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Best index related to the shoreline dynamics during a storm: the case of Jesolo beach
Authors: Archetti R. , Paci A. , Carniel S. , Bonaldo D.
Published: November 2015

Abstract. The paper presents an application of shoreline monitoring aimed to understand the response of a beach to single storms and to identify its typical behaviour, in order to be able to predict shoreline changes and to properly plan the defence of the shore zone. On the study area, in Jesolo beach (Nothern Adriatic sea, Italy), a video monitoring station and an acoustic wave and current profiler were installed in spring 2013, recording respectively images and hydrodynamic data. The site lacks of previous detailed hydrodynamic and morphodynamics data. Variations in the shoreline were quantified in combination with available nearshore wave conditions, making it possible to analyse a relationship between the shoreline displacement and the wave features. Results denote characteristic patterns of beach response to storm events, and highlight the importance of improving beach protection in this zone, notwithstanding the many interventions experimented in the last decades. A total of 31 independent storm events were selected during the period October 2013–October 2014, and for each of them synthetic indexes based on storm duration, energy and maximum wave height were developed and estimated. It was found that the mean shoreline displacements during a storm are well correlated with the total wave energy during the considered storm by an empirical power law equation. A sub-selection of storms on beach protected by artificial dunes (in winter season) was examined in detail; we can conclude that the extensive adoption of artificial dunes in the study area was useful in the past also to reduce shoreline retreat during the storm. This type of interventions can sometimes contribute to prolonged overall stability not only in the replenished zone but also in down drift areas. The implemented methodology, which confirms to be economically attractive if compared to more traditional monitoring systems, proves to be a valuable system to monitor beach erosive processes and provide detailed indications on how to better plan beach maintenance activities. The presented methodology and the proposed results can therefore be used as a basis for improving the collaboration between coastal scientists and managers to solve beach erosion problems, in a location where data are seldom.
X− Dominating colour transversals in graphs
Authors: Yanamandram Venkatakrishnan Balasubramanian , Natarajan C. , Ayyaswamy S. K.
Published: November 2015

Let G = (X, Y,E) be a bipartite graph. A X-dominating set D ⊆X is called a X−dominating colour transversal set of a graph G if D isa transversal of at least one $chi$−partition of G.The minimum cardinal-ity of a X−dominating colour transversal set is called X−dominatingcolour transversal number and is denoted by $chi_{dct}(G)$. We find thebounds of X−dominating colour transversal number and characterizethe graphs attaining the bound.
Variable Mesh Size Exponential Finite Difference Method for the Numerical Solutions of Two Point Boundary Value Problems
Authors: Pandey Pramod K. , Pandey B. D.
Published: November 2015

In this article, we presented a non-uniform mesh size high order exponential finite difference scheme for the numerical solutions of two point boundary value problems with  Dirichlet's boundary conditions. Under appropriate conditions, we have discussed the local truncation error and the convergence of the proposed method. Numerical experiments have been carried out to demonstrate the use and high order computational efficiency of the present method in several model problems. Numerical results showed that the proposed method is accurate and convergent. The order of accuracy is at least cubic which is in good agreement with the theoretically established order of the method.
Existence and non-existence of positive solution for (p, q)-Laplacian with singular weights
Authors: Zerouali Abdellah Ahmed , Karim Belhadj
Published: November 2015

We use the Hardy-Sobolev inequality to study existence and non-existence results for a positive solution of the quasilinear elliptic problem -\Delta{p}u − \mu \Delta{q}u = \limda[mp(x)|u|p−2u + \mu mq(x)|u|q−2u] in \Omega driven by nonhomogeneous operator (p, q)-Laplacian with singular weights under the Dirichlet boundary condition. We also prove that in the case where μ > 0 and with 1 < q < p < \infinity the results are completely different from those for the usual eigenvalue for the problem p-Laplacian with singular weight under the Dirichlet boundary condition, which is retrieved when μ = 0. Precisely, we show that when μ > 0 there exists an interval of eigenvalues for our eigenvalue problem.
The PCD Method on Composite Grid
Authors: Tahiri Ahmed
Published: November 2015

We introduce a discretization method of boundary value problems(BVP) in the case of the two dimensional diffusion equation on arectangular mesh with refined zones. The method consists inrepresenting the unknown distribution and its derivatives bypiecewise constant distributions (PCD) on distinct meshes togetherwith an appropriate approximate variational formulation of the exactBVP on this piecewise constant distributions space. This method,named the PCD method, has the advantage of producing the mostcompact possible discrete stencil. Here, we analyze and prove theconvergence of the PCD method and determine upper bounds on itsconvergence rate.
Sur la tour de Hilbert de certains corps
Authors: Azizi Abdelmalek , Talbi Mohammed , Talbi Mohamed
Published: November 2015

