bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
IPOs Performance Analysis: Evidence from Emerging Markets in the Balkans
Authors: Karanović Goran , Karanović Bisera
Published: December 2016

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of initial public offerings (IPOs) in the emerging markets with particular focus on the markets of Balkan countries. The paper provides analysis of long and short performance of IPOs. In the Balkan emerging markets IPOs are relatively rarely used. Although all observed Balkan countries have gone through processes of transition from planned economies to market economies in the past 25 years, just a few state-owned companies have been privatized by use of IPOs. Due to this specific nature of the companies the analyzed sample of IPOs is comprised of state-owned and non-state-owned companies. The results are interpreted and expounded accordingly, taking into consideration the aforementioned conjunction. The findings indicate that company characteristics, signalling variables and financial variables have influence on the IPOs short and long term performance. The paper provides academia and policymakers with new revelations concerning the IPO processes in Balkan emerging economies’ capital markets.
FSW Numerical Simulation of Aluminium Plates by SYSWELD - Part II
Authors: Jančo Roland , Écsi Ladislav , Élesztős Pavel
Published: December 2016

Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is one of the most effective solid state joining processes and has numerous potential applications in many industries. The simulation process can provide the evolution of physicals quantities such as temperature, metallurgical phase proportions, stress and strain which can be easily measured during welding. The numerical modelling requires the modelling of the complex interaction between thermal, metallurgical and mechanical phenomena. The aim of this paper is to describe the thermal-fluid simulation of FSW using the finite element method. In the theoretical part of paper heating is provided by the material flow and contact condition between the tool and the welded material. Thermal-mechanical results from the numerical simulation using SYSWELD are also presented for aluminium alloy.
CFD Analysis of Downcomer of Nuclear Reactor VVER 440
Authors: Kutiš Vladimír , Jakubec Jakub , Paulech Juraj , Gálik Gálik , Sedlár Tibor
Published: December 2016

The paper is focused on CFD analyses of the coolant flow in the nuclear reactor VVER 440. The goal of the analyses is to investigate the influence of the orifice diameter on the mass flow through individual fuel assemblies in the reactor core. The diameter of orifice can be changed during the operation of a nuclear power plant. Considered boundary conditions in the investigated region of the coolant are based on nominal coolant flow conditions in the nuclear reactor VVER 440.
A New Cable-Pulley Algorithm in RFEM
Authors: Štekbauer Hynek , Němec Ivan
Published: December 2016

The cable-pulley system is widely used for its advantages. In this paper, application of a new algorithm for the calculation of cables on pulleys is presented. Unlike other algorithms, this algorithm enables to take the magnitude of the radius of each pulley into account. This new algorithm is implemented in the RFEM program because of its higher accuracy and efficiency. Comparison of the commonly used algorithm, which ignores pulley radius, and the new algorithm is presented.
Modelling of Two-Seat Connection to the Frame of Rail Wagon in Terms of Resistance at Impact Test
Authors: Čech Rostislav , Horyl Petr , Maršálek Pavel
Published: December 2016

This contribution explores how design changes can affect resistance of rail wagon seat-to-frame connections at impact test and proposes alternative way to construct such connections. Results were due to a nature of presented problem obtained by computer modelling using MSC Nastran with explicit finite element method solution invoked. Physical tests were also conducted and comparison with numerical results is presented.
Identification of Fatigue Constants by Means of 3D Method
Authors: Ličková Dagmar , Halama Radim , Poruba Zdeněk
Published: December 2016

The conventional method for evaluation of the fatigue constants uses one set of experimental data from strain-controlled uniaxial fatigue tests. However, these constants do not ensure the compatibility conditions. The new 3D method retains the mathematical and physical relationships between curves considered. This paper presents a way of implementation of the identification procedure and shows results obtained for three types of materials.
Bide Nu Æt Gode Þæt Ic Grecisc Cunne: Attitudes to Greek and the Greeks in the Anglo-Saxon Period
Authors: Timofeeva Olga
Published: December 2016

The Greeks were one of those outgroups to whom the Anglo-Saxons had reasons to look up to, because of the antiquity of their culture and the sanctity of their language, along those of the Hebrews and the Romans. Yet as a language Greek was practically unknown for most of the Anglo-Saxon period and contact with its native speakers and country extremely limited. Nevertheless, references to the Greeks and their language are not uncommon in the Anglo-Saxon sources (both Latin and vernacular), as a little less than 200 occurrences in the Dictionary of Old English (s.v. grecisc) testify.

This paper uses these data, supplementing them with searches in the Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus, Brepolis Library of Latin Texts - Series A, monumenta.ch and Medieval Latin from Anglo-Saxon Sources, and analyses lexical and syntactic strategies of the Greek outgroup construction in Anglo-Saxon texts. It looks at lexemes denoting ‘Greek’ and their derivatives in Anglo-Latin and Old English, examines their collocates and gleans information on attitudes towards Greek and the Greeks, and on membership claims indexed by Latin-Greek or English-Greek code-switching, by at the same time trying to establish parallels and influences between the two high registers of the Anglo-Saxon period.
Some Peculiar Forms of Old English Verbs
Authors: Ogura Michiko
Published: December 2016

