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Surveillant Assemblages of Governance in Massively Multiplayer Online Games: A Comparative Analysis
Authors: Kerr Aphra , De Paoli Stefano , Keatinge Max 
Published: July 2018

This paper explores governance in Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs), one sub-sector of the digital games industry. Informed by media governance studies, Surveillance Studies, and game studies, this paper identifies five elements which form part of the system of governance in MMOGs. These elements are: game code and rules; game policies; company community management practices; player participatory practices; and paratexts. Together these governance elements function as a surveillant assemblage, which relies to varying degrees on lateral and hierarchical forms of surveillance, and the assembly of human and non-human elements. Using qualitative mixed methods we examine and compare how these elements operate in three commercial MMOGs: Eve Online, World of Warcraft and Tibia. While peer and participatory surveillance elements are important, we identified two major trends in the governance of disruptive behaviours by the game companies in our case studies. Firstly, an increasing reliance on automated forms of dataveillance to control and punish game players, and secondly, increasing recourse to contract law and diminishing user privacy rights. Game players found it difficult to appeal the changing terms and conditions and they turned to creating paratexts outside of the game in an attempt to negotiate the boundaries of the surveillant assemblage. In the wider context of self-regulated governance systems these trends highlight the relevance of consumer rights, privacy, and data protection legislation to online games and the usefulness of bringing game studies and Surveillance Studies into dialogue.
Reimagining Resistance: Performing Transparency and Anonymity in Surveillance Art
Authors: Kafer Gary 
Published: July 2018

In 2002, multimedia artist Hasan Elahi launched the project Tracking Transience, a website designed to make public his location and activity. Yet despite the complete disclosure of Elahi’s personal information in this format, Tracking Transience aims to enact a resistive posture to recent developments in digital surveillance. Rather than uphold claims to privacy, Elahi negotiates his security through the release of his personal information. Paradoxically, he voluntarily forgoes his privacy in order to feel more secure. His form of resistance then registers his project of self-surveillance as a performance of transparency. He turns the normative flow of power in digital surveillance into a new critical posture, wherein the artist becomes anonymous to surveillance systems and is able to maintain comfortable levels of security without typical recourse to privacy. And it is precisely this mode of anonymity that Elahi argues is able to produce a mode of resistance to surveillance, one in which the artist participates with digital surveillance in order to avoid it. By tracing the methodologies that generate data on Elahi’s activity, this paper will speculate on how creative interventions can effect resistive strategies against surveillance systems by moving beyond the historical limits of privacy into the outer reaches of anonymity in our contemporary age of transparency.
Mexico: Internal security, surveillance, and authoritarianism
Authors: Arteaga Nelson 
Published: July 2018

The recent violence linked to drug trafficking in Mexico has been dealt with by the federal government by increasing police presence on the streets and involving the army in public safety activities. This has not decreased violence but has increased cases of human rights violation, and the capabilities of non-regulated surveillance and monitoring of the population. Thus, the new internal security law suggests that the police and the army will be able to “develop intelligence activities” by “any information gathering method.” They will also be able to require information from other authorities that they consider necessary to ensure “constitutional order,” as well as the “continuity” and “survival” of State institutions. The law has generated a wide public debate that contrasts two competing discourses.
CCTV Policy in the UK: Reconsidering the Evidence Base
Authors: Webster C. William W. 
Published: July 2018

This article attempts to address such concerns by revisiting the rationale behind the policy and provision of CCTV surveillance cameras, and by reconsidering the evidence base and the logic behind the cameras. In doing so, it suggests that the focus on crime statistics is in many ways a ‘red herring’ that does not fully explain the impetus behind the revolution or the true beneficiaries of CCTV. As costs become a more important issue with the age of systems, the reassessment of the evidence base is as much about a redistribution of the costs of delivering CCTV as about its effectiveness. This in turn raises further questions about the evidence base on which CCTV policy and practice is founded.
Carceral Ambivalence: Japanese Canadian ‘Internment’ and the Sugar Beet Programme during World War II
Authors: Ikebuchi Ketchell Shelly 
Published: July 2018

