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PREVENÇÃO ESPECIAL NEGATIVA DA PENA: O TERRENO FÉRTIL PARA A IMPLEMENTAÇÃO E DIFUSÃO DA LÓGICA ATUARIAL NO SUBSISTEMA JURÍDICO-PENAL
Authors: Carmona Paulo Afonso Cavichioli , De Carvalho Cavichioli Carmona Flávia Nunes
Published: May 2018

Resumo: O objetivo deste artigo é abordar dentro da temática dos fins da pena a prevenção especial negativa como local onde a dinâmica atuarial tem encontrado seu espaço no subsistema jurídico-penal. Por meio de revisão bibliográfica, o artigo, primeiro, analisa brevemente estudos atinentes às finalidades da pena criminal, sobretudo, sob a ótica de Jorge de Figueiredo Dias. Também traça elementos iniciais de reflexão sobre a “nova penalogia”, observada diante da invasão crescente da dinâmica atuarial no referido subsistema, notadamente na visão de Malcom Feeley e de Jonathan Simon, reconhecidos como os primeiros criminólogos a teorizar e tratar de forma crítica o tema. Aborda, ainda, a dinâmica da justiça atuarial, tecendo críticas ao 'fetiche por números' e apontando o perigo que emerge da implementação da lógica atuarial no subsistema jurídico-penal, uma vez que impacta na política de segurança pública. Conclui-se que o discurso da prevenção especial negativa de neutralização da perigosidade social do agente delitivo também está presente no atuarialismo. Mostrar esta convergência e como os discursos do primeiro se entrelaçam ao do segundo é a grande inovação acerca da temática proposta. Destaca-se que o atuarialismo, sob o pretexto de uma suposta gestão eficiente da criminalidade busca excluir grupos humanos etiquetados como perigosos. Alerta-se, ainda, para os riscos daí advindos como o fato de os modelos de identificação gerar erros (falsos positivos), a perpetuação do etiquetamento de classes já marginalizadas como grupos perigosos e a limitação do cárcere a um lugar apto a tão-somente reduzir riscos, excluir e inabilitar agentes delitivos.
A ATUAÇÃO DO AGENTE PENITENCIÁRIO COMO BUROCRATA DE NÍVEL DE RUA: PARA ALÉM DA DISCRICIONARIEDADE
Authors: Pereira Martins Thaís , Caldeira Nunes Dias Camila
Published: May 2018

Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar a atuação de Agentes de Segurança Penitenciária (ASPs) no tratamento às pessoas presas. A partir do enfoque teórico sobre a burocracia de nível de rua, buscou-se compreender quais são os fatores que influenciam o exercício de discricionariedade por esses agentes e em que medida isto contribui para a garantia ou supressão dos direitos humanos das pessoas em situação de privação de liberdade.

Para a realização deste trabalho foram realizadas entrevistas em profundidade com seis Agentes de Segurança Penitenciária e uma profissional de saúde do sistema prisional paulista, além de observação de campo em unidades prisionais para mulheres em São Paulo. Os dados e informações coletadas permitem uma análise dos aspectos que contribuem para a tomada de decisão dos ASPs enquanto implementadores de políticas públicas no contexto prisional. A conclusão alcançada é a de que a análise da atuação destes profissionais sob a ótica da burocracia de nível de rua traz importantes esclarecimentos sobre seu modo de trabalho e isso impacta fortemente o cotidiano das pessoas encarceradas. Além disso, percebeu-se que a relação entre ASPs e pessoas presas tem sido bastante influenciada pelo papel e atuação do Primeiro Comando da Capital nos presídios paulistas. A análise desses burocratas como implementadores de políticas públicas ainda é um tema recente nas pesquisas brasileiras, e o artigo busca contribuir com este debate.
O QUE PENSAM AS JUÍZAS E OS JUÍZES SOBRE A APLICAÇÃO DA LEI MARIA DA PENHA: UM PRINCÍPIO DE DIÁLOGO COM A MAGISTRATURA DE SETE CAPITAIS BRASILEIRAS
Authors: Mello Marilia Montenegro Pessoa de , Rosenblatt Fernanda Cruz da Fonseca , Medeiros Carolina Salazar l’Armée Queiroga de
Published: May 2018

Nesse artigo apresentaremos um recorte da pesquisa “Entre Práticas Retributivas e Restaurativas: a Lei Maria da Penha e os avanços e desafios do Poder Judiciário”, contratada pelo Conselho Nacional de Justiça, que visou compreender a aplicação da Lei Maria da Penha depois de mais de 10 (dez) anos de sua vigência. Mais especificamente, nosso objetivo, aqui, é apresentar como as juízas e juízes pensam a aplicação da referida lei, e como eles percebem as práticas punitivistas e restaurativas nesse contexto. Os dados empíricos apresentados foram extraídos das 24 (vinte e quatro) entrevistas semiestruturadas realizadas com os magistrados de sete capitais brasileiras, e analisados a partir de extensa revisão bibliográfica sobre as várias temáticas abordadas. Dentre outros temas, no presente artigo, serão relatadas e debatidas as visões dos magistrados sobre: o papel e a importâncias das equipes multidisciplinares e das medidas protetivas no âmbito de aplicação da Lei Maria da Penha; os programas de atendimento disponíveis para ambos, vítimas e agressores; o afastamento da suspensão condicional do processo e outras medidas despenalizadoras (previstas na Lei 9.099/95); e o perfil das partes que chegam aos Juizados (ou Varas) de violência doméstica, incluindo como compreendem a demanda da mulher vítima de violência doméstica. Por fim, apresentaremos as percepções dos juízes entrevistados sobre o uso de práticas de justiça restaurativa no âmbito da violência doméstica, aproveitando para realizar um exercício crítico de se pensar esse tipo de violência de gênero para além de práticas meramente retributivas.
ECOCÍDIO: PROPOSTA DE UMA POLÍTICA CRIMINALIZADORA DE DELITOS AMBIENTAIS INTERNACIONAIS OU TIPO PENAL PROPRIAMENTE DITO?
Authors: Brochado Neto Djalma Alvarez , Frota Mont' Alverne Tarin Cristino
Published: May 2018

