bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
High Resolution Model Intercomparison Project (HighResMIP v1.0) for CMIP6
Authors: Haarsma Reindert J. , Roberts Malcolm J. , Vidale Pier Luigi , Senior Catherine A. , Bellucci Alessio , Bao Qing , Chang Ping , Corti Susanna , Fučkar Neven S. , Guemas Virginie , von Hardenberg Jost , Hazeleger Wilco , Kodama Chihiro , Koenigk Torben , Leung L. Ruby , Lu Jian , Luo Jing-Jia , Mao Jiafu , Mizielinski Matthew S. , Mizuta Ryo , Nobre Paulo , Satoh Masaki , Scoccimarro Enrico , Semmler Tido , Small Justin , von Storch Jin-Song
Published: November 2016

Abstract. Robust projections and predictions of climate variability and change, particularly at regional scales, rely on the driving processes being represented with fidelity in model simulations. The role of enhanced horizontal resolution in improved process representation in all components of the climate system is of growing interest, particularly as some recent simulations suggest both the possibility of significant changes in large-scale aspects of circulation as well as improvements in small-scale processes and extremes. However, such high-resolution global simulations at climate timescales, with resolutions of at least 50 km in the atmosphere and 0.25° in the ocean, have been performed at relatively few research centres and generally without overall coordination, primarily due to their computational cost. Assessing the robustness of the response of simulated climate to model resolution requires a large multi-model ensemble using a coordinated set of experiments. The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6) is the ideal framework within which to conduct such a study, due to the strong link to models being developed for the CMIP DECK experiments and other model intercomparison projects (MIPs). Increases in high-performance computing (HPC) resources, as well as the revised experimental design for CMIP6, now enable a detailed investigation of the impact of increased resolution up to synoptic weather scales on the simulated mean climate and its variability. The High Resolution Model Intercomparison Project (HighResMIP) presented in this paper applies, for the first time, a multi-model approach to the systematic investigation of the impact of horizontal resolution. A coordinated set of experiments has been designed to assess both a standard and an enhanced horizontal-resolution simulation in the atmosphere and ocean. The set of HighResMIP experiments is divided into three tiers consisting of atmosphere-only and coupled runs and spanning the period 1950–2050, with the possibility of extending to 2100, together with some additional targeted experiments. This paper describes the experimental set-up of HighResMIP, the analysis plan, the connection with the other CMIP6 endorsed MIPs, as well as the DECK and CMIP6 historical simulations. HighResMIP thereby focuses on one of the CMIP6 broad questions, “what are the origins and consequences of systematic model biases?”, but we also discuss how it addresses the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) grand challenges.
Role of forcing uncertainty and model error background characterization in snow data assimilation
Authors: Kumar Sujay V. , Dong Jiarui , Peters-Lidard Christa D. , Mocko David , Gómez Breogán
Published: November 2016

Abstract. Accurate specification of the model error covariances in data assimilation systems is a challenging issue. Ensemble land data assimilation methods rely on stochastic perturbations of input forcing and model prognostic fields for developing representations of input model error covariances. This article examines the limitations of using a single forcing dataset for specifying forcing uncertainty inputs for assimilating snow depth retrievals. Using an idealized data assimilation experiment, the article demonstrates that the use of hybrid forcing input strategies (either through the use of an ensemble of forcing products or through the added use of the forcing climatology) provide a better characterization of the model error background, which leads to improved data assimilation results, especially during the snow accumulation and melt time periods. The use of hybrid forcing ensembles is then employed for assimilating snow depth retrievals from the AMSR2 instrument over two domains in the Continental U.S. with different snow evolution characteristics. Over a region near the Great Lakes where the snow evolution tends to be ephemeral, the use of hybrid forcing ensembles provide significant improvements relative to the use of a single forcing dataset. Over the Colorado Headwaters characterized by large snow accumulation, the impact of using the forcing ensemble is less prominent and is largely limited to the snow transition time periods. The results demonstrate that the availability of a better model error background through the forcing ensemble enables the assimilation system to better incorporate the observational information.
Enhancing resilience to coastal flooding from severe storms in the USA: International lessons
Authors: Lumbroso Darren M. , Suckall Natalie R. , Nicholls Robert J. , White Kathleen D.
Published: November 2016

Abstract. Recent events in the USA have highlighted a lack of resilience in the coastal population to coastal flooding, especially amongst disadvantaged and isolated communities. Some low income countries, such as Cuba and Bangladesh, have made significant progress towards transformed societies that are more resilient to the impacts of cyclones and coastal flooding. To understand how this has come about a systematic review of the peer-reviewed and grey literature related to resilience of communities to coastal flooding was undertaken in both countries. In both Cuba and Bangladesh the trust between national and local authorities, community leaders and civil society is high. As a consequence evacuation warnings are generally followed and communities are well prepared. As a result over the past 25 years in Bangladesh the number of deaths directly related to cyclones and coastal flooding has decreased, despite an increase of almost 50 % in the number of people exposed to these hazards. In Cuba, over the course of eight hurricanes between 2003 and 2011, the normalised number of deaths related to cyclones and coastal floods was an order of magnitude less than in the USA. In low-income countries, warning systems and effective shelter/evacuation systems, combined with high levels of disaster risk reduction education and social cohesion, coupled with trust between government authorities and vulnerable communities can help to increase resilience to coastal hazards and tropical cyclones. In the USA, transferable lessons include improving communication and the awareness of the risk posed by coastal surges, mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into the education system and building trusted community networks to help isolated and disadvantaged communities, and improve community's resilience.
Interview on the #Charlestonsyllabus
Authors: Williams Chad , Williams Kidada E. , Blain Keisha N.
Published: November 2016

