bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
How Popular North American Movie Represents Chinese
Authors: Setiawan Adib Rifqi
Published: November 2020

This article discusses common tropes and depictions of Chinese people and Chinese culture in popular North American Movie. Drawing on examples of homogenizing (East, South East) Asian identities, appropriation of Chinese cultural symbols or practices, Yellow-face as a common practice for playing Asian characters, and both the hyper-masculinization and emasculation of Chinese men, this paper argues that while there is a slow shift in Hollywood to address these issues, the context of anti-Chinese racism is prevalent in the mainstream movie industry.
Going Further: Lebensformen, Politics and Critique
Authors: Lemke Thomas
Published: November 2020

This book contribution starts by stressing the parallels and similarities between Michel Foucault’s work and Rahel Jaeggi’s proposal of a critique of forms of life. It then marks some differences in their projects. I argue that it is necessary to propose a broader and more comprehensive understanding of Lebensform that endorses a weak and fluid concept of humanity—a concept of humanity that is highly dependent on and embedded in non-human nature.
Supporting Australia’s housing system: modelling pandemic policy responses
Authors: Leishman Chris , Ong Rachel , Lester Laurence , Liang Weidong
Published: November 2020

This research considered the economic literature relating to pandemics and modelled a range of related economic outcomes on employment and unemployment by sector and on the housing outcomes of home owners, private renters, and small investor landlords in Australia from late 2020 and through 2021.
Atributos de feminidad en un grupo de mujeres víctimas de violencia
Authors: Bennici Giovanna , Fernandez-Valladares Thayeli A. , Muguerza Mariana
Published: November 2020

This research explores and describes attributes of femininity from a group of women violence victims. For a parallel approach design and non probabilistic sampling of 30 women, it was used MMPI-2 and structured interview. In the analysis it is used statistical of central tendency and variability for the Mf scale, and categories by unit of sense for the interview. The Mf scale was within the normal rank nevertheless was insufficient to measure femininity according to the 17 qualitatively generated categories. The integration of the psychological approaches for the clinical evaluation of this construct is considered important. The revision of the Mf scale of the MMPI-2 is suggested as far as the cultural adjustment to our country.
Weganizacja akademii i nowa humanistyka, czyli o weganizmie w kontekście badań literacko-kulturowych
Authors: Kubisz Marzena
Published: November 2020

Weganizacja akademii i nowa humanistyka, czyli o weganizmie w kontekście badań literacko-kulturowych
Zaproponowane przez autorkę pojęcia „weganizacji akademii” i „wegańskiego zwrotu” odnoszą się do rosnącego zainteresowania badaczy – literaturoznawców, kulturoznawców, filozofów czy też psychologów – weganizmem postrzeganym zarówno jako praktyka jak i filozofia. Artykuł omawia historię tego zainteresowania oraz skupia się na kulminacyjnym momencie w historii naukowej refleksji nad weganizmem wyznaczonym przez publikację przez Laurę Wright The Vegan Studies Project. Food, Animals and Gender in the Age of Terror, monografii, która tworzy fundamenty dla studio nad weganizmem. Artykuł podejmuje próbę określenia specyfiki studiów nad weganizmem w kontekście studiów nad zwierzętami, ekokrytyki i ruchów na rzecz zwierząt oraz miejsca, jakie zajmują na mapie współczesnej humanistyki ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem wprowadzonej przez Ewę Domańską koncepcji humanistyki prefiguratywnej. Widziane w tym ujęciu studia nad weganizmem mogą stać się platformą debaty na temat możliwości stworzenia alternatywnej wizji przyszłości.
Dlaczego kapitalizm ze zwierzęcą twarzą również nie jest dla nas rozwiązaniem? Od antropologii do krytyki ekonomii politycznej. Wokół Ludzkości mięsożernej Florence Burgat
Authors: Krzykawski Michał
Published: November 2020

Niniejszy artykuł wprowadza do polskiego dyskursu najszerzej pojętych „studiów nad zwierzętami” sylwetkę Florence Burgat, fenomenolożki i jednej z czołowych francuskich filozofek zajmujących się życiem zwierzęcym, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem jej ostatniej książki, L’humanité carnivore [Ludzkość mięsożerna] (2017), w której analizuje ona „fakt mięsożerny”. Nie kwestionując wartości odkrytej przez Burgat zasady ekwiwalencji, która mogłaby pozwolić nam na wyjście z uwarunkowanej antropologicznie struktury ofiarniczej, a – dzięki mięsu bezofiarnemu (czystemu mięsu) – niejako obejść nieredukowalny fakt mięsożerny, rozpatruję jednak ów fakt w kontekście technologicznego wymiaru konsumenckiego kapitalizmu. Porzucając perspektywę antropologiczną na rzecz krytyki ekonomii politycznej, usiłuję dowieść że w „owo-lakto-mięsnym nadmiarze” (Burgat) naszych czasów, można upatrywać efektu prototypowej zaburzającej innowacji. Tym samym artykuł można czytać jako próbę uczynienia z życia zwierzęcego przedmiotu krytyki ekonomii politycznej.
Poezja poczłowiecza: Pokarm Suweren Kacpra Bartczaka
Authors: Pietrzak Wit
Published: November 2020

W niniejszym szkicu analizie poddany zostaje najnowszy tom Kacpra Bartczaka pt. Pokarm Suweren, który ukazany jest tu jako radykalna próba wyrażenia podmiotu posthumanistycznego – istniejącego jako figura na granicy języka i ciała.
Violence Hates Games? Revolting (against) Violence in Michael Haneke’s Funny Games U.S.
Authors: Kisiel Michał
Published: November 2020

Violence Hates Games? Revolting (against) Violence 

in Michael Haneke’s Funny Games U.S.

