bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Performance Evaluations of Three Silt Fence Practices Using a Full-Scale Testing Apparatus
Authors: Bugg R. , Donald Wesley , Zech Wesley , Perez Michael
Published: July 2017

Erosion and sediment controls on construction sites minimize environmental impacts from sediment-laden stormwater runoff. Silt fence, a widely specified perimeter control practice on construction projects used to retain sediment on-site, has limited performance-based testing data. Silt fence failures and resultant sediment losses are often the result of structural failure. To better understand silt fence performance, researchers at the Auburn University-Erosion and Sediment Control Testing Facility (AU-ESCTF) have evaluated three silt fence options to determine possible shortcomings using standardized full-scale testing methods. These methods subject silt fence practices to simulated, in-field conditions typically experienced on-site without the variability of field testing or the limited application of small-scale testing. Three different silt fence practices were tested to evaluate performance, which included: (1) Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) Trenched Silt Fence, (2) ALDOT Sliced Silt Fence, and (3) Alabama Soil and Water Conservation Committee (AL-SWCC) Trenched Silt Fence. This study indicates that the structural performance of a silt fence perimeter control is the most important performance factor in retaining sediment. The sediment retention performance of these silt fence practices was 82.7%, 66.9% and 90.5%, respectively. When exposed to large impoundment conditions, both ALDOT Trench and Sliced Silt Fence practices failed structurally, while the AL-SWCC Trenched Silt Fence did not experience structural failure.
Stress and Welfare of African Catfish (Clarias gariepinus Burchell, 1822) in a Coupled Aquaponic System
Authors: Baßmann Björn , Brenner Matthias , Palm Harry W.
Published: July 2017

African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) were investigated for physiological stress parameters to assess the influence of different cultivation techniques on fish welfare. The fish were reared in two conceptually identical recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) constructed in a greenhouse. One system was combined with a floating raft hydroponic unit to culture cucumbers (Cucumis sativus) only using the process water. The second system remained without the plant cultivation unit and functioned as the control. Water quality was monitored regularly by measuring dissolved nutrients and physical water parameters. During 87 days, a total of 71 fish from each system (n = 142) were studied, with a final sampling of all fish (n = 107) at the end of the experiment. Blood from the caudal vein was analyzed for the stress hormone cortisol and the glucose concentration. In addition, fish were investigated for external injuries on their skin, fins and barbels. The results demonstrate that the system design had no influence on fish mortalities and growth rates. Furthermore, cortisol and blood glucose levels did not differ significantly between the two systems. However, the number of external injuries was significantly lower in the aquaponics, providing evidence that co-cultivation of fish and plants might offer benefits to the welfare of the fish.
WHAT FORCES DRIVE THE DYNAMIC INTERACTION BETWEEN REGIONAL HOUSING PRICES?
Authors: WU Yun-Ling , LU Chien-Lin , CHEN Ming-Chi , CHU Fang-Ni
Published: July 2017

This paper examines the dynamic interaction between regional housing prices in the United States. We use the copula method to explore the dependent distribution of housing prices in ten metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in three regions. The results generally show that changes in time-varying correlation result from different trends in regional housing prices. We regress housing price dynamic correlation on regional economic variables, finding that the economic co-movement mechanism determines the housing price correlation in the Western and Great Lakes regions, while the migration mechanism drives the housing price correlation in the Eastern region. We also find that economic co-movement is the main force driving the housing price correlation between regions.
Detection of Interstellar HC5O in TMC-1 with the Green Bank Telescope
Authors: McGuire Brett A. , Burkhardt Andrew M. , Shingledecker Christopher N. , Kalenskii Sergei V. , Herbst Eric , Remijan Anthony J. , McCarthy Michael C.
Published: July 2017

We report the detection of the carbon-chain radical HC5O for the first time in the interstellar medium toward the cold core TMC-1 using the 100 m Green Bank Telescope. We observe four hyperfine components of this radical in the

rotational transition that originates from the

fine structure level of its ground state and calculate an abundance of

, assuming an excitation temperature of

K. No indication of HC3O, HC4O, or HC6O, is found in these or archival observations of the source, while we report tentative evidence for HC7O. We compare calculated upper limits and the abundance of HC5O to predictions based on (1) the abundance trend of the analogous HC
n
N family in TMC-1 and (2) a gas-grain chemical model. We find that the gas-grain chemical model well reproduces the observed abundance of HC5O, as well as the upper limits of HC3O, HC6O, and HC7O, but HC4O is overproduced. The prospects for astronomical detection of both shorter and longer HC
n
O chains are discussed.
Cothérapie et régulation émotionnelle : deux subjectivités valent mieux qu’une !
Authors: Duriez Nathalie
Published: July 2017

La rencontre avec une famille va faire émerger chez le thérapeute des émotions conscientes et inconscientes. Celles-ci entraînent l’activation de scripts construits à partir d’expériences personnelles et professionnelles. Les stratégies de régulation de ces émotions vont déterminer les interventions du thérapeute. L’expression ou la non-expression des émotions peut être une source d’incompréhension avec la famille ou être à l’origine d’une rigidification du système famille-thérapeute. La cothérapie favorise une meilleure conscientisation et un ajustement des stratégies de régulation émotionnelle des thérapeutes, chacun aidant l’autre à réguler différemment ses émotions. La cothérapie offre aussi à la famille l’image d’un couple qui ajuste ses stratégies de régulation émotionnelle pour mieux collaborer malgré les différences de ses deux membres. Cet ajustement représente pour la famille un modèle qui peut être imité.
Cothérapie scindée
Authors: Ausloos Guy
Published: July 2017

