bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Obstáculos en la comunicación entre el cerebro y el intestino
Authors: Pletikosić Tončić Sanda , Tkalčić Mladenka
Published: November 2018

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a complex disorder that results
from interactions of numerous factors. The biopsychosocial model describes a number of predisposing, precipitating, and perpetuating factors, which contribute to the onset and maintenance of symptoms and consequently to quality of life (QoL) impairment. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of several psychological and biological factors on the physical and mental components of QoL in IBS patients. A total of 46 IBS patients completed a set of questionnaires (Big Five Inventory, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory-II, Medical Outcome Study Short-Form 36) and kept a diary of their mood, daily stress, and symptoms over a period of two weeks. Patients' heart rate variability, serum cortisol, and fecal calprotectin levels were also measured. The results of regression analyses showed that depression
(β = -.30) and negative mood (β = -.28) predicted physical QoL, while depression (β = -.45) and positive mood (β = .33) significantly predicted mental QoL. The model, which included calprotectin, cortisol, anxiety, depression, and positive and negative mood, explained a total of 47% of variance of physical and 57% of variance of mental QoL. Our results confirm the role of negative affect in IBS QoL impairment. They also indicate that biological factors seem important for physical QoL in
IBS patients. The role of positive mood as a protective factor for mental QoL might be significant for psychological interventions with IBS
patients.
Diferencias de sexo y edad en la motivación y autorregulación del aprendizaje
Authors: Jandrić Danijela , Šimić Zvonimir
Published: November 2018

Self-regulated learning is an active participation in a learning process, which comprises cognitive, metacognitive and behavioural processes, and involves learning strategies and peer learning. In the basis of self-regulation is motivation, which in school settings can be specified as test anxiety, selfefficacy, and intrinsic and extrinsic value. The aim of this research was to verify the differences between male and female participants as well as between fifth- and seventh-grade
students, regarding intrinsic and extrinsic value, self-efficacy, test anxiety, learning strategies and peer learning. Participants were fifth-
and seventh-grade students (N = 172) from two elementary schools. No differences were found between male and female participants in intrinsic
and extrinsic value, self-efficacy, learning strategies and peer learning. However, statistically significant differences in the all of the above-mentioned variables were found between younger and older students. Weaker motivation and self-regulated learning, found among older students, confirmed previous findings in this field. Results are discussed within the framework of personality development and selfdetermination theory which describe academic motivation and self-regulated learning.
(Zanemarena) uloga i važnost društvenih normi u poticanju međugrupnog kontakta
Authors: Pehar Lana , Čorkalo Biruški Dinka
Published: November 2018

Although social norms have a strong influence on attitudes and behaviours in different social situations, their research and practical use are significantly limited by inconsistencies of how different types of norms have been defined and measured. In an attempt to reach a common, comprehensive definition of social norms, in this paper we describe the most important conceptualizations and types of norms developed within different theoretical approaches and give an overview of relevant research of normative influences on individual and intergroup behaviours. In addition, this review especially focuses on ingroup norms about intergroup contact as a specific type of norm that describes and prescribes typical and appropriate interactions with outgroup members. In this regard, this review represents an important systematization since ingroup contact norms, despite being long recognized as important regulators of intergroup relations, have been neglected so far both as a research and as a theoretical construct. Therefore, we present the results of scarce new research on relationships between different types of contacts among members of different groups, in group contact norms, and intergroup outcomes, in order to highlight and clarify various roles that ingroup contact norms may play in shaping complex dynamics of relationships between social groups. Finally, we underline unresolved issues and offer possible directions for future research.
Efectos de congruencia de valores personales y organizacionales sobre la lealtad a la organización
Authors: Krapić Nada , Barić Sanja
Published: November 2018

The aim of this study was to examine the effects of congruence between personal and organizational values focused on tasks and people on organizational commitment. The study was carried out on a convenience
sample of 217 participants from several middle- and large-scale organisations who completed the Organisational commitment questionnaire and the Personal and organisational values scale. The data were analysed
using polynomial regression analysis. The results obtained show that affective commitment was higher when personal and organizational values focused on tasks were in congruence on higher levels. Normative commitment was higher when personal and organizational values focused on
tasks were incongruent in a way that organizational values were higher than personal. Additionally, greater incongruence between personal and organizational values focused on tasks was associated with a sharper increase of normative commitment. Overall commitment was higher when personal and organizational values focused on tasks were in congruence on higher levels, when these values were incongruent in a way that organizational values were higher than personal, and when this incongruence was more pronounced. Regarding the effects of congruence between personal and organizational values focused on people the results
obtained show that normative and affective commitment were higher when these values were incongruent in a way that organizational values were higher than personal.
ANALISA KUALITAS PELAYANAN MENPENGARUHI KEPUASAN PASIEN BPJS (BADAN PENYELENGGARA JAMINAN SOSIAL) PADA RUMAH SAKIT STROKE NASIONAL BUKITTINGGI
Authors: Syaleh Hariman
Published: November 2018

