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The role of educational methods in patriotism upbringing
Authors: Чернышева Татьяна , Chernysheva Tatyana
Published: June 2016

The patriotism upbringing of young generation is very important government task of nowadays. The article states that this task solution has to get started with influence on the audiences, which themselves can transmit the system of national values through cultural products to population of Russia when serving people. They are students who study the «Tourism» and «Service» disciplines at the Russian universities. Tourism is an activity, which allows people to see and understand their own country, estimate recourses unknown earlier. Service personnel (guides, museums workers, animators) have an opportunity to imbue cultural programs for tourists with significance. The author of the article assures hospitality industry has the instruments of influence on public consciousness in order to form Russian traditionalism. The author raises the problem of social – cultural service personnel quality and asserts that to inculcate required capacities to the workers of the future Russian service industry is possible only with the help of educational process modification and use of creative learning methods.
Features of the development of the course «Communicative technologies in the service»
Authors: Ермакова Елена , Ermakova Elena
Published: June 2016

The article is devoted to the design of the training course «Communicative technologies in the service». It is noted

that in recent times, domestic education is increasingly focused on practical disciplines and subjects, so the role

and value of applied knowledge grow, and with it problems of its implementation (teaching) in classically oriented

high schools, traditionally focused on theoretical knowledge. This «gap» may be overcome if you understand the

imbalances and design disciplines, with the latest knowledge, gleaned mostly from foreign business literature. It

became the basis for the design of the course «Communicative technologies in the service» (manual, trainingmethodical

complex, series of lectures, training). The course is built on the basis of the following considerations: to

avoid duplication with adjacent (previous and subsequent) disciplines; a basic understanding of the terms «communication

» and «contact»; practice-oriented approach to serving and learning; networking of communicative

theory with «service»; the great role of independent work at studying of discipline. Quotations from contemporary

business literature and practices of various communication strategies, including the material of our region – the

Tyumen region play the major role in the course. Methodologically, the discipline focuses on the new direction

of development of Tyumen state University as a University of global competitiveness and its mission is «training

people who are capable to design new activities, to transform the social environment and create successful businesses

in the face of global competition».
Methodical bases of formation of color perception of children of preschool and younger school age
Authors: Березина Юлия , Berezina Yuliya , Князева Олена , Knyazeva Olena
Published: June 2016

The article is devoted to the topical problem of formation of color perception of children of preschool and younger school age in artistic and creative activities. The perception of color is defined by the authors as the process of understanding color, which basic laws are integrity, understanding, apperception, selectivity and constancy. Analysis of the age stages of formation of color perception led to the conclusion that the stages are associated with the environment in which a child grows: experience of color perception in reality, in works of fine art and experience of the own artistic and creative activities, expert help of the teacher. Therefore, the formation of color perception skills of children of preschool and younger school age needs systematic work in the dynamics of preschool children

development of colour standards through the expansion of the primary school children’s views about the color and perfection of color skills to the cognition of color as a tool of the artist, which is able to express feelings, emotions and relation. The authors developed methodological recommendations for the formation of color vision in children of preschool and younger school age: the active position of a teacher, the creation of an atmosphere of co-creation, experimentation; demonstration of techniques for working with color; the organization of perception process of art works, including the analysis of a color system in art and nature; the creation of a special aesthetic environment of a group class. The results of the study can be used in the process of teaching and learning fine arts in the design of individual routes of teachers self-education and personality developing educational technologies in system of improvement of teachers professional skill.
Employment Nondiscrimination Acts and Corporate Innovation
Authors: Gao Huasheng , Zhang Wei
Published: June 2016

We show that U.S. state-level employment nondiscrimination acts (ENDAs)—laws that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity—spur innovation. We find a significant increase in patents and patent citations for firms headquartered in states that have passed ENDAs relative to firms headquartered in states that have not. This result is more pronounced for firms that previously have not implemented pro-gay nondiscrimination policies, for firms in states with a large homosexual population, and for firms in human capital-intensive industries. Lastly, we provide evidence suggesting that ENDAs affect innovation by matching employees, who are generally more creative than anti-gay employees, with innovative firms.

This paper was accepted by Gustavo Manso, finance.
Intra-articular injection of Torin 1 reduces degeneration of articular cartilage in a rabbit osteoarthritis model
Authors: Cheng N-T. , Guo A. , Cui Y-P.
Published: June 2016

Objectives

Recent studies have shown that systemic injection of rapamycin can prevent the development of osteoarthritis (OA)-like changes in human chondrocytes and reduce the severity of experimental OA. However, the systemic injection of rapamycin leads to many side effects. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of intra-articular injection of Torin 1, which as a specific inhibitor of mTOR which can cause induction of autophagy, is similar to rapamycin, on articular cartilage degeneration in a rabbit osteoarthritis model and to investigate the mechanism of Torin 1’s effects on experimental OA.

Methods

Collagenase (type II) was injected twice into both knees of three-month-old rabbits to induce OA, combined with two intra–articular injections of Torin 1 (400 nM). Degeneration of articular cartilage was evaluated by histology using the Mankin scoring system at eight weeks after injection. Chondrocyte degeneration and autophagosomes were observed by transmission electron microscopy. Matrix metallopeptidase-13 (MMP-13) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression were analysed by quantitative RT-PCR (qPCR).Beclin-1 and light chain 3 (LC3) expression were examined by Western blotting.

