bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Insights into the species diversity of the genus Sargassum (Phaeophyceae) in the Mediterranean Sea, with a focus on a pre-viously unnoticed taxon from Algeria
Authors: AOUISSI MOUNIA , SELLAM LOUIZA NESRINE , BOUDOURESQUE CHARLES F. , BLANFUNÉ AURELIE , DERBAL FARID , FRIHI HOCINE , PERRET-BOUDOURESQUE MICHELE , REBZANI-ZAHAF CHAFIKA , VERLAQUE MARC , THIBAUT THIERRY
Published: June 2018

Nine currently accepted species of the genus Sargassum (Phaeophyceae) have been recorded from the Mediterranean Sea: S. acinarium, S. desfontainesii, S. flavifolium, S. furcatum, S. hornschuchii, S. muticum, S. ramentaceum, S. trichocarpum and S. vulgare. Two of them, S. desfontainesii and S. furcatum, are Atlantic species, the Mediterranean range of which is restricted to the Alboran Sea, close to the Strait of Gibraltar. Three species, S. hornschuchii, S. ramentaceum and S. trichocarpum are endemic to the Mediterranean. The presence of S. flavifolium in the Mediterranean, a north-eastern Atlantic species, is at least in part based upon a misidentification and therefore requires confirmation. A taxon collected near Algiers and Annaba (Algeria), here referred to as ‘Sargassum sp. from Algeria’, although sharing most characters with S. flavifolium, also presents some distinctive characters. In the absence of genetic data, confirming or not its taxonomic value, and in the lack of studies on the herbaria containing the types of many species currently considered as synonyms of S. flavifolium, but which are possible candidates for accommodating the Algerian specimens, the authors prefer a conservative approach. They do not describe a new species, which would be premature, but draw attention to a taxon which may be more widely distributed in the Mediterranean rather than solely along the Algerian coasts.
Distribution of Engraulis encrasicolus eggs and larvae in relation to coastal oceanographic conditions (the South-western Adriatic Sea case study)
Authors: MALAVOLTI SARA , De FELICE ANDREA , COSTANTINI ILARIA , BIAGOTTI ILARIA , CANDUCI GIOVANNI , GRILLI FEDERICA , MARINI MAURO , TIRELLI VALENTINA , BORME DIEGO , CAPUTO BARUCCHI VINCENZO , LEONORI IOLE
Published: June 2018

Identification of potential spawning and nursery areas of European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) represents an essential step in the management of a resource which is of fundamental importance both for fishery and pelagic trophic web. Egg and larvae occurrence from ichthyoplankton surveys (2012 - 2015) in the South Western Adriatic Sea were examined to understand the mechanisms that control their distribution. Egg and larvae densities varied through the years with the highest values recorded in 2012 and the lowest in 2014. Positive correlations between eggs and larvae with zooplankton were observed. When quotient analysis was used to find relations with environmental and biological variables, the results pointed out an egg preference for depth between 91 and 120 m and an avoidance between 11 and 30 m. Moreover, egg avoidances for high values of chlorophyll-a (> 0.52 mg m-3) and low values of zooplankton biomass (< 199 mg m-2) were highlighted. On the other hand, different ranges of habitat preferences and avoidances were observed for larvae: preference range of depth between 11 and 60 m and avoidance > 151 m; preference for high zooplankton biomass (> 1000 mg m-2) and avoidance for low biomass (< 299 mg m-2). These correlations and the quotient values suggest that egg and larvae distribution in the South-Western Adriatic Sea is mainly driven by food availability and depth.
Assessing the socio-economic impacts of priority marine invasive fishes in the Mediterranean with the newly proposed SEICAT methodology
Authors: GALANIDI MARIKA , ZENETOS ARGYRO , BACHER SVEN
Published: June 2018

The assessment of impacts of alien species is one of the most critical steps for the prioritisation of policy and management actions and this requires assessment schemes that can compare impacts across different taxa, ecosystems and socio-economic contexts. The Environmental and Socio-Economic Impact Classification of Alien Species (EICAT and SEICAT) are two methodologies that facilitate such comparisons. They classify alien taxa along a 5-level, semi-quantitative scale based on the magnitude of their impacts on the environment and human well-being, respectively. In this study, we applied both protocols to seven invasive marine fishes that that are already considered “high-risk” and have been singled out for monitoring in relation to fisheries in the Mediterranean (Plotosus lineatus, Pterois miles/volitans, Fistularia commersonii, Lagocephalus sceleratus, Siganus rivulatus/Siganus luridus and Saurida lessepsianus). Here, we focus in particular on their socio-economic impacts. By systematically reviewing the published literature and scoring the demonstrated impacts we show that the taxa with the highest environmental impacts (Major) are P. miles/volitans and the two siganids. In contrast, L. sceleratus had the highest socio-economic impact (Moderate) and highest number of impact records. The high and uniform densities of P. lineatus caused widespread, albeit less severe, impacts in the invaded areas. Human activities that are primarily affected by the selected taxa are commercial and recreational fishing and other recreational uses of the sea through impacts on, mainly, material assets and human health. We found significant data gaps regarding the species’ environmental impacts, especially relating to predation, and make specific recommendations for future research. The links between environmental and socio-economic impacts, especially their cultural dimensions, are poorly documented and require novel approaches. Surveys specifically adapted to capture the distinction between socio-economic impact classes would strengthen our confidence in the assessments and better inform prioritisation and decision-making.
Reconciling Trends of Mean Trophic Index and Mean Temperature of the Catch in the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Seas
Authors: KESKIN ÇETIN , PAULY DANIEL
Published: June 2018

