bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Enhanced Weight Based Convolutional Neural Network (EWCNN) and Fuzzy Clustering For Semantically Rich Multi-Label Social Emotion Classification
Authors:   Assistant professor in Hindusthan College of Arts & Science,Coimbatore, M* Mrs. Selvapriya. , Priscilla Dr.G Maria ,   Professor and Head Department of Computer Science at Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore.
Published: October 2019

In Recent Years, Social Emotion In Recent Years Acquires Natural Language Processing Researchers’ Attention, Because Of Analyzing User-Generated Emotional Documents On The Web. But, These Emotions Has Noisy Instance Mixed And It Is Great Dispute To Acquire The Textual Meaning Of Short Messages. Definition: In General, Large-Scale Datasets Will Have Many Noisy Data, Which Can’t Be Used Readily And Also It Is Costly, Because Of Ambiguity Of Various Informal Expressions In User-Generated Comments. It Is Very Tedious One To Recognize The Similar User Documents From The Entire Social Media Text Message. Furthermore, Online Comments Are Characteristically Categorized By A Sparse Feature Space, Which Makes The Respective Emotion Classification Task A Complex One. Methodology: Three Major Contributions Were Done In This Work In Order To Rectify These Problems, They Are: Development Of A Novel Mutation Bat Optimization Based Sparse Encoding (MBO-SC) Which Transforming The Sparse Low-Level Features Into Dense High-Level Features, Was The 1st Contribution, Next Is, An Enhanced Weight Based Convolutional Neural Network (EWCNN) To Target-Specific Layer. It Influences The Semantically EWCNN Classifier To Include Semantic Domain Knowledge Into The Neural Network To Bootstrap Its Inference Power And Interpretability. Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm Is Proposed To Minimize The Similarity Among Two Documents. Uses: It Is Quite Constructive In Recommending Products, Collecting Public Opinions, And Predicting Election Results. Proposed Work Is Distinguished With The Existing Methods, With The Metrics Such As: Precision, Recall, Sensitivity, Specificity, F-Measure And Accuracy. From The Experimental Result It Is Confirmed That The Quality Of Learned Semantic Vectors And The Performance Of Social Emotion Classification Can Be Enhanced By Proposed Models.
Numerical Simulation of Flow through Vaneless Diffuser
Authors:   Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India., S* Seralathan , M Kannan ,   Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India., Kumar M Vinoth ,   Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India., Samuel S Johnson ,   Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India., V Hariram ,   Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Published: October 2019

Flow through vaneless diffuser in the centrifugal compressor stage is studied at varied flow conditions using finite volume method based commercial code, ANSYS CFX. The contour of static pressure, stagnation pressure, absolute velocity, as well as meridional velocity divulges the nature of flow that happens in the centrifugal compressor stage. Circumferential non-uniformity due “jet-wake” formation is seen at the impeller exit. These lead to mixing of fluid having varied energy levels which happens within the vaneless diffuser. Total pressure rises along the radius ratio and its distribution is higher near the shroud for all flow conditions. Absolute velocity reduces along radius ratio as area of the flow passage increase indicating diffusion. The meridional velocity is seen as non-uniform at Ф = 0.15 but, it is uniform at diffuser exit at Ф = 0.25.
Placement of PMU Optimally and Detection of Events in Power System
Authors:   Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Dayananda Sagar Academy of Technology & Management, Bangalore, India., R* Kiran , Lakshmikantha B. R. ,   Principal, Dayananda Sagar Academy of Technology & Management, Bangalore, India., Sundar K.Shanmukha ,   Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Dayananda Sagar Academy of Technology & Management, Bangalore, India.
Published: October 2019

Smart grid is an advanced electrical supply system in which data is conveyed bi directionally utilizing computerized correspondence innovation. Observing, investigating, controlling and correspondence happens inside the inventory network accordingly improving proficiency, lessening vitality utilization and so on. A Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) measures electrical signals in system. PMUs are utilized in the transmission side of the system. These are introduced at different places on the network and are time synchronized utilizing Global Positioning System (GPS). Thus real time synchronized continuous estimations are obtained from different estimation points on the network. PMU helps in automating the system. A system of PMUs called Wide Area Measurement System (WAMS) can be utilized for huge scale monitoring of the network. Power outages and load shedding in the system can avoided. PMUs can synchronously gauge voltage and current, phase angle, power, energy import & export, frequency, frequency deviations, etc. These parameters can be utilized to tell about the state of the system. The optimal placement of PMUs & Event detection techniques from the synchronized PMU data are determined using MATLAB software. Programming PMUs to detect the events in the system & placing it optimally can help diminish the huge expense and equipment intricacy.
Mammogram Classification using Curvelet Coefficients and Gray Level Co-Occurrence Matrix for Detection of Breast Cancer
Authors:   Department of Information Technology, Ramkrishna Mahavidyalaya, Kailashahar, India, Biswas* Ranjit , Roy Sudipta ,   Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Assam University, Silchar, India., Biswas Abhijit ,   Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Assam University, Silchar, India.
Published: October 2019

