bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Aproximación a la gestión económica integral de las obras por procesos productivos: elaboración del modelo COP de control de costes de construcción
Authors: Montes M. V. , Ponce M. E. , Falcón R. M. , Ramírez-de-Arellano A.
Published: January 2018

La profunda crisis económica sufrida recientemente en España ha puesto de manifiesto la vulnerabilidad del Sector de la Construcción y la necesidad de desarrollar nuevas herramientas que incrementen su eficacia. Centrándonos en el aspecto económico de las obras, un acuciante problema es la importante desviación existente entre presupuesto y coste real en numerosas intervenciones. En aras de paliar este desajuste, se propone la definición de un modelo COP de control de costes basado en procesos productivos que extrapola, a la fase de seguimiento y control económico de las obras, los planteamientos desarrollados en el modelo POP de presupuestación de obras por procesos. Así, la aplicación combinada de los modelos POP y COP en las obras de edificación proporciona una gestión económica eficaz e integral, que se adapta fielmente a su planificación y desarrollo, posibilitando la precisa identificación de desviaciones y la adopción de medidas correctoras para reajustar los errores detectados.
NEST – una plataforma para acelerar la innovación en edificios
Authors: Richner P. , Heer Ph. , Largo R. , Marchesi E. , Zimmermann M.
Published: January 2018

La calidad en la innovación dentro del sector de la construcción debe ser rápidamente adaptada para cumplir con los inmediatos desafíos relacionados con la mejora de las edificaciones actuales. NEST es una plataforma de investigación y transferencia tecnológica flexible y abierta a universidades e industrias donde nuevas soluciones pueden ser implementadas y validadas en un entorno real. NEST consiste en una estructura fija con una serie módulos individuales que son utilizados como oficinas o apartamentos donde poder vivir y trabajar. Además, cada uno de estos módulos actúa a modo de laboratorio donde se investigan diferentes aspectos como el uso de madera como material de construcción o la fabricación digital y donde, continuamente, se lleva a cabo el desarrollo de materiales innovadores, así como su evaluación. NEST es un edificio modular cuyas unidades están individualmente conectadas por medio de redes comunes de suministro de energía y gestión y tratamiento de aguas. Cuando finalizan los estudios asociados a un módulo y los nuevos productos han sido optimizados, éste es desinstalado y remplazado por una nueva unidad de cara a abordar nuevos retos e investigaciones.
Récits d’exil en scène
Authors: Carré Alice
Published: January 2018

À travers les exemples du Dernier Caravansérail d’Ariane Mnouchkine (2003) et du 81 avenue Victor Hugo (2015) d’Olivier Coulon-Jablonka, Barbara Métais-Chastanier et Camille Plagnet, cet article se propose d’étudier le devenir scénique des témoignages de réfugiés sur la scène contemporaine. Partant de la sélection des paroles, des temporalités du récit et des partis-pris politiques qu’ils impliquent, ces spectacles permettent également de s’interroger sur les choix esthétiques liés à la mise en scène du témoignage. Le traitement scénique du récit d’exil n’est jamais exempt d’un point de vue qui le situe et l’oriente, parfois échappant aux artistes eux-mêmes. En effet, le sujet des migrations renvoie à une actualité fortement médiatisée, à des discours et des positionnements politiques, mais aussi à un imaginaire littéraire et poétique. Ainsi, toute mise en scène maniant ces récits rencontre un certain fantasme de l’exil, qu’il émane de l’équipe artistique ou du public qui le reçoit, et il s’agit ici d’en débusquer les traces et de démêler les postulats idéologiques qui s’invitent au cœur de l’esthétique.
La construction de l’Asie magellanique : étude comparée des chroniques de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo et Francisco López de Gómara
Authors: Bénat-Tachot Louise
Published: January 2018

Les premières chroniques à relater l’expédition de Magellan ont eu une importance capitale, tant pour la diffusion de l’évènement à travers l’Europe que pour la compréhension qu’en donnèrent leurs auteurs. La rivalité qui opposa Castillans et Portugais est bien connue, mais il est plus surprenant d’observer les écarts qui séparent les deux premières chroniques des Indes, celle de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, écrite depuis Saint Domingue et celle de Francisco López de Gómara, rédigée en Espagne, dans le cercle courtisan. De quelle façon est perçue et racontée la geste nautique qui ouvrait l’espace asiatique à partir de l’Amérique, selon quels enjeux et avec quelle vision de la politique impériale, tel est l’objet de cette étude.
Conserving carnivorous arthropods: an example from early-season cranberry (Ericaceae) flooding
Authors: van Zoeren J. , Guédot C. , Steffan S.A.
Published: January 2018

