bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Distribusi Frekuensi Dan Jenis Grafik Studi Kasus SMPN 254 JAKARTA
Authors: Abdillah Triawan Nayyf , Fajrin Berliana Syela , Maria Melati , Ghazali Farrel Abdulah Al
Published: December 2020

Pengolahan nilai rapor ujian akhir semester SMPN 254 JAKARTAKurikulum 2013 menggunakan metode distribusi frekuensi danjenis grafik bertujuan untuk mempermuda melihat perkembangannilai rapor kelas 9 yang terdiri dari 4 kelas angkatan tahun2019/2020. Distribusi frekuensi adalah sebuah daftar, tabel, ataudiagram yang menunjukan frekuensi berbagai kejadian dalamsuatu sampel. Setiap butir atau baris dalam table menunjukanfrekuensi atau jumlah terjadinya nilai dalam kelompok atauinterval tersebut. Grafik adalah kumpulan data dari beberapa tableyang disajikan atau ditampilkan dalam bentuk gambar, sepertipersegi, lingkaran, tabung, segitiga, balok, kerucut dan lain-lain.
Analisa Data Dengan Metode Least Square Untuk Prediksi Penjualan Sepeda Motor (Studi Kasus: PT. Jaya Abadi Motor)
Authors: Zulkifli Achmad , Wandana Adhitya Yoga , Firnadi Muhammad Rasyad Zafran , Rafli Muhammad
Published: December 2020

PT. Jaya Abadi Motor is an authorized dealer for Yamaha motorbikes. This company experienced an increase in motorcycle sales for each year. In this connection it is necessary to predict the number of motorcycle sales in the coming period.
Employment effects of trade reform in the Vietnamese banking industry
Authors: AISDL
Published: December 2020

In response to the call for evidence of sectoral employment impacts of services trade reform, the paper examines how trade liberalisation in the Vietnam’s banking industry would change employment between sectors and total employment under in two macroeconomic settings: fixed versus variable labour supply. Using the FTAP-VN model and GTAP 7 Database, the paper finds that potential trade reform in Vietnam’s banking industry could have significant impacts on employment across industries in the economy regardless of the labour supply assumptions. Apart from the employment relocation effect as in the fixed labour supply, trade reform with a variable labour supply would expand jobs in all industries, increasing total employment by 6.3%. Trade reform would most benefit employment in the financial services itself and the industries with close linkages with the financial sector and facing the highest reduction in the relative price of labour to capital. In any cases, services would gain the most in terms of job creation from the trade reform. Services would also absorb most of the increased labour supply, followed by manufacturing and agriculture and mining. With a fixed labour supply, trade reform would encourage a substitution of unskilled labour for skilled labour across industries, placing skilled labour in a relatively disadvantaged position in the short run. In the short and median run, in order to avoid a shortage of skilled labour and consequent pressure on wages, Vietnam would need to invest in education and training to create a better skilled labour force, particularly in banking and finance. With a variable labour supply, in the long-run, the pressure on wage increase and substitution of skilled labour for unskilled labour could be mitigated with the transformation of unskilled labour into skilled labour and the increasing labour supply.
Ukuran Gejala Pusat Data Belum Dikelompokan(Kebakaran di Provinsi-Provinsi Tertentu di Indonesia Tahun 2015-2016)
Authors: Santoso Riska Nurhapsari , Utomo Yudis Satrio , Luturmasse Yuliani
Published: December 2020

Abstract - Statistics is a framework of theories and methods that have been developed to collect, analyze, and write sample data in order to obtain useful conclusions. Statistics is the science of ways of collecting, classifying, analyzing, and searching for information related to the collection of data that investigations and conclusions based on evidence in the form of figures.Based on the results of the study can be concluded as follows: the size of the symptoms of the data center has not been grouped is the data compiled into the frequency distribution so that it does not have class intervals and midpoints of the class. Symptom Size Un-Grouped Data Center The size of the data center included in the statistical analysis is the calculated average (mean), median, mode, and fractil (quartile, decile, percentile)
Are the emerging SARS-COV-2 mutations friend or foe?
Authors: Erol Adnan
Published: December 2020

The rapid spread of the virus in the community and the widely applied anti-viral treatments may cause new mutations in the virus. This situation raises concerns that potentially more virulent strains with higher mortality rates or the emergence of treatment-resistant strains. SARS-CoV-2 mutates regularly, acquiring about one new mutation in its genome every two weeks. Following rapid spread the original Wuhan form of the virus globally in early 2020, D614G variant of the virus become the dominant form of the virus. While concerns about the D614G variant continue to be debated, the latest UK variant, N501Y, has sparked serious controversy regarding the evolution of the virus, especially at a time when vaccines were available. In this article, the importance of existing mutations in the virus is analyzed in the light of the available data and predictions for the future are discussed.
RENDAHNYA KUALITAS PENDIDIKAN INDONESIA, SALAH SIAPA ?
Authors: Nuryatin Sri
Published: December 2020

