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Abra a felicidade – O discurso da Coca-Cola no caso “rato na garrafa”: Consumo, cotidiano e sujeito
Authors: Rossi Jéssica De Cássia , Silva Marcelo Da
Published: May 2016

Ao considerar a sociedade de consumo presenteísta, efêmera e fugaz, este artigo visa compreender o discurso da Coca-Cola diante de uma acusação judicial feita por um consumidor em 2013. Para tanto, apresentamos reflexões que caracterizam a lógica de consumo na sociedade contemporânea, a qual pode determinar a cotidianidade dos sujeitos. Por meio da análise de discurso organizacional problematizamos o caso “rato na garrafa”, apontando alguns dos desafios que as relações de consumo impõem às marcas, evidenciando certo despreparo frente a novas demandas coletivas.
Diretrizes para pensar a midiatização dos rituais de consumo nas telenovelas brasileiras
Authors: Mauro Rosana , Trindade Eneus
Published: May 2016

O artigo busca contextualizar a telenovela nos estudos que abordam a midiatização, de modo geral, e, mais especificamente, a midiatização do consumo. O objetivo é trazer possíveis desdobramentos de pesquisa sobre o assunto pela perspectiva da representação dos rituais cotidianos de consumo nas telenovelas. Pretende-se discutir, brevemente, estudos que trazem novos horizontes de pesquisa na área, como o do pesquisador Andreas Hepp (2014), e suas possíveis aplicabilidades na telenovela brasileira.
A midiatização da cultura e da sociedade: Os estudos nórdicos de midiatização e os caminhos para a apropriação brasileira
Authors: Souza Lívia Silva de
Published: May 2016

Resenha do Livro:HJARVARD, Stig. A midiatização da cultura e da sociedade. São Leopoldo: Editora Unisinos, 2014.
Consumo de videogames: Algumas preferências e motivações para jogar
Authors: Petry Arlete Dos Santos
Published: May 2016

Este artigo trata de responder quais são as preferências e as motivações para o consumo de jogos digitais. Para tal, parte de um estudo realizado com uma amostra de 182 jogadores estudantes universitários e de entrevistas respondidas por 5 pesquisadores da área. Ainda, objetivando discutir os dados encontrados, apresenta dados de outras pesquisas com um propósito semelhante. Aponta para a existência de tendências relacionadas a idade, traços de personalidade, atividade laboral, em termos de interesses e motivações para seu consumo.
Games: Entretenimento, mídia e cultura
Authors: Martyniuk Valdenise Leziér , Laruccia Mauro Maia
Published: May 2016

Os jogos eletrônicos são um fenômeno midiático da contemporaneidade. Nesse contexto, o objetivo do artigo é dar a ver possibilidades de pesquisa e de análise, baseadas nas características desse objeto, observado em sua linguagem multimídia e sincrética. Discute-se, também, as implicações das relações promovidas entre o jogo e o jogador, bem como entre o último e outros sujeitos do entorno, resultando em interações da ordem da programação, da estratégia, da sensibilidade e do acidente. As proposições de pesquisa se ancoram na teoria semiótica de Greimas e seus seguidores e nos estudiosos do ciberespaço e das mídias audiovisuais. Os jogos, então, emergem como exemplo típico para entender a construção de sentidos no ambiente social da atualidade.
Perspectivas ontológicas dos games no século XXI
Authors: Petry Luís Carlos
Published: May 2016

A presente proposta situa-se em um processo de pesquisa que vem sendo desenvolvido no PPG da PUCSP, Tecnologias da Inteligência e Design Digital, dentro do qual investigamos, conjuntamente com nossos orientandos e outros colegas, as relações existentes entre o conceito de desenvolvimento de games e metaversos, com as inúmeras discussões e contextualizações realizadas por pesquisadores do digital no que tange a presença de conceitos ontológicos em sua constituição e processo2. Situamos o conceito de ontologia digital e sua incidência na pesquisa dos metaversos e games. Apresentamos algumas ideias normativas sobre a questão, relacionando-as a proposta de uma análise que leve em conta os pressupostos ontológicos que estão presentes na conceitualização e no desenvolvimento de um game. A partir de uma delimitação provisória do conceito de Worldbuilding (enquanto conceito de formação de mundo no campo dos games) organiza os dois casos modelos. Finalmente, indica a importância que um pensar orientado ontologicamente pode desempenhar, não somente para uma compreensão mais contextualizada dos games e metaversos, mais igualmente para aqueles que se engajam em seus processos de concepção e desenvolvimento.
A new species of the genus Elaphoidella Chappuis (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from a cave in the south of Thailand
Authors: Watiroyram Santi , Watiroyram Santi , Brancelj Anton
Published: May 2016

Specimens of a new species,Elaphoidella sanoamuangaen. sp., were collected during an investigation of cave-dwelling copepods in a tourist cave in the Phuket mountain range, South Thailand, and the new species is described and depicted herein.Elaphoidella sanoamuangaen. sp. fits intoElaphoidellagroup VII sensu Lang (1948). The new species is most similar toE. schubartiChappuis, 1936. The differential characters for females of the two species are: (a) the free margin of the anal operculum, (b) the number of ventral spinules on the anal somite, (c) the shape of the caudal rami, (d) the shape of the inner terminal caudal seta, (e) the segmentation of Endp P1, (f) the armature formula of Endp-2 P2-P4, and (g) the size of the setae on P5.
Land Surveying in Early Pennsylvania
Authors: Gallo Marcus
Published: May 2016

