bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Ateliers de conversation et démarche qualité au CRL : vers la construction d’une culture commune
Authors: Delorme Vera , Gaigeot Noella
Published: March 2017

Partant du postulat que tout dispositif se doit à un moment ou un autre d’être évalué, il est apparu nécessaire de se doter de critères objectifs afin d’interroger une des ressources du CRL, en l’état les ateliers de conversation. Le but de notre travail est de collecter auprès des acteurs du dispositif des retours sur leurs pratiques et de faire émerger de cette auto-évaluation des critères partagés qui pourront aider les différents intervenants à établir une communauté de pratiques de qualité dans l’animation des ateliers de conversation et à long terme de mettre en place une formation pour les tuteurs-animateurs. Cette démarche réflexive semble poser comme critères de réussite les entrées suivantes : participation des étudiants aux interactions, apport culturel et langagier, lisibilité du dispositif. Il conviendra par la suite de considérer si oui ou non ces indicateurs de réussite peuvent être considérés comme critères de qualité et si oui, il sera pertinent de se demander si ces critères de qualité sont seuls gage d’une démarche qualité dans le cadre d’ateliers de conversation.
Hysteresis and medical compression bandage and stockings
Authors: Cornu-Thenard André , Jollivet Pascal
Published: March 2017

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Compression with the Juxta Reduction Kit ® (medi) in patients undergoing a total knee arthroplasty
Authors: Hendrickx Ad A. , Krijnen Wim P. , Damstra Robert J. , Bimmel Richard , Van der Schans Cees P.
Published: March 2017

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Thonic bandage: bridging a gap for self-bandaging and homecare
Authors: Gonon Pierre
Published: March 2017

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A new compression pressure measuring device
Authors: Chi Yung-Wei
Published: March 2017

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Control of lower extremity edema in patients with diabetes: double blind randomized controlled trial assessing the efficacy of mild compression diabetic socks
Authors: Wu Stephanie C. , Crews Ryan T. , Skratsky Melissa , Overstreet Julia , Yalla Sai V. , Winder Michelle , Ortiz Jacquelyn , Andersen Charles A.
Published: March 2017

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Meeting the challenge of poverty and inequality? ‘Hindrances and helps’ with regard to congregational mobilisation in South Africa
Authors: Bowers Du Toit Nadine F.
Published: March 2017

The findings of an empirical study entitled ‘Meeting the challenge of poverty and inequality in the Cape Metropole: Factors impacting the mobilisation of congregations in their response to poverty and injustice’ reaffirm that the majority of congregations are still largely operating within a ‘relief and welfare’ paradigm with regard to poverty. In attempting to analyse the hindrances to churches’ mobilisation in addressing poverty from a holistic perspective, it became clear that, while there were common challenges (such as lack of capacity and feeling overwhelmed in view of the enormity of the task), several other intersectional issues (e.g. race, class and theological convictions) also play a role with regard to engagement. This article, therefore, analyses and discusses how these factors have an impact on the mobilisation of local congregations in their response to the twin challenge of poverty and inequality.
The tripartite structure and its design in a Tannaitic source
Authors: Zur Uri
Published: March 2017

This article deals with a tripartite structure applied to a Tannaitic source (Eruvin 41b). This structure is designed in the form of a difficulty and a short resolution, bringing one example for each of the three parts of the Tannaitic source. The uniform formative-stylistic phrasing gives the discussion of the Tannaitic source’s three parts a tripartite form. The Tannaitic source utilises a chaining of examples from the first to the second part and from the second to the third part.
Business Development in Emerging Markets: The Impact on spending behaviour of elderly caregivers of family members with HIV/AIDS in SA
Authors: Boshoff Christo , Klemz Bruce E , Mazibuko Noxolo-Eileen
Published: March 2017

Business development in emerging markets, known as the “base of the pyramid”, is not without financial risk and a key concern in South African communities are the costs associated with HIV/AIDS. Due to the enormous demand for healthcare, many governments have opted for home-based care systems. Caregivers are mainly older women and their financial survival is critically important. We found that as the patient’s illness progressed: 1) the cultural norm ubuntu led the caregiver to increase spending on the patient and a decreased spending on themselves and 2) the social pressure of stigma led to a very dramatic drop in direct interpersonal assistance to the patient and an increase in spending on themselves. Their resulting coping strategies and implications for economic development are discussed. Keywords - Emerging Markets, Cultural, Health Services
The concept of a scale in accounting measurement
Authors: Musvoto Saltiel Wedzerai , Gouws Daan
Published: March 2017

Accountants generally believe that accounting is a measurement discipline. Every process of measurement should specify a scale of some kind that makes it possible to distinguish the extent to which every object in a particular class possesses a specified property. However, accounting theory has not specified the scales of measurement that can be used to distinguish the extent to which every object in a particular class of accounting phenomena (e.g., class of current assets) possesses a specified property. The objective of this article is to investigate the nature of the application of the concept of a scale in accounting measurement. This study compares the practices of accounting measurement with the principles of the representational theory of measurement to determine if the attributes of accounting phenomena are measured on well-founded scales. The results of this study indicate that the concept of the representational scale is misapplied in the accounting discipline. Since, the principles of representation measurement are hinged on the assumption that a discipline can only be considered to be a measurement discipline if the dimensions and qualities the phenomena that are being studied are measurable on well-founded scales, then, these findings suggest that accounting is not a measurement discipline.
Exploring the management abilities of spaza shop owners in the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality
Authors: Perks Sandra
Published: March 2017

