bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
IMPRESSÃO 3D: ENTRE IPI, ICMS E ISS
Authors: Luz Victor Lyra Guimarães
Published: October 2020

Este artigo tem por objeto analisar a tributação de diferentes tipos de negócio envolvidos no contexto da impressão 3D. A análise é relevante em função do contraponto entre a evolução tecnológica da Quarta Revolução Industrial e os critérios materiais utilizados pela Constituição para fins de discriminação de competência dos impostos sobre o consumo – IPI, ICMS e ISS. Nesse contexto, em um primeiro momento, serão vistas as funcionalidades da impressora 3D, demonstrando que elas permitem a impressão, a partir dos comandos de um software, de um projeto (Blueprint) que pode ser elaborado pelo detentor da impressora ou por terceiros, razão pela qual duas grandes oportunidades de negócio surgem: (i) operações de elaboração dos Blueprints que serão impressos; e (ii) operações de venda de objetos impressos a partir de Blueprints. A partir daí, serão analisados os critérios materiais do IPI, ICMS e ISS de forma breve, o que servirá de base para as conclusões empreendidas no último tópico a respeito da tributação envolvida nas grandes áreas de negócios compreendidas no contexto da impressão 3D, mais especificamente das seguintes operações: (i) licença de uso do Blueprint para posterior impressão (propriedade intelectual detida pelo elaborador), em que se concluiu pela incidência do ISS; (ii) elaboração do Blueprint por encomenda, em que se concluiu pela incidência do ISS; (iii) alienação dos objetos impressos em 3D por estabelecimentos industriais, em que se concluiu pela incidência do IPI e do ICMS; e (iv) alienação dos objetos impressos em 3D por estabelecimentos não industriais ou prestadores de serviço, em que se concluiu pela possibilidade de incidência do ICMS caso o estabelecimento não seja prestador de serviço; caso se enquadre como prestador de serviços, concluiu-se pela incidência do ISS na hipótese em que o objeto impresso seja utilizado como material para a prestação dos serviços.
A INCONSTITUCIONALIDADE DA APREENSÃO DO VEÍCULO COMO FORMA INDIRETA DE COBRANÇA DO IPVA NO ESTADO DE GOIÁS
Authors: Inácio Ana Carolina de Freitas , Souza Rafael Machado de
Published: October 2020

O presente artigo científico busca, numa perspectiva bibliográfica e de estudo documental, discutir a constitucionalidade da apreensão do veículo em débito com o Imposto sobre a Propriedade de Veículo Automotor – IPVA como forma indireta de cobrança, o que encontra-se corriqueiro no Estado de Goiás. Analisase a forma com que os veículos são licenciados no Estado, o inadimplemento do IPVA e as consequências da mora, abordando a Lei n. 6.830/1980 que regula a forma de cobrança dos tributos e se a conduta adotada pelo poder de polícia em relação à apreensão do veículo não licenciado, pela ausência de pagamento do imposto, fere direitos constitucionais. Ainda, analisa-se os princípios do devido processo legal, da ampla defesa e do não confisco que busca resguardar os direitos fundamentais do cidadão frente a atuação do Estado. Diante de tal perspectiva, foram realizados estudos buscando acolhimento em decisões do Tribunal de Justiça do Estado de Goiás, dos tribunais superiores, além de doutrinas de renomados juristas e, principalmente, o estudo da Constituição Federal, Códigos Tributário Nacional e Estadual e de Trânsito Brasileiro.
O PRINCÍPIO DA LEGALIDADE TRIBUTÁRIA SUFICIENTE NO SUPREMO TRIBUNAL FEDERAL E A DEFINIÇÃO TRIBUTÁRIA DE INTANGÍVEIS
Authors: Dias Júnior Antônio Augusto Souza
Published: October 2020

O presente artigo visa abordar os conceitos existentes dos intangíveis, propondo um conceito no âmbito tributário, uma vez que não há, na legislação tributária brasileira, uma definição expressa do termo “intangíveis”. Diante dessa lacuna, será feita uma análise da legislação brasileira de propriedade intelectual, das leis tributárias que abordam os intangíveis, e dos conceitos expressos presentes em publicações da OCDE e de entidades dedicadas ao estudo da Contabilidade. Na análise da legislação brasileira, uma atenção especial será conferida ao software e aos serviços. Por sua vez, o estudo do conceito de intangíveis elaborado pela OCDE abordará as diretrizes relativas ao preço de transferência de intangíveis, que apesar de sua delimitação às operações de multinacionais, são úteis para a compreensão dos intangíveis de um modo geral. Ao final deste artigo, será esboçada uma proposta de definição de intangíveis para fins tributários na legislação brasileira. Além dessa proposta conceitual, também será discutida a metodologia para tanto, que pode dispensar uma atuação importante a normas de hierarquia abaixo da lei, tendo em vista a compreensão atual da legalidade tributária suficiente, já adotada pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal. Como resultado dessa orientação jurisprudencial, este artigo propõe ser possível a fixação em lei de um conceito amplo de intangíveis para fins tributários, abrindo-se espaço para a complementação por atos normativos emanados da Administração Tributária.
Microcredit Accessibility in Rural Households: Evidence from Indonesia
Authors: Santoso Danang Budi , Gan Christopher
Published: October 2020