In this paper, we determine the first  Hilbert $2$-class field for some quartic cyclic number fields ${\mathrm k}$ and the Galois group  of the second Hilbert $2$-class field of  ${\mathrm k}$ over ${\mathrm k}$.
Limit analysis of an elastic thin oscillating layer
Authors: Messaho Jamal , Ait Moussa Abdelaziz
Published: November 2015

The aim of this paper, is to study the limit behavior of the solution of a convex elasticity problem with negative power type, of a containing structure, an elastic thin oscillating layer of thickness depending of a small enough parameter. The epi-convergence method is considered to nd the limit problems with interface conditions.
Recovering the Adventure of Ideas: In Defense of Metaphysics as Revisable, Systematic, Speculative Philosophy
Authors: Henning Brian G.
Published: November 2015

My aim in this article is twofold. First, I hope to show that, despite its seeming rehabilitation, metaphysics as systematic, speculative philosophy is no less threatened. Second, I will argue that metaphysics as systematic, speculative philosophy is ultimately revisable. That is, metaphysics is not (or should not be) the aim at a closed system of apodictic truths but, rather, an open-ended, fallibilistic pursuit of ever-more-adequate accounts of reality. Specifically, building on the work of Charles Sanders Peirce and Alfred North Whitehead, I will argue that we should conceive of metaphysics not as the quest for absolute certainty but as “working hypothesis.” Thus, the first part will be largely historical and critical, and the second part will be positive and exploratory.
A Different Path: Why Stanley Cavell Won't Get to the Point
Authors: Jackson Larry
Published: November 2015

Stanley Cavell rarely gets to the point, and his winding sentences and frequent asides are a favorite target for detractors. This essay follows a different path, however, proposing that we listen carefully to Cavell's voice as an author and consider the philosophical significance of these twists and turns in his writings. After exploring the intellectual basis for Cavellian indirectness, the essay examines an exemplary passage from Must We Mean What We Say? linking it to the political unrest of the 1960s. It shows how Cavell used the indirectness of his writing to mount a necessarily subtle social critique of American society on the issue of race.
The Enigma of Being-Toward-Death
Authors: Sheets-Johnstone Maxine
Published: November 2015

This article considers the relationship of Heidegger's metaphysics of Being-toward-death to what Heidegger describes as “the enigma of motion,” that is, to Dasein's “historicality.” In doing so, the article confronts a series of questions concerning fundamental realities of animate life, realities centering on angst in the face of death, but including curiosity and fear, for example, all such realities being what Heidegger terms “states-of-mind” or “moods.” Thus, the article basically questions Heidegger's elision of a Leibkörper, not only in terms of feelings but in terms of an exaltation of language, an insular notion of Dasein's historicality, and a narrow and deficient depiction of animals in his “philosophical biology.” Through a critical examination of the phenomenological disclosure that Heidegger seeks in his metaphysics of Being-toward-death, the article shows that death and the very concept of death hinges on being a body, a temporally finite animate body. Thus, however metaphysical its exposition, Being-toward-death is existentially anchored in being a body.
Solving a Transatlantic Puzzle?: John Wesley, George Whitefield, and ‘Free Grace’ Indeed!
Authors: Maddock Ian J.
Published: November 2015

Although the ‘Free Grace’ episode has received considerable scholarly attention, a lingering and largely unexplored transatlantic puzzle remains: the contribution played by an anonymously published pamphlet entitled ‘Free Grace’ Indeed! A Letter to the Reverend Mr. John Wesley, relating to his sermon against absolute election; published under the title of ‘Free Grace’. The publication of ‘Free Grace’ Indeed! set off a series of events that would have lasting ramifications for the burgeoning Methodist movement. It functioned as the ‘spark’ that reignited a dispute over the nature of the doctrine of election that Wesley and Whitefield had hitherto agreed to keep out of the public sphere. Ascertaining when that ‘spark’ was lit is significant, insofar as it explains the provocation behind Wesley's decision to reprint his Free Grace sermon in 1740. Furthermore, ascertaining who lit that ‘spark’ (or, as we shall observe, at the very least eliminating Whitefield as the likely author) is also significant, insofar as it exonerates him from the charge of knowingly reinstigating public debate, all the while professing his innocence in his private correspondence with Wesley. As to the identity of the anonymous author of ‘Free Grace’ Indeed!, for the moment this lingering transatlantic puzzle remains unresolved.
‘The Vision’: A Dream Account Collected and Preserved by Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
Authors: Cope Rachel , Kime Bradley
Published: November 2015

‘The Vision’ is a previously unpublished dream manuscript collected and preserved by Mary Bosanquet Fletcher. It emerged out of the transatlantic world of early Methodism, in which dreams played crucial personal and communal religious roles, and in which colonial contact had foregrounded the fate of the unevangelized American Indians as a pressing theological question. In the dream, an angel guides the dreamer through a post-mortal paradise and shows her the spirits commissioned to evangelize the American Indians who had died without the Christian Gospel. ‘The Vision’ provides a rich resource for exploring theology, experience, community, and divine communication in the early history of Methodism.
El asociacionismo salesiano universitario como mecanismo de educación ciudadana
Authors: Alexander Damas Roberto
Published: November 2015

