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If Worlds Were Stories
Authors: Klebes Martin
Published: November 2018

The metaphysics of possible worlds proposed by the analytic philosopher David K. Lewis offers an account of fictional discourse according to which possible worlds described in fiction are just as real as the actual world. In an inspired reversal of the analysis of literary fictions by such philosophical means, the French poet Jacques Roubaud makes direct reference to Lewis’ controversial ontological picture in two cycles of elegies composed between 1986 and 1990. Roubaud’s poems take up the idea of possible worlds as real entities, and at the same time they challenge the notion that philosophy could offer an account of fiction in which the puzzling collision of the possible with the impossible that fundamentally characterizes the phenomenon of fictionality would be seamlessly unravelled. For Roubaud the lyrical genre of the elegy and its thematic concern with love and death stands as a prime indicator of the quandary that results from our inability to solve paradoxes of modality such as those raised by Lewis in strictly theoretical terms.
Running the Gamut: Music, the Aesthetic, and Wittgenstein's Ladder
Authors: Kramer Lawrence
Published: November 2018

Ludwig Wittgenstein’s thinking about musical aesthetics (a small but persistent strain in his writings) focused primarily on questions of demonstration and proper performance: how should this waltz or march sound? These emphases were part of a modernist-inspired effort to move aesthetics down from the heights of Kantian contemplation onto the plain of quotidian practice. But Wittgenstein does not so much escape Kant’s formulations as he extends them. The result opens the possibility of elaborating ordinary, even banal, comments about music into complex accounts of musical meaning.
Anxiety : the Uncanny Borderline of Psychoanalysis
Authors: Weber Samuel
Published: November 2018

Freud begins his well-known essay on the Uncanny with a disclaimer that raises the question of why he writes the essay in the first place. This text argues that the explanation is to be found in the shift his thinking was undergoing at the time, not only in moving "Beyond the Pleasure Priniple" but also in rethinking its relation to Anxiety.
Drawing Lines : from Kernberg and Haraway to Lacan and Beyond
Authors: MacCannell Juliet Flower
Published: November 2018

This paper reviews the key concepts underlying the diagnosis of “borderline personality disorder” as exemplified in the work of Otto Kernberg. It looks both to history and philosophy (Rousseau), to social thought (Erving Goffman) and to psychoanalysis (Deutsch, Freud, Lacan) to show the limitations and problems with the diagnosis. It also looks at later cultural developments attacking the idea of limits and ‘borders’ (e.g, Haraway refusal of metaphoric distinctions among human-animal-machine) as having their own vexed psychoanalytic profile. The paper concludes with strong speculation about the reasons humans, and humans alone, draw lines.
The Borders Between Autism and Psychosis
Authors: Bergeron Danielle
Published: November 2018

The borders between autism and psychosis are determined by the position that the subject takes with respect to the entry into language during the mirror stage. An ethical choice on the part of the subject of the unconscious seems, very early in life, to determine the passage or the refusal of passage into the field of the Other. As a result of their experiences, certain children choose to reside in the present instant and to build their own space by surrounding themselves with objects, while other children take the risk of language and enter the time of the Other through which their history will be structured. We will address this question through consideration of the autobiographies of autistics and the clinical testimonies of psychotic patients.
The Face as Fingerprint : Mediation, Silence, and the Question of Identity in Ingmar Bergman’s « Persona »
Authors: Stern Michael
Published: November 2018

This volume is dedicated to readings of the borderline informed by Psychoanalysis. My essay is an exception to that rule. In it, I analyze Ingmar Bergman’s Persona (1966) with an eye to the dangers of a one-way conversation. Interestingly, Persona dramatizes an inversion of a typical psychoanalytic session, for here the patient says nothing and her nurse confesses. The aftermath of this inversion and its consequences are explored with the help of the Italian feminist, Adrianna Cavarero, the Danish Philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard, and the Serbian performance artist, Marina Abramović. Enjoining a debate within psychoanalysis from the border regions of existential and feminist philosophy, I argue that the silence of an interlocutor creates a mask screening the speaker from the mutual recognition needed for a healthy sense of identity. This essay argues the case for conversation.
Die Grenzen im Kopf: Imagining walls, borders, frontiers, and national identity in Alsace/Elsaß
Authors: Wallace Peter G.
Published: November 2018

Political geographers draw distinctions in English between borders, usually conceived of as lines on a map, and frontiers, which are seen as zones. In German, Grenze, a word borrowed from Slavic, and reflecting ethnic differences is often used for both. In French frontière with its roots in medieval warfare, covers both concepts. Beginning with some considerations of Alsace/Elsaß as a frontier zone between Germany and France, this paper will review ongoing debates among historians of nationalism on the definitions of nations, states, and frontiers. It will then trace the historical development in Europe of these concepts from antiquity into the early modern period. It was during the dynastic power struggles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that the concepts of nation and state took on fundamental political significance as rulers made claims to sovereignty in the name of historical nations and borders became enshrined in “international” law as the result of the peace treaties signed in Westphalia in 1648. The essay questions both the historical depth of nations, states, and borders and the teleological assumption of their inevitability and permanence in human political relations. Nations, states, and borders are mental constructs. They were imagined and can be reimagined. A close examination of Alsatian history shows the bloody historical effects of applying these concepts arbitrarily in a cultural borderland and the potential for a different political future for Europe by reimagining borders.
Why Wall? A Kleinian Reading of the Israeli-Palestinian Resistance to Politics
Authors: Mukamel Maya
Published: November 2018

