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MULHERES NO MAMULENGO, RESSIGNIFICANDO O PRECONCEITO
Authors: Benatti Barbara Duarte
Published: August 2020

Este artigo é um recorte do trabalho de campo desenvolvido no mestrado em Artes Cênicas. Se propõe a investigar as novas gerações de brincantes de Mamulengo do gênero feminino da cidade de Glória de Goitá (PE). O Mamulengo é uma brincadeira de teatro de bonecos popular em Pernambuco e como tradição oral, é permanentemente ressignificado por seus produtores. A brincadeira permite a participação e o diálogo com o público, estabelecendo uma relação dinâmica que também se realiza no fortalecimento da identidade de um povo, que por meio da brincadeira: explicitam, expressam e denunciam valores, informam suas visões de mundo, seus desejos, experiências individuais e coletivas. Nessa perspectiva este artigo levanta alguns problemas: como lidam com o preconceito e como trabalham essas mulheres brincantes pertencentes à nova geração? Parti da hipótese que existem ressignificações e reelaborações nas brincadeiras que estarão presentes nas produções artísticas, acompanhando uma mudança de paradigmas ou pré-conceitos culturais sobre o universo feminino.
PALHAÇARIA HOSPITALAR A PARTIR DE UMA VISÃO TRANSPESSOAL
Authors: Brum Daiani Cezimbra , Battestin Deise
Published: August 2020

O presente trabalho possui um caráter bibliográfico, exploratório e experimental, e tem por objetivo investigar a atuação de palhaças e de palhaços em espaços hospitalares a partir de uma visão que dialoga com uma visão Transpessoal da Psicilogia. Para tanto, além de uma revisão bibliográfica, trazemos uma perspectiva experiencial, uma vez que atuamos como palhaças em hospitais de Chapecó, junto ao grupo XXX. Os espaços em que atuamos em 2019 foram: Hospital do Oeste Catarinense e Hospital da Criança. Ao descrever experiências no âmbito da palhaçaria hospitalar a partir de uma visão Transpessoal, buscamos investigar as aproximações e convergências entre as áreas das Artes Cênicas e as Saúde.
Word order preferences and the effect of phrasal length in SOV languages: evidence from sentence production in Persian
Authors: Faghiri Pegah , Samvelian Pollet
Published: August 2020

Heaviness (or phrasal length) has been shown to trigger mirror-image constituent ordering preferences in head-initial and head-final languages (heavy-late vs. heavy-first). These preferences are commonly attributed to a general cognitive pressure for processing efficiency obtained by minimizing the overall head-dependents linear distance – measured as the distance between the verb and the head of its left/right-most complement (Hawkins’s Minimizing Domains) or as the sum of the distances between the verb and its complements (Dependency Length Minimization). The alternative language-specific accessibility-based production account, that considers longer constituents to be conceptually more accessible and views heavy-first as a salient-first preference, is dismissed because it implies differential sentence production in SOV and SVO languages. This paper studies the effect of phrasal length in Persian, a flexible SOV language displaying mixed head direction and differential object marking. We investigated the effect of linear distance as well as the effect of conceptual enrichment in two sentence production experiments. Our results provide clear evidence that support DLM while undermining Hawkins’s MiD. However, they also show that some length effects cannot be captured by a dependency-distance-minimizing model and the conceptual accessibility hypothesis also needs to be taken into account to explain ordering preferences in Persian. Importantly, our findings indicate that distance minimization has a less strong effect in Persian than previously shown for other SOV languages.
Effect of Word Recognition Skills on Learners’ Achievement in Reading Comprehension in Vihiga County, Kenya
Authors: Anyiendah Mary Susan , Odundo Paul A. , Kibuyi Agnes
Published: August 2020

Word recognition is one of the comprehension processing skills encapsulated by the interactive approach instruction. Word recognition skills enable readers to understand the meaning of comprehension passages by decoding the sound of new words. Learners in Vihiga County perform poorer in English language examinations than their peers in neighbouring counties. The performance is weaker in comprehension than in grammar sections of the English paper. Despite this, there is paucity of empirical information about the nexus between activation of word recognition skills and learners’ achievement in reading comprehension in the County. This study applied the Solomon Four-Group Design to source data from 279 primary school learners and 8 teachers in 2017. Multiple linear regression was used to generate two models, one for the experimental group (Model 1) and one for the control group (Model 2). Key results show that the influence of word recognition skills on learners’ achievement in reading comprehension was statistically significant in both groups. However, the effect was stronger in the experimental than in the control group, suggests that training teachers in the experimental group enabled learners in that group to perform better than their colleagues in the control group. Thus, activation of learners’ word recognition skills is likely to improve achievement in reading comprehension.
Systematizing Internationalization Policy of Higher Education in State Islamic Universities
Authors: Munadi Muhammad
Published: August 2020

The phenomenon of globalization affects all sectors including higher education in Indonesia. This research aimed to determine strategic planning, research activities, and curriculum of internationalization policy. The research used qualitative approach in State Islamic University of Yogyakarta and State Islamic University of Malang. The results showed that strategic planning of internationalization is coordinated in all levels. The international curriculum is through foreign language and multicultural skills. The development of international scientific journal cited internationally and the development of lecturers for scientific publications cited internationally cited. State islamic universities performed internationalization with competency perspective.
Reviewer Acknowledgements for Asian Social Science, Vol. 16, No. 9
Authors: Zhang Jenny
Published: August 2020

