bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Prosthetic Surveillance: The medical governance of healthy bodies in cyberspace
Authors: Rich Emma , Miah Andy
Published: July 2018

This paper examines how ‘surveillance medicine’ (Armstrong 1995) has expanded the realm of the medical gaze via its infiltration of cyberspace, where specific features of healthism are now present. Drawing on Foucault’s notion of biopower, we examine how digital health resources offer new ways through which to discipline individuals and regulate populations. The emergence of health regulation within and through cyberspace takes place in a context wherein the relationship between the body and technology is rendered more complex. Departing from early literature on cyberspace, which claimed that the body was absent in virtual worlds, we articulate a medicalized cyberspace within which the virtual and corporeal are enmeshed. The range of health issues articulated through surveillance discourses are many and varied, though of significance are those related to weight and health, as they provide a particularly rich example through which to study medical surveillance in cyberspace due to their moral and regulative focus. We argue that the capacity for health resources to encourage disciplinary and regulative practices defies the designation of virtual, as non-reality. Moreover, with the advent of a range of digital platforms that merge entertainment with the regulation of the body, such as Internet based nutrition games, and the use of games consoles such as Nintendo wii fit, cyberspace may be providing a forum for new forms of regulative practices concerning health. These virtual environments expand our understandings of the boundaries of the body, since much of what takes place occurs through both a virtualization of identity, such as the use of an avatar or graphic image of one’s body on screen, and a prostheticisation of the body within cyberspace. To conclude, while surveillance medicine regulates physical selves in real time, we argue that there is a growing tendency towards a prosthetic surveillance, which regulates and defines bodies that are simultaneously hyper-text and flesh.
A Tack in the Shoe and Taking off the Shoe Neutralization and Counter-neutralization Dynamics
Authors: Marx Gary T
Published: July 2018

Through a discussion of neutralization and counter-neutralization dynamics, the author highlights some of the theoretical and methodological issues involved in looking at individual resistance to surveillance.
A New State of Surveillance? Applying Michel Foucault to Modern Motherhood
Authors: Henderson Angie C , Harmon Sandra M , Houser Jeffrey
Published: July 2018

This project analyzed how "New Momism" (Douglas and Michaels 2004) is perpetuated among contemporary mothers. Previous work has argued that New Momism is most powerfully represented through the media. Our results indicate that New Momism is also practiced intensively on an interpersonal level via Michel Foucault's (1975) Panoptic stage of punishment: post-structuralist surveillance. We analyzed data from a snowball sample of 323 mothers through an online survey tool. Results indicate that while the media remains an important influence, the strongest predictors of New Momism are surveillance of fellow moms and surveillance of self through guilt. Results are discussed in light of Foucault's conceptualization of post-structuralist surveillance.
Trusting Children: How do surveillance technologies alter a child's experience of trust, risk and responsibility?
Authors: Rooney Tonya
Published: July 2018

The growing use of new forms of surveillance technology across the day-to-day lives of children and the spaces they inhabit brings with it potential changes to childhood experience.  These technologies may change the way children interact with others and the way they come to understand the world around them. This article investigates the nature of these changes by looking at the impact of new surveillance technologies on a child’s experience of trust.  It aims to show that an increased surveillance presence across a child’s everyday activity may be denying children important opportunities both to trust others and to be trusted.
The Rise of the Fusion-Intelligence Complex: A critique of political surveillance after 9/11
Authors: Newkirk Anthony Bolton
Published: July 2018

This paper argues that 'fusion centers' are byproducts of the privatization of state surveillance and assaults on civil liberties, at least in the United States, the nation on which the research is based, with special focus on the recent case of the Maryland State Police spying scandal. In fusion centers, members of local, state, and federal police and intelligence units, as well as private-sector organizations, share information with each other by means of computerized technology and store it in databases. While the official purpose is to protect public safety, the practice of 'data-mining' and unclear lines of authority lead to fusion centers being unaccountable to the public and, hence, a threat to the democratic process. These conditions are encapsulated in the case of official espionage in the state of Maryland at least between 2004 and 2006. Drawing on official documents, the history of 'homeland security' since World War II and the characteristics of fusion centers, the Department of Homeland Security, and events in Maryland are surveyed. Working within the contexts of social history, surveillance theory, and political economy, this paper is grounded in the work of Beck, Churchill and Wall, Donner, Fuchs, Graham, Lyon, McCulloch and Pickering, and Monahan.
The Politics of Surveillance: Big Brother on Prozac
Authors: Waiton Stuart
Published: July 2018

This paper explores the rise of CCTV in society during the last two decades. It concentrates on state sponsored surveillance schemes in an attempt to answer the question of why it is that CCTV surveillance emerged at this particular point in history. At one level, advancing technology can allow a ‘surveillance society’ to emerge, yet the extent to which CCTV cameras have spread into city centres and residential areas suggests something more profound has changed in ‘public’ life. The exponential rise in the surveillance of society is often understood to reflect the rise of authoritarianism, perhaps particularly in the UK. Whether from a Weberian, a Foucauldian, or even – and perhaps in particular – a neo-Marxist perspective, this development is often understood as an enforcement of power, resulting from an ideological consensus built around ‘rampant’ neo-liberalism; public life is, in part, understood to be undermined by private interests, the power of capital, or techniques of governance associated to one degree or another with neo-liberalism. In this paper, the neo-liberal framework for understanding the rise of surveillance is questioned. Building upon arguments by Baudrillard, Lasch, Bauman and Furedi it is argued that, rather than an aggressive and purposeful moral or neo-liberal authoritarianism lying behind the rise of surveillance cameras the opposite is in fact the case. The diminution of ‘public’ space both reflects and represents the decline of political purpose and meaning within society and especially within the political elite.
From Border Control to Border Care: The Political and Ethical Potential of Surveillance.
Authors: Walsh James P
Published: July 2018

