bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
La presidenza del consiglio dei ministri: Organizzazione e funcionamiento
Authors: Fiorentino Luigi
Published: December 2018

L’articolo presenta come il Consiglio di Minsitros in Italia, le difficoltà che il suo modello organizzativo trova e come si è evoluto. In questo modo, l’autore rivede un argomento così controverso come questo.
Introducción al Monográfico sobre Karl Marx
Authors: Gomez Betancourt Rebeca , Rodríguez Braun Carlos
Published: December 2018

Introducción al Monográfico sobre Karl Marx
Effect of Audit Quality, Managerial Ownership to Earning Quality in the Banking Company in Indonesia Stock Exchange
Authors: Asfufi Nanang , Srikustono Alwan , Prasetyo Whedy
Published: December 2018

This study examines the effect of managerial ownership, the quality of audit on the earning quality in general companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange during the periode 2013 to 2016. The sample of this study is companies banking general while companies included in the sample research criteria are as many as 12 companies during 4 years of research so that the total samples are 48 companies.The results of this study indicate significant results between independent variable and dependent variable showing that managerial ownership does not significantly affect the earning quality, because large ownership of shares by managerial can influence the managerial to perform income smoothing action. Furthermore, quality audit variables significantly influence the earning quality, the amount of audit fee, the auditor maintain integrity to apply a good audit procedure to detect the existence of material misstatement performed by the management so as to increase the quality of corporate profits.The conclusion of this study indicates that managerial ownership variable has no significant effect to the variable of earning quality, then the audit quality variables with audit fee have a significant effect to earnings quality in banking companies registered in Indonesia Stock Exchange.
Delving Into a World of Non-Human Experience: Unnatural Narrative and Ecological Critique of Chen Yingsong's The Last Dance of a Leopard
Authors: Shang Biwu
Published: December 2018

As a rejoinder to Erin James, this article tries to bridge the divide between narrative theory and ecocriticism. From a dual perspective of unnatural narratology and ecocriticism, it approaches contemporary Chinese animal narrative fiction and Chen Yingsong's The Last Dance of a Leopard in particular. Through its unnatural narrative form featuring such a dead nonhuman narrator as leopard, the novel transports readers to a world of solitude to convey a sense of what it is like to be an extinctive animal. Revisiting and underscoring the tension of the human and nonhuman divide, the novel urges readers to adopt an ecological attitude confronting anthropocentricism and to reconsider human–animal relations.
Samuel Beckett's Use of Color inCompany: Blue
Authors: Jeffery Lucy
Published: December 2018

This article looks at Samuel Beckett's use of color in his late short prose text Company (1980). In its reference to Beckett's “Olympic” notebook, it demonstrates how Beckett's writing process is not merely visual but is also highly dependent upon color in its creation of atmosphere and setting. Instead of seeing Beckett's later work as simply deracinated and monochromatic, it suggests that his prose evidences a painterly style. By analysing Company from an art historical perspective, the article claims that Beckett's use of blue is linked to his comments on paintings by Poussin and da Messina. Saint Augustine's writings on memory are also invoked to understand Beckett's use of color in connection with childhood recollections. The article argues for a reading of Company that uses color to create a self-reflexive narrative that avoids polarization between light and dark, hope and dejection.
“Steinbeck Country”: Mythic Landscapes with Haunted Figures
Authors: Morsberger Robert E. , Morsberger Katherine , Hicks Kathleen
Published: December 2018

“Steinbeck Country” is an intriguing and alluring space as drawn in John Steinbeck's California works. The landscape and the characters who inhabit it are often simultaneously sketched with sharp realism yet imbued with mythic, fantastical qualities that interject complex dimensions into his stories. This dichotomy between characters' perceptions of the landscape and its actuality is quite apparent in some of Steinbeck's earliest works, such as To a God Unknown and The Pastures of Heaven, and it continues to be a significant strand in his best known and later work including Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, and East of Eden. This article explores how both To A God Unknown and The Pastures of Heaven are early examples in Steinbeck's career of unique interactions between people and the places they have lived, currently live, or dream to live in. Apparent in the two works is a tremendous disconnect between what haunted, aching, lonely, driven people think the landscape will offer them and what it actually has to offer them. The drama resulting from that disconnect is a central feature of Steinbeck country. While Steinbeck's descriptions of the California valleys are evocative and idyllic, more often than not, the lives of the characters who are all placed in and defined by these landscapes are haunted and vexed. Characters are compulsively driven by intense longings, unsuccessfully searching to fill voids and ameliorate their lives by drinking deeply of the riches they misperceive the landscape has to freely offer.
Subversive Mobility: Migrant Labor and the Visual Politics of Representation
Authors: Norman Nicholas Andrew
Published: December 2018

California has existed in the collective imagination of popular American culture as the “Land of Promise,” or Eden of the American West, at the very least since its state ratification in 1850. Early representations of the American West drew many to the California landscape in search of this mythical “garden.” This article examines how landscape, operating as a visual ideology, impacted social relations in the California agricultural industry during the 1930s. My argument is that landscape as a visual ideology imposed severe restrictions on the representation of migrant labor through what I define as the “cultural optics of labor.” The article explores how John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) mediates the complex exchanges between labor, landscape, and representation during the Dust Bowl Era, suggesting that the novel develops a set of possibilities for worker revolution along the two ideological lines of space and class.
La mortalidad en Danlí - El Paraíso entre 1901 y 1912 con base en los registros de defunciones de la Parroquia Inmaculada Concepción
Authors: Duarte Landero Orlin Manuel
Published: December 2018

