bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
ON THE ISSUES OF THE GEOGRAPHIC LOGIC IN DESIGNING TOURIST ROUTES
Authors: Саранча Михаил , Sarancha Mikhail
Published: August 2017

One of the key issues in the designing tourist routes is the geographical logic of their construction. Its correct study essentially determines the success and quality of the operation of both the route itself and the travels along it. However, these problems in modern practice gets insufficient attention. And its solution is in the use of a limited set of templates, often not satisfying the goal-setting. The article presents the results of developing a series of basic types of geographical logics of building tourist routes, which became the purpose of the study. Modeling, comparative and abstraction are the main research methods. The author uses systematic, integrated, geographic and situational approaches.

With the aim of integrating the properties of tourist routes and programs at the initial stage of the research the author has developed their basic properties, grouped into 13 blocks and presented in the form of a scheme. The article present the results of studying domestic and foreign experience in designing and organizing tourist routes from the positions of geographical logics of their construction and configuration. The author shows the 10 basic types of geographic logics for constructing tourist routes in the form of schemes and descriptions with examples: visits, stringing, crossing, trail, rounding, direction, non-attendance, free-situational, avoidance, camps, research / expeditions. It is shown that in practice this types are mixed.
DESTINATION STORITELLING AS MODERN TOURISM TECHNOLOGY
Authors: Афанасьев Олег , Afanasev Oleg , Афанасьева Александра , Afanaseva Aleksandra
Published: August 2017

The article is devoted to the storytelling as a relatively new marketing technology for tourist destinations. Tourism storytelling is defined as an integrated marketing technology for promoting tourism destinations through narrative information: legends, myths, fables, urban stories and tales. Tourism narrative become a self-contained attractor, supplementing or even replacing traditional objects of tourist interest. It can be realized through a variety tourist consumption tools. The most important among them are material products (souvenirs, travel guides, etc.), figurative-symbolic objects (street art, iconographic documents, multimedia formats), verbal means, online resources, etc. The authors offer the concept of a “storytelling destination” as an attractive object for tourists, in the marketing promotion of which the technology of storytelling prevails. The article defines the city storytelling tourism place and describes the phenomenon of post-travel storytelling. The authors also accomplish a detailed review of foreign publications on the problems of storytelling and its role in the tourist destinations development, consider some cases of the world’s and Russian storytelling destinations and separate mechanisms for their operating (cases of Kaliningrad, Borovsk, St. Petersburg, etc.). The article characterizes the tourism storytelling as a marketing technology, its and some tools. It is determined that finding out or creating legends and their using in the marketing tourism places is one of the most common technologies of tourism storytelling. The authors present the classification of technologies of storytelling and legend in active tourism.
Los centros de conciliación: su percepción, conocimiento y uso por parte de los ciudadanos de Barranquilla
Authors: Torrado María Lourdes Ramírez , Santos María de Jesús Illera , Solano Humberto Llinás
Published: August 2017

A pesar de que los centros de conciliación tienen una vida reciente, algo más de 20 años, son los mecanismos de administración de justicia gestionados por particulares con más reconocimiento de la comunidad, si se tiene en cuenta sus homólogos: jurisdicción de paz o conciliación en equidad. Además, la conciliación presenta ventajas interesantes para la comunidad, como lo es la posibilidad de que las partes solucionen directamente sus diferencias con el apoyo de una persona experta en el manejo de conflictos, dentro del derecho y con consecuencias jurídicas nada despreciables. En Barranquilla existen alrededor de 16 centros de conciliación, siendo el interés de esta investigación determinar la percepción, conocimiento y uso de estas instituciones que hacen los ciudadanos que habitan la ciudad, con el fin de entregar herramientas a las autoridades competentes, a propósito de la reforma a la justicia que tiene lugar en nuestro país.
¿Un tomismo analítico?
Authors: Kerr Fergus
Published: August 2017

Desde hace 50 años, los filósofos de la tradición analítica anglosajona (E. Anscombre, P. Geach, A. Kenny, P. Foot) han buscado ponerse en la escuela de Tomás de Aquino, que utilizan antes que todo como fuente para sobrepasar la epistemología cartesiana y desarrollar una ética de la virtud. Más recientemente, J. Haldane ha inaugurado un programa de “tomismo analítico”, cuyo principal resultado hasta el presente ha sido su “teoría de identidad mente/mundo”. No obstante, ninguno de esos admiradores de Tomás ha encontrado todavía el medio de asimilar su metafísica del ser.
Estado del arte trabajo infantil
Authors: Castillo Elvis augusto Orozco
Published: August 2017

El presente artículo es un resultado de la primera fase de la investigación titulada ‘El Magdalena necesita niños felices’ en el cual se presenta el estado del arte que se va a investigar acerca de la población de los menores que estudian y trabajan en el distrito de Santa Marta y el Magdalena.
Iniciativas de paz en Colombia
Authors: González Catherine
Published: August 2017

