bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Cooperation and knowledge challenges in realizing smart homes: The case of small installer businesses
Authors: Keijzer-Broers Wally , de Reuver Mark
Published: September 2016

Despite technological advances, smart home concepts are not receiving widespread adoption. Small businesses that install and maintain heating, security and energy-saving systems could play a major role in bringing advanced technologies to home owners. However, the role of such small installer businesses in the smart living industry is generally overlooked in practice as well as academic literature. This paper studies challenges small installer businesses face when offering smart home and smart living services. A survey, as well as in-depth interviews, are conducted. A main pattern across the findings is that small installers, despite their potential role, are reluctant to be involved in the smart living industry. Lack of knowledge and entrepreneurial skills, limited sharing of knowledge and lack of cooperation hinder small installer businesses to offer smart living services.
Knock criteria for aviation diesel engines
Authors: Meininger Rik D , Kweon Chol-Bum M , Szedlmayer Michael T , Dang Khanh Q , Jackson Newman B , Lindsey Christopher A , Gibson Joseph A , Armstrong Ross H
Published: September 2016

The objective of this study was to develop knock criteria for aviation diesel engines that have experienced a number of malfunctions during flight and ground operation. Aviation diesel engines have been vulnerable to knock because they use cylinder wall coating on the aluminum engine block, instead of using steel liners. This has been a trade-off between reliability and lightweighting. An in-line four-cylinder four-stroke direct-injection high-speed turbocharged aviation diesel engine was tested to characterize its combustion at various ground and flight conditions for several specially formulated Jet A fuels. The main fuel property chosen for this study was cetane number, as it significantly impacts the combustion of the aviation diesel engines. The other fuel properties were maintained within the MIL-DTL-83133 specification. The results showed that lower cetane number fuels showed more knock tendency than higher cetane number fuels for the tested aviation diesel engine. In this study, maximum pressure rise rate, or Rmax, was used as a parameter to define knock criteria for aviation diesel engines. Rmax values larger than 1500 kPa/cad require correction to avoid potential mechanical and thermal stresses on the cylinder wall coating. The finite element analysis model using the experimental data showed similarly high mechanical and thermal stresses on the cylinder wall coating. The developed diesel knock criteria are recommended as one of the ways to prevent hard knock for engine developers to consider when they design or calibrate aviation diesel engines.
The emergence of quality assessment in Brazilian basic education
Authors: Kauko Jaakko , Centeno Vera Gorodski , Candido Helena , Shiroma Eneida , Klutas Anni
Published: September 2016

The focus in this article is on Brazilian education policy, specifically quality assurance and evaluation. The starting point is that quality, measured by means of large-scale assessments, is one of the key discursive justifications for educational change. The article addresses the questions of how quality evaluation became a significant feature of Brazilian education, and how international organisations are related to this. The notion of measurement emerged at the beginning of the 20th century among an active educational community, strongly inspired by US educational thinking and supported by instrumental educational cooperation with US agencies and universities. Large-scale assessment became more and more popular in the 1960s–1980s, mainly within this setting. Educational indicators have been under development since the 1990s, alongside the education-related programmes of international organisations. Drawing on earlier research and documents, the article analyses historical and political influences from both international and national actors on the emergence of quality assessment in Brazilian basic education. The authors also point out the need for further research from a more complex perspective on the interplay between the various actors responsible for policies focusing on educational quality.
Effects of international assessments in education – a multidisciplinary review
Authors: Martens Kerstin , Niemann Dennis , Teltemann Janna
Published: September 2016

Advanced data analysis techniques, available and encompassing data, and facilitated global exchange of information have led to a steady growth of assessments that are used to make informed policy decisions. In line with this general trend, international assessments in education have also become a global and accepted phenomenon. International education assessments have some grave and far-reaching implications for the organization and structure of national education systems. Educational reform as a direct response to results of international assessments can be observed in many countries. Most of the recent literature on the effects of assessment projects looks only at the level of formal policies, without taking mechanisms and effects on actual practices and outcomes into account. This is one of the starting points for this special issue on the effects of international assessments in education. The contributions of this special issue broaden the perspective for a better understanding of the phenomenon of international education assessments. Taken together, the issue demonstrates that international assessments inform how education and educational performance are framed today. The papers in this issue also show that the impact of international assessments manifests itself in formal and direct ‘top-down’ ways as well as in more subtle, hidden ‘roundabout’ ways
On the generalization to swirling flows of Lighthill’s eighth-power law. Part II: Laws of intensity of radiation for acoustic-vortical waves
Authors: Campos LMBC
Published: September 2016

