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The Intersection of Sustainability, Marketing, and Public Policy: Introduction to the Special Section on Sustainability
Authors: Iyer Easwar S. , Reczek Rebecca Walker
Published: November 2017

In this introduction to the special section on sustainability, the authors propose two primary factors that can help characterize past research in marketing on sustainability. The first of these factors, the research objective, has two dimensions: mitigate versus create and short-term versus long-term focus. To mitigate (vs. create) implies that the objective of the research is to understand factors whose reduction (enhancement) would have a positive impact on sustainability. Short- versus long-term focus describes the fact that the research objective can be to impact an immediate behavior related to sustainability or can be focused on longer-term drivers or consequences of such behaviors. The second factor, research context, can have multiple dimensions, although much of the past and current research on sustainability has been conducted in four contexts: environmental, nonenvironmental, business-to-consumer, and business-to-business. The authors first review past literature in light of this framework and then discuss the articles in the special section. They close with a discussion of where researchers interested in studying the intersection of sustainability, marketing, and public policy can go from here.
Meaning-Centrism in Roland Barthes’ Structuralism
Authors: Zhang Shuping
Published: November 2017

Meaning and form are two important concepts in philosophy, literature, and other humanities, and discussions on the dialectical relationship between meaning and form have lasted for 2,000 years. Though the importance of meaning was considered, attention, interest, and studies were overwhelmingly focused on form much more than meaning, especially in the popular period of aestheticism, formalism, and structuralism. Henceforth, form retained ultimate supremacy over meaning. Roland Barthes was one of the giants of structuralism and was traditionally regarded as a formalist during his structuralist period (1950s–1967). In fact, Barthes’ semiotic thought was composed of two branches, cultural semiotics and literary semiotics. He valued meaning and the way of meaning-making in his cultural semiotics, and was devoted to exploration of hidden meaning, as well as the relationship between meaning and form. He found three layers of meaning hiding in mass media, i.e. denotation, connotation, and myth, which shape and reshape readers’ ideology, and persuade them to accept the ideology of the middle class. While forms are plentiful, even overflowing, meaning is relatively simple, but meaning is of supreme importance, as it manipulates forms in an implicit way. Consequently, Roland Barthes was really meaning-oriented or meaning-centrist in his cultural semiotic thought.
Spread of Eragrostis albensis (Poaceae) and Dittrichia graveolens (Asteraceae) in the southern Poland
Authors: Wróbel Anna , Nobis Marcin
Published: November 2017

New localities of Eragrostis albensis H. Scholz and Dittrichia graveolens (L.) Greuter have been found in the southern Poland. The former taxon is currently considered a kenophyte (epecophyte and holoagriophyte) in the country. It occurs on sandy alluvia along Vistula, Oder and San River Valleys as well as on anthropogenic sites mainly in the eastern and south-eastern Poland. The latter species is a recent newcomer regarded as an ephemerophyte, which so far has been reported from only one locality in Śląskie Province. In 2017 we discovered 16 new localities of E. albensis and five of D. graveolens on the territory of the southern Poland. Populations of both species consisted of few to several dozen individuals which grew within anthropogenic habitats, mainly roadsides. Distribution maps of both species in the southern Poland were presented.
Structure of avian communities in lowland coniferous forests in Opole Silesia (SSW Poland)
Authors: Kopij Grzegorz
Published: November 2017

In Poland, forests comprise 31% of the total surface area, while the lowland coniferous forests comprise 51% of 94 000 km2 afforested areas. The line transect method was employed in 2002 and 2004 to estimate population densities and dominance of all bird species breeding in a selected fragment of such forest (eight transects with 165 sections and 77.7 km in total length). In total, 54 breeding bird species were recorded. The numbers varied between 37 and 44 on the particular transect. The number of breeding pairs per 10 ha varied on each transect from 41.0 to 93.6 (x=64.8; SD=102.22). Shannon’s diversity index varied between 1.2 and 1.4 on particular transects, while Simpson’s diversity index varied between 0.7 and 0.9. Also Pieleau’s evenness index varied slightly between 0.05 and 0.07. In overall, the differences between densities of breeding species on 8 transects were not statistically significant. The Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs was by far the most numerous bird species, recorded as eudominant in all eight transects and present in all 165 sections. The second to the Chaffinch was the Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita; also recorded in all sections and as a dominant in all transects. Three other species, namely the Blackbird Turdus merula, Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus and Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla were recorded each one in more than 90% sections (N=165), and on particular transects their dominance varied between 4 and 11%. Residents comprised 57.5% of all breeding pairs. Short-distance migrants were almost twice more common than long-distance migrants. Insectivores were by far the most numerous feeding guild represented 88.9% of all breeding pairs. Overall density, cumulative dominance, diversity and evenness were unexpectedly very similar in this study (managed forest) and in natural primeval lowland coniferous forests of Białowieża.
Historical record of Richard’s Pipit (Anthus richardi) on the territory of Upper Silesia
Authors: Hudeček Jiří J.
Published: November 2017

Historical ornithological literature contains so far scientifically underused data. In 1885 Richard's Pipit, Anthus richardi Vieillot, 1818, was found in the surroudings of Cieszyn in Upper Silesia, today's Poland. This species had not been known either in Upper Silesia or Silesia.
Travelling Books: When Dorothe Engelbretsdatter Went to America
Authors: Sørbø Marie Nedregotten
Published: November 2017