Computer-aided diagnosis system plays an important role in diagnosis and detection of breast cancer. In computer-aided diagnosis, feature extraction is one of the important steps. In this paper, we have proposed a method based on curvelet transform to classify mammogram images as normal -abnormal, benign and malignant. The feature vector is computed from the approximation coefficients. Directional energy is also calculated for all sub-bands. To select the efficient feature we used t-test and f-test methods. The selected feature is applied to Artificial Neural Network (ANN) classifier for classification. The effectiveness of the proposed method has been tested on MIAS database. The performance measures are computed with respect to normal vs. abnormal and benign vs. malignant for using approximation subband and energy feature of all curvelet coefficients. The highest classification accuracy of 95.34% is achieved for normal vs. abnormal and 80.86% is achieved for benign vs malignant class using energy feature of all curvelet coefficients.
Deep Neural Networks for Recommender Systems
Authors:   Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Marathwada Institute of Technology, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, INDIA., Ahirwadkar* Bhakti , Deshmukh Sachin N. ,   Department of Computer Science and IT, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, INDIA.
Published: October 2019

The data available online, helps users to get information about anything of his/her interest. But since the data is huge and complex it is difficult to get useful information from it. Recommender Systems are effective software techniques to overcome this problem. Based on the user’s and item’s information available, these techniques provide recommendations to users in their area of interest. Recommender systems have wide applications like providing suggestive list of items to customers for online shopping, recommending articles or books for online reading, movie or music recommendations, news recommendations etc. In this paper we provide a study of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) approaches that can be used for recommender systems. They have been used widely in last decade in many fields like image processing, video streaming, Natural Language Processing etc. including recommendations to overcome the drawbacks of traditional systems. The paper also provides performance of Denoising AutoEncoders (DAE) which are feed forward neural networks and its comparison with traditional systems. Denoising Autoencoders are a type of autoencoders wherein some part of input is corrupted, i.e., noise is added to the input. While learning to remove noise from input, the DAE also learns to predict unknown values. This property of Denoising Autoencoders can help in recommendation systems to predict unknown values before recommending new items. Experimentation has shown improvement in the performance of recommendation systems with denoising autoencoders. The evaluation is performed on MovieLens-1M dataset with and without additional features of users (age and gender) and items (movie genres) provided in the dataset.
Sistem Pakar Diagnosis Kesehatan Masyarakat Pedesaan Menggunakan Metode Fuzzy Tsukamoto Berbasis Vb.Net
Authors: Suryana Eko , Fikri Salaby Ahmad
Published: October 2019

Kesehatan merupakan hal yang paling penting dalam kehidupan. Sehigga saat ini kualitas pelayanan kesehatan merupakan fokus utama dalam masyarakat. Dengan semakin berkembangnya kemajuan tekhnologi, saat ini penyakit sudah dapat dignoasa dengan menggunakan metode sistem pakar. perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan dapat lebih menspesifikkan penyakit-penyakit tersebut. Sistem pakar dapat membantu memerbikan informasi mengenai gejala gejala ataupun informasi kesehatan. Hal ini dapat membantu tenaga medis. Salah satu metode yang bisa digunakan adalah metode fuzzy. Dengan logika fuzzy diganosa di awali dari pengelompokkan gejala gejala dan kemudian dicari kaidah yang sesuai dengan diagnosa awal berdasarkan gejala gejala yang ada sehingga dapat disimpulkan hasil dari analisa tersebut dan menentukan jenis penyakitnya. Berdasarkan hasil analisa tersebut sistem ini dapat menangani proses diganosa penyakit dan membantu dalam meningkatkan kualitas pelayanan kesehatan.
Pengembangan Aplikasi Pariwisata Kota Pagar Alam
Authors: Septriani Evy , Rahmadi Beni
Published: October 2019

Kota Pagar Alam adalah salah satu kota yang memiliki potensi wisata yang sangat bagus, namun karena kurangnya publikasi, maka keberadaan sebagai daerah wisata kurang tergali secara maksimal, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangan aplikasi Pariwisata kota Pagar Alam untuk membantu para wisatawan mencari tempat wisata dan rute perjalan menuju tempat wisata, hotel, kulinener dan toko oleh-oleh. Pengujian aplikasi ini menggunakan metode Quisioner yang di ujikan kepada User dan Exspert Review, hasil dari penelitian ini adalah aplikasi ini Berjalan dengan baik menggunakan Smartphone versi 4.1 Jelly Bean sampai versi 8.0 Oreo, aplikasi ini dapat menampilkan rute untuk mempermudah para wisatawan dalam mencari tempat wisata, hotel, Kuliner, dan toko oleh-oleh dan sebagai media promosi bagi instansi atau dinas terkait untuk mempromosikan dan mengenalkan wisata yang ada di kota Pagar Alam. metode dalam penelitian ini adalah prototype dengan mengidentifikasi masalah secara mendasar, tahapan-tahapan, alur sistem yang berjalan, menganalisis kebutuhan saat membuat aplikasi, merancang alur jalannya aplikasi dari awal sampai akhir.
Aplikasi Pengajuan Beasiswa Berbasis Web Pada Kantor Walikota Bagian Administrasi Kesejahteraan Rakyat (Kesra) Dumai
Authors: Tri Sulis Eli , Nurhadi Nurhadi
Published: October 2019

