bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A Meta-Analysis of Expressive Writing on Positive Psychology Variables and Traumatic Stress
Authors: Pavlacic Jeffrey Michael , Buchanan Erin Michelle , Maxwell Nicholas P. , Hopke Tabetha Gaile , Schulenberg Stefan E.
Published: July 2018

Emotional expression has been shown to be benficial for promoting both positive psychological and physical health outcomes. Unfortunately, inhibiting emotions can lead to impairments in physical and psychological health. James Pennebaker showed that expressive writing is an effective form of emotional expression, and he and others have used expressive writing as an experimental manipulation to gauge its effectiveness in treating a wide variety of health-related and psychological outcomes. While many studies have been conducted that examine the effectiveness of expressive writing across such outcomes, a considerable amount of these studies tend to neglect necessary considerations such as power and meaningfulness of respective effect sizes. Four previous meta-analyses have been conducted that examine expressive writing's affect on psychological outcomes, however, these studies focus on the experimental versus control group effect size. Thus, our meta-analysis sought to examine the effectiveness of an expressive writing intervention on only the experimental conditions in studies measuring posttraumatic growth, posttraumatic stress, and quality of life using random effects models. Results indicated a small overall effect size for posttraumatic stress and negligible to small effect sizes for posttraumatic growth and quality of life. Implications for future research design and interpretation of published research are discussed.
Challenges in the Multibeam Antennas
Authors: Shahpari Morteza
Published: July 2018

In this project, we are trying to shed light on various aspects of the antenna arrays. Special focus is on solving the problems related to multibeam antennas. One traditional application of the multibeam antennas is sum and difference patterns. Wireless communication systems are demanding multibeam and multiband antennas.
Guidance for Reporting Outcomes in Clinical Trials: A Scoping Review Protocol
Authors: Butcher Nancy J. , Mew Emma , Saeed Leena , Monsour Andrea , Chee-a-tow Alyssandra , Chan An-Wen , Moher David , Offringa Martin
Published: July 2018

Introduction: Patients, families, and clinicians rely on published research to help inform treatment decisions. Without complete reporting of the outcomes studied, evidence-based clinical and policy decisions are limited and researchers cannot synthesize, replicate, or build on existing research findings. To facilitate harmonized reporting of outcomes in published trial protocols and reports, a new reporting standard, the Instrument for reporting of Planned Endpoints in Clinical Trials (InsPECT), is under development. As one of the initial steps in the development of InsPECT, a scoping review will identify and synthesize existing guidance on the reporting of trial outcomes. Methods and analysis: We will apply methods based on the Joanna Briggs Institute scoping review methods manual. Documents that provide explicit guidance on trial outcome reporting will be searched for using: (1) an electronic bibliographic database search; (2) a grey literature search; and (3) solicitation of colleagues for guidance documents using a snowballing approach. Reference and citation list screening will be performed for included documents. Two trained reviewers will complete title and abstract screening. One reviewer and one verifier will independently complete full-text screening and data charting. Discrepancies will be resolved through discussion with a third reviewer. Captured trial outcome reporting guidance will be compared with candidate InsPECT items to support, refute, and refine InsPECT content and to assess the need for the development of additional items. Data analysis will explore common features of guidance and use quantitative measures (e.g., frequencies) to characterize guidance and its sources. Ethics and dissemination: A paper describing the review findings will be published in a peer-reviewed journal. The results will be used to inform the InsPECT development process, helping to ensure that InsPECT provides an evidence-based tool for standardizing trial outcome reporting. Registration details: This protocol was registered prospectively with the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/ktg84/).
A New Binary Star System of EW Type in Draco: GSC 03905-01870
Authors: Barquin Salvador
Published: July 2018

Discovery of a new binary star system (GSC 03905-01870 = USNO-B1.0 1431-0327922 = UCAC4 716-059522) in the Draco constellation is presented. It was discovered during a search for previously unreported eclipsing binary stars through the ASAS-SN database. The shape of the light curve and its characteristics (period of 0.428988±0.000001 d, amplitude of 0.34±0.02 V Mag, primary minimum epoch HJD 2457994.2756±0.0002) indicates that the new variable star is an eclipsing binary of W Ursae Majoris type. I registered this variable star in The International Variable Star Index (VSX), its AAVSO UID is 000-BMP-891.
Serious fun: Preschoolers engage in more exploratory play when evidence is confounded
Authors: Schulz Laura , Bonawitz Elizabeth
Published: July 2018

Researchers, educators, and parents have long believed that children learn cause and effect relationships through exploratory play. However, previous research suggests that children are poor at designing informative experiments; children fail to control relevant variables and tend to alter multiple variables simultaneously. Thus, little is known about how children’s spontaneous exploration might support accurate causal inferences. Here we suggest that children’s exploratory play is affected by the quality of the evidence they observe. Using a novel free-play paradigm, we show that preschoolers (mean age: 57 months) distinguish confounded and unconfounded evidence, preferentially explore causally confounded (but not matched unconfounded) toys rather than novel toys, and spontaneously disambiguate confounded variables in the course of free play.
The role of native and non-native grammars in the comprehension of possessive pronouns
Authors: Lago Sol , Garcia Anna Stutter , Felser Claudia
Published: July 2018

