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What explains the legislative production of Brazilian ministries? The article explores the relationship between ministerial instability and the performance of ministries measured by the number of legislative proposals they produced between 1999 and 2014. Using an exponential average model with endogenous regressors, we argue that the change of ministers negatively affects the entities’ legislative production. The ideological distance between the minister’s and president’s parties and the prior legislative expertise of the ministers, have a pronounced impact on the level of legislative production on the government’s political agenda. The results corroborate the perception of the negative effect of ministerial instability on the efficiency of the conception and formulation of public policies and contribute to the understanding of legislative production and bureaucratic performance of Brazilian presidentialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We report the case of an eight-month-old, 3.6 kg, crossbred feline, complaining of complete functional impotence of the left pelvic limb after trauma. The patient presented swelling in the knee region, pain on palpation and patellar instability. The diagnosis of patellar ligament rupture was based on the results of the orthopedic examination, together with radiographic and ultrasound examinations of the knee. The method used to repair the lesion was eight-point suture with tetrafluorocabono thread associated with simple interrupted suture for approximation of the ligament edges. During the thirty-day postoperative reassessment, the patient already presented significant improvement, with complete functional activity of the limb. and absence of pain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article my proposal is to show the articulation of Peruvian poet Enrique Verástegui's "poetic universe". For this I will trace a relation between Verastegui's search of poetic structures, and physical chemist Ilya Prigogine's "dissipative structures". For this I will use concepts shared by both, such as: "instability", "possibility", "non balance" (in equilibrium), "chance", "auto organization", and "creativity". For Verástegui, poetry should be thought from a practical theory, or a theoretical practice. A poem implies action therefore it assumes a dynamic structure that generates other dynamic structures, always apart from the dangerous balance (equilibrium) where everything is reified. In his poetic work, Verástegui opens a series of possibilities, bifurcations, instabilities, experimentations, investigations, innovations, giving place to a "continuous writing" that will definitely be the hallmark of his "poetic universe". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Keynes and Kalecki were the forerunners of the models of economic dynamics based on the Principle of Effective Demand (PDE) and assigned central role to investment for understanding dynamics. Kalecki's model describes a regular cyclical dynamics -- with well-marked standard -- associated with dual and lagged investment effect. Keynes's model in turn describes a potentially unstable dynamics, a result of the decisions of agents whose expectations are formed under conditions of uncertainty. This article aims to build an integrated interpretation of Keynes and Kalecki's views, enabling a better understanding of the stylized facts that show that the capitalist dynamic is marked by phases of cyclical regularity that are eventually and suddenly broken, leading to instability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Irving Fisher offered a 'tentative' debt-deflation theory of great depressions rather than a fully consistent theory of his 'creed': "I say 'creed' because, for brevity, it is purposely expressed dogmatically and without proof. [...] it is quite tentative" (Fisher 1933, p. 337). The paper argues that prominent authors who strived to explain his ideas within the Walrasian apparatus could not deliver a consistent theory of deflation with protracted depression. This is basically because destabilizing market forces cannot dominate in that conceptual framework. By contrast, owing to the way competitive forces operate under fundamental uncertainty, Keynes' General Theory escapes the contradiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Financial institutions show a characteristic risk exposure and vulnerability, making them prone to instability. Financial systems in Latin America, however, were left largely unscathed by the global financial crisis starting in 2008. This state-of-the-art survey provides an in-depth analysis on the identification and regulation of systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs). While Latin America benefits from its rich historical experience in managing systemic risks, we find the problem of SIFIs to be still underestimated. However, there are first efforts to cope with SIFIs in science and particularly Latin American supervisors and regulators are starting to take the threat posed by SIFIs seriously. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Changes in employment arrangements in the automotive industry have been addressed in the literature of Administration as a phenomenon linked to industrial flexibility adopted by automakers in recent decades. Less stable hiring procedures and the deregulation of work in modern factories have occupied more space on the agenda of organizational studies. With this in mind, this article aims to characterize the labor settings on the industrial processes area of ALFA automaker. The field study was conducted from a qualitative perspective, with semi-structured interviews with process engineers in the Group's unit in Brazil. Field survey results showed that labor precariousness of features stand out in the region where the automaker is installed. The increase in outsourcing and temporary contracts in the last five years - plus low syndicate participation - has increased the fear of engineers about the instability of the organization and the apprehension of layoffs without scheduled dates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the instability of the symbols in Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, and the dangers of a symbolic reading both to the crew of the Pequod and the reader of the novel. If Ishmael, on the one hand, inhabits the borders of the text and, therefore, becomes the only possible witness to the shipwreck – that is to say – the one who erases his traces of identity so that he can narrate his experience – Ahab, on the other hand, invests in the alleged concreteness of the symbols and, for this reason, submerges along with the meanings he first attributed to his quest. Together with the sinking of the Pequod, the symbols submerge to make way for an errant textuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The borderline personality disorder is characterized by instability in interpersonal relationships, and a difficulty in controlling impulses. Patients have an intense fear of abandonment, and are prone to practice self- damaging activities, such as substance abuse, self-mutilation and suicide. According to the DSM-5™, the personality functioning is characterized primarily by an unstable self-image, feelings of emptiness, a propensity for selective perceptions of the negative characteristics of others and in- tense, unstable and conflicting interpersonal relationships. This new DSM version, also considers as pathological traits in this disorder, emotional lability, anxiousness, separation insecurity and depressivity. Although there is often psychiatric comorbidity and frequent use of health services, symptoms tend to improve with age, and remissions have been registered. In its etiology, biological, familial and environmental factors have been im- plied, especially traumatic childhood experiences and invalidating family environments. Dialectical behavioral therapy was specifically developed for this disorder and has proven to be useful. Pharmacotherapy should be used only as adjunctive to psychological interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Unstable Milk non Acidic (LINA) is distinguished by the instability of the milk alcohol test, without presenting high acidity (Zanela et al., 2009). The occurrence of LINA has caused to the devaluation of milk, even if presenting with normal patterns of acidity (Castanheira, 2008). Although the causes of the occurrence of LINA are not yet completely known, it is observed that several factors may contribute to the occurrence of this imbalance. Thus, the aim of this study was to conduct a literature review on the issue of this abnormality, as well as its causes and consequences, both for the producer as for industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay focuses on the concept of truth -- as search for meaning --within the Kant's perspective, by seeking for deconstructing a link -- between truth and ultimacy -- that the western history of ideas has always assumed as consolidated and not modifiable. In doing that, the essay concentrates first on two different ramifications of such a link: the ramification between ultimate and stable, on the one hand, and that one between ultimate and unstable, on the other (§ 1). According to the epoché suggested by Kant about the "realm of ultimate truth", then the essay deals with an excursus about the "realm of penultimate" and about the corresponding dual link: that one between penultimate and stable -- here explored through the concept of law by Hegel -- and the second one between the penultimate and unstable -- following the concept of public sphere by Habermas (§ 2). However, it seems interesting to understand how Kant precisely outlines his reflection on the topic of truth in the Critique of Pure Reason (§ 3). But it's also of particular interest to understand possibilities and limits of extending the "discourse of truth", by referring to its logical and ontological meaning, beyond the Transcendental Analytic, ie within the Transcendental Dialectic (§§ 4-5). Conclusively, this argumentative path would like to offer a new perspective about the dialectic between ultimate and penultimate by trying to re-read the Kantian conceptual dialectic between idea and ideal (§ 6). The main goal of such a re-reading is the search for a "third way" between stable and unstable, i.e., a renewed "logic of plurality" able of legitimizing the moral commitment of any rational agent who, according to the law of reason, tries to make effective the attempt of living together with any other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]