Penelitian pada Kantor Walikota Bagian Administrasi Kesejahteraan Rakyat (KESRA) Dumai, dimana permasalahan yang dijadikan dasar yaitu pengajuan beasiswa, pengajuan beasiswa yang dilakukan masih secara manual. Sehingga dalam pengajuan beasiswa banyak mahasiswa mengalami kendala, karena mahasiswa tersebut ada yang studi di luar kota. Sehingga dalam pengajuan beasiswa dikatakan kurang efektif dan efesien. Oleh karena itu, dirancang sebuah aplikasi pengajuan beasiswa berbasis web pada kantor walikota bagian administrasi kesejahteraan rakyat (KESRA) Dumai. Manfaat terbesar dari perancangan aplikasi ini adalah agar dapat mempermudah mahasiswa dalam mengajukan beasiswa. Dimana pengembangan aplikasi ini menggunakan bahasa pemograman PHP.
Pengembangan Komputer Assisted Test (CAT) Pada Penerimaan Mahasiswa Baru Di Sekolah Tinggi Teknologi Pagaralam
Authors: Putrawansyah Fery , Arif Alfis
Published: October 2019

Penelitian ini memiliki tujuan untuk mengembangkan Tes Penerimaan Komputer (CAT) Penerimaan di Sekolah Tinggi Teknologi Pagar Alam secara valid, efektif dan efisien. Penelitian ini dimotivasi oleh Computer Assisted Test (CAT) yang telah dilaksanakan dalam tes penerimaan baru yang belum efektif dan efisien dan tidak valid berdasarkan review ahli untuk menguji validitas dan uji satu ke satu untuk mengetahui kepraktisan dan mengetahui keefektifan aplikasi Computer Assisted Test (CAT). Berdasarkan hasil tinjauan ahli yang dilakukan menunjukkan nilai rata-rata yang dicapai oleh 3,8 dengan kategori yang valid. Kemudian berdasarkan hasil pengujian Beta (one-to-one) diperoleh rata-rata 22,2 dengan kategori Sangat Aktif. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa selain efektif, pelaksanaan tes pada penerimaan siswa baru menggunakan aplikasi Computer Assisted Test (CAT) juga dapat aktif.
Brazil-USA relations from Tiradentes to Barão do Rio Branco
Authors: Rosi Bruno Gonçalves
Published: October 2019

The Baron of Rio Branco is popularly known as the greatest diplomat in Brazil's history. In the literature on Brazilian Foreign Policy, the Baron is seen (along with Joaquim Nabuco) as the founder of Americanism, a foreign policy paradigm in which bilateral relations with the United States were privileged within the Brazilian diplomatic agenda. This paradigm has been adopted with little opposition by the Foreign Ministry until the 1950s, when it was gradually replaced by a globalist paradigm that defines the Brazilian foreign policy since. Without completely denying this now traditional perspective, this article makes a brief assessment of relations between Brazil and the United States in the 19th century, ie before the Baron became foreign minister of Brazil. What is observed is that Brazil and the United States had peaceful, although distant, relations during most of the 19th century. This scenario, however, went through significant changes at the end of the century. Thus, it is important to note that the Baron and Nabucco have not created a new paradigm without any precedent. The analysis provided here is intended to help better consider the role of the Baron and Nabucco in the history of Brazilian foreign policy, particularly in relations between Brazil and the United States.

Keywords: Baron of Rio Branco; Joaquim Nabuco; Brazil-USA relations.

 

 

Recebido em: outubro/2016;Aprovado em: abril/2017.
Science Diplomacy as a tool of international politics: the power of ‘soft power’
Authors: Domingues Amanda , Ribeiro Neto Paulo Henrique
Published: October 2019

Science and Technology (S&T) have historically been used by countries as tools of hard power, especially in military and economic contexts. Contrary to a strategy that uses S&T as a hard power tool, Science Diplomacy (SD) is an alternative form of using S&T in bilateral and multilateral interactions; one in which soft power predominates. Relying on examples of the foreign relations of the United States - one of the most developed countries in terms of S&T and SD - this article shows how SD has unified countries and has been employed as a strategy that assists diplomats in interpreting technical knowledge, supports scientists in negotiating multilateral projects, and, most importantly, promotes alliances between countries. The paper is divided in three main sections: in the first part, we present a brief summary of the intellectual history of the concept of SD, introducing and defining it and we discuss why countries invest in it. In the second part, we analyze to what extent S&T played a central role in re-establishing bilateral relations or in promoting more peaceful negotiations between the U.S. and Cuba, North Korea, Russia, and selected Muslim countries. In the third section, we offer our concluding remarks.

Key-words: Science Diplomacy; International Cooperation; Science and Technology.

