bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Clickers
Authors: Zhonggen Yu
Published: July 2019

Since the birth of clickers at Pennsylvania State University, there have been numerous arguments on its effectiveness. This chapter, aiming to review use of clickers in education, examined literature for over a decade on the use of clickers, involving benefits and defects of use of clickers, peer discussion, use of clickers in learning, teaching and problem solving, the effectiveness of use of clickers among non-students. Relationships between lecturing and learning aided with clickers and current developments in use of clickers were also reviewed and discussed. It was concluded that clickers, as one form of modern technology, had gained growing popularity due to their advantages, such as peer discussion, anonymity, and instant feedback although disputes still remained. More studies on clickers and other new technologies were still needed to further push forward levels of education. Cross-disciplinary cooperation between computers, education, and psychology may be needed to design more advanced educational technologies.
Deacidification of Crude Rice Bran Oil (CRBO) to Remove FFA and Preserve γ-Oryzanol Using Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES)
Authors: Zullaikah Siti , Wibowo Nizar Dwi , Wahyudi I Made Gede Eris Dwi , Rachimoellah M.
Published: July 2019

High content of free fatty acids (FFA) in crude rice bran oil (CRBO) needs to be separated through deacidification. Generally, deacidification process that is widely used are chemical and physical processes which causes the loss of bioactive compounds (γ-oryzanol) and un-environmentally friendly. The liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) using deep eutectic solvents (DES) to remove FFA and preserve g-oryzanol would be implemented in this study. DES with different hydrogen bond donor (HBD) and hydrogen bond acceptor (HBA) with certain molar ratio such as Choline Chloride (ChCl)-Ethylene glycol 1:2 (DES I), ChCl-Glycerol 1:1 (DES II), ChCl-Urea 1:2 (DES III), ChCl-Oxalic acid 1:2 (DES IV), and Betaine Monohydrate-Glycerol 1:8 (NADES) were used as solvent to extract FFA from dewaxed/degummed RBO (DDRBO) for certain extraction time (30, 60, 120, 180, and 240 min) and extraction temperature (30°C, 40°C, 50°C, 60°C, and 70°C) under stirring (200 rpm). Deacidification using DES I for 240 min. and temperature of 50 °C was the optimum solvent to remove FFA (19.03 ± 2.33 %) and preserve g-oryzanol (recovery of g-oryzanol was 51.30 ± 1.77 %). The results also revealed that the longer time of extraction would be increased removal of FFA and decreased recovery of g-oryzanol. The higher temperature of extraction would be increased removal of FFA. In this work, temperature of 50 °C was the best extraction temperature of FFA since DES has highest solubility at this temperature.
Preliminary Characterization of Hydrogel Composite Alginate/PVA/r-GO as an Injectable Materials for Medical Applications
Authors: Rasyida Amaliya , Silaen Yohannes Marudut Tua , Wicaksono Sigit Tri , Ardyananta Hosta , Nurdiansah Haniffudin , Halimah Salma
Published: July 2019

The study aimed to synthesize alginate hydrogel-based composites which could be injected for medical purpose and can be cured in situ gelling after the injection process. The effect of reduced graphene oxide (r-GO) addition on Alginate /poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) hydrogel to physical properties were evaluated. Synthesis of hydrogel Alginate/PVA/r-GO composite was previously performed by production of r-GO using Hummer method. The composition of r-GO used in composite hydrogel was 0.4, 0.8, 1.2 and 1.6% wt. The sample was then characterized using XRD, FTIR, and analyzed perform with its curing time, injectable performance, swelling ratio, and water content.
Characterization of NASICON Structure Prepared with Titanium Dioxide Doping for NOx Gas Sensor Application
Authors: Pratiwi Vania Mitha , Wibowo Agung Ari , Widyastuti  , Purwaningsih Hariyati , Maulana Fakhri Akbar
Published: July 2019

An alternative sensor that can be used to monitor Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) levels in the air is an electrochemical sensor type such as Sodium Super Ionic Conductor (NASICON). In this study titanium doping on zirconium was carried out to improve the electrical conductivity of NASICON. This material was synthesized using the solid state method by mixing sodium carbonate, silicon dioxide, zirconium oxide, ammonium dihydrogen phosphate, titanium dioxide and some anhydrous ethanol into the Ballmill for 12 hours, dried at 80 °C for 12 hours then calcined at 1125 °C for 12 hours with heating rate of 2 °C.min-1. Then the material was pressed at 160 MPa to produce pellets with diameter of 10 mm and the sintering process was carried out at 1175 °C for 12 hours at a speed of 1 °C.min-1. The doping of Titanium was varied from 0 to 6 mol%. The XRD characterization results indicate that the formed material phase was monoclinic phase and rhombohedral phase. The most optimal electrical conductivity of 5.897x10-5 S.cm-1 was obtained by Titanium doping of 6 mol%.
Analysis the Effect of Temperature and Holding Time of Full - Annealing Heat Treatment to Micro Structure, Mechanical Properties, and Electrical Conductivity of Aluminium Copper (Al-Cu) Alloy
Authors: Fellicia Dian Mughni , Rochman Rochiem , Changraini Clarissa
Published: July 2019