Este artículo revisa la literatura más representativa sobre las iniciativas de paz desarrolladas en Colombia, proponiendo una tipología de interpretación de las mismas que complementa investigaciones anteriores. Esta propuestacaracteriza dos niveles de iniciativas: las nacionales y las comunitarias, cada uno de estos se subdivide correspondientemente en cuatro ítems distintos. Estacategorización se funda en las variaciones de impacto de dichas iniciativas en dos sentidos: uno, su influencia en las dinámicas y problemáticas de las comunidades inmersas en el conflicto; y dos, las posturas políticas y las proyecciones de sus acciones respecto a la construcción de paz y democraciadel país; en este marco se destacan las iniciativas comunitarias como las más significativas.
Nietzsche’s Übermensch: the notion of a higher Aristocracy of the future
Authors: Fortich Ingrid Flórez
Published: August 2017

El artículo discute la idea del Übermensch en Nietzsche como parte de su radical crítica a la cristiandad y la crisis de la modernidad. Su idea del Übermensch es expuesta en la mayoría de su obra, en particular en sus libros Así habló Zarathustra y La gaya ciencia, un hombre nuevo que ha superado la tiranía de la religión y de la razón moderna, la alta aristocracia del futuro. Este artículo explora la relación entre Übermensch y religión, Übermensch y el hombre moderno, Übermensch y la voluntad de poder con el objetivo de esbozar implicaciones políticas de la idea del Übermensch en relación con la teoría política. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22518/16578953.16
Un necesario marco jurídico para las actividades espaciales en Colombia
Authors: Ceballos Julieta Arenas
Published: August 2017

La importancia de la enseñanza y difusión del Derecho del Espacio Ultraterrestre, como materia que debe incluirse en el currículo de las facultades o escuelas de Derecho en Colombia, debe ser un compromiso presente. Las nuevas tecnologías implican el desarrollo paralelo de los avances y adecuaciones jurídicas a los marcos normativos pertinentes, que incluyen la participación en el cuerpo jurídico internacional para que Colombia pueda desarrollar eficientemente su actividad espacial, que hoy corresponde principalmente a la utilización de los satélites de comunicaciones y observación de la Tierra para los múltiples beneficios de los ciudadanos, sin importar el lugar del territorio en que se encuentren.
La idea de la guerra: filigranas para su estudio
Authors: Jiménez William Ortiz
Published: August 2017

El presente artículo obedece al interés que existe en el ámbito general por escribir sobre temas relacionados con la guerra y el conflicto. La intención es tratar de realizar un análisis diferente sobre la manera en que se ha tratado el asunto de la política y la guerra, desde una mirada sociológica, histórica y política. Como artículo, este se encuentra configurado siguiendo un modelo de escritura metafórica y anecdótica, hasta lograr dar forma a una filigrana de la guerra.
La convención Belém Do Pará un balance de su aplicación en la jurisprudencia de la corte interamericana, a 16 años de su entrada en vigor
Authors: Arango Diana Marcela Bustamante , Henao Paola Andrea Vásquez
Published: August 2017

Este artículo se presenta como un resultado de investigación que tuvo por objeto conocer los casos en que la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos aplicó la Convención Interamericana para prevenir, sancionar y erradicar la violencia contra la mujer en su función contenciosa, cuando dentro de los hechos de conocimiento se encontró como patrón fáctico la violencia contra la mujer.
El trasfondo metafísico de las Cinco Vías de Santo Tomás* Una aproximación desde Lawrence Dewan, O.P.
Authors: Irizar Liliana B
Published: August 2017

Lawrence Dewan presenta un enfoque de las Cinco Vías hacia Dios de Santo Tomás de Aquino que supera, en finura metafísica y profundidad intelectual los abundantes y excelentes estudios que existen sobre la materia. Dewan al presentar el entramado metafísico que sirve de fundamento argumentativo a las cinco vías para demostrar la existencia de Dios, exhibe, una vez más, ser un experto conocedor de la obra de Tomás de Aquino. Asimismo, los diferentes escritos que ha dedicado a este tema han sido ocasión para aplicar nociones nucleares del tomismo que el maestro Dewan ha, por así decirlo, repensado y refrescadocon un rigor científico poco usuales. Tales nociones son, por ejemplo: el papel central de la forma sustancial y la visión del esse como una naturaleza.
Ciencia y técnica en la anticiencia ficción de C. S. Lewis
Authors: López Campo Ricardo Burgos
Published: August 2017

El artículo analiza la imagen que de la ciencia y la técnica occidentales (y por extensión de la civilización en que ellas son preeminentes), plantea C.S. Lewis en su Trilogía Cósmica (obra clásica de la literatura fantástica y religiosa del siglo XX). Ante la cultura científico-técnica predominante en laactualidad, en estas tres novelas Lewis propone una civilización enraizada en el Cristianismo. Frente a una cultura científico-técnica que acaba promoviendo la deshumanización, la discriminación de seres humanos y no humanos, nuevasformas de alienación, y que, en última instancia, se opone a la sabiduría, Lewis apuesta a la alternativa del retorno a Cristo. Tal retorno a Cristo es también el regreso a la sabiduría, y por ende, el optar por una senda que conduzca a la plena humanización.
Filosofía de la ciencia y realismo: los límites del método
Authors: Zanotti Gabriel J.
Published: August 2017

