bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A Prototypical Participatory Design-Process
Authors: Teine Matthias
Published: May 2018

Our economies and societies are changing, with significant effects on each individual, as they have to cope with increasingly complex and unpredictable working lives. Therefore, innovative digital learning applications that respond to their end user's needs and desires become inevitable. Whilst relying on user-centered design structures, the participatory design methodology provides a promising approach towards the creation of such a new generation of digital learning applications. After thoroughly outlining the research undertaking's rationale and following to a theoretical discussion, the author gives insights into the results of problem-centered interviews with digital learning and user experience experts that build the basis for the creation for a prototypical participatory design process. These findings primarily confirm the recent literature and provide, complemented by the created process, a sound basis for further theory-oriented, scientific discussions but application in practice as well.
Open Source Online Learning in Rural Communities
Authors: Ackerman Gary L.
Published: May 2018

Anyone is free to use open source software without the need to purchase the right to install it. Despite its appeal to school and technology leaders in rural communities, they are less likely to install it than others. In this chapter, three cases in which open source technology was installed to support teaching and learning in three rural communities are described. In each, the systems were deployed and refined using decision-making grounded in educational design research. The projects are detailed, and the method of technology planning is assessed. Unanswered questions are also addressed.
Design and Development of Capacitance Sensor Array for Analyzing the Non-Homogeneity in Biological Materials
Authors: Apparsamy Sahana , Krishnamurthy Kamalanand
Published: May 2018

Soft tissues are non-homogeneous deformable structures having varied structural arrangements, constituents, and composition. This chapter explains the design of a capacitance sensor array for analyzing and imaging the non-homogeneity in biological materials. Further, tissue mimicking phantoms are developed using Agar-Agar and Polyacrylamide gels for testing the developed sensor. Also, the sensor employs an unsupervised learning algorithm for automated analysis of non-homogeneity. The reconstructed capacitance image can also be sensitive to topographical and morphological variations in the sample. The proposed method is further validated using a fiberoptic-based laser imaging system and the Jaccard index. In this chapter, the design of the sensor array for smart analysis of non-homogeneity along with significant results are presented in detail.
Effect of a Romantic Song on the Autonomic Nervous System and the Heart of Indian Male Volunteers
Authors: Das Soumanti , Nayak Suraj Kumar , Verma Rohit Kumar , Dey Anilesh , Pal Kunal
Published: May 2018

In this chapter, the effect of an old generation romantic music (stimulus) on the autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity and the cardiac electrophysiology of Indian male volunteers was investigated. Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals were acquired and the corresponding RR intervals (RRIs) were extracted. The recurrence analysis of the RRI time series suggested a more stable heart rate in the post-stimulus condition. Heart rate variability (HRV) analysis detected a dominant parasympathetic activity in the post-stimulus condition. The time-domain and the wavelet transform analyses of the ECG signals predicted an alteration in the electrical activity of the heart because of the exposure to the music stimulus. The classification of the HRV and the ECG parameters was performed using artificial neural network (ANN), which resulted in an accuracy of ≥80%.
Facebook in the International Classroom
Authors: Piven Inna P
Published: May 2018

The case explores international students' learning experiences with Facebook-based activities within the eight-week study term known as the intensive mode of course delivery. By implementing participant observation and two asynchronous Facebook focus groups, the study investigates the potential values of Facebook for learning from international students' perspective. In addition, the case looks at the challenges faced by students and discusses key factors that may impact international students' experiences with courses that incorporate Facebook as a learning tool. The research is framed in the context of New Zealand tertiary education and intended as a contribution to the emerging body of educational research on social media.
Exploring the Impact of Flexible and Permeable Work-Life Boundaries in a Mobile World
Authors: McCloskey Donna Weaver
Published: May 2018

Work-life boundaries are often studied on a segmentation-integration continuum, which fails to consider that boundaries can be multidimensional. A flexible boundary allows work to be completed at different times and locations, whereas a permeable boundary allows for the integration of work and personal demands. This chapter examines boundary flexibility, home boundary permeability, and work boundary permeability as separate constructs, positing eight possible boundary configurations. In this exploratory research, differences in demographics, technology usage, work-family conflict, and work and life satisfaction for 65 knowledge workers who maintain different levels of boundary flexibility and permeability are examined. This research offers a new boundary configuration framework, which should guide future research and organizational policy.
Agile Business Process and Practice Alignment Methodology
Authors: Zacarias Marielba , Martins Paula Ventura
Published: May 2018

