bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Age and sex differences in behavioral flexibility, sensitivity to reward value, and risky decision-making
Authors: Westbrook Sara Ruth , Hankosky Emily R. , Dwyer Megan , Gulley Joshua Michael
Published: July 2018

Compared to adults, adolescent behavior is often characterized by reduced behavioral flexibility, increased sensitivity to reward, and increased likelihood to take risks. These traits, which have been hypothesized to confer heightened vulnerability to psychopathologies such as substance use disorders (SUDs), have been the focus of studies in laboratory animal models that seek to understand their neural underpinnings. However, rodent studies to date have typically used only males and have adopted standard methodological practices (e.g., weight loss inducing food restriction) that are likely to have a disparate impact on adolescents compared to adults. Here, we used adolescent and adult Sprague-Dawley rats of both sexes to study instrumental behavior tasks that assess behavioral flexibility (strategy shifting and reversal learning; Exp. 1), sensitivity to reward value (outcome devaluation; Exp. 2), and risky decision making (probability discounting; Exp. 3). In Exp. 1, we found that adolescents were faster to acquire reversal learning than adults but there were no differences in strategy shifting. In Exps. 2 and 3, adolescents and adults were equally sensitive to changes in reward value and exhibited similar reductions in preference for a large reward when reinforcement probability was decreased. However, adolescents responded more efficiently and earned reinforcers at a higher rate than their same-sex, adult counterparts. Together, these findings provide only limited support for the existence of an “adolescent-typical” phenotype in Sprague-Dawley rats and instead suggest that age differences in the expression of these behaviors may depend on conditions such as pubertal status and motivational state.
Ecology dictates evolution? About the importance of genetic and ecological constraints in adaptation
Authors: de Vos Marjon G. J. , Schoustra Sijmen E , de Visser J. Arjan G. M.
Published: July 2018

The topography of the adaptive landscape is a major determinant of the course of evolution. In this review we use the adaptive landscape metaphor to highlight the effect of ecology on evolution. We describe how ecological interactions modulate the shape of the adaptive landscape, and how this affects adaptive constraints. We focus on microbial communities as model systems.
Evolutionary Genetics
Authors: Arslan Ruben C. , Penke Lars
Published: July 2018

Evolutionary forces of selection, mutation, migration, and genetic drift interact to maintain heritable individual differences. Resolving the ostensible paradox posed by the fact that heritable differences in personality and intelligence, in spite of their links to mortality and fertility, have not been driven to fixation, is within the purview of evolutionary genetics. We introduce the tool kit available to psychologists who want to understand these forces. It assembles complementary tools from molecular and behavior genetics, as well as classical evolutionary psychology, including the study of genome-wide associations, paternal age effects, inbreeding depression, developmental stability, and of course twins and families. We identify an unfortunate lack of cross-pollination, but map ways in which these disciplines, which share a common evolutionary metatheory, could test the tacit assumptions inherent in much of our work. Although it may take some time and may in some cases be impossible to identify the causative genes behind individual differences, we make the case that understanding the evolutionary forces involved in their maintenance is a worthy task in its own right, permitting us to understand and predict the effects of changing mores, policy, and demographic trends.
Opinión colectiva respecto a linchamientos colectivos.
Authors: López Francisca Guerrero
Published: July 2018

Este artículo se enmarca en un trabajo metodológico de la cátedra "Software para análisis de datos cualitativos" del departamento de Antropología de la Universidad de Chile, en el nivel de pre-grado.
TEORI BELAJAR DAN MODEL PENERAPANNYA DALAM PEMBELAJARAN
Authors: suharli
Published: July 2018

Teori dan model pembelajaran merupakan salah satu kunci keberhasilan proses pembelajaran yang dilakukan oleh tenaga pendidik. Keberhasilan tersebut juga tidak terlepas dari kemampuan tenaga pendidik dalam merancang teori dan model pembelajaran tersebut menjadi lebih sistimatis untuk mencapai tujuan belajar yang telah ditetapkan. Penggunaan bahan-bahan pustaka yang relevan dilakukan sebagai langkah dalam menganalisis hasil dalam tulisan ini yaitu melalui proses penyeleksian sumber relevan, melakukan refleksi, menganalisis, dan membuat kesimpulan sebagai bagian akhir dari proses pengolahan data. Teori dan model pembelajaran dari pendapat para ahli menjadi acuan bagi tenaga pendidik dalam menetapkan tujuan dan cara belajar yang akan dilaksanakan. Teori belajar merupakan dasar mengembangkan model yang akan digunakan. Model belajar menjadi ketentuan dalam menentukan langkah-langkah yang akan dilakukan dalam proses belajar yang akan dilaksanakan
SUPREMASI HUKUM DAN PENEGAKAN HUKUM
Authors: Qamar Nurul
Published: July 2018