Extant literature suggests that microcredit may improve borrowers’ social and economic welfare. This study aimed to investigate the microcredit accessibility of rural households in Indonesia. Binary Logistic regression was used to distinguish the characteristics of microcredit borrowers and non-borrowers, and the factors affecting the approval of microcredit application. Primary data was collected through a survey on 488 rural households in Bantul, Yogyakarta. The empirical results suggested that age, marital status and education attainment significantly affect the characteristics of clients and non-clients of microcredit. The results also revealed that age of borrowers, household income, interest rates, and loan duration are key determinants affecting microcredit accessibility. The implications of the findings were provided.
The Contribution of Islamic Banks towards the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals: The Case of Indonesia
Authors: Ghoniyah Nunung , Hartono Sri
Published: October 2020

This study aims to strengthen the opinion that the main goal of Islamic banks is not to obtain profit, but rather to improve the standards of living. In this study, the evidence is obtained by processing secondary data on Islamic banks in Indonesia during the period of 2011 to 2017 by using panel data regression model. The results of the data analysis support the hypothesis that banks whose goals are aimed at falah will demand lower payment obligations from customers, allowing the customers to manage funds in the real sector. The implication is also strengthened by good financial quality control, namely low non-performing financing value. Another form of support provided by Islamic banks, namely a more equitable cooperation contract, can also reflect Falah in every policy of Islamic banks.
O desenvolvimento do raciocínio proporcional no currículo de matemática da cidade de São Paulo (7º ano)
Authors: Silva Thiago Mascára Da , Palanch Wagner Barbosa de Lima
Published: October 2020

O objetivo desse artigo é analisar quais Objetivos de Aprendizagem e Desenvolvimento do sétimo ano no Currículo da Cidade de São Paulo de Matemática podem ser apresentados utilizando como aporte problemas de proporção que apoiem raciocínio proporcional. A metodologia empregada nesse artigo é a pesquisa qualitativa de caráter documental. A análise feita no quadro de Objetivos de Aprendizagem e Desenvolvimento do Currículo da Cidade apontou que os mesmos podem ser desenvolvidos com o apoio dos problemas de proporção que favoreçam o raciocínio proporcional apontados no estudo de Lesh, Post e Behr de 1988 em diversas ocasiões mesmo fora do objeto de conhecimento (proporcionalidade).Nossa análise sinaliza assim a flexibilidade de utilizar tais problemas no Currículo da Cidade de São Paulo o que reforça a proporcionalidade como Ideia Fundamental da Matemática.
Proyecto club geogebra una respuesta a la necesidad de constitución como actores de la educación matemática
Authors: Sánchez-N Irene Victoria , Sánchez Ivonne Coromoto , Gutiérrez Rafael Enrique , Díaz-Urdaneta Stephanie , Prieto Juan Luis , Castillo Luis Andres
Published: October 2020

El Proyecto Club GeoGebra (PCG) es una iniciativa escolar dirigida al fomento del aprendizaje de contenidos geométricos mediante el uso del software GeoGebra. Este trabajo tiene por objetivo describir la forma en que el PCG se fue constituyendo en una instancia social de atención a nuestras necesidades como actores de la Educación Matemática (EM). Para ello, presentamos un resumen de la implementación del PCG en las instituciones escolares participantes, caracterizamos las actividades de elaboración de simuladores con GeoGebra (fundamentales en el proyecto), describimos el itinerario de investigación en torno a estas actividades y analizamos algunos episodios de nuestros encuentros como responsables del PCG, en donde identificamos cualidades que, a nuestro parecer, le son propias a los actores de la EM. Concluimos este trabajo confiando en que la implementación del PCG en otros espacios es posible y que podría contribuir con las demandas de formación en geometría de nuestros ciudadanos.
Pseudomonas Isolates of Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College Hospital : Changing Patterns Over 12 Years
Authors: Begum T , Murshed Md. , Akter T , Duza S S , Shahnaz S
Published: October 2020

Pseudomonas is one of the most common gram negative microorganism identified in the clinical specimen of hospital indoor and outdoor patients. This was a retrospective study done among the patients attending Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College Hospital during January to December 2012. A total 457 patients with Pseudomonas were isolated of which 274 (60%) as indoor patient and 183 (40%) was outdoor patients. Males predominated being 251 (55%) while 206 (45%) was females. Majority of the patients were in the age group of 15-29 years. Urine was the most common specimens (70%) and others (pus, swab, blood etc) were (30%). Throughout our 12 years observation , it was found that imipenem and meropenem are the most effective drugs against Pseudomonas followed by amikacin and ciprojloxacin.
Clinical Evaluation of Hearing- impaired Children: Study on 169 cases
Authors: Daulatuzzaman Md. , Majumder K A , Sikder Md. A , Khan E H , Hossain F Md. S
Published: October 2020

