bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Trade-offs between crop-related (physical and virtual) water flows and the associated economic benefits and values: a case study of the Yellow River Basin
Authors: Wu Pute , Zhuo La , Zhang Guoping , Mekonnen Mesfin M. , Hoekstra Arjen Y. , Wada Yoshihide , Gao Xuerui , Zhao Xining , Wang Yubao , Sun Shikun
Published: September 2018

Abstract. Water issues in many river basins associated with droughts, water over-exploitation and pollution are increasingly being driven by remote pressures through intensified virtual water (VW) flows. However, little attention has been paid to the internal trade-offs between the (physical and virtual) water flows and the associated economic benefits and incomes that the water generated. Here we estimate the concomitant reversed flows of economic benefits and values to the physical and VW flows in crop production and consumption at a basin level, by taking the Yellow River Basin (YRB) in both current three typical years (2003, 2004, and 2006, which were dry, average, and wet, respectively) and possible four scenarios for 2050 under climate-socio-economic changes as the study case. An algorithm for estimation of the economic net benefits of green and blue water use for crop production based on the water footprint (WF) accounting is developed. Results show that the net benefit of blue water (irrigation) was 13–42 % lower than that of green water used in irrigated croplands in the basin. Cropping pattern has defined the spatial heterogeneity in the levels of net benefits of water used for crops within the YRB. Provinces located in the relatively drier upper and middle reaches had high irrigation withdrawal rates while a low economic return to farmers because of growing relatively cheap crops. The YRB got increasingly net income due to exports of wheat, cotton and apples even though as a crop-related net VW importer associated to the intra-national trades. Considered scenarios for 2050 suggested that the economic returns of crop-related physical and VW flows were more sensitive than the quantity levels of corresponding water flows. This study implies the importance of managing the internal trade-offs or mutual effects between the water resources consumption and economic returns, in order to get a win-win situation in maximizing both the water use efficiency and economic productivities per drop of water flows.
Hydrological control of dissolved organic carbon dynamics in a rehabilitated Sphagnum-dominated peatland: a water-table based modelling approach
Authors: Bernard-Jannin Léonard , Binet Stéphane , Gogo Sébastien , Leroy Fabien , Défarge Christian , Jozja Nevila , Zocatelli Renata , Perdereau Laurent , Laggoun-Défarge Fatima
Published: September 2018

Abstract. Hydrological disturbances could increase dissolved organic carbon (DOC)
exports through changes in runoff and leaching, which reduces the potential
carbon sink function of peatlands. The objective of this study was to assess
the impact of hydrological restoration on hydrological processes and DOC
dynamics in a rehabilitated Sphagnum-dominated peatland. A
conceptual hydrological model calibrated on the water table and coupled with
a biogeochemical module was applied to La Guette peatland (France), which
experienced a rewetting initiative on February 2014. The model (eight
calibrated parameters) reproduced water-table (0.1<NS<0.61) and pore-water DOC concentrations (2<RMSE<11 mg L−1) in a time series (1 April 2014 to
15 December 2017) in two contrasting locations (rewetted and control) in the
peatland. Hydrological restoration was found to impact the water balance
through a decrease in slow deep drainage and an increase in fast superficial
runoff. Observed DOC concentrations were higher in summer in the rewetted
location compared to the control area and were linked to a difference in
dissolved organic matter composition analyzed by fluorescence. Hydrological conditions,
especially the severity of the water-table drawdown in summer, were
identified as the major factor controlling DOC-concentration dynamics. The
results of the simulation suggest that the hydrological restoration did not
affect DOC loads, at least in a short-term period (3 years). However, it
impacted the temporal dynamics of DOC exports, which were the most episodic
and were mainly transported through fast surface runoff in the area affected
by the restoration, while slow deep drainage dominated DOC exports in the
control area. In relation to dominant hydrological processes, exported DOC is
expected to be derived from more recent organic matter in the top peat layer
in the rewetted area, compared to the control area. Since it is calibrated on
water-table and DOC concentration, the model presented in this study proved
to be a relevant tool in identifying the main hydrological processes and
factors controlling DOC dynamics in different areas of the same peatland. It
is also a suitable alternative to a discharge-calibrated catchment model when
the outlet is not easy to identify or to monitor.
COMPUTING FEEDBACK FOR CITIZENS’ PROPOSALS IN PARTICIPATIVE URBAN PLANNING
Authors: Dambruch J.
Published: September 2018

Abstract. We show an approach how to provide computed feedback on citizens’ proposals based on open data and expert knowledge in urban planning and public participation by using Domain-Specific Languages (DSL). We outline the process involving different stakeholders of engineering such a DSL and provide an architecture capable of executing the language and uploading new scripts at runtime. A real-world example of the city of Hamburg is used to show the principles and serves as input for development. A prototype has been implemented and evaluated at various events involving citizen and city representatives. We conclude that DSLs can be successfully applied to enable a new way to access data in a more convenient and understandable form, abstracting from technical details and focusing on domain aspects.
MOBILITY ATLAS BOOKLET: AN URBAN DASHBOARD DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION
Authors: Gabrielli L. , Rossi M. , Giannotti F. , Fadda D. , Rinzivillo S.
Published: September 2018