The present work explores the separation barriers built by the Israeli government and military as products and producers of asymmetries of power between Israelis and Palestinians; and, at the same time, as products and producers of discourses that are characterized by the naturalization of evil. In such discourses, evil is singularized as a unique cultural property of the national adversary; violence and aggression on the part of the adversary are perceived as a sign of a primitive morality, detached from political and historical circumstances; and violence of each party is justified as a defensive war on the “evil” other. A return to Melanie Klein allows to trace these dynamics, and to raise fundamental questions on the role of the cultural analyst.
Walled In Literature: An Architectural Inquiry
Authors: Wegmann Nikolaus
Published: November 2018

The Berlin Wall is – in spite of its obvious function and its supposedly simple form (Gestalt) – an object that must be read carefully. Countless attempts have been made to analyze the significance of the Berlin Wall. The present analysis does not make use of statistics, mass media representations, or historical moralities in its attempt to arrive at a new understanding of the Wall. Instead, the focus is on the Wall as a complex architectural form and its function for a second German national literature after 1961.
Introduction
Authors: Librett Jeffrey S.
Published: November 2018

Introduction to Konturen Volume IV, Up Against the Wall.
Twombly's Roses
Authors: Schestag Thomas
Published: November 2018

Following a studied detour through C. G. Jung, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and particularly R. M. Rilke, this essay tracks the lineage along which Cy Twombly, like a child, is “drawn to paint.”
Abstraction and Empathy on the Eve of World War I
Authors: Simmons William Sherwin
Published: November 2018

This essay considers continuities between the impetus towards abstraction within Jugendstil and Expressionism. Both Hermann Obrist and Franz Marc sought through empathy to intuit and image abstract forces at work within the materiality of the organic and inorganic natural worlds. Their creative practice and theoretical writings share much with Wilhelm Worringer’s discussion of the “expressive abstraction” found in the Gothic style, which unified the organic with the abstract. This essay explores the trajectories of this visual and textual discourse, paying particular attention to their nexus during 1914 in Obrist’s monumental sculptures at the Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne and the development of Marc’s paintings over the course of that year.
Food for Vultures
Authors: Calhoon Kenneth S.
Published: November 2018

Beginning with a comparison of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and certain paintings of Piet Mondrian, this essay explores the inherent abstraction of Romantic precursors to those Modernist literary and painterly compositions that (continue to) place a subject squarely before an expanse (of water, of light, or of dark).
Say good-bye, Cy, to the Shores of Representation: Towards an Abstract Romanticism
Authors: Pyle Forest
Published: November 2018

This essay is concerned with the ways in which the works of Cy Twombly, especially those paintings that refer to and draw their impetus from the poetry of Shelley and Keats, elaborate an impulse towards abstraction already latent in Romanticism itself.
From Anti-humanism to Post-humanism: Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf
Authors: Mathäs Alexander
Published: November 2018

Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf (1927) can be regarded as a post-humanist novel for several reasons. It is post-humanist in a temporal sense because it engages with the nineteenth-century humanist legacy from a twentieth-century perspective. The novel’s brazen critique of traditional bourgeois values does not simply reject humanism and its philosophy of individual autonomy. It dislodges idealist concepts of wholeness and self-perfection and replaces them with a multi-perspectival view of a continuously changing human consciousness, an open-ended process toward an ever-elusive self-awareness.

The protagonist of Hesse’s novel, Harry Haller, even though still heavily influenced by the humanist tradition, can no longer be viewed as a clearly defined individual personifying the Cartesian dichotomy of body and mind. On the contrary, Hesse’s novel depicts Haller’s gradual disillusionment with this idealist world view by giving a detailed account of the deconstruction of his personality – a personality that, as it turns out, does not consist of a spiritual essence but dissolves into an accumulation of acquired conventions, habits, cultural and philosophical traditions, even specific historical events and constellations. Yet Hesse’s attempt to go beyond a mere negation of humanist values implies transcending the humanist paradigm in many respects, including its form.