Good electrical conductivity properties of aluminium are the main reason this metal become an option as material of electrical devices. To improve the ductility and electrical conductivity properties, aluminium is combined with copper. The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of temperature and holding time of full-annealing heat treatment to the micro structure, hardness, and electrical conductivity of aluminium copper alloy (Al-Cu). In this research, pure aluminium with the addition of 4% copper (Cu) composition has been casted with gravity die casting mold made from ductile cast iron, and continued full-annealing heat treatment with 3 variations at temperature (2600C, 3500C, and 4400C), and 3 variations of holding time (2 hours, 3 hours, and 4 hours). It was found that the effect of higher temperature at the same holding time with the full-annealing heat treatment caused the grains of phase α become more regular and greater so that the hardness decreased and the electrical conductivity was increased.
Effect of pH, Rotation Speed and Imidazoline - Paracetamol Based Inhibitor Volume Ratio on Corrosion Protection of St 41 Steel in CO2 Environment Using Rotating Cylinder Electrode (RCE)
Authors: Kurniawan Budi Agung , Pratiwi Vania Mitha , Steven Jodie
Published: July 2019

Inhibitor is a chemical compound which commonly used to control corrosion in a tank or a pipelines. Organic inhibitor recently developed because of the availability and the ability to act like commercial inhibitor. The performance of mixed inhibitor was studied on St 41 carbon steel immersed in NaCl solution containing CO2 gas. Research parameter used were pH 4 and 6, rotation speed of 150 and 250 rpm, with mixed inhibitor volume ratio of 1 (imidazoline) : 2 (paracetamol), 1:1, also 2:1. The Weight loss measurement, isotherm adsorption calculation, FTIR, and XRD measurement have also been done. Based on weight loss test, the highest inhibitor efficiency was 61.412 % at pH 6, 150 rpm, with inhibitor volume ratio of 2:1, adsorption isotherm calculation indicate the adsorption mechanism of the mixed inhibitor is physical adsorption. Tafel test result showed the tendency of inhibitor worked anodically. The FTIR spectrum result found functional group of N-H from the inhibitor precipitated on the metal surface after ten days of immersion Based on the EIS result, there was an increase value of polarization resistance value and decrease on CPE (constant phase element) value. While X – ray diffraction (XRD) result from the volume ratio of 1:2 confirm the CO2 corrosion product FeCO3 and Fe2O3 formed on metal surface. With volume ratio of 2:1 mixed inhibitor, it was confirmed that iron nitride (Fe24N10) compound was formed on steel surface because of the chemisorption reaction between Fe and nitrogen atom from pyridine at the imidazoline inhibitor. The inhibition mechanism was physisorption for entire parameters, based on calculation of Langmuir adsorption theorem.
IL-11 Induces Encephalitogenic Th17 Cells in Multiple Sclerosis and Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis
Authors: Zhang Xin , Kiapour Nazanin , Kapoor Sahil , Khan Tabish , Thamilarasan Madhan , Tao Yazhong , Cohen Stephanie , Miller Ryan , Sobel Raymond A. , Markovic-Plese Silva
Published: July 2019

IL-11+CD4+ cells accumulate in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with early relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) and in active brain MS lesions. Mouse studies have confirmed a causal role of IL-11 in the exacerbation of relapsing-remitting experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (RREAE). Administration of IL-11 at the time of clinical onset of RREAE induced an acute exacerbation and increased clinical scores, which persisted during the entire course of the disease. IL-11 increased the numbers of spinal cord inflammatory foci, as well as the numbers of peripheral and CNS-infiltrating IL-17+CD4+ cells and IL-17A serum levels. Ag recall assays revealed that IL-11 induces IL-17A+, GM-CSF+, and IL-21+CD4+ myelin Ag-reactive cells. Passive transfer of these encephalitogenic CD4+ T cells induced severe RREAE with IL-17A+CCR6+ CD4+ and B cell accumulation within the CNS. Furthermore, passive transfer of nonmanipulated CNS-derived mononuclear cells from mice with RREAE after a single dose of IL-11 induced severe RREAE with increased accumulation of IL-17A+ and CCR6+ CD4+ cells within the CNS. These results suggest that IL-11 might serve as a biomarker of early autoimmune response and a selective therapeutic target for patients with early relapsing-remitting MS.
Asphodelus fistulous L., a newly discovered plant invader in South Africa: Assessing the risk of invasion and potential for eradication
Authors: Jubase Nolwethu , Renteria Jorge L. , Maphisa David , Van Wyk Ernita
Published: July 2019

Background: Naturalised populations of Asphodelus fistulosus (onion weed) were recorded in South Africa for the first time during the early 1990s. Initial records lodged in 2012 indicated the presence of two populations. Five additional populations were found between 2012 and 2016, as a result of surveys and the distribution of awareness materials. All populations in South Africa occurred along roadsides, but in other parts of the world the species has demonstrated the ability to spread into adjacent native vegetation and crop fields.Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the risk of invasion and potential for eradication.Method: A risk assessment tool was used to establish invasion risk. Of the seven known populations, five test populations were selected to gather data on the feasibility for eradication. Randomised fixed plots were used to monitor the response of A. fistulosus populations to mechanical and chemical plant control methods and to track spread over time. The germinability of seeds was also tested.Results: The Standard Australian Risk Assessment method for invasive alien plants gave a relatively high score for the threat posed by this species. In this assessment, a threshold score is used to indicate sufficient invasive risk to fail a species as part of a preborder risk assessment. Invasiveness elsewhere (Australia and USA) contributed to the relatively high score. The bioclimatic modelling map highlighted the south-western region of South Africa as most suitable climatically for A. fistulosus. Both mechanical and chemical control methods were shown to be effective in killing live plants. Results, based on plant removal and monitoring, over a four-year research period suggest that suppression of reproduction is possible, partly as a result of high detectability and ease of control.Conclusion: It is recommended that A. fistulosus be listed as a National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act 10 of 2004 1a invasive species (eradication target) under national legislation, thus requiring compulsory management. We estimate that extirpation of all known populations of A. fistulosusmay be possible with continual effort at an annual investment of approximately ZAR 50 000 per year. Further surveillance for undiscovered populations and monitoring of known populations must be conducted to produce a definitive comment about the feasibility of countrywide eradication.
A snapshot of the chalkboard writing experiences of Bachelor of Education students with visual disabilities in South Africa
Authors: Subrayen Roshanthni , Dhunpath Rubby
Published: July 2019

