bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Involvement of Moscow Students Youth Representatives in the Work of the E-Government Electronic Services and Internet-Portals
Authors: Виноградова  , Vinogradova N. , Пономарев  , Ponomarev Vladimir , Зотова  , Zotova A.
Published: July 2017

The results of research of Moscow students representatives relations to the work of such e-government portals as the portal of public services in Moscow, the portal "Active Citizen", the medical portal "EMIAS.INFO", the portal of public services of the Russian Federation and the portal of the Federal Service of Court police officers, commissioned by the Department of territorial executive authorities of the Moscow government, are presented in the article. The ways of the organizing of the student government’s work with a view to greater involvement of representatives of Moscow students youth in the work of the e-government portals are considered.
Consequence of Chitinase from Trichoderma viride Integrated Feed on Digestive Enzymes in Corcyra cephalonica (Stainton) and Antimicrobial Potential
Authors: Vijayakumar Nithin , Alagar Sangilimuthu
Published: July 2017

ABSTRACT: In the present study, laboratory trail was carried out to determine the effect of partially purified chitinase from Trichoderma viride on certain digestive enzymes of Corcyra cephalonica and its antimicrobial susceptibility against certain microbes. The most dreadful stored food grain pest Corcyra cephalonica (Stainton) was fed with chitinase from Trichoderma viride impregnated flour disk of different concentrations (62.5, 125, 250, 500 and 1000 ppm). After the treatment of five days, gut region was dissected and the inhibitory activity of chitinase against digestive enzymes (amylase, invertase and lactase) was checked. The incorporation of chitinase to the feed induced the reduced level of enzymes such as amylase, invertase and lactase with increasing concentration of chitinase. The decrease in the digestive enzymes such as amylase (75%), invertase and lactase substantiate that the chitinase can induce changes in the insect physiology to a great extent. Based on the results observed, the chitinase from Trichoderma viride can be promoted as a biocontrol agent against the stored food grain pests. Chitinase showed appreciable antibacterial activity against the gram positive bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus mutans; gram negative bacteria Klebsiella pneumonia, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and antifungal activity against Aspergillus niger and Candida albicans.
Disolución
Authors: González León Sergio
Published: July 2017

Es un texto escrito con libertad, con influencias múltiples, pero ensayando un discurso o relato propio sobre el contexto social, político y cultural en que se realiza el ejercicio artístico. Ensaya la tesis de que vivimos la transición entre una época y otra, transición señalada como disolución de la modernidad (regida por el autoritarismo de la mercancía) y germinación de probables sociedades plurales y horizontales. Recoge como muestra de la sociedad la población del habitante de calle, el nómada urbano, y el arte, desde su naturaleza, como ejemplo transformador, de apertura a posibilidades y alternativas de vida. Indaga sobre el conflicto, el social, el intersubjetivo, el existencial y el propio del arte. Especula sobre la dimensión virtual, la fragmentación, la unidad y el armónico, en el intento de radiografiar el coágulo vital-social y cultural que experimentamos, y en la necesidad de escrutar el concepto de realidad. Es una aproximación, un ensayo abierto, en un lenguaje abierto.
Víctimas del arte: Reflexiones en torno a la representación de la guerra en Colombia
Authors: Gamboa Alejandro
Published: July 2017

Pocos temas son tan delicados y problemáticos de representar como el de la memoria de la guerra: cúmulos de testimonios, imágenes y relatos presentan al artista-investigador un reto formal, epistémico y ético. Usando como ejemplo la instalación titulada Sudarios, realizada por la artista colombiana Erika Diettes (Cali, 1978), este artículo reflexiona sobre el actual “boom” de prácticas artísticas que representan la guerra en Colombia. Se argumentará que las lógicas del “repudio a la guerra” y el “homenaje a las víctimas”, vehiculadas acríticamente por algunas obras de arte, pueden estar re-produciendo formas de subjetividad en la que toda identidad es aplanada, donde la historia es suspendida y los conflictos pospuestos. Así, suprimir la complejidad del fenómeno de la guerra (con sus determinaciones económicas, políticas, históricas, ideológicas, entre otros) estaría propiciando el despliegue de sentimientos morales que pueden ser absorbidos por el poder hegemónico.
El arte en los tiempos del conflicto: el reclamo de la víctima
Authors: Viviescas Víctor
Published: July 2017

Este ensayo comienza por establecer la autonomía de la obra de arte y de su libertad para abordar todos los temas y situaciones de lo humano, para argumentar que no habría posibilidad de restringir o forzar al arte a abordar el conflicto. Pero, para avanzar en la indagación de las relaciones entre arte y situación social en el marco del conflicto, apela a la formulación de un nuevo imperativo categórico, esta vez como reclamo o demanda de la víctima: la víctima reclama a la sociedad y en ella al arte y a los artistas que su reparación simbólica sea efectiva y ocupe la prioridad del debate público. Este reclamo de la víctima se convierte en imperativo para el arte que responde con la apropiación del reclamo de la víctima. Pero entonces, ¿qué modalidades o funciones del arte son posibles en su relación con el conflicto? El ensayo valora las implicaciones, posibilidades, contradicciones y aporías de las propuestas de varios autores, en particular: Theodor Adorno y la lectura de un arte - anamnético, Giorgio Agamben y la imposibilidad del testimonio y Roberto Piglia y la verdad como horizonte político y la imposibilidad de expresar directamente esta verdad. La consideración de la víctima, como sujeto de la agresión y quién reclama la reparación, es central en la reflexión del ensayo.
Personalidad e identidad; cuerpo y estética. el septimazo, la presentación de la moda en la pasarela urbana
Authors: Asqueta Corbellini María Cristina
Published: July 2017

