bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Handicap : une identité entre-deux
Authors: Salbreux Roger
Published: November 2017

Constatant que les personnes handicapées ont de tout temps été ballotées entre exclusion et inclusion et le sont encore nonobstant des progrès indéniables, l’auteur se demande si cette oscillation séculaire ne nourrit pas la situation d’entre-deux qui caractérise précisément la situation de handicap et que, parmi d’autres, R F. Murphy a si bien mise en évidence sous le nom de liminalité. Plusieurs exemples de cet état de choses, pris dans l’actualité quotidienne, s’efforcent de démontrer cette hypothèse. Il s’agit de l’école, de l’exercice professionnel, de l’accessibilité de lieux et de l’autonomie des personnes. Dans chacun des exemples considérés, on note que l’inclusion n’est ni systématiquement mise en pratique, ni réellement effective et pire encore, qu’elle se fait parfois au détriment de l’enfant ou de la personne elle-même. La diffusion trop rapide et trop générale d’un concept à la mode aboutit à cette question posée par C. Gardou : ne peut-on suspecter l’inclusion « de n’être qu’un écran de fumée, une jonglerie rhétorique qui cache une réalité plus trompeuse que vertueuse » ? Dans la forme qu’elle prend actuellement, elle renforce en tout cas le sentiment d’entre-deux qui pèse si lourdement dans la souffrance des personnes handicapées.
Handicap : une identité entre-deux
Authors: Araneda Marco
Published: November 2017

Bien que d’un point de vue clinique et de recherche le domaine du traumatisme psychique signale aujourd’hui de façon très nette l’importance de distinguer les spécificités des traumatismes divers, certaines situations cliniques viennent contredire cette recommandation générale. Des sujets qui traversent des situations complexes établissent spontanément des ponts entre leur expérience personnelle et certains traumatismes dits « collectifs ». L’établissement de ces ponts fait partie du travail psychique d’élaboration de l’expérience traumatique. À travers l’étude de l’œuvre de Kenzaburô Ôé, nous avons exploré ce mouvement psychique où un traumatisme individuel (l’annonce d’une lésion cérébrale sévère chez son fils qui venait de naître) semble se loger dans un traumatisme collectif (l’expérience des survivants d’Hiroshima). Nous avons constaté comment le traumatisme collectif semble jouer ici un rôle important en tant que territoire qui reflète l’état psychique de sidération du sujet confronté à une expérience intime bouleversante. En même temps, ce traumatisme collectif semble permettre au sujet d’aborder, en diagonale et dans l’opacité, des aspects propres à son expérience présente et à la possibilité d’un avenir à créer. Mais le « traumatisme collectif » se trouve lui aussi transformé puisque le travail d’Ôé a permis une réflexion autour des survivants de la catastrophe collective et une reconnaissance sociale de leur situation.
Handicap : une identité entre-deux
Authors: Missonnier Sylvain
Published: November 2017

La genèse du mot fœtus est d’emblée l’illustration de sa consubstantielle liminarité : entre mammifère animal et humain potentiel, son dynamisme interne est indissociable de l’espace-temps des lisières. Paradoxalement, rappel angoissant d’un commencement sauvage, informe et fragile mais aussi incarnation emblématique de la créativité du travail d’humanisation, le fœtus est un champion de l’entre-deux. L’invention du fœtus moderne, son exposition publique avec un néo-statut de patient du diagnostic anténatal, n’éradique en rien son « inquiétante étrangeté ». Bien au contraire, la menace d’emprise scientiste sur le fœtus met en exergue sa précarité ontologique et les tourments de ses concepteurs et soignants face à l’incertitude de son devenir. De cette empreinte fœtale inaugurale première, que peut faire l’humain ? Aux extrêmes, deux options contrastées s’opposent : d’un côté, celle – la plus communément répandue – du refoulement, de la projection agressive, de la stratégie défensive phobique… et, de l’autre, celle de l’élaboration après coup de cette néoténie, certes narcissiquement dérangeante, mais au fond véritable source de notre créativité intersubjective. C’est dans cette seconde perspective que nos représentations du fœtus et nos rapports quotidiens avec la condition fœtale constituent une excellente voie d’accès à l’élaboration de notre liminarité anthropologique en général et, en particulier, avec les personnes vivant avec un handicap.
De « créatures du gouvernement » à « gouvernements de proximité » : la trajectoire sinueuse des municipalités québécoises
Authors: Mévellec Anne , Chiasson Guy , Fournis Yann
Published: November 2017

Résumé Les municipalités canadiennes sont traditionnellement considérées comme des créatures des provinces. Or au Québec, elles viennent d’être reconnues comme des gouvernements de proximité. Cette réforme de 2017 apporte une réponse originale à l’enjeu de la fragmentation municipale québécoise. Elle confirme non seulement le primat accordé au « palier » municipal, mais aussi l’abandon d’un modèle régional partenarial qui faisait office d’exception dans le contexte canadien. En outre, elle ajoute un nouvel épisode légal et financier dans les relations complexes qu’entretiennent le gouvernement provincial et les municipalités, dont les grandes villes et leurs élus seront les principaux bénéficiaires.
A Qualitative Analysis of Metacognition in Simulation
Authors: Josephsen Jayne M.
Published: November 2017

Background:

Metacognition enables understanding, analysis, and regulation of one's cognition when engaged in learning. Metacognition, epistemic questioning, and self-regulated learning are foundational to the development of critical reasoning and self-reflective practice.

