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PRIORITIZING HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT USING ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) – A CASE STUDY OF NEPAL
Authors: Singh Rana Pratap , Nachtnebel Hans Peter
Published: August 2015

Nepal possesses huge hydropower potential but lacks experience, funding and political stability which are critical to development. Different national strategies have been proposed in the past ranging from promoting small scale hydro that provides local to regional economic incentives to the recommendation of large schemes to enhance national objectives. This paper analyses the last few decades of hydropower development in Nepal and proposes a multi-criterion approach, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), to identify projects considering social and environmental concerns in addition to economic objectives. A multi-perspective look at prioritizing hydropower schemes namely micro (below 1 MW), small (from 1-25 MW), medium (from 25-100 MW), big (from 100-1000 MW) and large (greater than 1000 MW) is important in order for hydropower development to proceed in the best possible way. This perspective could be of use in strengthening hydropower related strategy and policy in Nepal.

 

The prioritization procedure is embedded into a multi-objective framework including six goals, namely a technical goal measured by four criteria, a social goal with five criteria, an economic goal with six criteria, an environmental goal with 4 criteria, a political goal characterised by 4 criteria and an additional goal referring to the various uncertainties, expressed by five criteria.  Evidence based subjective value judgment based on secondary sources, mainly related documents and experts consultations, is used for the prioritization approach. This research could help policy makers to maximize the benefit to the country by adopting appropriate policies and strategies. 

 

The effectiveness of multi criteria evaluation techniques and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for hydropower prioritization is the focus of this research. The outcome of the paper is the secondary information based on the AHP application for hydropower scale of schemes prioritization.

 

This paper is presented in six sections.   The first section is the introduction focusing on the country context and MCDA in hydropower.  The second section discusses the problem definition, and the third section describes objectives and tasks. Similarly, the fourth section details the applied methodology, and the fifth section describes the results and discussion. Finally, the sixth section presents conclusions and recommendations of the research work.     
A MULTI-CRITERIA JOB EVALUATION METHOD FOR A STATE BANK
Authors: Aktar Demirtas Ezgi , Buruk Yeliz , Sağır Müjgan
Published: August 2015

Wage management is an important task which affects a firm’s productivity in the short term and the consistency of the firm’s activities in long term. If an organization fails to establish a fair wage policy among the personnel, conflict is inevitable in the organization. A fair wage policy can be achieved by job evaluation, which is a technique used to determine the relative importance of all jobs in an organization. Jobs are evaluated with respect to ability, responsibility, effort, and job condition factors etc. which make it a multi-criteria problem for organizations. In this study, a job evaluation methodology is developed for a state bank in Turkey. The relative importance of the evaluation criteria which is then used to grade jobs with respect to one another by a Liberatore scale is determined by an Analytic Network Process (ANP) model. This new methodology has a positive effect on competence and performance management systems.
BENEFITS ASSESSMENT OF TRAINING ON SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Authors: Tramarico Claudemir L. , Marins Fernando A. S. , Urbina Ligia M. S. , Salomon Valerio A. P.
Published: August 2015

Supply chain management (SCM) is a critical factor in the current global scenario. This organizational capability has a recent knowledge base, which is being accumulated, validated, and certified by groups like the Association for Operations Management (APICS). Therefore, training in SCM has been growing as one of the most convenient ways of becoming “Certified in Production and Inventory Management” (CPIM) from APICS. Companies all over the world have invested in SCM training; however, some companies have conditioned the continuity of their training programs to the benefits assessment. This paper contributes by proposing an evaluation model for specific program training on SCM. This model was applied in a global chemical company, which allowed capturing its impact on organizational and individual competencies, as well as on the core competencies. The proposed model includes the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and concepts in the SCM literature. The main result revealed by this research is that an SCM training based on APICS CPIM is really perceived as beneficial, in individual or organizational terms, for a real-world company. Therefore, this company should be confident that its SCM training program is improving and strengthening its core competencies.
AN ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) MODEL FOR UNDERSTANDING CONVENTION PLANNERS’ PRIOR FACTORS OF CONVENTION HOTEL SELECTION
Authors: AKSOZ E. Ozan , Özel Çağıl Hale , Akoğlan Kozak Meryem
Published: August 2015

In the process of organizing a convention, owners of conventions forward their requests to convention planners and leave the full organization of the event to convention planners. Therefore, convention planners perform all the purchases for the organization of a convention. Selecting the suitable convention hotel is a critical step for a successful convention, and for that reason, convention hotels should understand convention planners’ preferences in order to have success in convention tourism. The aim of this study is therefore to determine the primary convention hotel selection criteria of convention planners operating in Ankara. The Delphi technique was used for the development of a data collection form. Data were gathered by conducting face to face interviews with managers from 13 travel agents in April, 2014. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was employed in the analysis of data. Findings indicate that facilities of the convention hotel, price, accessibility, site environment, and local support were clarified as the primary factors, respectively. Managerial implications for convention hotel managements are also discussed. 
EVALUATING SUBSCRIBERS PREFERENCE FOR SERVICE ATTRIBUTES OF MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION IN NIGERIA USING ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP)
Authors: Oyatoye Emmanuel Olateju , Adebiyi Sulaimon Olanrewaju , Amole Bilqis Bolanle
Published: August 2015

