bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A Particle Swarm Optimization Approach for Minimizing GD&T Error in Additive Manufactured Parts
Authors: Pathak Vimal Kumar , Singh Amit Kumar
Published: May 2017

This paper presents a particle swarm optimization (PSO) approach to improve the geometrical accuracy of additive manufacturing (AM) parts by minimizing geometrical dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) error. Four AM process parameters viz. Bed temperature, nozzle temperature, Infill, layer thickness are taken as input while circularity and flatness error in ABS part are taken as response. A mathematical model is developed for circularity and flatness error individually using regression technique in terms of process parameters as design variables. For the optimum search of the AM process parameter values, minimization of circularity and flatness are formulated as multi-objective, multi-variable optimization problem which is optimized using particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm and hence improving the geometrical accuracy of the ABS part.
Universities' Contributions to Sustainable Development's Social Challenge
Authors: Juliani Douglas Paulesky , Silva Ania , Cunha Jorge , Benneworth Paul
Published: May 2017

There is an increasing recognition that dealing with sustainable development need to address the social structures that encourage unsustainable economic and environmental practices. Universities represent important sources of knowledge for addressing sustainable development, but there has been relatively limited consideration of their contributions to these social elements. Drawing on recent interest in social innovation as to conceptualise social change and community development, this paper aims to understand universities' involvement in the process of social innovation, for the particular case of a Brazilian higher education institution. By exploring how universities can contribute to the different stages of the social innovation process, it highlights the capacities that universities have to address the social sustainable development challenge. The paper identifies five characteristics of universities contributions to social innovation and sets out an agenda for future research necessary to understand universities' wider contributions to sustainable development.
Conditions Supporting Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Growth
Authors: Farinha Luís , Ferreira Joao J. , Nunes Sara , Ratten Vanessa
Published: May 2017

There are a variety of different conditions that support entrepreneurship and affect sustainable development. The aim of this paper is to focus on the issue of territorial advantage, based on the dimensions analysed by the World Economic Forum (WEF). This helps to assess the sustainable competitiveness of different geographic regions in the world based on the variables of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). The geographic regions the authors focus on in the analysis are 1) Asia and Oceania, 2) Europe and 3) Latin America and the Caribbean. From the analysis they analyse which variables best explain the socio-economic development of these geographic regions and whether there are any major differences. The results based on partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) show the variables within each group of countries, which best explain the regional development. This helps to understand the association between competitiveness and entrepreneurship variables with sustainable growth in order to help explain best interventionist priorities to use in order to foster entrepreneurship.
Assessment of BAR
Authors: Jaishy Shivashish , Fukushige Yoshiki , Ito Nobuhiro , Iwata Kazunori , Kawabe Yoshinobu
Published: May 2017

In the Multi-Agent Systems, many agents work together towards achieving a defined goal. As it may be difficult for the agents to work in a dynamic environment, the current concept is trying to focus on the issues of situation where there may be cases of agent breaking down. This algorithm will distinguish and groupify the breakdown agents from the active agents. The authors are focusing on this scenario and replacement of breakdown agents by active agents by implementing the SCRAM- Scalable Collision-avoiding Role Assignment with Minimal-makespan, which has generalized to many Multi-Agent Systems specifically focusing on the collision avoidance among the agents. The authors are trying to address the impact and fate of breakdown agents, which otherwise is not yet addressed in SCRAM, through a new algorithm. This paper is designed to allow the generalization of the concept of SCRAM without any collision and disturbances even in the case of agent breakdown.
A Video Recommendation Algorithm Based on Hyperlink-Graph Model
Authors: Shang Songtao , Shang Wenqian , Shi Minyong , Feng Shuchao , Hong Zhiguo
Published: May 2017

The traditional graph-based personal recommendation algorithms mainly depend the user-item model to construct a bipartite graph. However, the traditional algorithms have low efficiency, because the matrix of the algorithms is sparse and it cost lots of time to compute the similarity between users or items. Therefore, this paper proposes an improved video recommendation algorithm based on hyperlink-graph model. This method cannot only improve the accuracy of the recommendation algorithms, but also reduce the running time. Furthermore, the Internet users may have different interests, for example, a user interest in watching news videos, and at the same time he or she also enjoy watching economic and sports videos. This paper proposes a complement algorithm based on hyperlink-graph for video recommendations. This algorithm improves the accuracy of video recommendations by cross clustering in user layers.
The South African Species of Commiphora
Authors: Van der Walt J. J.A.
Published: May 2017

A revision of the South African species of Commiphora (Burseraceae) is presented in which 2 keys are provided to the 18 species recognized. A comprehensive morphological study, including an anatomical study of the stems and leaves, was regarded as essential for an accurate delimitation of the different species. Maps, sketches and photographs serve for illustration.
Halorrhagidaceae
Authors: Obermeyer A. A.
Published: May 2017

A Note on Laurembergia Repens
Lauraceae
Authors: Ross J. H.
Published: May 2017

A new generic record for for South Africa and new species
Polyporus baudoni Pat. on  Eucalyptus spp. in South Africa
Authors: Van der Westhuizen G. C. A.
Published: May 2017

