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Challenges for the struggle against austerity in Britain and Europe
Authors: Miley Thomas Jeffrey
Published: May 2018

This chapter analyses several challenges for the struggle against austerity, with an empirical focus on trends in Britain and Europe. It begins by sketching the descent from the historic class compromise of social democracy, highlighting the rise of inequality in the neoliberal period and illuminating the underlying tension between capitalism and democracy. It then turns to explore the roots of populist reaction, focussing on the venting of grievances and the projection of fears onto the so-called feral underclass, and emphasising the resurgent salience of xenophobia in the context of the Orwellian war on terror. It concludes by stressing both the difficulties with and the urgency of forging an emancipatory alternative to the tyranny and barbarism, indeed the defeat for humanity, caused by the victory of unfettered global capitalism.
Conclusion: citizenship, community and solidarity at the end of the welfare state
Authors: Bock Jan-Jonathan , Cohen Shana
Published: May 2018

The conclusion argues that political debates about the relationship between austerity and grassroots politics have focused on antagonism and anti-establishment anger. Other emergent citizenship practices have not been covered as prominently by the media and failed to have the same impact on policy and public discourse. This volume, however, has shown that European austerity has produced diverse types of political agency, and many of them include quiet, constructive, and concrete forms of neighbourhood action to promote equality and social justice. Such forms of community activism already construct local solidarity, but they can also become excuses for further withdrawal of state protection or amount to labour exploitation, leaving activists with ambivalent reflections on their own work, which the volume has documented as well. We suggest that future research will have to investigate whether the socially constructive practices of citizenship examined here will be able to translate successfully into national policy and produce change, or remain confined to specific local contexts without an impact on relevant public agendas.
Better understandings of ethnic variations: ethnicity, poverty and social exclusion
Authors: Karlsen Saffron , Pantazis Christina
Published: May 2018

Previous assessments of poverty and social exclusion in the UK show variations in the social position of people with different ethnic backgrounds. While many minority groups experience significant disadvantage compared with the white majority, this is found to be particularly persistent among Pakistani and Bangladeshi people. However, this previous work is less than comprehensive in its coverage of the ethnic minority population. There are also concerns that standard measures of socioeconomic status fail to account for some of the specific experiences of ethnic minority groups and as a consequence underestimate the prevalence of socioeconomic disadvantage among them. The Poverty and Social Exclusion UK 2012 survey enables us to look at groups often ignored in analyses of ethnic inequalities, such as white minority groups and more recent migrants. Our findings therefore make a valuable contribution to this existing evidence, drawing attention to the particular disadvantage experienced by Black African and Polish people. The more detailed markers employed here reveal additional dimensions of disadvantage than have generally been explored previously and through this the significant disadvantage experienced by other groups – such as Black Caribbean people – as well as the heterogeneity within particular ethnic groups, which have been unappreciated in previous work.
Taking social investment seriously in developed economies
Authors: Hemerijck Anton
Published: May 2018

This chapter looks at the new integration of social with economic policy from the developing economies perspective. It will highlight the key social policy instruments in what were seen as ‘pre-welfare state’ economies, before surveying the ‘social policy spring’ occurring notably in Latin America and in Asia. The chapter will draw out the main learnings for social policy research from the new productivist models associated with Inclusive Growth.
Social protection, social investment and inclusive development
Authors: Midgley James
Published: May 2018

This chapter shows how we can avoid the unwanted polarisation between ‘investment’ and ‘protection’. While certain trends in postwar social policy may have encouraged that bifurcation from economic policy, this chapter shows how nearly all social policies in fact have a dual function, i.e. both productive and protective. The chapter reasserts the importance of social protection for societies seeking to revive strategies for equality in the new model of inclusive growth.
Social politics puzzling: governance for inclusive growth and social investment
Authors: Jenson Jane
Published: May 2018

Analysts of social policy often pay more attention to the content of social policy than to its governance. It is important to assess both. Policy communities currently link the concepts of social investment and social entrepreneurship to advocate both where and how to intervene to ensure inclusive growth.The argument of the chapter is that the explicit linking of these two notions by policy-makers at several scales of authority constitutes an emerging policy paradigm. Despite variation across countries and levels (a characteristic of any paradigm) policy communities proffer the quasi-concepts of social investment and social entrepreneurship in combination as the appropriate ways to govern financing and delivery of social investments and ensure inclusive growth.
Conclusion: towards a new global social policy framework?
Authors: Smyth Paul , Deeming Christopher
Published: May 2018