Policy and strategies in the growing Nigerian telecommunications industry can only have significant impact if they are substantially driven by research on what subscribers prefer and why they prefer it? Thus, there is a need for an operations research model (AHP) to evaluate customer preferences for their mobile telecommunications attributes in order to direct policy and strategies toward what is important to subscribers. This paper built a hierarchical model for choice/determinant of subscriber’s preferences for mobile telecommunications attributes in Nigeria using seven main attributes as the criteria for evaluation.  The four main players in the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) market (MTN, Airtel, Glo and Etisalat) are the alternatives. An AHP based questionnaire was administered among students of tertiary institutions in Lagos. Out of the four hundred questionnaires distributed, three hundred and eighty six were completed, returned and found suitable for the analysis. The data was analysed, considering the set of evaluation criteria (service attributes), and a set of alternative (network providers) scenarios from which the best decision was to be made. We generated a weight for each evaluation criterion and scenario according to the information provided by the decision makers (stakeholders). AHP was used to combine the objective and scenario evaluations to determine the ranking for scenarios. The results revealed that an average student preferred network providers with low rates (affordable), followed by quality of connections and a reliable data plan for internet service. A priority was done for the criteria to direct strategic decisions in the telecommunication industry towards meeting subscriber’s needs.  Coverage was not given significant priority as the respondents assumed that all providers have similar coverage. The results of this study will help improve the quality of decision making by stakeholders.
On the Nature of Essays
Authors: Mu Enrique
Published: August 2015

This is our second issue in our new publication frequency of three issues a year. It includes, as usual, several articles in the theory and practice of AHP/ANP.  Furthermore, it also includes a thought-provoking essay by Claudio Garuti titled “Parallel Between Space Geometry & Decision Making Space.” A comment on our policy for essays may be in order...
Conforming to intensive parenting ideals: willingness, reluctance and social context
Authors: Smyth Ciara , Craig Lyn
Published: August 2015

It is widely argued that parenting has intensified in recent decades and that family life has become increasingly child-centred. Intensive parenting represents a cultural shift in parenting behaviour that requires enactment at the individual level. Moreover, adherence to intensive parenting standards is often presented as a conscious/willing adoption, whereby parents choose to parent in a particular way. This article explores why parents conform to intensive parenting ideals. Data are drawn from in-depth interviews with 29 parents in Sydney, Australia, during which they reflected on the differences between their children’s childhood and their own. The article argues that while parents conform to intensive parenting standards, they do so at least partly because social context curtails their ability to do otherwise. Failure to uphold intensive parenting ideals was associated with several perceived risks for both parents and children.
Circulating Tumor DNA Outperforms Circulating Tumor Cells for KRAS Mutation Detection in Thoracic Malignancies
Authors: Freidin Maxim B , Freydina Dasha V , Leung Maria , Montero Fernandez Angeles , Nicholson Andrew G , Lim Eric
Published: August 2015

BACKGROUND

Circulating biomarkers, such as circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), are both considered for blood-based mutation detection, but limited studies have compared them in a head-to-head manner. Using KRAS (Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog), we performed such a comparison in patients who underwent surgery for suspected lung cancer.

METHODS

We recruited 93 patients, including 82 with lung cancer and 11 with benign diseases of the lung. Mutations were detected in codons 12 and 13 of KRAS in DNA extracted from CTCs, plasma, and matched tumors or lung tissues with custom-designed coamplification at lower denaturation temperature (COLD)-PCR assays, high-resolution melt analysis (HRM), and commercial assays (Roche Cobas®KRAS mutation test and Qiagen Therascreen® pyrosequencing KRAS kit).

RESULTS

With the Cobas mutation test, we identified KRAS mutations in 21.3% of tumors. Mutation analysis in matched CTC DNA and ctDNA samples by COLD-PCR/HRM assay revealed mutations in 30.5% (ctDNA) and 23.2% (CTC DNA) of patients with lung cancer. Combined results of different tests revealed KRAS-positive cases for 28% of tumors. The diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of KRAS mutation detection in tumors achieved with ctDNA was 0.96 (95% CI 0.81–1.00) and 0.95 (0.85–0.99), respectively. The diagnostic test performance was lower for CTC DNA, at 0.52 (0.34–0.73) and 0.88 (0.79–0.95).

