bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Recuerdos inolvidables
Authors: Barquero Cerdas Martha
Published: December 2018

En 1981 ingresé a la Universidad de Costa Rica como estudiante de la carrera de Bibliotecología con énfasis en Bibliotecas Educativas, por razones personales abandoné mis estudios y estuve fuera de las aulas universitarias durante 14 años aproximadamente, en los cuales añoraba terminar mi carrera.
Presentación del número especial
Authors: Chinchilla Arley Ricardo
Published: December 2018

El equipo de e-Ciencias de la Información quiere rendir un pequeño homenaje a la carrera de bibliotecología y su trascendencia a nivel nacional durante estos primeros cincuenta años de figurar en el escenario de la educación universitaria costarricense; por ello pone a disposición esta sección especial titulada: “50 aniversario de la carrera de Bibliotecología en Costa Rica”, en la cual, quien lee encontrará la contribución de personas cercanas a la bibliotecología y quienes han tenido un papel protagónico en la evolución de la carrera a nivel nacional.
FACTORS SHAPING ENGAGEMENT OF EMPLOYEES ON THE EXAMPLE OF UNIVERSITY WORKERS
Authors: Czaplicka-Kozłowska Iwona Zofia , Stachowska Sylwia
Published: December 2018

Motivating leads to implementation of particular organizational objectives, to shaping engagement and loyalty of its members and, consequently, to raising effectiveness of their actions. Properly constructed solutions in the area of employee motivating process may result in several benefits for an organization, which is also appropriate for public institutions, including the academic ones. The main goal of the research presented in this study was to assess factors shaping engagement of employees of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. The research aimed at achieving the goal was carried out using questionnaire method among the group of workers who were not the academic teachers. The conducted research confirmed that motivation and commitment of employees are influenced by a variety of factors in such areas as: attitude to work and organization, learning and development, relations with superiors, communication and cooperation, work organization and also rewarding and motivating. In the surveyed organization, the last of the indicated areas was rated the most critically, which indicates the need to improve solutions in the scope of the incentive system, with particular emphasis on the employee remuneration system.
Religion and Locality
Authors: Kato Hisanori
Published: December 2018

Indonesia is known for its multicultural social setting, with approximately three hundred local ethnicities and five hundred local languages. Religions also have infiltrated into the life of Indonesia. Among six officially recognized religions, Islam occupies the majority religion in the country, and the total number of Muslims is almost two hundred million. That makes Indonesia the most populous Muslim country in the world. However, we also know that the legacy of pre-Islamic civilizations, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and indigenous religions, is still deeply rooted in Indonesian soil. With this socio-cultural background, Indonesian Islam has developed with the influence of local traditions. We see several Islamic rituals and practices that seem to have been "Indonesianized". Yet, this localized version of Islam is by no means favoured by more religiously strict Islamic groups. In 2015, Nahdlatul Ulama, the largest Islamic organization, launched the so-called Islam Nusantara movement, which upholds the essence of local culture in Islam. This newly-emerged religious movement also presents a profound question in relation to the authenticity of religion, that is, whether religions are able to maintain the "original" rituals and practices without historical,  geographical and regional influences. We will explore the development of the Islam Nusantara movement with this question in mind.
Long, Charles H. 2018. 'Ellipsis … The Collected Writings of Charles H. Long'
Authors: Daughrity Dyron
Published: December 2018

Long, Charles H. 2018. Ellipsis … The Collected Writings of Charles H. Long. New York: Bloomsbury. xiv + 439pp. ISBN: 978-1-3500-3263-7 £130.00 (hbk); ISBN: 978-1-3500-3265-1 £140.40 (e-pub); ISBN: 978-1-3500-3264-4 £140.40 (e-pdf).
Social Criticism, Moral Reasoning and the Literary Form
Authors: Tsilipakos Leonidas
Published: December 2018

Widely chosen by students of society as an approach under which to labour, emancipatory, liberatory or, otherwise put, critical social thought occupies a position between knowledge and practical action whose coherence is taken for granted on account of the pressing nature of the issues it attempts to deal with. As such it is rarely subjected to scrutiny and the methodological, conceptual and moral challenges it faces are not properly identified. The contribution of this article is to raise these problems into view clearly and unambiguously. This is undertaken via a careful examination of Alice Crary’s recent work, in which she attempts, firstly, to defend a left-Hegelian version of Critical Theory by relating it to the work of Peter Winch and, second, to issue a set of methodologically radical recommendations on employing the sensibility-shaping powers of the literary form. The article aims to deepen our understanding of the fundamental tensions between the Critical Theory and Wittgensteinian traditions, which Crary attempts to bring together and, ultimately, of those crucial features of our moral practices that frustrate the enterprise of critical social thought.
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and narrative discourse in older adults
Authors: Coelho Rafael , Mattos Paulo , Tannock Rosemary
Published: December 2018