Esta reflexión se genera a partir de los resultados obtenidos por la investigación denominada Comunicación, vida urbana y moda, desarrollada durante el 2014 con el proyecto inscrito en la Dirección de Investigaciones Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación de Uniminuto. Inicialmente, el problema identificado se ubica en torno a cómo la moda involucra e integra a la persona en el contexto urbano bogotano, el cual ofrece una pasarela donde mostrar(se) y, a la vez, ver los atuendos ajenos. Durante el proceso de investigación, la documentación obtenida permitió perfilar las presencias conformadoras del conglomerado urbano bogotano. El sentido de la identidad emerge desde la complejidad de ser con el otro. Pero, ¿será suficiente para comprender el alcance del concepto?
Evaluación de los Parametros Fisicoquímicos en Reactores Discontinuos de Lodos Activados para el Tratamiento de Aguas con Metanol.
Authors: Carabali Lasso Marvin , Lote Veloza Martha Liliana , Echeverry Prieto Lena Carolina
Published: July 2017

Context: There are currently several types of clean technologies aimed at decontamination of industrial waste water, such as activated sludge systems. These systems have proven effective in the removal of organic matter and colloidal in domestic wastewater and industrial, biosorption of heavy metals, and removal of pathogens and nutrients (N and P). The latter motivates the study of a controlled treatment system of activated sludge to scale, so as to demonstrate whether it can also be useful in industrial plants for treating water with methanol.Method: The treatment system of activated sludge was designed and built to scale in laboratory level to study different concentrations of methanol in waste water from one industry. We assembled five treatment systems and then measured physicochemical parameters as: pH, dissolved oxygen, temperature, chemical oxygen demand, total suspended solids, and loss of methanol. These measures were taken at 0, 24 and 48 hours by quadruplicate to observe the behaviour of the system in attempting the reduction of methanol.Results: The treatment system obtained an average loss of 10.3% methanol. On the other hand the average dissolved oxygen decreased in the time although chemical oxygen demand is variable. Each system with different concentration of methanol exhibits particular behaviour.Conclusions: This research suggests that biodegradation of methanol in waste water is possible, as it was shown in the controlled treatment systems. In addition, it indicates that further investigation on this type of clean technology is promising for the management of activated sludge for methanol removal at industrial scale.
Monitoreo del Clima Espacial desde Colombia mediante Radio-receptores Butterworth de Orden Superior
Authors: Jaramillo Alvarado Andrés Felipe , Galvis Rodriguez Hamilton David , Quintero Salazar Edwin Andrés
Published: July 2017

Context: Solar flares and coronal mass ejections release great amounts of radiation to the outer space, altering the electrical properties of external layers in earth’s atmosphere. The set of phenomena derived from this interaction is known as space weather, and its consequences include failures in the geolocation systems, telecommunications, satellite based operations, spatial tracking, radio navigation and overload of electrical network.Method: This paper presents the development of a radio receptor enabling monitoring of space weather from Colombia. A novel methodology to design analog high-order Butterworth filters is described, based on the parallel interconnection of filtering banks of first and second order, yielding the realization of the desired transfer function. These filters are then used to build a radio receptor to monitor the mentioned solar activity.Results: The radio receptor was installed in a space weather monitoring station in Colombia, specifically in the Astronomical Observatory of the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira (OAUTP), becoming operational on December 2015. From that date, the radio receptor has been registering solar activity uninterruptedly; and it has been able to detect four powerful solar explosions of class C, registered on the days 15, 16 and 17th in the month of April 2016. The received signals are sent to the Stanford Solar Center of Stanford University, with the code UTP 0383.Conclusions: The newly developed radio telescope is enabling the Astronomical Observatory OAUTP to monitor space weather and solar activity, sensing and registering such information in global publicly available repositories. No other radio receptors of this kind are currently operating from equatorial countries, a region on Earth were the effects of solar activity may lead to new insights in understanding this phenomena. Besides, we anticipate that the designed high-order filters may have application as well in instruments for sensing biomedical electrical signals.
Caracterización de Señales EEG mediante Wavelet Packet y Entropía Difusa para Tareas de Imaginación Motora
Authors: Medina Boris Alexander , Alvarez López Ramón
Published: July 2017

Context:  Clinical rhythm analysis on advanced signal processing methods is very important in medical areas such as brain disorder diagnostic, epilepsy, sleep analysis, anesthesia analysis, and more recently in brain-computer interfaces (BCI).Method: Wavelet transform package is used on this work to extract brain rhythms of electroencephalographic signals (EEG) related to motor imagination tasks. We used the Competition BCI 2008 database for this characterization. Using statistical functions we obtained features that characterizes brain rhythms, which are discriminated using different classifiers; they were evaluated using a 10-fold cross validation criteria.Results: The classification accuracy achieved 81.11% on average, with a degree of agreement of 61%, indicating a "suitable" concordance, as it has been reported in the literature. An analysis of relevance showed the concentration of characteristics provided in the nodes as a result of Wavelet decomposition, as well as the characteristics that more information content contribute to improve the separability decision region for the classification task.Conclusions: The proposed method can be used as a reference to support future studies focusing on characterizing EEG signals oriented to the imagination of left and right hand movement, considering that our results proved to compared favourably to those reported in the literature.Language: Spanish.
Nurses’ awareness as a result of short term stoma bag life experience
Stoma torbası deneyiminin hemşirelerin farkındalıkları üzerine etkisi
Authors: Taylan Seçil , Akıl Yasemin , Cihan Rabia , Arslan Sevban
Published: July 2017

