bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Practice on fifth-generation core (5GC) network fault self-recovery based on a Digital Twin
Authors: Zheng Yifeng , Kong Huaming , Wang Na , Li Mei , Wang Xiaoyu , Xia Zhesheng , Wang Pei , Wang Chenhao
Published: December 2022

Background: The development of cloud-based, service-focused and intelligent networks has increased the demand for highly reliable, error-tolerant and computationally efficient means of reducing the costs associated with network operation, maintenance, testing and innovations.

Methods: We present a fault self-recovery method for fifth-generation core (5GC) networks. Data models are built according to the data governance approach to include the equipment, links and services of the physical network in the digital twin. Visual topology technology is used to extract knowledge-as-a-service (KaaS) capabilities such as call quality tests, fault-propagation chain reasoning and disaster recovery analysis.

Results: The proposed method realises 5GC closed-loop self-recovery through four processes: perception, analysis, decision-making and execution. In tests, it achieved 5GC network fault detection in 1 min, delimitation in 20 min, and recovery in 5 min.

Conclusions: Through the network digital twin technology, based on the model and state data, the twinning capabilities such as simulation and event topology can be used to realize the network anomaly perception, fault rapid confinement and service survival decision, thus effectively improving the fault processing efficiency and reducing the fault impact.
A prospective assessment of gait kinematics and related clinical examination measures in cerebral palsy crouch gait
Authors: O'Sullivan Rory , French Helen , Horgan Frances
Published: December 2022

Background

While prospectively assessed crouch gait in cerebral palsy (CP) does not necessarily progress, prospective changes in clinical examination measures have not been reported.

This study prospectively examined the association between selected clinical examination variables and change in crouch gait in a cohort with bilateral CP.

Methods

Inclusion criteria were a diagnosis of ambulant bilateral CP, knee flexion at mid-stance >190 and a minimum of two-years between gait analyses. The change in kinematic variables was assessed using Statistical Parameter Mapping (SPM) and changes in clinical measures using appropriate paired tests. Linear regression examined the association between progression of crouch and clinical examination variables.

Results

There was no mean change in crouch in 27 participants over 3.29 years. However, there was significant variability within this group. Clinical hamstring tightness (60.000 to 70.480, p<0.01) and external knee rotation during stance (SPM analysis, p<0.001) increased but there was no association between changes in clinical examination variables and changes in crouch (p-values 0.06 - 0.89).   

Conclusions

The variability crouch gait progression highlights the pitfall of group mean values in such a heterogeneous population.  The lack of association between changes in clinical examination variables and changes in crouch highlights the multi-factorial aetiology of this gait pattern and the need for larger prospective studies.
Phylogeny-wide analysis of G-protein coupled receptors in social amoebas and implications for the evolution of multicellularity
Authors: Hall Grant , Kelly Sarah , Schaap Pauline , Schilde Christina
Published: December 2022

G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are seven-transmembrane proteins and constitute the largest group of receptors within eukaryotes. The presence of a large set of GPRCs in the unicellular Amoebozoa was surprising and is indicative of the largely undiscovered environmental sensing capabilities in this group. Evolutionary transitions from unicellular to multicellular lifestyles, like we see in social amoebas, have occurred several times independently in the Amoebozoa, and GPCRs may have been co-opted for new functions in cell-cell communication.

Methods

We have analysed a set of GPCRs from fully sequenced Amoebozoan genomes by Bayesian inference, compared their phylogenetic distribution and domain composition, and analysed their temporal and spatial expression patterns in five species of dictyostelids.

Results

We found evidence that most GPCRs are conserved deeply in the Amoebozoa and are probably performing roles in general cell functions and complex environmental sensing. All families of GPCRs (apart from the family 4 fungal pheromone receptors) are present in dictyostelids with family 5 being the largest and family 2 the one with the fewest members. For the first time, we identify the presence of family 1 rhodopsin-like GPCRs in dictyostelids. Some GPCRs have been amplified in the dictyostelids and in specific lineages thereof and through changes in expression patterns may have been repurposed for signalling in multicellular development.

Discussion

Our phylogenetic analysis suggests that GPCR families 1, 2 and 6 already diverged early in the Amoebozoa, whereas families 3 and 5 expanded later within the dictyostelids. The family 6 cAMP receptors that have experimentally supported roles in multicellular development in dictyostelids (carA-carD; tasA/B) originated at the root of all dictyostelids and only have weakly associated homologs in Physarum polycephalum. Our analysis identified candidate GPCRs which have evolved in the dictyostelids and could have been co-opted for multicellular development.
Administracyjnoprawne instrumenty ochrony socjalnej w Galicji doby autonomicznej
Authors: Maj Elżbieta A.
Published: December 2022

The inhabitants of Galicia, from the ethnic perspective, were partly Slavs, Moldovans, Germans, Armenians, Hungarians, Szeklers, Lipovans, Jews and Gypsies. Due to demographic factors, Galicia constituted a multinational, multicultural, multireligious, and – in consequence – multicoloured melting pot. This collectivity, or at least its portion, was also characterised by synonymous poverty determining life of many families. The subject of this work concerns the issue of administrative and legal instruments of the social protection of this poverty-stricken part of Galician people during the autonomous period in the years 1861-1918. The work results from source research, mainly archival, conducted for a few years, and it concentrates on a possibly broad view of the social protection within state and society frames. It focuses on material and legal aspects as well as system factors, selectively discussing trial issues. The social law is not formally distinguished among the branches of law, so the work has primarily an administrative and legal connotation which can be classified within the administrative law and its science.
Identifying State Dependence in Brand Choice: Evidence from Hurricanes
Authors: Levine Julia , Seiler Stephan
Published: December 2022