What have learned? Are we talking about a coherent shift in social policy perspective? What have we learned about the challenges ahead for strengthening welfare systems, and for economic and sustainable growth for all. In this final chapter we will critically consider the perspectives, and ask whether they are simply saying the same thing with different accents (e.g. different disciplinary and country foci) and whether or the extent to which they have different/unique features. Summary tables will be included to summarise approaches and lessons learned.
The ‘soft target’ of Labour in New Zealand
Authors: Duncan Grant
Published: May 2018

This chapter focuses on the social democratic left in New Zealand. Prior to the 2008 election, a three-term Labour-led government under Prime Minister Helen Clark followed a Blairite ‘Third Way’ model. It moderated some of the policies of the more radical neoliberal years (1984–96), but the fundamentals of neoliberal reform, such as financial openness, central bank independence, and fiscal responsibility, were kept in place. Clark's Labour-led government did not satisfy all social democratic aspirations, but its dominance in the 2000s showed that it was the first to master the art of political management under the mixed-member proportional representation system in place since 1996. Defeat came in 2008, however, in an election held shortly after the global financial crisis, and John Key's National Party-led government took over the reins.
Introduction
Authors: Powell Fred
Published: May 2018

This introductory chapter first sets out the book's purpose, which is to bring a critical edge to the Irish social policy debate. It explores the narrative of the residual Irish welfare state, the failed attempts to reform and reconstruct it, and the case for a ‘Second Republic’, based upon a more egalitarian and inclusive social policy direction. The book argues that the latter can best be achieved through the introduction of a universal welfare state that would bring vision and values to a faltering republican ideal. The chapter also discusses the core characteristics identifiable in shaping the historic path development of the Irish welfare state and its future democratic possibilities. These can be broadly summarised as the colonial context; the Irish revolution; the ‘Church–State Alliance’; economic modernisation and development; cultural modernisation and secularisation; and crisis, austerity and democracy.
Construindo comunidades: community building with Portuguese migrant workers on the east coast of England
Authors: Gregory Robert
Published: May 2018

This chapter describes work with Portuguese migrant workers in Great Yarmouth, a typically economically depressed and isolated community — one that is highly representative of many such communities within the UK over the last twenty years. Characteristically, such migrants are the victims of racial hostility, being blamed both for taking away native workers' jobs and for depressing wage levels in the local economy. Traditional forms of community organisation have led to some gains, although the creation of organisations and groups continues to be undermined to some degree by both the transience of some migrants and their focus on economic goals. The key role for the community development worker appears to be to act as a broker between migrants and host community, and particularly to challenge the myths that have been promoted by those on the political Right.
Romani activism and community development: are mediators the way forward?
Authors: Clark Colin
Published: May 2018

This chapter examines a particular example of ‘democratic participation’ within the diverse and heterogeneous Roma communities across Europe — the role of community and cultural mediators. It asks the following key question: what have been the successes and challenges of Romi mediation schemes, to date, and what impact have they had on grassroots Romani activism across Eastern and Central Europe? It argues that although mediation is having a positive impact in some communities, for certain individuals, it is not in and of itself an appropriate or suitable vehicle for wider grassroots campaigning and political activism, especially on issues of structural poverty, disadvantage, and racist discrimination. The chapter first details some thoughts on mediation, specifically commenting on community and peer mediation. It then examines ROMED in its various guises, charting its successes and challenges.
Benarrawa Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Solidarity Group: working to reduce the deleterious effects of racism through structural community development
Authors: Lathouras Athena , Ross Dyann
Published: May 2018

This chapter describes work with an Aboriginal community group using an approach described as structural community development, a ‘bottom-up, citizen-led and -owned approach that seeks to challenge racism at its source in systems, laws, and policies based on white privilege’. Because the Benarrawa group owned this approach, the authors argue that it provides an excellent example of how grounded practice by community groups can inform the theorising of community development. The work of the group involved a range of activities, including workshops, cultural events, commemorative gatherings, and social activities, all designed to affirm the ownership of land by Aboriginal groups and strengthen their determination to assert that ownership against the depredations of the Australian state.
Using arts and culture for community development in the United States
Authors: Gutiérrez Lorraine , Gant Larry M. , Brady Shane
Published: May 2018

This chapter outlines a series of initiatives in urban settings, with a variety of minorities and over a considerable period of time, through which various aspects of arts and cultural work were used within an asset-based community development process to help give voice to differing minority interests. It argues that the arts and other cultural resources can be powerful tools for community development work in the multicultural and multiracial context. However, work with arts and cultural institutions must be intentional and mindful of potential differences and conflicts. The chapter begins with an overview of arts-based community development. It then presents the authors' perspectives on considerations when doing this work, and provides examples of different ways in which they have carried out this work with communities in the United States.
Developing communities: do minority groups need development?
Authors: Belton Brian
Published: May 2018

