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Quadrinhos na Biblioteca Escolar: o Caso Dom Quixote
Authors: Rolim Anderson Teixeira , Lopes Marcelo Silvio , Rolim Marina Ambrozio Galindo
Published: April 2016

Pautado pelo cenário de valorização dos quadrinhos, mais especificamente das adaptações literárias, o presente trabalho busca observar alguns casos de transposição da literatura para a HQ, considerando aspectos editorais, estéticos e linguísticos, para apontar as perspectivas pedagógicas que elas suscitam. Designadamente, verifica versões em quadrinhos da obra máxima de Miguel de Cervantes, Dom Quixote, por meio da análise dos elementos intrínsecos ao ensino de literatura. Como resultado, esboça um panorama das adaptações literárias em quadrinhos no Brasil, suas coleções, edições e editais. Nesse sentido, este trabalho tem natureza bibliográfica, com base em documentação indireta, por meio
do material especializado acerca do tema proposto.
Active layer thermal regime in two climatically contrasted sites of the Antarctic Peninsula region
Authors: Hrbáček F. , Oliva M. , Laska K. , Ruiz-Fernández J. , De Pablo M. A. , Vieira G. , Ramos M. , Nývlt D.
Published: April 2016

Permafrost controls geomorphic processes in ice-free areas of the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) region. Future climate trends will promote significant changes of the active layer regime and permafrost distribution, and therefore a better characterization of present-day state is needed. With this purpose, this research focuses on Ulu Peninsula (James Ross Island) and Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island), located in the area of continuous and discontinuous permafrost in the eastern and western sides of the AP, respectively. Air and ground temperatures in as low as 80 cm below surface of the ground were monitored between January and December 2014. There is a high correlation between air temperatures on both sites (r=0.74). The mean annual temperature in Ulu Peninsula was -7.9 ºC, while in Byers Peninsula was -2.6 ºC. The lower air temperatures in Ulu Peninsula are also reflected in ground temperatures, which were between 4.9 (5 cm) and 5.9 ºC (75/80 cm) lower. The maximum active layer thickness observed during the study period was 52 cm in Ulu Peninsula and 85 cm in Byers Peninsula. Besides climate, soil characteristics, topography and snow cover are the main factors controlling the ground thermal regime in both areas.
Are we sleeping on the job? Insomnia among men with prostate cancer
Authors: Drummond Frances Josephine
Published: April 2016

Prostate cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in men and almost half of male cancer survivors in the US have had a prostate cancer diagnosis. Insomnia is common among cancer patients and survivors. There is evidence that cognitive behavioural therapy can be used to effectively manage insomnia among women with breast cancer. The aim of this review was to investigate the prevalence, risk factors and management of insomnia among men with prostate cancer. The effect of insomnia on the psychological health and health-related quality of life of these patients and/or survivors is also discussed. Increased awareness and knowledge of this symptom among men with prostate cancer may facilitate improved diagnosis, and management of insomnia in this large population. This in turn may improve the health-related quality of life of these men. Therefore, research into the effective management of insomnia among men with prostate cancer is essential.
Creating learning communities for undergraduate students participating in research
Authors: Hickey Jason
Published: April 2016

The undergraduate research experience program is a funding program offered by the Qatar National Research Fund. The purpose of the program is to provide hands-on research experience for undergraduate students in order to increase their capacity for future research activities. However, leading a team of unexperienced researchers can be challenging. Minimal literature exists of how to overcome these challenges and provide a positive learning experience for novice researchers. The purpose of this paper is to: 1) describe a ‘situated learning’ framework, and teaching methods and approaches that may be helpful for future researchers to actively engage students in the research learning process; 2) describe our own experiences with creating a professional community of research using a team approach; and, 3) offer some practical strategies for scaffolding students to gain research skills through working in close proximity to more experienced colleagues. Helpful situated learning strategies included active engagement of students throughout the project, setting meaningful activities, meeting regularly as a team, scaffolding student learning, setting both individual and group work, assigning specific roles, engaging students in dissemination activities, sharing responsibility, and fading control of project activities to the students as their competency increased. Using a structured mentoring strategy resulted in students being actively engaged in all stages of the project. This approach helped to overcome many challenges of working with novice researchers. It was also rewarding to observe the growth of young researchers through the experiences that they gained in working as members of a research community of practice.
E-textbooks in ESL classrooms: are learners on board?
Authors: Al-Ali Sebah , Ahmed Azim
Published: April 2016

As publishers and academia swiftly head towards e-textbooks, it is important to understand how students feel about using e-textbooks as a primary learning tool. This paper discusses results of a small-scale study looking into how a group of language learners view and use e-textbooks as learning tools in ESL classrooms. The paper concludes by offering teaching implications that could ease integrating e-textbooks in language classrooms in a more effective and efficient manner.
Human rights aspects of european foreign policy
Authors: Ayata Ali
Published: April 2016

