bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
From Culture War to Difficult Dialogue: Exploring Distinct Frames for Citizen Exchange about Social Problems
Authors: Hess Jacob Z.
Published: May 2020

While the precise nature of socio-cultural conflict in the United States remains contested, there is growing scholarly agreement that elite (media/governmental) framings may be significantly aggravating public animosities. In order to better understand how actual citizens frame meaningful issues in such an atmosphere, we collaborated as socially liberal and conservative-leaning researchers in a joint study of twenty citizens across the political spectrum, from a conservative pastor and a traditional family advocate to a socialist activist and a leader of a feminist organization. This paper reports our analysis of citizen comments on fundamental problems facing society and their proposed solutions. Themes are organized within three general categories: 1) Talking about citizen exchange: What is the essence of “good” public discourse? 2) Defining social problems: What is the nature of fundamental challenges facing society? and 3) Delimiting solutions: What is the scope of needed social change? Within each category, patterns across citizen comments are identified and explored in light of prevailing stereotypes about “liberals” and “conservatives.” Based on this examination, possible shifts in the framing of liberal-conservative exchange are proposed as a potential contribution to a more nuanced and productive public deliberation across the partisan divide.
Political Science and the Work of Democracy
Authors: Harriger Katy J.
Published: May 2020

The study of democratic theory and democratic politics is at the core of the discipline of political science. Yet the very centrality of democracy to the discipline may be what makes it difficult to sort out whether political science is doing the work of democracy rather than simply the analysis of it. Political science’s origins were civic minded but it has evolved into a more professionalized observer of politics than a promoter or creator of democracy. Nonetheless, in recent years there has been, as in many disciplines, a renewed interest in the civic component of our work and a challenge to the dominant paradigms of disinterested analysis and formal modeling. There are promising developments in political science that are contributing to the deliberative democracy “movement,” both in research and pedagogy.
Communication Studies and Deliberative Democracy: Current Contributions and Future Possibilities
Authors: Carcasson Martín , Black Laura W. , Sink Elizabeth S.
Published: May 2020

This essay provides an overview of what is currently being done in the discipline of communication studies that can advance deliberative democracy, particularly in terms of student learning, and explores how those connections could be strengthened and extended. The essay is divided into three main sections. First, a brief history of the field of communication studies is provided. Next, four questions relevant to deliberative theory and practice are introduced and the teaching and research of communication scholars that provides significant responses are examined: (1) how do we improve how citizens process information and exercise judgment?, (2) how do we best deal the differences in our increasingly diverse communities?, (3) how can we better understand the processes and outcomes of deliberation?, and (4) what are the key future directions for deliberative theory and practice? Within this section, a number of the sub-fields within communication studies that connect directly or indirectly to deliberative work are introduced. The essay concludes with a review of the limitations to these connections and a “call to action” for increased public engagement.
Dialogue on Campus: An Overview of Promising Practices
Authors: Diaz Ande , Gilchrist Stephan Hiroshi
Published: May 2020

Higher education institutions are recognizing the value of dialogue in engaging diverse perspectives and experiences while providing the necessary skills and knowledge for students to become effective citizens. Colleges and universities are incorporating the theory and practice of dialogue across different dimensions of the curriculum, co-curriculum, pedagogy, and administration and governance. Examples include nation-wide intergroup dialogue programs, community standards processes in residence halls, and institution-wide decision making on curricula. Seen as a whole, these and other examples provide a vision for a comprehensive approach to integrating dialogue on campuses.
Why It Is Imperative To Strengthen American Democracy Through Study, Dialogue and Change In Higher Education
Authors: Thomas Nancy L.
Published: May 2020

In July 2007, about 40 people – faculty from across disciplines, campus leaders, and civic leaders – gathered for several days at the University of New Hampshire to discuss the role of higher education in American democracy. While we gathered out of concern for the way our democracy seemed to be working, we were also encouraged by promising experiments in democratic dialogue, deliberative politics, and public problem solving, efforts that seem strategic and designed with a strong democracy in mind. Many of the academics in the group were already experimenting with approaches to civic learning, political engagement, democratic dialogue, and programs in leadership or conflict resolution, but in many cases, they didn’t know about each other or even the networks of individuals doing similar work. We agreed to form The Democracy Imperative, a network of educators and who would work together to strengthen democracy in and through higher education.One of our first priorities was to publish a paper framing the nature of the problem and our vision for higher education as a vibrant partner in democratic renewal work. We published that paper in late 2007, but this is a fast-moving field. This 2010 version is an updated version of the Democracy Imperative's original framing paper.
Making the Move from Shouting to Listening to Public Action: A Student Perspective on Millennials and Dialogue
Authors: South Stephanie R.
Published: May 2020

