bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
IMPLEMENTASI KEPUTUSAN GUBERNUR KEPALA DAERAH TINGKAT I BALI NOMOR 394 TAHUN 1997 DALAM MEMBERIKAN PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM BAGI SEKAA/ ORGANISASI KESENIAN
Authors: BADRA I MADE
Published: August 2017

In order to create order and legal certainty to the type and quality of local artsto tourism, the Government of Bali Province issued the Regional Decision of TheGovernor of The Head of Bali Number 394 of 1997 on Regulating Regional Arts onThe Province of Bali. Implementation of the Regional Decision of The Governor ofThe Head of Bali Number 394 of 1997 on Regulating Regional Arts on The Provinceof Bali of the terms, procedures and sanctions do not work effectively. These arecaused because of legal substance, legal structure, legal culture and the means andfacilities. To optimize the decision made by the Governor of the preventive andrepressive efforts. To streamline the implementation of the Regional Decision of TheGovernor of The Head of Bali Number 394 of 1997 will require a synergy betweenthe Department of Culture, sekaa / arts organizations and the service users. RegionalDecision of The Governor of The Head of Bali Number 394 of 1997 should have tobe amended because it does not fit with the times. Bali Provincial Cultural Officeshould be more proactive in doing preventive and repressive efforts in upholding theRegional Decision of The Governor of The Head of Bali Number 394 of 1997.
LEGAL PROTECTON OF WOMEN CIVIL CERVANTS OF GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN THE ERA OF REGIONAL AUTONOMY IN THE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION SUMBAWA - WEST NUSA TENGGARA
Authors: Dahlan Syarif
Published: August 2017

Aware of gender discrimintaion of women and students of women in different countries, so they protest and movement finally manage to do some conference that have produced Convention On The Elimination Of All Form Of Diskrimination Against Women   (CEDAW). Indonesia has ratified CEDAW with Law No. 7, 1984. But until now gender discrimination still occurs in all facets of life and society. One of them is a fimale civil servant in Sumbawa regency. Discrimination that has accurred not given the opportunity to accupy the fimale civil servant echelon-echelon II and III. In connection with the second echelon echelon II or III on Sumbawa Regency :      1) What are the forms of gender discrimination against fimale civil servants. 2) What factors are causing it, and 3) What is the form of legal protection against civil servants are women from gender discrimination. This study includes empirical legal research aims to determine the effectiveness of the law and the legal vacuum in the administration and management of government, particularly in women civil servants in positions echelon II or III. Dates collected were analyzed with descriptive analytic techniques. These form of discrimination against women in Sumbawa civil servants include marginalization and subordination, the factors that cause it was a mistake in the interpretation and implementation   gender equality, influence the understanding and application of Islamic teachings, political and cultural factors shame, geographical factors tough, close relationship with the ruling factor, factor in the civil servants streotif women and a heavier workload factor for women. Moderate forms of legal protection can be seen from the substance of the law, the legal structure and legal culture.
STATUS KONFLIK BERSENJATA DI WILAYAH SABAH ANTARA KESULTANAN SULU DAN MALAYSIA DALAM PERSPEKTIF HUKUM HUMANITER INTERNASIONAL
Authors: . Ikaningtyas
Published: August 2017

AbstrakKonflik bersenjata yang terjadi antara Pemerintah Malaysia dengan loyalis Sultan Sulu yang berkedudukan di Filipina sempat menjadi perhatian masyarakat internasional. Konflik bersenjata ini bermula pada awal Februari 2013, dimana sekitar 100-300 orang asal Filipina selatan mendarat di salah satu pantai di Negara Bagian Sabah, Malaysia dan menginisiasi konflik bersenjata. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis karakteristik sengketa bersenjata ini berdasarkan perspektif Hukum Humaniter Internasional. Telaah utamanya dilakukan terhadap kualifikasi konflik bersenjata berdasarkan Konvensi-Konvensi Jenewa 1949 dan Hague Regulations. Tulisan ini menyimpulkan bahwa status pasukan Kesultanan Sulu dalam sengketa ini dapat dikualifikasikan sebagai unlawful combatant. Sengketa bersenjata ini memiliki karakteristik pihak yang berbeda yaitu antara Pemerintahan suatu Negara yang sah dengan gerakan terorganisir yang berkedudukan di Negara lainnya. Dengan demikian, jenis konflik bersenjata antara loyalis Sultan Sulu-Filipina dan Pemerintah Malaysia ini termasuk ke dalam grey zone conflict.Kata Kunci: Status, Konflik Bersenjata, Kesultanan Sulu, Filipina, Malaysia.
PERHITUNGAN VaR PORTOFOLIO SAHAM MENGGUNAKAN DATA HISTORIS DAN DATA SIMULASI MONTE CARLO
Authors: ARTHINI WAYAN , DHARMAWAN KOMANG , IDA HARINI LUH PUTU
Published: August 2017