ABSTRACT Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) encompasses other symptoms besides inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, such as language problems. ADHD can have a non-remitting course and is also found in older individuals, although there are no studies on language problems in elderly individuals with the disorder. Objective: To investigate the presence of language impairment in older adults with ADHD. Methods: Language impairment was investigated in three older ADHD adults, and compared with two matched control subjects using a narrative discourse task. The transcript discourses were evaluated based on the Trabasso Model for discourse analysis, and then processed by the Speech Graph Analysis software. Results: Compared to control subjects, ADHD patient discourse had more Plot components and their networks exhibited more Edges. The patients had higher scores on the Narrative Inefficiency, Density and Diameter Indexes as well as on the Average Clustering Coefficient. The networks of control subjects were sequential, with little or no recursiveness, whereas those of ADHD subjects were convoluted. Conclusion: Our results suggest that language deficits described in children, adolescents and young adults with ADHD may persist in older adults with the disorder.
MONARQUIA, FEDERAÇÃO E IDENTIDADE POLÍTICA AMERICANA: O PERIÓDICO O AMERICANO E AS SINGULARIDADES DE SUA LINGUAGEM POLÍTICA NA REGÊNCIA BRASILEIRA (1831)
Authors: Reis Arthur Ferreira , Vianna Jorge Vinicius Monteiro
Published: December 2018

Resumo O presente artigo, pautado na metodologia das linguagens políticas, no sentido da perspectiva contextualista de J. Pocock e Q. Skinner, almeja investigar o discurso político elaborado pelo periódico O Americano no ano de 1831. Focado nas temáticas do federalismo e na questão da inserção do Brasil como parte integrante da identidade política americana, o trabalho analisa o desenvolvimento e os desdobramentos da linguagem política do jornal frente aos projetos políticos “liberais moderados e exaltados” difundidos no interior da imprensa da Corte do Rio de Janeiro.
LUZ E NEVOEIROS: A IMPRENSA PERIÓDICA MINEIRA NO PERÍODO REGENCIAL (1831-1840)
Authors: Silva Wlamir José
Published: December 2018

Resumo Este artigo trata da imprensa periódica da província de Minas Gerais no período regencial (1831-1840), em especial da perspectiva da representação política em sentido amplo, das relações entre Estado e sociedade, representado e representante, sociedade civil e sociedade política, governantes e governados e da participação do povo no seio do “Protótipo dos Toucinheiros”.
JOÃO VICENTE MARTINS: DO PESSOAL ÀS DISCUSSÕES SOBRE AS NACIONALIDADES
Authors: Santos Wilza Betania dos
Published: December 2018

Resumo A análise da vida de Martins objetiva a construção de uma história que possa considerar os elementos contraditórios que são constituidores da sua identidade, bem como perceber as diferentes representações possíveis deste português, envolvendo os pontos de vista e o contexto em que o mesmo vivia nas comunidades portuguesas em estudo. É importante perceber que a história da comunidade portuguesa foi composta de histórias individuais que não negam a história coletiva, são histórias que se somam, entrelaçam-se, influenciam-se, pois afinal o individual é que compõe o coletivo.
Behaviour of reinforced-concrete flat slabs with stirrups under reversed horizontal cyclic loading
Authors: Almeida André F. O. , Alcobia Bruno , Ornelas Miguel , Marreiros Rui , Ramos António Pinho
Published: December 2018

This paper describes the experimental campaign to study the behaviour of reinforced-concrete flat slab structures with steel stirrups as punching shear reinforcement, under combined vertical and horizontal cyclic loading. The vertical load was first applied and kept constant during the test, while, regarding the cyclic horizontal loading, imposed cyclic drifts were increased until failure. Four slab specimens with shear reinforcement were tested and the results compared to a control slab specimen without shear reinforcement. The studied variables were different shear reinforcement ratios and the number of stirrup layers. The slabs were 4·15 × 1·85 m2 and 0·15 m thick, connected to two steel half-columns. The test setup used was developed by the research team and aimed to simulate the boundary conditions of a flat slab, representing the slab between middle spans in one direction and between zero bending moment points in the other direction. Results show that the use of steel stirrups as shear reinforcement is very effective, increasing shear, drift and energy dissipation capacities. The obtained results were also compared to the provisions given by European and American codes.
Hidrocarburos y agricultura en el Comahue (Patagonia, Argentina). Relaciones de poder y transformaciones territoriales/ Hydrocarbons and agriculture in the Comahue (Patagonia, Argentina). Power relations and territorial transformations
Authors: Guibert Martine , Forget Marie , Carrizo Silvina Cecilia
Published: December 2018

En la región del Comahue (Patagonia argentina), los sectores hidrocarburífero y agropecuario presentan procesos de intensificación del uso de los recursos naturales y tecnológicos. Mientras uno explota el subsuelo y otro cultiva la tierra, ambos desarrollan infraestructuras y participan en la conformación de la identidad de la región (socioeconómica, política, ambiental, paisajística, etc.). Empresas nacionales y extranjeras ponen en valor los recursos locales con criterios globalizados de producción. Los actores privados, la sociedad civil y el Estado procuran hacer converger sus intereses. Participan en la construcción de poder y de las relaciones y condiciones locales (empleo, manejo de los conflictos, etc.). Basado en la recopilación de datos empíricos y en las entrevistas realizadas en 2016, este artículo interroga el modelo de desarrollo que resulta del posicionamiento de actores globalizados en la región (grandes establecimientos agrícolas, transnacionales del sector hidrocarburífero y servicios), para la explotación a gran escala de las materias primas del suelo y del subsuelo. Las negociaciones que se entablan ante conflictos sociales y ambientales, en las que el diálogo llega a estructurarse y consensuar posiciones, pueden conllevar procesos de hibridación de lógicas públicas y privadas. Luego se puede establecer una co-construcción socioeconómica y política del territorio.