The morphology and anatomy of the fruit-bodies and characteristics in pure culture, of Polyporus baudoni Pat., which is associated with death of species of Eucalyptus and other trees in South Africa, are described. The anatomical characters of these fruit-bodies agree with those of the type specimen, as well as with those of the type specimen of Phaeolus manihotis Heim which is shown to be synonymous. The anatomical characters of the fruit-bodies and the cultural characteristics differ from those of Polyporus schweinitzii Fr., the type of the genus Phaeolus Pat. The fruit-bodies and cultures display combinations of characters not known to occur in any other species of polypore.
Un-shielded Balanced Single Twisted Pair Ethernet Cable
Authors:   Cable Standards Committee
Published: May 2017

This document covers un-shielded balanced single twisted pair data cable intended for use in surface vehicle cables for 100 Mbps Ethernet applications. The tests in this document are intended to qualify cables for normal operation in an automotive environment while maintaining the necessary electrical properties for reliable data transmission.
Heterogeneous reactions of mineral dust aerosol: implications for tropospheric oxidation capacity
Authors: Tang Mingjin , Huang Xin , Lu Keding , Ge Maofa , Li Yongjie , Cheng Peng , Zhu Tong , Ding Aijun , Zhang Yuanhang , Gligorovski Sasho , Song Wei , Ding Xiang , Bi Xinhui , Wang Xinming
Published: May 2017

Abstract. Heterogeneous reactions of mineral dust aerosol with trace gases in the atmosphere could directly and indirectly affect tropospheric oxidation capacity, in addition to aerosol composition and physicochemical properties. In this article we provide a comprehensive and critical review of laboratory studies of heterogeneous uptake of OH, NO3, O3, and their directly related species as well (including HO2, H2O2, HCHO, HONO, and N2O5) by mineral dust particles. Atmospheric importance of heterogeneous uptake as sinks for these species are assessed (i) by comparing their lifetimes with respect to heterogeneous reactions with mineral dust to lifetimes with respect to other major loss processes and (ii) by discussing relevant field and modelling studies. We have also outlined major open questions and challenges in laboratory studies of heterogeneous uptake by mineral dust and discussed research strategies to address them in order to better understand the effects of heterogeneous reactions with mineral dust on tropospheric oxidation capacity.
Effects of long-term mowing on the fractions and chemical composition of soil organic matter in a semiarid grassland
Authors: Li Jiangye , Zhang Qichun , Li Yong , Liu Yimeng , Xu Jianming , Di Hongjie
Published: May 2017

Abstract. The grassland ecosystem is a significantly important terrestrial carbon pool. Intensive mowing is common to meet the need of increased livestock. However, little information on the quality and quantity of soil organic matter (SOM) under different mowing managements has been documented. In this work, in order to evaluate the impacts of different mowing managements on the quality and quantity of SOM, the fractions and chemical composition of SOM under different mowing managements were determined using traditional fractionation methods and spectroscopy technologies, including advanced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) (e.g. cross-polarization magic angle spinning 13C-NMR, CPMAS 13C-NMR) and Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) based on a 13-year field mowing trial with four treatments: unmown (M0), mowing once every second year (M1/2), mowing once a year (M1) and mowing twice a year (M2). The results showed that compared with M0, M1/2 and M1 significantly enhanced the SOM accumulation and increased the stability of SOM by enhancing humification, while M2 limited SOM accumulation and microbial biomass. Substituted alkyl carbon (C) was the major organic C type in the grassland ecosystem, and it made up over 40 % of the total C. M1/2 and M1 significantly increased stable C functional groups (alkyl C and aromatic C) by degrading labile C functional groups (O-alkyl and carbonyl C) and forming recalcitrant humus, while M2 had opposite effects. The consistent increase in the values of NMR indices reflecting the degradation degree, hydrophobicity and aromaticity of SOM in M1 reflected the fact that M1 had the largest contribution to increasing the stability of SOM, while these values in M2 were similar to those in M0. Significant correlations between different SOM fractions and nitrogen (N) mineralization, and between the contents of different C functional groups and net soil organic nitrogen mineralization or microbial biomass C, indicated that the shifts in SOM fractions and chemical composition were closely related to soil microbial biomass and activity. Therefore, in view of the quality and quantity of SOM and the sustainable development of grassland ecosystems, M1 was the optimal mowing management, while M2 should be avoided in the semiarid grassland.
Functional diversity of microbial communities in pristine aquifers inferred by PLFA- and sequencing-based approaches
Authors: Schwab Valérie F. , Herrmann Martina , Roth Vanessa-Nina , Gleixner Gerd , Lehmann Robert , Pohnert Georg , Trumbore Susan , Küsel Kirsten , Totsche Kai U.
Published: May 2017