STATUS: POSTPRINTThis article has published in Journal Ishlah Vol.13 No.2 Mei-Aug (2011)Rule of law and law enforcement two things become the main agenda for a state law. This means thatthe organizer of state in a state law must be persuing a policy of the state administration in the broaest sense to stand on principles of law and executed according to the rules of law which is responsives to the interest of the state and its citizen throught law enforcement and law enforcement on the basis of equality before the law.Abdul Manan, 2009, Aspek-Aspek Pengubah Hukum, Kencana, Jakarta. Achmad Ali, 2005, Keterpurukan Hukum di Indonesia, Ghalia Indonesia, Bogor, Bruggink. JJH, Alih Bahasa Arief Sidharta, 1999, Refleksi Tentang Hukum, Citra Adhitya, Bandung.Charles Herma wan, 2003, Hukum Sebagai Panglima, Kompas, JakartaRomby AS, 1974. Oxfarrl Advanced leaner's Dictionary ef Current English, Oxford Jimly Asshiddiqie, 2009, Menuju Negara Hukum yang Demakratis, Bhuana Ilmu, Jakarta Liliana Tedjosaputro, 2003, £ttµi Profosi dun Profesi Hukum, Aneka Ilmu, JakartaMunir Fuady,tt, Alira11 Hukum Kritis, Citra Adhitya, Bandung Nurul Qamar, 2010, Hukum Itu Ada Tapi Harus Ditemukan, Pustaka Refleksi,Makassar Nurul Qamar, 2010, Negara Hukum atau Negara Undang-Undang, Pustaka Refleksi, MakassarNurul Qamar, 2010, Perbandingan Sistem Hukum, Pustaka Refleksi, Makassar Purnadi Purbacaraka, 1977, Penegakan Hukum Dalam MensukseskanPembangunan, Alumni, Bandung Soetandyo Wignjosoebroto, 2002, Hukum Paradigma Metode dan Masalahnya, Elsam, JakartaSoe.rjono.Soekanto, 1983, Penegakan Hukum, BPHN, JakartaSudikno Mertokusumo, 2005, Mengenal Hukum; Liberty, Yogyakarta. Wahyuddin Husein, Hufron, 2008, Hukum Politik dan Kepentingan, Laksbang, Yogyakarta,
TEACHING MATHEMATICS – COMPARATIVE METHODS AND LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES
Authors: Radojevic Olivera T. , Browne Oliver S.
Published: July 2018

In this paper we have investigated the possibilities of application of a form of innovative teaching method drawing on the holistic and comparative approaches, and the need for its further expansion through new learning technologies.The proposed solution gives some answers to the questions of preservation, transposition and improvement of traditional and modern methodology of teaching mathematics. The method was tested during three school years. The subjects in this research were students in the age group from the first to the fourth year of the Secondary Technical PTT School in Belgrade, belonging to all the educational profiles, i.e. classes with different annual mathematics class loads; 11 classes took part, with 308 surveyed students in total.The experimental method was combined with systematic non-experimental research. As regards the research techniques, the questionnaire was applied as a system of closed-ended questions with a view to measuring the presence of defined indicators in the realized classes. The questions in the questionnaire had to be answered in writing. Assessment scales were created for the students’ evaluation sheets.In this paper we intended to show how the student is guided and instructed to overcome all the obstacles in mathematics, gradually, and not how to understand everything easily with no effort.In line with our intentions and expectations, we can conclude that only an individualized and yet comprehensive approach to each student as subject at the centre of the teaching process, and their learning through participation – can enable the student to acquire knowledge at their own pace, to become more interested in this science, think more creatively, develop their own (critical) opinion, apply their mathematics knowledge, cooperate, demonstrate what they know, develop the competitive, team spirit and more lasting knowledge. By analyzing the relevant literature dealing with improving teaching methodology, we can conclude that: the cyclical nature of theory, practice and experiment, as well as the fact that different mathematical questions bring about yet new ones, leave space for further research into the comparative methods of teaching mathematics, and not only mathematics. The power of mathematics is in its idea. As a result mathematics, as a concept, takes us wherever we want to go.
Reply to Plewis, Murari et al., and Das: The suicide-temperature link in India and the evidence of an agricultural channel are robust (Supplementary Information)
Authors: Carleton Tamma
Published: July 2018

This supplementary information provides additional detail to the in-press article titled "Reply to Plewis, Murari et al., and Das: The suicide-temperature link in India and the evidence of an agricultural channel are robust", to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The associated reply is here: http://www.pnas.org/content/115/2/E118.extractThe original article discussed in the reply can be found here: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1701354114.
PERLINDUNGAN KONSUMEN BAGI PASIEN PENGGUNA KARTU BPJS DI RSUD ARIFIN ACHMAD PROVINSI RIAU
Authors: Ridha Irfan
Published: July 2018