Reviewer Acknowledgements for Asian Social Science, Vol. 16, No. 9, 2020
Reviewer Acknowledgements for International Business Research, Vol. 13, No. 9
Authors: Duran Kevin
Published: August 2020

Reviewer Acknowledgements for International Business Research, Vol. 13, No. 9, 2020
Drivers of People’s Preferences for Spatial Proximity to Energy Infrastructure Technologies: A Cross-country Analysis
Authors: Harold Jason , Bertsch Valentin , Lawrence Thomas , Hall Magie
Published: August 2020

Many countries plan to decarbonise their energy systems by increasing energy efficiency and expanding the use of renewable energy sources (RES). Such actions require significant investments in new energy infrastructures. While people are generally accepting of these infrastructures, opposition sometimes arises when these developments are sited at close proximity to people’s residences. Therefore, it is important to understand what actually drives people’s preferences for spatial proximity to different energy infrastructure technologies. This study examines the factors influencing people’s proximity preferences to a range of different energy technologies using a cross-country econometric analysis of the stated preference data from an unprecedented survey conducted on nationally representative samples of the population in Ireland, the U.S. and Germany. The survey involved more than 4,500 participants in total. This paper presents the data and selected results from a generalised ordered logit model for each energy technology surveyed.These are; wind turbines, solar power technology, biomass power plant, coal-fired power plant and natural gas power plant. The results show that, in general,German and Irish citizens are willing to accept energy infrastructures at smaller distances to their homes than their U.S. counterparts. Moreover, attitudinal factors are found to shape people’s preferences more consistently than any of the socio-demographic characteristics.
Sectoral Electricity Demand and Direct Rebound Effects inNew Zealand
Authors: Nepal Rabindra , Irsyad Muhammad Indra al , Jamasb Tooraj
Published: August 2020

This paper is one of the limited studies to investigate rebound effects in sectoral electricity consumption and the specific case of New Zealand. New Zealand, like other OECD economies, has aimed for energy efficiency improvements and reduced electricity consumption from 9.2 MWh per capita in 2010 to 8.6 MWh per capita in 2015. However, following a significant decline since 2010, electricity consumption in the main New Zealand sectors is increasing. Energy conservation could play an important role in meeting the growing demand for electricity but rebound effects can affect the effectiveness of conservation policies. We decompose the sectoral electricity prices to capture the asymmetric demand response to electricity price changes and estimate electricity demand elasticity during 1980 and 2015 to estimate the sectoral rebound effects. We find partial rebound effects of 54% and 23% in the industrial and commercial sectors respectively while we find no rebound effect at the aggregate level. The rebound effect is insignificant in the residential sector. These findings lead to policy recommendations for sector specific energy conservation measures and policies.
Statistical Arbitrage and Information Flow in an Electricity Balancing Market
Authors: Bunn Derek W. , Kermer Stefan O.E.
Published: August 2020

Motivated by the events following a natural experiment in 2015, when the market rules for electricity spot trading were changed in Britain, we analyse the operational effects of market participants responding to price incentives for spillage and shortage positions in a single price, real-time market. We develop an analytical model for optimal real-time decisions by generators and speculators based upon forecasts of the conditional distribution of the total system imbalance between instantaneous supply and demand. From this, we examine the effects of time delays in information transparency for the consequent statistical arbitrage positions. We backtested this model empirically to the Austrian system imbalance settlements process within the German/Austrian integrated market. Results suggest that permitting additional intraday flexibility from a physical generator or a non-physical trader can be beneficial for the agents themselves, the system operator and market efficiency.
XRF analysis of heavy metals contents in oak wood (Quercur robur L.)
Authors: Balicka Adrianna , Szadkowska Dominika
Published: August 2020

XRF analysis of heavy metals contents in oak wood (Quercur robur L.). The aim of this study was to determine an amount of adsorbed metals ions from water solutions by oak ( Quercus robur L.) shavings. This paper focuses on XRF analysis of metal contents in examined samples. Necessary material was obtained from damaged flooring strips. Samples were soaked with standard water solutions of lead (II) nitrate, cadmium nitrate and mercury (II) chloride. After 7 days wood shavings were dried and reduced to ashes in muffle furnace. Content of adsorbed metal was marked (XRF) and classified depending on percentage concentration of metal ions in solutions.
The importance of large enterprises for the development of the furniture industry in the selected EU countries
Authors: Grzegorzewska Emila
Published: August 2020

