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Facebook Marketing and its Influence on Consumer Buying Behaviour in Kathmandu
Authors: Rana Arunima
Published: September 2018

Facebook is one of the leading and rapidly growing online networks. With over 845 million users, Facebook is a very effective place for businesses. There is possibility to attract new customers, build online relationships and use Facebook as an online marketing communication channel. With its highly targeted marketing features and its smooth ability to spread information across the networks of each other, Facebook becomes an important marketing place for marketers these days. Facebook is a convenient medium for customers and prospects to communicate directly to brand representative or about your brand with their friends. However, the question is, which group of people are actually receiving the information and does this information influence their buying behaviour?

This paper aims to answer this question based on a study regarding the online activities of 200 Facebook users, by identifying and understanding the consumers buying behaviour varied with different factors like age, gender, occupation, income and how different factors related to Facebook have influenced the respondents’ perception of Facebook marketing in Kathmandu valley. The secondary data comes from several reports, past research, published articles, books, newspaper, website and journals. For clarity purposes, data obtained was reported using simple percentages and frequencies. The study uses mathematical tool, SPSS and Microsoft excel to present the data into quantitative form.

Results of the analysis indicates that although marketers spend hours in building brand image, the study found that consumers are less concern about the brand image while making a purchase decision. The findings also reveals that people are more influenced by word of mouth and opinion given by the people they know on Facebook and it substantially affects their buying behaviour. The least effective Facebook marketing factor is celebrity endorsement which implicates that consumers are more affected by views of friends and family rather than endorsement done by celebrities. This calls for more conjunct efforts on the part of companies, ad agencies and advertisers to extend their brand equity and build their customer base. Marketers should adopt relationship marketing strategy and work on bonding with customers for positive impact with better communication and interaction. The targeted customer should be the opinion leaders and social group to facilitate more patronage of the marketed product or service.

Journal of Business and Social Sciences Research, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 111-128
Perceptions of Tourism Stakeholders towards Tourism Industry in Nepal
Authors: Bhote Gele Rakpe
Published: September 2018

The main objective of this paper is to study the perceptions of major tourism stakeholders towards the tourism industry of Nepal and how it could be developed holistically. The Primary data was collected by researchers from a convenient sampling of 150 respondents using a structured questionnaire in the year 2014, and was analysed through descriptive and inferential statistics. The perception model for stakeholders was developed considering tourists, tour operators, hoteliers, tourist guides and the host community as the major actors. The study found no significant relationship between stakeholders and their perceptions on; number of stay days, promotional activities done by tourism associations and public agencies, mobilization of tourism revenues, and management and communication of tourism industry. Majority of the respondents perceived future prospects of the tourism industry as favourable. It was found that Nepal could extend tourists' stays and increase per day spending. Internet was found to be the most reliable source of travel information on Nepal. Political factors scored the highest as an area where major improvements were needed. Tourism revenues were not properly mobilized for the development of the host community. The study concludes that there is a good future for the tourism industry if all stakeholders work cooperatively to solve the major issues that have a negative impact on tourism.

Journal of Business and Social Sciences Research, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 129-143
Analysis of Students’ Perception on Quality of Management Education in Kathmandu
Authors: Tripathee Aaratee
Published: September 2018

This paper examines the students’ perception on quality of MBA program and the relationship between the perceived quality and satisfaction of the students with the MBA program. For this study 250 respondents, 50 each from five universities, pursuing MBA degree were taken as sample and surveyed through structured questionnaire in the year 2016. Five variables are taken as the major quality indicators: quality of curriculum, faculty, employability, infrastructure, and reputation. For data analysis, descriptive, analytical and inferential techniques have been employed. The perceptions of the students are analyzed against the five quality dimensions where significant relationship is seen between the satisfaction of the students and faculty, employability, infrastructure and reputation. The study observed that a good brand name is often associated with quality and it is likely to think that good reputation is bound with good curriculum, faculty, employability and infrastructure. Hence, educational institutions should work on building good rapport in the market as it exerts strong effect on the overall satisfaction of students. This can be promoted by highlighting graduate employability and by indicating the career success and development of the graduates and alumni. The finding also revealed that the factors do affect the students’ perception and among the selected five quality dimensions ‘reputation’ is seen as the most influential factor in forming students perception and ‘curriculum’ is seen as the least influential factor as there is not much difference in curriculum provided by different universities.

Journal of Business and Social Sciences Research, Vol. 2, No. 1 & 2, pp. 15-26
A Comparative Study of Merger Effect on Financial Performance of Banking and Financial Institutions in Nepal
Authors: Shrestha Magina , Thapa Ram Kumar , Phuyal Ram Kumar
Published: September 2018

Merger and Acquisition is relatively new reorganization practice undertaken to strengthen the BFIs in the Nepalese financial market. This study makes an attempt to analyze the financial performance of merged banking and financial institutions relative to their pre-merger performance, and assess the perception of the stakeholders towards merger. Six banks and financial institutions are considered as sample to undertake this study along with 120 respondents for secondary and primary data respectively. The financial ratios comparison method along with t-test of changes in performance measures has been used. This study found that merger impacts performance positively when larger and stable parties such as commercial banks act as bidders as opposed to the merger between smaller BFIs mainly other than commercial banks as bidder. The loan quality significantly deteriorates after merger in most of the cases and profitability measured in terms of ROA and ROE is adversely affected in most of the cases after the merger. Therefore, the merger should not be considered as the definite solutions to overcome the challenges faced in the market; enough evaluation is needed to select the right partners before executing the merger.