El presente artículo, tiene como objetivo analizar el fenómeno de la mortalidad en Danlí, El Paraíso entre 1901 y 1912, con base en los registros de los libros de defunciones de la parroquia Inmaculada Concepción. Los hallazgos identificados dilucidan que Danlí fue afectado por una serie de causas de muerte, entre las que se destacan la hidropesía, el dolor de costado y la fiebre, las cifras de fallecidos se incrementaron entre 1902 y 1905, para luego decaer entre 1906 y 1912. Asimismo, de los fallecimientos en ambos sexos las mujeres fueron las que presentaron mayor incidencia con 471 casos del total de las defunciones. De igual modo, el estado civil casado fue el que presentó más muertes, tanto en los hombres, como en las  mujeres.
Tipología y clasificación de los hogares hondureños, periodo 2001-2017
Authors: Figueroa Escobar Héctor Alcides
Published: December 2018

En las últimas décadas los hogares hondureños han sufrido una serie de transformaciones demográficas, económicas y sociales que afectan la composición y distribución de los hogares. Este artículo presenta la tipología de la pobreza de los hogares hondureños analizada en dos momentos del tiempo año 2001 y 2017 en base a los datos de la Encuesta Permanente de Hogares de Propósitos Múltiples (EPHPM). Para efectos de este estudio se establecieron cinco tipos de hogares, unipersonales, biparentales, monoparentales, extensos y compuestos. Para la estimación de la pobreza se utilizó el método de Línea de la Pobreza (LP). Para complementar el análisis de la pobreza por el método de Línea de la Pobreza y contar con indicadores sintéticos se utilizó el Índice de Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) que permite por medio de los ingresos cuantificar que tan pobres son los pobres, dicho de otra manera, cuál sería el nivel de ingreso que requieren los hogares que están en pobreza para salir de la línea de la pobreza o pobreza cero. A lo largo de 16 años los hogares hondureños registran cambios importantes en la estructura y los arreglos que se dan a lo interno delos mismos. Los hogares que prevalecen a nivel nacional son: los biparentales y los extensos. En el período de estudio se observa un crecimiento de los hogares monoparentales, por otro lado, hay diferencias marcadas que se dan en la zona urbana y la zona rural, los hogares monoparentales son más comunes en la zona urbana donde las jefaturas en su mayoría son mujeres.
Influencia de la frontera en el proceso de conformación local de Cárdenas, en la región histórica de Rivas, Nicaragua. Implicaciones históricas y sociales de la frontera
Authors: Rivas Rivas Enrique
Published: December 2018

El estudio de las fronteras ha tenido un gran auge especialmente en los últimos años a nivel de Latinoamérica y el Caribe. Para el caso de Centroamérica, las fronteras han sido consideradas como zonas de conflicto entre los países que las comparten. Históricamente éstas no han tenido atención desde el Estado, permaneciendo olvidadas y atendidas solamente cuando aparecen nuevos conflictos limítrofes o territoriales. En otros diversos campos de las ciencias sociales y humanas, la noción de frontera es tomada en cuenta en un sentido más amplio y no se traduce sistemáticamente en los límites entre Estados. El término es utilizado para expresar una separación entre grupos culturales (frontera lingüística, religiosa) y se asocia a un contacto confuso, impreciso, móvil. La frontera tiene la capacidad de incidir de manera directa en la configuración de las localidades, ciudades y pueblos que se desarrollan a lo largo de ésta. Sin embargo, esta capacidad de influencia es divergente y discontinua por diversos factores de carácter histórico, geográfico, socioeconómico y político. La actual investigación tiene el propósito de producir una obra que aborde el estudio de la localidad de Cárdenas y de sus comarcas fronterizas, entendiéndolas como aquellos espacios de trascendencia para el desarrollo de éstas y de Nicaragua, desde una perspectiva integradora y multidisciplinaria.
Beneficios de la implementación de un programa de seguimiento fármaco-terapéutico a pacientes VIH positivo atendidos en el Instituto Nacional Cardiopulmonar
Authors: Rendón Ana Lucía , Cerrato Izaguirre Dennis
Published: December 2018

Objetivo: Evaluar las implicaciones clínicas de la intervención farmacéutica, producto de un programa de seguimiento farmacoterapéutico, en la mejora de la adherencia, en los parámetros virológicos einmunológicos y en el manejo de los resultados negativos asociados a la medicación en pacientes VIH+ que atienden el Servicio de Atención Integral del Instituto Nacional Cardiopulmonar. Métodos: Se planteó un estudio con enfoque cuantitativo, un alcance correlacional y diseño cuasi experimental, prospectivo y aleatorizado. Al momento de reclutar voluntarios, se explicó en que consiste el seguimiento farmacoterapéutico y se ofertó la participación en dicho programa. Aceptaron 31 pacientes adultos, con infección por VIH y en tratamiento ARV atendidos en el SAI del INCP. Se evaluaron las implicaciones clínicas de esta estrategia, comparando los niveles de adherencia, parámetros inmunológicos y virológicos y el manejo de los resultados negativos asociados a la medicación en los de pacientes del grupo de intervención y del grupo control, estos últimos no recibieron el programa de seguimiento farmacoterapéutico. Resultados: Al comparar las medias de las puntuaciones en adherencia entre el grupo de intervención y el grupo de control se observaron diferencias estadísticamente significativas (p<0.05, IC95%), lo que mostró la influencia del programa de seguimiento farmacoterapéutico sobre la adherencia a la terapia. Además el programa de seguimiento farmacoterapéutico permitió identificar resultados negativos que el 81% de los resultados negativos de la medicación fueron de efectividad, el 17 % de seguridad y 2% de necesidad. La intervención farmacéutica más frecuente fue la educación al paciente para incrementar la adherencia al tratamiento (80%). Conclusiones: Los resultados demuestran que la intervención del farmacéutico, mediante el seguimiento farmacoterapéutico mejora la adherencia al tratamiento antirretroviral. El farmacéutico fue capaz de mejorar el aspecto de cumplimiento y de mediante su intervención.
Los descriptores de la cartografía temática satelital para la gestión de emergencias pos desastres: caso inundaciones
Authors: Batista Ponvert D. , Ferman Oscar Elvir
Published: December 2018