Previous studies have shown that multilingual speakers are influenced by their native (L1) and non-native (L2) grammars when learning a new language. But so far, these studies have mostly used untimed metalinguistic tasks. Here we examine whether multilinguals’ prior grammars also affect their sensitivity to morphosyntactic constraints during processing. We use speeded judgments and self-paced reading tasks to examine the comprehension of German possessive pronouns. To investigate whether native and non-native grammars differentially affect participants' performance, we compare two groups of non-native German speakers with inverse L1-L2 distributions: a group with L1 SPANISH-L2 ENGLISH, and a group with L1 ENGLISH-L2 SPANISH. We show that the reading profiles of both groups are modulated by their L1 grammar, with L2 proficiency selectively affecting participants' judgment accuracy but not their reading times. We propose that reading comprehension is mainly influenced by multilinguals’ native grammar, but that knowledge of an L2 grammar can further increase sensitivity to morphosyntactic violations in an additional language.
Inquisitorial: Menelusuri Titik Terminal Keberangkatan Ilmu Pemerintahan Di Indonesia
Authors: ARISTO Jurnal , Gafar T. Fahrul , Jamil Zamhasari
Published: July 2018

This research is a scientific effort to trace the historical footsteps of the birth, growth, and development of Government Science in Indonesia. The disclosure of the early phenomenon of science would certainly be the gateway in giving a pure understanding of that science. so that, the result of its inquiry can serve as one of the main sources/ references that provide complete and comprehensive information for further study of Government Science. This study used a qualitative approach with descriptive type and with the library research form. In this study, the researcher observed the object of research through literature materials so that the theories underlying the problems in the field under study can be clearly revealed. With the selection of approaches, types, and forms of research, will certainly be able to reveal in depth how the historical roots of Government Science and able to emphasize the locus / position of Government Science among other state sciences.
MANUSIA / INSAN
Authors: Syafril Syafrimen
Published: July 2018

Humans are characterized by having a large brain relative to body size, with a particularly well developed neocortex, prefrontal cortex and temporal lobes, making them capable of abstract reasoning, language, introspection, problem solving and culture through social learning. Manusia dicirikan dengan memiliki otak yang besarnya relatif sesuai dengan ukuran tubuh, dengan neokorteks berkembang dengan baik, korteks prefrontal dan lobus temporal, membuat mereka mampu menalar abstrak, berbahasa, melakukan introspeksi, memecahkan masalah dan budaya melalui pembelajaran sosial.
Sequential hypothesis testing with Bayes factors: Efficiently testing mean differences
Authors: Schönbrodt Felix D. , Wagenmakers Eric-Jan , Zehetleitner Michael , Perugini Marco
Published: July 2018

Unplanned optional stopping rules have been criticized for inflating Type I error rates under the null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) paradigm. Despite these criticisms this research practice is not uncommon, probably as it appeals to researcher’s intuition to collect more data in order to push an indecisive result into a decisive region. In this contribution we investigate the properties of a procedure for Bayesian hypothesis testing that allows optional stopping with unlimited multiple testing, even after each participant. In this procedure, which we call Sequential Bayes Factors (SBF), Bayes factors are computed until an a priori defined level of evidence is reached. This allows flexible sampling plans and is not dependent upon correct effect size guesses in an a priori power analysis. We investigated the long-term rate of misleading evidence, the average expected sample sizes, and the biasedness of effect size estimates when an SBF design is applied to a test of mean differences between two groups. Compared to optimal NHST, the SBF design typically needs 50% to 70% smaller samples to reach a conclusion about the presence of an effect, while having the same or lower long-term rate of wrong inference.
Is valuing happiness associated with lower well-being? A factor-level analysis using the valuing happiness scale
Authors: Luhmann Maike , Necka Elizabeth A. , Schönbrodt Felix D. , Hawkley Louise
Published: July 2018

Recent studies suggest that valuing happiness is negatively associated with well-being. Most of these studies used the Valuing Happiness Scale (Mauss, Tamir, et al., 2011). In the present paper, we examined the factor structure of this scale using data pooled from six independent samples (Ntotal = 938). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis showed that the Valuing Happiness Scale is not unidimensional and that only one of its three factors correlates negatively with various indicators of well-being, whereas non-significant or positive correlations were found for the other factors. These findings indicate that valuing happiness may not necessarily be bad for one’s well-being, and call for a better definition, theoretical foundation, and operationalization of this construct.
Same Difference? Understanding Variation in the Estimation of Effect Sizes from Educational Trials
Authors: Xiao ZhiMin , Kasim Adetayo , Higgins Steve
Published: July 2018

