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Revista Brasileira de Ciências do Esporte: encerrando um ciclo editorial
Authors: Almeida Felipe Quintão de , Bassani Jaison José , Richter Ana Cristina , Invernizzi Lisandra , Vaz Alexandre Fernandez
Published: November 2018

Com base nos editoriais publicados na Revista Brasileira de Ciências do Esporte (RBCE), especialmente entre 2013 e 2018, o presente trabalho oferece uma análise dos últimos cinco anos de gestão do periódico, revisitando alguns traços da política científica adotada na RBCE. Desde essa perspectiva, busca refletir sobre dificuldades, desafios e dilemas da editoração científica no campo da Educação Física, especialmente no que se refere à profissionalização, à internacionalização, ao financiamento e à parceria com a Elsevier, editora de literatura médica e científica cujas plataformas oferecem tecnologia integrada e interatividade de conteúdo, facilitando o trabalho de divulgação do conhecimento científico e de editoração de periódicos. Tal facilidade não exime os editores, em meio às suas atividades científicas, de perder de vista a dimensão política de seu ofício e de exercer sua função como retaguarda crítica a esclarecer os processos de governamento que envolvem a área da Educação Física, a produção e a divulgação do conhecimento e a intervenção que dele emerge.
Evolução das despesas da função desporto e lazer (FDL) dos municípios do estado do Piauí de 2003 a 2011
Authors: Santos Edmilson Santos dos , Starepravo Fernando Augusto , Canan Felipe
Published: November 2018

A literatura sobre financiamento de políticas públicas de esporte e lazer tem centrado sua atenção nos investimentos do Governo Federal, deixando uma lacuna sobre análises de âmbito municipal. O objetivo do presente trabalho foi analisar o comportamento dos municípios do estado do Piauí no período de 10 anos (2003 a 2012), no que se refere aos investimentos nas políticas públicas de esporte e de lazer. As informações referentes à receita corrente e às despesas na FDL foram retiradas diretamente dos dados referentes às contas anuais no site Sistema de Informações Contábeis e Fiscais do Setor Público Brasileiro – Siconfi. Os resultados apontam que os municípios do Piauí tiveram crescimento em suas receitas correntes, nominal e per capita. Mesmo reconhecendo que o crescimento da receita não leva, necessariamente, ao crescimento nos mesmos índices das despesas, tendo em vista que os recursos são sempre escassos e disputados, a FDL teve crescimento importante do ponto de vista nominal e quando comparado com a receita. Conclui-se que há um ambiente propício a garantir investimentos no esporte e no lazer em âmbito municipal no estado do Piauí.
A servidão voluntária, “se é público é para todos” e o assédio neoliberal às universidades públicas!
Authors: Silva Mauricio Roberto , Pires Giovani De Lorenzi , Pereira Rogerio Santos
Published: November 2018

O Editorial segue apresentando a crítica ao processo político instalado no país no chamado Estado de Exceção pós-golpe de 2016. Nesse sentido, denuncia os ataques à ciencia e tecnologia e às universidades públicas.
Análise do código de conduta das instituições financeiras da BM&FBovespa à luz das recomendações do Instituto Brasileiro de Governança Corporativa
Authors: Oliveira Araujo Aline , Behr Ariel , Da Silva Momo Fernanda
Published: November 2018

O código de conduta e ética das organizações é um instrumento que objetiva estruturar políticas e normas claras em relação ao comprometimento com os diferentes stakeholders. Nesse contexto, o objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar a estrutura e conteúdo dos temas dos códigos de conduta das empresas do setor de atuação financeiro listadas na BM&FBovespa à luz das recomendações feitas pelo Instituto Brasileiro Governança Corporativa (IBGC). Quanto aos procedimentos metodológicos, esta pesquisa é classificada como quantitativa e qualitativa, descritiva e documental. No mês de abril de 2016, coletaram-se os códigos de conduta divulgados pelos 20 bancos listados no setor de atuação financeiro da BM&FBovespa em seus websites. Os resultados demonstram que, em relação à aderência dos códigos, os bancos têm um índice médio de 62% de adesão às recomendações feitas pelo IBGC. Assim, confirmou-se a hipótese da pesquisa de que houve aumento da aderência dos códigos ao longo dos últimos anos.
Evidências empíricas das taxas de desconto na avaliação de empresas no Brasil
Authors: Cunha Moisés Ferreira da , Assaf Neto Alexandre , Martins Eliseu
Published: November 2018

O objetivo da pesquisa é investigar e avaliar se, na média, as projeções das taxas de desconto feitas pelas empresas brasileiras, em laudos de avaliação, são aderentes ao longo do tempo ao realizado. Foram levantadas as projeções das variáveis (Ki; Ke e WACC) nos laudos de avaliação para Oferta Pública de Aquisição de Ações (OPAs) no período de 2005 a 2009, e comparadas às médias realizadas pelos setores (obtidas do banco de dados Instituto Assaf) ao longo de até dois períodos após o processo de avaliação. Para a realização dos testes das hipóteses estabelecidas foram realizados testes de médias, em amostras emparelhadas, com aplicação do teste paramétrico t_Student ou o teste não paramétrico de Wilcoxon. Os resultados demonstram, basicamente, que as médias das projeções em relação ao realizado, são aderentes, estatisticamente, para a variável: custo de capital médio ponderado (WACC). Por outro lado, as variáveis: custo de capital de terceiros (Ki) e custo de capital próprio (Ke), mostraram diferenças significativas das médias.
Influência dos fatores estratégia, inovação e tecnologia nos custos da qualidade no arranjo produtivo local de confecções
Authors: Pavão Juliane Andressa , Camacho Reinaldo Rodrigues , Espejo Márcia Maria dos Santos Bortolocci , Marques Kelly Cristina Mucio
Published: November 2018

