bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Agroturism in ukraine and its innovative composition
Authors: Vlasenko I.V.
Published: June 2018

The regional features of forming a marketing complex of rural green tourism in conditions of economic instability are considered. The purpose of the research is to develop theoretical and methodological approaches to the formation of the marketing complex of tourist enterprises of rural green tourism in Vinnytsia region. The theoretical and methodological provisions, scientific and practical recommendations concerning promotion of rural green tourism are substantiated. The state of development of marketing of rural green tourism in conditions of development of a market economy is analyzed. It is noted that rural green tourism should be considered as an integral part of the program of integrated socio-economic development of the village and its revival, as well as through the development of rural green tourism, sustainable economic and demographic development in rural areas can be ensured. Promotion of tourism product with marketing efforts «Seven R» is shown. It has been found that the majority of the rural tourism industry is represented by small, mostly family-owned enterprises that do not use (or use very few) marketing approaches because of: lack of understanding of the principles and role of marketing in gaining profit for small farms and marketing costs. The main obstacles encountered by the owners of the agrosides themselves are intended to carry out marketing measures for the promotion of their products on the market. It is shown that the marketing price policy of the product of agroclitin in the market is based on three factors: costs, demand, competition. In today's market conditions, the leader is a price-driven demand-driven strategy: about 54.2% of marketing managers consider it to be a priority. Prices of rural green tourism providers do not disclose publicly. However, the functioning of agro-oles is increasingly characterized by signs of imperfect (monopolistic) competition, in particular through the use of non-price competition. Only about 15% of tourist enterprises in the region determine the main criterion for competition pricing marketing strategy. For further development of rural green tourism in the region, the strategy of balanced regional development of Vinnytsia region for the period till 2020 is considered. List of problematic issues hindering the development of rural tourism, the solution of which requires special regulatory regulation. It is proposed to form a clear marketing strategy for the development of the tourism industry of Ukraine at the national level, which should correspond to the strategies and programs of tourism development at the regional level, which will create new jobs, improve the quality of service provision and gradually improve the quality of the infrastructure components (roads, agro churches, museums, etc.), which provides comfort of consumption of tourist services by foreign and domestic tourists.
The essence of the globalization of the veterinary market in Ukraine
Authors: Harvas H.D.
Published: June 2018

The globalization of the world economy is in different directions, one of which is the process of globalization of markets where competition offers opportunities to participants in finding manufacturing innovations to achieve greater efficiency in their work. Today, the world market of veterinary pharmacy, is actively developing, therefore, it is necessary to look for effective ways to improve the quality, safety and competitiveness of veterinary medicines of domestic producers, while complying with the legislation of Ukraine and the directives of the European Union. The main problem of the veterinary medicines market in Ukraine is first of all: insufficient state regulation, the prevailing share of the range of foreign drugs, a significant proportion of counterfeit, counterfeit, unregistered drugs in Ukraine, a significant percentage of generic drugs, all these factors create the conditions of access to the market for foreign manufacturers. The effective mechanism for the development of the domestic veterinary pharmacy in the conditions of global globalization and restructuring of the economy is the flexible association of enterprises-manufacturers, and as the world experience has shown, the most effective is to merge into a cluster. The interest in clusters in the world is constantly growing, and research in various countries confirms that the implementation of cluster structures is the key to socio-economic development and the effective functioning of the state as a whole. Economy territories, which is based on clusters is a model of attractive and competitive economy based on the use of synergy effects and scale. Cluster networks of territorial production systems are sources and factors of ensuring a high level and quality of life of the population, economic growth and sustainable development of territories.
Mechanism of implementation of personnel policy at different stages of the life cycle of agricultural enterprises
Authors: Voskobijnyk S.J.
Published: June 2018

The set of external factors, such as: the unstable situation in the East of Ukraine, the state of the economic situation, the situation in the labor market, the labor legislation of our state; as well as internal factors: the goals of the enterprise, the style of management, the image of the enterprise, etc., directly affects the formation and activity of agricultural enterprises in general, and in particular, their personnel policy, without which no company can handle. After all, it is an integral strategy of personnel work, which combines various elements and forms of personnel work, whose purpose is to create a highly productive and highly professional, cohesive and responsible team capable of responding quickly to changes in the internal and external environment. That is why human resources policy needs to be modified in line with these factors and conditions in which it operates, and agricultural enterprises should push for new or improved mechanisms for its implementation. Taking into account the peculiarities of agriculture and the fact that all enterprises undergo such stages of the life cycle: creation, growth, stability, decline, in this publication a new stage is set, namely, the crisis stage of the functioning of an agricultural enterprise. As a result, the mechanism of personnel policy implementation has been improved, through the proposed measures at the new stage. Also reviewed are measures of personnel policy at all other stages of the company's life cycle, proposed by other leading researchers. In the scientific article the essence of the concepts «personnel policy», «life cycle of the enterprise», «mechanism», «mechanism of implementation of personnel policy of the enterprise» is explained; the stages of the life cycle of enterprises proposed by leading scientists are considered; A new crisis phase of the life cycle of agricultural enterprises is highlighted, the process of enterprise activity is described at various stages of its life cycle, the proposed measures of personnel policy, and the improvement of the mechanism of its implementation in agricultural enterprises.
Determination of the level of psychological fatigue of future specialists in the production and processing of livestock products
Authors: Semeniv B.S. , Babych A.M. , Prystavskyi T.G. , Stahiv M.M. , Golubeva O.Т.
Published: June 2018

