bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Blockchain Technology and Manufacturing Industry: Real-Time Transparency and Cost Savings
Authors: Ko Taehyun , Lee Jaeram , Ryu Doojin
Published: November 2018

Blockchain technology has been recommended for the sustainability in the manufacturing industry, owing to its benefits in terms of real-time transparency and cost savings. To verify this, we first examine how firms can employ distributed ledger technology by adopting blockchain technology to achieve real-time transparency and cost savings. We also review the current blockchain technology applications in the financial industry and supply chains to explain this technology’s mechanisms for enabling real-time transparency and cost savings in the manufacturing industry. Finally, we theoretically compare the profits of manufacturing firms in two managerial delegation games under a duopoly situation. This theoretical model suggests that the real-time transparency and cost savings secured by blockchain technology improve the profitability and competitiveness of manufacturing firms, which, in turn, assure the sustainability in the manufacturing industry.
A Multi-Modal Route Choice Model with Ridesharing and Public Transit
Authors: Li Meng , Hua Guowei , Huang Haijun
Published: November 2018

With the extensive use of smart-phone applications and online payment systems, more travelers choose to participate in ridesharing activities. In this paper, a multi-modal route choice model is proposed by incorporating ridesharing and public transit in a single-origin-destination (OD)-pair network. Due to the presence of ridesharing, travelers not only choose routes (including main road and side road), but also decide travel modes (including solo driver, ridesharing driver, ridesharing passenger, and transit passenger) to minimize travelers’ generalized travel cost (not their actual travel cost due to the existence of car capacity constraints). The proposed model is expressed as an equivalent complementarity problem. Finally, the impacts of key factors on ridesharing behavior in numerical examples are discussed. The equilibrium results show that passengers’ rewards and toll charge of solo drivers on main road significantly affect the travelers’ route and mode choice behavior, and an increase of passengers’ rewards (toll) motivates (forces) more travelers to take environmentally friendly travel modes.
Constructing the Green Supply Chain for Rural Tourism in China: Perspective of Front–Back Stage Decoupling
Authors: Chen Jue , Guan Jingjing , Xu Jing (Bill) , Clergeau Cecile
Published: November 2018

Rural tourism serves as an important engine for rural development, but also brings environmental pressure. The balance between sustainability and local economic benefits is critical to rural tourism development in developing countries. Incorporating the theories of green supply chain and front–back stage decoupling, this paper proposes a new model of green tourism supply chain for rural tourism to relieve the dilemma between economic efficiency and environmental sustainability. Back-stage functions have been decoupled from individual rural tourism service units to form shared service centers, which centralize the provision of back-stage functions and generate an independent tier of suppliers in the green Tourism Supply Chain (TSC). Field practice experiences relating to green TSC construction and operation are also discussed. The new structure of green supply chain shows positive environmental and economic effects of rural tourism. It increases the tourism business efficiency without sacrificing the local environment. The paper intends to present a new perspective and explores a new research path to green supply chain research in tourism and other service industries which have been previously limited in manufacturing framework and provide some insights into tourism destination practice.
Design and Application of a Multi-Variant Expert System Using Apache Hadoop Framework
Authors: Ibrahim Muhammad , Bajwa Imran Sarwar
Published: November 2018

Movie recommender expert systems are valuable tools to provide recommendation services to users. However, the existing movie recommenders are technically lacking in two areas: first, the available movie recommender systems give general recommendations; secondly, existing recommender systems use either quantitative (likes, ratings, etc.) or qualitative data (polarity score, sentiment score, etc.) for achieving the movie recommendations. A novel approach is presented in this paper that not only provides topic-based (fiction, comedy, horror, etc.) movie recommendation but also uses both quantitative and qualitative data to achieve a true and relevant recommendation of a movie relevant to a topic. The used approach relies on SentiwordNet and tf-idf similarity measures to calculate the polarity score from user reviews, which represent the qualitative aspect of likeness of a movie. Similarly, three quantitative variables (such as likes, ratings, and votes) are used to get final a recommendation score. A fuzzy logic module decides the recommendation category based on this final recommendation score. The proposed approach uses a big data technology, “Hadoop” to handle data diversity and heterogeneity in an efficient manner. An Android application collaborates with a web-bot to use recommendation services and show topic-based recommendation to users.
Optimal Line Design of New and Remanufactured Products: A Model for Maximum Profit and Market Share with Environmental Consideration
Authors: Kwak Minjung
Published: November 2018

For original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), producing a line of new and remanufactured products can be an effective strategy for improving the sustainability of their business. The potential cannibalization of new product sales and the technological obsolescence of used products, however, can create barriers for OEMs to embrace remanufacturing. In order to address these challenges in OEM remanufacturing, this paper proposes a mixed-integer programming model for the optimal line design of new and remanufactured products. Aiming at two objectives, i.e., maximizing the total profit and maximizing the total market share, the model simultaneously optimizes a line of new and remanufactured products in terms of their (1) design specifications (including an upgrade plan for the remanufactured product), (2) selling prices, and (3) production quantities and the detailed production plan. With the simultaneous optimization, the model suggests an optimal way of differentiating the new and remanufactured products in order to overcome the cannibalization and obsolescence effects and to maximize the total profit and/or market share. The model also accounts for environmental impact, stipulating that the total environmental impact of manufacturing remains under a certain limit. To demonstrate the applicability and effectiveness of the model, a case study is presented using the example of a desktop computer.
Reduced Carbon Dioxide Sink and Methane Source under Extreme Drought Condition in an Alpine Peatland
Authors: Kang Xiaoming , Yan Liang , Cui Lijuan , Zhang Xiaodong , Hao Yanbin , Wu Haidong , Zhang Yuan , Li Wei , Zhang Kerou , Yan Zhongqing , Li Yong , Wang Jinzhi
Published: November 2018

