bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Overcoming Intersectional Barriers
Authors: Parker Sara L. , Standing Kay
Published: May 2016

This chapter discusses the complexity and challenges of exploring the impact of gender on women's ability to realise their potential in Nepal. It demonstrates the limitations of using binary divisions to exploring ‘gender' as a key factor that impacts upon women's lives. By analysing interviews with ‘inspirational' women in Nepal conducted between 2009 and 2012 the chapter highlights the importance of exploring intersectional factors that also influenced women's life experiences. Based on interviews with 34 ‘inspirational' women in Nepal the chapter explores how the term ‘inspirational' is defines and discusses the range of work being done by so many women in Nepal that is truly inspiring. Through a discourse analysis of their stories of childhood and education we can see what key factors have played a role in enabling these women to realise their potential and to overcome intersectional barriers to work in a range of diverse positions, from the first female District Development Officer to the first women to gain her doctorate from overseas, to women who have set up NGOS working towards a more equitable and just society to others who have set up their own businesses or becoming leading academics. The conclusion draws together some key recommendations for future research and policy makers as well as those seeking to promote more equitable sustainable development that truly includes women in the process as autonomous, heterogeneous actors in the development process
The Exploitation of Women Workers
Authors: Sultana Ishrat Zakia
Published: May 2016

The recent series of man-made accidents in Bangladeshi garment industries are highly disturbing to the collective conscience of human beings. These accidents point not only to the poor construction of the factory buildings but also to the invisible tie between the insatiable need for cheap clothing on the part of western consumers and the unlimited greed of the local industry owners. Because most of the workers are economically desperate women and the industries are operated by a capitalist system that denies the rights of women, a systemic exploitation results. Drawing upon the recent tragic events of the deadliest industry disasters in Bangladesh, this paper examines how the industry owners perceive, and practice, ‘human rights'? It also investigates whether neo-colonial modernity is merely exploiting women while pretending to improve their economic conditions, and finally, to what extent female industry workers can overturn the vicious circle of exploitation to establish their rights.
Managing Negative Publicity on Social Media
Authors: Barman Himadri
Published: May 2016

The Chapter talks about the importance of social media from the view of publicity for an organization. It talks about a few real life situations where organizations have suffered as a result of negative publicity on the social media. That negative publicity can be a disaster for the organization is emphasized. The chapter lists out the causes of negative publicity for an organization in the social media and how it can be tackled as is found in existing literature on negative publicity in the social media. The chapter ends with a series of guidelines to get back on track in the face of negative publicity in the social media.
Role of Social Media in Brand Promotion
Authors: Kasemsap Kijpokin
Published: May 2016

This chapter aims to promote brand management through social media in global marketing, thus explaining the theoretical and practical overview of social media, evolving dynamics of brand management, shifts in global marketing dynamics, and brand promotion through social media in global marketing. Social media is a great way to reach a new group of targeted consumers. Social media is utilized as a marketing tool by marketers in creating brand relationship. The integration of social media and brand management is necessary for modern organizations that seek to serve suppliers and customers, increase business performance, strengthen competitiveness, and achieve continuous success in global marketing. The chapter argues that promoting brand management through social media in global marketing has the potential to enhance organizational performance and reach strategic goals in the social media age.
Company-Customer Interaction via Social Media
Authors: Hamouda Manel
Published: May 2016

In recent years, social media has become an integral part of internet users' everyday life. Customers are increasingly seen to be more like “content creators” or even company employees rather than mere customers as they were in the past. In this chapter, we try to understand how customers use the various social media platforms to interact and how this interaction influences the company's marketing policy. An overview of the customers' different uses and practices enabled authors to identify several forms of interactions and to detect their effects on pricing, product, place and promotion, the four main components of the marketing mix.
We Need to Look Cute! But Is It Really Effective?
Authors: Tan Caroline S.L.
Published: May 2016

This chapter examines how Lawson, a convenience store chain in Japan has taken a different approach in utilizing Twitter. This chapter begins with the background of the retail sector in Japan, specifically the convenience store industry as well as a brief description of cute culture. The key elements of Lawson's Twitter account are explored accordingly. Using elements from Esch, Langner, Schimitt & Geus' (2006) general model of branding components and relationship to micro blogging, a study was conducted to examine the current and future purchase intentions. While social media proved to help differentiate Lawson from its competitors, it was not the main factor in generating brand loyalty. The findings show that not all followers displayed purchase intentions. The results also identified a gap between the perceptions of Lawson's Twitter account versus the overall corporate brand. This provides the foundation for further research activities in developing more effective methods of maximizing Twitter in enhancing customer experience and subsequently increasing brand equity and loyalty.
Social Media and Business
Authors: Gupta Saurabh , Singh Anurag , Duhan Punita
Published: May 2016