In today's socio-economic conditions, the professional training of students in higher educational establishments, which most concretely embodies the principle of the organic connection of physical education with the practice of work activity, is of great importance. The purpose of physical education in educational institutions is to facilitate the preparation of harmoniously, highly skilled specialists. In the process of training from the course of physical education, the tasks are to be solved: education of students of high moral, volitional and physical qualities, readiness for highly productive work; preservation and strengthening of health, promotion of proper formation and comprehensive development of the organism, maintenance of high efficiency during the whole period of training; comprehensive physical training of students; their profile physical training taking into account the peculiarities of future labor activity; acquisition of students the necessary knowledge on the basics of theory, methodology and organization of physical education and sports training; education of students convinced of the need to regularly engage in physical education and sports. From the practice of production, it is known that highly productive labor in most cases is ensured not only by the presence of an interest in the worker in his profession, but also his body's adaptation to the implementation of motor operations associated with its production activity. As indicated by scientific studies, the interest of students is usually lost to any type of motor activity, if it causes him a rapid physical and psychological fatigue. The realities of the country's economy point to the need to create and expand the labor market, which now has a high demand for skilled workers in the manufacturing spheres of many sectors of the national economy. Proceeding from this, a significant part of our youth is aware of this fact and seeks to get such professions, which have the greatest demand for production, linking their future with the hope of high-paying work, and with it, with their stable and worthy future personal life. At the same time, human activity, physical culture and sports are important factors for improvement, health promotion, which ultimately enhances the creative activity of man and his ability to work.
Zomorphic images of Ukrainian folklore: demiurge birds in the Ukrainian winter calendar ritual poetry
Authors: Shutak O.S. , Konoplenko N.A. , Podoliak M.V.
Published: June 2018

The world-view system of Ukrainians is one of the richest and symbolically-filled models of knowledge of the surrounding world, which fully represented itself in various forms of art and, above all, in folklore. It is the oral folk art that most fully preserved the representation of the ancient Ukrainians about the establishment of the world, the appearance of the first plants and animals, the emergence of elements, human, etc. At that time, when there was no written language yet (prehistoric period), our ancestors broadcasted their understanding of life processes by means of verbal literature, encrypting it in a figurative system. The article examines the history of the study of zoomorphic images in Ukrainian folklore from the 1930s to the present, points to the diversity of interpretation of animal symbols in different genres of oral folk poetry, and focuses on the symbols of demiurgeous birds. It is in the poetry of the winter calendar ritual cycle, as the oldest stratum of Ukrainian folklore, that we find the image of the birds-founders of our world, which forms a coherent picture of the mythological notions of our ancestors about its beginning. In carols and shcherdivkas, in particular cosmogonic, ornithopes are a prominent place. The connection between the image of the bird and the two most ancient ideas-symbols – the true and the world tree-the most archaic models of the world order – is analyzed. At a time when in folk poetry of other genres, ornithomorphic images carry a diverse semantic load, then in cosmogonic carols they symbolize only the process of creation, where the act of diving, immersion in the right is a symbol of the «conception» of the world, the penetration and degeneration of one life-giving energy into another (the idea of fertility).It was in the images of the falcon and the pigeon, pure and good beings, that our ancestors saw the founders of all living things, they considered their primary source and life-giving energy.
Some remarks on the Turkicisation of the Mongols in post-Mongol Central Asia and the Qipchaq Steppe
Authors: Lee Joo-Yup
Published: June 2018

The Turkic nomads of the Mongol successor states in Central Asia and the Qipchaq Steppe arose from the merging of various Turkic groups and the Mongols. The former had consisted of heterogeneous elements that did not coalesce into a single entity sharing a common identity and historical consciousness. They thus did not constitute a uniform majority in relation to the more cohesive Mongols. In terms of tribal and genetic compositions, the Turkic nomads of the Mongol successor states were closer to the Mongols than to the pre-Mongol Turkic groups. Naturally, they held on to a predominantly Mongol orientation rather than reverting to pre-Mongol identities.
Apocope of Late Old Chinese short *ă: Early Central Asian loanword and Old Japanese evidence for Old Chinese disyllabic morphemes
Authors: Beckwith Christopher I. , Kiyose Gisaburo N.
Published: June 2018

