bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Saudade do Céu: sobre o rumor da transcendência na poesia de Guilherme de Faria
Authors: Teixeira José Rui
Published: February 2021

Guilherme de Faria (1907-1929) é um poeta neorromântico português que, tendo posto fim à sua vida com apenas 21 anos, deixou uma obra impressiva, de um lirismo elegíaco que dialoga intimamente com a morte. A saudade de Deus – o rumor da transcendência na sua poesia – assenta, fundamentalmente, na ideia da redenção. Talvez diante de uma vida que não reconhecia como sua e que suportava como um exílio, Guilherme de Faria só pudesse desejar a morte e esperar o perdão de Deus. Tendo em consideração a sua vida e a sua poesia, o seu suicídio não é apenas um sintoma de resignação, o resultado de uma insuportável astenia física e moral, mas também uma poderosa expressão de fé na misericórdia de Deus e um profundo desejo de redenção.
O Eclesiastes de Adília, o de Camões
Authors: Maffei Luis
Published: February 2021

O artigo pretende investigar diálogos que Adília Lopes e Luís de Camões, cada um em seu tempo, empreenderam com o Eclesiastes bíblico. A leitura permitirá divisar, na poetisa e no poeta, alguns aspectos das respectivas obras, ligados a problemáticas como fé, amor, desconcerto etc. Além disso, a figura de Jesus Cristo, ausente, claro, do Antigo Testamento, aparecerá como lugar desejado de indetificação e potência amorosa.
Immunological Protection of Individuals Aged 3 to 25 Years Against Pertussis: Regional Cross-Sectional Study
Authors: Sutovskaya Diana V. , Burlutskaya Alla V. , Dubova Larisa V. , Krylova Daria R.
Published: February 2021

Background. Recently, there has been an increase in the incidence of pertussis in unvaccinated, as well as vaccinated children and adults. The major risk group for pertussis are infants and children over 4 years of age due to gradual decrease in basic immunity. Objective. The aim of the study was to analyze postvaccinal immunity against pertussis in individuals aged 3 to 25 years in Krasnodar. Methods. The study was carried out in the period between July 2018 and October 2019 and included patients aged 3 to 25 years with completed (according to National Immunization Schedule) immunization against pertussis with no history of pertussis in the past. Postvaccinal immunity against pertussis in this sample was determined by the ratio of study participants with minimum protective antibodies titer to Bordetella pertussis (≥ 1:160). Results. The minimum protective antibody titer was revealed in 24 out of 76 participants. Distribution to age groups was the following: children aged 3 to 7 years — 2/28 (7%), 8 to 17 years — 13/22 (59%; p < 0.001, compared with the younger age group), ≥ 18 years — 9/26 (35%; p = 0.017). There was no postvaccinal immunity (no antibodies detected) in 6 (21%), 1 (5%) and 4 (15%) participants, respectively. Conclusion. Insufficient postvaccinal (humoral) immunity against pertussis was revealed in majority of children under 7 years. The ratio of such children decreases with age. It suggests the presence of hidden circulation of Bordetella pertussis and, as a result, previous medical condition in erased or abortive form.
“Colorito locale” e coscienza metalinguistica nei gialli di Santo Piazzese e di Dome-nico Seminerio
Authors:   Università degli Studi di Catania, Italia, Sardo Rosaria
Published: February 2021

Amongst the possible linguistic-stylistic polarities for Italian narrators (monolinguism/ standardised language and multilingualism/regionalised Italian), which are clearly outlined by De Roberto in his well-known Preface to Documenti umani, Santo Piazzese and Domenico Seminerio move with care and remarkable metalinguistic consciousness, drawing on Sciascia in different ways. Their different writing practices, far removed from Camilleri’s linguisticstylistic choices, seem oriented towards what Testa (1997) called a “simple style” with a focus on “local colour” that is part of Piazzese’s refined rhetorical and investigative play and, in the case of Seminerio, is functional to the expressive rendering of the interlacing of History, magic, and mystery. In both cases, it is thanks to this specific attention to linguistic facts that the defining principles of detective stories are renewed. The aim of this article is to systematically trace the two different ways of stylistically rendering the sociolinguistic reality narrated by Piazzese and Seminerio, with the first oriented towards the cautious mimesis of regional dialogue, the second, towards the diegetic pole of reproducing indirect and traditional narrative modes.
I personaggi maschili ne L’arte della gioia di Goliarda Sapienza
Authors:   Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Polonia, Kornacka Barbara
Published: February 2021

The aim of the paper is to analyse, using the structuralist approach, the structure of the male characters in L’arte della gioia by Goliarda Sapienza and the meaning—universal or local, symbolic or real—attributed by the writer to them, through the example of six male figures. This approach allows us to delve into the literary text, leaving the biographical, historical, and ideological context outside of the analysis, focusing on internal dynamics that are purely literary. Modesta’s father and her husband, as universal figures of a patriarchal system, illustrate and symbolise the subversion of its laws by Modesta. Modesta’s lovers, Carmino and Carlo, are models of real accomplishments of important male roles (father, husband, lover) whose representation is limited by geopolitical stereotypes. Pietro, Modesta’s loyal gabellotto, embodies local, Sicilian relationships and, as a result, he symbolises the persistence of archaic laws of Sicilian society. With Prando, Modesta’s son, Sapienza realistically illustrates the passage from adolescence to masculinity by showing some universal rules that occur in this transition. The structure of the male characters turns out to be geometric and very clear and is proof of the writer’s great literary awareness and writing skills.
L’Italia nei limerick
Authors:   Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Polonia, Tarnogórska Maria
Published: February 2021