El objetivo de este artículo es señalar un límite infranqueable del método hipotético-deductivo para la solución del problema del realismo/antirrealismo en la filosofía actual de las ciencias. Para ello, se hace un comentario crítico del status quaestionis al respecto y se comentan las alternativas usualmente manejadas en la historia de la filosofía de la ciencia, sugiriendo una línea de investigación para ser profundizada.
Un aparato teórico para el análisis de las representaciones de lo público en jóvenes universitarios
Authors: Leguizamón Fernando García , Heredia Katia Martínez , Martínez Anyela Moreno , Ariza Angelica Armenta
Published: August 2017

El artículo presenta los planteamientos teóricos y metodológicos que orientan la investigación titulada Aproximación a las representaciones sociales de lo público de estudiantes de la Universidad Los Libertadores, a través de su interpretación de imágenes, adelantada en el 2010. En él se exponen diferentes concepciones filosóficas y sociológicas de la esfera de lo público, que sirven como marco de referencia y contrastación para la investigación y se propone heurísticamente una “topología” de la esfera pública, que permite visualizar sus lugares y niveles de constitución, poniendo de relieve su carácter fundamentalmente relacional.Se hacen además algunas observaciones sobre el papel que en esa constitución desempeñan las tecnologías de la comunicación. Finalmente, se explicitan los elementos metodológicos que se emplearán en esta investigación de corte cualitativo: la teoría de las representaciones sociales, con la técnica específica de la interpretación de imágenes.
Inserción de Colombia en las relaciones internacionales, en el contexto de la segunda postguerra mundial
Authors: Torres Cesar Augusto Bermúdez
Published: August 2017

Finalizada la Segunda Guerra Mundial, fueron modificadas algunas situaciones diplomáticas y políticas en el ámbito internacional. Estados Unidos, que ya sobresalía en América, promovió crear organizaciones regionales para detener cualquier “amenaza venida del exterior”. En este contexto, se quiere analizar el papel de Colombia en la política internacional y en los asuntos diplomáticos durante la consolidación del nuevo orden mundial.
El daño antijurídico del Estado y los medios alternativos de solución de conflictos-Estado del arte
Authors: Arturo Andrés Fajardo , Gómez Camilo Guzmán
Published: August 2017

El presente texto tiene como objeto realizar la descripción del estado actual de la investigación respecto del daño antijurídico imputable al Estado y de la conciliación como método de solución de conflictos en los litigios contra el Estado. En él se exponen los distintos estudios, y se resumen los aportes en materia de diagnóstico de la situación y de recomendaciones respecto de los temas de estudio. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22518/16578953.48
El proceso de formación del profesional en la educación superior basado en competencias: el desafío de su calidad, en busca de una mayor integralidad de los egresados
Authors: Sierra René Valera
Published: August 2017

Se aporta una reflexión teórica acerca del Proceso de Formación del Profesional en la Educación Superior, en la aspiración de una educación integral que permita formar un profesional comprometido social y profesionalmente, flexible y trascendente, para lo que se requiere de un diseño curricular basado en competencias.
Voces y silencios sobre las víctimas del desplazamiento forzado en Santa Marta
Authors: Rodríguez José Antonio Camargo
Published: August 2017

Santa Marta es una de las ciudades de Colombia con mayor recepción de víctimas del desplazamiento forzado en relación con su población regular. En la actualidad, uno de cada cinco habitantes es una persona desplazada por la violencia. Pese a las dimensiones del fenómeno y al gran impacto que este ha tenido en la ciudad, la problemática social y humanitaria implícita en él ha sido y sigue siendo poco visible ante la opinión pública. En este artículo se dan a conocer los factores de índole político, económico, administrativo y profesional que han venido incidiendo de manera más notoria para que la prensa y la radio samarias no hayan logrado hacer suficientemente visible ante la opinión local, regional y nacional el drama humanitario que viven más de 15.000 familias que han llegado a la ciudad durante los últimos diez años. Estos factores pudieron ser establecidos a través de un cuidadoso estudio que implicó el examen de las ediciones realizadas diariamente por los periódicos durante cinco años, así como de las emisiones noticiosas diarias de una estación de radio, durante dos años. La información documental se contrastó y complementó con la obtenida mediante entrevistas a periodistas y directivos de los medios locales objeto del estudio. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22518/16578953.9
La comunidad raizal: elementos para una reflexión jurídica a partir de un discurso étnico
Authors: Villareal María Lucía Torres
Published: August 2017

El reconocimiento de las etnias colombianas que hace de la Constitución de 1991 da cuenta del elemento de diversidad cultural analizado por la Asamblea Constituyente. Desde ese momento, Colombia ha hecho un importante esfuerzo por expedir normas acordes a los principios constitucionales e internacionales, en procura de la protección de los derechos de las comunidades étnicas existentes en el territorio nacional. Sin embargo, la situación de la comunidad raizal no es reflejo de ello, pues si bien la Carta Política la reconoce como etnia, el desarrollo legislativo posterior no lo evidencia así. La participación política de los raizales, en su expresión como valor, principio y derecho constitucional, no ha sido garantizada de la misma manera que ha sucedido respecto de otras etnias.
Formación ciudadana, clave de la consolidación democrática
Authors: Arévalo Roberto Mardones
Published: August 2017

