bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Oxygen-ozone therapy in a multidisciplinary day surgery: Design and applications
Authors: Barone Paolo
Published: October 2017

Oxygen-ozone therapy is an increasingly widespread practice for its multiple applications, supported by data and specialized scientific literature. For this reason, an increasing number of hospital companies are showing considerable interest in order to expand the range of therapies provided. A feasibility study has been carried out with application models, with particular attention to the specialist sectors present in the San Fermo della Battaglia - S. Anna-Como Hospital, Italy.
Sertoli-Leydig Cell Tumor of the Ovary Masquerading as a Mucinous Adenocarcinoma: A Frozen Section Pitfall
Authors: Zuckerman Jonathan E. , Moatamed Neda A.
Published: October 2017

Sertoli-Leydig cells tumors are rare ovarian neoplasms that can be managed with conservative resection given their generally excellent prognosis. Here we report a case of Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor mistakenly diagnosed as an invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma at time of intraoperative consultation because of its blue-mucinous appearance in the frozen section material. The patient subsequently underwent an extensive staging procedure revealing unilateral, ovarian confined disease. The mucinous features seen on frozen section were lost on the slides prepared from formalin fixed tissues. Immunohistochemical work up confirmed the diagnosis of a pure Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor. No heterologous elements were identified in this tumor. This case illustrates a hitherto unrecognized frozen section pitfall in evaluation of ovarian neoplasms. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first well documented case of pure Sertoli-Leydig cells tumor which resembled a well differentiated mucinous adenocarcinoma during frozen section.
Mucinous Cystadenocarcinoma of the Breast: The Challenge of Diagnosing a Rare Entity
Authors: Koufopoulos Nektarios , Goudeli Christina , Syrios John , Filopoulos Evangelos , Khaldi Lubna
Published: October 2017

Mucinous cystadenocarcinoma is an extremely rare variant of primary breast tumor which is histologically similar to mucinous cystadenocarcinoma of the ovary and pancreas. Herein we report a case of a 63 years old woman diagnosed with diverse histological types of non-synchronous rare primary breast tumors, a medullary carcinoma of the right breast and a mucinous cystadenocarcinoma of the left breast. Macroscopically the neoplasm appeared multilocular filled with mucoid material. Under light microscopy the cystic areas were lined by columnar cells with abundant intracellular and extracellular mucin. Solid areas were composed of tall columnar cells with intracellular mucin. Moderate to marked atypia was noticed and tumor cells stained positive for cytokeratin 7 and negative for cytokeratin 20. Moreover tumor cells displayed a basal like immunophenotype expressed as followed: ER negative, PR negative, HER-2 negative, cytokeratin (CK5/6) positive and EGFR positive.
Atelectasis in Pediatrics: A Case of Carcinoid Tumor
Authors: Guerreiro Cláudia Vaz , Ornelas Paula , Pereira Luísa , Abecasis Nuno , Almodovar Maria Teresa
Published: October 2017

Carcinoid pulmonary tumors occur in the fourth to sixth decades of life. Usually, typical carcinoid arise a decade earlier when compared to atypical carcinoid (45 years and 55 years, respectively). Typical carcinoid tumors are the most common primary lung neoplasm in children and late adolescents, but there are less than 40 cases described in the literature. The clinical presentation is nonspecific and usually the symptoms are due to bronchial obstruction, sometimes with recurrent pneumonia. Its rarity may delay diagnosis but in most cases a favorable course after treatment is observed. The authors describe the case of a 13-year-old girl diagnosed with a carcinoid tumor located on the intermediate bronchus. The treatment approach included endoscopic laser resection, for obstruction resolution, followed by a right inferior bilobectomy with mediastinal lymph node dissection as definitive treatment. Histopathology confirmed a typical carcinoid tumor with mediastinal ipsilateral lymph node involvement.
Squamous Cell Lung Carcinoma Presenting as Melena: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Authors: Azar Ibrahim , Koutroumpakis Efstratios , Patel Raina , Mehdi Syed
Published: October 2017

Lung cancer has a predilection to widely metastasize to the liver, bone, brain and adrenal glands. Metastasis of primary lung tumors to the stomach is infrequent, with only sporadic cases reported. Most cases are asymptomatic and diagnosed post-mortem on autopsy. The incidence of symptomatic gastrointestinal metastases is extremely rare. Herein, we describe a case of gastric metastasis by squamous cell lung carcinoma, presenting as melena and diagnosed by esophagogastroduodenoscopy. To the best of our knowledge, only twenty other cases in the English literature have reported symptomatic gastric metastasis of lung cancer diagnosed by endoscopic biopsy. A brief review of the literature shows gastric metastasis of lung cancer to have a predilection to occur most frequently in male smokers with the most common type of tumor likely to be squamous cell carcinoma.
A time-dependent multi-layered mathematical model of filtration and solute exchange, the revised Starling principle and the Landis experiments
Authors: Facchini Laura , Bellin Alberto , Toro Eleuterio F.
Published: October 2017