The morphophonology of Old Chinese has usually been reconstructed as an earlier version of the traditional reconstruction of Middle Chinese, with exclusively monosyllabic morphemes. For Old Chinese some scholars have posited syllabic morphemes with long or short vowels, or even polysyllabic morphemes, and other theories have been proposed, but it is still assumed that by Late Old Chinese any longer morphemes that once existed were already monosyllabic. However, Central Asian loans in Chinese suggest some disyllabic morphemes still existed in Late Old Chinese. They seem to be confirmed by a new study of little-noted Old Japanese transcriptions known as nigōgana. Thus the hitherto problematic Old Chinese and Old Japanese transcriptions of foreign words such as Saka and Buddha, and the monosyllabic theory of Old Chinese morphology, must be reconsidered. This paper’s new reconstructions conform to the data and have great implications for the reconstruction of Old Chinese as well as for the reconstruction of the early Chinese loans into Japanese.
In search of the tomb of Sultan Süleyman in Szigetvár
Authors: Fodor Pál , Pap Norbert
Published: June 2018

The authors first review the investigations into the history of the lost mausoleum (türbe) and the surrounding complex of Sultan Süleyman who died during the siege of Szigetvár on September 7, 1566. Then they narrate the establishment in 2012 (reshaped in 2015) of a research group which, by developing a new concept and using interdisciplinary research methods (including landscape reconstruction), found the remnants (foundations) of the türbe on the top of the Turbék-Zsibót vineyard hill in autumn 2015, then, during the rounds of excavation in 2016–2017, the foundations of the adjacent mosque and dervish convent as well as the traces of a fourth building. Regarding the date of the construction of the complex, the authors are of the opinion that the main buildings must have been built around 1575. Finally, they enlarge on the reception of the findings and the potential the site offers for touristic and regional development.
The Sacrament of Confession and Child Sexual Abuse: Reported Practise of Tasmanian Anglican Clergy Navigating the Confidentiality Dilemma
Authors: Guerzoni Michael Andre
Published: June 2018

The sacrament of confession is criticised for impeding clerical reporting ofinformation about child sexual abuse to authorities. The sacrament of confessionis found within Catholicism and Anglicanism and imposes a ‘seal’on priests, forbidding them from ever revealing details of the sins confessedto them. This creates a moral dilemma in cases of abuse: should the priestobey canon or civil law? There have been recent efforts in AustralianAnglicanism to address this dilemma via canonical reform in 2014 and2017. In light of these changes, this article examines the perspectives ofAnglican clergy in the Anglican Diocese of Tasmania towards the confessionalseal. Findings reveal that most clergy would not obey canon law andecclesiastical instructions about maintaining the confessional seal on thegrounds that this requirement contravenes their theological and moralprinciples. The clergy also describe their approaches to responding toinformation of harm revealed both in confessional and pastoral encounters,demonstrating a desire to act in ways that assist all parties involved.
Zygmunt Bauman and Stanislaw Obirek. Of God and Man. Translated by Katarzyna Bartoszynska and Zygmunt Bauman and Stanislaw Obirek. On the World and Ourselves. Translated by Lydia Bauman
Authors: Steele Sean
Published: June 2018

Zygmunt Bauman and Stanislaw Obirek. Of God and Man. Translated by Katarzyna Bartoszynska. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014, pp. ix + 126, ISBN: 9780745695693 (pbk).Zygmunt Bauman and Stanislaw Obirek. On the World and Ourselves. Translated by Lydia Bauman. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015, pp. ix + 199, ISBN: 9780745687124 (pbk).
Blocking Properdin Prevents Complement-Mediated Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome and Systemic Thrombophilia
Authors: Ueda Yoshiyasu , Miwa Takashi , Gullipalli Damodar , Sato Sayaka , Ito Daisuke , Kim Hangsoo , Palmer Matthew , Song Wen-Chao
Published: June 2018

Background Properdin (P) is a positive regulator of the alternative pathway of complement activation. Although P inhibition is expected and has been shown to ameliorate the alternative pathway of complement-mediated tissue injury in several disease models, it unexpectedly exacerbated renal injury in a murine model of C3 glomerulopathy. The role of P in atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) is uncertain.

Methods We blocked P function by genetic deletion or mAb-mediated inhibition in mice carrying a factor H (FH) point mutation, W1206R (FHR/R), that causes aHUS and systemic thrombophilia with high mortality.

Results P deficiency completely rescued FHR/R mice from premature death and prevented thrombocytopenia, hemolytic anemia, and renal disease. It also eliminated macrovessel thrombi that were prevalent in FHR/R mice. All mice that received a function-blocking anti-P mAb for 8 weeks survived the experimental period and appeared grossly healthy. Platelet counts and hemoglobin levels were significantly improved in FHR/R mice after 4 weeks of anti-P mAb treatment. One half of the FHR/R mice treated with an isotype control mAb but none of the anti-P mAb-treated mice developed stroke-related neurologic disease. Anti-P mAb-treated FHR/R mice showed largely normal renal histology, and residual liver thrombi were detected in only three of 15 treated mice.

