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An Effective Methodology for Road Accident Data Collection in Developing Countries
Authors: Adnan Muhammad , Ali Mir Shabbar
Published: March 2016

Underreporting of road accidents has been widely accepted as a common phenomenon. In many developing countries this remains a critical problem as inappropriate information regarding road accidents does not provide a base to analyse its root causes. Therefore, effectiveness of implemented interventions are always questionable. In Pakistan, responsibility of collecting initial information regarding road accidents lies with the Police Department; however, reported figures are reflecting underestimation of the situation. This chapter reports the effectiveness of prevailing approaches for recording accident information in developing countries like Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, etc. Furthermore, it presents a unique methodology that has been adopted in Karachi for recording road accident information through an institute established on the notions of public-private partnership. Various features of that unique data collection mechanism are presented along with the discussion of some success stories, where the collected data has contributed significantly in improving road safety conditions.
Electronic Government and Rural Development in Anglophone West Africa
Authors: Adejuwon Kehinde David
Published: March 2016

E-government has taken off since the end of the millennium. It has emerged as a viable means to address development issues and challenges especially at the grassroots level because citizens find empowerment through access to information. This chapter notes that Anglophone West Africa has been hard hit with poverty and disease, and this has had an immense effect on the quality of social, cultural, and political lives of the people. It identifies the major problems facing the isolated rural communities and various operational and infrastructure problems associated with implementing e-government are discussed, along with possible solutions. The chapter recommends, among others, that Anglophone West Africa must pursue a more active role in the formulation of national policies and strategies to promote the information economy, to reap huge benefits in terms of economic and social growth/development.
ICT4D and its Potential Role in the Detection, Surveillance, and Prevention of Novel Zoonotic Disease Outbreaks for Global, National, and Local Pandemic Prevention
Authors: Hai-Jew Shalin
Published: March 2016

Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) and Information Technology for Development (IT4D) has been a strategy applied since the mid-1950s to support the work of advancing developing societies. There has been a range of technologies used for information collection, knowledge management, intercommunications, and information sharing. In recent years, ICT4D has evolved to include the uses of social media platforms and various analytical tools used for extracting information from such platforms to support disease prevention efforts. It involves the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to help in epidemiology. Parsimonious simulations have been brought to bear to inform the policies to support pandemic prevention in countries where pharmaceutical-based interventions may be too expensive to deploy broadly. Work done in this area suggests that appropriate non-pharmaceutical interventions exist if government leaders and the broad public can be sufficiently aware of an occurring emergence of a novel pathogen (or re-emergence of a pandemic-potential pathogen) before this pathogen becomes endemic. This chapter asks, What is the relationship between Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) and global, national, and local prevention of zoonotic diseases with pandemic potential? This work provides some early thoughts on ways ICT4D and IT4D may be deployed to this end, and it offers some insights about open-source (and some commercial) technologies that may be used for the work of pandemic prevention and protection of human health.
Open Source Software Adaptation in Africa
Authors: Bakar Abubakar Diwani , Sultan Abu Bakar Md. , Zulzalil Hazura , Din Jamilah
Published: March 2016

The African continent has long benefited from adopting OSS in its private and public organizations that have changed their way of development, the use and how to acquire proprietary software. This frequency of adaptation does not appear to be in balance with the contribution to the OSS community. Using views from experienced software practitioners working in different organizations across two African countries it has been observed that neglected infrastructure, a wide availability of proprietary software and misconceptions of a clear meaning of Open Source Software across Africa have been an obstacle towards the participation in the OSS technology in the global network.
Telecentres as a Medium for Good Governance in Rural India
Authors: Mishra Gaurav
Published: March 2016

It has been established in literature that “good governance” has major implications for poverty reduction, equity, empowerment, and quality of life. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is seen as potentially very influential for the cause of good governance. E-governance is seen as means to achieve tenets of “good governance”. E-governance addresses core components of good governance by seeking to improve efficiency and effectiveness of government, relationships with communities, businesses, citizens, and NGO/civil societies for better provision of services, accountability, transparency, and social development. In the beginning sections of the chapter, ideologies behind good governance are discussed because e-government initiatives are presumably embedded in the “good governance” thinking in development. The chapter also focuses on the relevance of e-governance as a means to achieve “good governance.” In rural areas e-governance services are mostly provided through telecentres; hence, the chapter also discusses the role and issues related to telecentres for e-governance service delivery.
International Business Initiatives of the Turkish Enterprises in Global Trade
Authors: Gökmen Aytaç
Published: March 2016

The amount of trade and international business volume in the world has amounted considerably as a result of the fast moving globalization and declining borders especially after the 1990s. International business and trade are important tools for countries and enterprises to increase their volumes of production and commerce as well as enhance employment, increase the national income and raise revenue for enterprises to make further investments. Turkey is located at the threshold of Europe and Asia, consolidating East and West, and North and South at the convergence of various trade routes. However, despite of being close to various countries, a great deal of Turkey's export potential is focused on the EU and developed countries. However, the production means in Turkey are not adequate, so it imports factors of production from abroad by way of international business operations. Thus, the aim of this study is to review the theory of globalization, international business, firm internationalization process of businesses, impact direction of multinational businesses as well as the commercial operations of the Turkish enterprises, real and commercial abilities of the Turkish firms and international business activities on the global basis; compare this to its entire trade volume and propose comments on these issues resting on credible national and international publications and figures.1
A Structurationist Analysis of Differing Policies Oriented to the Pharmaceutical Industry
Authors: Yaşgül Yaşar Serhat
Published: March 2016

