bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Ursprüngliche Akkumulation: The Secret of an Originary Mistranslation
Authors: Morris Rosalind C.
Published: July 2016

Ursprüngliche Akkumulation, Marx's term for the logically paradoxical phenomenon of an accumulation that is both the effect and the origin of capitalist accumulation, has been the topic of nearly endless debate since the publication of Das Kapital. Many analyses of this concept have centered on its place in largely stage-ist accounts of national and/or epochal histories. This article revisits these debates and argues for a translation of the term as not “primitive accumulation” but “originary accumulation,” since it is neither a stage nor a finite process but a recursive phenomenon necessarily repeated within the life-history of not only every economic system but also every subject. Moreover, the article suggests that the concept needs to be understood in terms of both what is surpassed and what is foreclosed. Personal indebting in the era of global finance is a mode of ursprüngliche Akkumulation, precisely to the extent that it subjects individuals in a manner that forecloses the possibility of an alternative economic order.
North Korea's “Succession” of Marxism
Authors: Song Hoon
Published: July 2016

Authorship is the key site where the power of North Korea's leader gathers itself. The founding father, Kim Il Sung, “authored” the nation by scripting the philosophico-political text Juch'e. But this element of leader-as-author—the “king” who is also “philosopher”—is constitutively blocked in the exogenic representations we might call “liberal democratic.” The blockage, this article argues, results from liberal democracy's disavowed investment in its own philosopher-king, what Jacques Lacan called the “big Other.” The Lacanian big Other is one in whom “being” and “knowledge” coincide, on whose account ordinary subjects need not assume knowledge in their own existence. Marx, for North Korea, staked out the opposite: named the “first leader,” Marx was above all an author who exemplified what it means to assume knowledge in one's own existence. Marxist North Korea can be seen as a response to the West's hysterical relation to the big Other.
Translating Communism for Children: Fables and Posters of the Revolution
Authors: Oushakine Serguei Alex.
Published: July 2016

Using children's picture books published in early Soviet Russia as its main visual and textual source, this essay explores the process of translation through which artists and writers adopted and adapted key Marxist ideas for illiterate or semiliterate audiences.
Dreams of a Dual Birth: Socialist Lebanon's World and Ours
Authors: Bardawil Fadi A.
Published: July 2016

This essay revisits the history of Socialist Lebanon, a Marxist organization founded in the mid-1960s by militant intellectuals in Beirut. Examining their labors of, and thoughts on, translation, which the members of Socialist Lebanon regarded as constitutive of the Marxist tradition, the essay tracks how they inscribed their struggle in a globally shared contemporary horizon of the people's struggles from China to Cuba; argued against anchoring political positions in a historicist, evolutionary reading of Marx that would endlessly defer revolutionary practice until the objective conditions are met; and called for a thorough diagnosis of the present's particularity. In doing so, the essay seeks to complicate retrospective sketches of Arab Marxists, such as Susan Buck-Morss's, that depict them as elitist and vanguardist modernizers and oppose them to immanent Islamist critics. The essay concludes by arguing for a retrieval of Socialist Lebanon's ethos for our increasingly intractable present.
Reinventing The Black Scholar
Authors: Chude-Sokei Louis
Published: July 2016

The Black Scholar (TBS), established in 1969, emerged from a public confluence of black political and cultural movements—black power, black arts, Pan-Africanism and decolonization, black feminism, and the emergence of a black political class. As primary intellectual organ to that confluence, it had to be broad based and rooted in the stridency of demand and the humility of exchange. TBS relaunched in 2012, and its new editor, Louis Chude-Sokei, saw his challenges as, first, making sure the journal did not die, and second, alerting scholars—particularly of his generation and younger—that it had not died and could be a viable option for their efforts and, in time, a preferable one.
Journal Work and the “Public Good”: Undocumented Academic Labor in Emerging Fields
Authors: Saunders Patricia Joan
Published: July 2016

Beyond the traditional work that journals and editors are responsible for, the editors of Small Axe and Anthurium have also undertaken institution building through knowledge production. This might well be the kind of development of communications networks that Hardt and Negri refer to as “an organic relationship to the emergence of new world order.” In this case, the new world order is institutional structures that determine where, when, and in what context certain conversations about power, access, and social change can and should occur. What is most striking, however, is that (in Caribbean studies) this work began with concerted efforts by scholars, institution builders, and editors such as Sandra Pouchet Paquet, and still continues some two generations later. However, given the nature of this work and the length of time it has continued, it is critical that we consider whether the need for this work to be done by journal editors reflects a need for more institutional structures that have the resources to share the weight of this level of institution building and to sustain it over time.
Hypersalinity drives physiological and morphological changes in Limia perugiae (Poeciliidae)
Authors: Weaver Pablo F. , Tello Oscar , Krieger Jonathan , Marmolejo Arlen , Weaver Kathleen F. , Garcia Jerome V. , Cruz Alexander
Published: July 2016

