bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
La transcommunalité à l’épreuve du fédéralisme : une illustration en Région wallonne
Authors: Leloup Fabienne
Published: November 2017

Résumé Les coopérations transcommunales tendent à se multiplier en Europe. À la recherche d’une taille optimale ou d’un construit collectif, elles amènent les communes à collaborer pour la résolution de problème ou à élaborer un avenir commun. Cette tendance à la recomposition spatiale se manifeste-t-elle aussi en Belgique, pays fédéral ? La question est traitée en discutant des différents modèles de coopération possibles et s’applique aux évolutions en Région wallonne, en prenant l’entité subrégionale de la Wallonie picarde comme illustration.
Demographic and Academic Factors Associated With Enrollment in Online MSN Programs
Authors: Cipher Daisha J. , Shrestha Sachin , Mancini Mary E.
Published: November 2017

Background:

There is a need to better understand the demographic and academic characteristics of individuals enrolled in online Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) programs.

Method:

This article reports a retrospective analysis of 4,079 students enrolled in one of three MSN programs: family nurse practitioner (FNP), nurse educator, and nursing administration. Demographic characteristics (i.e., gender, race, age) and academic variables (i.e., academic load, past undergraduate/graduate enrollment at the university) were examined for all enrollees.

Results:

Students in the MSN programs were younger than the national mean age for RNs, were primarily White, and were enrolled part time. The sample was composed of a disproportionately higher percentage of students from ethnic minority backgrounds than national RN profiles.

Conclusion:

Study implications indicate that understanding the commonalities, differences, and educational experiences of students in on-campus and online MSN programs is important. The finding that almost 90% of online graduate nursing students enroll as part time has significant financial, family, and career implications. [
J Nurs Educ.
2017;56(11):670–674.]
Enhancing Critical Thinking Via a Clinical Scholar Approach
Authors: Simpson Vicki , McComb Sara A. , Kirkpatrick Jane M.
Published: November 2017

Background:

Safety, quality improvement, and a systems perspective are vital for nurses to provide quality evidence-based care. Responding to the call to prepare nurses with these perspectives, one school of nursing used a clinical scholar approach, enhanced by systems engineering to more intentionally develop the ability to clinically reason and apply evidence-based practice.

Method:

A two-group, repeated-measures control trial was used to determine the effects of systems engineering content and support on nursing students' clinical judgment and critical thinking skills.

Results:

Findings indicated this approach had a positive effects on student's clinical judgment and clinical reasoning skills. This approach helped students view health care issues from a broader perspective and use evidence to guide solution development, enhancing the focus on evidence-based practice, and quality improvement.

Conclusion:

Intentional integration of an evidence-based, systems perspective by nursing faculty supports development of nurses who can function safely and effectively in the current health care system. [
J Nurs Educ.
2017;56(11):679–682.]
A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TOWARDS CLASSIFICATION AND PREDICTION OF VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA AND VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION
Authors: Noruzi Mohammadreza , Sabeti Malihe , Boostani Reza
Published: November 2017

Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is a fast heart rate that arises from improper electrical activity in the ventricular of the heart. VT may eventually lead to lethal ventricular fibrillation (VF) which is characterized by fast and irregular heart rhythm. Since difference between VT and VF is diagnosed by specialist in a critical and stressful situation, the possibility of wrong decision is not low. Here, various set of ECG features belonged to different domains are implemented to investigate the predictability and discriminability of VT and VF episodes. Informative features from different domains such as correlation dimension (phase space) and power spectrum (frequency domain) were elicited from electrocardiogram (ECG) signals to describe the amount of irregularity/variation through the attack. In addition raw signal samples were used to assess the classification task based on the time domain features. Applying correlation dimension, power spectrum and the raw samples of ECGs to artificial neural network (ANN) classifier provides 91%, 92% and 71% classification accuracy between VT and VF signals, respectively. However, to enrich the time domain features, surrogate data was generated and the results of time domain is increased up to 87% which represents that ANNs are able to learn the dynamic nature of chaotic signals.
Temporal and geochemical evolution of the Guichon Creek Batholith and Highland Valley porphyry copper district, British Columbia: implications for generation and tectonic setting of porphyry systems
Authors: Whalen J B , Davis W J , Anderson R
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Published: November 2017