Este estudo investiga, sob a luz da teoria da contingência, a influência dos fatores contingenciais internos estratégia, tecnologia e inovação na ocorrência dos Custos da Qualidade (CQ). Avaliam-se também, os efeitos da ocorrência dos CQ no desempenho organizacional. A amostra envolveu 121 empresas do Arranjo Produtivo Local (APL) de confecções nos municípios de Maringá e Cianorte, Estado do Paraná. A estratégia de pesquisa adotada é o levantamento com coleta de dados por meio de questionário, cujos dados foram analisados diante da modelagem de equações estruturais. Os achados apontam que a ocorrência dos CQ não influencia o desempenho organizacional. Porém, a estratégia de diferenciação possui um efeito de redução na ocorrência dos custos de falhas internas e externas, além da estratégia de liderança em custos que incentiva que os custos com avaliação ocorram e restringe a ocorrência de custos com falhas tanto internas como externas. Constatou-se que a adoção de tecnologia de informação auxilia a ocorrência de custos de prevenção e a reduzir custos de falhas internas, bem como, a utilização de tecnologia de produção reduz os custos com devoluções e substituições de produtos. E ainda, a inovação dos processos apresentou um efeito negativo sobre os custos de falhas internas e externas.
Convergência contábil e rentabilidade de fundos de investimentos em ações
Authors: Souza Kamyr Gomes de , Malaquias Rodrigo Fernandes , Rech Ilírio José , Melo Mayane Jacqueline Gonçalves de
Published: November 2018

Os fundos de investimento têm se tornado uma opção acessível e com expressiva participação no mercado financeiro, até mesmo para pequenos investidores. A literatura aponta alguns fatores que afetam sua rentabilidade, geralmente relacionados à estrutura do fundo e ao portfólio escolhido pelos gestores. Além disso, as recentes alterações nos padrões contábeis brasileiros podem ter também afetado a rentabilidade dos fundos, a partir da postulada melhoria na qualidade da informação e consequente redução na assimetria informacional. Neste contexto, o objetivo do presente estudo foi analisar a relação entre a adoção das IFRS pelas empresas abertas e a rentabilidade dos fundos de ações brasileiros. Trata-se de uma pesquisa descritiva com abordagem quantitativa, realizada por meio de uma pesquisa documental. Utilizou-se uma amostra de fundos de investimento em ações do tipo Sustentabilidade/Governança e de 27 empresas de capital aberto, das quais 9 realizaram a adoção voluntária ao padrão contábil internacional no ano de 2008. O período analisado foi de Janeiro de 2007 a Setembro de 2013. Os resultados da pesquisa não se mostraram alinhados às hipóteses iniciais, pois houve maior correlação da rentabilidade dos fundos com a rentabilidade das ações das empresas antes da adoção obrigatória, ou seja, quando elas não adotavam as normas IFRS.
BTD anormais, accruals discricionários e qualidade dos accruals em empresas de capital aberto listadas no Brasil
Authors: Brunozi Júnior Antonio Carlos , Kronbauer Clóvis Antônio , Martinez Antônio Lopo , Alves Tiago Wickstrom
Published: November 2018

Este estudo teve como objetivo analisar as implicações das BTD, decorrentes das práticas de gerenciamentos dos resultados contábeis e tributários, nos accruals discricionários e na qualidade dos accruals em empresas de capital aberto listadas no Brasil. Metodologicamente, considerou-se uma amostra de 290 empresas e o período de 2002 a 2015, com a apuração de uma medida de BTD Anormais para o contexto brasileiro. Em seguida, associou-se as BTD Anormais com proxies de gerenciamento de resultados, que foram obtidas de Dechow, Sloan e Sweeny (1995) e Dechow e Dichev (2002). Houve a utilização da técnica de dados em painel dinâmico com momentos generalizados (GMM). Os resultados indicaram que as BTD Anormais são decorrentes do gerenciamento de resultados por accruals discricionários e pela diminuição na qualidade dos accruals. Com isso, concluiu-se e contribuiu-se com a literatura que há tendências de assimetria informacional nas BTD, principalmente em seus componentes discricionários, diminuindo a qualidade dos lucros.
O monstro à mostra: mostruário
Authors: Editores Os
Published: November 2018

Apresentação do número 22 -"O monstro à mostra: mostruário"
O monstro invisível: o abalo das fronteiras entre monstruosidade e humanidade
Authors: Rahe Bertin Juliana Ciambra
Published: November 2018

