bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Parâmetros de resistência e de durabilidade de um silte sedimentar cimentado para aplicação em pavimentação
Authors: Baldovino Jair de Jesús Arrieta , Izzo Ronaldo Luis Dos Santos , Rose Juliana Lundgren , Da Silva Érico Rafael
Published: December 2020

Este artigo apresenta os parâmetros de resistência e de durabilidade de um silte sedimentar de Curitiba (Brasil) estabilizado com cimento para potencial uso em pavimentação. A resistência à tração por compressão diametral, a resistência à compressão simples e perda de massa devido a ciclos de molhagem e secagem (M/S) foram pesquisados em laboratório usando um silte de coloração cinza esverdeado (originário de um dos horizontes da Formação Guabirotuba - Paraná) e cimento de alta resistência inicial-ARI (CPV). Foram empregados teores de cimento (C) de 3, 5, 7 e 9%, pesos específicos secos de moldagem (γd) de 14, 15 e 16 kN/m3, tempos de cura (t) de 7, 14 e 28 dias, e um teor de umidade (ω) fixo de 23%. Os resultados demonstram que com o aumento do teor de cimento e do tempo de cura, há um ganho de resistência mecânica, melhoramento na microestrutura, e uma diminuição na perda acumulada de massa (PAM) e da porosidade inicial (η) das misturas compactadas. Empregou-se a relação porosidade/teor volumétrico de cimento (η/Civ) para determinar a quantidade de cimento mínima necessária para estabilizar o solo de acordo com os parâmetros de resistência e durabilidade. Finalmente, C=5%, em peso, é o teor mínimo que satisfaz os requerimentos para uso potencial do solo em sub-base.
Engaging with the cultural ‘other’: The ‘colonial signature’ and learning from intercultural engagements
Authors: Hoult Simon
Published: December 2020

In this article, the idea of the ‘colonial signature’ is advanced as a potentially pivotal response to triggers that deepen or act as barriers to intercultural learning. From a postcolonial positioning, empirical data is then examined to consider the responses to intercultural-learning triggers of 14 UK-based student teachers on a study visit to India specifically through an analysis of their reflective writing and interviews.

Participants’ responses to varied triggers became significant colonial signatures to their intercultural learning. The learning deepened where responses were reflexive and articulated with reference to the global powerbase that underpins study visits to the Global South. Where responses to triggers provoked more shallow comparisons with home, the colonial signatures resulted in closed-down discussion, thus acting as a barrier to further learning. This has implications not only for study visits, but also, more widely, for the approach to global learning.
An exploration of how teachers’ attitudes to global learning can be used to inform primary science education
Authors: Strachan Amy
Published: December 2020

This article contends that in England, where the status of science as a core subject has been weakened due to a focus on high-stakes accountability testing, a global learning approach reignites science as a subject that can nurture active global citizens. It argues that teacher knowledge and teachers’ personal and professional commitment to global issues can inform a more relevant and purposeful primary science education, empowering both them and those they teach to become agents of change. It suggests that by exploring Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their relation to the primary science curriculum in England, as well as developing a series of pedagogical strategies in line with global learning, teaching and learning in primary science can become more engaging and purposeful beyond fulfilling an assessment framework. A mixed-methods research design was used to explore and inform the Global Learning in Primary Science (GLPS) project. The findings suggest that while practitioners shared a positive attitude to a global learning approach, without being explicitly indicated in curriculum policy, its integration will continue to be left to chance. This global learning approach provides an opportunity for primary science education to become valued as dynamic process which supports sustainable development rather than remaining a static body of knowledge.
Bewegte Körper - Ostentative Physis
Authors: Damrau Tillmann
Published: December 2020

Beim Blick auf den Zirkus und die Rhetoriken des Zirzensischen dominieren zwei alternative Perspektiven. Die eine sieht den Zirkus mit seinen artistischen Höchstleistungen und den Dressurakten als weiteres Exempel einer Kultur, die auf die Unterwerfung der Natur zielt. Die andere Ansicht ist bestimmt von der Faszination angesichts all der Darbietungen, sie überlässt sich dem Wunder der Manegenkünste. Die Motive der Zähmung des Wilden und der Befreiung natürlicher Ressourcen - im Falle des Zirkus zu artistischen Höchstleistungen - gefesselte und entfesselte Natur gründen beide in einem Aspekt der fortschreitenden Technisierung, worin das ideengeschichtliche Leitmotiv von der »Nachahmung der Natur« sich aufteilt in das Spannungsverhältnis von intakter zu überbotener Natur. Meine These ist, dass der bewegte Körper trotz seiner Einbettung in die Rituale und Rhetoriken des Zirzensischen, im Zirkus zu einer Setzung eigenen Rechts wird, die die ästhetisch fabrizierte Verschmelzung von Natur und Technik nicht nur behauptet, sondern - zum Staunen aller - in Wiederholung auch vorführt und erlebbar macht.
Chapter 1: Cultures of Speculation—Histories of Speculation
Authors: Lachenicht Susanne
Published: December 2020

