bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Empowerment, Social Justice, and Feminist Self-Defense
Authors: Jones Amy L. E. , Mattingly Katy
Published: March 2016

Empowerment-based self-defense (ESD) training is an effective intervention for the prevention of violence, can increase feelings of self-efficacy and confidence, can reduce levels of depression and anxiety, and is protective against traumatic stress symptoms, thereby reducing the harm of violence as well as its prevalence. Like other interventions developed from empowerment theory, ESD challenges the prevailing cultural narrative of weak, passive victims and strong, invulnerable perpetrators and instead helps students to discover and maximize their own strengths. The embodied empowerment it teaches can also be a powerful healing factor. ESD explicitly does not blame survivors for any violence they experience, instead it teaches individuals multiple options for confronting violence and affirms that defenders do the best they can with the tools they have at any given moment. Social workers are encouraged to explore ESD and consider adding it to their repertoire of interventions.
Functions of Aggression and Delinquency: The Moderating Role of Parent Criminality and Friends’ Gang Membership
Authors: Ang Rebecca P. , Huan Vivien S. , Li Xiang , Chan Wei Teng
Published: March 2016

This study examined the relationships between two functions of aggression (i.e., reactive and proactive) and delinquency, including the moderating effects of parent criminality and friends’ gang membership, in a sample of 1,027 Singaporean adolescents from Grade 7 to Grade 9, with age ranging from 12 to 19 years ( M = 14.10, SD = 1.15). Findings suggested that both reactive aggression and proactive aggression significantly and positively predicted delinquency (after controlling for proactive aggression and reactive aggression, respectively), with proactive aggression being a stronger predictor. Friends’ gang membership was found to moderate the relationship between reactive aggression and delinquency, and proactive aggression and delinquency, with stronger moderator effects for the latter. Those who were aggressive proactively and who had friends in a gang appear to be impacted most negatively with respect to delinquency. Parent criminality did not moderate these relationships. These findings highlight the need to effectively address the issues of child and adolescent aggression. Also, developing positive peer relations early is crucial for delinquency prevention.
Tying Knots With Communities
Authors: Kim Young-Il , Jang Sung Joon , Johnson Byron R.
Published: March 2016

Using data from a nationally representative sample of American adult males ( N = 2,512), this study examines (a) whether duration of membership in the Boy Scouts of America is associated with adult civic engagement and (b) whether five characteristics of positive youth development (confidence, competence, connection, character, and caring) account for the relationship between duration of Scouting membership and adult civic engagement. The results from structural equation modeling indicate that duration of participation in Scouting is positively associated with four indicators of civic engagement: community involvement, community volunteering, community activism, and environmental activism. Among the five positive characteristics, confidence and competence were found to fully mediate the effects of Scouting on all four types of civic engagement, whereas the other three only to partly mediate the effects.
Redistricting and Individual Contributions to Congressional Candidates
Authors: Crespin Michael , Edwards Barry
Published: March 2016

In this paper, we use redistricting to examine the relationship between representatives and a unique group of the public: individual campaign contributors. Our primary objective is to determine what happens to the contribution behavior of representatives and donors after district boundaries shift and the geographic ties between members and donors are undone. At the member level, we use a continuous measure of district change and examine twenty years of congressional elections. We find that as the geographic constituency changes, members receive larger shares of contributions from outside their districts. At the individual donor level, we match donors and contributions to districts before and after the 2012 round of redistricting. Here, we find donors who are drawn out of districts are less likely to support their “old” representative while contributors drawn into districts are more likely to give. At both levels, we find different results for Democrats and Republicans. Our findings suggest that representation can extend beyond Fenno’s geographic constituency and speak to issues related to democratic accountability in a geographic based system of government.
Nuclear Proliferation and the Use of Nuclear Options
Authors: Quek Kai
Published: March 2016

The causes and prevention of nuclear war are critical to human survival but difficult to study empirically, as observations of nuclear war do not actually exist in the real world. The literature on nuclear war has remained largely theoretical as a consequence. To circumvent the observational constraint, this article investigates the impact of proliferation with laboratory-based nuclear-option games that experimentally manipulate the number of players ( N) with a nuclear option. Results show that decisions are mostly peaceful in the dyadic N = 2 condition despite the existence of nuclear options with a relative first-strike advantage. However, a jump beyond N = 2 in the crisis interaction significantly sharpens the propensity to use the nuclear option. The findings highlight an avenue of research that evaluates mechanisms of nuclear war experimentally, moving research beyond the theoretical domain.
Putting the discourse to work: On outlining a praxis of democratic leadership development
Authors: Smolović Jones Sanela , Smolović Jones Owain , Winchester Nik , Grint Keith
Published: March 2016

This article offers a praxis of democratic leadership development, arguing that the framework presented can act as a means of rethinking how collective forms of leadership are developed within and between organisations. Building on notions of leadership development as process and person-based, we interpret these as contested, democratic and contingent discursive achievements in a process of developing. Post-foundationalist theory, particularly the work of Ernesto Laclau, is introduced as a means of ‘democratizing’ key dimensions of leadership development: working with ‘leadership’ and ‘democracy’ as empty-floating signifiers holding the potential to generate energetic engagements between leadership development participants. A framework consisting of four dimensions is introduced, with particular attention paid within each dimension to its practice relevance. First, we seek to democratise the leader-subject, reinterpreted as a contested and contingent signifying subject of discourse. Second, we seek to radicalise the process of development through foregrounding conflict and agonistic practice. Third, we introduce the notion of symbolic violence as a means of thinking about direction setting within development contexts. Fourth, we argue for development that pays attention to the unknown, to the gaps in discourse. We explore each dimension in relation to an illustrative example, a cross-organisational women’s group in the Pacific.
Social Communication Anxiety Treatment (S-CAT) for children and families with selective mutism: A pilot study
Authors: Klein Evelyn R , Armstrong Sharon Lee , Skira Kathryn , Gordon Janice
Published: March 2016

