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The association between earnings quality and firm-specific return volatility
Authors: Mitra Ranjan Kumar 
Published: August 2016

Purpose
This paper aims to examine the association between earnings quality and firm-specific return volatility for a large sample of Japanese manufacturing firms.

Design/methodology/approach
This archival research uses idiosyncratic volatility and asynchronicity as two analogous proxies for firm-specific return volatility to investigate its association with earnings quality.

Findings
Using idiosyncratic volatility and asynchronicity as two comparable proxies for firm-specific return volatility, the author finds contradictory results. The author relates this contradiction to another debate in accounting and finance literature about whether firm-specific return volatility captures firm-specific information or noise. Initially, the author obtains conflicting results because the systematic risk, one of the components of asynchronicity, is highly correlated with earnings quality. After controlling for the systematic risk, the author finds that higher earnings quality is associated with lower firm-specific return volatility. This finding is consistent with the noise-based explanation of firm-specific return volatility. The author also separates earnings quality into an innate component driven by economic fundamentals and a discretionary component driven by managerial discretionary behavior and finds that both components have significant impact on firm-specific return volatility but the innate component has significantly stronger effect than the discretionary component.

Originality/value
This is the first research study presenting evidence on the association between earnings quality and firm-specific return volatility in the Japanese setting. The findings of this paper are likely to contribute to the resolution of a well-known debate on whether firm-specific return volatility captures more firm-specific information being impounded in stock prices or noise in stock prices.
Intelligent approaches for an organisation’s management system change
Authors: Zgodavova Kristina , Kisela Matus , Sutoova Andrea 
Published: August 2016

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to contribute learning, knowledge creation and knowledge transfer obtained through a web-based role-play simulation environment as an intelligent approach towards organisational change. Such change occurs in the organisation during its transition to a new version of the ISO 9001:2015.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper is based on a literature review and the experience of the authors and a team of international teaching and research staff, as well as on information obtained from satisfaction surveys.

Findings
– The actual version of the web-based Management System Role-Play Simulation (MS-RPSÂ©) considers the changes in structure and terminology of the ISO management system standards, enables the creation of a predictive strategy regarding organisational culture, minimises the negative impact of the change and helps people adapt more quickly to it.

Research limitations/implications
– The study is limited to the complexity of an actual system and the possible verification of empirical results. Another limitation is the measurability of any real enhancement achieved in the quality, safety and sustainability of production, as well as the business continuity and social responsibility of an organisation.

Practical implications
– One benefit of the training is the thorough knowledge that players within organisational management can gain in a short period. Reduced resistance to change is also stressed and the complexity and dynamism of the internal environment considered.

Originality/value
– MS-RPS© is based on original web-based software. The primary model has been developed at the Technical University of Košice. It was tested by students, but also by managers and other employees in several industrial organisations, as well as services, over 20 years.
Micro- and nano-scale manufacturing development through precision metrology
Authors: Durakbasa Numan M. 
Published: August 2016

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to develop a strategic approach with an intelligently integrated management system in advanced manufacturing industry to meet the requirements of high precise measurement tasks and essential measurement know-how within the sophisticated production systems.Design/methodology/approach– The continuous development toward ever-higher precision and closer tolerances in the manufacture of workpieces is in line with the perspective of nanotechnology. To meet the metrological requirements new high precision intelligent measuring instruments have been developed, which are proposed in this paper.Findings– In modern industrial production, need for high precision metrology at micro and nano scale provides high quality requirements as well. Therefore, while providing adequate metrology applications, good management of resources and environmental, energy consequences shall be addressed in an integrated manner with an integrated management system of quality, environment and energy.Research limitations/implications– Metrology as the measurement science provides the functional methodology for quality control under the defined specifications and standards. New levels of manufacturing precision are the key requirements to enable advanced machining processes that demands improved techniques of metrology.Practical implications– The practical industrial use is now quite possible, but uncertainty and calibration with respect to certain questions still open. In various technical fields, there are increasingly new applications being mainly mechanical engineering, precision machining, biomedicine and precision engineering are mentioned.Originality/value– This paper provides measurement results and experimenting a strategic approach to develop a smart integrated system applicable in manufacturing industry using the intelligent networking for the digital factory by first an inter-university network that accesses, cooperates and operates at distance in the laboratory of distant research laboratories that can be applicable to all other industrial organizations.
VIDEOPROCESSO: FERRAMENTA DE EQUIDADE NO ENSINO
Authors: Malheiros Ricardo , Lima Rosângela Lopes , Mariani Ruth 
Published: August 2016