This chapter critiques the notion of community development in South East Asia (and elsewhere) by looking at responses to Roma groups in the European context, the challenges of professional ascription of community, and ambitions to fabricate community. It explores assumptions about shared identity/interest and replication of colonial ethos, drawing on Fanonian perspectives. It considers work premised on suppositions about the need for development, how logically (and effectively if not consciously) these promote ‘deficit’ models of practice, implying that groups are relatively ‘underdeveloped’. This suggests an Illichian analysis of community development as a form of professional iatrogenesis that promotes incarnations of ‘weak power’.
Mothers, daughters and careers
Authors: Armstrong Jill
Published: May 2018

This chapter provides an overview of how having a mother with a career influences the daughter's own career ambitions. This book's research shows that at the start of the daughters' careers their mothers are indeed highly influential. Most daughters thought their mothers were the main influence over their academic success, which provided a gateway to a career. Many also thought of their mothers as successful and described them as role models. However, the research also shows that having a mother as a role model of career success is far less predictive than one might imagine of the daughters progressing as far or further in their own careers. People can be role models simply by doing what they do. Mentoring implies a more active role for the more experienced party.
Poverty, local services and austerity
Authors: Bramley Glen , Besemer Kirsten
Published: May 2018

While public support for local services as ‘essential’ remains high, there have been divergent trends in usage, with increases in public transport, corner shops and childrens services, but declines in information,leisure and cultural services. Distribution of service usage has become slightly more ‘pro-poor’, yet poorer groups are still more likely to report constraints in service access or quality. Services are not systematically worse in poorer neighbourhoods, in most cases, and service exclusion does not overlap much with other dimensions of social exclusion. While the service domain thus appears to continue to bolster equality, post-austerity cuts to local government spending threaten significant retrenchment in poorer localities.
The poverty of well-being
Authors: Tomlinson Mike , Wilson Lisa
Published: May 2018

This chapter challenges the popular focus on well-being or happiness as the new over-arching policy goal of public and private sectors. It argues instead for a traditional social policy focus on income distribution and social justice as the means to achieve the greatest improvements in well-being. Using a variety of measures, data from the PSE-UK 2012 survey are analysed to demonstrate the material basis of well-being and low life satisfaction. The results show that average well-being scores for those living in poverty are well below the scores for the non-poor. Living with a limiting illness or disability was also found to have a substantial negative effect on well-being. Overall satisfaction with life falls more sharply as household incomes fall, indicating that there are particular gains to be had from focusing on the material needs of the most disadvantaged. Income redistribution is not therefore a zero-sum game. Rather, the results show that the lives of the poor and the long-term sick and disabled would be measurably improved by lifting them out of poverty and improving their material conditions. All in all, the results challenge the idea that well-being is ‘all in the mind’ and detached from material resources.
The capability approach, agency and sustainable development
Authors: Klein Elise , Ballon Paola
Published: May 2018

This chapter examines the role of agency within the capability approach in promoting sustainable development. Drawing on research carried out in Mali, it considers the importance of including psychological and collective domains in the measurement of agency and proposes the use of ‘local’ metrics of agency: dusu and ka da I yèrè la. After providing a background on the Mali case study, the chapter discusses agency in relation to power and gender in the study site. It also analyses the policy implications of the ‘leave no-one behind agenda’ for agency and multidimensional poverty and concludes by identifying areas for policy integration, such as creating context-specific policy formations where agency is central.
Culture, equity and social wellbeing in New York City
Authors: Stern Mark J. , Seifert Susan C.
Published: May 2018

This chapter examines how the capability approach has been applied to cultural policymaking in New York City using a multidimensional index of social wellbeing for the city's neighbourhoods. The project was conceived based on the belief that cultural engagement is a core capability in its own right and that it can facilitate the achievement of other capabilities, the so-called ‘fertile functionings’. The chapter first provides an overview of the political context within which the current research has taken place before outlining three conceptual contributions to the discussion of capability-promoting policies: culture as a capability, the importance of neighbourhood context, and the tension between social justice and democratic decision making. It then describes a measure of cultural engagement based on the presence of institutions (non-profit and for-profit cultural resources), artists and cultural participants in a neighbourhood. Finally, it explains how capability-promoting cultural policy can be used to address long-term social inequality.
Education for all? Providing capabilities for young people with special needs
Authors: Kjeldsen Christian Christrup
Published: May 2018