By the end of the seventeenth century, Anglo-Americans on both sides of the Atlantic accepted the importance of surveying to any system of land ownership. Most historians of colonial British have similarly taken colonial surveying practices as a given. This article complicates these assumptions through an examination of Pennsylvania in a wider context. In fact, land policy in colonial Anglo-America differed significantly from practices elsewhere in the early modern world. English colonizers embraced a model of settler colonialism that created a market for land, thus encouraging the proliferation of modern surveying practices.
Security Studies: Towards a Reformational Approach
Authors: Freire Lucas G.
Published: May 2016

How can reformational philosophy help us reconceptualise the notion of security? In the field of Security Studies, theoreticalismsabound, each of them rooted in a different philosophical tradition. One of these approaches, “securitization theory”, portrays security in connection to five “sectors” that seem to reflect some of the basic aspects of the cosmos analysed by reformational philosophy. I consider the potential of this theory in an initial attempt to introduce a reformational approach to Security Studies. I also briefly consider some of its shortcomings. Finally, I reflect on the basic elements of a reformational notion of security. At this stage I am not offering a new theory of security but merely beginning to sketch a new concept of security in light of reformational philosophy.
Solidarity, the Common Good and Social Justice in the Catholic Social Teaching within the Framework of Globalization
Authors: Gruijters Rochus-Antonin (Roman)
Published: May 2016

This article argues that when globalization is accompanied by such problems as religious intolerance, social injustice, poverty, disrespect for the human dignity and oppression, Catholics should address these challenges on a social and an academic level. The Catholic social tradition, as the single bearer of reflection on the meaning of the common good, envisions the idea of this common good in particularly useful ways by linking it to concepts of solidarity and justice. Furthermore, the Catholic Social Doctrine offers a vision of humanity which rejects intolerance and violence and proclaims that human life is sacred and that the dignity of the human person should be the foundation of a moral vision for society. In short, this article will expand how – from a Catholic intellectual and moral perspective on a globalized world – the concept of bonum commune can address contemporary social, cultural and religious problems.
The Quest for Maturity
Authors: Bouman Monica
Published: May 2016

unSecretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, who in September 1961 died in a plane crash in Africa, became to most of his successors and many more people all over the world a role model in moral leadership. Both in his work and in his speeches he promoted an attitude of international service. He perceived the quest for maturity and maturity of mind as basic elements of this attitude. This article explores Hammarskjöld’s search for maturity in three aspects: first in his capacity as an international civil servant; then the personal quest of his inner person; and finally in his role as moral leader. As an explorative case study, the article traces Hammarskjöld’s main thoughts and insights in response to his mission to Beijing and its follow-up in 1955. It further illustrates the relevance of his approach in the world we live in today.
Vanitas vanitatum et super omnia vanitas: The Astronomer Heinrich Selder and A Newly Discovered Fourteenth-Century Critique of Astrology
Authors: Nothaft C. P. E.
Published: May 2016

A previously unknown treatise on historical chronology (Tractatus de tempore dominice annunciationis, nativitatis et passionis), written by a southern German author between 1371 and 1378, preserves an unusually sophisticated and penetrating scholarly critique of astrology. The main purpose of this article is to introduce and analyze this important work, which is characterized by its close attention to technical astronomical detail and the use of empirical data to refute astrological doctrines. Comparison will be made to the contemporary anti-astrological works of Nicole Oresme and Heinrich of Langenstein, from which the newly discovered Tractatus differs in a number of significant aspects, underscoring its originality. It will be argued that this anonymously transmitted work was authored by the obscure Swabian astronomer Heinrich Selder, whose Canones tabularum Alphonsinarum (1365) are noteworthy for their critical remarks on the Alfonsine Tables.
On the identity of Chamaepinnularia thermophila comb. nov. (Bacillariophyceae) from a Neotropical thermal spring
Authors: WETZEL CARLOS E. , ECTOR LUC
Published: May 2016

Navicula thermophila Manguin in Bourrelly & Manguin (1952: 60) was described from a hot saline spring in Guadeloupe (French Antilles). The species with diminutive proportions was described as follows:
Correct names of two cultivated mushrooms from the genus Pleurotus in China
Authors: KARUNARATHNA SAMANTHA C. , MORTIMER PETER E. , CHEN JIE , LI GUO-JIE , HE MAO-QIANG , XU JIANCHU , SATHIYA SEELAN JAYA SEELAN , HASSAN BAHKALI ALI , HYDE KEVIN D. , ZHAO RUI-LIN
Published: May 2016