BPJS a poverty reduction which aims to have access and quality of health care of the poor can be improved so that no poor people who have difficulty accesin health care service by reason of lack of funds. Formation BPJS in Law No. 24 on BPJS. The research problem is whether the patient card users BPJS at Arifin Achmad Hospital Riau Province to obtain protection of consumers and how to shape consumer protection against card users BPJS patients at Arifin Achmad Riau province by Law No. 8 of 1999 on consumer protection in 2015. This study examines the empirical juridical legal aspects nmelihat implementation in the field. This research was conducted by Observational Research, is to survey. Data collectors in the form of questionnaires and interviews, while the nature of the research is descriptive of providing an overview of the issues examined. Respondents were patients BPJS card users and the hospitals Pekanbaru. The conclusion of this study is to unsatisfactory services provided by the City Hospital Pekanbaru to patients BPJS card users due to lack of patient understanding about their rights and obligations. So they were not able to do anything in case of misuse of their rights. Majanemen Hospital who are not professional is also an inhibiting factor in the provision of services that are good for society.
ISOLASI DAN IDENTIFIKASI BAKTERI SHIMBION SPONS PENGHASIL ENZIM AMILASE ASAL PANTAI MELAWAI BALIKPAPAN
Authors: Marzuki Ismail , Noor Alfian , La Nafie Nursiah
Published: July 2018

Has been conducted research about isolation and identification bacterium symbionts sponge as producer enzyme amylase from Melawai Beach of Balikpapan. Targeting know is sponge type, symbionts bacterium group and test ability of sponge symbionts bacterium as amylase enzyme producer. Research expected to give information about existence of sponge and micro symbioning it’s from Melawai Beach. Research executed in four phase namely analysis sponge morphology, macroscopic analysis of isolate, microscopic analysis through coloration of bacterium symbionts, and test ability of symbion bacterium in yielding amylase enzyme. Result of morphology analysis is Callyspongia sp species enter in Callyspongiidae of family relatives, while perceived by microscopic and macroscopic perception of symbion bacterium in form of small bar, ellipse, surface flatten, colony disseminate, ruddle, fastening safranin colour designate the bacterium is negative gram. Perception of activity amylase enzyme at MA medium show colony have amylase activity marked with formed it’s of transparent zone at MA media colony if dropped by iodium condensation. Activity of amylase very high happened it thinning 10-2 marked with the existence of formed by zone of transparent very wide of around colony. Result of research concluded that t sponge is Callyspongia sp species, symbionts bacterium group is negative gram and bacterium represent producer of amylase enzyme
ANALISIS KEKRITISAN METEOROLOGIS DAERAH ALIRAN SUNGAI KOKOK SAMBELIA, LOMBOK TIMUR, NUSA TENGGARA BARAT
Authors: Cahyadi Ahmad
Published: July 2018

Pemanfaatan sumberdaya air di DAS Kokok Sambelia, Lombok Timur, Nusa Tenggara Barat mengalami peningkatan seiring meningkatnya kebutuhan air. Faktor pemicu utama akibat pertumbuhan penduduk dan perkembangan aktivitas. Ketersediaan air semakin terbatas baik dalam hal jumlah, waktu, dan mutu akibat persaingan pemanfaatan, pengelolaan, dan adanya kerusakan DAS, sehingga memerlukan upaya pengaturan yang mengarah pada keseimbangan dalam pemanfaatan dan upaya pelestarian. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menentukan tingkat kekritisan hidrologis DAS berdasarkan ketersediaan air dan kebutuhan air penduduk tahun 2012-2015. Metode yang digunakan untuk analisis ketersediaan air meteorologis dan air permukaan adalah neraca air metode Thornwaite-Matter. Kebutuhan air domestik, peternakan, dan pertanian dapat dihitung berdasarkan pemanfaatan sumber daya air di DAS. Berdasarkan ketersediaan air dan kebutuhan air DAS dapat diestimasi tingkat kekritisan hidrologis suatu DAS. Hasil analisis neraca air menunjukkan defisit terjadi pada musim kemarau dan surplus terjadi di musim penghujan. Pemanfaatan air didominasi oleh kebutuhan air pertanian sebesar 91% dengan debit 2.438.553,6 m3/s. Sedangkan kebutuhan air domestik sebesar 9% dengan debit 226.381,6 m3/s, dan kebutuhan peternakan sebesar 1.248,3 m3/s. Hasil estimasi indeks kekritisan air DAS Kokok Sambelia tahun 2015, menunjukkan bahwa DAS tidak kritis dengan nilai indeks kekeringan 0.176%.
Motivation by Stealth?
Authors: Journal Arab World English , Guillaume Kathleen
Published: July 2018

Buried beneath the conversation or, if preferred, the simmering debate about if and how we should be teaching English - in some form, to some end – around the world, is the fact that many of our students are not the least bit interested in what we have to teach them. Should we care?At the heart of the problem, and of this paper, is motivation. Should we not look at our students first, rather than continue to hand down and implement policy from on high, from elsewhere? Should we try to imagine what our students’ future professional and personal lives will be like and how one of the current ‘World Englishes’ might be of use to them, one day? A great motivator is culture, in its broadest sense.This paper nods in passing to the theme of ‘interdisciplinarity,’ considered vital, as well as to that of ‘teaching and learning inthe digital age,’ the latter seen as a boonnot a bane. The author, nonetheless, feels piques of conscience about the stealth role of English in what is, gaily and glibly, called ‘globalized contexts’. What if our pedagogic success comes back and bites us? What if, when we succeed in motivating our students, we are actually playing a dangerous game of acculturation? Inside the lining of success in English, have we sewn cultural hegemony? This paper suggests possible equipoises and pragmatic safeguards.
Pengambilan Keputusan dalam Meningkatkan Wirausaha Catering Madinah dengan Strategi Pemasaran
Authors: Mukayati
Published: July 2018