Abstract: This article aims at exploring Haneke’s Funny Games U.S. as a protest against violence employed in the mainstream cinema. Satisfying compensatory needs of the spectators, constructing their identities, and even contributing to the biopolitics of neoliberalism, proliferating bloodthirsty fantasies put scholars in a suspicious position of treating them as either purely aesthetical phenomena or exclusively ethical ones. Haneke’s film seems to resist such a clear-cut binary; what is more, it contributes immensely to the criticism of mainstream cinematic violence. Misleading with its initial setting of a conventional thriller, Haneke employs absurd brutality in order to overload violence itself. The scenes of ruthless tortures are entangled in the ongoing masquerade, during which swapping roles, theatrical gestures, and temporary identities destabilize seemingly fixed positions of perpetrators and their victims, and tamper with the motives behind the carnage. As I would argue, by confronting its spectators with unbearable cruelty devoid of closing catharsis, Funny Games deconstructs their bloodthirsty desire of retaliation and unmasks them as the very reason for the violence on screen. Following, among others, Jean-Luc Nancy and Henry A. Giroux, I would like to demonstrate how Haneke exhausts the norm of acceptable violence to reinstate such a limit anew.
Black Flag under a Grey Sky. Forms of Protest in Current Neo-Confederate Prose and Song
Authors: Starnes John Eric
Published: November 2020

Abstract: While ‘tragic’ protest and protest songs are normally conceived of as originating on the political left of American culture, in recent years protest from the political right, specifically the racist right has flown under the cultural radar of most researchers of American studies. This article strives to explore the ways in which the neo-Confederate movement is currently protesting the state of cultural, political, and social affairs in the contemporary American South. The neo-Confederate movement is one of the oldest forms of ‘conservative’ protest present in the United States, originating out of the defeat of the Confederacy and the civic religion of the ‘Lost Cause’ of the last decades of the 1800s into the first three decades of the 1900s. Since the neo-Confederate movement is both revolutionary and conservative, it is possible to derive some valuable insights into the contemporary reactionary politics of the right by examining a brief sampling of the protest songs, novels and essays of this particular subculture.
Posthumanity and the Prison-House of Gender in Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs
Authors: Göç-Bilgin Murat
Published: November 2020

This article aims to analyze Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs with a deliberate emphasis on posthuman theory, body politics, and gender to construe the transformation of the human body, human-machine nexus, and captivity in inhumanity with a struggle to (re)humanize minds and their bodies. One of the arguments of the paper will be that posthumanism offers a new outlet for breaking the chains of captivity, that is, escaping into non-human to redefine humanity and to emancipate the human mind and human body to notch up a more liberated and more equitable definition of humanity. As gender and sex are further marked by the mechanical and mass-mediated reproduction of human experiences, history, and memory, space and time, postmodern gender theories present a perpetual in-betweenness, transgression and fluidity and the dissolution of grand narratives also resulted in a dissolution of the heteronormative and essentialist uniformity and solidity of the human body. Gender in a posthuman context is characterized by a parallel tendency for reclaiming the possession of the body and sexual identity with a desire to transform the body as a physical entity through plastic surgery, genetic cloning, in vitro fertilization, and computerization of human mind and memory. Therefore, the human body has lost its quality as gendered and sexed and has been imprisoned in an embodiment of infantile innocence and manipulability, a “ghost in the machine,” or a cyborg, a hybrid of machine and organism (Haraway). The human-machine symbiosis, then, is exteriorized and extended into a network of objects switching “natural human body” to an immaterialized, dehumanized, and prosthetic “data made flesh.” In this regard, Coupland’s Microserfs boldly explores the potential of posthuman culture to provide a deconstruction of human subjectivity through an analysis of human and machine interaction and to demonstrate how human beings transgress the captivity of humanity by technologizing their bodies and minds in an attempt to become more human than human.
“Where Butchers Sing Like Angels,” Of Captive Bodies and Colonized Minds (With a Little Help from Louise Erdrich)
Authors: Poks Małgorzata
Published: November 2020

The Master Butchers Signing Club – Louise Erdrich’s “countehistory” (Natalie Eppelsheimer) of the declared and undeclared wars of Western patriarchy–depicts a world where butchering, when done with precision and expertise, approximates art. Fidelis Waldvogel, whose name means literally Faithful Forestbird, is a sensitive German boy turned the first-rate sniper in the First World War and master butcher in his adult life in America. When Fidelis revisits his homeland after the slaughter of World War II, Delphine, his second wife, has a vision of smoke and ashes bursting out of the mouths of the master butchers singing onstage in a masterful harmony of voices. Why it is only Delphine, an outsider in the Western world, that can see the crematorium-like reality overimposed on the bucolic scenery of a small German town? Drawing on decolonial and Critical Animal Studies, this article tries to demystify some of the norms and normativities we live by.
RIAS Editorial Policy / Stylesheet
Authors: Editors RIAS
Published: November 2020