Este trabalho tem como objetivo investigar como o monstro modernose apresenta na literatura. No deslocamento do monstro físico para o monstromoral, identificado por Foucault, a monstruosidade deixa de ser visualmenteidentificável no aspecto físico. Pretendemos mostrar como outros atributosque integram a configuração da monstruosidade também passam por transformação,pontuando nossa análise com exemplos de textos literários da literaturainglesa do século XIX e de narrativas literárias brasileiras de Machado deAssis, Rubem Fonseca e Lourenço Mutarelli. Nosso objetivo é apontar comoa atualização das características dos monstros acaba aproximando tais figurascada vez mais do humano, em um deslocamento que embaça as fronteiras queseparam nós e eles, identidade e alteridade, humanidade e monstruosidade
O primitivo negativo: dos animais ancestrais de Kopenawa à mostruação vazia em O Congresso Futurista
Authors: Brzozowski Julian Alexander
Published: November 2018

O presente artigo visa uma comparação em confronto da ideia de monstroencontrada na obra do xamã yanomami Davi Kopenawa A queda do céucom o movimento de desideração, desastre, da caminhada intelectual do Ocidenteem direção ao esvaziamento do mito e suas monstruosidades de puraaparecência que pululam o imaginário do filme O Congresso Futurista. Apoiadofortemente na elaboração de Jacques Lacan sobre o interesse do mito de darconta de um único objeto, que é objeto de desejo, percorremos o trilho teóricodo esgotamento de sentido do mundo em Jean-Luc Nancy em direção ànoção do corpo enquanto arrealidade concentradora da potência cosmológicaoutrora reservada aos astros.
A paráfrase
Authors: Santos Nadier , Kunkler Odára Raquel
Published: November 2018

Em novembro de 2015, em seu primeiro número, a revista Conséquence se dirige a alguns filósofos para submeter-lhes um instigante e difícil questionamento a propósito de sua forma de escrever, mais especificamente, a respeito das relações de determinações mútuas entre seus estilos e seus métodos, seus objetos de especulação e suas exigências éticas e existenciais. Nesse contexto, trazemos aqui a contribuição de Jacques Rancière. Obviamente a consequência imediata não poderia ser outra que a de trazer à luz um texto no qual a singularidade dá a tônica. Com efeito, nesse curto texto Rancière volta-se sobre seu próprio trabalho e fornece valiosas informações sobre sua escrita e de como ela se relaciona com uma forma particular de estar no mundo, de conceber e fazer comunidade. Delineando um universo no qual pensar e escrever se indiferenciam, e onde A noite dos proletários (1981) e Aisthesis (2011) são mencionados, Rancière discute como toma parte na circulação da escrita, que para ele se configura enquanto espaço de anonimato e igualdade aberto a potencialidades capazes de engendrar e pôr em movimento o novo. Aqui a escrita deixa de ser meio de expressão para se tornar ela mesma trabalho do pensamento e elemento determinante de seus desdobramentos, dos possíveis percursos entre o visível, o dizível e o pensável.
Políticas das artes, artes das políticas
Authors: Editores Os
Published: November 2018

Apresentação do número 23
A poesia é uma trincheira de guerra
Authors: Moreira Diego
Published: November 2018

O texto pretende explorar, a partir da leitura de alguns ensaios de PauloLeminski e dos manifestos de Roberto Piva, a ideia de que a poesia contemporâneaassume o caráter de trincheira de guerra. Em textos como “Arteinútil, arte livre?” e “O inutensílio”, Leminski defende o fato de que a poesiaresiste ao mundo mercadológico justamente por ser um objeto sem nenhumautilidade prática; por isso, sua importância. Já em Piva, tanto na poesiacomo na série de manifestos publicados, esparsamente, ao longo da vida,percebe-se a prática de uma poética da transgressão, que funciona como resistênciaà institucionalização da vida.
Estética e leitmotiv político: analisando o jovem Lukács a partir de Thomas Mann e Henrik Ibsen
Authors: De Mello Justo Sandro
Published: November 2018

Pretendemos neste artigo analisar o leitmotiv político do jovem Lukácsatravés dos problemas centrais levantados por Thomas Mann e Henrik Ibsenem suas obras Tönio Kroger (1903) e Quando despertarmos dentre os mortos (1899). Ajustificativa deste caminho adotado dá-se pelo fato de o próprio filósofo húngaroter anunciado na sua maturidade que as problemáticas das referidas obrasexerceram fortes influências sobre seu estado de espírito juvenil. Cabe dizerque neste período de juventude György Lukács caracterizou-se por uma profundarecusa do mundo burguês traduzida numa espécie de anticapitalismoromântico. Desta forma, compreendemos que a leitura de Mann e Ibsen podeser elucidativa ao entendimento das singularidades deste leitmotiv político dojovem Lukács. O presente artigo divide-se em três momentos substanciais: noprimeiro, precedido por observações introdutórias acerca de György Lukács,analisamos uma síntese inalcançável presente em Tönio Kroger: a síntese entrearte e vida cotidiana. No segundo, voltamos os olhos para o fio condutor deQuando despertarmos dentre os mortos: o conflito entre arte e vida como ilustraçãode uma existência sem sentido sob o mundo burguês. E no terceiro e últimomomento, analisamos o anticapitalismo romântico do jovem Lukács em diálogocom os dramas vividos por Kroger e Rubek.
Vida e comunidade em Clube da Luta e A praia
Authors: Ghizzi Neto Joacy
Published: November 2018