Pendidikan merupakan proses yang terus menerus dan tidak berhenti, didalam proses pendidikan ini keluhuran martabat manusia, di pegang erat oleh manusia (yang terlibat dalam pendidikan ini) karena merupakan subjek dalam pendidikan maka di tuntut suatu tanggung jawab agar tercapai suatu hasil pendidikan yang lebih baik.Terkait pendidikan formal, pendidikan formal sendiri adalah jalur pendidikan yang dilaksanakan disekolah atau tempat tertentu, diatur secara sistematis, memiliki jenjang dan batas waktu yang ditetapkan. Rendahnya kualitas pendidikan di Indonesia terbukti dari kualitas siswa, guru, sarana belajar dan lainnya yang membuat pendidikan semakin menurun.
How Important are Ethical Dilemmas to Potential Adopters of Autonomous Vehicles?
Authors: Gill Tripat
Published: December 2020

The ethical dilemma (ED) of whether autonomous vehicles (AVs) should protect the passengers or pedestrians when harm is unavoidable has been widely researched and debated. Several behavioral scientists have sought public opinion on this issue, based on the premise that EDs are critical to resolve for AV adoption. However, many scholars and industry participants have downplayed the importance of these edge cases. Policy makers also advocate a focus on higher level ethical principles rather than on a specific solution to EDs. But conspicuously absent from this debate is the view of the consumers or potential adopters, who will be instrumental to the success of AVs. The current research investigated this issue both from a theoretical standpoint and through empirical research. The literature on innovation adoption and risk perception suggests that EDs will be heavily weighted by potential adopters of AVs. Two studies conducted with a broad sample of consumers verified this assertion. The results from these studies showed that people associated EDs with the highest risk and considered EDs as the most important issue to address as compared to the other technical, legal and ethical issues facing AVs. As such, EDs need to be addressed to ensure robustness in the design of AVs and to assure consumers of the safety of this promising technology. Some preliminary evidence is provided about interventions to resolve the social dilemma in EDs and about the ethical preferences of prospective early adopters of AVs.
Perceptual comparisons modulate memory biases induced by new visual inputs
Authors: Saito Joseph M. , Kolisnyk Matthew , Fukuda Keisuke
Published: December 2020

It is well-established that stimulus-specific information in visual working memory (VWM) can be systematically biased by new perceptual inputs. These memory biases are commonly attributed to interference that arises when perceptual inputs are physically similar to VWM contents. However, recent work has suggested that explicitly comparing the similarity between VWM contents and new perceptual inputs modulates the size of memory biases above and beyond stimulus-driven effects. Here, we sought to directly investigate this modulation hypothesis by comparing the size of memory biases following explicit comparisons to those induced when new perceptual inputs are ignored (Experiment 1) or maintained in VWM alongside target information (Experiment 2). We found that VWM reports showed larger attraction biases following explicit perceptual comparisons than when new perceptual inputs were ignored or maintained in VWM. An analysis of participants’ perceptual comparisons revealed that memory biases were amplified after perceptual inputs were endorsed as similar—but not dissimilar—to one’s VWM representation. These patterns were found to persist even after accounting for variability in the physical similarity between the target and perceptual stimuli across trials, as well as the baseline memory precision between the distinct task demands. Together, these findings illustrate the causal role of perceptual comparisons in modulating naturally-occurring memory biases.
Affect instability links task-based negativity bias and variability in depressive symptoms
Authors: Puccetti Nikki Anne , Villano William , Stamatis Caitlin A. , Torrez Vilet F. , Neta Maital , Timpano Kiara , Heller Aaron S
Published: December 2020

Negativity biases, appraising ambiguous stimuli as negatively valenced, are thought to confer risk for clinical depression by manifesting in maladaptive real-world emotional patterns. One potential daily emotional pattern that may link negativity bias with depression is affective instability—extreme fluctuations in affect over time that may result from evaluating ambiguous ecological information as negative. To test this, we assessed links between a laboratory-based negativity bias task, day-to-day experience sampling of emotion across an academic semester, and self-reported symptoms of depression in 95 young adults. Negativity bias was operationalized as the degree to which ambiguous emotional faces were rated negatively. Greater negativity bias in the laboratory predicted greater negative and positive affect instability throughout the semester. Critically, negativity bias was linked with symptoms of depression through affect instability. These results highlight how individual differences in information processing may be connected to real-world emotional profiles and risk for psychopathology.
Propensity to reappraise promotes resilience to stress-induced negativity bias
Authors: Raio Candace , Brown Catie , Neta Maital
Published: December 2020