This paper analyzes the use of surveillance by activist groups opposed to the extensive securitization of the US-Mexico border and examines the implications of their activities for scholarship on borders, surveillance, and empowerment. The work of three organizations—the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), No More Deaths, and Humane Borders—is covered. While there is some overlap in their practices, these three organizations, respectively, have concentrated on (1) the use of digital photography and video recording equipment to monitor state agents and vigilante organizations; (2) the coordination of citizen-organized foot patrols to locate and assist migrants in danger; and (3) the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to support the provision of water and high-resolution border maps to migrants. In documenting the practical use and symbolic framing of surveillance by secular and faith-based activists, this article adds necessary complexity to prevailing conceptualizations of observational strategies and practices. It demonstrates that, while they may enhance and extend state control over bounded territories and populations, watching, monitoring, and rendering visible are not inherently exclusionary or repressive acts and can, in fact, be used in the service of undermining borders and their attendant consequences. The groups examined herein have applied surveillance towards contesting official gatekeeping strategies and creating alternative moral geographies where the imperatives of sovereignty and national security are subordinated to social justice and global hospitality.
Participatory Sensing: Building Empowering Surveillance
Authors: Shilton Katie
Published: July 2018

Mobile phones could become the largest surveillance system on the planet. These ubiquitous, networked devices can currently sense and upload data such as images, sound, location, and motion using on-board cameras, microphones, GPS, and accelerometers. And they can be triggered and controlled by billions of individuals around the world. But the emergent, wide-scale sensing systems that phones support pose a number of questions. Who will control the necessary infrastructure for data storage, analysis, sharing, and retention? And to what purposes will such systems be deployed? This paper explores whether these questions can be answered in ways that promote empowering surveillance: large-scale data collection used by individuals and communities to improve their quality of life and increase their power relative to corporations and governments. Researchers in academic and industry laboratories around the world are currently coordinating mobile phone networks for purposes that expand the definition of surveillance. Technology movements, variously called personal sensing, urban sensing or participatory sensing, have emerged within the areas of social computing and urban computing. These research programs endeavor to make ubiquitous devices such as phones a platform for coordinated investigation of human activity. Researchers are exploring ways to introduce these technologies into the public realm, a move that anticipates sensing by people across the world. This paper uses ethnographic data collected in a sensing development laboratory to illuminate possibilities that participatory sensing holds for equitable use, meaningful community participation, and empowerment. Analyzing the motivations and values embedded within the design process and resulting technologies reveals ways in which participatory sensing builds tools for empowering surveillance and responds to the many ethical challenges these new technologies raise.
Consumer Databases, Neoliberalism, and the Commercial Mediation of Identity: A Medium Theory Analysis
Authors: Manzerolle Vincent , Smeltzer Sandra
Published: July 2018

This paper argues that the systemic nature of contemporary consumer surveillance undermines the most fundamental principle of free market economics: consumer sovereignty. Specifically, this paper argues that the rise of an ‘information’ or ‘knowledge’ society in conjunction with neoliberal capitalism has entrenched routine forms of surveillance within commercial strategies by employing networked databases as a primary medium for the articulation of consumer sovereignty (choice/demand). The communicative relationship between consumers and producers within the market involves effectively ‘listening’ (and then responding) to consumer needs and wants in a timely manner. Surveillance is therefore not only necessary for the operation of globalized consumer capitalism, it is also the primary means by which consumer communicate their sovereignty within the marketplace. By turning to the work of Harold Innis and the intellectual tradition known as medium theory, this paper will theorize how in linking the actions of individual consumers to the decision-making capacities of trans-national corporations (TNC), the prevalence of consumer databases violates the fundamental neutrality of the market, and thus sovereignty, of individual consumers. In sum, by treating the database as a distinct communication medium, this paper will highlight how the commercial mediation of identity under neoliberalism can conceal the potential for the uneven geographic development, the marginalization of ‘less valuable’ consumer segments, and the exploitation of individual vulnerabilities through behavior and profile modeling.
Surveillance Impediments: Recognizing Obduracy with the Deployment of Hospital Information Systems
Authors: Monahan Torin , Fisher Jill A.
Published: July 2018

Although the field of Surveillance Studies privileges detailed accounts of how and when surveillance occurs, it is also important to remain open to instances of aborted or failed surveillance and manifold impediments to surveillance. It is vital for researchers to document and theorize absence in order to better understand and perhaps mitigate the presence of egregious forms of surveillance. To this end, in this paper we discuss some of the many forms of obduracy that confront surveillance-capable information systems in hospitals. We draw upon primary data from three years of field research on the implementation and use of tracking and identification systems in U.S. hospitals to show that many of the control functions of hospital information systems are attenuated by individual resistance but also by a host of technical, material, financial, and cultural constraints.
Surveillance under Mussolini's regime
Authors: Fonio Chiara
Published: July 2018

This paper focuses on state surveillance under Mussolini’s regime (1922–1943) in Italy. While the cultural approach to Italian fascism has been fertile (de Grazia 1981; 1992; Ghirardo 1996; Whitaker 2000), archival research on police state surveillance is very limited and, due to the language barrier, has remained unknown in the field of Surveillance Studies. This short contribution is both an attempt to reckon with a surveillance past that has been neglected until recent times and to engage with revealing studies specifically related to state surveillance and classification.   Surveillance under the duce was multifaceted and this paper aims at exploring the twenty years of the regime by focusing on different surveillance stages through a socio–historical perspective. Moreover, the concluding remarks briefly address some important issues which are related to political and cultural legacies of the fascist dictatorship that are essential to understanding some contemporary trends
‘Cough a Little upon Entering’: Some Reflections on the History of Surreptitious Spectatorship - An extended review of: Locke's Eavesdropping: An Intimate History.
Authors: Marx Gary T
Published: July 2018