This article looks into early modern temporal cultures and cultures of speculation, how they evolved with the Renaissance and the Age of European expansion. Not only the development of probability and risk calculation but also genres such as travel narratives and utopian/satirical literatures show how much the period between the fourteenth and the early nineteenth century was about a broad range of forms of speculation. Speculation in the early modern period was about futures that were more than a mere extension of the present but also about speculating on the past, on eternity and untime. With going back into these histories of speculation, I seek to open up horizons of speculation which serve as a speculum for today's cultures of speculation. The varieties and simultaneity of timescapes in the early modern period could thus help critically assess our own times, temporal cultures and modes of speculation and could help produce new possibilities and opportunities for the future - and other related concepts of time.
Chapter 7: Enacting Speculation
Authors: Ernst Wolf-Dieter , Hutta Jan Simon
Published: December 2020

Im Sommer 2017 veranstaltete die Theaterwissenschaft Bayreuth und die Humangeografie Bayreuth zusammen mit Matt Adams/Blast Theory den Workshop »Mapping Bayreuth«. Die Ergebnisse werden in diesem Artikel vorgestellt und in Beziehung gesetzt zu den erkenntnistheoretischen Ansätzen der Verkörperung und der Practice as Research in Performance.^
"Widerstand der Realität gegen das vorschnelle Sinnbedürfnis"
Authors: Dörr Volker C.
Published: December 2020

Volker C. Dörr behandelt in seinem Beitrag das Programm eines Neuen Realismus, das Dieter Wellershoff (1925-2018) als Lektor des Kölner Verlags Kiepenheuer & Witsch Mitte der 1960er Jahre entwickelt hat. Der Text analysiert die Voraussetzungen sowie die Implikationen des Konzepts, wirft einen Blick auf dessen Rezeption in der zeitgenössischen Literaturkritik und fragt schließlich nach dem Verhältnis zu Wellershoffs eigenem literarischen Schaffen dieser Zeit.
Robotic Knitting
Authors: Treusch Pat
Published: December 2020

As a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly welcoming towards »cobot« technologies, this book provides a technofeminist intervention. Pat Treusch not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical exchange through knitting, but also contributes a tangible example of coboting dynamics. Robotic Knitting re-negotiates the boundaries between formalisation and embodiment, craft and high-tech as well as useful and dysfunctional machines. It re-crafts the nature of collaboration between human and robot. This finally entails an alternative mode of relating - a mode that enables an account of careful coboting.
Sucht & Selbstkonzepte
Authors: Ptatscheck Melanie
Published: December 2020

Getreu dem Motto »Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll« scheint der Konsum von Drogen geradezu prototypisch zum Lifestyle vieler Musiker*innen dazuzugehören. Auffällig ist, dass es immer wieder musikalische Vertreter*innen des Typus »Junkie« sind, die zu Weltstars und Ikonen werden. Doch warum ist dieser Lebenswandel und dabei ausgerechnet der Konsum von Heroin so populär (gewesen)? Durch die Rekonstruktion individueller Lebensgeschichten heroinabhängiger Musiker in Los Angeles bestimmt Melanie Ptatscheck nicht nur sozialpsychologische und musikspezifische Suchtfaktoren. Ebenso zeigt sie auf, durch welche individuellen Bedürfnisse und gesellschaftlichen Narrative die Selbstvorstellungen dieser Musiker geprägt sind.
Jenseits von schwäbischen Spätzlemanufakturen und kiezigen Kneipen - polit-ökonomische Perspektiven auf Gentrifizierung
Authors: Jensen Inga , Schipper Sebastian
Published: December 2020

Im öffentlichen Diskurs werden häufig Studierende oder Künstler*innen als treibende Kräfte und Ursache für die Verdrängung von Arbeiterhaushalten identifiziert. Im Gegensatz zu diesen populären Erklärungsmustern argumentiert der Beitrag von Inga Jensen und Sebastian Schipper, dass Gentrifizierung ein Klassenkampf zwischen den von Vertreibung Bedrohten und den Akteuren des Immobilienkapitals ist. Um die tieferen Ursachen der Gentrifizierung zu verstehen, bietet die kritische Stadtforschung eine Reihe von theoretischen Ansätzen und Konzepten an - wie die Ertragslücken-Theorie, David Harveys politische Ökonomie der Urbanisierung oder die Neoliberalisierung der Wohnungsversorgung -, um Verdrängungsprozesse zu erklären. Im Unterschied zu den weit verbreiteten Narrativen beziehen sie grundlegende soziale Machtverhältnisse ein und bieten eine Vielzahl an Anregungen für Widerstand und politische Alternativen.
Sehnsuchtsort Natur
Authors: Braun Peter , Rosenthal Caroline
Published: December 2020

Caroline Rosenthal und Peter Braun widmen sich in ihrem Beitrag den unterschiedlichen Schreib- und Erzählweisen über Natur in den USA und in Deutschland. Sie gehen von der These aus, dass wo und wie Natur erfahren wird, in hohem Maß von den kulturellen, nicht zuletzt literarischen Imaginationen beeinflusst ist, die in einer Gesellschaft zirkulieren. In Deutschland ist seit einiger Zeit ein Boom des Schreibens über Natur zu beobachten, für das oftmals das amerikanische »Nature Writing« als Rezeptionsfolie herangezogen wird. Deshalb wird diese Tradition in ihren unterschiedlichen Formen und Kernideen seit Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts nachgezeichnet, um daran die aktuellen deutschen Texte kritisch zu messen. Die je spezifischen historischen Bedingungen zeigen sich dabei ebenso wie bestimmte Parallelen - gleichwohl das neue Schreiben über Natur in Deutschland stärker journalistisch geprägt ist und sich interessante Formexperimente dort ergeben, wo es die Grenzen zum Literarischen übersteigt.
Körper und Gesundheit von Männern zwischen hegemonialer Männlichkeit und Selbstsorge
Authors: Dinges Martin
Published: December 2020