Business process management (BPM) encompasses the discovery, modelling, monitoring, analysis, and improvement of business processes. Traditional BPM limitations in addressing changes in business requirements have resulted in a number of agile BPM approaches that seek to accelerate the redesign of business process models. In a previous work, the authors proposed the business process and practice alignment methodology (BPPAM) to uncover, supervise, and improve business processes based on actual work practices. BPPAM aims at enabling business process modeling, supervision, and improvement through the distinction of two dimensions: (1) business processes and (2) work practices. This chapter describes an agile version of the methodology (ABPPAM). Agility is infused in ABPPAM through the redefinition of phases, roles, and iteration cycles. The chapter illustrates the effects of agility for the business discovery phase of ABPPAM through a case study analysis of a real organizational setting.
Beyond SOA and REST for Distributed Application Integration
Authors: Delgado José Carlos Martins
Published: May 2018

The fundamental problem of distributed application integration is reducing application coupling as much as possible while still meeting the minimum interoperability requirements. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and representational state transfer (REST) are the most used architectural styles to deal with this problem. This chapter performs a comparative study of these styles and shows that, while both solve basic interoperability, neither of them minimizes coupling, since data description schemas are shared by the interacting applications (symmetric interoperability). SOA is oriented towards behavior (services) and REST towards state (structured resources). Services have no structure and resources have a fixed service. This chapter proposes a new architectural style, structured services, that combines the best characteristics of SOA and REST (services can have structure and resources can implement application-specific services), while using asymmetric interoperability (schema compatibility is based on structural compliance and conformance) to minimize application coupling.
Migration of Diabetes Diagnosis System to Service-Oriented Architectures
Authors: Fatima Boumahdi , Nachida Rezoug , Amina Madani , Rachid Chalal
Published: May 2018

Studies in diabetic systems are vital for both diabetes patients and the medical industry because it is possible to use these systems to improve healthcare quality in several ways. These systems can help doctors to treat patients with all types of conditions. This research selected service oriented architecture with a decision aspect (SOAda) as the core architecture for the reason that it functions well when the domain decision is not adequately clear. This chapter demonstrates the study of the diabetes systems within service-oriented architecture and provides clinical management and advices for patients. Its aim is to (1) identify the current research state in the area, (2) assist in deriving the key problems and features with the SOAda, and (3) use these key features so that they could serve as a guide in the development of a new tool to address the decision problems in SOAda.
SLO-Driven Monitoring and Adaptation of Multi-Cloud Service-Based Applications
Authors: Zeginis Chrysostomos , Kritikos Kyriakos , Plexousakis Dimitris
Published: May 2018

Cloud computing is an emerging technology that attracts the attention of an increasing number of organizations that are willing to virtualize their infrastructure. Towards this direction, enterprises can deploy their applications on different public virtual machines (VMs), in order to reduce their operational costs, as well as optimize the performance of the offered applications. In such heterogeneous multi-cloud environments, the need for monitoring the quality of (a) the acquired resources, (b) the services offered to the final users, and (c) the offered service-based processes, and adapting them has come into force. Current research approaches addressing these areas are limited and most of them target a subset of these offerings. This chapter aims at proposing a novel event-based approach for cross-layer monitoring and adaptation of service-based applications (SBAs) deployed on multiple clouds. The proposed approach is empirically evaluated based on an invoice management application.
Periodic Patterns in Dynamic Network
Authors: Thakur Hardeo Kumar , Gupta Anand , Garg Anshul , Garg Disha
Published: May 2018

The periodic interactions represented as a dynamic network possess two aspects: structure and weight. This chapter introduces and explores the use of a third aspect that is associated with the periodic interactions, namely the directional aspect. Moreover, the authors have showcased how some applications require mining of patterns on both aspects—1) on direction and 2) on weight of directed interactions—for a better understanding of their behavior. With the aim of overcoming the limitation of existing frameworks, which only mine periodic patterns individually, a framework is proposed to mine periodic patterns on both the aspects together. Further, the patterns are analyzed to develop a better understanding of the dynamic network. A set of six parameters, defined later in the chapter, are used to conduct a microscopic study on the behavior of interactions. The framework is tested on real world and synthetic datasets. The results highlight its practical scalability and prove its efficiency.
Towards a New Extracting and Querying Approach of Fuzzy Summaries
Authors: Benali-Sougui Ines , Hidri Minyar Sassi , Grissa-Touzi Amel
Published: May 2018

Diversification of DB applications highlighted the limitations of relational database management system (RDBMS) particularly on the modeling plan. In fact, in the real world, we are increasingly faced with the situation where applications need to handle imprecise data and to offer a flexible querying to their users. Several theoretical solutions have been proposed. However, the impact of this work in practice remained negligible with the exception of a few research prototypes based on the formal model GEFRED. In this chapter, the authors propose a new approach for exploitation of fuzzy relational databases (FRDB) described by the model GEFRED. This approach consists of 1) a new technique for extracting summary fuzzy data, Fuzzy SAINTETIQ, based on the classification of fuzzy data and formal concepts analysis; 2) an approach of assessing flexible queries in the context of FDB based on the set of fuzzy summaries generated by our fuzzy SAINTETIQ system; 3) an approach of repairing and substituting unanswered query.
Misperception of Economic Terms
Authors: Jung SeEun , Nakamoto Yasuhiro , Sato Masayuki , Yamada Katsunori
Published: May 2018

