bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
New findings of pest sciarid species (Diptera, Sciaridae) in Ukraine, with the first record of Bradysia difformis
Authors: Babytskiy A. I. , Moroz M. S. , Kalashnyk S. O. , Bezsmertna O. O. , Dudiak I. D. , Voitsekhivska O. V.
Published: August 2019

Sciarids (Diptera, Sciaridae) or black fungus gnats are small, mainly dark coloured insects whose larvae usually develop in rotting plant remains permeated by fungal hyphae. Typical habitats for sciarids are shaded forests and wet meadows, but some species can migrate from natural biotopes to anthropogenic ecosystems and live as synanthropes. Synanthropic sciarid species in the case of their larvae mass development, may cause significant damage to agricultural plants and mushrooms and are considered as pests. The information on pest activities of sciarids in the literature is provided for 34 species, but only 7 species can be considered as dangerous pests. In the framework of taxonomic and ecological research on Sciaridae in Ukraine, some chorological and faunistic peculiarities of pest sciarids have been studied. We collected material during the expeditions and excursions in different biotopes of Ukraine from 2012 to 2018 using the Malaise trap, by the method of non-count sweeping with entomological net and with exhauster directly from substrate. The collected imagoes were placed into 5 mL vials with 70% ethanol. In the lab, the fixed material was dehydrated in absolute ethanol and mounted on slides in Euparal. All of the studied material is kept in Andriy Babytskiy’s Private Collection, Kyiv (PABK) and mostly availible to the public on the UkrBIN. In Ukraine 4 species of harmful sciarid pests from 3 genera are recorded, namely Bradysia brunnipes (in Crimea), B. difformis (in Kyiv and Volyn Regions), Lycoriella ingenua (in Kyiv and Volyn Regions) and Pnyxia scabiei (Western regions excluding the Carpathians). B. brunnipes, also known as “cucumber gnat”, is one of the widespread cucumber pests in greenhouses, damaging roots and above-ground shoots of cucumbers. In Ukraine, mass development of this species and significant loses of the harvest caused by it have not been reported. B. difformis is a widespread pest sciarid, but in Ukraine it has been recorded for the first time. The mass development of this species was recorded in hothouses with cacti and other succulent plants at the O. V. Fomin Botanical Garden, where the larvae of B. difformis cause significant damage to these plants, especially to their sprouts. L. ingenua is the most common sciarid pest which damages mushrooms in hothouses. In Ukraine it was massively recorded  in cellars and on vegetables in storages. P. scabiei was recorded in Western Ukraine, except the Carpathians, as a potato pest species that damages sprouts in the fields and tubers in storages. Considering the absence of records of P. scabiei in natural biotopes of Ukraine, it is likely that this species was introduced to our country from America together with potatoes and should be recognized as an alien species to the natural entomofauna of Ukraine.
Os processos de midiatização das religiões no Brasil e o ativismo político digital evangélico
Authors: Cunha Magali Do Nascimento
Published: August 2019

Resumo: este artigo dedica-se ao fenômeno da ampliação da ocupação de espaço pelos evangélicos na política nacional, com ênfase no lugar das mídias nesse processo. Destina-se atenção a um fenômeno em particular: a emergência do ativismo político evangélico. O objetivo é demonstrar como a midiatização das religiões, especificamente o processo que envolve a fé evangélica no Brasil, é potencializadora desse fenômeno, provocando o surgimento do ativismo político digital evangélico. O estudo é desenvolvido em perspectiva interdisciplinar com base em abordagens teóricas da comunicação (estudos sobre midiatização social) e das ciências da religião (evangélicos na política no Brasil) e em trabalhos da autora querelacionam mídia, religião e política. Resulta deste estudo a constatação de que o ativismo político digital evangélico emerge dos processos de midiatização vividos por esse segmento religioso no Brasil.
Cronotopologia das imagens inteligentes
Authors: Ferraz Vidal Junior Icaro
Published: August 2019

O presente artigo retoma algumas noções fundamentais da filosofia de Gilbert Simondon para indagar acerca dos regimes cronotopológicos agenciados pelas imagens produzidas por câmeras inteligentes. Câmeras inteligentes são sistemas de visão nos quais um algoritmo opera em paralelo à produção de imagem, analisando-a. Recentemente a ideia de “imagem embutida” vem sendo utilizada para descrever a arquitetura de tais dispositivos. Nosso objetivo é cartografar as transformações nas relações espaciais e temporais instauradas por tais imagens, assim como especular acerca de possíveis consequências políticas associadas a esta reordenação cronotopológica. A contiguidade dessas imagens ao mundo e a sua agência inscrita no tempo presente, à diferença do modelo clássico da perspectiva renascentista, permite-nos reivindicar uma inflexão performativa neste regime de visualidade.
Effects of physical activity on sustained attention: a systematic review
Authors: Hajar Mawar Siti , Rizal Hussein , Kuan Garry
Published: August 2019