This is an extended review of Locke's Eavesdropping: An Intimate History.
Review of Bennett and Haggerty’s Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events
Authors: Zurawski Nils
Published: July 2018

Bennett, Colin J. and Haggerty, Kevin D. (eds.) 2011. Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events. Milton Park, UK / New York, USA: Routledge. 194 pp. Hardcover, $116.00 (CAN); ISBN 978-0-415-60262-4.
Municipal Corporate Security and the Intensification of Urban Surveillance
Authors: Lippert Randy , Walby Kevin
Published: July 2018

This article explores the surveillance work of municipal corporate security (MCS) units in Canadian cities. Drawing on analysis of freedom of information requests, we document the introduction of new and modified surveillance technologies through MCS. These units engage in surveillance of City employees and citizens on municipal lands and in municipal buildings. Although some technologies deployed by MCS (such as electronic access cards and badges) appear mundane, we demonstrate how MCS units are repurposing, enhancing, and recombining these technologies with existing forms in ways that have been described as the intensification of surveillance. While recent attention in the surveillance studies and urban studies literatures has been rightfully placed on private auspices and provision of externally directed urban surveillance, our analysis of MCS activities suggests that scholars should continue to focus on public auspices and provision of security and internally directed surveillance too. What defines the intensification of urban surveillance therefore may be less a privatized and technologically advanced character and more a resolute comfort with a constantly mutating amalgam of public/private, human/technological, and external/internal forms and foci.
ROLE OF DIFFUSION WEIGHTED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING IN ACUTE SCROTAL PAIN
Authors: BEYAZAL Mehmet , AYDIN Hasan Rıza , KADIOĞLU Maksude Esra , BEYAZAL ÇELİKER Fatma , İNECİKLİ Mehmet Fatih , ELDEŞ Tuğba , EREN Hüseyin
Published: July 2018

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the contribution of quantitative apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) measurements in the diagnosis of testis torsion.Material and Methods: The study included 28 patients that underwent a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan between January 2013 and June 2017 due to acute scrotal pain. Definitive diagnosis was based on the symptom assessment, treatment, and follow-up of the patients. Based on these parameters, patients were categorized into groups and quantitative ADC values were compared among these groups.Results: Of the patients included in the study, 9 were diagnosed with epididymitis, 9 with orchitis, and 10 with testis torsion. The mean ADC values in the affected testes of testis torsion, epididymitis, and orchitis groups were 0.763 ± 0.154 X 10-3 mm2/s, 1.050 ± 0.850 X 10-3 mm2/s, and 1.105 ± 0.218 X 10-3 mm2/s, respectively. The mean ADC values of the affected testes were significantly lower in the testis torsion group compared to the other groups (p<0.01). In the testis torsion group, the mean ADC value of the affected testes was significantly lower compared to the unaffected testes (0.763 ± 0.154 X 10-3 mm2/s vs 1.053 ± 0.147 X 10-3 mm2/s, p<0.05, respectively).Conclusion: Doppler ultrasound has been used as the first choice in diagnosis of acute scrotal pain due to its being a rapid and convenient imaging modality. Quantitative ADC measurements, can be used as a helpful additional tool for the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of testis torsion from other acute scrotal pain conditions such as epididymitis or orchitis.
PREPARATION AND IN VITRO EVALUATION OF SOLID DISPERSIONS CONTAINING NIFEDIPINE
Authors: Muralichand G. , Bhikshapathi D. V. R. N.
Published: July 2018

The objective of this study was to develop solid dispersions of Nifedipine which has low aqueous solubility and bioavailability. Preliminary solubility studies were carried out using various hydrophilic polymers. The formulations were then optimized and evaluated by in-vitro dissolution studies, X-ray diffraction, FTIR and SEM. Formulation with 1:4:2 ratios of Nifedipine, Labrosol and SLS was found to be the best as it possessed better drug release properties compared to pure drug and other physical mixtures. The optimized formulation SD12 was found to have better drug release of 98.74 ± 5.19% in 90 minutes. From FTIR studies no interaction was takes place between drug and polymers. XRD peaks indicate the successful transformation of drug from crystalline to amorphous form. The final results indicate that the solid dispersion of Nifedipine remained stable over 90 days.
ANTI-INFLAMMATORY EFFECTS AND SAFETY OF EXTRACTS AND ESSENTIAL OIL FROM CLINOPODIUM GILLIESII (MUÑA MUÑA)
Authors: Reynoso Marcos , Coca María E. Balderrama , Brodkiewicz Ivana Y. , Jaime Gloria , Perotti Marina , Schuff Carola , Vera Nancy R.
Published: July 2018