Background: South African higher education policy frameworks highlight renewed interest in equity, access and participation imperatives for students with disabilities (SWDs). However, students with visual disabilities continue to face barriers in their teaching practice school placements.Objectives: This article aims, firstly, to provide early insights into the barriers experienced by students with visual disabilities in their teaching practice school placements in under-resourced schools in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Secondly, it introduces learning communities and a teaching practice pre-placement booklet to enhance equity, access and participation in teaching practice school placements.Method: This study adopted a qualitative methodology using semi-structured interviews to elicit data from two Bachelor of Education students with visual disabilities, who were part of a teaching practice learning community managed by the Disability Unit at the University. Thematic analysis was used, using Tinto’s Learning Community Model which generated valuable evidence to argue for institutional commitment to achieve equity, access and participation for students with visual disabilities.Results: Through engagement with a teaching practice learning community and a teaching practice pre-placement booklet, two students with visual disabilities responded to and managed the chalkboard in ways that promoted teaching and learning in the classroom. These retention support trajectories provide evidence to support enhanced equity, access and participation. Given the stigma associated with disability and the need for equity at policy level, higher education institutions should seriously consider systemic mechanisms for access, participation and success outcomes in the teaching practice school placements of students with visual disabilities.Conclusion: Barriers to participation signal the need for accessible teaching and learning strategies for use by students with visual disabilities in their teaching practice school placements. Teaching practice assessors should be alerted to contextual differences in resourced and under-resourced school settings and the diverse ways in which SWDs navigate these differences.
Real Effective Exchange Rate and Trade Balance Adjustment
Authors: Iossifov Plamen , Fei Xuan
Published: July 2019

There is an ongoing debate in the literature on whether global trade flows have become disconnected from the large real effective exchange rate movements in the wake of the global financial crisis. The question has important policy implications for the role of exchange rates in supporting growth and restoring external balance. In this paper, we use Turkey---a large and open emerging market economy that has experienced sizable swings of the real effective exchange rate---as a case study to test competing hypotheses. Our results lend support to the finding in existing cross-country studies that the real effective exchange rate remains an important determinant of trade flows. But, its effect is not symmetric in secular periods of appreciation and depreciation and is, oftentimes, dwarfed by the impact on trade flows of the income growth differential between trade partners.
Statistical modelling of co-seismic knickpoint formation and river response to fault slip
Authors: Steer Philippe , Croissant Thomas , Baynes Edwin , Lague Dimitri
Published: July 2019

Abstract. Most landscape evolution models adopt the paradigm of constant and
uniform uplift. It results that the role of fault activity and earthquakes
on landscape building is understood under simplistic boundary conditions.
Here, we develop a numerical model to investigate river profile development
subjected to fault displacement by earthquakes and erosion. The model
generates earthquakes, including mainshocks and aftershocks, that respect
the classical scaling laws observed for earthquakes. The distribution of
seismic and aseismic slip can be partitioned following a spatial
distribution of mainshocks along the fault plane. Slope patches, such as
knickpoints, induced by fault slip are then migrated at a constant rate
upstream a river crossing the fault. A major result is that this new model
predicts a uniform distribution of earthquake magnitude rupturing a river
that crosses a fault trace and in turn a negative exponential distribution
of knickpoint height for a fully coupled fault, i.e. with only co-seismic
slip. Increasing aseismic slip at shallow depths, and decreasing shallow
seismicity, censors the magnitude range of earthquakes cutting the river
towards large magnitudes and leads to less frequent but higher-amplitude
knickpoints, on average. Inter-knickpoint distance or time between
successive knickpoints follows an exponential decay law. Using classical rates for fault slip (15 mm year−1) and knickpoint
retreat (0.1 m year−1) leads to high spatial densities of knickpoints. We
find that knickpoint detectability, relatively to the resolution of
topographic data, decreases with river slope that is equal to the ratio
between fault slip rate and knickpoint retreat rate. Vertical detectability
is only defined by the precision of the topographic data that sets the lower
magnitude leading to a discernible offset. Considering a retreat rate with a
dependency on knickpoint height leads to the merging of small knickpoints
into larger ones and larger than the maximum offset produced by individual
earthquakes. Moreover, considering simple scenarios of fault burial by
intermittent sediment cover, driven by climatic changes or linked to
earthquake occurrence, leads to knickpoint distributions and river profiles
markedly different from the case with no sediment cover. This highlights the
potential role of sediments in modulating and potentially altering the
expression of tectonic activity in river profiles and surface topography.
The correlation between the topographic profiles of successive parallel
rivers cutting the fault remains positive for distance along the fault of
less than half the maximum earthquake rupture length. This suggests that
river topography can be used for paleo-seismological analysis and to assess
fault slip partitioning between aseismic and seismic slip. Lastly, the
developed model can be coupled to more sophisticated landscape evolution
models to investigate the role of earthquakes on landscape dynamics.
SELEN4 (SELEN version 4.0): a Fortran program for solving the
gravitationally and topographically self-consistent Sea Level
Equation in Glacial Isostatic Adjustment modeling
Authors: Spada Giorgio , Melini Daniele
Published: July 2019

