bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Successful treatment of choreo-athetotic movements in a patient with an EEF1A2 gene variant
Authors: Lance Eboni I , Kronenbuerger Martin , Cohen Julie S , Furmanski Orion , Singer Harvey S , Fatemi Ali
Published: October 2018

Pathogenic variants in EEF1A2, a gene encoding a eukaryotic translation elongation factor, have been previously reported in pediatric cases of epileptic encephalopathy and intellectual disability. We report a case of a 17-year-old male with a prior history of epilepsy, autism, intellectual disability, and the abrupt onset of choreo-athetotic movements. The patient was diagnosed with an EEF1A2 variant by whole exome sequencing. His movement disorder responded dramatically to treatment with tetrabenazine. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of successful treatment of a hyperkinetic movement disorder in the setting of EEF1A2 mutation. A trial with tetrabenazine should be considered in cases with significant choreoathetosis.
Developing a Comprehensive School Suicide Prevention Program
Authors: Granello Paul F. , Zyromski Brett
Published: October 2018

Suicide is the third most common cause of death for youth aged 14–19. School counselors need a school-wide prevention plan to address the mental and emotional needs of students experiencing suicidal ideation and behaviors. Although researchers have suggested that suicide prevention programming and suicide screening programs lower the rate of adolescent deaths, a paucity of evidence-based, school-wide, comprehensive suicide prevention programs exists. Therefore, to fill a gap in research and training resources, we propose four different types of research-supported suicide prevention programs. We also propose a common standard for the development of an effective, comprehensive school suicide prevention program using a five-step process and frame these approaches within the American School Counselor Association National Model.
Scale Development and Construct Validity of Organizational Capital in Customer Relationship Management Context: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis Approach
Authors: John Waseem
Published: October 2018

Effective usage and implementation of customer relationship management (CRM) or information technology requires some prerequisite organizational commitments and changes. Improving and deploying the organizational resources, such as top management support and employee training, which are collectively pursued under the umbrella term, that is, organizational capital, appears to be one of the important transformations that organizations need to undertake. Organizational capital is one of the key determinants in improving the results from CRM implementations. This article proposes organizational capital as a multidimensional construct. Further, this article attempts to develop a scale for measuring the organizational capital and test its factorial validity through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). To test the proposed theoretical model, primary data were used which was generated through a survey of some selected pharmaceutical companies in India. The data were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and subsequently CFA. The results demonstrated that CFA of organizational capital showed an acceptable fit to the data and this construct is best represented by three constituent elements, that is, employee training, customer-centric management system (CMS), and customer relationship orientation (CRO) in current research context. This scale may be used in future research for measurement of this construct as a whole with contextual validity check. Further, implications for theory and practitioners are presented.
Obesity and recovery of muscle strength after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction in pediatric patients
Authors: Lee R Jay , Margalit Adam , Nduaguba Afam , Gunderson Melissa A , Wells Lawrence
Published: October 2018

Purpose:

To explore factors influencing muscle strength after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction (ACLR) in pediatric patients. We hypothesized that obesity/overweight, autograft hamstring tendon, and concomitant injuries would be associated with slower muscle recovery.

Methods:

We retrospectively reviewed the records of pediatric ACLR patients during a 3-year period. Muscle recovery was defined as ≥85% of peak torque compared with the contralateral side. We categorized patients as either obese/overweight or normal weight. Statistical analysis was performed using Mann–Whitney U, analysis of variance, and χ2 tests ( α level < 0.05).

Results:

The study group consisted of 330 patients, of whom 198 (60%) and 231 (70%) met quadriceps and hamstring recovery criteria, respectively, at final testing (mean: 7.0 ± 3.2 months). Patients recovered hamstring and quadriceps strength at a mean of 5.3 ± 2.2 months and 6.1 ± 2.3 months, respectively. Hamstring muscle recovery took significantly longer in obese/overweight patients (mean: 5.7 ± 2.2 months) versus normal-weight patients (mean: 5.1 ± 2.1 months; p = 0.025), but quadriceps recovery did not (obese/overweight mean: 6.5 ± 2.6 months; normal-weight mean: 5.9 ± 2.1 months; p = 0.173).

Conclusion:

Concomitant injuries and graft type were not associated with length of time to recovery of muscle strength. Obesity/overweight was associated with delay in recovery of hamstring but not quadriceps strength.
A 4-Year Analysis of the Incidence of Injuries Among CrossFit-Trained Participants
Authors: Feito Yuri , Burrows Evanette K. , Tabb Loni Philip
Published: October 2018

Background:

High-intensity functional training (HIFT) is a new training modality that merges high-intensity exercise with functional (multijoint) movements. Even though others exist, CrossFit training has emerged as the most common form of HIFT. Recently, several reports have linked CrossFit training to severe injuries and/or life-threatening conditions, such as rhabdomyolysis. Empirical evidence regarding the safety of this training modality is currently limited.

Purpose:

To examine the incidence of injuries related to CrossFit participation and to estimate the rate of injuries in a large cross-sectional convenience sample of CrossFit participants from around the world.