Abstract. Microorganisms in groundwater play an important role in aquifer biogeochemical cycles and water quality. However, the mechanisms linking the functional diversity of microbial populations and the groundwater physico-chemistry are still not well understood due to the complexity of interactions between surface and subsurface. Within the framework of Hainich (north-western Thuringia, central Germany) Critical Zone Exploratory of the Collaborative Research Centre AquaDiva, we used the relative abundances of phospholipid-derived fatty acids (PLFAs) to link specific biochemical markers within the microbial communities to the spatio-temporal changes of the groundwater physico-chemistry. The functional diversities of the microbial communities were mainly correlated with groundwater chemistry, including dissolved O2, Fet and NH4+ concentrations. Abundances of PLFAs derived from eukaryotes and potential nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (11Me16:0 as biomarker for Nitrospira moscoviensis) were high at sites with elevated O2 concentration where groundwater recharge supplies bioavailable substrates. In anoxic groundwaters more rich in Fet, PLFAs abundant in sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB), iron-reducing bacteria and fungi increased with Fet and HCO3− concentrations, suggesting the occurrence of active iron reduction and the possible role of fungi in meditating iron solubilization and transport in those aquifer domains. In more NH4+-rich anoxic groundwaters, anammox bacteria and SRB-derived PLFAs increased with NH4+ concentration, further evidencing the dependence of the anammox process on ammonium concentration and potential links between SRB and anammox bacteria. Additional support of the PLFA-based bacterial communities was found in DNA- and RNA-based Illumina MiSeq amplicon sequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA genes, which showed high predominance of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria Nitrospira, e.g. Nitrospira moscoviensis, in oxic aquifer zones and of anammox bacteria in more NH4+-rich anoxic groundwater. Higher relative abundances of sequence reads in the RNA-based datasets affiliated with iron-reducing bacteria in more Fet-rich groundwater supported the occurrence of active dissimilatory iron reduction. The functional diversity of the microbial communities in the biogeochemically distinct groundwater assemblages can be largely attributed to the redox conditions linked to changes in bioavailable substrates and input of substrates with the seepage. Our results demonstrate the power of complementary information derived from PLFA-based and sequencing-based approaches.
High Performance Software Framework for the Calculation of Satellite-to-Satellite Data Matchups (MMS version 1.2)
Authors: Block Thomas , Embacher Sabine , Merchant Christopher J. , Donlon Craig
Published: May 2017

Abstract. We present a Multisensor Matchup System (MMS) that allows systematic detection of satellite based sensor-to-sensor matchups and the extraction of local subsets of satellite data around matchup locations. The software system implements a generic matchup-detection approach and is currently being used for validation and sensor harmonisation purposes. An overview of the flexible and highly configurable software architecture and the target processing environments is given. We discuss improvements implemented with respect to heritage systems, and present some performance comparisons. A detailed description of the intersection algorithm is given which allows a fast matchup detection in geometry and time.
Big data managing in a landslide Early Warning System: experience from a ground-based interferometric radar application
Authors: Intrieri Emanuele , Bardi Federica , Fanti Riccardo , Gigli Giovanni , Fidolini Francesco , Casagli Nicola , Costanzo Sandra , Raffo Antonio , Di Massa Giuseppe , Capparelli Giovanna , Versace Pasquale
Published: May 2017

Abstract. A big challenge in terms or landslide risk mitigation is represented by the increasing of the resiliency of society exposed to the risk. Among the possible strategies to reach this goal, there is the implementation of early warning systems. This paper describes a procedure to improve early warning activities in areas affected by high landslide risk, such as those classified as Critical Infrastructures for their central role in society. This research is part of the project LEWIS (Landslides Early Warning Integrated System): An Integrated System for Landslide Monitoring, Early Warning and Risk Mitigation along Lifelines. LEWIS is composed of a susceptibility assessment methodology providing information for single points and areal monitoring systems, a data transmission network and a Data Collecting And Processing Center (DCPC), where readings from all monitoring systems and mathematical models converge and which sets the basis for warning and intervention activities. In this paper we will focus on the interaction between an areal monitoring tool (a ground-based interferometric radar) and the DCPC, and how issues such as big data transfer, real-time warning, line of sight correction and data validation in emergency conditions have been dealt with.
Fifteen years of the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling Program
Authors: Xu Zhiqin , Yang Jingsui , Wang Chengshan , An Zhisheng , Li Haibing , Wang Qin , Su Dechen
Published: May 2017

Abstract. Continental scientific drilling can be regarded as a telescope into the Earth's interior because it provides process insight and uncompromised samples of rocks, fluids, and even sampled from the deep biosphere from the Earth's surface to great depths. As one of the three founding members of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), ICDP China has made great achievements in many scientific drilling-related research fields. Based on the ICDP participation it attracted global attention of scientists and set up not only the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling (CCSD) Program in 2001 but also a growing number of ambitious drilling projects in the country. The 5158 m deep borehole of the CCSD project at Donghai County in the Sulu ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terrain demonstrates that large amounts of crustal rocks of the South China Block have been subducted to at least 120 km, followed by rapid uplift. After successful completion of drilling at Donghai, several continental scientific drilling projects were conducted with funding of the Chinese government and partially with support of ICDP, resulting in a total drilling depth of more than 35 000 m. These projects encompass the Continental Environmental Scientific Drilling Program of China, the Scientific Drilling Project of Wenchuan Earthquake Fault Zone, the Continental Scientific Drilling Project of Cretaceous Songliao Basin, and the Program of Selected Continental Scientific Drilling and Experiments. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the ICDP and the 15th anniversary of the CCSD Program, this paper reviews the history and major progress of the CCSD Program.
Scientific Drilling at Lake Tanganyika, Africa: A Transformative Record for Understanding Evolution in Isolation and the Biological History of the African Continent, University of Basel, 6–8 June 2016
Authors: Cohen Andrew S. , Salzburger Walter
Published: May 2017

