bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Two Men Talking
Authors: Gale Ken , Wyatt Jonathan
Published: April 2020

This paper follows the authors' collective biographical inquiry into “becoming men” (Gale and Wyatt, 2008), and pursues questions about “men-ness” in their writing relationship. Drawing primarily from Deleuze, both his philosophical concepts — lines of flight, nomadic inquiry, the rhizome, and more — and his insights into his collaborations with others, the authors work together on collaborative research ventures, mostly in an ebb and flow of writings that they exchange across the ether. They write with/to each other about writing, about their respective work, about love, about loss, about subjectivities. They are aware that in the intertextuality of this writing they perform themselves. Using rhizomatic and nomadic inquiry, in this paper they explore the experience of being two men talking, asking: how is this relationship constituted? How does writing create this relationship? What — gendered, sexualized — subjectivities do they perform to/with each other?
Of Youth
Authors: Krueger Mark
Published: April 2020

The author presents a sketch and five fragment poems from his collection Of Youth.
“Color, Creed, and Character”
Authors: Athens Lonnie
Published: April 2020

Due to heavy rains, the industrial canal that runs by Pop's café threatens to overflow and spill into it and the one-room station house next door. Pop organizes a work party to place sandbags around the two buildings. Despite their best efforts, the water from the canal floods the buildings destroying much of their interiors. Unable to secure a loan from the bank to pay for repairs and purchase new restaurant equipment, Pop contemplates selling his café. Just before Pop closes the deal, however, he learns that the company owning the canal has offered to settle the damage suit that he brought against it, sparing him from the need to sell the cafe. Pop learns from this ordeal who his true friends are.
Ode to Academic Labor
Authors: Tillmann Lisa M.
Published: April 2020

This resistive poem calls for collective action to combat the encroachment of corporate values into academic life. Best served hot.
Breaking Out
Authors: Meyer Karen , Fels Lynn
Published: April 2020

This article is about context, power located within institutions, and complexities of interpretation tightly twisted in a participatory action research project with women in prison. This narrative speaks to the encounter between us and the women, the unfamiliarity each of us had with the other's language, and the joint challenge to ‘decode’ transcripts of incarcerated women's voices. As action researchers we were determined, indeed even smugly pleased, to be undertaking this venture of tutelage, of introducing the women as co-researchers to methods of data analysis. However, we watched a shifting of power (empowerment), as the women became the true researchers through their proximity to and conversations with the transcripts as raw realities, narratives that acknowledged their lives, which we knew only as data. In the end, we came away unsettled, with deeper awareness for the complexity of interpreting ‘data,’ which constitutes local knowing, the unsaid, and the unspeakable.
Reciprocal Peer Interviewing
Authors: Porter Elaine , Neysmith Sheila M , Reitsma-Street Marge , Collins Stephanie Baker
Published: April 2020

Feminist researchers are acutely aware of the difficulties facing researchers as they try to bridge social locational differences between interviewer and interviewee. What we call reciprocal peer interviewing offers a significant opportunity for interviewees to speak in their own voice and exercise control over the interview process. This paper reports on the application of this method to a study of women's contributions to provisioning within a low-income community. It involves women interviewing each other in dyads after both underwent a brief training session. The celebratory dinner that proceeded the interview session had complementary effects but is not integral to the method. Comparable in some ways to focus group interviews, this method provided space for women to co-construct their experiences in response to the research questions. The qualities of the text produced through this dialogical form of active interviewing are illustrated and evaluated. Also examined are issues of interpretation and representation.
Pledging Personal Allegiance to Qualitative Inquiry
Authors: Pelias Ronald J.
Published: April 2020

In this short essay, I consider where the process of navel-gazing takes me, how it leads me to others. In short, I offer a tale of how navel-gazing takes me away from self-absorption and makes others key to any self-reflection. I end by pledging my allegiance to navel-gazing and, more generally, to qualitative inquiry, for the work it accomplishes.
Warm Ideas and Chilling Consequences
Authors: Bochner Arthur P.
Published: April 2020

In the process of writing my academic memoirs spanning a period of more than thirty-five years, I discovered how crucial the work of Gregory Bateson had been to my life as a teacher, a scholar, and a relational partner. In this paper I celebrate Bateson's charming and incisive ideas about how communication works, his deep reservations about the worship of quantification, and his astute analysis of what is at stake when we make epistemological errors in everyday life. Reviewing a turning point in my academic life—a conference held in 1979, I reaffirm the importance of warm ideas and provide a story that illustrates the potentially monstrous consequences of epistemological error.
Negotiating Identity While Scaling the Walls of the Ivory Tower
Authors: Olivas Margarita Refugia
Published: April 2020