This chapter considers youth education for all in Denmark, asking whether freedoms exist only on paper or are achievable in context. In particular, it explores the actualities and change for young people with special education needs (SEN) and other young people on the edge of the society in terms of capabilities, formal rights and disadvantage in relation to policy and relates these to macro-level changes in public discourse and development for young people. The chapter analyses a policy from Denmark that entitles all young people to upper secondary education regardless of their SEN or disability. It looks at the opportunities offered by the capability-promoting policy to young people with different special needs and argues that such opportunities are compromised as various positions struggle over the doxa regarding the interpretation of the policy.
‘British values’ and community cohesion
Authors: Holmwood John , O’Toole Therese
Published: May 2018

This chapter discusses the importance of promoting ‘British values’. The Trojan Horse affair has shaped subsequent debates on community cohesion and the counter-extremism agenda, but it was, in its turn, shaped by preceding events. These earlier events — urban disturbances, claims that communities are self-segregating, perceived threats of terrorism, and specific acts of terrorism themselves — have produced a variety of political interventions. These have included policies designed to mitigate what were understood to be problems of community cohesion, threatening the social fabric and security. The interventions helped to create the narratives that were drawn upon in interpretations of the Trojan Horse affair, just as the latter has been taken as evidence of the veracity of those concerns and as a motivation for further interventions.
Introducing the case
Authors: Holmwood John , O’Toole Therese
Published: May 2018

This chapter focuses on the Trojan Horse affair. The puzzle in the Trojan Horse affair is to understand how a successful school could become the centre of a moral panic. Events unfolded quickly from the first media report in the Times on 2 March 2014, followed by Ofsted inspections of 21 schools ordered by the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove. On the basis of interim Ofsted reports, Peter Clarke was appointed by the Secretary of State in mid-April to provide a wider report. This appointment was controversial insofar as it placed matters directly in a context of violent extremism, since Peter Clarke was formerly in charge of Counter Terrorism Command within the Metropolitan Police in London. At around the same time, Ian Kershaw was appointed by Birmingham City Council to report on implications for the local authority.
Investigation of accuracy of the newest function approximation for the force generated by pneumatic artifial muscle
Authors: Sárosi József , Fabulya Zoltán , Gyeviki János , Keszthelyi-Szabó Gábor , Szendró Péter
Published: May 2018

The newest and most promising type of pneumatic actuators is the pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM). Different designs have been developed, but the McKibben muscle is the most popular and is made commercially available by different companies (e. g. Fluidic Muscle manufactured by Festo Company). The most often mentioned characteristic of PAMs is the force as a function of pressure and contraction. In this paper our newest function approximation for the force generated by Fluidic Muscles is shown that can be generally used for different muscles made by Festo Company.
Laboratory Researches upon the thermal fatigue of the organs of machines in movement of rotation, in variable temperature mediums
Authors: Kiss Imre
Published: May 2018

The researches of durability in the exploitation of cast-iron rolls define experimentally an important chapter from the thermal fatigue of the organs of machines in the movement of rotation, in variable temperature mediums. The researches on the durability in exploitation of hot rolling mill rolls represent an important scientific and economical issue. This paper presents original experimental equipment by the help of which the durability of hot rolling mills can be studied. This experimental equipment permits the evaluation of exploitation durability for hot rolls by studying the thermal fatigue phenomenon which appears in the case of machine components. The exploitation durability is evaluated through thermal fatigue cycles up to crack point due to thermal fatigue for each condition and each type of studied material. The study represents a detailed approach of the influence of various technological factors on the durability in exploitation of rolling mill rolls made of different steel and pig iron grades and suggests solutions meant to increase the durability of the rolls in exploitation.
Wireless sensor network based localization in industrial environments
Authors: Gogolák László , Fürstner Igor , Pletl Szilveszter
Published: May 2018

The use of wireless devices has greatly increased in the last decade, and it has been one of the most widely used medium of information transmission. Within the wireless devices the wireless sensor networks are the most contemporary and most commonly researched field. The work deals with the industrial use of wireless sensor networks and more precisely with monitoring and controlling industrial assembly lines. The focus of this study is localization by the use of wireless technology in the above mentioned environment. In the experiment wireless sensors are placed on the base elements of currently being assembled products. The developed system is able to specify the precise place of the product in the assembly line and record the time of localization. By the use these information the time of assembling the product can be monitored. For determining the place of the product the Received signal strength indication – RSSI has been used. The current position of the product is calculated by a neural network. The use of these sensors makes possible the measuring and recording of the influences on the product during the assembly, such as the effects of temperature, humidity, or if the product has been hit or damaged. By the use of these wireless sensor networks the quality of the assembled products can be improved and the process of assembly can be optimized.
The free D-Aspartic acid and D-Glumatic acid content of sheep milk and sheep milk products
Authors: Csanádi József , Csapó János , Fenyvessy József , Jávor András , Bara-Herczegh Ottilia
Published: May 2018