The importance of large enterprises for the development of the furniture industry in the selected EU countries. In theoretical and empirical research, the role of small and medium-sized enterprises in the economic development of the country is usually explicitly emphasized, highlighting their importance for innovation and competitiveness of the economy. However, despite the small percentage of companies employing over 249 persons in most industries, these enterprises generate a significant value of industrial production and to a large extent create jobs. The main purpose of the research was to assess the importance of large companies for the development of the furniture industry in the selected EU countries. Five European Community countries were selected for the research, which are among the largest furniture manufacturers (Italy, Germany, Poland, Great Britain and France). A comparative analysis was carried out against all Member States of the Community, and the time range of the research covered the years 2010-2017. The analysis shows that overall, the importance of large enterprises for the development of the EU furniture industry has increased, although these trends were varied in analysed countries. The countries selected for the analysis play a significant role in creating value in production and jobs in the EU furniture industry. Enterprises with the highest level of employment are of great importance for the increase in production and the development of the labour market in this industry. These economic entities constituted less than 1% of the total functioning enterprises. The added value per employee in enterprises employing over 249 persons in the EU was clearly higher than the average for business entities in general.
Comparison of results between visual and machine strength grading of Polish-grown pine timber (Pinus sylvestris L.) from the Baltic Forestry Region
Authors: Krzosek Sławomir , Burawska-Kupniewska Izabela , Mańkowski Piotr , Grześkiewicz Marek , Mirski Radosław
Published: August 2020

Comparison of results between visual and machine strength grading of Polish-grown pine timber (Pinus sylvestris L.) from the Baltic Forestry Region. The paper presents the analysis of results of strength grading of Scots pine wood (Pinus sylvestris L.) with two different methods: visual and machine strength grading, conducted on raw material from the Baltic Forestry Region. Visual strength grading was carried out in accordance with PN-D-94021:2013, while machine strength grading was performed with the use of the MTG device by a Dutch company, Brookhuis Electronics BV. The machine assisted method of timber strength grading proved to be more efficient, resulting in a higher amount of timber in the C30 class (28.7%) than in the best (KW) class after visual strength grading (3.3%). On the basis of the conducted tests, it has been confirmed that machine strength grading results in very few (6.0%) rejected timber pieces. At the same time, there have been cases of timber pieces that hadn't been classified in any of the classes or rejected during machine strength grading. Such pieces were treated as rejected.
EDITORIAL (English)
Authors: Sanín-Restrepo Ricardo , Araújo Marinella Machado
Published: August 2020

Editorial
PLANEJAMENTO FAMILIAR E ESTERILIZAÇÃO DE MULHERES NO BRASIL
Authors: Nielsson Joice Graciele
Published: August 2020

O presente artigo evidencia a evolução das políticas de planejamento familiar e esterilização de mulheres no Brasil, evidenciando a ambivalência existente entre a promoção dos direitos humanos reprodutivos das mulheres, e as práticas de controle reprodutivo que, por meio do dispositivo da reprodutividade, instituem cesuras biopatriarcalistas entre corpos úteis e corpos indesejáveis à reprodução. Para tanto, analisa a aplicação, por meio de políticas públicas e decisões jurisprudências, da Lei de Planejamento Familiar – Lei 9263/96 – quanto à prática de esterilização de mulheres, destacando que, por meio do estado de exceção, instrumentalizam-se diferentes formas de gestão do útero, conforme os recortes de raça, classe, discapacidade e outras formas de vulnerabilização de corpos femininos. A pesquisa utiliza o método de procedimento estruturalista, e o método de abordagem hipotético dedutivo.
Freiwilligenarbeit als Arbeit – Potenziale und Grenzen im Lichte der Anerkennungstheorie
Authors: Nierling Linda
Published: August 2020

Die Debatte um erweiterte Arbeit war in den 1980er und 1990er Jahren mit vielen Hoffnungen besetzt, grundlegend neue Perspektiven für die gesellschaftliche Organisation von Arbeit zu schaffen. Blickt man auf diese Debatte gut 30 Jahre später zurück, so hat sie bis heute keine weite gesellschaftliche Verbreitung erfahren. Dennoch hat die damalige Grundidee - Arbeit nicht nur als Erwerbsarbeit zu verstehen - nichts an ihrer Brisanz eingebüßt. In dem Beitrag werden auf Basis einer qualitativen Fallstudienuntersuchung Potenziale und Grenzen aufgezeigt. Dabei wird deutlich, dass verlässliche Strukturen des Arbeitsmarktes eine grundlegende Voraussetzung dafür sind, dass sich Individuen sinnstiftende Potenziale erweiterter Arbeit selbstbestimmt erschließen können. Daher ist die Veränderung von Rahmenbedingungen in der Erwerbsarbeit zentral, gerade auch um kritische Entwicklungen der Freiwilligenarbeit zu vermeiden. In der gegenwärtigen Transformation des Arbeitsmarktes im Zuge der Digitalisierung sollten mögliche Auswirkungen auf die Freiwilligenarbeit sehr viel stärker berücksichtigt werden.
Die Logik der Lyrik
Authors: Weber Christian
Published: August 2020