Method:

This pilot qualitative study used observations and interviews to identify metacognitive strategies used by a convenience sample of nursing students prior to and during simulation and debriefing. Metacognitive taxonomies were used to code the observations and interviews.

Results:

Coding evaluation identified that although students participated in some types of metacognition during simulation and debriefing, they did not engage in the complete metacognitive trajectory necessary for self-regulated learning.

Conclusion:

Simulation design lends itself to the use of metacognitive strategies. Students would benefit from these strategies being implemented throughout prebriefing, simulation, and debriefing. Further research is needed concerning strategies to increase metacognition in simulation and debriefing and whether prior student training in metacognitive skills affects simulation and debriefing learning outcomes. [
J Nurs Educ.
2017;56(11):675–678.]
Learning About End-of-Life Care in Nursing—A Global Classroom Educational Innovation
Authors: Bailey Cara , Hewison Alistair , Orr Shelly , Baernholdt Marianne
Published: November 2017

Background:

Teaching nursing students how to provide patient-centered end-of-life care is important and challenging. As traditional face-to-face classroom teaching is increasingly supplanted by digital technology, this provides opportunities for developing new forms of end-of-life care education. The aim of this article is to examine how a global classroom was developed using online technology to enhance nursing students' learning of end-of-life care in England and the United States.

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The PDSA (
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The global classroom enhanced the educational experience for students. Teaching needs to be inclusive, focused, and engaging; the virtual platform must be stable and support individual learning, and learning needs to be collaborative and authentic.

Conclusion:

These findings can be used to inform the integration of similar approaches to end-of-life care education in other health care professional preparation programs. [
J Nurs Educ.
2017;56(11):688–691.]
A NONINVASIVE METHOD TO EVALUATE THE DEGREE OF UPPER AIRWAY STENOSIS
Authors: Liang Jiuxing , Su Steven , Zhang Xiangmin , Li Lala , Luo Yuxi
Published: November 2017

Purpose: This paper presented a new approach to noninvasively evaluate the upper airway stenosis for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) patients. Methods: In the proposed method, thoracic and abdominal movements were selected to calculate the respiratory movement (RM) and to indicate the change of lung volume. Due to the cumulative effect of thermal sensor, the oronasal-thermistor signal (T_flow) is applied to estimate the air mass change in lung. Based on the mathematical relationship, the “RM–T_flow curves”, drawn by RM and T_flow, together with the correlation coefficients ([Formula: see text] were used to analyze the upper airway stenosis. Results: This method was verified through portable monitoring (PM) based experiments, and numerical analysis of the polysomnography (PSG) data from 20 OSAS patients and 15 non-OSAS controls. Our results indicate the [Formula: see text] values decrease with the narrowing of the upper airway. At each sleep stage, the [Formula: see text] mean values of OSAS subjects are significantly ([Formula: see text]) smaller than those of the controls. These facts demonstrate that the [Formula: see text] value can be used to quantify the upper airway stenosis and the analysis of “RM–T_flow curves” is an efficient way to assess upper airway condition associated with the breathing phase. Conclusions: As this method can be used in spontaneous sleep and home sleep testing, we believe it will benefit the popularity of the diagnosis and evaluation of OSAS.
MAMMOGRAM COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES USING HAAR WAVELET AND QUADTREE DECOMPOSITION-BASED IMAGE ENHANCEMENT
Authors: Mohamed Basma A. , Afify Heba M.
Published: November 2017

Biomedical image compression plays an important role in the medical field. Mammograms are medical images used in the early detection of breast cancer. Mammogram image compression is a challenging task because these images contain information that occupies huge size for storage. The aim of image compression is to reduce the image size and the time taken for recovering the original image without any loss. In this paper, two different techniques of mammogram compression are introduced. The proposed algorithm includes two main steps. First, a preprocessing step is applied to enhance the image, and then a compression algorithm is applied to the enhanced image. The algorithm is tested using 322 mammogram images from the online MIAS database. Three parameters are used to evaluate the performance of the compression techniques; compression ratio (CR), Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and processing time.

