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Speaking and Making: Arendt, Stevens, and the Poetics of Public Discourse
Authors: Jaussen Paul
Published: February 2015

What is the relationship between the art object and the activity of public discourse? For Hannah Arendt, the constructed world, which includes artworks, is the necessary precondition for substantial and sustained public discourse, which includes politics. However, the artwork itself does not fully participate in that discourse; it does not constitute public speech and action in the properly political sense. Reinterpreting Arendt’s concepts of speech, action, recognition, memory, and the space of appearances, this essay reconsiders the public life of poetry, its existence as both a constructed artifact and a rhetorical act. Synthesizing Arendt’s reflections on the artwork with recent work in contemporary poetics, I illustrate the discursive capacity of poetry through a reading of Wallace Stevens’s “Description without Place.” In Stevens’s poem, public rhetoric and formal construction are inseparable, generating an object that can speak.
Pedagogical and Philosophico-Political Abdication: Agamben and Žižek
Authors: Light Steve
Published: February 2015

Giorgio Agamben’s formulations of the ‘state of exception’ and ‘bare life’ have become touchstones for studies of contemporary forms of sovereign violence, yet his discussion of the enigmatic figure of the ‘Muselmann’—a term that he takes from Primo Levi to recast as an exemplary case for theorizing these conditions and the key to thinking politics and ethics after World War II—has escaped critical scrutiny. This essay does not produce a comprehensive genealogy of the word nor solve the problem of its unsettling appearance as an epithet for the most abject and dehumanized prisoners of the Nazi camps. Rather, by closely tracking Agamben’s theoretical appropriation of the term in his 1998 study Remnants of Auschwitz , this essay highlights an occluded context to Agamben’s master category in order to raise questions concerning the disciplinary rift that continues to separate Holocaust from postcolonial studies. The epithet links Nazi with European colonial violence, a connection that Agamben does not explore. This is not an incidental silence but a consequential silencing. As Agamben founds an ethics at the site where ‘Jews’ were transformed into the ambiguously human figures that he accepts ‘Muslims’ already were, certain victims come to appear (even in their haunting absence) in place of those whose absence does not gain the status of an ethical or political problem. By insisting that the word be read otherwise, this essay argues that any discussion of modern state violence or the ‘state of exception’ must reckon squarely with—rather than sideline—the legacies of European colonial terror.
A Flight from the Real?: American Literature and Political Theory
Authors: Shulman George
Published: February 2015

In this essay, I pursue two related claims. One is that American literature is recurrently read by theorists as a form of flight from politics, a view they argue in various ways by deploying a distinction between the real and the fictive, and so also between forms of realism in contrast to genres aligned with the fantastical. My examples are Alexis de Tocqueville’s account of “poetry,” work in American studies that distinguishes “romance” from “the novel,” and a recent critique of “sixties literature,” inspired by the approach of Walter Benn Michaels and called “Do You Believe in Magic?” In each example, theorists speak as if they occupy the real, and merely report on it, so as to depict a literature engaged in fantasies or genres that abstract from social reality. By splitting the real and fictive, these critics would identify the organizing fantasies that devalue politics and disavow its actual ground. But each yields a flawed account of American politics, of the political, of literature.
Hermeneutics and Social Identity
Authors: Warnke Georgia
Published: February 2015

During at least the last four decades, the relationship between hermeneutics and politics has received a significant amount of attention. Charles Taylor, Michael Walzer, and others look to the understanding of meanings that hermeneutics explores and, specifically, to the understanding of the meanings that social goods, cultural activities, and past histories have for those who share them. The questions they ask concern how we are to understand our political traditions, their contents, and ourselves, and what consequences follow these understandings. Thus Taylor examines the large structures of thought that orient secularism in the West. Among other projects, Walzer looks to the different meanings different goods hold for different communities and argues that the answer to the question of how to distribute those goods must follow from those meanings.
Equality as Singularity: Rethinking Literature and Democracy
Authors: Gustafson Sandra M.
Published: February 2015

At least since the age of democratic revolutions, a broad array of literary works has engaged with democracy as practice and ideal, and literature has contributed in fundamental ways to the unfolding of democratic thought. But in recent years "democracy" has become a suspect term, associated with "neoliberalism," or it has been cast as a utopian horizon rather than considered as a flexible and contested concept. In "Equality as Singularity: Rethinking Literature and Democracy," Sandra M. Gustafson explores the role of language and symbolization and the place of literature in the emergence of democratic thought. In a neopragmatist spirit that moves beyond critique to develop a larger framework of democratic meaning-making, she considers the theoretical writings of Pierre Rosanvallon on counter-democracy and the society of equals, and she identifies points of overlap and complementarity in Danielle Allen's work on the Declaration of Independence and democratic citizenship. Gustafson then turns to the fiction of Saul Bellow and Upton Sinclair to show how unresolved conflicts inherited from progressivism and social democracy resonate in contemporary political and literary theory. She suggests how the fresh articulations of equality offered by Rosanvallon and Allen can help us to move beyond those conflicts and embrace a broader spectrum of literary works. She concludes with a brief reading of Orhan Pamuk's Snow to show how a neopragmatist critical praxis offers a distinctive approach to the political resonances of contemporary literature.
The Specter of Power: Literature and the Political Revisited
Authors: Hohendahl Peter Uwe
Published: February 2015