A prospective study of 169 children when compliments of possible hearing loss who attend to ENT OPD of Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College Hospital within the period of 2010 - June 2013 at the age between 2-5 years. Among the children 102 (60%) were diagnosed having hearing loss. Male and female ratio was 1.3:1. Large age group was between 2-3 yrs. Measles (18.37%) was the leading childhood infection, exposure to passive smoking (52.63%). Birth history evalution showed foctal deshur (33.13%), low apger score (24.26%), hyperbilirubinemia (52.66%). Physical examination revealed variety offending including small (7.10%) and long (5.33%) stature, persistent otorrhoea (11.24%), and cleft lip (5.32%), cleft platate (3.55%). Sensorineural (74.53%) and conductive (25.47%) type of deafness was found.
Outcomes of Neonates with Perinatal Asphyxia at a Tertiary Academic Hospital
Authors: Bhuiyan Md. M , Mohammad M S
Published: October 2020

Perinatal asphyxia causes about 0.92 million newborn death annually world wide and it is about 21% of the neonatal mortality in Bangladesh which is second to death due to severe infections and its related death. The Retrospective observational study was done to evaluate the outcome of perinatal asphyxia in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College Hospital.from October 2013 to December 2014. Total 327 asphyxiated neonates full filling the inclusion criteria admitted in NICU (both in born & out born, term and preterm). Out of these 59% male patients and 41 % female term, 22% of the asphyxiated patient term unit and 77% preterm. Total deaths among these were 27. Out of these 2 deaths belongs to term units also had some associated neonatal infections and 25 deaths belongs to preterm who had also some other complications related to prematurity. The study results show that predictors of survival were mode of delivery, place of birth and resuscitation at birth. Elective caesarean section was associated with improved outcomes. The study confirms that perinatal asphyxia remains a significant problem at HFRCMCH. The high overall survival and survival after NICU admission provide a benchmark for further care.
Apresentação
Authors: F. Domínguez Avila Carlos
Published: October 2020

O vigésimo-quarto número da revista Hegemonia apresenta oito artigos sobre política, cultura, economia e sociedade no Brasil e no continente americano. O primeiro artigo reflete sobre o governo representativo. O segundo texto destaca a relevância análise linguística e as representações de dois termos de uso comum. O terceiro artigo procura avaliar o impacto da cooperação internacional no caso de Moçambique. O quarto texto discute a administração dos recursos e a ação coletiva numa cidade mexicana. O quinto trabalho destaca a luta contra a violência na Colômbia. O sexto artigo comenta a construção da identidade nacional em Honduras sob a perspetiva da histórica cultural e dos imaginários coletivos. O seguinte trabalho discute a questão das políticas de incorporação de novas tecnologias no Sistema Único de Saúde. E o oitavo artigo reflete sobre a relevância dos mecanismos de mediação e arbitragem na resolução das controvérsias segundo a legislação brasileira.
Problematica degradărilor lemnului policrom în stil Umling. Studiu de caz
Authors:   Muzeul Județean Mureș, Dumitrescu Raluca Marilena , Ungurean Bogdan ,   Universitatea de Arte „George Enescu” Iași
Published: October 2020

The article presents a case study, referred to issues connected to the conservation state of a painted cupboard, which is the work of one member of the Umling family. The specimen is dated 1776, and it derives from the former museum in Sângeorgiu de Pădure, Mureș County, now being part of the collection of Ethnography and Popular Art department of County Museum in Târgu Mureș. Representative for the painted furniture of XVIII century, the piece turned into attention of the restorers in 2013 at the initiative of the Conservation Restoration Lab and Ethnography and Popular Art department, occasion with were done first steps for the conservation. In the content of the article are analyzed both technical, esthetical and style features. Besides a general reference of Umling style, at the same time are shown the particular features defined in this case. There are references about the chromatic and ornament, as well as the wooden structure. The part of the conservation state in the presentation includes researches and investigations undergone upon the object, in order to do as good and advised interventions in restoration process. The obtained results – UV, IR, XRF and microscopic, revealed important details about the graphic appearance, the nature and composition of pigments, the condition of paint layer and even the structure underneath, them being described and illustrated in pictures. Also the cleaning tests that were held, brought valuable information about the nature of deposits of dirt that were met, about the composition and structure of paint layer. The conservation state of the object is presented extensively. The degradation is analyzed overall at the structure, painted layer, metallic parts level only from theoretical reason, this being in fact a plurality of the direct influence of decaying agents that acted simultaneously. Thus, the careful analysis of the damages that intervened is offering relevant conclusions about the history of the object and circumstances in which it gone. The presentation constitutes just a first part of a bigger work that will comprise also a second part about the restoration process that will be presented in a future article. In conclusion, besides thanks, there are mentioned the participants that contributed to these results.
Pianele și pianinele Clujului. Pianina „Carl Bechstein”
Authors:   Complexul Muzeal Arad, Tunaru Radu
Published: October 2020

Piano restoration requires a delicate work because it is not a furniture, it is a musical instrument, complex object, requiring minimal musical knowledge to put back in use. Upright piano ”Carl Bechstein” raised multiple issues, from legs replaced with those of a table, to veneer, metalics elements, lace and felt damaged. Once complete disassembled, the hardest stage of the restoration was to consolidate the assembly with organic glue (isinglass) and fastening strap in place all elements, with clamping systems, so that piano regain functionality.
Colindatul, colindele și urările de Crăciun din aria Codru, Valea Sălajului
Authors:   București, Mocanu Augustin
Published: October 2020