Asumiendo la importancia que tiene para Chile el profundizar y mejorar su sistema democrático, el presente documento tiene dos objetivos. El primero, reconocer la situación de progresivo distanciamiento ciudadano de los asuntos políticos, sobre todo en el segmento más joven, a partir de datos proporcionados por distintas encuestas y estudios para el periodo 1990-2010. La constatación de la situación mencionada nos lleva a plantear que generar compromiso ciudadano está correlacionado con establecer una vinculación con el ámbito de lo político, que el ciudadano comprenda la importancia de la participación política, en lo cual desempeña un rol fundamental la educación. Relativo a esto último, el segundo objetivo es comprender el papel que ha cumplido el sistema educativo chileno que, no obstante el proceso de reforma educativa puesto en marcha a partir de 1997, no ha dado, por lo visto, con la fórmula que implique generar un ciudadano comprometido con su entorno y con las complejidades propias del contexto de sociedades abiertas y permeables en un contexto global.
Estudio de cooperación entre Colombia y Corea del Sur en el sector textil-confecciones
Authors: Alvarado Ronald Rojas , Fernández de Soto Jorge Medina
Published: August 2017

En el presente artículo se identifican las oportunidades comerciales, en el sector textil-confección, entre Colombia y Corea del Sur. Para tal fin, se analiza el flujo internacional de materia prima y productos terminados entre dichas economías. Asimismo, se considera el output innovador (expresado a través de sus patentes nacionales e internacionales) y se llevan a cabo diversas entrevistas a expertos del sector.
Notas sobre la ética de Husserl a Habermas
Authors: Niño Pedro Gerardo Acosta
Published: August 2017

A lo largo del presente trabajo se pondrá de manifiesto el sentido de la ética fenomenológica de Edmund Husserl como renovación del hombre y la cultura, los límites de esta y la posibilidad de ser complementada con la ética del discurso de Jürgen Habermas. Se resaltará el abordaje que estos dos autores hacen con su reflexión crítica a la sociedad contemporánea y pondrá de relieve el sentido con el que ellos entienden la crisis de la cultura, no como algo circunstancial, contingente y pasajero, sino como algo esencial a la cultura misma. Con esto a la vista, procederemos a señalar cómo pasar de una ética centrada en la conciencia a una ética fundamentada en la acción comunicativa sobre el fondo del mundo de la vida intersubjetivamente compartido. En esta perspectiva, la ética no puede aparecer dependiendo por más tiempo de una justificación trascendental y apologética de la filosofía como ciencia, de una reflexión que busca en dicha racionalidad un poco de autonomía y de libertad para la persona y para la comunidad como si se tratara de una ciencia universal y esencial de la razón centrada en el hombre. Esto conduce a pensar la ética en términos comunicativos, es decir, de poner a consideración de todos los afectados nuestros principios y valores en una comunidad de habla en la que se busca, no el saber y la verdad de las cosas, sino nuestra comprensión, rectitud normativa y entendimiento, referido a nuestras formas particulares de vida, a nuestros mundos especiales constituidos por los diversos actos de habla.
A aplicação da metodologia problem based learning nos projetos integradores de cursos de graduação na Faculdade Eniac
Authors: Portillo Serrano Daniel , Escobar Silva Priscila Cristiane , Luzetti Criado Lucio , Luzetti Criado Nelson , Josér Fernando Renato
Published: August 2017

Este estudo tem por intuito relatar a experiência da construção do conhecimento por meio de metodologias ativas em sala de aula na preparação do aluno para o mercado de trabalho e descrever as vantagens de aplicação do método Problem Based Learning (PBL) aos projetos integradores dos cursos superiores da Faculdade Eniac - Fapi oferecidos na modalidade presencial. O estudo foi realizado no primeiro semestre de 2015 com os alunos dos cursos de Administração e Marketing como piloto na aplicação do método PBL em sala de aula e cuja problemática consistiu na elaboração do planejamento, organização e execução de um evento artístico. Os resultados obtidos foram satisfatórios conforme avaliação realizada pela banca examinadora composta pelos docentes que acompanharam todas as etapas da criação do projeto e pelo feedback dado pelos discentes sobre a vivência da situação problema proposta como elemento de sua formação profissionalizante e demonstrada por uma pesquisa comprobatória. Dessa forma, percebe-se a efetividade da metodologia PBL como elemento essencial na formação do sujeito no nível superior nos cursos mencionados, podendo estender-se aos demais cursos oferecidos pela Instituição.
Celebrando-se os 20 anos desta Revista...
Authors: Lodovici Flamínia Manzano Moreira , Mercadante Elisabeth Frohlich
Published: August 2017