By applying four analytic models with comparable outcomes and covariates to a dataset of 20 outcomes from 17 educational trials, we found results closely matching in well-powered studies without serious implementation problems. The interventions and evaluations were all funded by the Education Endowment Foundation and independently evaluated. We demonstrated that when an analysis takes little account of research design, or where there were difficulties with implementation and data collection, point estimates of effect differ and estimates of precision vary. This adds to the challenge of understanding the comparative impact of interventions and deciding which are worth scaling up.
Milkweed loss in agricultural fields because of herbicide use: effect on the monarch butterfly population: Herbicide use and monarch butterflies
Authors: Pleasants John M. , Oberhauser Karen S.
Published: July 2018

1. The size of the Mexican overwintering population of monarch butterflieshas decreased over the last decade. Approximately half of these butterflies comefrom the U.S. Midwest where larvae feed on common milkweed. There has been alarge decline in milkweed in agricultural fields in the Midwest over the last decade.This loss is coincident with the increased use of glyphosate herbicide in conjunctionwith increased planting of genetically modified (GM) glyphosate-tolerant corn(maize) and soybeans (soya).2. We investigate whether the decline in the size of the overwintering populationcan be attributed to a decline in monarch production owing to a loss of milkweeds inagricultural fields in the Midwest. We estimate Midwest annual monarch productionusing data on the number of monarch eggs per milkweed plant for milkweeds in differenthabitats, the density of milkweeds in different habitats, and the area occupiedby those habitats on the landscape.3. We estimate that there has been a 58% decline in milkweeds on the Midwestlandscape and an 81% decline in monarch production in the Midwest from 1999 to2010. Monarch production in the Midwest each year was positively correlated withthe size of the subsequent overwintering population in Mexico. Taken together, theseresults strongly suggest that a loss of agricultural milkweeds is a major contributorto the decline in the monarch population.4. The smaller monarch population size that has become the norm will make thespecies more vulnerable to other conservation threats.
Environmental influences on infants’ native vowel discrimination: The case of talker number in daily life
Authors: Bergmann Christina , Cristia Alejandrina
Published: July 2018

Both quality and quantity of speech from the primary caregiver have been found to impact language development. A third aspect of the input has been largely ignored: the number of talkers who provide input. Some infants spend most of their waking time with only one person; others hear many different talkers. Even if the very same words are spoken the same number of times, the pronunciations can be more variable when several talkers pronounce them. Is language acquisition affected by the number of people who provide input? To shed light on the possible link between how many people provide input in daily life and infants' native vowel discrimination, three age groups were tested: 4-month-olds (before attunement to native vowels), 6-month-olds (at the cusp of native vowel attunement) and 12-month-olds (well attuned to the native vowel system). No relationship was found between talker number and native vowel discrimination skills in 4- and 6-month-olds, who are overall able to discriminate the vowel contrast. At 12 months, we observe a small positive relationship, but further analyses reveal that the data are also compatible with the null hypothesis of no relationship. Implications in the context of infant language acquisition and cognitive development are discussed.
KONSISTENSI DAN KUAT TEKAN MORTAR YANG MENGGUNAKAN AIR LAUT SEBAGAI MIXING WATER
Authors: Bachtiar Erniati , tjaronge muhammad wihardi , Djamaluddin Rudy , Sampebulu Victor
Published: July 2018

Air laut merupakan salah satu sumber daya alam yang sangat melimpah. Menurut PBB pada tahun 2050, lebih dari setengah dari penduduk dunia tidak akan bisa mendapatkan air minum yang cukup, sehingga penelitian tentang penghematan air tawar serius diperlukan. Penggunaan air laut, yang persentase adalah 97% dari total air di bumi, mutlak diperlukan. Makalah ini akan ditinjau pengaruh air laut terhadap konsistensi dan kuat tekan mortar yang menggunakan air laut sebagai air pencampuran (Mixing Water). Pengujian konsistensi, waktu ikat dan kuat tekan mortar sesuai standar Standar Nasional Indonesia (SNI). Variabel yang digunakan adalah umur dan jenis air pencampuran yang digunakan adalah aquades dan air laut. Hasil penelitian yang diperoleh konsistensi mortar yang menggunakan aquades lebih kecil dibandingkan dengan konsistensi air laut. Waktu ikat awal dan akhir lebih cepat menggunakan air laut dan masih memenuhi standar waktu ikat. Kuat tekan mortar yang menggunakan aquades dan air laut pada umur 3, 7 dan 28 harimemenuhi standar SNI 15-7064-2004. Kuat tekan air laut pada umur 3 dan 7 dan 28 lebih tinggi dibandingkan aquades. Perbedaan kuat tekan mortar antara aquades dan air laut pada umur 3,7,dan 28 hari berturut turut 21,11%, 8,2%, dan 3,16%.
Bayesian alternatives for common null-hypothesis significance tests in psychiatry: A non-technical guide using JASP
Authors: Quintana Daniel S , Williams Donald Ray
Published: July 2018

