bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Relative Strangers: Contracting Kinship in the Queer Ecology Classroom
Authors: Ensor Sarah
Published: May 2017

This article argues that pedagogy may help us respond to the precarity of higher education by reclaiming the forms of provisionality, accident, and exposure endemic to collaborative learning. Putting kinship theory into contact with studies of contagion, I suggest that the classroom’s contingency, temporariness, and interpersonal exposure yield a form of queer kinship that is contracted rather than intentionally developed. This kinship, a social iteration of the unintentional, symbiotic collaborations that anthropologists have described as “emergent ecologies,” burgeons in the wake of harm and helps us respond collectively to the precarity that constitutes our (experience of the) world. Ultimately, I argue that in a moment when the changing climate of higher education inspires (and perhaps even requires) paranoia, such a pedagogical practice constitutes a significant reparative gesture, enabling us to reckon with the ways in which higher education has abandoned us without requiring us, in turn, to abandon it.
Retroperitoneal Ganglioneuroma Mimicking a Kidney Tumor. Case Report
Authors: Dąbrowska-Thing Agnieszka , Rogowski Wojciech , Pacho Ryszard , Nawrocka-Laskus Ewa , Nitek Żaneta
Published: May 2017

Background: Ganglioneuroma (GN) is a rare benign tumor arising from the neural crest cells. The reported incidence of GN is one per million population. As a primary retroperitoneal tumor, it constitutes only a small percentage of 0.72 to 1.6%. GN can arise de novo or as a result of maturation of a neuroblastoma either spontaneously or after chemotherapy. The most common location is the posterior paraspinal mediastinum, retroperitoneum, neck and adrenal gland. However, GN can potentially occur anywhere along the peripheral autonomic ganglion sites. Most ganglioneuromas are asymptomatic and found incidentally.

Case Report: We present a case of retroperitoneal ganglioneuroma that mimicked renal mass on imaging. The tumor was incidentally discovered during an abdominal ultrasound examination 43-year-old male patient without clinical symptoms. Complete surgical resection was subsequently performed and histopathological examination of the retroperitoneal mass revealed GN.

Conclusions: Retroperitoneal ganglioneuroma is a rare bening tumor, generally asymptomatic, which grows slowly, and appears large when it is identified. Preoperative diagnosis can be challenging, particularly in asymptomatic case. Histopathological examination is currently the mainstay of diagnosis. In the case presented herein GN stricktly adjoined to the left kidney mimicking renal mass.
Produção de couros acabados na China
Authors: Machado Marcelo André , Mühl Michele Cristina
Published: May 2017

O diretor comercial de uma empresa brasileira fabricante brasileiro de couros acabados de alto valor, precisa decidir qual o melhor modo de produção na China. A decisão de produzir na China surge da necessidade de estar mais próximo dos clientes nesse país, maior consumidor de couros acabados do mundo. O leitor é convidado a escolher o melhor modo de produzir na China: contrato de produção; licenciamento; ou investimento externo direto do tipo greenfield ou brownfield.
Práticas de sustentabilidade em uma empresa de médio porte: o caso do Moinho Sangalli
Authors: Do Canto Natália Rohenkohl , Rodrigues Rodrigo Maldonado , Alves Ana Paula Ferreira
Published: May 2017

Ao assumir a gestão do Moinho Sangalli, uma empresa de médio porte, Helio, Filipo, Tatiana e Túlio decidiram que era hora de dar uma nova cara ao negócio. E nada melhor do que fazer isso adotando práticas de sustentabilidade. Diante dessa situação, neste caso, são apresentadas as soluções encontradas pelos gestores na busca de um novo posicionamento da empresa. Nesse sentido, o caso tem por objetivo incentivar a reflexão sobre a introdução da sustentabilidade no âmbito empresarial, evidenciando que a sustentabilidade pode se tornar estratégica ao negócio e valorizar a imagem de uma organização.
Inovação, compartilhamento e economia criativa na House of All
Authors: Bianchi Caio Giusti
Published: May 2017

A House of All é uma empresa criativa voltada para a economia do compartilhamento – que ainda está dando seus primeiros passos no Brasil. A empresa iniciou sua trajetória a partir do estilo de vida do empreendedor e de oportunidades emergentes, e conta com quatro casas, abrangendo uma série de serviços compartilhados voltados para a geração dos millennials. A questão a ser discutida, com a qual o empreendedor se encontra envolvido no momento, é: Qual a melhor abordagem para a expansão da empresa com base no seu histórico e nas características da economia criativa/compartilhamento?
Fora do Eixo: creating alternative models in the cultural sector
Authors: Boustany Charles , Pozzebon Marlei , Petrini Maira
Published: May 2017

The case explores the emergence and strategies put in place by a network of cultural collectives to connect people and develop their objectives as well as explore the possibilities of devising better business models. It describes the emergence and evolution of a new way to promote the cultural industry.
A internet das coisas irá muito além as coisas
Authors: Albertin Alberto Luiz , Albertin Rosa Maria de Moura
Published: May 2017

Os negócios terão de se transformar com a Internet das Coisas – a questão é: o que é isso, por que usar e qual o seu valor para os negócios.
Um caminho aberto à inovação
Authors: Maia Marta de Campos , Flammia Italo
Published: May 2017

Grandes empresas expandem suas fronteiras e ganham vantagem competitiva com o crowdsourcing e as incubadoras de empreendimentos.
O futuro do dinheiro eletrônico
Authors: Cernev Adrian Kemmer
Published: May 2017