Abstract. The new data sources give the possibility to answer analytically the questions that arise from mobility manager. The process of transforming raw data into knowledge is very complex, and it is necessary to provide metaphors of visualizations that are understandable to decision makers. Here, we propose an analytical platform that extracts information on the mobility of individuals from mobile phone by applying Data Mining methodologies. The main results highlighted here are both technical and methodological. First, communicating information through visual analytics techniques facilitates understanding of information to those who have no specific technical or domain knowledge. Secondly, the API system guarantees the ability to export aggregates according to the granularity required, enabling other actors to produce new services based on the extracted models. For the future, we expect to extend the platform by inserting other layers. For example, a layer for measuring the sustainability index of a territory, such as the ability of public transport to attract private mobility or the index that measures how many private vehicle trips can be converted into electrical mobility.
A new wireless sensor interface using dual-mode radio
Authors: Huening Felix , Heuermann Holger , Wache Franz-Josef , Audisho Jajo Rami
Published: September 2018

Abstract. The integration of sensors is one of the major tasks in embedded, control and
“internet of things” (IoT) applications. For the integration mainly digital
interfaces are used, starting from rather simple pulse-width modulation (PWM)
interface to more complex interfaces like CAN (Controller Area Network). Even
though these interfaces are tethered by definition, a wireless realization is
highly welcome in many applications to reduce cable and connector cost,
increase the flexibility and realize new emerging applications like wireless
control systems. Currently used wireless solutions like Bluetooth,
WirelessHART or IO-Link Wireless use dedicated communication standards and
corresponding higher protocol layers to realize the wireless communication.
Due to the complexity of the communication and the protocol handling,
additional latency and jitter are introduced to the data communication that
can meet the requirements for many applications. Even though tunnelling of
other bus data like CAN data is generally also possible the latency and
jitter prevent the tunnelling from being transparent for the bus system. Therefore a new basic technology based on dual-mode
radio is used to realize a wireless communication on the physical layer only,
enabling a reliable and real-time data transfer. As this system operates on
the physical layer it is independent of any higher layers of the OSI (open systems interconnection) model.
Hence it can be used for several different communication systems to replace
the tethered physical layer. A prototype is developed and tested for
real-time wireless PWM, SENT (single-edge nibble transmission) and CAN data
transfer with very low latency and jitter.
Extreme water levels, waves and coastal impacts during a severe tropical cyclone in northeastern Australia: a case study for cross-sector data sharing
Authors: Mortlock Thomas R. , Metters Daryl , Soderholm Joshua , Maher John , Lee Serena B. , Boughton Geoffrey , Stewart Nigel , Zavadil Elisa , Goodwin Ian D.
Published: September 2018

Abstract. Severe tropical cyclone (TC) Debbie made landfall on
the northern Queensland coast of Australia on 27 March 2017 after crossing
the Great Barrier Reef as a slow-moving Category 4 system. Groups from
industry, government and academia collected coastal hazard and impact data
before, during and after the event and shared these data to produce a
holistic picture of TC Debbie at the coast. Results showed the still
water level exceeded the highest astronomical tide by almost a metre. Waves
added a further 16 % to water levels along the open coast, and were
probably unprecedented for this area since monitoring began. In most places,
coastal barriers were not breached and as a result there was net offshore
sand transport. If landfall had occurred 2 h earlier with the high tide,
widespread inundation and overwash would have ensued. This paper provides a
case study of effective cross-sector data sharing in a natural hazard
context. It advocates for a shared information platform for coastal extremes
in Australia to help improve the understanding and prediction of TC-related
coastal hazards in the future.
Seasonal mass variations show timing and magnitude of meltwater storage in the Greenland Ice Sheet
Authors: Ran Jiangjun , Vizcaino Miren , Ditmar Pavel , van den Broeke Michiel R. , Moon Twila , Steger Christian R. , Enderlin Ellyn M. , Wouters Bert , Noël Brice , Reijmer Catharina H. , Klees Roland , Zhong Min , Liu Lin , Fettweis Xavier
Published: September 2018

Abstract. The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is currently losing ice mass. In order to
accurately predict future sea level rise, the mechanisms driving the observed
mass loss must be better understood. Here, we combine data from the satellite
gravimetry mission Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), surface
mass balance (SMB) output of the Regional Atmospheric Climate Model v. 2
(RACMO2), and ice discharge estimates to analyze the mass budget of Greenland
at various temporal and spatial scales. We find that the mean rate of mass
variations in Greenland observed by GRACE was between −277 and
−269 Gt yr−1 in 2003–2012. This estimate is consistent with the sum
(i.e., -304±126 Gt yr−1) of individual contributions – surface
mass balance (SMB, 216±122 Gt yr−1) and ice discharge (520±31 Gt yr−1) – and with previous studies. We further identify a
seasonal mass anomaly throughout the GRACE record that peaks in July at
80–120 Gt and which we interpret to be due to a combination of englacial
and subglacial water storage generated by summer surface melting. The
robustness of this estimate is demonstrated by using both different
GRACE-based solutions and different meltwater runoff estimates (namely,
RACMO2.3, SNOWPACK, and MAR3.9). Meltwater storage
in the ice sheet occurs primarily due to storage in the high-accumulation
regions of the southeast and northwest parts of Greenland. Analysis of
seasonal variations in outlet glacier discharge shows that the contribution
of ice discharge to the observed signal is minor (at the level of only a few
gigatonnes) and does not explain the seasonal differences between the total
mass and SMB signals. With the improved quantification of meltwater storage
at the seasonal scale, we highlight its importance for understanding
glacio-hydrological processes and their contributions to the ice sheet mass
variability.
Estado e educação do campo: a influência dos organismos internacionais na elaboração de políticas públicas educacionais para o campo brasileiro
Authors: Bona Vasconcelos Soares Sávia
Published: September 2018

