bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Effects of Workplace Incivility on Job Satisfaction: Mediating Role of Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation, Emotional Exhaustion
Authors: Jamal Rabbia , Siddiqui Danish Ahmed
Published: March 2020

Scholars have baptized for investigation relating to the antecedents and sways of workplace incivility and means to condense it. To address this concern, this study proposes a theoretical framework that explains the linkages of workplace incivility (WI) with Job satisfaction (JS). We theorized that incivility decreases employees’ motivation, increases emotional exhaustion and further leads to restricted OCB. These factors, in response, confine employees’ job satisfaction. Further ahead, age, and gender moderates the effect of incivility on job satisfaction. Hence, OCB, exhaustion, and motivation mediate incivility and job satisfaction nexus. These relationships were theorized in a singular model to portray the overall impact of the variables occurring at once. Empirical validity was established through a survey conducted through close-ended questionnaire from 272 employees working in Karachi. Results proposed that there is a negative mediatory impact of emotional exhaustion, whereas, OCB, extrinsic and intrinsic motivation had no mediatory effect on experienced incivility and job satisfaction. With regards to instigated incivility, it doesn’t cause any significant or material job dissatisfaction, however, intrinsic motivation and emotional exhaustion play a negative mediatory role. Witnessed incivility directly affect JS as its coefficient was negative and significant, however, no mediatory role was found.
Performance Appraisal as an Antecedent to Innovation: an Analysis of Its Relative Importance
Authors: Matookchund Navin Gazanchand , Steyn Renier
Published: March 2020

Literature suggests that performance appraisal (PA) contributes to innovation. However, the absolute and relative importance of PA to innovation, the different aspects of PA which drive innovation, as well as PA as a precursor among other antecedents to innovation, has not been adequately described. The aim of the study is to provide clarity on the drivers of innovation, specifically contextualising the impact of PA within the South African context. This study used a cross-sectional survey design, where only quantitative data was collected from full-time employees across private sector, parastatal, and government organisations. The respondents represented a broad cross-section of South African employees. PA and three other known antecedents to innovation, as well as innovation itself, were measured. It was found that PA (as a single variable) was responsible for 5.7% of the variance in innovation. Items in the PA scale with a clear link to innovation were identified, and thematically integrated. It was further found that, when PA was combined with other antecedents of innovation, leading to 26.6% of the variance in innovation being explained, the role of PA was significant, though mostly secondary. Proactive personality was the most dominant predictor of innovation. The importance and relative importance of PA as an antecedent to innovation in the workplace has thus been established. The outcomes of this study may assist managers and human resource practitioners to focus on appropriate, evidence-based information when attempting to enhance innovation.
Using the Confidence Interval-Based Estimation of Relevance Approach to Identify Determinants of Cannabis Use among High School Students in the Netherlands
Authors: Evers Ymke Joline , Dupont Hans Bernard , Crutzen Rik , Heuperman Pauline
Published: March 2020

Aims: The Confidence Interval-Based Estimation of Relevance (CIBER) approach was used to assess the most relevant psychosocial determinants of both the intention to use cannabis and the intention to reduce or quit cannabis use among high school students.Methods: In 2017, 206 Dutch high school students completed questionnaires. Questionnaires measured cannabis use in the past six months, intention to use cannabis in the upcoming six months, intention to reduce or quit cannabis use in the upcoming six months, psychosocial determinants, and sociodemographic characteristics. The CIBER approach was used to estimate the relevance of determinants by calculating and visualizing confidence intervals for the means and correlation coefficients for intention to use cannabis as well as intention to reduce or quit cannabis use.Results: Cannabis use was reported by 28% (57/206), and 26% (54/206) had the intention to use cannabis. Risk perception, attitude, and the descriptive norm were evaluated as the most relevant determinants of the intention to use cannabis. Among cannabis users, 49% (28/57) had the intention to reduce or quit. Attitude and habit were evaluated as the most relevant determinants of the intention to reduce or quit cannabis use among cannabis users.Conclusion: Cannabis use was prevalent among Dutch high school students. Findings suggest that interventions aimed at preventing cannabis use among the general school population might best focus on the risk perception, attitude, and the descriptive norm, whereas interventions aimed at reducing cannabis use among cannabis users might best focus on attitude and habits.
“From Citizens to Refugees”: Japanese Canadians and the Search for Wartime Sanctuary
Authors: Madokoro Laura
Published: March 2020

Beginning in 1942, almost 22,000 Japanese Canadians were removed from their homes on the West Coast of British Columbia. While some citizens privately understood their situation as akin to other histories of displacement, they never discussed their situation publicly using the language of refugeehood or exile. By contrast, the Cooperative Committee on Japanese Canadians, which protested the federal government’s deportation of Japanese Canadians in 1946, cloaked the wartime experience of Japanese Canadians using these very terms. To understand these variations in approaches, this article focuses on the question of what is signified when the term refugee is used in public debates about citizenship and state responsibilities. It begins by framing the stakes of this question by highlighting the debate over the term refugee in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It then explores the experiences of journalist Muriel Kitagawa and her family as they sought refuge in Toronto and the activism of religious leaders who advocated on behalf of Japanese Canadian internees (with reference to a parallel history in the United States). The article concludes by considering the ways in which histories of internment have been memorialized in relation to other accounts of mass displacement. In doing so, the article advances the concept of “refugee distancing” as a way of understanding the reaction of citizens to the idea that they might become refugees. In the context of the Second World War, supporters’ use of the term refugee was a calculated political strategy meant to evoke the promises of citizenship, but it was also one that inadvertently highlighted the vulnerabilities at the core of racialized citizenship experiences, to the detriment of the very citizens the language was meant to assist.
“Assets of War”: Strategic Displacements, Population Movements, and the Uses of Refugees during the Vietnam War, 1965–1973
Authors: Vong Sam
Published: March 2020

