Qualia Research Articles

Panorama da Pesquisa em Marketing no Brasil: uma análise da produção funcionalista em periódicos Qualis Capes A2, B1 e B2.

Diante da tradio da pesquisa qualitativa ter abordagens paradigmticas construtivistas ou no funcionalistas, o questionamento principal deste artigo saber como se d a apropriao de critrios de qualidade na pesquisa funcionalista, tendo como objetivo principal apresentar um panorama dos artigos publicados nas revistas nacionais classificadas com Qualis A2, B1 e B2 dos anos de 2003 a 2013. Para este fim, a anlise debruou-se sobre os artigos que apresentavam em seu escopo caractersticas qualitativas funcionalistas, tendo como objetivo avaliar como esto sendo trabalhados os critrios de qualidade nas publicaes de marketing no Brasil, nos ltimos 11 anos.

Affectivity And Time: Towards A Phenomenology Of Embodied Time-Consciousness

Abstract In the article, I develop some ideas introduced by Edmund Husserl concerning time-consciousness and embodiment. However, I do not discuss the Husserlian account of consciousness of time in its full scope. I focus on the main ideas of the phenomenology of time and the problem of bodily sensations and their role in the constitution of consciousness of time. I argue that time-consciousness is primarily constituted in the dynamic experience of bodily feelings. In the first part, I outline the main ideas of Husserl’s early phenomenology of consciousness of time. In the second part, I introduce the phenomenological account of bodily feelings and describe how it evolved in Husserl’s philosophy. Next, I discuss the idea of bodily self-affection and the affective-kinaesthetic origin of consciousness’ temporal flow. In order to better understand this “pre-phenomenal temporality”, I analyse the dynamics of non-intentional, prereflective bodily self-affection. In the third part, I try to complement Husserl’s account by describing the specific dynamics of bodily experience. In order to do so, I appeal to Daniel Stern’s psychological account of dynamic bodily experience, which he calls the “vitality affect”. I argue that the best way to understand the pre-phenomenal dynamics of bodily feelings is in terms of the notion of rhythm.

SURGERY AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY JOURNALS ANALYSIS

To analyze critically the effectiveness and value of bibliometric indicators in journals of Surgery or Cardiovacular Surgery in the context of the postgraduate programs of CAPES Medicine III. A sampling with 16 academic programs and one professional master of Medicine III, encompassing the General and Digestive System Surgery, Cardiovascular Surgery and Multidisciplinary courses with such contents, was evaluated. Thomson Reuters/ISI (JCR), Elsevier/Scopus (SJR), and also Scielo databases were used. Only in seven programs, the teachers had an average of Qualis A1 articles greater than the others strata. Eleven journals in the surgical area are in stratum A1 (5%) and it reaches 25% in Cardiovascular Surgery. Among the six journals with the largest number of publications Qualis A1 in area Medicine III, five are from non-specific areas. The Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira represented 58% of the publications in the stratum A2. There are some obstacles in the Qualis classification with little uniformity among the Medicine areas I, II and III. A permanent committee should be set to update the Qualis, composed by the three medical areas. It should be considered using other index databases and the unification of the Qualis criteria for journals in medicine. Rating criteria of multi and transdisciplinary journals need to be reviewed. It is essential an institutional financial support for national journals chosen by peers aiming to provide a full computerization process and a professional reviewer of the English language, in order to increase the impact factor. Analisar criticamente a eficácia e valor de indicadores bibliométricos dos periódicos da Cirurgia e Cirurgia Cardiovascular no contexto dos Programas de Pós-Graduação da área Medicina III da CAPES. Foi avaliada uma amostragem com 16 programas acadêmicos e um mestrado profissional da área de Medicina III, compreendendo a Cirurgia Geral e do Aparelho Digestivo, a Cirurgia Cardiovascular e Cursos Multidisciplinares com estes conteúdos. Utilizaram-se as bases de dados Thomson Reuters/ISI (JCR), Elsevier/Scopus (SJR), além do Scielo. Somente nos programas 7, os docentes têm média de artigos Qualis A1 maior ou igual que os demais estratos. Apenas 11 periódicos da área de Cirurgia estão no estrato A1 (5%) e na Cirurgia Cardiovascular são 25%. Dos seis periódicos com o maior número de publicações na área Medicina III, Qualis A1, cinco não são específicos da área. A Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira representou 58% das publicações no estrato A2. Há alguns óbices na classificação Qualis com pouca uniformidade entre as Medicinas I, II e III. Se impõe a criação de um comitê permanente para atualização do Qualis, composto pelas três áreas da Medicina. Deve-se ponderar a utilização de outras bases de indexação e a unificação dos critérios Qualis para as revistas das áreas de medicina. Critérios de classificação dos periódicos multi e transdisciplinares precisam ser revistos. É imprescindível suporte financeiro institucional aos periódicos nacionais escolhidos pelos pares visando informatização completa e prover revisão profissional da língua inglesa, tendo como meta a elevação do fator de impacto.