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan apakah kualitas pelayanan  mempengaruhi kepuasan pasien BPJS yang di tinjau dari dimensi bukti fisik, kehandalan, daya tanggap, jaminan dan empati. Sampel dalam penelitian ini terdiri dari 100 orang responden dan data diperoleh dengan menyebarkan kuesioner kepada pasien rawat inap yang berada di Rumah Sakit Stroke Nasional Bukittinggi dan di analisis dengan metode analisa regresi linear berganda, uji T,Uji F serta Uji Koefesien Detarmine (R2) dengan bantuan Software SPSS 21 for Windows. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa ke 5 variabel yaitu : variabel bukti fisik  memiliki pengaruh yang positif dan signifikan terhadap kepuasan pasien, begitu juga dengan variabel kedua  kehandalan  memiliki pengaruh yang positif dan signifikan terhadap kepuasan pasien dan yang ketiga variabel daya tanggap  memiliki pengaruh yang positif dan signifikan terhadap kepuasan pasien yang  keempat jaminan memiliki pengaruh yang positif dan signifikan terhadap kepuasan pasien  dan empati memiliki pengaruh yang positif dan signifikan terhadap kepuasan pasien rawat inap BPJS  pada Rumah Sakit Stroke Nasional Bukittinggi. Penulis mendapatkan kesimpulan dari kelima variabel yang penulis teliti baik secara parsial maupun simultan memiliki pengaruh positif signifikan terhadap kepuasan pasien BPJS  pada Rumah Sakit Stroke Nasional Bukittinggi.

 Kata kunci : kualitas pelayanan; kepuasan.
TORANG S AMUA BASUDARA (Studi Kasus Pasca Konflik Di Manado)
Authors: Ismail Arifuddin
Published: November 2018

Konflik sosial bernuansa SARA di berbagai daerah telah 'berhasil'
ditanggulangi bersama oleh pemerintah dan pihak-pihak terkait. Namun
telah meninggalkan berbagai masalah dalam hubungan antar umat beragama
setempat. Setidaknya, telah terjadi hubungan yang sangat hati-hati atau
bahkan kurang harmonis yang selanjutnya mempengaruhi aktivitas
keagamaan dan interaksi sosial umat beragama. Inilah yang kemudian
mendasari penelitian ini.
Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Penciptaan Kerukunan Umat
Beragama di Manado dan Sulawesi Utara pada umumnya sudah merupakan
hal yang tidak bisa ditawar-tawar. Pemerintah dan para pemuka agama
telah sepakat dan berkomitmen untuk memelihara kedamaian dalam suatu
kehidupan yang rukun di kalangan umat beragama. Komitmen tersebut
dimanifestasikan dalam bentuk: 1) Umat beragama secara leluasa melakukan
aktivitas keagamaan, baik dalam kaitannya dengan peribadatan, sosisalisasi
ajaran agama (pendidikan) maupun pendirian rumah ibadah. 2) Dalam
kehidupan sosial secara umum memang tanpa terjalin interaksi sosial yang
mesra dengan menjunjung tinggi nilai persaudaraan dan kedamaian dengan
mengedepankan simbol "Torang Samua Basudara". 3) Walaupun tampak
terkesan, bahwa intervensi pemerintah (top down) terlalu tinggi untuk
pemeliharaan kerukunan, namun hasilnya tidak mengecewakan, 4) Intervensi
pemerinfah dalam upaya penciptaan kerukunan mendapat respons positif
dari masyarakat. Keterlibatan mereka dalam program-program BKSAUA,
BKWAUA dari provinsi hingga ke kecamatan-kecamatan merupakan
gambaran wujud peran serta masyarakat.
DUNIA USAHA KERAJINAN PANDAI BESI MASSEPE Studi Mengenai Kehidupan Sosial dan Keagamaan Pengrajin Pandai Besi Massepe Kabupaten Sidrap
Authors: Makkulawu Makkulawu
Published: November 2018

Salah satu kebijaksanaan pemerintah
dalam bidang ekonomi adalah pembangunan
industri sebagai upaya untuk meningkalkan
nilai tambah, memperluas lapangan kerja dan
kesempatan kerja, dapat menunjang sektor
pertanian dan mengolah hasil-hasil pertanian.
Acuan kebijaksanaan seperti itu memperlihatkan
betapa usaha kerajinan pandai besi
masih potensial dalam lingkungan masyarakat
yang kehidupan perekonomiannya masih
bersifat agraris.
Dalam hubulngan sebagai penyedia
(suplier) pelbagai macam peralatan pertanian,
dapat dimengerti betapa arti dan kedudukan
kerajinan pandai besi dalam kerangka
kehidupan perekonomian Sulawesi Selatan
yang masih bersifat agraris. Ia tidak saja
menyerap tenaga kerja sebagian masyarakat
dan memberi pelayanan kepada masyarakat
(terutama masyarakat petani) dalam pelbagai
macam peralatan pertanian yang dibutuhkan,
bahkan lebih jauh dari itu. Usaha kerajinan
pandai besi sudah dan bisa mengerem rupiah
yang keluar dari Sulawesi Selatan untuk
membeli peralatan yang dibutuhkan bagi alatalat
produksi pertanian.
ORIENTASI PEMIKIRAN KEAGAMAAN MAHASISWA
Authors: Ahmad Abdul Kadir
Published: November 2018