Long before the emigration of thousands of people out of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos at the end of the Vietnam War, the United States and the government of the Republic of Vietnam were confronted with a “refugee problem” in South Vietnam, where more than three million civilians were displaced between 1965 and 1969. This article examines how officials of the United States and the South Vietnam government sought to address the ever-growing crisis of internally displaced people. It analyzes three ways in which the United States and the GVN used the processes of displacement and displaced civilians to gain political advantage by transforming uprooted villagers into “assets of war,” to manage displaced populations by creating a classification system, and to engineer population movements for nation-building projects. These different approaches reveal the importance of displacement as a wartime strategy and the role that displaced villagers served as resources of war.
Investigate the anxiety between undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students and its relation to their socio-demographic characteristics
Authors: Theodosios Paralikas , Vaia Karaventza , Evangelia Kotrotsiou , Maria Malliarou , Eleni Lahana , Elias Tsagalas , Styliani Kotrotsiou
Published: March 2020

Objective: Anxiety is a warning sign for an upcoming risk and is a common reaction of most people reacting to stressful events. The purpose of this study was to investigate anxiety between undergraduate and postgraduate students in nursing and its relation to their socio-demographic characteristics.Methods: This is a cross-sectional, quantitative study with a study sample of comprised of n = 177 nursing students, n1 = 121 undergraduate students and n2 = 56 postgraduate students.  The collection of the empirical data was carried out using a fully structured and Self-reported questionnaire which recorded their individual characteristics and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). The statistical analysis was conducted using the software package SPSS.Results: State anxiety was not found to differ significantly between undergraduate and postgraduate students. While Trait and Total Anxiety differed significantly, showing higher mean levels for undergraduate students. Moreover, the students of the last two years of study had a higher mean level of State Anxiety compared to the students of the first year of study.Conclusions: The majority of undergraduate and postgraduate students showed relatively low levels of anxiety. Animportant factor to predict anxiety in undergraduate students was the year of study, while for the postgraduate students were age and marital status.
Flipping the Writing Classroom: Focusing on the Pedagogical Benefits and EFL Learners’ Perceptions
Authors: Alghasab Maha Bader
Published: March 2020

The flipped classroom is an instructional strategy that encourages students to undertake prior preparation for lessons, in particular through the use of online materials provided by their teachers. Empirical studies of the language classroom have supported the effectiveness of this strategy for language development. However, only a limited number of studies have been undertaken in this field, particularly when it comes to the Arab region. This current study therefore explores the application of the flipped classroom with Kuwaiti student teachers of the English language attending the College of Basic Education in Kuwait. It aims is to explore the pedagogical benefits for the development of writing skills, in particular the experiences and perceptions of learners. The study took place over a period of thirteen weeks during the first semester of the 2019 academic year. The participants were thirty EFL student teachers taking a course in advanced writing. The data collection employed both a questionnaire and semi-structures interviews. The findings revealed that students have a generally positive attitude towards the process of flipping the writing classroom. The results from the questionnaire suggested that the flipped classroom provides: (1) a more effective learning environment; (2) flexible paced learning capable of improving students’ writing strategies (in particular when planning and writing a thesis and topics sentences); and (3) enhancement of students’ motivation and interaction. However, the additional findings from the semi-structure interviews revealed a number of sociocultural and contextual factors with a potentially negative influence on learners’ interaction. This study consequently argues that this classroom transformation demands more than a simple addition of technology and out-of-classroom videos and activities, requiring a change in the way students view education.
The Role of Core Skills Development Through English Language Teaching (ELT) in Increasing Employability of Students in the Saudi Labor Market
Authors: Alzuoud Khalid , Gaudel Daya Ram
Published: March 2020

The National Commission for Academic Accreditation & Assessment (NCAAA), Saudi Arabia, aims to determine ‘standards and criteria for academic accreditation and assessment and for accrediting post-secondary institutions and the programs they offer’ (2012). Along this line of teaching, learning standards, each department is required to submit the Course Report (CR) and the Course Specifications (CS) reflecting the quality of learning and the management of courses aiming to achieve the highest international standards. As mandatory procedure, English Language Centers (ELC) in the Saudi universities also prepare quality assessment reports. The reports include data about the assessment of English language skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. In addition, the CR and CS both seek to establish whether students at the Preparatory Year have mastered core skills such as communication skills, problem solving skills, thinking skills, language skills, attention, executive skills, memorizing and other cognitive and interpersonal skills. This qualitative study highlights the major findings the teachers’ perceptions about integrating core skills into English language teaching that would potentially increase employability of students in the labor market in Saudi Arabia and as well as contribute to the national vision 2030 that includes ‘learning for working’. Our study focuses on the relationships between teachers’ perceptions about core skills development during English language teaching and teachers’ decisions about using teaching activities to enhance those skills. Data were collected through questionnaire, semi-structured interviews and class observations and coded into different categories and labelled and then the results were drawn analyzing the connection between those categories.
Persuasion/Dissuasion on National Interest Agenda: A Semiotic Analysis of Pakistani Newspaper Cartoons
Authors: Waqar Sajid , Naz Shahida , Ghani Mamuna
Published: March 2020