This article has now been published in BMC Psychiatry https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1761-4Background: Despite its popularity as an inferential framework, classical null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) has several restrictions. Bayesian analysis can be used to complement NHST, however, this approach has been underutilized largely due to a dearth of accessible software options. JASP is a recently developed open-source statistical package that facilitates both Bayesian and NHST analysis using a graphical interface. This article provides an applied introduction to Bayesian inference with Bayes factors using JASP. Methods: We use JASP to compare and contrast Bayesian alternatives for several common classical null hypothesis significance tests: correlations, frequency distributions, t-tests, ANCOVAs, and ANOVAs. These examples are also used to illustrate the strengths and limitations of both NHST and Bayesian hypothesis testing.Results: A comparison of NHST and Bayesian inferential frameworks demonstrates that Bayes factors can complement p-values by providing additional information for hypothesis testing. Namely, Bayes factors can quantify relative evidence for both alternative and null hypotheses. Moreover, the magnitude of this evidence can be presented as an easy-to-interpret odds ratio. Conclusions: While Bayesian analysis is by no means a new method, this type of statistical inference has been largely inaccessible for most psychiatry researchers. JASP provides a straightforward means of performing reproducible Bayesian hypothesis tests using a graphical “point and click” environment that will be familiar to researchers conversant with other graphical statistical packages, such as SPSS.
preprint
Authors: Phillips Jonathan Scott
Published: July 2018

A common approach to knowledge wh is to try to reduce it to knowledge that, and in particular to answer-knowledge. On this view, the truth-conditions of a knowledge wh ascription can be given entirely in terms of which answers to the embedded question the subject knows. Against this background, this paper considers the phenomenon of false-belief sensitivity—a challenge to this common approach to knowledge wh that has recently received a fair amount of attention in the question embedding literature. We present a series of experiments that help bring the empirical standing of this phenomenon into focus. Across six experiments, our results provide evidence that truth judgments of knowledge wh ascriptions are affected by both the presence of false beliefs and the proportion of the subject’s beliefs that are false. Collectively, these results demonstrate a pattern of judgments that is incompatible with standard accounts of the relationship between knowledge that and knowledge wh, and with reducibility more generally. After presenting these new data, we end by considering the theoretical implications of this richer descriptive picture and outline a number of remaining open questions that should be pursued in future work.
Geometry of a large-scale, low-angle, mid-crustal thrust (Woodroffe Thrust, central Australia)
Authors: Wex Sebastian , Mancktelow Neil S. , Hawemann Friedrich , Camacho Alfredo , Pennacchioni Giorgio
Published: July 2018

The Musgrave Block in central Australia exposes numerous large-scale mylonitic shear zones developed during the intracontinental Petermann Orogeny around 560-520 Ma. The most prominent structure is the crustal-scale, over 600 km long, E-W-trending Woodroffe Thrust, which is broadly undulate but generally dips shallowly to moderately to the south and shows an approximate top-to-N sense of movement. The estimated metamorphic conditions of mylonitization indicate a regional variation in the direction of thrusting from predominantly mid-crustal (ca. 520-620 °C and 0.8-1.1 GPa) to lower-crustal (ca. 650 °C and 1.0-1.3 GPa) levels, which is also reflected in the distribution of preserved deformation microstructures. This variation in metamorphic conditions is consistent with a south-dipping thrust plane, but is only small, implying that a ≥ 60 km long N-S segment of the Woodroffe Thrust was originally shallow-dipping at an average estimated angle of ≤ 6°. The reconstructed geometry suggests that basement-cored, thick-skinned, mid-crustal thrusts can be very shallowly dipping on a scale of many tens of kilometers in the direction of movement. Such a geometry would require the rocks along the thrust to be weak, but field observations (e.g. large volumes of syn-tectonic pseudotachylyte) argue for a strong behavior, at least transiently. Localization on a low-angle near-planar structure that crosscuts lithological layers requires a weak precursor, such as a seismic rupture in the middle to lower crust. If this was a single event, the intracontinental earthquake must have been large, with the rupture extending laterally over hundreds of kilometers.
The dynamics of the development of mathematics skills: A comparison of theories of developing intelligence.
Authors: Hofman Abe Dirk , Kievit Rogier , Stevenson Claire , Molenaar Dylan , Visser Ingmar , van der Maas Han
Published: July 2018

This study investigates why children who are good at one math skill also perform well on other math tasks and seeks a solution by comparing two influential theories of general intelligence. The g-factor theory (g for 'general intelligence') implies a general math ability that steers all math-related development. In contrast, mutualism theory states that different math skills co-develop, positively influencing each others growth. We examined this with a large longitudinal data set (N≈12.000) that tracked the development of basic (counting ↔ addition) and more advanced (multiplication ↔ division) math skills for a full school year. We used bivariate latent change score models to investigate whether g-factor or mutualism theory provides a better explanation of their co-development. We found that basic and more advanced math skills become more strongly related over time and that co-development is mutually beneficial. Both results support mutualism theory, a dynamic network perspective of cognitive development, where, in this case, growth in a particular math domain positively influences that of other math skills. Our results perhaps reveal the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the intricacies of co-developing math abilities. We discuss the implications of mutualism theory for understanding the dynamics of learning mathematics.
Too Good to Be True? Psychological Responses to Uncommon Options in Risk–Reward Environments
Authors: Leuker Christina , Pachur Thorsten , Hertwig Ralph , Pleskac Timothy Joseph
Published: July 2018