South African entrepreneurs have a poor skills record, which often leads to business failure. To effectively manage a spaza shop requires applying management functions and some management skills. The implementation of simple systems can assist spaza shop owners to manage their businesses more successfully and even grow. A quantitative study was done, by interviewing sixty spaza shop owners in the township. The empirical results identified the gaps in the management abilities of spaza shop owners in terms of the eight management functions and show that the purchasing, financial and information management function is the most neglected. Guidelines on how each of the functions could or should be applied are given. This research clearly indicates that spaza shops can assist in economic growth and relieve unemployment in the country.
Explore changes in the aspects fundamental to the competitiveness of South Africa as a preferred tourist destination
Authors: Du Plessis Engelina , Saayman Melville , Van der Merwe Annari
Published: March 2017

Background: Tourism is an evolving and changing industry, and keeping up with these changes requires an understanding of the forces and changes that shape this industry’s outcomes. Tourism managers struggle daily to stay ahead in the competition to attract more tourists to destinations. Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the past could shed light on the advantages of the future.Aim: The aim of this study was to do a temporal analysis of the competitiveness of South Africa as a tourism destination.Setting: This research investigated the competitive position of South Africa as a tourism destination just after the 1994 elections and compared those results to the results of a similar study in 2014.Methods: In this article, a frequency analysis revealed South Africa’s strengths and weaknesses, after which t-tests indicated the relationship between the strengths and weaknesses of the destination and the factors that contribute to South Africa’s competitiveness.Results: South Africa’s strengths include the quality of the food and experience, scenery, variety of accommodation climate and geographical features. It is clear that respondents identified different attributes that contributed to the strengths of the destination in comparison with 2002, where the strengths were wildlife, scenery, cultural diversity, climate, value for money, variety of attractions and specific icons.Conclusion: This research is valuable for South Africa because it informs tourism role players about what respondents perceive to be South Africa’s strengths. Role players can then form strategies that incorporate the strengths to create competitive advantage. This article also indicates the areas in which the country has grown in the past decade as well as indicating which weaknesses remain a problem.
Spectral properties of unbounded $J$-self-adjoint block operator matrices
Authors: Langer Matthias , Strauss Michael
Published: March 2017

We study the spectrum of unbounded

J

-self-adjoint block operator matrices. In particular, we prove enclosures for the spectrum, provide a sucient condition for the spectrum being real and derive variational principles for certain real eigenvalues even in the presence of non-real spectrum. The latter lead to lower and upper bounds and asymptotic estimates for eigenvalues.
Harnessing scientific literature reports for pharmacovigilance
Authors: Sorbello Alfred , Ripple Anna , Tonning Joseph , Munoz Monica , Hasan Rashedul , Ly Thomas , Francis Henry , Bodenreider Olivier
Published: March 2017

Objectives: We seek to develop a prototype software analytical tool to augment FDA regulatory reviewers’ capacity to harness scientific literature reports in PubMed/MEDLINE for pharmacovigilance and adverse drug event (ADE) safety signal detection. We also aim to gather feedback through usability testing to assess design, performance, and user satisfaction with the tool. Methods: A prototype, open source, web-based, software analytical tool generated statistical disproportionality data mining signal scores and dynamic visual analytics for ADE safety signal detection and management. We leveraged Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) indexing terms assigned to published citations in PubMed/MEDLINE to generate candidate drug-adverse event pairs for quantitative data mining. Six FDA regulatory reviewers participated in usability testing by employing the tool as part of their ongoing real-life pharmacovigilance activities to provide subjective feedback on its practical impact, added value, and fitness for use.

Results: All usability test participants cited the tool’s ease of learning, ease of use, and generation of quantitative ADE safety signals, some of which corresponded to known established adverse drug reactions. Potential concerns included the comparability of the tool’s automated literature search relative to a manual ‘all fields’ PubMed search, missing drugs and adverse event terms, interpretation of signal scores, and integration with existing computer-based analytical tools. Conclusions: Usability testing demonstrated that this novel tool can automate the detection of ADE safety signals from published literature reports. Various mitigation strategies are described to foster improvements in design, productivity, and end user satisfaction.
An Examination of Sub-Clinical Paranoia in a Correctional Setting
Authors: Tiegreen Joshua A. , Combs Dennis R.
Published: March 2017

Research suggests environmental factors may lead to higher levels of paranoid ideation due to the possibility of harm and self-consciousness present in these situations. The effect of incarceration on paranoia has received limited investigation. In the present study, 66 incarcerated and 88 control participants completed measures of paranoid ideation and a measure of self-consciousness. Results showed scores on all of the paranoia measures were significantly higher among incarcerated individuals as compared to controls. A variety of demographic and clinical variables were examined as possible predictors of paranoia, and only public self-consciousness emerged as a significant predictor. These findings support the role of social context in elevated levels of paranoia, particularly in settings where perceived risk of victimization may be higher. The results highlight the importance of attending to paranoia among incarcerated persons.
The Evidence of What Cannot Be Heard: Reading Trauma into and Testimony against the Witness Stand at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Authors: Viebach Julia
Published: March 2017