A partir das narrativas Clube da luta (1996) de Chuck Palahniuk e A praia(1996) de Alex Garland, o presente artigo investiga as configurações comunitáriasque essas ficções propõem na virada do milênio. Os dois livros sãoo ponto de partida para analisar uma dialética da ruptura e da fundação, dolugar e do território, mas também entre arte e vida, já que a narrativa comunitáriaassombra a própria paixão pelo real (Alain Badiou, O século). É diantedessa contradição que as leituras de Giorgio Agamben (A comunidade que vem),Jean-Luc Nancy (A comunidade inoperante) e Massimo Cacciari (Nomes de lugar:confim) nos permitem discutir o paradoxo da relação sujeito e comunidade. Asduas narrativas analisadas propõem um deslocamento diante do mundo emnome de um outro lugar. Tornados território, configuram-se a partir de identidades,Clube, ou de restrições geográficas, Praia, e passam então a encenarexatamente as contradições que pretendiam romper. É para esse fracasso, quenão é mais o universalista, que o presente trabalho atenta.
Experiencia y memoria en Los anillos de Saturno de W.G. Sebald: la ética/política del arte narrativo sebaldiano
Authors: Zalazar Belisario
Published: November 2018

Neste trabalho propomos refazer os caminhos da memória definidapelo narrador de Os anéis de Saturno, cujo trabalho árduo e doloroso envolve onegativo da fotografia da história do próprio progresso do relato da Modernidade,revelando o desastre e a destruição perpetrados pelo chamado processode modernização capitalista. A narrativa sebaldiana neste ponto coincide como projeto filosófico de Walter Benjamin, conforme descrito em suas teses “Sobreo conceito de história”.
Revolta jeune-France, bousingotismo e licantropia: o republicanismo de Pétrus Borel (1809-1859)
Authors: Almeida Lima Fernanda
Published: November 2018

O contexto político da França de 1830 é marcado pela deposição deCarlos X, pela revolução republicana de julho e pela coroação do rei burguês,Luís Filipe I. Nesse contexto, uma nova geração de artistas e escritores,classificada como “pequenos românticos” pela história literária, desponta nocampo literário (Bourdieu, 2005) do romantismo francês. Alguns nomes destajuventude romântica, tais como Pétrus Borel, Théophile Gautier e Gérard deNerval, se reúnem no Pequeno Cenáculo (1829-1833), confraria artística simpatizantedas ideias republicanas e avessa à mediocridade e ao mercantilismoda Monarquia de Julho (1830-1848). Pétrus Borel, figura de proa do PequenoCenáculo, empreende uma confissão de republicanismo licantrópico no prefáciode sua primeira obra, Rhapsodies (1831). Estas particularidades tornamo Pequeno Cenáculo alvo das críticas do jornal Le Figaro que, por meio dadenominação pejorativa de Jeunes-France e de Bousingots, denuncia ironicamenteo extravagante artistismo republicano do grupo. Nesse contexto, o presentetrabalho trata da relação entre literatura e política na composição da identidadeenunciativa de escritor republicano-licantropo cunhada por Pétrus Borel.
Carbon–Water Flux Coupling Under Progressive Drought
Authors: Boese Sven , Jung Martin , Carvalhais Nuno , Teuling Adriaan J. , Reichstein Markus
Published: November 2018

Abstract. Water-use efficiency, defined as the ratio of carbon assimilation over evapotranspiration (ET), is a key metric to assess ecosystem functioning in response to environmental conditions. It remains unclear which factors control this ratio during periods of extended water-limitation, and current semi-empirical water-use efficiency models fail to reproduce observed ET dynamics for these periods. Here, we use dry-down events occurring at eddy-covariance flux tower sites in the FLUXNET database as natural experiments to assess if and how decreasing soil-water availability modifies water-use efficiency on ecosystem scale. We demonstrate that an attenuating soil-water availability factor in junction with a previously discovered additive radiation term is necessary to accurately predict ET flux magnitudes and dry-down lengths of these water-limited periods. In an analysis of the attenuation, 20–33 % of the observed decline in ET was due to the previously unconsidered soil-water availability effect. We conclude by noting the rates of ET decline differ significantly between FLUXNET sites with tall and short vegetation types and discuss the dependency of this rate on the variability of seasonal dryness.
Future projections of temperature and mixing regime of European temperate lakes
Authors: Shatwell Tom , Thiery Wim , Kirillin Georgiy
Published: November 2018