Im Konzept hegemonialer Männlichkeit werden physische und psychische Kosten der Konditionierung von Männern unterschätzt. In den Medien wird der Umgang von Männern mit ihrem Körper als inkompetent dargestellt. Kritik an mangelnder oder wehleidiger Aufmerksamkeit gegenüber Körpersignalen kann gesellschaftliche Anforderungen an männliches Durchhaltevermögen stützen. Die unterschiedliche Körpersozialisation von Jungen und Mädchen hat einen langen historischen Vorlauf und wirkt sich derzeit mit einer fünf Jahre geringeren Lebenserwartung der Männer aus. Tatsächlich ist seit gut 30 Jahren aber eine nachholende Medikalisierung der Männer zu beobachten: Sie rauchen weniger, der Alkoholkonsum geht zurück, sie nehmen Psychotherapeuten stärker in Anspruch, erhalten mehr Psychopharmaka und akzeptieren also eher Schwäche und Selbstsorge. Diese Trends sind alle stärker ausgeprägt als bei Frauen. Diese bauen aber Gesundheitsressourcen durch Bewegung schneller auf als Männer, rauchen aber auch mehr.
Die Körperlichkeit sozialer Wirklichkeiten
Authors: Sieferle Barbara
Published: December 2020

Barbara Sieferle beschäftigt sich in ihrem Beitrag mit der ethnographischen Methode der Teilnehmenden Beobachtung und stellt anhand ihrer eigenen ethnographischen Forschungen (Pilger- und Gefängnisforschung) die Potenziale dieser Methode für den Zugang zur Körperlichkeit sozialer Wirklichkeiten heraus.
Die Regierung der Serie
Authors: Maeder Dominik
Published: December 2020

Serien erfreuen sich immenser Popularität und treiben den Medienwandel vom Fernsehen zum digitalen Streaming voran, kurz: Sie regieren. Zugleich ist für Serien das Modell der Regierung konstitutiv, denn sie lenken ihre Entwicklung, regulieren ihren Fortgang und entwerfen sich als zeitbasierte Steuerungsprozesse. Dominik Maeder analysiert die Kopplung dieser beiden Facetten - das Regieren der Serie und die Serie als Regierung - und stellt heraus: Ihre Popularität erklärt sich nur vor dem Hintergrund jener Steuerungslogiken, die fiktionale wie non-fiktionale Serien ins Werk setzen. Die poetische Signatur der digitalmedialen Transformation der Gegenwart lässt sich damit am Phänomen Serie ablesen.
Familie unter Verdacht
Authors: Dahlheimer Sabrina
Published: December 2020

Seit einigen Jahren rücken die Themen familiale Erziehung und Kinderschutz immer stärker in den Fokus des öffentlichen Interesses. Nicht unwesentlich dabei sind Empörungswellen über Fälle wie »Kevin« aus Bremen, welche die normativen Bilder von Familie und Elternschaft nachhaltig zu prägen scheinen. Sabrina Dahlheimer zeigt: Die darin zum Ausdruck kommende diskursdurchdringende Logik des Verdachts legitimiert nicht nur eine (Re-)Moralisierung sozialer Ungleichheiten, sondern ist auch mit zahlreichen Spannungsverhältnissen und Vertrauensbrüchen verbunden, die nicht zuletzt das gefährden, was die Diskursakteure vorgeben zu schützen: das Kindeswohl.
Heimat und Migration
Authors: Kück Svenja
Published: December 2020

»Heimat« ist nicht nur in seiner wissenschaftlichen Nutzung im Kontext von Flucht und Migration ein zentraler Begriff. Svenja Kück zeigt auf, in welchem Spannungsfeld in Deutschland lebende geflüchtete Personen Heimat immer neu aushandeln, bewahren und anpassen. Auf Grundlage empirischer Daten - der Zugang zum Forschungsfeld und die Erhebung biographischer Interviews gelang in einem innovativen transdisziplinären Reallaborsetting - fußt die Rekonzeptionalisierung eines offenen, kontextabhängigen Heimatbegriffs. Für den humangeographischen Ansatz und die Verknüpfung der Themenkomplexe Heimat und Migration stellt diese Studie eine Pionierleistung dar.
Welterzeugung als Experiment
Authors: Basler Sebastian
Published: December 2020

Über das gesamte Werk von Julian Barnes hinweg lassen sich immer wieder geschlossene, exponierte Räume beobachten, die sich markant von einem offenen, bewegten Außen abheben: Inseln, Schiffe, Gerichtssäle oder ein Friseursalon. Sebastian Basler stellt die These auf, dass diese Innen-Außen-Opposition verschiedene Fragen der Welterzeugung verräumlicht: Die kleinen und großen Welten der geschlossenen Räume sind nicht nur Schauplätze in den Erzählungen, sondern geben als experimentelle Anordnungen auch Aufschluss über ihr je spezifisches Gemacht-Sein. Mit dem Raum kommt eine Dimension in den Blick, die in der Literatur über Julian Barnes auch aufgrund der dominanten Zeitdiskurse der Geschichte und des Gedächtnisses noch wenig Beachtung gefunden hat.
Gesprächskünste
Authors: Bauer Gerhard
Published: December 2020

Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften wurden schon unter vielen Aspekten untersucht, eine eingehende Betrachtung ihrer raffinierten bis arglosen Gesprächskunst stand bisher jedoch noch aus. Gerhard Bauer untersucht dieses Zureden und Abwehren, auch Sticheln, die meist frei fließende, manchmal aber auch stockende Rede, mit Untertönen, wo sie ans Unerlaubte rührt - und macht deutlich: Goethes Dichtkunst erweist sich in der Ausgestaltung dieser Gesprächsverläufe nicht weniger als in der Konzeption und Durchführung der ruhigen - und unversehens dramatisch zugespitzten - Handlung.
Wert & Preis des schulischen Lehrens und Lernens
Authors: Timmermann Dieter
Published: December 2020

Dieser Beitrag versucht, eine Verbindung zwischen den pädagogischen Handlungen des Lehrens und Lernens und der durch Preise und Werte ausgedrückten ökonomischen Betrachtung dieser Handlungen einerseits und der diese Handlungen prospektiv gestaltenden Bildungsplanung herzustellen. Der Beitrag ist weder als empirische Studie noch als Theorieentwurf konzipiert, sondern hat den Charakter einer theoretisch angereicherten Reflexion über pädagogische Prozesse, deren ökonomische Implikationen und deren Planbarkeit. Preise und Werte werden begrifflich gesetzt und die Lehr-Lern-Prozesse mittels einer Bildungsproduktionsfunktion (BPF) dargestellt. Das geschieht in der Überzeugung, dass die Ansatzpunkte für Preise und Werte sowie für bildungsplanerische Bemühungen am ehesten mittels einer BPF veranschaulicht werden können. Es wird versucht zu bestimmen, wie sich Preise und Werte mit Blick auf unterschiedliche Wirkungskonzepte von Lehren und Lernen (Qualifikationen, Kompetenzen und Bildung) darstellen lassen. Schließlich wird geprüft, ob und wie sich Preise und Werte in diesen unterschiedlichen Wirkungskontexten bildungsplanerischen Ansprüchen öffnen oder verschließen.
Warum treffen sich soziale Bewegungen?
Authors: Manthe Rainald
Published: December 2020

Warum treffen sich soziale Bewegungen? Dieser Frage geht Rainald Manthe am Beispiel der transnationalen Bewegungskonferenz des Weltsozialforums nach. Mithilfe einer interaktionssoziologischen Perspektive zeigt er auf, welche Eigenleistungen die Sozialform der (physischen) Interaktion für das Zustandekommen und den Erfolg der Treffen sozialer Bewegungen erbringt. Hierzu analysiert er, wie eine fragile Interaktionsordnung konstruiert, Verstehen ermöglicht und Zusammenhalt geschaffen wird - und dadurch Alternativen lebbar werden. Dabei wird deutlich, dass es nicht nur bei sozialen Bewegungen einen Eigenwert hat, sich leibhaftig zu treffen, anstatt über technische Medien zu kommunizieren.
One Story, Many Perspectives: Reading and Writing Graphic Novels in the Elementary Social Studies Classroom
Authors: Christie Erica
Published: December 2020

Though elementary students often read picture books in school, the growth of critical literacy has inspired teachers to select texts that engage students with literacy and social studies in more meaningful ways. Although many of these texts are traditional picture books, alternative formats like the graphic novel are also being used to invite student questioning and share multiple perspectives. This study examines the ways elementary students understand and retell a complex social studies story using multiple textual formats. Thirdgrade students were exposed to a picture book and graphic novel version of the true story of Alia Muhammad Baker, a courageous Iraqi librarian. After reflecting on the texts, students renarrated the story; many chose to write graphic novels. Students expressed high levels of interest in graphic novels, exhibited new perspectives on the Iraq War and active citizenship, and utilized key features of graphic novels to tell complex and multilayered social stories.
Standard Written Academic English: A Critical Appraisal
Authors: Colombo Laura (Violeta)
Published: December 2020

Science today is mainly communicated through standard written academic English (SWAE). In this paper, I apply the postulations of Gramsci, Bourdieu and Canagarajah to show how domination structures are reproduced in scientific communication worldwide. I argue that these structures do not allow nondominant epistemologies and ways of producing and communicating science to participate in the international arena. I apply a critical lens to interpret each one of the terms present in SWAE. I propose that a critical appraisal of each one of these terms is the first step towards a more democratic conceptualization of science communication where the standards are not only seen as a means of innocuous communication but also as ideologically charged fictitious universals. It is my claim that understanding the arbitrary nature of these universals and the influence that language has on knowledge construction will give space to nondominant ways of producing and communicating knowledge.
Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in Adult ESL Classrooms: Some Issues to Consider
Authors: Jordan Sheri
Published: December 2020

With anti-immigrant sentiments permeating the media, policy, and public discourse throughout the United States, little room seems to exist for understanding what drives Mexican migrants northward. However, while acknowledging the historical conditions leading to US immigration policy, negative discourses and stereotypes in the American media and public, continuing Mexican migration in spite of great sacrifice, and the choices of individuals to migrate to the US, adult ESL educators need a framework as they encounter these students in the classroom. This framework combines Freire’s “pedagogy of the oppressed” with a transformative pedagogy that relinquishes deficit models and invites student knowledge into the classroom.
Historical foundation of diversity courses in teacher education programs and challenges of pedagogic application
Authors: Ndemanu Michael Takafor
Published: December 2020