Value at Risk (VaR) is the maximum potential loss on a portfolio based on the probability at a certain time.  In this research, portfolio VaR values calculated from historical data and Monte Carlo simulation data. Historical data is processed so as to obtain stock returns, variance, correlation coefficient, and variance-covariance matrix, then the method of Markowitz sought proportion of each stock fund, and portfolio risk and return portfolio. The data was then simulated by Monte Carlo simulation, Exact Monte Carlo Simulation and Expected Monte Carlo Simulation. Exact Monte Carlo simulation have same returns and standard deviation  with historical data, while the Expected Monte Carlo Simulation satistic calculation similar to historical data. The results of this research is the portfolio VaR  with time horizon T=1, T=10, T=22 and the confidence level of 95 %, values obtained VaR between historical data and Monte Carlo simulation data with the method exact and expected. Value of VaR from both Monte Carlo simulation is greater than VaR historical data.
PERBANDINGAN SOLUSI SISTEM PERSAMAAN NONLINEAR MENGGUNAKAN METODE NEWTON-RAPHSON DAN METODE JACOBIAN
Authors: RAMADHANI UTAMI NANDA NINGTYAS , WIDANA I NYOMAN , ASIH NI MADE
Published: August 2017

System of nonlinear equations is a collection of some nonlinear equations. The Newton-Raphson method and Jacobian method are methods used for solving systems of nonlinear equations. The Newton-Raphson methods uses first and second derivatives and indeed does perform better than the steepest descent method if the initial point is close to the minimizer. Jacobian method is a method of resolving equations through iteration process using simultaneous equations. If the Newton-Raphson methods and Jacobian methods are compared with the exact value, the Jacobian method is the closest to exact value but has more iterations. In this study the Newton-Raphson method gets the results faster than the Jacobian method (Newton-Raphson iteration method is 5 and 58 in the Jacobian iteration method). In this case, the Jacobian method gets results closer to the exact value.
DIMENSI METRIK GRAPH LOBSTER Ln (q;r)
Authors: DONY GUMILAR PANDE GDE , IDA HARINI LUH PUTU , SARI KARTIKA
Published: August 2017

The metric dimension of connected graph G is the cardinality of minimum resolving set in graph G. In this research, we study how to find the metric dimension of lobster graph Ln (q;r). Lobster graph Ln (q;r) is a regular lobster graph with vertices backbone on the main path, every backbone vertex is connected to q hand vertices and every hand vertex is connected to r finger vertices, with n, q, r element of N. We obtain the metric dimension of lobster graph L2 (1;1) is 1, the metric dimension of lobster graph L2 (1;1) for n > 2 is 2.
ANALISIS KEMISKINAN DENGAN PENDEKATAN MODEL REGRESI SPASIAL DURBIN (Studi Kasus: Kabupaten Gianyar)
Authors: PRATIWI LUH PUTU SAFITRI , SRINADI I GUSTI AYU MADE , SUSILAWATI MADE
Published: August 2017

Poverty still a complex problems for both at national and regional level, so it requires an appropriate and sustainable strategy mitigation. Every household in the different regions has different characteristics and influenced factors, so it requires the identification of the factors that influence poverty by paying attention to the influence of the area using the Spatial Durbin Model (SDM). The purpose of SDM modeling is to determine the spatial dependency relationship which occur not only in the dependent variables, but also on the independent variables. The result shows that the significant lagged dependent variable is indicated by the parameter Lag significant independent variables are independent variables with a significant weighting, but there are no independent variables that are significant with the weighting.
PENERAPAN REGRESI ZERO INFLATED POISSON UNTUK MENGATASI OVERDISPERSI PADA REGRESI POISSON (Studi Kasus: Ketidaklulusan Siswa SMA/MA dalam Ujian Nasional di Buleleng)
Authors: MARDIANI LUH KOMANG , SUKARSA KOMANG GDE , SRINADI I GUSTI AYU MADE
Published: August 2017

The Poisson regression analysis is one of the regression methods used for count data and has the assumption of equidispersion. However, it is the overdispersion and then underestimate standard errors will be obtained. If the data are overdispersed and more data is zero then ZIP (Zero Inflated Regression) regression is used. ZIP regression model is more appropriate to be used to analyze the amount of Senior High School/Madrasah Aliyah who do not pass the exam with five independent variables, because a lot of data failure is zero. In this paper, data are overdispersed on Poisson regression, so ZIP regression are used. ZIP regression models obtained are only influenced by the proportion of Senior High School/Madrasah Aliyah classroom were damaged (X3), is and .
ANALISIS FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMENGARUHI WAKTU KELULUSAN MAHASISWA DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN METODE GOMPIT (Studi Kasus: Mahasiswa Fakultas MIPA Universitas Udayana)
Authors: ARIANI NI KOMANG DEBY , SUMARJAYA I WAYAN , BAGUS OKA TJOKORDA
Published: August 2017