A newly surfaced copy of Norwegian poet Dorothe Engelbretsdatter’s work in The United States is evidence of the seventeenth-century’s author’s enduring hold on nineteenth-century readers. This article places the book in the context of the poet’s Scandinavian reception since her own time and today. The travelling book forms an appropriate illustration of the spread of women’s writing, as studied by the EU-funded project
Redefining the Road for the Industry
Authors: Amsel Tuvya T.
Published: November 2017

The polygraph is an instrument that detects, monitors, and records physiological responses that are allegedly of psychological origin and attributed to deception. Hence the human mind and its complex psychology are the core of the detected physical responses. However, the polygraph industry has almost entirely overlooked psychological issues in its training and publishing. The industry focuses its attention and interest on various technical aspects of the test such as e.g. scoring, rather than concentrating on what is most important, i.e. the examinee’s psychology, as it is responsible for almost the entire test result. The paper extensively explains the importance of examinee psychology and its influence on test outcome, points to the shortfalls in training and publication activity of the industry, and discusses the result and impact of the industry’s approach.
Interprofessionality in the model courses of study for healthcare and nursing professions in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany / Interprofessionalität in den Modellstudiengängen der Pflege- und Gesundheitsberufe in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Authors: Hallwaß Anke , Hollweg Wibke
Published: November 2017

Interprofessional cooperation is attributed a special significance in overcoming new challenges in the health system. For the educational system, this means the development of innovative teaching and learning formats that encourages interaction between students from different professions within healthcare. In Germany in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), eleven model courses of study for healthcare and nursing professions have been developed and evaluated. Evaluation reports do not tell whether social interaction between students of different professions is promoted. The following study investigates to what extent interprofessionality is incorporated into the model courses of study for healthcare and nursing professions in NRW and to what extent the courses of study include social interaction between students of different professions. In addition, an analysis is made as to what extent structural and organisational conditions and the course management influence the (further) development of the courses with a view to interprofessionality. Structured expert interviews have been carried out with those responsible for the courses of study, for a total of seven model courses. These have then been evaluated using qualitative content analysis. The promotion of interprofessional expertise is incorporated into all model study courses that were considered and is generally governed by international standards. Six of the seven courses of study offer social interaction between students of different professions. Valuable hints for interprofessional education at colleges for health could be achieved.
Paradigms for EU Law and the Limits of Delegation. The Case of EU Agencies
Authors: Simoncini Marta
Published: November 2017

This article questions the idea that the EU is a pure regulatory power based on supranational delegation of competence from the Member States. It claims the insufficiency of this single paradigm to explain the developments of EU law and the need to integrate it with recognition of the constitutional foundations of EU law.

The analysis demonstrates this by focusing on a specific case study of institutional design in the internal market integration: the delegation of powers to EU agencies. By recognising the judicial evolution of the so-called Meroni doctrine concerning the non-delegation of powers to EU agencies, the article unveils that, legally speaking, the enhancement of EU agencies’ powers takes place in the autonomous constitutional framework of the EU legal order.

This constitutional foundation of EU law shall therefore complement the supranational delegation paradigm. Only in this wider approach can the legitimacy of EU agencies’ powers be framed and accommodated in the composite nature of the EU as a Union of Member States. On these grounds, the final remarks highlight the need for a more comprehensive paradigm for EU law that can explain these different aspects of EU law under a common approach based on a wider public law discourse.
Administration or Federation? Constitutional Self-Image and the World Political Order in Which the EU Finds Itself
Authors: Kuo Ming-Sung
Published: November 2017

In this article, I compare constitutional and administrative models in terms of their implications for the EU legal order’s interaction with other legal regimes. I aim to make a twofold argument on the implications of the EU’s constitutional self-image to the world political order. First, as the CJEU adopts an identity-centred strong constitutionalist position on the Union’s external relations, it implicitly frames the EU legal order’s interaction with other legal regimes as in a federated order. Yet the strong political implications of federation are likely to bring about more inter-regime conflicts and provoke reactions from Member States. Second, I provide a critique of the administrative model in the light of GAL’s intervention in inter-regime relations, suggesting a post-identity constitutional alternative in times of crisis. Freed from the value-laden concept of constitutional identity, but without de-constitutionalizing itself, the EU can have the benefits of both the constitutional and administrative models by moving towards a weak-form constitutional order. In the event, the debate, as to whether to conduct the EU’s external relations according to the constitutional or the administrative model, is misconceived.
A Postmodern Public Man and His Mental-Cultural Markers
Authors: Dziubka Kazimierz
Published: November 2017

The article aims to describe the fundamental principles of the postmodern concepts of public life viewed from the perspective of neuroscience and cognitive science. Considering the fact that both systems of theories are focused on the psychobiological aspects of human mind and body, and in consequence they both endeavor to understand and explain the relations between brain, mind, and social environment (sphere), I decided to use this particular assumption as a starting point to analyse categories such as: public man, public sphere, space of life, modern and postmodern normative patterns, and heuristic paradigms of relationships between Nature, Society, and Culture. As a leading cognitive and interpretative approach I selected the theory of mental and cultural markers, based on somatic marker hypothesis presented by Antonio R. Damasio and the first-person ontology developed by John R. Searle. Ultimately, both concepts support a more extensive and complex approach in explaining direction of contemporary public debate and associated with it expectations to reorganize people’s life in terms of their physical and spiritual needs. The crucial role of the aforementioned changes has the embodied self – a source of unique and everyday experiences that stimulate the thoughts and emotions of men.
David Lincicum: Fighting Germans with Germans: Victorian Theological Translations between Anxiety and Influence
Authors: Lincicum David
Published: November 2017

