bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Reflections on the procedural and practical ethics in researching professional social work writing
Authors: Lillis Theresa , Twiner Alison , Balkow Michael , Lucas Gillian , Smith Miriam , Leedham Maria
Published: March 2023

This paper explores the procedural ethics and ethics in practice involved in a multi-agency research project exploring professional social work writing. Drawing on institutional documentation and a researcher's field notes over two years, the requirements and processes involved in complying with academia-facing and agency-facing regulatory frameworks are summarised and challenges highlighted. The main part of the paper centres on ethics in practice, building on Sarangi's framework for articulating the communicative dimensions to research ethics, and foregrounding the importance of ongoing dialogue between researchers and participant-stakeholders. Reflective accounts from three participant-stakeholders illustrate the interrelationship between what are often presumed to be distinct moments of a research chronology – access, representation and dissemination – in the process of knowledge making. The paper concludes by highlighting the differences between academia- and agency-facing procedural ethics, and arguing for greater institutional recognition of ethics in practice, in particular the importance of ongoing dialogue between researchers and participant-stakeholders at all stages of the research process.
Between professionalism and political engagement in foreign language teaching practice
Authors: Kramsch Claire
Published: March 2023

In this paper, I reflect on a project I conducted at University of California Berkeley with four colleagues teaching Chinese, Hebrew, Italian and Japanese who decided to engage their students in some of the political controversies in which the native speakers of these languages are engaged in their respective countries. These four teachers are highly educated, experienced native speakers, and they are all professional non-senate members of the faculty. Following the students’ wishes they focused respectively on the following topics: racism against Asians in the US; the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; immigrant refugees to Italy from Muslim countries; and how to remember Hiroshima. Given the low level of language proficiency of their classes, the teachers’ common professional practice was to elicit and capitalize on their students’ emotional involvement. However, while the teachers engaged the learners emotionally into seeing these conflicts from the native speakers’ perspective, they were hampered by their very professional practice from delving into the complex political meanings of the events discussed. I reflect on the reasons for this seeming lack of translingual activism and what it means for foreign language teaching as professional and political practice.
Starting a lesson as an interactional accomplishment
Authors: Icbay Mehmet Ali
Published: March 2023

This paper provides a detailed description of a lesson beginning in a tenth-grade (ages 15–16) history classroom in a high school in Ankara. The teacher and students in the history class accomplish starting the lesson in approximately two minutes. This is a period that involves a series of interactional practices, and the classroom members’ orientation to these practices makes available for the participants that the lesson beginning is a locally organized and sequentially produced accomplishment. The interactional practices are explored using ethnomethodological and conversation analytic principles as applied to five successive stages of the lesson beginning: (1) the recess period, (2) the teacher's arrival, (3) the greeting exchange, (4) the teacher's administrative tasks and (5) the tying signal. The analysis of the interactional practices in the lesson beginning shows that this is the period of establishing and re-establishing the initial two-party classroom order. The findings also demonstrate that the lesson beginning can be viewed as a form of meeting opening. Finally, the discussion on the characteristics of the lesson beginning in the history class suggests that the beginning functions as a transition between the recess and the instruction.
Why doesn’t anyone write anything about Slade? Reassessing glam
Authors: Bannister Matthew
Published: March 2023

This article addresses critical neglect of 1970s UK glam rock group Slade. It argues that from the 1970s on, especially in music media, class conflict was increasingly rearticulated in terms of musical taste through multicultural capital. This revision of Bourdieu privileges cultural omnivorism as key to social status, a tolerance that embraces potentially all music except that most strongly identified with low cultural capital, i.e. heavy metal and pop music, and their associated audiences (working-class males and teenyboppers). The fact that these were Slade’s core audiences guaranteed the group’s long-term marginalization. Class politics were re-articulated as identity politics. Multicultural capital and cultural omnivorism are significant to the construction of neoliberal individualism, and David Bowie, the dominant presence in critical accounts of glam, is discussed as an example of that tendency. My interest then, is less in how working-class (or teenybop) the Slade audience was, and more in how those identifications led to their critical marginalization. Slade went on, however, to become a primary influence on glam metal, and the UK, US and Australia are discussed as examples of scenes in which the group contributed to or interacted with in diverse ways, revealing a unique set of interactions both with mainstream popular music in the one hand, and subcultures on the other.
Irish rebel songs in the GDR
Authors: Morgenstern Felix
Published: March 2023

Drawing upon ethnographic and historical research, this article explores the performance of Irish rebel songs among former members of the GDR folk-scene (1976–1990). It proposes that the political and nostalgic alignment of East German revivalists with folk songs in which Irishness is inscribed as a longue durée of oppression and anti-colonial rebellion constitutes a powerful discourse that has recursively shaped performance practices. The article argues that this top-down imaginary, circulated through popular culture, could be harnessed by GDR artists from the bottom up. Simultaneously, this adaptation of Irish Republican leanings resonated with the official socialist rhetoric of anti-imperialist resistance.
Dixie and free
Authors: Kaldewey Helma
Published: March 2023