A. Le rituel du colindat. En nous appuyant sur les informations reçues de la part de 31 sujets, on décrit les étapes ponctuelles de ce rituel qui commence le 15 novembre et finit les 27-28 décembre de chaque année. Plusieurs étapes préliminaires précèdent le rituel proprement dit et concernent la constitution des groupes, plusieurs rencontres des chanteurs pour apprendre le répertoire, la gestion des problèmes administratifs. Le rituel du colindat commence pendant la nuit du 24 au 25 décembre. De l’église, les chanteurs se rendent de porte en porte, parcourant ainsi toutes les maisons de la communauté. À chaque maison, ils demandent la permission de chanter ; une fois la permission reçue, ils chantent un seul chant près de la fenêtre, devant la porte d’entrée ou dans la maison. Ce chant unique (il est rare qu’on en chante plusieurs) est suivi par un vœu de santé et de prospérité, les chanteurs se voyant offrir différents dons pour leur chant (des aliments, des boissons ou de l’argent). Chez les hôtes qui ont des filles à marier, celles-ci offrent aux chanteurs une brioche en couronne (colac) ornée de fleurs et de branches vertes. B. Le répertoire des chants. On présente et on examine 10 catégories et 120 types et sous-types de chants de Noël, tels qu’on les retrouve dans le classement établi en 1981 par Monica BRĂTULESCU (Colinda românească. The Romanian Colinda (Winter-Solstice Songs), Editura Minerva, Bucureşti). Les dix catégories en question incluent les chants de circonstance, les chants cosmogoniques, les chants « professionnels », les chants de mariage (mettant en scène de jeunes couples, des soupirants et des pețitori, c’est-à-dire des personnes qu’on délègue pour demander une fille en mariage), les chants familiaux, les chants édifiants et moralisateurs, les chants bibliques et apocryphes, les chants- ballades, les chants de guerre et les chants mis en chansons. C. Les remerciements rendus à l’hôte pour son accueil. Les remerciements et les vœux sont une étape obligatoire ponctuant la fin de la visite du groupe des chanteurs. Ils incluent des vœux de bonheur et de prospérité à l’adresse de l’hôte et de sa famille : des enfants énergiques et robustes, des troupeaux nombreux, des récoltes riches et de l’argent en abondance. Des allusions y sont faites également aux dons que les chanteurs se verront offrir de la part de leurs hôtes.
Din obiceiurile juridice ale poporului român. Satul, instanțele și cauzele de judecată în satul românesc
Authors:   Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei, Toșa Ioan , Sălăgean Tudor ,   Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei
Published: October 2020

The authors present some legal habits found in the answers sent to the legal questionnaires of B. P. Hașdeu (1877) and I. Mușlea (1938). In the first part named the Village, the authors present on the basis of the information found in the answers to the questionnaires from 1877 to 1938 the ways of villages establishment: very old, from the giants’ time, set up by the shepherds as temporary shelters, by groups of persons who left their native localities for various reasons, by landowners in order to have a workforce on their properties, through administrative measures, etc. There are presented the ways of getting the territory and delimitation by landmarks as well as the connection between this territory and the members of the community. There are also presented the social differences between the villages of free peasants and the ones with dependent peasants before and after the abolition of the serfdom as well as the elements of the belonging territory (the hearth of the village, the arable fields, the meadows, the pastures, the forest, the roads of communications). In the end of the first part, the authors present the ways of defending the property in the traditional village. In the second part, the Courts of Law and the Causes of Judgement in the Romanian village in the 19th century, after showing that at the introduction of the Civil Codes, the norms of coexistence between the members of the Romanian rural communities were coordinated by the church and lay courts on the basis of some customs and habits transmitted from generation to generation. The church, by its representatives, priests, was able to guide and control application of the rules of Christian coexistence, to give forgiveness of punishments. Based on some documents, the authors present ways of choosing the village priests, the material and moral rights and obligations in the village communities as well as the duties of believers. Concerning the lay authorities of judgements, there are presented ways of choosing their members, before and after the abolition of serfdom, the causes under the judgement and the punishments.
Vasile Hereș din Costeni - rapsod popular, constructor de instrumente muzeicale arhaice și învelitor cu paie
Authors:   Baia Mare, Maramureș, Bilțiu Pamfil , Bilțiu Maria ,   Baia Mare, Maramureș
Published: October 2020

After a brief presentation of the particularities of the Lăpuş area, the first part of our research was dedicated to the history of Costeni village, a folkloric and ethnographic hearth of Romanian ancient and perennial civilization, where the rhapsodist and artisan Vasile Hereş lives and works. The investigation part presents the rhapsode’s activity, with its three aspects. We first analysed Vasile Hereş's activity as a folk rhapsode, focusing on his interpretational qualities in playing several archaic aerophone instruments which still exist at Costeni and in other villages in Țara Lăpușului. We analysed the specialization of the rhapsode in playing various categories of whistles, including the twin flute, then the the block flute with a stopper and without a stopper. We analyzed how he became a rhapsode and how his repertoire accumulated. We also mentioned the artistic events in which he performed as a folk rhapsode. We gave space to the second important aspect of his work as an artisan of the aerophone musical instrument which he plays. We talked about the artisan’s skills shown in the meticulous execution of the instruments, with a focus on the methodology of instrument making, as well as the attention paid to the wood essences from which the artisan makes his instrumental pieces. We did not omit to talk about the tools used by the master in his work. Our research ends with the approach of his job as a straw thatcher. We have briefly analyzed the two methods he used - with pressed straws and with sheavesn - in thatching.
Filmul documentar ca instrument în cercetarea antropologică
Authors:   Liceul Teoretic  „Mihai Eminescu” Cluj-Napoca, Miron Mirela
Published: October 2020