The aims of this research analyzed the factors affecting the period of the students’ graduation based on GPA at Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, Udayana University by using gompit regression. This data strongly indicates unbalanced between students who graduated on time and students who graduated not on time. The result of this study indicates that the graduation of the students based on the GPA categorization satisfied all of the independent variables was not significant. Meanwhile, for the graduation of the students based on the GPA categorization was highly satisfied. There are four dependent variables which are significant, such as: gender, study program, region, and the final assignment accomplishment period. Moreover, for the students’ graduation based on the GPA categorization with praises, there were two independent variables which were significant: region and the final assignment accomplishment period.
PENGELOMPOKKAN KABUPATEN DI PROVINSI BALI BERDASARKAN PERKEMBANGAN FASILITAS PARIWISATA
Authors: BARUS NOVA SARI , KENCANA I PUTU EKA NILA , SUKARSA KOMANG GDE
Published: August 2017

The development of tourism facilities in each district/city between districts with each district is different. The purpose of this study was to determine the grouping of several districts in the province of Bali is based on the number of tourism facilities as well as what the variable identifier of each group. The analysis used in this study is the analysis of clusters and Biplot. The data used is secondary data obtained from the Bali Tourism Office in 2011. Variables used are classified hotel, non-classified hotels, home stays, restaurants, bars, tourist destination, the area of ??tourism, water tourism and business. The results of this study formed three groups: group 1 Bangli, Buleleng, Jembrana District, Klungkung, Karangasem district and Denpasar City. Group 2 and group 3 Badung district of Gianyar district. Variable identifier is a restaurant for all variables.
MODEL REGRESI TOBIT KONSUMSI SUSU CAIR PABRIK (Studi Kasus Rumah Tangga di Provinsi Bali)
Authors: JERYANA I PUTU , KENCANA I PUTU EKA NILA , GANDHIADI G. K.
Published: August 2017

Regression analysis is used to study the relationship between dependent (response) variable with one or more independent (causal) variables. While response data were censored, then Tobit regression model could be applied.  According to Greene (2003), censored data were data with incomplete observation or the dependent variable has a value of zero, while for the other observations have particular value.  This research aimed to model dairy milk’s consumption from households at Bali Province.  By using data from Survey SosialEkonomiNasional (SUSENAS) or Social Economy’s National Survey (SENS) for year 2012, 615 households were selected as sampling unit using simple random sampling technique, and found 123 households who consumed dairy milk.  The independent variables in our model were last education level completed by head of household’s (X1), head of household’s work (X2), age of head of household’s (X3),  amount of expenditure for food consumption’s (X4), number of household members (X5), and household income (X6), the response variable was budget for buying dairy milk (Y).  From six independent variables, is found only last education level by head household and amount of expenditure for food consumption had siginficant effect on Y’s.  The final Tobit regression model were obtained using AIC (Akaike Information Criterion) method is Y = -3314724 + 565429,7 X1 + 0,014278 X4 with pseudo R2 as much as 16.79 per cent.
Evolving beta-lactamase epidemiology in Enterobacteriaceae from Italian nationwide surveillance, October 2013: KPC-carbapenemase spreading among outpatients
Authors: Giani Tommaso , Antonelli Alberto , Caltagirone Mariasofia , Mauri Carola , Nicchi Jessica , Arena Fabio , Nucleo Elisabetta , Bracco Silvia , Pantosti Annalisa ,   The AMCLI-CoSA survey participants, Luzzaro Francesco , Pagani Laura , Rossolini Gian Maria
Published: August 2017

Extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs), AmpC-type beta-lactamases (ACBLs) and carbapenemases are among the most important resistance mechanisms in Enterobacteriaceae. This study investigated the presence of these resistance mechanisms in consecutive non-replicate isolates of Escherichia coli (n = 2,352), Klebsiella pneumoniae (n = 697), and Proteus mirabilis (n = 275) from an Italian nationwide cross-sectional survey carried out in October 2013. Overall, 15.3% of isolates were non-susceptible to extended-spectrum cephalosporins but susceptible to carbapenems (ESCR-carbaS), while 4.3% were also non-susceptible to carbapenems (ESCR-carbaR). ESCR-carbaS isolates were contributed by all three species, with higher proportions among isolates from inpatients (20.3%) but remarkable proportions also among those from outpatients (11.1%). Most ESCR-carbaS isolates were ESBL-positive (90.5%), and most of them were contributed by E. coli carrying bla
CTX-M group 1 genes. Acquired ACBLs were less common and mostly detected in P. mirabilis. ESCR-carbaR isolates were mostly contributed by K. pneumoniae (25.1% and 7.7% among K. pneumoniae isolates from inpatients and outpatients, respectively), with bla
KPC as the most common carbapenemase gene. Results showed an increasing trend for both ESBL and carbapenemase producers in comparison with previous Italian surveys, also among outpatients.
The pathophysiology of chronic noncommunicating hydrocephalus: lessons from continuous intracranial pressure monitoring and ventricular infusion testing
Authors: Eide Per Kristian
Published: August 2017

OBJECTIVE

The pathophysiology of chronic noncommunicating hydrocephalus (ncHC) is poorly understood. This present study explored whether lessons about the pathophysiology of this clinical entity might be retrieved from results of overnight monitoring of pulsatile and static intracranial pressure (ICP) and ventricular infusion testing.