Abstract

In the Comahue region (Argentine Patagonia), the oil and gas sector as well as the agricultural one are relevant, in terms of intensifying the use of natural and technological resources. While one exploits the subsoil and another cultivates the land, both develop infrastructures and participate in the conformation the region´s identity (socio-economic, political, environmental, landscape, etc.). National and foreign companies value local resources with globalized production criteria. Shared agreements make converge the interests of private actors, local governments and the State. They participate in the construction of power and their relations with local populations (employment, conflict management, etc.). Based on the compilation of empirical data and interviews conducted in 2016, the article questions the development model resulting from the positioning of globalized actors (large agricultural establishments, hydrocarbon concessions) in the region, for the large-scale exploitation of soil and subsoil materials. The negotiations that take place before social and environmental conflicts, in which the dialogue comes to be structured and leads to agreements, can entail processes of hybridization of public and private logics. Then a socio-economic and political co-construction of the territory can be established.
Why subaltern language? Yes, we speak Portuguese! For a critique of the coloniality of language in international student mobility
Authors: Borges Rovênia , Afonso Almerindo
Published: December 2018

The ability to communicate in English is often associated with the condition of social class, gender and other factors of cultural identity. In this early 21st century, it has become one of the main constraints to participate in study and research programs in universities with top academic rankings. However, in many countries with too many educational inequalities, namely in Portugal and Brazil, the hegemony of the English language is a worrying factor for the internationalisation policies aimed at the high qualification of researchers in several scientific areas, especially those that lead to innovation and bring added value to the knowledge economy. From a comparative perspective, and taking into account some assumptions of postcolonial critical theories, this article presents a critical reflection on how English language teaching policies in the countries mentioned have acted to reinforce inequalities in terms of international student mobility.
Espaço geopolítico lusófono: vidas em Português
Authors: Brito Regina
Published: December 2018

Língua – vidas em Português (2004), de Victor Lopes, mostra a presença da cultura e da língua portuguesa em diferentes partes do mundo, tomando como representação do universo lusófono: Goa, Moçambique, Brasil, Portugal e Japão. Nosso trabalho parte da hipótese de que opiniões, sentimentos, práticas e comportamentos manifestados em Português por indivíduos comuns presentes no documentário indiciam elementos significativos para uma compreensão de lusofonia. Pelo lugar social que ocupam, suas falas são tomadas como estilos de vida englobantes de opiniões sobre a língua portuguesa e representações da cultura à qual pertencem, enfatizando relações entre os sentidos locais e as significações advindas de fora do país. Encontrar o ponto de equilíbrio entre o local e o global, assim como as tensões históricas entre valores (tradição em oposição à inovação, por exemplo) do universo lusófono são consequências da análise a partir do que o documentário nos lega enquanto significação. Assim, por essa manifestação discursiva, outras linhas de entendimento de lusofonia podem surgir por meio de uma chave de leitura que neutraliza ou complexifica as oposições, construindo uma representação de lusofonia como um espaço marcado pelo encontro de diferenças que não necessariamente estão em competição, mas, ao contrário, como um lugar supranacional em permanente diálogo.
Flows, transits and (dis)connection points: contributions towards a critical Lusophony
Authors: Cunha Luís , Macedo Lurdes , Cabecinhas Rosa
Published: December 2018

As a concept, Lusophony is today looked upon with justified suspicion by many Portuguese-speaking people. It is impossible to separate this concept from the colonial ballast that bounds the countries that have Portuguese as the official language. However, it is important to not end the debate on this plane. In this work we revisit some of the foundational narratives of a mythical identity, such as the different hauntings of a promised Quinto Império or lusotropicalism, both in its founding in Brazil and in its reconstitution in Portugal. On the other hand, we discuss about Lusophony from its formal matrix: a language shared by different peoples in different continents. Our objective is to problematize and deepen the debate, summoning a unique experience of reflection, concretely the one that is elaborated by Jorge de Sena already in the final stretch of Estado Novo. Based on these focuses, we argue about the possibility of Lusophony to include lines of escape from certain reductionisms, namely those that derive from the convergent and divergent circulation of narratives and singular experiences. This circulation of people, ideas and memories, is potentially defining a diffuse and polycentric space of effective interculturality, which nurtures further reflection.
Transnational Roma Mobilities
Authors: Nagy Veronika , Durst Judit
Published: December 2018

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Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire?
Authors: Durst Judit
Published: December 2018

This article argues that an essential role that economically backward regions from Hungary play in the global economy is to provide a cheap, flexible and expendable labour force. Out of these social groupings, are the Roma people who inhabit a precarious social position and are considered superfluous: ‘the reserved army of the labour force’ to their society at large. At the same time, it demonstrates, benefiting from a multi-site ethnographic research, how these seemingly resourceless transnational migrants are using their almost only capital: their kinship network as a resource, and ‘rumour publics’ as a strategy of manoeuvre in a climate of political and economic uncertainty and unequal circumstances of domination, in the ‘one-word capitalism’ in order to pursue a better life, or what they consider socio-economic mobility.
Elements of Hard Landscape Design and New Approaches on Their Use
Authors: Şentürk Esra , Altınçekiç Hakan
Published: December 2018