Results

Intra-articular injection of Torin 1 significantly reduced degeneration of the articular cartilage after induction of OA. Autophagosomes andBeclin-1 and LC3 expression were increased in the chondrocytes from Torin 1-treated rabbits. Torin 1 treatment also reduced MMP-13 and VEGF expression at eight weeks after collagenase injection.

Conclusion

Our results demonstrate that intra-articular injection of Torin 1 reduces degeneration of articular cartilage in collagenase-induced OA, at least partially by autophagy activation, suggesting a novel therapeutic approach for preventing cartilage degeneration and treating OA. Cite this article: N-T. Cheng, A. Guo, Y-P. Cui. Intra-articular injection of Torin 1 reduces degeneration of articular cartilage in a rabbit osteoarthritis model. Bone Joint Res 2016;5:218–224. DOI: 10.1302/2046-3758.56.BJR-2015-0001.
Introduction
Authors: Green Penny , Shalhoub-Kevorkian Nadera
Published: June 2016

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The Quantum Mechanics of Israeli Totalitarianism
Authors: LeVine Mark
Published: June 2016

This article argues that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory represents criminalized state behaviour at the most systematic, intricately planned and executed. Evoking the quantum physics of Israel's matrix of control, the article argues that to understand how it feels to live as a Palestinian today requires the mindset of a particle physicist, not a social scientist. Life in Israel/Palestine involves negotiating a host of forces over which the average Palestinian has as much control as the average electron or proton does over the nuclear and quantum forces determining its path. The power embodied in Israel's matrix of control lies in the state's ability to shift rules, tactics, amplitude and frequency of the forces, strategies and techniques and technologies of occupation. The article argues that the Occupation and the conditions it creates have become normalized, and that maintaining a situation of confusion and ambiguity is key to making the Occupation effectively permanent.
Palestine/Israel and State Criminality: Exception, Settler Colonialism and Racialization
Authors: Lentin Ronit
Published: June 2016

This article critically engages with Israel's settler-colonial racial regime in Palestine as an Agambenian state of exception. The first part reiterates the author's argument that the Israeli state extends its laws to rule occupied and besieged Palestine while excluding itself and its Jewish citizen-colonists from legal instruments of oppression, occupation and siege. Positioning itself above and outside domestic and international law as far as Palestinian citizens and occupied and besieged subjects are concerned, Israel is theorized as a textbook example of state of exception, racial state and settler colony. The second part follows Weheliye in placing race front and centre in theorizing political violence as a socio-political process of differentiation and hierarchization that differentiates between the human, the not-quite-human and the non-human, employed by the State of Israel in dehumanizing and racializing Palestinian citizens, occupied and besieged subjects.
Colonialism and Apartheid Against Fragmented Palestinians: Putting the Pieces Back Together
Authors: Abdulla Rinad
Published: June 2016

Current dominant legal and political discourse narrows the destruction of Palestinian indigenous society in a historical homeland to the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. This erroneously assumes that an end to Israel's occupation would effectively end hostilities. Israel has used deliberate demographic engineering in the entire Palestine–Israel region to fragment territory and people to create and maintain dominance of an immigrant Jewish population: demographically, economically and politically. Palestinians are segregated and governed by some form of apartheid and colonialism depending on their location. This article challenges the narrow discourse and examines the Palestine–Israel situation within the context of settler colonialism, apartheid and state-sponsored systematic discrimination. From this perspective, the only sustainable and comprehensive solution is to challenge the validity of the Israeli state based on decolonization, just as apartheid in South Africa was challenged. Decolonization opens up the possibility of reversing fragmentation and restoring territorial integrity and sovereignty to the people of Palestine based on a democratic polity with equal rights for all its inhabitants.
Evicting Palestine
Authors: Green Penny , Smith Amelia
Published: June 2016

Israel is engaged in a systematic and illegal scheme of forced evictions against Palestinians. Forced evictions of Palestinians, and the human rights abuses they suffer as a result, are known, and yet largely ignored by the international community. In this article, Penny Green and Amelia Smith expose this crime by documenting the key methods adopted by the Israeli state to achieve the goal of “Evicting Palestine” – village and house demolitions, unrecognizing Bedouin villages, the separation wall, settlement expansion and historical claims to the land. The article is based primarily on extensive fieldwork that the authors carried out in March 2014. The article reveals that these various methods of forced displacement contribute to an over-arching and ongoing process, the primary aim of which is to construct new spaces that exclude Palestinians from their ancestral land in order to expand the Israeli-Jewish population and to increase colonial control and annexation of Palestinian territory.
Gamers or victims of the system? Welfare reform, cynical manipulation and vulnerability
Authors: Fletcher Del Roy , Flint John , Batty Elaine , McNeill Jennifer
Published: June 2016