Expanding on findings from my recently published book A People’s Music: Jazz in East Germany, 1945–1990 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), in this article I argue that the process of ideologization granted the two most prominent styles of jazz in the GDR, Dixieland and free jazz, overt state support and social acceptance, despite their being on opposite ends of the stylistic spectrum. East German ideologues advanced polarized views on jazz based on their interpretation of the origin of jazz, as well as of their views of the role of jazz in socialism: both Dixieland and free jazz enjoyed legitimized positions in the socialist musical canon based on constructs of ‘Volk’ (the people) and ‘Kommerz’ (commercialization). By the late 1970s, both styles of jazz were celebrated at political events and festivals, were utilized as cultural diplomacy, and had become deeply embedded in the socialist musical canon—ultimately contributing to a national East German identity.
“Community as church, church as community”
Authors: Plekon Michael
Published: March 2023

Based on my book of the same title, the article argues that community is one of the most ancient and accurate ways of defining church. The study is of the decline and shrinkage of the “local church” of the parish, with reflections on the drift from organized religion and with a range of examples of congregations which have resurrected themselves. This renewal has involved reinvention of mission, replanting the the community, repurposing buildings and property, among other activities. Given the Paschal mystery of death and resurrection, these congregations along with several important writers’ voices, point paths forward for communities of faith.
Buckling analysis of laminated composite thin-walled I-beam under mechanical and thermal loads
Authors: Bui Xuan-Bach , Nguyen Anh-Cao , Nguyen Ngoc-Duong , Do Tien-Tho , Nguyen Trung-Kien
Published: March 2023

Despite the extensive use of thin-walled structures, the studies on their behaviours when exposed to extreme thermal environment are relatively scarce. Therefore, this paper aims to present the buckling analysis of thin-walled composite I-beams under thermo-mechanical loads. The thermal effects are investigated for the case of studied beams undergoing a uniform temperature rise through their thickness. The theory is based on the first-order shear deformation thin-walled beam theory with linear variation of displacements in the wall thickness. The governing equations of motion are derived from Hamilton's principle and are solved by series-type solutions with hybrid shape functions. Numerical results are presented to investigate the effects of fibre angle, material distribution, span-to-height's ratio and shear deformation on the critical buckling load and temperature rise. These results for several cases are verified with available references to demonstrate the present beam model’s accuracy.
Wali dan Karamah dalam Perspektif Tafsir Ishārī Sahl al-Tustarī
Authors: Ghozi
Published: March 2023

Abstract: This article analyzes the esoteric interpretation of Sahl al-Tustarī in his work Tafsīr al-Qur’ān al-‘Aẓīm. As a Sufi master well-known for his asceticism, al-Tustarī laid the groundwork of a new phase in disclosing a new formation of the Qur’anic exegesis. His esoteric interpretation does not only provide the inner dimension of the verse, but also shed light on the outer dimensions. Although his work is not completed in interpreting all verses of the Qur’an, it is inevitable that his work has galvanized some later Sufis into writing their exegetical works. Using a descriptive-analytical method, this article scrutinizes the two key concepts of sufism, the sainthood and the charismata, in al-Tustarī’s exegetical work. Both issues are crucial to unravel inasmuch as they are closely enough related to the avowal of sainthood and its acceptability that are still disputable in many Muslims. This article draws conclusions that the sainthood and the charismata in al-Tustarī’s exegetical work are elucidated in the frame of morality and shariah. Al-Tustarī asserts that all saints have their own stages and each stage has its own role and duty both spiritually and socially. Furthermore, al-Tustarī does not consider the charismata (khāriq al-‘ādah) to be something special. In his standpoint, virtue is precisely the most essential part of the charismata.
Pembuktian Empiris dan Validasi Alternatif dalam Kajian Hadis Kontemporer
Authors: Akmaluddin Muhammad
Published: March 2023

The discovery of various manuscripts, the offer of new theories, the paradigm shifts, the popularity of studies and so on have highlighted the journey of hadith studies from time to time. The study of hadith should continue to develop, by not detaching itself from the previous legacy (waṣl) and by not neglecting contextualization and dialogue with the development of other sciences (faṣl). By using a qualitative approach, literature review and content analysis, this paper examines the dialectic of thesis and antithesis of hadith studies with empirical research related to isnād and matn. In addition, this paper also gives an offer to use alternative validation to authenticate hadith. Archaeological studies, external evidence from non-Islamic sources, historical reports from non-Muslims and cons have also highlighted the studies carried out by revisionist and traditionalist schools. Alternative validation of hadith can be traced through alternative proof of isnād with i‘tibar al-asānīd on hadith that are considered as week, or through abstraction of hadith and living hadith which reflects the phenomena of texts which made concise and lived in society.
 