In this interiew, the three history professors who started the #CharlestonSyllabus Twitter hashtag--Chad Williams, Keisha N. Blain, and Kidada Williams--discuss the significance of the reading list and subsequent book for educators and members of the general public.
#BlackLivesMatter and Feminist Pedagogy: Teaching a Movement Unfolding
Authors: Goldthree Reena N. , Bahng Aimee
Published: November 2016

What are the stakes of teaching #BlackLivesMatter simultaneously in New Hampshire and in the national media? We draw upon our experiences leading two iterations of a #BlackLivesMatter course at Dartmouth College to consider the feminist pedagogical origins of “experiential learning,” the intersectional dynamics of enacting a teaching collective, and working in dialogue with the movement itself.
Will College Pay Off?: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You’ll Ever Make
Authors: Hala Nicole
Published: November 2016

Will College Pay Off?: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You’ll Ever Make (PublicAffairs, 2015) by Peter Cappelli, Reviewed by Nicole Hala.
Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space: Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance by Kristen Buras
Authors: Polier Nicole
Published: November 2016

Review - Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space: Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance by Kristen Buras, Reviewed by Nicole Polier.
News for Educational Workers: Fall 2016
Authors: Vogt Leonard
Published: November 2016

News for Educational Workers: Fall 2016
The Lessons of Jornaleros: Emancipatory Education, Migrant Artists, and the Aims of Critical Theory
Authors: Apostolidis Paul
Published: November 2016

This article explores the implications of Rancièrean theory for a radical politics of migrant equality through an interpretation of a documentary film produced by migrants in Portland, Oregon. Refusing to be defined by their social role as “workers,” the day laborers in Jornaleros execute musical, poetic, and artistic interventions that reorder the “distribution of the sensible.” They also deploy language in emancipatory ways consonant with Rancière's notion of “literarity.” The documentary thus instantiates the “verification” of intellectual equality that is crucial to Rancière's notion of emancipatory education and that, Samuel Chambers argues, should become the focus of critical theory. However, Jornaleros also poses a contrasting model of radical education, drawing on Freirean popular education principles. Even as they exemplify Rancièrean egalitarian practices, the film's worker-activist-artists thus model strategies for adding substantive depth, interactive vigor, temporal extension, and political heft to projects of radical emancipation and exercises in critical theory.
blah blah WOMEN blah blah EQUALITY blah blah DIFFERENCE
Authors: Wingrove Elizabeth
Published: November 2016

In this article I critically consider the usefulness of Jacques Rancière's “politics of literarity,” as explicated by Samuel Chambers, for understanding feminist politics. Emphasizing the historical and grammatical dimensions of the speech acts central to a politics of literarity, I show that women's assertions of gender injustice remain tightly tethered to a police order whose disruption remains crucial to establishing the political bona fides of any such claim to equality. While Chambers embraces this paradoxical aspect of a politics of literarity—that it both disrupts police and remains embedded within it—I suggest that the paradoxes confronted by those who articulate the “wrongs” of the gender order perforce raise questions about the adequacy of literarity as a linchpin of democratic politics. I elaborate this claim by reconsidering the historical example of Olympe de Gouges, first as her feminist speech is parsed by Joan Scott and second as it is parsed by Rancière.
Black Lives Matter and the Concept of the Counterworld
Authors: Mackin Glenn
Published: November 2016

This article explores the question of how we should conceive of the aesthetic dimensions of politics that Rancière identifies. Among some interpreters of Rancière, there is a tendency to posit a binary opposition between the aesthetically transformative dimensions of politics, on the one hand, and cognition and communicability, on the other, and then to reduce the aesthetic dimensions to moments that rupture the dominant order of sense. I examine Black Lives Matter activism to argue against this tendency. Black Lives Matter activism introduces new perceptions into the field of sensory experience, but these new perceptions arrive in cognitive and communicative form. Moreover, the activists' performances insert these new perceptions into the world of their opponents, transforming the dominant sensory world from within. Political-aesthetic transformations occur not when heterogeneous elements interrupt the dominant order of sense but when actors invoke a counterworld that is imbricated in the sensory world it opposes.
The Dancing Woman Is the Woman Who Dances into the Future: Rancière, Dance, Politics
Authors: Mills Dana
Published: November 2016

