bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Influence of temperature on the biology of Aenasius arizonensis (Girault) (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), a parasitoid of solenopsis mealybug, Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsley
Authors: Vijaya , , Ram Pala
Published: June 2017

Effect of temperature on the biology of Aenasius arizonensis (Girault) (=Aenasius bambawalei Hayat) (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), a parasitoid of solenopsis mealybug, Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsley, was studied at four constant temperatures viz. 20±1, 25±1, 30±1 and 35±10C. Mealybugs were reared on sprouted potatoes. The parasitoid completed its development at all the temperatures studied and males developed faster than the females. For males and females, respectively, total development period was 30.56, 24.16, 13.40 and 11.60 days and 34.40, 26.20, 14.88, and 12.04 days at 20±1, 25±1, 30±1 and 35±10C, respectively. The daily and total fecundity (number of hosts parasitised) was 1.42, 1.82, 3.17, 2.16 and 57.13, 63.15, 65.60, 37.46 at 20±1, 25±1, 30±1 and 35±10C, respectively. Female parasitoids parasitised mealy bugs on the day of emergence at all the temperatures. At respective temperatures oviposition and post-oviposition periods were 35.86, 33.60, 18.93, 15.53 days and 2.86, 2.26, 2.60 and 2.33 days, respectively. Parasitoid males were short lived as compared to females at all the temperatures. The male and female longevity, respectively, was 23.06, 17.26, 13.20, 10.33 days and 38.66, 34.53, 20.86, 17.86 days at 20±1, 25±1, 30±1 and 35±10C, respectively. Sex-ratio (male: female) was in favour of female parasitoids (1: 1.1 to 1: 1.2) at all the temperatures. Net reproductive rate (36.41), intrinsic rate of increase (0.155) and finite rate of increase (1.168) were maximum at 30±10C indicating this temperature to be the most favourable for the development and reproduction of the parasitoid. Males emerged out from the small sized mummies (2.28×1.20mm) whereas; large sized mummies (2.90×1.59mm) yielded mostly the female parasitoids. Males were generally smaller in size (1.26×0.58mm) as compared to female parasitoids (1.84×0.89mm). The results of the present studies could be useful in establishing a mass rearing programme for the parasitoid.
Redescription of a predatory stink bug, Amyotea malabarica (Fabricius, 1775) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae)
Authors: Salini S.
Published: June 2017

The genus Amyotea Ellenrieder, 1862 (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae), along with the species Amyotea malabarica (Fabricius, 1775) is redescribed. The male and female genitalia of the same is described and illustrated. A slightly modified procedure for the dissection of male genitalia is also given.
Study of Predatory Lady Beetles Fauna (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) Associated with Pomegranate Orchards on Aphis punicae Passerini in the Najafabad Region (Isfahan Province), Iran
Authors: Fattah-Almanan Zahra , Jalali-Zand Alireza , Hatami Bijan
Published: June 2017

Lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) as a biological control agent are a group of beetles with a considerable diversity and adaptation in different habitats. Among aphids, Aphis punicae Passerini (Hemiptera: Aphididae) is one of the most important pests of pomegranate orchards in Iran. This pest reduces plant vigor, facilitate the growth of mold on leaves, and consequently influences crop quality and yield. Study on the fauna of predatory ladybugs associated with pomegranate orchards was conducted that were feeding on Aphis punicae in the Najafabad region (Isfahan province, Iran). Twelve species of 8 genera were collected Sampled specimens were identified according to their morphological, male and female genitalia characters using identification keys. The identified species were as follow: Adalia bipunctata (Linnaeus, 1758), Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus, 1758, Coccinella undecimpunctata Linnaeus, 1758, Exochomus undulates Weise, 1878, Hippodamia variegate (Goeze, 1777), Hippodamia tredecimpunctata (Linnaeus, 1758), Oenopia conglobata (Linnaeus, 1758), Oenopia oncina (Olivier, 1808), Propylea quatuordecimpuctata (Linnaeus, 1758), Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata (Linnaeus, 1758), Scymnus syriacus (Marseul, 1868), Scymnus mongolicus (Weise, 1890).
Sustainable Management: New Insights
Authors: Dhopte Sujata , Sinha Meena
Published: June 2017

Sustainable value framework can be created by building enhanced utility and greater profitability. Big corporations can ensure excellence not only by building quality in products but also by standardising the processes through training their people. Highly skilled global workforce is the solution to our planet where we are looking for global economy. Resource optimization - both in natural and human would help us sustain this planet. This paper examines the current thinking on the processes of corporate learning systems and explores the issues of sustainability in learning. New research shows how the big corporations in the globalised world can achieve sustainable results by adopting new corporate philosophy which requires re-structuring around human workforce’s continuous and time-bound learning in organizations.
Dividend Announcement and Market Efficiency- An Empirical Study on Service Sector Companies Listed in BSE
Authors: Anjali Rane , Raju Guntur Anjana
Published: June 2017