 

 

Recebido em: maio/2017

Aprovado em: janeiro/2018
Convergences and dissonances within the Bismarckian welfare paradigm: a critical assessment of the impacts of Hartz-IV on the German unemployment insurance system
Authors: Treuke Stephan
Published: October 2019

The paper deals with the repercussions of Hartz-IV on the German welfare system, implemented in 2005 in order to stimulate the labour market structure and to meet contemporary socio-economic and demographic challenges. Focussing on the convergences and dissonances between the historically contingent Bismarckian welfare paradigm and the Hartz-IV reform on the basis of Esping-Andersen’s typology of welfare regimes, it critically examines the modifications introduced into the system of unemployment insurance. Despite the overall reduction of the unemployment rate, the dualization between either the income-based unemployment benefit I (ALG-1), which guarantees the protection of the socio-occupational status, or the means-tested unemployment benefit II (ALG-2), providing for the strict minimum assistance to the jobless, has widened socio-economic inequalities. Evidence can be found for the introduction of recommodifying mechanisms, with regards to the tightening of eligibility criteria affecting the access to the ALG-1 and with regards to the implementation of the ALG-2 with a strong responsabilization of the recipients. Furthermore, an erosion of the principle of subsidiarity can be noticed, coupled with a formalweakening of the male breadwinner’s responsibility as the main income provider. Finally, the reforms have reaffirmed the rigidity of the social classes in Germany, thus creating structural obstacles to the economic upward mobility of the working poor. While the flexibility and greater absorbability of the employment market considerably increased German’s economic competitivity, the future yet has to prove whether the growing segment of working poor will be able to upgrade to full employment and social security coverage.

Keywords: German Welfare System; Unemployment Insurance; Hartz-IV; Labour Market.

 

 

Recebido em: março/2017

Aprovado: maio/2018.
A concepção de excepcionalidade na consciência social de Estados Unidos e China como elemento para a reflexão sobre disputas hegemônicas
Authors: Pires Marcos Cordeiro , Mattos Thaís Caroline Lacerda
Published: October 2019

Este artigo busca refletir sobre o contexto de uma eventual disputa hegemônica entre Estados Unidos e China. Entretanto, ao invés de traçar um cenário prospectivo, busca-se levantar elementos históricos da formação de ambas as sociedades com vistas a delinear as bases das atuais estratégias internacionais de cada país. Importante característica comum entre ambas é que tanto Estados Unidos e China se veem como excepcionais, resultado de virtudes e de condições históricas específicas que moldaram de cada sociedade. Tal percepção de excepcionalidade está entre os princípios norteadores da inserção externa de Estados Unidos e China, além justificar e solidificar a construção das bases ideológicas que definem a concepção de hegemonia de cada país. Na perspectiva dos Estados Unidos, prevalece a noção de um “Destino Manifesto” – Manifest Destiny, uma visão missionária e religiosa sobre seu papel na ordem mundial. No caso da China, uma civilização milenar autocentrada e pacífica, construída sob o princípio imperial de “Tudo sob o Céu” – Tianxia ??, na qual o imperador chinês exercia o seu mandato celestial por meio da virtude e da benevolência sobre o povo Han e os povos vassalos de todo o mundo. Assim, o objetivo deste artigo é o de analisar a construção da excepcionalidade em ambas as sociedades e relacionar tais características com suas políticas atuais.

 

 

ABSTRACT: This article seeks to reflect on the context of a possible hegemonic dispute between the United States and China. However, instead of outlining a prospective scenario, it seeks to raise historical elements of the formation of both societies in order to outline the bases of the current international strategies of each country. An important characteristic that United States and China have in common is that both see themselves as exceptional, as result of their own virtues and the specific historical conditions they have shaped from each society. This perception of exceptionality is among the guiding principles of the US and China's external performance and justifies the ideological foundations that define each country's conception of hegemony. From United States perspective´s the notion of "Manifest Destiny” brings with it a missionary and religious vision about its role in the world. In China's case, a self-centered and peaceful ancient civilization, built under the imperial principle of "All Under Heaven" - Tianxia ??, in which the Chinese Emperor exercised his heavenly mandate through virtue and benevolence over the Han people and the vassal peoples of the whole world. Thus, the objective of this article is to analyze the perception of exceptionality in both societies and to relate such characteristics to their current policies.

Keywords: United States. China. Hegemony. Exceptionality. Manifest Destiny. All Under Heaven.

 

 

Recebido em: Agosto/2018.

Aprovado em: Novembro/2018.
Hegemonia ou Governança Global Compartilhada. O que a China pensa?
Authors: Paulino Luís Antonio
Published: October 2019

Frente à experiência histórica do Ocidente, na qual o ciclo de hegemonia, competição, guerra e nova hegemonia tem se repetido desde que o Tratado de Vestfália, em 1648, criou o atual sistema de estados-nação independentes, a ascensão recente da China à condição de grande potência e o concomitante declínio do “soft power” e do “hard power” dos Estados Unidos  tem  levado muitos a prever um inevitável confronto entre os dois países na disputa pela hegemonia mundial. Mesmo nos Estados Unidos, a preocupação de que a China possa vir a tomar seu lugar como potência hegemônica global tem gerado reações fortes, com a China sendo apresentada para a opinião pública como o inimigo a ser contido e derrotado. Os chineses, por seu turno, alegam que a lógica poder-hegemonia está baseada na experiência histórica dos países ocidentais e que a mesma não se aplica ao caso da China. Afirmam que não é da natureza da China buscar a hegemonia, que a China pode alcançar o desenvolvimento sem buscar a hegemonia e que a busca da hegemonia seria um convite para sua própria destruição. Para os chineses, o atual sistema de governança global pelo Ocidente está em desacordo com o atual balanço de poder mundial e, por isso, advogam um novo modelo de governança compartilhada entre o Ocidente e o Oriente.