Within these pages I engaged in critical autoethnographic storytelling, referred to as cuentos, to highlight the reflexive processes impacting my identity negotiation while in graduate school (an “Appendix” further explicating this critical autoethnographic approach is also provided). As will be seen, the reflexivity necessary to explore the impact my past had on my interactions while a graduate student stemmed from understanding borderland theorizing (Anzaldúa, 1987). Through cuentos about my Mago, Margaret Ruth, Margo, and Margarita Refugia identity constructions, I painfully expose lived experiences representing surreal, emotional, often devastating, unshakable, and unbelievable lived realities. In contrast to the cuentos sections of this article, the scaling the walls of the Ivory Tower sections are presented in a less emotional, more intellectual state of mind reflecting borderland theorizing about (post)colonial wounds and assimilationist socialization processes that eventually lead to my emerging conciencia de la Mestizo—processes that bring to light academic and socialization challenges I faced while attending graduate school as a racial/ethnic minority woman and single mother of lower socioeconomic background.
Bunt
Authors: Madonick Michael D.
Published: April 2020

Sports are filled with rule, boundary and often family. This non-fiction piece, “Bunt,” tries to capture an incident that occurred over forty years ago, one of those moments that, for better or worse, shaped a character. We have collected a lot of information over time—statistics, measurements, all manner of academic enterprise, but we often neglect to recognize that territory, in its most primitive sense, drives us. One of the fundamental aspects of story-telling is to remind, and from remembrance there is often instruction.
Kicking and Screaming
Authors: Yuen Felice
Published: April 2020

In this paper, poetry, as a form of creative analytic practice, is used to articulate my transformation from a constructivist to a critical theorist during my research with Aboriginal women in prison. I was first kicking and screaming against the very thought of working so closely with women in prison, and eventually I was kicking and screaming with incarcerated women and for incarcerated women. Creative analytic practice embraces the complexity of lived experiences and allows for transformational process of self-creation. In my poem, I illustrate my intense, emotional, and life-changing journey as I re-discovered a world based on hierarchical structures of power.
“Performing” Sport
Authors: Rinehart Robert E.
Published: April 2020

This paper frames, and creates, a fictionalized two-act play based upon two real yet imagined contexts: 1) 1975, apartheid-era South Africa (involving cricket, Yacoob Omar—who was one of South Africa's premier Black cricketers during apartheid, other 1970s-era cricketers, and a fabricated scenario), and 2) a 1995, “post-apartheid” South Africa (involving the World Cup of Rugby, Nelson Mandela, and various others). These scenarios seek to explore sport practices, where some of the naturalized aims, ideologies, and assumptions of sport will be challenged. Might we, by challenging such deeply-held ideologies that much of sport promotes, begin to see sport as potentially liberatory, cooperative, and a possible means to promote understanding for the increasingly-divided societies of the world?
The Personal is the Political
Authors: Jenkins Mercilee M.
Published: April 2020

This paper explores the transformation of oral histories into a play about the founding of San Francisco Women's Building based on extensive interviews. My impetus for writing She Rises Like a Building to the Sky was to portray the kind of grass roots feminist organization primarily composed of lesbians that made up a large part of the second wave of the Women's Movement in the 1970's and early 1980's. The evolution of She Rises is discussed from three positionalities I occupied over an extensive period of time: oral historian, playwright and eventual community member. Excerpts from She Rises are used to illustrate the lessons I learned in the process of creating this work. I will discuss my self-collaboration in terms of the oral historian's concern for fidelity, the playwright's desire to bring such material to life whether by fact or fiction, and the community member's fears of how others will view this rendition of their stories. The behind the scenes dramas reveal as much as the play itself about the challenges and rewards of undertaking such projects.
Research, Art, or Politics
Authors: Hammersley Martyn
Published: April 2020

In a recently published “one-act play,” Norman Denzin alleges that I and others have misinterpreted the kind of qualitative inquiry he promotes and are insufficiently open-minded. In response, I argue that he positions his critics via a modernist notion of resisting progress that is rhetorically illegitimate, and obscures and misrepresents their arguments, partly through use of the play format. I insist that research is a distinct form of activity, different in character from both art and politics, and that pursuing one under the auspices of another is unethical.
“From Where I Sit”
Authors: Francisco Valerie
Published: April 2020

Studies of young people's experiences of sexuality rarely discuss how immigration and settlement impact youths' understanding of their bodies, sexual identities, and knowledge. In this paper, Filipino youth in collaboration with adult allies, conducted a New York City-based participatory action research project and found that young people's experiences and understanding of sexuality are narrated by silences, solidarity and paradoxical spaces. This study explores the contradictory experiences of passivity and subjectivity in the sexual lives of young people. Lastly, as an adult collaborator on the project I assess how “participation” as a logic of inquiry allows for youth and adult collaborators to talk through and negotiate their positions in a research project.
Dancing the ‘Data’
Authors: Markula Pirkko
Published: April 2020

