bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Obrót nieruchomościami rolnymi a planowanie przestrzenne
Authors: Niewiadomski Adam
Published: June 2019

The article presents the latest regulations related to spatial planning and its impact on the sale of agricultural real estate in the light of the Act on shaping the agricultural system. Relations between spatial planning and agricultural real estate indicate the tendency of essential planning authority of the municipality and thus to that they influence the sale of agricultural real estate, excluding the application of the law on shaping agricultural system. The article also presents a model of shaping the state policy in the field of preserving the agricultural character of real estate.
Środki zabezpieczające dla sprawców przestępstw popełnionych w związku z uzależnieniem w świetle ustawy z dnia 20 lutego 2015 r. o zmianie ustawy – Kodeks karny oraz niektórych innych ustaw – „noweli lutowej”
Authors: Tygielski Maciej
Published: June 2019

This article is focused on the actual position of security measures applicable to addicted offenders in the criminal justice system as well as in the Polish penal debate. The most important problems that occurred in this context were: intersection of medical and juridical authorities in administration of justice (with domination of the experts appointed by the court), protection of the inmates rights and the possibilities of reduction of the isolation penalties and introducing forms of penal reaction that are adapted to specific criminal etiology. Reflections regarding the amendment that took effect on the 1 of July 2015 were conducted in the fields of law-abidingness, efficiency and effectiveness of the preventive measures. The obtained results allow to appraise positively such specific solutions in general, but also show their limits, organizational difficulties and potential threats.
Dobrowolny system znakowania „wolne od GMO” – doświadczenia systemu niemieckiego w kontekście projektu polskiej ustawy
Authors: Żuchowska-Grzywacz Monika
Published: June 2019

The article is an attempt to present the draft of the act on the labeling of products made without the use of genetically modified organisms designed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and on the amendment of some other acts, based on the experience of the “Ohne Gentechnikˮ system in Germany. The article also presents issues directly related to the indicated issues, namely GM food issues and legal regulations regulating it. The aim of the study is to analyze legal assumptions in the indicated scope, with particular emphasis on the German practice and to determine the significance, benefits and problems resulting from the introduction of such a system for consumers and entrepreneurs. The study uses the method of content analysis and analysis of documents, which makes it possible to highlight the multi-aspect nature of the discussed issue and its significance. References were made to legal acts, periodicals and monographs. The information provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, german Association “Food without genetic engineeringˮ (VLOG), organizations associating entrepreneurs, consumers, social organizations and data on the official websites of these organizations were used. The critical interpretation of texts, in particular legal ones, allowed to determine current trends. Methods of comparative law were also used in the field of methods, comparing two systems of marking: German and designed Polish, which helped to broaden the cognitive perspective and indicate the directions of legislative solutions.
Determination of Minerals and Trace Elements in Milk, Milk Products, Infant Formula, and Adult Nutrition: Collaborative Study 2011.14 Method Modification
Authors: Cruijsen Hans , Poitevin Eric , Brunelle Sharon L.
Published: June 2019

Official MethodSM 2011.14/ISO 15151:2018/IDF 229:2018 uses microwave digestion of samples and inductively coupled plasma–atomic emission spectrometry for determination of nine elements, including Ca, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Na, P, and Zn. The method was evaluated
in a collaborative study of 25 products, including 13 fortified nutritional products (powders, ready-to-feed liquids, and liquid concentrates), five product placebos, six dairy products (liquids, powders, butter, and processed cheese), and the National Institute for Standards and Technology
(NIST) Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1849a, in compliance with AOAC INTERNATIONAL Standard Method Performance Requirement (SMPR®) 2014.004. This study significantly expanded the applicability of Official Method 2011.14 beyond the original scope of chocolate
milk powder, dietetic milk powder, infant cereal, peanut butter, and wheat gluten. The study included 14 collaborators from 11 countries, and results were compared to SMPR 2014.004. Accuracy of the method was demonstrated using NIST SRM 1849a, yielding recoveries across all laboratories of
98–101% for the nine elements. Precision for the 13 fortified nutritional product samples was 2.2–3.9% for repeatability (relative SD of repeatability) and 6.0–12.2% for reproducibility (RSDR). Excluding Mn, which was present at a wide range of concentrations,
the reproducibility was 6.0–9.5%, meeting the performance requirements of SMPR 2014.004. Placebo samples (not fortified with Cu, Fe, Mn, or Zn) yielded acceptable repeatability of 1.8–2.9% for Ca, K, Mg, Na, and P (minerals) but 5.4–29.4% for the low levels of Cu, Fe, Mn,
and Zn (trace elements). Reproducibility for the placebos showed the same pattern, with acceptable reproducibility (5.4–10.3%) for minerals but not for the low levels of the trace elements (13.2–82.8%). In the six dairy product samples, repeatability ranged from 1.6 to 3.6% for
the minerals, Zn, and the low range of Mn but from 9.4 to 24.6% for Cu, Fe, and the high range of Mn, where concentrations were low as for the nutritional placebos. Reproducibility in the dairy samples was 5.3–8.8% for the minerals but 11.4–55.0% for the trace elements. The mean
concentrations of Cu, Fe, and Zn in the dairy products were similar with those in the placebo products, while Zn was present at levels more similar with the fortified nutritional products. Thus, the method met the SMPR criteria except where the trace minerals were present at very low levels.
Based on these results, the AOAC Stakeholder Panel for Infant Formula and Adult Nutritionals recommended Final Action status of the expanded applicability of the method. The method was adopted as Final Action by the AOAC Official Methods Board.
As operações de paz da ONU como um mecanismo de neoliberalismo disciplinar: O caso de Angola (1989-2002)
Authors: Fortes Ana Rachel
Published: June 2019