Abstract. We report on the outcomes of a workshop held to discuss evolutionary biology, paleobiology and paleoecology questions that could be addressed by a scientific drilling project at Lake Tanganyika, the largest, deepest and oldest of the African Rift Valley lakes. Lake Tanganyika is of special significance to evolutionary biologists as it harbors one of the most spectacular endemic faunas of any lake on earth, with hundreds of unique species of fish, molluscs, crustaceans and other organisms that have evolved over the lake's long history. Most of these groups of organisms are known from fossils in short cores from the lake, raising the possibility that both body fossil and ancient DNA records might be recovered from long drill cores. The lake's sedimentary record could also provide a record of African terrestrial ecosystem history since the late Miocene. This 3-day workshop brought together biological and geological specialists on the lake and its surroundings to prioritize paleobiological, ecological and microbiological objectives that could ultimately be incorporated into an overall drilling plan for Lake Tanganyika and to consider how biological objectives can effectively be integrated into the paleoclimate and tectonics objectives of a Lake Tanganyika drilling project already considered in prior workshops.
Overcoming being Overwhelmed in the Trump Era
Authors: Gill Navyug
Published: May 2017

This piece offers a teaching strategy to help students overcome the sense of being overwhelmed by the 2016 election and its immediate aftermath. I emphasize the importance of understanding Trump in a broader historical context yet with a sharper analytical focus. By attending to the specificity of language, separating policy from rhetoric, and recognizing the limitations of the current political spectrum, students learn to avoid the pitfalls of caricature and exceptionality. Ultimately this empowers them to imagine and engage in a wider, more creative and transformative world of politics.
Crime and Justice in Digital Society: Towards a ‘Digital Criminology’?
Authors: Stratton Greg , Powell Anastasia , Cameron Robin
Published: May 2017

The opportunities afforded through digital and communications technologies, in particular social media, have inspired a diverse range of interdisciplinary perspectives exploring how such advancements influence the way we live. Rather than positioning technology as existing in a separate space to society more broadly, the ‘digital society’ is a concept that recognises such technologies as an embedded part of the larger social entity and acknowledges the incorporation of digital technologies, media, and networks in our everyday lives (Lupton 2014), including in crime perpetration, victimisation and justice. In this article, we explore potential for an interdisciplinary concept of digital society to expand and inspire innovative crime and justice scholarship within an emerging field of ‘digital criminology’.
Amy L Casselman (2016) Injustice in Indian Country: Jurisdiction, American Law, and Sexual Violence Against Native Women.
Authors: Brown-Crump Toni OL
Published: May 2017

Book review
Does College Focus Matter? Explaining Differences in Labor Market Outcomes among Community Colleges
Authors: Dunn Michael , Kalleberg Arne L.
Published: May 2017

The evolution of community colleges from their origins as junior colleges to institutions with dual missions to provide both academic and workforce preparation raises questions about the impact of a college’s mission focus on their students’ labor market success. We examine this question using the 58 colleges in the North Carolina Community College system as case study for community colleges nationally. We find that students from community colleges that specialize or focus on career objectives had higher labor market earnings; about one-fifth of the variation in students’ earnings across community colleges is due to the college’s mission focus. Other community college variables also enhance students’ earnings, such as institution size as well as having single-county service areas and low proportions of remedial students.
Underlying and derived glides in Middle High German
Authors: Hall Tracy Alan
Published: May 2017

The present study investigates the phonology of glides in Middle High German. On the basis of surface contrasts between prevocalic nuclear glides in syllable-final position ([VG.V]) and postvocalic glides in onset position ([V.GV]), it is argued that the latter were underlying glides (e.g. the /w/ in [le.wə] ‘lion’) and that the former were glides derived from vowels (e.g. the offglide [o̯] in the diphthong [uo̯] from /uo/). Underlying glides are argued to be [+consonantal], while nuclear glides ‒ like the vowels from which they derive ‒ are [‒consonantal].The analysis of Middle High German bears on several debates involving glides in the theoretical literature. First, a treatment with an underlying glide in /VGV/ cannot be reanalyzed by treating the vowels as peaks (e.g. Harris & Kaisse 1999 for Argentinian Spanish). Second, the treatment of underlying glides as [+consonantal] is to be preferred over alternatives which analyze those sounds as [‒vocalic] (e.g. Nevins & Chitoran 2008 for several languages). Third, an analysis of nuclear structure is adopted (from Harris & Kaisse 1999) which enables one to interpret which element in a complex nucleus is the peak and which is the nonpeak without stipulation. Fourth, the contrastive syllabification of surface glides (i.e. [VG.V] vs. [V.GV]) is shown to be a diagnostic of underlying glide languages that has not been discussed in the literature to date.
Developing & Validating a Measure for PR Professionals’ Self-efficacy
Authors: Gusau Ahmed Lawal , Abdullah Zulhamri , Tamam Ezhar , Hasan Nurul Ain Mohd
Published: May 2017