Biological control plays an important role in many integrated pest management programmes, but can be disrupted by other control strategies, including chemical and cultural controls. In commercial cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon Aiton; Ericaceae) production, a spring flood can replace an insecticide application, providing an opportunity to study the compatibility of the flood (a cultural control) with biological control. We suspect that chemical controls will tend to reduce the number of natural enemies, while the flood, through removal of detritus and detritivores, may cause generalist predators to prey-switch to consume proportionally more pest individuals. We measured the abundance of herbivores (Lepidoptera), detritivores, Arachnida, and parasitoids (Hymenoptera) every week for six weeks in Wisconsin (United States of America) cranberry beds following either an insecticide spray or a cultural control flood. We found that detritivore populations rapidly declined in both flood and spray treatments; conversely, carnivore populations (spiders and parasitoids) were more abundant in the flooded beds than in sprayed beds. Populations of key cranberry pests were similar between flooded and sprayed beds. Our results showed that early-season flooding preserved more natural enemies than an insecticide application. This increase in natural enemy abundance after the flood may allow for greater continuity in herbivore suppression, potentially providing a basis for long-term cranberry pest management.
Cell shape and plasma membrane alterations after static magnetic fields exposure
Authors: Chionna A , Dwikat M , Panzarini E , Tenuzzo B , CarlÃ  EC , Verri T , Pagliara P , Abbro L , Dini L
Published: January 2018

The biological effects of static magnetic fields (MFs) with intensity of 6 mT were investigated in lymphocytes and U937 cells in the presence or absence of apoptosis-inducing drugs by transmission (TEM) and scanning (SEM) electron microscopy. Lectin cytochemistry of ConA-FITC conjugates was used to analyze plasma membrane structural modifications. Static MFs modified cell shape, plasma membrane and increased the level of intracellular [Ca++] which plays an antiapoptotic role in both cell types. Modifications induced by the exposure to static MFs were irrespective of the presence or absence of apoptotic drugs or the cell type. Abundant lamellar-shaped microvilli were observed upon 24 hrs of continuous exposure to static MFs in contrast to the normally rough surface of U937 cells having numerous short microvilli. Conversely, lymphocytes lost their round shape and became irregularly elongated; lamellar shaped microvilli were found when cells were simultaneosly exposed to static MFs and apoptosis-inducing drugs. In our experiments, static MFs reduced the smoothness of the cell surface and partially impeded changes in distribution of cell surface glycans, both features being typical of apoptotic cells. Cell shape and plasma membrane structure modifications upon static MFs exposure were time-dependent. Lamellar microvilli were clearly observed before the distortion of cell shape, which was found at long times of exposure. MFs exposure promoted the rearrangement of F-actin filaments which, in turn, could be responsible for the cell surface modifications. Here we report data that support biological effects of static MFs on U937 cells and human lymphocytes. However, the involvement of these modifications in the onset of diseases needs to be further elucidated.
Differential distribution of transforming growth factor-a immunohistochemistry within whole gastric mucosa in rats
Authors: Natale G , Lazzeri G , Blandizzi C , Ferrucci M , Del Tacca M
Published: January 2018

Transforming growth factor-a (TGF-a) plays an important role in both proliferation and differentiation of mucosal cells at the gastrointestinal level, including stomach, where it is constitutively produced. This study evaluated the immunohistochemical distribution of TGF-a within whole gastric mucosa in rats, through the examination of seriate sections. Each stomach was opened along the greater curvature, pinned upon a cork plate, fixed in formalin and cut in 2-mm parallel strips which were sequentially superimposed on a glass slide. Sections were immunostained for TGF-a and pictures were taken from three areas: greater and lesser curvature; mucosa lying between the two curvatures. The sections were graded on the basis of the intensity of TGF-a staining, which was scored as follows: 0) no staining; 1) weakly positive; 2) intensely positive. The percent number of immunopositive cells and a mean intensity were calculated. Gastric mucosa showed a marked immunopositivity to TGF-a, mainly in parietal cells whose cytoplasm displayed moderate to intense staining. Positive cells (and the mean intensity) of total mucosa were 15.7±6.1% (1.13±0.42). However, they were not uniformly distributed, being 26.3±1.9% (1.67±0.24) in the mucosa lying between the two curvatures, 12.4±2.5% (1.52±0.22) along the lesser curvature and 8.3±2.1% (0.31±0.17) along the greater curvature. These results show that parietal cells of rat gastric mucosa exhibit immunoreactivity to TGF-a. Considering the gastroprotective effects of this factor, its non-homogeneous distribution within different areas may be of importance in understanding the lesion pattern of gastric damage after the administration of noxious agents.
PHIPS-HALO: the airborne particle habit imaging and polar scattering probe – Part 2: Characterization and first results
Authors: Schnaiter Martin , Järvinen Emma , Abdelmonem Ahmed , Leisner Thomas
Published: January 2018