Este trabalho tem como propósito analisar as Operações de Paz das Organizações das Nações Unidas- ONU como um mecanismo de “neoliberalismo disciplinar”, categoria cunhada pela Teoria Crítica das Relações Internacionais. Sustenta-se que as operações de paz foram responsáveis por introduzir ideias e práticas neoliberais de caráter tanto econômico quanto político em países debilitados pela guerra civil. Para tal pesquisa, o caso analisado trata das operações de paz em Angola (1989-2002), prolongada em aproximadamente 13 anos, e que foram determinantes no processo de reestruturação do Estado angolano.
Os usos e a produção de retratos pintados por Pedro Weingärtner (Século XIX e XX)
Authors: De fochesatto Cyanna Missaglia
Published: June 2019

A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar alguns retratos produzidos pelo artista gaúcho Pedro Weingärtner entre os séculos XIX e XX, e entre suas idas e vindas entre Brasil e Europa. Tem-se por objetivo compreender a função dos retratos no processo produtivo de Weingärtner, para além de questões mercadológicas, mas também como uma forma de manutenção dos vínculos e redes sociais, especialmente em momentos de troca de regime político no Brasil, como no caso da transição da Monarquia para a República. Investiga-se o uso feito pelo artista dos retratos que ele representou, bem como a importância desta prática pictórica como forma de demostrar determinado status social entre a elite política e social, seja ela no Brasil ou residente na Europa.
Um Areópago histórico: o IHGMG em seus primeiros anos (1907-1913)
Authors: Costa Antonio Carlos Figueiredo
Published: June 2019

O artigo tem como proposta a trajetória do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de Minas Gerais durante os seus primeiros anos de existência, toma como ponto de partida a sua fundação, e assume como objetivos evidenciar, com base em pesquisa documental e bibliográfica, a intrínseca relação mantida à época entre a política e a constituição do saber histórico, bem como contribuir para o resgate de algumas da principais temáticas que estiveram presentes em um contexto de historiografia fundante e de compleição ainda fundamentalmente oitocentista. No desenvolvimento do trabalho foram empregadas algumas das usuais metodologias da história social, o que contempla o mais amplo panorama da escrita da História, com incorporação analítica de conceitos antropológicos e sociológicos que visam a permitir na análise histórica da sociedade objeto do estudo, a verificação do agenciamento de setores, bem como de suas expressões e identidades culturais e políticas.  A fundação do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de Minas Gerais teria permitido que uma intelligentsia regional descortinasse, pela via da pesquisa histórica, a representação do passado mineiro mais afeito aos interesses políticos da oligarquia do Estado, contribuindo com isso para a justificação da hegemonia mineira no jogo político da Primeira República.
“No Candomblé de antigamente”: nostalgia e autenticidade reclamada em terreiros de Salvador
Authors: Dias João Ferreira
Published: June 2019

O presente artigo trata do lugar da nostalgia em terreiros históricos de Salvador da Bahia, avaliando seu impacto na vivência cotidiana e nas narrativas de autenticidade, reconhecendo que o sentimento nostálgico não se aparta de um pressuposto de perda cultural ao colocar o passado glorioso na balança com o presente desregrado. A memória instituída surge, então, como bengala em narrativas de poder e legitimidade. A saudade do outrora nunca é isenta de intenções particulares de autenticidade. Intenta-se, assim, saber o alcance político da nostalgia em que ideias de “passado composto” e saudade se entrelaçam em clássicos pressupostos de “tradição”, sem com isso deixarem de oferecer outra leitura do conceito.
Kunst als Verortung von Politik – politisch verortete Kunst: Das Projekt Der Bevölkerung von Hans Haacke als Indikator für die politische Kultur der Berliner Republik
Authors: Schwarz Martin
Published: June 2019

Das Kunstwerk Der Bevölkerung und mehr noch die Debatte darum hat gezeigt, wie komplex das Verhältnis der politischen Parteien zur (bundes-)deutschen Geschichte und deren Implikationen für die deutsche Politik ist. Kaum 10 Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung und nur zwei Jahre nach dem Machtwechsel von Helmut Kohl zu Gerhard Schröder führte der Streit um ein Kunstwerk die Bruchlinien einer Berliner Republik vor Augen, die sich aus dem unbewältigten Erbe der deutschen Geschichte ergeben. Im Mittelpunkt stand ein dezidiert politischer Künstler, dessen Kunst ihre Wirkung aus der Provokation bezieht. Diese Provokation hat sich dramaturgisch aufgestaut und am 05. April 2000 in einer hitzigen Debatte im Bundestag entladen. Nach der offiziellen Einweihung des Projektes im nördlichen Lichthof des Reichstagsgebäudes durch Bundestagspräsident Wolfgang Thierse am 12. September 2000 ist es still geworden um das Werk und seinen Schöpfer. Beide sind aus den Feuilletons verschwunden, die Jubiläen verstreichen unbemerkt, so als hätte es nie eine Debatte um das Werk oder eine Zeit vor Der Bevölkerung gegeben. Welchen Mehrwert hat dieses Kunstwerk also heute noch? Welchen Rückschluss lassen die damaligen Erregungsspitzen auf die politische Kultur eines Landes zu, dass sich seit 1990 in Form der Berliner Republik neu erfindet?
Revidierte Verordnung zur Europäischen Bürgerinitiative: Lehren aus Erfahrungen?
Authors: Binder Nadja Braun , Vegh Anna
Published: June 2019

