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Title IX
Authors: Carpenter Linda Jean , Acosta R. Vivian
Published: April 2020

Title IX delivers a complete look at one of sport's critical gender equity issues. It goes beyond intercollegiate athletics to address Title IX in the context of sport, physical activity, recreation, intramurals, and physical education. From its enactment in 1972, Title IX has been often oversimplified or misunderstood by both advocates and critics of the legislation. Knowledgeable in the legal issues of sport and experienced in the administration of sport and physical education programs, the authors of Title IX offer a balanced, comprehensive view of this issue, lending important insights into Title IX's requirements and application both now and when it was enacted.

Title IX, the law, prohibits any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance from discriminating on the basis of sex. Title IX, the text, helps to clarify the law in a three-part progression that is accurate and accessible. In Part I, you will see Title IX's structure and requirements applied in different settings including physical education, intramurals and recreation, and athletics. Part II then provides a historical account of the social, legislative, and judicial environments in which Title IX has grown to maturity over the past three decades. Finally, part III examines Title IX in the 21st century, its impact on sport related programs, and continuing debates.

Title IX will also help you gain a solid understanding of the law itself. You will examine the actual wording of the law and related interpretive materials. You'll review significant lawsuits as you explore how the legislation has been interpreted and judicially clarified over the years in changing social and political climates. You'll find further clarifying information in summaries and questions and answers at the end of each chapter. Six appendixes provide pertinent excerpts from Title IX regulations, policy interpretations, letters of clarification, and an annotated list of other print and online resources. Whether you're looking for clarification of Title IX or for information on applying it in your programs, you'll find the information you need in Title IX.
Foundations of Wellness
Authors: Reger-Nash Bill , Smith Meredith , Juckett Gregory
Published: April 2020

Life is crammed with busyness, screen time, and an abundance of shallow experiences. If you don't mindfully change your way of thinking and behaving, that's all your life will ever be.

Foundations of Wellness can help you live a satisfying life—one full of rich and deep experiences. You’ll understand your identity and inner strengths and resources as well as set and move toward meaningful personal goals.

With Foundations of Wellness, you will explore physical, mental, emotional, social, environmental, and spiritual realms of wellness using an evidence-based approach to health and wellness that will help you explore ways to live your life to the fullest. You will examine the seven attitudinal foundations of mindfulness to daily living, delve into wellness resources and dietary needs, discover health check strategies, and learn the keys to making healthy behavioral changes.

Foundations of Wellness is written in a conversational style and divided into three parts. Part I establishes basic wellness problems and introduces tools to discovering wellness and inner peace. Part II addresses physical dimensions of wellness, including physical activity, nutrition, sleep, and body maintenance. In part III you’ll discover the strategies that will propel you to a higher level of living—one that can affect not only your life but also the lives of others for generations to come.

Each chapter explores key concepts and topics that affect your wellness. The chapters begin with objectives and a vignette that illustrates a challenge related to the content and use stories to illustrate teaching points. The text also incorporates activity sidebars that empower you to make the behavioral changes that will lead to a more satisfying and meaningful life.

You will learn how to incorporate mindfulness—a practice that helps you live with greater awareness—and positive psychology as you embark on your wellness journey. In Foundations of Wellness, you will also learn the seven attitudinal foundations of mindfulness practices and explore the spiritual truths that are at the core of wellness.
Missing OH reactivity in the global marine boundary layer
Authors: Thames Alexander B. , Brune William H. , Miller David O. , Allen Hannah M. , Apel Eric C. , Blake Donald R. , Bui T. Paul , Commane Roisin , Crounse John D. , Daube Bruce C. , Diskin Glenn S. , DiGangi Joshua P. , Elkins James W. , Hall Samuel R. , Hanisco Thomas F. , Hannun Reem A. , Hintsa Eric , Hornbrook Rebecca S. , Kim Michelle J. , McKain Kathryn , Moore Fred L. , Nicely Julie M. , Peischl Jeffrey , Ryerson Thomas B. , St. Clair Jason M. , Sweeney Colm , Teng Alex , Thompson Chelsea R. , Ullmann Kirk , Wennberg Paul O. , Wolfe Glenn M.
Published: April 2020

Abstract. The hydroxyl radical (OH) reacts with thousands of
chemical species in the atmosphere, initiating their removal and the
chemical reaction sequences that produce ozone, secondary aerosols, and
gas-phase acids. OH reactivity, which is the inverse of OH lifetime,
influences the OH abundance and the ability of OH to cleanse the atmosphere.
The NASA Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) campaign used instruments on the NASA
DC-8 aircraft to measure OH reactivity and more than 100 trace chemical
species. ATom presented a unique opportunity to test the completeness of the
OH reactivity calculated from the chemical species measurements by comparing
it to the measured OH reactivity over two oceans across four seasons.
Although the calculated OH reactivity was below the limit of detection for
the ATom instrument used to measure OH reactivity throughout much of the
free troposphere, the instrument was able to measure the OH reactivity in
and just above the marine boundary layer. The mean measured value of OH
reactivity in the marine boundary layer across all latitudes and all ATom
deployments was 1.9 s−1, which is 0.5 s−1 larger than the mean
calculated OH reactivity. The missing OH reactivity, the difference between
the measured and calculated OH reactivity, varied between 0 and 3.5 s−1, with the highest values over the Northern Hemisphere Pacific
Ocean. Correlations of missing OH reactivity with formaldehyde, dimethyl
sulfide, butanal, and sea surface temperature suggest the presence of
unmeasured or unknown volatile organic compounds or oxygenated volatile
organic compounds associated with ocean emissions.
Comparison of GTO-ECV and adjusted MERRA-2 total ozone columns from the last 2 decades and assessment of interannual variability
Authors: Coldewey-Egbers Melanie , Loyola Diego G. , Labow Gordon , Frith Stacey M.
Published: April 2020