Stress exposure is associated with an increased tendency to appraise ambiguous social stimuli as negative. However, it remains unknown whether tendencies to use emotion regulation strategies—such as cognitive reappraisal, which involves altering the meaning of affective stimuli—can buffer these stress effects on social evaluations. Here, we examined whether increased reappraisal use confers resilience against stress-induced negativity bias. In Study 1, healthy participants (n=43) rated the valence of emotionally ambiguous (surprised) faces before and after an acute stress or control manipulation and reported reappraisal habits. Increased negativity ratings were milder for stressed individuals that reported more habitual reappraisal use. In Study 2 (n=97), we extended this investigation to real-world perceived stress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. We found that reappraisal tendency moderates the relationship between perceived stress and increased negativity bias. Collectively, these findings suggest that the propensity to reappraise attenuates stress-induced negativity bias when evaluating others under uncertainty.
The role of time perspectives and impulsivity dimensions in coping styles
Authors: Nowakowska Iwona
Published: December 2020

Both time perspectives and impulsivity dimensions are groups of traits that are connected to self-control abilities and might be important for coping styles. However, to date, no study has systematically investigated their utility in predicting coping styles with regard to their multidimensional nature. The current study was correlational and exploratory, aiming to discover what amount of variance in each of the three coping styles, problem-oriented, active emotion-oriented, and avoidant, is accounted for by two groups of predictors: time perspectives and impulsivity dimensions. N = 397 young adults aged 18–35 from the general population took part in the study. Results of a multiple linear regression testing both groups of predictors separately and of hierarchical regression analysis introducing the two predictor groups in subsequent steps suggested that time perspectives accounted for more variance in adaptive coping styles: problem-oriented and active emotion-oriented coping. For avoidant coping, both time perspectives and impulsivity dimensions accounted for a similar amount of variance. The results provide evidence that time perspectives should be investigated in domains related to coping (e.g., mental health issues, substance abuse, and risk-taking behaviors), for which impulsivity has been considered an important predictor. Moreover, impulsivity ought to be tested with regard to its multidimensionality.
The Comparison of Guerilla Warfare Framework of Mao Tse-Tung, Vo Nguyen Giap, and Che Guevara
Authors: Sam-Quarm Richmond , Busharads Mohamed Osman Elamin
Published: December 2020

Small war became popularly used in irregular warfare when a more considerable force dominated the opponent. Small wars but troublesome opposing forces are known as guerrillas. Since war architects popularized the guerrilla theory, it has also been frequently used in wars between forces. The psychological impact of most of the war's success can influence both state and group leaders to apply this model. It has been practiced and applied for a long time in various parts of the world until today. The very popularity of this model of warfare has prompted the author to produce an article that aims to compare the three guerrilla architects' frameworks from the point of view of a comprehensive strategy, tactics, and social aspects using the method of collecting data through document study. The results show that the framework of Mao Tse Tung, Vo Nguyen Giap, and Che Guevara about guerrilla warfare has its characteristics and perspectives.
A study of correlation of plasma fibrinogen levels with glycemic status in type 2 Diabetes Mellitus patients
Authors: Ghongade Pravinkumar V , Atram Manisha Anantrao , Shivkumar Vitaladevuni B
Published: December 2020

Background: Plasma fibrinogen is an indicator of inflammation and endothelial dysfunction has been described as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity in type 2 Diabetes mellitus patients. Poor glycemic control has been reported to be associated with hyperfibrinogenemia and its complications. This study was aimed to find a correlation of mean fibrinogen level with glycemic control in complicated and uncomplicated cases of Type 2 Diabetes mellitus.
Materials and methods: One hundred eight known cases of Type 2 Diabetes mellitus aged ≥ 30 were included in our study of which 39 cases were uncomplicated and 69 cases were complicated Diabetes mellitus. Hundred of non-diabetic age and sex-matched controls were analyzed. Blood samples were collected in Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid and citrate bulb for estimation of HbA1c and plasma fibrinogen level respectively.
Results: Mean fibrinogen level in complicated Type 2 Diabetes mellitus was high 450.43 ±108.51 mg/dl as compared to uncomplicated cases 372.30±123.78 mg/dl (p=0.0001). Mean HbA1c in total Diabetes mellitus cases was 8.02±1.88 mg/dl with a range of 5.50-14.50 mg/dl. A positive correlation was found between HbA1c and mean fibrinogen level (r=0.782, p= 0.001) in type 2 Diabetes mellitus. Duration of diabetes in years showed a significant correlation with mean fibrinogen levels (r=0.295, p=0.002).
Conclusions: Plasma fibrinogen level was significantly associated with glycemic control (HbA1c) and duration of Diabetes mellitus in years. Thus, lowering plasma fibrinogen levels could be an important approach to the prevention of cardiovascular complications in diabetics.
Role of training session in improving the knowledge of blood transfusion practices among undergraduates- a hospital based study.
Authors: Vasavi Perada , Usha Mahesh Kumar , Yadav Anurag
Published: December 2020