This research assessed the feasibility of Social Communication Anxiety Treatment (S-CAT) developed by Elisa Shipon-Blum, a brief multimodal approach, to increase social communication in 40 children aged 5–12 years with selective mutism (SM). SM is a disorder in which children consistently fail to speak in specific situations although they have the ability to do so. Key features of this approach are the SM-Social Communication Comfort Scale (SCCS), transfer of control (ToC), a nonchalant therapeutic style, and cognitive-behavioral strategies over a brief time frame. Following 9 weeks of treatment, children showed significant gains in speaking frequency on all 17 items from the Selective Mutism Questionnaire (SMQ), a standardized measure of SM severity. Children also showed decreased levels of anxiety and withdrawal as reported by parents on the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). SM initial symptom severity and family therapy compliance, but not duration of SM, contributed to treatment outcomes.
Domesticating the nation online: Banal nationalism on LGBTQ websites in Poland and Turkey
Authors: Szulc Lukasz
Published: March 2016

In this article I examine the intersections of queer sexualities and the nation online. In particular, I employ Billig’s concept of banal nationalism to investigate when and how the nation is flagged on the most popular LGBTQ websites in Poland and Turkey. The analysis focuses on both the mediation of nationhood through (re)producing the world as a world of nation and the mediation of particular nations through the coupling of queer symbolism with national symbolism. I conclude by proposing the concept of ‘domesticating the nation online’, which is a form of queering the nation via digital technology, though not to challenge hegemonic national discourses in a public debate but to make the nation more homely for queers themselves. Finally, I juxtapose the concept of banal nationalism with the US neo-imperial cultural logic to argue that domesticating the nation online plays an especially important role for queers beyond the USA.
Approaching analog amateur porn empirically: Video practices in Austrian swinger classifieds, 1981–1990
Authors: Pia Hofer Kristina
Published: March 2016

This article traces the impact of analog video technologies on amateur pornography as a practice and an object of exchange during the 1980s. Since actual amateur pornographic videos from this period are often lost, the article approaches the field via classifieds posted in a major Austrian contact magazine, Österreichisches Kontakt Magazin ( ÖKM). Addressing several hundred classifieds posted between 1981 and 1900 with content analysis and close reading, it problematizes the claim that analog video technology afforded audiovisuals that were more private, documentary and authentic than similar works produced for present-day markets.
When passion isn’t enough: gender, affect and credibility in digital games design
Authors: Harvey Alison , Shepherd Tamara
Published: March 2016

Recent controversies around identity and diversity in digital games culture indicate the heightened affective terrain for participants within this creative industry. While work in digital games production has been characterized as a form of passionate, affective labour, this article examines its specificities as a constraining and enabling force. Affect, particularly passion, serves to render forms of game development oriented towards professionalization and support of the existing industry norms as credible and legitimate, while relegating other types of participation, including that by women and other marginalized creators, to subordinate positions within hierarchies of production. Using the example of a women-in-games initiative in Montreal as a case study, we indicate how linkages between affect and competencies, specifically creativity and technical abilities, perpetuate a long-standing delegitimization of women’s work in digital game design.
Why symbolic representation frames parliamentary public engagement
Authors: Leston-Bandeira Cristina
Published: March 2016

Research Highlights and Abstract

The UK Parliament’s activity in public engagement has recently expanded considerably. Faced with declining levels of trust, it has invested considerable time and resources to new activities focusing specifically on engagement: educational resources and cultural events among many others. This embodies a new role for parliament of increasing importance particularly in the context of the 21st-century parliament. But it is an area that still requires further study, as we know little about the role performed by parliamentary public engagement. This article explores the institution’s aims in developing public engagement and reflects on the extent to which this embodies elements of symbolic representation. We utilise different theories on representation to develop a framework to understand the role played by public engagement in the 21st-century context. We then employ this perspective to analyse the aims and characteristics of public engagement activity in the UK Parliament. Besides a normative reflection on representation and engagement, our article is based on qualitative research which included elite in-depth interviews with parliamentary officials complemented by documentary analysis. Our research shows that public engagement planning in the UK Parliament aims to develop among the public a sense of connectivity that relies on more collective and symbolic forms of representation, which seek to present the institution detached from its actors and politics.

