bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Attributes of the Organizational Change and Its Influence on Attitudes Toward Organizational Change and Well-Being at Work: A Longitudinal Study
Authors: de Fátima Nery Vanessa , Franco Kettyplyn Sanches , Neiva Elaine Rabelo
Published: August 2019

This study investigates the role of attributes of organizational change and attitudes toward change as antecedents of well-being at work and how these antecedents vary over the course of an organizational change. Drawing on cognitive theories (a) organization change planning, (b) perceived risk level, and (c) attitudes toward organizational change are examined as antecedents. Attitudes toward change have also been tested as mediators in the relationship between change attributes and well-being. Hypotheses are tested in a three-wave study of 505, 390, and 348 respondents in each wave, involving employees from a Brazilian public organization undergoing a strategic reorientation toward continuous improvement. Attitudes toward change had stable positive effects in each wave, conducted 12, 24, and 48 months after the change was initiated. This study corroborates the findings that uncertainty and risk contribute to the formation of negative cognitions and feelings throughout the process of organizational change but do not necessarily result in discomfort in relation to the work and the organization. The effects of both planning for the change and the perceived risk level were not moderated by time. The results of this study do not support the idea of gradual shifts and discontinuous information processing in employee’s cognitive models. On the contrary, it is possible to conclude that perceptions have been confirmed over time. Implications for managing employee reactions and well-being in different phases of change are discussed.
Uniting the Tribes: Using Text for Marketing Insight
Authors: Berger Jonah , Humphreys Ashlee , Ludwig Stephan , Moe Wendy W. , Netzer Oded , Schweidel David A.
Published: August 2019

Words are part of almost every marketplace interaction. Online reviews, customer service calls, press releases, marketing communications, and other interactions create a wealth of textual data. But how can marketers best use such data? This article provides an overview of automated textual analysis and details how it can be used to generate marketing insights. The authors discuss how text reflects qualities of the text producer (and the context in which the text was produced) and impacts the audience or text recipient. Next, they discuss how text can be a powerful tool both for prediction and for understanding (i.e., insights). Then, the authors overview methodologies and metrics used in text analysis, providing a set of guidelines and procedures. Finally, they further highlight some common metrics and challenges and discuss how researchers can address issues of internal and external validity. They conclude with a discussion of potential areas for future work. Along the way, the authors note how textual analysis can unite the tribes of marketing. While most marketing problems are interdisciplinary, the field is often fragmented. By involving skills and ideas from each of the subareas of marketing, text analysis has the potential to help unite the field with a common set of tools and approaches.
Disturbance observer-based optimal flight control of near space vehicle with external disturbance
Authors: Xia Rongsheng , Wu Qingxian , Shao Shuyi
Published: August 2019

This paper presents a disturbance observer-based robust optimal flight control strategy for near space vehicle (NSV) attitude system with external time-varying disturbance generated by an exogenous system. For the purpose of eliminating the effect of the disturbance, nonlinear disturbance observer (NDO) technique is used and the disturbance estimation error is guaranteed to be globally exponential convergence. Then, based on the disturbance estimation result and desired trajectory signal, a steady state control input is presented and the optimal tracking problem of original system with external disturbance can be converted into the optimal regulation problem of a nominal error system. Furthermore, a single network-based adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) method is applied to obtain the corresponding optimal feedback control law. Finally, all the signals in closed-loop system are proved to be uniformly ultimately bounded (UUB) and the tracking error can converge to a sufficiently small bound. Simulation tests about NSV attitude system are given to verify the effectiveness of proposed robust optimal flight control scheme.
Factors associated with knowledge of pre-exposure prophylaxis in pregnant women in Cape Town, South Africa
Authors: DiTullio David J , Farley Elise , Gomba Yolanda , Coates Thomas J. , Bekker Linda-Gail , Myer Landon , Joseph Davey Dvora L.
Published: August 2019

Pregnant and postpartum women in Southern Africa are at increased risk of HIV infection. Pre-exposure prophylaxis in pregnancy and postpartum periods could significantly reduce the risk of HIV acquisition and transmission in pregnancy. Participants at a community health clinic in Cape Town completed a survey about demographic and sexual risk behaviors, and prior knowledge of pre-exposure prophylaxis. We evaluated factors associated with knowledge of pre-exposure prophylaxis using multivariable logistic regression. We enrolled 50 pregnant and 37 postpartum women, of whom 51% were HIV-uninfected. Twenty-nine (33%) knew about pre-exposure prophylaxis, most from their healthcare provider (69%). Older age (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]/year = 1.09, 95% CI = 1.00–1.19), unintended pregnancy (aOR = 3.36, 95% CI = 1.06–12.12), and more than one sex partner in the last year (aOR = 5.31, 95% CI = 1.12–30.07) were associated with pre-exposure prophylaxis knowledge. Our study identified low levels of pre-exposure prophylaxis knowledge in pregnant and breastfeeding women, but increased knowledge in higher risk women. These results provide guidance to develop interventions to increase pre-exposure prophylaxis knowledge and uptake.
Am I Speaking Prose? Rejoinder to “Critical Language and Discourse Awareness in Management Education”
Authors: Cohen Allan R.
Published: August 2019

