bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
De magia (Ms. Laud Or. 282, Bodleian Library): edição e glossário
Authors:   Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Duchowny Aléxia Teles , Fontenelle Beatriz Chaves ,   Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Ferreira Naja Sthael ,   Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Thomazella Nathália ,   Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Gomes Paloma Sabino ,   Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Viaro Mário Eduardo ,   Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
Published: May 2016

Esta obra consiste em duas partes. A primeira é a edição semidiplomática do De magia (Ms. Laud Or. 282, Bodleian Library), um guia astrológico inédito em português do século XV, escrito em caracteres hebraicos. A criação de critérios de transliteração dos caracteres hebraicos para os latinos permitiu melhor compreensão dos processos de representação dos sons do português arcaico do De magia. Por conseguinte, esta edição torna possível que o texto alcance um público-alvo mais amplo, sobretudo os linguistas diacronistas desconhecedores desse alfabeto semítico. A segunda parte é um glossário composto por todos os vocábulos românicos presentes neste guia astrológico. Não foram ignorados os vocábulos em castelhano e tampouco o único em mirandês, apesar de a maioria estar em português. No glossário, cada vocábulo cabeça de verbete é seguido por sua forma atual - em português ou em castelhano -, além de sua etimologia, sua classificação morfológica e sua localização no documento original. Todos foram também quantificados. A Lexicografia, associada ao uso da tecnologia, cumpre o objetivo principal da obra, que é disponibilizar uma edição e um glossário confiáveis e rigorosos para os Estudos linguísticos.
Alguns dados históricos sobre as cochonilhas do carmim (Hemiptera, Homoptera, Dactylopiidae): notas sobre etimologia, seu cultivo no Brasil no século XVIII e na primeira metade do século XIX
Authors:   Universidade de São Paulo. Museu de Zoologia, Papavero Nelson , Claps Lucía ,   Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Instituto Superior de Entomología Dr. Abraham Willink (INSUE)
Published: May 2016

Na introdução são tecidas breves considerações sobre o primeiro códice mexicano a mencionar as cochonilhas, como nochetztli (Hemiptera, Homoptera, Dactylopiidae), o trabalho de Alzate y Ramírez (1794) tratando de seu cultivo, coleta e preparação e o relato sobre o contrabando de espécimes efetuado por Thiéry de Menonville (1787), com alguns dados sobre o valor das exportações da cochonilha feitas a partir de Oaxaca e das Canárias entre 1758 e 1847. Apresenta-se a classifi cação do gênero Dactylopius, com a distribuição geográfica de suas espécies. São então enumerados os primeiros trabalhos do século XVI a citar o nome cochinilla, em espanhol, francês e português. Segue-se uma discussão sobre as diversas hipóteses sobre a etimologia de cochinilla, sendo a mais provável a de Littré (1863), que advoga uma transferência para os representantes de Dactylopius da expressão “cochinilla de humedad”, conferida a crustáceos isópodes, fundamentada na semelhança da forma corporal desses dois artrópodes. Finalmente, trata-se das tentativas do cultivo e explotação da cochonilha nas várias partes do Brasil, levados a cabo no século XVIII e na primeira metade do século XIX.
Edições e estudo do livro dos usos da Ordem de Cister, de 1415
Authors:   Universidade Federal da Bahia.  Departamento de Letras Vernáculas do Instituto de Letras, Sampaio Lisana R. T.
Published: May 2016

Os mosteiros da Ordem de Cister floresceram na França, com o monge beneditino Roberto de Moslesmes, e se difundiram rapidamente por todo território europeu, com o intuito de restituir a antiga observância da Ordem de São Bento à vida monástica. Essa Ordem se tornou o maior expoente do Cristianismo na Europa medieval, imprimindo na escrita, no ensino e nas práticas pedagógicas religiosas sua organização e austeridade. Em Portugal, a sua casa mais representativa foi a Abadia de Alcobaça, que se destacou pela sua singular organização, severidade e vasta biblioteca, haja vista, o mosteiro contar, em seu apogeu, com cerca de 500 manuscritos. O Livro dos usos da Ordem de Cister é um dos documentos remanescentes desse valioso acervo, datado de 1415, cujo cerne narrativo são os hábitos dos monges cistercienses de Alcobaça. Depositado na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, o documento é composto de 113 fólios, em reto e verso, e escrito em letra gótica, com letrinas filigranadas a azul e vermelho. Os monges cistercienses de Alcobaça exerceram importantes papeis históricos, o que faz dos seus registros fontes importantes para a investigação de períodos pretéritos da língua portuguesa. Dada a importância desse documento, a presente pesquisa de mestrado oferece à comunidade científica, em geral, e ao público interessado por questões históricas, em particular, duas edições do referido livro medieval: uma de natureza diplomática, ou seja, de cariz conservador, em que os índices linguísticos são devidamente preservados, e outra semidiplomática ou interpretativa, com um grau de intervenção editorial exclusivamente voltado para a regularização do léxico patente no documento. A partir desta última, foi elaborado, também, um glossário, norteado pelos pressupostos da lexicografia histórica, o qual registrou os itens lexicais referentes à conduta dos componentes da Ordem, seu vestuário, sua rotina, suas celebrações e festividades, liturgia, ritual fúnebre entre outras práticas da comunidade, contribuindo com o trabalho de reconstrução da trajetória da língua portuguesa no período arcaico, objetivo principal do projeto Dicionário Etimológico do Português Arcaico (Projeto DEPARC) projeto de longa duração, em andamento na Universidade Federal da Bahia, a que se filia.
O Zebro: considerações históricas, sua identificação e distribuição geográfica, origem da palavra “zebra” e considerações sobre etimologia
Authors:   Universidade de São Paulo. Museu de Zoologia, Papavero Nelson , Viaro Mario Eduardo ,   Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
Published: May 2016