The focus of this research was depiction of and persuasion on national interest agenda through semiotics of Pakistani newspapers. It targeted a broad comparison among the semiotics as depicted in two Pakistani English newspapers i.e., Dawn and The Nation. To achieve the objectives, the study was divided into two parts: In part 1 the semiotics were analyzed and in part 2 the written part of political cartoons was analyzed. The study devised an integrated framework of analysis by blending Barthes (1957) theory of semiotics and Fairclough’s (1995) ‘three dimensional’ CDA model for interpretation and explanation of semiotics’ discourse. The study revealed the frequent use of multiple persuasion modes in political cartoons of both the newspapers’ semiotics and discourse. While comparing the two newspapers’ semiotics and discourse, the study also found that daily ‘Dawn’ semiotics played very negligible role in persuasion on national interest agenda of establishing military courts. However, ‘The Nation’ semiotics contributed positively towards national interest agenda-setting. The study recommended careful comparison between various newspapers by readership in order to know the ideological bent of newspapers while representing the facts and opinions.
Multiple Intelligences-Related Projects and EFL University Students’ Autonomy
Authors: Tien Tran Ba , Hanh Le Thi Tuyet
Published: March 2020

This experimental research investigates the relationship between multiple intelligences (MI)-related projects and EFL learners’ autonomy. The experiment was conducted at Vinh University, involving 59 non-English majored students. Autonomy tests, project rubrics, and project questionnaires were employed to collect the data for analysis. The findings showed that after fifteen weeks of treatment with five projects the students involved in MI projects were more self-controlled in exploiting information sources, learning process and language learning than students in the control groups. The experiment groups also showed students’ significant increased motivation in MI projects.
Natural Gas Storage Forecasts: Is the Crowd Wiser?
Authors: Fernandez-Perez Adrian , Garel Alexandre , Indriawan Ivan
Published: March 2020

This paper examines the usefulness of crowdsourced relative to professional forecasts for natural gas storage changes. We find that crowdsourced forecasts are less accurate than professional forecasts on average. We investigate possible reasons for this inferior performance and find evidence of a greater divergence of opinions and a lower incorporation of publicly available information among crowd analysts. We further show that crowdsourced consensus forecast does not influence the market’s expectation of gas storage changes beyond what is already contained in professional consensus forecast, suggesting that crowdsourced forecasts provide little new information. Overall, our results indicate that the incremental usefulness of crowdsourced forecasts for gas market stakeholders is very limited.
Do Localities Benefit from Natural Resource Extraction?
Authors: De Silva Dakshina G. , McComb Robert P. , Schiller Anita R.
Published: March 2020

There is a strand of the economics literature that considers the regionalized economic effects of natural resource endowments. The so-called Natural Resource Curse suggests that natural resource endowments are associated with lower longterm growth rates in the areas in which the resources are located. Lower growth arises because these areas tend to specialize in the development and exploitation of the natural resources at the expense of other dynamic economic activities that offer higher long-term growth potential. Empirical evidence has, however, not reached consistent conclusions. In this paper, we take advantage of the rapid growth in oil and gas development and production in Texas over the course of a decade to consider the localized effects on inter-industry county-level employment at the NAICS-2, county-level mean and median income, and key public finance measures at both the county and school district levels. Considering the effects within a single, large and economically diverse state enables us to control for important state-level variables that influence local public finances. We find little evidence of short term effects necessary to generate the circumstance of a resource curse over the longer term.
The Dynamic Time-frequency Relationship between International Oil Prices and Investor Sentiment in China: A Wavelet Coherence Analysis
Authors: Ye Zhengke , Hu Chunyan , He Linjie , Ouyang Guangda , Wen Fenghua
Published: March 2020

We take a fresh look at the interaction between crude oil prices and investor sentiment from the novel perspective of both the time and the frequency domains. By using principal component analysis, we first construct an investor sentiment indicator. Then, crude oil prices are decomposed into three oil price shocks through an SVAR model. Lastly, the dynamic relationship between investor sentiment and oil price shocks is comprehensively studied from both the time and the frequency domains via wavelet coherence analysis. Our results show the leading position of crude oil prices in the co-movement relationship with investor sentiment. Further, we distinguish the different effects of oil price shocks on investor sentiment at different times and frequencies. We also find that the patterns of the co-movement between oil prices (oil price shocks) and investor sentiment change not only with time but also with frequency.
Oil Price Declines Could Hurt U.S. Financial Markets: The Role of Oil Price Level
Authors: Nguyen Ha , Nguyen Huong , Pham Anh
Published: March 2020

This paper investigates the causal effects of oil price fluctuations on United States’ financial markets using daily oil price and financial market data from 2011 to 2016. To address endogeneity, we follow the heteroscedasticity-based identification strategy by Rigobon (2003) and instrument for changes in oil prices with exogenous shocks on current and future oil supply. We find that a decline in oil price negatively affected markets after 2014 when oil price was very low, but not before 2014 when the price was relatively high. These novel findings suggest oil price level could affect the impact of a decrease in oil prices on financial markets.
Strategic Cost shifting in the Swedish District Heating and Electricity Markets
Authors: Söderberg Magnus
Published: March 2020