Journal of Business and Social Sciences Research, Vol. 2, No. 1 & 2, pp. 47-68
Hyperconcept CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY Reconstruction in English, German and Ukrainian Texts of Religious Popular Discourse
Authors: Cherkhava О. О.
Published: September 2018

The article covered the hyperconcept CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY reconstruction in English, German, Ukrainian informative and agitational texts of religious popular discourse. This mental construction has been established through the profiling of Biblical quotations transposed in the religious popular discourse texts of informative (identified four types) and agitational character (identified nine types) according to the mechanisms of Biblical knowledge metaphorization. It has been proven that the informative texts sense implicitly stimulates the recipient to have inner mindset about own life (without a mediator). The agitational texts have the same elements and constructions, but are open-ended or have a rhetorical questions stimulating the recipient to contact the religious organization (the mediator).The kernel of this hyperconcept presents the concept RIGHTEOUS LIFE with subordinated concepts FOLLOWING CHRIST, BEING NOT INDIFFERENT, REPENT, PURIFICATION, REQUEST (ASK), STRENGTH FORMING, GRATITUDE (THANK), that form dominant or optional senses in informative and agitational texts of religious popular discourse representing figurative and evaluative hyperconcept zone. In English and German Religious Magazine texts and Religious Calendar Guides the metaphoric concept STRENGTH FORMING dominates, whereas in the Ukrainian variants – the concept REQUEST; in the International Religious Festival Booklet – the concept FOLLOWING CHRIST, in the texts of Religious Synod Meeting Booklet – the concept BEING NOT INDIFFERENT – in English, German and Ukrainian languages. In agitational texts the dominant metaphoric senses are not revealed. Nevertheless, English text environment provides more concise representation of every sense (reflecting author’s individuality) or hierarchical fusion of different variant senses, German – determined conception with highly represented author-text-creator, Ukrainian – national symbols priority with mercy, ask or call to unite verbal depiction.
Lexical Semantic Modelling in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Authors: Demenchuk O. V.
Published: September 2018

The paper focuses on model of situation concept – a representation that is thought to constitute the basis for comparison (tertium comparationis) of lexical semantics in related and non-related languages. The model is considered to represent the content of a lexical item through a sampling of a multidimensional concept. The relevance of the model being a representation of multidimensional semantic space is verified based on the results of the subjective scaling experiment. The concept of situation is considered as a configuration of semantic linguistic dimensions – the characteristics that encode information on how a situation is construed by the semantics of a lexical item. It has been ascertained that the lexical items’ semantics of contrasted languages (English, German, Polish, and Ukrainian) encode and distribute information within four semantic linguistic dimensions: representational, sentential, constructional, and epidigmatic. It is posited that the representational semantic dimension encodes information on the gnoseological values of situation participants, the sentential one – on a set and relations of situation participants, the constructional one – on the degree of positional activities or salience of situation participants, the epidigmatic one – on the semantic associations of situation participants. In order to ascertain the content of a situation concept and to establish the ways the information is encoded and distributed in the semantics of lexical items, a directed associative experiment has been used. In reproducing the specificity of the worldview, the expediency of further psycholinguistic research of lexical semantic models is claimed.
Figurative and Stylistic Elements Reconstruction of Newspaper Synoptic Texts (Based on the English, German, Polish and Ukrainian Languages)
Authors: Kolomiiets O. M.
Published: September 2018

The article discovered the new methodological possibility of reconstruction, which in cognitive linguistics began to be applied to other, broader tasks associated with the need to restore structures of consciousness, which include newspaper synoptic texts (hereinafter – NST) as mental formations. Active decoding of innersemantic elements of NST revealed stylistic devices based on the interaction of 1) the vocabulary and contextual meanings (metaphor, metonymy, irony), 2) primary and derivative meanings (zeugma, pun), 3) the logical and emotional meanings (epithet, oxymoron), 4) logical and nominative meanings (antonomasia), as well as the one 5) that provide additional characteristics of the object of description (hyperbole, comparison).It was determined that the primary means of NST based on the interaction of vocabulary and contextual meanings is metaphor and during the process of reconstruction it became possible to divide it into four types: nominative, figured, cognitive and generalized. Three models of determined analogical transformation from the name of the weather phenomena to the result of the name, from the name of action to the action object name, from the name of the piece of weather phenomena to the name of a weather phenomena as well as two directions of semantic reconsideration of the phenomena associated with weather forecasting which are the violation of the ritual and habits of everyday life and the representation of the obscurity of the attitude to the weather phenomena were defined.The article proves that less productive NST images in the studied languages are those that are based on the interaction of basic and derivative meanings and logical and emotional meanings. Among the most common means of providing additional characteristics to description of hyperbole is revealed which aim is to express exaggerated attitude to weather forecast scenario and comparison to appeal to the readers’ experience and memory, which helps them to identify the information provided by the author.
Combinatorial Syntagmatics: from the Theory of Valency to the Theory of Conceptual Integration
Authors: Korolyova A. V.
Published: September 2018