This essay claims too much and too little for Critical Language Discourse, an interesting subject, but in my view not necessary as a separate topic from Needed Communications Skills Education. Those skills are best learned in context, working on specific challenges with specific audiences where there are particular communications problems to be overcome, then discussed from multiple points of view, including numerous relevant theories and concepts. Frequent iterations between challenges tackled, what works under which circumstances, what does not, and so on, builds a deeper understanding of oral and written communications, without necessarily learning theoretical names for the one form of theory.
Music Teacher Rankings of Selected Core Teaching Practices
Authors: Millican J. Si , Forrester Sommer Helweh
Published: August 2019

There is a decades-long history of music education researchers examining characteristics and skills associated with effective teaching and assessing how preservice music teachers develop those competencies. Building on studies of pedagogical content knowledge and the professional opinions of experienced music educators, researchers are now attempting to identity a body of core music teaching practices. We asked experienced in-service music teachers ( N = 898) to think about the skills beginning music teachers must possess to investigate how respondents rated and ranked selected core music teaching practices in terms of their relative importance. Developing appropriate relationships with students, modeling music concepts, and sequencing instruction were the top core teaching practices identified by the group. Results provide insights into knowing, naming, and framing a set of core teaching practices and offer a common technical vocabulary that music teacher educators might use as they design curricula and activities to develop these foundational skills.
Selection Pressures on RNA Sequences and Structures
Authors: Nowick Katja , Walter Costa Maria Beatriz , Höner zu Siederdissen Christian , Stadler Peter F
Published: August 2019

With the discovery of increasingly more functional noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs), it becomes eminent to more strongly consider them as important players during species evolution. Although tests for negative selection of ncRNAs already exist since the beginning of this century, the SSS-test is the first one for also investigating positive selection. When analyzing selection in ncRNAs, it should be taken into account that selection pressures can independently act on sequence and structure. We applied the SSS-test to explore the evolution of ncRNAs in primates and identified more than 100 long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) that might evolve under positive selection in humans. With this test, it is now possible to more thoroughly include ncRNAs into evolutionary studies.
The impact of intensive treatment for pediatric anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder on daily functioning
Authors: Sperling Jacqueline , Boger Kathryn , Potter Mona
Published: August 2019

This study investigated whether intensive group-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with family involvement for children with anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) would facilitate children’s return to their daily routines. The focus shifted from the usual emphasis on remission to an improvement in functioning. The aim was to capture potentially missed gains when children pursue their fears and engage in more adaptive behaviors as these efforts may result in ongoing symptoms. Two hundred twelve children and adolescents aged 8–19 years old, who were patients in an intensive outpatient group-based treatment program at an academic hospital, participated in this study. Results indicated that both children and their parents endorsed significant improvement in children’s functioning from admission to discharge. Symptom reduction was assessed for reference, and both children and parents reported significant decreases in child anxiety symptoms from admission to discharge, and children endorsed decreases in their comorbid depression symptoms. Short-term group-based intensive treatment in a clinical setting may help children return to their daily activities quickly.
Epilepsy Therapy Goes Viral
Authors: Lim Byung Chan , Hunt Robert F.
Published: August 2019

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Defining the Socially Responsible Leader: Revisiting Issues in Responsible Leadership
Authors: Waldman David A. , Siegel Donald S. , Stahl Günter K.
Published: August 2019

We renew an exchange of letters from 2008 regarding the meaning of responsible leadership, which applies to senior executives of firms as they attempt to engage in corporate social responsibility. An interesting aspect to this discussion is that, depending on one’s theoretical perspective, responsible leadership can be defined in multiple, somewhat disparate ways. We use the terms strategist versus integrator to characterize the most common delineation of responsible leader orientations. While the strategist orientation implies the planning and use of corporate social responsibility initiatives for the direct targeting of return on investment, the integrator orientation involves senior leaders’ use of corporate social responsibility to serve the interests of a range of corporate stakeholders. Although a divergence of opinion is expressed in our letters, we concur in our conclusion that more research is necessary to better understand these diverse orientations and their effects on organizations.
Fractal calculus for analysis of wool fiber: Mathematical insight of its biomechanism
Authors: Fan Jie , Yang Xue , Liu Yong
Published: August 2019

Wool fiber has a complex hierarchic inner structure. However, like most of the natural things, wool fiber does not have an exactly strict self-similar fractal feature. Here, we calculate the fractal dimension of each hierarchic level of wool fiber using the two-scale dimension method. The obtained fractal dimension of wool fiber in different hierarchic level ranges between 1.37 and 1.47, which is close to that obtained according to the traditional fractal geometry. Thermal property of wool fiber is investigated based on the fractal feature of wool fiber. The result shows that the temperature gradient and the rate of the temperature gradient along the fiber is very slow, suggesting that wool fiber has a good thermal retention property.
Deviations handling and corrective actions and preventive actions: Case studies for parenteral dosage form
Authors: Kavina Shah , Charmy Kothari , Chirag Modi , Manan Shah
Published: August 2019