Abstract. In this study we compare the satellite-based Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME)-type Total Ozone Essential Climate
Variable (GTO-ECV) record, generated as part of the European Space Agency's Climate
Change Initiative (ESA-CCI) ozone project, with the adjusted total ozone product from
the Modern Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (adjusted MERRA-2)
reanalysis, produced at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Global
Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO). Total ozone columns and associated standard
deviations show a very good agreement in terms of both spatial and temporal patterns
during their 23-year overlap period from July 1995 to December 2018. The mean difference
between adjusted MERRA-2 and GTO-ECV 5∘×5∘ monthly mean total ozone
columns is -0.9±1.5 %. A small discontinuity in the deviations is detected in October 2004, when data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) were ingested in the GTO-ECV
and adjusted MERRA-2 data records. This induces a small overall negative drift in the differences for almost all
latitude bands, which, however, does not exceed 1 % per decade. The mean difference for
the period prior to October 2004 is -0.5±1.7 %, whereas the difference is -1.0±1.1 %
for the period from October 2004 to December 2018. The variability in the differences is
considerably reduced in the period after 2004 due to a significant increase in data coverage
and sampling. In the tropical region, the differences indicate a slight zonal variability with
negative deviations over the Atlantic, Africa, and the Indian Ocean and positive deviations
over the Pacific. Ozone anomalies and the distribution of their statistical moments indicate
a very high correlation among both data records as to the temporal and spatial structures.
Furthermore, we evaluate the consistency of the data sets by means of an empirical orthogonal
function (EOF) analysis. The interannual variability is assessed in the tropics, and both
GTO-ECV and adjusted MERRA-2 exhibit a remarkable agreement with respect to the derived patterns.
The first four EOFs can be attributed to different modes of interannual climate variability,
and correlations with the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO), the El Niño–Southern Oscillation
(ENSO) signal, and the solar cycle were found.
Journalists as end-users: Quality management principles applied to the design process of news automation
Authors: Dierickx Laurence
Published: April 2020

ISO 9000 refers to a family of three standards related to quality management. It defines the concept of quality as the features and characteristics of a product, a process, or a service that bears on its ability to satisfy needs explicitly or implicitly expressed. Standards provide guidance and tools to ensure that products or services will meet users’ requirements. It means that quality must be consistently improved and that risks must be evaluated to be anticipated. The seven principles of the ISO 9000 are here examined through the lenses of a case study conducted within a Belgian newsroom, where an automated news system was developed to support the daily routines of financial journalists. As end-users, they have been actively involved within the design process, which can be considered as the first form of use.
New trends and innovative approaches in personnel management of food businesses in Slovakia
Authors: Lušňáková Zuzana , Lenčéšová Silvia , Šajbidorová Mária , Hrdá Veronika , Rumanko Boris
Published: April 2020

New practices and changes are appearing in personnel management in the same way as they occur in other areas of management. New trends, which have various ways of implementation, emerge, along with its impact on employees, managers and businesses. Employees are an important part of each business and therefore, it is important to have right people in right places. The objective of the paper is to find out how food businesses working in Slovakia are implementing an innovative approach to the personnel management. The research actively included 453 food businesses from all Slovakia. We decided to do research into these businesses because they are household names in the field of production of domestic food products. Production of high-quality domestic food products is considered important not only for people´s nutrition and availability of quality domestic products but also due to sustainability of the employment rate in this field, development and recruitment of professional, qualified and engaged employees. The statistical relations and correlations between variables were performed by Cronbach alpha, Spearman test, Kruskal-Walis test using programs EXCEL and SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1. We found out that food businesses in Slovakia had already started to implement innovative approaches to the personnel management, but there are still significant reserves and shortcomings. The positive aspect is that food business managers have understood importance of personnel management innovation because nowadays, their main task to find, recruit, select and retain a prospective employee.
Root and Pattern Effects in the Processing of Spoken Non-Words in Arabic
Authors: Aljasser Faisal
Published: April 2020

Words in Arabic are formed by mapping roots into patterns. Conducting a series of priming experiments, Boudelaa and Marslen-Wilson (2015, p. 955) have concluded that “root and word pattern morphemes function as abstract cognitive entities, operating independently of semantic factors and dissociable from possible phonological confounds” In the present study, plausibility of this conclusion is tested by investigating native Arabic speakers’ sensitivity to the presence of roots and patterns when processing spoken non-words in Arabic. 50 native Arabic speakers were given a 7-point word-likeness rating task. In this task, participants were asked to rate the word-likeness of 132 auditorily presented non-words in Arabic. 88 of these non-words were created by using real Arabic roots (e.g. /mlk/) that varied in their type and token frequencies and were mapped into two different types of pseudo patterns. Results have shown that native Arabic speakers are sensitive to the presence of roots in the non-words. Specifically, root type frequency had the strongest effect on subjects’ ratings of the non-words in both types of patterns. Implications of these findings to theories of the Arabic mental lexicon will be discussed.
Parental Motivation and Achievement
Authors: Moneva Jerald C. , Japos Linive C. , Ohayas Rosalie L.
Published: April 2020

