bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Haptic film spaces and the rhythms of everyday life in São Paulo in Lina Chamie’s A via láctea
Authors: Rajca Andrew C.
Published: August 2017

In dialogue with Henri Lefebvre’s concept of ‘rhythmanalysis’ and Giuliana Bruno’s notion of ‘haptic cinema’, this article examines the ways that Brazilian director Lina Chamie’s 2007 film A via láctea explores imagined and material experiences of everyday life in the megalopolis of São Paulo. It suggests that a rhythmanalytic approach to the study of film spectatorship can offer new perspectives on multisensorial engagement with the cinematic city that move beyond the traditional focus on gaze in film studies. Via close ‘readings’ of the form and content of the film, the article explores how the cinematic apparatus (e.g. camera placement, editing, soundtrack) can create a haptic filmic space for viewers, where the multiple, contradictory temporal and spatial rhythms of urban environments can be felt and ‘touched’. The article contends that by placing the notions of rhythmanalysis and haptic cinema into a productive dialogue, we can explore new ways to link socialscience-based urban studies and humanities inflected film studies in critical engagement with both the imagined and material city.
A propagandist’s guide to twenty-first-century image literacy
Authors: Finkelstein Avram
Published: August 2017

The recent attempt to write the ‘History of AIDS’ in the midst of an ongoing pandemic has helped solidify media storytelling that paints institutional frameworks as receptive to dissent, proof ‘the system works’ with little indication of who it works for. In this context, the canon of political art that came out of ACT UP New York is re-deployed in support of an intricate ecosystem of power narratives that has triggered a second AIDS crisis, a crisis of remembering, and it has tipped artists, activists, and archivists into a historiological tailspin. Still, if the images created for the AIDS activist movement effectively ‘branded’ the resistance to institutional power, what insights can they provide into the 2016 American election, a moment seized by a candidate less interested in running the country than in running a brand, one constructed on the complex sleight-of-hand of social media and the increasingly permeable border between the commons and the images we use to represent it?
Chinatown Art Brigade: Resisting gentrification through the power of art, culture and stories
Authors: Yu Betty
Published: August 2017

The Chinatown Art Brigade is a collective of Asian American artists, media makers and activists with roots in NY Chinatown. Since its founding in 2015 by artists Betty Yu, ManSee Kong and Tomie Arai, The Chinatown Art Brigade has facilitated a series of community led responses to gentrification and displacement, created in partnership with the Chinatown Tenants Union, a programme of CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities. Our work is driven by a deep love for our community and the fundamental belief that fighting against racial and economic inequity must be central to our cultural and art making process.
At the intersection of education, art and activism: The case for Creative Chemistries
Authors: Hamlin Jessica
Published: August 2017

The work of many contemporary artists includes the use of dialogue and socially engaged practices. Interdisciplinary exchange, community building and participatory dialogue have been at the core of progressive education since the turn of the century. Inspired by the notion of the artist and the educator as creative ‘border crossers,’ this article describes a unique experiment in sharing creative practices in the arts and education that took place at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City in November 2015 by the non-profit organization Art21. Creative Chemistries was conceived as a means of placing artists, classroom teachers, students, principals, museum educators and community organizers, policy-makers in education, representatives from community-based arts organizations and university faculty all at the same table to talk and make work together exploring the intersections and disconnects between the values framing their labour and creative practices. This narrative proposes that forms of intentional interdisciplinary dialogue should be considered an activist gesture, and highlights the voices of Creative Chemistry participants to describe the new thinking, learning and creative practices generated between them.
Much better than a like: Creative pedagogies of wellness among young queer men of colour
Authors: Hebert Pato , Fernandez Ray , Márquez Jimmy , Ozne Enzo , Scott Adrian , De La Cruz Mario Sixto , Vargas Alfy , Warrant Devon
Published: August 2017

The Mpowerment Program was an HIV prevention effort focused primarily on young gay and bisexual men of colour in Los Angeles. The programme emphasized a harm reduction approach to sexual health while functioning as a community-based, popular education initiative. It operated from 2003 to 2009 and was based at AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), a large non-profit service organization. In the following roundtable discussion, former Mpowerment participants and staff look back after several years to reflect on their experiences in the programme. Their recollections address themes such as communication skills, sexual wellness, community building and the artistic components and creative practices of the group.
Reflections of an illuminator
Authors: Read Mark
Published: August 2017

Mark Read, initiator of The Illuminator, looks back over the past five years of this renowned art-activist visual culture project. Emerging out of the Occupy Wall Street movement, The Illuminator art collective has staged hundreds of interventions in public spaces, using guerilla video projections to amplify the messages of social justice activist groups all over the country, and internationally.