The paper analyzes stockouts resulting from hurricanes to study whether consumers are persistent in their brand choices.
‘Thank You Very Much’: Feedback Strategies in University English Literature Lecture Interaction
Authors: Rido Akhyar , Prakoso Bagus Hary , Kuswoyo Heri
Published: December 2022

Learning literature is considered challenging for university students, especially in Indonesia, as they must perform assigned tasks and communicate with one another, in addition to receiving and transmitting comprehensible literature content knowledge from and to their lecturers. In many cases, students do not get sufficient feedback on what they are doing. The objective of this study was to investigate the use of feedback strategies by lecturers in English literature lectures in a higher learning institution in Indonesia. Using a qualitative approach, this study involved three lecturers of the English literature department. Meanwhile, data were collected through 300 minutes of video recordings of drama, literary criticism, and prose lectures. The results revealed that the lecturers generated both negative and positive feedback strategies during the lectures. In terms of negative feedback strategies, they criticized students’ responses. By contrast, in terms of positive feedback strategies, they accepted, appreciated, and praised as well as repeated and answered students’ responses. The results also indicated that the feedback strategies became effective tools to improve students’ language competence, literary knowledge, and participation. This study suggested that lecturers use more positive feedback followed by additional comments during lectures as these could foster students’ engagement and keep learning longer.
Problem-Solving Process of Students with a Reflective Cognitive Style Based on the Action-Process-Object-Schema Theory
Authors: Rahayu Ratri , Kartono Kartono , Dwijanto Dwijanto , Agoestanto Arief
Published: December 2022

The skill to solve mathematical problems facilitates students to develop their basic skills to solve problems in daily life. This study analyzes students' problem-solving process with a reflective cognitive style in constructing probability problems using action, process, object, and schema theory (APOS). The explanatory method was used in this qualitative study. The participants were mathematics students at the Department of Mathematics, Universitas Negeri Semarang. The researchers collected the data with the cognitive style test using the Matching Familiar Figure Test (MFFT), used a valid problem-solving skill test, and the interview questions. The data analysis techniques used were processing and preparing the data for analysis, extensive reading of the data, coding all data, applying the coding process, describing the data, and interpreting the data. The results showed that (1) the problem-solving process of students with symbolic representation was characterized by the use of mathematical symbols to support the problem-solving process in the problem representation phase; (2) the problem-solving process of students with symbolic-visual representation was characterized by the use of symbols, notations, numbers, and visual representation in the form of diagrams in the problem representation phase.
TABİATÜSTÜ VARLIKLARIN TÜRKİYE TÜRKÇESİNDEKİ GÖRÜNÜMLERİ: CİN, ŞEYTAN ÖRNEĞİ
Authors: SIBIÇ Burcu
Published: December 2022

İnsanoğlu var oluşundan bugüne etrafındaki varlıkları pek çok unsurla ilişkilendirmiş ve bu unsurlara inanma ihtiyacı duymuştur. Söz konusu ihtiyaç doğrultusunda dönem dönem farklı dinlere intisap etmelerinin yanı sıra tabiattaki canlı ve cansız varlıklara da tapınmıştır. Sosyal bir varlık olan insan hayatında meydana gelen her şey, yüzyıllardır kültürün yapı taşı kabul edilen dilde de görünüm kazanmıştır. Bu doğrultuda geçmişten günümüze var olagelen siyasi, sosyal, kültürel vb. birçok olay ve olgu gibi Türk inanç sisteminin izlerini de Türkçede bulabilmek mümkündür. Türk inanç sistemi içinde değerlendirilen unsurlardan biri de tabiatüstü varlıklardır. Gerek dinî gerek sosyal yaşamda etkileri görülen tabiatüstü varlıklar, Türkçede pek çok kavram ile ilişkilendirilmiş, bu kavram adlarından oluşan birçok sözcük/sözcük grubu dilin terim ve sözcük hazinesine yerleşmiştir. Bu çalışmada Türkçe söz varlığında birçok kavram ve ifadeyle bağdaştırılmış tabiatüstü varlıklardan “cin” ve “şeytan”ın Türkiye Türkçesindeki görünümlerinden söz edilecek ve bu sözcükler/sözcük grupları kavram alanına göre kendi içinde bir sınıflandırmaya tabi tutularak konu edilecektir.
Investigating where adolescents engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity and sedentary behaviour: An exploratory study
Authors: Christensen Alex , Griffiths Claire , Hobbs Matthew , Gorse Chris , Radley Duncan
Published: December 2022

Background

There is a persistent lack of understanding on the influence of the environment on behaviour and health. While the environment is considered an important modifiable determinant of health behaviour, past research assessing environments often relies on static, researcher-defined buffers of arbitrary distance. This likely leads to misrepresentation of true environmental exposures. This exploratory study aims to compare researcher-defined and self-drawn buffers in reflecting the spaces and time adolescents engage in physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviour. It also investigates if adolescent’s access the PA facility and greenspace nearest their home or school for PA, as well as examine how much time adolescents spent in PA at any PA facilities and greenspaces.