METHODS

The study cohort included adult patients (> 20 years of age) with chronic ncHC due to aqueductal stenosis in whom symptoms had lasted a minimum of 6 months. A reference cohort consisted of age- and sex-matched patients managed for communicating HC (cHC). Information about symptoms and clinical improvement following surgery was retrieved from a quality register, and results of overnight ICP recordings and ventricular infusion testing were retrieved from the hospital ICP database.

RESULTS

The cohort with ncHC consisted of 61 patients of whom 6 (10%) were managed conservatively, 34 (56%) by endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV), and 21 (34%) using ETV and subsequent shunt surgery. In patients responding to surgery, pulsatile ICP (mean ICP wave amplitude) was significantly increased to a similar magnitude in patients with ncHC and the reference cohort (cHC). Furthermore, intracranial compliance (ICC) was reduced in clinical responders. The results of ventricular infusion testing provided evidence that patients responding to ETV have impaired ventricular CSF absorption, while those requiring shunt placement after ETV present with impaired CSF absorption both in the intraventricular and extraventricular compartments.

CONCLUSIONS

The study may provide some lessons about the pathophysiology of chronic ncHC. First, increased pulsatile ICP and impaired ICC characterize patients with chronic ncHC who respond clinically to CSF diversion surgery, even though static ICP is not increased. Second, in patients responding clinically to ETV, impaired ventricular CSF absorption may be a key factor. Patients requiring shunt placement for clinical response appear to have both intraventricular and extraventricular CSF absorption failure. A subgroup of patients with ncHC due to aqueductal stenosis has normal ventricular CSF absorption and normal ICC and may not be in need of surgical CSF diversion.
Galectin-3 Performance in Histologic and Cytologic Assessment of Thyroid Nodules: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Authors: Trimboli Pierpaolo , Virili Camilla , Romanelli Francesco , Crescenzi Anna , Giovanella Luca
Published: August 2017

The literature on Galectin-3 (Gal-3) was systematically reviewed to achieve more robust information on its histologic reliability in identifying thyroid cancers and on the concordance between Gal-3 test in histologic and cytologic samples. A computer search of the PubMed and Scopus databases was conducted by combinations of the terms thyroid and Gal-3. Initially, 545 articles were found and, after their critical review, 52 original papers were finally included. They reported 8172 nodules with histologic evaluation of Gal-3, of which 358 with also preoperative FNAC Gal-3 assessment. At histology, Gal-3 sensitivity was 87% (95% confidence intervals [CI] from 86% to 88%), and specificity 87% (95% CI from 86% to 88%); in both cases, we found heterogeneity (I2 85% and 93%, respectively) and significant publication bias (p < 0.001). The pooled rate of positive Gal-3 at fine needle aspiration (FNAC) among cancers with histologically proven Gal-3 positivity was 94% (95% CI from 89% to 97%), with neither heterogeneity (I2 14.5%) nor bias (p = 0.086). These data show high reliability of Gal-3 for thyroid cancer at histology, while its sensitivity on FNAC samples is lower. The limits of cytologic preparations and interpretation of Gal-3 results have to be solved.
Ethyl 4-[5-(methoxymethyl)furan-2-yl]-6-methyl-2-oxo-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrimidine-5-carboxylate
Authors: Suwito Hery , Zulqaida Salma , Ul Haq Kautsar , Novi Kristanti Alfinda , Indriani Indriani
Published: August 2017

A one-pot multicomponent reaction has been used to synthesize the title compound, ethyl 4-[5-(methoxymethyl)furan-2-yl]-6-methyl-2-oxo-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrimidine-5-carboxylate by PTSA catalyzed Biginelli reaction. The chemical structure of the product was confirmed by spectroscopic evidence, FTIR, HRESI-MS, 1D-, and 2D NMR.
Identifying Droughts Affecting Agriculture in Africa Based on Remote Sensing Time Series between 2000–2016: Rainfall Anomalies and Vegetation Condition in the Context of ENSO
Authors: Winkler Karina , Gessner Ursula , Hochschild Volker
Published: August 2017