Goethes »große Hymnen« wie Mahomets Gesang, Wandrers Sturmlied, Prometheus und Ganymed zählen zu den zentralen poetologischen Texten des jungen Dichters und der Genieästhetik des Sturm und Drang. Allerdings artikulieren sich in ihnen recht widersprüchliche poetische Programme. Diese Widersprüche lassen sich erklären, wenn die Gedichte im Kontext der handschriftlich überlieferten ›Ersten Weimarer Gedichtsammlung‹ (1777) untersucht werden. Handelt es sich bei den Geniehymnen für sich betrachtet um »Bruchstücke einer großen Konfession«, so erscheinen sie im kunstvollen Arrangement der ersten zwölf Gedichte dieser Sammlung als integrale Bestandteile eines poetologischen Geniezyklus. Jedoch hat ihn Goethe in dieser Form niemals veröffentlicht und mit Absicht ›ruiniert‹. Die vorliegende Studie rekonstruiert in detaillierten intertextuellen und intra-kontextuellen Interpretationen die immanente Poeto-Logik dieses bislang verschütteten Hauptwerks des jungen Goethe. Sie legt die theoretische Ambition des Dichters frei, dessen metapoetische Selbstanalyse des lyrisch-poetischen Genies Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes antizipiert und Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft durch eine Kritik der Einbildungskraft komplementiert. CHRISTIAN P. WEBER unterrichtet als Assistant Professor of German Studies an der Florida State University in Tallahassee.
Successful Management of a Suspected Case of Meperidine-Induced Anaphylaxis in Cesarean Delivery
Authors: Biazar Gelareh , Farzi Farnoush , Chaibakhsh Yasmin , Habibi Mohammad Reza , Khosousi Sani Mahsa , Mirmansouri Ladan
Published: August 2020

Introduction: Meperidine is known as the gold standard drug for shivering after spinal anesthesia (SA). This drug has been used widely and safely during the Cesarean Section (CS). Case Presentation: This case report presents an anaphylaxis reaction to a single intravenous dose of 25 mg meperidine, aiming to control shivering during CS under SA a few minutes after surgical incision. Conclusions: The condition was well managed with timely intervention. This rare fetal reaction to meperidine is worthy of reporting to make the medical team aware of the potential risks of anaphylaxis due to many routine safe drugs.
The Effect of Ginger and Ondansetron on Post-Operative Nausea and Vomiting in Patients Undergoing Eye Surgery: A Triple-Blind Clinical Trial
Authors: Sedighmaroufi Shahnam , Abbaskhani Davanloo Ali , Moradimajd Parisa , Samaee Hamidreza , Lavaie Mohammad
Published: August 2020

Background: Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is still a common complication that occurs frequently at the time of recovery from eye surgery. Objectives: The present study aimed to compare the effect of oral Ondansetron and Ginger on the frequency and severity of postoperative nausea and vomiting in patients undergoing eye surgery. Methods: A total of 148 patients were randomly assigned to Ginger, Ondansetron, and placebo groups. Group A received a Ginger capsule (1,000 mg), group B Ondansetron capsule (16 mg), and group C placebo capsule with 30 ml water, one hour before surgery. The frequency of nausea and vomiting and the severity of nausea were recorded immediately after recovery, 1, 2, and 4 hours after recovery. Also, some side effects following prescription such as headache, stomach ache, dizziness, and cardiac arrhythmias were recorded. Results: Of the 148 participants, 54% were men, and 46% were women. The average age was in group Ginger (36.14 ± 2.17), group Ondansetron (36.24 ± 2.49), and group placebo (36.24 ± 2.20). There was no significant difference in the frequency of vomiting between the three groups immediately after recovery (P = 0.19) and 4 hours after surgery (P = 0.18). However, the frequency of vomiting in Ginger and Ondansetron groups 1 and 2 hours after the surgery was significantly lower than that in the control group (P = 0.003). No significant difference was observed in the severity of nausea between the three groups at certain times (P > 0.05). There was no significant difference in terms of the need for injection antiemetic drugs after surgery (P = 0.2). Conclusions: Ginger and Ondansetron can reduce the frequency of vomiting. However, Ginger was more effective, safer, and less expensive than Ondansetron; therefore, it may be a better substitute for Ondansetron to prevent PONV.
Lines on the surface in the quasi-hiperbolic space 11^S1/3
Authors: Tsyrenova V. B.
Published: August 2020

Quasi-hyperbolic spaces are projective spaces with decaying abso­lute. This work is a continuation of the author's work [7], in which surfac­es in one of these spaces are examined by methods of external forms and a moving frame. The semi-Chebyshev and Chebyshev net­works of lines on the surface in quasi-hyperbolic space are considered. In this pa­per we use the definition of parallel transfer adopted in [6]. By analogy with Euclidean geometry, the semi-Chebyshev network of lines on the surface is the network in which the tangents to the lines of one family are carried parallel along the lines of another family. A Che­byshev network is a network in which tangents to the lines of each family are carried parallel along the lines of another family. We proved three theorems. In Theorem 1, we obtain a natural equa­tion for non-geodesic lines that are part of a conjugate semi-Chebyshev network on the surface so that tangents to lines of another family are transferred in parallel along them. In Theorem 2, the natural equation of non-geodesic lines in the Chebyshev network is obtained. In Theorem 3 we prove that conjugate Chebyshev networks, one family of which is nei­ther geodesic lines, nor Euclidean sections, exist on surfaces with the lati­tude of four functions of one argument.
On a property of W4-manifolds
Authors: Banaru M. B.
Published: August 2020