Information concerning the RIAS policy and formatting instructions for potential contributors to the journal.
Trend of Non-performing Assets (NPAS) of Indian Commercial Banks-An Analysis
Authors:   Dept. of Commerce, Govt. Arts College (Autonomous), (Affiliated to Periyar University) Salem, Tami Nadu, South India., Ibrahim M Syed
Published: November 2020

Banking and financial institutions play a pivotal role in the development of an economy especially in the mobilization and allocation of resources. The sound financial position of a bank is the guarantee not only to its depositors but equally important for the whole economy of any country. Stability of banking sector is considered to be an essential aspect of any country in the world. The banks are lending funds as loans and advances to various sectors such as agriculture, industry, personal and housing and other to meet the productive use of these funds. In recent situations, the banks are facing the problems of Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) and the banks need to be very cautious in extending loans to the needy people, the reason being mounting of NPAs. Now -a –days Non-Performing Assets has been the single largest cause of nuisance of the Indian banking sector. Non-Performing Assets are those assets on which the interest or principal have not been paid by the borrower for the specified period in accordance with the directions/guidelines issued by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) which is the Central Bank of India. The paper emphasizes the conceptual framework of Non-Performing Assets known as NPA in the banking sector. It further discusses and analyses the trend of NPAs in the three sectors of banks namely public sector banks, new private sectors banks and foreign banks for the preceding period of ten years (2007-08 to 2016-17). Finally, this study covers the measures to be taken to reduce the menace of NPA in banks. Keywords: Non-Performing Assets, Scheduled Commercial Banks, Advances, Gross NPA, Net NPA.
Starting Points to Comprehensive Treatment of Social Responsibility
Authors:   College for Accountancy and Finance, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Bergant Zivko
Published: November 2020

The author presents the possibilities and approaches for comprehensive consideration of social responsibility as one of the most important orientations of people and organizations within building economic democracy. The starting point is the law of value added. Definitions of some concepts in relation to social responsibility are proposed, such as elements, dimensions, fields, types, forms, principles, and aspects. The author emphasizes value added as the most important approach and the need for its further promotion. Keywords: Social responsibility, Added value, Stakeholders, Taxonomy of social responsibility.
Analysis of the Influence of Cartoon Mobile Game Features on Consumers' Usage Intention the Mediating Effect of Perceived Entertainment
Authors:   School of International Business, Jinan University, Ningning Kou , Wenfeng Wang ,   School of International Business, Jinan University., Xingjun Huang ,   School of International Business, Jinan University.
Published: November 2020

In 2018, the number of anime mobile game users continued to grow. Previous scholars mainly focused on the research of the animation mobile game industry, such as the role simulation of products, interaction methods, etc., lacking research on the factors affecting consumer behavior and the mechanism of action. Based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), this paper constructs a theoretical model that affects the intentions of consumers' anime mobile games through product characteristics, experience characteristics and perceived entertainment. The data was obtained through online online questionnaire survey and regression analysis. The empirical results show that the product characteristics and experience characteristics of anime mobile games significantly affect consumers' intentions, and Perceived entertainment plays a mediating role. This paper summarizes and enriches the research of the emerging field of animation mobile games, and further provides commercial advice for the animation mobile game company in terms of audience positioning and market feedback. Keywords: Anime mobile game, Perceived entertainment, Usage intention, TAM.
Toward an Integrated Segment Reporting: Between Tradition and Innovation
Authors:   Department DIGIES/ University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy., Nicolò Domenico , Baldarelli Maria Gabriella ,   Department DISA/ University of Bologna, Italy
Published: November 2020

This paper aims to focus on the contribution of the approach by segments to planning and reporting social and environmental performance along with economic and financial dimensions. After the review of the literature about stakeholder’s theory and segment reporting, the paper analyse the logic underlying the technique of segmentation in the "space" and in the "time" for corporate reporting in theory and in practice. Keywords: Environmental reporting, Integrated reporting, Social reporting, Segment reporting, Social segment reporting, Sustainability reporting.
Perubahan Sosial Masyarakat di Jazirah Arab: Transformasi Kultural Ashabiyah dalam Menunjang Kekuasaan Nabi Muhammad
Authors: Hana Muhamad Yusrul
Published: November 2020

Ashabiyah has become one of the important social systems for people in the Arabian Peninsula before the Prophet Muhammad introducing Islam to Mecca. Ashabiyah brought the tribes into one strong unity in Arab, though it turned out this system often leads to egoism and aggression of each group, which caused dispute and war. The Prophet Muhammad then used this system to unify the people of the desert and the people within the country once again with a new purpose, which is Islam, after Islam came into Arabic. The primary purpose of the ashabiyah system was unification and sovereignty for all the people, and it costs the system to have a guideline of religious values. So, based on the values every act made by the tribe will lead to right action as well. This research wants to explain how did Ashabiyah take a role in all peoples of Arabia and be a succession of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in the spread of Islam. The method that is used in this study is that historical research contains heuristic, criticism, interpretation, and historiography. The results of the study showed that the ashabiyah based on Islam became a strong system in building the progress of the ummah because, without social solidarity, unity, and help, the ideals of sovereignty could not be realized.
Manajemen Pembelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam Berbasis Inklusi bagi Anak Disabilitas di Kota Makassar
Authors: Fasa Rd. Zaky Miftahul
Published: November 2020

