bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Potential of Locally-Sourced European Protein Sources for Organic Monogastric Production: A Review of Forage Crop Extracts, Seaweed, Starfish, Mussel, and Insects
Authors: van der Heide Marleen Elise , Stødkilde Lene , Værum Nørgaard Jan , Studnitz Merete
Published: February 2021

Organic monogastric agriculture is challenged because of a limited availability of regional and organic protein-rich ingredients to fulfill the amino acid requirements. The development of novel feed ingredients is therefore essential. The use of starfish (Asterias rubens), mussel (Mytilus edilus), insect, green and brown seaweed, and forage crop extracts exhibits different approaches to increase protein availability in a sustainable manner through improving the protein quality of existing ingredients, better use of under- or unutilized material, or development of circular bioeconomy. This review assessed limitations and opportunities of producing, processing, and using these novel ingredients in feed. The use of non-renewable resources and the effect on the environment of production and processing the feed ingredients are described. Protein concentration and amino acid quality of the feed ingredients are evaluated to understand their substitution potential compared with protein-rich soya bean and fishmeal. Feedstuffs’ effect on digestibility and animal performance is summarized. With the exception of seaweed, all novel ingredients show potential to partly substitute fishmeal or soya bean fulfilling part of the protein requirement in organic monogastric production. However, improvements during production and processing can be made to enhance protein quality, sustainability of the novel ingredients, and nutrient utilization of novel feed ingredients.
Modeling Advertising Practices for Product Involvement and Consumer Impulsivity in Branded Apparel: A Case Study of Indian Consumers
Authors: Habib Sufyan , Hamadneh Nawaf N. , Alsubie Abdelaziz
Published: February 2021

The exponential growth of advertising in enhancing consumer impulsivity has drawn the interest of many researchers to explore the various dimensions of advertising and its effective modeling. The branded apparel product market has grown significantly, a large number of competitors have entered into the market with variant quality, and there are a number of attractive advertising practices. The main aim of this study was to analyze the advertising practices and their relationship with consumer product involvement and the impulsive buying behavior of consumers in branded apparel in India. In a survey of 445 Indian customers, the study indicated that advertising practices significantly affect consumer involvement in branded apparel products and enhance their impulsivity toward products. The study also indicated that the level of consumer involvement in the branded apparel product significantly mediates the relationship between advertising practices and consumer impulsive buying behavior. Effective advertising practices will help companies to enhance consumer involvement that will enable branded apparel companies in enhancing consumer impulsiveness toward products. Some of the managerial implications, limitations, and scope of future research are also presented in the study.
Exploring the Knowledge Management Impact on Business Education
Authors: Bratianu Constantin , Stanescu Dan Florin , Mocanu Rares
Published: February 2021

Knowledge management developed in the last decades as a dynamic symbiosis between science and art with significant implications on business and business education. Knowledge management operates within the organizational management, but it focuses on intangible resources, which are distinguished from the tangible ones as a result of their abstraction, metaphorical semantic, and nonlinearity. The purpose of the present paper is to explore the impact of knowledge management on business education through the mediation of academic curriculum and the influence of the business environment. The methodology is based on both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The qualitative phase focuses on a critical literature search and a semantic analysis of the main concepts and ideas, which allowed us to construct the research model and design a questionnaire addressed to business students and professors. The quantitative approach uses the statistical software packages SPSS 26.0 version, including the PROCESS macro for SPSS version 3.5 and the known reliability, validation, and interpretation criteria. Findings show that knowledge management impacts business education through the mediation of the academic curriculum and the influence of the business environment. The originality of the present research comes from the dynamics between knowledge management and business education and the research model’s design.
Long-Term Effect of Physical Activity on Internalizing and Externalizing Problems and Life Satisfaction
Authors: You Sukkyung , Shin Kyulee , Kim Mihye
Published: February 2021

This study examined the long-term effect of physical activity on life satisfaction from a sample of 2092 middle school students (52.5% male) in South Korea. Structural equation modeling analyses were employed to understand how various factors influence youth life satisfaction. Physical activity during physical education class had a long-term influence on life satisfaction through both internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors as mediating factors. Gender differences were found in the relationships between physical activity and life satisfaction. The current findings imply that encouraging students in early adolescence to actively engage in physical education potentially is a useful educational intervention method. Implications and future directions are discussed.
The Impact and Value of a Tourism Product: A Hybrid Sustainability Model
Authors: Abeal Vázquez José Pablo , Tirado-Valencia Pilar , Ruiz-Lozano Mercedes
Published: February 2021

The concepts of social value creation and sustainability are acquiring a growing relevance in the vision shared by the tourism industry’s major stakeholders. Our aim was to determine a hybrid impact-value model capable of measuring tourism product sustainability through the use of indicators and the impact of stakeholder actions during the process of creating and generating products. An initial static vision of sustainability is complemented by a second dynamic vision, based on the measurement of value and change. The proposed model includes the same stakeholders, dimensions and indicators for both approaches. This standardization enhances the robustness of the model and its potential as an analysis instrument. After reviewing the considerable number of possible impact measurement techniques, we opted for the versatile methodology known as Social Return on Investment (SROI).
The Potential for Regenerated Protein Fibres within a Circular Economy: Lessons from the Past Can Inform Sustainable Innovation in the Textiles Industry
Authors: Stenton Marie , Houghton Joseph A. , Kapsali Veronika , Blackburn Richard S.
Published: February 2021