Between 1825 and 1895, Victorian Britain witnessed a significant blossoming of interest in foreign theological literature. Much of this interest, together with a concomitant anxiety, focused on the negotiation of German biblical criticism and the new challenges and possibilities this criticism introduced. This article thematizes this transnational literary and theological encounter, paying particular attention both to the major book series that undertook to mediate (especially German) criticism to Britain, and to the burgeoning periodical literature that supplied ’foreign intelligence’ and short translations. Translation served as both a liberalizing force as it introduced critical results that troubled some proponents of orthodoxy, but also offered a channel for resistance as doctrinally conservative strands of German biblical scholarship found a warm reception. The article is followed by a chronologically organized bibliography of translated works published in Britain from 1825 to 1895.
Determinação do sexo e estimativa da idade por meio de mensurações em mandíbulas secas de adultos
Authors: Pinto Victor Magalhães Santos , Silva Ricardo Araújo da , Júnior Erasmo Almeida , Lima Arthur Igor Cruz , Sampaio Layana Santtana Freitas
Published: November 2017

A Odontologia Legal exerce um papel importante no processo de identificação de indivíduos, principalmente, quando é recebido para o processo de análise, o crânio da vítima. Este possui estruturas particulares que podem fornecer dados suficientes para a determinação do sexo de um indivíduo. Outra estrutura que também demonstra características seguras é a mandíbula. O objetivo desse trabalho foi determinar as características diferenciais entre partes de crânios pertencentes a indivíduos do sexo masculino e feminino, de diferentes idades, por meio da análise das distâncias entre os processos coronóides e as distâncias interbasal da língula em mandíbula seca. A pesquisa foi realizada no Laboratório de Anatomia na Universidade UNIME, utilizando-se 160 mandíbulas, sendo 81 do sexo feminino e 79 do sexo masculino, compreendidas entre a faixa etária de 21 a 95 anos. As amostras estudadas foram de pessoas indigentes cujas famílias não reclamaram os ossos no tempo hábil administrativo estabelecido pelo cemitério, iriam ser incinerados e pertencem atualmente ao Laboratório. De acordo com a análise estatística, houve um índice de acerto de 78,9% por regressão logística e 71,26% por análise discriminante. Houve também a verificação da média e do intervalo de confiança utilizando o teste t e a regressão linear múltipla para a predição da idade, evidenciando que o modelo não foi significativo (p = 0,4631). Após análises das mandíbulas secas, conseguiu-se validar as distâncias do processo coronóide aos sexos referidos.
Asfixia por monóxido de carbono: achados necroscópicos em um caso de suicídio e considerações médico legais.
Authors: Bordoni Leonardo Santos , Bordoni Polyanna Helena Coelho
Published: November 2017

O monóxido de carbono (CO) é um gás geralmente formado pela combustão incompleta de hidrocarbonetos. Sua reação com a hemoblogina (Hb) forma carboxihemoglobina (COHb), dificultando o transporte e a utilização de O2 pelos tecidos. O suicídio com seu uso é raro no Brasil. O trabalho em tela é um relato de caso de suicídio por CO com foco nos achados necroscópicos. Tratava-se de indivíduo masculino, 21 anos, encontrado morto no banheiro de sua residência. No interior deste banheiro havia um vaso com carvão vegetal, contendo fuligens e chamuscamento em seu interior e havia indícios de que a janela e a porta haviam sido lacradas por dentro com fita adesiva. O cadáver apresentava rigor cadavérico intenso, bem como áreas extensas de hipóstases de coloração vermelho cereja. Também foram observadas coloração intensamente avermelhada nos pulmões, no fígado e no sangue, bem como petéquias subpleurais. O resultado da pesquisa de COHb foi de 80%. Considerando os achados necroscópicos compatíveis e a alta concentração sérica de COHb, a causa médica da morte foi estabelecida como asfixia por CO. Embasando-se em todos os elementos disponíveis, com destaque para os achados da perícia de local, a causa jurídica da morte foi estabelecida como suicídio. A morte envolvendo CO é essencialmente um diagnóstico necroscópico, baseado na concentração sérica de COHb associada a achados cadavéricos compatíveis. Não há achados macroscópicos específicos desta intoxicação, sendo essencial sua suspeição para o correto diagnóstico, evidenciando a importância da integração dos achados da perícia de local com a investigação necroscópica.
Cálculo de la distancia máxima que justifica utilizar el modelo lineal en una reconstrucción de trayectoria balística
Authors: Torres-Zúñiga Vicente , Bañuelos Muñetón José Guadalupe
Published: November 2017