Abstract. The physical response of lakes to climate warming is regionally variable and highly dependent on individual lake characteristics, making generalisations about their development difficult. To qualify the role of individual lake characteristics in their response to regionally homogeneous warming, we simulated temperature, ice cover and mixing in four intensively studied German lakes of varying morphology and mixing regime with a one-dimensional lake model. We forced the model with an ensemble of 12 climate projections (RCP4.5) up to 2100. The lakes were projected to warm at 0.10–0.11 °C decade−1, which is 75–90 % of the projected air temperature trend. In simulations, surface temperatures increased strongly in winter and spring, but little or not at all in summer and autumn. Mean bottom temperatures were projected to increase in all lakes, with steeper trends in winter and in shallower lakes. Modelled ice thaw and summer stratification advanced by 1.5–2.2 and 1.4–1.8 d decade−1 respectively, whereas autumn turnover and winter freeze timing was less sensitive. The projected summer mixed layer depth was unaffected by warming but sensitive to changes in water transparency. By mid-century, the frequency of ice and stratification-free winters was projected to increase by about 20 %, making ice cover rare and shifting the two deeper dimictic lakes to a predominantly monomictic regime. The polymictic lake was unlikely to become dimictic by the end of the century. A sensitivity analysis predicted that decreasing transparency would dampen the effect of warming on mean temperature but amplify its effect on stratification. However, this interaction was only predicted to occur in clear lakes, and not in the study lakes at their historical transparency. Not only lake morphology, but also mixing regime determines how heat is stored and ultimately how lakes respond to climate warming. Seasonal differences in climate warming rates are thus important and require more attention.
Changes in glacier facies zonation on Devon Ice Cap, Nunavut, detected from SAR imagery and field observations
Authors: de Jong Tyler , Copland Luke , Burgess David
Published: November 2018

Abstract. Envisat ASAR WS images, verified against mass balance, ice core, ground-penetrating radar and air temperature measurements, are used to map changes in the distribution of glacier facies zones across Devon Ice Cap between 2004 and 2011. Glacier ice, saturation/percolation and pseudo dry snow zones are readily distinguishable in the satellite imagery, and the superimposed ice zone can be mapped after comparison with ground measurements. Over the study period there has been a clear upglacier migration of glacier facies, resulting in regions close to the firn line switching from being part of the accumulation area with high backscatter to being part of the ablation area with relatively low backscatter. This has coincided with a rapid increase in positive degree days near the ice cap summit, and an increase in the glacier ice zone from 71 % of the ice cap in 2005 to 92 % of the ice cap in 2011. This has significant implications for the area of the ice cap subject to meltwater runoff.
Campus Clue: Habituating Students to the Information Search Process via Gaming
Authors: Mac Gregor Megan
Published: November 2018

Escape rooms have become very popular with the public in the past few years. Outside of the for-profit sector many grade schools and public libraries have used them to teach and entertain. This article shows how an academic library was able to successfully use the popularity of escape rooms and their teaching advantages to create an escape experience for students. By creating an experience that remained true to the original purpose of escape rooms, but which spanned the whole campus rather than one room, players learned about the library and other campus services by solving a series of ciphers and riddles.
Rethinking Computational Thinking for Public Libraries' Youth Programs: Challenges and Recommendations
Authors: Guidara Marissa
Published: November 2018

Computational thinking has become a popular and important concept in education throughout the nation. Public libraries, with their technology services and their role as an informal learning space, have been tagged as an ideal place for computational thinking learning for children. However, the literature and research surrounding computational thinking is often vague and even misleading, presenting differing visions of what computational thinking is, what it should look like in practice, and how it might be evaluated for effectiveness. As a result, youth services librarians face many challenges in their attempts to understand, design, and evaluate computational thinking programs for their libraries. This paper explores the issues inherent in current computational thinking research and discusses the challenges they represent in designing and facilitating youth computational thinking programs in public libraries, as well as presents recommendations for best practices.
In the PaLRaP Spotlight: Ann L. Kemper
Authors: Campbell Stephanie
Published: November 2018

Ann Kemper is Supervisory Librarian, United States Army Garrison Casey, Camp Red Cloud and Camp Hovey, South Korea.
Islamofobia en la prensa escrita: de la sección de opinión a la opinión pública
Authors: Calvo Barbero Carla , Sánchez-García Pilar
Published: November 2018

La presente investigación estudia el posible discurso islamófobo de los medios de comunicación escritos a través de un análisis de los artículos de opinión en los diarios generalistas, ABC y El País, en torno a dos atentados perpetrados en 2015 por el terrorismo yihadista: Charlie Hebdo y el 13-N. El artículo recurre a una metodología de análisis de contenido cuantitativo y de análisis cualitativo del discurso sobre 217 artículos de opinión que se someten a una ficha de análisis de elaboración propia con 22 variables. Los resultados principales reflejan que en los artículos de opinión de ambos medios aparecen argumentos islamófobos asentados en los discursos coloniales y del choque de civilizaciones.
David Ausubel’s theory and learning improvement: a case study of the Leveling Courses Program in Basic Sciences for Engineering
Authors: Valente Pedro Santos , Costa José Benício , Lynch Gilberto Martins , Barros Douglas Da Silva
Published: November 2018