O marco do surgimento da Educação do Campo ocorre em 1997, em um encontro sediado em Luziânia – GO organizado primordialmente pelo Conselho Nacional de Bispos do Brasil (CNBB), Movimento dos Trabalhadores e Trabalhadoras Sem Terra (MST), Universidade de Brasília e as organizações internacionais: UNESCO e UNICEF. Em nosso estudo temos como objetivo analisar as contradições da institucionalização da Educação do Campo. Para isso, buscamos refletir acerca do Programa Nacional de Educação na Reforma Agrária. Objetivamos também mostrar a influência do Banco Mundial nos projetos educacional e investigar seu projeto para o campo e a educação no campo brasileiro. Para isso, utilizamos pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, analisando relatórios do Banco Mundial, bem como dados fornecidos pelo ministério da educação.
Farol do saber: limites e possibilidades de uma biblioteca escolar na formação de leitores literários
Authors: Maria Dalla-Bona Elisa , Da Silva Andrade de Lima Charlene
Published: September 2018

Neste estudo de caso de natureza etnográfica, desenvolvido em 2015, investiga-se as ações desenvolvidas num Farol do Saber, da Rede Municipal de Bibliotecas Escolares de Curitiba. As especificidades de uma biblioteca escolar, segundo diversos autores, incluem: função educativa e integração à escola; espaço de convivência, de debate, de reflexão e de incentivo à leitura; acervo de qualidade, direcionado para jovens leitores e com acesso integral e livre aos alunos e professores; ambiente de liberdade e ludicidade; mediadores de leitura com ações planejadas para a interação entre as pessoas e as obras e fomento de leitores autônomos, capazes de buscar o que desejam no acervo e de refletir sobre a leitura realizada. Conclui-se que o Farol do Saber pesquisado cumpre a função de biblioteca escolar de forma limitada e precisa ser repensado para de fato formar leitores.
Impacto de uma intervenção pedagógica na leitura de mundo da criança sobre ser negra
Authors: Ponce de Leon Ramírez Germana , Weber Baia Hees Luciane
Published: September 2018

O objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar o impacto de uma intervenção pedagógica na leitura de mundo da criança acerca do ser negro(a). Este estudo caracteriza-se por ser qualitativo e de natureza aplicada. A leitura de mundo relacionada com a criança negra foi avaliada através das respostas de pré e pós testes, obtidas pelo questionário de escala facial. A criança aprende e começa a ler o mundo, antes mesmo de ler as letras. Isso se desdobra em uma gama de interpretações cujos valores se constroem a partir das experiências que as crianças negras vivenciam lendo o mundo em um contexto cujas ações discriminatórias no espaço escolar são presentes. Identifica-se que as intervenções lúdicas possibilitam reflexão e mudanças auxiliando na erradicação de atitudes preconceituosas e estereótipos negativos que existem acerca do ser negro.
Direito aos bens culturais na infância: o livro literário como instrumento intelectual e afetivo
Authors: Valdez Diane
Published: September 2018

Este texto discutirá a relação da infância com a literatura em sua natureza estética e artística, enquanto um bem social, como um direito de todas as crianças a despeito da idade, classe social, etnia e outros. Pretende-se trazer, para o debate, movimentos considerados próprios da infância que não incluem o livro literário no cotidiano, naturalizando-a como um objeto sisudo e distante da vivacidade infantil. Atenta-se ainda para os aspectos pragmáticos que envolvem o fazer literário, validando ações objetivas, com efeitos deterministas e moralistas. Neste sentido, o direito ao livro se faz diluído sob efeitos de um objeto visto mais como redentor e menos como interação em um movimento diversamente complexo e contraditório no mundo da criança.
Colecionadores e cidadania patrimonial: os agenciamentos de arquivos pessoais em projetos memorialistas locais
Authors: Rogério Lopes José , Manoel Dias da Silva Rodrigo
Published: September 2018

O artigo discute as demandas memorialistas de colecionadoresprivados projetadas nas agendas políticas de patrimonializaçãocultural, em abordagem situacional. Desde a descrição de doiscasos de colecionamento – um em Canela, RS; outro em SãoLuiz do Paraitinga, SP –, consideram-se as estratégias e táticasoperadas pelos colecionadores, visando a formação de arquivospessoais, sua digitalização e os agenciamentos dos mesmossobre as memórias coletivas, desde a perspectiva da cidadaniapatrimonial. Esta abordagem implica considerar as coleçõescomo bens sociais que produzem modulações nas memóriascoletivas locais, pelo estabelecimento de regimes discursivose regimes de valor, ora em processos de singularizaçãonegociados nas redes de interação dos colecionadores, ora emprocessos de institucionalização das coleções em “dispositivosmemorialistas” públicos, como publicações e centros dememória.
Apresentação: e por falar em coleções e representação...
Authors: Marcelo Mendes Pereira Edmundo , Ferreira Lima Filho Manuel
Published: September 2018

