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In Conversation with Ron Athey
Authors: Andrea Pagnes
Published: June 2017

This recent conversation I have had with Ron Athey, one of the most outstanding ground-breaking performance artists of our times, has been made exclusively for LADA (Live Art Development Agency, UK) on early 2015. The agency, on behalf of its director Lois Keidan, is pleased to make it available for Research Catalogue members and readers.
The dialogue includes a discussion around the issues and concerns of contemporary Performance Art as well as an in-depth focus on the work of Ron Athey, past and present. With additional notes by Lisa Newman, a photo selection from the archive of the artist and Manuel Vason's, and Athey's "Devine's Funeral" monologue, originated from Jean Genet's novel "Our Lady of the Flowers".

Ron Athey is an iconic figure in contemporary art and performance. In his frequently bloody portrayals of life, death, crisis, and fortitude in the time of AIDS, Athey provides insights and calls into question the limits of artistic practice and research. These limits enable Athey to explore key themes including gender, sexuality, radical sex, queer activism, post-punk and industrial culture, tattooing and body modification, ritual, philosophy, literature, creative-automatic writings, spirituality and religion. The first monograph on his work, "Pleading in the Blood", edited by Dominic Johnson, is published by LADA and Intellect Books in their Intellect Live series.
TWO BODIES IN SPACE | DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE: The Quest for Authenticity in the VestAndPage Experience
Authors: Andrea Pagnes
Published: June 2017

Andrea Pagnes, from the performance art duo VestAndPage, presents a reflective piece that will become essential reading for anyone interested in durational and related performance practice. The particular focus on research concentrates the importance of the insights in this piece. Pagnes demonstrates the use of performance as a form of personal expression that leads to a greater capacity for sensitive interpretation and understanding.
—Ross Woodrow, Executive Editor Studio Research Journal
Interviews with Massimo Cacciari and Franco Rella
Authors: Andrea Pagnes
Published: June 2017

Two conversations I had with eminent philosophers and thinkers Massimo Cacciari and Franco Rella on aesthetics, contemporary art and art theory issues in the mid 90s. The interviews are in Italian language as in origin.
SPACED, Art Out Of Place
Authors: Andrea Pagnes
Published: June 2017

The experiences of the Free University of Liverpool and
the CyberMohalla project as examples of alternative
education.
Published in: ArtLeaks Gazette n.2, June 2014.
Selected Interviews (2009-2015)
Authors: Andrea Pagnes
Published: June 2017

The exposition consists of 5 selected interviews given by VestAndPage on Performance art issues and their artistic activity:

1. For eBENT by Carlos Pina, 2009
2. For CIPAF by Karolina Lambrou, 2013
3. For IPA by Hatice Utkan, 2013
4. For VIVO/VOD by Jeremy Todd, 2014
5. For PERFORMANCE IS ALIVE by Quinn Dukes, 2015
The Exhibition as Performance. Performance as Research.
Authors: Sabina Pfenninger
Published: June 2017

The project explores the exhibition space as place and part of collective creation of knowledge. It focuses on the aesthetic experience as an epistemic practice, present both in the production of art and in its reception, during which the researching process of art continues. A screenplay constellation is used as a research method to perform the object of research (the exhibition space) as well as the research itself. Thus, production, execution, and presentation of the research process and of its results are intertwined.
some test exp
Authors: Test Author 3
Published: June 2017

this is simply some test
LANDSCAPE, THE ARCHIVE AND ESCAPE
Authors: Klaus Hu
Published: June 2017

Landscape as projection,
economy, the archive and practices of escape.

Exhibition/Installation/Research.

Critical keynote, that challenges
maps and cartography in artistic practice.
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ORBS IN ART.
Authors: Christopher Hollins
Published: June 2017

This exposition documents an attempt to create objects that remove all intelligent ideas of recognition from your powers of observation. The works are designed to generate a condition of mind called Object Recognition Breakdown Syndrome. This condition – known as ORBS – is experienced when we find ourselves faced with an object that upholds none of the values associated to any ideas we hold to give what we see an intelligent form of identity. The purpose of this work is to provoke a sensation generated by animal instinct from the depth of your mind.
Testing audio uploads
Authors: Paul Draper
Published: June 2017

Trailing some issues with uploads and audio transcoding
Sound Presence (Media Portfolio)
Authors: Jan Schacher
Published: June 2017

The media portfolio for 'Sound Presence'
The contemporary nuraghe
Authors: Pasquale Petrucci
Published: June 2017

The Contemporary nuraghe (megalitic monuments
contemporaries)
Digital Art
Pasquale Petrucci

My research was studying the cemeteries of cars scrapped. I discovered that the huge of car wrechs kept many secrets. All with hidden secrets an energy that rose into the sky, just as the megalithic dolmen prehistory of art. The cemeteries of cars or demolition today are the "CONTEMPORARY NURAGHE"
Pasquale Petrucci
Ik hou van jou
Authors: Bas Kalle
Published: June 2017