The Lighthill–Proudman theory of sound generation by turbulence, inhomogeneities, and dissipation in a medium at rest is extended to an axisymmetric mean flow with (i) arbitrary unidirectional shear velocity profile and (ii) arbitrary angular velocity of rotation, both depending only on the radius and also (iii) isentropic conditions. The forced acoustic-vortical wave equation through: (a) the wave operator describes the propagation of coupled acoustic-vortical waves (Part I); (b) the forcing terms specifies the compressive, shear, and swirl wave sources that model the generation of acoustic-vortical waves by turbulence, inhomogeneities, and entropy production (Part II). The energy balance is considered for acoustic-vortical waves including the energy density, flux, and production. The dimensional scaling for the wave sources and the energy flux leads to a law of intensity of radiation that generalizes the Lighthill eighth-power law of aeroacoustics by allowing for: (i) compressive, shear, and swirl wave sources; (ii) acoustic and vortical waves and their couplings; (iii) monopoles, dipoles, quadrupoles, and multipoles of any order.
A Comparison of Histamine Receptor Antagonists Versus Proton Pump Inhibitor Gastrointestinal Ulcer Prophylaxis in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Authors: Rouse Ginger E. , Hardinger Karen , Tsapepas Demetra , Tichy Eric M.
Published: September 2016

Introduction:

There are several different agents that can be used for gastrointestinal (GI) ulcer prophylaxis in posttransplant recipients, such as histamine-2 receptor antagonists (H2RA) or proton pump inhibitors (PPIs).

Research Question:

This study was conducted to compare the incidence of adverse kidney events in transplant recipients who received prophylaxis with H2RAs or PPIs.

Design:

This retrospective study included all kidney transplant recipients from 3 transplant centers who were transplanted in 2009 through 2011. The primary objective was to compare the incidence of adverse events posttransplant, defined as the incidence of pneumonia, Clostridium difficile, hip fractures, GI bleeding, cytomegalovirus, organ rejection, and bacteremia.

Results:

A total of 211 patients were included in the study; of which 35 were included in the PPI group and 176 were included in the H2RA group. There were no significant differences between groups in regard to incidence of GI bleeding events or other adverse events.

Discussion:

These findings suggest there is a low incidence of GI ulcers and upper GI bleeding events after kidney transplantation with the use of H2RAs or PPIs. Additionally, there are similar rates of adverse events when comparing H2RAs versus PPIs for GI ulcer prophylaxis.
Does Nursing Facility Use of Habilitation Therapy Improve Performance on Quality Measures?
Authors: Fitzler Sandra , Raia Paul , Buckley Fredrick O. , Wang Mei
Published: September 2016

The purpose of the project, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation study, was to evaluate the impact on 12 quality measures including 10 Minimum Data Set (MDS) publicly reported measures and 2 nursing home process measures using habilitation therapy techniques and a behavior team to manage dementia-related behaviors. A prospective design was used to assess the changes in the measures. A total of 30 Massachusetts nursing homes participated in the project over a 12-month period. Project participation required the creation of an interdisciplinary behavior team, habilitation therapy training, facility visit by the program coordinator, attendance at bimonthly support and sharing calls, and monthly collection of process measure data. Participating facilities showed improvement in 9 of the 12 reported measures. Findings indicate potential quality improvement in having nursing homes learn habilitation therapy techniques and know how to use the interdisciplinary team to manage problem behaviors.
Defining a Structure and Methodology for the Practice of Lifestyle Medicine
Authors: Egger Garry
Published: September 2016

Lifestyle medicine (LM) is a relatively new branch of clinical practice (like travel medicine, sports medicine, etc), but to date with little accepted structure or methodology. The current review extends a previous attempt to define the determinants of chronic disease by expanding this to include (1) the knowledge base (the science) or epidemiology of chronic disease, (2) the skills (the art) or practice of LM, (3) the tools (the materials) that can add to LM diagnoses and prescription, and (4) the procedures (the actions) that help update conventional medicine to include practices required for a new era of lifestyle and environmentally related chronic disease.
Hyperlipidemia is associated with lower risk of poststroke mortality independent of statin use: A population-based study
Authors: Yeramaneni Samrat , Kleindorfer Dawn O , Sucharew Heidi , Alwell Kathleen , Moomaw Charles J , Flaherty Matthew L , Woo Daniel , Adeoye Opeolu , Ferioli Simona , de los Rios La Rosa Felipe , Martini Sharyl , Mackey Jason , Khatri Pooja , Kissela Brett M , Khoury Jane C
Published: September 2016

Background

Although statin therapy is associated with reduced stroke and mortality risk, some studies report that higher lipid levels are associated with improved outcomes following ischemic stroke.

Aims

We examined the association of hyperlipidemia (HLD) combined with statin therapy on all-cause mortality in stroke patients.

Methods

All stroke patients in the Greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky region of ∼1.3 million were identified using ICD-9 discharge codes in 2005 and 2010. Stroke patients with and without HLD were categorized based on their reported statin use at baseline or discharge into three groups: no-HLD/no-statins, HLD/no-statins, and HLD/on-statins. Cox proportional hazards model was used to estimate the risk of mortality at 30 days, 1 year, and 3 years poststroke.

Results

Overall, 77% (2953) of the 3813 ischemic stroke patients were diagnosed with HLD and 72% ( n = 2123) of those patients were on statin medications. The mean age was 70.0 ± 14.6 years, 56% were women, and 21% were black. In adjusted analyses, the HLD/no-statins group showed 35% (adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) = 0.65, 95% CI: 0.46–0.92), 27% (aHR = 0.73, 95% CI: 0.59–0.90), and 17% (aHR = 0.83, 95% CI: 0.70–0.97) reduced risk of mortality at 30 days, 1 year, and 3 years, respectively, poststroke, compared with no-HLD/no-statins group. The HLD/on-statins group showed an additional 17% significant survival benefit at 3 years poststroke compared with HLD/no-statins group.

