bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Significance of Skull IX in Asian Paleoanthropology
Authors: Kaifu Yousuke
Published: December 2021

Skull IX (Tjg-1993.05) was found in Sangiran, Central Java, in 1993, and is now stored at the Institute of Technology, Bandung. It is a remarkably complete fossil cranium of Homo erectus. It is one of the six H. erectus crania from the early Pleistocene of Java that preserves a nearly complete vault and is the third Javanese H. erectus crania with a substantial part of the facial skeleton preserved. After preliminary studies by late Prof. Sartono and other researchers, our team, led by Prof. Yahdi Zaim, had an opportunity to re-reconstruct and fully describe the specimen during 2008-2010. In this paper, I introduce how we corrected the distorted original reconstruction and summarize the specimen’s implications for the Homo erectus evolution in and outside Indonesia. Skull IX closely resembles Sangiran 17 and other Javanese H. erectus crania from the same stratigraphic level. The neurocranium of Skull IX is slightly smaller than the so-far-recorded smallest cranium from this zone, suggesting this individual was female. The face exhibits some “Asian” features, which highlights regional variation in Afro-Asian archaic members of Homo.
Why don’t we look to the west?
Authors: Widianto Harry , Noerwidi Sofwan
Published: December 2021

Paleontological data indicate that the beginning of Java Island’s human habitation took place at the Plio-Pleistocene boundary, around 2.4 Ma, along with uplift process and glacial-interglacial cycles. However, the oldest Homo erectus fossil was mainly found in the eastern part of Java Island where age-dating indicates that they were from ca. 1.5 Ma, especially along the riverbanks of Bengawan Solo and Brantas, such as Perning, Sangiran, Kedungbrubus, Ngandong, Ngawi, Trinil, and Sambungmacan.Recently, Pleistocene sites were discovered from the western part of Java, e.g., Rancah (Ciamis), Semedo (Tegal), and Bumiayu (Brebes) with their archeological, paleontological, and paleoanthropological potentials. This work will present the significance of the potential, especially paleoanthropological data from the new sites, and their implications to the Quaternary prehistory research strategies determination in the future.We present new geological, archeological, paleontological, and paleoanthropological evidence from those mentioned sites. The result shows that the distribution of Homo erectus were extended to the western part of Java, between 1.8-1.7 Ma, older than the oldest previous finding of Homo erectus from Perning and Sangiran. This finding suggests a new window of the human arrival on this island. So, why don’t we look to the west? Intensive research in the future should be addressed to the western part of Java Island.
On the 91/17 pattern in the brackish ichnofabric
Authors: Arifullah Ery
Published: December 2021

From previous research, I have identified what ichnotaxa dominate each ichnofabric unit and how many ichnotaxa are taking up a share of the total observed ichnofabric units. The contribution of this paper is the 91/17 pattern. The point of this pattern is that only 17% ichnotaxa (6 of 34 ichnotaxa) had 91% of the total ichnofabric units that were observed. In addition, the six ichnotaxa tend to be more monospecific. These are the most effective strategies for the animal to survive by constructing the most essential structures. These strategies are common in brackish paleoecology in the fluvial-marine transition zone.
Quaternary nannoplankton in the Northeast Java Basin
Authors: Kapid Rubiyanto , Santoso Wahyu Dwijo , Insani Halmi
Published: December 2021

In Indonesia, nannofosils are commonly used for age estimation on Miocene marine sediment, but they are rarely performed on Quaternary sediment. This paper introduces two nannofossil biozones, Martini (1971) and Backman et al. (2012) and the comparison between the two biozones. An uninterrupted interval of marine sediments was described and picked for quantitative nannoplankton analysis. The samples were taken from Ledok Formation to Lidah Formation in Pati Region, Northeast Java Basin. The samples were prepared by quick smear slides method and and analyzed by quantitative field of view method. Martini (1971) biozone can be used to subdivide the Late Miocene–Pleistocene sediments into 5 biozones, but Backman et al. (2012) can be used to classify the same sediments into 8 biozones. The biozone subdivision from Backman et al. (2012) is more detailed than that of Martini (1971) because an updated dating and biozone in the three new dating zone data.
Geological stories from the journey of mollusks fossils in Java
Authors: Aswan Aswan
Published: December 2021