En este trabajo, los autores muestran los resultados de una investigación que cobra gran importancia en la actualidad y que está referida a la caracterización de la cartografía que se elabora con el fin de asistir los procesos de toma de decisiones por los diferentes actores que suelen tomar parte en la evaluación y asistencia en la fase de respuesta pos desastres. La investigación tuvo como motivación central la carencia de bibliografía que muestre los criterios cartográficos que deben cumplir los mapas destinados de este tipo de situaciones, de ahí que el objetivo consistió en “aplicar el marco teórico de la conceptualización de los descriptores cartográficos en la confección de mapas de emergencia pos desastre obtenidos a partir de información satelital”. Para cumplimentar dicho objetivo, los autores a partir de la información recopilada por diversas fuentes documentales, han planteado un cuerpo teórico con la conceptualización y adecuación de los descriptores cartográficos para este tipo de mapas y los ejemplifican con dos casos de estudios de mapas que reflejan las consecuencias de un desastre por un evento de inundación. Se concluye que queda evidenciada la importancia de este tipo de mapas para asistir los procesos de toma de decisiones por parte de los gestores de las emergencias pos desastres.
One-Dimensional Audio Scrambling based on Cellular Automata
Authors: Dalhoum Abdel Latif Abu
Published: December 2018

Digital audio scrambling is a process used in audio security applications. Scrambling of audio files breaks the correlation between adjacent samples in order to convert the original audio to an unintelligible format. Scrambling is used to protect the audio against wiretapping and illegal surveillance, in addition to being a step in security algorithms, such as watermarking and encryption algorithms. Cellular automata are models that are discrete in nature and depend on simple and local rules to achieve an interesting overall behavior. Two-dimensional cellular automata were previously proposed as a key generation mechanism to scramble audio files. The mechanism was built upon be researchers in the multimedia security field. This paper explores the use of one-dimensional cellular automata in audio scrambling, which simplifies the process as deploying two-dimensional cellular automata requires changing the dimension of the audio file and the one-dimensional cellular automata does not, additionally, elementary one-dimensional cellular automata requires less parameters to configure. The scrambling degree is used to evaluate the model effectiveness in breaking the correlation of adjacent samples. In the experiments, different parameters are taken into account including the cellular automata class, the iterations needed and the method used to calculate the cells at the boundary. Experiments show that the one-dimensional cellular automata are capable of scrambling the audio file without any dimensional change and the chaotic rules tested give the highest scrambling degree.
Bespreking van: Suzanne Tesselaar & Jacco Rodermond, Narratief evalueren: De gids, Delft: Eburon 2017
Authors: van den Berg Yorick
Published: December 2018

Bespreking van: Suzanne Tesselaar & Jacco Rodermond, Narratief evalueren: De gids, Delft: Eburon 2017

De narratieve aanpak van evalueren biedt diepgang en verklaring, en vormt daarmee een betekenisvolle aanvulling op methodieken waarin de feitelijke beschrijving van de werkelijkheid en normenkaders centraal staan. De narratieve aanpak is een aanvulling op traditionele methodieken, maar is niet plaatsvervangend.
Relações sociais informais em idoso com Hipertensão e/ou Diabetes
Authors: Soares Mariangela Uhlmann , Nunes Bruno Pereira , Wachs Louriele Soares , Kessler Marciane , Dilélio Alitéia Santiago , Soares Deisi Cardoso , Facchini Luiz Augusto , Thumé Elaine
Published: December 2018

Objetivo: avaliar as relações sociais informais dos idosos com diagnóstico de hipertensão e/ou diabetes, moradores de Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Método: estudo transversal de base populacional. Foram entrevistadas 1.593 pessoas com 60 anos ou mais, das quais 947 tinham diagnóstico de hipertensão e/ou diabetes. A prevalência “relações sociais informais” foi distribuída em fraca, moderada e forte. A diferença estatística entre os grupos foi avaliada com teste qui-quadrado e intervalos de confiança de 95%. Resultados: a prevalência de relações informais fracas foi de 51,0% sendo estatisticamente significativa entre os idosos com idade superior a 74 anos, menor escolaridade e classificação socioeconômica C e D, residindo em domicílios multigeracionais, com maior número de pessoas e em áreas cobertas pela Estratégia Saúde da Família. Conclusão: os resultados reforçam a necessidade de desenvolver mecanismos de proteção social a idosos com morbidades crônicas, de modo a minimizar o risco de viver isolado.
Formação de profissionais para a atenção a saúde de deficientes auditivos
Authors: Marquete Verônica Francisqueti , Conelheiro Junior Luiz Gonzalez , Christinelli Heloá , Teston Élen Ferraz , Benedetti Gabriella Michel dos Santos , Costa Maria Antonia Ramos
Published: December 2018

