bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The Power of the Capability Constraint: On Russia’s Strength in the Arctic Territorial Dispute
Authors: Valko Irina 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Based on a geographical-administrative definition of the region, the theoretical assumptions of contemporary French structuralist geopolitics, cross-sectional data for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2010 from the Updated Arctic Regional Attributes Dataset, and the technical capabilities of MS Office Excel 2010, this research (a) reveals and contrasts the Arctic states’ capability constraints deriving from their longitudinal material and virtual power potential (physical potential, socio-economic potential, military potential, and symbolic potential); and (b) analyses the role of this constraint in the process of preference formation in case of one specific Arctic actor, Russia, in the Arctic territorial dispute. This study confirms that Russia’s capability constraint is the lowest in the region and that the latter does not form a stable trend throughout the period studied. It also suggests the preference formation framework for Russia in the Arctic dispute based on the evolution of its polar capability constraint.
Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of the Vegetation of Comoé-Léraba Reserve and its Surrounding Lands (Burkina Faso, West Africa)
Authors: Gnoumou Assan , Rusu Eugen , Basile Adouabou , Thiombiano Adjima 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
In Burkina Faso, vegetation dynamic has been more influenced by human activities. Actually, the interest is focus on protected areas, which are more green areas and the last habitat for biodiversity. Conservation and restoration require a thorough understanding of the dynamic of each protected area and its surrounding zones. This study aim to analyze Comoé-léraba protected area vegetation spatial and temporal changed. For this study, we use satellite images taking account a period of twenty years (1990-2000-2009). Then the diachronic analysis considers globally and separately the land cover situation inside the protected zone and outside in the surrounding zone. As results, the diachronic study of Comoé-Léraba vegetation revealed significant changes. Some plant communities have remained intact; others were restored inside the protected area and against others suffered a severe deterioration. The vegetation degradation occurs, around and close to the protected area. During the twenty years 14.28 % of the natural vegetation has been loss, versus expanding fields and settlements. Beyond the obtained maps, an important data based is available. These results are important scientific stools which can support policy, conservationists and researchers for improving strategies of conservation in Comoé-Léraba zone.
Early Blizzard Phenomena in Southeastern Romania. Case Study: 2–3 November 1980
Authors: Doruţa Ciurlău 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Extreme weather events are natural phenomena that occur frequently, but their appearance outside their happened season (late spring or early fall) may embarrass the natural cycles of vegetation or some economic activities of society. Blizzard is one of the most complex phenomena of cold season whose production can cause many social and environmental shortcomings of feature during the event, the more its appearance in season further disrupt both the environment and human society. November is seen speaking month of autumn, when the natural cycle of plant vegetation definitely not over yet, so the occurrence of phenomena such as blizzard (a cold season phenomenon), can cause damages especially in agriculture. Based on these considerations, in this paper is climatological analyzed the earliest blizzards in southeastern Romania for a period of 51 years (1961-2012) and a case study carried out during the blizzard of 2 to 3 November 1980. Meteorological data provided by the Database of National Meteorological Administration include the time period of the blizzard progres from 12 meteorological stations located in the reference area. For the case study are used synoptic maps from www.wetter3.de; www.nooa.org.com; www.weather.uwyo.edu; www.meteoromania.ro.
Cycles of Air Temperature According to Lunar Parallax
Authors: Isaia Ion 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
This paper proposes to demonstrate that, on Terra’s surface, there are cycles of air’s temperature (almost perfect), which can be explained just by the lunar parallax’s cycles.
It is known that the lunar parallax represents the angle under which the Earth’s equatorial horizontal radius can be seen from the moon. It is understood that a higher value of the lunar parallax indicates us a shorter distance between Earth and moon, while a smaller value shows us a longer distance between the two celestial bodies. Through the atmospheric tides caused mainly by the moon, the sea tides are occurred, which also cause the Rossby waves, those which impose a certain atmospheric circulation, and that makes the high and low of the temperature evolve.