Droughts are amongst the most destructive natural disasters in the world. In large regions of Africa, where water is a limiting factor and people strongly rely on rain-fed agriculture, droughts have frequently led to crop failure, food shortages and even humanitarian crises. In eastern and southern Africa, major drought episodes have been linked to El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events. In this context and with limited in-situ data available, remote sensing provides valuable opportunities for continent-wide assessment of droughts with high spatial and temporal resolutions. This study aimed to monitor agriculturally relevant droughts over Africa between 2000–2016 with a specific focus on growing seasons using remote sensing-based drought indices. Special attention was paid to the observation of drought dynamics during major ENSO episodes to illuminate the connection between ENSO and droughts in eastern and southern Africa. We utilized Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)-based Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) with 0 . 25 ∘ resolution and Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)-derived Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) with 500 m resolution as indices for analysing the spatio-temporal patterns of droughts. We combined the drought indices with information on the timing of site-specific growing seasons derived from MODIS-based multi-annual average of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). We proved the applicability of SPI-3 and VCI as indices for a comprehensive continental-scale monitoring of agriculturally relevant droughts. The years 2009 and 2011 could be revealed as major drought years in eastern Africa, whereas southern Africa was affected by severe droughts in 2003 and 2015/2016. Drought episodes occurred over large parts of southern Africa during strong El Niño events. We observed a mixed drought pattern in eastern Africa, where areas with two growing seasons were frequently affected by droughts during La Niña and zones of unimodal rainfall regimes showed droughts during the onset of El Niño. During La Niña 2010/2011, large parts of cropland areas in Somalia (88%), Sudan (64%) and South Sudan (51%) were affected by severe to extreme droughts during the growing seasons. However, no universal El Niño- or La Niña-related response pattern of droughts could be deduced for the observation period of 16 years. In this regard, we discussed multi-year atmospheric fluctuations and characteristics of ENSO variants as further influences on the interconnection between ENSO and droughts. By utilizing remote sensing-based drought indices focussed on agricultural zones and periods, this study attempts to contribute to a better understanding of spatio-temporal patterns of droughts affecting agriculture in Africa, which can be essential for implementing strategies of drought hazard mitigation.
A Grid Connected Photovoltaic Inverter with Battery-Supercapacitor Hybrid Energy Storage
Authors: Miñambres-Marcos Víctor , Guerrero-Martínez Miguel , Barrero-González Fermín , Milanés-Montero María
Published: August 2017

The power generation from renewable power sources is variable in nature, and may contain unacceptable fluctuations, which can be alleviated by using energy storage systems. However, the cost of batteries and their limited lifetime are serious disadvantages. To solve these problems, an improvement consisting in the collaborative association of batteries and supercapacitors has been studied. Nevertheless, these studies don’t address in detail the case of residential and large-scale photovoltaic systems. In this paper, a selected combined topology and a new control scheme are proposed to control the power sharing between batteries and supercapacitors. Also, a method for sizing the energy storage system together with the hybrid distribution based on the photovoltaic power curves is introduced. This innovative contribution not only reduces the stress levels on the battery, and hence increases its life span, but also provides constant power injection to the grid during a defined time interval. The proposed scheme is validated through detailed simulation and experimental tests.
The Role of the Host Local Population in the Process of Migrants’ Adaptation
Authors: Konstantinov Vsevolod
Published: August 2017

Social and psychological adaptation in a new country can be more or less successful depending on a number of factors. Research into behavioral patterns of migrants residing in Russia has revealed differences in their acculturation strategies and other expressions of migrant ethnic identity. These is a noticeable dependence on types of migrant settlement which can be compact or widespread. Local host population also demonstrates an unequal attitude toward compactly and diffusely settled migrants. This paper describes an attempt to find and analyze correlations between the length of residing in a new ethno-cultural environment, involvement in regional ethnic communities, contact with the host population, and ethnic identity. Differences in adaptation strategies develop three main ethnic identity models. Each model reflects general indicators of migrant adjustability to a new environment and new life.
Evaluation of Digital Collections and Political Visibility of the Library
Authors: Wulff Enrique
Published: August 2017

The purpose of this chapter is to track the progress of the work of assessment of the digital collection at the library, as regards the periodical analysis on the effective ways of consulting different types of digital documents (text, sound or visual). It is important to understand the fundamental parameters prepared by the digital library, because as a result of nearly open access it is based on a resource that is for the most part not controlled and is monetarily undervalued. The digital library puts in place an evaluation structure that is specific. The knowledge of what the data collection system in use is, especially the recording, computer processing and statistical analysis, merit further study and the interest of a detailed work. The chapter is within the context of the researches advocating the use of statistics for the establishment of a digital collection plan. This chapter aims to serve the widest audience possible, and it will focus its initial efforts on the political visibility of libraries.
Open Access Movement
Authors: Kumar Vinod , Bansal Jivesh
Published: August 2017

Open access has now entered in every aspect of our life. OA movement has been passed through many phases and in a very short time and it has seen many drastic changes. Not very long time has passed when the concept was not noticed by much scholastic group. Since then, no one could imagine to take it in its present shape. The paper covers not only the international but national contributions also in making of the OA movement successful. It has been tried to elaborate all aspects of open access development and starts its journey from the birth of the concept. It focuses on free and voluntary contributions of such stuff which makes the human life easier. The paper explores into the journey of not only e-journal/ebooks but the IRs and open courseware also. The stakeholders which have made or are making this technological (or somewhat social?) movement a success have also been acknowledged by the authors. However, authors have focused upon the resources which are openly accessible.
Social Media
Authors: Manzoor Amir
Published: August 2017

The use of social media around the globe is increasing at an exponential rate. An increasing number of individuals have become members of one or more social networking sites leading to soaring membership numbers, largely because these sites are free and easy to use. This trend is important for libraries. Being part of the community, libraries need to capitalize the potential of social media for instant and direct communication with their members. The librarians are gradually showing a positive attitude towards social media tools. The objective of this chapter is to review the social media use by libraries around the globe. The chapter also provides specific recommendations for social media use in libraries.
MyLibrary at Brooklyn College
Authors: Bradley-Sanders Colleen , Rudshteyn Alex
Published: August 2017