Conclusions These results contrast with the detrimental effect of P inhibition observed in a murine model of C3 glomerulopathy and suggest that P contributes critically to aHUS pathogenesis. Inhibition of P in aHUS may be of therapeutic benefit.
C5b9 Formation on Endothelial Cells Reflects Complement Defects among Patients with Renal Thrombotic Microangiopathy and Severe Hypertension
Authors: Timmermans Sjoerd A.M.E.G. , Abdul-Hamid Myrurgia A. , Potjewijd Judith , Theunissen Ruud O.M.F.I.H. , Damoiseaux Jan G.M.C. , Reutelingsperger Chris P. , van Paassen Pieter ,   on behalf of the Limburg Renal Registry
Published: June 2018

Background Severe hypertension can induce thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) in the renal vasculature, the occurrence of which has been linked to mechanical stress to the endothelium. Complement defects may be the culprit of disease in patients who present with severe renal disease and often progress to ESRD, despite BP control.

Methods We studied a well defined cohort of 17 patients with hypertension-associated TMA to define the prevalence of complement defects by a specific ex vivo serum-based microvascular endothelial cell assay.

Results Compared with normal human serum and samples from patients with hypertensive arterionephrosclerosis, 14 of 16 (87.5%) serum samples collected at presentation from 16 patients with hypertension-associated TMA induced abnormal C5b9 formation on microvascular endothelial cells. We detected rare variants in complement genes in eight of 17 (47%) patients. ESRD occurred in 14 of 17 (82%) patients, and recurrent TMA after transplant occurred in seven of 11 (64%) donor kidneys. Eculizumab improved the renal function in three patients and prevented TMA recurrence in an allograft recipient.

Conclusions These observations point to complement defects as the key causative factor of ESRD and recurrent TMA after transplant in patients presenting with severe hypertension. Complement defects can be identified by measurements of complement activation on microvascular endothelial cells, which should substantially influence treatment and prognosis.
ÇOK KRİTERLİ KARAR VERME YAKLAŞIMI İLE PERSONEL SAYISININ DENGELENMESİ: BİR KAMU ÜNİVERSİTESİ İÇİN GERÇEK HAYAT UYGULAMASI
Authors: KAYA İhsan , ERDOĞAN Melike
Published: June 2018

Bir üniversitede idari süreçlerin zamanında ve etkin bir şekilde işlemesi,
öğrencileri, akademisyenleri hatta etkileşimde olduğu diğer üniversiteleri de
etkiler. Bu etkinliğin sağlanabilmesi için fakülteler ve bölümler bazında en
uygun personel sayısının bulunması büyük önem arz etmektedir. Bu çalışmada bir
kamu üniversitesinde fakülteler ve bölümler bazında en uygun idari personel
sayısının belirlenmesi ve var olan personelin bu analize göre dağıtımı
gerçekleştirilmiştir. Öncelikle mevcut durum analizi yapılmış, ardından
personel ihtiyacı veya fazlası bulunan fakülteler/bölümler belirlenerek
personel kaydırma işlemi uygulanmıştır. İş yüklerinin saptanmasında, birimsel
yük ağırlıklarının belirlenmesinde oldukça yaygın başvurulan Analitik Hiyerarşi
Süreci (AHS) kullanılarak işlerin birbirlerine göre ağırlıkları hesaplanmıştır.
Çalışma genel anlamıyla bir personel çizelgeleme problemi olarak ele
alınabilir. Ancak sunulan problemin klasik bir personel çizelgeleme
probleminden farkının temel olarak, zamanı göz önünde bulundurarak personeli
vardiyalara göre atamak değil, var olan personeli standart çalışma saatleri
için iş yüküne göre dağıtmak ve birimler bazında en uygun personel sayısını
elde etmek olduğu söylenebilir. Analiz sonucunda, bölüm ve dekanlıklar bazında
eldeki personel ile dengenin sağlanıp sağlanmadığı ve ek personele ihtiyaç
duyulup duyulmadığı araştırılmıştır.
Efficient Mismatch
Authors: Arseneau David M. , Epstein Brendan
Published: June 2018

This paper presents a model in which mismatch employment arises in a constrained efficient equilibrium. In the decentralized economy, however, mismatch gives rise to a congestion externality whereby heterogeneous job seekers fail to internalize how their individual actions affect the labor market outcomes of competitors in a common unemployment pool. We provide an analytic characterization of this distortion, assess the distributional nature of the associated welfare effects, and relate it to the relative productivity of low- and high-skilled workers competing for similar jobs.
Securitización como supervivencia, securitización como actos del habla: crítica a la Escuela de Copenhague/ Securitization as Survival, Securitization as a Speech Act: A Critic to the Copenhagen School
Authors: Revelo Michael Daniel
Published: June 2018

El presente trabajo evalúa los postulados y la aplicación de la teoría de securitización (TS) de la Escuela de Copenhague —Ole Wæver, Barry Buzan y Jaap de Wilde — para indagar sobre aquellos cuestionamientos que posicionan a esta como una teoría conservadora dentro de los estudios de seguridad por adoptar y reforzar principios propios de los enfoques tradicionales. Con dicho fin, se examina cómo afecta a la TS adoptar las concepciones de la seguridad como supervivencia y la producción de la seguridad a través de procesos intersubjetivos de construcción de amenazas bajo la lógica de la teoría de los actos del habla y los roles y funciones determinados para agentes securitizadores y audiencias que privilegian las experiencias de un grupo en detrimento de otros. Con base en el análisis de estos postulados, este documento critica la metodología propuesta por esta escuela, misma que restringe el cambio del objeto de referencia y la ampliación de la agenda de seguridad.