Cell oxygenation and nutrition is vitally important for human and animal life. Oxygen and nutrients are transported by the blood stream and cross microvessel walls to penetrate the cell’s membrane. Pathological alterations in the transport of oxygen, and other nutrition elements, across microvessel walls may have serious consequences to cell life, possibly leading to localized cell necrosis. We present a transient model of plasma filtration and solute transport across microvessel walls by coupling flow and transport equations, the latter being non-linear in solute concentration. The microvessel wall is modeled through the superimposition of two or more membranes with different physical properties, representing key structural elements. With this model, the combined effect of the endothelial cells, the glycocalyx and other coating membranes specific of certain microvessels, can be analyzed. We investigate the role of transient external pressures in the study of trans-vascular filtration and solute exchange during the drop of blood capillary pressure due to the pathological decrease of blood volume called hypovolaemia, as well as hemorrhage. We discuss the advantage of using a multi-layered model, rather than a model considering the microvessel wall as a single and homogeneous membrane.
Fighting the Battle against Infectious Diseases: Contributions of Selected Social Science Disciplines
Authors: Phua Kai-Lit
Published: October 2017

In spite of the “epidemiological transition”, infectious diseases remain as major threats to the health and well-being of human populations. Social factors are related to the emergence and spread of infectious diseases. However, except for diseases which are more obviously social in their origin and patterns of spread (e.g. sexually-transmitted and blood-borne infections such as HIV/AIDS), social scientists are less prominent in the battle against infectious diseases vis-à-vis their counterparts from the natural sciences. Sociologists and other social scientists from disciplines such as history, political science, economics, anthropology and mass communications can contribute significantly to the battle against infectious disease outbreaks.
Environmental Contamination as an Important Route for the Transmission of the Hospital Pathogen VRE: Modeling and Prediction of Classical Interventions
Authors: Wolkewitz M , Dettenkofer M , Bertz H , Schumacher M , Huebner J
Published: October 2017

Background

In addition to the close contact between patients and medical staff, the contamination of surfaces plays an important role in the transmission of pathogens such as vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). Mathematical modeling is a very convenient tool for hospital infection control as it allows the quantitative prediction of the effects of special hygiene and control interventions.

Methods

We present a compartmental model which describes the dynamics of transmission from patient to patient, also taking into account the interaction with medical staff and environmental contamination. Empirical data from a VRE outbreak in the onco-haematological unit at the University Medical Center Freiburg (Germany) were collected with 100 consecutive admissions being followed up for 90 days. Stochastical simulations were used to predict the prevalence of patients colonised with VRE at the time when at least one of the following interventions were introduced: hand hygiene, disinfection of surfaces, cohorting, screening and antibiotic reduction.

Results

Graphical figures show the temporal dynamics of several simulation scenarios. If no prevention or intervention is present, simulations based on transmission models predict an expected endemic prevalence per ward of 0.83 (95% CI:0.66, 1.00) after the first infected person enters the unit. Interventions may reduce this prevalence, but only the combination of several interventions can control a VRE outbreak.

Conclusions

The model predicts that only the combination of several interventions can control an VRE outbreak in this setting. The inclusion of environmental contamination improves the compartmental model and allows a prediction of the efficacy of the disinfection of surfaces. These results can be applied to other settings and will therefore help to understand and control the spread of nosocomial pathogens.
Moduli of Galois Representations
Authors: Taguchi Yuichiro
Published: October 2017

We develop a theory of moduli of Galois representations. More generally, for an object in a rather general class

\mathfrak A

of noncommutative topological rings, we construct a moduli space of its absolutely irreducible representations of a fixed degree as a (so we call) "f-

\mathfrak A

scheme". Various problems on Galois representations can be reformulated in terms of such moduli schemes. As an application, we show that the "difference" between the strong and weak versions of the finiteness conjecture of Fontaine–Mazur is filled in by the finiteness conjecture of Khare–Moon.
Resonances of the Square Root of the Pauli Operator
Authors: Ito Hiroshi T.
Published: October 2017

We investigate the spectral properties of two relativistic Hamiltonians: one is the square root of a Pauli operator with an electric potential growing polynomially at infinity, and the other differs from it only in the sign of the potential. Moreover, we show that resonances (eigenvalues) of each of them converge to resonances (eigenvalues) of the corresponding Pauli operators with the same potential in the nonrelativistic limit.
Arithmetic Topology in Ihara Theory
Authors: Kodani Hisatoshi , Morishita Masanori , Terashima Yuji
Published: October 2017

Ihara initiated the study of a certain Galois representation that may be seen as an arithmetic analogue of the Artin representation of a pure braid group. We pursue the analogies in Ihara theory further and give foundational results, following some issues and their interrelations in the theory of braids and links such as Milnor invariants, Johnson homomorphisms, Magnus–Gassner cocycles and Alexander invariants, and study relations with arithmetic in Ihara theory.
Food Words
Authors: Jackson Peter , CONANX group
Published: October 2017

Food Words is a series of provocative essays on some of the most important keywords in the emergent field of food studies, focusing on current controversies and on-going debates.