New mechanisms of conditionality enacted through current reforms of the UK welfare system are framed within contested narratives about the characteristics, rationalities and conduct of welfare users. In the problem figuration of welfare reform the orientations and conduct of welfare recipients have been conceptualised and depicted across a spectrum ranging from cynical manipulators gaming the system and subverting the original ethos of the welfare state to vulnerable individuals experiencing compounded disadvantage. This paper aims to strengthen the conceptualisation of cynical manipulation and vulnerability and to empirically investigate how narratives of these ideas are deployed by key stakeholders in the welfare system and the extent to which manipulation or vulnerability are present in the orientations and conduct of individuals in receipt of welfare support.
Constant, serial and trigger volunteers: volunteering across the lifecourse and into older age
Authors: Hogg Eddy
Published: June 2016

In recent years there has been an increased recognition that philanthropic engagement needs to be understood longitudinally, rather than as a snapshot in time. Much of this work is quantitative, utilising panel data to track groups of individuals over a number of years. In contrast, this article takes a qualitative approach to the study of volunteering over the course of individuals’ and their families’ lives. In doing so, it explores how engagement changes over the lifecourse, and how this impacts volunteer engagement in older age. Understanding this is crucial: volunteering is not an activity that takes place in isolation but rather one that must be situated over time and within a range of other activities. This article uses data from 26 life history interviews conducted in England to develop a heuristic put forward by Davis Smith and Gay (2005), which proposes three categories of older volunteer: constant, serial and trigger volunteers.
From psycho-politics to mad studies: learning from the legacy of Peter Sedgwick
Authors: Beresford Peter
Published: June 2016

We now have a new kind of psycho-politics; a brutal and destructive alliance between neoliberalism and an expanding psychiatric empire. This article will explore how mental health service users/survivors and other mental health campaigners can connect with the critical analysis and action embodied in the work and values of Peter Sedgwick at a time of crisis and reaction. They have seen ideas like ‘user involvement’ and ‘recovery’ co-opted and undermined, and both their experiences and aspirations individualised and devalued. Emerging interest in mad studies, it is suggested, offers a way forward that challenges both the marketisation and medicalisation of people’s distress. This discussion will explore the continuities and discontinuities with Peter Sedgwick’s pioneering work and highlight, as he did, the importance of making explicit the political and ideological relations of survivors’ struggles within and against the psychiatric system.
The Frontline programme: conservative ideology and the creation of a social work officer class
Authors: Murphy Terence
Published: June 2016

The Frontline social work training programme in England represents an attempt to develop an elite entry programme to social work and to develop future social work leaders. It has received significant backing from senior political figures from the right of the political spectrum and from conservative charities and business interests. An adaption of the earlier Teach First programme, it represents an explicit break from previous consensus-based models of educational development in the UK.
Peter Sedgwick, proto-critical realist?
Authors: Pilgrim David
Published: June 2016

Peter Sedgwick died only a year after the publication of his PsychoPolitics, so a dialogue with the author about his work is missing. However, the book was well received and joined a long list of critical texts about mental health service provision. This article argues that his perspective, which rejected a biomedical orthodoxy, but was also doubtful about the true radical potential of ‘anti-psychiatry’, reflected a direction of intellectual travel that, with hindsight, can be seen to reflect the philosophy of critical realism. A case is made in relation to this by examining Sedgwick’s concern for combining ontological realism and epistemological relativism. Some of the underdeveloped aspects of his analysis may have reflected his necessary lack of engagement with the wider debates about the crisis of the welfare state, agency and structure, and the similarities and differences between the natural and social sciences that emerged during the 1980s and 1990s.
Hongi, hangi, haka, moko: Language and the representation of Maori culture in contemporary mainstream travel guidebooks
Authors: De Marco Alessandra
Published: June 2016

Tourist texts, such as brochures or guidebooks, are among the first sources of encounter between tourists and destination people. Indeed, such texts provide tourists with a ‘cognitive framework’ (Bhattacharya 1997: 372) for interpreting a destination and its cultures, and language in travel writing is paramount for negotiating between different cultures and meanings. Guidebooks should thus be read critically in order to assess the cultural images they construct to promote a specific destination, and the language they use to create them. This article offers a linguistic and discursive analysis of how mainstream travel guidebooks of Aotearoa New Zealand in English (i.e., Lonely Planet, Rough Guide, National Geographic Traveler and the DK Eyewitness Travel Guide) represent Maori culture. Specifically, the sections on the culture of tangata whenua (the people of the land/Maori people) in these guidebooks will be studied to determine which aspects of Maori culture are used to depict the Maori people of Aotearoa New Zealand and how the language of tourism shapes such descriptions. The title of this article refers to the four words in te reo Maori (Maori language) that are most commonly associated with Maori culture in tourist texts. The aim of the article is to determine whether these descriptions offer an exoticized version of Maori culture, or whether they effectively engage with its actuality and complexity. Following a transdisciplinary approach that bridges sociolinguistics and tourism studies, the article seeks to present a case study that demonstrates how fruitfully linguistic analysis can be used in the discussion of the production and dissemination of the tourist image of Maori people in Aotearoa New Zealand from an Indigenous tourism studies perspective.
Lady Emma Hamilton’s Attitudes Renewed: Art gallery performance project
Authors: Wallis Jillian
Published: June 2016