Dividend Policy is a crucial decision area in the field of corporate finance and informational efficiency of the market has always been an area of vital interest for financial economists. The literature review documented that in imperfect capital markets with information asymmetries, the dividend announcement affects shareholder wealth. However, very few attempts have been made so far to know dividend behavior of Service sector firms in India. The present study is a little research effort in this direction. This study analyses if the announcements of dividend of stocks listed in Bombay Stock Exchange conveys any information. Fulfilling the study, we calculated the average abnormal return by applying the event study methodology. Daily stock data of 193 firms with market model adjustments on 2436 dividend announcements were used for the period 2000 to 2016 to analyze market efficiency. This study reports stock price reactions of banking, health care, IT and realty sector surrounding 21 days event window of the dividend announcement. The results found mixed results with majority of the firms having presence of informational efficiency in Indian service sector. In Realty sectors stock price reaction to dividend announcement is not statistically significant whereas for other three sectors, Banking, IT and Healthcare, it is significant.
An Analysis of Macroeconomic Factors Affecting Foreign Exchange Rate
Authors: Venkatesan Thilak , Ponnamma M. S.
Published: June 2017

The Indian Rupee is launching its foot print in global market, which can be characterized by the fact that Bhutan and Nepal peg their currencies to Indian Rupee. The Indian economy contributes a higher GDP growth compared to other emerging economies. The increase in the GDP, aids well for a strong foreign exchange along with other economic factors such as gross domestic savings, forex reserve, inflation and so on. The various initiatives taken by the government recently to attract more foreign capital through various investment schemes and reduce interest rate as well assists to achieve a stabilized exchange rate in India. The RBI is focused for capital account convertibility, with various measures to achieve a freely floating currency from the present managed float in India. In view of recent appreciation of Chinese Yuan, it became tough for policy makers to take up an immediate action in supporting the home-grown industries. In this context, the research focuses to find and evaluate the various macroeconomic factors affecting the exchange rate and to model the factors using Auto Regressive Distributive Lag, to enable to forecast the exchange rate. The research focuses on finding the significant factors influencing the volatility of the exchange rate.
Estudios AB-INITIO de las propiedades estructurales y electrónicas del nitruro de vanadio
Authors: González Hernandez Rafael Julián , Rodríguez Mártinez Jairo Arbey , López Pérez William Rafael
Published: June 2017

En este estudio se presentan las propiedades estructurales y electrónicas del compueston nitruro de vanadio VN en las estructuras cloruro de sodio (NaCl), cloruro de cesio (CsCl), blenda de zinc (ZnBl) y wurzita usando cálculos de primeros principios o ab-initio. Se encontró que la fase NaCl es la estructura de cristalización más estable para este compuesto, con parámetro de red a=4.12 A y módulo de volumen Bo= 305 GPa. Los cálculos se realizaron en el marco de la Teoría del Funcional Densidad (DFT), usando el método de Ondas Planas Aumentadas y Linealizadas (FP-LAPW). Los efectos de intercambio y correlación se trataron dentro de la Aproximación del Gradiente Generalizado (GGA), implementada en el método Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE).
Evaluación del comportamiento de herramientas de corte en el proceso de cilindrado, mediante el uso de números adimensionales
Authors: Ballestas Moreno Humberto , Llano Sánchez Luís Eduardo , Gómez Rivera William
Published: June 2017

El presente trabajo consiste en la aplicación de la técnica de análisis adimensional utilizando el teorema p de Buckingham al estudio del desgaste de herramientas de acero rápido sinterizado, acero rápido, de metal duro widia e inserto de carburo de tungsteno, realizando operaciones de cilindrado. Las pruebas se llevaron a cabo en talleres industriales de Bogotá y Barrancabermeja, utilizando diferentes materiales para la pieza de trabajo y variadas condiciones de corte para la herramienta hasta llegar a desgastarla. La información recopilada permitió graficar la relación log-log entre dos parámetros adimensionales (PI1, PI2). Los datos de corte mostraron convergencia en torno a zonas particulares que facilitaron hacer las comparaciones entre herramientas. La comparación experimental, basada en los parámetros adimensionales PI1 y PI2, demostró que es posible elaborar una norma Colombiana para evaluar herramientas en variadas condiciones de operación.
Sistema de distribución de claves mediante criptografía cuántica para evadir ataques del tipo “Man in the middle”
Authors: Guillén Edward Paul , Navarro Gasca José Jaime
Published: June 2017

Las nuevas técnicas criptográficas, como la criptografía cuántica, permiten diseñar sistemas de distribución cuánticos de claves con niveles de seguridad bastante altos. A lo largo de este documento se describirá como se comportan estos sistemas frente a ataques del tipo “Man in the middle” y que debilidades pueden llegar a presentar.
Localización espacial de un punto en XYZ mediante visión artificial
Authors: Castillo Ricardo Andrés , Díaz López Iván Andrés , Huertas León Mauricio
Published: June 2017

