bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
C4MIP – The Coupled Climate–Carbon Cycle Model Intercomparison Project:
experimental protocol for CMIP6
Authors: Jones Chris D. , Arora Vivek , Friedlingstein Pierre , Bopp Laurent , Brovkin Victor , Dunne John , Graven Heather , Hoffman Forrest , Ilyina Tatiana , John Jasmin G. , Jung Martin , Kawamiya Michio , Koven Charlie , Pongratz Julia , Raddatz Thomas , Randerson James T. , Zaehle Sönke
Published: August 2016

Abstract. Coordinated experimental design and implementation has become a cornerstone of global climate modelling. Model Intercomparison Projects (MIPs) enable systematic and robust analysis of results across many models, by reducing the influence of ad hoc differences in model set-up or experimental boundary conditions. As it enters its 6th phase, the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) has grown significantly in scope with the design and documentation of individual simulations delegated to individual climate science communities. The Coupled Climate–Carbon Cycle Model Intercomparison Project (C4MIP) takes responsibility for design, documentation, and analysis of carbon cycle feedbacks and interactions in climate simulations. These feedbacks are potentially large and play a leading-order contribution in determining the atmospheric composition in response to human emissions of CO2 and in the setting of emissions targets to stabilize climate or avoid dangerous climate change. For over a decade, C4MIP has coordinated coupled climate–carbon cycle simulations, and in this paper we describe the C4MIP simulations that will be formally part of CMIP6. While the climate–carbon cycle community has created this experimental design, the simulations also fit within the wider CMIP activity, conform to some common standards including documentation and diagnostic requests, and are designed to complement the CMIP core experiments known as the Diagnostic, Evaluation and Characterization of Klima (DECK). C4MIP has three key strands of scientific motivation and the requested simulations are designed to satisfy their needs: (1) pre-industrial and historical simulations (formally part of the common set of CMIP6 experiments) to enable model evaluation, (2) idealized coupled and partially coupled simulations with 1 % per year increases in CO2 to enable diagnosis of feedback strength and its components, (3) future scenario simulations to project how the Earth system will respond to anthropogenic activity over the 21st century and beyond. This paper documents in detail these simulations, explains their rationale and planned analysis, and describes how to set up and run the simulations. Particular attention is paid to boundary conditions, input data, and requested output diagnostics. It is important that modelling groups participating in C4MIP adhere as closely as possible to this experimental design.
KNOWLEDGE FOR INTELLIGENCE: DISCUSSING THE STATE AND THE ROLE OF BUILDING DATA IN ITALY
Authors: Pasquinelli A. , Guzzetti F.
Published: August 2016

The availability of integrated information on buildings is the premise for an effective assets management and the provision of innovative services to buildings users: such form of knowledge relies on the efficient exploitation of existing data, providing a complete overview on the state of buildings, and on the acquisition of real-time data flows, coming from sensor and mobile devices, reporting users behaviours. If, on the one hand, technology is progressively enabling the management of new huge streams of data, on the other hand the interconnection among traditional and well rooted datasets, the majority of which in charge of public administrations, is not always guaranteed. While, at European level, interoperability issues among public archives concerning buildings were properly addressed, and the relevance of geo-information is widely recognized, in Italy this process is still taking time to be undertaken. This paper discuss the current state of Building Information in Italy, outlining a possible path for the creation of a georeferenced Building Information System at municipal level, starting from the informative heritage available in existing databases, generated with different purposes and maintained by independent authorities: the idea is to solicit that digitalization process, started a decade ago with the “Digital Administration Code”, through the proposition of real use cases that might be implemented once that public data on buildings are profitably combined together.
REVIEW OF PUBLIC TWEETS OVER TURKEY WITHIN A PRE-DETERMINED TIME
Authors: Gulnerman A. G. , Gengec N. E. , Karaman H.
Published: August 2016

Spatial data by using public knowledge is the most popular way to gather data in terms of social media within the last decade. Literature defines, public or volunteers are accepted bionic sensors detecting their surroundings and share what they detect in terms of their social media applications or microblogs. Besides being cheapest and fastest and easy way of spatial data acquisition, public or volunteers provides not only spatial data but also attribute data which makes the data more valuable. To understand and interpret those data have some difficulties according to locality. Although some difficulties like difference of languages, society structure and the time period would affect tweets depending on locality, gathering public knowledge or volunteered data contribute many scientific or private researches like Urban, Environmental, and Market side. To extract information, data should be reviewed locally according to main aim of research. In this study, our aim is to draw a perspective for a PhD research about volunteered data in the case of Turkey.
ACCESS TIME OF EMERGENCY VEHICLES UNDER THE CONDITION OF STREET BLOCKAGES AFTER A LARGE EARTHQUAKE
Authors: Hirokawa N. , Osaragi T.
Published: August 2016