Secara common sense, adagejalapeningkatan
kesadaran mahasiswa terhadap kehidupan keagamaan.
Hal itu boleh jadi, merupakan salah satu
sisi dari terjadinya degradasi kiprah mahasiswa
dalam masyarakat akibat adanya restrukturisasi
dan semboyan back to campus, pasca tahun 70-
an. Di sisi lain, boleh jadi gejala itu sebagai
bagian dari ekskalasi kesadaran beragama yang
secara umum terjadi dalam masyarakat. Yang
pasti, mahasiswa menemukan dimensi bam
dalam kehidupannya sebagai moral force, yang
lebih berorientasi kc dimensi pergumulan religius.
Gejala itu dapat dengan mudah ditemukan
dalam banyak hal. Masjid-masjid kampus sarat
dengan kegiatan keagamaan baik pengajian,
pcngkajian maupun aktivitas belajar agama
dalam bentuk lain. Dalam hal yang lebih transparan,
mahasiswa wanita cenderung memperlihatkan
kesadaran keberagamaan secara formal
dalam bentuk pemakaian busana berciri khas
islami.
PENGEMBANGAN PEMIKIRAN KEAGAMAAN DI SULAWESI SELATAN (KASUS FATHUL MUIN KOTAMADYA UJUNGPANDANG)
Authors: Alboneh Abd. Azis
Published: November 2018

Salah satu gejala sosial yang
menonjol dewasa ini adalah munculnya
pluralisme agama. Pluralisme agama
dibarengi dengan timbulnya pluralisme
teologi, filsafat , sistem nilai idiologi dan
pandangan hidup. Peter Berger melukiskan
pluralisme sebagai situasi yang di
dalamnya tersedia lebih dari satu pandangan
hidup bagi warga masyarakat,
yaitu situasi persaingan diantara pandangan
hidup (Berger, dalam Sastraprateja,
1986:33). Kompetisi berbagai pandangan
hidup yang tumbuh dalam masyarakat,
dapat terjadi diantara kelompokkelompok
yang mengikuti suatu faham
keagamaan tertentu. Terlepas dari apakah
faham keagamaan itu merupakan produk
dari pemikiran dan pemahaman yang
sumbernya diambil dari teks-teks kitab
suci ; atau paham keagamaan yang sudah
bercampur baur dengan tradisi lokal.
Di Sulawesi Selatan, dewasa ini
sedang berkembang salah satu kelompok
keagamaan, yang dalam aktivitas sehariharinya
kelihatan berbeda dengan pola
sikap masyarakat muslim lainnya. Perbedaan
itu, antara lain, menyangkut sikap
ekslusivisme, memisahkan diri dari
jamaah atau peribadatan umat Islam
lainnya, dan mempunyai pandangan dan
interpretasi berbeda terhadap teks-teks
kitab suci. Kelompok ini bergabung
dalam Yayasan Fathul Muin yang berbasis
di Masjid Widhatul Ummah, Jalan
Abdullah Daeng Sirua Nomor 57 Kelurahan
Persiapan Tamamaung Kecamatan
Panakkukang Ujungpandang.
PROSPER INDIKATOR KEBERHASILAN PEMBANGUNAN BIDANG AGAMA (ISLAM) DI KODYA MATARAM : Sebuah Kajian Awal
Authors: Arsyad Harisun
Published: November 2018

Keberhasilan suatu pembangunan tidak
terkecuali bidang agama, akan sangat mudah
diukur apabila memiliki suatu rumusan yang
disebut indikator. Namun bagi pembangunan
bidang agama, meskipun telah dilakukan
upaya ke arah itu, sampai saat ini belum
memiliki rumusan indikator yang tegas dan
mewakili semua kalangan umat beragama.
Hal ini karena agama selain mempunyai
banyak dimensi juga termasuk kategori
pembangunan non fisik. Padahal untuk
memantapkan sasaran pembangunan pada
setiap Repelita dalam Pembangunan Jangka
Panjang II rumusan-rumusan keberhasilan
pembangunan di bidang agama tersebut
sangat diperlukan dan mendesak
Die Zweite Italienische Republik. Eine qualitative Messung der Demokratiequalität intermediärer Interessenvermittlung
Authors: Bein Simon
Published: November 2018

Die vorliegende Studie unternimmt eine qualitative Demokratiemessung der intermediären Interessenvermittlung in Italien zwischen 1996 und 2008. Das intermediäre System stellt eine zentrale Institution funktionierender Demokratien dar und gewährleistet mittels Parteien, Verbänden und zivilgesellschaftlicher Organisationen die Aggregation und Artikulation gesellschaftlicher Interessen in das politische System. Der Messansatz der 15-Felder-Matrix der Demokratie ermöglicht eine dreidimensionale Untersuchung der Demokratiequalität in den Bereichen Gleichheit, Freiheit und Kontrolle. Besondere Berücksichtigung findet die Analyse informeller Institutionen, welche die Wirkungsweise formaler Institutionen beeinflussen können. Im Ergebnis wird die Zweite Italienische Republik im Bereich der intermediären Vermittlung als funktionierend eingestuft, jedoch liegen die Werte in den Dimensionen Gleichheit und Kontrolle im Grenzbereich. Es zeigt sich deutlich die negative Beeinflussung durch die informellen Institutionen Korruption und Klientelismus.
SENSORS BASED ON PHOTONIC CRYSTALS
Authors: Kozlov A. A. , Gavrilov Yu. A. , Ivanov A. V. , Aksenov A. S. , Flid V. R.
Published: November 2018