Risks and rewards, or payoffs and probabilities, are inversely related in many choice environments. We investigated people’s psychological responses to uncommon combinations of risk and reward that deviate from learned regularities (e.g., options that offer a high payoff with an unusally high probability) as they evaluated risky options. In two experiments (N = 183), participants first priced monetary gambles drawn from environments in which risks and rewards were negatively correlated, positively correlated, or uncorrelated. In later trials, they evaluated gambles with uncommon combinations of risk and reward—that is, options that deviated from the respective environment’s risk–reward structure. Pricing, response times, and (in Experiment 2) pupil dilation were recorded. In both experiments, participants took more time when responding to uncommon compared to foreseeable options or when the same options were presented in an uncorrelated risk–reward environment. This result was most pronounced when the uncommon gambles offered higher expected values compared to the other gambles in the set. Moreover, these uncommon, high-value options were associated with an increase in pupil size. These results suggest that people’s evaluations of risky options are based not only on the options’ payoffs and probabilities, but also on the extent to which they fit the risk–reward structure of the environment.
From Natural Language to RDF Graphs with Pregroups
Authors: Delpeuch Antonin , Preller Anne
Published: July 2018

We define an algorithm translating natural language sentences to the formal syntax of RDF, an existential conjunctive logic widely used on the Semantic Web. Our translationis based on pregroup grammars, an efficient type-logical grammatical framework with atransparent syntax-semantics interface. We introduce a restricted notion of side effects inthe semantic category of finitely generated free semimodules over {0,1} to that end.The translation gives an intensional counterpart to previous extensional models.We establish a one-to-one correspondence between extensional models and RDF models such that satisfaction is preserved. Our translation encompasses the expressivity of the target language and supports complex linguistic constructions like relative clauses and unbounded dependencies.
Peranan Gaya Kepemimpinan dan Pengambilan Keputusan yang Efektif dalam Upaya Meningkatkan Semangat Kerja Karyawan di Toko Murti Jaya
Authors: Yohanita Yuni
Published: July 2018

Di dalam mengelola karyawan yang ada dalam perusahaan harus diciptakan suatu komunikasi kerja yang baik antara atasan dan bawahan agar tercipta hubungan kerja yang serasi dan selaras. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk menguraikan persoalan yang berkaitan dengan gaya kepemimpinan, dan menguji gaya kepemimpinan efektif yang dapat diterapkan pada toko murti jaya. Metode penelitian kuantitatif, penulis mengambil 10 orang sebagai responden untuk dilakukan survei. Data penelitian ini diperoleh dari studi lapangan, observasi, wawancara, membuat daftar pertanyaan. Hasil penelitian ini yaitu, pemimpin menggunakan gaya otokrasi, semangat da gairah kerja rendah, sehingga gaya kepemimpinan menjadi tidak efektif. Saran penulis, pemimpin mengganti gaya kepemimpinan menjadi partisipatif, pemimpin dapat memenuhi keinginan dan kebutuhan karyawan, kebutuhan imaterial para karyawan, dan meningkatkan fasilitas dengan menjaga kebersihan perusahaan dan menyediakan kamar mandi yang bersih.
MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF GENE 16S rRNA MICRO SYMBIONTS IN SPONGE AT MELAWAI BEACH, EAST KALIMANTAN
Authors: Marzuki Ismail , Noor Alfian , La Nafie Nursiah
Published: July 2018

Molecular characterization studies have been conducted 16S rRNA gene micro symbiont of sponge origin Melawai Beach, Balikpapan in East Kalimantan. Objective analysis of histo- morphological research, isolation-purification, molecular characterization of micro-symbiont genes in order to search symbiont bacteria that can live in extreme environments contaminated hydrocarbon waste. The research method that morphological identification, isolation-purification and molecular characterization of the 16S rRNA gene with Chain Reaction Polymerization method. The results of histo-morphological analysis concluded sponge samples with species of Callyspongia sp. Isolation and purification mikro symbionts of sponge obtained 2 (two) isolates. Characteristics of Isolates 1; spherical shape, colonize and creamy, while isolates 2; jagged shape, oval and white colonies. Molecular characterization of the 16S rRNA gene by PCR, Bacillus subtilis strain BAB-684 identification for isolates one is the number of nucleotide pairs reached 899 bp and the degree of similarity in GenBank reached 89% homologous, while the second is a Bacillus flexus strain PHCDB20 isolates the number reached 950 bp nucleotide pairs with the degree of similarity in GenBank reached 99% homologous
Heterogeneity in the Development of Proactive and Reactive Aggression in Childhood: Common and Specific Genetic - Environmental Factors
Authors: Paquin Stéphane , Lacourse Eric , Brendgen Mara , Vitaro Frank , Tremblay Richard E. , Dionne Ginette , Boivin Michel
Published: July 2018