Penemuan berbagai manuskrip, tawaran teori baru, pergeseran paradigma, popularitas kajian dan lain sebagainya ikut mewarnai perjalanan kajian hadis dari waktu ke waktu. Kajian hadis harus tetap berkembang, dengan tidak melepaskan dirinya dari pijakan warisan terdahulu (waṣl) dan tidak mengabaikan kontekstualisasi dan dialog dengan perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan lain (faṣl). Dengan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif, kajian literatur dan analisis konten, makalah ini akan mengkaji tentang dialektika tesis dan antitesis kajian hadis dengan penelitian empiris yang berkaitan dengan isnād dan matn. Di samping itu, tulisan ini juga memberikan tawaran untuk menggunakan validasi alternatif terhadap otentikasi suatu hadis. Kajian arkeologis, pembuktian eksternal dari sumber-sumber non-Islam, laporan historis dari non-Muslim dan kontra ikut mewarnai kajian yang dilakukan aliran revisionis dan tradisionalis. Validasi alternatif hadis dapat melalui pembuktian alternatif isnād dengan i‘tibar al-asānīd atas hadis-hadis yang dianggap daif, serta abstraksi hadis dan living hadis yang merupakan fenomena teks yang dibuat ringkas dan hidup di dalam masyarakat.
The Network of Environment Hadith Narrators in Sahih al-Bukhari: A Social Network Analysis
Authors: Alamsyah Alamsyah , Dyah Hapsari Ekonugraheni , Zailani Surya Marpaung , Abdul Ghafur , Rudi Kurniawan
Published: March 2023

This article aims to analyze the social network of ḥadīth narrators and matn ḥadīth which contain environmental messages in the Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī. This article is the result of an empirical research using a mixed approach (qualitative content analysis and social network analysis). The population of this study is all ḥadīth in the Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī. The researchers choose 40 environmental ḥadīth purposively as the research samples. The source of research data comes from the Encyclopedia 9 Ḥadīth™ application published by Lidwa Pustaka. The results of the study indicate that the message in environmental ḥadīth could be categorized into several themes such as management of natural resources, both in the livestock, agriculture, mining and forestry sectors, management of water resources, ethics towards the animal, environmental health; personal health; and resource utilization. We identify 40 environmental ḥadīths which narrated by 122 narrators (119 male narrators and three female narrators) who had passed away between 36 H - 252 H, domiciled in 14 cities, from generations of ṣaḥābat, tābi‘īn, and tābi‘ al-tābi‘īn, and having 53 kunyah. The network of environmental ḥadīth narrator has 301 ties with density levels reaching 0.997 and six sub-groups. In this network, the dominant actor was Muhammad b. Muslim b. ‘Ubaydillāh b. ‘Abdullāh b. Shihāb and Mālik b. Anas b. Mālik b. Abī Amir. After Medina, many environmental traditions were narrated by narrators domiciled in Basrah City and Kufah City in Iraq. The researcher discusses the practical and theoretical implications of this finding for ḥadīth research in Indonesia.
Konsistensi Penerapan Metode Mawdu‘i dalam Skripsi Program Studi Ilmu Al-Qur’an dan Tafsir Tahun 2019-2021
Authors: Azizy Jauhar , Dasrizal  , Sihabussalam
Published: March 2023

Al-Farmāwī’s thematic interpretation scheme (mawḍū‘ī) has inspired the development of Qur’anic studies in Indonesian Islamic higher education. The State Islamic Universities (PTKIN) in Indonesia as an Islamic scholarship locomotive have a significant role in the development of the methodology of Qur’anic interpretation. This article analyzes the consistency of the application of thematic interpretation method in the final project of the Qur’an and Tafsir students. This article employs the content analysis method and uses the concepts of al-Farmāwī’s thematic interpretation as a theoretical framework. This study concludes that the majority of undergraduate theses are inconsistent in applying the al-Farmāwī’s thematic interpretation method. The inconsistency lies in the accuracy in the selection of keywords that are used as the basis for collecting and determining the verses of the Qur’an, the organization of the verses of the Qur’an that are not based on the order of revelation (tartīb al-nuzūlī), the lack of citation of the hadith, the failure synchronization between the problem and the conclusion.
Diskursus Hadis dalam Perspektif Kaum Tua dan Kaum Muda di Indonesia
Authors: Rozian Karnedi
Published: March 2023

Abstract: The article sheds light the discourse of ḥadīth in the horizon of the mid-twentieth century reformist (kaum muda) and traditionalist (kaum tua) Muslim. It aims to analyze debates and different stances concerning with the use of the ḥadīth and the epistemic view behind their conception of ḥadīth. The study approaches with the basic theories of muṣṭalāḥ al-ḥadīth and the sociology of knowledge of Karl Mannheim. The research data were processed through descriptive-comparative and critical-analysis. It then argues that there are two different characteristics between the reformist and the traditionalist in the use of ḥadīth. First, the reformist used to have a systematic study based on the Qur’an and ḥadīth directly, while the traditionalist used to bring the idiomatic (‘ibārah) method. Second, in deducing law (istinbāṭ al-aḥkām), the reformist restrict only on the boundary of the authentic ḥadīth. Meanwhile, besides using authentic ḥadīth, the traditionalist also accept the unsound ḥadīth for the sake of the venture of goodness (faḍā’il al-a‘māl) with certain conditions. These differences are not only caused by methodological enterprise and scientific genealogy, but also sociological consideration which leads to the contestation (conflict of thought) between the two of them regarding the issue of taqlīd, ijtihād, ittibā‘, bid‘ah and religious traditions.
 