What happens when a contemporary, live art performance is designed and staged for a Renaissance building that is an international tourist attraction in its own right, and displays an outstanding fine art collection in its rooms and corridors? In 2014 I helped to create a theatre performance at The Queen’s House art gallery in Greenwich and in so doing attempted something fairly radical for a museum setting. Lady Emma Hamilton’s Attitudes Renewed was a collaboration between Akleriah, a visually experimental performance collective, myself as a theatre director and film-maker Jason Wen. The iconic Emma Hamilton was arguably the first female performance artist and the piece was commissioned to tie in with a display of eighteenth-century engravings and paintings in which she features. The flamboyant costume design and choreographic nature of Akleriah’s work instigates immediate audience attention in non-theatre spaces but the art gallery setting for this performance made additional demands. This article considers the negotiation of that space as a venue, navigates the production process from conception to realization, and asks if and how the expectations of the gallery Programmer, and the 350 viewers who saw the piece, were met. The research and rehearsal period is critiqued to track the re-imagining of actual historical characters with an inventive contemporary lens, using intersection between live and filmed images, and fragments of text. The semilit location of the performance, its relationship to the pictures on the walls and the recurring frequency of the fifteen minutes duration are key issues. An outcome of the event notices how the close proximity and presence of the semi-transitory audience needed a particular theatrical complicity, a trust within the space. The film projection enhanced the fluidity of the piece, with its shifts in reality and perspective. Feedback included ‘ghostlike ... beautiful ... intriguing’, bringing alive characters and space.
The sonorous void: Acoustic stages and sound play in Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros
Authors: Dima Vlad
Published: June 2016

Among the many conflicts pervading Eugene Ionesco’s influential play Rhinoceros (1961) one stands out as a dominant means to spring the story forward. It is not a subtle dramatic device, and yet it has not gotten much attention from critics and theorists. In this particular play, more so than elsewhere in Ionesco’s oeuvre and in the theatre of the absurd in general, there is an insistence on creating a conflict between what one sees, hears and imagines. Several oscillations and leaps that occur between exterior and interior spaces highlight this narrative conflict. The sounds and noises specified by the didascalia help the reader navigate the story while occasionally and playfully taking the reader completely out of the diegetic space. New, imaginary acoustic spaces and stages emerge and fill the void around the actual stage, as at the centre of it all the main character, Bérenger, functions as a kind of aural shape-shifter, capable of moving between different levels of interiority and exteriority through sound. The purpose of this article then is to explore the role of sound and sound directions in Rhinoceros and to establish that a new type of space – an imaginary acoustic space – is created. The article also indexes the elements of play and playfulness that help generate a variety of diegetical and extradiegetical spaces, from among which the aural component emerges as a crucial means to support the narrative.
Visuelle Gewalt
Authors: Regener Susanne
Published: June 2016

Wie und warum wurden seelisch kranke Menschen zum Bild? Seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts fotografierten Ärzte hinter Anstaltsmauern ihre Patienten. Mediziner versuchten durch das Medium Fotografie, das unsichtbare Seelenleben an fixierbaren Körpersymptomen kenntlich zu machen. In diesem Buch werden die »Fotografien-wider-Willen« als Teil einer normierenden Körperpolitik interpretiert, die das Fremde definierte und damit eine Gegenwelt zur repräsentativen bürgerlichen Normalität entwarf. »Visuelle Gewalt« ist Kennwort für ein Ordnungsverfahren, das im Namen von wissenschaftlicher Vernunft auf Körper und Seelen zielte, Menschen typisierte und ausgrenzte. Populäre Darstellungen des Wahns sind bis heute davon geprägt.
Nach der Parallelgesellschaft
Authors: Hill Marc
Published: June 2016

Die Bronx, Neukölln, Banlieues und jetzt Molenbeek - alle Bezirke tauchen in negativen Wissensproduktionen auf und werden als Parallelgesellschaften diskreditiert. Einmal mehr zeigt sich, dass sich so erkenntnishemmende Sichtweisen auf Stadt und Migration bilden. Marc Hill durchkreuzt stigmatisierende Großstadtdiskurse und betrachtet sie aus entgegengesetzter Perspektive. Dabei trifft er auf mehrheimische Biografien und postmigrantische Lebensentwürfe inmitten eines weltoffenen Bahnhofsviertels am Wörthersee. Fernab von Ballungsräumen ergibt sich aus der Erfahrung der Migration die Erkenntnis: Urbanität und Demokratie sind auf marginalisierungskritische Kompetenzen angewiesen, damit die Alltagsrelevanz von Vielfalt ins Bewusstsein gerät.
Die WissensKünste der Avantgarden
Authors: Flach Sabine
Published: June 2016

Wittgenstein vermerkt um 1950: »Die Menschen heute glauben, die Wissenschaftler seien dazu da, sie zu belehren, die [...] Künstler [...], sie zu erfreuen. Daß diese sie etwas zu lehren haben; kommt ihnen nicht in den Sinn.« Dem so konstatierten Wissen der Künste widmet sich Sabine Flach mittels einer Analyse der Wahrnehmungstheorien u.a. von Kandinsky, Malewitsch, Matjuschin, Richter und Eggeling. Sie entfaltet einen interdisziplinären Dialog mit Medientheorie und Wahrnehmungswissenschaft entlang dem Paragone zwischen Künsten und Wissenschaften: Was wissen wir? Wo findet dieses Wissen statt und wie wird es beschreibbar? Die Studie schreibt eine Epistemologie der Kunst, mit der zeitgleich ein »abstract turn« konzediert wird.
Uma aplicação prática de gestão do conhecimento e simulação na resolução de problemas complexos empresariais
Authors: Zambon Antonio Carlos , Baioco Gisele Busichia , Chiste Cristiano , Vasques Dildre Georgiana
Published: June 2016

