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Inside the Book, and: On Language
Authors: Miller Wayne
Published: December 2014

The Winter 2014-15 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. This staff-edited issue of Ploughshares features a diverse collection of poems, essays, and stories. The prose ranges from surreal humor — David Cameron’s “Mannequin,” about a man’s relationship with a life-size doll he buys to use the HOV lane — to tragedy in Lisa Gruenberg’s essay on the experiences of her Viennese father and his family during the Holocaust. Sherrie Flick’s Plan B essay looks at the joy and rage of gardening, and Nancy Kang and Silvio Torres-Saillaint write an appreciation of the Dominican-American poet Rhina P. Espaillat. The Winter issue also features poetry by Philip Levine, Sherod Santos, Nalini Jones, Laurie Sewall, and Gary Young; an interview with Zacharis Award winner Roger Reeves; and the winners of the annual Emerging Writer’s Contest.
Dancing in a Box: A Look2 Essay on Rhina P. Espaillat
Authors: Kang Nancy , Torres-Saillant Silvio
Published: December 2014

The Winter 2014-15 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. This staff-edited issue of Ploughshares features a diverse collection of poems, essays, and stories. The prose ranges from surreal humor — David Cameron’s “Mannequin,” about a man’s relationship with a life-size doll he buys to use the HOV lane — to tragedy in Lisa Gruenberg’s essay on the experiences of her Viennese father and his family during the Holocaust. Sherrie Flick’s Plan B essay looks at the joy and rage of gardening, and Nancy Kang and Silvio Torres-Saillaint write an appreciation of the Dominican-American poet Rhina P. Espaillat. The Winter issue also features poetry by Philip Levine, Sherod Santos, Nalini Jones, Laurie Sewall, and Gary Young; an interview with Zacharis Award winner Roger Reeves; and the winners of the annual Emerging Writer’s Contest.
Next Year in Juarez
Authors: Brunt Christopher
Published: December 2014

The Winter 2014-15 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. This staff-edited issue of Ploughshares features a diverse collection of poems, essays, and stories. The prose ranges from surreal humor — David Cameron’s “Mannequin,” about a man’s relationship with a life-size doll he buys to use the HOV lane — to tragedy in Lisa Gruenberg’s essay on the experiences of her Viennese father and his family during the Holocaust. Sherrie Flick’s Plan B essay looks at the joy and rage of gardening, and Nancy Kang and Silvio Torres-Saillaint write an appreciation of the Dominican-American poet Rhina P. Espaillat. The Winter issue also features poetry by Philip Levine, Sherod Santos, Nalini Jones, Laurie Sewall, and Gary Young; an interview with Zacharis Award winner Roger Reeves; and the winners of the annual Emerging Writer’s Contest.
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Authors: Halme Kathleen
Published: December 2014

The Winter 2014-15 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. This staff-edited issue of Ploughshares features a diverse collection of poems, essays, and stories. The prose ranges from surreal humor — David Cameron’s “Mannequin,” about a man’s relationship with a life-size doll he buys to use the HOV lane — to tragedy in Lisa Gruenberg’s essay on the experiences of her Viennese father and his family during the Holocaust. Sherrie Flick’s Plan B essay looks at the joy and rage of gardening, and Nancy Kang and Silvio Torres-Saillaint write an appreciation of the Dominican-American poet Rhina P. Espaillat. The Winter issue also features poetry by Philip Levine, Sherod Santos, Nalini Jones, Laurie Sewall, and Gary Young; an interview with Zacharis Award winner Roger Reeves; and the winners of the annual Emerging Writer’s Contest.
The Case for Psychic Distance
Authors: Hanno Jennifer
Published: December 2014

The Winter 2014-15 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. This staff-edited issue of Ploughshares features a diverse collection of poems, essays, and stories. The prose ranges from surreal humor — David Cameron’s “Mannequin,” about a man’s relationship with a life-size doll he buys to use the HOV lane — to tragedy in Lisa Gruenberg’s essay on the experiences of her Viennese father and his family during the Holocaust. Sherrie Flick’s Plan B essay looks at the joy and rage of gardening, and Nancy Kang and Silvio Torres-Saillaint write an appreciation of the Dominican-American poet Rhina P. Espaillat. The Winter issue also features poetry by Philip Levine, Sherod Santos, Nalini Jones, Laurie Sewall, and Gary Young; an interview with Zacharis Award winner Roger Reeves; and the winners of the annual Emerging Writer’s Contest.
Curious Questions
Authors: Cohen Bruce
Published: December 2014

The Winter 2014-15 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. This staff-edited issue of Ploughshares features a diverse collection of poems, essays, and stories. The prose ranges from surreal humor — David Cameron’s “Mannequin,” about a man’s relationship with a life-size doll he buys to use the HOV lane — to tragedy in Lisa Gruenberg’s essay on the experiences of her Viennese father and his family during the Holocaust. Sherrie Flick’s Plan B essay looks at the joy and rage of gardening, and Nancy Kang and Silvio Torres-Saillaint write an appreciation of the Dominican-American poet Rhina P. Espaillat. The Winter issue also features poetry by Philip Levine, Sherod Santos, Nalini Jones, Laurie Sewall, and Gary Young; an interview with Zacharis Award winner Roger Reeves; and the winners of the annual Emerging Writer’s Contest.
Metonymy and the Dense Cosmos of Bleak House
Authors: Bishop Benjamin Joseph
Published: December 2014