This paper explores the silences and the gaps that cut through witness testimonies at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) by applying a trauma lens to the narratives that emerge on the witness stand and by contrasting those with a survivor testimony. It compares the recollection of a traumatic experience with the production of legal meaning. To do so, it focuses specifically on a survivor testimony shared with the author at the Rwandan Nyange memorial in 2014 where the crimes in question happened, and the ICTR The Prosecutor vs Athanase Seromba trial that relates to the events at that particular site. This paper shows that the experience of trauma not only challenges the language of law but also blurs the legal narratives and functions of tribunals like the ICTR.
The Four Ways of Eco-global Criminology
Authors: White Rob
Published: March 2017

In charting out the ‘four ways’ of eco-global criminology, this paper discusses the importance of recognising and acting in regards to the differences evident in (1) ways of being (ontology), (2) ways of knowing (epistemology), (3) ways of doing (methodology) and (4) ways of valuing (axiology). The paper assumes and asserts that global study of environmental crime is essential to the green criminology project, and particularly an eco-global criminology approach. Specific instances of criminal and harmful activity therefore need to be analysed in the context of broad international social, political, economic and ecological processes. The article outlines the key ideas of eco-global criminology, a perspective that argues that global study must always be inclusive of voices from the periphery and margins of the world’s metropolitan centres, and critical of the social relations that sustain the epistemological as well as material realities and legacies of colonialism and imperialism. Yet, in doing so, there arise many paradoxes and conundrums that likewise warrant close attention.
A Postneoliberal Turn? Variants of the Recent Penal Policy in Argentina
Authors: Sozzo Maximo
Published: March 2017

This paper analysed the connection between the emergence and consolidation of a postneoliberal political program and alliance – Kirchnerism – and penal policies in Argentina. Three key moments are identified in this recent period. After the experience of an intense punitive turn during the 1990s and early 2000s, Kirchnerist political alliances tried to deploy a progressive political discourse and agenda on penal issues. Nevertheless, this initially coincided with a strong wave of penal populism ‘from below’ that continued the precedent trend towards increasing punitiviness.  Since 2005, and for a brief moment, this tendency stopped. However, after that and during the presidencies of Fernandez de Kirchner a more volatile and contradictory scenario was generated. The incarceration rate between 2002 and 2014 in Argentina grew substantially as did the rate of convictions. Meanwhile the percentage of suspended sentences as part of the total convictions and the percentage of custodial sanctions both fell. Especially in relation to incarceration, these levels of change are not as stark as those of the preceding decades. However, the trends persist. Therefore, the question of how to transcend the dynamics of the punitive turn remains a pending and urgent political subject. The article argues the importance of analysing why a punitive turn is interrupted and presents an explanation of it.
Abieticola koreanagen. et sp. nov., a griseofulvin-producing endophytic xylariaceous ascomycete from Korea
Authors: Lee Hyang Burm , Mun Hye Yeon , Nguyen Thi Thuong Thuong , Kim Jin-Cheol , Stone Jeffrey K.
Published: March 2017

A new genus and species.Abieticola koreana,is described. This xylariaceous fungus was isolated from the inner bark of a Manchurian fir (Abies holophylla) in Korea. Phylogenetic analyses based on the sequences of four gene regions—ITS1-5.8S-ITS2, 28S, β-tubulin, and rpb2—were used to confirm this new genus and species.
New record of Beauveria pseudobassiana from Morocco
Authors: Imoulan Abdessamad , Li Yi , Wang Wen-Jing , El Meziane Abdellatif , Yao Yi-Jian
Published: March 2017

Two species of Beauveria were identified from isolates obtained from endemic Argania spinosa forests in Morocco, using both morphological characteristics and molecular data. Although isolates exhibited similar reproductive structures, ITS-rDNA based phylogenetic analysis
grouped the Moroccan isolates into two clades with known sequences of either B. bassiana or B. pseudobassiana. Morphological comparison of the colonies distinguished the two groups of isolates, in full agreement with the ITS phylogenetic analysis. Beauveria pseudobassiana
is recorded for the first time in Morocco.
Motivation and Strategies for Implementing Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) at NCAR’s Earth Observing Laboratory – Past Progress and Future Collaborations
Authors: Aquino Janine , Allison John , Rilling Robert , Stott Don , Young Kathryn , Daniels Michael
Published: March 2017

In an effort to lead our community in following modern data citation practices by formally citing data used in published research and implementing standards to facilitate reproducible research results and data, while also producing meaningful metrics that help assess the impact of our services, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) has implemented the use of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) (DataCite 2017) for both physical objects (e.g., research platforms and instruments) and datasets. We discuss why this work is important and timely, and review the development of guidelines for the use of DOIs at EOL by focusing on how decisions were made. We discuss progress in assigning DOIs to physical objects and datasets, summarize plans to cite software, describe a current collaboration to develop community tools to display citations on websites, and touch on future plans to cite workflows that document dataset processing and quality control. Finally, we will review the status of efforts to engage our scientific community in the process of using DOIs in their research publications.
On the Reuse of Scientific Data
Authors: Pasquetto Irene V. , Randles Bernadette M. , Borgman Christine L.
Published: March 2017

