bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
De José para José: o último Saramago segundo Rodrigues dos Santos
Authors: Ribeiro Ana 
Published: April 2018

JOSÉ AND JOSÉ: THE LAST INTERVIEW OF SARAMAGO BY RODRIGUES DOS SANTOS
Media and consumer society have changed the conception of writer. Today writers keep being interviewed throughout their lives, especially when they win a prize, as has happened to José Saramago. In this paper, we will study his last interview, edited in a book by José Rodrigues dos Santos, aiming at discussing the relevance of serializing the so called literary interviews and analyzing the image of the Portuguese Nobel conveyed by this text.
Maria Teresa Horta e Leonor de Almeida Portugal: do grão de luz ao bago da romã
Authors: Ribeiro Gonçalves Artur Henrique 
Published: April 2018

MARIA TERESA HORTA AND LEONOR DE ALMEIDA PORTUGAL: FROM THE GRAIN OF LIGHT TO THE GRAIN OF POMEGRANATE…
The art of fitting stories into other stories is as old as human creativity itself. A seductive technique as it allows the reader to jump from one chess literary piece to another, without losing the thread. Maria Teresa Horta assembles in The lights of Leonor (2011) a mosaic of real/imaginary situations, leading the reader into the most secret existential labyrinths of Marquise of Alorna, her grandmother, a melting pot of poetic prose and integral poetry, in which each sentence is a verse and each paragraph is a strophe.
“cordel do cordel”: deambulações pelo acervo Raymond Cantel
Authors: Teixeira Sandra 
Published: April 2018

THE “CORDEL DO CORDEL” LITERATURE: WANDERING THE RAYMOND CANTEL COLLECTION
This paper proposes a reflection on architextual and metatextual questions suggested by five literary leaflets of the Raymond Cantel collection kept by the Centre de Recherches Latino Américaines (Poitiers, France). Between attachment to tradition and thirst for freedom, popular poets confront their views on an art that, as part of a canon and defending their identity, has been able to state the ambiguity that defines it and to adapt itself to the evolution of society, beyond the folkloric assumptions to which it was sometimes reduced.
Criatividade linguística, cultura e ensino da língua portuguesa (português língua não‑materna)
Authors: Batoréo Hanna J. 
Published: April 2018

LINGUISTIC CREATIVITY, CULTURE, AND TEACHING PORTUGUESE AS A NON‑NATIVE LANGUAGE: WHAT DOES COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS TEACH US ABOUT EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE (EP) AND THE PORTUGUESE OF BRAZIL (BP)?
Given the different linguistic varieties of Portuguese, and especially the two national varieties (EP and BP), reflecting on teaching of Portuguese as a non‑native language is a complex task that needs to be taken up by entities engaged in the process, especially if it happens outside of the space of Lusophone countries. In this paper, we propose to go beyond the usual concerns about the differences between the two varieties (phonetic, phonological, lexical and morphological) widely known and presented in Portuguese grammars, and to concentrate on the semantic, discursive and conceptual levels of language, anchoring the study in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, and discussing the role of linguistic creativity and conceptualization in advertising (BP and EP) [cf. Arruda, 2013 and Batoréo, in press].
influências linguísticas portuguesas em África fora das fronteiras dos PALOP
Authors: Czopek Natalia 
Published: April 2018

THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE INFLUENCES IN AFRICA OUTSIDE THE BORDERS OF THE PALOP COUNTRIES
The main objective of this paper is to present the zones of influence of Portuguese language in Africa focusing on countries that are not part of the group of PALOP (Portuguese‑speaking African countries). Reference is made to a Portuguese ‑based Creole spoken in Casamança, an area of Senegal, to the influence of the Portuguese in Morocco, Benin, Gabon and South Africa A more detailed analysis is dedicated to quintando, one of the dialects of Kikongo, spoken in Congo. In each case, we have included a historical overview essential to draw a complete picture of the Portuguese presence in Africa.
cineasta e a cidade: Manoel de Oliveira e O Porto
Authors: Branco de Oliveira Anabela 
Published: April 2018

