. The CB-RP technique aims to analyze the requests and provision the resources according to the request category. Simulation results show that our technique produces significant improvements in terms of cost savings, resource utilization and turnaround time compared with state of art technique.
Research on Improved Method of Storage and Query of Large-Scale Remote Sensing Images
Authors: Weipeng Jing , Dongxue Tian , Guangsheng Chen , Yiyuan Li
Published: November 2018

The traditional method is used to deal with massive remote sensing data stored in low efficiency and poor scalability. This article presents a parallel processing method based on MapReduce and HBase. The filling of remote sensing images by the Hilbert curve makes the MapReduce method construct pyramids in parallel to reduce network communication between nodes. Then, the authors design a massive remote sensing data storage model composed of metadata storage model, index structure and filter column family. Finally, this article uses MapReduce frameworks to realize pyramid construction, storage and query of remote sensing data. The experimental results show that this method can effectively improve the speed of data writing and querying, and has good scalability.
Customer Satisfaction of Selected Branches of Bank of Ceylon in Batticaloa District
Authors: Ismail M.B.M.
Published: November 2018

Studies have also found that different studies have found different factors for customer satisfaction. But, these studies were carried out in different organsational settings such as service industries. This study is conducted in two selected bank branches of Bank of Ceylon in Batticaloa District. This study attempts to know about factors and factor rankings for customer satisfaction. Sample size considered in this study is 100 customers. These customers were contacted during the banking hours while they finish their banking activities without disturbing them and banking business. Results of the reliability revealed that items are higher reliable (0.700). Since value of Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin is 0.519 which reveals a satisfactory value. Bartlett's Test of Sphericity which is measured by approximate chi square. Value of significant approximate chi- square is 1637.840 with 231 degrees of freedom. Initial and extracted communalities for factors are 1 and greater than 0.6. Total eigenvalues that are greater than 1 is selected. There are 8 factor components that explain around 81% of variation towards customer satisfaction. It is concluded that, on the basis of the factor score, factors can be ranked.
Institutional Forces and Life Cycle Stages of Women-led SMEs in Developing Economies
Authors: Dissanayake Kumudinei
Published: November 2018

Despite women`s enormous involvement in economic activities through Small and Mediumscale Enterprises (SMEs), their progress has been relativelyslow and the macro environmental influences impeding women-led SMEs have been numerous. These impediments vary at different life cycle stages of the women-led business. As informed by life cycle stage theories of organizations, the formation, establishment, continuation and growth stage of businesses each have their own characteristics and needs, and thus entail specific resource requirements to be fulfilled for proceed to the next stage and/or for ensuring survival. This knowledge builds reasonable certainty that the issues undergone by womenled SMEs may vary and be distinctive at diverse life cycle stages of their businesses. The institutional environment of a country can impose restrictions or facilitate growth of entrepreneurship and small businesses. Even though evidence on issues related to formation, establishment, continuity and growth of women-led SMEs are not rare in the existing literature, the impact of the institutional environment at various business life cycle stages have not been well investigated. Thus, the aim of this study is to examine the institutional forces that affect the businesses at diverse life cycle stages of women-led SMEs in developing economies. Drawing from the institutional theory, the present study examines the institutional environmental forces influencing women-led SMEs at different stages of the business life cycles. It develops several propositions, building relationships among three institutional forces and different life cycles stages passed by women-led SMEs. It examines the effects of regulatory, normative and cognitive dimensions of the institutional environment at developing economy contexts. Based on the previous research findings, it encapsulates how apex level environmental conditions of under-developed institutional environments affect the life course of grass-root level women-led SMEs. Concurrently, the findings shed light on which dimension(s) of the institutional environment are most significant at a distinctive stage of women-led SME.
How to Improve Innovation Capability? : The Role of Intellectual Capital and Organizational Motivation of Manufacturing Firms in Sri Lanka
Authors: Sivalogathasan V.
Published: November 2018