Study Design:

Descriptive epidemiology study.

Methods:

A total of 3049 participants who reported engaging in CrossFit training between 2013 and 2017 were surveyed.

Results:

A portion (30.5%) of the participants surveyed reported experiencing an injury over the previous 12 months because of their participation in CrossFit training. Injuries to the shoulders (39%), back (36%), knees (15%), elbows (12%), and wrists (11%) were most common for both male and female participants. The greatest number of injuries occurred among those who participated in CrossFit training 3 to 5 days per week (χ2 = 12.51; P = .0019). Overall, and based on the assumed maximum number of workout hours per week, the injury rate was 0.27 per 1000 hours (females: 0.28; males: 0.26), whereas the assumed minimum number of workout hours per week resulted in an injury rate of 0.74 per 1000 hours (females: 0.78; males: 0.70).

Conclusion:

Our findings suggest that CrossFit training is relatively safe compared with more traditional training modalities. However, it seems that those within their first year of training as well as those who engage in this training modality less than 3 days per week and/or participate in less than 3 workouts per week are at a greater risk for injuries.
Driver mutations in Janus kinases in a mouse model of B-cell leukemia induced by deletion of PU.1 and Spi-B
Authors: Batista Carolina R. , Lim Michelle , Laramée Anne-Sophie , Abu-Sardanah Faisal , Xu Li S. , Hossain Rajon , Bell Gillian I. , Hess David A. , DeKoter Rodney P.
Published: October 2018

Precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) is associated with recurrent mutations that occur in cancer-initiating cells. There is a need to understand how driver mutations influence clonal evolution of leukemia. The E26-transformation-specific (ETS) transcription factors PU.1 and Spi-B (encoded by Spi1 and Spib) execute a critical role in B-cell development and serve as complementary tumor suppressors. Here, we used a mouse model to conditionally delete Spi1 and Spib genes in developing B cells. These mice developed B-ALL with a median time to euthanasia of 18 weeks. We performed RNA and whole-exome sequencing (WES) on leukemias isolated from Mb1-CreΔPB mice and identified single nucleotide variants (SNVs) in Jak1, Jak3, and Ikzf3 genes, resulting in amino acid sequence changes. Jak3 mutations resulted in amino acid substitutions located in the pseudo-kinase (R653H, V670A) and in the kinase (T844M) domains. Introduction of Jak3 T844M into Spi1/Spib-deficient precursor B cells was sufficient to promote proliferation in response to low IL-7 concentrations in culture, and to promote proliferation and leukemia-like disease in transplanted mice. We conclude that mutations in Janus kinases represent secondary drivers of leukemogenesis that cooperate with Spi1/Spib deletion. This mouse model represents a useful tool to study clonal evolution in B-ALL.
Mobile payment in Fintech environment: trends, security challenges, and services
Authors: Kang Jungho
Published: October 2018

Due to recent developments in IT technology, various Fintech technologies composing of finance and technology are being developed. Especially, because of rapidly growing online market and supply of mobile devices, the need for mobile Fintech payment service that enables easy online and off-line payment has increased. According to the 2013 report by market research company Gartner, purchase related global mobile payment market size was predicted to grow from $45.1 billion in 2012 to $224.3 billion in 2017 with average annual growth of 38%. The study will surveyed the recent trends of mobile Fintech payment services and categorized them based on the service forms to suggest requirements and security challenges so that better and securer service can be provided in the future. First, the study defined existing payment services and Fintech payment services by comparing them, and analyzed recent mobile Fintech payment services to classify mobile Fintech payment service providers into Hardware makers, Operating System makers, payment platform providers, and financial institutions to show their common features. Finally it defined requirements that mobile Fintech payment services must meet and security challenges that future and present mobile Fintech payment services will encounter in the perspective of mutual authentication, authorization, integrity, privacy, and availability. Through the suggested study, it is expected that mobile Fintech payment services will develop into more secure services in the future.
Hey2 regulates the size of the cardiac progenitor pool during vertebrate heart development
Authors: Gibb Natalie , Lazic Savo , Yuan Xuefei , Deshwar Ashish R. , Leslie Meaghan , Wilson Michael D. , Scott Ian C.
Published: October 2018

A key event in heart development is the timely addition of cardiac progenitor cells, defects in which can lead to congenital heart defects. However, how the balance and proportion of progenitor proliferation versus addition to the heart is regulated remains poorly understood. Here we demonstrate that Hey2 functions to regulate the dynamics of cardiac progenitor addition to the zebrafish heart. We found that the previously noted increase in myocardial cell number found in the absence of Hey2 function was due to a pronounced expansion in the size of the cardiac progenitor pool. Expression analysis and lineage tracing of hey2-expressing cells showed that hey2 is active in cardiac progenitors. Hey2 acted to limit proliferation of cardiac progenitors, prior to heart tube formation. Use of a transplantation approach demonstrated a likely cell autonomous (in cardiac progenitors) function for Hey2. Taken together, our data suggests a previously unappreciated role for Hey2 in controlling the proliferative capacity of cardiac progenitors, affecting the subsequent contribution of late-differentiating cardiac progenitors to the developing vertebrate heart.
Adenosine Triphosphate Production of Muscle Mitochondria after Acute Exercise in Lean and Obese Humans
Authors: KRAS KATON A. , HOFFMAN NYSSA , ROUST LORI R. , BENJAMIN TONYA R. , DE FILIPPIS ELENA A. , KATSANOS CHRISTOS S.
Published: October 2018