Pour situer comment j’en suis arrivé à concevoir la cothérapie-scindée, je présenterai d’abord la théorie de Ferreira sur le « split double-bind ». J’aborderai ensuite la façon dont j’ai découvert le contre-paradoxe scindé. Et c’est là que je pourrai enfin vous parler de cothérapie scindée. Pour les lecteurs pressés, vous pouvez vous rendre immédiatement à ce paragraphe.
Quitter la violence islamique. Retour sur le phénomène de désaffiliation djihadiste
Authors: Amghar Samir , Fall Khadiyatoulah
Published: July 2017

Cet article entend identifier ce qui a poussé des personnes à quitter la violence islamique. Parce que la désaffiliation relève d’un processus, il ne s’agit pas d’identifier l’élément déclencheur mais plutôt les différentes variables imbriquées dans une « équation de la désaffiliation ». Les raisons de sortie seraient le produit d’un « désenchantement jihadiste » consécutif à un désajustement entre les aspirations individuelles et leurs possibilités de réalisation au sein des mouvements jihadistes : d’abord, un fossé se creuse entre aspiration personnelle et injonctions de l’organisation, puis la satisfaction personnelle retirée de l’engagement diminue, menant ainsi à une défection. Au regard de premiers témoignages de « repentis » jihadistes français et belges, notre hypothèse est que ce sont ces premiers doutes et remises en question quant à l’engagement qui doivent être analysés comme les déclencheurs de la désaffiliation. La prise de conscience de l’individu que quelque chose ne lui convient plus dans son engagement violent peut trouver ainsi son origine dans un sentiment de décalage avec les valeurs et l’environnement jihadistes, dans des contingences politiques et/ou idéologiques, des conditions de vie, une réflexion personnelle, ou encore dans des contingences extérieures au groupe, liées par exemple à des pressions communautaires mal vécues.
Pourquoi je ne crois pas à la religion en général, ni même au religieux. Bref retour sur un parcours d’anthropologue
Authors: Singleton Michael
Published: July 2017

Pour éviter de parler de tout et de n’importe quoi à la fois, on a intérêt à donner un sens et un seul et non pas trente-six aux termes employés. Or, en « essentialisant » l’étymologie, si « être religieux » c’est « se trouver obligé à l’égard de l’autre que proprement humain », il y a des cultures fondamentalement areligieuses puisqu’elles ne doivent rien au Tout qui leur donne tout gratuitement, et d’autres foncièrement irréligieuses puisqu’elles permettent à l’individu de tout prendre et de ne rien devoir à autrui qui n’est pas dans son intérêt. Ce qui laisse entre les deux le lieu proprement religieux du donnant-donnant maussien.
Ce que l’épisode du mariage pour tous nous dit du catholicisme français
Authors: Béraud Céline
Published: July 2017

L’article considère l’épisode du mariage pour tous comme un observatoire privilégié des transformations à l’œuvre dans le catholicisme français depuis une trentaine d’années. Parmi les opposants au projet de loi, les catholiques sont apparus comme des acteurs clés. La force de la mobilisation catholique et surtout sa capacité à recruter au-delà des rangs des fidèles, qui sont réduits en nombre, étaient inattendues. Ce réengagement en politique a montré les ressources d’un groupe religieux considéré depuis des décennies, à tort, comme atone. Le mouvement a également donné à voir la grande pluralité interne au catholicisme français. Principalement conduite par des catholiques d’« identité » en phase avec l’aile conservatrice de l’appareil ecclésiastique, la mobilisation n’était pas unanime. Elle a révélé d’importantes divisions internes.
Monde instituant/monde institué : les formes de la singularisation créatrice
Authors: Poirier Nicolas
Published: July 2017

L’objet de ce texte est de réfléchir au rapport entre création et institution, plus précisément dans le domaine de l’art où le phénomène de la singularisation créatrice semble porté à son point culminant, en tout cas dans le cadre de ce qu’il est convenu d’appeler modernité ; que, par ce terme, on désigne l’art moderne et l’esthétique allant avec, ou, plus largement, le régime de sens qui articule les rapports entre la singularité et l’institution normative. Alors que, dans la perspective de l’art traditionnel, l’institution doit normer d’emblée la singularité créatrice pour qu’elle puisse se donner sous une forme mesurable, la logique moderne de l’individuation expressive accorde au contraire la primauté à la créativité instituante porteuse d’un potentiel novateur et révolutionnaire.
L’impact des dépenses publiques consacrées au sport sur les médailles olympiques
Authors: Blais-Morisset Paul , Boucher Vincent , Fortin Bernard
Published: July 2017

Chaque année, une part significative des dépenses gouvernementales est consacrée au sport de niveau professionnel ou amateur. Certains analystes affirment que ces investissements contribuent fortement au succès d’un pays aux Jeux olympiques. Nous présentons une analyse économétrique visant à estimer l’effet causal de l’investissement public dans le sport sur le nombre de médailles remportées par un pays. Nous utilisons des modèles de comptage avec effets fixes et variable instrumentale. Selon les spécifications retenues, l’élasticité du nombre de médailles obtenues par un pays lors de Jeux olympiques d’été par rapport aux investissements publics qu’il a effectués varie entre 0,23 et 0,38.
Bref addendum sur la « conception expérimentale de la rationalité »
Authors: Mongin Philippe
Published: July 2017