Background: Few studies are grounded in a developmental framework to study proactive and reactive aggression. Furthermore, although distinctive correlates, predictors and outcomes have been highlighted, proactive and reactive aggression are substantially correlated. To our knowledge, no empirical study has examined the communality of genetic and environmental underpinning of the development of both subtypes of aggression. The current study investigated the communality and specificity of genetic-environmental factors related to heterogeneity in proactive and reactive aggression’s development throughout childhood. Methods: Participants were 223 monozygotic and 332 dizygotic pairs. Teacher reports of aggression were obtained at 6, 7, 9, 10 and 12 years of age. Joint development of both phenotypes were analyzed through a multivariate latent growth curve model. Set point, differentiation, and genetic maturation/environmental modulation hypotheses were tested using a biometric decomposition of intercepts and slopes. Results: Common genetic factors accounted for 64% of the total variation of proactive and reactive aggression’s intercepts. Two other sets of uncorrelated genetic factors accounted for reactive aggression’s intercept (17%) on the one hand, and for proactive (43%) and reactive (13%) aggression’s slopes on the other. Common shared environmental factors were associated with proactive aggression’s intercept (21%) and slope (26%) and uncorrelated shared environmental factors were also associated with reactive aggression’s slope (14%). Common nonshared environmental factors explained most of the remaining variability of proactive and reactive aggression slopes. Conclusions. A genetic differentiation hypothesis common to both phenotypes was supported by common genetic factors associated with the developmental heterogeneity of proactive and reactive aggression in childhood. A genetic maturation hypothesis common to both phenotypes, albeit stronger for proactive aggression, was supported by common genetic factors associated with proactive and reactive aggression slopes. A shared environment set point hypothesis for proactive aggression was supported by shared environmental factors associated with proactive aggression baseline and slope. Although there are many common features to proactive and reactive aggression, the current research underscores the advantages of differentiating them when studying aggression.
The Mediating Role Of Employee Performance: The Effects Of Transformational Leadership, Emotional Intelligence And Role Conflict On Job Satisfaction
Authors: Amirullah Noerhayati
Published: July 2018

The purpose of this study is to analyze and explain the effects of transformational leadership, emotionalintelligence role conflict on employees performance and job satisfaction in the community health care centers inMakassar. Population in this study that the entire staff working in community health care centers in the city ofMakassar, which amounted to 513 officers and scattered or work at 14 community health care centers.Sampling was done by purposive sampling technique with the formulations slovin thus obtained a sample of 225employees, results of data analysis structural equation modeling using AMOS (Analysis of Moment Structures)software provides evidence that the transformational leadership, emotional intelligence and role conflictsignificant effect on employees performance, transformational leadership and employees performancesignificant effect on job satisfaction, emotional intelligence and role conflict is not significant on jobsatisfaction. Then the last causality provides evidence that the mediating role of employee performance is notproved to analyze the effect of transformational leadership, emotional intelligence and role conflict on jobsatisfaction.
Liberals Lecture, Conservatives Communicate: analyzing complexity and ideology in 381,609 speeches
Authors: Schoonvelde Martijn , Brosius Anna , Schumacher Gijs , Bakker Bert
Published: July 2018

There is some evidence that liberal politicians use more complex language than conservative politicians. This evidence, however, is based on a specific set of speeches of US Congress members and UK members of Parliament. This raises the question whether the relationship between ideology and linguistic complexity is a more general phenomenon or specific to this small group of politicians. To address this question, this paper analyzes 381,609 speeches from five parliaments, from twelve European prime ministers, and from party congresses across time and across countries. Our results replicate and generalize these earlier findings: speakers from culturally liberal parties use more complex language than speakers from culturally conservative parties. Economic left-right differences, on the other hand, are not systematically linked to linguistic complexity.
PEMODELAN UML UNTUK APLIKASI MANAJEMEN KEUANGAN
Authors: walhidayat
Published: July 2018

The development of mobile information systems with dynamic track and a variety of business needs, in order to be aligned with that goal then a computerized concept is needed. Periodically, the company has always issued financial statements that were made by the accounting department and given to the parties concerned, ie the government, creditors, owners and the management company itself. There are plenty of financial statements issued by the company, but that is commonly used is:Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement. Based on the analysis results, it can be seen that the system is feasible to be implemented on the Personal Software for purposes of financial management today is an electronic accounting system (E-Accounting System) using a variety of features that can be used in accordance with its function, and a variety of modeling softwarerequirements this can be used in modeling with UML method.
Orchestrating learning analytics (OrLA): Supporting inter-stakeholder communication about adoption of learning analytics at the classroom
Authors: Prieto Luis P. , Rodríguez-Triana María Jesús , Martínez-Maldonado Roberto , Dimitriadis Yannis , Gasevic Dragan
Published: July 2018

Despite the recent surge of interest in learning analytics (LA), their adoption in everyday classroom practice is still slow. Knowledge gaps and lack of inter-stakeholder communication (particularly with educational practitioners) have been posited as critical factors for previous LA adoption failures. Yet, what issues should researchers, practitioners and other actors communicate about, when considering the adoption of an LA innovation in a particular context? We reviewed and synthesised existing literature on four focus areas related to LA, their adoption, implications for practice, and more general factors that have emerged as crucial when studying everyday classroom adoption of technologies (i.e., classroom orchestration). This synthesis resulted in two conversational frameworks and an inter-stakeholder communication tool. These can be used to guide and support conversations and decision-making about the adoption of LA innovations. We illustrate their usefulness with examples of use in ongoing LA adoption processes in Australia, Spain and Estonia.
A comparative investigation of seven indirect attitude measures
Authors: Bar-Anan Yoav , Nosek Brian A.
Published: July 2018