The motivation that parents provide to their students can have a significant impact on achievements in school. The study intends to assess the level of parental motivation and achievers of junior high and senior high. Parental motivation is given by the parents towards their students to make them work harder or being determine their studies that leads them to have better achievements in school. The checklist is made up of two parts, parental motivation and the level of achievement. The research was a quantitative correlation design. The respondents are the achievers from junior high and senior high and consist of overall respondents of 145 respondents. To treat the data, the researcher used a statistical test the weighted mean, chi – square to determine the relationship of the two variables. The study revealed that parents do not always provided a motivation to their students most of the parents sometimes give a motivation to their student. However, the achievements of students are still in high level. The achievements of students do not always depend on their parents’ motivation yet their achievement is based on their personality of being determined and consistent in their studies. Not all the time that the motivation of parents can enhance the educational achievements of students.
Selfie and Self-Esteem
Authors: Moneva Jerald C. , Perolino Jhea A. , Ycong Sheila T.
Published: April 2020

Selfie is an image taken by them and later uploaded to social media such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and so on. Self-esteem is an important aspect of personality of the person. This study focused on why people are fond on taking selfie and posting selfie to the internet or social media networking is a factor leading to an increase individual’s self-esteem. The study supported by the Looking Glass Self theory proposed by Charles Horton Cooley. The study was conducted to gather information from students towards on how their behavior on taking selfie in order for the researcher to asses if there is an association between the “selfie and students’ self-esteem”. This study has 145 respondents from the different strands in Senior High School. The tool used on this study is checklist rating scale questionnaire to collect data and information. All the data were analyzed using chi-square. The result revealed the p value is less than to the significant level. Therefore, the result of this study revealed that the selfie habits of the students can boost self-esteem.
Conditions of Environmental Degradation in Brazilian Countryside Areas
Authors: Tabosa Francisco José Silva , Araújo Jair Andrade , Sales Arthur Pereira
Published: April 2020

This study aims to analyze the relationship between environmental degradation and economic growth in Brazil’s countryside areas and describe the situation of countryside households in relation to environmental pollution. For this, we used the microdata from the National Sample Survey (PNAD, Brazil) for the year 2015 and the econometric analysis occurred through the ordered logit model. The results allowed us to conclude that the Northeast, followed by the North and the Midwest, are the regions in which households are most inadequate; on the other hand, the South-Southeast axis presents the households with the best sustainable conditions. By analyzing the relationship between environmental degradation and economic growth for the Brazilian countryside environment, it was concluded that economic growth presented the inverted “N” format in relation to degradation for all regions, in which income and dimensions of access to education, health and information were crucial to this achievement.
Imitación de la poesía de Rubén Darío o el apócrifo del discurso aglutinante como estrategia de escritura de Manuel Mantero
Authors: Campos Ruiz Ignacio
Published: April 2020

Este trabajo interpreta un poema de Manuel Mantero titulado “Para Antonio Machado, en contestación a su poema ‘Al maestro Rubén Darío’, texto que durante un lapso de tiempo circuló simulando ser del nicaragüense universal. En este poema-homenaje Mantero hizo converger tanto la poética machadianacomo la dariana, además de la tradición española, en una formulación creativa de la imitación en el cont exto de 1967.
Comparison of different selection methods for improving litter size in sheep using computer simulation
Authors: Latifi Meysam , Rashidi Amir , Abdollahi-Arpanahi Rostam , Razmkabir Mohammad
Published: April 2020

Aim of study: To assess selection methods via introgression to improve litter size in native and synthetic sheep breeds.Area of study: Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran.Material and methods: Selection approaches were performed using classical, genomic, gene-assisted classical (GasClassical) and gene-assisted genomic (GasGenomic) selection. Litter size trait with heritability of 0.1 including two chromosomes was simulated. On chromosome 1, a single QTL as the major gene was created to explain 40% of the total additive genetic variance. After simulation of a historical population, the animals from the last historical population were split into two populations. For the next 7 generations, animals were selected for favorable or unfavorable alleles to create distinct breeds of A or B, respectively. Then from the last generation, both males and females from breed B were selected to create a native population. On the other hand, males from breed A and females from breed B were mated to simulate a synthetic population. Finally, intra-population selections were carried out based on high breeding values during the last five generations.Main results: The genetic gain in the synthetic breed was higher than that of the native breed under all selection methods. The frequencies of favorable alleles after five generations in the classical, genomic, GasClassical and GasGenoimc selection approaches in the synthetic breed were 0.623, 0.730, 0.850 and 0.848, respectively.Research highlights: Combining gene-assisted selection with classical or genomic selection has the potential to improve genetic gain and increase the frequencies of favorable allele for litter size in sheep.
An Improved Approach for Constructing the Real Estate Price Index with Bargaining Effect
Authors: Zhang Yunyi , Gu Huaying
Published: April 2020