Este trabalho apresenta um estudo de caso em uma pequena empresa do setor de máquinas e equipamentos industriais. Essa empresa mostrava problemas relacionados com a incapacidade de entregar as encomendas feitas por seus clientes dentro do prazo acordado, além de diferenças nos métodos de gestão utilizados pelos seus gestores. A fim de analisar e resolver esses problemas, situados na fronteira entre problemas estruturados e não estruturados, inicialmente modelamos o conhecimento dos gestores por meio de diagramas conceituais estendidos apoiados por um processo cognitivo. Posteriormente, simulamos o modelo obtido, usando Dinâmica de Sistemas. O modelo obtido promoveu a aprendizagem em grupo e apoiou estratégias de atendimento por meio de simulação. A modelagem e a simulação desencadearam mudanças no comportamento gerencial e melhoria do clima organizacional. As mudanças comportamentais também resolveram o problema das entregas.
Fatores críticos para o sucesso do seis sigma: um levantamento do impacto do tempo de empresa e do treinamento na indústria alimentícia
Authors: Drohomeretski Everton , Gouvea da Costa Sergio E. , Pinheiro de Lima Edson , Da Silva Wesley Vieira
Published: June 2016

A metodologia Seis Sigma apresenta um crescente interesse por parte de empresas dos diversos setores. Isso se dá, principalmente, em virtude dos seus resultados atrelados à redução de custos, aumento da confiabilidade e do padrão de qualidade. Porém, para que os resultados do Seis Sigma sejam alcançados e sustentados, faz-se necessária a gestão de alguns fatores críticos de sucesso (FCS) do Seis Sigma. O presente artigo tem por objetivo investigar os FCS para implantação da metodologia Seis Sigma e identificar  quanto o tempo de empresa e o nível de formação Seis Sigma influenciam nos FCS. Para atingir o objetivo proposto foi realizada uma pesquisa de campo com 80 respondentes, com formação em Seis Sigma, de uma indústria alimentícia de grande porte localizada no Sul do Brasil. Os dados foram analisados por meio de estatística descritiva, teste de correlação, análise multivariada por meio da análise fatorial e análise de regressão múltipla. Com base na amostra pesquisada, os resultados evidenciaram que os FCS estudados apresentam uma contribuição significativa para o sucesso do programa Seis Sigma. Além disso, pode-se verificar que o tempo de empresa dos funcionários apresenta correlação positiva para o constructo treinamento, e o nível de formação em Seis Sigma apresenta correlação negativa com os constructos Treinamento, Comunicação e Revisão e Operação.
Análise dos custos da produção por manufatura aditiva em comparação a métodos convencionais
Authors: Giordano Caio Mezzeti , De Senzi Zancul Eduardo , Picanço Rodrigues Vinícius
Published: June 2016

A manufatura aditiva tem sido apontada como a tecnologia capaz de revolucionar os processos produtivos das empresas e de alterar as estratégias de produção atualmente empregadas. No entanto, hoje a manufatura aditiva ainda é essencialmente utilizada na produção de protótipos, em que se requer alta flexibilidade e baixos custos de ferramental específico. A tendência é que a manufatura aditiva passe a ser gradativamente utilizada como parte dos processos produtivos de produtos finais à medida que atinja maiores níveis de qualidade, tais como precisão dimensional, acabamento e tolerâncias, além de menores custos de produção, aproximando-se mais daqueles existentes na produção em larga escala. Neste cenário, este artigo visa analisar e comparar custos de produção para uma peça padrão produzida por meio de manufatura aditiva e por métodos convencionais de produção, analisando a viabilidade de implementação da tecnologia como parte essencial dos processos produtivos de empresas. A pesquisa proporciona também o estabelecimento de um padrão – peça padrão, suas características de projeto e volumes típicos de produção – a partir da qual análises periódicas possam ser realizadas ao longo dos próximos anos para avaliação de custos, com o aumento da escala e a consolidação da aprendizagem na produção dos equipamentos de manufatura aditiva.
Utilização do AHP para priorização das práticas de TQM na indústria farmacêutica
Authors: Silveira Karla Silva , Hikichi Suzana Eda , Salgado Eduardo Gomes
Published: June 2016

A Gestão pela Qualidade Total ou Total Quality Management (TQM) consiste em uma estratégia de gestão, que requer o envolvimento e comprometimento de toda organização, na melhoria contínua de produtos e processos, tendo como foco a satisfação do cliente. Este artigo destacou a importância de priorizar algumas práticas da Gestão da Qualidade Total na indústria farmacêutica, auxiliando na sua implantação. Foi utilizado o método de decisão multicriterial AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process), o qual tem como função estruturar as práticas de TQM de forma hierarquizada. Assim foram avaliadas 17 práticas do TQM, divididas em três categorias (estratégicos, táticos e operacionais). Os resultados sugerem que a Gestão Estratégica foi o fator de maior importância, seguido pelos fatores táticos e operacionais. O presente trabalho atingiu seu objetivo de ajudar gestores do setor farmacêutico a se orientarem de forma eficaz para obter melhor desempenho das práticas do TQM e alcançar os objetivos desejados.
Implantação de técnicas de manutenção autônoma em uma célula de manufatura de um fabricante de máquinas agrícolas
Authors: Nunes Ivo Luis , Sellitto Miguel Afonso
Published: June 2016