Two collections of Pleurotus giganteus and one collection of Pl. tuber-regium from Mengsong in Yunnan Province, China, and commercially grown strains of Pl. giganteus and Pl. tuber-regium from Jiangxi Province, China were identified using macro and micro morphological characters. The identification was also confirmed by phylogenetic analysis using Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) universal primers. Phylogenetic analyses of ITS-1-5.8S-ITS2 rDNA sequence data of collections of Pl. giganteus from Sri Lanka (epitype), Thailand, Malaysia and Pl. tuber-regium from Australia, Cameroon, China, Ghana, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Papua New Guinea using maximum likelihood, maximum parsimony and Bayesian inference showed that Pl. giganteus forms a strongly supported clade with Thai and Chinese Pl. giganteus, while the Chinese Pl. tuber-regium clade with Cameroon, Ghana and Nigeria samples with strong support. In this paper, we clarify the identifications of the two edible cultivated mushrooms, Pl. giganteus and Pl. tuber-regium in China.
Conochironomus (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Asia: new and redescribed species and vouchering issues
Authors: CRANSTON PETER S.
Published: May 2016

The presence of the Afro-Australian genus Conochironomus Freeman, 1961 (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Asia has been recognised only informally. An unpublished thesis included Conochironomus from Singapore, and the genus has been keyed from Malaysia without named species. Here, the Sumatran Conochironomus tobaterdecimus (Kikuchi & Sasa, 1980) comb. n. is recorded from Singapore and Thailand. The species is transferred from Sumatendipes Kikuchi & Sasa, 1980, rendering the latter a junior synonym (syn. n.) of Conochironomus Freeman. Conochironomus nuengthai sp. n. and Conochironomus sawngthai sp. n. are described as new to science, based on adult males from Chiang Mai, Thailand. All species conform to existing generic diagnoses for all life stages, with features from male and female genitalia, pupal cephalic tubercles and posterolateral ‘spurs’ of tergite VIII providing evidence for species distinction. Some larvae are linked to C. tobaterdecimus through molecular barcoding. Variation in other larvae, which clearly belong to Conochironomus and are common throughout Thailand, means that they cannot be segregated to species. Larval habitats include pools in river beds, urban storage reservoirs, drains with moderately high nutrient loadings, and peat swamps. Endochironomus effusus Dutta, 1994 from north-eastern India may be a congener but may differ in adult morphology, thereby precluding formal new combination until discrepancies can be reconciled. Many problems with vouchering taxonomic and molecular material are identified that need to be rectified in the future.
Three new species of the subfamily Opisthocosmiinae from China (Dermaptera, Forficulidae), with new synonymies and combinations
Authors: SUN MEILING , LI KAI , LIU XIANWEI
Published: May 2016

This article contains descriptions of three new species of Chinese Dermaptera: Timomenus bicolor sp. nov. from Xizang, Timomenus bii sp. nov. from Yunnan and Cordax serratus sp. nov. from Guangxi. Four new specific synonymies and three new combinations are proposed. We also emend the generic diagnosis of Mesolabia Shiraki, 1906 by providing characteristics of the male. Keys to the species of Timomenus, Cordax and Mesolabia from China are provided.
Wear simulation of a polyethylene-on-metal cervical total disc replacement under different concentrations of bovine serum lubricant
Authors: Hyde PJ , Fisher J , Hall RM
Published: May 2016

Metal-on-polyethylene total disc replacements have been an alternative to spinal fusion in the lumbar spine under certain indications for more than a decade. Recently, cervical total disc replacement has also become an alternative to cervical fusion. Knowledge acquired from years of in vitro simulator studies on other joint replacements has highlighted the risks associated with premature wear due to unforeseen adverse clinical conditions and the effect of particulate debris on surrounding natural tissues. Having no evidence of the type and composition of the lubricating fluid that will result after spinal arthroplasty, a study on the effects of lubricant serum concentration was undertaken. The wear rate was shown to be inversely proportional to protein content of the serum over a range of 50%–3% bovine serum to water concentration.
Engineering of a multi-station shoulder simulator
Authors: Smith Simon L , Li Lisa , Joyce Thomas J
Published: May 2016

This work aimed to engineer a multi-station shoulder simulator in order to wear test shoulder prostheses using recognized shoulder activities of daily living. A bespoke simulator was designed, built and subject to commissioning trials before a first wear test was conducted. Five JRI Orthopaedics Reverse Shoulder VAIOS 42 mm prostheses were tested for 2.0 million cycles and a mean wear rate and standard deviation of 14.2 ± 2.1 mm3/106 cycles measured for the polymeric glenoid components. This result when adjusted for prostheses diameters and test conditions showed excellent agreement with results from hip simulator studies of similar materials in a lubricant of bovine serum. The Newcastle Shoulder Simulator is the first multi-station shoulder simulator capable of applying physiological motion and loading for typical activities of daily living.
Foot–ankle simulators: A tool to advance biomechanical understanding of a complex anatomical structure
Authors: Natsakis Tassos , Burg Josefien , Dereymaeker Greta , Jonkers Ilse , Vander Sloten Jos
Published: May 2016