This article traces a process of combining dance and narrative text into performance ethnography. It focuses on how interviews collected during an ongoing research project on serious contemporary dancers' experiences with injuries can ‘be danced’ in a research presentation. The author reflects how the empirical material from the interviews informed a narrative text that, combined with contemporary dance choreography interpreted through Deleuzian rhizomatic analysis, was included into live performance ethnography. The author concludes with a need for an on-going experimentation with the dancing body, theory, and writing in qualitative research.
Points of Hesitation
Authors: Cheek Julianne
Published: April 2020

Qualitative health research has long had as one of its mantras a commitment to, and focus on, human rights and social justice. However over time, it is possible that such centrality can have the effect of creating a sense of the familiar, and with such familiarity assumptions about how human rights and social justice are being advanced through the process of qualitative inquiry. A sense of comfort or even complacency can emerge that may sometimes obstruct or prevent us from pausing to think deeply and re-examine these assumptions and how they impact on our thinking and actions as qualitative researchers. This paper aims to surface questions designed to produce points of hesitation able to assist in exploring the critical issue of how qualitative research does, and might, fit with an agenda based around the advancement of human rights and social justice. Using examples from my own research I explore and reflect on issues that have troubled me and subsequently forced me to hesitate and think deeply about what may have seemed self evident or given.
Mission Impossible
Authors: Jones Marion , Stanley Grant
Published: April 2020

This paper reports the reflective journey we undertook as the leaders of a collaborative action research project involving education practitioners and our navigation through a complex web of cooperation, conflict resolution, bargaining and defection. Drawing on these experiences, we seek to make explicit the cocktail of tensions and disordering of research contexts and practices that have remained largely disregarded both in the literature and in everyday self-accounting. By interweaving the plot-lines of ‘game,’ ‘ritual’ and ‘real’ we seek to gain an insight into the rational/irrational behaviour of the various players involved in this ethno-drama, including ourselves. Finally, we posit the claim that educational action research conceived as a ‘critical and (self-critical) collaborative inquiry’ (Zuber-Skerritt, 1996, p.85) has surrendered its democratic values to an all pervading performativity culture and conclude that collaborative action research conducted in the politicised educational contexts of today cannot be true to its ideal.
Remembering What Their Bodies Can't Forget
Authors: Morawski Cynthia M. , Irwin Stephanie
Published: April 2020

Each year, hundreds of thousands of women's bodies come under the knife of unjust and unwarranted gynecological and obstetrical procedures that leave them with an ongoing legacy of life-altering symptoms. Using the resolution scrapbook—a reflective and multimodal chronicling of a distressing event, two women come together to compose and share autoethnographies of their own harrowing experiences—an uninformed and unnesssary ovarectomy and an unanaesthetized caesarean. Although the move from private to public spaces in the examination of their lives was a difficult task, they recognized that as autoethnographers, this decision was an essential one to help in the ongoing fight for women and future generations to take back informed control of their bodies via the comfort of mutual company, the prospect of support, and the hope of empowerment via their own voices.
Flows, Tides, and Transatlantic Drifts
Authors: Gale Ken , Pineau Elyse Lamm
Published: April 2020

In this paper, using the imagery of the ever shifting movement of the sea, two friends attempt to demonstrate how the concepts, affects and percepts of Deleuzian inquiry can fuse and connect with the embodied method of poetic, performative writing to engage in and produce a collaborative inquiry into their intuitive, creative and ethically sensitive struggles as friends, parents and teachers.
A Nodal Ethnography
Authors: Hilton Krista A.
Published: April 2020

The author uses a multilayered dialogue of narrative and interruptions to provide a conversational space between [her] plethora of nodes. Following in the steps of Deleuze (1968/1994) to think differently, the author presents this piece as a reflection of the meaning making [she] (re)produces surrounding her doctoral program research. Throughout this paper, [she] continues to (re)produce “muddled lines” (Gale & Wyatt, 2008, p. 361) in what it means for [her] to be a novice researcher within the assemblage of academia.
Border Crossing
Authors: Tilley-Lubbs Gresilda A.
Published: April 2020

In this autoethnography, I share a snapshot from a research trip I took with my husband Dan to Mexico in 2006 seeking stories from the “other side.” I wanted to talk to the families of the Mexican women I had worked with in my own US city for the past seven years to find out the effect the women's emigration had on the transnational families who remained on the other side of the border. I heard many stories from the Mexican families, and I also experienced my own story when Dan and I were threatened with arrest at the border by Mexican immigration officials who canceled our passports and called us “illegals”. I refer to my journal entries to create data poems, connecting the “autobiographical and personal to the cultural and social” (Ellis, 2004, p. xix). Thus I am able to perform a poem that features “concrete action, self-consciousness, and introspection” (p. xix) to make a statement in “tension with dominant expressions of discursive power” (Neumann, 1996, p. 189). I choose to use images to “[set] a scene, [tell] a story, [weave] intricate connections between life and art” (Jones, 2005, p. 765).
Children Talk to Charles Dickens about Their Own “Hard Times”
Authors: Finley Susan , Parker Morgan A.
Published: April 2020

