bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Impact of FDI Inflows on Poverty Reduction in the ASEAN and SAARC Economies
Authors: Ahmad Fayyaz , Draz Muhammad Umar , Su Lijuan , Ozturk Ilhan , Rauf Abdul , Ali Shahid
Published: May 2019

The aim of this paper is to reinvestigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on welfare or poverty reduction in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) economies. We used FDI net inflows per capita and the United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Index (HDI) as the principal variables ranging from 1990 to 2014. Our analyses confirm the positive and strongly significant relationship between FDI net inflows and poverty reduction in Asia. However, it indicates significant differences between South Asia and Southeast Asia. Generally, we find that FDI has a greater impact on welfare in SAARC countries than in ASEAN countries. Our results hold true for both HDI and real gross domestic product (GDP), and are shown to be robust using both panel and pool model specifications.
Electrification in Remote Communities: Assessing the Value of Electricity Using a Community Action Research Approach in Kabakaburi, Guyana
Authors: Blair Niebert , Pons Dirk , Krumdieck Susan
Published: May 2019

PROBLEM—Provision of electric services in remote communities operating a subsistence economy has been challenging both for policy-makers and engineers. The value of electricity services and the choice structures in remote economies are not well understood. NEED—There are several technical, economic, and environmental challenges to the top-down approach of electrification. There is a need for methods that can integrate multiple dimensions of social development that can fit the environmental, economic, and technical aspects of community development. APPROACH—To create a system that best fits with the rural community, a bottom-up approach is recommended; this depends on community participation to provide a coherent from-the-ground-up decision-making framework for rural residents, engineers, and policy-makers. OUTCOMES—We have developed a from-the-ground-up community participation approach to power system design, where the community activity system is studied before investigating energy development options and assessing the risks and benefits from the perspective of the people in the community. We present the approach called Community Access Resource for Electricity Sustainability (CARES), with its foundation in action research methodology to explore the values in the community, the valued electricity services (VES) that the community feel they need, and the way the community adopts the different value types through problem-solving. We conclude that the CARES approach provides rural residents, engineers, and policy-makers with a new bottom-up approach to rural electrification in remote economies. IMPLICATIONS—The implications of this design calls for designers to extend their workspace beyond the design office and to facilitate with remote communities in devising solutions that best fit their needs. ORIGINALITY—Original contributions are the identification of the different value types and VES from-the-ground-up, and the integration of these into a gamified, interactive, and virtual-reality setting for participants to play through and discuss major consequences from which prudent decisions for development can be made. Additionally, we have proposed a new cost index for the feasibility assessment of rural electrification projects.
Multi-Attribute Decision Making Based on Probabilistic Neutrosophic Hesitant Fuzzy Choquet Aggregation Operators
Authors: Shao Songtao , Zhang Xiaohong , Zhao Quan
Published: May 2019

Take the third-party logistics providers (3PLs) as an example, according to the characteristics of correlation between attributes in multi-attribute decision-making, two Choquet aggregation operators adoping probabilistic neutrosophic hesitation fuzzy elements (PNHFEs) are proposed to cope with the situations of correlation among criterions. This measure not only provides support for the correlation phenomenon between internal attributes, but also fully concerns the incidental uncertainty of the external space. Our goal is to make it easier for decision makers to cope with this uncertainty, thus we establish the notion of probabilistic neutrosophic hesitant fuzzy Choquet averaging (geometric) (PNHFCOA, PNHFCOG) operator. Based on this foundation, a method for aggregating decision makers’ information is proposed, and then the optimal decision scheme is obtained. Finally, an example of selecting optimal 3PL is given to demonstrate the objectivity of the above-mentioned standpoint.
Highlights from NA61/SHINE: Proton Intermittency Analysis
Authors: Prokhorova Daria , Davis Nikolaos
Published: May 2019

The NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN SPS searches for the critical point of strongly interacting matter via scanning the phase diagram by changing beam momenta (13A–150A GeV/c) and system size (p + p, p + Pb, Be + Be, Ar + Sc, Xe + La). An observation of local proton-density fluctuations that scale as a power law of the appropriate universality class as a function of phase space bin size would signal the approach of the system to the vicinity of the possible critical point. An investigation of this phenomenon was performed in terms of the second-scaled factorial moments (SSFMs) of proton density in transverse momentum space with subtraction of a noncritical background. New NA61/SHINE preliminary analysis of Ar + Sc data at 150A GeV/c revealed a nontrivial intermittent behavior of proton moments. A similar effect was observed by NA49 in “Si” + Si data at 158A GeV/c. At the same time, no intermittency signal was detected in “C” + C and Pb + Pb events by NA49, as well as in Be + Be collisions by NA61/SHINE. EPOS1.99 also fails to describe the power-law scaling of SSFMs in Ar + Sc. Qualitatively, the effect is more pronounced with the increase of collision-peripherality and proton-purity thresholds, but a quantitative estimate is to be properly done via power-law exponent fit using the bootstrap method and compared to intermittency critical index ϕ 2 , derived from 3D-Ising effective action.
Potential Application of TALENs against Murine Cytomegalovirus Latent Infections
Authors: Chen Shiu-Jau , Chen Yuan-Chuan
Published: May 2019

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections are still a global health problem, because the latent viruses persist in humans and cause recurring diseases. Currently, there are no therapies for CMV latent infections and the therapies for active infections are limited by side effects and other problems. It is impossible to eradicate latent viruses in animals. HCMV (human CMV) is specific to human diseases; however, it is difficult to study HCMV due to its host specificity and long life cycle. Fortunately, MCMV (murine CMV) provides an excellent animal model. Here, three specific pairs of transcription activator-like effector nuclease (TALEN) plasmids (MCMV1–2, 3–4, and 5–6) were constructed to target the MCMV M80/80.5 sequence in order to test their efficacy in blocking MCMV lytic replication in NIH3T3 cell culture. The preliminary data showed that TALEN plasmids demonstrate specific targeting and cleavage in the MCMV M80/80.5 sequence and effectively inhibit MCMV growth in cell culture when the plasmid transfection is prior to the viral infection. The most specific pairs of TALEN plasmids (MCMV3–4) were further used to confirm the negative regulation of latent MCMV replication and gene expression in Balb/c mice. The injection of specific TALEN plasmids caused significant inhibition in the copy number level of immediately early gene (ie-1) DNA in five organs of mice, when compared with the controls. The result demonstrated that TALENs potentially provide an effective strategy to remove latent MCMV in animals.
Reclaiming Indigenous Planning as a Pathway to Local Water Security
Authors: Patrick Robert J. , Grant Kellie , Bharadwaj Lalita
Published: May 2019

Access to drinkable water is essential to human life. The consequence of unsafe drinking water can be damaging to communities and catastrophic to human health. Today, one in five First Nation communities in Canada is on a boil water advisory, with some advisories lasting over 10 years. Factors contributing to this problem stretch back to colonial structures and institutional arrangement that reproduce woefully inadequate community drinking water systems. Notwithstanding these challenges, First Nation communities remain diligent, adaptive, and innovative in their efforts to provide drinkable water to their community members. One example is through the practice of source water protection planning. Source water is untreated water from groundwater or surface water that supplies drinking water for human consumption. Source water protection is operationalized through land and water planning activities aimed at reducing the risk of contamination from entering a public drinking water supply. Here, we introduce a source water protection planning process at Muskowekwan First Nation, Treaty 4, Saskatchewan. The planning process followed a community-based participatory approach guided by trust, respect, and reciprocity between community members and university researchers. Community members identified threats to the drinking water source followed by restorative land management actions to reduce those threats. The result of this process produced much more than a planning document but engaged multiple community members in a process of empowerment and self-determination. The process of plan-making produced many unintended results including human–land connectivity, reconnection with the water spirit, as well as the reclaiming of indigenous planning. Source water protection planning may not correct all the current water system inadequacies that exist on many First Nations, but it will empower communities to take action to protect their drinking water sources for future generations as a pathway to local water security.
Sistem Informasi Pengolahan Data Peserta Prakerin Pada BKK (Bursa Kerja Khusus) SMK Negeri 4 Kota Jambi)
Authors: Meisak Despita , Hartiwi Yessy , Arvita Yulia
Published: May 2019