Die seit 2012 existierende Europäische Bürgerinitiative (EBI) erhält ein Makeover. Die im Herbst 2017 von der Kommission präsentierte und am 12. März 2019 vom EU-Parlament bzw. am 9. April 2019 vom Rat der EU beschlossene Reform lässt die Bereitschaft der EU-Organe erkennen, die durch Gesellschaft, Politik und Wissenschaft erfolgte Kritik an der bisherigen Regelung aufzunehmen und so der EBI zur Entfaltung ihres vollen Potentials zu verhelfen. Die Reform beschränkt sich jedoch größtenteils auf formale und organisatorische Änderungen, insbesondere die Frage nach den „korrekten“ Folgemaßnahmen einer erfolgreichen EBI bleibt unberührt. So lässt sich denn auch durchaus kritisch hinterfragen, ob die revidierte EBI-Verordnung die an die Reform gestellten Erwartungen zu erfüllen vermag. Dieser Frage geht der vorliegende Beitrag im Lichte bisheriger Erfahrungen und Rechtsprechung zur EBI nach.
Das Recht der Kirchen im Tauziehen zwischen Luxemburg und Karlsruhe – Das kirchliche Arbeitsrecht als Machtprobe?
Authors: Klein Marvin
Published: June 2019

Die verfassungsrechtliche Privilegierung des kirchlichen Arbeitsrechts gerät ins Wanken. Nach der Entscheidung Egenberger (C-414/16) hat sich der EuGH jüngst in der Entscheidung IR gegen JQ (C-68/17) ausdrücklich gegen eine ausschließliche Selbstdefinition arbeitsrechtlicher Loyalitätspflichten durch den kirchlichen Arbeitgeber ausgesprochen und somit der Zwei-Stufen Prüfung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts eine Absage erteilt. Diese Entscheidung rückt in die Nähe verfassungsrechtlicher Selbstverständnisse und muss daher im Hinblick auf die Religions- und Mitgliedstaatsfreundlichkeit unter besondere Würdigung gestellt werden.
Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology of Sound
Authors: Diprose Rosalyn ,   DePaul University
Published: June 2019

This paper develops an ontology of sound from Merleau-Ponty’s accounts of linguistic expression and political communication framed in terms of the instituted-instituting character of the “flesh.” The analysis explores the role of sound and hearing in experiencing and making sense of a world in order to explain two (arguably related) problems: first, the impact of hearing loss on a person’s relations with others and with their environment and, second, the impact of “trump talk” on the fabric of political community. The argument is that hearing loss and “trump talk” weaken or erase what Merleau-Ponty refers to as the “spirit” of communication and intersubjectivity.
Teleotheology
Authors: Senatore Mauro ,   DePaul University
Published: June 2019

This article explores the hypothesis formulated by Derrida in his early work that structuralism is Aristotelian in foundation. To this end, it traces Derrida’s engagement with Aristotle’s Physics between the seminal essays “Force and Signification” (1963) and “Ousia and Grammē” (1968). On the one hand, it demonstrates that Derrida reads Aristotle’s concept of time as the presupposition of what he designates as structuralism, that is, the teleological understanding of movement from its achieved structure and thus from a theological simultaneity. On the other hand, it shows that Derrida finds in the very text of Physics the index (grammē) for understanding movement otherwise: as the irreducible articulation of space and time, namely, the trace, inscribed in a non-simultaneous volume.
Moral Judgment as Make-Believe
Authors: Tans Olaf ,   DePaul University
Published: June 2019

In relation to the (neo-)Kantian theory that moral judgments are imaginarily grounded, this contribution explores how moral agents experience and make use of this imaginary groundedness. Drawing from a strand of aesthetics that conceives of imagination as make-believe, the imaginary ground of moral judgment is theorized to stem from the interaction between active participants who pretend that their claims are grounded, and passive participants who are invited to go along. Based on this reconstruction, the experience of the moral imaginary is argued to stem from a divided mind. It allows moral agents to be partly devoted to the mental and communicative attitude fitting the fictional world of groundedness, and partly to generating personal responses to moral claims. Using the experience of artistic fiction as an example, the actual experience of morality’s imaginary ground is finally located in the interplay between those two spheres.
Materialist Deconstruction, Anticolonial Geographies, and the Limits of Genealogy
Authors: Rockhill Gabriel , Ponce de León Jennifer ,   DePaul University
Published: June 2019

In this wide-ranging interview, Gabriel Rockhill discusses his most recent book, Counter-History of the Present, in the broader context of his research to date on aesthetics, politics and history, as well as its relationship to important interlocutors like Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière, Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon and Simone de Beauvoir. He explains the similarities and important differences between genealogy and counter-history, and he elucidates how his work performs a materialist deconstruction that contests the idealist logocentrism operative in purely textualist modes of interpretation. The interview also develops an account of “radical geography” that calls into question culturalist spatial imaginaries, which plague certain forms of decolonial theory that diminish or efface social stratification and class conflict. The discussion thereby contributes to the development of a new model for critical social theory with an internationalist perspective, which seeks to weave these conceptual innovations into a rigorous and radical materialism.
Editor’s Corner
Authors: Sare Laura
Published: June 2019