AIM: Physical activity is known for its benefits to improve cognitive functions such as sustained attention. The study aimed to conduct a systematic review on the effects of physical activity on sustained attention. METHODS: Literature search was conducted using databases from Scopus, PubMed, ResearchGate, ScienceDirect and Google Scholar. The date of these published articles ranged from January 2010 to August 2018. RESULTS: A total of thirteen studies using the longitudinal design was selected to be part of this review. Most studies showed positive relationships between physical activity and sustained attention. CONCLUSIONS: Future studies may consider a longitudinal study design to study the effect of physical activity on sustained attention in prolonged time; as well as the corresponding affect with gender, age, motivation and to investigate the relationship between physical activities together with other possible factors that can indirectly affect sustained attention.
Glycemic control and its impact on oxidative stress biomarkers in type 2 diabetic patients treated with metformin: a cross-sectional analysis
Authors: Lasisi Ismaila A. , Adedokun Kamoru A. , Oyenike Musiliu A. , Muhibi Musa A. , Kamorudeen Ramat T. , Oluogun Waheed A.
Published: August 2019

AIMS: Evidence shows that diabetic patients may be predisposed to oxidative stress owing to increased glyco-oxidation and lipid peroxidation processes in consequence of chronic hyperglycemia. However, there is dearth of information whether glycemic control positively affects the antioxidant defense system in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). We investigated the potential association between glycemic control and oxidative stress biomarkers in controlled and uncontrolled diabetic states. METHODS: After obtaining ethical clearance, we included patients receiving metformin with glycated hemoglobin A1c ˂7.0% (glycemic control); newly diagnosed T2DM patients without glycemic control with hemoglobin A1c ˃7.0%; and apparently healthy normoglycemic individuals. The following biomarkers were determined: fasting glycemia level, malondialdehyde, glutathione peroxidase activity, catalase activity, total antioxidant capacity and total cholesterol level. The comparisons between the groups were made by ANOVA. RESULTS: The participants were 260 in number: 80 with controlled diabetes, 80 uncontrolled and 100 controls. All participants were between 40 and 71 years old. Fasting glycemia level and hemoglobin A1c showed significant reductions (p<0.05) in controlled T2DM against the uncontrolled T2DM group, all the same both were significantly higher (p<0.05) against the controls. Likewise, malondialdehyde levels showed significant elevations (p<0.05) correspondingly in both uncontrolled and controlled T2DM against the controls, accompanied with significant reductions (p<0.05) in the antioxidative enzyme activities (glutathione peroxidase activity and catalase activity) and total antioxidant capacity levels against the controls. In addition, total cholesterol was significantly reduced (p<0.05) in controlled T2DM against both uncontrolled T2DM and controls, respectively. There were significant correlations between hemoglobin A1c and oxidative stress biomarkers (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: There was no remarkable difference in oxidative stress states between glycemic controlled and uncontrolled T2DM, despite differences in their fasting glycemia and glycated hemoglobin levels. Our data, therefore, suggest that chronic hyperglycemia and possibly anti-diabetic medicationmay both equally associate with oxidative stress.
The Project-Based Learing Method – a Fundament of Children’s Cognitive Activity Development in the Construction and Technology Lessons
Authors: Ivanova Snezhana
Published: August 2019

The article is about the establishment of effective pedagogical conditions which stimulate the cognitive activity in children.
In nowadays education interactive teaching is becoming increasingly popular. The project-based method of learning is the fundament of interactive teaching. A theoretical study has been conducted and an adapted existing model on the project-based learning method has been suggested for use in construction and technology lessons in the kindergarten. The model is focused mainly on children’s interests and needs and defends the thesis that when applied in teaching, it is an effective tool for the development of the cognitive activity in children in the ages of four and five.
Bilingual and Bicultural Education. Alternative Educational Approaches to Ethnic Communities
Authors: Georgiev Nikolay
Published: August 2019

The article presents the characteristics of bilingualism according to modern linguistic theories as well as the approaches of elaboration and implementation of bilingual educational programs in Europe and the United States. The advantages of the socio-cultural approach in selection and implementation of educational integration programs are outlined, with the emphasis on the so-called productive training.
THE ROLE OF OXIDATIVE STRESS IN THE ETIOPATHOGENESIS OF DEPRESSION
Authors: Komsiiska D. , Petkov Y.
Published: August 2019

In recent years, the role of oxidative stress in the etiopathogenesis of depression has been increasingly discussed. The mechanisms by which stress has a negative effect on the brain are not yet fully understood. Free radicals cause rapid damage to certain cellular macromolecules that may be involved in cytotoxic effects in the central nervous system. The effectiveness of new types of supplementation therapy with antioxidants - vitamins A, E, C, Omega-3 fatty acids, Coenzyme Q10 and Zn are being studied.
QUALITY ASSESSMENT ABOUT STANDARDS FOR WELLNESS SERVICES AND CERTIFIED SKILLS OF SPECIALIZED STAFF
Authors: Dimitrova B.
Published: August 2019

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to establish the quality assessment about standards for Wellness services and certified skills of specialized staff in the Bulgarian niche tourism by setting out a range scale by significance on the base of scientific indicators.
METHODS: During the period of March-June 2017 a Psychometric measurement of experts' point of view was conducted among Bulgarian professionals from various Wellness & SPA & Thalasso centres: employers, executives, investors, entrepreneurs, managers, executives and students from specific programs in the field. The experts' opinions were measured by an adapted version of the Survey Questionnaire for online use with Google Drive tools.
RESULTS: The psychometric measurement results on the meanings of numbers (through the order for A-fixed question by-X of B-number of questions) placed on all questions asked. We obtain a range scale for ranking the relative significance of the studied properties for the quality services and centres in the Bulgarian Niche tourism.
CONCLUSIONS: The results in our study are in support of the needed action plan in co-partnership between the Bulgarian Institutions, professional and non-governmental organisation for developing and adopting new state standards; setting requirements for categorization of Wellness & SPAs and quality assessment not only for the facilities, but for the applied procedures and services; and also providing certification for the specialized staff according to the European qualification framework for all levels – starting from secondary and finishing at “Doctoral degree (PhD)”.
STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN SECTORAL EMPLOYMENT
Authors: Stoycheva Iv.
Published: August 2019