The topical and complicated problem of modern linguistics has been examined in the article. It deals with the study of the processes and mechanisms of creating new senses by the various combinations of both language signs among themselves and the transformation of the meanings of ready-made signs. This problem was begun to be solved in structural linguistics by the representatives of the theory of valency and the theory of distribution. The following conclusion has been made: developing in parallel as two directions of syntagmatics, both the theory of valency and the theory of distribution caused a lot of discussions on their correlation between them, as well as with the understanding of the problem of compatibility in general. However, their representatives agreed that these categories are in a relationship of matching: inclusion, cohesion and interdependence. They are represented with two levels of combinatorial syntagmatics: while the language level is more typical for valency, then the speech one is, predominantly, for distribution. The particular attention is paid to a new cognitive view of the essence of the valency and distribution. It helps to assume that both notions are broadly understood to be cognitive categories that reflect the ability of native speakers to associate certain language signs in a specific communicative situation, usually called the context. It is pointed out that the development of this problem was reflected in the works of representatives of compositional semantics. They first focused their attention on studying the relationship among the configurations of components of complex signs from the cognitive point of view. The arguments are given to justify a new stage in the development of combinatorial syntagmatics, developed by J. Fauconnier and M. Turner, the supporters of the theory of the conceptual integration. According to it the creation of new senses by the configuration of language signs occurs in the system of mental spaces – the mental spheres (cognitive contexts reflected in the consciousness of the carriers of a certain language), connected with the comprehension by a person of various situations and having a cognitive status, i.e. with the process of cognition of the phenomena of the surrounding reality.
Intralingual Prototypical Features of Causal Dominants in Related Languages
Authors: Lemish N. Ye.
Published: September 2018

The paper deals with defining the intralingual prototypical features of causal dominants in English, Dutch, Spanish, Ukrainian, and Russian, being the languages of our research. The objective is achieved through solving such tasks as specifying the notion of “a prototype” and “a prototypical feature”, identifying causal sememes for all the causal dominants in related languages under study, and assigning semantic roles to all the elements of causal sememes identified. The employment of the following linguistic methods made it possible to fulfil all the tasks, namely: a contrastive method to select a causal sememe as tertium comparationis with further identification and contrasting of prototypical features on its basis; a structural method with componentional analysis of each causal dominant based on dictionary definitions; a cognitive method to model chains of semantic roles for each causal dominant. The combination of methods enabled modelling of three major chains, such as: [Ag +/ Eff + CAUSE + Pat +/ Rec +/ Instr]; [Ag +/ Eff + BE1 + Pat +/ Rec +/ Instr]; [Ag +/ Eff + BE2 + Pat +/ Rec +/ Instr].The analysis of 1115 causal sememes identified based on the data from 24 dictionaries of 5 languages revealed the prototypical features for 10 causal dominants in English, Dutch, Spanish, Ukrainian, and Russian. As a result prototypical features for the English CC include Ag (5), Eff (33), Pat (2), Rec (34); for the Dutch CC – Ag (8), Eff (33), Pat (9), Rec (29); for the Spanish CC – Ag (0), Eff (41), Pat (4), Rec (37); for the Ukrainian CC – Ag (7), Eff (36), Pat (8), Rec (35); for the Russian one – Ag (7), Eff (42), Pat (8), Rec (42).The results obtained for intralingual prototypes in English, Dutch, Spanish, Ukrainian, and Russian can serve as the basis for further identification of intralingual prototypes in the other languages, as well as defining crosslingual prototypes of the causal dominants in related languages, showing the universal and specific in mapping the phenomena of causal reality by different ethnic groups.
Dynamics of Semantic and Pragmatic Framework of Modal Proposition: Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects
Authors: Shnurovska L. V.
Published: September 2018

The article outlines the linguocognitive background for semantic and pragmatic structural dynamics of the modal proposition in planes of relevance, ambiguity, force dynamics, as well as possible worlds theories. The integrated theoretical approaches entailed the development of a relatively admissible algorithm for interpreting the modal values in a vast number of pragmatic frameworks. Due to the algorithm, a modal proposition incorporates a logical relation and a propositional domain. Logical relation integrates semantic denotation and pragmatic implication and presupposition into the linguistic coherence; whereas propositional domain represents human belief-desire system and encodes the factual or desirable state of affairs in root modalities and the individual’s mental states in epistemic modalities. Propositional domain permanently updates and extends due to the constant modelling of the novel mental inputs. Structurally, the propositional domain incorporates modal operators building the proposition into the contextual framework and linking it to another proposition, i.e. the restrictor. We incorporate the notion of force dynamics to ground the link between the root and epistemic modalities. Here force serves as contributing or restricting facility to precondition the way root modalities encode the external reality and metaphorically transmit it into the language of thought producing epistemic modal values. In terms of the possible worlds theory we classified factual, regulative, desirable, and idealistic propositional domains to generally outline pragmatic extension of English modals. In the case study of distributional properties and pragmatic extensions of most commonly used English modals in their relationship to truth-conditional content, we speculated on and systematized the means via modal values such as necessity, ability, possibility, potentiality, ordering, desirability etc. are encoded in the live English speech.
Synergetics of Verbal-Communicative Activity: the Philosophy of System Development in Diachrony
Authors: Zernetska A. A.
Published: September 2018