The essay examines the complex links between literature and the political. Specifically, it offers a comparative analysis of three twentieth-century forms of conceptualizing the relationship: an author-focused model (Benjamin), an artwork-centered model (Adorno), and, finally, a paradigm where literature is conceived as an institution (Althusser). Both the advantages and the limits of these models are carefully assessed. What they share is the impact of the Marxist tradition and the centrality of the state as the defining moment of the political. These older models are contrasted then with two more recent discourse-oriented models (Mouffe and Benhabib) that in different ways open up the possibility of an active role of literature within a democratic community, yet without stressing the weight of state power.
Judging Forgiveness: Hannah Arendt, W. H. Auden, and The Winter’s Tale
Authors: Lupton Julia Reinhard
Published: February 2015

In late 1959 and early 1960, W. H. Auden and Hannah Arendt had a brief exchange on the subject of forgiveness; their dialogue, conducted in part in response to dramatic literature, resulted in a life-long friendship, including a rebuffed marriage proposal from Wystan to Hannah after the death of Arendt’s husband Heinrich Blücher in 1970. The two met when Auden reviewed The Human Condition for the journal Encounter in 1959, and Auden contacted Arendt by telephone to communicate his admiration. In 1971, Arendt dedicated her essay, “Thinking and Moral Considerations: A Lecture” to Auden, and she wrote a eulogy for the poet when he died in 1973. Yet Arendt never claimed Auden as one of her most intimate friends, and they disagreed on the matter of forgiveness. For Auden, forgiveness (the noun) is an internal state that is necessarily betrayed by presentation on stage, where “forgiveness requires manifestation in action.” For Arendt, on the other hand, forgiving (the verb) is an action that always involves the speech and comportment of a plurality of persons in this world, its action-character rendering it a resource for both politics and drama.
Lots of Pleasure but Little Happiness
Authors: Nylan Michael
Published: February 2015

This essay makes several related claims: (a) that most of the extant texts from early China sharply distinguish le 樂 (secure “pleasure” derived from relational activities in which a repeated investment of time, energy, and imagination generally pays off) from xi 喜 (short-term “delight” in objects, things, and people); (b) that, quite significantly, the antonym for “pleasure” is not “pain” but “insecurity,” which invites a thorough rethinking of a host of Western presumptions and categories; (c) that no word in classical Chinese precisely corresponds to the Anglo-American words “happiness” and “joy,” since “happiness” to no small degree retains its old idea of “favored by fortune,” and “joy” that of disembodied religious ecstasy; (d) that the physiology of pleasure in early China depends far more on resonance theories than on more mechanical constructions of cause-and-effect, and for that reason does not favor asceticism or “purity”; and (e) that the early texts evince little interest in the “isought” question, with the grammatical structures of most of their propositions indicating situational claims rather than universalized abstractions.
Political Theory in Canonical Buddhism
Authors: Moore Matthew J.
Published: February 2015

This article examines the canonical texts of early Buddhism and canvasses recent scholarly literature to explore whether early Buddhism contains a political theory, and if so, what it is. The article concludes that the early texts do express a normative preference for enlightened monarchy as the best form of lay government. However, it also concludes that early Buddhism saw politics as being relatively unimportant among human concerns. Further, it argues that this theory of politics should be of interest to political theorists today due to three unusual elements: its deflationary estimate of the importance of politics, its denial of the existence of the self, and its naturalistic theory of ethics.
Taking the Intentionality of Perception Seriously: Why Phenomenology is Inescapable
Authors: Coseru Christian
Published: February 2015

Recent attempts to bridge Buddhist and Western philosophical accounts of perception and consciousness have been prompted in large measure by two sets of arguments: on the one hand those that set out to defend a conceptualist view of perception, and on the other those that take perception to have a self-intimating but non-conceptual aspect. This essay offers an innovative take on the conceptualist/non-conceptualist debate in the works of Dignāga, Dharmakīrti, and their followers by deriving insights from the phenomenology of perception. It argues that it is possible to conceive of the reflexivity of perceptual awareness (its self-intimating aspect) as intentionally structured without being at the same time transcendently constituted as a form of radical subjectivity.
Transcendence, Freedom, and Ethics in Lévinas’ Subjectivity and Zhuangzi’s Non-being Self
Authors: Zhao Guoping
Published: February 2015

Lévinas’ claim of ethics as the first philosophy has been compared to the Confucian project. While the similarity between Lévinas and the Confucians in their central concern for ethics is apparent, I argue in this essay that the Daoists may have a deeper resonance with Lévinas. With the inspiration of Lévinas’ insights into sense and meaning, I investigate how Lévinas’ subjectivity and the Daoist, in particular the Zhuangzian, notion of the non-being self draw on the same primordial experiential base that has given rise to an understanding of our self that leads to an embodied transcendence. In the context of battling the modern Western autonomous and egoistic self, which has caused much damage in modern history, I explore whether an appreciation of the pre-ego, pre-reflective experiences upon which Lévinas and Zhuangzi build their subjectivity and non-being self can lead us to ethics and spirituality, with a new understanding of human freedom that is radically different from the modern notion of freedom as autonomy.
On the Classification of Śāntideva’s Ethics in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
Authors: Harris Stephen E.
Published: February 2015