Con el fin de localizar un punto en el espacio mediante el uso de cámaras Web (visión artificial), se tuvieron en cuenta los siguientes aspectos: parámetros de la cámara, tipo de proceso a efectuar sobre la imagen capturada y presentación de los resultados. Con el objetivo de encontrar el campo útil de visión de la cámara, se determinó experimentálmente el ángulo para el cual la distorsión radial es mínima; luego por medio de una red neuronal tipo Perceptrón Multicapa de 3 entradas, 7 neuronas ocultas y 10 salidas, se filtra la imagen procedente de cada una de las cámaras identificando en estas un color específico; promediando los puntos de dispersión resultantes, se ubica bidimensionalmente en cada imagen el centroide del objeto, con base en esta información y aplicando un desarrollo matemático, se localiza completamente el objeto en un sistema de coordenadas aleatorio XYZ, respecto del cual, inicialmente, solo se necesita conocer la posición de cada una de las cámaras. Se desarrolló un software para computador, que permite observar las imágenes de cada una de las cámaras y la con figuración de la mayoría de parámetros. En la calibración del sistema se deben tener en cuenta: orientación de las cámaras, distancias sugeridas entre los focos de estas y calidad de las imágenes obtenidas.
Cambios en las propiedades dinámicas de una mezcla asfáltica por energía de compactación y variación en la granulometría
Authors: Reyes Ortiz Oscar Javier , Camacho Tauta Javier Fernando , Nieto Leal Andrés
Published: June 2017

El objetivo de esta investigación es establecer la influencia en las propiedades dinámicas de unas mezclas asfálticas por cambios en su energía de compactación y su granulometría. Para el desarrollo de la investigación se utilizaron dos tipos de mezcla asfálticas, una mezcla cerrada (0/10) y mezcla abierta (0/20) y la variación de la energía de compactación se realizo mediante cambios en los golpes por cada cara de las briquetas en su proceso de fabricación. La investigación inició con la caracterización de los materiales granulares y el asfalto. Posteriormente se les realizó el ensayo marshall a las mezclas para determinar el porcentaje óptimo de asfalto, el cual se obtuvo de las gráficas de estabilidad, flujo y peso unitario. Finalmente, se realizaron ensayos de módulos dinámicos y ahuellamiento, para poder concluir cual es la energía de compactación óptima que debe tener la mezcla asfáltica, y así, optimizar el diseño y funcionamiento de estructuras de pavimentos flexibles con diferentes tipos de granulometría. Dentro de los resultados se resalta que el mayor módulo dinámico para la mezcla cerrada (0/10) se obtuvo para una energía de compactación de 85 golpes y para la mezcla abierta (0/20) de 75 golpes. Con respecto a la deformación permanente se obtuvo las menores deformaciones para la energía de compactación de 90 golpes en la mezcla cerrada y de 85 golpes para la granulometría abierta.
La construcción de indicadores de la actividad económica: una revisión bibliográfica
Authors: Sierra Suárez Lya Paola , Collazos-Rodríguez Jaime Andrés , Sanabria-Domínguez Johana , Vidal-Alejandro Pavel
Published: June 2017

Los indicadores de actividad económica son utilizados para medir el comportamiento de una economía cuando ningún otro tipo de indicador, como el producto interno bruto, puede proporcionar información sobre el estado de la economía de forma actualizada. En este documento se realiza una revisión de la literatura nacional e internacional sobre la construcción de indicadores de actividad económica. Adicionalmente, se ofrece un resumen de la metodología más utilizada en la construcción de índices de actividad económica, el modelo factorial dinámico (MFD) y sus diferentes tipos de estimación, resaltando las ventajas y desventajas.  Finalmente, se presenta el método utilizado en la construcción del índice mensual de actividad económica para el Valle del Cauca (IMAE).
¿El trabajo del duelo como paradigma de la diferencia sexual?
Authors: Crevier Goulet Sarah-Anaïs
Published: June 2017

En este ensayo, Crevier Goulet explora la relación entre la idea del “duelo” articulada en términos freudianos (es decir, como la forma en que el Yo articula una pérdida) y las características de la diferencia sexual a partir de las ideas de Judith Butler en su libro Gender Trouble. A partir de esta relación, observa los patrones de sexualización que están (según Butler) presentes en este tipo de procesos, explorando así la manera en que los paradigmas sexuales afectan los procesos de duelo.
El socialismo como apuesta. De Lucien Goldmann a Daniel Bensaïd
Authors: Löwy Michael
Published: June 2017

Este artículo explora la noción de apuesta en el pensamiento marxista de Lucien Goldmann y en uno de sus lectores más lúcidos, Daniel Bensaïd. La apuesta proviene de la filosofía de Pascal y llevada al socialismo tiene un sentido de fe secular: la posibilidad de realización histórica de una comunidad humana auténtica (el socialismo). Esta apuesta revolucionaria, supraindividual, deseosa de la felicidad colectiva, es asediada por el fracaso y por ello necesariamente melancólica, pero jamás resignada.
Via non difficilis. Los viales de acceso en las villas renacentistas con desarrollo axial
Authors: Muñoz Domínguez José
Published: June 2017