Determinar la posición víctima-tirador es parte importante de la reconstrucción de hechos físicos. Por ejemplo, en un evento donde se dispara un arma de fuego, se debe aclarar la posición del objetivo impactado respecto al tirador. Pese a la carencia de parámetros físicos, por lo general, el modelo lineal es utilizado para determinar tales coordenadas. Sin embargo, durante el informe pericial o en la corte se debe aclarar cuánto dista este modelo básico del modelo parabólico, el cual es físicamente más correcto en la reconstrucción; porque, entre otras razones, contiene información de coordenadas, ángulo de disparo y velocidad inicial del proyectil. Proponemos comparar ambos modelos teóricos mediante una división directa, y definiendo un criterio de similaridad (acotado entre 0 y 100%); obteniendo una función solo dependiente de la velocidad inicial del proyectil, con la cual calculamos la longitud máxima a la que el modelo lineal es equivalente al parabólico. Aunque el análisis se puede sofisticar por métodos numéricos, nuestra propuesta es sencilla de exponer en la corte. Por ejemplo, si la velocidad inicial del proyectil es de 300 m/s, y suponemos que los modelos son equivalentes en hasta un 99%; entonces, 13.6 m es a distancia máxima a la que se puede aplicar el modelo lineal. En un sistema judicial donde se requiere precisión de los alcances metodológicos, esta información puede ser crucial para concluir en un veredicto verosímil.
Urinary Neutrophil Gelatinase–Associated Lipocalin for the Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infections
Authors: Lubell Tamar R. , Barasch Jonathan M. , Xu Katherine , Ieni Maria , Cabrera Keven I. , Dayan Peter S.
Published: November 2017

OBJECTIVES:

To determine the accuracy of the novel biomarker urinary neutrophil gelatinase–associated lipocalin (uNGAL) to diagnose urinary tract infections (UTIs) in febrile infants and young children.

METHODS:

Prospective cross-sectional study of febrile infants <3 months ( ≥ 38.0°C) and children 3 to 24 months (≥ 39.0°C) evaluated for UTIs. uNGAL levels, urinalysis, Gram-stain and culture were obtained. UTI was defined by colony counts.

RESULTS:

Of 260 patients, 35 (13.5%) had UTIs. Median uNGAL levels were 215.1 ng/mL (interquartile range: 100.3–917.8) and 4.4 ng/mL (interquartile range: 1.6–11.8) in the groups diagnosed with and without UTIs, respectively. The area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve for uNGAL was 0.978 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.948–1.000). At a threshold uNGAL level of 39.1 ng/mL, sensitivity was 97.1% (95% CI: 83.4–99.9) and specificity was 95.6% (95% CI: 91.7–97.7). uNGAL had higher sensitivity than the combination of leukocyte esterase (in trace or greater amounts) or nitrite (+) (97.1%, 95% CI: 83.4–99.9 vs 74.3%, 95% CI: 56.4–86.9), with similar specificity (95.6%, 95% CI: 91.7–97.7 vs 97.3%, 95% CI: 94.0–98.9). uNGAL had higher sensitivity than Gram-stain (97.1%, 95% CI: 83.4–99.9 vs 74.3%, 95%: CI: 56.4–86.9), with similar specificity (95.6%, 95% CI: 91.7–97.7 vs 100.0%, 95% CI: 97.9–100.0).

CONCLUSIONS:

uNGAL has substantial accuracy to identify those with and without UTIs in infants and young children. Further studies will need to confirm our findings and determine if uNGAL is a more cost-effective test than standard screening tests.
Efecto de mezclas de fibra semicomposteada con suelo en el crecimiento y la tolerancia de enfermedades en vivero de palma aceitera
Authors: Garbanzo Gabriel , Molina Eloy , Serrano Edgardo , Ramírez Floria
Published: November 2017

Se evaluó el efecto de diferentes mezclas de compost de fibra de racimos vacíos con suelo para sustrato en plantas de palma aceitera en vivero y su efecto sobre la severidad del Complejo de Necrosis Foliar (CNF) en el Pacífico Sur de Costa Rica. Se realizaron mezclas volumétricas de 12, 25 37 y 50% de compost de fibra (C) con un Inceptisol eútrico. Se sembraron plantas de palma aceitera del material Compacta x Ghana, se llenaron bolsas de 20 L y se acomodaron en un diseño experimental de bloques completos al azar, que comprendieron 5 tratamientos y 4 repeticiones. A los 85, 127, 176, 219, 261 y 304 días después de siembra (dds), se evaluó el crecimiento morfológico de las plantas, el porcentaje de severidad de CNF en las hojas y el peso seco de plantas, y se calculó la absorción de nutrimentos. También se evaluó la densidad aparente del suelo (Dap) y la conductividad hidráulica (CH) en las mezclas a los 90 y 300 dds. Se encontró que el tratamiento de 12% de fibra con suelo mostró significativamente el menor porcentaje de severidad de CNF y presentó el mayor balance porcentual de eficiencia de fertilización de los nutrimentos en comparación con el resto de los tratamientos. La Dap fue significativamente inferior y la CH superior en todas las mezclas cuando se comparó con el testigo. Se puede concluir que la mezcla de 12% de compost con 88% de suelo mejoró la absorción de nutrimentos en las plantas y aumentó la tolerancia a CNF en las plantas de palma aceitera en vivero.
Situaciones de riesgo potencial relacionadas con la aplicación de agroquímicos en los sistemas hortícolas
Authors: Durán-Quirós Alfredo , González-Lutz María Isabel , Vargas-Hernández Guillermo , Mora-Acedo Dennis
Published: November 2017