In this essay, Read assesses the strategic value of such semiotic strategies within social movements, and explores important connections between the political goals of the collective, and how it organizes itself economically.
Construindo um Pacto Social na sala de aula de Língua Portuguesa
Authors: Ishikawa Clarissa Mieko Luiz , Miranda Neusa Salim
Published: August 2017

O presente artigo traz os resultados analíticos obtidos a partir de uma etapa do projeto interventivo desenvolvido no trabalho de conclusão final de mestrado no PROFLETRAS/UFJF. O objetivo dessa etapa foi a ressignificação das práticas interacionais e linguísticas em uma sala de aula de Língua Portuguesa. As ações para enfrentamento do cenário vivenciado foram estruturadas a partir, sobretudo, da análise diagnóstica do discurso discente fundamentada pela Semântica de Frames. Pouco propícia ao processo de ensino aprendizagem, a classe era marcada por conflitos, desorganização, desagregação e violência. Nossa meta foi restaurar, de forma democrática e cooperativa, os papéis desempenhados pelos sujeitos na cena aula, legitimando a Autoridade docente e o protagonismo discente, de modo a criar condições adequadas à promoção do letramento. Tomando como fundamentos o Protagonismo Juvenil, a Autoridade e Autoria e a promoção de uma Educação Linguística e de Valores, estruturamos a prática interventiva. As ações desenvolvidas visaram à formulação pelos discentes de um Pacto Social para a sala de aula. Organizado a partir da construção consensual de regras de convívio, o Pacto Social contemplou princípios como respeito, corresponsabilização, cooperação e autonomia. Sua elaboração e gerenciamento promoveram o restabelecimento da cena aula. Como resultados mais expressivos do percurso interventivo, destacamos a parceria docente/discente na construção do conhecimento, a criação de um espaço prolífico ao diálogo aberto e engajado, a recuperação da Autoridade docente pelas vias de uma prática mais autoral e a assunção pelo discente de uma postura crítica, reflexiva e ativa.
Leitura e escrita de cartas pessoais no ensino de Português
Authors: Sacheto Laila Monique Silva Ferreira , Souza Ester Maria De Figueiredo
Published: August 2017

O artigo aborda o trabalho com o gênero discursivo carta no ensino de Português, na perspectiva de referenciais da abordagem sociointeracionista da linguagem e de pesquisa inspirada na etnografia educacional. Teve como objetivo analisar a escrita de cartas produzidas por alunos do Ensino Fundamental em escola da rede pública de ensino e em uma instituição de abrigo infantil de um mesmo município do Estado da Bahia. Buscou-se interpretar de que forma o gênero carta contribui na apropriação de elementos discursivos para o aprimoramento da leitura e da escrita de sujeitos participantes e colaboradores da pesquisa. A análise dos resultados, com o aporte da teoria dos gêneros do discurso de Bakhtin em estudos de práticas de letramento por meio de sequências didáticas e nas discussões sobre estudos dos eventos de sala de aula, valoriza a escrita em contextos reais de interação social. Os resultados expõem que os sujeitos participantes envolveram-se afetivamente com o processo de escrita, dominaram elementos linguísticos e discursivos para aperfeiçoamento do gênero carta, o que nos permitiu concluir que as estratégias desenvolvidas com base no instrumento de sequência didática valorizaram o uso da linguagem em situações de efetiva utilização da língua e corroboram para um aprendizado significativo de leitura e escrita enquanto práticas sociais nas aulas de Língua Portuguesa.
RBBR Model: A Prediction Model of Bank Health Level Based on Risk for Regional Development Banks (BPD) in Indonesia
Authors: Chaniago Herizon , Widyantoro Harry
Published: August 2017

The RBBR Model is a risk-based bank rating model. First of all, this study was conducted to find a model that can be used for predicting bank soundness and the level of bank health especially the Regional Development Banks (BPD) in Indonesia. Secondly, it tried to see the level of ability to moderate GCG variables on the relationship between bank business risk and bank soundness. Thirdly, it had to see the level of ability to mediate GCG variables on the relationship between bank profitability and bank soundness. This study used BPD in Indonesia as a population and all members of the population studied, thus it is a census study. The variables consist of business risk (liquidity risk, credit risk, market risk and operational risk), GCG score and earnings performance and capital performance as the independent variables and bank soundness as the dependent variable. The secondary data were collected by means of documentation method. Data analysis includes descriptive analysis and statistical analysis, to describe the results of research, and statistical analysis to answer the research problem. Statistical analysis PLS Warp and multiple linear regression analysis were used for analysis, and it was found that the model can be used to predict the health of BPD in Indonesia. Furthermore, GCG neither moderate the relationship between business risk and BPD health levels in Indonesia nor mediates the relationship between earnings performance and BPD health levels in Indonesia.
MaximalLp-Lqregularity to the Stokes problem with Navier boundary conditions
Authors: Al Baba Hind
Published: August 2017

We prove in this paper some results on the complex and fractional powers of the Stokes operator with slip frictionless boundary conditions involving the stress tensor. This is fundamental and plays an important role in the associated parabolic problem and will be used to prove maximalLpL^{p}-LqL^{q}regularity results for the non-homogeneous Stokes problem.
Measurement uncertainty of γ-glutamyltransferase (GGT) in human serum by four approaches using different quality assessment data
Authors: Zhou Rui , Qin Yanyan , Yin Hongyi , Yang Yanmin , Wang Qingtao
Published: August 2017

Background:

Measurement uncertainty (MU) characterizes the dispersion of the quantity values attributed to a measurand. Although this concept was introduced to medical laboratories some years ago, not all medical researchers are familiar with it. Therefore, the evaluation and expression of MU must be highlighted. In this paper, the evaluation of MU is described by using four different approaches from different quality assessment data.