A tendência à criminalização de condutas contra o meio ambiente advém da ineficiência dos outros ramos do direito em garantir a devida proteção a este bem de valor imprescindível à vida. Dada a universalização dos danos e das consequências, cabe ao direito internacional penal a tipificação de determinados comportamentos prejudiciais. Neste contexto, diversos movimentos técnico-científico-culturais buscam tornar crime internacional o dano massivo ao meio ambiente: o ecocídio. O presente artigo tem como objetivo determinar se e em que medida o ecocídio pode ser compreendido como um movimento científico na busca de maior proteção do meio ambiente, de forma ampla, frente o aumento da criminalidade internacional ambiental; ou um tipo específico de crime com implicância internacional, com descrição objetiva de um comportamento abstrato, limitado, capaz de individualizar a conduta do agente. A pesquisa tem como método o dialético, buscando compreender o objeto através das noções de totalidade, mudança e contradição inerentes à realidade. Conclui-se que há um ecocídio “projeto de politica pública” a ser adotada pelas nações, derivada da inclusão daquele no rol de crimes internacionais; e o ecocídio “tipo penal”, delimitado e taxativo, com abrangência restrita à conduta a ser descrita. A distinção possibilita a correta definição e abrangência de ambos, evitando o esvaziamento do crime (pela imprecisão e vagueza) e a redução da política pública (restrita à tipificação da conduta).
INTEGRA DA REVISTA
Authors: Dias Varella Marcelo , Esis Villarroel Ivette
Published: May 2018

Integra do N. 1, Vol. 8 da Revista Brasileira de Políticas Públicas
Mobile water vapor Raman lidar for heavy rain forecasting: system description and validation
Authors: Sakai Tetsu , Nagai Tomohiro , Izumi Toshiharu , Yoshida Satoru , Shoji Yoshinori
Published: May 2018

Abstract. To improve the lead time and accuracy of predictions of localized heavy rainfall, which can cause extensive damage in urban areas in Japan, we developed a mobile Raman lidar (RL) system for measuring the vertical distribution of the water vapor mixing ratio (w) in the lower troposphere. The RL was installed in a small trailer for easy deployment to the upwind side of potential rainfall areas to monitor the inflow of moist air before rainfall events. We describe the lidar system and present validation results obtained by comparing the RL-measured data with collocated radiosonde, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), and high-resolution objective analysis data. The comparison results showed that RL-derived w agreed within 10 % with values obtained by radiosonde at altitude ranges between 0.14 and 1.5 km in the daytime and between 0.14 and 5–6 km at night in the absence of low clouds; the vertical resolution of the RL measurements was 75–150 m, their temporal resolution was less than 20 min, and the measurement uncertainty was less than 30 %. RL-derived precipitable water vapor values were similar to or slightly lower than those obtained by GNSS at night, when the maximum height of RL measurements exceeded 5 km. The RL-derived w values were at most 1 g/kg (25 %) larger than local analysis data. Four months of continuous operation of the RL system demonstrated its utility for monitoring water vapor distributions for heavy rain forecasting.
Uncertainty of eddy covariance flux measurements over an urban area based on two towers
Authors: Järvi Leena , Rannik Üllar , Kokkonen Tom V. , Kurppa Mona , Karppinen Ari , Kouznetsov Rostislav D. , Rantala Pekka , Vesala Timo , Wood Curtis R.
Published: May 2018

Abstract. The eddy-covariance (EC) technique is the most direct method to measure the exchange between the surface and the atmosphere in different ecosystems. Thus, it is commonly used to get information on air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions, and on turbulent heat transfer. Often one ecosystem is monitored using only a single EC measurement station bringing uncertainties to the ecosystem-level flux values. Furthermore, in urban ecosystems we are often compromised to conduct the single-point measurements in non-ideal locations such as close to buildings and/or in the roughness sublayer bringing further complications to data analysis and flux estimations. In order to tackle the question of how representative a single EC measurement point in an urban area can be, two identical EC systems – measuring momentum, sensible and latent heat, and carbon dioxide fluxes – were installed on each side of the same building structure in central Helsinki, Finland, for July 2013–September 2015. The main interests were to understand what is the sensitivity of the vertical fluxes on the single measurement point and to estimate the systematic uncertainty on annual cumulative values due to missing data if certain, relatively wide, flow-distorted wind sectors are disregarded. The momentum and measured scalar fluxes respond very differently to the distortion caused by the building structure. The momentum flux is the most sensitive to the measurement location whereas scalar fluxes are less impacted by the measurement structures. The flow distortion areas of the two EC systems (40–150° and 230–340°) are best detected from the mean-wind-normalised turbulent kinetic energy and outside these areas, the random uncertainties of the two systems are between 10 and 40 %. Different gap-filling methods to yield annual cumulative fluxes show how using data from a single EC measurement point can cause up to 12 % underestimation in the cumulative carbon fluxes when compared to combined data from the two systems. Combining data from two EC systems increases also data coverage from 45 % to 69 %. For sensible and latent heat, the respective underestimations are up to 5–8 %. We also show how the commonly used data flagging criteria in natural ecosystems, kurtosis and skewness, are not necessarily suitable to filter out data in a densely built urban environment. The results show how the single measurement system can be used to derive representative flux values for central Helsinki but the addition of second system to other side of the building structure decreases the uncertainties. The same results can be assumed to apply in similar dense city locations where no large directional deviations in the source area are seen. In general, the obtained results will aid the scientific community by providing information about the sensitivity of EC measurements and their quality flagging in urban areas.
Comparison of radiation parametrizations within the HARMONIE–AROME NWP model
Authors: Rontu Laura , Lindfors Anders V.
Published: May 2018

