bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Surveillance and management of estrous cycle in Awassi and Lacaune ewes during out of season
Authors: Bogdan Liviu , Andrei Sanda , Blaga Petrean Anamaria Luciana , Bogdan Ileana , Paşca Ioan , Bogdan Sidonia
Published: December 2016

The purpose of this study was to increase fertility in sheep by applying modern biotechnology: induction and synchronization of estrous in non- breeding season. The ewes were divided into 3 equal batches. In all batches intravaginal sponge (Veramix/Intervet) containing 60 mg of MPA was left in the vagina for 14 days. Immediately after removal of the sponge an injections of prostaglandin (Dinolytic/Pfizer) at the dose of 12.5 mg (2,5ml)/animal was administered in batch II. Batch III received two injections: PMSG hormone (Folligon/Intervet) at the dose of 500 IU/animal and prostaglandin (Dinolytic/Pfizer) at the dose of 12.5 mg (2,5 ml)/animal. The research focused on several directions: assessment of estrous manifestation; occurrence of estrous interval after completion of hormonal therapy; duration of estrous; appreciation of gestation after the first and second estrous clinically manifested; percentage of fecundity. From the results obtained it follows that induction and synchronization of estrous in non-breeding season showed economic advantages by shortening the time needed for the installation of gestation, the possibility of lambing distribution, preparation and organization of mating.
Caracterização do solo de cobertura de aterros encerrados com ferramentas (geo)estatísticas
Authors: Samuel-Rosa Alessandro , Dalmolin Ricardo Simão Diniz , Pedron Fabrício de Araújo
Published: December 2016

Inúmeros trabalhos abordam a elaboração de estratégias amostrais e a aplicação de ferramentas (geo)estatísticas no estudo de atributos do solo. Entretanto, são escassos os trabalhos envolvendo a aplicação desta abordagem no monitoramento de solos construídos sobre aterros encerrados de resíduos sólidos urbanos. Este estudo mostra que a densidade amostral necessária para tornar possível o uso da geoestatística em tais casos, elevaria os custos operacionais. A melhor alternativa é a utilização dos métodos de estatística multivariada (análise de componentes principais e de agrupamento) para definição de zonas homogêneas de manejo. Os atributos que melhor explicam a estrutura da variabilidade do solo construído são o teor de areia (ou argila), a saturação por bases e o pH, todos relacionados com a contaminação do solo com chorume e o adequado desenvolvimento da vegetação.
The Functions of Selected Human Rights Institutions and Related Role-Players in the Protection of Human Rights in Zimbabwe
Authors: Chitimira Howard , Mokone Pontsho
Published: December 2016

Various human rights violations on the part of the ordinary people and human rights defenders have been reported in Zimbabwe since the late 1980s to date. It is widely acknowledged that such violations were mostly perpetrated by the government through its different organs for political and other related reasons.  Human rights violations were also easily committed against ordinary people and human rights defenders because there was no Constitution that adequately protected such people's fundamental human rights (including their civil and political rights and their socio-economic rights) in Zimbabwe.  Given this background, the article discusses the protection of human rights in Zimbabwe, in light of the Zimbabwe Constitution Amendment 20 of 2013 (Zimbabwe Constitution 2013). This is done in order to investigate whether the promotion, protection, enforcement and the respect for human rights in Zimbabwe has now improved. To this end, the functions of selected national human rights institutions and other related role-players, namely, the civil society, the judiciary, the law enforcement organs and the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission are briefly discussed first.  Secondly, the functions of selected regional and international institutions, namely, the Southern African Development Community, the African Union and the United Nations are discussed in relation to the protection of human rights in Zimbabwe. Thereafter, concluding remarks and possible recommendations that could be utilised to combat human rights violations and enhance the protection of human rights in Zimbabwe are provided.
Authority by Representation – A New Form of Authority?
Authors: Sharrock Robert Douglas
Published: December 2016

The majority decision in Makate v Vodacom (Pty) Ltd recognises a new form of actual authority – authority by representation. However the decision is based on a misinterpretation of English law and is inconsistent with an extensive body of South African case law and the view held by several South African text–book writers. It remains to be seen whether the decision will be regarded as binding authority. If the it is accepted as binding, the principle of agency by representation which it establishes will need to be clarified and developed in certain respects to ensure that it does not operate unfairly.
Book Review: The Spirit of Marikana: The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa by Luke Sinwell with Siphiwe Mbatha
Authors: Broster Phillip
Published: December 2016

Despite its title, this book does not look exclusively at the massacre that occurred at Marikana on 16 August 2012, when South African police officers shot and killed 34 striking mineworkers and wounded 78 others. Rather, it places that event in the context of a longer, larger struggle for dignity and economic freedom by the working class in South Africa. The authors did not do this to trivialise this significant event but to implore the reader to recognise that it was one moment, one particular incident in a long history of struggle and conflict, one that is not necessarily more important than another. As such, it pursues what George Lipsitz has called the ‘long fetch’, looking into the past and identifying the forces that slowly shaped what may otherwise appear to have been sudden and inexplicable.1 The book does this by attempting to describe the tensions between the various ‘ordinary’ individuals – the striking employees of Lonmin’s platinum mine at Marikana – and their relationships to the labour collectives they started, helped lead, or held to account. It attempts to show how understanding these tensions is crucial to understanding the events that occurred at Marikana, and understanding South Africa as an economic project.
Drawing Out by Drawing Into: Representation and Partnership in a Design-Science Collaboration
Authors: Schyfter Pablo
Published: December 2016