The UK Parliament’s activity in public engagement has recently expanded considerably. Faced with declining levels of trust, it has invested considerable time and resources to new activities focusing specifically on engagement: educational resources and cultural events among many others. This embodies a new role for parliament of increasing importance particularly in the context of the 21st-century parliament. This article analyses the aims of public engagement and its consequences for representation. We explore the potential representative role of public engagement, identifying key changes that have affected the relationship between public and parliament. We utilise evidence from documentary analysis and elite in-depth interviews with parliamentary officials to show that public engagement planning aims to develop among the public a sense of connectivity that relies on more collective and symbolic forms of representation, which seek to present the institution detached from its actors and politics. We utilise constructivist representation theories to support our analysis.
Itineraries of consumption: Co-producing leisure shopping sites in Rimini
Authors: Rabbiosi Chiara
Published: March 2016

This article proposes a spatial approach to tourism and consumption as it emerges through leisure shopping. The notion ‘itineraries of consumption’ is offered to underline the emergence of tourists’ multiple shopping patterns in a single tourist destination. Itineraries of consumption produce, connect and transform shoppingscapes and tourismscapes. Tourism consumption research has expanded over the past 15 years in the social sciences and humanities. This article continues previous debates on consumer culture and tourism studies by debating about the nexus between shopping and tourism as a co-productive realm. In particular, the joint performances of tourists, retailers and tour operators in Rimini (Italy) are considered as a way to understand leisure shopping in a location that used to be primarily associated with seaside-oriented mass tourism. The geometries and geographies of power evident in emerging tourism networks are also discussed.
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for failed tPA therapy of pulmonary embolism
Authors: Newman Joshua , Park David , Manetta Frank
Published: March 2016

Background:

Pulmonary embolism may cause cardiac arrest secondary to obstruction of blood flow. Traditional treatment strategies include anticoagulation, thrombolysis, and mechanical extraction. Some advocate for support with extra corporeal membrane oxygenation; however, surgical therapies are contraindicated following thrombolytics.

Methods:

We describe the emergent use of peripheral extra corporeal membrane oxygenation following thrombolytic therapy for a saddle pulmonary embolism associated with multiple episodes of cardiac arrest.

Results:

The patient was stabilized with peripheral extra corporeal membrane oxygenation, anticoagulated and subsequently weaned from extra corporeal membrane oxygenation without any major bleeding complications.

Conclusion:

The administration of thrombolytics should not be a contraindication for extra corporeal membrane oxygenation in patients with massive pulmonary embolism associated with hemodynamic instability.
1-year follow-up of neurofeedback treatment in adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: randomised controlled trial
Authors: Bink Marleen , Bongers Ilja L. , Popma Arne , Janssen Tieme W. P. , Nieuwenhuizen Chijs van
Published: March 2016

Background

Estimates of the effectiveness of neurofeedback as a treatment for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are mixed.

Aims

To investigate the long-term additional effects of neurofeedback (NFB) compared with treatment as usual (TAU) for adolescents with ADHD.

Method

Using a multicentre parallel-randomised controlled trial design, 60 adolescents with a DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of ADHD receiving NFB+TAU (n=41) or TAU (n=19) were followed up. Neurofeedback treatment consisted of approximately 37 sessions of theta/sensorimotor rhythm (SMR)-training on the vertex (Cz). Outcome measures included behavioural self-reports and neurocognitive measures. Allocation to the conditions was unmasked.

Results

At 1-year follow-up, inattention as reported by adolescents was decreased (range ηp2=0.23–0.36, P<0.01) and performance on neurocognitive tasks was faster (range ηp2=0.20–0.67, P<0.005) irrespective of treatment group.

Conclusions

Overall, NFB+TAU was as effective as TAU. Given the absence of robust additional effects of neurofeedback in the current study, results do not support the use of theta/SMR neurofeedback as a treatment for adolescents with ADHD and comorbid disorders in clinical practice.
Constipation and haemorrhoids: A midwifery perspective for the childbearing continuum
Authors: Lamb Kathryn , Sanders Ruth
Published: March 2016

Minor disorders of pregnancy and the puerperium can be debilitating, and have an impact on a woman's physical and emotional wellbeing during her transition into motherhood. Constipation and haemorrhoids are among the most common of these disorders and can arise or worsen during pregnancy and the puerperium. Due to the embarrassing nature of these disorders, women may be reluctant to seek midwifery or medical assistance and may perceive constipation and haemorrhoids as something normal to be tolerated. However, if left untreated these disorders could progress and worsen, becoming pathological and potentially leading to chronic lifelong impairment. As frontline practitioners, midwives are key in ensuring gastrointestinal wellbeing through enabling disclosure, educating women, swiftly referring when required and ensuring appropriate management. This review of relevant literature explores both constipation and haemorrhoids from the viewpoint of the midwife, including the importance of midwifery knowledge, recognition and management of the disorders in both pregnancy and the puerperium.
Pre-Vocational Education in Seven European Countries: A Comparison of Curricular Embedding and Implementation in Schools
Authors: Pilz Matthias , Berger Susanne , Canning Roy
Published: March 2016

This paper presents a comparative research project on pre-vocational education in lower secondary schools in seven European countries. The primary aim of the study was to better understand how the formal pre-vocational education curriculum is interpreted and shaped by individual teachers. The countries covered are Austria, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Portugal and Scotland. Two research methods have been used. First, a content analysis of the relevant curricula was carried out, focussing on how, and to what extent, pre-vocational education competencies are embedded in the official curriculum in the seven countries covered by the study. Second, 75 teachers took part in qualitative expert interviews about their implementation of the relevant curriculum. This research builds upon previous studies in education and employment and in particular, on a theoretical framework that explores the differences between the ‘prescribed’ curriculum and the ‘enacted’ curriculum. This study will argue that, although it is possible to identify a distinct pre-vocational curriculum within each region in the seven countries, this curriculum is, in practice, taught very differently within the schools and that the differences in curriculum implementation can be explained, amongst other factors, by the availability of resources and the initial and further training of teachers.
Numerical Assessment of a One-Mass Spring-Based Electromagnetic Energy Harvester on a Vibrating Object
Authors: Chiu Min-Chie , Chang Ying-Chun , Yeh Long-Jyi , Chung Chiu-Hung
Published: March 2016