Firms that operate combined heat and power (CHP) plants in Sweden face strong incentives to let their district heating (DH) customers subsidize the sales of electricity. This study investigates whether firms exploit the variation in competitive intensity across the two markets and 1) shift costs from electricity to DH, and 2) pass on any cost increase to consumers. A major empirical challenge is that firms endogenously decide whether to operate a CHP plant or not. Two different matching procedures are used to circumvent this problem. The results show that 1) compared with a similar non-CHP firm, the average CHP firm reports a DH cost that is 20-25% higher, 2) the extra cost that CHP firms report is fully passed on to consumers and 3) with reported costs, the price-cost margin is 8% for both groups and with imputed costs the margin increases to 30-35% for the CHP firms.

The results are consistent with the presence of strategic cost shifting, which can be tackled through either stricter accounting rules or DH price regulation.
Behavioral Anomalies and Energy-related Individual Choices: The Role of Status-quo Bias
Authors: Blasch Julia , Daminato Claudio
Published: March 2020

The literature on the energy-efficiency gap discusses the status-quo bias as a behavioral anomaly that potentially increases a household’s energy consumption.

We empirically investigate the extent to which the status-quo bias is linked to residential electricity consumption through two channels: non-replacement of old appliances and overuse of appliances. Using data from a large household survey conducted in three European countries, we find that our measure of status-quo bias is a significant predictor of both the age of home appliances and the level of a household’s consumption of energy services. This is also reflected in the total electricity consumption, which is found to be around 6% higher when the household head is status-quo biased. We thus provide empirical evidence that the status-quo bias may represent a substantial barrier to increasing residential energy efficiency. Our findings prompt policy makers to design instruments that take this barrier into account.
Are Energy Executives Rewarded for Luck?
Authors: Davis Lucas W. , Hausman Catherine
Published: March 2020

In this paper, we examine executive compensation data from 78 major U.S. oil and gas companies over a 24-year period. Perhaps in no other industry are the fortunes of so many executives so dependent on a single global commodity price. We find that a 10% increase in oil prices is associated with a 2% increase in executive compensation. This oil price effect holds for both CEOs and non-CEOs and separately for several different individual components of compensation, including bonuses.

We find that the oil price effect is larger in companies with more insiders on the board, and asymmetric, with executive compensation rising with increasing oil prices more than it falls with decreasing oil prices. We then discuss potential mechanisms drawn from the broader existing literature on executive compensation.
Fuel Demand across UK Industrial Subsectors
Authors: Agnolucci Paolo , De Lipsis Vincenzo
Published: March 2020

Heterogeneity is a theme acquiring more and more prominence in the energy economic literature from both a modelling and policy-making perspective. We show that useful empirical evidence on this subject can be obtained by applying a parsimonious multivariate cointegration analysis that makes use of the increasingly available time series data on energy demand. We find that there is substantial heterogeneity in the demand for fuels from UK firms belonging to different subsectors, with price and level of production having different degrees of importance in the fuel choice, and with evidence of both substitutability and complementarity between fuels. Moreover, we show that fuel demand for the industrial sector as a whole is considerably more elastic than most estimates presented in the literature, finding which has direct relevance for policies aimed at influencing industrial fuel consumption through fuel switching.
Transient and Persistent Energy Efficiency in the Wastewater Sector based on Economic Foundations
Authors: Longo Stefano , Chitnis Mona , Mauricio-Iglesias Miguel , Hospido Almudena
Published: March 2020

Given the increasing importance of the wastewater sector in terms of energy usage, the understanding of the level of energy efficiency of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is useful to both the industry itself as well as policy makers.

Here, based on economic foundations, we apply a Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) approach for energy demand modelling to estimate energy efficiency in the wastewater sector. Using specific SFA models and panel data from 183 Swiss WWTPs over the period 2001 to 2015, the paper illustrates that distinguishing between persistent and transient inefficiency is essential to deduce appropriate energy efficiency diagnosis in WWTPs. In this respect, persistent energy inefficiency is found to be more severe than transient energy inefficiency. Furthermore, it is shown that the age of the equipment influences the demand for energy and the energy savings due to technological innovation are quantified. Finally, economies of output density and scale are estimated demonstrating that for plants operating below optimal scale significant energy savings can be achieved if plants would be operated at higher size. Moreover, our analysis reveals also that for plants larger than 100,000 Population Equivalent, at least from an energy efficiency point of view, it would be no more beneficial to increase their scale.
Why the Effects of Oil Price Shocks on China’s Economy are Changing
Authors: Wang Shouyang , Zhang Xun , Zhao Lin
Published: March 2020

Some studies on developed economies have revealed that the impacts of oil price shocks have decreased while conclusions about China remain occluded. We investigate the changing effects of oil price shocks on China’s macroeconomy and discuss the causes. A time-varying parameter vector autoregressive (VAR) model reveals that impacts of oil price shocks on China’s economy have shown a downward trend since 1997. The responses of the real output are much greater and last longer than those of inflation. Then a new Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model is developed to synthetically explore the causes. The results indicate that decreasing oil intensity and monopoly power reduce the effects of oil price shocks, while increasing capital intensity in production amplifies them.