This essay will focus on the novel’s subversion of the humanist tradition. It discloses how Hesse’s novel undermines universalist philosophical claims, regardless of whether they belong to the idealist or anti-idealist Nietzschean philosophy that heavily influenced both the protagonist and his author. In light of the novel’s dismantling of binary reasoning, foregrounded in the protagonist’s man-animal division, the essay challenges conventional wisdom among critics who regard Hesse’s literary works as traditionalist.
The Humanity of Children from Sandmann to Struwwelpeter: A Tale of Two Hoffmanns
Authors: Hart Gail
Published: November 2018

Within the context of an inquiry into the borders between human and animal, this essay considers the question of the humanity--or animality--of children as they are depicted in nineteenth-century German literature and elsewhere. Defining nineteenth-century literary "humanity" as a regulating, domesticating, bourgeoisification, I examine E.T.A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann and Heinrich Hoffmann's Der Struwwelpeter, and follow the sins of omission (Sandmann) and comission (Struwwelpeter) that seem to authorize the inhuman treatment of children. Nathanael, Coppelius's "little beast," is reduced both to beast and automaton/wooden doll and ultimately destroyed in E.T.A. Hoffmann's adult novella. Twenty-nine years later, the young protagonists of Heinrich Hoffmann's children's book suffer gruesome punishments for their willful transgression of bourgeois norms and domestic law. But the children's rhymes produced in 1845 have a revolutionary flavor that underscores the subject's freedom.
Defining the Human and the Animal
Authors: Mathäs Alexander
Published: November 2018

Introduction for Konturen Volume VI, Defining the Human and the Animal
Select Bibliography
Authors: Mathäs Alexander
Published: November 2018

Bibliography of reading material for those interested in pursuing the ideas discussed in this volume of Konturen, Defining the Human and the Animal.
Introduction: Kierkegaard and German Thought
Authors: Stern Michael
Published: November 2018

Kierkegaard's own fondness for prefaces introduces our volume.
Mutiny of an Error: Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on Suicide
Authors: Klebes Martin
Published: November 2018

In their philosophical work Ludwig Wittgenstein and Søren Kierkegaard both reflect on suicide as a response to existential despair. While Anti-Climacus, the pseudonymous author of The Sickness unto Death, rejects the contemplation of suicide as an outright barrier to an “awakening” of the self to its own sinful condition, Wittgenstein’s diary notes betray a different attitude towards such thinking; while he largely concurs with Kierkegaard’s characterization of despair, Wittgenstein strikes a less confident pose concerning the possibility of a leap into faith that would all at once overcome any thought of suicide.
How to Go Beyond an Ontotheology of the Human Subject? Anxiety in Kierkegaard and Heidegger
Authors: Librett Jeffrey S.
Published: November 2018

By examining Martin Heidegger's critique of Søren Kierkegaard, this essay reconsiders the limits that an ontotheology of the subject may or may not impose on investigations of the relations between being and time. I begin by summarizing briefly both Heidegger's rejection of subject-centered thought and his critique of Kierkegaard as an example of such thought. I then delineate the sense in which, and gauge the extent to which, in The Concept of Anxiety Kierkegaard unsettles both the modal-ontological categories on which such subject-centered thought is based and the "vulgar" notion of time that, according to Heidegger, traditionally attends the invocation of these categories. Finally, I indicate briefly some ways in which Heidegger's thought remains partially beholden to an ontotheology of the subject. The more general implication is certainly not, however, that Kierkegaard outdoes Heidegger in some sort of competition in the deconstruction of metaphysics. Rather, this approach to the question of the metaphysics of the subject by way of the anxiety-analyses of Heidegger and Kierkegaard suggests that the exact character of such a metaphysics and the specific meaning of "subject" and "subjectivity" remain open and pressing questions, especially given that Heidegger's fundamental ontology (and his Seinsdenken), as well as Kierkegaard's critique of Hegelian systematicity, remain marked by traditional notions of sovereign self-determination, and its ontology
The Stillness of History: Kierkegaard and German Mysticism
Authors: Piety M.G.
Published: November 2018

The German mystics were particularly important for Kierkegaard because of the proximity of Germany to Denmark and because of their influence on both German idealism and the Pietist tradition in which Kierkegaard was raised. This article is the first attempt to look at the issue of how the views of the German mystics may have influenced Kierkegaard’s though. It begins with an introduction to what one could call mystical epistemology, but then looks more specifically at the epistemology of two medieval German mystics, Meister Eckhart and Johannes Tauler, and at Kierkegaard’s exposure to the German mystical tradition. Finally, it presents an account of Kierkegaard’s own religious epistemology that makes clear that it is largely indistinguishable from the epistemology of Ekhardt and Tauler.
Clouds: The Tyranny of Irony over Philosophy
Authors: Stern Michael
Published: November 2018

Both Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche maintained an abiding concern for Socrates throughout their productive lives. Kierkegaard wrote his dissertation on irony through a Socratic lens and Nietzsche once declared that try as he might, he could not completely separate his concerns from those he associated with the Greek.