The mean trophic level, i.e., the Mean Trophic Index (MTI) and Mean Temperature of the Catch (MTC) were estimated for Turkish waters in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea based on the reconstructed marine fisheries catches (consisting of N = 88 species and/or higher taxa) of in Turkish waters for the year 1950 to 2010. The MTI decreased in both regions of Turkey, following expectations, but the MTC showed different trends in these two regions. It increased (by 0.48 °C·decade-1), along with the SST in the Eastern Mediterranean, while it fluctuated in the Black Sea. This fluctuating behaviour, however, was similar to the fluctuating tendency of SST in the Black Sea. This suggests that the MTI and MTC can be relied upon as indicators of fisheries impacts on ecosystems, and of the impact of changing temperatures on fisheries, respectively.
Native, invasive and cryptogenic Ulva species from the Israeli Mediterranean Sea: risk and potential
Authors: KRUPNIK NIMROD , PAZ GUY , DOUEK JACOB , LEWINSOHN EFRAIM , ISRAEL ALVARO , CARMEL NAVA , MINEUR FRÉDÉRIC , MAGGS CHRISTINE A.
Published: June 2018

The genus Ulva (Chlorophyta) is ubiquitous along Israeli Mediterranean shores where it has been studied extensively due to its important ecological role and potential value in biotechnology and aquaculture. Previous identifications of Ulva in Israel were based only on morphology. Here, we compare species found in 2002 and in 2014-2016. Analyses of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rbcL) and elongation factor 1-alpha (tufA) plastid genes (2014-2016 samples only), combined with morphological data, identified six Ulva species, three of which are new records for Israel and probably originate from the Indo-Pacific. Ulva compressa, rarely found in 2002, is now the most abundant species and exhibits two fairly distinct morphologies correlated with different haplotypes for both genes.  Ulva fasciata was found more commonly in 2002 than in 2014-16, whereas the morphologically similar, and closely related, invasive species U. ohnoi seemed more frequent in recent samples.  The finely branched tubular Ulva tepida was found in 2002 and 2015/16, and U. chaugulii and U. mediterranea were discovered for the first time in 2015/16.  The changing Ulva flora of the Israeli Mediterranean may be correlated with major environmental changes including 3°C increase in sea surface temperatures over the last two decades, as well as a generally increasing prevalence of non-native species.  The local Ulva species now found in Israel could be of value for various industrial uses.
Seasonal dynamics of small-scale fisheries in the Adriatic Sea
Authors: GRATI FABIO , ALADZUZ ADMIR , AZZURRO ERNESTO , BOLOGNINI LUCA , CARBONARA PIERLUIGI , ҪOBANI MIMOZA , DOMENICHETTI FILIPPO , DRAGICEVIC BRANKO , DULCIC JAKOV , ÐUROVIC MIRKO , IKICA ZDRAVKO , JOKSIMOVIC ALEKSANDAR , KOLITARI JERINA , MARCETA BOJAN , MATIC-SKOKO SANJA , VRDOLJAK DARIO , LEMBO GIUSEPPE , SANTOJANNI ALBERTO , SPEDICATO MARIA TERESA , STAGLICIC NIKA , VRGOC NEDO , ZEREM NIJAZ , ARNERI ENRICO , CERIOLA LUCA , MILONE NICOLETTA
Published: June 2018

The main aim of the present study is to increase the knowledge on the seasonal dynamics of the set gears used by Adriatic small-scale fisheries (SSFs) through the collation of data (landings, fishing effort, composition of catches, length-frequency distributions of target species and economic value of landings) on target species,. The study focused on the three set gears mainly used in the basin: gillnets, trammel nets and traps. The results confirmed that SSFs are diverse, complex and dynamic, representing an economic and social engine and providing seafood and employment to local economies. In the Adriatic Sea, SSFs exploit coastal fishing grounds where the seasonal fluctuations of the physical and chemical parameters of the water column strongly influence the occurrence of the different species. Because of this, many different types of set gears are currently used to catch a pool of target species over the year. Fishermen use more than one set gear during the year and tend to increase the fishing effort when the target species concentrate inside the coastal areas during the recruitment or the spawning season. Accordingly, landings reached the highest values during such periods and often include a large portion of juveniles and/or spawners. The study highlighted that the lack of appropriate data and complete statistics is still one of the main constraints for most of the Adriatic coastal countries, as few countries have in place routinely monitoring programs while others are dealing mostly with estimates. These gaps often have the effect of marginalizing and undervaluing the real role of SSFs in a Blue Growth process.
HIV treatment and monitoring patterns in routine practice: a multi-country retrospective chart review of patient care
Authors: Musa Baba M , Ibekwe Everistus , Mwale Stanley , Eurien Daniel , Oldenburg Catherine , Chung Gary , Heller Richard F
Published: June 2018

Background: A study of patient records in four HIV clinics in three sub-Saharan African countries examined routine clinical care patterns and variations.

Methods: Clinic characteristics were described, and patient data extracted from a sample of medical records. Data on treatment, CD4 count and viral load (VL) were obtained for the last visit in the records, dates ranging from 2015 to 2017, patient demographic data were obtained from the first clinic visit.

