bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Play on Demand
Authors: McCauley Brian , Merola Giovanni , Gumbley Sarah
Published: August 2017

Due to the penetration of smartphones and associated mobile devices, mobile gaming has become a ubiquitous industry worldwide. Players now have access to games at all times. Extending previous research and the Uses and Gratifications approach this paper presents an alternative conceptual model that can offer explanations towards understanding why players play the mobile game they play most frequently.
Advanced Business Process Management in Networked E-Business Scenarios
Authors: Grefen Paul , Turetken Oktay
Published: August 2017

In the modern economy, we see a shift towards networked business scenarios. In many contemporary situations, the operation of multiple organizations is tightly coupled in collaborative business networks. To allow this tightly coupled collaboration, business process management (BPM) in these collaborative networks is becoming increasingly important. We discuss automated support for this networked BPM: automated means to manage business processes that span multiple autonomous organizations - thereby combining aspects of process management and e-business. We first provide a conceptual background for networked BPM. We describe a number of research approaches in this area, ranging from early developments to contemporary designs in a service-oriented context. This provides an overview of developments in which we observe several major trends. Firstly, we see a development from support for static business processes to support for highly dynamic processes. Secondly, we see how approaches move from addressing simple business collaboration networks to addressing complex networks. Thirdly, we find a move from the use of dedicated information technology to the use of standard technology. Finally, we observe that the BPM research efforts move through time from pushing new BPM technology into application domains to using BPM to realize business-IT alignment in application contexts.
Wise Humanising Creativity
Authors: Chappell Kerry , Walsh Chris , Wren Heather , Kenny Karen , Schmoelz Alexander , Stouraitis Elias
Published: August 2017

This article interrogates how a particular conception of creativity: ‘wise humanising creativity' (WHC) is manifest within a virtual learning environment (VLE) with children and young people. It reports on the outcomes of C2Learn, a three-year European Commission funded project which introduced innovative digital gaming activities to foster co-creativity in the VLE between players. Theoretically the paper builds on previous work, which has conceptualised the potential for WHC within VLEs, as well as other educational contexts. Within C2Learn, arguments have been made for WHC as an antidote to overly-marketised, competitive notions of creativity, as well as for WHC supporting a view of childhood and youth as empowered—rather than ‘at risk'—within digital environments. In particular, this paper focuses on outcomes of the project's final piloting in England, Greece and Austria across the primary and secondary age ranges. This research employed a bespoke co-creativity assessment methodology developed for the project. In order to document WHC, this methodology opted to evidence developments in lived experience via qualitative methods including teacher and student interviews, fieldnotes, video capture, observation and student self-assessment tools. The paper articulates how WHC manifests in C2Learn's unique VLE or C2Space, and its potential to develop more nuanced understandings of creativity across digital environments. It then goes on to consider WHC as a useful concept for changing how we create within VLEs, and the implications for educational futures debates and wider understanding of creativity in education as a less marketised and more ethically driven concept.
Examining the Characteristics of Digital Learning Games Designed by In-service Teachers
Authors: An Yun-Jo , Cao Li
Published: August 2017

In order to better understand teachers' perspectives on the design and development of digital game-based learning environments, this study examined the characteristics of digital learning games designed by teachers. In addition, this study explored how game design and peer critique activities influenced their perceptions of digital game-based learning environments and learning through game design. Qualitative data were collected from fifty game design documents and participant responses to reflection questions. The analysis of game design documents showed that the majority of the participants designed immersive game-based learning environments where players are required to use higher order thinking and real-world skills as well as academic content to complete missions or solve problems. The results of this study provide important implications for teacher professional development as well as for educational game development.
A Method for Angular Super-Resolution via Big Data Radar System
Authors: Zhang Xin , Liu Xiaoming , Na Zhenyu
Published: August 2017

This paper proposes a novel method for enhancing angular resolution in multimedia big data navigation radar system. A new radar scanning model is designed on the basis of quadratic programming theory, by which the proposed Gradient Projection (GP) algorithm is used for solving the optimal solution of this model, and then the target information can be restored successfully at low signal to noise ratio (SNR). Simulations further confirm our theoretical discussion, and manifest that the efficiency and applicability of the proposed method is favorable that the resolution ratio reaches 4~11 times under our proposed scanning model framework if SNR is above 10dB. Moreover, the designed model is suitable for some other angular super-resolution methods, the restoration ratio of which can be improved while SNR is be equal or greater than 10dB. In this case, a higher signal to reconstructed error ratio (SRER) is provided by our method.
On the Concept of Automatic User Behavior Profiling of Websites
Authors: Panwar Abhimanyu , Onut Iosif-Viorel , Smith Michael , Miller James
Published: August 2017

User behavior profiling of websites can provide an operator with an estimate of what is actually transpiring on their site. This type of information is essential to keep ahead of the curve in a commercial environment where competition is extremely fierce and continuously evolving. The authors present an automated methodology that uses economically available web server logs to mine User Behavior Profiles (UBP) without adding significant overhead to an existing web system. They prepare user traces from the log files based on the 35 most common actions found on popular websites, and 9 user behavior profiles which describe the majority of current activity patterns identified from those sites. They classify the user trace into a UBP via a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based classification approach. The authors applied this methodology to the logs of a virtual e-commerce website, and an industrial case study to demonstrate the validity of the proposed approach.
Using a Predictive Rating System for Computer Programmers to Optimise Recruitment
Authors: Bracewell Paul J. , Patel Ankit K. , Blackie Evan J. , Boys Chris
Published: August 2017