Conclusions

A diagnosis of HLD in ischemic stroke patients is associated with reduced short- and long-term mortality, irrespective of statin use. Statin therapy is associated with significant, additional long-term survival benefit.
Head and neck inflammatory pseudotumor: Case series and review of the literature
Authors: Kansara Sagar , Bell Diana , Johnson Jason , Zafereo Mark
Published: September 2016

Inflammatory pseudotumor (IP) is an uncommon idiopathic lesion that often imitates malignancy clinically and radiologically. Inflammatory pseudotumors have been found to occur in various sites but rarely in the head and neck. The histopathology, imaging, and treatment of three unique cases of head and neck inflammatory pseudotumors are described in this case series. Patients in Cases 1 and 2 presented with right level II neck mass and left parotid tail mass, respectively. The patient in Case 3 presented with otalgia, jaw pain and trismus, and a left parapharyngeal space mass. The tumors in Cases 1 and 3 significantly decreased in size with tapered courses of oral corticosteroids. The tumor in Case 2 was surgically excised without disease recurrence. Malignancy must be ruled out with incisional or excisional biopsy. Treatment includes surgical excision, oral corticosteroids, or both. The literature shows that radiotherapy and small-molecule inhibitors may be promising alternatives.
Using Single Colors and Color Pairs to Communicate Basic Tastes II: Foreground–Background Color Combinations
Authors: Woods Andy T. , Marmolejo-Ramos Fernando , Velasco Carlos , Spence Charles
Published: September 2016

People associate basic tastes (e.g., sweet, sour, bitter, and salty) with specific colors (e.g., pink or red, green or yellow, black or purple, and white or blue). In the present study, we investigated whether a color bordered by another color (either the same or different) would give rise to stronger taste associations relative to a single patch of color. We replicate previous findings, highlighting the existence of a robust crossmodal correspondence between individual colors and basic tastes. On occasion, color pairs were found to communicate taste expectations more consistently than were single color patches. Furthermore, and in contrast to a recent study in which the color pairs were shown side-by-side, participants took no longer to match the color pairs with tastes than the single colors (they had taken twice as long to respond to the color pairs in the previous study). Possible reasons for these results are discussed, and potential applications for the results, and for the testing methodology developed, are outlined.
Exploring the Relationship Between Mobile Facebook and Social Capital: What Is the “Mobile Difference” for Parents of Young Children?
Authors: Schrock Andrew R.
Published: September 2016

Mobile media have generally been found to reinforce close ties. Many have predicted this will bring about an onerous social insularity or “network privatism.” However, mobile media now enable frequent communication and multimedia activities with larger, more diffuse social networks. Might we be at a tipping point where certain groups benefit from weak tie connections on mobile social media? To answer this question, this study considers how mobile media altered social capital outcomes on Facebook among parents with young children, a group that are heavy users of mobile media and requiring social support. An online survey ( N = 262) conducted with parents with young children reveals a generally positive picture. Results show differences between desktop and mobile use of Facebook. Toward a contextual understanding of the impact of visual media, multimedia activities with social ties accrued bridging over bonding capital. Social capital was in turn correlated with mobile Facebook activities beneficial for parents’ well-being. Far from negative predictions, this study provides evidence of how mobile social media broaden our social spheres.
Burnout in Female Faculty Members
Authors: Cassidy-Vu Lisa , Beck Keli , Moore Justin B.
Published: September 2016

Despite approximately equal numbers of male and female medical school graduates, women are entering academic medicine at a lower rate than their male colleagues. Of those who do assume a faculty position, female faculty members report higher levels of burnout, often attributable to gender-specific difficulties in clinical expectations and maintenance of work-life balance. Many of these struggles are attributable to issues that are amenable to supportive policies, but these policies are inconsistent in their availability and practice. This commentary presents evidence for inconsistencies in the day-to-day experience of female faculty members, and proposes solutions for the mitigation of the challenges experienced more often by female faculty members with the goal of diversifying and strengthening academic medicine.
A covert authentication and security solution for GMOs
Authors: Mueller Siguna , Jafari Farhad , Roth Don
Published: September 2016

Background

Proliferation and expansion of security risks necessitates new measures to ensure authenticity and validation of GMOs. Watermarking and other cryptographic methods are available which conceal and recover the original signature, but in the process reveal the authentication information. In many scenarios watermarking and standard cryptographic methods are necessary but not sufficient and new, more advanced, cryptographic protocols are necessary.

Results

Herein, we present a new crypto protocol, that is applicable in broader settings, and embeds the authentication string indistinguishably from a random element in the signature space and the string is verified or denied without disclosing the actual signature. Results show that in a nucleotide string of 1000, the algorithm gives a correlation of 0.98 or higher between the distribution of the codon and that of E. coli, making the signature virtually invisible.