In the pharmaceutical industry, each and every activity is done according to standard operating procedures and protocols. Standard operating procedures are the pre-established stepwise instructions to carry out routine operations while protocols are predefined written document used for design and execution of experiments. In the current scenario, pharmaceutical industry wants to manufacture quality product as per good manufacturing practice guidelines. To achieve six sigma qualities, deviations are very important to consider. Deviations have to be addressed, investigated, and based on investigation data, suitable corrective actions and preventive actions are applied for prevention of its reoccurrence. Corrective actions and preventive actions are important part of quality management system. Corrective actions and preventive actions is a system which falls under good manufacturing practice and many International Standard Organization business standards. Corrective actions and preventive actions include route cause analysis for resolving deviation, which includes its cause of identification, and helps to prevent its occurrence in future. Corrective actions and preventive actions is a combination of ideas and tools to correct deviation. Inappropriate initial route cause identification and application of corrective actions and preventive actions lead to extra work, time, and cost. There are some exceptional cases in which corrective actions and preventive actions are not required, for instance one-time deviation, where only corrective actions are done. The corrective actions and preventive actions system improves and maintains processes, procedures, organization, and business in a systematic, organized, well-documented, and actionable way. In this article, case studies of deviations in pharmaceutical industry helped in identification and evaluation of deviation and based on that application, suitable corrective actions and preventive actions are shown which give thorough understanding of deviation and application of corrective actions and preventive actions in pharmaceutical industry. So, corrective actions and preventive actions are not only regulatory requirements but they make good business sense to the pharmaceutical industry.
Callousness and Affective Face Processing: Clarifying the Neural Basis of Behavioral-Recognition Deficits Through the Use of Brain Event-Related Potentials
Authors: Brislin Sarah J. , Patrick Christopher J.
Published: August 2019

Callousness encompasses a lack of guilt, shallow affect, and deficient affiliative tendencies and relates to severe antisocial behavior. Across developmental stages, callousness is associated with abnormalities in emotional processing, including decreased physiological reactivity to emotional faces. The current study recruited an adult participant sample to investigate selective associations of callousness with deficits in behavioral performance and reduced neurophysiological response within a face-processing task. Participants who scored higher in callousness demonstrated decreased reactivity to fearful faces across temporal components of the electrocortical response along with reduced accuracy in identifying fearful faces. Further analyses demonstrated that late-positive potential amplitude alone was related to behavioral response and mediated the association between callousness and impaired recognition of fearful faces. These findings clarify the nature of face-processing deficits in relation to callousness and have implications for biologically informed interventions to reduce antisocial behavior.
India and the Nation-State Model
Authors: Chakraborty Debtanu
Published: August 2019

India was pushed to call itself a nation to achieve independence from British. Although many still try to identify possible nationalities inside India, it is forgotten that nation is a very recent phenomenon with its root in Biblical traditions.

Through the diverse voices that conceptualized a free India during colonial times, it becomes clear that Indians did not try to make a nation and sometimes actively abhorred the European conception of race as nations. They rather saw and described India using markers from the civilization itself.
Using a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) to Develop an Adaptive K–2 Literacy Intervention With Personalized Print Texts and App-Based Digital Activities
Authors: Kim James S. , Asher Catherine A. , Burkhauser Mary , Mesite Laura , Leyva Diana
Published: August 2019

This study employs a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) design to develop an adaptive intervention with personalized print and digital content for kindergarten to Grade 2 children (n = 273). In Stage 1, we ask whether it is better for children to receive an adaptive intervention based on (a) 10 conceptually coherent texts or (b) 10 leveled texts on a range of topics. In Stage 2, we ask how best to encourage nonresponding children. Findings indicate that children who received either conceptually coherent texts or leveled texts performed similarly on reading comprehension posttests, while augmenting and intensifying follow-up with gamification of the app and text messages to parents improved comprehension outcomes for nonresponders. Descriptively, we find that only 26% (n = 71) of parents accessed the app, highlighting the need for better implementation procedures to increase take up of app-based digital activities.
The Predictive Value of Early-Life Trauma, Psychopathy, and the Testosterone–Cortisol Ratio for Impulsive Aggression Problems in Veterans
Authors: Korpel Pauline O. J. , Varkevisser Tim , Hoppenbrouwers Sylco S. , Van Honk Jack , Geuze Elbert
Published: August 2019

Background

In this study, we examined whether early-life trauma, psychopathy, and the testosterone/cortisol ratio predicted impulsive aggression problems in veterans.

Method

A sample of 49 male veterans with impulsive aggression problems and 51 nonaggressive veterans were included in the study. Logistic regression analysis was performed with early-life trauma, primary and secondary psychopathy, and testosterone/cortisol ratio as continuous predictor variables; impulsive aggression status was entered as a binary outcome measure. Correlation analyses were conducted to examine pairwise relations among the predictors.

Results

Results indicated that early-life trauma and secondary psychopathy, but not the testosterone/cortisol ratio or primary psychopathy, were significant predictors of impulsive aggression status.