A fundamental question in biology is how an organism's morphology and physiology are shaped by its environment. Here, we evaluate the effects of a hypersaline environment on the morphology and physiology of a population of livebearing fish in the genus Limia (Poeciliidae). We sampled from two populations of Limia perugiae (one freshwater and one hypersaline) in the southwest Dominican Republic. We evaluated relative abundance of osmoregulatory proteins using western blot analyses and used a geometric morphometric approach to evaluate fine-scale changes to size and shape. Our data show that gill tissue isolated from hypersaline fish contained approximately two and a half times higher expression of Na+/K+ ATPase proteins. We also show evidence for mitochondrial changes within the gills, with eight times more complex I and four times higher expression of ATP synthase within the gill tissue from the hypersaline population. The energetic consequences to Limia living in saline and hypersaline environments may be a driver for phenotypic diversity, reducing the overall body size and changing the relative size and shape of the head, as well as impeding the growth of secondary sex features among the males.
Modulation of digestive physiology and biochemistry inMytilus californianusin response to feeding level acclimation and microhabitat
Authors: Connor Kwasi M. , Sung Aaron , Garcia Nathan S. , Gracey Andrew Y. , German Donovan P.
Published: July 2016

The intertidal mussel Mytilus californianus is a critical foundation species that is exposed to fluctuations in the environment along tidal- and wave-exposure gradients. We investigated feeding and digestion in mussels under laboratory conditions and across environmental gradients in the field. We assessed whether mussels adopt a rate-maximization (higher ingestion and lower assimilation) or a yield-maximization acquisition (lower ingestion and higher assimilation) strategy under laboratory conditions by measuring feeding physiology and digestive enzyme activities. We used digestive enzyme activity to define resource acquisition strategies in laboratory studies, then measured digestive enzyme activities in three microhabitats at the extreme ends of the tidal- and wave-exposure gradients within a stretch of shore (<20 m) projected sea-ward. Our laboratory results indicated that mussels benefit from a high assimilation efficiency when food concentration is low and have a low assimilation efficiency when food concentration is high. Additionally, enzyme activities of carbohydrases amylase, laminarinase and cellulase were elevated when food concentration was high. The protease trypsin, however, did not increase with increasing food concentration. In field conditions, low-shore mussels surprisingly did not have high enzyme activities. Rather, high-shore mussels exhibited higher cellulase activities than low-shore mussels. Similarly, trypsin activity in the high-shore-wave-sheltered microhabitat was higher than that in high-shore-wave-exposed. As expected, mussels experienced increasing thermal stress as a function of reduced submergence from low to high shore and shelter from wave-splash. Our findings suggest that mussels compensate for limited feeding opportunities and thermal stress by modulating digestive enzyme activities.
Wallenda/DLK protein levels are temporally downregulated by Tramtrack69 to allow R7 growth cones to become stationary boutons
Authors: Feoktistov Alexander I. , Herman Tory G.
Published: July 2016

Dual leucine zipper kinase (DLK) promotes growth cone motility and must be restrained to ensure normal development. PHR (Pam/Highwire/RPM-1) ubiquitin ligases therefore target DLK for degradation unless axon injury occurs. Overall DLK levels decrease during development, but how DLK levels are regulated within a developing growth cone has not been examined. We analyzed the expression of the fly DLK Wallenda (Wnd) in R7 photoreceptor growth cones as they halt at their targets and become presynaptic boutons. We found that Wnd protein levels are repressed by the PHR protein Highwire (Hiw) during R7 growth cone halting, as has been observed in other systems. However, as R7 growth cones become boutons, Wnd levels are further repressed by a temporally expressed transcription factor, Tramtrack69 (Ttk69). Previously unobserved negative feedback from JNK also contributes to Wnd repression at both time points. We conclude that neurons deploy additional mechanisms to downregulate DLK as they form stable, synaptic connections. We use live imaging to probe the effects of Wnd and Ttk69 on R7 bouton development and conclude that Ttk69 coordinates multiple regulators of this process.
Differences in spectral selectivity between stages of visually-guided mating approaches in a buprestid beetle
Authors: Domingue Michael J. , Lelito Jonathan P. , Myrick Andrew J. , Csóka György , Szőcs Levente , Imrei Zoltan , Baker Thomas C.
Published: July 2016

Spectral mating preferences were examined in male Agrilus angustulus (Buprestidae:Coleoptera), a member of a taxon known for its high species diversity and striking metallic coloration. The spectral emission profile of a typical A. angustulus female displays low chroma, broadly overlapping that of the green oak leaves they feed and rest upon, while also including longer wavelengths. To pinpoint behaviorally significant spectral regions for A. angustulus males during mate selection, we observed their field approaches to females of five Agrilus planipennis color morphs that have greater chroma than the normal conspecific female targets. A. angustulus males would initially fly equally frequently toward any of the three longest wavelength morphs (green, copper and red) whose spectral emission profiles all overlap that of typical A. angustulus females. However, they usually only completed approaches toward the two longest wavelength morphs, but not the green morphs. Thus spectral preference influences mate selection by A. angustulus males, and their discrimination of suitable targets became greater as these targets were approached. This increasing spectral discrimination when approaching targets may have evolved to allow female emissions to remain somewhat cryptic, while also visible to conspecifics as distinct from the background vegetation and heterospecific competitors.
Effect of temperature on chemosensitive locus coeruleus neurons of Savannah monitor lizardsVaranus exanthematicus
Authors: Zena Lucas A. , Fonseca Elisa M. , Santin Joseph M. , Porto Lays , Gargaglioni Luciane H. , Bícego Kênia C. , Hartzler Lynn K.
Published: July 2016