La producción de hortalizas tiene valor económico y social en Costa Rica, además, es una fuente nutricional básica para la población y la principal actividad económica para muchos productores, sin embargo, la aplicación de agroquímicos representa un riesgo para la salud de los consumidores, por la presencia de residuos de plaguicidas en los productos. Durante el 2013 y 2014 se desarrolló una investigación con el objetivo de definir las Situaciones de Riesgo Potencial (SRP), asociadas con la aplicación de plaguicidas para establecer el grado de cumplimiento de su uso por los productores del Valle Central de Costa Rica. Primero se elaboró una lista de SRP de todos aquellos puntos del proceso de producción de hortalizas relacionados con la aplicación de agroquímicos que representan algún riesgo para la inocuidad del producto. Posteriormente se elaboró un cuestionario para entrevistar a los responsables de 164 sistemas de producción hortícola. Se logró establecer que entre 21,1 y 38,9% de los productores, aprendió a utilizar los plaguicidas en la práctica, sin ninguna instrucción apropiada. Entre un 57 y un 76% de los productores, poseen balanza o equipo de medición calibrado para pesar o medir las dosis de los plaguicidas. Alrededor del 50% de los productores siguen las recomendaciones del vendedor del producto en cuanto a la dosis; sin embargo, entre un 55 y 76% de los productores, utilizan la dosificación por volumen. Respecto al periodo de retiro, el 40% de los productores de tomate y el 45% de los de chile dulce, indican que no respetan dicho periodo. Se concluye que en el manejo de agroquímicos en la producción hortícola en Costa Rica, existe una importante cantidad de riesgos que podrían generar contaminación por residuos de plaguicidas, y así, comprometer la salud del consumidor.
Evaluación de la actividad insecticida de Schinus molle sobre Premnotrypes vorax en papa
Authors: López Isabel Cristina , Rivera Verónica Elizabeth , Yánez Ángel Wilfrido , Artieda Jorge Rodrigo , Villacres Gabriela Elevación
Published: November 2017

El molle (Schinus molle) es una anacardiácea nativa del sur de Brasil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Perú, Bolivia, Chile y Argentina. El ciclo biológico del gusano blanco de la papa (Premnotrypes vorax) tarda entre 134 a 280 días y el daño es producido por el adulto al alimentarse de las hojas del tercio medio e inferior de la planta y por las larvas que atacan los tubérculos, los cuales pueden ocasionar la pérdida total de la cosecha. Se evaluó el porcentaje de inhibición de eclosión de huevos y de mortalidad de larvas y adultos del gusano blanco de la papa (Premnotrypes vorax) por efecto de la aplicación de diferentes dosis del extracto acuoso del molle (Schinus molle L.) bajo condiciones de laboratorio. El extracto de molle fue obtenido por el método de destilación por arrastre de vapor, aplicado por inmersión a los diferentes estados de desarrollo de la plaga y su efecto fue evaluado 24, 48 y 72 horas después de la aplicación. Los resultados mostraron que el extracto acuoso de S. molle provocó 50% de mortalidad en adultos a las 24 horas a concentración del 5%, mientras que a una concentración del 10% produjo 25% de mortalidad a las 48 h. Adicionalmente, se observó 25% de inhibición de la eclosión de los huevos con la aplicación de extracto al 10% a las 24 h después de la aplicación. A pesar de que los valores de mortalidad producidos por la aplicación del extracto acuoso no superaron el 50% en adultos, su uso podría ser considerado como una alternativa en el manejo de poblaciones del gusano blanco. Sin embargo, su efecto y su compatibilidad con otros métodos de control deben ser validados bajo condiciones de campo de manera que se pueda ofrecer como una alternativa para pequeños y medianos productores.
Catechesis in Italy between the Two Vatican Councils – 1870–1962
Authors: Sultana Carl­-Mario
Published: November 2017

The article endeavours to give a bird’s eye view of catechesis in Italy as from 1870 to the threshold of Vatican Council II – 1962. The point of departure is a study of the use of the Catechism as the handbook for catechesis. The study will then move on study the efforts of individuals – from priests to Pope Pius X – who sought to positively influence catechesis through their ministry and how different Congresses and Conventions helped in trying to formulate a more coherent catechesis throughout Italy. Finally, the paper will end by a study of the Active Method which was to be the unifying factor for catechesis in Italy prior to Vatican Council II.
The Involvement of the Lay Faithful in „Consecratio Mundi”
Authors: Osewska Elżbieta
Published: November 2017

The term consecratio mundi, despite its introduction to theology already before the Second Vatican Council, still sparks a lot of discussion and controversy. In this article we will address the issue of the sanctification of the world by lay people in accordance with the Church teaching. First, consecratio mundi will be presented as a specific mission of the lay faithful, then the article will present the basic planes of their involvement.
Die Freizeittheologie mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ruhetheologie
Authors: Ostrowski Maciej
Published: November 2017

The author performs an analysis of „theological places” („loci theologici”), as the basis on which leisure theology can be developed. These are: time theology (a linear concept of time, which means that time is a gift to man, if properly used), freedom theology (freedom not as a discharge from obligations but as the possibility to do good), new creation theology (renewal made by the redemptive work of Christ), joy theology (joy of gifts of nature, community with other person, being granted God’s grace), feast theology (time given to a man in order that he could turn to supernatural matters). The author develops ‘rest theology’ extensively as one of the fundamental forms of spending free time. He searches for sources in numerous biblical texts, where this term has been used. Furthermore, he interprets, among others, how to understand God’s rest after he created the world, and how his repose becomes an example to follow for a human being. Moreover, the author explains what the final repose is to be for a person, and how man, living on earth, anticipates an eschatological rest.
The Synods of the Diocese of Tarnów as a tool for the renewal of the particular Church
Authors: Kantor Robert
Published: November 2017