The chemical machinery of vegetables offers a great diversity of biological properties and plays a fundamental role in the field of pharmacology. The search for new drugs with fewer adverse effects represents a challenge for researchers. The objective of the present work was to carry out to investigate the medicinal properties and safety of extracts and essential oil from aerial parts of Clinopodium gilliesii (muña muña) and evaluate their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities in vivo. The extractions were carried out serially, using 96º alcohol (EE) and boiled distilled water (AE). The essential oil (EO) was obtained by steam dragging. The AE in vivo anti-inflammatory activity was determined by carrageenan induced plantar edema (acute inflammation) and granuloma formation by cotton disc (chronic inflammation) at oral doses of 250 and 500 mg/kg while that of the EO was established topically at doses of 50, 100µl/kg. In-vitro antioxidant activity was evaluated by DPPH depuration and inhibition of lipid peroxidation (β-carotene-linoleic acid method). Chemical study of the extracts was carried out by means of phytochemical screening and the essential oil was analyzed by GC-MS chromatography. The safety was evaluated with test of acute toxicity (48 h) and acute dermal toxicity (14 days). The results revealed that EE and EO had a significant acute and chronic anti-inflammatory activity, compared with positive patterns. EE (500 mg/kg), EO (100µl/kg), ibuprofen (100 mg/kg) and meprednisone (5 mg/kg) significantly reduced the weight of the exudate and cotton disc granuloma (24.17, 35.30, 45.56 and 57.17% respectively). The alcoholic and aqueous extracts presented important antioxidant activities with values higher than 90% (from 400μg/ml) in both methods and similar to the positive patterns (BHT and quercetin). The chromatographic profile of volatile oil compounds showed a great richness in terpene substances, pulegone, menthone and neomenthol, being its major constituents. The hydroalcoholic extracts revealed the presence of reducing compounds, polysaccharides, tannins, triterpenes, sterols and coumarins as major phytoconstituents. In the acute toxicity study, a single dose of 4000 and 8000 mg/kg b.w., produced no mortality and no clinical signs of disease were observed after 48 h. The essential oil at a single dose of 2000 and 5000 mg/kg of body weight did not produce treatment-related signs of toxicity or mortality in all rats tested during the 14 day observation period. These findings are encouraging to continue studies for the validation of popular use and development of a phytopharmaceutical with medicinal utility.
DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF MOUTH DISSOLVING FILMS CONTAINING SELEGILINE
Authors: Rao P. Srinivasa , Reddy T. Rama Mohan
Published: July 2018

The current investigation was aimed with the objective of formulating Selegiline fast dissolving oral thin films allowing fast reproducible drug dissolution in oral cavity thus bypassing the first pass metabolism to enhance the patient convenience and compliance in the effective treatment of Parkinson's disease. Oral thin films of Selegiline were prepared by solvent casting method with using different film forming agents like HPMC5LV, HPMC 15LV, HPMC50LV and HPMC K4M. Propylene glycol, Sucrose, Vanillin is used as a plasticizer, sweetening agent, flavouring agent respectively and citric acid as saliva stimulating agent. FDOFs were evaluated for physical characteristics, Surface pH, weight variation, thickness, folding endurance, percent drug content, percentage elongation, disintegration time, in vitro dissolution studies. Based on all the evaluation studies F18 is selected as optimized formulation and in vitro disintegration time and amount of drug release from the film was 9 seconds and 99.68% within 7 min respectively.
PENINGKATAN KUALITAS MINYAK JELANTA MENGGUNAKAN KARBON AKTIF DAN EKSTRAK PUCUK IDAT (Cratoxylum glaucum)
Authors: Mahardika Robby Gus , Enggiwanto Sito , Samsiar Ary
Published: July 2018

Silica Waste cooking oil can be used as a soap or biodiesel. Good soaps or biodiesel should be from oils that have low levels of fatty acids and free radicals. However, waste cooking oil has high free fatty acid and free radical, it is necessary to increase the quality of waste cooking oil. One effort to improve the quality of waste cooking oil can use activated carbon as an adsorbent. Decrease in free radicals in cooking oil can use antioxidants from extract pucuk idat (Cratoxylum glaucum). This study aims to see the effect of extract pucuk idat on the process of improving the quality of waste cooking oil. The process of improvement by adding activated carbon and varying the concentration of ethanol extract pucuk idat. Activated carbon used 10% with variation of extract 0,25%; 0,5% and 0,75%. This process followed by stirring for 15 minutes at 80°C, then soaked for 3 days. Oil quality are identified by the method of determining the levels of free fatty acids and acid numbers. The results of this study indicate that extract pucuk idat in ethanol with 0,75% concentration has the lowest free fatty acid and acid number. Extract pucuk idat can improve the quality of waste cooking oil.
Air Quality in Puerto Rico in the Aftermath of Hurricane Maria: A Case Study on the Use of Lower-Cost Air Quality Monitors
Authors: Ramachandran Subramanian , Ellis Aja , Torres-Delgado Elvis , Tanzer Rebecca , Malings Carl , Rivera Felipe , Morales Maité , Baumgardner Darrel , Presto Albert , Mayol-Bracero Olga L.
Published: July 2018

In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, the electricity grid in Puerto Rico was devastated, with over 90% of the island without electricity; as of December 2017, about 50% of the island lacked electricity, and power outages were common elsewhere. Backup generators are widely used, sometimes as the main source of electricity. The hurricane also damaged the island’s existing air monitoring network and the University of Puerto Rico’s observing facilities. We deployed four lower-cost air quality monitors (Real-time Affordable Multi-Pollutant or RAMP monitors) and a black carbon (BC) monitor in the San Juan Metro Area in November 2017. The first month of data collected with the RAMPs showed high sulfur dioxide (SO2) and carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations of varying magnitudes each night. SO2 and CO are strongly correlated (r2 >0.9) at two sites ~5 km apart (University of Puerto Rico and an industrial area, Puerto Nuevo), suggesting a single source type. BC measured at the UPR site is also well correlated with CO and SO2. While the RAMPs are not certified as a federal equivalent method, the RAMP SO2 data suggest that the EPA’s daily 1-hour threshold for SO2 (75 ppb) was exceeded on almost 80% of the first 30 days of deployment (November-December 2017). The widespread reliance on generators for regular electric supply in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria appears to have increased air pollution in San Juan.
A era da testemunha: uma história do presente
Authors: Sacramento Igor
Published: July 2018