Using a quantitative assessment system, the number of resumes reviewed to identify a suitable developer was reduced to 3.5% with a successful recruitment decision made in 10 working days of posting the job advertisement. This paper summarises the methodology for developing that rating system. The depth and quality of an available talent pool is a function of demand, which is demonstrated by comparing globally-scaled individual performance metrics. Public code repositories are accessed and the code quality assessed algorithmically. The performance score combines accuracy, timeliness and difficulty from a series of challenges. These three attributes form a meaningful predictive measure of performance by using a non-linear optimisation routine. Bootstrapping is used to validate the approach. This process randomly omitted a scored performance observation per coder in order to calculate the performance score from the retained scores. There was a strong relationship (r = 0.70) between the predicted 1-omitted-performance score with the actual omitted score highlighting the predictive power.
Interdisciplinary App Development Project
Authors: Brooks Stoney
Published: August 2017

The benefits of teams in organizations are well known. Professionals in many fields, including Information Systems, work with others in teams. Often, these team members have varied backgrounds. To provide educational experiences that prepare students for their careers, interdisciplinary work is becoming increasingly popular. This case describes an interdisciplinary application development project that brought together students from Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, and Electronic Media. This was the first project of this scope, bringing together students from three different Colleges on campus, to be attempted at the University. Development of the project, execution of the plan, and the experiences encountered by the students are provided. Issues were encountered during the semester-long project, leading to recommendations for educators interested in offering similar projects.
IL-33 Drives Monocyte Recruitment to Lung Interstitium through Chemokine Upregulation
Authors: Tjota Melissa Y , Camacho Daniel F , Turnquist Heth R , Sperling Anne I
Published: August 2017

Tissue infiltration by circulating monocytes is a critical step in the initiation and augmentation of type 2 inflammatory responses in the lungs. Our studies demonstrate that IL-33−/− mice have a defect in monocyte extravasation from the vasculature to the lung interstitium during induction of type 2 inflammatory responses. This result suggests that monocyte migration to the lungs is IL-33 dependent, and we found that administration of exogenous recombinant IL-33 is sufficient to restore monocyte localization to the lung interstitium. Further investigation of the effect of early administration of recombinant IL-33 on the lungs identified upregulation of multiple chemokines including the monocyte chemoattractants CCL2, CCL7, and CCL22. Importantly, blockade of G-protein coupled receptor–dependent signaling, and thereby chemokine receptor activity, inhibited IL-33–driven monocyte recruitment. CCR2 deficiency prevented recruitment of monocytes to the lung extravascular space during allergic sensitization, and resulted in reduced eosinophilia after allergen challenge. Thus, IL-33 plays a critical role in the initiation of type 2 inflammatory responses by inducing upregulation of chemokines that promote monocyte recruitment to the lung interstitium.
Gamification as transformative assessment in higher education
Authors: Oliver Erna
Published: August 2017

Gamification in education is still a very new concept in South Africa. Being a 21st-centuryinvention, it has already established itself in the world within the environs of the corporatemarket, marketing, training and the social world. This article will first discuss gamification(and all its other designations) and its applications in general; thereafter, the focus will be onthe application of gamification within the environment of education, and more specificallywith an emphasis on assessment. The burning question for South Africa is whethergamification can enhance a module or course on the level of higher education so much that aneducational institution cannot do without it anymore, knowing that we are working withstudents belonging to the ‘Digital Wisdom generation’. This article would like to open theway for the implementation of gamification as a transformative online assessment tool inhigher education.
Multi-hazard fragility analysis for fluvial earthen dikes in earthquake and flood prone areas
Authors: Tyagunov Sergey , Vorogushyn Sergiy , Muñoz Jimenez Cristina , Parolai Stefano , Fleming Kevin
Published: August 2017

Abstract. The paper presents a methodological framework for multi-hazard fragility analyses for fluvial earthen dikes in earthquake and flood prone areas. The methodology and results are an integral part of the multi-hazard (earthquake-flood) risk study implemented within the framework of the EU FP7 project MATRIX (New Multi-Hazard and Multi-Risk Assessment Methods for Europe) for the area around Cologne, Germany. The study area covers the Rhine River reach and adjacent floodplains between the gauges Andernach and Düsseldorf. Along this domain, the inhabited areas are partly protected by earthen embankments (dikes or levees), which may be prone to failure in case of exceptional floods and/or earthquakes. The main focus of the study is to consider the damage potential of the dikes within the context of the possible interaction between the two hazards. The fragility of the earthen dikes is analyzed in terms of liquefaction potential characterized by the factor of safety. Uncertainties in the geometrical and geotechnical dike parameters are considered by using a Monte Carlo approach. The damage potential of the earthen structures is presented in the form of a fragility surface showing the damage probability as a function of both seismic ground shaking and flood water level. The obtained results can be used for multi-hazard risk assessment in earthquake and flood prone areas and, in particular, are intended for comprehensive risk assessment in the area around the city of Cologne.
Human Resource Management and Business Adaptability and Adjustability in Business Development
Authors: Young Fanny YF
Published: August 2017

