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Weed seed mortality in soils with contrasting agricultural management histories
Authors: Davis Adam S. , Anderson Kathleen I. , Hallett Steven G. , Renner Karen A.
Published: February 2017

It has been proposed that cropping systems can be managed to promote the development of soil microbial communities that accelerate weed seed mortality. We examined soil fungal and bacterial communities, soil C:N ratio, soil particle size fractions, and weed seed mortality in soil from fields with over 10 yr of five contrasting management histories with the objective of determining if seed mortality could be explained by differences in soil properties. Seed mortality of giant foxtail and velvetleaf were greatest in soil from the conventionally managed systems and lowest in soil from a reduced input system. Principal-components analysis of soil microbial communities, as determined through denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of polymerase chain reaction–amplified ribosomal RNA genes (PCR-DGGE), showed distinct differences in the composition of fungal and bacterial communities among the study soils. The first principal component of the 18S rDNA PCR-DGGE analysis of fungal community composition showed a strong negative correlation with both giant foxtail (− 0.52, P < 0.05) and velvetleaf (− 0.57, P < 0.01) seed mortality, as did ordination with nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMS) [giant foxtail (− 0.54, P < 0.01) and velvetleaf (− 0.60, P < 0.01)], suggesting that seeds of the two species were affected similarly by changes in the soil fungal community. For giant foxtail, weed seed mortality was also positively correlated (r = 0.48, P < 0.05) with the first NMS axis of the bacterial 16S rDNA analysis. None of the other measured soil properties were significantly correlated with weed seed mortality. Thus, for the soils tested here, management history, microbial community composition, and weed seed mortality were linked. To extend these results to the field, more work is needed to identify components of the fungal and bacterial communities that are active in seed degradation, and to develop conservation biocontrol recommendations for these species.
Influence of environmental factors on slender amaranth (Amaranthus viridis) germination
Authors: Thomas Walter E. , Burke Ian C. , Spears Janet F. , Wilcut John W.
Published: February 2017

Germination response of slender amaranth to temperature, solution pH, moisture stress, and depth of emergence was evaluated under controlled environmental conditions. Results indicated that 30 C was the optimum constant temperature for germination. Germination of slender amaranth seed at 21 d was similar, with 35/25, 35/20, 30/25, and 30/20 alternating temperature regimes. As temperatures in alternating regimes increased, time to onset of germination decreased and rate of germination increased. Slender amaranth germination was greater with acidic than with basic pH conditions. Germination declined with increasing water stress and was completely inhibited at water potentials below −0.6 MPa. Slender amaranth emergence was greatest at depths of 0.5 to 2 cm, but some seeds emerged from as deep as 6 cm. Information gained in this study will contribute to an integrated control program for slender amaranth.
How Mariama Bâ Became World Literature: Translation and the Legibility of Feminist Critique
Authors: Warner Tobias
Published: February 2017

How did Mariama Bâ‘s 1979 novel Une si longue lettre (So Long a Letter) become one of the most widely read, taught, and translated African texts of the twentieth century? This essay traces how the Senegalese author's work became recognizable to a global audience as an attack on polygamy and a celebration of literary culture. I explore the flaws in these two conceptions of the novel, and I recover aspects of the text that were obscured along the way—especially the novel's critique of efforts to reform the legal framework of marriage in Senegal. I also compare striking shifts that occur in two key translations: the English edition that helped catalyze Bâ‘s success and a more recent translation into Wolof, the most widely spoken language in Senegal. By reading Letter back through these translations, I reposition it as a text that highlights its distance from an audience and transforms this distance into an animating contradiction.
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Authors: Elhariry Yasser
Published: February 2017

This essay argues that there remains a far way to go before the translingual complexities of contemporaryfrancophone poetry are exhausted. It introduces a new, different constellation of international poets, essayists, and translators to bear on the question of language choice as a means of creative expression. Building on the debates overfranco-Arabic textual bilingualism that began in the 1980s, it presents close readings of translations by Salah Stétié and of original poetic compositions by Ryoko Sekiguchi. Two translational moments that foil, infrench script, a deeper Arabic intertext show how literature and criticism work in multilingual situations, as they transform literary language through the aspiration of a single phonemic consonant—f.
Regionalizing the Planet: Horizons of the Introverted Novel at World Literature's End
Authors: Eggan Taylor A.
Published: February 2017

“World literature” will always fail because there is no such thing astheworld. I draw on speculative realism to elaborate how all formations of a single world literature stem from problematic world concepts (particularly “the globe”) that write certain literary traditions out of the world. Using Gayatri Spivak's concept of the planetary, I move toward a mode of reading that attends to how individual texts regionalize the planet vis-à-vis their own centers of production. Instead of imagining a single world sectioned into center and periphery, this method recognizes that, far from dwelling on their own marginalization within the global economy, all localities (and literatures) posit themselves as center and regionalize outward from this center. Reading for regionalization pluralizes the possibilities of literary worlding. This practice requires us to understand and to honor the formal character of introversion, which I theorize through the case of the Swahili novel.
Language, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Literary Taxonomy: Ng Kim Chew and Mahua Literature
Authors: Rojas Carlos
Published: February 2017