Abstract

The present paper addresses how the theoretical framework of the securitisation theory, conceived by the Copenhagen School, embraces unique features of the traditional security studies. Its central focus is the assessment of the conceptions of security as survival embedded in the logic of the speech act theory, and the characterisation of the role endows to the securitising agents and the audience. By analysing those, this work criticises the methodology proposed by the Copenhagen School that restrains the deepening of the referent object and the broadening of the security agenda.
Collection of brain stem for post-mortem diagnosis of rabies in animals by the LN34 pan-lyssavirus real-time RT-PCR assay v1
Authors: M. Gigante Crystal , Edgar Condori Rene , Orciari Lillian , G. Smith Todd , Li Yu
Published: June 2018

Patterns of rabies virus spread within the central nervous system suggest that a thorough examination of the brain stem is critical for rabies diagnosis. Viral RNA is widespread in the brain of most animals positive for rabies. However, because virus spread may be unilateral, especially in larger animals, a negative finding for rabies can be made only if a complete cross section of the brain stem is examined. Examination may be made at the level of the pons, medulla, or midbrain of the brain stem. While a negative finding for rabies can be made only if a full cross section of brain stem tissue is examined, incomplete or suboptimal specimens should be tested, if possible. Identification of rabies virus RNA in any tissue is diagnostic of rabies infection [1, 2]. Examples of samples that may be tested for rabies virus RNA to rule-in (but not rule-out) rabies infection are hippocampus, cerebellum, cortex, saliva, and nuchal skin biopsy.
PONE-D-18-02033 Data Sets v1
Authors: Lashkari Kameran , Teague Gianna , Chen Hong , Lin Yong-Qing , Kumar Sanjay , M. McLaughlin Megan , J. López Francisco
Published: June 2018

Table 1: Age distribution of subjects staged for AMD Table 2: CFI levels in subjects with AMD Fig. 3: Preincubation of CFI with amyloid B (1-42) reduces CFI bioactivity Fig. 4: Anti-amyloid B antibody, GSK933776 effectively blocks amyloid B's ability to inhibit CFI bioactivity Fig. 5: Measurement of CFI bioactivity Fig. 6: CFI bioactivity in a cohort of subjects with staged AMD and non-AMD normals Fig. 8: CFI bioactivity in plasma smaples of Alzheimer's disease
Escuchando a las víctimas del conflicto armado colombiano: la experiencia de un dispositivo de atención psicosocial
Authors: Castro-Sardi Ximena , Munévar-Rojas Margarita María
Published: June 2018

The recognition on the part of the Colombian state of the necessity of establishing mechanisms for the full compensation of the victims of the armed conflict has resulted in proposals of psychosocial rehabilitation aimed at mitigating the lasting mental effects caused by violent events. This article presents the experience of one instrument of psychosocial attention with the aim of contributing to the reflection about the necessity and the effectiveness of the proposed interventions. It presents the cases of three female victims and analyses them, taking three categories into account: the subjective implications of social recognition of the “victim”, the psychological development of the traumatic event, and the scope of the process of psychotherapeutic intervention. It arrives at conclusions about the importance of maintaining attentive listening to the individual coordinates of each subject-victim; avoiding the assumption that the long-term effects of victimizing events can be generalized; and of the necessity of strengthening the networking between institutions and healthcare departments.
Cambios contemporáneos en el mundo del trabajo, condiciones de subjetivación y gubernamentalidad
Authors: Maca-Urbano Deidi Yolima , Molina-Valencia Nelson
Published: June 2018

The objective of this article is to conduct a preliminary study of the ways in which some of the literature pertaining to the social sciences addresses, at a conceptual and methodological level, certain conditions of subjectification related to current changes in the world of work from the perspective of an analysis of governmentality focusing on in the effects on subjectivity that this implies. The research consisted of a content analysis of articles found on the abstract and citation data base Scopus. This analysis demonstrated that a trend exists that posits that subjectivities are produced by forms of governmentality. This in turn opens up a discussion of determinate subjectivities or emergent subjectivities, which is to say of taking into consideration which forms of governmentality foster or provide conditions of subjectification from which certain subjectivities emerge.
Freud y la ciencia: un balance epistemológico
Authors: Sampson Anthony
Published: June 2018

This article explores the relationships between Freud and the science of his era. Freud was profoundly committed to the 19th century view of science. The epistemological examination of his work has been contaminated by the psychological analysis of Freud himself. It aims to show that the work cannot be relegated to the field of pseudoscience due to Freud’s supposed personal shortcomings. Psychoanalysis is fully consistent with the scientific conception of the world to which Freud belonged. the article further argues that, for precisely this reason, psychoanalysis will be essential for the critical analysis of contemporaneous times.
An observational study of various drug promotional advertising brochures: with an emphasis on World Health Organization ethical criteria for medicinal drug promotion
Authors: Dass Ervilla
Published: June 2018