The influence of social media on the various facets of society has attracted a lot of attention of the researchers in the last few years who are probing its multifaceted impact. One important aspect of social media is its role in promoting instant gratification. It has far reaching consequences for evolution of self, which in turn has important implications for society and businesses. Drawing from the conceptual foundations of the theories of identity and social comparison, the researchers tried to develop a model as to how the dual role of social media acts to alter the identity and hence behavior. In this context, the significance of the study lies in exposing the intricate interplay between the attributes of social media and the dynamic self. The study goes a long way in providing a deeper understanding of self-concept in connection to social media, which has immense importance for consumer behavior and can help businesses to fine-tune their strategies with the changing consumer psychology.
Classical Building Materials
Authors: Khitab Anwar , Anwar Waqas
Published: May 2016

Classical building materials are widely used in Civil Engineering projects. Many ancient generations used fire clay and stone as building blocks. The most common building materials today include stones, concrete, plastics, bitumen, glass, wood, metals, bricks, polymers, tiles and heat resisting materials. Current research work has come up with the considerable improvement in the natural characteristics of these materials. Glasses are available in more variety as they were 50 years ago. Similarly, concrete is now available in ultra-high strengths and even blast resistant form. Recently, use of nano-technology has emerged as a rapidly growing field; success of which is also highly dependent on the basic understanding of classical building materials. Advance research work including implementation of nanotechnology may come up with further improvements in the physical and chemical properties of these materials. This chapter would focus on classical materials in detail covering their physical and chemical characteristics, usages as well as economical suitability.
Nanotechnology Applications in the Construction Industry
Authors: Mansouri Iman , Esmaeili Elaheh
Published: May 2016

Nanotechnology refers to the understanding and manipulation of materials on the nanoscale (<100 nm). This can lead to marked changes in material properties and can result in improved performance and new functionality. Nanomaterials with properties such as corrosion resistance, and strength and durability are of particular interests to construction professionals, because, these properties directly affect the selection of construction materials, erection methods, and on-site handling techniques. Applying nanotechnology to construction, in some cases, may result in visionary and paradigm-breaking advances. The incorporation of nanomaterials can improve structural efficiency, durability and strength of cementitious materials and can thereby assist in improving the quality and longevity of structures. This chapter tries to analyze nanotechnology in the context of construction and explores the current scenario of nanotechnology in the construction industry. In order to identify the potential benefits and existing barriers, an extensive literature review is conducted.
Risks and Preventive Measures of Nanotechnology
Authors: Anwar Waqas , Khitab Anwar
Published: May 2016

Application of Nanotechnology in Civil Engineering is a rapidly growing field. It has brought improvements in construction materials as well as practices. Moreover, further developments are foreseeable in this field based on the positive outcomes of the current research works. Utilization of nanoparticles in Civil Engineering has been proved advantageous from several aspects of strength, durability and sustainability. Unfortunately, there are not only benefits associated with the application of nanotechnology. According to various studies, nanoparticles are supposed to damage human organs through physical contact and inhalation. Considering the environmental impacts, atmospheric transport, as well as transport in saturated and unsaturated regions in the subsurface are possible. Nowadays, nanoparticles are progressively produced and they could easily be released in air, water, and eventually contaminate the soil which is harmful for the environment and its habitats. The following chapter would address these issues as well as preventive measures in order to improve benefit-risk ratio.
Leveraging UML for Access Control Engineering in a Collaboration on Duty and Adaptive Workflow Model that Extends NIST RBAC
Authors: Berhe Solomon , Demurjian Steven A. , Pavlich-Mariscal Jaime , Saripalle Rishi Kanth , Algarín Alberto De la Rosa
Published: May 2016

To facilitate collaboration in emerging domains such as the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), the authors' prior work extended the NIST Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) model to yield a formal Collaboration on Duty and Adaptive Workflow (CoD/AWF) model. The next logical step is to place this work into the context of an integrated software process for security engineering from design through enforcement. Towards this goal, the authors promote a secure software engineering process that leverages an extended Unified Modeling Language (UML) to visualize CoD/AWF policies to achieve a solution that separates concerns while still providing the means to securely engineer dynamic collaborations for applications such as the PCMH.
Optimistic Access Control for Collaborative Applications
Authors: Cherif Asma , Imine Abdessamad
Published: May 2016

Collaborative applications are important applications, allowing users to cooperate in order to perform a given task. Their importance has grown significantly over the recent years since they are required in many fields. However, they still lack of an appropriate access control mechanism which limits their full potential. It is hard to conceive an access control model for collaborative applications since they need to change dynamically access rights while maintaining high local responsiveness. This chapter presents a decentralized access control model based on replicating the shared document and its access control policy at each collaborating site. The interaction between document updates and authorizations updates is carefully studied to maintain the convergence of the shared data. Our model relies on an optimistic approach to enforce the access control, i.e. users may temporarily violate the access control policy if their rights were revoked concurrently. Illegal operations are undone selectively to eliminate their effects and converge to the same final state of the shared object.
Network Intrusion Detection Using Multi-Objective Ensemble Classifiers
Authors: Malik Arif Jamal , Haneef Muhammad
Published: May 2016