Background: Blood is a vital and limited resource with a lifesaving therapeutic benefit.  Knowledge of standard transfusion practices to be followed is important in delivering quality transfusion services. The present study aims at assessing the knowledge of transfusion practices among undergraduate medical students, train them, and to assess the impact of this type of training sessions in improving the outcome.
Materials and methods:  82 undergraduate MBBS students participated in the study. The students were asked to attempt a pre-test and a post-test questionnaire before and after the training program. The training session comprised of audiovisual lecture and handout material given to the participants. The mean scores, percentage of both the tests, and percentage of improvement in scores from pre to post-test were analyzed.
Results: The mean score in the pre-test was 8.3 with a minimum score of 3 and a maximum of 13 out of 15. The post-test mean score was 10.7 with a minimum score of 6 and a maximum score of 14 out of 15, which was significantly high. The training program helped in the overall improvement of the knowledge in various aspects of blood transfusion like indications, cross-matching, shelf life, transfusion practices, and management of adverse reactions. The p-value obtained was 0.003 (<0.05) which was significant.
Conclusions: Knowledge of blood transfusion practices among the undergraduates was low. Training sessions helped improve the immediate knowledge and overall orientation toward the practices. Hence, blood transfusion syllabus should be included in the undergraduates' competency curriculum.
A brief overview of homologous recombination deficiency testing in cancers for the ‘Next-Generation’ Pathologist
Authors: Vijayan Poornima , Bonilla Luisa
Published: December 2020

Genomic instability is one of the hallmarks of cancer, having a crucial role in cancer pathogenesis as well as tumor proliferation. This essential feature is secondary to dysregulation of DNA damage repair pathways. Homologous repair represents the most reliable double-strand break repair mechanism. Homologous recombination deficiency is responsible for generating and perpetuating DNA damage in cancer, posing an opportunity for targeting treatment with poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors through ‘synthetic lethality’, as well as platinum-based agents. Comprehensive genomic analysis has made it possible to discover molecular biomarkers that assist in the identification of Homologous recombination deficient tumors, allowing for the expansion of such treatment strategies to various other malignancies. Leveraging the improvement of genomic analysis methods to be more efficient in identifying Homologous recombination deficiency is crucial in the advancement of cancer care. The current review highlights the current strategies for Homologous recombination deficiency detection, clinical implications, limitations, and applicability.
A correlative study between maternal hemoglobin concentration during third trimester and fetal birth weight of babies born at Kathmandu Medical College and Teaching Hospital
Authors: Shrestha Anup , Shrestha Sabina
Published: December 2020

Background: Anemia is one of the commonest health problems faced by pregnant women in both developing and developed countries. Maternal anemia is a potential risk factor for fatal outcomes like low birth weight and preterm delivery. This study intended at comparing the birth weight of the babies who were born to mothers with and without anemia during the third trimesters.

Materials and methods: This study is a descriptive, cross-sectional study conducted at Kathmandu Medical College, Teaching Hospital from July 2019 to June 2020. The third-trimester hemoglobin of mothers was recorded along with the birth weight of their respective babies. Mothers with regular antenatal care visits at this hospital were included and the known causes for anemia like renal disorders, twin pregnancies, and others were excluded from the study. The third-trimester hemoglobin level of all pregnant females was correlated with the birth weight of the babies.

Results: Out of a total of 2417 pregnant women, 317 (13%) had anemia. The overall prevalence of low birth weight was 12%. Out of 317 anemic mothers, 99 (31%) delivered low birth weight babies. Among those 99 low birth weight babies, 30 (30%) were preterm and 69 (70%) were term babies with the prevalence of low birth weight in anemic mothers being 31%. The correlation between maternal hemoglobin and birth weight was found to be statistically significant.

Conclusions: Despite regular antenatal care, maternal anemia still prevails, affecting neonatal birth weight. There was a statistically significant correlation between maternal hemoglobin and birth weight (p-value <0.0001).
Est-il possible de se mettre d’accord sur le sens à donner au terme de pragmatème ?
Authors: Bogacki Krzysztof
Published: December 2020

The term ‘pragmateme’ has been coined relatively recently and therefore its usage is still hesitant and its definitions lack precision. This makes it difficult to delimit the scope of all that relates to the intuition of the term. We believe that two criteria are crucial for the identification of the concept. First, it would signify an autonomous linguistic unit implying an act of enunciation, characterised by the adequacy between selecting an appropriate linguistic segment and its application, with all that it entails as constraints. This criterion derives from classical logic, based on the binary opposition of truth and falsehood. The other element of the definition of the pragmateme is difficult to apply due to its subjectivity. It can be described in terms of many-valued fuzzy logic. It requires that a privileged link be created in the consciousness of langage users between a particular formulation, conveying a given semantic content and other, competing formulations. Neither of the two criteria is correlated with formal exponents, which prevents them from being used in a database compiled for the purpose of creating a dictionary of pragmatemes
Pragmatèmes au pays de la prosodie
Authors: Banyś Wiesław
Published: December 2020