This essay investigates the cosmological implications of Charles Dickens’s Bleak House to argue that the novel’s narrative seems to come undone by its methodical attention to its characters, to their objects and properties, and to the unending associations among them. I read Esther Summerson’s narrative as a model for navigating the novel’s dense cosmos, paying particular attention to how Esther attempts to secure her place in that cosmos through a rigorous practice of metonymy. I pursue this practice to its most literal end, where trope gives way to trait and trait opens upon the novel’s enigmatic conclusion.
Large-Scale Sympathy and Simultaneity in George Eliot’s Romola
Authors: Jewusiak Jacob
Published: December 2014

This article argues that George Eliot’s Romola theorizes large-scale sympathy as a way of ethically engaging large groups of individuals outside one’s immediate social ambit. Yet the failed attempts of characters like Savonarola and Tito to imagine the experiences of unknown others suggests that large-scale sympathy estranges the sympathizing subject from the specificity of individual experience. This leads us to see a fault line at the heart of George Eliot’s work, whereby the necessity of imagining the simultaneous experience of others is continually brought into conflict with the impossibility—and the danger—of doing so.
The Poetics of Talk in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island
Authors: Wong Amy R.
Published: December 2014

This essay considers the relationship between Robert Louis Stevenson’s well-loved adventure classic Treasure Island and his philosophical commitments to talk. For Stevenson, talking and adventuring share an experiential poetics that emphasizes responsiveness to unpredictable interactions. By examining several of Stevenson’s prose pieces, including “Talk and Talkers” and “My First Book” as well as Treasure Island , this essay argues that the novel aspires to translate the poetics of talk into a print medium. Treasure Island imagines itself as a form of “living print,” a work that, like Long John Silver’s parrot, seems more dynamic than print typically is, yet is still ultimately incapable of talk’s interactivity.
What Never Happened: Social Amnesia in Sense and Sensibility
Authors: O’Rourke James
Published: December 2014

By granting the character of Elinor Dashwood dominance over the narrative function of Sense and Sensibility , Jane Austen is able to solicit the reader’s identification with the Cinderella fantasy of the marriage plot, while at the same time casting doubt on the reliability of this Elinorcentric narrative. Blurring the borders between free indirect discourse and narrative authority, Austen illustrates the fictional quality of both the inner lives of individuals and the agreed truths of an organic social unit.
“Apparel oft proclaims the man”: Visualizing Hamlet on the Early Modern Stage
Authors: Lublin Robert I.
Published: December 2014

Hamlet is replete with references to visual culture. Apparel, cosmetics, color, and accoutrements appear in the dialogue and stage directions of virtually every scene in Shakespeare’s longest play. These references are significant, for they hint at the way Shakespeare’s original production was staged, seen, and understood in the early modern English theatre. Considering how Hamlet would have appeared on the Globe stage, this essay argues that the play establishes a strong, martial aesthetic with its opening scene. The Ghost, “Armed at point, exactly cap-à-pie,” represents the ideal of this aesthetic. Neither Claudius nor Hamlet visually fit this martial ideal, a fact which highlights each character’s shortcomings as a potential leader of the warlike state. Following the play’s visual logic, only Fortinbras, a nobleman who shows promise as a military leader, is ultimately the appropriate leader of Denmark. Dressed in the apparel of mourning, Hamlet would have been visually aligned with Horatio who almost certainly also wore black when Hamlet was first performed. Following common theatrical convention, Horatio would have appeared in the black academic gown of a scholar and been visually connected to the melancholy Dane on sight. In composing Hamlet for the stage, Shakespeare established a complex visual world that had consequences for how meaning was established and received in production.
Mining Engineers and Fraud in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands, 1860–1910
Authors: Grossman Sarah E. M.
Published: December 2014

In the U.S.–Mexico borderlands during the late nineteenth century, concern about the existence of mining fraud—be it stock manipulation, salting, or straight-up false advertising—was prevalent in the mining community. The belief that fraud was endemic in the region forced the small community of mining engineers working there to tailor their presentation of themselves as technical professionals in relation to these pervasive concerns about fraud. The ways in which mining engineers in this time and place addressed the problem of fraud illustrates how technical-knowledge claims are mediated through the local concerns of professional engineers.
Technology and Learning: Automating Odd-Lot Trading at the New York Stock Exchange, 1958–1976
Authors: Bradford Phillip G. , Miranti Paul J.
Published: December 2014

This study analyzes how embedded beliefs about the proper ordering of financial market activities shaped the automation of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during the period, 1958 to 1976. Specifically, it focuses on how technological innovation led to the unanticipated eclipse of its odd-lot dealer function, a unique niche for handling nonstandard trades of less than 100 shares. The decision to automate through computerization initially responded to a powerful cluster of managerial, governmental, and market imperatives. In automating, a high priority was given to the preservation of the NYSE’s traditional trading model—the open outcry auction system—whose defining features dated back to the late nineteenth century. This experience illustrates how unforeseen economic consequences relating to technological adoption may adversely affect significant constituencies within a business network.
The Modular Form: A Review of Pafford and Fancher’s Potent Object Project
Authors: Hanzalik Katherine
Published: December 2014

Potent Object Project (POP), designed by Patricia Fancher and Brent Pafford, is an ongoing multimodal participatory art project/pedagogy that uses the modular form to facilitate, as they say, ‘experience, connection, and shared meaning’ amongst communities in and around Clemson University’ (Fancher and Pafford 2014). In the first stage of the project, the designers created 500 mugs, tagged them with QR tracking codes, then shared them with 500 students and professors across the disciplines, particularly, though, first-year composition students; each participant wrote a short story about his or her own life, recorded it, and then represented it visually by drawing a message or icon on the mug, either on the lines painted onto the mugs or over and outside of the lines (Fancher and Pafford 2014). Over the course of the next two weeks, they took the mugs out of the classroom and used them in their everyday lives, effectively transforming a public project into a utilitarian object (Fancher and Pafford 2014). At the end of the two weeks, participants took ‘selfies’ with their mugs then shared them with other members of the community, in addition to submitting the audio and images for POP’s digital Mug Archive.