El asociacionismo Universitario Salesiano es un mecanismo de empoderamiento del joven por medio de una educación en ciudadanía que lo prepara para su rol como hombre o mujer de bien, como un ciudadano o ciudadana en el tejido social. La experiencia de asociacionismo en la Universidad Don Bosco es la de un mecanismo concreto de participación para el joven que no solo le otorga espacio de participación, sino que fomenta su identidad. Con esto se genera una mejor percepción de la institucionalidad que funciona, que la organización es la mejor manera de participar para el logro del bien común y que la fe y la razón pueden estar en sinergia al servicio de las personas. Esto incide en la formación de un profesional diferente, un profesional humanizado y humanizante, que es consciente de su dignidad y la de las demás personas.Diálogos 14, 55-63.
¿Quién necesita doctores?
Authors: Martínez Reyes Nelson Rubén
Published: November 2015

Diá-logos 15, 3-6.
Una mirada cualitativa al Proyecto de Revitalización del Náhuat
Authors: Soriano Rodríguez Ana María
Published: November 2015

Este artículo presenta los hallazgos del estudio sobre la percepción que madres, padres, profesores y estudiantes tienen sobre la revitalización del náhuat y sobre su particular contribución a la revitalización de la lengua moribunda y los aprendizajes dejados en la participación de este tipo de proyectos. El propósito del estudio se enfoca precisamente en obtener una mirada con un enfoque cualitativo y desde los ojos de quienes participan directa e indirectamente del Proyecto de Revitalización del Náhuat que implementa la Universidad Don Bosco desde 2003. Se destaca en el estudio el rol de la comunidad educativa en la enseñanza de una lengua ancestral amenazada y los aprendizajes que contribuyen a una educación que respeta la diversidad cultural y que favorece a la identidad de una sociedad. La investigación se realizó en las escuelas de los municipios de Izalco, San Juan Talpa y Santo Domingo de Guzmán, en El Salvador, con base a veinte y nueve entrevistas enfocadas.Diá-logos 15, 55-73.
On the Need to Insert the Concept of Relativity in Thermodynamics Courses
Authors: Tane Jean-Louis
Published: November 2015

Contrary to the first law of thermodynamics which is generally considered as easily understandable, the second law is often felt as raising conceptual difficulties. It can be noted that their usual presentation is not homogeneous, since the expressions referring to the first law are generally energy equations, while those referring to the second law are entropy equations. If we give to the second law the form of an energy equation, it seems that we are led to extend the significance of the first law. The reason is that, doing so, the change in internal energy corresponding to a given process appears to be different as we are in conditions of irreversibility or of reversibility. In thermodynamic language, this is a way to say that the equality dUirr = dUrev classically interpreted as the formulation of the first law must be substituted by the inequality dUirr > dUrev. Writing this last expression under the form dUirr = dUrev + dUadd, the question asked concerns the origin of the additional energy noted dUadd,. The suggested answer is that dUadd is a consequence of the Einstein mass-energy relation E = mc2. This would mean that the laws of thermodynamics are closely linked to the concept of relativity and that the difference dUirr - dUrev can also be formulated dUirr = dUrev - c2dm. Such an interpretation was evidently impossible for the creators of the thermodynamic theory, since relativity was unknown at that time. The aim of the present paper is to detail the reasons which lead to this hypothesis, with the hope that it can be felt as a clarification and extension of the theory.
On The Minimal Number of Elements of Markov Partitions for Pseudo-Anosov Homeomorpisms
Authors: Zhirov Alexey
Published: November 2015

In the paper an estimation of the minimal number of elements of Markov partition for generalized pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism of closed non necessary orientable surface is given. It is formulated in terms of characteristic of invariant foliation of generalized pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism.
A Strong Class of Lifted Valid Inequalities for the Shortest Path Problem in Digraphs with Negative Cost Cycles
Authors: Souleye Ibrahim Mamane
Published: November 2015

In this paper, we address a strong class of lifted valid inequalities for the shortest path problem in digraphs with possibly negative cost cycles. We call these lifted inequalities the $incident \ lifted \ valid \ inequalities$ ($ILI$) as they are based on the incident arcs of a given vertex.  The $ILI$ inequalities are close in spirit of the so-called \textit{simple lifted valid inequalities} ($SLI$) and $cocycle \ lifted \ valid \ inequalities$ ($CLI$) introduced in Ibrahim et al. (2015). However, as we will see the $ILI$ inequalities are stronger than the first ones in term of linear relaxation strengthening. Indeed, contrary to  $SLI$ and $CLI$ inequalities, consider the same instances, in a cutting plane algorithm, the computational results prove that the $ILI$ inequalities provide the optimal integer solution for all the considered instances within no more than three iterations except one case for which after the first strengthening iteration, there exists no generated inequality.
Reviewer Acknowledgements for Review of European Studies, Vol. 7, No. 12
Authors: Dou Paige
Published: November 2015