Potential changes in both the intensity and frequency of extreme drought events are vital aspects of regional climate change that can alter the distribution and dynamics of water availability and subsequently affect carbon cycles at the ecosystem level. The effects of extreme drought events on the carbon budget of peatland in the Zoige plateau and its response mechanisms were studied using an in-field controlled experimental method. The results indicated that the peatland ecosystem of the Zoige plateau functioned as a carbon sink while under the control (CK) or extreme drought (D) treatment throughout the entire growing season. Maximum fluxes of methane (CH4) emissions and the weakest carbon sink activity from this ecosystem were in the early growth stage, the most powerful carbon sink activity was during the peak growth stage, while the absorption sink activity of carbon dioxide (CO2) and CH4 was present during the senescence stage. Extreme drought reduced the gross primary productivity (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (Re) of the peatland ecosystem by 14.5% and 12.6%, respectively (p < 0.05) and the net ability to store carbon was reduced by 11.3%. Overall, the GPP was highly sensitive to extreme drought. Moreover, extreme drought significantly reduced the CH4 fluxes of the ecosystem and even changed the peatland from a CH4 emission source to a CH4 sink. Subsequent to drought treatment, extreme drought was also shown to have a carry-over effect on the carbon budget of this ecosystem. Soil water content and soil temperature were the main driving factors of carbon budget change in the peatland of the Zoige plateau, but with the increase in soil depth, these driving forces were decreased. The findings indicated that frequent extreme drought events in the future might reduce the net carbon sink function of peatland areas, with an especially strong influence on CO2.
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation of Bangladesh: Mechanisms, Notions and Solutions
Authors: Younus Md Aboul Fazal , Kabir Md Alamgir
Published: November 2018

The concept of household vulnerability along with sustainable livelihoods has currently emerged as a significant concept in the climate change vulnerability and adaptation (CCVA) literature. In this paper, the vulnerability of Bangladesh has been assessed by using multiple regression analysis where twenty two effective variables have been chosen from the surveyed data given by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. The vulnerability has been functioned by three main stream components: Exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity, which have been adopted from the reports of Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other scientific literature. Based on the higher significance and coefficient values, the variables, which have direct relationships and impact on income and illness, have been identified and prioritized. Household income and illness are the known driving forces for assessing the vulnerability. The motion of centripetal and centrifugal forces in decision making mechanisms, which are the main driving contributions of this paper, have been dealt as a new way to envisioning vulnerability and adaptation decision. Based on the prioritized variables some actions along with solutions have been taken into consideration, which have enormous significance in addressing localized plans and actions in order to reduce potential households’ vulnerability under climate change regimes in Bangladesh.
Spatio-Temporal Variation Analysis of Landscape Pattern Response to Land Use Change from 1985 to 2015 in Xuzhou City, China
Authors: Xi Yantao , Thinh Nguyen Xuan , Li Cheng
Published: November 2018

Rapid urbanization has dramatically spurred economic development since the 1980s, especially in China, but has had negative impacts on natural resources since it is an irreversible process. Thus, timely monitoring and quantitative analysis of the changes in land use over time and identification of landscape pattern variation related to growth modes in different periods are essential. This study aimed to inspect spatiotemporal characteristics of landscape pattern responses to land use changes in Xuzhou, China durfing the period of 1985–2015. In this context, we propose a new spectral index, called the Normalized Difference Enhanced Urban Index (NDEUI), which combines Nighttime light from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program/Operational Linescan System with annual maximum Enhanced Vegetation Index to reduce the detection confusion between urban areas and barren land. The NDEUI-assisted random forests algorithm was implemented to obtain the land use/land cover maps of Xuzhou in 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, respectively. Four different periods (1985–1995, 1995–2005, 2005–2015, and 1985–2015) were chosen for the change analysis of land use and landscape patterns. The results indicate that the urban area has increased by about 30.65%, 10.54%, 68.77%, and 143.75% during the four periods at the main expense of agricultural land, respectively. The spatial trend maps revealed that continuous transition from other land use types into urban land has occurred in a dual-core development mode throughout the urbanization process. We quantified the patch complexity, aggregation, connectivity, and diversity of the landscape, employing a number of landscape metrics to represent the changes in landscape patterns at both the class and landscape levels. The results show that with respect to the four aspects of landscape patterns, there were considerable differences among the four years, mainly owing to the increasing dominance of urbanized land. Spatiotemporal variation in landscape patterns was examined based on 900 × 900 m sub-grids. Combined with the land use changes and spatiotemporal variations in landscape patterns, urban growth mainly occurred in a leapfrog mode along both sides of the roads during the period of 1985 to 1995, and then shifted into edge-expansion mode during the period of 1995 to 2005, and the edge-expansion and leapfrog modes coexisted in the period from 2005 to 2015. The high value spatiotemporal information generated using remote sensing and geographic information system in this study could assist urban planners and policymakers to better understand urban dynamics and evaluate their spatiotemporal and environmental impacts at the local level to enable sustainable urban planning in the future.
Examining the Relationships between Factors Influencing Environmental Behaviour among University Students
Authors: Kukkonen Jari , Kärkkäinen Sirpa , Keinonen Tuula
Published: November 2018