Conclusions

The current results indicate that early-life trauma and secondary psychopathy are risk factors for impulsive aggression problems among veterans. Future studies are needed to determine the exact causal relations among the variables examined here.
Gender Differences in Psoriatic Arthritis With Fatigue, Pain, Function, and Work Disability
Authors: Braaten Tawnie J. , Zhang Chong , Presson Angela P. , Breviu Brian , Clegg Daniel , Walsh Jessica A.
Published: August 2019

Introduction/Objectives:

Gender is an important patient characteristic that may be used to predict clinical presentation, disease progression, and therapeutic response. In recent studies, women with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have reported less favorable function, increased fatigue, and decreased quality of life, compared to men. Less is known about gender differences with other patient-reported outcomes (PROs) such as pain and work limitations. Our purpose was to characterize gender differences in PROs in participants of the Utah Psoriasis Initiative (UPI) Arthritis Registry.

Methods:

In this cross-sectional study, PROs assessing pain, fatigue, quality of life, and function were compared between men and women enrolled in the UPI Arthritis Registry between January 2010 and November 2014. Work limitations were assessed in the subset of participants working for pay at the time of enrollment.

Results:

Participants included 115 men and 138 women. Women had less favorable PROs for pain, fatigue, patient-reported joint count, physical demands at work, work output, and function, as measured by both Health Assessment Questionnaire and the Psoriatic Arthritis Screening and Evaluation function subscale.

Conclusions:

Women experienced PsA differently than men, with higher fatigue, pain, work disability, and functional limitations. The etiology of the gender differences in PsA are unclear, and further research is indicated to better understand the role of hormones, gene expression, and other potential pathophysiologic differences between men and women.
Lentiviral and genome-editing strategies for the treatment of β-hemoglobinopathies
Authors: Magrin Elisa , Miccio Annarita , Cavazzana Marina
Published: August 2019

This review article summarizes the clinical outcomes and genotoxicity issues of gene therapy for hemoglobinopathies based on lentiviral vectors carrying a β-globin–like gene or genome editing to correct the erythropoietic defect.
ALI multilayered co-cultures mimic biochemical mechanisms of the cancer cell-fibroblast cross-talk involved in NSCLC MultiDrug Resistance
Authors: Movia Dania , Bazou Despina , Prina-Mello Adriele
Published: August 2019

Background

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. This study focuses on its most common form, Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). No cure exists for advanced NSCLC, and patient prognosis is extremely poor. Efforts are currently being made to develop effective inhaled NSCLC therapies. However, at present, reliable preclinical models to support the development of inhaled anti-cancer drugs do not exist. This is due to the oversimplified nature of currently available in vitro models, and the significant interspecies differences between animals and humans.

Methods

We have recently established 3D Multilayered Cell Cultures (MCCs) of human NSCLC (A549) cells grown at the Air-Liquid Interface (ALI) as the first in vitro tool for screening the efficacy of inhaled anti-cancer drugs. Here, we present an improved in vitro model formed by growing A549 cells and human fibroblasts (MRC-5 cell line) as an ALI multilayered co-culture. The model was characterized over 14-day growth and tested for its response to four benchmarking chemotherapeutics.

Results

ALI multilayered co-cultures showed an increased resistance to the four drugs tested as compared to ALI multilayered mono-cultures. The signalling pathways involved in the culture MultiDrug Resistance (MDR) were influenced by the cancer cell-fibroblast cross-talk, which was mediated through TGF-β1 release and subsequent activation of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway. As per in vivo conditions, when inhibiting mTOR phosphorylation, MDR was triggered by activation of the MEK/ERK pathway activation and up-regulation in cIAP-1/2 expression.

Conclusions

Our study opens new research avenues for the development of alternatives to animal-based inhalation studies, impacting the development of anti-NSCLC drugs.
P-to-S-wave velocity ratio in organic shales
Authors: Omovie Sheyore John , Castagna John P.
Published: August 2019

In situ P- and S-wave velocity measurements in a variety of organic-rich shales exhibit P-to-S-wave velocity ratios that are significantly lower than lithologically similar fully brine-saturated shales having low organic content. It has been hypothesized that this drop could be explained by the direct influence of kerogen on the rock frame and/or by the presence of free hydrocarbons in the pore space. The correlation of hydrocarbon saturation with total organic content in situ makes it difficult to separate these possible mechanisms using log data alone. Theoretical bounding equations, using pure kerogen as an end-member component without associated gas, indicate that kerogen reduces the P- and S-wave velocities but does not in general reduce their ratio enough to explain the observed low velocity ratio. The theoretical modeling is consistent with ultrasonic measurements on organic shale core samples that indicate no dependence of velocity ratios on the kerogen volume alone. Sonic log measurements of P- and S-wave velocities in seven organic-rich shale formations deviate significantly (typically more than 5%) from the Greenberg-Castagna empirical brine-saturated shale trend toward lower velocity ratios. In these formations, and on core measurements, Gassmann fluid substitution to 100% brine saturation yields velocity ratios consistent with the Greenberg-Castagna velocity trend for fully brine-saturated shales, despite the high organic content. These sonic and ultrasonic measurements, as well as theoretical modeling, suggest that the velocity ratio reduction in organic shales is best explained by the presence of free hydrocarbons.
Æthelwulf’s De abbatibus and the Anglo-Saxon Ecological Imagination
Authors: Terry John T. R.
Published: August 2019