Savannah monitor lizards (Varanus exanthematicus) are unusual among ectothermic vertebrates by maintaining arterial pH nearly constant during changes in body temperature in contrast to the typical α-stat regulating strategy of most other ectotherms. Given the importance of pH in the control of ventilation, we examined the CO2/H+ sensitivity of neurons from the locus coeruleus (LC) region of monitor lizard brainstems. Whole-cell patch clamp electrophysiology was used to record membrane voltage in LC neurons in brainstem slices. Artificial cerebral spinal fluid (aCSF) equilibrated with 80% O2, 0.0–10.0% CO2, balance N2 was superfused across brainstem slices. Changes in firing rate (FR) of LC neurons were calculated from action potential recordings to quantify the chemosensitive response to hypercapnic acidosis. Our results demonstrate that the LC brainstem region contains neurons that can be excited by, inhibited by, and/or not sensitive to CO2 in V. exanthematicus. While few LC neurons were activated by HA (15%), a higher proportion of the LC neurons responded by decreasing their FR during exposure to high CO2 at 20°C (37%); this chemosensitive response was no longer exhibited when increasing temperature to 30°C. Further, the proportion of chemosensitive LC neurons changed at 35°C with a reduction in CO2-inhibited (11%) neurons and an increase in CO2-activated (35%) neurons. Expressing a high proportion of inhibited neurons at low temperature may provide insights into mechanisms underlying the temperature-dependent pH-stat regulatory strategy of Savannah monitor lizards.
Cardiac reflexes in a warming world: Thermal plasticity of barostatic control and autonomic tones in a temperate fish
Authors: Sandblom E. , Ekström A. , Brijs J. , Sundström L. F. , Jutfelt F. , Clark T. D. , Adill A. , Aho T. , Gräns A.
Published: July 2016

Thermal plasticity of cardiorespiratory function allows ectotherms like fish to cope with seasonal temperature changes and is critical for resilience to climate change. Yet, the chronic thermal effects on cardiovascular homeostatic reflexes in fish are little understood although this may have important implications for physiological performance and overall resilience to climate warming. We compared cardiac autonomic control and baroreflex regulation of heart rate in perch (Perca fluviatilis L.) from a reference area in the Baltic Sea at 18–19°C with conspecifics from the ‘Biotest enclosure’, a chronically heated ecosystem receiving warmed effluent water (24–25°C) from a nuclear power plant. Resting heart rates of Biotest fish displayed clear thermal compensation and were 58.3±2.3 beats min−1 compared with 52.4±2.6 beats min−1 in reference fish at their respective environmental temperatures (Q10: 1.2). The thermally-compensated heart rate of Biotest fish was a combined effect of elevated inhibitory cholinergic tone (105% in Biotest fish versus 70% in reference fish) and reduced intrinsic cardiac pacemaker rate. A barostatic response was evident in both groups, as pharmacologically-induced increases and decreases in blood pressure resulted in atropine-sensitive bradycardia and tachycardia, respectively. Yet, the tachycardia in Biotest fish was significantly greater, presumably due to the larger scope for vagal release. Acclimation of Biotest fish to 18°C for 3 weeks abolished differences in intrinsic heart rate and autonomic tones, suggesting considerable short-term thermal plasticity of cardiovascular control in this species. The heightened hypotensive tachycardia in Biotest perch may represent an important mechanism of ectothermic vertebrates that safeguards tissue perfusion pressure when tissue oxygen demand is elevated by environmental warming.
Neuromuscular effort predicts walk-run transition speed in normal and adapted human gaits
Authors: Stenum Jan , Choi Julia T.
Published: July 2016

Often, humans and other animals move in a manner that minimizes energy costs. It is more economical to walk at slow speeds, and to run at fast speeds. Here we asked whether humans select a gait that minimizes neuromuscular effort under novel and unfamiliar conditions, by imposing interlimb asymmetry during split-belt treadmill locomotion. The walk-run transition speed changed markedly across different gait conditions: forward, backward, hybrid (one leg forward, one leg backward), and forward with speed differences (one leg faster than the other). Most importantly, we showed that the human walk-run transition speed across conditions was predicted by changes in neuromuscular effort (i.e., summed leg muscle activations). Our results for forward gait and forward gait with speed-differences suggest that human locomotor patterns are optimized under both familiar and novel gait conditions by minimizing the motor command for leg muscle activations.
It's all in the gills: Evaluation of O2 uptake in Pacific hagfish refutes a major respiratory role for the skin
Authors: Clifford Alexander M. , Zimmer Alex M. , Wood Chris M. , Goss Greg G.
Published: July 2016

Hagfish skin has been reported as an important site for ammonia excretion and as the major site of systemic oxygen acquisition. However, debate remains whether cutaneous O2 uptake is the dominant route of uptake; all evidence supporting this hypothesis has been derived using indirect measurements. Here we use separating chambers and direct measurements of oxygen consumption and ammonia excretion to quantify cutaneous and branchial exchanges in Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii) at rest and following exhaustive exercise. Hagfish primarily relied on the gills for both O2 uptake (81.0%) and ammonia excretion (70.7%). Following exercise, both O2 uptake and ammonia excretion increased, but only across the gill; cutaneous exchange was not increased. When branchial O2 availability was reduced by exposure to anteriorly-localized hypoxia (∼4.6 kPa O2), cutaneous O2 consumption was only slightly elevated on an absolute basis. These results refute a major role for cutaneous O2 acquisition in the Pacific hagfish.
High rates of glucose utilization in gas gland of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) are supported by GLUT1 and HK1b
Authors: Clow Kathy A. , Short Connie E. , Hall Jennifer R. , Gendron Robert L. , Paradis Hélène , Ralhan Ankur , Driedzic William R.
Published: July 2016