The development policy of the European Union is a policy area that has developed rapidly, especially after the Cold War and the conflicts between Eastern countries. In the 1990s, the EU issued a development profile and started the human rights and democracy concepts into the Treaty of European Union officially as guiding principles in its foreign policy. Even before the importance of human rights and democracy in the founding treaties of the European Union was mentioned, strengthening the identity of the European Union could be brought at the international level from the start with respect for these criteria together, because these criteria were the grounds for the EU. The specific aim of this work is to consider the human rights dimension of EU development, cooperation and also some related policy issues and implementation problems in practice, which are considered in theoretical approaches in the study. It should be also noted that while the EU acts as an institution and also relief organization, it makes use of its own funds and budgets, not its Member States. Within this context, the activities of the Union to promote human rights could be interpreted as cultural imperialism.    Keywords: Human Rights, European Union, Foreign Policy, Cultural Imperialism.
Validity of double dividend hypothesis in EU-15 countries
Authors: Sasmaz Mahmut Unsal
Published: April 2016

The increases in climate change, biological diversity loss, ecosystem degradation, effects of chemical pollution on the human health, scarcity of the sources, energy and water security have been experienced in the world in recent years together with globalization and the sharp increases in the mass production. In this regard, especially developed countries have begun to implement the policies such as environmental tax reforms to overcome these problems. This study examines the impact of environmental tax reforms on both environment and employment in EU-15 countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom) during the period 1995-2012 by using panel cointegration and Panel FMOLS tests. We found that the double dividend hypothesis was valid in EU-15 countries.Keywords: double dividend hypothesis, environmental tax reform, panel data analysis
The determinants of high technology product export in brict countries: An econometric approach
Authors: Kizilkaya Oktay , Ay Ahmet , Sofuoğlu Emrah
Published: April 2016

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between R&D expenditures, patent acceptance, openness and high technology product export. For this purpose, using panel FMOLS method, we examined BRICT (Brasil, Russia, India, China, Turkey) countries over the period of 2000-2011. According to the results, in the long run, all variables have positive impact on high technolgy product export. In the light of the findings obtained from the analysis, we present some policy recommendations in the conclusion.Keywords: HighTechnology Product Export, R&D, Panel FMOLS.
Discussions of local autonomy in Turkey
Authors: Bahceci Hazal Ilgın , Gormez Kemal
Published: April 2016

The Europen Charter of Local Self Government was introduced and initiated in Turkey in 1992 however there were reservations placed on certain articles of the agreement. This Charter can be said to be considered as an essential reference paper for the agenda of Turkish Public Administration for the discussions of “reformation in local governments”, “empowering local governments” and “creating autonomous local governments”. The Charter has continously been present in the agenda of Turkish Politics before almost every elections, during preparation of a new constitution, the peace period and democratisation issues. These discussions are in relevance to removing or maintaning the reservations placed on the articles of the Charter.The Council of Europe has initiated the Charter and has started working in 1997 towards creating similiar documents at regions. The Council initially accepted the European Draft Charter of Regional Self Government and in accordance accepted the Reference Framework Document for Regional Democracy in 2009. The Draft Charter states that the recognition of the autonomy of regional governments will not be allowed to impact the policy of loyalty to the state in any way and that the regions will not be able to negatively impact the national unity.The purpose of this study is to research and present the discussions of the autonomy of local governments in Turkey in regards to the mentioned papers. The study will be limited to the impact caused or the impact that may be caused by the above mentioned documents and agreements in regards to autonomous local government discussions in Turkey. The above mentioned articles will not be examined in detail. Keywords: Local Autonomy, Local Government, The Principle of Subsidiarity, Decentralization and Regionalization, Turkish Political and Administrative Culture
Independent regulatory authorities in Turkish public administration
Authors: Gokus Mehmet
Published: April 2016

First examples of institutions called as independent regulatory authorities or agencies and being outside of the classic administrative structure have emerged in Anglo-Saxon countries. Starting from 1970s, these institutions have also started to be given place also in some countries in continental Europe.Together with the influence of globalization process and developments occurring in the field of public administration in 1980s, regulatory functions of the government became prominent. In this process, independent regulatory authorities began to spread rapidly as new actors of this function. While weakening the state as an economic actor, liberalisation and privatization policies, strengthened the regulatory role of the state since 1980s in Turkey. To play this new role, independent regulatory authorities began to show presence as administrative institutions carrying unique features in terms of structuring and staying outside of the classical organization of administration. Independent regulatory authorities also undertook the role of minimizing the problems emerging due to populist attitudes of governments and loosening the ties between politics and economics in especially strategically important areas (energy, capital market, banking business). The common feature of these authorities is considered as being autonomous administrative units undertaking “regulation” and “supervision” activities in the fields and sectors like competition, banking, finance, communication, human rights, food and drug safety.In this study, after giving general information about the independent regulatory authorities,the debate on determining constitutional position of these authorities in Turkish Public Administration system will be handled and evaluated. Keywords: independent, authorities, government, Constitution
First step of the eurasian integration
Authors: Mekebaeva Maigul , Mussatayev Seilbek , Omargazy Yergali , Nassimova Gulnar
Published: April 2016