Words like ‘choice’ and ‘convenience’ are often used as explanatory terms in understanding consumer behavior but are clearly ideological in the way they reflect particular positions and serve specific interests, while words like ‘taste’ and ‘value’ are no less complex and contested.

Inspired by Raymond Williams, Food Words traces the multiple meanings of each of our keywords, tracking nuances in different (academic, commercial and policy) contexts. Mapping the dynamic meanings of each term, the book moves forward from critical assessment to active intervention — an attitude that is reflected in the lively, sometimes combative, style of the essays. Each essay is research-based and fully referenced but accessible to the general reader.

With a foreword by eminent food scholar Warren Belasco, Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland-Baltmore County, and written by an inter-disciplinary team associated with the CONANX research project (Consumer culture in an ‘age of anxiety’), Food Words will be essential reading for food scholars across the arts, humanities and social sciences.
The Image of the Soldier in German Culture, 1871–1933
Authors: Fox Paul
Published: October 2017

This study examines the force of tradition in conservative German visual culture, exploring thematic continuities in the post-conflict representation of battlefield identities from the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71 to the demise of the Weimar Republic in 1933.

Using over 40 representative images sampled from both high and popular culture, Paul Fox discusses complex and interdependent visual responses to a wide spectrum of historical events, spanning world war, regional conflict, internal security operations, and border skirmishes. The book demonstrates how all the artists, illustrators and photographers whose work is addressed here were motivated to affirm German moral superiority on the battlefield. They produced images that advanced dominant notions of how the ideal German man should behave when at war – even when the outcome was defeat. Their construction of an imagined martial masculinity based on aggressive moral superiority became so deeply rooted in German culture that it eventually provided the basis for a programmatic imagining of how Germany might again recover its standing as a great military power in Central Europe in the wake of defeat in 1918.

The Image of the Soldier in German Culture, 1871-1933 is an important volume for any historian interested cultural history, the representation of armed conflict in European culture, the history of modern Germany, the Franco-Prussian War, and the First World War.
The Off-Modern
Authors: Boym Svetlana
Published: October 2017

Svetlana Boym writes a new genealogy of modernity, moving beyond older debates between modernism and postmodernism to focus on the intersection of art, architecture, technology, and philosophy in the early twenty-first century. Drawing on theories of Georg Simmel, Henri Bergson, Aby Warburg, and Jacques Derrida, Boym presents the off-modern as an eccentric, self-questioning, anti-authoritarian perspective with roots in the Russian avant-garde, now developed in surprising ways by contemporary artists, architects, and curators around the world. She illustrates the off-modern in discussions of (and with) figures as diverse as architect Rem Koolhaas, Albanian artist-turned-mayor Edi Rama, an art collective in Delhi, and the creator of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles. Both a manifesto and a memoir, The Off-Modern often returns to themes of travel and immigration, exploring issues of diasporic intimacy and productive estrangement amid nostalgic landscapes of urban ruins.
The Community Cloud retrieval for CLimate (CC4CL). Part II: The optimal estimation approach
Authors: McGarragh Gregory R. , Poulsen Caroline A. , Thomas Gareth E. , Povey Adam C. , Sus Oliver , Stapelberg Stefan , Schlundt Cornelia , Proud Simon , Christensen Matthew W. , Stengel Martin , Hollmann Rainer , Grainger Roy G.
Published: October 2017

Abstract. The Community Cloud retrieval for Climate (CC4CL) is a cloud property retrieval system for satellite-based multispectral imagers and is an important component of the Cloud Climate Change Initiative (Cloud_cci) project. In this paper we discuss the optimal estimation retrieval of cloud optical thickness, effective radius and cloud top pressure based on the Optimal Retrieval of Aerosol and Cloud (ORAC) algorithm. Key to this method is the forward model which, includes the clear-sky model, the liquid water and ice cloud models, the surface model including a bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF), the "fast" radiative transfer solution (which includes a multiple scattering treatment) All of these components and their assumptions and limitations will be discussed in detail. The forward model provides the accuracy appropriate for our retrieval method. The errors are comparable to the instrument noise for cloud optical thicknesses greater than 10. At optical thicknesses less than 10 modelling errors become more significant. The retrieval method is then presented describing optimal estimation in general, the non-linear inversion method employed, measurement and a priori inputs, the propagation of input uncertainties and the calculation of subsidiary quantities that are derived from the retrieval results. An evaluation of the retrieval was performed using measurements simulated with noise levels appropriate for the MODIS instrument. Results show errors less than 10 % for cloud optical thicknesses greater than 10. Results for clouds of optical thicknesses less than 10 have errors ranging up to 20 %.
High-frequency productivity estimates for a lake from free-water
CO2 concentration measurements
Authors: Provenzale Maria , Ojala Anne , Heiskanen Jouni , Erkkilä Kukka-Maaria , Mammarella Ivan , Hari Pertti , Vesala Timo
Published: October 2017