Methods:

In accordance with Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty of Measurement (GUM) principles, human serum γ-glutamyltransferase (GGT) level was defined as the measurand. Main sources of MU were analyzed; individual components of MU were evaluated, followed by calculation of standard uncertainty, the combined standard uncertainty and the expanded uncertainty.

Results:

In method 1, the median of expanded uncertainty (k=2) of GGT in lower level (65±1 U/L) was 5 U/L (9%, 95% confidence interval) and in higher level (116±2 U/L) was 8% (95% confidence interval), respectively. The results of method 2 were lower than that of method 1. There were no significant differences between the two other methods compared with the method 1.

Conclusions:

Three out of the four different approaches based on different quality assessment data yielded similar results. Proficiency testing or external quality assessment data used for MU evaluation can be regarded as a supplementary method in clinical laboratory.
Medical errors, malpractice, and defensive medicine: an ill-fated triad
Authors: Berlin Leonard
Published: August 2017

For the first 180 years following the founding of the US, physicians occasionally were sued for medical malpractice. Allegations of negligence were errors of commission – i.e. the physician made a mistake by doing something wrong, usually mistreatment of a fracture or dislocation, a complication or death following a surgical procedure, prescribing the wrong medication, and after the discovery of the X-ray by Roentgen in 1895, causing radiation burns. In the mid twentieth century malpractice allegations slowly changed from errors of commission to errors of omission – i.e. the physician failed to do something right: almost always, failed to make a diagnosis. The number of malpractice lawsuits increased at a geometric rate beginning in the 1960s, and in the 1970s physicians began practicing defensive medicine, which lead physicians to order unnecessary radiology exams and tests. In the past 20 years the number of malpractice lawsuits has been decreasing, but the practice of defensive medicine has continued. Unnecessary exams and tests increase the likelihood of overdiagnosis and overtreatment, i.e. a new kind of error of commission.
On groups with action on itself
Authors: Uslu Enver Önder , Aslan Ahmet Faruk , Odabaş Alper
Published: August 2017

We introduce the notions of center, singularity and nilpotency (class) of a group with action on itself.
Also, we describe a new package GwA for GAP4, including functions checking some properties of groups with action on itself with finite underlying group. As applications of the implemented functions, we give examples of groups with action satisfying Condition 1 stated in [3].
In other words, we get concrete examples of “coquecigrue” in the terminology of Loday [8, 9].
Studies on non-phenolic lignans in alkaline cooking
Authors: Mangindaan Bill , Matsushita Yasuyuki , Aoki Dan , Yagami Sachie , Fukushima Kazuhiko
Published: August 2017

The stability and chemical reactions of lignans during alkaline cooking is not yet fully clarified although their degradation products may have a considerable effect on the pulp and its bleaching, such as spotting and color contamination. To fill this gap, a phenolic lignan (pinoresinol) and four non-phenolic furofuran lignans (gmelinol, paulownin, eudesmin and sesamin) were submitted to alkaline cooking at various conditions. The effect of cooking duration shows that non-phenolic lignans are more stable during a 3-h reaction time than pinoresinol. After a 24-h reaction, most of the lignans were decomposed or polymerized. The effect of cooking temperature shows that pinoresinol, eudesmin and sesamin are more susceptible to degradation with increasing temperature. The concentration of the alkaline liquors only affect significantly to pinoresinol because of its acidity. It was also observed that pinoresinol, gmelinol and eudesmin give rise to small amounts of vanillin and acetovanillone, while paulownin and sesamin were mainly polymerized or degraded. To confirm the reaction mechanism of the occurrence of acetovanillone in the reaction, 13C-labeled pinoresinol was also submitted to alkaline cooking. It was revealed that the cleavage at β-β′ position occurred during alkaline reaction. The stability of these compounds during alkaline cooking are not affected by the hydroxyl group in the C-β′ position.
Characterization and Evaluation of Sorbent Materials Obtained from Orange Peel as an Alternative of Sustainable Materials for Water Treatment
Authors: Tovar Ana Karen , Arano María José , Domínguez Obed , Robles Irma
Published: August 2017

Sorbent orange peel based materials activated using NaOH and H3PO4were prepared and evaluated in order to compare sorbent efficiency, and related to their physicochemical properties. Results of physicochemical characterization demonstrated there are significant changes on surface that promotes an adsorption behavior depending on the activation method. FTIR analysis shows decreasing signal of water at 3422 cm−1of water, hemicellulose and pectin due to activation process, another decreasing signal is observed at at 1626 cm−1for CC bond, while an increasing pick is observed at 1435 cm−1which corresponds to methoxyl groups belonging to cellulosic compounds. Analysis of sorption equilibrium indicated 78 % of methyl orange sorption in orange dry peel (OP) which was sorbed after 5 hour, compared to 84 % and 98 % using 0.1 M activated sorbent material 2(AM2) and 0.6 M activated sorbent material 3 (AM3) H3PO4respectively, this process was carried out during the first 90 min of sorption process. NaOH activated sorbent material 1 (AM1) promoted 20 % to 65 % sorption. orange dry peel (OP), activated sorbent material 2 (AM2) and activated sorbent material 3 (AM3) obeyed apseudo-secondorder kinetic model, while activated sorbent material 1 (AM1) obeys apseudo-first ordermodel. Sorption equilibrium of methyl orange resulted as follows, orange dry peel (OP) followed aFreundlichequilibrium model, activated sorbent material 1 (AM1) aLangmuirmodel, while activated sorbent material 2 (AM2) and activated sorbent material 3 (AM3) toHillmodel. Activated sorbent materials with H3PO4showed 750–770 mg/g of methyl orange which represent high sorption capacities. Orange peel sorbent material previously activated with H3PO4represents a good alternative to reduce water pollution, and also residues of orange peel could be reduced by this alternative treatment.
Perspectives from Academic Leaders of the Nursing Faculty Shortage in Canada
Authors: Vandyk Amanda , Chartrand Julie , Beké Émilie , Burlock Laura , Baker Cynthia
Published: August 2017