This essay provides an overview of what one senior student at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado, found while researching the power of conversation to foster civic engagement among her peers. The essay is divided into three sections. First, research on the Millennials is summarized to provide an overview of this generation’s characteristics. Second, the methodology and findings of the applied portions of the student’s senior thesis, referred to as Conversations for Change, are outlined. The third portion, the essay’s conclusion, calls for the increased presence of the student voice in our colleges and universities so as to empower the Millennials’ potential to participate in democracy.
Emerging Markets and the New Geography of Trade: The Effects of Rising Trade Barriers
Authors: Reyes-Heroles Ricardo , Traiberman Sharon , Van Leemput Eva
Published: May 2020

Protectionist sentiments have been rising globally in recent years. The consequences of a surge in protectionist measures present policy challenges for emerging markets (EMs), which have become increasingly exposed to global trade. This paper serves two main purposes. First, we collect several stylized facts that characterize EMs' role in the new geography of trade. We focus on differences between advanced economies (AEs) and EMs in trade linkages, production structures, and factor supplies. Second, we build a dynamic, general equilibrium, quantitative trade model featuring multiple countries, sectors and factors of production. The model is motivated by and geared to jointly match the facts we present. We use the model to estimate the long-run global impacts of rising trade barriers on EMs|both direct impacts and spillovers through third-country effects. Heterogeneity in openness, production structure, trade linkages, and factor supplies leads to large differences between the impacts on AEs versus EMs. We find that variations in both technological comparative advantage and factor supplies play key roles in shaping these differences.
Uncertainty and Growth Disasters
Authors: Jovanovic Boyan , Ma Sai
Published: May 2020

This paper documents several stylized facts on the real effects of economic uncertainty. First, higher uncertainty is associated with a more dispersed and negatively skewed distribution of output growth. Second, the response of economic growth to an increase in uncertainty is highly nonlinear and asymmetric. Third, higher asset volatility magnifies the negative impact of uncertainty on growth. We develop and estimate an analytically tractable model in which rapid adoption of new technology may raise economic uncertainty which causes measured productivity to decline. The equilibrium growth distribution is negatively skewed and higher uncertainty leads to a thicker left tail.
Kocaeli Üniversitesi Diş Hekimliği Fakültesine başvuran hastalarda hepatit A, B, C ve HIV enfeksiyon sıklığının değerlendirilmesi
Authors: HOŞGÖR Hatice
Published: May 2020

Amaç: Diş hekimliği çalışanları sürekli olarak kan ve tükürük ile temas halindedir ve bu nedenle yüksek risk grubu arasında yer almaktadırlar. Bu çalışmanın amacı, Kocaeli Üniversitesi Diş Hekimliği Fakültesine başvuran hastalardaki Hepatit A virüs (HAV), Hepatit B virüs (HBV), Hepatit C virüs (HCV) ve İnsan İmmun Yetmezlik Virüsü (HIV) görülme sıklığını belirlemektir. Gereç ve Yöntem: Bu araştırma, 17.04.2013 - 10.05.2019 tarihleri arasında Kocaeli Üniversitesi Diş Hekimliği Fakültesine başvuran 180655 hastanın anamnez dosyalarının incelenmesi yoluyla retrospektif olarak yapıldı. HAV, HBV, HCV ve HIV öyküsü olan toplam vaka sayıları, cinsiyetlere ve yaşlara göre olan dağılımları ve bu enfekte hastaların dental tedavi işlemleri için toplam kaç kez fakülteye geldikleri tespit edildi.Bulgular: Çalışma için toplamda 180,655 kişinin anamnez dosyası incelendi. HAV, HBV, HCV ve HIV öyküsü olan 1,809 hasta tespit edildi. Bunlar arasında 103 (%0.057) hasta HAV, 1,575 (%0.871) hasta HBV, 103 (%0.057) hasta HCV ve 28 (%0.015) hasta HIV öyküsüne sahipti. Bu hastaların dental tedavi işlemleri için kliniklere 54,328 kez başvurduğu tespit edildi.Sonuç: Hastalar, diş hekimleri ve diş hekimi asistanlarının bulaşıcı viral hastalıklar konusundaki farkındalığının arttırılması, doğrudan ve dolaylı çapraz enfeksiyonla ilişkili bulaşma riskini azaltacaktır.
Competence of Low-High Academic Control Focus and Its Place in Academic Success
Authors: Ada Şükrü
Published: May 2020

The main purpose of the study is the role of internal and external academic control focus on the success of prospective teachers. The study, which was designed to determine the role of academic control focus in general academic success (GPA) and competence, was carried out with 180 pre-service teachers, 44 of which are male and 136 are female. In order to make the focus of internal and external academic control categorically low and high, the median values are divided into two, and low and high internal and external academic control focus groups are obtained. Correlation analysis to examine the relationship between variables, t-test to determine whether GPA and competency variables differ from low and high internal and external academic control focus groups, to determine whether the t-test, GPA and competency variables predict low and high internal and external academic control focus groups. Binomial Logistic Regression analysis was performed. As a result of the analysis, it is seen that the external academic control focus has a negative relationship with GPA and competence, and the internal academic control focus has a positive relation with competence. According to the results of the T test, GPA and competency were higher in the external academic control focus groups, while competence was higher in the internal academic control focus group. According to the results of the Binomial Logistic Regression analysis, it was seen that competence predicted both internal (towards high group) and external (towards low group) academic control focus, while GPA did not predict both internal and external academic control focus groups. It is seen that being in the low and high internal and external academic control focus group in the research results, the pre-service teachers differed in their belief in success and their academic success.
Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers’ Concept Definitions and Examples Regarding Sets
Authors: Doruk Muhammet , Çiltaş Alper
Published: May 2020