In this essay several challenges are raised to the project of classifying Śāntideva’s ethical reasoning given in his Bodhicaryāvatāra , or Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva , as a species of ethical theory such as consequentialism or virtue ethics. One set of difficulties highlighted here arises because Śāntideva wrote this text to act as a manual of psychological transformation, and it is therefore often difficult to determine when his statements indicate his own ethical views. Further, even assuming we can identify a set of statements that accurately portray the moral position of Śāntideva, it is argued that these statements underdetermine which foundational normative theory should be ascribed to him.
War as a Problem of Knowledge: Theory of Knowledge in China’s Military Philosophy
Authors: Allen Barry
Published: February 2015

A singularity of the famous Art of War (孫子兵法) attributed to Sunzi is the way this work conceives of knowledge as a resource for the military strategist. The idea is new in Chinese tradition, and new in the worldwide context of thinking about strategy, where Sunzi’s ideas about the value of knowledge are far in advance of the thinking of Western theorists like Machiavelli or especially Clausewitz. The role of knowledge in the Sunzi theory of strategy and the consistency of what this work says about knowledge with a philosophical idea of knowledge that emerges in Warring States texts of diverse genres are analyzed here.
How Can We Cross the Intellectual Divide between East and West?: Reflections on Reading “Toward a Complementary Consciousness and Mutual Flourishing of Chinese and Western Cultures: The Contributions of Process Philosophers”
Authors: Gu Ming Dong , Guo Jianping
Published: February 2015

Ming Dong Gu and Jianping Guo The essay by Fan Meijun and Wang Zhihe has sparked broad reflection by Ming Dong Gu and Jianping Guo in the form of a sustained response to the philosophical issues in the intellectual encounter between East and West. While agreeing with the thesis and major ideas of Fan and Wang, Gu and Guo offer a critique of some issues and continue to reflect on a series of questions relevant to the exchanges between Eastern and Western thought, which include: Is there an intellectual divide between East and West? What are the intellectual barriers to genuine dialogue? Do the intellectual barriers identified by Fan and Wang accurately mirror the real conditions of Eastern and Western thought? If they are true, have they formed a paradigm in East-West studies? If yes, what is the conceptual ground for the paradigm? Which is more responsible for the intellectual barriers, Western-centrism or Eastern-centrism? Besides Western process thought, is there any Eastern thought that can be appropriated to overcome the intellectual barriers? Gu and Guo’s reflections are summarized in a general question: under what conditions can East meet West in intellectual thought? Identifying some common ground in Eastern and Western thought, they reveal blind spots in current efforts to cross the East-West divide and examine some successful cases of East-West dialogue. Based on their meditations, they suggest new dimensions to the Second Enlightenment and call for transcultural intellectual empowerment for all cultural traditions.
Aurelius Augustinus and Seng Zhao on ‘Time’: An Interpretation of the Confessions and the Zhao Lun
Authors: Li Man , Dessein Bart
Published: February 2015

The question whether humans are the creators of their own lives within an either finite or infinite but nonetheless independently existing ‘time’ or whether the creative force of one’s life is restrained by a ‘time’ that is an inalienable part of this very life has permeated the entire philosophical and religious history of humankind. This article addresses Saint Augustine’s interpretation of time as developed in his Confessions and the interpretation given by his contemporary Buddhist counterpart Seng Zhao in the Zhao lun . It is argued that both Augustinus and Seng Zhao reinterpreted, albeit in a different way, a similar inherited cyclical time concept. Augustinus changed the cyclical time concept for a linear one, and he interprets ‘time’ as an objective reality for God, who created time together with heaven and earth, and as a subjective reality for humans: for humans, time can, by the pondering mind, only be regarded as ‘the protraction of the mind.’ Also, in Buddhist philosophy time has an objective reality, the cyclical mechanical process of karmic retribution, as well as a subjective reality: an individual has the power to stop this mechanical process, and, in this way, stop ‘time.’ The article shows how Seng Zhao develops the Madhyamaka concept of voidness, and goes beyond a mere objective-subjective dichotomy.
The Geography of Styles of Reasoning: East and West, North and South
Authors: Paton Michael John
Published: February 2015