Other factors-such as changing price stickiness, deregulation of refined oil prices, and shifts in monetary policy targets-have limited effects on the relationship between oil price shocks and China’s macroeconomy.
Wpływ kształtu imperfekcji geometrycznych
dźwigarów dachowych na siły w tężniku
połaciowym poprzecznym
Authors: Czepiżak Dariusz
Published: March 2020

Projektując stężenia połaciowe
poprzeczne [1], zaleca się przyjmować
zastępcze obciążenie od imperfekcji geometrycznych
dźwigarów dachowych. Obciążenie
to można bezpiecznie oszacować [1]
przy założeniu stałej na długości elementu
stabilizowanego siły ściskającej i imperfekcji
w kształcie paraboli o strzałce e0. W pracy,
dla różnych kształtów imperfekcji geometrycznych
elementów stabilizowanych, wyznaczono
obciążenia imperfekcyjne oraz siły
w prętach tężnika połaciowego i porównano
je z siłami wyznaczonymi wg [1]. Wyniki
analiz przedstawiono w tabeli i sformułowano
syntetyczne wnioski.
Analiza wytężenia kominów żelbetowych zlokalizowanych na terenach górniczych
Authors: Oruba Rajmund
Published: March 2020

W artykule przedstawiono wyniki analizy obliczeniowej wpływu nachyleń terenu i wstrząsów parasejsmicznych spowodowanych podziemną eksploatacją górniczą na bezpieczeństwo kominów żelbetowych. Obliczenia wykonano z zastosowaniem metody elementów skończonych. Analizie poddano cztery kominy o wysokości od 120 do 220 m. W obliczeniach uwzględniono nachylenia terenu od 2,5 do 20 mm/m. Wykazano, że przy nachyleniach powyżej 10 mm/m mogą wystąpić przekroczenia dopuszczalnych wartości naprężeń w betonie w dolnych partiach żelbetowych trzonów nośnych. Wpływ wstrząsów górniczych określono dla komina H=180 m z zastosowaniem wzorcowego przyspieszeniowego spektrum odpowiedzi dla Legnicko-Głogowskiego Okręgu Miedziowego. Stwierdzono, że dla silnych wstrząsów podłoża o przyspieszeniach większych od 1500 mm/s2 o bezpieczeństwie komina decydują wartości naprężeń rozciągających w stali zbrojeniowej w górnej partii komina.
Problemy techniczne w adaptacji na lofty
budynku poprzemysłowego
Authors: Nowogońska Beata
Published: March 2020

Adaptacja obiektów poprzemysłowych
pozwala na rozwiązanie problemów
dotyczących zabytków i jest pomocna w procesach
porządkowania krajobrazu kulturowego.
Zmiana sposobu użytkowania obiektu zabytkowego
wymaga przeprowadzenia szeregu
badań wstępnych obiektu. W artykule przedstawione
są wyniki diagnozy stanu technicznego
poprzedzającej adaptację byłej fabryki na
lofty w Zielonej Górze.
Projektowanie dużych ścian żelbetowych
z uwagi na warunki pożarowe
Authors: Kowalski Robert , Modzelewski Robert
Published: March 2020

W referacie omówiono praktyczny
przypadek zaprojektowania dużych
ścian żelbetowych w spalarni odpadów,
z uwagi na odporność ogniową, na bazie rozpatrywania
pożaru jako wyjątkowej sytuacji
projektowej. Zasadność takiego postępowania
wynikała z faktu, że wykorzystanie prostych
Danych tabelarycznych P N-EN 1 992-
1-2 prowadziło do rozwiązań niekorzystnych
ekonomicznie. Po przeanalizowaniu nośności
ogniowej konstrukcji za pomocą metody Izotermy
500oC oraz w wyniku zastosowania żeber
usztywniających ściany znacznie zredukowano
ich grubość.
Destrukcyjny wpływ temperatury
na eksploatację przekryć stalowych
dużych rozpiętości
Authors: Lytvyn Oleksandr , Marcinowski Jakub , Sakharov jr. Volodymyr , Sakharov Volodymyr
Published: March 2020

Przedmiotem rozważań zaprezentowanych
w pracy są przemieszczenia i naprężenia
w elementach stalowych dźwigarów
kratowych, spowodowane zmianami temperatury
zewnętrznej i nierównomiernym rozkładem
temperatur wewnątrz hali. Wielodniowe pomiary
przemieszczeń stalowych, kratowych dźwigarów
dachowych dużej rozpiętości połączone
z pomiarami temperatury w przestrzeni hali
i w różnych punktach dźwigarów wykazały znaczący
wpływ nierównomiernego rozkładu temperatur
na przemieszczenia. Zmierzone wartości
przemieszczeń zostały porównane z przemieszczeniami
otrzymanymi drogą symulacji
numerycznych, w których danymi wejściowymi
były pomierzone temperatury. Poza przemieszczeniami
w pracy przeanalizowano także wzrost
naprężeń w wybranych elementach dźwigara
kratowego, spowodowany nierównomiernym
rozkładem temperatur. Oceniono destrukcyjny
wpływ temperatury na stan wytężenia analizowanych
stalowych dźwigarów kratowych.
Corporate foundation as a corporate philanthropy tool in the light of research
Authors: Rak Mateusz
Published: March 2020