Os equídeos africanos conhecidos internacionalmente como zebra não derivam seu nome de uma língua africana, mas do galego-português zebro, que se referia provavelmente ao extinto Equus hydruntinus Regalia, 1907. O animal foi mencionado com várias outras grafias nos documentos medievais (zevro, zevra, zebro, ezevro etc.), mas alguns textos renascentistas posteriores à sua extinção passaram a confundi-lo com o onagro (Equus hemionus Pallas, 1775), quase na mesma época em que uma outra confusão paralela se estendeu aos animais africanos. Haja vista a impossibilidade de associar o nome a uma origem latina, ao árabe ou a algum substrato ibérico, busca-se uma etimologia alternativa no superstrato suevo presente nos falares românicos do noroeste da Península Ibérica.
A violência doméstica representada na telenovela A regra do jogo
Authors: Baccega Maria Aparecida , Abrão Maria Amélia Paiva
Published: May 2016

Ao longo dos anos a mulher tem conquistado cada vez mais espaço na sociedade brasileira; entretanto, mesmo com os esforços do Governo, com a criação da “Lei Maria da Penha”, o número de mulheres vítimas da violência doméstica no Brasil não diminuiu. Ao longo deste artigo verificaremos o que está por trás desta cultura que “fornece poder” ao homem em detrimento da figura da mulher e como os meios de comunicação, em especial a telenovela, contribuem para as mudanças de comportamento
Educar ao sonho, transformando a realidade
Authors: Lima Paulo
Published: May 2016

História de vida de um jornalista educomunicador e empreendedor social que se define “sonhalista”, um sonhador e idealista. Fundador e diretor executivo da ONG Viração Educomunicação, Paulo Lima é cearense de Fortaleza e vive entre o Brasil e a Itália. Ama lembrar suas origens de favelado, justamente para lembrar que a mudança social é possível. Que investir em processos de participação ativa e emancipadora de crianças e adolescentes é fundamental para construir uma sociedade justa e fraterna. É paulofreiriano desde os 14 anos, quando conheceu e utilizou o Método de Alfabetização Popular de Paulo Freire em atividades com adultos da favela Lagamar, onde nasceu e viveu boa parte de sua infância e juventude.
Rui Torres e a poesia digital: as novas formas de produção e interação na poesia experimental
Authors: Rebechi Junior Arlindo
Published: May 2016

Apresentação do poeta português Rui Torres, com a focalização em sua produção em meios digitais.
A quem serve a comunicação? Brasil, desigualdades e luta de classes
Authors: Grohmann Rafael
Published: May 2016

O livro “A tolice da inteligência brasileira”, de Jessé Souza, nos coloca a pensar quais as contribuições dos intelectuais brasileiros e da comunicação na luta de classes, na reprodução das desigualdades e nos projetos de país. Por uma ciência da comunicação não-estéril, urge incorporar reflexões sobre a realidade brasileira.
Formação de profissionais do magistério da educação básica: novas diretrizes e perspectivas
Authors: Dourado Luiz Fernandes
Published: May 2016

O artigo contextualiza a política de formação dos profissionais para o magistério da educação básica no Brasil e, desse modo, retoma analiticamente os marcos legais, diretrizes e bases para as políticas, programas e ações nesse campo. Desenvolve-se, assim, análise do Plano Nacional de Educação (2014/2014) e, sobretudo, do Parecer (CNE/CP 2/2015) e da Resolução (CNE/CP2/2015) que definem as novas diretrizes para a formação inicial e continuada dos profissionais do magistério da educação básica. A abordagem, tendo por eixo pesquisa documental, em sentido lato, problematiza as bases teórico-metodológicas que sustentam as políticas no campo e as novas Diretrizes, situando as exigências normativas decorrentes destas no que concerne a institucionalização de projetos próprios de formação inicial e continuada, a articulação entre educação básica e superior, tendo por eixo a concepção formativa e indutora de desenvolvimento institucional. Face a complexa seara, as diferentes concepções e a carência de políticas mais orgânicas para o setor, destaca-se a centralidade conferida a base comum nacional pelo Parecer CNE/CP n. 2/2015 e Resolução CNE/CP n. 2/2015, como referência para a valorização dos profissionais da educação envolvendo, de modo articulado, questões e políticas atinentes a formação inicial e continuada, carreira, salários e condições de trabalho no país.
O mundo da comunicação e o mundo da criança
Authors: Rimoli Ariane Porto Costa
Published: May 2016