Inclusive education, especially in the Islamic education (PAI) subject, is a guaranteed concept for citizens to get their right for education without exception. This study aims to determine how inclusion-based PAI learning management for children with disabilities in Makassar City uses qualitative methods and uses observation, interview and documentation study techniques. There are four findings in this study, namely: (1) learning planning has been prepared by Islamic Education teachers based on the curriculum of 2013 and adapted to the characteristics of the child and documented in the form of a syllabus and learning implementation plan, (2) the implementation of PAI teaching and learning activities are implemented with a strategy diverse learning; selecting and using varied learning methods; as well as the use of learning media, (3) evaluation of Islamic Education learning outcomes for children with disabilities is carried out by using test and non-test techniques, (4) there are obstacles in learning Islamic Education with children with disabilities, namely the competence of Islamic Education teachers in presenting the learning process, supporting facilities and the lack of handbooks (textbooks) for PAI for children with disabilities so that Islamic education learning is not optimal.
Vernakularisasi Al-Qur’an di Tanah Bugis: Tinjauan Metodologis Terjemahan Al-Qur’an Karya Anregurutta Muh. Yunus Maratan
Authors: Salim Mursalim Mur , Abbas Abbas
Published: November 2020

This article aims to reveal the vernacular activities of the Koran in the South Sulawesi region through the work of Bugis scholars. The focus of this study is specifically on the work of Tafsir al-Qur'an Al-Karim bi al-Lugah al-Bugisiyah written by AG. Yunus Maratan by testing his methodology and dialectics within the framework of Bugis culture. By using a descriptive-analytic approach, this article shows the findings that this work is an attempt to bridge the al-Qur'an as an Arabic text with ordinary Bugis people who do not understand the original language of the Qur’an (Arabic), so that Al-Qur'an. Methodologically, the work is not a literary interpretation like mainstream tafsir literatures, but only as a translation work of the Koran that combines tarjamah lafziyah and tafsiriyah. This phenomenon also proves that the history of the spread of Islamic da'wah in the archipelago, especially in South Sulawesi, is very flexible by involving various local elements as a medium for preaching, including the vernacular of al-Qur'an. That is why the works of Bugis clerics and the cultural context of the community are intertwined in forming a local Islamic culture.
Macroeconomic Aspects of Strategy for Rural Spatial Development Management in Russia
Authors:   Federal Scientific Center of Agrarian Economy and Social Development of Rural Areas – VNIIESkH, Zhukov N.I. , Korneva N.A. ,   Federal Scientific Center of Agrarian Economy and Social Development of Rural Areas – VNIIESkH
Published: November 2020

The article discusses and reveals the problems of strategic management of spatial development in the agricultural sector of the Russian economy at the macro-economic level, which include both territorial location and specialization of production, and exogenous mechanisms of functioning of the rural economy, which collectively concludes the concept of “rural development”. The approaches of representatives of the scientific community to the characterization of the essence of the category – “strategic management” as a long-term action program are presented. In the agricultural sector, it has different directions of impact due to spatial heterogeneity, which is manifested in the territorial differentiation of production (rental) opportunities for agricultural production in different administrative-territorial units of the corresponding hierarchical scale. This is aggravated by a non-adaptive agrarian macroeconomic policy, market imperfections, fetishization of private, especially land ownership, as well as unjustified absolutization of the advantages of large forms of agricultural production. The overstated role of foreign capital in agriculture, food and processing industries creates significant social, economic and environmental risks. In the agricultural and food sector of country’s economy, including the location and specialization of agricultural production, it is necessary to develop and adopt at the Federal level legislative acts that would encourage the integration of producers, processors, service enterprises, trade and credit and financial organizations, and consumer unions in the regions. To do this, it is necessary to develop a new, science-based paradigm of strategic management of rural development, regional distribution and specialization of agricultural production based on an objective assessment of modern productive forces, which are limited by the framework of private property and unregulated market relations, with a critical approach to large-scale forms of agricultural production.
Implementation of Agricultural Policy in 2019: Results and Overcoming Challenges in the New Environment of Development
Authors:   All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Kolonchin K.V. , Seregin S.N. ,   Federal Scientific Center for Food Systems named after V.M.Gorbatov, Sysoev G.V. ,   Nizhniy Novgorod State University named after N.I. Lobachevskiy
Published: November 2020

The implementation of state programs for the development of agro-industrial and fisheries complexes with the provision of state support to organizations ensured the achievement of the criteria for food security in Russia. At the same time, further growth in production, export development and competitiveness can only be achieved if the existing gaps in various industries are eliminated, provided that the enterprises that make up the industrial core of agricultural and fishing production are developed on a new technical and technological basis. In order to further develop the production of new types of healthy food products, the state must take measures to reduce poverty in order to expand the total demand for food products in the country.
Financial and Economic Mechanism for the Development of Agricultural Exports
Authors:   Federal Scientific Center of Agrarian Economy and Social Development of Rural Areas – VNIIESkH, Maslova V.V.
Published: November 2020