In article the author analyzed the history of emergence and development of the Eurasian economic union, there are considered the problems of its functioning in the conditions of accession to the World Trade Organization. It should be noted that the Eurasian integration approached to important point in its history. At the beginning of the first year of functioning of the Union optimists and supporters of unconditional integration without any questions were prevailed. However, recently, many questions and problems have been accumulated. The most part of questions is connected with the results of the first year of functioning of Eurasian economic union, and also, how economic model of this union is equitable to national and economic interests of each country separately. Therefore the author having investigated integration processes within EEU, feature of competitive fight in EEU, the reason of contradictions, and also, consequences to which devaluation of ruble and tenge have led, the dumping prices in Russia which negatively influence the competitiveness of economies of Kazakhstan and Belarus, has tried to answer a question whether there is a prospect at the Eurasian economic union. Complex research of a present state and problems of functioning of EEU was carried out with an application of comparative and system analyses, the content analysis, event-analysis, SWOT analysis, etc. methods of the political science analysis. Article is written on the basis of reliable factual materials. Also more often researchers do not write the political aspect of the integration processes taking place in the Eurasian space. Though it is obvious, that exactly the political motivation is the most important argument for many supporters of economic integration.Key words: Eurasian economic union, Eurasian integration, political issue, competitiveness, economic security.
General properties of elmacik fossil beds and Its importance in view of anatolian paleogeography
Authors: Kahraman Nurfeddin
Published: April 2016

Tefenni Basin, is located in the southwestern part of Burdur Basin. Elmacık village where paleontological excavations was made, is established at the place where Elmacık stream opens to Tefenni basin.        Elmacık fossil beds, were discovered during the geomorphological studies we did in 1997. Lake containing fossil, marsh layers consisting of fillers, are located on the Formation of Burdur. These layers showing different color and texture features, are tilted 10-15 degrees to the east-southeast direction by tectonic movements affecting region. Due to subsidence and rising as a cause of tectonic reasons, this layer series are located at different altitudes. Elmacık fossil beds insitu situation have mostly fossil localities. Secondary fossils are also observed in some layer series. Secondary fossil finds, consists of horn and bone oms belonging to various species lived in earlier periods. Elmacık vertebrate fossil bed, is located between the Neogene fossil beds in Tokmacık town of Isparta province and Özlüce village of Muğla province in south west Anatolia., According to these findings, Elmacık fossil bed shows a bed feature where comparisons can be made in view of the spread and migration of the upper Neogene faunal species. Between 2006 - 2009, excavations were made in five localities in Elmacık fossil beds. Through this excavations, the presence of twelve different macro species were identified in the region, macro proboscidians being in the first place. Among the excavated fossils, defense tooth of South Mamut, has been the largest ivory ever found in Turkey. Palaeontological findings excavated from the Elmacık beds, will be exhibited in a museum of natural history established in the center of Burdur. With new work to be done in the Elmacık fossil beds, withdrawal stages of Burdur Pliocene lake, Pliocene tectonic movements affecting the region and new evidence of Quaternary transition period may also be obtained.   Keywords: Elmacık fossil beds, Burdur Formation, South mammoth, the natural history museum.
Adaptation of oralman in the Republic of Kazakhstan as a key factor of the integration in a new community
Authors: Aikerim Assylbekovna Kamaldinova , Orlenbaevna Nassimova Gulnar , Kanaevna Abdygaliyeva Gulzhan , Ilyassovna Koshigulova Klara
Published: April 2016

The article provides insights into the country’s migration policies regarding Oralmans as well as the actual situation with their social, economic, and cultural integration. While focusing mainly on the findings of the survey of International organization of migration, also article describes government activities and schemes pertaining to Oralmans. The article analyzes the historical background of ethnic immigration in Kazakhstan. Authors describe government policies regarding oralmans in the country as well as the measures to encourage their arrival and to provide integration assistance. Also it is given general information about Oralmans in Kazakhstan, and geographical distribution in the territory of  Kazakhstan and  describe oralmans’ integration.Keywords: Oralmans, migration policy, ethnic immigration, oralmans’ integration
A historical comperative analysis of european and asian interior spaces through cultural background
Authors: Tüfekçioğlu Dilara
Published: April 2016

Interior design entered the human life together with the need for housing, and has been developed in respect to several needs. But after a certain point, the development process has shown an improvement in their separated into different branches. Different lifestyles of different communities living in different geographies, in short, cultural differentiation have caused variation in interior design. Throughout the history, culture, by means of its elements, creates different lifestyles in the same periods of time, and influences the formation of interiors.The aim of this study is to explore cultural values, that play important role in design process of interiors, shape our daily lives and thus, to assess how they influence interior designs. The study mainly focuses on cultural differences in Asian and European societies, where these differences can be clearly observed. Examining Asian and European cultures also gives us an opportunity to understand the similarities and differences of interior design principles. The information obtained by the historical analysis was synthesized, classified and finally interpreted. In conclusion, both in western and far eastern cultures, according to the periods, many elements within the concept of culture as climate, human values, religion, thinking, trade, class distinction, type of management, personal interests, social events, industrial and technological developments were found to have influence on the lifestyles and interior design.Keywords: Culture, European Culture, Asian Culture, Life styles, Volume Design, Dwellings,  Architecture-İnterior Architecture-Space
Evaluation Des Attaques De Termites (Isoptera Brulle, 1832) Sur Quatre Essences Forestieres D’importance Economique Au Togo (Afrique De L’ouest)
Authors: Gbenyedji Jean Norbert B.K. , Kasseney Boris Dodji , Nyamador Seth Wolali , Sanbena Banibéa Bassan , Kokutsè Adzo Dzifa , Kokou Kouami , Glitho Isabelle Adolé
Published: April 2016