Abstrak: Artikel ini menyoroti wacana hadis dalam cakrawala Muslim reformis (kaum muda) dan tradisionalis (kaum tua) pada pertengahan abad ke-20. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis perdebatan dan perbedaan pendapat tentang penggunaan hadis dan landasan epistemik di balik konsepsi mereka tentang hadis. Kajian ini menggunakan pendekatan keilmuan hadis dan sosiologi ilmu pengetahuan Karl Mannheim. Data penelitian diolah dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif-komparatif dan analisis kritis. Artikel ini berargumen bahwa ada dua karakteristik yang berbeda antara kelompok kaum muda dan kaum tua dalam penggunaan hadis. Pertama, kaum muda umumnya memiliki kajian sistematis yang bersumber langsung dari al-Qur’an dan hadis, sedangkan kaum tua seringkali menggunakan pendekatan idiomatik (‘ibārah). Kedua, dalam menarik kesimpulan hukum (istinbāṭ al-aḥkām), kaum muda membatasi hanya pada hadis yang sahih. Sementara itu, kaum tua, selain menggunakan hadis sahih, juga menerima hadis-hadis ahad, atau bahkan daif, untuk kepentingan amal kebaikan (faḍā’il al-a‘māl), namun dengan syarat-syarat tertentu. Perbedaan tersebut tidak hanya disebabkan oleh kerangka metodologis dan latar genealogi keilmuan, namun juga pertimbangan sosiologis, yang berujung pada kontestasi (konflik pemikiran) terhadap persoalan-persoalan khilafiyah seperti taklid, ijtihad, ittibā‘, bidah dan tradisi keagamaan.
Acinetobacter baumannii in blood-borne and central nervous system infections in intensive care unit children: molecular and genetic characteristics and clinical significance
Authors: Sadeeva Zulfirya Z. , Novikova Irina E. , Alyabyeva Natalia M. , Lazareva Anna V. , Komyagina Tatiana M. , Karaseva Olga V. , Vershinina Marina G. , Fisenko Andrey P.
Published: March 2023

Acinetobacter baumannii is a representative of the peak priority nosocomial pathogens capable of causing infections with high mortality and economic treatment costs. The purpose of our study was to determine a role of A. baumannii in blood-borne and central nervous system infections in children. We conducted a retrospective study of A. baumannii associated cases of bacteremia and CNS infection in children. A. baumannii strains were isolated from 17 children followed up with surgical pathology (congenital heart defects 24%, abdominal pathology 29%, severe combined trauma 29%) and with somatic diseases accompanied by antibacterial and/or glucocorticosteroid therapy 18%. The minimum inhibitory concentrations of antibiotics were determined by the broth microdilution method. Carbapenemase genes were detected by real time polymerase chain reaction. Biofilm formation genes were determined by PCR. Biofilms were grown using flat-bottomed polystyrene tablets, followed by coloring, fixation, elution and detection. Population diversity was assessed by the multilocus sequence typing. About a quarter of cases of bacteremia and central nervous system infection caused by A. baumannii had an unfavorable outcome. Resistance to carbapenems, aminoglycosides, fluoroquinolones was more than 70%. Carbapenemases of the OXA-23 (24%) and OXA-40 (41%) groups were identified. The study of biofilm production showed that A. baumannii isolates formed biofilms of varying intensity: weak biofilms (59%), moderate (35%) and strong (6%). During determining the sensitivity to meropenem for biofilm and planktonic forms of cultures, it was determined that the minimum inhibitory concentrations of meropenem were significantly higher for biofilms than for planktonic forms. The minimum inhibitory concentrations of meropenem for plankton cells ranged from 0.5 to 512 mg/l. While in biofilms the same microorganisms had in vitro minimum inhibitory concentrations of meropenem within 128 to 512 mg/l and higher. All isolates bore biofilm formation regulating genes: bfmR, bap and katE. The ompA gene was found in 94% strains, and the csuA/B gene was found in 88%. The population pattern of A. baumannii isolated from blood and cerebrospinal fluid of children was represented by nine different sequence types. Most of the isolates were represented by genotypes: ST944Oxf, ST1550Oxf, ST1104Oxf belonging to the international clonal line ICL6, and ST450Oxf, ST2063Oxf and ST1102Oxf of the international clonal line ICL2. Blood-borne and central nervous system infections associated with A. baumannii have a great importance in clinical practice. This microorganism is able to persist for a long time on biotic and abiotic surfaces, has a wide natural and acquired antibiotics resistance.
A dobre crise da prensa en papel e o camiño cara a súa recuperación: evolución económica do sector en Galiza (2008-2018)
Authors: Rios-Rodríguez Raul , Dios-Vicente Adrián
Published: March 2023

Este traballo trata a evolución económica recente do sector da prensa impresa en Galiza. Alén da crise económica xeral de 2008, o sector sufriu a súa propia crise estrutural provocada pola emerxencia da Internet. Para estudar o impacto desta dobre crise e a resposta das empresas do sector, realizamos unha análise económica-financeira dunha mostra de 13 empresas galegas editoras de xornais en papel durante o período 2008-2018, centrándonos na rendibilidade e nas súas principais compoñentes. Os resultados mostran unha caída da facturación que se prolonga durante todo o período, incluída a fase de crecemento económico, síntoma do declive do papel como soporte xornalístico. Porén, tras unha etapa de crise marcada por rendibilidades negativas, as empresas conseguiron recuperarse grazas a un axuste no volume de activos totais e nos custes operativos máis intenso que a caída experimentada polas vendas, tornando máis pequenas e máis eficientes.
Elaboração e validação de vídeo educativo sobre a utilização da Técnica em Z
Authors: Magnabosco Patricia , Godoy Simone de , Mendes Isabel Amélia Costa , Raponi Maria Beatriz Guimarães , Toneti Bruna Francielle , Marchi-Alves Leila Maria
Published: March 2023