The purpose of this study is to reveal the concept definitions and examples of pre-service elementary mathematics teachers regarding sets. In this context, students’ formal definitions, personal definitions and examples in sets were investigated. Concept of equal sets, subsets, union, intersection, compliment, and difference were considered as basic concepts of sets in this study. The participants of the study consisted of 79 freshmen studying in the department of elementary mathematics teacher training at a state university of Turkey. The study adopted qualitative research approach and is a sample of a case study. The data of the study was collected from DKFS form and unstructured interviews. The results of the study indicated that most of the pre-service teachers had difficulty in giving notational definitions and daily-life examples while they gave successfully verbal definitions of the basic concepts in sets. It was revealed that verbal definitions, notational, prototype examples with schema, symbols and operational properties were parts of some pre-service teachers’ concept images. Furthermore, some pre-service teachers confused equal sets with equivalent sets and difference with symmetric difference. They also did not consider the universal set in defining the compliment. It was found that most of the pre-service teachers had difficulty in expressing their thoughts using mathematical language throughout the study.
Analysis And Improvement of Prospective Teachers’ Educational Facebook Use and Development A Model For Educational Purposes
Authors: İşbulan Onur , Kıyıcı Mübin
Published: May 2020

Within the scope of this research, prospective teachers’ opinions on Facebook use for educational purposes was examined, and a modeling study was conducted in accordance with these views. In this study in which mixed method research patterns were used as research model, opinions were taken from 462 prospective teachers with a view to develop Acceptance of Facebook Use for Educational Purposes Scale and Acceptance of Facebook Use for Educational Purposes Model; scale development and model development studies were completed. With Facebook Use for Educational Purposes Activity in accordance with the developed model, level of acceptance of Facebook use for educational purposes among prospective teachers was analyzed. Pilot application of Facebook use for educational purposes activities was carried out with 76 students, and its application was carried out with 67 students; at the end of application, interviews were made with 17 students through semi-structured interview form. At the end of the study, Acceptance of Facebook Use for Educational Purposes Model was created based on Technology Acceptance Model 2, and through the educational purpose Facebook activity, a significant increase was achieved in prospective teachers’ level of acceptance to Facebook use for educational purposes.
Traumatic Experiences and Collectivist Coping Styles of University Students in Turkey
Authors: ALTUN Fatma
Published: May 2020

Several taxonomies have been suggested to classsify coping styles, yet collectivist and individualist are the two fundamental types currently being adopted in research on coping styles. In this respect, the main purpose of this study was to examine the collectivist coping styles of university students who have traumatic life experiences. The sample of the study consisted of 508 (Female=333, Male=161, Unspecified=14) undergraduate students in Turkey. The findings of the study revealed that the most frequently experienced traumatic life events were “death/illness of a loved one”, “breakup with significant others”, “unwanted sexual activity/coercion/sexual assault” and “academic pressure/suspension of school”, respectively. One striking finding of the study was that 65.6% of the participants experienced only one traumatic event, 16.1% had two incidents, 10.6% had three and 7.7% had four or more traumatic events. Another noteworthy finding of the the study revealed that “Family Support” and “Religion and Spirituality” styles were referred with the lowest frequency in traumatic events of sexual content; however, these two styles were highly preferred and effective in traumatic events such as natural disaster, death of a loved one, and personal illness. It was further found that women experienced significantly more traumatic events involving sexual and physical violence, whereas men experienced major accident, natural disaster, or witness to an injury of another person or physical violence. It was found that women who had traumatic experience used “Religion and Spirituality” dimension significantly more than men. The results revealed that collectivist coping styles are widely used among Turkish university students and that the preferred coping style differs depending on gender and the traumatic situation.
A validity and reliability study of the Basic STEM Skill Levels Perception Scale
Authors: Korkmaz Özgen , Çakır Recep , Uğur Erdoğmuş Feray
Published: May 2020

The aim of this study is to develop a perception scale related to the possible basic skills that can be gained through STEM. Participants of this study were 723 university students. In this study, descriptive survey study was conducted. To identify validity of the scale exploratory factor analysis, cumulative item factor, corrected correlations and item discrimination were calculated. For reliability internal consistency and stability level were calculated. Collected data were analyzed in terms of arithmetic mean, standard deviation, t and ANOVA. The scale is a 7-point likert-type scale which consists of 43 items under 3 factors. Data analysis results showed that this scale is valid and reliable for measuring students’ STEM skills according to their perceptions.
“Know-How” to Spend Time in Home Isolation during COVID-19; Restrictions and Recreational Activities
Authors: GÜZEL Pınar , YILDIZ Kadir , ESENTAŞ Melike , Zerengök Devrim
Published: May 2020