Objetivo: conhecer a percepção dos acadêmicos dos cursos da área da saúde sobre a sua formação para assistência aos deficientes auditivos. Método: pesquisa descritiva exploratória com abordagem qualitativa. Os dados foram coletados por meio de um questionário elaborado pelos pesquisadores, com os acadêmicos dos cursos de enfermagem e educação física de uma universidade pública do interior do Paraná, matriculados no 4º ano em 2016 e analisados pela técnica de análise de conteúdo. O período de coleta foi de novembro de 2016 á fevereiro de 2017. Resultados: participaram da pesquisa 42 acadêmicos. A análise resultou no eixo temático: desafios vivenciados na formação para o cuidado a indivíduos com deficiência auditiva. Considerações finais: emergiu a necessidade das instituições de ensino superior criarem estratégias para sensibilizar os acadêmicos para a importância desse aprendizado e oferecer uma formação de qualidade, buscando capacitá-los, efetivamente, para comunicação e atenção à saúde dos deficientes auditivos.
Oficinas de estimulação cognitiva para idosos com queixa subjetiva de memória e humor
Authors: Santana Rosimere Ferreira , Alexandrino Shardelle Araújo , Soares Thais Da Silva , Santos George Luiz Alves , Bamberg Elisa Monteiro Magalhães , Oliveira Thais De Medeiros
Published: December 2018

Objetivo: analisar um programa de oficinas de estimulação cognitiva para idosos com queixas subjetivas de memória e humor e associá-lo ao desempenho da capacidade funcional. Método: estudo quase-experimental, quantitativo, realizado em um programa para idosos. Utilizaram-se como testes de seguimento: Mini Exame de Estado Mental (MEEM), Escala de Depressão Geriátrica (EDG), Escala de Atividades Instrumentais de Vida Diária (Lawton), Teste de Fluência Verbal (EVP) e Teste do Relógio. Análise dos dados descritiva e inferencial com a utilização do software R. Resultados: após as oficinas de estimulação cognitiva notou-se discreto aumento nos escores do MEEM e diminuição na EDG. Já nos escores dos testes Lawton, Teste do Relógio e EVP houveram manutenção nos valores, o que pode ser um indicativo de preservação da capacidade funcional. Conclusão: recomenda-se investir em programas para a terceira idade com protocolos de intervenção sistematizadas, que garantam atendimento especifico e seguimento de sua performance.
Trabalho no Século XXI: Flexibilidade e Redução de Direitos. Entrevista com Jacob Carlos Lima.
Authors: Ramalho José Ricardo , Ferreira Laura Senna
Published: December 2018

Jacob Carlos Lima é doutor em Sociologia pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP), pós-doutorado no Department of Urban Studies and Development do Massachusetts Institute of Technology e professor titular no Departamento de Sociologia da Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar). Tem experiência na área de Sociologia do trabalho, pesquisando temas como reestruturação produtiva, reespacialização da produção; trabalho flexível; trabalho informal; empreendedorismo; redes sociais e mercados de trabalho urbanos; trabalho informacional; cooperativas de trabalho e economia solidária; culturas do trabalho e mobilidades.
Trabalho e tecnologia bancária: dinâmicas e contradições do Brasil do século XXI.
Authors: Dulci Luiza Borges
Published: December 2018

A tecnologia é chave para a compreensão da história e do trabalho nos bancos. As inovações eletrônicas, sobretudo após a internet, alteraram sobremaneira a rotina de trabalho nos bancos, as relações de poder, a interação com os clientes e as formas de controle do processo de trabalho. As evidências mostram que os efeitos do emprego sobre o trabalho devem considerar o contexto socioeconômico. A análise do emprego e das condições e relações de trabalho nos bancos do Brasil do século XXI seguiram duas tendências distintas. No período de expansão econômica com distribuição de renda, houve aumento do emprego, diversi cação das formas de contratação, com crescimento expressivo dos terceirizados, e ampliação das conquistas sindicais. As novas tecnologias diversi caram os canais de interação entre bancos e clientes com vistas a ampliação da venda de produtos e serviços nanceiros. Exige-se dos trabalhadores o perfil de vendedores e consultores de negócios, ao mesmo tempo em que crescem as pressões por metas e cobranças oriundas dos bancos e dos clientes. A reversão do cenário macroeconômico favorável interrompeu o período de conquistas de direitos e produziu desemprego. Todas essas alterações trazem desa os para cada trabalhador, para as representações sindicais e para a própria teoria social.
Convergent validity and reliability of the Hebrew version of the Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire (PSDQ) in Hebrew-speaking Israeli-Arab families
Authors: Yaffe Yosi
Published: December 2018

The study examined the convergent validity and reliability of the Hebrew-translated 32 items of the Parenting Styles and Dimension Questionnaire (PSDQ) among Israeli-Arab families, who speak Hebrew as their second language. 187 adolescents (116 boys; 64 girls; 7 participants did not report their sex) and one of their parents (106 fathers; 81 mothers) completed the PAQ and the PSDQ (respectively). Subject to two exceptions (alphas below .60), the instrument’s scales exhibited an acceptable internal consistency (.64 ≤ α ≤ .89) and good convergence with the PAQ scales (with mid- to large-size correlations). Taken together, the findings suggest that the PSDQ in its Hebrew version could be acceptable for assessing parenting styles among literate Hebrew-speaking populations. The limitations and implications concerning this conclusion are discussed, along with some cultural aspects.
Reflecting on parental terminal illness and death during adolescence: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
Authors: Cafferky Jennifer , Banbury Samantha , Athanasiadou-Lewis Catherine
Published: December 2018