Termites are one of the most abundant invertebrates in tropical ecosystems, where they play a major ecological role in litter decomposition. Despite their important role, termites can cause considerable damage to wood structures in most tropical countries. The aims of this study was to evaluate termite attack in four economically important species in Togo including Antiaris africana Engl (Moraceae), Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir (Fabaceae), Triplochiton scleroxylon Schum (Malvaceae) (all local species) and teak or Tectona grandis Linné (Lamiaceae). For the latter species, termites were infested on 83.49% of 630 feet examined. However, the rate and type attacks differ from one plantation to another. On the studied forest species, termites were collected on about 97% of Triplochiton scleroxylon feet. For this species, at least 31% of examined feet have had their wood attacked. For the other two species, Pterocarpus erinaceus and Antiaris africana respectively about 80% and 67% of examined feet were attacked by termites. Amitermes evuncifer, Ancistrotermes guineensis and Microtermes lepidus were species of termite often harvested from trees examined. However the last two species namely A. guineensis and M. lepidus are encountered on the bark of trees inside veneers unlike A. evuncifer harvested in the heart of the wood. Therefore, the latter species deserves special attention as likely to cause serious damage not only to these species but also other species not taken into account in this study. It is therefore necessary to consider adequate control methods against these species.
A invasão das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação nas escolas e o diálogo necessário
Authors: Siqueira Graziele Cancio
Published: April 2016

O presente artigo baseia-se numa pesquisa de mestrado em educação que dialoga com professores egressos do curso de Ciências Biológicas de uma universidade localizada no estado do Rio de Janeiro enquanto sujeitos mediadores entre os jovens, as demandas culturais e a estrutura escolar, tendo como eixo a influência das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC) em seus processos formativos e práticas pedagógicas. Há o destaque aqui para a importância da leitura de mundo (Freire) do educando, que se desdobra a partir do contexto sociocultural no qual este se insere, com ênfase na premência do diálogo que coadune estes elementos objetivando a compreensão da invasão das TIC nas escolas, seja por via direta através dos recursos que emprega, ou indireta, em função da lógica que sua globalização produz, alterando linguagens e modalidades relacionais, construindo outros paradigmas. Discute-se também o entrincheiramento da instituição escolar e sua impermeabilidade aos fatores externos comboiados pelo seu material humano, o que desperta novamente a necessidade do diálogo para o entendimento destas formas outras de interação.
The Savvy Separator Series: Underperforming Gas Scrubbers—How To Fix Them and How To Avoid Them
Authors: Morillo Elizabeth , van Asperen Victor , Baaren Sander
Published: April 2016

In this sixth article of the Oil and Gas Facilities Savvy Separator series, underperforming gas scrubbers are discussed, and a case study is used to illustrate how an inadequate sizing methodology hinders scrubber performance.
O ensino da dança: O desafio de dançar com o outro
Authors: Moreira Carla Drumond , Cupertino Kátia
Published: April 2016

Trata-se de um relato de experiência vivenciado no Projeto “Dançando na Escola” vinculado ao Programa de Extensão da UFMG. Neste projeto objetivou-se oferecer a vivência do ensino da dança contemporânea em uma escola pública de ensino especial. As atividades desenvolvidas deram-se a partir de vivências lúdicas, autônomas e criati- vas, possibilitando a construção de um dançar próprio e o diálogo entre a sensibilidade e a arte do dançar contemporâneo.Palavras chave: autonomia, criatividade, dança contemporânea, educação especial. Áreas temáticas: Educação e cultura.
Projetando empreendimentos econômicos solidários
Authors: Muñoz Estevan Felipe Pizarro , Neto Wilson Castello Branco , Gutierrez Luis Alejandro Lasso
Published: April 2016

O presente artigo analisa a experiência de criação e desenvolvimento de uma cooperativa de agricultores familiares no município de Urupema, Santa Catarina, amparado nos pressupostos teóricos da ação coletiva, economia solidária e desenvolvimento territorial sustentável. Tendo como pano de fundo a inviabilidade dos agricultores familiares se inserirem isoladamente nos Complexos Agroindustriais contemporâneos característicos do modo de produção capitalista, o estudo aborda a possibilidade de se estruturar empreendimentos econômicos coletivos com perspectiva diversa ao modelo vigente. Por meio de um projeto de extensão fomentado pelo Campus Urupema do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Santa Catarina com o intuito de incubar essa experiência de maneira compartilhada com instituições públicas do território, o presente artigo analisa o perfil dos cooperados e os limites e desafios da COOPEMA. Embora o empreendimento tenha alcançado a formalização, há ainda um longo caminho a percorrer, sobretudo no que se refere ao empoderamento dos atores sociais envolvidos, tendo em vista a construção de uma cultura de reciprocidade e cooperação em meio à sua inserção em mercados de alimentos.Palavras-chave: Economia Solidária, cooperativismo, agricultura familiar.Área Temática: Trabalho, teorias e metodologias em extensão.
Colônia de férias: um espaço social a ser explorado pela saúde?
Authors: De Souza Ramon Augusto Ferreira , Nunes Edilene Do Nascimento , De Lima Jércica Lopes , Vieira Nayara Cassimiro , Priore Silvia Eloiza , Da Silva Renato Pereira
Published: April 2016