During the past few years, Internet has become a public platform for communication and exchange of information online. The increase in network usage has increased the chance of network attacks. In order to detect the malicious activities and threats, several kinds of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) have been designed over the past few years. The goal of IDS is to intelligently monitor events occurring in a computer system or a network and analyze them for any sign of violation of the security policy as well as retain the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of a network information system. An IDS may be categorized as anomaly detection system or misuse detection system. Anomaly detection systems usually apply statistical or Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to detect attacks; therefore, these systems have the ability to detect novel or unknown attacks. A misuse detection system uses signature-based detection; therefore, these systems are good at identifying already known attacks but cannot detect unknown attacks.
ICMetric-Based Secure Communication
Authors: Tahir Shahzaib , Rashid Imran
Published: May 2016

Secure communication refers to successful and secure interaction among the participants having common intentions in peer-to-peer or group settings. Group setting is a dynamic environment composed of activities exhibited by individuals in a group where number of participants are variable. Therefore the level of security in this environment needs to be given utmost importance. This challenging environment requires maintaining secrecy of cryptographic keys which is often overlooked. ICMetric is an emerging technology that has gained importance because of its security advantages for embedded system applications. This technology resolves issues of key theft and storage, through the development of device fingerprint that can be used for secure key generation. This research discusses ICMetric in detail by elaborating its salient features. Authors enumerate the current research being carried out on ICMetric technology along with its areas of application. This research elucidates the changes that ICMetric technology has brought to conventional cryptosystem design.
Review and Implementation Analysis of Safety Management Systems in Aviation Design
Authors: Kim Heidi C.
Published: May 2016

In January of 2015, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released an 80-page document outlining Safety Management Systems (SMS) for Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 121 air carriers. This advisory circular provides a description of regulatory requirements, methods of development, and implementation of an SMS (Federal Aviation Administration, 2015). The release of this document began a race to implement SMS across aviation. An all-encompassing Safety Management System currently does not apply to the manufacturing of airplane parts. This research will examine current safety management processes in place for applicants and holders of supplemental type certificates (STC). Upon review of current procedures, a model for an SMS will be created specific to supplemental type certificate applicants and holders. This SMS process created for STC holders will ultimately improve aviation safety. The FAA should mandate this framework for all applicants pursuing and holding a supplemental type certificate.
Uses and Gratifications of Social Media in the Production of Political Information during the 2015 Egyptian Parliamentary Election
Authors: Mohamed Hamza Saad
Published: May 2016

This study aims to investigate the extent to which university students are actively seeking out political information on social media during the 2015 Egyptian parliamentary elections. Moreover, it explores the impact of social media usage in the production of political information and its influence on participants' likelihood to vote. A random sample of 400 students at three public Egyptian universities qualified to vote in the 2015 parliamentary election were selected. The interesting result that emerged from this study was that students use social media for seeking information mainly in politics during the election more than pass time and entertainment purposes. Furthermore, the findings have shown that social media usage increased both the political information and participants' likelihood to vote during the 2015 parliamentary election.
Food, Photography and the Indian Pastoral
Authors: Blaney Aileen
Published: May 2016

This article focuses on the relationship between Kheti Badi – a series of images produced by photo-based artist Chinar Shah based on the online Facebook game FarmVille – and the contemporary context of image making, agriculture and food production. In today's digital culture, global perceptions and expectations of food stuffs are grounded less in first-hand knowledge than in images and digital video that circulate on the screens that are now everywhere around us. While photography continues to act in the role of an instrument used to record and classify, it has the power to feed back into the very processes through which science and technology shape food production, going far beyond producing images of a reality that is already out there. In the intersections between a multinational food industry, the global circulation of images of food and the predicaments of people farming the land in India, the author discusses the significance of Kheti Badi's conceptual investigation of photography's role in shaping perceptions of, engagements with and modifications to food.
Embodying Trust in the Electoral System
Authors: Bishop Jonathan , Beech Mark
Published: May 2016

This paper proposes a new method for distributing votes in democratic elections in such a way that allows for the public to put their trust in independent candidates or those from small political parties. Using the case of a party founded by the authors called The Pluralist Party the paper presents primary data to evaluate the effectiveness of the method – called delegated transferable voting (DTV). Using an auto-ethnographical empirical study in which one of the authors plays a significant role as anthropologist, the paper finds that DTV is more likely to lead to the election of independent candidates over party political ones. Pluralism advocates the election of those who are independent of political party whips in order to best represent the people. The election of independent candidates or small parties is a model of pluralism that can achieve this. The empirical study, through investigating the campaigning methods used by The Pluralist Party, shows that putting effort into an election – whether money, materials or labour and however funded – can improve outcomes for political parties. Making use of official government data in addition to the collected data showed that a higher number of votes for the Pluralist Party was associated with a higher education level, more rooms in a household, a lower number of people not in education, employment or training, and a lower ‘knol,' which is a unit for measuring brain activity.
An Improved Arabic Handwritten Recognition System using Deep Support Vector Machines
Authors: Elleuch Mohamed , Kherallah Monji
Published: May 2016