A experiência aqui relatada ocorreu em uma disciplina do curso Bacharelado de Sistemas de Informação da Universidade Federal Fluminense, trabalho realizado para o desenvolvimento da dissertação de de mestrado do primeiro autor em Diversidade e Inclusão intitulada: “Videoprocesso: Uma Técnica Inclusiva Para a Produção de Vídeos Educacionais em Ambientes de Ensino e Aprendizagem”. O objetivo do trabalho consistiu em avaliar a técnica do videoprocesso, através de oficina intitulada: “Videoprocesso: ferramenta de equidade no ensino”. A metodologia utilizada baseou‐se na transformação dos sujeitos da aprendizagem em protagonistas do processo de produção audiovisual.
INCLUSIVE EDUCATION UNDER COLLECTIVISTIC CULTURE
Authors: Futaba Yasuko 
Published: August 2016

This paper addresses how inclusive education under collective culture is possible. Inclusive education, which more‐or‐less involves changing the current schools, has been denied, doubted or distorted by both policy‐makers and practitioners of general and special education in Japan. Main reason for the setback in inclusive education can be explained by assumed homogeneity and value of harmony in Japanese schools; children with apparent difference could be easily excluded or alienated under collective Japanese culture(Tsuneyoshi ). However, there are in fact some schools in Japan which appear to carry out inclusive education regardless of the setbacks above.Using the qualitative data collected by fieldwork and interviews at an elementary school with inclusive practice, this paper discusses what the critical part of the school to manage the inclusive practice without support from policies and/or precedent practical models. According to Skrtic (), educational institutions in general maintain two‐dimensional bureaucracies(machine and professional), which prevent them to change for including everybody, and thus “adhocracy”, problem‐solving‐oriented organization, is the key to inclusive education. In fact, the research found that the school maintain “adhocratic” organizational culture instead of professional bureaucracy. In other words, they never categorize children according to ability, ethnicity or social status, but whenever school staff notice any signs of problems, they discuss the matter for a solution yet never do they systematize or designate persons in charge according to type of problems or children.Such “adhocratic” culture is maintained not only by leadership or professional development in school but by parents and people in the community who are encouraged to come to school to support children whenever they can. In fact, the school uses all the diversity and problems in school as educational materials for children and staff to cope with collectively, and thus collective culture does work to solve problems in cooperative manners but never promote to create homogeneous environment which may result in exclusion of some children.
INSERÇÃO DA DISCIPLINA LIBRAS NO ENSINO SUPERIOR
Authors: Giroto Claudia Regina Mosca , Martins Sandra Eli Sartoreto de Oliveira , Lima Jessica Mariane Rodrigues de 
Published: August 2016

O decreto n° 5.626/2005 regulamentou a Lei n° 10.436/2002, que reconhece a Língua Brasileira de Sinais (Libras) como língua dos surdos, sua promulgação inseriu a disciplina Libras nos cursos de pedagogia, demais licenciaturas e fonoaudiologia. Esta pesquisa de natureza documental teve por objetivos investigar a inserção da Libras nas grades curriculares de 46 cursos de uma IES pública, e problematizar os propósitos nos planos de ensino. A coleta compreendeu a obtenção das grades curriculares e planos de ensino sob domínio público e/ ou encaminhados pelos coordenadores. Para análise compreendeu categorias “Cursos que não oferecem a disciplina Libras”; “Cursos que oferecem a disciplina Libras”, desta as subcategorias: “Disciplina Obrigatória”, “Disciplina Optativa”. Em relação aos planos de ensino, as categorias são: “Proposições da disciplina”, “Conteúdos abordados”, “Subsídios teóricos”, desta às subcategorias: “Tipologia” e “Temporalidade”. Dos resultados, verificou‐se quatro cursos ofertando tal disciplina, e 42 não, demonstrando necessidade de maior investimento das universidades.
INTERAÇÃO DE CRIANÇAS COM MULTIDEFICIÊNCIA
Authors: Santos Filipa , Silveira‐Maia Mónica 
Published: August 2016