Business adaptability and adjustability is highly important for the business development. It was suggested human resource managers and executives could pay an important contribution to this area. The aim of this study was to search the literature to see how the human resource managers and executives can improve the business adaptability and change of the companies. The internet was searched using various search engines like Google Scholars, Proquest and Google using keywords like human resource management, business adaptability and adjustability and business resilience. All selected papers were individually studied and any relevant materials were identified. Result showed that there were roles of human resource managers and executives in building business adaptability and adjustability such as acting as strategic partners, employee sponsors or advocates, change mentors and there were contributions which include transition the human resource department to a profitability factor; making profit to the company and engaging in people-focused approach to business continuity planning for crisis.
Cultural Self-Discovery in Vasco Pires's Trilingual Poetry
Authors: Teorey Matthew
Published: August 2017

Biracial immigrants from the Cape Verde islands to the United States have faced racial discrimination and cultural denigration for generations. Vasco Pires published a collection of poems in 2003 to help fellow Cape Verdean-Americans seeking self-respect and civil rights by encouraging them to identify as Black. Despite being the proud grandson of immigrants, Pires's connection to the islands was secondhand and his ethnic identity was diminished by the assertive racial problems he and his community experienced. Soon after his first book, however, Pires visited his ancestral homeland four times in three years. The result was a cultural reawakening and a second book in 2010 that reversed the position he took in the first book. Highlighting the culture and language of the islands, the second book urged Cape Verdean-Americans to reconnect with their ethnic heritage. This article compares the poems, translations, and illustrations in the two books, analyzing Pires's newfound self-awareness and his more extensive use of Cape Verdean languages (Portuguese and Kriolu) as he challenges all Americans to become culturally bilingual.
Surfaces for Practices in Kanai Mieko's When Treading on Soft Earth,: Translating Sensation from Screen to Novel
Authors: Sakaki Atsuko
Published: August 2017

This article discusses a prose narrative rendition of haptic sensation felt across the cinematic screen in Kanai Mieko's novel Yawarakai tsuchi o funde, (When Treading on Soft Earth, 1997). The author, who laments the loss of multisensorial effects of film in video format in her essays, strategically engages videos in this narrative that is filled with instances of watching and remembering cinematic scenes while being interrupted by banal occurrences in the everyday lives of urban consumers. That specific scenes elaborated or repeatedly revisited in this novel are evocative of skin touching other materials, either visible on screen or imagined by the spectator, resurrects the obliterated corporeality and materiality of lived bodies and space-time in image-saturated 1980s Japan. With its thematic focus on the restoration of tactility in visual and textual mediums, its structural preference for the Deleuzean “fold,” which cannot be reduced to a point, line, or flat plane, and its publication format that defies the norm of mechanical reproduction, Kanai's novel effectively challenges ocularcentrism, the normative modern novel, and the order of print culture, as well as destabilizing the legitimacy of the transcendental and disembodied subject, whether it is a narrator, viewer, or reader of the book in question.
Usos de la tecnología móvil en los museos de Nueva York
Authors: Molina Tamacas Carmen
Published: August 2017

La aplicación de las nuevas tecnologías es todo un reto para las instituciones culturales, y para los museos no es excepción. La tendencia es promover la difusión de la información de acceso, colecciones, conferencias y exposiciones, también para la interacción de forma masiva no solo para los visitantes “reales”, sino virtuales. La mayoría de los museos más representativos de la Gran Manzana cuentan con aplicaciones móviles (apps) que incluyen mapas con geolocalizador, directorios, colecciones, descripciones visuales y audios para hacer la experiencia del usuario tan parecida como a una presencial.
Ciberperiodismo en Iberoamérica 1995-2015 : #ciberoamérica
Authors: Molina Tamacas Carmen
Published: August 2017

Nueva York. “Desde la utilización de cercos agrícolas para la transmisión de radios clandestinas durante la guerra, hasta la utilización de drones para coberturas electorales; desde la conexión primigenia del país a Internet y los primeros periódicos en línea, hasta podcasts cómicos, blogs sobre arte, fútbol y sexo y apps para monitorear a los políticos..., el ciberperiodismo en El Salvador es muy rico y da cuenta de la inquietud intelectual del país.”Así comienza el capítulo correspondiente a El Salvador del libro Ciberperiodismo en Iberoamérica 1995-2015 que ha publicado la Fundación Telefónica en conjunto con Editorial Ariel, ambas de España. El monumental trabajo, que contiene 22 capítulos —uno por cada país de América Latina, España y Portugal—, ha sido prologado por Rosental Calmon Alves, fundador y director del Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, y coordinado pacientemente por Ramón Salaverría, director del Center for Internet Studies and Digital Life y profesor titular de Periodismo, de la Facultad de Comunicación, Universidad de Navarra.
¿Disonancia o consonancia de mi historia académica con respecto a La ciudad letrada?
Authors: Arias Salegio Illiana Stephanie
Published: August 2017