Conclusions

This algorithm may be used to securely authenticate and validate GMOs without disclosing the actual signature. While this protocol uses watermarking, its novelty is in use of more complex cryptographic techniques based on zero knowledge proofs to encode information.
Black walnut, Osage orange and eastern redcedar sawmill waste as natural dyes: effect of aluminum mordant on color parameters
Authors: Doty Kelsie , Haar Sherry , Kim Jooyoun
Published: September 2016

The triple bottom line can be impacted in both positive and negative ways by the use of tree sawmill waste as a natural dye. Trees contain a biomordant in the form of tannin which may eliminate the need for metallic mordants, thus reducing water, thermal energy, residual waste, and exposure to a mordant chemical. Dyeing with mill waste provides an economic option for an existing timber manufacturing byproduct. This research analyzed the impact of potassium aluminum sulfate (PAS) on dye concentration, hue, and colorfastness to light and laundering for three regional dyewoods (black walnut, Osage orange, and eastern redcedar) on wool yarn. Dye concentrations were pre-tested to find a standard depth of shade between mordanted and nonmordanted yarns. Tests for colorfastness to light and laundering were performed according to AATCC methods. Resulting colors for exposed and unexposed specimens were rated using CIE L*a*b* values and descriptive statistics were used to examine directional relationship within independent variables mordant and exposure (light and laundering). Two-sample t test was performed to investigate the effect of a PAS mordant versus no mordant on overall color difference between specimens exposed to light and laundering. Findings indicated that dye absorption was improved with the use of a PAS mordant. For yarns premordanted with PAS the dyewood colors became warmer. A PAS mordant slightly improved colorfastness to light for black walnut and eastern redcedar, but did not influence Osage orange which had a color change from bright yellow to warm brown after exposure to light. Colorfastness to laundering improved only for Osage orange with a PAS mordant.
Whole genome shotgun sequence of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens TF28, a biocontrol entophytic bacterium
Authors: Zhang Shumei , Jiang Wei , Li Jing , Meng Liqiang , Cao Xu , Hu Jihua , Liu Yushuai , Chen Jingyu , Sha Changqing
Published: September 2016

Bacillus amyloliquefaciens TF28 is a biocontrol endophytic bacterium that is capable of inhibition of a broad range of plant pathogenic fungi. The strain has the potential to be developed into a biocontrol agent for use in agriculture. Here we report the whole-genome shotgun sequence of the strain. The genome size of B. amyloliquefaciens TF28 is 3,987,635 bp which consists of 3754 protein-coding genes, 65 tandem repeat sequences, 47 minisatellite DNA, 2 microsatellite DNA, 63 tRNA, 7rRNA, 6 sRNA, 3 prophage and CRISPR domains.
Multiscattering inversion for low-model wavenumbers
Authors: Alkhalifah Tariq , Wu Zedong
Published: September 2016

A successful full-waveform inversion implementation updates the low-wavenumber model components first for a proper description of the wavefield propagation and slowly adds the high wavenumber potentially scattering parts of the model. The low-wavenumber components can be extracted from the transmission parts of the recorded wavefield emanating directly from the source or the transmission parts from the single- or double-scattered wavefield computed from a predicted scatter field acting as secondary sources. We use a combined inversion of data modeled from the source and those corresponding to single and double scattering to update the velocity model and the component of the velocity (perturbation) responsible for the single and double scattering. The combined inversion helps us access most of the potential model wavenumber information that may be embedded in the data. A scattering-angle filter is used to divide the gradient of the combined inversion, so initially the high-wavenumber (low-scattering-angle) components of the gradient are directed to the perturbation model and the low-wavenumber (high-scattering-angle) components are directed to the velocity model. As our background velocity matures, the scattering-angle divide is slowly lowered to allow for more of the higher wavenumbers to contribute the velocity model. Synthetic examples including the Marmousi model are used to demonstrate the additional illumination and improved velocity inversion obtained when including multiscattered energy.
Apneic Oxygenation During Prolonged Laryngoscopy in Obese Patients: A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Buccal RAE Tube Oxygen Administration
Authors: Heard Andrew , Toner Andrew J. , Evans James R. , Aranda Palacios Alberto M. , Lauer Stefan
Published: September 2016

BACKGROUND:

Despite optimal preoxygenation, obese patients undergoing induction of general anesthesia exhibit significant hypoxemia after 2 to 4 minutes of apnea. Apneic oxygenation techniques can assist airway management by extending the safe apnea time. We hypothesized that a novel method of apneic oxygenation via the oral route would effectively prolong safe apnea in an obese surgical population.

METHODS:

In this open-label, parallel-arm, randomized-controlled efficacy trial, 40 ASA physical status I–II obese patients with body mass index (BMI) 30–40 were randomly assigned to standard care (n = 20) or buccal oxygenation (n = 20) during induction of total IV anesthesia. Buccal oxygen was administered via a modified 3.5-mm Ring-Adair-Elwyn (RAE) tube apposed to the left internal cheek. Prolonged laryngoscopy maintained apnea with a patent airway until Spo
2 dropped below 95% or 750 seconds elapsed. The primary outcome was time to reach Spo
2 < 95%.

RESULTS:

Patient characteristics were similar in both study arms. Recipients of buccal oxygenation were less likely to exhibit Spo
2 < 95% during 750 seconds of apnea; hazard ratio 0.159 (95% confidence interval 0.044–0.226, P < .0001). Median (interquartile range [IQR]) apnea times with Spo
2 ≥ 95% were prolonged in this group; 750 (389–750) versus 296 (244–314) seconds, P < .0001.