In late Old English it became common to find strange verb forms of which had less frequently appeared in earlier texts. It is clear that Old English paradigms started to modify their shapes, though their structure had never been completely established in the first place due to limited data. This article discusses some examples of Old English verbs which show a morphological merger in addition to phonetic, syntactic, or semantic resemblance, e.g., between wendan and gewendan, þyncan and þencan, læran and leornian, (ge)witan and (ge)wītan, blissian and bletsian, and biddan, (be)beodan, and forbeodan, so as to show the natural selection of Old English verbs in the process of lexical conflict.
The Swift and Secret Messenger: John Wilkins’s Mercury and the Paradoxes of Language
Authors: Łączyńska Klaudia
Published: December 2016

John Wilkins’s Mercury or the Secret and Swift Messenger: Showing How a Man May with Privacy and Speed Communicate His Thoughts to a Friend at Any Distance was first published in 1641. As a book on cryptography presenting a variety of secret means of communication at a distance it seems to have appeared at just the right time, when the biblical curse of the confusion of tongues was doubled by the curse of political confusion on the brink of the English civil war. However, the book seems to be more than just a detailed account of methods of secret writing; its topic gives the author a chance to present his views on language which he would later develop in his life’s work An Essay towards Real Character and a Philosophical Language published in 1668. The Essay had received much greater critical attention than the early pamphlet, which is usually referred to as merely a prelude to an account of his universal language project. Indeed, in the little book on cryptography, Wilkins already demonstrated his awareness of the conventional character of language and its role within the system of human interactions, as well as advertised a project of philosophical language that would enhance communication between all nations and remedy the curse of Babel. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the value of the pamphlet lies also in the insight that it gives into the seventeenth-century debates on the nature of language and into arguments which were often provided, in equal measure, by theology, Hermetic lore, mythology, literature and early modern science. Wilkins’s meticulous recording of the contradictory views and propositions on language produces a sense of methodological inconsistency that leads to ambiguities and paradoxes. However, in the medley of concepts and the collection of linguistic “curiosities” that Mercury presents, a careful reader will discern the growing mistrust of language as a means of representing reality and as a foundation of knowledge, which was one of the symptoms of the general crisis of representation leading to an epistemological shift that started in the seventeenth century.
Quantitative measurement of complex substances dissolved in an ionic liquid using IR spectroscopy and chemometrics
Authors: Kiefer Johannes , Bösmann Andreas , Wasserscheid Peter
Published: December 2016

In the past two decades, ionic liquids have found many applications as solvents for complex solutes. Prominent examples
are the dissolution of biomass and carbohydrates as well as catalytically active substances. The chemical analysis of such
solutions, however, is still a challenge due to the molecular complexity. In the present work, the use of infrared
spectroscopy for quantifying the concentration of different solutes dissolved in an imidazolium-based ionic liquid is
investigated. Binary solutions of glucose, cellubiose, and Wilkinson's catalyst in 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate are
studied as examples. For this purpose, different chemometric approaches (principal component analysis (PCA), partial
least-squares regression (PLSR), and principal component regression (PCR)) for analyzing the spectra are tested. Principal
component analysis was found to be suitable for classifying the different solutions. Both regression techniques were
capable of deriving accurate concentration values. The performance of PLSR was slightly better than that of PCR for the
same number of components.
Methods to determine the scaling factor in X-ray images for exact preoperative planning in hip surgery
Authors: Gieseler Oliver , Roth Hubert , Wahrburg Jürgen
Published: December 2016

This article presents common methods for calculating the scaling factor in X-ray images and reveals their basic technical
difficulties, accuracy and error sources. Further, the causes for magnification of patient anatomy in X-ray images are
described. Preoperative planning by means of X-ray images, its difficulties, reliability and limitations are also
illustrated. Additionally, a new approach is introduced which is based on a stereo camera system used to identify the
magnification especially in anterior-posterior pelvis images for hip application, considering the geometry of X-ray
apparatus while minimizing errors by foreclosing the well-known central issues of all the conventional methods for the
most part.
The relationship between receptive and productive vocabulary of Slavic EFL learners
Authors: Šišková Zdislava
Published: December 2016

This study investigates the relationship between learners’ receptive vocabulary knowledge as measured by the Vocabulary Size Test (Nation and Beglar, 2007) and free productive vocabulary knowledge as demonstrated by the learners when writing a short story based on pictures. The focus is on three different areas of productive vocabulary use: lexical diversity (i.e. the proportion of different words in a text), lexical sophistication (i.e. the proportion of advanced words in a text) and lexical density (i.e. the proportion of content words in a text). The results of a bivariate correlation analysis indicate that there is a moderate relationship between learners’ receptive vocabulary knowledge and lexical diversity of the texts they produce; there is a weak relationship between their receptive vocabulary knowledge and lexical sophistication in the texts; and there is no relationship between their receptive vocabulary knowledge and lexical density.
Using Airborne Lidar for Detection and Morphologic Analysis of Waterbodies Obscured by the Forest Canopy
Authors: Roman Anamaria , Ursu Tudor-Mihai , Fărcaş Sorina , Lăzărescu Vlad-Andrei , Opreanu Coriolan Horaţiu
Published: December 2016