CONCLUSIONS

Our results support ctDNA as a preferential specimen type for mutation screening in thoracic malignancies vs CTC DNA, achieving greater mutation detection than either CTCs or limited amounts of tumor tissue alone.
‘Dark am I, yet lovely’: Tracing diabolical evil and femininities in gothic fusion tribal belly dance
Authors: Dearey Melissa
Published: August 2015

While belly dance as a dance genre has been recognized for its ‘ambivalence’ in terms of its empowerment of women’s identities and body types and essentializing of narrowly constructed femininities, it has nonetheless in the research literature generally been regarded positively in its influence on women’s spiritualities, corporalities, sexualities and overall well-being. But what about its attraction and allure in its ‘darker’ forms, as a way of empowering women, especially older women, and enabling them to negotiate and traverse a range of difficult, deviant, damaged and/ or otherwise negative experiences? Based primarily on a participant observation of a six-week series of dance workshops held in the north of England and drawing on my other experiences as a dancer of other belly dance forms, this article references Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theory of horror and the monstrous feminine to explore the meanings, experiences and performances of ‘darkness’ in what is belly dance’s darkest genre, Gothic Fusion Belly Dance (GFBD).
Spirituality in Aurelia Baumgartner’s Tanzphilosophie
Authors: Meyer-Dinkgräfe Daniel
Published: August 2015

Against the background of a non-religious understanding of spirituality in the context of consciousness studies, the article analyses the dance practice, understood as embodied philosophy, of Aurelia Baumgartner. The article considers her inspiration, intuitive collaboration with other artists, the concepts of femininity, beauty, and non-linearity central to her practice and thinking, her biography (in terms of training; a pivotal, life-changing, crossroads she encountered at the age of 14; and her heritage), and cultural and philosophical contextualizations.
Anna Halprin’s Parades and Changes: A harbinger of ritual transformations
Authors: Weber Rebecca
Published: August 2015

This article examines the scholarly discourse on Anna Halprin’s rituals and her own use of the word ‘ritual’ in historical archives to define what determines a work as ritual. The hallmarks of ritual in both discourses include efficacious intention, audience-as-witness, transformation of space, and performers’ investment of deeper meaning in movement. In Halprin’s seminal Parades and Changes, her dancers operated in a liminal space – transitioning from what was previously acceptable to what would become acceptable for performance through embodied performativity of the nude subject. What the performance world accepted as dance changed drastically once Halprin recontextualized the nude body in performance. By its use of these hallmarks, it is clear that Parades and Changes illustrates Halprin’s early use of ritual, was transformational within theatrical contexts, and was a harbinger of the rituals to come in her later works.
Dead industrial atmosphere: Popular music, cultural heritage and industrial cities
Authors: Bottà Giacomo
Published: August 2015

Economic crisis and popular music have often been put in synergic relation to each other especially in the context of industrial cities. Disparate genres first conceived in industrial cities, ranging from hardcore punk to house, and from post-punk to heavy metal, seem to be the most fitting score for a grey, gloomy, decaying built environment or for its evocations, but is there an organic relation between de/industrialization and cultural production? This article addresses these issues, trying to unfold the relation between industrial soundscapes and landscapes, symbolic representations, material changes and attempts to make sense of the crisis by dramatizing it, in the context of 1980s European industrial cities. It also considers the ongoing ‘heritagization’ of popular music, taking place in contemporary (post?)industrial cities and the way this relates to tourism, local economies, place perception and branding.
Our sounds, our city: Urban soundscapes, critical citizenship and the ‘LimerickSoundscapes’ project
Authors: Dillane Aileen , Langlois Tony
Published: August 2015

What happens when, in recording an urban soundscape, the actual recording process is handed over to a city’s people? This article explores the methodological, technological and ideological challenges and opportunities faced in a project based in the small, multicultural and post-industrial city of Limerick, in the Midwest of Ireland. The city is currently undergoing a process of urban ‘regeneration’ following decades of challenges (high unemployment rates, rapid demographic shifts brought about by global migration, social disenfranchisement in marginalized neighbourhoods, gangland criminality, and considerable stigmatization by the national media). Facilitated by an interdisciplinary, university-based team involving urban ethnomusicologists, sociologists, media and information technology specialists, and soundscape composers, ‘LimerickSoundscapes’ activates ‘citizen collectors’ as critical collaborators in the research process, as well as partners with a vested interest in representing and recreating their city through local sounds as part of lived experience. The project connects soundscapes and acoustic ecology studies with cultural geography, and with urban, applied ethnomusicology’s focus on human subjects. Through an evocation of ‘critical citizenship’ and ‘creative regions’, ‘LimerickSoundscapes’ offers a particular kind of model for soundscape generation that has the individual as a networked, social being and creative, critical citizen at its core.
Ragged places and smooth surfaces: Audio walks as practices of making and doing the city
Authors: Moles Kate , Saunders Angharad
Published: August 2015

This article engages with how our auditory engagement with a particular soundscape helps frame and construct the places we move in and influences the ways we relate to our surroundings, to others and to ourselves. Its empirical focus is a series of urban audio walks that were made and carried out within a public engagement project designed to actively involve the participants and walkers in a relationship with(in) the place, community, history and culture. The article explores how this project worked with and challenged the form of the traditional, tourist-orientated audio walk, which tend to represent the city as a smooth, historicized space ready to be consumed. The walks produced in this project were more improvisational; they were vehicles for expressing the ragged, common sense topographies or place in the world of the participants. This tension draws to the surface questions of critical citizenship, as we trace how the participants ‘mapped their world’ within the pre-existing and often overwhelming cartographies of their world and how this, in turn, allowed us to think more about the ways in which they position themselves and are positioned within dominant discourses as a particular type of citizen and urban dweller.
‘Our Sonic Playground’: A model for active engagement in urban soundscapes
Authors: Leonardson Eric
Published: August 2015