Abstract. We present SELEN4 (a SealEveL EquatioN solver), an open-source program written in Fortran 90 that simulates the Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) process in response to the melting of the late-Pleistocene ice sheets. Using a pseudo-spectral approach complemented by a spatial discretization on an icosahedron-based spherical geodesic grid, SELEN4 solves a generalised Sea Level Equation (SLE) for a spherically symmetric Earth with linear viscoelastic rheology, taking the migration of the shorelines and the rotational feedback on sea level into account. The approach is gravitationally and topographically self-consistent, since it considers the gravitational interactions between the solid Earth, the cryosphere and the oceans, and it accounts for the evolution of the Earth's topography in response to changes in sea level. Program SELEN4 can be employed to study a broad range of geophysical effects of GIA, including past relative sea-level variations induced by the melting of the late-Pleistocene ice sheets, the time-evolution of paleogeography and of the ocean function since the Last Glacial Maximum, the history of the Earth's rotational variations, present-day geodetic signals observed by Global Navigation Satellite Systems and geopotential field variations detected by satellite gravity missions like GRACE (the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment). The GIA fingerprints constitute a standard output of SELEN4. Along with the source code, we provide a supplementary document with a full account of the theory, some numerical results obtained from a standard run, and a User guide. Program SELEN was conceived by GS in 2005 as a tool for students eager to learn about GIA. Still, it is the only open-source program for the solution of the SLE available to the community.
Climate Change impacts the Water Highway project in Morocco
Authors: El Moçayd Nabil , Kang Suchul , Eltahir Elfatih A. B.
Published: July 2019

Abstract. The hydrology of Morocco is characterized by a significant spatial variability. Precipitation follows a sharp gradient decreasing from the North to the South. In order to redistribute water, a project is proposed to transfer 860 million m3 per year from the wet north to the arid southern regions, {Water Highway}. The present study aims to address the viability of the project including the effects of climate change in the watersheds located in the North. We perform Regional Climate Model (RCMs) simulations over the study region using boundary conditions from five different global circulation models (GCMs) and following two emissions scenarios RCP4.5 (with mitigation) and RCP8.5 (business as usual). The impact on precipitation is assessed and the decrease of available water quantity is estimated. Under RCP8.5 the project is likely unfeasible. However, under the RCP4.5 a rescaled version of this project may be feasible depending on how much water is allocated to satisfy the local water demand.
Monitoring the seasonal dynamics of soil salinization in the Yellow River delta of China using Landsat data
Authors: Chen Hongyan , Zhao Gengxing , Li Yuhuan , Wang Danyang , Ma Ying
Published: July 2019

Abstract. In regions with distinct seasons, soil salinity usually
varies greatly by season. Thus, the seasonal dynamics of soil salinization
must be monitored to prevent and control soil salinity hazards and to reduce
ecological risk. This article took the Kenli District in the Yellow River
delta (YRD) of China as the experimental area. Based on Landsat data from
spring and autumn, improved vegetation indices (IVIs) were created and then
applied to inversion modeling of the soil salinity content (SSC) by
employing stepwise multiple linear regression, back propagation neural
network and support vector machine methods. Finally, the optimal SSC model
in each season was extracted, and the spatial distributions and seasonal
dynamics of SSC within a year were analyzed. The results indicated that the
SSC varied by season in the YRD, and the support vector machine method
offered the best SSC inversion models for the precision of the calibration
set (R2>0.72, RMSE < 6.34 g kg−1) and the validation
set (R2>0.71, RMSE < 6.00 g kg−1 and RPD > 1.66). The best SSC inversion model for spring could be applied to the SSC
inversion in winter (R2 of 0.66), and the best model for autumn could be applied to the SSC inversion in summer (R2 of 0.65). The SSC exhibited a gradual increasing trend from the southwest to northeast in the Kenli District. The SSC also underwent the following seasonal dynamics: soil salinity accumulated in spring, decreased in summer, increased in autumn and reached its peak at the end of winter. This work provides data support for the control of soil salinity hazards and utilization of saline–alkali soil in the YRD.
Dialogic Lessons and Triadic Relationship Among Pupils, Learning Topic, and Teacher
Authors: Miyazaki Kiyotaka
Published: July 2019