The intellectual capital creates a crucial factor for the achievement of the innovation of firm. Numerous studies have been documented that intellectual capital positively influences innovation capability, which is conceptualized as the degree to achieve its firm performance. However, there is a lack of studies examining the specific means through which organizational motivation influences innovation capability at firm level. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to exhibit the Intellectual capital effects on firm innovation capability by influence the organizational motivation. This study investigates the multidimensional and contingent gradual effect of intellectual capitals and organizational motivation on innovation capability. Manufacturing sectors have shown commendable progress over the past few decades in Sri Lankan. The structured questionnaires were administrated as a research instrument and random sampling technique was used to collect the data from 462 senior executives and senior managers from manufacturing firms in Sri Lanka. The study revealed that the intellectual capital have significant positive relationship on innovation capability with strong influence of organizational motivation. The intellectual capital mediated by organizational motivation that lies outside and inside of the firm have an indirect effect on innovation capability. The findings of this study will be useful for manufacturing industry to apply intellectual capital management and identify organizational motivation to create innovation in their organizations.
Exploring Nature of Work Family Conflict: An Exploratory Study in the Banking Sector
Authors: Kengatharan N.
Published: November 2018

The work family literature demonstrates the great vitality and diversity of scholarship and it is an omnipresent factor in the study of contemporary organizations and society. This study was designed to diagnose the pervading nature of work family conflict in Sri Lanka. A total of fifteen respondents were purposively selected from a high status occupations viz., banking organisations and the experience survey was employed. The majority of the employees interviewed are in accord with existence of time based and strain based work family conflict in Sri Lanka. Nonetheless, as the third form of work family conflict-behaviour based work family conflict- in the vantage point of the majority of the employees opined that there was a flimsy of evidence to its existence. Most importantly, this study identified a new form of psychological based work family conflict and thus these novel insights unequivocally contribute to revamp the work family conflict literature. This study becomes a springboard for future research studies.
Report on 2017 field activities and collection of ground-thermal and active-layer data in the Mackenzie corridor, Northwest Territories
Authors: Smith S L , Chartrand J , Duchesne C
Published: November 2018

This report presents a summary of field activities conducted in 2017 in the Mackenzie corridor Northwest Territories (NWT). Air temperature, ground-thermal and active-layer data acquired from permafrost monitoring sites visited in 2017 are provided in graphical
and tabular format. Ground temperature records for the 2007-2017 period are also presented and indicate that permafrost is generally warming throughout the corridor and for a majority of sites, permafrost is currently warmer than the baseline established during the International Polar Year
(2007-09). The data presented provide essential baseline information that can be utilized by stakeholders and others for various purposes such as land management activities, regulatory processes and design of northern infrastructure. This report will be distributed to community organizations and
stakeholders in the study region to provide an update on field activities.
Morbid risk of schizophrenia amongst relatives of schizophrenia probands: A family-controlled study
Authors: Onu Uchenna J. , Ohaeri Jude U. , Unaogu Ngozi N. , Inechi Chikaodili M. , Nweze Nwamaka B. , Ubochi Vincent N. , Onwukwe Jojo U.
Published: November 2018

Introduction: There is a dearth of data on heritability of schizophrenia in Africa. The few African studies that addressed familial psychiatric morbidity in schizophrenia involved relatively small sample sizes and addressed psychiatric morbidity only in first-degree relatives. The present study sought to improve upon the methodology of previous African studies, and widen the scope to second- and third-degree relatives with a view to enriching the field of genetic epidemiology in Africa.Methods: This study elicited information on the morbid risk of schizophrenia amongst 5259 relatives of schizophrenia probands (n = 138) and 6734 relatives of healthy controls (n = 138) through direct interview of patients, available relatives of patients and controls. Diagnosis of probands was confirmed using Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview. Through a direct interview of 138 patients and their available relatives, a family history approach using the Family Interview for Genetic Studies was utilised to obtain information on the morbid risk for all relatives that could be recalled. The same approach was utilised for the interview of the controls (aged 45 years and above) and their relatives. Morbid risk estimates were calculated using the Weinberg shorter method.Results: Morbid risk for schizophrenia in the first-, second- and third-degree relatives of schizophrenia probands was 10.9% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 10.6–11.2), 4.2% (95% CI = 4.1–4.3) and 3.9% (95% CI = 3.6–4.2), respectively, compared with 2.6% (95% CI = 2.5–2.7), 1.6% (95% CI = 1.5–1.7) and 1.5% (95% CI = 1.4–1.6), respectively, of the healthy control group.Conclusion: The findings support the widely noted impression that schizophrenia significantly aggregates in families of schizophrenia probands more than healthy controls.
O legado da “Era Vargas”: balanço de debates
Authors: Pereira Neto Murilo Leal
Published: November 2018