BKK (Bursa Kerja Khusus) adalah sebuah mitra Dinas Tenaga Kerja dan Transmigrasi yang di bentuk oleh Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Negeri dan Swasta, sebagai unit pelaksana yang memberikan pelayanan dan informasi lowongan pekerjaan sehingga dapat mengoptimalkan penyaluran tamatan SMK dan pencari kerja. BKK pada SMKN 4 Kota Jambi belum menggunakan sistem terkomputerisasi sehingga  sering terjadi kesalahan pada saat entry data dan pelaporan memakan waktu lama. Hal ini kurang efektif dan efisien sehingga dapat mengurangi kinerja BKK untuk menyalurkan tamatan SMK dan Prakerin di dunia industri. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk membangun sebuah sistem yang terkomputerisasi yang dapat membantu dalam pengolahan data untuk mengoptimalkan kinerja BKK menggunakan bahasa pemograman Visual Basic 6.0 dan database Ms. Acces 2007. Rancangan sistem dibuat dengan alat bantu pemodelan berorientasi objek yaitu Use Case Diagram, dan Activity Diagram.
Perancangan Aplikasi Pengarsipan Data Penduduk Pada Kecamatan Batang Asam Berbasis Web
Authors: Tristanto Kurnia Heri , Sunoto Akwan , Hendrawan Hendrawan
Published: May 2019

Proses pengolahan data kependudukan pada pada kecamatan Batang Asam masih dilakukan secara konvensional,  dimana setiap bulannya  Desa-desa  yang berada di wilayah kecamatan wajib memberikan laporan kependudukan dalam bentuk hardcopy sehingga kadangkala laporan diserahkan tidak tepat waktu dan data yang didapatkan oleh kecamatan tidak uptodate. Untuk itu Perlu dibangun suatu aplikasi yang mengelola pengarsipaan data penduduk sehingga informasi yang yang didapatkan oleh selalu uptodate dan valid. Pembangunan aplikasi ini menggunakan model waterfall dimana dalam model ini dimulai dari tahap analisis, desain, pengkodean dan pengujian. Penelitian ini menghasilkan sebuah aplikasi yang memudahkan pihak desa dan kecamatan untuk membuat dan menerima laporan data kependudukan.
Special landscape values of the settlements in “Érmelléki löszös hát” geographical micro region
Authors: Kerékgyártó Gábor
Published: May 2019

The objective of this study is to present the concept and significance of special landscape values. The research explains special landscape values within landscape protection using Hungarian scientific literature as well as international and national law. In the last decades the measurement and conservation of non-protected landscapes and landscape elements were emphasised by landscape protection. One of the biggest research of the last years was TÉKA project, done by Corvinus University of Budapest Faculty of Landscape Architecture. The program dealt with surveying Hungarian landscape values. In this paper I am going to analyse the types of special landscape values and their frequencies on a plain region using an open database prepared by TÉKA program. In addition to the definition of special landscape values in the Érmellék loess ridge geographical micro region the study intends to reveal the advantages and disadvantages of using the database.
Situation of small and middle sized enterprises in Northern Great Plain Region
Authors: Nagy Csilla
Published: May 2019

Most of the enterprises operating in Hungary belong to the group of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) which means that their total number of staff is less than 250. The aim of the study is to examine SMEs operating within the North Great Plain region. It provides a short summary of the general characteristics of the region, the situation and significance of SMEs based on the data 2009 and it also clarifies the relevant definitions. The data shows that the enterprise type that is most characteristic in the the region is joint venture (the most popular type is Ltd). It can be laid down as a fact that the number of micro and sole entrepreneurs is also significant in the area. It is also clear that the majority of small enterprises dealswith commerce, while most of the medium enterprises are involved in industry (processing industry). As a continuation of the examination, size of investments, influx of foreign capital, ratio of employed people and grant opportunities are also to be evaluated since these factors influence the operation of enterprises as well.
IMPLEMENTASI SELF-REGULATED LEARING PADA APLIKASI PEMBELAJARAN MANAJEMEN PROYEK SISTEM INFORMASI PADA PERGURUAN TINGGI SWASTA X DI JAKARTA
Authors: Febrianto Kelvin , Fadhillah Yunus
Published: May 2019