 

Abstract: In the face of Western historical experience in which the cycle of hegemony, competition, war and new hegemony has been repeated since the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 created the present system of independent nation-states, China's recent rise to the condition of great power and the concomitant decline of soft power and hard power in the United States has led many to foresee an inevitable confrontation between the two countries in the struggle for world hegemony. Even in the United States, concern that China may take its place as a global hegemonic power has generated strong reactions, with China being presented to public opinion as the enemy to be restrained and defeated. The Chinese, for their part, claim that the logic of power-hegemony is based on the historical experience of Western countries and that it does not apply to the case of China. They assert that it is not China's nature to seek hegemony, that China can achieve development without seeking hegemony and that the pursuit of hegemony would be an invitation to its own destruction. For the Chinese, the current system of global governance by the West is at odds with the current balance of world power and therefore advocate a new model of shared governance between the West and the East.

Key-words: China, United States, Hegemony.

 

 

Recebido em: Agosto/2018.

Aprovado em: Outubro/2018.
International Human Rights Law and the Accountability of Civil Society Organizations: the case of the INGO accountability charter/accountable now
Authors: Fontenelle-Weber Alexandre
Published: October 2019

The central objective of this Paper is to develop an analysis of the position occupied by civil society organizations in International Human Rights Law, specifically in human rights protection at the international level. In this regard, the proposed examination will focus on the discussion regarding the accountability of said organizations, at this level.  Introducing, from a historical perspective, the form of interaction of these actors with supranational organizations, it is possible to draw conclusions regarding its legitimacy and its accountability or lack thereof. By drawing on the concept of legitimacy as used in the international sphere, to which the idea of accountability is directly linked, it can be developed certain analytical tools that permit the identification of specific aspects of accountability that are fundamental in understanding the mode of operation of civil society organizations in International Human Rights Law. As a practical example, it is studied the case of the INGO Accountability Charter, currently known as Accountable Now.

 

 

Recebido em: agosto/2018.Aprovado em: dezembro/2018.
Gender Based Terrorism and Armed Conflicts in Nigeria: The Chibok Girls’ Abduction and the Changing Narratives in Sambisa Forest
Authors: Omilusi Mike State
Published: October 2019

Nigeria has had a chequered history of conflict situations such as civil war, inter and intra ethnic conflicts, religious conflicts among others. Northern Nigeria, in particular, has been greatly threatened by armed conflicts in recent years. Indeed, the remote northeast region is ground zero for many of the world’s most vexing problems, including an Islamic militant insurgency, crippling poverty, and declining development. In 2014, no fewer than 276 schoolgirls were abducted in Borno state by the Boko Haram sect that has ravaged the region since 2009. The audacious kidnapping brought the insurgency to world attention, triggering global outrage that galvanised support from many local and international actors. The girls have become a symbol of Nigeria’s brutal conflict. The failure of Nigeria's former government to act quickly to free the girls sparked a global Bring Back Our Girls movement. While the abduction sparked international outrage in a frantic bid to rescue the girls, some undercurrents were playing out locally that now deserve academic review. This essay is thus, an attempt to further interrogate the nature, nuances, shenanigan, politics and various rescue missions that characterise the Chibok girls’ abduction. It particularly reviews the activities of both local and international dimensions of #Bring Back Our Girls campaign within the socio-cultural and political contexts of the time while putting on spotlight issues of post-trauma facilities expected for the rescued girls and the fate of those still in captivity.

 

 

Recebido em: setembro/2018.

Aprovado em: setembro/2019.
O banco e o arranjo de reserva dos BRICS em perspectiva
Authors: Ribeiro Jackson , Maringoni Gilberto
Published: October 2019

Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar os documentos da cúpula dos BRICS de Fortaleza, ocorrida em julho de 2014 que criou duas instituições financeiras, o Novo Banco de Desenvolvimento - NBD - e o Arranjo Contingencial de Reservas - ACR. São iniciativas importantes para estreitar os laços do grupo que reúne Brasil, Rússia, Índia, China e África do Sul, além de servirem para alargar a ordem monetária e financeira internacional. O NBD e o ACR são complementares às instituições multilaterais tradicionais de Bretton Woods: Banco Mundial e FMI. Complementares, pois foi adotada uma orientação cautelosa na criação desses arranjos protagonizados pelos BRICS. Tais arranjos alternativos incorporaram muitas prerrogativas e princípios do Banco Mundial e FMI, como a necessidade de acordo de cada país membro para acessar parte relevante de recursos no ACR. Mesmo incorporando prerrogativas e os princípios dominantes nessas organizações tradicionais NBD e ACR criam ambientes institucionais com potencial para possibilitar novos desdobramentos.

 

 

Abstract: This article aims to analyse the documents of the BRICS Fortaleza summit held in July 2014 that created two financial institutions, the New Development Bank – NDB and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement – CRA. They are important initiatives to strengthen the ties of the group that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, as well as serve to broaden the international monetary and financial order. NDB and CRA are complementary to traditional multilateral Bretton Woods institutions: the World Bank and the IMF. Complementary, because a cautious orientation was adopted in the creation of these BRICS arrangements. Such alternative arrangements have incorporated many prerogatives and principles of the World Bank and IMF, such as the need for each member country to agree to access a relevant part of the resources in the CRA. Even incorporating prerogatives and the dominant principles in these traditional NDB and CRA organisations create institutional environments with the potential to enable further unfoldings.