The properties of almost Hermitian manifolds belonging to the Gray — Hervella class W4 are considered. The almost Hermitian manifolds of this class were studied by such outstanding geometers like Alfred Gray, Izu Vaisman, and Vadim Feodorovich Kirichenko. Using the Cartan structural equations of an almost contact metric structure induced on an arbitrary oriented hypersurface of a W4-manifold, some results on totally umbilical and totally geodesic hypersurfaces of W4-manifolds are presented. It is proved that the quasi-Sasakian structure induced on a totally umbilical hypersurface of a W4-manifold is either homothetic to a Sasakian structure or cosymplectic. Moreover, the quasi-Sasakian structure is cosymplectic if and only if the hypersurface is a to­tally geodesic submanifold of the considered W4-manifold. From the present result it immediately follows that the quasi-Sasakian structure induced on a totally umbilical hypersurface of a locally confor­mal Kählerian (LCK-) manifold also is either homothetic to a Sasakian structure or cosymplectic.
Connections with parallel skew-symmetric torsion on sub-Riemannian manifolds
Authors: Galaev S. V.
Published: August 2020

On a sub-Riemannian manifold M of contact type, is considered an N-connection defined by the pair (, N), where is an interior metric connection, is an endomorphism of the distribution D. It is proved that there exists a unique N-connection such that its torsion is skew-symmetric as a contravariant tensor field. A construction of the endomorphism corresponding to such connection is found. The sufficient conditions for the obtained connection to be a metric connec­tion with parallel torsion are given.
Normalization of Norden — Chakmazyan for distri­butions given on a hypersurface
Authors: Eliseeva N. A.
Published: August 2020

In the projective space, we continue to study a hypersurface with three strongly mutual distributions. For equipping distributions of a hypersurface, normalization in the sense of Norden — Chakmazyan is introduced internally. The distribution of the equipping planes is normal­ized in the sense of Norden — Chakmazyan if the fields of normals of the 1st kind and normals of the 2nd kind are attached to it in an invariant way. For each equipping distribution, the fields of normals of the 1st and 2nd kind are defined by the corresponding fields of quasitensors. At each point of the hypersurface, the normal of the 1st kind of the equipping dis­tribution of the hypersurface passes through the characteristic of the tan­gent hypersurface. This characteristic was obtained with displacements of the point along the integral curves of the equipping distribution. For equipping distributions, the coverage of quasitensors is found un­der which the conditions of invariance of the normals of the 1st and 2nd kind are satisfied. Coverage of quasitensors is found for which normalization in the sense of Norden — Chakmazyan is attached to the equipping distributions of the hypersurface in a second-order differential neighborhood.
Evaluation of Characteristics of the Dental Maturity in Girls with Precocious Puberty
Authors: Kim Chi Hoon , Kang Chung-Min , Kim Ik-Hwan , Song Je Seon , Kim Seong Oh
Published: August 2020

Precocious puberty (PP) is defined as the early development of secondary sexual characteristics (before the ages of 8 years in girls and 9 years in boys). The aim of this study is to identify characteristics of the dental maturity in girls with PP that discriminate them from normal healthy girls.This study included 99 girls aged 6 - 8 years with PP and 99 girls without past medical history of same chronological age (control group). The study was performed on 198 panoramic radiographs (99 PP girls, 99 control group girls). Demirjian method was used to evaluate the panoramic radiographs and determine dental maturity. Difference in dental maturity score and tooth formation stages between the two groups were analyzed.The PP group showed significant higher maturity score than control group. Among mandibular teeth, mandibular 2nd premolar and 2nd molar were significantly more mature in the PP group than control group. Logistic regression analysis showed that mandibular 2nd molar was only significant predictor for PP girls.
Shifting perspectives. Representations of the Maya in modern Mexican and Guatemalan narrative
Authors: Andzel-O'Shanahan Edyta
Published: August 2020

The aim of this article is to examine the dominant literary tendencies in the 20th and 21st century Mexican and Guatemalan narrative, which depict the Maya in their social and cultural environment. From indigenismo, through a hybrid genre known as testimonio, to indigenous literature, the Maya have been present over the last century in literary production, in which several important changes in narrative voice and perspective can be observed. Initially represented by the paternalistic indigenista narrative, which is compliant with the government-endorsed ideology, the Maya have gradually regained their own unmediated literary voice, which enables them to speak for themselves rather than be spoken for. Literature, with its ability to question established paradigms, becomes a place of resistance and decolonising praxis. Due to the scope of the subject matter, only the most representative and innovative novels written by both non-Maya and Maya authors will be analysed. The article will focus primarily on narrative voice, perspective and agency.
Declaraciones públicas y artes escénicas: la construcción de personajes y narrativas de apropiadores y apropiadoras en Teatro x la Identidad (2000-2001)
Authors: Diz María Luisa
Published: August 2020

El artículo se propone analizar los diferentes modos de poner en escena personajes y narrativas de apropiadores y apropiadoras en dos obras que formaron parte del primer ciclo de Teatro x la Identidad (Ciudad de Buenos Aires, 2001). Para esto, se estudiará la construcción de un represor y apropiador a través de sus declaraciones públicas reproducidas por la prensa escrita a fines de los años 80, y el uso dramático de aquellas declaraciones en el espectáculo semimontado A propósito de la duda (2000-2001), de Patricia Zangaro, que lo convierte a él y a su esposa en personajes de apropiadores representados, irónicamente, como “buenos padres de familia”. Por otro lado, se examinará la obra Método (2001), de Silvia Aira, para investigar la configuración del personaje de un apropiador como monstruo sádico a partir de la inspiración de su dramaturga. Además, se indagará en la existencia de repercusiones de estas obras para la causa de Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo y en los modos en que aquellas construyen memorias sociales en torno al delito de apropiación de menores. Por último, se pretende justificar la inclusión de las figuras del apropiador y de la apropiadora en la categoría de represor.
Trayectoria, capital e ideología. Las declaraciones de los perpetradores en los juicios por crímenes de lesa humanidad en Argentina
Authors: Salvi Valentina
Published: August 2020