Chemical sensors are one of the most demanded tools of modern analytical chemistry. Recently, devices based on the registration of color changes upon reflecting visible irradiation from the surface of so-called "photonic crystals" (PC) have begun to be used for analytical chemistry purposes. Some advantages of this method are the possibility of visual detection of substances, relatively high sensitivity, and the ability to change the properties of such sensors by varying the element base of the PC. The effect of various mechanical, electrical, optical, chemical and other factors on the objects under study leads to additional changes in the spectral responses from the PC surface with deposited materials. A sufficiently short response time allows the use of such sensors for the operational control of various substances with a high degree of hazard. In the long term, such devices can be used as test systems for the detection and analysis of a wide class of chemical and biological substances. This review is devoted to various types of sensors based on photonic crystals. It deals with: photonic crystals of natural and synthetic origin; various possible structures of PC; causes of the appearance of characteristic optical properties; detection of mechanical, thermal, electrical, magnetic and optical effects on the PC, as well as effects on organic compounds of various classes; areas of application of sensors based on PC.
Performance prediction of Darrieus vertical axis wind turbines using double multiple stream-tube model
Authors: Le Hieu Thi Hong , Nguyen Cong Chi , Luong Trong Huu
Published: November 2018

Horizontal and vertical axis wind turbines (HAWTs and VAWTs) are two main kinds of wind turbines, which are the most popular way to catch energy from the wind. By comparison, VAWTs have some advantages, but they also have the complexity in aerodynamics that needs a deep investigation. A code is developed based on Double multiple stream-tube and corrections of the dynamic stall for Darrieus VAWTs. It is capable of estimating the output power versus different operating conditions defined by the tipspeed- ratio. The code is also validated with experimental data of many SANDIA Darrieus VAWT turbines.
On the occurrence of the digenean Otodistomum veliporum in the spiracle of the kitefin shark Dalatias licha
Authors: Sperone Emilio , Milazzo Concetta
Published: November 2018

The presence of the digenean Otodistomum veliporum is reported here for the first time as a parasite in the spiracle of a Mediterranean specimen of the kitefin shark Dalatias licha.
Algal pigments distribution and phytoplankton group assemblages in the coastal transitional environment – Boka Kotorska Bay (Southeastern Adriatic Sea)
Authors: Krivokapić Slađana , Pestorić Branka , Drakulović Dragana , Kušpilić Grozdan , Viličić Damir , Bosak Sunčica
Published: November 2018

Phytoplankton assemblages and pigment distribution were determined in the transitional Boka Kotorska Bay. Samples were collected four times from three stations in the inner part of the Bay between April 2008 and March 2009. Microscopic analysis revealed that the phytoplankton was composed of marine diatoms, dinoflagellates, cryptophytes, chlorophytes and coccolithophorids. Aside from fucoxanthin as the dominant biomarker pigment, alloxanthin, 19′-hexanoyloxyfucoxanthin, peridinin and chlorophyll b provided indicative contributions. Fucoxanthin and alloxanthin showed significant correlation with the phytoplankton chlorophyll a biomass throughout the investigated period. In November 2008, the diatoms were outcompeted by coccolithophorids, which probably efficiently absorbed nutrients during a period of their reduced supply. Due to the reduced nutrient input, in the summer, the phytoplankton community in the Bay was composed mostly of marine dinoflagellates, cryptophytes, and chlorophytes.
Odnosi dimenzija otolita s dužinom tijela kod europske jegulje Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758) iz jadranskog sliva Crne Gore
Authors: Kanjuh Tamara , Mrdak Danilo , Milošević Dragana , Talevski Trajče , Joksimović Aleksandar , Tomljanović Tea , Piria Marina
Published: November 2018

This study examined the relationship between the sagittal otolith morphometric variables (length, height and weight) and body growth of the European eel. Eels that were studied ranged in total length from 11.2 to 79.5 cm. The relationships between the sagittal otolith variables and fish somatic growth were described with a non-linear function. The resulting coefficients of determination \((r^2)\) ranged from 0.782 to 0.914. The variable most strongly related to fish size was found to be the sagittal otolith length (OL) with 91.4 % of the variability. The results of this study provide the first
comprehensive data regarding the relationship between the sagittal otolith morphometric variables with the body length of Anguilla anguilla.
Documented records of Gaidropsarus granti (Osteichthyes: Lotidae) in the Adriatic Sea and review of its Mediterranean occurrences: is it a native fish or a newly established one?
Authors: Bello Giambattista
Published: November 2018

Gaidropsarus granti (Osteichthyes: Lotidae) is a rare fish that was recorded for the first time in the Mediterranean Sea in 1989. The Mediterranean records have been documented for the Ligurian Sea, the Levant Sea close to Rhodes, off the Sardinian coasts and for the northern Ionian Sea south of the Straits of Messina. Additional reports referred its presence in the Alboran Sea, in the southern Adriatic Sea and west of Malta, though without any additional information. The present paper reports the occurrence of G. granti in the Adriatic Sea (eastern Mediterranean) thanks to the examination of eight specimens collected in its south-western part, between February 1997 and October 2017. Six of them had been trawled at depths from 190 to 290 m, mainly in a channel within coral banks, while two were caught by hook at 420 m depth on coral banks. Their total length ranged from 21.0 to 32.3 cm. Four dissected individuals were adult, three males and one female. The stomach of two individuals contained only galatheid shrimps of the genus Munida, some of which were identified as M. rutllanti. According to interviews with fishermen based in the area where G.granti specimens were trawled, this conspicuous fish was unknown to them until the 1997 captures. Afterwards, it became well known to all of them, because few specimens are presently caught every once in a while. It is discussed whether G. granti is a native Mediterranean species or a fish that entered this sea a few decades ago. Both hypotheses have some support. The autochthonous origin hypothesis is mainly based on both G. granti distribution throughout the Mediterranean and its unavailability to old fishing gear uncapable of fishing on deep, rough grounds. The contrasting allochthonous hypothesis is backed by the total lack of Mediterranean records prior to 1989 coupled with its quite long larval pelagic phase.
Phisical Function (Motor Activity) Pada Pasien Kritis Dengan Sedation Di Intensive Care Unit
Authors: Suwardianto Heru , Prasetyo Awal , Utami Reni Sulung
Published: November 2018

