bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A new Diplolepis Geoffroy (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Diplolepidini) species from China: a rare example of a rose gall-inducer of economic significance
Authors: Pujade-Villar Juli , Wang Yiping , Zhang Wenli , Mata-Casanova Noel , Lobato-Vila Irene , Dénes Avar-Lehel , László Zoltán
Published: January 2020

A new species of the genusDiplolepisGeoffroy,Diplolepis abeiPujade-Villar & Wangsp. nov.is described on host plantRosa sertataRolfe ×R. rugosaThunb. from China with an integrative approach based on molecular and morphological data. Diagnosis, distribution and biology of the new species are included and illustrated. This species is the first known rose gall-inducer of economic importance. A review of Eastern Palearctic species ofDiplolepisis given and a key to the Chinese fauna is presented.
Methodology for Storage Location Allocation Based on the Planning of Material Requirements
Authors: Melchor-Pereda Patricia , Sánchez-Partida Diana , Martínez-Flores José-Luis , Cano-Olivos Patricia
Published: January 2020

The general goal of warehouse management is to ensure the correct supply of materials to the production line. In this context, this document presents a supposed instance for a general problem of a raw materials warehouse with poor control of inventories and poor internal traceability. An internal material requirement planning (MRP) and storage location-allocation problem (SLAP) for sixty materials was used to supply the restocking store that provides for the production line, to see the materials with the highest turnover and to reassign the materials in the general warehouse to minimize the internal long-term logistics costs. As a result of the methodology, the company determines the products with the highest turnover in a variable demand environment. Also, the company reallocates these products in the warehouse of raw materials reducing logistics costs and supply in 100% on-time the stock store that, in turn, supplies the production line.
Halal Industry in ASEAN
Authors: Abdullah Moha Asri , Azam Md Siddique E
Published: January 2020

Amongst three Muslim majority countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei) of ASEAN, Malaysia leads the halal industry globally and considered to be the global halal hub. Simultaneously, the market is growing tremendously in other member countries as well. It has been realized that a number of driving forces are responsible for boosting the expansion of Halal industry globally as well as in ASEAN. While there are a number of factors accelerating the growth of the Halal industry, there are many limitations and challenges that are hindering the market expansion. Therefore, this chapter introduces the overview of Halal industry globally as well as in ASEAN counties. The chapter explores the opportunities of the Halal industry for ASEAN counties followed by identifying the issues and challenges confronted by industry players. Finally, it concludes by providing some recommendations in the ASEAN context based on the current global situation and findings of the Halal industry. The chapter adopts methodology of analyzing secondary data.
The Loan Shark in ASEAN
Authors: Musari Khairunnisa
Published: January 2020

Loan shark is a humanitarian problem faced by many countries in the world, including in Asia, even in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)'s countries. Loan shark activities are found not only in Myanmar and Cambodia, which has the lowest per capita income in ASEAN but also in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, and even Singapore, which are the five countries with the highest gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in ASEAN. How are loan shark practices in ASEAN countries? Can nanofinance overcome the microfinance gap to fight the loan shark? How the practice of Bank Wakaf Mikro (BWM) in Indonesia to nanofinance with qardhul hassan contract? Find the answers in this chapter.
Leadership to Advance Innovation for Digital Healthcare Transformation
Authors: Tanniru Mohan Rao , Xi Youmin , Sandhu Kamaljeet
Published: January 2020

Complexity theory argues for bounded instability to allow organizations to run operations at a regular speed while also allowing them to explore innovations at a faster speed in support of digital transformation. HeXie management theory uses a mix of systems engineering and holism to argue for a theme around which empowered employees can explore and couple the dividends from such explorations to the organizational vision and mission. Authors integrate these two theories and multiple leadership processes (administrative, enabling, and adaptive) around four guiding principles: alignment around theme, dynamism of employees, transitiveness of dividends, and adaptiveness to support organizational growth and capacity building. These principles are used to discuss how digital leadership has guided healthcare transformation both inside and outside a hospital in multiple use cases, thus providing insight for thought leadership in digital health.
Strategic Intelligence Management and Decision Process
Authors: Fernández-Villacañas Marín Manuel Antonio
Published: January 2020

This chapter addresses a conceptual review of the methodology to define strategies and supports for carrying out effective, efficient, and innovative decisions and strengthen management and leadership, given the dynamic changes that are taking place in the current turbulent environment. The main catalyst is the digital revolution and its implications in a new management style. The functions of anticipation and early assessment of threats, risks, and opportunities, constitute the central functionality of the new strategic approach. Its impact is especially notable in the field of strategic decision making, which must be fully timely, rigorous, transparent, and credible in the face of the growing demands of customers and the public. The use of strategic intelligence has become critical, and the skills for its management and application are of great relevance in terms of defining management strategies and decisions, and complementary to the use of digital technology tools.
Embedded Real-Time System for Traffic Sign Recognition on ARM Processor
Authors: Faiedh Hassene , Farhat Wajdi , Hamdi Sabrine , Souani Chokri
Published: January 2020