Keywords: BRICS; NDB; ACR; ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE.

 

 

Recebido em: fevereiro/2019.

Aprovado em: setembro/2019.
Percursos Geográficos de Maria do Carmo Corrêa Galvão
Authors: Rua João
Published: October 2019

Percursos Geográficos de Maria do Carmo Corrêa Galvão, organizado por Gisela A Pires do Rio e Maria Célia Nunes Coelho, Rio de Janeiro: Lamparina e PPGG/UFRJ, 2009, p. 240. ISBN 978- 85-9871-71-2;
150 anos de Subúrbio Carioca
Authors: Cardoso Elizabeth Dezouzart
Published: October 2019

150 anos de Subúrbio Carioca, por Nelson Nóbrega e Márcio Piñon Oliveira, Rio de Janeiro: Editora Lamparina e UFF, 2009, p. 240. EdUFF 978-85-228-0568-6, ISBN 978-85- 98271-75-0.
Probing of local polarity in poly(methyl methacrylate) with the charge transfer transition in Nile red
Authors: Yadigarli Aydan , Song Qimeng , Druzhinin Sergey I , Schönherr Holger
Published: October 2019

The permittivity of polymers and its spatial distribution play a crucial role in the behavior of thin films, such as those used, e.g., as sensor coatings. In an attempt to develop a conclusive approach to determine these quantities, the polarity of the model polymer poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) in 600 nm thin films on a glass support was probed by the energy of the charge transfer transition in the oxazine dye Nile red (NR) at 25 °C. The absorption and fluorescence spectra of NR were observed to shift to the red with increasing solvent polarity, because of the intramolecular charge transfer character of the optical transition. New types of solvatochromic plots of emission frequency against absorption frequency and vice versa afforded the Onsager radius-free estimation of the ground and excited states dipole moment ratio. With this approach the values of these dipole moments of 11.97 D and 18.30–19.16 D, respectively, were obtained for NR. An effective local dielectric constant of 5.9–8.3 for PMMA thin films was calculated from the solvatochromic plot and the fluorescence maximum of NR observed in the PMMA films. The fluorescence band of NR in the rigid PMMA films shifted to the red by 130 cm−1 with increasing excitation wavelength from 470 to 540 nm, while in a series of liquids the position of the emission maximum of NR remained constant within same range of the excitation wavelength. It is concluded that the fluorescence spectrum of NR in PMMA undergoes inhomogeneous broadening due to different surroundings of NR molecules in the ground state and slow sub-glass transition (Tg) relaxations in PMMA.
Structural and Evolutionary Diagnostics from Asteroseismic Phase Functions
Authors: Ong 王 J. M. Joel 加冕 , Basu Sarbani
Published: October 2019

In the asymptotic parameterization of mode frequencies, the phase function ϵ(ν) completely specifies the detailed structure of the frequency eigenvalues. In practice, however, this function of frequency is reduced to a single scalar ϵ, defined, particularly by observers, as the intercept of a least-squares fit to the frequencies against radial order, or via the central value of this function. The procedure by which this is done is not unique. We derive a few simple expressions relating various observational estimators of ϵ for radial modes to each other, and to the underlying theoretical object. In particular we demonstrate that a “reduced” functional parameterization is both insensitive to mis-estimations of Δν, and easy to evaluate locally in terms of both observational and theoretical quantities. It has been shown previously that such a local definition of ϵ can distinguish between stars on the ascending part of the red giant branch and those in the red clump. We find that this sensitivity to evolutionary stage arises from differences in the local frequency derivative of the underlying phase function, a consequence of differences in internal structure. By constructing an H-R-like diagram out of purely seismic observables, we provide a unified view of the Kepler asteroseismic sample, as well as the initial results from TESS. We investigate how various astrophysical quantities and modeling parameters affect the morphology of isochrones on this seismic diagram. We also show that ϵ can be used as an independent input when deriving stellar parameters from global asteroseismic quantities.
Des tours du dit au dire
Authors: Pesenti-Irrmann Marie
Published: October 2019

En différenciant à la fin de son œuvre le dit du dire, Lacan permet de repenser la tâche qui incombe à l’analyste du fait de la demande du patient. Car par-delà la succession des dits qui défilent dans la cure, il y a un dire qui cherche à se faire reconnaître et qui a trait au réel de l’ Unerkannt radical propre à chaque parlêtre.
Les Mythologiques de Lacan : fantasme et passe (la marche de l’écrevisse)
Authors: Zafiropoulos Markos
Published: October 2019

Pour Lacan, le sujet de l’inconscient se déduit des créations poétiques dont les mythes de la culture occidentale qu’il analyse dans la troisième période de son enseignement que je nomme celle des Mythologiques. Là, il reverse la lecture freudienne de l’œdipe et situe le désir incestueux dans la mère et non dans l’enfant qui se défend de cette volonté de jouissance par l’élaboration du fantasme. L’issue de l’analyse lacanienne devient la sortie de la prison de verre du fantasme.
Surtout ne pas vouloir soigner ! Le désir de l’analyste
Authors: Pommier Gérard
Published: October 2019