Results: Four clinics, two in Nigeria, one in Zambia and one in Uganda, all public facilities, using national HIV treatment guidelines were included. Numbers of patients and health professionals varied, with some variation in stated frequency of testing for CD4 count and VL. Clinical guidelines were available in each clinic, and most drugs were available free to patients. The proportion of patients with a CD4 count in the records varied from 84 to 100 percent, the latest median count varied from 269 to 593 between clinics. 35% had a record of a VL test, varying from 1% to 63% of patients. Lamivudine (3TC) was recorded for more than 90% of patients in each clinic, and although there was variation between clinics in the choice of antiretroviral therapy (ART), the majority were on first line drugs consistent with guidelines.  Only about 2% of the patients were on second-line ARTs. In two clinics, 100% and 99% of patients were prescribed co-trimoxazole, compared with 7% and no patients in the two other clinics.

Conclusions: The wide variation in available clinic health work force, levels and frequency of CD4 counts, and VL assessment and treatment indicate sub-optimal adherence to current guidelines in routine clinical care. There is room for further work to understand the reasons for this variation, and to standardise record keeping and routine care of HIV positive patients.
COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT MODIFICATIONS OF METHODS OF RADIATION THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH CERVICAL CANCER
Authors: Гордиенко Виктор , Gordienko Viktor , Миргородская Вероника , Mirgorodskaya Veronika , Камышова Наталья , Kamyshova Natalia , Мажарова Ольга , Mazharova Olga
Published: June 2018

The aim of the research is to make a comparative evaluation of the results of treatment of cervical cancer in patients who had the radiation therapy with the application of the modes of sequential and parallel methods of bringing the dose to the pathological focus. The results of combined radiation therapy in 120 patients with cervical cancer were analyzed. Depending on the treatment tactics, the patients were divided into 2 groups of 60 patients who underwent a sequential or parallel method of bringing the dose to the lesion and regional metastasis routes, when the total focal dose in both cases matched the optimally required parameters – 80-85 Gr in the primary tumor and points "A" and 60 Gr in points "B". Distance radiation therapy was carried out 5 times a week, followed by a break of 3-5 weeks and a further application of the intracavitary method. In the second case, a daily distance therapy was carried out to a total focal dose of 18 Gr, after which the number of sessions per week decreased to 3 times and in some days (2 times a week) there was done an intracavitary treatment. The following results were obtained: an objective therapeutic effect was observed in 108 (90%) patients. Full tumor regression was recorded in 95 (87.9%), partial – in 12.1%, and failures were detected in 10% of women. During the three-year follow-up period, 20.0% of patients of the first group and 10.9% of the second group showed progression of the disease manifested by recurrence in the irradiation zones, recurrence+metastases and metastases of the primary tumor, usually in the inguinal and paraaortic lymph nodes, pelvic bones, liver, lungs. The median of remission duration in the first group was 20 months with a three-year survival rate of 68.0%, and in the second it was 26 and 82.0%, respectively. Complications in the form of mucous response to radiation exposure, radiation cystitis, proctitis, enterocolitis in the second group of patients were significantly less common than in the first. Thus, for the treatment of patients with cervical cancer, the most effective is the use of combined radiation therapy in parallel irradiation.
GENETIC RESEARCHES OF DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS: LITERATURE REVIEW
Authors: Платонкина Татьяна , Platonkina Tatyana , Боговин Лариса , Bogovin Larisa , Наумов Денис , Naumov Denis , Овсянкин Александр , Ovsyankin Aleksandr
Published: June 2018

This work is devoted to the review of genetic researches in the field of etiology and development of depressive disorders. The interest to depression is caused by high prevalence and increasing frequency of this disease in the world and its negative influence on the ability to work and social activity of a man. Depression is a heterogenic disorder, in the pathogenesis of which both genetic factors and the conditions of micro-and macroenvironment play an important role. The study of polymorphisms of gene-candidates as well as consequences from the totaling of these effects can help to define the degree of disposition to depressive disorders. According to modern theories, a special role in pathogenesis and dynamics of depression belong to the pathology of molecular components of neurochemical structures of central nervous system and genes that code them. The most known genes, for which the correlation with anxiety, depression or their separate symptoms was found, are the genes of 5-serotonin transporters HIT, noradrenalin NET, dopamines DAT1 and D4DR, neurotropic brain factor BDHF, serotonin receptors of HTR1A, HTR2A, genes of enzymes of tryptophan hydroxylase TPH, catechol-O-methyl transferase COMT, methylene tetra hydro folate reductase MTHFR, genes of anti-inflammatory mediators IL-6, IL-1beta, TNF-a, CRP, genes participating in the immune response PSMB4 and TBX21, rare variants of gene NKPD1 and others. The study of the genetic background in relation with affective manifestations seems to be important and promising. In-time and accurate diagnosis of the disposition to depressive disorders can be the most important one in successful prophylactics and effective treatment of patients.
Does More Certification Always Benefit a Venture?
Authors: Lanahan Lauren , Armanios Daniel
Published: June 2018

An implicit assumption in institutional theory is that more certifications improve a venture’s likelihood for success. However, under certain conditions, we argue more certifications may be detrimental to the venture’s performance. We advance this notion by examining both who is doing the certification and, in turn, what information is revealed to others through the certification. Our study advances two new constructs based on varying instances of follow-on certification: certification broadening, where the initial and follow-on certifiers are different institutions, and certification redundancy, where the initial and follow-on certifiers are the same institution. By studying sequences of certification in the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research federal and state programs, we find that certification broadening generally increases a firm’s ability to acquire private resources, whereas certification redundancy generally decreases a firm’s ability to acquire private resources. This study advances a more dynamic view of certification within institutional theory—namely, when we disaggregate sequences of certifications, we are able to better ascertain when certification helps a venture and when it does not.