This study aims at identifying the emotional, physical, psychological and social states of individuals who had to stay home for a while due to the measures taken to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, and to determine what kind of recreational activities they preferred during this period. We used mixed research method and composed the study group of 479 consisting 297 female and 182 male participants with non-random, convenience sampling method. Data was collected through questionnaires of open-ended qualitative questions. Findings addresses that recreational activities during long home stay in a pandemic have psychological, socio-cultural and physical benefits. Social isolation during such circumstances is known to be limiting the physical mobility of individuals and it did so in this Covid-19 pandemic process. While the main activity source was of technology of the people attended this research, we also observed that they are aware of the variety and the benefits of recreational activities at the same time. The respondents stated that the coronavirus outbreak had negative effects in terms of economical, social, psychological and physiological contexts, but with the outbreak; staying in social isolation had also positive effects on their family such as exploring new things together, happiness and spending time effectively. One other remarkable aspect is that respondents reported that they would do recreational activities soon after the social isolation period ends. In the results of the research, it is suggested that it is necessary to resort to recreational activities in order to both reduce the spreading effect of the virus in isolation at home and to overcome this process with the least negative impact, and individual and institutional efforts should be made for this.
Investigation of the personality, anger and anxiety situation of the professional and amateur football players and the veteran footballers
Authors: Giritlioğlu Rahmi , Erzeybek Mustafa Said
Published: May 2020

The aim of this study is to investigate the anger, personality and anxiety levels of the football players who actively play football and the football players who have left football. A total 496 football players, 162 women and 334 men, participated in the research in Istanbul in 2018. Spielberger's Anger Style scale, the Eysenck Personality Inventory short form, and Spielberger's continuous anxiety inventory were used as data collection tools. The percentage distribution and frequency values of the athletes participating in the research were determined with descriptive statistics and Shapiro Wilk test was applied as the normality test. Depending on the athletes’ situation, Mann Whitney U test was performed to compare the anger, personality and anxiety levels of the athletes. Kruskal Wallis test was used to compare the anger, personality and anxiety levels of the athletes depending on the level of the athlete, and Tamhane was used as the second level test to identify meaningful groups. Sperman correlation test was used to determine the relationship between the anger, personality and anxiety levels of the athletes. All the tests performed were done at α = 0.05 significance level. Microsoft Excell 2017 for Windows was used to enter the data into the computer environment and SPSS 25 package program was used to create graphics and tables. As a result of the findings obtained from the study, it was observed that there were significant differences between anger and inward anger scores according to the athletes' status, and anger, personality and trait anxiety dimensions according to the level of athletics. On the other hand, it was seen that there was a significant relationship between anger, personality and trait anxiety levels of the athletes participating in the research. As a result, it was determined that normal athletes were angrier than veteran athletes, and professional footballers had better level of anger controls and anger levels than amateur athletes. On the other hand, it has been determined that the personality and anxiety levels of professional athletes are higher than amateur athletes.
Examination of the Curriculum Knowledge Levels of Pre-Service Teachers in Terms of Different Variables
Authors: KOÇ E.Seda
Published: May 2020

The teaching profession is an area of expertise that combines many professional and academic competences. While all of these competences are important for the quality of learning-teaching processes, the curriculum and content knowledge that teachers are expected to have is one of the main characteristics that are directly determinative in achieving the learning objectives. The aim of this study was to examine the pre-service teachers' knowledge of curriculum in terms of different variables. The study group of the study, which was conducted according to the descriptive research model, consisted of 237 students in the 4th grade of the faculty in 2018-2019 academic year. In the study, the pre-service teachers' general curriculum knowledge, the average points they received from curriculum development questions and the average points they received only from the questions related to the curriculum in their field of study were handled. As a result of the findings, it was seen that pre-service teachers' curriculum knowledge their field showed a significant difference in favor of female teacher candidates. Also, it was observed that the average of all three points of pre-service teachers differed significantly according to their branches and general curriculum knowledge differed significantly according to their branches.
Hacia una comprensión de las aproximaciones institucionales a los estudiantes con capacidades y talentos excepcionales: primeros pasos para incluirlos en la escuela
Authors: García-Cepero Maria Caridad , Iglesias Velasco Juliana
Published: May 2020