Abstract. The novel aircraft optical cloud probe PHIPS-HALO has been developed to establish clarity regarding the fundamental link between the microphysical properties of single atmospheric ice particles and their appropriated angular light scattering function. After final improvements were implemented in the polar nephelometer part and the acquisition software of PHIPS-HALO, the instrument was comprehensively characterized in the laboratory and was deployed in two aircraft missions targeting cirrus and Arctic mixed-phase clouds. This work demonstrates the proper function of the instrument under aircraft conditions and highlights the uniqueness, quality, and limitations of the data that can be expected from PHIPS-HALO in cloud-related aircraft missions.
Mn∕Ca intra- and inter-test variability in the benthic foraminifer Ammonia tepida
Authors: Petersen Jassin , Barras Christine , Bézos Antoine , La Carole , de Nooijer Lennart J. , Meysman Filip J. R. , Mouret Aurélia , Slomp Caroline P. , Jorissen Frans J.
Published: January 2018

Abstract. The adaptation of some benthic foraminiferal species to low-oxygen conditions
provides the prospect of using the chemical composition of their tests as
proxies for bottom water oxygenation. Manganese may be particularly suitable
as such a geochemical proxy because this redox element is soluble in reduced
form (Mn2+) and hence can be incorporated into benthic
foraminiferal tests under low-oxygen conditions. Therefore, intra- and
inter-test differences in foraminiferal Mn∕Ca ratios may hold
important information about short-term variability in pore water
Mn2+ concentrations and sediment redox conditions. Here, we studied
Mn∕Ca intra- and inter-test variability in living individuals
of the shallow infaunal foraminifer Ammonia tepida sampled in Lake Grevelingen (the Netherlands) in three different months of 2012. The deeper parts of this lake are
characterized by seasonal hypoxia/anoxia with associated shifts in microbial
activity and sediment geochemistry, leading to seasonal Mn2+
accumulation in the pore water. Earlier laboratory experiments with similar
seawater Mn2+ concentrations as encountered in the pore waters of
Lake Grevelingen suggest that intra-test variability due to ontogenetic
trends (i.e. size-related effects) and/or other vital effects occurring
during calcification in A. tepida (11–25 % relative SD, RSD) is responsible
for part of the observed variability in Mn∕Ca. Our present
results show that the seasonally highly dynamic environmental conditions in
the study area lead to a strongly increased Mn∕Ca intra- and
inter-test variability (average of 45 % RSD). Within single specimens,
both increasing and decreasing trends in Mn∕Ca ratios with
size are observed. Our results suggest that the variability in successive
single-chamber Mn∕Ca ratios reflects the temporal variability in pore water Mn2+. Additionally, active or passive migration of
the foraminifera in the surface sediment may explain part of the observed
Mn∕Ca variability.
Process-level improvements in CMIP5 models and their impact on tropical variability, the Southern Ocean, and monsoons
Authors: Lauer Axel , Jones Colin , Eyring Veronika , Evaldsson Martin , Hagemann Stefan , Mäkelä Jarmo , Martin Gill , Roehrig Romain , Wang Shiyu
Published: January 2018

Abstract. The performance of updated versions of the four earth system models (ESMs)
CNRM, EC-Earth, HadGEM, and MPI-ESM is assessed in comparison to their
predecessor versions used in Phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison
Project. The Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) is applied to
evaluate selected climate phenomena in the models against observations. This
is the first systematic application of the ESMValTool to assess and document
the progress made during an extensive model development and improvement
project. This study focuses on the South Asian monsoon (SAM) and the West African monsoon (WAM),
the coupled equatorial climate, and Southern Ocean clouds and
radiation, which are known to exhibit systematic biases in present-day ESMs. The analysis shows that the tropical precipitation in three out of four
models is clearly improved. Two of three updated coupled models show an
improved representation of tropical sea surface temperatures with one
coupled model not exhibiting a double Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ).
Simulated cloud amounts and cloud–radiation interactions are
improved over the Southern Ocean. Improvements are also seen in the
simulation of the SAM and WAM, although systematic biases remain in regional
details and the timing of monsoon rainfall. Analysis of simulations with
EC-Earth at different horizontal resolutions from T159 up to T1279 shows
that the synoptic-scale variability in precipitation over the SAM and WAM
regions improves with higher model resolution. The results suggest that the
reasonably good agreement of modeled and observed mean WAM and SAM rainfall
in lower-resolution models may be a result of unrealistic intensity distributions.
The National Eutrophication Survey: lake characteristics and historical nutrient concentrations
Authors: Stachelek Jemma , Ford Chanse , Kincaid Dustin , King Katelyn , Miller Heather , Nagelkirk Ryan
Published: January 2018