The online appendices are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2018.1211 .
A NECESSÁRIA MODULAÇÃO DOS EFEITOS NA DECLARAÇÃO DE INCONSTITUCIONALIDADE DE INCENTIVOS FISCAIS DE ICMS DECORRENTES DA GUERRA FISCAL
Authors: Cardoso Breno Lobato
Published: June 2018

O artigo busca responder se um contribuinte pode vir a ser obrigado a devolver valores decorrentes de incentivos fiscais declarados inconstitucionais pelo STF. Inicia-se com uma análise da jurisprudência sobre guerra fiscal, apontando que se trata, em verdade, de eventual ofensa apenas reflexa à Constituição. Após, analisa-se os efeitos da declaração de inconstitucionalidade, que não são automáticos, de maneira que não prescidem do lançamento tributário. Sobre os efeitos temporais, constata-se posição intermediária adotada no Brasil e a necessidade de modulação dos efeitos da decisão em decorrência do princípio da confiança legítima, sendo insuficiente o modelo adotado da ADI 4441.
FEDERALISMO FISCAL E DISTORÇÕES DO MODELO BRASILEIRO
Authors: De Andrade Vieira Alves Raquel
Published: June 2018

O presente artigo tem o objetivo de analisar as peculiaridades do federalismo fiscal brasileiro, expondo os principais mecanismos de distorção, que distanciam o modelo federativo atual do modelo desenhado pelo constituinte de 1988, e suas conseqüências, destacando o papel fundamental que o Judiciário possui para garantia do equilíbrio federativo no contexto pátrio.
VIABILIDADE DE INSTITUIÇÃO DO IMPOSTO SOBRE GRANDES FORTUNAS: UMA ANÁLISE À LUZ DA CONSTITUIÇÃO FEDERAL
Authors: El-Jaick Mônica Berçot
Published: June 2018

Este trabalho visa realizar uma análise sobre a possibilidade de regulamentação do IGF (Imposto sobre Grandes Fortunas) assim como a sua importância no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro. Traz em seu desenvolvimento os princípios constitucionais que o abarcam assim como a questão da não aprovação de vários Projetos de Lei já submetidos à apreciação no Congresso Nacional. Elabora uma análise a respeito de conceitos importantes para o Direito  Constitucional e sua relação com o Direito Tributário. Traça um paralelo com o Direito Comparado, analisando como o Imposto sobre Grandes Fortunas é visto ao redor do mundo e suas consequências nos países que o instituiram, além de questionar quais dessas consequências poderiam também ocorrer no Brasil. Convida ainda a uma reflexão sobre a diminuição das desigualdades sociais, elucidando os pontos negativos e positivos de sua instituição, uma vez que esta foi a intenção do legislador originário ao prever tal imposto na Carta Magna.
O PODER TRIBUTÁRIO PARA O SÉCULO XXI
Authors: Santiago Julio Cesar
Published: June 2018

Este artigo visa contextualizar o conceito tradicional de poder tributário, afastando de sua configuração ideias construídas a partir do racionalismo e individualismo, diante de novos elementos configuradores do poder.
APRESENTAÇÃO À SEXTA EDIÇÃO DA RFPTD
Authors: Ribeiro Ricardo Lodi , Santiago Julio Cesar , Corrêa Vanessa Benelli
Published: June 2018

APRESENTAÇÃO À SEXTA EDIÇÃO DA RFPTD
Autologous platelet-rich plasma in the treatment of venous leg ulcers in primary care: a randomised controlled, pilot study
Authors: Burgos-Alonso Natalia , Lobato Igone , Hernández Igone , Sebastian Kepa San , Rodríguez Begoña , March Anna Giné , Perez-Salvador Adriana , Arce Veronica , Garcia-Alvarez Arturo , Gomez-Fernandez Maria Cruz , Grandes Gonzalo , Andia Isabel
Published: June 2018

Objective:

To examine the potential efficacy and safety of autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) in comparison with the conventional treatment (standard care, SoC) for the treatment of leg ulcers in patients with chronic venous insufficiency, in a primary health-care setting.

Method:

A Phase I-II, open-label, parallel-group, multicentre, randomised pilot study was conducted. The outcome variables at baseline and at weeks five and nine included reduction in the ulcer area, Chronic Venous Insufficiency Quality of Life Questionnaire score, cost of the treatment for up to nine weeks and average weekly cure rate.

Results:

A total of eight patients, each with at least a six-month history of venous leg ulcer (VLUs), were included in the study. A total of 12 ulcers were treated with either autologous PRP or standard SoC. Patients treated with PRP required wound care only once per week. In the SoC group, patients required intervention 2–3 times per week. A reduction in the mean ulcer size in the PRP group was 3.9cm2 compared with the SoC group at 3.2cm 2 , although the sample size was insufficient to reach statistical significance. Improvement in quality of life (QoL) score was observed in the patients in the PRP group.