Guichon Creek Batholith, a Late Triassic, calc-alkaline composite batholith of the Nicola arc, British Columbia, hosts major porphyry copper deposits of the Highland Valley district. U-Pb zircon and Ar-Ar age dating of the main intrusive phases of this normally
compositionally zoned batholith indicate that it evolved over a 7 M.y. period (215.6 ± 0.5 to 208.6 ± 0.6 Ma). The batholith consists of two distinct geochemical suites, the barren pre-211 Ma Highland Valley, and the mineralized post-211 Ma Bethlehem suite. Ages of host intrusion and a
cross-cutting, post-mineralization dyke date the Bethlehem deposit to within a <1 M.y. period at ~210 Ma. This event predates the Bethsaida pluton, host to Valley, Lornex and Highmount deposits. These younger deposits formed after 209.1 ± 0.3 Ma, prior to or synchronously with
the Gnawed Mountain porphyry at 208.6 ± 0.6 Ma. Ar-Ar and U-Pb ages are generally similar, indicating short-lived and rapidly cooled magmatic/hydrothermal systems. Published Re-Os molybdenite ages at Valley suggest a third mineralizing event at 206.5 Ma.
Mineralization is linked to the change in magma composition between the Highland Valley and Bethlehem suites, both of which have distinctive high Sr/Y, La/Yb and Gd/Yb signatures. The Bethlehem suite is more calcic, hydrous and oxidized than Highland Valley suite. Both suites were likely derived by
melting hydrous, metal-enriched mafic lower crustal cumulates residual from earlier arc magmatism. Partial melting of such protoliths is thought to have been triggered by arc-arc collision, followed by slab detachment and upwelling of hot asthenospheric mantle-derived mafic magmas. Termination of
Triassic arc calc-alkaline volcanism overlapped with the ca 216 Ma outer mafic Border phase. Emplacement (211-208 Ma) of batholith interior phases was accompanied by porphyry Cu formation at 210 and ~208 Ma. Based on this study, the fertile Guichon Creek Batholith represents a template for
understanding porphyry deposit formation and distribution that can facilitate exploration targeting.
Critical thinking within a multi-paradigmatic approach: introduction to the symposium on innovations in heterodox economics education
Authors: Schneider Geoffrey E. , Underwood Daniel A.
Published: November 2017

The primary theme that emerges from this symposium is that teaching heterodox economics effectively becomes an exercise in creating a structure that facilitates sophisticated critical thinking via discovery-based learning. This can be done with carefully designed exercises or assignments that contrast mainstream and heterodox models, service learning experiences that ground students in real-world experiences, or the construction of course, curriculum and textbook designs that juxtapose mainstream and heterodox theories and ideas in sophisticated ways. We outline the major contributions of this symposium to the literature on teaching heterodox economics. Those summaries are followed by descriptions of some approaches we use in our own courses that promote sophisticated critical thinking in a multi-paradigmatic, discovery-based setting. The final section of the paper concludes and suggests future directions for research into heterodox teaching and pedagogy.
A ideia de que os latino-americanos preferem o autoritarismo à democracia à luz da reinterpretação dos critérios do Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento
Authors: Pompeu Marcilio Vidal , Teixeira Ana Araújo Ximenes
Published: November 2017

Por meio deste artigo almeja-se aferir a correção da ideia de que os latino-americanos preferem o autoritarismo à democracia. A metodologia utilizada é bibliográfica e documental. Aborda-se inicialmente os relatórios e informes estatísticos nos quais embasa-se a referida concepção. Posteriormente, igualmente mediante o uso de estatísticas, analisa-se em linhas gerais quem é o povo latino-americano e como são os regimes democráticos onde vivem, ao examinar-se o impacto da pobreza e da desigualdade sobre a construção da democracia e da cidadania na América Latina. Em seguida, mediante o corte epistemológico consistente no enfoque das realidades do Brasil e do México, são avaliados todos os dados estatísticos mencionados em confronto com fatores históricos e culturais pertinentes, dentro do roteiro de desvelamento crítico acerca de quem é o povo latino-americano e de como são as democracias existentes na América Latina. Conclui-se, ao final, que a pretensa tendência dos cidadãos latino-americanos a preterirem a democracia em prol do autoritarismo baseia-se numa interpretação de dados estatísticos divorciada do cotejo com a história e as instituições democráticas latino-americanas. A originalidade da inferência principal reside, em primeiro lugar, por basear-se na demonstração de que que o descrédito da democracia estatisticamente verificado não recai sobre regimes políticos que garantem acesso do povo ao poder político, mas sim sobre modelos de democracia inaptos para proverem a participação popular na formação da vontade política. Em segundo lugar, no caso do Brasil, por fundamentar-se na aferição de que o modelo de democracia cujo apoio tem diminuído sequer consiste numa democracia formal.
Crônicas do Direito Internacional Privado
Authors: Ribeiro Gustavo , De Araujo Nadia , De Nardi Marcelo , Polido Fabrício , Lopes Inez
Published: November 2017

Crônicas do Direito Internacional Privado
O TRATAMENTO DO APÁTRIDA NA NOVA LEI DE MIGRAÇÃO: ENTRE AVANÇOS E RETROCESSOS
Authors: Bichara Jahyr-Philippe
Published: November 2017

A nova Lei de Migração, que está prestes a ser aprovada no Congresso Nacional, apresenta inovações relativas ao tratamento do apátrida em solo brasileiro, de modo a alinhar-se às convenções internacionais pertinentes à matéria e vigentes no ordenamento interno. Aponta-se, nesse artigo, que as obrigações assumidas pelo Brasil, no plano internacional, em relação aos apátridas devem ser implementadas pela administração pública mediante adaptações legais. Todavia, ao apreciar as contribuições da nova legislação, constata-se que algumas pendências administrativas subsistem no que concerne ao órgão competente para atender às demandas de apatridia e de naturalização dos mesmos. Por outro lado, observa-se que a Lei nº 9.474/97, conhecida como Lei do Refúgio, também comporta suas próprias lacunas sobre essa questão. Chega-se à conclusão acerca da permanente inadequação do ordenamento jurídico interno quanto às responsabilidades internacionais do Estado brasileiro para com os apátridas, e subsequente necessidade de aperfeiçoamento. Não obstante os notáveis avanços da nova Lei de Migração, entende-se que uma reforma da Lei do Refúgio seria o mais apropriado para que as competências do Comitê Nacional dos Refugiados (CONARE) ampliem-se de forma a abarcar, também, os direitos dos apátridas.
One Belt, One Road: novas interfaces entre o comércio e os investimentos internacionais
Authors: Rodrigues Bruno Flávio Marcelo , Ribeiro Marilda Rosado de Sá
Published: November 2017