Just a small test to get to know the interface
Practical Solfège and Music Theory in Violin Education
Authors: Eszter Viczian
Published: June 2017

Nowadays, violin students in conservatoires often learn solfège and music theory by singing and using the piano. For some instruments it is difficult to apply the acquired knowledge because it needs to be ‘translated’ into a different context. The main goal of this study is to get more information of working with an approach where violin playing is integrated into the teaching of solfège and music theory.
At the beginning of the research a literature study was done to consider music learning theories and to analyse violin methods. Then an action research was conducted to take into account the ways in which solfège and music theory can be taught in a group violin lesson context. The lessons took place in the Young Talent Department at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague among 7- to 17-year-old students. The action research consisted of three cycles.
The findings are that students in general had no difficulty with playing by ear and singing with relative sol-fa names. Results from the analysis of the transposition, note naming and writing exercises indicated that students’ knowledge of absolute pitch letter names and the tone- semitone relationships between neighbouring notes were not at the same level. During the evaluation process of students’ answers to these exercises, some violin and theory teachers presumed that the difficulties could emerge partly from the fact that in most violin schools the first note reading exercises are not in C major but in G, D or A major. Hence students easily get confused when they become familiar with some augmented notes (e. g. f sharp, c sharp, g sharp) before they learn how to play and read their natural versions.
My conclusions are that playing by ear and singing with relative sol-fa names can be good basis for teaching the connection between sound and notation. When introducing absolute pitch names it is advisable that violin and solfège teachers compose the content of the lessons together. Transposition exercises from the very early stages using just two-note melodies give good opportunities for applying knowledge into violin playing. For illustrating the tone- semitone relations between the notes Lego models can be used. Singing with ABC or sol-fa names while playing and subsequently notating these transposed notes gives a multimodal experience for students.
The theory of coincidences
Authors: Alberto Magrin
Published: June 2017

The theory of coincidences
'Coincidences' determine an individual’s state of being, balanced and in harmony with the universe. In this sense, coincidences can be understood as nature’s purest law, and beyond nature they represent the perpetual bond between the relative and the absolute, as well as the birth of all forms of life and love. They’re a link between reality and imagination, between desire and fantasy, between the body and the spirit, between life and death. The importance of such moments should form the basis of all scientific, artistic, economic, political and religious laws, as they determine the existence and subsistence of human beings upon the Earth, as well as upon any other planet. As the laws indicated above, like their establishment, are inseparable from one another, this theory becomes the bond that could further the quest, the growth and the evolution of mankind.
The Last Portrait: A microscopic view of transience, mourning and loss
Authors: Lucy Willow
Published: June 2017

In 2009, I began a photographic series of work titled Memento Mori (remember that you are mortal and will die) based on the melancholic symbolism of 17th Century Dutch Vanitas paintings. Appropriating the symbolic language found in these paintings, I was looking to draw attention to the parallel beauty found in both life and death. The images contained rotting fruit, decaying animals, bubbles, extinguished candles and jewellery to serve as a reminder of the transience of everything in life. The paintings held, within them, an understanding of a narrative from 17th Century culture, which warns against the vanities and temptations in life such as wealth, knowledge, lust and earthly pleasure. The narrative emphasises how we ought not to be distracted by these, but remain focussed on the spiritual, the afterlife. I borrowed the symbolism in order to examine mortality. In the reflection of a sad and moth-eaten taxidermied magpie I saw my own grief, resting between its tatty feathers as I photographed its stuffed corpse. I bought a lambs heart and placed it in the centre of a still life, to signify young loss, vulnerability and sadness. I hid any outward signs of mourning amongst a symbolic visual language that found its expression in the photograph. What else could I do? Working into the surface of the photograph with water, I was able to bleed and merge the colours, giving the surface a visceral, opulent quality that made the image feel as though it was disappearing and rotting in the presence of the viewer. The colour was an externalization of what was happening, on the inside: the feeling of dissolving. I was looking to understand death through the arrangements of objects I assembled and photographed. An event, once photographed, becomes more real. I photographed death, drawing it close, feeling its omnipresence intimately in the midst of life. A photograph confirms reality. The scythe of death cuts through all the unnecessary in life, bringing us to stillness at the core of our being, where nothing else exists but a silent longing for the peace it brings.
The Composer/performer tradition, restoring an old tradition
Authors: Joao Carlos Ferreira de Miranda Santos
Published: June 2017

This research focuses on bringing bak the the viewpoint of the composer back into a performer's work
A LETTER FROM A MODERN ARTIST
Authors: Christopher Hollins
Published: June 2017

This letter describes the outline of an individual artists ideology. It presents an insight into the foundation of what drives an artist to create an art object from a personal point of view. Don't let that put you off the validity of the content, because the only way you can come anywhere near to understanding this sensation that an artist encounters is to get an artist to describe it. Studying objects that artist create will not help because all works of art transform the experience that is, at its manifestation, a glimpse of an inherent sensation hidden within our powers of perception. I believe this sensation is a vestige of a primal state of mind that we have evolved to suppress in all we see and do. Whether-or-not this sensation I described is a valid identification of the art experience is not for me to judge. All I can say is that, once the theory of evolution became known, the pioneers of modernism realised traditional practices had arisen to suppress raw animal intuition.
V. Bach - Sheets and tablatures
Authors: Andreas Aase
Published: June 2017