A educação em saúde pode contribuir de maneira significativa para a qualidade de vida de uma população, principalmente, das crianças, mais vulneráveis e expostas a situações que podem lhe trazer riscos. O objetivo deste artigo foi demonstrar a experiência desenvolvida na Colônia de Férias da Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV), verificando a viabilidade do aproveitamento de espaços sociais não-formais para a promoção de saúde. Palestras e atividades dinâmicas sobre higiene corporal, educação nutricional, saúde bucal e atividades físicas foram realizadas por acadêmicos do curso de enfermagem, nutrição e educação física da UFV. Exames odontológicos para detecção de cárie dentária também foram realizados. Face ao grande envolvimento do público participante, e identificação de crianças com necessidade de tratamento odontológico, evidenciou-se que a Colônia de Férias/UFV, além de um espaço para lazer das crianças pode se configurar como um espaço para educação em saúde para estas crianças.Palavras-chave: Educação em saúde, crianças, relações comunidadeinstituição. Área Temática: Saúde, teorias e metodologias em extensão.
Quando a extensão alcança a população – PROLINFO: um tredécimo de oportunidades educacionais.
Authors: Pascoal Vinicius Gomes
Published: April 2016

Texto para a modalidade "Instituições".
The effects of passivation parameters on pitting potential of biomedical stainless steel
Authors: Petkovic Dusan , Madic Milos , Radenkovic Goran
Published: April 2016

Passivation is a chemical process in which the electrochemical condition of passivity is gained on the surface of metal alloys. Biomedical AISI 316LVM stainless steel (SS) can be passivized by means of nitric acid immersion in order to improve a protective oxide layer on the surface and consequently increase corrosion resistance of the SS in the physiological solutions. In this study, multiple regression analysis and artificial neural network (ANN) were employed for mathematical modeling of the AISI 316LVM SS passivation process after immersion in the nitric acid solution. The pitting potential, which represents the mea-sure of pitting corrosion resistance, was chosen as the response, while the passivation parameters were nitric acid concentration, temperature and passivation time. The comparison between experimental results and models predictions showed that only the ANN model provided statistically accurate predictions with a high coefficient of determination and a low mean relative error. Finally, based on the derived ANN equation, the effects of the passivation parameters on pitting potential were examined.
Why victimology should stay positive: The ongoing need for positive victimology
Authors: Ronel Natti
Published: April 2016

This paper presents the need for positive victimology and its unique
contribution to victimology. Victimology presented a shift in attention and
awareness in practice, research and theory, by focusing on victims of crime
and of abuse of power, and on victims? rights and victims? services. Positive
victimology indicates a more specified shift in attention and awareness,
within the larger shift of victimology. This shift stands in line with
positive psychology, positive criminology and the idea of victims?
victimology. It denotes an approach to provide the following, as much as
possible: 1. A wide range of social responses to the victims and their
victimization that victims can experience as positive, 2. Positive outcomes
of healing and recovery for victims, and 3. Positive integration of victims.
Within each of those, positive victimology suggests a pragmatic coordinated
system that ranges from definitions of negative poles to those of positive
ones. When moving towards the positive pole at any given coordinate, a sense
of justice is an important factor that might reduce the impact of the harm.
Support is also a crucial factor and at the very positive pole, stands human,
inter-personal love.
Agreement between admission and discharge diagnoses: Analysis by the groups of international classification of diseases, 10th revision
Authors: Mihailovic Natasa , Trajkovic Goran , Simic-Vukomanovic Ivana , Ristic Svetlana , Kocic Sanja
Published: April 2016

