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Identidades “reescritas”: autotraducción y retraducción en la poesía mapuche contemporánea
No full textMapuche authors have been self-translating their literary work extensively for the last three decades. Among the different motivations for this practice, the repossession of the Indigenous language as an element of identity-affirmation features prominently. This essay analyzes self-translation as a space where the identity of each author is rewritten or edited, as well as the links this practice shares with retranslation, both the author's own and allograph retranslation. The analysis will first focus on Mapuche writer Elicura Chihuailaf's reediting of a series of bilingual poems throughout his career. Additionally, the criteria of untranslatability between languages and cultures espoused by poet Liliana Ancalao will be contrasted with the allograph retranslations of her work into Mapudungun carried out by Víctor Cifuentes. The differences examined across self-translations and retranslations tend to respond to changes in the author's ideological positioning as well as to the emendation of semantic calques and instances of linguistic incommensurability.Fil: Stocco, Melisa Soledad. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo; Argentin
Redefining global entrepreneurship : shifting focus from China to Central and Eastern Europe
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the viability of shifting foreign direct investment (FDI) from China to Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries in light of recent geopolitical and economic challenges. By analyzing case studies, it argues that CEE nations offer a compelling alternative for Western European businesses, with stronger intellectual property protection, political stability and alignment with European Union (EU) sustainability goals. The paper provides insights for firms and policymakers on mitigating risks and enhancing business operations by pivoting toward the CEE region, offering practical recommendations for adapting to shifting global trade dynamics.
Design/methodology/approach
The design methodology uses the case study approach to analyze the shift of FDI from China to CEE. This method examines the geopolitical, economic and legal contexts influencing business decisions, using real-world examples of Western European companies that have made this transition. The case studies highlight key factors in decision-making and the benefits of relocating investments to the CEE region.
Findings
The study identifies several advantages of the CEE region over China for Western European firms. These include geographic proximity, similarities in business values and purposes, environmental accountability, trustworthiness in business, enforceable noncompetition rules, lower risks of counterfeiting, reduced political and administrative risks, lower risks of intellectual property theft and reduced risks of negative publicity.
Practical implications
The findings suggest that Western European firms should consider redirecting their FDI to the CEE region to mitigate risks associated with investing in China. This move could offer long-term benefits despite short-term complications.
Originality/value
This paper contributes to the FDI theoretical framework by enhancing the cultural, administrative, geographic and economic (CAGE) distance framework. It provides a unique perspective on the shifting dynamics between Europe and China and highlights the potential of the CEE region as a viable alternative for FDI.© Sebastian Vaduva, Lance Brouthers, Melisa Benchis and Amalia Cristina Nedelcut. Published in
Journal of Ethics in Entrepreneurship and Technology. Published by Emerald Publishing Limited.
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Indigenous technology as a basis for science and technology education in junior secondary schools : a Sierra Leonean case study
No full textThis study investigates two issues: a) the usefulness of indigenous technology as an approach for teaching science and technology to junior pupils of secondary schools in Sierra Leone. b) the factors which influence its implementation. In order to carry out this investigation, the author developed a fifteen lesson module on energy, using the `coalpot', a significant indigenous technology device as centre-piece. The module was tried out in three schools in Sierra Leone, using a total of 224 pupils. Other members of the sample were experimental teachers (who taught the module) and non-experimental (who only evaluated it) and science educators. Using the triangulation method, data were collected by achievement tests, questionnaires, structured and unstructured observations and informal discussions. The results were statistically analyzed using the SPSS/PC and Minitab Computer packages. It emerged from the findings that indigenous technology is a useful approach for teaching science to junior secondary school pupils, irrespective of the problems encountered. The post-achievement test results show that on the whole, the module had a positive effect on pupils' learning. The study also shows that indigenous technology has the potential to generate pupils' interest and improve their attitudes towards science. The factors which can become barriers to the implementation of an innovation like this one, were identified and shown to be teacher- and school-related. It is recommended among other things that science education researchers, teacher trainers, curriculum developers and teachers collaborate to develop and document instructional materials based on indigenous technology. That indigenous technology be incorporated into teacher training methodology courses so that trainee teachers will have a longer period to become familiar with both the content and the teaching strategies that may be used.</p
Melisa Gürpınar'ın hayatı, edebî fikirleri ve şiirleri (1941-2014)
No full textMelisa Gürpınar, elli yılı aşan şiir yolculuğuyla Türk Edebiyatının önemli kadın şairlerinden birisidir. On üç şiir kitabının yanı sıra oyun, deneme, roman, şiirsel öykü, çocuk şiiri gibi türlerde de eser vererek yaşamını yazın alanında oldukça verimli kullanmıştır.Melisa Gürpınar, having more than fifty-year long journey of poetry, is one of the prominent woman poets in Turkish Literature. She had a fairly productive life as an author as she wrote theatre plays, articles, novels, poetic short stories, poetry collections for children, besides having thirteen poetry books
The effect of lineup size on eyewitness identification accuracy