En las últimas tres décadas, las políticas educativas y aproximaciones académicas a las capacidades y talentos excepcionales en Colombia han cambiado significativamente. Esto ha permitido orientar las decisiones de las instituciones educativas para atender a dicha población. En el 2015 se encuestaron 1731 instituciones educativas colombianas. Los resultados se usaron como base para el Documento de orientaciones técnicas, administrativas y pedagógicas para la atención educativa a estudiantes con capacidades y/o talentos excepcionales en el marco de la educación inclusiva, publicado por el Ministerio de Educación Nacional de Colombia. Algunas preguntas de la encuesta indagaron la comprensión de las instituciones sobre la excepcionalidad. Dado que en ese momento no fueron abordados, en este artículo se presentan los resultados de análisis secundario realizado a dicha base de datos. Para esto se utilizó un análisis de contenido con categorías deductivas e inductivas de las respuestas de las 1731 instituciones.  Como resultado se identificaron tres tendencias para comprender la excepcionalidad: rendimiento, potencialidad y medición de inteligencia. Se observó que las aproximaciones tenían concordancia con algunas de las posturas de los documentos académicos y de política. Sin embargo, es posible que estas aproximaciones no sean conducentes a las políticas actuales de educación inclusiva. Es importante hacer un proceso de acompañamiento a las instituciones a fin de darles herramientas para construir las estrategias de reconocimiento y desarrollo de las capacidades y talentos excepcionales en concordancia con las políticas de educación inclusiva vigentes.
Emprendimiento e innovación en educación técnico profesional: percepción desde los docentes y directivos
Authors: Vera-Sagredo Angélica Jeannette , Constenla-Núñez Jaime , Jara-Coatt Pilar , Lassalle-Cordero Adrián
Published: May 2020

Este artículo de investigación entrega los resultados de la percepción de profesores y directivos de establecimientos técnicos profesionales con relación a las competencias en emprendimiento e innovación educativa (N = 125). La metodología utilizada combina análisis cuantitativos y cualitativos; para el primero, se realizaron estudios comparativos de diferencia de medias a través de Anova, prueba t y correlación de Pearson, y para el segundo, se ejecutaron análisis de contenido. Los principales resultados indican que los profesores reconocen la necesidad de desarrollar competencias en emprendimiento e innovación en el contexto educativo, ya que esto permitiría a los docentes entregar mayores herramientas a su alumnado. Para los directivos, es necesario que se desarrollen propuestas concretas basadas en las realidades socioculturales, que impliquen un impacto social en su comunidad. Esto, por una parte, beneficiaría la motivación del estudiante y, por ende, su participación; por otra, podría ser un aporte a su comunidad, especialmente si los proyectos que se generen tienen en cuenta las necesidades locales.
Peña Ardid, Carmen (ed.) (2019): Historia cultural de la transición. Pensamiento crítico y ficciones en literatura, cine y televisión. Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata
Authors: Lanchares Juan Carlos Cuevas
Published: May 2020

Análisis crítico de la obra coordinada por Carmen Peña Ardid sobre la historia de la cultura durante el periodo de transición a la democracia en España.
Reaffirming Identity Through Images. The commodification of Illusions in the Contemporary Presentation of Self
Authors: Cirklová Jitka
Published: May 2020

In this paper, the construction of an ideal image of the self will be discussed within the theoretical framework of “Representation”. Drawing more on Hall’s concept of representation I would like to concentrate on the practices of “stereotyping”, drawing out the links between representation and stereotype that are closely connected with the production of mass culture, consumerism, institutions, and social media. Photos from galleries and museums and heritage locations taken and shared on social media can be understood as a commodified presentation of the tourist experience of an attractive location that has come into existence in order to narrate an ideal trip. After a picture is shared on social networks, the process of the commodification of an illusion starts − an illusion that was shared and presented as a personal authentic proof of the visit to the location and experiencing a unique moment. Often one particular image from a museum is massively reproduced and becomes a form of an ideal souvenir or a goal of travel. The connection of the centrality of the location captured in images, stereotyping, and identity is crucial in this research. The aim of this text is to understand the current trends of enhancing identity via creating and consuming images and portraits. It also aims to address the changing patterns and techniques of visual self-presentation, pointing out shared cultural values that are becoming certain global standards and institutionalized conventions of the personal and professional commercial photography.
The Legitimacy of Chinese Outward Investment in English News — A Cognitive Approach to Discursive Legitimation
Authors: Wang Yongqi
Published: May 2020

Chinese Investment Oversea often face legitimacy crisis, and media plays a central role in staging legitimacy struggle. This research attempts to apply Proximization theory and the construals of Cognitive Linguistics to account for the discursive legitimation process in business discourse. The comparative analysis of two reports on a case of Chinese investment in America has shown how different discursive strategies can construe distinct conceptualizations of the same event, influencing the judgment among readership on the legitimacy of the deal. The analysis of this study shows that drawing on the construals of Cognitive Linguistics, the application of Proximization theory can be extended to legitimacy discourse in wider social domains.
Complementarity of the Relevance-theoretic and Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Metaphor Study: A Critical Review
Authors: Wu Dan
Published: May 2020