The role of D-amino acids of foods in the human health is a strongly discussed topic and usually, data came from the investigation of cow milk. We have studied the free D-aspartic acid and free D-glutamic acid content of sheep milk, heat-treated sheep milk at various temperatures and various products of sheep milk. Raw sheep milk didn’t contain free D-aspartic and D-glutamic acid in remarkable amount and ratio 5.92% free D-aspartic acid; 2.62% free D-glutamic acid). Our heat-treatments didn’t cause major change in the free D-aspartic and D-glutamic acid content (max.: 7.8% free D-aspartic acid; 5.3% free D-glutamic acid in total free aspartic and glutamic acid). Contrary, all of the investigated products contained high level of free D-amino acids. The free D-aspartic acid and free D-glutamic acid content of the products were 16,9-39,5%,and 13,3-27% in the percent of total free amino acids. The racemization of aspartic acid was higher, than that of glutamic acid in every product. The D-amino acid content of fermented milk products was higher than in different cheeses.
The meaning of money laundering in business life and prevention of it
Authors: Türkössy Anikó
Published: May 2018

Money laundering is the process whereby the proceeds of crime are transformed into ostensibly legitimate money or other assets. The actuality of the subject derives from the Select Committee on the Evaluation of Anti Money Laundering Measures aided by the Financial Action Task Force. Money obtained from certain crimes, such as extortion, drug trafficking, illegal gambling and tax evasion trough off shore companies as "dirty". The reason of the Committee program is to give aides to those countries which wore not FATF members as money laundering is the most profit yielding business on the world with it’s 2800 milliard USD turnover. This organization controls Hungary by supervising the law and overall actions giving a so called Progress Report about the achievements. In aspect of criminal affairs Money laundering includes all activities which achieve to transform the origin of funds coming from criminal activity as well as tax evasion activity into a legalized form. Money laundering as a phenomenon became a global problem in the second half of the 20th century parallel to sudden increase of drug trafficking. In the past few decades money laundering and the chain of criminal activities as underlying offences got into the scope of the leading economic states. Those activities of money laundering maximally exploit the free movement of capital and financial services. In both the economy and political life there is a need for having laws and regulations against money laundering which rigorously regulate the different financial, bank supervisory activities. According to estimations in the nineties three hundred billion dollars were circulating annually across the world in order to be laundered. Nowadays this figure is well over thousand billion dollars.
Verofocation of Bernoulli Law using the Software Autodesk Simulation CFD
Authors: Alexa Vasile , Kiss Imre , Raţiu Sorin
Published: May 2018

Using Fluid Dynamics Analysis (CFD) provides the opportunity to achieve a faster and more thorough study of fluid flow processes and is an important step to obtain information that cannot be obtained otherwise. The finite element method is generally more accurate than the finite volume method, but finite volume method can achieve more accurate mass balances using the balance sheet continuity per volume control. Finite volume method is more appropriate when fluid transport, while the finite element method is used more in the calculations of tension or conduction, which satisfies local continuity condition, is of less importance. Fluid Dynamics Analysis (CFD) is used in numerical analyzes, based on a set of mathematical expressions on linear complex equations defining fundamental fluid flow and heat transfer. This paper presents the simulation of air flow through a tube of special construction in interpreting the law of Bernoulli energy. Laboratory systems are shown, respectively simulating the actual fluid flow.
Enzime recovery by ultrafiltration from broth
Authors: Zeitoune Jessica Florinda
Published: May 2018

Recycling waste products of food industry is important: one side because of the environmental aspects and the other side because of the economic reasons. The one of the most preferred basic material for second generation bio-fuels might be the tobacco (Ábel et al. 2011). The cost of the process depends on the cost of the hydrolysis of cellulose/lignocelluloses i.e. and the cost of the enzymes. These enzymes are very expensive and that is why it is so important to find a good enzyme recovery method. In my research the membrane separation was used for enzyme recovery. Different polyether-sulphone membranes with cut-off value of 7 kDa (PES7) and 10 kDa (PES10) were used for separation the hydrolyzate.
How can we spread the quality virus in domestic organizations?
Authors: Szabó Krisztián
Published: May 2018