The journey began in the Eocene with the presence of mollusk fossil in the Nanggulan Formation (near Yogyakarta) in Central Java. Many experts believe this was the early part of the Tethys system which might still be connected to the Tethys system in Europe.The oldest mollusk fossils type locality after Nanggulan is the Early Miocene Jonggrangan Formation in Kulon Progo near the city of Yogyakarta, which is dominated by the gastropod Haustator specimen. Molluscan paleontological studies of this type of locality reflect a restricted environment with less influence of the Tethyan system. Haustator are considered as the ancestor of the Turritellidae group, which is found mostly on Java Island, during the younger Tertiary to Quaternary Periods.The story continued to the Middle Miocene where the Tethyan realms indication was clearly observed by the presence of some typical Tethys species such as Volema and Babylonia from Nyalindung Formation, West Java. The regional sea level rise in this epoch (around 12 Ma) that was indicated by the presence of Vicarya as an index fossil, which occurrence was due to land submerging to become mangroves area. The fossil then quickly become extinct when the sea level dropped back.Late Miocene to Pliocene was like the transition period from the Tethyan realm to the Pacific realm, where the Tethyan fauna was no longer present. Only evolutional traces of the Middle Miocene mollusk fossils were observed. This continuous evolution is most clearly seen in Turritella cramatensis (late Miocene), Turritella acuticarinata (early Pliocene) and Turritella cikumpaiensis (late Pliocene) which was interpreted to have originated from Turritella angulata as their ancestors.Earth cooling environment that happened in the late Pliocene/early Pleistocene has led the diversity and evolution of a new group of mollusks, most clearly observed from the abundance of Turritella bantamensis in the Bojong Formation, Banten. The new Turritella group has a curved whorl that different from its predecessor with an angled whorl shape.Plio-Pleistocene tectonics event has ended the period of Java marine mollusks domination, then only freshwater mollusk fossils can be found in almost all Quaternary mollusks-bearing deposits.
Isotopic reconstruction of Proboscidean habitats and diets on enigmatic island of Sulawesi
Authors: Puspaningrum Mika Rizki , Chivas Allan R. , Kurniawan Iwan , Wibowo Unggul P. , Zaim Yahdi , Van den Bergh Gerrit D.
Published: December 2021

Sulawesi is known for its complex geological and biogeographic history, which is reflected in their extinct and extant faunal assemblage. Evidence of oldest terrestrial fauna in Sulawesi was found in the Early Pleistocene sediment and evolved since then. Despite being mostly isolated from the mainland Southeast Asia; four successive Proboscidean taxa have been found from the southern part of the island. The four taxa are: Stegoloxodon celebensis, Stegodon sompoensis, Stegodon sp. B, and cf. Palaeoloxodon namadicus, in which respective taxa are included in successive faunal stages. The aim of this research is to reconstruct the diet and palaeoenvironment of these Proboscidean taxa by incorporating stable isotope analysis with the fossil faunal record, geology, and stratigraphy. Stable carbon (δ13C) and oxygen (δ18O) isotope analysis were especially used in this study. Our result suggests that Stegoloxodon celebensis and Stegodon sompoensis were flexible feeders and were able to adapt to different niches, from closed canopy forest to open vegetation, while the diets of Stegodon sp. B, Celebochoerus heekereni and cf. Palaeoloxodon namadicus suggest that they were more specialized.
Gambaran Kondisi Sanitasi Pasar Tradisional Modern Liang Kecamatan Liang Kabupaten Banggai Kepulauan
Authors: Inriani I'in , Syahrir Muhammad , Ramli Ramli , Kanan Maria , Tongko Mirawati , Salamat Ferdy
Published: December 2021

Persoalan sanitasi di negara berkembang dikarenakan beberapa faktor diantaranya adalah minimnya perhatian dan prioritas yang diberikan oleh pemerintah atau dinas terkait pada sektor sanitasi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menggambarkan kondisi sanitasi pasar tradisional modern Liang, Kecamatan Liang, Kabupaten Banggai Kepulauan. Jenis penelitian ini yaitu deskriptif. Populasi dan sampel dalam penelitia ini adalah pasar yang ada di Kecamatan Liang yaitu pasar tradisional modern Liang, adapun teknik penentuan sampel yaitu menggunakan teknik sampling jenuh. Analisis data menggunakan perhitungan sesuai dengan petunjuk penilaian pada formulir pengawasan eksternal Inspeksi Kesehatan Liangkungan (IKL) Pasar dalam Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan Republik Indonesia Nomor 17 Tahun 2020 tentang Pasar Sehat. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa dari keseluruhan variabel yang di teliti sebagian besar belum memenuhi syarat dengan jumlah presentase 13,64% atau 6 item dari 44 item, karena presentase hasil penilaian tidak mencapai ≥70 % dan sebagian kriteria utama minimal (KUM) belum terpenuhi. Saran bagi penentu kebijakan, baik pengelola Pasar maupun Pemerintah Daerah Kabupaten Banggai Kepulauan agar menyediakan sarana sanitasi di Pasar Tradisional Modern Liang.
Sanitation problems in developing countries are caused by several factors, including the lack of attention and priority given by the government or related agencies in the sanitation sector. This study aims to describe the sanitation conditions of the modern traditional market in Liang, Liang District, Banggai Islands Regency. This type of research is descriptive. The population and sample in this study were the market in Liang District, namely the modern traditional market of Liang, while the sampling technique was using a saturated sampling technique. Data analysis uses calculations according to the assessment instructions on the Market Environmental Health Inspection (IKL) external supervision form in the Regulation of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia Number 17 of 2020 concerning Healthy Markets. The results showed that of all the variables studied, most of them did not meet the requirements. Suggestions for policy makers, both market managers and the local government of Banggai Islands Regency, to provide sanitation facilities at the Liang Modern Traditional Market
The Art of Immersion with Smell and
Sensorial Theatre Language
Authors: Areh Igor , Jenič Barbara Pia
Published: December 2021