There is a world-wide shortage of nursing faculty, which is complicated by the need for French, English, and bilingual professors in Canada. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the current status and effects of the nursing faculty shortage on Canadian Schools of Nursing (SON) from a leadership perspective. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 12 Deans and Directors of Canadian Schools of Nursing. The participants spoke about the faculty shortage in terms of demand, supply, and strategies employed. The participants were concerned about the ramifications of some of the decisions deemed necessary for continued viability of their programs, such as over-assigning teaching workloads. In light of mass upcoming retirements, shortening the time to completion for PhD studies and making graduate education more accessible are important priorities.
Nursing Students’ and Faculty Members’ Experiences of Comfort during Transition to Context-Based Learning
Authors: Puplampu Vivian
Published: August 2017

There is evidence supporting student-centered learning (SCL) as an effective pedagogy to prepare professionals to work in the evolving health care system of the twenty-first century. SCL has many benefits, among them that it helps students to learn to work in teams and develop problem-solving, critical thinking and communication skills. The focus on the student means that the teacher’s power is decreased. This, along with openness of the approach, can make the transition to SCL a challenge. This study used an exploratory descriptive qualitative design to explore how comfortable nursing students and faculty members were in a context-based learning (CBL) program, a version of SCL. Nursing students and faculty discussed common challenges of trusting the CBL process. They also discussed the emphasis on self-directed learning and how it could mean that tutors are not as involved with students. To enhance a smooth transition, recommendations have been made, including clarifying the CBL philosophy at orientation, and mentoring and reassuring students.
Performance Analysis for Analog Network Coding with Imperfect CSI in FDD Two Way Channels
Authors: Peng Xidan , Li Xiangyang
Published: August 2017

A time-division duplex (TDD) two-way channel exploits reciprocity to estimate the forward channel gain from the reverse link. Many previous works explore outage probabilities in the TDD system, based on the reciprocity property. However, a frequency-division duplex (FDD) system has no reciprocity property. In this letter, we investigate the impact of CSI estimation error on the performance of non-orthogonal and orthogonal analog network coding protocols in an FDD two-way system, where channel gains are independent of each other. Considering imperfect CSI, the closed-form expressions of outage probabilities by two protocols are derived in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime, respectively. It is shown that the derived outage probabilities match results of Monte Carlo simulations in different communication scenarios. It is interesting that ANC in the FDD two-way channel is proved to outperform that in the TDD channel by the computer simulation.
Analysis of an M/G/1 Stochastic Clearing Queue in a 3-Phase Environment
Authors: Zhang Xiaoyan , Liu Liwei , Jiang Tao
Published: August 2017

This paper studies a single server M/G/1 stochastic clearing queue operating in a 3-phase environment, where the time length of the first and third phase are assumed to follow exponential distributions, and the time length of the second phase is a constant value. At the completion of phase 1, the system moves to phase 2, and after a fixed time length, the system turns to phase 3. At the end of phase 3, all present customers in the system are forced to leave the system, then the system moves to phase 1 and restarts a new service cycle. Using the supplementary variable technique, we obtain the distribution for the stationary queue at an arbitrary epoch. We also derive the sojourn time distribution and the length of the server’s working time in a cycle.
The crystal structure of 1,1′-bisisoquinoline, C18H12N2
Authors: Grunwald Nicolas , Kelling Alexandra , Holdt Hans-Jürgen , Schilde Uwe
Published: August 2017

C18H12N2, tetragonal, I41/a (no. 88), a = 13.8885(6) Å, c = 13.6718(6) Å, V = 2637.2(3) Å3, Z = 8, R
gt(F) = 0.0295, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.0854, T = 210 K.
Effects of graphene surface energy on the structure and mechanical properties of phenolic foams
Authors: Luo Xia , Yu Kejing , Qian Kun , Lu Xuefeng , Sun Jie
Published: August 2017

Graphene nanoplates (GNPs) and graphene oxide (GO) were used to investigate the effects of surface free energy (SFE) of nanoparticles on the cellular structure and mechanical properties of phenolic nanocomposite foams. The results showed that the SFE of nanoparticles is a key parameter in determining the interfacial action between fillers and matrix before foaming, which in turn determines the energy barrier of bubble nucleation during foaming process. It indicated that the higher interfacial energy of GO brought out the lower Gibbs free energy and smaller driving force for heterogeneous nucleation, leading to smaller cell size with more uniform distribution. According to the effect of SFE in foaming process, different mass fractions of GNPs and GO were used in phenolic foams to investigate the effects of heterogeneous nucleating agent on cell nucleation. As a result, phenolic foam with 0.6 wt% graphene oxide (GO-0.6/PF) exhibited the optimized mechanical properties and cell microstructure.
The Logical Significance of Assertion: Frege on the Essence of Logic
Authors: Pedriali Walter B.
Published: August 2017