There is no room for debate about that the quality is one of the most important competitive factor and nobody against that this quality virus has to be spread. The paper would like to help with methods and techniques -what are not well known and used in the domestic organizations- to spread this virus in different fields of the organization. Its strategic motto is: Instead of quality management development and improvement the quality of the management has to be developed in the interest of quality management. Today, that idea has to be given up what says more and more modern quality systems development start is needed instead of it the whole quality of the management has to be developed. High level of the quality system is not equal with the high quality of the management. It has to be turned. The high level of the management quality will ensure the possibility of well operating high level quality management. The paper wants to present this from different aspects on the one hand by comparing the classical development of quality management systems on the other hand by new (volume, profit and quality) approaches of certain management elements and methods.
Possible materials and production technologies for a Special Purpose Helical Torsion Spring
Authors: Németh Géza
Published: May 2018

There are a huge number of ideas at the area of traction drives and also at that of the epicyclic or by other words, planetary drives. The majority of these designs, contain solely rigid wheels, and the contact forces that are proportional to the transmitted torque are produced by separate clamping devices. The author introduced an innovative design, which integrates some elements with merging functions. A part of the contacting rollers are elastic ones and their shape assures the requirement of uniform strength. The curiosities of the elastic rollers are their shapes. Observing both their shapes and loads, they are helical torsion springs. They can be made of pure metals and composites, so of spring steel and also from fiber-reinforced plastics. There is a wide range of production technology considered depending on individual or mass production. The author has received some ideas from the areas of helical spring bearings, the machined torsion springs and the fiber-reinforced tubes. He also find a method to coil helical torsion spring of uniform strength from sheet metal, making the pre-manufactured “wire” of changing width by laser cutting, and to cut tubes by spark cutting.
Short introspections regarding the sawdust briquetting as sustainable solution for the environment
Authors: Kiss Imre , Alexa Vasile
Published: May 2018

Wood pellets have only become an important part of this boom in the past few years. Owners of large coal-fired power stations in Europe started searching for a way to fulfill the new regulations and to find a solution for the declining economic relevance of traditional coal-fired power stations due to their high carbon dioxide emissions. The answer was to give the old dirty giants a green coat of paint by “co-firing” regular coal power plants with wood pellets. Wood pellets have similar burning qualities to traditional coal and the costs of converting boilers to burn wood pellets are low. The idea of declaring wood pellets as a carbon neutral energy source was based on the assumption that the released emissions of carbon dioxide during the burning process are neutralized by the carbon that is captured and stored in newly growing trees. The idea of using wood as a renewable source was backed by environment organizations. More recent pellet investment projects as well as facilities currently under construction show that the production of wood pellets is being outsourced by the energy firms to companies specialized in wood pellet production. These firms are 100-percent focused on sourcing the raw material, operating the wood pellet production plant and handling the logistics for transporting the renewable resource.
The Non-Interacting Magnetization Formula from the Pendulum Motion of Dipoles
Authors: Nagy Sándor
Published: May 2018

Non-interacting magnetization Taylor expansions are calculated in 2D and 3D at high external field according to the vibrational model. In this approach all dipoles are moved as a linear pendulum independent from each other. The temperature is taken into account according to the equipartition theorem, thus all particles have the same kinetic energy: kBT/2 in 2D and kBT in 3D. The expansions valid only at high external magnetic field due to the linearisation of initial differential equation. On the second part of this paper the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution is taken into account to determine the probability density function of the angular velocity. The ratio of the particles which has zero angular velocity in 2D is the maximum, in 3D is zero. Therefore the theoretical prediction is in better agreement with the exact formula of magnetization in 2D than in 3D. In this approach the effect of negative magnetization is able to come into existence in the non-interacting fluidum.
Quality problems in restaurants
Authors: Gál József , Demény O.
Published: May 2018

I am writing about procurement of the restaurants in relation to the defects of quality. A lot of quality problems are resulted by negligence, so firms, restaurants can easily become bankrupt. Some reasons for quality defects should be avertable if workers of the given restaurant utilized the old stocks when cooking or in other ways. In addition, I will mention how to solve problems of quality defects. Naturally, restaurants can have other procurement problems, too, for example they need cooking equipment, dishes, utensils etc., but the goods can get spoiled if they are unutilized. The firm will not get back the expenses. They should make an effort to reduce costs. In some cases because of the substandard, they should destroy as refuse by other firms (the restaurants need contract with them). The only targets are to be competitive at a variety of market and to meet the customer’s requirements.
A sip of tradition
Authors: Fülöp Zoltán Ottó
Published: May 2018