Howdy everyone,I have been rewatching the X-Files series (my favorite episodes are the ones by Darin Morgan) and this reminded me of a display I did on government information about UFOs. Many are available due to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. I like to use these sources as a good way to introduce students to FOIA.
TRAIL Spotlight
Authors: Trussell Alice
Published: June 2019

The United States emerged from World War II with technical knowledge about nuclear power, but very few options to use that power for positive outcomes. One attempt to funnel this knowledge into beneficial use was the Plowshare Program: “Swords Into Plowshares” established by the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) to study and develop peaceful uses for nuclear explosives in science and industry. Plowshare advocates proposed using nuclear explosions to create craters to be used for excavations for projects such as canals and harbors, and deep underground explosions to be used for mining as well as recovery of oil and gas.
The Poetry of Government Information
Authors: Brunvand Amy
Published: June 2019

Anne Carson’s Autobiograpy of Red is one of those beloved poetry books that everyone kept telling me to read, but somehow I never got around to it until recently. Imagine my surprise to find government documents librarianship at the crux of the story! In Carson’s poetic novel, our hero Geryon is so full of artistic and erotic passion that he appears as a winged red monster. After he is dumped by a lover, “Geryon’s life entered a numb time, caught between the tongue and the taste,” a poetic dark-night-of-the-soul rendered metaphorically as a job shelving government documents in a joyless library basement. The forlorn, distinctly unpoetic texts are stored on shelves labeled in all caps, “EXTINGUISH LIGHT WHEN NOT IN USE.” This accuracy of detail suggests that back in 1998 when the poem was written Carson had most likely encountered an actual Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) collection. Nonetheless, she is kind to the librarians who occupy their dusty world willingly and consider Geryon “a talented boy with a shadow side.” Now that so much government information is online, this gloomy subterranean library may someday come to seem like pure imagination, a poet’s fanciful invention of an impossibly drab occupation.
GODORT Midwinter Update
Authors: Documents Round Table Government
Published: June 2019

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Políticas de avaliação e o desenvolvimento profissional do professor de ciências
Authors: Garcia Paulo Sérgio , Bizzo Nelio , Rosa Sanny Silva da
Published: June 2019

Este estudo analisa a percepção de professores de Ciências que atuam nos anos finais do ensino fundamental sobre seu desenvolvimento profissional, considerando as reformas nacionais realizadas na Educação das últimas décadas, sobretudo a implantação das Avaliações de Larga-Escala (ALEs). A teoria fundamentada foi usada como abordagem metodológica para coletar dados com esses profissionais (N=77), na região do grande ABC Paulista, uma das mais ricas do Brasil, situada na região metropolitana do estado de São Paulo. Os dados revelaram que, após a implantação das ALEs, a oferta de formação de professores se tornou ainda mais desregulada, afetando o desenvolvimento profissional dos professores de Ciências. Essas políticas têm estabelecido um contexto de inequidade de formação e de possibilidades profissionais dentro dos municípios, e o mais agravante, dentro da própria escola. Secretarias, Diretorias de Educação e escolas oferecem maiores oportunidades, recursos e tempos para a formação docente nas áreas de português e matemática. Esse quadro de desalinhamento da formação iniciou-se após a implementação das reformas nacionais. Os resultados desta pesquisa podem ser utilizados no contexto das universidades, nos cursos de formação de professores e diretores e junto às secretarias de educação.
Panorama da sustentabilidade em um contexto urbano/ metropolitano na Amazônia a partir de duas ferramentas internacionais
Authors: Pereira Fabiana da Silva , Guimarães Vieira Ima Célia , Toledo Peter Mann de
Published: June 2019

Em uma metrópole os limites físicos entre os municípios que a compõem são praticamente indistinguíveis. As áreas metropolitanas se caracterizam por apresentar um fluxo intenso de pessoas, bens e serviços, e também, problemas e questões que ultrapassam a jurisdição municipal. Essas questões devem ser avaliadas e discutidas de maneira abrangente e inter-relacionada, principalmente em relação à perspectiva da gestão metropolitana e sustentabilidade. Neste contexto, o trabalho objetivou avaliar a sustentabilidade da região metropolitana de Belém sob a perspectiva de dois instrumentos bem conhecidos internacionalmente, o Barômetro da Sustentabilidade (BS) e o Painel da Sustentabilidade (PS). Com a aplicação dos dois instrumentos, buscou-se testar se essas ferramentas produzem resultados semelhantes e assim discutir sobre as principais limitações, vantagens e desvantagens que cada um apresenta em avaliar a sustentabilidade. Os resultados encontrados mostram que, em termos gerais, os instrumentos apresentam a mesma tendência, porém houve algumas distorções. Apesar disso, independentemente da escolha da ferramenta, ambas oferecem um diagnóstico amplo acerca dos temas e dimensões da sustentabilidade. Informações essas, que podem servir para basear a formulação de políticas e a definição de ações e prioridades.
Identificação de áreas prioritárias para conservação da avifauna na bacia hidrográfica do rio una, Ibiuna/SP
Authors: Abreu Sales Jomil Costa , Da Cunha e Silva Darllan Collins , Lourenço Roberto Wagner
Published: June 2019