This article problematizes the question of ontology—and specifically embodiment—in the work of Jacques Rancière, focusing on his writing on dance in Aisthesis. I argue that dance offers an ontology in becoming, understood through the concept of inscription; this ontological position enables a reconciliation between the contingency celebrated in Rancière's writing and the emphasis on space derived from dance. I draw on the work of modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan to show that the category of dancing woman, rather than Rancière's disembodied, unsexed subject, operates as the redistributor of the sensible within modern dance.
Enhanced Student Engagement and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Innovations in the SAGITTARIUS–ORION–Shaw Literature Digitizing Pilot Project
Authors: Sanders Leslie , Rodrigues Liam , Li Kay
Published: November 2016

Our SAGITTARIUS–ORION–Shaw Literature Digitizing Pilot Project confirms the need to shift the focus from content to method. Despite recent developments in state-of-the-art digital humanities applications, there is an urgent need less to amass textual and contextual materials or to apply complicated humanities computing, than to find out realistically how to teach Shaw in ways that are contemporary, inclusive, and equitable. Students in our school pilots are of heterogeneous backgrounds, often have no prior knowledge of Shaw, yet can be flexibly engaged when the digitized textual and contextual materials are used as tools to enable them to learn more about themselves and the world they live in.
Ashes to Ashes: The Politics of Shaw's Death
Authors: Conolly L. W.
Published: November 2016

Shaw died on 2 November 1950. Four days later he was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, and on 23 November 1950 his ashes were mixed with those of his wife Charlotte (whose ashes had been stored at Golders Green since her own cremation there seven years earlier) and scattered in the garden of their home in Ayot St Lawrence. On the face of it, all these arrangement went smoothly and were fully in accord with Shaw's (and Charlotte's) wishes. Behind the scenes, however, prompted by Nancy Astor and aided by some wiggle room in Shaw's will, there was a great deal of activity and consternation in the highest political and religious offices in Great Britain about the disposition of the Shaws' ashes. Previously unexamined documents in the National Archives reveal that Shaw came within a whisker of being buried (with or without Charlotte) in Westminster Abbey or St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.
A filosofia e a disciplinarização do saber: diálogo e poder na escola
Authors: Casagranda Edison Alencar
Published: November 2016

Busca-se, no presente texto, analisar a importância da disciplinarização diante da moderna fragmentação do saber. Para isso, analisa-se, primeiramente, os elementos motivadores do processo de disciplinarização do saber e suas consequências pedagógicas. A ideia é avaliar não apenas o papel do professor ( expert ) – que, segundo a lógica da ciência moderna, deve conhecer cada vez mais um objeto cada vez menos extenso –, mas também a possível introdução de práticas coercitivas na escola. Por fim, pretende-se demonstrar que, com a adesão à filosofia e, consequentemente, a uma metodologia fundada na ideia de diálogo no plural, professores e estudantes estariam dando passos significativos, não apenas na direção do rompimento de uma concepção de educação amparada na lógica da fragmentação, mas também na direção da superação de algumas de suas consequências pedagógicas, a saber, a do exercício coercitivo do poder.
Uma perspectiva psicanalítica sobre as depressões na atualidade
Authors: Campos Érico Bruno Viana
Published: November 2016

O artigo pretende analisar o fenômeno da epidemia de depressão na atualidade como sintoma da configuração sócio-cultural da subjetividade contemporânea, por meio de uma crítica ao referencial da psicopatologia psiquiátrica a partir da psicanálise. Mostra a relevância de se tomar a depressão como expressão de um conluio na retirada do sujeito na contemporaneidade, fruto de um movimento de medicalização do social. Apresenta também um panorama da compreensão da depressão na psicopatologia psicanalítica, ressaltando sua inespecificidade estrutural e pontuando diferentes nuances acerca de seu posicionamento fundamental nas tradições lacaniana e das relações de objeto. Defende que se tome a problemática depressiva, em seus diferentes arranjos estruturais, como expressão de falhas ao longo do eixo narcísico-melancólico de constituição da subjetividade como um modelo pertinente e sistematizador para compreensão da problemática das depressões em psicanálise.
Validade do Cloze enquanto técnica de avaliação da compreensão de leitura
Authors: Santos Acácia Aparecida Angeli dos , Monteiro Rebecca Magalhães
Published: November 2016

O Cloze tem sido usado como uma medida de compreensão de leitura pela omissão de algumas palavras de um texto, que devem ser completadas pelo leitor. Este trabalho buscou evidência de validade para dois textos baseados na técnica de Cloze por meio da correlação com a Escala de Avaliação da Escrita – EAVE, assim como procurou explorar as diferenças de desempenho no Cloze em subgrupos de alunos, formados com base na pontuação da EAVE. Participaram da pesquisa 92 crianças procedentes de uma escola pública do estado de São Paulo com idades entre 7 e 10 anos. Os instrumentos utilizados foram dois textos de Cloze e a EAVE. Os resultados indicaram uma correlação moderada e significativa entre os textos do Cloze e a EAVE evidenciando a convergência entre os construtos. Além disso, alunos com desempenho fraco na EAVE obtiveram baixo rendimento no Cloze.
Exploring Professional Development from Brief Experiences: Case Studies of Secondary EFL Teachers in China
Authors: Qingling Yuan , Qunhua Yuan , Ying Wan
Published: November 2016