“Synthetic Aesthetics” was a two-year experimental, interdisciplinary project that supported six partnerships between synthetic biologists and artists and designers. Each group sought to accomplish two tasks: build an interdisciplinary partnership and construct a joint representation. In this article, I explore the relationship between partnering and representing in one of the six partnerships: a collaboration between an architect and a synthetic biologist. I describe David Benjamin and Fernan Federici’s work on the self-organization and structural growth of xylem cells, and their pursuit of graphical and mathematical representations of so-called biological “logic.” I analyze the case study using two frameworks in unison. The first, from research in STS, explains representation as a social accomplishment with ontological consequences. The second, by pragmatist John Dewey, describes representation as drawing out and drawing into: selecting and extracting out of the world, and molding and installing into human artifice. I study Benjamin and Federici’s work as two acts of drawing out by drawing into: constructing and representing “logic” by forming a partnership to do so; and building a partnership by jointly forming a commitment to the existence of that “logic.” Doing so also involved ontological labor: making biological “logic” and rendering cells intelligible as products of rational mechanisms (as logical cells). Thus, representing and partnering are mutually enabling, mutually dependent and capable of ontological accomplishments. The lesson is useful to STS, a field increasingly concerned with art and design as topics of study and potential partners in work.
Citizen Science: Probing the Virtues and Contexts of Participatory Research
Authors: Kimura Aya H. , Kinchy Abby
Published: December 2016

Citizen science is an increasingly popular activity, from bird counts to amateur water sample collection to air quality monitoring. Researchers and theorists in the field of science and technology studies (STS) have typically applauded these efforts because they make science more participatory, providing an example of the democratization of science, or, at least, more equitable engagement between experts and the lay public. However, a broader review of the literature on citizen science suggests that participation is but one of many virtues that practitioners and observers find in the practices of citizen science. This literature review makes two interventions. First, we discuss the dimensions of citizen science that do not easily fit in a typology or spectrum of participatory practices. We identify seven different virtues claimed of citizen science: increasing scientific data; increasing citizens' scientific literacy and awareness; building community capacity for environmental protection; building more equal relationship between scientists and citizens; filling knowledge gaps and challenging official accounts; driving policy change; and catching polluters. Second, we consider the social and political contexts that often create contradictory situations or dilemmas for citizen scientists. Going forward, a robust framework for the analysis of citizen science would not only address the ways scientific data is collected and put to a particular use, but also situate the project in relation to broader structural forces of scientization, neocolonialism, globalization, and neoliberalization.
Clumsy City by Design—A Theory for Jane Jacobs’ Imperfect Cities?
Authors: Schmitt Sarah Maria , Hartmann Thomas
Published: December 2016

How do different concepts of justice correspond with the principles of diversity in cities introduced by Jane Jacobs? This contribution connects Jane Jacobs’ ideas on the diverse city with Mary Douglas’ Cultural Theory and its concept of clumsy solutions. According to Douglas’ Cultural Theory, every social situation can be described in terms of the four ideal-typical “rationalities”: individualism, egalitarianism, hierarchism, and fatalism. These four rationalities are again linked to different concepts of justice: libertarian, utilitarian, or social justice. Douglas’ Cultural Theory assumes that in every social situation all four of those rationalities emerge in some way and concludes that if a situation is not poly-rational, it is less robust. This opts for imperfect and “clumsy solutions”. It is argued that clumsy solutions, the four rationalities and related concepts fit Jane Jacobs’ claim for more diversity in urban design. This essentially calls for imperfect cities by design, ‘built’ by Jacobs’ generators for diversity. Although this outcome might not be revolutionary in the current debates about urban design, the concept of clumsy solutions provide a foundation for Jane Jacobs’ atheoretical claim for a diverse city. This contributes to new reflections on the urban planning paradigms of Jane Jacobs.
Dnister river canyon in the national park
Authors: Getman V.
Published: December 2016

There have been raised several questions about saving natural, historical and cultural values of the territory of national park “Dnister river canyon” in this article. Also, this work highlights historical and natural conditions of canyon’s formation. Landscape, aesthetic and recreational resources of Dnister river canyon are incomparable among the territory of Ukraine. That is why it is important to save it from massive anthropogenic pressure. On of the stresses is a planned construction of upper Dnister river cascade hydropower station on the protected territory of national park “Dnister river canyon”.
Spatial econometric analysis of the regional commuting
Authors: Sehida K. , Kostrikov S.
Published: December 2016