Education for sustainability may be seen as consisting of four dimensions: sensitivity and attitudes toward the environment, awareness and knowledge of the environment, environmentally friendly actions and participation. A questionnaire was drawn up which includes statements concerning all these dimensions and it was filled out by 674 university students from different majors. Data were analysed statistically and a structural equation model was formed. Results indicate that sensitivity toward or awareness of nature is the basis for the enjoyment of nature. The enjoyment of nature is directly positively related to the intention of support pro-environmental activity and to environmental knowledge. Furthermore, it has a mediational effect on ecological knowledge, concern, or the belief of human dominance over nature. Students who possess global concerns do not accept human dominance and this is related to the intent to support environmental activities. Students were found to form groups: “Sorters.” “Occasional actors” and “Resource savers.” Compared to prior research, due to the additional items concerning environmental sensitivity and awareness in our instrument, we were able to uncover the importance of sensitivity to the enjoyment of nature in the complex model of the relationships between awareness, attitudes, knowledge, concerns and intentions. Ecological knowledge leads to global concerns and, therefore, it should be promoted through science education.
Gated Neighborhoods, Privatized Amenities and Fragmented Society: Evidence from Residential Experience and Implications for Urban Planning
Authors: Wang Yu , Shaw David , Yuan Ke
Published: November 2018

Nowadays, urban space has become more fragmented and largely consists of many unconnected enclaves. The significance of neighborhood amenities to resident’s quality of life has been identified in the recent literature. However, studies have inadequately explored the real experience of residents in their use of neighborhood amenities under the gated urban form. Since the 1990s the urban environment of many Chinese cities has been re-shaped by the large creation of gated neighborhoods. Based on a case study in the city of Shenzhen, this paper draws upon evidence of residential satisfaction with local amenities to reveal a significant variation between different neighborhoods. The outcome of the enlarged social differentiation is a result of imbalanced micro-level urban development. The findings also provide new evidence demonstrating the increased fragmentation of society as the consequence of urban privatization. By linking the planning process with the social outcome, this paper reflects on the current strengths and weaknesses of the Chinese urban planning system.
Benefit–Cost Analysis of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in a Railway Site
Authors: Shin Min Ho , Lee Hye Kyung , Kim Hwan Yong
Published: November 2018

Recent technological improvements have made substantial changes in construction industry. In specific, some technical applications, such as Building Information Modeling (BIM), open up many possibilities. Some studies have articulated the use of BIM and its advantages in construction, but most of them are theoretical, not practical. This study is to provide an insight to obstacles in BIM research. By investigating a real project that could utilize BIM in planning and construction phases, the authors try to investigate a possible outline of advantages in BIM implementation. The study area was set to a railway construction site in South Korea. The site covers multiple railway tracks, stations, telecommunication facilities, infrastructure facilities, railway structures, and so on. In the site, the authors have identified 12 errors in 7 projects that could be prevented if BIM was utilized before the construction. The total upfront costs required to provide a BIM for the seven projects was $116,348. On the other hand, the total costs required to fix the errors in the seven projects was $166,486. This can be regarded as the benefit of using BIM, because if BIM was implemented then the associated errors could easily be replaced. Therefore, the benefit–cost ratio can be estimated as 1.32 for one-month delay and 1.36 for a three-month delay.
Effects of Carbon Addition on Dissimilatory Fe(III) Reduction in Freshwater Marsh and Meadow Wetlands
Authors: Zhu Xiaoyan , Yuan Yuxiang , Jiang Ming
Published: November 2018

The progress of dissimilatory iron(III) reduction is widespread in natural environments, particularly in anoxic habitats; in fact, wetland ecosystems are considered as “hotspots” of dissimilatory Fe(III) reduction. In this study, we conducted soil slurry and microbial inoculation anaerobic incubation with glucose, pyruvate, and soluble quinone anthraquinone-2,6-disulphonate (AQDS) additions in freshwater marsh and meadow wetlands in the Sanjiang Plain, to evaluate the role of carbon addition in the rates and dynamics of iron reduction. Dissimilatory Fe(III) reduction in marsh wetlands responded more quickly and showed twice the potential for Fe(III) reduction as that in meadow wetland. Fe(III) reduction rate in marsh and meadow wetlands was 76% and 30%, respectively. Glucose had a higher capacity to enhance Fe(III) reduction than pyruvate, which provides valuable information for the further isolation of Fe reduction bacteria in pure culture. AQDS could dramatically increase potential Fe(III) reduction as an electron shuttle in both wetlands. pH exhibited a negative relationship with Fe(III) reduction. In view of the significance of freshwater wetlands in the global carbon and iron cycle, further profound research is now essential and should explore the enzymatic mechanisms underlying iron reduction in freshwater wetlands.
Quality and Environmental Management Linkage: A Review of the Literature
Authors: Allur Erlantz , Heras-Saizarbitoria Iñaki , Boiral Olivier , Testa Francesco
Published: November 2018