The evasion in higher education, especially in science courses, is a reality faced by universities not only in Brazil, but also in several other countries around the world. The number of students who drop out of university is very expressive, resulting in academic, economic and social losses. To try to minimize this problem, the University Extension Department of the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) together with the Institute of Technology (ITEC) created in 2011 the Levelling Courses Program in Basic Sciences for Engineering (LCPBSE), whose main area of action is to teach basic mathematics, physics and chemistry for the newly enrolled students in engineering courses. These classes happen before the students have contact with the first subjects of the basic cycle, especially the discipline of Calculus 1, common to all engineering courses. Recent statistical studies have demonstrated that LCPBSE has a relevant role to reduce educational gaps in conceptual and operational fields in the basic sciences to engineering, in addition to working essential topics to the basic courses of undergraduate. Recognizing the importance of  LCPBSE as fundamental tool against evasion rate, the research is aiming to better understand its functionality and how it was able to increase the approval ratings. Thus, this paper has as objective to explain how the LCPBSE supports students and it tries to understand what epistemological learning mechanism under the factors contributing to students academic performance increasing. The methodology was based on the bibliographical research of several authors who study the cognitive learning. Among them, we studied those who had a philosophical cognitive/constructivist stance: Piaget, Vygotsky, Kelly, Ausubel and Vergnaud. As a result of this studies, we focus on David Ausubel’s work, who proposes the Meaningful Learning Theory, a thesis that may be able to explain how LCPBSE is helping students to learn more efficiently. According to Ausubel, for learning to be meaningful, it is necessary for the new information to relate to a relevant aspect already existing in the learner's cognitive structure. These relevant aspects are called subsumers, which serve as an anchor for the new knowledge to be acquired. Based on this, the LCPBSE classes may be serving as an organizer of the students' subsumers, so that they can attend the Calculus classes already with the necessary prior knowledge. Finally, we concluded that the organization of subsumers can be a critical strategy used to improve learning and to decrease the evasion rates. Such strategy can be applied not only in the LCPBSE, but also in other programs of other universities.
Screening Twenty Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp) Genotypes for Resistance to Thrips (Megalurothrips sjöstedti) in Burkina Faso
Authors: Hamadou Sidibé , Joseph Batiéno Benoit , Salle Tignigré Jean Baptiste De La , Francis Kusi , Jeremy Ouédraogo Tinga , Mahamadou Sawadogo
Published: November 2018

Losses caused by flower thrips in cowpea are important. These pests can cause from 60% to total crop yield loss. There is, therefore , an urgent need to address this issue. This work has been undertaken to identify sources of resistance to thrips in cowpea. Twenty cowpea genotypes were screened at Kamboinsé research station under improve netting in pots.  The number of aborted flowers per line, the percentage of damage to flowers and stipules, and the number of thrips per genotype were evaluated. The results revealed the existence of six genotype of cowpea resistant to thrips. Among these genotypes three are already known thrips resistant lines (TVU1509, TVx3236 and Sanzi). Moreover, Sanzi showed interesting potentialities that maybe exploited. The new identified lines are Nafi, variety popularized in 2012 and variety KVx780-3 which is being popularized. The KVx165-14-1 (old popular variety) showed sources of tolerances while the KN1 genotype was susceptible to thrips. In another hand, all the wild genotypes showed high susceptibility to thrips.
The Significance of the Church for Theological Interpretation
Authors: Moberly R. W. L.
Published: November 2018

In this article, I seek to clarify the meaning of the church as a plausibility structure for theological interpretation of Scripture, a thesis I initially advanced in a 2012 JTI article on Bultmann and Augustine. My approach is to make the clarification by responding to a misrepresentation of my thesis in a 2017 JTI article by David Congdon. Congdon advocates Bultmann’s understanding of the church as an eschatological community to be a preferable alternative to my thesis. I set out my indebtedness to the work of Lesslie Newbigin, and suggest that Newbigin is of more help than Bultmann for the task of missional translation of the gospel in the contemporary world.
Feet in the Wilderness, Eyes on the Promised Land
Authors: Smith Daniel Lynwood
Published: November 2018

The book of Deuteronomy addresses Israel in the wilderness, poised to enter the promised land. The people have not yet arrived in the promised land, since they are still “on the other side of the Jordan” (Deut 1:1). But they have already wandered for forty years, and they now stand ready to enter the land, in what David M. Allen has described as a “Deuteronomic posture” of hopeful expectation. I examine how Deuteronomy itself captures and communicates something essential about the experience of the people of God, something that it makes available to future generations of faithful readers. After supplementing a synchronic reading of Deuteronomy with later targumic interpretations of the work, I look at instances of the same dynamic in late Second Temple literature, including 1 Maccabees, the Dead Sea Scrolls, 1 Corinthians, and Hebrews. Given the wide range of texts that adopt a Deuteronomic posture, I close with a treatment of the role a “Deuteronomic posture” might play in twenty-first-century conversations about Christian life in a post-Christendom world.
Shakespeare and Sicily
Authors: Bergeron David M.
Published: November 2018

Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing and The Winter's Tale share a common setting: Sicily. This article explores what that setting means in the plays by focusing on the issue of hospitality, which gets disrupted. A key element of hospitality is entertainment, which literarily means “to hold together.” But fractures occur in Sicily, leading to a breakdown of the social fabric. The center does not hold. In Much Ado about Nothing, for example, the wedding scene in 4.1 should offer the quintessence of joy and hospitality; but it does not, thanks to the machinations of Don Jon and the credulity of Claudio and others. It takes a presumed death to begin the restoration. Similarly, in the Sicilian world of The Winter's Tale hospitality falters completely by the end of 3.2 as Hermione apparently dies and so does the royal son. The remainder of the play seeks a way to re-create an entertaining, hospitable Sicily. Against all odds, such a restoration, portrayed most profoundly in the appearance of Hermione in the final scene, occurs as the fatal country of Sicily recovers the art and grace of hospitality.
Development of On-Road Automated Vehicle Simulator for Motion Sickness
Studies
Authors: Karjanto Juffrizal , Md. Yusof Nidzamuddin , Terken Jacques , Delbressine Frank , Rauterberg Matthias , Hassan Muhammad Zahir
Published: November 2018