In recent decades, the trend or the need for an experience of the effect of immersion into theatre events, other branches of art, tourism, everyday business and private life has become quite evident. We are used to audio-visual communication, which, from the Renaissance onwards, became the dominant channel for delivering messages, while other senses became less important. Until the middle of the 20th century, the role of smell in theatre practices was neglected, and more important senses took over the place of communication and staging. Rarely it was used as a direct prop, but always very carefully, because, according to many experts, it cannot be controlled like sound and light. However, we have forgotten that the smell, especially in combination with the sound, can have a strong emotional impact on a spectator. Like the other senses, the scent recreates the context of memories and can evoke an intense reliving of emotions and events. It can also provoke an evaluation or re-evaluation of the past, thereby affecting the perception of the present. Reality is perceived through the adaptation of sensory information, which is shaped and interpreted under the influence of past experiences. Experiences create expectations, and expectations create our subjective reality considering everyday life and theatrical performance. This relationship is especially noticeable in sensorial theatre. In the last decade, an effort has been made to bring scents and other tools of sensorial theatre back to the stage, just as – according to foreign sources – they were an important part of events in antiquity. In this way, the stage can be enriched with an additional dimension of communication and expression. The paper presents various methods and experiments on the use of scent and other tools of sensorial theatre, evaluating their phenomenology and effectiveness from the perspective of the performing arts and psychological science.
Between Aisthēsis and Colere: Sensoria,
Everyday Improvisation and Ethnographic
Reality
Authors: Muršič Rajko
Published: December 2021

The individual experience of everyday city life is essentially an everyday improvisation among other people. It is in urban settings where socially structured formations of daily life meet purely individual situated experience in myriads of spontaneously created and shaped assemblages of everyday life. The visual perception of space, sonic orientation in a given place and olfactory plus tactile experience of the environment are the basic aesthetic performances in cultivating a common urban reality. The author discusses specificities of anthropological knowledge derived from first-hand experience of the life of other people in the field. To cope with the complexity of everyday urban improvisation, the author employs two ancient Greek terms to define the space of human interaction: aisthēsis, i.e., sensory perception, and the complex meaning of the Latin verb colere, from which the term culture is derived. The triangulation of everyday improvisation through the sensorial essence of everyday life complements the employment of two other ancient Greek terms, praxis and poiesis. The basic empirical materials used to discuss everyday improvisation in an urban environment are collected narrations of sensory perception and individual lives from sensobiographic walks in Ljubljana, Turku and Brighton. Historically, in the West, the dominance of the senses has shifted from sound, touch and smell, orienting people in orally designed cultural domains, to sight. Smelling is specific embeddedness in place. Its paradoxical position of sensing outside air deeply inside, integrated in breathing, but not always sensing anything special. At the crossroads of distant and close, inner and outer, olfactory experience is simultaneously existentially idiosyncratic and collectively shaped. The paper’s main point is that there are no clear limits between the experienced past and the present. However, both are aesthetically and culturally inscribed in specific registers of individual, social, cultural and embodied memories. The same stands for an ethnographic practice. Everyday life is a continuum of living, weaved together from many discontinuous contingencies. It consists of incongruent, incomplete and chaotic shifts. Repetitive social activities bring order into this everyday mess: rituals and work. For this reason, repetitive music is inevitable for establishing a common ground of the everyday. If ethnography ever touches reality, it is a continuous improvisation in everyday life, shared, collective, and peculiar individual improvisation.
Wound and Travel – Sophocles’s 193 Philoctetes
and Homer’s Odyssey in Inflammation du
verbe vivre (Inflammation of the Verb To
Live) by Wajdi Mouawad
Authors: Pogorevc Petra
Published: December 2021

In her article, the author analyses an example of a text and its staging brought about by the sudden death of a member of the playwright’s creative team. In his solo performance Inflammation du verbe vivre (Inflammation of the Verb To Live), created at the Paris Théâtre National de la Colline in 2015, Canadian-Lebanese playwright, director and actor Wajdi Mouawad interwove the ancient Greek literary and mythological heritage with a personal confession about the loss of his friend and professional colleague Robert Davreu, upgrading it with a socially critical depiction of the situation in today’s Greece. The performance was made as the penultimate part of a staging cycle of Sophocles’s seven preserved tragedies under the common title Le dernièr jour de sa vie (The Last Day of his Life). Mouawad had intended to direct the cycle in new translations by Davreu. Mouawad thus connected the process of mourning the death, which stopped the project, with the documentation of the writing process of the text that he later also directed and performed in the form of a peculiar theatre elegy. He fused the character of Philoctetes with the character of Odysseus; not the Odysseus from Sophocles’s tragedy who plots to steal Philoctetes’s bow, but the one from Homer who seeks his way home to Ithaca for ten years after the conquer of Troy and visits Tiresias’s shade in the underworld.
İŞLETME SERMAYESİ YÖNETİMİNİN KARLILIK ÜZERİNDEKİ ETKİSİ: BORSA İSTANBUL (BİST) ÖRNEĞİ
Authors: ÖZTÜRK Emine , KABA Fettah
Published: December 2021