Palliative Care and Spirituality: bibliometric research in health field

This study aims to analyze the bibliometric indicators on national and international scientific production on palliative care and spirituality in health field. The bibliometric research was conducted in the virtual library SciELO and the LILACS, PubMed and IBECS Databases. Papers available in full-length and published in the period of 2005-2014 were selected resulting in a sample of 50 publications, among which 24 are national and 26 international. The journal that published more frequently on the theme was the Journal of Palliative Medicine. Journals classified with Qualis A2 and B2 stood out. Most of the publications were produced by medical practitioners with master degree. There was a predominance of original papers with qualitative approach coming from educational and research institutions abroad. Results suggest a still incipient amount of publications on Palliative Care and Spirituality in the health area at national and international levels, which demonstrates the need for further studies on this subject.

QUALIS EVALUATION OF MEDICINE III: ANALYSIS OF ANESTHESIOLOGY AND GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS JOURNALS.

To know the current publication of Anesthesiology and Obstetrics and Gynecology subareas, to support the updating of Qualis Journals criteria in these specific subareas. Cross-sectional, descriptive study in which was evaluated in quantitatively and qualitatively way the bibliographic production of Anesthesiology and Obstetrics and Gynecology subareas, from January 2010 to December 2012. Were investigated the values ​​of the impact factor; calculated (i) the number (n) and the percentage of journals in each stratum Qualis A1, A2, B1, B2, B3, B4 and B5, and (ii) the median values ​​and their extreme limits (minimum values ​​and maximum) and quartiles (p25; p50; p75; p90) of the impact factors in the different strata. The bibliographic production of the three-year period 2010-2012 was published in 69 journals in Anesthesiology subarea and in 345 in Gynecology and Obstetrics. In Anesthesiology, 44% were within the limits of impact factor of superior A1, A2 and B1; in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 42.4% were in those limits and strata. Despite lagging behind by international standards, publications of Anesthesiology and Obstetrics and Gynecology showed tendency to improve the quality. In these sub-areas, the median of journals impact factor is beyond the limits defined by the area in the last assessment. Therefore, it must be reconsidered new indicators to assess this aspect. Conhecer a publicação atual das subáreas Anestesiologia e Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, para subsidiar a atualização dos critérios Qualis-periódicos, específicos dessas subáreas. Estudo de corte transversal, descritivo, onde avaliou-se, de modo quantitativo e qualitativo, a produção bibliográfica das subáreas Anestesiologia e Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, no período de janeiro de 2010 a dezembro de 2012. Foram definidos os valores do fator de impacto das revistas; foram calculados (i) o número (n) e percentual de periódicos em cada um dos estratos Qualis - A1, A2, B1, B2, B3, B4 e B5 e (ii) os valores de mediana e respectivos limites extremos (valores mínimo e máximo) e quartis (p25; p50; p75; p90) dos fatores de impacto nos diferentes estratos. A produção bibliográfica do triênio 2010-2012 foi divulgada em 69 periódicos na subárea Anestesiologia e em 345 na subárea Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. Na subárea Anestesiologia, 44% dessa produção estava nos limites de fator de impacto dos estratos superiores A1, A2 e B1; na subárea Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, 42,4% estavam nesses limites e estratos. Apesar de aquém do desejado para os padrões internacionais, as publicações das subáreas Anestesiologia e Ginecologia e Obstetrícia mostram tendência para melhorar a qualidade. Nessas subáreas, a mediana do fator de impacto dos periódicos está além dos limites definidos pela área na última avaliação. Impõe-se, portanto, novos indicadores para a avaliação desse quesito.

Self Reflexivity. The Ultimate End of Knowledge

In the history of modern knowledge one could notice the analogies that exist between the paths and the resolutions of any major forms of non-dogmatic enquiry which attempted to provide a comprehensive explanation and understanding of the Human Being and the Universe. The investigation in the Natural Sciences established the cornerstone of objectivity as its guiding principle. From the beginning, it has looked downward for the most solid foundation in objects and ended up finding the human consciousness reflected by the very core of quantum reality, the (self-)reflexivity of human consciousness in quantum reality. In the Social and Psychological Sciences, the (self-)reflexivity of a particular knowledge (theory/matter) over the knowledge that produced it (discipline itself/researcher) forms the main epistemological and methodological debate over the meaning and the condition of possibility for the scientific objectivity in the field. Modern Philosophy started with the methodical doubt from the Cartesian Meditations, advanced through a transcendental perspective and ended in the pure self-reflexivity of the phenomenological consciousness. Even if the unavoidable conclusion is that Self-reflexivity has proved to be the closing stage of any mature reflective mode of knowledge–whether it was natural, social or psychological science, philosophical or literary–the key question is ‘Why?’