This article presents a conceptual and empirical review of the literature related to the link between the different perspectives, models, and tools associated with Quality Management and Environmental Management. Several academic works identified in the literature that aimed to establish conceptual similarities between QM and EM are reviewed and discussed. In general, terms, the scholarly literature suggests that the main quality practices and programs associated with the Quality Management paradigm—such as ISO 9001 and Total Quality Management—facilitate the adoption of environmental practices associated with corporate Environmental Management. However, there is evidence of certain limitations driven by different biases, whether or not they are recognized in the reviewed publications. The concentration on some avenues of research focused on very detailed aspects of the linkage between QM and EM is discussed. Conversely, lines that have been overlooked and are in need for more research were also identified. The implications for scholars, such as suggestions for further research, are included as a contribution of the article.
Growth and Distribution of Maize Roots in Response to Nitrogen Accumulation in Soil Profiles after Long-Term Fertilization Management on a Calcareous Soil
Authors: Zhang Yunlong , Li Tengteng , Bei Shuikuan , Zhang Junling , Li Xiaolin
Published: November 2018

The replacement of inorganic fertilizer nitrogen by manure is highlighted to have great potential to maintain crop yield while delivering multiple functions, including the improvement of soil quality. However, information on the dynamics of root distributions in response to chemical fertilizers and manure along the soil profile is still lacking. The aim of this study was to investigate the temporal-spatial root distributions of summer maize (Zea mays L.) from 2013 to 2015 under four treatments (unfertilized control (CK), inorganic fertilizer (NPK), manure + 70% NPK (NPKM), and NPKM + straw (NPKMS)). Root efficiency for shoot N accumulation was increased by 89% in the NPKM treatment compared with the NPK treatment at V12 (the emergence of the twelfth leaf) of 2014. Root growth at 40–60 cm was consistently stimulated after manure and/or straw additions, especially at V12 and R3 (the milk stage) across three years. Root length density (RLD) in the diameter <0.2 mm at 0–20 cm was significantly positively correlated with soil water content and negatively with soil mineral N contents in 2015. The RLD in the diameter >0.4 mm at 20–60 cm, and RLD <0.2 mm, was positively correlated with shoot N uptake in 2015. The root length density was insensitive in response to fertilization treatments, but the variations in RLD along the soil profile in response to fertilization implies that there is a great potential to manipulate N supply levels and rooting depths to increase nutrient use efficiency. The importance of incorporating a manure application together with straw to increase soil fertility in the North China Plain (NCP) needs further studies.
Les formes cristallines de la dioptase de Renéville (République du Congo)
Authors: Schubnel Henri-Jean
Published: November 2018

Des mesures goniométriques, effectuées sur un très grand nombre de cristaux de dioptase de Renéville, ont permis de déterminer plusieurs types de cristaux, une douzaine de faces non encore signalées et de préciser le rapport paramétrique c : a = 0,5343 ± 0,0004.
Étude par résonance magnétique nucléaire de l'eau dans le béryl
Authors: Paré X. , Ducros Pierre
Published: November 2018

Le spectre de résonance magnétique nucléaire des protons de l'eau du béryl est constitué de deux raies dont l'écartement varie avec la position du cristal et la température. On peut interpréter les résultats obtenus en admettant qu'aucune liaison hydrogène ne lie les molécules d'eau (qui se trouvent dans les canaux) au reste de la structure. Les molécules peuvent tourner même au zéro absolu. L'axe qui joint les atomes d'hydrogène tend à s'orienter parallèlement à l'axe sénaire, et ceci d'autant mieux que la température est plus basse. Il ne semble pas y avoir d'atomes d'hydrogène dans le squelette cristallin.
WIND EFFECT ANALYSIS ON AIR TRAFFIC CONGESTION IN TERMINAL AREA VIA CELLULAR AUTOMATA
Authors: Enayatollahi Fatemeh , Atashgah M. A. Amiri
Published: November 2018

The behavior of any traffic flow is sensitive to the speed pattern of the vehicles involved. The heavier the traffic, the more sensitive the behavior is to speed changes. Focusing on air traffic flow, weather condition has a major role in the deviations of aircraft operational speed from the desired speed and causes surplus delays. In this paper, the effects of wind on delays in a terminal area are analyzed using a Cellular Automaton (CA) model. Cellular automata are discrete models that are widely used for simulating complex emerging properties of dynamic systems. A one-dimensional cellular array is used to model the flow of the terminal traffic into a wind field. The proposed model, due to the quickness and acceptable level of accuracy, can be utilized online in the tactical phase of air traffic control processes and system-level decision-makings, where quick response and system behavior are needed. The modeled route is an RNAV STAR route to Atlanta International Airport. The model is verified by real traffic data in a non-delayed scenario. Based on simulation results, the proposed model exhibits an acceptable level of accuracy (3–15% accuracy drop), with worthy time and computational efficiency (about 2.9 seconds run time for a 2-hour operation).
INTEGRATING SUSTAINABILITY INTO SUPPLIER SELECTION: A GREY-BASED TOPSIS ANALYSIS
Authors: Bai Chunguang , Sarkis Joseph
Published: November 2018