Apresentamos à comunidade acadêmica o dossiê“Coleções, Colecionadores e Práticas de Representação”da revista Sociedade e Cultura da Universidade Federalde Goiás. Fomos motivados, após conduzir e participarde fóruns e grupos de trabalho em encontros como osda Associação Brasileira de Antropologia (ABA) e daAssociação Nacional de Pós-Graduação em CiênciasSociais (ANPOCS), a estimular a publicação de pesquisasno campo da antropologia e ciências sociais e suas interfacesdisciplinares a respeito do tema da formação e gestão decoleções artístico-científicas e as práticas de representaçãoa estas associadas, uma vez que se tem notado um aumentode interesse pelas temáticas fomentadas pela revisão eretomada críticas da antropologia com relação aos estudosda cultura material, dos museus e da formação de camposdisciplinares e instituições artístico-científicas.
Práticas integrativas e complementares em saúde no tratamento de feridas crônicas: revisão integrativa da literatura
Authors: Lemos Camila da Silva , Rodrigues Ana Gabriela Lacerda , Queiroz Ana Carolina de Castro Mendonça , Júnior Hélio Galindo , Malaquias Suelen Gomes
Published: September 2018

Objetivo: identificar en la literatura prácticas relacionadas a la medicina tradicional y complementaria en salud utilizadas en el tratamiento de personas con heridas crónicas. Materiales y método: estudio de revisión integradora de la literatura, cuya búsqueda se realizó en las bases: National Library of Medicine (Medicine-PubMed), Web of Science, Eletronic Library Online (SciELO), Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Science Direct (Elsevier), Science Direct (Scopus), y Biblioteca Virtual de la Salud y BVS en Medicinas Tradicionales, Complementarias e Integrativas (BVS-MTCI). Resultados: se analizaron 18 artículos que trataban de úlceras de la pierna (94,4 %) y lesiones por presión (5,6 %). Se identificaron fitoterapia (66,7 %), apiterapia (22,2 %) y ozonioterapia (11,1 %) como todos los resultados que se relacionaban con cicatrización de heridas. Conclusión: teniendo en cuenta las tres modalidades de prácticas identificadas y sus resultados clínicos, se evidenciaron vacíos en la literatura. No hay pruebas que sostengan indicación de alguna práctica en la atención a esta población, lo que refuerza el campo prometedor de actuación del enfermero.
Disabling Pride in the Pricke of Conscience
Authors: Calabrese Michael
Published: September 2018

This article reads the Middle English Pricke of Conscience in relation to disability studies, a robust field that studies the body and its impairments, the stigmatization of the impaired, the history of normality and ableism, and the social and medical treatment of infirmity. For Pricke, in particular, disability studies provides a critical way of understanding the construction of impairment and of “normalcy” and helps us to read the poem's rhetorics of fear and persuasion. Pricke works by deconstructing the pride that sinners inherently take in their “abilities,” as it were, to use the body for pleasure and sin. Pricke inverts one's intuitive sense of “ability” by proving how the abled, those who glory in natural beauty and freedom of movement, will, in the ignorance of pride, employ that freedom only to impair themselves morally by immersing themselves in disabling sin, which deforms both body and soul.
Transfers of General Education from the United States to East Asia: Case Studies of Japan, China, and Hong Kong
Authors: Huang Futao
Published: September 2018

This article begins with a review of relevant literature and a brief introduction to dependency theory and center-periphery theory, and then it will outline major changes in general education in the United States. In the third part, the article analyzes how U.S. general education has been transferred to Japan, China, and Hong Kong; its impact on the three places; and similarities and differences in the acceptance and implementation of U.S. general education in Japan, China, and Hong Kong. The study concludes by identifying characteristics of general education in these three systems and to what extent dependency theory or center-periphery theory can explain the transfer of U.S. ideas to Japan, China, and Hong Kong with regard to the changes in their respective higher education curricula.
What Can We Learn about Fall Risk Factors from EHR Nursing Notes? A Text Mining
Study
Authors: Bjarnadottir Ragnhildur I. , Lucero Robert J.
Published: September 2018