Surgem novos meios de pagamento com potencial de expandir o acesso da população aos serviços financeiros e contribuir para o desenvolvimento econômico.
Emerge uma nova tecnologia disruptiva
Authors: Diniz Eduardo Henrique
Published: May 2017

Ao operar como um livro de registros de transações on-line, o blockchain tem o potencial de revolucionar não apenas as finanças, mas toda a troca de informações em comunidades de negócios e grupos sociais.
O medo paralisa atitudes e esvazia os bolsos
Authors: Dana Samy
Published: May 2017

O fator mais persuasivo do marketing é colocar as pessoas diante de seus maiores medos. Quanto mais acuado estiver, menos o dinheiro permanecerá em seu bolso.
Obra de Deus
Authors: Monzoni Mario
Published: May 2017

É preciso engajar-se em debates e buscar alternativas nas questões socioambientais. Churchill rezaria,Donald tweeta. Para nós, o que resta é agir.
Treino da resistência psicológica na recruta Militar em Portugal: O papel da coesão militar, da estima de si e da ansiedade na resiliência
Authors: Dias Sales Célia Maria , Saraiva Alexandra , Faísca Luís
Published: May 2017

Este trabajo investiga el impacto del proceso de entrenamiento militar de resistencia psicológica en la resiliencia de los reclutas, considerando el papel moderador de la cohesión de grupo militar, de la autoestima y de la predisposición para la ansiedad. Una muestra de conveniencia de 104 militares fue evaluada antes y después del Curso de Formación General Común de las Plazas del Ejército Portugués, siguiendo un diseño metodológico de medidas repetidas. Los resultados revelan que, a pesar de no poder atribuir al proceso de reclutamiento alteraciones significativas en los niveles globales de resiliencia, las variaciones individuales observadas en la resiliencia entre el inicio y el final del reclutamiento se asocian moderadamente a la autoestima y a la percepción de la cohesión del grupo. Estos resultados son discutidos en cuanto a las implicaciones en el contexto del entrenamiento militar
La percepción de sentido de la vida en el ciclo vital: una perspectiva temporal
Authors: Aquino Thiago Antonio  Avellar de , Gouveia Valdiney Veloso , Gomes Eliseudo Salvino , Silva Lorena Bandeira da
Published: May 2017

El objetivo de este estudio ha sido conocer en qué medida la percepción ontológica del tiempo y la sensación de presencia y búsqueda de sentido cambian según el ciclo de la vida. Participaron 766 voluntarios, la mayoría mujeres (59%), agrupados en los siguientes rangos: Juventud (N = 350; 18 a 24 años, M = 20.8, DT = 1.84), Joven Adulto (N = 195; 25 a 34 años, M = 28.3, DT = 2.66), Adulto (N = 110; 35 a 59 años, M = 45.8, DT = 7.16) y Tercera Edad (N = 111; 60 a 87 años, M = 65.6, DT = 4.81). Los participantes contestaron al Cuestionario Sentido de la Vida (CSV), la Escala de Percepción Ontológica del Tiempo (EPOT) y preguntas demográficas. Los resultados sugirieron que el sentido aumenta según las fases de la vida, en cuanto que la búsqueda de sentido disminuye. Se constató también que los adultos y las personas de tercera edad perciben mayor presencia de sentido en el presente cuando comparados con los jóvenes; además, las puntuaciones promedias en la dimensión de futuro fueron menores en las fases más maduras. Se concluyó que los hallazgos fueron en la dirección de la literatura, sugiriendo implicaciones clínicas de este estudio.
Pricing When Customers Have Limited Attention
Authors: Boyacı Tamer , Akçay Yalçın
Published: May 2017

We study the optimal pricing problem of a monopolistic firm facing customers with limited attention and capability to process information about the value (quality) of a single offered product. We model customer choice based on the theory of rational inattention in the economics literature, which enables us to capture not only the impact of true quality and price, but also the intricate effects of customer’s prior beliefs and cost of information acquisition and processing. We formulate the firm’s price optimization problem assuming that the firm can also use the price to signal the quality of the product to customers. To delineate the economic incentives of the firm, we first characterize the pricing and revenue implications of customer’s limited attention without signaling, and then use these results to explore perfect Bayesian equilibria of the strategic pricing signaling game. As an extension, we consider heterogeneous customers with different information costs as well as prior beliefs. We discuss the managerial implications of our key findings and prescribe insights regarding information provision and product positioning.

This paper was accepted by Gad Allon, operations management.
An exploration of the 6Cs as a set of values for nursing practice
Authors: Baillie Lesley
Published: May 2017

In 2012, after several high-profile cases of poor quality care in England and concerns about a lack of compassion and a need to refocus on values, the Department of Health in England published a new strategy for nursing, midwifery and care staff: Compassion in Practice. The strategy included the 6Cs (care, compassion, courage, communication, competence and commitment) and in the follow-on framework, produced by NHS England in 2016, the 6Cs were included again. This article explains the background to the 6Cs and highlights the other values frameworks that nurses and midwives must work within too. Nursing theorists have studied caring extensively and the earlier set of 6Cs, produced by a Canadian nurse Sister Simone Roach, is explained in the article. The meaning of the DH's 6Cs is then explored in detail with reference to previous research and nursing theory.
From staff nurse to nurse consultant - Spiritual care part 2: holistic health and religion
Authors: Fowler John
Published: May 2017