Modern scholarship on early medieval views of nature tends to rely too heavily on binary interpretations of positive and negative representations. This article uses an early ninth-century Anglo-Latin poem, Æthelwulf’s De abbatibus (“On the abbots” of an unknown Northumbrian monastic community), as a window into the ways in which early medieval people saw their natural world not as a passive space for human activity, but as an active participant in religious life. This reading comports with ecocritical interpretations of Æthelwulf’s poem alongside contemporary Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture. An understudied text, Æthelwulf’s De abbatibus provides an opportunity to understand how early medieval people could situate nature at a narrative’s center, crediting it with the capacity to shape religious behavior and belief. Æthelwulf’s work should be seen among a rich late antique and early medieval literary and artistic tradition of ecological imagination, in which nature was an interpretive key for articulating religious identity and community.
“The Animal Outside”
Authors: Garrod Raphaële
Published: August 2019

This essay historicizes Giorgio Agamben’s notion of the “animal outside” as ingenuity by exploring early modern French polemics stemming from the humanist reception of the Machiavellian simile stating that the prince should deploy both the lion’s strength and the fox’s ingenuity. Defined in the Aristotelian corpus and valorized in Plutarch’s Moralia, ingenuity-as-prudence was a set of cognitive responses prompted by appetites and shared by humans and beasts alike. Ingenuity anchors an alternative account of organized polis and sociability to rationalist readings of Aristotle’s Politics. Promoted by Machiavelli, this alternative was condemned by humanists such as Erasmus and Vives — Erasmus saw it as the beastly degradation of politics into the subhuman tyranny of the passions. This polemic was replayed in Montaigne’s response to the anti-Machiavellian lawyer Innocent Gentillet during the French wars of religion. Against Gentillet and with Plutarch, Montaigne fully acknowledges the importance of ingenuity as “the animal outside” in human sociability.
Bayesian Identification: A Theory for State-Dependent Utilities
Authors: Lu Jay
Published: August 2019

We provide a revealed preference methodology for identifying beliefs and utilities that can vary across states. A notion of comparative informativeness is introduced that is weaker than the standard Blackwell ranking. We show that beliefs and state-dependent utilities can be identified using stochastic choice from two informational treatments, where one is strictly more informative than another. Moreover, if the signal structure is known, then stochastic choice from a single treatment is enough for identification. These results illustrate novel identification methodologies unique to stochastic choice. Applications include identifying biases in job hiring, loan approvals, and medical advice. (JEL D11, D82, D83, J23, M51)
Evidence that the nadA motif is a bacterial riboswitch for the ubiquitous enzyme cofactor NAD+
Authors: Malkowski Sarah N. , Spencer Tara C.J. , Breaker Ronald R.
Published: August 2019

The nadA motif is a riboswitch candidate present in various Acidobacteria species that was previously identified by bioinformatic analysis of bacterial DNA data sets. More than 100 unique representatives have been identified exclusively upstream of nadA genes, which code for an enzyme in the biosynthetic pathway of the ubiquitous coenzyme NAD+. The architecture of nadA motif RNAs suggests they use structurally similar tandem ligand-binding aptamer domains to control translation initiation. Biochemical analyses reveal that the first domain selectively binds ligands carrying an adenosine 5′-diphosphate (5′ ADP) moiety, including NAD+ and its reduced form, NADH. Genetic analyses indicate that a tandem nadA motif RNA suppresses gene expression when NAD+ is abundant, and that both aptamer domains are required for maximal gene regulation. However, we have not observed selective binding of the nicotinamide moiety of NAD+ or binding by the second putative aptamer in vitro, despite sequence and structural similarities between the tandem domains.
Evolution of Verse Form, Plots and Characters in English Plays (mid-16th to mid-19th centuries)
Authors: Tarlinskaja Marina
Published: August 2019

The aim of this essay is to demonstrate how the rhythmical evolution of English dramatic iambic pentameter parallelled the changes of aesthetic tastes and social values of English society from the mid-sixteenth to mid-nineteenth century. During 250 years the evolution of such features as the abundance or absence of enjambments, the use of constrained or loose iambs, and some others corresponds to the changes in the architecture of the theaters, the social structure of the audience, the manners of declamation, the complexity of poetic language, and the types of characters and plots the playwrights used.
On the Poetic of the Double Point and Circle in Dante’s Paradiso 30 and in Desmond Hogan’s Short Story “The Last Time”
Authors: Ploom Ülar
Published: August 2019

This essay discusses the interaction of the divine point of light and Beatrice as the unattainable point of revelation for Dante in Paradiso 30. The two points with their respective circles of understanding and expression form a powerful figure which calls for conceptualisation both in the context of Canto 30 but also the whole of the Divina Commedia. Despite the different epochs, ideologies and contexts, a striking similarity as to the poetic of the double point and circle may be found also in Hogan’s text.
Graphic Translation of Experimental Verse as a Strategy of Poetic Text’s Transcreation
Authors: Feshchenko Vladimir
Published: August 2019