The first known model of verbal communication was proposed by Aristotle in science, but this direction began to be develop actively only in the XX century. During the study of language as a form of the realization of VC researchers have built new and refined already known models: information, code, semiotic, performative, language and others. Thus, they completed the overall picture, but they did not explain the connection of all elements of VC as a single system, which generates an endangered result, as well as they did not take into account the entire composition of elements of VC, which includes consciousness, thinking and experience (knowledge and skills). However, the amount of accumulated scientific knowledge through the isolation and location of research does not give answers to the basic questions of philosophy of language, linguistics and psychology in understanding the connection of consciousness, thinking, experience (knowledge and skills) and language (as the second signalling system). The verbal communicative activity is polydimensional and multidimensional. It means that the presentation and study of it in a linear form is not enough. The proposed review of the models known to science and the reference to the systematic analysis of the components of the VC (linguistic (language), psychological, cognitive, intellectual, psychophysical, as well as social aspects of the personality of the communicant) provides the basis for developing a synergistic model of VC as a functional system that would show an interconnected link of the functioning of consciousness, thinking, experience (knowledge and skills) and language (second signalling system).
Analisis Permasalahan dan Kebutuhan Penguatan Kompetensi Guru Bimbingan Konseling di Kota Makassar
Authors: Pandang Abdullah , Anas Muhammad
Published: September 2018

Penelitian ini diarahkan untuk mencapai tujuan berikut: (1) Untuk mengenali aspek kompetensi yang perlu ditekankan dalam program penguatan kompetensi konselor sekolah, (2) Untuk menggambarkan masalah yang dialami oleh konselor sekolah dalam pengembangan kompetensi, dan (3) untuk mengenali bentuk pengembangan kapasitas yang dinilai sesuai dengan kebutuhan dan keadaan konselor yang bersifat sementara di Makassar. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif yang dikombinasikan dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Populasi penelitian ini adalah konselor sekolah yang bekerja di sekolah menengah pertama, sekolah menengah atas, dan sekolah kejuruan di kota Makassar berjumlah 256. Sampel diambil sebanyak 25% dari populasi, yaitu 69 orang dan dipilih dengan teknik proportional random sampling. Pengumpulan data menggunakan kuesioner, wawancara dan FGD. Analisis data meliputi analisis kuantitatif dengan statistik deskriptif dan analisis kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa (1) tingginya indeks kebutuhan konselor sekolah di Kota Makassar untuk mendapatkan penguatan pada semua titik kompetensi yang tercakup dalam sepuluh kompetensi inti konselor, (2) masalah yang dialami oleh konselor sekolah di Makassar. Kota dalam mengikuti penguatan kegiatan kompetensi, peluang yang tersedia bagi konselor sekolah untuk mengikuti penguatan kompetensi, kurangnya dukungan finansial, kesulitan meninggalkan tugas karena keterbatasan konselor sekolah, (3) dalam rangka memperkuat kompetensi yang lebih sesuai dengan kebutuhan dan keadaan konselor sekolah, beberapa hal yang perlu dipertimbangkan, termasuk: (a) waktu pelaksanaannya harus dilakukan pada waktu yang tidak mengganggu beban kerja di sekolah; (b) menggunakan model pelatihan berbasis sekolah; dan (c) penggunaan kombinasi narasumber dari universitas dan fasilitator konselor sekolah yang terlatih.
Penerapan Model Pembelajaran Kooperatif Tipe Number Heads Together (Nht) Dalam Meningkatkan Hasil Belajar Siswa Pada Mata Pelajaran PKN Kelas VI SDN 101 Kec.Suppa Kab. Pinrang
Authors: Thamrin Muhammad
Published: September 2018

MasalahdalampenelitianiniyaknirendahnyahasilbelajarsiswapadamatapelajaranPKnkelas VISDN 101 Kec. Suppa Kab. Pinrang.Rumusanmasalahdalampenelitianiniadalahbagaimanakahpenggunaan model pembelajarankooperatiftipeNumber Heads Together (NHT)dalammeningkatkanhasilbelajarsiswapadamatapelajaranPKnkelas VISDN 101 Kec. Suppa Kab. Pinrang?Adapunpenelitianinibertujuanuntukmendeskripsikanpenerapan model pembelajarankooperatiftipeNumber Heads Together (NHT)dalammeningkatkanhasilbelajarsiswapadamatapelajaranPKnkelas VISDN 101 Kec. Suppa Kab. Pinrang.Penelitianinimenggunakanpendekatankualitatifdenganjenispenelitianyaknipenelitiantindakankelas yang dilaksanakan 2 siklus. Tiapsiklusnyadilaksanakan 2 kali pertemuandengantahapan: perencanaan, pelaksanaan, observasidanrefleksi. Fokuspenelitianyaknipenggunaan model pembelajarankooperatiftipeNumber Heads Together (NHT)danhasilbelajarsiswapadamatapelajaranPKn. Penelitiandilaksanakan di SDN 101 Kec. Suppa Kab. Pinrang.Subjekpenelitianyakni guru dan 14 siswa yang terdiriatas5siswa laki-laki dan 9siswa perempuan.Teknikpengumpulan data yang digunakanyakniteknikobservasi, tesdandokumentasi.HasilpenelitianmenunjukkanbahwameningkatnyahasilbelajarsiswapadamatapelajaranPKndarikategoricukup (C) padasiklus I menjadikategoribaik (B) padasiklus II.Dengandemikian, penerapan model pembelajarankooperatiftipeNumber Heads Together (NHT) dapatmeningkatkanhasilbelajarsiswapadamatapelajaranPKnkelas VISDN 101 Kec. Suppa Kab. Pinrang.
Peranan Strategi Pembelajaran Aktif Tipe Tim Quiz ( Quiz Team ) terhadap Kemampuan Berpikir Kritis Siswa pada Pembelajaran Fisika Kelas XI IPA MAN Pol-Man Kabupaten Polewali Mandar
Authors: Alibas Fadhila
Published: September 2018