A determinação de padrões de interação de crianças com necessidades complexas de comunicação decorrentes de quadros de multideficiência, tem vindo a ocupar importância central no planeamento de intervenções orientadas para a participação. Tomando o contexto familiar como principal cenário instigador dos processos de funcionalidade ‐ definidos por situações de mútua participação e entendimento ‐, neste estudo partimos da percetiva dos pais e irmãos de crianças com multideficiência para a descrição das díades interacionais estabelecidas neste contexto e para a sistematização de fatores ambientais associados a interações bem‐sucedidas.Foram entrevistadas famílias de sete crianças com multideficiência, com recurso a um guião centrado na descrição das formas, conteúdos e momentos de interação, bem como, dos fatores contextuais relacionados com as interações bem‐sucedidas. Usaram‐se técnicas de análise de conteúdo indutivas e dedutivas através do mapeamento das unidades de significado à Classificação Internacional de Funcionalidade, Incapacidade e Saúde (CIF‐CJ).Os resultados levam a uma reflexão sobre fatores que estão na base das interações bem‐sucedidas, especificamente ao nível do papel assumido pelos pais e irmãos no entendimento de movimentos corporais/ gestos naturais, expressões faciais e vocalizações produzidas pela criança com intenção de expressar sentimentos, iniciar interações e fazer pedidos. A partir da análise das respostas dos entrevistados, identificou‐se a compreensão mútua em situações de brincar como base do discurso referente à díades irmão‐criança, por oposição às situações de estimulação do desenvolvimento geralmente associadas às situações de interação pais‐criança, cujos conteúdos se orientam para a antecipação/descrição de acontecimentos. Estratégias facilitadoras usadas no contexto familiar – desde a repetição à estruturação e consistência de rotinas – são sistematizadas tendo por base a identificação de relações reciprocas entre atividades e participação, fatores ambientais e funções do corpo.
TECNOLOGIA ASSISTIVA E PRODUÇÃO DO CONHECIMENTO NO BRASIL
Authors: Braccialli Lígia Maria Presumido 
Published: August 2016

O Brasil tem 190.755.799 pessoas com deficiência, sendo que 45.941.635dessas pessoas tem entre 0 e 14 anos (IBGE, 2012). Em relação ao universo escolar o Censo Escolar de 2011 mostra que no Brasil são 437.132 alunos com deficiência matriculados no ensino fundamental (INEP, 2012). Para atender esse alunado nos últimos anos o Ministério da Educação (MEC) tem investido em salas de recursos multifuncionais, a Portaria Normativa n°13 dispõe que as salas de recursos multifuncionais constituem um espaço organizado com equipamentos de informática, tecnologia assistiva, materiais pedagógicos e mobiliários adaptados para o atendimento das necessidades educacionais especiais do aluno com deficiência (BRASIL, 2007). No Brasil Tecnologia Assistiva é definida como “(…) uma área do conhecimento, de característica interdisciplinar, que engloba produtos, recursos, metodologias, estratégias, práticas e serviços que objetivam promover a funcionalidade, relacionada à atividade e participação, de pessoas com deficiência, incapacidades ou mobilidade reduzida, visando sua autonomia, independência, qualidade de vida e inclusão social” (BRASIL, 2007). Nessa perspectiva, o estudo teve como objetivo analisar as dissertações e teses produzidas no Brasil em relação a temática tecnologia assistiva. Para a análise foi feita a busca das teses e dissertações produzidas no Brasil, por meio do descritor tecnologia assistiva, no Banco de teses da CAPES e na Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações (IBICT). Realizou‐se a leitura e análise dos 135 resumos disponíveis, sendo identificadas as seguintes categorias: 1) ano de produção; 2) instituição; 3) nível do programa de pós‐graduação; 4) objetivo do estudo; 5) tipo de categoria de tecnologia assistiva; 6) tipo de pesquisa. A análise indicou uma maior preocupação com a temática a partir de 2011, uma predominância de estudos descritivos, desenvolvidos no mestrado, com foco na descrição de uso de tecnologias disponíveis ou no desenvolvimento de produto, porém sem a análise de usabilidade e sem a preocupação com uma abordagem multidisciplinar. Houve uma predominância de estudos sobre auxílios para pessoas com baixa visão ou cegas, auxílios para vida diária e prática, e adequação postural, poucos estudos sobre auxílios para pessoas com deficiência auditiva e recursos para o esporte e lazer e a inexistência de estudos sobre sistemas de controle de ambiente.
Variable Presentations of Lethal Colloid Cysts
Authors: Byard Roger W. 
Published: August 2016