Introduction: Critical patients are patients who potentially get reversible dysfunction in one or more life-threatening organs and require they require care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Method: The objective of this research is to analyze the physical function-tardive dyskinesia on critical patients with sedation in ICU. The design of this research is crossectional. The population is all critical patients in ICU Baptist Hospital Kediri. The sample is 41 respondents based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria in the total sampling. The independent variable is giving the sedation and the dependent variable is physical function-tardive dyskinesia. The data was collected using observation sheets. Result:  The result shows that giving a sedation can decrease the physical function in the form of motor activity; response of noxious stimuli (7.3%), response to touch or calling name (19,5%) and the incresing score of agitation and co-operative (4.9%). Symptoms of tardive dyskinesia increased after sedation in the form of tongue prostrusion (4.9%), lip smacking puckering and pursing (2.4%), and rapid movements of the arms and legs. Administration of sedation in the first 24-hour ICU patient affects the physical function of the critical patients (p = 0.005). Conclusion: Giving sedation affects the change of patiens’ physical funcion. Therefore, prevention on the effects of sedation and treatment during ICU is needed in order to avoid a decrease in the physical function of critical patients. Keyword: physical function, tardive dyskinesia, sedation, critical patient, ICU
The Effectiveness of Model of Independent Work Organization of Future Economists in the Mathematical Training Process
Authors: N. Akhmetzyanova Guliya , O. Bagateeva Angelina , A. Hramkova Elena
Published: November 2018

The resent study provided results of the experimental work on checking the effectiveness of the model of independent work organization of future economists during the process of mathematical training based on a competence approach. The independent work is considered by the authors as a planned organized educational process, internally motivated and purposefully carried out by students in the classroom and out-of-class time during the implementation of educational, production and research mathematical tasks in conditions of a gradual reduction of direct or indirect methodological assistance of teacher. Results of such process are the consistent acquisition of cognitive, activity and contextual experience of mathematical tools in the future professional activity. The main stages, a problem, a subject, an object, a purpose, tasks, a hypothesis, criteria and indices of efficiency of the experimental work are defined and the analysis of received results is performed.
Blonde is the new Japanese: Transcending race in shojo manga
Authors: Antononoka Olga
Published: November 2018

There is not much research available on the issue of race in generic manga. If addressed at all, the focus is on manga as overcoming the confines of race. The assumption that manga representations overcome racial barriers can lean on the fact that characters’ supposed race and visual representation frequently do not correspond, creating a character design visually abstracted from any specific race. Furthermore, on a global scale, manga has a racially diverse readership: readers project themselves onto allegedly Caucasian manga characters regardless of their own skin colour. In this paper I will focus specifically on sh?jo manga, and will trace how visual racial abstraction transcends specific race, yet remains involved with race-related topics such as alienation and otherness. I will start by analysing possible meanings of race-relevant elements in character design with emphasis on gender. In order todo that, I will begin with investigation of Oshiyama Michiko’s analysis of essential gender traits in sh?jo manga. Further, I will introduce several discourses of race in manga, such as theory of “speciesism” by Thomas LaMarre’s and Terry Kawashima’s theory of “selective reading” of racial traits. In the framework of sh?jo manga, I will focus specifically on the image of the Westerner, from early sh?jo manga elaborated on by ?gi Fusami and Ishida Minori, and proceeding with analysis of the eroticized image of the foreigner in contemporary women’s manga by Nagaike Kazumi. I will introduce theory of “plastic lines” by Thomas LaMarre in order to focus on the construction of “the other” in relation to the visual representation of race via specific lines. I intend to conclude that sh?jo manga may transcend visual traits of any specific race, but that it retains the recurring theme of conflict and otherness, which in part is related also to racial issues. Visual abstraction from specific race, however, appears to imply “otherness” as an external feature, placed by society upon the characters’ bodies, while the visual representation of their interiority facilitates the impression of sameness, or absence of otherness.
A Few Remarks on the Notions of Japan and Japanese Culture in Europe
Authors: Pellitteri Marco
Published: November 2018

The philosophy from which the Mutual Images was born is that of exploring the reciprocal influences between Japan and Europe, with an emphasis on the visual cultures. It started as a workshop, hosted every year by a different partner university, in Europe and in Japan. The quality of the papers presented and the increased interest and responses of researches over the four years that the Mutual Images workshop has been running has incited us to complement it with this peer-reviewed publication. The first issues are [...]
Uncertain spaces: The odd and the foreign in T?ei’s feature films of the 1960
Authors: Pruvost-Delaspre Marie
Published: November 2018

American animation, after a long period of faithful adaptation of fairy tales and youth stories, seems to have gradually leaned towards a clearer geography, going from the abstract realm of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the very real New Orleans of The Princess and the Frog, a modification that induces a reflection on the use of localization in these films. This attention seems all the more important when it comes to treating feature films produced by T?ei Doga, the "Disney of the East"; in the 1960s, to the extent that these films are both the trace of a first phase of internationalization of the Japanese production, and the beginnings of a diversification at T?ei, as the studio goes around 1965 from adaptating Asian literature and folk tales to the transposition of European youth stories like the Tales of Andersen. Focusing on an aesthetic analysis of the filmic text, centered around two films produced by T?ei, Gulliver's Space Travels (1965) and The Tales of Andersen (1968), this article intends to question the spatial and symbolic representation Europe as an "uncertain space".
Making Friends the Japanese Way: Exploring yaoi manga fans’ online practices
Authors: Turner Simon
Published: November 2018