This article examines the historical underpinnings of multicultural education with respect to its origin, goals, and struggles for implementation in public schools prior to the 1970s. It also discusses the impeding factors that have up to now hampered an effective multicultural education preparation for preservice teachers, who are expected to acquire instructional strategies grounded in the core values of multicultural education in order to be effective teachers of diverse student populations. The setbacks, otherwise known as areas of concerns in multicultural teacher education courses, are explored in this article and classified as unpreparedness of middle‐class white preservice teachers, scope of the curriculum andpedagogy, preservice teachers’ deficit beliefs, preservice teachers’ resistance to diversity and equity courses, racial identities of the instructors of diversity courses, and direct experiences. The examination of the setbacks are meant to raise awareness of the intricacies of teaching diversity and equity courses for teacher educators, and not to discount the contribution of such courses in inculcating cross‐cultural awareness and praxis in prospective teachers.
“Actually, that’s not really how I imagined it”: Children’s divergent dispositions, identities, and practices in digital production
Authors: Buchholz Beth
Published: December 2020

This case study explores the range of social and digital literacy practices in which a group of 4th to 6th grade students engaged while collaboratively creating digital book trailers—one‐ to two-minute digital videos designed to entice classmates to read a particular book. The research question framing this work is how do these children’s ways of knowing and being in the world impact their multimodal production processes? Fine‐grained multimodal analysis was combined with retrospective think‐alouds and ethnographic fieldwork to uncover traces of practice that were sedimented in their digital texts. The analysis highlights the importance of developing methodological tools for studying digital composition processes, given that much of the research in this area has focused on analyzing the final products using multimodal content analysis. The findings reveal divergent practices around image selection and representation that suggest contrasting ethea of remixing culture. Implications include considering the visual arts as a potential entry point for supporting students’ critical engagement in the digital world.
Full Volume 3: Working Papers in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education (WPLCLE)
Authors: Coronel-­Molina Serafín M. , Rowland Leslie
Published: December 2020

The full issue of WPLCLE, volume 3 (2014).
Full Volume 4: Working Papers in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education (WPLCLE)
Authors: Coronel-­Molina Serafín M. , McNabb Melissa , Panos Alexandra M.
Published: December 2020

The full issue of WPLCLE, volume 4 (2015).
Exploring Approaches to Teaching Bilingual Education in Countries where English is a First Language: A study in East London
Authors: Howlader Mohammad Rasel
Published: December 2020

The aim of the study is to recognize literacy practices of the ethnic minorities and find suitable teaching approaches in a multilingual context in London. The main research question is: How do the ethnic minorities in London want their heritage languages to be recognized in their mainstream schools? Primary research has been carried out through questionnaires and structured interviews and secondary research has been carried out through analyzing published books and articles. In breaking the silence of the bilingual children, it has been suggested that a post communicative approach would be convenient to teach ethnic minority languages and activities like pair work, group work, role play, brainstorming, multiple choice and filling in the gaps would be suitable in bilingual learning. Results show that bilingual learning can be enhanced through parental support, social media, storytelling by grandparents and the inclusion of a bilingual syllabus in the National Curriculum in England.
Book Review: Virtual Literacies: Interactive Spaces for Children and Young People, edited by Guy Merchant et al, London: Routledge, 2014
Authors: Al Bulushi Zawan
Published: December 2020

Review of Virtual Literacies: Interactive Spaces for Children and Young People, edited by Guy Merchant et al, London: Routledge, 2014.
Performing Beethoven’s musical dynamics
Authors: Doğantan-Dack Mine
Published: December 2020

Twentieth-century musicology frequently invoked the music of Beethoven to validate its work-centred, textualist and structuralist agenda. This article re-orients Beethoven’s music towards the performance studies paradigm, which places the music making body and material contexts of performing at the centre of its disciplinary epistemology, by weaving a novel discursive context around the composer’s unusual dynamics markings. Through a historical case study of the premiere of his Op. 70 No. 2 piano trio, I explore the connections between the performance experience of Beethoven’s dynamics and some of the philosophical and cultural discourses emerging in Europe during the early nineteenth century on the body and the self, and thereby construct novel meanings for his expressive performance practice. By bringing together interdisciplinary historical scholarship, phenomenological reflection, analytical thought and practice-based enquiry, I open up a neglected area of research that lies at the intersection of the performance experience of musical dynamics, sensory history and somatic musical archeology.
Measuring Support for Requiring Reduced Nicotine Cigarettes: Issues with Questions, Answers, and Respondents
Authors:   Buffalo State College, Kulak Jessica , Kamper-DeMarco Kimberly , Kozlowski Lynn
Published: December 2020

Objective: In this study, we assessed the effect of question type and answer options on support for lowering nicotine levels in cigarettes to make them less addictive. Methods: We surveyed 540 US adults using Prime Panels. Participants randomly received: (1) one of 2 Likert-type questions and (2) a forced-choice question on a range of policy options, with responses in one of 2 orders. Generalized linear models examined policy support using a latent outcome variable. Results: Overall, 53% of smokers and 77%-81% of former/never smokers supported the policy. With Likert questions, support was higher when ‘support’ options were presented first; with the forced-choice question, there were no answer order effects. Few smokers (21%) supported the policy consistently, compared to 47% of former and 52% of never smokers. In the multivariate latent model, current smokers (b = -0.13, 95% CI: -0.24, -0.02) and former smokers (b = -0.48, 95% CI: -0.58, -0.38) were significantly less likely to support the low nicotine policy compared to never smokers. Conclusions: Survey design, including question type and the response order, resulted in a substantial difference in participant responses. Better and multiple questions may be needed before drawing conclusions about mandatory reduced nicotine cigarettes support, especially among smokers.
Application of sampling methods for the research design
Authors: Mweshi Geoffrey Kapasa , Sakyi Kwesi
Published: December 2020