Conclusion:

This study offers proof-of-concept of the feasibility and safety of PRP treatment to inform larger clinical trials in patients with VLUs. Our preliminary results suggest that PRP delivers a safe and effective treatment for VLU care that can be implemented in primary health-care settings.
Managing innovation in the hospitality micro firm: A framework for sensing, seizing and reconfiguring dynamic capabilities
Authors: Kelliher Felicity , Kearney Arthur , Harrington Denis
Published: June 2018

Hospitality micro firms, those with fewer than ten employees, represent the vast majority of hospitality providers worldwide. Innovation is regularly cited as a core capability in sustaining micro firm success; however, little is known about how dynamic innovation capability is developed and honed in the hospitality micro firm environment. This discussion paper advocates taking a theoretical perspective on hospitality micro firm managerial capability for innovation based on dynamic capabilities. Specifically, the article argues the benefits of a framework based on sensing, seizing and reconfiguring dynamic capabilities as a means of building an innovation culture within the micro firm. The discussion contributes to the academic literature in providing a new theoretical perspective on an emerging research area – hospitality micro firm innovation capabilities. The contextual nature of the framework developed offers both researchers and practitioners a management framework to improve innovation management in the hospitality micro firm setting.
Conference Review
Authors: Höckert Emily
Published: June 2018

‘Greetings from Palma’, 7th Critical Tourism Studies Conference, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 25–29 June 2017
Reviews
Authors: Koc Erdogan , Evans Yara
Published: June 2018

Special Interest Tourism: Concepts, Contexts and Cases, Sheela Agarwal, Graham Busby and Rong Huang (eds) (2018) Wallingford, Oxford: CABI, 233 pp., ISBN: 9781780645667, p/bk, £39.99

Migration, Ethics and Power: Spaces of Hospitality, Ethics and Power, Dan Bulley (2017) London: Sage, 188 pp., ISBN: 9781473985032, p/bk, £31
The moment of unmoving
Authors: Watkins Dane
Published: June 2018

Movies never wait they live in perpetual motion, locked in an illusion that merges a succession of static pictures into a new temporal image. If a movie stops because the projector breaks or the tape is stuck then the illusion is lost and the image collapses into its separate parts. Movies move in one direction and cannot respond to anything but themselves; they are governed by their own internal logic and remain unmoved by their external context. As more screens become embedded into our physical spaces there is an opportunity for the movie to take pause and through sensors respond to its environment. Yet schedulers are stuffing the big screens with old content, movies designed for TV and cinemas. Adverts tightly cut into 30-second slots are screened repeatedly into a space where they have all day, they could take their time. This article will discuss examples of how a movie might pause while it waits for something to happen. Animators have used loops to bridge moments of dramatic action. The onlookers in Popeye the Sailor by Fleischer (1933) quiver with anticipation as they prepare for the action to unfold around them. Roobarb and Custard by Godfrey (1974) waits in a shimmering tree, a looping construct that lives in between the edges of its drawings, an approximation of its constituent parts. The animated loop is a fixed temporal object waiting perhaps to cross over into the physical world and interact with the environment and passersby.
Refracted gaze of the quantified self
Authors: Ćetković Alexander
Published: June 2018

The quantified-self movement advocates the use of measurements obtained from a variety of sensors around them and storing these digitally for further analysis and as a log of their lives. Their aim is to discover patterns in their lives that they have not previously been aware of or they strive to achieve certain goals. Their motto is ’self-knowledge through numbers’. I would like to put the image of oneself created by quantified-self methods into the perspective of the refracted gaze, a term used by Lutz and Collins to describe a hidden curriculum of anthropologists using Polaroid photographs to observe natives as they receive self-knowledge by observing their own portraits. They point out that mirrors and cameras are tools of self-reflection and surveillance as each creates a double of the self, a second figure who can be examined more closely than the original – a double that can also be alienated from the self, taken away, as a photograph can be, to another place. The deconstructed image that is created through the quantified-self experience is supposed to create an objective and impartial picture of the self. Yet, at the same time, the interpretations and visualizations of such data are strongly influenced by the designers of the different apps with which it is tracked and displayed. Not only does the digitalization alienate the action from the experience, but it can be seen as a further step towards an abstraction of ourselves and the opposite of what the quantified-self is supposed to be about, bringing us closer to our bodies.
Untimely ripped (against the mass image)
Authors: Cubitt Sean
Published: June 2018

I take the Aristotelean view that the question for ethics is ‘How should I live?’ and the question for politics is ‘How are we supposed to live?’ Aristotle’s next step was to argue that in both instances, these are questions about the good life. These are fundamentally aesthetic questions. So let me advance as a hypothesis that the reason for doing any of the art, science and critique we undertake is happiness. The world we have is unhappy, so happiness depends on negating what is given to us as the world. That is what images do: they negate the world in order to produce pictures that are more startling, richer, surer, more filled with meaning and more desirable than what we have to inhabit. Even images of unhappy events attempt to heal them. An image aspires to happiness. The proliferation of images is a different matter.
The atemporal mirror
Authors: Eastwood David
Published: June 2018