Assertion plays a crucial dual role in Frege's conception of logic, a formal and a transcendental one. A recurrent complaint is that Frege's inclusion of the judgement-stroke (the formal counterpart of assertion) in the Begriffsschrift is either in tension with his anti-psychologism or wholly superfluous. Assertion, the objection goes, is at best of merely psychological significance. In this paper, I defend Frege against the objection by giving reasons for recognising the central logical significance of assertion in both its formal and its transcendental role.
Activity Dynamics and Signal Representation in a Striatal Network Model with Distance-Dependent Connectivity
Authors: Spreizer Sebastian , Angelhuber Martin , Bahuguna Jyotika , Aertsen Ad , Kumar Arvind
Published: August 2017

The striatum is the main input nucleus of the basal ganglia. Characterizing striatal activity dynamics is crucial to understanding mechanisms underlying action selection, initiation, and execution. Here, we studied the effects of spatial network connectivity on the spatiotemporal structure of striatal activity. We show that a striatal network with nonmonotonically changing distance-dependent connectivity (according to a gamma distribution) can exhibit a wide repertoire of spatiotemporal dynamics, ranging from spatially homogeneous, asynchronous-irregular (AI) activity to a state with stable, spatially localized activity bumps, as in “winner-take-all” (WTA) dynamics. Among these regimes, the unstable activity bumps [transition activity (TA)] regime closely resembles the experimentally observed spatiotemporal activity dynamics and neuronal assemblies in the striatum. In contrast, striatal networks with monotonically decreasing distance-dependent connectivity (in a Gaussian fashion) can exhibit only an AI state. Thus, given the observation of spatially compact neuronal clusters in the striatum, our model suggests that recurrent connectivity among striatal projection neurons should vary nonmonotonically. In brain disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, increased cortical inputs and high striatal firing rates are associated with a reduction in stimulus sensitivity. Consistent with this, our model suggests that strong cortical inputs drive the striatum to a WTA state, leading to low stimulus sensitivity and high variability. In contrast, the AI and TA states show high stimulus sensitivity and reliability. Thus, based on these results, we propose that in a healthy state the striatum operates in a AI/TA state and that lack of dopamine pushes it into a WTA state.
Visualization in the Occult Sciences
Authors: Ball Mike
Published: August 2017

This paper explores a meditation practice that involves forms of visualization. It is a Theravādan practice that was researched ethnographically. The analytic focus of this report concerns the practical work of meditation. Meditative visualization is placed in the context of a broader literature on visualization practices. The paper commences with a comparative consideration of ‘Western’ and ‘Eastern’ approaches to mind. Meditation practice is introduced as a means of the meditator working with mind and learning from that experience. It is a controlled, purposeful, and imaginative exploration of states of consciousness. Visualization within meditation practice comprises a means of exploring certain meditative objects. A case study of a meditation practice that employs visualization is considered, and certain conclusions are drawn. In the overall conclusion, the results of this study of visualization in meditation are placed in the context of the broader literature on visualization.
Outline of Music Semantics
Authors: Schlenker Philippe
Published: August 2017

We provide the outline of a semantics for music. We take music cognition to be continuous with normal auditory cognition, and thus to deliver inferences about “virtual sources” of the music. As a result, sound parameters that trigger inferences about sound sources in normal auditory cognition produce related ones in music. But music also triggers inferences on the basis of the movement of virtual sources in tonal pitch space, which has points of stability, points of instability, and relations of attraction among them. We sketch a framework that aggregates inferences from normal auditory cognition and tonal inferences, by way of a theory of musical truth: a source undergoing a musical movement m is true of an object undergoing a series of events e just in case there is a certain structure-preserving map between m and e. This framework can help revisit aspects of musical syntax: Lerdahl and Jackendoff’s (1983) grouping structure can be seen to reflect the mereology (“partology”) of events that are abstractly represented in the music. Finally, we argue that this “refentialist” approach to music semantics still has the potential to provide an account of diverse emotional effects in music.
Auditory Driving in Cinematic Art
Authors: Boltz Marilyn G.
Published: August 2017

Although the visual modality often dominates the auditory one, one exception occurs in the presence of tempo discrepancies between the two perceptual systems: variations in auditory rate typically have a greater influence on perceived visual rate than vice versa. This phenomenon, termed “auditory driving,” is investigated here through certain techniques used in cinematic art. Experiments 1 and 2 relied on montages (slideshows) of still photos accompanied by musical selections in which the perceived rate of one modality was assessed through a recognition task while the rate of the other modality was systematically varied. A similar methodological strategy was used in Experiments 3 and 4 in which film excerpts of various moving objects were accompanied by the sounds they typically produce. In both cases, auditory dominance was observed, which has implications at both a theoretical and applied level.
Sleep Duration and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
Authors: Rudnicka Alicja R. , Nightingale Claire M. , Donin Angela S. , Sattar Naveed , Cook Derek G. , Whincup Peter H. , Owen Christopher G.
Published: August 2017

BACKGROUND:

Associations between sleep duration and type 2 diabetes (T2D) risk markers in childhood have been little studied. We examined associations between self-reported sleep duration and T2D risk markers in children.