Structural changes in employment, that are a result from the specific influence of structure determining factors are viewed as changes with time in the proportions of the economic system. The opportunities for the development of one or another sector or region are the result of favourable changes in the structures. At the same time, the formation of objective conditions for favourable economic structural changes is an effective tool for the economic development of a certain sector, which provides more appropriate adjustment of economic structures to the requirements of time.
This study aims at exploring structural changes in employment by sector (according to the Classification of the Economic Activities of Bulgaria-2008) through integrated and aggregated measures. The registering of these changes makes tracking the trends in economic development, the intensity of the changes and the unevenness in the distribution of resources between sectors possible. On this basis, there can be drawn guidelines to improve the distribution in the sectoral employment, by setting out priority actions for increasing the efficiency of the use of labour resources.
Reguła Braci Mniejszych, jej powstanie i zatwierdzenie w dziełach hagiograficznych i w kazaniach św. Bonawentury
Authors: Horowski Aleksander
Published: August 2019

Celem artykułu jest przeanalizowanie, w jaki sposób św. Bonawentura z Bagnoregio przedstawia zatwierdzenie Zakonu Braci Mniejszych oraz ich Reguły. Teksty Żywota większego i Żywota mniejszego zostają porównane z najwcześniejszymi dziełami hagiograficznymi poświęconymi św. Franciszkowi z Asyżu. Odczytanie tych dzieł w świetle kazań Bonawentury ku czci Świętego Asyżanina pozwala na głębsze uchwycenie intencji autora, który kreśląc duchowy portret założyciela zakonu, pomija milczeniem fakty mogące osłabić pozycję Braci Mniejszych w toczącym się wówczas sporze o rolę nowych wspólnot zakonnych w Kościele. Bonawentura przenosi więc akcent z zatwierdzenia Zakonu i Reguły przez papieża − stojące w sprzeczności z Konstytucją XIII Soboru Laterańskiego IV − na stygmatyzację Franciszka, którą przedstawia jako cudowne potwierdzenie wspólnoty Braci Mniejszych przez samego Chrystusa.
Personalistyczna zasada wychowania w Itinerarium mentis in Deum św. Bonawentury
Authors: Śliwiński Piotr Jordan
Published: August 2019

Itinerarium mentis in Deum to dziełko świętego Bonawentury napisane jako podręcznik dla formacji franciszkanów. Jej zasadniczym rysem jest naśladowanie świętego Franciszka z Asyżu. Bonawentura medytując życie Biedaczyny, proponuje formy jego naśladowania. Posługuje się przy tym językiem filozoficzno-teologicznym, a co za tym idzie dokonuje ciekawej interpretacji życia i osoby Świętego z Asyżu. Artykuł analizuje bliżej: proponowaną koncepcję hierarchii wiedzy oraz proponowany sposób medytacji jako dwa ciekawe przykłady takiej personalistycznie zorientowanej formacji.
Ku ekumenii realistycznej. W poszukiwaniu przyczyn trudności w katolicko-prawosławnym dialogu teologicznym
Authors: Kałużny Tadeusz
Published: August 2019

Celem niniejszego artykułu jest prezentacja ważniejszych przyczyn trudności w katolicko-prawosławnym dialogu teologicznym na forum światowym. Temat został rozwinięty w czterech częściach. Najpierw zwrócono uwagę na odmienną świadomość podziału w katolicyzmie i w prawosławiu. Następnie dokonano ogólnej prezentacji wybranych aspektów katolicko-prawosławnego „dialogu miłości” i „dialogu prawdy”. W trzeciej części omówiono uwarunkowania początków dialogu teologicznego między obydwoma Kościołami. W końcu odniesiono się do kluczowych problemów natury eklezjologicznej, które pojawiły się w toku dialogu, takich jak uznanie kościelnego statusu partnerów dialogu, rozumienie kategorii „Kościołów siostrzanych” i stosunek do kwestii „uniatyzmu”. Ostatecznie stwierdzono, że katolicko-prawosławny dialog teologiczny jest dialogiem trudnym. Istniejące trudności dialogowe nie muszą jednak prowadzić do zniechęcenia, ale wręcz przeciwnie – mogą stać się impulsem do pogłębienia i ożywienia katolicko-prawosławnego dialogu teologicznego.
Doświadczenie męki Chrystusa jako paradygmat mistycznego doświadczenia Boga w nocy ciemnej
Authors: Strumiłowski Jan
Published: August 2019

W artykule została podjęta próba teologicznej interpretacji męki Chrystusa, rozumianej jako wydarzenie paradygmatyczne względem chrześcijańskiego doświadczenia nocy ciemnej. Owa teologiczna interpretacja, dla zachowania jak największego zakresu eksplikacyjnego z założenia, powinna być spójna teologicznie wobec pokrewnych dziedzin teologicznych (teologii duchowości i dogmatyki obejmującej trynitologię, chrystologię i antropologię). Ponadto ów model wyjaśniania podkreślić ma prymat oraz totalność działania Boga, skupiając się na pozytywnym odczytaniu misterium zarówno męki Chrystusa, jak i doświadczenia nocy ciemnej przez chrześcijanina.
Dirichlet Multinomial Mixture with Variational Manifold Regularization: Topic Modeling over Short Texts
Authors: Li Ximing , Zhang Jiaojiao , Ouyang Jihong
Published: August 2019