Aim: Demonstration of corporate foundations as a tool for the implementation of corporate philanthropy.
Methodology: The quantitative survey was carried out based on 30% of corporate foundations in Poland, and the qualitative study was conducted in six corporate foundations. The survey was participated by people managing corporate foundations who answered the questions on how cooperation should look like from the assumption and how it looks today. The article also presents the results of researching websites of 125 corporate foundations and their founders.
Results: The research has shown that there are corporate foundations in Poland that are a useful tool for corporate philanthropy.
Research restrictions: The study was conducted in corporate foundations and among their founders. It turned out that most often the same employees are liable for CSR and for the corporation foundation. Therefore, such connections should be examined during further inquiries.
Practical implications: Presentation of advantages and disadvantages of implementing CSR to organizations that do not have corporate foundations. Discussion on problems that arise during the operation of corporate foundations.
Originality/value: The article presents corporate foundations as one of the tools of corporate philanthropy. As foundations are increasingly being established, it is essential to describe such organizations accurately. The article is intended for researchers studying CSR, as well as for business managers who are thinking about setting up corporate foundations.
Quando a sua ocultação chegar ao fim: o messianismo islâmico xiita nos fundamentos de uma identidade religiosa
Authors: Prado Patrícia Simone do
Published: March 2020

O presente artigo objetiva analisar como a ideia messiânica se apresenta e se fundamenta em uma das religiões que mais cresce no mundo, o Islã, a partir da análise de uma de suas vertentes responsável por uma das maiores revoluções políticas (Revolução Iraniana, 1979), a vertente xiita. Para tanto, o trabalho se fundamentará nos seguintes passos: 1) breve apresentação da ideia messiânica nas três religiões monoteístas, atendo-se ao messianismo islâmico dentro da vertente xiita duodecimana; 2) busca pelos elementos revolucionários presentes no Islã xiita e verificação de como esses elementos alimentam a ideia de messianismo nesse grupo; 3) análise da ideia messiânica como formadora de identidade, entre os xiitas, e suas implicações na vivência sócio-religiosa-política dessa comunidade na atualidade. Sem a pretensão de esgotar o assunto, o trabalho que se segue surge como um sucinto, mas grande esforço (jihad) na busca pela compreensão de um elemento complexo, a saber, o messianismo no pensamento islâmico. A justificativa para tal meta encontra-se no desejo de apresentar um caminho de conhecimento sobre esse a fim de suscitar novas discussões.
No caminho de uma teoria da religião em Bourdieu: as apropriações marxianas
Authors: Andrade Júnior Péricles Morais de , Silveira Emerson José Sena da , Pessoa Silvério Leal
Published: March 2020

Este ensaio apresenta um mapeamento da apropriação da linguagem e dos conceitos basilares do método da economia política de Karl Marx (1818-1883) pelo sociólogo francês Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) para elaboração da sua Teoria da Religião. Bourdieu elabora uma teoria da religião a partir da imagem do campo como um “mercado” associado à sistematização religiosa e urbanização, a distinção entre trabalhos material e espiritual e ao fechamento na referência autárquica da produção do saber religioso. No mercado religioso proposto se constituem disputas pelo monopólio da produção e distribuição dos “bens simbólicos de salvação” através de agentes reconhecidos como legítimos para produzir, reproduzir, gerir e distribuir tais bens, com tensões internas ao campo religioso entre agentes especializados entre si e versus autoprodução leiga. Considerando a amplitude da questão, o artigo focaliza alguns conceitos basilares do arcabouço teórico alemão que foram apropriados na obra bourdieusiana. A análise do fenômeno religioso proposta por Bourdieu destaca-se pela adoção dos princípios da crítica filosófica e política da religião e pela elaboração metodológica do campo como um mercado religioso.
Ciências da Religião e Teologia como área autônoma: reconfiguração do debate epistemológico, novos desafios e perspectivas para o estudo das (não) religiões e da(s) espiritualidade(s)
Authors: Sampaio Dilaine Soares
Published: March 2020

O objetivo deste artigo é refletir sobre a área de Ciências da Religião e Teologia em seu contexto pós autonomia enquanto área de avaliação da CAPES- Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior. Num primeiro momento buscarei atualizar o debate epistemológico que tem longa tradição na Área, mostrando que a tão conhecida discussão acerca dos “duplos s” do termo Ciência(s) da(s) Religião(ões), esgota-se, por um lado, e precisa se reinventar, por outro, ou ainda se recolocar em outros termos que diz respeito à consolidação da área enquanto Ciências da Religião “e” Teologia. Num segundo momento, buscarei pensar acerca de alguns dos desafios que se impõem nesse processo de consolidação, considerando alguns caminhos possíveis, tomando como foco duas questões: a do “objeto” e a das perspectivas teórico-metodológicas. Ensaiarei aqui exercícios propositivos quanto aos movimentos que podemos fazer neste processo de consolidação. Ao final, espero, com esse texto, provocar mais diálogos no âmbito da jovem Área autônoma, e ainda colaborar para aqueles que chegam, pois a experiência em sala de aula e a circulação em eventos diversos, mostram que a Área ainda se revela bastante desconhecida ou incompreendida pelos pares, especialmente se considerarmos a diversidade regional em nosso país.
A geographical approach for on-the-fly prioritizing social-media messages for flood risk management based on sensor data
Authors: Assis Luiz Fernando , Horita Flavio , Herfort Benjamin , Steiger Enrico , De Albuquerque João Porto
Published: March 2020