Abstract. Lakes are important actors in biogeochemical cycles and a powerful natural source of CO2. However, they are not yet fully integrated in carbon budgets, and the carbon cycle in the water is still poorly understood. In freshwater ecosystems, productivity studies have usually been carried out with traditional methods (bottle incubations, 14C technique), which are imprecise and have a poor temporal resolution. Consequently, our ability to quantify and predict the net ecosystem productivity (NEP) is limited: the estimates are prone to errors and the NEP cannot be parameterized from environmental variables. Here we expand the testing of a free-water method based on the direct measurement of the CO2 concentration in the water. The approach was proposed already in 2008, but was tested on a very short data set (3 days) under specific conditions (autumn turnover); despite showing promising results, it has not been used ever since. We tested the method under different conditions (summer stratification, typical summer conditions for boreal dark-water lakes) and on a much longer data set (40 days), and quantitatively validated it comparing our data and productivity models. We were able to evaluate the NEP with a high temporal resolution (minutes) and found an excellent agreement with the models. We also estimated the parameters of the productivity-irradiance (PI) curves that allow the calculation of the NEP from irradiance and water temperature. Overall, our work shows that the approach is suitable for productivity studies under a wider range of conditions, and is an important step towards developing it so that it becomes even more general.
Experimental study of forced convection heat transport in porous media
Authors: Pastore Nicola , Cherubini Claudia , Rapti Dimitra , Giasi Concetta I.
Published: October 2017

Abstract. The knowledge of the dynamics of forced convection heat transfer in porous media is relevant in order to optimize the efficiency of geothermal installations in aquifers. In some applications groundwater is used directly as thermal fluid. The system uses one or several drilling holes to pump and deliver groundwater with a heat exchange system at surface (open loop). Other applications use vertical borehole heat exchangers without injection or extraction of groundwater (closed loop). In both systems the convection flow dynamics in porous media play an important role on the heat production. The present study is aimed at extending this thematic issue through heat transport experiments and their interpretation at laboratory scale. An experimental study to evaluate the dynamics of forced convection heat transfer in a thermally isolated column filled with porous medium has been carried out. The behavior of two porous media having different grain sizes and specific surfaces has been observed. The experimental data have been compared with an analytical solution for one dimensional heat transport for local non thermal equilibrium condition. The interpretation of the experimental data shows that, the heterogeneity of the porous medium affects heat transport dynamics causing a channeling effect which has consequences on thermal dispersion phenomena and heat transfer between fluid and solid phases limiting the capacity to store or dissipate heat in the porous medium.
High frequent SCADA-based thrust load modeling of wind turbines
Authors: Noppe Nymfa , Weijtjens Wout , Devriendt Christof
Published: October 2017

Abstract. A reliable load history is crucial for a fatigue assessment of wind turbines. However, installing strain sensors on every wind turbine is economically not feasible. In this paper, a technique is proposed to reconstruct the thrust load history of a wind turbine based on high frequent SCADA data. Strain measurements recorded during a short period of time are used to train a neural network. The selection of appropriate input parameters is done based on Pearson correlation. Once the training is done, the model can be used to predict the thrust load based on SCADA data only. The technique is validated with both simulation data (FAST) and measurements at an offshore wind turbine. In general, the relative error barely exceeds 15 % during normal operation.
Por una bioética abierta, interdisciplinaria y pluralista
Authors: Editor El
Published: October 2017

No abstracts available.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 119, 2009: 3-6
Cuatro entrevistas sobre bioética
Authors: Editor El
Published: October 2017

No abstracts available.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 119, 2009: 7
Pensar la bioética desde la “multiversidad” latinoamericana
Authors: Justo Luis
Published: October 2017

No abstracts available.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 119, 2009: 19-28
Bio-ético-estética del dolor y de la enfermedad
Authors: Lapoujade María Noel
Published: October 2017

No abstracts available.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 119, 2009: 29-35
La reciprocidad de la religión y la bioética en la medicina y la investigación médica
Authors: Barfield Raymond , Martin Paige , Peña Juan de Dios , Alvarenga Luis
Published: October 2017

Technological advances that revolutionize diagnose and treatment of diseases brings ethical issues along. The fact that the ailing rates of many diseases do substantially differ between the countries with high income and those with lower income raises many questions on distributive justice that are profoundly interesting from both ethical and religious perspectives. These complex ethical questions are still defying us in order to develop a coherent perspective to respond to the diverse political, cultural, philosophical and vocational contexts in the discussion. We are also challenged to create a perspective that responds to the diversity of religious formations.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 119, 2009: 91-103
La ética de la responsabilidad de investigar para la salud en un país de ingresos medianos bajos: El Salvador
Authors: Rodríguez Funes Virginia
Published: October 2017