Esta Revista, filiada à Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e da Saúde (FACHS/PUC-SP), no seu volume 20, celebra, duas décadas de veiculação acadêmica ininterrupta, de fidelidade a um tempo que o nome Kairós enuncia. É a partir deste volume 20(1) que se celebra também a feliz instituição do DOI aos trabalhos publicados em seus quatro volumes regulares, com trabalhos preocupados com questões como as da longevidade, do envelhecimento, da velhice, das problemáticas da pessoa idosa.
An Experimental Study of Torsional Properties of Polyvinylchloride
Authors: Rostam Sarkawt , Hamakarim Arazw , Xalid Avan , Said Pari , Muhammad Kashab
Published: August 2017

In this research, an experimental study has been performed to investigate the mechanical properties through torsion testing of polyvinylchloride (PVC) polymer specimens. For the purpose of the experimentation, specimens of PVC round bars have been prepared. Torsion testing machine apparatus of 200 Nm motor driven was used to evaluate the torsion properties of the tested bars. The apparatus provides four deformation speeds of 50°/min, 100°/min, 200°/min and 500 °/min. The tests conducted under different conditions in a room temperature and cooling of the samples and tested at different deformation speeds given by the torsion apparatus. Various tests produce the torsional moment- angle of rotation diagrams and thereafter both of torsional fracture resistance and shear modulus have been calculated. The results showed the effect of temperature change on the mechanical properties of PVC by making the material harder and can resist higher value of the applied torque where the range is from 2.9 N.m for the cooled sample to 2 N.m for the received samples tested at room temperature. Moreover the results showed an increase of shear modulus to 282 MPa for the cooled samples in compare to 140 MPa for as received samples. Finally the results provide a guideline for designers on how to use parts made of PVC in different applications where the range of both the maximum torque and failure torque with their mechanical properties of rigidity and torsional resistance were recorded.
Design and Simulation of Microstrip Patch Antenna for Wireless Applications
Authors: Ahmed Kawan F. , Abdullah Rawaz H.
Published: August 2017

In this paper two rectangular microstrip patch antennas are designed to operate in and  bands, using Computer Simulation Technology (CST) Microwave Studio. The designed antenna can be used for industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) band applications. The RO4350B hydrocarbon ceramic laminates from ROGRES corporation substrate is chosen in the design of the dielectric substrate of the antennas. The designed antenna has low profile, low cost, easy fabrication and good isolation. The parameters such as return loss, voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR), antenna gain, radiation pattern has been simulated and analyzed.
Automatic water level control using LabVIEW
Authors: Azeez Hemin Ismael , Pimkumwong Narongrit , Chen Shih-Chung
Published: August 2017

Shortage in water supply is one of the major issues that some major cities throughout the world are facing nowadays. Due to not having full day water supply, households will have to efficiently manage the problem of water shortage and overcome the crises. This paper presents a system that indicates and controls the level of water in overhead tanks. Ultra-sonic sensors are employed to detect the level of the water between predefined minimum and maximum levels. LabVIEW which is a graphical programming language that uses a dataflow model is used to program microcontroller board Arduino UNO that is an interface between the software and the rest of the circuit components. From measured results good performance and accurate results are achieved.
Improving accuracy of missing data imputation in data mining
Authors: Ali Nzar A. , Omer Zhyan M.
Published: August 2017

In fact, raw data in the real world is dirty. Each large data repository contains various types of anomalous values that influence the result of the analysis, since in data mining, good models usually need good data, databases in the world are not always clean and includes noise, incomplete data, duplicate records, inconsistent data and missing values. Missing data is a common drawback in many real-world data sets. In this paper, we proposed an algorithm depending on improving (MIGEC) algorithm in the way of imputation for dealing missing values. We implement grey relational analysis (GRA) on attribute values instead of instance values, and the missing data were initially imputed by mean imputation and then estimated by our proposed algorithm (PA) used as a complete value for imputing next missing value.We compare our proposed algorithm with several other algorithms such as MMS, HDI, KNNMI, FCMOCS, CRI, CMI, NIIA and MIGEC under different missing mechanisms. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm has less RMSE values than other algorithms under all missingness mechanisms.
Design and Implementation an e-Hospital System at Kurdistan
Authors: Ahmed Mohamed Jasim , Zeebaree Subhi R. M.
Published: August 2017

The utilization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have developed quickly. Traditional Healthcare (TH) which designates paper-predicated system is expeditious giving way to e-health system in most developed countries. Virtually all hospitals in the Kurdistan Region (KR) are utilizing TH. This paper deals with designing and implementing a web based electronic hospital system (WBEHS) in Shorsh General Hospital (SGH) in Slemani city. The system solves traditional style quandaries by transmuting the traditional paper-based healthcare system into a fully electronic system containing multi modules such as (Physician, X-Ray, Pharmacy, Laboratories, Ultrasound). The staff of SGH participated in the implementation and obtaining the results which have been evaluated by utilizing System Usability Scale (SUS). The overall evaluation score of the questionnaire was (79. 459%) which can be considered as a good result.
Analysis digital panoramic radiograph about positions root of maxillary posterior teeth with maxillary sinus floor
Authors: Pertiwi Aprilia Dian , Noerianingsih Firman Ria , Pramanik Farina
Published: August 2017