This paper argues that a teacher should and can be not only the organizer of a lesson as well as participant in a dialogue who has the equal right with pupils vis-à-vis the truth of the learning material in order to make lessons dialogic. To analyze such a teacher’s way of being in the lesson, the concept of a triadic relationship among pupils, learning material, and a teacher was introduced. The teacher can learn something new in the pupils’ learning material as the pupils can do. The teacher can discover an unknown question that she/he does not know its answer or even its existence in pupils’ wrong or irrelevant thoughts about the learning material. This sort of teacher’s learning makes classroom lessons dialogic as pupils and a teacher exercise the equal rights vis-à-vis the truth of the learning material in the lesson. Here, pupils and teachers learn about the learning material from each other. The importance of this sort of teacher’s learning for dialogic lessons has been rarely emphasized in dialogic pedagogy research. These arguments are advanced in this paper based on the analysis of the Japanese elementary teachers’ knowledge of practices. This paper focuses mainly on the pedagogical view named Saitou pedagogy developed by Kihaku Saitou and his colleagues, and studies their thoughts and classroom lessons to investigate teacher’s work to make lessons dialogic. To provide a theoretical basis for the analysis, theories of dialogue, developmental psychology and dialogic pedagogy were reviewed to understand how these theories had studied the triadic relationship and were compared with Saitou pedagogy. The result demonstrated that Bakhtin’s perspective on the dialogic author was useful in analyzing the teacher’s way of being in Saitou pedagogy. It was also suggested that Saitou pedagogy’s view of the unknown question would give Bakhtinian theories of dialogue a hint for new area of study.
El cielo implorado. Orantes calcolíticos de Piedrahita (Montellano, Sevilla) y su contexto arqueológico
Authors: Escacena Carrasco José Luis , Flores Delgado Miguel
Published: July 2019

El presente artículo da a conocer una serie de materiales arqueológicos procedentes del yacimiento calcolítico de Piedrahíta, en la localidad de Montellano (Sevilla). Se estudian piezas óseas y de piedra tradicionalmente interpretadas como pequeños ídolos, si bien nos inclinamos a interpretarlas como representaciones humanas en gesto de oración. Dichos elementos aparecieron acompañados de una documentación arqueológica singular, consistente en industrias líticas talladas y pulimentadas, pequeños cantos rodados numéricamente muy abundantes, conchas de diversos moluscos y un lote de huesecillos de fauna quemados. Es posible que se trate de parte de un ajuar funerario, aunque no pueden descartarse otras hipótesis de tipo ritual.
Francisco Javier Fernández Nieto, Instituta Hispaniae Celtica (Colección Historia y Geografía). Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, 2018, ISBN: 978-84-472-1800-4; 344 páginas con ilustraciones en blanco y negro; 24 por 17 cm.
Authors: Almagro-Gorbea Martín
Published: July 2019

Francisco Javier Fernández Nieto, "Instituta Hispaniae Celtica (Colección Historia y Geografía)". Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, 2018, ISBN: 978-84-472-1800-4; 344 páginas con ilustraciones en blanco y negro; 24 por 17 cm.
Alejandro F. Haber: Al otro lado del vestigio. Editorial Universidad del Cauca/JAS Arqueología/Ediciones del Signo, Popayán: 2016
Authors: Tejerizo-García Carlos
Published: July 2019

Haber, Alejandro F.: "Al otro lado del vestigio". Editorial Universidad del Cauca/JAS Arqueología/ Ediciones del Signo, Popayán: 2016
Clitic climbing (or lack thereof) and the Copy Theory of Movement
Authors: Villa-García Julio
Published: July 2019

Based on consideration of understudied clitic-climbing facts from Spanish and other Romance varieties, I provide a new argument for Lower Copy Pronunciation within the Copy Theory of Movement. In the main case investigated here clitic climbing unexpectedly fails to occur for morphophonological reasons. To assume that clitic climbing in such cases is impeded in the syntax by an operation at a subsequent stage (i.e., PF) would induce a serious ‘look-ahead’ problem. In order to circumvent this issue, the data are now cast as a case where syntactic movement of the clitic can take place across restructuring/clause-union contexts, with PF factors deciding to PF-privilege (i.e., pronounce) a lower copy in a non-trivial chain with the aim of salvaging a derivation that would otherwise fail. The data thus add to the vast repertoire of phenomena amenable to a lower-pronunciation account within the overarching Copy Theory.
Scratch Testing of Hard Ceramics: Manifestation of Viscoelasticity
Authors: Brostow Witold , Hnatchuk Nathalie , Prazuch Janusz
Published: July 2019

Viscoelasticity is studied extensively in polymers and polymer-based composites-but hardly in ceramics. We have studied viscoelastic behavior of three ceramics as manifested in scratching tests: 98 weight % B4C + 2% hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), 92% B4C and 8% h-BN, 91% B4C + 5% CrSi2 + 2% h-BN. Clear viscoelastic recovery (the groove depth becoming shallower within 2 minutes) is seen in all three materials, the recovery in each case of at least 90%. Taking into account viscoelasticity and introducing appropriate additives, one could significantly improve the scratch resistance of the boron carbides, and possibly of other hard ceramics as well.
Narrative Persuasion
Authors: Sukalla Freya
Published: July 2019

Narratives, such as films, TV series, novels or computer games, allow us to enter different worlds and adopt the perspectives of the characters they depict. Whether and how this experience influences the audience’s beliefs, attitudes, intentions or behaviour is the focus of narrative persuasion research. This book presents the central theoretical models which explain narrative persuasion, describes the typical methodological approaches used in this field and provides a systematic overview of the current state of research. It concludes by discussing critical theoretical and methodological aspects and delineating current developments in the field.
This book is suitable for students of communication science as well as anyone interested in the key concepts, processes and findings of narrative persuasion.
Harmful Trademarks
Authors: Farah Nadiya
Published: July 2019