As a museological genre proliferating in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the posthumously reconstructed artist’s studio is synonymous with the information age’s impulse to store and retrieve data. Accordingly, historic studios presented as museum artefacts might be thought of as symptoms of ‘a new breed of temporality whereby nothing ever dies’. This article examines the coalescence of present and historical contexts operating within the reconstructed studio of Francis Bacon, relocated from its original location at 7 Reece Mews in London to Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. Bacon’s blemished, circular mirror is conspicuous amid the detritus in the artist’s chaotic studio. From a sleek object originating in Bacon’s early design career, to its apparent role as a prop in the Reece Mews studio, and its current status as a museum artefact, this mirror has borne witness to the shifting contexts of Bacon’s studio. It can be understood as a portal through which spatial, material and temporal phenomena appear reconfigured. As such, Bacon’s studio mirror will be considered in terms of its potential to exert posthumous influence, and provoke contemporary art practice predicated on atemporality.
Anachronicity
Authors: Colless Edward
Published: June 2018

Deep underground on the Finnish island of Olkiluoto, a corporation has been excavating the world’s largest nuclear waste repository. Once filled, the site will need to be sealed and left intact for 100,000 years to avoid contamination of the earth’s surface. The defences for this massive sarcophagus will need to survive and resist geological or meteorological interruptions, but also human curiosity or treasure hunting. This poses not only an engineering problem but a semiological one: how can a warning sign be written or depicted that will still be decodable for an almost unimaginably remote future? The problem is dramatized when one considers that it only took a generation for the human race to lose the ability to read Egyptian hieroglyphs, and for hieroglyphs to then remain a mystery for 1500 years until a fluke archaeological discovery of the code. Such a warning sign to stop the opening of radioactive tombs also suffers the likely indecipherability of those messages naively engraved on the plaques attached to Discovery spacecraft sent out of the solar system into deep space and deep time, with images of a naked Edenic couple etched into the metal, along with a recording of Bach’s third ‘Brandenburg Concerto’ (which is probably unplayable on even our own technology now). This article will address both the anomaly of these manufactured ‘future fossils’ and also the eclipse of meaning in pictograms or glyphs from a deep past.
Image as chemical atemporality
Authors: Klein Tobias
Published: June 2018

This article analyses today’s perception, production and consumption of the digital image in the context of historical mechanization, photographic development and the prototypical design of a chemical reactive hypertemporal setting. Digital materiality is explicitly designed through a time-based performative image transiimage transition from the static image to the image as palimpsest in a post-digital era. First, it introduces the topic by providing a historical overview of devices that allowed the generation, construction and the change in perception of the image. Starting from the invention of the Camera Obscura as a device of image projection, the article highlights a change of representation from as early as fifteenth-century drawing machines to today’s plethora of image-generating devices. The article investigates in more detail the transition of the image through mechanical production and the change of medium in the form of photographic image development and its consequences. Furthermore, it presents research into the hyper-temporality of a chemical image in relation to the digitalization and computer numeric controlled drawing machines. Each chapter of the article is related to one of my artistic works – Virtual Sunset, Urban Scan, Slow Selfie and the ongoing project titled Liquid Light. Each of the works is associated with an image production and perception property, gradually articulating the current state of the images as a hybrid. The research concludes with a focus on the hybrid image combining computer-controlled construction through sensorial data and vector-based input with photo-chromic reactions stimulated by multiple overlaying light emitters. The result is a chemical animated image – a piece de resistance and transformation of the a-temporality of digital data.
Living backwards: The (artificially) augmented mental image
Authors: Aga Birgitte
Published: June 2018

The desire to predict the future is central to human evolution and behaviour. From ancient beliefs in prophetic foresight, spirituality and mystical forces to today’s scientific and algorithmic data-driven forecasting, humans have continued to augment their mental ability to predict what the future may bring. Without an imagined picture of the future our civilization would not exist. Predictive human thought and behaviour is increasingly being influenced by the tide of artificial augmentation through a conflux of sophisticated personal, wearable and interconnected technologies, big (and small) data and powerful computational and analytical algorithms. From these hyper-connected environments, new intimate and symbiotic relationships between the ‘dry world of virtuality and the wet world of biology’ are emerging. Here artificially enhanced and data-driven mental constructions of past, present and imagined futures emerge as artificially amplified cognition. Instead of living forwards through imagined futures conjured from existing memories, this article speculates whether one will be living backwards from data-driven and artificially predicted futures.
Time flies: Visualizing aerial technologies
Authors: Hessels Scott
Published: June 2018

The world’s largest environmental disaster was felt by no one. When the Chinese military recently demonstrated their anti-satellite missiles, deadly debris was scattered across our heavens further than any other manmade event in history. Our increasingly crowded skies are creating safety hazards that are proliferating without public awareness partially due to our inability to visualize and display the massive, transscalar real estate and activity of aerial technologies. Each industry has become adept at tracking its own assets yet none has succeeded in finding a model that represents the entire evolving techno-system in one visual strategy.
AKTUALISASI NILAI-NILAI PANCASILA TERHADAP HAK ATAS KEBEBASAN BERAGAMA DAN BERIBADAH DI INDONESIA
Authors: Pinilih Sekar Anggun Gading
Published: June 2018