John Fowler, educational consultant and part-time university chaplain, examines the role of clinically based nurses in caring for the spiritual needs of patients
The benefits of values-based recruitment
Authors: Foster Sam
Published: May 2017

Sam Foster, Chief Nurse at Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, discusses using values-based recruitment when interviewing prospective staff for the NHS
Reflexões sobre a poesia e a vida e Arthur Rimbound
Authors: Sapucaia Jairo
Published: May 2017

Rimbaud tentou conciliar a sua obra-vida as dimensões paradoxais da existência humana: a expressão a revelação do ser (tema poético do adolescente) e o empreendimento econômico (objeto exclusivo do Rimbound adulto). Nesta etpa, qunado parece perder o contato com uma vocação poética, faltou-lhe o senso de humor para harmonizar os opostos. Atravessou desertos, para sucumbir ao niilismo da modernidade.
O MESMO E O OUTRO COMO ESPAÇOS VIRTUAIS DE LEITURA EM ANÚNCIOS PUBLICITÁRIOS
Authors: Fonseca-Silva Maria Da Conceição
Published: May 2017

Trabalho no quadro conceitural e epistemológico da Análise do Discurso Francesa, dando ênfase às noções cruciais, referentes ao funcionamento dos discursos, como sujeito, sentido, interdiscurso. Analiso anúncuios publicitários veiculados em revistas femininas, tentando observar se os discursos de gênero defendidos pelos sujeitos institucioanis subvertem a ordem estabelecida ou mantêm o instituído.
Muslim Fashion: Contemporary Style Cultures (Lewis)
Authors: Hall-Araujo Lori
Published: May 2017

This work is a book review considering the title Muslim Fashion: Contemporary Style Cultures by Reina Lewis.
The Banjo: America’s African Instrument (Dubois)
Authors: Perlman Ken
Published: May 2017

This work is a book review considering the title The Banjo: America’s African Instrument by Laurent Dubois.
Quilts and Human Rights (MacDowell et al)
Authors: Roach Susan
Published: May 2017

This work is a book review considering the title Quilts and Human Rights by Marsha MacDowell, Mary Worrall, Lynne Swanson, and Beth Donaldson.
Pengaruh Pelebaran Jalan terhadap Pemanfaatan Ruang Koridor Jalan Mertoyudan Kabupaten Magelang
Authors: Mustanir Muhamad
Published: May 2017

Kawasan perkotaan Mertoyudan merupakan kawasan yang berfungsi sebagai kawasan strategis pertumbuhan ekonomi Kabupaten Magelang. Berbatasan langsung dengan Kota Magelang serta didukung aksesibilitas yang tinggi menyebabkan kawasan ini tumbuh cukup pesat. Tahun 2010 dilakukan kegiatan pelebaran jalan koridor jalan Mertoyudan untuk meningkatkan aksesibilitas wilayah yang berdampak pada pertumbuhan kawasan perkotaan Mertoyudan. Permasalahan muncul ketika pertumbuhan sepanjang koridor tidak memperhatikan kebijakan dan peraturan yang berlaku sehingga menyebabkan terjadinya perubahan guna lahan serta intensitas pemanfaatannya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji pengaruh pelebaran jalan terhadap pemanfaatan ruang dilihat dari perubahan guna lahan sebelum dan setelah kegiatan pelebaran jalan sedangkan intensitas pemanfaatan dilihat dari Koefisien Dasar Bangunan  ( KDB ) , Koefisien Lantai Bangunan  ( KLB )  dan Garis Sempadan Bangunan  ( GSB ) . Pendekatan penelitian menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif . Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa pelebaran jalan berpengaruh terhadap perubahan pemanfaatan ruang, dibuktikan dengan perubahan luasan penggunaan lahan dan pertambahan bangunan di sepanjang koridor jalan tahun 2009 dan 2014. Hal tersebut dikuatkan oleh hubungan antara lebar jalan dengan KDB, KLB dan GSB bangunan di sepanjang koridor j alan yang menunjukkan korelasi cukup kuat.Kata kunci: pelebaran jalan, perubahan guna lahan, intensitas pemanfaatan bangunan
Tingkat Keberhasilan Program Peningkatan Fasilitas Ruang Terbuka Hijau (RTH) Terhadap Pemanfaatan Taman Kota di Kecamatan Kota Kabupaten Kudus
Authors: Hermawan Aditya
Published: May 2017