This article analyses the last four synods of the diocese of Tarnów, highlighting their structure and course. Diocesan synods grow out of the needs of the particular Church; they shape the ecclesial reality most clearly by the formulated disciplinary, pastoral and spiritual proposals, reaching the very basic ecclesiastical and social environments. Each synod has its specific meaning in the history of the diocese, and its impact is certainly not limited to the formulated proposals. A diocesan synod has a very important function in the process of formation of the particular Church. The synods of the Diocese of Tarnów were the place of meeting of and dialogue between the bishop, the clergy and the laity of the Church in Tarnów. The present article discusses five points : ”Legal grounds”, “First Synod of the Diocese of Tarnów – 1928”, “Second Synod of the Diocese of Tarnów – 1938”, “Third Synod of the Diocese of Tarnów – 1948”, “Fourth Synod of the Diocese of Tarnów – 1986”.
Ksiądz Idzi Ogierman Mański, salezjanin, muzyk, kompozytor – twórca muzyki religijnej
Authors: Malinowski Zbigniew
Published: November 2017

Tragiczna śmierć w Tatrach ks. Idziego Mańskiego, salezjanina, muzyka, kompozytora, nauczyciela i wychowawcy, po 50 latach znów pobudza naszą pamięć. Odżywa w nas jego pełnowymiarowa osobowość, talent muzyczny, szerokie horyzonty postrzegania tego świata przez niego – jako humanistę i kapłana. Na tym fundamencie jawi się on przede wszystkim jako kompozytor, twórca muzyki religijnej i nie tylko. Ten szczególny charyzmat artysty­‑kompozytora zadziwia i fascynuje nas, będących spadkobiercami jego talentu, a zarazem szlachectwa, pokory i przejrzystego człowieczeństwa.Twórczość ks. Mańskiego pod wieloma względami stanowi ewenement w skali szerokiego spektrum ogólnodostępnej twórczości w dziedzinie muzyki religijnej w Polsce. Niemalże cała jego twórczość muzyczna pozostała w rękopisach, które pożyczał, przekazywał, rozdawał i których niestety wiele zaginęło.Drapieżny, niszczący kulturę system komunistyczny nie tylko cenzurował, ale wręcz nie pozwalał na publikowanie twórczości pisarzy, poetów, muzyków. W takiej rzeczywistości przyszło żyć ks. Mańskiemu.Twórczość muzyczna: organowa, chóralna – religijna i świecka, z udziałem fortepianu i innych instrumentów, należy do wysoce wysublimowanej twórczości o charakterystycznym warsztacie muzycznym, prezentującym bogatą harmonikę kontrapunktyczną z doskonałą melodyką osadzoną na konstrukcjach harmonicznych o podłożu matematycznej logiki, w której odnajdujemy urok, pasję i szeroki świat muzycznego piękna.
Klasztor dla muzyki czy muzyka dla klasztoru? Refleksje na temat muzyki kościelnej
Authors: Jurczak Dominik
Published: November 2017

Referat jest próbą uchwycenia najistotniejszych cech, którymi powinna odznaczać się muzyka kościelna, zwłaszcza gdy mowa o jej analizie w historii. Analizując świadectwa pochodzące z różnych epok – począwszy od biblijnych, poprzez średniowieczne, aż do tych współczesnych – można wyłonić specyficzne zadania muzyki kościelnej, które w odmiennych paradygmatach myślenia, jak obecne, doprowadzić mogą do niepotrzebnych nieporozumień i nadinterpretacji. Referat stawia sobie za cel przypomnienie, czym muzyka kościelna jest i jakie zadanie spełnia w liturgii i w życiu Kościoła.
Teoria poznania intelektualnego (ujęcie Franciszka Suáreza SJ)
Authors: Goczał Robert
Published: November 2017

This paper concerns Suárez’ intellectual cognition which is directly related to the theory of objective being, although understood differently than in the present times. In the discussion of intellectual cognition he placed the concept of first and second intention. Suárez especially indicates the order of so­‑called the “second intention” in which the intellect perceives being through the very objective being (noetic order), which is characterized by undivided and undifferentiated status at the level of active intellect. Thus Suárez’ objective order of cognition is not distinctively determined. This makes the being to be comprehended through the objective concept of being from the noetic perspective as referring equally to the singular entities as well as universal, finite and infinite, being created and uncreated. Considering the above, one can agree with the position according to which Suárez’ intellectual cognition can be considered as a scholastic theory that could have a significant bearing on the future epistemology in modern rationalism, especially which had considerable influence on the Cartesian model of subjective knowledge and Kantian critical transcendental philosophy. Suárez’ approach meets with the theory that influenced the modern epistemology and post­‑Cartesian philosophy as a cognitive shift towards a new subjective prospect (e.g. in se conversa), in which reflection on real being was shifted toward the cognitive representations, that is, toward the noetic reflection and mentalism.
Obraz cywilizacji żydowskiej (podstawowe założenia teorii Feliksa Konecznego)
Authors: Klag Wojciech
Published: November 2017