In vitro gait simulations have been available to researchers for more than two decades and have become an invaluable tool for understanding fundamental foot–ankle biomechanics. This has been realised through several incremental technological and methodological developments, such as the actuation of muscle tendons, the increase in controlled degrees of freedom and the use of advanced control schemes. Furthermore, in vitro experimentation enabled performing highly repeatable and controllable simulations of gait during simultaneous measurement of several biomechanical signals (e.g. bone kinematics, intra-articular pressure distribution, bone strain). Such signals cannot always be captured in detail using in vivo techniques, and the importance of in vitro experimentation is therefore highlighted. The information provided by in vitro gait simulations enabled researchers to answer numerous clinical questions related to pathology, injury and surgery. In this article, first an overview of the developments in design and methodology of the various foot–ankle simulators is presented. Furthermore, an overview of the conducted studies is outlined and an example of a study aiming at understanding the differences in kinematics of the hindfoot, ankle and subtalar joints after total ankle arthroplasty is presented. Finally, the limitations and future perspectives of in vitro experimentation and in particular of foot–ankle gait simulators are discussed. It is expected that the biofidelic nature of the controllers will be improved in order to make them more subject-specific and to link foot motion to the simulated behaviour of the entire missing body, providing additional information for understanding the complex anatomical structure of the foot.
Can physical joint simulators be used to anticipate clinical wear problems of new joint replacement implants prior to market release?
Authors: Medley John B
Published: May 2016

One of the most important mandates of physical joint simulators is to provide test results that allow the implant manufacturer to anticipate and perhaps avoid clinical wear problems with their new products. This is best done before market release. This study gives four steps to follow in conducting such wear simulator testing. Two major examples involving hip wear simulators are discussed in which attempts had been made to predict clinical wear performance prior to market release. The second one, involving the DePuy ASR implant systems, is chosen for more extensive treatment by making it an illustrative example to explore whether wear simulator testing can anticipate clinical wear problems. It is concluded that hip wear simulator testing did provide data in the academic literature that indicated some risk of clinical wear problems prior to market release of the ASR implant systems. This supports the idea that physical joint simulators have an important role in the pre-market testing of new joint replacement implants.
A Nested Frailty Survival Approach for Analyzing Small Group Behavioral Observation Data
Authors: Fairbairn Catharine E.
Published: May 2016

Patterns of behavior during social interaction have long been of interest to small group researchers. Within social interaction, the probability of an initial behavior meeting with a particular response (e.g., an angry comment meeting with an angry rejoinder) often depends, in part, on the duration of the initial behavior. This article presents a nested frailty approach that accounts for the duration of individual behavior and is well suited to the examination of small group data. While traditional sequential techniques disregard information about the duration of behaviors, survival methods are capable of modeling behavioral duration in sophisticated ways. Expanding on previously proposed survival methods for behavioral observation research, the nested frailty approach involves three levels of hierarchical clustering and is thus well suited to analyzing data from a variety of different social configurations. An example application explores the spreading of smiles within 160 groups of three in a laboratory-based social interaction.
Here’s What You’ll Learn From This News Story
Authors: Scholl Rosanne M. , Pingree Raymond J. , Gotlieb Melissa R. , Veenstra Aaron S. , Shah Dhavan V.
Published: May 2016

In the online news environment, audience information processing may be influenced by the framing not only of a news story itself but also of other messages that introduce, link to, or accompany the news content. We test these mixed media framing effects on audience reason acquisition from news content with an experiment, in which we manipulate the frame—value or strategy—of a text introduction about the issue of stem cell research, followed by exposure, or no exposure, to a video news report about stem cell research. Value framing (as opposed to strategy framing) prior to a news story increased the number of reasons for one’s own side of the issue acquired from the news report, but no effects were found on learning reasons for the other side.
Hyperspectral Imaging and Data Analysis for Detecting and Determining Plastic Contamination in Seawater Filtrates
Authors: Karlsson Therese M. , Grahn Hans , van Bavel Bert , Geladi Paul
Published: May 2016

One possible way of monitoring plastic particles in sea water is by imaging spectroscopic measurements on filtrates. The idea is that filters from seawater sampling can be imaged in many wavelengths and that a multivariate data analysis can give information on (1) spatial location of plastic material on the filter and (2) composition of the plastic materials. This paper reports on simulated samples, with spiked reference plastic particles and real seawater filtrates containing microplastic pollutants. These real samples were previously identified through visual examination in a microscope. The samples were imaged using three different imaging systems. The different wavelength ranges were 375–970 nm, 960–1662 nm and 1000–2500 nm. Data files from all three imaging systems were analysed by hyperspectral image analysis. The method using the wavelength span 1000–2500 nm was shown to be the most applicable to this specific type of samples and gave a 100% particle recognition on reference plastic, above 300 μm, and an 84% pixel recognition on household polyethylene plastic. When applied to environmental samples the technique showed an increase in identified particles compared with visual investigations. These initial tests indicate a potential underestimation of microplastics in environmental samples. This is the first study to demonstrate that hyperspectral imaging techniques can be used to study microplastics down to 300 μm, which is a common size limit used in microplastic surveys.
LOCAL Regression Algorithm Improves near Infrared Spectroscopy Predictions When the Target Constituent Evolves in Breeding Populations
Authors: Davrieux F. , Dufour D. , Dardenne P. , Belalcazar J. , Pizarro M. , Luna J. , Londoño L. , Jaramillo A. , Sanchez T. , Morante N. , Calle F. , Lopez-Lavalle L.A. Becerra , Ceballos H.
Published: May 2016