The focus of this research narrative is children's perceptions of social class and their experiences of poverty as a social identity. Participatory action research that includes narrative reflection is demonstrated for its capacity and potential as a source of agency that may contribute to youths' academic, social, and political emancipation. In this research we analyze perceptions and attitudes about social class as these perceptions and attitudes are expressed by a group of children who are economically poor and who reside in an urban area in the Pacific Northwest. Our purpose has been to engage our students in a transformative educational process, with the further intention of deepening students' understandings of their own power to act in the world, or to “write their own futures” This readers' theater narrative has been scripted from personal, cultural texts that the co-authors (Susan and Morgan) selected from young people's writing in response to reading Charles Dickens' Hard Times and other period literature. The research takes place in the context of the At Home At School (AHAS) program at Washington State University Vancouver, directed by Susan Finley and where Morgan Parker is an undergraduate research assistant.
Knowing Selves
Authors: Atkinson Paul , Seweryn Ania , Tirini Stefania
Published: April 2020

It is argued that we need to cultivate a wider appreciation of the range and variety of national traditions in qualitative research in general, and biographical research in particular. There are many such traditions in Europe, but because of the dominance of the English language, they remain poorly known outside their own countries of origin. This paper makes a plea for a greater knowledge and dissemination of those research traditions. The paper is illustrated with references to just two such European traditions – from Italy and Poland. It is also suggested that these research traditions constitute social actors in culturally and historically distinct ways.
Is God like My Father?
Authors: Leslie Ellen , Spaulding Frances
Published: April 2020

Through personal narratives, we outline the complexities of researching and understanding domestic abuse in Christian culture. We paint a story based on our childhood memories of growing up with a verbally abusive, emotionally manipulative father and reflect on the obstacles we have encountered as researchers in trying to address domestic abuse within our faith community. Through our narratives, it becomes painfully clear that research on domestic abuse from the victim's perspective is an area that needs increased scholarly attention. Our faith has both enabled abuse in our family and at the same time has helped us cope with the continuing effects of abuse. The stories we share are intended to inspire increased interdisciplinary scholarship on domestic abuse and illustrate how scholarship can lead to new approaches that address the complex matrix of family abuse, religion and parenting.
Working Bakhtin's Body
Authors: Kuntz Aaron M. , Gildersleeve Ryan Evely
Published: April 2020

In this article we critically examine the use of embodiment in education research and illustrate how analyses of embodiment within education reframe persistent educational problems in productive, actionable ways. We juxtapose embodied analyses with traditional analyses of speech by interrogating Bakhtin's notions of the body and dialogue, each of which departs from dominant modes of analysis in education research. We purposefully read Bakhtinian notions of the grotesque through a Deleuzian frame of the body as force, as always in excess of representation. We approach the knowledge-construction process in dialogue, situating our work around Bakhtin within Bakhtin's work itself. Through problematizing traditional dialectical and body-less notions of education research we illustrate how educational problems and research practices seeking to understand embodiment might be reframed and reconceptualized, through a dialogic process between the two authors. Cumulatively, we hope that our dialogue will promote understanding of how bodies matter in education research through dialogic knowledge construction.
“Criteria against Ourselves?”
Authors: Herrmann Andrew F.
Published: April 2020

In this exploration, I consider the dilemmas I experienced as a young qualitative researcher, particularly the ethical questions about how I write, who I implicate as I write, and how community fits into my ideas of qualitative inquiry. This account is drawn from conversations with peers and mentors, ethnographic experience, and interviews. It is an explication of how the academic capitalist discourse that surrounds higher education conflicts with the premises of qualitative inquiry. It is a call to arms for second-generation qualitative researchers to push the boundaries, expand the development, and increase the readership of our work. It calls on our academic parents to continue to protect us within the academy, but also from the academy's criteria as we attempt to enlarge our readership and influence.
Beyond the G.P.A.
Authors: Amah Ifeoma A.
Published: April 2020

Through a Critical Race Theory (CRT) framework, this article explores the experiences of students who are most typically overlooked within the college access discourse—those individuals who are considered “non-high performing” and/or “non-college bound.” Employing data from a longitudinal qualitative study, counter-narratives are used to highlight how Raheem and Brianna, two non-high performing African American students, experience the high school-to-college transition process. Over the course of three years, they reveal a combination of personal challenges, institutional shortcomings, and other trials that influence how they finally come to navigate their experiences within school, as well as their decisions about and actions towards achieving their postsecondary goals. Their narratives, while unique in their own right, highlight many aspects and obstacles that are all too common amongst this population of students; however, they also highlight an often more forgotten story—that is, the complexities of how these students attempt to find ways in which to handle their circumstances and proceed towards their future.
Writing “Teacher”
Authors: Amatucci Kristi Bruce
Published: April 2020