Un article précédent défendait, en l’attribuant à Allais et à ses successeurs MacCrimmon et Larsson, une conception inédite qui recommanderait d’étudier sur des données de comportement non seulement la conformité des individus aux règles normatives, mais encore la normativité même de ces règles. Cet article a suscité de la part de Dorian Jullien des commentaires auxquels nous répondons ici.
Comment le féminin vient au corps malade ?
Authors: Yi Mi-Kyung
Published: July 2017

L’auteur interroge l’équivalence entre corps malade et corps féminin, particulièrement complexe dans la construction de la féminité en butte à une faille organique dès la petite enfance. Comment la « castration » devient-elle la voie du féminin toute tracée pour le corps confronté à l’expérience de la maladie ? Dans quelle mesure l’analyse pourrait-elle alors faire œuvre de passerelle pour que le féminin et le corps malade puissent se rencontrer autrement  ?
Gènes incertains, ventre certissime
Authors: Weil Éva
Published: July 2017

Cet article traite de la réactivation des théories sexuelles infantiles dans le vécu de l’intervention médicale lors des PMA. La clinique du don d’ovocytes est abordée sous l’angle des remaniements éventuels de ces théories chez les femmes infécondes. La place centrale de la grossesse dans l’identité maternelle est soulignée.
A theoretical approach to the flâneur and the sensitive perception of the metropolis
Authors: La Rocca Fabio
Published: July 2017

Notre intention est de montrer, depuis ses origines, comment la figure du flâneur représente une modalité théorique pour comprendre la métropole et ses multiples détails. Dans l’immersion dans la rue nous sommes confrontés à une manière de déchiffrer et connaître l’espace urbain où nous pouvons trouver une stimulation des sens dans le processus de construction des ambiances. Nous pouvons observer comment le flâneur participe à la construction d’une forme sensitive qu’il faut comprendre comme technique, tactique et mode d’opérer une perception profonde de la métropole et ses espaces. De quelle façon la figure du flâneur évolue ? Y a-t-il des particularités significatives que peuvent définir un flâneur contemporain et l’actuelle expérience urbaine ? La prégnance de cette figure est à considérer comme une méthode : la perception et la capture des ambiances sont alors des modalités nous aidant à la compréhension et à la découverte des fragments significatifs de la métropole.
“Walking through Tokyo”: Wackwitz and the liminal spaces of postmodern everyday life
Authors: Lee Changnam
Published: July 2017

Cet article suit d’une façon critique les pas et les regards du flâneur transnational que Stephan Wackwitz décrit dans sa collection d’essais « Tokyo ». Il se concentre particulièrement sur les descriptions des espaces liminaux comme les rues, le centre commercial, le salon de jeu, la gare ferroviaire et l’aéroport où l’auteur rencontre les frontières sociales, culturelles et ethniques et se rend compte que la hiérarchie moderne entre le réel et le virtuel est à l’envers, le tabou et le normal se sont déplacés, le familier et l’étranger sont mixtes. Ce « désordre ordonné » est analysé dans cet article comme la tension provisoire qui arrive pendant la globalisation aux seuils des espaces liminaux de la vie quotidienne postmoderne.
The turbulence of the strollers, between erotism and politics
Authors: Shin Ji Eun
Published: July 2017

La figure de flâneur montre que le désir de nomadisme persiste fermement encore dans notre société postmoderne. Cet article propose d’examiner comment lorsque les flâneurs désordonnés s’ordonnent en mouvement circulaire, ils se transforment en organisation tourbillonnaire. La force y déclenche la (ré)organisation et le mouvement sociaux. Il est évident que l’anomie et l’effervescence sont donc des fondations solides de structuration nouvelle. Cela nous permet de critiquer les théories du comportement collectif de la foule, et de chercher de nouvelles expressions et notions plus adéquates pour expliquer la possibilité d’explosion sociale dans notre société postmoderne. L’ eros effect est manifeste dans des rassemblements des flâneurs, e.g. flashmobs . Il remet en question les divisions définitives entre le politique et l’érotique, le travail et les passions.
How They Become Spectral Flâneurs: Walking the City Haunting the Cinema in Kim Ki-Duk’s 3-Iron
Authors: Yoon Seongho
Published: July 2017

Cet article examine 3-Iron (2004), un film de Kim Ki-duk, de la perspective de la flânerie spectrale. Chacun de ses films a été reçu différemment dans son pays d’origine et à l’étranger – Kim se trouvait pris dans un lien, car c’est un cinéaste qui a reçu des accolades et des succès de boxe modérée à l’étranger tout en manquant, à plusieurs reprises, de faire appel aux critiques et aux cinéphiles locaux. Curieusement, cette situation de Kim est, à la manière d’un palimpseste, alignée avec les façons dont il fait des films. Il habite à la tangente de l’industrie cinématographique comme un fantôme, et il rend possible le spectral d’une manière qui ne peut incarner qu’un flâneur spectral dans son onzième film 3-Iron . Ce flâneur ouvert un espace où Kim peut opérer à l’intérieur et à l’extérieur de l’industrie cinématographique. Le personnage du flâneur spectral vient à la place de Kim, et 3-Iron devient une allégorie bizarre, finalement convaincante, du réalisateur fantôme qui a fait un film sur les fantômes.
SLA and Performance Efficient Heuristics for Virtual Machines Placement in Cloud Data Centers
Authors: Sharma Oshin , Saini Hemraj
Published: July 2017