Liberty is a fundamental marker of citizenship. During World War II, for Japanese Canadians in prisoner-of-war camps the stripping of their liberty was a sure sign of their loss of citizenship. However, for others the distinction between liberty and incarceration was not as clear. Despite the fact that many Japanese Canadians enjoyed the appearance of relative freedom during World War II, for many citizenship was uncertain and liberty was tenuous at best. Ambivalence infused discussions surrounding the relocation of Japanese Canadians to Alberta and Manitoba. This paper highlights the multiple and diverse processes of incarceration that took place amidst this ambivalence. I begin with Foucault’s (1995) definition of the ‘carceral’ as an incorporation of “institutions of supervision or constraint, of discreet surveillance and insistent coercion” (299). Using newspaper articles from a one year period, I apply this definition to Japanese Canadian ‘relocation’ to Alberta and Manitoba as part of the government sponsored Sugar Beet Programme. This program offers a unique perspective, as it was framed as a ‘self-support’ program, thus implying a greater range of freedoms. However, despite illusions of freedom, I argue that what made these sites carceral was a combination of state and civic mediations.
In Defense of Privacy: The Concept and the Regime
Authors: Bennett Colin J 
Published: July 2018

It has recently become fashionable within the surveillance studies community to subject the concept and regime of “privacy protection” to some very rigorous criticism. “Privacy” and all that it entails is argued to be too narrow, too based on liberal assumptions of subjectivity, too implicated in rights-based theory and discourse, insufficiently sensitive to the social sorting and discriminatory aspects of surveillance, and overly embroiled in spatial metaphors about “invasion” and “intrusion.” As a concept, and as a way to frame the various social and political challenges encountered within “surveillance societies,” it is inadequate. These critiques are important, and to some extent, have set scholarly inquiry on a new, exciting and broader, trajectory than that offered by privacy scholars. On closer examination, however, these critiques are often based on some faulty assumptions about the contemporary framing of the privacy issue, and about the governance of the issue. Privacy, as a concept, regime, a set of policy instruments, and as a way to frame civil society activism, shows an extraordinary resilience. Surveillance scholars must learn to live with it.
Estudo Comparativo da Eficácia e Segurança entre 2 Instrumentos de Energia Bipolar (EnSeal® e LigasureTM) na Selagem Vascular em Modelo Suíno Ex-Vivo
Authors: Cordeiro Agostinho , Conde Mariana , Torres João , Morais Nuno , Mota Paulo , Rocha Ana , Grimaldi Giovanni , Botelho Francisco , Nogueira Vitor H. , Lima Estevão 
Published: July 2018

Introdução: A hemostase é uma questão central na cirurgia laparoscópica. Não há diretrizes claras quando se trata de escolher qual o instrumento de energia a utilizar. Este estudo compara a eficiência e segurança entre EnSeal® e LigasureTM na selagem de artérias e veias em um modelo porcino ex-vivo.
Métodos: Os instrumentos foram comparados entre si em relação à velocidade de corte e à pressão de ruptura (burst pressure - BP) após a colheita do vaso. Os níveis de coagulação e corte dos geradores foram configurados a um nível constante de energia. Um grupo de vasos foi enviado para análise histológica para avaliação do dano térmicos e selagem histológica.
Resultados: Foram testados 124 vasos. No geral, o LigasureTM foi o instrumento mais rápido em todos os tipos de vasos e o EnSeal® foi o mais lento. Não houve diferenças estatisticamente significativas entre a BP, exceto para o grupo de artérias médias, onde a BP gerada pelo LigasureTM foi significativamente maior que a gerada pelo EnSeal®. No mesmo grupo de vasos, o LigasureTM foi o que apresentou a menor porcentagem de falhas de selagem. Não houve associação entre o número de falhas de selagem e o tamanho do vaso. Houve, no entanto, uma associação entre o número de falhas de selagem nas artérias versus veias, com maior número de falhas nas artérias em ambos os instrumentos, em comparação com nenhuma falha nas veias com LigasureTM. Embora não tenham sido encontradas diferenças estatisticamente significativas entre as selagens dos dois instrumentos, aquele com maior comprimento médio de selagem nas artérias e nas veias foi o LigasureTM, o que teoricamente pode significar uma selagem mais confiável.
Conclusão: O LigasureTM fornece a selagem mais rápida e confiável, com BP superior em artérias médias comparativamente ao EnSeal® e com maior comprimento de selagem, tanto nas artérias como nas veias. No entanto, apresentou danos térmicos significativamente maiores que o EnSeal®.
Hilary Putnam y la nostalgia del pragmatismo
Authors: Faerna Ángel 
Published: July 2018