O objetivo deste artigo foi descrever um caso de aplicação de manutenção autônoma em uma área piloto de uma empresa do ramo metal mecânico. O método de pesquisa foi o estudo de caso único em uma célula de produção com três centros de usinagem em uma empresa fabricante de máquinas agrícolas. Os objetivos secundários do artigo foram: descrever o cenário em que a aplicação ocorreu; descrever procedimentos e resultados; e analisar os benefícios obtidos, apresentando resultados antes e depois da implementação. Os principais resultados da aplicação foram o aumento nos tempos médios entre falhas das máquinas, a redução nos tempos médios até o reparo das máquinas, a redução de refugos e retrabalhos na célula e a redução dos custos de manutenção. Como consequência destes avanços, houve expressivo aumento na eficiência global da célula de 78% para 88,3%, o que pode ser considerado desempenho de classe mundial. Outros ganhos foram a redução de estoque intermediário, de tempo de set-up e da área física ocupada.
Auditoria de segurança e saúde do trabalho em uma indústria de alimentos do Estado do Paraná
Authors: De Castro Tainara Rigotti , Okawa Cristhiane Passos
Published: June 2016

Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo avaliar as condições de segurança e saúde no trabalho em uma indústria alimentícia do ramo de atividades de produção de biscoitos e salgadinhos para aperitivo. Por meio de inspeções, entrevistas informais com supervisores e funcionários, foram identificados os riscos para análise da saúde e segurança do trabalho por meio da aplicação de um checklist para verificação das não conformidades presentes no local, com base nas Normas Regulamentadoras (NRs). A indústria apresentou necessidade de implantação de Serviços Especializados em Engenharia de Segurança e em Medicina do Trabalho (SESMT) e Programa de Controle Médico e Saúde Ocupacional (PCMSO), revisão da Comissão Interna de Prevenção de Acidentes (CIPA), adoção de Equipamentos de Proteção Individual (EPIs), elaboração do Programa de Prevenção de Riscos Ambientais (PPRA), implantação de sinalização de segurança e da segurança do trabalho em máquinas, necessidade de compra de equipamentos, adoção de medidas na área de ergonomia, entre outros
O comportamento de consumidores de veículos usados: um estudo a partir do processo decisório de compra
Authors: Eckert Klockner Tiago , Zamberlan Luciano , Sparemberger Ariosto , Buttenbender Pedro , Cappellari Gabriela , Sausen Jorge Oneide
Published: June 2016

O consumidor tornou-se mais exigente e ciente de seus direitos, além de contar com uma grande quantidade de ofertas e opções que lhe permite escolher o produto que de fato seja a melhor opção para satisfazer suas necessidades e desejos. Com essa mudança de comportamento, o consumidor passou a avaliar melhor suas opções de compra antes de realizá-las. Diante disso, o presente estudo aborda o processo decisório de compra de veículos usados e tem como propósito avaliar as atitudes do consumidor diante de cada etapa desse processo. A pesquisa classifica-se como sendo de caráter exploratório e descritivo. Na etapa exploratória, de abordagem qualitativa, efetuou-se um grupo de foco com consumidores de veículos e ainda entrevistas em profundidade com proprietários de revendas de automóveis, ambos com o intuito de identificar as variáveis a serem usadas para a elaboração do questionário. Na parte descritiva realizou-se um survey, onde foi aplicado um questionário a 86 compradores de veículos usados por meio de entrevistas pessoais. A análise dos dados se deu por meio da distribuição de frequência e Teste T. Os resultados aduzem que o atendimento e a sinceridade percebida nos vendedores são algumas das características que os consumidores mais consideram importantes para realizar uma compra. Os benefícios e características que os veículos possuem também foram fatores muito considerados, bem como a procedência e o estado de conservação dos mesmos. Por fim, os resultados contribuem na elaboração de estratégias de marketing para o setor e ainda para qualificar o relacionamento entre as empresas e seus clientes.
Pengaruh Sosial Budaya Islami Terhadap Tatanan Permukiman Kampung Arab Sugihwaras
Authors: Wulandari Astari , Setioko Bambang , Suprapti Atik
Published: June 2016