Bargaining game is ubiquitous in real estate markets due to its heterogeneity. Price index, the most important measurement the market condition, constructed with current approaches however cannot consider the effect of bargaining. Therefore, in this work, we provide a construction of price index including sellers’ bargaining power based on Nash bargaining theory and Heckman’s two-step regression. The sellers’ bargaining power is estimated from the aggregate data of list-price, sale-price and time-on-the-market. Using this method, the residential price index of an empirical example was conducted. The results are in reasonable agreement with the realistic situations, verifying the feasibility and applicability of the developed method.
Analysis of Competitive Strategies by Asserting General Value
Authors: Aityan Sergey K.
Published: April 2020

This paper introduces a new quantitative approach for competitive analysis based on the notion of general value. General value is a combination of monetary value, which relates to the product price, maintenance and, possibly, final utilization costs, and nonmonetary value, which represents the consumer satisfaction with and need in the respective product. Products compete by their general value rather than by just the monetary component of it. Different competitive products may show different combinations of their monetary and nonmonetary components of value. The market shares of the competitive products can be found by the distribution similar the Boltzmann distribution in Physics, where general value plays the role of energy.
Een kritisch-pragmatische bestuurskunde
Authors: Metze Tamara
Published: April 2020

A critical-pragmatist public administration

A pragmatic criticaster or a critical pragmatist is considered a schizophrenic in daily life: it seems impossible to be solution oriented and critical at the same time. You are either an optimist or a pessimist. This schism also seems to run between public administration and political scientists. Public administration is focused on (positive) problem solving, whereas political scientists – especially in a tradition of critical theory – examine the exertion of power. This essay proposes a combination of the two extremes: a critical-pragmatist approach for public administration.

In this approach, critical political theory goes hand in hand with pragmatist reconstruction and design. This design is impossible without normative and procedural principles, for example ideas about sustainability, justice and democracy. This is illustrated with an example for designing just governance arrangements in the Dutch regional energy strategies. The article shows that public administration that is relevant, reflective and democratic builds on a critical-pragmatist approach.
The Long-term Characteristics of PM10 and PM2.5 in Bangkok, Thailand
Authors: Chirasophon Supanan , Pochanart Pakpong
Published: April 2020

The long-term characteristics of non-roadside (residential) PM10 and PM2.5 in Bangkok, Thailand was analyzed by using hourly concentrations of PM10 and PM2.5 which had been collected from 10 monitoring stations by the Pollution Control Department (PCD) of Thailand from 2006 to 2016. The results showed that most of the stations showed either the decreasing trend or no trend characters. The PM2.5 and PM10 during weekdays and dry season were higher than during weekends and wet season, respectively. The diurnal variations of both PM2.5 and PM10 exhibited multi-peaks characteristic, mostly 2 peaks during a day for PM2.5 and 2 to 3 peaks depending on the locations for PM10. The PM2.5 to PM10 ratio of our residential monitoring stations was 0.61 in average which was in the same range as the PM2.5/PM10 ratio from the roadside monitoring stations. This shows that the common sources of PM2.5 and PM10 at both types of monitoring station were similar, probably mainly from the traffic and transportations. However, it was found that PM2.5/PM10 ratio during wet season was lower than during dry season indicating the role of emission sources and removal process in each season.
Air purifier – individual protection against indoor particulate matter
Authors: Chyc Marek
Published: April 2020

The research work presents the findings of testing air purified using two commercial air purifiers available on the local market. Tests were carried out in the office and bedroom of a residential building. The results obtained show a high (75–93%) yield of air purification from particulate matter. Particulate matters fractions such as: PM1, PM2.5, PM4.0, PM10 and total suspended particulates (TSP) were analysed by means professional dust meter. A very strong correlation of particulate matter (PM) contents were found in individual particle classes during equipment operation. Obtained results approve high efficiency of equipment operation in the total range of measured values. This study is one of the first in the topic of assessing the effectiveness of PM purification, taking into account various dust fractions. This study should be useful for individual customers and for public utilities during purchase decisions.
REQUIREMENTS FOR TRAINING GUIDED BOMBS
Authors: GRAJEWSKI Krzysztof , KOWALECZKO Grzegorz , PIETRASZEK Mariusz , KLEMBA Tomasz
Published: April 2020

Requirements of the modern battlefield enforce the use of precision assets of striking (PAS) including above all the guided bombs. Their high price compels the user for employment of exercise PAS equivalents in the training process. The article presents requirements for modern guided bombs. A general division of airborne bombs was made regarding the purpose, the method of use and the manner of bomb's movement. The specifics of dropping for guided and classic bombs are presented. The basic systems of guidance and control for precision assets of strike are reviewed. The article presents basic technical solutions used in a guided airborne exercise bomb (G-AEB) developed by the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), and compares them with specifications for production and using of newly designed exercise bombs of this family.
SUSCH MUSEUM
Authors: Jasińska Anna , Jasiński Artur
Published: April 2020