Through an examination of short stories from the Malaysian Chinese author Ng Kim Chew's 2001 collectionFrom Island to Island, this essay reflects on the taxonomic functions of criteria such as language, ethnicity, and nationality, particularly as they inform contemporary discussions of Chinese, Sinophone, and Mahua (Malaysian Chinese) literature. Several of Ng's stories are set on remote islands and feature individuals who, having been forcibly separated from their original linguistic or social environment, offer a vehicle for reflecting on some of the consequences of literary taxonomies that arbitrarily prioritize one criterion (such as language or nationality) over others. Drawing on Wittgenstein's notion of family resemblance, the essay proposes a taxonomic system that does not rely on a single criterion but rather attends to the dynamic interaction among a variety of criteria. The resulting model is used to interrogate the naturalized conception of the family on which Wittgenstein relies.
Unsettling World Literature
Authors: Brickhouse Anna
Published: February 2017

Simultaneous But Distant Events in Collision: In 1981, New York University (NYU) Celebrated the 150th Anniversary of its founding with a series of notable speakers and events; in rural Guatemala that year, the military began to carry out a policy of genocide against the Mayan Indians. In New York, the much-awaited English translation of Roland Barthes's treatise on photography,La chambre claire, appeared asCamera Lucida;in Nicaragua, the CIA-backed contras waged war on the Sandinista government, which had passed the Agrarian Reform Law to redistribute land to thecampesinoswho labored on it. In the United States, leading physicists announced advances “toward a unified theory”: “an integral work of art” made up of “threads in a tapestry,” a scientific weaving with the almost phantasmagorical ability to replace all “the confusion of the past” with “a simple and elegant theory” (Glashow 494-95). Abroad, magical realism officially became what Homi Bhabha would later call “the literary language of the emergent post-colonial world” (7). An example of the genre,Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie, won the Booker Prize. In the United States, magical realism came to stand, “as surely as Carmen Miranda's fruity cornucopias,” for a reified, homogeneous, and consumable “Latin America” (Molloy 374) and served as Latin America's new entrée into the exclusive party held by comparative literature. Gabriel García Márquez received the Nobel the following year.
World Literature, by Any Other Name?
Authors: Radhakrishnan Rajagopalan
Published: February 2017

There is a “World” of Difference Between the Benign Descriptive Tautology of the Phrase World Literature When it is Used to indicate, with its phenomenological innocence, literature from a variety of sites and in various languages and the same phrase when it is used to indicate a unitary mode. I distinguish between these concepts by placing quotation marks around the phrase when the second sense is meant. “World literature” indeed results from an act of ideological and hegemonic production: it is a tendentious, normative category with all the magisterial and juridical authority of a taxonomic rubric. In a classic Althusserian sense, the phrase, in quotation marks, actively interpellates the world and the world responds to the ideological hail. In so doing the world constitutes itself epistemologically as certain and determinate. The hail privileges and exemplifies a particular configuration of the world, inevitably alienating and “othering” the possibility of infinite alternative configurations and constellations as various and protean as the world itself. The crucial difference is that until the moment of the hail, world literature just “was,” doing its thing expressively, speaking profusely and in polyglot chaos and richness without necessarily speaking for itself in a unitary, prescriptive, representational, and representative mode. To put it simply, every literature in the world was in the world, and this fact needed no reiteration, no self-conscious validation. Where else would anything or any literature be except in the world? Why not just let world literature be in its various sites, languages, and configurations?
Literatures of the World: An Inquiry
Authors: Shankar S.
Published: February 2017

The Number of Conferences, Books, Essays, and Anthologies Dedicated to the Topic of World Literature Amply Testifies to a growing interest in the subject among literary scholars. In one sense, this interest within literary studies is perfectly comprehensible. It corresponds to a profound sense of a shrinking globe in which once-distant cultures are put in ever-closer proximity. The thinking goes something like this: if the world is becoming one, mustn't the literature of that world, too? In essence, the idea of world literature is the affirmative answer to some such commonsensical question, never mind that all the evidence points to a more complicated reality. Despite all the falling walls and speeding planes and globally communicating technologies (which doubtless do shrink distances), the world does not seem to be becoming one and indeed remains as complexly riven today as it ever was. There is no need to rehash the multiple genealogies—most often traced back to Goethe through René Wellek, Erich Auerbach, and Karl Marx, sometimes with a brief detour to Rabindranath Tagore—that underlie contemporary notions of world literature. The books, essays, and anthologies I allude to above sufficiently provide these genealogies. I have written elsewhere about my skepticism regarding the intellectual and political viability of the world literature project, suggesting that the notion of world literature always, and to little advantage, produces a fixed notion of the world (Flesh xvii, 124-36). In contemporary versions of the world literature project, the world becomes a reductive enumeration of cultures that have produced “masterpieces,” or “great works,” deemed good enough to enter a global canon. I am mainly skeptical of the idea of world literature because of this reductive impulse: I don't believe the idea can ever avoid a problematic diminution of the world or of the literary work.
Literary Debt
Authors: Freedgood Elaine
Published: February 2017