Bentuk lingkungan permukiman sebagai suatu produk komunitas adalah hasil kesepakatan sosial dan bukan merupakan produk inividual. Dengan kata lain, komunitas yang berbeda tentunya akan menunjukkan karakter yang berbeda pula. Kampung Arab Sugihwaras sebagai permukiman yang dihuni oleh masyarakat keturunan Arab di Pekalongan terancam oleh berbagai perubahan baik pada aspek sosial budaya maupun bentukan fisik permukiman. Pada kondisi ideal bentukan fisik permukiman yang khas yang diperkuat oleh nilai – nilai sosial budaya masyarakat keturunan Arab di Sugihwaras dapat menjadi suatu identitas tersendiri bagi kawasan. Untuk itu penting untuk mengetahui pengaruh sosial budaya Islami terhadap tatanan permukiman untuk mencegah hilangnya identitas masyarakat dan mempertahankan keteraturan lingkungan permukiman. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimanakah pengaruh sosial budaya Islami terhadap tatanan permukiman Kampung Arab Sugihwaras. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan metodologi kuantitatif deskriptif melalui paradigm postpositivistik. Berdasarkan hasil uji regresi terhadap variabel penelitian ditemukan adanya pengaruh sosial budaya Islami sebesar 14,2, % sedangkan secara parsial tidak semua variabel pada sosial budaya Islami berpengaruh terhadap tatanan permukiman. Akan tetapi hanya variabel lingkungan bertetangga saja yang menunjukkan adanya pengaruh secara langsung. [The Islamic Socio-Cultural Influence toward Settlement Arragement in Kampung Arab Sugihwaras] Neighborhoods forms as a community product is the result of social consensus and not a product inividual. In other words, different communities will certainly show different characters. Sugihwaras Arab village as a settlement inhabited by the descendants of Arabs in Pekalongan threatened by various changes both in the socio-cultural aspects as well as the space order of settlements. On the ideal conditions, space order of typical settlement reinforced by values - social and cultural values of Arab descent in Sugihwaras can be a separate identity for the region. It is important to know the social influence of Islamic culture against settlement arrangement to prevent the loss of community identity and maintain regularity neighborhoods. The purpose of this study was to determine how the social influence of Islamic culture to the Arab village Sugihwaras settlement arrangement. This research was done by using descriptive quantitative methodology through post- positivistm paradigm. Based on the results of the regression test against variables the study found the social influence of Islamic culture by 14.2% while partially not all socio-cultural variables on Islamic influence on settlement arrangement. But only neighbourhood variables showed a direct influence to the settlement arragement in Kampung Arab Sugihwaras.
“Cash Is Better than Tenure”: (De)Constructing the “Posthistorical University” in James Hynes’s Gothic Academic Satire The Lecturer’s Tale
Authors: Andreescu Raluca
Published: June 2016

This article analyzes the manner in which James Hynes’s novel The Lecturer’s Tale (2001) can be read as a satire of what Bill Readings identified in his influential The University in Ruins (1996) as the “posthistorical university.” I argue that, in the contemporary context in which higher education establishments are becoming more like corporations and the idea of culture is replaced by the “discourse of excellence,” Hynes’s novel offers an insightful discussion of universities’ negotiation of the Scylla of the pursuit of profit and the Charybdis of self-absorbed literary theorizing and its association with political correctness, the exploitation of junior and non-tenured faculty, and the quest for academic stardom. At the same time, I discuss the way in which the Gothic elements that permeate the novel fittingly double and deepen the critique of contemporary educational establishments and professors.
In Pursuit of Happiness: Escape, Change, and Return in Contemporary Academic Novels, Or Why I Read Campus Novels, But Possibly Shouldn’t
Authors: Łysik Marta
Published: June 2016

In this personal essay, the author compares her academic experiences to those of characters in the campus novels she enjoys reading. The novels she discusses here share a thematic concern with happiness and all seem to indicate that professional fulfillment and academic status are not sufficient in order to achieve that state.
Hölder regularity at the boundary of two-dimensional sliding almost minimal sets
Authors: Fang Yangqin
Published: June 2016

In [15], Jean Taylor proved a regularity theorem
away from the boundary for Almgren almost minimal sets of dimension 2 in

ℝ
3

{\mathbb{R}^{3}}

. It is quite important for understanding the soap films and
the solutions of Plateau’s problem away from boundary. In this paper, we
will give a regularity result on the boundary for two-dimensional sliding
almost minimal sets in

ℝ
3

{\mathbb{R}^{3}}

.
A real health problem of our days: Colorectal Cancer
Authors: Gheorghita Raluca-Andreea , Ulmeanu Victoria , Tuta Liliana , Nedelcu Cristina , Nitu T.S. , Scrinic Olesea , Oanta M. , Ilie Mihaela , Muflic L.
Published: June 2016

Colorectal cancer is one of the major mortality causes in the world, with an increased frequency in western countries, which are better developed economically. Romanian statistics show that the frequency of this type of cancer is increasing rapidly. In the year 2000, all over the world there were approximately 1 million new cases of colorectal cancer, and over 500 thousands deaths, thus affecting 1 from 20 inhabitants from the developed countries and being the second main cancer death cause, at both sexes in Europe. In Romania, incidence and mortality have doubled in the last 20 years, reaching a 17.74/100000 inhabitants incidence in the year 2000. Both for men and women, this disease is on the 3rd place in Romania, after bronhopulmonary cancer and gastric (for men) and breast and uterus cancer, respectively.