While science policy promotes data sharing and open data, these are not ends in themselves. Arguments for data sharing are to reproduce research, to make public assets available to the public, to leverage investments in research, and to advance research and innovation. To achieve these expected benefits of data sharing, data must actually be reused by others. Data sharing practices, especially motivations and incentives, have received far more study than has data reuse, perhaps because of the array of contested concepts on which reuse rests and the disparate contexts in which it occurs. Here we explicate concepts of data, sharing, and open data as a means to examine data reuse. We explore distinctions between use and reuse of data. Lastly we propose six research questions on data reuse worthy of pursuit by the community: How can uses of data be distinguished from reuses? When is reproducibility an essential goal? When is data integration an essential goal? What are the tradeoffs between collecting new data and reusing existing data? How do motivations for data collection influence the ability to reuse data? How do standards and formats for data release influence reuse opportunities? We conclude by summarizing the implications of these questions for science policy and for investments in data reuse.
The Review of Literature on the Role of Earnings, Cash Flows and Accruals in Predicting of Future Cash Flow
Authors: Mulenga Mwila Joseph , Bhatia Meena
Published: March 2017

AbstractResearch on the relative ability of accounting information aims in examining the ability of accounting information to predict future cash flow and earnings, based on the assertion given by Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) which states that the earnings and its components  have a better predictive power than cash flow itself (FASB,1978 para 44). Many studies have been conducted by various researchers but only few of these studies succeed to match with this assertion. This study aims to provide review on the study related to ability of earnings, cash flows from operations and accruals to predict future cash flows where methodology used in this line of research and presentation of empirical results are discussed. The review provides in depth discussion for the purpose of assisting the researchers to get familiarity with line of financial accounting research investigated capital market based accounting research and also as guidance for future researchers.Keywords: Cash flow from operations, Earnings, Accruals, Prediction, Capital Market Based Accounting Research.
Language Learning Strategies Use and Challenges Faced by Adult Arab Learners of Finnish as a Second Language in Finland
Authors: Naif Ahmed H. , Saad Noor Saazai Mat
Published: March 2017

Adult Arab learners of Finnish as second language (FSL) often encounter communication difficulty when dealing with official documents. They also cannot help their children in their school homework. FSL proficiency is an essential requirement to get an employment and to obtain the Finnish citizenship. The aim of this paper is to explore the use of the language learning strategies by a number of adult Arabs learning FSL in Finland. In addition to issues and difficulties related to the learning process encountered by this category of learners. Oxford’s Strategy Inventory for language learning was used for the purpose of data collection and SPSS programme was employed to analyse data collected from the questionnaire, however, interview data were analysed manually. 30 (20 male and 10 female) adult Arab FSL learners taking beginning level course in Finnish at Helsinki School for Adult Learners participated in the current study. The results showed that adult Arab learners of Finnish used the language learning strategies at medium level with the average of (m=3.25). The results also showed a number of challenges that impede their second language learning process like the low literacy level of the learners, lack of communication with the Finnish society, and difficulties in reading and writing in Finnish.
Synthesis of Some Derivatives of 4-phenyl-1,3-dihydro-2H-imidazole-2-thion Using Ionic Liquid as Catalyst and Evaluation of Their Antimicrobial Activity
Authors: Behmaram Bahareh , Foroughifar Naser , Foroughifar Neda , Hallajian Sara
Published: March 2017

The synthesis of some 1,3-diazoles and thiazoles was realized in different conditions:a) In the presence of PTSA or sulfuric acid as catalyst we obtained only diazole products(4a-d).b) In basic medium such as DABCO or sodium hydroxide and ionic liquid afforded thiazoles.c) Both products, diazoles and thiazoles were collected when using methanol as catalyst and solvent.All structures were confirmed by IR, 1H NMR and 13C NMR spectroscopy. The antibacterial activity of some synthesized compounds was investigated against Escherichia Coli (ATCC: 25922) and Serratia marcescens (ATCC: 13880) as gram negative bacteria, Bacillus sabtilis (ATCC: 6633) and Staphylococcus aureus (ATCC: 6338) as gram positive bacteria. Some of these products exhibit good activities to significant antibacterial activity.
Measuring the Efficiency of Health Services Areas in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA): A Comparative Study between the Years 2014 and 2006
Authors: Helal Sanaa Mohamed Aly , Elimam Haga Abdelrahman
Published: March 2017

The study aimed to assess the efficiency of health services provided by the government hospitals in various districts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The number of beds at hospitals, doctors, nursing staff and paramedical categories were used as inputs for the model. The average productivity efficiency of government hospitals in the districts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2014 was 92.3%; whereas, the average internal production efficiency of these districts in the provision of health services through their respective hospitals was 94.7%; and the average external productivity efficiency in the different cities of the districts in Kingdom of the Saudi Arabia was 97.5%. It has been found that the average overall productivity efficiency was 90.2%, concerning the relative efficiency indicators of government hospitals, which were based on the hospitals’ distribution of Saudi Arabian districts in 2006. An analysis of the indicator showed that the average production efficiency of the services provided (internally) by the districts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was 94.7%, and that the average of the external production efficiency for such services was 95.4%. The Data Envelopment Analysis is a successful technique in measuring the performance efficiency of hospitals and it also assists to identify possible improvement and reduction in cost.
Vennootschappen uit het Verenigd Koninkrijk in Nederland na de brexit: gaan zij terug naar het verdomhoekje?
Authors: Kemp B.
Published: March 2017

Vennootschappen uit het Verenigd Koninkrijk in Nederland na de brexit: gaan zij terug naar het verdomhoekje?