The CGIAR Harvest Plus Challenge Program began in the mid-2000s to support the genetic improvement of nutritional quality in various crops, including the carotenoids content of cassava roots. Successful conventional breeding requires a large number of segregating progenies. However, only a few samples can be quantified by high performance liquid chromatography each day for total carotenoids (TCC) and β-carotene (TBC) contents, limiting the gains from breeding. This study describes the usefulness of near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and the efficiency of a large database coupled to a LOCAL regression algorithm to reach accurate TCC/TBC predictions on fresh cassava roots. The cassava database (6026 samples) was built over six years. TCC values ranged from 0.11 μg g−1 to 29.0 μg g−1, whereas TBC ranged from negligible values up to 20.1 μg g−1. All values were measured and expressed on a fresh weight basis. Between 2009 and 2014 increases in TCC and TBC were 86% and 122%, respectively. A comparison of calibrations using partial least squares (PLS) regression and LOCAL regression was done. The standard error of prediction were 1.82 μg g−1 for TCC and 1.28 μg g−1 for TBC using PLS model and 1.38 μg g−1 and 1.02 μg g−1, respectively, using LOCAL regression. The specificity of the data, with increasing content of the constituent of interest year after year, clearly showed the limitation of the classical partial least squares regression approach. The LOCAL regression algorithm takes advantage of large databases; this study highlighted the efficiency of this concept. NIR spectroscopy coupled to LOCAL regression led to efficient models for breeding programmes aiming at increasing carotenoids content in fresh cassava roots. NIR spectroscopy can also be used to predict other important constituents such as dry matter content and cyanogenic glucosides.
We are stories of stories telling stories: Playback Theatre
Authors: Teruel Tomás Motos , Serrano Jaime Álamo , Fields Donna Lee , Comes Pilar Ortega
Published: May 2016

Playback Theatre is the spontaneous, instantaneous and unscripted presentation of vignettes, performed in conventional and unconventional venues. It functions under the premise that the telling of oral stories, when presented with specifically delineated elements and performed in interactive ways, is, in fact, an art form. Studies of Playback Theatre have focused on its use and effects in different scenarios: education, social intervention, health, psychotherapy and other similar organizations. However, there has been little concentration on the emotional and intellectual processes of audience members. The aim of this study is to use quantitative methodology to establish the level of satisfaction of an audience after a session of Playback Theatre, the benefits perceived, reflections on the methods used, feelings provoked by the narration of the stories, and the substantiate quality of the participation and experiences during the performances.
Creating alternative public spaces and negotiating identities and differences through community theatre praxes in Hong Kong and Taiwan
Authors: Wang Wan-Jung
Published: May 2016

With the rise of mainland China in the twenty-first century, Hong Kong and Taiwan have endeavoured to sustain and reassert their own cultural identities to resist Chinese hegemony, and political and economic dominance. The community theatre praxes devised and performed by community members and applied theatre practitioners in Hong Kong and Taiwan in recent years have created an alternative public sphere, and negotiated identities and differences in various communities. They have presented the shifting and dynamic relationship of settlement and mobility in our glocalized cities. This article aims to employ two case studies to investigate how these community theatre praxes present diverse local people’s histories, concerns and issues, and thus negotiate the constantly changing identities of Hong Kong and Taiwan through re-presenting different local voices. This research will employ theories of public sphere, cultural geography, and participatory and engaging community art to explore the social and cultural implications as well as the various aesthetic strategies adopted.
Theatre of the Oppressed on love, sex and gender: Hong Kong students’ reflections
Authors: Shu Jack
Published: May 2016

This article is about facilitating university undergraduate groups to create and present Theatre of the Oppressed as a component of a compulsory drama course. Each small group created a dramatic piece about an issue of oppression, to be shared in a presentation session using techniques that included enhanced forum theatre. Themes of love, sex and gender (the gay teacher, the lesbian couple, the transsexual man, the transvestite man) emerged. Students’ reflections on prejudice and the cop in the head that led to this oppression are analyzed and states of metaxis are examined as part of my reflection on teaching. The concepts of image of reality and reality of image are explored and used to argue for appropriate theatrical treatments in Forum Theatre. The article concludes that students’ reflections were encouraged when realistic images were created appropriately, but were diminished when these images were wrongly focused or unable to convince theatrically.
Casually demystifying a sinister book: Playing with a bestseller whose content nobody is familiar with
Authors: Irmer Thomas
Published: May 2016

In the framework of Kunstfest Weimar, Rimini Protokoll staged the premiere of Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf, Vols. 1 & 2. Seventy years after the author’s death, the book’s copyright in Germany has expired, which raises the question of how much of a taboo and how dangerous the book still is. This question is also at the centre of the mentioned performance; it was made in cooperation with people connected to the book through personal stories, which sheds light on the book from other perspectives and at the same time demystifies it.
To make the whole world home-like: Binna Choi, Maiko Tanaka (eds.), Grand Domestic Revolution Handbook
Authors: Hvala Tea
Published: May 2016