Cloud computing has revolutionized the working models of IT industry and increasing the demand of cloud resources which further leads to increase in energy consumption of data centers. Virtual machines (VMs) are consolidated dynamically to reduce the number of host machines inside data centers by satisfying the customer's requirements and quality of services (QoS). Moreover, for using the services of cloud environment every cloud user has a service level agreement (SLA) that deals with energy and performance trade-offs. As, the excess of consolidation and migration may degrade the performance of system, therefore, this paper focuses the overall performance of the system instead of energy consumption during the consolidation process to maintain a trust level between cloud's users and providers. In addition, the paper proposed three different heuristics for virtual machine (VM) placement based on current and previous usage of resources. The proposed heuristics ensure a high level of service level agreements (SLA) and better performance of ESM metric in comparison to previous research.
Towards Efficient Bounds on Completion Time and Resource Provisioning for Scheduling Workflows on Heterogeneous Processing Systems
Authors: Sirisha D. , Vijayakumari G.
Published: July 2017

Compute intensive applications featured as workflows necessitate Heterogeneous Processing Systems (HPS) for attaining high performance to minimize the turnaround time. Efficient scheduling of the workflow tasks is paramount to attain higher potentials of HPS and is a challenging NP-Complete problem. In the present work, Branch and Bound (BnB) strategy is applied to optimally schedule the workflow tasks. The proposed bounds are tighter, simpler and less complex than the existing bounds and the upper bound is closer to the exact solution. Moreover, the bounds on the resource provisioning are devised to execute the workflows in the minimum possible time and optimally utilize the resources. The performance of the proposed BnB strategy is evaluated on a suite of benchmark workflows. The experimental results reveal that the proposed BnB strategy improved the optimal solutions compared to the existing heuristic scheduling algorithms for more than 20 percent of the cases and generated better schedules over 7 percent for 82.6 percent of the cases.
Gamification and Interdisciplinarity
Authors: Meschede Christine , Knautz Kathrin
Published: July 2017

The enhanced use of information communication technologies in the knowledge society has a huge impact on how people learn and do research. In education, the trend topic Gamification has appeared, trying to fulfil the needs of digital natives. Likewise, researchers are challenged by new forms of collaboration. Interdisciplinary projects become more and more important. This article aims at combining these two trending topics of the knowledge society. Thus, the importance of Gamification in the scientific world in terms of disciplinary diversity will be measured. The goal is to identify predominant disciplines publishing on the topic and to detect collaborations in terms of multi- and interdisciplinarity. We firstly give an overview on the different research fields. Further, we introduce a way to measure disciplinary diversity of Gamification and classify the issue accordingly. Gamification presents itself as a multidisciplinary topic with an average of 4.2 references of different disciplines. In terms of interdisciplinarity a total value of 31% also represents a strong outcome.
Creating Utilitarian and Hedonic Value from Website Quality and Online Retail Performance
Authors: Wang Edward Shih-Tse
Published: July 2017

Although consumer-perceived utilitarian value and hedonic value have been considered essential antecedents of consumer behavior, few studies have investigated the effects of both website quality and online retail performance on consumer-perceived utilitarian value and hedonic value, which in turn affect consumers' relationship commitment. This study analyzed data from 394 online shoppers using structural equation modeling. The results revealed that both utilitarian and hedonic value significantly and positively affected relationship commitment. Information quality, system quality, service quality, and price fairness were revealed to significantly and positively affect the perceived utilitarian value of online stores, whereas system and service quality increased perceived hedonic value.
Exploring the Conceptual Nature of e-Business Projects
Authors: Matthies Benjamin , Coners André
Published: July 2017

E-business projects (eBPs) can be described as endeavors which transform traditional business functions into digital and mostly automated, inter-organizational e-business functions. Although studies exist which already increased the understanding of such endeavors, there is still no conceptualization that defines eBPs as their own kind of project, summarizing and categorizing all of their characteristic topics, problem areas, and tasks. This study attempts to close this gap by exploring the conceptual nature of eBPs. A large number of practical project reports was evaluated, using a latent semantic analysis for the exploratory summarization of the textual database. As a result, the study provides a comprehensive theoretical conceptualization including 12 core concepts and 74 specific sub-concepts, structured within the context of a system development life cycle. Such a project conceptualization provides a contribution to the practical management of eBPs, as well as a theoretical framework for further establishing eBPs as a unique project type.
A Convex-Splitting Scheme for a Diffuse Interface Model with Peng-Robinson Equation of State
Authors: Peng Qiujin
Published: July 2017

We present a convex-splitting scheme for the fourth order parabolic equation derived from a diffuse interface model with Peng-Robinson equation of state for pure substance. The semi-implicit scheme is proven to be uniquely solvable, mass conservative, unconditionally energy stable andL∞convergent with the order of. The numerical results verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm and also show good agreement of the numerical solution with laboratory experimental results.
A Comparison Study of Numerical Methods for Compressible Two-Phase Flows
Authors: Lin Jianyu , Ding Hang , Lu Xiyun , Wang Peng
Published: July 2017

In this article a comparison study of the numerical methods for compressible two-phase flows is presented. Although many numerical methods have been developed in recent years to deal with the jump conditions at the fluid-fluid interfaces in compressible multiphase flows, there is a lack of a detailed comparison of these methods. With this regard, the transport five equation model, the modified ghost fluid method and the cut-cell method are investigated here as the typical methods in this field. A variety of numerical experiments are conducted to examine their performance in simulating inviscid compressible two-phase flows. Numerical experiments include Richtmyer-Meshkov instability, interaction between a shock and a rectangle SF6 bubble, Rayleigh collapse of a cylindrical gas bubble in water and shock-induced bubble collapse, involving fluids with small or large density difference. Based on the numerical results, the performance of the method is assessed by the convergence order of the method with respect to interface position, mass conservation, interface resolution and computational efficiency.
Transition Flow with an Incompressible Lattice Boltzmann Method
Authors: Murdock J. R. , Ickes J. C. , Yang S. L.
Published: July 2017