Introduction

Current evidence indicates mitochondrial dysfunction in humans with obesity. Acute exercise appears to enhance mitochondrial function in the muscle of nonobese humans, but its effects on mitochondrial function in muscle of humans with obesity are not known. We sought to determine whether acute aerobic exercise stimulates mitochondrial function in subsarcolemmal (SS) and intermyofibrillar (IMF) mitochondria in humans with obesity.

Methods

We assessed maximal adenosine triphosphate production rate (MAPR) and citrate synthase (CS) activity in isolated SS and IMF mitochondria from subjects with body mass index < 27 kg·m−2 (median age, 25 yr; interquartile range, 22–39 yr) and subjects with body mass index > 32 kg·m−2 (median age, 29 yr; interquartile range, 20–39 yr) before and 3 h after a 45-min cycling exercise at an intensity corresponding to 65% HR reserve. The SS and IMF mitochondria were isolated from muscle biopsies using differential centrifugation. Maximal adenosine triphosphate production rate and CS activities were determined using luciferase-based and spectrophotometric enzyme-based assays, respectively.

Results

Exercise increased MAPR in IMF mitochondria in both nonobese subjects and subjects with obesity (P < 0.05), but CS-specific activity did not change in either group (P > 0.05). Exercise increased MAPR supported by complex II in SS mitochondria, in both groups (P < 0.05), but MAPR supported by complex I or palmitate did not increase by exercise in the subjects with obesity (P > 0.05). Citrate synthase–specific activity increased in SS mitochondria in response to exercise only in nonobese subjects (P < 0.05).

Conclusions

In nonobese humans, acute aerobic exercise increases MAPR in both SS and IMF mitochondria. In humans with obesity, the exercise increases MAPR in IMF mitochondria, but this response is less evident in SS mitochondria.
Avoiding High Opportunism Is Easy, Achieving Low Opportunism Is Not: A QCA Study on Curbing Opportunism in Buyer–Supplier Relationships
Authors: Mellewigt Thomas , Hoetker Glenn , Lütkewitte Martina
Published: October 2018

Past research on how opportunism in buyer-supplier relationships can be mitigated remains incomplete and often contradictory. Applying recent advances in qualitative comparative analysis to a sample of 137 buyer-supplier relationships in the German automotive industry, we show that there are multiple equifinal pathways to high and low opportunism. In general, our study shows that it is easier to avoid high opportunism than to consistently achieve low opportunism. On this basis, we offer new insights into countering opportunism for researchers and managers. Achieving low opportunism requires a combination of governance mechanisms, which are generally not interchangeable. In particular, relational governance mechanisms in isolation seem to be more restricted than prior research has suggested but form a powerful synergistic combination with complex contracts. Although formal governance mechanisms lack enforceability, the coordination and monitoring that they provide are critical in both avoiding high opportunism and achieving low opportunism. Performance ambiguity is especially difficult to manage. Overall, our paper shows the power of configurational approaches and encourages the development of new theory that adopts a situational contingency perspective.

The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2018.1227 .
A Recombination-Based Internationalization Model: Evidence from Narayana Health’s Journey from India to the Cayman Islands
Authors: Gupta Budhaditya , Khanna Tarun
Published: October 2018

Internationalizing firms often find developing host-country resources challenging as they simultaneously attempt to replicate the resources that worked well in the home country and adapt them to fit the context of the host country. On the basis of a longitudinal study of the expansion of India-domiciled Narayana Health (NH), a tertiary healthcare provider, to the contextually distinct Cayman Islands, we propose a recombination-based internationalization model that allows us to offer a new conception of this replication–adaptation tradeoff. Recombination entails creating anew in the host country by drawing from, adapting, and integrating diverse resources developed earlier in heterogeneous settings in the home country. We theoretically explore the mechanisms underlying such recombination processes in organizational settings.
Investigation of Parents’ Early Literacy Beliefs in the Context of Turkey Through the Parent Reading Belief Inventory (PRBI)
Authors: Iflazoglu-Saban Ayten , Altinkamis Naime Feyza , Deretarla-Gul Ebru
Published: October 2018