‘Our Sonic Playground’ is the name of a public event organized by the author in 2013 for the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago. This project attracted the participation of a number of local artists interested in sound, music and the environment. Many were members of the ‘World Listening Project’ and Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology. ‘Our Sonic Playground’ suggested that this event could serve as a model for actively engaging the public in soundscape awareness, an oftenneglected aspect of life in urban and other environments. This model is potentially useful for future engagements by providing a ‘recipe’ or set of practical suggestions for educators and ‘critical citizens’ as it relates to broader concerns with environmental change, urbanism, and awareness of place and public space. The author’s pedagogy of play and free improvisation emphasizes the importance of community and a type of aural-tactile engagement with listening and sound making that critically employs the physical, social and aesthetic role of media technology. This interest in public engagement is informed by the foundational work in the early 1970s, by the ‘World Soundscape Project’, and subsequent activities led by Canadian composers R. Murray Schafer, Hildegard Westerkamp and Barry Truax. Partnerships with local arts institutions, community organizations, led by faculty and students at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the city’s large creative community show how art and technology can reach out of the academy and into daily lives of people by effecting the acoustic identities of cities in positive and socially meaningful ways.
Neo-liberalism: Persistence and resistance
Authors: Owens Linus
Published: August 2015

These three books take on varying responses to the forces of neo-liberalism. Jeremy Gilbert’s book Common Ground approaches the problem through theory, seeking to challenge the ideology of individualism at the heart of neo-liberal projects. Drawing on a diverse group of post-structuralist and democratic thinkers, he critiques the neoliberal fear of the crowd, offering an alternative vision of community based on radical creativity and participatory democracy. Claudio Cattaneo and Miguel Martinez, in their edited volume The Squatters’ Movement in Europe, provide a more practical approach to resisting neo-liberal capitalism: urban squatting. Framing squatting as a movement against capitalism and for the right to the city, the contributors document a wide range of case studies across Europe and the United States, describing a movement simultaneously challenging neo-liberal urban development and increasingly under threat by the forces of capital and the state. Lesley J. Wood’s book, Crisis and Control, on the militarization of protest policing investigates these issues from the other side, showing how protest policing is not only a means to defend neo-liberalism, but also caught up within these same forces. She traces militarization as the outcome of growing interactions between local and global forces, the more ambiguous nature of contemporary threats, and a push towards professionalization that links military, security forces, and police more tightly together. Read jointly, these books provide important insights into the ideological and structural conditions underpinning neo-liberalism, as well as efforts to change them.
Vagón fumador: Desire and dissatisfaction in the neo-liberal nocturnal city
Authors: Sdrigotti Fernando
Published: August 2015

This article explores the representation of Buenos Aires during the climax of the Argentine neo-liberal crisis in Vagón fumador/Smokers Only by Chen (2003), through an analysis of the spatial practice of its characters. It is not argued here that the film sets out to capture this crisis. The opposite could be argued: the film – even when attempting to avoid referring to its socio-economic moment – works as an involuntary register of these most critical of times, capturing its context tangentially, in a clear example of the forms in which New Argentine Cinema embarked in the production of meaning in ways that are not necessarily dependent on narrative. Buenos Aires in the film is portrayed as a thoroughly commodified space, deeply embedded in the economic logic of the time, where everything is consumed like a spectacle: neo-liberal space perfected.
Urban soundscapes and critical citizenship: Explorations in activating a ‘sonic turn’ in urban cultural studies
Authors: Dillane Aileen , Langlois Tony , Power Martin J. , Bhriain Orfhlaith Ní
Published: August 2015

This special section of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies engages with the idea of activating a ‘sonic turn’ in urban cultural studies scholarship, in part through the evocation of the paradigm of critical and participatory citizenship, as well as through critical approaches to understanding how sound and music are implicated in the texture of a city. This work is therefore informed by theorizations of topdown and of bottom-up approaches to engagements with, and representation of, the city, through sonic and musical means. Drawing on a variety of disciplinary approaches, including urban ethnomusicology, urban sociology, cultural geography, acoustic ecology and soundscapes studies, this introductory article examines what is meant by ‘the sonic turn’ as it relates to sound and music studies and how and why this should matter to the study of cities and of the urban experiences of citizens in the broadest sense. This introduction also summarizes aspects of the five papers in this collection, signalling the different approaches taken by each of the authors as evidence of the richness such sonic and musical investigations into the city and the urban experience can bring to urban cultural studies. With a focus on urban ethnography and on applied dimensions of research, particularly in the contemporary city, this article seeks to underscore the importance of listening to and hearing the city, especially for those citizens that do not necessarily have an ‘official’ voice or the technical means to interpret and engage with their sonic environments. Finally, this article suggests how sonic cultural interventions and engagements may assist, if not in social regeneration, at least in promoting a greater understanding of the complex sonic dimensions of city life as mediated and experienced by urban dwellers and as imagined by others.
ESTADO CONSTITUCIONAL COOPERATIVO E A APLICAÇÃO, NO BRASIL, DO ACORDO DE ASSISTÊNCIA JUDICIÁRIA EM MATÉRIA PENAL ENTRE BRASIL E ESTADOS UNIDOS DA AMÉRICA
Authors: Poggio Smanio Gianpaolo , Kibrit Orly
Published: August 2015