A review of the catalogue Grand Domestic Revolution Handbook, with which the Dutch gallery Casco concluded its Grand Domestic Revolution (GDR) project, dedicated to the “living research” of reproductive work. The author outlines the concept of the curators and editors Binna Choi and Maiko Tanaka, links it to American feminism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and discusses it in terms of the works created for the project, especially those that appeared as part of the 19th City of Women festival in 2013. She appraises the GDR project, the GDR Handbook, and the exhibition in Ljubljana of GDR GOES ON as a risky but inspiring attempt to socialise reproductive work at the intersection of art, theory, activism, and everyday life.
The concreteness of the truth of artivism: Steirischer Herbst, Florian Malzacher et al., Truth Is Concrete – A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics
Authors: Jelesijević Nenad
Published: May 2016

“A Marathon Camp for Artistic Strategies in Politics and Political Strategies”, which was part of the 2012 Steirischer Herbst festival, is a symptomatic example of subverting the horizontal modes of self-organisation to the benefit of the cultural industry of the existent or an aestheticisation of resistance. Despite its superfluous curatorial packaging, Truth Is Concrete (Sternberg Press, 2014), a collection of contributions by the project participants, can be a source of potential new reflections on artivism and (its) “nonviolence”. The key question that the event and the publication raise is why artivism often evokes ambiguous and mixed feelings.
Stage visions and strategies of contemporary performing practices – a broadly conceived analysis of the phenomena at the intersection of theory and practice: Valentina Valentini, Worlds, Bodies, Matters: Theatre of the Late Twentieth Century
Authors: Arhar Nika
Published: May 2016

The first book in the new series Thinking Through Performance offers a mental feat of a concise survey of numerous performances by various artists and theatrical and philosophical concepts, which the author, Valentina Valentini, also observes within the fields of other disciplines. Three basic lines of investigation bring forth the visions of contemporary theatre worlds, their images and the strategies of their establishment, the expansion of the field while blurring the boundaries between visual art, the performative and new media, as well as the transformation of the actor into the autonomous body of the performer and the body that becomes plural, open, hybrid, space itself. With its in-depth and wide-ranging probing of the key phenomena in contemporary performing arts, its taking into account diverse perspectives, and its fragmentary approach within a complex field, the author has created a productive foundation for new starting-points and understandings in the dialogue between theory and practice.
Ethics-propelled functioning under the strain of questionable criteria
Authors: Kraigher Amelia , Malej Gašper , Vevar Rok
Published: May 2016

This editorial offers a short commentary on the criteria of the Public two-year tender of the Slovenian Book Agency (Javna agencija za knjigo Republike Slovenije / JAK) for the selection of executors and co-funding of cultural projects in the field of books for the period of 2016–2017, namely: “Significance and the role of the applying journal in Slovenian culture and journal production”, “Significance of the proposed book publication project for the enrichment and development of Slovenian book market”, “Presentation of the planned activities for ensuring public accessibility of the applying journal and its promotion”, and “Presentation of the plan of activities to ensure accessibility and promotion of the book publication project”.
Approaching the real: The directorial approach of Jernej Lorenci in staging the Crazy Locomotive by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and The Wedding by Rudi Šeligo
Authors: Kraševec Eva
Published: May 2016

“Approaching the Real” utilises the author’s dramaturgical involvement in both to reflect on the creative process behind Jernej Lorenci’s productions of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s The Crazy Locomotive and Rudi Šeligo’s The Wedding at SNG Drama Ljubljana, both characteristic of the director’s work. By revealing methods and concepts behind the staging of the plays, we can gain an insight into the director’s thinking, that is, the “reflective processing” of the creative team. These are productions in which we can talk about approaching the authentic or, better said, the so-called “real”, and which arose as collective creations of a homogenised authorial and acting team.
Time-specificity of the future of performance
Authors: Wakefield Nik
Published: May 2016

The future of performance consists of the complexity of an unknown guaranteed rather than the simplicity of a success or failure. This article offers a critique of failure in contemporary performance theory through the philosopher Henri Bergson’s writings on disorder and the art practice of Janez Janša. When the future is considered as an unknown guaranteed, it becomes possible to invent life in the same way that art is created.
As little as possible for as little as possible
Authors: Hvala Tea
Published: May 2016

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the contemporary art festival City of Women, which was dedicated to survival tactics, I discuss the conditions under which it came about and the conditions under which artists or self-employed individuals in the field of culture must work in this time of cuts to public funding of the arts in Slovenia. In the context of selected performances from this year’s City of Women programme, I ask how it is possible to create antagonistic art within the capitalist means of production without the artist and producer burning themselves out in the process and, with the insights of Silvia Federici, how it is possible to separate oneself from the market and from the country without reducing oneself to poverty.
Embedding Employability into the Curriculum: An Enterprise Based Module for the Biosciences
Authors: Fitzgerald Pauline
Published: May 2016

Leeds Beckett University identified three interlinking graduate attributes which, during a curriculum redesign, were embedded into every course at all levels. This paper describes how a final year module was designed to develop enterprise and employability skills. The students worked in self-selected small groups to devise a new biotechnology product or social enterprise scheme. The assessment comprised a group presentation (which was peer reviewed), an individual report and a written reflection of the process.
Book Review: Claim Your Domain – And Own Your Online Presence
Authors: Thomson Simon
Published: May 2016