This paper details an experiment with how the process of writing, specifically writing fictional narratives, can take my queries into teacher subjectivity in unexpected directions, into what St. Pierre (2011) called the post-qualitative landscape. Building on the idea of writing as inquiry (Richardson, 1994), I produce fictional texts that expand the boundaries of traditional qualitative research and push the limits of what counts as knowledge. Specifically, as a former high school teacher, I question conventional constructs of teacher by writing her as me/not me, as fiction in search of a truth. Such methodological experiments work to develop epistemological elasticity and to resist movements toward a normative science that defines itself in opposition to artful expression.
Enhancing CPR During Transition From Prehospital to Emergency Department: A QI Initiative
Authors: Hoehn Erin F. , Cabrera-Thurman Mary K. , Oehler Jennifer , Vukovic Adam , Frey Mary , Helton Mathew , Geis Gary , Kerrey Benjamin
Published: April 2020

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:

High-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) increases the likelihood of survival of pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Maintenance of high-quality CPR during transition of care between prehospital and pediatric emergency department (PED) providers is challenging. Our objective for this initiative was to minimize pauses in compressions, in alignment with American Heart Association recommendations, for patients with OHCA during the handoffs from prehospital to PED providers. We aimed to decrease interruptions in compressions during the first 2 minutes of PED care from 17 seconds (baseline data) to 10 seconds over 12 months. Our secondary aims were to decrease the length of the longest pause in compressions to <10 seconds and eliminate encounters in which time to defibrillator pad placement was >120 seconds.

METHODS:

Our multidisciplinary team outlined our theory for improvement and designed interventions aimed at key drivers. Interventions included specific roles and responsibilities, CPR handoff choreography, and empowerment of frontline providers. Data were abstracted from video recordings of patients with OHCA receiving manual CPR on arrival.

RESULTS:

We analyzed 33 encounters between March 2018 and July 2019. We decreased total interruptions from 17 to 12 seconds during the first 2 minutes and decreased the time of the longest single pause from 14 to 7 seconds. We saw a decrease in variability of time to defibrillator pad placement.

CONCLUSIONS:

Implementation of a quality improvement initiative involving CPR transition choreography resulted in decreased interruptions in compressions and decreased variability of time to defibrillator pad placement.
Impact of maximal power training with and without plyometric on speed endurance and upper body power of team handball players
Authors: Ethiraj Balaji , Kamatchi Murugavel
Published: April 2020

Background and Study Aim. The aim of this research is to investigate the impact of maximal power training with and without plyometrics on speed endurance and upper body power of team handball players.

Material and Methods. Sixty college level men team handball players were randomly selected from Coimbatore district as subjects. Their age ranged between 18 and 25 years. The selected subjects were divided into three equal groups consisting of twenty each. No attempt was made to equate the groups. Experimental group I (n = 20) underwent maximal power training with plyometrics (MPTWP), Experimental group II (n = 20) underwent maximal power training without plyometrics (MPTWOP) for a period of 12 weeks and group III (n = 20) acted as control group (CG), the subjects in control group were not engaged in any training programme other than their regular work. Data obtained were evaluated in SPSS package.

Results. The F value revealed that the speed endurance and upper body power were significantly improved due to the influence of maximal power training with plyometrics.

Conclusions. As a result, 12 weeks of maximal power training with plyometrics can be said to increase the speed endurance and upper body power of team handball players.
Chadbourne Gilpatric and Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Fateful Meeting
Authors: Leach Stephen
Published: April 2020

On January 11 1951 Chadbourne Gilpatric met with Wittgenstein to offer him, on behalf of the Rockefeller Foundation, funding for any forthcoming publications. Wittgenstein politely declined the offer as he did not believe his health would permit him to bring any projects to completion. The meeting is referred to in a letter from Wittgenstein to Norman Malcolm and is also recalled by O.K. Bouwsma. Bouwsma learned of it from conversations with Wittgenstein and by Gilpatric. However, it is also recounted in Gilpatric’s diary. Gilpatric’s account comprises the fullest account of the meeting. It has remained unedited, until now, and is here transcribed for the first time. Five years later on February 1 1956 Gilpatric submitted a report, entitled ‘Logician and Mystic’, to the Rockefeller Foundation This report adds detail to his original account and summarises the Rockefeller’s financial support of the posthumous publication of Wittgenstein’s work. It also sketches Gilpatric’s view of Wittgenstein’s work.
Impactos na Saúde Mental e Intervenções Psicológicas Diante da Pandemia do Novo Coronavírus (COVID-19)
Authors: Schmidt Beatriz , Crepaldi Maria Aparecida , Bolze Simone Dill Azeredo , Neiva-Silva Lucas , Demenech Lauro Miranda
Published: April 2020