The project’s cyber spaces (WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr) allow anyone who has found a mug to share a story, an image, and interconnect, so while mugs were moving and cyber connections were made, two installations took place in disparate physical venues, effectively reaching those who wouldn’t otherwise reach out. The first venue: the campus’ art gallery, wherein attendees could enjoy the sight of the mugs and participate by offering their own stories (‘Acorn’ 2014); the second: a digital media lab on library’s main floor, a central campus location, wherein previous participants could re-connect with the project and explore the narratives projected on the walls and newcomers could take part (‘Brown’ 2014). Whereas some participants couldn’t part with their mugs, others passed them along to strangers or those closest to them (Fancher 2014; Harris 2014). The project remains ongoing. Fancher explains, ‘This thing has legs beyond me and Brent’s control. We’re really excited to see how/where this brings us, where our mugs go, and what we learn by letting the mugs and the students lead the way’ (2013).
International Students in the Asia Pacific – Mobility, Risks and Optimism (Peter Kell & Gillian Vogl, 2012)
Authors: Dravid Rashmi
Published: December 2014

The book offers a comprehensive understanding of complex dynamics of factors that characterize international student mobility while unpacking the inherent contradictions.
Big Ears – sonic art for public ears: Reflections on collaborative training
Authors: Schroeder Franziska , Samuels Koichi , Rennie Tullis
Published: December 2014

This text critically reflects on the higher education public engagement training program, entitled ‘Big Ears – sonic art for public ears’. The authors detail the objectives and aims as well as the benefits of this initiative for the enhancement of the student learning experience. We consider Schmidt’s (Schmidt, 2012) notion of mis-listening and Christopher Small’s concept of ‘musicking’ (Small, 1998), and develop a critical argument on how public engagement has changed researchers’ views and attitudes about their own research. The text explores how the creative interaction with a young audience has had great impact on the students’ learning experience as well as on their employability/transferable skills, because Big Ears stresses the importance of pulling practice as research away from the academic argument of why artists should be supported inside an institution, and into the realm of the real – what to do when making art, how to make it relevant and applicable to audiences.
Twisted permutation codes
Authors: Gillespie Neil I. , Praeger Cheryl E. , Spiga Pablo
Published: December 2014

We introduce twisted permutation codes, which are frequency permutation arrays
analogous to repetition permutation codes, namely, codes obtained from the repetition construction applied
to a permutation code. In particular, we show that a lower bound for the minimum distance of a twisted permutation code is the minimum distance of a
repetition permutation code. We give examples where this bound is tight, but more importantly, we
give examples of twisted permutation codes with minimum distance strictly greater than this lower bound.
Crusader Spolia in Medieval Cairo. The Portal of the Complex of Sultan Ḥasan
Authors: Fleck Cathleen A.
Published: December 2014

: Turkish-origin Mamlūk rulers in Egypt carried out grand construction projects in the late medieval period, including the complex (beg. 1356) of sultan al-Nāṣir Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Qalāwūn (or sultan Ḥasan, 1335-1361, r. 1347-1351 and 1354-1361) in Cairo. This article analyzes the symbolism and meaning of a pair of pilasters pillaged from a Levantine Christian crusader monument and set into the portal of sultan Ḥasan’s complex: one with relief floral decorations, and the other with relief panels representing Jerusalem buildings. Scrutinizing the reuse of these items provides insight into the meanings and functions of the pilasters: as spolia, or pillaged architectural elements that are symbols of power and beauty; as apotropaic objects in the age of the Black Death; as signs of local Muslim-Christian conflict; and as evidence of the Mamlūk interest in the holy city for political and religious reasons. All of these elements demonstrate the strategic choices made by sultan Ḥasan to assert his legitimacy and express his religious authority through his magnificent complex.
Pregastric and caecal fermentation pattern in Syrian hamsters
Authors: Marounek Milan , Mrázek Jakub , Volek Zdeněk , Skřivanová Eva , Killer Jiří
Published: December 2014

Few studies have compared the pregastric and caecal digestion of hamsters. Mature Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) were fed a diet containing crude protein and fibre at 225 and 64 g/kg, respectively. In the pregastric digesta, the pH, volatile fatty acids (VFA), lactate and ammonia N concentrations were 5.91±0.97, 43.1±12.9 μmol/g, 19.2±8.0 μmol/g and 2.46±1.16 mg/g, respectively. The corresponding values in the caecal contents were 6.41±0.25, 92.1±12.2 μmol/g, 6.9±1.0 μmol/g and 0.28±0.08 mg/g, respectively. Acetate was the primary VFA, followed by propionate in the forestomach and butyrate in the caecum. In the caecal contents, a very small amount of methane was produced. The number of total bacteria determined by real-time PCR averaged 2.31×109/g and 1.57×1010/g in the pregastric and caecal digesta, respectively. In the pregastric digesta, bifidobacteria and Bacteroides sp. were present at 1.57×107/g and 4.02×107/g, respectively. In the caecal contents, the numbers of bifidobacteria and Bacteroides sp. were 1.01×108/g and 1.46×108/g, respectively. The caecum appears to be more important in hamsters than the forestomach, both in terms of its greater size (3.39±0.63 g vs. 1.59±0.70 g) and greater microbial activity.
Regeneration of Leydig cells in ectopically autografted adult mouse testes
Authors: Makala Himesh , Pothana Lavanya , Sonam Surabhi , Malla Ashwini , Goel Sandeep
Published: December 2014