The current situation of educational reforms since 1990s has brought up a booming demand of competent EFL teachers because of economic globalization and further opening-up policy in China. So it’s vital and significant to explore EFL teachers’ professional development in order to promote English language teaching. Based on the Constructivism Perspective in educational psychology and new trends in Second Language Teacher Education, this research focuses on six secondary EFL teachers’ critical incidents and narrates their brief experiences by deep interview and field notes. After categorized analysis through recurring themes, the discussions about four domains (i.e. learning experiences, knowledge & beliefs, teaching practice and social context) are summarized below. These teachers have experienced pre-service & in-service and formal & informal learning that has different features. Secondly, they hold some common knowledge & beliefs, which are always developing but fluctuate with realities. Next, their language teaching develops from initial to survival then to mastery and personalization, but each stage is distinctive in different situations. Social context facilitates or constrains their professional development, but their responses to it are various to seek personal and professional balance. In conclusion, it interprets five interactive factors in the process of teacher professional development: Normal education and professional programs play essential roles; Self-directed teaching & school-based activities provide diverse paths; Perfection of language & teaching serves as peculiar professional qualities; Love for students & love for teaching functions as original driving force; Chinese social context works as potential external stimuli. Finally, it presents some feasible suggestions.
The Impact of Austerity Measures on Government Borrowing in GIIPS
Authors: Ersoy Imre , Yanmaz Talha
Published: November 2016

The article investigates the effects of austerity measures on government debt in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain (GIIPS) by employing panel cointegration test and using data between 1998 and 2014. The result of empirical analysis shows that tax rate increase on personal income did not result with decrease in government debt. Interest rate and wage that are control variables are also positively related with government debt levels. The result of this empirical analysis suggests that the impact of austerity measures on government borrowing in GIIPS is positive, despite the expectations of certain economic agents.
An Empirical Analysis of Capital Adequacy Determinants in Nigerian Banking Sector
Authors: Olarewaju Odunayo Magret , Akande Joseph Olorunfemi
Published: November 2016

It is an acknowledged economic fact that banks cannot underestimate the role of Capital adequacy since adequacy of capital in banks directly influences the amount of funds available for loans disbursement which invariably affects their risk appetite, efficiency and stability. This paper seeks to examine the determinants of capital adequacy in Nigerian quoted deposit money banks for the years 2005-2014. The study employs both descriptive and fixed effect panel regression. The descriptive analysis shows that the mean and median values are within the minimum values and the standard deviation shows the expected growth rate deviation for each of the identified determinants of capital adequacy. From the analysis of panel data using Cross-Sectional Specific fixed effect estimations, it is discovered that a direct relationship exists among ETA, ROA and SIZ while an inverse linear relationship that exists among ROA, CR, DEP and LIQ are statistically significant in determining the level of capital adequacy among the deposit money banks in Nigeria. The study recommends the need for all these affected banks to gear up and invest more on the significant factors that can lead to improvements in their capital adequacy in order to achieve viability, sustainability and stability in the long run.
An Empirical Study on the Factors Affecting Savings Bank Loan Interest Rates
Authors: Lee Hyun Don , Park Sang-Bum
Published: November 2016

The study analyzed reciprocal effects of base rate of the central bank, CD, CP, interest rates for bank deposits, bank loan interest, interest rate for savings bank deposits and savings bank loan interest. In particular, the study attempted to find an interest rate which affects interest rates of savings banks. If these variables affected interest rate decisions by savings banks, it would be possible to predict that movements of these variables in the future may affect changes of interest rates as well. In the impulse reaction function, CD rate and CP rate took the highest impact to the savings bank’s deposit interest and loan rate. In forecast error variance decomposition analysis, it was fond that the deposit interest and loan rate of the savings bank reciprocally affected each other. Then, CD rate and CP rate had the highest explanation power. Consequently, factors that affect the savings’ bank’s decision on interest rates were a bank’s deposit interest, CP and RP interest rate and RP rate which is the benchmark interest rate. The important point is that RP rate as the benchmark interest rate takes an important role because it becomes the base for influenced variables.
Foreign Direct Investment and Retailing in India: Opportunities and Challenges
Authors: Kannaiah Desti , Vinayagamoorthy A.
Published: November 2016

India being second most-populous country has immense scope for retail expansion as along with time urbanization and consumerism has also been increasing. Initially India was conservative regarding FDI; it imposed restriction on foreign companies to limit their share in equity capital of their Indian subsidiaries but over the time Government of India gradually liberalized foreign investment in various sectors. Recently in 2011 India permitted 100% FDI in single brand retail and in 2012, 51% FDI permitted in multi brand. Even though organized retail sector in India is at the infant stage, India has today become a budding target for FDI. India today offers the most persuasive investment opportunity for mass merchants and food retailers looking to expand overseas as Indian economy is growing at a rapid pace with consumers having high purchasing power. FDI is a sturdy source for the intensification of retailing and will create enormous opportunities for innovation in retail sector in India but at the same time it is quite likely that a section of the domestic retailing industry will be severely hurt due to the entry of foreign retailers. In this paper researchers have tried to accentuate both the thoughts in detail and concluded the most constructive view on Opportunities and Challenges of FDI in Indian Retailing.
Medium Risk Companies: The Probability of Notching-Up (Note 1)
Authors: Muscettola Marco
Published: November 2016