Paper authors introduce the transitional research approach – the spatial econometric analysis (SEA) – upon commuting study within a regional workforce market. The authors emphasize that both the labor migration and the commuting are two dominant issues upon studying of any workforce market either at its national level, or at the regional one. In authors’ opinion, if we attempt to understand the lower, regional migration level, we have to choose just commuting as its dominant trend. SEA has been introduced as a subject field related to both Human Geography and Regional Studies, it also involves the applied GIS-science instruments as the mandatory research tools. The relationship between the usual labor migration and commuting has been shortly examined on the theoretical level only. This research has been provided with the use of geographical information system (GIS) software for spatial modeling, analysis and visualization. Several levels of the regional commuting geodatabase update with both empirical and derivative data have been described, and its relevant mathematical content introduced. Authors’ empirical / analytical GIS-model of regional commuting has become a key component of SEA completed consequently for two scale levels: for a single administrative district (“rajon”) => for whole Kharkiv administrative oblast – a region. Different visuals represent in details all commuting trends and peculiarities within Kharkiv region borders. Authors’ theoretical / empirical model has estimated an approximated number of regular daily-weekly commuters to Kharkiv-city from the region around one hundred and thirty thousand in the period of 2012-2014. The paper conclusion outlines that further commuting research needs to extend authors’ model presented with much broader number of cross-regional commuting factors. First of all, those commuting determinants caused by the war going on the East – the area neighboring to our region – must be taken into account in one way, or in another.
Theoretical-methodological aspects of landscape-hydrological structure of the territory research
Authors: Udovychenko V.
Published: December 2016

The basins of middle sized and small rivers, their tributaries have considerable levels of diversification, polystructural horizontal and vertical linkages. The complication of basins landscape structure parameterization noticeably increases needs to work out the theoretical-methodological and methodical aspects of their exploration and complex estimation. Taking into account such credence, the essence of landscape-hydrological analysis of the territory as one of the main methodical instrument of constructive-geographical researches is described in the article. The natural complex (geocomplex/landscape) of the rivers basin is defined as the key object of landscape-hydrological analysis and imagine as the area with definite state of water source where the process of water run-off formation takes place. The subject of research is mechanisms of forming and water displacement as the landscape component, or, by other words, hydrofunctioning. As the key tasks of landscape-hydrological analysis could be mention the hydrological features of natural complexes cognition, single out the landscape-hydrological systems (basins landscape systems) as an element of landscape and hydrological territory structure, landscape-hydrological mapping and distinguishing typological units analysis. The landscape-hydrological system (basin landscape system) is described as the part of earth surface where the interaction between hydrological processes and natural (landscapes) structures has local specificity that caused by one or several factors according to the spatial systems hierarchy. The conceptual basis of constructive-hydrological analysis of landscape structure of the territory directed to landscape planning tools implementation and landscape-planning actions elaboration at the regional and local levels is formed by the key geosystem approaches and principles, especially: zonal-azonal multiple-factor principle, basins principle, structural-hydrological, classification and mapping principles. The research process of landscape-hydrological structure of the territory includes a diversity of methodical procedures.
Photography as Theory in Action: William Hanson Boorne, George Webber, and The People of The Blood
Authors: Webber George , Dyce Matt
Published: December 2016

Abstract | This paper analyzes non-Indigenous representations of Kainai (Blood) ceremonial dances in Western Canada by comparing two distinct photographic events separated by a century. The first photographer, William Hanson Boorne, exhibits colonial assumptions about Indigenous people that were prevalent in the 1880s. He utilized mythologies about the camera as a “shadow catcher” when he surreptitiously photographed the sun dance against the wishes of the Kainai, capturing images of a practice he believed was about to disappear as the West was transformed by modernity. The second photographer, George Webber, is a contemporary documentarian operating out of Calgary, AB. In 2000, he also photographed participants in the Kainai sun dance. While he shared Boorne’s aim to depict spirituality and desire to present the West in transformation, Webber’s pictures and photographic practices are significantly different than his predecessor. He treats the camera as a cross-cultural memory tool and means of understanding personal change. Comparison of the two photographic events illuminates the Canadian West as a visual discourse and photography as “theory in action.”Résumé | Cet article analyse les représentations non-Indigènes des danses cérémonielles des Kainai (Gens-du-Sang) de l’Ouest du Canada en comparant deux événements photographiques distincts séparés par un siècle. Le premier photographe, William Hanson Boorne, était imprégné des présomptions coloniales sur les peuples Autochtones qui prévalaient au cours des années 1880. Boorne a employé les mythologies liées à l’appareil photo, comme sa prétendue capacité à « capturer l’ombre » (‘shadow catcher’) en photographiant la traditionnelle danse du soleil contre les souhaits des Kainais. Selon lui, il photographiait là les images d’une pratique qu’il croyait être sur le point de disparaître à cause de la modernisation de l’Ouest. Le deuxième photographe, George Webber, est un documentariste contemporain basé à Calgary (Alberta). En 2000, il a également photographié les participants à la danse du soleil des Kainais. Bien que Webber partage l’objectif de Boorne de représenter visuellement la spiritualité et le mouvement de modernisation de l’Ouest, sa pratique photographique est différente de celle de Boorne. Webber concevait l’utilisation de l’appareil photo comme un outil de mémoire culturelle et une façon de comprendre les changements tels que vécus par les individus. La comparaison des deux événements photographiques que représentent Boorne et Webber sont mis en contexte dans le cadre des deux thèmes de ce numéro spécial : l’Ouest canadien comme un discours visuel, et la photographie comme « théorie en l’action ».
Studies on How to View a Landscape
Authors: Auer Jessica
Published: December 2016