Indonesia is a religious pluralism country, not only one religion is recognized by the state but more than one religion and belief. Every Indonesian people has the freedom to choose, embrace, teach religion according to his belief without interruption and disturbing from others. Pancasila comes as a unifying nation in running the diversity, especially the value of Belief in God. This value then animates Article 28 E Paragraph (1) and Article 29 of the Constitution of Indonesia as the legal basis for guarantee the right to freedom of religion and worship.
Implementation of Wakalah in the Murabahah Funding in bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) Syariah branch Surakarta
Authors: Meilano Haryo Normala
Published: June 2018

AbstractThe purpose of this article to know and assess how application do not wakalah applied, to meet in unity trading in funding murabahah, is it in accordance with the provisions syariah and law for the sake of the side. Research methodology a law used to reach research objectives law, uses the approach juridical empirical. Technique analysis the data used in this research was a qualitative approach through the method of analysis descriptive. The research and discussion can be concluded that do not financing murabahah in a bank bni syariah the branch surakarta not in accordance with the provisions Fatwa DSN No 04/DSN-MUI/IV/2000 as guidance in the implementation of the products the funding is.Keyword: murabahah., wakalah., syariah banking
PENGENDALIAN PERDAGANGAN SAMPAH ELEKTRONIK: KAJIAN PERJANJIAN INTERNASIONAL DAN KEBIJAKAN PERDAGANGAN
Authors: Priyono Fx joko
Published: June 2018

Problematik pengendalian perdagangan sampah elektronik dari aspek perjanjian internasional terletak pada Konvensi Basel dan Persetujuan Perdagangan Barang dalam GATT/WTO.  Konvensi Basel tidak memberikan definisi sampah elektronik namun telah melarang adanya perpindahan limbah Bahan Berbahaya dan Beracun (B3) yang di dalamnya termasuk sampah elektronik sedangkan dalam ketentuan GATT/WTO sampah elektronik dikategorikan sebagai barang (goods) bekas. Dua hal yang saling bertentangan. Kebijakan Indonesia telah melarang import limbah B3 (termasuk sampah elektronik), meskipun tidak melarang ekspor. Perlu pemberdayaan kualitas kelembagaan, penegakan hukum, dan sikap masyarakat terhadap sampah elektronik.
Improving (Re-) Usability of Musical Datasets: An Overview of the DOREMUS Project
Authors: Lisena Pasquale , Achichi Manel , Choffé Pierre , Cecconi Cécile , Todorov Konstantin , Jacquemin Bernard , Troncy Raphaël
Published: June 2018

DOREMUS works on a better description of music by building new tools to link and explore the data of three French institutions. This paper gives an overview of the data model based on FRBRoo explaining the conversion and linking processes using linked data technologies and presenting the prototypes created to consume the data according to the web users’ needs.
Ontologien als semantische Zündstufe für die digitale Musikwissenschaft?
Authors: Münnich Stefan
Published: June 2018

Ontologien spielen eine zentrale Rolle für die formalisierte Repräsentation von Wissen und Informationen sowie für die Infrastruktur des sogenannten semantic web. Trotz früherer Initiativen der Bibliotheken und Gedächtnisinstitutionen hat sich die deutschsprachige Musikwissenschaft insgesamt nur sehr zögerlich dem Thema genähert. Im Rahmen einer Bestandsaufnahme werden neben der Erläuterung grundlegender Konzepte, Herausforderungen und Herangehensweisen bei der Modellierung von Ontologien daher auch vielversprechende Modelle und bereits erprobte Anwendungsbeispiele für eine ‚semantische‘ digitale Musikwissenschaft identifiziert.
Open Cultural Heritage – zum Hören!
Authors: Schmahl Karolin
Published: June 2018

Digitale oder digitalisierte Tonaufnahmen sind zunehmend gefragte, wichtige Quellen für die Wissenschaft und als Dokumente des kulturellen Erbes auch für eine breite Öffentlichkeit von großem Interesse. Die Online-Bereitstellung frei zugänglicher Audiodokumente als Open Cultural Heritage erweist sich für Bibliotheken und Archive in der Praxis jedoch häufig als schwierig. Der Beitrag umreißt die besonderen Herausforderungen bei der Digitalisierung und Bereitstellung von Tondokumenten und skizziert – auch anhand von Praxisbeispielen – verschiedene Wege, auf denen Sammlungen den Anforderungen von Open Science gerecht werden können.
Normdaten zu „Werken der Musik“ und ihr Potenzial für die digitale Musikwissenschaft
Authors: Bicher Katrin , Wiermann Barbara
Published: June 2018

Der Aufsatz diskutiert Normdaten zu musikalischen Werken in der GND und erörtert Möglichkeiten ihrer (Nach-)Nutzung in bibliothekarischen und musikwissenschaftlichen Kontexten. Herausforderungen sowohl des theoretischen Konzepts als der praktischen Umsetzung werden benannt und das Potenzial der in den Normdaten enthaltenen Informationen wird aufgezeigt.
Effect of Nb and V on Austenite Grain Growth Behavior of the Cr-Mo-V Steel for Brake Discs
Authors: Wu Dan , Wang Fuming , Cheng Jin , Li Changrong
Published: June 2018