Deep learning algorithms, as a machine learning algorithms developed in recent years, have been successfully applied in various domains of computer vision, such as face recognition, object detection and image classification. These Deep algorithms aim at extracting a high representation of the data via multi-layers in a deep hierarchical structure. However, to the authors' knowledge, these deep learning approaches have not been extensively studied to recognize Arabic Handwritten Script (AHS). In this paper, they present a deep learning model based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) named Deep SVM. This model has an inherent ability to select data points crucial to classify good generalization capabilities. The deep SVM is constructed by a stack of SVMs allowing to extracting/learning automatically features from the raw images and to perform classification as well. The Multi-class SVM with an RBF kernel, as non-linear discriminative features for classification, was chosen and tested on Handwritten Arabic Characters Database (HACDB). Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed model.
Unit-Selection Speech Synthesis Method Using Words as Search Units
Authors: Segi Hiroyuki
Published: May 2016

Unit-selection speech-synthesis systems have been proposed. In most of the unit-selection speech-synthesis systems, search units are rather short such as syllables, phonemes and diphones. However, when applied to large speech databases, shorter units produce more voice-waveform candidates and a larger speech database cannot be used without narrow pruning for practical use. Narrow pruning impairs the quality of the synthesized speech. Here the author examined the possibility of using words as search units. Subjective evaluations indicated that 70% of the speech synthesized by the proposed method sounded more natural than that synthesized by a conventional method. The five-point mean opinion score of the synthesized speech was 3.5, and 21% was judged to sound as natural as human speech. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of unit-selection speech synthesis using words as search units.
The Technoethical Ethos of Technic Self-Determination
Authors: Cortese Francesco Albert Bosco
Published: May 2016

This paper addresses concerns that the development and proliferation of Human Enhancement Technologies (HET) will be (a) dehumanizing and (b) a threat to our autonomy and sovereignty as individuals. The paper argues contrarily that HET constitutes nothing less than one of the most effective foreseeable means of increasing the autonomy and sovereignty of individual members of society. Furthermore, it elaborates the position that the use of HET exemplifies – and indeed even intensifies – our most human capacity and faculty: namely the desire for increased self-determination, which is referred to as the will toward self-determination. Based upon this position, the paper argues that the use of HET bears fundamental ontological continuity with the human condition in general and with the historically-ubiquitous will toward self-determination in particular. HET will not be a dehumanizing force, but will rather serve to increase the very capacity that characterizes us as human more accurately than anything else.
Ethical Dimensions of Cosmetic Surgery
Authors: Lunceford Brett
Published: May 2016

The promise of cosmetic surgery is that one can reshape his or her body to remove perceived defects and thus have a perfect body. Although in practice this is not always the result, many continue to pursue this potential. One extreme example of this impulse is actress Heidi Montag, who underwent ten different plastic surgery procedures in one day. But the decision to undergo cosmetic surgery is not made in a vacuum. Individuals are influenced by others, including the media, the surgeons, and themselves. This essay uses Montag's experience to explore four ethical considerations surrounding cosmetic surgery—the surgeon, the patient, the media, and society—and concludes with a discussion of potential correctives for ethical failures in each of these areas.
Algorithms Versus Hive Minds
Authors: Searle Rick
Published: May 2016

From the time of its emergence onto the public scene the Internet has been understood in light of both its dystopian potential for total surveillance and control and its utopian possibilities to enable enhanced forms of freedom. This paper argues that these two potentials are deeply interconnected and that the both the field of Technoethics and long term sustainability of democracy itself requires that we understand and address the connections between our fears and hopes regarding the Infosphere.
War 2.0
Authors: Galliott Jai
Published: May 2016

Technology has always allowed agents of war to separate themselves from the harm that they or their armed forces inflict, with spears, bows and arrows, trebuchets, cannons, firearms and other modern weaponry, all serving as examples of technologies that have increased the distance between belligerents and supposedly made warfare less sickening than the close-quarters combat of the past. However, this paper calls into question the extent to which new military technologies actually mitigate the savagery of war. It contends that with the introduction of technologies that eliminate the need for a human presence on the battlefield, we are the cusp of a major revolution in warfare that presents new challenges and questions for military technoethics, namely as to how soldiers should conduct themselves and fight justly, if they are to do so at all. Ultimately, it argues that only way to address these issues is through the design of the mediating technologies themselves, which is by no means an easy task.
Editorial v. 33, número especial (2015)
Authors: Souza Marta Luzia de , Lima Maria Das Graças de , Rocha Márcio Mendes , Lopes Claudivan Sanches
Published: May 2016

Editorial do volume 33, número especial, do ano de 2015.
INFLUÊNCIA DAS CARACTERÍSTICAS GEOAMBIENTAIS SOBRE O TRANSPORTE DE SEDIMENTOS EM SUSPENSÃO NA BACIA HIDROGRÁFICA DO CÓRREGO MOEDA, TRÊS LAGOAS/MS
Authors: Medeiros Rafael Brugnolli , Pinto André Luiz
Published: May 2016