Postcolonial Publishing and Indigenous Publishing, like Hegel's Africa, are Often Imagined to be Without a History. Indeed, in A Companion to the History of the Book, published by Wiley Blackwell in 2009 and heralded by Adrian Johns as particularly exemplary in that the editors “take the term book in a broad sense to include not only codex volumes and scrolls, but also periodicals, ephemera, and even ancient Babylonian clay tablets” (Review of Companion 782), no region of the global South gets a chapter to itself, and Africa gets only two entries in the index: in a one-sentence remark about Middle Eastern and North African Islamic book production before 1100 and in a parenthetical reference to slavery in a chapter on libraries that mentions colonization. Johns himself has written a huge work on “the book”—that is, about early modern Britain (Nature). In David Finkelstein and Alistair MacCleery's recently reprinted An Introduction to Book History, “the book” is unapologetically introduced as a Western form: the introduction makes it clear that the topic of the volume is overwhelmingly “Western European traditions of social communication through writing …” (30). The definite article is fearless in book history and occludes the history and travels of the book elsewhere, reinstalling it, time after time, in the North Atlantic regions that seem to be its natural habitat.
Talking French
Authors: Prince Gerald
Published: February 2017

I Am Not Particularly Sensitive to Space and Location, Except When it Comes to Real Estate. Still, I Cannot Help But Notice their increased importance in the human sciences: philosophers evoke heterotopies and dream of geophilosophy, historians explorelieux de mémoire(“sites of memory”), and distant reading or surface reading competes with close reading. It is as if to the end of history there corresponded a beginning of geography, and some scholars, like Michel Collot, have even spoken of a spatial turn (15).

In teaching and studying French literature, which I have been doing for a long time, geographic forces have always had a significant role, because of the distance between France and the United States and because of the global situation of the two countries. That the distance has become less daunting in the past fifty or sixty years has led to more scholarly exchanges, smoother collaborations, easier access to subjects or objects, and the study of the literaryextrême contemporain(“extremely contemporary”), say, or that of modern popular literature is now less problematic. As for the global situation, there has been a French loss and an American gain of cultural power, with less United States attention paid to French cultural products. This relative disaffection permeates many texts. I remember quite well how Donald Morrison buried French culture (Morrison and Compagnon), and I will not forget that Mark Bittman even argued in theNew York Timesthat one ate better in London than in Paris. Across the ocean too, there was concern. As early as the 1990s, Jean-Marie Domenach deplored the twilight of French civilization. A few years later, Nicolas Baverez described a falling France.
Phenomenology of Passage
Authors: Alexander Meena
Published: February 2017

In Dictee Theresa Cha, a Korean American Writer Who Died Tragically at the Age of Thirty-One, Shows Us How Dwelling in language can lead us to the truth of a radical instability. On the first page, she sets blocks of text in French and English one above the other, spelling out the terms for spacing and punctuation that a child might not understand. The English paragraph reads:

Open paragraph It was the first day period She had come from a far period tonight at dinner comma the families would ask comma open quotation marks How was the first day interrogation mark close quotation marks… . (1)
Teaching Literature under the Volcano
Authors: Nair María Anaya-Ferreira
Published: February 2017

I Have Been Teaching Literatures in English for Over Twenty-Five Years at the Universidad Nacional AutóNoma de México (Unam), Mexico's national university, where I received my undergraduate degree. My formative years were marked, undoubtedly, by the universalist ideal that defines the motto of the university, “Por mi raza hablará el espíritu” (“The spirit will speak on behalf of my race”). I cannot recall whether I was aware of the motto's real meaning, or of its cultural and social implications, but I suppose I took for granted that what I was taught as a student was as much part of a Mexican culture as it was of a “universal” one. Reading English literature at the department of modern languages and literatures in the late 1970s meant that I was exposed to a canonical view of literature shaped as much by The Oxford Anthology of English Literature and by our lecturers' (primarily) aesthetic approach to it as by the idea of “universal” literature conveyed in the textbooks for elementary and secondary education in Mexico. This conviction that as a Mexican I belonged to “Western” civilization greatly diminished when in the early 1980s I traveled to London for graduate studies and was almost shattered by the attitudes I encountered while conducting my doctoral research on the image of Latin America in British fiction. I was often asked whether I had ever seen a car (let alone ridden in one), or if there was electricity in my country, and the ambivalent, mostly negative, view of Latin Americans and Mexicans in what I read (authors like Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, and Aldous Huxley, as well as more than three hundred adventure novels set in the continent) forced me to question the idea that one ought to read literature merely for the enjoyment (and admiration) of it or to analyze it with assumptions that fall roughly in the category of “expressive,” or “mimetic,” criticism, which was common in those days and often took the form of monographic studies, which relied heavily on paraphrase.
Personal Reflections on Teaching Literature
Authors: Kiguli Susan Nalugwa
Published: February 2017

In An Essay Titled “The Future of Criticism,” Edward W. Said Made a Remark That I First Took to Be a Platitude: “Criticism exists only because critics practice it. It is neither an institution nor, strictly speaking, a discipline” (165). On further thought, I began to see the strength of this assertion and the implication that practices cultivate continuity and certain ways of seeing. People are in many ways products of their historical and cultural contexts. For example, while I initially resisted starting my reflections on teaching literature by discussing how I was taught the subject in my early years, I know that my story will be incomplete if I do not at least devote a paragraph or two to that experience.
The Land without the Canon Wars: Language, Literature, and New Freedoms in Myanmar
Authors: Levin Amy K.
Published: February 2017