The article examines the problem of translating experimental poetic texts into other languages. The focus is on the transfer of verse’s spatial design between the source and the target languages. We analyze some cases of unconventional poetry translation with particular attention to verbal/visual properties of avant-garde poems. Stéphane Mallarmé’s, Guillaume Apollinaire’s, Augusto de Campos’ and Dmitry A. Prigov’s visual poetry provides examples of autographic (hand-written or hand-drawn) and allographic (typewritten or typeset) texts. The former, as we argue, are problematic for translation, just like pictures in painting, whereas the latter may be rendered in another language. The analysis of E. E. Cummings’ allographic experimental verse allows to propose a special strategy for translating this kind of texts. By analogy with ‘phonetic translation’, this strategy can be called ‘graphic translation’. This type of translation preserves the visual and metagraphemic forms of the original text, rearranging its lexical elements in translation. It specifically applies to visually-oriented avant-garde and experimental texts. Graphic translation ‘transcreates’ the text to a certain degree and this contributes to preserve and reinforce the experimental nature of avant-garde verse in languages other than its own.
Formation of Entrepreneurial competencies in Mathematics Lessons
Authors: Фаритов А. , Faritov A.
Published: August 2019

Currently, more and more attention is paid to processes related to educational topics. This trend also applies to mathematics lessons. That is why the article presents an analysis of the urgent issue of the formation of entrepreneurial competence in mathematics.
Role of elective courses in training of mathematics in profile classes
Authors: Левандовская В. , Levandovskaya V. , Акимов А. , Akimov A. , Солощенко М. , Soloschenko M.
Published: August 2019

Article is devoted to the problem of effi ciency of the use of elective courses on mathematics in classes with profi le preparation and their place in training of school students. For this purpose, the tasks and principles of introduction of elective courses to the program of training are considered. For consideration of function of elective courses at separate steps of profi le education are separately submitted. Their teaching is based on independent activity of pupils, and the accent to be put on a form of the organization of elective courses. Therefore, new demands to training of the teacher and the organization of his lessons are made. In the article it is off ered to consider one of new forms of creation of independent activity of pupils as the cure of a problem of profile training, — lessons of the “turned” type. The use of this form will become eff ective for development of the program of elective courses.
Sport in Foreign Schools: Leisure and Entertainment or a Social Problem?
Authors: Орехов А. , Orehov A. , Демченская Л. , Demchenskaya L.
Published: August 2019

The article focuses on the issue of physical activity of children and young people with special attention to students in foreign schools for which this problem has become urgent in recent decades. The authors consider the projects devoted to the development of new courses and their introduction into school educational programs as well as into teacher training abroad. These projects promote physical education and sports activity widely recognized as priority guidelines for future generation development. The paper includes the analysis of positive experience on the organization of physical culture lessons and extra-curricular sports activities in some European and Asian countries. The authors also discuss the work of international institutions on promoting schoolchildren’s physical activity in the context of international programs and projects. The research vector of the present study is directed towards the familiarization of Russian professionals with foreign investigations and practice in the fi eld of physical education and sport to enable possible comparison of their own experience with the experience existing in other countries according to chosen discourse. The article is based on authentic scientifi c materials from foreign sources, contains up-to-date statistics and presents research techniques which might broaden scientifi c and practical horizons of researchers and teachers in Russia.
Why Would I Use Location-Protective Settings on My Smartphone? Motivating Protective Behaviors and the Existence of the Privacy Knowledge–Belief Gap
Authors: Crossler Robert E. , Bélanger France
Published: August 2019

Smartphones have become essential for functioning in society, but as more personal information is accessed, transferred, or stored on smartphones, users struggle to control the release of their information via privacy settings. To enhance their privacy, individuals must be knowledgeable about their smartphone and motivated to use the device’s settings. Therefore, we explore the roles of knowledge and motivation in affecting smartphone owners’ use of settings to limit sharing of location-based information. The authors find that personal motivation is the strongest factor affecting such use, and the opinions of others do not matter. This is likely because of the personal nature of smartphones. Furthermore, privacy knowledge and individuals’ perceptions of their abilities to use privacy settings also affect this usage. However, a privacy knowledge–belief gap exists by which people with high levels of privacy knowledge utilize less restrictive privacy settings when their confidence in protecting themselves is low. The combined lack of effect from social motivation and the importance of perceived and actual privacy knowledge suggest that asking parents, teachers, or “important” others to tell individuals how to better protect themselves is unlikely to give the intended results. Instead, we need to appeal to individuals’ personal motivation and offer them training via experiential learning, such as games or educational apps.
Search Personalization Using Machine Learning
Authors: Yoganarasimhan Hema
Published: August 2019

Firms typically use query-based search to help consumers find information/products on their websites. We consider the problem of optimally ranking a set of results shown in response to a query. We propose a personalized ranking mechanism based on a user’s search and click history. Our machine-learning framework consists of three modules: (a) feature generation, (b) normalized discounted cumulative gain–based LambdaMART algorithm, and (c) feature selection wrapper. We deploy our framework on large-scale data from a leading search engine using Amazon EC2 servers and present results from a series of counterfactual analyses. We find that personalization improves clicks to the top position by 3.5% and reduces the average error in rank of a click by 9.43% over the baseline. Personalization based on short-term history or within-session behavior is shown to be less valuable than long-term or across-session personalization. We find that there is significant heterogeneity in returns to personalization as a function of user history and query type. The quality of personalized results increases monotonically with the length of a user’s history. Queries can be classified based on user intent as transactional, informational, or navigational, and the former two benefit more from personalization. We also find that returns to personalization are negatively correlated with a query’s past average performance. Finally, we demonstrate the scalability of our framework and derive the set of optimal features that maximizes accuracy while minimizing computing time.