The recording "V. (Bach)" (Øra Fonogram, 2016) is the artistic outcome of my research project "Transcribing Johann Sebastian Bach's Lute Music For Guitar Bouzouki" (2015)[1]. I've slowly arrived at a personal way of playing this material, simplified to fit my small, four-course guitar, and I've tried to maintain a Nordic folk music approach throughout. Some music written for other instruments has been added as well. Consequently, the results deviate quite a bit from the direction of the process documented earlier, and things have kept changing even after the recording, which took place in August of 2016.

These sheets and tablatures correspond as closely as possible to the music on the record, which is accessible through the most common streaming and download services. The conventional sheet music attempts to show what my arrangements actually sound like, irrespective of instrument, but with significant visual simplifications that belie polyphonic richness; this particularly concerns the duration of bass notes, and individual voice-leading within the music. The ear will hopefully compensate for this when the music is sounded. The tablatures, on the other hand, start from my default tuning (bottom to top F - C - G - D), occasionally using a capo to alter the keys, which adhere to Bach's original ones (I use the capo to maintain access to open strings, an important feature in traditional fiddle music). If you play an instrument within the CBOM (Cittern-Bouzouki-Mandolin) family of plucked folk instruments, the tablatures can work with the fingerings represented here in whichever key you find suitable, or maybe you even have access to the tunings listed here on a different part of your instrument than I do - if, say, you play a five-course instrument.The important thing is to work in an essentially fifths-based tuning.

Some of the movement titles are Norwegian-language approximations that are commonly in use among musicians in my part of the world.

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Arranged and performed by Andreas Aase
Produced by Jo Ranheim and Andreas Aase
Mastered by Karl Klaseie
All work conducted at Øra Studio, Trondheim
Supported by Nord Universitet, Levanger, Norway

[1] https://www.researchcatalogue.net/profile/show-exposition?exposition=85891
Folk Music and Classical Western Music
Authors: Aktas Fatih Erdogan
Published: June 2017

What is the relation between Folk Music and Classical Western Music? How does classical composers get feedback from folk music? How do they use that feedback in their composition?
The Poetics of Flesh
Authors: Mike Binzer
Published: June 2017

The exhibition Let Me Remember You as You Were Before You Existed is an exploration of the subtleties of embodied experience drawing on what I call ‘somatic knowledge’—an embodied, preconceptual and nonpropositional type of knowledge. I developed a sensitivity to this form of embodied understanding through intense somatic training—sixteen years of schooling in ballet. The artworks presented in the R.H.W. Foundation Gallery at the MacKenzie Art Gallery are an attempt to examine, through paint, somatic knowledge and to present a sense of embodied experience that challenges the dualisms created by the representational theory of perception.

In an effort to present the subtleties of embodied experience—imminent embodied knowledge and meaning—I have faced the necessity of preventing the spectator from ‘reading’ the artwork and ascribing linguistic meaning to the paintings thereby transcending the materiality of the artworks with linguistic knowledge. Three strategies were implemented in my paintings in an effort to hold the spectator in a space of prelinguistic imminently felt meaning: dis-figuration, indeterminable spaces, and poetic titling. Dis-figuration is the process of reversing the signification of the painted body to present an asignifying flesh. The indeterminable space is meant to further unsettle the signifier-signified relationship by painting a palpable emptiness that is no place, but holds and envelopes the dis-figure. And finally, poetic titling is used for the paintings in an effort to have affective language intensify or point back to the affects presented in the artworks. I hope to exhibit a collection of paintings that present meaning that is not ‘read’, but instead felt, and touch upon a prelinguistic knowledge that expands a sense of who and what we, as human beings, are.
Marking the passage of time in space
Authors: Lucila Nalvarte Maddox
Published: June 2017

This text presents painting as a visual mechanism with which to communicate the otherwise invisible concept of the limitless passage of time in space. To do so, it demonstrates a series of ways through which the mind negotiates with the hand to process painting materials and techniques as part of an attempt to materialise the invisible. Consequently, the act of painting itself becomes both subject and motivating force. This project was first envisioned whilst travelling on a train high up in the Andes. My curiosity, although frightening was well rewarded when suddenly I noticed that the train tracks were not only limitless, but also invisible due to the speed of the train. At that moment, time and space became both eternal and invisible. Elucidating the invisible through sensory and non-sensory perception is not an easy task, for it implicates a conundrum that is no longer exclusively the domain of science but rather that of art and philosophy working in concert.
FOREPLAY -Group exhibition
Authors: Lucy Bleach
Published: June 2017