Sustainable supplier selection plays an important role in sustainable supply chain management operations and implementation. In this paper a novel formal modeling approach is conceptually developed and presented to address sustainable supplier selection. Grey theory and TOPSIS, a distance based multiple criteria method, are used for the integration and evaluation of sustainable supplier performance for sustainable supplier selection. From a research perspective, TOPSIS is improved to more effectively deal with grey numbers by integrating a degree of likelihood rather than converting grey numbers into crisp numbers functions, and it provides more flexible supplier rankings. This methodology strengthens the sustainable supplier selection process, and can be applied to other multiple criteria decision making problems. Illustrative calculations are made using data on sustainable supplier selection and evaluation published by Bai and Sarkis (2010). The technique is relatively accurate, matching well with results from a published grey rough set approach. The methodology easily implementable with minimal complex calculations required. It can also provide support for sustainable supplier selection, benchmarking, and improvement decisions. This is one of the first papers to integrate a broad set of sustainability factors for grey-based TOPSIS and supplier selection.
Shadings in digital taxonomic drawings
Authors: Coleman Ch. Oliver
Published: November 2018

This contribution describes how shadings can be applied to taxonomic line drawings created with vector graphics software. The line drawings created with the vector graphic software are saved in vector format and then also in bitmap graphics format. The bitmap version is opened in a bitmap graphics program and the areas for shading selected. A new layer is then created and clouds of pixels are ‘sprayed’ onto these areas. The pixel clouds are saved and later placed onto the outlines in the vector graphic software as a new layer. The results combine the advantages of vector graphics, perfectly smooth lines and the greyscales of bitmap graphics.
Faut-il servir le prince ? Les points de vue de Mencius et de Zhuangzi
Authors: Wang Frédéric
Published: November 2018

Faut-il servir le prince ? Ou quel est le rapport du lettré avec le pouvoir ? Mencius et Zhuangzi, deux grands penseurs contemporains du IV e siècle avant notre ère, proposent deux réponses différentes. L’un conditionne l’offre et l’autre la refuse radicalement. Pour l’héritier spirituel de Confucius, un prince doit au préalable être doté de la vertu pour qu’on puisse l’aider à réaliser de grandes œuvres. Le rang social, l’un des paramètres qui déterminent les rapports entre un prince et un lettré, n’est pas prioritaire. Selon Zhuangzi, et même s’il relativise à maintes reprises la vie et la mort, servir un prince revient à perdre l’énergie vitale, à risquer inutilement sa vie. Il rejette en effet tout rapport social de contrainte qui prive l’homme de sa liberté. Cette attitude suscitera la critique des confucianistes qui lui reprocheront sa méconnaissance des affaires humaines. Néanmoins, ces deux positions à la fois opposées et complémentaires ont durablement marqué les conceptions politiques des lettrés chinois.
Du sublime obscur dans les Désastres de la Guerre de Goya. La morsure de l’artiste contre le poignard des Lumières
Authors: Soto Juan Carlos Baeza
Published: November 2018

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) manifeste dans les 82 gravures de la série Les désastres de la guerre , réalisées entre 1810 et 1815, un cri de protestation contre la violence du soulèvement du Dos de Mayo suite à l’invasion des troupes napoléoniennes, la guerre d'indépendance espagnole (1808–1814) et la Restauration bourbonienne qui s'ensuivit en 1814. Mais au lieu de développer une vision héroïque de la guerre Goya y représente la force des oppositions en prise avec la bestialité et brosse un paysage humain qui mêle le sublime et l’horreur mais aussi des harmonies funèbres qui jouent avec les hommes emportés par l’Histoire.
What is language for?
Authors: Rastall Paul
Published: November 2018

Les  fonctions du langage sont bien connues, mais pourquoi le langage existe-t-il ? L’article est une petite méditation exploratoire, certes un peu spéculative, à la lumière de considérations interdisciplinaires. On est également amené à un réexamen de la théorie du langage et, parallèlement, à des propositions dans le domaine de la recherche empirique.
Circulations centre-européennes à l’époque moderne
Authors: Ducreux Marie-Elizabeth
Published: November 2018

L’Europe dite « médiane », incluant l’Europe centrale et orientale, baltique et balkanique, reste peu intégrée dans l’histoire mondiale et l’histoire connectée pour la période moderne en particulier. Les causes peuvent en être la difficulté à appréhender la continuité historique et la multiplicité des contextes d’un espace fragmenté en de multiples pouvoirs, où les frontières changèrent à plusieurs reprises. Sous l’angle d’une réflexion sur l’écriture de l’histoire, en prenant comme objet la mobilité spatiale, l’article propose un état des lieux historiographique et des perspectives de recherche.
“The People of Our Blood, Who Are Citizens of Foreign Countries”
Authors: Brunnbauer Ulf
Published: November 2018