The previous studies have been carried out on accessibility in daily life. However it is an important issue to improve the accessibility of emergency vehicles after a large earthquake. In this paper, we analyzed the accessibility of firefighters by using a microscopic simulation model immediately after a large earthquake. More specifically, we constructed the simulation model, which describes the property damage, such as collapsed buildings, street blockages, outbreaks of fires, and fire spreading, and the movement of firefighters from fire stations to the locations of fires in a large-scale earthquake. Using this model, we analyzed the influence of the street-blockage on the access time of firefighters. In case streets are blocked according to property damage simulation, the result showed the average access time is more than 10 minutes in the outskirts of the 23 wards of Tokyo, and there are some firefighters arrive over 20 minutes at most. Additionally, we focused on the alternative routes and proposed that volunteers collect information on street blockages to improve the accessibility of firefighters. Finally we demonstrated that access time of firefighters can be reduced to the same level as the case no streets were blocked if 0.3% of residents collected information in 10 minutes.
GENERATION OF MULTI-LOD 3D CITY MODELS IN CITYGML WITH THE PROCEDURAL MODELLING ENGINE RANDOM3DCITY
Authors: Biljecki F. , Ledoux H. , Stoter J.
Published: August 2016

The production and dissemination of semantic 3D city models is rapidly increasing benefiting a growing number of use cases. However, their availability in multiple LODs and in the CityGML format is still problematic in practice. This hinders applications and experiments where multi-LOD datasets are required as input, for instance, to determine the performance of different LODs in a spatial analysis. An alternative approach to obtain 3D city models is to generate them with procedural modelling, which is – as we discuss in this paper – well suited as a method to source multi-LOD datasets useful for a number of applications. However, procedural modelling has not yet been employed for this purpose. Therefore, we have developed RANDOM3DCITY, an experimental procedural modelling engine for generating synthetic datasets of buildings and other urban features. The engine is designed to produce models in CityGML and does so in multiple LODs. Besides the generation of multiple geometric LODs, we implement the realisation of multiple levels of spatiosemantic coherence, geometric reference variants, and indoor representations. As a result of their permutations, each building can be generated in 392 different CityGML representations, an unprecedented number of modelling variants of the same feature. The datasets produced by RANDOM3DCITY are suited for several applications, as we show in this paper with documented uses. The developed engine is available under an open-source licence at Github at http://github.com/tudelft3d/Random3Dcity.
URBAN ENERGY SIMULATION BASED ON 3D CITY MODELS : A SERVICE-ORIENTED APPROACH
Authors: Wate P. , Rodrigues P. , Duminil E. , Coors V.
Published: August 2016

Recent advancements in technology has led to the development of sophisticated software tools revitalizing growth in different domains. Taking advantage of this trend, urban energy domain have developed several compute intensive physical and data driven models. These models are used in various distinct simulation softwares to simulate the whole life-cycle of energy flow in cities from supply, distribution, conversion, storage and consumption. Since some simulation software target a specific energy system, it is necessary to integrate them to predict present and future urban energy needs. However, a key drawback is that, these tools are not compatible with each other as they use custom or propriety formats. Furthermore, they are designed as desktop applications and cannot be easily integrated with third-party tools (open source or commercial). Thereby, missing out on potential model functionalities which are required for sustainable urban energy management. In this paper, we propose a solution based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Our approach relies on open interfaces to offer flexible integration of modelling and computational functionality as loosely coupled distributed services.
RESOLUTION IN PHOTOVOLTAIC POTENTIAL COMPUTATION
Authors: Alam N. , Coors V. , Zlatanova S. , Oosterom P. J. M.
Published: August 2016

In this paper, an analysis of the effect of the various types of resolution involved in photovoltaic potential computation is presented. To calculate solar energy incident on a surface, shadow from surrounding buildings has been considered. The incident energy on a surface has been calculated taking the orientation, tilt and position into consideration. Different sky visibility map has been created for direct and diffuse radiation and only the effect of resolution of the factors has been explored here. The following four resolutions are considered: 1. temporal resolution (1, 10, 60 minutes time interval for calculating visibility of sun), 2. object surface resolution (0.01, 0.1, 0.375, 0.75, 1.25, 2.5 and 5 m2 as maximum triangle size of a surface to be considered), 3. blocking obstacle resolution (number of triangles from LoD1, LoD2, or LoD3 CityGML building models), and 4. sky resolution (ranging from 150 to 600 sky-patches used to divide the sky-dome). Higher resolutions result in general in more precise estimation of the photovoltaic potential, but also the computation time is increasing, especially as realizes that this computation has to be done for every building with its object surface (both roofs and façades). This paper is the first in depth analysis ever of the effect of resolution and will help to configure the proper settings for effective photovoltaic potential computations
AVALIAÇÃO DAÁREA DE PRESERVAÇÃO PERMANENTE DO RIO SANTO ANTÔNIO NA COLÔNIA SANTO ANTÔNIO EM GUIA LOPES DA LAGUNA – MS: APLICAÇÃO DO NOVO CÓDIGO FLORESTAL
Authors: Messias Rodrigues Abrão Cleiton , Kuerten Sidney
Published: August 2016