This paper attempts to take a critical review of research work on the complementarity of the cognitive linguistic and relevance-theoretic approaches to metaphor study. Addressing the current concerns and problems of metaphor studies, the complementarity view demonstrates the cooperative potential of relevance-theoretic and cognitive linguistic approaches which will benefit metaphor studies and give full accounts of metaphor understanding and interpretation. In particular, the relevance-theoretic approach gives an account of ad hoc concept, emergent property and mental imagery which complements the cognitive linguistics and helps solve some issues in metaphor interpretation.
A Novel Approach for Copy-move Forgery Detection using Bilateral Filtering
Authors: KARABEY AKSAKALLI İşıl , KAPLAN Nur Hüseyin , KILIÇ Uğur , ERER İşın
Published: May 2020

Digital image processing methods have a wide area of usage and their complexity is increasing, as well as the tampering methods. A widely used tampering method is copy-move forgery. In this study, a hybrid method combining the DCT and Bilateral filtering is developed. In this method, first overlapping blocks are obtained from the input image. Then, bilateral filtering and DCT of these blocks are multiplied to obtain the refined block features. The block features are scanned by a zig-zag process followed by a lexicographic sorting. Finally, a similarity detection by a predetermined threshold parameter is applied to detect the forgery. Both visual and quantitative results demonstrated that the proposed method can determine the copy-move forgery regions.
The Spectral and Statistical Analysis of Gait Dynamics in ALS Disease
Authors: AKGÜN Ömer , AKAN Aydın , YILMAZ Ozgur
Published: May 2020

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) disease, also known as motor neuron disease, is a disease resulting from loss of motor nerve cells in the spinal cord and brain stem region at central nervous system. Researchers can’t find the reason of ALS for certain, however there are a wide variety of risk factors in respect of this disease. This disease has more than one risk factor. Researchers believe that it is resulted from a virus which leads to abnormality in immune system, spoils the structure of DNA and functioning of enzyme system, exhibiting neurotoxic properties. The signals coming to a single arm or leg muscle from upper and lower motor neurons are highly determinative in diagnosis of the disease, although there is not a specific test for diagnosing the ALS disease for certain. Doctors still conduct many tests even though the main symptoms of ALS are the signals coming to muscles. The developments related to gait analysis are used an auxiliary factor in diagnosis and analysis of ALS diseases. In this study, gait signals from control individuals and ALS diseases have been recorded by means of sensors sensitive to the strength under the foot. These signals’ time-amplitude, amplitude spectrum, phase spectrum, average value and variance changes have been analysed. As a result of these inspections, differences of ALS signals from control signals have been identified.
Muş İli Besi Sığırcılığı İşletmelerinin Bazı Yapısal Özelliklerinin Belirlenmesi
Authors: BAKIR Galip , KİBAR Mustafa
Published: May 2020

Bu araştırmada, sığır besi işletmelerinin bazı yapısal özelliklerini belirlemek amacıyla Muş İlinde 368 işletme sahibiyle yüz yüze anket çalışması yapılmıştır. Buna göre, işletmecilerin ortalama yaşı 44.74 yıl, hayvancılık yaptığı süre 20.0 yıl ve işletmelerde bulunan hayvan sayısı ortalama 41.72 baş olarak belirlenmiştir. İşletmecilerin eğitim düzeyi genellikle ilkokul (%45.8) ve ortaokul (%33.6) olarak tespit edilmiştir. Okuryazar olmayan işletmecilerin oranı %4.1 ve üniversite mezunu olanların oranı ise sadece %1.7 olarak bulunmuştur. İldeki besi işletmelerinin %86’sını kombine işletmeler oluşturmaktadır. İşletmecilerin %39.3’ünün birliğe ve %15.9’unun kooperatife üye oldukları belirlenmiştir. İşletmecilerin %77.5’i Muş ilinin besiciliğe uygun olduğunu düşünürken, besiciliğe uygun olmadığını düşünen işletmecilerin %64’ü kesif ve yem kaba yemin pahalı olmasını ileri sürmüşlerdir. İşletmelerde yetiştirilen yerli, melez ve kültür ırklarının oranları sırasıyla %26.6, %45.6 ve %47.7 şeklindedir. İşletmelerde melez ırklar içerisinde en fazla Simental ve Esmer melezleri bulunmaktadır. İşletmelerde en çok belirtilen sorunlar, yem fiyatlarının yüksek ve destek priminin az olması ile veteriner hizmetlerinin pahalı olması şeklinde sıralanmaktadır. İşletmecilerin yetkililerden en çok beklentileri ise, ucuz maliyetli kredi temini, damızlık hayvan ve destek primlerinin arttırılması olarak belirlenmiştir.
Videovigilancia y segregación espacial en tiempos del neoliberalismo autoritario. El caso de Los Cabos, Baja California Sur (México)
Authors: Bojórquez-Luque Jesús , Ángeles Manuel , Gámez Alba E.
Published: May 2020