We compared the psychometric qualities of seven indirect attitude measures across three attitude domains (race, politics and self-esteem) with a large sample (n = 23,413). We compared the measures on internal consistency, sensitivity to known effects, relationship with indirect and direct measures of the same topic, reliability and validity of single-category attitude measurement, ability to detect meaningful variance among people with non-extreme attitudes, and robustness to the exclusion of misbehaved or well-behaved participants. All seven indirect measures correlated with each other, and with direct measures of the same topic. These relations were always weak for self-esteem, moderate for race and strong for politics. This pattern suggests that some of the source of variation in reliability and predictive validity of indirect measures is a function of the concepts rather than the methods. The Implicit Association Test (IAT) and Brief IAT (BIAT) showed the best overall psychometric quality, followed by the Go-No go Association Task, Single-target IAT (ST-IAT), Affective Misattribution Procedure (AMP), Sorting Paired Features task, and Evaluative Priming. The AMP showed a steep decline in its psychometric qualities when people with extreme attitude scores were removed. Single-category attitude scores computed for the IAT and BIAT showed good relationship with other attitude measures, but no evidence of discriminant validity between paired categories. The other measures, especially the AMP and ST-IAT, showed better evidence for discriminant validity. The results inform on the validity of measures as attitude assessments, but do not speak to the implicitness of the measured constructs.
Evaluation of two heuristic approaches to solve the ontology meta-matching problem
Authors: Martinez-Gil Jorge , Aldana-Montes José F.
Published: July 2018

Nowadays many techniques and tools are available for addressing the ontology matching problem, however, the complex nature of this problem causes existing solutions to be unsatisfactory. This work aims to shed some light on a more flexible way of matching ontologies. Ontology meta-matching, which is a set of techniques to configure optimum ontology matching functions. In this sense, we propose two approaches to automatically solve the ontology meta-matching problem. The first one is called maximum similarity measure, which is based on a greedy strategy to compute efficiently the parameters which configure a composite matching algorithm. The second approach is called genetics for ontology alignments and is based on a genetic algorithm which scales better for a large number of atomic matching algorithms in the composite algorithm and is able to optimize the results of the matching process.
Analisis Pengaruh Kompetensi terhadap Kinerja Dosen Perguruan Tinggi Maritim Swasta di Kota Semarang
Authors: Hartanto Cahya Fajar Budi
Published: July 2018

Many previous studies have different result in showing effect of the competence to the work performance. That is aim of this research conducted which is to know how the competence has impact to the performance of lecturers in private maritime higher educations in Semarang.Research’s respondents are 54 lecturers from 3 private maritime higher educations in Semarang known as Akpelni, Stimart-AMNI, and ATP Veteran. According to this research, competence has high score as 4.25 and performance is lower than competence which is 3.97.Analysis of linier regression Y = 0.93 + 0.72X means that every improvement in competence (X) will also increase the level of performance (Y). Test distribution is normal (sig 0.310), classic assumption is fulfilled (sig 0.505). Hypothesis of the research is accepted, there is a significant impact from the competence to the performance of lecturers. The impact is calculated 41%, and the rest is another factors which are not involved in the model.
ANALISISCHROMIUM HEXAVALENT DAN NIKELTERLARUTDALAM LIMBAH CAIR AREA PERTAMBANGANPT VALE Tbk, SOROAKO-INDONESIA
Authors: Marzuki Ismail
Published: July 2018

Supervision, control and constructive action by applying liquid waste quality standards to the mining industry that produces heavy metal wastewater must be done to prevent environmental pollution, material loss and health impact to surrounding communities. The analysis of the liquid waste generated by the mining industry aims to ensure the application of environmental quality standard requirements by each industry using measurement method and parameter analysis of acidity degree using Oakton pH meter, total solid, Chromium hexavalent (Cr6+) of concentration using HACH DR 2000, and Nickel (Ni) of dissolved using ICP-OES Spectrophotometer. Results obtained respectively: The average acidity (pH) of the sample (SP1) averaged pH 8.35 and sample (SP4) averaged pH 8.92. Highest total sample (SP1) solids, 864 mg/L and lowest, 136 mg/L, while sample (SP4), highest, 1.280 mg/L and lowest, 174 mg/L. Concentrations of Chromium Hexavalent (Cr6 +) samples (SP4), 0.91 mg/L and samples (SP1), 0.01 mg/L. Mean Soluble Nickel (SP1) average concentration, 0.08 mg/L, and sample (SP4), 0.07 mg/L. Based on the results obtained concluded that both types of waste water samples PT. Vale Tbk, Soroako, meets four variables that are analyzed in liquid waste quality standard.
Discussion of “Classroom Activities to Illustrate Concepts of Darcy’s Law and Hydraulic Conductivity” by Roseanna M. Neupauer and Norman D. Dennis
Authors: Brkić Dejan , Mitrović Vladimir
Published: July 2018