Hacking’s (1985) concept of ‘styles of reasoning’ has prompted research into a multitude of markedly different areas, including: learning and teaching of science (Hawkins and Pea 1987), the history and philosophy of the use of case studies (Forrester 1996), epistemic differences in German and American embryology (Maienschein 1991), the relationship between philosophy and history of science (Radder 1997), and more recently even the relationship between sexuality, translation, and East Asian studies (Chiang 2009). This article attempts to add to this discourse by considering the concept of ‘styles of reasoning’ from the perspective of history of science and geography in China. First, it discusses observation and correlative thinking in the traditional Chinese science of dili (principles of the earth) and fengshui (wind and water), focusing on the meaning and difficulty of the translation of the concept shi , ‘configurational force,’ which embodied an astute early qualitative understanding of gravity and its relationship to fertility. Seminal texts from various dynasties considered in this discussion include the Book of Burial, Classic of Burial, Yellow Emperor’s Classic of House Siting, Arousing the Dragon Classic, Twenty Four Difficult Problems , and Water Dragon Classic . The article then argues that this different ‘style of reasoning’ displayed in the discipline of dili became blurred in Western scientific styles of reasoning to become dilixue (geography). A journal article on the history of the development of the concept of ‘mountain veins’ in traditional Chinese science by a member of the Chinese Geological Survey, Weng Wenhao (1925), is indicative of this melding of Eastern and Western styles of reasoning. It is posited that even with the strength of China’s early scientific foundations, the acceptance in China of Western scientific reasoning was markedly accelerated due to the environmental history of China (Elvin 2004). The environmental history of China over three thousand years is then compared to that of Australia over the past two hundred years using the traditional dili construct to argue that northern hemisphere peoples coming to the south have had to modify their styles of reasoning to perceive the ritualizations of knowledge inherent in northern knowledge systems, based on the generally more fertile geographies of the power bases of the north. It is argued that accepted ‘universal’ theoretical stances such as the market approach advocated by Hayek (1980 and 1976) have more of a geographic basis than is realized and that continuing to follow the ‘logic of short term advantage’ (Elvin 2004) and the ‘ethics of chance’ (Paton 2009) that have become major catalysts to present day market-based systems could have a very negative effect on the survival of the human species over the long term.
Martin Amis’s Money: Negotiations with Literary Celebrity
Authors: Mickalites Carey James
Published: February 2015

This essay reads Amis’s Success, Money , and The Information within the context of the contemporary publishing industry, to reveal how this trajectory of novels self-reflexively engages with the production of Amis as a literary celebrity. In each of these works, Amis appropriates the stylistic modes of celebrity production practiced by his modernist predecessors, borrowing from modernism’s cultural capital while adapting it for the contemporary corporate publishing industry. In the process, this essay argues, the fiction self-reflexively negotiates the production of Martin Amis as authorial brand.
“Down on the Barroom Floor of History”: Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge
Authors: Cowart David
Published: February 2015

An ironic engagement with history sets Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge apart from other 9/11 fictions. Engaging in a shadow polemic on the historiographical responsibilities of the literary artist, Pynchon critiques a burgeoning technology (the Internet) and the economic order it serves. He presents the Deep Web as a virtual unconscious, a “dark archive” beneath the surface Web. In his probing of this digital arkhē , Pynchon escorts the reader into an abyss previously explored by Nietzsche, Freud, and Derrida. Like them, he finds repression, death wish, “archive fever,” and the oblivion from which life emerges and to which it returns.
Jizi and contemporary ink art: ‘Re-Chineseness’ and unification with nature
Authors: Brubaker David A.
Published: February 2015

Can Chinese ink-wash painters make art that is contemporary? Can contemporary art be made by accepting traditional Chinese aesthetics as an influence? Some contemporary Chinese artists hope to find some principles from Chinese aesthetics so that they can make global art that is authentically Chinese. To evaluate such questions and searches, some ink-wash paintings by Jizi are selected as test cases for the application of an experimental cross-cultural interpretation of Jing Hao’s aesthetic of qiyun/rhythmic vitality and authentic images. The results suggest that Jizi does express specifically Chinese thinking about self in unification with nature, others and universe in a way that can be appreciated by individuals in audiences around the world.
In such a lonely history, what on earth are we afraid of?: On attempts to imagine being in the past as being in the present and being in the future
Authors: Ding Liu , Lu Carol Yinghua
Published: February 2015

This article presents the text of a paper given by the curator and writer Carol Yinghua Lu and the artist and writer Liu Ding at Shadows: Attempts at Re-examination and Re-evaluation of Socialist Realism in the Practice and Discourse of Art in China from 1950 to the Present, a seminar held at Tate Modern in London on 4 December 2013. The seminar, which was staged as part of Lu’s residence as the first Visiting Fellow at the Tate Research Centre: Asia-Pacific in 2013, was supported by Tate and the Centre for Contemporary East-Asian Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham. Lu and Liu’s paper, which is published without significant editorial intervention, discusses the pair’s struggle to develop a critical, research-led history of contemporary art in China in the face of significant public criticism from established art historians and critics.
Non-linear study of base shear and moment of composite columns in MRFs
Authors: Amiri Amir Parviz Khosravi
Published: February 2015

The main objective of this study is evaluating the seismic behavior of composite columns in MRFs subject to dynamic loads.The design Codes of composite structures contain different views in some cases and therefore conservative provisions, because of lack of enough information about the behavior of these structures. The base shear and moment of structures in non-linear state can be considered as criteria for the potential of a lateral-force-resisting system to dissipate the seismic energy.Lower values of non-linear seismic base reactions indicate better efficacy of the system. In this study the performance of the MRFs with composite columns has been evaluated using 8-story structural models, considering the base reactions obtained from the non-linear analysis. Analytical modeling has been performed based on the AISC Code. The results show good performance of composite sections under the seismic loads. Also, a comparison between two types of composite sections, the full and half-embedded steel sections in concrete, has been made.
TWIST1 and TWIST2 regulate glycogen storage and inflammatory genes in skeletal muscle
Authors: Mudry Jonathan M , Massart Julie , Szekeres Ferenc L M , Krook Anna
Published: February 2015