Kierkegaard famously favored Aristophanes’ portrait of Socrates in his comedy Clouds, claiming that it accurately portrayed the illegibility of the ironist. Nietzsche leaned toward Xenophon’s Socratic writings but most famously blamed Plato’s Socrates for the demise of tragic culture. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche engaged with the variety of Socratic depictions throughout their careers and perhaps more importantly, both employed irony in a Socratic fashion inflected by textual concerns. In other words, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche understood irony as both the indication of an epistemological limit, and as a strategy to induce the reader to think herself into the text. My article “Clouds: The Tyranny of Irony over Philosophy” analyzes this common concern and its implications for our understanding of European modernity.
“Was bedeutet der Stein?”: Fetishism, Profanation, and Parody in Fontane’s Grete Minde
Authors: Weitzman Erica
Published: November 2018

This article explores the function of the precarious (non-)significance of the thing in Theodor Fontane’s 1879 novella Grete Minde. On the surface a simple tale of exclusion and revenge in seventeenth-century Brandenburg and a seeming anomaly in Fontane’s oeuvre, the novella also contains a barely visible leitmotif of the agency of things on the cusp of their disempowerment, not to say fall into vulgar parody and obscene joke. This article reads the status of the thing in Grete Minde not only as a key to some of the text’s more curious narrative choices, but also as a mark of the persistence of the ontological and aesthetic questions of the Reformation and as Fontane’s ambivalent self-reflection on the task of the novelist in the modern era.
Speculative Fetishism
Authors: McNulty Tracy
Published: November 2018

Quentin Meillassoux, like his mentor Alain Badiou, is sometimes accused by his critics of “fetishizing mathematics.” Without embracing the negative judgment implied in such a charge, this essay asks: what might be gained by taking seriously the link between fetishism and speculative philosophy? The claim that Meillassoux “fetishizes” mathematics potentially reveals something fundamental not only about the formalism at the heart of his speculative realism (whose “glaciality,” inanimacy, or inhuman character might sustain a certain disavowal, namely of “finitude” or castration) but about fetishism itself, whose philosophical character is attested not only by its ideality or relation to the absolute, but by its concern with thought or construction. The aim of this essay is thus not to dwell at length on the work of Meillassoux, but rather to think about the “speculative realism” specific to fetishism itself, and its unique contribution to speculative philosophy.
The Freudian Thing and the Ethics of Speech
Authors: Wilson Daniel
Published: November 2018

In his 1891 On Aphasia Freud defines the “thing” in the terms of J.S. Mill’s empiricist phenomenology as a set of sensory impressions that is linked both to language and to immediate sensory experience. These distinctions structure the Project for a Scientific Psychology and reappear in “The Unconscious,” where Freud writes that the unconscious is a scene of experience that is linked to, but continues to insist in excess of, language. While Lacan opposes das Ding to Freud’s definition, in “The Unconscious,” of the “unconscious Vorstellungen” as “the presentation of the thing alone,” this essay argues that Freud’s definition of the unconscious points to a scene of experience disorganized by language, that is censored by the passage through the mirror stage, and about which the Other knows nothing. The essay ends by looking at several texts by Tito Mukhopadhyay, who is autistic. Mukhopadhyay describes his autism in terms of a decision to not pass through the mirror stage, which left him exposed to a scene of experience disorganized by the desire carried on the Other’s voice. In his eventual decision to enter into language and write of his experience, Mukhopadhyay’s writings locate an ethics of speech that, rather than censor the unconscious presentation of the thing by linking it to a prohibited Oedipal object, makes a space within the discourse of the Other for a universal dimension of human experience.
“Innocent Objects:” Fetishism and Melancholia in Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence
Authors: Hoffmann Eva
Published: November 2018

In this article, I place Orhan Pamuk’s novel The Museum of Innocence into dialogue with Sigmund Freud’s theory of the fetish. As Gerhard Neumann argues, the fetish provides the basic pattern for the modern subject and its experience of self and the world while performing the impossibility of narrating this experience. In a similar vein, the fetishized objects described in the novel and put on display in Pamuk’s actual museum in Istanbul complicate the narrator’s account of a lost love relationship. The fetish objects create an intertwinement of coalescing and contradicting narratives that point to “black melancholia” as a deeply ambiguous feeling in the collective memory of Istanbul and its people.
Trumpestilence
Authors: Stern Michael J
Published: November 2018

Since the contributions to this Special Issue consist of relatively brief statements, the Editorial Board of Konturen has decided to forego abstracts this time around. Please click on "html" or "pdf" below for the full document of this essay.
Inappropriate Questions Asked of Female Orthopaedic Surgery Applicants From 1971 to 2015: A Cross-sectional Study
Authors: Bohl Daniel D. , Iantorno Stephanie E. , Kogan Monica
Published: November 2018

Introduction:

The Civil Rights Act prohibits employers from making employment decisions based on sex, race, color, religion, or national origin. Questions regarding these topics during a residency interview are therefore prohibited.

Methods:

A questionnaire was sent to all female orthopaedic surgeons who had an e-mail address in the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons directory. Participants were asked to describe what, if any, inappropriate questions they were asked during interviews.

Results:

Four hundred eighty-eight of 997 invited female orthopaedic surgeons completed the questionnaire (48.9%). Their residency interviews took place from 1971 to 2015. Overall, 61.7% of participants were asked an inappropriate question during an interview. This proportion neither increased nor decreased from 1971 to 2015 (P = 0.315). The most common themes of questions included “raising children during residency” (37.9%), “marital status” (32.4%), and “pregnancy during residency” (29.7%). Of those who were asked an inappropriate question, only 1.4% reported the inappropriate question to authorities.