Flood risk management requires updated and accurate information about the overall situation in vulnerable areas. Social media messages are considered to be as a valuable additional source of information to complement authoritative data (e.g. in situ sensor data). In some cases, these messages might also help to complement unsuitable or incomplete sensor data, and thus a more complete description of a phenomenon can be provided. Nevertheless, it remains a difficult matter to identify information that is significant and trustworthy. This is due to the huge volume of messages that are produced and which raises issues regarding their authenticity, confidentiality, trustworthiness, ownership and quality. In light of this, this paper adopts an approach for on-the-fly prioritization of social media messages that relies on sensor data (esp. water gauges). A proof-of-concept application of our approach is outlined by means of a hypothetical scenario, which uses social media messages from Twitter as well as sensor data collected through hydrological stations networks maintained by Pegelonline in Germany. The results have shown that our approach is able to prioritize social media messages and thus provide updated and accurate information for supporting tasks carried out by decision-makers in flood risk management.
Incidência Fidelidade aplicada a rede semântica de títulos
Authors: Cunha Marcelo , Miranda José Garcia Vivas , Pereira Hernane
Published: March 2020

As publicações arquivadas em revistas científicas de alto impacto configuram a memória científica da humanidade de um referido período de tempo. Diante disso, faz-se necessário estudos que investiguem as relações entre as publicações, os autores e a linha editorial dos periódicos, a partir dos conteúdos impressos em seus artigos. Este trabalho busca diferenciar periódicos a partir das redes semânticas de seus títulos (RST), utilizando um mecanismo inerente à redes semânticas para acesso à memória: a rede crítica. O método se baseia na construção das redes a partir do índice incidência-fidelidade. Os resultados mostram a presença do fenômeno em redes de títulos e sugerem maneiras de diferenciar periódicos a partir dos índices de redes nas redes críticas.
Uma Análise dos Padrões de Tatuagens Associadas à Criminalidade do Estado da Bahia com Auxílio da Teoria de Redes
Authors: Pereira Hernane , Cordeiro Antônio , Santos Carlos , Jose Alden
Published: March 2020

Este artigo apresenta uma análise de padrões de Tatuagens associadas a ocorrências de crimes registrados pela Secretaria de Segurança Pública do Estado da Bahia utilizando a teoria de Redes Sociais e Complexas. As redes construídas consideram as relações existentes entre criminosos, crimes e tatuagens. Os resultados apresentados apontam redes com característica topológica Small World. Os resultados encontrados apontam dados relevantes para a compreensão dos padrões de criminalidade associados a tatuagens, podendo apoiar futuramente as autoridades de segurança pública na tomada de decisão.
Brechó-SocialSECO: Uma Ferramenta para Apoiar Modelagem e Análise de Ecossistemas de Software
Authors: Barbosa Gabriel , Lima Thaiana , Santos Rodrigo , Werner Claudia
Published: March 2020

Em todo sistema de software, existe interação entre componentes. Ao unir uma rede técnica de artefatos com um ambiente social, cria-se uma rede socio-técnica. Visando desenvolver uma ferramenta que modele, analise e incentive as relações sociais na rede socio-técnica, foi proposta a Brechó SocialSECO. Estendeu-se a biblioteca de componente Brechó para melhor entender ecossistemas de software e dar suporte para tomadas de decisão. Este trabalho apresenta a ferramenta e seu funcionamento.
Um sistema para análise de genomas a partir de metagenomas
Authors: Pereira Vivian , Dos Santos Júnior Geraldo , Digiampietri Luciano
Published: March 2020

Este artigo apresenta um sistema desenvolvido com o objetivo de analisar dados dos genomas que fazem parte de sequenciamentos de metagenomas. Como resultado, foram desenvolvidas ferramentas para realizar a identificação das espécies presentes em sequências metagenômicas, auxiliar o processo de similaridade entre os genomas dos microorganismos presentes no metagenoma.
Um Mapeamento Sistemático Sobre o Uso de Metodologias Ágeis no Processo de Experimentação Científica
Authors: Romeiro Augusto , De Oliveira Daniel
Published: March 2020

Muitos experimentos científicos são baseados em simulações computacionais. Assim, os cientistas de diversas áreas, como a biologia e a química, desenvolvem softwares como parte fundamental de sua pesquisa, seja diretamente escrevendo programas ou desenvolvendo novos workflows científicos. Assim como na área comercial, todo o desenvolvimento em projetos científicos deve ser estruturado, documentado e realizado de forma a reduzir o tempo de desenvolvimento e os custos envolvidos. No processo de experimentação científica os requisitos são instáveis e podem mudar constantemente durante a execução do projeto, por isso, as metodologias ágeis já consagradas para o desenvolvimento de software comercial se mostram interessantes. O propósito desse artigo é mapear sistematicamente as abordagens existentes que aplicam metodologias ágeis no contexto científico de forma que possamos fornecer uma visão geral da aplicação de tais metodologias no ambiente científico e apresentar as lacunas e oportunidades para melhorias neste domínio.
Implementação Computacional de Fusão Automática de Dados Distribuídos em Apoio à Gestão de Saúde
Authors: Cercau Renato , Sigette Elaine , Mesquita Ricardo , Zavaleta Jorge , Cercau Ricardo , Manhães Laci , Costa Raimundo , De Carvalho Luís
Published: March 2020