Built-Up Area Change Analysis in Iasi City Using GIS
Authors: Ursu Adrian , Andrei Marius , Chelaru Dan Adrian , Ichim Pavel 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
The study analyses the spatial and temporal changes occurred in the builtup area of Iași city and its surrounding areas using cartographic materials from different time periods. The paper aims to highlight the areas where the most significant changes took place by identifying the main evolution patterns, generated by certain natural or human-driven factors. The results of the study were achieved by using specific photo-interpretation methods of the available orthophotomaps form 2006 and 2012, mainly using the professional GIS softwares TNT Mips 7.2., ArcGIS 10.2 and Global Mapper 11. The changes have lead on the one hand to the conversion of the former industrial areas and thus, the urban regeneration, but also to the periurbanization phenomenon, with major functional and structural effects.
Contribution of Geographic Information Systems for the Mapping of Flooding Factors in Yaoundé: The Case Study of Mfoundi Upstream Watershed
Authors: Zogning Moffo Maurice Olivier , Tsalefac Maurice , Ursu Adrian , Iatu Corneliu 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Built on a hilly relief, the city of Yaoundé is exposed to flooding since three decades. They caused human, material and environmental damages. Efficient management of this phenomenon by public authorities should go through a proper control of variables contributing to this hazard. Through various GIS applications based on multi temporal maps and primary data, we developed a detailed mapping of the main natural and human factors responsible for this phenomenon.
Pointed versus singular Boltzmann samplers: a comparative analysis
Authors: Bodini Olivier , Genitrini Antoine , Rolin Nicolas 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Since the last two decades huge systems (such as giant graphs, big data structures, . . . ) have played a central role in computer science, and with the technology improvements, those large objects are now massively used in practice. In order to handle them we need to analyse some typical properties of models of large objects. One way to study typical behaviours consists in generating random objects to get some experimental results on their properties. A new technique has been introduced ten years ago: the Boltzmann sampling. It has been presented by Duchon et al, and is based on automatic interpretation in terms of samplers of the specification of the combinatorial objects under study.
One of the core problem in Boltzmann sampling lies in the distribution of the object sizes, and the choice of some parameters in order to get the more appropriate size distribution. From this choice depends the efficiency of the sampling. Moreover some additional ideas allows to improve the efficiency, one of them is based on some anticipated rejections, the other one on the combinatorial differentiation of the specification. Anticipated rejection consists during the recursive building of a random object to kill the process as soon as we are sure to exceed the maximum target size, rather than waiting until the natural end of the process. In the original paper, while both approaches have been presented, and used on the same kind of structures, the methods are not compared. We propose in this paper a detailed comparison of both approaches, in order to understand precisely which method is the more efficient.
On hypersemigroups
Authors: Kehayopulu Niovi 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Two well known results on semigroups, one of them clue to Calais, the other to Lajos, are generalized in case of hypersemigroups in the way indicated in the present paper. We prove that a nonempty subset B of a regular hypersemigroup H is a bi-ideal of H if and only if it is represented in the form B = A * C where A is a right ideal and C a left ideal of H. We also show that an hyper semigroup H is regular if and only if the right and the left ideals of H are idempotent, and for every right ideal A and every left ideal B of H, the product A * B is a quasi-ideal of H.
Remittance Behaviour of Chinese and Indian Immigrants in Canada
Authors: Chowdhury Murshed , Das Anupam 
Published: June 2016

AbstractUsing the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants in Canada (LSIC) dataset, we explore the differences in remittance behaviour of Chinese and Indian immigrants in Canada in relation to their socio-economic characteristics. We apply logistic regressions on the likelihood to remit, and instrumental variable regressions to estimate the amount remitted. We find that age, income, level of education, and personal investment in the home country are important determinants of the remittance behaviour of Chinese immigrants in Canada. Marital status, having family members, and involvement with ethnic organizations in the host country are the major drivers of remittances sent by Indian immigrants in Canada. By analyzing the remittance behaviour of Canadian immigrants from two major sources, this study sheds light on potential motivations to remit which contribute to policy formulation in both home and host countries.
Net Neutrality and the Incentives (Not) to Exclude Competitors
Authors: Dewenter Ralf , Rösch Jürgen 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
This paper analyses the incentives of a vertical integrated Internet service provider (ISP) to block competitors from content markets. Using a simple model we find that the ISP does not block competing content providers as long as the contents are differentiated sufficiently. Exclusion only takes place when the competitor offers perfect homogeneous content and the ISP has a local monopoly over its Internet access customers or if network effects are strong. In this case, however, the abuse of market power can at least in Europe be prohibited by competition authorities. That is, according to our model there is no need for a regulation of net neutrality.