The Office of Academic Information Technologies (AIT) at Brooklyn College is based in the college library and has a history of successful innovation in developing in-house digital tools for the use of students, faculty and the library staff. In tight budgetary times developing software solutions in-house has not only improved services at lower cost than commercial products but also tailored them to the library's needs. There is some discussion of earning income from selling one of the tools to other libraries, however commercialization is not a prime motivator in the creation of the software. This chapter explores one aspect of the work done by AIT, the development of a set of digital tools called MyLibrary Suite.
Mobile Cloud Computing Integrating Cloud, Mobile Computing, and Networking Services Through Virtualization
Authors: Verma Chitresh , Pandey Rajiv
Published: August 2017

Mobile computing is a critical technology area which is actively integrated with field of cloud computing. It is broadly an application of virtualization technology at both ends of client server architecture. The mobile and cloud computing is a natural combination as mobile devices have limited computing and storage capacity, thus to reap the benefits of high end computing, cloud is the answer. Thus, amalgamation of mobile platform with cloud platform is inevitable. This chapter shall deliberate on the various aspects of mobile computing, mobile cloud computing and its relationship with virtualization technology. The detailed integration aspects and virtualization shall be signified through case study and suitable real time examples. The chapter shall envisage a case study, modeling the virtualization in the context of mobile cloud.
OpenGL® API-Based Analysis of Large Datasets in a Cloud Environment
Authors: Mexner Wolfgang , Bonn Matthias , Kopmann Andreas , Mauch Viktor , Ressmann Doris , Chilingaryan Suren A. , Jerome Nicholas Tan , van de Kamp Thomas , Heuveline Vincent , Lösel Philipp , Schmelzle Sebastian , Heethoff Michael
Published: August 2017

Modern applications for analysing 2D/3D data require complex visual output features which are often based on the multi-platform OpenGL® API for rendering vector graphics. Instead of providing classical workstations, the provision of powerful virtual machines (VMs) with GPU support in a scientific cloud with direct access to high performance storage is an efficient and cost effective solution. However, the automatic deployment, operation and remote access of OpenGL® API-capable VMs with professional visualization applications is a non-trivial task. In this chapter the authors demonstrate the concept of such a flexible cloud-like analysis infrastructure within the framework of the project ASTOR. The authors present an Analysis-as-a-Service (AaaS) approach based on VMware™-ESX for on demand allocation of VMs with dedicated GPU cores and up to 256 GByte RAM per machine.
Hands-On Guide to Virtual Box
Authors: G. Srinivasa K. , Singh Aahan
Published: August 2017

VirtualBox is a cross-platform virtualization application. What does that mean? For one thing, it installs on your existing Intel or AMD-based computers, whether they are running Windows, Mac, Linux or Solaris operating systems. Secondly, it extends the capabilities of your existing computer so that it can run multiple operating systems (inside multiple virtual machines) at the same time. So, for example, you can run Windows and Linux on your Mac, run Windows Server 2008 on your Linux server, run Linux on your Windows PC, and so on, all alongside your existing applications. You can install and run as many virtual machines as you like—the only practical limits are disk space and memory.
Framework for Integration of Medical Image and Text-Based Report Retrieval to Support Radiological Diagnosis
Authors: Kulkarni Siddhivinayak , Savyanavar Amit , Kulkarni Pradnya , Stranieri Andrew , Ghorpade Vijay
Published: August 2017

Medical images are vital part of diagnostics and patient treatment. With the advent of technology, there is a rapid increase in the number of radiological images produced every day. Attempts have been made to use a Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) approach for assisting in radiological diagnosis. However, this approach suffers from the semantic gap problem. Few text retrieval systems are in place for assisting the radiologist to retrieve similar past cases. However, for the least experienced radiologist it is hard to describe the unknown case using text query. Therefore, the aim of this chapter is integrating the radiological CBIR and text based reports retrieval in order to support radiological diagnosis. The proposed technique is described in three stages: a) retrieval by image similarity, b) retrieval by text, and c) fusion of image and text retrieval for better diagnosis. Number of experiments are demonstrated along with their evaluation techniques on mammogram image database.
Automatic Retinal Image Analysis for the Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy
Authors: Porwal Prasanna , Pachade Samiksha , Kokare Manesh , Deshmukh Girish , Sahasrabuddhe Vivek
Published: August 2017

Diabetic Retinopathy, a condition in the person affected by diabetes, is most common cause of blindness in the world. Recent research has given a better understanding of requirement in clinical eye care practice to identify better and cheaper ways of identification, management, diagnosis and treatment of retinal disease. The importance of diabetic retinopathy screening programs and difficulty in achieving reliable early diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy at a reasonable cost needs attention to develop computer-aided diagnosis tool. Computer aided disease diagnosis in retinal image analysis could ease mass screening of population with diabetes mellitus and help clinicians in utilizing their time more efficiently. The recent technological advances in computing power, communication systems, and machine learning techniques provide opportunities to the biomedical engineers and computer scientists to meet the requirements of clinical practice. With proper self-care, management, and medical professional support, individuals with diabetes can live a healthy and long life.
MOOCs in Chinese Education
Authors: Liu Jing , Zhang Han
Published: August 2017