The probability of default and risk-rating class is studied for 9,390 Italian SMEs using a set of ordinary and yearly financial statements (not abbreviated) from 2007 to 2010. After constructing the rating model and then listing companies within ten classes of risk, this paper aims to support the resolution of an intricate topic: the identification of 713 firms included in the median classes of rating designed to evolve to better classes, and firms that, instead, will move closer to high risk of default. In this way, the results of our research could help to identify, for similar firms in 2007, two different destinies after three years (in 2010). The most interesting result emerging from our analysis is related to the presence of a positive relationship between some financial ratios (capital structure and fewer inventories) and the probability of notching-up. The overall evidence is supportive of the hypothesis that the benefits gain up by profitability ratios cannot give to the firms a solid class of rating guaranteed for the future.
Reviewer Acknowledgements for Journal of Education and Learning, Vol. 5, No. 4
Authors: Sun Barbara
Published: November 2016

Reviewer Acknowledgements for Journal of Education and Learning, Vol. 5, No. 4, 2016
Methyl jasmonate vapors affect the composition and peroxidation of major fatty acids in common buckwheat seedlings
Authors: Klocek Józef , Szwed Magdalena , Koczkodaj Danuta , Mitrus Joanna , Saniewski Marian , Horbowicz Marcin
Published: November 2016

The effect of methyl jasmonate (MJ) vapors on the composition and peroxidation of major fatty acids in the organs of common buckwheat seedlings was investigated. The composition of fatty acids in the hypocotyl and cotyledons of seedlings changed significantly under exposure to MJ vapors in closed jars. Four-day exposure to MJ led to a significant reduction in the concentrations of stearic, linoleic, and linolenic acids in the hypocotyl, whereas oleic acid levels increased approximately 3.5-fold. A decrease in stearic acid levels and an increase in the content of linolenic acid were noted in cotyledons, whereas oleic acid levels decreased in roots. Seven-day exposure to MJ vapor caused a further reduction in stearic acid content and an increase in oleic acid and linoleic acid levels in the hypocotyl. At the same time, the linoleic acid content of roots and linolenic acid levels in cotyledons were doubled, but a 5-fold reduction in linolenic acid concentrations was observed in roots. Methyl jasmonate intensified fatty acid peroxidation in cotyledons after 4 and 7 days and in roots after 4 days of exposure. Peroxidation was inhibited in the hypocotyl and roots after 7 days. The noted changes in the composition and peroxidation of fatty acids are probably indicative of senescence in buckwheat seedlings under the influence of MJ. Senescence seems to proceed faster in cotyledons than in other organs of buckwheat seedlings.
The Construction of a Breathing Simulator for Research of the Diving Breathing Apparatus in Compliance with the PN-EN 250:2014 Standard
Authors: Talaśka Zbigniew
Published: November 2016

The article discusses the construction of a breathing simulator used at the Department of Underwater Works Technology of the Polish Naval Academy in Gdynia for the research on an open-circuit air diving apparatus for compliance with the PN-EN 250:2014 standard.
Villreinfangst i den sørlege delen av Midt-Noreg – ein studie i fordelinga av bågastø, jordgravne og steinmura fangstgroper
Authors: Sanden Guro Dehli
Published: November 2016

Prehistoric hunting structures for reindeer in central Norway. This article examines the distribution of prehistoric hunting structures for reindeer in the mountain area of central Norway. The article focuses on two different main types of hunting structures: stone bricked archery positions and pitfalls. Pitfalls can be divided into two groups: stone bricked pitfalls or pitfalls dug in the ground. This article aims to review a theory introduced by Øystein Mølmen, who has suggested that the two main types of hunting structures, archery positions and pitfalls, have different distribution patterns in the mountain area of central Norway. The archery position type is densely concentrated in a  belt? of the coastal mountain area from Geiranger in the south to Sunndal in the north. In the mountain area further east, the dominant hunting structures consist, however, of large pitfall trapping systems. In my research, I have gathered information of over 4500 known hunting structures for wild reindeer in the mountain area of central Norway. This information will be presented in a new map showing various concentration and distribution of the two main types of hunting structures. The map will be used to review the distribution of the different types of hunting structures, and where the boundary between the different hunting structures may be identified. Does the map show the same pattern that Øystein Mølmen is arguing for in his theory? At the end of the article there will be an attempt to raise questions and some possible explanations to why we have a different distribution and concentration of hunting structures in the western mountain areas compared to the eastern mountain areas.
Hafrsfjord og kampen om vikingtidens flåtebaser
Authors: Opedal Arnfrid
Published: November 2016

Summary mangler.
Lokalsamfunn, regionar og nettverk i mellomalderen – ulike arkeologiske tilnærmingar
Authors: Baug Irene
Published: November 2016