El propósito del artículo es hacer un breve examen de la relación de Hilary Putnam
con el pragmatismo. En las dos primeras secciones se describe el desplazamiento del
pensamiento de Putnam desde la filosofía analítica “ortodoxa” hacia el neopragmatismo,
y se hace un resumen de su discusión con Richard Rorty en torno al significado
del pragmatismo. La tercera sección muestra el papel central que asume el rechazo
de ambos a la definición de la verdad de Peirce a la hora de entender las diferencias
entre filósofos neopragmatistas y pragmatistas clásicos (incluido Dewey). En la última
sección se extraen algunas conclusiones de lo anterior por lo que se refiere al “relato”
en torno al pragmatismo contemporáneo.
ПСИХОЛОГІЧНІ ОСОБЛИВОСТІ СОЦІАЛЬНОЇ ІДЕНТИЧНОСТІ ДЕПРИВОВАНИХ ПІДЛІТКІВ: РЕВІТАЛІЗАЦІЙНИЙ РАКУРС
Authors: Hoshovska Daria , Hoshovskyi Yaroslav 
Published: July 2018

У статті йдеться про те, що діти, позбавлені сімейної опіки, вступаючи в межі підлітковості, відчувають на собі негативний вплив і посилений тиск як різновидової депривації, так і загальновікових підліткових психофізичних зако­номірностей, зокрема особливості пубертату як гетерохронного статевого дозрівання, кризові наслідки переходу з початкової школи в основну, конфліктний та проблемний характер міжособистісного спілкування, переживання численних підліткових комплексів тощо. З’ясовано, що внаслідок перебування в силовому полі суті й традицій інтернатного закладу та через відсутність рідних батьків як зразків для підсвідомого і свідомого наслідування в депривованих вихованців утворюються підвищена внутрішня конфліктність, амбівалентність, намагання до уникнення й самотності й інші пасивні та дискомфортні поведінкові тенденції, що дуже негативно впливають на становлення їхньої соціальної ідентичності. Установлено, що деприваційний режим життєіснування дітей гальмує повноцінний особистісний розвиток та істотно ускладнює спроможність до самореалізації. Теоретично й емпірично доказано, що закладове (несімейне) виховання в школах-інтернатах та інших інституціях без батьків зумовлює блокаду базової потреби в афіляції як необхідності в приналежності, стимулює засвоєння неправильних сімейних, статевих, статусних і рольових ідентифікаційних моделей. Установлено, що депривовані підлітки схильні до поступливості й внутрішньої самоконфліктності, прагнуть уникнення, мають наміри до ототожнення насамперед через рефлексивне самозвинувачення, проявляють конформність, інтровертність і самотність, а також демонструють довірливість та залежність у прийнятті власного Я. Наголошено, що депривовані діти нагально потребують психолого-педагогічного ревіталізаційного супроводу для вироблення навичок успішного позитивного самоприйняття й набуття повномірної особистісної та соціальної ідентичності.
Pedon the Mercenary’s Votive Dedication
Authors: Barbaro Nicolò 
Published: July 2018