The paper is an exploration of the optimal design parameters of a space-constrained electromagnetic vibration-based generator. An electromagnetic energy harvester is composed of a coiled polyoxymethylen circular shell, a cylindrical NdFeB magnet, and a pair of helical springs. The magnet is vertically confined between the helical springs that serve as a vibrator. The electrical power connected to the coil is actuated when the energy harvester is vibrated by an external force causing the vibrator to periodically move through the coil. The primary factors of the electrical power generated from the energy harvester include a magnet, a spring, a coil, an excited frequency, an excited amplitude, and a design space. In order to obtain maximal electrical power during the excitation period, it is necessary to set the system’s natural frequency equal to the external forcing frequency. There are ten design factors of the energy harvester including the magnet diameter (Dm), the magnet height (Hm), the system damping ratio (ζsys), the spring diameter (Ds), the diameter of the spring wire (ds), the spring length (ℓs), the pitch of the spring (ps), the spring’s number of revolutions (Ns), the coil diameter (Dc), the diameter of the coil wire (dc), and the coil’s number of revolutions (Nc). Because of the mutual effects of the above factors, searching for the appropriate design parameters within a constrained space is complicated. Concerning their geometric allocation, the above ten design parameters are reduced to four (Dm, Hm, ζsys, and Nc). In order to search for optimal electrical power, the objective function of the electrical power is maximized by adjusting the four design parameters (Dm, Hm, ζsys, and Nc) via the simulated annealing method.

Consequently, the optimal design parameters of Dm, Hm, ζsys, and Nc that produce maximum electrical power for an electromagnetic energy harvester are found.
Theoretical and experimental analysis of scan angle-depending pulse front tilt in optical systems for laser scanners
Authors: Büsing Lasse , Bonhoff Tobias , Behnke Lars , Stollenwerk Jochen , Loosen Peter
Published: March 2016

For realising fast and highly dynamical laser-based material processing, scanner systems are already utilised for many different industrial applications. Furthermore, ultra-short pulsed (<1 ps) laser sources provide possibilities of processing most different materials with highest accuracy. Owing to the large spectral bandwidth of ultra-short laser pulses, dispersion in optical components becomes relevant. The dispersion in optical systems for laser scanners may lead to scan angle-depending pulse properties as, for example, pulse front tilt. The investigation of these effects is not state of the art today but absolutely necessary to exploit the full potential of laser scanners for ultra-short pulse applications. By means of an exemplary focusing lens, the simulation and experimental analysis of scan angle-depending pulse front tilt is presented for the first time.
Placental massive perivillous fibrinoid deposition is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes: a clinicopathological study of 12 cases
Authors: Qi Maili , En Chang Kenneth Tou , Quan Lian Derrick Wen , Khoo Chong Kiat , Tan Kok Hian
Published: March 2016

Introduction: Massive perivillous fibrinoid deposition (MPFD) is a very rare placental condition characterized by abnormally extensive fibrinoid deposition in the placental villous parenchyma. The aim of this study is to document clinical and pathological features with special focus on pregnancy outcomes of this condition in consecutive cases of MPFD in our local population.

Methods: This is a retrospective clinico-pathological study of cases affected by MPFD over the period January 2010–July 2014 in our hospital. We document clinical features (including perinatal outcome and subsequent pregnancies) and placental pathological characteristics.

Results: Twelve cases of MPFD were identified among 3640 placentas (0.33%). There was no identified recurrence. The affected infants had adverse outcomes, including intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) (75%), preterm birth (58.3%), and fetal loss (25%). A high frequency of reduced PAPP-A in the first trimester (25%), and concurrent gestational hypertension or pre-eclampsia (25%) was noted.

Conclusion: MPFD is associated with adverse perinatal outcomes. Further research to better understand its pathogenesis and to improve clinical diagnosis and management is warranted.
Convergence of modified S-iteration process for two asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive type mappings in CAT(0) spaces
Authors: Saluja G. S.
Published: March 2016

The purpose of this paper is to study convergence of a newly defined modified S-iteration process to a common fixed point of two asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive type mappings in the setting of CAT(0) space. We give a suffcient condition for convergence to a common fixed point and establish some strong convergence theorems for the said iteration process and mappings under suitable conditions. Our results extend and improve many known results from the existing literature.
Vashti and Sita: The Daring Sisters We Could Trust
Authors: Kebaneilwe Mmapula D. , Motswapong Pulane E.
Published: March 2016

The aim of this paper is to make a comparison between two female figures from two different religions. Vashti is one of the unsung heroines in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible, while Sita in the Book of Ramayana is a revered female figure among Hindus. The tales of these women seem to display similarities in the ideals they embody and hence we endeavour to read them together. We wish to explore the extent to which Vashti and Sita’s tales of female courage and daring could inspire women today who continue to suffocate under oppressive patriarchal contexts. This is relevant to the context of Botswana, where despite global efforts to bend gender-based inequality, women continue to be victimised.
Interrogating Urban Spaces: Kali and the Intellectual in two Contemporary Novels
Authors: Raducanu Adriana
Published: March 2016