CONCLUSIONS:

Clinically important prolongation of safe apnea times can be achieved delivering buccal oxygen to obese patients on induction of anesthesia. This novel use of apneic oxygenation via the oral route may improve management of the difficult airway and overcome some of the limitations of alternative techniques.
A Survey of Intravenous Remifentanil Use for Labor Analgesia at Academic Medical Centers in the United States
Authors: Aaronson Jaime , Abramovitz Sharon , Smiley Richard , Tangel Virginia , Landau Ruth
Published: September 2016

Remifentanil is most commonly offered when neuraxial labor analgesia is contraindicated. There is no consensus regarding the optimal administration, dosing strategy, or requirements for maternal monitoring, which may pose a patient safety issue. This exploratory survey evaluated the current practices regarding remifentanil use for labor analgesia at academic centers in the United States. Of 126 obstetric anesthesia directors surveyed, 84 (67%) responded. In 2014 to 2015, an estimated 36% (95% confidence interval: 25.7–46.3) of centers used remifentanil, most of which did so less than 5 times. Some serious maternal and neonatal respiratory complications occurred, emphasizing that clinical protocols and adequate monitoring are key to ensure maternal and neonatal safety.
Mechanosensory signaling as a potential mode of communication during social interactions in fishes
Authors: Butler Julie M. , Maruska Karen P.
Published: September 2016

Signals produced during social interactions convey crucial information about the sender's identity, quality, reproductive state and social status. Fishes can detect near-body water movements via the mechanosensory lateral line system, and this sense is used during several common fish behaviors, such as schooling, rheotaxis and predator–prey interactions. In addition, many fish behaviors, such as aggressive lateral displays and reproductive body quivers, involve fin and body motions that generate water movements that can be detected by the lateral line system of nearby fish. This mechanosensory system is well studied for its role in obstacle avoidance and detection of inadvertent hydrodynamic cues generated during schooling and predator–prey interactions; however, little research has focused on the role of mechanosensory communication during social interactions. Here, we summarize the current literature on the use of mechanosensation-mediated behaviors during agonistic and reproductive encounters, as well as during parental care. Based on these studies, we hypothesize that mechanosensory signaling is an important but often overlooked mode of communication during conspecific social interactions in many fish species, and we highlight its importance during multimodal communication. Finally, we suggest potential avenues of future research that would allow us to better understand the role of mechanosensation in fish communication.
Wellness tourism in crimea: analysis of development problems and prospects
Authors: Подкорытова Елена , Podkorytova Elena , Гржебина Людмила , Grzhebina Lyudmila , Романенков Алексей , Romanenkov Aleksey , Андропова Елена , Andropova Elena , Кутьин Илья , Kutin Ilya
Published: September 2016

The article analyzes the development problems and prospects of health tourism in the Republic of Crimea. Currently, Crimea attracts an increased interest from tourists around the world. However, logistical support of medical and health institutions of the peninsula does not meet European standards of comfort and quality of service. Organization of medical and health services under conditions of health resort treatment offered to tourists, guests of the Crimea, is the subject of research. Hypothesis of the study is the assumption that a detailed and quality analysis of providing health tourism services will help to identify the main problems of the Crimean health resorts and recreational facilities. Generalization of the research results will determine prospects and main directions of health tourism development, which meet the international standards. In its turn this will help the Republic of Crimea to become a competitive tourism resort on world tourism market in the area of health tourism. After joining the Crimea to the Russian Federation, the stabilization of economic situation and the accelerated development of the region as a part of Russia is the first priority; therefore results of the study will be valuable for Crimean economy. Improving the quality of service and renovation of the material and technical base of medical and health institutions in the peninsula will significantly increase the number of tourists from the Russia, CIS and foreign countries at any time of the year. Such a factor as the "seasonality" of rest should not interfere with potential Russian and foreign tourists to visit Crimea. The research results can be used in solving issues concerning the reconstruction of recreational infrastructure of the peninsula.
Factor analysis of indicators of tourism development in destinations of the republic of crimea
Authors: Ячменева Валентина , Yachmeneva Valentina , Фокина Наталья , Fokina Natalya
Published: September 2016

Tourism is traditionally a priority sphere of Crimean economy development. This work is aimed to carry out a factor analysis of tourism development indicators of in coastal destinations in the Republic of Crimea and to identify the most significant parameters having a significant influence on the formation of the tourist flow.