Reviewer Acknowledgements for Review of European Studies, Vol. 7, No. 12, 2015
Gewone verblijfplaats in de Erfrechtverordening
Authors: Curry-Sumner I.
Published: November 2015

Gewone verblijfplaats in de Erfrechtverordening

Op 17 augustus 2015 wordt de Erfrechtverordening van toepassing. De verordening bevat zowel regels op het gebied van de bevoegdheid van de notaris om een Europese verklaring van erfrecht op te stellen, als regels van toepasselijk recht. In beide gevallen wordt gebruikt gemaakt van de aanknopingsfactor van de gewone verblijfplaats van de erflater. De vraag rijst echter hoe deze dient te worden vastgesteld. In deze bijdrage wordt stilgestaan bij het verschil tussen de begrippen woonplaats en gewone verblijfplaats, en wordt nader gekeken naar de factoren die een rol spelen bij de vaststelling van de gewone verblijfplaats van de erflater.
An Overview of Three Decades of Mergers and Acquisitions Research
Authors: Reis Nuno Rosa , Carvalho Fernando , Ferreira José Vasconcelos
Published: November 2015

Mergers and acquisitions (MA) have long attracted managers’ attention and have been researched in different perspectives and using different theories. In this study we grasp the wealth of extant research in the field of MAs. We conducted a bibliometric study of 635 articles on strategic management and international business research published in 34 highly ranked management journals between 1983 and 2012. We performed citation, co-citation and factor analyses to uncover the issues examined by scholars, the main theoretical approaches and themes researched. The results show a relative shift from economic and financial approaches to knowledge-based and organizational learning perspectives in recent years. There was also an evolution from assessing the performance of firms after an MA to seeking an understanding of what may drive synergy creation after the integration process. Furthermore we observed an increasing interest in cross-border MAs. We discuss our findings, identifying gaps and suggesting paths for future research.
Roadmapping strategic approach in generating innovation policies for firms of an industrial cluster
Authors: Melo Filho Leonel Del Rey , Gonçalves Carlos Alberto , Cheng Lin Chih , Muniz Reynaldo Maia
Published: November 2015

The generation of innovation policies in order to transform industrial clusters to attend new customers with higher technological requirements is certainly challenging. This paper shows a study about a roadmapping strategic approach used to reach this goal. This work was developed in partnership between the industry, government and a university. The process consisted of five stages: the definition of cluster firms technology features, gathering the researchers’ skills in an engineering school, the roadmapping itself, promotion planning workshops, and promoting engagement sessions and monitoring results. In the workshops of integrated planning, which are the focus of the present paper, there were fifteen cluster firms participation with fifteen foreign public and private organizations. In the roadmapping process we used for data collection participant observation, document analysis, semi-structured interviews. For data processing, we used the content analysis by evaluation analysis and the centering resonance analysis (CRA), a lesser known technique. Associated with this, six collective workshops were held - three with cluster firms and external organizations together and three workshops in fifteen inter-functional firms. As a result, we developed a set of innovation policies for the cluster, and generated insights like a better understanding of the new clients, better targeting decision making of current and future investment, besides greater integration between firms.
Option for winning: brazilians’ perception regarding companies
Authors: Pereira Mauricio Fernandes , Boal Helena Maria Chaves
Published: November 2015

By the increasing number of researches about how some organizations succeed in environments influenced by risk, innovation, quickness, transition and luck, this present study aims to identify if some entrenched myths, according to the study presented by Collins and Hansen (2011), are perceived and/or accepted by Brazilians concerning to organizations in which they work or have worked. For the survey, it was used a quantitative methodology and a non-probabilistic sampling. One structured electronic questionnaire was disseminated through Facebook and LinkedIn social networks. Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics and content analysis. The questionnaire was applied over seven days, and 259 filled questionnaires were obtained. The results show a possible trend of non-acceptance of these myths, easily identified through the reviews and the responses for each statement.
Dinâmicas de Mercado no Espaço Urbano: Lógica Teórica e Agenda de Pesquisa
Authors: Castilhos Rodrigo
Published: November 2015

A cidade contempornea est inextricavelmente inserida em dinmicas de mercado. Essa lgica d origem a uma rede de lugares gerenciados e governados como produtos. Com base em uma tipologia de lugares urbanos, elaborada a partir das dimenses diversidade e propriedade do espao, analiso a produo acadmica existente e mapeio as principais oportunidades de contribuio terica que a anlise do espao urbano oferece para a Consumer Culture Theory (CCT). Discuto, ainda, como a anlise sistemtica das dinmicas de mercado no espao urbano pode constituir uma agenda de pesquisa capaz de promover uma contribuio genuinamente brasileira para os debates na CCT.
Diálogo Acerca dos Conceitos de Responsabilidade Social Empresarial (RSE) e Marketing para Causas Sociais (MCS) no Âmbito do Investimento Social Corporativo (ISC)
Authors: Moraes Nelson Russo de , Braga Junior Sergio Silva , Lourenzani Ana Elisa Bressan Smith
Published: November 2015