In a context of acute spatial segregation derived from beaches’ privatization processes and the coastal landscape in the Los Cabos Tourist Corridor (Baja California Sur, Mexico), the state government has responded to the threat of organized crime to the functioning of international hotel chains with video surveillance schemes and the criminalization of acts considered to be against tourist interests in the area. This paper uses the concepts of authoritarian neoliberalism associated with a type of space production to analyze the phenomenon of video surveillance in a context of conflicts and social tensions under the auspices of the tourism growth model in Los Cabos region. A qualitative methodology was used, relying on field work by observing the study area, analysis of relevant bibliography, and press reports.
La punitividad del público como reacción instrumental y expresiva ante las amenazas al comienzo del siglo XXI. Evidencias del Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires
Authors: Otamendi Maria Alejandra
Published: May 2020

From a sociological perspective of social psychology, this paper enquires whether the evolution of the demand for more severe punishment to offenders in public opinion (public punitiveness) in the Metropolitan Area of ​​Buenos Aires between 2000 and 2005 was a reaction against security threats (instrumental hypothesis) or a collective reaction to other threats such as economic, social, and political insecurities that were channeled into a greater hostility towards criminals (expressive hypothesis). In order to test these hypotheses, the waves of the Victimization Survey of the National Division of Criminal Policy were analyzed. It was concluded that, although the punitive reaction corresponds relatively to the levels of criminal threat, it was even greater when it was politicized in a punitive sense in the public sphere (Blumberg case), showing that it was both an instrumental and an expressive response.
Tensiones y descontentos en torno al traspaso de la Policía Federal Argentina
Authors: Da Silva-Lorenz Mariana , Galvani Mariana
Published: May 2020

The Policía de la Ciudad (PC) was created during 2016 in Argentina in order to enforce order in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Since 1943, and unto that moment, that role was played by the Policía Federal Argentina (PFA), except for some jurisdictions that were patrolled by the Policía Metropolitana created in 2008. This implied the transfer of agents and real estate from one law enforcement agency to the other. This paper deals with the transfer of part of the PFA to the PC. The focus is on the ways some ex-members of the PFA transferred to this new police agency demonstrated their displeasure with the situation. Here are described different ways these agents used to voice their discontent which went from gathering in the street, stop working or sending messages through social media to oppose. These protests are a turning point in the tradition of the PFA.
Archive Footage in New Programmes
Authors: Bryant Steve
Published: May 2020

Archivists have traditionally been concerned about what they have seen as incorrect usage of archival footage in new documentaries, but changing technologies and programme-making conventions have made this inevitable. This paper considers aspects of these changes, focussing particularly on the issue of how the introduction of widescren television affected and continues to affect the aspect ratios in which archival materials are presented, using examples from recent and contemporary television documentaries from Britain and the USA.
Scratch's Third Body
Authors: Goldsmith Leo
Published: May 2020

Emerging in the UK in the 1980s, Scratch Video established a paradoxical union of mass-media critique, Left-wing politics, and music-video and advertising aesthetics with its use of moving-image appropriation in the medium of videotape. Enabled by innovative professional and consumer video technologies, artists like George Barber, The Gorilla Tapes, and Sandra Goldbacher and Kim Flitcroft deployed a style characterized by the rapid sampling and manipulation of dissociated images drawn from broadcast television. Inspired by the cut-up methods of William Burroughs and the audio sampling practiced by contemporary black American musicians, these artists developed strategies for intervening in the audiovisual archive of television and disseminating its images in new contexts: in galleries and nightclubs, and on home video. Reconceptualizing video's “body,” Scratch's appropriation of televisual images of the human form imagined a new hybrid image of the post-industrial body, a “third body” representing a new convergence of human and machine.
Editorial
Authors: Ellis John , Esser Andrea , Gutiérrez Lozano Juan Francisco
Published: May 2020

Editorial to the issue on "TV Formats and Format Research: Theory, methodology, history and new developments." During the last 15 years format research has grown into a notable, distinct field of academic investigation alongside the dramatic expansion of the trade in TV formats. This special issue of VIEW builds on existing format scholarship to deepen our understanding of the history and the continuing growth of the TV format business from a European perspective.
Aesthetic Proximity
Authors: Van Keulen Jolien
Published: May 2020

Implications of the transnationalisation of television are often studied by focusing on the localisation of the content of formatted programmes. Although television is essentially an audio-visual medium, little attention has been paid to the aesthetic aspects of television texts in relation to transnationalisation and formatting. Transnationalisation of production practices, such as through formatting, implies a transnational aesthetic. At the same time, aspects of style are specific to place, culture or audience. In this article, the localisation of stylistic programme elements is explored using a comparison of two reality format adaptations. It is argued that style plays an important role in the expression of the local in a transnational industry.
Editorial
Authors: Gifreu-Castells Arnau , Misek Richard , Verbruggen Erwin
Published: May 2020