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar a Área de Preservação Permanente (APP) do rio Santo Antônio, no assentamento colônia Santo Antônio frente às mudanças implementadas no chamado código florestal. Foram analisadas três áreas rurais situadas nesse assentamento, sendo consideradas de pequeno e médio tamanho. A área de estudo, bem como as áreas rurais e APP estudadas, foram delimitadas a partir do banco de imagens online no software Quantum GIS com licença de uso gratuita. Entre as imagens disponíveis nesse banco de dados, escolheu-se a do satélite GeoEye 1 de alta resolução espacial (1,65 m), obtida do complemento open layers plugin Google Earth. Os resultados demonstram que existem graves problemas no cumprimento da legislação florestal. Foram identificadas faixas de APP com ausência de vegetação ciliare, consequentemente, problemas erosivos, ou sendo usadas para cultivo de pastagem e dessedentação de animais.Ao final, foi proposta a recuperação desses locais, com técnicas de isolamento e recuperação atravésde plantio de vegetação arbórea nativa ou regeneração natural, bem como a implantação de projetos com a participação dos produtores rurais por meio de Sistemas Agroflorestais (SAFs).Palavras-chaves: APP, Código Florestal, Desmatamento, Recuperação.
ZONEAMENTO AMBIENTAL DAS PAISAGENS: ESTUDO DE CASO DO ALTO CURSO DA BACIA HIDROGRÁFICA DO RIO SUCURIÚ, MATO GROSSO DO SUL, BRASIL
Authors: Cardoso Ferreira Cesar , Luís Piroli Edson
Published: August 2016

O presente trabalho teve como objetivo propor sistematicamente o Zoneamento Ambiental das Paisagens do Alto Curso da Bacia Hidrográfica do Rio Sucuriú, com base nas unidades de paisagens para fins de conservação e preservação ambiental como forma de subsídio para o planejamento do manejo do uso da terra. Para alcançar tal objetivo foram executados procedimentos operacionais para processamento de dados orbitais, cadastrais e temáticos em ambiente de sistema de informação geográfica (SIG). Esses procedimentos foram divididos em três etapas: inventários/diagnóstico, correlação e propostas/prognóstico. Os resultados obtidos a partir da análise dos dados orbitais, fisiográficos e de matrizes demostraram que há necessidade de propor o zoneamento ambiental das paisagens associado à elaboração de propostas voltadas para o manejo do uso daterra para a preservação e conservação dos recursos naturais.Palavras-chave: planejamento ambiental, conservação e preservação.
BREVE LEITURA DO ESPAÇO-TEMPO NAS PASSAGENS DE WALTER BENJAMIN: CONTRIBUIÇÕES PARA COMPREENSÃO GEOGRÁFICA DO CAPITALISMO
Authors: Dutra Júnior Wagnervalter
Published: August 2016

As passagens foram se estabelecendo nas ruas de Paris a partir de meados do século XIX, paralelo à ampliação da produção e circulação de mercadorias na capital francesa. As exposições universais da produção industrial, bem como a utilização do ferro e do vidro na arquitetura e construções, datam da mesma época e têm como pano de fundo o mesmo processo de intensificação da materialidade capitalista na Europa. Walter Benjamin elabora uma densa pesquisa a respeito da estruturação do espaço-tempo subjacente ao processo que estabelece as passagens e, concomitantemente, à haussmannização das ruas de Paris, processo que tem relação direta com o estabelecimento da centralidade da mercadoria na sociedade francesa e com a ampliação da alienação. A reflexão apresentada busca levantar a possibilidade de resgatar a leitura do espaço-tempo queWalter Benjamin realiza em Passagens como forma de auxiliar na compreensão geográfica do capitalismo.Palavras-chave: capital, mercadoria, fantasmagoria, alienação, Paris.
Redução do tempo de execução de alvenaria decorrente de intervenções ergonômicas
Authors: Morales Gilson , Rando Junior André Meneghel
Published: August 2016

RESUMO: O objeto desse estudo foi avaliar a interferência das condições ergonômicas no tempo de execução de paredes de alvenaria de blocos cerâmicos, identificando os problemas geradores de riscos ergonômicos nessa atividade. A proposta visou introduzir adequações ergonômicas junto a esse posto de trabalho, bem como, reavaliar e comparar os resultados pós intervenção. Inicialmente, foi aplicado um questionário junto a 20 trabalhadores do setor, para identificação de zonas dolorosas. Para realizar a avaliação ergonômica, a parede em execução foi dividida em três zonas de trabalho, em função da altura e do número das fiadas. Utilizou-se foto/filmagem e o Método Rula como ferramentas de análise de risco, sendo registrado o tempo de produção. A análise dos resultados forneceu subsídios para a realização de adequações ergonômicas nos postos de trabalho, organização dos mesmos e treinamento dos colaboradores envolvidos. Foi observado, após realizadas as adequações ergonômicas, uma redução de 21% no tempo de produção da parede de alvenaria. A contribuição desse trabalho para a área da construção civil é disponibilizar medidas para melhorar a postura dos funcionários, aumentar a produtividade e reduzir o tempo de execução de paredes em alvenaria de blocos cerâmicos. ABSTRACT: The object of this study was to evaluate the interference of ergonomic conditions at runtime of masonry walls of ceramic blocks, identifying ergonomic hazards generators problems in this activity. The proposal aimed at introducing ergonomic adjustments with this job, as well as, re-evaluate and compare the results post intervention. Initially, a questionnaire was administered with a 20 sector workers to identify painful areas. To accomplish the ergonomic evaluation, the wall was split into three work zones, depending on the height of the rows. We used photo / filming and Rula method as tools for risk analysis, and timed the production time of each row. The results provided subsidies for the realization of ergonomic adjustments in the workplace, organization of such posts and training of employees involved. Was observed after the ergonomic adjustments a 21% reduction in production time from the masonry wall. The main contribution of this research is to provide knowledge on measures to improve the position of employees, increase productivity and reduce the execution time of masonry walls of ceramic blocks.
Three new species of Hemicorynespora and Solicorynespora from southern China
Authors: Ma Jian , Xia Ji-Wen , Zhang Xiu-Guo
Published: August 2016