Trata das novas concepções de soberania e cidadania diante da globalização. Nesse sentido, aborda a necessidade de que os Estados atuem de forma flexível
e permeável, considerando a cidadania em sua dimensão transnacional, ou seja, desarraigada do Estado-Nação. Demonstra que as novas concepções de soberania
e cidadania vão ao encontro do modelo de Estado Constitucional Cooperativo, idealizado por Peter Habërle. Nesse sentido, aponta que o auxílio direto é um
meio de cooperação jurídica internacional adequado ao combate da criminalidade transnacional. Mostra que a utilização desse meio de cooperação é permitida
no Brasil, apesar da ausência de previsão constitucional expressa. Por fim, analisa julgado proferido pelo Superior Tribunal de Justiça, para demonstrar que
o “Acordo de Assistência Judiciária em Matéria Penal entre Brasil e Estados Unidos da América” possibilita aos países o uso do auxílio direto, por meio de
atuação nos moldes do Estado Constitucional Cooperativo. O método de abordagem do artigo é o hipotético-dedutivo e o método de procedimento é o
dissertativo-argumentativo. Na primeira parte do trabalho, realizou-se um levantamento das fontes teóricas sobre a atual concepção dos institutos da soberania
e da cidadania, face ao fenômeno da globalização, utilizando-se como referencial teórico para as conclusões, neste ponto, a obra “Estado Constitucional Cooperativo”,
de Peter Häberle. Em seguida, com base também em levantamento bibliográfico teórico, apresentou-se o auxílio direto como importante instrumento de cooperação jurídica
internacional, por meio do qual os Estados atuam nos moldes do Estado Constitucional Cooperativo. Na terceira parte do artigo, com base em julgado recentemente proferido
pelo Superior Tribunal de Justiça, verificou-se se o “Acordo de Assistência Judiciária em Matéria Penal entre Brasil e Estados Unidos da América” permite afirmar que já
há articulação entre os Estados de acordo com as novas formulações de soberania e cidadania, em conformidade com a teoria do Estado Constitucional Cooperativo. O “Acordo
de Assistência Judiciária em Matéria Penal entre Brasil e Estados Unidos da América” possibilita que os países signatários cooperem entre si no combate ao crime transnacional,
em conformidade com os postulados do Estado Constitucional Cooperativo, idealizado por Peter Häberle, adequando-se a atuação estatal à realidade global? Ao firmarem o “Acordo
de Assistência Judiciária em Matéria Penal entre Brasil e Estados Unidos da América”, os países possibilitaram a utilização do auxílio direto para fins de cooperação jurídica
internacional no combate ao crime transnacional. Assim, vislumbra-se a tendência de maior abertura nas relações entre os países, indicativas da adoção de parâmetros de atuação
estatal que vão ao encontro do modelo de Estado Constitucional Cooperativo.
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE: THE REINTEGRATION OF CHILD SOLDIERS THROUGH POST-CONFLICT METHODS OF JUSTICE
Authors: Barbosa-Fohrmann Ana Paula
Published: August 2015

This paper examines the problematic of child soldiers, based on inter alia the strategy of research
and study of the United Nations Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for
Children and Armed Conflict and on the priorities of the Machel Study. Here, national and international
law will be applied on countries where children are recruited by armed groups. Concerning domestic
jurisdiction alternative or traditional methods of justice as well as formal legal methods will be
addressed. Specifically, this paper will focus on three main subjects: 1) the possibility of prosecution
and judgment of adolescents, who participated in armed conflicts; 2) prosecution and judgment of war lords
and 3) civil reparation proportional to the damage caused by an armed conflict. These three subjects will
be construed according to (traditional or alternative and formal) national and international law. Finally,
some recommendations will be made in order to improve the system of reintegration of child soldiers in
post-conflict countries.
AUTORIDADE PARENTAL E PRIVACIDADE DO FILHO MENOR: O DESAFIO DE CUIDAR PARA EMANCIPAR
Authors: Bezerra de Menezes Joyceane , Bodin de Moraes Maria Celina
Published: August 2015

Este artigo analisa os novos contornos do poder familiar que se estabelece no âmbito da família democrática.
Nessa forma múltipla de organização familiar, cônjuges, conviventes, pais e filhos estabelecem relações de
coordenação, orientadas pela solidariedade. Os filhos são reconhecidos como sujeitos de direitos e protagonizam,
sob a orientação dos pais, a construção de sua personalidade. Nesse aspecto, são titulares de direitos fundamentais
cujo exercício não pode ser efetivado pelo mecanismo de substituição de vontade, tal como se verificava na
incidência do antigo pátrio poder. Os filhos têm capacidade de exercício de seus direitos de liberdade e privacidade
mesmo em face dos pais, porque o poder destes, no cuidar dos filhos, se tornou limitado pela função instrumental da
promoção da personalidade daqueles.
TRÊS OBJEÇÕES CONTRA O ARGUMENTO PRÓ-ABORTO COM BASE NO VALOR INTRÍNSECO DA VIDA
Authors: Volpato Dutra Delamar José
Published: August 2015