This article proposes the design of a novel hardware embedded system used for automatic real-time road sign recognition. The algorithm used was implemented in two main steps. The first step, which detects the road signs, is performed by the maximally stable extremal region method on HSV color space. The second step enables the recognition of the detected signs by using the oriented fast and rotated brief features method. The novelty of the embedded hardware system, on an ARM processor, leads to a real-time implementation of the ADAS applications. The proposed system was tested on the Belgium Traffic Sign Detection and Recognition Benchmark and on the German Traffic Signs Datasets. The proposed approach attained a high detection and recognition rate with real-world situations. The achieved results are acceptable when compared to state-of-the-art systems.
Face Recognition Using RLDA Method Based on Mutated Cuckoo Search Algorithm to Extract Optimal Features
Authors: Benkhaira Souheila , Layeb Abdesslem
Published: January 2020

Regularized-LDA (R-LDA) is one of the most successful holistic approaches that is introduced to overcome the “small sample size” (SSS) problem of the LDA method, which is often encountered in Face Recognition (FR) tasks. R-LDA is based on reducing the high variance of principal components of the within-class scatter matrix to optimize the regularized Fisher's criterion. In this article, the authors assume that some of these components do not have significant information and they can be discarded. To this end, the authors propose CS-RLDA that uses a Cuckoo search (CS) algorithm to select the optimal eigenvectors from a within-class matrix. However, the CS algorithm has a slow convergence speed. To deal with this problem, and to create more diversity and better trade-off between exploitation and exploration around the best solutions, the authors have modified the basic cuckoo algorithm by using a mutation operator. The experimental results performed on the ORL and UMIST databases indicate that the proposed method enhances the performance of FR.
Terrorism Effects on Businesses Post 9/11
Authors: Solis Mariah Talia , Pearson Jessica , Dixon Deirdre P , Blanco Abigail , Papp Raymond
Published: January 2020

Discussions regarding terrorism are more relevant today than ever before. Terror threats can take on many forms from physical violence against military forces, individual companies, and ordinary citizens, to actions against infrastructure, to cyber terrorism. These forms of terror and others, in a number of ways, threaten the physical and financial safety of people around the world. The purpose of this qualitative research study is to evaluate the effects of terrorism—particularly the attacks on September 11, 2001—on U.S. enterprises in the period since the attacks. Utilizing interviews with representatives from various industries, the authors found that employees with long company histories believe their companies have implemented changes regarding their security measures as a safeguard against possible future terrorist attacks. The research findings revealed that while businesses have made changes in their use of technology to change their (1) cybersecurity, (2) training methods, and (3) hiring processes, there remains a gap in understanding the efficacy and efficiency of these changes. Though the September 11 attacks raised the concerns regarding terrorism overall and formed the genesis for thinking about the effects of terrorism, the authors found that interviewees had limited knowledge of how terrorist activities truly affected their business, and identified a strong need to empirically study the technology changes implemented in the past two decades as a response to terrorism, and a need for a thorough sharing of knowledge within the cybersecurity industry to other businesses.
Factors Affecting the Adoption of E-Marketing by Decision Makers in SMEs
Authors: Alrousan Mohammad Kasem , Al-Adwan Ahmad Samed , Al-Madadha Amro , Al Khasawneh Mohammad Hamdi
Published: January 2020

This study examines the factors that influence decision-makers to adopt e-marketing in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Jordan. There is currently no comprehensive conceptual framework that explains e-marketing adoption in SMEs. Therefore, this study develops a conceptual framework based on the diffusion of innovation (DOI) and technology-organization-environment (TOE) theories. The conceptual framework is composed of four contexts: technological, organizational, managerial, and environmental, and hypothesizes eleven factors significantly influencing e-marketing adoption in SMEs. A self-administrated questionnaire survey was conducted with 362 SMEs in Jordan. Logistic regression was used to test the relevant hypotheses. The obtained results show that relative advantages, complexity, IT expertise, top management support, manager's IT knowledge and external pressure have a significant impact on e-marketing adoption. However, compatibility, cost, firm size, manager innovativeness, and government support do not show any association with e-marketing adoption.
Practical Methods for Characterizing the Optical Performance of Digital Camera-Based Imaging Systems
Authors: Alaruri Sami D.
Published: January 2020

In this paper, practical and simple methods for characterizing the optical performance of a digital CCD camera equipped with a zoom lens using test targets projected by a Newtonian collimator coupled to an integrating sphere and a halogen light source are presented. The presented methods include the evaluation of the CCD camera system modulation transfer function (MTF), uniformity, dynamic range, linearity, and signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) properties in the visible region of the spectrum. Through out this work image processing for the recorded target images is performed using ImageJ. In addition, the paper presents a comparison between MTF measurements collected with a 1951-USAF resolution test target and a slanted edge test target. Finally, simple mathematical expressions for the measured optical system performance properties are provided. The presented optical system characterization methods can provide researchers with the needed data when a CCD or CMOS digital camera is integrated with a lens system.
Improving the Quality of “The Internet of Things” Instruction in Technology Management, Cybersecurity, and Computer Science
Authors: Burrell Darrell Norman , Courtney-Dattola Ashley , Burton Sharon L. , Nobles Calvin , Springs Delores , Dawson Maurice E.
Published: January 2020