This chapter has two purposes closely related to each other. The first one is to analyze why countries that have similar characteristics and benefits to each other develop different strategies in terms of rules that regulate the intellectual property rights in the pharmaceutical industry. The second one is to analyze the factors that determine active participation in global governance processes with regards to the intellectual property rights of countries that are developing, specifically in the pharmaceutical industry. The study used the structurationist approach developed by John M. Hobson, and findings were tested by comparing the examples of two countries: Turkey and Brazil.
A Comparison between International Trade and R&D Collaboration Networks in the European Aerospace Sector
Authors: Angelini Pier Paolo , Biggiero Lucio
Published: March 2016

Do trading countries also collaborate in R&D? This is the question that, facing with a number of methodological problems, here it is dealt with. Studying and comparing the international trade network and the R&D collaboration network of European countries in the aerospace sector, social network analysis offers a wide spectrum of methods and criteria either to make them comparable or to evaluate its similarity. International trade is a 1-mode directed and valued network, while the EU-subsidized R&D collaboration is an affiliation (2-mode) undirected and unvalued network, and the elementary units of this latter are organizations and not countries. Therefore, to the aim to make these two networks comparable, this paper shows and discusses a number of methodological problems and solutions offered to solve them, and provides a multi-faceted comparison in terms of various statistical and topological indicators. A comparative analysis of the two networks structures is made at aggregate and disaggregate level, and it is shown that the common centralization index is definitively inappropriate and misleading when applied to multi-centered networks like these, and especially to the R&D collaboration network. The final conclusion is that the two networks resemble in some important aspects, but differ in some minor traits. In particular, they are both shaped in a core-periphery structure, and in both cases important countries tend to exchange or collaborate more with marginal countries than between themselves.
Romania's Foreign Trade and of Other Former Communist Countries in 2003-2012
Authors: Zaharia Marian , Balacescu Aniela , Zaharia Radu Serban
Published: March 2016

During 2003-2012, economies of most EU countries, have gone through periods of growth and decline, the most significant decline being recorded in 2009, due to strong economic crisis which has affect the EU and not only. The main purpose of this article is to assess the impact that the economic crisis has had on each of the five former communist countries analyzed, namely Romania, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria. This study is a comparative statistical analysis of evolutions of the volumes of exports and imports both within EU and outside. It also, are analyzed their trade balances evolutions, and were identified, for three of them, among which Romania, valid models of evolution for the period under review.
Foreign Trade in Russia
Authors: Erokhin Vasily
Published: March 2016

Until recently only one of the largest economies – Russia was not among the WTO members. Russia's accession into the WTO drew out hidden structural problems of national economy, low competitiveness of domestic producers, dependence on fossil-fuel exports, and regional disparities. The paper aims at overview of the existing distortions of Russia's foreign trade and their potential threats to sustainable economic development and national economic security in view of the running trade liberalization. Regional implementations of trade liberalization are investigated on the case of the Stavropol Krai, one of the southern regions of Russia with an average level of economic development. The Gravity model is implemented to analyze trade activities of the region; the Boundary Effect Model is utilized to evaluate the effects of trade liberalization on separate industries. Simulation allowed distributing regional commodities on their competitiveness depending on export quota and boundary effect, and accessing aftermaths of export expansion and import substitution.
International Student Mobility Trends between Developed and Developing Countries
Authors: Liu Xuezhi , Li Chun
Published: March 2016

The authors offer international student mobility trends between developed and developing countries. Global outflow, inflow, and net inflow trends are described to display an overall and dynamic landscape of international student mobility. International student mobility trends between developed and developing countries are compared from perspectives of absolute and relative quantities. Relationships between mobility trends and economic growth are explored using regression analysis with applicable variables such as global outflow number and global GDP, outflow number and GDP in developing countries, inflow number and GDP in developed countries, etc.
Steering E-Government Projects from Failure to Success
Authors: Lessa Lemma , Negash Solomon , Belachew Mesfin
Published: March 2016

There are many e-government failures in developing countries. Most studies look at these after the event (post hoc), but this chapter takes an original approach to look mid-implementation (durante hoc) in order to provide recommendations for improvement. The authors chose a partial failure/partial success land management information system being implemented in one Ethiopian city. The project has made retrieval of land information quicker and simpler but is only partly implemented, and is still—on occasion—circumvented by public servants for personal gain. They used design-reality gap framework to understand why the project had partly failed. The authors used the design-reality gap analysis to propose an action plan that would help institutionalise the system, steering it from partial failure to success. They demonstrate the value of this framework as a tool for mid-implementation analysis of e-government projects. The authors recommend its usage on other ongoing e-government projects in developing countries.
Managerial Reactions to Ambiguous Environmental Changes
Authors: Kittilaksanawong Wiboon
Published: March 2016