A fragmentação de habitats e o isolamento de populações é uma das ameaças mais sérias à biodiversidade. Assim, o presente estudo teve como objetivo desenvolver uma metodologia de identificação de áreas de risco à biodiversidade utilizando a avifauna e técnicas de geoprocessamento. Para isso, foi gerado o Indicador de Exposição Antrópica (IEA) a partir do Índice de Circularidade (IC) e Índice de Efeito de Borda (IEB), além da utilização dos Índice de Vegetação por Diferença Normalizada (NDVI), Densidade de drenagem e indicadores da abundância e riquiza da avifauna para a análise de fragmentos florestais. Os resultados de IC e IEB mostraram que os fragmentos possuem, em sua maioria, forma muito alongada e pressão antrópica moderada. O inventário da avifauna mostrou 147 espécies, com abundância de 9025 indivíduos. Desta forma, com o cruzamento das variáveis, foi obtido o mapa de risco da avifauna, identificando os fragmentos 12 e 15 como de menor risco à perda da biodiversidade. Com relação às áreas de alto risco, foram identificados os fragmentos 4, 5 e 7. Esses fragmentos possuem baixa qualidade vegetal, baixa biodiversidade além de sofrer grande pressão antrópica. O entorno desses fragmentos é composto por áreas de agricultura, pastagens e edificações rurais, o que pode acelerar o processo de perda da biodiversidade. Os demais fragmentos foram classificados como de médio risco. Por fim, este trabalho permitiu classificar a atual situação de fragmentos florestais na bacia do Rio Una, auxiliando os gestores públicos na tomada de decisão e planejamento ambiental sustentável destes fragmentos.
How much cattle can brazil pastures support? An analysis based on â€œYIELD GAPâ€
Authors: Leite Christiane Cavalcante , Soares Filho Britaldo Silveira , Costa Marcos Heil , Amorim Ranieri Carlos Ferreira de
Published: June 2019

The degradation of pastures is one of Brazil's biggest problems today and directly affects the sustainability of livestock. The animal production in a degraded pasture can be six times smaller than a grazing or recovered in good maintenance state. So we can consider that productivity could be increased in pasture areas, and analyze how productivity is limited by biophysical factors (climate, for example) versus management. Using spatial datasets, we compare yield patterns for the pasturelands within regions of similar climate. We use this comparison to evaluate the potential yield obtainable for pasturelands in different climates around the Brazil using the limits of Brazilian biomes. We then compare the actual yields currently being achieved with their â€˜potential yieldâ€™ to estimate the â€˜yield gapâ€™, present spatial datasets of both the potential yields and yield gap patterns for pasturelands around the year 1995 and 2006. This study is intended to be an important new resource for scientists and policymakers alike, helping to more accurately understand spatial variation of yield and agricultural intensification potential, as well as employing these data to better utilize existing infrastructure and optimize the distribution of development and aid capital.
Weathering the Twitter Storm
Authors: Han Sharon
Published: June 2019

After a disaster, news reports and online platforms often document the swift response of public libraries supporting their communities. Despite current scholarship focused on social media in disasters, early uses of social media as an extension of library services require further scrutiny. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recognized Hurricane Sandy as one of the earliest U.S. disasters in which first responders used social media. This study specifically examines early uses of Twitter by selected public libraries as an information tool during Sandy’s aftermath. Results can inform uses of social media in library response to future disasters.
Digital Faculty Development
Authors: Ippoliti Cinthya
Published: June 2019

The library has always played an important role in faculty development. But with the rise of online degrees, being able to support faculty in a virtual context becomes increasingly challenging. This column analyzes some areas to consider when exploring the way in which libraries can continue to assist with these efforts.
A family of reflexive vector bundles of reduction number one
Authors: Miranda-Neto Cleto B.
Published: June 2019

A difficult issue in modern commutative algebra asks for examples of modules (more interestingly, reflexive vector bundles) having prescribed reduction number $r\geq 1$. The problem is even subtler if in addition we are interested in good properties for the Rees algebra. In this note we consider the case $r=1$. Precisely, we show that the module of logarithmic vector fields of the Fermat divisor of any degree in projective $3$-space is a reflexive vector bundle of reduction number $1$ and Gorenstein Rees ring.
Fourier multipliers on anisotropic mixed-norm spaces of distributions
Authors: Cleanthous Galatia , Georgiadis Athanasios G. , Nielsen Morten
Published: June 2019

A new general Hörmander type condition involving anisotropies and mixed norms is introduced, and boundedness results for Fourier multipliers on anisotropic Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces of distributions with mixed Lebesgue norms are obtained. As an application, the continuity of such operators is established on mixed Sobolev and Lebesgue spaces too. Some lifting properties and equivalent norms are obtained as well.
Overuse of Diagnostic Tests in Canada: A Critical Perspective
Authors: Borges Julia , Lee Tiffany , Saif Abdullah , Sundly Amit , Brunger Fern
Published: June 2019

In this commentary we describe the interplay between 1) contemporary popular and professional understandings of “risk” and “normality” in health and healthcare, and 2) the promotion by state and market forces of individual self-regulation of health. We draw upon the work of critical theorists who have described the relationship between risk, fear, and the notion of “normal” in health discourse to argue that these factors act, primarily via the popular media, to shape the discourse on, and overuse of, diagnostic tests in Canada.
Book Review: Thomas Murray on Doping – Are We Doing the Right Thing?
Authors: Stoffel Bertrand Alexandre
Published: June 2019