Many universities require end of course evaluations for all courses taught as tool for academic accreditation purposes. The reality is that often many academic departments either do not do anything or have no idea what to do when evaluations continue to be poor. As a result, students have fought back against this process to create their own on-line rating program, Rate My Professor.com, which allows students to give other students insights into who is a quality professor and who is not. This paper explores this use of mock teaching simulations, which are also called Micro-teaching approaches, as a quality management tool to improve the way students are taught in Technology Management, Cybersecurity, and Computer Science degree and certificate programs.
User-Based Load Visualization of Categorical Forecasted Smart Meter Data Using LSTM Network
Authors: Kumar Ajay , Terang Parveen Poon , Bali Vikram
Published: January 2020

Electrical load forecasting is an essential feature in power systems planning, operation and control. The non-linearity and non-stationary nature of the data, however, poses a challenge in terms of accuracy. This article explores a deep learning technique, a long short-term memory recurrent neural network-based framework to tackle this tricky issue. The proposed machine learning model framework is tested on real time residential smart meter data showing promising results. A web application has also been developed to allow consumers to have access to greater levels of information and facilitate decision-making at their end. The performance of the proposed model is also comprehensively compared to other methods in the field of load forecasting showing more accurate results for the function of forecasting of load on short term basis.
CEO Bonus Pay and Firm Credit Risk
Authors: Chiu Hsin-Hui , Wagner Eva
Published: January 2020

This article examines the association between the bonus component of managerial compensation and the impacts on a firm's credit risk using data from the U.S. The empirical findings suggest that bonus compensation could potentially play a role in mitigating the agency costs of debt and restraining the CEO's risk-taking behavior, as bonus pay is significantly associated with lower credit risk in a broad sample across various industries. Cash compensation including salary and bonuses, however, have different impacts on credit risk. Bonus compensation does not add to credit risk as suggested in the financial press, but firms should differentiate impacts of bonus and salary pay on firm risk when designing executives' compensation package.
Using Social Media in Education and Using Social Media Strategies in Education and Corporate Organizations in the U.S. and Belarus
Authors: Vilceanu M. Olguta , FitzGerald Suzanne , Sadovskaya Jekaterina Yurievna
Published: January 2020

Rapid growth of new media technologies allows organizations to communicate with consumers in immediate and interactive ways via blogs and social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter. Consumers, companies, and organizations bypass mass media gatekeepers and engage in direct communication exchanges. This study examines social media efficacy from the perspective of corporate and educational organizations in the United States and Belarus. Using the Delphi method, authors administered iterative surveys to a panel of sixteen experts, seeking consensus points. Access to financial, staff, and technical resources allow corporations to make intensive and effective use of social media. Non-profit and education organizations are interested in ability to relate to stakeholders by low-cost technologies, human interest stories, and personal connections. US organizations valued appropriateness for target audience as the most important factor in evaluating the best use of social media. Belorussian organizations valued effectiveness of the channel itself or ease of use.
Convolutional Approach Also Benefits Traditional Face Pattern Recognition Algorithm [208!]
Authors: Li Yunke , Shi Hongyuan , Chen Liang , Jiang Fan
Published: January 2020

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely used deep learning frameworks and are applied in the field of face recognition, achieving outstanding results. The Macropixel comparison approach is a shallow mathematical approach that recognizes faces by comparing the original pixel blocks of face images. In this article, the authors are inspired by ideas of the currently popular deep neural network framework and introduce two features into the mathematical approach: deep overlap and weighted filter. The aim is to explore if the idea of deep learning could benefit mathematical recognition method, which might extend the scope of face recognition research. Results from the experiments show that the new proposed approach achieves markedly better recognition rates than the original macropixel methods.
Influence of Technology Innovation Intensity on Firm Performance
Authors: Chege Samwel M. , Wang Daoping , Suntu Shaldon Leparan
Published: January 2020

The aim of this paper is to assess the effects of technology innovation intensity on firm performance. A sample of 297 businesses funded by the Youth Enterprise Development Fund in Kenya was used as study framework. Correlation and a regression model were used for content analysis. The findings show that technology innovation intensity contributes positively to firm performance, but the entrepreneur characteristic affects the firms' innovation level. Further, the results show low profitability and expansion level among micro and small enterprises. The findings provide information necessary for competitive advantages and recommends the empowerment of entrepreneurs in technology innovation trends for their firm performance. The study endeavors to discover and advance enterprise innovative strategies that are ideally anchored in the technological, organizational, and environmental frameworks. The value of this study is on the approaches of entrepreneur capability in handling technology innovation intensity within a competitive business environment to improve firm performance.
Quadriceps Muscle Size, Quality, and Strength and Self-Reported Function in Individuals With Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
Authors: Garcia Steven A. , Moffit Tyler J. , Vakula Mike N. , Holmes Skylar C. , Montgomery Melissa M. , Pamukoff Derek N.
Published: January 2020

Context

Ultrasound imaging provides a cost-effective method of measuring quadriceps morphology, which may be related to self-reported function after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR).