The presented text will touch on the issue too often neglected in studies of pragmatemes, namely the role of prosody in determining what is a pragmateme and what is not. First, the analyses of prosody and of its role in the determination and functioning of various linguistic phenomena (informational structure of the sentence, presupposition, relative propositions) are reviewed, then the definitions of pragmatems by I. Mel’čuk and X. Blanco with S. Mejri are presented, to move on, at the end, to analyse the role of prosody in the determination of the pragmatematical or non-pragmatematical status of constructions through analyses of cases of pragmatemes that should not be qualified in this way without precise indications on prosody. The point is that even if mistakes are made in the spelling or transcription, the actual pronunciation of the constructions in a concrete enunciation situation must be suitable for the construction in question to function as a pragmateme. It is a suitable intonation which, with the appropriate context, makes construction a pragmateme — the intonation is thus truly (co-)generating the meaning of the construction — otherwise the construction would have its literal meaning. This finding also invites us to make a detailed study, from this point of view, of as many of the expressions qualified as pragmatems as possible, and to include the decisive prosodic information in dictionary entries of this type of expression.
Auf gut Klick – Die erste Online-Schulung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek
Authors: Halas Franz
Published: December 2020

Mit dem ersten Lockdown im Zuge der Corona-Pandemie wurde in der Hauptabteilung Benützung und Information ein Webinar zum Digitalen Lesesaal der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek konzipiert und umgesetzt. So konnte das Schulungsprogramm um eine virtuelle Komponente bereichert und die Grundlage zur erweiterten Nutzung von Online-Formaten geschaffen werden.
Habitat selection of secondary hole-nesting birds in riverine forests along Drava river in Croatia
Authors: Slatki Mario , Kralj Jelena
Published: December 2020

The correlation between secondary hole-nesters community characteristics and floristic and structural characteristics of their habitat was studied in riverine forest stands near river Drava in Croatia. Standard point count method was used for bird community sampling and circular plot method for habitat sampling. Sampling was carried out on 66 points. PCA analysis that included 28 independent habitat variables was used, followed by Spearman rank correlation between principal component scores and bird community variables (number of species and number of pairs). Tree basal area was used as an indication of stand maturity and to classify studied points into four forest types (ash, poplar, alder and mixed). Eight secondary hole-nesting species and 14 tree species were recorded. The average forest age was 59.8 ± 20.5 years, with ash and mixed stands being on average older than alder and poplar stands. Shannon-Wiener index of secondary hole-nesters diversity was highest in stands with dominant ash and was increasing with stand maturity. A significant positive correlation was found between number of bird species as well as number of pairs and older stands with lower number of tree species and lower relative number of poplar and alder. It can be concluded that diversity of secondary hole-nesting bird species as well as their abundance is correlated with structural habitat characteristics and that older stands show greater bird biodiversity and abundance.
Physiological responses of two pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) families to combined stress conditions – drought and herbivore attack
Authors: Drekić Milan , Stojnić Srđan , Orlović Saša , Borišev Milan , Poljaković-Pajnik Leopold , Milović Marina , Trudić Branislav , Nikolić Nataša , Pilipović Andrej
Published: December 2020

Pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) is economically and ecologically one of the most important tree species in lowland forests of Southeastern Europe, and it is endangered by numerous biotic and abiotic factors. In this study, we investigated the effect of drought and herbivore attack of gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar L.) on two families of young oak seedlings subjected to the following treatments: drought (D); gypsy moth (GM); both drought and gypsy moth (D+GM) and control (Ø) for a period of 15 days followed by a 7-day recovery period. During both treatment and recovery, physiological parameters - net photosynthesis (A), transpiration (E), stomatal conductance (gs), sub-stomatal CO2 concentration (Ci), water use efficiency (WUE), nitrate reductase activity (NRA) and chlorophyll content (Chl) were measured. Our results showed significant effects of stress factors on physiological processes in oak seedlings which could have potential impact on forest regeneration. Also, differences in the reaction between investigated families indicated the need for breeding and selection of more resistant progenies and provenances of pedunculate oak.
The Effect of Task-Based Language Teaching on Students’ Oral Communication Skills in EFL Classroom
Authors: Akalu Sualih Mussa
Published: December 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of context specific task-based language teaching approach on students’ oral communication skills. The study was conducted on grade 9 students of Addisalem Secondary school which is found in northern Ethiopia. For this purpose, quasi-experimental research design was employed. Two sections which contained 92 grade 9 students were selected using purposive sampling technique based on similarity of group identification test score. After identifying the control and experimental groups, speaking test (pre-and post-test) and students’ questionnaire (for experimental groups only) were used to get data. To test the reliability of the speaking test, Cronbach’s alpha was calculated. The internal consistency of the questionnaire gained from 27 pilot group students was 0.783. Thus, the tools of this study were reliable. The validity of the treatment manual, the pre-test and the post-test were also evaluated by two well experienced EFL teachers in a nearby school. T-tests were run to compare the improvement between and within groups. When we see the findings of the study, the paired sample t-test result revealed that the experimental group students showed a progress in their oral communication proficiency after the treatment. There was statistically significant differences at (sig.2-tailed=0.000) between the mean scores of the experimental group on the speaking pre-test and post-test. Again, the result of the independent sample t-test indicated that there were statistically significant differences  (sig.2-tailed=0.000) between the mean scores of the experimental group exposed to the designed context specific task-based program, and the control group receiving the tasks in the text book on the post-test in oral communication proficiency. Moreover, the result of experimental group students' questionnaire showed that task-based instruction had a positive impact on students' oral communication skill, as well. Finally, based on the findings of the study, the researchers forwarded ideas to improve the students’ oral communication.Key words: task based, oral communication, effect
Examining the Issues of Gender and Indigenous Knowledge in English Education Semester Courses
Authors: Saud Mohan Singh
Published: December 2020