This article presents the comic images of Italy that transpire from Italy’s representation in the English- and Polish-language limerick. In accordance with the rules of the genre, Italy becomes a stage for nonsense characters and actions. The outlined literary motifs of Italy, a country normally connoting high civilisation and a historically rich culture, studied in Polish- and English-language authors, confirm the sophisticated nature of the genre, popular in intelligentsia circles. The article focuses on the following four areas: 1. the pioneering role of Edward Lear’s A Book of Nonsense (1846), which, for the first time in limerick form, features names of Italian localities as well as the ‘Italian’ experiences of Lear himself, a landscape painter and English expatriate who was not only enchanted by Italy but was also a sensitive observer of the alien human ‘habitat’ created by locally cherished customs; 2. a humorously conceived ‘map’ of Italy to be crafted on the basis of representative collections and anthologies of limericks; 3. historical figures—especially those connected with the proud history of the Roman Empire, whose limerick image is far removed from its official textbook biographies; 4. the presence of contemporary Italian language (associated with musicality and elegance) and classical Latin (associated with high education) in the limerick narration, contrasting with the frequently bawdy content of the verse, which is a source of humour.
Educação à distância: Uma revisão da literatura sobre ensino e aprendizagem online no contexto da formação de professores
Authors: Sameer El Khatib Ahmed
Published: February 2021

A pandemia da COVID-19 (provocada pelo vírus Sars-Cov2) impactou a educação em todos os níveis de várias maneiras no Brasil. As instituições e os formadores de professores tiveram que responder rapidamente a uma transição inesperada e "forçada" do ensino presencial para o ensino remoto. Os educadores também tiveram que criar ambientes de aprendizagem para professores em formação, fazendo sua preparação à luz dos requisitos dos programas de formação de professores e das condições em que as universidades e as escolas deveriam funcionar. Dessa forma, este artigo apresenta uma revisão da literatura sobre práticas de ensino e aprendizagem online na formação de professores. No total, foram analisados ​​130 estudos empíricos. Foram identificadas práticas de ensino e aprendizagem online relacionadas à presença social, cognitiva e docente. Os resultados evidenciaram a necessidade de uma visão abrangente da pedagogia da educação online que integra tecnologia para apoiar o ensino e a aprendizagem. As implicações deste estudo para o desenvolvimento de práticas de ensino e aprendizagem online são discutidas. Sugestões para pesquisas futuras também são examinadas, para que sirvam de base na formulação de políticas educacionais para os próximos anos.
An analytical solution for self-weight consolidation based on one-dimensional small-strain consolidation wave theory
Authors: Ding Zhouxiang , Zhang Wenjun , Yang Zhaohui , Wang Zhe , Du Xiuli , Li Liang
Published: February 2021

Terzaghi's consolidation theory neglects inertial effects on the consolidation of saturated soils. To quantify the inertial effects, in this paper an original one-dimensional small-strain consolidation wave (C-wave) theory is developed, based upon a proposed modified Darcy's law with relaxation time and the equation of motion for soil ensemble. The one-dimensional governing equations were first formulated for self-weight consolidation, followed by a closed-form solution employing the method of separation of variables. The proposed model was then validated against wave velocity measurements and verified against finite-difference analysis. The half-closed self-weight consolidation behaviour was subsequently investigated, compared with Terzaghi's theory, Fillunger–Heinrich's dynamic theory and the u–p form of Biot's wave theory. This research indicates that: (a) superior to conventional models under comparison, the C-wave model enhances the predictability of the C-wave velocity; (b) the dimensionless C-wave coefficient (Cw) dominates the fundamental consolidation behaviour; (c) a wave-diffusion duality underlying the consolidation mechanism contributes qualitatively to the spatial bottom-up pattern and temporal response delay in consolidation observations; and (d) Terzaghi's theory can afford a practically accurate solution provided the Cwand time factor are below and above approximately 0·01, respectively. The C-wave theory may enrich the understanding of consolidation-related phenomena involving an appreciable Cw.
A Novel Soluble ACE2 Variant with Prolonged Duration of Action Neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Human Kidney Organoids
Authors: Wysocki Jan , Ye Minghao , Hassler Luise , Gupta Ashwani Kumar , Wang Yuguo , Nicoleascu Vlad , Randall Glenn , Wertheim Jason A. , Batlle Daniel
Published: February 2021

Significance Statement

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a pandemic for which currently there are limited preventative and therapeutic approaches. The use of soluble ACE2 protein has been recently proposed as a way to intercept the SARS-CoV-2 S spike from binding to the full-length membrane-bound ACE2 receptor. We have developed a newly bioengineered soluble ACE2 protein of shorter molecular size and modified by fusing it with an albumin binding domain (ABD) tag to extend its duration of action. Here, we demonstrate in studies conducted in a BSL-3 facility that human kidney organoids can be infected by SARS-CoV-2 as they possess the human full-length ACE2 receptor and transmembrane serine protease 2, which are needed for infectivity. Using this model, we demonstrate that our novel soluble ACE2 variant can inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection, suggesting its potential preventative and therapeutic use.