Les analysants viennent voir un analyste pour aller mieux. Ce n’est pas une guérison au sens médical puisqu’il ne s’agit pas d’un retour à un état antérieur, mais d’une libération inédite. Les analystes déclarent souvent qu’ils ne veulent pas soigner. Cette dénégation repose sur une méconnaissance des racines infantiles de leur désir d’analyste, qui fonctionne comme celui des sujets ordinaires. La proposition de Lacan de 1968 est faite pour éclaircir ce désir qui en fait un « désir averti ». Il est propice à la libération des « fausses connexions », sources des symptômes.
Vingt années de présentations cliniques analytiques ou Rencontres cliniques analytiques devant témoins
Authors: Guilyardi Houchang
Published: October 2019

Vingt-cinq années de présentations de malades à l’hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, ou de « rencontres cliniques analytiques », mais à point de départ « somatique ». Souvent décriées, à tort et à raison, dévoilant « l’autre scène » devant témoins, parfois authentiques tuchè , elles ont participé à la formation de générations de psychanalystes, tout en revivifiant théories et pratiques analytiques.
Crises et intégration européenne. Experts et pratiques de la restructuration industrielle durant les années 1960
Authors: Verschueren Nicolas
Published: October 2019

Dès la fin des années 1950, les premières institutions européennes ont été confrontées à la désindustrialisation de certains bassins industriels. La Communauté européenne du charbon et de l’acier, créée en 1952, doit très vite répondre aux crises des bassins charbonniers, avant celles de la sidérurgie. Le caractère inédit de ces restructurations industrielles dans leur dimension régionale donne naissance à un nouveau champ d’expertise qu’il convient d’examiner pour comprendre les modèles et expériences à l’origine du développement des politiques de reconversion en Europe. Les références aux tentatives de redéploiement économique régional aux États-Unis et en Grande-Bretagne forment le socle initial à partir duquel les perspectives de reconversion rendent acceptables les restructurations industrielles.
Engagement and Adoption of Person-Centered Care: Participant Experiences in the Kansas PEAK 2.0 Program
Authors: Cornelison Laci J. , Syme Maggie L. , Dell-Isola Richard , Doll Gayle
Published: October 2019

The Promoting Excellent Alternatives in Kansas (PEAK) 2.0 program provides training, evaluation, and support in person-centered care (PCC) for nursing homes across Kansas. To represent the participant voice, nursing home employees (
N
= 141) provided feedback on their experiences and their home's level of engagement in PEAK 2.0 as well as achievement of PCC adoption. Analyses were conducted to capture the positive/negative valence and specificity of their comments and examine how engagement in PEAK 2.0 relates to the process and outcome of PEAK 2.0. Qualitatively, staff participants demonstrated that PEAK 2.0 is viewed positively overall, with approximately twice as many participants with more positive (e.g., community support, satisfaction with resources) than negative (e.g., over-regulation, too structured) comments. Employees reporting moderate engagement in PCC provided the majority of specific suggestions for improvement. In addition, higher levels of engagement were significantly associated with higher levels of PCC achievement. Based on these results, suggestions are offered to enhance nursing staff experiences and engagement that will help support PCC adoption. [
Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 45
(11), 5–10.]
Evidence-Based Practice Guideline: Nurse Retention for Nurse Managers
Authors: Tang Jane H-C. , Hudson Pamela
Published: October 2019

Nursing retention and turnover impacts health care on many facets; pressures are increasing to provide quality care in a cost-effective manner to a satisfied patient with an engaged staff as defined by the Quadruple Aim. Retention of experienced staff nurses is paramount as the nursing profession enters another shortage era, which leads to impact on patient safety and quality of care. The purpose of this nurse retention evidence-based practice guideline is to provide strategies for first line nurse managers in various health care settings to use in enhancing job satisfaction and decreasing turnover of staff nurses. Interventions are focused on three areas that are beyond compensation issues and are within the purview of nurse managers: (a) autonomy; (b) recognition; and (c) communication. Retaining expert nurses will have a positive effect on quality patient care. [Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 45(11), 11–19.]
Dyeing Processing Technology
Authors: Biswal Trinath , Priyadarsini Munmun
Published: October 2019

Among the different substances containing organic compounds, dyes are considered the most important class, and they are now an essential requirement in the modern world, mostly in the textile industries. In addition to the textile colouring, they are used in automobile, leather, paints, paper industries, etc., but their importance in the textile industries is maximum. Because of huge demand of dye, the production of a variety of dyes with advanced properties has drastically increased. Since dyes are complex aromatic organic compounds containing conjugated double bonds, they are highly toxic to the biological community of the world. In this chapter, more emphasis is given for synthesis technologies of various kinds of dyes, different kinds of hazardous pollutants generated from the dyeing industries, and their environmental impact along with the implementation of the technology developed to reduce the pollutant and its effect to our sustainable environment. Hence, more focus has to be given for manufacturing and application of dyes from renewable natural resources.
An Energy Management Strategy and Fuel Cell Configuration Proposal for a Hybrid Renewable System with Hydrogen Backup
Authors: Fernández Francisco José Vivas , Jiménez Ainhoa de las Heras , Manzano Francisca Segura , Márquez José Manuel Andújar
Published: October 2019