Ectopic autografting of testis tissue is a promising approach for studying testicular development, male germline preservation and restoration of male fertility. In this study, we examined the fate of various testicular cells in adult mouse testes following ectopic autografting at 1, 2, 4 and 8 weeks post grafting. Histological examination showed no evidence of re-establishment of spermatogenesis in autografts, and progressive degeneration of seminiferous tubules was detected. Expression of germ cell-specific proteins such as POU5F1, DAZL, TNP1, TNP2, PRM1 and PRM2 revealed that, although proliferating and differentiating spermatogenic germ cells such as spermatogonia, spermatocytes and spermatids could survive in autografts until 4 weeks, only terminally differentiated germ cells such as sperm persisted in autografts until 8 weeks. The presence of Sertoli and peritubular myoid cells, as indicated by expression of WT1 and ACTA2 proteins, respectively, was evident in the autografts until 8 weeks. Interestingly, seminal vesicle weight and serum testosterone level were restored in autografted mice by 8 weeks post grafting. The expression of Leydig cell-specific proteins such as CYP11A1, HSD3B2 and LHCGR showed revival of Leydig cell (LC) populations in autografts over time since grafting. Elevated expression of PDGFRA, LIF, DHH and NEFH in autografts indicatedde novoregeneration of LC populations. Autografted adult testis can be used as a model for investigating Leydig cell regeneration, steroidogenesis and regulation of the intrinsic factors involved in Leydig cell development. The success of this rodent model can have therapeutic applications for adult human males undergoing sterilizing cancer therapy.
Mortalidad infantil y preescolar en el estado de Baja California. Análisis de condicionantes biodemográficos relacionados con la historia reproductiva de la madre
Authors: González-Galbán Humberto , Herrera-León Lorenzo I.
Published: December 2014

¾  La incidencia de la mortalidad cercana al nacimiento está asociada potencialmente a las características biológicas y demográficas de la madre durante su historia reproductiva. A fin de analizar los señalados aspectos, se presenta el actual artículo que tiene como objetivo general el valorar si algunos de los factores biodemográficos que aquí son considerados constituyen condicionantes para la ocurrencia de la mortalidad infantil y/o para el resto de los infantes menores de 5 años. Para llevar a cabo este trabajo se aplicó el método demográfico de la tabla de vida, con el cual se obtuvieron curvas de sobrevivencia, que tomaron como fuente de información la Encuesta Nacional sobre la Dinámica Demográfica del año 2009, México, lo que permitió sustentar empíricamente los resultados a los que se arribó, como son: el orden del nacimiento del hijo se observa como un diferencial para la mortalidad de los menores de 5 años; asimismo la edad de la madre constituye un importante condicionante para dicha problemática, que ejerce mayor influencia en los órdenes de nacimientos primero y segundo; en igual sentido la fecha del parto establece una diferencia significativa en la supervivencia de los hijos, lo que parece sugerir un cierto efecto cohorte; mientras que los embarazos previos al orden considerado de nacido vivo no han mostrado ser una variable diferenciadora en la supervivencia de los menores de 5 años. Finalmente se apreció que la condición migratoria se presenta como un diferencial de gran peso en la mortalidad infantil y preescolar, básicamente en los órdenes inferiores de nacimientos.
Condições sócio-ocupacionais do trabalho docente e a formação profissional
Authors: Pinto Marina Barbosa
Published: December 2014

O texto aborda as configurações do trabalho docente na atualidade, tomando como determinações a contrarreforma do Estado e sua vinculação com a crise estrutural do capital. Destaca as medidas anticrise tomadas pelos organismos internacionais e governos nacionais, em particular no âmbito da educação superior. Apresenta elementos para problematização das implicações deste processo na formação dos assistentes sociais no Brasil
Espaços ocupacionais e dimensões políticas da prática do assistente social
Authors: Mota Ana Elizabete
Published: December 2014

O texto discute sobre a dimensão política do trabalho do assistente social no cotidiano da sua atuação profissional, no Brasil. Trabalha a hipótese de que o Serviço Social brasileiro vive transformações que se relacionam mediata ou imediatamente com os rumos da realidade, determinando o surgimento de novos espaços ocupacionais e competências profissionais. Indica algumas mudanças nos espaços ocupacionais tradicionais e emergentes do Serviço Social e defende a necessidade de problematizar as expressões cotidianas e imediatas da realidade como meio de o profissional exercitar a sua relativa autonomia intelectual e técnico-política sob a direção do projeto ético-politico profissional.
O teste de Zulliger-SC: avaliação da criatividade em crianças
Authors: Tavella Raquel Rossi , Villemor-Amaral Anna Elisa de
Published: December 2014