According to the results, Haar wavelet-based compression for enhanced images is better in terms of CR of 26.25% and PSNR of 47.27[Formula: see text]dB.
A New Formalist approach to narrative Christology: Returning to the structure of the Synoptic Gospels
Authors: Dinkler Michal Beth
Published: November 2017

Today, scholars employ the label ‘narrative Christology’ with relative frequency, though they mean different things when they do so. In this article, I argue that to date, narrative Christology has not yet fully explored the parameters of what it means to attend closely to the narrative form of the Gospels’ presentations of Jesus. I propose, further, that recent developments in literary theory’s so-called ‘New Formalism’ offer useful tools and concepts for moving in that direction. The first part of the article briefly outlines previous scholarship, identifying similarities and differences between various approaches labelled ‘narrative Christology’. The second section introduces the major concepts of New Formalism and how they might extend narrative Christology’s capacity to take narrative form seriously as an object of analysis. The third section of the article offers a case study of a passage that appears in the triple tradition – the intercalated healing stories of Jairus’ daughter and the haemorrhaging woman in Mark 5.21–43; Luke 8.40–56; and Matthew 9.18–26 – in order to explore narrative structure on the micro-level. My ultimate goal is to show how New Formalism can contribute to a more robust narrative Christology and, in so doing, advance our understanding of the distinctive ways in which the Synoptic Gospels construct the figure of Jesus.
Factors affecting the use of social media in the learning process
Authors: Lubua Edison W. , Semlambo Adam , Pretorius Philip D.
Published: November 2017

Background: The study was established based on the inherent challenges of traditional learning systems, which require to be addressed. Arguably, social media can address many challenges of traditional learning if used properly. On this basis, it was important for the study to determine factors associated with the adoption of social media in learning.Objectives: This study determines the relationship between the ease of use and the usefulness of social media to its adoption. Moreover, it shows whether the perceived security of social media relates to its adoption in the learning environment of higher learning students. The objectives were met through testing hypotheses.Methods: Overall, the study was objective and followed the positivism philosophical stance. It adopted the survey research design. Data were collected through the use of a closed-end questionnaire and was tested using descriptive statistics and the One-Way ANOVA model. The generalisation of the results of tested hypotheses is allowed to the population with characteristics similar to that of the study.Results: Social media offer a good platform for the learning process. Moreover, necessary efforts are required to enhance the perception of users on the usefulness of social media, and improve their awareness of security issues because they relate with the adoption of social media. Also, the complexity of social media relates with to adoption. An ease of use platform enhances the adoption.Conclusion: Social media offer a suitable platform for the extension of traditional classes. Their use would be more effective provided that users are aware of maintaining their safety, able to apply social media tools and able to share the content useful to their learning process. Moreover, the study recommends further studies in specific social media.
Relato Financeiro Eletrónico: As Necessidades dos Utilizadores no Caso Angolano
Authors: Quaresma Rui Filipe Cerqueira , Moma Capeça Gilberto Moisés , Fialho Ana
Published: November 2017

O relato financeiro eletrónico foi uma realidade tornada possível com o aparecimento da Internet e, cada vez mais, utilizado pelas empresas para a divulgação da informação contabilístico-financeira. Embora seja um tema recente, existem já diversos estudos e recomendações sobre a melhor forma de utilização de modo a que as empresas potenciem as suas possibilidades.
Contudo, até à data é escassa a investigação que incida no lado da procura da informação contabilístico-financeira e que contemple recomendações quanto ao tipo e forma de apresentação dessa informação com base na perspetiva dos utilizadores.
Assim, o objetivo deste estudo é identificar qual a melhor forma de apresentação e definir o tipo de informação contabilístico-financeira procurada pelos utilizadores no caso concreto de Angola.
Concluímos que o formato e o conteúdo da informação procurada pelos utilizadores é, no essencial, coincidente com as recomendações emitidas pelos organismos que atuam neste âmbito.

Electronic Financial Reporting: The Users' Needs in The Case of Angola
The electronic financial reporting is a reality made possible with the emergence of the Internet, increasingly used by companies in the disclosure of accounting and financial information. Although this is a relatively new area of research, there are already several studies and recommendations to help businesses leverage their possibilities. However, published research focusing on the demand side of accounting-financial information and seeking to identify users' needs as to the format and content of such information is scarcer. Thus, the objective of this study is to verify if the needs and interests of the users of this type of information, in an emerging stock market, as in the case of Angola, coincide or not with current recommendations and models of disclosure. We conclude that the needs of the users studied correspond to the current recommendations regarding the presentation format of the accounting and financial information and their content. It should be considered as a reference by the companies that will be part of the emerging Angolan stock market. This paper presents two contributions: First, the analysis in the perspective of information demand and, second, the study of this issue in an emerging market, which will allow regulatory agencies to define rules and recommendations in advance, regarding financial reporting electronic.
ANALYSIS OF INTERACTION BETWEEN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND SMES: LEARN FROM EACH OTHER
Authors: Ali MD Shaheb , Khan Shahadat , Miah Shah Jahan
Published: November 2017

Business Intelligence (BI) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are two distinctive research domains but greater interaction between these two entities have been experienced in the existing literature. It is therefore of an importance to conduct a theoretical analysis to improve our understanding on the nature of the two distinct entities for offering an emerging learning. The interactions in between the two domains are manifested deeper insights of BI implementations in the context of SMEs, mainly to revealing on criteria of the business environmental performance.
Although research in both domains have been rapidly growing, limited number of studies are designed to enrich understanding and knowledge form the interaction concerning the learning aspects of BI and SMEs. Therefore, this study is aimed to conduct a theoretical analyse in order to explore an integrated view on how BI and SMEs learn from each other and contributes to the business environmental performance. A qualitative content analysis was conducted for the procedure, which considered 43 source articles as samples. Findings of the literature review suggest enhancing capability of SMEs and innovation of BI, which may affect each other. Findings of this study may become useful for further research in terms of BI implementation success.
Teaching the Greek crisis (and more) from the perspectives of competing models
Authors: Harvey John T.
Published: November 2017