Abstract. Historical ecological surveys serve as a baseline and provide context for contemporary research, yet many of these records are not preserved in a way that ensures their long-term usability. The National Eutrophication Survey (NES) database is currently only available as scans of the original reports (PDF files) with no embedded character information. This limits its searchability, machine readability, and the ability of current and future scientists to systematically evaluate its contents. The NES data were collected by the US Environmental Protection Agency between 1972 and 1975 as part of an effort to investigate eutrophication in freshwater lakes and reservoirs. Although several studies have manually transcribed small portions of the database in support of specific studies, there have been no systematic attempts to transcribe and preserve the database in its entirety. Here we use a combination of automated optical character recognition and manual quality assurance procedures to make these data available for analysis. The performance of the optical character recognition protocol was found to be linked to variation in the quality (clarity) of the original documents. For each of the four archival scanned reports, our quality assurance protocol found an error rate between 5.9 and 17 %. The goal of our approach was to strike a balance between efficiency and data quality by combining entry of data by hand with digital transcription technologies. The finished database contains information on the physical characteristics, hydrology, and water quality of about 800 lakes in the contiguous US (Stachelek et al., 2017, https://doi.org/10.5063/F1639MVD). Ultimately, this database could be combined with more recent studies to generate meta-analyses of water quality trends and spatial variation across the continental US.
FAME (v1.0): a simple module to simulate the effect of planktonic
foraminifer species-specific habitat on their oxygen isotopic content
Authors: Roche Didier M. , Waelbroeck Claire , Metcalfe Brett , Caley Thibaut
Published: January 2018

Abstract. The oxygen-18 signal recorded in fossil planktonic foraminifer shells has been used for over 50 years in many geoscience applications. However, different planktonic foraminifer species generally yield distinct oxygen-18 signals, as a consequence of their specific living habitats in the water column and along the year. This complexity is usually not taken into account in data – model integration studies. To overcome this shortcoming, we developed the FAME (Foraminifers As Modeled Entities) module. The module predicts the presence or absence of commonly used planktonic foraminifers, and their oxygen-18 values. It is only forced by hydrographic data and uses a very limited number of parameters, almost all derived from culture experiments. FAME performance is evaluated using MARGO Late Holocene planktonic foraminifer calcite oxygen-18 and abundances data sets. The application of FAME to a simple cooling scenario demonstrates its utility to predict changes in planktonic foraminifer oxygen-18 in response to changing climatic conditions.
Fundamentos conceituais para abordagens de gestão da inovação em bibliotecas
Authors: Silveira Murilo Mauro , Vianna William Barbosa , Cândido Ana Clara
Published: January 2018

O objetivo do estudo é evidenciar os principais conceitos e abordagens sobre inovação para identificar as características e enquadramentos teóricos pertinentes aos estudos sobre inovação em Bibliotecas como organizações predominantemente públicas e sem fins lucrativos. Justifica-se pelo reconhecimento da importância da inovação nas Bibliotecas e pela necessidade de fundamentação teórica para o desenvolvimento do tema no âmbito da gestão da inovação cuja concentração se dá predominantemente na indústria de manufatura e relacionada a produtos. Trata-se de um ensaio teórico, de natureza qualitativa, conceitual e analítica. Espera-se com os resultados deste estudo possam contribuir na fundamentação teórica para o desenvolvimento de estudos futuros sobre a inovação em Bibliotecas.
Building Creative Capacity Building in University Graduates: What we can learn from boids and voids
Authors: McWilliam Erica
Published: January 2018

This paper draws on recent computing and social organizational research to open up new possibilities for constructing learning environments that optimise opportunities for university students (and, indeed, their teachers) to work as members of dynamic creative teams. Given that the challenge of setting up a learning environment that fosters such a complex mix of relational dynamics is not a simple matter of ensuring that people feel good about themselves, the paper canvasses two areas of research that can be usefully bought together to provide principles on which to build learning environment for ‘high flying’ creatives.

The first is research that synthesises computer animation and biological behaviour to understand how ‘birds of a feather flock together’. ‘Flocking together’ allows birds (boids are the computer animated variety) to fly higher and exhibit greater scheduling and routing capabilities than each bird can do alone. The means by which this extra capacity is achieved can tell us a lot about how we might do better in a team environment than we can alone. The second is the sociological research that inquires into how good ideas get picked up and moved about in organizations, that is, how a novel idea, produced in one specialist cluster, can be transported across ‘holes’ (voids) in the organization to and integrated with the work of different, even unrelated, clusters of specialists.

Insights from these two different domains of research – one focusing on the ‘micro’ dynamics of a team of a few people, and the other focusing on the macro dynamics of working across teams, are combined to develop principles for building a learning environment that can optimize creative high flying.
CCi Mainstreaming and RHD Jams Outcomes Report
Authors: Morrison Kate
Published: January 2018

The ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation (CCi) commissioned two jams –online collaborative events – to discover new ideas for improving outcomes in two important aspects of the Centre’s work.

The first jam – known as the CCi Mainstreaming Challenge - was held for two weeks from 8th to 23rd June 2009 and focused on findings ways to improve the mainstream impact of the Centre’s research. The event involved 112 participants from the CCi’s nodes around Australia and internationally, CCi Advisory Board members and a select group of external ‘critical friends’ (see Appendix A for a full participant list). Participants posted their own ideas, and commented and voted on the ideas of others, on a challenge question related to improving the mainstream impact of the Centre’s research. In total the jam generated 22 substantial new ideas, 103 votes and 96 comments.