Background: Drug promotional literature (DPLs) is an integral approach of pharmaceutical marketing strategy, which can almost influence a physician to prescribe definite variety of medicine from a particular company. The objective was to evaluate the accuracy, consistency, and validity of the information in accordance with the World Health Organization (WHO) ethical criteria for medicinal drug promotion.Methods: This was an observational study, in which total 100 DPLs were sorted out to evaluate whether the information is consistent/relevant with that presented by the criteria laid down by the WHO guidelines; such as nature of claims, pictorial content presented, cited references, the indication and significance of various data such as figure, graphs, table and clinical data.Results: From all the 100 promotional literatures sorted out, all showed the INN name and brand name, amount of active ingredient, dosage form and name and address of manufacturers/distributers was shown in all; adjuvants known to cause problem were not shown. Moreover, approved therapeutic uses were clearly mentioned in 35, 48 were having pictures presented, scientific graphs and clinical data were shown in 19.Conclusions: The results reveal that, majority of DPLs satisfied only half of the WHO criteria for rational drug promotion and none of them fulfilled all the specified criteria. Incomplete or exaggerated information in DPLs may mislead and result in irrational prescription. Therefore, physicians should critically evaluate DPLs regarding updated scientific evidence required for quality patient care.
Epidemiology and clinical features of community acquired pneumonia: hospital based study
Authors: Lamb Avinash , Patil Amol Harinathrao
Published: June 2018

Background: Community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is an infection affecting a significant proportion of population from all age groups across the globe with considerable morbidity and mortality. There is a need for data from various parts of India to better understand the epidemiology of CAP. Present study is an attempt to present the relevant data from a tertiary care hospital in Rajkot, Gujarat during the study period.Methods: This observational prospective descriptive study was done during November 2014 to April 2016 at Department of TB and chest diseases, PDU Hospital at Rajkot in Gujarat. 50 patients with clinical features suggestive of CAP were enrolled. Male and female patients (above age of 12 years) admitted to TB and Chest ward or patients on OPD basis were selected for the study. The diagnosis of CAP was mainly clinical with some assistance from radiological picture. All patients were thoroughly examined particularly with regards to detailed history, clinical examination, predisposing factors and associated co-morbid conditions. Sputum examination-gram stain and culture sensitivity was done in all patients, where sputum was available. Sputum examination for acid fast bacilli (AFB) by Ziehl Nelson staining technique was done. Age and sex distribution of patients, microorganisms isolated and the clinical features were described and analyzed.Results: The mean age was 38.38±17.41 (SD) years. Male patients were 34 (68%) and female patients were 16 (32%). Male to female ratio was 2.1:1. In this study, 47 (94%) patients were admitted in the hospital for the management and 3 (6%) patients were treated on the OPD basis. Fever and cough were most common symptoms whereas dull note on affected side and crepitations were the commonest signs elicited. In this study, the most common predisposing factor was smoking which accounted for 20 (40%) patients. The most common lobe involved was Left Lower lobe accounting for 20 (40%) patients and least common lobe involved was left upper lobe accounting for 2 (4%) patients. Streptococcus pneumoniae was the most common organism isolated in 8 (16%) patients and second common organism was Klebsiella isolated in 7 (14%) patients.Conclusions: Males, especially smokers were more commonly affected and Streptococcus pneumoniae was the most common organism isolated. The study gives the hospital based data from the region regarding epidemiology and clinical features of community acquired pneumonia.
Patient related outcomes and ergonomic evaluation of triangular 3-port or ‘two-hand’ TEP hernioplasty: a preliminary analysis in a university hospital
Authors: Kumar Awanish , Pauchari Avtar , Anand Akshay , Sonkar Abhinav Arun
Published: June 2018

Background: Standard TEP technique requires three skin incisions for placement of three trocars in the midline. This can be done by 3 port triangular technique or two-hand technique. This study reports a preliminary analysis of peri-operative outcomes and ergonomics characteristics of this procedure in our setup.Methods: N=10 patients underwent triangular 3 port technique or two-hand TEP hernioplasty after informed written consent in Department of Surgery, King George’s Medical University UP between January to June 2016 after institutional ethical approval. Patient related outcomes in terms of quality of life (QOL) and ergonomic evaluation of the technique have been reported in this study.Results: The mean duration of surgery was 79.4±4.5 minutes with duration of hospital stay 2.4±0.5 days. The time to return to routine work was 1.0±0.2 days and office work was 4.0±1.8 days. Hernioplasty related QOL calculated using Carolina comfort scale showed improved with increased follow up period. Ergonomically the procedure can be safely performed without added stress on the surgeon.Conclusions: ‘Two-hand approach’ or triangular 3-port TEP hernioplasty is ergonomically feasible and enables a surgeon to perform surgery safely using basic principles of laparoscopy.
A study of morbidity and mortality profile among preterms suffering from Hyaline Membrane Disease in a tertiary care hospital in Cuttack, India
Authors: Pattar Mounesh , Das Leena
Published: June 2018