In deze bijdrage wordt stilgestaan bij de gevolgen van een harde brexit voor de vrije vestiging van vennootschappen uit het Verenigd Koninkrijk in Nederland. Daarbij wordt onder meer ingegaan op de Wet op de formeel buitenlandse vennootschappen. Dit wordt ook beschouwd vanuit het perspectief van regulatory competition tussen landen.
Determination of Triazines and Triazoles in Grapes Using Atmospheric Pressure Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry
Authors: Mahale Vishal , Singh Ajeet , Phadke Gayatri S , Ghanate Avinash D , Oulkar Dasharath P , Banerjee Kaushik , Panchagnula Venkateswarlu
Published: March 2017

A chromatography-free atmospheric pressure matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization high-resolution massspectrometry (AP-MALDI HRMS) method is described for the simultaneous and quantitative detection of triazines and triazoles in grapes. The analytes were detected reproducibly with high mass accuracy (mass error within 5 ppm) and further confirmed by collision-induced dissociation fragmentation in tandem MS. The LODs and LOQs forall the analytes were found to be in the nanogram per gram level (15–20 ng/g LOQ). Internal standard–normalized high-resolution accurate mass–extracted (HR-AM) peak intensities of the detected ions were used to generate the concentration response curves. Linearity (with R2 values around 0.99) was obtained for these curves within a concentration range of 20–200 ng/g of the individual analytes. The accuracy and precision of the method were further established using QC samples. Validation and performancecomparison of the AP-MALDI HRMS method with an existing standard method using LC with triple quadrupole MS was carried out (evaluating sensitivity, accuracy, precision, and analysis time) using 20 table-grape field samples after QuEChERS extraction.
A extensão universitária atuando na avaliação e na melhoria da qualidade da água subterrânea consumida por comunidade carente de água potável.
Authors: Baumgarten Maria da Graça Zepka , Paiva Mariele Lopes , Rodrigues Horácio Rodrigo Souza
Published: March 2017

ResumoA Ilha dos Marinheiros (1400 hab.) pertence à cidade do Rio Grande (RS). Nela não há suprimento de água potável, sendo consumida a água subterrânea. Em 2013 foi aí desenvolvido o projeto de extensão "A água do seu poço é ferruginosa? o conhecimento acadêmico a serviço da comunidade". Foram analisados os níveis de ferro na água consumida em cada uma das 309 casas habitadas, usando-se um kit analítico. Foi constatado que em 41,75% das casas há consumo de água ferruginosa (ferro>0,3mg/L). Em cada casa foi entregue um laudo do resultado com informações sobre tratamentos caseiros de remoção do ferro da água. A partir da conscientização dos ilhéus, eles agiram na busca de consumirem água de qualidade.
Vivências e estágios no SUS: ênfase na atenção primária em redes
Authors: Kretschmer Andressa Carine
Published: March 2017

O presente trabalho narra as experiências de acadêmicos na condução do estágio e vivência no SUS, denominado VER-SUS, programa de extensão com o intuito de aproximar o graduando da realidade do Sistema Único de Saúde, da qual a academia muitas vezes encontra-se com uma visão crítica ineficiente. Para concretização desta proposta fez-se o uso de rodas de conversas com profissionais de saúde, visitas a unidades de saúde, contato com movimentos sociais e com o movimento estudantil. A presente imersão obteve a duração de quinze dias, e mediante o término da vivência foi unânime a constatação de a que participação no programa foi um divisor de águas no que tange a carreira acadêmica e convicções.
E se Jesus fosse gay, zumbi, ou fosse salvo pelo Exterminador do Futuro? Teologia Reflexiva Popular a partir da produção midiática via internet.
Authors: Vadico Luiz
Published: March 2017

Este artigo parte da análise de três vídeos disponíveis no site Youtube: Jesus Christ! The Musical, de Javier Prato (2007), The Greatest Action Story Ever Told, produzido pela Mad TV (2006) e The Passion of Zombie Jesus, de Ira Hunter (2006). A partir dos conceitos desenvolvidos pelos teólogos Clive Marsh e William Telford, verificaremos a mensagem teológica, o público ao qual se destina, a finalidade, a imagem de Cristo gerada, a sua função e posição em relação à teologia dita tradicional. A análise central será do filme de Javier Prato. A escolha do Youtube e de vídeos feitos para a internet se deve ao grande acesso do público e por se tratarem de novas práticas sociais contemporâneas.
The Application of Data Mining Techniques in Agricultural Science
Authors: Fetanat Hooman , Mortazavifar Leila , Zarshenas Narsis
Published: March 2017