Este trabalho teve como objetivo verificar se os indicadores cognitivos e afetivos no Teste de Zulliger - que, por hipótese, se correlacionam com a criatividade -, contribuem para diferenciar crianças com diversos potenciais criativos, identificadas pelo Teste de Criatividade Figural Infantil. Participaram do estudo 90 crianças, de 11 e 12 anos, de ambos os sexos, matriculadas em escolas públicas de uma cidade do interior de São Paulo. A aplicação dos instrumentos foi dividida em duas etapas, na primeira das quais foi aplicado aquele Teste de forma coletiva. A segunda etapa foi realizada individualmente, tendo como instrumento o Teste de Zulliger adaptado para o Sistema Compreensivo, desenvolvido por Exner para o Rorschach. Os resultados apontaram diferenças significativas nas variáveis movimento, movimento ativo, qualidade formal incomum, resposta popular e número de respostas. Conclui-se que as variáveis do Zulliger selecionadas foram sensíveis para identificar crianças com diferentes níveis de criatividade.
Plantas de cobertura para o noroeste do estado de São Paulo
Authors: Borges Wander Luis Barbosa , Freitas Rogério Soares de , Mateus Gustavo Pavan , Sá Marco Eustáquio de , Alves Marlene Cristina
Published: December 2014

O trabalho foi realizado com o objetivo de avaliar a produtividade de fitomassa de cinco plantas de cobertura utilizadas para produção de grãos, sementes e forragem, em diferentes densidades de semeadura, e da vegetação espontânea, na Região Noroeste do Estado de São Paulo. Os experimentos foram instalados em Votuporanga, SP e Selvíria, MS, em março de 2008, após o preparo convencional do solo. O delineamento experimental utilizado foi o de blocos casualizados com quatro repetições, utilizando as seguintes plantas de cobertura em diferentes densidades de semeadura que constituíram os tratamentos: Sorghum bicolor: 6, 7 e 8kg ha-1, Pennisetum americanum: 10, 15 e 20kg ha-1, Sorghum sudanense: 12, 15 e 18kg ha-1, híbrido de Sorghum bicolor com Sorghum sudanense: 8, 9 e 10kg ha-1, Urochloa ruziziensis: 8, 12 e 16kg ha-1. Também se utilizou um tratamento controle com vegetação espontânea. Avaliou-se a fitomassa das diferentes coberturas no momento da colheita/corte das coberturas, na pré-semeadura e no florescimento das culturas da soja e do milho. A utilização de plantas de cobertura mostrou-se mais benéfica que se deixar as áreas em pousio. Concluiu-se que as plantas de cobertura avaliadas mostraram-se como boas opções de plantas de cobertura para a região Noroeste do Estado de São Paulo. Além Disso, as diferentes densidades de semeadura de cada planta de cobertura não influenciaram na produtividade de fitomassa da mesma planta de cobertura
Influencia de las mezclas de gases Ar-He y Ar-He-O2 en la soldabilidad de la aleación de aluminio AA5083-O usando Proceso GMAW-P automatizado
Authors: Niebles Nuñez Enrique Esteban , Silgado Jimy Unfried , Torres Salcedo Jaime Elías , Ramírez Antonio J.
Published: December 2014

La problemática en las empresas fabricantes de estructuras y construcciones soldadas en aluminio se centra en la disminución de las propiedades mecánicas de las uniones soldadas influenciada por el aporte térmico en las regiones de soldadura; así como, en los efectos de las discontinuidades y defectos, los altos costos de reparación de soldaduras y la baja productividad. El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar la influencia de las mezclas de gases 80Ar20He (MG1), 60Ar40He (MG2), 80Ar19He1O2 (MG3), 60Ar39He1O2 (MG4), sobre la soldabilidad de la aleación de aluminio AA5083-O utilizando un material de aporte ER5183 y el proceso GMAW-P automatizado. La metodología incluyó una fase de parametrización de soldaduras, la caracterización del metal base y las regiones de soldadura. El análisis de resultados se llevó a cabo en términos de la evolución microestructural en las regiones de soldadura y evaluación de las propiedades como dureza, resistencia y elongación, así como la evaluación de discontinuidades y defectos de la unión, costos y velocidad de soldadura. Los resultados muestran que las mezclas de gas que contienen O2 favorecen significativamente la soldabilidad de la aleación en estudio.
El problema del desempleo en Argentina y el surgimiento de los Planes de Empleo y sostenimiento de ingresos en la agenda pública
Authors: Freyre María Laura
Published: December 2014