O presente artigo tem como ponto de partida uma nova geoeconomia das rotas transcontinentais, dando possibilidade de revisitar os preceitos fundamentais dos investimentos internacionais à luz do comércio internacional. Nesse sentido, o artigo se estrutura em três capítulos, no primeiro se propõe um levantamento histórico das relações comerciais em termos de investimentos internacionais, no segundo convida a uma imersão sob as perspectivas que envolvem o conceito de investimentos internacionais, e no terceiro e último capítulo do estudo, se apresentam as diretrizes do Direito Internacional dos Investimentos. É na incursão aos anúncios advindos dos movimentos asiáticos de cooperação e desenvolvimento econômico mundial, que uma célula de investimentos internacionais pode ser encontrada. Afirma-se que, por ser uma releitura contemporânea de preceitos de um ramo importante do Direito Internacional, não se esgotam as pretensões deste estudo, mas é plausível demonstrar que as mutações geoeconômicas, como a que ocorre a partir do projeto One Belt, One Road (OBOR), intimamente relacionado a uma vertente importante do Direito Internacional, que é o Direito Internacional dos Investimentos, faz deste um objeto de análise constante.
Spatial and temporal Trend Analysis of Long Term rainfall records in data-poor catchments with missing data, a case study of Lower Shire floodplain in Malawi for the Period 1953–2010
Authors: Rustum Rabee , Adeloye Adebayo J. , Mwale Faidess
Published: November 2017

Abstract. This paper investigated the long-term trends in precipitation from 16 stations located in the lower Shire catchment in Malawi over the period 1953–2010. Annual trend analysis was first considered, and in order to take into account seasonality and serial correlation, the different months of the year are considered. Trend significance was determined using the nonparametric Mann-Kendall (MK) test statistic while the determination of the trends magnitudes was achieved using Sen’s slope method. The homogeneity of trends was examined using the Van Belle and Hughes method. The results indicate that annual precipitation has increased, whereas, monthly precipitation revealed an upward trend in wet seasons (November to April) and a downward trend in dry seasons (May to October). The monthly peak trend analysis has shown upward trend in rainy months at all stations.
Observationally constrained surface mass balance of Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctica
Authors: Kuipers Munneke Peter , McGrath Daniel , Medley Brooke , Luckman Adrian , Bevan Suzanne , Kulessa Bernd , Jansen Daniela , Booth Adam , Smeets Paul , Hubbard Bryn , Ashmore David , Van den Broeke Michiel , Sevestre Heidi , Steffen Konrad , Shepherd Andrew , Gourmelen Noel
Published: November 2017

Abstract. The surface mass balance (SMB) of the Larsen C ice shelf (LCIS), Antarctica, is poorly constrained due to a dearth of in situ observations. Combining several geophysical techniques, we reconstruct spatial and temporal patterns of SMB over the LCIS. Continuous time series of snow height (2.5–6 years) at five locations allow for multi-year estimates of seasonal and annual SMB over the LCIS. There is high interannual variability in SMB as well as spatial variability: in the north, SMB is 0.40 ± 0.06 to 0.41 ± 0.04 m w.e. year−1, while farther south, SMB is up to 0.50 ± 0.05 m w.e. year−1. This difference between north and south is corroborated by winter snow accumulation derived from an airborne radar survey from 2009, which showed an average snow thickness of 0.34 m w.e. north of 66° S, and 0.40 m w.e. south of 68° S. Analysis of ground-penetrating radar from several field campaigns allows for a longer-term perspective of spatial variations in SMB: a particularly strong and coherent reflection horizon below 25–44 m of water-equivalent ice and firn is observed in radargrams collected across the shelf. We propose that this horizon was formed synchronously across the ice shelf. Combining snow height observations, ground and airborne radar, and SMB output from a regional climate model yields a gridded estimate of SMB over the LCIS. It confirms that SMB increases from north to south, overprinted by a gradient of increasing SMB to the west, modulated in the west by föhn-induced sublimation. Previous observations show a strong decrease in firn air content toward the west, which we attribute to spatial patterns of melt, refreezing, and densification rather than SMB.
Reasons, Traditions and Virtues: Bernstein's Critique of MacIntyre
Authors: Hoekema David A.
Published: November 2017

This is a response to the 1984 exchange between Richard J. Bernstein and Alasdair MacIntyre.
States, markets, and communities: Rethinking sustainability and cities
Authors: Tok M. Evren
Published: November 2017