Bayesian state space models for dynamic genetic network construction across multiple tissues
Authors: Liang Yulan , Kelemen Arpad 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Construction of gene-gene interaction networks and potential pathways is a challenging and important problem in genomic research for complex diseases while estimating the dynamic changes of the temporal correlations and non-stationarity are the keys in this process. In this paper, we develop dynamic state space models with hierarchical Bayesian settings to tackle this challenge for inferring the dynamic profiles and genetic networks associated with disease treatments. We treat both the stochastic transition matrix and the observation matrix time-variant and include temporal correlation structures in the covariance matrix estimations in the multivariate Bayesian state space models. The unevenly spaced short time courses with unseen time points are treated as hidden state variables. Hierarchical Bayesian approaches with various prior and hyper-prior models with Monte Carlo Markov Chain and Gibbs sampling algorithms are used to estimate the model parameters and the hidden state variables. We apply the proposed Hierarchical Bayesian state space models to multiple tissues (liver, skeletal muscle, and kidney) Affymetrix time course data sets following corticosteroid (CS) drug administration. Both simulation and real data analysis results show that the genomic changes over time and gene-gene interaction in response to CS treatment can be well captured by the proposed models. The proposed dynamic Hierarchical Bayesian state space modeling approaches could be expanded and applied to other large scale genomic data, such as next generation sequence (NGS) combined with real time and time varying electronic health record (EHR) for more comprehensive and robust systematic and network based analysis in order to transform big biomedical data into predictions and diagnostics for precision medicine and personalized healthcare with better decision making and patient outcomes.
Monstrous hermeneutics: Learning from diagrams
Authors: Semetsky Inna 
Published: June 2016

AbstractThis paper addresses a theory/practice nexus represented by a semiotic system of Tarot pictures as iconic signs. Tarot will be analyzed from the perspective of Charles S. Peirce’s and Gilles Deleuze’s philosophies. Tarot functions as a diagram or the included third between “self” and “other,” which are traditionally taken as binary opposites. It thus partakes of the “monster” as a grotesque and ambiguous category that betrays a strict boundary between habitual dualisms, such as mind and world, consciousness and the unconscious, human and divine. While Tarot is usually perceived as irrational and illogical if not altogether “monstrous,” it is the logic of the included middle that enables its functioning. Genuine signs have a triadic structure that includes interpretants crossing over human and non-human natures. The process of reading and interpreting Tarot signs represents specific hermeneutics and constitutes exopedagogy as an alternative form of education partaking of a posthuman dimension. As indices, Tarot pictures refer to the whole gamut of human experiences, and the hermeneutics of Tarot allows us to evaluate experience and to learn from it.
Values, edusemiotics, and intercultural dialogue: From Russia with questions
Authors: Semetsky Inna , Gavrov Sergey 
Published: June 2016

AbstractEven after the “perestroika” and “glasnostj” in Russia, and increased communication in the interconnected world, the state of contemporary education there remains relatively unknown to Western scholars. This paper aims to ameliorate this problem by examining some of the signs comprising the system of education in Russia against the problematic of the historically American pursuit of happiness. While formal education in the West explicitly focuses on academic disciplines, in Russia there always existed an element of “bringing up” as a sign of the value-dimension infusing, sometimes implicitly, both formal and informal (or cultural) education. The paper intends to demonstrate the ubiquity and the importance of the edusemiotic conception of values-education irreducible to inculcation but oriented to self-formation embedded in human experience. An edusemiotic perspective problematizes the aims of education and emphasizes learning from experience, dialogue, coordination, meaning, and values. Values “reside” in lived experience, and edusemiotics surpasses education reduced to teaching of brute facts. The paper also critically examines education as socialization via social media and affirms spiritual education in contrast to persistent secularization.