Opened in January 2019, the Museum Susch
crowned the collecting efforts of Grażyna Kulczyk, who,
following her failed attempts at establishing a contemporary
art Museum in Poznan and Warsaw, finally found home for
her collection in a small Swiss village located between two
Alps resorts: Sankt Moritz and Davos. The combination of
both spectacular mountainous landscape and the edifices of
an old convent into which the display has been built, as well
as the purposefully created art pieces, contribute to creating
a peculiar atmosphere of the place. Nature, architecture, and
art have all merged into one total work here, namely into
a contemporary Gesamtkunstwerk. Poland is echoed in the
Museum: e.g. the genuine name of the institution: ‘Muzeum
Susch’ is a combination of Polish and German words;
furthermore, the pieces presented in the collection are to
a great extent made up of works by contemporary Polish
artists; wooden walls of the Museum Café are decorated with
prints showing the Zakopane ‘Under Fir Trees’ (Pod Jedlami)
Villa. The question whether Grażyna Kulczyk’s collection has
found its final home here, or whether it is still possible for it to
return to Poland, continues open. The collector herself does
not provide an unambiguous answer to this.
Laser welding of stainless steel
Authors: Kurc-Lisiecka A. , Lisiecki A.
Published: April 2020

Purpose: of this paper was to analyze the influence of the basic parameters of laser
welding (i.e. laser beam power and welding speed, as well as energy input) of butt joints of
the 2.0 mm thick stainless steel AISI 304 sheets on the weld shape and joint quality.
Design/methodology/approach: The preliminary trials of simulated laser welding by
melting the austenitic stainless steel sheets (the so called bead-on-plate welding), as
well as the welding of the test butt joints, were carried out using the high-power diode
laser (HPDL) ROFIN DL 020, without the additional material (the technique of autogenous
welding). A crucial parameter that determines both the mechanical properties and the
corrosive resistance of a joint (the region of a weld and HAZ - heat affected zone) in the
case of stainless steels with austenitic structure is energy input, which should be kept at a
minimum, and at the same time full penetration and a proper shape of the fusion zone should
be ensured. The investigations included the macrostructure and microstructure observations
by light microscopy, researches of mechanical properties in a static tensile test and also
microhardness measurements made by Vickers method.
Findings: The results have shown that it is possible to provide a proper shape of the weld
of fine-grained structure and narrow heat affected zone, but it requires careful selection of
the welding parameters, especially a low energy input. The microhardness measurements
showed that the in case of welding the butt joints using the high-power diode laser in HAZ
area a slight increase in microhardness to approx. 185HV0.2 compared to base material
(160-169HV0.2) and a decrease in microhardness in the fusion zone (FZ) to approx. 140-
150HV0.2 have been observed. All welded sample broke from the joint during the testing at
tensile stress between 585 MPa and 605 MPa with corresponding percentage elongation in
the range of 45-57%. It can be found that the joints strength is not less than the strength of
the base metal of 2.0 mm thick AISI 304 austenitic stainless steel sheet.
Research limitations/implications: Studies of the weldability of stainless steels indicate
that the basic influence on the quality of welded joints and reduction of thermal distortions
has the heat input of welding, moreover the highest quality of welded joints of austenitic
stainless steel sheets are ensured only by laser welding.
Practical implications: The laser welding technology can be directly applied for welding
of austenitic steel AISI 304 sheets 2.0 mm thick.
Originality/value: Application of high power diode laser for welding of austenitic stainless
steel AISI 304.
Ambivalence of Culture in Ghana's Alleged Witches' Camps
Authors: Musah Baba Iddrisu
Published: April 2020

Throughout the world, human rights have grown in prominence over the years. Despite this feat, numerous global events in the past and in recent times, especially those driven by political interests, show that respect for the ideals of human rights are far from being realised in practice. With approaches largely state-centred in nature, these events fundamentally point to a marked gap between human rights norms and practice. What is unfortunately and clearly afforded a low priority or no priority at all in these state-based and politically vested contestations are missing links between international human rights norms and cultural or traditional belief systems and practices. Specifically, this thesis argues that when it comes to beliefs in witchcraft and its practices, there remains a sizeable gap between theory and practice, and this creates the thorny and contentious issue of the unpleasant conflict between international human rights and specific cultural belief systems, practices, norms and values. With a view to analysing the dichotomy between culture and human rights, this dissertation positions, explores and indeed questions beliefs in and practices of witchcraft in Ghana, and particularly Ghana’s alleged witches’ camps, within the framework of international human rights.
Philosophy for Characters
Authors: Olasov Ian ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: April 2020

Public philosophers have tended to think of their audience as the public, or perhaps a public or counterpublic. In my work on the Ask a Philosopher booth, however, it’s been helpful to think of our audience as made up of a handful of characters—types defined by the way in which they engage (or decline to engage) with the booth. I describe the characters I’ve encountered at the booth: orbiters, appreciaters, readers, monologuists, freethinkers, scholars, and peers. By reflecting on these characters and their needs, we can both imagine other forms of public philosophy that might better serve them, and better articulate the values that inhere in public philosophy projects like the Ask a Philosopher booth. I conclude with a brief case for the philosophy of public philosophy.
The Broad Nature and Importance of Public Philosophy
Authors: Collins Brian J. ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: April 2020