Discussion:

The present study suggests that over half of female applicants have been asked inappropriate questions at orthopaedic surgery residency interviews, and that there has been no improvement in that percentage over nearly five decades. It is the responsibility those interviewing to be aware of this issue and to be in compliance with national guidelines.

Level of Evidence:

Level IV
Avoiding routine postoperative voiding cystourethrogram: Predicting radiologic success for endoscopically treated vesicoureteral reflux
Authors: Wang Peter (Zhan Tao) , Abdelhalim Ahmed , Walia Arman , Wehbi Elias , Dave Sumit , Khoury Antoine
Published: November 2018

Introduction: Variability in the success rates for the endoscopic correction of vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) has prompted a debate regarding the use of routine postoperative voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG). This study examines the predictive performance of intraoperative mound morphology (IMM) and the presence of a postoperative ultrasound mound (PUM) on radiologic success, as well as investigates the role of using these two predictive factors as a composite tool to predict VUR resolution after endoscopic treatment.
Methods: This retrospective study included children with primary VUR who underwent endoscopic correction with a double hydrodistension-implantation technique (HIT) and dextranomer/ hyaluronic acid copolymer. IMM was assessed intraoperatively. The presence of a PUM and VUR resolution were assessed by postoperative ultrasound (US) and VCUG, respectively. Radiologic success was defined as VUR resolution.
Results: A total of 70 children (97 ureters) were included in the study. The overall radiologic success rate was 83.5%. There was no statistically significant association between radiologic success and IMM (85.2% with excellent and 87.5% with “other” morphology; p=0.81). The sensitivity and specificity of PUM for radiologic success in this study was 98% and 71%, respectively, while the sensitivity and specificity of the combined prediction model were 81.9% and 85.7%, respectively.
Conclusions: We objectively demonstrated that IMM was a poor predictor of radiologic success and should be used with caution. In addition, the performance of a combined prediction model was inferior to the presence of a PUM alone. As such, selective use of postoperative VCUG may be guided solely by the presence of a PUM.
Concern and Attitudes Toward Zika Virus in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic: A Cross-Sectional Study
Authors: Black Gregory , Hasenkamp Eric , Johnson Nicholas , Ianiro Rosanna , Izurieta Ricardo , Ortiz Miguel Reina
Published: November 2018

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: The Zika virus, a member of the flavivirus genus, is an emerging threat to many tropical regions of the world. This study was designed to assess the level of knowledge, attitudes and concern in regards to the Zika virus in the community of Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic, with the hopes of guiding future efforts toward public education and prevention of future public health threats.

METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in the rural communities of Jarabacoa during October 2016 and October 2017. Individuals completed a 14-point survey evaluating: level of concern towards Zika (1=no concern, 3=neutral, 5=extremely concerned), knowledge level of the disease, use of personal protection against the virus, how people initially heard about the disease and contraception use.

RESULTS: Overall, women were more concerned than men about contracting the virus (p<.001, CI -2.510, -0.826). Of the respondents (N=138), 66% learned about Zika from the TV/news and 24.6% from their medical provider. 5% knew Zika was contracted from blood and 2% from pregnancy, and only 17% of respondents knew that it was contracted through sex. For protection from Zika, only 8% used condoms. Of the women trying to get pregnant, none knew Zika could be transmitted through sex.

CONCLUSION: This study revealed that women were more concerned about the Zika virus than men and that knowledge about the virus was limited. In general, people are protecting themselves against vector borne transmission but not non-vector borne modes of transmission such as sexual intercourse. Also, public health education is lacking. Further studies are needed with more male participants, focus on contraception and social media’s effect on public health education.
The Interaction Effect of Financial Innovation and the Transmission Channels on Money Demand in Uganda
Authors: Nnyanzi John Bosco
Published: November 2018

The current study set out to examine the direct as well as the indirect effect of technological advances and diversification of the financial sector on money demand in Uganda using annual data from 1986 to 2017. The results derived on the basis of the ARDL framework provide evidence in confirmation of the significant role played by financial innovation in the demand for real narrow money balances both directly and indirectly via the real income as well as the inflation rate channels in the shortrun and longrun. The association appears to increase (decrease) once inflation (real income) decreases (increases). On the contrary, we find no evidence that the exchange rate and the interest rate channels matter in the financial-innovation-money-demand linkage although their independent effect is significantly indismissible. Surprisingly, besides the exchange rate and inflation rate, data does not allow conclusion of any significant role of financial innovation in real broad money balances. Finally, the money demand function is found stable over the study period. Overall, supportive policies that are pro-advancement in the creation and popularizing of the new financial instruments as well as new financial technologies, institutions and markets are strongly recommended for purposes of enhancing pro-growth financial innovations. Policy makers ought to give more attention to the income and inflation rate transmission channels if financial innovations are to be a benefit rather than a risk to money demand stability. The adoption of the inflation lite monetary framework was therefore a right step in the right direction.
The Impact of the Requirements of International Audit Standard No (300): Planning for Auditing Financial Statements on the Quality of the Audit Report
Authors: Saleem Khalil Abu
Published: November 2018

Purpose: This study aimed to demonstrate the impact of the requirements of the International Auditing Standard No. (300): Planning the auditing of financial statements on the quality of the report performed by the external auditor.