A pandemia do novo coronavírus (COVID-19) é a maior emergência de saúde pública que a comunidade internacional enfrenta em décadas. Além das preocupações quanto à saúde física, traz também preocupações quanto ao sofrimento psicológico que pode ser experienciado pela população geral e pelos profissionais da saúde envolvidos. O objetivo do presente estudo foi sistematizar conhecimentos sobre impactos na saúde mental e intervenções psicológicas diante da pandemia do novo coronavírus. Realizou-se revisão da literatura técnico-científica produzida em diferentes países, na perspectiva de sumarizar desenvolvimentos recentes ligados à COVID-19. Apresentam-se resultados sobre impactos da pandemia na saúde mental, identificação de grupos prioritários e orientações sobre intervenções psicológicas, considerando particularidades da população geral e dos profissionais da saúde. Por fim, discutem-se potencialidades e desafios para a prática dos psicólogos no contexto brasileiro durante a pandemia.
Opinions of small and medium UK construction companies on environmental management systems
Authors: Bailey Matthew , Booth Colin A , Horry Rosemary , Vidalakis Christos , Mahamadu Abdul-Majeed , Awuah Kwasi Gyau Baffour
Published: April 2020

Pressure to reduce the environmental impact of construction activities has increased, such that a paradigm shift is required. This paper presents stakeholder opinions of environmental management systems as a means for the construction industry to respond to these issues. Using a previous approach, the views of small and medium construction companies were sought, using questionnaires to ask respondents to reveal their perceived benefits of and barriers to implementing the ISO 14000 suite of environmental management standards in the UK. Detailed statistical analysis showed that environmental management systems can sometimes produce quantifiable benefits to organisations in terms of cost reduction. However, from a contractor’s view, the greatest benefit was a reduction in environmental impact outweighing financial benefits. Findings also demonstrated numerous barriers to an organisation exist, both internal and external, regarding adoption and use of environmental management systems. The most critical barrier was that cost savings do not always balance with the expense of implementation. Furthermore, waste minimisation at the design stage is viewed as most important. In general, the opinions gauged in this study indicated that short-term profits are normally considered more imperative than long-term gains. Therefore, despite a need to focus on developing strategies for removing or reducing the challenges of environmental management systems, the reality is that they may not be the panacea to sustainable development, as is often touted.
Urinary Soluble CD163: a Novel Noninvasive Biomarker of Activity for Lupus Nephritis
Authors: Mejia-Vilet Juan M. , Zhang Xiaolan L. , Cruz Cristino , Cano-Verduzco Mayra L. , Shapiro John P. , Nagaraja Haikady N. , Morales-Buenrostro Luis E. , Rovin Brad H.
Published: April 2020

Significance Statement

Although many biomarkers have been tested in lupus nephritis, none have advanced to clinical practice. Treatment is often guided by the level of proteinuria, which lacks the necessary sensitivity to differentiate disease activity from chronic damage to the kidneys. The authors evaluated urinary CD163 as an activity biomarker of lupus nephritis in two large multiethnic populations, with longitudinal follow-up of biomarker expression and testing against clinical and histologic disease activity. They demonstrated that urinary CD163 correlated with disease severity, lupus nephritis class, and histologic activity. Furthermore, the course of urinary CD163 in response to treatment discriminated among response groups and faithfully reflected the disease’s histologic activity in repeated kidney biopsies. These findings suggest that urinary CD163 shows promise as a biomarker reflecting histologic inflammation in lupus nephritis.

Background

Clinical distinction between patients with lupus nephritis who have active inflammation or chronic kidney damage is challenging. Studies have shown soluble CD163, which derives from cleavage of the CD163 M2c macrophage receptor and can be quantified in urine, correlates with active lupus nephritis.

Methods

We measured urine CD163 at lupus nephritis flares in patients from a Mexican cohort and cross-sectional and longitudinal United States cohorts. We also performed serial urine CD163 measurements during the treatment of flares in a subset of patients from the Mexican and longitudinal United States cohorts, and assessed response to therapy at 12 months. In addition, we evaluated urinary CD163 agreement with histologic activity in 19 patients from the Mexican cohort who had repeated kidney biopsies on follow-up.

Results

Urinary CD163 levels were significantly higher in patients with active lupus nephritis than in patients with active extrarenal SLE, inactive SLE, and other glomerular diseases, and correlated with disease clinical severity, histologic class, and the histologic activity index. Urinary CD163 increased from 6 months preflare to flare, diminishing progressively in complete and partial responders, whereas it remained elevated in nonresponders. Urinary CD163 <370 ng/mmol at 6 months predicted complete renal response at 12 months with >87% sensitivity and >87% specificity. Urinary CD163 <370 ng/mmol or >370 ng/mmol perfectly agreed (κ=1.0) with a histologic activity index ≤1 or >1 in repeated biopsies, respectively. Evaluation of urinary CD163 in patients with persistent proteinuria at 6 months improved the prediction of who would achieve complete renal response at 12 months.