Introduction: Maxillary sinus floor is a part of the alveolar bone adjacent to the apex of the posterior maxillary teeth that often causes complications in dentistry. Anatomical relationship between the maxillary posterior tooth root and the maxillary sinus floor can be obtained by panoramic radiograph.  The purpose of this study is to analysis digital panoramic radiograph about positions root of maxillary posterior teeth’s with  maxillary sinus floor by age and gender using. Methods: Research method is descriptive with purposive sampling technique. Study population was taken from archives of patient’s digital panoramic radiograph in Radiography Installation from January to March 2016. 88 samples were obtained from 207 digital panoramic radiographs archives. Results: The result showed that type 3 was dominated by P1 (86.8% right, 88.2% left), type 2 is dominated by P2 (24.7% right, 21% left), type 1 is dominated by M2 in the right (31.2%) and M1 in the left (38.1%). Conclusion: This study concludes that overall, the most commonly found was type 3. Based on the age, type 1 majority occurs in age group of above 49 years old; type 2 in age group of 40-49 years old; and type 3 in age group 30-39 years old, 40-49 years old, and above 49 years old. By gender, type 1 and type 2 are more common in males, while type 3 is more common in female.
Steiner cephalometric analysis discrepancies between conventional and digital methods using Cephninja® application software
Authors: Gayatri Gita , Harsanti Andriani , Zenab Yuliawati , Sunaryo Iwa Rahmat
Published: August 2017

Introduction: Cephalometric analysis have been widely used in orthodontics. The analysis can be conducted in two methods: conventional and digital methods. Practitioners prefer using computerized cephalometric analysis due to its simplicity and less time-consuming compared to manual or conventional method. The objective of this study was to identify discrepancies between Conventional Steiner cephalometric analysis and digital cephalometric analysis using CephNinja® Application. This study was an experimental in vivo study with descriptive and comparative approach. Methods: Thirty two negative and digital cephalograms were traced manually using Steiner analysis and digitally using CephNinja® software application. Tracing results of manually analyzed cephalogram and digitally analyzed cephalogram were then compared. Results: There were no distinguished discrepancies between the tracing results of both manually and digitally analyzed cephalogram using Steiner analysis. Conclusion: there was no significant difference of steiner cephalometric analysis conducted using conventional tracing and digital method using CephNinja® application software.
A Book Review of Salah Stétié. Fils de la parole: Un poète d’Islam en Occident. Interview with GwendolineJarczyk. Paris. (Albin Michel). 2004. 263 pages. C19.50. ISBN 2-226-15192-3
Authors: En-nehas Jamal
Published: August 2017

alah Stétié’s Fils de la parole: Un poète d’Islam en Occident (Son of the Word: A Poet of Islam in the West) is a transcription of Gwendoline Jarczyk’s interview with the author on several topics ranging from the professional and aca- demic to the personal. Stétié uses his position as a self-exiled Arab writer in the West and draws on his lifelong experience in journalism, teaching, and diplomacy to comment on the relationship between the East and the West and on his role as cultural mediator.
Attitudes of the Omani Elite Towards the Programs of Dialogue and Opinion in the Arab Satellite Channels: A Comparative Study on the Omani Media Figures and Academics
Authors: Al Rawas Anwar Mohammed
Published: August 2017

This study explores the attitudes of the Omani elite, (Media Experts and Academics) at Sultan Qaboos University toward the dialogue and opinion- oriented programs hosted by Arab Satellite Channels. It adopts the descriptive approach, and its survey-based methodology is generated through a questionnaire. The findings of the study emphasize several issues in connection with viewers? attitudes toward the above-mentioned programs: such as the existence of a positive statistical relationship between the exposure average of media experts and academics to dialogue and opinion- oriented programs and their attitudes toward them, as well as a positive statistical relationship between the exposure motives of the media experts and academics to the same programs and their attitudes toward them. Moreover, the study shows a positive statistical relationship between the degree of satisfaction attained from these programs and the attitudes of the media experts and academics to them.
Cultural Aspects of Arabicisation: Past and Present
Authors: Al-Ma’ani Musallam
Published: August 2017

The aim of this article is to examine the cultural dimensions of arabicisation, past and present. The article traces the rise and fall of arabicisation and its ramifications for science, knowledge, research and education in and through Arabic. Arabicisation has been at the heart of linguistic and cultural debate since the dawn of Islam, a debate intensified when the Arabs and their new religion came into contact with different civilizations and cultures. The rise of the Islamic empire in mediaeval times consolidated Arabic and Arab culture, attracting scholars from around the world to research different areas of science and knowledge through the medium of Arabic, which in turn became, and remained for centuries, the global donor language of knowledge and learning. With the decline of the Arab/Islamic empire, however, Arabic and Arab culture started to lose their world standing. Today, Arabic and its culture occupy a marginal position when compared to other languageslike English for instance. For different internal and external reasons, Arabic has lost its status as the major language of innovation and creative thinking. But this is not because it cannot handle the concepts of modern civilization or is unable to express them; rather the cultural position of Arabs seems to be the main reason. Instead of being the predominant language of science and technology, Arabic has been competed by other foreign languages in its own territories. The widespread use of European languages, the languages of the colonizing powers, has undermined its role. Furthermore, the lack of pan-Arab policies on language planning has contributed to the emergence of different and often disparate models of arabicisation. Transformation in the objectives and scope of the process reflects the historical developments and decline of Arab culture from medieval times to the present day.
When Literature Heals: Nasra Al Adawi’s Brave Faces
Authors: En-nehas Jamal
Published: August 2017