Gender and indigenous knowledge are the contemporary cross-cutting issues to be addressed in the mainstream curriculum for enhancing inclusion and equity in higher education along with the recognition, preservation and promotion of indigenous knowledge. The issues of gender and IK are the cross-cutting subjects to be addressed in the contemporary educational discourses around the world including Nepal. Taking these issues into considering, this study critically examined and analysed the issues of addressing gender and integrating IK into the M.Ed. English courses of Tribhuvan University (TU), Nepal, along with the pedagogical practices, assessment and research. Framing on indigenous perspective with social justice, cultural capital, classroom ecology and linguicism as the theoretical lenses, this study applied qualitative study of contents analysis and an open-ended questionnaire with the teachers from TU. The study found that the course content is not much inclusive in terms of gender and indigenous knowledge. However, pedagogical practices, assessment system and research are gender and indigenous friendly as responded by the participants. Its implication is that the M.Ed. English courses of Nepal’s TU needs to address the issues of gender and indigenous knowledge for equity, inclusion and recognition of indigenous knowledge for the glocal context.
Evaluation the Risk Factors that are Associated with Osteoporosis in Post Kidney Transplantation in a Sample of Iraqi Patients
Authors: Hasan Angham A. , Abd alrazak Munaf H. , M. Abbas Al-Temimi Hassan
Published: December 2020

Renal transplantation is a principal treatment option for end-stage kidney failure. Bone loss and fracture are serious complication of kidney transplantation, associated with morbidity and mortality. The pathogenesis of post transplantation bone loss is multifactorial and complex
Assessment of Some Hematological parameters in Iraqi Women with Different Breast Cancer Stages
Authors: M. Ali Zahra , H. Ali Shatha , Y. Mohsen Forat
Published: December 2020

Breast cancer (BC) is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women. The metabolism of iron is closely regulated by hepcidin which exerts its action by interacting with a ferroportin.

 The aim of the present study was to assess the alterations in the levels of some serum biomarkers that have a role in iron homeostasis (hepcidin and ferroportin) in addition to hematological parameters (hemoglobin, leukocyte and platelets count) in different stages of BC.

This study included 66 women with BC. The patients were categorized as follows : group 1 includes :22 patients with stage I disease ,group 2 includes: 22 patients with stage II disease ,and group 3 include: 22 patients with stage III disease .Group 4 includes :22 apparently healthy women as control.

Data analysis revealed a significant elevation of serum hepcidin levels of patients groups 1, 2, and 3 (437.2±26.4, 501.4±31.8 and 558.5±21.3 pg/ml respectively) ,vs  (179.4±19.8 pg/ml) of control, with  steady elevations from stage I to III . Furthermore, serum ferroportin levels were significantly lowered in groups 1 and 3 compared to control  (0.589±0.107  and 0.733±0.1 vs 1.37±0.28 ng/ml respectively).While  blood hemoglobin level of group 3 were lower (11.96±0.18 vs  12.7±0.13g/dl ) compared with controls . Blood leukocyte count of patients (all groups) (7.39±0.28 ,8.93±0.48,9.86±0.52 (^103/µl) respectively) were markedly increased compared to controls (6.06±0.23), while mean platelet count for patients in group 2&3 were significantly increased compared to controls  (313.9±19.3,309.2±25.3 vs 233.3±9.1 respectively).

In conclusion, hepcidin, ferroportin and hematological markers including hemoglobin, WBC count and platelets count are altered in women with BC compared to healthy control. The changes occur mostly in accordance with disease stages.
THE INFLUENCE OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT ON SELECTED ECONOMIES IN CENTRAL EUROPE
Authors: Škrabal Jaroslav
Published: December 2020

Nowadays, the decline in agricultural land is more evident than in the previous decades, and land is becoming a valuable natural resource. Agricultural land often gives way to construction activities, leading to the degradation of land resources almost all over the world. Foreign direct investment also affects the decline in agricultural land. The aim of this paper is to determine the influence of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the situation in individual economies in Central Europe (the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Austria, Poland and Hungary). In general, foreign direct investment reflects the intention of a resident of one economy (the direct investor) to acquire a permanent interest in an entity resident in an economy other than that of the investor. The paper focuses on FDI values and numbers on Greenfields in given economies and consequently how FDI significantly influence macroeconomic indicators such as GDP and unemployment in selected economies. The analyzed period is from 2003 to 2018. Data are obtained through the Eurostat, OECD, The World Bank and UNCTAD. In the period of recession (2009-2010), the FDI and GDP values in the economies are expected to be on a downward trend compared to unemployment, which will be higher than in previous years.
HIGHER EMPLOYEE COMMITMENT BY STRONG PEOPLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Authors: Kozak Anita
Published: December 2020