This paper aims to test the reliability and validity of the Turkish adaptation of DeBaryshe and Binder's Parent Reading Belief Inventory (PRBI) and to investigate parents' literacy beliefs. The primary focus of this paper is to explore parents’ beliefs and practices and their relatedness on the emergent literacy of their children aged 3–7 (M=69.8 months; SD= 9.33 months). As data collection tools, we availed ourselves of the Parent Reading Belief Inventory,(PRBI), Home Literacy Inventory (HLI) and Child Literacy Behaviours (CLB). In addition, the Personal Information Form, prepared by the researchers, was utilized. Moreover, confirmatory factor analyses were performed on samples of parents from Adana, a city in southern Turkey (N= 952). The study showed that a seven-factor structure in the original form of the PRBI was validated , excluding items 8, 30 and 31. Consistent with the results of the confirmatory factor analysis and reliability analysis, it can be concluded that the PRBI is a valid and reliable tool to investigate the process of parents' literacy activities with their children in Turkey.
Implementação de Um Sistema de Informação Gerencial na Esfera Municipal: Relação entre Ergonomia Cognitiva e Estresse no Trabalho
Authors: Batista Cecília de Castro , Pereira Michele Morais Oliveira , Ferreira Michelle Cristina , Silva Francielih Dorneles , Ribeiro Loreza Luiza
Published: October 2018

Este trabalho objetivou avaliar se a implementação de um sistema de informação de gestão e execução (SIGE) interfere na ergonomia cognitiva dos servidores da prefeitura de um município da região do Alto Paranaíba, Minas Gerais. Como embasamento teórico, abordou-se as discussões sobre sistema de informação, ergonomia cognitiva e estresse no trabalho. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa e o método utilizado foi o estudo de caso.  Os dados foram coletados mediante observação participante, pesquisa documental e entrevistas semiestruturadas com cinco servidores públicos. Na análise de conteúdo dos dados delinearam-se cinco categorias, a saber: "Processos de implementação", "Fatores restringentes e Facilitadores", "Acessibilidade e operacionalização", "Aspectos cognitivos" e "Estresse no trabalho". Os resultados indicaram dificuldades na implementação, operacionalização e efetividade do novo sistema de informação, que demanda aspectos cognitivos, como atenção e memória. Concluiu-se que o aumento do estresse no trabalho dos servidores públicos está relacionado ao descompasso entre eles e o SIGE.
Transjejunal laparoscopic-assisted ERCP in Roux-en-Y patient: the new right path
Authors: Mita MT , Dalmonte G , Gnocchi A , Marchesi F
Published: October 2018

The incidence of biliary lithiasis after gastric surgery seems to be higher than in the general population. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) allows several biliary and pancreatic pathologies to be dealt with; however, in patients with an altered anatomy of the upper and mid gastrointestinal tract, this endoscopic manoeuvre can be extremely challenging. We report a case of a 79-year-old woman with previous subtotal gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y reconstruction, admitted with a diagnosis of cholecystitis and choledocolithiasis. She was successfully treated with transjejunal laparoscopic-assisted ERCP and laparoscopic cholecystectomy, which appears to be a safe and useful procedure for choledocolithiasis treatment in patients with surgically altered anatomy.
Effects of prolonged exposure to feedback delay on the qualitative subjective experience of virtual reality
Authors: van Dam Loes C. J. , Stephens Joey R.
Published: October 2018

When interacting with virtual environments, feedback delays between making a movement and seeing the visual consequences of that movement are detrimental for the subjective quality of the VR experience. Here we used standard measures of subjective experiences such as ownership, agency and presence to investigate whether prolonged exposure to the delay, and thus the possibility to adapt to it, leads to the recovery of the qualitative experience of VR. Participants performed a target-tracking task in a Virtual Reality environment. We measured the participants’ tracking performance in terms of spatial and temporal errors with respect to the target in both No-Delay and Delay conditions. Additionally, participants rated their sense of “ownership” of holding a virtual tool, agency and presence on each trial using sliding scales. These single trial ratings were compared to the results of the more traditional questionnaires for ownership and agency and presence for both No-Delay and Delay conditions. We found that the participants’ sliding scales ratings corresponded very well to the scores obtained from the traditional questionnaires. Moreover, not only did participants behaviourally adapt to the delay, their ratings of ownership and agency significantly improved with prolonged exposure to the delay. Together the results suggest a tight link between the ability to perform a behavioural task and the subjective ratings of ownership and agency in virtual reality.
Literary Thresholds: Exploring the Edges of Ambient Literature
Authors: Spencer Amy
Published: October 2018

This paper examines the use of thresholds as a feature of ambient literature to explore this emerging literary form and its literary roots. The Ambient Literature project is a two year AHRC funded research programme coordinated by three universities in the UK (UWE Bristol, Bath Spa and Birmingham) to investigate the potential of situated literary experiences delivered by pervasive computing platforms, which respond to the presence of a reader to deliver story. The project has commissioned three works of ambient literature from established writers to understand the form, the experiences of its readers and the process of its authoring. This paper will address the positions of form, reader and author and argue that the emergence of ambient literature can extend the understanding of literature and textuality while drawing on the heritage of electronic literature.
Máquinas Ruidosas
Authors: Schwäbl Tiago
Published: October 2018

Recensão crítica de Shane Butler, The Ancient Phonograph. New York: Zone Books, 2015. 288 pp. ISBN: 978-1-935408-72-7.
On Generative Poetry: Structural, Stylistic and Lexical Features
Authors: Kuchina Svetlana Anatolevna
Published: October 2018