Introduction: Hospital falls are a continuing clinical concern, with over one
million falls occurring each year in the United States. Annually, hospital-acquired
falls result in an estimated $34 billion in direct medical costs. Falls are considered
largely preventable and, as a result, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
have announced that fall-related injuries are no longer a reimbursable hospital cost.
While policies and practices have been implemented to reduce falls, little sustained
reduction has been achieved. Little empirical evidence supports the validity of
published fall risk factors. While chart abstraction has been used to operationalize
risk factors, few studies have examined registered nurses’ (RNs’) narrative notes as a
source of actionable data. Therefore, the purpose of our study was to explore whether
there is meaningful fall risk and prevention information in RNs’ electronic narrative
notes.Methods: This study utilized a natural language processing design. Data for this
study were extracted from the publicly available Medical Information Mart for Intensive
Care (MIMIC-III) database. The date comprises deidentified EHR data associated with
patients who stayed in critical care units between 2001 and 2012. Text mining procedures
were performed on RN’s narrative notes following the traditional steps of knowledge
discovery.Results: The corpus of data extracted from MIMIC-III database was comprised of
1,046,053 RNs’ notes from 36,583 unique patients. We identified 3,972 notes (0.4
percent) representing 1,789 (5 percent) patients with explicit documentation related to
fall risk/prevention. Around 10 percent of the notes (103,685) from 23,025 patients
mentioned intrinsic (patient-related) factors that have been theoretically associated
with risk of falling. An additional 1,322 notes (0.1 percent) from 692 patients (2
percent) mentioned extrinsic risk factors, related to organizational design and
environment. Moreover, 7672 notes (0.7 percent) from 2,571 patients (7 percent) included
information on interventions that could theoretically impact patient falls.Conclusions:
This exploratory study using a NLP approach revealed that meaningful information related
to fall risk and prevention may be found in RNs’ narrative notes. In particular, RNs’
notes can contain information about clinical as well as environmental and organizational
factors that could affect fall risk but are not explicitly recorded by the provider as a
fall risk factors. In our study, potential fall risk factors were documented for more
than half of the sample. Further research is needed to determine the predictive value of
these factors.Implications for Policy or Practice: This study highlights a potentially
rich but understudied source of actionable fall risk data. Furthermore, the application
of novel methods to identify quality and safety measures in RNs’ notes can facilitate
inclusion of RNs’ voices in patient outcomes and health services research.
“O mundo não pode ser dividido em coxinhas e petralhas”: a construção de posicionamentos em torno do impeachment
Authors: Deusdará Bruno , Gesteira Paula
Published: September 2018

O processo de impeachment efetuado em 2016 convoca as diversas áreas do saber à reflexão crítica e à problematização de sua emergência e consolidação. Com o intuito de fornecer uma contribuição à leitura desse processo, interrogamos a construção de posicionamentos discursivos em torno desse evento que altera significativamente os contornos da história contemporânea brasileira. Como quadro teórico, recorremos à análise do discurso de base enunciativa, cujo foco recai sobre o modo de articulação de pistas linguístico-discursivas na reconstituição dos embates a partir dos quais os posicionamentos são construídos. Em nossas análises, investigamos dois artigos de opinião publicados em veículo de grande circulação no país, antes da votação final no Senado Federal. Como resultados, destacamos as diferentes linhas que constituem os posicionamentos em jogo, indicando que, do lado contrário, encontram-se perspectivas que promovem diálogo entre diferentes pontos de vista e, do lado favorável, concentram-se as oposições unilaterais.
Masculinity, Violence, and Deindividuation in Argentine Soccer Chants: The Sonic Potentials of Participatory Sounding-in-Synchrony
Authors: Herrera Eduardo
Published: September 2018

Through an ethnographic study of Argentine soccer fans, this article explores the potentials of participatory moving-and-sounding-in-synchrony to construct a kind of masculinity that can promote physical violence, homophobia, and racism. I suggest that chants are a performative social space that frames the meaning and values of the discourse of aguante (endurance), a key concept in the construction of Argentine masculinities. Furthermore, the article demonstrates how participatory music making contributes to a process of deindividuation that allows the public utterance of expressions, slurs, and profanity that most people might refrain from using otherwise, in resonance with Judith Butler’s concept of the performativity of assemblies.
Valgius Rufus and the Poet Macer in Tibullus and Ovid
Authors: Kronenberg Leah
Published: September 2018

This article argues that the figure of Macer, who is characterized as a poet with elegiac and epic interests in Tibullus (2.6) and Ovid (Am. 2.18, Pont. 2.10, 4.16), is a pseudonym (“the lean lover”) for Valgius Rufus. The usual candidates for Macer’s identity, Aemilius Macer and Pompeius Macer, have nothing to recommend them but their name and status as poets. In contrast, the information we learn about Valgius Rufus from Horace Carm. 2.9, the Panegyricus Messallae, and his surviving elegiac and hexametric fragments fits extremely well with the portrait of Macer that emerges from Tibullus and Ovid.
Training Young Killers: How Butcher Education Might Be Damaging Young People
Authors: Blaznik Maša
Published: September 2018

The job of butcher requires the routinized mass killing of nonhuman animals and has damaging mental health consequences for individuals and negative impacts on society. However, vocational training for butchers is part of many educational systems in the European Union where teenagers can start training from the age 0/15. In this article, I explore the effects of the violent content of this training on young people and its relation to the context of their developmental period—adolescence. In addition, I examine society’s paradoxical stance on violence where it is both abhorred and sanctioned as well as normalized in various employment contexts.
Finance Fictions
Authors: De Boever Arne
Published: September 2018

Building on both established and emerging discussions of literature and finance, Finance Fictions takes the measure of the tension between psychosis and realism in the contemporary finance novel. Revisiting such twentieth-century classics of the genre as Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, this book considers that the twenty-first-century is witnessing the birth of a new kind of finance novel that in the face of an ongoing economic crisis, ever more frequent market crashes, and the politics of austerity, pursues a more realist approach to the actual workings of the economy. But what kind of realism would be attuned to today’s economic reality of high-frequency trading, dominated by complex financial instruments like credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations, and digital algorithms operating at speeds faster than what human beings or computers can record? If Tom Wolfe in 1989 could still urge novelists to work harder to “tame the billion-footed beast of reality,” it seems today’s economic reality confronts us with a difference that is qualitative rather than quantitative: a new financial ontology requiring new modes of thinking and writing. Mobilizing the philosophical thought of Quentin Meillassoux in the close-reading of finance novels by Robert Harris, Michel Houellebecq, Ben Lerner and lesser-known works of conceptual writing such as Mathew Timmons’s Credit, Finance Fictions argues that realism is in for a speculative update if it wants to take on the contemporary economy—an “if” whose implications turn out to be deeply political.
Latinx Literature Unbound
Authors: Rodriguez Ralph E.
Published: September 2018