Com a evoluo das relaes sociais estabelecidas entre as organizaes empresariais e a sociedade, especialmente aps a dcada de 1980, uma infinidade de terminologias vem, para alm de propor especificidade s suas aplicaes, causando certos transtornos de entendimento e por vezes sua manipulao torpe. A seguinte questo foi o elemento norteador: Como fica caracterizada a participao social empresarial: responsabilidade social ou marketing social?. Com o objetivo de analisar a aplicao de conceitos contemporneos de responsabilidade social e de marketing social, o presente artigo traz o dilogo terico e uma anlise acerca da apropriao destes termos em investimentos sociais corporativas feitas por empresas no municpio de Bauru, Estado de So Paulo. Os resultados apontam que entre as empresas pesquisadas, as de mdio porte apresentam uma forte responsabilidade social, ao passo que o marketing social o perfil predominante de empresas cuja sede externa ao municpio.
The Influence of the Stakeholder`s Profile Variables on the Perceived Image of the West University of Timisoara
Authors: Naghi Remus Ionut , Tiplea Lavinia Diana
Published: November 2015

Due to the competitive intensity increase in the academic environment, but also to the desire to attract a higher number of students, the managers of Romanian higher education institutions were forced to adopt in a greater extent a marketing orientation in their activity. An important component of this orientation represents the necessity to build an identity and a unique and competitive image in the minds of all the stakeholders of such institutions. Despite the fact that the subject of institutional image in general, and the image of educational institutions in particular, benefits of a greater attention in the literature, we consider that in the Romanian universities practice there is an insufficient level of concern for this topic. To build such an image that would be correctly perceived by stakeholders, also assumes to be aware of the main factors which influence the way in which this image is perceived.This paper aims to achieve a review of the specialized literature, after which will identify the main factors which influence the stakeholders perception on the image of an organization in general, with particularity on the case of higher educational institutions. Then, using a quantitative research, we aim to highlight the way in which some of the stakeholder`s profile variables influence the perception of the image of the West University of Timişoara.
A Determinação do Orçamento da Comunicação de Marketing em Grandes Anunciantes
Authors: Galão Fabiano Palhares , Crescitelli Edson
Published: November 2015

O objetivo do estudo analisar os critrios e processos adotados pelas empresas para a determinao do oramento da comunicao. De forma especfica, pretende-se identificar como as empresas organizam o sistema de deciso do oramento e lidam com os cortes de verba ao longo do processo de implementao das atividades promocionais. Os dados da pesquisa emprica foram coletados por meio de entrevistas em profundidade realizada com profissionais da rea de comunicao de dez empresas pertencentes ao ranking dos 300 maiores anunciantes do Brasil. Como tcnica de anlise dos dados optou-se pela anlise de contedo. Os principais resultados apontaram a pouca ou nenhuma participao do gestor da comunicao na deciso final do oramento da rea, a falta de critrios para justificar os cortes de verba durante o perodo promocional e a adoo por boa parte das empresas dos mtodos de julgamento e percentual de vendas para determinar o valor do oramento da comunicao.
Avaliação dos Consumidores da Comunidade Acadêmica de uma Instituição De Ensino Superior Pública em Relação as Práticas de TI Verde nas Organizações
Authors: Pinochet Luis Hernan Contreras , Ventura da Silva Mariana Kisters , Matsuda Patricia Miyumi
Published: November 2015

O objetivo deste artigo entender a avaliao dos consumidores em relao as prticas de TI Verde nas organizaes. O presente trabalho busca confirmar o modelo construdo teoricamente por Lunardi et al. (2011) e Lunardi et al. (2014) por meio da aplicao emprica que utilizou, para a anlise de dados a Modelagem de Equaes Estruturais MEE. A pesquisa, do tipo survey em corte transversal nico, foi realizada em uma Instituio de Ensino Superior pblica, localizada no municpio de Osasco, utilizando questionrio estruturado com cinco opes de resposta do tipo Likert e contou como respondentes: os discentes e docentes do curso de graduao em administrao, alm dos funcionrios tcnico administrativos em educao. Os resultados obtidos confirmaram a grande significncia estatstica dos caminhos estruturais, e demonstraram que o modelo proposto por Lunardi et al. (2011 e 2014) consistente, com ajustamento adequado, podendo ser aplicado em futuras pesquisas.
Clinical Validation of a Novel Commercial Reverse Transcription–Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction Screening Assay for Detection of ALK Translocations and Amplifications in Non–Small Cell Lung Carcinomas
Authors: Liu Chunyan , Pepper Kristi , Hendrickson Heather , Cagle Philip T. , Portier Bryce P.
Published: November 2015

Context.— EGFR mutations and anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) translocations have significant biologic and therapeutic implications in lung cancers, particularly lung adenocarcinomas. ALK translocations are less frequent compared with EGFR mutations; interestingly, these two abnormalities are most commonly mutually exclusive. The 2013 College of American Pathologists/Association for Molecular Pathology/International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer molecular testing guideline for lung cancers recommend a testing algorithm in which detection of ALK translocations using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is to be performed following testing for EGFR mutations. Such an algorithm is cost-effective but potentially slows down turnaround time; and as a secondary test, ALK FISH assay may not be completed because it requires the use of additional tissue, and the small biopsies or cytology specimens may have been exhausted in the extraction of nucleic acid for EGFR mutation screening.