TWIST proteins are important for development of embryonic skeletal muscle and play a role in the metabolism of tumor and white adipose tissue. The impact of TWIST on metabolism in skeletal muscle is incompletely studied. Our aim was to assess the impact of TWIST1 and TWIST2 overexpression on glucose and lipid metabolism. In intact mouse muscle, overexpression of Twist reduced total glycogen content without altering glucose uptake. Expression of TWIST1 or TWIST2 reducedPdk4mRNA, while increasing mRNA levels ofIl6,Tnfα, andIl1β. Phosphorylation of AKT was increased and protein abundance of acetyl CoA carboxylase (ACC) was decreased in skeletal muscle overexpressing TWIST1 or TWIST2. Glycogen synthesis and fatty acid oxidation remained stable in C2C12 cells overexpressing TWIST1 or TWIST2. Finally, skeletal muscle mRNA levels remain unaltered inob/obmice, type 2 diabetic patients, or in healthy subjects before and after 3 months of exercise training. Collectively, our results indicate that TWIST1 and TWIST2 are expressed in skeletal muscle. Overexpression of these proteins impacts proteins in metabolic pathways and mRNA level of cytokines. However, skeletal muscle levels of TWIST transcripts are unaltered in metabolic diseases.
Immunological role of vitamin D at the maternal–fetal interface
Authors: Tamblyn J A , Hewison M , Wagner C L , Bulmer J N , Kilby M D
Published: February 2015

During pregnancy, immune activity is tightly regulated so that antimicrobial protection of the mother and fetus is balanced with the need for immune tolerance to prevent fetal rejection. In this setting, the maternal–fetal interface, in the form of the uterine decidua, provides a heterogeneous immune cell population with the potential to mediate diverse activities throughout pregnancy. Recent studies have suggested that vitamin D may be a key regulator of immune function during pregnancy, with the fetal–maternal interface representing a prominent target. Among its non-classical actions are potent immunomodulatory effects, including induction of antibacterial responses and modulation of T-lymphocytes to suppress inflammation and promote tolerogenesis. Thus, vitamin D may play a pivotal role in normal decidual immune function by promoting innate responses to infection, while simultaneously preventing an over-elaboration of inflammatory adaptive immunity. Research to date has focused upon the potential role of vitamin D in preventing infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, as well as possibly suppressing of autoimmune disease. Nevertheless, vitamin D may also influence facets of immune function not immediately associated with primary innate responses. This review summarises our current understanding of decidual immune function with respect to the vitamin D metabolism and signalling, and as to how this may be affected by variations in maternal vitamin D status. There has recently been much interest in vitamin D supplementation of pregnant women, but our knowledge of how this may influence the function of decidua remains limited. Further insight into the immunomodulatory actions of vitamin D during pregnancy will help shed light upon this.
Enterprise Resource Planning governamental: a percepção dos servidores atuantes no Projeto Ciclo do Ministério da Justiça quanto à implementação
Authors: Sena André Souza de , Guarnieri Patricia
Published: February 2015

Indubitavelmente, a implementação de sistemas de gestão integrada é fator consolidado em empresas privadas; no entanto, em empresas públicas é relativamente recente e inovadora. Em 2009, o Ministério da Justiça (MJ) foi um dos pioneiros ao firmar parceria com a Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) para a implantação de sistemas de gestão integrada. Com o decorrer dos processos de implementação surge a necessidade de identificar se o acordo surtiu os efeitos a que se destinou, bem como é pertinente a análise da implementação de um Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) governamental em uma empresa pública, haja vista que existe uma tendência de que se repita em outras instituições governamentais. Assim, o principal objetivo deste artigo é identificar a percepção dos usuários quanto ao processo de implementação de sistemas integrados de gestão vinculados ao Projeto Ciclo, no âmbito da Secretaria Executiva do MJ, destacando suas principais dificuldades e benefícios. A fim de atingir o objetivo da pesquisa foi realizada uma pesquisa quali-quantitativa, cujo procedimento técnico foi o estudo de caso. Verificou-se que os usuários do sistema reconhecem sua importância como apoio à tomada de decisão, que estão cientes do papel que desempenham no processo de implementação e que a tecnologia da informação (TI) é fundamental para se obter melhoria nos processos executados. Ademais, percebe-se os avanços que um ERP governamental pode proporcionar a empresas públicas, destacando-se o planejamento e a confiabilidade das informações.
O orçamento público como instrumento de ação governamental: uma análise de suas redefinições no contexto da formulação de políticas públicas de infraestrutura
Authors: Abreu Cilair Rodrigues de , Câmara Leonor Moreira
Published: February 2015

Este artigo analisa o papel do orçamento público como instrumento da ação governamental para viabilizar a formulação de políticas públicas de infraestrutura. As alterações promovidas na gestão orçamentária para a execução do Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC) são o objeto empírico da pesquisa. Adota-se a perspectiva teórica do orçamento como uma instituição técnica e política. A narrativa analítica é o recurso metodológico aplicado para dar consistência factual à análise do episódio, por incorporar a história na contextualização político-institucional dos eventos da formulação do Programa. A pesquisa usou dados documentais e bibliográficos. Conclui-se que a amplitude das alterações no instrumento teve a intensidade compatível com a disposição de os governos promoverem as medidas politicamente aceitáveis pelas doutrinas hegemônicas nos mandatos presidenciais.
Phenytoin-Induced Gingival Overgrowth Management with Periodontal Treatment
Authors: Gurgel Bruno César de Vasconcelos , Morais Carlos Roberto Batista de , Rocha-Neto Pedro Carlos da , Dantas Euler Maciel , Pinto Leão Pereira , Costa Antonio de Lisboa Lopes
Published: February 2015