In the medium and low income countries, the majority of the population is exposed to health risks in every known aspect. This situation worsens as the public investment in health is not enough to cover the public demand. The right to life for the poor is not ensured. There is a problem of life, literally speaking. Health research in these circumstances does not have the importance that it deserves, but it is linked with the solution of public health problems in these countries.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 119, 2009: 115-129
Varios autores. Salud y comunidad en la otra Latinoamérica. Historia de los de abajo
Authors: Molina Velásquez Carlos
Published: October 2017

No abstracts availableRealidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 119, 2009: 211-213
El dominio público de la elocuencia en el humanismo cívico
Authors: Miller Katherine
Published: October 2017

No abstract availableRealidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 119, 2009: 215-229
Análisis de algunos planteamientos de gestión cultural salvadoreña
Authors: Marroquín Parducci Amparo
Published: October 2017

No abstract available.
Castillos de ARENA. Hegemonía y proyecto de derecha en la posguerra salvadoreña
Authors: Lungo Rodríguez Irene
Published: October 2017

Taking as theoretic base the concept of hegemony, this article tries to understand the  consolidation of the neo-conservative politic project of the ARENA party, which has managed to rebuild the political representation of corporative elites and lo articulate a social, politic and economic proposal at national level. This new stage history it's attached both with an economic reform, oriented to market liberalization, and with a social reform, which aims to pacify and democratize the Salvadorian society: these processes constitute the frame in which the studied phenomenon develop. This process derives in the institution of a social order which, even while resort to the liberal democracy, conserves implicit the exclusive logic that has characterized the Salvadorian political system and state significant boundaries to the postwar political project.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 120, 2009: 249-279
Educational policies and the dominant development model: a critical approach
Authors: Alfaro Salvador Orlando
Published: October 2017

Under the Neoliberal rationality, the educative system is inspired on the fundamental ideas of fordism: efficiency, efficacy and quality. These ideas were originally coined by the American pedagogy of industrial efficientism, which translates to business concepts to pedagogy. Education is considered as a producer of human capital, which must be economically profitable. According to this argument, the best investment is developing all those educational areas required by market and considering education as a business that must show its efficiency, efficacy, profitabiIity and quality.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 120, 2009: 281-292
La liberalización comercial en El Salvador: impactos en el nivel de empleo formal y salarios reales
Authors: Salgado Melissa
Published: October 2017

With the recognition that El Salvador is one of the countries with more economic freedoms in Latin America, the question arises of whether the dynamics of trading can be a damaging factor for the generation of formal employment and for the evolution of real wages. This article aims to highlight the impacts of trade liberalization on employment and real wages in El Salvador. Assuming that the structural problems within a country are expressed in international trade, it is important to reflect on the relevance of maintaining the basis of economic liberalization of the economy in El Salvador, which is characterized by little to boost domestic investment, insufficient productive infrastructure, low-skilled labor force, among other things.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 120, 2009: 321-356
La reproducción del discurso de ARENA en la prensa escrita y en la publicidad en el período electoral presidencial de 2009
Authors: Guzmán Nataly
Published: October 2017

The political discourse of ARENA party is built upon several myths. One of them is the myth of the leader-saviour of the country against the threat of communism. Other myth is the "people" as a passive entity, paying loyalty to its leader by showing him patience. These features of the political discourse of ARENA were shown in the past presidential campaign. Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 120, 2009: 357-371
El imaginario medieval de la política salvadoreña
Authors: González José Manuel
Published: October 2017

The study of the political publicity in El Salvador is a way to evaluate the images constituing the social representations of the Salvadoran state. In the following paper, the author analyses the images used in the electoral campaign of both the ARENA and FMLN parties in the electoral campaign of 2009.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 120, 2009: 373-387
Representaciones sociales de la inseguridad en El Salvador de la posguerra: estudio de casos del AMSS
Authors: Umaña Lorena
Published: October 2017

In this article, the author explores the problem of the insecurity in the postwar period in three municipalities of the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador. The article explores historical social representation of the rupture, of the change, of the transformation towards the peace in an urban space from the peace agreements signed in 1992, and  finishes in 2007 and its. It focuses in presenting in general terms, the citizens social representations from three different generations (adult majors, adults and young), gender, and from each municipality selected which were interviewed about their lived, suffered and perception of insecurity in the postwar period from the barrio to the country, to describe how the others category is constructed and how their social representation about insecurity in the city is used to justify, classify, stratify or explain its social reality.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 120, 2009: 389-418
La percepción social de la violencia y la elaboración de la nota roja en la prensa escrita salvadoreña
Authors: García Dueñas Lauri
Published: October 2017