Many professional philosophers are hesitant about “public philosophy”—unsure about what it is and how it’s done, and downright pessimistic about whether it is an important and valuable philosophical practice. In response to this hesitancy and in support of public philosophy, I argue that most of these philosophers already find at least one form of public philosophy important and valuable for the discipline and profession: teaching. I offer and defend a broad conception of public philosophy in order support this controversial claim. I continue by briefly offering some reasons to think that public philosophy is of value for society generally (i.e., “the public”), and argue that we, as a profession, need to fully recognize our standing commitment to public-facing philosophical work; and to engage in serious discussion and debate to better examine the various types of public philosophy, clarify the broad range of public-facing activities, and encourage/reward further public work of value.
Liminal Manifestation and the Elusive Nature of Consciousness
Authors: Eshleman Matthew C. ,   ProtoSociology Project
Published: April 2020

This programmatic essay sketches a few reasons for the elusive nature of conscious experience. It proposes that while neither introspection nor phenomenologically refined reflection delivers direct ‘observational’ access to intrinsic features of conscious experience, intrinsic features of consciousness, nonetheless, manifest themselves in our experience in a liminal way. Overall it proceeds in two movements. Negatively, it argues that implicit self-awareness renders any notion of reflective access methodologically superfluous but existentially irresistible. Positively, it argues that ‘reflective’ access to the liminal dimensions of conscious experience should be construed in purely semantic terms, tied to indirect experiential acquaintance. It concludes by suggesting that what goes by the name mental transparency, even its strong versions, does not rule out liminal manifestation: mental transparency is not mental invisibility.
From “Fichte’s Original Insight” to a Moderate Defence of Self-Representationalism
Authors: Frank Manfred ,   ProtoSociology Project
Published: April 2020

Fifty years ago, Dieter Henrich wrote an influential little text on ‘Fichte’s Origi­nal Insight’. Seldom so much food for thought has been put in a nutshell. The essay, bearing such an unremarkable title, delivers a diagnosis of why two hundred years of penetrating thought about the internal structure of subjectivity have ended up so fruitless. Henrich’s point was: Self-consciousness cannot be explained as the result of a higher-order act, bending back upon a first-order one, given that “what reflection finds, must already have been there before” (Novalis). Whereas Henrich’s discovery had some influence in German speaking countries (and was dubbed the ‘Heidelberg School’), it remained nearly unnoticed in the anglophone (and now dominant) philosophical world. This is starting to change, now that a recent view on (self-) consciousness, called ‘self-representationalism’, is beginning to develop and to discover its Heidelbergian roots.
The ‘I think’. What it is all about
Authors: Seel Gerhard ,   ProtoSociology Project
Published: April 2020

Kant distinguishes two kinds of knowledge of one-self: empirical self-knowledge due to inner sense and a priori self-knowledge achieved by transcendental apperception. This conception encounters a host of problems. I try to solve these problems from the perspective of today’s phenomenology and analytical philosophy. I first introduce a new conception of inner sense and time-consciousness and argue that empirical self-knowledge must be based on the category of person, a category Kant did not list in his table of categories. I explain how the schematism of this category works. Then I introduce the a priori notion of the subject which corresponds to Kant’s ‘I think’. However, unlike Kant I hold that the notion of the subject is the notion of a being which has certain a priori capacities. Kant did not see that the term ‘I’ must be conceived of as an indexical. I argue that this indexical refers to both, the subject who does the thinking and the person who is thought. On this basis I give an answer to the question how genuine de-se knowledge is possible. I further defend—against Wittgenstein and others—the use of a private thought language. Finally, I show that what I have developed is—notwithstanding the refutation of important elements of Kant’s theory—still essentially a Kantian approach.
Welfare: Does Thinking Make It So?
Authors: Gronholz Shane ,   Department of Philosophy, Florida State University
Published: April 2020

According to what I call the judgment view about welfare, a subject S’s life is going well for S only if S judges that S’s life is going well for S. This means that a person’s welfare depends, at least in part, on that person’s own judgment about her welfare. According to this view, it is not possible for a person to have a life that is going well for her if she judges that it is not. In this paper, I challenge this view by showing that there can be cases where a person’s life is going well for her even if she does not judge that it is.
A revision of Cissidium Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with seventy seven new species
Authors: Darby Michael
Published: April 2020