In order to improve the performance of the steel for brake discs, including strength, toughness and thermal fatigue resistance, Nb and V are added to the steel. The effect of Nb and V on austenite grain growth behavior of the Cr-Mo-V steel for brake discs was studied by analyzing the phase equilibria as well as the microstructures. The precipitation behaviors of precipitates were also investigated based on transmission electron microscopy and energy-dispersive spectroscopy. The results showed that V-rich M8C7 and NbC particles existed at the experimental temperatures. The abnormal grain growth in Nb-free steels was affected by the partial dissolution and coarsening of M8C7 particles. With increasing V content, the grains were refined, but the mixed grain phenomenon became more serious. There were many small NbC particles in Nb-bearing steel, so the grains were effectively refined. Furthermore, a prediction model, which calculates the austenite grain size considering precipitate pinning effect, was established, and the model was well consistent with the actual situation in the Nb-bearing steel up to 1,100 °C. The grains of the Nb-free steels were sensitive to the increments of temperature and time due to the rapid dissolution or coarsening of M8C7 particles.
Flow Modeling of Well Test Analysis for a Multiple-fractured Horizontal Well in Triple Media Carbonate Reservoir
Authors: Wang Yong , Yi Xiangyi
Published: June 2018

Carbonate reservoir is one kinds of important reservoir in the world. Because of the characteristics of carbonate reservoir, horizontal well, and acid fracturing became a key technology for efficiently developing carbonate reservoir. Establishing corresponding mathematical models and analyzing transient pressure behaviors of this type of well-reservoir configuration can provide a better understanding of fluid flow patterns in formation as well as estimations of important parameters. A coupling mathematical model for a fractured horizontal well in triple media carbonate reservoir with three kinds of reservoir outer boundaries by conceptualizing vugs as spherical shapes is presented in this article, in which the infinite conductivity of the acid fractures is taken into account. A semi-analytical solution is obtained in the Laplace domain by using source function theory, Laplace transformation, discretization of fracture, and superposition principle. Analysis of transient pressure responses indicates that several characteristic flow periods of fractured horizontal wells in triple media carbonate reservoir can be identified. Parametric analysis shows that fracture half-length, fracture number, fracture spacing, conditions of reservoir outer boundary, and so on can significantly influence the transient pressure responses of fractured horizontal wells in triple media carbonate reservoir. The model presented in this article can be applied to obtain important parameters pertinent to reservoir or fracture by type curve matching, and it can also provide useful information for optimizing fracture parameters.
Western Pyrenees geodetic deformation study using the Guipuzcoa GNSS network
Authors: Martín Adriana , Sevilla Miguel , Zurutuza Joaquín
Published: June 2018

The Basque Country in the north of Spain is located inside the Basque-Cantabrian basin of the western Pyrenees which remarkable seismic-tectonic implications justify the need of geodetic control in the area. In order to perform a crustal deformation study we have analysed all daily observations from the GNSS permanent network of Guipuzcoa and external IGS stations, from January 2007 to November 2011. We have carried out the data processing applying double differences methodology in the automatic processing module BPE (Bernese Processing Engine) from Bernese GNSS software version 5.0. Solution was aligned to geodetic reference framework ITRF2008, by using the IGS08 solution and updated satellite and terrestrial antennas calibration. This five years network study results: Coordinate time series, velocities and baseline lengths variations show internal stability among inner stations and from them with respect to outer IGS stations, concluding that no deformations have been observed.
Factors Influencing the Use of Digital Libraries in Distance Education in Ghana
Authors: Owusu-Ansah Christopher M. , Rodrigues Antonio , Van Der Walt Thomas
Published: June 2018

The purpose of this study was to explore the extent to which individual factors such as academic tasks, preference for print sources and information skills influence distance learners’ use of digital libraries in a teacher distance education programme at the University of Education, Winneba in Ghana. The population of the study consisted of 1,834 distance students and from a sample size of 641 distance learners spread across three distance study centers, namely, Winneba (247), Kumasi (276) and Asante-Mampong (118). A total of 453 (70.67 percent) distance learners, selected randomly, completed a 31-item questionnaire. In addition, 30 distance education tutors, four coordinators and four librarians were purposively selected to participate in the study. The findings showed that academic tasks of distance learners did not require them to use digital library resources, which resulted in low or no academic use of digital libraries. The findings also pointed to a high preference for print resources among distance learners which resulted in the low use of digital library resources. Finally, it was noted that even though most of the distance learners possessed basic ICT skills, this did not result in their of use of digital library resources. To improve digital library use in distance education, it is recommended that academic librarians seek and foster collaboration in teaching information literacy and library instruction in distance education, an approach which must be backed by a policy that mandates the use of (digital) library scholarly resources in teaching and learning in distance education. It is also recommended that the Centre for Distance Education and the University Library collaborate to offer training programmes in specific digital resources and general information literacy courses for all distance education stakeholders in the university to boost digital library use.
Attitudes and Behaviors Related to Individual and Classroom Practices: An Empirical Study of External and Internal Factors of ICT Use
Authors: Nagy Judit , Habók Anita
Published: June 2018

Our study aims to reveal the ICT use and related perceptions of university students through a self-developed online questionnaire. The research questions focus on (1) ICT attitudes, (2) frequency of ICT tool usage in a broad context and (3) frequency of ICT tool usage in the context of language learning. There seems to be agreement among both language and non-language majors concerning the motivating role and personal significance of ICT. Strong evidence is provided for the significant motivational role of ICT tools, while overall results confirm the substantial role of ICT use in learning, learner engagement and efficacy. Furthermore, ICT tool usage is more prominent among language majors in the areas of language, social and media tools, as well as blogs and vlogs. Generally, online dictionaries and lexicons are evaluated as most frequently used.