O estudo reconstrói o argumento de Dworkin pró-aborto baseado no valor intrínseco da vida humana. Em seguida, aponta
três objeções que tal argumento pode enfrentar. A primeira objeção é o de ser incoerente e inconsistente. A segunda
objeção é que haveria dificuldades para o mesmo ser aceito por estratégias de fundamentação tipicamente morais, como
por exemplo, a posição original de Rawls e o princípio de universalização de Habermas. Finalmente, a terceira objeção
consiste na afirmação de que o argumento se constitui como um traçado biopolítico decisionista, especialmente se for
levada em consideração a questão do status dos seres humanos como pessoas. O estudo conclui que, muito embora o argumento
pró-aborto com base no valor intrínseco da vida seja problemático, isso não significa que não possa haver outros argumentos
pró-aborto que não adolesçam das mencionadas objeções.
EFETIVIDADE DOS DIREITOS E DEVERES COM OBJETO DIFUSO
Authors: Coimbra Rodrigo
Published: August 2015

O presente ensaio propõe o estudo dos direitos e deveres com objeto difuso a partir da aplicação do Direito objetivo, de modo a
valorizar preponderantemente o ponto de vista da sociedade na sua totalidade. Pensar a problemática dos direitos difusos mediante
a aplicação do Direito objetivo é uma forma de superar o individualismo que marca a cultura jurídica desde o direito romano e atrapalha
a compreensão desse fenômeno tão importante, de modo a lhes conferir maior efetividade.
A RESPONSABILIDADE CIVIL DO ARREMATANTE PELO PASSIVO AMBIENTAL NAS EXECUÇÕES CIVIS: A MÁXIMA EFETIVIDADE NA TUTELA DE DIREITOS FUNDAMENTAIS
Authors: Mielke Silva Jaqueline
Published: August 2015

Em prol da efetivação da proteção ao meio ambiente, em algumas situações haverá a incidência da responsabilidade civil sobre pessoa que não causou o risco ou dano ambiental, como é o caso de adquirente de imóvel em reserva florestal desmatada pelo antigo proprietário. Assim, a
interpretação que deve ser dada ao artigo 2° § 2° da Lei 12.651/12, deve ser no sentido de interpretar-se a expressão “sucessão” em sentido
amplo, abrangendo também as aquisições em sede de arrematação, preservando-se assim o direito fundamental ao meio ambiente equilibrado.
ESTADO, DEMOCRACIA E A NECESSIDADE DE UMA CONSTITUIÇÃO POLÍTICA
Authors: Ribeiro Garbini Both Laura Jane , Wacheleski Marcelo Paulo , Gomes de Medeiros Clayton
Published: August 2015

O artigo se destina ao estudo da formação dos direitos fundamentais e a sua concretização pelo Estado. O objetivo geral da pesquisa é identificar
as transformações do Estado e do constitucionalismo e o crescimento dos direitos fundamentais, bem como sua efetivação pelo Estado. As hipóteses
construídas revelam as transformações do Estado e sua aproximação com os fundamentos axiológicos do direito, exigindo a releitura da teoria positivista e a própria dinâmica dos direitos fundamentais e da democracia. O fundamento teórico é baseado principalmente nas obras de Ferrajoli e Ariza. O método utilizado será o indutivo através da utilização de categorias jurídicas e pesquisa bibliográfica.
CIDADANIA E RESPONSABILIDADE SOCIOAMBIENTAL
Authors: Friede Reis
Published: August 2015

O presente estudo examina brevemente o conceito de cidadania e sua evolução histórica. Verifica que, no momento atual, é necessário incorporar neste conceito (e na ação do cidadão) o papel primordial de preservação do meio-ambiente. Em seguida, discute a relação antropomórfica do homem em relação à natureza e, por fim, aborda a função socioambiental da propriedade, que consiste em uma atividade exercida não apenas no interesse de seu proprietário, mas, principalmente, no interesse da sociedade.
A study on incorporating ICT in teaching methodologies at universities of Quetta
Authors: Saeed Nausheen , Nasim Farrukh , Hussain Walayat , Azeem Samina
Published: August 2015

This paper presents a study on the use of ICT in teaching methodology by the faculty of universities in Quetta, Pakistan. A Survey about the impact of ICT usage was conducted in three major public universities of Quetta - University Of Balochistan, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University, and Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, focusing the faculty and the students. The study shows that ample ICT facilities are available to the faculties in these universities and the teachers incorporate different ICT tools in their teaching methodologies. Teachers and students believe that ICT has played a vital role in improving the quality of education while there remain some areas of improvement like University web portals, access to digital libraries for the students and online student management systems.
From Hippocrates to statistics. A historical perspective
Authors: Gryglewski Ryszard Witold
Published: August 2015