This paper deals with key aspects of the Oulipo and Dada methods and their implementation in electronic generative poetry. Oulipian constraints such as acrostics, tautograms, simple numerical limitations and combinatory algorithms are easily integrated into digital environments. The analysis of structural, lexical and stylistic peculiarities of generative poetry is illustrated by permutational schemes (Poem.exe by Liam Cooke, Book of all Words by Józef Żuk Piwkowski), combinatory patterns (Frequency by Scott Rettberg) and syntactic templates (Dizains by Marcel Bénabou, Triolets by Paul Braffort) of electronic poems. Many combinatory and permutational electronic poems present technologically improved versions of the Oulipo constraints and Dada techniques such as open-form poetry and the use of image and graphic components in its structure. However, the electronic environment gives them an ambivalent status. Although the surface of an electronic poem looks open and random, its inward structure is preconfigured to use established parameters.
Chimeria:Grayscale: An Interactive Narrative for Provoking Critical Reflection on Gender Discrimination
Authors: Harrell D. Fox , Ortiz Pablo , Downs Peter , Wagoner Maya , Carré Elizabeth , Wang Annie
Published: October 2018

Roleplaying has a history of serving diverse aims, including art, entertainment, therapeutic purposes, and political action (Piper 1973; Gygax 1978; Boal 1993; Matthews et al. 2014). This paper presents an interactive narrative called Grayscale that uses roleplaying to provoke critical reflection through modeling workplace gender discrimination. Grayscale's interface resembles a streamlined email system, constituting what Henry Jenkins has termed an “embedded narrative” since the narration is distributed across elements in the space (e.g. emails, notes, draft messages).
Children’s Picturebook Goes Digital: Implications on Cognition
Authors: Estefani Thales , Queiroz João
Published: October 2018

The objects of analysis in this article are digital picturebooks, which may be called e-picturebooks. This research contributes to a definition of e-picturebook as a distinct storytelling experience from printed picturebook, introducing distributed cognition as a new theoretical perspective for the analysis of the phenomenon. This perspective emphasizes cognitive systems related to specific features of this category of digital book. In this sense, picturebook and e-picturebook are defined as cognitive artifacts that constrain storytelling tasks very differently from each other, not only because of their constitutive features but also because of the cognitive systems involved in the understanding of stories in each medium.
Hyperfiction and Reading, with Examples of Electronic Processing of Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Authors: Velički Vladimira , Velički Damir
Published: October 2018

Hypertext is suitable for conducting literary experiments. It deconstructs the temporal sequence of narration, and lessens the author’s authority. The author of hyperfiction, in some way, loses control over how his or her work influences the reader. On the other hand, the belief that the reader of hyperfiction is at the same time its author, for he or she chooses which way to navigate the text, which hyperlinks to mark and in this manner create a new text, can be challenged. Using as its basis the networked and the non-networked versions of some Grimms’ fairy tales, this paper presents the results of the study, which was conducted with the aim of determining whether and how works of hyperfiction will change ways of reading, or even thinking, or, on the contrary, whether traditional ways of thinking and reading, and their sequence (beginning, middle, end) are so deeply rooted in our processing that they cannot be changed.
Writing with Automated Machines: Between Translation and Sabotage
Authors: Marques Ana
Published: October 2018

A generative text is a system constituted by non-conscious and conscious cognizers, digital and analogue processes, and mathematical and linguistic modes of representation. But how do algorithms cognize? And how is meaning constructed in a system where authorial intentions and readers’ experiences and interpretations are mediated by algorithmic agents? Through the analysis of How It Is In Common Tongues (Cayley and Howe, 2012), I intend to discuss the tensions that arise from the encounter between algorithmic and human cognition, and between the regimes of information and expression. Drawing on Katherine Hayles’ view on the cognitive non-conscious and Claude Shannon’s information theory I will start by establishing a distinction between information and meaning, between communication and expression, and between the regimes of information and of the literary. To reflect on the political ecology of digital mediation (situated in the informational regime of cybernetics), I will consider Matteo Pasquinelli’s perspective on the co-evolution of technology and economics, and discuss how algorithmic cognitive processes embody and reinforce the structures of contemporary cognitive capitalism. Finally, I will discuss the strategies of resistance enabled by aesthetic approaches to computation, such as the ones explored in this case study.
Visitas de inspección municipal por oficiales de la Gobernación foral de Orihuela
Authors: Bernabé Gil David
Published: October 2018

De las dos Gobernaciones Generales en que se dividía el reino de Valencia en época foral, solamente en la septentrional su titular tenía la obligación de realizar cada año una visita de inspección sobre cualquier municipio del realengo. Que los gobernadores de Orihuela quedaran exentos de esta exigencia no significó, sin embargo, que los municipios incluidos en su demarcación se libraran de ese procedimiento inquisitivo sobre sus rentas y oficiales. Además de las visitas extraordinarias ejecutadas aquí por jueces de la Audiencia –ya tratadas por la historiografía-, también los oficiales de la Gobernación meridional llevaron a cabo algunas de forma esporádica. El presente trabajo trata de dar a conocer estas últimas, sus circunstancias, características y resultados; para concluir señalando algunas de las diferencias más significativas con respecto a las realizadas por el gobernador de Valencia en su demarcación.
“Who Wouldn't Want to Take Charge of their Learning?”
Authors: Stoszkowski John , McCarthy Liam
Published: October 2018