Three new hyphomycetes were collected from decaying twigs of unidentified plants in southern China. Hemicorynespora obovoidea sp. nov., Solicorynespora jinggangshanensis sp. nov., and S. lushanensis sp. nov. are described, illustrated, and compared with closely
related taxa.
Flavodon ambrosius sp. nov., a basidiomycetous mycosymbiont of Ambrosiodmus ambrosia beetles
Authors: Simmons D. Rabern , Li You , Bateman Craig C. , Hulcr Jiri
Published: August 2016

Pure fungal cultures recovered from mycangia and fungal gardens of three Ambrosiodmus species were identified as a basidiomycetous fungus within the Polyporales. Culture-independent molecular analysis of the mycangia indicated that this fungus is the dominant symbiont
transported by these beetles, and molecular phylogenetic analyses placed this fungus in a lineage with Flavodon flavus. We describe Flavodon ambrosius as a new species based on its phylogenetic position in relation to F. flavus, its role as a mycosymbiont rather than a
free-living saprophyte, and its mode of asexual reproduction via arthroconidia.
Two new species of Bactrodesmium and Dictyoaquaphila from Mexico
Authors: Arias Rosa Maria , Heredia Gabriela , Castañeda-Ruiz Rafael F.
Published: August 2016

Bactrodesmium simile sp. nov. and Dictyoaquaphila unisetulata sp. nov., collected on decaying plant material, are described and illustrated. Bactrodesmium simile is distinguished by broadly pyriform, obovoid to globose or somewhat turbinate, 1-septate, golden brown
conidia. Dictyoaquaphila unisetulata is characterized by ellipsoidal or subglobose, pale gray-brown or pale olivaceous brown separating cells and solitary acrogenous, fusiform, broad fusiform or navicular, dictyoseptate, dark brown conidia, with a cellular, filiform, hyaline apical
appendage.
Two new species of Suillus associated with larches in China
Authors: Shi Xiao-Fei , Yu Fu-Qiang , Zhang Rui , Liu Pei-Gui
Published: August 2016

Two Suillus species from China, S. alpinus and S. aurihymenius, are described as new. Both S. alpinus, a subalpine species currently known only from southwestern China, and S. aurihymenius, a boreal species from northeast China, are strictly associated
with larches and morphologically similar to the European S. tridentinus by having a viscid squamulose pileus and veiled stipe. Suillus alpinus is distinguished by a much duller basidiome, paler orange pores, a faint bluish discoloration of the context, and a heavily reticulate
stipe apex, while S. aurihymenius has a reddish gold hymenium, a context that discolors a deep reddish brown, and a less squamulose pileus. The identities of the two new species and their affinity with S. tridentinus are supported by ITS-rDNA sequence analyses. Suillus tridentinus,
S. alpinus, and S. aurihymenius form a monophyletic clade representing a morphologically similar European-Asian temperate lineage associated with Larix.
First record of Parasola lilatincta from Pakistan
Authors: Hussain Shah , Afshan Najam-ul-Sahar , Ahmad Habib
Published: August 2016

Parasola lilatincta a lilaceous coprinoid mushroom (Psathyrellaceae, Agaricales) is characterized and illustrated from Malakand, Pakistan. Morpho-anatomical description and sequencing of the ITS region of the rDNA are given. This is a new record for Pakistan.
Acrodictys, Corynespora, Karstenula, Oncopodium, and Sporocadus: new genera for Turkey
Authors: Hüseyin Elşad , Selçuk Faruk , Ekici Kadriye
Published: August 2016

Five microfungal genera are recorded for the first time in Turkey. Brief morphological descriptions based on collections from Kırşehir province are provided for Sporocadus pezizoides (Phlogicylindriaceae), Corynespora cambrensis (Corynesporascaceae),
Karstenula rhodostoma (Montagnulaceae), Acrodictys elliptica (Pezizomycotina), and Oncopodium elaeagni (Pezizomycotina).
Merismatium, Porpidia and Protoparmelia spp. new for Turkey and Asia
Authors: Yazici Kenan , Aslan Ali
Published: August 2016