Humanity is currently facing a crisis of excess, with a growing population and the trend towards disposable goods, and the world’s resources are under tremendous pressure. This is especially evident in the textiles industry, with increasing consumer numbers and the trend of ‘fast fashion’ causing demand to be at an all-time high, with non-renewable feedstocks depleting and production of natural fibres also under strain. Considering the future of textile production, it can be beneficial to investigate our past for inspiration towards more sustainable approaches. Much of the research into regenerated protein fibres was performed out of necessity during wartime, and while this demonstrates the potential for food waste to be exploited as a resource, the manufacturing methods used at the time now present issues for a circular economy due to the high amounts of toxic waste produced. Using a range of historical and modern literature sources, including journal articles, patents and conference papers, this review presents the historical precedent and research performed into azlons, regenerated fibres produced from waste protein-rich materials. Historical evidence shows that the success of these azlon fibres was short-lived, partly due to negative associations with deprivation and hardship, alongside the emergence of alternative man-made fibres, which were devoid of these connotations with never-before-seen physical properties. The social and political climate leading to the creation, and ultimate demise, of azlons is explored along with the influence of evolving technologies and the marketing of these textile products to consumers. Although the creation of products from waste is not a new concept, the literature has identified that the synergy between the challenges faced in a time of resource scarcity and the current trend of problematic excess reveals an exciting opportunity to learn from our past to create a greener future. Lessons that could help with the current crisis within the textile industry are extracted and presented within the concept of a circular textiles economy. Our findings show that there is notable potential for one regenerated protein fibre, made from casein extracted from milk waste, to be manufactured within a localised, circular economy in conjunction with the principles of green chemistry and sustainable textiles technology.
Achieving Social and Ecological Outcomes in Collaborative Environmental Governance: Good Examples from Swedish Moose Management
Authors: Dressel Sabrina , Sjölander-Lindqvist Annelie , Johansson Maria , Ericsson Göran , Sandström Camilla
Published: February 2021

Collaborative governance approaches have been suggested as strategies to handle wicked environmental problems. Evaluations have found promising examples of effective natural resource governance, but also highlighted the importance of social-ecological context and institutional design. The aim of this study was to identify factors that contribute to the achievement of social and ecological sustainability within Swedish moose (Alces alces) management. In 2012, a multi-level collaborative governance regime was implemented to decrease conflicts among stakeholders. We carried out semi-structured interviews with six ‘good examples’ (i.e., Moose Management Groups that showed positive social and ecological outcomes). We found that ‘good examples’ collectively identified existing knowledge gaps and management challenges and used their discretionary power to develop procedural arrangements that are adapted to the social-ecological context, their theory of change, and attributes of local actors. This contributed to the creation of bridging social capital and principled engagement across governance levels. Thus, our results indicate the existence of higher-order social learning as well as a positive feedback from within-level collaboration dynamics to between-level collaboration. Furthermore, our study illustrates the importance of institutional flexibility to utilize the existing knowledge across stakeholder groups and to allow for adaptations based on the social learning process.
Optimization of a Novel Urban Growth Simulation Model Integrating an Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm and Cellular Automata for a Smart City
Authors: Huang Xinxin , Xu Gang , Xiao Fengtao
Published: February 2021

As one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, it is sensible to analysis historical urban land use characteristics and project the potentials of urban sustainable development for a smart city. The cellular automaton (CA) model is the widely applied in simulating urban growth, but the optimum parameters of variables driving urban growth in the model remains to be continued to improve. We propose a novel model integrating an artificial fish swarm algorithm (AFSA) and CA for optimizing parameters of variables in the urban growth model and make a comparison between AFSA-CA and other five models, which is used to study a 40-year urban land growth of Wuhan. We found that the urban growth types from 1995 to 2015 appeared relatively consistent, mainly including infilling, edge-expansion and distant-leap types in Wuhan, which a certain range of urban land growth on the periphery of the central area. Additionally, although the genetic algorithms (GA)-CA model and the AFSA-CA model among the six models due to the distance variables, the parameter value of the GA-CA model is −15.5409 according to the fact that the population (POP) variable should be positively. As a result, the AFSA-CA model regardless of the initial parameter setting is superior to the GA-CA model and the GA-CA model is superior to all the other models. Finally, it is projected that the potentials of urban growth in Wuhan for 2025 and 2035 under three scenarios (natural urban land growth without any restrictions (NULG), sustainable urban land growth with cropland protection and ecological security (SULG), and economic urban land growth with sustainable development and economic development in the core area (EULG)) focus mainly on existing urban land and some new town centers based on AFSA-CA urban growth simulation model. An increasingly precise simulation can determine the potential increase area and quantity of urban land, providing a basis to judge the layout of urban land use for urban planners.
Economic Policy Uncertainty, Outward Foreign Direct Investments, and Green Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from Firm-Level Data in China
Authors: Song Yuegang , Hao Feng , Hao Xiazhen , Gozgor Giray
Published: February 2021