Gas gland of physoclistous fish utilizes glucose to generate lactic acid that leads to the off loading of oxygen from haemoglobin. This study addresses characteristics of the first two steps in glucose utilization in the gas gland of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). Glucose metabolism by isolated gas gland cells was 12-fold and 170-fold higher than in heart and RBCs as determined by the production of 3H2O from [2-3H]-glucose. In gas gland essentially all of the glucose consumed was converted to lactate. Glucose uptake in gas gland shows a very high dependence upon facilitated transport as evidenced by saturation of uptake of 2-deoxyglucose at a low extracellular concentration and a requirement for high levels of cytochalasin B for uptake inhibition despite high efficacy of this treatment in heart and RBCs. Glucose transport is via glucose transporter 1 (GLUT1) that is localized to the glandular cells. GLUT1 Western blot analysis from whole tissue lysates displayed a band with a relative molecular mass of 52kDa consistent with the deduced amino acid sequence. Levels of 52kDa GLUT1 in gas gland were 2.3-fold and 33-fold higher than in heart and RBCs, respectively. Glucose phosphorylation is catalyzed by hexokinase Ib (HKIb), a paralog that cannot bind to the outer mitochondrial membrane. Transcript levels of HKIb in gas gland were 52-fold and 57-fold more abundant than in heart and RBCs. It appears that high levels of GLUT1 protein and an unusual isoform of HKI are both critical for the high rates of glycolysis in gas gland cells.
Efficient Advert Assignment
Authors: Kelly Frank , Key Peter , Walton Neil
Published: July 2016

We develop a framework for the analysis of large-scale ad auctions where adverts are assigned over a continuum of search types. For this pay-per-click market, we provide an efficient mechanism that maximizes social welfare. In particular, we show that the social welfare optimization can be solved in separate optimizations conducted on the time scales relevant to the search platform and advertisers. Here, on each search occurrence, the platform solves an assignment problem and, on a slower time scale, each advertiser submits a bid that matches its demand for click-throughs with supply. Importantly, knowledge of global parameters, such as the distribution of search terms, is not required when separating the problem in this way. Exploiting the information asymmetry between the platform and advertiser, we describe a simple mechanism that incentivizes truthful bidding, has a unique Nash equilibrium that is socially optimal, and thus implements our decomposition. Further, we consider models where advertisers adapt their bids smoothly over time and prove convergence to the solution that maximizes social welfare. Finally, we describe several extensions that illustrate the flexibility and tractability of our framework.
District nurses' experiences of musculoskeletal wellbeing: a qualitative study
Authors: Boniface Graham , Ghosh Sudip , Robinson Lisa
Published: July 2016

Background:

Musculoskeletal disorders significantly contribute to staff sickness and absence in the NHS. District nurses are especially at risk because patient handling tasks are often carried out outside a clinical environment.

Study aim:

To explore district nurses' lived experience of musculoskeletal wellbeing.

Study design:

An exploratory qualitative study using interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Method:

Semi-structured interviews with a purposeful sample of seven district nurses.

Findings:

Study participants accepted musculoskeletal pain as part of nursing and reported little time for physical activity, often because of work and family commitments. Participants identified treating patients' leg ulcers as a risk factor for developing MSD, while generic workplace wellbeing initiatives delivered via email failed to engage their interest.

Conclusion:

This study provides a useful insight into district nurses' experiences of musculoskeletal wellbeing and represents an important first step in producing recommendations for future research with the aim of developing strategies for improving workplace musculoskeletal wellbeing that would be acceptable to staff.
NHS market liberalisation and the TTIP agreement
Authors: Regan Paul , Ball Elaine
Published: July 2016

Governments over the past three decades have undermined the founding principles of the NHS through reforms and market liberalisation. With greater involvement of commercial interests in health care, the NHS will become less democratic and transparent. Recent reforms, which were intended to improve productivity, quality and cost efficiency, have left the NHS exposed to the unwieldy model of market liberalisation and the attrition of public health care. The role of community nurses has been particularly destabilised by commissioning, as their work is difficult to measure. The advent of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership could further undermine the NHS to the benefit of international commercial interests.
Developing skills of resilience in your pupils
Authors: Knightsmith Pooky
Published: July 2016

Promoting resilience is seen as key to helping pupils handle challenges to their mental health. But what are the tools that pupils really need? Expert Dr Pooky Knightsmith advises
EquineReview
Authors: Rendle David
Published: July 2016

Introduction:

This edition of Equine Review considers a range of issues from tetanus vaccination to airway disease.
Pharmacological options for managing type 2 diabetes
Authors: Meetoo Danny , Wong Louise , Alsomali Sabah
Published: July 2016

Diabetes, a chronic progressive life-long metabolic disorder, is characterised by hyperglycaemia, which is due mainly to absolute (type 1 diabetes) or relative (type 2 diabetes) insulin deficiency. The disease is fast-emerging as one of the world's biggest health catastrophes. In the UK, as elsewhere in the world, the prevalence of this long-term disorder is escalating in an uncontrollable manner. A more concerted, strategic and multi-sectorial policy approach, underpinned by solid research, is essential to improving human behaviour and lifestyle to reverse the negative trends in the global incidence of this condition. The management of this condition is becoming a significant health-care challenge to health professionals. Various pharmacological options, such as oral hypoglycaemic agents and subcutaneous insulin, are now available for glycaemic control. Health professionals should always give serious consideration to structured education to help people with diabetes to adhere to their regimen. In turn, this education will improve people's quality of life by minimising and/or slowing the development of diabetes-related complications.
A PHENETIC STUDY OF THE CALAMUS FLABELLATUS COMPLEX (PALMAE) IN WEST MALESIA
Authors: SYAM NASRIANTI , CHIKMAWATI TATIK , RUSTIAMI HIMMAH
Published: July 2016