THE FILM DIRECTOR AND THE CITY: MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA AND PORTO
Manoel de Oliveira brings about a strong, inexplicable and a connection impossible to define to Porto. He casts, in Douro Faina Fluvial (1931), Aniki‑Bóbó (1942), O Pintor e a Cidade (1956), and Porto da minha Infância (2001) a special relationship between this city and the universe of movies. The Porto of Manoel de Oliveira becomes a filmic discourse, an aesthetic journey without boundaries between fiction and documentary. It’s a city established as the architecture of the film becoming the character, title, maximum space of architectural and cinematic reflection. It is a labyrinthine Porto of images, a city transformed by the multiple film cameras from a single Master.
O PLANEJAMENTO URBANO NO SÉCULO XX: ressonâncias das escolas urbanísticas no contexto pós revolução industrial e a historicização da ideia de cidade no Brasil.
Authors: Cruz Mônica Da Silva , Tavares Regina Lúcia Gonçalves 
Published: April 2018

Mapeadas as escolas urbanísticas contemporâneas à experiência do planejamento urbano no contexto pós-revolução industrial e as distintas posturas epistemológicas delas extraídas quando em questão a utilização dos espaços da cidade moderna, especialmente no trato do problema da moradia urbana, busca-se compreender em que medida o saber ali insurgente atravessou o século XX e, em suas distintas escolas, gestoras de modelos de organização das cidades, foi capaz de historicizar o discurso urbanístico atual, conformando posturas políticas, jurídicas e administrativas que cercam o direito humano de viver em cidades. Aplicando-se o método da análise arqueológica do discurso de Michel Foucault, iniciou-se, mediante revisão bibliográfica, um mapeamento das escolas urbanísticas que influenciaram as políticas urbanas e as formas de organização das cidades ao longo do século XX. O problema que se coloca neste trabalho é: como a experiência do planejamento urbano, ora tomado como um acontecimento arqueológico, pode, historicamente, identificar as tendências discursivas que orientaram a experiência do planejamento urbano no Brasil? Os resultados permitiram encontrar um sistema de regularidades de um planejamento urbano no qual reaparecem contraditórias práticas autoritárias e segregadoras, conformadoras de uma ideia de cidade construída segundo um modelo progressista, moldado no curso civilização industrial moderna.
An update on the risks and benefits of neutering in dogs
Authors: Warnes Caroline 
Published: April 2018

Surgical neutering of pet dogs has generally been regarded as an important means of population control that also has both health-related and behavioural benefits. Perceived health-related benefits include prevention of mammary tumours and pyometra in bitches and testicular and prostatic disease in male dogs. Perceived behavioural benefits are associated with a reduction in sexually-dimorphic behaviours including roaming, mounting and urine marking in male dogs, and problem behaviours associated with seasons or phantom pregnancies in bitches. In recent years a number of research studies have suggested that the health-related benefits of neutering may be less marked than was once believed, and that neutering may also have negative health-related effects, particularly associated with the development of joint disease and neoplasia. While this is concerning, there are factors that may influence the validity of the results of these studies and the degree to which they can be reliably extended to all dogs. This also applies to the studies that have looked at the effect of neutering on behaviour in dogs. In the absence of clear information particularly regarding the health-related effects of neutering it is currently very difficult to give neutering guidelines that will be suitable for all dogs, and that will reliably reduce the risks of them developing specific diseases. This may change as more research becomes available. Until then, it is better to work out the risks and benefits of neutering for each individual dog based on the risk of unwanted mating occurring and the presence or absence of problem behaviours influenced by sex hormones, in addition to the owner's preference.
Can aromatherapy be used to reduce anxiety in hospitalised felines
Authors: Goodwin Samantha , Reynolds Helen 
Published: April 2018