Background/Aim. Admission diagnosis represents the diagnosis of an illness, injury or condition due to which a patient is referred to hospital to be admitted. Discharge diagnosis represents the main reason of illness or condition due to which a patient is admitted. The aim of this study was to analyze the agreement between admission diagnostic groups and discharge diagnostic groups of patients in the Clinical Center Kragujevac in the period from January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2013 on the basis of the hospitalization report. Methods. From the basic set of reports, 5% of random samples were singled out and they contained 20,422 reports. Out of the given number of reports, 18,173 hospitalization reports were complete and then further analyzed in the paper. Admission diagnostic groups given by the primary care doctor were compared with discharge diagnostic groups filled out by the practicing physician in the hospital ward from which a patient was discharged. The agreement of these two diagnostic groups was an indication of the high-quality performance of the primary care doctor. Agreement analysis was conducted using Cohen?s Kappa statistics. Results. Agreement analysis showed that the values of the Kappa coefficient for the five leading admission diagnostic groups were in the range of ? = 0.61 to ? = 0.94. The values of the Kappa coefficient for the five most common discharge diagnostic groups were in the range of ? = 0.55 to ? = 0.81. Conclusion. Hospitalization report is a reliable individual report on inpatient care, so it could be used in determining the degree of agreement between admission diagnostic groups and discharge diagnostic groups.
Interleukin-13 Pathway Alterations Impair Invariant Natural Killer T-Cell–Mediated Regulation of Effector T Cells in Type 1 Diabetes
Authors: Usero Lorena , Sánchez Ana , Pizarro Eduarda , Xufré Cristina , Martí Mercè , Jaraquemada Dolores , Roura-Mir Carme
Published: April 2016

Many studies have shown that human natural killer T (NKT) cells can promote immunity to pathogens, but their regulatory function is still being investigated. Invariant NKT (iNKT) cells have been shown to be effective in preventing type 1 diabetes in the NOD mouse model. Activation of plasmacytoid dendritic cells, modulation of B-cell responses, and immune deviation were proposed to be responsible for the suppressive effect of iNKT cells. We studied the regulatory capacity of human iNKT cells from control subjects and patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) at disease clinical onset. We demonstrate that control iNKT cells suppress the proliferation of effector T cells (Teffs) through a cell contact–independent mechanism. Of note, suppression depended on the secretion of interleukin-13 (IL-13) by iNKT cells because an antibody blocking this cytokine resulted from the abrogation of Teff suppression; however, T1D-derived iNKT cells showed impaired regulation that could be attributed to the decrease in IL-13 secretion. Thus, alteration of the IL-13 pathway at disease onset may lead to the progression of the autoimmune response in T1D. Advances in the study of iNKT cells and the selection of agonists potentiating IL-13 secretion should permit new therapeutic strategies to prevent the development of T1D.
Methods, Interpretation, and Ethics in the Study of White Supremacist Perpetrators
Authors: Blee Kathleen M.
Published: April 2016

Interpretive and ethical frameworks circumscribe how we study the perpetrators of politically motivated violence against civilian populations. This article revisits the author’s studies of two eras of white supremacism in the United States, the 1920s and 1980s–1990s, to examine how these were affected by four frameworks of inquiry: the assumption of agency, the allure of the extraordinary, the tendency to categorical analysis, and the presumption of net benefit. It concludes with suggestions on how scholars can avoid the limitations of these frameworks.
How to Scale Factional Divisions in Conflict Situations
Authors: Robben Antonius C.G.M.
Published: April 2016

In conducting fieldwork among perpetrators of state violence, it is a major methodological problem to gain access to competing factions within the research population. Ethnographers often succeed in finding access to at least one faction but this successful rapport might then immediately close off other factions that mistrust the ethnographer’s politics, intentions, or alleged sympathies. The ethnographic challenge is to find intermediaries or switchboard operators, as they are called in this article, who have established informal channels of communication between hostile factions. Switchboard operators have the following characteristics: discretion, neutrality, lack of formal power, disinterestedness, trustworthiness, and they act as a conduit of communication. This article describes how switchboard operators were located in Argentina, and how they played a crucial role in my fieldwork among a broad spectrum of military perpetrators who had terrorized the Argentine people between 1976 and 1983 with enforced disappearances and state repression.
Batman Returns
Authors: Oosterbaan Martijn
Published: April 2016

This article explores the aesthetic elements of sovereignty. Building on the anthropological literature on sovereignty and on contemporary work on the politics of aesthetics, the article analyzes contemporary appearances of Batman symbols and figures in Rio de Janeiro. Despite political debate and academic discussion about the Batmen appearing in mafia-like militias and popular street protests in Rio, the question of what these appearances tell us about the relations between popular imagery and political contestation has remained untouched. This article supports the work of writers who argue that superhero comics and movies present fierce figures that operate in the zone of indistinction, at the crossroads of lawful order and its exception. However, it adds to this literature an analysis that shows in what kind of sociopolitical contexts these figures operate and how that plays itself out. To understand the contemporary appearances and force of figures of the entertainment industry better, this article proposes the concept “popular culture of sovereignty.”
Human-Environment Interactions: A Plea for the Humanities
Authors: Tuana Nancy
Published: April 2016

Research on human-environment interactions often neglects the resources of the humanities. Hurricane Katrina and the resulting levee breaches in New Orleans offer a case study on the need for inclusion of the humanities in the study of human-environment interactions, particularly the resources they provide in examining ethics and value concerns. Methods from the humanities, when developed in partnership with those from the sciences and social sciences, can provide a more accurate, effective, and just response to the scientific and technological challenges we face as a global community.
Redefining Representation
Authors: Bailey Moya
Published: April 2016