Perkembangan kawasan perkotaan yang tidak terkontrol mengakibatkan terbatasnya Ruang Terbuka Hijau (RTH). Untuk memenuhi hal tersebut melalui Peraturan Bupati Nomor 16 Tahun 2012 dan Nomor 10 Tahun 2013 Pemerintah Kabupaten Kudus mengupayakan peningkatan fasilitas RTH dalam bentuk rehabilitasi serta pembangunan taman kota yang tersebar di beberapa kecamatan di Kabupaten Kudus. Permasalahannya program peningkatan fasilitas RTH hanya melihat aspek pembangunan fisik, bukan aspek pemanfaatan. Hal itu dapat dibuktikan dari beberapa kondisi faktual di lapangan yang menunjukkan bahwa fasilitas yang terdapat di Taman Krida Wisata dan Taman Ganesha tersebut yang tidak terawat dan mulai rusak. Penelitian ini menggunakan variabel aksesbilitas, kenyamanan, keamanan, alasan kunjungan, lama dan frekuensi kunjungan serta tingkat kepuasan pengunjung terhadap fasilitas yang tersedia. Menurut Tangkilisan (2005) pemanfaatan suatu taman kota dapat dikatakan efektif apabila terdapat kepuasan dari penggunanya. Ukuran kepuasan pengunjung terhadap fasilitas kemudian menyimpulkan berhasil atau tidaknya program peningkatan fasilitas RTH di kedua taman kota tersebut. Persepsi dan preferensi pengunjung menjadi nilai tambah untuk membangun konsep taman yang sesuai keinginan dan harapan masyarakat. Pada akhirnya hasil analisa memberikan gambaran bahwa program peningkatan fasilitas di Taman Krida dan Taman Ganesha tidak cukup berhasil, hal itu disebabkan karena kondisi fasilitas yang tidak sesuai dengan harapan pengunjung. Sebagian besar pengunjung mengarapkan dilakukan perbaikan secara menyeluruh baik di Taman Krida Wisata, terutama di Taman Ganesha. Keterlibatan masyarakat sebagai instrumen penting dalam pembangunan harus dipertahankan untuk senantiasa mengawal proses pembangunan
Improving measuring accuracy of inharmonious signal voltage under the additive noise condition
Authors: Horbatyi I. V.
Published: May 2017

The basic known methods of signal voltage measuring were considered. The circuit solutions used in the construction of digital voltmeters were analyzed. Their advantages and defects were analized. Method of direct assessment of alternating current voltage is proposed to improve by using the developed method for measuring root-mean-square value of alternating current voltage and the device for the realization of the method. It is set, that the use of improved method provides an increase of the inharmonious signal voltage measuring accuracy in conditions of additive noise. Circuit solutions that used for making of digital multimeter using the improved method for measuring of alternating current voltage were described.
Criterial approach to finding the current operation modes of high reliability thermoelectric devices
Authors: Zaikov V. P. , Meshcheryakov V. I. , Zhuravlyov Yu. I.
Published: May 2017

The authors consider possibilities of the criterial approach to determining the current operating mode of a single-stage thermoelectric cooling unit (TCU), when used reliability failure rate as a basic parameter. The relations were obtained for determining the current operating mode of a TCU with a given geometry of the branches for different operating conditions, taking into account a variety of restrictive requirements. The paper presents a comparative analysis of current conditions close to the maximum energy efficiency and minimum modes failure rate, which allows choosing compromise options.
Production of high purity granular metals: cadmium, zinc, lead
Authors: Shcherban A. P. , Kovtun G. P. , Gorbenko Y. V. , Solopikhin D. A. , Virich V. D. , Pirozhenko L. A.
Published: May 2017

Cadmium, zinc and lead are constituent components of many semiconductor compounds. The obtained high purity distillates and ingots are large-size elements, which is not always convenient to use, and thus require additional grinding, which does not always allow maintaining the purity of the original materials. For the growth of semiconductor and scintillation single crystals it is advisable to use «friable» granular high-purity distillates, which can be processed without the risk of contamination. For example, the European low-background experiment LUCIFER required more than 20 kg of high-purity granulated zinc, which was agreed to be supplied by NSC KIPT. This task was then extended to cadmium and lead.
Motivated by these tasks, the authors of this paper propose complex processes of deep refining of cadmium, zinc and lead by vacuum distillation. A device producing granules has been developed. The process of granulation of high-purity metals is explored.
The purity of produced granules for cadmium and zinc is >99,9999, and >99,9995% for lead granules. To prevent oxidation of metal granules during exposition to air, chemical methods of surface passivation were used. Organic solvent based on dimethylformamide used as a coolant improves the resistance of granules to atmospheric corrosion during the granulation of high purity Cd, Zn and Pb.
A novel epigenetic AML1‐ETO/THAP10/miR‐383 mini‐circuitry contributes to t(8;21) leukaemogenesis
Authors: Li Yonghui , Ning Qiaoyang , Shi Jinlong , Chen Yang , Jiang Mengmeng , Gao Li , Huang Wenrong , Jing Yu , Huang Sai , Liu Anqi , Hu Zhirui , Liu Daihong , Wang Lili , Nervi Clara , Dai Yun , Zhang Michael Q , Yu Li
Published: May 2017

DNA methylation patterns are frequently deregulated in t(8;21) acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), but little is known of the mechanisms by which specific gene sets become aberrantly methylated. Here, we found that the promoter DNA methylation signature of t(8;21)+ AML blasts differs from that of t(8;21)− AMLs. This study demonstrated that a novel hypermethylated zinc finger‐containing protein, THAP10, is a target gene and can be epigenetically suppressed by AML1‐ETO at the transcriptional level in t(8;21) AML. Our findings also show that THAP10 is a bona fide target of miR‐383 that can be epigenetically activated by the AML1‐ETO recruiting co‐activator p300. In this study, we demonstrated that epigenetic suppression of THAP10 is the mechanistic link between AML1‐ETO fusion proteins and tyrosine kinase cascades. In addition, we showed that THAP10 is a nuclear protein that inhibits myeloid proliferation and promotes differentiation both in vitro and in vivo. Altogether, our results revealed an unexpected and important epigenetic mini‐circuit of AML1‐ETO/THAP10/miR‐383 in t(8;21) AML, in which epigenetic suppression of THAP10 predicts a poor clinical outcome and represents a novel therapeutic target.
Effects of Cilostazol and Diltiazem Hydrochloride on Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in a Rat Hindlimb Model
Authors: İNAN Bekir , SÖNMEZ ERGÜN Selma , NURTEN Asiye , KÜÇÜKGERGİN Canan , ZENGİN TÜRKMEN Aslı , SEÇKİN Şule , ERKALP Kerem , ZİYADE Sedat
Published: May 2017