This is an experimental study conducted for raising awareness about being a patient with stoma in nurses working in surgical services where intestinal stoma is opened in Balcalı Hospital, Çukurova University.The stoma bag was inserted after applying “Introduction and Evaluation Form” which involved 11 questions was developed by the researcher via face-to-face interview technique with the nurses participating in the study and administering “Pre-Application Data Form” consisting after studying with stoma bag, whose 1/3 was filled with water, for 6 hours; “Post-Application Data Form” was administered.In nurses’ evaluation of first three feelings that the patients were experiencing before and after the life experience of using stoma bag for a short time; the difference between the exclusion feeling scores was found to be highly significant (z=-3.411; p=0.001). In the evaluation of the nurses for the question “will you share the information that you have stoma with your friend if you were a person with a stoma” before and after the stoma bag life experiment, the difference was determined to be statistically significant (z=-2.000; p=0.001). The difference between the evaluation scores for the patients to cope with their stomas before and after the application was observed to be highly significant (z=-4.724; p=0.000).Extended English abstract is in the end of PDF (TURKISH) file.  ÖzetAraştırma, Çukurova Üniversitesi Balcalı Hastanesi’nde bağırsak stoması açılan cerrahi servislerde çalışan hemşirelerde stomalı hastalarla ilgili farkındalık yaratmak amacıyla yarıdeneysel tipte yapılmıştır.Veriler araştırmacılar tarafından literatür taraması yapılarak hazırlanmış kişisel bilgi formu ve öntest/sontest veri formları ile yüz yüze görüşme tekniği ile toplanmış, sonrasında katılımcı hemşirelere stoma torbası takılmıştır. 1/3’üne kadar su ile doldurulan stoma torbası ile 6 saat çalıştıktan sonra tekrar anket formu uygulanmıştır.Hemşirelerin stoma torbası deneyimi öncesi ve sonrası hastaların en sık yaşadığı ilk üç duyguyu değerlendirmeleri incelendiğinde, dışlanma duygusu puan ortalamalarını diğer ortalamalara göre yüksek olduğu ve aradaki farkın istatistiksel olarak ileri derece anlamlı olduğu saptandı (z=-3.411; p=0.001). Hemşirelerin stoma torbası deneyimi öncesi ve sonrası “stomalı bir birey olsaydınız stomanız olduğunu iş arkadaşlarınız ile paylaşır mıydınız?” sorusunu değerlendirmelerinde farkın istatistiksel olarak anlamlı olduğu belirlendi (z=-2.000; p=0.001).Uygulama öncesi ve sonrası hastaların stomaları ile baş etmelerini değerlendirme puanortalamaları  arasındaki farkın ileri derecece anlamlı olduğu görüldü (z=-4.724; p=0.000).
A study on habits of using fitness centre
Fitness merkezi kullanım alışkanlıkları üzerine bir araştırma
Authors: Bağcı Emre
Published: July 2017

This research is conducted in order to investigate habits of using fitness centre, where people enrol in an effort to avoid sedentary lifestyle that has been lately increasing. People tend to start doing regular physical activity in order to get rid of health problems caused by sedentary lifestyle. Fitness centres are one of the most preferred sports grounds because they offer many advantages apart from variety of physical activity opportunities. Therefore, it is important to determine fitness centre using habits for managers to provide better services and also for people to maintain consistency in sports.Within this scope, data from the sports centre located at Balgat district in Ankara province was analysed. The mean age of all the members is 30.62 years. While the mean age of female participants is 30.43 years, it is 30.74 for male participants. Monday is when the centre is used the most with 17.67% while Saturday is the least visited fitness centre day with 9.79%. February with a rate of 10.67% is noted to be the month in which facility is used the most. The least use of the facility occurred in June with a rate of 5.24%. As the hours of intense participation in fitness centre are observed, it is concluded that the highest number of entries to the facility takes place between 18:00 and 19:00. 18.42% of the total number that sums up to 21594 entries takes place during this period. Through this study, it is concluded that people have certain habits regarding using fitness centres.Extended English abstract is in the end of PDF (TURKISH) file.ÖzetBu araştırma fitness merkezlerinin kulanım alışkanlıklarının tespit edilmesi amacıyla yapılmıştır. Hareketsiz yaşamdan kaynaklı sağlık problemlerinden kurtulmak amacıyla insanlar düzenli fiziksel aktiviteye başlama eğiliminde olurlar. Birçok fiziksel aktivite olanağının yanında birçok avantajları sebebi ile fitness merkezleri en çok tercih edilen spor alanlarından birisidir. İnsanların bu merkezleri kullanım alışkanlıklarının belirlenmesi özellikle işletmeciler tarafından daha iyi hizmetin verilebilmesi açısından önem arz etmektedir.Araştırma, Ankara ili Balgat semtindeki fitness merkezi verileri kullanılarak yapılmıştır. Çalışmaya katılanların genel yaş ortalaması 30.62’dir. Kadın katılımcıların yaşları ortalaması 30.43 ve erkek katılımcıların yaş ortalaması 30.74’tür. Pazartesinin, %17.67 ile fitness merkezinin en çok kullanılan günü iken, cumartesinin %9.79 ile fitness merkezinin en az kullanılan günü olduğu görülmüştür. Şubat ayı %8.79 oaranı ile tesisin en yoğun kullanıldığı aydır. Haziran ayı ise %5.24 oaranı ile tesisin en az yoğunlukta kullanıldığı süre olarak kayıt edilmiştir. Fitness merkezinin kullanımının yoğun olduğu saat dilimleri incelendiğinde tesise en çok girişin 18.00 – 19.00 arasında olduğu gözlenmiştir. Toplam girişin %18.42’si ile toplamda 21594 adet giriş bu saat diliminde gerçekleşmiştir. Yapılan bu çalışmada insanların fitness merkezlerini kullanımları ile ilgili bazı alışkanlıkların olduğu görülmüştür
Eye gaze and viewpoint in multimodal interaction management
Authors: Brône Geert , Oben Bert , Jehoul Annelies , Vranjes Jelena , Feyaerts Kurt
Published: July 2017