One would have thought that the financial crisis would have served as a decisive empirical test, separating the wheat from the chaff. Instead, very few schools of thought have shifted their positions. Part of the reason is no doubt because, as Einstein once said, theory determines what we see (Salam 1990, p. 99). To illustrate this point while at the same time educating students about the Greek financial crisis, this paper outlines a classroom lesson built around two competing graphical analyses of exchange rates and the balance of payments: the Monetary model and the post-Keynesian open-economy/Z–D model. Each one offers an internally consistent explanation of developments in the peripheral EU countries, but suggests a different cause and solution. The paper will show how variations in method lead members of these schools of thought to believe they are witnessing phenomena that validate their mutually inconsistent analyses.
Blasphemy in the classroom: in search of microeconomics textbooks for heterodox instructors*
Authors: Dean Erik , Green Mitchell R.
Published: November 2017

In this review of introductory-level college textbooks for microeconomics we begin with the premise that heterodox economics is to be taken as independent from, and alternative to, the neoclassical mainstream. We argue that pluralistic curricula and pedagogical strategies should reflect this, rather than the too-common relegation of heterodoxy to a critical fringe or to nascent, yet fundamentally consistent, lines of inquiry. After defining common elements that we believe would be essential to a suitable introduction to heterodox economics, we review each of the four textbooks in search of a volume that is not just heretical to neoclassical economics, but truly blasphemous.
From Marx to the Keynesian revolution: the key role of finance
Authors: Toporowski Jan
Published: November 2017

The Companies Acts of the 1860s initiated a major structural transformation in capitalism. This was noted, but not developed into a theory of the capitalist economy, by Marx. That development subsequently came in the work of Veblen, Hilferding and his critics Lederer and (implicitly) Kalecki, Keynes, Steindl and Minsky. The paper argues that the Great Schism in economic theory is not between Keynes and ‘the Classics’, as argued by Keynes; or Keynes and the Neoclassical Synthesis, as contended by Joan Robinson and Richard Kahn; nor even between monetary production and barter exchange, as maintained by post-Keynesian writers; still less between political economists and apologetic theorists, as argued by Marxists. The key distinction in economic theory is between those who recognise the central role of long-term finance in the capitalist economy, and those theorists for whom finance is merely ‘savings’ or another form of credit.
A proteção da orientação sexual e identidade de gênero diversas na Corte Penal Internacional: entre Realpolitiks e os Direitos Humanos
Authors: Bussmann Ferreira Gustavo
Published: November 2017

Consideradas as adversidades existentes na elaboração, assinatura e ratificação de tratados internacionais, mormente quando tratam de direitos humanos e de uma tentativa de harmonizar diversas culturas e interesses, perspectivas universais e particulares de direitos, percebemos que as práticas podem ganhar contornos ainda maiores de dificuldade quando se referem a questões envolvendo gênero e sexualidade. Desta forma, o presente trabalho pretende analisar a questão da Realpolitiks no direito internacional dos direitos humanos, o conteúdo do Documento Programático do Gabinete do Procurador da Corte Penal Internacional para crimes de gênero e sexualidade e, por fim, como o Estatuto de Roma se propõe a proteger pessoas de orientação sexual e identidade de gênero diversas. A partir das normas referentes a genocídio e crimes contra a humanidade, enquanto perseguição, a compreensão de que há um grupo social formado por pessoas não heterossexuais mostra-se essencial para que se fortaleça a proteção destes cidadãos e cumpra-se com as intenções da justiça internacional de valorização dos direitos humanos e das singularidades da vida dos cidadãos.
A criminalização dos imigrantes em situação irregular na Itália: biopolítica e Direito Penal do autor
Authors: Wermuth Maiquel Angelo Dezordi , De Aguiar Jeannine Tonetto
Published: November 2017

A percepção dos processos migratórios como problema de segurança nacional, principalmente a imigração irregular, levou à adoção pelos Estados de regulamentações jurídicas a partir das quais se assiste ao triunfo de políticas e práticas em total desrespeito aos direitos e garantias fundamentais humanos. Identificados e classificados como “sujeitos de risco”, isto é, “inimigos” que ameaçam a ordem social, os imigrantes em condição de irregularidade migratória são transformados em objetos de um discurso criminalizador não apenas nos debates públicos e políticos, mas também na legislação, como é o caso da criminalização do imigrante irregular na legislação italiana – analisado na presente pesquisa – que evidencia um movimento de retrocesso do Direito Penal ao institucionalizar um modelo de Direito Penal de autor fundamentado em medidas de dominação e opressão que preconizam tão somente a exclusão desses sujeitos.
O caráter humanista da nova lei de migrações: avanços da Lei n. 13.445/2017 e os desafios da regulamentação
Authors: Varella Marcelo D. , Oliveira Clarice G. , Oliveira Mariana S. C. , Ligiero Adriana P.
Published: November 2017