Failing IT Projects has kept growing over the past recent years. Understanding of Project Management concepts must be taught in college. Recent studies at the conducted courses at college X in Jakarta over the past ten years has shown discrepancy between daily exercises with the exam result students received. Therefore, developing a new learning process is required to enhance the student’s understanding of Project Management concepts. Self-Regulated Learning method encompasses independent learning by metacognition, motivation, self-regulation, and self-evaluation. To develop such process would require a learning tools during the learning process. The technical specification for the learning tools in question needs to enable metacognition process by directing the students towards the learning steps and motivates the students by intuitive use of learning tools. The results is a learning software that explicitly help the learning process by generating project documents to help understanding Project Management concept and interactive user interface that is easy to use and motivates the learning process.
MEMBANGUN WEBSITE SIMPAN PINJAM PADA KOPERASI SIMPAN PINJAM (KSP) “HARAPAN BERSAMA”
Authors: Salman - , Kirana Bq. Ajeng Liesna Putri Dende Kirana , Zaenudin -
Published: May 2019

Abstrak - Pengelolaan data yang baik akan sangat membantu dalam penyelesaian suatu pekerjaan, maka dari itu diperlukan manajemen yang baik pula dan dapat diharapkan mengakses data secara cepat dan akurat. Website merupakan salah satu program yang digunakan untuk membangun atau mendesain sebuah aplikasi. Dengan menggunakan Website, kita dapat membuat sebuah aplikasi dengan tampilan yang menarik sesuai dengan keinginan. Penulis mengusulkan agar menggunakan program aplikasi yang berbasis database. Hal ini bertujuan agar mempermudah petugas dalam melakukan pengolahan data. Aplikasi ini dibuat untuk menghasilkan sistem informasi simpan pinjam pada KSP “HARAPAN BERSAMA” dan metode yang digunakan adalah waterfall.Kata Kunci : Website, Aplikasi, Program, Simpanan, Koperasi
SISTEM INFORMASI PEMBAYARAN PASIEN RAWAT JALAN PADA RUMAH SAKIT ANGKATAN DARAT (RSAD) MATARAM
Authors: Juahrtini - , Yani Ahmad , Ratmini Baiq , Nurkholis Lalu Moh.
Published: May 2019

Dalam perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi, sistem informasi sangat berpengaruh dalam berbagai bidang. Dengan adanya sistem informasi dapat mempermudah dalam melakukan pengolahan data sehingga dapat menghemat waktu, ruang, dan biaya. Rumah Sakit Angkatan Darat (RSAD) Mataram adalah salah satu pusat pelayanan kesehatan yang berada di kota Mataram. Adapun kinerja sistem dalam pelayanan pasien yang berjalan di RSAD Mataram tersebut masih belum optimal karena pada pengolahan data masih menggunakan sistem manual. Banyak kendala yang dialami oleh pihak Rumah Sakit Angkatan Darat Mataram, diantaranya yaitu adanya kesalahan dalam melakukan input, penyimpanan data, serta dapat terjadi kerangkapan arsip pasien. Dalam Sistem Informasi Pembayaran Pasien Rawat Jalan  terdapat beberapa form yakni form login, form menu utama yang berisi Menu Input Data, Menu Transaksi, Menu Laporan, dan Menu Keluar. Output yang dihasilkan berupa laporan pembayaran pasien rawat jalan dan kwitansi pembayaran pasien rawat jalan pada RSAD MataramKata Kunci : Pembayaran, Pasien, Rawat Jalan, RSUD Mataram
Biodegradation behavior of two different chitosan films under controlled composting environment
Authors: Altun Emine , Çelik Eda , Yavuz Ersan Hülya
Published: May 2019