Information Technology has a positive impact on other disciplines. Using today's technology, precision agriculture and InformationTechnology are mixed together. Use of Information Technology in agriculture will lead to improvements in productivity. For this purpose,the raw data is transformed into useful information through data mining. This research determined whether data mining techniques can alsobe used to improve pattern recognition and analysis of large growth factors of ornamental plants experimental datasets. Furthermore, theresearch aimed to establish data mining techniques can be used to assist in the classification and regression methods by determining whethermeaningful patterns exist various growth factors of ornamental plants characterized at various research sites across Kish Island. Differentdata mining techniques were used analyze a large data base of ornamental plants properties attributes. The data base has been collected fromdifferent plants of Kish Island in various areas in order to determine, classify and predict effective growth factors on blooming. In thisresearch, analyzed data with regression technique showed the effect of chlorophyll content on the number of flowers. The analysis of theseagricultural data base with different data mining methods may have some advantages in agriculture
Sensor Data Fusion Using Mutual Information Algorithm
Authors: Shabanian Mahdieh , Hosseini Seyed Hadi
Published: March 2017

Traffic flow prediction is one of the congestion avoidance methods in highways. According to previous studies, no comprehensive model has been proposed for traffic flow prediction which can prevent congestion in many different traffic conditions. Using data fusion to reduce prediction error is an interesting idea to solve this problem. In this paper, a new hybrid algorithm based on mutual information for traffic flow prediction will be proposed and compared with various types of previous hybrid algorithms and predictors. The Mutual Information (MI) algorithm is used to calculate the interdependency of data, so we expect this new hybrid algorithm to have high precision in comparison with others. Simulations will be implemented based on real data in MATLAB environment as a performance demonstration of new hybrid algorithm. Due to variety of traffic flow, performance investigations of our new hybrid algorithm will be done in presence of polluted traffic data in different climatic conditions such as rain/snow fall or other traffic conditions like congestions and accidents on the road, indicating robustness of this algorithm to different types of noisy data
New Graph Based Trust Similarity Measure
Authors: Garmsiri Saeed , Hamzeh Ali
Published: March 2017

Trust network in social networks can be considered as graph which trustors and trustees are graph vertices and edges present trust between them with measured values. To evaluate trust between trustors and trustees there is some similarity measures to measure similarity between trustors together or trustees together and then by using evaluated values predict trust value between them. Similarity measure has important effect on final accuracy. In this paper we propose graph based similarity measure. Similarity between two users is computed by connection between them on graph then this computed similarity used with k- nearest neighbors method to evaluate(predict) trust between users. To the best of our knowledge this is the first work introduces graph based similarity measure, empirical results on two real datasets show accuracy of predicted trust using proposed similarity measure outperforms accuracy of method without it.
The Experimental Study on Effects of Height and Hold up on performance of Vertical Gas-Liquid Separator using Amin Contactor Tower
Authors: Naderipour Iman , Khorshidi Jamshid
Published: March 2017

In present research, first the treatment of flow in designed vertical gas-liquid separator and Amin contactor tower at refinery in order to reduce of liquid percent was simulated. In order to simulation was used three dimension model with finite volume method numerically. Then separator and contactor tower has been modeled three dimensional and for droplet tracking in continuous phase has been used discrete phase model (DPM) with turbulence RNG k-Ɛ model. Also the gambit software is used for three dimension designs and fluent is used for solution governing equations of flow field. After simulation, the governing model of separator and contactor tower, fluid flow, the effect of growing of liquid droplet, droplet settling length (disengagement time) was studied. After analysis and compare behavior of flow in separator and tower, the results of simulation compared with experimental results at sweetening unit in Sarkhoun and Qeshm gas treating company that has 95% compatibility. The simulation results has shown that TOTAL method has more compatibility with relation to other methods so that one of effective parameters in improvement of separation process is growing of liquid droplets and separation factor depend on that, also more disengagement time causes increase hold up time and finally growing of liquid droplets. Additionally according to younger's comment gas-liquid separators can applied in horizontal or vertical status so that he founded if L/D be 1.7 to 3.6, the separators should be used vertically also Branan has proved that if L/D > 5, a horizontal separator should be used. The results of research are shown that in special conditions with L/D>6.5 can apply vertical separator. Finally experimental data has shown that the settling length can be 36 ft (11m) that separation works well and according to Schiman this length should be 0.75D or a minimum 12in (0.305 m) whereas Gerunda recommends a length equal to the diameter or a minimum of 3 ft (0.914 m) that present result is new recommendation.
Implementation of adaptive fuzzy controller on the variable speed wind turbines in comparison with conventional methods
Authors: Abdolzadeh Somayeh , Mohammadi Seyed Mohammad Ali
Published: March 2017