This research is relevant because the financial and economic crisis, the decline in foreign investment volumes and prolongation of sanctions force to look for new approaches to the development of the state economy and its separate territories. Estimation of development prospects of international tourism allowed to establish that tourism - one of the most dynamic activities of the global economy. The authors give results of analysis of development trends of Crimean tourism. They show that tourism, despite the negative dynamics of individual indicators of financial and economic activity of the sanatorium and tourism enterprises in 2014, has great potential and is a priority activity of the Crimean economy. The authors propose to consider a destination as the ecological and economic system that prove the possibility of engaging tourist flows in the recreational area without compromising the sustainability of the natural environment. The indicators of tourism development in Crimea destinations are analyzed. They are grouped into two blocks - resulting and factor. The results of factor analysis revealed a high level of correlation between natural resources of destinations and the viability of the tourist business in the Republic of Crimea. It is also showed a high level of coherence between the result indicator "number of organized tourists" and the indicator "number of sites of cultural heritage". Conclusions of previously conducted market research of tourist preferences are confirmed. Vacationers visit the Crimea with one dominant purpose (mainly beach vacation and treatment), and other possibilities of destinations are secondary or have no role in their preferences.
A cluster of social tourism: issues of forming
Authors: Макаренко Зоя , Makarenko Zoya , Жилкова Юлия , Zhilkova Yuliya , Насырова Лилия , Nasyrova Liliya
Published: September 2016

The article discusses the problems of budgetary institutions interaction in a cluster operating within the framework of social tourism. Starting 2011, in the Russian Federation the concepts and various development programs of tourist and recreation areas (target, targeted, investment) are being developed. In this connection, the authors touch upon the question of the social policy effectiveness, which is regulated by the state, but with that the conditions for the services development are not created. The question of social tourism clusters is raised separately. They can flexibly respond to the quantitative and qualitative parameters of demand of both individual tourists and corporate clients. The authors present the social tourism system tools, including the program of activities, which are carried out within the framework of the Federal Target Program "Development of domestic and inbound tourism in the Russian Federation 2011-2018".
Incompatible European Partners? Cultural Predispositions and Household Financial Behavior
Authors: Haliassos Michael , Jansson Thomas , Karabulut Yigitcan
Published: September 2016

The recent influx of migrants and refugees into Europe and elsewhere raises questions as to whether migrant behavior reflects cultural predispositions and whether assimilation through exposure to host institutions can be expected. The paper focuses on financial behavior and uses high-quality administrative data on migrants and refugees to Sweden. It uncovers differences across cultural groups in how behavior relates to household characteristics, and shows that differences diminish with exposure to host country institutions, even for large cultural distances. Interestingly, robust cultural classification of European countries based on genetic distance or on Hofstede’s cultural dimensions fails to identify a single “southern” culture but points to a “northern” culture. Our results also have implications for the potential of European institutional harmonization, exogenously imposed during the fiscal crisis, to alleviate cultural differences in financial behavior.

This paper was accepted by Lauren Cohen, finance.
Nocturnal enuresis in children
Authors: Rogers June
Published: September 2016

NICE's recommended approach to assessment and treatment is outlined by June Rogers
Nappy rash: an update
Authors: Moffat Polly
Published: September 2016

A common condition which can be treated in a variety of ways, writes Polly Moffat
Management of febrile convulsions within the pre-hospital environment
Authors: Sharp Alex
Published: September 2016

Febrile convulsions are relatively common presentations to the ambulance service and occur in 2–5% of the population. A febrile convulsion is a convulsion associated with a temperature above 38oC in paediatrics aged between six months to six years with peak occurrence at 18 months of age. The majority of febrile convulsions (70%) are classed as simple febrile convulsions which are limited in duration with no long-term neurological impact on the child. These simple febrile convulsions can be safely managed within the community in many cases except where it is their first febrile convulsion, aged under 18 months old, are already on antibiotics or there is no obvious cause of infection resulting in the convulsion. The risk of a febrile convulsion being the sole indicator of epilepsy is extremely low.
The importance of good continence care for older people
Authors: Yates Ann
Published: September 2016

Despite its taboos, high-quality continence management is an integral part of looking after older people in the residential home. Ann Yates describes this important aspect of care, from its causes in the home to assessment and management
ANÁLISE DOS PROCESSOS DE APOSENTADORIA E PENSÃO CIVIL DE UMA INSTITUIÇÃO FEDERAL DE ENSINO
Authors: De Oliveira Jefferson Menezes , Grohmann Márcia Zampieri , Marquetto Matheus Frohlich
Published: September 2016

Este estudo teve por objetivo identificar as principais defasagens nos processos administrativos de aposentadoria e pensão civil gerenciados pela Pró-Reitoria de Gestão de Pessoas da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (Progep/UFSM), de forma a propor simplificações e aperfeiçoamentos para as rotinas de trabalho, em consonância com a teoria da gestão por processos. Com adoção de abordagem qualitativa, o estudo de caso fez uso de diferentes fontes de evidência e a análise dos dados compreendeu as seguintes etapas de: (i) mapeamento dos processos; (ii) percepção de usuários finais dos processos; (iii) percepção de servidores envolvidos na consecução dos processos; e (iv) proposição de simplificações e aperfeiçoamentos. A triangulação dos dados permitiu identificar as principais oportunidades de melhoria dos processos em análise, destacando-se a defasagem processual, os focos de retrabalho e “gargalos”, o insuficiente foco no usuário e condições de trabalho inadequadas.
ESTUDO CRÍTICO SOBRE O TRABALHO EM CALL CENTER
Authors: D´Amorim Junior Nid Dutra , Mac-Allister da Silva Monica de Aguiar
Published: September 2016

O objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar o trabalho em call center. O estudo mapeia o trabalho em call center, enfatizando três dimensões: socioeconômica, gerencial e concreta. Essas dimensões são abordadas primeiramente em termos teóricos, o que resulta em uma análise da organização call center como um todo. Completando essa abordagem teórica, realiza-se nas dimensões gerencial e concreta uma investigação empírica do tipo estudo de caso sobre um call center denominado Alfa, com uma amostra de 405 operadores e tratamento estatístico dos dados. Conclui-se sobre o trabalho em call center, particularmente no call center Alfa, que: na dimensão socioeconômica, ele é alienante, explorador, humilhante, monótono, discriminador, embrutecedor e submisso; na dimensão gerencial, a alienação do trabalho está associada à alta rigidez da supervisão e ao intenso controle sobre a produtividade; e na dimensão concreta, encontram-se condições inadequadas de trabalho e controle inadequado das interações.
REPRESENTAÇÕES SOCIAIS DA CULTURA EM BELO HORIZONTE
Authors: Colares André Felipe Vieira , Saraiva Luiz Alex Silva
Published: September 2016

Teorizar sobre cultura sempre pode levar-nos a generalizações descabidas, daí a necessidade de refletir sobre culturas – no plural. Assim, este artigo indica como o conceito de “cultura” é homogeneizado a tal ponto que se considera um único tipo dele representativo do todo. Em busca de um melhor entendimento acerca desses processos, esta é uma pesquisa qualitativa que utiliza a análise do discurso (AD) de material midiático em redes sociais para analisar a construção da representação social de “cultura” a partir de dois objetos: o Circuito Cultural Praça da Liberdade e o Espaço Comum Luiz Estrela, ambos em Belo Horizonte - MG. Observa-se uma tendência de qualificar o Circuito Cultural Praça da Liberdade como um espaço “oficial” e nobre, enquanto outros espaços culturais tendem a ser marginalizados. No entanto, a iniciativa popular emerge como uma possibilidade de novas representações da cultura, contrapondo sua representação hegemônica.
Creating and exploring a desert ecology site on the OpenSim world with middle-school students
Authors: Stokrocki Mary
Published: September 2016

Using participant observation methods, I explored middle-school students’ visual literacy introduction to the OpenSim Virtual World, which was hosted by the University of British Columbia. Using their school name theme of the Sonoran Desert, they drew and uploaded their favourite desert creatures and plants on square easel forms/prims, built some dome-structured caves as an installation site, and added pop-up notecards about animal symbolic meanings, as a kind of visual/verbal literacy. Besides overcoming initial technical problems and experimenting with the Build/Design tools, they contacted biology information sites, to learn about desert conditions, animal plight (poaching/predator/prey/pesticide problems), plant acclimatization, and differing opinions about intervention. When students are guided and given appropriate digital art tools, they can create new worlds and explore ecological problems.
‘Skateboarding is like dancing’: Masculinity as a performative visual culture in art education
Authors: Hellman Annika Amelie
Published: September 2016

This article analyses the construction of skateboard masculinity as a performative visual culture, related to the conditions for masculine subject positions in upper secondary school visual art and media education. The empirical material comes from visual ethnographic research in classroom and discourse analysis of one pupil’s skateboarding video and an interview with the same pupil. The results show that the masculinity performed in both the visual art classroom and in pupil’s skate video is complex and moves between homosocial expressions and intimacy, risk-taking and visual culture enacted as being cool and an outsider. The analysis implies a linkage to a neo-liberal ideal in which the values of play and pleasure as a crucial aspect of counterculture are connected to entrepreneurial individualism, consumer creativity and market trends.
Classic Media Review
Authors: Stewart-Winter Timothy
Published: September 2016

NORMAN...IS THAT YOU?, DIRECTED BY GEORGE SCHLATTER (1976) Culver City, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
(In)visible bodies and cultural imperialism: Jalisco canta en Sevilla/Jalisco Sings in Sevilla, Teatro Apolo/Apollo Theatre and the star discourse of Jorge Negrete in Spain
Authors: Norton Diana
Published: September 2016

In his two Spanish films – Jalisco canta en Sevilla/Jalisco sings in Sevilla (1948) and Teatro Apolo/Apollo Theatre (1949) – Jorge Negrete plays characters that travel to Spain for financial reasons and remain for love of a Spanish woman. This discourse legitimizes a criollo identity that removes him from the discourse of mexicanidad as defined by mestizaje. While it has been argued that the romantic relationships of these films represent a convivencia [coexistence] between Mexico and Spain, such a reading does not account for the complex identity constructions of Golden Age Mexican cinema. As Mexican identity consolidated around mestizaje, industrialization, urban migration and social mobility, Negrete’s Spanish films ignore this discourse and exclude his participation within it. I will use Said’s ‘structures of attitude and reference’ to illuminate the discourse of Hispanidad that marked the creation of these films. I aim to reveal the invisibility of the industrializing Mexican nation within them and propose that Jorge Negrete’s unique position within the discourse of Hispanidad has led to his invisibility in the scholarship of male Mexican film stars of the 1940s.
‘I haven’t done anything wrong!’ Melodrama and victimization in Las 13 rosas/13 Roses (2007) and La voz dormida/The Sleeping Voice (2011)
Authors: Rodríguez-Solás David
Published: September 2016