Judging by the accounts of the village elders, the custom “The Lads” has only undergone few changes in time, due to social circumstances. The young men start getting together from the very beginning of the Nativity Fast, as always, and rehearse the same carols they learned from the elders, except for the one they sing in church, which must be a different one every year. The number and age range of the young men have also been kept constant throughout the years, as has the performance of the ritual. However, in some years there were as much as three groups of lads, each from a different hamlet. Because musicians are expensive and due to the low number of young men, there was only one team of lads in 2015. Until about 20 years ago, the people receiving the lads in their homes would give them food such as sausages or a smoked pork leg and liquor for the celebration marking the end of the carolling, called ‘conac’ (Romanian for ‘manor’). The fact that the lads stopped receiving food from the villagers led to the disappearance of one of the team members, namely the one who used to carry all the food in bags and who was called ‘the horse’. Another change undergone by the custom is the removal of the tallest lad’s role of dancing with the eldest woman in the household so that the hemp should grow tall. Ever since the cultivation of this source of textile fiber was banned, this role has vanished from the lads’ team. The leader of the lads is called the ’taroste’ and the rule dictates that, unlike all the other team members, who are unmarried, he must be a married man. He is selected freely by the lads, who owe him obedience throughout the three ritual days. He plays an important part not only in coordinating the team, but also in making sure the lads keep up the pace, as they have a long distance to cover on foot in a short interval.
De la muzeul-templlu la muzeul forum - evoluția muzeului în spațiul public
Authors:   Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei, Suciu Silvia
Published: October 2020

A nu arăta o operă de artă înseamnă a nu-i permite să fiinţeze. (Boris Groys) Museums and their public haven’t always been as we know them today. In 17th century, curiosity cabinets (mirabilia) have been realized by nobles and aristocrats; the only public of these cabinets was the collector and his fellows, belonging to the same social class. The first museums as public institutions appear in 18th century, continuing to develop during 19th century, but their image and accessibility is very different from nowadays. The situation changes after the World War II, when appear a lot of theoretical studies about museums and their public. The Museum-Temple is transforming into Museum-Forum, where every member of the community must feel represented. In the second part of the article we realized a classification of the museums and a description of each specific class which form this cultural diversity: art museums, history museums, anthropology museum, natural history museums, technical museums, monetary museums. Historical and contemporary examples of museums can be found through this study.
Noi metode și tehnici de antrenare pentru persoanele cu dizabilități vizuale în activitățile de profil desfășurate în cadrul Muzeului Etnografic al Transilvaniei
Authors:   Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei, Tötszegi Tekla
Published: October 2020

In 2009, a project funded by AFCN proposed for the first time the development of a methodology for the cultural integration of persons with visual impairments and its application to museum techniques, the outputs of which was a tactile exhibition having a permanent character. In the project "BaGMIVI PROJECT: Bridging the Gap between Museums and Individuals with Visual Impairment", the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography has proposed the development and deepening of certain areas, presented briefly in the tactile exhibition through museum educational activities.
PERCEPTION AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS CAESAREAN SECTION - THE VIEWS ARE CHANGING: FINDINGS AMONG ANTENATAL ATTENDEES IN A NIGER DELTA TERTIARY FACILITY
Authors: MG Abah , AV Umoh
Published: October 2020

Background: Aversion towards Caesarean section and its outright rejection by parturient have been widely reported in Nigeria. Objective: This study was conducted with the objective of assessing the perception and attitude towards Caesarean section by pregnant women attending antenatal clinic in a Niger Delta tertiary facility. Methods: It was a cross-sectional study involving 500 women interviewed using selfadministered semi-structured, pre-tested questionnaires with open and close ended questions. Their socio-demographic characteristics, knowledge, perception and attitude towards Caesarean section were inquired Results: The mean age of the women was 29.1years
Ranolazine may be the Best and Safest Pharmacologic Therapy For Congestive Heart Failure, And Safe, Effective For Ventricular And Atrial Arrhythmias
Authors: L Murray Gary
Published: October 2020

Background:Ranolazine (RAN) reduces cardiac sodium channel 1.5’s late sodium current(INaL ) in congestive heart failure (CHF), reducing myocardial calcium overload, potentially improving left ventricular ejection fraction(LVEF) and reducing arrhyth-mogenic after potentials. RAN blocks neuronal sodium channel 1.7(Nav 1.7), potentially altering parasympathetic and sympathetic (P&S) activity. RAN also selectively blocks inactivated atrial Nav 1.8, as well as ventricular IKr and ICaL ,affecting atrial and ventric-ular arrhythmias.
ChangeMyView Through Concessions: Do Concessions Increase Persuasion?
Authors: Musi Elena , Ghosh Debanjan , Muresan Smaranda
Published: October 2020