The objective of this paper is to discuss the application of the sampling framework in a research with a view to understanding what it is, and examining the application of the concept to the analysis of sampling as one procedure that makes research manageable. When investigators

choose a sample they select a relatively small but representative number of cases from the population of interest or universe of discourse for enumeration or observation. A sample chosen in an unbiased or scientific way is likely to yield results which are closer to the population parameters. The discussion in this paper will address the issues and decisions which are considered before determining the sampling framework in a research so that there is a clear identification of the phenomenon being researched on to create room for rigorous  analysis. The discussion went further by comparing and contrasting the qualitative research approaches.

The paper further explored some philosophical underpinnings of research in order to understand and appreciate some of the individual organizational problems.  The paper relied mainly on secondary research by drawing insights from publications and books that had contributed to the revelations about the nature and issues that may be an important in both qualitative and quantitative research. The literature review was therefore mainly focused on the nature of analysis of quantitative and  qualitative data collected through empirical study through cross sectional and time series data using various data collection instruments. The paper also examined in detail data presentation methods and their implications for analysis.
Service Quality Perception and its Impact on Internet Banking in Klang Valley
Authors: Aseh Khairi , Pathmanathan P. Ravindran
Published: December 2020

Banking in Malaysia has undergone rapid transformation over the past two decades, witnessing a maritime shift in the nature of the services offered by banks, which have a positive impact on bank customers. The public sector banks have started to incorporate new technology into their operations with increasing customer expectations. It brought about a change in customer perceptions. Hence to what extent the needs to be studied were satisfied or not satisfied with the consumers. Since the Internet is a new virtual medium with so many potential customers, it is the banks that are most critical to consider customer desires and wants. This study aims to identify the impact of demographic characteristics of respondents on internet banking adoption. A total of 600 respondents from the one of the banks in Kuala Lumpur City who was selected for the purpose of this study. Results on service quality perception and its impact on Internet banking has been discussed in this paper.
Why Does Momentum Persist?
Authors: Samsa Greg
Published: December 2020

The phenomenon of short-term momentum in intriguing because it directly contradicts the notion that in an efficient market stock prices should lack memory.  Three classes of possible explanation for momentum are (1) it is consistent with tenets of efficient markets after appropriate risk adjustment; (2) it is consistent with tenets of behavioral finance because of investors' cognitive biases; and (3) it is consistent with structurally-based positive feedback loops.  The presence of extreme bubbles provides evidence against the first explanation.  The fact that prices are effectively set by institutional investors who are aware of the cognitive biases in question and have a financial incentive to avoid them provides evidence against the second.  Structurally-based explanations include the short-term incentives of institutional money managers and the impact of indexing.   We believe that considering structural factors affecting the behavior of stock prices provides an additional perspective, to be used in combination with behavioral finance and market efficiency.
Impact Of Ifrs Adoption On The Financial Performance Of Listed Food And Beverage Firms In Nigeria
Authors: Asuquo Mary Victor , Jeremiah Ofonime
Published: December 2020

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Farmers’ attitude to the effectiveness of ICTs Use in their Farming, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar
Authors: Win Naing Kyi , Htwe Nyein Nyein
Published: December 2020

This study focused on farmers’ attitudes to the effectiveness of ICTs in their farming and farmers’ challenges in accessing it. Extension workers of the respective Townships identified the 144 sample farmers, and the data was collected through interviews using questionnaires during 2019.  There were frequency means and a dichotomous scale used to analyze the ICT attitude pattern among farmers and a 5-point Likert scale with the options.

 This study explored the personal factors of ICT accessed farmers who are significantly getting young and middle age, high school, and graduate-level education and a moderate working experience compared with ICTs non- access farmers. 110 out of 144 farmers frequently used and accessed ICTs such as Radio, FM radio, TV, Facebook, Phone, and Agricultural Journals to obtain the agricultural information, but 34 farmers could not access ICTs due to the high cost, other social factors, and low ICT exposure. Most of the farmers received agricultural information from related Departments and Organizations traditionally, such as training, meeting, demonstration, trials, and conferences. More than half of the farmers were positively consistent agricultural information with their needs, but the rest did not meet their needs. Most farmers believed highly positive to agricultural information. However, some farmers responded negatively to agricultural details because they seem commonly knowledgeable information. Farmers mentioned in this study that more than half of farmers positively showed that attitude on high true and true regarding agricultural information.