Penelitian ini adalah penelitian eksperimen yang bertujuan untuk; (1) Mengetahui tingkat kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa yang diajar dengan menggunakan strategi pembelajaran aktif tipe tim kuis siswa kelas XI IPA MAN Pol-Man, (2) mengetahui tingkat kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa yang diajar dengan menggunakan strategi pembelajaran konvensional siswa kelas XI IPA MAN Pol-Man, (3) mengetahui ada tidaknya perbedaan yang berarti antara kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa yang diajar dengan menggunakan strategi pembelajaran aktif tipe tim kuis dengan yang diajar dengan menggunakan strategi pembelajaran konvensional siswa kelas XI IPA MAN Pol-Man. Populasi penelitian ini adalah seluruh siswa kelas XI IPA MAN Pol-Man tahun ajaran 2010-2011 yang terdiri dari 114 orang sedangkan sampel dalam penelitian ini adalah kelas XI IPA1 dan kelas XI IPA2 dengan jumlah siswa keseluruhan 76 orang. Hipotesis penelitian ini adalah terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan dalam hal kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa dalam pembelajaran fisika dengan menggunakan strategi pembelajaran aktif tipe team kuis dengan yang diajar dengan menggunakan strategi pembelajaran konvensional siswa kelas XI IPA MAN Pol-Man. Instrumen penelitian ini adalah tes kemampuan berpikir kritis yang telah memenuhi kriteria validitas dan reliabilitas dengan jumlah 19 soal. Hasil analisis deskriptif menunjukkan bahwa rata-rata kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa kelas XI IPA SMA MAN Pol-Man yang diajar melalui strategi pembelajaran aktif tipe team kuis berada pada kategori tinggi dengan ratarata skor 10,55. Sedangkan rata-rata kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa yang diajar dengan strategi pembelajaran konvensional berada pada kategori cukup dengan rata-rata skor 8,63. Hasil analisis inferensial menunjukkan bahwa terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan dalam halkemampuan berpikir kritis siswa dalam pembelajaran fisika dengan menggunakan strategi pembelajaran aktif tipe team kuis dengan yang diajar dengan menggunakan strategi pembelajaran konvensional siswa kelas XI IPA MAN Pol-Man.Kata kunci: Strategi Pembelajaran Aktif Tipe Tim Kuis, Eksperimen.
Pengembangan Media Pembelajaran Fisika Berbasis Presentasi Interaktif pada Mata Kuliah Elektronika di Universitas Sulawesi Barat
Authors: Alibas Fadhila , Humairah Nuraisyah , Mutmainnah Mutmainnah
Published: September 2018

Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian pengembangan yang secara umum bertujuan untuk: (1) Mengembangkan bahan ajar Fisika/bahan bacaan mahasiswa pada mata kuliah elektronika dan (2) Mengembangkan produk media pembelajaran Fisika berbasis presentasi interaktif untuk pembelajaran di kelas. Model pengembangan media yang digunakan adalah model R2D2, terdiri dari tiga tahap yaitu: (1) penetapan (define), (2) perancangan (design), pengembangan (develop) dan (3) diseminasi (disseminate). Penelitian ini dilaksanakan diProdi Pendidikan Fisika, FMIPA Universitas Sulawesi barat pada mahasiswa semester III. Analisis data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah analisis statistik deskriptif. Statistik deskriptif digunakan untuk menganalisis kesahihan media pembelajaran Fisika berbasis presentasi interaktif pada pokok bahasan resistor. Media pembelajaran Fisika berbasis presentasi interaktif divalidasi oleh seorang pakar media pembelajaran dan dilakukan penilaian oleh praktisi yakni dosen sebanyak 5 orang dan uji coba terbatas dilakukan pada mahasiswa Prodi Pendidikan Fisika (S1) sebanyak 17 orang. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa media pembelajaran Fisika berbasis presentasi interaktif meliputi penilaian validator (ahli dan praktisi) memberikan penilaian rata-rata 90 % untuk kulitas Software dan 93% untuk daya tarik, dan penilaian Untuk hasil penilaian oleh praktisi diperoleh rata-rata persentase untuk kepraktisan dan sistematika media presentasi interaktif adalah 90 % atau tergolong dalam kategori baik. Pada saat uji coba terbatas juga secara rata-rata diperoleh penilaian 90 % semua berada pada kategori baik. Hasil penilaian tersebut lebih tinggi dari standar penerimaan yang telah ditentukan yaitu 75,0 %, hal ini menunjukkan bahwa software presentasi yang merupakan media pembelajaran yang diperuntukkan untuk Dosen sebagai media pembelajaran Fisika berbasis presentasi interaktif dalam melakukan pembelajaran di kelas, memenuhi kesahihan atau valid untuk digunakan sebagai media dalam pelaksanaan pembelajaran.Kata kunci: media pembelajaran, presentasi, interaktif, Resistor
Form of register in the trader's word traditional floating market in Banjarmasin city
Authors: Aswadi Dana , Susilawati Erni
Published: September 2018