Since the 1990s, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latinx writers. The extant criticism, however, has yet to catch up with the diversity of writers we label Latinx and the range of themes about which they write. Little sustained scholarly attention has been paid, moreover, to the very category—Latinx—under which we group this literature. Latinx Literature Unbound, thus, begins with a fundamental question “What does it mean to label a work of literature or an entire corpus of literature Latinx?” From this question a host of others spin out: What does that grouping allow us to see, predispose us to see, and preclude us from seeing? If the grouping—which brings together a heterogeneous collection of people and groups under a seemingly homogeneous label—tells us something meaningful, is there a poetics we can develop that would facilitate our analysis of this literature? In answering these questions, Latinx Literature Unbound seeks to unbind Latinx literature from taken-for-granted critical assumptions about identity and theme. It argues that there may be more salubrious taxonomies than Latinx for organizing and analyzing this literature. Following a neo-formalist interpretive model that privileges reading as a temporal, meaning-making event, the book argues that genre may be a more durable category for analyzing this literature. Finally, Latinx Literature Unbound suggests some ways in which we might want to proceed as we move forward with future studies of the writing we have come to identify as Latinx.
Paladinos e paródias: Agilulfo e Quixote
Authors: Gomes Natalia Guerra Brisola , Brito Luciana
Published: September 2018

O que tornou El ingenioso hidalgo de la Mancha (1605, 1615) um dos títulos de maior destaque no cânone ocidental foi a união de um gênero literário então em decadência, a novela de cavalaria, e das questões enfrentadas pela burguesia emergente. A fórmula de se abordar a problemática de seu tempo com uma roupagem da literatura medieval é mais tarde retomada por Italo Calvino em Il cavaliere inesistente (1959). Além desse aspecto, esses romances dialogam entre si por meio de seus cavaleiros protagonistas, que vivem as dicotomias da essência e da aparência, da realidade e da ilusão.What made El ingenioso higalgo de la Mancha (1605, 1615) one of the most prominent titles in the occidental canon was the union of a literary genre that was in fall, the chivalric romance, and the problems faced by the emerging bourgeoisie. The formula of talking about his own time’s issues in a medieval literature garb is later retaken by Italo Calvino in Il cavaliere inesistente (1959). Apart from this, these novels speak between each other through their protagonist knights, who live the dichotomies of the essence and appearance, of reality and illusion.
Entre a memória e a reinvenção: o exercício intertextual de Clarice Lispector
Authors: Alonso Mariângela , Silva Eduardo Neves da
Published: September 2018

O objetivo deste artigo é evidenciar a utilização da intertextualidade como via de acesso à escrita de Clarice Lispector. A prática intertextual pode ser relacionada com os aspectos de colagem e reinvenção na medida em que realiza a busca reiterada de se ir adiante dos limites da linguagem. O que se revela nessa dinâmica são os movimentos de memória e alteridade na ficção clariciana.The purpose of this article is to highlight the use of intertextuality as a way of understanding Clarice Lispector’s writing. The intertextual practice may be related to aspects of reinvention and collage since it repeatedly performs the search of moving forward the limits of language. What is revealed about this dynamic of Clarice’s works are the moves of memory and otherness.
Subjetividade e formação do leitor: o problema da ausência da leitura literária em livros didáticos do ciclo 1 do ensino fundamental
Authors: Lima Sheila Oliveira
Published: September 2018

A formação do leitor exige processos de subjetivação. A leitura significativa apenas se efetiva quando é permitido ao leitor atuar por meio da subjetividade. A presença dos textos literários desde o Ciclo I do Ensino Fundamental é essencial, na medida em que se trata de campo privilegiado para o deslocamento subjetivo pela apropriação dos letramentos de prestígio. Entretanto, boa parte da ação escolar desse segmento parece desconsiderar a vinculação entre subjetividade e leitura e, consequentemente, a relevância da leitura literária na escola. Tal concepção conduz à aplicação de atividades de compreensão de textos que não comprometem a criança com a leitura em seu potencial formativo. Submetem os sujeitos à condição de leitores “funcionais”, imobilizando-os em posições discursivas construídas historicamente. Essas constatações resultam de pesquisa focada nas propostas de leitura veiculadas pelos livros didáticos de língua portuguesa do ciclo 1 do Ensino Fundamental. Este artigo alerta para a necessidade de rever os fundamentos das abordagens concernentes à formação do leitor, sobretudo no momento inaugural de sua jornada.
Ensino de leitura e apropriação dos saberes pela didática da leitura subjetiva em “Nenhum peixe aonde ir” (2006), de Marie-Francine Hébert
Authors: Brito Luciana , Marson Izabel Cristina
Published: September 2018