Managers in organizations are typically faced with changing and ambiguous signals in their operating environment. Based on interpretation of these signals, managers react with appropriate strategies. This chapter presents critical organizational issues in decision making process and its outcomes, including the manager's selective attention, interpretation, and reasoning of uncertain operating environment. In particular, the chapter first discusses why individual managers in the same organization who are faced with same environmental changes may differently interpret threat and opportunity aspects of these changes. Second, the chapter links outcomes of such interpretation to investigate different types of organizational actions. Third, the chapter drives into a greater depth to explore how the manager's experience and characteristics of the environment affect forms of reasoning in interpretation process and performance of subsequent organizational actions.
Behavioral Stream in Polish Accounting
Authors: Artienwicz Nelli
Published: March 2016

Information which financial market participants use to make their decisions comes directly and indirectly from accounting. Although finance and accounting use the language of numbers which appear to be very clear and plain, it is obvious that sums presented in financial statements and then interpreted and used by financial managers and investors and other stakeholders are very subjective. The goal of this chapter is to pay attention to the implications of behavioral research in accounting and its new stream – neuroaccounting – for behavioral finance. It is argued that accounting should be considered by behavioral finance researchers because the product of accounting in the form of reports, statements, and different analyses represents not only economic standing of a company, but also those behind the scenes.
HRD ‘Scholar-Practitioner'
Authors: Maheshkar Chandan
Published: March 2016

The quality of human resource is a key driver in creating organizational performance. An HRD investigates human work patterns and abilities required to perform determined job roles and role-specific responsibilities in competent manner. The ‘HRD Scholar-Practitioner' opens the ways connecting the division between academics and real world of practice. This integration involves different scholastic efforts that make theory, practice and research mutually dependent; and promotes opportunity to engage simultaneously in the real time HRD practices and scholastic investigations. The ‘HRD Scholar-Practitioner' has ability to create organizational learning objectives, personal and professional cognitive meanings, integrative approaches, and to setup ‘participative learning-based competency culture' towards organizational performance and dynamic leadership. Thus, this can be considered as a significant mechanism to enhance organizational competitiveness and effectiveness of scholastic works via filling theory, practice and research gap(s).
Theorizing the Research-Practice Gap in the Field of Management
Authors: Tkachenko Oleksandr , Hahn Huh-Jung , Peterson Shari
Published: March 2016

This chapter provides a review of key theoretical frameworks and models in the field of Management that conceptualize various aspects representative of the research-practice gap phenomenon. In particular, the authors discuss the scholarly literature and review key frameworks and models on the topic by elaborating on three streams of research: the rigor-relevance debate; knowledge creation and production; and the role of educational institutions in bridging the gap. In addition, more recent, and, rather, holistic perspectives on narrowing the research-practice divide are also presented. These perspectives are Engaged Scholarship and Evidence-Based Management. The chapter concludes with solutions and recommendations aimed at fostering the convergence between research and practice.
Corporate Trainers
Authors: Lakshminarayanan Sambhavi
Published: March 2016

Corporate training programs are widely prevalent, even ubiquitous. This situation is likely to continue: some management experts predict that training will become a continual process and include employees at all levels of the organization. Organizations, especially large ones, typically have dedicated staff (trainers) who manage and deliver training programs. In order to be effective, trainers must be knowledgeable about available and appropriate education delivery methods. Programs are often tightly linked to content - thus, trainers need to have some technical knowledge. Corporate trainers can utilize knowledge about advances in the fields of both content and delivery for organizational benefit. In turn, as possessors of knowledge from practical implementation they can make contributions to the fields. Thus, corporate trainers are ideally positioned as practitioner scholars in the workplace. Frameworks proposed in this chapter indicate how trainers can bridge the practitioner-scholar gap.
A Life Cycle Framework for Governance of Intermodal Terminals
Authors: Monios Jason , Bergqvist Rickard
Published: March 2016

This chapter establishes a framework for the governance of intermodal terminals throughout their life cycle, based on the product life cycle. The framework covers the initial planning by the public sector, the public/private split in funding and ownership, the selection of an operator, ensuring fair access to all users, and finally reconcessioning the terminal to a new operator, managing the handover and maintaining the terminal throughout its life cycle. This last point is especially important as industry conditions change and the terminal's role in the transport network comes under threat, either by a lack of demand or by increased demand requiring expansion, redesign and reinvestment. Each stage of the life cycle framework is operationalised based on empirical examples drawn from research by the authors on intermodal terminal planning and funding, the tender process and concession and operation contracts. In future the framework can be applied in additional international contexts to form a basis for transport cost analysis, logistics planning and government policy.
The Role of Capacity and Traffic Uncertainty in Hinterland Connections
Authors: De Langhe Katrien , Meersman Hilde , Sys Christa , Van de Voorde Eddy , Vanelslander Thierry
Published: March 2016