This paper introduces a linear structure of wind turbine, operator and the pitch angle controller. Then, a new method of adaptive fuzzy on the variable speed wind turbines was provided and it was compared with PID and Fuzzy Logic Controller and the simulation results were analyzed. So when the results of each simulation using PID and Fuzzy controllers and adaptive fuzzy PID controllers provided, the observed advantages and disadvantages of the rotor speed and wind turbine power can be introduced. It can be seen that in PID method the high overshoot is discussed as a disadvantage while it is overcome by using fuzzy controller and overshoot will decrease. The time of reaching to a sustained speed increases slightly and in adaptive fuzzy PID controller, the less overshoot has provided a good and effective performance for system response. The use of adaptive fuzzy PID controller causes the system does not have any steady-state error and at all moments of time, the response rate is better than PID and fuzzy controller. The importance of the amount of overshoot and rate fluctuations is that by reducing these parameters in addition to reducing the cost of preventive care, maintenance and depreciation, the fluctuations in electricity generated by induction generator also greatly reduced.
Optimized designing of PID controller for variable speed wind turbine systems using PSO algorithm
Authors: Abdolzadeh Somayeh , Mohammadi Seyed Mohammad Ali
Published: March 2017

The PID controller design is a very popular method for controlling industrial processes and due to its simple structure and effective operation; it is used in a wide range of industries. In this paper, a method is provided for setting up the PID controller and Particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is used to design a variable speed wind turbine system. The provided method has advantages such as easy implementation, stable convergence characteristics and high performance in computing. Finally the results are displayed.
THE IMPACT OF SENSE OF PLACE, FORM AND ENVIRONMENT DESIGN ON INCREASING THE SECURITY OF COMMERCIAL COMPLEXES
Authors: Kameli1 Mohsen , Fallah Mehdi , AsgShahr Niloufar Nahavandi
Published: March 2017

The human beings have always acted proactively in the environment and have exchanged information with it. After being located in a place and exchanging information and understanding the symbols by his senses, the human being would be able to communicate with the environment and focus his attention on it. “Sense of place” is the capability of the space or place in creating a unique sense in relation to place as a whole. Regarding the sense of place, form and environment design in commercial region which leads to easy access and high security of the place, the researchers are going to study the impact of environment design indexes on increasing the security of commercial complexes. The methodology of this research is of descriptive-analytic kind and the data have been collected through distributing questionnaires among participants.The findings of the research demonstrate that the crime opportunities which are the result of improper environment design will be reduced through employing suitable design and architecture. Furthermore, the architects have to pay more attention to the security of human being which is one the basic needs of human being and the most important index of environment quality, design an energetic space to promote the life quality and improve it and create the sense of place. Besides, through scaling the elements and ranking them, the researchers found out that compared with the environment design, the element of sense of place is in a higher rank which it causes higher security in the commercial complexes.
ANÁLISE DO USO E COBERTURA DA TERRA NAS ÁREAS DE PRESERVAÇÃO PERMANENTE DAS NASCENTES DA SUB-BACIA DE MATO GROSSO-BRASIL
Authors: Cocco Jéssica , Galvanin Edineia Aparecida dos Santos , Ribeiro Higor Vendrame , Nascimento Diego De Lima
Published: March 2017

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar o uso e cobertura das Áreas de Preservação Permanente das nascentes na sub-bacia do rio do Sangue, Mato Grosso. Imagens de satélite foram usadas de Landsat-8 e RapidEye de 2014. Foi realizado o recorte da área das nascentes, do mapa de uso da terra, para quantificação do uso da terra na Área de Preservação Permanente. Os resultados permitiram verificar que a agricultura ocupa a maior área e está localizado na região sul. A maior parte da cobertura natural, a floresta, está concentrada na parte norte da bacia. As Áreas de Preservação Permanente das nascentes da sub-bacia do rio do Sangue encontram-se, em sua maioria, em acordo com o Código Florestal, o restante das Áreas de Preservação Permanente em desacordo com o Código Florestal. O município de Nova Maringá apresenta a maior quantidade de APPs em acordo com o código florestal e Campo Novo do Parecis a maior quantidade de APPs em desacordo com o código florestal.
Leguminosas campestres no morro Pedra do Lagarto, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Authors: Meneses Helen Fernandes de , Essi Liliana
Published: March 2017

O presente trabalho teve como objetivo realizar o levantamento das espécies campestres da família Leguminosae no morro Pedra do Lagarto, distrito de Santo Antão, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, a fim de contribuir para o conhecimento da flora da região central do estado. Tal estudo se faz necessário devido à singularidade fitogeográfica da região de Santa Maria, que se encontra em uma região de tensão ecológica entre os biomas Pampa e Mata Atlântica. Por meio de coletas quinzenais, no período de agosto de 2014 a maio de 2016, foram confirmadas 27 espécies e 17 gêneros, sendo 20 espécies pertencentes à subfamília Faboideae Rudd e sete à Mimosoideae DC. Os gêneros com maior número de espécies são Mimosa L. (seis) e Desmodium Desv. (cinco). Além da lista de espécies, este trabalho fornece dados fenológicos, fotografias e chaves analíticas para identificação dos táxons.
REGRESSÃO DOS MÍNIMOS QUADRADOS PARCIAIS PARA ANALISAR A PERCEPÇÃO DOS CUSTOS DE GOVERNANÇA CORPORATIVA EM UMA COOPERATIVA DE CRÉDITO
Authors: Trindade Luana Zanetti , Bialoskorski Neto Sigismundo
Published: March 2017