Landing in Yangon (Formerly Rangoon) in February 2013, Less Than Three Months After President Barack Obama's Historic trip to Myanmar (Burma), I wondered what I would encounter. Serving as the first Fulbright specialist at a Myanmar public university in thirty years forced me to alter my approach to teaching the literature of the United States that appeared during the time Myanmar isolated itself. It also compelled me to reconsider the relations among literature, human rights, and language. Locals who taught literature of the United States and Britain never experienced the “culture wars” of the 1980s and the expansion of the literary canon. Keats was on the syllabus in every undergraduate English course, while African American authors were absent, and some of my students were surprised that Americans no longer enslave Africans.
The Nairobi Tradition of Literature
Authors: Siundu Godwin
Published: February 2017

I Have Taught Literature at the University Of Nairobi Since 2009. Previously, I Taught at Masinde Muliro University and at Moi University. From my experience at the three universities, I can trace, in hindsight, two dominant influences on my knowledge of literature and expectations of how it ought to be conceived and taught. First is my graduate training at Moi University, in Kenya, and at the University of the Witwatersrand, in South Africa, where I was encouraged to see literature as a broad discipline that speaks to others in the humanities and in the social and natural sciences in terms of concerns, research methodology, and, especially, analytic tools. The second influence is the academic composition and orientation of the literature departments, as shaped by the politics of development. In the face of two competing forces—on the one hand, the Kenyan government and its preoccupation with development as an ideal and a pretext for de-emphasizing the teaching of some humanities disciplines and, on the other, the neoliberal political economy that gave rise to nongovernmental organizations' setting the scholarship research agenda in Kenya—literary academics seemed to be torn three ways: using the discipline and their knowledge of it to position themselves for government appointments, pursuing nongovernmental-organizations-funded research, or continuing to teach literature in the ways that they know. Those who chose the third option were also equipped with an institutional memory of the discipline as they were taught, the department, and its practices. Because, of these three groups, I have interacted the most with members of the third, my reflections here focus on them exclusively.
A Bicultural Education
Authors: Williams Mark
Published: February 2017

In 1995 I Taught a Course in New Zealand Literature at Tokyo University. The Students Were Attentive, and Curious About New Zealand, but they found my Kiwi English hard to follow, being accustomed to American or British varieties. I wondered about their seeming tolerance recently while teaching a similar course to undergraduates back home, at Victoria University, in Wellington, when one of the Maori students complimented a Pākehā (New Zealand European) colleague for her Maori pronunciation. Like most Pākehā, I have a rudimentary grasp of Māori, enough to be familiar with the words and phrases that have entered everyday speech and those in the poetry and fiction I teach. But I cannot conduct a conversation in Māori or read a Māori text, and I am as embarrassed by the irritation that my pronunciation of te reo (the Māori language) causes Māori speakers as I was by the difficulty my rising terminals and strange accent posed for competent English speakers in Japan.
Effective beam width of reinforced-concrete wide beam–column connections
Authors: Kuang J. S. , Behnam Hamdolah , Huang Qunxian
Published: February 2017

The reinforced-concrete wide-beam floor system is recognised as one of the most efficient beam-and-slab floor systems in buildings. However, potential advantages of the system as a lateral load-resisting structure are often ignored due to a lack of understanding of the seismic behaviour of wide beam–column connections. Design codes prescribe beam width limitations to minimise the shear lag effect on the formation of full-width plastic hinges and achieving the expected capacity. However, owing to insufficient experimental and analytical studies, empirical design formulas for the beam width limitation, with remarkably different results, have been implemented in different design codes. In this paper, parametric studies of the influence of key parameters on the behaviour of wide beam–column connections are conducted based on available test results. An effective beam-width model is analytically developed using the equivalent-frame representation, where the effects of torsion of transverse beams and flexure around the joint core are considered. The validity of the model is verified using flexural strengths of test specimens, covering a wide range of design parameters. Combining the proposed effective beam-width model and the rational analytical approach, a simple and efficient, yet accurate, design formula is presented for determining the beam width limitation of wide beam–column connections.
Variables demográficas y engrandecimiento marital en Monterrey, México
Authors: Moral de la Rubia José
Published: February 2017