Using original internet-based survey data which was collected in Japan, the authors estimate the parameters of the utility functions with a social comparison using the random utility model framework. In line with classical income comparison literature, this article observes a negative effect of others' saving on their own utility along with a positive effect of one's own saving. However, this article finds that an increase in consumption decreases one's own utility while an increase in other's consumption has no significant effect on one's own utility. Regarding potential mechanisms behind the puzzling result of own consumption, the authors may be able to explain it with psychological effects coming from Japanese social norms, in which the term “own consumption” can be negatively perceived.
Cyber Security Patterns Students Behavior and Their Participation in Loyalty Programs
Authors: Chmielarz Witold , Szumski Oskar
Published: May 2018

Despite of the number of public advice campaigns, researchers have found that individuals still engage in risky cyber behaviour. The first part of this article is focused on the general approach to the cyber security and safety of personal data kept and processed by different entities from the perspective of students, while the second part is dedicated to the privacy aspects from the perspective of loyalty programs. Researchers have found that individuals are typically aware of online security and how to protect their privacy in the network, Nonetheless, individuals are still inclined to take risks because they are unrealistically optimistic and believe that negative events are less likely to happen to them. The survey also shows that even though respondents are aware that retailers collect, and process personal data and respondents feel that the amount of personal data of program members is far beyond the accepted level they still participate in such programs. Authors found also interesting patterns related to behaviour of respondents influenced by demographical data and the area of loyalty.
Multimedia Feature Mapping and Correlation Learning for Cross-Modal Retrieval
Authors: Yuan Xu , Zhong Hua , Chen Zhikui , Zhong Fangming , Hu Yueming
Published: May 2018

This article describes how with the rapid increasing of multimedia content on the Internet, the need for effective cross-modal retrieval has attracted much attention recently. Many related works ignore the latent semantic correlations of modalities in the non-linear space and the extraction of high-level modality features, which only focuses on the semantic mapping of modalities in linear space and the use of low-level artificial features as modality feature representation. To solve these issues, the authors first utilizes convolutional neural networks and topic modal to obtain a high-level semantic feature of various modalities. Sequentially, they propose a supervised learning algorithm based on a kernel with partial least squares that can capture semantic correlations across modalities. Finally, the joint model of different modalities is learnt by the training set. Extensive experiments are conducted on three benchmark datasets that include Wikipedia, Pascal and MIRFlickr. The results show that the proposed approach achieves better retrieval performance over several state-of-the-art approaches.
Speech Enhancement Using Heterogeneous Information
Authors: Xiong Yan , Xu Fang , Chen Qiang , Zhang Jun
Published: May 2018

This article describes how to use heterogeneous information in speech enhancement. In most of the current speech enhancement systems, clean speeches are recovered only from the signals collected by acoustic microphones, which will be greatly affected by the acoustic noises. However, heterogeneous information from different kinds of sensors, which is usually called the “multi-stream,” are seldom used in speech enhancement because the speech waveforms cannot be recovered from the signals provided by many kinds of sensors. In this article, the authors propose a new model-based multi-stream speech enhancement framework that can make use of the heterogeneous information provided by the signals from different kinds of sensors even when some of them are not directly related to the speech waveform. Then a new speech enhancement scheme using the acoustic and throat microphone recordings is also proposed based on the new speech enhancement framework. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme outperforms several single-stream speech enhancement methods in different noisy environments.
Sketch-Based 3D Model Retrieval Using Attributes
Authors: Lei Haopeng , Luo Guoliang , Li Yuhua , Liu Jianming , Ye Jihua
Published: May 2018

With the rapid growth of available 3D models on the Internet, how to retrieve 3D models based on hand-drawn sketch retrieval are becoming increasingly important. This article proposes a new sketch-based 3D model retrieval approach. This approach is different from current methods that make use of low-level visual features to capture the search intention of users. The proposed method uses two kinds of semantic attributes, including pre-defined attributes and latent attributes. Specifically, pre-defined attributes are defined manually which can provide prior knowledge about different sketch categories and latent-attributes are more discriminative which can differentiate sketch categories at a finer level. Therefore, these semantic attributes can provide a more descriptive and discriminative meaningful representation than low-level feature descriptors. The experiment results demonstrate that this proposed method can achieve superior performance over previously proposed sketch-based 3D model retrieval methods.
The Effectiveness of Self-Directed English Learning through SNS
Authors: Won Eun-Sok , Kim Jeong-Ryeol
Published: May 2018

This article suggests an efficient self-directed learning method that will help improve students' actual English ability by adopting Facebook, which is one of the most represented social networking services (SNS). The purpose of this article is to present a practical way in which to implement SNS-based, self-directed English learning by applying useful concepts from gamification and to ascertain the effectiveness of this method.
The Effects of Cross-Cultural Distance Learning Model on the Linguistic and Affective Domain of EFL Learners in Korea
Authors: Chang Bok-Myung
Published: May 2018