In Discourse Studies concessions are considered among those argumentative strategies that increase persuasion. We aim to empirically test this hypothesis by calculating the distribution of argumentative concessions in persuasive vs. non-persuasive comments from the the ChangeMyView subreddit. This constitutes a challenging task since concessions do not always bear an argumentative role and are expressed through polysemous lexical markers. Drawing from a theoretically-informed typology of concessions, we first conduct a crowdsourcing task to label a set of polysemous lexical markers as introducing an argumentative concession relation or not. Second, we present a self-training method to automatically identify argumentative concessions using linguistically motivated features. While we achieve a moderate F1 of 57.4% via the self-training method, our subsequent error analysis highlights that the self training method is able to generalize and identify other types of concessions that are argumentative, but were not considered in the annotation guidelines. Our findings from the manual labeling and the classification experiments indicate that the type of argumentative concessions we investigated is almost equally likely to be used in winning and losing arguments. While this result seems to contradict theoretical assumptions, we provide some reasons related to the ChangeMyView subreddit.
Reinforcement adaptation of an attention-based neural natural language generator for spoken dialogue systems
Authors: Riou Matthieu , Jabaian Bassam , Huet Stéphane , Lefèvre Fabrice
Published: October 2020

Following some recent propositions to handle natural language generation in spoken dialogue systems with long short-term memory recurrent neural network models~\citep{Wen2016a} we first investigate a variant thereof with the objective of a better integration of the attention subnetwork. Then our next objective is to propose and evaluate a framework to adapt the NLG module online through direct interactions with the users. When doing so the basic way is to ask the user to utter an alternative sentence to express a particular dialogue act. But then the system has to decide between using an automatic transcription or to ask for a manual transcription. To do so a reinforcement learning approach based on an adversarial bandit scheme is retained. We show that by defining appropriately the rewards as a linear combination of expected payoffs and costs of acquiring the new data provided by the user, a system design can balance between improving the system's performance towards a better match with the user's preferences and the burden associated with it. Then the actual benefits of this system is assessed with a human evaluation, showing that the addition of more diverse utterances allows to produce sentences more satisfying for the user.
Wait Signals Predict Sarcasm in Online Debates
Authors: D’Arcey J. Trevor , Oraby Shereen , Tree Jean E. Fox
Published: October 2020

We examined the predictive value of wait signals for sarcasm in online debate forums.  In a corpus comparison we examined the word frequency of um and uh across six corpora.  In general, there were far more fillers in spoken corpora than written corpora.  We also found that the proportion of ums to uhs varied by corpus type.  In Experiment 1 we tested whether the inclusion of um or uh at the beginning of online debate forum posts led to higher probability of those posts being classified as sarcastic by Amazon Mechanical Turk workers.  We found that posts beginning with these items were twice as likely to be labeled sarcastic. In Experiment 2 we tested fillers and ellipses in the middle of posts.  We found that posts including these items were approximately three to five times more likely to be labeled sarcastic. We compared results to other signals like the word obviously and quotation marks.  Signals that indicate delay in written communication cue readers to non-literal meaning.
Enterprise Architecture of the Blockchain Platform
Authors: KACZMARCZYK Anna , SITARSKA-BUBA Monika
Published: October 2020

The main purpose of the paper is to discuss the nature of the enterprise architecture of the blockchain platform (EAoBP). The authors also highlighted how the main technology challenges for enterprises are addressed through the proposed solution. The paper consists of the introduction and 3 chapters. Chapter 2 presents related works about the blockchain technology and defines the platform concept. The architecture layers which are required to build the enterprise blockchain platforms are described in the 3rd chapter. The 4th chapter constitutes the implementation aspects of the EAoBP. The permissioned blockchain systems leverage a cross-organizational collaboration model, what constitutes cooperation within the network without 3rd party authorities. The open source character of the implementation technology and the clear guidance of the scope of each layer clarified in the article should help businesses in applying the concept.
Production Automation as A Factor in Improving Product Quality in The Automotive Industry
Authors: Kulińska Ewa , Masłowski Dariusz , Dendera-Gruszka Małgorzata , Wojtynek Lilianna , Szeląg Konstanty
Published: October 2020

The automation of production is an important element in the functioning of any production enterprise. The aim of this article is to analyze the quality of the product made manually with the use of spot-welding machines and to analyze the quality of the product made by the industrial robot type "Fanuc Robotics S-420i". The analyzed product was the front panel of the body, made of semi-finished products in the spot-welding process. During the analysis, the impact of production automation on the product quality was found. Applications of the robotized welding process are used not only because of better quality parameters, but also because of the significant reduction of production costs and less fatigue of employees. The robot operator is a quality controller and contributes to quality management.
Sampling density and date along with species selection influence spatial representation of tree-ring reconstructions
Authors: Maxwell Justin T. , Harley Grant L. , Matheus Trevis J. , Strange Brandon M. , Van Aken Kayla , Au Tsun Fung , Bregy Joshua C.
Published: October 2020