This study presents the centrality of the issues pertaining to sustainability at the urban level. It suggests that in contrast to market based understandings and representations of sustainability has significant connections to social and cultural forces. By focusing on three case studies, the study showcases how sustainability needs to be understood in terms of the way market-based economic actions and institutional initiatives embed market based initiatives and forces. The study seeks to create awareness, academically and publicly on the possibility of imagining the coexistence of communitarian and market logics, with implications for sustainability. The study introduces case studies from Doha, Qatar. The intention is to shed light on the theoretical debates and illustrate how embeddedness with its variegated forms has been unfolding. The cases of Souq Al Wakra, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) Souqna, and Quranic Botanic Garden (QBG) have been chosen because they present not only similarities (a commonality of cultivating embeddedness that produces economic, social, and environmental sustainability) but also differences (in the mechanisms of embedding, as well as the actors involved).
Are we sustainable? Promoting a culture of sustainability in planned communities with a sustainability focus
Authors: Dessouky Nermin , Estevez Chelsea , Meier Alan , Moustafa Yara , Tutwiler Richard
Published: November 2017

Sustainability has become a primary concern of new communities worldwide. With regard to planned communities specifically, sustainability planning has taken into account technical environmental standards as well as economic and technological factors. However, planned communities must consider social factors, or their “culture of sustainability” if their endeavors should prove to be truly successful in not only being environmentally sustainable, but also uphold and encourage sustainable human behavior. This paper will first consider the definition of cultures of sustainability. Cultures of sustainability vary from one community to the next and are defined by a strong hierarchy of values. How these values are translated differ, especially as it concerns the structure and governance of a community; values can either be communicated top-down through institutions or bottom-up using a community based-approach. Second, this paper will explore the methodologies communities use to make themselves sustainable. Third, the methodologies and cultures of sustainability explored through three case studies on three different continents: Europe, North America, and the Middle East. Throughout the three case studies, the obstacles and challenges to sustainability and the different forms it takes, environmental, economic, and social, are explored. In this study, it becomes clear that cultures of sustainability must first and foremost take into account the inclusion of the community in decision making processes as well as their embrace of community values and willingness to alter their behavior. Without a shared vision, concrete plan, and sense of community identity, sustainability goals can only last in the short term rather than create a real impact.
Auditors’ Usage of Non-Financial Data and Information during the Assessment of the Risk of Material Misstatement for an Audit Engagement: A Field Study
Authors: Awadallah Abdelmoneim A. , El-Said Haitham Mohamed
Published: November 2017

Audit firms that fail to detect fraud or material misstatements in the financial statements of their audit clients may suffer substantial monetary penalties and negative publicity in the event of audit failure. The present study investigates auditors’ perception regarding the use of non-financial data and information to verify the validity of financial data and information reported by an audit client during an audit engagement. In addition, the current study considers the sources of information that auditors may depend on when searching for explanations for unusual trends in the financial statements of an audit client. The present study is based on a field study conducted in Egypt during the year 2014.Using a questionnaire supplemented by in-depth interviews, the present study showed that auditors are likely to make moderate use of non-financial data and information when assessing the risk of material misstatements during an audit. However, it seems that auditors prefer to depend on financial data and information more than non-financial data and information when developing expectations about account balances during an audit engagement. Furthermore, the present study pointed out that auditors appear to rely more on inquiries of audit client personnel than other sources of information when searching for explanations for unexpected trends in the financial statements of an audit client.
A Linguistic Steganalysis Approach Base on Source Features of Text and Immune Mechanism
Authors: Zhu Licai
Published: November 2017

Linguistic steganalysis is a technique that discovering potentially hidden information embedded through using linguistically in plain text using. Varieties of syntax and multi-meanings of semantics for linguistics augment the difficulty of linguistic steganalysis intensely, thereby it is a challenge area. In this paper, we propose a novel steganalysis method for linguistics based on immune. This method has two attributions: i). basis statistical features of text are employed for blind steganalysis ii). immune technique is chosen to build a two-level detection mechanism to detect two categories of stego text respectively, one of which is Success-Stego-text and another is False-Stego-text. Appropriate detections are generated and preferable features are signed. Experiments prove the approach has higher accuracy than current steganalysis algorithms. Especially when the segment size of text is greater than 3kB, the accuracies of detecting for natural text and stego text are both more than 95%.
An Approximation Method of Bézier Curve
Authors: Wu Zhi , Song Chu yi , Bao De xi
Published: November 2017

It is proved that the linear space constructed by power base is a banach space under 2-norm by using approximation method. For the Bézier curve--the elements in banach space, the linear combination of the low-order S power base is used to approximate optimal the high-order Bernstein base function. The original Bézier curve is instituted by the linear combination of low-order S power base and the optimal approximation element of the original Bézier curve is obtained.
A Qualitative Study of Attitudes towards Smoking and Anti-Smoking Measures among Korean Male Smokers in Australia
Authors: Choi Yoojin , Banwell Cathy
Published: November 2017