METHODS:

Cross-sectional study of 4525 multiethnic UK children aged 9 to 10 years. Sleep time was calculated from self-reported usual time of going to bed and getting up on a school day, validated in a subset using accelerometers. Fasting blood samples provided levels of serum lipids and insulin, plasma glucose, and HbA1c. Physical measures included height, weight, bioimpedance, and blood pressure. Multilevel linear regression models of anthropometric, T2D, and cardiovascular risk markers with sleep duration were adjusted for sex, age, month, ethnicity, socioeconomic position, observer (physical measures only), and random effect of school.

RESULTS:

On average, children slept 10.5 hours per night (95% range 8.0–12.0 hours). There were strong inverse graded relationships between sleep duration, adiposity, and diabetes risk markers. In adjusted models, a 1-hour-longer sleep duration was associated with 0.19 lower BMI (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.09 to 0.28), 0.03 kg/m5 lower fat mass index (95% CI 0.00 to 0.05 kg/m5), 2.9% lower homeostasis model assessment insulin resistance (95% CI 1.2% to 4.4%), and 0.24% lower fasting glucose (95% CI 0.03% to 0.44%); there was no association with HbA1c or cardiovascular risk. Associations with insulin and glucose remained after an additional adjustment for adiposity markers.

CONCLUSIONS:

The finding of an inverse association between sleep duration and T2D risk markers in childhood is novel. Intervention studies are needed to establish the causality of these associations, which could provide a simple strategy for early T2D prevention.
BIOLOGI REPRODUKSI IKAN MALALUGIS (Decapterus macarellus) DI TELUK TOMINI
Authors: Widiyastuti Heri , Zamroni Achmad
Published: August 2017

Ikan Malalugis (Decapterus macarellus) merupakan ikan pelagis kecil yang banyak ditangkap di perairan Teluk Tomini dengan alat tangkap pukat cincin mini. Penangkapan secara terus menerus tanpa upaya pengendalian dikhawatirkan akan mengancam kelestariannya. Tujuannya adalah untuk menggambarkan indikator biologi reproduksi ikan malalugis di Teluk Tomini. Metode yang digunakan pada penelitian ini adalah analisis deskriptif. Penelitian tentang aspek reproduksi meliputi nisbah kelamin, tingkat kematangan gonad, indeks kematangan gonad dan ukuran pertama kali matang gonad dilakukan pada bulan Juni-Agustus dan Nopember 2015 di Pangkalan Pendaratan Ikan Tenda, Gorontalo. Sampling dilakukan terhadap 572 ekor ikan malalugis yang didaratkan. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa rasio jenis kelamin jantan dan betina yaitu 1,06:1 dengan rata-rata panjang cagak (Fork length) adalah 24,75 cm. Sebagian besar ikan jantan dan betina dalam kondisi matang gonad. Musim pemijahan diindikasikan pada bulan Agustus-Nopember. Rata-rata ukuran pertama kali matang gonad ikan malalugis betina pada panjang cagak 26,94 cm dan ikan jantan pada panjang cagak 26,74 cm. Indeks kematangan gonad berkisar antara 0,01-6,15% dengan rata-rata IKG sebesar 2,09%. IKG tertinggi terjadi pada bulan Agustus sedangkan IKG terendah pada bulan November. Mackerel scad (Decapterus macarellus) is one of the major contributor of small pelagic fish in Tomini bay, which is being commercially exploited by mini purse seine. Mackerel scad fishing without regarding sustainability will have negative impact for the sustainability of this fish. The objective is to describe bio-reproduction indicators of the scad fishery in the area. Method used in this research was descriptive analysis. The observations on reproductive aspects include sex ratio, maturity stage, gonad somatic index, and estimate length of first maturity was conducted based on data collected during period of June-August and November 2015 at the landing place (PPI) Tenda, Gorontalo. Total specimens measured was 572 fish. The result shows that sex ratio of male and female is 1,06:1. The average of fork length was 24,75 cm. In general, the fish spawned probably between August-November. The size of the first female and male mature gonad was 26,94 cm FL and 29,74 cm FL. Gonad Somatic Index (GSI) ranged from 0,01 to 6,15%. The average of GSI is 2,09%. The highest GSI was in August and the lower was in November.
Quantitative metaphor usage patterns in Chinese psychotherapy talk
Authors: Tay Dennis
Published: August 2017

The study of metaphor in psychotherapy is undergoing a ‘contextual turn’, shifting emphasis from global mechanisms underlying metaphors and therapeutic change to their naturally occurring properties in therapist–patient interaction. While there have been rich qualitative and contextual descriptions of metaphors in psychotherapy, complementary quantitative accounts of metaphor usage patterns over larger amounts of talk have been less forthcoming. This paper reports metaphor usage patterns as associations between key contextual variables which characterize metaphors in a dataset of Chinese psychotherapy talk. A total of 2893 metaphor vehicle terms from 29.5 hours of talk were coded for SPEAKER, FUNCTION, TARGET, PHASE OF THERAPY, and DYAD. A loglinear analysis revealed significant higher order associations (DYAD*TARGET*FUNCTION*PHASE; DYAD*FUNCTION*PHASE*SPEAKER; TARGET*FUNCTION*SPEAKER), discussed as usage patterns which bear implications for the psychotherapeutic application of metaphor. Limitations and future research directions are discussed.
The understanding of medical abbreviations across different medical departments in a South African hospital setting
Authors: Sherriff Alicia , Ally Hamza , Mahomed Wasim , Rae Heather , Schanknecht Rory , Sealanyane Seipati , Joubert Gina
Published: August 2017