Methods

Adolescents (aged 14–18 years; n = 34) were recruited from schools in West Yorkshire, England. Seven consecutive days of global positioning system (GPS) and accelerometer data were collected at 15 second intervals. Using ArcGIS, we compared 30 different researcher-defined buffers including: radial, network and ellipse buffers at 400m, 800m, 1000m, 1600m and 3000m and participant-defined self-drawn neighbourhoods to objectively measured PA and sedentary space and PA time. Location of PA was also compared to Points of Interest data to determine if adolescents use the nearest PA facility or greenspace to their home or school and to examine how much PA was undertaken within these locations.

Results

Our exploratory findings show the inadequacy of researcher-defined buffer size in assessing MVPA space or sedentary space. Furthermore, less than 35% of adolescents used the greenspaces or PA facilities nearest to their home or school. Approximately 50% of time spent in PA did not occur within the home, school, PA facility, or greenspace environments.

Conclusion

Our exploratory findings help to begin to quantify the inadequacy of researcher-defined, and self-drawn buffers in capturing adolescent MVPA and sedentary space, as well as time spent in PA. Adolescents often do not use PA facilities and greenspaces nearest their home and school and a large proportion of PA is achieved outside PA facilities and greenspaces. Further research with larger samples are needed to confirm the findings of this exploratory study.
Acute echocardiographic and electrocardiographic effects of triggered left ventricular pacing
Authors: Pfeffer Tobias Jonathan , Neuser Jonas , Mueller-Leisse Johanna , Hohmann Stephan , Duncker David , Bauersachs Johann , Veltmann Christian , Berliner Dominik
Published: December 2022

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an essential pillar in the therapy of heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) presenting with broad left bundle branch block (LBBB) or pacemaker dependency. To achieve beneficial effects, CRT requires high bi-ventricular (BiV) pacing rates. Therefore, device-manufacturers designed pacing algorithms which maintain high BiV pacing rates by a left ventricular (LV) pacing stimulus immediately following a right ventricular sensed beat. However, data on clinical impact of these algorithms are sparse. We studied 17 patients implanted with a CRT device providing triggered left ventricular pacing (tLVp) in case of atrioventricular nodal conduction. Assessment of LV dyssynchrony was performed using echocardiographic and electrocardiographic examination while CRT-devices were set to three different settings: 1. Optimized bi-ventricular-stimulation (BiV); 2. Physiological AV nodal conduction (tLVp-off); 3. Physiological AV nodal conduction and tLVp-algorithm turned on (tLVp-on). QRS duration increased when the CRT-device was set to tLVp-off compared to BiV-Stim, while QRS duration was comparable to BiV-Stim with the tLVp-on setting. Echocardiographic analysis revealed higher dyssynchrony during tLVp-off compared to BiV-Stim. TLVp-on did not improve LV dyssynchrony compared to tLVp-off. QRS duration significantly decreased using tLVp-algorithms compared to physiological AV nodal conduction. However, echocardiographic examination could not show functional benefit from tLVp-algorithms, suggesting that these algorithms are inferior to regular biventricular pacing regarding cardiac resynchronization. Therefore, medical treatment and ablation procedures should be preferred, when biventricular pacing rates have to be increased. TLVp-algorithms can be used in addition to these treatment options.
Quality of life among patients with the common chronic disease during COVID-19 pandemic in Northwest Ethiopia: A structural equation modelling
Authors: Ayele Tadesse Awoke , Shibru Fanta Habtewold , Mequanent Sisay Malede , Melese Yilma Tesfahun , Fentie Melkitu , Azale Telake , Belachew Tariku , Shitu Kegnie , Alamneh Tesfa Sewunet
Published: December 2022

Background

Improving Quality of Life (QoL) for patients with chronic diseases is a critical step in controlling disease progression and preventing complications. The COVID-19 pandemic has hampered chronic disease management, lowering patients’ quality of life. Thus, we aimed to assess the quality of life and its determinants in patients with common chronic diseases, in Northwest Ethiopia during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted among 1815 randomly selected chronic patients with common chronic diseases. A standardized WHOQOL BREF tool was used, and electronic data collection was employed with the kobo toolbox data collection server. Overall QoL and the domains of Health-Related Quality of life (HRQoL) were determined. Structural equation modelling was done to estimate independent variables’ direct and indirect effects. Path coefficients with a 95% confidence interval were reported.

Results

About one in third, (33.35%) and 11.43% of the study participants had co-morbid conditions and identified complications, respectively. The mean score of QoL was 56.3 ranging from 14.59 and 98.95. The environmental domain was the most affected domain of HRQoL with a mean score of 52.18. Age, psychological, and environmental domains of HRQoL had a direct positive effect on the overall QoL while the physical and social relationships domains had an indirect positive effect. On the other hand, the number of medications taken, the presence of comorbidity, and complications had a direct negative impact on overall QoL. Furthermore, both rural residency and the presence of complications had an indirect negative effect on overall QoL via the mediator variables of environmental and physical health, respectively.