Objective: Free radicals and neutrophils are potent sources of ischemia-reperfusion injury (I/R) and they can be limited by the use of exogenous application of some therapeutic agents. The objective of this study was to compare the effects of cilostazol and diltiazem hydrochloride in a rat hind limb model of I/R injury. Methods: Skeletal muscles submitted to 2 hours of ischemia by placing an aneurysm clip to femoral artery and reperfused after 1, 2 and 4 hours. Seventy-two Wistar-Albino rats were randomly divided into mainly four groups according to treatment agents:  Group I (control group) was treated with saline; Group II was treated with diltiazem hydrochloride; Group III was treated with cilostazol in 30% dimethyl sulphoxide; and Group IV was treated with 30% dimethyl sulphoxide intraperitoneally. These four main groups also subdivided into three subgroups according to duration of the reperfusion times.  Blood samples were taken and all rats were sacrificed. Results: Cilostazol-treated groups demonstrated a significant decrease in tissue and serum malondialdehyde (MDA) levels, and tissue myeloperoxidase (MPO ) activity compared with other groups. Increase in serum nitric oxide (NOx) level was significantly higher in all subgroups of cilastazol, diltiazem hydrochloride, and dimethyl sulphoxide groups versus the control group.Conclusion: Although these results suggest the beneficial effects of cilostazol and diltiazem hydrochloride on I/R injury, the effect of cilostazol on I/R injury seems to be more efficient than diltiazem hydrochloride.
Pentecostals in the Public Sphere
Authors: Brandner Tobias
Published: May 2017

This paper analyses the public theology of Pentecostalism in the Chinese context of Hong Kong by discussing Pentecostal Christians’ public involvement. It asks whether Pentecostal Christians actively shape society or are rather shaped by the surrounding culture and absorb and reflect dominant trends within a culture. The essay explains the different aspects of a Pentecostal public theology in the Chinese context by first giving an overview of different historical forms of Pentecostalism in the Hong Kong and Chinese context, each of them expressing a different pattern of public expression and engagement with public issues. The essay then presents some cases of how Pentecostalism engaged in public issues in Hong Kong. A third part identifies motifs of Pentecostalism that are particularly prominent in the Chinese cultural context. The article suggests that these cultural elements shape the engagement with public spheres and push Pentecostals in the Chinese context towards a public theology that is similar to that of conservative Evangelicals.
The Presence of the Spirit in the Academy
Authors: Vondey Wolfgang
Published: May 2017

The academic discipline of Pentecostal and Charismatic studies represents an interdisciplinary concern because the chief concern of Pentecostal and Charismatic movements is the presence of God’s Spirit. This study pursues the modest goal to outline the contours of this interdisciplinarity by mapping the terrain of the recent renaissance of pneumatology with the emergence of Pentecostalism and its pursuit of the Spirit. The essay delineates the interdisciplinary character of the pursuit of the Spirit as an academic concern, offers a definition of Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies in terms of its pursuit of the Spiritual Presence, identifies boundaries and potential forms of this interdisciplinary discourse, and concludes by drafting a course towards a more fully interdisciplinary agenda.
Korean Pentecostalism and Shamanism
Authors: Kim Kirsteen
Published: May 2017

The background to this article is the controversy caused in 1980s South Korea when some theologians accused Yonggi Cho’s Full Gospel theology of syncretizing “shamanism” with Christianity. In this article, I shall problematize the use of both “shamanism” and “Pentecostalism” in this controversy. Instead, I shall set the episode in the wider context of what might be called Korean traditional religion, which has an animistic cosmology. By pointing to an affinity between Korean Protestantism more generally and Korean traditional religion that goes back at least to the 1907 Korean Revival, I shall argue that the Pentecostal–Charismatic and the liberationist strands of Korean Protestantism together represent a developing understanding of what it means to do Christian theology in the context of animism – or in a land of many spirits.
Pentecostals and Interreligious Conflict in India
Authors: Bauman Chad
Published: May 2017

Anti-Christian violence in India has increased dramatically since the late 1990s, and there are now, on average, several hundred attacks on Christians every year. In this violence, Pentecostals are disproportionately targeted. This article begins by providing the historical and political context for anti-Christian violence, and then seeks to account for the disproportionate targeting of Pentecostals. While there are certain obvious factors, such as the more assertive evangelizing of Pentecostals (and other Evangelicals) vis-à-vis mainstream Christian groups, the article explores and highlights several less obvious factors, and in particular the peculiar social, theological, ecclesiastical and liturgical aspects of Pentecostalism that make this form of Christianity particularly objectionable to Hindu nationalists, as well – importantly – as to many mainstream and upper-caste/upper-class Indian Christians.
LIS professional competency index for the higher education sector in South Africa
Authors:   University of Cape Town, Raju Jaya
Published: May 2017