Este artigo apresenta a didática da leitura subjetiva a partir de trabalho docente sobre o livro infantil Nenhum peixe aonde ir, de Marie-Francine Hébert, 2006, que integra o acervo do Programa Nacional Biblioteca na Escola (PNBE). O trabalho aqui apresentado versa sobre a didática da leitura subjetiva, implementada na França no início do século XXI; e proposta de plano de trabalho com Nenhum peixe aonde ir, de Marie-Francine Hébert, 2006, enfatizando a depreensão dos saberes literários pela escrita de diários de leitura em sala de aula. Partimos da temática dos “conflitos sociais”, com o intuito de trilhar possibilidades de ensinar a ler literatura em sala de aula, para turmas do Ensino Fundamental II, 6º ano, por meio de elementos que revelam a subjetividade do leitor, bem como sua competência estética (Rouxel 2014: 28). O trabalho justifica-se pela subjetividade da leitura estar inserida de forma constitutiva no ato de ler, como questão contextual, sociocultural e identitária do leitor em formação (Jouve 2013; Petit 2008).
Encontros afetivos em uma catedral
Authors: Azerêdo Genilda
Published: September 2018

Tomando como ponto de partida discussões sobre estética e política e sobre o poder da literatura, propomos a análise do conto “Cathedral”/ “Catedral”, do escritor estadunidense Raymond Carver, tendo como foco a articulação entre alteridade e afeto. Quatro autores, em especial, serão acionados para fundamentar a discussão: Mario Vargas Llosa, com seus textos sobre a literatura e a vida; Tzvetan Todorov, com suas reflexões sobre o poder da literatura; Jacques Rancière, com sua proposta sobre a partilha do sensível; e Susan Sontag, com sua contribuição sobre a função da arte. Procuraremos valorizar o lugar do afeto na relação de encontro gradativamente construída entre o personagem cego e o narrador, fato que ilustra um processo de tornar-se outro através da potencialidade de afetar e ser afetado. Também daremos especial atenção à metáfora da catedral e à sua relação com o significado da narrativa em termos mais amplos. Argumentamos que o efeito resultante do encontro afetivo, no âmbito do universo diegético, tem grande ressonância sobre o leitor, constituindo-se, portanto, paradigmática do poder da literatura.
A mediação do professor no ensino de literatura: os discursos oficiais e acadêmicos
Authors: Segabinazi Daniela Maria
Published: September 2018

As campanhas públicas e privadas de incentivo à leitura, o aumento de pesquisas acadêmicas e publicações de livros e periódicos destinando espaços para debater a formação de leitores e o ensino de literatura na escola e fora dela, têm corroborado o esforço e a permanência para a construção de propostas de fomento à leitura no Brasil. Também, nessa esteira, as políticas públicas vêm se intensificando e se valendo do empenho de todos para apresentar novos paradigmas às concepções e práticas de leitura na escola, provocando a reorganização nas rotinas tradicionais do ensino de literatura nos currículos e nas atividades da sala de aula, e, sobretudo, na formação e na praxis do professor. Assim, refletindo sobre esse contexto de transformações na escola, no ensino de literatura e, principalmente, no papel que o professor deve assumir diante da necessidade de formar leitores, o presente artigo intenciona evidenciar como os discursos oficiais e acadêmicos explicitam a “nova” função do professor ao também assumir o papel de mediador e articulador da leitura literária na escola.
O verme e o jardim: poesia e fotografia em Carlos Drummond de Andrade e Adélia Prado
Authors: Martins Aulus
Published: September 2018

Com apoio nas reflexões de Benjamin, Barthes e Agamben sobre a fotografia, o objetivo deste artigo é refletir sobre a relação que se estabelece entre o texto poético e o texto fotográfico em “Os mortos de sobrecasaca” de Carlos Drummond de Andrade e “Fotografia” de Adélia Prado. O que nos interessa investigar é a relação que se define pelo modo como a fotografia, apesar de ausente, quer dizer, não integrar a obra em que o poema é publicado, é textualizada pelo eu lírico.
Crítica literária: algumas reflexões intempestivas
Authors: Franchetti Paulo
Published: September 2018

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Imagens em Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore: engano ou representação?
Authors: De Vargas Andrea Quilian , Umbach Rosani Ketzer
Published: September 2018

Em Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore, o escritor italiano Luigi Pirandello realiza uma crítica contundente ao cinema e à falsa imagem que a maquinaria moderna passou a captar, fixar, alterar e reproduzir. O olhar em perspectiva explorado no romance mostra a impossibilidade de representação da realidade por intermédio de uma imagem congelada que fixa um lugar e um momento delimitados. A ideia central expressa nos cadernos de Serafino é que há sempre algo além da imagem. Nosso objetivo com este estudo é verificar, na tessitura narrativa, de que forma Pirandello expõe sua desconfiança em relação àquilo que se vê, seja em uma foto, em uma tela de cinema ou em uma descrição literária.
Incidências fotográficas na poesia de Drummond
Authors: Silva Thayane Morais , Penido Luiz Henrique Carvalho
Published: September 2018

Neste trabalho, propomos estudar dois poemas de Carlos Drummond de Andrade, “Evocação mariana” e “Retrato de família”, a fim de identificar as cadeias metonímicas e metafóricas do poema enquanto figurações fotográficas. Em “Retrato de família”, a metonímia se configura como uma força específica provocada pelo punctum, enquanto as metáforas correspondem às transfigurações das impressões do poeta diante do retrato. No poema “Evocação mariana”, a visão do poeta é semelhante à visão do fotógrafo e, nesse sentido, a palavra poética é um dispositivo visual utilizado para mediar as figurações de sentido.
A negação do pertencimento: a imagem do exílio em Edward Said e em Tzvetan Todorov
Authors: Brito Tarsilla Couto de
Published: September 2018