Objective.—To provide efficient testing of both EGFR and ALK genetic alterations in small biopsies and cytology specimens.

Design.—We validated a highly sensitive ALK reverse transcription–quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) assay as a screening tool for ALK translocations and amplifications.

Results.—We performed a retrospective review of cases previously tested by FISH and found that all FISH ALK translocation–positive specimens were RT-qPCR positive, and all FISH ALK translocation–negative cases were RT-qPCR negative (the sensitivity and specificity of the ALK RT-qPCR assay were 100%).

Conclusion.—This assay allows rapid identification of ALK alterations, can be performed in conjunction with EGFR testing, and does not require use of valuable additional tumor tissue.
Navigating Classroom Change
Authors: Umbeck Lindsay M.
Published: November 2015

A renegotiated classroom culture results in students learning to participate in new ways.
Estimation's Role in Calculations with Fractions
Authors: Johanning Debra I.
Published: November 2015

See how students use number sense and also algorithm sense as tools to develop their understanding of fraction operations.
Dating Stone Alignments by Luminescence
Authors: Feathers James K. , Zedeño Maria Nieves , Todd Lawrence C. , Aaberg Stephen
Published: November 2015

Stone alignments, including tipi rings and drive lines, are abundant on the northern Plains and adjacent Rocky Mountains, but they have been notoriously difficult to date. This paper applies luminescence dating to sediments directly underneath the rocks to estimate the age of placement of the rock. This is based on the assumption that before the rock was emplaced, turbation processes brought sufficient grains to the surface, where sunlight reset the signal. Single-grain dating of potassium feldspars allowed isolation of these original well-bleached grains, which by now have built up a signal because the rock prevents transfer to the surface. Plotting the number of original well-bleached grains with depth showed that these grains were concentrated just under the rock and decreased with depth. This is what would be predicted if the assumption is true. Dates were derived from several samples from Kutoyis in north central Montana, from Whitewater in eastern Montana, and from several sites in northwestern Wyoming. Many samples from Kutoyis and Wyoming dated to the last 600 years, but some samples from both places were more than 2,000 years old. The Whitewater features also dated to around 2,000 years ago. The ages are consistent with the cultural history of the areas.
Understanding the impact of research on policy using Altmetric data
Authors: Liu Jean , Konkiel Stacy
Published: November 2015

Usage, sharing, and, discussion data sourced from the scholarly and social web (altmetrics) are being increasingly recognized as tools for understanding the diverse impacts that research can have on the world. One important impact is the downstream effect that research-backed policy can have on the lives of the average citizen.For that reason, we have developed text-mining techniques to discover mentions of research outputs in policy documents created by diverse groups like the International Monetary Fund, World Health Organization, and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. By automatically identifying references to scholarly content in policy documents, we aim to help researchers and institutions to better understand the “real world” uses of their work.In this poster, we explain our current process for sourcing, scraping, validating, and sharing these important data. We also include case studies that illustrate how policy data mined by Altmetric are being used. Presented by Terry Bucknell, Product Sales Manager, Digital Science
Securing the Future of Open-Access Policies
Authors: Johnson Rob
Published: November 2015

See video of the presentation.Research Consulting undertook a study for Knowledge Exchange that looked at the relation between open-access policies and services. Drawing on a consultation with funders, institutions and service providers across the five Knowledge Exchange countries and beyond, it identifies the key services needed to successfully implement open-access policies, and suggests priorities for action in support of an open scholarly infrastructure.The study reviewed a wide range of OA policies from public research funders, private research funders and selected high education institutions from the five Knowledge Exchange countries; it finds that although policies vary considerably across countries, they generally share key requirements for green OA, gold OA and monitoring and compliance, with the clearest differences being in the emphasis placed on those requirements.The study also provided a thorough review and classification of OA services, and identified the ones that are indispensable for the successful implementation of all OA policies. In particular, it reviewed the importance for author, institutional and funders’ workflows of: (1) underpinning services such as standards, metadata and identifiers (e.g. ORCID and FundREF); (2) abstracting and indexing services, such as the Directory of Open Access Journal; (3) support and dissemination services such as SHERPA; and (4) green OA services encompassing a wide range of repository and related services designed to improve interoperability across the green OA landscape.Finally, we looked at critical challenges facing OA services, including uncertainties over their financial stability and governance models, that hamper – or can hamper in the future – their effective use and continued development, and we highlighted priorities for action from decision makers in the scholarly community. These include both specific recommendations to act in support of critical services, as well as strategic recommendations covering the actions and investments needed to create a coherent OA service infrastructure so as to allow more efficient and effective compliance with OA services.
Publishing the most important work in the life sciences
Authors: Schekman Randy
Published: November 2015