RESUMO Objetivo: construir e validar um vídeo educativo sobre a administração de medicamentos por via intramuscular, com utilização da Técnica em Z. Métodos: utilizou-se a Técnica Delphi para a validação do roteiro. Participaram do processo doutores em enfermagem e doutores em comunicação social com experiência na produção de vídeos educativos. Após a edição, o vídeo foi validado por três docentes de enfermagem e avaliado por estudantes do Curso de Graduação em Enfermagem de uma universidade pública. Resultados: o vídeo foi validado pelos juízes com 100% de concordância ocorrida em três rodadas para validação do roteiro e duas para validação do vídeo após a edição. A duração do vídeo foi de 9 minutos. Conclusão: Após a validação pelos juízes, estudantes avaliaram o vídeo e o consideraram adequado para o aprendizado. Espera-se que esse vídeo possa contribuir para a formação do profissional de enfermagem e melhoria da assistência ao paciente.
Profile of pregnant women and children accompanied due to T. gondii exposure at a referred healthcare center: What has changed in 10 years?
Authors: Soares Janer Aparecida Silveira , Holzmann Ana Paula Ferreira , Alves Bárbara Bispo da Silva , Lima Caio Fagundes Quadros , Caldeira Antônio Prates
Published: March 2023

Abstract Objectives: to characterize the profile of pregnant women and newborns accompanied at a reference center for infectious-parasitic diseases, after the exposure of T. gondii, establishing comparisons with a previous study, in the same location, ten years ago. Methods: this is a retrospective cohort study, with a follow-up of four years (2016 to 2019), using the previous study carried out from 2002 to 2010 as a comparative for the variables assessed. Mothers who presented tests suggestive of seroconversion for the disease during prenatal care and their respective concepts, followed up over a year, were included. The chi-square test was used, assuming a significance level of 5% for the comparison of the groups in the two periods. Results: during the period from 2016 to 2019, 79 binomials were studied, whereas 58 binomials were accompanied in the previous period. Comparing both periods, the findings showed lower proportions of adolescents (p<0.001), with low schooling (p<0.001), with low serological testing (p<0.001) and with late or postnatal diagnosis (p<0.001). As to the children, the findings showed fewer changes in fundoscopy (p<0.001), strabismus (p=0.002), hepatomegaly (p=0.026) and any sequelae (p<0.001). Conclusion: a positive advance was observed regarding the care provided for the mother-child binomial affected by T. gondii, with a reduction in negative outcomes for the child. However, there are still challenges concerning the diagnosis and proper management of the disease.
Biostimulants increase growth and yield of second-crop maize
Authors: Thomé Silvia E. N. , Lima Sebastião F. , Oliveira Izabela C. de , Contardi Lucymara M. , Vendruscolo Eduardo P. , Andrade Maria G. de O. , Cordeiro Meire A. S. , Arguelho Jeysielli C. , Oliveira Janaina J. de
Published: March 2023

ABSTRACT The use of biostimulants in second-crop maize (Zea mays) can promote higher physiological activity in plants, resulting in higher grain yield. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of phytohormones and nicotinamide on growth and yield traits of second-crop maize. The statistical design used was a randomized block design arranged in a factorial scheme with two doses of phytohormones (0 and 500 mL ha-1) × five concentrations of nicotinamide (0, 200, 400, 600, and 800 mg L-1) with four replications. The use of biostimulants favored all variables evaluated for the maize crop. The isolated use of phytohormones and nicotinamide promoted grain yields of 6089.6 and 6242.5 kg ha-1, respectively, representing gains of 6.0 and 11.6%, respectively, compared with the control. The application of 800 mg L-1 nicotinamide resulted in the highest maize grain yield. The use of phytohormones and nicotinamide, isolated or associated, was favorable for the growth characteristics and grain yield of second-crop maize. A synergistic effect was noted between phytohormones and nicotinamide on the first ear insertion height and number of rows per ear.
Gênero, família e Estado: cuidado de crianças, pandemia e a gestão da (não) reabertura escolar
Authors: Lowenkron Laura
Published: March 2023

Resumo O artigo explora as articulações entre gênero, família e Estado a partir do tema do cuidado de crianças durante a pandemia de covid-19 e tendo como recorte empírico um estudo de caso das controvérsias em torno da gestão da (não) reabertura escolar no município do Rio de Janeiro. O objetivo é analisar a construção desse problema social para tomar os termos de sua constituição na esfera pública e as formas de gestão adotadas como objeto de uma análise crítica feminista ancorada em uma ética do cuidado.
TEACHER PERCEPTION ABOUT THE FAMILIES’ PARTICIPATION AT SCHOOL – FACTORS PREDICTING PARTICIPATION
Authors: Alemán-Falcón Jesús Ariel , Martín-Quintana Juan Carlos , Alonso-Sánchez José Alexis , Calcines-Piñero María Ascensión
Published: March 2023