Jusqu’à l’éclatement de la Première Guerre mondiale, la région devenue l’État de Yougoslavie a connu l’émigration massive outre-mer. Dans l’entre-deux-guerres et après 1945, les décideurs politiques yougoslaves ont réfléchi à la manière d’intégrer ces émigrants dans leurs projets nationaux respectifs de construction de l’État. En dépit des différences substantielles d’ordre politique, il s’avère que les politiques d’émigration dans l’entre-deux-guerres et de la Yougoslavie socialiste étaient tout à fait similaires, fondées sur l’idée d’une nation transterritoriale liée par la culture et la descendance. Par conséquent, dans les deux périodes, l’État revendiquait une souveraineté symbolique sur les émigrants qui vivaient en dehors de sa souveraineté.
« Vers l’Est, vers l’Ouest »
Authors: Denis Juliette
Published: November 2018

L’unité des États baltes (Estonie, Lettonie, Lituanie) depuis le début du xx e siècle n’a rien d’une évidence. Une lecture de cet « entre-deux » européen réside peut-être dans l’analyse des divers mouvements de populations. Leur diversité et leur persistance sont d’abord discutées d’une guerre à l’autre, puis de l’après-guerre à la période post-soviétique. Une dernière partie revient sur une lecture transversale du rôle de l’État et des rejeux mémoriels.
POLIN, le musée de l’Histoire des juifs polonais au défi d’une géographie insaisissable
Authors: Gradvohl Paul
Published: November 2018

Dans son interview, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, conservateur en chef de l’exposition permanente de POLIN, le musée de l’Histoire des juifs polonais à Varsovie, propose un tour d’horizon des choix muséographiques retenus en les comparant à ceux des autres grands musées équivalents. L’augmentation de la population juive en l’absence d’un cadre étatique polonais entre 1795 et 1918, où l’émigration de masse entamée dans les années 1880 puis freinée par la guerre –  et plus tard par les quotas aux États-Unis (1921 et 1924) – impose un récit qui ne peut pas être centré sur l’État. Ceci vaut également pour la Shoah. Et poursuivre le récit après 1945 implique une approche originale de la géographie des juifs et de leurs cultures à travers le temps, approche à affiner dans les années à venir.
La référence au Vietnam et l’émergence des gauches radicales au Liban, 1962-1976
Authors: Guirguis Laure
Published: November 2018

Les gauches radicales au Liban naissent au cours des années 1960-1970 des processus de radicalisation et de marxisation des courants panarabes. Elles adoptent une posture critique à l’égard de l’URSS, des PC arabes et du parti communiste libanais et s’inscrivent dans des dynamiques contestataires transnationales. Pour dégager les jeux de tensions et de convergences entre la formation d’un univers transnational orienté par des espérances révolutionnaires et la redéfinition des enjeux stratégiques, cet article propose d’analyser les modes de référence au Vietnam. Nous montrerons comment les références multiples à ce modèle lointain agissent aussi bien dans les recompositions de la scène militante que dans la reconfiguration du sens et de valeurs.
The Messinian record of the Majorca island (Balearic archipelago, Western Mediterranean). Review and interpretation
Authors: Morey B.
Published: November 2018

Studies on Paleontological heritage of Majorca (Balearic archipelago, West Mediterranean) allow to divide the post-tectonic Miocene into depositional cycles separated by sedimentary discontinuities. In this work these sequences are ordered according to Mediterranean glacio-eustatic oscillations. The Tortonian marine cycle end with a restricted lagoon record with grey sapropelic marls and an erosive surface (T/M episode). The marine Messinian transgression starts with a new marine-tidal cycle (entry of Globorotalia mediterranea. MI Synthem-Fm. Calizas de Santanyí) with four diverse records (infralittoral, mangrove-low coastal lagoon etc.) depending on the influence of the emerged relief. The last Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) is characterized with a new restricted record and a singular Lagomare fauna (MII-Fm. Calizas Pont d’Inca; MIII-Fm. Margas y conglomerados de Rafal-Son Seguí) The resulting paleoenvironmental diversity supports the proposed stratigraphic interpretation.
This work thus proposes the differentiation of a tidal marine messinian cycle for the last Miocene of Mallorca, between two restricted episodes. The Majorcan messinian record documents the distension experienced by the Balearic arc according to the influence of relief, which can provide new perspectives regarding the MSC-Lagomare and the settlement of the archipelago in the Messinian age.
La bibliothèque de Guillaume Budé
Authors: Sanchi Luigi-Alberto
Published: November 2018

Avec le dépouillement du contenu érudit des cinq livres De Asse et partibus eius (1515 ; septième éd., 1541), qui s’ajoutent à celui des quelque vingt mille citations formant les Commentarii linguæ Græcæ (1529 ; éd. définitive, 1548), il est possible d’enrichir sensiblement la liste de livres de la bibliothèque intellectuelle de Guillaume Budé (1468-1540), dont une partie seulement est matériellement identifiée. Il en ressort un vaste tableau, certes à mettre à jour dès que le contenu des deux éditions d’Annotationes in Pandectas (1508 et 1526 ; éd. définitive, 1535) sera précisément connu, mais signalant déjà Budé comme un lecteur aussi vorace qu’encyclopédique, bon connaisseur des classiques mais surtout grand explorateur des textes ardus des grammairiens, des théologiens, des juristes, des agronomes et d’autres auteurs dits techniques.
Queue de renard, ficelle et plume : classer sa bibliothèque
Authors: Schrenck Gilbert
Published: November 2018