This article is based on a Cross-Cultural Distance Learning (CCDL) model between university students in Korea and Japan during the 1st semester of 2016 and this lesson model consists of synchronous and asynchronous CMC activities focusing on the interactions between non-native speakers of English. This article shows that EFL learners in Korea can develop English language proficiency through this lesson model. The learners' development of English language proficiency was evaluated by using the TOEIC test as a proficiency test form. Also, this article proves that these kinds of CMC activities can motivate EFL learners to enhance cultural awareness for foreign countries and practice English inside and outside of the classroom. The questionnaire was used to survey the students' cultural awareness and attitude for this model at the final session of the semester.
Manifold Transfer Subspace Learning (MTSL) for Applications in Aided Target Recognition
Authors: Mendoza-Schrock Olga , Rizki Mateen M. , Velten Vincent J.
Published: May 2018

This article describes how transfer subspace learning has recently gained popularity for its ability to perform cross-dataset and cross-domain object recognition. The ability to leverage existing data without the need for additional data collections is attractive for monitoring and surveillance technology, specifically for aided target recognition applications. Transfer subspace learning enables the incorporation of sparse and dynamically collected data into existing systems that utilize large databases. Manifold learning has also gained popularity for its success at dimensionality reduction. In this contribution, Manifold learning and transfer subspace learning are combined to create a new system capable of achieving high target recognition rates. The manifold learning technique used in this contribution is diffusion maps, a nonlinear dimensionality reduction technique based on a heat diffusion analogy. The transfer subspace learning technique used is Transfer Fisher's Linear Discriminative Analysis. The new system, manifold transfer subspace learning, sequentially integrates manifold learning and transfer subspace learning. In this article, the ability of the new techniques to achieve high target recognition rates for cross-dataset and cross-domain applications is illustrated using a variety of diverse datasets.
Perception of Maize Processors Towards Utilization of Maize Value Addition Techniques: Implications for Rural Entrepreneurship Development – A Study in Nigeria
Authors: Alabi D. L. , Akintola O. M. , Famakinwa M.
Published: May 2018

Purpose: Huge losses in maize production lead to reduction in farmers’ income and food insecurity. However, it is expected that the value chain approach would provide processors with actionable methods capable of increasing productivity and income. However, maize producers and processors in the study area are still faced with post-harvest wastages and limited products along maize value chain; Hence, the study.Research Method: The data for this study were gathered through an interview schedule from 120 maize processors in Nigeria. Appropriate descriptive and inferential statistical tools such as frequency counts, means, standard deviations chi-square and correlation analyses were used to analyze the dataFindings: The results revealed that majority were female with the mean monthly income was N 51,000.33. A total of 17 value addition techniques were identified and indigenous ones include pap making (39.5%) and solid gel making (32.5%). Majority were small scale local processors producing for their immediate communities and where almost equal numbers of processors were operating either on part time or full time basis. 56.7% had a favorable perception towards the utilization of maize value addition techniques. Sex and occupation had a significant association while years of schooling and income had significant relationships with the perception towards the utilization of maize value addition.Research limitations: The study was limited in that it did not cover all the geographical zones in Nigeria since there was no grant to support the research.Originality/value: The study identified different maize value addition techniques utilized by the processors and the characteristics of the enterprise in the study area.
Opportunity Cost of Education on Non-Farm Employment in Rural Nigeria
Authors: Idowu Adewunmi O. , Dada Omolara M. , Otunaiya Abiodun O. , Ologbon Olugbenga A. C.
Published: May 2018

Purpose: Returns on education was found to be worker, scale and allocative effects with positive higher payoff to agricultural productivity but its effects on non-farm employment among agricultural households who obtain income through non-farm activities to complement proceeds of agricultural activities are not yet known. Therefore, this study critically investigates the real cost effect of education on involvement in non-farm employment among rural households in South-western Nigeria.Research Method: The study drew a sample of 411 rural farm households through a multi-stage sampling technique from three states in southwest Nigeria and the data obtained were analyzed using the Mincerian equation, logistic model, inverse of Herfindahl index, calculation of expected annual rural income earning and rates of return to schooling.Findings: Results indicate that mean age and education of the rural household heads were 49.9 years and 8.8 years respectively while the household incomes were diversified up to 2.82 level  and the non-farm sources contributed an average of 67% of the total income. Education is found to have considerable returns of N4706.30 (US$31.95) to gross household income and an additional year of schooling from other members of the households returns of  N12519.90 (US$85) to the households’ income.  Education of the household heads increases the probability of farm households participating in rural non-farm employment but the probability of participation reduces with increased level of education of the household heads. Tertiary education has the highest opportunity costs of schooling (N352200.04) per annum and the lowest rate of return to schooling (0.57%) from rural non-farm employment.Research Limitations: The study revealed the real cost of rural farm households’ educational level on the type of non-farm employment and income generated through it. The study presents information on south-western zone of Nigeria.Originality/Value: The practical value of this research is that decline rates of return to higher education reveal the rural non-farm employment being not the prime incentive for rural farm households’ members in obtaining higher education in rural southwest Nigeria. Therefore, implications are drawn for an integrated approach to higher education which may yield agricultural and non-agricultural transformation in rural Nigeria.
Cohomological Approach to Class Field Theory in Arithmetic Topology
Authors: Mihara Tomoki
Published: May 2018