Abstract. Downwelling shortwave radiation at the surface (SWDS, global solar radiation flux), given by three different parametrization schemes, was compared to observations in the HARMONIE–AROME numerical weather prediction (NWP) model experiments over Finland in spring 2017. Simulated fluxes agreed well with each other and with the observations in the clear-sky cases. In the cloudy-sky conditions, all schemes tended to underestimate SWDS at the daily level, as compared to the measurements. Large local and temporal differences between the model results and observations were seen, related to the variations and uncertainty of the predicted cloud properties. The results suggest a possibility to benefit from the use of different radiative transfer parametrizations in a NWP model to obtain perturbations for the fine-resolution ensemble prediction systems. In addition, we recommend usage of the global radiation observations for the standard validation of the NWP models.
Estimating Daily Evapotranspiration Based on a Model of
Evapotranspiration Fraction (EF) for Mixed Pixels
Authors: Li Fugen , Xin Xiaozhou , Peng Zhiqing , Liu Qinhuo
Published: May 2018

Abstract. Currently, applications of remote sensing evapotranspiration (ET) products are limited by the low resolution of satellite remote sensing data caused by land surface heterogeneities and the temporal scale extrapolation of the instantaneous latent heat flux (LE) based on satellite overpass time. This study proposes a simple but efficient model (EFAF) for estimating the daily ET of remotely sensed mixed pixels using a model of the evapotranspiration fraction (EF) and area fraction (AF). To accomplish this goal, we derive an equation for calculating the EF of mixed pixels based on two key hypotheses. Hypothesis 1 states that the available energy (AE) of each sub-pixel is approximately equal to that of any other sub-pixels in the same mixed pixel within an acceptable margin of bias and is equivalent to the AE of the mixed pixel. This approach simplifies the equation, and uncertainties and errors related to the estimated ET values are minor. Hypothesis 2 states that the EF of each sub-pixel is equal to that of the nearest pure pixel(s) of the same land cover type. This equation is designed to correct spatial scale errors for the EF of mixed pixels; it can be used to calculate daily ET from daily AE data. The model was applied to an artificial oasis located in the midstream area of the Heihe River using HJ-1B satellite data with a 300 m resolution. Results generated before and after making corrections were compared and validated using sites data from eddy covariance systems. The results show that the new model can significantly improve the accuracy of daily ET estimates relative to the lumped method; the coefficient of determination (R2) increased to 0.82 from 0.62, the root mean square error (RMSE) decreased to 1.60 from 2.47 MJ·m−2, and the mean bias error (MBE) decreased from 1.92 to 1.18 MJ·m−2.
In the PaLRaP Spotlight: Chris Ritter
Authors: Campbell Stephanie
Published: May 2018

Head Librarian, Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) Library & Research Center
Noteworthy: News Briefs from PA Libraries
Authors: McGeary Bryan James
Published: May 2018

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Autonomía y cooperación en los modelos federalizantes de política cultural. Análisis comparativo de los casos de Alemania, EEUU, Canadá, Suiza, Reino Unido y España
Authors: Zamorano Mariano M. , Rius-Ulldemolins Joaquim , Bonet Lluís
Published: May 2018

Desde los años ochenta diversas investigaciones han profundizado en la comparación de los diversos modelos de las políticas culturales nacionales. Asimismo, el interés por la descentralización cultural y el reconocimiento de la diversidad cultural y nacional ha crecido en paralelo a la importancia de la acción cultural pública de las regiones y las municipalidades. Sin embargo, no se han desarrollado estudios que permitan comparar de forma sistemática la relación entre los modelos de federalismo y los modelos de política cultural de un Estado. Este trabajo persigue cubrir este vacío realizando una comparativa de seis países federales o casi federales que han destacado en su desarrollo de políticas culturales, comparando sus diferentes niveles de autonomía, gobierno compartido y del reconocimiento de distintas identidades culturales y nacionales.
Prevalência e fatores associados à autopercepção corporal em escolares do nordeste brasileiro
Authors: Pedraza Dixis Figueroa , Sousa Carolina Pereira da Cunha , Olinda Ricardo Alves de
Published: May 2018