The study aims to explore how Korean male smokers living in Australia talk and feel about smoking and how they have understood and experienced tobacco control policies in Australia—including price increase, display ban, plain packaging, and graphic warning labels. A qualitative study was conducted based on in-depth face-to-face interviews with 8 Korean male smokers aged 23–40 years living in Canberra. Participants discussed social and cultural conditions in Korea under which smoking is practiced and maintained. Smoking as a means of socialising and relaxation were consistently discussed as the main reasons for continued smoking which was deeply embedded in their everyday lives as habit or part of routines. The health risks of smoking were not among the immediate or ultimate considerations influencing participants. Participants commented that price increases had affected them most but other measures had little impact on their smoking behaviours, although they acknowledged their potentials in deterring younger people. Future anti-smoking interventions in Korea should address the significant social and cultural determinants of smoking and acknowledge smokers’ own understanding of their smoking and anti-smoking measures. Appreciating smokers’ diverse representations of their own smoking and their attitudes towards health and anti-smoking measures would increase acceptance of policies and the probability that they will be successful, leading to positive outcomes.
Obrona nowożytnej koncepcji praw dziecka. Kilka refleksji w kontekście myśli pedagogicznej Jana Jakuba Rousseau
Authors: Kozak Małgorzata
Published: November 2017

The presented text focuses on the normative concept of the rights of the child. The inspiration to re-read this currently dynamic pedagogical and legal category is the persona and ideas of Jean- Jacques Rousseau. The presented reflections are an attempt at a new interpretation of the category of children’s rights in the context of pedagogical naturalism and the rationalism of a philosopher of the Enlightenment. This text may become an argument in defense of the concept of basing the relations between adults and children on the ideas of children’s rights. We are faced with the following question: To what extent does the category of children’s rights, as determined by positive law, and its ensuing implications in terms of children’s status and their relations with adults, result from the nature of man and society, and to what extent do they constitute a mere “pretence of decency”, becoming an enslaving category? Given the degraded nature of man, how can we justify the need to regulate children’s rights and develop education based on these rights, and to what extent do these rights in fact contribute to this degradation, becoming a source of children’s suffering? Contrary to appearances, the answers to these questions are not unequivocal. This text attempts to re-read and re-analyze the fundamental rights of the child set forth in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the main legal regulations that form its basis with reference to the ideas of the Enlightenment philosopher. The defense of the contemporary concept of children’s rights with reference to the thought of J.J. Rousseau is also a critical voice in the debate on the assumptions, form, and implementation of children’s rights in modern society.
Jan Jakub Rousseau w naturze/ogrodzie? Dyskursy natury we współczesnych odczytaniach feministycznych i posthumanistycznych
Authors: Kopciewicz Lucyna
Published: November 2017

The 21st century is called ‘the biotech age’. We cannot deny the emergence of significant changes in the way we conceive nature and ourselves. The main influence comes from biotechnologies and information science which modify the definition of nature. This article focuses on Rousseau’s discourses of nature understood as moral and gendered bases of social order. Feminism and posthumanism significantly challenge these discourses and contribute to the development of postanthropocentric nature seen as a vital network of human and nonhuman agents.
Językowy obraz świata w tekstach Jana Jakuba Rousseau. „Wyznania” jako narracyjne konstruowanie tożsamości
Authors: Wasilewska Anna
Published: November 2017

In this text I have taken up a reflection upon one of the most important works by J.J. Rousseau, “Confessions”. The book is considered to belong to personal literature, so I treated it as an autobiographical narration. In the methodological research I used both the category of a linguistic view of the world and the category of constructing an identity in the linguistic and cognitive analysis. On the one hand Rousseau’s work can be considered as an autobiographical narrative, but on the other hand it can be treated as fiction. And it is the dualism of construction that allows the interpretation of the text in many ways, formal or poetic, as well as referring to the writer’s life. I recommend reading Rousseau’ s biography again in order to see the intersection of history and fictitious reality, to reconstruct the linguistic strategy of giving meaning by J.J. Rousseau in constructing “Confessions” as well as in constructing identity.
Techniczny, epistemologiczny i kulturowy wymiar metod kształcenia. Casus metody Montessori
Authors: Jendza Jarosław , Zalewska Ewa , Zamojski Piotr
Published: November 2017

This article concerns three fundamental dimensions of all educational methods: technical, epistemological, and cultural. We perceive them as equally important in the process of (re)creating and using any educational method. It seems to us that the technical dimension is quite often the only one or at least the most essential one in the area of Polish educational practices, and sometimes also in the theory of education. This situation is, however, undesirable since it may lead to the decontextualisation of the methods, and – as a consequence – limit their educational potential. Referring to the Montessori approach and more specifi cally to one of the most signifi cant concepts within the method – namely to the idea of „prepared environment” in which three aspects can be distinguished: material, structural – dynamic, and personal, we describe the roles that they play in the procedures of constructing teaching methods showing their integral character.
Intercultural competencies of Polish and Kazakh teachers explored in their Facebook profiles
Authors: Jagiełło-Rusiłowski Adam , Immanchiyev Zhandarbek
Published: November 2017