In this paper, we present an embodiment perspective on viewpoint by exploring the role of eye gaze in face-to-face conversation, in relation to and interaction with other expressive modalities. More specifically, we look into gaze patterns, as well as gaze synchronization with speech, as instruments in the negotiation of participant roles in interaction. In order to obtain fine-grained information on the different modalities under scrutiny, we used the InSight Interaction Corpus (Brône, Geert & Bert Oben. 2015. Insight Interaction: A multimodal and multifocal dialogue corpus.Language Resources and Evaluation49, 195–214.). This multimodal video corpus consists of two- and three-party interactions (in Dutch), with head-mounted scene cameras and eye-trackers tracking all participants’ visual behavior, providing a unique ‘speaker-internal’ perspective on the conversation. The analysis of interactional sequences from the corpus (dyads and triads) reveals specific patterns of gaze distribution related to the temporal organization of viewpoint in dialogue. Different dialogue acts typically display specific gaze events at crucial points in time, as, e.g., in the case of brief gaze aversion associated with turn-holding, and shared gaze between interlocutors at the critical point of turn-taking. In addition, the data show a strong correlation and temporal synchronization between eye gaze and speech in the realization of specific dialogue acts, as shown by means of a series of cross-recurrence analyses for specific turn-holding mechanisms (e.g., verbal fillers co-occurring with brief moments of gaze aversion).
Electrosynthesis and analysis of the electrochemical properties of a composite material: polyterthiophene + titanium oxide
Authors: Hasniou Leila , Nessark Belkacem , Madani Ahmed , Lmimouni Kamal
Published: July 2017

A polyterthiophene-titanium oxide (P3T+TiO2) composite material was electrochemically synthesized in dichloromethane-tetrabutylammonium perchlorate CH2Cl2/TBAP containing a monomer (terthiophene) and semiconductor (TiO2) nanoparticles. The obtained material was characterized using electrochemical methods (cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy) and spectrometry analysis [scanning electron microscopy (SEM), spectrophotometer ultraviolet (UV)-visible, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) and force atomic microscopy (AFM)]. The effect of TiO2 nanoparticles on the photoelectrochemical and optical characteristics of P3T composite films was also studied. The results confirmed the presence of TiO2 nanoparticles in the polyterthiophene matrix. The surface morphology of the (P3T+TiO2) composite films revealed that adding TiO2 nanoparticles increase the film’s roughness values. The addition of TiO2 nanoparticles improve the absorbance of P3T composite films. Moreover, the photocurrent of the composite increased with the TiO2 nanoparticles concentration and showed that this composite material could be used in photoelectrochemical applications such as photovoltaic cells.
Drying Characteristics and Quality of Kiwifruit Slices with/without Osmotic Dehydration under Short- and Medium-Wave Infrared Radiation Drying
Authors: Lyu Jian , Chen Qinqin , Bi Jinfeng , Zeng Mucheng , Wu Xinye
Published: July 2017

In this paper, short- and medium-wave infrared radiation (SMIR) drying characteristics of kiwifruit slices with/without osmotic dehydration (OD) were investigated. High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) was selected as the best osmotic solution and coupled with SMIR. Both infrared drying processes with/without OD occurred mainly in the falling rate period. Results indicated that the Logarithmic model and Page model were best in predicting moisture transfer for the kiwifruit slices with and without OD, respectively. The values of effective diffusivity ranged from 4.10×10‒10 m2/s to 9.52×10‒9 m2/s and from 3.10×10‒10 m2/s to 1.16×10‒8 m2/s for kiwifruit slices with and without OD, respectively. During the overall falling rate period, the activation energy value was 29.51 kJ/mol and 27.44 kJ/mol for the osmosed and non-osmosed kiwifruit slices, respectively. As compared with non-OD, OD pre-treatment could improve the drying characteristics, decrease color change and increase the retention ratios of ascorbic acid and chlorophyll.
Bioanalytical applications of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: de novo molecular identification
Authors: Nguyen Anh H. , Peters Emily A. , Schultz Zachary D.
Published: July 2017

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has become a powerful technique for trace analysis of biomolecules. The use of SERS-tags has evolved into clinical diagnostics; the enhancement of the intrinsic signal of biomolecules on SERS active materials shows tremendous promise for the analysis of biomolecules and potential biomedical assays. The detection of the
Macrophage 11β-HSD-1 deficiency promotes inflammatory angiogenesis
Authors: Zhang Zhenguang , Coutinho Agnes E , Man Tak Yung , Kipari Tiina M J , Hadoke Patrick W F , Salter Donald M , Seckl Jonathan R , Chapman Karen E
Published: July 2017