The goal of this study was to map watercourses, watersheds, and small wetland features that are completely obscured by the forest canopy using airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) within the archaeological site from Porolissum. This technology was used to generate a bare-earth Digital Terrain Model (DTM) with 0.5 m spatial resolution in order to map small depressions and concavities across 10 km2 of forested landscape. Although further research is needed to determine the ecological, geological, and archaeological significance of the mapped waterbodies, the general methodology represents important progress in the rapid and accurate detection of wetland habitats in forested landscapes.
Landscape Factors Influencing Diversity of Habitat Conditions Across a Watercourse in the Vicinity of Tomaszów Lubelski City in the Roztocze Region (Poland)
Authors: Sender Joana , Maślanko Weronika
Published: December 2016

The aim of the study was a hydromorphological valorisation of the river valley in the Roztocze region using the British method - River Habitat Survey (RHS). As a result of field research two numerical indicators HMS (Habitat Modification Score) and HQA (Habitat Quality Assessment) were identified and purity water classes were defined. The river did not fulfil the requirements of the Water Framework Directive, because its state was defined as poor and moderate. On the base of physical and chemical parameters, in the majority of water studied the watercourses were classified to the first class of purity. Only in one segment waters were below the first class, or even out of class.
The Distributional Data of Simuliidae (Insecta, Diptera) Species in Yeşilirmak River (Turkey)
Authors: Başören Özge , Kazanci Nilgün
Published: December 2016

This research aims to investigate the Simuliidae fauna of Yeşilırmak River basin and determine the species composition of the collecting sites. The study was carried out in July 2008 and June 2009. One genus and eleven species (Metacnephia sp., Metacnephia subalpina, Simulium (Eusimulium) angustipes, Simulium (Nevermannia) costatum, Simulium (Simulium) argenteostriatum, Simulium (Simulium) bezzii, Simulium (Simulium) ornatum, Simulium (Simulium) trifasciatum, Simulium (Simulium) variegatum, Simulium (Wilhelmia) balcanicum, Simulium (Wilhelmia) lineatum and Simulium (Wilhelmia) pseudequinum) were recorded from 16 collecting sites. The distribution and abundance of Simuliidae species reflect the changes in water quality of Yeşilırmak River, due to agricultural activities and urban areas.
Algal Bio-Indication in Assessment of Hydrological Impact on Ecosystem in Wetlands of “Slavyansky Resort”
Authors: Klymiuk Valentina , Barinova Sophia , Fatiukha Andrii
Published: December 2016

Algal bio-indication is commonly used in water quality assessment but can also help in assessing the impact of hydrology on freshwater wetland ecosystems.We identified 350 species and infraspecific taxa of algae from nine taxonomic divisions (Cyanoprokaryota, Chrysophyta, Euglenophyta,Dinophyta,Xanthophyta,Cryptophyta,Bacillariophyta,Chlorophyta,Charophyta) in 121 phytoplankton samples collected between 2007-2013 from seven lakes in the wetlands of the Regional Landscape Park “Slavyansky Resort”, Ukraine. The algal species richness and phytoplankton biomass decreased as water salinity increased. In turn the water salinity was influenced by the inflow of groundwater, karst fracture and by the alluvial water tributaries of a paleoriver that affects the formation processes of lake-spring sulphide mud from the resort, which is often used for therapeutic purposes.
Basic Aspects for the Ecological Restoration of Urban Water Courses
Authors: Bart Ulrike , Gumpinger Clemens , Scheder Christian
Published: December 2016

Due to the fact that urban water courses provide precious natural and recreational areas within urban surroundings and that they contribute to an increase in quality of life, they have gained more and more importance in recent years. The restoration and planning of urban water bodies pose an enormous challenge, because most of them are in a poor ecological and structural state.

This paper deals with the questions and problems concerning the topic and presents basic aspects for the ecological restoration of urban water courses.
Determining the Reference Ephemeroptera Communities in the Eastern Part of the Black Sea Region for the Implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Turkey
Authors: Türkmen Gencer , Kazanci Nilgün
Published: December 2016

In this study, we aimed to determine the reference sites and their reference Ephemeroptera communities according to the Water Framework Directive methods in the Eastern Part of the Black Sea Region of Turkey between 2008-2011. From the area, twentyfour collecting sites were chosen. There were thirty Ephemeroptera species identified, belonging to seven families and eleven genres. Cluster analysis based on Bray-Curtis similarities was applied. Reference habitat conditions of the studied sites and their reference Ephemeroptera communities were determined by combining both ecological and statistical results. As a result, sixteen sites had reference habitat conditions and their reference Ephemeroptera species were identified.
Organhaftung, EuGVO und Rom I-VO
Authors: Hübner Leonhard
Published: December 2016

Sind die Geschäftsleiter von Kapitalgesellschaften als Arbeitnehmer einzuordnen? Diese Frage wird im europäischen und deutschen Recht unterschiedlich beurteilt. Anders als das deutsche Recht, das zwischen Anstellungs- und Bestellungsverhältnis trennt, verfolgt der EuGH den Ansatz einer Gesamtbetrachtung der Verhältnisse von Geschäftsleiter und Gesellschaft. Die aktuelle Entscheidung des EuGH bestätigt dieses autonome Verständnis des europäischen Begriffs des Arbeitnehmers in Bezug auf Geschäftsleiter. Der Gerichtshof überträgt darin seine Rechtsprechung zu den arbeitsrechtsspezifischen Richtlinien auf das Europäische Zivilprozessrecht. Offen bleibt, ob, und falls ja, wie diese Rechtsprechung auf die Rom I-VO übertragen werden kann.
Alejandra Pizarnik: Los diarios como una poética
Authors: Godínez Aldrete Abraham
Published: December 2016