This paper presents a new and optimal proposal of energy management strategy for a solar panels/wind turbines/fuel cell/battery/alkaline electrolyzer on grid hybrid power system. These new proposal takes into account technical and economical optimization parameters, improving the system performance, the lifetime of different elements and reducing operation and maintenance cost. The features of the proposed energy management strategy are compared over other strategies found in the scientific literature. Additionally, another key parameter like fuel cell modularity has been considered. That is the effect over the whole system performance of using a single fuel cell with high rate power (PFC) versus a modular configuration built from n stacks with PFC/n rate power each one. Then, joining the new proposed strategy with the optimization parameter regarding the fuel cell modularity, it is possible to get the best solution for this kind of hybrid systems.
Feasibility Study of Renewable Energy Integrated Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
Authors: Ul-Haq Azhar , Azhar Marium
Published: October 2019

This chapter presents a detailed study of renewable energy integrated charging infrastructure for electric vehicles (EVs) and discusses its various aspects such as siting requirements, standards of charging stations, integration of renewable energy sources for powering up charging stations and interfacing devices between charging facilities and smart grid. A smart charging station for EVs is explained along with its essential components and different charging methodologies are explained. It has been recognized that the amalgamation of electric vehicles in the transportation sector will trigger power issues due to the mobility of vehicles beyond the stretch of home area network. In this regard an information and communication technology (ICT) based architecture may support EVs management with an aim to enhance the electric vehicle charging and energy storage capabilities with the relevant considerations. An ICT based solution is capable of monitoring the state of charge (SOC) of EV batteries, health and accessible amount of energy along with the mobility of EVs.
Improving the Use of BIM Using System Engineering for Infrastructure Projects
Authors: Tolmer Charles-Edouard
Published: October 2019

BIM is defined and used in several ways. As standardisation is now increasing on BIM, it is time to optimise the use of BIM, especially for civil infrastructure projects. The level of detail of the information produced and exchanged is not defined enough to allow production optimisation. It concerns a lot of processes and documents in the project, not only the BIM Execution Plan. It is proposed here to use system engineering principles to complete the BIM principle, helping to optimise the use of BIM. Some of these principles are similar but they have to be merged, regarding both System Engineering and BIM paradigms. Finally, integration of systems composing the civil infrastructure is the final aim. Using BIM and System Engineering principles in an efficient way is crucial to make BIM not a constraint but a need for the project.
An Intelligent Approval System for City Construction based on Cloud Computing and Big Data
Authors: Chen Guanlin , Wang Erpeng , Sun Xinxin , Lu Yizhe
Published: October 2019

On the theoretical basis of cloud services, big data technology and case-based reasoning technology (CBR), the authors propose an Intelligent Approval System for City Construction (IASCC). The paper introduces the concept of ‘case approval cloud' and puts forward the city construction approval model based on CBR, by which the storage and computation of the urban construction approval data are concentrated in the cloud. In this system, the authors use the distributed database of HBase, making the data storage capacity of the system with high scalability, design the intelligent approval system based on CBR using the distributed programming framework of MapReduce, making full use of the large amount of historical approval data, and use the distributed full-text retrieval system of SorCloud to retrieve the approval data with a high response speed. IASCC adopts Hadoop as the development platform, using HBase, Solr and MapReduce technology to complete the prototype development of an intelligent approval system. Finally, the authors give the implementation of the system and the performance tests of some key modules.
Integrated Economic and Spatial Planning for the Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Authors: Bassi Andrea , Gallagher Louise
Published: October 2019

Infrastructure projects are being planned and implemented around the world. These projects lead to economic growth and social development, but often unexpected side effects emerge. The problem is that financial analyses for infrastructure projects do not incorporate quantified economic assessments of social and environmental impacts. Equally, social and environmental assessments for infrastructure projects rarely qualify or quantify socioeconomic outcomes for investments in mitigation practices. Our analysis builds on a review of existing methodologies and tools to propose a method for jointly applying three modeling approaches for integrated economic and spatial planning. The results of case study of the Mekong Flooded Forest landscape shows the capability of the models to anticipate desired and undesired outcomes across social, economic and environmental indicators. This shows promising potential for better informing decision making for sustainability.
Social Media for Public Involvement and Sustainability in International Planning and Development
Authors: Willems Laura G. , Alizadeh Tooran
Published: October 2019

This paper explores social media's potential to improve public involvement and sustainable practices on an international scale across planning and development projects. Using a case-study approach, the international institutions of the World Bank, UN-Habitat, Unilever, and World Business Council for Sustainable Development are investigated. The relationships between public versus the institutions' demands for sustainability are examined through an analysis of their Facebook pages, official websites, and questionnaire data from the institutions' digital media administrators. Findings identify strong public demands for increased sustainability in international development, and great support for online efforts of public involvement. This paper offers a promising application to the planning profession via e-planning. This application could result in an alternative form of public engagement through social media that goes beyond the limiting borders of each local community, and assess planning and development projects for their broader environmental impacts on an international platform.