Anti-doping policy is one of the most important international sport policies. Yet its justification remains controversial. Good Sport: Why Our Games Matter – and How Doping Undermines Them, Oxford University Press 2018, by Thomas Murray (President Emeritus of the Hastings Center) provides a convincing and comprehensive exploration of ethical questions raised by biomedical enhancements in sport.
Book Review: F. Baylis & A. Ballantyne (2016) Clinical Research Involving Pregnant Women
Authors: Wada Kyoko
Published: June 2019

There is a paucity of scientific evidence to support prenatal care due to the wide exclusion of pregnant women from clinical research. Baylis and Ballantyne’s book, Clinical Research Involving Pregnant Women, stands as a powerful advocate for promoting clinical research with pregnant women, although a few issues may deserve further attention to facilitate such research.
Techno-Science, Integral Thought, and the Reality of Limits in Laudato Si’
Authors: Sideris Lisa
Published: June 2019

"Reality" is a term that appears dozens of times in Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’. The term is not directly defined, but appears to signal for Francis a mysterious, relational, created order that imposes limits on humans while also evoking positive feelings like wonder and peace. Francis contrasts this vision of reality with perspectives on the world that are human-centered, fragmented, or reductionist. In this way, his account of reality grounds his sharp critique of narrow, techno-scientific perspectives on life and the world that entail a will to mastery and control. Francis’s critique of reductive, fragmentary perspectives is also connected to his concern with a category of humans and nonhuman others whom Francis designates “the excluded” in Laudato Si’. Distorted views of reality perpetuate neglect of these excluded others and prevent us from grasping the integral functioning of human, ecological, and social realms. I conclude by contrasting Francis’s version of integral ecology with other forms of integral thought that express naïve enthusiasm for technology, and suggest a denial of human and natural limits.
“It Cannot Be Emphasized Enough How Everything Is Interconnected”: Ecological Wisdom, Cross-Cultural Insight, and Pope Francis’ Social Teaching
Authors: Hrynkow Christopher
Published: June 2019

When understood as anthropogenic phenomena, contemporary social and ecological crises can be framed as moral issues, arising from human action and neglect of duties to marginalized human and ecological neighbours. In so much as the roots of these problematic outcomes lie in worldview, ecological wisdom can help in fostering spaces for integrated ethical responses to associated challenges like global climate change, social injustice, and ecological delegation. The present article highlights select instances of thinkers who express convergences between social and ecological concern by exploring cross-cultural perspectives on ecological wisdom. Then, with the aid of a green theo-ecoethical viewpoint informed by those perspectives, it maps relevant teachings of Pope Francis that are expressed in two of his most important exercises of his magisterial office: Evangelii Gaudium and Laudato Si’. As brought into view through dialogue with contemporary articulations of ecological wisdom, inclusive of overlapping Indigenous and academic insights, this approach helps discern a noteworthy measure of rhetorical support for socio-ecological flourishing found in the teaching of Pope Francis.
Eco-Tethered Liberation: A New Spirituality for the Anthropocene
Authors: Appolloni Simon
Published: June 2019

To counter the Anthropocene epoch marked by complex webs of exploitation, this paper elucidates an ethics of liberation that applies to all of creation replete with its concomitant relational complexities, which the author calls eco-tethered liberation. The paper delineates how we can both understand and actualize the liberation of the whole of creation, which is an invariably messy communal process of dialoguing and negotiating with many others. This paper further explores the concept of sumaq kawsay as an example of eco-tethered liberation being lived out by the largely Indigenous Bolivian population today. The paper culminates in suggesting that this new ethic of liberation for the Anthropocene is itself a new spirituality for the Anthropocene.
Caring for the Domus: On the Evolution of Ecopoetics in the West
Authors: Curran Jesse
Published: June 2019

This intimate non-fiction essay traces a lineage of Western ecopoetics and ecological thought to its ancient Roman origins by calling upon David Ferry’s inspired translations of Horace’s Odes, and reading them in light of the philosophical imperatives described by David Orr, Wendell Berry, and other important thinkers, in order to formulate an understanding of how the ongoing environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of the human spirit. Through creating a linguistic mosaic of Horace’s didactic wisdom enmeshed with current sustainability dialogues and personal experience, the essay lays bare the connections and contingencies between poetry, virtue, sustainability, and ecological existence.
Obscured by Cloud: Educating in the Anthropocene
Authors: Peters Christopher Thomas
Published: June 2019

We are caught just now between acting in the face of an overwhelming environmental collapse, and trying to understand where to begin. How do we educate for this new reality? What are the stories that need telling, now? The answer, of course, isn't found in technological marvels or bio-engineering. To know the world, this place - the northeast Avalon Peninsula, attached to Newfoundland proper by a narrow isthmus - we have to be in it. We’ll take the sleet and the rain, the howling winds and the sudden downpours. We’ll take the swirl of May fogs, with the mercury struggling to break five degrees Celsius, that last for days like weeks. We need the mundane. The mundane defines us. It brings people together. It grounds us in stories that speak back years and generations, all rooted here.
Conhecimento populacional sobre leishmaniose no município de Marília, São Paulo, Brasil.
Authors: Youssef Amanda Garcia , Liutti Netto Luiz , Tuani Bruno Roberto Vidal , Serafim Janayna Maria Parente , Teixeira Daniel De Bortoli , Polegato Elma Pereira dos Santos , Porto Camila Dias , Friolani Milena
Published: June 2019