Conclusion

The quality of life was compromised in chronic disease patients. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the environmental domain of HRQoL was the most affected. Several socio-demographic and clinical factors had an impact on QoL, either directly or indirectly. These findings highlighted the importance of paying special attention to rural residents, patients with complications, patients taking a higher number of medications, and patients with comorbidity.
Lower limb muscle fatigue after uphill walking in children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy
Authors: Moll I. , Essers J. M. N. , Marcellis R. G. J. , Senden R. H. J. , Janssen-Potten Y. J. M. , Vermeulen R. J. , Meijer K.
Published: December 2022

Fatigue during walking is a common complaint in cerebral palsy (CP). The primary purpose of this study is to investigate muscle fatigue from surface electromyography (sEMG) measurements after a treadmill-based fatigue protocol with increasing incline and speed in children with CP with drop foot. The secondary purpose is to investigate whether changes in sagittal kinematics of hip, knee and ankle occur after fatigue. Eighteen subjects with unilateral spastic CP performed the protocol while wearing their ankle-foot orthosis and scored their fatigue on the OMNI scale of perceived exertion. The median frequency (MF) and root mean square (RMS) were used as sEMG measures for fatigue and linear mixed effects model were applied. The MF was significantly decreased in fatigued condition, especially in the affected leg and in the tibialis anterior and peroneus longus muscle. The RMS did not change significantly in fatigued condition, while the OMNI fatigue score indicated patients felt really fatigued. No changes in sagittal kinematics of hip, knee and ankle were found using statistical non-parametric mapping. In conclusion, the current fatigue protocol seems promising in inducing fatigue in a population with CP with drop foot and it could be used to expand knowledge on muscle fatigue during walking in CP.
Grammar in ‘agrammatical’ aphasia: What’s intact?
Authors: Zhang Han , Hinzen Wolfram
Published: December 2022

Background

Aphasia following cerebro-vascular accidents has been a primary source of insight for models of language in the brain. However, deviant language patterns in aphasia may reflect processing limitations and cognitive impairment more than language impairment per se.

Aims

We sought to obtain new evidence from spontaneous speech in Broca’s aphasia (BA) for the intactness of grammatical knowledge, operationalized as the preservation of the basic hierarchical structure of syntactic projections.

Methods & procedures

Speech obtained with the AphasiaBank protocol from 20 people with BA, which were independently rated as also being agrammatic, was analyzed and compared to 20 matched non-brain-damaged controls. We quantified (i) marking of Aspect, Tense, and Modality (A-T-M), which are located at specific (high) layers of the syntactic hierarchy and ordered in relation to one another ([M…[T…[A…]]]); (ii) hierarchies of clausal units ([C…[C]]); (iii) discourse markers embedding clauses, located at the highest layer of the hierarchy; and (iv) attachment of adjuncts at different heights of a given hierarchical syntactic structure. Supplementary evidence was obtained from a typology of errors and from pauses subcategorized according to their hierarchical syntactic position.

Outcomes & results

Groups did not quantitatively differ on rates of either Aspect or Modality but underproduced T and embedded clauses. Evidence for compensatory effects was seen in both of the latter two cases. While all adjunct types were underproduced in BA, and pauses overproduced, both showed the same relative proportions within both groups. Errors were largely restricted to omissions, of a kind that would also be expected in condensed neurotypical speech.

Conclusions

Overall, these patterns support the hypothesis of intactness of grammatical knowledge in BA clinically rated as agrammatic, questioning it as a disease model of language impairment.
Unnatural and degenerate: Cases of monstrous motherhood in Matteo Bandello’s Novelle (1554) and Geoffrey Fenton’s Tragicall Discourses (1567)
Authors: Fuga Beatrice
Published: December 2022

The following article takes into consideration two cases of early modern female ‘monstrosity’ drawn from the Italian collection of Novelle published by Matteo Bandello in 1554. The events recount the stories of two mothers who, seized by ‘unnatural’ folly, kill in cold blood their own offspring. The article tackles the conflicting concepts of normality and malady, putting this ambiguous opposition in relation with the consequent translations of the Novelle in French and in English. The shifts that appear in the translations reveal a deep preoccupation with definitions of malady, be they physical or cultural. Through a close analysis of the original Italian text and its English rendition written by Geoffrey Fenton in 1567, this article sheds light on the troubled relationship of English translators with ‘Italianated’ thus ‘degenerate’ customs, and on their authorial and textual strategies to pre-empt the infectious potential of their Italian sources.
Using the short story as a tool for well-being in arts and health workshops for the NHS staff
Authors: Wiltshire Kim
Published: December 2022

This article focuses on creative writing workshops run online for NHS staff during 2020–21 organized through Lime, the Arts and Health Department of Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT). As the pandemic and lockdown hit in 2020, all Lime activity had to cease. Lime’s premises were reassigned for administrative staff and its staff redeployed. Using Arts Council England emergency funding, Lime demonstrated the need for creative outlets for stressed NHS staff and moved online with its participatory workshops. This work was piloted with creative writing workshops focusing on the short story; the workshops used writing techniques that would help participants focus on their mental well-being as NHS staff during one of the most stressful and exhausting periods of work for them. The article further explores the use of the short story in those creative writing workshops, examining the premise for the use of creative writing practices, the workshops themselves and the facilitator’s experience of running them, alongside the (anonymized) feedback of participants.
In search of a body of work
Authors: Hartley Virginia
Published: December 2022