Aim of study: The objective of the research is classification of
hard landscape design materials and reveal the new approaches in their usage.Area of study: This study was conducted in different cities of
Europe, Turkey and America.Material and
Methods: First stage of the study method
consists of determination of the research subject and its areas. Subsequently
literature research was carried out and studies conducted within our country
and abroad were examined. After sufficient information was obtained, it was
proceeded to field work. At this stage, hard landscape design elements were
examined and photographed from different cities Europe, Turkey and America to
determine the new approaches in current usage.Main results: It is observed, in line with the evaluations made,
that hard landscape designers can respond to contemporary approaches, new
expectations and applications and are intertwined with other disciplines such
as natural and social sciences as well as technical, visual, artistic and
architectural, disciplines compared to the past. Research
highlights: It has been tried to bring new
offers as regards the usage of hard landscape elements in landscape design work
to be carried out in Turkey. Moreover, ecological use (selection of light
colored materials, usage as to water saving and etc.) in addition to their
functional and aesthetic usage possibilities have also been included.
The Investigations on Pulp and Paper Production with Modified Kraft Pulping Method from Canola (Brassica napus L.) Stalks
Authors: AKGÜL Mehmet , ERDÖNMEZ İlhan , ÇİÇEKLER Mustafa , TUTUŞ Ahmet
Published: December 2018

Aim of study: This study was carried out to evaluate canola (Brassica napus L.) stalks as an alternative raw material for pulp and paper production. Area of study: This work was carried out in Kahramanmaraş Sütçü Imam University, Faculty of Forestry, Pulp and Paper Production Laboratory. Material and Methods: Before pulping procedure, the chemical components of the canola stalks were investigated. The holocellulose, alpha cellulose, lignin, and ash contents and NaOH (1%) and cold-hot water solubilities were determined. Modified kraft cooking method was used for pulping from canola stalk by using sodium borohydride (NaBH4). Sulfidity charge; 26, 28, 30%, and NaBH4 charge; 0, 0.1, 0.3, 0.5% were changed while keeping constant temperature (150 oC), time (120 min) and alkali charge (20%). For determination of the optimum pulping condition, 12 cooking experiments were performed to canola stalks. In addition, the physical and optical properties of the papers produced from the obtained pulps were also determined. Main results: The holocellulose (72.10%) and lignin (13.15%) contents of the canola stalks were found to be similar with hardwoods. The optimum cooking condition was determined as 20% active alkali, 28% sulfidity and 0.5% NaBH4 charges (as NaOH) and the total pulp yield were obtained about 44.7% in this condition. Besides, the addition of NaBH4 increased pulp yield by 24.1% and decreased kappa number by 9.7%. Research highlights: It was concluded that obtained results demonstrate the suitability of canola stalk for pulp and paper production and NaBH4 is an effective cooking additive for the pulp yield.
SYSB 3036 W10: Read mapping v4
Authors: Aylward Frank
Published: December 2018

This is an example of a simple short read mapping analysis that could be used as part of a transcriptomics or RNA-seq workflow. Code is intended for use on an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS OS, but it may work on other Unix or Unix-like systems. This tutorial uses data from the following very nice paper from the Hatfull group: Dedrick, Mavrich, Ng, and Hatfull, Expression and evolutionary patterns of mycobacteriophage D29 and its temperate close relatives. BMC Microbiology, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-017-1131-2 The tools that are used include: SRA toolkit:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/docs/toolkitsoft/ bowtie2:http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/bowtie2/index.shtml samtools:http://samtools.sourceforge.net/ BEDOPS:https://bedops.readthedocs.io/en/latest/content/reference/file-management/conversion/bam2bed.html BEDtools:https://bedtools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Make sure that these tools are installed before starting the tutorial.On a Ubuntu OS you should be able to install most with "sudo apt install", but you may wish to use a package manager such as Anaconda or Miniconda as well. Throughout the tutorial some notes may be made about particular versions of tools. For example, note that the version of SRA toolkit that is installed with apt install often leads to downstream errors, it may be desirable to install this tool with Miniconda instead. Miniconda bash installers can be found here:https://conda.io/miniconda.html
Protocol for use with NEBNext rRNA Depletion Kit (Human/Mouse/Rat) (E6310) and NEBNext Ultra II Directional RNA Library Prep Kit for Illumina (E7760, E7765) v2
Authors: England Biolabs New
Published: December 2018

The NEBNext rRNA Depletion Kit (Human/Mouse/Rat) depletes both cytoplasmic (5S rRNA, 5.8SrRNA, 18S rRNA and 28S rRNA) and mitochodrial ribosomal RNA (12SrRNA and 16S rRNA) from human, mouse and rat total RNA preparations. This product is suitable for both intact and degraded RNA (e.g. FFPE RNA). The resulting rRNA-depleted RNA is suitable for RNA-Seq, random-primed cDNA synthesis, or other downstream RNA analysis applications.
PREFERENCIAS LITERARIAS Y CULTURALES DE UN GRUPO DE ADOLESCENTES: LECTURAS HÍBRIDAS PARA LA FORMACIÓN LITERARIA
Authors: Ambrós Alba
Published: December 2018

Las preferencias literarias y culturales de un grupo de adolescentes de tercero de secundaria del área metropolitana de Barcelona son el objeto de estudio de esta investigación. Los datos de la muestra se recogieron a partir de la elaboración de una tarea comunicativa. La metodología utilizada fue la mixta y el análisis de los datos se centró en establecer las frecuencias de las variables registradas y realizar la diferenciación en función del sexo. Los resultados obtenidos ponen de manifiesto que un 53,2% de la muestra estaría dentro de los “lectores débiles” (Manresa, 2011); sus preferencias literarias se centran, en ambos sexos, en la lectura de libros impresos, además de las películas y las series. Se propone integrar el cine en las clases de literatura de forma intertextual (Ambrós, 2011; Mendoza, 2013) y también diseñar acciones concretas a partir de los planes lingüísticos de centro (Romero y Trigo, 2018).
Una propuesta didáctica para la construcción de un modelo precursor del aire en la Educación Infantil
Authors: Lorenzo Flores María , Sesto Varela Vanessa , García-Rodeja Isabel
Published: December 2018