Three lichen species collected from the Muş and Burdur regions (Merismatium deminutum, Porpidia zeoroides, Protoparmelia atriseda) have been determined as new to Turkey and Asia. Descriptions are accompanied by notes on geographic distribution and chemistry
and comparisons with morphologically similar taxa.
New Bacidia, Opegrapha, and Rhizocarpon records for Turkey and Asia
Authors: Kinalioglu Kadir , Aptroot André
Published: August 2016

Bacidia herbarum, Opegrapha dolomitica, Opegrapha saxigena, and Rhizocarpon ridescens are newly recorded from Turkey. Opegrapha dolomitica and O. saxigena also represent new lichen records for Asia. Brief descriptions are provided for each species.
Helicoma jianfenglingense sp. nov. and Cubasina and Endophragmiella species new to China
Authors: Gao Jian-Mei , Yang Chun-Ling , Wang Jin-Ye , Xia Ji-Wen , Ma Ying-Rui , Zhang Xiu-Guo
Published: August 2016

A new species, Helicoma jianfenglingense, is described and illustrated from specimens collected on dead branches in Hainan Province. It differs in conidial morphology from the other known Helicoma species. Descriptions and illustrations are provided of two other asexual
fungi, Endophragmiella albiziae and Cubasina albofusca, which are recorded for the first time from China.
Evidence for Gymnosporangium atlanticum in Europe
Authors: Fernández José Luis , Llorens Imma , Alvarado Pablo
Published: August 2016

Specimens morphologically identical to Gymnosporangium atlanticum have been found in Spain at four different locations. We describe these findings and provide an accurate description and illustrations. DNA sequences from these specimens are closely enough related to those from
G. sabinae that the two species cannot be discriminated with the three DNA markers employed.
Annulohypoxylon (Xylariales) from western Paraná, Brazil
Authors: Cruz Kely S. , Cortez Vagner G.
Published: August 2016

Annulohypoxylon parvodiscum sp. nov. is proposed, based on small ostiolar disc of bovei-type, olivaceous grey pigment, and ellipsoid ascospores (9–13 × 3–5 μm); and three other species of Annulohypoxylon are reported from western Paraná
State, Brazil: A. macrodiscum, A. nitens, and A. stygium. A key for identification of studied taxa is provided.
Dictyoceratosporella wuzhishanensis sp. nov. from Hainan Province, China
Authors: Xia Ji-Wen , Yang Chun-Ling , Wang Jin-Ye , Ma Ying-Rui , Gao Jian-Mei , Zhang Xiu-Guo
Published: August 2016

Dictyoceratosporella wuzhishanensis is described and illustrated as a new species, from dead stems of an unidentified broadleaf tree in Hainan Province, China. The fungus has single, unbranched conidiophores, each with an integrated monoblastic apical conidiogenous cell producing
a dictyoseptate conidium with 2–4 rounded divergent lobes.
Phaeodactylium cymbisporum sp. nov. from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Authors: Costa Phelipe M.O. , Barbosa Marcela A. , Araújo Marina A.G. , Malosso Elaine , Castañeda-Ruiz Rafael F.
Published: August 2016

Phaeodactylium cymbisporum, collected on decaying leaves of an unidentified plant, is described and illustrated. The new species is characterized by polyblastic, sympodial extended conidiogenous cells that produce broad cymbiform, 3-septate, smooth, pale golden brown conidia.
A key to Phaeodactylium species is provided.
Letter of Condolences on the Death of King Edward VII by Pope Cyril V of Alexandria
Authors: Farag Lois
Published: August 2016

The unpublished letter of condolences on the death of King Edward VII by Pope Cyril V of Alexandria is deposited in Christ’s College, Cambridge, U.K. The Coptic Orthodox Church never discloses its official correspondence, and this makes this letter unique because it reveals a correspondence between the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church and British state officials. This essay brings the letter out of the shadows of obscurity because it sheds light on a little-known aspect of Coptic history. Though the letter is short, it offers a unique glimpse of a previously unknown diplomatic papal correspondence. The essay sets the context of the letter by introducing first the bequeather, Sir Stephen Gaselee, and then the letter’s writer, Pope Cyril V (r. 1874–1927), concluding with a brief commentary on the letter, which is otherwise self-explanatory.
Reversões Repetidas de Discriminações Simples Combinadas com Estímulos Olfativos em Cães Domésticos
Authors: Dahás Liane Jorge de Souza , Brasiliense Izabel Cristina da Silva , Souza Carlos Barbosa Alves de
Published: August 2016

Este estudo objetivou ensinar um responder adequado a formação de classes funcionais de estímulos olfativos a três cães domésticos utilizando três fases de treino de reversões repetidas e combinadas de discriminações simples combinadas: (1) com dois estímulos; (2) em pares com dois conjuntos de estímulos e (3) com quatro estímulos. Os sujeitos aprenderam as tarefas nas Fases 1 e 2. Um dos sujeitos apresentou learning set da tarefa na Fase 1, mas nenhum apresentou responder condizente com a formação de classes. Discute-se que a exigência de discriminar quatro estímulos na mesma tentativa tornou a tarefa complexa demais para os cães e sugere-se um novo estudo para tratar com essa dificuldade.
Os Personagens da Família no Jogo Jurídico: Uma leitura sobre os processos judiciais em direito de família
Authors: Miranda Jr Helio Cardoso
Published: August 2016