We establish class field theory for three-dimensional manifolds and knots. For this purpose, we formulate analogues of the multiplicative group, the idèle class group, and ray class groups in a cocycle-theoretic way. Following the arguments in abstract class field theory, we construct reciprocity maps and verify the existence theorems.
Assessment of outcomes following high-dose opioid tapering in a Veterans Healthcare System
Authors: Hundley, PharmD, BCPS Lauren , Spradley, PharmD, BCPS Shelley , Donelenko, BPharm, CPE Scott
Published: May 2018

Objective: To assess the impact of tapering of chronic high dose opioid therapy in veterans prompted by the implementation of the Opioid Safety Initiative in 2013. Design: IRB and VA Office of Research and Development-approved retrospective, observational chart review.Setting: North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System Patients: Veterans on high dose opioid therapy (≥300 mg of morphine equivalents per day) for chronic non-cancer pain as of 1/1/2012 with an opioid agreement discontinuation note documented in the medical record were included. Veterans treated for cancer pain or under palliative care were excluded.Outcomes: Descriptive outcomes include rate of opioid discontinuation, average duration of tapering, and rate of relapse. Differences before and after discontinuation assessed include healthcare utilization, monitoring via urine drug screens and state prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) queries, non-opioid analgesics, benzodiazepines, and non-pharmacologic modalities.Results: Forty-three patients were included. The mean duration of therapy was 7.8 years and 81.4 percent were on methadone prior to tapering. Opioids were tapered to discontinuation in 28 patients (65 percent) with long-term abstinence in 71 percent. The mean duration of tapering was 81 days and the median/mode was 30 days. Statistically significant differences after tapering include decreased PDMP queries, increased non-opioid analgesics, decreased benzodiazepine prescriptions, and increased use of mental health services (p < 0.05). There were zero adverse outcomes identified in those tapered and one death in the group who sought non-VA care for continuation.Conclusions: This study suggests that moderate speed tapering in high-risk veterans on chronic high-dose opioid therapy can be achieved, but caution is warranted in ensuring adequate follow-up and monitoring. Clinical pharmacy services may improve tapering outcomes by providing more frequent follow-up, monitoring via state PDMP queries to identify patients who have relapsed, and dispensing naloxone for increased safety.
Alonso Zamora Vicente, precursor de la dialectología gallega
Authors: Fernández Rei Francisco
Published: May 2018

Alonso Zamora Vicente publicó en 1951, 1952, 1953 y 1963 artículos sobre gallego oral, que fueron los primeros trabajos científicos de dialectología desde la globalidad del territorio gallego. En esta contribución se analizan los estudios pioneros de Zamora Vicente sobre el seseo y la gheada y la clasificación dialectal del gallego. A continuación, se tratan los inicios del estudio científico de este idioma en la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela en los años 60 y la publicación del Atlas Lingüístico Galego. Finalmente se dan notas sobre su experiencia personal en dicha Universidad en los años 40, como profesor de Literatura Española, en los que recorría Galicia para obtener información para sus trabajos pioneros de dialectología gallega; así como se da cuenta de su admiración en los años 90 por el desarrollo científico del gallego, gracias a la creación del Instituto da Lingua Galega en una Facultad de Filología que superaba la que había soñado 50 años atrás.
Alonso Zamora Vicente y Galicia
Authors: Mejía Ruiz Carmen
Published: May 2018

En esta colaboración se hace un recorrido de la trayectoria profesional de Alonso Zamora Vicente vinculada a Galicia. Sus primeros años en Santiago de Compostela, sus estudios pioneros sobre los fenómenos de la dialectología gallega publicados en Argentina, sus amistades en Galicia y su itinerancia por distintas Universidades e Instituciones hasta la formación del Departamento de Filología Románica en la Universidad Complutense.
Madrid hacia 1920: Primeras hojas, de Alonso Zamora Vicente
Authors: Cianca Aguilar Elena
Published: May 2018