A leishmaniose é um grupo de doenças infecciosas não contagiosas causadas por protozoários do gênero Leishmania. Possui, principalmente, apresentações viscerais e cutâneas. Diferentes formas da doença são amplamente distribuídas em todo o mundo, constituindo um importante problema de saúde pública. O cão doméstico (Canis familiaris) é apontado epidemiologicamente como o reservatório mais importante para Leishmania infantum, cuja transmissão ocorre por meio de flebotomíneos infectados com o protozoário. A falta de informação e de atitudes preventivas são alguns dos principais fatores relacionados à persistência das doenças infecciosas e parasitárias no Brasil. No caso das leishmanioses, na maioria das áreas onde a doença é endêmica o conhecimento restringe-se, muitas vezes, às pessoas que já tiveram a doença ou a casos na família ou proximidades. Por meio de inquéritos é possível buscar e detectar necessidades invisíveis, atuando com instrumento que permita, em primeiro plano, identificar e priorizar necessidades sanitárias por meio de amostras representativas de determinada população. Neste estudo, objetivou-se avaliar o conhecimento da população do município de Marília sobre leishmaniose, buscando identificar as particularidades da enfermidade que necessitam de maiores esclarecimentos. O estudo foi realizado por meio de inquérito populacional, com questões fechadas sobre o tema leishmaniose, abordando conceitos a respeito do conhecimento da enfermidade, formas de transmissão, agente etiológico, vetor e sintomatologia da doença. Do total de 420 pessoas entrevistadas, 91,19 % afirmaram conhecer a doença, porém apenas 69,71% destas conheciam de fato o vetor/forma de transmissão da enfermidade e 22,45% tinham conhecimento sobre onde o vetor se multiplica. Dos entrevistados que afirmaram conhecer a doença, 83,29% apontaram que humanos também podem adquirir a afecção e 40,99% disseram que cães podem ser curados. Os resultados demonstram que apesar de a maior parte da população de Marília afirmar conhecer a leishmaniose, ainda existe insuficiência de informações em alguns aspectos, frisando a necessidade de melhorias na divulgação de particularidades da enfermidade.
As consequências socioambientais provenientes da cultura do consumismo, como formas de um retrocesso ao preceito constitucional de um meio ambiente ecologicamente equilibrado
Authors: De Brito Silva Raquel Torres , De Brito Silva Ramon Torres , Da Costa Sandro Luiz
Published: June 2019

Na análise do paradigma da sociedade contemporânea são observadas influências manipuladoras do consumismo, ensejando-se consequências desastrosas para a sociedade atual, bem como para o meio ambiente, enfraquecendo-se cada vez mais esta relação e, ao mesmo tempo, prejudicando a formação de um meio ambiente ecologicamente equilibrado para as presentes e gerações vindouras. Desse modo, com base nessa preocupação, o presente artigo objetiva propiciar uma relevante reflexão sobre algumas notórias consequências socioambientais provenientes da cultura do consumismo como formas de retrocesso ao preceito constitucional de um meio ambiente ecologicamente equilibrado, sendo notória uma importante mudança de hábitos, maior conscientização do ser humano por meio da educação ambiental e efetivação das políticas ambientais.
Controle político da atividade normativa das agências reguladoras no Brasil
Authors: Guerra Sérgio , Salinas Natasha Schmitt Caccia
Published: June 2019

O poder normativo outorgado às agências reguladoras não é ilimitado. As leis que regem as agências reguladoras refletem escolhas sobre a extensão deste poder. A depender do arranjo institucional adotado nas leis que disciplinam as competências normativas das agências reguladoras, este poder poderá ser mais ou menos extenso. Este artigo tem por objetivo analisar o controle político sobre a produção normativa das agências reguladoras federais brasileiras. Para tanto, são analisadas empiricamente iniciativas legislativas que controlam de forma prévia, concomitante ou posterior a atividade normativa dos órgãos reguladores. A principal contribuição deste artigo reside em apresentar uma nova sistematização, derivada da práxis legislativa, de variadas e não uniformes estratégias de atribuição de poderes normativos às agências reguladoras no Brasil.
Editorial
Authors: Folloni André , Hachem Daniel Wunder
Published: June 2019

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The geometric formulas of the Lewis’s law and Aboav-Weaire’s law in two dimensions based on ellipse packing
Authors: Xu Kai
Published: June 2019

The two-dimensional (2D) Lewis’s law and Aboav-Weaire’s law are two simple formulas derived from empirical observations. Numerous attempts have been made to improve the empirical formulas. In this study, we simulated a series of Voronoi diagrams by randomly disordered the seed locations of a regular hexagonal 2D Voronoi diagram, and analyzed the cell topology based on ellipse packing. Then, we derived and verified the improved formulas for Lewis’s law and Aboav-Weaire’s law. Specifically, we found that the upper limit of the second moment of edge number is 3. In addition, we derived the geometric formula of the von Neumann-Mullins’s law based on the new formula of the Aboav-Weaire’s law. Our results suggested that the cell area, local neighbor relationship, and cell growth rate are closely linked to each other, and mainly shaped by the effect of deformation from circle to ellipse and less influenced by the global edge distribution.
Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of the WRKY genes in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) under alkaline stress
Authors: Wu Guo-Qiang , Li Zhi-Qiang , Cao Han , Wang Jin-Long
Published: June 2019

Background: The WRKY transcription factor family plays critical roles in many aspects of physiological processes and adaption to environment. Although the WRKY genes have been widely studied in various plants, the structure and function of the WRKY family in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) remains unknown.