Short story collections, fragmentary assemblages, negotiate a particular kind of relationship to the corpus or ‘body of work’. They communicate an ambivalence about a process of embodiment and of growth. In their relationship to each other, as collected but non-continuous, they grow by means of a pulling apart, where each new piece ruptures, destroys, returns back to the beginning, that which has come before. This personal essay considers the writer’s own process of growing such a written body of work whilst in recovery from an eating disorder: whereby her own body’s reluctance to put on weight beyond the limits of the page is also played out in a struggle on the page. How to reconcile desire with its inevitable end, a body (of work)? The essay considers how, in its distaste the prospect of fullness and completion, the fragment may articulate a disordered relationship with nourishment but, when collected together, may offer a way to think about writing alternative bodies, non-conforming bodies, bodies which are always something less than whole. As such, writing becomes a tool in a recovery of a body of sorts. What is achieved in such fragmentary process may not be a healthy body, a reassuring body, but it is better than nothing and may better express the ambivalence and disturbance of body as process. Drawing small nourishment from Hélène Cixous, from Maurice Blanchot, the essay theorizes a kind of writing which has learnt to survive and, as a collection of fragments, does so as evidence or proof – of a ‘good enough’ body which, is of course, defined as much by the ways in which it falls short.
‘Sheffield in virus time’: Forms of writing, reading, living
Authors: Lee Joanne
Published: December 2022

This article considers the experience of writing a daily journal, published daily via a public social media site. The journal began on 31 March 2020 as an attempt to account for the suddenly changed experiences of my personal and professional life (as an artist and lecturer) in the early days of the first UK coronavirus lockdown; it is still ongoing. After producing 700,000 words, this project has come to be understood as having shifted my writing in creative practice to writing as a practice for creating life. An expansive readerly engagement with a variety of creative and critical diarists provides generative perspectives for rethinking life and work. This latter part of the article’s structure considers the ‘Sheffield in virus time’ project in relation to poet Kumiko Hahn’s characterization of the zuihitsu as a fungal form. This Japanese genre (translated as ‘following the will of the pen’) develops casual, loosely connected fragments and ideas, often in haphazard order, a form well-suited to the ongoingness of writing life.
Searching for Lauren Berlant: Reflections on writing, temporality and loss
Authors: Johnson Clare
Published: December 2022

This article reflects on the difficulties of writing with/alongside creative practice during periods of lockdown endured as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It follows my search for Lauren Berlant’s writing on the pandemic and my desire to make sense of the claustrophobic intensity of that time through their writing on attachment, precarity and ‘cruel optimism’. In reflecting on the failure to write, this article journeys through temporal rhythms, critiques of neo-liberalism, temporalities of care and unending lists to argue for the importance of hidden work in writing and/as ordinary life.
Iris in, Iris out: Reflections on the production, exhibition and viewing of a bisected-eyeball hand-puppet
Authors: Schwarz Clair
Published: December 2022

This article reflects upon my short visual recording Eyedrops: A Monoculogue (2021). It describes the thinking process of creative avoidance (both making something new, but recycling ideas and materials which already exist, both in the mind and close to hand); pleasure in making (the haptic joy of production); considerations of performance; being audience to one’s own work when exhibited alongside other work responding to the same initial call; re-presenting the work in a workshop context. While it draws upon interdisciplinary theoretical writing to provide phenomenological and ekphrastic considerations of the work, moving between the three-point dynamic which links and divides viewing positions: the image (screen), subject (eye) and the object (puppet), it employs an immediacy of writing, which resists the usual considerations of academic scholarship in a move to free up thinking and to expose the emotional and experiential, questioning what it is to ‘see’.
Reflexos do sincretismo religioso chinês na iconografia Tang
Authors: Fialho Fausto
Published: December 2022

No percurso do Budismo Mahāyāna entre a Índia e a China, via Rota da Seda terrestre, a sua mitologia e iconografia alteraram-se. De facto, o Budismo absorveu aspetos religioso-artísticos de outros contextos. Assim, os Lokapalas refletem estas mudanças.

Na Índia, migraram do Bramanismo para o Budismo, mantendo atributos prévios, adquiriram uma aura protetora de Siddhartha Gautama e da fé budista. Na Ásia Central, militarizaram-se. Na China, devido à força centrípeta da sua cultura, o Budismo adaptou-se à sua religiosidade.