Moreover, farmers encountered insufficient electricity, challenging ICT exposure, low trust, and social problems. And also, farmers commonly faced challenges as high cost for ICT usage, high price for ICTs tools, and poor ICT service.  Besides, farmers’ other challenges were poor connectivity, inadequate support for the mother service provider, failure to attend the training, complexity to operate, and badly wanted news. Finally, this study recommended that farmers use effective utilization of ICTs in their farming in Nay Pyi Taw area that has the potential to make the rural communities prosperous as it enables the dissemination of required information in user-friendly patterns, easy to access, cost-effective ways at the right time with relevant information and training to be a skill.
International Law of the Sea in North Natuna Sea
Authors: Azhari Yulian
Published: December 2020

The dispute that occurred in the North Natuna Sea has attracted international attention, including the superpower United States of America and the People's Republic of China and countries in the Southeast Asian region. This escalation of tensions occurred when the People's Republic of China built military bases in areas considered the nine dash lines that the PRC claims as part of their country. International law continues to fail to enforce the North Natuna Sea. It is clear that international law has so far tried - and failed - to contain China's advances in the North Natuna Sea. Existing confidence-building measures must match China's increasingly hegemonic claims. If not, the rules-based order will face continued erosion and smaller countries in Southeast Asia will suffer the consequences. This study uses a qualitative approach with socio-historical analysis to reveal past events, especially in the field of maritime law, which are unknown to the international community.
Sposoby kształcenia w grafice książkowej w wyższym szkolnictwie artystycznym Krakowa i Warszawy w Polsce Ludowej (1945-1952)
Authors: Boguszewska Anna
Published: December 2020

The purpose of the study is to present the principles of education in the field of book art as part of applied graphics, provided at the Academies of Fine Arts in Krakow and Warsaw. These two academic environments stimulated revival of this type of education. The analysis pertains to 1945–1952 when Poland witnessed crucial political and ideological changes affecting a new character of education. In the study, the process of nationalisation of artistic education is presented. The author shares her assumptions of the new teaching curricula designed in accordance with the ideological needs of the communist authorities. Marxism-Leninism was taught as a foreground subject. Graphic departments were established to educate specialists to be employed by the state propaganda. An attempt has been made to reconstruct the personal composition of the graphic faculties lecturers in both academic centres.
On the origins of semiosic translation, the role of semiosis in translation and translating and the nature of sign systems: Response to Jia
Authors: Torres-Martínez Sergio
Published: December 2020

In this response paper, I trace the origins of semiosic translation and explain why Jia’s interpretations are theoretically problematic. I also demonstrate that the view of translation endorsed by Jia is untenable from a cognitive perspective, since both perception and action are affordances of the living organisms and hence are not restricted to the “thinking mind” within a Lotmanian semiosphere. Finally, since translation is not a special case of semiosis, I show that semiosic processes, and not individual signs, are the source of all types of translations.
necesidad de la educación estética para la formación en diseño gráfico: una propuesta metodológica.
Authors: Presol Herrero África , Pérez Manzanares Julio
Published: December 2020

Esta investigación estudia la necesidad de combinar la educación estética y la adquisición de cultura visual como aptitudes técnicas para el diseño gráfico. Se establece una metodología doble: recuperación y exploración bibliográfica que analiza la vinculación de los conocimientos de carácter técnico de ambas disciplinas, así como del análisis práctico de los resultados obtenidos mediante su aplicación en la experiencia docente y el cuestionario como técnica de investigación cualitativa realizado a estudiantes del Grado en Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas en Educación Superior. Los resultados muestran que el método de enseñanza transversal y una formación de carácter histórico y teórico sobre los medios visuales es adecuado para la aplicación de técnicas digitales y el desarrollo de proyectos de creación de branding, identidad visual e imagen de marca.
proceso creativo de las agrupaciones carnavalescas de Cádiz.
Authors: Fernández Jiménez Estrella
Published: December 2020

El carnaval de Cádiz y las agrupaciones que participan en el COAC (Concurso Oficial de Agrupaciones Carnavalescas) tienen un número de seguidores que cada año aumenta. Este incremento se debe a la difusión de los medios de comunicación y las redes sociales, pero sobre todo a su cantidad y calidad creativa. Es una manifestación cultural que cada vez está cobrando mayor relevancia académica. Este artículo tiene como objetivo estudiar lo que siempre permanece oculto a los seguidores y espectadores (e incluso entre los propios autores y creadores de las coplas): el proceso de creación audiovisual de las agrupaciones (letra, música y puesta en escena). Aquí, además de hacer una panorámica sobre los procesos de creatividad de los autores, se analiza por primera vez si, independientemente de la modalidad, siguen un ritmo parecido; si bien cada una es distinta; o si tienen tiempos y organizaciones comunes. Mediante una metodología cualitativa y de seguimiento semanal del proceso creativo a diversos autores de cada modalidad concursante, este artículo da respuesta a las cuestiones antes señaladas sobre las agrupaciones del carnaval de Cádiz, las cuales pertenecen a la cultura popular con gran potencial comunicacional. Se trata de un fenómeno que, aunque tiene un proceso disperso e individualizado, se dan coincidencias troncales en el orden de creación. Los resultados obtenidos pueden servir para profundizar en el conocimiento de este fenómeno así como posible ayuda a quien quiera acercarse a la creación carnavalesca.
rol del audiovisual production researcher en el tratamiento de la documentación audiovisual.
Authors: Hernández Alfonso Eduardo Alejandro , Paz Enrique Luis Ernesto , Pérez Cabrera Rachel Milagros
Published: December 2020