SYAM, N., CHIKMAWATI, T. & RUSTIAMI, H. 2016. A phenetic study of the Calamus flabellatus complex (Palmae) in West Malesia. Reinwardtia 15(1): 27 - 41. — The number of species within the Calamus flabellatus  complex is still under controversy because the taxonomic status of the species is not yet clear. Morphological observations were conducted on 119 collections of Calamus in the Herbarium Bogoriense (BO) and specimen images from the  Singapore Herbarium (SING) and Kew Herbarium (K). The results showed that C. flabellatus complex (all species related to C. flabellatus)  in West Malesia  consisted of eight  species and two varieties, i.e. C. acuminatus, C. amplijugus, C. congestiflorus, C. corrugatus, C. flabellatus, C. hypertrichosus, C. javensis, and C. ruvidus. They can be distinguished using several characters, i.e. leaf sheath, knee, ocrea, leaves, inflorescence, shape of fruit, number scale of fruit and seed. Calamus flabellatus var. laevibus and C. flabellatus var. congestispinosus are two new proposed varieties. Phenetic analysis of C. flabellatus complex in West Malesia divided all species into two major clusters with similarity coefficient of 46%.
A review on paleoenvironment suitability for hominid fossils and other early vertebrate faunas: a case from Pucangan and Kabuh Formations, Central and East Java, Indonesia
Authors: Kapid Rubiyanto , Arif Johan , Irawan Dasapta Erwin
Published: July 2016

The northern part of the East Java Basin has become a focus of research by earth scientists, among others, because of the existence of hominid fossils and remains of other vertebrate taxa within the Quaternary sedimentary sequence. Fossil-bearing layers are found in the Kendeng Zone, mostly within the well-known Pucangan and Kabuh Formations, which are distributed from Central to East Java. However, not all formations contain vertebrate fossils as well as hominid elements. It is important to consider what factors may have influenced the concentration of vertebrate fossils in those formations. In this study, we describe sedimentary facies at three key field locations: Sangiran, Ngawi, and Mojokerto. Our study indicates that vertebrate remains and hominid fossils mainly accumulated in continental sediments associated with lacustrine and fluvial systems. In this regard, Sangiran and Ngawi B offer the greatest prospect for yielding hominid remains, owing to their unique paleoenvironmental and paleogeographical settings as a highland during the Early–Middle Pleistocene period. Certain parts of the Kabuh Formation in the Mojokerto region also hold high potential, especially those displaying evidence of continental deposition.
Língua, sujeito e identidade: algumas problematizações sobre a (des)constituição dos sujeitos-aprendentes no processo de ensino-aprendizagem de uma língua estrangeira
Authors: Ferreira-Rosa Ismael
Published: July 2016

Este trabalho tem por objetivo, a partir da discursividade instaurada no episódio “Cidadania dupla” (Duel Citizenship) do seriado americano “Como eu conheci sua mãe” (How I met your mother) da grande rede de televisão estadunidense Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), exibido no dia 19 de outubro de 2009, apresentar uma discussão de cunho mais teórico sobre os conflitos e embates nos espaços de ensino-aprendizagem de uma língua estrangeira. Tem-se por escopo problematizar que possivelmente os malogros que enfrentamos em uma sala de aula de língua estrangeira, antes de ser uma questão eminentemente metodológica e de escolhas didáticas, é uma questão que perpassa a (des)constituição subjetiva dos alunos frente à língua aprendida e ensinada. Uma questão marcada por conflitos e embates que merece algumas considerações. Para tanto, inscrito nos espaços analíticos da Linguística Aplicada, embasado nos pressupostos da teoria discursiva pecheutiana, nos estudos bakhtinianos acerca de língua e sujeito, e nas problematizações pós-culturalistas de identidade (HALL, 2006; BAUMAN, 2005), empreende-se ao propósito, observando o tripé língua, sujeito e identidade, enquanto um espaço confluente no processo de ensino e aprendizagem de uma LE, em cujo ínterim se estabelecem relações de (des)identificações, produzindo subjetividades.
A recuperabilidade em Objetos de Aprendizagem de Línguas: descritores em repositórios digitais
Authors: Costa Alan Ricardo , Fialho Vanessa Ribas
Published: July 2016