This article explores Black trans and queer women’s use of digital media platforms to create alternate representations of themselves through a process that addresses health and healing beyond the purview of the biomedical industrial complex. These activities include trans women of color using Twitter to build networks of support and masculine of center people creating their own digital health zine, two projects that value the propagation of crowd-sourced knowledge and the creation of images that subvert dominant representations of their communities. I argue that this process of redefining representation interrupts the normative standards of bodily representation and health presented in popular and medical culture. My research connects the messages within the seemingly objective realm of biomedicine to the social contexts in which they emerge and are shared. By highlighting two examples where I see these connections being made, I shift attention to the images deployed to redefine representations within these liminal communities.
Embodiment, Curation, Exhibition
Authors: Sim Jiaying
Published: April 2016

As part of the 2014 GENERATION project celebrating the past twenty-five years of contemporary art in Scotland, Douglas Gordon’s exhibition, “Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now,” took centerstage at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow. Gordon contributed to the dialogue with a unique installation showcasing his twenty-two years of artistic endeavors through 101 different-sized old television sets elevated on old plastic beer crates, simultaneously screening 82 video and film works. The screens flickered and lit the dark main gallery as the visual works played on loop—some with sound, some without, some in slow motion. The exhibition included such works as 24 Hour Psycho (1993), Between Darkness and Light (After William Blake) (1997), Play Dead; Real Time (2003), Henry Rebel (2011), Silence, Exile, Deceit: An Industrial Pantomime (2013) and emphasized how Gordon’s collection has grown since its first exhibition from 1999 in Poland and will continue to do so, as he updates the videos and films.
Urban Mediation and Mobility in Istanbul
Authors: Müller Dorit
Published: April 2016

The European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) held its fifth annual conference “Urban Mediations” from June 24 to 27, 2010 in the European Capital of Culture 2010, Istanbul. A wide variety of scholars and researchers in the field of cinema, film, and media studies, but also archivists or film and media professionals were invited. The broad scope theme of “urban mediations” provided ample opportunity for extensive analysis and discussion of media and urbanity theories by the attendees. In more than 80 panels, with four talks each, various questions could be discussed. For example: How are city spaces represented and created in different media? What urban practices and aesthetics develop when using “media”? To what extent do new media forms influence future urban developments or make them possible in the first place? How does media shape city-human interaction?
Biutiful or the Urban Conditions of a forced flexible Mobility
Authors: Frahm Laura
Published: April 2016

More than any other recent urban film, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful (MX/ES 2010) proposes a poignant commentary on the present conditions of a multi-ethnic yet racially segregated city, which is organized by different levels of mobility. Rather than being a tragedy, tracing the last months of Uxbal, a man who, in the face of his impending death, struggles to ensure a sheltered life for his two children, Biutiful can be conceived as a cinematic critique of the city. It offers a distinct contribution to the discourse on urban mobility, since it meticulously deciphers the urban conditions of an emerging new mobility spurred by a permanent quest for adaptability: a complex, contradictory mobility I would like to call a “forced flexible mobility.” In highlighting both the unequal distribution of space and its constant re-appropriation by different ethnic and social groups, this mobility tackles the contradictory status of a “flexible human being” forced into continuous transformation.
The Enigma of Mobility
Authors: Uekoetter Frank
Published: April 2016

This article makes a first attempt at outlining the place of the ongoing arab revolution in modern history, with special attention to its significance to mobility studies. taking issue with readings that emphasize the roots of the revolt in islam or the arab world, it stresses the economic background of the grievance, and specifically the elusive hope for social mobility in the countries' youth. it also highlights the crucial role of networking activities, both face-to- face and online, in creating the momentum that led to toppling of powerful regimes in Egypt and tunisia. The article seeks to demonstrate how mobility studies can highlight the peculiar challenges that both countries are currently facing. By way of conclusion, it shows how the case at hand forces us to think more about the mind of mobility, and more broadly about the ambitions and theoretical promises that the field of mobility studies should embrace.
"When Horsepower Moved the Nation
Authors: Breen Deborah
Published: April 2016

Cobb + Co. Museum, 27 Lindsay Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
http://www.cobbandco.qm.qld.gov.au/
The Mystery of the Failed European Common Transport Policy Explained
Authors: Schot Johan
Published: April 2016

Volkert Ebert and Phillip-Alexander Harter, Europa ohne Fahrplan? Anfänge
und Entwicklung der gemeinsamen Verkehrspolitik in der Europäischen
Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (1957–1985) (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010)
(Reihe Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Beihefte 211),
278 pp., €52

Christian Henrich-Franke, Gescheiterte Integration im Vergleich: Der Verkehr—
ein Problemsektor gemeinsamer Rechtsetzung im Deutschen Reich (1871–
1879) und der Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (1958–1972) (Stuttgart:
Franz Steiner Verlag 2012) (Reihe: Studien zur Geschichte der Europäischen
Integration), 434 pp., €56
Book Reviews
Authors: Lieb Claudia , Weber Donald , Perkins Anita , Domman Monika , Appert Manuel , Millward Liz , Haefeli Ueli , Finch-Boyer Heloise , Roseau Natalie , Terranova Charissa , Moraglio Massimo , Neumaeier Christopher , McShane Clay
Published: April 2016