Os sistemas ambientais possuem diversos componentes decorrentes das interações dos elementos naturais, mantendo relações mútuas entre si. Dessa forma, o presente artigo trata das características geoambientais da Bacia Hidrográfica do Córrego Moeda, Três Lagoas/MS, buscando analisar a influência desses elementos sobre o transporte de sedimentos em suspensão ao longo de onze pontos de coletas de água, durante as estações de 2012 (verão, outono, inverno e primavera). Foram levantados dados através de softwares como Spring 5.0.6 e ArcGis 10 e informações disponibilizadas pela Fibria-MS Celulose Ltda. Através dos resultados encontrados, percebe-se uma alteração no transporte de sedimentos com diferenças no uso e ocupação, pois locais ocupados por pastagens tendem a um maior escoamento superficial, assim como a geologia, que interfere de forma significativa nos pontos 7, 9 e 10, que estão sobrepostos nos Depósitos Aluvionares Holocênicos. Concluindo, os parâmetros observados interferem de forma significativa no transporte de sedimentos em suspensão por razão do uso e ocupação da terra, declividade, relevo, geologia e precipitação.
A DIMENSÃO DIDÁTICO PEDAGÓGICA DA CARTOGRAFIA NO PROCESSO DE ENSINO APRENDIZAGEM PARA O ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL
Authors: Geron Gabriela , Francischett Mafalda Nesi
Published: May 2016

O presente artigo tem como objetivo apresentar a pesquisa sobre a Cartografia como linguagem mediando o ensino com conteúdos relacionados ao objeto da Geografia, o espaço geográfico. Partimos da hipótese sobre a importância do conhecimento do lugar para a compreensão dos conceitos geográficos. Para isso as atividades didáticas utilizando a Cartografia Escolar mediarão o processo. A problemática também está justificada pela falta de materiais didáticos (in) formativos para trabalhar conceitos específicos de Geografia na esfera local. O principal enfoque deste trabalho está na localidade, com informações científicas para o aprendizado do aluno. As representações cartográficas, selecionadas, apresentam as características físicas da área urbana do município de Francisco Beltrão/PR, que o professor pode ter como base para trabalhar no nível do Ensino Fundamental I, fundamentadas na carta topográfica.  A partir desses dados delimitamos e fomentamos o caminho da pesquisa que serve de apoio para decodificar a compreensão dos conceitos do aluno, leitor do mapa.
COMUNIDADE ENQUANTO ESPAÇO DE MÚLTIPLAS AÇÕES E PERCEPÇÕES: O CASO DE UMA COMUNIDADE QUILOMBOLA EM PONTA GROSSA E A QUESTÃO FUNDIÁRIA
Authors: Alves Ana Paula Aparecida Ferreira
Published: May 2016

Este trabalho apresenta uma abordagem pensada a partir das múltiplas experiências vividas e praticadas pelos indivíduos comunitários tendo por objetivo, superar a noção clássica de comunidades vinculadas à homogeneidade aparente dos discursos.  Apesar das conquistas obtidas pelas comunidades tradicionais, principalmente referentes à questão fundiária, alguns estudos, tendem, mesmo que indiretamente, a projetar o caráter limitante da fixidez imposta pelo Estado a partir destas políticas. Este contexto resulta da construção conceitual de comunidade em distintos momentos a partir de discursos científicos e políticos. Por meio do procedimento metodológico baseado nas entrevistas semi-estruturadas, buscou-se identificar esta realidade na comunidade rural quilombola de Santa Cruz em Ponta Grossa-PR, onde se verificou como as distintas ações e percepções indicam a multiplicidade espacial, descaracterizando o discurso predominante da homogeneidade. Percebeu-se um descompasso entre a aplicabilidade do processo de regularização fundiária e as percepções individuais e coletivas dos moradores sobre a própria regulamentação imposta por esta política.
IDENTIFICAÇÃO DE ANOMALIAS DE DRENAGEM NA BACIA DO RIO DO SABÃO (PR) POR MEIO DO ÍNDICE RDE E DO FATOR DE SIMETRIA TOPOGRÁFICA TRANSVERSAL (FSTT)
Authors: Firmino Idjarrury Gomes
Published: May 2016

O presente artigo faz uma análise estrutural da bacia do rio do Sabão, PR, por meio do índice de Relação Declividade-Extensão (RDE) e por meio do Fator de Simetria Topográfica Transversal (FSTT), com o objetivo de identificar anomalias de drenagem ao longo de seu percurso e basculamento de sua bacia. Para a aplicação do índice RDE, o segmento fluvial foi dividido em 18 trechos, dos quais foram obtidas 3 anomalias de 2º ordem, sendo ambas de classes moderadas. Para a aplicação do FSTT, a bacia foi estudada em 12 perfis transversais, que mostrou no geral um deslocamento preferencial para a esquerda da bacia com um valor de baixo grau de anomalia. Concluiu-se que o rio possui um forte controle estrutural e nenhuma indicação notável de neotectônica na bacia.
ANÁLISE COMPARATIVA ENTRE MODELOS DIGITAIS DE ELEVAÇÃO COM DISTINTAS CARACTERÍSTICAS DE PROCESSAMENTO E AQUISIÇÃO
Authors: Silveira Ricardo Michael Pinheiro , Da Silveira Claudinei Taborda
Published: May 2016