Çalışmanın amacı işletme sermayesi yönetimi ile karlılık arasındaki ilişkiyi incelenmektir. Bu doğrultuda 2016-2020 yılları arasında Borsa İstanbul’da faaliyet gösteren sekiz sektörde yer alan 153 şirkete ait bilanço ve gelir tabloları kullanılmıştır. Modelde aktif karlılık bağımlı değişken, alacak devir hızı, aktif devir hızı, borç kaynak oranı, cari oran ve stok devir hızı bağımsız değişken olarak toplamda altı değişken kullanılmıştır. Yapılan Panel Veri Analizi sonucunda alacak devir hızı ve aktif devir hızı ile işletmenin aktif karlılığı arasında anlamlı ve pozitif yönlü bir ilişki olduğu, borç kaynak oranı ve cari oran ile işletmenin aktif karlılığı arasında anlamlı ve negatif yönlü bir ilişki olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Fakat stok devir hızı ile işletmenin aktif karlılığı arasında anlamlı bir ilişki bulunamamıştır.
Deep Learning Algorithms for Complex Traits Genomic Prediction
Authors: OKUT Hayrettin
Published: December 2021

The underlying perception of genomic selection (GS) is to use genome-wide from DNA sequence (“SNP markers”) along with phenotypes from an observed population to make prediction for the phenotypic outcomes of untested individuals in crop and livestock breeding programs. GS was firstly described by Meuwissen et al.(2001) in dairy cattle to identify genetically superior animals at an early age. The aim was to capture specific genes across the whole genome that are associated with desired traits. The major challenge in using GS programs is to predict the effect of many SNP markers using phenotypic information from a few individuals (aka small n big p problem, or p >> n). Many approaches including naïve and scaled elastic net, ridge regression BLUP Bayesian approaches (BayesA, BayesB, BayesCπ, BayesDπ) LASSO, Support Vector Regression have been conducted to address the small n big p (aka, p >> n) problem. These methods all perform well for (p>>n) by using linear approximation to set a functional relationship between genotypes and phenotypes. However, these methods may not fully capture non-linear effects which are possible to be crucial for complex traits. To deal with this limitation, many methods including neural networks (NN) were recommended to cover non-linearity for GS. Artificial NNs (ANNs) for GS was first presented by Okut et al. (2011) who establish a fully connected regularized multi-layer ANN (MLANN) comprising one hidden layer to predict the body mass index (BMI) in mice using dense molecular markers. Since then, rather complex ANNs approaches have been applied including deep learning (DL) networks. The different DL algorithms have their own advantages to deal with specific problems in complex trait GS. Four different major classes of DL approaches such as fully connected deep learning artificial neural networks (DL-MLANN), recurrent neural networks (RNN), convolutional neural networks (CNN) and long-short term memory (LSTM) and some variation of these network architectures will be summarized here.
Neuroticism and Introversion: The Personality Predispositions to develop Depression
Authors: Riaz Saba , Bukhari Dr Fatima Khurram , Nadeem Arif
Published: December 2021

The previous research studies claimed that there is a relationship between personality predispositions and affective disorders like depression. Personality traits like neuroticism and introversion are considered as a vulnerable factors for the development of depression. Therefore, the aim of this research study was to investigate that whether personality traits like introversion and neuroticisms are linked to depression. The researcher recruited a sample size of 200 university students who were studying in Islamia University Bahawalpur, Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan, and Women University Bahawalpur. Beck depression inventory (BDI), Introversion scale and Neuroticism dimension included in an inventory which was used to measure depression, introversion and neuroticism respectively. Statistical analysis included descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation, regression analysis and an independent sample t-tests. The results revealed that there was a positive significant relationship between neuroticism, introversion personality traits and depression. The introversion and neuroticism personality traits significantly predicted depression.
Mediating Role of Social Interaction Anxiety between Fear of COVID-19 and Psychological Distress
Authors: Yaseen Dr Faiqa , Bibi Rafia , Jamal Dr Yousaf
Published: December 2021

Youth is the backbone of any society. Their mental health is worsening in these terrible times of pandemic. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate a relationship between fear of COVID-19 and psychological distress, and whether this relationship was mediated by social interaction anxiety. A cross-sectional research design was used to recruit online 200 university students of Lahore, Pakistan through Google docs via purposive sampling technique by introducing them to a demographic questionnaire consisting of fear of COVID-19, social interaction anxiety and psychological distress scales respectively. The sample included both male and female students (men =53%, women =46%) whose age ranged from 17-24 years (M = 21.04, SD = 2.52). Data were analyzed by using SPSS version 25. Pearson Product moment correlation and mediation analysis were used to analyze data. It was found that there was a significant positive association between fear of COVID-19 and psychological distress. The findings also revealed that social interaction anxiety fully mediated the association between psychological distress and fear of COVID-19. It is recommended that counselors and psychologists develop social support programs that can assist students to manage themselves well in the present pandemic environment.
Women Objectification in Context of Pakistani Advertisements: Role of Personal Variables
Authors: Farhan Dr Sheeba , Nouman Manahil
Published: December 2021