No full textEyewitness identification via lineup procedures is an important and widely used source of evidence in criminal cases. However, the current scientific literature provides inconsistent guidance on a very basic question of lineup procedure: lineup size. Some of the ambiguity in the field may be due to different ways in which performance in a lineup memory task is assessed, many of which conflate choosing rate (response bias) with actual memory (discriminability). In two experiments, we examined whether the number of fillers presented with a suspect affects diagnostic accuracy in a lineup, as assessed with Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis. Experiment 1 used a between-subject design (N=4401) with one video and lineup per subject. Experiment 2 used a within-subjects (N=105) design with 60 still photographs. For both experiments, showups—a lineup without any fillers—led to lower discriminability than standard lineups with six members. However, in neither experiment did the number of fillers affect discriminability.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2020-12-01The student, Melisa Akan, accepted the attached license on 2018-11-24 at 13:45.The student, Melisa Akan, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2018-11-24 at 13:56.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2018-11-29 at 13:06.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13111 on 2019-02-07 at 14:18:00Made available in DSpace on 2019-02-07T20:36:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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Nonnormative Self-Translation and Code-Switching in Argentina’s New Feminist and Queer Poetry
No full textThis article examines the poetry of feminist writer Dolo Trenzadora (b. 1985, BuenosAires) and queer author Franco Rivero (b. 1981, Corrientes), two new voices in Argentinepoetry who write in both Spanish and Guarani and reflect multilingual experiencesemerging against the backdrop of a monolingual imaginary of nationhood. The analy-sis seeks to identify, within these writers’ most recent works, particular forms of “frag-mentary intratextual self-translation” and to observe how, along with code-switching,these expressions of self-translation: (1) develop a nonnormative heterolingual dis-course that defies monolingualism and troubles notions of national, gender, and sexu-al identity; and (2) resist monolingual models of Translation Studies.Fil: Stocco, Melisa Soledad. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia "san Juan Bosco". Facultad de Humanidades y Cs.sociales - Sede Esquel. Centro de Estudios de Lenguas y Literaturas Patagonicas y Andinas.; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin
The Old, the New, and the Used One—Assessing Legacy in Family Firms
No full textThe current study aims to determine the meaning and the role of legacy in the development of family businesses from the perspective of multigenerational family businesses. Employing Thematic Analysis (TA) and Gioia methodology, the transcript of in-depth interviews with representatives of five family businesses, from different industries (military products and wine, banking and jewelry) were analyzed and checked against the literature. The findings show that legacy is a complex process that evolves not only from its core elements, but as a part of business involvement in society. According to these elements, there are four patterns of legacy, namely legacy of knowledge, legacy of values, legacy of relationships, and legacy of contribution to society. These four patterns of legacy determine a specific type of doing business: “Sustainability Stewards”, “Knowhow Handover”, “Values Inheritance”, and “Intergenerational Blueprint”. Each type corresponds to a unique approach to managing and preserving the legacy within the family business. A set of best practices that family businesses seeking to consolidate their legacy is proposed as a practical value of this study.© 2025 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article
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Resprouting increases seedling persistence likelihood after fire in a semelparous bamboo species
No full textChusquea culeou is a semelparous bamboo species which dominates the understorey of temperate forests and shrublands of Patagonia, South America. After the massive flowering, seeding and subsequent die-off, it provides an extraordinary amount of fine and dry fuel that increases wildfire likelihood, which in turn threatens the survival of its own offspring. In this context, we tested if this species could have alternative survival mechanisms which allows the persistence of the single seedling cohort, specifically evaluating two stages: seed and seedling. After a massive flowering event that occurred in summer 2010–11 and reached a regional scale in north-western Patagonia, we experimentally tested: 1) the effect of heat (90 °C, 120 °C, 150 °C) and/or ash on germination capacity of C. culeou seeds; and 2) the effect of low to moderate intensity fires on resprouting response of seedlings (<2 yr). Heating treatments inhibited seed germination, whereas most of the seedlings survived after their above-ground biomass was burned. Resprouting ability increased with maximum temperature reached at shoot base. Post-fire survival was considerably high, since 68% of pots had surviving shoots at the end of the experiment. In a scenario of wildfire occurrence after a massive flowering and subsequent die-off event, our experimental results suggest that resprouting ability right from the seedling stage might ensure the persistence of C. culeou populations. Also, the differential vegetative response of the seedlings to distinct fire-intensities could trigger distinct recovery trajectories in the understorey, generating an opportunity for regeneration of other trees and/or shrub species.EEA ManfrediFil: Cavallero, Laura. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Manfredi; ArgentinaFil: Blackhall, Melisa. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Laboratorio Ecotono. INIBIOMA. CONICET. Río Negro, Argentin
Haven’t I seen you before? Prior familiarity can impair or enhance face recognition memory