Este artigo analisa os diferentes enfoques sobre a Era Vargas propostos em trabalhos recentes que enfatizam o varguismo como épica de um herói nacional injustiçado, como bonapartismo e como manifestação de um projeto nacional-desenvolvimentista. O balanço leva em consideração as contribuições e possíveis limitações de cada trabalho e, especialmente, seu posicionamento no debate político sobre o desenvolvimentismo e sua viabilidade como projeto de futuro.
As marchas de Gustave Cauvin – a primeira forma sistematizada e regular do cinema militante
Authors: Mundim Luiz Felipe Cezar
Published: November 2018

O papel de Gustave Cauvin (1886-1951) na demarcação da primeira fase do cinema militante foi, individualmente, o mais marcante. O presente artigo tem como objetivo apresentar ao público brasileiro, por meio de relatórios de polícia e jornais militantes e pelo trabalho de Perron e Almberg no artigo La propagande par leilm: leslongues marches de Gustave Cauvin, publicado em 2012, as marchas de Cauvin nas Ardenas (França) com seu cinematógrafo em 1913. Destaca-se que sua dedicação à causa da propaganda pela imagem se situou em uma longa história de certo messianismo utópico, um voluntarismo político que buscava levar às massas as imagens que, associadas ao discurso, se pretendiam a voz da emancipação. Sua trajetória parece denunciar, também, o ápice dos limites de uma prática e uma ideologia do movimento operário francês às vésperas da Grande Guerra, ao mesmo tempo em que eram expressão do movimento contra a natalidade e do moralismo abstêmio originário na própria cultura burguesa.
Direct Lagrangian tracking simulation of droplet growth in vertically developing cloud
Authors: Kunishima Yuichi , Onishi Ryo
Published: November 2018

Abstract. We present a direct Lagrangian simulation that computes key warm-rain
processes in a vertically developing cloud, including cloud condensation nuclei
(CCN) activation, condensational growth, collisional growth, and droplet
gravitational settling. This simulation, which tracks the motion and growth
of individual particles, is applied to a kinematic simulation of an
extremely vertically elongated quasi-one-dimensional domain, after which the
results are compared with those obtained from a spectral-bin model, which
adopts the conventional Eulerian framework. The comparison results, which
confirm good bulk statistical agreement between the Lagrangian and
conventional spectral-bin simulations, also show that the Lagrangian
simulation is free from the numerical diffusion found in the spectral-bin
simulation. After analyzing the Lagrangian statistics of the surface
raindrops that reach the ground surface, back-trajectory scrutiny reveals
that the Lagrangian statistics of surface raindrops contains the information
about the sky where the raindrops grow like the shape does for snow crystals.
Effects of air pollution control policies on PM2.5 pollution improvement in China from 2005 to 2017: a satellite based perspective
Authors: Ma Zongwei , Liu Riyang , Liu Yang , Bi Jun
Published: November 2018

Abstract. Understanding the effectiveness of air pollution control policies is important for future policy making. China implemented strict air pollution control polices since 11th Five Year Plan (FYP). There is still a lack of overall evaluation of the effects of air pollution control policies on PM2.5 pollution improvement in China since FYP. In this study, we aimed to assess the effects of air pollution control policies from 2005 to 2017 on PM2.5 from the view of satellite remote sensing. We used the satellite derived PM2.5 of 2005–2013 from one of our previous studies. For the data of 2014–2017, we developed a two-stage statistical model to retrieve satellite PM2.5 data. Results show that the Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction (ECER) policy, implemented in 11th FYP period and focused on SO2 emissions control, had co-benefits on PM2.5 reductions. The increasing trends of PM2.5 pollutions was suppressed after 2007, and the PM2.5 in Central and South China showed significant decreasing trends. The ECER policy during 12th FYP period were basically the extension of 11th FYP policy. However, the emissions control oriented policies reached it bottleneck. The PM2.5 concentrations did not decrease from 2010 to 2013 in polluted areas. China implemented two stricter policies: 12th FYP on Air Pollution Prevention and Control in Key Regions (APPC-KR) in 2012, and Action Plan of Air Pollution Prevention and Control (APPC-AP) in 2013. The goal of air quality improvement (especially PM2.5 concentration improvement) was proposed for the first time. The air quality improvement oriented polices had led to dramatic decreases of PM2.5 after 2013.
On the variability of the semidiurnal solar and lunar tides of the equatorial electrojet during sudden stratospheric warmings
Authors: Siddiqui Tarique A. , Maute Astrid , Pedatella Nick , Yamazaki Yosuke , Lühr Hermann , Stolle Claudia
Published: November 2018