Design / Methodology / Approach: The descriptive statistical method was used, the data was collected through a questionnaire developed by the researcher, which targeted (113) individuals of the external auditors. The study included six axes, five of which were allocated to measure the impact of the requirements of the audit standard No. (300), while the sixth axis was devoted to measure the quality of the auditing report.

Results: The study found that there is a statistically significant relation with the requirements of the International Auditing Standard No. (300): Planning the auditing of financial statements on the quality of the report of the external auditor, where the axis of planning activities had the most significant impact on the quality of the audit report, while the additional considerations were less impactful in the auditing process.

Originality/ Value: According to the researcher knowledge, this study is considered as the first one which dealt with the variables of the study combined; this will provide a solid ground for researchers to motivate themselves to conduct further research and studies on these variables.
A Proficiency-Based Comparative Investigation of Listening Comprehension Strategies Employed by Saudi EFL Learners
Authors: Javid Choudhary Zahid
Published: November 2018

The study in hand intends to investigate the comparative analyses of the perceptions of Saudi EFL learners with high grade point average (HGPA) and low-grade point average (LGPA) towards cognitive, metacognitive and socio-affective listening comprehension strategies employed by them to comprehend listening texts. A modified 5-point strongly agree to strongly disagree Likert-scale questionnaire has been administered to Saudi EFL learners with HGPA and LGPA to generate data for this empirical study. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire has been determined. The instrument was translated into Arabic which was administered to the cohort from both levels to identify their responses towards the various questionnaire items. Independent-samples T-test was run to determine descriptive statistics as well as to identify whether any statistically significant difference exist along GPA. The data generated through this comparative analysis were used to test three null hypotheses set for this study. The results have reported that by and large no significant differences exist in the perceptions of the HGPA and LGPA participants of this study and null hypotheses were accepted. It was found that Saudi EFL learners represented by the participants of this study resort to cognitive strategies the most followed by the metacognitive ones to comprehend listening texts. As far socio-affective strategies are concerned, the results indicate their least use by the participants of this study. The findings of this empirical study suggest that Saudi EFL learners like to exploit bottom-up strategies more than the top-down ones. Recommendations have been forwarded at the end based on the findings of this empirical study.
Evaluation of the Use of Nutrition Support Products in Taekwondo Athletes
Authors: Seyhan Sinan
Published: November 2018

The purpose of this study was to determine the use of nutrition support products by male and female athletes who are involved in taekwondo and their level of knowledge in this respect. The sample group was formed with male and female (n=300) athletes who are actively involved in taekwondo. 300 of the collected questionnaires, which were determined to have been filled in correctly, were evaluated. Of the questionnaires evaluated, 108 belonged to female taekwondo athletes and 192 belonged to male taekwondo athletes. The arithmetic average, standard deviation and percent frequency (%) distributions of the obtained data were calculated. It was stated that 47.4% of male athletes and 41.7% of female athletes use the nutrition support products and the most preferred products by male athletes are protein powder (38%); amino acid (18.2%); vitamin (13.5%); mineral 8.9%; creatine (9.4%) and other nutrition support products (%12). It was found that female athletes also use the same products and these products are protein powder (30.6%); amino acid (15.7%); vitamin (18.5%); mineral 13%; creatine (8.3%) and other nutrition support products (13.9%). It was determined that the use of nutrition support products in male athletes was provided through doctor (20.8%), pharmacist (10.9%), friends (10.4%) and neighbors (3.6%), and in female athletes, through doctor (23.1%), pharmacist (16.7%), friends (6.5%) and neighbors (2.8%). Reasons for taekwondo athletes to use nutrition support products were to improve their athletic performance for 65.1% of males and 67.6% of females, and to cope with the fatigue for 17.2% of males and 17.6% of females. Our study results show that athletes who are involved in taekwondo use nutrition support products at a high level in order to increase their athletic performances. It is important for athletes using nutrition support products to use these products under the supervision of an expert for their health.
Challenges of modern medicine - geriatric otolaryngology or the advantages of cooperation between an otolaryngologist and a geriatrician
Authors: Składzień Jacek , Skalska Anna
Published: November 2018