Doctors use medical abbreviations to communicate with colleagues from other medical departments. Medical abbreviations save time, but they can be misinterpreted and lead to treatment errors. This study evaluated the understanding of common medical abbreviations in the Departments of Oncology, Surgery, Gynaecology, Paediatrics and Internal Medicine at an academic hospital in Bloemfontein, South Africa in 2012. In this cross-sectional study, questionnaires consisting of 35 medical abbreviations were distributed to specialists, registrars, medical officers and interns. Doctors’ experiences of communication problems due to abbreviations were documented. The total mean score was 61.2%. Oncology abbreviations were least understood (29.1%), while Internal Medicine abbreviations were well known (74.4%). There were significant differences between doctors from different departments, with Oncology scoring the highest (71.6%) and Internal Medicine and Paediatric scoring the lowest (56.0% and 55.4%, respectively). Interns (63.2%) performed significantly better than specialists (57.2%). Non-standard abbreviations were poorly understood (40.2%) compared to standard abbreviations (70.8%). The findings suggest that the understanding of medical abbreviations across medical departments is below standard. Use of abbreviations in this multilingual environment may contribute to poor patient care. Medical terms should be written in full, the use of non-standard medical abbreviations discouraged, and abbreviations only used when they are widely understood and accepted as standard.
Ideology and language choice: Catalan-speaking university students
Authors: Casesnoves Ferrer Raquel , Mas Castells Josep À.
Published: August 2017

The article analyses the relationship between the ideological factors of university students from the cities of Barcelona, Valencia and Palma de Mallorca, and their language behavior. Apart from the traditional right-left scale, the self-defining ideology focuses on the national-regional identity, which resulted as the main ideological variable in the last studies on language choice in the Catalan language area. The data were gathered through a sociolinguistic questionnaire to approximately 600 respondents. The results highlight the importance of identity in the three different regions but also the impact it has on the use of Catalan. The comparative analysis from the main Catalan-speaking cities and society in general is crucial to show the interaction between different perceptions of ideological factors and language choice, being Valencia the only city where the use of Catalan correlates with an ideological position: the left.
Common language in the workplace: An approach devoid of social perspective?
Authors: Mariscal Vincent
Published: August 2017

This paper puts under scrutiny a contemporary management tool called “common language”. This concept derives both from the idea of “freedom” of speech in the workplace, as set up by the Auroux Act, and from the “participative” management approach that emerged in the early 1980s. “Common language” has been developed as part of corporate culture consisting in creating a common culture in which workers can identify themselves; the aim being to coordinate the workers’ actions so they contribute to corporate success. We analyze “common language” as a theoretical construct within a corpus of corporate communication manuals. This study is multidisciplinary: it is mainly based on sociology, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. We postulate that “common language” is a vision devoid of social perspective, based on an endemic culture where linguistic, cultural, historical and thus social questions are minimized. This interpretation leads us to question whether freedom of speech in the workplace is real or not. Indeed, in the corporate communication manuals studied, language at work is limited to a “theoretical reason”. Ultimately, the rationalization of language in the workplace suggests a technological rationality close to classical management.
Enoncés de type OV et positionnements sociaux dans l’espagnol parlé par les Quichuas équatoriens à Cali (Colombie) [OV constructions and stance in the Spanish spoken by Ecuadorian Quichuas in Cali (Columbia)]
Authors: Sánchez Moreano Santiago
Published: August 2017

Members of the indigenous Quichuan minority population living in Cali within an asymmetrical contact setting usually make use of linguistic marked elements from two varieties of Spanish which they speak: Andean Spanish and Spanish from Cali. One of these marked linguistic elements is OV syntactic constructions, highly frequent in Andean Spanish. A sequential conversation analysis shows that when Quichuas in Cali interact with someone outside the group, they may express differentiation through the use of OV constructions. Construed as a social positioning, this differentiation takes place in an act of stance (Du Bois 2002, 2007; Jaffe 2009; Johnstone 2009; Kiesling 2011) which arises with an evaluation of a referent in the discourse situation by a speaker, then triggers a social positioning that finally leads to a disalignment vis-à-vis another speaker. This article discusses the social effects of linguistic marked forms such as OV constructions in an understudied area (Cali, Colombia) within a field of research (Spanish-Quichua contact) that usually focuses on contact issues from a typological perspective.
La pluralización de haber presentacional en el español peninsular: datos de Twitter [The pluralization of presentational haber in Peninsular Spanish: Data from Twitter]
Authors: Claes Jeroen
Published: August 2017