For the past three decades self-efficacy studies have been conducted in social science and other fields of academic endeavor. However, sufficient evidence has clearly shown that this research interest seems to neglect Public Relations (i.e. PR) discipline as there are hardly traceable works connected to this important field of study. This work therefore, represents an attempt to develop PR professionals’ self-efficacy scale to measure the ability of PR professionals in carrying out their duties. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted with PR experts and the result has shown a required factor loading for 23 out of total 24 items. Equally, the six operationalized dimensions were all consistent when confirmatory factor analysis was conducted. Similarly, discriminant and convergent validity tests which guarantees the instrument as valid for measuring Public Relations practitioners’ self-efficacy were also found to be fit.
The Path Choice of the Chinese Communist Party's Theoretical Innovation under the Perspective of Chinese Traditional Culture
Authors: Wei Wei
Published: May 2017

At present, the domestic and the academic circles have questioned the status and value of the traditional culture which is represented by Confucianism. Facing the traditional culture dissemination heat of the state, how to treat correctly its value and significance, how to clarify the relationship between the traditional culture and the party's theoretical innovation, how to rationally deal with the traditional culture of the premise under exploration in the path of the theoretical innovation of the Communist Party of China, this is the original intention of this paper.
The Job Analysis of Teaching Secretaries Working in an International Environment --- Taking Jinan University, Guangzhou, China as the Research Paradigm
Authors: Li Jia
Published: May 2017

Under the guidance of national policy, Chinese higher education institutions use English as teaching language. With this feature, an international environment is formed that the university offers places to eligible students from all over the world and employs qualified teachers from all over the world to teach students. Working in an international environment, the teaching secretaries’ job is different. This paper analyzes the job particularity of teaching secretaries working in an international environment in higher education institutions that their working language is English and they have to work with teachers and students from all over the world, answer teachers and students questions and solve their problems related to teaching affairs. This paper proposes some effective measures from the personal aspect and university aspect to raise the quality of the teaching secretaries’ job. And this paper gets a conclusion that the teaching secretaries working in an international environment should increasingly improve their comprehensive quality, professional knowledge, and management skills.
Obama and Transformation Strategy from the Middle East to the Asia – Pacific Region
Authors: Kamal Mohamed , Mohammed Khalid Hashim
Published: May 2017

The Middle East region is no longer enjoys the relative importance for the United States. This was due to the massive discoveries of Shale oil in the United States. Many analysts believe that such discovery led to the decline of the US interest in the Middle East and shifting the orientation towards Asia because of the growing importance of the Southeast Asia in the global economy. The United States, in return, has re-defined the role and the size of involvement in the Middle East by adopting a new strategy based on reducing economic and military consequences resulting from the direct investment in the region, which is rejected by US public opinion.
The Economics of Institutions, Equity, Efficiency and Effectiveness: The Case of Water Distribution in Lower Sundays River Valley, South Africa
Authors: Madigele Patricia Kefilwe
Published: May 2017

Water supply disruptions are prevalent in various parts of South Africa. The Lower Sundays River Valley is not an exception. However, there is currently no physical shortage of water in the catchment. This study defines institutional arrangements and dynamics in the water sector in South Africa, using the Lower Sunday River Water Users Association as the case study. Key informant interviews reveal that relevant stakeholders are not adequately represented in management committees. Such institutional arrangement vacuums can lead to a failure of the water institutions in the catchment to provide water resources effectively.
Can the factor structure of Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-40) contribute to our understanding of parental acceptance/rejection, bullying, victimization and perceived well-being in Greek early adolescents?
Authors: Giovazolias Theodoros , Karagiannopoulou Evangelia , Mitsopoulou Effrosyni
Published: May 2017

Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ) is a self-report instrument designed to measure defense mechanisms. Although commonly used, the DSQ-40 has not been validated in early adolescent populations. The present study sought to determine the factor validity of the DSQ-40 in a sample of Greek primary school students (N = 265). Further, it aimed to investigate the relationship between defense mechanisms and perceived parental acceptance/rejection, the participation in bullying (either as bully or victim) as well as self-reported well being. Participants completed the Greek version of DSQ-40, adapted for use by this particular age group as well as measures in order to examine its convergent and discriminant validity. The findings support a four-factor solution as the most adequate for our data. Further, it was found that defense mechanisms are related to perceived parental acceptance and rejection. Finally, the results showed that the DSQ-40 can effectively discriminate participants with high/low bullying/victimization and perceived well-being. Our results indicate that the DSQ-40 is appropriate for use in late childhood. Implications for clinical practice and future studies that would confirm the appropriateness of the scale’s use in younger populations are also discussed.
The effect of mortality salience and type of life on personality evaluation
Authors: Gordillo Fernando , Mestas Lilia , Arana José M. , Pérez Miguel Ángel , Escotto Eduardo Alejandro
Published: May 2017