Este trabalho apresenta os resultados obtidos na implementação computacional de um modelo de agregação e consolidação de dados distribuídos em apoio à gestão de saúde. Pretende-se que este modelo de agregação sirva de suporte e fonte de dados aos pesquisadores da área de saúde com vistas ao planejamento de ações de saúde, em especial em instâncias municipais. Com este propósito, é implementado um processo de obtenção e elaboração automática de dados. Apresentamos o processo de definição deste modelo de obtenção das informações, incluindo o tipo de suporte, o processo da obtenção dos registros das produções, o modelo de vinculação às redes sociais e a produção acadêmica. A partir do modelo aqui apresentado foram gerados 91 e-books que estão disponíveis, em acesso aberto.
Georreferenciamento de dados biológicos legados do INPA
Authors: Farias Elizziane , Dos Santos José
Published: March 2020

Coleções biológicas são fontes primárias de conhecimento sobre a biodiversidade. No Brasil, tais informações vêm sendo historicamente coletadas e mantidas pelas instituições de pesquisa de maneira tradicional. Registrar informações geográficas associadas aos dados é essencial para o trabalho de curadoria para posterior compartilhamento. Para os dados legados, precisam-se de soluções de alinhamento com o novo momento tecnológico do mundo geoespacial. Este trabalho, em desenvolvimento, apresenta uma proposta de arquitetura de um sistema para auxiliar o processo de georreferenciamento de dados legados de coleções biológicas do INPA através de uma infraestrutura de um gazetteer em ambiente Web.
Image Segmentation by Image Foresting Transform with Boundary Polarity and Shape Constraints
Authors: Mansilla Lucy , Miranda Paulo
Published: March 2020

Image segmentation, such as to extract an object from a background, is very useful for medical and biological image analysis. In this work, we propose new segmentation methods for interactive segmentation of multidimensional images, based on the Image Foresting Transform (IFT), by exploiting for the first time non-smooth connectivity functions (NSCF) with a strong theoretical background. The new algorithms provide global optimum solutions according to an energy function of graph cut, subject to high-level boundary constraints (polarity and shape). Our experimental results indicate substantial improvements in accuracy in relation to other state-of-the-art methods, using medical images by allowing the customization of the segmentation to a given target object.
Designing Tactile Vocabularies for Human-Computer Interaction
Authors: Oliveira Victor , Maciel Anderson
Published: March 2020

This paper summarizes our study of tactile languages in humancomputer interaction. We intended to analyze how the choices made during the design process of tactile vocabularies would affect the user performance on an interactive task. Therefore, we have developed and tested different sets of tactile signals for aid navigation in virtual environments. It leaded us to fashion a novel approach for vibrotactile prefixation. Through this experimental-driven study, we attempted to effects of multisensory stimulation, perception, learning and interpretation of tactile sequences, and masking caused by multiple vibrations in a same locus. The presented results should be useful for other designers to produce usable and expressive tactile interfaces.
Large Scale Study of City Dynamics and Urban Social Behavior Using Participatory Sensor Networks
Authors: Silva Thiago , Loureiro Antonio , Almeida Jussara , de Melo Pedro
Published: March 2020

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»Ich bin an diesem Ort geboren«
Authors: Zander Sylvina
Published: March 2020

Nur einen geringen Prozentsatz macht die jüdische Bevölkerung in Oldesloe aus, doch prägt sie das Stadtbild bis heute. Beginnend bei Israel Israel, dem ersten »Schutzjuden«, bis hin zu den Anfängen den Nationalsozialismus stellt diese detaillierte Studie die Entwicklung der jüdischen Geschichte Bad Oldesloes in einem umfassenden Überblick dar. Zum ersten Mal findet sich hier die Entwicklung der jüdischen Besiedlung Oldesloes in einer historischen Gesamtschau, die lokale Besonderheiten in den Blick nimmt und in einem überregionalen Kontext verortet. Ermöglicht wird so ein konzentrierter Blick in die Regionalhistorie, der den Schwerpunkt auf einen noch unerforschten Bereich der Oldesloer Stadtgeschichte legt.
1920. Eine Grenze für den Frieden
Authors: Schlürmann Jan
Published: March 2020

1918 hatte Deutschland den Ersten Weltkrieg verloren. 1919 sollte der Vertrag von Versailles den Frieden regeln. Ein Punkt des Friedensplans war eine Volksabstimmung darüber, in welchem Staat die Menschen leben wollten – in Deutschland oder in Dänemark. Diese Frage war jahrhundert lang heiß umkämpft, zwischen Herrschenden genau so wie zwischen Beherrschten. 1920 entschieden dann knapp 200 000 wahlberechtigte Einwohner des Herzogtumsn Schleswig in einer Volksabstimmung darüber, wo künftig die deutsch-dänische Grenze verlaufen sollte, und diese Grenze ist bis heute friedlich und stabil. Doch warum wurde die neu gezogene Grenze zu einer vorbildlichen »Grenze für den Frieden«? Das vorliegende Buch beleuchtet 100 Jahre nach der Grenzziehung ein zu Unrecht nahezu vergessenes Kapitel der deutsch-dänischen Geschichte.