A utilização cada vez mais abrangente de Modelos Digitais de Elevação (MDEs) denota a necessidade do reconhecimento das limitações e potencialidades da modelagem e seus efeitos nos produtos derivados. Nessa perspectiva, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar, por cálculos estatísticos comparativos, matriz de confusão e técnicas de geoprocessamento, as diferenças inerentes entre MDEs com distintas características de aquisição na área de estudo que compreende a porção central da Serra do Mar no estado do Paraná, Brasil. Primeiramente foram avaliados os efeitos da variação do tamanho de célula (5, 10, 15 e 20 metros) de um Modelo Digital do Terreno (MDT) interpolado pelo método Topogrid a partir de base vetorial planialtimétrica na escala 1:25.000, tanto para os valores de altimetria quanto para os atributos topográficos declividade, plano de curvatura e índice topográfico de umidade. Posteriormente foram realizados testes entre o MDT Topogrid e outros MDEs amplamente utilizados e de resolução mais grosseira: MDEs SRTM (90m v1, 90m v4, 30m v1,  banda-C versão 4 e banda X), Aster GDEM e MDEs do acervo Topodata. Os resultados evidenciaram as discrepâncias entre os MDEs, destacando que o emprego dos modelos para fins específicos deve se pautar em rigorosos critérios metodológicos. Conclui-se que a aplicação dos MDEs deve ser condizente à escala dos dados, aos métodos de processamento dos modelos, à escolha da resolução horizontal e aos algoritmos empregados no cálculo de atributos topográficos.
Nem Deus nem Mercado: a Campanha da Fraternidade de 2010
Authors: Ramalho José Rodorval
Published: May 2016

O presente texto analisa o tema da Campanha da Fraternidade Ecumênica de 2010 “Economia e Vida: Vocês não podem servir a Deus e ao Dinheiro”, promovida, entre outras instituições cristãs, pela Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil. Partindo dos principais documentos da referida campanha, realizamos uma comparação das categorias econômicas utilizadas com aquelas expressas no corpus da Doutrina Social da Igreja Católica. Concluímos que os bispos brasileiros fazem uso seletivo dos documentos papais, enfatizando as críticas às economias de mercado e realçando a necessidade da defesa de formas coletivistas e igualitaristas das relações econômicas. A base teórica para tais exercícios interpretativos da realidade econômica, sobretudo brasileira, é um marxismo economicista e insensível às mudanças ocorridas na estrutura do capitalismo contemporâneo. Os textos do episcopado brasileiro também ignoram o fracasso das experiências socialistas, sobretudo no século XX.
Neotomismo e política: Leonel Franca e o debate sobre modernidade e totalitarismo
Authors: De Souza Rogério Luiz , Fabricio Edison Lucas
Published: May 2016

Este artigo objetiva discutir o neotomismo. Esta filosofia renovou as premissas de Tomás de Aquino desde o século XIX a partir do impulso proporcionado pela encíclica Aeternis Patris, de Leão XIII. Em fins do século XIX e inicio do XX este modo peculiar de reflexão teve nos intelectuais convertidos ao catolicismo uma importante base de apoio, sendo Jacques Maritain na França o exemplo maior. A reflexão neotomista no campo da filosofia política fez de Maritain um dos autores mais prestigiados no mundo católico. No Brasil, Leonel Franca, junto a outros intelectuais do Centro Dom Vital, também empreendeu reflexões inovadoras sobre a política, especialmente sobre temas como democracia e totalitarismo. Apoiado em noções de obras e autoria de Michel Foucault e de circulação internacional de ideias de Pierre Bourdieu, busca-se compreender como o neotomismo foi relevante nas reflexões políticas do pensamento católico, especialmente de Leonel Franca.
A INFECÇÃO DA ALMA: Um breve estudo sobre a imoralidade e seu combate no jornal O Diário Católico (1937 a 1945)
Authors: Caldeira Rodrigo Coppe , Drummond Albert
Published: May 2016

Este artigo trata do discurso moralizador da Igreja Católica de Belo Horizonte sobre o carnaval através das páginas do jornal católico O Diário. Durante o Estado Novo a Igreja passou por significativas transformações, entre elas, o desenvolvimento do que foi chamado de “projeto de restauração”. Nesse contexto político a instituição religiosa se vê ameaçada pelo avanço da modernidade. A questão moral se torna um dos pontos mais delicados, levando a Igreja a se posicionar de forma a confrontar os valores modernos, que em sua perspectiva corrompiam e adoeciam uma doutrina moral já instituída, trazendo todos os tipos de vícios e pecados. A Igreja, a partir de suas múltiplas vozes, não compreende essa batalha como vencida, mas como uma infecção, que aos poucos vai se adentrando no corpo religioso, corrompendo-os com seus falsos ideários e por fim extinguindo a essência virtuosa e ética da moral católica.
A Revista Catolicismo e o dispositivo anticomunista na década de 1960
Authors: Bett Ianko
Published: May 2016