Mortality salience, or awareness of the inevitability of one’s own death, generates a state of anxiety that triggers a defense mechanism for the control of thinking that affects different human activities and psychological processes. This study aims to analyze the effect of mortality salience on the formation of impressions. The sample comprised 135 women who made inferences about a woman’s personality from information about her life (type of life, LT: positive, negative), provided through five words, all positive or negative, that appeared surrounding a photograph, together with a sixth word that indicated whether she was “dead” or “alive” at the time (mortality manipulation, MM: dead, alive). The results pointed to a more negative assessment of life (Dead M - Alive M = -1.16, SE = .236, p < .001), emotional stability (Dead M - Alive M = -1.13, SE = .431, p = .010), and responsibility (Dead M - Alive M = -1.14, SE = .423, p = .008) only when the participants had access to negative information about the person assessed, and she was known to be dead. We discuss the results within the framework of Terror Management Theory, and analyze the different effects that the manipulation of mortality has on the formation of impressions depending on the type of information available.
How does mentoring contribute to Gen Y employees’ intention to stay? An Indian perspective
Authors: Naim Mohammad Faraz , Lenka Usha
Published: May 2017

The present study is aimed at investigating the impact of mentoring on intention to stay of Gen Y employees working in Indian IT industry. Also, the mediating roles of perceived organization support and affective commitment are examined. Primary data were collected from a sample of 314 Gen Y employees (born between 1980-2000) from IT industry in Delhi, NCR India. Data analysis was carried out using AMOS and SPSS to test sequential mediation. Findings reveal that mentoring has a direct influence on intention to stay of Gen Y employees and perceived organization support and affective commitment sequentially mediate the relationship between the two. This study contributes to the literature on mentoring, perceived organization support, affective commitment, and intention to stay.
Conservation motivation, social equality and left-right ideological preferences in Western and Eastern Europe
Authors: Hadarics Márton
Published: May 2017

We investigated how attitudes towards social equality can influence the relationship between conservation motivation (or openness) and personal ideological preferences on the left-right dimension, and how this relationship pattern differs between Western and Central & Eastern European (CEE) respondents. Using data from the European Social Survey (2012) we found that individual-level of conservation motivation reduces cultural egalitarianism in both the Western European and the CEE regions, but its connection with economic egalitarianism is only relevant in the CEE region where it fosters economic egalitarianism. Since both forms of egalitarianism were related to leftist ideological preferences in Western Europe, but in the CEE region only economic egalitarianism was ideologically relevant, we concluded that the classic “rigidity of the right” phenomenon is strongly related to cultural (anti)egalitarianism in Western Europe. At the same time, conservation motivation serves as a basis for the “rigidity of the left” in the post-socialist CEE region, in a great part due to the conventional egalitarian economic views.
Histórias de municípios narradas nos seus sites oficiais: a História Pública e seu potencial para a pesquisa histórica
Authors: Pagliarini Junior Jorge
Published: May 2017

Parte-se do princípio de que as representações históricas presentes em sites municipais oficiais possibilitam um significativo e pouco explorado caminho para a análise e produção de conhecimento histórico. A partir das contribuições da História Pública, o artigo tem por objetivo problematizar o conteúdo histórico dos sites dos 25 municípios integrantes da Comunidade dos Municípios da Região de Campo Mourão (COMCAM). Metodologicamente, o estudo se pauta no entendimento do conteúdo dos sites enquanto fontes históricas, avaliadas naquilo que eles indicam sobre os seus tipos de narrativas, e sobre os silenciamentos e as lacunas, bem como sobre seus usos potenciais na pesquisa histórica. Com a problematização desse material, visa-se contribuir com uma análise epistemológica a respeito das categorias memória e identidade. Palavras-chave: Campo Mourão (PR); Municípios – História. Sites da Web - Avaliação e Classificação.
LEBANON’S NATIONAL IDENTITY: WALKING BETWEEN RAINDROPS?
Authors: Stewart Hannah
Published: May 2017

As the Levant continues to roil in upheaval in this second decade of the twenty-first century, Lebanon, a state notorious for its history of communal dissensions, remains remarkably stable, advancing a splendid model--albeit an uneasy model--of inter-communal coexistence. Lebanon’s history as a refuge for persecuted minorities and an entrepôt of international trade, in some ways, fostered a unique culture of openness and tolerance making it an “oddity” in its neighbourhood, and contributing to the formation of what can be termed a “distinct Lebanese identity.” A glance at Lebanon’s languages, traditions, history, and culture of power-sharing, suggests that despite periods of violence, patterns of coexistence among Lebanon’s various groups have developed organically, and often logically, since the French Mandate period, and can perhaps offer a model for emulation in a Levant of fractious ethnic mosaics.
LEBANON, IDENTITY, DISLOCATION, AND MEMORY
Authors: Salameh Franck
Published: May 2017