Desde la propuesta teórica de Alberti en De re aedificatoria (ca. 1450-1485), el camino de acceso a la villa constituye uno de sus componentes definidores por excelencia, integrado muy tempranamente como parte de su composición general. En relación con este elemento de ordenación, se estudia un conjunto de villas que presentan desarrollo axial –principalmente dentro del tipo aterrazado– con viales de acceso de notable longitud, todas dentro del período renacentista, desde el ejemplo más antiguo de Quaracchi (ca. 1453) o Castello (ca. 1538-1550), entre otros de Toscana, entorno de Roma o el Véneto, hasta casos españoles como La Fresneda (ca. 1562-1569) o El Bosque de Béjar (ca. 1567).
Las fábricas de tabacos en España (1731-1945): planteamientos proyectuales y referentes arquitectónicos de un modelo espacial productivo en evolución
Authors: Castañeda López Carolina
Published: June 2017

Los primeros momentos de la producción industrial en España conformaron un laboratorio de soluciones, no sólo por los planteamientos relativos a los nuevos métodos de producción, sino por la formulación de la arquitectura que debía dar respuesta a una nueva temática funcional hasta entonces inexistente. En el caso de las fábricas de tabacos en España, estas circunstancias, unidas al origen manufacturero de la actividad, marcaron su producción arquitectónica, la cual se produjo tanto por la asimilación de referentes de otros tipos arquitectónicos, como por el aporte de la  experiencia ingenieril de sus proyectistas. Los ingenieros de las tabacaleras españolas tuvieron muy en cuenta la relación de la fábrica con su entorno y con el propio espacio productivo, trascendiendo la mera significación funcional. Todos estos aspectos, junto con el prominente papel del monopolio hacendístico del tabaco en el panorama productivo territorial peninsular, coadyuvó a la materialización de una arquitecturaparticular desarrollada de forma independiente a las teorías y corrientes coetáneas en materia de arquitectura industrial.
Preserving the Modernist Vertical Urban Factory
Authors: Rappaport Nina
Published: June 2017

This essay is adapted in part, from the section, “Modern Factory Architecture” case studies from Nina Rappaport’s book Vertical Urban Factory, published by Actar this spring. Vertical Urban Factory began as an architecture studio, and then an exhibition, which opened in New York in 2011 and traveled to Detroit and Toronto in 2012. Last year the show was displayed at Archizoom at EPFL in Lausanne; Industry City, Brooklyn; and the Charles Moore School of Architecture at Kean University, in New Jersey. The project continues as a think tank evaluating factory futures and urban industrial potential.
BUDIDAYA LADA BERPINDAH: KASUS LADA BANGKA BELITUNG
Authors: Daras, MAgr.Sc Ir. Usman
Published: June 2017

The province of Bangka Belitung islands are producing areas of black pepper from which Muntok White Pepper wellkown over the world is produced. Unportunetely, the exported commodity is obtained through traditional agricultural system, where cultivated lands of the crop commonly move from one site to others, after 2-3 times of harversting seasons. In establishing of pepper vine orchards, farmers usually open secondary forests (forested lands) and followed by burning any dried parts of cut plants. This may result in declining of soil fertility, productivity of the crop, and its economical life as much humus and soil organic matter is burned as well. The growth of pepper vines will become worse since farmers commonly do not look after the crops properly, including added fertilizers adequately. In the future, such approach may not be maintained due to narrowed land-ownership generated by increase of population and other land use purposes. Therefore, fixed cultivation of the crops may be a single solution in growing pepper vines at Babel. In other words, the crops should be cultivated intensively by introducing proper management of the crops. Any main factors believed to be causes why farmers do so should be identified. The approach is expected to improve productivity, economical life of the crop more than 7 years) and sustainable.
Iron removal in highly contaminated acid mine drainage using passive biochemical reactors
Authors: Genty Thomas , Bussière Bruno , Benzaazoua Mostafa , Neculita Carmen M. , Zagury Gérald J.
Published: June 2017

Passive biochemical reactors (PBRs) are a viable alternative to neutralization plants for the treatment of acid mine drainage (AMD) because they require lower investment costs and use residual materials. However, high iron (Fe) concentrations (≥0.5 g/L) in AMD are challenging for their long-term efficiency. Sorption and precipitation are the main Fe removal mechanisms, but the relative importance of each is mostly unknown. In this study, locally available natural materials (organic and inorganic) were characterized and tested for their performance in Fe removal from highly contaminated AMD (pH 3.5, 4 g/L of Fe, and 9 g/L of sulfate). Iron retention capacity of the materials was then evaluated and the efficiency of eight mixtures of materials was compared through 40-day laboratory batch tests. All batch-type PBRs increased the pH up to 6.5 and decreased dissolved metals concentrations, including Fe, up to 99%. Results showed that organic residual materials (manures, municipal wastewater sludge, and compost) were the best substrates for Fe removal.These findings allowed for the selection of three reactive mixtures with distinct characteristics (mixture #1 – 30% organic wastes; mixture #4 – 50% calcite; and mixture #7 – 50% sand) to be further evaluated in column type PBRs.
Broadening Understanding: Students’ Perspectives on Respecting all Sexual Orientations and Gender Identities in University Classrooms
Authors: Pierre Danielle Nadine
Published: June 2017