This paper was accepted by Juanjuan Zhang, marketing.
Ensino religioso em porto alegre: modelos gerais e práticas específicas
Authors: Zanirati Giovani
Published: August 2019

O presente trabalho é fruto de uma pesquisa que começou em 2014 com o objetivo de observar o material aplicado nas aulas de Ensino Religioso em Porto Alegre. O histórico da disciplina em escolas públicas é marcado por forte presença do cristianismo em seu conteúdo, material escolar, formação dos professores e práticas do dia-a-dia como, por exemplo, orações. Ou seja, além de garantir espaço para uma religião específica se manifestar, a disciplina desconsiderou a pluralidade religiosa existente na sociedade brasileira ao excluir as outras práticas de crenças. Embora seja o comum o privilégio ao cristianismo nas aulas de Ensino Religioso, a pesquisa que efetivei revela um cenário mais complexo.
Os desafios da educação: intolerância e inconstitucionalidade do manifesto à nação (FPE) do programa de governo de Jair Bolsonaro
Authors: Rezera Danielle Do Nascimento , D'Alexandre Raquel Gomes
Published: August 2019

O artigo analisa o documento intitulado “Manifesto à nação: o Brasil para os brasileiros”, elaborado pela Frente Parlamentar Evangélica – FPE, no ano de 2018, e suas implicações ao regimento jurídico estabelecido pela Lei nº 9.394/96. Com o intento de verificar se a figura do direito público subjetivo presta-se à exigibilidade de nossa Constituição Federal de 1988 no cenário em que há forte influência dos quadros da bancada evangélica na proposição de medidas políticas para a Educação. O “Manifesto” foi direcionado ao Governo de Jair Bolsonaro tendo em vista a execução de um conjunto de propostas para a condução das políticas públicas da área. Concluiu-se demonstrando as amarras dos interesses políticos e ideológicos envolvidos na presunção de um novo modelo de Educação.
Entre o diálogo e a convivência nas práticas socioeducativas em uma instituição filantrópica em São Gonçalo – RJ
Authors: Machado Júlia Abreu , Lyra Thiago Da Silva , Ferreira Arthur Vianna
Published: August 2019

Este trabalho tem como objetivo refletir sobre o conceito de dialogicidade (FREIRE, 1967, 1987, 2016) presente nos autores da Pedagogia Social que despontam desde Paulo Freire até alguns autores da contemporaneidade como Moura (2011), Caliman (2011), Ferreira (2018) e, de maneira especial, Jares (2008) com a sua Pedagogia da Convivência para a ação educativa em espaços não escolares que destaca o diálogo como elemento necessário a toda prática educativa que esteja voltada à transformação e emancipação dos sujeitos que atendem. Analisamos recortes extraídos de uma pesquisa vinculada ao “Projeto Fora da Sala de Aula” da FFP/UERJ, realizada em uma instituição filantrópica, buscando reafirmar a importância de se pensar o trabalho docente fora do ambiente escolar e suas especificidades.
Educação revolucionária ou retórica? O 25 de abril e os planos educacionais para uma nova diretriz pedagógica em Portugal
Authors: Cabreira Pamela Peres
Published: August 2019

Interessa no presente artigo, apresentar como o processo de democratização em Portugal lidou com as demandas sociais sedentas de mudanças no plano nacional de reconstrução. Destaca-se a educação como função importante nas propostas de reformulação do plano educacional e de que maneira as propostas e previsões foram apresentadas e acatadas. Os órgãos e cooperações comunitárias e/ou partidárias desenvolvidas no processo revolucionário serviu de terra fértil para a germinação de ideias e práticas educacionais não tradicionais. Buscaremos demonstrar a importância das transformações educacionais no período revolucionário português (1974-1975) até a Constituição de 1976 para a construção da democracia que se assentará posteriormente, sobretudo nas organizações pedagógicas, e com o Movimento da Escola Moderna e a Escola a Ponte.
Entrevista realizada com o vereador português Antônio Serzedelo, da Junta de Freguesia de Arroios – Lisboa, Portugal
Authors: Sepulveda Denize , Sepulveda José Antonio
Published: August 2019

Entrevista realizada com o vereador português Antônio Serzedelo, da Junta de Freguesia de Arroios - Lisboa, Portugal, realizada em julho de 2019.
ANÁLISE DE ENSAIOS DE QUALIDADE EM TECIDOS DENIM ENTRE NORMAS TÉCNICAS A PARTIR DA NORMA ABNT NBR 014634- TECIDOS PLANOS 100% ALGODÃO- MÉTODO DE ENSAIO
Authors: Merle Kamila Rodrigues , Fermam Ricardo Kropf Santos
Published: August 2019