See video of the presentation.The assessment of scholarly achievement depends critically on the proper evaluation and publication of research work in scholarly journals. Investigators face a dizzying array of journal styles that include commercial, not-for-profit and academic society journals that are supported by a mix of subscription and page charges. The Open Access (OA) movement, launched in Britain but greatly expanded by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), seeks to eliminate the firewall that separates published work from public access. OA journals are funded by a mix of page charges and philanthropic or foundation support. Most OA journals embrace a more liberal licensing agreement on the use and reuse of published work, favoring the creative commons license rather than a copyright held by the publisher. Some publishers, particularly commercial firms, view the OA movement as a threat to the viability of their business plan. Major commercial publishers, particularly Elsevier, have fought against government mandates for OA publication of publicly funded research.The most selective and successful journals, Science, Nature and Cell (a life science journal owned by Elsevier), maintain a firm hold on the high end of the scientific literature by appealing to investigators to submit only their most important work. Typically, these journals publish only a small fraction of the papers they receive and for the most part they rely on professional editors rather than active scholars to make key editorial decisions. These publishers, particularly Nature and Cell, reinforce their high standing by relying on a metric, the impact factor (IF) that computes the average number of citations of papers published in the journal during the preceding two-year period. As a consequence, many investigators, who quite naturally seek career advancement, strive to publish in these journals even at the expense of repeated cycles of review, wasteful additional experimental work and ultimately lost time. I will argue that it is time for scholars to reassume authority for the publication of their research work and to eschew the use of IF in the evaluation of scholarly achievement and favor OA publications over what I have called the “luxury” journals.
The data explosion – a huge challenge and a gigantic opportunity
Authors: Fotland Margaret Louise , Kvale Live Håndlykken
Published: November 2015

In order to meet requirements from research funders, the Director at the University of Oslo requested a working group to map existing use of sharing and storing services for research data and needs for the future. Based on the findings the group made following four focus areas for future work:We need to see the entire data management cycle in context; from research data generated, retrieved and reused by others.We must think globally and not nationally. The solutions we create must meet the needs of researchers in other countries.We cannot solve all the problems at the University, but we must ensure that the issues be addressed through collaboration with other national players.We must always aim to develop systems that allow individual researchers see greater benefits than disadvantages to archive and share their own research data, and leveraging existing research data. A system founded on more regulations and audit follow-up is unlikely to work.We will present the process and the involvement of different stakeholders in the research support services at UiO: Center for Information Technology Services, Department of Academic Administration and the University Library. The involvement of different stakeholders proved to be valuable in order to focus on different aspects of the topic, including technical, administrational and retrieval as key focus areas of the different participants. As leader of the group Dean of Research of the Mathematical and natural science faulty, Svein Stølen has involved both Ministry of Knowledge and The Norwegian Research Council to get feedback at an early stage. Several of the issues would preferably be solved at a national level such as:National archives for research dataIdentifiersPrivacyCopyrightRetrievalRewardA draft for a policy on research data sharing is included in the report part of the report. The aim is to get an approval by the University Board to make it mandatory:To write a data management planShare research dataCreate metadata for both retrieval and understanding of the data shared.Further it is proposed to establish a pilot for research data management support focusing on the following areas:Data management for project leadersModules as part of the courses delivered by the University library in discovery and citing of research dataCoursing internally and externally for enhancement of skills of instructors on different levels.
From Publishing to Communicating Research Data
Authors: Günther Armin , Dehnhard Ina
Published: November 2015

During the last years the call for publishing and sharing research data has become ubiquitous. Besides moral appeals towards transparency as a basic principle of science, more and more policies and regulations start to push researchers to make their research data available to the scientific community and the general public. In addition to research funding organizations, publishers are most influential in this regard as they are able to boost the practice of data sharing by incentives that are highly attractive for researchers: publications and hence reputation in academia. In consequence more and more datasets are published by researchers – in very different ways, using the quite heterogeneous tools and publishing solutions currently available.However, these data publications do not necessarily increase transparency in research. Publishing research data might even contribute to an increase in noise and opacity. Mere disclosure of date has very little value per se, as The Royal Society in its report “Science as an open enterprise” (2012) noticed. The report asks for “intelligent openness” where data are not just published but effectively communicated. To accomplish intelligent openness, data have to be accessible, intelligible, assessable and usable (p. 14).The presentation will take up this consideration and explore the challenges involved. Communicating data aims at enabling receivers (i. e. data users) to correctly interpret and appropriately use the published research data. As will be shown by examples of published datasets from the field of behavioral and social sciences, currently this aim is by no means generally achieved. In seeking to comply with data policies of funders and publishers researcher may be inclined to publish datasets that are hardly intelligible and not usable. Additionally there is a lack of data publishing infrastructures (including technical tools as well as standards and social practices) supporting researchers in communicating data in a meaningful way to their different audiences. Obviously, it is much easier to share data within the own research community than across research fields, disciplines or even cultures. In general, the less the researchers who publish data and the audience who wants to use these data share a common context (increasing “distance-from-data-origin”, Baker & Yarmey 2009), the more demanding communicating research data will become.Thus, publishers face considerable challenges when trying to advance from publishing to communicating research data. Developing solutions pointing in this direction should be, nevertheless, of primary concern, as publishing without communicating might ultimately be just a waste of resources. Therefore, besides exploring the challenges, the presentation will also try to identify steps that might help to approach the ambitious goal of communicating research data.
PsychData – Experiences from 12 Years of Research Data Archiving
Authors: Weiland Peter , Dehnhard Ina
Published: November 2015