Oppression and marginalization of people who identify as LGBTQ+ persist on university campuses despite their right to be free of discrimination under the Ontario Human Rights Code. In an attempt to highlight the real and detrimental impacts of normative heterosexual and cisgender ideologies on Ontarian students the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) has committed itself to elevating student voices on this issue. OUSA conducted a mixed-methods, primary research project to provide understanding of the opinions and experiences of LGBTQ+ identifying students. Student responses were collected using an online survey, which yielded 311 valid responses from university students across Ontario. While most results were positive, findings that a fifth of respondents felt uncomfortable in campus life, accompanied by responses implicating instructors as a source of this discomfort, suggest there is an on-going need for educators to work harder to incorporate diverse perspectives about both gender and sexual orientation into university curricula. Content analysis of open-ended survey responses was used to describe the barriers students experienced. Diversity orientation and course content were referenced most often among open-ended responses. Diversity orientation was also most often cited as a barrier and problematic assumptions were identified as barriers more often than course content. Training was most often identified as a solution, suggesting this is a strategy that faculty can adopt to increase their diversity orientation and decrease problematic assumptions. Educators must recognize their responsibility for facilitating safe, empowering classrooms; this research offers seven strategies for accomplishing this goal.
Steering into the Skid: On the Norms of Critical Thinking
Authors: Maynes Jeffrey
Published: June 2017

Cognitive bias presents as a pressing challenge to critical thinking education. While many have focused on how to eliminate or mitigate cognitive bias, others have argued that these biases are better understood as result from adaptive reasoning heuristics which are, in the right conditions, rational modes of reasoning about the world. This approach presents a new challenge to critical thinking education: if these heuristics are rational under the right conditions, does teaching critical thinking undermine student abilities to reason effectively in real life reasoning scenarios? I argue that this challenge calls for a reconception of the goals of critical thinking education to focus on how rational ideals are best achieved or approximated in human reasoners. Critical thinking educators should focus on developing the metacognitive skill to recognize when different cognitive strategies (including the heuristics) should be used.
CARBON COLONIALISM OR CLIMATE JUSTICE? INTERROGATING THE INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE REGIME FROM A TWAIL PERSPECTIVE
Authors: Dehm Julia
Published: June 2017

This article provides a TWAIL critique of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC] in the aftermath of the 21st Conference of the Parties in Paris in December 2015. It engages with criticisms from the social and climate justice movement that the UNFCCC is promoting forms of “carbon colonialism” or “CO2lonialism” through its support for and establishment of international carbon trading and offsetting strategies. It proposes that using a jurisdictional approach to examine how the authority of the UNFCCC is authorized can provide key analytical tools to understand the regime. The article examines the way in which the regime is authorized by an invocation of “common concern” even as it promotes policies that marginalize the interests of those already most vulnerable to climate change. It concludes by suggesting that climate justice movements already are building different forms of commonality and that these alternative commonalties represent important new ways of thinking about global action on climate change.
Music is not a Language
Authors: Julian Klein
Published: June 2017

The emergence of local expectations in listeners of music has been occasionally explained by assuming a sort of musical syntax or grammar. While sharing some superficial qualities, music and language structures are working differently: language syntax is organized in a hierarchical system, working only context-sensitively (the applicability of syntactical rules is influenced by the context), whereas musical structures, especially harmonic progressions, emerge mainly out of constructive, context-dependent processes (the context is able to establish completely new structural principles). Collected examples from musical literature of western tonal music across styles and epochs show five main principles of musical structure-building that distinguish musical models from syntactical rules: Constructivity, mappability, contextuality, individuality and contingence. The main influence of frame and context on musical expectations can be especially demonstrated by means of a harmonic progression frequently used in empirical studies as assumed syntactical violation: the neapolitan sixth chord succeeding the dominant. As a consequence, a re-interpretation of the empirical data should consider the specific context of the observed effects: they might be more a result of the introduction of the listener to a redundant stylistic model instead of the application of syntactical rules proper. According to the provided examples, structural expectations of listeners appear to be rather combinations of general familiarity to styles and composition principles, individual preferences and local framing. Based on these historical and systematic arguments, the structure of music seems to be flexible and integrative, and not bound to a syntax system.
Performance documentations for the dissertation
Authors: Tero Nauha
Published: June 2017

video documentation related with the doctoral research.
FolkImproV
Authors: Andreas Aase
Published: June 2017

Can pieces of dance tunes from Nordic folk music, organized according to principles from jazz, provide source material for building an improvisation language?

Scandinavian folk music traditionally used for dancing consists of melodies, organized in a limited amount of measures and sections (typically two or three eight-bar sections, played with repeats). The organizing principle in ensemble playing is for every musician to learn the melody first, and to let each following contribution be dictated by it. Variations in arrangements occur frequently in modern-day interplay, with harmony parts, chord changes, counter rhythms and dynamics meticulously employed in order to avoid monotony. But interpretation of the melody remains the main activity.

The ability for creativity on the spot is big among folk musicians, though it is seemingly framed by the strategies discussed above. I have yet to come across a methodical investigation of using material from traditional tunes as a musical vocabulary for improvisation. Consulting supervisors from the folk and jazz genres, I try to use source elements from the folk repertoire while employing organizing principles from jazz. As I present these ideas on several instruments, and over rhythmic foundations in a slightly modernized folk idiom, I'll try to encourage the use of these ideas in contexts not necessarily associated with traditional music. The project seeks to encourage participation, and may possibly work as tutorial material.