A cultura contemporânea está fortemente marcada pelo alargamento do espaço biográfico. É cada vez mais crescente o processo de articulação dessas narrativas biográficas à mídia. O objetivo deste artigo é tratar um processo de mutação história naquilo que Annette Wievirka chamou de “a era da testemunha”, quando tratou dos testemunhos sobre o Holocausto. O que se vive atualmente, especialmente no contexto da presença da televisão e da internet na vida social e pelo rearranjo da subjetividade a partir da moral do espetáculo, é uma passagem do “grande testemunho” para o “pequeno testemunho”, de um relato sobre acontecimentos relacionados a processos de sistemática violência estatal contra determinados grupos sociais à exposição de experiências cotidianas de sofrimento.
Claves aristotélicas de la defensa de la coeternidad del mundo en el De aeternitare mundi contra murmurantes de Tomás de Aquino
Authors: Minecan Ana Maria Carmen
Published: July 2018

El presente artículo analiza el influjo de los tratados aristotélicos Física y Acerca del cielo en la redacción de uno de los más controvertidos opúsculos atribuidos a Tomás de Aquino, el De aeternitate mundi contra murmurantes. Se estudia, comparativamente, el rechazo de Aristóteles de un comienzo temporal para el mundo físico y se analiza el empleo y la reformulación por parte del Aquinate de las categorías aristotélicas para ofrecer una nueva reinterpretación de la creación en la cual se defiende, en contra de lo prohibido en las condenas del siglo XIII, la coeternidad del mundo creado y la divinidad.
Explorando relación entre innovación e internacionalización de PYMEs Catalanas: Determinantes de la capacidad de innovación
Authors: Pinilla Jara Jorge Alejandro , Rialp Criado Alex
Published: July 2018

This document examines the determinants of innovation capacity and the relationship between it and the internationalization using multivariate technique linear regression The results suggests that there are four organizational variables (determinants), principally which favorably affect to innovation capacity of SMEs. And also, that innovation capacity is positively related to internationalization. The characteristics of the findings are discussed, taking into account the proposed research model
El impacto de la innovación y las finanzas en la competitividad de las PYMEs manufactureras
Authors: Rangel-Magdaleno Jorge
Published: July 2018

Studies on competitiveness in SMEs, highlight some main factors that affect it. Given the frequency of appearance of innovation and finance among these factors, they have been considered for the realization of this study. For its part, manufacturing industry historically has been one of the most important economic sectors in the State of Aguascalientes, Mexico. Because of that, this research deals with the impact of innovation and finance in the competitiveness of manufacturing SMEs in Aguascalientes. According to this, 206 surveys were applied to those responsible for the administration of this kind of business organizations. The data obtained was used to carry out an analysis of reliability and validity of the scales applied, and also a multiple regression analysis was executed in order to evaluate the correlation between the variables used. The results provide empirical evidence that innovation and finance are important factors in the competitiveness of the companies studied.
РОЗРОБКА ТА ПСИХОМЕТРИЧНА ПЕРЕВІРКА ОПИТУВАЛЬНИКА «НАВЧАЛЬНА САМОЕФЕКТИВНІСТЬ ДОРОСЛОГО»
Authors: Galtseva Tetiana
Published: July 2018

У статті представлено процедуру розробки та психометричної перевірки авторського опитувальника, що розкриває рівень навчальної самоефективності дорослого і її структурних компонентів. Для з’ясування внутрішньої будови опитувальника та перевірки його відповідності побудованій теоретичній моделі навчальної самоефективності застосовано факторний аналіз, що дав змогу з достатньо високим рівнем надійності диференціювати п’ять його шкал. Опиту­вальник складається з 32 тверджень. Шкали ідентифіковані як «Впевненість у власній навчальній здатності», «Ціннісно-смислове ставлення до навчальної діяльності», «Мотиваційно-цільова спрямованість у навчанні», «Відповідальність за навчання та саморозвиток», «Прогностично-рефлексивна здатність до навчання». Сумарний результат представлено шкалою «Загальний показник навчальної самоефективності». Розроблено тестові норми для кожної шкали.

Установлено статистично значущі кореляційні зв’язки між шкалами навчальної самоефективності дорослого й мотивацією успіху або запобігання невдачі (методика МУН А. А. Реана). Виявлено кореляційні зв’язки між шкалами навчальної самоефективності дорослого та шкалами тесту «Впевненості в собі» (В. Г. Ромек), шкалою загальної самоефективності особистості (Р. Шварцер, М. Єрусалем в адаптації В. Г. Ромека). Виявлено високу критеріальну валідність розробленої методики. Результати проведенного дослідження засвідчують, що авторський опитувальник може використовуватися широким колом дослідників і психологів-практиків у діагностичній, консультативній та дослідницькій роботі.
The Speechmaking Analysis of the Poetic Texts by V. Shalamov at Russian Language Lessons
Authors: Belova A. P.
Published: July 2018

The article explores the speechmaking analysis of text that aims to cause students in a dialogue and to encourage the development of their creative ideas. The paper focuses on a speechmaking conversation in which students define concepts and supporting details helping them to identify an author’s idea and associations.
Special Aspects of Language of Literary Works by V.I. Belov
Authors: Sudakov G. V.
Published: July 2018

In the article the object of the research is the “regional text” problem. The author describes the peculiarities of “Vologda text”, as well as V.I. Belov’s role in the formation of this literary phenomenon and his contribution to the development of the expressive means, which are representative for his poetics, i.e. dialectal vocabulary, names of colors, comparisons.
An Outline Of Qunawi's Reflections On Divine Names In Terms Of Oneness Of The Being/Wahdat Al-Wujûd
Authors: Doğan Ali Fahri
Published: July 2018