Abstract. The variabilities of the semidiurnal solar and lunar tides of the equatorial
electrojet (EEJ) are investigated during the 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2013 major
sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) events in this study. For this purpose, ground-magnetometer recordings
at the equatorial observatories in Huancayo and Fúquene are utilized.
Results show a major enhancement in the amplitude of the EEJ semidiurnal
lunar tide in each of the four warming events. The EEJ semidiurnal solar
tidal amplitude shows an amplification prior to the onset of warmings, a
reduction during the deceleration of the zonal mean zonal wind at
60∘ N and 10 hPa, and a second enhancement a few days after the
peak reversal of the zonal mean zonal wind during all four SSWs. Results also
reveal that the amplitude of the EEJ semidiurnal lunar tide becomes
comparable or even greater than the amplitude of the EEJ semidiurnal solar
tide during all these warming events. The present study also compares the EEJ
semidiurnal solar and lunar tidal changes with the variability of the
migrating semidiurnal solar (SW2) and lunar (M2) tides in neutral temperature
and zonal wind obtained from numerical simulations at E-region heights. A
better agreement between the enhancements of the EEJ semidiurnal lunar tide
and the M2 tide is found in comparison with the enhancements of the EEJ
semidiurnal solar tide and the SW2 tide in both the neutral temperature and
zonal wind at the E-region altitudes.
The Back End: Infrastructure Design for Scholarly Research
Authors: Drucker Johanna
Published: November 2018

The design and creation of digital repositories depend upon a combination of technical and intellectual labor, but the relation between these is rarely acknowledged. This article takes the Blue Mountain Project as a specific case study for examining the ways in which models of scholarship and design decisions are connected. In particular, it calls attention to features of infrastructure that are integral to the workflow of production and that also have implications for use: digitization standards, metadata creation, interface design, and other components. Each of these has implications for cost, sustainability, and use.
Social Connectedness in Family Social Support Networks: Strengthening Systems of
Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs
Authors: Varda Danielle M. , Talmi Ayelet
Published: November 2018

Current approaches to addressing the problems families face when navigating
complex service systems on behalf of their children rely largely on state or nationally
driven efforts around the development of systems of care (SOCs). However,
operationalizing meaningful family involvement within SOCs remains a challenge, with
little attention paid to the role of personal social support networks (PSSNs).
Specifically, risk factors related to the variations in the social connectedness of
family social support networks are difficult to identify, assess, and track over time.
This paper summarizes families’ descriptions of their PSSNs and describes the
development of a social network analysis tool, the Person-Centered Network App (PCNA),
used to measure and monitor the social connectedness of families of children with
special health care and developmental needs. Twenty-nine families participated in the
project and completed social network surveys, identifying a total of 38 unique types of
support partners and 230 partnerships (dyadic relationships). Families identified a
range of formal and informal members including primary care providers, medical
specialists, family, friends, faith-based organizations, insurance providers, nurses,
community organizations, early interventionists, school resources, other families,
online support groups, and public resources, rating 61 percent of them as “very
important.” Informal network members (e.g., family, friends) provided emotional and
day-to-day support. Primary care providers, medical specialists, and public resources
provided health care services while early intervention and medical specialists provided
therapies. PSSNs were characterized by high levels of trust but low levels of
coordination. These findings inform providers and case workers that families can readily
describe their social connectedness in ways that may affect health care access and
utilization. Understanding how PSSNs function in the lives of families of children with
complex health care needs provides opportunities for improving systems of care (e.g.,
medical homes) and ultimately, enhancing health and developmental outcomes.
Egocentrism in the Volunteer’s Dilemma
Authors: Krueger Joachim I. , Heck Patrick R. , Wagner Derik
Published: November 2018