This first iteration of a library and information services (LIS) professional competency index was a targeted outcome of a three-year National Research Foundation (NRF)-funded research project with the objective of developing a national LIS professional competency index for the higher education sector in South Africa to be used by: i) LIS employers and employees for practical purposes (to benchmark existing competencies and to ascertain the need for further knowledge and skills acquisition); ii) LIS educators (for curriculum development purposes); iii) LIS researchers (as a basis for further research, both theoretical and empirical, in the area of workplace competency exigencies); and, iv) the Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) in its oversight of LIS education and training in the country. Research activities which contributed to the compilation included: intensive reviewing of literature; data collection from LIS professional practitioners via semi-structured interviews as well as a national online questionnaire survey of all academic libraries in South Africa and content analysis of over a 100 academic library professional position job advertisements for the period 2014-2016; the use of both quantitative and qualitative philosophical assumptions in the study; and, the use of theories such as the Core Competency Theory (Selznick 1957), Chaos of Disciplines Theory (Abbott 2001) and the Concept of Disruptive Innovation (Shank & Bell 2011) to inform different aspects of the mixed methods study. The research on which this index is based establishes that a blend of discipline-specific, generic and personal competencies are required of the modern LIS professional practising in a higher education library in the digital age. The index unpacks these competencies.
“Rituals of the Ordinary”: Marilynne Robinson's Aesthetics of Belief and Finitude
Authors: Horton Ray
Published: May 2017

Marilynne Robinson, the author ofHousekeeping, Gilead, Home, andLila, has garnered attention for her sustained engagement with religious themes. Yet for all its robust participation in the theology of a distinctively Calvinist Protestantism, Robinson's fiction is invested in religious forms that are less propositional than phenomenological. It imagines belief as both a perceptual background and a system of thought that activates concentrated aesthetic attention to quotidian moments of temporal contingency and worldly ephemerality. Consequently, Robinson's work intervenes in the burgeoning critical discourse surrounding religion and literature, offering an alternative to methodologies that prioritize the ontology of belief over the aesthetic modes of perception that belief makes available.
Hybridity, Redux
Authors: Bahri Deepika
Published: May 2017

The ensuing remarks on Homi Bhabha's collection of essays The Location of Culture are framed by the following questions: Under what discursive conditions does a text arrive? How do conditions beyond the text determine its reception and circulation? And why is Bhabha routinely associated more with ambivalence, interstice, and liminality than with the ways in which they illuminate problems of race, the archive, history, or the affective bodily subject of history? To focus these ruminations, I will discuss the intervention, impact, and afterlife of The Location of Culture through the concept of hybridity, arguably one of the greatest hits of postcolonial studies and one closely associated with the work of Bhabha. Informed by Mikhail Bakhtin's propositions about hybridity in linguistic utterance; by Sigmund Freud's theories of ambivalence; by Walter Benjamin's discussions of history, event, and language; by Jacques Lacan's discourses on ego, language, and subjectivity; by Michel Foucault's investigations of history, knowledge, and power; and by Jacques Derrida's theories of différance, Bhabha's formulations have gained currency well beyond the humanities. Appropriations of hybridity in globalization discourse, however, often do not honor Bhabha's poststructural politics or its rooting in a complex history of ideas even as the critics of hybridity fail to recognize its inception in archival moments and particular enunciative contexts. Bhabha's work not only poses questions to history in a mode characteristic of deconstruction, it also commences in history in a clearly postcolonial modality. I want to review missed appointments with pressing questions of history and race in the global reception of Bhabha's concept of hybridity, an approach that constitutes an implicit plea for the recognition and reanimation of these questions in contemporary uses of the term hybridity in the discourse of globalization.
A Judeo-Arab-Muslim Continuum: Edmond Amran El Maleh's Poetics of Fragments
Authors: Siegel Irene
Published: May 2017

The work of Jewish Moroccan writer Edmond Amran El Maleh (1917–2010) explores the coextensive experience of Muslims and Jews in Morocco and the larger Arab-Mediterranean region, tracing a continuum of Judeo-Arab-Muslim affiliation. This notion of affiliation is reflected in a highly dynamic, fluid poetics, fed by a secular engagement with Jewish and Islamic mystical traditions and with a range of modernist and postcolonial writers. El Maleh found deep inspiration in Walter Benjamin's work on the ethical dimension of allegory as informed by kabbalistic notions of language. The chaotic profusion of events and images in El Maleh's third novel,Mille ans, un jour(“A Thousand Years, One Day”) reflects Benjamin's “Kabbalistic shard” and his valorization of the “scraps of history.” This discursive mode challenges the totalizing narratives and racialized binaries undergirding forms of violence that El Maleh identifies in colonialism and fascism, as well as in contemporary Zionism. His work thus aims to dissolve the false oppositional binary through which the identities of Jew and Arab have come to be understood.
Inorganic anions as retarders for deep borehole disposal grouts
Authors: Collier Nicholas C. , Balboa Hector E. , Milestone Neil B. , Travis Karl P.
Published: May 2017

Deep borehole disposal (DBD) provides an alternative to comparatively shallow mined repository concepts for many high-level radioactive wastes. Filling the annular space around the waste containers with cement grout will support them during placement and seal against ingress of groundwater. The elevated temperature and pressure (∼120°C and 50 MPa) will cause acceleration of grout thickening and setting, so retardation is required. The DBD Research Group at The University of Sheffield has developed grouts based on class G oil well cement that use organic retarders, but their presence may increase the solubility of any radionuclides released from the waste packages. New DBD grout formulations using sodium phosphate and sodium borate as inorganic retarders are reported in this paper. To place the wet grout, the onset of thickening needs to be delayed for at least 4 h. Sodium borate was found to provide this retardation at 90°C (0·75% addition) and nearly retarded sufficiently at 120°C (1% addition). Sodium phosphate did not provide sufficient retardation at either temperature. Neither compounds influenced the phases formed, but may suppress the crystallisation of calcium silicate hydrates. This work demonstrates that the performance of these inorganic materials in this application is inferior to that of organic retarders.
Wetting tests of partially saturated soils under simple shear conditions
Authors: Cuomo S. , Moscariello M. , Foresta V.
Published: May 2017