This exposition focuses on portions of a Pd.D.-level project I finished in 2009. The original three-year undertaking was supported by the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, hosted by NTNU, and was supervised by John-Pål Inderberg and Geir Egil Larsen. The current version was supported by HiNT University College.
ONE DOUBLE BODY
Authors: Branka Zgonjanin
Published: June 2017

ONE DOUBLE BODY/Conversations with The Fish is based on the research of the inner forces within one's body. These forces are perceived as a causality. Each person/performer has
many different bodies, and those bodies are interrelated and influence each other all the time. Their mutual influence is most of the time mechanic. In this work I underline those aspects of the bodies and try to make them visible on the stage. Thematically, ONE DOUBLE BODY is based on the real-time rite de passage experience of a performer/woman: pregnancy, labour and becoming a mother.
Luginsland (Sound and Score)
Authors: Florian Dombois
Published: June 2017

'Luginsland (Sound and Score)' displays both a visualization and an audification of a seismic recording, that was taken at Kunsthalle Bern during the exhibition 'Pre-Emptive' (18/08/2006 – 08/10/2006). The exposition focuses on the dialectic of notation and performance, that has a long tradition in music, but is here transposed into the context of sonification research and sound art.
choreographic things, dancing
Authors: Martin Nachbar
Published: June 2017

How are the body's sensations connected to what the mind imagines? An investigation through a series of choreographic practices, which all graft at least two existing movement and/or performing practices onto each other, accompanied by several drawing exercises, which act as two-dimensional renderings of the three- or four-dimensional practice of choreography, and with the attentive, mindful body as a hinge between the sensory and the imaginary.

In my contribution to the ARC I try to trace the trajectory of the research during its two-year course in its chronological order. This seems to be in place especially for a time-based art-form such as choreography, in which an audience witnesses any research findings over the time of the choreography.
My Body Asking Your Body Questions: VestAndPage (Verena Stenke & Andrea Pagnes) interviewed by Valeria Romagnini & Karlyn De Jong (Personal Structures |GAA Foundation)
Authors: Andrea Pagnes
Published: June 2017

Complete and revised version in origin of the interview with performance artist duo VestAndPage by Valeria Romagnini with additional questions by Karlyn De Jong, partly published in Personal Structures, vol. II, 2013. The artists analyze in depth issues such as the "here and now", the position of the Self, the value of freedom, relational paradigms and the importance of the audience.
Reconfiguring Think Tanks as a discursive, social model in contemporary art | Residencies as places of continuity, mutuality, free thinking and independent research
Authors: Andrea Pagnes
Published: June 2017

In general, art contains in itself a revolutionary quid, as the artist - through his/her work - provides an opportunity to look at the world in a different way from that to which one was used. The art has a function of perceptive awakening and therefore of sensorial activation. This is revolutionary, because it can change your perception of life that you have had up to that time. Out of this perspective, to reconsider artist in residencies as not mere hosting institutional containers, but as laboratories of continuative production of thoughts and ideas, might also reinforce the concept that a work of art is thus the end result of a specific process – possessing specific forms and aesthetic, and that it serves no purpose except that of channelling a very specific form of energy. It’s always a sort of communicative performance. It allows man to plumb his/her own conscience and to void it, as it’s only within empty spaces that energy can unleash its creative force. For it, it is required great effort and care not just from the artist who's temporarily involved, but from the ones who run the artist in residencies themselves.
The Other Side of the Frame - Artistic Experience as Felt Framing. Fundamental principles of an artistic theory of relativity
Authors: Julian Klein
Published: June 2017

Artistic experience can be interpreted as an embodied sensing of frameworks. In artistic constructions of realities, cognitive experience („Erfahrung“) and aesthetic sensing („Erleben“) interfere. Based on an analysis of aesthetic relativity in general, and of the artistic perspective on reality in particular, an artistic form of „sensuous cognition“ can be described: a genuine artistic understanding of the world as a sheaf of intentional coupling and decoupling manifolds, like an sensuous gauge theory of mind in multiple realities. The main gain of this approach can be found in an epistemological practice of a specific kind of artistic research, aiming for embodied and therefore experienced knowledge.
SPATIAL RHYTHMS Scenographic movements in the intersection of the installation and performing arts.
Authors: Elina Lifländer
Published: June 2017

This artistic research started with the challenges of the contemporary scenography; How to react and participate in the fluctuating performances of today? The immaterial starting point has turned into a rhythmic spatiality, where the rhythm meets visual compositions, movements, sound and other intangible elements of the performative space. After joining to the TAhTO program, my study started to move even more towards interartistic aspects where the performing art meets installation art and the participatory performance meets music and sound art. Among the important aspects today, has proved to be the process of sharing and making the spatial experience and design process more comprehensive and visible through communicative practice.
Artistic Research Does Not Exist … And How She Managed Not to Be Afraid
Authors: Julian Klein
Published: June 2017