El presente artículo desarrolla un análisis sobre la problemática del desempleo y el modo en que emergen en la agenda pública los planes de empleo y sostenimiento de ingresos, como mecanismos a partir de los cuales la institución estatal pretende dar una respuesta a dicha cuestión. Se enmarca en una pregunta más amplia, que intenta relacionar la dinámica de las políticas de ayuda social, con las formas de construcción de ciudadanía y de subjetividad, en la relación Estado-sociedad civil en la realidad argentina. Analizar si las mismas contribuyen a la superación de la situación de pobreza, o se constituyen en estrategias de reproducción social de origen individual, consolidándose como un mecanismo de control social de la población. El análisis es el resultado de las primeras sistematizaciones, relevamientos bibliográficos y construcciones conceptuales en el contexo de una investigación doctoral. La hipótesis fue contrastada a partir del análisis de diferentes fuentes bibliográficas en diálogo con el marco teórico. Analizando el proceso de elaboración, diseño, gestión y administración, reflexionamos acerca del contexto en el que las medidas de política pública se insertan y la dinámica de la distribución y asignación de los fondos de ayuda social, arrojando luz sobre las transformaciones en la forma de ejercicio del poder. Mencionamos que la distribución de la ayuda social bajo la forma de planes de empleo y de sostenimiento de ingresos, no sólo ocupa un lugar preponderante en la agenda pública como un mecanismo de resolución de la cuestión del desempleo, sino que los programas y planes sociales se incorporan a la política estatal, también como mecanismos a través de los cuales se intenta resolver otros problemas que afectan la gobernabilidad y la reproducción del orden social capitalista. La distribución siguiendo criterios clientelares, permite un fortalecimiento de los grupos de base movilizados y la institucionalización de los mecanismos de protesta-negociación. La política forma parte de los mecanismos de construcción de la hegemonía en los sistemas de dominación y el modelo neoliberal instauró un cambio en el sentido otorgado a la ciudadanía. El vínculo entre la problemática del desempleo y las formas de respuesta del aparato estatal en la coyuntura argentina de la posconvertibilidad, representa una temática de relevancia para la sociología del trabajo y las políticas públicas. Se propone aportar argumentos al debate entre las continuidades y rupturas de los modelos de política social diseñados en los útlimos años como formas diferentes de problematización del impacto de la cuestión social sobre la agenda de gobierno.
Estado, empresariado e variedades de capitalismo no Brasil: política de internacionalização de empresas privadas no governo Lula
Authors: Rocha Danilo
Published: December 2014

O artigo analisa a economia política do processo de internacionalização de empresas privadas brasileiras ocorrido durante o governo Lula (2003-2010). A partir de 2005, verificou-se uma expansão do investimento direto brasileiro no exterior, resultado de uma política do governo federal destinada a formar grandes empresas transnacionais capazes de concorrer internacionalmente. Grandes fusões, aquisições e projetos de investimentos no exterior foram financiados por recursos públicos, no âmbito da política industrial operada pelo Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES), principal banco estatal de fomento ao setor privado no país. Uma característica importante desse movimento foi a concentração em setores nos quais o Brasil já é competitivo, como os intensivos em trabalho e recursos naturais, em contradição com diretrizes originalmente estabelecidas pela própria política industrial do governo Lula, que preconizava o incentivo a indústrias mais intensivas em tecnologia. A partir da análise empírica de casos de internacionalização, argumenta-se que isso ocorreu porque a política pautou-se por demandas de curto prazo de grupos econômicos privados. Utilizando a abordagem institucional das "variedades de capitalismo", conclui-se que a ação do BNDES foi path dependent, no sentido de que dependeu de projetos de viabilidade imediata. Depreende-se do resultado que características institucionais mais gerais da economia brasileira deixam a política industrial do governo federal sujeitas a demandas de curto prazo do setor privado.
Eficácia de duas técnicas de obturação em cavidades experimentais de reabsorção radicular interna
Authors: Melo Tiago André Fontoura de , Kunert Gustavo Golgo , Silva Mireli Belizario da , Cabeda Mariella Falci
Published: December 2014

Introdução: O preenchimento com material endodôntico obturador em dentes com reabsorção radicular interna é extremamente difícil. Objetivo: Avaliar a eficácia de duas técnicas de obturação no preenchimento de cavidades experimentais de reabsorção interna. Material e método: Vinte incisivos centrais superiores artificiais, com a presença de uma cavidade simulada padronizada de reabsorção no terço médio do canal radicular, foram utilizados. Após o preparo endodôntico dos dentes, os mesmos foram randomicamente divididos em dois grupos (n=10), de acordo com a técnica de obturação empregada: híbrida de Tagger ou com auxílio do sistema ultrassônico. A verificação da obturação endodôntica, junto à cavidade de reabsorção interna, foi feita por meio da tomada radiográfica com dois tipos de incidência: mesiodistal e vestibulolingual. Para a análise da área de obturação, foi empregado o programa Image Tool®. Os dados obtidos da obturação foram submetidos à análise estatística por meio do Teste t de Student, com nível de significância de 5%. Resultado: Não houve diferença estatística entre as técnicas de obturação testadas. Apenas pôde-se observar diferença significativa nos dentes obturados com auxílio do ultrassom, quando se comparou a incidência radiográfica realizada no sentido mesiodistal com a vestibulolingual. Conclusão: As duas técnicas de obturação testadas foram similares no preenchimento da cavidade de reabsorção interna.
Efeito da técnica de polimento na topografia de superfície e na transmitância da resina composta
Authors: Souza Marina Moura de Azevedo , Ramos Thaysa Monteiro , Gois Diego Noronha de , Oliveira Alaíde Hermínia de Aguiar , Reis Giselle Rodrigues , Menezes Murilo de Sousa , Faria-E-Silva André Luis
Published: December 2014