This article focuses on the complexity of the encounter between two Western male writers and the East as represented by the metropolis of Calcutta and Kali, its patron goddess. The novels under discussion are Dan Simmons’ Song of Kali and Paul Theroux’s A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta. The theoretical framework of the comparative analysis argues for the conceptual blurring of boundaries between ‘flâneur’ and ‘badaud’, elusive hypostases of the male writer protagonists in the Eastern urban context.
Causes of hospitalization and characteristics of UC in a population-based cohort in Romania (2014-2015): are there any differences in comparison with the Hungarian population?
Authors: Dimitriu Anca , Iacob Razvan , Necula Simona , Cojocaru Monica , Gheorghe Cristian , Diculescu Mircea , Gheorghe Liliana
Published: March 2016

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Recovery from LCDD-associated Severe Liver Cholestasis: a Case Report and Literature Review
Authors: Brilland Benoit , Sayegh Johnny , Croue Anne , Bridoux Frank , Subra Jean-François , Augusto Jean-François
Published: March 2016

Light chain deposition disease (LCDD) is a rare multisystemic disorder associated with plasma cell proliferation. It mainly affects the kidney, but liver and heart involvement may occur, sometimes mimicking the picture of systemic amyloidosis. Liver disease in LCDD is usually asymptomatic and exceptionally manifests with severe cholestatic hepatitis. We report the case of a 66-year-old female with κ-LCDD and cast nephropathy in the setting of symptomatic multiple myeloma who, after a first cycle of bortezomib-dexamethasone chemotherapy, developed severe and rapidly worsening intrahepatic cholestasis secondary to liver κ-light chain deposition. Intrahepatic cholestasis was attributed to LCDD on the basis of the liver histology and exclusion of possible diagnoses. Chemotherapy was maintained and resulted in progressive resolution of cholestasis. We report here an uncommon presentation of LCDD, with prominent liver involvement that fully recovered with bortezomib-based chemotherapy, and briefly review the relevant literature.

Abbreviations: AKI: Acute kidney injury; ALP: alkaline phosphatase; ALT: alanine aminotransferase; AST: aspartate aminotransferase; CMV: Cytomegalovirus; EBV: Epstein–Barr virus; GGT: gamma-glutamyl transferase; HSV: Herpes simplex virus; LC: light chain; LCDD: Light chain deposition disease; MIDD: Monoclonal immunoglobulin deposition disease; MM: Multiple myeloma.
Flecainide-Responsive Myotonia Permanens With SNEL Onset: A New Case and Literature Review
Authors: Portaro Simona , Rodolico Carmelo , Sinicropi Stefano , Musumeci Olimpia , Valenzise Mariella , Toscano Antonio
Published: March 2016

Sodium channel myotonias are inherited muscle diseases linked to mutations in the voltage-gated sodium channel. These diseases may also affect newborns with variable symptoms. More recently, severe neonatal episodic laryngospasm (SNEL) has been described in a small number of patients. A timely diagnosis of SNEL is crucial because a specific treatment is now available that will likely reduced laryngospasm and improve vital and cerebral outcomes. We report here on an 8-year-old girl who had presented, at birth, with SNEL who subsequently developed myotonia permanens starting at age 3 years. Results of molecular analysis revealed a de novo SCN4A G1306E mutation. The girl was treated with carbamazepine, acetazolamide, and mexiletine, with little improvement; after switching her treatment to flecainide, she experienced a dramatic reduction in muscle stiffness and myotonic symptoms as well as an improvement in behavior.
Реалізація дериваційної спроможності відсубстантивних дієслів зі значенням «діяти інструментом, названим твірною основою»
Authors: Кушлик Оксана
Published: March 2016

This paper analyzes the derivation capability of verbs motivated by substantives with the word-formation meaning ‘to work with a tool, named by a word-forming noun’ with suffix -ува-/-юва- in the Ukrainian language. The author claims that the typical word-forming paradigm is formed of three word-formation zones: substantive, adjective, and verbal. Within each zone, a continuum of word-forming derivatives is distinguished, a set of word-forming devices for their realizations is determined, and the abilities of some of them to express additional lexical meanings are traced.
Глагол вскричать: всегда ли права статистика?
Authors: Федосов Олег
Published: March 2016

The present study focuses on a single Russian verb вскричать. This verb was the object of statistical analysis of lexical vocabulary changes in 19th-century Russian prose by A. Shaikevich (2013). His paper presents the results of the analysis of small historical corpora. The size of the corpus is about 25 million words. Shaikevich’s statistical data have shown that this verb had almost disappeared by the end of the 19th century. In our study, the analysis of the historical and modern usage of the verb вскричать was done with the help of the large Russian National Corpus (230 million words), and all the examples were taken from 19th- and 20th-century texts. Our analysis has shown that this verb was very frequent in the language of some writers (e.g. F. Dostoyevsky), while L. Tolstoy did not use it at all. In the 20th century, the verb вскричать became quite frequent again for numerous writers. In recent times, poets and journalists have also used it as a marked stylistic device.
Tópicos de história do português pelo viés da gramaticalização
Authors: Lopes Célia Regina dos Santos
Published: March 2016