Abstract | Jessica Auer’s photographs often depict the impact of tourism on some of the world’s most popular places, showing how landscape has been preserved, altered, or commodified for sightseeing. Her series On How to View Landscape proposes that we also project our own mythologies and perceptions onto nature. In this project, we see the landscape in relation to ourselves, the view to a degree still a backdrop onto which we project our curiosities and desires. Upon leaving these viewpoints we may or may not leave a trace, but we somehow become part of the overall image.Résumé | Les photos de Jessica Auer montrent souvent l’impact du tourisme sur certains des lieux les plus populaires au monde, en particulier la manière dont les paysages sont préservés, modifiés ou transformés par le tourisme. Sa série Comment observer un paysage propose que nous projetions nos propres mythes et perceptions sur la nature. Dans ce projet, nous voyons le paysage en relation avec nous-mêmes, la vue un arrière-plan sur lequel nous projetons notre curiosité et nos désirs. Après avoir quitté ces lieux nous laisserons peut-être une trace mais d’une certaine manière nous faisons partie de l’image dans son ensemble.
Now and Then: Situating Contemporary Photography of the Canadian West into a Shared Photographic History
Authors: Cavaliere Elizabeth Anne
Published: December 2016

Abstract | Photography has an important place, both contemporary and historical, in shaping visions, understandings, and experiences of the Canadian West. The varied uses of early photographs of the West, circulated in a moment of national consciousness brought on by Confederation, shaped the collective Canadian imagination. Contemporary artists and scholars continue to be influenced by many of the same ideas that emerged in this early moment of Canadian history, when both country and medium developed alongside one another. Themes of exploration, identity, colonialism, settlement, tourism, natural resource, industry, and ecology find as much resonance in historical photographs in archival and museological collections as they do in contemporary photography and critical discourse. This essay bridges historical themes and archival pieces with the images of contemporary photographers working in western Canada today, whose photographs are featured in this issue. This essay sets the historical framework that endures in themes that contemporary photographers explore and also links the artists featured in this issue into a shared visual history.Résumé | La photographie a une place importante, contemporaine et historique, dans les visions de mise en forme, dans l’élaboration de visions, compréhensions, et expériences de l’Ouest canadien. Les utilisations variées des premières photographies de l’Ouest, circulé dans un moment de la conscience nationale provoquée par la Confédération, ont façonné l’imaginaire collectif canadien. Artistes contemporains sont encore influencés par un grand nombre des mêmes idées qui émergent en ce moment au début de l’histoire canadienne, à un moment que le pays et la photographie développer ensemble. Thèmes de l’exploration, l’identité, le colonialisme, le règlement, le tourisme, les ressources naturelles, l’industrie, et l’écologie sont résonnant dans les photographies historiques maintenant continues dans des collections d’archives et de musées comme dans les photographies contemporaines et l’écriture de celui-ci. Cet essai relie des thèmes historiques et œuvres d’archives avec le travail de photographes contemporains travaillant dans l’Ouest du Canada aujourd’hui, et qui est présentée dans ce journal. Cet essai se développe l’histoire qui persiste dans les thèmes que les photographes contemporains explorent dans leur travail, et servir comme un lien entre les artistes présentés dans ce journal dans une histoire visuelle commune.
Leg length inequality and its relationship with injuries incidence of young basketball players: an observational study
Authors: Villalta Santos Lucas , Rossi Mateus Francisco , Santos Oliveita Claudia , Pasin Neto Hugo
Published: December 2016

Background: The leg length inequality (LLI) creates postural changes collaborating with the emergence of functional limitations and musculoskeletal disorders. In a sport like basketball inequality of the lower limbs may be added to the demands of the sport and generate an increase in the incidence of injuries. The aim of this study was to identify  young basketball players from with structural or functional LLI and its influence in injury incidence in a period of 6 months. Methods: 18 players were followed with an average age of 14.50 ± 1.86 of a basketball team from the city of Sorocaba for a period of 6 months. At the beginning and end of that period were applied tests from the Morbidity Survey Report modified for basketball to obtain data such as physical characteristics, training time, incidence of injuries, quantitative and qualitative measurement of the length of the lower limbs. Results: 72.2% of players had LLI and 50% had some kind of injury during this period, among the most common, sprains and muscle strains. Conclusions: There was a high rate of players with LLI and a positive relationship between this inequality with the incidence of injury.
Comparative study of maximum respiratory pressure in adults from amazonas by different predictive equations
Authors: Silva Cássio Daniel Araújo Da , Sanchez Fernanda Figueirôa , Maciel Maria Clara De Souza Pereira Gama , Figueira Madria Andrade , Leon Elisa Brosina De , Gonçalves Roberta Lins
Published: December 2016