Durante el juicio oral de la causa conocida como Guerrieri I que tuvo lugar en la ciudad de Rosario entre 2009 y 2010, cuatro de los cinco imputados hicieron uso de la palabra: el general (R) Pascual Guerrieri, subjefe del Destacamento de Inteligencia Militar 121 con sede en Rosario y comandante del “grupo de tareas”; el teniente coronel (R) Jorge Fariña, jefe operativo y de inteligencia del “grupo de tareas”; el capitán (R) Juan Daniel Amelong, subjefe del “grupo de tareas”; y el agente civil de inteligencia Eduardo “Tucu” Costanzo.La propuesta de este artículo es analizar el contenido de las declaraciones de los imputados a la luz de sus posiciones de enunciación en el contexto de copresencia entre víctimas y victimarios que el proceso judicial actualiza. El interés principal es atender a las versiones y relatos sobre el pasado que los imputados sostuvieron durante el juicio, las performances expositivas que desplegaron en tanto agentes dotados de capitales, recursos y trayectorias específicas en función de su grado militar, su formación académica, su lugar en el aparato represivo, su prestigio y reconocimiento interno y su compromiso personal con la llamada “guerra antisubversiva”, así como las estrategias políticas e ideológicas que expusieron para mantener una posición de autoridad entre sus pares y ante el tribunal y para deslegitimar a sus acusadores.
Alegoría de la clase media "real" española en 'Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo'
Authors: Domingo Sancho Irene
Published: August 2020

Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo (Salmerón, 2017) es un documental que narra la historia de la vida de su protagonista, Julita, vis a vis la historia de España desde la guerra civil hasta la más reciente crisis económica. La primera aparece en la cinta, además de como madre del director, como alegoría inusual de España en su personificación de la clase media “real” española. En este artículo se analiza cómo Muchos hijos logra visualizar fidedignamente no solo los excesos, sino también las ambigüedades que caracterizan a este sujeto clave en la historia más reciente del país en el ámbito material e ideológico. Atendiendo al formato multi-genérico de la cinta, se estudian las maneras en que los elementos cómicos, trágicos y performativos del documental sitúan a este entre lo carnavalesco y lo crítico humorístico, mientras desvelan las contradicciones muchas veces pasadas por alto, pero fundamentales para entender a la clase que se ha instaurado en el imaginario hegemónico como protagonista de la democracia española.
'Macario', un hito en la representación de Día de muertos en la industria cinematográfica mexicana (1930-1960)
Authors: Mora Aymerich Flora
Published: August 2020

Macario, la película dirigida en 1959 por Roberto Gavaldón, ha supuesto un hito en la representación de Día de Muertos dentro de la cinematografía mexicana. El artículo pretende analizar la película desde esta nueva perspectiva de la construcción de identidad que representa esta festividad a través de su introspección, de su contexto social, de la iconografía utilizada para plasmar los elementos que la representan y finalmente de su repercusión. El estudio de esta película ayuda a ahondar en cómo la festividad de Día de Muertos se ha transformado y ha llegado a construirse, a través de la industria cinematográfica, como un icono nacional de identidad mexicana.
Cuentos de fantasmas. Persistencia espectral de los centros de detención y tortura chilenos
Authors: Santos Herceg José , Pizarro María Carolina
Published: August 2020

Los centros de detención y tortura de la dictadura chilena han desaparecido o están desapareciendo. Con ello, las memorias de dichos lugares parecen asimismo perderse. Sostendremos aquí, no obstante, que la desaparición física de los lugares no implica la pérdida de todo rastro, puesto que su recuerdo subsiste a través de otros medios, como la tradición oral. Exploramos, en particular, la posibilidad de que sean los relatos de actividad sobrenatural, los así llamados “cuentos de fantasmas”, los que sirvan de escenario público de la memoria social, permitiendo que esta sea convocada.
Pelatihan Rise and Shine sebagai metode psikoedukasi: Bisakah menurunkan stigma bunuh diri?
Authors: Febriawan Iqbal Maesa
Published: August 2020