O objetivo desse artigo é discutir os conceitos básicos do fenômeno da gramaticalização, aplicando-os a fenômenos de mudança na história do português. A proposta de cunho didático baseia-se na versão mais clássica do paradigma da gramaticalização abordando, principalmente, a perda e adoção de propriedades morfossintáticas nos processos de recategorização. Além dos exemplos recorrentemente utilizados na discussão do fenômeno de gramaticalização (amare habeo > amarei; nome mente > sufixo adverbial), outros fenômenos relevantes para a história do português são abordados: a pronominalização de nominais (gente > a gente, Vossa Mercê > você) e a formação de juntivos/conjunções/conectores a partir de advérbios. A análise dos casos escolhidos comprova que a gramaticalização não é um processo que possa extinguir, mesmo nos estágios cronologicamente mais avançados. As descrições apresentadas evidenciam que, nos processos de gramaticalização, há sempre permanências ou resquícios de etapas anteriores. A identificação de propriedades formais e semânticas que persistem nos itens/construções gramaticalizadas ajuda a compreender algumas aparentes idiossincrasias comuns a categorias gramaticais oriundas de processos de gramaticalização.
Aspectos constitucionais da responsabilidade civil do incapaz
Authors: Abreu Celia Barbosa
Published: March 2016

A proposta do artigo é registrar a evolução do tema responsabilidade civil do incapaz, a fim de melhor compreendê-lo atualmente. Destaca-se a insuficiência de um estudo restrito às normas do Código Civil e propõe-se o seu desenvolvimento em um cenário onde a Constituição ocupa a posição central das relações de direito privado.
A hermenêutica dos direitos fundamentais à luz do pós-positivismo e do neoconstitucionalismo.
Authors: Lunardi Fabrício Castagna
Published: March 2016

O presente artigo científico tem por objetivo precípuo a análise dos novos paradigmas para a hermenêutica e para a aplicação dos direitos fundamentais à luz da pós-modernidade, do pós-positivismo e do neoconstitucionalismo. Abordam-se o positivismo jurídico e as mudanças científicas causadas pela era da pós-modernidade. Discorre-se, também, sobre o novo paradigma pós-positivista, sobretudo pelas lentes de Habermas, Dworkin e Alexy. Nesse ínterim, traçam-se os marcos teóricos do neoconstitucionalismo, abordam-se construtivamente a interpretação, a criação e a recriação do direito pelo juiz e pela sociedade aberta, bem como os novos critérios hermenêuticos da interpretação constitucional. Por fim, trata-se criticamente dos novos paradigmas para a interpretação e a aplicação dos direitos fundamentais.
A inclusão digital no Brasil e a responsabilidade civil estatal por omissão
Authors: De Andrade Fábio Siebeneichler , Acioli Catarine Gonçalves
Published: March 2016

As inovações tecnológicas e a caracterização da sociedade da informação geraram o reconhecimento da liberdade de informação como direito prestacional, razão pela qual sua efetividade criou deveres jurídicos estatais para proteger a segurança das informações digitais e promover o acesso igualitário às tecnologias da informação, cujo cumprimento não tem sido realizado com eficiência. Uma forma para afastar essa omissão estatal consiste na busca pela responsabilidade civil extracontratual objetiva do Estado. Contudo, a ausência de leis sobre políticas públicas de inclusão digital não tem possibilitado maiores avanços nesse âmbito, o que tem ocasionado um déficit no desenvolvimento econômico e tecnológico brasileiro.
25 anos de Constituição Federal de 1988: reflexões jurídicas, sociais e políticas
Authors: Pazó Cristina Grobério
Published: March 2016

Editorial
Derecho humano al agua y principio de unidad de gestión
Authors: Domínguez Alonso Alma Patricia
Published: March 2016

El trabajo analiza el reciente reconocimiento a nivel internacional delDerecho humano al agua, que ha abierto una nueva perspectiva desdela que abordar el uso y gestión de este decisivo recurso para la vidaen el planeta. Un agua potable limpia y el saneamiento son esencialespara la realización de todos los derechos humanos. En este sentido,revista mucha importancia el principio de unidad de gestión de lasaguas, que supone que las aguas de una misma cuenca -en cuantoforman un conjunto integrado- sean gestionadas de forma homogénea.El objetivo de un buen estado de las aguas debe perseguirse en cadacuenca hidrográfica, de modo que se coordinen las medidas relativasa las aguas superficiales y las aguas subterráneas pertenecientes almismo sistema ecológico, hidrológico e hidrogeológico.
Violencia de género en América Latina: aproximaciones desde la criminologia feminista / Violência de gênero na América Latina: aproximações a partir da criminologia feminista
Authors: Skulj Agustina Iglesias
Published: March 2016

El objetivo de este artículo reside en hacer un análisis crítico respecto de las intervenciones penales en materia de violencia de género en la actualidad. Para ello se propone un recorrido genealógico de los distintos momentos del movimiento feminista y de los diferentes significados de la categoría género y la forma en que éstos últimos han sido incluídos en los análisis criminológicos de las últimas décadas. Si bien este artículo utiliza el género como categoría de análisis en el ámbito de la criminología su objeto es más amplio; se trata entonces de analizar los novedosos aportes llevados a cabo por las teorías postcoloniales y queer para la construcción de nuevas perspectivas desde las cuales abordar las relaciones entre las mujeres y el poder penal.
O "gerencialismo gauche" e a crítica criminológica que não teme dizer seu nome / The “gauche managerialism” and the critical criminology that does not fear say its name
Authors: Carvalho Salo de
Published: March 2016