Dentro da cadeia têxtil e de moda mundial o tecido denim sobressai tanto quanto ao volume de produção quanto a presença em todas as publicações em tendências de moda. Atualmente, o jeans está difundido na sociedade como um produto de moda e o mercado jeanswear tem destacado o Brasil na produção de denim, sendo o quarto maior produtor mundial desse tecido. Devido à representatividade de mercado, os investimentos em desenvolvimento de produto, as inovações no processo e qualidade do produto vem aumentando cada vez mais, corroborando para aumento da qualidade e redução dos custos, contribuindo para receita de mercado. Este artigo identifica as normas aplicáveis em ensaios de qualidade em tecido acabado denim e realiza uma comparação entre as principais normas, evidenciando semelhanças e diferenças técnicas bem como a existência de impacto de cada ensaio na qualidade do produto final. Através da pesquisa revela-se a importância das normas que são utilizadas nos ensaios para verificação da qualidade no tecido denim, e identifica-se as orientações e em quais condições o produto foi inspecionado, evidenciando as condições para reprodutibilidade do ensaio, e garantia do resultado encontrado.
LEVANTAMENTO DE COVS E SCOVS NA ÁGUA SUBTERRÂNEA DA SUBBACIA DO RIO ESTRELA, SARACURUNA -RJ
Authors: Silva Cleber Vitorio , Silva Karina Arruda , Abreu Luiz Alberto Santos , Donadia Wagner Campos Rodrigo , Almeida Josimar Ribeiro , Lenz Elenice Rachid da Silva , Esper Fabio José
Published: August 2019

Os níveis de compostos xenobióticos despejados nos ambientes aquáticos, vêm aumentado de forma alarmante como resultado da atividade antropogênica sobre o meio ambiente. Os VOCs (compostos orgânicos voláteis) e SVOCs (compostos orgânicos semi-voláteis) representam um risco a saúde humana e animal, tendo como principal porta de entrada no meio ambiente a atividade antropogênica sobre os ecossistemas.As águas subterrâneas de regiões próximas a cidades, industrias, rodovias, empreendimentos imobiliários, garimpos, lixões e habitações humanas apresentam diversas alterações quanto as concentrações permitidas por lei para VOCs e SVOCs. Para esta realidade ambiental deletéria, a subbacia do rio Estrela, localizada no município de Caxias possui um longo histórico de contaminação por compostos orgânicos, em face as atividades antrópicas sobre a região. Grande parte da população local usa as águas subterrâneas da região para consumo humano, animal e em atividades agrícolas, com isso foi realizado a sondagem das águas subterrâneas visando levantar sua toxicidade quanto a concentração de VOCs e SVOCs em referência a Resolução Conama nº420, de 28 de Dezembro de 2009. Para os VOCs (1,2-dicloroetano, cloreto de vinila e tetracloreto de carbono) e SVOCs (aldrin, dieldrin, beta BHC, endrin,Benzo(a)antraceno, Benzo(a)pireno, Dibenzo(a,h)antraceno, Hexaclorobenzeno e Indeno(1,2,3-cd)pireno) para um delineamento amostral de  5 pontos na subbacia do rio Estrela, foram constatadas concentrações próximas as consideradas de risco em face a resolução no CONAMA 420/09, sendo notório o risco que estas águas subterrâneas oferecem para a população e o meio ambiente.
AVALIAÇÃO DO FUNCIONAMENTO DE BARRAGINHAS EM SOLOS DE TEXTURA MÉDIA E ARENOSA
Authors: Brito Adrielle Ferreira , Aragão Victor Rodrigues , Souza Ana Clara Soares de , Versiani Júnior Emílio Rodrigues
Published: August 2019

O presente estudo buscou avaliar o funcionamento de diferentes barraginhas na comunidade de Abóboras, no estado brasileiro de Minas Gerais, em função dos seus propósitos primários, relativos à contenção e infiltração das águas advindas das precipitações. Para o alcance do objetivo proposto, estabeleceu-se em metodologia como critérios a serem avaliados: condições atuais de dimensão, granulometria de solos para classificação quanto a texturas e determinação dos cálculos de velocidade de infiltração básica. Os resultados apontaram que as 8 barraginhas avaliadas no estudo estão com seus funcionamentos comprometidos, sendo as identificadas em 3 e 8 com taxas mais distantes da ideal (30 mm.h-1), sendo 11,33 mm.h-1 para a barraginha 3 e 11,99 mm.h-1 para a 8. Os dados alcançados em função de texturas de solos e dimensões refletiram em forte convergência às taxas de infiltração, levando à conclusão de que além de 25% dos sistemas avaliados se apresentarem sob textura média granulométrica, o acúmulo dos sedimentos pela falta de monitoramento se fez evidente, com redução da taxa média de profundidade de 1,5 para 0,32 m em 11 anos. Foi possível concluir que os solos das barraginhas apresentam altas capacidades de infiltração, contudo, suas estruturas estão operando com sobrecarga, necessitando portanto de manutenção, nas quais devem aduzir uma periodicidade de 5 anos