“Fine, then,” fluted Fay, “sing me the reasons why you don’t exist, and I will whisper to you why you don’t have to be afraid – as long as you accompany me on the guitar.” – “But I can’t play the guitar!” –
“If you don’t exist,” continued Fay, “then you can also play the guitar, because you actually do exist, otherwise you wouldn’t be afraid of not existing, and from one such a false premise follows the entire universe.”
And so she played and played, sang her favorite fears and listened to Fay's eleven chords of consolation.
Hans Schleif - Stations of the Biography of an Architecture Historian in German National Socialism – Addenda and Register
Authors: Julian Klein
Published: June 2017

Among the members of the Archaeological Institute of the German Reich, the architectural historian Hans Schleif was notable for the extent of his involvement with the crimes of the National Socialist regime. His achievements in scientific research, for instance as director of excavations at Olympia, are over¬shadowed by his career in the SS. He was director of the Excavation Department of the »Ahnen¬erbe« (ancestral herit¬age) of the SS. After the German invasion of Poland he was briefly appointed Custodian of German Cultural Assets based in Posnan. In 1943, he joined the SS Head Office for Economic and Administrative Af¬fairs and rose to the position of deputy to C Group (Construction) director, Dr. Hans Kammler, whose permanent representative in the Jäger- und Rüstungsstab task force he became. In this role, Schleif was responsi¬ble above all for moving key arms production facilities underground, where fighter planes and the »reprisal weapons« V1 and V2 were built – hence for the largely subterranean concentra¬tion and slave labour camps of the Sonderstab Kammler. His grandson, the actor Matthias Neukirch, created a theatre production about Schleif in collaboration with stage director Julian Klein at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. This text is a result of the research undertaken for the production, and reports on selected stages in Schleif’s biography.
This are the addenda and the register of the publication in the yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute, No. 131, 2016.
“Born Digital – New Materialities”.
Authors: Paul Thompson
Published: June 2017

This paper presents the findings of new research undertaken amongst contemporary printmaking practitioners to determine markers of transition between traditional and new forms of printmaking, framed by conception of “Born Digital – New Materialities” - where a print object is conceived and/or created wholly in digital form (The-Library-of-Congress, 2010) whereby artists, utilising digital technologies, demand new conceptions, forms and aesthetics – “towards a new printmaking materiality”.
The research was undertaken through social network platforms to coordinate the collation and curation of a digitally mediated international exchange survey of contemporary “print” developed through digital mediation for digital exhibition, publication and editioning.
The research examines notions of “new materiality”, set against new concepts of electronic consumption for the second generation of printmaking formed by “ a multiply produced object made with a new type of template” [Kushner 2009] or printmaking 2.0, driven by burgeoning demand[s] for electronic distribution of digitally mediated prints.
NOTES ON PERFORMANCE ART, THE BODY AND THE POLITICAL
Authors: Andrea Pagnes
Published: June 2017

When I use the term ‘political’ related to performance art, I intend to set forth a space of possible, civil negotiation for and among artists and audience to analyse and further debate on how to overcome and transform schemes, rules, conventions and barriers, socially and culturally.

Curatorial text published in the post event catalogue of the second edition of the Live art exhibition project Venice International Performance Art Week "Ritual Body-Political Body" (2014) conceived and curated by VestAndPage.
Trace Element 2013
Authors: Christopher Hollins
Published: June 2017

A painting created by chance – as opposed to an art object pregnant with intellectual meaning. This work tries to provoke a sense of uncertainty in order to rekindle an old way of sensing that our learned ideas about what we see suppress in our day-to-day lives.
GjokeGojani interview from Peje
Authors: Sara Benaglia
Published: June 2017

Monuments in x YU
telepathy
Authors: Sara Benaglia
Published: June 2017

how telepathy built Italy
Autenticitet i Det Offentliga Rummet
Authors: Héctor García-Jorquera
Published: June 2017

The name of my master thesis project is Authenticity and The Public Space, the paradox between them. I need to create a new contextualization for my aesthetic practice, and to incorporate critical views, questioning both the format and the scenic heritage of the West.
Un ejemplo de evaluación desde un enfoque desarrollador, caso álgebra lineal
Authors: Martínez Acosta Alejandro , Uzuriaga López Vivian Libeth
Published: June 2017

La evaluación es una de las componentes claves del proceso de enseñanza y de aprendizaje; sin embargo   ha pasado y sigue pasando por variadas definiciones, conceptos y concepciones que en algunas oportunidades le niegan la posibilidad de cumplir una función reguladora del aprendizaje. Una gran cantidad de docentes la consideran como una simple actividad técnica, mecánica, algorítmica o repetitiva; otros la conciben como una sumatoria de notas, una calificación o valoración netamente cuantitativa. En algunos contextos es concebida como una componente de la didáctica que permite formar, intencionada para el logro de objetivos, que promueve la autorregulación en los estudiantes, convirtiéndose en una generadora de aprendizaje, por lo tanto no es un espacio punitivo, es una situación de encuentro con el ser que aprende para ubicarlo desde su saber y desde allí valorar sus capacidades, promover el desarrollo de habilidades para actuar mejor ante determinados contextos.Se presenta una reflexión sobre la importancia de la evaluación en el desarrollo de habilidades matemáticas, se mostrarán algunos resultados que han surgido del análisis comparativo desde una concepción desarrolladora y un modelo convencional, particularmente en la asignatura Álgebra Lineal, con estudiantes de ingeniería y tecnología de la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira.
Modelo para la evaluación de alternativas de localización de una PTAR para una ciudad en el Valle del Cauca Colombia.
Authors: Peña Orozco Diego León , Arana Arias Cristian Camilo , Ordoñez Rodríguez Camilo
Published: June 2017