Learning to take play seriously: Peirce, Bateson, and Huizinga on the sacrality of play
Authors: Eicher-Catt Deborah 
Published: June 2016

AbstractThis paper contextualizes the topic of play as an essential aspect of homo ludens (Huizinga 1949, Homo ludens: A study of the play-element in culture. Abingdon: Routledge). I explore play as an abductive, semiotic process and phenomenological event according to Peirce’s categories of experience known as Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. We find that play is an integral aspect of human learning and, in some of its manifestations, can be linked to the sacred dimension of human existence. My method of analysis is to combine the theoretical insights of Charles S. Peirce (particularly his notion of musement as pure play) and communication theorist Gregory Bateson’s ideas about serious play in social interactions. We learn to take play seriously given that it simultaneously brings us to the threshold of both ineffability and intelligibility. We also learn something new about the sacrality of human learning as a reflection of what Peirce calls the absolute mind (2010 [1892], The law of mind. In The Peirce Edition Project (eds.), Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A chronological edition, volume 8 [1890–1892], 135–157. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press). I advocate that play and learning are thus sacred or integral to human growth and evolution.
Human dignity as a structural feature of functional differentiation – a precondition for modern responsibilization
Authors: Lindemann Gesa 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
This article offers a new sociological understanding of human dignity as a structural feature of modern functionally differentiated society. Durkheim and Luhmann build their analyses of dignity on the notion that functional differentiation and individualization are interconnected. At the same time, both assume implicitly that only living human beings can be bearers of dignity. The philosophical discussion around dignity does not take this for granted, however. Fichte responded to Kant's analysis of dignity by treating as an open question who can be identified as a bearer of dignity and by what criterion. If it is to take this seriously, sociological analysis must combine the theory of functional differentiation with an analysis of the borders of the social world. This paper follows this insight by presenting a new approach to human dignity that provides a systematic sociological answer to the question of how the borders of the social world are connected with the structure of social differentiation. In conclusion, I explore the implications for the concept of responsibility: how can bearers of human dignity be held responsible in a functionally differentiated society?
Flashmobs, Flashboys und Flashbacks des automatisierten Handelns. Zur rechtlichen Konstruktion neuer Verantwortlichkeiten
Authors: Gruber Malte-Christian 
Published: June 2016

ZusammenfassungIn der Krise des individualistischen Kausalitäts- und Schuldzuordnungsdenkens reagiert das Recht zunehmend mit Kollektivierungen: Verantwortung für technische Risiken muss demnach von subjektiv-orientierten Zurechnungsfragen nach individueller Verursachung und Verschulden abstrahieren und in diesem Sinne objektiv zugerechnet werden, sei es einem Betrieb, einem Unternehmen oder sei es auch einer sonstigen Verbindung von Menschen und Dingen. Die Mechanismen der kollektivierenden Verantwortungszumutungen reichen dabei von einer Ausdehnung der Kausalhaftung als Gefährdungshaftung über eine weitere Verbindung von Haftungssubjekten zu besonderen Risikoassoziationen bis zu einer Re-Personalisierung der Haftungsverantwortlichkeit. Vor diesem Hintergrund lassen sich Verschiebungen der rechtlichen Verantwortungszuordnung nachzeichnen, die vor allem in informationstechnischen Kontexten beobachtbar sind und beispielsweise in den Exzessen von Flashmobs oder auch im Flash Trading des Hochfrequenzhandels auf weitere Herausforderungen stoßen.
Vanishing points. Responsibility as a normative shifting symbol and the search for social addressability
Authors: Bora Alfons 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Focusing on the world society’s new regulatory settings, this article asks if the social form of responsibility can be replaced by other forms. The answer is based on the assumption that responsibility requires social addresses. In new forms of regulation, the question is whether this minimum requirement is still fulfilled. The paper's thesis claims that in advanced modes of governance and regulation, responsibility ultimately relies upon such addresses, which operate in the medium of meaning. Against this background the question finally arises, how regulation can work under conditions where it becomes increasingly difficult to identify such addresses.