En este trabajo se describe cómo evolucionan las explicaciones de catorce niños y niñas de Educación Infantil (3-5 años) durante una propuesta didáctica sobre el aire. Aunque existe una vasta literatura en este dominio, gran parte de los estudios se han desarrollado en etapas educativas superiores. Para la recogida de datos se ha recurrido a la grabación en audio y vídeo de las sesiones. Para el análisis de datos se han adoptado categorías descritas en estudios previos que también abordan las explicaciones de los niños acerca de fenómenos naturales. Los resultados muestran que al inicio los niños no tenían conceptualizada la idea de aire. Sin embargo, durante el desarrollo de la secuencia sus explicaciones fueron adquiriendo un mayor nivel de sofisticación. Llegaron a reconocer que el aire existe y ocupa espacio, siendo la masa la propiedad más difícil de asimilar. Estos hallazgos sugieren que los niños de corta edad sí pueden construir representaciones mentales acerca del aire.
Los determinantes del pago por rendimiento en filiales argentinas de empresas multinacionales
Authors: Delfini Marcelo , Cretini Ignacio , Quadrana Alejandra
Published: December 2018

El objetivo de este artículo es establecer los factores que determinan los pagos por rendimiento en empresas multinacionales de Argentina. El estudio se realiza a través de un modelo de regresión logística y, adicionalmente, se incorpora un análisis de los efectos marginales sobre las variables explicativas a partir de una encuesta realizada a 83 filiales de empresas multinacionales. Los resultados indican que la probabilidad de incorporar pagos por rendimiento aumenta cuando las firmas tienen mayores niveles de ventas externas y son trasnacionalizadas, mientras que disminuye para aquellas empresas con un control local de los recursos humanos y en las que existe una importante presencia sindical; finalmente, no se observa incidencia significativa por parte del país de origen de la empresa.
Prosthesis: From Grammar to Medicine in the Earliest History of the Word
Authors: Hawk Brandon W.
Published: December 2018

This article provides an examination of the earliest history of the term prosthesis in English, re-evaluating other such histories with previously unrecognized archival material from early printed books. These sources include sixteenth- and seventeenth-century early printed books such as handbooks of grammar, English dictionaries, British Latin dictionaries, and medical treatises on surgery. Such an investigation reveals both a more nuanced trajectory of the early history of the word in English and fuller context for a shift in meaning from usages in the study of grammar and rhetoric to the study of medicine and surgery. This narrative, then, speaks to the growth of medical knowledge and discourse in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as concepts about disability that remain part of disability studies even in the present field.
Research in the wild(s): Opportunities, affordances and constraints doing assistive technology field research in underserved areas
Authors: Bellucci Andrea , Nolan Jason , Di Santo Aurelia
Published: December 2018

The particular needs of disabled children in the 'Majority World' is under researched. There is an assumption that children's needs are the same as those supported by well-developed healthcare infrastructures. Field research is necessary to understand the design challenges, opportunities and affordances for these children. For research and design to meet their unique needs, processes must start with children in their own communities. AAC (Alternative and Augmentative Communication) technology design rarely benefits from early stage in situ fieldwork. We report on the conceptualization, development and lessons learned from field research surrounding our AAC device, we call the RE/Lab Comunicación Aumentada Móvil (Mobile Augmented Communication) device, developed specifically for disability design fieldwork with indigenous communities in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Our device is part of Diseñando para el Futuro (Designing for the Future), which is supporting the indigenous community in the creation of custom adaptations for disabled children in Cochabamba. In order to ascertain design requirements of AAC devices and applications for such communities, we took our prototype AAC device into the field as both a tool 'in development' and as a communication artifact to enable us to understand the needs of these children. The project PI (an Autistic self-advocate) situates research practice within the 'nothing about us without us' paradigm, accordingly, project goals are to work with children to create communication tools to help them express their goals, interests and needs and enable the co-creation of new tools with them.
Contests for Meaning: Ableist Rhetoric in Video Games Backlash Culture
Authors: Crooks Hayley R. , Magnet Shoshana
Published: December 2018

An increasing number of video games focus on empathetic identification across difference. Since the mid-2000s, games that encourage catharsis and immersive engagement with trauma range from the personal as in That Dragon, Cancer (2014), in which players experience what it is like to parent a terminally ill child to geopolitical struggles as in Peacemaker (2007) which encourages player empathy for both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. These games are rapidly gaining in popularity and commercial backing. As more games focus on issues of social justice, the backlash against these concerns among a vocal segment of the gaming community is increasing in frequency and intensity. A branch of the men's rights movement has focused on video games aimed at understanding difference, and has attracted attention suggesting that all those advocating for social justice in games (dubbed Social Justice Warriors) should be understood to have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). We argue that these claims to NPD need to be understood as a form of structural ableism mobilized by the men's rights movement. In doing so, we argue that by situating the mental health labels evoked by current men's rights' activist rhetoric about feminist anti-racist interventions in game culture is a new form of the old practice of attaching mental health labels to people challenging social norms underpinning the dominant culture.
Review of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability and Designing Disability: Symbols, Space, and Society
Authors: Williamson Bess
Published: December 2018