Los roles en el tratamiento de la documentación audiovisual tienen una gran variedad de denominaciones. Entre las más comunes se encuentran Production Researcher, TV Researcher, Film Researcher, Programme Researcher y Video Librarian. Aunque las denominaciones varían, las funciones se limitan al procesamiento, almacenamiento, custodia y difusión de las colecciones audiovisuales. La definición de un nuevo rol que además de realizar las actividades de los anteriores, participe en el proceso de producción audiovisual, permitirá superar las limitaciones que presenta el documentalista audiovisual. Se plantean como objetivos del estudio: 1) Identificar los roles tradicionales del profesional de la información en el tratamiento de la documentación audiovisual, 2) Fundamentar el Audiovisual Production Researcher como un nuevo rol en el tratamiento de la documentación audiovisual. El presente estudio clasifica como descriptivo con aporte teórico. Para la obtención de resultados se emplearon los métodos analítico-sintético, histórico-lógico, inductivo-deductivo, sistémico-estructural y el análisis documental clásico. Se define el rol del Audiovisual Production Researcher como un profesional con un papel activo en la elaboración de los audiovisuales. Participa en la concepción de la idea (fase de planificación), elaboración del guion y emplea metadatos o descriptores en la concepción de la idea; garantizado mayor organización para el posterior trabajo de realización y procesamiento.
Partnerships Generate Co-Benefits in Agricultural Stream Restoration (Canterbury, New Zealand)
Authors: Febria Catherine M. , Bayfield Maggie , Collins Kathryn E. , Devlin Hayley S. , Goeller Brandon C. , Hogsden Kristy L. , Warburton Helen J. , Harding Jon S. , McIntosh Angus R.
Published: December 2020

In Aotearoa New Zealand, agricultural land-use intensification and decline in freshwater ecosystem integrity pose complex challenges for science and society. Despite riparian management programmes across the country, there is frustration over a lack in widespread uptake, upfront financial costs, possible loss in income, obstructive legislation and delays in ecological recovery. Thus, social, economic and institutional barriers exist when implementing and assessing agricultural freshwater restoration. Partnerships are essential to overcome such barriers by identifying and promoting co-benefits that result in amplifying individual efforts among stakeholder groups into coordinated, large-scale change. Here, we describe how initial progress by a sole farming family at the Silverstream in the Canterbury region, South Island, New Zealand, was used as a catalyst for change by the Canterbury Waterway Rehabilitation Experiment, a university-led restoration research project. Partners included farmers, researchers, government, industry, treaty partners (Indigenous rights-holders) and practitioners. Local capacity and capability was strengthened with practitioner groups, schools and the wider community. With partnerships in place, co-benefits included lowered costs involved with large-scale actions (e.g., earth moving), reduced pressure on individual farmers to undertake large-scale change (e.g., increased participation and engagement), while also legitimising the social contracts for farmers, scientists, government and industry to engage in farming and freshwater management. We describe contributions and benefits generated from the project and describe iterative actions that together built trust, leveraged and aligned opportunities. These actions were scaled from a single farm to multiple catchments nationally.
The Securitization of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia
Authors: Rikza Ayu
Published: December 2020

Hizbut-Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) is a community organization that was born from the resistance of the Islamic community against Western occupation. Western values that hegemony national and state life are currently considered by HTI to be highly irrelevant to Islamic values. In addition, deteriorating national political conditions are perceived by HTI as a result of the failure of the Western system in Indonesia, so to resolve the issue there needs efforts to return Muslims to an Islamic system based on the Qur'an and Sunnah. By the Indonesian government, the ideas and solutions envisioned by HTI are considered to threaten national security which is referenced to Pancasila as the idea of state and community harmonization as the physical base of state. HTI construction as a threat that led to the dissolution of HTI on July 19, 2017 is a form of securitization carried out by the Indonesian government. This paper tries to explain how and why the securitization process was carried out and what the impact of HTI securitization itself was in Indonesian politics. This study seeks to fill the gap that previous research regarding how non-state actors play a major role in the HTI securitization process and how HTI securitization is a turning point for efforts to politicize and securitize other Indonesia's so-called radical communities after the PERPPU ORMAS.
Influence of secretory phenotype and preoperative preparation on surgical outcome in pheochromocytoma
Authors: Furnica Raluca Maria , Dusoruth Muhammad Muddaththir , Persu Alexandre , Gruson Damien , Mourad Michel , Maiter Dominique
Published: December 2020

Objectives

Surgery of pheochromocytomas (PCs) still carries a high risk of haemodynamic complications during the perioperative period. We aimed to evaluate the influence of their secretory phenotype and preoperative alpha-blocker treatment on surgical outcome.

Design

A retrospective monocentric study at a tertiary medical centre.

Patients

In this study, 80 consecutive patients operated by the same team for a PC between 1988 and 2018.

Results

Diagnosis was based on typical symptoms and signs in 58 patients, genetic testing in 12 and work-up of an adrenal incidentaloma in 9. It was made during surgery in one patient. A genetic predisposition was found in one-third of index cases (21/62). The majority of the patients (73/79) had a secreting PC; more than 2/3 had an adrenergic phenotype and less than 1/3 a noradrenergic phenotype. The rate of perioperative haemodynamic complications was not influenced by the secretory phenotype, but persistent hypertension after surgery, recurrence and malignancy were more frequently observed in patients with a noradrenergic tumour. Preoperative alpha-blocker treatment was given for ≥ 14 days in 29 patients and, although being more symptomatic at diagnosis, these patients had less haemodynamic complications (3/29 vs 12/51 non-treated patients, P = 0.05).

Conclusions

The occurrence of haemodynamic complications during surgery was not significantly affected by the secretory phenotype in our study, but noradrenergic tumours show a worse post-surgical outcome. Our data also provide additional support in favour of a sufficient preoperative alpha-blockade in patients with pheochromocytoma.