Being one of the most important figures among the wahdat al-wujûd(oneness of the being) theoreticians, Qunawi paid a significant attention to the Divine Names, like his predecessor ibn Arabî. Unlike the authors of classical period of su fism, Qunawi tackled the issue of Divine Names not only with regard to the Dhikr/rememberance/repitition of the divine names but also to ontological concerns. He placed the Divine Names in a central position while describing his Sufistic ontology. According to him, the first things manifested/disclosured from the God are His names and attributes. Everything in the physical world is the self-disclosure of a divine name, or the loci of manifestation/madhar of that name. These divine names have got such an eminent position in Qunawi's ideas that it is almost possible to consider his reflections on the divine names paramount to his ontological views. From the point of view that Qunawi's ontology is mainly based on Divine Names, an outline of his reflections on divine names has been introduced in this study.
Bir Osmanlı Şehri Olarak Filibe ve Filibe Mevlevîhanesi
Authors: Yumerov Aydan
Published: July 2018

İnsanlık tarihi çok büyük medeniyetlere şahitlik etmiştir. Tarih kitaplarının hayranlıkla bahsettiği bu medeniyetlerden birisi ve belkide en önemlisi İslam Medeniyeti'dir. İslam Medeniyeti farklı kültür ve coğrafyalar içerisinde çok önemli değerlerin taşınmasına ve yaşanmasına sebep olmuştur. İslam Medeniyeti'nin tarihe yansıdığı önemli bir kültür coğrafyası Osmanlı kültür coğrafyasıdır. İslam'ın insanlığa sunduğu değerlerin kendi kültür alanıyla birleşerek çok farklı algı, anlayış ve müesseselerin neşet ettiği Osmanlı kültürü bu medeniyetin önemli bir halkasını teşkil etmektedir. Osmanlı, Batı medeniyetlerinden ve milletlerinden farklı olarak insan merkezli olarak ürettiği hayır ve hizmet eserlerini kurmuş, geliştirmiş ve İslam Medeniyeti potasında insanlığa hediye etmiştir. Gittikleri her yerde insanların, hatta hayvanların dahi ihtiyaçlarını karşılayacak her türlü hizmeti sunmuşlardır. Benzeri bulunmayan tarihi eserler inşa etmek yine Osmanlı kültürel birikiminin medeniyet alanına kazandırdığı şeylerdir.
Türk Dizileri Üzerine Kültürel ve İdeolojik Bır Değerlendirme: “Made in Turkey”
Authors: Geçer Ekmel
Published: July 2018

Bu makale; Türk televizyonlarında son yıllarda artış gösteren ve aynı zamanda kültürel bir dönüşüme neden olduğu iddia edilen “Türk yapımı” (made in Turkey) dizilerin etrafında dönenen tartışmalara değinerek küresel ve yerel ölçekte oluşturduğu “popüler kültür” etkileşimini, bu etkileşim sürecini şekillendiren kültürel vurguları, ulusal ve uluslararası bir literatür taraması eşliğinde vermeyi hedeflemektedir. İdeolojik karşı çıkışlar, modernite, geleneksellik, popüler kültür, film çalışmalarındaki gelişmeler ve sosyal kimliklerin, dinin, milliyetçiliğin ve toplumsal cinsiyetçiliğin yeniden inşa edildiği medya temsilleri bu makaledeki temel öğelerdendir. Öte yandan, bu kültürel yapımların orijinleri, ekran dışındaki (yazılı basın, kamusal alan, akademik çalışmalar) temsilleri ve bu dizilere yöneltilen bilimsel ve toplumsal tepkilere de bu çalışmada değinilmiştir.
Adâlet Kavramı ve Şia’da Sahâbenin Adâleti Meselesi
Authors: Demirel Harun Reşit
Published: July 2018

Sözlükte adalet, doğruluk ve dürüstlük anlamına gelirken bir hadis terimi olarak ravinin hadis rivayet ehliyetini ifade etmektedir. Hadis usûlcüleri adalet ve zabt için birtakım şartlar ileri sürerler ki adalet için ileri sürülen şartlar; kizbu’r-ravî, ittihamu’r-ravî bi’l-kizb, fısku’r-ravî, bidatu’r-ravî ve cehaletu’r-ravî olmak üzere beştir. Onlar bu ifadeleriyle kişinin adalet sahibi olabilmesini bu şartlara bağlamışlardır. Bu şartlar sahabe hariç tüm raviler için aranan şartlardır. Sahabenin hepsi adâlet sahibi kabul edildiği için Ehl-i sünnet uleması sahabenin tamamını âdil olarak görmüşler ve cerh dışı tutmuşlardır. Şia, sahabenin tanımında her ne kadar Sünnî muhaddisler gibi düşünseler de adaleti konusunda farklı düşünmektedirler. Kendi aralarında bir takım farklılıklar arz etse de sahabenin çoğunu farklı sebeplerden dolayı cerh etme yoluna gitmişler hatta daha ileri giderek bir kısmını küfürle itham ederek edaletlerine dil uzatmışlardır. Bu çalışmamızda biz; Şia’nın sahabeyi cerh ve tadil ederken ileri sürdükleri delillerini ve Ehl-i sünnetin bu konudaki itirazlarını inceleyerek bir değerlendirme yapacağız.
Kemal Paşazade’nin Fî Fadîleti’l-Lisâni’l-Fârisî Adlı Risalesinde Fars Diline Ait Görüşleri
Authors: Bayer İsmail
Published: July 2018