Pensar a criança na contemporaneidade é compreendê-la como um ser social que interage dinamicamente na sociedade, influenciando e sendo influenciada por ela, produzindo e sendo produzida por suas relações. Relações essas que passam pela interação com as diferentes mídias. A mídia se apresenta como o espaço privilegiado para os diálogos e monólogos acerca da infância e juventude, e também para as próprias crianças refletirem sobre a sociedade e seu espaço/representação nela. Dessa forma, se faz necessário refletir sobre como o mundo da comunicação e o mundo da criança se convergem, e quais relações, significados e vivências emergem dessa confluência.
Selma Garrido Pimenta: em defesa de um ensino público e com qualidade
Authors: Nonato Claudia
Published: May 2016

Com uma vida totalmente dedicada à educação, Selma Garrido Pimenta é aposentada como Professora Titular Sênior da Faculdade de Educação (FE-USP) e Professora Assistente no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Católica de Santos. Coordena o GEPEFE - Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Formação do Educador, junto ao programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação – FEUSP, e acompanha de perto as recentes mudanças na Educação brasileira. Nesta entrevista, a professora faz uma análise detalhada das Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais para a Formação Inicial e Continuada dos Profissionais do Magistério da Educação Básica, aprovadas em 2015; além disso, faz uma crítica à privatização da escola pública, à formação de professores, e ao processo de mercantilização do ensino superior no Brasil.
Sir Karl Raimund Popper
Authors: Miller David
Published: May 2016

Esta memória biográfica foi escrita para a Royal Society de Londres e publicada em Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 43, 1997, p. 367-409.Direito de tradução gentilmente cedido pela Royal Society de Londres. Tradução de Robinson Guitarrari e Caetano Ernesto Plastino.
Sobre o problema da verdade e da compreensão em ciência
Authors: Bohm David
Published: May 2016

Tradução de Amélia Império Hamburger (1985) (Aprovada pelo autor).
Body Surrogates: Mannequins, Life-Size Dolls, and Avatars
Authors: Spampinato Francesco
Published: May 2016

One of the tropes of these early years of the twenty-first century is that of the avatar, a virtual representation of a human being used for entertainment, educational, technical, or scientific purposes. The avatar is a product of digital culture, but its origins are coeval with those of the human being and its evolution is affected by material conditions and the level of technology currently achieved by a given society. The origin of the word “avatar” has a spiritual connotation: It was associated with Hinduism and used to describe a deity who took a terrestrial form. More generally, however, whether in terms of religion or computing, we could define the avatar as a surrogate, a body—real or virtual—that replaces another.
Linda Mary Montano is Reborn
Authors: Weintraub Linda
Published: May 2016

Linda Montano did not wait to die to be reborn. The story of her entry into grace coincided with her father's physical decline, illness, infirmity, and death.
David Bowie: Dance, Theatre, Other
Authors: Parson Annie-B
Published: May 2016

I was just thinking about the perfect strangeness of his performance, his separation from gravity and from what is temporal, his saturated colors, his plastic shape-shifting identity, and his insistence on and intentionality around theatricality. And his dances: the abstraction and the symbol. I have an enduring image in my mind from an early album of his fingers specifically molded in an asymmetric shape to express messages from somewhere we don't know, have never been. His last dance, a solo in the middle of Black Star, so eerie, so loose-limbed. I was thinking of his pure, pitch-perfect spectacle, and the embodiment of spectacle through elaborate makeup and costume, with a gender fluidity that freed us all.
Dance of Light and Loss
Authors: Lunberry Clark
Published: May 2016

On a bright and sunny Sunday afternoon in the Ogikubo district of western Tokyo, in the dark basement of Saburo Teshigawara's dance studio and performance space known as Karas Apparatus, an audience gathered to see the dancer's newest solo performance, Fool. The uncurtained stage in the small theatre was empty and unlit, the stage itself far larger, perhaps three times larger than that tight space reserved for those attending the event. What lights there were faintly illuminated only the slightly raised rows of cushions upon which the forty of us in the audience took our seats, waiting for the performance to begin.
A Bookshelf of Brecht
Authors: Hunka George
Published: May 2016

Last December, actress Tonya Pinkins abandoned a Classic Stage Company production of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children just days before it was scheduled to open; Pinkins and the white director of the play, Brian Kulick, had sparred over Pinkins's interpretation of the role, and apparently the creative differences became irreconcilable. In a statement released by Playbill, Pinkins said,

When Black bodies are on the stage, Black perspectives must be reflected. This is not simply a matter of “artistic interpretation”; race and sex play a pivotal role in determining who holds the power to shape representation. A Black female should have a say in the presentation of a Black female on stage. … As we enter 2016, the collective White creative community has a responsibility to bring as many ‘others’ into the room, both onstage and offstage, before, during and after decisions are made. Only then will the beauty of global humanity be heard, seen, and finally understood, so that the truth wipes away the misconceptions and misappropriations that cause the fear which foments violence around the globe.
The Place of the Dog in the Family
Authors: Garcia Angela Cora
Published: May 2016