This paper uses Chinese firm-level data to investigate the effect of China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) on green total factor productivity (GTFP) under economic policy uncertainties (EPU). We found a significant positive impact of OFDI on GTFP. Moreover, an increase in EPU was shown to decrease GTFP. We also found that OFDI positively contributes to GTFP for private firms and foreign-invested firms in China. Technology-seeking OFDI contributes greater to GTFP than resource-seeking OFDI and market-seeking OFDI. These results remain robust when considering OFDI from firms in Central and East China as well as Western China. The findings are also robust with green labor productivity (GLP) substituting for GTFP using different econometric techniques. We also discuss potential implications in enhancing green innovation performance and sustainable industrial development in China.
Salinity Changes the Dynamics of Pyrethroid Toxicity in Terms of Behavioral Effects on Newly Hatched Delta Smelt Larvae
Authors: Segarra Amelie , Mauduit Florian , Amer Nermeen , Biefel Felix , Hladik Michelle , Connon Richard , Brander Susanne
Published: February 2021

Salinity can interact with organic compounds and modulate their toxicity. Studies have shown that the fraction of pyrethroid insecticides in the aqueous phase increases with increasing salinity, potentially increasing the risk of exposure for aquatic organisms at higher salinities. In the San Francisco Bay Delta (SFBD) estuary, pyrethroid concentrations increase during the rainy season, coinciding with the spawning season of Delta Smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus), an endangered, endemic fish. Furthermore, salinity intrusion in the SFBD is exacerbated by global climate change, which may change the dynamics of pyrethroid toxicity on aquatic animals. Therefore, examining the effect of salinity on the sublethal toxicity of pyrethroids is essential for risk assessments, especially during the early life stages of estuarine fishes. To address this, we investigated behavioral effects of permethrin and bifenthrin at three environmentally relevant concentrations across a salinity gradient (0.5, 2 and 6 PSU) on Delta Smelt yolk-sac larvae. Our results suggest that environmentally relevant concentrations of pyrethroids can perturb Delta Smelt larvae behavior even at the lowest concentrations (<1 ng/L) and that salinity can change the dynamic of pyrethroid toxicity in terms of behavioral effects, especially for bifenthrin, where salinity was positively correlated with anti-thigmotaxis at each concentration.
Association between Genetic Variants in NOS2 and TNF Genes with Congenital Zika Syndrome and Severe Microcephaly
Authors: Gomes Julia A. , Sgarioni Eduarda , Boquett Juliano A. , Terças-Trettel Ana Cláudia P. , da Silva Juliana H. , Ribeiro Bethânia F. R. , Galera Marcial F. , de Oliveira Thalita M. , Carvalho de Andrade Maria Denise F. , Carvalho Isabella F. , Schüler-Faccini Lavínia , Vianna Fernanda S. L.
Published: February 2021

Zika virus (ZIKV) causes Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS) in individuals exposed prenatally. Here, we investigated polymorphisms in VEGFA, PTGS2, NOS3, TNF, and NOS2 genes as risk factors to CZS. Forty children with CZS and forty-eight children who were in utero exposed to ZIKV infection, but born without congenital anomalies, were evaluated. Children with CZS were predominantly infected by ZIKV in the first trimester (p < 0.001) and had mothers with lower educational level (p < 0.001) and family income (p < 0.001). We found higher risk of CZS due the allele rs2297518[A] of NOS2 (OR = 2.28, CI 95% 1.17–4.50, p = 0.015). T allele and TT/CT genotypes of the TNF rs1799724 and haplotypes associated with higher expression of TNF were more prevalent in children with CZS and severe microcephaly (p = 0.029, p = 0.041 and p = 0.030, respectively). Our findings showed higher risk of CZS due ZIKV infection in the first trimester and suggested that polymorphisms in NOS2 and TNF genes affect the risk of CZS and severe microcephaly.
Development of Fish Parasite Vaccines in the OMICs Era: Progress and Opportunities
Authors: Shivam Saloni , El-Matbouli Mansour , Kumar Gokhlesh
Published: February 2021

Globally, parasites are increasingly being recognized as catastrophic agents in both aquaculture sector and in the wild aquatic habitats leading to an estimated annual loss between 1.05 billion and 9.58 billion USD. The currently available therapeutic and control measures are accompanied by many limitations. Hence, vaccines are recommended as the “only green and effective solution” to address these concerns and protect fish from pathogens. However, vaccine development warrants a better understanding of host–parasite interaction and parasite biology. Currently, only one commercial parasite vaccine is available against the ectoparasite sea lice. Additionally, only a few trials have reported potential vaccine candidates against endoparasites. Transcriptome, genome, and proteomic data at present are available only for a limited number of aquatic parasites. Omics-based interventions can be significant in the identification of suitable vaccine candidates, finally leading to the development of multivalent vaccines for significant protection against parasitic infections in fish. The present review highlights the progress in the immunobiology of pathogenic parasites and the prospects of vaccine development. Finally, an approach for developing a multivalent vaccine for parasitic diseases is presented. Data sources to prepare this review included Pubmed, google scholar, official reports, and websites.
Impact of Obesity on Quality of Life and Owner’s Perception of Weight Loss Programs in Cats
Authors: Hanford Rachel , Linder Deborah E.
Published: February 2021