This paper presents the development of the Mobility Lab, an instrumented car that
was developed to support research on the comfort of automated driving. The Mobility Lab
was established as a platform to investigate the implications of motion sickness on
human users especially when exposed to low-frequency horizontal forces while engaging in
non-driving activities. First, the Mobility Lab’s overview of interior setup and system
architecture involving data acquisition system with its sensors is described. Then, a
validation study is presented, comprising of simulations with forty-six participants by
two designated drivers. The simulations were focusing on the manipulation of lateral
acceleration based on defensive automated driving style settings. The consistency of the
manipulations in terms of accelerations, velocities, frequencies and motion sickness
dose values by both drivers was measured and compared. Subjective motion sickness
assessments, as well as user rating towards the believability of the Mobility Lab
platform, were also carried out. The results indicate good reliability in producing
consistent simulations of automated driving experience within the desired settings. In
addition, the versatility of Mobility Lab in term of flexibility on interior setup
arrangement and also its measurement system makes various automated driving related
experiments possible.
The Immigrant as Subversive, 1914–1918, A Case Study of the American Poles
Authors: Biskupski M. B. B.
Published: November 2018

During World War I, the Poles in America were a large and recently-arrived community poorly understood by the host society. American authorities became passionately convinced that the Polish community contained a significant number who were, at least potentially, disloyal to the United States and had complex and mysterious links to the belligerent powers. The result was a series of investigations conspicuous for their incompetence and hysteria. It was eloquent testimony to the profound misunderstanding the American government had of the east of Europe during the war, and thereafter.
Profit Maximization Versus Stakeholders’ View of Corporate Social Responsibility: An Experiential Exercise on Ethics and Social Responsibility for Business School Courses
Authors: Debnath Sukumar C. , Tandon Sudhir R. , Lee B. Brian
Published: November 2018

While issues related to ethics and social responsibility have gained tremendous significance in corporate and academic worlds during the recent times, these concepts are difficult to grasp and even more difficult to teach in a classroom setting. This experiential exercise serves as a vehicle for students to enhance their understanding and insights on these concepts as they critically examine, in a highly involved setting, the two opposing views of corporate social responsibilities--profit maximization only versus stakeholders’ view of social responsibility.
Towards Sustainable Livelihood Practices in the Indigenous Forests of Zambia’s Central Province: Barriers and Opportunities
Authors: Anyango Stephen Obiero , Mbewe Biston , Nangavo Velice Shizia , Mwal Maurine
Published: November 2018

This study was designed with the aim of establishing a comprehensive picture of the problems and needs of local communities in upholding sustainable livelihoods in the face of forest degradation and recommending how their livelihoods may be improved in the short and long term.  Thus make them self-reliant by enhancing their resilience.  Study Methodology: included a literature review and a household survey for a total of 443 household interviews. In addition, Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) were conducted with the rural population and other stakeholders respectively. Field visits were made to all the 8 sites in the two districts Serenje and Chitambo. The main constrain of sustainable livelihood in the communities, included, low levels of education and skills, low levels of asset holding, weak local institutions and unfavorable legal and institutional frameworks. But the respondents registered a wide variety of NTFPs based livelihoods obtained from forests resources (15). Most important usage includes land for cultivation, fuelwood, poles for construction, charcoal production and use of NTFPs (collection of mushrooms, wild fruits and nuts, caterpillars, honey production and medicinal plants). The livelihood activities remains largely subsistence and for safety net functions. Trade resulting into incomes generation is minimal, unstructured and therefore unsustainable. In conclusion: commercialization of NTFPS and PES activities may be the solution to sustainable livelihood and forest conservation. A range of specifically forest sector elements would also need to be addressed, including, entrepreneurship, market and skill development for forest product and services delivery; embracing these elements will also require new kinds of enhanced institutional arrangement.
Why Quitting Double-degree Programs: Students’ Perceptions in China
Authors: Ou Chuying , Zhang Huiyu , Pan Manjing , Dai Zhijian
Published: November 2018

Around the world, colleges have been providing opportunities for students to participate in double-degree programs. In the past 30 years, double-degree education at tertiary level has been developing fast in China. While many studies focused on its positive effects, little attention was paid to its shortcomings. Through a focus group interview of five undergraduates from a Chinese university, this study revealed some underlying deficiencies of China’s double-degree education. The interview comprehensively uncovered participants’ motives, expectations, difficulties and reasons for quitting with regard to their double-degree programs. Colleges’ failure to live up to expectations (i.e., quality of courses, teachers, job prospects) and students’ lack of external support were found to be the main causes that led students to cease their studies. School policies and personal reasons also contributed to their decisions. This research provides advice for future curriculum planning and management of double-degree education from the perspectives of students, teachers and universities.
A Theorisation on the Impact of Responsive Corporate Social Responsibility on the Moral Disposition, Change and Reputation of Business Organisations
Authors: Teck Tan Seng , Ho Chang Jau , How Liau Chee , Karuppiah Nanthakumar , Chua William
Published: November 2018