The project aimed to investigate preparatory methodologies employed in the contemporary art making process by a number of visual artists. The study focussed upon that mostly unseen and typically unexperienced aspect of contemporary art practice, the incubation of the germ of an idea, with its heuristic exploration of the collision between content and form.
The proposition is that an artist’s subjective expression operates in advance of their actual realisation, once they become absorbed in the physical interplay of the various elements of image making. Such interactive sequences actually make for streams of thought, even as they reach into sensory spheres that mostly remain tentative. To achieve the aims of this project it was vital to be able to examine these formative catalysts as well as their visual art outcomes.
The vehicle chosen for investigation and publication was the art exhibition. Five artists presently working in different media were selected. The art exhibition, entitled 'Foreplay', incorporated both resolved artworks and speculative material, was held in the Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, from 28 July to 19 August this year.
A published catalogue with an introductory essay, artist’s statements detailing their art practice, biographies and reproductions of explanatory background material, as well as exhibition artworks, accompanied the exhibition.
'Foreplay' brought to the forefront heuristic material considerations that are the very stuff of an experimental art practice. To this end, it was important that the curators selected artists whose art practice sought expression in the immensely fertile field of the unknown, which in itself established an exhibition platform for risk, chance and proposition.

Curator researchers Associate Lecturer Lucy Bleach and Professor Emeritus Geoff Parr, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania.
Plimsoll Gallery manager Pat Brassington.
In the prison of permanent change
Authors: Gerhard Eckel
Published: June 2017

Put a loudspeaker in a room (this piece cannot be performed in the open air) and play a sine tone with fixed frequency and level of your choice. Make sure that the audience can move freely in the room.
images and their agency
Authors: glad fryer
Published: June 2017

The exposition Images and their Agency presents a text alongside a group of paintings. The text is a reflection on the practice-based research being carried out across a number of paintings concerning images and there agency. This project is ongoing.

We need to grasp both sides of the paradox of the image: that it is alive but also dead; powerful but also weak; meaningful but also meaningless. (wjt Mitchell, what do pictures want)

In the text I respond to W.J.T Mitchell’s suggestion to consider the aliveness and the deadness of images. I take a phenomenological perspective and consider how we experience their power and weakness, their meaning and meaninglessness - how we experience their agency. I do this by critically reflecting on a group of paintings I begun making in 2004; I enquire into the capacity of these paintings to address the agency of the image and how it is felt or experienced.

I am concerned with a common ontological or moral proposition that they as a group of images pose. This proposition of the image is the focus of my practice-based research.

I frame the enquiry into this group of painting through three sets of questions. The first set of questions concerns the image, which is explored through Badiou’s ideas on the truth process. The second concerns the body, which is explored through J. Bennett’s research into affect and trauma. The third concerns Flesh, which is explored through Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological reflections on the relations between eye and mind.
Practicing with a senventeenth century organ handbook: observations on possible approaches of P. Spiridion’s Nova Instructio pro pulsandis organis (1670)
Authors: Adrien Pièce
Published: June 2017

Spiridionis a Monte Carmelo’s Nova instructio pro pulsandis organis […] (Bamberg, 1670) is a noteworthy source for keyboard improvisation in the south German, Italian-fashioned style. This handbook, which is located directly in Frescobaldi’s legacy and which often quotes him, offers tools to master musical forms that are useful for liturgical improvisation.  Conceived as a compendium of musical patterns, the publication contains few textual elements. It allows the player full freedom to combine, assimilate and create his own music with musical elements such as cadentiae, passaggi and canzonette. This paper attempts to describe how such a source can be brought to life through a personal practice which involves both experience and analysis.
The cousin of the North
Authors: Sara Benaglia
Published: June 2017

Comparison between two performative artists about their practice: Adamse is from Chile while Marcello Maloberti is from Italy
I'll be Gone Again: Documenting the Virtual Body
Authors: Ruth Benschop
Published: June 2017

I’ll be gone was a project in which two groups of students from different backgrounds and theatre traditions worked together with artist Peter Missotten to create a performance at the Maastricht Theatre School. In the project they explored virtual technologies as part of a larger project called The Virtual Body. In order to research the way in which virtuality was at stake in the project, a documentation of the working process was made. The documentation aims to discuss as well as embody issues that are also at stake in performance and virtuality – such as the relationship between real/non-real and live/non-live. Moreover, the documentation tries to take seriously questions about why, how and for whom one would want to maintain what to all intents and purposes has gone: I’ll be gone.
Two Ways of Seeing: Looking to Recognise or Looking to Unkowing
Authors: Christopher Hollins
Published: June 2017

A short essay outlining the founding principle of modern art as a search for an inherent way of sensing that once allowed us to look at objects and events without learned understanding.
Approaching the Essay as Artistic Research
Authors: Corina Caduff
Published: June 2017