O artigo analisa as principais divergências e conflitos presentes na Revista Catolicismo ao longo da década de 1960, com o objetivo de compreender a forma através da qual o dispositivo anticomunista passou a ser inserido no bojo dos embates. Serão analisados os confrontos empreendidos por Catolicismo contra a Juventude Universitária Católica – JUC e contra o Deputado Democrata Cristão André Montoro; contra o diretor da Revista católica polonesa Kierunky; contra o Arcebispo Metropolitano de Porto Alegre D. Vicente Scherer e o confronto contra a Confederação Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil – CNBB. Para dar conta desse empreendimento pretende-se identificar os principais motivos/posturas que implicaram na deflagração das querelas político-doutrinárias e analisar como a prática discursiva anticomunista, através de diversos dispositivos inerentes, foi consubstanciada nesses processos.
“Puesto sobre la tierra pero con la mirada y los brazos hacia el cielo”: la politización del laicado en Chile, 1960-1964
Authors: Labbé Marcos Fernández
Published: May 2016

El objetivo del presente artículo es reseñar y analizar históricamente las conceptualizaciones desarrolladas al interior del pensamiento católico en torno a la política y la acción laical a inicios de la década de 1960 en Chile. A partir de la revisión de diversas fuentes de opinión elaboradas por agentes católicos y destinadas a la esfera pública se concluyen tanto los conceptos elaborados para incentivar la acción política laical (Bien Común, Solidaridad, Subsidiariedad), como los alcances que en la doctrina católica alcanzó la delimitación entre acción contingente y prescindencia de la política partidista, en un contexto de reforma de estructuras y de ascenso al gobierno de un partido político de inspiración cristiana.
D. Antônio de Macedo Costa: uma teologia do poder
Authors: Costa Milton Carlos
Published: May 2016

A personalidade de D. Antônio de Macedo Costa configura-se como uma das mais conhecidas da história do catolicismo brasileiro, principalmente devido à sua atuação durante a Questão Religiosa (1872-1875), que opôs a Igreja brasileira ao Estado. Nosso trabalho visa fazer uma exploração inicial de sua teologia do poder, expressa nos documentos elaborados por este batalhador incansável da igreja ultramontana, que procurou impulsionar com grande energia o processo que a historiografia chama de romanização da Igreja brasileira. Podemos dizer que todas as formulações de D. Antônio estão atravessadas pela concepção de uma teologia do poder: é pelo prisma do poder que ele vê a Igreja e é de maneira consciente e explícita que privilegia o Estado como interlocutor da Igreja.
‘System of the heavens’: um exame do conceito de ‘Colusão’ por meio do caso da criação do Núcleo da AIB em Natal
Authors: Peixoto Renato Amado
Published: May 2016

Este artigo visa retrabalhar o conceito de Colusão por meio da recuperação de suas raízes etimológicas e de seu uso pela astronomia do início do século XIX. Nosso objetivo é permitir que o conceito de Colusão possa servir à articulação de um exame do extremismo islâmico no nível transnacional. Para este efeito testaremos nossos resultados por meio do caso de estudo fornecido pela relação entre o catolicismo e o fascismo na cidade de Natal no período do Entreguerras.
A Comissão Nacional da Verdade e o caso dos protestantes durante a ditadura militar brasileira
Authors: Alonso Leandro Seawright
Published: May 2016

Descrevi o ambiente político em que foi criada a Comissão Nacional da Verdade e, em seguida, abordei a criação do Grupo de Trabalho sobre o papel das igrejas na ditadura militar brasileira. Apresentei perspectivas sobre a “justiça de transição” e a consequente “frustração” sentida por parte da sociedade brasileira. Propus analisar o caso dos protestantes com base nas diferentes iniciativas do GT. Não obstante, analisei a documentação transcrita pela Presidência da República e as entrevistas de história oral contendo memórias de protestantes ortodoxos comunistas e heterodoxos anticomunistas no tocante à “justiça de transição” tardia e inconclusa na história republicana do Brasil.
Do Antissocialismo ao Anticapitalismo: um estudo sobre a Rerum Novarum
Authors: Mendes Claudinei Magno Magre , Oliveira Terezinha , Perin Conceição Solange Bution
Published: May 2016

O objetivo deste artigo é examinar o processo de constituição do anticapitalismo por meio da análise da Rerum Novarum, a primeira encíclica social. Comparando esta com as encíclicas anteriores do século XIX, pudemos estabelecer o que ela trouxe de novidade no que diz respeito ao combate que a Igreja travava contra o socialismo. Com essa comparação, foi possível caracterizar a postura anticapitalista, confrontando a nossa maneira de concebê-la com as demais. Para o exame da Rerum Novarum foi igualmente importante analisar alguns estudos referentes a ela, tanto os que apareceram logo após a sua publicação como os que foram realizados em décadas mais recentes. Como conclusão, definimos o anticapitalismo como uma atitude que somente poderia ter surgido em condições sociais e políticas bastante particulares e que apenas apareceram em fins do século XIX.
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of An Olympism Education Programme to Resolve Conflicts Between Primary School Students in Sri Lanka
Authors: Nanayakkara Samantha
Published: May 2016