The violence is one of the problems most worrying for the Salvadorians. Daily, the media, in special the newspapers, relates this problem, weaves a relation of sense whit the social perception of violence. In two years, this investigator studied the phenomenon through a social historical analysis about the circumstances that permit this problem get a whirlpool, an analysis of discourse of ten important news between 2003 and 2007. The investigation concludes with an analysis of reception of three focus groups. The members of these focus groups are more critical than we supposed. Their "political capital" gives more criteria for make their public opinion about the problems of the reality. I want to emphasize that the communities of interpretation are more important in the construction of public opinion than the newspapers, in special, family, friends and coworkers.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 120, 2009: 419-429
¿Quién es Beatriz? Las cualidades de una mujer
Authors: Miller Katherine
Published: October 2017

No hay resúmenes disponiblesRealidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 120, 2009: 441-451
La realidad no es una realidad reconciliada. El legado crítico de la Escuela de Frankfurt y la actualidad. Entrevista con Silvia López
Authors: Molina Carlos , Alvarenga Luis
Published: October 2017

No abstractRealidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 121, 2009: 459-470
El juego de las locuras: Ifigenia, San Pablo y el pensamiento crítico
Authors: Hinkelammert Franz
Published: October 2017

The critic of Capitalism is the result of a transformation of Christianity before the rise of orthodoxy during the 3rd and 4th centuries. Not only Capitalism is a result of the transformation of Christianity, but Modernity itself is a transformation of Christianity. The very excision of the modern society is the result of a transformation in a divided Cristianity in a very similar way. Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 121, 2009: 487-509
Humanismo, sujeto, modernidad. Sobre la Crítica de la razón mítica, de Franz Hinkelammert
Authors: Fernández Nadal Estela
Published: October 2017

In his Crítica a la razón mítica, Franz Hinkelammert states that the Modern Western civilization inherits from pre-modernity several mythical elements, which are assimilated under a completely transformed appearance. This transformation is often called “secularisation”. However, under this concept the primordial mythical contents remain intact in the “secular” latemodern consciousness.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 121, 2009: 511-534
Pensamiento crítico y análisis teológico de la realidad. Fundamentos para diálogos interdisciplinarios
Authors: Angarita Carlos Enrique
Published: October 2017

The theological analysis of reality that we propose is a part of an actualisation project of the critical thought that had an important expression during the 70s and 80s in both Latin America and Africa. As a transcendental thought, the theological analysis of reality poses another possible world, another way of being, and another way of living. It transcends the immediate presents as they exist. But it also includes the immediate present inside the history, through the concrete analysis of the existing social relations and searches inside them other possibilities that are (absent) the same history. There is no way of thought, specifically social and human sciences, which can renounce to this telos: human life in its historic radicality.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 121, 2009: 535-561
¿Cuál es el problema con el cálculo de utilidad?
Authors: Molina Velásquez Carlos
Published: October 2017

The “estimation of utility”, posed by Franz Hinkelammert, is a problem to the ethics of common good. The author makes a positive valuation of the consequentialist approach of this proposal and also points to the virtues of certain versions of utilitarianism and to the problems of expressions like “utility” and “well-being for everybody”. It also uses inkelammert’s ideas in order to recognize the limits of factibility, which would make possible an original and constructive critic to the ruling utilitarianists and consequentalists currentRealidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 121, 2009: 563-575
¿Cómo y por qué del Golpe de Estado en Honduras? La sinopsis de un proceso de pacificación y democratización fallido en la región
Authors: Aguilar Carlos G.
Published: October 2017

The crisis of the so-called representative democracies in Central American is the end of a scenario in which the right-wing forces began to lose control and hegemony of the new political processes. The military coup d’état in Honduras is a major effort to change the force correlation in Latin America, in the context of the recent electoral triumph of a left-wing party in El SalvadorRealidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 121, 2009: 699-707
Michael Heinrich. Crítica de la economía política. Una introducción a El capital de Marx
Authors: Fernández Nadal Estela
Published: October 2017

No abstractRealidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 121, 2009: 709-714
Memoria y redención: el lugar de los vencidos
Authors: González Torres Julián
Published: October 2017

No abstractRealidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 121, 2009: 714-717
La mutabilidad, o: A los peces, ¿qué les importan las leyes?
Authors: Miller Katherine
Published: October 2017

No abstractRealidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 121, 2009: 721-730
Introduction: Difference and Dialogism in Family Narratives
Authors: Borland Katherine , Sawin Patricia , Tye Diane
Published: October 2017