This paper explores how perspectives on the appropriate place of the dog in the family shape the practice and experience of dog adoption. This research is based on a comparative case study of a traditional shelter and an independent animal rescue organization. The data were collected through participant observation and interviews with directors and volunteers at these organizations, and with people who adopted dogs through shelter or independent animal rescue organizations. The independent rescue organizations tended to use “dog-centric” discourse to describe the relationship between the dog and its prospective family, while the traditional animal shelter and some adoptive families used “human-centric” discourse. These perspectives were tied to the adoption practices of the organizations and individuals’ experiences while adopting a dog. The implications of these findings for the practice of dog adoption are discussed, and suggestions for shelters and animal rescue organizations are presented.
osce High Commissioner on National Minorities on the Use of Languages in Relations with the Public Administration, and on the Supervision and Enforcement of Linguistic Requirements
Authors: Ulasiuk Iryna , Hadirca Laurentiu
Published: May 2016

Linguistic rights and their implications for societal cohesion and state stability, have been recognized as a core component in the conflict prevention work of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe High Commissioner on National Minorities (osce hcnm). Linguistic and associated rights proved a challenge in many osce Participating States, and the hcnm repeatedly advised the relevant authorities on how to secure a fair balance between the promotion of the state language and the protection of linguistic minority rights. This article overviews the advice which the successive hcnms have throughout the years put forward on two key areas touching upon the linguistic rights of national minorities – namely, the use of languages in relations with the public administration, and the supervision and enforcement of linguistic requirements – and analyses how this advice aligns with the recommendations put forward by other international actors and institutions working on minority rights and minority issues.
Regulating the Empirical in Practical Theology
Authors: Root Andrew
Published: May 2016

Through the exploration of youth ministry scholarship this article explores the empirical movement in practical theology. The article argues that while the empirical turn has helped practical theology better attend to the lived and concrete experience of human beings, it has also made the theological more difficult. Therefore, the first part of the article reminds the reader of how the empirical method brings distinct, and at times foreign, epistemologies into contact with the theological task. Reviewing this point, this article draws it deeper by turning to Charles Taylor, showing how the empirical methods obscure transcendence in favor of immanence. The article then constructs an approach to the empirical that might open the field to transcendence and avoid reduction. It argues for ministry itself being the motivation and shape of empirical work in practical theology, showing how ministry mediates divine action, while upholding the importance and particularities of human action.
Taxonomic identity of two enigmatic aquatic snake populations (Squamata: Homalopsidae: Cerberus and Homalopsis) from southern Thailand
Authors: PAUWELS OLIVIER S.G. , SUMONTHA MONTRI
Published: May 2016

In their revision of the homalopsid genus Homalopsis Kuhl & Van Hasselt, Murphy et al. (2012) resurrected H. semizonata Blyth, 1855 and noted that ‘‘Frith (1977) reported on two Homalopsis from Phuket, Thailand with 40 and 42 dorsal scale rows, and 159 and 162 ventrals-scale counts within the range of H. semizonata which is found along the same coast, about 900 km to the north’’. Murphy et al. (2012), however, did not list H. semizonata from Thailand, and on their species’ distribution map they indicated an interrogation mark along the southern coast of Myanmar and the southwestern coast of peninsular Thailand. It should be noted that Murphy et al. (2012) misread Frith: while one of the two specimens reported by Frith was indeed from Phuket (‘‘from the rocky edge of a stream torrent in good forest east of Thalang, central Phuket Island’’), the other was from ‘‘Klong Nakha, 80 kilometeres [sic] south of Ranong in lowland rain forest with some clearings and dwellings’’, thus in Ranong Province, closer to the border with Myanmar. Nabhitabhata et al. (2004) recognized a single Homalopsis species in Thailand, H. buccata, which they listed for numerous provinces, including Phuket, based on Frith’s (1977) record. Among the two Homalopsis species recognized to occur in Thailand by Nabhitabhata and Chan-ard (2005), H. buccata and H. nigroventralis, none was recorded by them from Phuket Province, but H. buccata was listed from, among others, the neighbouring provinces of Phang-Nga and Ranong. Chuaynkern & Chuaynkern (2012) recognized the same two species, and listed H. buccata from, among others, the provinces of Phang-Nga, Phuket and Ranong. Cox et al. (2012) listed three Homalopsis for Thailand (H. buccata, H. mereljcoxi and H. nigroventralis), and indicated that H. mereljcoxi is the species occurring, a.o., in Phang-Nga, Phuket and Ranong provinces. Wallach et al. (2014) noted that H. semizonata lives in southern Myanmar near sea level, but also that it ‘‘possibly occurs in Phuket’’. Chan-ard et al. (2015), in their field guide whose reptile taxonomy is largely outdated (Pauwels & Grismer 2015), recognized only Homalopsis nigroventralis and H. buccata and the map for the latter indicates its presence in Phuket and Phang-Nga provinces. In the most recent synthesis on the family Homalopsidae, Murphy & Voris (2014) made however no mention of the possibility that H. semizonata occurs in Thailand. Because of the lack of voucher material, the identity of the Homalopsis living on the Indian Ocean coastal area of Thailand has thus remained poorly understood so far.
The Transient Response of Southern Ocean Circulation to Geothermal Heating in a Global Climate Model
Authors: Downes Stephanie M. , Hogg Andrew McC. , Griffies Stephen M. , Samuels Bonita L.
Published: May 2016