Obese dogs have been shown to have a diminished quality of life; however, there is less evidence characterizing the impact of obesity on the quality of life of cats. A cross-sectional survey study was conducted among cat owners with either healthy weight cats (body condition scores of 4–5/9) or obese cats (body condition scores of 8–9/9) as determined by a veterinarian. Exclusion criteria included medical conditions (determined by physical exam and screening bloodwork). Cat owners completed surveys on quality of life and perceptions of feline obesity. Quality of life scores for obese cats had a wider range and were numerically lower compared to scores of healthy weight cats with a moderate effect size of 0.68, though this was not a statistically significant difference (71.2 ± 8.8 vs. 75.9 ± 4.1, p = 0.0881; n = 33). Owners of obese cats less frequently reported that obesity was a high risk to their cat’s health (77% [10/13]) vs. 100% [20/20]) and less frequently cited the primary caretaker as a cause of cat obesity (30% [3/10] vs. 55% [11/20]) compared to the owners of healthy weight cats. Interestingly, 97% (32/33) of all owners believed veterinarians should play a role in feline weight loss. These results suggest that some obese cats can have a potentially diminished quality of life but highlights the need for more data surrounding the impact of feline obesity and enhanced client communication strategies to best address obesity in the feline population.
An Atypical Presentation of Sympathetic Ophthalmia in an Intact Globe Following Mechanical Fall: A Case Report and Literature Review
Authors: Chean Chung , Lim Christina , Kumar Periyasamy , Kapoor Bharat
Published: February 2021

Purpose: To describe an atypical case of sympathetic ophthalmia presenting after blunt trauma causing disinsertion of the iris in an intact globe. Methods: Case report. Results: A 71-year-old lady presented to the Emergency Department following a mechanical fall. On examination, she was noted to have periocular haematoma, subconjunctival haemorrhage, hyphaema, and vitreous haemorrhage in the left eye, but there was no evidence of globe rupture. The presenting visual acuity was 6/18. As the hyphaema and vitreous haemorrhage settled, a complete loss of the iris was noted with normal fundus. She was re-admitted a month later under the medical team with urinary tract infection and reduced vision in both eyes. On examination, there was mild conjunctival injection, keratic precipitates, anterior chamber flare, 180-degree posterior synechiae, and vitritis with no fundal view of the right eye. She was diagnosed with sympathetic ophthalmia and was treated with topical and systemic corticosteroid. Her vision improved gradually with treatment and was stable at 6/6 on the right (sympathising) eye and 6/9 on the left (excited) eye at final follow-up. Conclusion: Sympathetic ophthalmia may result from non-penetrating ocular trauma. Comprehensive history of mechanism of injury and ophthalmic examination is essential so that prompt treatment can be given to improve the visual prognosis of affected patients.
Wastewater Treatment, Valorization, and Reuse
Authors: Jeguirim Mejdi , Jellali Salah
Published: February 2021

This Special Issue includes investigations related to wastewater treatment, recovery, and reuse [...]
Case Study for the Predictive Environmental Risk Assessment of Hexamethylenetetramine Release to the Yodo River during a Massive Tsunami Attack
Authors: Hamamoto Shogo , Ito Lisa , Yoneyama Nozomu , Tokai Akihiro
Published: February 2021

Untreated hexamethylenetetramine (HMT) was discharged into the Tone River in the central area of Japan, and the risk management plan in the watershed area has been strengthened because HMT is the precursor of formaldehyde (FA) regulated by Japanese water supply law. The release of HMT could occur not only in steady but also in unsteady environmental conditions. In this context, no quantitative environmental risk assessments have dealt with the combined events of FA precursor outflow and natural disasters, such as a massive tsunami attack. In this study, we estimated the time course changes of HMT concentrations at the near water treatment plant (WTP) intakes due to tsunami run-up in the river after HMT discharge from facilities along the river during a massive tsunami attack, then potential ecological and health impacts were estimated. This method has a strong analytical ability to reveal the relationship between wave source and inland water run-up in consideration of 3D density flow. For ecological risk, the half maximal effective concentration (EC50) was employed. We found that HMT concentration would not reach a level of concern even after the accident. For potential health risk in terms of the possible maximum inlet concentration of HMT at the WTP, the FA formation amount was 5.3 × 10−2 mg/L, which was below the water quality standard.
Image du Monde Transcription Challenge Project Archiving Dossier Narrative
Authors: Keane Monica , Morreale Laura , Kralik Christine , Albritton Benjamin L.
Published: February 2021