The Time of Animal Voices

Phenomenology’s attention to the theme of animality has focused not on animal life in general but rather on the animal dimension of the human and its contested relation with humanity as such. Phenomenology thereby reproduces Agamben’s “anthropological machine” by which humanity is constructed through the “inclusive exclusion” of its animality. The alternative to this “inclusive exclusion” is not, however, a return to kinship or commonality, but rather an intensification of the constitutive paradox of our own inner animality, understood in terms of the anonymous, corporeal subject of perception that lives a different temporality than that of first-person consciousness. This provides us with an entirely different context for encounter with non-human others, insofar as they speak through our own voices and gaze out through our own eyes. This position is developed through a reading, first, of the proximity of Merleau-Ponty’s early work with that of Max Scheler, who paradigmatically reduces human animality to bare life. Merleau-Ponty differentiates himself from Scheler by emphasizing, in The Structure of Behavior, that life cannot be integrated into spirit without remainder. Merleau-Ponty’s later work thinks this remainder as the ineliminable gap and delay in the auto-affection of the body and as a chiasmic exchange that anticipates Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of “becoming animal.” This remainder of life within consciousness is the immemorial past of one’s own animality. It follows that our “inner animality” is neither singular nor plural but a kind of pack that speaks through the voice that I take to be mine. Furthermore, in the exchange of looks between myself and a non-human other, the crossing of glances occurs at an animal level that withdraws from my own reflective consciousness.

The marginalization of phenomenological consciousness

The marginalization of phenomenological consciousness

Produção de artigos sobre Logoterapia no Brasil de 1983 a 2012

This research is about Brazilians papers in Logotherapy. In November 26, 2012 was made one search in two open databases (BSV Psicologia ULAPSI Brasil and Google Academico) using the expression Logoterapia or Viktor Frankl. Were selected papers of journals with evaluation in the CAPES. Was found 51 papers that was analyzed with Microsoft Excel. Was found that: had papers between 1983 and 2012, in 29 journals, frequently classified with Qualis A2. The pages' variation breadth was for four to 25, with 11 by average. 28 papers had bibliography revision how type of research, seven how fieldwork and six how experimental research. The subject most mentioned was meaning of live. 38% of authors were by nort-east Brazil's institutes, 75% by field on psychology and 55% had post graduated or were doing it. Was concluded that there are crescent interest about Logotherapy in Brazil however papers about this subject even are few in this country.

Edmund Husserl’s Transcendence of the Early Buddhist Theory of Consciousness

Edmund Husserl, the founding father of western philosophical movement known as phenomenology, formulated a theory of consciousness writing Logical Investigations (1900). The Gautama the Buddha, as far back as the 6 th century B.C., had provided an analysis of the conscious phenomena. Many scholars who trace parallels between the Buddhist view of consciousness and Husserl’s phenomenology of the structures of consciousness deal mostly with the similarities between the two, and such a comparison could also be regarded as a worthwhile contribution to the field of comparative philosophy.This paper argues that Husserl's analysis of consciousness, despite its limitations, as elaborated by Derrida, (and also by Heidegger), is more advanced than the Buddha's formulation. Husserl articulated his phenomenology of consciousness as a result of his encounter with Cartesian cogito, (or the Cartesian psychology) on the one hand and the positivistic foundation of empirical sciences on the other. Husserl’s notion of phenomenological consciousness was situated within an industrially advanced capitalist society and nurtured by scientific epistemology, despite his criticism of its underlying positivism, which set the basis for his philosophy of internal consciousness. He lived in a controversial era, the rise of National Socialism in Germany, which has to be taken seriously when assessing his philosophy of consciousness. The Buddha, in contrast, theorized his notion of consciousness within a backward, slow-moving, agricultural and feudal setting .He developed his notion of consciousness as a normative concept as a basis for achieving the spiritual objective he envisaged. While acknowledging the fact that no other philosophy that existed during the Buddha’s time had articulated such a meticulous and in depth analysis of the phenomenology of consciousness, his analysis seems to be less advanced when assessed and compared with the twentieth century phenomenology of Husserl. The present study will be carried out having used original and secondary sources of Husselian and Buddhist phenomenologies. This study will contribute significantly to future research on similar topics.