Hippocrates introduced some level of philosophical reflection to the art of medical practice and made it a science for the very first time. This is how medicine was born. Introducing his theory of life, which was based on the principle of balance of four liquids (sc. humoral theory), Hippocrates created the first model of living organism in its proper physiological condition as well as in its pathological symptoms. The influence of Hippocratic thought on the development of European medicine was significant and became an inspiration for many generations of physicians seeking a final definition of health and disease. This, in consequence, resulted in the development of methodical tools that could be helpful in the description and interpretation of the phenomenon of life. The introduction of “numerical” methods followed by statistical methods to 19th-century medicine opened new ways for scientific investigation. One of most important pioneers in that field was French physician Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis. Statistics played an important role in the formation of new pathological and epidemiological models by Carl Rokitansky, Ignaz Semmelweis, and John Snow, became a standard procedure in clinical research of Carl Wunderlich, and finally found its full development in present-day evidence-based-medicine.
Low-dimensional free and linear representations of Out(F
3)
Authors: Kielak Dawid
Published: August 2015

We study homomorphisms from Out(F
3) to Out(F
5) and GL
m
(𝕂) for m ≤ 6, where 𝕂 is a field of characteristic other than 2 or 3. We conclude that all 𝕂-linear representations of dimension at most 6 of Out(F
3) factor through GL3(ℤ), and that all homomorphisms Out(F
3) → Out(F
5) have finite image.
An emerging future infinitive in present day German?
Authors: Reiner Tabea Elina
Published: August 2015

This paper puts forward the hypothesis that there is a future infinitive evolving in present day German and addresses the theoretical consequences that this might have. Section 1 gives the basic definitions as well as some introductory examples. Section 2 presents evidence in favour of the hypothesis, and possible objections are considered in section 3. Finally, section 4 focusses on more theoretical implications.
ABO Typing Studies on Liquid Urines
Authors: Chase MG
Published: August 2015

ABO typing was successfully performed on 46 urine samples whose ABO group and secretor status had been determined previously from blood and saliva. Twenty-four urine samples were collected on which blind studies, time studies, and storage studies were performed. Multiple urines from several individuals were collected to evaluate the duplicity of the test. Also, urines were collected from pregnant and menstruating females to determine if ABO typing was affected under these conditions. Results of these studies are discussed.
Fiber-Plastic Fusions in Traffic Accident Reconstruction
Authors: Masakowski S , Enz B , Cothern JE , Rowe WF
Published: August 2015

This paper discusses four traffic accident investigations in which fabric impressions in thermoplastic materials or hairs and fibers found embedded in upholstery or interior decorative components played important roles in the reconstruction of the accidents.
Magnetic Identification of Headlight Glass
Authors: Mires RW
Published: August 2015

Magnetic susceptibility measurements over the temperature range 4 to 300K have been used to identify and distinguish among various samples of headlight glass. With a few exceptions, it is found that the technique can be useful in such applications and that improvements in accuracy, which are possible, would even eliminate these exceptions. The method is also applicable to the identification of other types of samples of forensic science interest such as soils, window glass, and metals.
The Detection of Iron Traces on Hands by Ferrozine Sprays: A Report on the Sensitivity and Interference of the Method and Recommended Procedure in Forensic Science Investigation
Authors: Lee C-W
Published: August 2015

Spectrophotometric studies and controlled laboratory tests showed that ferrozine alone is inefficient in revealing iron traces on hands. However, when a reducing agent capable of converting Fe(III) to Fe(II) is used in conjunction with the ferrozine spray, the sensitivity of the detection is greatly enhanced. Several reducing agents including sulfite, hydroxylamine hydrochloride, thioglycollic acid, and ascorbic acid were studied, and ascorbic acid was found to be the best choice in terms of the reduction efficiency and nontoxicity. The effects of copper, zinc, nickel, aluminum, tin, lead, and chromium on the detection of iron by ferrozine with and without the reducing agents were studied, and ways to remove the interference or to interpret the results in the presence of interference are suggested. Finally, a procedure is outlined for spraying hands and gloves with a ferrozine-ascorbic acid mixture and deducing from the revealed iron traces the kinds of metal objects with which they have been in contact. A procedure is also outlined for transferring iron traces from hands onto filter paper for those persons who refuse to have their hands sprayed with chemicals like ferrozine whose toxicity is unknown.
Experimental Study of Postmortem Change Under Field Conditions: Effects of Freezing, Thawing, and Mechanical Injury
Authors: Micozzi MS
Published: August 2015

Understanding the processes of postmortem change in biologic systems is important to the forensic sciences. Previous experimental studies of postmortem change in animals under field conditions made use of animal carcasses that had been incidentally exposed to the effects of freezing and thawing or mechanical damage, or both, and were limited to gross observations. The current study was designed to document intrinsic processes of postmortem change, and the effects of freezing-thawing and mechanical injury, under controlled conditions in the field, using histologic and microbiologic techniques, as well as gross observation. Insect and microbiologic succession sequences, and patterns of decomposition and disarticulation, were observable over time. Previously frozen-thawed animals showed predominantly decay (aerobic decomposition) in the field, while freshly killed animals showed predominantly putrefaction (anaerobic decomposition). Previously frozen animals showed the same sequence, but accelerated rates, of disarticulation. Mechanically injured tissues showed accelerated rates of decomposition. These findings have implications for the interpretation of results of previous studies, as well as the interpretation of human and animal remains subjected to freezing and thawing.
The Use of Ultrathin-Layer Agarose Gels for Phenotyping Erythrocyte Acid Phosphatase by Isoelectric Focusing
Authors: Frank WE , Stolorow MD
Published: August 2015