In a volunteer’s dilemma (VoD), one person must make a material sacrifice so that others benefit. If no one makes a sacrifice, everyone is worse off than a volunteer. How do people make the decision to volunteer? We explore 4 a priori strategies in a 2-person 1-shot VoD. Two strategies focus a person’s attention on either his or her own (egocentrism) or the other’s (allocentrism) highest potential payoff. The third strategy (collectivism) directs attention to both players’ payoffs and thereby maximizes joint outcomes. The fourth strategy (classic rationality) also directs attention to the other’s payoffs to enable a mixed-motive Nash equilibrium. The results of 2 experiments with a set of asymmetric games show a pattern consistent with egocentrism, yet all 4 strategies yield similar degrees of volunteering overall. Also consistent with egocentrism, respondents project their own preferred decisions onto others. We discuss the contributions of egocentric reasoning to the provision of public goods.
An Ethno-electronic Soundscape: Nino Rota’s Music for Fellini-Satyricon (1969)
Authors: Sala Emilio
Published: November 2018

The film Fellini-Satyricon (1969), as Peter Bondanella pointed out, is an attempt “to create an ‘objective’ oneiric narrative that had no direct connection with Fellini’s private life.”1 To this paradox of the objective dream, we should also add the famous question of “science fiction in reverse, which explores the past rather than the future.”2 The result is, as Fellini stated, the creation of “a lost, vanished, defunct world, about which … we have no real relationship.”3 But what kinds of music, what sounds, can come from, or be attributed to, such a world? How did Nino Rota contribute to this new “oneiric work” of Fellini? How did he approach the task of achieving this effect of total otherness? The main object of my article is to attempt to respond to these questions, analyzing the two types of music present in the soundtrack of the film: electronic and ethnic music. What I have aimed at demonstrating is on the one hand the way they work together, and on the other how this combination impacts the film.
Wechslerova zkrácená paměťová škála - recenze metody
Authors: Hlavová Renata , Rosická Anna Marie
Published: November 2018

Česká adaptace Wechslerovy zkrácené paměťové škály (dále WMS-IIIa) je zkrácenou verzí třetí revize Wechslerovy paměťové škály (dále WMS-III). Zaměřuje se na orientační měření aktuálního fungování deklarativní epizodické paměti, konkrétně na paměť sluchovou a zrakovou z hlediska bezprostředního a oddáleného vybavení (Wechsler, 2011). Je určena pro populaci ve věku 20–89 let. Dle autorů je metoda využitelná především v klinické praxi, a to pro screeningovou diagnostiku narušení paměti či jako součást komplexního psychologického nebo neuropsychologického vyšetření.Českou adaptaci této rozšířené paměťové škály lze těžko ohodnotit, a to primárně z důvodu nedostatku informací. Zejména chybějící informace o shodě posuzovatelů se mohou ukázat jako problematické, a to kvůli změnám v překladu oproti původní anglické verzi. Doporučovaly bychom proto její další testování a vývoj. Je možné tuto metodu použít expertním uživatelem za pečlivě kontrolovaných podmínek nebo ve velmi omezených aplikačních oblastech za předpokladu, že uživatel testu bude obezřetný v interpretaci výsledků.
La Edad de Plata en la tarima digital. Hacia la transdisciplinariedad y la cultura smart
Authors: Romero López Dolores
Published: November 2018

El principal objetivo de esta investigación es replantear principios historiográficos tradicionales para demostrar las posibilidades de reconstrucción y relectura de la historiografía literaria con recursos digitales. La metodología utilizada se deriva de la digitalización masiva de contenidos de parte de las bibliotecas y archivos institucionales y de su catalogación mediante metadatos que ofrecen información específica sobre los objetos digitalizados. Se presentan los primeros resultados de la investigación con un doble propósito: en primer lugar, se exponen la producción, uso, difusión y almacenamiento de recursos digitales nacionales e internacionales relacionados con la relectura de la Edad de Plata. En segundo término, se exponen algunas ideas procedentes de la transdiciplinariedad para reconstruir historiográficamente este periodo. Las conclusiones se derivan del enfoque de historia digital del que se parte, que permite un marco de interpretación nuevo basado en los principios de la cultura trans y smart.
Towards the post-Digital in the Humanities? NACMM and Platform HARAKAT as case studies
Authors: Catà Marlès Pau
Published: November 2018