Conventional topic models suffer from a severe sparsity problem when facing extremely short texts such as social media posts. The family of Dirichlet multinomial mixture (DMM) can handle the sparsity problem, however, they are still very sensitive to ordinary and noisy words, resulting in inaccurate topic representations at the document level. In this paper, we alleviate this problem by preserving local neighborhood structure of short texts, enabling to spread topical signals among neighboring documents, so as to correct the inaccurate topic representations. This is achieved by using variational manifold regularization, constraining the close short texts should have similar variational topic representations. Upon this idea, we propose a novel Laplacian DMM (LapDMM) topic model. During the document graph construction, we further use the word mover’s distance with word embeddings to measure document similarities at the semantic level. To evaluate LapDMM, we compare it against the state-of-theart short text topic models on several traditional tasks. Experimental results demonstrate that our LapDMM achieves very significant performance gains over baseline models, e.g., achieving even about 0.2 higher scores on clustering and classification tasks in many cases.
Interleave Variational Optimization with Monte Carlo Sampling: A Tale of Two Approximate Inference Paradigms
Authors: Lou Qi , Dechter Rina , Ihler Alexander
Published: August 2019

Computing the partition function of a graphical model is a fundamental task in probabilistic inference. Variational bounds and Monte Carlo methods, two important approximate paradigms for this task, each has its respective strengths for solving different types of problems, but it is often nontrivial to decide which one to apply to a particular problem instance without significant prior knowledge and a high level of expertise. In this paper, we propose a general framework that interleaves optimization of variational bounds (via message passing) with Monte Carlo sampling. Our adaptive interleaving policy can automatically balance the computational effort between these two schemes in an instance-dependent way, which provides our framework with the strengths of both schemes, leads to tighter anytime bounds and an unbiased estimate of the partition function, and allows flexible tradeoffs between memory, time, and solution quality. We verify our approach empirically on real-world problems taken from recent UAI inference competitions.
Rethinking the Discount Factor in Reinforcement Learning: A Decision Theoretic Approach
Authors: Pitis Silviu
Published: August 2019

Reinforcement learning (RL) agents have traditionally been tasked with maximizing the value function of a Markov decision process (MDP), either in continuous settings, with fixed discount factor γ
Optimizing Discount and Reputation Trade-Offs in E-Commerce Systems: Characterization and Online Learning
Authors: Xie Hong , Li Yongkun , Lui John C. S.
Published: August 2019

Feedback-based reputation systems are widely deployed in E-commerce systems. Evidences showed that earning a reputable label (for sellers of such systems) may take a substantial amount of time and this implies a reduction of profit. We propose to enhance sellers’ reputation via price discounts. However, the challenges are: (1) The demands from buyers depend on both the discount and reputation; (2) The demands are unknown to the seller. To address these challenges, we first formulate a profit maximization problem via a semiMarkov decision process (SMDP) to explore the optimal trade-offs in selecting price discounts. We prove the monotonicity of the optimal profit and optimal discount. Based on the monotonicity, we design a QLFP (Q-learning with forward projection) algorithm, which infers the optimal discount from historical transaction data. We conduct experiments on a dataset from to show that our QLFP algorithm improves the profit by as high as 50% over both the classical Q-learning and speedy Q-learning algorithm. Our QLFP algorithm also improves the profit by as high as four times over the case of not providing any price discount.
MotionTransformer: Transferring Neural Inertial Tracking between Domains
Authors: Chen Changhao , Miao Yishu , Lu Chris Xiaoxuan , Xie Linhai , Blunsom Phil , Markham Andrew , Trigoni Niki
Published: August 2019

Inertial information processing plays a pivotal role in egomotion awareness for mobile agents, as inertial measurements are entirely egocentric and not environment dependent. However, they are affected greatly by changes in sensor placement/orientation or motion dynamics, and it is infeasible to collect labelled data from every domain. To overcome the challenges of domain adaptation on long sensory sequences, we propose MotionTransformer - a novel framework that extracts domain-invariant features of raw sequences from arbitrary domains, and transforms to new domains without any paired data. Through the experiments, we demonstrate that it is able to efficiently and effectively convert the raw sequence from a new unlabelled target domain into an accurate inertial trajectory, benefiting from the motion knowledge transferred from the labelled source domain. We also conduct real-world experiments to show our framework can reconstruct physically meaningful trajectories from raw IMU measurements obtained with a standard mobile phone in various attachments.
Motion Guided Spatial Attention for Video Captioning
Authors: Chen Shaoxiang , Jiang Yu-Gang
Published: August 2019