Este trabajo es un estudio crítico de la obra poética de Alejandra Pizarnik. Se explican algunos de los principios literarios que pueden encontrarse en los Diarios que Pizarnik escribió y en los que se hacen inteligibles algunos fundamentos del estilo literario de la poeta. Se explicita el valor del diario como un documento importante para realizar estudios literarios
La palabra impotente: ¿cómo se llaman los nombres?
Authors: Hurtado Tarazona Alejandra , Pacheco Julián Andrés
Published: December 2016

Este artículo de reflexión está basado en el ensayo del pensador alemán Walter Benjamin “Sobre el lenguaje general y sobre el lenguaje de los hombres” (1971) y la concepción del lenguaje que allí se presenta. Benjamin postula que el “lenguaje puro” es el lenguaje divino, en el que el nombre equivale a la creación de la cosa que menta; luego de la caída se da el lenguaje de los hombres, que es solo denominación, mímesis y ya no tiene facultades mágicas creadoras. A la luz de ese postulado se analiza la poética de la escritora argentina Alejandra Pizarnik y se estudian las correspondencias que se dan en las nociones de un lenguaje puro o cero en contacto con una dimensión religiosa, y el fracaso de la palabra en la modernidad, donde solo se tiene el paraíso perdido.
El efecto Proust: Una Lectura Deleuziana del Desdoblamiento de las Líneas de Fuga desde Proust y Bolaño
Authors: Moreno Josemaría
Published: December 2016

La presente investigación hace una lectura detallada de un pasaje significativo de En busca del tiempo perdido —que en su forma se repite a lo largo de toda la obra Marcel Proust— desde un marco interpretativo que funciona en tres momentos sintetizados hacia el final de la novela Los detectives salvajes, de Roberto Bolaño. Al conjuntar las perspectivas del europeo y el sudamericano se busca crear un esquema que ejemplifique y haga uso de la teoría de la “rostridad” —capítulo siete de Mil mesetas de Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari— que sirva como muestra de la necesidad, y más perentoriamente, del origen y potencia del concepto de “línea de fuga” en toda la producción filosófica de Gilles Deleuze; aún más, el efecto Proust pretende brindar una posible explicación de la ubicuidad de dicho concepto en la obra del filósofo francés.
Modernidad en El laberinto de la soledad: libertad, crítica y creación
Authors: Janacua Benites Jesús
Published: December 2016

El objetivo del presente trabajo es realizar una reconstrucción de la idea de modernidad que es posible rastrear en El laberinto de la soledad, a partir de tres ejes fundamentales: 1) libertad como una experiencia distinta a la vivida en los países europeos, 2) crítica como una tarea a realizar y, 3) creación cultural como el resultado de dicha crítica. Parto de la idea de que, contrario a lo que comúnmente se cree, en El laberinto de la soledad, no se ofrece una descripción esencialista de la identidad mexicana sino más bien una propuesta de transformación cultural. Considero que dicho proceso es ofrecido por el autor del libro a partir de ciertas experiencias biográficas, pienso que Octavio Paz puede fungir muy bien como narrador de la experiencia de la modernidad.
La relación silva-romance en tres dramas de Calderón
Authors: Mackenzie Carlos
Published: December 2016

El presente trabajo establece la relación que existe entre dos formas métricas que están continuamente en contacto en el teatro de Pedro Calderón de la Barca, las silvas pareadas y el romance. A partir de los criterios de segmentación propuestos por Marc Vitse, se puede establecer el grado de vinculación de ambos, pues gracias a este método se puede determinar si el vínculo está dramáticamente cohesionado o representa un cambio de situación, espacial, temporal y de personajes importante en el drama.
La expiación femenina de la guerra
Authors: Junco de Calabrese Ethel Beatriz
Published: December 2016

En Las Troyanas de Eurípides observamos la imagen de la guerra en la conciencia occidental como matriz de futuras identidades ante dos claves: el distanciamiento de lo divino y  la reacción femenina. La lógica de la guerra se revierte en la virtud purificatoria de la madre, que sostiene su capacidad de dar vida mediante la compasión, concretada en el enterramiento, acto central de la obra.  La sepultura por antonomasia de Troya, corporizada en el escudo de Héctor que velará por Astianax, es signo de reconciliación por el sacrificio y reclamo a través de los siglos de la superioridad de la paz.
“La cosa contraria sana contra la contraria”: ética médica hipocrática en el Flos sanctorum castellano medieval
Authors: Cortés Guadarrama Marcos
Published: December 2016

: En el Flos sanctorum castellano medieval hay cierta influencia de la ética médica hipocrática, cuyos postulados se revisten en esta magna obra de la literatura hagiográfica con una moral cristiana. Este hecho se evidencia principalmente en algunas lecturas doctrinales y en ciertos milagros. En los primeros, a partir de una teoría humoral simbólica, se intenta regir los sentidos y controlar los instintos del cuerpo humano en las distintas estaciones del año. En los segundos, se ilustra que el cuerpo humano es campo de batalla de distintas fuerzas contrarias ejemplares que, metafóricamente, dan solución a enfermedades no sólo del cuerpo y del alma, sino de la sociedad feudal.
El heroísmo en los tiempos actuales: Antígona furiosa de Griselda Gambaro y Usted está aquí de Bárbara Colio
Authors: Gidi Claudia
Published: December 2016