Unlike many writers who define literary creativity as a mere outlet for détente and self-indulgence, or perhaps as an escape from the self and its unbearable limitations and frustrations, Nasra Al Adawi, an emerging poet from the Sultanate of Oman, can be confidently ranked among those engaged writers who use their literary talent as a vehicle for altruistic expression and as an effective inspirational conduit for reaching out to those who need literature for its healing and “debrutalizing” power. She conceives of the act of writing as a complementary therapy, by no means as a substitute for mainstream medical treatment—a healing force that should not be ignored in dealing particularly with cancer patients.
Remote Sensing and Its Uses in Archeology
Authors: Mohamed Ali Abbas Sayed Ahmed , Al Hassan Ahmed Abu Al Qasim
Published: August 2017

Aerial photography, remote sensing technique has been used as a tool for acquisition of archaeological information for several decades. At the turn of the twentieth century, archaeologists realized that valuable archaeological data could be extracted from aerial photos, thus it has been developed into a systematic discipline known as aerial archaeology. Though aerial photography has a long history of use, Satellite remote sensing is a recent discipline applied in detection, mapping and analysis of archaeological matter, providing that the spatial resolution of the sensor is adequate to detect the features. Both aerial photography and satellite imagery have advantages and limitations with regard to archaeological applications. In the last few years, combination of the two was found to be ideal for archaeological remote sensing applications. Remote sensing has increased in importance to archaeology, as being an important close integrator with Geographic Information Systems. Remote sensing and its kindred tool of GIS have become central elements of modern spatial information and analysis system in archaeology.
Art Criticism, the Reality and Difficulties Sultanate of Oman as a Model
Authors: Al yahyai Fakhriya Khalafan
Published: August 2017

This research aims to address the context of Art Criticism in the Sultanate of Oman by investigating and analyzing written criticism. The significance of the current research is that it summarizes the reasons behind the absence of a critical movement in the area of Fine Arts in Oman. This research tries to gather and review the writings in art criticism in order to propose improvement and project a future vision of the field. This research uses historical methods to trace the writings on art criticism, and descriptive analytical methods to describe and analyze the forms and contents of the critical writings that guided the fine art movement in Oman. This research proposes some recommendations such as the importance of promoting the culture of art criticism in Oman. Particularly, the study suggests that a group be formed to promote and disseminate the culture of the Visual Arts. It is also recommended that general and impressionistic writings on fine arts be avoided and replaced by more systematic and academically rigorous writings. The study recommended that both the researcher and the critic should be given more attention and that the media should play a role in promoting fine arts criticism by broadcasting specialized programs in this area. These programs should be presented by expert art critics. The study also recommends that fine art criticism be emphasized in fine art classes in schools in order to create a generation that is capable of appreciating and critiquing art.
Ways of Protecting Omani Children from the Internet: A Case Study of the Sultan School in Muscat, Oman
Authors: AL-Saleem Naifa Eid
Published: August 2017

The Internet is an evolving medium that continuously presents new functionalities. Children’s Internet usage is also continuously changing. This requires vigilance with regard to Internet risk behavior and safe Internet use. The present article presents a structured overview of Internet risks and summarizes approaches to foster safe Internet behavior. Based on a cross-sectional study, internet usage of year six of the young children at Sultan School in Oman has been researched. The focus is to identify the risks that the children in year six at Sultan School face. Examples of this risk include content and contact risks. The study aims to explore the role that parents play in guiding their children when they use the Internet. Based on the analysis of survey data from 88 children, trends in their (un)safe Internet usage are studied in the year 2011. The results of this study show that 32.2% of the participants in this study use the Internet three hours, and 42.2% of them use chat rooms. With regard to parents’ role, the study found that 66.7% of the parents did not play a role in controlling or guiding their children when they use the Internet. Finally the study found that 66.7% of the informants are exposed to risk through the use of the Internet.
The Influence of Arts on the Development of Children’s MentalCapacities
Authors: Abdul-Majeed Marwan Imran
Published: August 2017

This paper examines the potential benefit of developing children’s mental capacities through art (painting, music, crafts, and visual perception). The paper shows that art can be properly used with different age groups. The art work of 11 year old children can be analyzed to discover their intellectual capacities and psychological traits. The study recommends that parents and educators study the problems that face Arab children in general and Omani children in particular through the use of arts. This paper also looks into the various ways of developing cognitive and practical skills of special needs students and how to communicate with them through arts and through the modes of communication these children use to interact with the world. The study also investigates the possibility of performing some of these arts according to the type of disability. The study is based on the main international academic models used in this area to enhance children’s artistic abilities. The paper highlights the psychological stages children go through and the impact on these children’s mental, educational and behavioral development. The problems that some children face should be properly dealt with through providing such children with training in various types of arts under the supervision of a specialist.
Graphs and their vertical and horizontal significance as possible indicators for assessing/evaluating student-teachers’ performance in the teaching skills of Art Education and their attitudes towards its implementations at Sultan Qaboos University
Authors: Al-Amri Mohammed Hamood , Fawzy Yasser Mahmoud
Published: August 2017