Sequence-to-sequence models incorporated with attention mechanism have shown promising improvements on video captioning. While there is rich information both inside and between frames, spatial attention is rarely explored and motion information is usually handled by 3D-CNNs as just another modality for fusion. On the other hand, researches about human perception suggest that apparent motion can attract attention. Motivated by this, we aim to learn spatial attention on video frames under the guidance of motion information for caption generation. We present a novel video captioning framework by utilizing Motion Guided Spatial Attention (MGSA). The proposed MGSA exploits the motion between video frames by learning spatial attention from stacked optical flow images with a custom CNN. To further relate the spatial attention maps of video frames, we designed a Gated Attention Recurrent Unit (GARU) to adaptively incorporate previous attention maps. The whole framework can be trained in an end-to-end manner. We evaluate our approach on two benchmark datasets, MSVD and MSR-VTT. The experiments show that our designed model can generate better video representation and state of the art results are obtained under popular evaluation metrics such as BLEU@4, CIDEr, and METEOR.
Effect of SOD2 methylation on mitochondrial DNA4834-bp deletion mutation in marginal cells under oxidative stress
Authors: Li Jun , Dai Xiang , He Xuelian , Yang Rong , Xia Zhongfang , Xiao Han
Published: August 2019

Presbycusis, or age-related hearing loss, is a prevalent disease that severely affects the physical and mental health of the elderly. Oxidative stress and mitochondrial (mt)DNA deletion mutation are considered as major factors in the pathophysiology of age-related hearing loss. The 4977-bp deletion in human mtDNA (common deletion, corresponding to the 4834-bp mtDNA deletion in rats) is suggested to be closely associated with the pathogenesis of age-related hearing loss. Superoxide dismutase 2 (SOD2), an isoform of SOD that is exclusively expressed in the intracellular mitochondrial matrix, plays a crucial role in oxidative resistance against mitochondrial superoxide. Previous research has shown that methylation of the promoter region of the SOD2 gene decreased the expression of SOD2 in marginal cells (MCs) extracted from the inner ear of rats subjected to D-galactose-induced mtDNA4834 deletion. However, the relationship between SOD2 methylation and mtDNA4834 deletion under oxidative stress remains to be elucidated. Herein, an oxidative damage model was established in the extracted MCs using hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), which increased the methylation level of SOD2 and the copy number of mtDNA4834 mutation in MCs. Decreasing the methylation level of SOD2 using 5-azacytidine, a DNA methylation inhibitor, reduced oxidative stress and the copy number of mtDNA4834 mutation and inhibited H2O2-induced apoptosis. The present work demonstrates that decreasing the methylation of SOD2 suppresses the mtDNA4834 deletion in MCs under oxidative stress and provides potential insights to the intervention therapy of aging-related hearing loss.
National Staff in Public Foreign Aid: Aid Localization in Practice
Authors: Sundberg Molly
Published: August 2019

This article spotlights national desk officers working in technical positions in public foreign aid agencies. These locally recruited employees share with their posted colleagues the same qualifications, formal rank, and job descriptions. As such, they actualize the concept of aid localization, which is used in donor discourse and scholarly research to describe practices of employing host country staff in partner countries. However, while donors portray localization as an investment in and empowerment of “local” expertise, scholars have primarily used the concept to describe the diffusion of corporate or “international” expertise through the recruitment of locally based professionals to international jobs. Research of aid workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, suggests that national desk officers reflect this second definition of localization. They exemplify an anthropological critique of the parochialism yet universalizing ambitions of international aid, which are tied to processes of technicalization and professionalization of aid work. The article also investigates the link between aid localization and professional authority. Findings indicate that national desk officers enjoy less professional authority than their posted colleagues. An important explanation concerns the formal terms on which donor staff are employed, which distinguish between national and posted employees as mutually exclusive and hierarchically stratified categories.
Ultrasound imaging for measuring muscle and subcutaneous fat tissue thickness of the anterior thigh: A two-year longitudinal study in middle age
Authors: Mechelli Filippo
Published: August 2019

Background Ultrasound (US) imaging technique is widely used in research and clinical settings to assess the morphology and morphometry of neuromusculoskeletal structures. The technique has reported validity and reliability in measuring the size of various muscles under controlled conditions. The aim of the present study was to assess anterior thigh thickness using US imaging, in a healthy cohort of middle-aged older adults.Methods Participants included seventeen healthy older adults involved in regular moderate-vigorous activities (age range 39-66 years). US imaging scans of the anterior thighs two years since baseline measurements were performed. Images were analyzed off-line to compare US imaging measurements of muscle thickness and subcutaneous fat (SF) of the anterior thigh taken at baseline and after two years.Results There was no significant difference between muscle thickness measurements taken at baseline and after two years (Mean, standard deviation; baseline=2.80±0.71cm; follow-up=2.77±0.72cm, p=0.33). There was also no significant change in SF thickness (baseline=1.04±0.41cm; follow-up=1.06±0.40, p=0.33).Conclusions The results show there was no decline in anterior thigh muscle thickness or increase in SF in the healthy cohort studied using US imaging over a two-year period. These findings demonstrate the robustness of US imaging measurements over time.
PASSOS NA ESCURIDÃO: reflexões sobre experiências no ensino de teatro com alunos cegos.
Authors: Felix Gilvamberto
Published: August 2019

A investigação Passos na Escuridão: reflexões sobre experiências no ensino de teatro com alunos cegos objetiva cartografar e compartilhar experiências de ensino do teatro na educação básica para alunos cegos. A experiência refletida neste escrito ocorreu na Escola Municipal de Ensino Infantil e Fundamental Deputado José Martins Rodrigues e trouxe as peças didáticas brechtianas, em especificidade, as peças radiofônicas; os jogos teatrais, na categoria dos jogos de comunicação com sons, em específico o trabalho com blablação; e o trabalho realizado com paisagens sonoras, como propostas metodológicas experienciadas na educação básica e reflete sobre os impactos e reverberações destas atividades na comunidade escolar e no processo de ensino e aprendizagem.

PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Teatro Educação, Metodologia do Ensino do Teatro, Teatro com Cegos.
A Pedagogia teatral como cuidado de si por meio de experimentações a partir da memória corporal
Authors: De Paula Ivan Gemaque
Published: August 2019

É feita aqui uma investigação a respeito do trabalho artístico de Lygia Clark (1980), intitulado Estruturação do Self, que apresenta uma concepção de arte propondo ao artista um papel de terapeuta que conduz o sujeito a ter consciência das memórias de seu corpo, buscando-se estabelecer um diálogo com o Teatro como pedagogia, partindo do pressuposto de que o conteúdo deste componente curricular não deve ser visto apenas como preparação de espetáculo ou como ensino da história do Teatro, mas sim como possibilidade de instigar atores e não atores a cuidarem de si, copreendendo o termo cuidado de si aqui a partir de proposição pedagógica apontada por Gilberto Icle (2009) como Pedagogia Teatral que inclui o outro no cuidado de si.
Opinions on Using Operating Room Effectively in Chronic Subdural Hematoma Surgery
Authors: TUNCER Cengiz , POLAT Ömer
Published: August 2019

Aim: Chronic subdural hematoma is one of the most common extracerebral hemorrhages that causes significant morbidity with increasing human life. Associations with mild head trauma are reported in 60-80% of the literature. The aim of this study is to investigate whether local and general anesthesia performed in the operation of chronic subdural hematoma patients make a difference in terms of operative time, operation cost and total times for using the operating room.Material and Methods: The records of 27 patients who were operated with diagnosis of unilateral chronic subdural hematoma between the years 2016 and 2018 in Duzce University Medical Faculty Training and Research Hospital, Neurosurgery Department were reviewed retrospectively. Age, gender, ASA score, operative time, time between entry and exit to the operating room, length of hospital stay and operating costs were recorded.Results: It was found that the operating cost and total time between entry and exit to the operating room were shorter in patients undergoing local anesthesia, and the difference between patients undergoing general anesthesia was found statistically significant (both p values are <0.001).Conclusion: In our study, a significant difference was found between the time of entrance and exit of patients who underwent local and general anesthesia. In the general anesthesia group, the costs were significantly higher. In patients with chronic subdural hematoma, local anesthesia is a more useful method in terms of efficient use of hospital operating room and reduction of operating costs. We believe that this practice will also contribute to the national economy.
Memória discursiva em manuais de leitura de meados do século XX
Authors: Pereira Anderson de Carvalho
Published: August 2019

O artigo mostra a partir da análise de manuais de leitura da primeira metade do século XX e de livros didáticos utilizados no século XXI, o modo pelo qual se construiu uma rede de sentidos sobre leitura. O corpus foi organizado a partir de material coletado no museu Pedagógico da Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia e analisado a partir das noções de discurso, sentido e memória discursiva da Análise de Discurso francesa. Mostramos um efeito de retorno do sentido individualista e utilitário de leitura que contraria o sentido polissêmico de uma “arte da leitura”. Percebemos, portanto, a consolidação deste lugar dominante nesta rede de memória discursiva.
Educação a distância no Brasil, Rússia e China
Authors: Moraes Raquel de Almeida
Published: August 2019

O objetivo do artigo é divulgar pesquisa sobre a Educação a Distância, EaD no Brasil, Rússia e China, dos primórdios no século XX a 2016, problematizando os rumos para o desenvolvimento e a inovação desses países. A abordagem metodológica é do materialismo histórico-dialético presente nos estudos comparados críticos em educação. Entre os resultados, destaca-se que a tendência à massificação e ao lucro rápido está presente nas instituições de ensino privadas no Brasil. Na Rússia e na China não foram encontrados cursos superiores à distância privados e a política é estatal desde as revoluções comunistas. Nos documentos coletados nesses países, a análise dos discursos revelou que há aproximação com as diretrizes dos organismos internacionais tendo por fundamento ideológico a Teoria do Capital Humano  e a Economia do Conhecimento.
O pensamento socialista para a educação em Pistrak e Gramsci
Authors: Carvalho Saulo
Published: August 2019

Neste artigo são analisadas as relações entre as propostas de escola e formação intelectual-moral, presentes na teoria de Pistrak e de Gramsci. Um vivenciou a prática das escolas soviéticas calcadas num pensamento comunista oriental e outro teorizou sobre a escola como instrumento de formação da hegemonia da classe trabalhadora, no ocidente. Para eles a escola seria o ponto nodal da formação intelectual-moral das crianças, do qual se sustentaria o projeto socialista da auto-organização do trabalho. Trata-se de um estudo teórico e bibliográfico que discute as nuances do pensamento socialista para a educação escolar. Busca demonstrar as bases teóricas e políticas concretas que influenciaram na elaboração de um núcleo comum de ideais baseadas na necessidade de elevação cultural das massas, disciplina intelectual e autonomia moral.
La capacitación para directores escolares en Córdoba, Argentina. Un breve acercamiento
Authors: Yelicich Carolina
Published: August 2019