Yaoi fans are unified by a common interest in Japan as a country and its culture. This paper suggests that yaoi acts as an available cultural model representing Japaneseness. By attending to yaoi manga fan activities this paper contributes to the relatively new debate regarding the relationships and activities of yaoi fans rather than an exclusive reader-text approach. Gender and sexuality have been a major focus of yaoi manga research but online discussions do not always focus on fans’ identifications with sexuality, either the characters’ or their own. This paper proposes that Japanese culture is a key element to yaoi fans’ community participation. The fans’ understanding and interpretation of Japan is presented in a five stage process. Japan and Japanese culture have come into existence through the fans’ interpretations and discussions of yaoi manga content as well as wider Japanese culture. As a result, fans filter what they know and trust through stereotypes, their own beliefs, and the information given by others. The fandom’s interpretation is on the whole distinct from a reading of Japan as a complex identity or place without any single authentic narrative. Rather Japan is found in a process of interaction and explanation amongst fans. By showing how Japan and Japaneseness can be articulated and understood online this work provides analternative to the binaries of particularism and universalism when considering broader issues such as community in fandom studies. It demonstrates that there can be a theoretical model situated between the real Japan and the virtual thus successfully transgressing essentialism.
The End of Cool Japan, Marc McLelland
Authors: Turner Simon
Published: November 2018

In 2002, Douglas McGray published an article in Foreign Policy discussing Japan’s status as a soft power superpower, including its use of popular culture. Much attention has since been paid to Japanese cultural and creative industries ranging from examinations of anime, manga, pop music, street fashion, and film, to name but a few. Today, access to Japanese popular culture has [...]
Dragon Ball Popularity in Spain Compared to Current Delocalized Models of Consumption
Authors: Santiago Iglesia José Andrés
Published: November 2018

The development of anime and manga in Spain in the late 70s and 80s and their boom in the early 90s mimics its progression in the two prominent European markets, Italy and France. Most of the mainstream anime series broadcasted in Spain were originally imported from Italian media conglomerate Fininvest as well as French licensing companies.
 
In February of 1990, Dragon Ball, a TV adaptation of the manga created by the renowned cartoonist Toriyama Akira, premiered in Spain. However, Dragon Ball was not an immediate phenomenon. The ‘when,’ ‘where’ and ‘how’ differ from any other broadly popular anime/manga series in Spain or any other major European market, due to the specificity of the Spanish «Autonomous Communities’» cultural, political and administrative division. Dragon Ball first premiered in Spain via several regional broadcasters — TVG, TV3 and ETB (Galicia, Catalonia and Basque Country) — with only a few weeks in between, dubbed not in Castilian Spanish but in the respective co-official languages (Galician, Catalonian, Basque), growing into an independent social phenomenon within these regions before it spread nationwide years later.
Thanks to Dragon Ball, anime as a cultural platform in Spain influenced many people by expanding fandom boundaries to a broader social spectrum, turning anime and manga into mainstream mediums and – while both publishers and merchandising companies failed to anticipate such a significant social impact – setting the foundations of the Spanish manga/anime industry. It is clear that no other anime series has ever triggered such a cultural phenomenon, in terms of general success, social dissemination and broadcast mechanics. Therefore, in this article I will try to examine Dragon Ball in Spain as a complex model, and analyse its unique model of intermedia growth
Interpreting/subverting the database: Character-conveyed narrative in Japanese visual novel PC games
Authors: Bruno Luca Paolo
Published: November 2018

This article examines Japanese visual novel games, an under-researched game genre whose main feature is character-driven prose storylines in light of existing scholarship on characters and manga/anime aesthetics (Azuma 2007 & 2009; Galbraith 2009 & 2011; Nozawa 2013; Kacsuk 2016). It offers a brief overview of the visual novel game genre as a game genre where the presence of characters constituted by what Azuma (2007; 2009) defined as ‘database elements’, character building blocks which, by virtue of their commonality within fan culture, constitute each an access point and an expression of the wider fan culture as a whole. In turn, fans develop enthusiastic reactions to these fantasy elements, the so-called moe phenomenon (Galbraith 2009). Moe is an open-ended phenomenon which runs as the basis for the development of emphatic bonds with characters within visual novels.Examining visual novel games under the framework provided by Espen Aarseth (2012) for the analysis of narrative within games, characters’ constitutive database elements are examined, exploring them as being present at both the representational level and, due to the open-ended nature of the bond of empathy developed between the character and the player, the simulation level. The constant presence of database element-constituted characters on the screen makes visual novels’ narrations dependent on characters, whose database elements are each an open window through which the setting and narration of the game is conveyed to the player through character identity.This process is demonstrated through the examination of Sok? Akki Muramasa (Nitroplus 2009), a visual novel game whose various storylines turn the player’s expected consumption of characters against them, and by doing so reinforce both the character’s identity and the importance of the game’s narration.
“Thinking of Spain in a flat way”: Visiting Spain and Spanish cultural heritage through contemporary Japanese anime
Authors: Hernández-Pérez Manuel
Published: November 2018