The second jam – known as the CCi RHD Challenge – was held from June 8th to 24th 2009 to elicit ideas and opinions from the Centre’s Research Higher Degree (RHD) community on how to improve their professional development experience and outcomes during their student tenure. The event invited 75 RHD students to participate and was kept exclusive to this group (i.e. no involvement from supervisors or Centre management). In total the community generated 17 ideas, 26 comments and 78 votes.

This report summarises the key results and insights generated from both Challenges, and is divided into three parts: Section One describes the challenges around which these two events were focused and participation rates achieved, while Section Two summarises the outcomes in terms of statistics and trends by theme, as well as the value of the tool for ‘capturing the long tail’ of collaborative processes. Section Three concludes by presenting the top ideas by popularity and activity, as well as identifying the ideas that most polarised opinion and emergent themes.
Networked Identity Work as Project Development Among Co-Creative Communities
Authors: Vivienne Sonja
Published: January 2018

Networked identity work is the conscious negotiation or co-creation of identity, enacted by speaking and listening across differences among multiple publics, including those real and imagined, familiar and unknown, on and offline, present and future. It is a concept I explore extensively in research with queer Digital Storytellers who share their personal stories in public places to catalyse social change (Vivienne 2013). In this article I consider distinctions between ‘story’ and ‘identity’; ‘networking’ and ‘networked identity work’ and argue that the two concepts may be usefully employed in development of co-creative community projects. Finally I consider how variable definitions of co-creativity influence project development.
What is Cultural Science? (And what it is not.)
Authors: Potts Jason , Hartley John
Published: January 2018

Hartley and Potts (2014) argue that cultural science represents a new theoretical and methodological approach to the study of cultural structure, dynamics and use. We explain how this differs from the extant analytic frameworks of cultural studies, both as a research program and as a policy platform. The central idea is to reconceptualize what culture is, through a reinterpretation of what culture does. We argue that the semiotic productivity of culture makes groups – which we call demes – and demes make knowledge (what we call the externalism hypothesis); and the interaction of demes makes newness – new knowledge. Cultural science, then, is a new model of the cultural processes involved in socio-economic evolution and innovation of knowledge-making demes. The paper is in three sections, the first on the exhaustion of cultural studies; the second on the emergence of cultural science; and the third on some implications for cultural policy – illustrated by reference to Matthew Arnold’s policy on language preservation.
Creative occupations as knowledge practices: Innovation and precarity in the creative economy
Authors: Hearn Greg
Published: January 2018

The ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation (herewith CCI) was established with two simple policy objectives. One was to assess anecdotal and boosterish claims about the growth rates of the creative industries, and hence, to measure the size of the creative industries contribution to gross domestic product (GDP). The other was to ascertain the contribution of the creative industries to employment. Preliminary research detailed in Cunningham and Higgs (2009) showed that the existing industrial classifications did not incorporate the terminology of the creative industries, nor did they disaggregate new categories of digital work such as video games. However, we discovered that occupational codes provide a much more fine-grained account of work that would enable us to disaggregate and track economic activity that corresponded to creative industries terminology. Thus was born one major centrepiece of CCI research – the tracking of national occupational codes in pursuit of measuring creative industries policy outcomes. This paper commences with some description of empirical work that investigates creative occupations; however, the real point is to suggest that this type of detailed, occupation-based empirical work has important theoretical potential that has not yet been fully expended (though see Cunningham 2013; Hearn and Bridgstock 2014; Bakhshi, Freeman and Higgs 2013; Hartley and Potts 2014).
The pot, the cup and the jar: Coming together in/for stories
Authors: İnce Şengül
Published: January 2018

What sort of story can you tell with just a pot, a cup, a coffee pot, a jar, a chopping board, an onion and a knife? Would the stories told among a group of seven PhD candidate women reveal the burden of writing a PhD dissertation relating the process to cooking? We, eight women, came together to run an event for the March 8th, International Women’s Day in 2014 and talked about what we had been experiencing during the period of writing master’s and PhD dissertations through the help of some ordinary life kitchen objects. We called this digital storytelling workshop, “I have food on the stove”, getting our inspiration from a very common phrase used by women during their everyday life conversations in Turkey. This workshop enabled me to think about what kind of roles both kitchen and objects have in our lives and how telling stories help women to deal with hard times.
Digital Words of Wisdom? Digital Storytelling with Older People – Ponderings of a (fairly) new PhD Research Candidate and a (growing) older Digital Storytelling practitioner
Authors: Jenkins Tricia
Published: January 2018