The aim of the study was to analyze Facebook profi les of teachers in Poland and Kazakhstan as the virtual educational space where intercultural competencies are manifested and further developed. The rationale for intercultural learning was derived from the pedagogies of Abay and Korczak while the list of attitudes, skills and knowledge to be observed was adapted from Deardorff’s (2009) model. Digital ethnographic research approach was used for capturing teachers’ behavior and artifacts in the fi eld site. Teachers collaboration on a divergent problem and focus discussion afterwards provided further narrative material of refl ective nature. The results suggest that Facebook profi les show ample evidence of competent intercultural behavior; they could be considered as e-portfolios and further researched for development of proper educational and validation tools for teacher training involving global networks.
Kompetencje pedagogiczne studentów edukacji wczesnoszkolnej jednym z warunków zmiany rozwojowej uczniów
Authors: Nowak Joanna
Published: November 2017

Teachers’ work is subjected to constant evaluation by students, parents, other teachers, and society. High demands in the face of changing socio-cultural, educational reality require from teachers the continuous improvement of pedagogical competences. The article raises the question of teachers’ competences acquired by the students of early school education during three years of studies. The scope and type of those competences determine pupils’ developmental change. On the basis of surveys and interviews conducted on 50 students it is possible to formulate numerous conclusions. The most important one indicates that students are comprehensively prepared and gain pedagogical knowledge that allows them to treat pupils subjectively, encourage them to take part in discussions, and organize activities with appropriate methods and forms. Other areas of responsibility may be developed and improved in the course of work.
Dziecko w działaniu – refleksje praktyka
Authors: Grzelecka Paulina
Published: November 2017

Being a refl ective practitioner is a task for a teacher and a tool for his real professional development. This article presents a teacher’s refl ection before action, focused on the goal of education, a refl ection in action, where the teacher is an observer, tutor and diagnostician, and a refl ection after action, where I analyzed children’s activity in classes with educational toys. For the teacher’s work I have described the possibility of diagnosing students cognitive development based on their social role; how do they build strategies of logical thinking; what is wrong with preschool education; and how to engage students in classes. This text is a result of taking a part in the project Laboratorium Wczesnej Edukacji.
Myoclonus after Cardiac Arrest: Where Do We Go from Here?
Authors: Freund Brin , Kaplan Peter W.
Published: November 2017

Prognostication after cardiac arrest often depends primarily on neurological function, and characterizing the extent of neurological injury hinges on neurophysiological testing and clinical neurological examination. The presence of early posthypoxic myoclonus (PHM) following cardiac arrest had been invariably associated with poor outcome, but more recent studies have shown that those with early PHM may survive with good neurological function. Electroencephalographic patterns suggestive of severe brain injury may be more valuable than the presence of PHM itself in portending poor functional status, and phenotyping PHM may also be useful in delineating benign and malignant forms. Patients with early PHM should be evaluated similarly to others who suffer cardiac arrest by using a multimodal approach in determining prognosis until further studies are performed that better characterize early PHM subtypes and their outcomes.
Perigo de contaminação da água subterrânea na região de Indaiatuba a Capivari, estado de São Paulo, Brasil
Authors: Iritani Mara Akie , Rossini-Penteado Denise , Ezaki Sibele , Oda Geraldo Hideo
Published: November 2017

O mapeamento do perigo de contaminação dos aquíferos auxilia o planejamento do uso e ocupação do solo, indicando prioridades para o controle das atividades antrópicas e para a proteção das captações de água subterrânea. Considerando o perigo como resultado da interação entre a vulnerabilidade natural dos aquíferos e a carga potencial contaminante imposta por atividades antrópicas, neste trabalho o sistema de classificação do perigo de contaminação da água subterrânea foi adaptado para permitir o mapeamento com base em técnicas de análise espacial em SIG (Sistema de Informação Geográfica). O mapeamento do perigo de contaminação da água subterrânea foi realizado em uma área que abrange seis municípios localizados no leste do estado de São Paulo, Brasil, caracterizada por um expressivo desenvolvimento econômico e acentuado processo de expansão urbana. O mapa de perigo de contaminação associado às fontes pontuais de contaminação indicou que as áreas mais críticas estão nos distritos industriais de Indaiatuba e de Salto e em áreas dispersas ao longo do rio Capivari e das rodovias. Na área urbana, o perigo de contaminação associado ao sistema de saneamento está concentrado nas porções com urbanização mais antiga e com maior densidade de ocupação. Na área rural, os setores com perigo alto a moderado de contaminação ocorrem, principalmente, na porção oeste da área estudada, onde predomina a monocultura canavieira. Em relação às fontes difusas, as áreas com moderado a muito baixo perigo de contaminação apresentam maior extensão, resultante da baixa vulnerabilidade dos aquíferos na região. Considerando o aspecto dinâmico do uso e ocupação do solo, o mapa de perigo de contaminação da água subterrânea deve ser atualizado periodicamente para melhor subsidiar as ações de planejamento e, nesse sentido, as ferramentas de geoprocessamento facilitam a tarefa.
Solo e águas subterrâneas contaminadas pela deposição de resíduos sólidos urbanos: o caso do Vazadouro de Tatuí (SP)
Authors: Santos Filho Manoel Gomes dos , Hirata Ricardo , Luiz Mariana Bernardino , Conicelli Bruno Pirilo
Published: November 2017