The Image du Monde Challenge created limited-term teams of international paleographers and scholars to transcribe different digitized IIIF-compliant manuscript copies of the mid-thirteenth century verse treatise, Image du Monde, by Gossuin (or Gautier) du Metz.
L’autogestion ou la terreur de la transparence
Authors: Bourdet Yvon
Published: February 2021

Este articulo hace, en primer término, alusión a los vaivénes de los partidos politicos en lo que concieme a la referencia a la autogestion, particularmente entre el PC y el PS. Pero su finalidad principal es de dar cuenta de un movimiento intelectual que se desarrolla, desde hace algunos anos, contra toda teoriá de la autogestion, por un doble movimiento : de una parte, se trata de reducir la investigación a la experimentación social ; de la otra queremos demostrar que toda teoriá que forma necesariamento un sistema cerrado no puede que engendrar un regimen totalitario de terror. Esta teoriá de la anti-teorià aqui está cuestionada.
Le sexe de l’autogestion
Authors: Davreux Pierre
Published: February 2021

• Los autogestionarios no tienen verdaderamente de qué regocijarse de ver sus proposiciones recuperadas por los burocratas, los aparatos, las jerarquias que, atrayendo la autogestión, incorporan la aptitud paradojal de los discursos autogestionarios para regenerar creencias y por consecuencia, se aseguran así nuevas legitimidades. Confundiendo necesidad y deseo y rechazando la necesaria dilucidación de posiciones libidinales que las fundan, las proposiciones autogestionarias organizan ellas mismas su auto-reducción.
Le vide et le trop-plein, le mouvement autogestionnaire berlinois
Authors: Démerin Patrick
Published: February 2021

Warum ist Berlin-West zum auserwahlten Gebiet der altemativen und selbstverwalteten Experimente durch Ablehnung des Theoretisieren-bevor-man-handelt geworden. Wie sich die Alternativebewegung als Antwort auf die erneuten Stösse eines gleichzeitig drohenden und unsicheren Staates entwickelt hat.
L’autogestion existentielle. À propos du mouvement des femmes en Allemagne
Authors: Woesler Christine
Published: February 2021

Entstehung der Frauenbewegung, ihre Ziele und Beschreibung einer ihrer bedeutendsten Erscheinungen : die Frauenhäuser als Ausdrack der Autonomie.
L’autogestion en couleur. L’expérimentation électorale des listes alternatives
Authors: Chataigner Alain , Maudet Pierre
Published: February 2021

Erörterung der letzten Wahlsiege der grünen (Oekologisten) und bunten (Frauen, Homosexuellengruppen, Bürgerinitiativen...) Listen. Sind sie dazu geeignet, den Durchbruch der Selbstverwaltung in die politische Sphäre zu ermöglichen ? Diese Problematik wird anhand von zwei Texten dokumentiert.
Vers une nouvelle culture politique en RFA ?
Authors: Cullin Michel
Published: February 2021

Is the alternative movement and the Bürgerinitiativen leading to the development of a new political culture in the Federal Republic ? Do the “green reds” represent a new chance for West German democracy by challenging how it today functions ?
Choix nucléaires et exigences autogestionnaires
Authors: Bourdet Yvon
Published: February 2021

• Nuclear choices and the limitations of self-management

The production of nuclear energy on a national scale strengthens the technological State leading to ever increasing manipulation of citizens. Inversely, certain opponents of nuclear power who have little faith in democracy advocate authoritarian anti-nuclear measures. A study of the relationship between ecology and self-management is made, demonstrating the necessity for an equal share in knowledge, and for a thorough analysis of human needs and desires.
Pièges productivistes et défis technologiques
Authors: Berthoud Gérald
Published: February 2021

Productivist traps and technological challenges

Shows how in the present state of crisis that advanced industrial societies are experiencing, ecology and self-management can mean either a productivist trap or, on the contrary, represent a challenge carrying the possibility for real change. The relationship between self-management and the communications and information technologies is also studied.
Teme pastoral-misionare și liturgice în „pimenicele“ patriarhului Justin Moisescu
Authors: Petroaia Lucian
Published: February 2021

As a result of the Decision of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church, 2019 year gives us the opportunity to honor Patriarch Justin Moisescu. He was a special hierarch due to his Olympic profile, to his complex personality and to his ministry and work, providential for the Romanian Orthodoxy of the 80’s of the last century. He was a professor of theology of high moral and scientific value, who taught the students during the communist era, at the Faculties of Theology in Warsaw and Bucharest, fundamental disciplines such as “New Testament Study”. Concerned with translating reference works into Romanian, he is the initiator of a monumental work: the translation into Romanian language of the Holy Fathers’ works. Due to his programmatic idea, more than 100 volumes have been produced so far, which are part of the collection “Parents and Church Writers” ( “P.S.B.”). The present study seeks to highlight and bring to light the texts of theb “Pastoral” which the hierarch Justin Moisescu, during his 30 years of ministry, addressed to the clergy and to the people, as: 1. Archbishop of Sibiu, 2. Archbishop of Iasi and Metropolitan of Moldova and Suceava and 3. Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Ungrovlahia and Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
Direcții teologico-patristice în opera mitropolitului dr. Nicolae Corneanu al Banatului (1962-2014)
Authors: Enea Daniel
Published: February 2021