El presente artículo expone un recorrido de las principales ideas de Ángel Rama en el libro: La ciudad letrada, contrastadas con nuestra cultura académica. Los planteamientos tratados están relacionados con la instauración del orden por parte de los conquistadores, la usurpación del espacio y la imposición del pensamiento. También se analiza el papel de las instituciones educativas en la sociedad, haciendo alusión a aportes de importantes autores de la historia, que además fundamentan los planteamientos de Rama; asimismo se estudia la configuración del currículum y la crisis de formación manifiesta en graduados de una carrera universitaria, en particular la Licenciatura en Ciencias de la Educación.Este trabajo pretende hacer una crítica a la tradicional reproducción de conocimientos; con la lectura se refleja la cadena de reproducción de la cultura occidental que tiene como base la cultura grecorromana, la forma como se establece el logos occidental, en el pensamiento de los académicos latinoamericanos; mediante la hegemonía se esposa la imposición del sistema, de creencias y de una ideología, para un planificado funcionamiento de la sociedad. En el texto se destaca que aquello que marca el inicio de la civilización es la escritura.
Migraciones, causas y nuevas identidades
Authors: Rivas Ramón D.
Published: August 2017

Este artículo demuestra que desde el génesis de la humanidad, las migraciones han sido, y seguirán siendo, un hecho social condicionado o provocado por diferentes factores humanos o de naturaleza ambiental, demográfica, económica, cultural, religiosa o sociopolítica.El autor constata que la historia moderna nos demuestra que el fenómeno de las migraciones ha sido una opción para alcanzar mejores condiciones o formas de vida, o en muchas ocasiones han sido migraciones forzadas que generan una transformación traumática de la identidad, la cultura, las tradiciones y el desarrollo mismo de las personas.
Proyección Social Universitaria-Utec: un espacio para la enseñanza-aprendizaje de las competencias profesionales en Antropología
Authors: Osegueda Carlos Felipe
Published: August 2017

El tema “Proyección social universitaria-Utec, un espacio para la enseñanzaaprendizaje de las competencias profesionales en Antropología” tiene el propósito de poner en perspectiva la experiencia desarrollada en los últimos 5 años de carrera de un profesional de la Antropología, aplicando procesos de investigación bajo el enfoque metodológico “investigación-acción”, en donde las relaciones entre el cuerpo docente, los estudiantes, así como con los beneficiarios directos e indirectos de las comunidades, que se ven intervenidas, integran un sistema tridimensional que permite dar respuestas prácticas a aquellas necesidades, tanto objetivas como subjetivas, en el ámbito sociocultural de las localidades; pero que, además, permite aportar, desde las competencias estudiantiles, con la elaboración de instrumentos para la recolección de datos, búsqueda de informantes claves, registros y procesamiento de la información recabada, reproducción de los resultados por medio de catálogos, muestrarios y monografías, impulsand  procesos de sensibilización y empoderamiento de los resultados por parte de la población beneficiaria, entre otros productos, que viabilizan significativamente un rostro de identidades locales; que a la vez robustecen al imaginario colectivo nacional, así como identitario de todas aquellas manifestaciones culturales que hacen diferentes o particulares a los municipios donde se han impulsado dichos procesos.Finalmente se hace mención de la estrategia de responsabilidad social que las instituciones de eduación superior (IES) despliegan para la consecución de los objetivos, que cada una de las escuelas proponen, en los diferentes proyectos de impacto a nivel social, quedando manifiesto el compromiso de generar sujetos críticos y transformadores de la realidad donde se desarrollan.
Editorial Edição v.6, n. 2 (2017)
Authors: Bernardo Glaucia Julião , Mattos Mylena
Published: August 2017

Editorial Edição Mai/Ago 2017
Organizações Internacionais e Ajuda Pública Multilateral a Cabo Verde
Authors: Furtado Vlademiro
Published: August 2017

Este artigo examina o papel da Ajuda Pública Multilateral a Cabo Verde desde uma perspectiva político-econômica, isto é, de atribuição de recursos financeiros pelas Organizações Internacionais para o financiamento do desenvolvimento a nível nacional. Assim, a análise incide sobre duas Organizações Internacionais – de âmbito supranacional global e supranacional regional –, das quais Cabo Verde mantém relações de cooperação historicamente datadas quais sejam: o Banco Mundial (BM) e a União Europeia (EU). Neste sentido, o objetivo principal do artigo consiste em analisar como a Ajuda Pública ao Desenvolvimento (APD) tem contribuído para o processo de desenvolvimento do país. Nesta senda, defende-se o argumento de que além do carácter seletivo, a APD multilateral tem contribuído para a perpetuação da dependência externa de Cabo Verde no que tange ao financiamento do seu desenvolvimento. Os dados empíricos disponíveis mostram que, apesar de avultados recursos financeiros provenientes da APD desde a sua independência em 1975, o país ainda não conseguiu construir bases econômicas sólidas que o permita superar a grande dependência financeira externa.
Paz, questões raciais e a construção de fronteira: outras perspectivas sobre a MINUSTAH
Authors: Barros Pedro Gomes de Souza
Published: August 2017