The paper provides some remarks on a new suction-controlled simple shear apparatus. The features of the testing device are first outlined and the material used in the experimental programme is described. As a fundamental field of application, wetting tests under simple shear conditions are performed, being representative of the initial stress conditions and stress paths related to the typical triggering mechanisms of rainfall-induced shallow landslides. The benefits of this new device are illustrated, as an alternative or additional tool to other existing equipment. This paper presents a short selection of the measurements obtained using a partially saturated volcanic soil, which is prone to static liquefaction and volumetric behaviour on shearing. The challenges associated with simple shear tests are also discussed using a few examples from the ongoing work.
Spalling and cracking modelling of high-performance concrete exposed to elevated temperatures
Authors: Zhao Jie , Zheng Jian-jun , Peng Gai-fei , Sun Pei-shan
Published: May 2017

Concrete spalling and cracking play an important role in the mechanical behaviour of concrete structures subjected to thermal loading. However, the spalling and cracking of concrete has still not been sufficiently modelled. Based on the theory of poroelasticity, an anisotropic fixed smeared crack model is proposed for modelling the spalling and cracking of heated high-performance concrete. In the model, the permeability and Young's modulus of cement paste are estimated as a function of heating history based on the thermal decomposition analysis. The vapour pressure build-up and moisture transport in concrete are modelled in a numerical manner. The constitutive relation with the effects of thermal stress and vapour pressure is derived for the non-linear mechanical analysis. Finally, the proposed model is verified with experimental results obtained from the literature.
The relevance of a contextualisation of the state-individual relationship for child victims of armed Conflict
Authors: Robinson Robbie
Published: May 2017

The relationship between the individual and the State is discussed in this contribution.  The argument is put forward that both the State and the individual are legal subjects endowed with legal subjectivity. In their relationship it must be accepted that the State is not only endowed with State sovereignty, but also that it prescriptively makes use of its authority. However, theirs is a legal relationship characterised by reciprocal rights and duties so that the balance point in their relationship must as a matter of course be determined legally. As an explanatory model the theory of public subjective rights, which is of German origin, is applied. This theory can serve only as a starting point, though, as it fails to address certain fundamental questions. The viewpoints of authors of the so-called Reformed Tradition will therefore be applied to elaborate on the theory. By adopting this approach it is endeavoured to explain that the relationship between the State and the individual may not be viewed as one characterised by the abuse of State authority or excessive individual claims against the State.
Do boards of trustees of South African retirement funds owe fiduciary duties to both the funds and fund members? The debate continues
Authors: Marumoagae Motsotsile Clement
Published: May 2017

Over the years, the South African retirement fund industry has experienced major regulatory changes. These changes were aimed at imposing a higher standard of governance on the boards of trustees governing various pension funds. As such, there has been a debate within the retirement fund industry as to whom the board, as the governing and managing body of the retirement fund, is accountable. South African courts and tribunals adjudicating pension fund related disputes and the retirement industry at large seem to share the view that the board of trustees is accountable to both the fund and its members. In that the board of trustees owes fiduciary duties to both the fund and its members, meaning that the board is required to act in the best interest of the fund and its members. However, in this paper I demonstrate that the boards of trustees of South African Pension Funds are accountable to and owe fiduciary duties only to the fund they serve and not members of those funds. Furthermore, I submit that at the very best the board owes a duty of good faith towards the members of the fund. In order to substantiate my submissions, I distinguish the legal position relating to trust law from the law relating to retirement funds in South Africa.
Caso de Ensino: A Alocação de Custos Conjuntos em Processos com Múltiplos Pontos de Separação na Refinaria Fluminense S.A.
Authors: Da Fonseca Raphael , Sancovschi Moacir
Published: May 2017

O caso da Refinaria Fluminense S. A. tem por objetivo ilustrar a operação de uma refinaria de petróleo e os desafios que contadores e administradores enfrentam para apurar os custos dos derivados do petróleo, avaliar estoques, apurar o resultado das operações das refinarias e analisar decisões de continuar processando produtos individuais para aumentar seu valor agregado. Ele foi concebido para ser discutido nas disciplinas de Contabilidade Gerencial ou de Custos nos cursos de graduação e de pós-graduação em Ciências Contábeis, Administração e Engenharia de Produção. A narrativa tem início com a informação de que os acionistas estão exigindo que a administração tome providências para aumentar a rentabilidade da empresa. Ao analisar a rentabilidade dos produtos fabricados e comercializados, os administradores se dão conta de que não compreendem suficientemente bem a distribuição e o comportamento dos custos dos produtos. Convencidos da importância dessas informações, os administradores decidem contratar um especialista em custos, que promete sanar suas dúvidas e ajudá-los a analisar as decisões que terão que tomar para atender aos anseios dos acionistas. Pede-se, então, que os alunos assumam o papel do especialista e desenvolvam as questões propostas. Uma das mais relevantes contribuições do caso é que ele proporciona a oportunidade para os alunos confrontarem as exposições estilizadas dos livros-textos com as condições encontradas nas empresas. Isso se dá, especificamente, no caso da aplicação do método do valor realizável líquido em processos com múltiplos pontos de separação, um caso raramente comentado na grande maioria dos livros.
Uterine ruptures during labor: a study of 26 cases at Nabil Choucair Medical Center, in the suburbs of Dakar
Authors: Gassama Omar , Niang Mouhamadou Mansour , Diouf Abdoul Aziz , Toure Youssoupha , Mbodji Aissatou , Faye Dieme Marie Edouard , Moreira Philippe Marc , Moreau Jean Charles
Published: May 2017