Objective

To compare quadriceps morphology and strength between limbs in individuals with ACLR and matched control limbs and determine their associations with self-reported function.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

Research laboratory.

Patients or Other Participants

Forty-two individuals with ACLR (females = 66%; age = 21.8 ± 2.6 years; time since ACLR = 50.5 ± 29.4 months) and 37 controls (females = 73%; age = 21.7 ± 1.2 years).

Main Outcome Measure(s)

Quadriceps peak torque (PT) and rate of torque development were assessed bilaterally. Ultrasonography was used to measure the cross-sectional area (CSA) and echo intensity (EI) of the rectus femoris, vastus lateralis (VL), and vastus medialis. Self-reported function was assessed via the International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) score and Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) subscales. Paired-samples t tests were calculated to compare involved and uninvolved limbs. Independent t tests were conducted to compare groups (α = .05). Linear regression was performed to analyze associations between quadriceps function and self-reported function after accounting for time since ACLR, activity level, and sex, and models for EI added subcutaneous fat as a covariate.

Results

Isometric PT did not differ between limbs or groups. Involved limbs had a lower rate of torque development compared with the control (P = .01) but not the uninvolved limbs (P = .08). Vastus lateralis CSA was smaller in the involved than in the uninvolved (P < .01) but not the control limbs (P = .10). Larger VL CSA (ΔR2 = 0.103) and lower VL EI (ΔR2 = 0.076) were associated with a higher IKDC score (P < .05). Larger VL CSA was associated with greater KOOS Symptoms (ΔR2 = 0.09, P = .043) and Sport and Recreation (ΔR2 = 0.125, P = .014) scores. Lower VL EI was associated with higher KOOS Symptoms (ΔR2 = 0.104, P = .03) and Quality of Life (ΔR2 = 0.113, P = .01) scores. Quadriceps PT and rate of torque development were not associated with IKDC or KOOS subscale scores.

Conclusions

Quadriceps morphology was associated with self-reported function in individuals with ACLR and may provide unique assessments of quadriceps function.
Rondte-oefeninge
Authors: Goedhart B.
Published: January 2020

No abstract available.
Terugblik op fisioterapie: ‘n Persoonlike siening
Authors: Gilder Narina
Published: January 2020

No abstract available.
The role of Physiotherapy in the management of Tuberculous Meningitis in children
Authors: Liggins C. A.
Published: January 2020

No abstract available.
Diaphragmatic and controlled breathing
Authors: Rodseth C. P.
Published: January 2020

No abstract available.
The influence of posture on the effectiveness of coughing
Authors: Curry L. D. , Van Eeden C.
Published: January 2020

The influence of different postures on the effectiveness of coughing was investigated. Twenty normal young women served as subjects rind the average airflow values were determined and standardized for each position. The best results were obtained in the upright position and this correlated perfectly with the underlying physiology.
Key Terrestrial and Space Environment Sources
Authors: L. Johnson Dale , W. Vaughan William
Published: January 2020

Natural (Terrestrial & Space) Environment (NE) phenomena play a significant role in the design and flight of aerospace
vehicles and in the integrity of the associated aerospace systems and structures. Both the terrestrial environment (0-90 km
altitude) and the space environment (Earth orbital altitudes) parameters and their engineering application philosophy are given
with emphasis on launch vehicle-affected terrestrial environment elements. This paper will describe the key terrestrial and space
environment sources: wind; atmospheric; and orbital models used in the design and development of launch/space vehicles.
Multi-coverage optimal location model for emergency medical service (EMS) facilities under various disaster scenarios: a case study of urban fluvial floods in the Minhang district of Shanghai, China
Authors: Yang Yuhan , Yin Jie , Ye Mingwu , She Dunxian , Yu Jia
Published: January 2020

Abstract. Emergency medical service (EMS) response is extremely critical for pre-hospital lifesaving when disaster events occur. However, disasters
increase the difficulty of rescue and may significantly increase the total
travel time between dispatch and arrival, thereby increasing the pressure on emergency facilities. Hence, facility location decisions play a crucial role in improving the efficiency of rescue and service capacity. In order to avoid the failure of EMS facilities during disasters and meet the multiple requirements of demand points, we propose a multi-coverage optimal location model for EMS facilities based on the results of disaster impact simulation and prediction. To verify this model, we explicitly simulated the impacts of fluvial flooding events using the 1-D–2-D coupled flood inundation model FloodMap. The simulation results suggested that even low-magnitude fluvial flood events resulted in a decrease in the EMS response area. The integration of the model results with a geographical-information-system (GIS) analysis indicated that the optimization of the EMS locations reduced the delay in emergency responses caused by disasters and significantly increased the number of rescued people and the coverage of demand points.
Sandbag replacement systems – a nonsensical and costly alternative to sandbagging?
Authors: Lankenau Lena , Massolle Christopher , Koppe Bärbel , Krull Veronique
Published: January 2020