In the Ionian city of Priene, in the first half of the 6th century BC, Pedon, son of Amphinneos, Greek mercenary at the service of the pharaohs of the 26th dynasty, dedicated an Egyptian block statue. It is not known if this statue was placed in a specific sanctuary, as it was found, in the late ’80s, in a cave near the same Priene. This block statue, headless and without feet and the base, according to some stylistic peculiarities, can be dated to the reign of Psammetichus I (664-610 BC), who hired Greek and Carian men, as mercenaries, to join and make his own kingdom stable. The inscription, which is on the front of the statue, is bustrophedic and consists of nine lines containing the typical formula of dedication and autobiographical references, as was typical in the use of this kind of sculpture by the Egyptians; on the last part of the inscription, Pedon mentions the pharaoh under whom he served as a mercenary, Psammetichus (Ψαμμήτιχος), and the particular gifts given to him by the pharaoh, a gold bracelet (ψίλιον τε χρύσεογ) and a city (πόλιν), attributable to some peculiarities of both Egyptian and Persian royal culture. A comparison of the paleographic characters dates instead this inscription to the reign of Psammetichus II (595-589 BC), fourth ruler of this dynasty, who also made great use of Greek mercenaries in his army, especially during an expedition in Nubia, which is known from the historical work of Herodotus and from the graffiti left by these Greeks to Abu Simbel. About the identity of the pharaoh mentioned in the inscription and the consequent dating of the same, numerous studies have been spent that have supported one or the other pharaoh, up to a final hypothesis that puts both theories in agreement: the mercenary Pedon would have served Psammetichus I and, after buying this block statue, would have returned to Ionia, where he would have engraved the inscription and where centuries later the statue was found.
Analysis of Cesarean Section Using Robson’s 10-Group Classification at a Tertiary Level Hospital in Nepal
Authors: Malla Rosy Vaidya , Hamal Chanda , Neupane Bibhusan , Khatri Ratna 
Published: July 2018

Introduction: Obstetric Services commenced at the teaching institute where this study was conducted from Aug 2012. Hence, a review of the data of C-section in this hospital is needed for standardisation of the obstetric services in terms of the rate of C-section, its various clinical indications and maternal and fetal outcomes.Methods: This is a retrospective study carried out over a period of 5 years from Aug 13, 2012 to Aug 11, 2017. All hospital deliveries conducted during the study period were included in this study and the patients’ details obtained from hospital records. All data obtained was recorded in master charts and analysed using SPSS version 23. The caesarean rate, its indications were calculated and categorised into groups according to Robson’s 10-group classification. Results: A total number of 4892 deliveries were conducted over this 5-year study period. C-section was performed in 1104 patients, giving a C-section rate of 22.57%. The most common indications were previous C-section (25.4%), fetal distress (14.3%) and breech presentation (10.3%). Robson’s Group 1 was the highest contributors to the overall CS rate, contributing 28% of all C-sections, followed by Group 5 (26.8%) and Group 3 (15.5%).Conclusions: Nulliparous and multiparous women in term pregnancy in labor and women with previous C-section contribute to more than 70% of overall C-sections at our centre. Hence, close monitoring of these groups of patients, increasing the use of instrumental delivery and practice of vaginal birth after C-section can significantly reduce the C-section rate in our centre.
'He said he was going to kill me'
Authors: Evans Dabney P. , Williams Nancy S. DeSousa , Wilkins Jasmine D. , Chiang Ellen D. , Manders Olivia C. , Vertamatti Maria A.F. 
Published: July 2018