Background: This study aims to clarify the epidemiological profile of patients and describe the diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic aspects of uterine ruptures at Nabil Choucair Health Center, in the suburbs of Dakar.Methods: This was a retrospective and prospective, descriptive and analytical study conducted over a period of 112 months, from July 31, 2005 and March 31, 2015; it concerned all diagnosed cases with uterine rupture, managed at Nabil Health Center Choucair Dakar. Data were collected from antenatal notebooks, delivery records, surgical reports and anesthetic records. The following parameters were studied: socio-demographic characteristics (frequency, chracteristics of patient), the course of pregnancy, diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic aspects. Data analysis was performed using SPSS software (version 11.0).Results: During the study period, we recorded 26 uterine ruptures from a total of 34,097 deliveries, that is a frequency of 8 out of 10,000 births. The epidemiological profile of the patients was that of a 30-year old woman, on average, few previous deliveries with an average parity of 3, who received on average 3 antenatal and evacuated in 50% of cases. Uterine rupture occurred in 17 patients on a new uterus (65, 4%) and in 9 patients on a scarred uterus (34.6%). Two patients (7%) were in hemorrhagic shock. A laparotomy aimed at specifying the place of rupture and making the treatment was performed in all patients. It was 18 uterine segmento-corporeal ruptures (69.2%), 5 segmental ruptures (19.2%) and 2 corporeal ruptures (7.6%). We recorded 9 uterine ruptures with living fetus (38.5%). Twenty-three patients (88.5%) underwent conservative suture against only 3 hemostasis hysterectomy (11.5%). The postoperative courses were uneventful in 57.7% of cases. Eleven patients (42.3%) had anemia and we recorded maternal deaths, which is a maternal mortality of 3.84%.Conclusions: Uterine rupture is a serious complication that is still responsible for significant maternal and fetal mortality. Prevention is based on careful monitoring of pregnancy and delivery.
Effect of maternal ABO blood type on birth weight and preeclampsia
Authors: Beyazıt Fatma , Pek Eren , Güngör Aysenur Çakır , Gencer Meryem , Unsal Mesut A.
Published: May 2017

Background: ABO blood group has been recognized as a risk factor for distinct disease states. The association between ABO blood group and adverse pregnancy outcomes has not been extensively studied, especially in relation to birth weight and preeclampsia (PE). The aim of the present study is to determine whether ABO blood group contributes to the adverse pregnancy outcomes including low birth weight and PE.Methods: Medical data including ABO phenotypes were collected from hospital electronic database and retrospectively reviewed. Adverse pregnancy outcomes included PE and low birth weight. Birth week was also noted for each subject.Results: 2177 charts of mothers who had given birth in our hospital were studied. Overall 605 (27.8%) women had type O blood, 1056 (48.5%) had type A blood, 369 (16.9%) had type B blood and 147 (6.8%) had type AB blood. Pregnant women with type B blood group had significantly lower birth weights compared with type O, A and AB. Birth weeks of all groups were found to be similar with no statistically significant difference. A total of 167 mothers were recorded as having PE. No association was observed between PE and ABO blood groups of study participants.Conclusions: Although maternal ABO phenotype is associated with low birth weight, no association was found between blood type and preeclampsia. We postulate that maternal/fetal immune system genes which are directly associated with ABO blood groups could affect pregnant with a resulting birth weight alterations.
Pregnancy outcome in rheumatic mitral stenosis patients with and without surgical correction: a prospective cohort study
Authors: Bahloul Mustafa , Michael Armia , Kandeel Mansour Y. , Abbas Ahmed M.
Published: May 2017

Background: The aim of the current study is to assess the maternal and fetal outcomes of pregnant females with and without surgically corrected mitral stenosis (MS).Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out at Assiut Women's Health Hospital, Egypt between February 2016 and December 2016. All pregnant women diagnosed with rheumatic heart disease attending the antenatal care clinic were enrolled in the study. They were divided into two groups according to previous surgical correction of MS or not. All women were followed up during pregnancy till the end of puerperium. The primary outcome of the study was the difference in the rate of maternal cardiac complications during pregnancy between both groups.Results: The study included 48 patients (39%) with surgically corrected MS and 75 patients (61%) with uncorrected MS. All cardiac complications were significantly higher in the uncorrected MS group (p <0.05). No difference between both groups in the mode of delivery (p=0.52). Postpartum hemorrhage is more common with the corrected MS group than the uncorrected group (25% vs. 9.3% respectively, p=0.003), while the need for postpartum admission to ICU was significantly higher in the uncorrected group (p=0.006). The mean birth weight was higher in the corrected MS group (p=0.000). The percentage of stillbirths and the rate of admission to PCU was higher in the uncorrected MS group (p=0.003).Conclusions: Surgical correction of MS significantly improves the maternal and fetal outcomes of rheumatic heart pregnant females with MS.