This paper aims at discussing the form of a word register among traditional traders Floating Market in Banjarmasin. Language has various variations with various linguistic phenomena, especially with respect to the word registers. The phenomenon of language in Floating Market in Banjarmasin city is very interesting. The approach used is qualitative Deskrptif approach. Descriptive approach aims to collect, classify, and analyze the data so as to obtain the form of registers among traders in the Floating Market Banjarmasin City. In the data collection, researchers used several techniques, namely observation techniques, docomentation techniques, recording techniques, and techniques refer to note. The form of a register is a word found, in the form of verbs, nouns, and adjectives.
Vocabulary variety of Japanese in tourism field
Authors: Meidariani Ni Wayan , Meilantari Ni Luh Gede
Published: September 2018

The growing number of Japanese tourists to Bali has resulted in large numbers of workers in the tourism sector, such as Japanese language tour guide, GRO and hotel staff, Japanese travel agency staff and others. To provide good service to Japanese tourists, the quality of tourism practitioners also need to be improved both from the attitude, hospitality, security and the ability to speak Japanese so that Japanese tourists feel comfortable while on the island of Bali. Efforts to improve the ability of Japanese language, the vocabulary knowledge of tour guide is needed to be able to use the vocabulary in context. Based on the phenomenon, then this paper discusses the variety of Japanese vocabulary that is often used when doing tourism activities in some tourist attractions in Gianyar regency. The problems discussed in this paper is what kind of tourist vocabulary is commonly spoken Japanese tourists when visiting the tourist attraction on the island of Bali. In general, this study aims to support the program of Welcome to Bali in order to become more popular bali tourism that can increase the number of Japanese tourists to come to visit the island of Bali. The specific purpose of this research is to (1) know the Japanese language vocabulary of tourism spoken by Japanese tourists so that the vocabulary can be used as a reference for tourism practitioners in order to increase the knowledge of Japanese language vocabulary of tourism. The approach used in this study is a qualitative approach. Research approach by processing the data source that is descriptive by using descriptive method qualitatif. The research was done in tourist object in Ubud area. The data types are primary data with lingual data sources obtained from Japanese tourist communications. The observations show that the vocabulary spoken by Japanese tourists is a vocabulary that is related to cultural and natural activities such as esute, chiketto, raisu terasu, kojin takushi, mise, subarashii. Japanese tourists often use joshi as a complement to a speech to tourism practitioners in communicating. Joshi also sometimes omitted in speech but still acceptable.
Derivational affixes in Japanese and Indonesian
Authors: Darlina Lien
Published: September 2018

Japanese and Indonesian seen from morphological typology is an agglutinative language in which the morphological processes are done by affixation, ie by adding prefixes, suffixes and infixes. While the basic sequence sentence structure has a SOV sequence pattern for Japanese and SVO for Indonesian language. The predicate filled by the verb is capable of binding arguments in constructing the clause structure, so that there are verbs with one, two and three arguments, it depends on the type of verb. This study is a preliminary study of Japanese and Indonesian derivative verbs: the study of linguistic typology. The Theory of Linguistic Typology is used to analyze the formation of Japanese and Indonesian derivative verbs in which the verb serves as the core of the predicate to bind the argument in constructing the clause structure. From the perspective of linguistic typology, the results of the analysis show that (1) the basic form of Japanese derivative verb formers are adjectives (keiyoushi) and noun verbs, whereas Indonesian derivative verbs are derived from adjectives, nouns and pre-categorical. (2) The Japanese derivation affixes joining the adjective (keiyoushi) are -める meru, -まるmaru, -がるgaru’, -むmu and which joins the noun verb is -するsuru.  While the derivational affix of the Indonesian language that joined the nouns are meng-, ber-, ter-, ke-an, ber-an, ber-kan, per-, -i, per-i, per-kan,  the affix that joins the adjective are meng-, ber-, ter-, ke-an, ber-an, ber-kan, per-, -kan, per-i, dan –i and the affixes that join the pre-categorical are meng-, ter-, ber-, ber-an, -i,-kan.
A 30 year old female with continuous dull pain following perforation during root canal treatment in lower left first molar tooth
Authors: Sheikh Md. Abdul Hannan , Tanmi Farzana Hoque , Hossain Mozammal , Abdin Md. Joynal
Published: September 2018