Background:Within veterinary practice, animals can feel anxious for a number of reasons such as exposure to novel environments, including unfamiliar sounds and smells, the feeling of lack of self-control or previous negative experience. As part of a holistic approach within human medicine, aromatherapy has been utilised in minimising pre-operative stress, reducing anxiety, as well as reducing post-operative pain.Aim:The aim of this study was to assess whether lavender oil is effective in reducing stress in felines.Method:A total of 16 cats took part in the study at a veterinary practice. Eight cats were exposed to lavender oil through inhalation aromatherapy. The other eight cats formed the control group and where not exposed to the lavender oil. Each cat's behaviour was observed and recorded at 10 minute intervals over a period of 30 minutes and scored using ‘Kessler & Turners 1997 Cat Stress Score Chart’.Results:The results showed a statistically significant reduction in behaviours associated with stress and anxiety between the aromatherapy and control groups at each interval: admission (Mann-Whitney U test: w=89.5, n=8,8, p=0.02), 10 minutes (Mann-Whitney U test: w=96.0, n=8,8, p=<0.01), 20 minutes (Mann-Whitney U test: w=96.5, n=8,8, p=<0.01) and 30 minutes (Mann-Whitney U test: w=99.0, n=8,8, p=<0.01) suggesting that the lavender oil does have anxiolytic affects and this can evoke therapeutic responses in felines.
CO2 Emissions by Agricultural Machines in South Korea
Authors: Shin C S , Kim K U 
Published: April 2018

Abstract.The burning of fossil fuels and the resulting CO2 emissions are related to climate change and global warming. In order to help meet international goals of preventing irreversible climate change, South Korea must reduce its gross CO2 emission level from its 2015 level of 680 Mt. Knowing current sources of CO2 productions is essential for accomplishing this reduction. This study calculated the level of CO2 emissions by agricultural tractors, heaters, and dryers which are accounted for consuming 88.6% of the tax-free fuels allocated for agricultural use in South Korea. After the amount of fuel and electricity consumed by each machine was determined, CO2 emissions from each were estimated using the combustion equations. The total annual amount of CO2 emissions produced by these agricultural machines was estimated to be 4,334.2 kt which is less than 1% of the gross CO2 emissions in South Korea in 2015. Keywords: Agricultural dryer, Agricultural heater, Agricultural tractor, CO2 emissions.
A Simple Method for Calibrating a Radial Gate for Use as a Flow Measuring Device
Authors: Bonaiti Gabriele , Karimov Askarali , Fipps Guy 
Published: April 2018

Abstract. A simple method for the calibration and use of an existing radial gate as flow measuring device under submerged flow conditions is presented. Details on equipment and calibration methodology are discussed including: determining required gate opening parameters and flow conditions for which the method is valid. Flow is calculated with a submerged orifice equation using a constant drainage coefficient. This methodology was applied to a radial gate located in the United Irrigation District in South Texas. The gate was instrumented and monitored continuously over a three-month period. Measured versus predicted flow varied by less than 4%. The method was compared to a more complex equation which accounts for submerged flow conditions and results in a mean absolute relative error of 3%. Analysis of individual flow events revealed significant hysteresis when estimating gate opening from an actuator position signal. This accounted for a difference in the calculated flow of up to 0.13 m3 s-1. Keywords: Flow meter calibration, Gate opening, Hysteresis, Submerged orifice equation.
Simulation of the Forage Harvest Cycle for Asset Allocation
Authors: Dudenhoeffer Nathan E , Luck Brian D , Digman Matthew F , Drewry Jessica L 
Published: April 2018