Ports are crucial links in supply chains, creating wealth for adjacent regions. Concerning port competitiveness, it is indicated in literature that good hinterland connections are crucial. Therefore, this chapter offers a framework to make decisions about hinterland connections. To do this, analysis of scientific studies and consulting reports was conducted in combination with discussions with experts. Last, the structure of analysis is applied upon the Port of Zeebruges, which features a strong imbalance between its strong maritime potential, and the relatively weak hinterland connections. The analysis results in strategies of optimizing the strategic decision making. From the real option theory, it is clear that a phased strategy is most suitable. The integrated analysis provides a framework to make investment decisions about port investments in general and hinterland connections in particular, and a pathway solution to a concrete case. Therefore, the study is relevant for policy makers and scientific researchers.
Using a Supply Chain Improvement System (SCIS) to Increase Supply Chain Efficiency
Authors: Winkler Herwig , Kuss Clemens
Published: March 2016

Because of the reduced vertical range of manufacturing in recent decades, the complexity of supply chain relationships has increased dramatically. To address this complexity, and with the current pressure of competition in today's business environment, improving process efficiency has become an objective for companies and supply chains. Currently, there are no concepts available that enable evaluating and improving efficiency along entire supply chains. Based on this deficit, the authors developed the Supply Chain Improvement System (SCIS). This chapter will present the theoretical concept of the SCIS and provide the reader with two case studies that consider how to apply it in entrepreneurial practice. Beginning with offering some background information, current deficits in evaluating the efficiency of supply chains will be noted. Proceeding with the principles, the chapter will give a deeper insight into the structure of the concept.
Financial Sector in Afghanistan
Authors: Marwah Gunit Singh , Ladhani Vishal
Published: March 2016

In the following chapter, the authors have proposed to throw light on the scheme of financial sector prevalent in Afghanistan. The purpose of this chapter is to give the readers a brief insight on the financial background, policies and regulations in existence in Afghanistan. Adding upon, the authors have made an attempt to suggest a few recommendations to bring the Afghanistan's economy at par with the economy of other developing nations of the world. The authors received substantial amount of assistance from the top-managerial officials of Bakhtar Bank of Afghanistan and from a scholar named Abdul Samad Katawazy. The authors would like to thank AREU, AISA and ACCI for providing access to their published surveys and reports. This particular chapter as a whole focuses on ten basic factors which have the ability to make or break Afghanistan's financial structure and therefore aims to provide an insight into the same.
Islamic Finance in India
Authors: Mohammed Wasiullah Shaik , Abdur Raqeeb H  , Waheed Khalid
Published: March 2016

In order to provide financial services effectively to almost 1.21 billion people, India has adopted a comprehensive financial system governed under a number of financial regulations. These regulations, through regular amendments, are kept updated and inclusive of modern financial concepts that emerge in national and international markets. Islamic finance is one of such modern concepts emerged at global level. Growing with an annual growth rate of 15-20 percent the Islamic finance industry is holding total assets, value estimated to be more than USD 1.6 trillion. Hence, the authors, in this paper tried to study the feasibility of providing Islamic financial services in India, especially in the areas of Retail banking, Microfinance, Venture Capital financing. The objective of this paper is to identify the major regulatory challenges facing Islamic finance and to propose the possible solutions so as to make this emerging industry an internal part of the Indian financial system.
Recent Status of Capital Market Regulations in Bangladesh
Authors: Baten Md Azizul
Published: March 2016

The capital market of Bangladesh perceived a self-important growth which is not in line with developed economy. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) tried to correct the irregular behaviour observed in the market, lack of proper decisions from the regulator's side which has contributed to the creation of market instability. This study tried to identify the factors on market crash and regulatory failure. Government had reform SEC to soothe the market but unsuccessful as investors' confidence is in the bottom level. The reasons behind the stock market crash are found irrational market behavior, inconsistency in regulations, excess liquidity in the market, stock split by companies, faulty listing system, issuance of right shares and preference shares by companies at high price, stock manipulations by insider trading, serial trading and excessive greed of investors. Government and regulators should work together to detect the main speculators and should bring investors back to the market.
Mentoring and Support for the edTPA
Authors: Suleiman Randa , Byrd Clavon
Published: March 2016

The research question was: How effective is the current edTPA mentoring and support program for teacher candidates? This research utilized mixed method interactive program evaluation. An online survey collected teacher candidates' perceptions of mentoring and support for edTPA. The survey questions were organized around four constructs: Preparedness, support from instructor, support from university supervisors, and support from cooperating teacher. With N = 46, a comprehensive data analysis was conducted that identified areas of strength and need of the program. As a result, the researchers developed an edTPA mentoring and support program model.
Observations on Genderwise Differences among University Students in Information Security Awareness
Authors: Farooq Ali , Isoaho Johanna , Virtanen Seppo , Isoaho Jouni
Published: March 2016