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A desnacionalização e as violações de Direitos Humanos na República Dominicana
Authors: Menengoti Ribeiro Daniela , Silva Rodrigo Ichikawa Claro
Published: November 2017

O artigo se desenvolve diante das reflexões sobre o novo fenômeno jurídico denominado “desnacionalização”, decorrente da sentença 168/13 proferida pelo Tribunal Constitucional da República Dominica que despojou a nacionalidade de milhares de dominicanos de origem haitiana, sob o pretexto de que seus ascendentes haitianos eram migrantes irregulares no país. A apatridia de pessoas que se veem envolvidas neste processo de desnacionalização, enseja a privação arbitrária da nacionalidade dominicana e da personalidade jurídica e gera uma nítida discriminação racial, privando-as, por consequência, do gozo e exercício de direitos civis, políticos, sociais e econômicos. O trabalho baseia-se no método de abordagem dedutivo e se utiliza da pesquisa bibliográfica e documental como método de procedimento.
Crônicas do Direito Internacional Privado
Authors: Ribeiro Gustavo , De Araujo Nadia , Di Nardi Marcelo , Polido Fabrício , Lopes Inez
Published: November 2017

Crônicas do Direito Internacional Privado
Characterization of the cloud microphysical and optical properties and aerosol-cloud interaction in the Arctic from in situ ground-based measurements during the CLIMSLIP-NyA campaign, Svalbard
Authors: Guyot Gwennolé , Olofson Frans , Tunved Peter , Gourbeyre Christophe , Fevbre Guy , Dupuy Régis , Bernard Christophe , Ancellet Gérard , Law Kathy , Quennehen Boris , Schwarzenboeck Alfons , Eleftheriadis Kostas , Jourdan Olivier
Published: November 2017

Abstract. This study will focus on cloud microphysical and optical characterization of three different types of episodes encountered during the ground based CLIMSLIP-NyA campaign performed in Ny-Alesund, Svalbard: the Mixed Phase Cloud (MPC), snow precipitation and Blowing Snow (BS) events. These in situ cloud measurements will be combined with aerosol measurements and air mass backtrajectory simulations to qualify and parameterize the arctic aerosol cloud interaction and to assess the influence of anthropogenic pollution transported into the Arctic. The results show a cloud bimodal distribution with the droplet mode at 10 µm and the crystal mode centered at 250 µm, for the MPC cases. The precipitation cases presents a crystal distribution centered around 350 µm with mostly of dendritic shape. The BS cases show a higher concentration but smaller crystals, centered between 150 and 200 µm, with mainly irregular crystals. A polluted case, where aerosol properties are influenced by anthropogenic emission from Europe and East Asia, was compared to a clean case with local aerosol sources. These anthropogenic emissions seem to cause higher Black Carbon, aerosol and droplet concentrations, a more pronounced accumulation mode, smaller droplet sizes and a higher activation fraction Fa. Moreover, the activation diameter decreases as the droplet diameter increases and Fa increases showing that smaller particles are activated and droplets grow when the aerosol number decreases. This is in agreement with the first (Twomey) and second (Albrecht) aerosol indirect effect. The quantification of the variations of droplet concentration and size leads to IE (Indirect Effect) and NE (Nucleation Efficiency) coefficients values around 0.2 and 0.43, respectively. These values are close to those found by other studies in the arctic region which confirms these parameterizations of arctic aerosol-cloud interaction in climate models.
Quantification of Methane Sources in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region of Alberta by Aircraft Mass-Balance
Authors: Baray Sabour , Darlington Andrea , Gordon Mark , Hayden Katherine L. , Leithead Amy , Li Shao-Meng , Liu Peter S. K. , Mittermeier Richard L. , Moussa Samar G. , O'Brien Jason , Staebler Ralph , Wolde Mengistu , Worthy Doug , McLaren Robert
Published: November 2017