Abstract. Harvesting corn () for silage requires the coordination of multiple pieces of equipment to ensure rapid and economical production of silage. A model of corn harvest for silage production, capable of predicting machine work states and total harvest time for an entire field, using a single harvester, and any number of specific transport vehicles, as a function of machine specifications and field properties was developed. Three forage harvesting systems were observed using Global Positioning System (GPS) and the collected data used for model validation. The harvest model predicted harvest times within 10% of observed data and yielded similar results to a previously published cycle analysis. Model scenarios were used to explore the effect of differently sized transport vehicles on harvest time and it was found that placing transport vehicles with longer cycle times at the end of the rotation has the potential to reduce harvest time. This model can be used to determine the optimal number of transport vehicles and their dispatch order to reduce total harvest time. Keywords: Cycle analysis, Forage harvesting, Harvesting, Machinery selection, Silage.
Staging thought: The essay film and the consciousness of cinema
Authors: Cavallini Roberto 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
This article examines Bernard Stiegler’s notions of cinematic consciousness and tertiary memory, developed in his philosophy of time and technology, in relation to the essay film’s aesthetic and storytelling features. I begin by illustrating Stiegler’s ideas in relation to cinema, consciousness, memory and technology; making use of the recent and widely acclaimed TV series reboot Westworld, I employ it as an allegory of the functionality of cinema as mnemotechnology. Furthermore, considering how the essay film questions cinema’s industrialization effect through Stiegler’s theorization of cinema qua tertiary memory, I look at the work of Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Mysterious Object at Noon (1999) to argue how the essay film is a radical practice that stages thought in order to de-synchronize the consciousness of cinema.
A foreigner in one’s own tongue: Jonas Mekas, minor cinema and the philosophy of autobiographical documentary
Authors: Krstić Igor 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
This article explores how philosophical ideas, a literary and filmic practice and the biographical predicament of being a migrant intersect to create a form of cinema that could be best described as ‘minor’. It uses thereby Deleuze’s and Guattari’s concept of ‘minor literature’ in regard to Jonas Mekas’s classical 1960s’ and 1970s’ diary films Walden: Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1969), Reminisces of a Journey to Lithuania (1971) and Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) – films that can now be regarded as important predecessors to autobiographical documentary film practices today. The article proceeds by first outlining philosophy’s difficult relation to autobiography, before situating the emergence of autobiographical documentary practices within the transnational cine-writing culture of the 1960s as well as within a genuinely American ‘culture of the self’ that stems from Romanticism and Transcendentalism. With figures like Mekas, not only a practice, but a whole ‘philosophy of autobiographical documentary’ emerges in the 1960s in America, one in which documentary filmmakers explore themes like accented or embodied authorship, the relation between images and words or autobiographical approaches to memory and perception. Taking all of this into account, the article explores, towards the end, Mekas’s oeuvre as an exemplary case of minor cinema.
Really Rethinking Financial Reporting: A Discussion of Rethinking Financial Reporting: Standards, Norms and Institutions by Shyam Sunder
Authors: Williams Paul F. 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
Professor Sunder’s book raises significant issues about the state of financial reporting, particularly his concern at the proliferation of complex rules for which there are only questionable justifications. In this review essay issue is taken not that there isn’t a problem with current financial reporting, but with the unexamined premise about the nature of that problem and the role that accounting and auditing play in the regulation of the modern, powerful corporation. It is argued that rules are the logical consequence of a competitive order and that resorting to norms as an alternative to rules or standards promises no better alternative unless there is a critical examination of who is to be the community to which norms apply. Thus, it is crucial to question the premise of decision usefulness as the underlying purpose of accounting vis-a-vis the publicly traded corporation. I argue that re-considering the historical norms of accounting that are based on the premise that holding corporations accountable, is crucial to really rethinking financial reporting.
A Mesoeconomic Approach to a Basic Income
Authors: Mann Stefan 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
Given the increasing potential of automation in the primary and industrial sectors of the economy, it is helpful to take a mesoeconomic, i. e. sectoral, look at the concept of a basic income. We present a thought experiment centred on societies in which labour takes place only in the service sector. We identify service sectors like prostitution in which it may be advantageous to shift away from the market and sectors like health services where public involvement is indispensable. Introducing a basic income may also generate social capital, which usually accompanies service provision in the sphere of cooperation.
Parallel Processing of Images in Mobile Devices using BOINC
Authors: Curiel Mariela , Calle David F. , Santamaría Alfredo S. , Suarez David F. , Flórez Leonardo 
Published: April 2018

AbstractMedical image processing helps health professionals make decisions for the diagnosis and treatment of patients. Since some algorithms for processing images require substantial amounts of resources, one could take advantage of distributed or parallel computing. A mobile grid can be an adequate computing infrastructure for this problem. A mobile grid is a grid that includes mobile devices as resource providers. In a previous step of this research, we selected BOINC as the infrastructure to build our mobile grid. However, parallel processing of images in mobile devices poses at least two important challenges: the execution of standard libraries for processing images and obtaining adequate performance when compared to desktop computers grids. By the time we started our research, the use of BOINC in mobile devices also involved two issues: a) the execution of programs in mobile devices required to modify the code to insert calls to the BOINC API, and b) the division of the image among the mobile devices as well as its merging required additional code in some BOINC components. This article presents answers to these four challenges.
Can self-defeating humor make you happy? Cognitive interviews reveal the adaptive side of the self-defeating humor style
Authors: Heintz Sonja , Ruch Willibald 
Published: April 2018