Introduction: The measurement of muscular strength and maximum static pressures, substantially a consecrated and practical method, raise discussions about reference values and predictive equations, taking into account the heterogeneity of the studies. Objectives: Compare predicted values of IPmax and EPmax with the equations of Neder et al., 1999 and Costa et al., 2010 in adult individuals from the state of Amazonas (AM, Brazil). Method: A cross-sectional study in which was evaluated the Maximum Respiratory Pressures (IPmax and EPmax) according to standardization of the Brazilian Society of Pneumology and Tisiology in 210 individuals (68% female and 32% male) and 109 were eutrophic and 101 with overweight. The age of the individuals was 47,8±18,5 years. For comparative statistical analysis between the values obtained and predicted by the equations was performed the Anova One Way - Software SigmaStat 3.5 test. Results: The comparison of the values obtained with those predicted revealed that the Neder et al underestimated the IPmax in both genders (P <0,001) and overestimated the EPmáx in males (P <0,001). While the equation of Costa et al overestimated the IPmax and EPmáx in males (P <0,001) underestimated the IPmax in females (P<0,001). Conclusion: The results evidenced divergences in the predictive quality of the equations used, especially for IPmax, which suggests the low specificity of it in the population evaluated.
Nuevas reflexiones en torno al cuaderno de Antonio Primo (1761-1764), pensionado en Roma de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando de Madrid
Authors: Gallego garcia Raquel
Published: December 2016

Antonio Primo empleó un cuaderno durante una parte de su estancia en Roma (1761-1764) en el que bosquejó dibujos de aquellas obras que suscitaron su interés o que consideró relevantes para su formación. La identificación de lo que Primo ha captado en su taccuino resulta de gran importancia para aproximarnos a la manera en que se desarrolló el aprendizaje en Roma de los jóvenes artistas españoles y nos da, además, algunos datos que nos conducen a los personajes que habrían permitido el acceso a espacios no abiertos al público en los que algunos pensionados tuvieron ocasión de copiar obras. 
Paisajes artísticos velados. La cabecera románica de la catedral de Sigüenza y la posible difusión del modelo
Authors: Cosmen Alonso María Concepción
Published: December 2016

Los trabajos realizados en la catedral de Sigüenza en el siglo XVI eliminaron y ocultaron en parte sus ábsides románicos. La restauración del retablo llevada a cabo en los años 2009-2011 facilitó el acceso al muro de cierre del ábside principal y dejó a la vista parte del diseño original, lo que ha permitido emparentarlo con obras del suroeste francés, de donde procedía el patrocinador y primer obispo de esta sede. 
Antonioni reinterpreta “lo insólito” de Cortázar: investigación fotoquímica, mecanográfica y cinematográfica = Antonioni reinterprets "the incredible" by Cortázar: photochemical, mechanical and cinematographic research
Authors: Longhi Ludovico , Carando Valerio
Published: December 2016

Michelangelo Antonioni (Blow-Up, 1966) traduce las formas literarias de Julio Cortázar (Las babas del
diablo, 1959), extremadamente visionarias, en una interrogación sobre las posibilidades epistemológicas
del lenguaje cinematográfico.

Michelangelo Antonioni (Blow-Up, 1966) translated Julio Cortázar’s literary and visionary forms (Las
babas del Diablo, 1959) in a quest on the epistemological possibilities of movie language.
La reconciliación del unicornio y del león en el "Rommans de la Dame a la Lycorne et du Biau Chevalier" = The unicorn and lion's reconciliation in the "Rommans de la Dame a la Lycorne et du Biau Chevalier"
Authors: García Fernández Manuel Ángel
Published: December 2016

En el romance anónimo en verso de amor cortés de mediados del siglo XIV el Romans de la Dame a la Lycorne et du Biau Chevalier aparecen reunidos dos animales, el Unicornio y el León junto a los dos protagonistas principales a modo de emblema heráldico al mismo tiempo que como mascota, siendo los avales de sus virtudes femeninas y masculinas. Ahora reunidos simbolizan la unión de los amantes perfectos y un ideal de perfección al que aspira la sociedad de finales de la Edad Media. 

In the anonymous verse romance of courtly love of mid-fourteenth century the Romans de la Dame a la Lycorne et du Biau Chevalier, two animals appear together, the unicorn and lion, with the two main protagonists as a heraldic emblem at the same time that as a pet, being the endorsement of the male and female lovers virtues. Now together they symbolize the union of the perfect lovers and an ideal of perfection to which society aspires in the late middle age.