O ensaio procura analisar o desconforto que o exercício do controle social representa para a criminologia crítica, sobretudo a partir do momento em que, na América Latina, vive-se a experiência de governos de esquerda. A investigação é direcionada à análise das políticas criminais alternativas contemporâneas e à reflexão sobre o papel (e o compromisso) dos criminólogos críticos no enfrentamento das graves e sistemáticas violações aos direitos humanos produzidas na era do populismo punitivo. Em última análise, o ensaio problematiza importante questão apresentada, na década de 90, por Lola Aniyar de Castro: “vale a pena [ao criminólogo crítico] assumir o exercício do poder?”
Neoliberalismo socioeconômico e mutações jurídicas do Estado moderno: o Estado Plurinacional boliviano
Authors: Botelho Martinho Martins , Winter Luís Alexandre Carta
Published: March 2016

O objetivo do presente artigo é analisar as recentes modificações no ordenamento jurídico constitucional boliviano, no que tange à institucionalização do Estado Plurinacional, criado a partir do diálogo maior entre a democracia cultural, o direito e as instituições econômicas. Em 2009, fora aprovada a Constituição Política do Estado Plurinacional de Bolívia, depois de manifestação por meio de referendo. O legado da nova Constituição Política boliviana reside no desligamento com o antigo regime mais corporativista e voltado para a difusão de um ideal neoliberal socioeconômico.  A compreensão da nova categoria constitucional poderá contribuir para o levantamento de elementos que possibilitem a compreensão de novas mutações constitucionais e intervenções jurídicas na sociedade do século XXI. O presente artigo busca refletir sobre a recente crise do Estado boliviano e na institucionalização do Estado Plurinacional como uma demanda social para a superação das ideias neoliberais.
SKUTECZNOŚĆ SYSTEMU HANDLU EMISJAMI UNII EUROPEJSKIEJ W ZAKRESIE REDUKCJI EMISJI GAZÓW CIEPLARNIANYCH
Authors: Nadolny Łukasz
Published: March 2016

System Handlu Emisjami (ETS) funkcjonuje w Unii Europejskiej od 2005 roku. Jego celem jest redukcja emisji gazów cieplarnianych wytwarzanych na obszarze UE w efektywny pod względem kosztów i skuteczny gospodarczo sposób. Główną zasadą tego mechanizmu jest ograniczenie ilości wytwarzanych przez Państwa Członkowskie zanieczyszczeń powietrza poprzez wydawanie pozwoleń, którymi uczestnicy systemu mogą swobodnie handlować. Kluczowe pytanie jakie zostało postawione w artykule to czy system EU ETS był wystarczająco skuteczny w zakresie redukcji emisji gazów cieplarnianych w okresie 2005-2012 i jakie są perspektywy na przyszłość. W pierwszej części artykułu przedstawione zostały podstawowe zasady Systemu Handlu Emisjami Unii Europejskiej. Następnie analiza danych statystycznych pozwala zaobserwować jak EU ETS działał jako mechanizm rynkowy w okresie 2005-2012 i jakie były zmiany w emisjach gazów cieplarnianych w tym samym czasie. Daje to czytelnikowi obraz tego jak efektywny był to system i czego można się spodziewać w kolejnych latach.
Jakość wody pitnej w Polsce
Authors: Kłos Lidia
Published: March 2016

Wprowadzenie: Pytanie, czy w Polsce wszyscy obywatele mają zapewniony dostęp do bezpiecznej i czystej wody, nie jest retoryczne. Z badań przeprowadzonych przez TNS OBOP[1] w 2009 r. wynika, że ponad 60% Polaków nie ma do niej zaufania i boi się ją pić bez przegotowania. Woda płynąca z kranów, chociaż powszechnie dostępna, oceniana jest jako zbyt zanieczyszczona, nadmiernie nasycona fluorem lub nie posiadająca odpowiednich walorów konsumpcyjnych (kolor, zapach i smak).Obecne systemy uzdatniania wody potrafią je wyeliminować, jednakże samo uzdatnianie, dokonywane w Polsce przede wszystkim za pomocą procesu chlorowania wody, zdecydowanie pogarsza jej jakość w stosunku do wody naturalnie czystej. W efekcie coraz mniej Polaków pije wodę surową, bezpośrednio z kranu, coraz częściej też nawet do gotowania potraw używana jest kupowana w sklepach woda butelkowana, ponieważ społeczeństwo nie ma zaufania do bezpieczeństwa wody dostarczanej im przez wodociągi miejskie. Pytanie brzmi: Czy słusznie?     Metody badań i wyniki: Artykuł przedstawia analizę stanu w zakresie jakości wody pitnej oraz stopnia dostępu do sieci wodociągowo-kanalizacyjnej w Polsce. W tym celu wykorzystano metodę analizy wtórnej danych statystycznych dostępnych w materiałach Głównego Urzędu Statystycznego w Warszawie, danych źródłowych Izby Gospodarczej Wodociągi Polskie w Bydgoszczy oraz Krajowego Zarządu Gospodarki Wodnej w Warszawie. Otrzymane wyniki pozwolą na ocenę stopnia zwodociągowania i skanalizowania kraju oraz sformułowanie wniosków w zakresie jakości dostępnej wody dla mieszkańców.Słowa kluczowe: jakość wody, zwodociągowanie, skanalizowanie.[1] Agencja badawcza zajmująca się badaniem opinii publicznej.
Polscy emigranci w późnym wieku
Authors: Kałuża-Kopias Dorota
Published: March 2016