Watters, A. (2016). Claim Your Own Domain – And Own Your Online Presence. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press ISBN: 978-1942496236
Telecentric line scanning system based on a ring surface mirror for inline processes
Authors: Loosen Florian , Lindlein Norbert , Donner Klaus
Published: May 2016

In many industrial applications, an inline measurement of a production process poses a difficult challenge for any optical system. Therefore, telecentric optical systems are being used to ensure an independence of the magnification of the object from the working distance. Usually, telecentric optical systems are impractical for inline applications with large objects due to the size of the telecentric optical system, which has to be larger than the object. Therefore, a new approach of telecentric line scanning systems was developed to gain access to this advantage.
ELF-EMF exposure decreases the peroxidase catalytic efficiency in vitro
Authors: Caliga Răzvan , Lucian Maniu Călin , Mihăşan Marius
Published: May 2016

The activity of purified Fe3+ containing horseradish peroxidase (HRP) was recorded while the enzyme was exposed to two low frequency pulsed electromagnetic fields (ELF-EMFs) with different frequencies: 50 Hz/2.7 mT and 100 Hz/5.5 mT. No statistically significant difference in the Michaelis constant (Km) values between the control enzyme and the enzyme exposed to any of the two ELF-EMF used could be detected (53 ± 11 μM vs 67 ± 10 μM vs 42 ± 11 μM respectively), indicating that upon short exposure times, there are no large structural alterations of the enzyme that affect the substrate affinity. A 50 Hz/2.7 mT EMF did however, cause a significant decrease in the maximum rate (Vmax) value (from 3.31 ± 0.17 μmoles/min to 1.6 ± 0.19 μmoles/min, p<0.03) and a drop of the catalytic efficiency to less than half (from 0.66 ± 0.03 s-1 to 0.32 ± 0.04 s-1, p<0.05). These observations are the first experimental proofs that support the previously postulated mechanism of coupling between ELF-EMF and living systems based on a resonant frequency specific for a given ion molecule.
Geometric Modeling Based on Class and Shape Function Transformation Technique for Hypersonic Vehicles
Authors: Liu Yanbin , Hua Bing , Xiao Dibo
Published: May 2016

This paper presents the geometric modeling methods based on the class and shape function transformation (CST) technique for the hypersonic vehicle. First, the typical waverider configuration is considered to be the basic shape for the hypersonic vehicle, and then the CST method is applied to describe and build the improved geometric shape. On this basis, the aerodynamic forces and thrust are estimated according to the shock wave and Rayleigh flow theory. Furthermore, the model dynamic features using the CST method are analyzed in comparison to the basic shape. Finally, the simulation results show the effectiveness of this method for the hypersonic vehicle.
Linguistic exogamy and language shift in the northwest Amazon
Authors: Fleming Luke
Published: May 2016

The sociocultural complex of the northwest Amazon is remarkable for its system of linguistic exogamy in which individuals marry outside their language groups. This article illustrates how linguistic exogamy crucially relies upon the alignment of descent and post-marital residence. Native ideologies apprehend languages as the inalienable possessions of patrilineally reckoned descent groups. At the same time, post-marital residence is traditionally patrilocal. This alignment between descent and post-marital residence means that the language which children are normatively expected to produce – the language of their patrilineal descent group – is also the language most widely spoken in the local community, easing acquisition of the target language. Indigenous migration to Catholic mission centers in the twentieth century and ongoing migration to urban areas along the Rio Negro in Brazil are reconfiguring the relationship between multilingualism and marriage. With out-migration from patrilineally-based villages, descent and post-marital residence are no longer aligned. Multilingualism is being rapidly eroded, with language shift from minority Eastern Tukanoan languages to Tukano being widespread. Continued practice of descent group exogamy even under such conditions of widespread language shift reflects how the semiotic relationship between language and descent group membership is conceptualized within the system of linguistic exogamy.
THE DUTCH DISEASE EFFECT IN HIGH VS LOW OIL DEPENDENT COUNTRIES
Authors: ALLEGRET JEAN-PIERRE , BENKHODJA MOHAMED TAHAR
Published: May 2016

To investigate the main impacts of the recent increase of oil price on oil exporting economies, we estimate a DSGE model for a sample of 16 oil exporting countries (Algeria, Argentina, Ecuador, Gabon, Indonesia, Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Oman, Russia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela) over the period from 1980 to 2010, except for Russia where our sample begins in 1992. In order to distinguish between high-dependent and low-dependent countries, we use two indicators: the ratio of fuel exports to total merchandise export and the ratio of oil exports to GDP. We verify if the first group is more sensitive to the Dutch disease effect. We also assess the role of monetary policy.Our main findings are twofold. First, our results confirm the fact that the Dutch disease occurs mainly in high oil dependent countries. More precisely, we find that the manufacturing production decreases in the aftermath of a positive oil price shock in six countries (on eight) of our first sample while only Mexico suffers from a Dutch disease in the sample of low oil dependent economies. Second, the appropriate monetary policy rule -exchange rate rule versus inflation targeting one-to prevent the Dutch disease differs according to the countries. In other words, the best monetary rule is specific to each country.
CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISMS’ EFFECTS ON HOST COUNTRIES
Authors: HRISTOVA IVA
Published: May 2016