Madrid, en Primeras hojas, de Zamora Vicente, es un personaje que puede competir con los más importantes de carne y hueso que aparecen en el libro. Se recorre el libro de manera transversal en busca de los elementos que caracterizan aquella ciudad, los que componen su imagen: el tranvía, las verbenas callejeras, las cabalgatas, las procesiones, la plaza de Oriente, las Vistillas, el Casino, Rosales, los cines, la Casa de Campo… la calle en sus múltiples manifestaciones, pues la mayoría –no todos– son elementos exteriores. En su afán por convertir a Madrid en un personaje, Zamora Vicente da relieve a elementos tan intangibles como la luz o el sonido, que tanta atmósfera proporcionan al libro. A pesar de recoger muchos elementos del Madrid real de 1920, Primeras hojas no es un documento histórico. Todo lo que aparece en él está pasado por el tamiz del lenguaje y de los procedimientos literarios.
La obra narrativa de Alonso Zamora Vicente y María Josefa Canellada bajo la mirada del censor
Authors: Navas Sánchez-Élez María Victoria , Ribera Llopis Juan M.
Published: May 2018

En esta colaboración se hace un inventario de los ocho expedientes con sus correspondientes informes a propósito de la obra narrativa de Alonso Zamora Vicente (1916-2006) así como de los cuatro expedientes correspondientes a los cinco informes de la obra de creación de María Josefa Canellada (1912-1995), material todo él depositado en el Archivo General de la Administración; se da cuenta de la censura que ambos autores sufrieron en las obras allí contempladas y se concluye con unas reflexiones sobre el diferente tratamiento que merecieron ambos escritores por parte del respectivo lector/ censor.
AZV, vida de la crítica y crítica de la vida
Authors: Urrutia Jorge
Published: May 2018

Este ensayo busca exponer la originalidad del gran dialectólogo, crítico literario y escritor Alonso Zamora Vicente desde la relación de la persona y obra. Sin duda es el concepto de la vida y de la sociedad el que ilumina tanto su obra erudita como crítica o creativa, cuestionando así las prácticas no experienciales.
Semblanza de D. Alonso Zamora Vicente
Authors: Mayor Sánchez Juan
Published: May 2018

Se analiza en este texto la personalidad de Alonso Zamora Vicente y se la relaciona con las diferentes actividades que realizó durante su vida: docente, investigadora, creadora o de gestión. Se destaca, asimismo, su talante comunicativo y su ironía, que se plasma en su obra y en el contacto con los alumnos, como la anécdota que se incluye en el texto. Se finaliza, por último, valorando su compromiso histórico con los tiempos que le tocaron vivir.
Lecciones tempranas de un maestro también de Literatura Hispanoamericana
Authors: Rovira Soler José Carlos
Published: May 2018

Alonso Zamora Vicente fue precursor de estudios sobre Julio Cortázar (1953) o sobre César Vallejo (1957), en un tiempo en el que el primero no era aún quien fue, ni el segundo era casi conocido ni tenido en cuenta por la crítica académica en España. Se muestra aquí el interés por el poeta peruano en quien luego fue máximo especialista Roberto Paoli, lector en Salamanca en los años en los que Zamora Vicente escribía sobre Vallejo; así como la dirección de la primera Tesis Doctoral en España sobre el peruano. Se recuerda la amistad de Zamora Vicente con Julio Cortázar, con Jorge Luis Borges (junto con sus distancias), su interés por Rubén Darío, la dirección de la Tesis Doctoral de Vargas Llosa sobre García Márquez, su labor editorial americanista con tantos autores americanos replanteados por Alonso Zamora en España. Se rescata, en definitiva, la lección cultural de quien fue maestro en disciplinas lingüísticas y literarias entre las que estuvieron las que procedían de su pasión por Hispanoamérica.
Capital Structure Decisions and Corporate Performance: Evidence from Chinese Listed Industrial Firms
Authors: Vijayakumaran Ratnam
Published: May 2018

Market imperfections such as taxes, asymmetric information and agency problems make capital structure decisions relevant to the value of the firm. More specially, the agency theory suggests that debt financing is one of the governance mechanisms to mitigate agency costs of equity capital and thus to enhance firm performance. This paper provides new empirical evidence on the performance effects of capital structure decisions using a large panel of Chinese listed industrial firms. Using fixed effects regression method, the study finds that leverage is positively related to firm performance, suggesting that debt financing now acts as a governance mechanism for Chinese listed firms to enhance their performance.
Syringe Purification and HRP-Conjugation of Goat IgGs Used in Quality Control of Erythropoietin
Authors: Bassil Marcel , Pavliuchenko Nataliia , Raya Elia
Published: May 2018

Goat anti-rabbit IgGs were purified from serum using Protein G affinity chromatography. The purity of eluted fractions was tested using SDS-PAGE, and the functionality of IgGs was tested in Western Blot analysis of Erythropoietin, after conjugation with Horseradish Peroxidase.
Radio, Pinter, and Near Nostalgia
Authors: Norman Lance
Published: May 2018