The article deals with the development of exports of domestic food products and agricultural raw materials, analyzes the state of export-import operations in the agri-food market, and examines the impact of the pandemic on the development of foreign trade. Much attention is paid to the formation of export infrastructure based on an integrated approach, taking into account not only transport and logistics aspects, but also information, as well as the creation of a stimulating financial and economic mechanism for the development of agricultural exports. The financial and economic mechanism for export development should ensure a comfortable business environment, availability of financial services and capital in the implementation of export activities and production of export-oriented products. In Russia, it is formed by a set of subsystems (credit, insurance, state support, guarantee system, etc.). The main tool for developing the export of agricultural products has become state support, which is provided in many directions, starting with the formation of the institutional environment and specific institutions and ending with support for export lending, insurance, and guarantee support.
Tools for Protecting Agri-Food Markets in Trade Unions
Authors:   Federal Scientific Center of Agrarian Economy and Social Development of Rural Areas – VIAPI, branch of VNIIESkH, Frolova E.Yu.
Published: November 2020

Regulation of international trade relations is an essential part of international policy. The article provides a classification and describes the features of the main trade and economic unions of countries, analyzes measures and tools for organizing international trade and protecting domestic agri-food markets of countries that are members of these unions, and also reveals the principles on which their work is based. We consider the effect of certain regulatory measures for countries where food exports or imports play a significant role in their economy. Examples are given of situations in which countries or unions decide to use certain tools. The example of the Russian Federation shows how the use of tools for regulating foreign trade operations affects the domestic market and describes the obstacles that Russian food exporters may face when entering international markets.
Formation of Conceptual Approaches for Sustainable Ecological and Economic Development of Agroecosystems
Authors:   Kabardino-Balkaria State Agrarian University named after V.M. Kokov, Khalishkhova L.Z. , Temrokova A. Kh. ,   Kabardino-Balkaria State Agrarian University named after V.M. Kokov, Guchapsheva I.R. ,   Kabardino-Balkaria State Agrarian University named after V.M. Kokov
Published: November 2020

Ensuring the sustainable development of agroecosystems requires research on the problems and antinomies of interaction between territorial production systems and agroecosystems, which will allow us to formulate conceptual provisions for sustainable ecological and economic development of agricultural territories. This goal makes it necessary to solve problems related to the study of the paradigm of interaction between natural and social systems, with a theoretical assessment of existing approaches to the concept of “sustainable development”, as well as the possibilities of co-evolution of society and nature. The article reveals the provisions related to the imperative of preserving the natural potential. A number of provisions are formulated regarding the conceptual foundations of sustainable ecological and economic development of agroecosystems.
Current State and Trends in the Development of Small Forms of Business in the Agricultural Economy
Authors:   Michurinsk State Agrarian University, Minakov I.A.
Published: November 2020

The article analyzes the current state and trends in the development of small forms of business in the agricultural economy, their features. The ways and sizes of state support for these forms of business, its impact on their development are considered. The main directions of development of small enterprises, peasant (farmer) farms and individual entrepreneurs, households of the population are substantiated.
Model for Predicting the Need for Employees in Agricultural Organizations (on the Example of the Nizhny Novgorod Region)
Authors:   Nizhniy Novgorod State Agricultural Academy, Serov A.A. , Ozeryanik M.E. ,   Nizhniy Novgorod State Agricultural Academy, Kistanova L.A. ,   Nizhniy Novgorod State Agricultural Academy, Navdaeva S.N. ,   Nizhniy Novgorod State Agricultural Academy
Published: November 2020

The development of agricultural production is largely determined by the availability of agricultural organizations with labor resources. To ensure a certain volume of production, it is necessary to clearly know the need for resources, including labor. In this regard, there is an urgent need to develop a model for predicting the need for labor resources, taking into account regional characteristics. The article deals with the problem of forecasting labor resources for agricultural production in the region. On the example of the Nizhny Novgorod region, the forecast of the need for labor resources is made using the Cobb-Douglas production function, taking into account a correction factor that takes into account the influence of economic and social factors.
The Utility of a Personalised Risk Calculator in Gynae-Oncology Surgery
Authors: Jones Sadie , Murray Inés , Lim Kenneth , Howells Robert , Jones Rhidian , Sharma Aarti , Jones Sadie
Published: November 2020

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the ability of the American College of Surgeons (ACS)
NSQIP surgical risk calculator to accurately identify patients at increased risk of perioperative complication
following surgery for gynaecological malignancy.
Methods: A retrospective review of 142 patients who underwent major surgery under the gynae-oncology
team between 06/08/2018-16/04/2019 at the University Hospital of Wales. Pre-operative factors combined
with a procedure-specific code generated the predicted risk of 13 post-operative complications for each
patient. Brier scores assessed calibration and receiver operated curves (AUC) evaluated the discriminative
power of NSQIP.
Results: Complications were experienced by 50/142 (35.2%) patients. The calculator displayed adequate
calibration when used to predict serious complications (Brier = 0.070), readmission (Brier = 0.058), return
to OR (Brier = 0.000) and UTI (Brier = 0.001). It had the greatest discriminative power when predicting the
risk of serious complications (AUC = 0.672; 95% CI, 0.481-0.863). The calculator successfully identified a
majority of patients who had a complication as being of ‘above average risk’ for all complications, apart
from return to OR, based on their pre-operative factors.
Discussion: NSQIP has previously been demonstrated to be a useful pre-operative tool for evaluating the
risk of post-operative complications in colorectal surgery. This study suggests that in the setting of gynaeoncology surgery the calculator does not have adequate discriminative power to be an absolute predictor of
all complications, however, it may be useful in identifying patients who are likely to develop serious
complications and those at above average risk of complications.
FATORES DE GERAÇÃO DE INOVAÇÃO EM MICRO E PEQUENAS EMPRESAS FAMILIARES: ANÁLISE NO CONTEXTO DE UM MUNÍCIPIO DE PEQUENO PORTE DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL
Authors: Kaspary Tainara , Grzybovski Denize , Goettems Talita Bernardi , Santos Nadiesca Manica dos
Published: November 2020