Le classement que L’Estoile fait de sa « librairie » à la fin de sa vie procède d’une pratique minutieuse, dont rendent compte les innombrables notes laissées par le bibliophile. Des gestes quotidiens aux visites chez les libraires, de la fréquentation des bibliothèques aux échanges de livres entre curieux, du travail des secrétaires aux visites d’hôtes lettrés, la cotation du fonds offre un tableau exceptionnellement riche d’activités et d’échanges lettrés. Elle ouvre également une large fenêtre sur les réactions intimes du collectionneur en face de sa bibliothèque et renseigne sur des réseaux de sociabilité solidement structurés autour de valeurs littéraires communes.
Biologie et poétologie
Authors: Hufnagel Henning
Published: November 2018

I examine two poems, “Le Récif de Corail” by José-Maria de Heredia and “Le Lac” by Leconte de Lisle and show how they reuse and re-functionalise motifs of biological knowledge – motifs that play an important role also in Haeckel’s works: The poets give them completely different meanings, realising a poetics of artistic virtuosity or engaging in a poetological debate against Romanticism. I show that, in this way, Leconte de Lisle’s “Le Lac” – a poem until now completely neglected – is a meticulous repeal of Lamartine’s “Le Lac”.
Mettre du corps à l’ouvrage : travailler sur la mise en scène du corps du jeune enseignant en formation universitaire
Authors: Tellier Marion , Yerian Keli D.
Published: November 2018

Le corps, la gestuelle et la voix sont des outils de l’enseignant de langue, indispensables pour la transmission des savoirs et la gestion de la classe et qui deviennent visibles dans son contexte professionnel. Cependant, ces compétences multimodales professionnelles ne sont pas innées et le jeune enseignant ne sait pas forcément naturellement utiliser ces outils dans la classe. Cet article aborde les difficultés rencontrées par de futurs enseignants de langues étrangères en formation initiale à l’université. Nous nous focalisons sur l’usage des postures, du regard et des gestes des mains à l’aide d’extraits de corpus recueillis lors de séances de formation à l’université d’Aix-Marseille et à l’université de l’Oregon. À partir d’une analyse fine de ces corpus vidéo, nous montrons quels aspects les enseignants novices peuvent améliorer. L’article présente également des principes méthodologiques qui peuvent être proposés aux jeunes enseignants de langue en formation initiale pour optimiser leur corps pédagogique.
Le langage non-verbal au service de l’apprentissage de l’anglais juridique
Authors: Chapon Sandrine
Published: November 2018

Le tribunal pénal est un lieu de passage incontournable du justiciable amené à répondre d’une infraction. Dans la majorité des cas, les audiences sont publiques et permettent d’observer les spécificités civilisationnelles car chaque système de droit réserve un espace physique bien particulier aux différents acteurs de la justice, que ce soit les professionnels ou les justiciables. Pourtant, une enquête menée en 2017 auprès de 235 étudiants inscrits à la faculté de droit de Grenoble (en quatrième année) montre que la majorité d’entre eux ne se sont jamais rendus dans une salle d’audience. Cet article a donc pour but d’analyser comment, dans une perspective didactique, il est possible d’initier les étudiants en droit aux différences entre les modèles inquisitoire et accusatoire grâce au positionnement corporel des acteurs de la justice dans le prétoire et de les amener à s’intéresser « au droit en action » (Nelken 2). Nous comparerons plusieurs des champs extralinguistiques impliquant la communication non-verbale relative aux pratiques culturelles judiciaires comme : les rites judiciaires, la kinésique ou la proxémique.
Research Environments For Pedagogical Tools: Teaching and Learning with Authentic Oral English
Authors: Przewozny-Desriaux Anne
Published: November 2018

For most teachers of English in an academic context1, the scope of teaching and learning oral English may well turn into a brain teaser, as there are many methodological, theoretical and technical options to take account of. What is eventually central to these decisions is the quality of the teaching of oral English, in relationship to the needs of advanced learners. We can rely on Coombs’ delineation of “qualitative dimensions” of the educational sphere. Since the general perspective of this article is oral English TL, as supported by corpus linguistics and from a phonological perspective, we propose to examine the notions of the nature and worth of what is taught and learned in the light of a central issue in corpus phonology: the relevance of the input data (to be processed as teaching content), and its usefulness to the learner. The present article aims at defining the notion of quality in oral English TL in terms of (i) the authenticity of the input data issued from an oral corpus and (ii) the pedagogical relevance and robustness of research-based pedagogical tools. Our stand is built, among other things, on our teaching experience at Toulouse Jean Jaurès University combined with our research work in the PAC programme framework. The framework is based on an empirical approach in linguistics, and more specifically on the discipline of corpus phonology.
Voix et corps à l’université : comment réhabiliter l’actio dans l’enseignement et l’apprentissage du français langue étrangère et du français sur objectifs spécifiques
Authors: Béguin Olivier , Gualandri Francesca
Published: November 2018