Objetivou-se avaliar a autopercepção corporal em escolares da rede pública de ensino de Campina Grande e examinar a associação com o sexo, a idade e o estado nutricional. Estudo transversal com 1081 crianças de cinco a dez anos. As crianças foram pesadas e medidas segundo procedimentos padronizados. O estado nutricional foi obtido por meio do IMC/I. Para a avaliação da percepção corporal utilizou-se a escala Children’s Body Image Scale. A prevalência de sobrepeso foi de 75,9%. Crianças com sobrepeso e obesas apresentaram maiores percentuais de insatisfação corporal. Das crianças obesas, 73,7% perceberam-se mais magras. Constatou-se que 94,7% dos escolares com sobrepeso, 98% dos obesos e 41,8% dos eutróficos gostariam de ser mais magros, enquanto 83,3% dos desnutridos desejariam ser mais gordos. A visão mais distorcida do corpo verificou-se nas crianças mais velhas e nos meninos. Aponta-se que o sexo, a idade e o estado nutricional podem influenciar a percepção corporal.
Four interesting aphyllophoroid species in the tropical northern region of Veracruz, Mexico
Authors: Chacón Santiago , Tapia Fidel , Jarvio Daniel
Published: May 2018

The taxonomic study presents four aphyllophoroid fungi from the Tamiahua region of Veracruz in a tropical deciduous forest dominated by Quercus oleoides. Gloeodontia discolor, Hydnochaete paucisetigera, and Thelephora dentosa are recorded for the first time for
Mexican mycobiota, and Gloiothele lactescens is reported for a new location.
Graphis maomingensis, a new lichenized fungus from China
Authors: Zhang Lu-Lu , Yang Meng-Zhu , Zhao Zun-Tian
Published: May 2018

Graphis maomingensis sp. nov. is described from Guangdong Province, eastern China. It is characterized by a concealed disc, striate labia, striatula-morph lirellae, completely carbonized proper exciple, and hyaline transversely 15-21-septate ascospores. The important
characters of this species are illustrated. All materials are conserved in the Lichen Section of Botanical Herbarium, Shandong Normal University.
Notes on rust fungi in China 4. Hosts and distribution of Hyalopsora aspidiotus and H. hakodatensis
Authors: Ji Jing-Xin , Li Zhuang , Li Yu , Zhuang Jian-Yun , Kakishima Makoto
Published: May 2018

Hosts and distribution in China of two fern rust fungi, Hyalopsora aspidiotus and H. hakodatensis, are clarified based on new collections and examination of herbarium specimens. The ferns Athyrium iseanum, Deparia orientalis, and Phegopteris connectilis
are newly identified hosts for H. hakodatensis, while Gymnocarpium jessoense represents a new host for H. aspidiotus in China. The rusts are also reported as new for several Chinese provinces.
Four species of polyporoid fungi newly recorded from Taiwan
Authors: Chen Che-Chih , Wu Sheng-Hua , Chen Chi-Yu
Published: May 2018

Four wood-rotting polypores are reported from Taiwan for the first time: Ceriporiopsis pseudogilvescens, Megasporia major, Phlebiopsis castanea, and Trametes maxima. ITS (internal transcribed spacer) sequences were obtained from each specimen to confirm the determinations.
Varicellaria emeiensis sp. nov. and a review of the genus in China
Authors: Zhou Jianhua , Ren Qiang
Published: May 2018

A new species, Varicellaria emeiensis, is described from Sichuan Province, southwest China. It is characterized by its lecanorate apothecia with heavily white-pruinose discs, 8-spored ascus, and the presence of lecanoric acid. Additional material is reported for four Varicellaria
species previously recorded from China, and a key is provided to the five species known from China.
New records of Lepraria and Pyrenula from China
Authors: Wang Zhong-Liang , Yan Shu-Kun , Tang Rong , Sun Mei-Jie , Zhang Lu-Lu
Published: May 2018

As a result of our study, two species of Lepraria (L. atlantica, L. lobata) and two species of Pyrenula (P. duplicans, P. subelliptica) are reported for the first time from China, and Pyrenula pyrenuloides is reported for the first time
from Guizhou province.
Investigating L2 Learners’ Writing Self-efficacy as a Complex Dynamic System
Authors: Almutlaq Sana , Etherington Siân
Published: May 2018

There has been a growing interest in SLA in studying second language (L2) writing development and change from a complex perspective, taking into consideration the full combination of learning processes, learners and contexts of learning. Thus, the research reported here applies a Dynamic Systems Theory (DST) approach to investigate L2 writers’ sense of self-efficacy. Although self-efficacy is usually viewed as task-specific, and therefore measured in relation to specific situations, such an approach tends to lead to the production of cross-sectional research looking at one time and one context only. This study moves instead to consider L2 writing self-efficacy as a complex dynamic system that evolves in response to the environment as well as internal re-organisation. Changes in L2 learners’ writing self-efficacy were traced over a six-week period through the use of writing self-efficacy questionnaires and introspective journals. Results suggest that L2 writing self-efficacy is best perceived as a dynamic, rather than a fixed, construct, and as complex rather than one-dimensional. Students’ perception of their abilities to write is changeable, decentralised, open to influences from the environment and from other external factors, displays non-linear development and tends to settle down in attractor states.
Nuclear Disaster and Global Aesthetics in Gerald Vizenor's Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 and Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being
Authors: Jimenez Chris D.
Published: May 2018