Background

There is an urgent need for approaches to prevent and treat SARS-CoV-2 infection. Administration of soluble ACE2 protein acting as a decoy to bind to SARS-CoV-2 should limit viral uptake mediated by binding to membrane-bound full-length ACE2, and further therapeutic benefit should result from ensuring enzymatic ACE2 activity to affected organs in patients with COVID-19.

Methods

A short variant of human soluble ACE2 protein consisting of 618 amino acids (hACE2 1–618) was generated and fused with an albumin binding domain (ABD) using an artificial gene encoding ABDCon, with improved albumin binding affinity. Human kidney organoids were used for infectivity studies of SARS-CoV-2 in a BSL-3 facility to examine the neutralizing effect of these novel ACE2 variants.

Results

Whereas plasma ACE2 activity of the naked ACE2 1–618 and ACE2 1–740 lasted about 8 hours, the ACE2 1–618-ABD resulted in substantial activity at 96 hours, and it was still biologically active 3 days after injection. Human kidney organoids express ACE2 and TMPRSS2, and when infected with SARS-CoV-2, our modified long-acting ACE2 variant neutralized infection.

Conclusions

This novel ACE2 1–618-ABD can neutralize SARS-CoV-2 infectivity in human kidney organoids, and its prolonged duration of action should ensure improved efficacy to prevent viral escape and dosing convenience.
The Evaluation of Gene Oct4 Expression as a New Tumor Marker in Pancreatic Tumor and Non-Tumor Cell Lines
Authors: SSZ Shahri , S Sayyedalhosseini
Published: February 2021

Introduction: Oct4 gene is one of the important genes involved in stem cell self-renewal control. Recently, this gene has been proposed as a novel molecular marker for cancer detection. Therefore, in this study we examined the expression of Oct4 gene in MIA Paca-2, PA-TU-8902 and AsPC-1 cell lines as well as pancreatic cancer.
Continuous Glucose Monitors are Cost Neutral Compared to SMBG
Authors: T Elliott , A Weissinger
Published: February 2021

Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGM) has revolutionized the management of diabetes and has become the standard of care for the management of Type 1 diabetes. The primary factor preventing widespread uptake of CGM is cost. Currently there is little provincial coverage for CGM, and many patients still must pay for the technology. The cost of CGM is here evaluated in comparison to standard care (self monitoring of blood glucose), including analysis of cost-savings and improvements in quality of life that could be achieved with the use of CGM. When costs of comorbidities and absenteeism that could be reduced by the use of CGM are included in the analysis, it is determined that CGM is cost-neutral relative to standard care.
Ultrasound-Guided Injection of Hyaluronic Gel Filler in the Temples: A Report of Two Cases
Authors: P Micheels , S Besse , J Vandeputte
Published: February 2021

Introduction: The aim of this case report was to assess the effect of injecting hyaluronic acid gel filler in the temporal fossa for the correction of skeletonisation in this specific anatomical area of the ageing face.
Equity, access and quality in basic education: a review
Authors: Motala Shireen
Published: February 2021

Presidential address presented at the 2014 SAERA conference.
‘Shifting perspectives’: an autoethno-graphic account of how my learning as a doctoral candidate influenced my thinking as a teacher educator
Authors: Mayaba Nokhanyo
Published: February 2021

My journey of becoming a teacher educator in a university has been influenced by the learning gleaned from doing a doctoral study. The experience that I had whilst working with children orphaned and rendered vulnerable by HIV and AIDS (OVC) changed my perspective as I discovered and learnt about their innate potential. In this article I provide an autoethnographic account of how my learning as a doctoral candidate impacted on the way I think about teaching pre-service teachers who will in turn teach in diverse contexts. I support my insights by data from my reflective journal, drawings and collages. I explain how Sen’s capability framework helped me to make sense of my learning. My autoethnographic reflective narrative has implications for how teacher educators might reconsider their practice to help pre-service teachers to think critically about their ideas and practice in relation to OVC.
Towards a humanising pedagogy: an autoethnographic reflection of my emerging postgraduate research supervision practice
Authors: Maistry Suriamurthee
Published: February 2021