Advanced age is often burdened with many deficits that are a consequence of the aging process, unfavorable lifestyle and multi-morbidity. They contribute to increased morbidity and disability of the older people. Laryngological problems often concern seniors, particularly progressing with age hearing impairment, dizziness, balance disorders, epistaxis, nasopharyngeal diseases, larynx, sinuses, and salivary glands disorders. They are not only a health threat, such as head and neck cancer, but they contribute to the deterioration of mobility, falls and injuries, depression, cognitive functions impairment and, consequently, functional disability, loss of independence and a sense of isolation. In this context, taking as an example the most common ailment, which is hearing impairment, laryngological procedures in the form of the use of hearing aids or cochlear implant improves cognitive functions, mood, self-esteem, opportunities for social interaction and everyday functioning, and the quality of life of older people. In turn, in view of the typical for older age polypathology and of significant reduction of the reserves of the organism, effective treatment aimed at improving health, preventing complications of diagnostics and therapy as well as disability with the desire to maintain independence and good quality of life requires the cooperation of different specialists. The knowledge and experience of geriatricians and the comprehensive geriatric assessment used as the diagnostic tool, aimed at identifying deficits typical of seniors' age may significantly contribute to a more adequate risk and benefit assessment, selection of optimal treatment for a given health situation and identification of high-risk individuals requiring during the treatment period special supervision to reduce the risk of complications and the risk of development of geriatric syndromes such as delirium, cognitive disorders, malnutrition, falls and injuries, functional disability.
COMPARAÇÕES DE MÉTODOS DE SELEÇÃO EM POPULAÇÕES SIMULADAS DE
FRANGOS CAIPIRAS
Authors: Eduardo Damacena Silva Bruno , Corrêa Ribeiro Jeferson , Barbacena Rosa dos Santos Wallacy , Santos Cezário Andreia , Maria Bianchini Oliveira Eliandra , Neves Pereira Valente Tiago , de Sousa Camargos Aline , Messias de Souza Crislaine
Published: November 2018

The purpose of this study was to compare the two types of selection methods known as BLUP and
individual selection (IS) in populations of rustic chicken, evaluating the trait of slaughter weight
and considering the averages of genetic gain and phenotypic value as response variables. A
population of rustic chicken was simulated in the program Genesys, considering the basal
population with 500 males and 500 females, from which was randomly chosen 120 males and 240
females. Then, the selected population was simulated considering the sexual ratios of 3, 4, 5 e 6
females per male in two selection types: Individual Selection (IS) and BLUP. In each selection
method, the random mating system between breed chickens was used. Selection was performed
during 15 consecutive and non-overlapping generations, with 10 simulation repetitions per
generation, in order to decrease the genetic oscillation effects. The average genetic gain and the
average phenotypic value in all methods and mating systems were evaluated. The results show
that the ratio 6:1 was superior to the other sexual ratios in the two types of selection. When
comparing the two selection systems, IS was superior to BLUP for the high phenotypic value of
slaughter weight. Thus, the sexual ratio of six females for each male is recommended for individual
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selection, with which will allow high phenotypic values, with lower need of males
Eu professor?! Entre vivências e diálogos / Am I teacher?! Between experiences and dialogues
Authors: Mormul Najla Mehanna
Published: November 2018

O presente trabalho buscou de modo sucinto discutir a importância da formação de professores de Geografia na atualidade. Para isso foram realizadas leituras de obras acerca do tema de autores como Nóvoa (2006), Tardif (2011), Freire (2008), Callai (2013), entre outros, bem como foram realizadas investigações com os licenciandos do curso de Geografia da Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, campus de Francisco Beltrão. Vale destacar que essas averiguações ocorreram por meio da análise dos relatórios de Estágios Supervisionados que os licenciandos elaboraram no término da disciplina, nos anos de 2010 a 2017. Durante esse período também foram sistematizadas na forma de textos as opiniões apresentadas pelos licenciandos sobre as potencializadas e fragilidades da formação inicial, assim como as expectativas quanto à profissão professor. Nesse ensaio apresentam-se os principais elementos apontados pelos licenciandos, simultaneamente, procurou-se caracterizar brevemente o perfil desses licenciandos e refletir sobre a importância do papel do professor de Geografia. Longe de buscar extenuar o tema entende-se que a contribuição dessa discussão está na possibilidade de fomentar o debate em torno da formação de professores de Geografia, seu papel a sociedade atual e, também, a importância dessa profissão em tempos de incertezas.Palavras-chaves: estágio supervisionado em Geografia; licenciatura; professor de Geografia.AbstractThe present work sought succinctly to discuss the importance of the formation of teachers of Geography in the present time. For this, readings of works by authors such as Nóvoa (2006), Tardif (year), Paulo Freire (2008) and Callai (2013) were carried out, among others, and investigations were carried out with the graduates of the Geography course of the University State of Western Paraná, Francisco Beltrão campus. It is worth mentioning that these investigations took place through the analysis of reports of Supervised Internships, which the graduates prepare at the end of the course, from 2010 to 2017. During this period, the opinions expressed by the licenciandos on the weaknesses and potentials of the initial formation were also systematized in the form of texts, as well as the expectations regarding the teacher profession. In this essay we present the main elements pointed out by the licenciandos, simultaneously, we tried to characterize briefly the profile of these graduates and to reflect on the importance of the role of the professor of Geography.Far from trying to heal the subject, it is understood that the contribution of this discussion lies in the possibility of fomenting the debate about the formation of teachers of Geography, its role to the current society and also the importance of this profession in times of uncertainties.Keywords: supervised internship in Geography; graduation; geography teacher.
Estruturação de modelo de risco de degradação ambiental aplicado ao Município de Pacatuba-SE / Environmental Degradation Risk Model applied to Pacatuba Municipality, Sergipe State
Authors: De Melo Felippe Pessoa , Gois Douglas Vieira , Dos Santos Cristiano Aprigio , E Souza Rosemeri Melo , Teixeira Guerra Antonio José
Published: November 2018