This article examines how contemporary anglophone authors portray nuclear disaster as a shared experience that surpasses nationalist, ethnic, and racial categories, requiring representation through new global aesthetic forms. Gerald Vizenor combines Native American storytelling and Japanese Kabuki drama to demonstrate how the present-day ideology of nuclear peace imperialistically perpetuates the destruction wrought by the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Similarly, Ruth Ozeki's narrative is told through a fictional encounter with the found diary of Nao Yasutani, a Japanese teenager affected by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Ozeki writes herself into the story as a metafictional character as a way to assert a transnational United States–Japan connection, thereby bridging temporal, spatial, and literary divides to represent how nuclear disaster engenders social affiliations beyond national boundaries. For both Ozeki and Vizenor, nuclear threat and disaster productively sustain otherwise illegible connections across global space, whether through collective mourning or the shared risk of global nuclear fallout.
Novels in the Translation Zone: Abbas Khider, Weltliteratur, and the Ethics of the Passerby
Authors: Stan Corina
Published: May 2018

How do today's global crises shape world literature, and is world literature itself a crisis mode of cultural production? This article addresses these questions through a close engagement with two novels by Abbas Khider, a German-language novelist born in Iraq, where he was a political prisoner. Featuring a migrant who often travels illegally and under invented names, and a travelling letter written by a former political prisoner to someone who meanwhile has become a refugee herself, Der falsche Inder (The Village Indian) and Brief in die Auberginenrepublik (Letter to the Eggplant Republic) dramatize migration as one of the global crises we face today. By situating these novels in a “translation zone,” I argue that Khider incorporates movement in their very form, engaging with the complex dimensions of linguistic and cultural translation that accompany movement. They are thus “born-translated novels,” belaboring a temporality of precedence characteristic of the refugee experience. By reclaiming agency in the process of translation, however, Khider's novels alter their readers' sense of a world—a worlding (in the sense given this term by Martin Heidegger, and borrowed by Pheng Cheah) that becomes part of an ethics of the migrant, who engages in intentional gestures of mistranslation.
Global Crises in Ernst-Wilhelm Händler's Wenn Wir Sterben (When We Die) and Kathrin Röggla's Wir Schlafen Nicht (We never Sleep)
Authors: Wojno-Owczarska Ewa
Published: May 2018

Through a comparison of Wenn wir sterben (When We Die, 2002) by Ernst-Wilhelm Händler and wir schlafen nicht (We Never Sleep 2004) by Kathrin Röggla I intend to prove the thesis that both writers reveal the symptoms of a crisis in today's society, as determined by the deepening globalization in the economic, social, and cultural spheres where flexibility (as characterized by Richard Sennett in The Corrosion of Character, 1998) is an essential feature enabling an individual to adapt to a fast-changing world and to the employment conditions of neoliberal states. Influenced by Richard Sennett, they illustrate the negative consequences of the new economy on German society: the insecure situation of individuals is determined by unpredictable fluctuations of the free market and by the virtual economy (c.f. Jean Baudrillard), mechanisms of which appear to common people as a sphere of “hyperreality,” deepening the alienation of individuals. Both writers portray interesting female characters, impressed by the success propaganda in the media, trying to use the opportunities of the free market to gain independence. However, at the end of the works, they become disillusioned when confronted with intrigues followed by their bankruptcy or dismissal. Both writers argue that the main crisis in today's global society is the financialization of all spheres of life and the subordination of the individual to the dictates of mass culture, which popularizes idealized pictures of success and a fashionable lifestyle while avoiding responsibility for the losers in globalization, that is, the weakest members of society. Contemporary authors also have been developing a critical interpretation of the achievements of women's emancipation, pointing not only to woman-hostile work conditions, but also to the loss of family bonds in general and to the automatization of all aspects of life, where personal contact is replaced by phone calls and the Internet. Under the influence of the media's images of globalization, women try to fit the expectations of the male-dominated corporate world, while a focus on profit results in the loss of moral values. Both authors come to the conclusion that materialistic-oriented civilization is nearing its end. According to Ernst-Wilhelm Händler and Kathrin Röggla, literature must be engaged more in societal questions and should shed light on the negative results of globalization in the cultural, economic, and social spheres in order to assist readers in rethinking their own life priorities.
“Crouching Terrorist, Lurking Author”: On the Terror Narrative in Zhang Chengzhi's and Xiao Bai's Historical Fiction
Authors: Dan Hansong
Published: May 2018

This article takes up a comparative reading of Zhang Chengzhi's Islamic fiction Investigation of Assassinations in the Western Province (1989) and Xiao Bai's historical thriller Blockade (2017), arguing that the two terrorism-themed novellas are constituents of world literature in the Age of Terror, an age that features crises of both history and representation. By conceiving world literature as a narrative event born out of the rupture of history, this article analyzes how two Chinese novelists, from the periphery and the center of national subjectivity, aim to act out the dubious complicity between the terrorist and the author. While Zhang's obsession with Jahriyya and extremist violence is entwined with his suspicion of the agency of narrative, Xiao Bai is inclined to consecrate the author as a divine source of explosive imagination, and to disenchant the readers' obsession with the closure of event. A universal claim based on my case study of contemporary Chinese literature thus emerges: placed in a broad continuum of post-9/11 crisis representation, these two novellas bear witness to the performative forces of world literature in rectifying the dominant national historiography and the subalternity of the dispossessed.
Celebrity Authors, Humanitarian Narratives, and the Role of Literature in World Crises Today: The Medecins Sans Frontiers' Newspaper Chronicles Testigos Del Horror (Witness of Horror)
Authors: Restrepo Luis Fernando
Published: May 2018