Los mitos dicen tanto de la condición humana que se cuentan una y otra vez a lo largo de la historia. Sin embargo, no permanecen inamovibles; por el contrario, al ser recontados se introducen rasgos propios del contexto histórico en que emergen, produciendo versiones diferentes. Tal es el caso del mito de Antígona. En este ensayo quisiera detenerme en Antígona furiosa, de Griselda Gambaro, y Usted está aquí, de Bárbara Colio, para observar cómo estas dramaturgas hispanoamericanas parten del mito ancestral para construir textos dramáticos diferentes, en los que el mito adquiere una dimensión significativa nueva, que responde a las nuevas circunstancias políticas y sociales, pero conserva algunas de sus características esenciales, como la presencia del héroe.
Jorge Cuesta, El rumor de su vacío
Authors: Castillo Hernández Estela
Published: December 2016

Con frecuencia las antologías son tildadas de incompletas, injustas y gustosas de pocos, pero hay algunas que logran seducir al lector y lo conducen a una lectura más atenta y profunda de los textos seleccionados y de otros que no se encuentran presentes en la selección. Con el libro El rumor de su vacío, estamos frente a este tipo de antologías. Esta obra concentra veinticinco textos que exponen perfectamente la estética de Jorge Cuesta; en ellos se observa su agudeza, conceptismo, pensamiento y rigor expositivo. El prólogo y la selección fueron hechos por el investigador Marduck Obrador Cuesta, sobrino lejano del escritor cordobés. El antólogo divide en dos apartados su compilación; uno dedicado al ensayo y otro, a la poesía. En la primera sección se reúnen tres obras: “El clasicismo mexicano”, “La crítica desnuda” y “El Diablo en la poesía”; y en la segunda, veintidós poemas, muestra significativa si se considera que la producción poética cuestiana no superó el medio centenar.
Potentializing a Deleuzian Refrain
Authors: Jackson Alecia Youngblood
Published: December 2016

The author works Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of the refrain to craft an affective, material assemblage of the lactating body.
Ordinary? Affects? Swimming with Kathleen Stewart and Others against the Tide Race of Representation and the Heresies of Names
Authors: Gale Ken
Published: December 2016

This essay describes instances in the rhythmic play with affect in the reading of and performances with Kathleen Stewart's Ordinary Affects. It offers an engagement with the work that both troubles and is troubled. It celebrates this engagement and delights in the opportunity to read, read around, and read again and again words that flee from identification and representation and come to life in moments of tears, smiles, and writings living in the temptation and allure of the unknown. This was written with a visit to Edinburgh in mind and Robert Frank's The Americans, alongside Stewart's Ordinary Affects in my shoulder bag.
Lines of Articulation
Authors: Mazzei Lisa A.
Published: December 2016

Kathleen Stewart describes Ordinary Affects as an experiment set in “a present that began some time ago.” In this essay, I consider voice similarly, as not bound by a temporal linearity, but as voice of duration, absent of origin and as an articulation of a present that began some time ago, always becoming. I conclude with an experimentation of voice in the form of what I name lines of articulation.
Ordinary Flow
Authors: Spry Tami
Published: December 2016

“Something,” writes Kathleen Stewart, “throws itself together in a moment as an event and a sensation; something both animated and inhabitable.” Ordinary Affects is socioculturally vibrational, imagining the personally political even further. The following essay offers a collection of affectively heuristic “moments.”
Between Song and Prose: the meaning(s) of Harmonia in Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics
Authors: Vatri Alessandro
Published: December 2016

This study examines the uses of the term harmonia in Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics and aims at identifying a consistent meaning of this word when applied to the literary arts. A difficulty arises from the fact that harmonia commonly denotes the melodic component of music and speech, but is mentioned in connection with the hexametric rhythm in two parallel passages from the Poetics and the Rhetoric, the latter of which is textually problematic. The solution presented in this article suggests an interpretation which assigns to harmonia the meaning of ‘speech melody’ and supports the least disruptive emendation of the contested passage from the Rhetoric.
Bisphenol A and its analogues disrupt centrosome cycle and microtubule dynamics in prostate cancer
Authors: Ho Shuk-Mei , Rao Rahul , To Sarah , Schoch Emma , Tarapore Pheruza
Published: December 2016