Postgraduate supervision in South Africa is a fraught academic space. The ASSAF Report (2010) indicates that supervisor competence is a key contributing factor in student attrition. The coupling of autonomous student and competent supervisor is far from being the usual pattern in South African higher education. Furthermore, postgraduate supervision workshops and courses seldom focus on how particular practices are likely to result in social exclusion, giving far more attention to technical aspects of supervision. This paper considers instead the unwitting ‘othering’ that has occurred in my history as a supervisor and gives an account of ideas and principles that have guided me in seeking to improve my own practice. I focus in particular on those elements or aspects of my practice that are likely to (or do) alienate and marginalise my postgraduate students as I engage with supervising their work. My paper records an ongoing exercise in self-reflexion, shaped methodologically by the tenets of critical autoethnography, as a means to examine potentially subjugating effects that I can identify in my practice as supervisor with a diversity of postgraduate students. In this paper I reflect on two important aspects of supervision: verbal critique and written critique. I probe these two aspects with a view to altering my own trajectory of development in the direction of a more productive level of self-awareness in my practice. I argue that a sustained, careful and considered approach to student supervision that understands and conceptualises writing as a process (rather than a product) has enormous potential for facilitating and developing student academic writing competence. A heightened sensitivity to the debilitating and demeaning effects of careless feedback commentary and embracing research supervision as humanising pedagogy have significant implications for helping students to negotiate the liminal space in which they must master the threshold competences needed for success in advanced higher education research.
Skilled reading in isiZulu: what can we learn from it?
Authors: Land Sandra
Published: February 2021

Research on reading in African languages is particularly pertinent in South Africa now, in view of the poor reading performance in many South African schools. This paper is based on a study of competent adult readers of isiZulu that analysed what its orthography (the way it is written) requires of readers. As an agglutinative language with a conjoined writing system, isiZulu carries meaning not only in separate words, but also in morphemes that cluster together, forming long complex words. Eye tracking data shows that competent readers of isiZulu move their eyes across text in saccades (shifts of the point of focus) that are short in comparison with the saccades of efficient reading of English. It also shows that readers of isiZulu fixate on points of text for longer periods than do readers of English. The study links eye movement data to information gained from a stimulated recall process, to discover strategies consciously used by competent readers of isiZulu. Some of these strategies, such as visualisation, are common to efficient readers of all languages, while others might be peculiar to agglutinating and/or tonal languages. These strategies inform suggestions for the development of effective reading skills in isiZulu. The key argument of the paper is that the orthography of isiZulu has features that require attention by teachers of reading if their learners are to benefit from the advantages that reading in their first language should bring.
Verstedeliking: Vergelyking tussen Suid-Afrikaanse letterkundes en die kultuurteks
Authors: Van Niekerk Jacomien
Published: February 2021

Despite many efforts to publish comprehensive literary histories of South or Southern Africa in recent years, few studies existin which a thorough comparative study is undertaken between two or more South African literatures. This article wants to provide a practical example of such a study by comparing the urbanisation of Afrikaners in Afrikaans literature with that of black people as seen in English and Zulu literature. The statement made by Ampie Coetzee that comparative studies should take place within the framework of discursive formations is one of the fundamental starting points of this study. Maaike Meijer’s concept of the “cultural text” is further employed as a theoretical instrument. The identification of repeating sets of representation is central to the demarcation of a “cultural text about urbanisation” in Afrikaans, English and Zulu literature respectively. The cultural text forms the basis from which a valid comparative study can be embarked upon, and the results of the research have important implications for further comparative studies but also literary historiography.
Die uitbou van ’n eens marginale tradisie: Marlise Joubert se gebruik van vroulike taal
Authors: Lourens Amanda
Published: February 2021

It has already been shown that female poets play an important role in the Afrikaans literary  system, after the domination by a male tradition had relegated the female system to a marginal position. Female poets came to the fore since the 1970s and took up a stronger and more central position within the system. This article strives to investigate the further consolidation of this female Afrikaans tradition, especially with reference to the volume Passies en passasies (“Passions and Passages”, 2007) by Marlise Joubert. In particular, this article wants to investigate whether specific aspects of Joubert’s work, apart from the exploitation of female topics, are responsible for the appeal by critics for a stronger position for Joubert within the literary system. The following hypothesis forms the basis for the investigation: Joubert employs an authenticfemale language in her poetry, and this leads to the consolidation of the Afrikaans female tradition.
Ondermyning van normatiwiteitsdimensies in die poësie van Loftus Marais: ’n Queer-teoretiese beskouing
Authors: Cochrane Neil
Published: February 2021

Although elements of queer experience exist in Afrikaans poetry since 2002, for example in the work of Hennie Aucamp andMarius Crous, a clear shift from gay to queer experience took place with the publication of Staan in die algemeen nader aan vensters ( “In general, stand close to the windows”, 2008) by Loftus Marais. With specific reference to his poetry, the article demonstrates how the eccentric, marginal and oppositional position of various queer subjects, for instance the female impersonator/drag queen, relates to the destabilization of specific dimensions of normativity: heteronormativity, Cape Town as urban space, gay masculinity, the soul//body binary, Christian faith, the gay sadomasochist and the representation of gay male sex in the poetry of Johann de Lange. These aspects are discussed within a queer theoretical framework with a specific focus on the views of queer theorist David Halperin.
Predictive Effect of Adolescents' Body Cathexis on General Self-efficacy and The Use of Instagram
Authors: DALKIÇ Abdullah , KAYA Zöhre
Published: February 2021