This article contextualizes the representation of Spain and Spanish culture among Japanese cultural producers, particularly through the production of Japanese commercial animation (commonly named anime). Toward that goal, it provides a historical background of Japan-Spain relations within the context of the tourism industry, as well as some examples of the diverse forms of representation within several creative industries. Subsequently, the article reviews the ways in which popular culture has been contributed to national branding. There is special attention to the Spanish case and the proliferation of such images sometimes resulting in the (mis)representation of Spain’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Internationally- distributed anime productions will be examined as a reflection of Spanish national branding on Japanese audiences and this global industry. Three cases among contemporary anime productions (Nasu: Andarushia no Natsu, 2003; So?Ra?No?Wo?To, 2010 and Crayon Shin Chan, 1992-) have been selected due to the combination of fictional and misrepresented Spanish cultural features in their narratives.
Deconstructing Japanese Avant-Garde as Epigonism
Authors: Isaeva Olga
Published: November 2018

The aesthetic avant-garde is an international literary and artistic network and project, which arose in the early 20th century. The military and political origins of the term can be summarised into the more general meaning of the avant-garde as progressive and politically engaged art with a pioneering approach. This heterogeneous project is not a monolith but rather an ever-changing network, which is primarily characterised by its boundlessness and transgressiveness. This paper will argue that the avant-garde concept offered Japanese artists in the 1920s a method with which to overcome the legacy of the Meiji period (1868-1912), to “self-colonise” through Western concepts of art, and to enter a discourse of questioning the foundation of Japanese modern art as a transplantation and absorption of Western models. Beginning first with a general overview of the term avant-garde, this paper next examines roughly Meiji politics as one of the core reasons behind the perception of the early Japanese avant-garde in the 1920s as a simple imitation of the European model. Radical avant-garde groups such as MAVO and Sanka will be introduced as main examples for the movement, which questioned the foundation of modern art and avant-garde in Japan. Their tools for achieving this goal in the form of tendencies toward transgressions can be located in the diversity of artistic styles and genres, in the blurring of the boundary between the so-called high and low art, and in the passing from the visible to the invisible. The resulting performative act—of demonstrating the new movement in the form of a manifesto as an artistic practice and the elimination of the boundaries between the artwork and the audience—is outstanding.
The disasters of peace: Social discontent in the manga of Tsuge Tadao and Katsumata Susumu – Exhibited at the HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART
Authors: Tokuno Jamie
Published: November 2018

Art cannot exist in a vacuum, and certainly cannot be fully appreciated without the proper context; this is especially true of the Honolulu Museum of Art exhibit The Disasters of Peace: Social Discontent in the Manga of Tsuge Tadao and Katsumata Susumu, where the sketches of socially-minded manga artists Tsuge Tadao and Katsumata Susumu were on display for the first time in the United States from 30 November 2017 through 15 April 2018. Both artists use manga as a medium to explore the daily struggles faced by marginalised communities in Japan, based on their own personal experiences. Tsuge, born and raised in the slums of postwar Tokyo, offers insight into the plight of veterans and the homeless and draws on his experience working in a blood bank in the decades after the war. Katsumata was an anti-nuclear activist whose work exposed the inhumane conditions of nuclear power plant workers in Japan decades before the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Stephen Salel, the museum’s Robert F. Lange Curator of Japanese Art, constructed for visitors a number of wonderfully in-depth and interactive supplementary audiovisual aids to facilitate a richer understanding of the sociological underpinnings of the exhibit. According to Salel, the curatorial intent of the exhibit was to allow visitors to relate to the difficulties and realities depicted in the featured work, and to examine how art can speak to past events around the world that might echo what other communities currently face. The Disasters of Peace presented the viewing public with an unusual opportunity to learn about the struggles of Japan’s postwar society.
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Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSS) in Nurses Post-Earthquake Disaster in Indonesia
Authors: (Corresponding author) Mustikasari , Sahar Junaiti , Fadhillah Harif , Pratiwi Anggi
Published: November 2018

Post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSS) may be experienced by individuals who were traumatized by unpleasant experiences, such as earthquakes, which occur suddenly, and are diffi cult to predict. This study is aimed to explore PTSS experienced by nurse survivor following earthquakes in several areas in Indonesia. A qualitative study was conducted to participants with the following criteria: nurses who were actively working in the primary level health care services (health centers) and had experienced PTSS as determined by screening results. The study was conducted in regencies/cities that have experienced earthquakes in West Sumatra, North Sulawesi, Yogyakarta, East Java, and Banten. Data were collected for 3 months, between September and November 2011. Participants were recruited

through purposive sampling according to the inclusion criteria for PTSS screening (experienced 2-3 years of grief). Ten participants agreed to be interviewed. Data were analyzed by thematic analysis. Two main themes emerged consisting of physical and psychological responses of nurses. Trembling and being scared have been the consistent response up to several years after the incident. The results of the study can serve as source of information for developing nursing skills in the prevention and mitigation stage of disaster, as well as for the formulation of supportive policies.
Effect of Nurse Performance in Patient Safety Target Based on Knowledge Management: SECI on Quality of Nursing Services
Authors: (Corresponding author) Harif Fadhillah , - Nursalam , Hadi Muhammad
Published: November 2018