Model and observational studies have concluded that geothermal heating significantly alters the global overturning circulation and the properties of the widely distributed Antarctic Bottom Water. Here two distinct geothermal heat flux datasets are tested under different experimental designs in a fully coupled model that mimics the control run of a typical Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) climate model. The regional analysis herein reveals that bottom temperature and transport changes, due to the inclusion of geothermal heating, are propagated throughout the water column, most prominently in the Southern Ocean, with the background density structure and major circulation pathways acting as drivers of these changes. While geothermal heating enhances Southern Ocean abyssal overturning circulation by 20%–50%, upwelling of warmer deep waters and cooling of upper ocean waters within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) region decrease its transport by 3–5 Sv (1 Sv = 106 m3 s−1). The transient responses in regional bottom temperature increases exceed 0.1°C. The large-scale features that are shown to transport anomalies far from their geothermal source all exist in the Southern Ocean. Such features include steeply sloping isopycnals, weak abyssal stratification, voluminous southward flowing deep waters and exported bottom waters, the ACC, and the polar gyres. Recently the Southern Ocean has been identified as a prime region for deep ocean warming; geothermal heating should be included in climate models to ensure accurate representation of these abyssal temperature changes.
Investigating the Eddy Diffusivity Concept in the Coastal Ocean
Authors: Rypina I. I. , Kirincich A. , Lentz S. , Sundermeyer M.
Published: May 2016

This paper aims to test the validity, utility, and limitations of the lateral eddy diffusivity concept in a coastal environment through analyzing data from coupled drifter and dye releases within the footprint of a high-resolution (800 m) high-frequency radar south of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Specifically, this study investigates how well a combination of radar-based velocities and drifter-derived diffusivities can reproduce observed dye spreading over an 8-h time interval. A drifter-based estimate of an anisotropic diffusivity tensor is used to parameterize small-scale motions that are unresolved and underresolved by the radar system. This leads to a significant improvement in the ability of the radar to reproduce the observed dye spreading.
Parent-mediated early intervention for young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD)
Authors: Oono Inalegwu P. , Honey Emma J. , McConachie Helen
Published: May 2016

Young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have impairments in the areas of communication and social interaction and often display repetitive or non-compliant behaviour. This early pattern of difficulties is a challenge for parents. Therefore, approaches that help parents develop strategies for interaction and management of behaviour are an obvious route for early intervention in ASD. This review updates a Cochrane review first published in 2002 but is based on a new protocol.
Should early intervention in autism be provided?
Authors: Foreman David
Published: May 2016

Rates of detected autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are currently rising, and there is a need for effective treatments to manage the symptoms. In this commentary I outline the challenges that autism presents to service delivery and consider a Cochrane review that evaluates one of the best-known classes of treatment for ASD, parent-mediated early intervention. I discuss effect size and bias in the interpretation of the review's results, and consider also the rationale for low- and high-intensity intervention at both the individual level and, from a public health perspective, at population level.
What can we learn from offspring studies in bipolar disorder?
Authors: Loftus Josephine , Etain Bruno , Scott Jan
Published: May 2016

We offer a contemporary review of studies of the offspring of parents with bipolar disorder and explore the clinical characteristics of these populations. We discuss how different methodological approaches may influence study findings and may explain some of the heterogeneity in the results reported. We also highlight some of the environmental risk factors that may increase the likelihood of transition from an ‘at-risk’ or high-risk state to bipolar disorder. Last, we briefly discuss the implications of study findings for early intervention strategies and comment on such issues as genetic counselling and primary and early secondary prevention programmes.
Site-Condition Proxies, Ground Motion Variability, and Data-Driven GMPEs: Insights from the NGA-West2 and RESORCE Data Sets
Authors: Derras Boumédiène , Bard Pierre-Yves , Cotton Fabrice
Published: May 2016

We compare the ability of various site-condition proxies (SCPs) to reduce the aleatory variability of ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs). Three SCPs (measured V S30, inferred V S30, local topographic slope) and two accelerometric databases (RESORCE and NGA-West2) are considered. An artificial neural network (ANN) approach including a random-effect procedure is used to derive GMPEs setting the relationship between peak ground acceleration ( PGA), peak ground velocity ( PGV), pseudo-spectral acceleration [ PSA( T)], and explanatory variables ( M w, R JB, and V S30 or Slope). The analysis is performed using both discrete site classes and continuous proxy values. All “non-measured” SCPs exhibit a rather poor performance in reducing aleatory variability, compared to the better performance of measured V S30. A new, fully data-driven GMPE based on the NGA-West2 is then derived, with an aleatory variability value depending on the quality of the SCP. It proves very consistent with previous GMPEs built on the same data set. Measuring V S30 allows for benefit from an aleatory variability reduction up to 15%.
Adaptive Publics: Building Climate Constituencies in Bogotá
Authors: Zeiderman Austin
Published: May 2016

This essay foregrounds the political constituencies assembling around the problem of climate change in cities. Recent experiments in urban climate governance in Bogotá, Colombia, are shown to challenge liberal democratic notions of the “public” by linking a redistributive economic agenda to the technical project of adaptation. An analysis of interventions aimed at building social infrastructure throughout the city’s hydrological systems reveals how the inclusion of the urban poor is enacted through practices of measurement. While urban politics in Latin America has long revolved around popular demands to be counted, climate change adaptation is the most recent idiom in which claims to recognition-through-enumeration are being articulated.
Modernist Infrastructure and the Vital Systems Security of Water: Singapore’s Pluripotent Climate Futures
Authors: Whitington Jerome
Published: May 2016