The current research aim at analyzing the teaching performance indicators in Art Education through developing assessment/evaluation tools of student/teacher’s teaching performance as visual forms in relation to graphs . It also aims at identify the contribution of these evaluation tools in following-up the level of growth indicators of student/teachers’ teaching performance and in monitoring their attitudes towards the use of graphs as indicators for assessing /evaluating teaching skills of Art Education in the preservice teaching practice course (Practicum). The implementation of the current study was conducted on a sample of 25†male and female students in their fourth-year of study at Art Education Department, Sultan Qaboos University. In this study the researchers used the descriptive and the experimental research methods. The results show the possibility of using of graphs as forms of visual significance which may be utilized as tools for assessing student performance in the art education teaching practice course. The results also showed positive attitudes towards the use of graphic drawings in the process of evaluating student/ teacher performance. The research concluded with some recommendations such as: developing the assessment and evaluation processes by using tools based on visual forms associated with the nature of art specialization; conducting further similar research in using graphs drawings in the process of assessment/ evaluation in other disciplines; examining its benefits in developing student/teacher performance in the educational process.
The Metonymic Functions of the Verb fa?ala in the Holy Qur’an
Authors: Al-Sharafi Abdul Gabbar
Published: August 2017

This study builds on an observation that the verb fa?ala in Arabic, which means ‘do’, is essentially metonymic; it can refer to any transitive or intransitive verb in the language. This referential function is paradigmatic in nature and has been mentioned by classical Arab grammarians, hence their choice of this verb as the template or pattern on which all action verbs are formulated and modulated. The study proceeds from this basic observation to propose another type of referential function of the verb fa?ala, which is syntagmatic in nature: the cohesive function. Taking the Holy Qur’an as the corpus for this study, both functions of the verb are investigated in this study. A statistical analysis is carried out to identify all the occurrences of the verb fa?ala and its derivatives in the Holy Qur’an within their textual contexts, usually the verse. A textual analysis of each of these occurrences is, then, carried out to reveal the metonymic function of the verb fa?ala in all these instances. The study shows that within the general metonymic referential function of the verb fa?ala two basic sub-functions can be identified. The first is plain reference and the second is euphemistic reference. The findings of this study show that the plain reference function only accounts for about 37% of the total occurrences, while the euphemistic reference accounts for about 63% of the total Holy Qur’an corpus. These findings are significant because no previous study has addressed this textual aspect of the verb fa?ala in the Holy Qur’an, not even classical and contemporary exegetes. This study is also significant to linguistic and figurative studies of the Holy Qur’an, Holy Qur’an corpus studies and textual and pragmatic analysis of the Holy Qur’an.
Rhetorical Tropes and Polysemy
Authors: Lahbacha Saber Mahmoud
Published: August 2017

There are many semantic ties which join polysemy with rhetorical tropes. While polysemy is a natural phenomenon in language, which does not denote any aesthetic dimension, rhetorical tropes denote clearly an aesthetic effect. Thus, there emerged many significant semantic relationships between polysemy and various rhetorical tropes as metaphor, zeugma and periphrasis. This study endeavors to focus on kinds of potential correlations and continuum between aesthetical and semantic levels, in hidden discussion between the Nazm theory and the linguistics` new methods.
Illegal Dumping in the Town of Almubailah South Al-Seeb Wilayat – Sultanate of Oman
Authors: AlBalushi Ali Said Salim
Published: August 2017

This study addresse س†the issue of illegal dumping which is defined as throwing large amounts of material without a permit in areas not authorized by government authorities. These areas are usually on the sides of roads, public land and private sites and the sites that are not frequently visited by the public. The town of Almubailah South, in the Governorate of Muscat, was used as a case study because of its highly urbanized and increasing population growth. The study aims mainly to monitor the waste disposal sites in locations unauthorized in Almubailah South and draw the attention of the concerned government authorities in the Sultanate of Oman as well as raise community awareness about seriousness of the problem. The methodology is based on fieldwork, statistical analysis and remote sensing and GIS techniques employed to track and monitor the problem. The study results show that there are 27 locations in the study area containing a total volume of waste estimated at 7774.9 cubic meters of waste. The waste materials were found in heaps ranging from small-size materials accounting for 73% of the total volume of waste materials, and large-size materials accounting for 42%, and medium-size materials accounting for 15%. Remnants of building materials occupied the bulk of these waste materials in comparison with other types of waste and these were found in about 57% of the total sites The study recommends a joint cooperation between the public and private sectors so as to achieve an effective strategy to eradicate those landfills. The study also advocats supporting the activities of volunteers in awareness, cleaning campaigns and rehabilitation of affected sites through allocating part of the tax revenues, municipal violations revenues and revenues of automobile companies specializing in the sale of garbage trucks.