Review of:Dalia Abdelhady, The Lebanese Diaspora; The Arab Immigrant Experience in Montreal, New York, and Paris (New York and London: New York University Press, 2011), pp. 198, paperback, ISBN 978-0-8147-0734-0 Craig Larkin, Memory and Conflict in Lebanon: Remembering and Forgetting the past.      (New York and London, Routledge: Taylor&Francis Group, 2012), pp. 226, hardcover, ISBN 978-0-415-58779-2
ARABIC-­KARSHUNI: AN ATTEMPT TO PRESERVE MARONITE IDENTITY; THE CASE OF ALEPPO
Authors: Del Rio Sánchez Francisco
Published: May 2017

This paper investigates the reasons behind Middle Eastern Syriac Christian communities - particulary the Maronites' - use of the Syriac script when writing Arabic; a phenomenon known as Karshuni.
LEBANESE ARMENIANS; A DISTINCTIVE COMMUNITY IN THE ARMENIAN DIASPORA AND IN LEBANESE SOCIETY
Authors: Abramson Scott
Published: May 2017

Lebanon, for many Armenians, is referred to as “our second homeland” (yergort hayrenik), and it is scarcely difficult to see why. As nowhere else in the regional diaspora, Lebanon has offered its Armenian citizens—initially refugees—the economic freedom to achieve prosperity, the political freedom to pursue their interests, and the communal autonomy to preserve their identity. These freedoms and the efflorescence that they have enabled—to say nothing of Lebanon’s singularity as the scene of unique Armenian ecclesiastical and cultural institutions—have made Lebanon a distinctive part of the Armenian diaspora. This study aims to demonstrate why this was—and continues to be—the case.
A HIGH PRICE: THE TRIUMPS AND FAILURES OF ISRAELI COUNTERTERRORISM
Authors: Wege Carl A.
Published: May 2017

Book reviewed:  A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism / by Daniel Byman (Oxford University Press, 2011,) 496 pp.
Exhibiting Music in a Sound Community
Authors: Titon Jeff Todd
Published: May 2017

Exhibiting music in a sound community announces the presence and potential of an ecological rationality. Two or more beings co-present to each other in sound resonate at the same frequency with one another and comprise a sound community. Co-presence in sound is intersubjective and relational, a subject-to-subject resonant and reciprocal way of knowing, rather than a subject-to-object, asymmetrical and manipulative knowledge. In a sound community music is communicative, as natural as breathing, participatory and exchanged freely, strengthening and sustaining individuals and communities. A sound community exhibits a sound economy, just, participatory and egalitarian. Wealth and power are widely distributed and shared, and maintained through the visible hand of democratic management. A sound economy is based in a sound ecology where exchanges are based in honest signals that invite reciprocity and trust. In a sound ecology, sound being and sound knowing lead to sound action, which is cooperative, mutually beneficial, and just.
Singing For Frog Plain
Authors: Giroux Monique
Published: May 2017

Pierre Falcon is the earliest known Metis composer. Born in 1793 in Fort La Coude (Elbow Fort) in what is now west-central Manitoba, his adult life spanned the “Golden Years” (Shore 2001) of the western Metis nation. Known as the Bard of the Prairies, Falcon’s songs drew on events of local importance during this period, providing a means to remember and share Metis history, and to solidify a sense of Metis nationalism. Beginning in the late-1800s historians, novelists, folklorists, journalists, and musicians began turning their attention to Falcon, resulting in a strikingly large number of popular and academic references to his life and songs. While these references are varied, together they tell a story about the relationship between Canada and the Metis Nation. On the one hand, references to Falcon often draw from, and in fact help create, images of the Imaginary Indian (Francis 1992). Yet on the other hand, many references to Falcon erase his Indigeneity, or blend his Metis identity seamlessly into a Franco-Manitoban, or western Canadian identity. These seemingly contradictory representations, as I will argue in this paper, ultimately point to the ambiguous positioning of Metis people as Indigenous peoples, and speak to an obsession with mixed-ness that denies the Metis their full and authentic Indigeneity.
Entrer dans la confidence
Authors: Rougeon Marina
Published: May 2017

À partir d’un point de vue réflexif, il s’agit d’analyser les jeux de rapports de force mus par une modalité d’interlocution en vigueur entre femmes proches dans le Centre-ouest brésilien, les fofocas – « cancans ». Ils se donnent à voir principalement dans les interactions intergénérationnelles par le biais d’une oscillation entre relations de complicité et de rivalité, et à partir de confidences, y compris dans la relation ethnographique. L’ethnologue est alors indirectement incitée à prendre parti pour l’une ou l’autre et plus largement pour des réseaux de proches. Les fofocas révèlent ainsi certaines caractéristiques des relations de proximité, les ambiguïtés affectives mais aussi les stratégies de domination qu’elles permettent d’établir. Ces éléments obligent à interroger les effets produits par la présence de l’ethnographe et son inscription dans ces réseaux de proximité. Quelles implications sur la recherche peut avoir le fait d’entrer dans la confidence ? D’autant que la circulation des fofocas a parfois des effets néfastes sur les corps et sur les esprits, qui sont l’objet d’anticipations et de traitements particuliers. L’analyse de ces situations d’interlocution met en évidence les logiques à l’oeuvre entre éloignement et rapprochement, ces paroles jouant un rôle central dans les relations de proximité et a fortiori dans la pratique de l’ethnographie.
L’architecture constitutionnelle — Dimensions artistiques d’une construction juridique
Authors: Guénette Dave
Published: May 2017