Este artigo analisa narrativas de haitianos sobre a paz promovida pela MINUSTAH. Através de um ‘diálogo’ entre diferentes autores brasileiros que estudam paz e Operações de Paz da ONU e com atenção à fronteira e questões raciais, este artigo confronta narrativas anfitriãs e não-anfitriãs, problematizando a discussão brasileira sobre paz.
George W. Bush e a Securitização do Terrorismo após os Atentados de 11 de Setembro de 2001
Authors: Hoff Natali Laise Zamboni
Published: August 2017

Considerando a importância das concepções e conceitos contidos nos trabalhos da Escola de Copenhague para o desenvolvimento do Campo de estudo da Segurança Internacional, sobretudo a Teoria da Securitização, esse trabalho busca analisar a construção discursiva do terrorismo como ameaça global, através das falas de George W. Bush após os Atentados de 11 de Setembro de 2001.
Modeling Hegemony through Stasis: Xenophon on Sparta at Thebes and Phlius
Authors: Buxton Richard Fernando
Published: August 2017

Xenophon’s programmatic preface to his narrative of the revolution at Thebes (Hellenica 5.4.1) in 378 B.C.E. suggests that the author positions the stasis there as an interpretive model for the larger contemporary wars over mainland hegemony, similar to Thucydides with Corcyra. Accordingly, the abuses of the Spartan-backed government at Thebes and the resentment that these provoke provide a blueprint for understanding the broader disintegration of support for Sparta’s hegemony in the period before Leuctra. However, Sparta’s contrastingly fair resolution of a stasis at Phlius and the enduring loyalty that this engenders further provided Xenophon with the opportunity to introduce an alternative paradigm of benevolent hegemony.
Kapêloi and Economic Rationality in Fourth-Century B.C.E. Athens
Authors: Leese Michael
Published: August 2017

Though extremely important within the debate over the ancient economy, economic rationality has been the focus of little empirical analysis, and scholars are still sharply divided over this critical issue. The behavior of kapêloi in fourth-century B.C.E. Athens, however, which has been largely neglected in debates over economic rationality, provides new insights into the problem. This behavior both constitutes some of the most compelling evidence that ancient Greeks did behave in an economically rational manner and reveals that the behavior of individuals and the performance of the overall economic system also operated according to the rules of modern economic theory.
Altera Roma: Livy’s Variations on a Ciceronian Theme
Authors: Kenty Joanna
Published: August 2017

In narrating Rome’s victory over Capua in the Hannibalic War, Livy engages substantially with Cicero’s three orations De Lege Agraria as an intertext, and in particular with Cicero’s argument that moral corruption caused political dysfunction in Capua. Livy makes this a central theme, not only of his narrative of the city’s fall in Book 26, but of earlier events in the city, as early as Book 4. Livy’s portrayal of popularis demagoguery in Capua also evokes Cicero’s arguments against popularis agrarian laws. Capua is thus set up, via intertextual engagement with Cicero, as an ominous precursor to Rome in Livy’s day.
The Pharos of Alexandria: A Man-Made “Mountain” in Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile
Authors: Zientek Laura
Published: August 2017

At Bellum Ciuile 8.463, Lucan describes the lighthouse of Alexandria as a mountain (mons). The Pharos is “mountainous” in height and of monumental significance as a man-made structure. Comparison with the Pyramids and its fiery illumination (Phariis … flammis, 9.1005) give the Pharos a funerary context and, due to its “mountainous” form and flames, also evoke the image of a volcano. Lucan’s Pharos “mountain” locates and characterizes Pompey and Caesar in Bellum Ciuile 8–10, corresponding both to Pompey’s doom and Caesar’s metaphorically elemental power. The lighthouse contributes to the narrative of civil war with the ambiguity of its threat.
“Boxing as a Stoic Paradigm”: A Philosophical Reading of the Fight between Amycus and Pollux in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica (4.199–343) with a View to Seneca’s De Ira
Authors: Antoniadis Theodoros
Published: August 2017

In his version of the bout between Amycus and Pollux, which culminates the Argonauts’ stopover at Bebrycia in Argonautica 4, Valerius Flaccus is evoking a well-known epic tradition of boxing matches. Simultaneously, he appears to be reworking those model texts with the same protagonists “in the ring,” by adding further elements from Homer, Vergil, and Ovid that bring Amycus closer to other terrifying creatures of epic such as Polyphemus and Cacus. However, the portrayal of Amycus’ almost inexplicable furor and ira bears some discernible Stoic influences: the symptoms that, according to Seneca’s theory in his treatise De Ira, are exhibited by a volatile man who, having lost his self-control and reasoning, is prone to anger and its devastating effects. On the contrary, Pollux’s more calculating tactic during the fight reveals the kind of rational perceptiveness of a Stoic sage which gradually paves the way for his feat. Overall, the boxing match itself introduces a philosophical element to Valerius’ source material that propels the reader to assess the whole episode both through its intertextual and intratextual dynamics.
Breastfeeding in Greek Literature and Thought
Authors: Marshall C. W.
Published: August 2017