 
Simbolismo y problema social en "Los poemas cotidianos" de Max Aub (1925) = Symbolism and social problems in "The quotidian poems" by Max Aub (1925)
Authors: Carriedo Castro Pablo
Published: December 2016

Los poemas cotidianos fue la primera obra literaria publicada por Max Aub. El presente trabajo intentará analizar sus principales claves ideológicas en el marco de la Edad de Plata y abrir nuevas interpretaciones que iluminen el pensamiento poético y social del autor en el periodo. 
Las colecciones de cuentos infantiles de Fernán Caballero y de los hermanos Grimm
Authors: Mann Simone
Published: December 2016

Varios cuentos españoles recogidos y publicados por Fernán Caballero poseen el mismo contenido o la misma estructura que los cuentos alemanes recogidos por los hermanos Grimm. En este artículo comentamos las razones, las relaciones históricas de España y Alemania en aquella época, las influencias literarias de otros países como Francia y los elementos tomados de la cultura popular, a partir de leyendas y mitos, de lugares o seres maravillosos que a lo largo de los siglos siempre han existido. A partir de estas preguntas relacionaremos las características comunes con el hecho de la aparición de diversos cuentos en varios países. Por otra parte los cuentos ejercen una importante función psicológica para niños porque expresan sentimientos humanos universales, independientes de la época y cultura.

A lot of Spanish fairytales collected and published by Fernán Caballero have the same content or the same structure as the German fairytales collected by the Brothers Grimm. In this article we will comment the reasons, the historic relationship between Spain and Germany during that epoch, the literal influences of other countries like France and the elements taken from popular culture, through legends and myths, marvelous places or beings which have always existed through all the centuries. All these questions will help to connect the common characteristics with the appearance of various fairytales in different countries. Another fact is that the fairytales perform an important psychological function for children because they deal with universal human feelings, regardless of the epochs and cultures.
Jeff Morgan. American Comic Poetry, History, Techniques and Modern Masters. McFarland & Company, 2015
Authors: Balcells Doménech José María
Published: December 2016

Estudio de la historia de la poesía irónica estadounidense
Juan Carlos Elijas. Ontología poética (1998-2014). Ediciones de la Isla de Sistolá, 2015
Authors: Balcells Doménech José María
Published: December 2016

En este libro se seleccionan textos de este autor que permiten conocer las claves de su obra poética.
A. Gregori. La dimensión política de lo irreal. El componente ideológico en la narrativa fantástica española y catalana. Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 2015
Authors: Abello Verano Ana
Published: December 2016

Bajo el título de La dimensión política de lo irreal. El componente ideológico en la narrativa fantástica española y catalana, Alfons Gregori viene a suplir un vacío importante en el ámbito de las modalidades no miméticas, cuyo estudio ha experimentado un creciente interés por parte del mundo académico. Al fijar la atención en un aspecto notablemente descuidado hasta el momento por la crítica, el libro se constituye como una obra de consulta imprescindible para ahondar en las imbricaciones que median entre el componente ideológico y el discurso literario de cariz fantástico
Vulnerabilidad y prácticas de información: experiencias de migrantes latinos (indocumentados) en EE.UU.
Authors: Gómez Ricardo
Published: December 2016

This paper explores the Information practices (search, use and distribution of information) by Latino migrants, in particular those who are undocumented, at the US-Mexico border and in Seattle, Washington. Different information practices emerge in these contexts. At the border, we find more information poverty practices of the “small world” type, and these slowly broaden and consolidate as the migrants’ sense of belonging is strengthened after they live more time established in the US. Nonetheless, the vulnerability and impermanence remain, in the face of constant danger of deportation. The findings of a complementary study among communities in Colombia are presented in the next issue of this journal. Using participatory photography and unstructured interviews, we explore the experiences and the information practices among marginalized communities, and we relate them to how they experience impermanence during different stages of the migration experience. We also discuss how the migration stages may not be sufficient to account for the constant changes and iterations in the experiences of migrants in our study.
Legal Issues in Medical Practice Medicolegal Guidelines for Safe Practice
Authors: Kande Dr. Omparkash Singh
Published: December 2016

Legal Issues in Medical Practice Medicolegal Guidelines for Safe Practice has presented essential information on various medicolegal aspects involved in day-to-day clinical practice. Most of the pertinent issues like medical ethics, informed consent, medical documentation, medical negligence, and various laws applicable to the medical professionals have been elaborated in the book. A separate section on medicolegal issues related to various specialties has presented ‘practice management strategies’ for safe clinical practice. Chapters on various medicolegal issues are written by the specialists who are well experienced in clinical as well as medicolegal domain.
The book comprises of 24 chapters divided into five sections:
Sec I (Medical Ethics and Law); Sec II (Documentation of Patient Care: The Legal Aspects); Sec III (Litigation against Medical Practitioners); Sec IV (Medical Laws and Judgments Governing the Medical Professionals); Sec V (Medicolegal Issues in Various Specialties).
Dr. VP Singh, an authority in medical laws has edited the chapters, and presented a reliable medicolegal book with a problem solving approach. The guiding principles recommended in the book are well supported by relevant judgments from Indian Courts. This book is a step-by-step guide that provides basic understanding of medicolegal principles in a simple language, and enables a busy medical practitioner to establish safe clinical practice.
In nutshell, this book is a must read for every healthcare professional.
Dynamic response of cerebral perfusion during low-intensity cycling exercise: A study using transcranial Doppler ultrasound
Authors: Hiura Mikio , Muta Akitaka , Nariai Tadashi
Published: December 2016