Phenytoin-induced gingival overgrowth (PIGO) is a common complication of the continuous use of medications. This paper presents a case of PIGO hindering oral function and compromising oral hygiene and aesthetics, which was treated with a combination of nonsurgical and surgical periodontal therapies. A 39-year-old male patient was referred for dental treatment with several complaints, especially upper and lower gingival overgrowth that hindered speech and swallowing. Generalized deep probing pockets and bone loss were detected. Diagnosis of gingival overgrowth associated with phenytoin and chronic periodontitis was established. The treatment plan consisted of conservative therapy with education on oral health, motivation and meticulous oral hygiene instruction in combination with scaling and root planing. During the revaluation period, a marked reduction in the clinical parameters was noted, particularly probing pocket depth reduction. Surgical therapy for removal of gingival overgrowth was also performed to achieve pocket reduction. Supportive periodontal therapy was proposed and the patient is currently under follow-up for 4 years. Management of PIGO may be obtained by the use of periodontal procedures combined with good oral hygiene and periodontal supportive care.
Domestic Violence Against Children and Adolescents: Prevalence of Physical Injuries in a Southern Brazilian Metropolis
Authors: Valente Leidielly Aline , Dalledone Mariana , Pizzatto Eduardo , Zaiter Wellington , Souza Juliana Feltrin de , Losso Estela Maris
Published: February 2015

Violence against children and adolescents is a public health issue worldwide that threatens physical and mental wellbeing and causes irreparable harm. Reports on this violence are an essential way to prevent it and to protect the children and adolescents. Thus, the objective of the present study was to evaluate the prevalence of physical injuries that occur in domestic environments and reported to the Child and Adolescent Protection Network. This retrospective study was conducted at the Epidemiology Center of the Municipality of Curitiba. A total of 10,483 reports for the years 2010 (5,112) and 2011 (5,371) were analyzed and from them were selected reports of physical injuries that occurred in the family environment. The children and adolescents were 0-17 years old, comprising 322 cases of physical abuse within the family in 2010. Out of these, 57.1% were male and 42.9% were female, and 58% (187) presented head and neck injuries. There were 342 reports in 2011, 49% were male and 51% were female; head and neck injuries corresponded to 65% (222) of the reported cases. The prevalence of injuries increased by 6% and head and neck injury increased by 19% between 2010 and 2011. It may be concluded that physical abuse is associated with a high prevalence of head and neck injury, which is easily observed by the health and education professionals. Notification organs should be created in Brazilian hospitals and health centers, which is essential to conduct epidemiological surveillance and appropriate policies.
Inventando Gregório VII: Os Ad Heinricum IV Imperatorem libri VII e a busca pela medida do passado
Authors: Rust Leandro Duarte
Published: February 2015

Neste trabalho, procuramos fundamentar uma resposta para um antigo problema: quando e como Hildebrando de Soana (1020?-1085) se tornou o protagonista do poder papal? Um persistente consenso tem levado os historiadores a mirarem a mesma certeza: o homem coroado como Gregório VII dominou a cena eclesiástica ocidental desde seu ingresso na corte papal, em 1049, por meio de uma liderança inabalável. Sua ascensão, supostamente contínua e irrefreável, teria dotado a política pontifícia de unidade e caráter programático. Mas, para muitos contemporâneos, isto não era evidente. Um texto contém elementos para a formulação de outra perspectiva: Ad Heinricum IV Imperatorem libri VII. Escrita por Benzo (?-1089), bispo de Alba, a narrativa é um valioso documento sobre a ascensão política de Hildebrando e oferece indícios de que o bispo de Alba estabeleceu a medida com a qual o controverso papa seria lembrado, tanto pela Igreja, quanto pela historiografia. Talvez, Benzo de Alba tenha inventado Gregório VII.
Da praça ao pergaminho: Os Sermones In circulum anni de Sovramonte de Varese, Omin, na Lombardia Franciscana
Authors: Lombardo Eleonora
Published: February 2015

Este artigo apresenta uma pequena e quase ignorada coleção de sermões oriundos da Itália setentrional. Eles foram escritos por um frade franciscano chamado Sovramonte de Varese (Supermons de Varisio), por volta da metade do século XIII. Tais sermões são úteis para entender as dinâmicas entre a apresentação oral do sermão e a sua escrita. Após uma detalhada reconstrução da biografia de Sovramonte, o artigo apresenta a coleção priorizando dois temas: a usura e a heresia. Ambos permitem-nos recuperar a ação do frade no contexto urbano supostamente de Milão. Tentar-se-à introduzir a questão das relações desta coleção com obras contemporâneas, como os sermões de Felipe o Chanceler e Santo Antônio de Pádua, para esclarecer as passagens que aparecem subentendidas em todo o trabalho de Sovramonte: a leitura, a pregação e a escrita. Palavras-chave - Supermons de Varisio, sermões medievais, pregação, ordem franciscana, usura, heresia.
Ritual e narrativa: A supplicatio no mito da Fortuna Muliebris (Dionísio de Halicarnasso, Antiquitates Romanae, 8. 39.1-53.1)
Authors: Rosa Claudia Beltrão
Published: February 2015