This discussion presents a survey of scenes involving breastfeeding and wet-nursing from Homer to Menander. It demonstrates that male authors and their audiences understood the physiology of breastfeeding and used that knowledge to create nuanced, complicated situations in (especially) Homer’s Odyssey, Aeschylus’ Libation Bearers, Euripides’ Hypsipyle, and Menander’s Samia. This added verisimilitude such as that seen in Plutarch’s consolation to his wife on the death of their child. As such, the realities associated with maternal and non-maternal breastfeeding shaped the reception of the plays in their own right, and it is possible to isolate crucial moments in several literary works where this impacts interpretation.
The Wet Nurses of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
Authors: Parca Maryline
Published: August 2017

In this essay I present the extant evidence for nurses in wet-nursing contracts preserved on papyri from Egypt (46 texts, all but one of Roman date) and point out the ways in which the hiring of wet nurses in Roman Egypt can be distinguished from the practice documented for Italy and other parts of the empire. The papyrological evidence supplements, enriches, and complicates the view from Roman literature, epigraphy, and commemorative art by revealing the legal dispositions, fiscal considerations, and socio-cultural motivations which shaped the practice and which the papyri alone reveal in their own particular ways. The features that make the practice in the imperial province stand out are: the close link between the hiring of wet nurses and child exposure, the high incidence of female slave children among the nurses’ charges, the predominance of women of free birth caring for abandoned infants, and the occasional documented link between this type of service contract and local loaning practices.
Murderers are Other People. “Polish Atrocities” and the Legitimization of Nazi Violence
Authors: Brewing Daniel
Published: August 2017

This article offers a new perspective on a central source of legitimization of Nazi violence against Polish civilians. Focusing on so-called “Polish cruelties,” it reconstructs a specific German Feindbild, according to which a specific Polish affinity to violence constantly endangered Germans of both sexes and all ages. This German self-victimization turned German violence against Poles into a defensive reaction, thus providing a strategy of legitimizing violence that was declared both justified and necessary. The article argues that the persistence and potency of this specific Feindbild were based on the mutual interlocking of three levels: Firstly, the memory of specific elements of German-Polish history; secondly, the mobilization strategies of German propaganda with the expectation of future conflicts; and thirdly, the updating of Feindbilder through concrete experiences of violence and powerlessness in the context of the German occupation.
Literary Journalism, Storytelling, or Literature of Fact
Authors: Ziółkowska-Boehm Aleksandra
Published: August 2017

The author, a noted Polish born writer resident in the United States, offers a personal reflection on her approach to her craft. She emphasizes her use of “creative non-fiction” as a form of literary journalism. Among other matters, she discusses choice of subject, sources, the search for a suitable tone, and obstacles to writing.
Influence of Clothing Materials on Protective Performance in Tennis
Authors: Li Yuan , Xie Hong , Deng Hongqiong
Published: August 2017

The main objective of this study is to analyze influence of clothing materials on protective performance in tennis sportswear. Firstly, the paper presented a human protection model on tennis, and deduced two evaluation parameters to describe protection performance. Secondly, the experimental objects wore different gears made by different fabrics for tennis serve and the experiment data was collected to analyze the gears’ protection performance. Thickness, elasticity, fabric composite methods and wrapping types were set as independent variables of the gears. The ANOVA shows that these factors are of great significance to change the evaluation parameters of the upper limbs joints. Thickness of fabrics is more significant (P<0.01) on evaluation parameters than that of elasticity, especially for elbow (P<0.01), while elastic of fabric only affects peak momentum of elbow and wrist, but not obvious. The wrapping ways of pads are important factors to peak momentum changes. This research shows clothing material is an important element to design protective tennis gears.
Numerical Simulation of Heat and Moisture Coupling of Porous Fabrics
Authors: Ren Fengping , Cong Shan
Published: August 2017

In this paper, the mechanism of heat and moisture transfer is first described. Then, the development of heat and moisture transfer model and numerical simulation method are summarized. Finally, the existing problems in numerical simulation of heat and moisture transfer in fabrics are analyzed, and the future development of them is prospected.
A importância da fotografia no ensino do francês em Moçambique
Authors: Timbane Alexandre António
Published: August 2017

Moçambique tem uma diversidade linguística complexa. O português é a língua oficial e concorre com mais de vinte línguas do grupo bantu distribuídas de forma desigual pelo país. O francês tem o estatuto de língua estrangeira e é aprendido a partir da 9ª até 12ª classes do ensino secundário. A presente pesquisa versa sobre a complexidade do ensino do francês usando a fotografia (documento autêntico) nas escolas secundárias públicas e privadas de Moçambique e pretende: discutir metodologias de ensino da língua estrangeira; analisar o manual escolar Le nouvel espaces-1 e, finalmente, sugerir caminhos para explorar a fotografia em prol da aquisição das competências comunicativas em francês. Baseando-se na abordagem comunicativa, a pesquisa procura mostrar que a fotografia é um potencial material de aprendizagem de uma língua possibilitando a criação de atividades de expressão e comunicação oral e escrita. Com pesquisa com manual concluiu-se que as fotografias são pouco exploradas nas aulas de francês e que seria interessante que os professores aproveitassem este material para o desenvolvimento de várias atividades para que o aluno progrida desenvolvendo as quatro competências.
Metáfora e gramática: a categorização de um fenômeno multifacetado
Authors: Legroski Marina Chiara
Published: August 2017