Abstract. Aircraft-based measurements of methane (CH4) and other air pollutants in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) were made during a summer intensive field campaign between August 13 and September 7 2013, in support of the Joint Canada–Alberta Implementation Plan for Oil Sands Monitoring. Chemical signatures were used to identify CH4 sources from tailings ponds (BTEX VOC's), open-pit surface mines (NOy and rBC) and elevated plumes from bitumen upgrading facilities (SO2 and NOy). Emission rates of CH4 were determined for the five primary surface mining facilities in the region using two mass balance methods. Emission rates from source categories within each facility were estimated when plumes from the sources were spatially separable. Tailings ponds accounted for 45 % of total CH4 emissions measured from the major surface mining facilities in the region while emissions from operations in the open pit mines accounted for ~ 50 %. The average open pit surface mining emission rates ranged from 1.2 to 2.8 tonnes of CH4 hr−1 for different facilities in the AOSR. Amongst the 19 tailings ponds, Mildred Lake Settling Basin, the oldest pond in the region, was found to be responsible for the majority of tailings ponds emissions of CH4 (> 70 %). The sum of measured emission rates of CH4 from the five major facilities, 19.2 ± 1.1 tonnes CH4 hr−1, was similar to a single mass balance determination of CH4 from all major sources in the AOSR determined from a single flight downwind of the facilities, 23.7 ± 3.7 tonnes CH4 hr−1. The measured hourly CH4 emission rate from all facilities in the AOSR is 48 ± 8 % higher than that extracted for 2013 from the Canadian Green House Gas Reporting Program, a legislated facility-reported Emissions Inventory, converted to hourly units. The measured emissions correspond to an emissions rate of 0.17 ± 0.01 Tg CH4 yr−1, if the emissions are assumed temporally constant, an uncertain assumption. The emission rates reported here are relevant for the summer season. In future, effort should be devoted to measurements in different seasons to further our understanding of seasonal parameters impacting fugitive emissions of CH4 and to allow better estimates of annual emissions and year to year variability.
A description and evaluation of an air quality model nested within global and regional composition-climate models using MetUM
Authors: Neal Lucy S. , Dalvi Mohit , Folberth Gerd , McInnes Rachel N. , Agnew Paul , O'Connor Fiona M. , Savage Nicholas H. , Tilbee Marie
Published: November 2017

Abstract. There is a clear need for the development of modelling frameworks for both climate change and air quality to help inform policies for addressing these issues simultaneously. This paper presents an initial attempt to develop a single modelling framework, by introducing a greater degree of consistency in the meteorological modelling framework by using a two-step, one-way nested configuration of models, from a global composition-climate model (GCCM) (140 km resolution) to a regional composition-climate model covering Europe (RCCM) (50 km resolution) and finally to a high (12 km) resolution model over the UK (AQUM). The latter model is used to produce routine air quality forecasts for the UK. All three models are based on the Met Office's Unified Model (MetUM). In order to better understand the impact of resolution on the downscaling of projections of future climate and air quality, we have used this nest of models to simulate a 5-year period using present-day emissions and under present-day climate conditions. We also consider the impact of running the higher-resolution model with higher spatial resolution emissions, rather than simply regridding emissions from the RCCM. We present an evaluation of the models compared to in situ air quality observations over the UK, plus a comparison against an independent 1 km resolution gridded dataset, derived from a combination of modelling and observations, effectively producing an analysis of annual mean surface pollutant concentrations. We show that using a high-resolution model over the UK has some benefits in improving air quality modelling, but that the use of higher spatial resolution emissions is important to capture local variations in concentrations, particularly for primary pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide. For secondary pollutants such as ozone and the secondary component of PM10, the benefits of a higher-resolution nested model are more limited and reasons for this are discussed. This study highlights the point that the resolution of models is not the only factor in determining model performance – consistency between nested models is also important.
Bathymetry observations of inland water bodies using a tethered
single-beam sonar controlled by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Authors: Bandini Filippo , Olesen Daniel , Jakobsen Jakob , Kittel Cecile Marie Margaretha , Wang Sheng , Garcia Monica , Bauer-Gottwein Peter
Published: November 2017

Abstract. High-quality bathymetric maps of inland water bodies are a common requirement for hydraulic engineering and hydrological science applications. Remote sensing methods, e.g. space-borne and airborne multispectral or LIDAR, have been developed to estimate water depth, but are ineffective for most inland water bodies, because of water turbidity and attenuation of electromagnetic radiation in water. Surveys conducted with boats equipped with sonars can retrieve accurate water depths, but are expensive, time-consuming, and are unsuitable for non-navigable water bodies. We develop and assess a novel approach to retrieve accurate and high resolution bathymetry maps. We measured accurate water depths using a tethered floating sonar controlled by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in a Danish lake and in a few river cross sections. The developed technique combines the advantages of remote sensing techniques with the potential of bathymetric sonars. UAV surveys can be conducted also in non-navigable, inaccessible, or remote water bodies. The tethered sonar can measure bathymetry with an accuracy of ca. 2.1 % of the actual depth for observations up to 35 m, without being significantly affected by water turbidity, bedform or bed material.
State fusion entropy for real-time and site-specific analysis of landslide stability changing regularities
Authors: Liu Yong , Qin Zhimeng , Hu Baodan , Feng Shuai
Published: November 2017

Abstract. Stability analysis is of great significance to landslide hazard prevention, especially the real-time stability. However, many existing stability analysis methods are difficult to analyse the real-time landslide stability and its changing regularities in a uniform criterion due to the unique landslide geological conditions. Based on the relationship between displacement monitoring data, deformation states and landslide stability, a state fusion entropy method is herein proposed to derive landslide instability through a comprehensive multi-attribute entropy analysis of deformation states which are defined by a proposed joint clustering method combining K-means and cloud model. Taking Xintan landslide as the detailed case study, cumulative state fusion entropy presents an obvious increasing trend after the landslide entered accelerative deformation stage and historical maxima match highly with the evolutionary stages of Xintan landslide in key time nodes. Reasonable results are also obtained in its application to several other landslides in the Three Gorges Reservoir in China. Combined with field survey, state fusion entropy may serve as a novel index for judging landslide stability changing regularities and for landslide early warning.
Resourcing the Internal Audit Function: How Effective is the Audit Committee?
Authors: Ng Shir Li , Taylor Dennis W
Published: November 2017