Neste artigo, pretende-se refletir sobre os processos sincréticos, através da análise das transmissões e transformações religiosas que estas figuras sofreram na Rota da Seda.
As Humanidades Digitais na era da Ciência Aberta
Authors: Barrocas Ferreira Beatriz , Borges Maria Manuel
Published: December 2022

A abordagem das culturas epistémicas expõe as diferenças na construção dos modos de produção e de criação do conhecimento entre os diversos campos do conhecimento, revelando a sua fragmentação. As humanidades digitais são um campo inter e transdisciplinar, compostas por diversas culturas epistémicas, e, portanto, marcadas por diversas práticas de produção do conhecimento que diferem entre si. No cenário atual da comunicação académica, o discurso em torno de práticas abertas no decurso da investigação tem tomado cada vez mais um lugar de destaque. Contudo, este discurso, na forma em que se encontra desenvolvido e implementado – sob o paradigma da ciência aberta – revela-se mais enquadrado no contexto das culturas epistémicas das ciências, não considerando na totalidade os restantes domínios do conhecimento. Este estudo tem como finalidade, enquadrar as culturas epistémicas das humanidades digitais no discurso de abertura do conhecimento. A sua conclusão aponta para a necessidade de adoção de um discurso específico em torno da abertura do conhecimento, que considere a diversidade de práticas de comunicação académica, incluindo nesta discussão as específicas das humanidades. Ao mesmo tempo, considera-se que as humanidades digitais podem contribuir para a consolidação deste discurso.
A partilha interdisciplinar de conhecimento
Authors: Machado Luís Miguel , Borges Maria Manuel
Published: December 2022

A preservação da semântica é particularmente complexa quando o âmbito da partilha é interdisciplinar atendendo às idiossincrasias inerentes às diferentes comunidades de conhecimento. Uma potencial solução para transcender as fronteiras disciplinares envolve o uso da abordagem ontológica para a modulação de novos sistemas de organização do conhecimento. O uso de ontologias de alto nível ou de meta-modelos ontológicos como estruturas envolventes a outros sistemas de menor âmbito são possíveis exemplos da aplicação da referida abordagem em contexto interdisciplinar. Apesar da possível existência de algumas aplicações, uma adequação generalizada a diferentes perspetivas epistémicas é, dentro da cultura pós-moderna, olhada com grande ceticismo. Contrariando essa visão de incomensurabilidade, a existência de um horizonte comum à prática científica é apresentada como viável e não impeditivo da integração de diferentes perspetivas sobre o mesmo. Para tal é necessário diferenciar afirmações do que existe (ontologia) de critérios de testagem (metodologia) e não descartar nem confundir os três esquemas (percetivo, concetual e linguístico) evolvidos na relação entre sujeitos e respetivo milieu.
Alternativas de estandarización para índices compuestos espacio-temporales. El caso del rezago educativo en los estados de México, 2000 a 2020
Authors: Treviño Cantú Jesús Antonio
Published: December 2022

Los investigadores de índices compuestos han detectado y tratado de eliminar, con poco éxito hasta ahora, la ponderación implícita de los datos porque generan índices distorsionados. El origen de esta distorsión suele adjudicarse a las variables con distinto rango de valores, al valor máximo y mínimo desigual entre ellas o a la de asimetría de cada variable. El procedimiento para abordar este triple reto es la estandarización de los datos. A la fecha no hay un procedimiento de este tipo que corrija simultáneamente este triple problema y, con ello, la ponderación implícita. El igual máximo y mínimo entre variables resuelve el problema de rangos desiguales, pero no corrige la asimetría en cada una de ellas. El rango igual entre variables no implica igual máximo y mínimo entre ellas ni garantiza simetría en cada variable. Finalmente, la corrección de la asimetría en cada variable no implica igual máximo y mínimo ni igual rango entre variables.

El objetivo del presente estudio es sugerir e ilustrar un procedimiento de estandarización de variables que elimina la ponderación implícita de cada variable. Las estandarizaciones revisadas en este trabajo para elaborar índices compuestos resuelven solo de forma parcial el problema de la ponderación implícita por lo que este trabajo propone un procedimiento de estandarización que resuelve simultáneamente el triple reto impuesto por los rangos disparejos, los máximos y mínimos desiguales y la asimetría. El nuevo procedimiento propuesto, la estandarización balanceada, soluciona el problema de la ponderación implícita en el tiempo y el espacio, en la agregación transversal y longitudinal de las variables de las distintas unidades de observación. Este trabajo ilustra el procedimiento de estandarización propuesto con las variables del rezago educativo en los estados de México. La metodología propuesta es aplicable a cualquier tema donde la estandarización espacio temporal sea necesaria.
Elflein, A. M. ([1918] 2020). Por los pueblos serranos.
Authors: De Pina Ravest Valeria Consuelo
Published: December 2022

Elflein, A. M. ([1918] 2020). Por los pueblos serranos. Introducción, selección y notas Ana Negri. (Serie: Colección relato licenciado Vidriera, núm. 84). México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 90 pp., ISBN 978-607-30-3455-5
Gómez Rojas, J. C. (Coord.: 2019). Arte, Mito y Territorio.
Authors: Sosa Heredia Erandi
Published: December 2022

Gómez Rojas, J. C. (Coord.: 2019). Arte, Mito y Territorio. México: Ediciones del Lirio 134. p. ISBN: 978-607-8569-96-0
Programas Future-se e Reuni Digital como ofensivas neoliberais sobre as Instituições Federais de Ensino
Authors: Possamai Tamiris , Silva Filomena Lucia Gossler Rodrigues da
Published: December 2022