Abstract. In addition to flood defence with sandbags, different sandbag replacement systems (SBRSs) have been available for a number of years. The use of sandbags is time-consuming as well as highly intensive in terms of materials and personnel. In contrast, SBRSs are reusable and require lower costs in terms of helpers and logistics, offsetting the comparatively higher initial investment costs through repeated use. So far, SBRSs have rarely been used in Germany in operational flood protection. The reasons lie in different financing modalities of investment, operational costs and low confidence in the technical performance of SBRSs. These problems are addressed by a research programme at the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering (IWA), City University of Applied Sciences, Bremen. A series of systematic large-scale tests of sandbag systems and SBRSs with a focus on functionality, stability and handling was carried out. The results showed that the majority of the SBRSs tested are able to provide protection comparable to that of sandbag systems but with a significantly reduced use of materials, simplified logistics and fewer helpers. Nevertheless, it is advisable to develop and perform well-defined certification tests for SBRSs, in order to define clear instructions for and to identify limits to the use of certain SBRSs. For example, not all systems work equally well on different surfaces. Supplementary to the practical tests, costs of the procurement and use of various sandbag systems and SBRSs were determined on the basis of realistic scenarios. This provides a methodology as well as concrete figures to cost the provision and use of different protection systems from a holistic perspective. It turns out that the higher investment costs of the SBRSs investigated compared to sandbag systems are already offset on the second use of the reusable systems.
Modeling snow slab avalanches caused by weak-layer failure – Part 1: Slabs on compliant and collapsible weak layers
Authors: Rosendahl Philipp L. , Weißgraeber Philipp
Published: January 2020

Abstract. Dry-snow slab avalanche release is preceded by a fracture process within the snowpack. Recognizing weak-layer collapse as an integral part of the fracture process is crucial and explains phenomena such as whumpf sounds and remote triggering of avalanches from low-angle terrain. In this two-part work we propose a novel closed-form analytical model for a snowpack under skier loading and a mixed-mode failure criterion for the nucleation of weak-layer failure. In the first part of this two-part series we introduce a closed-form analytical model of a snowpack accounting for the deformable layer. Despite the importance of persistent weak layers for slab avalanche release, no simple analytical model considering weak-layer deformations is available. The proposed model provides deformations of the snow slab, weak-layer stresses and energy release rates of cracks within the weak layer. It generally applies to skier-loaded slopes as well as stability tests such as the propagation saw test. A validation with a numerical reference model shows very good agreement of the stress and energy release rate results in several parametric studies including analyses of the bridging effect and slope angle dependence. The proposed model is used to analyze 93 propagation saw tests. Computed weak-layer fracture toughness values are physically meaningful and in excellent agreement with finite element analyses. In the second part of the series (Rosendahl and Weißgraeber, 2020) we make use of the present mechanical model to establish a novel failure criterion crack nucleation in weak layers.
The code used for the analyses in both parts is publicly available under https://github.com/2phi/weac (last access: 6 January 2020) (2phi, 2020).
Modeling snow slab avalanches caused by weak-layer failure – Part 2: Coupled mixed-mode criterion for skier-triggered anticracks
Authors: Rosendahl Philipp L. , Weißgraeber Philipp
Published: January 2020

Abstract. Using the analytical model presented in Part 1 of this two-part paper, a new conceptual understanding of anticrack nucleation in weak layers is proposed. To obtain a sufficient condition for onset of failure, two necessary conditions must be satisfied simultaneously: (i) the weak layer must be overloaded in terms of stress and (ii) the initiating crack must release enough energy for the formation of new surfaces. This so-called coupled criterion was proposed by Leguillon (2002). No assumptions on initial defects within the weak layer are needed. Instead, the failure criterion provides both critical loading and the size of initiating cracks. It only requires the fundamental material properties strength and fracture toughness as inputs. Crack initiation and subsequent propagation are covered by a single criterion containing both a strength-of-materials and a fracture mechanics condition. Analyses of skier-loaded snowpacks show the impact of slab thickness and slope angle on critical loading and crack initiation length. In the limit cases of very thick slabs and very steep slopes, we obtain natural avalanche release. A discussion of different mixed-mode stress and energy criteria reveals that a wrong choice of mixed-mode hypotheses can yield unphysical results. The effect of material parameters such as density and compliance on weak-layer collapse is illustrated. The framework presented in this two-part series harnesses the efficiency of closed-form solutions to provide fast and physically sound predictions of critical snowpack loads using a new conceptual understanding of mixed-mode weak-layer failure. It emphasized the importance of both stress and energy in avalanche release.
Impact of forcing on sublimation simulations for a high mountain catchment in the semiarid Andes
Authors: Réveillet Marion , MacDonell Shelley , Gascoin Simon , Kinnard Christophe , Lhermitte Stef , Schaffer Nicole
Published: January 2020