AbstractFour cases of colloid cysts that led to death are reported to demonstrate their nonspecific and protean presentations at autopsy: a 27‐year‐old man with severe occipital headache, blurred vision, drowsiness and vomiting; a 44‐year‐old man with recent memory disturbance; a 54‐year‐old man with head and neck pains, tiredness, urinary incontinence, confusion, and drowsiness; and a 66‐year‐old man with severe frontal headache, gait disturbance, vomiting, and syncope with a previous episode of confusion and disorientation. Each death was due to an occult colloid cyst obstructing the foramen of Monro causing acute hydrocephalus. Nonspecific manifestations may mean that the diagnosis of colloid cyst is only made at the time of autopsy. The possibility of rare cases being familial may necessitate medical review of family members. Forensic evaluation should identify how a colloid cyst was related to the mechanism of death and whether there are any features that were associated with precipitate decline.
Naked scholarship: prefiguring a new world through uncertain development geographies
Authors: McKinnon Katharine 
Published: August 2016

AbstractA favourite pastime for development scholars and practitioners is to critique the apparent failures of development assistance. This paper explores how critique might be better harnessed for productive efforts in development scholarship, using academic practice in the classroom and beyond to foster new possibilities. In this commentary, I consider whether rethinking how ‘we’ development geographers position ourselves as voices of authority in the world could be one place to begin.
Feeding and oviposition preference of the Sakhalin pine sawyerMonochamus saltuarius(Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) for various tree species
Authors: Han Ju‐Hwan , Kim Hyun Kyung , Kang Won Jin , Kim Gil‐Hah 
Published: August 2016

AbstractMonochamus saltuariuswas recently identified as an important vector ofBursaphelenchus xylophilus, the cause of pine wilt disease. In this study,M. saltuariusadults preferred different species of tree based on the longevity, ingested amount and wounded area that were determined for 90 d. Among eight tree species, the longevity of feeding byM. saltuariuswas not significantly different except when feeding inSciadopitys verticillata. However, the highest ingested amounts with the largest wounded areas were associated withPinus koraiensis.The highest oviposition preference was inP. densiflorafor the first 20 d. However, after 40 d, the oviposition highest preference was noted inP. koraiensis. For oviposition activities,M. saltuariuspreferred the tree species in the following order:P. densiflora > P. koraiensis > P. rigida > Larix leptolepis. Although many oviposition scars were observed,M. saltuariuslaid fewer eggs inP. rigidathan other species of pine, which was related to the bark thickness. The oviposition frequencies were highest with bark 2.0–2.5 mm thick and with tree diameters of 110–130 mm. The current study increased understanding of the ecology ofM. saltuariusby identifying specific tree preferences.
Two new species of the genus Probles Förster (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tersilochinae) from South Korea and Russian Far East
Authors: Khalaim Andrey I. , Balueva Ekaterina N. , Lee Jong‐Wook 
Published: August 2016