One possible method of representation and conservation of values determined as Hungarikum is the cultural representation. The representation of cultural values can be realized on several levels and ways. The ’szikvíz’ or soda water - the ordinary name - as a traditional Hungarian craftsman product is qualified as Hungarikum on the basis of Act XXX. of 2012. (henceforward: Act of Hungarikum) and as a registered product of Euroterritoirs Programme (Countries of Europe Programme) is under community protection. Beyond that it can also be categorized as a food industrial heritage. The goal of my research is the national representation of the soda water as a highlighted food industrial product, which I intend to discuss at a wider interpretational horizon, within the perspective of value declaration. The venue of the research is the 77th edition of the National Agriculture and Food Exhibition (henceforward: OMÉK), which is one of the biggest and oldest agrarian and food industrial event in Hungary with great traditions, where the Hungarikum Pavilion got place in 2015 and amongst the represented products soda water was shown. After the modification of Hungarikum Act in 2015, this was the only occasion when food procucts, which are under national protection, were presented together. With the joint application of qualitative and quantitative filters I search for the answer for the question in my article: by what kind of techniques and strategies could the national representation of soda water, which advertised the profile of 77th OMÉK, be executed and what is the importance of this?
Complaint Analysis Using 8D Method within the Companies in the Field of Automotive
Authors: Alexa Vasile , Kiss Imre
Published: May 2018

The eight disciplines (8D – Eight Disciplines of Problem Solving) model is a problem solving approach typically employed by quality engineers or other professionals and commonly used by the automotive industry. It is a meticulous process used to solve complex problems and its purpose is to identify, correct, and eliminate recurring problems, and it is useful in product and process improvement. The 8D is a method of analysis that after the detection of an irregularity, identifies and seeks the methods of solving and preventing nonconformity. It is a highly disciplined and effective scientific approach for resolving recurring problems and provides excellent guidelines to identify the root cause of the problem, implement containment actions, develop and then implement corrective actions and preventive actions that make the problem go away permanently. Therefore, the Eight Disciplines of Problem Solving (8D) is a problem-solving tool used usually in response to the removal parameters or known product specifications set by customers and incorporates all the important aspects of problem solving: problem description, root cause analysis, correcting the problem and preventing the problem. The approach establishes a permanent corrective action based on statistical analysis of the problem and focuses on the origin of the problem by determining its root causes. Although it originally comprised eight stages, or disciplines, it was later augmented by an initial planning stage. The 8D method application will result in improved products and processes is structured into eight disciplines, focusing on the synergy of the team. This is a popular method for problem solving because it is reasonably easy to teach and effective.
Design and Implementation of a distributed software architecture for data acquistion systems
Authors: Papp Áron
Published: May 2018

This paper will demonstrate the advantages of using a distributed software design for collecting environmental data. The design part will focus on achieving modularity through message queuing technologies. The essential components of the software implementation will be detailed. Finally, the testing results will be disclosed.
Design and Implementation of a radio controlled led lighting system
Authors: Bálint Ádám , Sárosi József
Published: May 2018

Technological advances allow us to control LED (Light Emitting Diode) lighting at home, in the office it can even allow us to change the intensity of the light and this is just the beginning of what the future holds for us. In this study an LED internal lighting fixture of our own design will be presented focusing on each step in its design. Firstly, the features, types and history of LEDs will be presented, next the products available in market that are required for the completion of the device. Finally, the design and implementation as well as the radio frequency controlled LED indoor lighting fixture will be shown.
The Role of Salt Form and Concentration on the Rheological Properties of Bakery Products
Authors: Győri Zoltán , Sipos Péter
Published: May 2018

The effect of different salt forms and concentrations were evaluated on the rheological properties of dough made from wheat and rye flours. Our aim was to investigate that how does the sodium chloride change the properties of gluten network and therefore the structure of bakery products and what effects can be experienced when it is substituted by other organic and inorganic salts. Different rheological tests were used to monitor the effects on dough (Farinograph, Alveograph and Extensigraph tests) and on the end-product (texture analysis, sensory analysis). It was found that all the salt forms significantly influenced the rheological parameters of dough and not the sodium chloride addition had the most favourable effect in every case.
The Web of Things and Database Management Systems
Authors: Simon János , Čović Zlatko , Dobrilović Dalibor
Published: May 2018

The Web of Things (WoT) is slowly gaining grounds and through the properties of barcodes, QR codes, RFID, active sensors and IPv6, objects are fitted with some form of readability and traceability. People are becoming part of digital global network driven by personal interests. The feeling being part of a community and the constant drive of getting connected from real life finds it continuation in digital networks. This paper investigates the concepts of the internet of things from the aspect of the autonomous mobile robots with an overview of the performances of the currently available database management systems.
Monitoramento da cristalização da lactose em soro concentrado
Authors: Perrone Ítalo Tuler , Pereira João Pablo Fortes , Renhe Isis Rodrigues Toledo , Francisquini Júlia D’Almeida , Stephani Rodrigo , De Carvalho Antônio Fernandes
Published: May 2018