Este trabalho determina a extensão da contaminação do solo e da água subterrânea impactados pela deposição incorreta de resíduos sólidos urbanos, bem como a localização de material enterrado, a partir de métodos geofísicos de eletrorresistividade e eletromagnético e da coleta e monitoramento da água subterrânea no Vazadouro Municipal de Tatuí (SP). Operando de 1991 a 2014, o empreendimento ocupou uma área de 14,87 ha e recebeu diariamente 40 t de resíduos sólidos de residências, comércios e serviços da cidade. A partir das análises químicas das águas subterrâneas de 12 poços de monitoramento, em seis campanhas entre junho de 2000 e janeiro de 2001, foi possível estabelecer que a pluma contaminante é restrita à área do empreendimento ou se estendeu muito próxima a ele. As sondagens elétricas verticais identificaram a ocorrência de uma camada resistiva interpretada como um aquitarde e o caminhamento eletromagnético indutivo detectou anomalias de condutividade elétrica relacionadas ao lixo enterrado. Entretanto, o uso do Geonics EM34 não permitiu uma boa caracterização da contaminação das águas subterrâneas, que se encontra em profundidades maiores que 8 m. A potenciometria do aquífero está condicionada à pluviometria e às características fisiográficas da área do lixão, onde se vê claramente que o resíduo é mais permeável à infiltração das chuvas. Notadamente, as águas subterrâneas não impactadas têm um perfil geoquímico de Na-Ca-HCO3 e as contaminadas, Na-Cl-(NO3). A principal conclusão deste trabalho é que a despeito da rapidez e facilidade dos métodos geofísicos, estes não foram suficientes para uma boa caracterização da pluma de contaminação no aquífero, pois os terrenos possuem baixa permeabilidade e as massas de lixos foram depositadas de forma heterogênea e dispersa. Assim, o uso integrado de ambas as técnicas é eficaz para estudos de casos similares.
Drug Use among a Sample of Federal Drug Crime Defendants: Implications for the Gateway Effect Hypothesis
Authors: David Reitzel John , Scarbrough Sarah Huggins
Published: November 2017

This study investigated the association between marijuana first before other drugs and alcohol and later hard drug among a convenience sample of federal drug crime defendants from one federal court in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Results from two binomial logistic regression models revealed statistically significant associations between first use of marijuana and regular drug use and hard drug use, respectively. Findings suggests a gateway effect for marijuana within this sample.
Privation, parasite et perversion de la volonté
Authors: O’Neill Seamus
Published: November 2017

Augustin est bien connu comme défenseur d’une « théorie privative » du mal. On peut lire, par exemple, dans les Confessions que « le mal n’est que la privation du bien, à la limite du pur néant ». Le problème, cependant, avec les théories privatives du mal est qu’elles ne nous offrent pas, généralement, une explication robuste ni de l’activité du mal, ni de son pouvoir à causer des effets bien réels ; effets desquels l’expérience demande, malgré tout, une explication rationnelle. Or, selon Augustin, la privation seule ne permet pas de rendre compte de toutes les manifestations du mal. L’explication privative du mal est, certes, la plus étudiée par la littérature ; mais elle ne constitue qu’une partie du tableau. Cet article veut souligner quatre moments de l’explication du mal qu’Augustin propose : le mal comme privation ; le mal comme parasite par rapport à l’être ; le mal comme perversion de la volonté ; et finalement, le mal comme conflit d’intérêts. Chacun de ces moments éclaire un type de mal, mais aucun ne permet à lui seul de rendre compte du problème. Pris ensemble, cependant, et gardant leurs différences respectives à l’esprit, la réponse d’Augustin à la question du mal se révèle beaucoup plus sophistiquée et exhaustive qu’on ne voudrait souvent l’admettre lorsqu’on se limite uniquement à la théorie de la privation.
THE ELECTROFILTER ASH OF GACKO THERMAL POWER PLANT AS TECHNOGENIC RAW MATERIAL AND THE IMPACT OF ASH WASTE PILEON THE ENVIRONMENT
Authors: Crnogorac Ljiljana , Vuković Boško
Published: November 2017

During the working of thermal power plants, due to technological process of coal combustion, waste matter, which takes up large areas of land, degrades and pollutes the environment, is created. In the last years, a significant progress has been made in the world in researching new technologies that implement technogenic materials which have wide range of optimal economic use.An example for this is electrofilterash which is, as technogenic raw material,largly and more often used in building industry. This resulted in decreasing negative effects of ash which was deposited considerably on ash waste piles. The use of ash for different industry purposes decreases the costs, increases a company's profitand removes the negative effects on the environment and human health.
GEOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF THE STATE OF THE ROUTE M18, SECTION FOCA – HUM, REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA
Authors: Đurić Neđo , Djujic Andja
Published: November 2017

Improvement of the quality of the route is necessary because of its importance in connecting countries of the Western Balkans to central and western Europe. This is the worst section of the road from Albania via Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the corridor Vc, which passes through the central part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The route of the road is very narrow with sharp bends, which requires its extension, correction, and in some parts relocation. It was therefore necessary first to give geological evaluation of the state of route in terms of exploration and characteristics of the rocks involved in the structure of the ground along the route.