In recent years, calls have grown for the implementation of heutagogy, a form of self-determined learning, in higher education settings. Although a key tenet of the heutagogic paradigm is a belief in the notion of human agency, our recent experiences as university tutors suggest that many students might not actually desire some of the aspects inherent in the approach, instead preferring more didactic, tutor-led modes of teaching and learning geared towards successful completion of assessed work. This paper reports the extent to which undergraduate students (N=35) at two different UK institutions, about to embark jointly on a module designed using a heutagogical approach, valued learner autonomy and self-determination in their studies. It also identified students’ major motivators when undertaking the module. Results suggest learner autonomy and self-determination were indeed valued by students, with four themes describing their main motivators: (a) achievement, (b) knowledge and understanding, (c), self-improvement, and (d) peer learning and interaction.
Using Audio for Summative Assessment Feedback: Experiences of Work-Based Postgraduate Sport Coaching Students
Authors: Hayman Rick
Published: October 2018

Personalised, understandable and balanced feedback is well documented as having a transformational influence upon the academic, professional and personal learning of learners. However, an emerging literature base suggests traditional forms of written feedback may fail to sufficiently engage and empower high numbers of modern-day higher education students. In recent times, academics have been encouraged to consider alternative ways of producing and delivering high-quality feedback which addresses assessment marking criteria, indicates how well students are understanding new material, recommends how future performance may be acted upon and improved, provides constructive criticism when necessary, plus strengthens students’ capacities to self-regulate their own work. Over the past decade, across wide-ranging HE disciplines, university student cohorts have warmly embraced receiving audio feedback as an effective way for providing expert guidance, justifying grades, enhancing motivation to learn confidently and autonomously plus feeding forward. However, current understanding regards its effectiveness in nurturing student achievement is based predominantly upon research employing descriptive quantitative methodologies with full-time undergraduate cohorts. Distinctive aspects of this unique study, focusing on work-based postgraduate sports students, include going beyond simplistically evaluating if audio was considered “superior” or “inferior” than traditional written feedback. Employing semi-structured qualitative interviews, this study explored initial emotional-responsiveness, resulting satisfaction and engagement plus consequent impact upon professional-practice of eight part-time postgraduate sport coaching students who received audio feedback for the first time during the final year of a sport coaching Masters degree at a North of England University. Findings provide evidence to inform future feedback policy that may be more appropriate for meeting the academic capabilities, needs and motivations of future work-based postgraduate cohorts. Recommendations and guidelines for supporting the re-tooling and professional development needs of academic and support staff across the sector are also presented.
How Does Supervision Develop Students’ Professional Identity When Entering the Childcare Workforce?
Authors: Cheng Tak-lai
Published: October 2018

This paper aims to evaluate the fieldwork placement of a higher diploma programme in early childhood education at the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE). In response to both academic and statutory requirements associated with education ordinances, students must take sufficient supervised fieldwork placement hours throughout the programme to learn to be a Qualified Kindergarten Teacher (QKT). In current institutional evaluative practices, the corresponding department evaluates fieldwork placement quality based on concerns about student and supervisor performance using questionnaires at the end of the semester. However, the evaluation might lose sight of unanticipated outcomes and its intrinsic value when it is too focused on the predetermined evaluation’s objectives. Guided by a responsive evaluation approach, this paper suggests a new form of evaluation concerning stakeholder perspectives on intrinsic value in the programme. Accordingly, it uses the practical tool RUFDATA to frame the evaluation practices under its key categories, namely, reason, use, focus, data, audience, timing and agency. By drawing empirical data from students who have just completed the programs’ fieldwork placement in spring 2017, this qualitative evaluation investigates how fieldwork supervision develops students’ professional identity to prepare them for entry into the childcare workforce in the last fieldwork placement in the programme.
Lessons Learned from Teaching Multiple Massive Open Online Courses in Veterinary Education
Authors: MacKay Jill Rowan Deans , Paterson Jessie , Sandilands Victoria , Waran Natalie K , Lancaster Bryony , Hughes Kirsty
Published: October 2018