Abstract. Our understanding of the natural variability of hydroclimate
before the instrumental period (ca. 1900 CE in the United States) is largely
dependent on tree-ring-based reconstructions. Large-scale soil moisture
reconstructions from a network of tree-ring chronologies have greatly
improved our understanding of the spatial and temporal variability in
hydroclimate conditions, particularly extremes of both drought and pluvial
(wet) events. However, certain regions within these large-scale network
reconstructions in the US are modeled by few tree-ring chronologies.
Further, many of the chronologies currently publicly available on the
International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB) were collected in the 1980s and
1990s, and thus our understanding of the sensitivity of radial growth to soil
moisture in the US is based on a period that experienced multiple extremely
severe droughts and neglects the impacts of recent, rapid global change. In
this study, we expanded the tree-ring network of the Ohio River valley in
the US, a region with sparse coverage. We used a total of 72 chronologies
across 15 species to examine how increasing the density of the tree-ring
network influences the representation of reconstructing the Palmer
Meteorological Drought Index (PMDI). Further, we tested how the sampling
date and therefore the calibration period influenced the reconstruction
models by creating reconstructions that ended in the year 1980 and compared
them to reconstructions ending in 2010 from the same chronologies. We found
that increasing the density of the tree-ring network resulted in
reconstructed values that better matched the spatial variability of
instrumentally recorded droughts and, to a lesser extent, pluvials. By
extending the calibration period to 2010 compared to 1980, the sensitivity
of tree rings to PMDI decreased in the southern portion of our region where
severe drought conditions have been absent over recent decades. We emphasize
the need of building a high-density tree-ring network to better represent
the spatial variability of past droughts and pluvials. Further, chronologies
on the ITRDB need updating regularly to better understand how the
sensitivity of tree rings to climate may vary through time.
A multi-isotope model for simulating soil organic carbon cycling in eroding landscapes (WATEM_C v1.0)
Authors: Wang Zhengang , Qiu Jianxiu , Van Oost Kristof
Published: October 2020

Abstract. There is increasing recognition that lateral soil organic
carbon (SOC) fluxes due to erosion have imposed an important impact on the
global C cycling. Field and experimental studies have been conducted to
investigate this topic. It is useful to have a modeling tool that takes
into account various soil properties and has flexible resolution and scale
options so that it can be widely used to study relevant processes and
evaluate the effect of soil erosion on SOC cycling. This study presents a
model that is capable of simulating SOC cycling in landscapes that are
subjected to erosion. It considers all three C isotopes (12C,
13C and 14C) with flexible time steps and a detailed vertical
solution of the soil profile. The model also represents radionuclide cycling
in soils that can assist in constraining the lateral and vertical
redistribution of soil particles within landscapes. The model gives a
three-dimensional representation of soil properties including 137Cs
activity, SOC stock, and δ13C and Δ14C values.
Using the same C cycling processes in stable, eroding and depositional
areas, our model is able to reproduce the observed spatial and vertical
patterns of C contents, δ13C values, and Δ14C
values. This indicates that at the field scale with a similar C decomposition
rate, physical soil redistribution is the main cause of the spatial
variability of these C metrics.
Comparison of statistical downscaling methods for climate change impact analysis on drought
Authors: Tabari Hossein , Buekenhout Daan , Willems Patrick
Published: October 2020

Abstract. General circulation models (GCMs) are the primary tools to evaluate the possible impacts of climate change; however, their results are coarse in temporal and spatial dimensions. In addition, they often show systematic biases compared to observations. Downscaling and bias correction of climate model outputs is thus required for local applications. Besides the computationally intensive strategy of dynamical downscaling, statistical downscaling offers a relatively straightforward solution by establishing relationships between small and large scale variables. This study compares four statistical downscaling methods (SDMs) of bias correction (BC), change factor of mean (CFM), quantile perturbation (QP) and event based weather generator (EBWG) to assess climate change impact on drought by the end of the 21st century (2071–2100) relative to a baseline period of 1971–2000. A set of drought related aspects is analysed: dry day frequency, dry spell duration and total precipitation. The downscaling is applied to a 14-member ensemble of CMIP6 GCMs, each powered by four future scenarios of SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0 and SSP5-8.5. A 25-member ensemble of CanESM5 GCM is also used to assess the significance of the climate change signals in comparison to the internal variability of the climate. While all methods show a good agreement on downscaling total precipitation, the CFM method fails to downscale dry day frequency well. The QP method outperforms the others in downscaling dry spells. Using this method, dry day frequency is projected to increase significantly in the summer months, with relative changes of up to 20.4 % in the worst-case climate change scenario. At the same time, total precipitation is projected to decrease significantly by up to 41.9 % in these months. Lastly, extreme dry spells are projected to increase in length by up to 7.4 %.
Early Cenozoic Eurekan strain partitioning and decoupling in central Spitsbergen, Svalbard
Authors: Koehl Jean-Baptiste P.
Published: October 2020