Metropolitan Nicolae de Banat (1962-2014) paid special attention to the writing activity by which he made a significant contribution to the theological literature, to the church press and beyond. His work, in which we will meet concerns of the most varied, builds a solid and reference bridge between the distant period of patristic Christianity and today. It is precisely this fact that the time of the Holy Fathers no longer seems outdated and dusty, but it manages to bring them almost by making them contemporary to us. The problems of their time, such as the life of the family and society, the persecution of Christians, the unity of the Church of Christ (to say only a few) are still encountered today, always being current.
Simboluri și sculptură. Porțile maramureșene vechi
Authors: Mitrofan Ionuț
Published: February 2021

The cult of globalization from these days could be easily resisted or even forgotten once you find the carved wooden portals on the lands of Maramureș. There, the cultural tradition of the picturesque villages from our country’s distant past remains immaculate and at the same time conveys freshness to the Romanian art history and sculpture. From the beauty and artistry of these ornate gates, one could get the impression that the carved symbols were created for esthetic purposes only, if their significance were unclear. Nevertheless, like the painted churches in Bukovina where one could view or decipher the Bible by looking at the paintings in a certain order, the portals in Maramureș accurately convey a visual record of local people’s beliefs and traditions throughout history. We know that these gates date back to pre-Christian times, but they are still being crafted by local craftsmen today. To what degree has Christianity influenced the evolution of the Maramureș portals’ symbolism?
Principii de hermeneutică biblică la Sfântul Maxim Mărturisitorul
Authors: Scarlat Gina Luminița
Published: February 2021

St. Maximus the Confessor excelled in four interpretative directions of the Orthodox theology: biblical, dogmatic, spiritual and liturgica. Better known as adogmatist involved in Christological disputes since the beginning of the sixth century, St. Maximus is less studies in terms of his contribution to the history of Eastern biblical hermeneutics. The research studies of his exegetical work are reduced numerically comparad to those that emphasiye his quality as a dogmatic, philocalic and liturgical theologian. And this may be due to the fact that St. Maximus the Confessor has not fully commented on any Old or New Testament book. In this study, the emphasis is on highlighting the hermeneutic principles used by St. Maximus especially in the works of biblical exegesis.
A practice report for e-moderators: Promoting participatory engagement within discussion boards for online students
Authors: Payne Ameena Leah
Published: February 2021

The number of fully online students grew from 17.5% in 2010 to 26% in 2019 (Department of Education, Skills and Employment, 2020). However, positive ratings for engagement are 62% less overall for online learners (The Social Research Centre, 2020). Through the lens of the ‘Community of Inquiry’ education experience (Garrison, 2006), this practice reports provides guidance and examples for online instructors to engage students within discussions in the digital realm. Five elements will be discussed: embedding multi-media, affiliative humour and storytelling, Socratic questioning, ‘reframes’ and summarising and ‘weaving’. Based on the lived experience of one eLearning Advisor, or online instructor/e-moderator, at Swinburne Online, this practice report offers suggestions to build engaging, sustainable learning conversations that are abundant with collaborative inquiry, dialogue and sharing of personal learning experiences for online students in higher education. This article has been accepted for publication in Student Success Journal, published by Queensland University of Technology.
FINANCIAL-ACCOUNTING RISK MANAGEMENT REGARDING THE EMERGENCY PUBLIC HOSPITALS IN ROMANIA
Authors: Stafi Luminița-Maria , Stoica Ivona
Published: February 2021

We have considered regarding this paper[1] the identification and evaluation of the financial and accounting risks within the public emergency hospital located in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, which has a great impact on its objectives.

The main objectives of the public emergency hospital in Romania are: guaranteeing the quality and safety of the medical act, endowment with medical devices and medical devices necessary for a quality medical act, institutional development by improving infrastructure, diversifying and increasing the quality of medical services offered to patients, tracking population accessibility and patient satisfaction, respecting the dignity and rights of patients, ensuring optimal conditions for medical investigations, treatment, accommodation, hygiene, nutrition and prevention of nosocomial infections, ensuring high standards of professional competence and encouraging their continuous development, increasing the satisfaction of medical staff, monitoring the achievement of the indicators contracted with the Health Insurance House, the management indicators, the realization of the revenues and expenditures, the analysis of the costs of the specific indicators on each section and the overall regarding the hospital, continuous professional training of employees, maximizing the efficiency of public funds.

The sample of the scientific research gathered a number of 7 emergency hospitals, multi-specialties, which according to the degree of competence belong to Ist category (very high degree, respectively, having the highest level of equipment and equipment medical and human resources and ensures the provision of medical services of very high complexity) and IInd (high degree, respectively, with a high level of medical equipment, as well as with human resources and ensures the provision of services medical complexity).