Mitos e rituais criam e reforçam os laços entre indivíduos e comunidade, legitimando o grupo e a autoridade, envolvendo o potencial mimético das performances. O principado augustano foi um momento rico de criação e de ressignificação de rituais e de mitos, expressos em ações e intervenções espaciais e numa literatura cuja observação permite uma via de acesso à compreensão do sistema de valores, do uso das tradições e das inovações no espaço público romano. Este artigo tratará da etiologia do santuário da Fortuna Muliebris na versão de Dionísio de Halicarnasso. As narrativas etiológicas da Fortuna Muliebris são um dos elementos mais significativos para a análise do sistema de valores e das distinções de gênero na Roma augustana, e estarão em pauta elementos verbais e visuais da performance das personagens, interessando à análise elementos vinculados a normas e tradições do ritual da supplicatio.
Espíritos cheios de bichos: A fauna nas viagens de Louis Agassiz e Richard Francis Burton pelo Brasil oitocentista
Authors: Losada Janaina Zito , Drummond José Augusto
Published: February 2015

O Brasil do século XIX foi alvo de inúmeras viagens realizadas por cientistas estrangeiros. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as impressões sobre a fauna brasileira presentes nos relatos das viagens realizadas pelo naturalista suíço Louis Agassiz, em 1865, e pelo explorador inglês Richard Francis Burton, em 1868. Destes relatos privilegiam-se as descrições do meio natural de diferentes regiões brasileiras e das particularidades da fauna silvestre por eles encontrada.
Acidentes perfurocortantes e medidas preventivas para hepatite B adotadas por profissionais de Enfermagem nos serviços de urgência e emergência de Teresina, Piauí
Authors: Araújo Telma Maria Evangelista de , Costa e Silva Nayra da
Published: February 2015

Objetivos analisar a ocorrência de acidentes perfurocortantes e as medidas preventivas associadas à hepatite B entre profissionais de Enfermagem em serviços de urgência e emergência. Métodos estudo transversal analítico com aplicação de questionário a 317 participantes de cinco hospitais públicos de Teresina, PI, em 2010. Resultados 152 (47,9%) referiram ter sofrido acidente perfurocortante; entre as categorias, 27,3% dos Enfermeiros, 48,2% dos Auxiliares, 52,6% dos Técnicos de Enfermagem. A chance de um profissional de nível médio (Auxiliar ou Técnico) sofrer um acidente perfurocortante é de 2,8 (1,38-5,67) vezes maior que o de nível superior (Enfermeiros). A agulha foi o instrumento causador mais frequente (77,0%). A não notificação do acidente foi expressiva entre Técnicos (67,0%), Auxiliares (70,0%) e Enfermeiros (75,0%), assim como a não adoção de medidas profiláticas pós-exposição (84,9%, em média). As três categorias profissionais referiram uso de luvas como o EPI mais utilizado. Os Auxiliares de Enfermagem apresentaram o menor percentual (47,0%) de esquema vacinal completo para hepatite B. Discussão um percentual expressivo de profissionais de Enfermagem sofreu acidente perfurocortante no trabalho com baixa adoção de medidas preventivas e profiláticas, reforçando a necessidade de fortalecimento de estratégias que visem à saúde do trabalhador no âmbito hospitalar.
Trabalhadoras de turno noturno: relações de gênero, produção de vulnerabilidades e promoção da saúde
Authors: Arreal Juliana Figueiredo , López Laura Cecilia
Published: February 2015

Objetivo analisar os impactos que o trabalho noturno exerce sobre a saúde de trabalhadoras do setor metal-mecânico. Métodos a partir do olhar sobre as relações de gênero, foca-se como a organização e a divisão social do trabalho afetam a vida cotidiana dessas mulheres. Examinam-se essas experiências à luz das reflexões sobre vulnerabilidades, produzidas na relação gênero/trabalho/saúde. Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo, realizado em 2012, empregando-se entrevistas semiestruturadas com nove trabalhadoras de turno noturno de uma empresa localizada na região metropolitana de Porto Alegre/RS. A análise dos dados foi guiada pelo método de Análise de Discurso. Foram construídos eixos analíticos com base no diálogo entre a literatura e os discursos das entrevistadas. Discussão identificaram-se desigualdades de gênero que impactam nas condições de saúde das trabalhadoras metalúrgicas de turno noturno, apontando-se algumas especificidades das vivências dessas trabalhadoras no local pesquisado: agudo processo de subvalorização do trabalho, descanso limitado, alimentação irregular, dificuldades na organização da vida fora do ambiente de trabalho, falta de acesso a suportes sociais que apoiem as atividades femininas, sobrecarga das responsabilidades assumidas, que, muitas vezes, causam sofrimento mental e/ou outros adoecimentos.
A violência psicológica no trabalho discutida a partir de vivências de adolescentes trabalhadores
Authors: Turte-Cavadinha Samantha Lemos , Turte-Cavadinha Edu , Luz Andréa Aparecida da , Fischer Frida Marina
Published: February 2015