MOOCs refer to Massive Online Open Courses. Based on online distance education and open education, MOOCs are a gradual integration product of the Internet and education, which receives great support and guidance from China's national policies. In 2013, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Peking University, and other prestigious universities began to introduce MOOCs into China, arousing general concern in the government and among educational and Internet communities. Nowadays, MOOCs are a hot topic in China. What is the research and application status of MOOCs in China? What are the influences of MOOCs on China's education? What are the development prospects of MOOCs in China? This chapter introduces the development background and process of MOOCs in China. Then, it attempts to explore the characteristics and the status of Chinese MOOCs, and the challenges that Chinese MOOC faces. At the end of this chapter, the future prospects of MOOCs in China are discussed.
“Internet Plus” Integration in Rural Education in China
Authors: Qiao Xuefeng
Published: August 2017

This chapter examines the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in improving rural schools in China. China has experienced rapid development in rural education during recent decades. However, a large gap between rural education and urban education remains. Because ICT plays an essential role in rural education, China has prioritized the construction of ICT facilities. A lack of communication among colleagues constitutes an obstacle for teachers who attempt to integrate ICT into teaching practice. Therefore, China's national government initiated an “Internet Plus” strategy to build connections between rural schools and the broader education system through ICT. This chapter concludes that Internet Plus Rural Education paves a potential way for rural teachers to participate in teacher communities and to develop their teaching practices.
Teachers' Uses and Beliefs in the Integration of YouTube Videos Into English Language Teaching
Authors: Dinh Hanh
Published: August 2017

This empirical research study inquires as to whether teachers of English as a Second Language and teachers of English as a Foreign Language apply the technological tool–YouTube videos–into their English teaching with the same purposes and approaches. This chapter addresses a variety of activities that teachers in two different ESL and EFL contexts utilize to integrate YouTube videos into their English teaching. Ten teachers from a university in the USA (ESL context) and a university in Vietnam (EFL context) were recruited for this study. The results demonstrate similarities and the differences in the use of YouTube videos and how both ESL and EFL students agree with the potential applications of YouTube videos to maintain students' attention and make them feel motivated in the lesson content. Also reported in this chapter is that ESL teachers believe YouTube videos are a great tool for reflection activities and dealing with challenging content issues, whereas EFL teachers mainly use them as a native-speaking modeling in class for doing language drills and grammatical practice.
Big Data in Mobile Commerce
Authors: Anshari Muhammad , Lim Syamimi Ariff
Published: August 2017

The purpose of this chapter is to identify the opportunities of big data application that allows Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategy to gain deeper insights into customer retention and let the businesses make innovation in term of sales, service, and marketing. This chapter is motivated from the concept of big data in CRM by proposing a conceptual model to address mobile commerce in an organization. It examines the progress of big data in creating value for m-commerce. Researchers employed thematic literature analysis and discussed broader issues related to customer behavior in using smartphone and its internet habit activities. Despite the limitation of the study, CRM with big data remains an important area for future research in mobile commerce setting.
PIR-Enabled Security System for Internet of Things Using Raspberry Pi
Authors: Nagaraju Mamillapally , Trivikram Mulukutla
Published: August 2017

Internet of Things (IoT) is an evolution of mobile, home and embedded systems that can be connected to internet increasing greater capabilities of data analytics to extract meaningful information, which can further used for decision making. Billions of devices are connected to internet and soon its number may grow higher than number of human beings on this planet. These connected devices integrated together can become a network of intelligent systems that share data over the cloud to analyze. IoT is an emerging technology where several machines are embedded with low power consuming sensors that allow them to rely data from each other with little or no human intervention. Especially, PIR motion sensor plays a key role in security systems for detecting movements, intrusion and occupancy by interacting with other devices simultaneously like alarms, cameras etc. In this paper, researchers studied IoT applications using PIR motion sensor and proposed architecture and algorithms to be implemented for better development of security systems.
Performance Improvement IoT Applications Through Multimedia Analytics Using Big Data Stream Computing Platforms
Authors: Patan Rizwan , M Rajasekhara Babu , Kallam Suresh
Published: August 2017

A Big Data Stream Computing (BDSC) Platform handles real-time data from various applications such as risk management, marketing management and business intelligence. Now a days Internet of Things (IoT) deployment is increasing massively in all the areas. These IoTs engender real-time data for analysis. Existing BDSC is inefficient to handle Real-data stream from IoTs because the data stream from IoTs is unstructured and has inconstant velocity. So, it is challenging to handle such real-time data stream. This work proposes a framework that handles real-time data stream through device control techniques to improve the performance. The frame work includes three layers. First layer deals with Big Data platforms that handles real data streams based on area of importance. Second layer is performance layer which deals with performance issues such as low response time, and energy efficiency. The third layer is meant for Applying developed method on existing BDSC platform. The experimental results have been shown a performance improvement 20%-30% for real time data stream from IoT application.
Tracing Assessment for Learning Capability in Teachers (TACT)
Authors: Otrel-Cass Kathrin , Agerbo Jette Nørgaard , Skipper-Jørgensen Anette , Elmose Steffen
Published: August 2017