Editorial to the issue on "Non-Fiction Transmedia". Over the last years, interactive digital media have greatly affected the logics of production, exhibition and reception of non-fiction audiovisual works, leading to the emergence of a new area called ‘interactive and transmedia non-fiction’. While the audiovisual non-fiction field has been partially studied, a few years ago emerged a new field focusing on interactive and transmedia non-fiction narratives, an unexplored territory that needs new theories and taxonomies to differentiate from its audiovisual counterpart.
A Transmedia Topology of Making a Murderer
Authors: Hook Alan , Barrios-O'Neill Danielle , Mairs Dyer Jolene
Published: May 2020

This article constructs a transmedia topology of the Making a Murderer text, demonstrating influences of various forms of documentary, interactive gaming culture, and post-digital writing on the series itself as well as on the paratextual cloud of works that grew up around it. Here we define transmedia topology as a tracing of what we could call the geography of the text, as defined by its features and boundaries (or lack thereof). We will discuss the intentionality of the series creators, as well as the emergence of a transmedial textuality that is owed largely to audiences and the textual terrain. The Making a Murderer series thus becomes the basis for a larger transmedia narrative that sprawls across social-digital networks, a pastiche of multifarious public reaction and unsanctioned investigation. The article maps the ecologies of interaction, participation and creation with and of the text by the audience to map the thresholds of the transmedial text and investigate new approaches to analysing transmedial work in the context of non-fiction media forms.
Canal + Spain and Live Football Broadcasts
Authors: Ortega Vicente Rodríguez , Romero Santos Rubén
Published: May 2020

In 1988 the Law for Private Television Broadcasting was approved by Spanish parliament. Three licenses were initially awarded. Soon thereafter, in 1990, three channels started broadcasting: Antena 3, Berlusconi-related Tele 5 and, against all odds, a pay channel, Canal + Spain. This article focuses on sports programming in the beginning of Canal + Spain. First, it offers an account of the Spanish television landscape in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Then, it scrutinizes the arrival of private television within the Spanish mediascape, examining thus the launching of Canal + by paying attention to the specificity of the Spanish audiovisual market. At the same time, it explores the transnational circulation of formats and professionals across Europe, especially in connection with the French Canal +, since it was a central element of the Spanish channel’s implementation. Second, it analyzes the types of live sports broadcasts as well as other sports programming such as talk shows in Canal + during the early 1990s in order to account for their importance in creating a unique kind of product designed to appeal to potential subscribers. More specifically, we will argue that live football broadcasts did not only attempt to establish a clear demarcation with the old-fashioned image and soundscapes of traditional television but also aimed at culturally appealing to a urbanite, cultivated spectator, precisely the type of viewer Canal + tried to recruit in its early days. Therefore, we will discuss how technological excellence and spectacle became tools for the expression of specific cultural values.
Система штучної вентиляції легенів для використання в екстремальних умовах «Мольфарка-Корона НАУ»
Authors: Isaienko Volodymyr , Kharchenko Volodymyr , Astanin Vyacheslav , Shchegel Ganna , Olefir Valentyna , Olefir Oleksii , Olefir Andrii , Khomych Olha , Khomych Volodymyr
Published: May 2020

Показана можливість швидкого налагодження масового виробництва систем штучної вентиляції легень типу «Мольфарка-Корона» з мінімально потрібними функціональними властивостями, що надасть шанс хворим на COVID-19 у найскладнішій ситуації пандемії.
ANALYSIS OF MEASUREMENT INDICATORS OF MEMBERS’ COOPERATIVE LITERACY IN ISLAMIC SAVINGS-LOAN AND FINANCING COOPERATIVES
Authors: Pratiwi Amelia , Rahmah Fauziah
Published: May 2020

Purpose of the study: This study aims to investigate the measurement indicators used to measure the literacy rate for several Islamic cooperatives in D.I. Yogyakarta and to formulate an instrument to measure the cooperative literacy level of members and boards.

Methodology: The purposive sampling method was applied to choose 14 Islamic cooperatives as samples. Data were collected by distributing questionnaires to members and boards. The measurement of literacy utilises six indicators, namely institutional identity (JDL), duties and obligations of the financial institutions (TDK), organisational institutions (KL), the role of members (PA), Sharia deposit mechanism (MS), and Sharia financing mechanism (MP). The data was processed using the partial least square-structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) analysis.

Main Findings: The results show that all indicators had significant influences on the level of cooperative literacy, which means that they can be used as instruments to measure the level of cooperative literacy. It is also revealed that although in general, the Islamic cooperative members and boards have a quite good understanding of cooperative literacy, but only in terms of attributes of financing mechanisms and sharia deposit.

Applications of this study: This study is useful for the development of Islamic cooperatives in D.I. Yogyakarta in particular and Indonesia in general, because of the high level of understanding of members about all aspects of cooperatives can increase their activities in the institution.

Novelty/Originality of this study: There are not many kinds of literature available on cooperative literacy. Some of them only focus on one institution. In contrast, this research involves several Islamic cooperatives to measure the level of cooperative literacy that could be applied in every cooperative in Indonesia.