O objetivo do artigo é verificar, nas micro e pequenas empresas familiares (MPEFs), os fatores promotores de inovação considerando as questões de contexto econômico, de segmento e de cultura do lugar como influenciadores da gestão. Trata-se de uma pesquisa social aplicada, do tipo levantamento, cujo espaço da pesquisa foi determinada pela perspectiva do território. Os dados foram submetidos à análise estatística. Os resultados demonstraram que MPEFs geram inovação incremental com base em processos informais, por meio da visão empreendedora dos seus gestores, e confirmaram os fatores de natureza econômica como os principais obstáculos para gerar inovação. Ainda, os dados indicam que a necessidade é o principal fator de geração de inovação pelas MPEFs. Conclui-se que o tipo de inovação gerada pelas MPEFs é incremental e demonstram dificuldade na geração de inovação disruptiva em razão da ordem econômica percebida. O estudo apresenta uma contribuição prática no desenho de políticas públicas no campo da inovação com foco nas micro e pequenas empresas. Ainda, para pesquisas futuras, sugere-se aprofundar os estudos utilizando os fundamentos teóricos da capacidade absortiva para refletir sobre o papel do empreendedor na geração da inovação.
Ad Fontes Digitales!?
Authors: Willershausen Andreas
Published: December 2020

The publication of the first German-language digital history textbook, mBook: History for the Future (mBook: Geschichte für die Zukunft, Cornelsen Verlag, 2016), drew much critical attention. In 2018, the mBook was awarded the prize for best textbook in the “society” category by the Georg Eckert Institute for its focus on improving learner competence. This article begins by assessing the mBook’s gradation feature (which allows for the linguistic gradation of sophisticated textual sources on several learning levels) and the textbook authors’ aspiration to convey methodological competence and foster understanding of unfamiliar topics (Fremdverstehen), with the help of work on documents, and an understanding of historical times far removed from our own. It quantitatively and descriptively assesses textual documents in the chapters about the Middle Ages, while focusing on their textual preparation and digital implementation.
INFLUÊNCIA DA TEMPERATURA DE SECAGEM NAS CARACTERÍSTICAS FÍSICO-QUÍMICAS E NUTRICIONAIS DO BAGAÇO DE CERVEJA
Authors: Lisangela Bagatini , Gabriela Diersmann Azevedo , Voltaire Sant’ Anna
Published: November 2020

O bagaço de malte, considerado o maior resíduo sólido cervejeiro é conhecido por conter ricos componentes que permanecem inexplorados durante o processamento. Tendo em vista seu alto teor de umidade, este estudo avaliou os efeitos da secagem sobre características tecnológicas e nutricionais importantes para a indústria alimentícia. Avaliou-se a influência do processo de secagem por convecção natural, entre 60 e 100 ºC, na concentração de polifenóis totais, flavonóis, ésteres tartáricos, compostos com atividade antioxidante, pH, cor e capacidade de retenção de água e óleo do bagaço de malte proveniente do processo de produção da cerveja Pilsen. Amostras liofilizadas foram usadas para comparação. Amostras secas à 60 °C e 80 ºC apresentaram maior concentração de polifenóis totais, flavonóis, ácidos fenólicos e compostos com capacidade de eliminar radicais livres. O pH encontrado variou entre 5,0 e 5,6. Nenhuma das temperaturas empregadas impactaram em alteração significativa no parâmetro de cor em relação às amostras liofilizadas. A capacidade de retenção de água do bagaço de malte seco foi maior que a de óleo. Os resultados indicam que sua secagem a 80 ºC é a melhor alternativa por manter características funcionais do resíduo e apresentar maior eficiência do processo em termos de tempo.
DESENVOLVIMENTO E AVALIAÇÃO QUALITATIVA DE SORVETE SIMBIÓTICO COM SORO DO LEITE E EXTRATO DE SOJA
Authors: Layane Rosa da Silva , Antonio Alef Pereira de Oliveira , Aliou Toro Lafia , José Douglas Bernardino Domingos , Fabiana Augusta Santiago Beltrão
Published: November 2020