This paper examines the described species of Cissidium and adds 77 new ones based on a study of material in the Manchester Museum, UK, the Natural History Museum, London, UK and in the possession of Dr Yoshihiro Sawada, Japan. The new taxa are: Cissidium advena sp. nov., C. amazonicum sp. nov., C. amieuense sp. nov., C. angulatum sp. nov., C. angusi sp. nov., C. apterum sp. nov., C. arcuatum sp. nov., C. aristophanousi sp. nov., C. besucheti sp. nov., C. bifoveolatum sp. nov., C. bilineatum sp. nov., C. bomjesus sp. nov., C. brachypterum sp. nov., C. ceylonicum sp. nov., C. clareae sp. nov., C. cryptophagoides sp. nov., C. davaoense sp. nov., C. deanei sp. nov., C. delicatum sp. nov., C. dewhurst sp. nov., C. dividuum sp. nov., C. dybasi sp. nov., C. eciton sp. nov., C. ecuadoriense sp. nov., C. faustum sp. nov., C. flavum sp. nov., C. franzi sp. nov., C. fraternum sp. nov., C. glabratum sp. nov., C. greensladei sp. nov., C. houailou sp. nov., C. ibicarense sp. nov., C. impressum sp. nov., C. inexspectatum sp. nov., C. insulare sp. nov., C. kolombangaricum sp. nov., C. lamington sp. nov., C. lawrencei sp. nov., C. loebli sp. nov., C. logunovi sp. nov., C. losbanos sp. nov., C. lucidulum sp. nov., C. luctuosum sp. nov., C. mahleri sp. nov., C. mindanao sp. nov., C. misellum sp. nov., C. modestum sp. nov., C. montanum sp. nov., C. murphyi sp. nov., C. mussardi sp. nov., C. noumeae sp. nov., C. obscenum sp. nov., C. obscurum sp. nov., C. obsoletum sp. nov., C. opacum sp. nov., C. orami sp. nov., C. peruviense sp. nov., C. pilosellum sp. nov., C. pinense sp. nov., C. plaumanni sp. nov., C. puncticolle sp. nov., C. riparium sp. nov., C. robustum sp. nov., C. rogeri sp. nov., C. seditiosum sp. nov., C. semicalvum sp. nov., C. similatum sp. nov., C. steeli sp. nov., C. subangulatum sp. nov., C. subfaustum sp. nov., C. sueae sp. nov., C. trangse sp. nov., C. upiense sp. nov., C. visendum sp. nov., C. waginicum sp. nov., C. werneri sp. nov. and C. yoruba sp. nov. The division of the genus is discussed and five species groups are established. The majority of the new species are the first records of Cissidium for the 28 countries represented.
Representações sociais a partir de um grupo de WhatsApp: contrapontos entre sociedade em rede de Castells e vida líquida de Bauman
Authors: Souza Bruno Silvestre Silva de , Martins Daniel Felipe Victor , Fell André Felipe de Albuquerque
Published: April 2020

Este artigo procura evidenciar pressupostos do conceito de Sociedade em Rede levantado por Castells (1999) e Vida Líquida proposto por Bauman (2007), investigado a partir do conceito de Representações Sociais e através de um grupo específico de alimentação saudável em uma Rede Social – WhatsApp. Parte-se do pressuposto que Castells (1999) amplia a ideia de que a sociedade está organizada em rede e vive-se hibridamente em presença física e presença virtual. Para Bauman (2007), a vida líquida dos laços sociais facilmente desfeitos no ciberespaço. Analisadas as Representações Sociais identificadas durante este estudo, foi possível elucidar um entendimento sobre a realidade dos membros do grupo a partir das seguintes categorias: Qualidade de Vida e Prática ou Hábitos Alimentares. Contudo, não subestimando as demais, pode-se dizer que essas Representações Sociais configuram o principal sistema de valores e de práticas de alimentação saudável para o grupo estudado.
Espace et territoire dans l’oeuvre de Ponç Pons. Notes pour une écopoétique
Authors: Güell Mònica
Published: April 2020

À la lumière des précédents théoriques sur l’écopoétique (Tom Pughe, Pierre Schoentjes, Adolf Piquer et Vicent Salvador), on propose ici une lecture écopoétique de l’espace et du territoire dans l’oeuvre du poète de Minorque Ponç Pons. Quelle est la place de la nature et comment le poète représente-t-il, à travers et grâce à la poésie, sa relation à l’île natale ? Quelle est la portée de cette poésie écologique ? Pour répondre à ces questions, on se penchera plus précisément sur l’espace maritime, la maison et la cabane du poète, l’univers marin et salin, le patrimoine naturel menacé, enfin sur la défense de la langue catalane, qui sont autant de points d’ancrage de sa poésie et d’affirmation d’une identité elle aussi menacée.
Estudi geolingüístic del parlar de la Safor
Authors: Giner Monfort Joan
Published: April 2020

Aquest article fa una descripció detallada del parlar de la Safor (sobretot de la fonètica, i el lèxic, també de morfosintaxi i fraseologia) a partir d’entrevistes fetes entre 2008 i 2015 a persones de quasi tots els nuclis urbans de la comarca i dels pobles limítrofs. S’ha realitzat una descripció del parlar comarcal amb els resultats obtinguts. El procés de repoblació siscentista explica la influència baleàrica en aquesta varietat del valencià meridional. Els factors geogràfics han generat zones amb característiques comunes dins la Safor i afavoreixen l’entrada de trets d’altres dialectes (valencià central) o subdialectes (valencià meridional de comarques d’interior) dins els límits comarcals. Aquesta primera aproximació monogràfica al català de la Safor planteja diversos aspectes d’interés, com el ja conegut ensordiment de sibilants sonores a Gandia i en alguns pobles propers, la penetració de trets del valencià central al nord de la comarca o la necessitat de considerar la influència insular també a la Safor, no només a la Marina Alta i Baixa i el Comtat.
Presència i absència del clític locatiu «hi»
Authors: Rigau Gemma
Published: April 2020