11β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-1 (11β-HSD1) predominantly converts inert glucocorticoids into active forms, thereby contributing to intracellular glucocorticoid levels. 11β-HSD1 is dynamically regulated during inflammation, including in macrophages where it regulates phagocytic capacity. The resolution of inflammation in some disease models including inflammatory arthritis is impaired by 11β-HSD1 deficiency or inhibition. However, 11β-HSD1 deficiency/inhibition also promotes angiogenesis, which is beneficial in mouse models of surgical wound healing, myocardial infarction or obesity. The cell types responsible for the anti-inflammatory and anti-angiogenic roles of 11β-HSD1 have not been characterised. Here, we generated Hsd11b1MKO mice with LysM-Cre mediated deletion of Hsd11b1 to investigate whether 11β-HSD1 deficiency in myeloid phagocytes is pro-angiogenic and/or affects the resolution of inflammation. Resolution of inflammatory K/BxN-induced arthritis was impaired in Hsd11b1MKO mice to a similar extent as in mice globally deficient in 11β-HSD1. This was associated with >2-fold elevation in levels of the endothelial marker Cdh5 mRNA, suggesting increased angiogenesis in joints of Hsd11b1MKO mice following arthritis. A pro-angiogenic phenotype was confirmed by measuring angiogenesis in subcutaneously implanted polyurethane sponges, in which Hsd11b1MKO mice showed 20% greater vessel density than their littermate controls, associated with higher expression of Cdh5. Thus, 11β-HSD1 deficiency in myeloid phagocytes promotes angiogenesis. Targeting 11β-HSD1 in macrophages may be beneficial in tissue repair.
Fenomenologinis egzistencinės supervizijos tyrimas
Authors: Vaštakė Marija , Kočiūnas Rimantas
Published: July 2017

Straipsnyje pristatomas fenomenologinis tyrimas, kurio tikslas yra aprašyti superviziją iš egzistencinės-fenomenologinės perspektyvos, išskiriant jos būdingus bruožus. Tyrimas remiasi dvylikos tyrimo dalyvių patirčių aprašymais iš supervizuojamo terapeuto ir iš supervizoriaus pozicijų. Rezultatai apibendrinti dviem apibrėžimais. Tyrimas atskleidė keturis fenomeno matmenis, trys iš jų sutampa iš abiejų tyrimo dalyvių pozicijų: tyrimo dalyviai kaip svarbias egzistencinės-fenomenologinės supervizijos charakteristikas išskiria supervizijos proceso ypatumus, supervizoriaus buvimo būdą bei santykį tarp supervizoriaus ir supervizuojamo terapeuto. Tyrimo dalyviai, būdami supervizuojami terapeutai, kaip vieną svarbiausių egzistencinės-fenomenologinės supervizijos charakteristikų nurodo supervizoriaus buvimo būdą, o tyrimo dalyviai, būdami supervizoriaus pozicijoje, labiau pabrėžia patį supervizijos procesą. Supervizijos rezultatas, kaip jausminis pokytis, o ne mentalinio atsakymo gavimas, buvo aprašytas kaip svarbus, tačiau rečiau pasitaikantis egzistencinės-fenomenologinės supervizijos bruožas iš supervizuojamo terapeuto perspektyvos. Tyrimo dalyviai iš supervizoriaus pozicijos aprašė supervizijoje naudojamas intervencijas (lygiagrečių procesų (angl. paralell process) ir neverbalinių procesų atspindėjimą, metaforų ir vaizdinių naudojimą ir kt.) kaip svarbią, tačiau rečiau aptinkamą egzistencinės-fenomenologinės supervizijos charakteristiką.
Cronopaisajes identitarios: del vecino al patriota. Lógicas de visibilidad y economía psíquica, siglos XVIII-XIX
Authors: Rivera Bernal Fernando Alfredo
Published: July 2017

En un cronopaisaje se discriminan por lo menos dos tipos de repertorios semiótico- culturales: prácticas colectivas que incorporan divisiones y categorizaciones valorativas del mundo social, y formas de construcción de la identidad social y del poder político a través de geografías simbólicas. Desde tal perspectiva, este artículo examina, en la Nueva Granada de la transición del siglo XVIII al XIX, la correlación entre las lógicas de visibilidad social y su consecuente configuración identitaria, entretejido regulador de una específica economía psíquica, de un régimen de tematización y producción del Yo.
Alli kilkay, apuntes críticos acerca de la ortografía del inga
Authors: Pérez Orozco Carlos Enrique
Published: July 2017

El artículo hace una revisión crítica de la llamada «unificación del alfabeto inga», que fue adoptada en 1991 tras un proceso participativo dirigido por la organización Musu Runakuna. Las observaciones son hechas desde el uso de este sistema en el colegio bilingüe Aborígenes de Colombia de Yunguillo, Mocoa, Putumayo, con base en consideraciones fonológicas, filológicas, de la tradición de la escritura del quechua y de orden didáctico. Se fundamenta una propuesta alternativa para entablar un debate con el fundamento de la actual ortografía. Se argumenta que, si bien los acuerdos políticos para un uso de la lengua son determinantes en su adopción, estos deberían tomarse tras un debate lingüístico que las soporte.
Creando valor mediante la aplicación de modelos de capital intelectual
Authors: Azofra Palenzuela Valentín , Ochoa Hernández Magda Lizet , Prieto Moreno Begoña , Santidrián Arroyo Alicia
Published: July 2017