Digital Storytelling is over 20 years old, its roots in citizen activism, its techniques evolving from radical theatre and media arts and its primary driver an unwavering commitment to enabling people to find and share their stories, as well as to the valuing of each and every one of those stories. This paper builds upon a presentation given at “Digital Storytelling in a Time of Crisis”, an international Digital Storytelling conference that took place in Athens in May 2014. It sets out to map some of the territory around Digital Storytelling and older people – ageing and the old (specifically the costs associated with a growing older population) being the ‘crises’ in question. The paper discusses questions concerning the benefits of Digital Storytelling with older people – both active older people and those who have dependency needs associated with ageing, such as dementia. The questions focus on the measurement of value, both in terms of participation in Digital Storytelling as a process and in the stories themselves. The paper is also self-reflective, as the writer embarks upon the formal route of PhD research, questioning the assumed benefits of the practice that has dominated the last eight years of over thirty years as a teacher and avid promoter of participatory media as a means to effect positive change. The paper is in 6 parts: (1) The Ageing Agenda; (2) Why Am I Doing This?; (3) What are the Benefits of Digital Storytelling with Older People? (4) The Pros and Cons of Digital Storytelling Projects (5) Extending Creative Practice and Silver Stories – Two Transnational Projects Linking Digital Storytelling and Older people – a sustainable model? (6) Ever Decreasing (Story) Circles.
Digital Storytelling: Resistive Stories and the “Measurement” of Change
Authors: Thas Angela M. Kuga
Published: January 2018

In this paper, I interrogate our understanding of social change in the telling of self-representational digital stories, stories that speak from the perspective of the storyteller and which centre on the “I”. There is a growing audible criticism of the value of these digital stories if distribution and outreach of such stories do not reach both wider and critical audiences. As a digital storytelling practitioner, I examine these criticisms and draw attention first to our understanding of storytelling, and second to our understanding of audiences within an ancient oral tradition of humankind. There is no doubt that the digital in digital storytelling allows for a global arena of possibilities. However, it is these very same global possibilities within the digital that have possibly forced a cursory value on storytelling by the most important audience among audiences—the marginalised "I" who struggles for political, social and economic attention. The existential self is severely talked down to for not going beyond that one digital story or those few friends and family members. In these instances, that potential to transform “power over” into “power with” and “power within” the storytellers quickly disintegrates. What happens instead is an expansion of the pool of judges of narratives, a predominant and more overt phenomenon in the field of human rights. What form the final narrative takes in any digital storytelling project is often shaped by the interests of these “mediators” who turn “judges of narratives” when they mould and package these stories to be more palatable to their specific audiences and consumption needs. The storyteller's sense of existential peril is in this way prolonged. These untoward developments beg us to ask the question, “what change then are self-representational digital stories meant to bring about?”

Change is too often seen as synonymous to "cause and effect". Drawing from interviews conducted with those who organise and conduct digital storytelling workshops within a human rights framework around the world, as well as those who have strived for social change through storytelling in Malaysia, I contend that there is no such causality. The "change" is in fact dialogic and in constant flux—between self and other, self and non-self and in being for self and the other—in that storyteller's struggle of regaining control over situations and circumstances she or he had little or no control over. For what is implied in self-representational stories is that the intended audience of such a digital story inherently must include and bring meaning to the “I”, the storyteller.
ÍNDICE AUTORREFERIDO PELA EQUIPE DE CIRURGIA ORTOPÉDICA SOBRE O PROTOCOLO E CHECKLIST DE CIRURGIA SEGURA
Authors: Garcia Taysa de Fátima , Oliveira Adriana Cristina
Published: January 2018

Objetivo: este estudo avaliou o índice autorreferido pela equipe de cirurgia ortopédica quanto ao protocolo de cirurgia segura e aplicação do checklist. Método: estudo descritivo em dois hospitais de Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais, realizado entre junho e outubro de 2016 com 133 profissionais, médicos (preceptores/residentes), enfermeiros e técnicos de enfermagem. Não foram incluídos profissionais sob licença médica, férias/folga durante a pesquisa. Os dados foram analisados descritivamente, por medidas de tendência central e dispersão. Resultados: 83,3% (25) dos médicos e 95,1% (98) da equipe de enfermagem afirmaram conhecer o protocolo. Dos cirurgiões, 30% (9) relataram que o time out é uma prática comum em cirurgias. Esse mesmo percentual afirmou ter vivenciado troca de lateralidade ou retenção de algum material cirúrgico em cavidades operadas. Conclusão: conclui-se que as bases para aplicação do checklist precisam de maior divulgação/monitorização, uma vez que essa lacuna pode comprometer a adoção de ações relevantes impactando na segurança do paciente.
Questionnaire Investigation on Tourists’ Behavior and its Sensibility Analysis Utilizing Bayesian Network
Authors: Okubo Akane , Aburai Tsuyosi , Takeyasu Kazuhiro
Published: January 2018