The purpose of this study is to examine genderwise differences in information security awareness (ISA) among university students. 614 usable responses were collected using survey from the students of eight different disciplines in a university. ISA is considered as combination of knowledge and behavior, and called computed ISA. Knowledge and behavior is assessed using vocabulary test and scenario based questions, whereas perceived ISA (PISA) is measured on 5-point Liker type question. The application of t-test and Cohen's d values show that both the genders differ significantly from each other in their Knowledge, Behavior, computed ISA and PISA. In comparison to female students, male students are found better in terms of aforementioned variables. The study also shows that unlike male students, female students prefer to utilize their social circle to accumulate information security knowledge. Moreover, the male students prefer to learn security related issues by self-exploration, whereas, the female students prefer formal educational methods for similar learning.
The Politics of E-Learning
Authors: Romm-Livermore Celia , Raisinghani Mahesh S. , Rippa Pierlugi
Published: March 2016

The focus of this article is on how the negotiations between professors and students that are part of the eLearning political process can be interpreted through the prism of game theory. The source of data for the case was a series of in-depth interviews with the professor and an analysis of the e-mail messages exchanged between the professor, the students, and management. Each round of the game represents a different combination of positions, strategies and outcomes, yet, taken as a whole, the case events suggest underlying themes that, if been identified by the two sides, could have led to different outcomes. The discussion and conclusions section outlines the rules that governed the behaviour of the actors from a game theory perspective. This case is unique and, hence, the conclusions from it are not necessarily generalizable. Management's role in the games that people play in the eLearning area is crucial in the newly emerging corporatized university. Game theory analysis is applied in this paper to a four-round negotiation process between students and their professor in the context of an eLearning case study.
Online Learning at the K-12 Level
Authors: Sorensen Chris
Published: March 2016

Technology integration has had a profound effect on K-12 education with research yielding positive results in student learning. Most research to date has been conducted in face-to-face settings. With the growth of online K-12 learning, an opportunity exists to examine technology use in the “new” K-12 classroom. The aim of this research was to investigate the potential relationships between specific technology and subject area and grade level and why online K-12 teachers use technology in their online classrooms. Results suggest that in an online K-12 learning environment, relationships may exist between what technology is used and the subject area and/or grade level it is used in.
The Causes of Formation of the Triple Junctions of Grain Boundaries Containing Excess Free Volume in fcc Metals at Crystallization
Authors: Poletaev Gennady M. , Novoselova Darya V. , Kaygorodova Valentina M.
Published: March 2016

The formation conditions of strained (non-equilibrium) triple junctions of grain boundaries were studied by the method of molecular dynamics. It is shown that strained triple junctions, containing excess free volume, mainly forms during crystallization process in the result of "locking" of the liquid phase density at a meeting of the three crystallization fronts and, as a consequence, of the concentration of excess free volume in the triple junction after solidification.
Influence of Ti Doping on the Properties of Ge-Sb-Te Thin Films for Phase Change Memory
Authors: Sherchenkov Alexey , Kozyukhin Sergey , Lazarenko Petr , Babich Alexey , Timoshenkov Sergey , Gromov Dmitry , Yakubov Alexey , Terekhov Dmitry
Published: March 2016

The influence of Ti doping on the resistivity, activation energy of conductivity, energy band gap, Urbach energy, crystallization temperature, heat effect and crystallization kinetic parameters in Ge2Sb2Te5 thin films for phase change memory was investigated. It was shown that introduction of Ti influences on the thermal properties, and kinetics of crystallization process. Results of analyzes showed that Ti doping affects crystallization time, and probability of spontaneous crystallization at room temperature, which must be taken into consideration at designing PCM cells with Ti electrodes.
Extended near-IR Spectral Sensitivity and Electroluminescence Properties of Silicon Diode Structure with GaSb/Si Composite Layer
Authors: Goroshko Dmitry L. , Shevlyagin Alexander V. , Chusovitin Evgeniy Anatolievich , Galkin Konstantin N. , Chernev Igor M. , Galkin Nikolay G.
Published: March 2016

An array of GaSb nanocrystallites (NCs) was formed on Si(001) substrate by solid-phase epitaxy at 500 °C. Owing to the embedded GaSb NCs, p+‑Si/NC‑GaSb/n‑Si mesa diode spectral sensitivity has extended up to 1.6 µm at room temperature, and its integral sensitivity has increased by 4–5% in the wavelength range of 1200–1600 nm, as compared to a conventional Si diode. This result was achieved by embedding only 10 nm of GaSb in the form of NCs inside a silicon matrix. In addition, we could obtain a significant electroluminescence (EL) signal at 120 K in a very wide wavelength range from 1.3 to 2.1 µm (0.95–0.59 eV). The EL spectrum has a broad maximum at 1700 nm (0.73 eV). The threshold pumping current density was as low as 0.75 A/cm2.
Immunoglobulin D Multiple Myeloma, Plasma Cell Leukemia and Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia in a Single Patient Treated Simultaneously with Lenalidomide, Bortezomib, Dexamethasone and Imatinib
Authors: Ali Naveed , Pickens Peter , Auerbach Herbert
Published: March 2016