ABSTRACT This study aims to analyze teachers’ perception about families’ participation at school. Also, it is intended to know what factors are those that predict this type of participation. For that purpose, it was selected a sample composed of 347 teachers from the Pre-Primary, Primary and Secondary Education stages belonging to both public and private schools in Gran Canaria (Spain) with an average of 19.8 years of professional experience. It was used a 28 like Likert items with values between 1-6 with a total ordinal alpha of the scale of 0.95. Four factors were measured on this scale: opening school to the community, school’s social prestige, closeness and personal treat towards families and students and families’ participation in the school decision-making. As a result, significant differences were found among these factors depending on the teaching staff’s age, the years of teaching experience, the type of school and the educational stage. Significant differences were also found depending on whether the teaching staff had held management positions as well as in relation to the degree of teachers’ participation at schools. On the other hand, it was carried out a hierarchical multiple regression analysis that explains the variables that predict families’ educational participation at schools. These predictive variables are the following ones: the age of the teaching staff, if this latter promotes cultural activities, being a member of the management team, a greater degree of teacher’s participation at school, whether parents’ association organizes activities at school and whether the teaching staff has got a good perception about the level of families’ participation at schools.
From “cycle-view” to “the bike path to death”: The social life of urban infrastructure
Authors: O’DONNELL JULIA
Published: March 2023

ABSTRACT The paper analyzes the social life of the Bike Path Tim Maia, in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro. Inaugurated in 2016, the equipment was hailed for offering not only new urban mobility alternatives, but also new framings for the oceanfront landscape. Such combination made the bike path a central element of a broader city project, with the harmonious relationship between humans and nature as one of its main axes. By following the process of ideation, construction, and inauguration of the equipment, as well as its successive collapses, the paper shows how this particular case allows us to reflect on important aspects of urban infrastructures from an anthropological point of view: their multiple timelines, the inextricable relationship between technique and politics, and the different cumulative city projects.
Estimativa das propriedades de flexão estática, dureza e tenacidade de madeiras tropicais brasileiras através de análise de porosimetria por intrusão de mercúrio
Authors: Almeida Andréa de Souza , Criscuolo Gabriel , Silva Diogo Aparecido Lopes , Panzera Túlio Hallak , Lahr Francisco Antonio Rocco , Christoforo André Luis
Published: March 2023

Resumo ANBR 7190 (ABNT, 1997) define a caracterização simplificada, onde há o uso de relações matemáticas entre as propriedades de resistência e rigidez. Devido à grande influência da porosidade e da densidade aparente nas propriedades das madeiras e à busca por modelos matemáticos cada vez mais precisos, este trabalho teve como objetivo’ gerar modelos de regressão para a estimativa das propriedades de flexão estática (resistência “f M ” e módulo “E M ”), resistência à dureza paralela “f H,0 ” e normal às fibras “f H,90 ”, e resistência à tenacidade “W” de madeiras tropicais brasileiras a partir dos valores de porosidade, obtidos por meio da análise de porosimetria por intrusão de mercúrio, da densidade aparente e com base em ambas as propriedades em modelos de regressão multivariáveis. Todos os modelos de regressão apresentaram coeficientes de determinação “R2” superiores a 50%. A f M , a f H,90 e a W foram melhor estimadas pela densidade aparente, enquanto o E M e a f H,0 foram melhor estimados considerando a densidade aparente e a porosidade.
DESIGN OF A PRECISE FSO NETWORK INCLUDING IMPROVED MODIFIED REFRACTIVE INDEX STRUCTURE PROFILING FOR SHIMLA CITY, INDIA
Authors: Kaur Kamaldeep , Nain Abhimanyu
Published: March 2023

The most commonly used altitude-dependent Hufnagel-Valley (HV) model for Refractive-Index Structure Parameter (Cn2) calculation has limited accuracy due to the reason of not considering various meteorological parameters for mountainous locations which have negative influence on optical signals. Although altitude and turbulent winds (due to temperature and pressure variations) are significant parameters giving rise to atmospheric turbulences intensity but the presence of water droplets and snowflakes in humid climate of mountainous locations play major role in reducing optical visibility, so should not be ignored. We have included the effect of snowfall in existing HV model while calculating path loss due to atmospheric turbulences to estimate these effects in Shimla city. The computed results show considerable decrement in Q-factor due to the additional losses imposed by snowflakes to the laser beam. Enlargement in effects of absorption and scattering is also observed in bit error rate (BER) results. So, the proposed modified model presents more accurate estimation of the refractive index profile as it takes more parameters into consideration responsible for atmospheric turbulence.
Attaching of dandelion seeds: results from morphology/structure and abscission force/angle
Authors: Wang Lixin , Liu Guang , Li Shanshan
Published: March 2023