Singapore climate change adaptation planning for water infrastructure is assessed against the concept of “vital security systems.” Cast against the historicity of water planning and postcolonial urbanism, water supply, coastal protection, and flood control are understood in terms of vigilance, emergency, prediction, and control. It is argued that climate adaptation planning relies on a naturalistic understanding of predictable, linear transformations in base climatic variables and thus fails to take into consideration the “pluripotency” of climate futures—that is, the inherent unpredictability of nonlinear transformations that arise in the conjunction of human and nonhuman systems.
Magnetoreception in Social Wasps: An Update
Authors: Pereira-Bomfim Maria da Graça Cardoso , Antonialli-Junior William Fernando , Acosta-Avalos Daniel
Published: May 2016

Abstract. Magnetoreception is a mechanism of active orientation that occurs in animals with nervous systems. Social insects such as bees, ants, wasps and termites have been studied on the influence of the magnetic field exerts on its biology. The social wasps comprise species represented in Stenogastrinae, Vespinae and Polistinae, however studies on the influence of magnetic field on wasps Vespinae address only. The areas studied include the biomineralization of magnetic material and behavioral aspects related to changes in local intensity of the geomagnetic field. The objective of this review is to integrate knowledge of social wasps’ magnetoreception in order to build an instructive overview of the current situation of studies, therefore, provide the conceptual framework for the development of future work on the topic.Magnetorrecepção em Vespas Sociais: Uma AtualizaçãoResumo. Magnetorrecepção é um mecanismo de orientação ativa que ocorre em animais com sistema nervoso. Insetos sociais tais como abelhas, formigas, vespas e cupins são estudados sobre a influência que o campo magnético exerce em sua biologia. As vespas sociais compreendem espécies representadas em Stenogastrinae, Vespinae e Polistinae, no entanto os estudos sobre a influência do campo magnético em vespas abordam somente Vespinae. As áreas de estudo incluem a biomineralização do material magnético e aspectos comportamentais relacionados a mudanças na intensidade do campo geomagnético local. O objetivo desta revisão é integrar o conhecimento sobre magnetorrecepção em vespas sociais, a fim de construir um panorama elucidativo da atual situação dos estudos, e assim fornecer uma estrutura conceitual para o desenvolvimento de trabalhos futuros sobre o tema.
First Record of Pseudomyrmex acanthobius Emery in Brazilian Pantanal
Authors: Aranda Rodrigo , Olivier Renan , Ferraro Alexandre
Published: May 2016

Abstract. Associations between ants and plants may be described, in some cases, as mutualisms. Ants use plant structures as sites for nesting and in return they offer protection against herbivory. This paper reports for the first time the association between Pseudomyrmex acanthobius Emery nest in subterranean structures of Aspilia grazielae J.U.Santos, an endangered endemic plant species, in Corumbá, Pantanal domain. Additionally, this record reveals a new aspect of the ecological niche and extends the geographic distribution of P. acanthobius.Primeiro Registro de Pseudomyrmex acanthobius Emery no Pantanal BrasileiroResumo. A associação entre formigas e plantas pode ser descrita em alguns casos como mutualismo. Estruturas de plantas, como locais de nidificação, atraem algumas espécies de formigas em troca da proteção anti-herbivoria. Este trabalho registra pela primeira vez a nidificação de Pseudomyrmex acanthobius Emery em estrutura subterrânea de Aspilia grazielae J.U.Santos, espécie endêmica e ameaçada de extinção na região de Corumbá, no domínio Pantanal. Adicionalmente, esse registro revela nova amplitude do nicho ecológico e amplia a distribuição geográfica prevista de P. acanthobius.
Survey and New Distributional Records of Nocturnal Social Wasps Apoica (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Epiponini) Along Madeira River, Rondônia, Brazil
Authors: Gomes Bruno , Assunção da Silva Caio Lourenço , Da Silva Marjorie , Noll Fernando Barbosa
Published: May 2016

Abstract: Diversity of species of Apoica present along the portion of Madeira river in Rondônia was investigated. Five of the ten species were found, with new distributional records for Apoica gelida van der Vecht and Apoica pallens Fabricius. Levantamento e Novos Registros de Vespas Sociais Noturnas Apoica (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Epiponini) ao Longo do Rio Madeira, Rondônia, BrazilResumo: Nesse trabalho investigou-se a diversidade de espécies de Apoica presentes ao longo do rio Madeira no estado de Rondônia. Foram encontradas cinco das dez espécies do gênero, além de novos registros de ocorrência para as espécies Apoica gelida van der Vecht e Apoica pallens Fabricius.
Correlations
Authors: Ehling Paul , Heyerdahl-Larsen Christian
Published: May 2016

Correlations of equity returns have varied substantially over time and remain a source of continuing policy debate. This paper studies stock market correlations in an equilibrium model with heterogeneous risk aversion. In the model, preference heterogeneity causes variations in the volatility of aggregate risk aversion from good to bad states. At times of high volatility in aggregate risk aversion, which is a common factor in returns, we see high correlations. The model matches average industry return correlations and changes in correlations from business cycle peaks to troughs and replicates the dynamics of expected excess returns and standard deviations. Model-implied aggregate risk aversion explains average industry correlations, expected excess returns, standard deviations, and turnover volatility in the data. We find supportive evidence for the model’s prediction that industries with low dividend-consumption correlation have low average return correlation but experience disproportional increases in return correlations in recessions.