There has been little consideration of how adolescents experience parental terminal illness (PTI) and death and any continuing impact it may have on their lives. In particular, limited attention has been given to this group’s perceptions and experiences of support during this period. This study explores the retrospective experiences of six individuals who had a parent diagnosed with a terminal illness (TI) during late adolescence. Their experiences are qualitatively explored in terms of their understanding, processing and adjustment to their parent’s TI and death; both as an individual, and in the context of their wider family and social setting. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was employed to analyse participant data. Participants were individuals who had a parent diagnosed with a terminal illness aged 16-18. Four superordinate themes emerged from the data. These were: changing family dynamics, grappling with adolescence and adjustment to loss, barriers to feeling/being supported and living with the consequences. Participants relate the profound impact that PTI during adolescence has had and continues to have on their lives. Study findings provide clinically useful information for healthcare professionals working with bereaved young people and those presently experiencing PTI. Implications are discussed in terms of service provision and design, including therapeutic recommendations for counselling psychologists and other professionals working with this group.
Retrieval priming in product verification: Evidence from retrieval-induced forgetting
Authors: Neudorf Josh , Chen Yalin , Campbell Jamie I. D.
Published: December 2018

The conditions under which multiplication verification (3 × 6 = 12, true or false?) involves product retrieval and comparison or familiarity-based recognition judgements has not been clearly established. In two experiments examining verification of single-digit multiplication problems, we used Retrieval-Induced Forgetting (RIF), a signature of retrieval use, as an index of product retrieval in multiplication verification. In Experiment 1, 72 adults practiced multiplication either in a production format or in a verification format and then were tested on corresponding addition and control problems. The results showed RIF (i.e., slower answer production for addition problems whose multiplication counterparts had been practiced) in both the production-practice and the verification-practice groups, but RIF was stronger following true than false verification. Experiment 2 tested verification with related-false and unrelated-false products. Related-false equations produced longer RTs than unrelated false equations. Practice of true, related-false and unrelated-false multiplication equations all produced RIF of the addition counterparts but, overall, related-false multiplication equations produced relatively weak RIF. The results indicated that product retrieval mediates multiplication verification even when false answers are weak associative lures and suggest that a retrieve-and-compare process is the default strategy when false answers are at least plausible. We conclude that the presented answer in verification equations act as retrieval-priming stimuli with true equations priming correct answer retrieval and related-false answers interfering with correct answer retrieval.
Queer solidarities: New activisms erupting at the intersection of structural precarity and radical misrecognition
Authors: Fine Michelle , Torre María Elena , Frost David M. , Cabana Allison L.
Published: December 2018

This article investigates the relationship between exposure to structural injustice, experiences of social discrimination, psychological well being, physical health, and engagement in activist solidarities for a large, racially diverse and inclusive sample of 5,860 LGBTQ/Gender Expansive youth in the United States. Through a participatory action research design and a national survey created by an intergenerational research collective, the “What’s Your Issue?” survey data are used to explore the relationships between injustice, discrimination and activism; to develop an analysis of how race and gender affect young people’s vulnerabilities to State violence (in housing, schools and by the police), and their trajectories to activism, and to amplify a range of “intimate activisms” engaged by LGBTQ/GE youth with powerful adults outside their community, and with often marginalized peers within. The essay ends with a theoretical appreciation of misrecognition as structural violence; activism as a racialized and gendered response to injustice, and an elaborated archive of “intimate activisms” engaged with dominant actors and within community, by LGBTQ/GE youth who have been exiled from home, school, state protection and/or community and embody, nevertheless, “willful subjectivities”.
Multimodalitet som didaktisk kategori
Authors: Hansen Thomas Illum
Published: December 2018

Udgangspunktet for denne artikel er en kritisk-konstruktiv analyse af en række kernebegreber inden for multimodalitetsteori. Hvordan skal et sammensat begreb som multimodalitet egentlig forstås? Og hvordan kan et sprog om multimodalitet udvikles og anvendes inden for en didaktisk teoridannelse? Det kritiske afsæt danner grundlag for en videreudvikling af den socialsemiotiske teori om multimodalitet i en fænomenologisk retning. Artiklen er derfor bygget op om et dobbelt perspektiv på multimodalitet. Hensigten er en gensidig befrugtning af to traditioner, den socialsemiotiske og den fænomenologiske, med henblik på at udvikle et mere konkret fagsprog om multimodalitet, der kan anvendes til didaktisk analyse. Den kritiske del sætter særligt fokus på modus, modalitet og multimodalitet som kernebegreber i en grundlagsdiskussion. Den konstruktive del giver i forlængelse heraf et bud på, hvordan multimodale tegn kan forstås og analyseres med basis i en fænomenologisk teori om krop, tegn og erkendelse. Det didaktiske perspektiv bliver demonstreret med en eksempelanalyse af en multimodal model i et digitalt læremiddel.
La mediazione trasformativa nell’era della patient revolution. Un modello per la gestione del rischio clinico e legale nelle ASL italiane
Authors: Dodaro Antonio , Recchia Virginia
Published: December 2018