Le concept d’architecture constitutionnelle, incontournable en droit canadien depuis les renvois de 2014 relatifs à la Cour suprême du Canada et au Sénat, offre une représentation nouvelle de la structure de la Constitution du pays. Or, au-delà de sa pertinence juridique, ce concept se démarque également de par ses dimensions de nature créative et artistique. En premier lieu, cette conception jette un regard nouveau sur la structure de la Constitution du Canada à travers le prisme de l’art qu’est l’architecture. Ce faisant, elle offre une image innovatrice de l’organisation constitutionnelle, prenant directement ses racines dans la littérature qui aborde la structure du système juridique par une représentation en réseau. En second lieu, en raison de son utilisation du procédé de la métaphore, l’image de l’architecture constitutionnelle s’inscrit également dans une vaste tendance en droit à se représenter des concepts complexes à l’aide de ce type de figure de style. Elle est ainsi le plus récent exemple de cette tendance.
“Seeing Law in Terms of Music” A Short Essay on Affinities between Music and Law
Authors: Arban Erika
Published: May 2017

It is often believed that law and the arts have very little in common, since law is perceived as a rather formalistic and inaccessible subject incapable of eliciting emotions in the same way as the arts. This article, however, aspires to offer a different picture : by exploring music in its interconnectedness with law, it condenses the main arguments discussed by literature to ultimately show that law and music may reveal, after all, surprising affinities, so that some thought-provoking parallels between them can be made. Similarly, the paper strives to find points of connection between law and music in order to show the profound resiliency of law as an academic discipline. Finally, the paper advances the idea that the unbridgeable distance between the two disciplines exists (partially) in appearance only and that, in spite of its allegedly technical nature, law is a very flexible field of knowledge whose intellectual structure can influence and inform other creative processes.
La haine du théâtre par le droit versus la haine du droit par le théâtre
Authors: Saulnier-Cassia Emmanuelle
Published: May 2017

Les relations entre le droit et l’art théâtral sont complexes et chargées de défiance réciproques qui peuvent se changer en haine et produire un antithéâtre et un antidroit. La haine du théâtre par le droit se manifeste par une censure de la liberté d’expression du premier par le second, qui menace cet art quels que soient l’époque et le lieu considérés, contraignant les auteurs à justifier et parfois à expurger leurs textes, le plus souvent pour des raisons de moralité ou des provocations sur des questions religieuses. La haine du droit par le théâtre s’illustre par une satire féroce du monde juridique chez certains auteurs, parmi lesquels Aristophane, Racine, Molière, Brecht et Shakespeare. Cette haine réciproque peut néanmoins être dépassée en prenant en considération la question de la responsabilité, particulièrement à l’époque contemporaine marquée par l’engagement constructif d’auteurs et de metteurs en scène comme Thomas Ostermeier et Lina Prosa.
Proposal: Mass and Propaganda. An Inquiry Into Fascist Propaganda (Siegfried Kracauer, 1936)
Authors: Baer Nicholas
Published: May 2017

Written in French exile, the following text by Siegfried Kracauer from December 1936 outlines a research project that the German-Jewish intellectual undertook with funding from the Institute for Social Research. The work outlined here would be a study of totalitarian propaganda in Germany and Italy through sustained comparison with communist and democratic countries, especially the Soviet Union and the United States. Appearing in English translation for the first time, this document from Kracauer‘s estate is crucial for a full understanding of his career as a sociologist, cultural critic, film theorist and philosopher, demonstrating the global scope of his engagement with cinema, mass culture and modernity.
Synergistic interactions with PI3K inhibition that induce apoptosis
Authors: Zwang Yaara , Jonas Oliver , Chen Casandra , Rinne Mikael L , Doench John G , Piccioni Federica , Tan Li , Huang Hai-Tsang , Wang Jinhua , Ham Young Jin , O'Connell Joyce , Bhola Patrick , Doshi Mihir , Whitman Matthew , Cima Michael , Letai Anthony , Root David E , Langer Robert S , Gray Nathanael , Hahn William C
Published: May 2017

Activating mutations involving the PI3K pathway occur frequently in human cancers. However, PI3K inhibitors primarily induce cell cycle arrest, leaving a significant reservoir of tumor cells that may acquire or exhibit resistance. We searched for genes that are required for the survival of PI3K mutant cancer cells in the presence of PI3K inhibition by conducting a genome scale shRNA-based apoptosis screen in a PIK3CA mutant human breast cancer cell. We identified 5 genes (PIM2, ZAK, TACC1, ZFR, ZNF565) whose suppression induced cell death upon PI3K inhibition. We showed that small molecule inhibitors of the PIM2 and ZAK kinases synergize with PI3K inhibition. In addition, using a microscale implementable device to deliver either siRNAs or small molecule inhibitors in vivo, we showed that suppressing these 5 genes with PI3K inhibition induced tumor regression. These observations identify targets whose inhibition synergizes with PI3K inhibitors and nominate potential combination therapies involving PI3K inhibition.