Direct numerical simulations of the transition process from steady laminar to chaotic flow are considered in this study with the relatively new incompressible lattice Boltzmann equation. Numerically, a multiple relaxation time fully incompressible lattice Boltzmann equation is implemented in a 2D driven cavity. Spatial discretization is 2nd-order accurate, and the Kolmogorov length scale estimation based on Reynolds number (Re) dictates grid resolution. Initial simulations show the method to be accurate for steady laminar flows, while higherResimulations reveal periodic flow behavior consistent with an initial Hopf bifurcation atRe7,988. Non-repeating flow behavior is observed in the phase space trajectories aboveRe13,063, and is evidence of the transition to a chaotic flow regime. Finally, flows at Reynolds numbers above the chaotic transition point are simulated and found with statistical properties in good agreement with literature.
Molecular Characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains with TB-SPRINT
Authors: Molina-Moya Barbara , Gomgnimbou Michel Kiréopori , Lafoz Carmen , Lacoma Alicia , Prat Cristina , Refrégier Guislaine , Samper Sofia , Dominguez Jose , Sola Christophe
Published: July 2017

We evaluated Tuberculosis-Spoligo-Rifampicin-Isoniazid Typing (TB-SPRINT), a microbead-based method for spoligotyping and detection of rifampicin and isoniazid resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. For that, 67 M. tuberculosis complex strains were retrospectively selected. Membrane-based spoligotyping, restriction fragment length polymorphism, DNA sequencing/pyrosequencing of rpoB, katG, and inhA promoter, TB-SPRINT, and SNP typing were performed. Concordance between spoligotyping methods was 99.6% (2,785/2,795 spoligotype data points). For most of the discordant cases, the same lineage was assigned with both methods. Concordance between phenotypic drug susceptibility testing and TB-SPRINT for detecting rifampicin and isoniazid resistance was 98.4% (63/64) and 93.8% (60/64), respectively. Concordance between DNA sequencing/pyrosequencing and TB-SPRINT for detecting mutations in rpoB, katG, and inhA were 98.4% (60/61), 100% (64/64), and 96.9% (62/64), respectively. In conclusion, TB-SPRINT is a rapid and easy-to-perform assay for genotyping and detecting drug resistance in a single tube; therefore, it may be a useful tool to improve epidemiological surveillance.
Evaluation of Malaria Screening during Pregnancy with Rapid Diagnostic Tests Performed by Community Health Workers in Burkina Faso
Authors: Ruizendaal Esmée , Schallig Henk D. F. H. , Scott Susana , Traore-Coulibaly Maminata , Bradley John , Lompo Palpouguini , Natama Hamtandi M. , Traore Ousmane , Valea Innocent , Dierickx Susan , Drabo Koiné M. , Pagnoni Franco , Alessandro Umberto d’ , Tinto Halidou , Mens Petra F.
Published: July 2017

One of the current strategies to prevent malaria in pregnancy is intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP). However, in order for pregnant women to receive an adequate number of SP doses, they should attend a health facility on a regular basis. In addition, SP resistance may decrease IPTp-SP efficacy. New or additional interventions for preventing malaria during pregnancy are therefore warranted. Because it is known that community health workers (CHWs) can diagnose and treat malaria in children, in this study screening and treatment of malaria in pregnancy by CHWs was evaluated as an addition to the regular IPTp-SP program. CHWs used rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for screening and artemether–lumefantrine was given in case of a positive RDT. Overall, CHWs were able to conduct RDTs with a sensitivity of 81.5% (95% confidence interval [CI] 67.9–90.2) and high specificity of 92.1% (95% CI 89.9–93.9) compared with microscopy. After a positive RDT, 79.1% of women received artemether–lumefantrine. When treatment was not given, this was largely due to the woman being already under treatment. Almost all treated women finished the full course of artemether–lumefantrine (96.4%). In conclusion, CHWs are capable of performing RDTs with high specificity and acceptable sensitivity, the latter being dependent on the limit of detection of RDTs. Furthermore, CHWs showed excellent adherence to test results and treatment guidelines, suggesting they can be deployed for screen and treat approaches of malaria in pregnancy.
PWM HVAC Blower Controller and BLDC Motor Controller Efficiency Assessment
Authors:   Interior Climate Control MAC Supplier Committee
Published: July 2017