Up to now the essay has rarely been mentioned in the context of the discourse of artistic research. But, in fact, the essay as well as the discourse about it is shaped by a number of topoi which are very similar to the ones that are prevalent in discussions about artistic research: The essay combines modes of narrative and reflection, it occupies a contentious space in between academia and artistic practice, and its definition proves to be a constant point of controversy among its practitioners. The contribution can be understood as a plea for the reader to appreciate the essay as a method of artistic research.
Abating Aesthetic character
Authors: Christopher Hollins
Published: June 2017

This essay looks to the idea that removing aesthetic character from art provokes an inherent natural way of sensing objects and events from our minds. This concept sees controlled meaningful content in art as the basis of intellectual values that work to suppress a view that only comes to mind when these values are absent from our thoughts. I am looking to see art as a tool that can be used to give recall of an innate inborn form of awareness that we inherit from our animal origins but now keep dormant in day-to-day awareness, and my assertion is that we have evolved to suppress this original experience through controlling how we create art through intelligent learned understanding. If an artist is unaware of this they will be working to suppress, rather than reveal, these old dormant powers of perception. I have used  A Note on the physical object hypothesis by Richard Wollheim as the basis of this enquiry, and I am looking to understand that when an artist removes all controlled ways of working and intellectual ideas from what they do – by working through chance and accident – the end result creates a catalyst that triggers the return of our old ability to sense through animal instinct.
Autenticitet
Authors: Héctor García-Jorquera
Published: June 2017

Kanske är autenticitet som ett verktyg för att skapa situationer där människor kan mötas. Detta i motsats till det utbredda sociala paradigmet kring den relationella köp-säljmodellen. På grund av att köp-säljmodellen står som ett självklart paradigm så möts vi inte längre som människor. Då menar jag att kommersialismen hat tagit över en stor del av de mänskliga relationerna. Är det så att själva meningen med att existera nästan har raderats? Detta är ett klart resultat av kolonialismen, men inte bara i relation till nord-sydkonflikten utan även att kolonialismen som diskurs och praktik finns som en del av grunden i alla våra patriarkala referenser sen mer än 3000 år tillbaka (läs antika Grekland, Rom, Persian, Indien). Med detta vill jag säga att också den vanligaste praktiken i barbarernas tider just var att radera alla referenser till andra sätt att förstå våra relationer. De har bränt och förstört spåren till ”den andre”.
Drawing the Trans-body
Authors: Michael Schwab
Published: June 2017

This text introduces and contextualises my use of 'figure' and 'second-order artefact' in order to explain the visual operations at play in much of my research. Following both Merleau-Ponty and Lyotard, it argues that notions of 'Gestalt' need to be complicated and that what we consider to be a 'body' needs to be challenged. With reference to Didi-Huberman and Ranciere, an alternative way is sought that can explain how a shape may think.
Primary
Authors: Marc Goodwin
Published: June 2017

Discussions on photography circulate around reality, transparency, power, authorship and meaning. Convincing narratives define how photography has been used and thought of. It is taken for granted that history follows the arrow of time, thus is written after things have happened. But narratives create ruptures, changing the future of the past. Therefore, instead of looking at photography from the present backwards, what if we look from the future instead? What would that tell us about the present? Science fiction as a literary genre forces a reconceptualisation of the practice of knowledge.
This article takes place in the future.
YOU ARE NOT A SALMON
Authors: Massimo Pianese
Published: June 2017

YOU ARE NOT A SALMON is a multidisciplinary and cross-media project that moves its action within the orbit of the concept of “reversals of flows”: natural dynamics that only superficially appear to subvert the established order – typical of a certain western vision- in a becoming which highlights the innate vocation of nature to challenge herself, but this also applies its own laws and prejudice itself perfect and flawless. One example is the salmon, a living being with unique features: born in fresh water, grows in the sea and reached maturity, traces the river
current to return there where was born to reproduce himself. The instinct leads him to make a gesture that seems paradoxical (trace the current), but which in reality behind delicate and precise trim. The man followed this founding principle in accomplishing his own evolution, applied chemistry, genetics, physics, pursuing an engineering, developing a model with controversial results. The project is a permanently work in progress and has several development areas; it has been shown in a solo exhibition at Placentia Art Gallery, Italy (April 2012 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtX5IO6BNyI) and it was the residency project developed during the AIR at Villa Sträuli, Winterthur, Switzerland. (July-December 2012). YOU ARE NOT A SALMON was hosted as a project of study and analysis during the works of the conference Change Course Conference convened by The Club of Rome, Theater of Winterthur, December 2012.
Until now, the project has been developed in very different contexts, always looking for interaction with the pubblic and the local community.
More info at http://youarenotasalmon-project.blogspot.it
Complete research 2006 2014
Authors: Massimo Pianese
Published: June 2017

A complete overview of the artistic research conducted from 2006 to 2014
Aspectos Comerciales del Esquema del Cargo por Confiabilidad en el Mercado Eléctrico Colombiano
Authors: Bedoya Juan Carlos , Ariel Rodas Edwin , García Diego Felipe
Published: June 2017