Tujuan dari studi ini untuk mengetahui fungsi dan tujuan pengambilan keputusan serta menetapkan strategi pemasaran untuk meningkatkan usaha Catering. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif dengan mengunakan metode survey. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah pemilik usaha dan karyawan Catering Madinah. Sumber data yang dilakukan dilakukan dengan data primer yang berupa interview dan juga melakukan observasi serta pengumpulan data sekunder. untuk memecahkan masalah bisnis atau usaha ini berorientasi kewirausahaan, pemasaran strategis dan sistim produksi yang efektif dan afisien. Pengambilan Keputusan yang tepat dalam menetapkan strategi pemasaran berpengaruh pada penghasilan usaha Catering. Salah satu strategi yang bisa ditetapkan adalah berorientasi kewirausahaan, pemasaran strategis, marketing mix, dan sistim produksi yang efektif dan efisien.
How to Prepare the Marriage?; The Brief Counseling Approach
Authors: Yendi Frischa Meivilona , Ardi Zadrian , Ifdil Ifdil
Published: July 2018

Marriage is the initial process of the formation of a household that depends on its dependence on readiness, maturity, and mental quality. The process beforeentering the marriage stage, a person has been intercepted by issues related tothe adjustment, either to the prospective wife or husband, as well as to otherpeople who have relationships, along with the norms and prevailing sociavalues. Similarly, during a married life, there are often problems related toconflicts in married life triggered by many factors. The intervention ofcounseling services plays an important role in maintaining the stability offamily integrity based on preparation before marriage. A whole andharmonious family is the dream of every marriage. In order to realize the dreamfamily, every family member needs to work together, especially to overcomethe problems that may arise and sometimes need optimal handling of thecounselor. Especially the problems that arise in modern life today. Thecounselor as an educator essentially has the responsibility to create thecondition of effective daily living on the client through various approaches andtechniques related to the effort to create a harmonious family
HIDDEN CURRICULUM IN SCIENCE LEARNING IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Authors: Maknun Djohar
Published: July 2018

Presented in ICERI 2017 Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta 8-9 Mei 2017There is no action without purpose. All that a person definitely has a purpose. So even at the time of learning. Someone willing to learn cause it has a purpose. Activities to achieve the goal can be written or not in the curriculum. The curriculum is not written often called hidden curriculum. Various studies have proven that there is indeed a hidden curriculum in every lesson. This paper was a descriptive explanatory about the hidden curriculum in science learning, especially in junior high school (SMP). Data were collected by observation, interviews, and questionary. The observations were made by observing the behavior of students during recess, from Monday until Saturday. Interviews were conducted randomly to some students and some teachers. Data were collected by interview openly. Questionnaires administered twice to 182 students, for the first time at school and before the semester exams. The validity of the Data taken by triangulation, triangulation method, triangulation of researchers, and triangulation theory. The study was conducted at SMPN 17 Cirebon, class VII using an interactive model analysis. Competence number five (5) on science learning in junior high, raising awareness to participate in preserving, maintaining and preserving the environment and natural resources. Based on the analysis concludes that the hidden curriculum on these competencies include: 1) train students to work together and worked together to preserve the environment, 2) teach students how to plant and care for plants that can grow and evolve, 3) teaches students how to process waste, as well as 4 ) cultivate students faith in God Almighty.
THE NATURE OF LEGAL CERTAINTY ON THE UTILIZATION OF THE RESULTS OF DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID (DNA) IN THE PROCESS OF SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION
Authors: M. Mauluddin
Published: July 2018

The purpose of this study to explain about: (1) the nature of the legal certainty of the results of the DNA examination; (2) the effectiveness of the results utilization of the DNA in the process of scientific investigation in 2007-2016; and (3) support the legislation, human resources, facilities and infrastructure, budgets and the level of knowledge and legal awareness of the public and law enforcement officers in the process of DNA testing. The Methods is a qualitative approach. The location of this scientific research conducted at the DNA Laboratory Medical and Health Center (Pusdokkes). The results showed that: (1) the nature of the rule of law on the results utilization of DNA testing is a means to search for and find the material truth which is absolute and conclusive by promoting evidence categorized as a gold and green qualified (2) the implementation of the DNA utilization testing in the investigation process scientifically in the DNA laboratory have gone quite effective, with the number of cases handled 754 cases and (3) support the legislation, human resources, facilities and infrastructure, budgets and the level of knowledge and awareness of the law in the process of DNA testing will be sufficient.
How education mitigates the realisation of fertility intentions: Is sub-Saharan Africa different?
Authors: Channon Melanie , HARPER SARAH
Published: July 2018