This article examines a series of chronicles on contemporary world crises commissioned by Médecins sans Frontiers to eight well-known Hispanic writers and a photojournalist published by El País and followed by an exhibition at multiple Instituto Cervantes sites. Seeking to assist vulnerable populations across the globe, the series turned to the authors' prestige as public intellectuals and creativity to appeal to the international community for support. Literature's potential to generate empathy and express solidarity is viewed with some healthy skepticism, arguing that despite their urgent and evident need, a critical view of top-down humanitarian campaigns is necessary. In regards to literature in particular, this article suggests that solidarity projects must address the contradictory elements of humanitarian narratives and their mise en scène of suffering to be effective. Focusing on the chronicle as a genre, this article examines the aura of the author as a public intellectual, the aesthetic mediation of suffering, and the appeal to a metropolitan readership. As a mass media project and exhibition, Witness of Horror also sheds light into the institutional frameworks and practices that mediate literature's efforts to intervene in and remedy world crises today.
Hues of Red: The Facades of Leftist Insurgency and Crisis in India in Select Fiction
Authors: Sarkar Debjani , Manna Nirban
Published: May 2018

Literature on the leftist insurgency is a field where sociopolitical turmoil meets revolution. For the last fifty years, leftist insurgency entails a problematic premise in India. From the example of countries like the Soviet Union and China, India incorporated the idea of Communism in the 1970s. Communism in India found manifestation through two movements namely Naxalism and Maoism, with their basis in Marxist–Leninist ideology but with a subtle variance. This subtlety breaks open a crisis that has been understated often when the movements have been referred to as synonymous terms in media jargon and popular discourse. The policy of the “annihilation line” forms an ideological crisis in India; which is expansively reflected in select fiction from the country. Therefore, this article attempts at dissecting two pieces of fiction chosen from the whole repertoire of literature written on Naxalism and Maoism to elucidate this crisis. Neel Mukherjee's The Lives of Others (2014) is placed against Nilima Sinha's Red Blooms in the Forest (2013) in order to establish how parallel discourses from two different time periods of the movement facilitate a study of the trajectory of the Naxalite–Maoist insurgency.
Fiction Unbound: The Contemporary Landscape of Narrative Theory
Authors: Martínez-Alcañiz Violeta
Published: May 2018

This review essay approaches the story-discourse dichotomy through the theory of unconventional narratives. Brian Richardson's Unnatural Narratives, Kent Puckett's Narrative Theory and Guido Mazzoni's Theory of the Novel discuss how the conventional narrative structure beginning-introduction-resolution, and the traditional narrator, are no longer valid in contemporary fiction. Richardson claims that contemporary fiction transgresses the mimetic conventions that, traditionally, have characterized narratives. Puckett revises the main theories in narratology and the way in which they have approached the story-discourse relationship. Finally, Mazzoni's interest lies in the evolution of the novel and its legitimacy as a genre. But the three of them come to the same conclusion: there are infinite ways to tell a story.
Fundamentos de la Responsabilidad Penal de la Empresa como nuevo sujeto Activo del Delito
Authors: Rivas Paniagua Raul Gilberto
Published: May 2018

El artículo presenta desde el análisis dogmático-doctrinario, la responsabilidad penal de la empresa como nuevo sujeto activo del delito, el cual ha tenido un profundo rechazo por un sector doctrinal fuerte, pero que poco a poco se ha ido consolidando y más en la parte especial de los códigos penales, esta res­ponsabilidad, la doctrina la ha planteado desde dos puntos o desde dos modelos de responsabilidad, cada uno con sus características y con sus respectivas críticas, esta responsabilidad es o era más común en los países anglosajones, pero a medida que entro la globalización la actividad empresarial llevada a cabo en enormes emporios económicos fue representando un riesgo y un peligro para la sociedad y desde hace unos años el derecho continental europeo comenzó su regulación legal desde el derecho penal.
El Derecho de Acceso a la información pública como un Derecho Humano Fundamental
Authors: Rodríguez Aceituno René Fernando
Published: May 2018

El artículo analiza el derecho de acceso a la información pública y la transparencia en la divulgación de documentos de la gestión estatal, desde su origen, el cual data, según los registros históricos, desde el siglo XVIII en la Republica de Suecia, pero que, en nuestro continente americano, no es sino hasta hace un par de décadas, en que se ha dado marcha a su implementación mediante diferentes instrumentos jurídicos internacionales. Posteriormente se analiza la sentencia de “Claude Reyes y otros vs Chile”, la cual fue la primera sentencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos declarando el acceso a la información pública como un derecho humano.Así mismo se ha hecho una recopilación sobre qué países de América cuentan con dichos mecanismos de transparencia y cuáles son los institutos que dan vida a sus normas, encontrándose hasta el momento de redacción del presente artículo, un total de veintidós países de la región que poseen dichas herramientas.Luego se analiza cuáles han sido los avances de este derecho humano en Honduras y como se ha puesto en práctica el mismo, gracias a la ley de transparencia y acceso a la información pública y a la creación del Instituto de Acceso a la Información Pública, para luego finalizar con un breve estudio sobre cuáles son las limitantes a este derecho, ya que no toda información puede ser de dominio público por estrictas razones de seguridad e interés nacional; y cuáles son los principales desafíos que en la actualidad enfrenta.
Perceptions of experiences of having a sibling stem cell donor
Authors: Kisch Annika M. , Forsberg Anna
Published: May 2018