This research aims to investigate whether adolescents' body-cathexis predicted general self-efficacy by using Instagram. The study employs correlational research model and was conducted with a total of 790 students, including 503 women and 207 men. Body-Cathexis Scale and General Self-efficacy Scale were used to collect data. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and item analysis (item total correlation and Cronbach Alpha) were conducted for the reliability and validity of the scales. Data were analysed utilizing Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation and hierarchical regression analysis. The findings show that initiating and resilience sub-scales of the general self-efficacy scores are at a good level. Persuasion subscale is at medium level and the participants have positive body-cathexis. The relationship between adolescents' body-cathexis and general self-efficacy was positive and body-cathexis and the use of Instagram together explained 12% of the change in general self-efficacy. Accordingly, while body-cathexis has a positive and significant effect on general self-efficacy, the use of Instagram has no significant effect on general self-efficacy alone. According to the hierarchical regression analysis, the use of Instagram has no moderator role in the relationship between body-cathexis and general self-efficacy. As a result, it is important for adolescents to develop the body-cathexis and general for personality, self-confidence as well as to cope with negative emotions.
Students’ apologizing in Arabic and English: An interlanguage pragmatic case study at an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia
Authors: Al-Rawafi Abdulkhaleq , Sudana Dadang , Lukmana Iwa , Syihabuddin S.
Published: February 2021

It is hard to select and produce appropriate semantic formulas of apologizing for paying off violation of social norms to restore harmony. It seems that it is even harder to realize such processes of selection and production in a non-native language. The study is of three folds; namely, it examines the realization of the apology strategies by students of a senior Boarding School in Arabic and English as a non-native language, the effects on the contextual factors (external vs. internal) on the students’ apologizing, and the pragmatic transfer. The participants were 101 male and 101 female students, recruited to fill in a Discourse Completion Task (DCT), which consisted of eight situations about the flouting of the politeness rules in the context of the Islamic boarding school, by drawing upon the five semantic formulas of apologizing from Blum-Kulka and Olshtain (1983) of Cross-Cultural Study of Speech Act Realization Patterns (CCSARP) for analyzing the data. The findings show that the students used identical semantic formulas in both languages. They prefer to use the “expression of regret” and “promise for forbearance” strategies. The findings also reveal that the internal and external factors affected the students’ selection and production of the apology strategies in both languages. In addition, the students’ pragmatic transfer occurred in linguistic areas, namely overgeneralization, inappropriateness, grammatical contrast, and conceptual transfer from L1 to L2, which are categorized into two types, namely, micro-negative transfer and macro-negative transfer. To conclude, these results indicate the students’ on-record-negative politeness attitudes towards the offended parties, which are determined by the contextual factors and the students’ lack of grammatical competence.
The effects of drama-based activities as a language learning tool on learners’ motivation in Non-Malay-medium national schools in Malaysia
Authors: Man Chang Fui , Sharif Sabariah , May Andrea Lee Jen , Talin Rosy , Singh Soon Singh Bikar
Published: February 2021

Transitioning from Non-Malay-medium national primary schools to Malay-medium or English-medium secondary schools proved to be a struggle for many students due to the lack of emphasis on audio-lingual skills of the second language (L2) throughout their six-years of primary education. This study aims to explore the effects of drama-based activities as a language learning strategy on L2 learning motivation among students aged between 12 to 13 years old from Non-Malay-Medium National Schools. Six students were recruited through purposive sampling to participate in this qualitative experimental research. Over a period of 14 weeks, pre-intervention interviews (on the first week), intervention (over the span of 2 hours per week for 12 weeks), and post-intervention interviews (on the fourteenth week) were carried out. The content of the intervention was adapted from the Trinity College London’s Grade 4 Communication Skills syllabus. The instruments used for data collection include:(1) pre-determined pre-and post-intervention interview protocols and (2) classroom observation rubric. Two themes emerged in the analysis of this study: (a) language learning motivation and (b) affective filter. Findings revealed that participants were motivated and possessed self-confidence in the language learning process. The current study provides instructional implications for instructors and learners besides contributing to the novelty in the area of the research setting and sampling for future studies.
Visual analysis of self-presentation of teenagers and emerging adults on Facebook
Authors: Nor Nor Fariza Mohd , Fuat Nur Hazirah Binti Mohd
Published: February 2021

Facebook has become a worldwide phenomenon and is one of the greatest important means of communication between people. Given that teenagers and emerging adults are typically concerned with peer acceptance, physical appearance and the self-impressions they convey, they are active users of social networking sites (SNS) because these sites provide platforms for them to connect to their peers and facilitate identity construction and experimentation within a social context. The present study aims to address the gap about how teenagers and emerging adults in the Malaysian context present themselves by analysing the photos which they posted on Facebook and to examine online self-presentations in Facebook between teenager and emerging adults. A quantitative analysis (percentages of the representational and interactional meaning) and qualitative analysis was conducted on 200 images of teenagers and emerging adults, which were collected from 40 participants (5 images from each participant). The 40 participants who consisted of teenagers and emerging adults were selected based on gender, age, geographical location and Facebook access. Kress and van Leeuwen’s (1996, 2006) metafunctional framework was employed to analyse the photos. The results show that there are similarities and differences in terms of self-presentation. Teenagers and emerging adults posed differently, with regard to the shot, gaze and angle, the location of the photos, their actions in the photos, their position (position or placement of the participants in the photo) and the relation between the image background of the participants. This study also found that teenagers and emerging adults in Malaysia exhibit behaviors which can be considered universal based on the visual analysis of their online photos. An important contribution of this study is how culture and religion contribute to the types of photos and poses posted by both groups on Facebook.
Exploring EFL university learners’ acquisition of advanced reading skills in the Yemeni context
Authors: Ahmed Waleed Mohammed A.
Published: February 2021