O consumidor entende que alimentação saudável envolve a escolha de alimentos que, ao mesmo tempo, são capazes de fornecer os nutrientes necessários ao organismo e minimizar o risco de doenças. Portanto oobjetivo desse estudo foi desenvolverum sorvete simbiótico com soro do leite e extrato de soja,e realizar a caracterização físico-química.Assim, com o objetivo de atender as expectativas dos consumidores em consumir um alimento funcional e nutritivo. O sorvete desenvolvidoe analisadofoi adicionado uma concentração de 10% de soro do leite e 10%, 15% e 20% de extrato de soja.As análises físico-químicas realizadas seguiram a metodologia proposta pelo Instituto Adolfo Lutz, a saber: determinação de sólidos solúveis totais, lactose, determinação da acidez com resultados expressos em g de ácido lático por cento, e determinação de gordurapor Soxhlet.Os resultados mostraram valores diferentes para os diferentes tratamentos com exceção do teor de sólidos solúveis (°Brix), que correspondem a 1,20 em todos os tratamentos.Com relação aos resultados de gordura a formulação 3, corresponde ao maior percentual com 52, 33%. Os alimentos adicionados de microrganismos probióticos estão sendocada vez maisconsumidos, principalmente devido aos efeitos benéficos atribuídos a esses microrganismos. Pesquisas já feitas, informam que a administração de ingredientes probióticos e prebióticos na alimentação resultam em efeitos benéficos à saúde do consumidor. O sorvete, é uma opção promissora para o desenvolvimento do produto funcional proposto. Os resultados deste trabalho podem contribuir para o desenvolvimento de novos produtos para a indústria alimentícia.
INCLUSÃO DE FARINHA DE PEIXES DE DIFERENTES ESPÉCIES EM MASSA DE ESFIRRA ABERTA
Authors: Melina Franco Coradini , Natalia Cavicchioli , Ana Paula Sartório Chambo , Graciela Lucca Braccini , Maria Luiza Rodrigues Souza
Published: November 2020

O objetivo foi elaborar esfirra aberta com a inclusão de farinha de peixe de diferentes espécies, para avaliar a composição química, microbiológica e sensorial. Para farinha de peixe, foram utilizadas carcaças de tilápia do Nilo, salmão, atum e sardinha. As carcaças de salmão, atum e sardinha foram submetidas ao cozimento. As carcaças de tilápia foram submetidas à salmouragem com extrato de alecrim defumados. Posteriormente todas as matérias primas foram prensadas, moídas, desidratadas, moídas novamente e embaladas a vácuo. Foram elaboradas quatro massas de esfirra com inclusão de 10% de farinha aromatizada de peixe (Tratamento1= controle –tilápia –FT; tratamento 2= Tilápia+Salmão –FTS; tratamento 3= tilápia+atum –FTA; tratamento 4= tilápia+sardinha -FTSA). A mistura foi de 80% farinha de tilápia e 10% da farinha das demais espécies. A inclusão de farinhas de espécies marinhas (atum, salmão e sardinha) na de tilápia aromatizada não apresentaram diferença no teor de umidade e cinzas, mas proporcionou um enriquecimento proteico e aumento no valor calórico das esfirras aberta prontas para consumo, e os teores de carboidratos foram reduzidos. As esfirras abertas prontas com a inclusão de FT e FTS foram melhores aceitas pelos provadores com maior intenção de compra destesprodutos em relação aos demais.
PESQUISA DE MERCADO E AVALIAÇÃO SENSORIAL DE SORVETE DE POLPA DE JACA LIOFILIZADA
Authors: Guilherme Miiller Pereira , Henry Charles Albert David Naidoo Terroso de Mendonça Brandão , William Arthur Philip Louis NaidooTerroso de Mendonça Brandão , Saraspathy Naidoo Terroso Gama de Mendonça
Published: November 2020

A produção de jaca no Brasil, ocorre nos meses de janeiro a abril, necessitando de tecnologias que preservem o fruto para consumo. A utilização do método de liofilização, conhecido como processo de secagem, oferece produtos de elevada qualidade. Este estudo almejou desenvolver um sorvete com a polpa de jaca liofilizada e avaliar a sua qualidade microbiológica, e sensorial, após a aplicação de uma pesquisa de mercado, abrangendo 120 participantes. Observou-se que 38,3% dos entrevistados consomem leite uma vez ao dia, 5,8% tem o hábito de consumir leite mais de três vezes ao dia e 15% não tem o hábito de consumo. Quanto ao consumo de frutas frescas, notou-se que somente 22,5% consomem três vezes ao dia. Notou-se que o consumidor de frutas desidratadas ainda é restrito, pois 65,8% dos entrevistados afirmaram não ter o hábito de consumir frutas desidratadas, sendo um ponto positivo e motivador para a elaboração de gelados comestíveis com adição da polpa de jaca liofilizada. Observou-se que a formulação F2 (7,40% de polpa de jaca liofilizada), apresentou intensidade para o sabor e aroma, cor, cremosidade, e doçura na “medida certa”, indicando que esta quantidade de polpa de jaca liofilizada adicionada no sorvete, atendeu às expectativas dos consumidores.
SNI Model for Sustainable Black Women Owned Cooperatives
Authors: Costa King , Ntwane Johlene
Published: November 2020