No abstract available.
Review of Sick: A Memoir
Authors: Orem Sarah
Published: December 2018

No abstract available.
A mimic of nasopharynx carcinoma turned out to be primary nasopharynx tuberculosis
Authors: Chandrashekaran Sivanes , Abd Ghani Mohd Syukra bin
Published: December 2018

Nasopharyngeal tuberculosis is indeed a rare manifestation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. The general symptoms of nasopharyngeal tuberculosis are nasal obstruction, neck mass, epitaxis, rhinorrhoea, otalgia and hearing loss. Constitutional symptoms may present in almost 12-30% of nasopharyngeal tuberculosis cases, hence it often disguise as nasopharyngeal carcinoma in patients. Apart from that, most cases of nasopharyngeal tuberculosis usually occur with combined active pulmonary tuberculosis or systemic infection. Hereby presenting a case of nasopharyngeal tuberculosis in a lady who is otherwise healthy presented with neck mass for duration of two months with no obstructive symptoms. Upon proceeding with rigid nasal endoscopy, obliteration of fossa of rossenmuller was noted and biopsy confirmed tuberculosis. Patient was immediately started on antituberculosis therapy. Upon subsequent follow ups, resolution of the neck mass was noted. Hence, it is crucial to have a high index of suspiciousness to rule out nasopharyngeal tuberculosis as this is a curable disease and failure to do so can pave way for the deathly pathogen to disseminate in its host and cause mortality.
Music and the cutting edge of cultural expression
Authors: Viteri Juan Pablo , McLeod Kembrew
Published: December 2018

In this interview, Juan Pablo Viteri speaks with Kembrew McLeod. McLeod is a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa and an independent documentary producer. A prolific author and filmmaker, he has written and produced several books and documentaries that focus on popular music, independent media and copyright law.
Involvement of Alternative Calcium Conductance on Human Myometrial Contractile and Pharmacological Properties
Authors: Rousseau Éric , Labelle Karine , Massenavette Laurence
Published: December 2018

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the physiological role of alternative calcium conduct once contractions triggered by oxytocin and PGF? in human myometrium. This conductance, supported by TRPC and TRPV channels, may provide alternative pathways to control either free intracellular and/or submembrane Ca2+ - concentrations, which in turn will modulate membrane polarization and contractile responses. Study design: Uterine biopsies were obtained from consenting women undergoing elective caesarian delivery at term without labor (N = 29). Isometric tension measurements were performed on uterine strips (n = 174). Amplitudes, frequencies and areas under the curve (AUC) of phasic contractions as well as resting tone were measured under various experimental conditions. Norgestimate, which has been shown to inhibit TRPC isoforms, was added to isolated organ baths to delineate their putative functional involvement. In order to assess the role of TRPV4 channels, rhythmic activity triggered by uterotonic drugs was determined in the absence and presence of either 1 ?M HC-067047 (TRPV4 antagonist) or 100 nM GSK1016790A (TRPV4 agonist). Addition of 50 nM iberiotoxin (IbTX) as well as of 10 ?M NS-1619 was also used to assess the involvement of GKCa channels in controlling uterine reactivity and contractility.Results: Micromolar concentrations of norgestimate consistently decreased the resting tone, frequency and maximal amplitude of oxytocin - and PGF2? - induced contractions. In contrast, the TRPV4 agonist GSK1016790A abolished the rhythmic contractions, resulting in a strong and reversible tocolytic effect. Addition of iberiotoxin (a GKCa blocker) reversed the effects of GSK1016790A, while NS1619 mimicked the rapid tocolytic effects of the TRPV4 agonist. Conclusion: Acute pharmacological inhibition of TRPC channels by norgestimate had minor effects on contractile parameters although resting - tone was lowered. In contrast, selectiveTRPV4 activation led to GKCa activation, which in turn hyperpolarized the myometrial cell membrane, inactivating Ca2+ channels and efficiently abrogated contractile activity. Collectively, these data suggest that alternative calcium conduct ance may play a physiological role in the modulation of myometrial reactivity prior to delivery. A rapid switch from phasic contractions to quiescence by this new class of tocolytics may potentially be of interest in delaying parturition in preterm labor.
Bechara historiógrafo das ideias linguísticas: a revisão de uma tradição gramatical
Authors: Batista Ronaldo de Oliveira
Published: December 2018

Escrito em homenagem aos 90 anos de Evanildo Bechara, este artigo analisa o texto historiográfico do gramático brasileiro “A tradição gramatical luso-brasileira”. Publicado no final da década de 1990, esse texto faz uma revisão histórica da produção gramatical dos séculos XIX e XX em Portugal e no Brasil. A perspectiva aqui adotada privilegia uma visão meta-historiográfica, pois pretende descrever e caracterizar a natureza do texto sobre gramáticas portuguesas e brasileiras, vistas sob um olhar comparativo, permeado de influências e permanências históricas. Por meio dessa delimitação teórica, alcança-se uma interpretação sobre o trabalho de Bechara, escrito na pauta de uma história que busca por continuidades e diálogos entre autores e obras, constituindo o que se entende por uma tradição na história das ideias linguísticas.
Eugenio Coseriu no quadro da linguística moderna
Authors: Uchôa Carlos Eduardo Falcão
Published: December 2018