Bu çalışma, Yavuz Sultan Selim’e ‘kazasker’lik, Kanûnî Sultan Süleyman’a ‘şeyhulislam’lık yapmış olan, Türk, Arap ve Fars dillerinde üç yüzden fazla kitap ve risaleyi kaleme almış olan, dedesine nispetle Kemal Paşazâde ve İbn-i Kemâl (1468-1534) künyeleriyle şöhret kazanan Şemseddin Ahmed b. Süleyman’ın Arapçadan sonra en fasîh ve en gelişmiş dünya dilinin Farsça olduğunu ifâde etmek için kaleme aldığı “fî Fadîleti’l-Lisâni’l-Fârisî ale’l-Elsineti sive’l-Lisâni’l-Arabî” adlı risalesini konu edinmektedir.
Sahabenin Ravilerin Zabtı Konusunda Yaptıkları (Sebepleri ve Yolları)
Authors: Karabacak Mustafa
Published: July 2018

Bu çalışmada sahabenin ravilerin zabtına verdiği önem incelenmiş, onların zabta önem verme sebepleri ile bu konudaki metodları üzerinde durulmuştur. Ayrıca çalışma hadislerin zabtı konusunda sahabenin ortaya koyduğu eksik ve fazla rivayetlerin ortaya çıkmasına katkıda bulunacağı amaçlanmıştır. Bu çalışmada sahabenin zabtını te’kid için değişik yolların ortaya çıktığı görülmektedir. Bunlar da şunlardır: Haberi araştırmak için Kur’anî emre uymaları, Sünneti Nebeviyyeyi koruma hırsları bu konuda gevşekliğe hoşgörülü davranmamaları, ravinin hatasından veya yanlış yazma ihtimalinden dolayı yalana güvenmemeleri, kendi bilgisine aykırı bir rivayet söylendiğinde ravinin zabtını te’kid için doğrudan Hz. Peygamber’e müracaattır. Yine bu çalışmada ravinin zabtını bilmek için sahabenin dayandığı yollar tespit edilmeye çalışılmıştır: Doğrudan kaynağa müracaat, sikanın muvafakatı, sikanın şehadeti veya yemini ile, ezberindekini yazılı metinle veya yazılı metindekini ezberindeki ile kıyaslama ile veya da bir başkasının haber vermesiyle ravinin zabtını bilme.
Kıraatlerin Tefsire Etkisi (İbn Âşûr Örneği)
Authors: Akkuş Murat
Published: July 2018

Bu çalışmada kıraatlerin tefsire etkisi ferşî kıraat farklılıkları bağlamında ele alınacaktır. Ferşî kıraat farklılıkları ise nahiv ve sarf yönünden kıraat farklılıkları başlıkları altında örneklendirilecektir. Bu örneklendirmeler son dönem müfessirlerinden İbn Âşûr’un (ö.1 393/1973) tefsiri “et-Tahrîr ve’t-Tenvîr” üzerinden gerçekleştirilecektir. Verilen örnekler mütevatir kabul edilen kıraatlerden oluşacak şaz kıraatler yer verilmeyecektir. Amacımız, kıraatlerin ayetleri anlamlandırmadaki etkisini İbn Âşûr’un tefsiri çerçevesinde ele almaktır. Yeri geldikçe diğer kaynaklardan da istifade edilecektir.
Cumhuriyet Dönemi Lise Felsefe Müfredatlarında Din Algısı ve İdeolojik Arka Plan
Authors: Çifçi Osman Zahid , Ovacık Zübeyir
Published: July 2018

Cumhuriyet, eğitim, felsefe ve din kavramlarının bir arada kullanıldıkları bir üst başlık Türkiye‘de çağdaş düşüncenin seyrini açıklamada anahtar kavramlar olarak konuyla ilgili olanlar açısından çok dikkat çekici olsa gerektir. Fakat bu çalışma, Tanzimat döneminde yoğun bir şekilde kendini gösteren materyalist ve idealist akımlar arasındaki tartışmaları veya lise felsefe ders kitaplarında dinin veya metafizik problemlerin nasıl tartışıldığı meselesi üzerinde yoğunlaşmamaktadır. Bu çalışma, kabataslak bir şekilde sadece müfredat üzerine dikkatleri çevirmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bununla birlikte Cumhuriyet dönemindeki felsefe öğretiminde din problemini merkeze alarak geniş bir müktesebatı tartışmayı en azından gündeme getirmektedir. Ayrıca çalışmanın bir diğer amacı da programları oluşturan ideolojik altyapıyı tespit etmektir. Elbette ki müfredat üzerine kabataslak dikkat çekmek bile batılılaşma, cumhuriyet, metafizik, din, felsefe gibi kavramların ima ettiği ilgi çekici konulara zihni kışkırtmaya yetecektir.
Bilimsel Tefsir ve Değişim
Authors: KAYA Mehmet
Published: July 2018

İnsanlığa hidayet kaynağı olarak indirilen Kur’an’da bu amaca ulaşmak için farklı metot ve üsluplar kullanılmıştır. Özellikle Allah’ın varlığı, birliği ve kudreti hakkındaki ayetlerde insanların düşünerek hakikati bulmaları için yaşadıkları dünyadan örnekler seçilmiştir. Bu metot Kur’an’a bilimsel yaklaşımın önünü açmış, Fahreddin Razi (ö. 606/1209)’den itibaren tefsirlerde ayetlerin bilimsel veriler çerçevesinde yorumlandığı görülmüştür. Günümüzde gelişimini devam ettiren bu metotta ayetler, her dönemdeki ilmî birikim çerçevesinde ele alınmış, değişen bilimsel veriler sebebiyle ayetin yorumunda da değişmeler meydana gelmiştir. Bu husus tefsire, önceleri lafzi olarak tefsir edilen ayetlerin daha sonra bilimsel açıdan ele alınması veya değişen ilmî verilerle ayetin mevcut bilimsel yorumunun değişmesi şeklinde yansımıştır. Bu çalışmadaki amacımız, belli ayetler çerçevesinde ilmî gelişmelerin ayetin yorumuna etkisini incelemektir.
Osmanlı Anadolu’sunda Tefsir Derslerinde Öğrenci Soruları Amme Cüzü Tefsîri Örneği
Authors: BAYER İsmail
Published: July 2018