The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of CDM projects implementation on the most important host countries (China, Brazil, Mexico and South Korea). The analysis concerns the 2003-2010 period and aims to define CDM’s potential impacts in terms of GHG emissions, GHG intensities, renewable energies spread, sustainable development and economic growth. As far as economic growth is concerned, we adapt the theoretical framework developed within the FDI-growth nexus, given the existing similarities between CDM and FDI investments.
A "HURST COEFFICIENT" ESTIMATION WITH WAVELETS: APPLICATION TO THE ENERGY SECTOR
Authors: FOUQUAU JULIEN , SPIESER PHILIPPE
Published: May 2016

The energy financial products prices could be affected by herding behavior, speculation and also by supply and demand of the physical assets.  This situation  is likely to  generate economic cycles and a rejection of the efficiency market hypothesis. Then, the aim of this paper is to check the presence of memory in the energy Futures prices.  We calculate a useful parameter the "Hurst coefficient", by using a specific tool coming from the signal theory, the wavelet decomposition. Our findings with rolling regressions are that most markets, since the beginning of 90ties, are in a process of maturity and show less and less memory of any type (short or long). Electricity displays long memory, whereas the crude oil markets present some short memory.
Preparing for the coming storm: Exploring interactions between corporate values and crisis management
Authors: Tidwell Matt
Published: May 2016

One of the most prevalent corporate trends of the last several years has been the rush for companies to identify their core purpose and core values as a means to differentiate and create a sustainable winning culture. Yet even with more emphasis on stated ethical philosophies, internal crises and scandals have continued to plague corporations. This pilot project uses in-depth interviews with senior public relations executives from large companies. The project examines how companies integrate corporate ethical philosophy into their crisis planning and response procedures and concludes that, while a well-entrenched core values program can serve as a powerful tool and a framework for crisis planning and decision-making, it should not be viewed as a panacea. Further, the research finds that poorly executed values programs are destabilizing to an organization and actually make crisis response more problematic.©Journal of Professional Communication, all rights reserved.
The Extent and Distribution of Gambling-Related Harms and the Prevention Paradox in a British Population Survey
Authors: Canale Natale , Vieno Alessio , Griffiths Mark D.
Published: May 2016

Objectives

To examine whether the “prevention paradox” applies to British individuals in relation to gambling-related harm.

Methods

Data were derived from 7,756 individuals participating in the British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2010, a comprehensive interview-based survey conducted in Great Britain between November 2009 and May 2010. Gambling-related harm was assessed using an adapted version of the DSM-IV Pathological Gambling criteria. The previous year’s prevalence of problem gamblers was examined using the Problem Gambling Severity Index. Gambling involvement was measured by gambling frequency and gambling participation (gambling volume as expressed by time and money spent gambling).

Results

The prevalence rates for past-year gambling harms were dependence harm (16.4%), social harm (2.2%), and chasing losses (7.9%). Gambling-related harms were distributed across low- to moderate-risk gamblers (and not limited to just problem gamblers) and were reported by the majority of gamblers who were non-high time and spend regular gamblers than high time and spend regular gamblers.

Conclusions

The prevention paradox is a promising way of examining gambling-related harm. This suggests that prevention of gambling might need to consider the population approach to minimizing gambling harm.
Halosulfuron Absorption, Translocation, and Metabolism in White and Adzuki Bean
Authors: Li Zhenyi , Kessler Kallie C. , Alves de Figueiredo Marcelo Rodrigues , Nissen Scott J. , Gaines Todd A. , Westra Philip , Van Acker Rene C. , Hall Christopher , Robinson Darren E. , Soltani Nader , Sikkema Peter H.
Published: May 2016

Halosulfuron-methyl, a sulfonylurea herbicide, was registered for broadleaf weed control in dry bean. This herbicide has an adequate margin of crop safety in white bean, but causes unacceptable injury to adzuki bean. Halosulfuron-methyl absorption, translocation, and metabolism were evaluated in white and adzuki bean using radiolabeled herbicide to determine if differences in these parameters could explain the difference in crop safety between these two species. Adzuki bean had more rapid halosulfuron-methyl absorption than white bean. Adzuki bean reached 90% absorption (t90) 26.2 h after treatment (HAT), whereas white bean required 40.1 HAT to reacht90. The maximum halosulfuron-methyl absorption was higher in adzuki bean (75.7%) than in white bean (65.3%). More14C-halosulfuron was translocated to the apex, first trifoliate, stem above the treated leaf, and roots in aduzki bean than in white bean. The maximum radioactivity translocated out of treated leaf was higher in adzuki bean (17.7%) than in white bean (12.1%). Halosulfuron-methyl was broken down to the same metabolites in white and adzuki bean. The half-life of halosulfuron-methyl in adzuki bean was 16 HAT, compared with less than 6 HAT in white bean. More herbicide remained as the free acid in adzuki bean compared with white bean over the entire 48-h time course. The differential tolerance of white and adzuki bean to halosulfuron can be attributed to greater absorption and translocation and decreased metabolism in adzuki bean.