Os fundamentos essenciais da ideologia linguística de Eugenio Coseriu. A repercussão de sua obra no Brasil. A mudança que ela representou em relação à de Ferdinand de Saussure. O amplo conceito de competência linguística em três níveis: o universal, o histórico e o individual. O falar concreto como base para todas as manifestações da linguagem. As obras mais representativas de Coseriu para o conhecimento de seu pensar sobre a linguagem.
Gramática normativa: ensino, consciência e liberdade
Authors: Barbosa Bastos Neusa Maria Oliveira , De Brito Regina Pires
Published: December 2018

A partir da afirmativa de que há sempre um poder instalado pela língua, o poder da língua, o poder de quem é usuário da língua, buscamos refletir sobre a posição de Evanildo Bechara que traz esse conceito em sua obra: Ensino da Gramática: Opressão? Liberdade? (Ática, Série Princípios, 12ª. Edição, 2006 – edição aqui utilizada para as citações) – obra de leitura indispensável em nossos cursos de Graduação em Letras. Salientamos a pertinência, a atualidade e as sucessivas reedições dessa obra, para afirmar que, passados mais de trinta anos da sua primeira edição, o texto do filólogo, linguista, professor, vem sendo reeditado tal qual veio a público em 1986 e tem levado gerações de leitores a questionamentos e a reflexões sobre gramática normativa, sua função na sala de aula e na conquista da cidadania e sobre a importância de uma aplicação consciente das teorias linguísticas no ensino de Língua Portuguesa.
Compendio de grammatica philosophica da língua portugueza, de A. da Costa Duarte: edições em confronto
Authors: Leite Marli Quadros
Published: December 2018

O Compendio de Antônio da Costa Duarte, publicado no Maranhão, teve seis edições, situação que comprova o sucesso editorial da obra, originariamente destinada ao ensino de língua portuguesa, nível básico (“Licêo do Maranhão e aulas de primeiras letras da Provincia”). Das seis edições, quatro são conhecidas e referidas (1ª 1829, 3ª 1853, 4ª 1859, e 6ª 1877), das demais não se conhecem as datas. Neste artigo, tomam-se três dessas edições, a primeira, a quarta e a sexta, para compará-las, destacando e analisando algumas alterações havidas entre a primeira e as duas outras examinadas. Depois de considerações sobre as edições, serão examinadas alterações devidas tanto ao acréscimo de notas de rodapé quanto a modificações existentes no corpo do texto. A investigação mostra que Duarte aproximou-se mais da teoria racional nas edições posteriores à primeira, pelo acréscimo de explicações teóricas e aplicações da teoria à descrição da língua portuguesa.
Sobre um uso estilístico do pretérito mais-que-perfeito na sintaxe clássica do português
Authors: De Azeredo José Carlos
Published: December 2018

Nossa tradição descritiva, amparada exclusivamente em traços morfológicos, assegura ao pretérito imperfeito do subjuntivo [PIS] e ao futuro do pretérito [FtP] o status de tempos distintos. No entanto, se levarmos em conta o comportamento de ambos no plano sintático e no papel de meios de expressão do tempo e da atitude do falante, o grau dessa separação fica bem reduzido. PIS e FtP ocupam, nos períodos hipotéticos, posições complementares, e só esporadicamente são permutáveis entre si. Os sentidos de tempo e modo expressos em cada um acabam por ser exatamente os mesmos. Esse fato favoreceu a substituição de ambos pelo pretérito mais-que-perfeito, um recurso estilístico da sintaxe clássica portuguesa que transfere para o plano formal uma simetria presente no conteúdo.
DINÂMICA POPULACIONAL DE PLANTAS DANINHAS EM ÁREAS COM SORGO SACARINO E GRANÍFERO COM DIFERENTES ESPAÇAMENTOS E DENSIDADES DE SEMEADURA
Authors: GOMES TALITA CAMARGOS , KARAM DÉCIO
Published: December 2018

RESUMO: O conhecimento de uma comunidade infestante é necessário para se avaliar o nível de dano que esta pode causar na produtividade de qualquer cultura. Assim, o objetivo do estudo foi realizar levantamento fitossociológico exploratório de plantas daninhas em áreas com sorgo sacarino e granífero em função de densidades e espaçamentos de plantas de sorgo como forma de manejo cultural. O estudo foi conduzido em campo, com delineamento experimental de blocos casualizados, em esquema fatorial 2 x 2 x 2 com três repetições, sendo os tratamentos representados por duas cultivares de sorgo, BRS 506 e BR 330, semeadas em duas densidades (100.000, e 200.000 plantas ha-1) e dois espaçamentos (0,25 e 0,7 m) entre linhas. O levantamento das espécies infestantes foi realizado aos 56 dias após a emergência (DAE) do sorgo, pelo método do quadrado inventário. Observou-se que as diferenças em Índice de Valor de Importância para a mesma espécie daninha estão relacionadas à mudança na densidade e no espaçamento da cultura do sorgo.Palavras-chave: Sorghum bicolor, BRS 506, BR 330, fitossociologia, manejo cultural. POPULATION DYNAMICS OF WEED IN AREAS WITH SWEET SORGHUM AND GRAIN SORGHUM WITH DIFFERENT SPACINGS AND PLANTING DENSITIES  ABSTRACT – Knowing a weed community is important to estimate the level of damage that may cause to the productivity of any crop. Thus, the aim of the present study was to perform a phytosociological survey of weeds in areas with saccharine and grain sorghum considering the interaction between density and spacing of sorghum plants as a form of crop management. The study was conducted at field in a randomized block design with a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial scheme and three replications. Two sorghum cultivars (BRS 506 and BR 330) were seeded at two densities (100,000 and 200,000 plants ha-1) and two row spacings (0.25 and 0.7 m). The evaluation of the weed species was performed 56 days after emergence (DAE) of sorghum using the inventory square method. The dry mass of the weed species was determined. It was observed that the differences in the importance value index of the same weed species are related to changes in the density and spacing of sorghum.Keywords: Sorghum bicolor, BRS 506, BR 330, phytosociology, crop management.
DESEMPENHO AGROINDUSTRIAL DO SORGO SACARINO SUBMETIDO A DIFERENTES DOSES DE NITROGÊNIO E POTÁSSIO EM COBERTURA
Authors: LARA JÚNIA DE PAULA , BORGES IRAN DIAS , DOS SANTOS FLÁVIA CRISTINA , DA COSTA PARRELLA RAFAEL AUGUSTO
Published: December 2018