The gap between achieved fertility and fertility ideals is notably higher in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) than elsewhere, relating to both under- and overachievement of fertility ideals. We consider the extent to which the relationship between fertility ideals and achieved fertility is mitigated by educational achievement. Further, we consider if the effect of education acts differently in SSA, and thereby hypothesise how increasing levels of education in SSA may decrease fertility.We use 227 Demographic and Health Surveys from 57 countries worldwide to look at population- and individual-level measures of achieving fertility ideals. Population level measures are used to assess whether the correspondence between fertility intentions and achievements differ by level of education. We then look at the individual-level determinants of both under- and overachieving fertility intentions. An average of 40% of women in SSA underachieve their stated fertility intentions compared to 26% in non-SSA countries. Furthermore, the educational gradient of underachievement is different in SSA where higher levels of education are not related to better correspondence between fertility intentions and achievements. We argue that the phenomenon of underachieving fertility ideals (or unrealized fertility) may be of particular importance for the ongoing fertility transition throughout SSA, especially for highly educated groups.
The Flemish-Brabant dialect of Orsmaal-Gussenhoven
Authors: Peters Jörg
Published: July 2018

No abstract available.
Comparative Comparison of Effectiveness of Two Methods of SMS and TV Advertising on The Reputation and Brand Attitude (Case Study: Goldiran Company)
Authors: Hanjani Bahareh
Published: July 2018

Given the varying impact of promotional methods, brand development can help to creating consumer acceptance of a new product through a new product linkage with a well-known brand or company name, but an inappropriate brand development can create distorted associations that may it is difficult for companies to overcome them. The purpose of this research is to Comparative comparison of effectiveness of two methods of SMS and TV advertising on the reputation and brand attitude in Goldiran Company which sampled a sample of 384 Goldiran products customers who were exposed to both television and SMS and then returned to the store. The present research is based on the method and nature of descriptive work of the field type as well as in terms of purpose, it is applicable and in terms of time, it is time-consuming. For gathering information used from two methods, library and field. A library method was used to formulate theoretical bases of the research, research background and design of the conceptual model. The field method was used to collect the data by using a questionnaire. In the present research, the methods used in descriptive statistics such as absolute frequency distribution tables, average and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to assess the normal status of the sample and compare the data collected through a questionnaire. In the inferential statistics section was used from the comparison test of the average of the two societies and the comparison test of the average of several societies. After testing the hypothesis, all the research hypotheses were accepted therefore, it can be said that there is a significant difference between the effect of SMS and TV advertising on reputation and brand attitude at Goldiran Company.
On the dynamical nature of Saturn’s North Polar hexagon
Authors: Rostami
Published: July 2018

An explanation of long-lived Saturn’s North Polar hexagonal circumpolar jetin terms of instability of the coupled system polar vortex - circumpolar jet isproposed in the framework of the rotating shallow water model, wherescarcely known vertical structure of the Saturn’s atmosphere is averaged out.The absence of a hexagonal structure at Saturn’s South Pole is explainedsimilarly. By using the latest state-of-the-art observed winds in Saturn’spolar regions a detailed linear stability analysis of the circumpolar jet isperformed (i) excluding (“jet-only” configuration), and (2) including(“jet+vortex” configuration) the north polar vortex in the system. A domainof parameters: latitude of the circumpolar jet and curvature of its azimuthalvelocity profile, where the most unstable mode of the system has azimuthalwavenumber 6, is identified. Fully nonlinear simulations are then performed,initialized either with the most unstable mode of small amplitude, or withthe random combination of unstable modes. It is shown that developingbarotropic instability of the “jet+vortex” system produces a long-livingstructure akin to the observed hexagon, which is not the case of the“jet-only” system, which was studied in this context in a number of papersin literature. The north polar vortex, thus, plays a decisive dynamical role.The influence of moist convection, which was recently suggested to be at theorigin of Saturn’s north polar vortex system in the literature, is investigatedin the framework of the model and does not alter the conclusions.
Subject encodings and retrieval interference
Authors: Arnett Nathan , Wagers Matthew
Published: July 2018

Interference has been identified as a cause of processing difficulty in linguistic dependencies, such as the subject-verb relation (Van Dyke and Lewis, 2003). However, while mounting evidence implicates retrieval interference in sentence processing, the nature of the retrieval cues involved - and thus the source of difficulty - remains largely unexplored. Three experiments used self-paced reading and eye-tracking to examine the ways in which the retrieval cues provided at a verb characterize subjects. Syntactic theory has identified a number of properties correlated with subjecthood, both phrase-structural and thematic. Findings replicate and extend previous findings of interference at a verb from additional subjects, but indicate that retrieval outcomes are relativized to the syntactic domain in which the retrieval occurs. One, the cues distinguish between thematic subjects in verbal and nominal domains. Two, within the verbal domain, retrieval is sensitive to abstract syntactic properties associated with subjects and their clauses. We argue that the processing at a verb requires cue-driven retrieval, and that the retrieval cues utilize abstract grammatical properties which may reflect parser expectations.
Comparison of Flow Scheduling Policies for Mix of Regular and Deadline Traffic in Datacenter Environments
Authors: Noormohammadpour Max , Raghavendra Cauligi S.
Published: July 2018