Appropriate knowledge management will improve nurse performance. There have been numerous studies on nurse performance, but studies on nurse performance of Knowledge management: SECI in Indonesia have not been widely reported and therefore researchers interested in conducting this study. This study aims at identifying the effect of performance in patient safety target based on Knowledge Management: SECI on the quality of nursing services in Jakarta Islamic Hospital of Pondok Kopi. The study employed quasi experimental design of pre and posttest with control group. The respondents were nurses who worked in the inpatient unit with a sample size of 24 respondents in the intervention group and 37 respondents in the control group. The instrument used to measure pre-posttest was patient safety developed by Nasution (2013) with validity value of 0.444-0.772 and reliability of Cronbach’s Alpha of 0.950; and the adverse events developed by the researchers. Intervention

protocols in the form of performance in patient safety target based on Knowledge Management: SECI were given through training. The analysis employed statistical tests of Mann Whitney and Wilcoxon. The study found that there was a change in patient safety before and after intervention in the intervention group rather than in the control group. There were differences in the scores of patient safety/quality of nursing care after treatment in the intervention group and the control group. The study recommends regular training for nurses concerning performance in patient safety target based on Knowledge Management: SECI, and further studies in different hospitals.
Aggregate stability affects carbon sequestration potential of different tropical soils
Authors: Villasica Leo Jude , Lina Suzette , Asio Victor
Published: November 2018

Aggregate stability and carbon (C) sequestration in soils are closely related phenomena. However, high aggregate stability does not always ensure high carbon sequestration to some soil types since other binding agents could dominate other than carbon. Thus, this study aimed to determine the relationship between aggregate stability and carbon sequestration of different tropical soils which basically differ in geology, genesis, and possibly in their dominant aggregating agents. The study selected four representative soil types (Haplic Acrisol, Calcaric Cambisol, Silic Andosol and Haplic Ferralsol) found in Leyte and Samar that were characterized by previous workers. Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) and Aggregate Stability (AS) in dry and wet conditions were quantified using standard procedures. Some pertinent secondary data were also recorded as reference for each soil type. Results revealed that only Silic Andosol showed positive significant correlation (0.93) between aggregate stability and soil organic carbon (SOC). The other soil types showed weak and negative correlation between aggregate stability and SOC; however, their stability revealed a strong positive relationship with inorganic binding agents. Therefore, each soil type reflects a different relationship between aggregate stability in wet condition and SOC and that the variations could be attributed to the differences in the morpho-physical and geochemical nature of the soils. Moreover, SOC is found to greatly influence the aggregate stability in Silic Andosol, thus the soil carbon sequestration potential of this soil type is generally related to its aggregate stability. However, in other soil types like Haplic Acrisol, Calcaric Cambisol, and Haplic Ferralsol, other binding agents like Calcium (Ca) and iron oxides dominate and control the formation and stability of aggregates rather than SOC.
TÜRK DEVLET YÖNETİM İNDE FARKLI BAŞKADILIK UYGULAMALARI: HAZARLAR, ALTIN ORDA VE M EMLÛKLER ÖRNEĞİ
Authors: ŞEKER Mehmet
Published: November 2018

Türk devlet geleneği içerisinde devlet yönetiminde adlî teşkilatın çok önemli bir yeri ve fonksiyonu bulunmaktaydı. Önceleri adlî teşkilatın başında Töre’ye göre hüküm veren Yargucu ve yardımcıları varken İslâmiyet’in yayılmaya başlamasından itibaren bu görevlilerin yanında kadılar da bulunmaya başlamıştır. İslâmiyet’in Türk ülkelerinde hâkim olmasından sonraki dönemde ise durum değişmiş, adlî teşkilatın başında hukukî görevli olarak sadece kadılar kalmıştır. Artık, İslâmî dönem Türk devlet yönetiminde adlî teşkilatın başında hükümdar adına kanunlar tatbik eden en yüksek görevli olan “başkadı” bulunmaktadır. Biz bu çalışmamızda üç büyük Türk devletinden hareketle, Türk devletleri içerisinde farklı şekillerde ortaya çıkmış olduğu görülen başkadılık uygulamalarını ele aldık. Başkadılık uygulamasının kendine has şekliyle ilk görüldüğü Türk devletlerinden birisi hiç kuşkusuz Hazarlardır. Hazarlarda iki Müslüman, iki Yahudi, iki Hıristiyan ve bu üç semavî dine mensup olmayan gruplar ile Slavlar, Rusların davalarına bakan bir başkadı olmak üzere toplam yedi başkadı bulunmaktaydı. İslâmiyet’in hızla yayılmaya başladığı dönemde büyük bir siyasi hâkimiyete sahip olan Altın Orda Hanlığı’nda başkadılık kurumu kendine özgü bir şekle bürünerek varlık göstermiştir. Altın Orda’da Kurultay’ın aslî üyesi olan Yasa Emîri, adlî teşkilâtın başında bulunmakta olup hukukî işlere Töre’ye göre hüküm veren Baş Yargucu ve yardımcılarının yanı sıra İslâm hukukuna göre hüküm veren Başkadı ve yardımcıları bakmaktaydı. Memlûklerde ise Türk-İslâm devletlerinin hiçbirisinde olmayan Sünni dört mezhepten birer başkadı uygulaması bulunmaktaydı. Bu başkadılardan her birisi kendi mezheplerinden olan kimselerin davalarına bakmaktaydı. İşte bu üç büyük Türk devletindeki farklı başkadılık uygulamalarını inceleyerek Türk devlet sistemindeki adlî teşkilatın dönemin şartlarına ve ihtiyaçlarına göre nasıl sistemli bir şekil alarak tezahür ettiklerini ortaya koymaya çalıştık.