RESUMO - O sorgo sacarino pode ser plantado para fins energéticos. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o desempenho agroindustrial, qualitativamente e quantitativamente, da cultivar de sorgo sacarino BRS 511 submetida a diferentes doses de N e K2O em cobertura. Foi conduzido experimento sem irrigação na região Central de Minas Gerais. O delineamento utilizado foi em blocos casualizados, com 3 repetições, e os tratamentos foram dispostos em esquema fatorial 4x4, sendo 4 doses de nitrogênio (45, 90, 135 e 180 kg ha-1) x 4 de potássio (50, 100, 150 e 200 kg ha-1) em cobertura. Características avaliadas: extração de caldo, massa verde, massa seca, sólidos solúveis totais, °Brix t/ha, teor de sacarose, açúcar redutor total, quantidade de álcool por hectare e quantidade de álcool por tonelada de massa verde. O sorgo sacarino respondeu à adubação nitrogenada e potássica em cobertura, sendo que a adubação nitrogenada interferiu mais nas variáveis analisadas em relação ao potássio. O melhor desempenho considerando a produção de litros de etanol por hectare, toneladas de °Brix por hectare, litros de etanol por tonelada de massa verde, teor de sacarose e açúcar redutor total foi obtido com altas doses de N e K2O em cobertura (cerca de 120 e 130 kg ha-1, respectivamente).Palavras-chave: etanol, Sorghum bicolor, adubação. AGROINDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE OF SORGHUM SACCHARINE SUBJECTED TO DIFFERENT DOSES OF TOPDRESSED NITROGEN AND POTASSIUM  ABSTRACT - The sweet sorghum, or sorghum saccharine, is planted in reformed areas of sugarcane for energy purposes. The objective of this study was to assess qualitatively and quantitatively the agroindustrial performance of sorghum saccharine cultivar BRS 511 subjected to different doses of topdressed N and K2O, without irrigation in the Central region of Minas Gerais. A randomized block design with three replications was used and treatments arranged in a factorial 4 x 4 with four nitrogen rates (45, 90, 135 and 180 kg ha-1) and 4 potassium doses (50, 100, 150 and 200 kg ha-1). The characteristics evaluated were: juice extraction, green mass, dry matter, total soluble solids, tons of Brix per hectare, sugar content, total reducing sugar, alcohol and ethanol per hectare per ton of biomass. The best performance of sorghum saccharine, considering the production of liter of ethanol per hectare, tons brix per hectare, gallons of ethanol per ton of biomass, sugar content and sugar total reducing, occurred with use of high doses of topdressed N and K2O (up to 120 to 130 kg ha-1, respectively).Keywords: ethanol, Sorghum bicolor, fertilizer.
Missing and Murdered
Authors: Spotted Bull Grant
Published: December 2018

Spotted Bull's series of painting depict graphically, the experiences of First Nations women who have suffered from systemic violence and have been murdered.  He states that the spirits of the missiong and murdered women will roam, until they are brought home to rest.
The Dynamic Assessment of Narratives: A Bilingual Study
Authors: Fiestas Christine E. , Peña Elizabeth D.
Published: December 2018

This study applied the dynamic assessment (DA) of narratives in a bilingual Spanish- and English-speaking early elementary population. We examined transfer and change in narrative performance within and across languages after mediated learning experience (MLE) in Spanish or English. Sixty-eight bilingual children were randomized to two groups: Spanish (n = 24) or English mediation (n = 25), while a control group (n = 19) participated in regular academic activities. The MLE Spanish and English groups participated in mediated learning focusing on storytelling ability, and children’s modifiability was rated. Pre- to posttest narrative macro- and microstructure change was measured for all children. Both MLE groups demonstrated significant gains in macrostructure compared to the no-treatment control group. Children’s stories were stronger in Spanish overall. Children in both MLE groups demonstrated transfer of narrative macrostructure across both languages regardless of the language of the MLE. When the language of MLE matched language of story production, children did not make greater posttest gains than when unmatched. Finally, MLE in English had a small effect on children’s modifiability ratings. For English-language learners, DA may be a valid method to assess children’s modifiability, language learning, and transfer of skills across languages in an academically relevant task.