AbstractThe present set of studies employs two cognitive interviewing techniques (thinking aloud and online cognitive probing) of the scale assessing the self-defeating humor style, aiming at delineating the role that self-defeating humor plays in self-esteem and emotions. The self-defeating humor style comprises humor to enhance one’s relationships with others at the expense of oneself, and has often been related to lower well-being. The analyses are based on 392 item responses of a typical sample (Study 1) and 104 item responses of high scorers on the self-defeating scale (Study 2). Content analyses revealed that higher scores on the self-defeating scale went along with humor (Study 1), with higher state self-esteem, with an improvement of one’s interpersonal relationships, and with more facial displays of positive emotions (Study 2). Additionally, the more humor was entailed in the item responses, the higher the state self-esteem and the improvement of relationships was and the more positive emotion words were employed. Thus, the humor entailed in the self-defeating humor style seemed rather beneficial both for oneself and others. These findings call for a reevaluation of past findings with this humor style and provide opportunities for future research and applications of humor interventions to improve well-being.
Potential bioactive mononuclear diorganotin(IV) phenoxyacetohydroxamate complexes: synthesis, characterization and antimicrobial evaluation
Authors: Choudhary Vineet Kumar , Kumar Abhishek , Sharma Neeraj 
Published: April 2018

AbstractThe new diorganotin(IV) complexes of composition [Me2Sn(C6H5OCH2CONHO)2](I) and [n-Bu2Sn(C6H5OCH2CONHO)2](II) have been synthesized by the reactions of Me2SnCl2andn-Bu2SnCl2with potassium phenoxyacetohydroxamate (PhOAHK=C6H5OCH2CONHOK) in 1:2 molar ratio in methanol and benzene solvent medium and characterized by elemental analyses and spectroscopic techniques (infrared,1H nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry). The [O,O coordination] through carbonyl and hydroxamic oxygen atoms and distorted octahedral geometry around the mononuclear tin has been inferred. The electrochemical behavior of complexes studied by the cyclic voltammetric technique has shown quasi-irreversible two-step reduction from tin (IV) to tin (II). Thermal behavior of complexes studied by the thermogravimetric technique in N2atmosphere has yielded SnO as the decomposition product. Thein vitroantimicrobial activity assays against various pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria, namely,Salmonella typhi,Escherichia coli; Gram-positiveBacillus cereusandStaphylococcus aureusand fungiAspergillus nigerandAlternaria alternataby the minimum inhibitory concentration method have shown their potential as promising antimicrobial agents compared to the respective standard chloramphenicol and nystatin drugs.
Crystal structure of bis{2-((E)-((4-((E)-1-(methoxyimino)ethyl)phenyl)imino)methyl)phenolato-κ2
N,O}zinc(II), C32H30N4O4Zn
Authors: Li Qing-Lin , Li Peng-Peng , Ma Jin-Xia , Zhao Ji-Xing , Zhao Li 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
C32H30N4O4Zn, triclinic, P1̅ (no. 2), a = 8.6632(8) Å, b = 12.7133(10) Å, c = 14.2719(12) Å, α = 98.585(3)°, β = 94.985(3)°, γ = 92.916(3)°, Z = 2, V = 1545.1(2) Å3, R
gt(F) = 0.0714, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1740, T = 296(2) K.
Crystal structure of (E)-N′-(4-methoxybenzylidene)-5-methyl-1-(4-tolyl)-1H-1,2,3-triazole-4-carbohydrazide, C19H19N5O2
Authors: Alotaibi Mohammad Hayal 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
C19H19N5O2, triclinic, P1̄ (no. 2), a = 6.6320(3) Å, b = 10.3272(5) Å, c = 13.0832(6) Å, α = 102.751(2)°, β = 96.130(2)°, γ = 103.079(2)°, V = 839.63(7) Å3, Z = 2, R
gt = 0.0553, wR
ref(F2
) = 0.1521, T = 100(2) K.