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A 30 year old female reported to the Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics with the complaint of continuous dull pain in her lower left first molar tooth. She told that the tooth was attempted for endodontic treatment three weeks before and the perforation might occur at that time. On clinical examination, although the tooth was found sealed coronally with a temporary cement but it was sensitive to percussion and palpation. The mean probing pocket depth was within the normal level of 2 mm. Radiographic examination revealed a destruction of pulpal floor area with radiolucency.
A 24 year old male patient with weakness in the left upper limb
Authors: Ranjan Redoy , Acharya Mayank , Saha Heemel , Joshi Dharmendra , Saha Sanjoy , Adhikary Asit Baran
Published: September 2018

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A 24 year old male attended the outpatient department of a local hospital with the chief complaints of pain in the central chest for two years and easy fatigability of the left upper limb for one and half years. After performing various examinations and investigations, he was sent to Al Helal Specialized Hospital with the preliminary diagnosis of coarctation of the aorta. The pain was dull aching in nature, continuous in duration, mild in intensity mostly, but sometimes intense sharp stabbing, radiating to the back. There was no known aggravating factor but lying down relieved it partially.
Long-term results of percutaneously treated multiple hepatic and splenic hydatid cysts in a pregnant woman
Authors: Bakdik Suleyman , Arslan Serdar , Oncu Fatih
Published: September 2018

Hydatid disease is caused by Echinococcus granulosus, which is endemic worldwide. This parasitic tapeworm can produce cysts in almost every organ of the body; however, the liver and lungs are the most frequently targeted. 37‑year-old multigravida woman with a 10-week pregnancy in whom multiple splenic and liver hydatid cysts were detected by ultrasound. All splenic and liver hydatid cysts were treated percutaneously under US guidance during the 14th week of pregnancy. The catheterization method was used in the treatment of all hydatid cysts. Alcohol was also used as scolicidal and sclerosing agent in all procedures. There were no major complications. A cystobiliary fistula developed in a hydatid cyst treated in the liver. A healthy baby was delivered vaginally at term.
High seroprevalence of hepatitis E among pigs suggests an animal reservoir in Cameroon
Authors: Modiyinji Abdou Fatawou , Atsama Marie Amougou , Monamele Gwladys Chavely , Nola Moise , Njouom Richard
Published: September 2018

Introduction: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is one of the most prevalent cause of acute hepatitis in humans worldwide. The risk of HEV transmission is not limited only to spread from human to human but the infection can also spread from animals to humans, especially from the domestic pigs. Despite mounting evidence regarding the zoonotic potential of porcine HEV infection, there are limited data on its prevalence in pigs in the sub-Sahara Africa region. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the seroprevalence of HEV antibodies among pigs in two Cameroonian regions.

Methodology: A total of 162 sera were collected from slaughtered-age pigs from January to March 2012. To determine whether pigs might represent a HEV reservoir in the Northern and Western region in Cameroon, anti-HEV IgG and IgM were tested by ELISA using commercials available kits.

Results: Overall, 70 of the 162 samples (43.2%, 95% CI: 35.5% - 51.2%) were positive for at least one of the serological markers of HEV infection (IgM and / or IgG).We observed a significant seroprevalence of HEV antibodies between the northern and western regions (60% (42/70) and 40% (28/70), p = 0.01796) respectively.

Conclusion: Overall, this study reports a high seroprevalence of Hepatitis E virus antibodies in slaughter pigs in Cameroon. Our findings suggest that pigs might be a cause of zoonotic HEV transmission in Cameroon. Therefore, further studies are warranted to establish the dynamics of zoonotic HEV and characterize the different genotypes circulating in humans and pigs.
Actinomycotic hepatic abscess in woman with longstanding intrauterine contraceptive device
Authors: Basaric Dragan , Lekic Nebojsa , Djordjevic Vladimir , Ceranic Miljan , Barac Aleksandra , Stevanovic Goran , Milosevic Ivana
Published: September 2018

We present a case of a 50 year-old female bearing an intrauterine contraceptive device for 20 years who was diagnosed with abdominopelvic actinomycosis with liver dissemination. The patient was successfully treated by a combination of surgical resection and a 3-month course of amoxicillin.
Laboratory based antimicrobial resistance surveillance for Pseudomonas aeruginosa blood isolates from South Africa
Authors: Singh-Moodley Ashika , Duse Adriano , Naicker Preneshni , Kularatne Ranmini , Nana Trusha , Lekalakala Ruth , Mbelle Nontombi , Dawood Halima , Swe Swe Han Khine , Ramjathan Praksha , Bhola Prathna , Whitelaw Andrew , Perovic Olga
Published: September 2018

Introduction: Antimicrobial resistant bacterial infections are widespread globally and increases in antimicrobial resistance presents a major threat to public health. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic healthcare-associated pathogen with high rates of morbidity and mortality and an extensive range of resistance mechanisms. This study describes the antibiotic susceptibility profiles of P. aeruginosa isolates from patients with bacteraemia submitted by sentinel laboratories in South Africa from 2014 to 2015.

Methodology: Organism identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing were done using automated systems. Molecular methods were used to detect common resistance genes and mechanisms.