Between 2013-2017, around 115 EU trademark applications were rejected on morality and public order grounds. In the GCC (six Arab and Islamic countries), anecdotal evidence suggests some refusals have bemused foreign applicants and highlighted cultural blindspots. In this context, this work examines how three Arab Gulf states that have Islamic law as the main source of legislation and large expatriate communities, apply moral bars to trademark registration. It draws comparison with Western jurisdictions. Three main questions are explored: 1) To what extent do immoral or borderline trademarks/goods proceed to registration in conservative Islamic countries that apply trademark law in conformity with Shari’a law? 2) What reasoning is guiding decisions? 3) Can a concept of ‘harm’ improve our understanding of the power of trademarks and thus the moral thresholds that countries set?
The author is an innovation and IP commercialisation professional. She acquired a passion for trademark law while completing a Master of Laws in ‘Intellectual Property and Competition Law’ in Munich, Germany. She is now pursuing a career in trademark law in the UK.
Filosofia, Pedagogia e Teatro – relatos e experimentos em territórios da educação
Authors: Silva Diego José da , Cilento Angela Zamora Guimarães
Published: July 2019

Nosso relato de experiência partiu da curiosidade de entendermos as questões "como ensinar?" e "o que pode ser ensinado em filosofia”? Após algumas experiências e estudos sistemáticos assumimos posições teóricas acerca da perspectiva educacional, bem como sua avaliação. Tais experiências estão indissoluvelmente relacionadas ao PIBID: uma nova visão sobre o ensinar que se atualiza a todo instante. Isso nos permitiu tratar de noções cognitivas, emocionais e físicas que interferiram diretamente no corpo do sujeito/aluno, provocando gradualmente mudança qualitativa nos corpos e no ambiente da sala de aula com a prática teatral. Objetivamos aqui apresentar e reforçar a importância dessa prática na sala de aula, pois percebemos que todo esse movimento nos ofereceu perspectivas excitantes: além do ensino rigoroso dos conceitos, contemplou-se a plasticidade no ensino de filosofia; mais do que a apreensão cognitiva e conceitual, o aluno descobriu em si mesmo potencialidades até então latentes.
Resenha de CARR, Nicholas, Glass Cage – Who needs humans anyway? Vintage, 2016, London
Authors: Martins Renato
Published: July 2019

Resenha ao último livro de Nicholas Carr acerca da automatização do trabalho e do conhecimento no mundo contemporâneo. A resenha pretende apresentar uma síntese da obra assim como uma exposição que convide o leitor à crítica.
A Bildung e a instituição escolar: o modelo hegeliano de escola
Authors: Nicolau Marcos Fábio Alexandre
Published: July 2019

Em seus Gymnasialreden (1808-1815), Hegel afirma ser a formação cultural (Bildung) o  resultado do processo de desenvolvimento do homem, mas enfatiza a necessidade da mediação de uma teoria da educação (Erziehung), a ser realizada nas instituições escolares, como fundamento desse processo. O presente artigo pretende enunciar quais elementos a instituição escolar deve possuir para realizar esse processo formativo a partir da análise dos discursos erigidos pelo filósofo como reitor e professor do Ginásio de Nüremberg. A relevância da educação escolar no processo de formação do homem é evidenciada por Hegel em seus discursos, justificando-a como momento mediador entre a saída da vida familiar e a entrada na sociedade civil.
Définir la religion en droit de l’asile : entre évitement et restriction
Authors: Saad Safa Ben , Koussens David , Lebel-Grenier Sébastien
Published: July 2019

Le présent texte analyse la conception de la religion qui émerge du contentieux, au Canada, relatif aux demandes d’asile pour motif de persécution religieuse. L’État canadien est astreint à une double obligation de neutralité et de garantie de la liberté de conscience et de religion, ce qui l’amène à s’immiscer dans le champ religieux afin de déterminer les contours de la religion. La spécificité du contentieux en droit de l’asile montre que la jurisprudence tente de faire émerger une qualification fonctionnelle de la religion, qui reste néanmoins imprégnée de résidus socioculturels. Après avoir présenté les stratégies des commissaires et des juges afin d’éviter de définir la religion, le présent article examine comment les caractéristiques du contentieux en droit de l’asile, notamment l’analyse d’éléments factuels comme l’évaluation de la crédibilité du témoignage, l’évaluation du risque de persécution et l’objectivation de la crainte, influent sur la définition de la religion qui en émerge néanmoins.
Honoré de Balzac : une critique du droit innovateur
Authors: Mayeda Graham
Published: July 2019

L’auteur Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) a bénéficié d’une formation d’avocat et son expérience juridique s’est traduite jusque dans ses romans. Tout comme il était en avance sur son temps dans son art, il l’était tout autant dans ses observations sur le droit. Dans cet article, nous examinerons comment ses observations sont des précurseurs de perspectives critiques et modernes du droit. Nous mettrons l’accent sur trois aspects de cette critique : son adoption du réalisme juridique (englobant aussi le scepticisme juridique), son analyse sociologique du droit et sa critique déconstructionniste de celui-ci. Nous recenserons aussi des ressemblances entre sa perspective et celle de réalistes juridiques américains tel Oliver Wendell Holmes, de sociologues comme Pierre Bourdieu, Patricia Ewick et Susan S Silbey, et du déconstructionniste Jacques Derrida.
A Poetics of Simpson Pass: Natural History and Place-Making in Rocky Mountains Park
Authors: Krotz Sarah Wylie
Published: July 2019