Abstract. In the semiarid Andes of Chile, farmers and industry in the
cordillera lowlands depend on water from snowmelt, as annual rainfall is
insufficient to meet their needs. Despite the importance of snow cover for
water resources in this region, understanding of snow depth distribution and
snow mass balance is limited. Whilst the effect of wind on snow cover
pattern distribution has been assessed, the relative importance of melt
versus sublimation has only been studied at the point scale over one
catchment. Analyzing relative ablation rates and evaluating uncertainties
are critical for understanding snow depth sensitivity to variations in
climate and simulating the evolution of the snowpack over a larger area and
over time. Using a distributed snowpack model (SnowModel), this study aims
to simulate melt and sublimation rates over the instrumented watershed of La
Laguna (513 km2, 3150–5630 m a.s.l., 30∘ S, 70∘ W),
during two hydrologically contrasting years (i.e., dry vs. wet). The model is
calibrated and forced with meteorological data from nine Automatic Weather
Stations (AWSs) located in the watershed and atmospheric simulation outputs
from the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. Results of
simulations indicate first a large uncertainty in sublimation-to-melt ratios
depending on the forcing as the WRF data have a cold bias and overestimate
precipitation in this region. These input differences cause a doubling of
the sublimation-to-melt ratio using WRF forcing inputs compared to AWS.
Therefore, the use of WRF model output in such environments must be
carefully adjusted so as to reduce errors caused by inherent bias in the
model data. For both input datasets, the simulations indicate a similar
sublimation fraction for both study years, but ratios of sublimation to melt
vary with elevation as melt rates decrease with elevation due to decreasing
temperatures. Finally results indicate that snow persistence during the
spring period decreases the ratio of sublimation due to higher melt rates.
Hygroscopic Behavior and Thermodynamic Properties of Ziziphus joazeiro Mart. Kernel Flour
Authors: Silva Hanndson Araujo , Gomes Josivanda Palmeira , Queiroz Alexandre José de Melo
Published: January 2020

The hygroscopic and thermal behavior of kernel flour from Ziziphus joazeiro fruits were investigated. Adsorption isotherms were obtained at temperatures of 293, 303 and 313 K and adjusted to GAB, Oswin and Peleg models. The best fit of the experimental data was obtained with the GAB model with R² values> 0.994 and mean percentage deviation P <10%. The isotherms obtained were sigmoidal type II. Isosteric heat and other thermodynamic properties were calculated as a function of moisture content. Adsorption isosteric heat decreased exponentially with increasing moisture content and differential entropy increased with moisture content, while differential enthalpy decreased. The theory of compensation confirmed that these properties are dependent on moisture content. The isotherms presented a spontaneous and enthalpy process.
Recurring Dreams: Mega Events and Traces of Past Futures
Authors: Gardner Jonathan
Published: January 2020

Investigating several modern ‘mega events’, including World’s
Fairs and Olympic Games, this paper discusses the complex relationship such
events and their sites have often had with ‘the future’. Such events
are frequently associated with demonstrating progress towards future
‘utopias’ (for example ‘The World of Tomorrow’ theme of
the 1939 World’s Fair in New York) or leaving a tangible positive social
and economic ‘legacy’. However, other uses of mega event sites have
also frequently manifested darker, more anxious ideas about that which is yet to
come. In this paper I discuss three forms in which mega events’ sites
relate to the idea of the future: before, during, and after they take place. In
discussing these relationships, I demonstrate how traces of ‘past
futures’, when investigated archaeologically, provide a diverse means by
which to understand how societies have related to the idea of the future through
the modern era.
Qualidade da educação superior no Brasil: desempenho das universidades católicas à luz dos rankings acadêmicos, índices e tabelas classificatórias estatais e do setor privado
Authors: Wandercil Marco , Calderón Adolfo-Ignacio , Ganga-Contreras Francisco Aníbal
Published: January 2020

A qualidade educação superior é um conceito dinâmico que tem que se adaptar a um mundo em constantes mudanças. Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar as universidades católicas brasileiras com o intuito de estudar suas tendências em termos de qualidade institucional, a partir da sua performance em rankings acadêmicos, índices e listas classificatórias (Rankintacs) nacionais em níveis estatal e privado. Para alcançar o objetivo deste estudo, realizou-se pesquisa bibliográfica-documental incluindo análise de indicadores de desempenho nos Rankintacs nacionais, incluindo análise qualitativa e quantitativas por meio de critérios estatísticos. Atualmente, o Brasil conta com 19 universidades confessionais católicas e seus desempenhos foram abordados a partir dos Rankings nacionais, elaborados pelo órgão regulador estatal (MEC/INEP) e os promovidos pelo setor privado, Ranking Universitário Folha (RUF) e Guia do Estudante. Embora tradicionalmente as universidades católicas sejam identificadas como instituições de elevada qualidade, ocupando lugares de destaque entre as melhores universidades do país, muitas delas a frente de grandes universidades públicas, os Rankintacs revelam, em termos de qualidade, grande diversidade e heterogeneidade, existindo renomadas universidades católicas com resultados não tão favoráveis, identificadas com fraco desempenho.
Qualidade e educação a distância: do referencial teórico à sua proposição
Authors: Lima Daniela Da Costa Britto Pereira , Alonso Katia Morosov
Published: January 2020