El Cargo por Confiabilidad en Colombia es un esquema de remuneración que permite hacer viable la inversión en los recursos de generación necesarios para garantizar la expansión del parque de generación bajo señales de eficiencia económica para la atención de la demanda de energía eléctrica incluso bajo condiciones críticas de abastecimiento, a través de señales de largo plazo con las cuales se busca la estabilización de los ingresos de los generadores. En este artículo se presenta una descripción de las componentes comerciales del cargo por confiabilidad con el objetivo de describir de manera sencilla el funcionamiento de este esquema y su impacto en el Mercado de Energía Eléctrica Colombiano.
Robótica quirúrgica, desde los grandes asistentes hasta la nanotecnología
Authors: Chaparro Velasco Maria Cristina , Vivas Albán Óscar Andrés
Published: June 2017

En este artículo se hace una revisión del desarrollo de la robótica quirúrgica empezando por los primeros robots industriales utilizados en procedimientos médicos, siguiendo con los grandes asistentes robóticos para cirugía abdominal, los mini y micro robots, sus tipos y diferentes aplicaciones, y finalmente se muestran los nano robots diseñados para aplicaciones quirúrgicas.  El objetivo es mostrar una visión general de las últimas actualizaciones en cirugía robótica y las potenciales aplicaciones de esta y de nuevas tecnologías en diferentes procedimientos quirúrgicos, además de exponer las ventajas y desventajas de los diferentes sistemas robóticos
Climatério, saúde e depressão, uma abordagem psicossocial: Estudo exploratório com um grupo de mulheres da cidade do México
Authors: Real Guadalupe Alva , Jiménez Jorge Luis López , González Clotilde García
Published: June 2017

O objetivo do estudo foi avaliar a saúde no climatério e nas manifestações depressivas. Estudo descritivo, exploratório e observacional, N=48 mulheres, avaliadas por meio da Escala de Avaliação da Menopausa (Menopause Rating Scale, MRS) e da Escala de Auto-Avaliação da Depressão, de Zung (SDS), para os sintomas e manifestações depressivss. Foram relatados: cansaço físico e mental, insônia, dores musculares, irritabilidade, ondas de calor e sintomas de depressão. A saúde durante o climatério é relevante para a clínica, a medicina preventiva, e para os cuidados no envelhecimento. Palavras-chave: Climatério; Saúde física e mental; Depressão.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COST ANALYSIS METHODS FOR MAINLINE FREIGHT RAILWAY TRANSPORT
Authors: Pomazunova Tatiana Nikolaevna , Kotova Tatyana Vladimirovna , Chernikina Elena Vladimirovna
Published: June 2017

Production cost is an important indicator of the industrial and economic activity of the organization. The amount of profit and profitability depends on cost optimization. The cost reflects all aspects of the enterprise: the degree of equipment of the production, operating capacity, material and labor resources. The article studies the aspects of analysis and cost optimization for the railway infrastructure in the Russian Federation. There have been revealed shortcomings in current practice for Distance of civil water supply and drainage facilities. The technique of optimization of cost analysis for the infrastructure of JSC "Russian Railways" is under consideration. The article offers an algorithm for cost-benefit analysis taking into account the peculiarities of railway transport under cost optimization. The authors highlight main factors affecting the costs of linehaul cargo railway transport, study stages of implementation of the cost analysis methods, which considers peculiarities of the railway transport. It can be inferred that using cost analysis methods the enterprise can control all costs as well as factors influencing them, which will help to find reserves for reducing costs and upgrading the quality of services offered by the Distance.The use of cost-benefit analysis methodology, taking into account the peculiarities of rail transport comply with the requirements of internal control in managing costs.
RESEARCH APPROACHES TO MONETARY FLOW OPTIMIZATION SUBJECT TO SELECTED FACTORS AND CONTROL MEASURES REDUCING THE RISK OF BANKRUPTCY OF THE ORGANIZATION
Authors: Fedorova Lyudmila Ivanovna , Dzhezheliy Svetlana Vyacheslavovna
Published: June 2017

In modern conditions the competitiveness of organizations is provided by rational management decisions, which are taken depending on various factors and their impact on the cash flows of the organization. The theme of the study of factors and control measures influencing cash flow management for reducing the risk of bankruptcy is in all respects one of the most controversial and much cited. In the course of study the authors have summarized the approaches of Russian and foreign authors towards the concept "cash flow", revealed certain problems in the quality of decisions, arranged the factors increasing the degree of their effectiveness and directly affecting the financial performance of the organization. Application in the work of the organization of individual elements ("morale") of the group of environmental factors and standards of internal reporting will improve the efficiency of managerial decision-making in part of cash flows from different activities.
THE IMPACT OF THE AGREEMENT ON THE AUTOMATIC EXCHANGE OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION ONTO THE RUSSIAN SYSTEM OF COMBATING MONEY LOUNDERING
Authors: Grinyakin Stanislav Aleksandrovich
Published: June 2017