Datacenters are the main infrastructure on top of which cloud computing services are offered. Such infrastructure may be shared by a large number of tenants and applications generating a spectrum of datacenter traffic. Delay sensitive applications and applications with specific Service Level Agreements (SLAs), generate deadline constrained flows, while other applications initiate flows that are desired to be delivered as early as possible. As a result, datacenter traffic is a mix of two types of flows: deadline and regular. There are several scheduling policies for either traffic type with focus on minimizing completion times or deadline miss rate. In this report, we apply several scheduling policies to mix traffic scenario while varying the ratio of regular to deadline traffic. We consider FCFS (First Come First Serve), SRPT (Shortest Remaining Processing Time) and Fair Sharing as deadline agnostic approaches and a combination of Earliest Deadline First (EDF) with either FCFS or SRPT as deadline-aware schemes. In addition, for the latter, we consider both cases of prioritizing deadline traffic (Deadline First) and prioritizing regular traffic (Deadline Last). We study both light-tailed and heavy-tailed flow size distributions and measure mean, median and tail flow completion times (FCT) for regular flows along with Deadline Miss Rate (DMR) and average lateness for deadline flows. We also consider two operation regimes of lightly-loaded (low utilization) and heavily-loaded (high utilization). We find that performance of deadline-aware schemes is highly dependent on fraction of deadline traffic. With light-tailed flow sizes, we find that FCFS performs better in terms of tail times and average lateness while SRPT performs better in average times and deadline miss rate. For heavy-tailed flow sizes, except for tail times, SRPT performs better in all other metrics.
Arsitektur Puisi Irna Novia Damayanti
Authors: Trianton Teguh
Published: July 2018

Puisi adalah rumah pertama bagi penyair, tempat pribadi yang ia buat dengan gaya arsitektur terbaik yang paling ia kuasai. Material utamanya adalah kata-kata yang disusun secara fungsional menjadi komposisi yang elok. Pondasinya dibuat di kedalaman batin, dengan kejernihan pikiran, dan keluasan pandangan.
PENGAMBILAN KEPUTUSAN SEORANG MANAGER TERHADAP PERILAKU KARYAWAN
Authors: wati setiyo
Published: July 2018

Dalam sebuah organisasi pasti telah timbul adanya suatu permasalahan, terutama di dalam manajemen. Agar masalah-masalah tersebut cepat terpecahkan maka harus diperlukan seoran manager yang memiliki peran dan perilaku yang baik. Dari permasalahan tersebut maka peneliti menyimpulkan bahwa akan meneliti bagaimana perilaku pengambilan keputusan seorang manager dalam menilai karyawannya. Tujuan dari permasalahan tersebut adalah untuk mengetahui arti seorang manager dan peran, sikap serta perilaku manager.
Generating urban structures: A method for urban planning supported by multi-agent systems and cellular automata
Authors: Koenig Reinhard
Published: July 2018

This work is based on the concept that the structure of a city can be defined by six basic urban patterns. To enable more complex urban planning as a long-term objective I have developed a simulation method for generating these basic patterns and for combining them to form various structures. The generative process starts with the two-dimensional organisation of streets followed by the parceling of the remaining areas. An agent-based diffusion-contact model is the basis of these first two steps. Then, with the help of cellular automata, the sites for building on are defined and a three-dimensional building structure is derived. I illustrate the proposed method by showing how it can be applied to generate possible structures for an urban area in the city of Munich.
Mental Health, Poverty and Indigenous Psychology Research in East Nusa Tenggara-Indonesia: Methodological and ethical considerations
Authors: Ranimpi Yulius Yusak , Hyde Merv , Oprescu Florin
Published: July 2018

In Indonesia, mental health issues have not recieved serious attention at the level of policy or practice. Moreover, concepts of mental health are contextualised within broader cultural, spiritual, socio-economic and regional factors that alter perceptions of mental health and its relationship to poverty and other influences. This study proposes to explorethe relationship between poverty and mental health in a remote region of Indonesia. It is motivated by the lack of mental health services in the region and a lack of understanding of the psychological factors involved in realation to mental health in developing nations. To examine these issues, indigenous psychology, as opposed to Western or Positivist Psychology, will be applied as a perspective,using phenomenology as a method. This paperdescribes the methodological and ethical considerations whichwill apply to this research.
Information integration in modulation of pragmatic inferences during online language comprehension
Authors: Ryskin Rachel Anna , kurumada chigusa , Brown-Schmidt Sarah
Published: July 2018

Upon hearing a scalar adjective in a definite referring expression such as “the big…,” listeners typically make anticipatory eye movements to an item in a contrast set, such as a big glass in the context of a smaller glass. Recent studies have suggested that this rapid, contrastive interpretation of scalar adjectives is malleable and calibrated to the speaker’s pragmatic competence. In a series of eye tracking experiments, we explore the nature of the evidence necessary for the modulation of pragmatic inferences in language comprehension, focusing on the complementary roles of top-down information–knowledge about the particular speaker’s pragmatic competence—and bottom-up cues—distributional information about the use of scalar adjectives in the environment. We find that bottom-up evidence alone (e.g., the speaker says “the big dog” in a context with one dog), in large quantities, can be sufficient to trigger modulation of the listener’s contrastive inferences, with or without top-down cues to support this adaptation. Further, these findings suggest that listeners track and flexibly combine multiple sources of information in service of efficient pragmatic communication.
Sponge Role In Alleviating Oil Pollution Through Sludge Reduction, A Preliminary Approach
Authors: Marzuki Ismail , Noor Alfian , La Nafie Nursiah
Published: July 2018