As a primary generator and transmitter of expressive culture, the family is an important source for folklorists. Nevertheless, our dependence on family often has gone unrecognized and unproblematized in folklore scholarship. Enlarging the scope of family folklore beyond an identified, largely celebratory core to include other considerations of family narrative, we complicate folkloristic concepts of group, genre, and performance. Like any other group, families are made, not given, and are performed in diverse and shifting ways. The articles in this special issue explore the inherently dialogic, multi-voiced, co-produced, and sometimes conflictive nature of narratives of identity shared within families. By taking family, rather than the individual, as the producer and primary audience for these stories, the introductory essay and the articles that follow highlight ways in which family storytelling invites imaginative identification even across difference and contributes to a folkloristic understanding of both family identity and personal narrative.
Development of a model to calculate the overall heat transfer coefficient of greenhouse covers
Authors: Rasheed Adnan , Lee Jong W. , Lee Hyun W.
Published: October 2017

A Building Energy Simulation (BES) model based on TRNSYS, was developed to investigate the overall heat transfer coefficient (U-value) of greenhouse covers including polyethylene (PE), polycarbonate (PC), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and horticultural glass (HG). This was used to determine the influences of inside-to-outside temperature difference, wind speed, and night sky radiation on the U-values of these materials. The model was calibrated using published values of the inside and outside convective heat transfer coefficients. Validation of the model was demonstrated by the agreement between the computed and experimental results for a single-layer PE film. The results from the BES model showed significant changes in U-value in response to variations in weather parameters and the use of single or double layer greenhouse covers. It was found that the U-value of PC, PVC, and HG was 9%, 4%, and 15% lower, respectively, than that for PE. In addition, by using double glazing a 34% reduction in heat loss was noted. For the given temperature U-value increases as wind speed increases. The slopes at the temperature differences of 20, 30, 40, and 50 °C, were approximately 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, and 0.9, respectively. The results agree with those put forward by other researchers. Hence, the presented model is reliable and can play a valuable role in future work on greenhouse energy modelling.
Salt Fish and Molasses: Unsettling the Palate in the Spaces Between Two Continents
Authors: Snooks Gina , Boon Sonja
Published: October 2017

Food stories play an integral role in the ways that we imagine ourselves, both intimately in the context of home and family, and politically, in the context of the nation-state. But while food is intricately woven into the politics of place, it also crosses boundaries, gaining new meanings in the process. In this paper, we consider the transnational food histories that link the geographically distant but colonially-linked regions of Newfoundland and Suriname. Our collaborative autoethnographic inquiry examines the role that salt fish and molasses have played in our respective bodily memories and experiences. Central to our inquiry is a single question: What happens when salt fish – Newfoundland’s greatest export product – meets molasses, the sticky treacly by-product of the colonial Caribbean’s sugar cane refining process; that is, what happens when our palates meet? Engaging a decolonial lens, our collaborative work suggests the necessity of moving beyond culinary nostalgia towards the complexity of an “unsettled palate” that acknowledges the legacies of our shared transnational histories and the ongoing effects of colonialism and slavery. In the process, we critically reflect upon the ways in which we are each implicated in these histories, albeit in different ways. This article was submitted to the European Journal of Life Writing on March 3rd 2017 and published on October 17th 2017.
“Distinguished Ladies” and the Doctrine of Womanhood: Auto-surveillance and Auto-performance in Diamela Eltit’s E. Luminata
Authors: Ortiz-Vilarelle Lisa
Published: October 2017

This essay reads Diamela Eltit’s E. Luminata as form of auto-performative ‘anti-manual’  which  employs  a range  of  autobiographical  forms  and  functions  in  protest of codes of womanhood published in an actual manual of women’s con-duct authored by Augusto Pinochet’s First Lady and enforced by his regime’s National Secretariat of Women which organized forms of auto-surveillance by which women policed themselves and one another. It argues that if the NSW functioned as a mechanism for the surveillance and discipline of women in Pi-nochet’s police state, Eltit’s text functions as a subversive auto-performance of Chilean womanhood offered in protest against the state censorship of women’s autobiography. The reading demonstrates the ways in which E. Luminata stra-tegically performs Eltit’s own public self-representation of womanhood which, although meant to be impossible, is not unattainable in the regime.

This article was submitted to the European Journal of Life Writing on October 19th 2015 and published on October 17th 2017.
Dear Diary: A Celebration of Diaries and their Digital Descendants. The Dear Diary exhibition, King’s College London, 2017
Authors: Van de Wal Rozemarijn
Published: October 2017

Diaries present a valuable source for historical research. They provide an insight into the lives of ordinary people, informing us about the everyday as well as the extraordinary in the context of changing times and societies. Diaries give us a personal perspective on public issues, an understanding of how people thought at a certain time and place, information almost unobtainable from other sources. However, diary writing is a genre at risk. Not only do diarists often disregard the value of their writings and make no plans or efforts for their future conservation, but the private nature of diaries often makes people hesitant about saving them for future generations. In addition, the advancement of the digital age is radically changing the genre. Traditionally associated with pen and paper, diaries are increasingly ‘written’ online or otherwise compiled through the use of digital methods. The internet is quite literally changing our lives as well as the practices of life-writing. This article was submitted to the European Journal of Life Writing on 8 August 2017 and published on 5 October 2017.
Overcommunication Strategies of Violating Grice’s Cooperative Principle in Ground Service
Authors: Xiaoqin Liu
Published: October 2017