L’article se centra en els contextos sintàctics que permeten prescindir del clític locatiu hi i que, fins i tot, a vegades ens porten a prescindir-ne obligatòriament. Ara bé, la presència o absència del pronom no és arbitrària. Presentem un aspecte de la gramàtica dels verbs locatius i de moviment direccional que afecta, d’una banda, la interfície lèxic-sintaxi i, de l’altra, la interfície sintaxi-pragmàtica: la categoria funcional Dixi. Partim d’un enfocament neoconstruccionista segons el qual l’estructura sintàctica aporta determinats aspectes del significat oracional, mentre que altres aspectes provenen dels elements lèxics.
Presentació del monogràfic «Retrat de l’educació multilingüe»
Authors: Portolés Laura , Safont Pilar
Published: April 2020

Presentació del monogràfic «Retrat de l’educació multilingüe», número 68 (Primavera, 2020) de Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia, coordinat per Laura Portolés i Pilar Safont.
La «Llei d’ús i ensenyament del valencià» i la configuració del sistema educatiu plurilingüe valencià
Authors: Baldaquí-Escandell Josep-Maria
Published: April 2020

En aquest article volem fer una aproximació històrica al desplegament de l’educació plurilingüe al País Valencià. En una primera part revisarem alguns fets que ens semblen significatius per explicar la situació del sistema educatiu valencià en relació a l’ensenyament de la llengua abans de l’aprovació de la Llei d’ús i ensenyament del valencià (LUEV). En la segona part, descriurem el desplegament del sistema educatiu valencià a partir de l’aprovació de la LUEV per analitzar com ha anat configurant-se un sistema inicialment bilingüe i, posteriorment plurilingüe, i identificar les fortaleses i debilitats dels diferents programes educatius que s’han aplicat en el marc de la LUEV.
Maria Conca & Josep Guia, «A frec del seu nom: vida, obra i lluita de Xavier Romeu», Lleida, Edicions El Jonc, 2018, 507 p.
Authors: Gregori Alfons
Published: April 2020

Ressenya sobre el llibre de Maria Conca & Josep Guia, A frec del seu nom: vida, obra i lluita de Xavier Romeu, Lleida, Edicions El Jonc, 2018, 507 p., ISBN: 978-84-93-8705-9-1.
Mariàngela Vilallonga, Margarida Casacuberta & Anna Perera Roura (ed.): «La Construcció Literària del Territori: Costa Brava i Empordà», Girona, Institut de Llengua i Cultura Catalanes, 2018, 327 p.
Authors: Mcnerney Kathleen
Published: April 2020

Book review: Mariàngela Vilallonga, Margarida Casacuberta & Anna Perera Roura (ed.): La Construcció Literària del Territori: Costa Brava i Empordà, Girona, Institut de Llengua i Cultura Catalanes, 2018, 327 p., ISBN: 978-84-9984-436-7.
Verònica Zaragoza & Pep Valsalobre (ed.), «Fontanella polièdric: poesia barroca i transmissió», Barcelona, Institut d’Estudis Catalans / Universitat de Girona, 2019, 274 p.
Authors: Mortreux Soley Sara
Published: April 2020

Ressenya sobre el llibre de Verònica Zaragoza & Pep Valsalobre (ed.), Fontanella polièdric: poesia barroca i transmissió, Barcelona, Institut d’Estudis Catalans / Universitat de Girona, 2019, 274 p. ISBN 978-84-9965-440-9 (IEC) - 978-84-8458-537-4 (UdG).
Brauli Montoya, «Aproximació a la història social de la llengua catalana», València, Bromera, 2018, 162 p.
Authors: Rafanell August
Published: April 2020

Ressenya sobre el llibre de Brauli Montoya, Aproximació a la història social de la llengua catalana, València, Bromera, 2018, 162 p., ISBN 978-84-9026-833-9.
La innovación aplicada a la financiación de las empresas de la economía social. El caso de las inversiones de impacto
Authors: Magomedova Nina , Carreras Roig Lluís , Bastida-Vialcanet Ramon
Published: April 2020

La crisis económica y financiera ha provocado una creciente desconfianza en el sistema capitalista. En los años posteriores a la crisis, surgieron diferentes iniciativas de inversores de capitales para dirigir sus inversiones a organizaciones y proyectos que produjeran un impacto social o medioambiental. Estos inversores acostumbran a priorizar la obtención de este impacto a la rentabilidad económica. En la actualidad, el mercado de las inversiones de impacto se ha desarrollado de forma importante en países como Estados Unidos, Reino Unido y Canadá. También en países de la UE como Holanda o Dinamarca. Hemos analizado el caso de la utilización de esta fórmula de financiación en el crecimiento de una empresa con impacto social, dedicada al diseño y a la comunicación. En 2016, la empresa cerró una ronda de financiación a la que acudieron diversos inversores de impacto. El análisis de esta experiencia ha puesto de manifiesto que la alineación de objetivos en torno a la generación de impacto social, fue un factor clave para el entendimiento entre ambos. Sin embargo, la falta de herramientas para medir el impacto social y la cautela de los inversores fueron factores que condicionaron el crecimiento de la empresa. En el presente artículo se explican los detalles de la financiación.