Today, in the context of crisis, many managers of large corporations seek to protect their financial investments by their legalization and further withdrawal into the offshore zone. In the recent decade in many countries the problems of combating economic crimes related to money laundering are solved at the national level. The article highlights the need to improve legislation and strengthen activities in this direction.The authors consider different possible schemes of money laundering, participating of credit and financial institutions in such schemes being a unifying factor. Lack of governmental controls over legality of financial transactions, absence of precise criteria resulted in working out the Multilateral agreement of Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on cooperation between the competent authorities on the problems of automatic information exchange, which is the part of OECD Standard about automatic exchange of financial information. Adoption of OESD Standard by Russia leads to increased complexity and insecurity of operations of certain credit and financial organizations, but will make the procedure of provision of account information more transparent eliminating possibility to dodge taxes by money laundering for businesses.
Education Game of Javanese Language for 2nd Grade of Elementary Schools
Authors: Bagaskara Irse Surya
Published: June 2017

Local language is the language that is often used to communicate in daily life, but in the case studies in the field are very different. Some kids are more frequently using Indonesian language to communicate with each other. And it makes kids dont understand about Java language lessons at school. Because of that we hope this game "Si Nau" can be the alternate of learning media, so that kids can be more understand about java language lessons at school.In this research contains the result about how to formulate an interesting game about java language. formulate a game that include gameplay, delivery method so that kids can understand about Java language, the impact of game "Si Nau" against children. The survey result of this research, the most of children become interested in Java language lessons at school or in the neighborhood they lives, the children are also able to understand the java language lessons at school. and some parents also makes this game "Si Nau" as the alternate of learning media at home
TRANSCENDENT JUSTICE? LEGAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
Authors: COPOERU Ion , CHIŞ Andrea-Annamaria
Published: June 2017

In this paper, we shall use the perspectival view on justice in an attempt to accommodate the transcendent view on justice with the adversarial practice of justice. Its main idea is that, before seeing justice as administration, it has to be seen in itself. The first section of the paper discusses the meaning of justice from a phenomenological point of view, which enables us to envision justice as transcendent. The second section of the paper describes the pluri-perspectivism of law and justice on the procedural level. Through a series of reflections upon the procedural aspects as they are operating in the Romanian judiciary, we show how the plurality of perspectives tends to converge and finds its resolution in the rule of law and Modern democracy.
Ilencfalvi Szász Gerő (1831–1904) kéziratos hagyatékának feldolgozása
Authors: GERÉB Miklós
Published: June 2017

Processing the Manuscripts of Szász Gerő of Ilencfalva (1831–1904)
Szász Gerő was one of the most determining figures of the Transylvanian Reformed Church during the last quarter of the 19th century. He was dean in Kolozsvár, editor of the Prédikátori Tár (an omnibus volume of 35 Transylvanian preachers) and also editor of Erdélyi Protestáns Közlöny (the main, official newspaper of Transylvanian Reformed Church at that time.) Later he was elected vice bishop, and he stood very close to becoming even bishop of the church. His career, unfortunately, was broken when he lost the reliance of bishop Szász Domokos. He also wrote many poems, however, by publishing them, he never scored full marks from critics. We can admire his portrait also looking to the statue of King Matthew in Kolozsvár, since one of the king’s captains was modelled by Szász Gerő. We can find his manuscripts at the Central Archives of Transylvanian Reformed Church under mark „F2”. This short essay aims to introduce how many and what kind of sermons we can find between Szász Gerő’s manuscripts and to show the circumstances of their formation, and the author’s attitude to bible-passages has used.
Versengés egy iskoláért – avagy hogyan lett Komáromé a református tanítóképző-intézet a két világháború között
Authors: Attila LÉVAI
Published: June 2017

Rivalry for a School - or, how Had Komárom Possessed the Reformed Teacher Training Institute between the World Wars.
This study examines the multiple problem of teacher education in the Reformed Church after the first world war. There were several teacher training colleges in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where Reformed teachers studied, too. Of course the Reformed Church had its own teacher training colleges as well. On that score the supply of Reformed teachers in the Church was guaranteed. However, at the end of 1910, the General Convent of Hungarian Reformed Church reported the lack of teachers, especially on the northern part of the country. In the 1920´s Pálóczi Czinke István wrote a Memorandum to the prime minister. In that Memorandum he depicted all the thwarting in the Reformed Church, which were caused by Treaty of Trianon. Additionally, he submitted all the rightful demands of the Reformed Church in Czechoslovak Republic. One of these demands was the need of a Reformed teacher training college. Pálóczi Czinke István further subjected to the prime minister the necessity of the grant-in-aid from the government for Church institutions. The very first supporter of the teacher training college was Károly Patay, the chairman of the educational commission of the Convent. In 1922, on the seating of General Convent in Pozsony, the Convent decided that the teacher training college should be established in Komárom. At that time nobody would ever presumed that the Congregation of Komárom had to emulate for the college with the Congregation of Érsekújvár, then with the Congregation of Rimaszombat, and finally, in 1938 with the Congregation of Léva. Finally, Komárom got the right of establishment of the Reformed teacher training college.
Hogyan lehetetlenítsünk el anyagilag egy kollégiumot? – A Nagyenyedi Református Kollégium csődjének okai az 1870-es években –
Authors: Olga LUKÁCS
Published: June 2017