Objective: The aim was to explore stem cell recipients’ perceptions of experiences of having a sibling donor from pretransplantation to one year afterwards in order to support their learning process.Methods: Ten adult recipients, five women and four men, with a mean age of 52 years (19-68 years) receiving stem cells from a sibling donor were included consecutively. We used a phenomenographic approach to analyse the 28 open-ended interviews that took place before transplantation and three months and one year afterwards.Results: Ten categories emerged comprising 110 different perceptions pertaining to: Advantages, Acknowledgement, Risk evaluation, Complexity, Family impact, Non-directed donors, Self-identity, Facing the reality, Knowledge seeking and Caring encounters. Three distinct phases of the learning process were identified from before transplantation to one year afterwards, i.e., risk-benefit analysis, outcome expectations and facing the reality.Conclusions: Before transplantation the recipients had many perceptions about having a sibling donor and focused on a thorough risk versus benefit analysis for both themselves and the donor. Three months after transplantation the recipients sought knowledge in order to have realistic expectations and comprehend their future. One year after transplantation the recipients had few perceptions and focused on facing the reality, irrespective of whether the outcome was good or bad. The generic perceptions of the recipients over time were that serious blood diseases are burdensome and lethal, while treatment should include continuity of care.
Use of Data Quality Index in Student Feedback for Quality Assurance of Engineering Programmes at the Military Technological College, Muscat, Oman
Authors: Zaman Khan Wasi Uz , Ali AlAjmi Abdullah Ahmed , Zubaidy Sarim Al
Published: May 2018

This case study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of the modifications into the engineering programmes adopted by the Military Technological College (MTC) to satisfy the needs of Omani armed forces. It discusses the role of Quality Assurance (QA) in engineering education and accreditation process in the context of four engineering programmes offered by the MTC. The study outlines the steps undertaken by the QA department at the MTC which are practiced by western institutes and universities. This study also included the student feedback as the most important parameter in measuring the effectiveness of modified engineering programmes. Due to low participation rate, the data quality index (DQI) approach was used for assessing the quality of the programme in a military learning environment. The MTC applied its anonymous over sighting the engineering programmes offered by the four engineering departments (Aeronautical, Civil, Marine, and Systems). The Student Evaluation Questionnaire (SEQ) used in the academic years 2014-15 and 2015-16 was modified and the improved version was used in academic year 2016-17. In year 2016-17 a total of 561 students participated online in the SEQ survey. The student’s satisfaction about the module and lecturer with low participation rate was above 50% in most modules which could be misleading. However, after transformation of the data to DQI the student feedback became more representative. On a scale of 0 – 100, a lower DQI value indicated higher student satisfaction. The DQI can be used as an institutional approach for maximum information and assessment of module performance. Out of 43 modules, the students were more satisfied in module MTCA5030 owned and managed by Aeronautical Engineering Dept.; in module MTCC3009 (section 2) owned and managed by Civil Engineering Dept.; in module MTCM5004 owned and managed by Marine Engineering Dept.; and in module MTCS5011 owned and managed by Systems Engineering Dept.
The Effect of Celebration Marketing and Its Correlation Model
Authors: Wu Shwu-Ing
Published: May 2018

This study explores the effects of Celebration activities, Celebration merchandises, surroundings, and history and culture on the experience attractiveness perceived by tourists, as well as tourists’ attitude and behavioral intention. Tourists who have taken part in any kind of Celebrations were treated as the sample population. The questionnaires were distributed in person upon convenience sampling, and 562 effective samples were retrieved. The results showed that Celebration activities, Celebration merchandises, surroundings, and history and culture have significant positive effects on the experience attractiveness perceived by tourists. Celebrations and culture also have a significant positive effect on tourists’ attitude. However, Celebration merchandises and surroundings have no significant effect on tourists’ attitude. Experience attractiveness has a significant positive effect on attitude and behavioral intention, suggesting that when Celebrations are more attractive to tourists, they feel more delighted, and have stronger behavioral intention.
Comfort of the hospitalized elderly
Authors: Silveira Teresa , Pereira Raquel , Colaço Carla , Marques Rita , Pontífice-Sousa Patrícia
Published: May 2018

The purpose of this pilot study is to identify the specifics of comfort in the hospitalized elderly population. This is a descriptive-exploratory pilot study, with a qualitative approach. Data was collected between January and February 2018, being included 12 elderly participants hospitalized in the pulmonology/oncology department. Semi-structured audio-recorded interviews were conducted to obtain the data. The central theme of the comfort phenomenon for the hospitalized elderly individuals comprises four categories that represent the perceptions of the subjects, namely: needs that were felt/experience’s context; intervenients’ role/experience’s context; ways and means of causing comfort/discomfort; attributes associated with the concept of comfort/discomfort. The analysis of each of these categories showed the importance of developing skills, in order to satisfy the comfort needs of the hospitalized elderly. The elderly constitute a group which is socially more vulnerable and fragile. For this reason, nurses and students should be available to provide relief, well-being and comfort to this population with specific needs. The findings of this study reinforce the results of previous research efforts, highlighting categories and subcategories that allow to achieve a balance between needs, expectations and wishes, and an integrated comforting care that should be considered and object of deep research by nursing students.
Researcher Mobility and Innovation: The Effect of Researcher Mobility on Organizational R&D Performance in the Emerging Nations' Companies
Authors: Fujiwara Ayano
Published: May 2018