Christian Kassung, Die Unordnung der Dinge. Eine Wissens- und Mediengeschichte des Unfalls
Claudia Lieb

Matthieu Flonneau and Arnaud Passalacqua, Utilités de l'utilitaire. Aperçu Réaliste des Services Automobiles
Donald Weber

Fred Dervin, Analysing the Consequences of Academic Mobility and Migration
Anita Perkins

Regine Buschauer, Mobile Räume. Medien- und Diskursgeschichtliche Studien zur Tele-Kommunikation
Monika Domman

Sébastien Gardon, Goût de bouchons. Lyon, les villes françaises et l'équation automobile
Manuel Appert

Peter Adey, Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Effects
Liz Millward

Rainer Ruppmann, Schrittmacher des Autobahnzeitalters: Frankfurt und das Rhein-Main-Gebiet
Ueli Haefeli

Frances Steel, Oceania under Steam: Sea Transport and the Cultures of Colonialism, c. 1870-1914, Studies in Imperialism
Heloise Finch-Boyer

Kelly Shannon and Marcel Smets, The Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructure
Natalie Roseau

Andrew Bush, Drive
Charissa Terranova

Paul M. Weyrich and William S. Lind, Moving Minds. Conservatives and Public Transportation
Massimo Moraglio

Ann Johnson, Hitting the Brakes. Engineering Design and the Production of Knowledge
Christopher Neumaeier

Barron H. Lerner, One for the Road: Drunk Driving Since 1900
Clay McShane
Book Reviews
Authors: Morrison Heidi , Finley James S. , Spence Daniel Owen , Hatley Aaron , Squire Rachael , Hall Michael Ra-shon , Vincent-Geslin Stéphanie , Chen Sibo , Andersen Tawny , Ponsavady Stéphanie
Published: April 2016

Oded Löwenheim, The Politics of the Trail: Reflexive Mountain Biking along the Frontier of Jerusalem (Heidi Morrison)

Judith Madera, Black Atlas: Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature (James S. Finley)

Jane Carey and Jane Lydon, eds., Indigenous Networks: Mobility, Connections and Exchange (Daniel Owen Spence)

Gijs Mom, Atlantic Automobilism: Emergence and Persistence of the Car, 1895–1940 (Aaron Hatley)

Nicole Starosielski, The Undersea Network (Rachael Squire)

Sarah Jane Cervenak, Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom (Michael Ra-shon Hall)

Yasmine Abbas, Le néo-nomadisme: mobilités, partage, transformations identitaires et urbaines (Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin)

Suzan Ilcan, Mobilities, Knowledge, and Social Justice (Sibo Chen)

Lesley Murray and Sara Upstone, eds., Researching and Representing Mobilities: Transdisciplinary Encounters (Tawny Andersen)

Novel Review
Michel Houellebecq, Soumission (Stéphanie Ponsavady)
Self-Perceived Pre-Motor Symptoms Load in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: A Retrospective Study
Authors: Rodríguez-Violante Mayela , de Saráchaga Adib Jorge , Cervantes-Arriaga Amin , Millán-Cepeda Roxanna , Leal-Ortega Roberto , Estrada-Bellmann Ingrid , Zuñiga-Ramírez Carlos
Published: April 2016

Background: Parkinson’s disease is characterized by motor and non-motor clinical features. The latter may present as pre-motor symptoms several years before the motor onset.

Objective: To analyze the association between pre-motor symptoms load and its lead-time in relation to the motor onset and time to diagnosis.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried including subjects with Parkinson’s disease from five different movement disorders clinics in Mexico. A structured questionnaire was applied to assess the presence of six self-perceived pre-motor symptoms (hyposmia, depression, anxiety, constipation, pain and sleep disorders).

Results: Overall frequency of pre-motor symptoms was 76.2% . Among the most prevalent symptoms were depression (38%), sleep disorders (37%) and anxiety (36.6%). The lead time to motor onset was greater for constipation (9.2±17.89 years) and pain (8.66±13.36 years). Patients with more than two pre-motor symptoms had a later age at motor onset when compared to patients without pre-motor symptoms (52.04±13.11 vs 56.55±12.97 years, p = 0.037). Late onset patients had a higher frequency of pre-motor symptoms (79% vs 65% in early onset, p = 0.002) and a higher load (1.75±1.37 vs 1.44±1.38, p = 0.033) in comparison to those with early onset. Female subjects reported a higher number of pre-motor symptoms (1.91±1.43 versus 1.48±1.29, p≤0.001). PIGD patients reported a greater frequency of pain (8%) compared to tremor (1%, p = 0.0064) and bradykinetic-rigid (0.61%, p = 0.0061). Anxiety lead-time was greater in tremor-dominant (10.83±15.77 years) compared to bradykinetic-rigid patients (3.48±12.56, p = 0.014).

Conclusions: Pre-motor symptoms load is associated to a later motor onset of PD. Pre-motor symptoms are more frequent in subjects with late onset Parkinson’s disease. Female subjects report a higher number of pre-motor symptoms, depression and anxiety being the most common.