Background: Every newborn carries within itself immense possibility to transform into a complete healthy human being and fulfill the needs the future will demand. Of the problems of premature baby, respiratory causes are the commonest admission to NICU. The common respiratory problem encountered is Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) also known as Hyaline membrane disease (HMD), whose incidence increases as babies are born early. The objective of the study was to assess the morbidity and mortality profile among preterms suffering from Hayaline membrane disease in a tertiary care hospital in Cuttack.Methods: A prospective comparative study was conducted in the neonatal intensive care unit of SVPPGIP Hospital attached to the SCB Medical College, Department of Pediatrics, Cuttack from September 2010 to September 2012. A total of 103 preterm newborn with Hyaline membrane disease were included in the study.Results: Out of 103, 67 male and 36 females were included in the study.The total neonatal death in our study was 44 (42.7%) pre-term out of 103 subjects. The death of neonate within 1st week or 168 hrs of age of birth irrespective of cause was considered for early neonatal death which was 21 (47.7%) of the total neonatal death.Conclusions: It may be worth considering surfactant replacement therapy in neonates between with RDS 30-33 weeks gestation in level III care setup in our country even being referred late but less than 24 hrs of age with supportive and aseptic care.
On Markovian Aspect of Academic Staff Structure in Private Higher Institutions
Authors: Adekunle O. Joshua Magbagbeola
Published: June 2018

Frustrations, agony and tales of woes that greeted the aftermath of any concluded accreditation exercise informed our interest in addressing this ugly trend that has bedeviled our higher educational system. The dearth or otherwise absence of an appropriate model(s) that will satisfy both the starting matrix and the NUCs staff mix by rank matrix explains this disconnect. A typical challenge here is to reach a desired structure by a certain time in a changing environment or with the smallest possible cost in other to meet up with NUC accreditation minimum bench mark requirement for any higher educational institution. The main objective was to reach a desired structure by a certain time in a changing environment or with the smallest possible cost. Therefore a certain degree of control is sensible at various points in time to the attainment of the desired academic staff structure of any higher institution to monitor the academic staff-mix by rank of Academic staff structure of universities not to fall short of NUC requirements for accreditation. In our work, the concept of time as an optimality performance criterion was used to obtain an optimal recruitment control vector for a manpower system modelled by a stochastic differential equation through the necessary condition of Pontryagin theorem. Desired transition matrix P was obtained that is not stochastic but could be further developed into a stochastic matrix as required.
Construct Validity And Reliability Of Outdoor Education Evaluation Instrument
Authors: Hashim Assoc. Prof Dr Ahmad , Alvin Raj Alvin
Published: June 2018

This research aims to obtain the validity and reliability of a survey instrument to evaluate outdoor education. It is a survey which is divided into three components namely first; strategic knowledge, second; efficient behaviour and third; affective. Development of the survey instrument is based on Tennessee Self Concept Questionnaire, Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), Participant Motivation Questionnaire (PMQ), Cooper Smith Inventory, Group Environment Questionnaire (GEQ) and Outdoor Education Manual (MPL). There are 95 items prepared based on the five-point Likert scale which were tested at the pilot test level. It involved 100 research subjects aged between 15 and 16 years old who were selected based on purposive random sampling.  In addition, the research method applied is in the form of pre-experimental one group pre-test–post-test. Results of the analysis showed that overall field expert validity is r = .89 and language expert validity is r = .90, while the Cronbach alpha reliability correlation value of outdoor education instrument evaluation survey is  r = .89. Next, this survey was tested again for construct validity using the factor analysis method for statistical analysis  which would validate each item tested was supposed to be in the right component.  From the analysis, results show that Bartlett’s test is significant p < .05 and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin index range is r = .62. 81.16 percent variant is explained from  18 components which have been analyzed with more than one eigenvalue. 51 survey items are produced out of 95 items of the survey based on this factor analysis method. Research has shown that the survey instrument developed  is valid and reliable to be used for Sabah’s Co-curricular Centre.
Teachers’ Views on the Utility of the Teacher’s File
Authors: Makhele Enos Moeti
Published: June 2018

In 2010, the Department of Basic Education instructed its teachers to maintain a teacher's file. This article reports on a research project which described teachers’ views on the utility of the teacher’s file and its relationship to skill of reflection related continuous professional teacher development (CPTD). The research described the meaning and the sense teachers attached to maintaining this file in the light of assumptions and principles of the experiential learning theory (ELT).  It also probed ideas related to how the file could be improved and developed into a resource that contributes to the professional development of teachers in terms of teaching, learning and assessment (TLA). The study utilized interviews and document study as tools to collect data which were later analyzed and interpreted to arrive at the research findings and recommendations. The study found that all teachers regarded the teachers' file as an administrative tool which had nothing to do with their own professional development. They regarded it as a management tool which was meant to monitor them. The study found that to acquire more meaning to the teacher, the file must be enhanced to include more teacher advancement related matters. In view of the teachers' feelings that the file was purely administrative, the Department of Basic Education could review its current format and render it relevant to the professional development of the teacher. The aspects of professional development must include specific areas such as teaching, learning, assessment, classroom management and administration.
Educational Management of Educational Institutions In Limitation’s State
Authors: . Baequni - , . Suryadi , Hanim Zaenab
Published: June 2018

Junior High School Based Pesantren (SMPBP) Mutiara Bangsa is an implementation of community-based management model developed by the government as one alternative in dealing with border education issues, both educational issues due to the characteristics of the border areas themselves, as well as problems related to the education of child’s Indonesian Migrant Workers (TKI) who have not met national education policy expectations and MDGs commitments.