A finalidade da presente pesquisa é discutir a característica da recuperabilidade e sua importância em Objetos de Aprendizagem (OAs) e Objetos de Aprendizagem de Línguas (OALs), sobretudo no que diz respeito à presença de descritores em repositórios. Tal discussão se dá tendo como base uma investigação de cunho exploratório efetuada pelo grupo de pesquisadores responsáveis pelo repositório virtual de recursos didáticos para o ensino de Espanhol como Língua Estrangeira (E/LE) Acción E/LE, com vistas a ressalvar o papel de descritores que propiciem uma recuperabilidade pedagógica. Os resultados indicam que seis dos sete repositórios averiguados apresentam descritores pedagógicos, como “nível do objeto (básico, intermediário ou avançado)”, por exemplo, que podem contribuir para a construção de uma lista de descritores para o Repositótio Acción E/LE. Conclui-se que os atuais repositórios de OAs, apesar de passíveis de melhorias quanto ao uso e a organização de descritores pedagógicos, podem servir como referência para o aumento da recuperabilidade de repositórios digitais de OALs.
La participación educativa de las familias en una escuela pública valenciana. Un estudio cualitativo
Authors: Payà Rico Andrés , Tormo Tormo Marta
Published: July 2016

En el presente artículo realizamos, desde la reflexión política y crítica sobre la participación activa de las familias, un estudio de campo en una escuela pública del municipio de Carcaixent (Valencia) sobre las diferentes percepciones, reflexiones e impresiones del profesorado, equipo directivo, Asociación de Madres y Padres (AMPA) y familias de dicho centro educativo. Gracias a una serie de entrevistas semi-estructuradas, la transcripción de las mismas y el posterior análisis de contenido, hemos obtenido valiosas conclusiones y reflexiones que denotan la importancia que las familias otorgan a la participación, hasta tal punto, que están inmersos en el proceso de transformación en una Comunidad de Aprendizaje (CdA). Entre las conclusiones obtenidas en dicho estudio cualitativo, hemos podido observar las percepciones familiares entorno a la participación, los obstáculos y condicionantes existentes para la misma, la relación entre los diferentes miembros de la comunidad educativa, los canales de participación, etc. Toda una serie de consideraciones que aportan una información útil de carácter político y pedagógico, que puede orientar la puesta en marcha de políticas de participación escolar y construcción de una comunidad educativa cohesionada y activa.
Academic leaders’ perspectives on adopting ePortfolios for developing and assessing professional capabilities in Australian business education
Authors: Holt Dale Manning , McGuigan Nicholas , Kavanagh Marie , Leitch Shona , Ngo Leanne , Salzman Scott , Watty Kim , McKay Jade
Published: July 2016

This paper represents a major stage of data collection and reporting on an Australian Office for Learning and Teaching Innovation and Development grant investigating the adoption of ePortfolios for developing and assessing professional capabilities in Australian undergraduate business education. Assessing desired capabilities with and through ePortfolios does not have strong traction in business education courses and disciplines. The status of ePortfolio use in business education in the sector is profiled through the perspectives of academic business leaders. The reasons why ePortfolio use is limited are explored, along with the possible benefits through greater and more systematic use in the curriculum. Various technological, training and support implementation issues are highlighted. The framing of key elements of effective implementation are summarised at the end of the paper.
Concentration with a single sign-changing layer at the higher critical exponents
Authors: Clapp Mónica , Faya Jorge
Published: July 2016

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}

,

\Omega:=\bigl{\{}(x_{1},x_{2})\in\mathbb{R}^{m+1}\times\mathbb{R}^{N-m-1}:(|x_%
{1}|,x_{2})\in\Theta\bigr{\}},

where Θ is a bounded smooth domain in

ℝ

N
-
m

{\mathbb{R}^{N-m}}

such that

Θ
¯

⊂

(
0
,
∞
)

×

ℝ

N
-
m
-
1

{\overline{\Theta}\subset(0,\infty)\times\mathbb{R}^{N-m-1}}

.
Under some symmetry assumptions, we show that there exists

λ
∗

≥
0

{\lambda_{\ast}\geq 0}

such that
for each

λ
∈

(

-
∞

,

λ
∗

)

∪

{
0
}

{\lambda\in(-\infty,\lambda_{\ast})\cup\{0\}}

,
there exist a sequence

p
k

∈

(
2
,

2

N
,
m

∗

)

{p_{k}\in(2,2_{N,m}^{\ast})}

with

p
k

→

2

N
,
m

∗

{p_{k}\rightarrow 2_{N,m}^{\ast}}

and a sequence of solutions

v
k

{v_{k}}

which concentrate and blow up along an m-dimensional sphere of minimal radius contained in

∂
⁡
Ω

{\partial\Omega}

, developing a single sign-changing layer as

p
k

→

2

N
,
m

∗

{p_{k}\rightarrow 2_{N,m}^{\ast}}

.
In contrast with previous results,
the asymptotic profile of this layer on each space perpendicular to the blow-up sphere is not a sum of positive and negative bubbles,
but a rescaling of a sign-changing solution to the critical problem

-

Δ
⁢
u

=

|
u
|

4
/

(

N
-
m
-
2

)

⁢
u

,

u
∈

D

1
,
2

⁢

(

ℝ

N
-
m

)

.

-\Delta u=|u|^{{4}/({N-m-2})}u,\quad u\in D^{1,2}(\mathbb{R}^{N-m}).