The subject of the article is to present the theory of Jewish civilization by Feliks Koneczny. The author cites the biblical origins of civilization. Examines the phenomenon of social structure, polygamy, ancestral home to the structure that enabled the education of the organism scope. Hebrew was not a prime conneting factor. The most important is the religion in this type of civilization, therefore it is sacred. According to the author there is no single Judaism is monotheism, monolatry and Kabbalah. The Jews were nomadic people, therefore were not trade crafers or farmers. Koneczny considers that capitalist system has evolved from the Jewish civilization.
Twelve tips for developing and supporting generic online training for health and medical researchers
Authors: Watson Rashmi , Fardinpour Ali
Published: November 2017

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Developing online training for health and medical researchers across multiple sites and institutions requires careful consideration to meet the needs of all learners. The Research Education and Training Program (RETP) has attempted to provide a suite of learning modules which are freely accessible to the 21 partner institutions of the Western Australian Health Translation Network (WAHTN). Many lessons have been learnt along the way of this multi-stage process. This paper aims to provide 12 tips in three key areas of online development: writing, online development and maintenance of learning modules. The tips provide a brief summary of these key areas to enable others who may be considering developing and delivering a broad scope of learning modules. This paper is written in the context of modules being delivered for the purpose of continuing professional development and not for high-stakes university courses or similar course requirements.
Ultimate lateral resistance of passive piles in non-cohesive soils
Authors: Bellezza I. , Caferri L.
Published: November 2017

In this paper, a single unrestrained passive pile in a two-layered cohesionless soil is analysed with the aim to evaluate its contribute in terms of resistance at the depth of an assigned sliding surface. The method assumes that the ultimate soil pressure is fully mobilised and increases linearly with depth. Six failure mechanisms are considered and dimensionless values of shear force and bending moment at sliding depth are derived in analytical and graphical form. The maximum shear force computed by the present theory reasonably agrees with data of model tests published in the literature, whereas the maximum bending moment is underestimated. This approach seems to be suitable to be implemented in traditional limit equilibrium methods when pile contribute is considered as an additional resistance. More sophisticated analyses based on an adequate soil constitutive model are requested when pile displacement must be predicted.
Axial stress–strain model for square concrete columns internally confined with GFRP hoops
Authors: Isleem Haytham F. , Wang Daiyu , Wang Zhenyu
Published: November 2017

Good modelling of the axial compressive stress–strain behaviour of confined reinforced-concrete (RC) columns is necessary for the structural analysis and design to assess their strength and ductility capacities. Thus, this paper presents closed-form expressions for predicting the stress–strain response of square concrete columns confined by internal glass-fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) hoops and subjected to axial compression loading. The stress–strain proposal is based on test results from the available studies and is mainly composed of a polynomial first branch (pre-peak zone) and a linear second branch (post-peak zone). To ensure a sufficient level of confinement, the thresholds of lightly and heavily confined concrete have been determined based on the proposed model and the compiled database. The model also considers the effects of key parameters such as volumetric ratio, size, configuration and spacing of hoop reinforcement, as well as longitudinal bar type (i.e. steel as opposed to GFRP). Existing models for steel-confined concrete and for concrete in circular cross-section confined by FRP hoops did not accurately predict the test results. Contrary to that, comparisons of the test results with the predictions of the proposed model revealed the model to describe well the stress–strain behaviour of GFRP RC columns with different arrangements of hoops.
The Effect of Work-Life Quality on Job Engagement, Organizational Commitment and Turnover Intention: Research Based on Deluxe Hotel Food and Beverage Employees in Seoul
Authors:   The Tourism Sciences Society Of Korea, Chae Sin-Suk
Published: November 2017

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceived quality of work life held by hotel food and beverage employees. This was done in order to examine how their quality of work life perception affected their perceived job engagement, organizational commitment and turnover intention. Data were collected from hotel food and beverage contract workers in 10 five star hotels throughout Seoul. A total of 220 samples were deemed acceptable for final analysis. The statistical tools used for this research were frequency analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and discriminant validity analysis using the statistical packages: SPSS (18.0) and AMOS (18.0). The results showed first that perceived quality of work life had a significant effect on job engagement and organizational commitment while turnover intention did not. Secondly, it was shown that job engagement had a significant effect on organizational commitment while turnover intention did not. Thirdly, the results also indicated that organizational commitment had a significant effect on turnover intention. Practical implications and limitations of the study are also discussed within.
Zum Thema
Authors: Bürger Jan , Gehring Petra , Kemmerer Alexandra
Published: November 2017

Es ist noch nicht lange her, dass Amerika als Vorbild taugte. Donald Trump hat wenig erreicht im ersten Jahr seiner Präsidentschaft, eines allerdings ganz bestimmt: Nie war die in der Bundesrepublik zur Tradition gewordene intellektuelle Westbindung so unattraktiv wie heute.
Die Kissinger Boys. Von der Harvard Summer School zur Suhrkamp Culture
Authors: Bürger Jan
Published: November 2017

I. The President calls Am 2. Mai 1970 ist es so weit: Der Suhrkamp-Verleger Siegfried Unseld kommt ins Weiße Haus! Freilich, es handelt sich nicht um einen Staatsbesuch. Nixons Nationaler Sicherheitsberater Henry A. Kissinger ist es, der Unseld zusammen mit Max Frisch – zu dieser Zeit der erfolgreichste lebende Suhrkamp-Autor – in Washington empfängt.
Eigensinn und Institutionen. Ein Gespräch über die Kunst der Verwaltung
Authors: Nettelbeck Joachim , Smith Gary
Published: November 2017