This essay examines A Sprig of Mountain Heather, an early pamphlet designed by J.B. Harkin and Mabel Williams to promote Canada’s dominion parks. Familiar in some historical circles but less so in literary ones, the pamphlet provides a fascinating glimpse into the colonial practice of natural history and its role in shaping European relationships to wild spaces such as Simpson Pass, on the border of Rocky Mountains (now Banff) Park. Containing both an actual specimen – a pressed flower from an alpine meadow on the pass – and “a story of the heather” that connects it to Scottish lore and culture, A Sprig of Mountain Heather demonstrates how natural history made it possible for European settlers to imbue even a remote and alien space with the homely resonance of place – a key attribute of the national parks’ colonial and curatorial relationship to wilderness. Read in the light of a wider history of botanical inventory and description both in the mountain parks and elsewhere in Canada, A Sprig of Mountain Heather exemplifies the potency of the natural object as a locus of memory that could at once transport and transplant emigrants, allowing them to establish a deeper connection to lands that were remote both geographically and culturally.
A Paler Shade of Green: Suburban Nature in Margaret Atwood’s Cat's Eye
Authors: Ross Rob
Published: July 2019

Critics of Canadian literature such as Cheryl Cowdy, Frank Davey, and Franca Bellarsi construe suburbia as existing somewhere in between the concrete jungle and the verdant wilderness. The ecocritical implications of this geographic and critical positioning, however, have not yet been thoroughly examined. Common images of suburbanites portray people in the “enclosed private worlds of fences, parlours and automobiles,” cut off from their larger communities and environments in collective isolation. Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye (1988) depicts how this separate-from-nature culture is fostered. As Elaine Risley faces the repressed, traumatizing experiences of her childhood, she confronts her and her society’s various interrelationships with the natural world, showing how a suburban upbringing can produce unsatisfactory relationships with both human and non-human nature. In so doing, Cat’s Eye critiques common, urbane conceptions of nature from a point of view that is quintessentially ecocritical. Aside from the obvious environmental concerns vocalized by Elaine’s biologist father, ecological issues are relevant to three other aspects of the novel: Elaine’s early childhood in northern Ontario, her later summer vacations there, and the social pressures and cultural practices that Elaine experiences in suburbia. Through these elements of the narrative, Cat’s Eye articulates some of the fundamental relationships with nature experienced by those living in suburban Canada and seeks to move beyond conventional portrayals of this relationship.
A Feminist Carnivalesque Ecocriticism: The Grotesque Environments of Barbara Gowdy’s Domestic Fictions
Authors: Lousley Cheryl
Published: July 2019

This comparative examination of Canadian writer Barbara Gowdy’s fiction, specifically the novels Falling Angels (1989), Mister Sandman (1996), The Romantic (2003), and Helpless (2007), and several short stories in We So Seldom Look on Love (1992), expands the study of the feminist grotesque from representations and performances of transgressive bodies to the politics involved in imagining and inhabiting grotesque environments. Gowdy’s fiction makes freaks ordinary through domestic realism, and in so doing her narratives make strangely surreal the “normal” environments of late modernity. By imagining our bodies and environments as grotesque forms — uneven and ungainly, open and porous, incomplete and excessive — Gowdy’s depictions of freaks and their ordinary domestic and suburban environments broadly entail a carnivalesque inversion of normative environments that has social and ecological relevance. The normative home is figured by way of miniaturizing containers that restrict — albeit only partially — gender, sexuality, and physical embodiment to normative practices and symbolically exclude ecological processes in an illusion of self-enclosure. Gowdy’s carnivalesque inversions show ordinary residential environments to be dense with animal lives and deaths, energy flows, and fungal and vegetative growth and decay. The recurring theme of power outages and electricity transmission lines shows seemingly self-contained domestic space supported by an extensive industrial infrastructure, and socially marginal women absurdly imagining themselves responsible for industrial failures in primarily masculine domains. Gowdy’s carnivalesque domestic realism historically situates suburban development, nuclear families, and nuclear weaponry as a particular set of gendered social relations while resisting any reduction of the physical world to an inert background.
“This page faintly stained with / green”: Compost Aesthetics in John Steffler’s That Night We Were Ravenous
Authors: Beardsworth Adam
Published: July 2019

This essay examines how John Steffler’s poetry collection That Night We Were Ravenous (1998) destabilizes the humanist impulse to position the “authentic” subject at the core of ecological concerns by employing a compost aesthetic that enacts the innately fragmented nature of human subjectivity. It contends that, for Steffler, the poem is its own ecosystem, one that sits in precarious balance with the world around it. The poems in this collection are exploratory rather than expository; their attempts to discover the self in nature are as ephemeral, slippery, and paradoxical as the language that gives them life. Instead of declaiming poetry as a resource that will allow a return to a utopian space, Steffler’s ecological poems position the human subject as a composite of usable waste attuned to the precarious chaos of nature.
Humain/animal : rupture, contiguïté et perméabilité dans Espèces de Ying Chen
Authors: Hebouche Nadra
Published: July 2019