Moreover,

λ
∗

>
0

{\lambda_{\ast}>0}

if

m
≥
2

{m\geq 2}

.
Cognitive robots in the development and rehabilitation of children with developmental disorders
Authors: Komendziński Tomasz , Mikołajewska Emilia , Mikołajewski Dariusz , Dreszer Joanna , Bałaj Bibianna
Published: July 2016

Cognitive robots constitute a highly interdisciplinary approach to the issue of therapy of children with developmental disorders. Cognitive robots become more popular, especially in action and language integration areas, joining the experience of psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, and even engineers. The concept of a robot as a cognitive companion for humans may be very useful. The interaction between humans and cognitive robots may be a mediator of movement patterns, learning behaviors from demonstrations, group activities, and social behaviors, as far as higher-order concepts such as symbol manipulation capabilities, words acquisition, and sensorimotor knowledge organization. Moreover there is an occupation to check many theories, such as transferring the knowledge and skills between humans and robots. Although several robotic solutions for children have been proposed the diffusion of aforementioned ideas is still limited. The review summarizes the current and future role of cognitive robots in the development and rehabilitation of children with developmental disorders.
Smart management of sample dilution using an artificial neural network to achieve streamlined processes and saving resources: the automated nephelometric testing of serum free light chain as case study
Authors: Ialongo Cristiano , Pieri Massimo , Bernardini Sergio
Published: July 2016

Background:

Saving resources is a paramount issue for the modern laboratory, and new trainable as well as smart technologies can be used to allow the automated instrumentation to manage samples more efficiently in order to achieve streamlined processes. In this regard the serum free light chain (sFLC) testing represents an interesting challenge, as it usually causes using a number of assays before achieving an acceptable result within the analytical range.

Methods:

An artificial neural network based on the multi-layer perceptron (MLP-ANN) was used to infer the starting dilution status of sFLC samples based on the information available through the laboratory information system (LIS). After the learning phase, the MLP-ANN simulation was applied to the nephelometric testing routinely performed in our laboratory on a BN ProSpec® System analyzer (Siemens Helathcare) using the N Latex FLC kit.

Results:

The MLP-ANN reduced the serum kappa free light chain (κ-FLC) and serum lambda free light chain (λ-FLC) wasted tests by 69.4% and 70.8% with respect to the naïve stepwise dilution scheme used by the automated analyzer, and by 64.9% and 66.9% compared to a “rational” dilution scheme based on a 4-step dilution.

Conclusions:

Although it was restricted to follow-up samples, the MLP-ANN showed good predictive performance, which alongside the possibility to implement it in any automated system, made it a suitable solution for achieving streamlined laboratory processes and saving resources.
Universal K-matrix for quantum symmetric pairs
Authors: Balagović Martina , Kolb Stefan
Published: July 2016

Let

𝔤

{{\mathfrak{g}}}

be a symmetrizable Kac–Moody algebra and let

U
q

⁢

(
𝔤
)

{{U_{q}(\mathfrak{g})}}

denote the corresponding quantized enveloping algebra. In the present paper we show that quantum symmetric pair coideal subalgebras

B

𝐜
,
𝐬

{{B_{\mathbf{c},\mathbf{s}}}}

of

U
q

⁢

(
𝔤
)

{{U_{q}(\mathfrak{g})}}

have a universal K-matrix if

𝔤

{{\mathfrak{g}}}

is of finite type. By a universal K-matrix for

B

𝐜
,
𝐬

{{B_{\mathbf{c},\mathbf{s}}}}

we mean an element in a completion of

U
q

⁢

(
𝔤
)

{{U_{q}(\mathfrak{g})}}

which commutes with

B

𝐜
,
𝐬

{{B_{\mathbf{c},\mathbf{s}}}}

and provides solutions of the reflection equation in all integrable

U
q

⁢

(
𝔤
)

{{U_{q}(\mathfrak{g})}}

-modules in category

𝒪

{{\mathcal{O}}}

. The construction of the universal K-matrix for

B

𝐜
,
𝐬

{{B_{\mathbf{c},\mathbf{s}}}}

bears significant resemblance to the construction of the universal R-matrix for

U
q

⁢

(
𝔤
)

{{U_{q}(\mathfrak{g})}}

. Most steps in the construction of the universal K-matrix are performed in the general Kac–Moody setting.

In the late nineties T. tom Dieck and R. Häring-Oldenburg developed a program of representations of categories of ribbons in a cylinder. Our results show that quantum symmetric pairs provide a large class of examples for this program.
⌢𝒟-modules on rigid analytic spaces I
Authors: Ardakov Konstantin , Wadsley Simon J.
Published: July 2016

We introduce a sheaf of infinite order differential operators

𝒟
⌢

{\overset{\frown}{\mathcal{D}}}

on smooth rigid analytic spaces that is a rigid analytic quantisation of the cotangent bundle. We show that the sections of this sheaf over sufficiently small affinoid varieties are Fréchet–Stein algebras, and use this to define co-admissible sheaves of

𝒟
⌢

{\overset{\frown}{\mathcal{D}}}

-modules. We prove analogues of Cartan’s Theorems A and B for co-admissible

𝒟
⌢

{\overset{\frown}{\mathcal{D}}}

-modules.
Cuspidal curves, minimal models and Zaidenberg’s finiteness conjecture
Authors: Palka Karol
Published: July 2016

Let

E
⊆

ℙ
2

{E\subseteq\mathbb{P}^{2}}

be a complex rational cuspidal curve and let

(
X
,
D
)

→

(

ℙ
2

,
E
)

{(X,D)\to(\mathbb{P}^{2},E)}

be the minimal log resolution of singularities. We prove that E has at most six cusps and we establish an effective version of the Zaidenberg finiteness conjecture (1994) concerning Eisenbud–Neumann diagrams of E. This is done by analyzing the Minimal Model Program run for the pair

(
X
,

1
2

⁢
D

)