Este artigo procura demonstrar que os processos judiciais em Direito de Família são construídos com o uso de imagens/personagens para sustentar as argumentações dos advogados. Por meio da análise de petições e contestações dos processos judiciais de dois tipos de ações judiciais muito comuns, verificou-se o jogo de repetição dos argumentos em torno de imagens culturalmente relacionadas a concepções morais e ideológicas sobre a família e seus personagens, que se sobrepõem às discussões mais importantes a respeito das crianças ou adolescentes envolvidos nos conflitos familiares. Conclui-se que o modelo vigente não facilita a resolução de conflitos em família e pode ter consequências permanentes na maneira como se dão as relações familiares normatizadas pela instância judicial.
Perfil das Gestantes Usuárias de Álcool/Drogas e os Efeitos na Saúde e Desenvolvimento dos Filhos
Authors: Motta Kaynara Maria Chenini , Linhares Maria Beatriz Martins
Published: August 2016

O objetivo do estudo foi revisar artigos sobre prevalência do uso de álcool e/ou drogas ilícitas em gestantes, perfis das usuárias e efeitos do seu uso na saúde e desenvolvimento dos filhos. Os estudos foram selecionados na base de dados Scielo a partir de palavras-chave específicas e critérios de inclusão e exclusão. Foram encontrados 14 artigos. Os achados mostraram prevalências variando de 2,1 a 67,1% para álcool e 0,6 a 53,8% de drogas ilícitas nas gestantes. As prevalências dependeram de fatores sociodemográficos e clínicos. O uso abusivo de álcool e drogas ilícitas na gestação apresentaram efeitos negativos na saúde e desenvolvimento dos filhos. A revisão realizada mostra a relevância da implementação de políticas públicas de saúde para prevenção do uso de drogas em gestantes, especialmente as adolescentes.
The Effect of Eurasian Orientation on the Relations between Russia and America
Authors: Jansiz Ahmad , Tarin Mustafa , Talebii Samira
Published: August 2016

The international system is an arena for relations and interactions. Sometimes these relations are along with peace and sometimes with conflicts and tensions. Accordingly, countries use certain ideologies and policies that can lead to the promotion or demotion of their position in the international system. The collapse of the Soviet Union was a turning point for the change of the nature of the international system -from bipolar to unipolar- and also Russia’s attempt to redefine its lost identity which prepared the ground for the influx of new discussions and approaches in the international arena. Seeking its lost identity, Russia came up with the reality that Atlantic Orientation and following the unipolar system not only did not solve its problems but led to its decline, disappointment and frustration at the internal and international level; therefore, with Putin’s accession to power, another major turning point came in Russian foreign policies, which led to the improvement of the economic conditions in Russia following the increase in the oil price and Putin’s strategic leadership and management. The policy and approach taken in Russia originated from the self-confidence it had built up. This not only increased Russia’s maneuverability at the region but leveled the ground for its confrontation with America and challenging the unipolar system. As a result, adopting the Eurasian Orientation policy since 2000 not only caused Russia’s attention to turn to Central Asia countries and Caucasus but has also promoted an aggressive or offensive attitude in the policies taken by this country. Thus, taking an Offensive Realism approach, the present study seeks to find an answer to this question: What is the role and effect of Eurasian Orientation policy on Russia’s foreign policies towards America? The data for this study were collected by drawing on dissertations, libraries and research findings and analyzed using a descriptive analytic approach.
Self-Strengthening Movement of Late Qing China: an Intermediate Reform Doomed to Failure
Authors: Qu Jason
Published: August 2016

Despite of strong economy including highest GDP gross and self-sufficient feudal economy system, the late Qing Empire fell behind the world trend with its isolationist trade policies. As the Western world caught up technologically, economically, and politically, the former biggest economy had suffered from consecutive losses in wars. In order to preserve the feudal regime, the initiative reform, termed the Self Strengthening Movement was grandly carried out. However, without the true support from the supreme power on one hand, and without the support of the populace on the other, the Movement was an intermediate reform in attempt to preserve the royal system and forestall its continued decline. In policy, the reforms envisioned Western-style modernization without adjusting the political order, yet the entrenched conservatism of the Qing Imperial Court proved to be the decisive hindering factor in the failure of the Movement.
The Economic Dimension in Great Countries Strategies towards Asia-Pacific Region
Authors: Ismial Mahmoud , Shukur Omar Hamid
Published: August 2016

America’s and Great Countries economic policy makers have some of the hardest and most important jobs in the world. The economy has become a top priority for countries both capitalism communism and socialism. States are planning short and long-term economic strategy seeking to obtain economic benefits by searching for opportunities and places to bring them to grow and prosper.
Corporate Social Responsibility: The Principles and the Process of Integration into the System of Strategic Management
Authors: Tonysheva Lyubov Leonidovna , Chumlyakova Darya Vladimirovna
Published: August 2016