Introducción: el engrandecimiento marital es una tendencia a idealizar a la pareja. Se considera un rasgo funcional correlacionado con la satisfacción con la relación. Existe una escala para su evaluación creada en Canadá (18 ítems) y adaptada en México (14 ítems), pero no está baremada. Objetivos: 1) describir la distribución de la Escala de Engrandecimiento Marital en su formato original de 18 ítems dicotomizados (EEM) y en su versión de 14 ítems ordinales (EEM14), a fin de comprobar cuál se adapta mejor a un concepto de rasgo funcional; y 2) estudiar la relación de la EEM y la EEM14 con variables sociodemográficas y de religiosidad (convicción y práctica), a fin de comprobar la sustantividad de estos correlatos al controlar el efecto de la satisfacción con la relación. Metodología: se aplicó la eem, la Escala de Valoración de la Relación (RAS) y un cuestionario de datos sociodemográficos a 431 mujeres y 376 hombres casados o en unión libre de Monterrey, México. Se usó un muestreo probabilístico de rutas aleatorias. Resultados: la EEM mostró desviación de la normalidad con asimetría positiva y perfil aplanado. La EEM14 mostró ligera desviación de la normalidad con ligera asimetría negativa y perfil mesocúrtico. La EEM y la EEM14 fueron independientes o presentaron asociaciones bajas con las variables sociodemográficas y de religiosidad. Solo las correlaciones con religiosidad fueron significativas y no triviales tras parcializar el efecto de la satisfacción con la relación (RAS). Conclusiones: la distribución de la eem14 es más congruente con el concepto de rasgo funcional que pretende medir y no requiere baremos diferenciales por variables sociodemográficas.
Confiabilidad y validez de un instrumento que mide siete dimensiones de la percepción de seguridad en estudiantes de una universidad pública
Authors: Carreón-Guillén Javier , García-Lirios Cruz , Vilchis-Mora Felipe de Jesús , Martínez-Bello Joel , Sánchez-Rosales Rigoberto , Quintana-Alonso Lorena Damaris
Published: February 2017

Introducción: la administración de seguridad pública supone la instrumentación de políticas públicas que justifican la rectoría del Estado en la prevención del delito y la impartición de justicia. Sin embargo, la desconfianza ciudadana hacia la acción gubernamental se evidencia por una creciente percepción de inseguridad reportada por la literatura en siete dimensiones: territorial, nacional, pública, humana, ciudadana, privada e internauta. Objetivo: establecer la confiabilidad y la validez de un instrumento que mide la percepción de seguridad territorial, nacional, pública, humana, ciudadana, privada e internauta. Método: estudio no experimental, transversal y exploratorio con una selección no probabilística de 320 estudiantes de una universidad pública. Resultados: la confiabilidad de la escala general (alfa = 0,793) y de las subescalas territorial (alfa = 0,792), nacional (alfa = 0,709), pública (alfa = 0,785), humana (alfa = 0,782), ciudadana (alfa = 0,792), privada (alfa = 0,794) e internauta (alfa = 0,731) evidencian una consistencia interna suficiente. El factor de seguridad territorial explicó el 22% de la varianza total. A partir deparámetros de ajuste y residual ⌠χ2 = 135,34 (32gl) p = 0,054; GFI = 0,995; CFI = 0,990; RMSEA = 0,003⌡, se aceptó la hipótesis nula de relación significativa entre las dimensiones de seguridad teóricas con respecto a los factores ponderados. Conclusiones: la inclusión y medición de una dimensión de percepción de autocontrol que correlacionaría negativa y significativamente con la percepción de seguridad territorial explicaría la estructura factorial de la escala. Tal modelo se estimaría con un análisis factorial confirmatorio con mínimos cuadrados no ponderados.
P300 as an auxiliary method in clinical practice: A review of literature
Authors: Titlic Marina , Mihalj Mario , Beganovic Petrovic Amira , Suljic Enra
Published: February 2017

Cognitive functions can be assessed and followed up over a period of time with cognitive evoked potentials (CEP) P300. In this context, brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEP) are most commonly used, but visual evoked potentials (VEP) are utilized as well. The research in this area has demonstrated that these techniques could be used as a supplemental method in diagnostics of numerous diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, vascular dementia, epilepsy, craniocerebral trauma, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, and other degenerative diseases. In addition, P300 can also be used as an auxiliary method in the diagnostics of mental disorders conditions such as schizophrenia, panic disorders, narcotic drug addiction, nicotinism, alcoholism, etc. The method assists in monitoring the course of diseases leading to encephalopathy, such as liver and kidney damage and grave anaemia. The advantages of P300 testing are easy application, non-invasiveness, and an unlimited number of potential applications. Moreover, the results obtained with this method are measurable and can be compared.
Screening needs and expectations of patients with vascular access due to chronic hemodialysis
Authors: Carli Tanja , Pintar Tadeja , Godnov Uroš
Published: February 2017

There is a lack of data about daily difficulties and life quality, especially among young patients having arteriovenous fistula (AVF) affected by (pseudo)aneurysm. In this retrospective cohort study, 195 patients with AVF were followed up from May to June 2015. An unstandardized questionnaire was used for the evaluation of patients’ screening needs and expectations. Retired married men in their sixties, with completed secondary education, represented the majority of patients with AVF in this study. The patients had a positive attitude towards the disease and AVF, and they received the majority of information related to the care and treatment of AVF from the medical personnel and doctors in selected dialysis centers. Employed, well-educated single men, aged between 21 and 40 years, had the highest interest in having an aesthetic correction of AVF, especially due to the formation of (pseudo)aneurysm at the AVF site. Establishment of rules for reconstructive procedures of AVF, once circulatory and hemodynamic stability is achieved after renal transplantation, is suggested in addition to establishing criteria for determining vascular access affected by (pseudo)aneurysm.
LAS PRINCIPALES RAZONES DE LA ADOPCIÓN DE LA RESPONSABILIDAD SOCIAL CORPORATIVA EN LOS ESTABLECIMIENTOS HOTELEROS
Authors: Palacios Florencio Beatriz , Rosa Díaz Isabel María , Castellanos Verdugo Mario
Published: February 2017