{(X,\frac{1}{2}D)}

. Namely, we show that

ℙ
2

∖
E

{\mathbb{P}^{2}\setminus E}

is

ℂ

*
*

{\mathbb{C}^{**}}

-fibred or for the log resolution of the minimal model the Picard rank, the number of boundary components and their self-intersections are bounded.
Medication therapy management (MTM): an innovative approach to improve medication adherence in diabetics
Authors: Bindu Murali Athira , Boban Belsy , Karoor Shanmughan Aswathy , Marimuthu Karthikeyan , Ramakrishnan Sreelatha Aravind , Xavier Augustine
Published: July 2016

Background:

Medication therapy management (MTM) is a pharmacist-led professional service, one of the main aims of which is to improve patient medication adherence. Ensuring adequate adherence to the prescribed therapeutic regimen is one of the major challenges in attaining the desired therapeutic goals in diabetics. The objective of this study was to implement MTM in diabetic patients and to identify its effectiveness in improving patient medication adherence.

Methods:

A prospective interventional study was carried out within a 1-year period in KIMS-Al-Shifa Hospital, which is a tertiary care referral hospital in Malabar region of Kerala, including inpatients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the general medicine department of the hospital. The MTM programme was applied in selected patients, including personal medication record, medication-related action plan and detailed counselling. Adherence was measured using the Modified Morisky Medication Adherence Scale-4 both before and after the programme.

Results:

A total of 104 patients were included in the study. The adherence of patients to anti-diabetic therapy was very low, which showed significant improvement after applying intervention (p-value<0.05 in a paired t-test). Initially, only 37.5% had high adherence which was increased to 59.5% after intervention. Age and educational status were identified to have a significant impact on patient medication adherence (p-value<0.05 in a χ2-test).

Conclusions:

Medication adherence is a key component of self-management for patients with diabetes. A pharmacist-led MTM programme if appropriately designed and implemented will have a potential positive impact on medication adherence in diabetic patients.
„Was soll dieser Wust?“
Authors: Zimmermann Harm-Peer
Published: July 2016

Dieser Beitrag markiert den Rang derEnzyklopädie des Märchensdurch Vergleich mit demDeutschen Wörterbuchder Brüder Grimm und der französischenEncyclopédievon D'Alembert und Diderot. Um Vergleichskriterien zu entwickeln, greift der Beitrag auf anthropologische und ästhetische Überlegungen von Kurt Ranke zurück. Enzyklopädien werden als moderne Ausdrucksformen eines narrativen Pathos untersucht, das seine ursprüngliche Gestalt im Mythos hat. Dies wird besonders an drei Aspekten aufgezeigt: der kreisenden Form des Enzyklopädischen, seiner alphabetischen Ordnung und seiner Allverbundenheit.
Internal Round Robin Tests for Operators of Mechanical Tests
Authors: Madejski Bartosz
Published: July 2016

For the characterisation of materials, the aeronautical industry accesses the expertise and the support of independent test laboratories. For the execution of characterisation tests of materials it is important that the test laboratory can fulfil the requirements of the testing expertly and continuously improves knowledge related to the tests. Quality systems are very helpful in this respect. One element of quality management systems is the internal round robin tests. This paper presents a procedure of teaching new operators to carry out tests. In addition, this article underlines how the importance of interlaboratory tests for finding and eliminating mistakes made by new operators. The analysis was performed for tensile tests. This test enables the assessment of operators and significantly improves the quality of tests.
On the infimum of the spectrum of a relativistic Schrödinger operator
Authors: El Aïdi Mohammed
Published: July 2016

In this paper, we look for an explicit lower bound of the smallest value of the spectrum for a relativistic Schrödinger operator in a domain of the Euclidean space.
Hungarian Case Law Relating to European Private Law (2013-2014)
Authors: Harsági Viktória
Published: July 2016

The present writing is the fifth part of a series entitled “Hungarian Case Law Relating to European Private Law”, which presents the essence of court decisions made since last summer. Similarly to the earlier years, the majority of the cases concern questions of family law, more specifically, questions relating to parental responsibility. Besides three decisions of the Curia (Kúria) relating to this topic, the Curia has delivered its first decision on the European order for payment procedure, which decision will be presented in the present article as the first in order.
Verbesserte Beschäftigungsbedingungen für Seeleute. Richtlinienvorschlag der Kommission zur Änderung des Seearbeitsrechtes
Authors: Loth Katharina
Published: July 2016

Due to competition and international expansion, the level of protection for seafarers decreased continually, mostly in virtue of flagging out. On this account, the requirements for seafarer’s labour law need to be revised. In this context, the European Commission plans to extend social standards concerning the employment of seafarers on a European level by adopting a directive on the rights of seafarers. According to the scopes of existing directives, it is presently possible to exclude seafarers from certain rights to involvement. Thus, the Commission aims to widen the scopes of five directives primarily concerning the right to information, hearing and consultation finding that there was no reason for the exclusion. By increasing the rights of employed seafarers, more European people shall be encouraged to take a job in the maritime sector. Although the initiative is considered a good contribution on that way, there might be other factors that keep young Europeans from taking the job of a seafarer, such as spending months on sea or being exposed to dangers on the high seas. Moreover, the initiative allows excluding seafarers from substantive claims. It needs to be examined whether the characteristics of seafaring require such regulation. Yet, the proposed measures do state, together with the EU Blue Book, the challenges for competitive and future-compliant seafaring and set a starting point for their realization.