The period for the analysis is 2012-2017, the data being taken from the website of the Ministry of Health of Romania and of the National School of Public Health, Sanitary Management and Sanitation – Research and Evaluation Center for Health Services.

Starting from the quantitative indicators of each analyzed hospital (number of beds, degree of bed use, number of hospitalization days, average of length hospitalization, number of hospitalization days, number of discharged cases), and taking into account the level of receipts and payments, we have concluded that the main financial and accounting risk factors that may influence the objectives of the public emergency hospital in Romania.

[1]This article is an extended paper that was presented within the SGEM Vienna Art, International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on Social Sciences and Arts, in April 2019, DOI: 10.5593/SGEM_GeoConference.
LANDSCAPE AND VIDEOART: THE NEW LANDSCAPE OF THE ANTHROPOCENE
Authors: Sanz Martín Cristina
Published: February 2021

We live in a new era -the Anthropocene-. And in a new society with its corresponding mentality and consciousness. But, we keep representing and interpreting the landscape, mainly, through the codes inherited from the Romanticism. This research will address artistic proposals that unite videoart and landscape.

After reviewing the wide actual art panorama, we have identified a new type of landscape in the Contemporary Art. A landscape that does represent our society through its typical formal and conceptual codes, and that projects the vision and mentality of the Anthropocene’s society. We have identified a group of practices that by using the new technologies, the concerns of the 21st Century’s society and the new languages that characterize the technological era, such as the audiovisual, are creating a new landscape tradition. Resources like the moving imaging, the immersion feeling, the sensoriality or the audiovisual language are intrinsic to the society of the technological era.

On other hand, we truly believe that this resurgence of Landscape in the Postmodernity is related to the environmental crisis that we are living. We have noticed that throughout the ages, after periods of big technoscientific development, humans have always gone back to Nature. Actually, Landscape have experienced its most golden periods after epochs of big development, like the 17th Century with the first recognised landscape paintings by Jacob van Ruysdael and Claude de Lorraine, or in the 19th Century with the romantic Landscape. We do not think that this is chance and for this reason, we will also study these landscapes from an anthropological perspective, a point of view that art historians have always ignorated so far[1].

[1] This paper is an extended version of the conference given at the 6th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts SGEM 2019 in Vienna, April 11-14th 2019. 
Sylvia Leser de Mello e a Psicologia Social
Authors: Mandelbaum Belinda
Published: February 2021

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Processos de individuação dos torcedores na Arena do Grêmio
Authors: Bandeira Gustavo Andrada , Seffner Fernando
Published: February 2021

Neste trabalho focamos nosso olhar sobre como os torcedores do Grêmio foram interpelados por diferentes conteúdos ao realizarem um trânsito entre o antigo estádio Olímpico Monumental e a atual Arena do Grêmio, especialmente na relação que se estabelece entre um sujeito individual, torcedor, e o sujeito coletivo, torcida. Para a construção de nosso material empírico realizamos diálogos com pequenos grupos de torcedores antes de partidas realizadas no novo estádio gremista. A tecnologia da Arena do Grêmio permite individualizar as ações dos torcedores por seus mecanismos de controle, o que poderia autorizar que o coletivo de torcedores fosse desfeito a qualquer momento. A torcida, em algumas circunstâncias, não poderia ser responsabilizada por ações realizadas por individualidades torcedoras, ao mesmo tempo em que as individualidades torcedoras não poderiam ser adequadamente avaliadas em suas ações sem levar o contexto da torcida em consideração.
Reforma e reformulação do Mineirão
Authors: Campos Priscila Augusta Ferreira
Published: February 2021

O estádio de futebol, um microcosmo social, reflete as mudanças sociais em fluxo. Escolhido como estádio-sede da Copa do Mundo de Futebol da FIFA em 2014, o estádio Mineirão (Belo Horizonte/MG) foi reformado e reformulado para atender às normativas da FIFA. Esse artigo objetiva apresentar e analisar a entrevista realizada com o arquiteto responsável pelo projeto executivo da reforma e reformulação do Mineirão. A entrevista que ocorreu em dezembro de 2014 foi transcrita e, aqui, trechos foram selecionados para a discussão que tangencia o assunto. Os dados demonstraram alguns dos elementos do processo de reformulação do Mineirão, entre eles o alinhamento com a escala global de construção e transformação dos estádios, o hibridismo entre planejamento, implementação e operacionalização do estádio e a influência do modelo europeu de futebol e do modelo estadunidense de gestão de estádios.
PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Estádio; Futebol; Copa do Mundo.
RELIGION IN THE WORKS OF ERICH FROMM: SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM
Authors: АГАПОВ П.В.
Published: February 2021

В статье обсуждаются теоретические и методологические проблемы изучения религии в творчестве Эриха Фромма. Анализируются социально-психологические аспекты темы религии в работах Э. Фромма. В статье делается акцент на психоаналитический подход (социокультурный вариант Э. Фромма) к религиозной проблематики.
“A AND B WERE SITTING ON THE TUBE”: CONSTRUCTION A PROTEST IDENTITY DURING “THE TARIFF WAR” IN NOVOSIBIRSK (2016-2017)
Authors: ПУСТОВОЙТ Ю.А. , АНТОНОВ К.А.
Published: February 2021