La principal contribución de este trabajo es aportar nueva evidencia a la literatura explicativa, que en el ámbito de los modelos de capital intelectual vincula a estos con la creación de valor empresarial; además, se relaciona el grado de implantación de los modelos de capital intelectual de una muestra de empresas españolas con sus estados contables anuales, bajo una perspectiva de largo plazo. Los resultados muestran evidencia de que las empresas con mayores niveles de implantación de estos modelos de capital intelectual presentan mejores índices de creación de valor: productividad —ventas por empleado y beneficio por empleado—, incremento en ventas e índice de eficiencia del capital intelectual (ICE).
Estrategias de crecimiento implementadas por los grupos económicos del Ecuador (2007-2016)
Authors: Vanoni Martínez Giuseppe , Rodríguez Carlos
Published: July 2017

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo identificar las estrategias de crecimiento que fueron implementadas por los grupos económicos del Ecuador, durante el periodo 2007-2016. Para su comprensión, se realizaron aproximaciones teóricas sobre los constructos grupo económico y estrategias de crecimiento, mientras que para el desarrollo de la investigación se empleó el muestreo aleatorio simple como herramienta metodológica, lo que arrojó una muestra recomendada de análisis de 132 grupos. Como resultado, se pudo determinar que dentro de las estrategias que estos grupos aplicaron existe una orientación hacia la concentración de sus negocios, siendo la especialización la estrategia más implementada. Esto permite concluir que fue la estrategia más aplicada, dadas las condiciones económicas de estabilidad que vivió el país y que, al contrario de lo que expresan los teóricos del capitalismo desorganizado, los grupos económicos siguen vigentes en Ecuador y sin que las familias que lo conforman hayan perdido su hegemonía.
Influencia de la religiosidad y la espiritualidad en el comportamiento ético del consumidor
Authors: Rodríguez Rad Carlos Javier , Ramos Hidalgo Encarnación
Published: July 2017

El presente trabajo se centra en la ética del consumidor y su objetivo principal es estudiar y profundizar el comportamiento ético de los consumidores, mediante la Consumer Ethics Scale (ces, por sus siglas en inglés). Para ello, se propone un modelo, que relaciona las escalas religiosidad y espiritualidad con la ética del consumidor, y que permite contrastar tres proposiciones y 15 hipótesis, utilizando una muestra de 286 encuestados españoles. La CES (Vitell y Muncy, 1992, 2005) consta de cinco dimensiones, y la escala de religiosidad y espiritualidad, desarrollada por Allport y Ross (1967), consta de tres dimensiones que reflejan la religiosidad extrínseca, la religiosidad intrínseca y la espiritualidad. La metodología seleccionada para este estudio son las ecuaciones estructurales, aplicando la técnica Partial Least Squares (PLS). Los resultados demuestran que existe una relación entre la religiosidad/espiritualidad y el comportamiento ético y poco ético del consumidor. El trabajo muestra dos grandes aportaciones: la primera es el propio modelo y la segunda, la metodología empleada para estudiarlo. Los resultados, conclusiones e implicaciones logrados a partir de ambos son de importancia, tanto para profesionales del mundo de los negocios, como para académicos y gobiernos.
Neurociencia y publicidad. Un experimento sobre atención y emoción en publicidad televisiva
Authors: Tapia Frade Alejandro , Martín Guerra Elena
Published: July 2017

Llamar la atención y generar respuesta emocional son factores importantes en el recuerdo de un anuncio. Su estudio implica necesariamente el estudio de la psique, al tratarse de fenómenos de naturaleza interna del sujeto. Este trabajo expone los resultados de un experimento de neurociencia aplicada a la publicidad. Así, se midieron los niveles de respuesta: atencional y emocional (EDL y EDR, respectivamente, por sus siglas en inglés), de forma simultánea a un grupo de 30 personas, de entre 18 y 22 años, que vieron 20 anuncios publicitarios en la Universidad de Valladolid. Los resultados ponen de manifiesto diferencias significativas en atención y emoción en relación con la tipología de anuncios, destacando el de tipo cómico sobre todos. Adicionalmente, los anuncios enunciados en inglés y los no emitidos en España obtuvieron valores promedio significativamente superiores, tanto en atención como en emoción. Por otra parte, los incrementos más intensos de EDL se producen con un sonido fuerte, súbito, posiblemente inesperado y de registro muy distinto al sonido previo. Del mismo modo, los decrementos intensos de EDL están en todos los casos observados relacionados con momentos de contenido negativo o triste, y se producen en momentos iniciales del anuncio. Los EDR, por su parte, también muestran momentos de cambio súbito en los anuncios analizados. En estos, se puede observar que los mayores niveles de EDR se producen en los instantes posteriores a la conclusión de un puzle de tipo cómico o en momentos de alta intensidad sonora. Finalmente, la mayoría de los momentos de más alto EDR se produce en el contexto de tramos con mayor EDL.
¿Cuánto cuesta el personal según el tipo de aerolínea y su ubicación geográfica en Europa? Un análisis comparativo
Authors: Ginieis Matías , Sánchez-Rebull María Victoria , Campa-Planas Fernando
Published: July 2017

El objetivo principal de este estudio es establecer la relación entre el coste por empleado, los diversos tipos de aerolíneas y las diferentes zonas geográficas de Europa donde estas están ubicadas. Por tipo de aerolínea, se analizan empresas tradicionales de líneas aéreas (las principales operadoras, aerolíneas regionales y chárteres) y las aerolíneas de bajo coste. Por zona geográfica, distinguimos entre cuatro regiones diferentes (Europa occidental, Europa del este, Reino Unido y países nórdicos). Con este fin, se aplicaron tres pruebas estadísticas (chi-cuadrado, anova y el test de Haberman) para verificar si existe asociación y relación entre las variables seleccionadas. Se trabajó con una muestra de 152 compañías aéreas para el periodo 2008-2013. Los resultados del estudio muestran la relación entre la zona geográfica y el coste de los empleados. Sin embargo, no se ha detectado una asociación entre el tipo de aerolínea y el coste de los empleados.
¿QUÉ ES LA CIENCIA Y HASTA DÓNDE PUEDE LLEGAR?
Authors: Aragón-Vargas Luis Fernando
Published: July 2017