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a neoplastic lymphoproliferative disorder characterized by uncontrolled monoclonal plasma cell proliferation. Among different isotypes of MM, immunoglobulin D (IgD) MM is very rare, representing only 1 to 2% of all isotypes. Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a neoplastic myeloproliferative disorder of pluripotent hematopoietic stem cell, which is characterized by the uncontrolled proliferation of myeloid cells. An 88-year-old male was diagnosed simultaneously with IgD kappa MM and CML. A distinctive feature in this patient was the progression to plasma cell leukemia without any symptomatic myeloma stage. He was treated simultaneously with lenalidomide, bortezomib and imatinib. Synchronous occurrence of these rare hematological malignancies in a single patient is an exceedingly rare event. Multiple hypotheses to explain co-occurrence of CML and MM have been proposed; however, the exact etiological molecular pathophysiology remains elusive.
Hacia un studio aspectual contrastive entre el Esloveno y el Español
Authors: Markič Jasmina
Published: March 2016

El tema del aspecto verbal ha suscitado un sinfín de opiniones, reflexiones, teorías, definiciones y ha atraído a numerosos lingüistas detodas las corrientes. A pesar de que se hayan propuesto últimamente diversas soluciones al problema y se haya buscado una metodología para estudiar el aspecto, en la mayoría de los casos no se trata de investigaciones generales sobre el aspecto como categoría lingüística universal sino de estudios del aspecto en determinadas lenguas.
El teatro Español en Ljubljana entre 1945-1990
Authors: Djordjević Rastko Rafael
Published: March 2016

Una mañana pasada en el archivo del Thatro Nacional de Ljubljana resulta más que suficiente para poder constatar que las obras teatrales españolas han sido estrenadas raramente durante los últimos cuarenta años y esto con mucha irregularidad. Los años cincuenta (el período después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial) se mostraron favorables al teatro español; el público de Ljubljana encuentra en las piezas de Lorca y en las del Siglo de Oro algo diferente. Los espectadores viven el destino trágico, la espera vana, el camino irrealizado, Ia muerte con Ia que concluye el anhelo de vivir de los héroes de Lorca; los autores del Siglo de Oro con sus temas caballerescos de honor y de venganza y con su sentido del humor sorprenden y entusiasman. De este modo, se estrenan desde 1949 hasta 1959 tres obras maestras de Lorca:1950 La casa de BemardaAlba,1955 Bodas de sangre y finalmente en 1959 Yerma.
Peñas arriba y flores en Otoño: el acceso al conocimiento
Authors: Sršen Barbara
Published: March 2016

Después de unas diez páginas leídas de Peñas arriba de José María de Pereda se me ocurrió la idea de compararla con la novela Flores en otoño de Ivan Tavčar. Ni las obras nisus autores poseen relación alguna pero se pueden encontrar algunos puntos de contacto, que son interesantes, a pesar de que los planteamientos sean tan diferentes. Cuanto más profundizaba en ambas obras y buscaba sus cualidades y conexiones entre sí; así como los puntos de discordancia, mas me interesaba el asunto. Aparte la comparación de las dos novelas, surgían también algunas semejanzas en las vidas de ambos autores o en sus héroes literarios, pues en ambas hay datos autobiográficos indudables (sobre todo en Tavčar, con su abogado). Me pareció interesante el dato de que ambos autores escribieran sus novelas casi a la misma edad (Tavčar a los 65 años y Pereda a los 62 años de edad). A pesar de la diferencia de más de 20 años entre Peñas arriba y Flores en otoño y de Ia lejania en lo geográfico, que supone también distintos ambientes y diversas atmósferas sociales, no hay que olvidar el hecho (mencionado arriba) de la edad de los autores al escribir las novelas respectivas.
El coloquio de los Perros a la luz de la poética del Pinciano
Authors: Canals Piñas Jordi
Published: March 2016

La novela cervantina que conocemos con el título de Coloquio de los Pe"os  (CP), cierra la colección de Novelas Ejemplares publicadas en 1613. Aunque puede considerarse parte integrante de el casamiento Engañoso (CE), penúltima narración del volumen, mantienen ambas una casi total autonomía.
Vigencia del diptongo hispánico
Authors: Rivera Alvaro Calderón
Published: March 2016

Reflexiones a través de la cátedra de fonetica en pregrado y postgrado motivaron la gestación de esta investigación sobre la presencia en lengua hispánica actual de un diptongo más (15°), presente en la combinación ui, en palabras tal vez pocas pero suficientes que muestran una configuración fónica muy específica en la concurrencia vocálica referida.
Apuntes sobre el nivel fónico en el Español ecuatoriano
Authors: Reino Pedro
Published: March 2016

La [b) se emplea en España y en América. Esta articulación sustituye de modo generalizado en América ala [v]. Los hispanoamericanos pronunciamos [bwélbe],en lugar de (vwélve) (vuelve). En el Ecuador ocurre lo afirmado. De la falta de hábito articulatorio aprendido desde Ia infancia se generan los problemas ortográficos. Como realmente no articulamos correctamente la (v) en el habla cotidiana, y la confundimos en un solo punto de articulación bilabial con la [b], por ello tambien somos inconsistentes en la ortografía.
Unas características específicas del judeo-Español de Sarajev, Bosnia
Authors: Knezović Alica
Published: March 2016