The article deals with corporate social responsibility as part of the formation of the company’s strategy. The problem of linking the strategic management of social responsibility, which is the basis for long-term sustainable development of the organization, have a positive impact on the environment. In this connection, it clarified the essential characteristics of social responsibility of business strategy development reflecting its development, renewal of forms of representation and instruments of regulation of social activity. The principles of social responsibility, aimed at enhancing its integration into the strategic management system (multi-level development, the complexity of the implementation of the functional activities, variability management tools) were offered. The algorithm of the process of integration of social responsibility of business in the strategic management of the organization, which includes management tools for the selection of strategic priorities for the development of corporate social responsibility, was developed. For copyright management toolkit applies the matrix to determine the positioning of the organization in the coordinates of the “level of social responsibility of business - the degree of stakeholder involvement in the implementation of strategic objectives” and the Balanced Scorecard, which provides a link to strategic objectives in the field of social responsibility indicators for their achievement and tactical action based the extent of its integration into the system of strategic management.
The Role of Cultural Factors on Intra-Firm Technology Transfer Performance and Corporate Sustainability: A Conceptual Study
Authors: Fazal Syed Ali , Wahab Sazali Abdul , Zarin Nowshin , Yaacob Abu Sofian Bin , Zawawi Nur Fadiah Mohd
Published: August 2016

Technological innovations have emerged as crucially significant factor for sustaining market competition and achieving sustainable competitive advantage in the 21st century. The Multinational Corporations (MNCs) as celebrities of innovation play significant role in diffusing technological knowledge throughout firms both nationally and internationally. Although numerous studies exist on technology transfer the majority of existing literature addresses the issues related to inter-firm transfer of technology only while the area related to intra-firm transfer of technology has been largely underexposed; study of which is believed to be ideal for fruitful exploration of profitability in technology transfer projects. By exploring the existing relevant literature, the current study would attempt to posit a new model in regards to the effect of host-country cultural environment on the performance of technology transferred by the MNCs to their subsidiaries in Malaysia and its subsequent impact on the corporate sustainability of the firm. In the present study the relative influence of two cultural environment factors, namely national cultural distance and organizational cultural distance have been addressed and the study is expected to contribute both theoretically in the body of knowledge and also in terms of practical implication for policy makers of the host-country and the involved MNCs and hence enriching the existing intra-firm technology transfer literature simultaneously.
English Passive and the Function of Shodan in Persian
Authors: Abdollahi-Guilani Mohammad , Tan Kim Hua
Published: August 2016

Although English and Persian share a basic structure in the formation of passive with the help of past participle of the main verb accompanied by “be” in English and “shodan” (i.e. become) in Persian on a syntactic basis, Persian resorts to morphological alternation, too. However, the verb shodan is not merely an auxiliary verb; it can serve as a main verb as well. In fact, Persian passives have various overlapping realizations, bearing the meaning of “possibility” and “going”, too. This study also sought out to investigate whether or not passives differed in written texts. In addition to library resources, the study made use of a comparative text analysis approach to investigate the application of passive structures in the novel Animal Farm (Orwell, 1956) and its Persian translation (Akhondi, 2004). The results revealed that the conventional function defined for Persian shodan as an auxiliary verb for passive structure outnumbers the passive verbs used in the original novel. Findings also indicate that passive voice is not limited to one form of shodan and past participle; in fact, transitivity alternation plays a key role, too. In addition, the combination of shodan with nouns or adjectives is twofold: it can produce both active and passive voice structures. This study was targeted at EFL learners and teachers as well as translators who will duly be provided with fundamental awareness when dealing with English and Persian in learning / teaching process and translating from English into Persian and vice versa.
Workplace Spirituality among Malaysian Community Service Employees in the Public Sector
Authors: Ahmad Aminah , Omar Zoharah
Published: August 2016

Despite the number of individuals who engage in pursuits for spirituality in their daily lives, there is still lack of studies examining spirituality in the workplace especially in the public sector. This study explored the experience of spirituality at the workplace among community service employees in a public sector organization. The dimensions of spirituality studied include meaningful work, sense of community and alignment of individual values with organizational values. Survey data from 180 community service employees revealed that overall the employees experienced a reasonably high level of spirituality, and employees experienced meaningfulness of work more as compared to the sense of community, and alignment of values. The results imply that the community service organization studied serves as a favorable environment that fosters the experience of spirituality among its employees. Though limited by the monosectoral nature of this investigation and the Eastern context, future researchers are encouraged to compare employees’ experiences in workplace spirituality in both the public and private service sectors as well as in both the Eastern and Western contexts. 
The Relationship between Spousal Intimacy, Perceived Equity and Marital Quality in Married Employees
Authors: Azizpoor Parivash , Safarzadeh Sahar
Published: August 2016