El propósito de este artículo es centrar la mirada en la capacitación de directores de centros escolares, destacando los puntos problemáticos de las políticas de formación continua destinadas a este colectivo en la provincia de Córdoba, Argentina. El presente ensayo se  basa en un análisis documental de la legislación y se estructura mediante los tres argumentos subsiguientes: múltiples miradas sobre la capacitación para directores; múltiples normativas y regulaciones de la capacitación a directivos escolares y múltiples tensiones en la formación continua para directores escolares. Sostenemos que la capacitación para directivos en la provincia de Córdoba, Argentina, se encuentra en una situación inestable. Se constata la generación de políticas, organismos y propuestas específicas que pretender brindarle organicidad a la formación continua para directores escolares, no obstante en la práctica dicha formación se diluye en propuestas aisladas, de escasa conexión con la realidad de las instituciones educativas y libradas al interés o necesidad que identifique cada director de forma particular. Resulta necesario un profundo trabajo de articulación entre instancias de gobierno e instituciones para construir un sistema formador coordinado, centrado en las necesidades reales de la función directiva y al alcance de todos los directores y los docentes que aspiran a la dirección escolar.
COMUNICALAB: uma ponte entre Sorocaba e as pesquisas em Comunicação da Uniso
Authors: Gapy Leila , Rovida Mara , Martinez Monica , Silva Paulo Celso da
Published: August 2019

Este trabalho consiste no relato do projeto de pesquisa, extensão e ensino do Laboratório de Experimentação Comunicacional (Comunicalab), realizado em 2018 pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação e Cultura da Universidade de Sorocaba (Uniso). O projeto consistiu na produção de vinte narrativas audiovisuais da trajetória pessoal e profissional de sorocabanos, tendo sido desenvolvido a partir de pesquisa das histórias de vida e entrevistas. O trabalho de coleta e gravação de dados foi dividido em três blocos, com respectivas equipes três professores e alunos responsáveis. O resultado final será disponibilizado à comunidade por meio digital gratuito.
 
PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Projeto de extensão; Narrativa midiática; História de vida; Cidades; Sorocaba.
 
 
ABSTRACT
The aim of this article is to report the research project conducted by the Communicational Experimentation Laboratory (Comunicalab), in 2018, at the Graduate Program in Communication and Culture of the University of Sorocaba (Uniso). The project consisted in the production of twenty audiovisual narratives of personal and professional trajectory of inhabitants of the city of Sorocaba, using as methodological approach life histories and interviews. The work of data collection and recording was divided into three blocks, with respective teams represented by three professors and respective students. The final result will be made available to the community through free digital means.
 
KEYWORDS: Extension project; Media narrative; Life stories; Cities; Sorocaba.
 
 
RESUMEN
Este trabajo consiste en el relato del proyecto de investigación, extensión y enseñanza del Laboratorio de Experimentación Comunicacional del Laboratorio de Comunicación (Comunicalab), realizado en 2018 por el Programa de Postgrado en Comunicación y Cultura de la Universidad de Sorocaba (Uniso). El proyecto consistió en la producción de veinte narrativas audiovisuales de la trayectoria personal y profesional de sorocabanos, habiendo sido desarrollado a partir de investigación de las historias de vida y entrevistas. El trabajo de recolección y grabación de datos fue dividido en tres bloques, con sus respectivos equipos tres profesores y alumnos responsables. El resultado final se pondrá a disposición de la comunidad por medio digital gratuito.
 
PALABRAS CLAVE: Proyecto de extensión; Narrativa mediática; Historia de vida; ciudades; Sorocaba.
JORNALISMO E AFETOS NA EXPERIÊNCIA TRANSMÍDIA DO MOVIMENTO AMBIENTAL
Authors: Miguel Katarini Giroldo , Machado Mylena Fraiha
Published: August 2019

Nosso trabalho parte da hipótese de que o movimento ambiental, ao assumir as mudanças tecnológicas da contemporaneidade, tem se apropriado das Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação e dos novos formatos e gêneros narrativos que elas possibilitam. Com isso, produzem um tipo de jornalismo ambiental engajado, e que comporta os problemas socioambientais com mais profundidade e empatia, em um contexto de experiências tecnológicas como as narrativas transmidiáticas, as longforms, a realidade virtual, a gamificação. Levantamos aqui as produções multimídias desenvolvidas pelas organizações ambientalistas Instituto Socioambiental, WWF e Greenpeace, no período de julho de 2017 a julho de 2018, e constatamos investimento em recursos imersivos tanto na técnica como no discurso, que colocamos em discussão.
 
PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Jornalismo ambiental; afetos; transmídia; movimento ambiental.
 
 
ABSTRACT
Our work is based on the hypothesis that the environmental movement, when assuming the technological changes of contemporaneity, has appropriated Information and Communication Technologies and the new formats and narrative genres that they enable. As a result, they produce a kind of journalism that engages, and which brings socio-environmental problems more deeply and empathically, in a context of technological experiences such as longforms, virtual reality, gamification. We raised the multimedia productions developed by the environmental organizations Instituto Socioambiental, WWF and Greenpeace, from July 2017 to July 2018, and we noticed investment in immersive resources both in the technique and in the discourse, that we put in analysis.
 
KEYWORDS: Environmental journalism; affections; multimedia; environmental movement.
 