Celem niniejszego opracowania jest rozpoznanie skali emigracji starszych mieszkańców Polski w XXI wieku. Na wstępie przedstawiono wypracowane w literaturze przedmiotu koncepcje wyjaśniające mechanizmy migracji seniorów. Analizując rzeczywiste przemieszczenia seniorów, skupiono się głównie na pokazaniu skali emigracji oraz głównych kierunków przemieszczeń. Analiza została oparta o dane dotyczące emigracji na stałe z kraju w latach 2002-2013 dostępnych na stronie Głównego Urzędu Statystycznego (GUS). Wynik analizy wskazują, że starsi Polacy stanowią niewielki, względnie stały w ostatnich latach odsetek emigrantów. Emigrującu seniorzy to najczęściej osoby będące w związkach małżeńskich, charakteryzujący się niskim poziomem wykształcenia.Słowa kluczowe: migracje osób starszych, demografia, emigracja
Zróżnicowanie zaawansowania starości demograficznej na obszarze województwa łódzkiego
Authors: Majdzińska Anna
Published: March 2016

Głównym celem artykułu jest analiza zmian w strukturze wieku populacji województwa łódzkiego, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem procesu starzenia się ludności. Badanie to zostało przeprowadzone na początku pierwszej i drugiej dekady XXI wieku oraz w niedalekiej przyszłości na poziomie powiatów i gmin. Dodatkowo, dla wskazania szerszego kontekstu przemian w tym względzie, analizy na poziomie województwa zaprezentowane zostały dla lat 1995-2013. Tło dla tych rozważań stanowi przedstawienie obecnej sytuacji w zakresie struktury wieku populacji pozostałych województw Polski.
Ocena przydatności archiwalnych materiałów kartograficznych dla analiz paleopowierzchni wykonywanych w technikach GIS na obszarze Polski Środkowej
Authors: Szmidt Aleksander
Published: March 2016

Podczas badań paleogeograficznych często istnieje potrzeba odwołania się do opracowań kartograficznych wydanych w formie drukowanej. Aby je wprowadzić do Systemów Informacji Geograficznej (GIS) należy dokonać ich oceny i weryfikacji, co warunkuje prowadzenie poprawnych analiz oraz stawianie właściwych wniosków. Zagadnienie to jest szczególnie istotne, kiedy istnieje potrzeba scalenia danych z wielu źródeł. W artykule tym przedstawiono ocenę możliwości wykorzystania w systemach GIS dla obszaru Polski Środkowej danych z profili wiertniczych oraz archiwalnych materiałów kartograficznych w postaci map i szkiców geologicznych, publikowanych jako samodzielne opracowania i jako załączniki zamieszczone w monografiach i artykułach naukowych.
A Practitioners Perspective On The Role Of A Third-Party Logistics Provider
Authors: Green Forrest B. , Turner Will , Roberts Stephanie , Nagendra Ashwini , Wininger Eric
Published: March 2016

Most studies of logistics look at needs from the perspective of the hiring firm. This paper does that, but further examines the role of a third-party logistics provider by looking at services from the practitioner’s perspective.
Efecto de un anticuerpo monoclonal anti CD20 (Rituximab) en trombocitopenia inmune.
Authors: Untama José , Del Carpio Daniel
Published: March 2016

Objetivo: Describir la respuesta terapéutica con un anticuerpo monoclonal anti CD20 (Rituximab), en pacientes con Trombocitopenia Inmune (PTI). Material y métodos: Estudio retrospectivo, descriptivo y observacional tipo serie de casos. Se revisaron las historias clínicas de pacientes adultos con PTI que recibieron el anticuerpo monoclonal anti CD20 (Rituximab), desde diciembre 2005 hasta diciembre 2010. Se definió respuesta: conteo plaquetario >30 mil, por lo menos duplicar el conteo plaquetario inicial y no signos de sangrado, y respuesta completa: conteo plaquetario >100 mil y no signos de sangrado. Resultados: Se evaluaron 24 cursos de tratamiento. Hubo respuesta en 18 (75%), en una media de 11,9 semanas (rango 0,7 – 37,4), la duración media de respuesta fue 16 meses (rango 3,3 – 55,3). Se mantuvo la respuesta obtenida en 12 pacientes, seguimiento promedio de 22 meses (rango 4 - 62). Se logró respuesta completa en 13/23 (60%) casos, en una media de 17 semanas (rango 0,7 – 62,3), con una duración media de respuesta completa de 10,1 meses (rango 2,3 – 25,2), 5 casos mantuvieron respuesta completa con una media de seguimiento de 20 meses (rango 8 – 29). Conclusiones: Se obtuvo una alta tasa de respuesta al tratamiento con Rituximab (hasta 75%) en casos de PTI que fallaron al menos a una línea de tratamiento.
‘Where Have All the Students Gone?’ Absenteeism in a Turkish State University English Language Preparatory Year
Authors: Trotman Wayne
Published: March 2016

Research presented here adopted a mixed method approach to data gathering in order to provide a case study that investigated reasons for students in a higher education context in Turkey failing the year due to repeated absenteeism. A survey administered to 109 students and 43 teachers revealed varying reasons and perceptions of why students were absent from language lessons. Individual and follow-up interviews with ten students revealed how absence was due largely to logistical and personal problems, principally commitment and motivation, rather than those related to learning or teaching, which reflects Longhurst (1999). Based upon these points, it is clear that in order to maximise language learning opportunities in the university preparatory year, the issue of both potential and actual students failing due to absenteeism (SFDA) requires urgent address.