Bu araştırmada, “Tefsîr-u cüz-i ʻamme min halakâti’t-tefsîr fî Anadol el-kurûni’l-vüstâ (Ortaçağ Anadolu’su Tefsir Derslerinde Amme Cüzü Tefsiri)” adıyla tahkik edilen yazma eserden hareketle ortaçağ Anadolu’su tefsir derslerinde öğrencilerin ilgi ve eğilimlerini yansıtan sorular, günümüz din eğitimi ve Kur’ân’a bakış çalışmalarına veri oluşturmak amacıyla incelenmiştir.
Alliance Treaty between Athens and Byzantium of 378 BC
Authors: Occhipinti Egidia
Published: July 2018

This paper discusses a treaty of alliance that was agreed between Athens and Byzantium in 378/7 BC. Along with other similar decrees, it should be considered as a preliminary step in the forming of the second Athenian league.
Phocians’ Dedication to Delphi
Authors: Franchi Elena
Published: July 2018

In the storage of the Archaeological Museum of Delphi two limestone fragments most probably belonging to the same inscription are preserved (inv. no. 1091 and inv. no. 37). The text consists of two lines, both heavily fragmentary; the letters are in the stoichedon pattern. 1091 reads τῶι at the beginning of the second line, whereas 37 reads αν, which is restored as [δεκάτ]αν in the first line, and λῶν in the second line, which is restored as [Θεσσαλ]ῶν (cf. Plut. De Pyth.or., 15: Φωκεῖς ἀπὸ Θεσσαλῶν). Both fragments feature traces of previous inscriptions engraved later in a Phocian context. As a consequence, it is highly probable that the authors of our inscription are Phocian. Modern scholarship maintains that the dedication referred to a tithe to Apollo by the Phocians after a victory over the Thessalians. However, as in the case of Syll.3 202B, there are at least four possible explanations: an archaic victory told by Herodotus, Pausanias and Plutarch; the battle of Argolas (modern Mendenitisa?), fought in 355 BC and referred to by Diodorus; a victory over the Galatians of Brennus (279 BC, cf. Paus. 10.8.3 and 10.23.3); an otherwise unknown victory by the Phocians.
Records of Remitted Records of the City of Acraephia
Authors: Paladini Elettra
Published: July 2018

The two inscriptions were engraved on the short sides of a quadrangular block of white limestone found at Acraephia in Boeotia. These two accounts record the partial amnesty of debts contracted by Acraephia with two private individuals, the citizen Kallon (text a) and the Theban Euclid (text b). In the first document, the creditor and his descendants were rewarded with the privilege of the epinomia, the right to freely exploit pastures owned by the city. In the second one, there is no mention of privileges granted, but the sacred land of the god Apollo was chosen as a guarantee of debt, as a result of a decree enforce by the demos. The texts are generally dated to the second half of the third century BC, but there is not any clear chronological or historical reference in their contents; therefore, it is not possible to understand the reason that determined the financial crisis of Acraephia and its need to borrow money from wealthy citizens. Finally, it is interesting to note that these are not the only inscriptions engraved on the same stone. Other four texts were inscribed, including three catalogues of citizens of Acraephia and a fragmentary honorary decree. An analysis of these other inscriptions could possibly enrich the descriptive context of the two accounts, providing useful elements to better understand the financial situation of Acraephia.
Votive Dedications for Attalus’ Victories
Authors: Paladini Elettra
Published: July 2018

These seven inscriptions were found in Pergamon and originally engraved on a long rectangular base built in the temple square of Athena Nikephoros. They date from 241/240 BC to 224/223 BC and commemorate the victories of Attalos I during the first fifteen years of his reign. The defeated enemies were the Galatians, Antiochos Hierax and the strategoi of Seleukos III and Lysias, a member of the Philomelid dynasty. By his first victory, around 240 B.C., near the banks of the Caico against the Galati alone, Attalos I assumed the official title of Σωτήρ and was recognised as βασιλεύς. All of his successes were such as to receive the honour of two other triumphal monuments, similarly erected in the square of the temple of Athena. In this way, this sacred place commemorated the victories of the Pergamum rulers and became a symbol of the ideology and dynastic propaganda inaugurated by Attalos I and continued by his successor, Eumenes II.
A New Method Based on Artifıcial Bee Colony Algorithm for the Optimal Location of Shunt Connected Facts Devices
Authors: YAMAÇLI Volkan , ABACI Kadir
Published: July 2018

In this paper, a new and easy to implement heuristic method related to the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is proposed for the optimal location of shunt connected Flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS) devices such as Static Var Compensator (SVC) and Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) randomly and dynamically. Voltage stability enhancement, voltage profile improvement and active power loss minimization by using minimum number of devices and var compensator sizing are defined as the objective functions for the proposed methodology. Optimization results of the bi-objective and multi-objective functions are compared with the results reported in literature. Also, by comparing the results obtained by using ABC algorithm and Differential Evolution (DE) method, it can be stated that proposed algorithm can converge to better results by using minimum device number.