The present study was conducted to investigate the role of personal factors on self-objectification that is encouraged by Pakistani advertisements. The objective of the study was to find out the differences in perception of women on Pakistani advertisement based on personal variables i.e. age, family structure, education and employment status. Convenience sampling technique and a sample of 430 unmarried women with the age bracket of 18 to 25 years were included in the study. The self-objectification was measured through the Self-Objectification-Trait Scale (Dahl, 2014).  ANOVA analysis and t test were used through the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) v 21 for analysis. The findings indicated that there was no significant difference in self-objectification of women, under the influence of Pakistani advertisements, based on their ages and education levels. However, there was a significant difference in self-objectification of women, under the influence of Pakistani advertisements, based on their family structures and employment statuses. The study would contribute to further research to reduce the negative impact of self-objectification on young women.
Sublime writers, sceptical re-readers: toward recuperating Paul de Man’s problematics of reading
Authors: Disney Dan
Published: December 2021

Paul de Man’s transgressive, trans-genred theoretical writing style is complex and difficult, but his theories equip postmodern reader-writers with critical positions to read, write, and think from. However, when applying the theorist’s re-reading strategies to his own essay, ‘Phenomenality and materiality in Kant’, creative writers must speak back to de Man when he attempts to reframe the sublime as a purely linguistic principle. In opposing de Man’s rhetorical claims, creative writers are likely to argue that rather than a linguistic principle, the sublime remains a phenomenological event.
Fiber Based Modeling Strategies of RC Columns
Authors: ÇAĞLAR Fazıl Abdulkadir , TATAR Tuba
Published: December 2021

Although experimental studies have proven as the most effective method, its high cost has provoked researchers to seek alternative approaches. The increase in computational power in the 21st century provides the opportunity to numerically model experimental studies with various programs. This study examines the comparison of force-based element and displacement-based element in columns using nonlinear fiber elements. Within the scope of the study, OpenSees program is employed for columns selected from the PEER (Structural Performance Database) site. Physical regularization technique is applied to the elements while considering the plastic hinge length of the columns. The aim is to compare the employment of the FB element and DB elements in RC columns in terms of number of elements and integration points, to simulate the global behavior of the columns numerically, and to optimize the parameters that affect the results.
The use of public spaces: the case of requalification of São Francisco street and the construction of the Cyclist’s Pocket Square, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Authors:   Universidade Federal do Paraná, UFPR, Curitiba, PR, Cigolini Adilar Antônio , Porto Jhonnatan Mattos ,   Universidade Federal do Paraná, UFPR, Curitiba, PR
Published: December 2021

This article problematizes the process of requalification of São Francisco street and the construction of the Cyclist's Pocket Square, analyzing the transformation of the use of these public spaces after the intervention. Through participant analysis, with the approach with the subjects that use the spaces of the street and the square, the result points to the public space as fundamental in the discussion about citizenship. However, the appropriation of these spaces does not fail to generate conflicts among multiple actors with divergent interests. Despite the elaboration and execution of the project with a team of experienced professionals, the different forms of occupation of the street were not considered in the planning, which does not necessarily indicate a mistake in the requalification process. It happens that the subjects that appropriate and occupy these spaces are also transforming agents that create new uses and new perspectives according to their demands.
McHarg’s methodology of analysis and diagnosis applied to rural planning in the Teixeira Soares river basin, RS, Brazil
Authors:   Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul, UFFS, Erechim, RS, Goettems Renata Franceschet , Schmitt James Taynnã ,   Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul, UFFS, Erechim, RS
Published: December 2021

This paper seeks to characterize, analyze and diagnose the Teixeira Soares River basin based on the methodology of analysis and diagnosis proposed by Ian McHarg (1992). It is found that the region presents a weakening of rural communities, in addition to difficulty and instability in issues related to food production and environmental conservation. The form of production that was tried to be inserted may be interfering in the local landscape and causing a shortage of natural soil fertility and an imbalance in the fauna, flora, and water of the hydrographic basin. In the end, we understand the need to plan rural areas, as a way to relate all the aspects inserted in it, from the aspects related to the geobiophysical support to the anthropic ones. To enhance rural production and bring local society closer to the natural environment, guidelines are proposed for the qualification of the spaces that comprise the sub-basin.
Photographs by Guilherme Glück: a methodology for analyzing the photographic image of the cultural landscape of Lapa, PR, Brazil
Authors:   Universidade Federal do Paraná, UFPR, Curitiba, PR, Afonso Caroline Ganzert
Published: December 2021

To read photographic images through Iconography and Iconology can be an interesting way to help describe landscapes. Which is the intention that corroborates the sense of “landscape as a way of seeing” proposed by Denis Cosgrove. In proposing this research aims to understand how the urban and cultural landscape was portrayed in Glück´s photographs. This study object is delimited by Glück's records about 1940, in the urban environment of the city of Lapa. These spaces were registered through the eyes of an immigrant, presenting the temporal transformations, in the yearnings to change and update Lapa as a republican city and adapted to new urban infrastructures, such as piped water, paved streets, electric power, new means of transportation, and communication. Through the systematization of the photographic methodological analysis, from iconographic investigation proposed by Panofsky, observing Cassirer's symbolic forms, through which he presented the advances in Cosgrove's research, it is intended to analyze Glück's images in a context of a city eager to incorporate republican and “modernity” standards.
Geological and geomorphological potentialities for the geotourism of waterfalls in São João da Serra, PI, Brazil
Authors: Silva Helena Vanessa Maria da , Aquino Cláudia Maria Saboia de , Aquino Renê Pedro de
Published: December 2021