Humans are increasingly exposed to structural analogues of bisphenol A (BPA), as BPA is being replaced by these compounds in BPA-free consumer products. We have previously shown that chronic and developmental exposure to BPA is associated with increased prostate cancer (PCa) risk in human and animal models. Here, we examine whether exposure of PCa cells (LNCaP, C4-2) to low-dose BPA and its structural analogues (BPS, BPF, BPAF, TBBPA, DMBPA and TMBPA) affects centrosome amplification (CA), a hallmark of cancer initiation and progression. We found that exposure to BPA, BPS, DMBPA and TBBPA, in descending order, increased the number of cells with CA, in a non-monotonic dose–response manner. Furthermore, cells treated with BPA and their analogues initiated centrosome duplication at 8 h after release from serum starvation, significantly earlier in G-1 phase than control cells. This response was attended by earlier release of nucleophosmin from unduplicated centrosomes. BPA-exposed cells exhibited increased expression of cyclin-dependent kinaseCDK6and decreased expression of CDK inhibitors (p21Waf1/CIP1andp27KIP1). Using specific antagonists for estrogen/androgen receptors, CA in the presence of BPA or its analogues was likely to be mediated via ESR1 signaling. Change in microtubule dynamics was observed on exposure to these analogues, which, for BPA, was accompanied by increased expression of centrosome-associated proteinCEP350. Similar to BPA, chronic treatment of cells with DMBPA, but not other analogues, resulted in the enhancement of anchorage-independent growth. We thus conclude that selected BPA analogues, similar to BPA, disrupt centrosome function and microtubule organization, with DMBPA displaying the broadest spectrum of cancer-promoting effects.
Uma Reflexão sobre a Crítica de Hannah Arendt ao Conceito de Trabalho de Karl Marx
Authors: Nilo Tiago
Published: December 2016

O objetivo de tal artigo é suscitar uma reflexão sobre a crítica que Hannah Arendt realiza em A condição humana (1958) ao conceito de trabalho desenvolvido por Karl Marx. Mais especificamente, a crítica que se encontra no capítulo III da obra referida, na qual Arendt critica Marx por ter confundido a atividade do trabalho (labor) com a atividade de fabricação (work). Primeiro, irei expor os argumentos de Arendt contra Marx, para que na sequência, possa realizar uma reflexão sobre eles.
Tradução e Apresentação do verbete Gênio, de Voltaire
Authors: Babiuki Kamila Cristina
Published: December 2016

Tradução do verbete Gênio, de Voltaire, publicado originalmente nas Questões sobre a Enciclopédia em 1771. Dividido em duas seções, o conteúdo do texto se apresenta em três partes. Na primeira, Voltaire faz um apanhado histórico e etimológico do termo ‘gênio’, remontando ao seu uso entre os gregos e romanos, até chegar no significado corrente para o século XVIII. Em seguida, o filósofo associa o homem de gênio àquele que é autor de uma grande invenção, ou seja, de uma invenção genial. Em um último momento, Voltaire propõe que a invenção saída das mãos do homem de gênio, quando aprimorada, se mostra mais útil e mais próxima das pessoas em geral, o que, porém, não desqualifica ou retira o valor do caráter inventivo do homem de gênio.
Cidadania e o Longo Debate Historiográfico
Authors: Gasparetto Júnior Antonio
Published: December 2016

Este artigo faz uma leitura de importantes contribuições acerca da temática da cidadania na historiografia, destacando algumas abordagens que, juntas ou separadas, podem ser muito relevantes para orientar novos pesquisadores. Enfatiza-se tanto a discussão internacional quanto a brasileira, muito embora esta seja bem menos extensa até o momento. Até mesmo por isso, este artigo vem a ser uma contribuição para estimular novos trabalhos, apresentando um panorama do que mais impactante foi produzido.
Revendo a Conjuntura 1933-1935 em Porto Alegre através da vida de Policarpo Hibernon Machado
Authors: Nunes Guilherme Machado
Published: December 2016

A partir da vida desse barbeiro e jornalista gaúcho, esse artigo pretende discutir alguns limites e possibilidades de militância política e sindical de um membro do PCB no Rio Grande do Sul, especialmente durante o processo de refundação da Federação Operária do Rio Grande do Sul e durante sua nova fase (1933-1935). No Rio Grande do Sul, o imediato pós-30 foi um período de certo arrefecimento das lutas operárias. Foi apenas no final de 1933 que a capital gaúcha presenciou uma grande greve – de padeiros, exigindo o cumprimento de um Decreto do Ministério do Trabalho, Indústria e Comércio, que regulamentava seu ofício. Policarpo Hibernon Machado era Secretário-Geral da FORGS, que, até então, pregava um discurso de conciliação e de colaboração com o Estado. A partir desse caso, podemos perceber que, ao mesmo tempo que a Federação radicalizava suas ações e seus discursos, o Estado respondia com um aumento das atividades repressivas, apesar de garantir que a questão social não era mais caso de polícia. Dessa forma, se tentará compreender como um trabalhador comunista conseguiu fazer a transição de uma entidade “colaborativa” para uma entidade “radical” e como os comunistas se apropriaram da legislação trabalhista de Vargas para tentar influenciar o movimento sindical.
Atividades Agropastoris de Abastecimento e Crise da Mineração no século XVIII Mineiro: São João Del-Rei, 1750-1800
Authors: Lima Filipe Moreira Alves de
Published: December 2016