Aprovecho este espacio para compartir con los lectores sobre un campo que normalmente no se discute entre profesionales del movimiento humano y que, sin embargo, es fundamental para nuestro quehacer científico: la filosofía de la ciencia. Presento algunos temas introductorios, a saber: la naturaleza de la ciencia, cuáles son sus límites, si estos límites deberían manejarse y cómo. Presento además una lista de buenas prácticas científicas debidamente respaldadas. Como investigador que ha realizado la mayor parte de su trabajo en el rendimiento deportivo y la salud, hago énfasis en las ciencias naturales y, más concretamente, en las ciencias del movimiento humano.
Kandungan Logam Berat Pada Ikan Yang Ditangkap Dari Muara Sungai Kahayan, Kalimantan Tengah
Authors: Priyanto Nandang , Murtini Jovita Tri
Published: July 2017

Telah dilakukan penelitian residu logam berat pada ikan di perairan muara Sungai Kahayan, Kalimantan Tengah. Pengambilan sampel dilakukan pada bulan April dan September 2005 di 6 stasiun pengamatan (3 stasiun berada di tepi muara sungai dan 3 stasiun lainnya berjarak 1 mil dari tepi muara sungai). Contoh yang diambil adalah ikan, air dan sedimen. Parameter yang diamati adalah logam berat (Hg, Cd, Cu dan Pb), kualitas air (suhu, kecerahan, salinitas, pH, DO, BOD dan COD) dan unsur hara (amonia, nitrit, nitrat, sulfit dan fosfat). Kandungan logam berat pada ikan masih di bawah ambang batas, tetapi sudah harus mendapat perhatian karena kandungannya sudah cukup tinggi. Kandungan Hg, Pb dan Cd pada sampel air yang diambil dari muara Sungai Kahayan sudah ada yang melebihi ambang batas yang diijinkan, sedangkan kandungan Cu pada semua sampel yang diteliti telah melebihi batas ambang. Sementara itu kandungan Hg, Pb, Cd dan Cu pada sedimen masih di bawah batas ambang yang diijinkan. Unsur pencemar lain secara umum masih cukup baik, meskipun pada bulan September kadar amonia sudah melebihi ambang batas.
Teaching and Theorizing Religion and Food
Authors: Tite Philip
Published: July 2017

Editor's introduction to Bulletin for the Study of Religion on the thematic issue "teaching and theorizing religion and food". Briefly touches on the rise of scholarship on food and religion, especially along pedagogical lines, and uses his own course on the topic as a beginning point to present the set of articles to follow.
Indigenous Knowledge and Contested Spirituality in Canadian Nuclear Waste Management
Authors: Weatherdon Meaghan Sarah
Published: July 2017

Indigenous spirituality is often deployed in grassroots environmental movements as a strategy to revitalize cultures and contest a hegemonic worldview that continues to marginalize Indigenous Peoples. From this perspective, Indigenous spirituality serves as an epistemological foil that these social movements utilize to critique prevailing capitalist values, environmental degradation, and neo-colonialism. Indigenous spiritual knowledge is also being employed by government and industry as a strategy to enhance the prolle of their own political and commercial agendas. Indigenous spirituality has therefore come to signify a wide variety of meanings and concerns in environmental management and public discourse. This can be illustrated by considering how Indigenous spirituality has become a site of contestation between the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), the public body responsible for managing Canada’s used nuclear fuel, and the Committee for Future Generations (CFFG), a grass roots anti-nuclear organization, regarding the proposal to store nuclear waste in Northern Saskatchewan.
Decisive Ecological Warfare
Authors: LeVasseur Todd
Published: July 2017

Deep Green Resistance (or DGR) is a US-based radical environmental group that calls for ‘decisive ecological warfare’ (DEW) that is motivated by naturalistic forms of nature spirituality and biocentric moral sentiments. Exceptionally militant, its advocates champion both aboveground and underground resistance to industrial capitalism, viewing sabotage and violence as a necessary tactic, grounding its views in both apocalyptic and millennial themes. To understand this movement, one must apprehend the ways its ecological, political, and spiritual understandings blend in ways that justify its advocacy of extreme means of ecological resistance.
Softening coefficient of reinforced concrete elements subjected to three-dimensional loads
Authors: Labib Moheb , Moslehy Yashar , Ayoub Ashraf
Published: July 2017

Reinforced concrete structures are prone to fail under the effect of complex three-dimensional loading conditions. Accurate constitutive models for concrete under the effect of triaxial stresses are therefore necessary in order to predict the proper response. A strong interaction between in-plane and out-of-plane shear loads has been observed in experimental tests of concrete structures. This paper presents the derivation of concrete constitutive laws under the effect of triaxial stresses, in particular the softening coefficient, using the results of large-scale tests on representative concrete panels. The experimental testing of eight full-scale panel specimens is briefly described and the results are then used to derive analytical expressions for the softening coefficient under the effect of bi-directional shear. Finally, existing membrane shear theories are modified to take into consideration the effect of applied out-of-plane shear. The response of the tested panels proved to be accurately predicted using the new theory.
Post-Crisis Lending by Large Bank Holding Companies
Authors: Vojtech Cindy M.
Published: July 2017