As a new tourist approach, aiming at the valorization of nature elements, particularly the abiotic ones, geotourism is based on the recognition of areas with significant value (intrinsic, scientific, didactic, tourist, aesthetic, economic, and cultural), that give specificities to the place. We present a survey of the geological and geomorphological potentialities of waterfalls in the municipality of São João da Serra for the development of local geotourism. Eight waterfalls were inventoried: Quebra Anzol, Contente, Lau, Boa Vista, Cachimbo, Clemência, Boa Nova, and Deus Dará, all with unique beauty and value whose sustainable exploitation could contribute to the generation of income and employment for the community. However, there are no government actions aimed even at the installation of access roads to most of the identified waterfalls
Tourism and mountain landscape: reflections on the potentiality and visual identity of the Serras do Agreste Potiguar destination, RN, Brazil
Authors:   Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, UFRN, Natal, RN, Dantas Airon Sarug Ferreira
Published: December 2021

This article presents a diagnosis of the opportunities for the development of geotourism in the Sierras do Agreste Potiguar, raised through the evaluation of natural, historical, and cultural attractions, as well as equipment and services. Tourist planning needs to highlight the creative processes with a focus on brand management, a parameter for promotion, management, and dissemination of the localities. Therefore, the results allowed us to understand, in general, the categorical importance of the execution of policies for the expansion of the sector, with a priority focus on the effectiveness of geomarketing for decision making within new instruments, regionalization programs, and strengthening of the industry. Given this scenario, one can highlight that the landscape peculiarities present in the territory were determinant for the identification.
Review of Oliveirania santa catharinae (sic) Maury 1927 and associated ichnofossils (Itararé Group, Late Carboniferous of Paraná Basin, Brazil)
Authors:   Serviço Geológico do Brasil, CPRM, Museu de Ciências da Terra, Rio de Janeiro,, Silva Rafael Costa da , Fernandes Antonio Carlos Sequeira ,   Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Published: December 2021

The sedimentary layers of Anitápolis, Santa Catarina, were the subject of relevant discussions about age and paleoenvironment in the first half of the 20th century. Today they are correlated to the ritmites from Itararé Group, but some of the fossils that are part of these studies were not subsequently revised. This is the case of Oliveirania santa catharinae (sic) Maury 1927, a species originally attributed to annelids, and the ichnofossils attributed to it by association. The Annelida fossils were considered here as pseudofossils of inorganic origin. The ichnofossils attributed to Oliveirania were redescribed as a new ichnospecies, Pterichnus mauryae isp. nov., possibly related to the activity of crustaceans. This is the first occurrence of Pterichnus in Brazil and the oldest in the world.
Repatriation, Incorporation, and Destruction: the destination of the Caster Collection at the Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Brazil
Authors:   Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Scheffler Sandro Marcelo , Fernandes Antonio Carlos Sequeira ,   Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Silva Mariana Batista da ,   Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Videira-Santos Roberto ,   Universidade Estadual de Goiás, UEG, Niquelândia, Goiás, GO, Sousa Letícia Brandão Gomes de ,   Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Published: December 2021

In the mid-twentieth century, geologist Kenneth E. Caster collected fossils of South American Paleozoic and Mesozoic invertebrates, further contributing to important research for Brazilian geology. The collected paleontological collection was later taken to study at the University of Cincinnati (USA), where it remained for more than six decades. In 2016, in an unprecedented agreement between the Universidade de Cincinnati and the Museu Nacional/UFRJ, the Caster collection was repatriated, incorporating it into the collection of paleoinvertebrates of the Museu Nacional/UFRJ. The report clarifying the trajectory of the collection's repatriation and its tragic, but partial, destruction in the institution's fire in 2018 and its current destination is the objective of this paper.
The Devonian Discinids of the Northwest Edge of the Paraná Basin (Ponta Grossa Formation, Mato Grosso do Sul), Brazil
Authors:   Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Silva Mariana Batista da , Comniskey Jeanninny Carla ,   Grupo Palaios, Paleontologia Estratigráfica - UEPG/CNPq, Ponta Grossa, PR, Scheffler Sandro Marcelo ,   Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Published: December 2021

In Brazil, discinid brachiopods are found abundantly in the Devonian strata of the Paraná Basin, on the northwest and east edges. This work aims to describe species of discinids from the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, at the northwest edge, that is lesser studied. Five taxa of discinids were recognized: Orbiculoidea baini, Orbiculoidea bodenbenderi, Orbiculoidea excentrica, Gigadiscina collis, and Rugadiscina sp. This paper expands the knowledge of the distribution of the discinids in the Devonian of Brazil, showing its high representativeness in Mato Grosso do Sul, especially during the Pragian-early Emsian.
Paleoichnology of the Itararé Group in the State of Santa Catarina and Rio Negro City (PR), Brazil: a revision
Authors:   Universidade Regional de Blumenau, FURB, Blumenau, SC, Balistieri Patricia , Netto Renata Guimarães ,   Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, UNISINOS, São Leopoldo, RS, Sedorko Daniel ,   Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, UFU, Monte Carmelo, MG
Published: December 2021