O presente artigo busca apresentar alguns resultados de estudos realizados sobre a formação da elite econômica mineira estabelecida na Comarca do Rio das Mortes entre os anos de 1750-1800, espaço temporal compreendido entre a sedimentação da sociedade advinda da crise do extrativismo aurífero e a sua acomodação evolutiva para uma economia de abastecimento, fruto da consolidação das atividades agropastoris na Capitania de Minas Gerais. Dessa maneira, consideram-se as mudanças possíveis nesse processo histórico de formação das elites econômicas locais, passando de fortunas de feições derivadas do extrativismo aurífero para as de feições mercantis e principalmente agrárias. Para uma análise dos perfis da riqueza dos membros da elite são-joanense, buscou-se reconstruir a trajetória pessoal de seus elementos a partir de inventários post-mortem, selecionados através do valor de seu monte-mor. A partir da análise dos inventários examinou-se a composição e o perfil dessas fortunas, a fim de proporcionar uma melhor compreensão da dinâmica econômica da Comarca do Rio das Mortes e da capitania mineira na segunda metade dos setecentos.
Rediscovering the Guild System: the New Age Circle as A British Laboratory Of Corporatist Ideas (1906-1916)
Authors: Torreggiani Valerio
Published: December 2016

Este artigo analisa o papel do New Age Circle como um laboratório das ideias corporativas na Inglaterra no período anterior à Primeira Guerra Mundial. O New Age Circle foi uma rede informal composta por intelectuais radicais e antiliberais provenientes de todo o espectro político. Defendendo que o corporativismo não foi somente um produto socioeconómico das ideologias fascistas, autoritárias e nacionalistas, o artigo pretende demonstrar que tendências corporativas foram uma característica também da rede analisada, entre 1906 e 1916. Dessa forma, deseja explicar como a Inglaterra participou de uma reflexão corporativa global, iniciada antes do advento do fascismo entre grupos políticos não fascistas. Primeiramente, o artigo realiza um panorama dos pontos de referência mais importantes do New Age Circle: o pensamento político e económico de William Morris e John Ruskin; as ideias católicas-sociais do Cardinal Manning; e o conceito de personalidade jurídica dos corpos intermédios da sociedade teorizado por Frederic W. Maitland e John N. Figgis. A seguir, o artigo mostra as várias e diferentes formas do pensamento corporativo do New Age Circle, como, por exemplo, o medievalismo de Arthur J. Penty; o socialismo das guildas de G.D.H. Cole; o organicismo monárquico de Ramiro De Maeztu; e, enfim, o catolicismo social de Hilaire Belloc.
Notes on the distribution of the genus Pseudopaludicola Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926 (Anura: Leptodactylidae) in Paraguay
Authors: Lavilla Esteban O. , Caballero-Gini Andrea , Bueno-Villafañe Diego , Cardozo Darío
Published: December 2016

Four species of Pseudopaludicola, Pseudopalud­icola boliviana, P. falcipes, P. mystacalis and P. ternetzi, are usually cited for Paraguay. However, after analyzing 407 specimens assigned to this genus in herpetological collections of the country, we conclude that there are no specimens of P. falcipes in Paraguayan collections or vouchers cited in the literature, and almost all individuals referred to P. ternetzi are most probably P. ameghini. At the same time, a recently described species, P. motorzinho, is recorded for the first time in the country. Information on the distribution of these and the remaining species of Pseudopaludicola in Paraguay (P. boliviana and P. mystacalis) is provided.
Discourse in clothing
Authors: Bouvier Gwen
Published: December 2016

While there have been debates within gender studies on the gendering of the body and of the gendered nature of clothing, this paper shows that multimodality, with its attention to the finer details of communication, can provide a way to help us to think more carefully about how fashion communicates ideas and identities through textile affordances such as form, texture, weight, durability, colour, etc. Taking Hijab fashion in Egypt as a case in point, a multimodal approach is able to reveal how Muslim women use clothing to communicate a number of different discourses simultaneously. These include modesty, religious identity and tradition, on the one hand, and freedom, confidence and modernity, on the other. This analysis allows us both to problematize the monolithic representations of Islamic clothing usually found in Western media, and also to think more carefully about the ways in which clothing both constrains and enables women’s agency.
Grandmother, gran, gangsta granny
Authors: Caldas-Coulthard Carmen Rosa , Moon Rosamund
Published: December 2016

Age as an important identity dimension has been comparatively neglected within gender studies. Our paper concerns the semiotic representation of a role performed in the main by older women: that of ‘grandmother’, a social category particularly associated with ageing. To explore this, we draw on image banks, corpus data and other texts in order to discuss images, lexical/textual labelling and their intermodal relations. We find in our visual data that grandmothers are contextualised in two ways: sharing semiotic resources of childhood or domestic contexts, or presented as transgressive actors, located in incongruous situations or performing behaviours inappropriate for their ‘age’. Our discussion of corpus data complements the multimodal analyses, providing further examples of stereotyping: while references to individual grandmothers often evaluate positively, there is also strong evidence of generic, figurative and other usages that trivialise and derogate. Our conclusions point to processes of social devaluation: ageism and sexism are the pervasive and underlining ideologies recurrent in these representations. The broader implications are particularly relevant for the present time, as new forms of grandmothering appear.
Doing critical multimodality in research on gender, language and discourse
Authors: Machin David , Caldas-Coulthard Carmen Rosa , Milani Tommaso M.
Published: December 2016

The aim of this paper is to open a discussion about multimodal work in the area of gender, language and discourse, and propose the kinds of multimodal approaches that are most appropriate for this task. Multimodality, we claim, is a rather fragmented and unconsolidated field where many of the tools and concepts applied by different researchers are much less suitable than others. Our intention here is to raise critical questions about the affordances used by communicators in each context of usage and the ideological purposes they are meant to accomplish, so that meanings about gender and sexuality are uncovered.
Sound, music and gender in mobile games
Authors: Machin David , van Leeuwen Theo
Published: December 2016