Neste artigo, problematizamos duas propostas para as Instituições Federais de Ensino (IFEs) apresentadas pelo governo federal (2019-2022): o Programa Future-se e o Programa Reuni Digital. Como resultado do estudo realizado para a problematização de tais Programas, observamos que estes se estruturam a partir de propostas neoliberais para reeditar a função das IFEs, evidenciando os alinhamentos com interesses e necessidades dos mercados e dos setores produtivos, assim como também embargam o fortalecimento de uma educação pública, estatal, gratuita, universal, laica, inclusiva, democrática e de qualidade socialmente referenciada, podendo levar as IFEs a abandonar sua função precípua, que deve ser compromissada com o desenvolvimento da humanidade para além do capital.
Ação Escola da Terra com fundamentos da Pedagogia Histórico-Crítica
Authors: Santos Elisete , Carvalho Marize Souza , Taffarel Celi Nelza Zulke
Published: December 2022

A problemática é a formação de professores através do PRONACAMPO – Programa Nacional de Educação do Campo - Ação Escola da Terra, desenvolvida na Universidade Federal da Bahia, através do Curso de Especialização em Pedagogia Histórico-Crítica. O problema diz respeito ao aporte legal do PRONACAMPO e seu desdobramento enquanto curso de formação continuada para professores. Apresentamos proposta crítica superadora de formação de professores de base marxista para as escolas do campo como objetivo. A metodologia foi baseada na análise documental e descrição densa da proposta crítico superadora implementada. Os resultados nos permitem afirmar que a universidade, exercendo a autonomia universitária, tem condições de imprimir na formação continuada de professores, fundamentos da teoria pedagógica histórico-crítica, contribuindo para a elevação teórica na formação de professores para as escolas do campo.
Escola da Terra Ceará: Educação do Campo e a Pedagogia Histórico-Crítica à luz do Materialismo-Histórico-Dialético
Authors: Zientarski Clarice , Nascimento Fernanda Pâmela do , Freire Perla Almeida Rodrigues
Published: December 2022

O trabalho trata sobre a formação desenvolvida pela Escola da Terra/ Ceará, objetivando apresentar o processo de formação continuada desenvolvido por meio da ação/projeto, com aspectos filosóficos, pedagógicos e didáticos que permeiam o percurso dessa formação. Trata-se de uma pesquisa bibliográfica e documental que conta ainda com os dados obtidos por meio de questionário aplicado aos professores cursistas no início e no final do curso, analisados à luz do materialismo histórico-dialético. Conclui que a Escola da Terra contribui com o processo de formação dos professores cursistas e que o conteúdo desenvolvido atende suas expectativas, embora na ação de 2020/2021, tenham encontrado algumas dificuldades em razão da maioria do curso ter sido realizada de forma remota, devido à pandemia da Covid-19.
O Programa Escola da Terra em tempos de pandemia de Covid-19: experiências de formação contínua em Presidente Figueiredo/AM
Authors: Souza e Souza Érica de , Nascimento Gabriel Rodrigues do , Borges Heloisa da Silva , Victória Cláudio Gomes da
Published: December 2022

Este artigo é resultado das atividades formativas e investigativas da Universidade Federal do Amazonas no âmbito do Programa Escola da Terra, desenvolvido em convênio com MEC/FNDE/SEMESP, referente à edição 2020/2021, durante a pandemia de Covid-19 no Estado do Amazonas. Neste estudo objetivamos socializar as experiências de formação contínua de professores/as do campo no município Presidente Figueiredo/AM, durante o curso de aperfeiçoamento em “Educação do Campo: práticas pedagógicas”. O estudo fundamenta-se nos pressupostos metodológicos da pesquisa qualitativa desenvolvida com apoio da pesquisa bibliográfica, documental e de campo. Os resultados alcançados apontam que a formação contínua do programa Escola da Terra durante o curso aperfeiçoamento em Presidente Figueiredo promovida pela UFAM, permitiu um novo aprendizado os professores/as das escolas do campo, contribuindo diretamente com as práticas pedagógicas, o planejamento curricular embasado na pesquisa e interdisciplinaridade; a partir da valorização das experiências, da realidade e saberes dos sujeitos históricos dos territórios camponeses.
Políticas públicas e educação do campo
Authors: Souza Vilma Aparecida de , Richter Leonice Matilde , Silva Maria Vieira , Souza Raquel Aparecida
Published: December 2022

Uma retrospectiva do Movimento da Educação do Campo evidencia conquistas materializadas em marcos normativos e documentos oficiais que expressam o acúmulo de debates e trabalho coletivo de movimentos sociais do campo, organizações populares, universidades e órgãos públicos. Em estudo documental sobre os marcos regulatórios da educação do campo, Hage et al. (2022) destacam as seguintes políticas públicas: Projovem Campo/ Saberes da Terra, 2008; Procampo - Programa de Apoio à Formação Superior em Licenciatura em Educação do Campo, 2009; Pronera - Programa Nacional de Educação na Reforma Agrária, 2010; Pronacampo - Programa Nacional de Educação do Campo, 2013; e Programa Escola da Terra, 2013. Muitas dessas políticas materializam a luta em defesa dos princípios da Educação do Campo.
Que é geografia
Authors: Oliveira Livia de
Published: December 2022