The focus on assessment literate teachers who know how to construct, administer assessments and communicate learning outcomes on student learning raises questions on how student teachers can develop the necessary skills to assess their students' learning. This is so important since there is evidence that beginning teachers continue to feel under prepared to assess student learning. This chapter presents findings of a study conducted in Denmark with the aim of investigating how student teacher candidates develop the capacities to become ‘assessment literate' over the course of their teacher education program. This chapter presents preliminary survey and focus group interviews data after tracing 21 pre-service teachers over two years. Our findings reflected a picture of Danish student teachers who value in particular formative assessment practices, while summative assessment is acknowledged as necessary but unwanted and perhaps even unproductive process.
The Problems That School Administrators and Syrian Teachers Encounter During the Educational Process of Syrian Refugee Children
Authors: Erçetin Şefika Şule , Potas Nihan , Açıkalın Şuay Nilhan
Published: August 2017

The aim of the study is to determine the problems that school administrators and Syrian Teachers encounter during the educational process of Syrian Refugee Children continuing their education in basic education institutions Ankara-Altindag province. So as to identify and diagnose in detail the views of the school administrators and Syrian teachers in basic education institutions regarding the problems they face while teaching Syrian refugee and asylum-seeking children, the research was designed using a qualitative pattern. Syrian teachers who migrated to Turkey from Syria and Turkish school administrators who work in four primary schools; Fatih Sultan Mehmet Primary School, Nazife Hatun Primary School, Sili Primary School and Tasça Primary School, affiliated to the General Directorate of Primary Education of Altindag district of Ankara province, constituted the population of the research. The interviews were conducted on a voluntary basis with four school principals and 16 teachers from among the 86 Syrian teachers who are working in these schools.
Lifelong Learning Phenomenon in Migration
Authors: Barış Emel Terzioğlu
Published: August 2017

Education helps migrants to learn local language of the host country and builds cultural and social bridges with indigenous social groups, as well as providing some of the skills and competencies they will need throughout their lifetime. So, expanding access to lifelong learning can open up new possibilities for active inclusion and enhanced social participation, especially for the low skilled, the unemployed, people with special needs, the elderly and migrants. We know that lifelong learning cannot solve all problems in societies, but sure that can help to make life more positive for all of us. In this chapter, we want to open to discussion the importance of lifelong learning phenomenon in migration.
Evaluating the Development Potentials of Community Radio
Authors: Olugboji Femi
Published: August 2017

Most developing nations lack the means of disseminating worthwhile information required for physical and human development. This, particularly, has contributed to the issue of marginalisation and low development Africa. This study, examined the development challenges facing most Third World countries, the media options available, and identified community radio as most vital to development. The study utilized the Democratic-Participant and the Development Media theories and evaluated the effectiveness of community radio through literature search, interview, observation, and empirical survey of the programming and operations of the University of Lagos community radio. Findings indicated that community radios are efficient means of carrying development messages to the grassroots. This idea is realized through participation in conception, packaging and communication of information. This in-turn serves to engender community development process through the provision of localized information, training and skills. These qualities delineate this radio form as distinct from other media form.
Method Using Command Abstraction Library for Iterative Testing Security of Web Applications
Authors: Munetoh Seiji , Yoshioka Nobukazu
Published: August 2017

A framework based on a scripting language is commonly used in Web application development, and high development efficiency is often achieved by applying several Agile development techniques. However, the adaptation of security assurance techniques to support Agile development is still underway, particularly from the developer's perspective. The authors have addressed this problem by developing an iterative security testing method that splits the security test target application into two parts on the basis of the code lifecycle, application logic (“active development code”) and framework (“used code”). For the former, detailed security testing is conducted using static analysis since it contains code that is changed during the iterative development process. For the latter, an abstraction library at the command granularity level is created and maintained. The library identifies the behavior of an application from the security assurance standpoint. This separation reduces the amount of code to be statically inspected and provides a mechanism for sharing security issues among application developers using the same Web application framework. Evaluation demonstrated that this method can detect various types of Web application vulnerabilities.
Usability Software Engineering Testing Experimentation for Android-Based Web Applications
Authors: Saeeda Hina , Arif Fahim , Minhas Nasir Mehmood
Published: August 2017

For success of android applications working in cloud environments usability testing is vital as the user usability satisfaction is the leading point in market. Authors are testing usability of the learning management system of (National university of science and Technology Pakistan)ten usability factors system content visibility, system learn ability, accessibility, operability, consistency, feedback, error message production, error prevention, and ease to remember system operations are chosen on the basis of these key factors proper experimentation on users who access LMS by their smart phones using android applications in cloud environments is conducted .Pre-test was conducted for measuring the initial requirements of experimentation process after that the detailed experimentation was performed to measure the usability factors presence in android based web applications operated in cloud environment. The results are statistically summarized against.