So far very few investigations have been conducted using sponges in converting hydrocarbon components from sludge into simpler compounds. In the meantime, sponges have been recognized as complex animals having various functions including to produce bioactive compounds that areable to interact with oil components. Experiments conducted cover sludge identification, sponge characterization particularly microsymbionts, and after colonization and suspension, mixed with sludge for 35 days under certain treatments, namely: (1) NPK addition, (2) NPK and shaking, (3) shaking only, and (4)untreatment. Each 5 days, mixture was then sampled to measure its visual observation, pH, quantitative analysis of biodegradation rates, and quantitative analysis by GC-MS. Results showed that sponge found was Callyspongia sp. and its microsymbiont was BacillusFlexus (BF)strain PHCDB20. Apparently treatment 2 gave the best result in terms of GC-MS analysis. Seemingly oil components like hydrocarbons nC10- nC30 as well as 2,7-dimethyl naphthalene and azulene underwenta sufficiently strong degradation. It can be concluded that Callyspongia sp were able to reduce some hydrocarbon components in sludge samples, either aliphatic or aromatic compounds.
Digital prefigurative participation: the entwinement of online communication and offline participation in protest events
Authors: Mercea Dan
Published: July 2018

This article reviews the main findings of a three year empirical study that examined the possible contribution of computer-mediated communication (CMC) to participation in offline social movement protest events. Participation was examined as manifest in mobilisation, identity-building and organisational transformation. Digital prefigurative participation is a tentative construct that attempts to capture the CMC aspect of engagement in the three processes. The participatory processes were probed in the contrasting circumstances of high and low risk protest events. This distinction has revealed some important differences in the structural factors that foster participation, primary among which has been organizational affiliation. Yet, it has remained largely unexplored in studies of Internet use in protest politics. Findings from two case studies of environmental protests in Romania and the UK suggest that digital prefigurative participation may be extensive among unaffiliated participants at a low-risk event and the affiliated at a high-risk one.
Spiritual PDAM
Authors: Cahyana Gede H
Published: July 2018

Menumbuhkan spiritualitas di PDAM agar menjadi perusahaan yang beretika, bermoral dalam melayani pelanggannya.
Future accessibility impacts of transport policy scenarios: equity and sensitivity to travel time thresholds for Bus Rapid Transit expansion in Rio de Janeiro
Authors: Pereira Rafael H. M.
Published: July 2018

The accessibility impacts of transport projects ex-post implementation are generally evaluated using cumulative opportunity measures based on a single travel time threshold. Fewer studies have explored how accessibility appraisal of transport plans can be used to evaluate policy scenarios and their impacts for different social groups or examined whether the results of project appraisals are sensitive to the time threshold of choice. This paper analyzes how different scenarios of full and partial implementation of the TransBrasil BRT project in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) will likely impact the number of jobs accessible to the population of different income levels. The analysis is conducted under various travel time thresholds of 30, 60, 90 and 120 minutes to test whether the results are sensitive to the boundary effect of the modifiable temporal unit problem (MTUP). Compared to a partial operation scenario, the full implementation of TransBrasil that extends this corridor into the city center would lead to higher accessibility gains due to network effects of connecting this BRT to other transport modes. Nonetheless, the size of the accessibility impacts of the proposed BRT as well as its distribution across income classes would significantly change depending on the time threshold chosen for the accessibility analysis. Considering cut-off times of 30 or 60 minutes, both scenarios of TransBrasil would lead to higher accessibility impacts in general and particularly for low-income groups, moving Rio towards a more equitable transportation system. However, under longer thresholds of 90 and 120 minutes, an evaluation of this project would find much smaller accessibility gains more evenly distributed by income levels. The paper highlights how time threshold choice in cumulative opportunity measures can have important but overlooked implications for policy evaluation and it calls for further research on the MTUP in future transport and mobility studies.
Getting the most out of family data with the R package fSRM
Authors: Stas Lara , Schönbrodt Felix D. , Loeys Tom
Published: July 2018

Family research aims to explore family processes, but is often limited to the examination of unidirectional processes. As the behavior of one person has consequences that go beyond that one individual, Family functioning should be investigated in its full complexity. The Social Relations Model (SRM; Kenny & La Voie, 1984) is a conceptual and analytical model which can disentangle family data from a round-robin design at three different levels: the individual level (actor and partner effects), the dyadic level (relationship effects) and the family level (family effect). Its statistical complexity may however be a hurdle for family researchers. The user-friendly R package fSRM performs almost automatically those rather complex SRM analyses and introduces new possibilities for assessing differences between SRM-means and between SRM-variances, both within and between groups of families. Using family data on negative processes, different type of research questions are formulated and corresponding analyses with fSRM are presented.
PLTSa vs Kesuksesan Bau Busuk
Authors: Cahyana Gede H
Published: July 2018