Este artigo apresenta algumas reflexões epistemológicas sôbre a ciência geográfica, destacando o papel do geógrafo como agente transformador da realidade
Periodização e análise do desenvolvimento industrial de Uberlândia segundo as tendências locacionais da indústria
Authors: Martins Humberto E. de Paula
Published: December 2022

O trabalho discute o processo de desenvolvimento industrial de Uberlândia, propondo uma periodização baseada nas tendências preponderantes de localização da industria em cada período. .......................
Mapeamento dos teores de argila de solos tropicais, por meio de dados de sensoriamento remoto multiespectral (ASTER) e hiperespectral (AVIRIS)
Authors: Baptista Gustavo Macedo de Mello , Madeira Netto José da Silva , Meneses Paulo Roberto
Published: December 2022

O presente trabalho visa determinar uma metodologia, a partir de dados de reflectância espectral, que permita mapear os teores de argila das manchas de solos expostos. .............
Unidades morfopedológicas da microbacia do Ribeirão Ãgua da Cachoeira (Paraguaçu Paulista.SP) e sua relação com o grau e os tipos de erosão do solo / Soil landscapes and its relationships with soil erosion classes of "Ãgua da Cachoeira" watershed ........
Authors: Rossi Marcio , Matos Isabel F.A. , Domingues Elvira N. , Rodrigues Sidnei P.
Published: December 2022

Objetivou-se mapear zonas homogeneas relacionadas as caracteristicas dos solos e relevo quanto aos processos erosivos na microbacia do Ribeirão Ãgua da Cachoeira, através da fotointerpretação e trabalhos de campo. .l..............
A educação ambiental nas escolas do município de Uberlândia (MG) I.Identificação e classificação das atividades desenvolvidas / Environmental education in the schools of the municipality of Uberlândia, State of Minas Gerais I. Identification and .........
Authors: Chirieleison Elisabete , Marçal Junior Osvaldo
Published: December 2022

Este estudo foi feito para identificar e classificar as atividades de educação ambiental(EA) nas escolas de Uberlândia, MG. O levantamento foi realizado no período de outubro de 2000 a junho de 2001. ...........
A questão da renda no socialismo
Authors: Pontes Beatriz Maria Soares
Published: December 2022

A questão da renda no socialismo
THE SOCIAL ACCOUNTING MATRIX AND THE SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC MATRIX-BASED APPROACHES FOR STUDYING THE SOCIOECONOMICS OF AGEING
Authors: SANTOS Susana
Published: December 2022

In looking for empirical evidence about the activity of countries, a proposal is made for studying (measuring and modelling) the activity of countries through the use of Social Accounting Matrices (SAMs) and Socio-Demographic Matrices (SDMs).

SAMs and SDMs are presented as tools that have specific features for conducting studies in several different areas, particularly in the Socio-Economics of Ageing, as well as for supporting policy decision processes.

Based on methodological principles that are derived mainly from the works of Richard Stone, emphasis is placed on the desirability of working in a matrix format, which includes not only people (SDM), but also, at the same time, activities, products, factors of production and institutions (SAM). This is considered to be a way of capturing the relevant network of linkages and the corresponding multiplier effects for the subsequent modelling of the activity of the countries studied. The exposition of this proposal is accompanied by an example applied to Portugal.
DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF TARGET PRICE RELEASES ON STOCK PRICES: PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS
Authors: KUDRYAVTSEV Andrey , SHAHRABANI Shosh , DIDI Aviad , GESUNDHEIT Eyal
Published: December 2022

In the present study, we attempt to shed light on potential factors affecting how investors react to target price announcements made by security analysts. More specifically, the study focuses on cross-sectional differences between the magnitude of reactions for stocks whose prices have increased and reactions for stocks whose prices decreased immediately prior to such announcements. Employing a sample of target price announcements classified as "buy" (positive) recommendations for Israeli stocks, we document their significantly positive effect on stock prices both on the day of the announcement and during a short period following the announcement. The effect of target price releases is also found to be significantly stronger for smaller stocks. Moreover, we document that those stocks that have experienced positive cumulative abnormal returns prior to target price releases yield significantly higher abnormal returns on average, both on the event day and during a short subsequent period. We explain this finding by the effect of the availability heuristic on investors' perceptions and decisions. Namely, we suggest that investors may expect target price releases to have a stronger effect on stock prices if these releases are preceded by stock returns of the same sign as the recommendation itself (making the recommendation more available, or in other words, subjectively more informative).
Networks in context: the concept of network in Manuel Castells’ theory of the network society
Authors: ANTTIROIKO Ari-Veikko
Published: December 2022

This article discusses the conceptualization of network in Manuel Castells’ theory of network society.

Networks appeared in Castells’ works in the late 1980s, when he became interested in the configuration of the

relationships between technology, economy, and society. The culmination of this phase was his opus magnum,

The Information Age trilogy, which introduced network as a key concept of his macro theory, even though he

remained laconic about the concept itself. This is paradoxical, for Castells became possibly the most prominent

figure globally in adopting network terminology in macro sociological theory, but at the same time made hardly

any empirical, theoretical or methodological contribution to social network analysis or network theory in general.

This implies that ‘network’ in Castells’ social theory is based on institutional network analysis. Moreover, it is not

an analytical concept but rather a powerful metaphor that served to capture his idea of the new social

morphology of informational capitalism.