An Example of the Financial Breakdown of a College. (Reasons for the Bankruptcy of the Nagyenyed College in the 1870s)
In the time following the revolution, the Nagyenyed College (Main Study Institution) rose just like a phoenix and, because of good organization, in the 1860s it has gained fame once again. In 1868, however, another turn of events put an end to its good financial situation and recovery. This event had a great impact on the future development of pastors’ education. So much so that the turn of events itself brought into question the survival of the institution and its competence in theological education. To keep track of the presented events, a brief description of the economic situation, the supervision and the operation of the Main Study Institution is needed.
In Transylvanian Reformed schools the supervision of the church district was carried out by the School Leadership Board made up of the curators and the school teachers. Within the limits of religious legislation, the Board had disposal of all school income. Each year, this body presented a report on the school’s financial situation to the Church District Administrative Council. Property sale or acquisition was only possible with the consent of this Council.
From the revolution to 1868, a church district trustee – the so called inspector-curator –, Ferenc Fosztó handled the financial affairs of the college alone, the school leadership having little to say in the matter.
After 1868, a teacher – the so called inspector-professor –, Dániel Kasza took over handling the financial situation of the school. Apart from the current affairs, Kasza handled all matters with the consent of the School Board, having to report to it. In the period of Dániel Kasza the financial situation of the college flourished. Without lessening the school’s capital, three new teachers’ homes were built, teachers’ salaries were raised, new departments were created, the best students could go abroad on scholarships, new properties and agricultural equipment was bought.
However, following Kasza’s death, no teacher wanted to take on the work that he has done with great commitment, for free. In this period, wasting and selfishness has grown to such proportions that the college was on the brink of financial collapse.
The study presents those events which lead to the near bankruptcy of the Nagyenyed College by 1879. It presents the debates and lawsuits, which were proven to be barren initiatives and in the end, no one could be held accountable.
During the stormy debates on the financial situation of the Nagyenyed College, the Ferencz József University was established and solidified in Kolozsvár (Cluj). These two facts highly influenced the new dilemma of the next two decades, which, apart from the financial collapse of the Nagyenyed College, aimed at moving the education of Reformed pastors to Cluj. As a final closure of the debate, pastors’ education was finally moved to Cluj in 1895.
Keresztelő János és tanítványai
Authors: LÉSZAI Lehel
Published: June 2017

John the Baptist and His Disciples.
John the Baptist and his disciples have an exceptional importance for our research, because chronologically and in other important ways, they are very close to Jesus and his disciples. Their chronological proximity is proven by their almost simulta-neous conception, their activity, and finally their execution. John the Baptist pre-pared the way for Christ through his ministry. He gathered disciples and taught them to pray. He fasted together with his disciples. We have to leave open the ques-tion of his contact with Qumran and his relationship to the Essenes. In some re-spects there are similarities between him and Jesus, but there cannot be denied the differences, first of all regarding the ascetic way of life. Because of his uncompromis-ing preaching and the upholding of the banner of truth he had to suffer a violent death. Through his death he becomes a part of the prophet’s fatal destiny.
Nevelési modellek a Példabeszédek könyvében
Authors: MOLNÁR János
Published: June 2017

Education Models in the Book of Proverbs.
The study draws up, describes and presents education models demonstrating the book's pedagogical topicality in the present pedagogical activity. The study also treats issues of history of literature, authorship and genesis period as well as issues regarding the origin of the collection found in the book. It details the notion of Hebrew wisdom, the activity of the wise who teach, respectively the initial phases of the subsequently funded schools. The study specifies and presents five education models: nursing, guiding, ruling, supporting self-development and social sensitivity. The author emphasizes and illustrates the pedagogical topicality of the book.
Transformations of cultural norms and values among youth in Arab Mediterranean countries through a gender perspective
Authors:   University of Milano-Bicocca, Camozzi Ilenya , Cherubini Daniela ,   University of Milano-Bicocca, Leccardi Carmen ,   University of Milano-Bicocca, Rivetti Paola ,   Dublin City University
Published: June 2017

This paper examines the changes and continuities in cultural gender norms and values, gender roles, gender relations and the family, as expressed and lived by the younger generations in Arab Mediterranean countries. It aims at highlighting both the tensions and conflicts and the innovative meanings relating to gender that have been emerging; and to compare the experience and points of view of young people in different social positions (due to their gender, social class, place of residence) and in different countries. The analysis of the transformation of cultural norms and values from a gender perspective is connected with broader transformations of conditions of life and biographical transition to adulthood, before and after the popular mobilisations of 2010–2011. The first part of the paper discusses the process of change in life transitions, drawing on the existing literature and secondary data. The second part of the paper is dedicated to the analysis of the empirical findings collected through the ethnographic fieldwork and the survey in Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia and Egypt.