The aim of this study is to investigate the extent to which an Audit Committee (AC)’s own governance characteristics impact on its role effectiveness in achieving enhanced resourcing and by extension, improved the scope and quality of the Internal Audit Function (IAF). Sample is drawn from top 300 companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). This study combines data from a questionnaire administered to the Internal Audit Executive (IAE) with information from annual reports and financial databases. Hypotheses are developed and tested using multiple regression analysis. This analysis is supplemented by insights from a comparative case study for two companies in the sample. Results reveal that AC size is significantly positively related to the financial resources (budget) allocated to IAF, while both AC financial expertise and AC size are significantly positively related to IAF labour hours. Results also confirm that IAF’s with higher resourcing are able to concentrate those resources on areas expected of a high quality IAF. Further, comparative case study analysis gives insights to the superior ways a larger size AC can be effective in fulfilling its oversight role, building its working relationships and obtaining resources for the IAF. Study contributes to current auditing-related governance literature by introducing a comprehensive empirical model of AC effectiveness in facilitating the scope and quality of the IAF’s work. Also, the findings have implications for regulators and the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) in terms of the composition and functioning of ACs.
How Not to Be Nietzsche
Authors: Dunn Allen
Published: November 2017

This is a response to the 1984 exchange between Richard J. Bernstein and Alasdair MacIntyre.
An Analysis of the Questionnaire Investigation on Tourists’ Behavior
Authors: Okubo Akane , Takeyasu Kazuhiro
Published: November 2017

Tourists from abroad are increasing rapidly in Japan. Particular aims of local government are to overcome the common problems of an aging population and declining birthrate through tourism-generated income and to stimulate the local society through regional exchange and migration. In order to analyze economic aspects of tourism, accurate and up-to-date statistics and information regarding tourism are needed. Specifically, this study presents opportunities for inter-regional cooperation in marketing, in light of studies of tourist behavior at events featuring seasonal flowers and held in Kawazu town, which is located on the Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture. In this paper, a questionnaire investigation is executed in order to clarify tourists’ behavior, and to seek the possibility of developing regional collaboration among local government, tourism related industry and visitors. Hypothesis testing was executed based on that. Some interesting and instructive results were obtained.
A Method of Semantic Hidden Reduction Based on Collocation
Authors: Zhu Licai
Published: November 2017

Semantic hiding is the technology of using semantic knowledge to embed secret information into text carrier. Among the many methods of semantic hiding, "synonym substitution" is paid more and more attention by semantic hiding. The main idea of this method is to hide the secret information by replacing synonyms in text so as to retain its original meaning as much as possible. In order to effectively restore hidden information, we need to find the synonym replacement location as accurately as possible, so it is very important to recognize the collocation of words. So far, however, there is no effective way to identify and match Natural Language Processing, that is, it is very difficult to tell exactly whether or not the words in the text have been replaced.In this paper, a hidden reduction method based on collocation is proposed. By analyzing the characteristics of synonyms and their collocation, this paper treats their relation as the relation between the pairs of samples in statistical sense. According to the nature of the statistic, we design several decision features to identify the collocations. At the same time, we introduce the form of point mutual information in the information theory as a feature to use the independence of quantifier pairs. In order to recognize word collocation effectively, this paper combines these features, and uses genetic algorithm to get the recognition degree of each feature. Then, a replacement recognition system based on immune abnormality mechanism is designed. Synonyms for collocation are regarded as "normal", while substitutions are regarded as "anomalies"". The experimental samples are generated by semantic hidden software TLEX. To better render the restore process, we rewrote the TLEX to add the key selection module.
What Are the Unmet Information Needs of Cancer Patients? A Qualitative Study
Authors: Yatim Fatima , Cristofalo Paula , Minvielle Etienne
Published: November 2017

OBJECTIVE: Identify the unmet information needs of cancer patients and understand the causes of patients’ dissatisfactionMETHODS: A qualitative method using interviews with cancer patients attending a Meeting and Information Area (ERI) at Gustave Roussy cancer center (France), and focus groups with the ERI professionals. The data were analysed using vertical and horizontal open coding.RESULTS: Firstly, the needs for medical information are important, but there are other types of information that patients need (e.g. organizational information). Secondly, patients’ dissatisfaction is not linked only to the lack of medical information; it also reflects other needs, which are not taken into account (e.g. accompanying information to make it understandable and useful). Thirdly, the relationships established over time between patients and professionals make possible the emergence of latent needs (ranging from basic information needs to requests for psychological support).CONCLUSION: Information must be considered in an integrated and holistic approach to facilitate patients’ navigation and improve their health literacy.PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: The training of healthcare professionals is crucial, but this is not enough. The introduction of other, non-carers professionals is necessary to address a broad range of patients’ needs in a more effective and cost-efficient way.
Use of Children’s Popular Culture in Literacy Curricula: An Analysis of the Papers by Parry (2002) and Dickie and Shuker (2014) through the Lenses of “No Research Can Be Value-Laden”
Authors: Altintug Fatma Aslanturk , Debreli Emre
Published: November 2017