La sociedad actual demanda que las organizaciones y compañías reconozcan su capacidad de ocasionar serios impactos negativos sobre el medio, en sus dimensiones social, medioambiental y económica. El presente trabajo analiza el cambio de la cultura organizativa de los directores de los establecimientos hoteleros frente a las exigencias dela Responsabilidad SocialCorporativa (RSC). El análisis factorial desarrollado representa la metodología estadística adecuada para extraer los principales motivos y razones de la adopción dela RSCen los hoteles, así como para apoyar la toma de decisiones en dicho contexto. Del estudio se deriva la importancia de invertir en acciones de RSC para incrementar la probabilidad de que una experiencia de servicio del cliente se transforme en un resultado positivo. ABSTRACTToday's society demands that organizations and companies recognize their ability to cause serious negative environmental impacts in their slopes social, natural and economic. This paper analyzes the organizational culture change of managers of hotel that establishments meet the requirements of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Factor Analysis provides the statistical methodology to adequately extract the main motives and reasons for the adoption of CSR in the hotels. The study derives the importance of investing in CR activities to increase the probability that a customer service experience becomes a positive result.
MOTIVACIONES PARA ACCIONES DE RSE EN RESORTS EN BRASIL
Authors: Souza Claudio Alexandre , Rodrigues Soares Jakson Renner , Sánchez-Fernández María Dolores
Published: February 2017

El objetivo de este artículo es presentar un estudio sobre las motivaciones que impulsan a un resort a implementar acciones de responsabilidad social empresarial (RSE), teniendo como base las variables del entorno, los stakeholders y las dimensiones de la sostenibilidad. Este trabajo es el resultado de una investigación bibliográfica procedente de la revisión de artículos y bibliografía sobre los resorts y RSE, principalmente en lo que se refiere a sus respectivas motivaciones. Para la sistematización de este estudio se creó y se utilizó la Matriz de Análisis de la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (MARSE) integrando las variables del entorno utilizadas en esta investigación. Los resultados evidencian motivaciones sistematizadas, pero estas se comportan de manera única debido a la singularidad del producto turístico resorts y a la amplitud de relaciones sociales que los mismos poseen con sus respectivos stakeholders. Tanto la MARSE, creada para este estudio, como las conclusiones obtenidas, sirven como referencia para la realización de futuros estudios empíricos acerca de las motivaciones de la implementación de la RSE en resorts. La MARSE puede ser considerada como una forma original de analizar el área RSE, debido a la posibilidad de sistematización.ABSTRACTThe purpose of the article is to present a theoretical essay about the motivations that drive a resort the achievements actions of corporate social responsibility, based on environment variables, stakeholders and dimensions of sustainability. This theoretical essay is the result of bibliographic research in journals and bibliographies on resorts and corporate social responsibility, especially regarding their respective motivations. To systematize this test was created and used the Corporate Social Responsibility Analysis Matrix (MARSE) integrating the variables analyzed in this study. The theoretical results are taken by reference motivations already systematized, however they behave in a unique way in this study by the tourism product uniqueness resorts and the extent of social relations that they have towards their respective stakeholders. Both MARSE created for this study, as the conclusions serve as a reference for future specific and empirical studies on CSR motivations resorts. The MARSE can be considered as a unique way to carry out analyzes in the CSR area, it enables the systematic.
Formação continuada de professores do ensino fundamental: um desafio criativo na contemporaneidade
Authors: Morais Maria José da Silva , Pinho Maria José de
Published: February 2017

Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar a formação continuada dos professores do ensino fundamental da Escola Municipal de Tempo Integral Daniel Batista a partir dos indicadores do Instrumento de Identificação do Desenvolvimento Criativo de Instituições de Ensino (Vadecrie). O referencial metodológico apoiou-se na abordagem de natureza qualitativa exploratória e no estudo de caso e utilizou como procedimentos de coleta de dados a pesquisa documental, a observação direta em campo ─ apoiada no uso do questionário Vadecrie ─ e as entrevistas semiestruturadas. As bases teóricas sobre criatividade revelam a necessidade de essa temática ser assumida a priori na educação, principalmente pelos professores, para haver mudanças no pensar, no dimensionar, no compreender e no interpretar a realidade em que se vive. O desafio que se coloca é que a formação não se restrinja apenas a ofertas pontuais ou a exigências operativas da Secretaria da Educação, mas sim aconteça no espaço escolar para os professores, no intuito da transformação permanente das práticas educativas. Os dados revelam que a formação continuada da Daniel Batista ocorre a partir das necessidas da instituição, sendo os professores protagonistas de sua formação. Portanto, esses resultados possibilitam à instituição aperfeiçoar suas potencialidades, bem como superar suas adversidades. Conclui-se que a formação continuada no âmbito escolar é parte viva do projeto educativo dessa Unidade de Ensino. Esta possui indícios de criatividade ao oportunizar um constante planejar e ressignificar de suas necessidades formativas, manifestando forte presença dos indicadores: Liderança estimulante e criativa, Professorado criativo e Visão transdisciplinar e transformadora.
A proposta de reforma do ensino médio no estado da bahia nos anos 2000: o contexto de definição de textos
Authors: Eugênio Benedito Gonçalves
Published: February 2017

El artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación sobre la reforma curricular implementado para la educación secundaria en el estado de Bahía, en la gestión del gobernador Paulo Souto (2003-2006). Basándose en el modelo del ciclo de política propuesta por Ball, analizamos el contexto de la definición de los textos de la reforma de la educación secundaria de los documentos aportados por el Departamento de Educación del Estado. Los datos fueron construidas a través de una investigación etnográfica en una escuela pública. Para ello, se utilizó el análisis de documentos, observaciones de clase y entrevistas. Llegamos a la conclusión de que hay algunos elementos que caracterizan la política estudiada.
La construcción de escenarios de futuro como herramienta para la educación ambiental en Educación Secundaria Obligatoria
Authors: Ochando López Juan José , García Ferrandis Ignacio , García Gómez Javier
Published: February 2017

En el ámbito escolar se hace referencia al futuro profesional de los alumnos/as, sin embargo, no siempre se habilitan espacios para la reflexión sobre el futuro de una manera atractiva. La presente investigación pretende conocer en qué medida los alumnos de educación secundaria dejan patente lo aprendido en materia de Educación Ambiental parala Sostenibilidadmediante la reflexión y proyección de su propio futuro a travésla Construcciónde Escenarios de Futuro (C.E.F.).La C.E.F. puede servir para la reflexión de los alumnos sobre el futuro probable y el futuro deseable o posible, y tomen conciencia de su papel como parte activa en la construcción de ese futuro y la necesidad de su formación para ello. El instrumento de toma de datos fue la narrativa, con carácter de escrito de producción propia por parte de los alumnos. Con las respuestas de los alumnos se hizo un análisis de contenido para lo que se tomó como base la enumeración de términos propios a las temáticas curriculares en materia de educación ambiental.La C.E.F. puede ayudar a conocer lo que hasta el momento ha sido significativo y asimilado por el alumnado, además permite analizar y comprender los intereses, miedos, y fortalezas percibidas por ellos ante su futuro probable generado. A raíz del interés mostrado,la C.E.F. puede resultar una herramienta docente eficaz para la determinación y programación de Proyectos Ambientales interdisciplinares destinados a mejorar las condiciones de la realidad en la que los alumnos están viviendo.
Análisis del apoyo académico familiar en estudiantes de educación básica secundaria en instituciones educativas del municipio de Tuluá en Colombia
Authors: Castrillón Mosquera Reinaldo , Soriano Ferrer Manuel
Published: February 2017

La presente investigación tiene como objetivo analizar el apoyo académico familiar que reciben alumnos de educación básica secundaria de instituciones educativas ubicadas en Tuluá Colombia con la finalidad de determinar si existen diferencias entre el apoyo que reciben alumnos con buen rendimiento académico y el apoyo que reciben alumnos con bajo rendimiento. Para la investigación se usó metodología descriptiva usando como muestra 608 estudiantes (304 hombres y 304 mujeres) con edades entre 11 y  16 años, matriculados en grados 6º, 7º, 8º y 9º de educación secundaria teniendo en cuenta al momento de la selección los resultados obtenidos en rendimiento en el periodo académico más reciente. Para la recolección de los datos se aplicó escala tipo Likert compuesta por 35 ítems con los que se buscó medir el nivel de percepción de los estudiantes en cuanto al apoyo académico brindado por los padres en aspectos como acompañamiento en la realización de tareas, comunicación con el centro escolar,  fijación de normas, motivación e interés a las situaciones propias del entorno. El 97% de los estudiantes segmentados en el grupo de bajo rendimiento considera que si los padres se involucraran más en los aspectos escolares, su rendimiento académico sería mejor. Yuxtapuesto a ello, el 100% de los estudiantes con buen rendimiento percibe como fundamental para los logros obtenidos el apoyo paternal recibido. El estudio permite concluir que el apoyo académico familiar en cabeza de los padres, influye de forma positiva y directa en el rendimiento académico de estudiantes en educación básica secundaria.
Variação no uso de conectores sequenciadores temporais em gêneros textuais narrativos produzidos em entrevistas sociolinguísticas
Authors: Tavares Maria Alice
Published: February 2017

Este texto apresenta uma análise de uma variável discursiva, a sequenciação temporal de eventos, tomando como formas variantes os conectores e, aí e então. Os dados foram extraídos de narrativas de experiência pessoal e narrativas habituais produzidas em 24 entrevistas sociolinguísticas do banco de dados VARSUL, de Florianópolis (SC). O objetivo deste estudo é averiguar se esses gêneros narrativos, que podem ser diferenciados estilisticamente, influenciam o uso dos conectores e, aí e então. Os resultados mostram que aí, que tende a ser relacionado, pelos falantes, a contextos de interação informais, é favorecido na narrativa de experiência pessoal, um gênero que geralmente desperta maior envolvimento emocional e, assim, estimula a adoção de estilos informais. Em contraste, aí é desfavorecido na narrativa habitual, um gênero que tende a despertar menor envolvimento emocional, o que pode fazer com que o falante adote estilos menos informais. Os conectores e e então, estilisticamente neutros, são favorecidos na narrativa habitual. Este estudo trouxe evidências de que o controle de gêneros textuais pode ser bastante útil para a obtenção de conhecimentos mais acurados sobre a variação discursiva.
A prática lexicográfica e a equivalência no dicionário bilíngue
Authors: Budny ROSANA
Published: February 2017