Este trabalho pretende fazer uma revisão do tratamento dado à metáfora nas gramáticas tradicionais, de cunho normativista, e nas gramáticas contemporâneas, que se pretendem descritivistas. Esta revisão se baseia no pressuposto linguístico de que a metáfora não é um uso especial da linguagem, mas um mecanismo linguístico disponível e utilizado pelos falantes o tempo todo. Desta forma, investigamos o surgimento da metáfora dentro dos estudos gramaticais e a parca modificação da abordagem deste fenômeno ao longo dos tempos. Como dissemos, entendemos que a metáfora não faz parte de uma classe gramatical específica – e nem faria sentido pensar desta forma – e, assim, este trabalho olha para as categorizações disponíveis a fim de propor uma nova maneira de tratá-la, mais condizente com o rumo seguido pela linguística moderna.
O discurso de germanidade reproduzido pelo poder público em Marechal Cândido Rondon
Authors: Martiny Franciele Maria
Published: August 2017

Neste estudo, objetiva-se verificar como o Poder Público municipal de Marechal Cândido Rondon, Paraná, (re)constrói o discurso de germanidade do município, por meio da análise de enunciados e imagens da arquitetura local presente em banners que são colocados nos eventos oficiais promovidos na localidade. O interesse pelo assunto deve-se à necessidade da contextualização histórico-social para a pesquisa realizada sobre o ensino da Língua Alemã no município, por meio das políticas linguísticas e educacionais em torno da referida língua de imigração. Para a compreensão das condições de produção do discurso de germanidade e da reprodução, será utilizado o aporte teórico possibilitado pela Análise do Discurso (AD), de linha francesa, que leva em consideração as relações intrínsecas entre a língua, o sujeito, a história e o poder ideológico presentes na enunciação, ou seja, uma visão macro do fenômeno linguístico. Como resultado, verifica-se como o Poder Público utiliza-se de elementos simbólicos, imagéticos, que reproduzem efeitos de sentidos a fim de manter uma identidade re(criada) do município, silenciando as demais etnias também presentes no local.
Análise de conteúdo em termos de Bardin aplicada à comunicação corporativa sob o signo de uma abordagem teórico-empírica.
Authors: Urquiza Marconi De Albuquerque , Marques Denilson Bezerra
Published: August 2017

Objetivo deste artigo é apresentar a análise de conteúdo sob a metodologia desenvolvida por Bardin (2010) em duas partes, uma teórica e a outra empírica. Sendo que a primeira parte se estuda o método de pesquisa por viés teórico e a segunda parte estuda o uso do método de forma empírica na análise da comunicação corporativa de uma instituição financeira empregando todas as fases do método. O referencial teórico fundamental em termos base de conhecimento teórico para a metodologia foi a obra de Bardin (2010), em termos do desenvolvimento da parte empírica se utilizou Bedani (2008), com a tese de doutoramento que instruiu a análise do corpus quanto ao perfil corporativo, também o livro de Pagès (2008) quanto ao poder de influência das organizações e a análise da pesquisa no uso da pesquisa propriamente dita. A aplicação da metodologia análise de conteúdo resultou na identificação de cinco categorias extraídas do conjunto de dezenove mensagens emitidas entre 2011 e 2013 que formaram o corpus da comunicação corporativa estudada. Duas conclusões fundamentais são apresentadas, a primeira é que este método de pesquisa tem alta complexidade para ser implementado. A segunda conclusão fundamental diz respeito a grande confiabilidade dos seus resultados se o método for bem aplicado.
Epidemiological characterization and risk factors associated with leptospirosis and brucellosis in small ruminants sold at animal fair in the Sertão Region of Pernambuco State, a semiarid Region of Northeastern Brazil
Authors: Alves José Romero Alexandre , Lima Geilson Manoel de Souza , Silva José Dêvede da , Costa Diego Figueiredo da , Santos Fabrine Alexandre dos , Higino Severino Silvano dos Santos , Azevedo Sérgio Santos de , Alves Clebert José
Published: August 2017