Objetivo identificar e discutir situações de trabalho relatadas por adolescentes trabalhadores que pudessem se constituir como violência psicológica no trabalho. Métodos foram realizadas entrevistas individuais semiestruturadas com 30 jovens trabalhadores entre 15 e 20 anos de idade. As informações foram analisadas a partir da análise hermenêutico-dialética. Resultados em geral, os participantes perceberam os “relacionamentos interpessoais” no trabalho como bons, mas relataram inúmeras situações de “mal-estar no trabalho” que incluíram humilhações, abusos de poder, constrangimentos e assédio sexual, revelando ocorrências de violência psicológica no trabalho. Os jovens mais empoderados e autônomos conseguiram enfrentar com mais firmeza as situações abusivas, fossem elas por parte de colegas de trabalho ou de superiores hierárquicos. Conclusão os adolescentes ingressantes no mundo do trabalho estão expostos a situações que ameaçam a saúde mental e se valem, sobretudo, do apoio social como estratégia de enfrentamento. Sugere-se a inclusão de temas de Saúde Mental e Trabalho, não só em organizações de educação para o trabalho, mas também no ensino médio regular, como contribuição ao preparo dos adolescentes e para que possam identificar e desenvolver estratégias de enfrentamento à violência psicológica.
Prevalência de benefícios auxílio-doença entre trabalhadores da Construção no Brasil em 2009
Authors: Mello Thiago Antônio de , Barbosa-Branco Anadergh
Published: February 2015

Objetivo estimar a prevalência de Benefícios Auxílio-Doença (BAD) entre trabalhadores do ramo da Construção e a potencial influência do sexo, idade e ramo de atividade no quadro de incapacidade para o trabalho, no Brasil, em 2009. Método estudo transversal de base populacional baseado nos BAD concedidos pela Previdência Social. Do Sistema Único de Benefícios e do Cadastro Nacional de Informações Sociais extraíram-se informações sobre ramo de atividade, sexo, idade, causa clínica e espécie de benefício. A população de estudo correspondeu à média mensal dos vínculos empregatícios declarados em 2009 (1.784.772). Resultados foram concedidos 81.235 BAD, resultando em prevalência de 455,2/10.000 vínculos, com predomínio da espécie BAD previdenciária (Razão de Prevalência [RP] 3,1), do sexo masculino (RP 1,3) e dos ramos de atividade Obras de acabamento, Construção de obras de arte e Obras de terraplenagem. Homens caracterizaram 76,7% mais BAD acidentários que mulheres. As principais causas diagnósticas foram Lesões, Doenças osteomusculares e Doenças digestivas. As categorias clínicas mais prevalentes foram Dorsalgia, Fratura ao nível do punho e da mão, Fratura da perna e Hérnia inguinal. A prevalência aumentou com a idade. Conclusão a prevalência mostrou-se influenciada pela espécie de benefício, ramo de atividade, sexo e idade. Os resultados sugerem potenciais mecanismos de subnotificação/demanda previdenciária.
The taxonomic status of Phlebotomus oliverioi (Diptera, Psychodidae) and a lectotype designation for Psathyromyia brasiliensis
Authors: Andrade Andrey J. de , Shimabukuro Paloma H. F. , Galati Eunice A. B.
Published: February 2015

Phlebotomus oliverioi Barretto & Coutinho, 1941 was originally described based only on the male holotype and has since been considered junior-synonym of Psathyromyia brasiliensis (Costa Lima, 1932). The study of the holotype of Ph. oliverioi allowed us to conclude that the head of this specimen belongs to the genus Psychodopygus and the wings, thorax and abdomen belong to a different species of Psathyromyia. Thus, Ph. oliverioi is a not valid species, and must be removed from the synonym and excluded from the provisions of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Articles 17.2 and 23.8). The specimen was measured, drawn, photographed and the morphological characters are discussed. Lectotype and paralectotypes to Pa. brasiliensis are designated.
Reproductive aspects of Dendropsophus sanborni (Anura, Hylidae) in northeastern Argentina
Authors: Curi Lucila M. , Olea Gabriela. B. , Álvarez Blanca B. , Céspedez Jorge A. , Lombardo Daniel M.
Published: February 2015

Reproductive aspects of Dendropsophus sanborni (Anura, Hylidae) in northeastern Argentina. The aim of this investigation was to characterize reproductive aspects of Dendropsophus sanborni (Schmidt, 1944) (Anura, Hylidae) in the northwest of Corrientes province, in northeastern Argentina. The reproductive cycles of males and females, the existence of sexual dimorphism and the male’s vocalization period were analyzed. Samplings were made from September 2011 to August 2012. Dendropsophus sanborni showed a prolonged reproductive pattern because reproductive activity was observed during most part of the year. Calling males were recorded all months except in July. The spermatogenic cycle can be characterized as potentially continuous. In males, snout-vent length was significantly correlated with mean testicular volume. The species showed sexual dimorphism in body mass, with females larger than males. Post-ovulatory females were found from March to June and most females had oocytes at different stages of maturity, with abundant post-vitellogenic oocytes from August to December.
New species of Xestoleberididae (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Archipelago of São Pedro and São Paulo, Equatorial Atlantic
Authors: Luz Nathália C. da , Coimbra João C.
Published: February 2015

Two new species of Xestoleberididae: Xestoleberis brasilinsularis sp. nov. and Xestoleberis machadoae sp. nov., both endemic to Archipelago of São Pedro and São Paulo, are described. The record of these shallow marine waters species from Brazilian oceanic islands represents an important contribution to the knowledge of the evolutionary history the species inhabit areas.