Conclusions

Urinary CD163 reflects histologic inflammation in lupus nephritis and is a promising activity biomarker that varies over time with lupus nephritis activity and treatment.
Editorial: La interacción educación-investigación-innovación en ingeniería
Authors: Díaz Rodríguez Jorge Abraham
Published: April 2020

En un mundo globalizado el conocimiento y el avance de la tecnología juegan un papel estratégico en el crecimiento económico y social de un país, tienen como factores principales la transferencia del saber y la producción.
Mapa de actores de responsabilidad social empresarial en la ciudad de Santa Marta
Authors: Jiménez Sierra Devinso José , Cabrera Erica , Ortega Antonio
Published: April 2020

Objetivo: Mapear la dinámica de apropiación de planes y acciones de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (RSE) en la ciudad de Santa Marta, evidenciando el uso del concepto asociado a RSE que podría generar una discusión en pro de mejorar las condiciones de la sociedad u entorno en el que se desarrollan las actividades empresariales.  Metodología: En cuanto a la investigación es de tipo analítica, como herramienta principal para la construcción de la misma se utilizó el método MAC (Mapeo de Actores Claves) y a partir de ahí se estructura las diferentes líneas donde se reflejan los actores que intervienen en las variables establecidas. Resultados: Se describen la poca generación y disposición de las organizaciones públicas y privadas con alto impacto de gestión, se encontró la desconexión y baja articulación entre entidades que realizan actividades de impacto social afines, para la misma población desconociendo, ambos, sus intervenciones. Conclusiones: Se puede afirmar que la presente investigación muestra la dinámica que ejerce el sector empresarial en la ciudad de Santa Marta, analizado desde la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (RSE), reconociendo la contribución de mejora que brindan a los diferentes escenarios (ambiental, educación, salud, entre otros) en los cuales se direccione la gestión de RSE. Entre los actores que sobresalen en la investigación hallamos organizaciones pertenecientes a diferentes sectores económicos, dándonos una panorámica del grado de responsabilidad social empresarial en la ciudad de Santa Marta.
PENGARUH KINERJA CO-BRANDING TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN PEMBELIAN (Survei pada Mini Market Penjual Es Krim Wall’s Selection Oreo di Kecamatan Cikajang - Garut)
Authors: Nurpriyanti Vika , Hurriyati Ratih
Published: April 2020

Persaingan bisnis yang semakin meningkat pada saat ini merupakan tantangan bisnis bagi setiapperusahaan. Suatu perusahaan mengharapkan agar hasil penjualan produk mereka meningkat,perusahaan yang tidak bisa memenuhi selera konsumen praktis akan mengalami penurunanvolume penjualan. Oleh karena itu, agar dapat bersaing dipasaran perusahaan dituntut untukberfikir kreatif dan melakukan strategi baru untuk mengalahkan para pesaing. Strategi Co-Branding merupakan upaya yang dilakukan oleh PT. Unilever Tbk yang diharapkan dapatmenciptakan dan meningkatkan keputusan pembelian pada produk es krim Wall’s SelectionOreo.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh temuan mengenai 1) gambaran kinerja Co-Brandingpada produk es krim Wall’s Selection Oreo 2) gambaran keputusan pembelian konsumenterhadap es krim Wall’s Selection Oreo 3) Bagaimana pengaruh kinerja Co-Branding terhadapkeputusan pembelian es krim Wall’s Selection Oreo. Objek penelitian ini adalah Mini Marketpenjual es krim Wall’s Selection Oreo di Kecamatan Cikajang Kabupaten Garut. Variabel bebaspada penelitian ini yaitu Co-Branding dan variabel terikat pada penelitian ini adalah keputusanpembelian. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah deskriftif dan verifikatif. Metode yangdigunakan adalah explanatory survey dengan teknik simple random sampling terhadap samplesebanyak 70 responden. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah regresi linier sederhanadengan alat bantu software komputer SPSS 21.0 for windows.Hasil yang diperoleh dari penelitian ini menyatakan bahwa kinerja Co-Branding mempunyaipengaruh terhadap keputusan pembelian sebesar 54,2% . Dari hasil penelitian terhadap pengujianhipotesis dapat diketahui bahwa Co-Branding memiliki pengaruh yang positif terhadapkeputusan pembelian.Penulis merekomendasikan agar perusahaan lebih selektif dalam memilih strategi Co-Brandingsebagai salah satu strategi untuk meningkatkan keputusan pembelian es krim Wall’s SelectionOreo.
ANALISIS KOMPONEN TINGKAT KESEHATAN BANK TERHADAP HARGA SAHAM BANK UMUM SWASTA NASIONAL DEVISA YANG TERDAFTAR DI BURSA EFEK INDONESIA PERIODE 2012-2016
Authors: Medyawicesar Hana , Tarmedi Eded , Purnamasari Imas
Published: April 2020