Mit Zuckerbrot und Pfeife – Die Bedeutung unterschiedlicher Autoritätsformen im Rollenselbstbild von Schiedsrichtern / With a Carrot and a Whistle – The Importance of Different Forms of Authority in the Role Self-Perception of Referees
Authors: Rullang Christian , Emrich Eike , Pierdzioch Christian 
Published: June 2016

Zusammenfassung
Um den normativen Erwartungen an die soziale Position des Schiedsrichters gerecht zu werden, müssen Schiedsrichter als geachtete Autorität auf dem Spielfeld anerkannt werden. Ihre Autorität setzt sich dabei aus der institutionell vom Deutschen Fußball-Bund abgeleiteten Amtsautorität, der funktionalen Sachautorität und der persönlichen Autorität zusammen. In der Selbstwahrnehmung wird der Regelkenntnis und Ernsthaftigkeit die höchste Bedeutung beigemessen. Für Schiedsrichte­rinnen ist im Selbstbild die Physis ein signifikant bedeutenderer Faktor als bei Schiedsrichtern, die wiederum die Regelauslegung als signifikant wichtiger erachten als die Schiedsrichterinnen. Über alle Spielklassen ist die Regelkenntnis und Ernsthaftigkeit der wichtigste Faktor, während die Bedeutung der Physis in höheren Spielklassen stärker betont wird als in niedrigeren Spielklassen.
Zwischen Tradition und Managementmoderne
Authors: Gardini Marco A. 
Published: June 2016

ZusammenfassungAngesichts der vorherrschenden Wettbewerbskräfte und des vielfach proklamierten Strukturwandels in der Hospitality-Industrie sowie den damit verbundenen Herausforderungen für die Unternehmensführung von Hospitality-Unternehmen, ergibt sich die zunehmende Notwendigkeit des Aufbaus eines effektiven Gestaltungs- und Führungswissens im Sinne allgemeiner und wissenschaftlich fundierter Management-Grundsätze in Hotellerie und Gastronomie. Daraus ergibt sich die Problemstellung, ob von der Notwendigkeit eines Paradigmenwechsel in der Managementausbildung zu sprechen ist, in der die tradierten Ausbildungsgänge und Berufsbilder neu zu hinterfragen sind und ob in diesem Zusammenhang eine stärkere Akademisierung und Vernetzung der Institutionen und Akteure in der deutschsprachigen Hospitality-Industrie einzufordern ist.
Braucht der Tourismus von morgen „bessere“ Curricula oder „bessere“ Lehre?
Authors: Friedl Harald A. 
Published: June 2016

Zusammenfassung
Tourismus gewinnt aufgrund seiner dynamischen Expansion zunehmend an Komplexität, wodurch sich für zukünftige und zukunftsorientierte touristische Ausbildungsprogramme neue Herausforderungen stellen. Um auf derartige Veränderungen zu reagieren, tendieren Entwicklungsteams von Curricula zumeist dazu, die „richtigen“ Inhalte zu definieren, statt den Augenmerk auf zukunftsfähige Didaktik zu richten, weshalb Expertenwissen, vermittelt durch Frontalunterricht, die didaktische Praxis touristischer Ausbildungen dominiert. Aufgrund merklicher Veränderungen der Lese-, Lern- und Aufmerksamkeitskompetenz unter der neuen, durch soziale Medien geprägten Studierendengeneration wird diese didaktische Praxis mit wachsenden Problemen konfrontiert. In Anpassung an die Dominanz des Frontalunterrichts neigen Studierende etwa dazu, sich prüfungsrelevante Inhalte im Hinblick auf deren kurzzeitige Reproduzierbarkeit anzueignen anstatt deren komplexen Zusammenhänge verstehen und praktisch umsetzen zu lernen. Auch wird die Effektivität von nicht-interaktiven Lehrmethoden durch Erkenntnisse der Hirnforschung in Frage gestellt, wonach interaktive Formen des problemorientierten Lernens dem Wesen des Lernens als selbstreferentieller Prozess besser entsprechen würden. Dieser Beitrag plädiert für die stärkere Berücksichtigung von konstruktivistischen, didaktischen Methoden bei der Entwicklung zukunftsfähiger touristischer Curricula gegenüber der Auswahl „richtiger“ Inhalte als nachhaltigen Beitrag zur Förderung von kritischem, kreativem und innovativem Denken unter zukünftigen Tourismusmanagern.