Archaeological approaches in the study of local communities and regional contacts in the Middle Ages Region is a complex and multifaceted concept. To what degree is it a suitable analytical approach to archaeological analyses? The political and administrative system in medieval Norway was largely built up around the assembly organization, where the geographical location of a local community was decisive for what administrative region it belonged to. The political-administrative regions are mainly expressed in written sources and have normally no clear material feature. However, one object type, the stone crosses on the west coast of Norway, may be seen in connection with the law area of the Gulathing law. Distribution of common artefact types within a geographical area may indicate regional contacts where technology and trade are central aspects, here defined as economic-functional regions. The importance of including a variety of objects in order to identify trade regions is emphasized. A homogeneous material culture within a geographical area may represent a common cultural or ethnical identity of the people living there, so-called identity regions. However, in the more complex medieval society, contacts and alliances were also directed to groups of people outside the area, and cultural identity was not always attached to the geographical area where people lived. These three types of regions, then, both overlap and diverge. Nevertheless, reflections concerning contacts and interaction are important, and a regional perspective may represent a useful approach where the material culture is studied according to larger connections and perspectives.
Effect of itraconazole on the quality of life in patients with moderate to severe seborrheic dermatitis: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial
Authors: Abbas Zaheer , Ghodsi Seyede Zahra , Abedeni Robabeh
Published: November 2016

Background: Few studies have examined the effect of seborrheic dermatitis (SD) and/or its consequent therapy on a patient’s quality of life. Itraconazole has been suggested as an effective therapy for severe SD but its impact on Quality of Life (QoL) in these patients has never been studied before.

Objective: The study aimed to verify the efficacy of the itraconazole on the quality of life in patients with moderate to severe SD.

Methods: A randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trial was planned to describe the effect of SD per se on QoL and to determine the impact of oral itraconazole or placebo on QoL of SD patients. Sixty-eight patients with moderate to severe SD participated in the study to receive either itraconazole or placebo. Dermatology Life Quality Index was used to evaluate their quality of life before and after treatment. Itraconazole 200 mg/daily or placebo was prescribed for one week and then the first two days of every month for the following three months. Fifty-seven patients completed the study.

Results: Significant improvement was observed in QoL of both itraconazole and placebo groups, but itraconazole group showed significantly higher improvement as compared to placebo (p=0.001). QoL was impaired significantly with high disease severity (p=0.002) and facial involvement (p=0.017).

Conclusions: Itraconazole significantly improves the QoL in patients with moderate to severe SD.
Dermoscopy could be useful in differentiating sarcoidosis from necrobiotic granulomas even after treatment with systemic steroids
Authors: Ramadan Shahira , Hossam Dalia , Saleh Marwah A.
Published: November 2016

Background: Diagnosing cutaneous sarcoidosis and necrobiotic granulomas is challenging.
Objective: Assessing the value of dermoscopy in differentiating cutaneous sarcoidosis from necrobiotic granulomas and evaluating whether their dermoscopic features will be altered after treatment.
Methods: Nineteen cutaneous sarcoidosis and 11 necrobiotic granuloma patients (2 necrobiosis lipoidica, 4 granuloma annulare and 5 rheumatoid nodule) were included in this study. The diagnosis was confirmed by skin biopsy. The lesions were examined using non-contact polarized dermoscope (Dermlite 2 HR-Pro; 3Gen, San Juan Capistrano, CA).
Results: Ten out of 19 cutaneous sarcoidosis patients and 7/11 necrobiotic cases group were receiving treatments (topical, intralesional or systemic steroids ± chloroquine) but still have cutaneous lesions. Treatment duration in the sarcoidosis group ranged from 2 months to 10 years (median 3 years) and in the necrobiotic cases group ranged from 3 months to 16 years (median 2 years). Pink homogenous background, translucent orange areas, white scar-like depigmentation and fine white scales were significantly associated with the cutaneous sarcoidosis compared to necrobiotic cases group. On the other hand mixed pink, white and yellowish background was significantly associated with the necrobiotic cases group. No significant difference in the dermoscopic findings was detected between treated and non-treated patients.
Conclusion: Some dermoscopic findings are shared between the cutaneous sarcoidosis group and the necrobiotic cases group, yet dermoscopy could be a useful aid in differentiating them even after treatment.
Multiple familial trichoepithelioma: confirmation via dermoscopy
Authors: Navarrete-Dechent Cristián Patricio , Bajaj Shirin , Marghoob Ashfaq A. , González Sergio , Muñoz Daniel
Published: November 2016

Trichoepitheliomas are uncommon benign adnexal neoplasms that originate from the hair follicles. Multiple familial trichoepithelioma constitute an autosomal dominant disease characterized by the appearance of multiple flesh-colored, symmetrical papules, tumors and/or nodules in the central face and occasionally on the scalp. Although clinical diagnosis is usually straightforward in light of the family history and naked-eye examination, dermoscopy may aid in its confirmation. Dermoscopy of each papule revealed in-focus arborizing vessels, multiple milia-like cysts and rosettes amidst a whitish background.
In a patient with multiple facial papules revealing a dermoscopic appearance described above, the diagnosis of sporadic or familial multiple trichoepithelioma should be considered.
In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy features of a large cell acanthoma: report of a case
Authors: Shahriari Neda , Grant-Kels Jane Margaret , Rabinovitz Harold S. , Olivieri Margaret , Scope Alon
Published: November 2016

Reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) is an FDA approved noninvasive optical imaging technique that acquires cellular level-resolution skin images in vivo. Herein, we report a case of histopathologically proven large cell acanthoma (LCA) whose RCM features simulate those of squamous cell carcinoma in situ.
A INFLUÊNCIA DO 1º GOL NO RESULTADO FINAL DE PARTIDAS DO CAMPEONATO BRASILEIRO SÉRIES A E B
Authors: Rodrigues Victor Alberice de Oliveira , Constantino Frederico Gonçalves , Praça Gibson Moreira , Matias Cristino Julio Alves da Silva , Greco Pablo Juan
Published: November 2016

Estudo objetivou analisar a influência de se marcar o primeiro gol da partida no resultado final do Campeonato Brasileiro séries A e B. Analisou-se o resultado final e a marcação do primeiro gol de jogos 2011 a 2014 nas séries A e B. Nos resultados observou-se associação significativa entre marcar o primeiro gol e vencer as partidas na série A. Resultados similares foram observados na série B, revelando a importância da marcação do primeiro gol para a obtenção de vitórias em partidas de futebol. Conclui-se haver uma associação significativa entre marcar o primeiro gol e vencer no campeonato brasileiro.
O “CORPO” COMO TEMA DA PRODUÇÃO DO CONHECIMENTO NA REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE CIÊNCIAS DO ESPORTE - RBCE (1979-2012)
Authors: Zoboli Fabio , Da Silva Renato Izidoro , Correia Elder Silva , Dos Santos João Filipe , Souza Vinícius dos Santos , Santos Tiago de Brito Ferreira
Published: November 2016

Bibliometria da produção do conhecimento da temática “corpo” na Revista Brasileira de Ciências do Esporte 1979-2012. O estudo é do tipo bibliométrico com abordagem quali-quantitativa de caráter descritivo. Os termos de busca foram: “corpo”, “corporeidade”, “corporal” e “corporalidade”, todos aplicados segundo os filtros “título” e “resumo”. Como resultados foram encontrados 121 trabalhos a partir dos quais foram construídas escalas de medidas para enquadrar o quantitativo das produções científicas. Os trabalhos analisados foram agrupados em seis categorias: “fundamentos e propostas pedagógicas”, “Educação Física e epistemologia”, “corpo e identidade cultural”, “corpo e estética”, “motivação e exercício” e “outros”.
O ORIENTE DE FUNAKOSHI NO HORIZONTE DO KARATÊ DESPORTIVIZADO
Authors: Coelho Milton de Souza , Coelho Paulo Renato Moreira da Silva , Salgado Filho Leandro Nogueira , Ferreira Nilda Teves , Columá Jorge Felipe , Triani Felipe da Silva
Published: November 2016

O oriente de Funakoshi se projeta no karatê atual. Nesse viés, os deslocamentos de sentido da desportivização geram valores mesclados do Bushido que unem valores antigos e novos. Com isso o mestre perde autonomia diante da Federação que tende a investir numa estética padronizada e na educação do movimento. Isso acelera a desconstrução da prática que privilegiava o kata e o Bushido tradicional. Nesse sentido, objetiva-se analisar indícios de emergência de novos códigos culturais, caracterizadores de éticas mitigadas, como alternativas à ética do Bushido no sentido tradicional. Para atingi-lo, foi realizada uma pesquisa híbrida em que praticantes de Karatê Shotokan são questionados e entrevistados a partir do 1º Dan filiados à Federação de Karatê do Rio de Janeiro. Portanto, o estudo mostra que a ética do Bushido se desloca em direção a outros valores, ancorada na força imaginária do Bushido tradicional que pavimenta o campo para a legitimação de novos valores.
Mothers and fathers in NICU: The impact of preterm birth on parental distress
Authors: Ionio Chiara , Colombo Caterina , Brazzoduro Valeria , Mascheroni Eleonora , Confalonieri Emanuela , Castoldi Francesca , Lista Gianluca
Published: November 2016

Preterm birth is a stressful event for families. In particular, the unexpectedly early delivery may cause negative feelings in mothers and fathers. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between preterm birth, parental stress and negative feelings, and the environmental setting of NICU. 21 mothers (age = 36.00 ± 6.85) and 19 fathers (age = 34.92 ± 4.58) of preterm infants (GA = 30.96 ± 2.97) and 20 mothers (age = 40.08 ± 4.76) and 20 fathers (age = 40.32 ± 6.77) of full-term infants (GA = 39.19 ± 1.42) were involved. All parents filled out the Parental Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the Impact of Event Scale Revised, Profile of Mood States, the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support and the Post-Partum Bonding Questionnaire. Our data showed differences in emotional reactions between preterm and full-term parents. Results also revealed significant differences between mothers and fathers’ responses to preterm birth in terms of stress, negative feelings, and perceptions of social support. A correlation between negative conditions at birth (e.g., birth weight and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit stay) and higher scores in some scales of Impact of Event Scale Revised, Profile of Mood States and Post-Partum Bonding Questionnaire were found. Neonatal Intensive Care Unit may be a stressful place both for mothers and fathers. It might be useful to plan, as soon as possible, interventions to help parents through the experience of the premature birth of their child and to begin an immediately adaptive mode of care.
Meaning-making process related to temporality during breast cancer traumatic experience: The clinical use of narrative to promote a new continuity of life
Authors: Martino Maria Luisa , Freda Maria Francesca
Published: November 2016