Resumo: O artigo reflete sobre a prática lexicográfica e a problemática da equivalência em dicionários bilíngues, buscando, nos pressupostos teóricos da Lexicografia Bi/Interlíngue, embasamento para melhor entendimento da questão. O estudo objetiva dar a conhecer os vários tipos de correspondência que se podem almejar na tradução de unidades léxicas de uma língua A para uma língua B (WELKER, 2004; HARTMANN, 2007; WERNER; DURÃO, 2012) e apresentar algumas características vistas pelos olhares de disciplinas da Linguística Aplicada. Acredita-se que o artigo pode ajudar a esclarecer o assunto que, entre os estudiosos da área, está longe de um consenso. As reflexões conduzem a questão para o entendimento de que não se pode afirmar que haja uma correspondência total na Lexicografia Interlíngue, mas sim tipos diferenciados, quais sejam, equivalência estilística, pragmática, terminológica, metafórica, etimológica, entre outras.
Tributação Como Instrumento Protetor do Meio Ambiente
Authors: Fiorin Paulo Sérgio
Published: February 2017

O meio ambiente sofre com a ação humana e a situação pode piorar caso não haja intenso trabalho de conscientização. Eventos mundiais têm sido realizados com o intuito de aliar as nações à causa do meio ambiente. O Brasil, um dos países mais ricos em fauna e flora, tem se mostrado adepto de medidas de proteção ambiental, inclusive com incentivo fiscal à proteção ambiental por meio da tributação. O objetivo deste trabalho é verificar de que forma os tributos podem ser utilizados como instrumentos motivadores de diminuição do impacto ambiental, por meio de concessões estatais. Como recurso de pesquisa foi utilizado a pesquisa bibliográfica, com obras de Direito Tributário, Ambiental,Constitucional entre outros. Concluiu-se que a possibilidade de utilização de tributos como incentivo à proteção ambiental, inclusivecontribuição previdenciária (contribuição SAT), pode contribuir com a preservação do meio ambeinte, mas a maior dificuldade é quanto à conscientização das pessoas como um todo.
Análise do Processo de Terceirização de Pessoal Numa Instituição Federal de Ensino À Luz do Princípio Constitucional da Eficiência
Authors: Fernandes Claudio Roberto
Published: February 2017

A terceirização de serviços aparece como estratégia de desenvolvimento de muitas organizações públicas e privadas. O Campus Machado do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas Gerais (IFSULDEMINAS) terceiriza pessoal e por isso foi escolhido para ser analisado com o propósito de verificar se o princípio constitucional da eficiência é atendido quanto a terceirização de pessoal. Para tanto, empregou-se a abordagem qualitativa e quantitativa. Utilizou-se para a coleta de dados dois instrumentos: o primeiro com a diretora do departamento de administração e planejamento da instituição e o segundo com vinte e dois colaboradores cuja amostragem foi feita de forma intencional. Evidencia-se que a terceirização de pessoal, no IFSULDEMINAS Campus Machado, contribui e atende ao que apregoa o princípio constitucional da eficiência na administração pública, o que é corroborado tanto pela direção quanto pelos colaboradores.
Direito ao Esquecimento: Análise dos Casos Aída Curi e Chacina da Candelária
Authors: Barros Sergue Alberto Marques , Miyashiro Marcia Dos Santos Gomes , Botelho Tiago Resende
Published: February 2017

O presente artigo busca tratar do Direito ao Esquecimento e seus efeitos para com o cidadão, que procura se esquecer de algo que o constrange em sua história ou de algum antepassado, em contraponto, com o direito à informação, que guarnece a sociedade. Trata-se de direito da personalidade já reconhecido em alguns sistemas normativos estrangeiros, mas ainda não regulamentado pelo sistema normativo brasileiro. Ainda assim, o Superior Tribunal de Justiça foi instado a decidir sobre esta questão em duas oportunidades. Este ensaio não tenciona solver todas as soluções para a questão, mas tão somente uma forma de aclarar os pressupostos desse embate entre Direitos Humanos (Honra/Esquecimento versus Informação), como também os pressupostos, que motivaram ambas as decisões judiciais.
Prospecção de elementos formadores de atratividade turística no segmento de Turismo Cultural: Estudo de caso no Município de Campo Mourão – PR.
Authors: Monteiro Simone Vassallo
Published: February 2017

O objetivo deste trabalho é investigar elementos que possam integrar o segmento de Turismo Cultural no Município de Campo Mourão – PR. O Município em questão está localizado na Mesorregião Centro Ocidental do Paraná e na Microrregião de Campo Mourão, a  qual está integrada à Região Turística da Comunidade dos Municípios da Região de Campo Mourão – COMCAM. Trata-se de um trabalho de prospecção com o objetivo de acrescentar elementos que possam se somar aos atrativos turísticos do Município, objeto desta pesquisa. Este trabalho se constitui em estudo de caso e será empregado o método exploratório com abordagem qualitativa empregando a entrevista como técnica de pesquisa. Os dados serão tratados de forma analítica descritiva. Os resultados obtidos, até o momento são parciais.