Introdução: Clinicamente, é comum observar os efeitos de estratificação de restaurações de compósito apenas após o polimento. Objetivo: Avaliar o efeito da técnica de polimento na transmitância de luz e na topografia de superfície de uma resina composta. Material e método: Amostras da resina Filtek Z-350 XT (cor A1E) foram confeccionadas em matriz metálica. Uma das superfícies das amostras recebeu acabamento com brocas de 12 lâminas e polimento através de uma das seguintes técnicas: SL (Sof-Lex), EH (Enhance) e DH (DHPro). Ausência de polimento foi usada como controle. Após o polimento, as amostras deviam apresentar espessura final de 1 mm. A transmitância de luz foi avaliada através do espectrofotômetro, sendo considerada apenas a luz no espectro visível. A topografia de superfície foi avaliada através de interferometria a laser, com os parâmetros Sdq (híbrido), St (amplitude máxima) e As (média de picos e vales). Os dados (n=5) foram submetidos a ANOVA e teste SNK. O teste de correlação de Pearson correlacionou Sdq, St e Sa à transmitância (α=0,05). Resultado: Todos os sistemas de polimento aumentaram a transmitância de luz em relação ao controle, não havendo diferença entre estes. Apenas as amostras polidas com SL e DH apresentaram maiores valores de Sdq que o Controle. Já para os parâmetros St e Sa, EH mostrou menores valores que o controle. Sdq e St mostraram correlação significativa com transmitância. Conclusão: Todos os sistemas de polimento foram efetivos em aumentar a transmitância, sendo a redução dos valores Sdq e St relacionada a esta modificação.
O Estado Novo português e a reforma do Estado colonial em Angola: o comportamento político das elites brancas (1961-1962)
Authors: PIMENTA Fernando Tavares
Published: December 2014

Este artigo coloca em perspectiva a problemática das relações políticas e institucionais entre diferentes níveis de governação da administração colonial portuguesa e entre esta e os estratos superiores da comunidade branca de Angola. Para o efeito, definimos um triângulo analítico constituído por: a) Estado central, representado pelo Ministério do Ultramar; b) Estado colonial, representado pelo Governo Geral de Angola; c) as elites brancas de Angola, representadas pelas respectivas associações económicas. A análise incide fundamentalmente no biénio 1961/1962, que coincidiu com o início da guerra de independência de Angola e com a subsequente experiência de reformismo colonial promovida por Adriano Moreira.
Abastecendo plantations: A inserção do charque fabricado em Pelotas (RS) no comércio atlântico das carnes e a sua concorrência com os produtores platinos (século XIX)
Authors: VARGAS Jonas Moreira
Published: December 2014

O charque (carne-seca) constituiu alimento fundamental na dieta dos escravos das plantationsaçucareiras e cafeeiras e das populações pobres das cidades litorâneas do Brasil. O artigo analisa a inserção do charque fabricado em Pelotas (Rio Grande do Sul) no mercado atlântico, assim como a concorrência com os produtores uruguaios e argentinos e como as guerras travadas na região da fronteira sul afetaram o comércio da mercadoria. Durante a segunda metade do século XIX, a carne-seca rio-grandense foi perdendo espaço no comércio atlântico para o produto platino, mais saboroso e de preço mais acessível. Na busca de novos mercados consumidores para além do Brasil e de Cuba, tanto os rio-grandenses quanto os produtores do Rio da Prata não conseguiram penetrar no mercado britânico, em que o paladar era mais exigente e se associava o charque à comida de escravos. Com o tempo, os argentinos conseguiram modernizar sua indústria com remessa de carne congelada para a Europa, ao passo que os rio-grandenses sucumbiram diante dessa nova concorrência e das exigências dos consumidores, não resistindo à derradeira crise que afetou o setor na década de 1880.
Minha vida é andar por esse país...: a emigração recente no semiárido setentrional, políticas sociais e meio ambiente
Authors: Ojima Ricardo , Costa José Vilton , Calixta Renata Kissya
Published: December 2014

A categoria refugiados ambientais vem sendo utilizada para descrever os deslocamentos populacionais causados por condições climáticas extremas. As estimativas apontam que haverá um aumento significativo dessa modalidade de movimentos nos próximos anos, sobretudo pelo agravamento das condições ambientais decorrentes das mudanças climáticas. Entretanto, há grande controvérsia no que diz respeito ao peso que os fatores ambientais podem ter na decisão migratória. Nesse sentido, o artigo busca trazer uma reflexão sobre a pertinência da categoria refugiado ambiental no contexto da emigração do semiárido setentrional, a região mais castigada pelas secas. Para isso utilizamos os dados oficiais de decreto de Situação de Emergência (SE) e Estado de Calamidade Pública (ECP) e dados do Censo Demográfico 2010 para analisar o perfil e o papel que fatores ambientais e sociais podem ter sobre os emigrantes. Os resultados indicam que a ausência de programas de transferência de renda possui um papel mais importante do que a ocorrência oficial de secas entre os emigrantes dessa região. Assim, embora os resultados mereçam maiores investigações, as evidencias apontam que estratégias que contribuam para uma maior resiliência das pessoas são efetivas para o enfrentamento das secas.
Reinternação pediátrica: conhecendo a magnitude do problema
Authors: Madeira Lélia Maria , Egry Emiko Yoshikawa , Santos Nágela Cristine Pinheiro
Published: December 2014