Статья рассматривает историю протеста против повышения тарифов в г. Новосибирске с декабря 2016 г. по середину апреля 2017 г. В ходе сетевого противостояния и серии митингов, повышенный тариф был отменен. В центре внимания – процесс конструирования протестной идентичности в ходе противостояния двух групп: городского режима, определяемого в концептуальной перспективе К. Стоуна, и протестного сообщества, размытого на первых этапах борьбы рыхлого и неструктурированного объединения, в итоге ставшим вполне эффективным коллективным субъектом. Теоретической базой анализа служит теория фреймов И. Гофмана, трансформация, прояснение и слияние фреймов в подходе Д. Сноу и модель экстроординарных событий Дж. Голдстоуна. Эмпирические данные получены из наблюдений, анализа СМИ, контент-анализа социальных сетей и серии интервью, взятых у организаторов и участников протестной кампании. Авторы выделяют четыре ключевых этапа проведения протестной кампании, описывают организационные проблемы протестующих и способы их разрешения, показывают изменения основных фреймов: «мы – они», «выгода – идеалы», «друг – враг». В выводах подводятся итоги противостояния, рассматриваются ошибочные решения, ставшие источником конфликта, постулируется адекватность используемых теоретических моделей как языка описания и делается предположения о появлении нового неидеологического типа протестной идентичности, ориентированного на решения локальных проблем и выделен комплекс условий, способствующих эффективности таких сообществ.
FEATURES OF IMPLEMENTATION OF STATE ANTI-CORRUPTION POLICY IN MODERN RUSSIA: MECHANISM OF STATE CONTROL IN CONTRACT SYSTEM OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
Authors: Бакшеева А.Р. , Гусарская Т.А. , Беляева В.П.
Published: February 2021

В статье поднимаются вопросы теории и практики государственного контроля за госзакупками. С каждым годом в законодательство о закупках вносится существенное количество изменений, принимаются подзаконные акты (более 130), ужесточается наказание за нарушение в сфере госзакупок, изменяются механизмы контроля, расширяются полномочия контрольных органов, законодательство стремится регламентировать все стороны процессов закупок в рамках Закона о контрактной системе. Вместе с тем приводящиеся экспертно-аналитические мероприятия и публикующиеся результаты мониторингов и отчетов различных органов власти показывают низкие показатели конкурентности и эффективности государственных закупок. В этих условиях встает вопрос об эффективности функционирования, как самих закупок, так и системы контроля за ними. В этой связи, особое внимание автора уделено вопросам функционирования системы государственного контроля за закупками в настоящее время и на основе проведенного анализа выявлены соответствующие проблемные точки. Очевидно, что существуют особенности осуществления государственного контроля, которые пока что не позволяют в должном объеме обеспечить снижение показателей уровня коррупции в госзакупках и которые рассматриваются в данной статье. Между тем система государственных закупок аккумулирует значительные экономические ресурсы и способна оказать существенное влияние на развитие государства и общества в целом. Вопросы повышения эффективности ее функционирования являются первостепенной задачей целенаправленной политики государства в системе контрактных отношений как залога развития экономики страны и реализации национальных программ.
POLICY OF INTEGRATION OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES IN THE EU COUNTRIES
Authors: ВОРОНИНА Н.А.
Published: February 2021

В статье анализируются современные правовые и иные средства решения проблем интеграции граждан третьих стран в государствах Европейского Союза и ряде развитых стран Запада. Миграционный кризис в Европе 2014-2015 годов, и угроза его повторения сегодня препятствуют эффективному функционированию созданной в ЕС системы регулирования миграционных потоков. Перед институциональными структурами ЕС, а также перед европейскими странами стоит вопрос поиска новых моделей и подходов к решению проблем вынужденной миграции.
EDUCATION POLICY IN THE PROGRAMS OF POLITICAL PARTIES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND FAIR RUSSIA PARTY)
Authors: ГАЛКИНА Г.М.
Published: February 2021

В статье рассматривается образовательная политика современной России в контексте государственного управления и влияния на нее отдельных политических партий левого толка. В этой связи приведены ключевые элементы административно-правового регулирования рассматриваемой сферы, в том числе и в рамках реализации профильного национального проекта «Образование». Анализируя вопросы образовательной политики в программах политических партий автором акцентировано внимание на политической программе партий левого толка, имеющих свое представительство в российском парламенте. Такой выбор обусловлен традиционной значимостью для левых проблематики поддержания уровня социальных благ, в том числе и общедоступного образования, для максимально широкого круга лиц. При этом, отмечается такая особенность российской партийной системы, как доминирующая политическая партия, активно взаимодействующая с органами исполнительной власти и, таким образом, являющейся значимым актором политических процессов в области формирования государственной политики в сфере образования.