In this paper we explore whether Twitter data can be used in dialectological studies of morphosyntactic alternations in Peninsular Spanish. Specifically, drawing on a corpus of tweets we evaluate the hypothesis that in Peninsular Spanish, as in Caribbean Spanish, the pluralization of presentational haber (e.g., había(n) fiestas ‘there were parties’) is constrained by two domain-general cognitive constraints on language production: markedness of coding and statistical preemption. Then, we analyze the geographic distribution of haber pluralization in Peninsular Spanish. The results show that haber is pluralized in 11% (N= 611/5,500) of the cases. The mixed-effects logistic regression analysis supports that nouns which can easily be imagined as starting points of a series of events, the absence of negation, and verb tenses other than the preterit favor pluralization. To explore the geographic distribution of haber pluralization in Peninsular Spanish, we use a generalized additive mixed model, which generates a line that runs approximately from Lérida in the north of Spain to Almería in the south, crossing Teruel and Albacete. East of that line, the pluralized variant has a higher probability of occurrence, but it is not absent from other areas of the Peninsula. We conclude that (i) haber pluralization in Peninsular Spanish is constrained by domain-general cognitive constraints on language production and that (ii) tweets constitute a viable alternative to spoken language data in dialectological studies of morphosyntactic variation.
O PAPEL DO GESTOR EM UMA AUTARQUIA PÚBLICA EM RELAÇÃO ÀS PRÁTICAS DE RESPONSABILIDADE SOCIAL E AMBIENTAL
Authors: Menegol Vanessa
Published: August 2017

A responsabilidade social é discutida em todos os setores da sociedade, avançando e mudando o mundo das organizações e abrindo portas para o conceito de sustentabilidade. Neste sentido o presente trabalho buscou descrever o papel do gestor e sua relação com as práticas de responsabilidade social e ambiental da autarquia pública Conselho Regional de Administração. Para tanto, foi realizado um estudo decaso, com métodos de abordagem qualitativa. Os objetivos deste estudo foram: a caracterização do perfil dos gestores da autarquia pública e suas motivações para a prática das ações de responsabilidade social; a verificação de como a autarquia pública desenvolve suas ações de responsabilidade social e ambiental; a descrição do plano de ação do CRA-RS e a inserção da responsabilidade social e ambiental no planejamento estratégico da autarquia pública pesquisada. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de observação, entrevistas semiestruturadas e análise de documentos. Dentre os resultados, foi possível visualizar que a empresa pesquisada mantém em sua prática diária preceitos relacionados à responsabilidade social e ambiental. A entidade agepro ativamente em relação à responsabilidade social e ambiental e cumpre às questões correspondentes ao consumo, ao meio ambiente e à segurança do trabalho. O desafio da autarquia torna-se, assim, em manter, inovar e ampliar as práticas já exercidas. Conclui-se que, por meio da estruturação de seu planejamento estratégico e programas, os gestores demonstram a importância de implantar e disseminar aspráticas de responsabilidade social em ambiental ampliando assim a qualidade de vida e o bem-estar das gerações atuais e futuras.
Homeotopy groups of one-dimensional foliations on surfaces
Authors: Максименко Сергій Іванович , Полулях Євген Олександрович , Сорока Юлія Юріївна
Published: August 2017

Let $Z$ be a non-compact two-dimensional manifold obtained from a family of open strips $\mathbb{R}\times(0,1)$ with boundary intervals by gluing those strips along their boundary intervals.Every such strip has a foliation into parallel lines $\mathbb{R}\times t$, $t\in(0,1)$, and boundary intervals, whence we get a foliation $\Delta$ on all of $Z$.Many types of foliations on surfaces with leaves homeomorphic to the real line have such ``striped'' structure.That fact was discovered by W.~Kaplan (1940-41) for foliations on the plane $\mathbb{R}^2$ by level-set of pseudo-harmonic functions $\mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}$ without singularities. Previously, the first two authors studied the homotopy type of the group $\mathcal{H}(\Delta)$ of homeomorphisms of $Z$ sending leaves of $\Delta$ onto leaves, and shown that except for two cases the identity path component $\mathcal{H}_{0}(\Delta)$ of $\mathcal{H}(\Delta)$ is contractible.The aim of the present paper is to show that the quotient $\mathcal{H}(\Delta)/ \mathcal{H}_{0}(\Delta)$ can be identified with the group of automorphisms of a certain graph with additional structure encoding the ``combinatorics'' of gluing.
New preparation of super-early-strength grouting materials by ternary complex system
Authors: Li Xianjun , Hao Jianying
Published: August 2017

An innovative preparation of super-early-strength grouting material made from a ternary complex system combined with a variety of admixtures is described. The ternary complex system comprised sulfoaluminate cement, aluminate cement and gypsum at respective contents of 67, 23 and 10 wt%. The effects of different retarders, the early-strength component (lithium carbonate) and superplasticisers (SP) on the setting time and strength of the ternary complex system were studied. It was found that borax had the best retarding effect and the optimum dosage was 0·4 wt%. When the dosage of the early-strength component was 0·02 wt%, the setting time and early-strength performance of the composite system conformed to requirements. In addition, the appropriate dosage of naphthalene SP for this system was determined to be 1·2 wt%. With added naphthalene SP, the initial fluidity of the composite system was increased and the 20 min fluidity loss was reduced.
Identification and molecular characterization of a metagenome-derived L-lysine decarboxylase gene from subtropical soil microorganisms v2
Authors: Deng Jie , Hua Gao not provided , Zhen Gao not provided , Huaxian Zhao not provided , Ying Yang not provided , Qiaofen Wu not provided , Bo Wu not provided , Chengjian Jiang * not provided
Published: August 2017

Methods and procedures appeared in this study.