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a rapidly expanding avenue of diversification for higher education institutes. MOOC development is varied, individual course teams may have near complete creative control over the content, style, format and aims of their course, or be led by MOOC-specific teams within their institution. A single institute therefore may offer a wide variety of courses from short introductory level discussions to learning outcomes pitched at the postgraduate level. In this study, we examined the performance of four relatively long-running MOOCs offered by Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies at the University of Edinburgh: EdiVet Do You Have What It Takes to Be A Veterinarian; Animal Behaviour and Welfare; Chicken Behaviour and Welfare; and Equine Nutrition. Comparisons were made between the format and style of courses, their learning outcomes, and performance metrics such as completion rate, user satisfaction and benefit to institute. Retention was a challenge for all session-based MOOCs, with Chickens being most successful at retaining 50% of its potential audience until the start of Week 3. The average retention rate across all lectures and sessions was 38.5% (±14.08). All courses showed a notable female learner bias far above the Coursera average of 39% (Range Chickens: 58.1% ±3.1, Equine: 79.3% ¬±1.69). The majority of learners were North American or European (Range, Animals: 64.0±0.6, Equine 84.0%±3.0%). Across all courses, over 25% of learners had already achieved a Master’s degree or higher. A qualitative analysis of 188 learner stories revealed an overwhelmingly positive experience, highlighting the quality of resources, a perceived friendly relationship with the course instructors and referencing perceived barriers to education in face to face models. In conclusion, high quality digital resources embedded in well-designed courses can be a powerful tool to widen access to science education, however the MOOC platform does not necessarily reach a wide global audience, and may still struggle to widen participation in higher education, and alternative platforms are worth considering.
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Barriers to the Use of Humour in the Teaching of Childhood Studies
Authors: Noon Edward John
Published: October 2018

This is a revised article

First published: Noon, J. E. (2017). An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Barriers to the Use of Humour in the Teaching of Childhood Studies, Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 5(3), pp. 45-52.

doi: https://doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v5i3.255

The above article was first published online on May 10, 2017. The methodology section has been corrected to accurately reflect the sampling technique employed in this study. The revised version is published in this issue.

In the original publication, it was noted that the sample was determined by certain criteria, including gender, years of teaching experience, and previous professional career.  However, having reflected back on the process, this was not the case. Whilst it was ensured that participants had at least six years of teaching experience in higher education, the fact that the sample was dominated by female academics from a wide range of backgrounds was inevitable given the ‘make-up’ of the population under investigation, and was not something that was specifically planned for.

Abstract

Whilst pedagogical humour is a common teaching strategy employed by educators across compulsory education systems, a review of the extant literature expounds that it is a tool largely neglected by instructors throughout higher education. As such, this study sought to discern the perspectives of educators concerning the barriers to the use of humour in the teaching of Childhood Studies. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with five educators on the BA (Hons) Childhood Studies programme at a Yorkshire-based post-1992 university. Verbatim transcripts of the interviews were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).

Respondents believed that an academic’s personality held a significant bearing upon their pedagogy, and therefore their use of classroom jocularity. Educators claimed that whilst pedagogical humour did have its benefits, it was also capable of causing offence, distracting from course content, and making students feel uncomfortable. Consequently, educators generated situated understandings of when and where they were permitted to employ pedagogical humour, and what form said humour should take; they were cautious not to overuse humour, and were also less likely to draw upon it when teaching emotive or distressing content, and when teaching groups of students they were less familiar with. Educators also noted that they were less likely to draw upon pedagogical humour in the lecture theatre, despite university-wide pressure for instructors to produce more interactive lectures.
Metaphorical perceptions of prospective EFL teachers related to Turkish education system
Authors: Keser Özmantar Zehra , Yalçın Arslan Fadime
Published: October 2018

This study aims to determine prospective teachers’ perceptions on the basic concepts of the education system in terms of its inputs, processes and outputs through metaphors. Phenomenological analysis was used. The participants were senior students from Gaziantep University, English Language Teaching (ELT) department and pedagogic formation program students from the English Language and Literature (ELL) department. The data were collected by asking about metaphorical perceptions related to the concepts of student, parent, school, school principal, curriculum, teaching materials, principles and methods of teaching, assessment and evaluation, ethics, class management, success and graduate students. Content analysis was employed for analysis. Teacher candidates produced 528 valid metaphors related to 13 concepts of education system. Out of these, 269 metaphors were positive, 109 were negative and 150 were related to basic features of education system. While 34 prospective teachers from ELL department produced 338 metaphors, 18 prospective teachers from ELT department produced 190 metaphors. The perceptions of teacher candidates in both groups were similar in terms of teacher, student, parent, school principal, teaching materials, ethics, and success. While ELL department students identified the concepts of school and graduate more positively, ELT department students described curriculum and classroom management more positively.
Oedipus Sang Raja dan Bujang Munang: Mitos Peletak Dasar Larangan Incest dalam Masyarakat
Authors: Retno Martini Laura Andri
Published: October 2018

Folklore is a story of the past that characterizes every nation with its diverse cultures, including the rich culture and history of each nation. The folklore that tells incest is found all over the world. In almost all ethnic groups there is an incest first mythology. Versions are submitted vary, depending on the social life of the community. Bujang Munang and Oedipus are cultural myth stories that have the theme of the origin of the incest ban. Oedipus is a myth that developed in Greece while Bujang Munang is a myth that developed in Nanga Serawai Santang district of West Kalimantan. There is a linkage of the basic structure of the narrative in the story of Oedipus and Bujang Munang. Incest behavior is also not allowed to occur in the norms of life of Greek society and the people of West Kalimantan. There will be unfavorable consequences for incest and surrounding people if the rule is violated.
Nilai Estetika Sajak “Sisa-SisaUsia” Karya Soedjarwo dan “Sajak Orang Tua” Karya Rahmat Djoko Pradopo
Authors: Muzakka Moh
Published: October 2018