This paper has as purpose obtaining data about the frequency of colorectal cancer in recent years, and the repartition of this data on years, sex, age, environment, complications and other particularities. To reach this purpose we have done a retrospective study on patients that were admitted during 2010-2014 in the surgical clinic, medical clinic and oncology section from the Constanta Emergency County hospital, with colorectal neoplasm as a diagnosis.
Tumoral retroperitoneal masses and their impact to renal function
Authors: Azis Olgun , Fasie Dragos , Tuta Liliana Ana , Daba Lavinia , Voinea Felix
Published: June 2016

Retroperitoneal tumors, either benign or malignant, usually cause problems both for an accurate diagnosis and for therapeutic approach, due to their reduce incidence, late presentation and anatomical location, in the neighborhood of vital structures from the retroperitoneal space. Materials and methods: Aim of study was to search correlations between, gender, age, and histo-pathological type of retroperitoneal tumors, as well as their impact upon renal function. Results: Sarcomas represented about 30% of retroperitoneal tumors. The most frequent benign retroperitoneal tumors included: neurogenic tumors, paragangliomas, renal angiomyolipomas and benign retroperitoneal lipomas. Renal function was altered in about 55% of the patients, and postsurgical mortality was 8.73%.
Using Modern Diagnostic Methods for Technological Discipline Assessment of Maize Silage
Authors: Gálik Roman , Boďo Štefan , Staroňová Lenka
Published: June 2016

The paper focuses on the analysis of compliance with the technological discipline in silage quality assessment based on sampling the silage wall using thermal imaging and penetrometer method for silage compaction. Experimental measurements were done in a selected company, which has built a silage trough with a capacity of 6,624 m3, in which the maize (hybrid KWS – KALIFF FAO 440) with a 36% solids content was ensiled. A thermal camera ThermoPro TM TP8S IR and cone penetrometer Eijkelkamp were used for measurements. The results obtained suggest that also undesirable heating was found in the sampling area, since the maximum temperature at some places in the depth of 0.5 m reached a temperature of 36.4 °C. According to regression and correlation analysis, we found direct linear relationship between penetration resistance and penetration depth in a 6 m and 1.5 m height (R = 0.938 respectively R = 0.970).
Variability of geostrophic airflow over Poland, 1951-2014
Authors: Marosz Michał
Published: June 2016

The paper presents the analysis of the anemological conditions variability over Poland with the usage of geostrophic wind vector as an objective (and homogenous) information concerning the airflow over the area of research. The geostrophic wind vector components are calculated using SLP and air temperature (at sigma 995 level) at selected gridpoints which were subsequently interpolated to a central point thus describing the average flow over the research area. The data originated from NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis and its temporal range was 1951-2014. The analysis covers statistical characteristics of the overall annual cycle as well as trend analysis of the airflow features over Poland: geostrophic wind vector module (V), and its zonal (u) and meridional (v) components. Aside from general statistical characteristics for averages and extremes (quantiles 10% and 90%) GEV distribution was fitted to maximum annual/monthly geostrophic wind speed values which allowed the estimation of return levels for selected return periods. For the period 1951-2014 average geostrophic wind velocity over Poland equals 7.4 ms−1 and the 99% quantile exceeds 21 ms−1. Maximum speed ever recorded equalled 37.6 ms−1. Geostrophic wind vector module (V) and its components (u, v) exhibit clear annual cycle with the highest V values in winter. Positive (westerly) u values dominate in the colder part of the year. In spring the dominance of eastern advection appears and in summer the prevalence of westerly flow is only minimal. There exists a distinctive variability of decadal directional structure and this is clearly visible in the substantial increase in the share of western sector frequencies in 1981-1990 and following decade. Monthly V averages do not exhibit (except October) statistically significant trends whereas in spring and summer months as well as for annual averages of u component trend is significant. There are virtually no significant changes in the v values. GEV analysis allowed the year to be divided into two parts. Warm one with relatively low return levels – for many months not exceeding 20 ms−1 even for 50y return period. On the other hand winter months return level values exceed 30 ms−1 even for relatively short return periods (20y) with upper estimates for 100y return period closing to 40 ms−1.
The impact of solar radiation on the temperature of the exposed rocks of the karst canyon (the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, Poland)
Authors: Caputa Zbigniew Andrzej
Published: June 2016

The paper presents results of the research on the impact of solar radiation on the formation of the thermal conditions of the exposed rock surfaces of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The research comprised the structure of the radiation balance of the active surface of the bottom of the canyon, the temperature of the surface and the layer at the depth of −5 cm in limestone rock on the southern wall of the canyon. The tests were performed in various types of weather. The strongest mesoclimate contrasts were observed in the radiation type of weather: differences in insolation and in the balance of radiation, thermal differences and variations within the heat flux in the rock. The longwave stream of radiation which was emitted by the heated rocks exerted an impact on the microclimate conditions and on the radiation balance at the bottom of the canyon during the night. A diverse relief of the terrain constituted a local factor differentiating the radiation balance and the distribution of the rock temperature. The quantitatively determined structure of the radiation balance and the thermal contrasts of the canyon, particularly of the rock surfaces, point to the importance of the relief in shaping the mesoclimate of even small karst areas. These characteristics determine the heat flux in the rock, weathering processes and others. The mesoclimate and microclimate of the rocks affect the biodiversity of the rock surfaces of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. In addition, they shape the ecotopy of the karst canyon, among others – the vegetation on the limestone rocks.