This study applies a knowledge production function to an empirical analysis of the relationship between innovation and the movement of knowledge workers. In the past, investments in R&D and human resources were used as indices to measure innovation. However, this study analyzes the role that the movement of knowledge workers plays in innovation and the growth of the new corporations that recruited them from mature companies. This study reveals that the fluidity of talent and informal networks play an important role during the process of innovation. The analysis clearly shows that when innovation is measured by number of patents, the contribution of highly experienced and highly specialized researchers from developed countries is especially high. On the other hand, when innovation is measured by patent quality, both the number of researchers and the researchers’ years of experience clearly exhibit positive effects.
Land-Use/Land-Cover Change and Anthropogenic Causes Around Koupa Matapit Gallery Forest, West-Cameroon
Authors: Momo Marie Caroline Solefack , Njouonkou Andre Ledoux , Temgoua Lucie Felicite , Zangmene Romuald Djouda , Taffo Junior Baudoin Wouokoue , Ntoupka Mama
Published: May 2018

This study assesses land cover change of the Koupa Matapit forest gallery, West Cameroon, in relation to anthropogenic factors. Ethnobotanical surveys were conducted to investigate the relationships between the local population and the gallery forest; the spatio-temporal dynamics of the landscapes around the gallery forest were studied from the diachronic analysis of three Landsat TM satellite images of 1984, Landsat ETM + 1999 and Landsat OLI_TIRS of 2016, supplemented by verification missions on field. The satellite images were processed using ArcGIS and Erdas Imagine software. According to surveys, it should be noted that agriculture and livestock are the main economic activities of the population of Koupa Matapit, agriculture and fuel wood collection for energy were the main anthropogenic activities responsible for deforestation and degradation of the forest gallery. The collection of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) would have a significant implication in land use and cover changes. The results indicate that the extension of savannah/agricultural land (from 6989 ha in 1984 to 7604 ha in 2016) and bare soil/built up area (from 71 ha in 1984 to 342 ha in 2016) would have led to the disappearance of much of the forest area (1465 ha in 1984 to 580 ha in 2016). The rapid population growth of Koupa Matapit would be responsible for these pressures. There is an urgent need to implement appropriate land use policy in this area.
Cuando la música cesa: el papel de los festivales culturales en la creación de espacio urbano
Authors: Morales Pérez Soledad , Pacheco Bernal Carmen
Published: May 2018

El presente trabajo se centra en analizar cómo contribuyen los festivales culturales a la creación de espacio urbano a través del estudio de la percepción que los residentes tienen de los impactos sobre la vida diaria de la ciudad de un festival musical público organizado de manera continuada desde hace más de 28 años, el Mercat de Música Viva de Vic. Mediante un análisis factorial exploratorio llevado a cabo con los datos obtenidos en una encuesta realizada a residentes de la ciudad, se demuestra que este festival influye tanto en la dimensión física como percibida de la ciudad y está favoreciendo la redefinición, expansión y redescubrimiento tanto de la vida social de la ciudad como de su espacio físico. Así mismo, al ser portador de significados nuevos, está provocando nuevas narrativas de la ciudad y nuevos vínculos de los ciudadanos hacia ella.
Serveis ecosistèmics, valors del paisatge i sostenibilitat cultural en projectes de restauració ecològica
Authors: Pueyo-Ros Josep
Published: May 2018

La restauració ecològica es basa fonamentalment en el marc teòric dels serveis ecosistèmics; però aquest marc presenta importants mancances perquè no considera la dimensió cultural del lloc en els objectius de la restauració. En aquest estudi es planteja, a partir d’una exploració bibliogràfica, com la recerca basada en els valors culturals del paisatge pot complementar el marc teòric dels serveis ecosistèmics tornant a situar els humans com a part integral del paisatge i no només com un agent de degradació dels ecosistemes naturals. En l’article s’identifiquen les principals crítiques i mancances de la teoria dels serveis ecosistèmics, amb especial èmfasi en els serveis ecosistèmics culturals. Finalment, es tracen connexions entre els dos cossos teòrics i s’apunten mètodes idonis de recollida de dades en relació amb el marc de recerca plantejat.
A Review on Water-Energy Nexus and Directions for Future Studies: From Supply to Demand End
Authors: Yoon Hyerim
Published: May 2018

The intrinsic links between water and energy have produced a new concept known as water-energy nexus (WEN), which has been increasingly studied by scholars and global institutions since the 1990s. This paper provides a review of water-energy nexus studies in an interdisciplinary manner starting from two major approaches—water for energy and energy for water—which focus principally on quantitative studies, but also on policy and institutional dimensions. Many studies mention data collection, the lack of coordination between existing frameworks and the scale/boundary of the two resources as major challenges, whereas new technologies are seen as an opportunity for the nexus perspective. After identifying research gaps, the political ecology approach is proposed for a critical reflection on WEN. Additionally, water poverty and energy poverty (or fuel poverty) are also proposed as part of WEN studies in order to broaden their spectrum to include the demand-end perspective and introduce a social dimension in WEN.
Desmond, Matthew (2017). Desahuciadas. Pobreza y lucro en la ciudad del siglo XXI
Authors: Solana Solana Miguel
Published: May 2018

Desmond, Matthew (2017)Desahuciadas. Pobreza y lucro en la ciudad del siglo XXITraducción de Enrique Maldonado Roldán, edición original en inglés 2016Madrid: Capitan Swing, 464 p.ISBN 978-84-946452-0-4