The intention of this standard is to establish a framework to measure the efficiency of PWM HVAC Blower Controllers and Brushless DC Motor Controllers and define a usage based overall efficiency. This result can then be used by vehicle OEMs to demonstrate compliance towards requirements or benchmarks established by regulatory agencies.
Resisting Invasions: Indigenous Peoples and Land Rights Battles in Mabo and Terra Vermelha
Authors: Frey Aline
Published: July 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n2p151This article examines two feature films, focusing on the link between Indigenous cinema, environmental preservation and land rights. The first film is Mabo (2012) directed by Aboriginal filmmaker Rachel Perkins. It centres on a man’ legal battle for recognition of Indigenous land’ ownership in Australia. The second film is Terra Vermelha (Birdwatchers, Marco Bechis, 2008), which centres on the violence endured by a contemporary Brazilian Indigenous group attempting to reclaim their traditional lands occupied by agribusiness barons. Based on comparative analysis of Mabo and Terra Vermelha, this article discusses the similar challenges faced by Indigenous nations in these two countries, especially the colonial dispossession of their ancestral territories and the postcolonial obstacles to reclaim and exercise self-determination over them.
How do faculty conceptions on reading, writing and their role in the teaching of academic literacies influence their inclusive attitude
Authors: Colombo Laura , Prior Mónica
Published: July 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n3p115Este estudo explorou concepções docentes sobre leitura e escrita, sobre o corpo discente, sobre razões para baixo desempenho de estudantes, bem como suas práticas de ensino destinadas a ajudar os alunos a compreender melhor as leituras e a escrever textos acadêmicos. O objetivo foi compreender que tipo de concepções docentes contribuiu com uma atitude mais inclusiva em relação a alunos do primeiro ano. A análise a partir de dados recolhidos em entrevistas em profundidade indica que os professores que reconheceram a complexidade dos processos de leitura e escrita tenderam a ser mais inclusivos e a usar a leitura e a escrita para ensinar, e não apenas para avaliar. Aqueles que lecionaram cursos de escrita tenderam a considerar a escrita como uma habilidade geral, transferível para outros contextos e esferas de conhecimento. Professores menos inclusivos, explicando porque não ofereceram orientação ou soluções alternativas, afirmaram que os alunos já deveriam ter dominado a leitura e escrita acadêmicas ao entrar na universidade e que ensinar essas habilidades implicaria em atitude superprotetora, não permitindo o amadurecimento discente.
Engineering the future: teaching reading and writing at the Universidad Nacional de Entre Rios
Authors: Waigandt Diana Monica , Noceti Alicia Maria , Zapata Luz Marina
Published: July 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n3p173Desde a década de 1990, na Argentina, tem havido uma preocupação considerável sobre se as instituições de ensino superior devem assumir a responsabilidade de ensinar habilidades acadêmicas a sua população estudantil ou se ambos os graduandos e graduados devem lidar com o processo de enculturação sem assistência. Embora acadêmicos pareçam ter chegado a um acordo e uma série de ações destinadas a facilitar o acesso dos estudantes universitários em suas comunidades de discurso alvo tenham sido apresentadas, ainda há um debate acalorado sobre a forma como a questão deve ser abordada. Neste artigo vamos descrever as iniciativas levadas a cabo em duas faculdades de engenharia (a Facultad de Ciencias de la Alimentación e a Faculdad de Ingeniería pertencente à Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos) que abriram o caminho para a integração entre ensino e aprendizagem de habilidades de literacia acadêmica no currículo.
Letramentos em língua portuguesa e inglesa na educação superior brasileira: marcos e perspectivas
Authors: Cristovão Vera Lucia Lopes , Vieira Isabela Rodrigues
Published: July 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n3p209Este artigo propõe-se a contribuir com o projeto Iniciativas de Leitura e Escrita no Ensino Superior (ILEES) na América Latina para a consolidação de redes.  O objetivo era o de identificar e descrever as iniciativas de ensino e pesquisa em leitura e escrita no Ensino Superior no Brasil. A partir dessa primeira etapa, foi possível identificar os principais núcleos de iniciativas à leitura e escrita. Neste artigo, propomos um trabalho voltado para a segunda etapa dessa pesquisa com a identificação de centros de escrita bem como a análise descritiva de entrevistas com os pesquisadores citados recorrentemente como referências e/ou considerados responsáveis por nucleação de grupos e/ou projetos de letramento(s) em diferentes universidades estaduais e federais do país. Para nossas análises, recorremos ao procedimento de análise do conteúdo temático das entrevistas semiestruturadas por meio da identificação dos segmentos de organização temática (SOT) e como os entrevistados (E) tratam desse tema por meio de segmentos de tratamento temático (STT), proposto por Bronckart (2008) e Bulea (2010) .Os resultados mostram cinco centros voltados para leitura e escrita acadêmica no contexto nacional ao passo que as entrevistas ressaltam aportes teóricos voltados para o letramento e apontam a escassez de trabalho para iniciativas de leitura e escrita nas universidades brasileiras e, em relação à sustentabilidade, ampliação, fortalecimento e reconhecimento são necessidades urgentes, segundo nossas entrevistadas.
From Samuel Beckett to Nancy Huston: a poetics of self-translation
Authors: Almeida Sandra Regina Goulart , Veras Julia De Vasconcelos Magalhães