The aesthetic study of poetry or poetry written by two authors is very rare, especially the two verses were compared to search for aesthetic concepts and trace their intertextual relationships. This short article attempts to describe and compare the aesthetic value of poem “ Sisa-Sisa Usia” by Soedjarwo  and "Sajak Orang Tua" by Rahmat Djoko Pradopo by using aesthetic approach as the main focus and approach of literature and intertextual as supporting. The results of the analysis show that the two poems have the same aesthetic value, both from the structure of sound, diction, meaning, the means of rhetoric or from its content, that is anxiety and submission of lyrics. From the similarity of structure and content it shows the existence of intercourse relationship
Mengurai Wacana Sastra Hibrida: Sebuah Istilah Popularitas Sastra
Authors: Rizal Sarif Syamsu
Published: October 2018

This article entitled “Mengurai Wacana Sastra Hibrida: Sebuah Istilah Popularitas Sastra” aims to present viewpoint for an interpretative of theoretical application to understandings of decomposing discourse on hybrid literature phenomenon. The discussion of this article is in the form of theoretical description, findings, and other researchs substance obtained from any references to be the bases of research activity to compile a clear opinion framework of problem statement, which is going to be tested. The theories are in the form of literary history from the old English to the modern English period, the findings are in the form of facts of hybridity and hybrid literature, also other research substances are in the form of summary of hybridity discourses in online media
Pemakaian Partikel kah dalam Kalimat Tanya
Authors: Setyadi Ary
Published: October 2018

AbstractParticle as a marker of the sentence type has its own characteristics/characteristics, namely: enclitis, human, and relatively free distributed. Due to the nature/ characteristics of the particle has a function as a confirmation of the sentence. In addition to the subject, the particles also have the ability to move in accordance with the elements of the sentence to be affirmed; and as a result of the ability to move in place the absence of particles can be able to join the many kinds of word classes. The application of methods, both data collection methods and methods of classification and data analysis as imposed in linguistic research activities. Namely: the stage of data collection, classification and data analysis phase, and stage of presentation/ report writing. The theory used in relation to the study of these particles is the linguistic theory of the syntactic field. The result show that the kah particle always  follow to the word. Kah particle can be remove according to the sentence elements that are focused. The existing of kah particle in the interrogative sentence is optionally. IntisariPartikel kah sebagai penanda tipe kalimat tanya mempunyai sifat/ciri khusus, yaitu:  bersifat enklitis, manasuka, dan relatif berdistribusi bebas. Akibat sifat/ciri tersebut maka partikel tersebut mempunyai fungsi sebagai penegas kalimat. Di samping perihal tersebut, partikel kah juga mempunyai kemampuan berpindah letak sesuai dengan unsur bagian kalimat yang hendak ditegaskan; dan akibat kemampuan berpindah tempat maka kebaradaan partikel kah mampu bergabung dengan sekian banyak macam kelas kata. Adapun penerapan metode, baik metode pengumpulan data maupun metode klasifikasi dan analisis data sebagaimana yang diberlakukan dalam kegiatan penelitian linguistik. Yaitu: tahap pengumpulan data, tahap klasifikasi dan analisis data, dan tahap penyajian/penulisan laporan. Teori yang digunakan sehubungan pengkajian partikel kah iniadalah teori linguistik bidang sintaksis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa partikel kah selalu menempel pada kata. Partikel kah dapat berpindah letak sesuai dengan unsur kalimat yang dijadikan pemfokusan. Kehadiran partikel kah dalam kalimat tanya tidak bersifat wajib.
Analisis Unsur Intrinsik Dan Nilai-Nilai Yang Terkandung Dalam Cerpen Mirror, Mirror On The Wall Karya Dewi Lestari
Authors: Nimpuno Mirya Anggrahini
Published: October 2018

This article entitled : Analisis Unsur Intrinsik dan Nilai-Nilai yang Terkandung dalam Cerpen Mirror, Mirror on The Wall karya Dewi Lestari.” The writer wants to show the theme, the characters, setting, and plot of the Cerpen.  The writer used a structural approach method   in conducting  this research. In the structural approach method, the writer completed the research by studying the internal aspects of the cerpen. Based on the analysis, it indicates that major-protagonist character in Mirror, Mirror on The Wall, Saya because the story is dominated by Saya.  Mereka is called the major-antagonist character because they are the master mind of the conflict. The theme of the story is about life is made of choices. The setting of the story are place, time, social that connects to the main character.
MITOLOGI DAN SAINS: Bledug Kuwu di Kabupaten Grobogan
Authors: Sabdaningsih Aninditia
Published: October 2018

Bledug Kuwu is a unique mud volcano phenomenon located at Kuwu, Kradenan district, Grobogan Regency, Central Java. This area is far away from marine environment; however, this area contains high salinity hence none of plant and animal can live on this area. People believe about myth of arising mud volcano comes from the point where Joko Linglung, a giant snake, exit and enter the earth. Science has revealed about the origin of Bledug Kuwu and its potential. In this paper, Bledug Kuwu will be described from the local myth and multidisciplinary sciences.