Reading is an essential language skill for enhancing learners’ performance at various levels of study. However, EFL learners at the tertiary level encounter reading difficulties, particularly in acquiring advanced reading skills, which have affected their reading comprehension and resulted in low academic performance achievement. This is probably attributed to various factors, including learners’ lack of effective reading strategies. A study that exclusively explores reading difficulties encountered by EFL university learners, reasons for the difficulties, and strategies adopted to overcome the difficulties and develop advanced reading skills seem to be scarce in the literature. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to explore the acquisition process of advanced reading skills in EFL tertiary context at a private university in Yemen from learners’ perspective. The study adopted a qualitative approach to gather data from EFL tertiary learners through a focus group discussion. The data were analyzed manually using the indexing approach. Findings revealed that learners face reading difficulties such as inference making, getting the gist of the text, and managing the reading tasks. These difficulties were attributed to linguistic and non-linguistic reasons, and metacognitive, cognitive, and social-affective strategies were used in reading. The study recommends engaging EFL learners in intensive and extensive reading to help them apply the strategies they learn and develop advanced reading skills and better academic performance. Future research studies may focus on strategies for reading fluency.
Oral monophthong vowel qualities of the Jamee language in Aceh
Authors: Yusuf Yunisrina Qismullah , Fata Ika Apriani , Karwinda Sinta
Published: February 2021

Jamee language is one of the languages spoken in Aceh Province, in the super-diverse country, Indonesia. Previous studies have noted inconsistencies in the number of oral monophthong vowels produced by the Jamee speakers. Accordingly, this research aims to investigate the qualities of the oral monophthong vowels of the Jamee language that are still spoken today. Ten female speakers were chosen as the informants to provide data for this research. They were recorded to produce words that contained the target vowels. The recordings were then transferred to Praat software in spectrograms, and measurements on the midpoint of each vowel for their F1 and F2 in Hertz were conducted. In Excel, the measurements were converted in the Bark scale, and the average values of each vowel were plotted on an F1-F2 chart. The results further showed that there are currently seven monophthong vowels in this language, they are /i/, /e/, /ɛ/, /a/, /o/, /u/ and /ↄ/. This acoustic study has calculated the approximate measurements for the vowels based on their F1 and F2 from the spectrograms in Praat. The qualities of these vowels are /i/ with F1 = 463 Hz and F2 = 2484 Hz, /e/ with F1 = 550 Hz and F2 = 2493 Hz, /ɛ/ with F1 = 641 Hz and F2 = 2412 Hz, /o/ with F1 = 535 Hz and F2 = 1434 Hz, /ↄ/ with F1 = 713 Hz and F2 = 1312 Hz, /u/ with F1 = 489 Hz and F2 = 1165 Hz, and finally /a/with F1 = 887 Hz and F2 = 1898 Hz. The findings of this research are seen as pivotal in the field of phonology as it assists linguists in documenting and preserving a minority language in Aceh Province, Indonesia.
Pupunha heart of palm residue silage as an option of roughage for ruminants
Authors: Moraes J. E. , Reis T. L. , Fuzitani E. J. , Damatto Júnior E. R. , Maioli C. M. T. , B. Soares W. V. , Bueno M. S. , Paulino V. T.
Published: February 2021

It was aimed in this study to evaluate the ensiled pejibaye  residue in the feeding of ruminants as roughage. For the in vitro digestibility assay, a randomized block design was used, with four treatments (pejibaye residue without additives; pejibaye residue + banana residue; pejibaye residue + rice residue and pejibaye residue + citrus pulp), with four replications. The variables studied were: chemical composition, specific mass, pH, average particle size, fermentation temperature and fermentative losses. Apparent digestibility was performed with sheep in a completely randomized design, to evaluate the same treatments mentioned above, using five replications. Heart-of-palm pejibaye residue silages showed average particle size, pH and density values within the range appropriate for their manufacture. Among the additives used in this study, silage with 15 g/100g of rice provided improvements in several nutritional parameters, such as DM, NDF, ADF, CF and NDF/NFC. High moisture content impairs the ensiling process, but it was solved with high dry matter content ingredients addition to promote the material stability.
La vulnerabilidad externa de la economía colombiana en el periodo 1990-2015: un análisis comparativo
Authors: Portillo-Riascos Luis Hernando , Ortiz-Benavides Edinson
Published: February 2021