We analyzed the available documentation of previous studies and conducted field data. Summarizing the results available, it was given the evaluation of the degree of exploration of the terrain and the need for new research for detailed consideration of the characteristics of the terrain, especially in the construction of facilities on the route.
SORPTION OF COPPER AND ZINC BY GOETHITE AND HEMATITE
Authors: Bekényiová Alexandra , Štyriaková Iveta , Danková Zuzana
Published: November 2017

In the present work, the abilities of natural and synthetic samples of goethite and hematite to remove copper Cu(II) ) and zinc Zn(II) ions from aqueous solutions were compared. Batch adsorption experiments were performed in order to evaluate the removal efficiency of iron oxide samples. The effect of initial metal ion concentration, initial pH and time on adsorption of copper and zinc onto the iron oxides has been studied. The sorption data were represented by the linearized Langmuir model. Comparing the values of adsorption capacities, there were differences between the natural and synthetic samples, natural and synthetic goethite had higher sorption capacity for both metals than hematite. The copper ions showed higher affinity than zinc ions to all samples.
ASSESSMENT OF WATER QUALITY OF THE PEK RIVER BASED ON PHYSICOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS
Authors: Petrović V. Nada , Marković P. Dejan
Published: November 2017

Levels of physicochemical parameters (pH, electrical conductivity, sulphates, chlorides, temperature, turbidity, total hardness, iron, manganese, copper, dissolved oxygen, oxygen saturation, total suspended solid, ammonium nitrogen, total nitrogen and orthophosphates ) were determined in the water samples collected from Pek River at 4 sample sites during 6 months. Monitoring was done at the source of river, on the border between the municipalities Majdanpek and Kučevo, on the border between the municipalities Kučevo and Veliko Gradište and at the confluence of Pek into Danube River. Some of the physicochemical parameter values fall within national standard and WHO limits, some are not.
DETERMINING LEACHATE QUANTITY AT BRIJESNICA REGIONAL SANITARY LANDFILL IN BIJELJINA
Authors: Knežević Nebojša , Cukut Siniša , Dunović Saša
Published: November 2017

One of basic problems faced in practice of landfill waste treatment is a problem relating to landfill leachate. The intensity of their production, thus their quantity, depends on numerous factors: landfill age, waste types, microclimatic parameters and similar. This leachate must not be discharged directly into the environment without its previous collection and treatment.
URBAN REGENERATION AS AN INSTRUMENT OF IDENTITY PRESERVATION: A CASE STUDY OF TREBINJE’S KRŠ DISTRICT
Authors: Cvijić Siniša , Guzijan Jasna
Published: November 2017

Established in the first half of the 18th century, the district of Krš in Trebinje was the first settlement to grow up outside the town walls. It grew up spontaneously in response to the local natural environment and under a mixture of Mediterranean and Oriental influences. Since the second half of the 20th century, the district has faced dilapidation, a process that has not been countered yet, despite its recognised value as a cultural asset and the quality of its ambience.

In this paper the present state of the district of Krš is analysed, along with the possibility of its adequate protection relative to the applicable spatial and town plans, town planning ordinance and international charters on the protection of cultural and natural heritage sites. Also considered is the formulation of a special strategy that would help regenerating the area under consideration as well as safeguard its intangible cultural heritage and genius loci
THE ANALYSIS OF WATER RELEASE FROM THE HYDRO ACCUMULATION LAKE MODRAC WITH SPILLWAY CURVE AND VOLUME CURVES
Authors: Suljić Nedim , Hodžić Dino
Published: November 2017

Dam Modrac is multiple arched reinforced concrete buttress dam, with nine buttresses and ten arches, which by its technical characteristics and volume of the accumulation is considered as one of the high dams. Crown level of spillway is 200.00 m a.s.l. Crest length is 205.00 m, while the maximum height is 27.50 m. To control the water level in the reservoir, under normal hydrological conditions, there are four basic discharges with maximum capacity around Q = 77 m3 /s for the projected state. The paper gives an analytical expression of the spillway curve and analytical expressions of amounts of water discharge separately for each bottom outlet, which are obtained by conducted measurings. Special significance of this paper gives volume curves for hydro accumulation Lake Modrac for projected state and the period of use of the system.
GEOECOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF BELGRADE AND ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PURPOSES OF REST AND RECREATION
Authors: Pecelj R. Milovan , Vagić Nemanja , Pecelj Milica , Đurić Dijana
Published: November 2017

With this work we want to affirm geoecological evaluation, planning and landscape management. Geoecological evaluation of the Belgrade region, for the purpose of rest and recreation, was performed with quantitative method of diversity (V-Wert Methode) of Hans Kiemstedt. The method is suitable for the determination of potential locations suitable for rest and recreation, with various forms of relief (edge of forest and water, then climate and relief). Due to the surface of the evaluated area and the amount of data that had to be processed, the benefits of geographic information systems are expressed. According to this geoecological analysis favorable and very favorable areas for recreation are tied exclusively to the river flows of Sava and Danube. Each of the four raster units, which are marked as very favorable for recreation, include items of river islands (Baric river island, River island Ciganlija, River island Grocanska, Batkov river island and River island Brestovacka), which have high values of the length of the edges of the water.