Tanpa bakar sampah dengan insinerator yang menjadi teknologi dalam PLTSa Bandung, sampah busuk itu justru bisa menghasilkan pendapatan.
PEMILIHAN KEPALA DAERAH YANG DEMOKRATIS BERDASARKAN PUTUSAN MAHKAMAH KONSTITUSI NOMOR 97/PUU-IX/2013
Authors: Hsb Ali Marwan
Published: July 2018

Article 18 section (4) of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia mentioned that the election of Governor, Regent and Mayor is held in democratically. The phrase elected democratically polemical in application, whether directly elected by the people or through Regional House of Representative or other ways. This will be explain in this article. This article use normative research methods by using historical and legislation approach. From this research found that in Indonesian history, the local elections was held directly or through the local legislative and other ways. The democratic elections according to the Constitutional Court interpretations could be held directly or through the legislature or by other means as long as the principle of democracy are direct, general, free and confidental
AN UNUSUAL POWER: The Rise and Development of Medical Doctors.
Authors: Wilkin Stanley
Published: July 2018

The introductory paper to my project on the history of the medical profession.
Personality and Friendship Satisfaction in Daily Life: Do Everyday Social Interactions Account for Individual Differences in Friendship Satisfaction?
Authors: Wilson Robert Edmund , Harris Kelci , Vazire Simine
Published: July 2018

Who are the people who maintain satisfying friendships? And, what are the behaviours that might explain why those people achieve high friendship satisfaction? We examined the associations between personality (self-reports and peer-reports) and friendship satisfaction (self-reports) among 434 students. We also examined whether role personality (how people act with their friends) and quantity and quality of social interactions using ecological momentary assessment mediate the associations between personality and friendship satisfaction. Extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and (low) neuroticism were associated with higher levels of friendship satisfaction. These associations could not be accounted for by individual differences in role personality. In addition, our results suggest that quantity of time spent with friends and quality of friend interactions (depth of conversation, self-disclosure and lack of emotion suppression), although associated with friendship satisfaction, do not account for the associations between trait personality and friendship satisfaction. Future research should examine other potential interpersonal processes that explain why some people are more satisfied with their friendships than others and the consequences of friendship satisfaction (e.g. for well-being).
Preschoolers are more likely to direct questions to adults than to other children (or selves) during spontaneous conversational acts
Authors: Choi Koeun , Lapidow Elizabeth , Austin Jennifer , Shafto Patrick , Bonawitz Elizabeth
Published: July 2018

Question asking is a prevalent aspect of children’s speech, providing a means by which young learners can rapidly gain information about the world. Although past work demonstrates that children are sensitive to the knowledge state of potential informants (e.g., Koenig & Harris, 2005), less work has explored whether children spontaneously direct questions to adults over other children (who are less likely to be knowledgeable), and in particular if adult-directed questions focus on content that is more likely to support general learning. We recorded individual children’s spontaneous speech in 40-minute sessions during their preschool day; for every production we coded whether the speech was directed towards an adult, another child, or was stated to self. Our results (N = 30, totaling 2,232 utterances) showed that questions took up a greater proportion of children’s adult-directed speech as compared to the pro- portion of questions in child-directed and self-directed speech. Furthermore, although children asked many kinds of questions (including conversational clarifications, specific information questions, and questions intended for general learning), children more frequently asked the questions intended for learning when they spoke to adults than to the other groups. Analysis revealed a developmental effect, with results strongest for the older preschoolers. Our findings suggest that children discriminately choose ”what” and ”whom” to ask in daily conversations, and this ability improves over the course of development.
The Racial Imagination of the Lindy Hop from the Historical Standpoint – Comments and Corrections
Authors: Heinilä Harri
Published: July 2018

A book review with comments and corrections from the historical standpoint. The review concerns Dr. Black Hawk Hancock's American Allegory: Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination (Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press. 2013).
Capacity Building for Community-based Literacy Movement: A Case Study at the TBM Sudut Baca Soreang
Authors: Yanto Andri , Rodiah Saleha , Lusiana Elnovani
Published: July 2018

This article discusses the findings of a qualitative research using a case study approach in Taman Bacaan Masyarakat (TBM) Sudut Baca Soreang (SBS.) TBM as part of the literacy movement began to develop into a literacy movement that comes from the movement of communities in a particular location which basically giving access learning resource for the community. The purpose of this study was to determine the form of capacity building developed by SBS. Data consists of interviews, observation and documentation. The main target is the model of capacity building in community-based literacy movements with the aim to provide input for decision-makers in government or as a reference for other communities in building the literacy movement in a community. The results showed that capacity building has the potential to make a positive impact on management and community development. The results also yielded several implications for community-based libraries, including how their services could be improved to have even greater impact on the communities they serve and how the volunteers empower themselves and in turn empower communities