Se aborda el problema de ubicación de una planta de tratamiento de aguas residuales para una ciudad en el contexto de  tres alternativas de localización, con el fin de determinar la ubicación que genera un menor costo de transporte de aguas residuales desde el origen hasta cada una de las ubicaciones propuestas. Para la evaluación, se tiene en cuenta el diseño de la red actual y sus características, además de los aspectos  legales que rigen las tarifas aplicadas a los servicios de acueducto y alcantarillado.
Diseño y construcción de un prototipo electromecánico de prótesis transhumeral comandado por movimientos del brazo funcional
Authors: España Aguilar Juan Pablo
Published: June 2017

En el presente artículo se expone el diseño, construcción y experimentación de una alternativa de prótesis electromecánica transhumeral, cuyo objetivo es proveer al paciente de comodidad  física y satisfacción psicológica,   mediante una nueva alternativa funcional de prótesis. Dentro de las principales funciones  que realiza la prótesis, se encuentran la ejecución de actividades de simetría como levantamiento de objetos a dos manos y actividades de apoyo y sujeción, cuyo funcionamiento se basa en la réplica de movimientos de la extremidad superior contralateral, obteniendo un movimiento en paralelo. Esta prótesis  posee diferentes sistemas, dentro de los cuales se destaca el mecanismo de cuatro barras en los dedos, el cual permite adaptarse a las diferentes geometrías de los objetos a sujetar y realizar diversos tipos de agarre. Además cuenta con un sistema de control y sensores (acelerómetro, sensor deflexión, sensor proximidad) que miden el nivel de movimiento en las articulaciones y envían estas señales al micro-controlador para procesarlas y replicar los movimientos en la prótesis y, un sistema de potencia que consta de drivers para el control de cinco  actuadores.
Estilos de liderazgo con tendencia al acoso laboral
Authors: López Tellez Alejandra , López Velásquez Gloria Lucía , López Duque María Esperanza
Published: June 2017

El articulo propone, identificar la percepción de acoso en los equipos de trabajo de las organizaciones de diferentes sectores productivos y sus estilos de liderazgo predominantes; a través de un ejercicio investigativo que infiere una serie de variables asociadas a las percepciones de comportamientos acosadores; dicha inferencia se desarrolla a partir de los referentes teóricos y conceptuales abordados en la revisión de literatura internacional respondiendo al contexto legal existente en Colombia. El objeto de investigación se estableció con la participación de  22 grupos de trabajo correspondientes a diferentes niveles jerárquicos de 6 empresas representativas de la región.
Aspectos socioeconómicos y percepciones de los corteros de caña sobre la mecanización en Risaralda, Colombia
Authors: Arias Mendoza Jhon Jairo , Morales Pinzón Tito , Suarez Agudelo Andrés
Published: June 2017

El artículo  presenta la caracterización socioeconómica de los corteros de caña de azúcar del ingenio Risaralda; adicionalmente ilustra las percepciones que los trabajadores tienen con respecto a una transición hacia corte mecanizado, además de su impacto sobre las condiciones de vida. Se realizaron encuestas para identificar algunas características socioeconómicas y dentro de estas, unas palabras claves para determinar las apreciaciones sobre  el cambio en la actividad. Los resultados muestran que la mecanización en la recolección de la caña, trae consecuencias significativas en la calidad de vida de los corteros del municipio de la Virginia y del corregimiento de Caimalito.
ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS OF EXPERIENCE OF PROJECT FINANCING OF INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES
Authors: Trushina Irina Aleksandrovna
Published: June 2017

The article describes specific features of project financing in the Russian Federation. It is stated that in Russia in recent years new investment projects have been launched, which are expected to be implemented using the project financing method, which indicates a favorable investment climate and the state's readiness to develop and improve this mechanism. Most of the projects are related to the industrial sector; in this regard, the analysis of projects and a synthesis of experience in the application of project financing have been conducted. Projects that were not always successful were analyzed, as well as an example of a project implemented with the assumption of design errors, in which the basic principles of project financing were not applied, but the result of its functioning turned out to be positive. According to the results of the analysis, the author grouped the general trends of project implementation, formulated the conditions that confirm the use of project financing, and identified key errors in the implementation of large-scale investment projects involving industrial enterprises. Priority sectors of the economy are defined, in which large-scale investment projects are most often developed and implemented (oil and gas extraction, processing and transportation). A review of Russian experience of project financing made it possible to understand the level of prevalence of this method and the effectiveness of its use, as well as to identify the main factors constraining and stimulating the use of project financing by industrial enterprises. Taking into account these factors will contribute to the formation of new directions and the development of methods for stimulating project financing for their successful use in the implementation of large-scale investment projects.