[Transformative mediation in the era of the patient revolution. A model for the management of clinical and legal risk in Italian health facilities]Nowadays, too many patients do not perceive that their doctors are exclusively dedicated to care them. This is probably because current health systems are too focused on physicians and diseases, rather than on patients. Such systems are also expensive, fragmented, inefficient and often cynical, generating not only the anger but also the willingness to bring legal claims from many patients. Many scholars, in fact, claim that "too much medicine" can bring more harm than good to the patients and to the health systems themselves, therefore promoting a more sober and respectful medicine. This is the vision of the "patient revolution" and the idea that inspires some other movements that aim to break the vicious circle of greed and cynicism that damages not only patients but also health professionals. Within the same vicious circle, an exponential increase in litigations takes place, as an additional negative effect of the system focused on the disease and on the doctors instead of on the patient.In the present article, we assume that a greater participation of the patient in the choices concerning his/her own health is the fertile ground in which concrete solutions can be found to many problems arising from the current medicine. We therefore analyze the main advantages of active patient participation, which in turn generate a reduction in health conflicts. Based on this analysis, we propose a model in which through various approaches, tools and methods - starting from the upstream prevention of the conflicts - we can also manage them downstream, for the benefit of both patients and health professionals. Finally, we show that within this framework, transformative mediation is an essential approach for weakening many legal disputes and repairing the relational damage generated upstream, where communication has failed or is completely lacking in the clinical practice.
Transformative Learning and the Awareness of White Supremacy
Authors: BROOKFIELD Stephen
Published: December 2018

This article describes the development of critical consciousness and the different intellectual traditions that have been influential in framing how this concept is understood. Prime amongst these is analytic philosophy, American pragmatism and Frankfurt School critical theory. Two particular critical moves are analyzed in detail; being willing to subject the assumptions that inform your own, and others’ reasoning and actions to regular scrutiny and being open to alternative perspectives and viewpoints. The author examines the critical theory tradition›s emphasis on deconstructing power and ideological control and uses his own experience of clinical depression to illustrate this. He argues that his depression could only be understood once he was ready to think critically about the ways that the dominant ideology of patriarchy had blocked a critical analysis of his mental state.
Complications of Diabetes Mellitus on Muscles and Joints of Lower Extremities
Authors: Novaković Bursać Snježana , Jandrić Slavica , Talić Goran , Ljubojević Gordana
Published: December 2018

Introduction: Non-enzymatic protein glycosylation in diabetic patients leads to stiffening of collagen-containing tissues affecting joint mobility. Motor dysfunction in diabetic patients can be detected as muscle weakness or atrophy.Objective: To determine the presence of muscles weakness and limited joint mobility at ankle (AJ), subtalar (SJ) and first metatarsophalangeal joint (I MTP) in diabetic patients and to determine impact of diabetes duration on those changes.Patients and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 100 diabetic patients in “Primary Health Care Centre Banjaluka” in 2014. Function of ten foot and ankle muscles has been evaluated by manual muscle testing. Muscle strength was scored by semiquantitative grading system used in the Michigan Diabetic Neuropathy Score. Range of motion (ROM) at the AJ, SJ and I MTP was measured with goniometer.Results: The average patients age was 61.91±10.74 and diabetes duration 12.25±8.60 years. The average strength of foot and ankle muscles expressed by muscle score was 11.56±5.08. The average ROM at AJ (47.85°) was significantly decreased compared to the reference value that is 65° (t =-15.378, P=000). The average ROM at SJ (35.10°) was significantly decreased compared to the reference value that is 50° (t =-15.378, P=000). The average ROM at the I MTP (72.70°) was significantly decreased compared to the reference value that is 120° (t =-15.378, P = ,000).Conclusion: Patients with diabetes have decreased foot and ankle muscle strength, and the average values of the range of motion at AJ, SJ and I MTP, but the duration of the diabetes does not correlate significantly with those changes.
Exploring the transcriptome of luxI- and ΔainS mutants and the impact of N-3-oxo-hexanoyl-L- and N-3-hydroxy-decanoyl-L-homoserine lactones on biofilm formation in Aliivibrio salmonicida
Authors: Khider Miriam , Hansen Hilde , Johansen Jostein A. , Hjerde Erik , Willassen Nils Peder
Published: December 2018

Background. The marine bacterium A. salmonicida uses the quorum sensing (QS) systems, AinS/R and LuxI/R to produce eight acyl-homoserine lactones (AHLs) in a cell density dependent manner. Biofilm formation is one of the QS regulated phenotypes, which requires the expression of exopolysaccharides (EPS).We previously demonstrated that inactivation of LitR, the master regulator of QS in A. salmonicida resulted in biofilm formation, which was, similar to the biofilm formed by the AHL deficient mutant ΔainSluxI-.In this work, we have identified genes regulated by AinS and LuxI using RNA sequensing (RNA-Seq), and studied their role in biofilm formation, colony morphology and motility. We have also studied the effect of two AHLs on the biofilm formation.