This article uses a case study design to explore attempted intimate femicide in metropolitan São Paulo, Brazil. We conducted 30 in-depth interviews with adult women on community and personal relationship experiences, health-care services, and national legislation about violence against women. Through a thorough transcript review, we identified two participants, Maria* and Raquel*, whose intimate partners attempted to kill them. We used a modified grounded theory approach to code the entire sample, and further analysed these transcripts to identify missed opportunities for intervention in both the prevention of- and responses to intimate partner violence (IPV), and the antecedents of attempted intimate femicide.
Both women had normalized experiences of violence, and experienced psychological abuse prior to the attempted intimate femicide. Social and familial networks were sources of shame for Raquel and support for Maria. Neither woman expressed confidence in law enforcement’s ability to protect women and girls from IPV.
These cases illustrate the need for multi-tiered interventions to prevent femicide in Brazil, which boasts one of the highest global female homicide rates. Although anti-femicide laws exist, better mechanisms are needed to integrate health, legal and social services for IPV and femicide prevention. In addition, community- and interpersonal- level interventions that counteract the Brazilian ‘culture of violence’ and machismo may provide support for at-risk women and girls.
*pseudonyms have been used to protect the identity of the participants
The Principle of Materiality and Its Practical Implementation in the Integrated Reporting of Corporate Enterprises
Authors: Bezverkhiy K. V. 
Published: July 2018

The materiality principle of materiality is central to the integrated reporting system of corporate enterprises, because, international practices confirm that to be informative, reports have to contain essential information defined by stakeholders and by company itself for taking effective management decisions. Yet, the materiality principle is not subject of much concern by the Ukrainian corporate sector when preparing, compiling, submitting and publishing integrated report. This raises the importance of studies on this principle implementation in integrated reports of Ukrainian corporate enterprises.
The objective of the study is to analyze implementation of the materiality principle in integrated reports of Ukrainian corporate enterprises by addressing the problems: (i) to give the characteristics of the materiality principle for financial reporting purposes; (ii) to show objects and materiality thresholds for individual forms of financial reporting; (iii) to describe the procedure of determining the materiality for integrated reporting purposes; (iv) to analyze the materiality aspects of integrated reports made by Ukrainian corporate enterprises; (v) to offer recommendations on implementing the materiality principle in integrated reporting of Ukrainian companies in keeping with international principles of integrated reporting.
Practical use of the materiality principle in integrated reporting of Ukrainian corporate enterprises is illustrated by the sample of three companies: “NAKNAFTOGAS of Ukraine”, “DTEK”, and “BDO” Ltd.
Recommendations for Ukrainian corporate enterprises on practical use of the materiality principle in integrated reporting are (i) to include the materiality principle in the main part of integrated reporting, with its description in the element “main principles of preparation and presentation”, which has been missing by far in integrated reporting of Ukrainian corporate enterprises; (ii) to use this principle for describing integrated reporting elements specified in the International Guidelines of Integrated Reporting: review of organization and external environment, management, business model, risk management, resource allocation strategy, operative results, future perspectives etc.
The Innovative Spiral of Development of the Entrepreneurial Potential in the National Economy
Authors: Popov V. Yu. 
Published: July 2018

The aim of this publication is to formulate theoretical foundations of the movement patterns of innovative solutions in a unified system of their development, organization of industrial and end-use. The research result is the concept of an innovative economic development spiral. It covers market fundamentals implementing innovative solutions as designer – manufacturer – consumer. The innovative nature of the product significantly alters the classic formula of market self-regulation, which requires the introduction of relevant institutional changes. Comparative statistical analysis showed a strong correlation between growth rates of GDP and of the volume of innovative products sold in Ukraine. Ensuring the output of the national economy on a continuous spiral of innovation development requires a systematic approach to the implementation of the following interrelated components: improving the management of fundamental innovative research; the combination of the potential of research and development with industry; stimulation of introduction of innovative products at enterprises; promoting creation of conditions for the promotion of innovative products to the final consumption market. Mastering innovation culture at the state level means the willingness of the government to constant changes in the institutional environment of innovative enterprises. The essence of the issue for further research of the business potential of the national economy goes far beyond a single scientific specialization. Institutional changes relate not only to different levels of individual market players, but also to various types of activities.