AbstractTwo species of the genus Probles Förster, P. interruptor sp. nov. and P. segaza sp. nov., from South Korea and Russian Far East, are described. Probles interruptor differs from its congeners by occipital carina mediodorsally narrowly interrupted and polished occipital surface extending partly on the vertex. Probles segaza differs from other species of Euporizon by its robust ovipositor with a deep and narrow dorsal subapical notch.
Bioremediation at a global scale: from the test tube to planet Earth
Authors: de Lorenzo Víctor , Marlière Philippe , Solé Ricard 
Published: August 2016

SummaryPlanet Earth's biosphere has evolved over billions of years as a balanced bio‐geological system ultimately sustained by sunpower and the large‐scale cycling of elements largely run by the global environmental microbiome. Humans have been part of this picture for much of their existence. But the industrial revolution started in the XIX century and the subsequent advances in medicine, chemistry, agriculture and communications have impacted such balances to an unprecedented degree – and the problem has nothing but exacerbated in the last 20 years. Human overpopulation, industrial growth along with unsustainable use of natural resources have driven many sites and perhaps the planetary ecosystem as a whole, beyond recovery by spontaneous natural means, even if the immediate causes could be stopped. The most conspicuous indications of such a state of affairs include the massive change in land use, the accelerated increase in the levels of greenhouse gases, the frequent natural disasters associated to climate change and the growing non‐recyclable waste (e.g. plastics and recalcitrant chemicals) that we release to the Environment. While the whole planet is afflicted at a global scale by chemical pollution and anthropogenic emissions, the ongoing development of systems and synthetic biology, metagenomics, modern chemistry and some key concepts from ecological theory allow us to tackle this phenomenal challenge and propose large‐scale interventions aimed at reversing and even improving the situation. This involves (i) identification of key reactions or processes that need to be re‐established (or altogether created) for ecosystem reinstallation, (ii) implementation of such reactions in natural or designer hosts able to self‐replicate and deliver the corresponding activities when/where needed in a fashion guided by sound ecological modelling, (iii) dispersal of niche‐creating agents at a global scale and (iv) containment, monitoring and risk assessment of the whole process.
A large set of 26 new reference transcriptomes dedicated to comparative population genomics in crops and wild relatives
Authors: Sarah Gautier , Homa Felix , Pointet Stéphanie , Contreras Sandy , Sabot François , Nabholz Benoit , Santoni Sylvain , Sauné Laure , Ardisson Morgane , Chantret Nathalie , Sauvage Christopher , Tregear James , Jourda Cyril , Pot David , Vigouroux Yves , Chair Hana , Scarcelli Nora , Billot Claire , Yahiaoui Nabila , Bacilieri Roberto , Khadari Bouchaib , Boccara Michel , Barnaud Adéline , Péros Jean‐Pierre , Labouisse Jean‐Pierre , Pham Jean‐Louis , David Jacques , Glémin Sylvain , Ruiz Manuel 
Published: August 2016

AbstractWe produced a unique large data set of reference transcriptomes to obtain new knowledge about the evolution of plant genomes and crop domestication. For this purpose, we validated a RNA‐Seq data assembly protocol to perform comparative population genomics. For the validation, we assessed and compared the quality of de novo Illumina short‐read assemblies using data from two crops for which an annotated reference genome was available, namely grapevine and sorghum. We used the same protocol for the release of 26 new transcriptomes of crop plants and wild relatives, including still understudied crops such as yam, pearl millet and fonio. The species list has a wide taxonomic representation with the inclusion of 15 monocots and 11 eudicots. All contigs were annotated using BLAST, prot4EST and Blast2GO. A strong originality of the data set is that each crop is associated with close relative species, which will permit whole‐genome comparative evolutionary studies between crops and their wild‐related species. This large resource will thus serve research communities working on both crops and model organisms. All the data are available at http://arcad-bioinformatics.southgreen.fr/.