In everyday life it is now common to find our actions linked to sound, especially using technology, such as when we use mobile devices, or operate more recently manufactured cars, technology in the workplace or simply in an elevator. While we may attend little to these noises, like any semiotic resource, they can communicate very specific meanings and carry ideologies. In this paper, using multimodal critical discourse analysis, we analyse the sounds and music in two proto-games that are played on mobile devices: Genie Palace Divine and Dragon Island Race. While visually the two games are highly gendered, we show that an investigation of the sounds players can make during gameplay reveals very specific insights into the ways that sound positions players in the world. In each game we ask: what is foregrounded and what backgrounded as regards sound? Sound can be used to signal the personal and impersonal and specific kinds of social relations which, we show, is highly gendered. It can also signal priorities, ideas and values, which in both cases, we show, relate to a world where there is simply no time to stop and think.
Thermodynamic Effects of 3 Different Diode Lasers on an Implant-Bone Interface: An Ex-Vivo Study With Review of the Literature
Authors: Valente Nicola Alberto , Calascibetta Antonio , Patianna Giuseppe , Mang Thomas , Hatton Michael , Andreana Sebastiano
Published: December 2016

The aim of this study is to assess the increase of temperature following laser irradiation with 810 nm, 980 nm, and 1064 nm diode laser wavelengths, of an implant under conditions that more closely replicate those of the human body. A 4 × 14 mm machined surface implant was placed in a porcine rib to replicate the conductivity of heat given by the bone. A peri-implant vertical defect was made that was 2 mm wide and 2 mm deep to simulate bone resorption. Two thermocouples were positioned crestally and apically on the implant surface. The tip of the laser was kept 3 mm away from the surface and continuously moved in an up-and-down and side-to-side fashion, inside the defect for 60 seconds. Initial temperatures and the time needed to reach an increase of 10°C were recorded. The experiment was repeated at room temperature and in a 37°C water bath with the following settings: 0.6 W, 0.8 W, 1 W continuous and repeated in pulsed. A critical increase of temperature of more than 10°C is reached with all lasers at 0.8 W and 1 W in continuous mode at room temperature. Only the 1064 nm diode laser reached the critical increase at 0.8 W in pulsed mode. No critical increase of temperature was registered with other settings and when the bone block was placed in a 37°C water bath. The results of this study suggest that use of these diode lasers does not cause a harmful increase in temperature when used under conditions similar to those of the human body.
Dissemination of the Scientific Ideas of Professor Bronislovas Bitinas in the Science of Education
Authors: Barkauskaitė Marijona
Published: December 2016

Volume 124 of the journal of research papers “Pedagogy Studies” of 2016 is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Professor Habilitated Doctor Bronislovas Bitinas and the 65th anniversary of his active pedagogical and scientific activity. The theoretical and practical significance of the problems, ideas and statements provided by the authors of the presented scientific articles, as well as their applicability in the interdisciplinary environment are unified not only by the analysis of the issues of education and personal development, but also by the dissemination of the fundamental scholarly works of the prominent researcher B. Bitinas in the education process, which is implemented by his students and colleagues that are guided by the Professor’s ideas and spread them in different Lithuanian universities and education institutions. The aim of the current Epilogue is to identify and discuss the main areas of the research work of Professor B. Bitinas: “Philosophy of Education.Education Ideas and Issues”, “Educational Research: the System and Process”, “Hodegetics: Theory and Technology of Upbringing”, and “Education Terminology: Quality and Issues”. According to B. Bitinas, the selected and discussed activity areas, as well as research insights should be related to a specific stage of the reform of education system revealing the possibilities of its continuation, validating its necessity by specific studies and the latest documents, seeking to improve the process of education by sharing experience, discovering in-depth connections among representatives, theoreticians and practitioners of different sciences, education systems, cultures and others. In this regard, the professionalism and distinctiveness of Professor B. Bitinas are underlined by the dissemination of his ideas and their recognition within the global context of science.
Bronislovas Bitinas: the Most Illustrious Representative of Post-positivism in Lithuanian Educational Sciences in the Last Half of the 20th and the Beginning of the 21st Centuries
Authors: Rupšienė Liudmila
Published: December 2016

Bronislovas Bitinas is well known in education sciences for his extensive work on methodology. However, none of his publications explicitly state which philosophy guides his approach to research. Scholars have argued that research methodology is dependent on the underlying philosophical assumptions; therefore, to understand the originality and contributions of specific methodology, philosophical principles guiding methodological decisions need to be examined. Given the importance of philosophy as a foundation for methodology, in this article I explore philosophical assumptions underlying B. Bitinas’ conceptualizations of educational research, as represented in his publications on methodology and in his overall scientific contributions. After a brief overview of Bitinas’ work, I outline the principles of post-positivism as a contemporary, improved, and “less arrogant” form of positivism. Examining how post-positivist principles are manifested in Bitinas’ ideas on methodology leads me to conclude that B. Bitinas is an educational researcher, whose systematic conceptualizations of methodology are congruent with the postpositivistic philosophical stance. Moreover, given the influence of his voluminous publications, Bitinas can be considered as the most illustrious educational researcher, who, in the latter half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, has systematically expanded research methodology for education sciences.