En el día 1 de (agosto) del año 5525 de la creación salieron de España, tierra donde vivieron sus/'adres al pie de dos mil años, trescientas mil personas. - dice José Amador de los Ríos. Después de esta expulsión de los judíos de España en 1492 por los Reyes Católicos, los primeros datos sobre algunas familias de comerciantes judíos establecidos en Sarajevo, Bosnia, son del año 1566, aunque ya en el año 1551, en algunos documentos turcos, se menciona a unos comerciantes judíos. Llegaron a Bosnia, que en aquel entonces era parte del gran Imperio Turco, gracias a la actitud benevolente del sultán Bayeceto II quien invitó a los sefardíes dándose cuenta del provecho que su Imperio pudiera sacar de un colectivo de tan alta cultura y productividad, hecho al comercio y a múltiples oficios. Los sefardíes trajeron a Bosnia su idioma - el español- en el que se comunicaban en España y que, por largo tiempo, fue la única lengua de comunicación entre ellos.
Ficción y erotismo. La reubicación del cuerpo en la ficción Española contemporánea
Authors: Navajas Gonzalo
Published: March 2016

Es apropiado que un ensayo sobre el erotismo empiece con una consideración en tomo al cuerpo. El cuerpo entendido no como un recipiente o receptor pasivo de un con­ tenido extemo (una idea, un alma) y, por tanto, un elemento secundario de Ia signifi­ cación, sino como un generador de significado, un signo primordial de Ia discursividad (Foucault, 20). Poner, además, el cuerpo en relación con la narración ficcional implica que ese concepto del cuerpo está realizado concretamente dentro de una estructura dinámica, en progresión articulada y coherente y en interconexión con otros cuerpos. Ubicar el cuerpo dentro de un contexto diferencial-el español-conlleva, además, el que ese cuerpo actúa y se visualiza de una manera específica, determinada por unos parámetros culturales. Tres son, por consiguiente, los presupuestos preliminares de mi ensayo. Es una reflexión en tomo a los modos de significación del cuerpo y sus ramificaciones (deseo, sexualidad, afectividad); esa reflexión se hace dentro de la ficción; y con el referente específico de la ficción (novela y cine) espanola contemporánea.a.
Claves de la poética machadiana en proverbios y Cantares
Authors: Martinez Virginia Romo
Published: March 2016

Los Proverbios y Cantares se publicaron por primera vez en Revista de Occidente - sin la dedicatoria a José Ortega y Gasset, en 1923. Un afio despues, al recogerse en Nuevas Canciones, se ornitieron varias piezas y se incluy6 la dedicatoria mencionada; en la portadilla figuraba la fecha [1917-1920]. Poesías Completas de 1928 incorpora Nuevas Canciones, suprirniendo cuatro composiciones más de Proverbios y Cantares, de manera que quedaron las 99 coplas que forman la versión definitiva. El sentir que transmiten es el del autor en los últimos años de su estancia en Baeza y primeros de Segovia, período clave en su evolución, para cuyo estudio es inestimable la ayuda que nos ofrece su cuademo de apuntes, publicado póstumamente bajo el titulo de Los Complementarios. Estamos ante una obra de transición tanto por el momenta vital en que se escribió (Baeza-Segovia), como por enlazar poéticamente y sin rupturas dos momentos culminantes en su hacer literario: el mundo de Campos de Castilla y el de sus apócrifos; y lo hace, dando vida independiente a una sección ya concebida en Campos de Castilla, en cuyo seno se da a luz al término que precisamente definirá parte de la obra de Abel Martín, me refiero al término "complementario": "Busca a tu complementario, I que marcha siempre contigo, I y suele ser tu contrario" (XV).
Las contradicciones en el quijote y su función
Authors: Osterc Ludovik
Published: March 2016

Al buscar la bibliografía sobre este tema topé con un dato muy significativo. Tal bibliografía prácticamente no existe, a pesar de su gran importancia para la comprensión de la intención, el legado, los alcances y el propósito que Cervantes se había fijado al concebir su magna novela. Y ello no es casual, ya que un análisis objetivo de las razones que han movido al autor para servirse de contradicciones descubriría su verdadera ideología y objetivo que perseguía.
Juan de Dios Luque, Antonio Pamies & Francisco José Manjón (2000), Dicciona­rio del insulto. Barcelona: Ed. Península.
Authors: Lozano Wenceslao Carlos
Published: March 2016

Ya van siendo numerosos los trabajos que han publicado juntos estos tres lingüistas y profesores de la Universidad de Granada, sobre todo de carácter fraseológico, y tanto desde sus aspectos teóricos en libros y artículos, como en el orden práctico, con la edición impresa y en Cd rom de léxicos, glosarios y diccionarios. De esa colaboración salió en 1997 El arte del insulto (Ed. Península), una obra que, pese a parecer presentada en clave de humor, analiza en profundidad los mecanismos léxicos, retóricos y psicológicos del insulto, sobre la base de un corpus propio de varios miles de unidades en varias lenguas. El éxito de la empresa animó a los autores a complementar el trabajo teórico con un Diccionario que reúne más de cuatro mil entradas, con definiciones y, en casi todos los casos, etimologías y ejemplos de usos reales, extraídos tanto de la prensa como de textos literarios españoles de varios miles de unidades españolas de diversas épocas, donde abunda y se manifiesta briosamente el denuesto; pero también de la oralidad cotidiana, en la que, como es sabido, el español de a pie se prodiga sin recato en aquello de maldecir al prójimo y a su parentela. Por lo demás, se añaden interesantes explicaciones sobre los procedimientos tropológicos y numerosas variantes.
Cuatro poetas vanguardistas y la contemporaneidad de sus poéticas: huidobro, Vallejo, girondo y borges
Authors: Skledar Ana
Published: March 2016