Based on four maxims of Grice’s cooperative principle framework, a small scale study is conducted to examine the communication strategies employed by experienced ground service staff. Data have been collected from questionnaires and in –depth interviews with Chinese domestic airlines’ ground staff. This study identifies that the communicative challenges usually happen in service failure and service recovery. And it finds out violation of four maxims of Grice’s cooperative principle is taken as sub-strategies of overinformativeness, telling a white lie, irrelevance, and ambiguity or prolixity. These strategies lead to overcommunication which could be routinely employed for the specific professional purposes of saving the passenger’s face, gaining the passenger’s understanding, reducing conflicts, avoiding complaints, or even establishing a harmonious relationship with passengers. This study moreover exploits that in the ground service communication context, two salient reasons stimulate the overcommunication strategies. Firstly it is to improve the service quality and secondly to enhance the passenger’s satisfaction which are the determining factors to the sustainable development of the airlines. This study is ambitious to seek a new means of understanding and investigating the ground service communication from the perspective of pragmatics. By integrating business communication in ESP context to the classical theory of pragmatics, this study attempts to offer practical suggestions to the frontline communicators.
Timeline com Star Wars: discurso visual com as HQs, filmes e games
Authors: Soares Raslan Eliane Meire , Vieira Ariane C. A
Published: October 2017

Buscamos a saga Star Wars para abordarmos os diversos meios de comunicação visual em suas adaptações que vão da literatura aos games, filmes e internet. Através de uma pesquisa qualitativa e quantitativa, buscamos 900 links da internet para entender um pouco sobre a opinião, ou mesmo curiosidades, dos fãs de Star Wars. Identificamos a linguagem textual e visual como forma de comercialização e comunicação. Palavras-chave: HQ e Cinema. Internautas e Games. Texto e Visual.Comunicación visual y las adaptaciones en Star WarsBuscamos la saga de Star Wars para que nos acercamos a los diversos medios de comunicación visuales en sus adaptaciones que van desde la literatura a juegos, películas y conexión a internet. A través de una investigación cualitativa y cuantitativa, buscamos 900 enlaces de Internet a entender un poco sobre la opinión, o incluso, curiosidades de fans de Star Wars. Identificamos lo textual y visual como una forma de marketing y comunicación.Palabras clave: HQ y cine. Internet y juegos. Texto y Visual.Visual communication and adaptations in Star WarsWe seek the Star Wars saga for we approach the various visual media in their adaptations ranging from literature to games, movies and internet. Through a qualitative and quantitative research, we seek 900 Internet links to understand a little about the opinion, or even curiosities, of Star Wars fans. We identify the textual and visual language as a form of marketing and communication.Keywords: HQ and Cinema. Netizens and Games. Text and Visual.
Research on Ducted Propeller and Rudder Interactions in Extreme Conditions
Authors: Islam Mohammed F. , Townsend Corning , Hill Robert , Hedd Lee
Published: October 2017

This paper presents the results and analyses of a combined numerical-experimental study into the performance of three types of rudders to quantify the interactions between propeller, nozzle, and rudder at extreme rudder angles. Conventional, flapped and triple rudders are studied numerically as well as experimentally to evaluate the drag, lift, and moment generated by the rudders at moderate-to-extreme rudder angles and at forward propeller shaft speeds and inflow speeds. The experiments were carried out to evaluate the suitability of the three rudder types for a proposed cargo carrier in terms of controllability. The experiments were carried out at the selfpropulsion condition of the model equipped with twin stock ducted propellers along with each of the rudder systems. An extensive numerical study was carried out to evaluate the performance of the three rudders in terms of flow velocity, pressure, and wake fields. Drag and lift for different angles of attack are obtained for complicated propeller-nozzle-rudder arrangements. Investigations are carried out to study the effects of the interaction of the rudder with the propeller-nozzle assembly at extreme rudder angles as high as ±40°. For simplicity, the geometry of the vessel was not modeled in these simulations.

The experimental results are presented along with the computational results for all three rudder cases. The lift and drag measurements are in good agreement with the corresponding predictions for each of the rudder arrangements. The mutual interactions between the rudder and the propulsion system were captured in the simulations and were comparable with the corresponding measurements. The research reveals the nature of the velocity and pressure fields due to the complex interactions between the propeller, nozzle, and rudders at extreme rudder angles. It is expected that the current investigation will assist naval architects, at the early design stage, to select the rudder type for their ships such that suitable maneuvering characteristics are obtained and stringent International Maritime Organization maneuvering criteria are met.