This article examines two films about the Spanish Civil War that feature victims as protagonists: Las 13 rosas/13 Roses (Martínez Lázaro, 2007) and La voz dormida/The Sleeping Voice (Zambrano, 2011). Drawing from studies of melodrama, the article offers an examination of the representation of Francoist repression through visual narration in these films, suggesting they use an affective filter that impedes audience’s critical reflection. The article ends by discussing victimization and spectatorship in relation to Rancière’s ideas of the emancipated spectator. It explores how the audience’s experiences might have been affected by the fact that debates on historical memory, which were prominent at the time of the release of these films, were downplayed in both films.
A Charola Templária de Tomar: Jerusalém Perdida
Authors: Santos Carlos Emanuel Sousa
Published: September 2016

A Ordem do Templo teve as suas raízes no Oriente, com o objectivo de prestar auxílio aos peregrinos que se dirigiam à Cidade Santa, e aos seus respectivos espaços de culto. Portanto, os cavaleiros do Templo entraram em contacto directo com estes lugares e o Santo Sepulcro, Túmulo de Cristo, e a Cúpula do Rochedo foram os mais significativos. Não tardou que realizassem em vários sítios réplicas destas construções, para fazer relembrar estes sagrados monumentos. Ao construir templos que fizessem relembrar os espaços santos de Jerusalém, os crentes escusavam de viajar em peregrinação à Cidade Santa porque estes eram vistos como o próprio túmulo de Cristo, tendo todo o sentido numa Europa "dominada pela fé". Por ser considerado o moimento de Cristo, o Santo Sepulcro foi, variadíssimas vezes, concebido como o centro do mundo durante os séculos XII e XIII e em raros casos no séc. XIV. A cidade de Tomar e a sua Charola acabam por ser um reflexo disso mesmo.
O mosteiro de Lorvão: ainda a saída dos monges e a entrada das freiras
Authors: Marques Maria Alegria Fernandes
Published: September 2016

Neste trabalho retoma-se uma temática antiga, a passagem do mosteiro de Lorvão de comunidade masculina a casa monástica feminina, sob a égide de D. Teresa, filha do segundo rei de Portugal e ex-rainha de Leão, numa leitura e numa crítica mais aprofundada dos documentos.
A Extinção da Ordem do Templo em Portugal
Authors: Gomes Saul António
Published: September 2016

Este artigo pretende analisar o problema da extinção da Ordem do Templo em Portugal e da sua sucessão pela Ordem de Cristo. Procede à edição de documentos não publicados integralmente, até ao momento, muito em especial a inquirição levada a cabo por João Pais de Soure, em 1314. Inquirição forense controlada por oficiais ao serviço da Coroa, consequentemente acto documental isento de vício ou de suspeição à partida favorável aos templários, ela permite verificar, mau grado episódios de tensão entre o poder régio e a Ordem, a prevalência estrutural, na memória histórica dos templários portugueses, dos sentimentos de auxílio e de lealdade dos cavaleiros portugueses desta Ordem para com o rei.
A visão do Outro nas Cartas de Itália de Lopo de Almeida
Authors: Lopes Paulo Esmeraldo Catarino
Published: September 2016

Em Novembro de 1451 partia de Portugal com destino a Itália a comitiva de acompanhamento da infanta D. Leonor, segunda filha de D. Duarte e irmã de D. Afonso V, para confirmação do seu casamento com o imperador Habsburgo Frederico III.
Notável iniciativa diplomática e ocasião única de afirmação e de internacionalização da monarquia portuguesa, este matrimónio resulta de um ambicioso projecto de D. Afonso V que visa legitimar aos olhos das grandes potências internacionais uma dinastia que nascera pouco conforme com o direito sucessório.
Dirigiam a comitiva de acompanhamento João Fernandes da Silveira e Lopo de Almeida (primeiro conde de Abrantes), tendo este último enviado a D. Afonso V quatro cartas em que dá notícia dos acontecimentos que marcaram a viagem, bem como da forma como a comitiva foi recebida. O facto de o embaixador concentrar toda a sua atenção na acção, bem como na descrição das cerimónias e do comportamento dos intervenientes, faz de tais registos epistolares uma fonte de inegável valor histórico-antropológico.
A visão e avaliação do Outro europeu é constante nas Cartas e opera-se sempre através de uma análise comparativa com os portugueses. Por outras palavras, os referentes culturais de Lopo de Almeida constituern-se como um código com base no qual o mesmo realiza a sua avaliação antropológica.
Sempre perspicaz, e não raras vezes irónico e satírico, Lopo de Almeida fornece retratos ora colectivos, como o dos alemães, ora individuais, como o do imperador Frederico III. De reter é que em caso algum estamos perante retratos frios. Ao contrário, são sempre representações extremamente ricas do ponto de vista do sentimento, da emoção e do elemento humano, inequivocamente aquele que mais entusiasma o autor da narrativa.
Em síntese, pelo seu conteúdo, mas também pelo contexto em que foram produzidas, as quatro cartas enviadas de Itália por Lopo de Almeida ao rei D. Afonso V constituem um testemunho privilegiado, por um lado, da forma como os portugueses olhavam o Outro europeu e, por outro lado, da forma como se olhavam a si próprios por reacção a esse mesmo Outro europeu, em meados do século XV.