The present research aimed to investigate the relationship between spousal intimacy, perceived equity and marital quality in married employees of National Iranian Oil Company. To this aim, the research employed a correlational method. The statistical population of the research included all the married employees of National Iranian Oil Company, out of which, a sample of 400 employees (186 females and 214 males) was selected through random cluster sampling. The research tools included Intimacy Scale (IS), Perceived Equity Measure (PEM) and Quality of Marriage Index (QMI). The results of data analysis using Pearson correlation coefficient indicated that there is significant relationship between intimacy with spouse and perceived equity. Moreover, the results of regression analysis indicated that, the variables of intimacy with spouse and perceived equity can be good predictors for the criterion variable of quality of marriage.
Pilkada 2015 and Patronage Practice among Bureaucrat in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Authors: Ngusmanto Ngusmanto
Published: August 2016

Majority studies on electoral dynamics in Indonesia are reinforce patronage as a pattern of relationships between candidates, winning team, and voters. One of winning team element which have little attention from scholars is bureaucrat. Although, normatively, bureaucrats are required to neutral in all type of general election, but in fact bureaucrats is very involved deeply in general elections. Based on empirical research in Sintang District and Ketapang District, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, we found that bureaucrats have a significant role as a winning team in pilkada (direct election for local leader). Patronage is a keyword to explain political relation between bureaucrats and candidate in pilkada. This situation was triggered by the fact that there are many candidates who have social background as civil servant and, consequently, have direct access to bureaucracy. Bureaucrats have high motivation to participate in pilkada as a broker due to protecting their vested interest. In our cases, the vested interest of bureaucrat is career stability which is promising additional personal revenue and social status. Consequently, staffing (circulation of position) within bureaucracy does not followed by auction mechanism (merit system), but following nepotism mechanism (spoil system). The winner of pilkada is socially pressured to accommodate all bureaucrats who has become their winning team. Finally, we discuss our finding and propose future agenda research to understanding this phenomenon. 
Understanding Consumers and Green Product Purchase Decision in Malaysia: A Structural Equation Modeling - Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS) Approach
Authors: Mohd Noor Mohd Nazri , Masuod Md Shukor , Abu Said Al-Mansor , Kamaruzaman Izzat Fakhruddin , Mustafa Mohd Ariff
Published: August 2016

The purpose of this paper is to explore the consumers’ decision to purchase green products in Malaysia. Self-administered questionnaires were conducted to obtain meaningful data from 230 consumers at major shopping malls in Melaka, Malaysia from September 2015 until February 2016. Based on the analysis of SEM-PLS, the proposed model explained 92 percent of the variance of green product purchase decision. The results have shown positive significant effects between green awareness, green commitment, green companies and green product purchase decision. However, green experience and green circle produced insignificant results. Generally, the results from this study confirmed that the proposed model concisely explained the consumers’ decision to purchase green products in Malaysia. This study adds another literature to the area of green marketing. The model combined the past consumer behavioural theories and models to identify the key factors that stimulate the consumers’ purchase behaviour. Findings from this study have strong implications to both individual and marketing managers. It brings into light the perception of Malaysian consumers about green products and readiness to accept green products as their future way of life.
Exploratory of Problems between Iranian Parents and Their Male Adolescents
Authors: Sanagoei Zadeh Mohammad , Etemadi Ozra , Ahmadi Sayyed Ahmad , Jazayeri Rezvanossadat
Published: August 2016

Problems between parents and their male adolescents are a fast growing phenomenon in Iran. This study attempted to examine the problems between parents and their male adolescents, how they are formed, and what factors influenced the problems formation process between them. Thirty-five participants including parents, their male adolescents, and experts (10 adolescents, 10 fathers, 10 mothers, and 5 experts) participated in a semi structured deep interview; and data was analyzed qualitatively and based on a grounded theory approach. Based on the findings of this study, a preliminary understanding of problems formation process between Iranian parents and their male adolescents is presented and discussed in details. Through systematic analysis, we uncovered several factors influencing the problems formation process in the population. Qualitative findings revealed that adolescents’ characteristics, parents’ features, the type of relationships between parents and their male adolescents, adolescents’ growth, cultural changes, family environment, friends, and school affected the problems between Iranian parents and their male adolescents.
Evaluating the Performance of Municipality in Terms of Good Urban Governance (Case Study: District 1 and 3 of Zahedan City)
Authors: Seyedalhosseini Seyed Moslem
Published: August 2016

Good urban governance is one of the aspects of urban management that has recently caught the attention of western countries and societies. In fact, there are no other options for management and administration of cities except for paving the way for the development of democracy. In this regard, a new form of governance called good urban governance has been found. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to evaluate the performance of urban management using the approach of good urban governance in Zahedan city. To achieve this, the present study was conducted using analytical-descriptive and field-survey methods. Furthermore, the study population of this research included district 1 and 2 residents of Zahedan city. 200 of them were selected using Cochran’s method and questionnaires were distributed among them using simple random method. In order to evaluate urban management in the studied regions, five good urban governance indicators including transparency, participation, accountability, lawfulness, and effectiveness were used. The results of Mann-Whitney test indicated the better condition of district 1 in two aspects of accountability and lawfulness compared to district 3. In addition, t-test results showed that the aspect of effectiveness has the best condition with a mean of 3.21 and the aspect of participation has an unfavorable condition compared to other aspects with a mean of 2.58.