El objetivo de este estudio es cuantificar la vulnerabilidad externa de la economía colombiana para el lapso 1990-2015. Para alcanzar este propósito, se calcularon dos indicadores, tomando como referencia la propuesta de Abeles y Valdecantos (2016). A partir de los resultados encontrados, se evidenció que, durante el transcurso del periodo estudiado, la economía colombiana, durante el transcurso del periodo estudiado, incrementó tanto su vulnerabilidad real como la financiera.  Frente a este hallazgo, se argumentó que la mayor vulnerabilidad externa de este país se explica por dos razones: a) la incapacidad de esta economía para modificar su modelo de inserción comercial basado en la explotación de los recursos naturales y b) el incremento de la dependencia del financiamiento externo.
Análisis de la productividad total de los factores en América del Sur en el período 1950-2014
Authors: Villalobos Valencia Ángelo Diomar , Molero Olivo Leobaldo Enrique , Castellano Alberto Gregorio
Published: February 2021

El objetivo de esta investigación consistió en analizar la productividad total de los factores en la región de América del Sur aplicando el modelo Solow-Swan ampliado, siguiendo la propuesta de Mankiw et al. (1992). En este sentido, se utilizó la función de producción bajo el enfoque del modelo mencionado, para obtener las elasticidades del producto con respecto a los factores productivos, para su uso posterior en la contabilidad del crecimiento. Los resultados obtenidos sugieren que dichas elasticidades, en su mayoría, son consistentes con los supuestos de Mankiw et al. (1992), quienes argumentan que incluir al capital humano al modelo de Solow (1956) tendría como resultado que la participación del capital físico y del crecimiento poblacional tendrían un impacto mayor sobre el producto o ingreso de la población. Por otra parte, el análisis de la contabilidad del crecimiento demuestra que la principal fuente del crecimiento en la región ha sido la acumulación de factores productivos, mientras que, la productividad no ha sido un factor determinante en cuanto a la experiencia del crecimiento en Suramérica durante el período de estudio
DESDE LA PLANEACIÓN HASTA LA FABRICACIÓN DE PRÓTESIS DE CADERA PERSONALIZADAS POR MANUFACTURA ADITIVA DE METALES
Authors: Henao Penenrey John Dairo , Corona Castuera Jorge , Rodriguez Daniela , Poblano Salas Carlos Agustín
Published: February 2021

La artroplastia total de cadera es uno de los procedimientos quirúrgicos más comunes a nivel mundial en pacientes adultos; este procedimiento implica el reemplazo de la cadera por un implante cuyo objetivo es restablecer la movilidad de la extremidad afectada. La planeación de la intervención quirúrgica, así como el diseño de la prótesis son fundamentales para el éxito del implante. El presente trabajo presenta una revisión de la planeación, diseño y selección de una prótesis de cadera, así como de la consecución de una prótesis personalizada hoy en día posible gracias a las técnicas de manufactura aditiva.
Provérbios do vinho: modos de viver, representações sociais e estereótipos do Portugal de há (mais de) 300 anos
Authors: Teixeira José
Published: February 2021

É pacífico aceitar que nos provérbios se acumulam as vivências sociais de gerações passadas e que os mesmos representam uma janela para entrever os principais conceitos, modos de ser e de ideário social que em determinada época estruturam o pensamento coletivo de uma comunidade.Dentro deste âmbito, o Vocabulario Portuguez e Latino de Rafael Bluteau, editado entre 1712 e 1728, em 8 volumes e 2 de suplemento, é o primeiro verdadeiro dicionário da língua portuguesa, na plena aceção do termo. Nesta obra, Bluteau apresenta conjuntos de provérbios portugueses inseridos em variadíssimas entradas que nos permitem entrever as crenças e vivências do Portugal de há mais de 300 anos.Assim, a partir da palavra “vinho” e dos provérbios nesta entrada inseridos, procuraremos descobrir e analisar não apenas a importância concreta do vinho no viver dos séculos passados, mas sobretudo a sua dimensão simbólica e social que os provérbios (sobre o vinho) revelam, refletindo igualmente como os provérbios se constituem como uma dimensão linguística onde se estratifica o verdadeiro “significado corporizado” (“embodied meaning”) que a atual Linguística Cognitiva põe em relevo.
Recensión: Xosé Manuel Sánchez Rei and Catalina T. Castillón (eds.), Traditional Galician Cancioneiro Compiled by Cipriano Torre Enciso
Authors: Freixeiro Mato Xosé Ramón
Published: February 2021

Recensión: Xosé Manuel Sánchez Rei and Catalina T. Castillón (eds.), Traditional Galician Cancioneiro Compiled by Cipriano Torre Enciso, 2 vols. Vol. 1, Studies (369 páginas). Vol. 2, Edition (895 páginas). Lewiston-New York (USA) & Lampeter-Cerdigion, Wales (UK): The Edwin Mellen Press.
Resiliency-Focused Supervision Model
Authors: Mack Brenda M.
Published: February 2021