The ichnofauna of the Itararé Group cropping out in Santa Catarina State (Southern Brazil) has been recorded since the work of Maury, in 1927, in the Southern city of Anitápolis. In the south of the State of Paraná, in the region of the city of Rio Negro, the first description of ichno assemblages was carried out in 2003 by Balistieri and collaborators, presenting a high density of arthropod traces. This work aims to identify and analyze the bibliographic production in paleoichnology of the Itararé Group throughout the State of Santa Catarina, and the Rio Negro region, seeking to understand the approaches adopted for the analysis of depositional successions. Sixteen studies with descriptions of the ichnofauna of six outcrops in five municipalities were found, analyzed, and discussed.
Taphofacies and Stratigraphic Correlation of Devonian Outcrops in Northwestern Region of State of Paraná, Brazil
Authors:   Instituto Federal do Paraná, IFP, Campus Jaguariaíva, Jaguariaíva, PR, Myszynski Junior Lucinei José , Bosetti Elvio Pinto ,   Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, UEPG, Ponta Grossa, PR, Borghi Leonardo ,   Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Scheffler Sandro Marcelo ,   Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Sedorko Daniel ,   Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, UFU, Monte Carmelo, MG, Mendlowicz Mauller Paula ,   Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Goltz Gabrieli ,   Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, UEPG, Ponta Grossa, PR
Published: December 2021

The northeastern region of the state of Paraná, Brazil, is still little known in its paleontological and stratigraphic aspects. This work focused on Devonian outcrops located in Arapoti and Piraí do Sul and aimed at the recognition of sedimentary facies and the definition of taphofacies, with the intention of paleoenvironmental interpretation and stratigraphic correlation. Three different facies were identified, representing shoreface to offshore environments, and also three taphofacies were defined: T1 characterizes the most proximal and destructive environments, T2 represents lower shoreface environments and T3, originated offshore. The base of the section is correlated to the early Devonian, Ponta Grossa Formation, Siluro-Devonian Sequence (Neopraguian-Eoemsian) due to the visible contact with sandstones of the Furnas Formation, and the top, due to the presence of microfossils, is positioned in the São Domingos Formation, Devonian Sequence I (Neoemsian-Eoeifelian).
Scientific collection of Paleontology and the communication ability of a blog about the discipline
Authors:   Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, UFU, Monte Carmelo, MG, Tessari Jonatas Rodrigues , Rangel Caio César ,   Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, UFU, Monte Carmelo, MG, Sedorko Daniel ,   Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, UFU, Monte Carmelo, MG, Quaglio Fernanda ,   Universidade Federal de São Paulo, UNIFESP, Diadema, SP
Published: December 2021

To enhance the teaching of Paleontology, due to the lack of tools to assist it in the undergraduate course in Geology at the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil, we developed a blog using the existing resources on a free online platform, as well as additional features developed in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript languages. To accomplish this task, the fossil samples from the Laboratory of Stratigraphic Paleontology (LAPE) of the Federal University of Uberlândia, Monte Carmelo Campus needed to be identified, recorded, grouped according to taxonomic proximity, and analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. We evaluated the communication capacity of the tool to reach the most diverse readers, according to statistical data provided internally by the platform, highlighting the moment of social distancing caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Museum of Natural Sciences: valuation of the paleontological collection of the State University of Ponta Grossa
Authors:   Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, UEPG, Ponta Grossa, PR, Liccardo Antonio , Bosetti Elvio Pinto ,   Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, UEPG, Ponta Grossa, PR, Guimarães Gilson Burigo ,   Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, UEPG, Ponta Grossa, PR, Santos Christopher Vinicius ,   Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, UEPG, Ponta Grossa, PR, Peyerl Drielli ,   Universidade de São Paulo, USP, São Paulo, SP
Published: December 2021

In the State University of Ponta Grossa is a reference institution in Paleontology in the State of Paraná, for being located on top of fossiliferous terrains of the Devonian and, mainly, by the tradition in research in this area since 1969. In 2020, the Museum of Natural Sciences (MCN) was created on the UEPG campus with the proposal to enhance the scientific collections of regional and state geodiversity and biodiversity. Among the material on display in this space, there is a set of fossils representative of the Paraná paleontology with didactic potential and also for tourist visitation. The MCN has the support of research laboratories and their researchers to advance in the communication of science and, in the case of fossils, the Laboratory of Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Department of Geosciences supports the curatorship and scientific investigation of the museum. The MCN concentrates on the most representative fossils of the region, culturally valuing the university collection and bringing to the public the results of decades of academic research, usually not accessible to the community. This paper presents the characteristics of this paleontological collection.
Devonian Bivalvia (Mollusca) from Brazil: Taxonomy and Stratigraphy
Authors: Machado Deusana Maria da Costa , Ghilardi Renato Pirani , Bezerra Izabelle
Published: December 2021