Results: Overall the susceptibility was high for all antibiotics tested with a decrease over the two-year period. There was no change in the MIC50 and MIC90 breakpoints for all antibiotics from 2014 to 2015. The MIC50 was within the susceptible breakpoint range for most antibiotics and the MIC90 was within the susceptible breakpoint range for colistin only. Phenotypically carbapenem non-susceptible isolates harboured the following plasmid-mediated genes: blaVIM (n = 81, 12%) and blaGES (n = 6, 0.9%); blaNDM (n = 4, 0.6%) and blaOXA-48 and variants (n = 3, 0.45%). Porin deletions were observed in one meropenem non-susceptible isolate only, and multi-drug resistance efflux pumps were expressed in the majority of the non-susceptible isolates investigated. BlaVEB-1, blaIMP and blaKPC were not detected.

Conclusion: The prevalence of resistance to commonly used antibacterial agents was low for P. aeruginosa isolates and similarly, tested resistance mechanisms were detected in a relatively small proportion of isolates. Findings in this study represent baseline information for understanding antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in P. aeruginosa isolates from blood. Our surveillance report may assist in contributing to hospital treatment guidelines.
An unusual urinary tract infection caused by Vibrio fluvialis
Authors: Usta Jinan , Araj George , Taleb Rim
Published: September 2018

We describe an unusual case of a urinary tract infection (UTI) in a 52-year-old woman caused by Vibrio fluvialis. To our knowledge, this is the first report of this organism causing such an infection. The source of the organism could be the highly contaminated water she is using at home.
Drug resistance and plasmid profile of uropathogenic Escherichia coli among urinary tract infection patients in Addis Abeba
Authors: Regasa Dadi Belayneh , Abebe Tamrat , Zhang Lixin , Mihret Adane , Abebe Workeabeba , Amogne Wondwossen
Published: September 2018

Introduction: Urinary tract infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Uropathogenic Escherichia coli bacteria are the most common cause of urinary tract infections. Drug resistant Escherichia coli is results in high levels of treatment failure and can be a significant threat to survival of patients.

Methodology: Escherichia coli bacteria were isolated using culture and conventional biochemical tests. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing and plasmid profile were performed using the Kirby Bauer disc diffusion method and plasmid analysis. Data was processed with SPSS version 16.0 and Epi-info version 3.4.1 software.

Results: The highest proportion of Escherichia coli isolates was resistant to (86.5%) to ampicillin, followed by ceftazidime (84%), ceftriaxone (80.5%), tetracycline (80%), trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (68.5%) and cefotaxime (66%). Escherichia coli isolates were most susceptible to meropenem (100%), imipenem (100%), amikacin (97.5%), nitrofurantoin (95%), ciprofloxacin (85.5%), norfloxacin (85%), chloramphenicol (83.5%), gentamycin (80%) and nalidixic acid (79%). Multidrug resistance (MDR) was observed in most (96.5%) E. coli isolates. Plasmid analysis revealed the presence of plasmid(s) in 165 (82.5%) of the E. coli isolates many of which had a plasmid size of 23 kb.

Conclusions: The overall incidence of antibiotic resistance (including MDR) among E. coli in this study was high to commonly used antibiotics, but no drug resistance to meropenem and imipenem was observed. Periodic monitoring of the drug resistance pattern is essential for better management of urinary tract infections, which has direct impact on the outcome of the patient.
Short and Long-Run Determinants of Inflation in Saudi Arabia: A Cointegration Analysis
Authors: Alnefaee Saad Mohammed
Published: September 2018

This paper investigates the short and long-run determinants of inflation in Saudi Arabia for the period of 1987-2017. To achieve this objective, the Johansen and Julius cointegration procedure and Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) were conducted to examine the existence of the short and long-run relationships between inflation, the money supply, domestic demand, the exchange rate and oil prices. The results reveal that inflation, in the long-run, is positively influenced by the money supply, domestic demand, and oil prices. It is negatively influenced by the exchange rate. Inflation is also highly influenced by domestic factors in the short-run (e.g., money supply, domestic demand). The Granger causality results indicate a bi-directional causality between the money supply and inflation. The unidirectional causality goes from the domestic demand and the oil prices to the price level. The Impulse Response Analysis illustrates that shocks associated with the money supply, domestic demand and oil prices have a positive impact on inflation.
Increasing Rate of Surgical Fixation in Four- and Five-year-old Children With Femoral Shaft Fractures
Authors: Alluri Ram Kiran , Sabour Andrew , Heckmann Nathanael , Hatch George F. , VandenBerg Curtis
Published: September 2018

Background:

The purpose of this study was to identify temporal trends in the management of pediatric femoral shaft fractures in 4- and 5-year-old children.

Methods:

The Kids' Inpatient Database was used to extract data on patients aged 4 and 5 years with closed femoral shaft fractures. The frequency of nonsurgical and surgical management was calculated, and temporal trends were evaluated.

Results:

Between 1997 and 2012, the absolute increase in surgical fixation was 35% and 58% in 4- and 5-year-old patients, respectively. The surgical rate increased every 3 years by 13.8% in 4-year-old patients and 7.6% in 5-year-old patients. Significant associations were noted based on demographics, comorbidities, and hospital characteristics with management decisions.

Conclusions:

A clear and significant increase was noted in internal fixation for pediatric femoral shaft fractures in 4- and 5-year-old children, and the lower age limit for surgical management of these fractures is decreasing.

Level of Evidence:

Level III. Retrospective comparative study