Results.The transcriptome profiling of ΔainS and luxI- mutants allowed us to identify essential genes regulated by QS in A. salmonicida. Relative to the wild-type, the ΔainS and luxI- mutants revealed 40 and 500 differentially expressed genes (DEGs), respectively. The functional analysis demonstrated that the most pronounced DEGs were involved in bacterial motility and chemotaxis, exopolysaccharide production, and surface structures related to adhesion. Inactivation of luxI but not ainS genes resulted in wrinkled colony morphology. While inactivation of both genes (ΔainSluxI-) resulted in strains able to form wrinkled colonies and mushroom structured biofilm. Moreover, when the ΔainSluxI- mutant was supplemented with N-3-oxo-hexanoyl-L- homoserine lactone (3OC6-HSL) and N-3-hydroxy-decanoyl-L-homoserine lactone(3OHC10-HSL), the biofilm did not develop. We also show that LuxI is needed for motility and repression for EPS production, where repression of EPS is likely operated through the RpoQ-sigma factor.

Conclusion.These findings imply that LuxI and AinS synthases have a critical contribution to the QS-dependent regulation on gene expression and the phenotypic traits related to it.
A Firenze messe le basi per una Piattaforma internazionale per una corretta gestione delle risorse idriche sotterranee
Authors: Ducci Daniela , Petitta Marco , Re Viviana , Rusi Sergio , Ceccanti Giancarlo
Published: December 2018

II 10 dicembre, in occasione della Giornata dei Diritti umani si è tenuto a Firenze, nella monumentale Sala dei Cinquecento di Palazzo Vecchio, il 1° Workshop su: “Uso delle risorse idriche sotterranee in periodi siccitosi. Esperienze dalla Toscana al resto del mondo”, organizzato dalla Sezione Italiana dell’Associazione Internazionale degli Idrogeologi (IAH) con Aquifera onlus e patrocinato, oltre che dalla Regione Toscana e dal Comune di Firenze (che ha gentilmente concesso l’uso della sala), dalla Società Geologica Italiana (SGI), dal Consiglio Nazionale dei Geologi (CNG) e dal’IAH-Burdon Groundwater Network for International Development [...].
The acidic waters in Italy: a brief overview
Authors: Magi Francesco , Cabassi Jacopo , Capecchiacci Francesco , Caponi Chiara , Giannini Luciano , Nisi Barbara , Venturi Stefania , Pandeli Enrico , Ricci Andrea , Tassi Franco , Vaselli Orlando
Published: December 2018

The present study is aimed at providing a brief overview of the Italian acidic waters based on literature and unpublished data. Acidic waters in Italy, as elsewhere, are relatively common and associated with extremely variable geological settings. Owing to their peculiar features, these waters may seriously affect the environment and the ecosystems. Along the Apennine belt, the western and inner sectors of the Italian peninsula record an anomalous geothermal gradient, mostly overlapping with the Neogene-to-present magmatism, that explains the presence of a huge amount of CO2(H2S)-rich gas and thermal water discharges, geothermal fields (e.g. Larderello and Mt. Amiata) and ore deposits (e.g. Fe- and polymetallic sulfides, e.g. Elba Island and Colline Metallifere). Acidic waters (pH ≤5) from volcanic and geothermal areas show outlet temperatures and Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) from 10 to 96°C and <1 to ≈30 g/L, respectively, with a chemical composition usually belonging to the Ca-SO4, NH4-SO4 or Na-Cl facies. Frequently, they are related to bubbling and boiling pools due to the interaction between deepsourced gases and shallow aquifers or meteoric waters. Concentrations of heavy metals and metalloids are in most cases high. Extremely high contents of metals are also recorded for those acidic waters that characterize the main Italian mining districts, mostly located in Sardinia (not included in the present study), Tuscany and NW Alps, where they are related to Acid Mine Drainage l.s. or Acid Rock Drainage. The pH values are as low as 2.08, with variable TDS concentrations. Compositionally, they are Na-SO4, Ca(Mg)-SO4, and/or Mg(Ca)-SO4 waters, prevalently due to oxidative processes affecting polymetallic sulfides.
23. april – Den internasjonale bokdagen
Authors: Bårnes Vibeke
Published: December 2018

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Bibliotheca Alexandrina: fra papyrus til internett
Authors: Bårnes Vibeke
Published: December 2018

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BIBSYS emneportal: Ny veiviser til Internett
Authors: Longva Leif
Published: December 2018

TROMSØFLAKET NR. 9 - 2002
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Authors: Kermit Hans , Svenheim Magnhild
Published: December 2018

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Authors: Mikkelsen Tone
Published: December 2018

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Hovedoppgaver og andre studentarbeider i UBs samlinger
Authors: Johannesen Odd Harald
Published: December 2018

TROMSØFLAKET NR. 12 - 2002
William Shakespeare på UB
Authors: Killie Kristin
Published: December 2018

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PCI Full Text – et elektronisk arkiv for tidsskriftartikler innen humaniora og samfunnsvitenskap
Authors: Foss Marianne
Published: December 2018

TROMSØFLAKET NR. 15 - 2002
Hekserier i jul- og mørketid
Authors: Hagen Rune Blix
Published: December 2018

TROMSØFLAKET NR. 19 - 2002
Age, growth, and mortality of Opisthonema libertate on the coasts of northwestern Mexico
Authors: Ruiz-Domínguez Marcelino , Quiñonez-Velázquez Casimiro
Published: December 2018