The purpose of this article is to reveal whether there are any relationships between the components of people management, the dimensions of the employees’ commitment and the socio-demographic characteristics of the interviewees. Furthermore, it is also the goal of this article to find out if there are any correlations between the two areas mentioned above. To carry out our research, we performed a primary examination among the students of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Eszterházy Károly University in Eger, Hungary. The ques-tionnaire was filled out by 410 people. We applied several mathematical and statistical methods to analyze the data. We can conclude from the results that the respondents’ age, position and the size of their salaries are in relation to the judgment of people management and the extent of their commitment. In addition, people management is related to the size of the organization and the commitment is related to the time of employment. During our examinations to reveal the relation¬ships between these two areas, it also turned out that all four components of people management are in connection with the affective, normative, professional, team-oriented and career-oriented types of commitment.
The Master and Margarita in Persian. Challenges of translating the realia of colloquial discourse
Authors: Akbarzadekh N.
Published: December 2020

The article takes a look at the issues arising during translation of M. Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita [Master i Margarita] into the Persian language and the history of translations of Bulgakov’s works in Iran. The author sets out to identify specific realia and language nuances that are hard to understand by readers in the target culture of Iran as well as ways to render them in Persian, using the example of Abbas Milani’s translation. The scholar enumerates possible strategies for vocabulary that does not have equivalents in the target language: the use of transcription and transliteration, the descriptive method, contextual translation, etc. The author finds that the best strategy would combine all of the above, as well as make good use of footnotes and references to help readers reconstruct the cultural and historical background of the events described in Bulgakov’s novel. Although Iran, too, experienced effects of the socialist revolution, Sovietisms remain too complicated for Iranian readers and require more detailed knowledge of the period. In this case, the only way for a translator to preserve the flavour of the era is to use footnotes, comments, and explanations.
Denisov, A. (2019). Pilnyak Readings in Kolomna. In memoriam A. P. Auer. Kolomna: Serebro slov. (In Russ.)
Authors: Dubova M. A.
Published: December 2020

A review of A. Denisov’s book on Kolomna realia in the life and works of the famous Russian writer Boris Pilnyak (Vogau) and the 30 years of Pilnyak Readings, a tradition founded by A. Auer. The book’s two-part structure is directly explained by the logic of the author’s plan: he sets out to describe the close Kolomna ties of B. Pilnyak’s family and to illustrate Kolomna-related details in the writer’s books; in the second and more voluminous part of his book, A. Denisov focuses on the personality of Professor A. Auer, the founder of Pilnyak Readings, a conference that introduced systematic studies of B. Pilnyak’s works and at first attracted local history researchers and scholars, later reaching an international audience. The history of Pilnyak Readings establishes a strong association between the writer B. Pilnyak and the internationally renowned scholar Professor A. Auer.
‘Eternal’ Sonechka: An attempt to discover an archetype
Authors: Korotkova L. Y.
Published: December 2020

The article discusses the transformation of the image of ‘eternal’ Sonechka, originating in F. Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment [Prestuplenie i nakazanie] and undergoing subsequent changes while preserving the stability of an archetype and acquiring new meanings in M. Tsvetaeva’s The Tale of Sonechka [Povest o Sonechke] (1938), T. Tolstaya’s short story Sonya (1984) and L. Ulitskaya’s novel Sonechka (1992). In following the logic of the heroine’s development, the author finds that all Sonechkas share such features as femininity, loyalty, and an inherent ability to ‘radiate passionate enthusiasm and give warmth:’ this talent for self-sacrifice can be realized in a family, in one’s attitude towards art or a lover, or just by mistake (as in the case of T. Tolstaya’s Sonya). It is easy to see that all female authors in focus of L. Korotkova’s article, while polemicizing with Dostoevsky in that they exaggerate the heroine’s traits to absurd proportions, fall under the spell of the charming ‘eternal Sonechka as long as the world lasts.’ The undying interest of Russian literature in this character only confirms its archetypal status in Russian culture.
Kutenkov, B., Mileshkin, N. and Semyonova, E., eds. (2020). The anthology of Literary Readings ‘They Are Gone. They Stayed On’ [‘Oni ushli. Oni ostalis’]. Vol. 2 (parts 1-2). 2nd ed. Moscow: LitGOST. (In Russ.)
Authors: Salomatin A. V.
Published: December 2020

The second volume of the a logy prepared by a team of compilers from papers submitted for the literary conference They Are Gone. They Stayed On [Oni ushli. Oni ostalis] includes works by poets who passed away in the 1970s–1980s at an age younger than forty and showcases little known as well as very familiar names. Each poetic collection is supplied with a brief biography and critical reviews and reminiscences by contemporary scholars as well as people personally acquainted with the poet. The review considers the structure of the book and attempts to identify its underpinning principles; the author points out genetically and topologically cognate phenomena which provide a context for a discussion of the anthology and touches on the issue of professionalism and dilettantism in the contemporary literary process, such an issue being pivotal for identification of this book as a cultural phenomenon.
Etoev, A. and Krusanov, P., eds. (2018). How we write. Writers on literature, time, and themselves. Moscow: Azbuka-Attikus. (In Russ.)
Authors: Timofeev A. N.
Published: December 2020