Mature dandelion seeds can be easily abscised from their capitulum by a tiny vibration or a gentle wind, and a previous study revealed their abscission mechanism, but the mechanism governing the attachment of immature dandelion seeds is still unclear. This paper aims to uncover the attaching mechanism by morphological/structural analysis and abscission force/angle measurement. The connecting region of immature dandelion seeds consists of upper barbs from neighboring achenes, the lower barbs of the achene and their groove in the capitulum. The upper barbs have hierarchical structures that form barb–barb interlocks, and the lower barbs and their groove produce barbs–groove wrapping, together endowing dandelion seeds with a firm attachment (abscission force >155.9 mN). The firm attachment weakens sharply with the growth of dandelion seeds, which is attributed to the considerable changes in morphology/structure, showing a remarkable decrease in abscission angle (critical opened stage 37.1 ± 5.2°, fully opened stage 11.6 ± 3.0°) and a tiny abscission force (10.67–0.35 mN). The results reveal the attaching mechanism of immature dandelion seeds and may inspire some novel biomimetic designs for controllable attachment/abscission materials.
Evaluation methods of biomimetic development: how can topics be compared and selected?
Authors: Tachibana Satoru , Noguchi Ryozo , Miyasaka Juro , Ohdoi Katsuaki
Published: March 2023

Biomimetics is a technology that utilises biological structures for manufacturing and is attracting attention in a wide range of fields globally. However, there are challenges in sharing and communicating development between researchers with different specialties. Biomimetic developments have conventionally been expressed in terms of unique or unconnected indicators, which makes it difficult for outsiders to understand and compare different topics. In this study, evaluation guidelines were developed for effective sharing and comparing across specialties. As the method is directly related to actual development, this study presents a new methodological framework for use in the target-setting phase. Several indicators and criteria for both biology and engineering were set up, proposing ways of evaluating and expressing development topics. Furthermore, actual evaluations and comparisons were performed on several examples. This study discusses the possible outcomes from the evaluated results, the applied use and the challenges of the evaluation method. A major advancement came with the use of composite indicators to evaluate results, which can be easily compared with other topics. It is expected to contribute to smoother communication and process and to support decisions on the direction of development.
Axial cyclic loading of piles in low-to-medium-density chalk
Authors: Buckley Róisín M. , Jardine Richard J. , Kontoe Stavroula , Liu Tingfa , Byrne Byron W. , McAdam Ross A. , Schranz Fabian , Vinck Ken
Published: March 2023

Comprehensive field investigations into the axial cyclic loading behaviour of open steel pipe piles driven and aged in low-to-medium-density chalk identify the conditions under which behaviour is stable, unstable or metastable. Post-cycling monotonic tests confirmed that stable cycling enhanced pile capacity marginally, while unstable cases suffered potentially large losses of shaft capacity. Metastable conditions led to intermediate outcomes. The patterns by which axial deflections grew under cyclic loading varied systematically with the normalised loading parameters and could be captured by simple fitting expressions. Cyclic stiffnesses also varied with loading conditions, with the highest operational shear stiffnesses falling far below the in situ seismic test values. The monotonic and cyclic axial responses of the test piles were controlled by the behaviour of, and conditions within, the reconsolidated, de-structured, chalk putty annuli formed around pile shafts during driving. Fibre-optic strain gauges identified progressive failure from the pile tip upwards. Large factors of safety were required for piles to survive repetitive loading under high-level, two-way conditions involving low mean loads, while low-amplitude one-way cycling had little impact. A simple ‘global’ prediction procedure employing interface shear and cyclic triaxial tests is shown to provide broadly representative predictions for field behaviour.
Research on energy saving prediction of building clusters based on data mining algorithm
Authors: Hu Jiming , Han Xiaoyan
Published: March 2023

In order to solve the problem of excessive burden of electricity and energy consumption in urban landscape buildings clusters, the study combined data mining algorithms to establish a prediction model for energy-saving renovation of urban landscape building clusters. Firstly, the energy demand and energy consumption of theurban landscape buildings complex were analysed, a mathematical model was established to predict the energy consumption of the building complex. Then, the prediction model of energy-saving retrofitting of building clusters was constructed by combining data mining techniques. The experimental results show that the change trend of total energy consumption is different under different single influencing factors of energy consumption. Among them, the lighting power density factor has the greatest influence on energy consumption, and its annual energy consumption change rate can reach about 0.35. Applying the prediction model to the energy consumption prediction of 15 urban single buildings, it was found that the total energy consumption of the buildings before the retrofit was much higher than that after the retrofit, and the energy-saving rate of the whole observed sample building group was as high as 18.5%, meanwhile, the highest energy-saving rate of the single buildings reached 30.1%.
Coupling efficiency between bike-sharing demand and land use: data envelopment analysis
Authors: Sun Chao , Lu Jian
Published: March 2023

This study employs a hotspot areas-based data envelopment analysis (DEA) to investigate the coupling efficiency between bike-sharing demand and land use. Hotspot areas are used as decision-making units and re-sampling data are imposed spatial constraints. The elbow method is used to select the crucial indicators after exploring the correlation between coupling efficiency evaluation indexes using the grey correlation model. Since this coupling efficiency evaluation belongs to a ‘multi-input and single-output’ system, DEA was introduced to build a quantitative model for bike-sharing demand and land-use coupling efficiency. This paper also identifies the factors that restrict bike-sharing demand generation. More importantly, different spatial scenarios are deployed to demonstrate heterogeneous characteristics of DEA efficiency in different locations. The results of a case study in Beijing, China show that DEA efficiency generally exhibits a trend from low to high from the inside to the outside of the urban centre. The land-use factors with relatively high redundancy rates are financial insurance facilities, hotels and living facilities.
A deep-learning framework considering multiple motifs for traffic travel time prediction
Authors: Yao Baozhen , Chen Sixuan , Nie Xiaoqi , Ma Ankun , Zhang Mingheng
Published: March 2023