The transit of infected animals may be a route for the introduction and dispersal of diseases, which necessitates protocols for the controlled entry of infected animals into herds. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of anti-Leptospira and anti-Brucella ovis antibodies in small ruminants sold at an animal fair in the Sertão region of the Pernambuco State, Northeastern Brazil, and to identify the possible risk factors associated with seropositivity. Serum samples were collected from 233 goats and 119 sheep, belonging to twelve different owners from November 2014 to June 2015. Diagnosis of Leptospira spp. infection was established using the microscopic agglutination test (MAT); for B. ovis infection, the agar gel immuno-diffusion (AGID) test was conducted. A total of 16/233 (6.87%; 95% CI = 4.27% – 10.83%) goats and 16/119 (13.45%; 95% CI = 8.67% – 21.24%) sheep were identified as seropositive for Leptospira spp. The most frequent serotype was Icterohaemorrhagiae. In goats, intensive management system (odds ratio = 15.8; p < 0.001) and consorted rearing of equines and goats (odds ratio = 7.3; p = 0.005) were identified as risk factors. There were no risk factors identified for sheep. Seven (5.88%; 95% CI = 2.88% – 11.65%) sheep were seropositive for B. ovis, and the intensive management system was identified as the risk factor (odds ratio = 11.5; p = 0.005). This suggests that Leptospira spp. and B. ovis infections occur in small ruminants commercialized in the Sertão region of the Pernambuco State. Thus, improvements to the sanitary conditions of the facilities and the control of synanthropic rodents are recommended.
Quality of milk used in informal artisanal production of coalho and butter cheeses
Authors: Medeiros Natália Cristina de , Abrantes Maria Rociene , Medeiros Jovilma Maria Soares de , Campêlo Maria Carla Da Silva , Rebouças Manoela De Oliveira , Costa Maria Gabriela Alves , Silva Jean Berg Alves da
Published: August 2017

Artisanal cheeses such as coalho and butter participate in the socio-cultural identity of people and deserve recognition. Like many artisanal cheeses, it is common to produce coalho and butter cheeses from raw milk. For this reason, it is essential that the raw material from dairies is of good quality to minimize risks to consumers. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the quality of milk in artisanal cheese factories in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Fifty samples were collected from areas that stand out in dairy production in the state. These samples underwent microbiological and physical–chemical analysis, as well as antibiotic residue and fraud searches. Viable strict and facultative mesophilic bacteria were surveyed, in addition to total and thermotolerant coliforms, Salmonella sp., and Staphylococcus aureus; titratable acidity in Dornic degrees, density, cryoscopy, stability to alizarol, and percentages of protein, lactose, and fat contents were also measured, and tests for residues and recurrent fraud in milk were conducted. In general, all samples exceeded the limit established by law for mesophilic bacteria counting; Salmonella sp. was found in one sample. Given this contamination, the acidity of 76% of the samples was higher than allowed by the legislation. Regarding fat and protein parameters, 14% and 10% of the samples were below the required values by the legislation, respectively. Furthermore, there is suspicion of fraud by adding water in 24% of samples. Chlorides were found in 16% and antimicrobial residues in 46% of samples. Therefore, the quality of the milk used in informal artisanal cheese making in the state of Rio Grande do Norte is poor and may pose a risk to consumers, with the loss of quality of coalho and butter cheeses.
In vitro action of Mimosa caesalpinifolia ketone extract on Haemonchus contortus and Trichostrongylus colubriformis
Authors: Brito Danilo Rodrigues Barros , Costa Júnior Livio Martins , Garcia João Luis , Lopes Suzana Gomes , Santos Giselle Cutrim de Oliveira , Sousa João Victor da Silva
Published: August 2017

This study aimed to evaluate the in vitro anthelmintic activity of Mimosa caesalpinifolia (sabiá) ketone extract, which is rich in condensed tannins (CT), on Haemonchus contortus and Trichostrongylus colubriformis. The leaves and stems of M. caesalpinifolia were collected, dried in the shade, and ground to a dry powder from which ketone extracts were obtained for in vitro assays. The extracts were diluted in 5% acetone and PBS to concentrations in the range 0.25-2.80 mg mL-¹ and the inhibition of egg hatchability was assayed. Feces collected from goats naturally infected with H. contortus (55%) and T. colubriformis (45%) were macerated and the helminth eggs were collected to conduct in vitro egg hatchability tests. Nematode larvae collected from the feces were used for a larval exsheathment inhibition assay of M. caesalpinifolia leaf and M. caesalpinifolia leaf and stem ketone extracts at concentrations of 0.6 and 1.2 mg mL-¹; three replicates were performed for each concentration. PBS was used as a negative control. Polyvinylpolypyrrolidone (PVPP) was added to the extracts to assess the effect of phenolic compounds on anthelmintic activity. An inhibitory effect of 80.7% and 82.3% was observed on hatchability after treatment with 1.0 and 2.0 mg mL-¹ M. caesalpinifolia leaf ketone extract, respectively. An inhibition rate lower than 75% was observed for 1.0 mg mL-¹ M. caesalpinifolia leaf and stem ketone extract. The M. caesalpinifolia leaf ketone extract larval exsheathment assay resulted in inhibition of 97.3% and 99.8% at concentrations of 0.6 and 1.2 mg mL-¹, respectively. For the leaf and stem ketone extract, the larval exsheathment inhibition was 94.3% at 1.2 mg mL-¹. The leaf and leaf and stem extracts showed no inhibitory effects on larval exsheathment after the addition of PVPP. These results showed that cuticular loss was related to the action of the phenolic compounds in the M. caesalpinifolia extracts. M. caesalpinifolia leaf ketone extract inhibited egg hatchability, but the leaf and stem extract showed lower efficiency, which indicated a greater abundance of active compounds in the leaves. The M. caesalpinifolia ketone extracts were effective in the inhibition of larval exsheathment at the highest concentration tested. Based on these results, in vivo studies should be performed to demonstrate the anthelmintic activity of this plant in goats.