This paper was accepted by Jerome Detemple, finance.
Do CMO Incentives Matter? An Empirical Investigation of CMO Compensation and Its Impact on Firm Performance
Authors: Bansal Naresh , Joseph Kissan , Ma Minghui , Wintoki M. Babajide
Published: May 2016

Despite growing interest in various facets of the position of chief marketing officer (CMO), there is very little research on CMO compensation. Accordingly, we set out to investigate the determinants of CMO compensation and its effect on firm performance. Employing the lens of agency theory, we hypothesize that the CMO’s marginal productivity will positively impact the amount of total compensation as well as the extent of performance-based compensation in the CMO’s compensation contract. Moreover, we hypothesize that deviations in contracting elements from predicted levels will adversely impact firm performance. Analyzing a sample of 9,230 firm-year observations over the period 1992–2013, we find that CMOs employed at firms with high advertising and R&D intensity, and operating in competitive product markets, command larger amounts of total compensation. Moreover, a greater proportion of their compensation is market based, with heightened sensitivity to movements in the firm’s stock price. We also find that deviations in CMO compensation elements have an adverse impact on operating performance (return on assets (ROA)), earnings surprises, and stock returns. Specifically, a 10% deviation in market-based compensation from predicted levels reduces ROA by 0.28%, dampens earnings surprises by 0.19%, and degrades annualized stock returns by 2.4%.

This paper was accepted by Eric Anderson, marketing.
Does Atta laevigata (Smith, 1858) act as Solanum lycocarpum seed dispersers?
Authors: Tavares Paulo Roberto De Abreu , Alves Junior Valter Vieira , Morais Glaucia Almeida de
Published: May 2016

Ants can act as seed dispersers, modifying their distribution, affecting the reproductive success and the vegetation spatial structure. The leaf-cutting ants function, as dispersers of non-myrmecochorous plants, is little known. This work aimed to evaluate descriptively the Atta laevigata interaction with Solanum lycocarpum diaspores. The observations were carried out, throughout 10 days, in a secondary fragment of Semidecidual Seasonal Forest in Ivinhema, MS. To determine the removal rate, 500 seeds were taken from ripe fruits, dried, labeled and distributed in groups ranged from five to 50 seeds, totaling 100 seeds per foraging trail. Groups of 30 seeds with pulp were also distributed every 1.0 m on the trails. Individuals of different sizes presented different interactions to the fruits and seeds, smaller workers carried pulp or seeds separately, medium workers carried seeds with pulp or cleaned them before carry to the nest and the largest workers carried the seeds to the nest. Atta laevigata acted primarily as predators, with few seeds discarded. Their actions may interfere in the native vegetation regeneration, with a significant role in removing S. lycocarpum seeds, a pioneer species, and in population control for this species by the severe predation of seeds. However, the remaining1.6% intact seeds allows germination, with the A. laevigata acting as a seed dispersers over short distances for this species, favoring the S. lycocarpum dispersion.
Geographic range of Pachycondyla harpax (Fabricius) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
Authors: Wetterer James Kelly
Published: May 2016

Pachycondyla harpax (Fabricius) is a widespread and conspicuous New World ponerine ant (subfamily Ponerinae). To examine the geographic distribution of P. harpax, I compiled and mapped published and unpublished specimen records from >1500 sites. I documented the earliest known P. harpax records for 28 geographic areas (countries, West Indian islands, and US states), including four for which I found no previously published records: the islands of Guadeloupe, Margarita, and Tobago and the US state of Georgia. Pachycondyla harpax has been recorded from every country in South and Central America except Chile and Uruguay. Pachycondyla harpax is also now known from six West Indian islands: Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Margarita, Trinidad, and Tobago. The known continental range of P. harpax appears to be essentially continuous, extending from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil in the south (31.8°S) to Wood County, Texas in the north (32.8°N), including the continental islands of Margarita, Tobago, and Trinidad. Isolated island populations of P. harpax on Grenada, Guadeloupe, and Jamaica may be exotic, introduced through human commerce. In the US, it is unclear why P. harpax populations are only known from Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia, when there would appear to be suitable habitat for this species all along the Gulf coast of Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida.
Morphological Differences between Reproductive and Non-reproductive Females in the Social Wasp Mischocyttarus consimilis Zikán (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)
Authors: Montagna Thiago Santos , Antonialli-Junior William Fernando
Published: May 2016