Alors que ses premiers romans remettent en question la notion d’authenticité et promeuvent essentiellement une hybridité ethnique qui associe les nouveaux modes culturels aux impératifs sociétaux d’origine, avec Espèces (2010), Ying Chen s’interroge cette fois sur une forme d’hybridité détachée de toute classification ethnique : l’intervalle au sein duquel humanité et animalité se rencontrent occasionnellement. La relation entre animalité et humanité constitue l’épicentre de la fiction Espèces dont l’intrigue est envisagée par une narratrice qui se métamorphose provisoirement en femme-chatte. Ying Chen place cet être hybride à la croisée des philosophies nietzschéenne, bergsonienne et derridienne, et s’engage dans une déconstruction des frontières manichéennes qui opposent traditionnellement l’humain à l’animal. Cette déconstruction ne suppose pas la destruction totale des frontières en question, ni ne préconise l’hermétisme de ces mêmes séparations. Chez Ying Chen, la frontière qui sépare l’humain de l’animal est envisagée en tant que paradigme récursif et, de par sa porosité, reconnaît à la fois altérité et contiguïté. Avec Espèces, l’auteure élabore une nouvelle anthropologie qui oscille entre rupture et contiguïté, et tente de rendre compte d’une frontière perméable à travers laquelle s’invitent l’humain et l’animal. Ainsi, Ying Chen entreprend essentiellement de rendre compte de la perméabilité ponctuelle d’une frontière existante à travers laquelle s’invitent parfois l’humain et le non-humain, et nous propose de reconnaître l’animalité en nous et de nous en séparer à la fois.
“You Are Turning into a Hive Mind”: Storytelling, Ecological Thought, and the Problem of Form in Generation A
Authors: Kerber Jenny
Published: July 2019

This article discusses the relationship between literary form and contemporary ecological anxiety in Douglas Coupland’s novel Generation A. Coupland’s speculative fiction envisions a possible future in the wake of Colony Collapse Disorder, but the more generalized eco-anxiety the novel explores is applicable to a number of contemporary environmental issues ranging from climate change to ocean acidification. I argue that Coupland’s novel invites readers to consider the problem of representing ecological problems characterized by global scale, temporal uncertainty, and multiple origins. I then explore how Coupland responds to these challenges by stretching form in two directions. First, he juxtaposes and recycles a series of stories in a manner that capitalizes on lateral, shortened forms of attention, leading readers to detect larger patterns of significance within a database of what might initially seem like insignificant or banal details. Second, he cultivates the development of a form of “hive mind” among characters and readers that stretches ideas of personhood beyond the corporeal boundaries of the individual subject. The latter opens new possibilities for conceiving of a collective, networked mode of political agency in the era of social media and global scale effects.
Estado actual de la investigación en Responsabilidad Social Corporativa a nivel organizativo: consensos y desafíos futuros
Authors: Rodríguez Martínez Antonia , Moyano Fuentes José , Jiménez Delgado Juan José
Published: July 2019

Este trabajo pretende mostrar el estado actual de la investigación sobre Responsabilidad Social Corporativa (RSC) a nivel organizativo publicada en las revistas de más alto impacto según la Academic Journal Quality Guide, en el ámbito del Management durante el período 2000-2014. En concreto, aporta una clasificación que evidencia los aspectos donde hay acuerdo entre los investigadores y facilita la labor a cualquier lector que desee aproximarse a la situación actual de la investigación sobre este tema de estudio. Asimismo, identifica los retos a los que se enfrentará la investigación en un futuro, tras señalar las lagunas, inconsistencias y oportunidades encontradas en la revisión de la literatura.
Estrategias de sostenibilidad, responsabilidad social e innovación en el plan de negocio de las PYMEs
Authors: Muñoz del Nogal Noelia
Published: July 2019

En este trabajo se comprueba que las estrategias de sostenibilidad, responsabilidad social e innovación, sí tienen incidencia en los planes de negocio de las organizaciones de menor tamaño. Esta afirmación se realiza tras la creación, testado y contraste de un modelo que identifica estas estrategias en las pymes. En el modelo han participado un total de treinta y nueve pymes de la provincia de Ávila. El formato elegido para el estudio ha sido un premio, lo que ha permitido no sólo el análisis de las estrategias sino también su fomento y difusión.
La medición del bienestar económico a través de las macromagnitudes de la contabilidad nacional
Authors: Miquel Burgos Ana Belén
Published: July 2019

La consideración del PIB como un buen indicador del bienestar económico ha quedado superada desde que, en los años setenta, comenzase a cuestionarse su valor omnipotente para reducir la pobreza y lograr el desarrollo. Como consecuencia, a lo largo de estas décadas han proliferado los trabajos académicos que analizan las limitaciones de dicho agregado para reflejar la realidad. Asimismo, se han creado nuevos indicadores que, a través de distintas aproximaciones, tanto objetivas como subjetivas tratan de perfilar el bienestar económico de las sociedades. Sin embargo, y a pesar de la profusión y calidad académico-científica de muchos de estos trabajos y del aparente consenso de necesidad de mejora, ninguno de ellos ha conseguido allanar el camino para ser utilizado por organismos internacionales, gerentes económicos y políticos y, en definitiva, por la sociedad, como indicador de análisis comparado sincrónico y diacrónico, del mismo modo que lo ha hecho el PIB.