Masalah stigma masih menjadi tantangan dalam usaha promosi kesehatan mental. Salah satu metode menurunkan stigma bunuh diri yang telah diuji efektivitasnya adalah psikoedukasi melalui pelatihan. Meski demikian, konteks pengetahuan atau kompetensi lain dalam psikoedukasi selain literasi bunuh diri dan pengetahuan tentang kesehatan mental juga berpotensi menurunkan stigma. Peneliti berhipotesis bahwa stigma bunuh diri pada kandidat sukarelawan dalam komunitas pencegahan bunuh diri Into the Light menurun setelah pelatihan Rise and Shine. Desain penelitian one-group dengan pengukuran pre-test dan post-test digunakan dalam studi ini. Sebanyak 41 kandidat sukarelawan generasi kelima dari komunitas Into the Light berpartisipasi dalam studi ini. Ditemukan adanya penurunan stigma bunuh diri yang signifikan pada seluruh kandidat sukarelawan, baik untuk stigma terhadap percobaan bunuh diri (t(40) = 2,742, pone-tailed = 0,005, Cohen’s d = 0,428) maupun kehilangan akibat bunuh diri (t(40) = 2,295, pone-tailed = 0,014, Cohen’s d = 0,358) setelah pelatihan selama empat belas minggu. Tidak ditemukan main effect (FSTOSA(1,39) = 0,399, p = 0,531, partial η2 =0,010; FSTOSASS(1,39) = 0,019, p = 0,892, partial η2 = 0) maupun interaction effect (FSTOSA(1,39) = 0,674, p = 0,417, partial η2 = 0,017; FSTOSASS(1,39) = 0,057, p = 0,812, partial η2 = 0,001) yang signifikan atas status kandidat sukarelawan dalam pelatihan (lulus (n = 22) vs. tereliminasi (n = 19)) terhadap penurunan stigma bunuh diri.
Topology of Violence
Authors: Han Byung-Chul
Published: August 2020

One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity.

Some things never disappear—violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social constellation at hand. In Topology of Violence, the philosopher Byung-Chul Han considers the shift in violence from the visible to the invisible, from the frontal to the viral to the self-inflicted, from brute force to mediated force, from the real to the virtual. Violence, Han tells us, has gone from the negative—explosive, massive, and martial—to the positive, wielded without enmity or domination. This, he says, creates the false impression that violence has disappeared. Anonymized, desubjectified, systemic, violence conceals itself because it has become one with society.

Han first investigates the macro-physical manifestations of violence, which take the form of negativity—developing from the tension between self and other, interior and exterior, friend and enemy. These manifestations include the archaic violence of sacrifice and blood, the mythical violence of jealous and vengeful gods, the deadly violence of the sovereign, the merciless violence of torture, the bloodless violence of the gas chamber, the viral violence of terrorism, and the verbal violence of hurtful language. He then examines the violence of positivity—the expression of an excess of positivity—which manifests itself as over-achievement, over-production, over-communication, hyper-attention, and hyperactivity. The violence of positivity, Han warns, could be even more disastrous than that of negativity. Infection, invasion, and infiltration have given way to infarction.
Portrait of the Manager as a Young Author
Authors: Schönthaler Philipp
Published: August 2020

What happens to the relationship between business and literature when storytelling becomes a privileged form of communication for organizations.

Corporations love a good story. Microsoft employs a chief storyteller, who heads a team of twenty-five corporate storytellers. IBM, Coca-Cola, and the World Bank are among other organizations that have worked with storytelling methods. And, of course, Steve Jobs was famous for his storytelling. Today, narrative is a privileged form of communication for organizations. In Portrait of the Manager as a Young Author, Philipp Schönthaler explains this unlikely alliance between business and storytelling.

The contradictions are immediately apparent. If, as the philosopher Hans Blumenberg writes, stories are told to pass the time, managers would seem to have little time to spare. And yet, Schönthaler reports, stories are useful in handling complexity. When digital information flows too quickly and exceeds the capacity of the human brain, narrative can provide communicative efficiency and effectiveness. Words and numbers both vouch for truth, are both instrumentalized by management, and are inextricably interdependent.

What happens, if narrative becomes ubiquitous? Does the commercialization of narratives have an effect on literature? Through the lens of storytelling, Schönthaler explores the relationship between economics and literature and describes a form of writing that takes place in their shared spheres. Most books on storytelling in the corporate world are written by business writers; this book offers the perspective of an award-winning literary author, who considers both the impact of storytelling on business and the impact of business on literature.
Zoning China
Authors: Li Luzhou
Published: August 2020

An examination of “cultural zoning” in China considers why government regulation of online video is so much more lenient than regulation of broadcast television.

In Zoning China, Luzhou Li investigates why the Chinese government regulates online video relatively leniently while tightly controlling what appears on broadcast television. Li argues that television has largely been the province of the state, even as the market has dominated the development of online video. Thus online video became a space where people could question state media and the state's preferred ideological narratives about the nation, history, and society. Li connects this relatively unregulated arena to the “second channel” that opened up in the early days of economic reform—piracy in all its permutations. She compares the dual cultural sphere to China's economic zoning; the marketized domain of online video is the cultural equivalent of the Special Economic Zones, which were developed according to market principles in China's coastal cities.

Li explains that although the relaxed oversight of online video may seem to represent a loosening of the party-state's grip on media, the practice of cultural zoning in fact demonstrates the the state's strategic control of the media environment. She describes how China's online video industry developed into an original, creative force of production and distribution that connected domestic private production companies, transnational corporations, and a vast network of creative labor from amateurs to professional content creators. Li notes that China has increased state management of the internet since 2014, signaling that online and offline censorship standards may be unified. Cultural zoning as a technique of cultural governance, however, will likely remain.
The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas
Authors: Simanowski Roberto
Published: August 2020

Provocative takes on cyberbullshit, smartphone zombies, instant gratification, the traffic school of the information highway, and other philosophical concerns of the Internet age.