Taking into consideration the complexity that frames the relationship between Globalization and Decolonization this text aims to unveil the potentials (and the burdens) of the Digital Humanities in relation to artist residencies focusing on North Africa as a geographical framework. Through the text I wish to argue that the Digital Humanities should be seen as both an imperative and an exclusionary process by asking the following questions: What is the impact and social projection of the Digital Humanities in relation to the evolution of artists in residencies in the region? What are its methodological innovations, beyond the application of certain technologies? And in what way do they interconnect and hybridize knowledge(s) in an era of widespread prejudice? These questions, framed by a vision that contemplates, reflects and acts in favor of the different realities and responsibilities of the artists in residency model, are the ones through which first NACMM and afterwards Platform HARAKAT have evolved with the aim to promote the encounters of imaginaries and realities that shape the contemporary Mediterranean.
LSTM neural network for textual ngrams
Authors: D'Souza Shaun C.
Published: November 2018

Cognitive neuroscience is the study of how the human brain functions on tasks like decision making, language, perception and reasoning. Deep learning is a class of machine learning algorithms that use neural networks. They are designed to model the responses of neurons in the human brain. Learning can be supervised or unsupervised. Ngram token models are used extensively in language prediction. Ngrams are probabilistic models that are used in predicting the next word or token. They are a statistical model of word sequences or tokens and are called Language Models or Lms. Ngrams are essential in creating language prediction models. We are exploring a broader sandbox ecosystems enabling for AI. Specifically, around Deep learning applications on unstructured content form on the web.
Optimal and near-optimal exponent-pairs for the Bertalanffy-Pütter growth model
Authors: Renner-Martin Katharina , Brunner Norbert , Kühleitner Manfred , Nowak Werner-Georg , Scheicher Klaus
Published: November 2018

The Bertalanffy–Pütter growth model describes mass m at age t by means of the differential equation dm/dt = p * ma − q * mb. The special case using the von Bertalanffy exponent-pair a = 2/3 and b = 1 is most common (it corresponds to the von Bertalanffy growth function VBGF for length in fishery literature). Fitting VBGF to size-at-age data requires the optimization of three model parameters (the constants p, q, and an initial value for the differential equation). For the general Bertalanffy–Pütter model, two more model parameters are optimized (the pair a < b of non-negative exponents). While this reduces bias in growth estimates, it increases model complexity and more advanced optimization methods are needed, such as the Nelder–Mead amoeba method, interior point methods, or simulated annealing. Is the improved performance worth these efforts? For the case, where the exponent b = 1 remains fixed, it is known that for most fish data any exponent a < 1 could be used to model growth without affecting the fit to the data significantly (when the other parameters were optimized). We hypothesized that the optimization of both exponents would result in a significantly better fit of the optimal growth function to the data and we tested this conjecture for a data set (20,166 fish) about the mass-growth of Walleye (Sander vitreus), a fish from Lake Erie, USA. To this end, we assessed the fit on a grid of 14,281 exponent-pairs (a, b) and identified the best fitting model curve on the boundary a = b of the grid (a = b = 0.686); it corresponds to the generalized Gompertz equation dm/dt = p * ma − q * ln(m) * ma. Using the Akaike information criterion for model selection, the answer to the conjecture was no: The von Bertalanffy exponent-pair model (but not the logistic model) remained parsimonious. However, the bias reduction attained by the optimal exponent-pair may be worth the tradeoff with complexity in some situations where predictive power is solely preferred. Therefore, we recommend the use of the Bertalanffy–Pütter model (and of its limit case, the generalized Gompertz model) in natural resources management (such as in fishery stock assessments), as it relies on careful quantitative assessments to recommend policies for sustainable resource usage.