A method is described for the use of ultrathin-layer agarose gels in phenotyping erythrocyte acid phosphatase (EAP) by isoelectric focusing (IEF). The results obtained using ultrathin-layer agarose gels are shown to be equally reliable and reproducible in comparison to established ultrathin-layer polyacrylamide gels. IEF of EAP on 0.168-mm agarose gels took place in 90 min using the LKB Multiphor system. The technique described allows for both time and cost efficient phenotyping of EAP.
Sex Identification of White-Tailed Deer Using Frozen Venison
Authors: Kerr KD
Published: August 2015

Fluids from frozen muscle tissue taken from 449 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) were analyzed using a radioimmunoassay technique for testosterone. Comparing 309 deer sampled in early November, antlered males had significantly higher tissue testosterone levels (range = 0.18 to 16.00 ng/mL) than females (range = 0.00 to 0.18 ng/mL) while antlerless (fawn) males overlapped both groups (range = 0.00 to 0.68 ng/mL). Samples taken from 132 deer from January through August showed no differences among ages or sexes. Antlered males can be differentiated from females during the breeding season.
The Restoration and Identification of Water-Soaked Documents: A Case Study
Authors: Taylor LR
Published: August 2015

The wallet of a 33-year-old male who had been reported missing a year ago was recovered from a pond and submitted to the Arkansas Crime Laboratory for identification. While the wallet retained its original shape and size, the billfold contents looked to be severly damaged. This paper discusses the procedure used to restore and identify successfully these documents.
Fatal Intravenous Drug Abuse Secondary to Streptomycin Overdose
Authors: Rance F , Randall B
Published: August 2015

A fatal case of chronic intravenous drug abuse involving the injection of a nonpsychoactive veterinary combination of penicillin G and streptomycin is reported. The circumstances surrounding the death indicate that the decedent died as a result of streptomycin induced paralytic neuromuscular blockade.
A Review of Legal Encroachment on Psychiatric Practice
Authors: Tuchler MI
Published: August 2015

This volume is a resourceful study on current problems on the interface, law and psychiatry. It is not an anthology. With particular attention to psychiatric-legal issues in civil law, the Editor, Stephen Rachlin, has gathered the opinion of a seminal group of teachers, all active in the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, who have published on current civil law-psychiatric interface, and in a series of articles, have extended and clarified current issues. Gutheil and Mills enlarge on the conflicting models of the law and on clinical practice. The need for the law to study the viewpoint of psychiatry is made obvious by the isolation of the lawyer from readily available clinical literature. The conceptual models of psychiatry and law are reviewed to provide an underpinning for the discussion of the collaborators.
Accidental Poisonings Involving Carbon Monoxide, Heating Systems, and Confined Spaces
Authors: Caplan YH , Thompson BC , Levine B , Masemore W
Published: August 2015

Eleven incidents of carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication resulting in sixteen fatalities are reported. All of the cases involved heating systems as either the source or the means of distributing the CO. Blood samples were analyzed for ethanol and CO. Elevated blood CO saturations were found in 14 of the 16 victims while none of the victims had a blood ethanol concentration greater than 0.10% (w/v).
Determination of Carbon Monoxide in Blood by Gas Chromatography Using a Thermal Conductivity Detector
Authors: Goldbaum LR , Chace DH , Lappas NT
Published: August 2015

A method is described for the gas chromatographic quantitation of carbon monoxide by means of thermal conductivity detection. Carbon monoxide is released from blood samples as small as 0.02 mL using a unique extraction chamber. The method was compared to a standard gas chromatographic and spectrophotometric method of carbon monoxide quantitation. It was comparable to the former with all samples evaluated and apparently more reliable than the latter with decomposed samples.
A Modified Super Glue® Technique—The Use of Polycyanoacrylate for Fingerprint Development
Authors: Almog J , Gabay A
Published: August 2015

Latent fingerprints on various items were developed by exposing them to fumes obtained by heating the solid polymer, polycyanoacrylate. The results were comparable in quality to those obtained by the regular Super Glue® technique, based on the liquid cyanoacrylate monomer which is harder to handle. Without heating, the development process required much longer periods of time. Two simple devices have been constructed that use the new technique.
Analysis of N,N-Diethyl-m-Toluamide (DEET) in Human Postmortem Specimens
Authors: Crowley RJ , Geyer R , Muir SG
Published: August 2015

N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET) levels in postmortem specimens of stomach and contents, blood, liver, and urine are reported following ingestion of the compound. DEET was analyzed by gas chromatography with an OV-101 column and a nitrogen phosphorus detector. The presence of the compound in the four postmortem specimens was confirmed by mass spectrometry.
Medicolegal Investigations in Hollywood
Authors: Noguchi TT
Published: August 2015

There is a district named Hollywood in the City of Los Angeles within the County of Los Angeles, and thus under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles County Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner, but the connotation of “Hollywood” covers far more than the designated boundary of the Hollywood District of LOs Angeles.