In The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas, Roberto Simanowski wonders if we are on the brink of a society that views social, political, and ethical challenges as technological problems that can be fixed with the right algorithm, the best data, or the fastest computer. For example, the “death algorithm ” is programmed into a driverless car to decide, in an emergency, whether to plow into a group of pedestrians, a mother and child, or a brick wall. Can such life-and-death decisions no longer be left to the individual human?

In these incisive essays, Simanowski asks us to consider what it means to be living in a time when the president of the United States declares the mainstream media to be an enemy of the people—while Facebook transforms the people into the enemy of mainstream media. Simanowski describes smartphone zombies (or “smombies”) who remove themselves from the physical world to the parallel universe of social media networks; calls on Adorno to help parse Trump's tweeting; considers transmedia cannibalism, as written text is transformed into a postliterate object; compares the economic and social effects of the sharing economy to a sixteen-wheeler running over a plastic bottle on the road; and explains why philosophy mat become the most important element in the automotive and technology industries.
As Time Goes By
Authors: Hornstein Norbert
Published: August 2020

How do humans acquire, at a very early age and from fragmentary and haphazard data, the complex patterns of their native language? This is the logical problem of language acquisition, and it is the question that directs the search for an innate universal grammar. As Time Goes By extends the search by proposing a theory of natural-language tense that will be responsive to the problem of language acquisition.

The clearly written discussion proceeds step-by-step from simple observations and principles to far-reaching conclusions involving complex data carefully selected and persuasively presented. Throughout, Hornstein focuses on the logical problem of language acquisition, highlighting the importance of explanatory adequacy and the role of syntactic representations in determining intricate properties of semantic interpretation.

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Mimicking prophage induction in the body: induction in the lab with pH gradients
Authors: Miller-Ensminger Taylor , Garretto Andrea , Stark Nicole , Putonti Catherine
Published: August 2020

The majority of bacteria within the human body are lysogens, often harboring multiple bacteriophage sequences (prophages) within their genomes. While several different types of environmental stresses can trigger or induce prophages to enter into the lytic cycle, they have yet to be fully explored and understood in the human microbiota. In the laboratory, the most common induction method is the DNA damaging chemical Mitomycin C. Although pH has been listed in the literature as an induction method, it is not widely used. Here, we detail a protocol for prophage induction by culture under different pH conditions. We explored the effects of pH on prophage induction in bacterial isolates from the bladder, where the pH is well documented to vary significantly between individuals as well as between healthy individuals and individuals with urinary tract symptoms or disease. Using this protocol, we successfully induced phages from seven bladderE. colistrains. Testing conditions and stressors appropriate to the environment from which a lysogen is isolated may provide insight into community dynamics of the human microbiota.
Effects of cowpea mild mottle virus on soybean cultivars in Brazil
Authors: Barreto da Silva Felipe , Muller Cristiane , Bello Vinicius Henrique , Watanabe Luís Fernando Maranho , Rossitto De Marchi Bruno , Fusco Lucas Machado , Ribeiro-Junior Marcos Roberto , Minozzi Guilherme Barbosa , Vivan Lucia Madalena , Tamai Marco Antonio , Farias Juliano Ricardo , Nogueira Angélica Maria , Sartori Maria Márcia Pereira , Krause-Sakate Renate
Published: August 2020

Soybean stem necrosis is caused by cowpea mild mottle virus (CPMMV), transmitted by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci. CPMMV has already been recorded in all major soybean-producing areas of Brazil. The impacts caused by CPMMV to the current Brazilian soybean production are unknown, thus the main objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of CPMMV infection on the main important soybean cultivars grown in the Southern and Midwestern regions of Brazil. Although asymptomatic in some of the tested cultivars, CPMMV infection significantly reduced the plant height, the number of pods per plant and the 1,000-grain weight. In addition, estimated yield losses ranged from 174 to 638 kg ha−1, depending on the cultivar. Evidence of seed transmission of CPMMV was observed in the BMX POTÊNCIA RR cultivar. These results suggest that CPMMV could have an important role in the reduction of soybean productivity in Brazil, but symptomless infections might be hiding the actual impact of this pathogen in commercial fields and infected seeds could be the primary inoculum source of the virus in the field.
Auditing and Analysis of Energy Consumption of a Hostel Building
Authors: Madhusudan B. S. , Vandavasi Sreeharsha , Nataraja B. S. , Gopi G.
Published: August 2020

The Energy Auditing is the key to the utilization which balance out the circumstance of energy crisis by providing the conservation schemes. The accompanying paper has been set up so as to encourage our comprehension of the energy consumption pattern of the Residence of hostel building in Agricultural Engineering College and Research Institute, Trichy. In the hostel, most of the energy usage spent on enlightenment and cooking purpose by the means of electricity and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG). The accompanying paper presents the identification of zones of energy wastage and estimation of energy sparing potential in the hostel which has been made by walk-through energy Audit. Likewise, a detailed examination of data gathered is done by recommending cost-effective measures to improve the efficiency of energy use. Estimation of implementation costs and payback periods for each recommended action has been made. Based on the analysis of auditing exercise, some recommendations were suggested to reduce the electric energy consumptions which can reach up to 49.8%. The LPG for cooking can be partially reduced by implementing a steam cooking system in the hostel. The results will be beneficial for the operation and maintenance team to manage electrical and LPG usage and reduce the hostel overall expenditure.