Corporate social responsibility has been a densely researched area. Research paradigms have evolved significantly stamping from a sociological focus to a more business integrated framework and the currently growing emphasis on quantifying its performance. However, while much literatures champion the proponents of a proactive corporate social responsibility, the contributions of the more responsive version have been largely under studied. This is not an empirical paper. Far from it, this paper attempts to unveil the current literature gaps pertaining to responsive corporate social responsibility. This paper explores the intrinsic contributions of responsive corporate social responsibility on the moral discourse, organisational change and reputation management in an organisation. It theorises the concept of responsive corporate social responsibility as a moderator of external pressures, as a vector of a moral reboot in organisation change and a device for salvaging reputational damage in business organisations. This paper draws from the literature gaps between studies of normative morality and its interaction in principles of general management, organisational change concepts, branding and corporate reputation. It underwrites to examine the moral contents and discourse of business firms when faced with hostile externalities and studies the moral entrails in its organisational change processes and sequentially how this implicates the corporate reputation of a firm. This paper argues that the impacts of responsive corporate social responsibility and its ability to impact moral dispositions in business organisations deserve closer scrutiny. Study on the influence of responsive corporate social responsibility on organisation change and reputational salvage has similarly is also underscored. This article provides a theoretical review of the emerging gaps in corporate social responsibility and prompts that the concept of responsive social responsibility warrants closer attention.
The Impacts of Human Resources and Foreign Direct Investments to Vietnam’s Economic Growth
Authors: Huong Nguyen Van , Duong Dang Quy , Thuy Do Thi Thu
Published: November 2018

Research on human resources, foreign direct investment and economic development are important issues in assessing the effectiveness of employment as well as attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in the economy. In this study, the author analyzes the impact of human resource factors and FDI on economic growth in Vietnam from 1990 to 2017. By regression analysis based on the ARDL model, the result shows FDI has only a positive effect on economic growth in the short term but has the opposite effect in the long term. At the same time, unemployment rates have the opposite effect on economic growth in the short term. Average life expectancy does not affect economic growth in both the short and long term. From this result, the author also offers some suggestions for economic development in both the short and long term.
Aesthetic Participation for Sustainable Development: A Case Study from Kathmandu, Nepal
Authors: Singh Sangeeta , Keitsch Martina Maria
Published: November 2018

Art and design are increasingly emphasizing the role of user participation and social inclusion. Some authors claim for example, that art processes should employ creative ideas, abilities and skills of diverse stakeholders. The idea of art as a social sculpture (Beuys) is not new. Art has played an important role for participation of different social groups in common cultural activities for many decades. The role of art, experience and participation in this sense connects Heidegger’s interpretation of the artwork, expressed for example, through the significant cultural role of the temple, with modern participatory art and design concepts. The following chapter discusses aesthetic participation as element of an established cultural practice and the role the artwork plays in this practice. Established means here: intrinsic with dynamic potential deliberately changing parts of the practice towards social inclusion. Following the introduction, the second section briefly introduces some current trends on aesthetic participation and continues with an appraisal of Heidegger’s ontological aesthetics. Employing insights from section two, the fourth section analyses aesthetic experience and participation within a case study done by the authors: The Akash Bhairab Temple at Indrachowk, Kathmandu Nepal. The fifth section summarizes possibilities and limitations of present concepts and discusses how ontological aesthetics can supplement these. Section six conclusively considers aesthetic participation as contribution to cultural sustainability. The insights of this study might be valuable for artists and educators as well as for stakeholders, who use aesthetic participation as an entry point for social decision-making and inclusion.
The Polish Legal and Organisational Solutions Combating Terrorism
Authors: Wiśniewski Bernard
Published: November 2018

Legal solutions adopted over the past few years in Poland indicate that attempts are being systematically made to improve the mechanism for counteracting terrorism. Terrorism in Poland has been opposed for a long time. The commencement of such systematic solutions took place on the 25th of October 2006 through the appointment by the Prime Minister of the Inter-ministerial Team for Terrorist Threats and ended ten years later, on the 10th of June 2016, by the adoption of the law on anti-terrorist activities. For the above-mentioned reasons, the two main parts are devoted to the issues of the commencement of legal and organisational undertakings in the fight against terrorism and the characteristics of systemic statutory solutions are preceded by considerations with conclusions. The article discusses the issues of initiatives undertaken by the government administration and presents the circumstances in which it tried to face up to the problem of developing draft laws of the law now in force. In consequence, this serves to present the areas of responsibility and tasks of government administration bodies specified in the said Act. The considerations presented in this study indicate that global and national experience gained in recent years has shaped the“Polish model of combating terrorism”, which has recently found its confirmation in the relevant legal provisions. The basis for
the development of this article is the interest in improving the effectiveness of combating terrorism which, for obvious reasons, is not reducing and remains very substantial. This applies to both theoreticians and practitioners. This results first of all from the needs of the challenges and threats that are subject to dynamic changes. Secondly, through the adaptation of the tools used by the state, including those mainly legal of a legal nature. These must be improved from the moment of their implementation.