The focus of this study is the management of integrated educational management of public education units with religious education units; the educational role of existing an educational institution in Sebatik Nunukan North Kalimantan, as a community-based educational institution that supports government programs and helps tackle educational issues in border areas.

This study uses the Case Study method, through data collection through participatory observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation and data analysis as used by K. Yin.

 Research result titled Educational Management of Educational Institutions in Border Areas, Case Study at Junior High School- Based Pesantren Mutiara Bangsa Sebatik Nunukan District. First, Mutiara Bangsa education institution is the right alternative in the border area to fulfill the hope of increasing human resources of society, the form of strategic government policy, and indirectly maintain the integrity of Indonesian workforce. Second; the nation's education institution implements the function of planning, organizing, actuating and controlling as well as in other educational units, but there are differences in the handling of the child of Indonesian Migrant Workers, Third, the Mutiara Bangsa’s education institution has a strategic role in the border area as a container of government program implementation, National defense; realizing character education, providing educational services in 3T areas and an alternative education for Childs Indonesian Migrant Workers
Particularidades del costo en las universidades
Authors: López Rodríguez Miriam , Rodríguez Samaniego José Antonio
Published: June 2018

En el mundo actual es fundamental el papel que desempeñan las universidades en el desarrollo de las sociedades, lo que lleva implícita la necesidad del constante fortalecimiento institucional, con inversiones en infraestructura, capacitación, recursos bibliográficos y docentes, lo que ha incidido directamente en los costos universitarios, que deben mostrar la eficiencia en la gestión de los distintos procesos que se desarrollan en estas instituciones. La gestión de los costos no debe ser ajena al proceso de cambio por el cual atraviesan las universidades, aspecto que constituye el objeto de reflexión en el presente trabajo, destacándose la aplicación del costeo basado en actividades (ABC) a estos fines.
EXPRESSIVE SPEECH ACTS AND CULTURAL VALUES IN COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES WAHAH AL-ASDIQA’
Authors: Anggraeni Syifa Fauziah , Tajuddin Shafruddin , - Nuruddin
Published: June 2018

This study aims to describe expressive speech acts and cultural values of Arab society contained in a collection of short stories Wahah al-Asdiqa’. This research uses qualitative approach with content analysis method. First, the researcher reads and studies the data, then records some expressive speech acts, after that she classifies and analyzes the speech into expressive speech acts and cultural values of Arab society, and most recently interpretes the data. The data analysis found that in the Wahah al-Asdiqa’ there are eight types of thanks using expressive speech acts, one replies from thank you, five apologies, seven greetings, two congratulations, fourty praises, five sad expressions, fourteen joyful expressions, and three offensive words, and there are some values of Arabic culture such as language, art, religion, technology, occupation, social organization, and science. Most of the culture of Arab society is based on the teachings of Islam, such as how to greet, praise always given to God, stories of prophets, culture makes poetry, etc. The expressive speech acts and cultural values must be taught to the Arabic students to improve expressive speech acts and have multicultural competence in communicating.

Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan tindak tutur ekspresif dan nilai-nilai budaya dalam masyarakat Arab dalam kumpulan cerita pendek Wahah al-Asdiqa’. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode konten analisis. Pertama, peneliti membaca dan mengkaji data lalu mencatat tindak tutur ekspresif, setelah itu mengklasifikasi dan menganalisis perkataan tersebut dalam tindak tutur ekspresif dan nilai-nilai budaya dalam masyarakat Arab, dan kemudian menginterpretasikan data. Berdasar hasil analisis, ada delapan tipe ucapan berterima kasih yang menggunakan tindak tutur ekspresif, satu respon dari ucapan terima kasih, lima permintaan maaf, tujuh sapaan, dua ucapan selamat, 40 pujian, lima ungkapan sedih, 14 ungkapan bahagia, dan tiga kata hinaan, selain itu ada beberapa nilai budaya Arab seperti bahasa, seni, agama, teknologi, mata pencaharian, organisasi sosial, dan ilmu. Kebanyakan budaya masyarakat Arab didasarkan pada pengajaran Islam, seperti cara menyapa, pujian terhadap Tuhan, kisah-kisah nabi, budaya membuat puisi, dan sebagainya. Tindak tutur ekspresif dan nilai budaya harus diajarkan kepada siswa yang mempelajari Bahasa Arab untuk meningkatkan tindak tutur ekspresif dan memiliki kompetensi multi kultural dalam berkomunikasi.