This note analyzes recent trends in loan growth at domestic bank holding companies (hereafter, banks) and reviews factors related to bank loan growth such as capital and loan write-downs.
Gebeurlikhede en die Bewyslas in die Deliktuele Skadevergoedingsreg // Contigencies and Onus in the Delictual Law of Damages
Authors: Steynberg L
Published: July 2017

Contingencies can be described as uncertain circumstances of a positive or negative nature which, independent of the defendant’s conduct and if they should realise, would probably influence a person’s health, income, earning capacity, quality of life, life expectancy or dependency on support in future or could have done so in the past, and which consequently must be taken into account in a fair and realistic manner in the quantification of damages. Essential to this definition is the element of certainty or uncertainty with which an incident can be predicted that is linked to the degree of probability that the occurrence will take place or would have taken place if it had not been for the accident. Two particular theories could be relevant in the establishment of the degree of probability, namely the Pascalian model in which a pure mathematical approach is followed and the Baconian model in which an inductive approach is followed. Because the Baconian model is less stringent, it appears to be more suitable for determining and applying contingencies. In civil law the burden of proof rests upon the plaintiff and the expected measure of proof is a preponderance of probability. It has become clear that the terms 'burden of proof' and 'measure of proof' according to their strict evidentiary meaning, do not fit naturally into the theory of proof in the case of contingencies. If the amount of damages has to be adjusted for contingencies, it does not mean necessarily that the burden of proof in respect of the adjustment always rests upon the plaintiff. In principle, one can say that the plaintiff must adduce evidence of contingencies that can increase damages and the defendant of contingencies that can reduce damages. The measure of proof also is relaxed in cases where uncertainty prevails, for instance in the case of future loss.
Editorial
Authors: Venter Francois
Published: July 2017

This first issue of 2007 covers a refreshing spectrum of legal disciplines ranging from cultural and linguistic issues, to the onus of proof in delict, the censorship debate and research methodology.

Professor Elmene Bray of the University of South Africa analyses the complexities of the recent judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeal in a case involving the sensitive issue of the medium of instruction in public schools in South Africa.
Matrimonial Property Regimes and Damages: The Far Reaches of the South African Constitution
Authors: Robinson JA
Published: July 2017

Section 18(b) of the Matrimonial Property Act 88 of 1984 allows for non-patrimonial damages to be claimed by a spouse married in community of property against his/her spouse. In Van der Merwe v Road Accident Fund 2006 4 SA 230 (CC) the court extended this exception to the notional purity of community of property to include patrimonial damages on the basis that section 18(b) discriminated unfairly against spouses married in community of property vis-à-vis spouses married out of community. The implications of this decision on commercial intercourse are discussed in this contribution against the background of prior decisions relating to the insolvency of spouses married in community of property.
Personal Data Protection in New Zealand: Lessons for South Africa?
Authors: Roos A
Published: July 2017

In 1995 the European Union adopted a Directive on data protection. Article 25 of this Directive compels all EU member countries to adopt data protection legislation and to prevent the transfer of personal data to non-EU member countries (“third countries”) that do not provide an adequate level of data protection. Article 25 results in the Directive having extra-territorial effect and exerting an influence in countries outside the EU. Like South Africa, New Zealand is a “third” country in terms of the EU Directive on data protection. New Zealand recognised the need for data protection and adopted a data protection Act over 15 years ago. The focus of this article is on the data protection provisions in New Zealand law with a view to establishing whether South Africa can learn any lessons from them. In general, it can be said that although New Zealand law does not expressly recognise a right to privacy, it has a data protection regime that functions well and that goes a long way to providing adequate data protection as required by the EU Directive on data protection. Nevertheless, the EU has not made a finding to that effect as yet. The New Zealand data protection act requires a couple of amendments before New Zealand might be adjudged ‘adequate’. South Africa’s protection of the right to privacy and identity is better developed and more extensive than that of New Zealand. Privacy is recognised and protected in the law of delict and by the South African Constitution. Despite South Africa’s apparently high regard for the individual’s right to privacy and identity and our well-developed common and constitutional law of privacy, South Africa does not meet the adequacy requirement of the EU Directive, because we do not have a data protection Act. This means that South African participants in the information technology arena are at a constant disadvantage. It is argued that South Africa should follow New Zealand’s example and adopt a data protection law as soon as possible.
Contentious Issues Arising from Payments made in Full and Final Settlement
Authors: Ismail R
Published: July 2017

Payments made in full and final settlement have on several occasions presented interpretative difficulties for our judiciary, as will become apparent from this case discussion: Be Bop A Lula Manufacturing & Printing v Kingtex Marketing 2008 3 SA 327 (SCA). The Supreme Court of Appeal reversed the judgments of the trial court and the appeal court (full bench of the Cape Provincial Division) which were in favour of the creditor. In such cases, the essential enquiry is whether an agreement of compromise exists. A transactio or compromise (in the form of a legal agreement) exists where the relevant parties agree to settle previously disputed or uncertain obligations. Like any other agreement, a compromise is based on the contractual rules of offer and acceptance. The first material enquiry in this case wherein the debtor delivered the cheque payment to the creditor (in full and final settlement of the account), is whether 1) an intended offer of compromise exists; or 2) did the debtor merely intend to make payment towards an admitted liability. The court in the Be Bop (SCA) case came to the correct finding that an offer of compromise existed. Whilst the judgment is brief, the finding itself gives practical recognition to the principle that admission of liability for a specific amount, accompanied by payment (in full and final settlement), may still be accompanied by an intended offer of compromise, instead of merely making payment towards an admission of liability.