How to accurately predict short-term traffic travel time (TTT) is an important problem in intelligent transportation systems. Traffic data usually exhibit high non-linearities and complex patterns, and predicting TTT is a challenge. Most previous studies have used the topological adjacency of road networks to explore spatial correlations. However, a real road network contains higher-order connectivity patterns that have different statistical significance. The topology adjacency cannot reflect these higher-order connectivity patterns. To obtain topological adjacency and higher-order connection pattern information, a novel deep-learning framework (multi-motif graph convolutional recurrent neural networks) for TTT prediction is proposed. The accuracy of TTT prediction was improved with this model. There are two blocks in each unit of the model: (a) spatial blocks, which capture spatial pattern information by the multi-motif graph convolution network and motif graph embedding, and (b) temporal blocks, which capture temporal pattern information by the combination of a long short-term memory network and a fully connected layer. To prove the effectiveness and accuracy of the prediction model, experiments were conducted on real-world TTT data sets.
Active Learning Strategies for Engaging Students in Higher Education
Authors:   Associate Professor, Computer Department, MKSSS’s Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune, India, Gosavi Dr. Chhaya S. , Arora Dr. Sandhya ,   Associate Professor, Computer Department, MKSSS’s Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune, India
Published: March 2023

Rapid development in teaching-learning and its methodologies, technology has opened entirely new avenues for educational research. In active learning, students are exposed to course material through problem solving, case studies, discussion, think pair share, flipped classroom, role play, quizzes, gaming and other pedagogical methods. This proposed work experiments with multiple active learning approaches to engage and motivate reluctant learners. Learners are exposed to the purpose and design of active learning strategies such as quiz, game, case study and role play. Feedbacks and analysis of these implemented active learning strategies are excellent. Statistical analysis of active learning techniques indicates that there is improvement in student’s academic performance, skills development and student’s satisfaction. There exists a great deal of inter-relatedness across the strategies as one strategy invokes another by default. This work will help identify more targeted ways to assist teachers/learners in their efforts. Keywords—Case study, Engaging reluctant students, Pedagogical strategies, Role Play, Statistical Techniques.
Effective Think-Pair-Share Pedagogical Strategy to Improve Inferential Statistics Concept Understanding
Authors:   Department of Computer Engineering, MKSSS’s Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune, India, Deore Mahendra , Arora Sandhya ,   Department of Computer Engineering, MKSSS’s Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune, India
Published: March 2023

Abstract : The Think-Pair-Share (TPS) technique is believed to encourage students who are shy to participate in classrooms. In this method, the instructor poses a problem and the students work on it individually to begin with. Next, they work in pairs and the final step is a discussion held by the entire classroom. The strategy allows students to think for a while, then talk to their partners, or group mates and share ideas. The students are encouraged and motivated to participate in the classroom. TPS is one of the cooperative learning methods that promotes group participation, discussion, critical thinking about the question being considered, presentation of personal ideas and opinions in a supportive environment. Statistics for Computer Science being a core subject and buzz word for the field of computer science engineering and data science, this strategy was implemented for the third-year computer engineering students to bring about an improvement in the conceptual understanding of inferential statistics concept. This proposed research work is an inferential statistical analysis of implemented TPS activity. Pre and post test was conducted for the inferential statistics concept on a random samples of 25 students. Parametric paired t-test is used to validate the hypothesis. Statistical results show that there is an improvement in concept understanding after TPS activity. Moreover, the outcome of the experiment along with feedback from the students related to this strategy are also excellent. Index Terms : Think-pair-share, cooperative learning, t-test, Inferential Statistics
Outcome-Based Education: A Learner-Centric Pedagogical Framework with Case Studies in Digital Communication and Signal Processing Courses
Authors:   E&TC Department, MKSSS’s Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune, Ohatkar Sharada N. , Deshpande Ashwini M. ,   E&TC Department, MKSSS’s Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune
Published: March 2023

Outcome-based education (OBE) is the buzzword these days in the education field which boosts students’ creativity through their active engagement in learning course contents. Their participatory learning in the OBE model is well supported by making them aware of learning goals and course outcomes. Due to this, the students develop themselves nicely in their working surroundings along with peers. This helps develop their interpersonal skills along with improving academic performance. This paper primarily outlines the implementation of a few key standards of OBE in teaching-learning of two fundamental courses in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. It then covers how OBE, and its consequences demand paradigm shifts in instructional design and evaluation practices. The discussion on OBE for courses on Digital Communication and Digital Signal Processing is explored with Program-Outcomes (POs), Program-Specific-Outcomes (PSOs), besides Course-Outcomes (COs). Analysis of POs along with COs attainment for these two courses reflects the importance of the OBE framework. The inclusion of engineering pedagogy and active learning strategies in this framework leads to enhancing students’ creativity leading to their growth in their professional careers. Keywords— Outcome-based evaluation (OBE), Course- Outcomes (COs), Program-Outcomes (POs), Program-Specific- Outcomes (PSOs), Performance Indicators (PIs)