We investigated the changes in cerebral perfusion during constant low-intensity exercise and the effect of a late increase in workload. Eleven healthy males participated in this study. Four subjects performed 15 min of constant low-intensity exercise on a cycle ergometer, while seven subjects performed 20 min of exercise consisting of 17 min of low-intensity exercise, which was incremented to moderate-intensity for the final 3 min. As an index for cerebral perfusion, the time-averaged mean velocity of flow in the middle cerebral artery (MCAVmean) was measured using transcranial Doppler ultrasound. During the 15-min of low-intensity exercise (78 ± 3 Watts), pulmonary oxygen consumption (VO2) increased to 19.1 ± 2.5 ml/min/kg within 3-6 min, while end-tidal pressure of carbon dioxide (PETCO2) increased to 42.0 ± 3.2 mmHg, and MCAVmean increased to a peak 19.2 ± 9.1 % above the pre-exercise resting level then gradually decreased back toward the resting level. During the 20-min exercise at low and then moderate intensity (77 ± 4 and 111 ± 7 Watts for low and moderate intensity, respectively), VO2 increased from 19.1 ± 2.8 to 24.2 ± 3.6 ml/min/kg after the late increment in exercise intensity, while PETCO2 remained unchanged (p = 0.48, Tukey’s post hoc test), and MCAVmean tended to increase but did not change significantly. Kinetic analysis of VO2 and MCAVmean at low and moderate exercise intensities using a monoexponential model revealed that the time constant (τ) for VO2 was significantly related to the τ for MCAVmean at low (n=9) (R2 =0.52, P =0.03) and moderate intensity (n=6) (R2 = 0.69, P =0.04). These findings imply that cardiac output exerts an indirect effect to alter cerebral perfusion and that cerebral autoregulation likely operates to stabilize cerebral blood flow during prolonged exercise at a constant workload.
Effects of a Brief Motivational Interviewing Intervention on Adherence of Patients Undergoing Therapy in a Phase II Cardiac Rehabilitation Program
Authors: Sieke Rachel , McGrady Angele , Badenhop Dalynn
Published: December 2016

Patients who complete a structured cardiac rehabilitation program improve physical capacity and reduce distress. However, adherence to program completion ranges widely, and non -completion of cardiac rehabilitation jeopardizes the potential benefits. This study tests the effects of a brief motivational interviewing and relaxation intervention on completion of cardiac rehabilitation in patients referred to the program after a major cardiac event. One hundred four patients were recruited into this study and randomized to the control or a four session intervention group. Patients who completed the intervention were more likely to complete cardiac rehabilitation; specifically the number of sessions completed was significantly greater (p < 0.042) compared to controls. In addition to the intervention, baseline depression and anxiety are important predictors of dropout from rehabilitation. When entering the program, later completers had significantly lower depression (p < 0.009) and anxiety (p < 0.036) scores on standardized psychological inventories in contrast to those patients who later dropped out of rehabilitation. There were no differences in entry diagnosis or number of feet walked between later completers and non-completers. Patients in both the intervention and control groups who completed rehabilitation sustained important physical and psychological benefits. They were able to walk a greater distance and reduced scores on the anxiety and depression inventories.
Personalised therapy for Pancreatic Cancer: Challenges and Opportunities
Authors: Greenhalf William , Costello Eithne , Ghaneh Paula , Hanna Thomas
Published: December 2016

Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has one of the lowest 5-year survival rates of all cancers. Early metastatic spread and failure of standard chemotherapeutics both contribute to this statistic. Over the last decade many other cancer types have benefited from the targeted therapy revolution in which signalling networks found to be altered in cancer cells are specifically targeted. Despite an ever-growing understanding of the mutation profiles in PDAC, the vast majority of these approaches have failed for this form of malignancy. Chemotherapy, which simply targets dividing cells, remains the most effective available treatment option alongside surgery.  Although targeting a broad range of tyrosine kinase receptors with erlotinib has been shown to offer a modest improvement in the 5-year survival when combined with the pyrimidine-based chemotherapeutic gemcitabine; this suggests that targeted approaches may be of benefit in at least some patients.  PDAC is characterised by a long genomic tail of potentially actionable mutations but each appearing in only a small number of patients, making it difficult to show a survival benefit of a targeted therapy in an unselected group of patients. Identifying specific subpopulations based on molecular characterisation of the tumour is particularly difficult in PDAC because of problems in biospecimen acquisition; only a small proportion of patients undergo surgery and the organ is difficult to biopsy due to its location. Furthermore, PDAC is characterised by cellular heterogeneity within primary tumours and their metastases, meaning that targeted therapies may have only a transient effect, killing dominant cellular populations but leaving behind potentially even more aggressive forms of cancer cells that have unidentified (and so unexploited) molecular targets. In this review, consideration is given to overcoming the barriers of personalised medicine specific to PDAC with the aim of improving the 5-year survival rates
Results of Sever- L’ Episcopo procedure for obstetric brachial plexus palsy
Authors: V. Karthi Sundar , S.V. Anil Kumar
Published: December 2016

Background: The reported incidence of obstetric brachial plexus palsy (OBPP) varies from 0.3 to 2.5 per 1000 live birthsresulting in internal rotation deformity and weak abduction of the involved side shoulder.