El surgimiento de los vanguardismos artísticos y literarios está relacionado con el período de mayor intensidad social, ideológica e histórica del siglo XX: el período que va desde Ia Primera Guerra Mundial del14 al inicio de Ia Segunda en 1939. El término vanguardias surge en Francia durante los años de Ia Primera Guerra. Su origen está en la palabra francesa avant-garde, término de origen military político, que refleja el espíritu de lucha, de combate y de confrontación que el nuevo arte oponía frente al arte académico del siglo XIX.
Otro día había de volver al duro ejercicio de las armas
Authors: Skubic Mitja
Published: March 2016

En El Quijote de Cervantes el pronombre indefinido otro aparece frecuentemente y con varios valores semánticos. Aquí nos interesan sólo los valores temporales en el sintag­ ma otro día y aun queremos limitarnos a una sola acepción de dicho sintagma que es 'al día siguiente', es decir cuando el sintagma sirve para introducir una acción o situación de posterioridad, un futuro en el pasado, como en Else lo contó todo [...] que fue poner más deseo en ellicenciado de hacer lo que otro día hizo, 1,5. Tales pasajes, con otro más un substantivo de tiempo, en la novela no son excesivos, ya que dicho sintagma puede aparecer con tal sentido sólo en la narración, en una secuencia de acontecimientos, a condición de referirse a un hecho acaecido al día, mes, año siguiente a otro en el pasado;
La experiencia de la temporalidad en cuatro poemas de Antonio Machado: propuesta de análisi lingüístico
Authors: Pihler Barbara
Published: March 2016

Uno de los grandes poetas españoles del siglo XX, Antonio Machado, era muy consciente de que todo artista está irrevocablemente arraigado en su tiempo y que sus creaciones no son otra cosa que la objetivación de su experiencia temporal. Esa sujeción del artista-poeta en el tiempo era para Machado una verdad axiomática ya que el "poeta del tiempo" crea su mundo poético con las ideas que no son categorías formales y 1ógicas sino son directas intuiciones del ser, de su propio existir. A través de estas intuiciones se convierte el tiempo en la temporalidad.
La pragmática del discurso poético con especial intención a la temporalidad lingüística
Authors: Pihler Barbara
Published: March 2016

El hecho de que el significado global de un texto resulta superior a la simple suma de las significaciones de las oraciones que lo componen, originó el conocido cambio de paradigma en el desarrollo de la investigación lingüística: el paso de la oración al texto. Como el texto llegó a ser la clave para el estudio lingüístico fue imprescindible la reconsideración global de la naturaleza de la lengua lo que suponía ciertas ampliaciones del concepto de la lingüística tradicional. Surgió la disciplina llamada Lingüística textual o Sintaxis textual2  cuyo objeto sería el estudio de la lengua a partir de su manifestación en textos. Por una parte se concibe el texto como la unidad global del acto de comunicación y por otra se lo considera como el encadenamiento de estructuras sintácticas particulares. Los límites entre sintaxis, semántica y pragmática se hacen borrosos puesto que el texto ya no se concibe como una estructura cerrada, sino como proceso de significación, abier- to a interpretaciones subjetivas diferentes.
Intento de una definición genérica del poema renacentista italiano a la luz de las reflexiones teóricas de Ortega y Gasset, Lúkacs y Bajtin
Authors: Prosenc Šegula Irena
Published: March 2016

La definición genérica de la novela o de lo novelesco es problemática tal cual, sin reparar ya en la forma histórica de la novela a la cual queremos aplicarla. Este artículo propone una contribución a la definición genérica del poema renacentista italiano de los finales del siglo XV y del siglo XVI, a base de las reflexiones de José Ortega y Gasset, Georg Lukács y Mijail Bajtin sobre la novela. La investigación se refiere a las tres obras más importantes de la épica italiana renacentista: Orlando enamorado (Orlando innamorato) de Matteo Maria Boiardo de finales del siglo XV, Orlando furioso de Ludovico Ariosto de la primera mitad del siglo XVI y Jerusalén liberada (Gerusalemme liberata) de Torquato Tasso de la segunda mitad del siglo XVI. Además han sido incluidos algunos poemas descritos en general como menores: Guirón el Cortés (Gyrone il Cortese) de Luigi Alamanni, Amadís (Ama- digi) de Bernardo Tasso, Reinaldo (Rinaldo) de Torquato Tasso – todos de la midad del siglo XVI – y Jerusalén conquistada (Gerusalemme conquistata) de Torquato Tasso de finales del siglo XVI. La base de todas estas obras es sin duda el poema caballeresco, ya que sus autores constantemente vuelven a introducir sus motivos y fórmulas estilísticas.