As internações sucessivas de crianças têm sido objeto de estudo de autores, tanto nacionais como internacionais. Embora quase todos reconheçam a interrelação entre este fenômeno com as condições de vida da criança e a qualidade da assistência oferecida pelos serviços de saúde, a falta de critérios mais precisos fazem com que, de fato, não se conheça a magnitude do problema e, principalmente, as razões para a ocorrência tão freqüente em nosso meio. Esta pesquisa exploratória- descritiva, parte de um projeto mais amplo e buscou conhecer a magnitude do problema das reinternações, através da caracterização das crianças reinternadas em uma instituição hospitalar. Foi realizada no Centro Geral de Pediatria (CGP). de Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, no período de janeiro a dezembro de 1993. Os dados foram coletados, principalmente nos prontuários e registros de internações. Entre os resultados as reinternações infantís extrapolam os dados oficiais do próprio hospital; há predomínio de estados mórbidos evitáveis como desencadeadores das reinternações; a maioria das crianças provém de zonas periféricas do Município, onde se concentra a população de baixa renda e de condições precárias de vida, entretanto os critérios adotados pela instituição são insuficientes para refletir a magnitude deste problema.
Neonatal mortality in infants with low birth weigh
Authors: Gaiva Maria Aparecida Munhoz , Fujimori Elizabeth , Sato Ana Paula Sayuri
Published: December 2014

Objective To evaluate the factors associated with neonatal mortality in infant born with low birth weight. Method Cross-sectional study that analyzed data from 771 live births with low birth weight (<2500 g) in the city of Cuiabá, MT, in 2010, of whom 54 died in the neonatal period. We obtained data from the Information System on Live Births and Mortality, by integrated linkage. Results In multiple logistic regression, neonatal mortality was associated with: number of prenatal visits less than 7 (OR=3.80;CI:1,66-8,70); gestational age less than 37 weeks (OR=4.77;CI:1.48-15.38), Apgar score less than 7 at the 1st minute (OR=4.25;CI:1.84-9.81) and the 5th minute (OR=5.72,CI:2.24-14.60) and presence of congenital anomaly (OR=14.39;IC:2.72-76.09). Conclusion Neonatal mortality in infants with low birth weight is associated with avoidable factors through adequate attention to prenatal care, childbirth and infants.
Nursing diagnosis sedentary lifestyle in individuals with hypertension: an analysis of accuracy
Authors: Martins Larissa Castelo Guedes , Lopes Marcos Venícios de Oliveira , Guedes Nirla Gomes , Teixeira Iane Ximenes , Souza Vanessa Emille Carvalho de , Montoril Michelle Helcias
Published: December 2014

Objective Assessing the accuracy of the defining characteristics (DC) of the nursing diagnosis Sedentary Lifestyle (SL) in people with hypertension. Method A cross-sectional study carried out in a referral center in the outpatient care of people with hypertension and diabetes, with a sample of 285 individuals. The form used in the study was designed from operational definitions constructed for each DC of the diagnosis. Four nurses with training to carry out diagnostic inferences did the clinical assessment for the presence of SL. Results The prevalence of SL was 55.8%. Regarding measures of accuracy, the main DC for SL was chooses a daily routine lacking physical exercise, with sensitivity of 100% and specificity of 84.13%. Two DC stood out in the logistic regression, namely: reports preference for activities low in physical activity and poor performance in instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). Conclusion The results allowed identifying the best clinical indicators for SL in hypertensive adults.
Adherence to anti-hypertensive treatment within a chronic disease management  program: A longitudinal, retrospective study
Authors: Raymundo Ana Carolina Nascimento , Pierin Angela Maria Geraldo
Published: December 2014

Objective This study assessed pharmacological treatment adherence using the Morisky-Green Test and identified related variables. Method A longitudinal and retrospective study examined 283 patients with hypertension (62.5% women, 73.4 [10.9] years old) who were being monitored by a chronic disease management program for 17 months between 2011 and 2012. Nurses performed all the actions of the program, which consisted of advice via telephone and periodic home visits based on the risk stratification of the patients. Results A significant increase in treatment adherence (25.1% vs. 85.5%) and a decrease in blood pressure were observed (p<0.05). Patients with hypertension and chronic renal failure as well as those treated using angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors were the most adherent (p<0.05). Patients with hypertension who received angiotensin receptor blockers were less adherent (p<0.05). Conclusions Strategies such as nurse-performed chronic disease management can increase adherence to anti-hypertensive treatment and therefore contribute to the control of blood pressure, minimizing the morbidity profiles of patients with hypertension.
Nursing intervention bundle for enteral nutrition in intensive care: a collective construction
Authors: Colaço Aline Daiane , Nascimento Eliane Regina Pereira do
Published: December 2014

Objective The collective construction of a nursing intervention bundle for patients in critical care in the hospital receiving enteral nutrition therapy, supported by evidence-based practice. Method A qualitative convergent-care study with 24 nursing professionals in an intensive care unit of a public hospital in Santa Catarina. Data collection was performed from May to August 2013, with semi-structured interviews and discussion groups. Results Four interventions emerged that constituted the bundle: bedside pH monitoring to confirm the position of the tube; stabilization of the tube; enteric position of the tube; and maintaining the head of the bed elevated at 30° to 45°.  Conclusion The interventions chosen neither required additional professional workload nor extra charges to the institution, which are identified as improving the adoption of the bundle by nursing professionals at the ICU.
Uma leitura antropológica do Cur Deus homo de Santo Anselmo de Aosta
Authors: Vasconcellos Manoel
Published: December 2014

O presente estudo pretende analisar a obra Cur Deus homo, de Santo Anselmo, a partir de uma perspectiva antropológica. Após examinar a peculiaridade do método e revisar seus argumentos fundamentais, será possível perceber que Anselmo revela uma perspectiva essencialmente boa da natureza humana, que, mesmo abalada, não sucumbe ao pecado original. A liberdade e o projeto amoroso do Logos originante fundamentam a concepção anselmiana em torno do homem e sua natureza.