Other Places (1982) is Harold Pinter's post-nostalgic trilogy on the potential of the radio play. The trilogy relegates the radio play to a temporal memorial to fecundity as much as a modality. Other Places reflects on the temporal place that can no longer be visited as much more than a museum piece: the radio play. With Family Voices, Other Places begins by questioning what happens to the power and impact of a radio play when it must move on to other places as the radio play ceases to be a viable place for theatrical consumption. Other Places moves on to A Kind of Alaska which offers the most traditionally Pinteresque part of the performance by embracing the Aristotelian unities. In concluding with Victoria Station, Pinter offers a play about radio and leaves his audience with one of the most optimistic visions of community and intimacy in his canon.
Let Them Eat Steak: Performance Is Dead; Long Live President Drumpf
Authors: Bowman Matthew
Published: May 2018

This essay asks whether or not performance can reach Donald Drumpf, and if so, what kind.
“That Shed Out in the Garden”: The Poetics of Reference in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker
Authors: Alderman Nigel
Published: May 2018

Harold Pinter's first plays emerge in the wake of the postwar British encounter with European modernist theater that occurred simultaneously with the emergence of disruptive new content in realistic portrayals of working-class and lower-middle-class life. Pinter's early work proceeds from the twin imperatives of an antirealist and a realist drama, both of which were perceived as oppositional and avant-garde: the one primarily because of its form, the other because of its content. This article situates Pinter's style historically in relation to its formal conditions of possibility by using Roman Jakobson's model of the speech event to argue that the historical concurrence of these aesthetic antitheses not only produces the paradox that the poetic and referential functions become one and the same in the language of The Caretaker, but also makes its most audible stylistic imprint in the idiomatic figure and practice of the Pinteresque pause itself.
As motivações dos proprietários de terra para a criação das Reservas Particulares do Patrimônio Natural federais do estado de Santa Catarina, Brasil
Authors: Simão Isaac , De Freitas Mário Jorge Cardoso Coelho
Published: May 2018

Desde a década de 90, a quantidade de áreas privadas protegidas tem aumentado no mundo todo, contribuindo para a conservação da natureza e protegendo a biodiversidade, as paisagens e, em alguns casos, até mesmo valores culturais associados ao uso de recursos naturais. As motivações que levam os proprietários a converterem suas terras em áreas protegidas ainda são pouco estudadas, a despeito de quanto isso pode ajudar no desenvolvimento de políticas públicas que promovam a criação de novas RPPNs. Neste estudo, apresentamos os resultados de uma pesquisa centrada nas motivações dos proprietários para criar as Reservas Particulares do Patrimônio Natural (RPPNs) federais em suas terras no estado de Santa Catarina. Iniciando o trabalho a partir de dados oficiais do Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), consideramos a totalidade do universo amostral do estado, ou seja, 67 RPPNs federais. A verificação realizada mostrou, porém, que apenas 65 delas estavam legalmente estabelecidas. A maioria destas RPPNs (63) foi visitada, e os proprietários ou gestores de todas as 65 reservas legalmente constituídas foram entrevistados sobre as motivações que tiveram para criá-las. Os resultados apontaram 16 razões principais divididas em seis grupos de motivações: conservacionistas, conservacionistas/econômicas, econômicas, psicossociais, defensivas da propriedade e impostas. As respostas foram mais frequentes para motivações conservacionistas (41) e psicossociais (18), o que significa que os proprietários decidiram criar as RPPNs para contribuir com a conservação do patrimônio natural e também pela satisfação pessoal. A defesa da propriedade foi apontada por 15 proprietários como sendo a motivação para criar as reservas. Trata-se de uma defesa contra estradas, Pequenas Centrais Hidrelétricas ou invasão da área. As motivações conservacionistas/econômicas, econômicas e impostas foram apontadas, respectivamente, por 11, 6 e 4 proprietários de RPPNs. Ao final, alguns aspectos legais e éticos relacionados à criação de RPPNs para outros fins que não a conservação da biodiversidade são discutidos.
Central nervous system penetration and efficacy of targeted therapies used in non-small cell lung cancer and melanoma with brain metastases
Authors: Khalid Sidra , Khalid Aariez , Haddad Abdo , Spiro Timothy , Daw Hamed
Published: May 2018

Recently, many targeted therapies have been approved for treating brain metastases in non-small cell lung cancer and melanoma patients. In this article, the targeted therapies and their mechanism of action will be reviewed. It will highlight the central nervous system penetration of the targeted therapies. The article will also relate the efficacy of these drugs as seen in clinical trials, which would help guide clinicians when managing these patients.
Full Range Testing of the Small Size Effect Bias for Benford Screening: A Note
Authors: Bao Yan , Heilig Frank , Lee Chuo-Hsuan , Lusk Edward J.
Published: May 2018