Using readings of 1,214 Pacific thread herring (Opisthonema libertate) otoliths collected at 3 fishing locations off the northwestern coasts of Mexico (Bahía Magdalena, Baja California Sur; Mazatlán, Sinaloa; and Guaymas, Sonora), age was assigned and individual growth parameters, mortality, and exploitation rates were estimated. Up to 5 growth marks were read on otoliths and 6 age groups (0–5) were assigned. Growth marks showed annual periodicity. The age–size data set was supplemented with data of 74 larvae (reared in the laboratory from hatchling to 24 d of age) and data of 96 juveniles (collected from the natural environment, between 48 and 210 d of age). A multi-model approach was used to describe the growth of the Pacific thread herring. Five models were evaluated and their appropriateness was ranked according to the Akaike information criterion. The von Bertalanffy model was the most appropriate model for the 3 fishing areas. Parameter estimates (theoretical maximum length [L∞], growth coefficient [k], and age at zero length [t0]) were L∞ = 18.68, k = 1.13, and t0 = –0.03 for Bahía Magdalena; L∞ = 18.63, k = 1.41, and t0 = –0.02 for Mazatlán; and L∞ = 18.22, k = 1.44, and t0 = –0.002 for Guaymas. The differences between estimators by fishing area were significant (likelihood ratio test). Total mortality (Z), natural mortality (M), and the exploitation rate (E) by fishing area were as follows: M = 0.6, Z = 1.93, and E = 0.7 for Bahía Magdalena; M = 0.6, Z = 1.39, and E = 0.6 for Mazatlán; and M = 0.6, Z = 1.4, and E = 0.6 for Guaymas. Results suggest that the O. libertate population off the northwestern coasts of Mexico does not show signs of overexploitation.
Hierarchical Eutectic Structure Enabling Superior Fracture Toughness and Superb Strength in CoCrFeNiNb0.5 Eutectic High Entropy Alloy at Room Temperature
Authors: Chung Dukhyun , Ding Zhaoyi , Yang Yong
Published: December 2018

Laves phase is hard but notorious for its brittleness at a low temperature. Over the past decades, a great deal of efforts is paid to toughen Laves phase by forming Lave phase‐based metal–metal composites. In this work, the authors demonstrate that, through the mixing of carefully selected elements, one can obtain the CoCrFeNiNb0.5 eutectic high entropy alloy (EHEA), which exhibits a hierarchical eutectic lamellar structure consisting of Laves and face centered cubic (FCC) phases mixed in a nearly equal volume fraction. Compared to the conventional Laves phase matrix composites, their EHEAs possess a unique combination of superb hardness (≈9.2 GPa) and superior fracture toughness (≈15 MPa · m0.5) at room temperature. Through the combined experiments and modeling, the authors are able to show quantitatively this high fracture toughness is derived from the hierarchical eutectic structure and the interplay of a series of extrinsic and intrinsic toughening mechanisms, which are strongly dependent on local lamellar size and orientation. At the fundamental level, their current research demonstrates that the tradeoff between strength and fracture toughness, as commonly perceived for conventional alloys, may be evaded in chemically complex alloys through the formation of hierarchical eutectic structures.
X‐Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Characterizations on PGM‐Free Electrocatalysts: Justification, Advantages, and Limitations
Authors: Jia Qingying , Liu Ershuai , Jiao Li , Pann Serge , Mukerjee Sanjeev
Published: December 2018

Transition metals embedded in nitrogen‐doped carbon matrices (denoted as M‐N‐C) are the leading platinum group metal (PGM)‐free electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in acid, and are the most promising candidates for replacing platinum in practical devices such as fuel cells. Two of the long‐standing puzzles in the field are the nature of active sites for the ORR and the reaction mechanism. Poor understanding of the structural and mechanistic basis for the exceptional ORR activity of M‐N‐C electrocatalysts impedes rational design for further improvements. Recently, synchrotron‐based X‐ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) has been successfully implemented to shed some light on these two issues. In this context, a critical review is given to detail the contribution of XAS to the advancement of the M‐N‐C electrocatalysis to highlight its advantages and limitations.
Self‐Assembled Ordered Three‐Phase Au–BaTiO3–ZnO Vertically Aligned Nanocomposites Achieved by a Templating Method
Authors: Misra Shikhar , Li Leigang , Zhang Di , Jian Jie , Qi Zhimin , Fan Meng , Chen Hou‐Tong , Zhang Xinghang , Wang Haiyan
Published: December 2018

Complex multiphase nanocomposite designs present enormous opportunities for developing next‐generation integrated photonic and electronic devices. Here, a unique three‐phase nanostructure combining a ferroelectric BaTiO3, a wide‐bandgap semiconductor of ZnO, and a plasmonic metal of Au toward multifunctionalities is demonstrated. By a novel two‐step templated growth, a highly ordered Au–BaTiO3–ZnO nanocomposite in a unique “nanoman”‐like form, i.e., self‐assembled ZnO nanopillars and Au nanopillars in a BaTiO3 matrix, is realized, and is very different from the random three‐phase ones with randomly arranged Au nanoparticles and ZnO nanopillars in the BaTiO3 matrix. The ordered three‐phase “nanoman”‐like structure provides unique functionalities such as obvious hyperbolic dispersion in the visible and near‐infrared regime enabled by the highly anisotropic nanostructures compared to other random structures. Such a self‐assembled and ordered three‐phase nanocomposite is obtained through a combination of vapor–liquid–solid (VLS) and two‐phase epitaxy growth mechanisms. The study opens up new possibilities in the design, growth, and application of multiphase structures and provides a new approach to engineer the ordering of complex nanocomposite systems with unprecedented control over electron–light–matter interactions at the nanoscale.