Abstract. The present study of field, petrological, exploration well and seismic data shows that backward-dipping duplexes comprised of phyllitic coal and bedding-parallel décollements and thrusts, which localized along lithological transitions in tectonically thickened Lower–lowermost Upper Devonian, uppermost Devonian–Mississippian and uppermost Pennsylvanian–lowermost Permian sedimentary strata of the Wood Bay and/or Widje Bay and/or Grey Hoek formations, of the Billefjorden Group and of the Wordiekammen Formation respectively, partially decoupled uppermost Devonian–Permian sedimentary rocks of the Billefjorden and Gipsdalen groups from Lower–lowermost Upper Devonian rocks of the Andrée Land Group and Mimerdalen Subgroup during early Cenozoic Eurekan deformation in central Spitsbergen. Eurekan strain decoupling along these structures explains differential deformation between Lower–lowermost Upper Devonian rocks of the Andrée Land Group/Mimerdalen Subgroup and overlying uppermost Devonian–Permian sedimentary strata of the Billefjorden and Gipsdalen groups in central–northern Spitsbergen without requiring an episode of (Ellesmerian) contraction in the Late Devonian. Potential formation mechanisms for bedding-parallel décollements and thrusts include shortcut faulting, and/or formation as a roof décollement in a fault-bend hanging wall (or ramp) anticline, as an imbricate fan, as an antiformal thrust stack, and/or as fault-propagation folds over reactivated/overprinted basement-seated faults. The interpretation of seismic data in Reindalspasset indicates that Devonian sedimentary rocks of the Andrée Land Group and Mimerdalen Subgroup might be preserved east of the Billefjorden Fault Zone, suggesting that the Billefjorden Fault Zone did not accommodate reverse movement in the Late Devonian. Hence, the thrusting of Proterozoic basement rocks over Lower Devonian sedimentary rocks along the Balliolbreen Fault and fold structures within strata of the Andrée Land Group and Mimerdalen Subgroup in central Spitsbergen may be explained by a combination of down-east Carboniferous normal faulting with associated footwall rotation and exhumation, and subsequent top-west early Cenozoic Eurekan thrusting along the Billefjorden Fault Zone. Finally, the study shows that major east-dipping faults, like the Billefjorden Fault Zone, may consists of several, discrete, unconnected (soft-linked and/or stepping) or, most probably, offset fault segments that were reactivated/overprinted with varying degree during Eurekan deformation due to strain partitioning and/or decoupling along sub-orthogonal NNE-dipping reverse faults.
Linking sea ice deformation to ice thickness redistribution using
high-resolution satellite and airborne observations
Authors: von Albedyll Luisa , Haas Christian , Dierking Wolfgang
Published: October 2020

Abstract. An unusual, large polynya opened and then closed by freezing and convergence north of the coast of Greenland in late winter 2018. The closing corresponded to a natural, but well-constrained, full-scale ice deformation experiment. We have observed the closing of and deformation within the polynya with satellite synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) imagery, and measured the accumulated effects of dynamic and thermodynamic ice growth 5 with an airborne electromagnetic (AEM) ice thickness survey one month after the closing began. During that time strong ice convergence decreased the area of the former polynya by a factor of 2.5. The AEM survey showed mean and modal thicknesses of the one-month old ice of 1.96 ± 1.5 m and 0.95 m, respectively.We show that this is in close agreement with the modeled thermodynamic growth and with the dynamic thickening expected from the polynya area decrease during that time. In addition,we found characteristic differences in the shapes of ice thickness distributions in different regions of the closing polynya. These closely corresponded to different deformation histories of the surveyed ice that were derived from the high-resolution SAR imagery by drift tracking along Lagrangian backward trajectories. Results show a linear proportionality between convergence and thickness change that agrees well with ice thickness redistribution theory. In addition, the e-folding of the tails of the different ice thickness distributions is proportional to the magnitude of the total deformation experienced by the ice. Lastly, we developed a simple volume-conserving model to derive dynamic ice thickness change from high-resolution SAR deformation tracking. The model has a spatial resolution of 1.4 km and reconstructs thickness profiles in reasonable agreement with the AEM observations. The computed ice thickness distribution resembles main characteristics like mode, e-folding, and width of the observed distribution. This demonstrates that high-resolution SAR deformation observations are capable of producing realistic ice thickness distributions. The MYI surrounding the polynya had a mean and modal total thickness (snow + ice) of 2.1 ± 1.4 m and 2.0 m, respectively. The similar first- and multi-year ice mean thicknesses elude to the large amount of deformation experienced by the closing polynya.
Calgary Herald Newspaper Archive
Authors: Duffy Jane C.
Published: October 2020

The Calgary Herald Archive is a primary resource that makes accessible the full text of this newspaper from its founding in 1883 through to 2010. Freely accessible to residents of the province of Alberta, the CHA is their oldest available news resource. The CHA was produced in collaboration
with several Albertan public and academic libraries. These institutions digitized the full text content for ProQuest’s Historical Newspapers. Capturing unique historical, political, social, and regional information about Alberta’s largest city, the CHA is a highly specialized resource
for Western Canadian researchers.
Nineteenth Century Literary Society: The John Murray Publishing Archive
Authors: Scigliano Marisa
Published: October 2020

Nineteenth Century Literary Society is drawn from archive of the House of John Murray publishing company, held by the National Library of Scotland. The family-run firm, with Scottish roots, spanned seven generations and flourished in London from 1768 until 2002. John Murray is especially
remarkable for publishing seminal English-language works of the 19th century, including those by Charles Darwin, David Livingstone, Charles Lyell, and Samuel Smiles, the father of self-help. The largest collection of Lord Byron’s private writings and manuscripts, assembled by the publisher,
form a large part of the resource. Women writers feature prominently in the John Murray’s collection, including Jane Austen, Isabella Bird, Elizabeth Eastlake, and Caroline Lamb.