Published: July 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n1p103Este artigo enfoca a autotradução e o bilinguismo como uma característica essencial para compreender as obras de Samuel Beckett e Nancy Huston e seus projetos literários. Esta análise nos leva a pensar em termos de uma perspectiva mais ampla do termo tradução, que a psicanálise e os estudos literários contemporâneos abordaram. Beckett tinha um projeto literário, que incluía uma subversão da linguagem através do processo de autotradução. Mais do que uma atividade, o processo de tradução e manipulação de duas línguas faz parte de sua inspiração poética. Quando Huston faz uma homenagem explícita a Beckett e se coloca na mesma experiência de escrever em uma língua estrangeira e traduzir seus próprios textos, ela dá um testemunho e também fornece uma chave para a leitura de Beckett de uma perspectiva contemporânea. Apesar das notáveis diferenças entre esses dois autores, afirmamos que a autotradução é parte de seu projeto literário, e é mais do que um evento aleatório para ambos.
The Luminaries: A D―ned Fine Tale, but of What?
Authors: Scheckter John
Published: July 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n1p123Os Luminares (2013), romance Neo Zelandês de Eleanor Catton do século XIX, ganhou grande reconhecimento internacional, incluindo o Man Booker Prize. No entanto, muitos leitores acham o trabalho exasperante de ler - um "pesadelo", para usar um termo que a própria Catton sugere. Em grande medida, esta resposta emerge do uso de dispositivos de estruturação pesados, particularmente astrologia e matemática, que dizem respeito ao período de tempo de sua ficção. Estes quadros tendem a fazer reivindicações totalizantes, muitas vezes através de causalidade ou progressão linear, e apoiar protocolos realistas e modernos de leitura. Como este ensaio demonstra, Catton enfraquece essas reivindicações, e frustra tais leituras, enfatizando vários caminhos de compreensão e múltiplas vozes de narração. Os Luminares abraça seus múltiplos mecanismos estruturais, mas não é dominado por eles.
The deadly perception of the witness: focalization in Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief
Authors: Oliveira Débora Almeida de , Maggio Sandra Sirangelo
Published: July 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n1p135Para um melhor entendimento de uma narrativa é essencial que  leitor saiba quem é aquele que percebe (o focalizador). Suas crenças e compreensão determinam quais personagens e circunstâncias devem ser ignoradas ou examinadas de perto através da utilização dos sentidos da visão, audição, tato, paladar ou olfato. Assim sendo, a questão da focalização é algo relevante a ser levado em consideração quando um trabalho literário é analisado. No presente artigo, a obra do autor australiano Markus Zusak, A Menina que Roubava Livros, é discutida sob a ótica da narratologia, especialmente através das vozes de Gérard Genette, Mieke Bal e Rimmon-Kenan. Assevera-se que a focalização em A Menina que Roubava Livros é uma das principais técnicas literárias que ajuda a construir a atmosfera e sentido do texto.
Deslocamentos e identidades no gótico australiano: o caso de Picnic at Hanging Rock e Piquenique na Montanha Misteriosa
Authors: Rassier Luciana Wrege , Costa Cynthia Beatrice
Published: July 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n1p199O romance Picnic at Hanging Rock, de Joan Lindsay (1967), e sua adaptação cinematográfica homônima dirigida por Peter Weir (1975), comercializada no Brasil como Piquenique na Montanha Misteriosa, têm intrigado leitores e espectadores há mais de quatro décadas. Ambientadas na Austrália rural de 1900, as narrativas ilustram o gênero gótico australiano ao tratar do misterioso desaparecimento de três alunas e uma professora de um internato repressor, durante um piquenique na montanha. Partindo das reflexões de Linda Hutcheon (2011) sobre adaptações, analisamos em que medida as narrativas literária e cinematográfica dialogam; já as reflexões de Susan Bassnett (2006) e Kristi Siegel (2004) sobre relatos de viagem femininos nos permitem pensar as temáticas da sexualidade feminina e do deslocamento no espaço como metáfora da transformação do indivíduo.
O american dream e a cultura das aparências em Little Caesar, de Meryvn Leroy
Authors: Itikawa Tanaka Elder Kôei
Published: July 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n1p233Considerado o precursor dos filmes sonoros de gângster do chamado período “clássico” desse gênero, Little Caesar, dirigido por Mervyn LeRoy em 1931, narra o percurso do protagonista Rico Bandello (Edward G. Robinson) da sua ascensão à liderança da gangue à sua queda no final do filme. Little Caesar, além de estabelecer os parâmetros seguidos pelas narrativas dos filmes de gângster a partir dos anos 1930, também contribuiu para que o gângster se tornasse um ícone da cultura norte-americana graças à disseminação de sua figura por meio da indústria cultural, principalmente no cinema. Nosso objetivo com o presente trabalho é, por meio da análise de algumas cenas do filme, verificar de que maneira se configuram a cultura das aparências e a ideologia do American Dream ao longo da narrativa.
Spatial Politics in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Authors: Kazemi Elham , Hanif Mohsen
Published: July 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n1p287Este artigo examina a noção de política espacial em Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, de Tom Stoppard. Os dois cortesãos entram no mundo politicamente convulsivo de Hamlet, onde nenhuma estrutura de poder legítimo toma conta do estado. Sua racionalidade política regularizada deixa de ser aplicável ao mundo; a realidade viola o conhecimento empírico -  direções geográficas e espirituais, e, geralmente, identidade - de Rosencrantz e Guildenstern. As funções previamente definidas de lugares, ou heterotopias (em termos de Foucault), estão em um estado de suspensão. Portanto, eles estão perdidos no meio dos conjuntos desconhecidos de relações espaciais; qualquer tipo de ato intencional escapa-lhes; morrem e desaparecem absurdamente em um lugar sem lugar.
Everybody behaves badly: the true story behind Hemingway's masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
Authors: Townsend Elisa Correa dos Santos , Heemann Christiane