Tourists from abroad are increasing rapidly in Japan. Kawazu town in Izu Peninsula is famous for its cherry trees. In the cherry blossom season, many tourists visit this town. In order to get much more visitors, tourists’ behavior should be investigated much further. The Kawazu Cherry Blossom Festival was carried out in February 2015. Our research investigation was performed during that period. In this paper, a questionnaire investigation is executed in order to clarify tourists’ behavior, and to seek the possibility of developing regional collaboration among local government, tourism related industry and visitors. In this research, we construct the model utilizing Bayesian Network and causal relationship is sequentially chained by the characteristics of travelers, an objective to visit Izu Peninsula in Japan and the main occasion to visit them. We analyzed them by sensitivity analysis and some useful results were obtained. Sensitivity analysis is performed by back propagation method. We have presented the paper concerning this. But the volume becomes too large, therefore we have split them and this paper shows the latter half of the investigation result by setting evidence to Bayesian Network items. These are utilized for constructing a much more effective and useful tourism service. We have obtained fruitful results. To confirm the findings by utilizing the new consecutive visiting records would be the future works to be investigated.
A case of engraftment syndrome in the medical intensive care unit
Authors: Tang Joy , Ferrer Marrero Tirsa Marien , Jerkins James , Saber Wael
Published: January 2018

Engraftment syndrome (ES) is an increasingly diagnosed complication after hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Clinical presentation most commonly includes, but is not limited to fever, diarrhea, and skin rash developing at the time of absolute neutrophil count (ANC) recovery. Due to the broad and pleiotropic clinical presentation, ES can be a challenging diagnosis. Furthermore, despite many reports about the presentation of ES, the syndrome is still not completely understood. While most presentations of ES are mild and can either resolve spontaneously or with a brief course of systemic corticosteroids, mortality rates ranging from 8%-18% have been described. We present a case of ES in a critical care setting. A male patient who had an allogeneic HCT and developed fevers, diffuse skin rash, acute kidney injury and hypoxemic respiratory failure after his absolute neutrophilic count started recovering from nadir. He was subsequently transferred to the medical intensive care unit (MICU) for further management, where he was initially managed with mechanical ventilation, vasopressors and antibiotics. An extensive workup that included bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage was performed and failed to show an infectious etiology. Due to concern for ES, patient was started on steroids and his clinical status dramatically improved. The patient was eventually extubated and transferred back to the floor in stable condition. It is important for internists and critical care physicians in the MICU to be aware of post-HCT complications and be cognizant of the clinical signs of ES to better understand the syndrome and its management.
Indonesian Private University Lecturer Performance Improvement Model to Improve a Sustainable Organization Performance
Authors: Suryaman Suryaman
Published: January 2018

Lecturer performance is related to the quality of educators that are owned by a university. Poor performance will affect the quality and carrying capacity of the sustainability of an organization, in this case the university. There are many models developed to measure the performance of teachers, but not much to discuss the influence of faculty performance itself towards sustainability of an organization that houses the professor. This study was conducted in an attempt to measure the performance of lecturers to support the sustainability of the university. A faculty performance assessment model is developed to see whether the performance of lecturers affect the sustainability of the university. The method used is descriptive and verification of data sample of 275 private university lecturers in Banten Province. Application of Structural Equation Model (SEM) was used to test the model and estimate hypothesis using LISREL Results showed that leadership, motivation, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment affect positively and significantly to the performance of lecturers either partially or together with a contribution of 84%. The perception of organizational commitment variable was high which is good. In addition, responsibility for the improvement of organizational performance based on indicators of commitment to the organization ranked highest score of the respondent's perception. This showed that the lecturers were highly committed to the organization which is a great asset in the process of sustainability of an organization. In addition to the score of a continuing commitment to the organization shows lecturers should continue to be fostered in order to maintain the quality of organizational performance. This study shows that the performance of lecturers can support the sustainability of the organization
A Psycho-Pragmatic Study of Self-Identity of Kurdish EFL Learners in Kurdistan Region
Authors: Mahmood Ayad Hameed , Hassan Zana Mahmood
Published: January 2018

This paper is an extract from a PhD dissertation on the impacts of learning English on the self-identity of Kurdish EFL learners. Language is a distinctive feature of human being. Similarly, identity is considered as a sign humans are recognized by. So, scrutinizing the relationship between these two related components of human life is revealing. Most of the research papers in this area focus on how language is used as a tool to express someone’s identity. However, this research focuses on how the process of learning English makes possible changes, if any, in the learners’ self-identity. A Likert-questionnaire of 30 questions is given to 150 EFL learners from three main universities to understand the differences that might happen in the learners’ self-identity as a result of learning English. Finally, some conclusions are drawn based on the collected data and the references are documented.
Compliance with Best Practice Governance Principles by State Owned Enterprises in Botswana
Authors: Magang Tebogo Israel , Kube Koketso Bafana
Published: January 2018