 
RESUMEN
Nuestra investigación parte de la hipótesis de que el movimiento ambiental, al asumir los cambios tecnológicos de la contemporaneidad, se ha apropiado de las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación y de los nuevos formatos y géneros narrativos que posibilitan. Con eso, producen un tipo de periodismo ambiental comprometido, y que comporta los problemas socioambientales con más profundidad y empatía, en un contexto de experiencias tecnológicas como las narrativas transmediaticas, la realidad virtual, la gamificación. En el período de julio de 2017 a julio de 2018,  levantamos las producciones multimedia desarrolladas por las organizaciones ambientalistas Instituto Socioambiental, WWF y Greenpeace, y constatamos la inversión en recursos inmersivos tanto en la técnica y en el discurso, que ponemos en discusión.
 
PALABRAS CLAVE: Periodismo ambiental; afectos; transmedia; movimiento ambiental.
VALORES-NOTÍCIA E INTERNET: Um estudo exploratório sobre as notícias mais acessadas do portal aRede
Authors: Xavier Cintia , Verner Afonso
Published: August 2019

O presente trabalho estuda as notícias mais acessadas (visualizadas) do portal aRede de fevereiro de 2014 a agosto de 2015. O portal está no ar desde de dezembro de 2013 e promete uma “cobertura 24 horas das notícias de Ponta Grossa e dos Campos Gerais” – o principal eixo de notícias refere-se ao setor policial e de segurança. Nesse sentido, o texto apresenta uma reflexão inicial sobre os valores-notícia e critérios de noticiabilidade, o uso desses aspectos e a nova configuração do processo de produção da notícia na era da internet. Além disso, são apresentadas reflexões a respeito da Teoria do Gatekeeping e da nova ideia do funcionamento dos gates nos meios jornalísticos na era da internet.
 
PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Valores-notícia; Webjornalismo; Jornalismo; Portal aRede; Consumo de Notícias
 
 
ABSTRACT
Values-news and internet: An exploratory study on the most accessed news from the portal aRede This work studies the most viewed news in aRede portal, from February 2014 until august 2015. The portal is on since December 2013 and promises 24 hours of news from Ponta Grossa and Campos Gerais. The most important topic is criminal and security. So, this text presents a initial reflection about "new value" and "newsworthy", how to use this criterion and how to produce de news on the internet in the present days. Besides that, the work presents a reflection about the Gatekeeping theory and the new idea about journalistic mechanism on the internet
 
KEYWORDS: News-values; Webjornalismo; Journalism; Portal aRede; News Consumption
 
 
RESUMEN
El presente trabajo estudia las noticias más accesadas (visualizadas) del portal aRede de febrero de 2014 a agosto de 2015. El portal está en el aire desde diciembre de 2013 y promete una "cobertura 24 horas de las noticias de Ponta Grossa y de los Campos Generales" - el principal eje de noticias se refiere al sector policial y de seguridad. En este sentido, el texto presenta una reflexión inicial sobre los valores-noticia y los criterios de noticiabilidad, el uso de estos aspectos y la nueva configuración del proceso de producción de la noticia en la era de Internet. Además, se presentan reflexiones acerca de la Teoría del Gatekeeping y de la nueva idea del funcionamiento de los gates en los medios periodísticos en la era de internet.
 
PALABRAS CLAVE: Valores de las noticias; periodismo en la red; el periodismo; Portal aRede; Consumo de Noticias
DA COMUNICAÇÃO NÃO-VIOLENTA À CULTURA DE PAZ: círculos, narrativas e contribuições
Authors: Almeida Cristovao Domingos de , Oliveira Simone Barros , Brum Letícia Souza
Published: August 2019

Investiga-se a possibilidade de uma prática não ideológica que se aproxima da Cultura de paz. Essa possibilidade se materializa através dos círculos de construção de Paz que juntamente com o os fundamentos teóricos da comunicação não-violenta e dos estudos de paz, alicerçam e tornam palpável a transformação de uma cultura tradicional para uma cultura de Paz. O trabalho utiliza-se do método dedutivo de abordagem do problema que, junto com o dialético crítico parte das teorias que fundamentam a comunicação não-violenta, demonstrando que a ferramenta dos círculos de construção de Paz pode ser um meio para se chegar a cultura de Paz. O caráter da pesquisa é bibliográfico e documental.
 
PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Cultura de paz; Círculos de construção de Paz; Comunicação não-violenta.
 
 
ABSTRACT
The possibility of a non-ideological practice approaching the culture of peace is investigated. This possibility is materialized through the circles of peace building that together with the theoretical foundations of non-violent communication and Peace Studies, foundation and make palpable the transformation of a traditional culture into a culture of peace. The work uses the deductive method of addressing the problem that, together with the critical dialectic part of the theories that substantiate non-violent communication, demonstrating that the tool of peace building circles can be a means to reach Culture of peace. The character of the research is bibliographical and documentary.
 
KEYWORDS: Peace Culture; Peacebuilding Circles; Nonviolent Communication.
 
 
RESUMEN
Se investiga la posibilidad de una práctica no ideológica que se aproxima a la cultura de paz. Esta posibilidad se materializa a través de los círculos de construcción de paz que junto con los fundamentos teóricos de la comunicación no violenta y de los estudios de paz, fundamentan y hacen palpable la transformación de una cultura tradicional hacia una cultura de paz. El trabajo se utiliza del método deductivo de abordaje del problema que, junto con el dialéctico crítico parte de las teorías que fundamentan la comunicación no violenta, demostrando que la herramienta de los círculos de construcción de Paz puede ser un medio para llegar a la cultura de Paz. la investigación es bibliográfica y documental.
 
PALABRAS CLAVE: Cultura de paz; Círculos de construcción de paz; Comunicación no violenta.