Published: July 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n1p297O livro de Lesley Blume retrata o "making of" de O Sol Também se Levanta, de Ernest Hemingway, ao estudar as personalidades que o inspiraram e as imensuráveis mudanças que trouxe para o mundo literário. Blume é um historiador e jornalista cultural bem sucedido da América do Norte que - entre outras realizações - cobriu as eleições presidenciais dos Estados Unidos de 2000 e a catástrofe de 11 de setembro de 2001. Este livro, lançado em 7 de junho de 2016, já se tornou uma fonte de polêmica em face de suas revelações sobre o romance de estreia de Hemingway que deu voz à chamada "Geração Perdida". Durante o verão de 1925, Ernest Hemingway e um grupo de amigos desordenados foram a Pamplona, na Espanha, para o conhecido festival anual de touros San Fermín. Posteriormente, ao longo das próximas semanas, ele conduziu a expedição como uma orquestra de águas turbulentas e selvagens - um prato cheio de motivação criativa para um escritor - incluindo embriaguez, lutas, competitividade sexual, infidelidades noturnas e ressacas, experiências essas que resultaram em seu pioneiro romance O Sol Também se Levanta.
Decolonizing Queer time: a critique of anachronism in latin@ writings
Authors: Avila Eliana De Souza
Published: July 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n1p39Embora o termo Latin@ não possa ser rastreado por qualquer referente coerente em termos de origem geográfica ou epistêmica (Rodríguez, 2014), ainda denota um referente muito estável quando se trata de destino geográfico - sendo os EUA o destino migratório central, modelado por e modelando deslocamentos identitários e posições epistêmicas diversas associadas à América Latina. Por mais que esta determinidade narrativa seja o efeito das assimetrias de poder globais, ela tende também a naturalizá-las por meio da migração em termos evolucionistas que anacronizam as lutas contra o deslocamento, a desterritorialização e o desapossamento. O campo da literatura latin@ e da crítica torna-se, portanto, um lugar efetivo a partir do qual os conflitos históricos em curso elididos por essas narrativas podem ser criativamente lembrados e reconfigurados. Este artigo reflete sobre as fronteiras temporais como um paradigma crítico para reconfigurar narrativas de temporalidade direta na escrita Latin@.
Antes do Pós-humano: insetos sociais, mamíferos superiores e a (re)construção de fronteiras entre os humanos e os animais na modernidade
Authors: Ferreira Hugo
Published: July 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n2p15O presente artigo discute a (re)construção das fronteiras entre os humanos e os animais ao longo dos séculos XIX e XX. Nos séculos XVII e XVIII, o ser humano era visto como fundamentalmente distinto da natureza através da política, sociedade e trabalho, sendo frequentemente comparado então aos insetos sociais. Com a revolução darwiniana no século XIX e a classificação filogenética dos seres vivos, o ser humano foi “primatizado”, e assim a humanidade passaria a ser uma consequência da inteligência gerada pelo alto desenvolvimento do sistema nervoso. Atualmente, quando se quer questionar as fronteiras entre o humano e o animal, viram-se os holofotes para outros seres como chimpanzés e golfinhos. Assim, através de uma revisão bibliográfica, o ensaio busca explorar um aparente contraste histórico entre os seres a serem comparados aos humanos – dos insetos sociais aos chamados “mamíferos  superiores” – bem como suas implicações políticas e bioéticas.
O ciborgue entre a bio-arte e a arte disturbatória
Authors: Cardoso Jean
Published: July 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n2p29A presença do ciborgue na contemporaneidade, como entendido pela bióloga e filósofa Donna Haraway em Antropologia do Ciborgue (2009), traz consigo um conjunto de signos que compõem nosso mundo. Dentre esses signos estão às operações transgênicas que o antropólogo e poeta Luís Quintais critica na obra Uma arte do degelo (2015) por meio do efeito performático da bio-arte. Porém, ao confrontarmos tal efeito com o conceito de arte disturbatória do filósofo Arthur Danto, presente na obra O descredenciamento filosófico da arte (2015), a ética oriunda da bio-arte como proposto por Quintais perde em vitalidade. Contudo, recorremos ao imaginário do escritor Fausto Fawcett na obra Favelost (2012) como forma de dialogar com os teóricos presentes nesta investigação a fim de se abrir perspectivas a novos mundos para o pós-humano.
Race as technology: from posthuman cyborg to human industry
Authors: Jones Nicholaos , Jones Holly
Published: July 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n2p39As tecnologias de Cyborg e próteses enquadram abordagens pós-humanistas proeminentes para entender a natureza da raça. Mas esses quadros lutam para acomodar os fenômenos da passagem racial e da estacionança racial, e sua orientação pós-humanista encobre distinções úteis entre os seres humanos racializados e seus contextos sociais. Defendemos, em vez disso, uma abordagem humanista da raça, entendendo a hierarquia racial como uma tecnologia industrial. Nossa abordagem acomoda a passagem racial e a estacionararia. Integra toda uma série de pesquisas em todas as disciplinas. Também é útil distinguir entre os motivos da racialização e condições que facilitam os impactos dessa racialização.
A Zoo(Po)ética de Agualusa
Authors: Barossi Luana
Published: July 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n2p83As obras O vendedor de Passados e Teoria geral do Esquecimento, de José Eduardo Agualusa, apresentam personagens animais e relações entre humanos e animais não-humanos que contrariam as teorias filosóficas e interpretativas tradicionais, possibilitando leituras que rompem com as noções preestabelecidas pelas teorias de matriz estruturalista e cartesiana. Como sugeriu Donna Haraway, o ciborgue aparece como mito precisamente onde a fronteira entre o humano e o animal é transgredida, como se passa nas zonas de indiscernibilidade das personagens de Agualusa, que estabelecem uma (po)ética animal e, portanto, ciborgue. Este artigo tem como intuito trazer à discussão algumas dessas ocorrências animais – ou animots – nas duas obras em questão.