This paper investigates the extent of compliance by 16 state owned enterprises (SOE)/parastatal corporations in Botswana with international best practice corporate governance principles. In particular the study examines the extent of compliance by SOEs with best practice corporate governance principles as recommended under the King Code of South Africa. The King Code (2002) of Corporate Governance is generally considered as a benchmark for best practice corporate governance not only in the Southern African region but also across the African continent.Using a compliance checklist of 53 provisions from the Code, the study finds that 68.7% of Botswana SOEs have a compliance score of 51% and above while the remaining 31.3% applied less than 50% of the provisions in the King Code checklist. The study also finds that compliance with the Code increased from an average of 57% in 2009 to 60% in 2012. Further the study finds that SOEs tended to comply more with provisions on risk management and less on provisions on integrated sustainability reporting.The results of this study have implications on governance practices of SOEs in Botswana in general. For instance, the results may possibly indicate that, even though governance structures of SOEs in Botswana are crafted through Acts of parliament, on the whole they adhere to international best practice corporate governance principles. The results could also be a signal to local and international investors that Botswana SOEs are not lagging behind in terms of compliance with good governance practices.
The Influence of Alliance Innovation Network Structure upon Enterprise Innovation: A Case Study of China’s Energy-Saving and Environment-protection Industry
Authors: Xu Meng
Published: January 2018

The Energy-saving and environment-protection industry, an important strategic and emerging industry in China, will develop into a pillar industry. In view of global climate change, environmental pollution, resource depletion and the defects and deficiencies in traditional technology, technology and product innovation constitute the lifeline of energy-saving and environment-protection industry. The alliance network of enterprises will influence, stimulate, and regulate enterprise innovation greatly. A comprehensive analysis of alliance data of China's energy-saving and environment-protection industry from 2000 to 2013 by using Ucinet software can reveal the network structure parameters such as degree, clique number, average path length, clustering coefficient, and betweenness centrality, which reflects different types of enterprise networks and different positions of enterprises in different types of networks. A negative regression analysis of enterprise patent data and network structure parameters by using Stata software can make some conclusions that the influences of network characteristics on enterprise innovation reach the maximum in the second year of the window period end, that innovation accumulation, clustering coefficient, betweenness centrality are related to the enterprise innovation, that clique number, network density are negatively related to the enterprise innovation, and that there is an inverted U relationship between average path length and enterprise innovation. It is suggested to increase the accumulation level of innovation, appropriately control the network density, reduce the average path length, improve the betweenness centrality and clustering coefficient of enterprises, so as to improve the overall innovation level.
The Bank Lending Process: Accounting Information Role in Constructing Realities or Illusions
Authors: Ruggeri Daniela , Leotta Antonio , Rizza Carmela
Published: January 2018

In the last decades the Bank and finance literature have paid a growing attention to the bank lending process. Considering the different kinds of information, such as hard and soft information, involved in the risk evaluation, contributions to the bank lending literature have highlighted that small banks are better able to collect and act on soft information than large banks. In the bank lending process the risk can be assessed differently among actors, so the communication plays an important role in creating the firm rating evaluation. This paper aims to understand how the accounting information, as a language, could facilitate a successful functioning reality construction or an illusionary one. Drawing on the pragmatic constructivist perspective, which assumes the reality construction as the integration between facts, values, possibilities and communication, we try to understand how the actors integrate their different calculative cultures (calculative idealism and calculative pragmatism) in the bank lending process. In doing so, we carry out two case studies at two small banks operating in the South of Italy. The empirical evidences show how the presence of multiple calculative cultures has entailed disagreement, slowing down the lending process. The integration of the two calculative cultures has been showed underlining their complementarities. This paper contributes to highlight the useful role of the pragmatic constructivist approach to study the problem of the co-presence of different cultures within an organization, explaining how an integration can occur.
An Examination of the Relationship between Pre-school Children’s and Their Teachers’ Attitudes and Awareness towards the Environment
Authors: Buldur Aycan , Omeroglu Esra
Published: January 2018

The purpose of this study is to determine the level of awareness and attitudes towards environment of pre-school children’s and their teachers’ and to examine the relationship between them. This study was based on correlational research model. The study group consisted of 26 pre-school teachers working in kindergartens and primary schools in a province, and 208 children in the 5-6 age groups in which these teachers entered their classes. In this study, “Environmental Awareness and Attitude Scale for Pre-school Children” was used to determine the awareness and attitudes of pre-school children’s towards the environment. The “Attitudes towards Environmental Problems Scale” was used to determine the attitudes of pre-school teachers’ to the environmental problems and the “Awareness Scale for Environmental Problems” was used to determine teachers’ awareness of environmental problems. As a result of the study, it was determined that pre-school children’s attitudes towards environmental problems are high but their awareness about environmental problems is moderate. On the other hand, it was determined that pre-school teachers’ attitudes towards environmental problems were moderate and their awareness of environmental problems was generally high. Finally, it was determined that a moderately significant relationship was found between pre-school children’s and their teachers’ attitudes towards environmental problems, while there was a weak relationship between children’s and their teachers’ awareness of environmental problems.