Perfil bibliométrico da produção científica (inter)nacional da Enfermagem Gerontogeriátrica

OBJETIVO: Traçar o perfil bibliométrico da produção científica nacional e internacional da Enfermagem Gerontogeriátrica. MÉTODO: Estudo bibliométrico realizado nas bases de dados BDENF, IBECS, LILACS, MEDLINE, PubMed e SciELO, utilizando os descritores: enfermagem, assistência de enfermagem, idoso, saúde do idoso e geriatria. Foram selecionados 324 manuscritos, que foram gerenciados no programa JabRef Reference Manager 2.5, e os dados provenientes foram submetidos a análise estatística no software SPSS. RESULTADOS: Verificou-se que a publicação entre 2002 e 2011 é mais extensa; a maioria dos autores é formada por mestres ou doutores; as referências nacionais apresentam maior frequência; os artigos selecionados são, em sua maioria, de natureza quantitativa, de corte transversal e versam sobretudo acerca de doenças crônicas não transmissíveis; há carência de estudos em temáticas como: ética, acessibilidade e participação social; a maioria desses estudos foi classificada nos níveis de evidência 4 e 5, e publicados, em grande parte, nos periódicos com Qualis A1, A2 e B2. CONCLUSÃO: A produção científica da Enfermagem Gerontogeriátrica apresenta crescimento. Entretanto, existe a necessidade de os enfermeiros desenvolverem estudos considerando mais a literatura internacional, a interdisciplinaridade e os aspectos relacionados a independência e inserção social e de saúde do idoso.

Naturalizing Husserlian Phenomenology along a Leibnizian Pathway

A contribution to the history of a formerly hotly discussed, but short-lived scientific project: neurophenomenology 52 , the proposal of weaving together Husserlian phenomenology of consciousness and the neuroscience of brain functioning, this article traces back the opening and closing of an apparent window of opportunity, both in phenomenology and in neuroscience, for the eventually unfulfilled realization of that project.

Two Types of Qualia Theory

When bacteria enter my body, if all goes well they are detected and processed by my immune system. When I confront red things of interest in my environment, if all goes well stimulations of my retina cause activations of my optic nerve that are detected and processed by the visual and cognitive systems of my brain. These two processes resemble and differ from one another in various ways. One difference is that the latter typically involves or gives rise to a conscious experience; there is something it is like for me to undergo it.

Western scrub-jays allocate longer observation time to more valuable information

When humans mentally reconstruct past events and imagine future scenarios, their subjective experience of mentally time travelling is accompanied by the awareness of doing so. Despite recent popularity of studying episodic memory in animals, such phenomenological consciousness has been extremely difficult to demonstrate without agreed behavioural markers of consciousness in non-linguistic subjects. We presented western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica) with a task requiring them to allocate observing time between two peepholes to see food being hidden in either of two compartments, one where observing the hiding location was necessary to later relocate the food, and another where food could easily be found without watching. Jays first separately experienced these consequences of possessing information in each compartment and subsequently, once given a choice, made more looks and spent more time looking into the compartment where information was necessary than into the compartment where it was unnecessary. Thus, the jays can collect information to solve a future problem. Moreover, they can differentiate sources of information according to their potential value and modify behaviour to efficiently collect important, usable information. This is the first evidence of metacognition in a species that passes the behavioural criteria for both retrospective and prospective mental time travel.

‘The immanent logic of human experience’: Reading Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit after Lacan's ‘Logical Time’ essay

The progression of Consciousness in Hegel's Phenomenology is usually understood as either a logical (McTaggart) or temporal (Marx) succession. Beginning in the twentieth century, phenomenological readings (Merleau-Ponty) have sought to reconcile these two competing data. Lacan's ‘Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty: A New Sophism’ may be read as a response to Hegel's dialectic in this tradition. It describes in allegorical form the progression of Consciousness through three distinct rational phases that correspond to the most basic phases of Hegel's dialectic. Crucially, this succession depends on strictly irrational elements. Doubt, and its manifestation in the momentary hesitation of the subject, proves instrumental in the emergence of identity and takes on a positive rational value. Lacan's concept of Logical Time synthesizes the equally important imperatives of Logic and Time that alone permit the emergence of a fully adaptive reason, and the higher forms of Consciousness that are predicated upon it.

Produção científica do enfermeiro gestor: estudo bibliométrico em periódicos qualis A2 e B1.