Methods: In the present study, the WRKY genes were identified from the sugar beet genome by bioinformatics. Phylogenetic tree was constructed by MEGA7.0 software. Distribution map of these genes was displayed by MapInspect 1.0. Furthermore, the exon-intron structure and the conserved motifs were predicted by GSDS 2.0 and MEME 5.0.5, respectively. Additionally, the expression levels of these genes under alkaline stress were assayed by qRT-PCR.

Results: A total of 58 putative BvWRKY genes are identified in the sugar beet genome. The coding sequence of these genes ranged from 558 to 2,307 bp and molecular weight varied from 21.3 to 84. Based on the conserved WRKY domain and zinc-finger motif, the BvWRKY genes are clustered into three major groups I, II and III, with 11, 40 and 7 genes, respectively. The number of intron in the BvWRKY genes ranged from 1 to 5, with majority of BvWRKY (27/58) containing three exons. All the BvWRKY genes have one or two WRKY motifs at the N-terminus. Moreover, the expression levels of BvWRKY genes are increased remarkedly by alkaline stress. Our findings extend understandings of the BvWRKY genes family and provide useful information for subsequent research on their functions in sugar beet under alkaline stress.
Hemodynamic-mediated endocardial signaling controls in vivo myocardial reprogramming
Authors: Gálvez-Santisteban Manuel , Chen Danni , Zhang Ruilin , Serrano Ricardo , Nguyen Cathleen , Zhao Long , Nerb Laura , Masutani Evan M , Vermot Julien , Burns Charles Geoffrey , Burns Caroline E , del Álamo Juan C , Chi Neil C
Published: June 2019

Lower vertebrate and neonatal mammalian hearts exhibit the remarkable capacity to regenerate through the reprogramming of pre-existing cardiomyocytes. However, how cardiac injury initiates signaling pathways controlling this regenerative reprogramming remains to be defined. Here, we utilize in vivo biophysical and genetic fate mapping zebrafish studies to reveal that altered hemodynamic forces due to cardiac injury activate a sequential endocardial-myocardial signaling cascade to direct cardiomyocyte reprogramming and heart regeneration. Specifically, these altered forces are sensed by the endocardium through the mechanosensitive channel Trpv4 to control Klf2a transcription factor expression. Consequently, Klf2a then activates endocardial Notch signaling which results in the non-cell autonomous initiation of myocardial Erbb2 and BMP signaling to promote cardiomyocyte reprogramming and heart regeneration. Overall, these findings not only reveal how the heart senses and adaptively responds to environmental changes due to cardiac injury, but also provide insight into how flow-mediated mechanisms may regulate cardiomyocyte reprogramming and heart regeneration.
Cryo-EM structures of remodeler-nucleosome intermediates suggest allosteric control through the nucleosome
Authors: Armache Jean Paul , Gamarra Nathan , Johnson Stephanie L , Leonard John D , Wu Shenping , Narlikar Geeta J , Cheng Yifan
Published: June 2019

The SNF2h remodeler slides nucleosomes most efficiently as a dimer, yet how the two protomers avoid a tug-of-war is unclear. Furthermore, SNF2h couples histone octamer deformation to nucleosome sliding, but the underlying structural basis remains unknown. Here we present cryo-EM structures of SNF2h-nucleosome complexes with ADP-BeFx that capture two potential reaction intermediates. In one structure, histone residues near the dyad and in the H2A-H2B acidic patch, distal to the active SNF2h protomer, appear disordered. The disordered acidic patch is expected to inhibit the second SNF2h protomer, while disorder near the dyad is expected to promote DNA translocation. The other structure doesn’t show octamer deformation, but surprisingly shows a 2 bp translocation. FRET studies indicate that ADP-BeFx predisposes SNF2h-nucleosome complexes for an elemental translocation step. We propose a model for allosteric control through the nucleosome, where one SNF2h protomer promotes asymmetric octamer deformation to inhibit the second protomer, while stimulating directional DNA translocation.
A lesson in homology
Authors: Prpic Nikola-Michael
Published: June 2019

The same genes and signaling pathways control the formation of limbs in vertebrates, arthropods and cuttlefish.
Seizing an opportunity
Authors: Zurn Perry , Bassett Danielle S
Published: June 2019

As the techniques available to neuroscientists to probe the inner workings of the brain become more powerful, the volume of data generated increases exponentially and the tools used to analyze these data become ever more sophisticated. Alongside this feverish press into the future comes a growing interest in the use of new data technologies to study old literary and philosophical texts. And as researchers develop new methods to unearth patterns hidden within complex data, it is natural to think of these old texts as simply more data reflecting the intricacies of the human mind, waiting to succumb to the powerful, objective, and reliable perception of machines. Here we argue that historical texts are more than prone booty to be exploited: rather, they offer researchers in neuroscience, philosophy, and literature the opportunity to work together, to learn from and enrich each other’s methodologies. Using the study of human curiosity as an illustration, we describe our vision for a collaborative approach to exploring the mysteries of the mind and human behavior.