See video of the presentation.The benefits of making research data permanently accessible through data archives is widely recognized: costs can be reduced by reusing existing data, research results can be compared and validated with results from archived studies, fraud can be more easily detected, and meta-analyses can be conducted. Apart from that, authors may gain recognition and reputation for producing the datasets. Since 2003, the accredited research data center PsychData (part of the Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information in Trier, Germany) documents and archives research data from all areas of psychology and related fields. In the beginning, the main focus was on datasets that provide a high potential for reuse, e.g. longitudinal studies, large-scale cross sectional studies, or studies that were conducted during historically unique conditions. Presently, more and more journal publishers and project funding agencies require researchers to archive their data and make them accessible for the scientific community. Therefore, PsychData also has to serve this need.In this presentation we report on our experiences in operating a discipline-specific research data archive in a domain where data sharing is met with considerable resistance. We will focus on the challenges for data sharing and data reuse in psychology, e.g.large amount of domain-specific knowledge necessary for data curationhigh costs for documenting the data because of a wide range on non-standardized measuressmall teams and little established infrastructures compared with the "big data" disciplinesstudies in psychology not designed for reuse (in contrast to the social sciences)data protectionresistance to sharing dataAt the end of the presentation, we will provide a brief outlook on DataWiz, a new project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In this project, tools will be developed to support researchers in documenting their data during the research phase.
A Novel Approach to Article Processing Charges in Norway: Results and Experiences from the Research Council’s STIM-OA Call in 2015
Authors: Flæten Jon Øygarden
Published: November 2015

See video of the presentation.In 2014 the Research Council of Norway (RCN) revised its policy on Open Access and implemented a new model for funding institutions' Article Processing Charges (APCs). This model – STIM-OA – was launched in the spring of 2015 as a separate funding scheme directed towards institutional publication funds. In the period 2015 to 2019 institutions may apply to the STIM-OA scheme each year and have up to 50% of APCs from the previous year covered. This presentation gives the facts and figures from the first STIM-OA call, and reflects on the oportunities of the STIM-OA scheme, both as a source of information about the costs of OA publishing in Norway, and as a tool for the structuring of APCs on an institutional level.
INTACT – Collecting data on fee-based Open Access publishing
Authors: Pieper Dirk
Published: November 2015

See video of the presentation.The transformation from a subscription based journal market to a fee-based Open Access publishing requires a monitoring of  APC expenditures. This is not only necessary to ensure price transparency on a developing APC market. In fact funding organizations, library consortia and other stakeholders need a valid data base to be able to evaluate Open Access funding policies or transformation strategies.The presentation will give a short overview about existing initiatives to collect APC data and will then introduce the new project “INTACT  - Transparent Infrastructure for fee-based Open Access publishing”. The project, which is funded by the “German Research Foundation” (DFG) and supported by the “DINI working group Electronic Publishing” is a cooperation of Bielefeld University Library, the “Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science” (I2SoS) at Bielefeld University and the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL). The INTACT approach combines a bibliometric analysis of fee-based Open Access publishing in academic institutions with establishing a standardised reporting and open data service for APC data. By working together with the ESAC initiative (http://esac-initiative.org/), the project wants to increase the efficiency of Open Access publishing workflows in universities and research organizations together with leading Open Access publishers.INTACT uses Open Science workflows for aggregation, use and reuse of APC data. Even before  the official start, 21 german universities and 5 research society funds are providing their data into a GitHub-Repository (http://openapc.github.io/), the datasets are available under a Open Database License. Due to DFG funding policy for Open Access publication funds in Germany, the whole dataset releases  currently information on more than 3.200 articles in real open access journals, which charge publication fees, and total expenditures for more than 4 million EURO. But information about Open Access articles in toll-access journals ("hybrid") are provided as well. Further more, the presentation discusses basic requirements for creating an international network for analyzing and monitoring fee-based Open Access publishing.
What is OA and where is it going – in a conversation on video link with Caroline Sutton
Authors: Suber Peter , Sutton Caroline
Published: November 2015

See a video of the conversation.