Previous research has agreed that meaning-making is a key element in the promotion of patients’ well-being during and after a traumatic event such as cancer. In this paper, we focus on an underestimated key element related to the crisis/rupture of this meaning-making process with respect to the time perspective. We consider 40 narratives of breast cancer patients at different times of treatment, undergoing chemotherapy and biological therapy. We collected data through writing technique. We performed an interpretative thematic analysis of the data and highlighted specific ways to signify time during the different treatment phases. Our central aspect “the time of illness, the illness of time” demonstrates that the time consumed by illness has the risk of becoming an illness of time, which transcends the end of the illness and absorbs a patient’s past, present, and future, thus saturating all space for thought and meaning. The study suggests that narrative can become a therapeutic and preventive tool for women with breast cancer in a crisis of temporality, and enable the promotion of new semiotic connections and a specific functional resynchronization with the continuity/discontinuity of life. This is useful during the illness and medical treatment and also after the treatment.
The relationship between accuracy of numerical magnitude comparisons and children’s arithmetic ability: A study in Iranian primary school children
Authors: Tavakoli Hamdollah Manzari
Published: November 2016

The relationship between children’s accuracy during numerical magnitude comparisons and arithmetic ability has been investigated by many researchers. Contradictory results have been reported from these studies due to the use of many different tasks and indices to determine the accuracy of numerical magnitude comparisons. In the light of this inconsistency among measurement techniques, the present study aimed to investigate this relationship among Iranian second grade children (n = 113) using a pre-established test (known as the Numeracy Screener) to measure numerical magnitude comparison accuracy. The results revealed that both the symbolic and non-symbolic items of the Numeracy Screener significantly correlated with arithmetic ability. However, after controlling for the effect of working memory, processing speed, and long-term memory, only performance on symbolic items accounted for the unique variances in children’s arithmetic ability. Furthermore, while working memory uniquely contributed to arithmetic ability in one-and two-digit arithmetic problem solving, processing speed uniquely explained only the variance in single-digit arithmetic skills and long-term memory did not contribute to any significant additional variance for one-digit or two-digit arithmetic problem solving.
Measuring the effects of self-awareness: Construction of the Self-Awareness Outcomes Questionnaire
Authors: Sutton Anna
Published: November 2016

Dispositional self-awareness is conceptualized in several different ways, including insight, reflection, rumination and mindfulness, with the latter in particular attracting extensive attention in recent research. While self-awareness is generally associated with positive psychological well-being, these different conceptualizations are also each associated with a range of unique outcomes. This two part, mixed methods study aimed to advance understanding of dispositional self-awareness by developing a questionnaire to measure its outcomes. In Study 1, expert focus groups categorized and extended an initial pool of potential items from previous research. In Study 2, these items were reduced to a 38 item self-report questionnaire with four factors representing three beneficial outcomes (reflective self-development, acceptance and proactivity) and one negative outcome (costs). Regression of these outcomes against self-awareness measures revealed that self-reflection and insight predicted beneficial outcomes, rumination predicted reduced benefits and increased costs, and mindfulness predicted both increased proactivity and costs. These studies help to refine the self-awareness concept by identifying the unique outcomes associated with the concepts of self-reflection, insight, reflection, rumination and mindfulness. It can be used in future studies to evaluate and develop awareness-raising techniques to maximize self-awareness benefits while minimizing related costs.
Análisis lingüístico y filosófico en definiciones de ALFIN aplicando técnicas bibliométricas
Authors: Rodríguez Castilla Liuris , Uribe Tirado Alejandro , Cabrera Ramos Juan Francisco , Serra Toledo Rolando
Published: November 2016

La Investigación expone un análisis lingüístico y filosófico de diversas definiciones de ALFIN para identificar los elementos que las conforman y cuántas de ellas incluyen la mayor cantidad de atributos que permitan seleccionarlas como las más completas desde un enfoque científico. La investigación toma como muestra 52 definiciones sobre el tema de alfabetización informacional, y aplica técnicas bibliométricas para realizar un análisis general sobre las definiciones y reflejarlas en mapas de visualización. La investigación toma como punto de partida dos artículos publicados por los autores Bawden y Uribe que realizan un análisis en definiciones de ALFIN. Se utilizaron como herramientas el gestor bibliográfico EndNote para realizar el  conteo de atributos y determinar los elementos presentes en las definiciones de acuerdo con las características lingüísticas y filosóficas que debe cumplir una definición, y con esto seleccionar las más adecuadas. Se aplicaron los software UCINET, Bibexel, y NetDraw para el análisis y visualización de los resultados.