O objetivo geral deste trabalho é promover uma reflexão sobre o impacto das culturas em trânsito, das línguas em contato, dos desejos em conflito na produção de um conhecimento interdisciplinar a partir da literatura. Para tanto, buscou-se na imagem do exílio, reelaborada por Edward Said e por Tzvetan Todorov ao longo da segunda metade do século XX, nuances que permitam refletir sobre os ideais de identidade e alteridade. No debate, perseguem-se reflexões teóricas, reelaborações conceituais e querelas que contribuam para a redefinição dos métodos e objetos dos estudos literários desde o advento dos estudos culturais. Dentre as lições do exílio, encontram-se a crítica àquela concepção universalizante de Cultura e a conflituosa história de sua substituição por uma visada pluralista apoiada em "culturas" com c minúsculo e no plural. A imagem do exílio ressalta a importância dos trabalhos em torno da tradução atenta às línguas em errância e pressupõe a formação de subjetividades no contexto contingente das experiências de coletividade, de estranhamento e de territorialidade.
A perda da identidade cultural em Wedding at the Cross, de Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Authors: Alves Elizandra Fernandes , Silvestre Nelci Alves Coelho
Published: September 2018

Baseando-se principalmente nas teorias sobre a identidade desenvolvidas por Stuart Hall e publicadas em Identidades Culturais na Pós-modernidade (2006), e em outras, como as de Eurídice Figueiredo (1998) e Bill Ashcroft (2001), no presente artigo analisa-se alguns dos aspectos da perda da identidade cultural na literatura pós-colonial africana escrita em língua inglesa. Tem-se, como corpus, o conto Wedding at the Cross, presente na coletânea Secret lives and other Stories, originalmente publicada em 1975, do queniano Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Na análise do conto o foco fica, mais especificamente, no personagem principal, Wariuki/Livingstone Jr., e na forma como sua identidade fragmentada reflete a natureza hierárquica do processo de colonização ao qual seu povo foi submetido. Na análise da diégese deve-se apresentar, ainda, como, pelos cinco descentramentos discutidos nos estudos de Hall, o personagem em questão revela-se um sujeito cuja crise identitária parece ter sido instaurada devido ao binarismo no qual foi socialmente educado.
Sahyouni/Mamisch: de erkenning van islamitische verstotingen en het discriminatieverbod in Europa
Authors: Rutten Susan
Published: September 2018

Recognition of Islamic unilateral divorces and the non-discrimination principle; Sahyouni/Mamisch

On 20 December 2017, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled that an extrajudicial unilateral divorce brought about in Syria does not come within the substantive scope of the European regulation on the law applicable to divorces (Rome III Regulation). In response to this decision, the inequality between men and women in the divorce law of Muslim countries, the developments that are going on in this area, as well as the role the non-discrimination-principle plays in the recognition policies in European states on Islamic repudiations, are discussed in this contribution.
TEST STAND FOR THE EXAMINATION OF MAGNETIC FLUIDS IN SHEAR AND SQUEEZE FLOW MODE
Authors: HORAK Wojciech , SALWIŃSKI Józef , SZCZĘCH Marcin
Published: September 2018

The application of magnetic fluids in machine design on an industrial scale has been a fact for over 20 years. In particular, magnetorheological fluids have been used in energy dissipation systems with controlled operating characteristics. The availability of these fluids, connected with the ease of modelling their rheological properties by magnetic fields, contributes to the search for areas of effective use for such substances. Determining the properties and characteristics of magnetic fluid behaviour is one of the key aspects of improving existing and developing new applications for this type of smart material. Some phenomena affecting the behaviour of magnetic fluids have not been fully explained, and a synthetic model to describe their behaviour has not yet been developed, so the research area of this type of substance is still an open chapter for materials science. The paper presents a description of the design of a test stand for examining the behaviour of magnetic fluids working in shear and compression (squeeze) flow modes. Test results are also shown, and attention is given to the problems encountered in developing measurement systems for determining the properties of fluids under magnetic field conditions.
TRIBOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF COMPOSITE COATINGS ON ALUMINIUM ALLOY PARTS FOR TRANSPORT MEANS
Authors: POSMYK Andrzej
Published: September 2018

The present paper describes the structure, surface topography, and tribological properties of a DLC composite coating produced by magnetron sputtering on an engine cylinder liner AC-AlSi12NiCuMg (AC-47000) cast alloy as well as on AW-A6061 aluminium alloy matrix W6.A15A composite (AW-6061+10Al2O3P) used for the production of oil-less air compressor cylinders and car roof sliders. The DLC coating slid against a TG15 sliding composite under dry friction, which is an equivalent to the friction system for oil-less air compressors and against cast iron under limited lubrication conditions (boundary lubrication). The limited lubrication conditions are dominant during the starting of a cold combustion engine, when the viscosity of oil is too high and the splash lubrication is not sufficient. The DLC coatings’ properties are compared with the anodic hard coatings (AHC) and composite coating with an AHC matrix applied in sliding contacts presently used. The wear of composite TG15 during sliding against DLC was higher than during sliding against AHC. The DLC coating can replace the anodic hard coating and composite coatings on its matrix presently used in sliding contacts.