Im Anfang war Princeton – so kennen wir es aus der oft kolportierten Gründungsgeschichte des 1981 eröffneten Wissenschaftskollegs. Peter Glotz, der Berliner Wissenschaftssenator, und Peter Wapnewski, sein Gründungsrektor, ließen sich von Geist und Struktur des 1930 von Abraham Flexner gegründeten Institute for Advanced Study zur Gründung eines «Princeton an der Spree» inspirieren.
Ästhetische Restauration. Paul Delaroches revolutionäre Traumabilder
Authors: Tauber Christine
Published: November 2017

Seit jeher werden Eugène Delacroix und Paul Delaroche in der Kunstliteratur als ästhetische Antipoden gehandelt: auf der einen Seite Delacroix, geboren 1798, Prototyp des romantischen Künstlers, der vorgeblich «von innen heraus» poetische Ideen in genialischem Furor auf die Leinwand bringt und mit seiner offenen Faktur die Kunst seiner Zeit revolutioniert; auf der anderen der ein Jahr ältere Delaroche, der verspätete Klassizist, Staatsbejaher1 und bis in die Imitation der Bonaparteschen Stirnlocke hinein Napoleonverehrer, Inbegriff einer reaktionären Historienmalerei mit beruhigend geschlossener Konturlinie und sentimentalisch- melodramatischen Sujets.
The Effects of Choice on Reading Engagement and Comprehension for Second- and Third-Grade Students: An Action Research Report
Authors: Fraumeni-Mcbride Julie
Published: November 2017

Poor literacy rates contribute to low school performance for children across America. In particular, low-income schools continue to struggle with declining literacy rates. Issues with literacy are often attributed to lack of reading comprehension. This study tested the effects of choice on reading comprehension in second- and third-grade students at a high-income school and a low-income school. Students were observed while reading silently and aloud to see if either method affected reading comprehension. Data were collected from 32 students before, during, and after reading to determine whether students’ comprehension levels were higher when given opportunities to choose their own books or when they read assigned books. Trials were performed while students read silently and then aloud. Results indicated that students had higher comprehension levels both when they could choose their own books and when they read silently.
Optimierung von Auktionsmechanismen
Authors: Gehlhoff Felix , Linnenberg Tobias , Fay Alexander
Published: November 2017

Agentenbasierte Steuerung ist ein möglicher Lösungsansatz zum Umgang mit steigenden Ansprüchen an Flexibilität und Robustheit sowie der inhärenten Komplexität von Produktionssystemen im Kontext von Industrie 4.0. Agentensysteme nutzen in vielen Fällen Auktionen, um Aufgaben und Ressourcen zuzuordnen. Die dafür notwendigen Gebote werden von den Agenten unabhängig voneinander berechnet. Im Beitrag wird ein Ansatz zur Optimierung vorgestellt, der einen Mehrwert für ein Unternehmen generiert, indem dieses mehrere Agenten innerhalb seines Einflussbereichs vereint und diese koordiniert auf einem unternehmensübergreifenden Marktplatz agieren lässt. Zur Ausgestaltung der Optimierung wird ein lernender Algorithmus genutzt, der es ermöglicht, aus einer Auftragshistorie auf die Wahrscheinlichkeit für den Erhalt künftiger Aufträge zu schließen. Anhand einer Simulation werden die sich daraus ergebenden Wettbewerbsvorteile herausgearbeitet.
µPlant: Modellfabrik für vernetzte heterogene Anlagen
Authors: Kroll Andreas , Dürrbaum Axel , Arengas David , Al Mawla Hassan , Kistner Lars , Rehmer Alexander
Published: November 2017

Modellfabriken werden mittlerweile häufig in Forschung und Lehre eingesetzt, aber über ihren Aufbau und ihre Funktionen ist wenig zu lesen. Im Beitrag wird eine Übersicht über in Deuschland vorhandene Modellfabriken gegeben. Zudem werden Details der selbst konzipierten und realisierten Modellfabrik µPlant vorgestellt.Diese besteht aus mehreren mit Transportrobotern verbundenen Produktionsinseln/ -zellen, die jeweils lokal über angepasste Automatisierungssysteme verfügen. Alle Module sind stofflich und informationstechnisch integriert und die Modellfabrik kann voll automatisiert betrieben werden. Der Beitrag richtet sich an Personen mit Interesse an Aufbau, Beschaffung oder Nutzung von Modellfabriken.
Psychological Impact of Virtual Reality Gaming on the Formation of Self-Image in Early School-Age Children
Authors: Pakhomova V.G.
Published: November 2017

The article investigates the problem of interaction between a modern primary school-aged child and the field of virtual reality gaming and, in particular, the impact of virtual reality on the formation of self-image. Our study enabled us to explore the differences in the self-image in active and non-active players of roleplaying video games. The outcomes proved that there are certain changes in the self-image of active players related to their self-identification with characters of computer games according to their individual psychological features, whereas for children who engage in non-role-playing games such identification is not common. It was found that non-active children players generally have positive selfacceptance and do not suffer from feelings of anxiety and abandonment; active players, on the opposite, often demonstrate inadequate self-esteem, anxiety and a tendency to self-actualise in virtual reality gaming.