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Effects of amphetamine exposure during adolescence on behavior and prelimbic cortex neuron activity in adulthood
Authors: Sherrill Luke K. , Gulley Joshua Michael
Published: July 2018

Repeated exposure to psychostimulants during adolescence produces long-lasting changes in behavior that may be mediated by disrupted development of the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system. Here, we tested this hypothesis by assessing the effects of amphetamine (AMPH) and dopamine receptor-selective drugs on behavior and neuron activity in the prelimbic region of the medial prefrontal cortex (PFC). Adolescent male, Sprague-Dawley rats were given saline or 3 mg/kg AMPH between postnatal day (P) 27 and P45. In Experiment 1, locomotor behavior was assessed during adulthood following challenges with a dopamine D1 (SKF 82958) or D2 (quinpirole) receptor-selective agonist. In Experiment 2, pre-exposed rats were challenged during adulthood with AMPH and a D1 (SKF 83566) or D2 (eticlopride) receptor-selective antagonist. In Experiment 3, the activity of putative pyramidal cells in the prelimbic cortex was recorded as rats behaved in an open-field arena before and after challenge injections with AMPH and one of the antagonists. We found that compared to controls, adolescent pre-exposed rats were more sensitive to the stimulant effects of AMPH and the dopamine receptor agonists, as well as to the ability of the antagonists to reverse AMPH-induced stereotypy. Prelimbic neurons from AMPH pre-exposed rats were also more likely to respond to an AMPH challenge in adulthood, primarily by reducing their activity, and the antagonists reversed these effects. Our results suggest that exposure to AMPH during adolescence leads to enduring adaptations in the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system that likely mediate heightened response to the drug during adulthood.
QUALITY OF HEALTH SERVICE AND ITS EFFECT ON PATIENT SATISFACTION IN DR. SYAIFUL ANWAR HOSPITAL OF MALANG INDONESIA.
Authors: Suyitno
Published: July 2018

Service quality dimension covering reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy, and tangible is the ultimate goal a public hospital should achieve as organization productivity though patients’ satisfaction. This study investigated the influence of service quality on patients’ satisfaction of Dr Syaiful Anwar Hospital in Malang, East Java, Indonesia. Assigning 50 patients hospitalized during the research, this study collected data using questionnaires, interview and document analysis and used SPSS 17.0 as a tool of analysis. Findings of t-test showed that variables of quality service gave positive effect on patients’ satisfaction, each of which is: Assurance (46%), Reliability (34,3%), Tangible (42%), Responsiveness (67,1%), and Empathy (43,3%). Determinant test showed all variables affected 46.1% (R² = .464) on public satisfaction and responsiveness performed the most dominant effect on patients’ satisfaction to 67.1% based on beta test.
It Takes Three: How Mass Media Coverage Conditions Public Responsiveness to Policy Outputs in the United States
Authors: Williams Christopher , Schoonvelde Martijn
Published: July 2018

Democratic governance requires that policy outcomes and public demand for policy be linked. While studies have shown empirical support for such a relationship in various policy domains, empirical evidence also indicates that the public is relatively unaware of policy outputs. This raises a puzzle: Why do policy outputs influence public attitudes if the public knows little about them?MethodsThis study seeks to address this paradox by examining the conditioning role of media coverage. We rely on data derived from the Policy Agendas Project in the United States, allowing us to analyze the relationship between policy outcomes, public preferences, and newspaper content across a long span of time (1972–2007).ResultsOur results indicate that public policy preferences respond to policy outputs, and that this relationship is strengthened by greater media attention to a policy area. Importantly, our findings also indicate that without media attention to a policy area, there is no direct effect of policy outputs on public demand for policy.ConclusionsMedia coverage appears to be a key factor for public responsiveness to occur. In the absence of policy coverage by the media, public responsiveness to policy outputs is greatly reduced.
Beberapa Sifat Anatomi, Dimensi Serat dan Microfibril Angle (MFA) Samama (Anthocephalus Macrophyllus)
Authors: Cahyono Tekat Dwi
Published: July 2018

Peningkatan kemanfaatan Samama telah disajikan pada penelitian terdahulu. Penelitian ini menyajikan sifat anatomi utama Samama dan potensi seratnya sebagai bahan baku pulp dan kertas. Samama disayat dengan mikrotom pada tiga bidang pengamatan (radial, tangensial dan longitudinal). Teknik maserasi dan Metode Iodin digunakan untuk melihat dimensi serat dan sudut mikrofibril (MFA. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Samama memiliki pembuluh yang menyebar dengan sebaran semi tata lingkar, tersusun dalam pola diagonal dan soliter secara keseluruhan. Seratnya berdinding tipis dan panjang seratnya termasuk kategori panjang. Kayu Samama direkomendasikan sebagai bahan pulp dan kertas karena kualitas seratnya. Hasil ini semakin meningkatkan potensi kemanfaatan Samama di masa mendatang