Bao, Lee, Heilig, and Lusk (2018) have documented and illustrated the Small Sample Size bias in Benford Screening of datasets for Non-Conformity. However, their sampling plan tested only a few random sample-bundles from a core set of data that were clearly Conforming to the Benford first digit profile. We extended their study using the same core datasets and DSS, called the Newcomb Benford Decision Support Systems Profiler [NBDSSP], to create an expanded set of random samples from their core sample. Specifically, we took repeated random samples in blocks of 10 down to 5% from their core-set of data in increments of 5% and finished with a random sample of 1%, 0.5% & 20 thus creating 221 sample-bundles. This arm focuses on the False Positive Signaling Error [FPSE]—i.e., believing that the sampled dataset is Non-Conforming when it, in fact, comes from a Conforming set of data. The second arm used the Hill Lottery dataset, argued and tested as Non-Conforming; we will use the same iteration model noted above to create a test of the False Negative Signaling Error [FNSE]—i.e., if for the sampled datasets the NBDSSP fails to detect Non-Conformity—to wit believing incorrectly that the dataset is Conforming. We find that there is a dramatic point in the sliding sampling scale at about 120 sampled points where the FPSE first appears—i.e., where the state of nature: Conforming incorrectly is flagged as Non-Conforming. Further, we find it is very unlikely that the FNSE manifests itself for the Hill dataset. This demonstrated clearly that small datasets are indeed likely to create the FPSE, and there should be little concern that Hill-type of datasets will not be indicated as Non-Conforming. We offer a discussion of these results with implications for audits in the Big-Data context where the audit In-charge may find it necessary to partition the datasets of the client.
A música da amizade. Notas entre filosofia e educação
Authors: Kohan Walter Omar
Published: May 2018

O presente texto trata das relações entre música, filosofia, educação e amizade. Parte de uma leitura do músico italiano Ezio Bosso e faz dialogar ela com autores como F. Ferraro, J. Masschelein e M. Simons, J. L. Nancy, M. Santi, G. Deleuze, C. Lenkensdorf e os zapatistas. Algumas das questões principais que este artigo tematiza são: o papel da escuta, na música e na filosofia; as contribuições da música para pensar o sentido da educação; o papel da busca e do encontro na vida e na educação; o lugar do outro, na música, na filosofia e na educação; o sentido da amizade como forma impessoal no pensamento; o texto recupera palavras de Paulo Freire sobre o valor do coletivo na vida institucional e, por último, faz também uma homenagem a Fúlvio Manara, autor italiano recentemente falecido, significativo no campo das comunidades de investigação filosófica e da educação para a paz.
About the first half of the 19th c. painter Roza Parczewska: some fragments of biography and works
Authors: Klietkutė Jolanta
Published: May 2018

The article reviews the biography and works of the painter Roza Parczewska. The life of the painter presented in the publication was picked up crumb by crumb from various sources of the 21st century. However, these are only small light flashes in the surface layers of the history, which passed into silence. Her life is worth a much more detailed historical research, or maybe even a pen of the novelist.
Roza Parczewska (15 September 1799 – 20 October 1852, Raudondvaris Manor of Nemenčinė) was born in the family of colonel Ignacy and Salomea Dziewońska Parczewska. The painter devoted her life to the family, charity work and painting. At the end of the 18th – beginning of the 19th century, a number of people of the manor made attempts in the fine arts, although they did not have appropriate education. It is not known where and when Parczewska studied painting. However, it is likely that she was acquainted with it during her general education. She painted miniatures early in her life. Later she moved to the large-scale oil paintings of religious motives in churches.
Parczewska participated actively in the artistic life. She was the first woman in Lithuania who participated with her own works in exhibitions. Her miniatures painted on ivory received an extremely high recognition. The painter created in the spirit of that time and was employed to make copies of popular miniatures of that time. She painted very thoroughly, perfectly repeating the original images. Therefore, her works were especially popular and wide-spread in Lithuanian manors. Alexander Parczewski recorded eight miniatures and fifteen paintings painted by his sister. However, a complete creative heritage of the painter is unknown. It is obvious that her brother Alexander mentioned not all of her works. A part of her paintings were lost in church fires (for example, in 1842 and 1947 all her paintings were lost in the fire of Nemenčinė church). The religious painting of Parczewska was inspired by the tendencies and traditions characteristic of this field of art. The painter brilliantly and thoroughly copied the works of the well-known painters. For example, in 1831 R. Parczewska created a painting of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Kretinga Franciscan Church according to the painting by Szymon Czechowicz from the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish Church in Węgrów (Poland). Another painting of R. Parczewska created in 1837 according to the same work by S. Czechowicz is kept at the altar of Our Lady in Grodno Cathedral (Belarus). R. Parczewska as an amateur painter reached very satisfactory results. She was one of the first women painters who participated in the exhibitions where her works gained praise words. However, the modern art critics estimate her ability of painting as average. Nevertheless, the preserved paintings are considered to be an interesting and valuable example of the specific phenomenon of amateur painter’s creation of the 19th century in Lithuania.