Phenotypic divergence plays an important role in establishment of the reproductive division of labor among castes in social insects; however, little is known about this subject in independent-founding polistine wasps. In this study, we investigated morphological differences among foundresses from associative and solitary foundations, as well as among females produced in different phases of the colony cycle in Mischocyttarus consimilis Zikán. Our results showed that the alpha foundress had significantly greater body size than auxiliary foundresses, although it did not differ in size from solitary foundresses. In addition, the alpha foundress had greater ovarian development than their auxiliary and solitary foundresses. We also demonstrated that gynes were significantly larger than workers. These results therefore suggest that the phenotype of females emerging in colonies M. consimilis can vary with the progress of the colony cycle, and that body size and ovarian condition are closely linked to the function performed by the foundress.
The Disappearance of Eggs and Larvae from the Nests of the Mischocyttarus (Monogynoecus) montei Zikán (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), Especially in Autumn and Winter: Can it Mean an Adaptive Cannibalism to Ensure the Survival of Colonies?
Authors: Murakami André Sunao Nishiuchi , Sakamoto Sheila Tiemi , Shima Sulene Noriko
Published: May 2016

The aim of this study was to verify the disappearance of eggs and larvae from the nests of the Mischocyttarus (Monogynoecus) montei, especially in autumn and winter, and at the same time, to discuss about the cannibalism as the main reason for survival of the colonies during the unfavorable climatic conditions. Forty one colonies were studied during the seasons of the year, period from March in 1999 to September 2000. A total of 314 disappearances of immature individuals was counted, corresponding to 95 eggs (27,1 %) and 229 larvae (72,9 %). The results of Chi-Square test for Contingency tables showed that the disappearance of eggs and larvae were significantly higher (P < 0,05)  during the autumn and winter (x2egg= 14,53, G.L.egg= 3, Cegg= 0,38, x2larva= 443,15, G.L.larva= 3, Clarva= 0,81). In addition, the Spearman Correlation test revealed a significant negative correlation (P < 0,05) between the disappearance rate of larvae and fall in temperature (r = ­0,62), as well as between the rate and fall in rainfall (r= ­0,71), in autumn and winter. There were no significant correlation between the disappearance of eggs and any climatic factors. From total number of disappearances, small larvae disappeared from the cells at higher frequency (55,9%, n = 128) than medium (18,3%, n = 42) and large (25,8%, n = 49) size larvae. We suggest that these immatures (eggs and larvae) were cannibalized probably due to scarcity of prey and nectar under unfavorable climatic conditions, especially during the cold and dry periods of the year.
Bacterial Communities in the Midgut of Ponerine Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae)
Authors: Oliveira Tássio Brito de , Ferro Milene , Bacci Maurício , Souza Danival José de , Fontana Renato , Delabie Jacques Hubert Charles , Silva Aline
Published: May 2016

Symbiotic microorganisms are directly related to the ecological success of host insects, influencing many aspects of their biology. The present study is the first to investigate the microbiota associated with ants of the subfamily Ponerinae and aims to identify the bacterial midgut communities of Dinoponera lucida, Pachycondyla curvinodis, Pachycondyla striata, Odontomachus brunneus and Odontomachus bauri. After dissecting the midguts of these ants, DNA was extracted, and the bacterial 16S rRNA gene was amplified via PCR using the universal primers pair 27F/1492R. The obtained PCR products were cloned and sequenced using an ABI 3500 automated sequencer. The sequences were grouped into operational taxonomic units (OTUs) based on a 97% similarity criterion using MOTHUR. The greatest species richness was observed in O. bauri, with 15 OTUs, followed by D. lucida with five OTUs, O. brunneus, with four OTUs, and P. curvinodis and P. striata, both with three OTUs. There were representatives of the phyla Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, Tenericutes and Firmicutes, including the genera Bartonella, Mesoplasma, Mesorhizobium, Spiroplasma, Wolbachia and Serratia in the guts of the studied Ponerine ants. The low microbial diversity observed given the predatory trophic habits of the species studied suggests that there is selection for these microorganisms, predominantly preserving symbionts with functional roles that are able to colonize this environment. It is also valid to infer that the identified bacteria are predominant in the gut and exhibit mutualistic functions that are important for immunity, reproduction and nutrition; moreover, a subset may be parasites that have considerable impacts on the studied ants.
Daily Foraging Activity of Acromyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Leaf-cutting ants
Authors: Nickele Mariane Aparecida , Reis Filho Wilson , Pie Marcio Roberto , Penteado Susete Do Rocio Chiarello
Published: May 2016

Leaf-cutting ants are well-known insects due to their remarkable activity as herbivores and the considerable economic damage they cause to many crops. The identification of season and time of day when leaf-cutting ants are most active is an important tool, not just to understand the foraging ecology of these ants, but also to optimize their control in plantation areas where they were pests. Thus, the aims of this study are to evaluate the daily foraging activity of leaf-cutting ant species of the genus Acromyrmex, which occur in forest plantations in Southern Brazil. Foraging activity of Acromyrmex crassispinus (Forel) and Acromyrmex subterraneus subterraneus (Forel) were correlated with weather conditions, and it was more intense during spring and summer. Workers that forage at night are significantly heavier than workers that forage during the day. This study showed that A. crassispinus and A. subterraneus subterraneus did not forage at temperatures below 10-11°C. Then, the use of granulated baits to control these leaf-cutting ants species where they were pests should be done just under favorable conditions of temperature for Acromyrmex foraging activity (over 12°C), to ensure maximum collection of baits by ants and the least left-over baits.