L’article traite d’une expérience pluriannuelle (2010-2017) de collaboration entre deux mondes qui se rencontrent rarement : l’enseignement universitaire du français langue étrangère (FLE) et du français sur objectifs spécifiques (FOS) et la formation pratique à l’actio, quatrième partie de la rhétorique, que nous déclinons dans sa version moderne : voix, présence, communication non verbale, charisme. Nous démarrons sur un constat de quasi-absence de l’actio dans l’enseignement universitaire italien, malgré son utilité durant les études et la future vie professionnelle de l’étudiant. Nous évoquons ensuite les difficultés rencontrées dans les ateliers mis en place dans nos cours universitaires, qui sont à la fois d’ordre psychologique et technique. Nous montrons qu’il est possible, dans le cadre de mini-ateliers de quelques heures, de fournir des instruments aux étudiants pour surmonter ces difficultés et d’entrer dans le cercle vertueux d’un plaisir croissant à s’exprimer en public. Nous avons observé chez les étudiants durant les ateliers une amélioration de la maîtrise du FLE, de la prononciation et de la prosodie, confirmée de leur part par voie orale en fin d’atelier ainsi que dans les fiches d’évaluation.
Assessment of International Consensus Group for Haematology smear review rules among patients with Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Johannesburg, South Africa
Authors: Vaughan Jenifer L. , Alli Nazeer , Havyarimana Sandra , Benade Estee
Published: November 2018

A peripheral blood smear review is a useful but labour intensive adjunct to the full blood count and differential count. In this study, we retrospectively evaluated the performance of the International Consensus Group for Haematology smear review rules for detection of malaria in 153 samples with Plasmodium falciparumparasitaemia. Review rules were triggered in 132 (86.3%) samples, including all patients with severe malaria. Of the 21 false negative samples, 14 (66.7%) had haemoglobin values ≥ 10g/dl and platelets > 120x109/l.
Prevalence, awareness, control and determinants of hypertension among primary health care professional nurses in Eastern Cape, South Africa
Authors: Monakali Sizeka , Ter Goon Daniel , Seekoe Eunice , Owolabi Eyitayo O.
Published: November 2018

Background: Nurses in primary health care settings are key stakeholders in the diagnosis and management of hypertensive patients. Unfortunately, the working conditions of nurses predispose them to stress, long hours of work, shift duties and unhealthy diets, which are drivers of hypertension. Yet nurses are often overlooked in health screening exercises, primarily because they are assumed to be informed and ‘healthy’.Aim: This study examined the prevalence, awareness, control and determinants of hypertension among professional primary health care nurses in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.Setting: This was a cross-sectional survey of 203 professional nurses working at 41 primary health care facilities of the Eastern Cape Province.Methods: A modified WHO STEPwise questionnaire was used for data collection during face-to-face interviews. The information obtained included demographic information, behavioural lifestyles, anthropometric and blood pressure (BP) measurements. Hypertension is defined as an average of two BP ≥ 140/90 mmHg or self-reported history of antihypertensive medication use.Results: The prevalence of hypertension was 52%. Of this, 41% were unaware of their hypertension status. Of those who were aware and on treatment, only 38.1% had a controlled blood pressure. After adjusting for confounders (for physical activity, dietary practices, parity, income and alcohol use), only age and duration of practice were independent predictors of hypertension among the study population.Conclusion: There is a high prevalence of hypertension among the study participants. There is an unexpected low rate of awareness and suboptimal control of blood pressure among the participants. Age is the significant predictor of hypertension among professional nurses in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. There is an urgent need for the implementation of an effective workplace health programme for nurses in the province.
Reviewers of Volume 13, 2018 of Revista Ambiente & Água
Authors: Dias Nelson Wellausen
Published: November 2018

The following list (Table 1) includes the names and affiliations of all reviewers that evaluated submissions processed for Volume 13, 2018 of Revista Ambiente & Água. Including manuscripts that were accepted and published in one of the six annual issues and also manuscripts submitted and rejected up to October 10, 2018. It may therefore include the names of reviewers that completed their evaluations between September, 2017 and October, 2018.We are deeply indebted to all of them that voluntarily and anonymously spent their precious time to support the journal, and contributed immensely to the quality of the published articles. We gratefully acknowledge their professional work and outstanding product.
Mostow’s fibration for canonical embeddings of compact homogeneous CR manifolds
Authors: Marini Stefano , Nacinovich Mauro
Published: November 2018

We define a class of compact homogeneous CR manifolds which are bases of Mostow fibrations having total spaces equal to their canonical complex realizations and Hermitian fibers. This is used to establish isomorphisms between their tangential Cauchy–Riemann cohomology groups and the corresponding Dolbeault cohomology groups of the embeddings.
On generalized $\Pi$-property of subgroups of finite groups
Authors: Yu Haoran
Published: November 2018

In this note, we extend the concept of

\Pi

-property of subgroups of finite groups and generalize some recent results. In particular, we generalize the main results of Li and Miao,

p-Hypercyclically embedding and

\Pi

-property of subgroups of finite groups

, Comm. Algebra 45 (2017), no. 8, pp. 3468–3474. and Miao, Ballester-Bolinches, Esteban-Romero, and Li,
On the supersoluble hypercentre of a finite group
, Monatsh. Math. 184 (2017), no. 4, pp. 641–648.
Complex manifolds as families of homotopy algebras
Authors: Bellier-Millès Joan
Published: November 2018

We prove an equivalence of categories from formal complex structures with formal holomorphic maps to homotopy algebras over a simple operad with its associated homotopy morphisms. We extend this equivalence to complex manifolds. A complex structure on a smooth manifold corresponds in this way to a family of algebras indexed by the points of the manifold.