Methods: To retrospectively analyse the functional results of the Sever- L‘ Episcopo procedure for OBPP with a minimum follow-up of 2 years to a maximum of 13 years using modified Mallet scoring system for shoulder.

Results: A significant improvement in the range of abduction and the restoration of external rotation of shoulder was achieved with Sever- L’Episcopo procedure.

Conclusions: The results of secondary reconstruction of a dysfunctional shoulder by means of a Lattismus dorsi & Teres major transfer as described by Sever- L’Episcopo is definitely beneficial. However this procedure will improve, but will not normalize, function. Apart from functional improvement this procedure corrects a deformity thereby easing the psycho-social stigma associated with it.
Análise Quantitativa de Aflatoxinas B1, B2, G1 e G2 em Ração para Aves de Corte por Cromatografia Líquida de Alta Eficiência com Detecção por Fluorescência
Authors: Raota Camila , Giovanela Marcelo
Published: December 2016

A contaminação de rações animais por aflatoxinas causa inúmeros danos às aves de corte, sendo a detecção dessas toxinas de extrema importância para evitar prejuízos nos sistemas de produção. Dentro desse contexto, o presente trabalho teve por objetivo determinar o sistema de extração mais adequado para a análise quantitativa das aflatoxinas B1, B2, G1 e G2 em ração animal para aves de corte por cromatografia líquida de alta eficiência (CLAE) com detecção por fluorescência. Os sistemas de extração avaliados foram o QuEChERS (Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged and Safe) e a Extração em Fase Sólida (SPE - Solid Phase Extraction) com sílica gel e com coluna de fase reversa C18. Em geral, o sistema de extração QuEChERS apresentou o melhor resultado, com uma recuperação média de 102,5%, além de uma redução de 78% nos custos com reagentes e tempo de análise, em comparação à SPE. Os limites de detecção e de quantificação para este método, em termos de aflatoxinas totais, foram de 0,46 ppb e 0,56 ppb, respectivamente. Além disso, verificou-se que a utilização da CLAE com detecção por fluorescência e associada ao sistema de extração QuEChERS, é uma alternativa precisa, confiável e economicamente viável para a análise quantitativa de aflatoxinas em ração animal para aves de corte. http://dx.doi.org/10.18226/23185279.v4iss3p148
Enrique Cárdenas Sánchez, El largo curso de la economía mexicana. De 1780 a nuestros días
Authors: Luna Sánchez Patricia
Published: December 2016

No contiene resumen.
Presentación del dossier. Derecho y Literatura en América Latina
Authors: Falconí Trávez Diego
Published: December 2016

Presentación del dossier. Derecho y Literatura en América Latina.
Justicia y retribución en la literatura náhuatl
Authors: Rosillo Martínez Alejandro
Published: December 2016

El texto esboza una hermenéutica de ciertos textos de la literatura náhuatl que guardan relación con la religión, intentando describir la función que en ella ejerce el esquema de la ley para justificar la praxis —desde una postura de Filosofía primera, entendida como praxeología— y señalar algunas protestas e intentos de liberación del mencionado esquema. Todo este análisis intenta aportar a la reflexión sobre la justicia y ley que se realiza desde el pensamiento jurídico.
La poética del derecho en las Leyes de Burgos de 1512. Una lectura desde la teoría del derecho y la literatura
Authors: Marrero-Fente Raul
Published: December 2016

Apoyado en la teoría del derecho como literatura, este artículo examina las Leyes de Burgos de 1512 como una ficción legal. A partir de las tesis de James Boyd White sobre el carácter retórico del leguaje jurídico, comparo la diferencia entre el lenguaje denotativo y el lenguaje connotativo las Leyes de Burgos para entender la conexión entre la ley de la letra y la letra de la ley en el mismo. Una lectura poética de las ordenanzas de Burgos saca a relucir la contradicción entre el modelo de justicia del derecho español y la sociedad colonial en Hispanoamérica.
La toma de la escuela. Una aproximación a su dramaturgia y experiencia teatral desde el constitucionalismo popular
Authors: Arcentales Illescas Javier
Published: December 2016

Este ensayo se inscribe en los estudios interdisciplinarios que relacionan Derecho y Literatura e intenta cuestionar el pensamiento y quehacer jurídicos. En este sentido busca realizar un ejercicio reflexivo de la teoría del constitucionalismo popular a partir de la obra de teatro La toma de la escuela, tanto desde la dramaturgia escrita por la autora francesa Hélène Cixous y versionada por Arístides Vargas, como desde la puesta en escena realizada por el Laboratorio de Teatro Malayerba en Quito. Mi análisis buscará demostrar que los personajes de la obra teatral posibilitan una indagación sobre esta teoría jurídica, vinculándola al contexto constitucional ecuatoriano así como al rol de los sujetos frente al poder.