Este estudo possui como objetivo geral identificar características, necessidades, problemas e fatores fundamentais da educação a distância (EaD), da qualidade de um modo geral e, especificamente, da qualidade na educação superior a distância. A pesquisa, do tipo bibliográfica e documental, utilizou a abordagem qualitativa de coleta de dados em documentos elaborados no período 2009 e 2017, e foi realizada em repositórios nacionais e internacionais.Os resultados permitiram construir uma lente teórico-conceitual acerca da EaD na educação superior (ES) e de sua qualidade, além de contribuir para a elaboração das dimensões e indicadores dessa oferta, em níveis meso e micro de qualidade, favorecendo o empoderamento dos atores interessados e colaborando para a formação de sua agenda política, social e acadêmica.
Qualidade da Educação e Educação de Qualidade
Authors: Lima Daniela Da Costa Britto Pereira , Alonso Katia Morosov , Haas Celia Maria
Published: January 2020

Editorial – Dossiê  Qualidade da Educação e Educação de Qualidade
Quoting Bacon and Caravaggio – Walking Mácha as Over-Interpretation
Authors: Heczková Libuše , Svatoňová Kateřina
Published: January 2020

The article concerns the problem of over-interpretation in the works of Michelangelo Merisie da Caravaggio and Francis Bacon. It also deals with the concept of walking as over-interpretation in the works of Grebeníčková and Mácha. The article explains the necessity of over-interpretation as a key to unexpected meanings and experiences. This is argued through references to Mieke Bal’s travelling concepts.
Against affirmation. Negation as a cognitive strategy in an art film
Authors: Sikorska Karolina
Published: January 2020

Using the category of negation, the article analyzes the art fi lms of Maya Deren and Teresa
Hubbard & Alexander Birchler exhibited at The Inner Lives (Of Time) in the National Gallery
in Prague (5.10.2016 – 19.02.2017, in the Trade Fair Palace). Negation is discussed as a cognitive
strategy, which echoes the theoretical concepts of Theodor W. Adorno and Hal Foster. Elements
such as the subjective treatment of time, the suspension of logical implications, or poetic-oneiric
visions, have been analyzed so as to demonstrate how their meanings help to question the socio-
-cultural reality.
Apis mellifera (Rilke, Leśmian, Valéry, Miłosz)
Authors: Wójcik Tomasz
Published: January 2020

The article concerns Paul Valéry’s sonet The Bee, a fragment of Rainer Maria Rilke’s
letter to Witold Hulewicz, Boleslaw Lesmian’s poem The Bees and a fragment of Czeslaw
Milosz’s poem Orpheus and Eurydice. The analysis of the semantic connotations and
symbolic meanings of the bee, which appears in these texts, shows them as elements
of a larger ontological project: an attempt to answer the question of the relation between
being and non-being. In essence, this project denies the division into being and non-
-being, proposing the concept of a greater whole instead the entrenched opposition.
Philosophical Genres and Literary Forms: A Mildly Polemical Introduction
Authors: Lavery Jonathan
Published: January 2020

Since the dawn of Western philosophy, its representatives have drawn on innumerable descriptive styles and literary forms by referring to various conceptual issues deeply entrenched in its tradition. Among them, there have been aphorisms, dialogues, letters, autobiographies, essays, systematized treatises, and commentaries. The article offers a polemically oriented review of a relatively meager English-language scholarship on the form-creating role of particular genres of philosophy and hermeneutical postulates inscribed in them. It also discusses an article review published in „Poetics Today” to demonstrate how it exemplifi es the genres of philosophical expression.
Two Freedoms. Philosophical Fragments in Michel Houellebecq’s
Poetry and Prose
Authors: Wójcik Tomasz
Published: January 2020

The article focuses on Michel Houellebecq’s poetry and, taking into account its formal aspects,
analyzes it as an expression of the world view, which centers on the idea of freedom. Such a reading
reveals various meanings of this idea, especially in reference to its philosophical and social
dimensions.
Inspirations, interactions and associations:
On some links between the works of Vladimir Vysotsky and English-,
French- and German-language poetry, theatre and pop music
Authors: Paszkowicz Wojciech
Published: January 2020