This study focussed on developing a strategy framework for sustainable business undertaking by black women owned cooperatives in the Northern Cape district of Francis Baard. Black women owned cooperatives face a number of notable impediments that obstruct sustainable and successful business development and management. Some of the contributors to the current state of affairs could be attributable to lack of effective strategy focussed on cooperatives in general and black owned women cooperatives in particular. A number of studies have been published on the plight and status of cooperatives in South Africa and beyond, with clearly focussed recommendation emanating from empirical findings. This study, being aware of vast repository of literature on the phenomena and using the Population, Intervention, Comparator and Outcome (PICO) method, sought to answer the question, “how to develop a strategy framework for black women owned cooperatives to run sustainable businesses. A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis, a method within the Systematic Reviews approach was adopted as suitable orientation for answering the research question. A systematic review, also known as research on research (RoR) provides evidence based solution hinged upon primary research conducted by many different authors on the same context or situation. Using a Preferred Reporting items for systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA), A total of 400 articles were retrieved from varied databases such as Ebsco-host, Google Scholar, Z-Library and Web of Science. Through a rigorous critical appraisal of these articles, 100 articles were finally included in the study as subject of analysis. Thematic analysis using the webQDA software produced thematic expressions that were finally treated to develop a theory/framework as per main research objective. The outcome of this qualitative evidence synthesis culminated in a formulation of the SNI Framework for Sustainable Black Women Owned Cooperatives.
Instilling value-significance in landownership in the Northern Cape Province
Authors: Parker Gail Denise , Costa King
Published: November 2020

INSTILLING VALUE-SIGNIFICANCE IN LAND OWNERSHIP IN THE NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCEKing Costa and Gail Denise Parker Affiliation: Global Centre for Academic ResearchABSTRACTThe concept of value-significance in landownership has been viewed from only one dimension – the economic dimension. This study focused on the intrinsic dimension, sometimes theoretically called “place attachment” to determine how this component could be infused in land reform support and maintenance programmes directed towards beneficiaries of the land redistribution programme in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The current state of post-land redistribution programme is characterized with a plethora of problems that lead to discouraged beneficiaries, unproductive land use and ultimate land degradation. In view of the above, this study sought to answer the question, “How to instill value-significance in land ownership to beneficiaries of the land redistribution programme in the Northern Cape Province”.An interpretivist phenomenological approach was selected a method of inquiry, purposively selecting study participants from different cohorts of the land redistribution programme between the period 1994 to 2018. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to obtain in-depth insights, seeking to describe the lived experiences of the land redistribution programme. Aligned with ethical standards, interviews were conducted and recorded on an audio recording device, with the permission of participants. Recorded data was transcribed and analyzed using both thematic analysis benchmarked to the COSTA QDA Technique and the webQDA software. Findings of the study culminated into four thematic expressions as follows: (1) Land redistribution programme needs to be underpinned by a structured maintenance programme; (2) Land redistribution programme transformed lives of beneficiaries; (3) Beneficiaries of land redistribution programme aspire full ownership of the land for productive use; and (4) A framework for instilling value-significance in land ownership could enhance the maintenance of the land redistribution programme. Through a rigorous synthesis of these thematic expressions, a final outcome of this study culminated in a development of the INSTIL Framework for instilling value-significance in land ownership.Key words: identity, instil, land ownership, land reform, place attachment, value-significance
Efectividad de un programa en habilidades para la vida en un hospital psiquiátrico de San Juan de Pasto
Authors: Rengifo-Rengifo Laurin , Guerrero-Revelo Guiseth Alejandra , Burbano-Narváez Karen Vanessa , Ordoñez-Hoyos Diana Camila , Ordoñez-Hoyos Diana Camila , Mera-Jaramillo Diego Alejandro
Published: November 2020

La investigación tuvo como objetivo, el diseño de un programa de habilidades para la vida en un hospital psiquiátrico de San Juan de Pasto, estructurado a partir de la aplicación del Test HPV desarrollado por Díaz, Rosero, Melo y Aponte en un grupo de pacientes con tratamiento intramural, teniendo en cuenta los resultados obtenidos. Se evidenció puntajes bajos en relaciones interpersonales, manejo de sentimientos y emociones, pensamiento crítico y resolución de problemas y conflictos, los cuales se consideró en la formulación de once sesiones que resultaron a partir de la aplicación del pretest y postest, con un nivel de significancia de más del 90 %, según la T de Student y Wilcoxon.
Feria Empresarial: una estrategia didáctica para fortalecer la cultura del emprendimiento
Authors: Muñoz-Realpe Martha Inés , Valverde-Riascos Yanet del Socorro
Published: November 2020

La investigación buscó fortalecer la cultura del emprendimiento en los estudiantes de secundaria de la Institución Educativa de Bachillerato de La Cruz, Nariño. El origen de esta idea se dio en el campo empresarial por parte de la comunidad educativa, en aras de que esta área de obligatoriedad, fuera una fuente de progreso que genere acciones orientadas al mejoramiento personal y a la transformación del entorno regional. El diseño metodológico se suscribió en el paradigma cualitativo, que utiliza esencialmente técnicas basadas en el análisis del lenguaje y en la interpretación de resultados con carácter descriptivo-interpretativo, con el propósito de alcanzar soluciones al problema práctico relacionado con el diseño y la formulación de orientaciones pedagógicas que contribuyan con los lineamientos del Proyecto Educativo Institucional. De esta manera, se asume la feria empresarial, como una estrategia didáctica ligada a la generación de sentido de pertenencia y creatividad.