The kinetics of lactose crystal growth in concentrated whey were studied in two stages. The first took place in a bench-top crystallizer and the second in an industrial crystallizer using concentrated whey obtained by vacuum evaporation, consisting of 3 treatments: crystallization by primary nucleation, by secondary nucleation with the addition of 0.05% and with the addition of 0.1% microcrystalline lactose. The average size of the crystals remained between 60.7 mm and 63.8 mm. The percentage of crystallization was greater in the secondary nucleation process than in the primary nucleation, where crystallization stabilized first. Mathematical equations which independently related crystallization times of the concentrated whey to the concentrations of soluble solids, crystallization percentage and mass of lactose in water were established, that can be used in the industrial setting to process whey. The kinetics of lactose crystal growth was not well described by models of first or second order reactions.
Passing as Social Strategy
Authors: Kelley N. Megan
Published: May 2018

This chapter focuses on representations of racial/ethnic passing in Hollywood films produced in the late 1940s. It examines how postwar filmmakers used their medium to frame passing as a viable social strategy, rather than a sign of an internalized confusion about identity, and to elevate the “social problem” or “message” movies to new levels of prestige and popularity. These films dealt with various themes, including alcoholism, female insanity, racism and racial prejudice, prison reform, death penalty, and anti-Semitism. The chapter analyzes how race and racial identities were constructed in Crossfire and Home of the Brave, not only as a counterpoint to discussions of racial passing in films, but as a way of showing the trajectory of pathological figures in Hollywood films, from twisted psychosis wrought by racial prejudice (late 1940s) to the twisted psychosis wrought by racial passing (late 1950s).
Punishing the Abject Child
Authors: Gieni Justine
Published: May 2018

Justine Gieni examines the language and illustrations of Heinrich Hoffman’s 1845 picturebook Struwwelpeter, a seminal text in the genre that, on the surface at least, makes explicit use of horrifying methods of childhood death and dismemberment as a means of cautioning young readers to behave according to the strictures of its era. In her essay, however, Gieni zeroes in on the transgressive nature of Hoffman’s tales, concentrating specifically on the role of body horror in the text. Entering the debate about the book’s appropriateness for child audiences, Gieni focuses especially on the violence committed against the child’s body in the book, arguing that, through the “powers of horror,” Hoffman satirizes the pedagogical didacticism of nineteenth-century German culture and empowers young readers, allowing them to experience the thrill of derisive laughter in the face of brutal authoritarianism. She also illuminatingly considers the publication, relevance, and reception of Struwwelpeter today, discussing how it has been rebranded as a text for “knowing” adult audiences with an emphasis more on its horror than its humor, as well as the implications of such a shift in the text’s purported readership and thematic intentions.
From Aggressive Wolf to Heteronormative Zombie
Authors: Brown Rebecca A.
Published: May 2018

Rebecca A. Brown examines the evolution of monstrous picturebooks, comparing the 1960s favorites Where the Wild Things Are and There’s a Nightmare in My Closet to contemporary picturebooks that make vampires, Frankensteinian monsters, and zombies the protagonists and considering them in relation to boys’ cultures dominant at the time of their publication. Brown concentrates especially on the role of the monstrous picturebook in young American boys’ negotiations of identity formation, as well as their domestication of otherness. Brown argues that while Sendak’s and Mayer’s books served to socialize children to the normative behaviors of 1960s American culture and ultimately demonstrate children’s ability to defeat or domesticate the monstrous, today’s monstrous picturebooks ask young boys to identify with the monster – to find traits within themselves that they share with the monsters in the books’ pages and to empathize with them. Brown ultimately shows, however, that despite their differences, both forms fixate on, challenge, and, in some cases, queer the boy’s social and gendered identity development within their specific historical contexts. The claims made in her essay can be used to examine the performance of gender in other picturebooks and horror texts for children and young adults that utilize horror elements to focus explicitly on the masculine experience of American culture and identity formation.
Invisible Man in the Age of Obama
Authors: Crable Bryan
Published: May 2018

Bryan Crable’s “Invisible Man in the Age of Obama: Ellison on (Color) Blindness, Visibility, and the Hopes for a Postracial America” offers a bold view of the implications of Ellison’s work on the enduring American questions of race and color. Crable takes up the discourse of Barack Obama’s 2011 re-election campaign to see how it reveals the influence of Ellison’s analysis of appearance, of visibility and invisibility. In the Age of Obama, does the problem of the color line still persist? Have we entered into a post-racial America? By pursuing the crucial connections between these two paradigmatic American writers, Crable concludes, “The discourse surrounding Obama’s first term (and his quest for re-election) simply reminds us that Invisible Man’s work is not yet done; it remains as important for us today as it was for readers in 1952.”