Objective: to identify, describe and analyze the scientific production performed by nurse managers, 2005 to 2011, in Brazilian scientific journals Qualis A2 and B1, a Brazilian system of classification used by “Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior” for evaluation the postgraduate programs. Method: bibliometric study focused on the position of the author, institution, year of publication of a work, academic rank, population and descriptors. Results: showed that the majority of nurse managers or their studies belonged to the Southeast, had master's degrees with study population consisted of patients and relatives. The analysis of the terms did not identify thematic trends of study, they were varied. There was a trend to practice human resources management. Conclusion: nurse managers are more interested in topics related to patient care.

Produção científica sobre gestão de recursos humanos e sustentabilidade: síntese e agenda de pesquisa

Esta pesquisa buscou verificar a existência de artigos sobre gestão de recursos humanos e sustentabilidade nos principais periódicos da área de administração no Brasil. Foram selecionados para a pesquisa 24 periódicos nacionais Qualis de A1 a B3. O período de coleta e análise dos artigos compreendeu os meses de novembro de 2011 até meados de maio de 2012. Os resultados indicaram que essa interação entre essas duas áreas é recente no Brasil, visto que, as primeiras publicações surgiram apenas em 2006, e dos 170 artigos encontrados que pesquisaram a gestão de recursos humanos, apenas nove estabeleceram relação com a sustentabilidade.

L’ingresso dei musei ecclesiastici nel novero dei beni culturali: alcune riflessioni nella prospettiva del diritto costituzionale

contributo sottoposto a valutazione SOMMARIO: 1. L’autonomia ex art. 33 della Costituzione quale carattere necessario dell’istituzione museale – 2. L’utilita sociale dei musei ecclesiastici – 3. Le fonti canonistiche – 4. L’introduzione della sussidiarieta orizzontale come traguardo culturale – 5. Volontariato culturale e micro-sussidiarieta: Abstract . The admission of ecclesiastic museums in cultural heritage: some reflection in constitutional law perspective Since museum reached its public function, as the people museum, management problems have emerged for the difficult compatibility between works of art and mass visits, for the lack of resources, for the relative difficulties of conservation and preservation, for the typical characteristics of museums, that are structured as private building and not to be opened to a various public. So we have to outline appropriate and productive management forms, to state coordinating techniques with other cultural or not cultural institution, to solve interpretation problems that stress the current management. On the other hand it is important to improve the quality of personnel and to increase the appropriate service structures to make an analysis of users needs and to simplify, with marketing and communication methods and instruments too, the access of collectivity to museums. With these perspectives, individual contribution and the help of little voluntary associations, which are promoted and supported, can give in the field of museums a micro-subsidiarity perspective, that can be even tested.

An overview on Social Psychology in Brazil: theoretical contributions from the production of journals

This work aims at describing the set of Social Psychology theories that Brazilian researchers have been using, trying to understand the theoretical currents privileged when developing research. It surveyed the Social Psychology articles published in Psychology journals ranked by CAPES in 2012 as Qualis A1, A2 and B1, from 2007 to 2011. Sixteen journals were selected. These have published 3,501 articles in that period, of which 550 were classified as Social Psychology articles, based on the criteria defined. It was observed that 45% of the articles analyzed a social topic without resorting to the theoretical-conceptual framework of Social Psychology, while only 4% employed a methodological discussion. Thus, Social Psychology ends up by being characterized as a field that describes social affairs, phenomena that are relevant or emergent in the society, without more consistent advances in the theoretical or methodological light.

Avaliação de periódicos científicos: Revista Brasileira de Educação Especial

A Revista Brasileira de Educação Especial foi criada em 1992 e tem sido constantemente avaliada, internamente, por pesquisadores da Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores em Educação Especial, e, externamente, pela Capes e Anped, sendo que a avaliação Capes indicou um Qualis A2. O objetivo deste artigo é discutir essas avaliações para que se possa melhorar ainda mais a qualidade da revista. A avaliação proposta incidiu em parâmetros qualitativos, apresentados pela avaliação da Anped, e estatísticos, disponíveis pelo SciELO. O resultado dessa análise é que a Revista Brasileira de Educação Especial apresenta parâmetros semelhantes, e algumas vezes superiores, às revistas qualificadas em A1. A discussão sobre a melhoria da qualidade da revista indicou: 1) necessidade de recebimento de artigos via internet, por meio de plataforma própria; 2) designação de editores adjuntos ou coeditores de modo a garantir o fluxo de avaliação dos manuscritos recebidos; 3) investimento na infraestrutura, como compra de computadores e softwares para melhorar a editoração da revista.