No full textWhy do we remember familiar faces better than unfamiliar ones? Recognition memory for faces with which we have prior familiarity is superior to recognition of unfamiliar faces, even under very controlled circumstances. Prior familiarity with a face seems to substantively change the way we encode and recognize later instances of that face. However, most prior work has drawn comparisons between completely unfamiliar faces and faces with very strong pre-existing memory representations that contain semantic, person-related information such as a name, occupation, or personality traits. This approach ignores the varying levels and types of familiarity we experience with different faces. In addition, that prior research has almost entirely ignored the potential confounding effects of familiarity on response bias. To draw conclusions about the effects of prior familiarity for important scenarios, like eyewitness identification, a clearer understanding of these effects is needed. This dissertation examines the effects of varying levels of prior familiarity and conceptual knowledge on face recognition memory in nine experiments. In all experiments, prior familiarity was manipulated using a 3-phase (familiarization, study, and recognition test) procedure. Participants were presented with static face pictures and were asked to make various conceptual judgments (e.g., How friendly do you think this person is?), tried to learn their names, or passively viewed them during the familiarization phase. Familiarized and novel (unfamiliar) faces were then studied and tested. Across experiments, an increase in prior familiarity led to a more liberal response bias both when familiarity was gained through conceptual processing or through passive exposures. Discriminability, on the other hand, was enhanced by prior familiarity only when the level of familiarity was high and involved conceptual processing (Experiments 1-3). Familiarity engendered by passive exposures affected response bias equivalently, but reduced discriminability both in a standard Yes/No recognition test (Experiment 4) and in a lineup identification task (Experiment 5). Higher levels of prior familiarity accompanied by conceptual knowledge led to an increase in discriminability, and a shift towards a more liberal response bias both when the images of each face were identical (Experiments 1-5) and when they varied across exposures (Experiment 6). Experiments 7 and 8 examined the effect of study time and context reinstatement, respectively, on recognition memory performance for familiar and unfamiliar faces. Longer study time and context reinstatement were equally beneficial for the recognition of both types of faces. Finally, Experiment 9 examined the effect of prior familiarity on the encoding of the surrounding local context (a background scene), and showed that prior familiarity with faces facilitates the binding of faces with their context. This benefit was observed both for faces familiarized through learning of conceptual information and through passive exposures. These findings suggest that prior familiarity, regardless of the presence of conceptual, person-related information, leads to higher-quality encoding. The detrimental effect of prior familiarity emerges at test despite this particular encoding advantage. Overall, the current set of experiments suggest that prior familiarity has facilitative effects on discriminability when it is at relatively higher levels or involves conceptual knowledge. The lack of such conceptual representations, on the other hand, hinders the ability to localize the source of familiarity, and impairs face recognition memory. Implications of these findings for eyewitness identifications of familiar suspects are discussed.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-08-01The student, Melisa Akan, accepted the attached license on 2021-07-06 at 12:34.The student, Melisa Akan, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2021-07-06 at 12:40.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2021-07-06 at 17:11.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16764 on 2022-01-12 at 13:03:57Made available in DSpace on 2022-01-12T22:54:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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An investigation of the effects of diet on the gastrointestinal microbiota, inflammation, and metabolic endotoxemia in adults
No full textAs rates of overweight and obesity, and their related comorbid conditions continue to rise, the need to understand the mechanisms of obesity and metabolic disease and recommend strategies for prevention and treatment has never been greater. Dietary strategies for weight loss and weight maintenance offer the greatest opportunity to provide low-cost, safe, and universally available treatments compared to pharmaceutical and surgical interventions. Some dietary patterns, like the Mediterranean diet pattern, are widely known for their promotion of metabolic and whole-body health. However, a complete understanding of the mechanisms by which foods associated with the Mediterranean diet pattern contribute to health is lacking. The Mediterranean diet pattern is characterized by a high intake of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and nuts; moderate consumption of seafood and red wine; and low consumption of the red and processed meats and sugar-sweetened beverages common in the Western diet pattern. Dietary fiber, a nutrient far more abundant in a Mediterranean diet pattern than a Western pattern, decreases inflammation through a complex web of physiological interactions including the modulation of the gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota and bacterial fermentation end-products, GI barrier structure and function, and the enterohepatic circulation of bile acids.
One of the mechanisms by which consumption of dietary fibers may contribute to decreased whole-body inflammation is through the prevention of metabolic endotoxemia, defined as a 2- to 3- fold increase in the circulating concentrations of the pathogen associated molecular pattern lipopolysaccharide (LPS). As the largest reservoir of LPS in the body, the GI microbiota represents an under-investigated frontier of human metabolic health.
It was the aim of this thesis to investigate the effects of diet on the GI microbiota, metabolic endotoxemia, inflammation, and metabolic disease risk in adults of varying weight status.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2021-05-01The student, Melisa Bailey, accepted the attached license on 2019-04-25 at 15:37.The student, Melisa Bailey, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2019-04-25 at 15:43.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2019-04-26 at 14:21.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13925 on 2019-08-22 at 16:23:59Made available in DSpace on 2019-08-23T20:48:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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