Com o intuito de melhorar a eficiência e transparência das cooperativas de crédito e fortalecer essas cooperativas, o Banco Central do Brasil diagnosticou as características da governança das cooperativas de crédito e recomendou uma série de boas práticas. Para adoção das práticas de governança corporativa existe um custo associado a essa nova prática. A alocação de recursos em cooperativas é assunto que tem sido pouco discutido nas das pesquisas gerenciais. Assim, esse trabalho tem como objetivo estudar a percepção dos custos das práticas de governança corporativa em uma cooperativa de crédito por parte dos associados. Para isso, foi desenvolvido um modelo composto por um índice de percepção dos custos das práticas de governança corporativa. Os resultados encontrados demonstraram que há relacionamento positivo significativo entre as variáveis utilizadas e o índice de percepção dos custos das práticas de governança corporativa. E, além disso, há um relacionamento positivo entre as características intrínsecas dos cooperados e a percepção dos benefícios gerados pela cooperativa.
Análise Econômica-Financeira em Cooperativas: um estudo de caso na CAMSUL
Authors: Bento Marcia Helena Dos Santos , Oliveira Ester De , Madruga Lúcia Rejane Da Rosa Gama
Published: March 2017

As demonstrações financeiras constituem-se em um importante instrumento no auxílio da administração moderna, e tem como objetivo principal gerar informações para embasar as decisões a serem tomadas. As pessoas, jurídicas ou físicas, buscam gerenciar seus recursos, com o intuito de descobrir os custos e despesas, de produção ou financeiros. Para tanto, faz-se necessário uma análise de todos os pontos onde pode se obter uma redução, com a finalidade de conseguir uma melhora nas suas receitas. Diante disso, o presente estudo de caso buscou analisar qual a situação econômica financeira da CAMSUL no período de 2010 a 2014 por meio do cálculo dos índices de liquidez, rentabilidade e endividamento e por meio da análise vertical e horizontal. Os resultados apresentados pela CAMSUL demonstraram que a cooperativa está se desenvolvendo nos últimos anos e ampliando sua atuação no ramo. Durante a elaboração do trabalho, foram detectadas algumas limitações como a desconsideração da inflação no cálculo dos índices e a escassez de bibliografia específica sobre a análise econômica financeira de cooperativas, o que restringiu a pesquisa pela falta de maiores informações a respeito do tema escolhido. Para estudos futuros recomenda-se a atualização monetária das demonstrações e a ampliação do estudo a outras cooperativas do mesmo ramo a fim de possibilitar uma base comparativa.
A gestão eletrônica de documentos (GED) em uma cooperativa de prestação	assistencial à saúde: um estudo de caso
Authors: Rossés Gustavo Fontinelli , Farinha Julio Cezar Lucion , Fernandes Débora Da Luz , Sccott Carla Rosane Da Costa
Published: March 2017

Atualmente, as cooperativas estão utilizando a Gestão Eletrônica de Documentos (GED) em seus arquivos objetivando a alta velocidade e a agilidade na localização dos documentos. Nesse sentido, este trabalho tem como objetivo identificar e compreender o funcionamento da GED, segundo os modelos de Ágora (2012) e Silva (2003), em uma cooperativa. Este estudo caracteriza-se com uma pesquisa qualitativa, de caráter descritivo, com ênfase num estudo de caso, sendo realizadas entrevistas, bem como observação direta e análise documental. Os resultados revelaram a importância da GED para minimizar a troca de documentos entre a matriz e suas filiadas. Evidenciou-se também o pouco conhecimento do grupo entrevistado sobre os referenciais teóricos que apresentam as etapas da GED. Ficou evidente através dos relatos, a correlação e coerência entre as etapas descritas por Ágora (2012) e Silva (2003) e as etapas aplicadas pela Unimed Central RS.
Teoria e prática da cooperação no viés populista
Authors: Oliveira Émerson Dias de
Published: March 2017

No presente estudo foram analisadas algumas características do cooperativismo, as noções do “novo cooperativismo” ou cooperativismo popular, que (re)surge após a década de 1980 apresentando algumas confusões conceituais da ideia central de cooperativa, e ainda a marginalização midiática e até socioeconômica que as cooperativas populares padecem na contemporaneidade, inclusive dos próprios órgãos de representação dessa iniciativa no país, a Organização das Cooperativas no Brasil – OCB – e suas representações estaduais (OCEe’s). Apesar do intenso grau de dificuldade que o cooperativismo popular tem encontrado na atualidade para difundir suas práticas e ideais, esse modelo societário singular tem gerado grande interesse da academia e de determinadas esferas governamentais, como a fomentação e promoção da economia solidária, principalmente após o ano de 2003, no governo Lula, que aos poucos vem municiando os interessados nessa vertente ideológica para um melhor enfrentamento nas barreiras capitalistas e monopolista presentes na atual economia globalizante. Neste sentido, o presente estudo busca através de um estudo de caso específico esboçar algumas realidades que este ramo peculiar do cooperativismo se defronta o mercado, numa ótica bastante diversa em comparação com as grandes cooperativas tradicionais já consolidadas, reconhecidas e legitimadas na sociedade.