Purpose - The purpose of this study was to analyze the description of Bank Soundness by using RGEC method and influence on stock priceDesign / methodology / approach - Method in this research used descriptive and verification methods. Data that used are secondary data of each Public bank foreign exchange on Indonesia Stock Exchange with analysis technique using multiple linear regression. Sampling in this research use purposive samplingFindings - The result of this research shows that NPL and ROA have positive effect to share price, GCG and NIM have no effect to stock price, LDR and CAR do not have an effect on stock price but regression direction with positive sign showing relationship with stock price.Originality -The difference of this research with previous research is on research object and method, population and research sample, research period, measuring instrument and research result, as well as foreign theory and journal source and foreign book and research result.
GAMBARAN LINGKUNGAN KERJA SOSIAL, PENGHARGAAN FINANSIAL DAN RETENSI KARYAWAN PADA PT. BAETT MAL ABADI DI CILEGON
Authors: Mayasari Rizka , Senen Syamsul Hadi , Tarmedi Eded
Published: April 2020

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to see the description of social work environment, financial reward and employee retentionDesign/methodology/approachh - The design of this study was cross sectional. This research uses descriptive approach with explanatory survey method. A total of 86 respondents were selected using probability sampling. A questionnaire was used as a research instrument to collect data from respondents. Analytical technique used is descriptive technique by using frequency tableFindings - Based on the results of the research using descriptive analysis, the results obtained that the social work environment is in the good category with a score of respectively 79%, financial reward is in the good category with a score of respectively 78%, employee retention is in the high category with a score of respectively 80%Originality/value -  This study provides a basis for understanding social work environment issues, financial reward, employee retention. The difference of this study with previous research is focused on the social work environment, financial rewards.
GAMBARAN SIKAP KEWIRAUSAHAAN DAN NIAT BERWIRAUSAHA PADA MAHASISWI ANGKATAN 2014 DI UPI BANDUNG
Authors: Rahayu Widiana , Mulyadi Hari , Utama Dian Herdiana
Published: April 2020

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to see the description of entrepreneurial attitude and entrepreneurship intention.Design/Methodology/Approach - The design of this study is cross sectional by using descriptive approach with explanatory survey method and total of 145 respondents. A questionnaire was used as a research instrument to collect data from respondents. Analytical technique used is descriptive technique by using frequency distribution.Findings - Based on the results of the research using descriptive analysis, the results obtained that the entrepreneurial attitude is in the medium category with a score of representative 63,5% and entrepreneurship intention is in the medium category with a score of representative 65,3%.Originality/Values - The difference of this study with previous research is on the object studied at female students 2014 in UPI Bandung who have pass studied Entrepreneurship studied, the measurement of entrepreneurship attitude through the dimension of Theory Planning Behavior (TPB) Icek Azjen in 1991 about autonomy authority, opportunity economy, self-realization, and perceived self-confidence.
GAMBARAN BRAND EXPERIENCE DAN CUSTOMER-BASED BRAND EQUITY PADA SITUS WEDDING MARKETPLACE BRIDESTORY DI INDONESIA INDONESIA
Authors: Nurfitriani Nurfitriani , Wibowo Lili Adi , Widjajanta Bambang
Published: April 2020

Purpose - To find out the description of the level of brand experience and customer-based brand equity in site wedding marketplace Bridestory visitors in Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach - The design of this study is cross sectional method. This research uses descriptive approach with explanatory survey method. A total of 135 respondents were selected using probability sampling. A questionnaire was used as a research instrument to collect data from respondents. The analysis technique used is descriptive technique by using frequency distribution.Findings - The result showed that brand experience is in good category, while customer-based brand equity is in good enough category.  Originality / value - The differences in this study located on an object research , time research , a measuring instrument , literature that used , the theory that is used and the results of the study
Tingkat Kepuasan Kerja Dilihat Dari Perspektif Lingkungan Kerja Sosial dan Pengembangan Karir
Authors: Nurdini Atin , Sumiyati Sumiyati , Purnama Ridwan
Published: April 2020

The purpose of this study was to find out the influence of social work environment on job satisfaction, the influence of career development on job satisfaction, and the influence of social work environment and career development on job satisfaction. Object of analysis in this research is employees of government service. This type of research is using verificative with explanatory survey method of 106 respondents. This study indicates that the influence of the social work environment to job satisfaction are included in the low category. Career development included in medium category to job satisfaction. The influence of social work environment and career development on job satisfaction is medium category. The results of the present study suggest if social work environment in conducive conditions, then it will increase job satisfaction. The implementation of career development is good, then job satisfaction will increase. In addition if social work environmental conditions are conducive and implementation of career development is good, then the job satisfaction will increase.
PENGARUH E-SERVICE QUALITY DAN PERCEIVED VALUE TERHADAP CUSTOMER LOYALTY
Authors: Nugraheni Rury , Dirgantari Puspo Dewi , Widjadjanta Bambang
Published: April 2020

The purpose of this research is to find out the influence of e-service quality and perceived value on customer loyalty in member of online retail Alfacart in Jawa Barat. A total of 200 respondents were using probability sampling. A questionnaire was used a research instrument to collect data from respondents. The analisis technique used is a verification technique using of structure equation model (SEM). The research shows that e-service quality and perceived value has an influence on customer loyalty