This paper focuses on the importance of children’s out-of-school experiences as their popular culture and discusses how such experiences contribute to their creativity and critical thinking. In addition to this, the paper also discusses the critical role of researchers’ values in terms of how values affect the design and process of research. From this standpoint, it analyses two research articles, namely as: “Popular culture, participation and progression in the literacy classroom”, by Parry (2014), and “Ben 10, superheroes and princesses: primary teachers’ views of popular culture and school literacy”, by Dickie and Shuker (2014). Throughout the analysis, the paper discusses how the values of the authors’ of these papers affected their selection of the research topics, as well as the process of research, by bringing out the importance of critical literacy in pre-school curricula.
A Parametric Study of Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement Using Finite Element Modeling
Authors: Zokaei Monireh , Fakhri Mansour , Rahiminezhad Saeed
Published: November 2017

Concrete pavements face various types of distresses such as longitudinal, transverse, and joint cracking due to traffic loading and thermal stresses. The objective of this investigation was to develop Three-Dimensional Finite-Element Models (3D-FEM) to assess the performance of dowel in Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement (JPCP).Finite-element modeling is a powerful tool that can be used for the simulation of the structural response of pavements under the effects of different loading condition. Most of the previous studies ignored important factors, including the combined effect of dynamic axle loads and thermal gradient. Overcoming the shortcomings of the previous studies, this study investigated the pavement response under the effect of some model parameters. The result of the study was verified by a comparison with field measurements. Results also showed that the combined negative gradient and axle loads located at the transverse joint subject the top of mid-slab, to high tensile stress that may explain the initiation of top-down cracks. These stresses increase under corner loading when the slab length is increased. In general, the study presented that the developed 3D-FEM is suitable for identifying the effect of different design features including pavement geometry, material properties, thermal gradients, and axle load and configuration on the structural response of rigid pavements.
A Generalization Concept of Measure by Using Binary Operations
Authors: Naiery M-Hassan Hadadzadeh
Published: November 2017

In this paper, a generalization of the concept of measure is made using binary operations.With this generalization, we extend the measure domain to . For this purpose, we define function , which simultaneously satisfies the following two conditions: Such that in second condition  are binary operations.In the future, the properties of this new concept will be examined.In this paper, there are correlations between algebraic concepts (such as binary operation) and analysis (such as measure). Of course, in this article we pay more attention to algebraic concepts, in other words, the properties of binary operation created by this new definition are more highly evaluated.
Dynamic Characteristics of Hanging Truss Having Shape Memory Alloy Wires
Authors: Zhang Xuan , Hanahara Kazuyuki , Tada Yukio
Published: November 2017

In this study, we discuss the dynamics of a type of hanging truss structural system consisting of rigid and wire members, part of which are SMA (shape memory alloy) wires. This kind of truss structure has the capability of vibration isolation and absorption. Characteristics of zero compressive stiffness of wire members, SMA wire members and hanging configuration of the structure itself contribute to the effect of vibration isolation. The hysteretic loop of SMA wires plays a significant role in vibration attenuation. Mathematical models for this kind of dynamic problem are developed. Calculation process is introduced to take into account the mechanical characteristics of SMA and wire members. Dynamic characteristics are discussed; simultaneously, the effects of vibration isolation and attenuation have been confirmed. On the basis of the numerical calculations, advantages of combinations of various types of wire members, including the truss units having no bracing wires have been demonstrated.
Metodyka jako praktyka kulturowa (archetypowa). Ku źródłom zmiany w dydaktyce
Authors: Kruk Jolanta
Published: November 2017

This article is an introduction to the discussion on the essence of teaching methodology and the changes in its forms in contemporary culture. Two approaches to methodology are proposed: as a socially collective praxis, often unconsciously drawing on cultural practices, and as a so-called expert methodology – a collection of patterns of proper execution, which are a manifestation of the power/knowledge relation in the fi eld of education. Psychology and cognitive science reports confi rm that expert methodology is now losing its theoretical justifi cation. The adoption of the concept of cultural (archetypal) methodology gives a chance of a deeper change in the practice of education, whose avant-garde are the concepts of the “reversed class” and of learning as a “dispersed” study, which consists of: equipment, material environment, and network interactions.
From “Letter to a Teacher”: seeking the implied portraits of a good teacher. A Vietnamese father’s perspective
Authors: Duy Khang Nguyễn
Published: November 2017

This article aims at portraying the characteristics of a good teacher through “Letter to a Teacher” – the work of Lorenzo Milani and eight boys of “Barbiana” – from an Asian perspective. Beyond this discourse, the analysis has implied that a good teacher (1) gives constructive feedback, (2) has knowledge, (3) uses marks properly, (4) balances and satisfi es learners’ needs, (5) looks into the roots of problems, (6) cares for the learners, (7) limits inequality, (8) thinks critically and is responsible, and (9) communicates well in most cases.