The threads binding the poetry of Vladimir Vysotsky with Russian and foreign literature
have a diverse character – some convergences, similarities of his works to those
of other authors can be identifi ed in the content, the subject, and the metre of the poems.
Some of the literary associations are easily detectable for any recipient, others are more
diffi cult to fi nd. The article focuses on the identifi ed links between the works of Vysotsky
and those of foreign authors such as Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Robert Burns, and Bertolt
Brecht. The convergences observed between Vysotsky’s and de Béranger’s poems,
in the subject, form, and metre, indicate the affi nity of the way of thinking and ideals,
as well as both poets’ love of freedom, despite the 150 year gap between their birth
dates. The presented links with literature of the 18th, 19th, and 20th century widen the
opportunities for interpreting the works of Vladimir Vysotsky.
Stanisław Przybyszewski’s and Tadeusz Miciński’s
Literary-Philosophical Discovery of the Infernal Nature of the Internal
World
Authors: Jocz Artur
Published: January 2020

The article examines the intersection of literature with philosophy and religion
as illustrated by the theme of the discovery of the infernal nature of the inner human
world on the basis of selected texts by Stanisław Przybyszewski and Tadeusz Miciński.
The two writers strive to explore not only a transcendent reality, but also an infernal one.
Marian Zdziechowski as a Reader of Zygmunt Krasiński’s Writing. On
Philosophical Complications of Reception History
Authors: Pyda Jakub
Published: January 2020

The paper presents Marian Zdziechowski’s research on Zygmunt Krasiński’s writing.
The critic’s work reaches beyond the reading the romantic poet’s individual works
so as to reconstruct a comprehensive view of the world and humanity as presented
by the author of Nie-Boska komedia. The article also addresses the problem of how
philosophical issues complicate the history of reception.
The Comparative Method and the History of the Modern Humanities
Authors: Griffiths Devin
Published: January 2020

This article studies the modern development of the comparative method in the humanities and social sciences in Europe and the United States, and specifi cally addresses comparative subfi elds of philology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, political science, literature, history, and folklore studies. A juxtapositional study of these disciplinary histories demonstrates the historical relation between their methods and relation to other fi elds, e.g. comparative anatomy. It elucidates several recurrent features of the different applications of comparativism, particularly a consistent tension between genetic (or historical) versus functionalist (or contextual) explanations of common patterns, and suggests that comparatists would benefit from a closer scrutiny of both the history of the method and its development within other fi elds. Ultimately, the article aims to shed new light on the modern history of the humanities, their incomplete differentiation from social-scientific fields such sociology and political science, and the interdisciplinary exchanges that have often shaped entire fields of study.
On the Method and Tasks of the History of Literature as a Science
Authors: Nikołajewicz Wiesiełowski Aleksandr
Published: January 2020

Aleksander Wiesiełowski article On the Method and Tasks of the History of Literature as
a Science is based on his lecture that inaugurated his class in world literature at the University
of Petersburg in 1870, which marks the beginning of the Russian scholar’s affi liation with that
university. Problematizing the understanding of world literature and the methods of its study at
German and French universities, Wiesiełowski describes the usefulness of the comparative method
in the historical study of literature. He assumes that broad generalizations are possible and emphasizes
the applicability of the comparative method across disciplines.
„Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn”
Authors: Gontarski S.E.
Published: January 2020

„Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn” re-examines and reassesses Beckett’s relationship with certain experimental and countercultural forms of and movements in art often called „Decadent” – from his running afoul of the Irish Censorship of Publications Acts in the 1930s to the 1950s, through his search for „literature in the pornography, or beneath the pornography” in his translations of the Marquis de Sade and his battles with the Lord Chamberlain in the mid-1950s over the London productions of his fi rst two plays, to his close professional and personal associations with publishers who celebrated the work of the demimonde. Much of that term encompasses an opening to the fullness of human experience denied in previous centuries, and much of that has been sexual or decadent. Beckett’s aesthetics emerged from such encounters and those associations continued to inform his work and to develop into experimental modes that upended literary models and middle- class values, an aesthetics that, furthermore, has inspired any number of subsequent visual and performance artists.
Beckett in Poland: Challenges for Today
Authors: Wiśniewski Tomasz
Published: January 2020

In this introductory article the international context of Beckett research is confronted with that in Poland. Despite continuous interest in Beckett’s work, Polish reception seems to ignore recent achievements in Beckett studies around the world, which results in a rather specifi c interpretation. The need for Polish translation of James Knowlson’s Damned to Fame is stressed as it would certainly deconstruct somehow idealized image of Beckett that dominates in Polish criticism.
Libera’s Beckett
Authors: Wojtyna Miłosz
Published: January 2020

Antoni Libera, a Beckett ambassador, a translator and a writer himself, has produced a complex network of references to Beckett’s work and biography. This article summarizes aspects of the author-author relationship (anxiety of infl uence, intertextuality, stylistic inspirations, biographical nuances, phantasies, infatuation, anticelebritism) that are revealed in Libera’s writing, as well as claims that the perception of Becket in Poland has been strongly affected by Libera’s writing and biography.