A review of the collection How We Write. Writers on Literature, Time, and Themselves [Kak my pishem. Pisateli o literature, vremeni i o sebe] published by Azbuka-Attikus in 2018. The reviewer analyzes the difference in approach to compiling the material for the reviewed collection and its ‘original’ of the same name initiated by Eugene Zamyatin and published in 1930. The author provides a general description of essays in the collection, produced by contemporary writers. He singles out authors whose self-reflection transcends into an aesthetic dimension. Several internal plots of the collection are identified: ‘I and literature,’ ‘I and time,’ and the writer and a multicultural situation. Noted is the disparity on the artistic level among the essays by different contributors. The reviewer concludes that, rather than representing a consistent statement defined by an internal logic and purpose, the collection attempts to cover the entirety of the contemporary literary process and showcase its diversity.
Klein, L. (2019). The Iliad: An epic and history. St. Petersburg: Eurasia. (In Russ.)
Authors: Shapovalova A. A.
Published: December 2020

The Iliad: An Epic and History [‘Iliada’: epos i istoriya] is the last book by L. Klein, a prominent Russian historian, archaeologist, philologist, and the founder of theoretical archaeology. The book was originally conceived as the third part of a larger research project, The Iliad Deciphered [Rasshifrovannaya ‘Iliada’]. The Iliad: An Epic and History includes important additions to The Iliad’s Anatomy [Anatomiya ‘Iliady’], with references to its tables and maps, as well as to Disembodied Heroes [Besplotnye geroi]. Klein analyzes how frequently epithets were used with city names and names of the heroes, as well as morphemes of frequently used and key words in terms of their age and geography. Based on the results of this analysis, he divides the Iliad into parts and proceeds to describe them in detail. Klein also elaborates on the images of the heroes and their origins in local cults. A large part of the work is devoted to analysis of the Catalogue of Ships. Thanks to the findings provided by the book the readers get a comprehensive view of the overall textual structure of the Iliad.
Witches and goddesses in modern prose
Authors: Guskova A. A.
Published: December 2020

The article deals with the evolution of female demonic characters appearing in literature since the classics to this day. In Russian classics, infernal females with magical powers were not uncommon: described by V. Zhukovsky, O. Somov, N. Gogol, A. Kuprin, etc., they were mostly treated as ‘abnormal’ or negative. The perception has changed dramatically in modern literature: a woman with connections to infernal powers (e. g. princess Tichert in A. Ivanov’s novel The Heart of Parma [Serdtse Parmy] or Rogneda in M. Galina’s Mole Crickets [Medvedki], etc.) is no longer a manifestly negative character. A. Guskova discovers that the contemporary infernal (or demonic) female character is not so much part of a love theme but is rather connected to the magic of the story’s location: the Urals in A. Ivanov’s book and Transdniestria in M. Galina’s, respectively. Also transformed is the nature of the contact between the heroine and the male protagonist: the impossibility of a constructive interaction and mortal danger (in classic prose) are replaced with a positive tone, granting the protagonist an opportunity for development.
SUSTAINABLE E-WASTE MANAGEMENT IN MALAYSIA: LESSONS FROM SELECTED COUNTRIES
Authors: Shad Khalid Mehmood , Tan Yen Ling , Karim Mohammad Ershadul
Published: December 2020

The seriousness of electrical and electronic equipment waste (E-waste/WEEE) problem is currently haunting both developed and developing nations around the world. WEEE in layman’s term can be defined as discarded components of electrical and electronic equipment that have no reuse value. Improper disposal of WEEE can bring about catastrophic effects to mankind and the environment. The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, 1992 categorises WEEE as hazardous waste due to the presence of toxic materials. Currently, the production of WEEE is expanding at a significant rate and is expected to touch 52.2 million Mt tonnes globally by 2021. The nations around the world have taken initiatives such as introducing new laws, regulations and policies. Malaysia is also similarly affected by the increasing volume of WEEE and it has been reported that its WEEE would reach an aggregate of 762.507 million units by 2020. In response, the Malaysian government has drafted a new regulation, the Environmental Quality (Household Scheduled Waste) Regulation, which is currently under review by the Attorney General’s Chambers. Using the library-based research methodology, this legal research aims to provide a comprehensive overview of WEEE management from a global as well as the Malaysian perspective. A brief discussion on the classification of e-waste and analysis of key initiatives taken worldwide is provided and examined. The article concludes with a recommendation for the necessary actions that can be adopted to enhance best WEEE management practices in Malaysia, to ensure the threat imposed by WEEE on mankind and the environment is curtailed.