A degradação dos recursos naturais é uma problemática cada vez mais preocupante na sociedade. Em áreas costeiras essa problemática se agrava, pois a intensa ocupação imobiliária aliada à fragilidade dos sistemas ambientais litorâneos gera cenários de extensas áreas degradadas, comprometendo a qualidade do ambiente. Nesse sentido, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar o balanço morfodinâmico do município de Pacatuba-SE, tendo em vista a fragilidade de seus ambientes frente à crescente ocupação do território. Os procedimentos adotados foram baseados na metodologia proposta por Tricart (1977), que avalia a organização do espaço delimitando áreas para as diferentes alternativas de uso e ocupação, categorizando o ambiente em: meios estáveis, meios intergrades e meios instáveis. Na área em estudo, os principais impactos que catalisam a degradação do ambiente são: a remoção da cobertura vegetal e contaminação dos corpos hídricos. Ademais, destaca-se a importância da avaliação morfodinâmica dos ambientes costeiros, vista a importância de um adequado ordenamento do uso do espaço de acordo com seus graus de fragilidade.Palavras–chave: degradação ambiental, sociedade, pressões antrópicas.Abstract Natural resources degradation is a very worrying issue in our society. In coastal areas this problem is worse, due to the intense settlement, together with environmental systems fragility of these systems, creating landscapes of extense degraded areas, decreasing environment quality. Therefore, this article aims at analyzing Paracatuba Municipality morphodynamic balance, considering environmental fragility, taking into account the intense settlement of its territory. The methodology for reaching this target is based on Tricart (1977), who assesses a space organization, limiting areas for different alternatives of use and occupation, categorizing the environment in a stable environment, intergrade environment and unstable environment. In the study area, the main impacts which cause environmental degradation are vegetation clearing and hydric bodies contamination. In addition, it is outlined the role of environment coastal morphodynamic assessment, due to the importance of an adequate classification of the space use, according to the different fragility degrees.Keywords: environmental degradation, society, anthropic pressures.
Análise da capacidade e conflito de uso da terra na bacia hidrográfica do Córrego da Piraputanga-MT, Brasil / Analysis of the capacity and conflict of land use in the Piraputanga-MT river basin, Brazil
Authors: Perlandim Ramos Alexander Webber , Calazans da Silva Luz Camila , Alves da Silva Neves Sandra Mara , Espinosa de Freitas Larissa , De Souza Neves Laís Fernandes
Published: November 2018

O uso indiscriminado das terras, sem considerar suas potencialidades e os graus de sensibilidade tem sido uma das principais causas de degradação dos solos, erosão e perda de capacidade produtiva das paisagens. O objetivo deste trabalho é avaliar a capacidade de uso da terra, identificando os conflitos decorrentes de sua utilização na bacia hidrográfica do Córrego Piraputanga-MT. Para tanto, realizou-se a reclassificação das classes de solos resultando no mapa de Erodibilidade. A associação desta informação com o fator topográfico originou o mapa de suscetibilidade à erosão. O mapa de cobertura vegetal e uso da terra foi elaborado a partir das imagens do Landsat 8 de 2017. Foi efetuada a análise da capacidade de uso das terras e avaliação dos conflitos derivados. Verificou-se que as Áreas de Preservação Permanentes têm sido desmatadas, 23,18% de sua extensão em situação de conflito com a legislação ambiental. Na bacia não houve a classe de alto conflito, porém caso não haja adoção de práticas conservacionistas é possível ocorrer, pois há áreas que se encontram em médio conflito de utilização, onde é recomendado a restauração da vegetação nas Áreas de Preservação Permanentes.Palavras–chave: Sensoriamento Remoto, Erosão do Solo, Degradação Ambiental.AbstractThe indiscriminate use of land, without considering its potentialities and degrees of sensitivity has been one of the main causes of soil degradation, erosion and loss of productive capacity of the landscape. The objective of this work is to evaluate the capacity of land use in the Piraputanga river basin, Mato Grosso, identifying the conflicts arising from its use. For this purpose, soil classes were reclassified resulting in the Erodibility map. The association of this information with the topographic factor originated the map of susceptibility to erosion. Map of vegetation cover and land use was elaborated by the use of images of Landsat 8 from 2017. The analysis of the land use capacity and the evaluation of the derived conflicts was carried out. Permanent Preservation Areas have been deforested, 23.18% of their extension in situation of conflict with the environmental legislation. In the Piraputanga basin there was no high conflict class, but if no adoption of conservation practices is taken, it is possible to occur, since there are areas that are in a medium class conflict of use, where it is recommended the restoration of the vegetation in the Permanent Preservation Areas.Keywords: Remote Sensing, Soil Erosion, Environmental Degradation