Despite being known since the 19th century, systematic studies of Bivalvia still face major challenges due to preservation problems of diagnostic characters and the number of specimens per taxon. Some species are well known and abundant while most are represented by few specimens or even just by their holotype. Thus, many remain considered invalid according to the International Zoological Nomenclature Code. Here we discuss the taxonomic problems about the Devonian Bivalvia group in Brazil, emphasizing biodiversity, stratigraphic positioning, and geographic distribution in four intracratonic sedimentary basins - Amazonas, Paraná, Parnaíba, and Jatobá. Seventy-seven taxa were identified - 66 distributed in 2 subclasses, 3 infraclasses, 18 families, and 30 genera, plus 11 species in supraspecific taxonomic discussion. Of the bivalves studied, 10 still do not have a specific epithet, demonstrating the need for more accurate studies for the taxon. The greatest diversity is found in the Amazon Basin, with 39 species, followed by the Paraná Basin (24 species); the Parnaíba Basin (11 species), and the Jatobá Basin (8 species). There are shares of taxa between at least two to three basins, as well as the diversity of a certain genus for a given basin. This can be evidenced mainly by the genera: Palaeoneilo and Grammysioidea occurring among the Amazon, Parnaíba and Paraná basins; Cypricardella and Sanguinolites in the Amazon, Paraná and Jatobá basins; Nuculites (Nuculites) in the Parnaíba, Paraná and Jatobá basins; and Spathella in the Amazonas, Parnaíba and Jatobá basins. The greater genera sharing was noted between the Amazon and Paraná basins (7 genera), followed by the Amazon and Parnaíba basins (5 genera), the Amazon and Jatobá basins (4 genera), Parnaíba basins and Paraná (3 genera), and Parnaíba and Jatobá basins (2 genera). This may have been due to the greater diversity of bivalves in the Amazon Basin, as well as the events of marine warm and extensive marine transgressions of the Middle and Upper Devonian recorded. Regarding species, Spathella pimentana, Grammysioidea lundi, Sanguinolites(?) karsteni, and Cucullella triquetra are found both in outcrops of the Amazonas Basin and in the Parnaíba Basin, while Nuculites aff N. oblongatus is in the Parnaíba and Jatobá basins, wich reveals a close connection among these basins during the Devonian.
BEŞERİ SERMAYE VE EKONOMİK BÜYÜME İLİŞKİSİ: ARDL EŞ- BÜTÜNLEŞME VE GRANGER NEDENSELLİK TESTİ, 1988-2019
Authors: KOÇ Emircan , ATAKİŞİ Ahmet
Published: December 2021

Ekonomik büyüme, ülke ekonomilerinin belirli bir dönemde sağladığı mal ile hizmet üretimindeki miktar artışı olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Ekonomik büyümenin ölçümü ile nedenlerinin tespitine yönelik literatürde birbirinden farklı çok fazla çalışma bulunmaktadır. Gelişmişliğin bilinmezlerinin tespitine yönelik araştırmaların sayısı da gün geçtikçe artmaktadır. Ekonomi politikalarının şekillendirilmesinde ve makro planların yapılmasında, ayrıca sermaye akışlarının yönlendirilmesinde, ülkelerin gösterdiği ekonomik büyüme performanslarının analizi, yatırımcılar açısından da ilgi uyandırmaktadır. Büyümenin oluşumunda yapılan araştırmalara katkı sağlamak amacıyla, fiziki sermayenin gelişimine etkileri bakımından, beşeri sermayenin analizi de dikkat çekici bir konu olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır.

Çalışma kapsamında ekonomik büyümenin kaynaklarından biri olarak görülen beşeri sermayenin etkileri, Türkiye Ekonomisi özelinde ve 1988-2019 yılları arasında edinilen verilerle değerlendirilmiştir. İki kavram arasındaki ilişki, ARDL Eş Bütünleşme ve Granger Nedensellik testleri kapsamında incelenmiştir. Araştırma süreci neticesinde edinilen sonuçların, literatürdeki bulgularla ilgili tespit edilen ortak yönleri de ayrıca vurgulanmıştır. Bu bağlamda, beşeri sermaye yoğunlaşmasının, fiziki sermaye oluşumunu pozitif yönde etkilediği görülmüştür. Bununla birlikte bürüt sermaye oluşumuyla, Gayrisafi Yurtiçi Hasıla (GSYH) arasında da çift yönlü bir nedensellik olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Ayrıca, beşeri sermayeden, bürüt sermaye ile GSYH’ya doğru olan ve tek yönlü bir nedensellik bulgusuna ulaşılmıştır.
Shopping Motivation and Green Consumption: A Study about Green Buying Behavior of Pakistani Consumers
Authors: Khan Imran , Bashir Furrukh , Ahmad Rashid , Ayub Muhammad
Published: December 2021

Natural resource depletion, increase in global population, climate change, and unsustainable consumption behaviors have all wreaked havoc on the ecosystem around the world. Increased consumption of green products is among the most effective strategies in adoption of sustainable consumption. The purpose of current research is to investigates the effect of shopping motivation (utilitarian) antecedents’ impact on utilitarian motivation and also discussed the mediating effect of utilitarian motivation on the association between utilitarian motivation antecedents and intention to purchase green products. Online survey was used to collect the data and SEM(structural equation modeling) was used to analyze data. The antecedents of shopping motivation (utilitarian) influence the intention of consumer about green buying. Four out of five hypothesis were supported. The findings of current research enable practitioners and managers to formulate strategies for sustainable consumption.