This paper reports and discusses the findings of an experimental method study that investigated how Olympism education could strengthen competencies on conflict resolution, through delivery of socio-cultural values educating young students in ethnically divided societies in Sri-Lanka.The research examined the initiatives first by investigating the impact of education in promoting peace in Sri Lanka. Secondly, the study provided an explanation for the potential nature of Olympism in conflict resolution and promoting peace in Sri Lanka. The study has introduced an integrated model of Olympism values and conflict resolution strategies and has been tested among primary students who represent the two main Sri Lankan ethnic groups; Singhalese and Tamils. Considering the effects of the intervention, the most notable finding of this study was that conflict resolution and Olympism Education integrated curriculum intervention significantly improved experimental group students’ conflict resolution competencies regardless of their gender or ethnicity. This research concluded that strategically designed and carefully managed Olympism lessons can help students to develop and enhance competencies of conflict resolution. In order to achieve significant outcomes in young children’s ability to learn to resolve their conflicts when they were exposed to physical education lessons, it is needed to employ experiential learning opportunities through a well balanced theoretical basement and sporting activities.
Coastal Land Uses for Tourism in Sri Lanka: Conflicts and Planning Efforts
Authors: Bandara Herath Madana , Ratnayake Iraj
Published: May 2016

Tourism in Sri Lanka involves mainly activities in the beach area. From the inception of formal tourism, tourist product development, conservation, preservation and protection have been given a high priority through land zoning and tourism legislation. National Holiday Resorts were established mainly in coastal areas following the recommendations of the first master plan and continued the same in similar subsequent planning attempts. This paper evaluates those planning efforts and observes existing land conflicts. The planning efforts were not worked as expected and conflicts have arisen due to the lack of funding, implementation, co-operation, monitoring and evaluation. The article hypothesises that land use planning for tourism requires total co-operation of the state sector, private sector organisations and the local community.
Executive summary, geospatial data policy study
Authors: Sears G
Published: May 2016

The Canadian Geospatial Data Policy Study was commissioned in order to provide empirical information on the impact of current geospatial data policies on all three levels of government (federal, provincial, municipal) and the users and distributors of the data
in the business sector and in the community at large. Based on the findings, the project was to make recommendations on how Canadian government geospatial data dissemination policies and practices could be modified to facilitate business development and the improved competitiveness of the Canadian
geomatics industry while still ensuring adequate funding for infrastructure.
Report of 2015 activities for the geologic and metallogenic framework of the South Rae Craton, southeast Northwest Territories: GEM 2 South Rae quaternary and bedrock project
Authors: Pehrsson S J , Campbell J E , Martel E , McCurdy M
W , Agosta-Gongora P , Theissen E , Jamieson D , Lauzon G , Buller G , Falck H , Dyke A S
Published: May 2016

Foreword
The Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals (GEM) program is laying the foundation for sustainable economic development in the North. The Program provides modern public geoscience that will set the stage for long-term decision making related to investment in responsible resource development. Geoscience
knowledge produced by GEM supports evidence-based exploration for new energy and mineral resources and enables northern communities to make informed decisions about their land, economy and society. Building upon the success of its first five-years, GEM has been renewed until 2020 to continue
producing new, publically available, regional-scale geoscience knowledge in Canada's North.
During the summer 2015, GEM program has successfully carried out 17 research activities that include geological, geochemical and geophysical surveying. These activities have been undertaken in collaboration with provincial and territorial governments, northerners and their institutions, academia and
the private sector. GEM will continue to work with these key collaborators as the program advances.
Supply chain integration: A qualitative exploration of perspectives from plastic manufacturers in Gauteng
Authors: Vermeulen Yvonne , Niemann Wesley , Kotzé Theuns
Published: May 2016

Background: Supply chain integration was identified as a tool to assist an organisation to survive in a competitive marketplace. It was unclear how plastic manufacturers in Gauteng perceived supply chain integration efforts between themselves and their suppliers.Objectives: This study’s main purpose was to investigate the nature and extent of supply chain integration between 10 plastic manufacturers in Gauteng and their suppliers. The focus was on these manufacturers’ commitment to and perceptions of supplier integration efforts.Method: The study was conducted with plastic manufacturing organisations in Gauteng, over a period of 2 months. A total of 10 participants were engaged through semi-structured interviews.Results: The main findings of the study revealed that commitment and trust were found to be the antecedents of supplier integration and closer collaboration, while customer price pressure and limited available resources served as motivating factors for integration efforts.Conclusion: It is recommended that organisations must revisit integration efforts when new markets are penetrated and top management support must be revisited using a strategic framework.Keywords: Supply chain integration; supply chain commitment; organisational integration; performance; visibility; supplier integration; customer integration; qualitative study; semi-structured interview; basic research.