Social workers often deal with complex, challenging, and emotionally exhausting situations that can negatively impact their mental and physical health. When a helping professional is in distress, client care may be compromised. Therefore, the necessity of wellness practices to reduce stress and mitigate burnout is gaining recognition in the social work profession. The National Association of Social Workers (2013) asserts that supervisors are responsible for recognizing and responding to supervisees’ work-related angst. However, there is little research published that addresses pre-burnout symptoms and self-care practices in the supervisory process. The Resiliency-Focused Supervision Model (RFSM), a culturally-responsive, strengths-based framework, was developed to assist supervisors in helping supervisees to manage stress, avoid burnout, and be successful in the workplace. The RSFM’s interrelated domain areas include: 1) structural/environmental, 2) relational, 3) work self-care, and 4) life self-care. The RFSM is a practical, pragmatic option for supervisors to use in partnership with social workers to promote good health, well-being, and resiliency.
Gênero e religião sob a ótica da redescrição
Authors: Rocha Maria José Pereira
Published: February 2021

The main goal of this article is to analyze how manifest the relation between gender and religion. In that measure, the text opts for a singular reflection elaborated under the optic of the neopragmatism as theory ad hoc, understood as philosophical current that privileges the conversation. The text explores as analysis axis the notion of the redescribe as task of the imagination. It is with imagination that we describe to us and to the others. With the Base in that understanding emphasize elements that make possible rethink gender and religion being taken into account the redescription of Rorty. The attempt is the writing, to tell and to retell a story about those two categories in another way. Therefore, the effort is to contemplate about gender and religion with the base in two axes: the first settles through the analysis of the gender notion and of the of religion notion. The second base about fragments of some peoples speaking that expressed their understanding in relation to those categories.
Ante a intempérie existencial: vertical ou horizontal?
Authors: Huneeus Francisco
Published: February 2021

Our vocation as existentialists possibly comes, just as Perls, from a disillusion before the existing psychotherapeutic systems. Gestalt and its proposal responds to a growth of what possibly was the conscience state prevailing during 99% of our existence as a species on earth, in which time we were nomad hunters-collectors until the late Paleolithic of almost 35 thousand years which M. Berman calls the paradox and characterizes it by an alert animal state, a phenomenological perception of ground, an absolute respect by the natural world and its processes, an existential and horizontal conception of life, always in movement, without the search of salvation, neither the possession of the truth, nor a vertical aim. On the contrary, the actual civilization, arises from the sedentarism and the agriculture with the appearance of the Holy Authority Complex and bases itself on a vertical and hierarchical aim where predominant uneven relationships, political, religious and economical power is concentrated in a few hands, offering salvation truths in another life, besides the illusion of the existence of one and several Gods.
Dos quadros de Monet aos Patos da Margarida: divagações sobre investigação fenomenológica
Authors: SOUSA Daniel Cunha Monteiro de
Published: February 2021

This paper deals with a number of aspects related to the application of phenomenology in the area of research. It focuses particularly on some aspects, present in some literature, that the author considers as non-consensual. A number of reasons are propounded to explain the phenomenological principles and application of these within the context of research. The strengthening of the available methodologies of phenomenological research is upheld, as a counterpoint to the fostering of an unlimited number of methodologies currently in fashion in qualitative research. The importance of reflecting on the concept of method is also referred to as well as that of clarifying the differences existent between philosophy, psychology and psychotherapy within the scope of the application of the phenomenological method.
Uma fenomenologia da cura espiritual: estudo de caso na pesquisa fenomenológica
Authors: MORAES Célia de
Published: February 2021

The present work is taken from the authors doctoral thesis: the construction and presentation of a methodology for the study of religious and spiritual phenomena. The case description was chosen for its value for understanding the healing of a depressive process through a religious/spiritual means: the religious revelation as a pshychological process of consciousness enlargement.
A escuta fenomenológica comprometida pela ótica religiosa de uma gestalt-terapeuta
Authors: TAVARES Jackeline Paulla , ANDRADE Celana Cardoso
Published: February 2021

A religious experience is inherent to man and can permeate the therapist-client relationship. The gestalt therapist must be prepared to investigate the unique experience of the client, from an attentive listening. This paper aims to highlight the conflict of the therapist before the incompatibility of their moral values and also the religious and existential-phenomenological values of their science. It is divided into three parts: the first one deals with the theoretical background on the religious experience and the Gestalt approach; the second refers to the presentation of the three participants; and the third shows the relation between theory and data collected. The conclusion is that incompatible values interfere with a phenomenological listening. For this reason the suspension of the values and beliefs of the professional is important.
Algumas contribuições de Merleau-Ponty para a Psicologia em “Fenomenologia da percepção”
Authors: CREMASCO Maria Virginia Filomena
Published: February 2021

This essay consists of the authors theoretical examination in the Selection Process of Assistant Professor for the Department of Psychology at the Federal University of Paraná, submitted in June, 2002. It succinctly presents contributions to psychology in Merleau-Pontys doctoral thesis of 1945, entitled Phenomenology of Perception. Merleau-Ponty sets out to discover original meanings as a road for perceiving human understanding. In his proposal, rationality takes on the status of science by preserving both subject and object. In other words, one finds in the world what it is fact and, on this basis, what perceptions can be confirmed or denied. Merleau-Ponty re-posits Husserls transcendental question: based on the natural and the social we discover the ambiguity of life, of being in the world and being of the world. We are questioned by it and we are free to choose. Contributions to psychology are discussed based on Merleau-Pontys perspective of the organization of the perspective field carried out by subject-body in situation.