﻿Chitosan has applications in
different industries, due to the superior properties, causing an increase in
the production of chitosan containing waste. Although composting is the most
suitable method for biodegradable wastes like chitosan, less is known about the
degradation of chitosan within the composting environment. In this study,
biodegradation behavior of bare chitosan films and neutralized chitosan films
were investigated under controlled composting environment according to
international standards. CO2 emission data showed higher degradation
rate of bare chitosan films compared with neutralized chitosan films, which was
also supported by SEM images and digital photographs in addition to the TGA and
FTIR results. It can be concluded that the biodegradation rate of chitosan
films under the composting environment is highly related to the amount of
glycerol present in the films and the extraction rate of glycerol from film
structure.
Total and Fecal Coliform Levels of Aquatic Environments of Some Trout Farms in Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey
Authors: TERZİ Ertuğrul , ÇAPKIN Erol
Published: May 2019

Bu araştırmada, Rize ve
Trabzon illerindeki bazı gökkuşağı alabalığı (Oncorhynchus mykiss) işletmelerinin sucul ortamlarında
toplam ve fekal koliform seviyelerinin araştırılması amaçlanmıştır. Bu amaçla,
Rize ve Trabzon’da bulunan yedi farklı alabalık işletmesinin giriş ve
çıkışlarının kalitesi bakteriyolojik açıdan incelenmiştir. Çoklu Tüp
Fermentasyon yöntemine göre, en yüksek toplam koliform seviyesi 1380 EMS/100 ml
olarak hesaplanırken, en yüksek fekal koliform seviyesi ise 1100 EMS/100 olarak
hesaplanmıştır. Genel olarak, işletmelerin su kaliteleri Yüzeysel Su Kalitesi
Yönetimi Yönetmeliğinin Kıta içi Yerüstü Su Kaynaklarının Sınıflarına Göre
Kalite Kriterleri açısından yüksek kalitede (Sınıf1) ve az kirlenmiş kalitede
(Sınıf 2) oldukları belirlenmiştir.
Toward a Post-colonial Socio-anthropology of law
Authors: Carlet Flávia , Ferreira J. Flávio
Published: May 2019

Departing from an ethnographic fieldwork dedicated to the reality of the Afro-Ecuadorian community of La Chiquita, in particular on its struggle concerning the integrity of the ancestral territory in response of a growing dispossession process orchestrated by oil palm monocultures in Ecuador, we propose: (I) an overview to comprehend the coloniality of the State within this conflict, including the disciplinary and Institutional ethos in interpreting blackness; and (II) identify and analyze the various forms of resistance of this community in response to such vertical sociopolitical structure, exposing their narratives in such a context from a criticism focused on epistemology and the sociology of law.
Investor State Dispute Settlement
Authors: Ciocchini Pablo Leandro , Khoury Stefanie
Published: May 2019

This paper scrutinises the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism, which allows foreign investors to sue host governments for any regulations that might directly or indirectly affect private investments. It gives investors rights over host-states – and local populations – in international arbitration tribunals. The focus of this article is a critical examination of how the ISDS institutionalises a framework of exceptionality that is characteristic of neoliberal capitalism; one that centres upon the institutionalisation of subjecting public regulation to the rationality of the market. We argue that this privatised quasi-legal arena is incompatible with the rule of law, human rights and socially emancipatory practices. What this reveals is that the political and economic dynamics that mobilise and shape international investment law are characterised by capitalist class relations. The article concludes with some reflections upon the marketization of public regulation through the ISDS, where profitability and cost-reduction are prioritised over human and environmental rights.
The permanent state of exception in the southern periphery of Europe
Authors: Bernat Ignasi
Published: May 2019

The permanent crisis in the southern periphery of Europe has been deep socially, politically and economically. In order to contain it the sovereign power has shown all its majesty. The state of exception has been the mechanism deployed to introduce the political decision within the legal framework. Departing from Agamben’s understanding of this mechanism of power, the paper directs its attention to several dimensions in Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain. That is, the financial crisis, the corporate impunity and the migrants death have been handled to silence the potentia to disrupt the ongoing capitalist and colonial regime of power. Actually, the state of exception has secured the current status quo, but also has intensified the ongoing regime of power. This dispositive is always accompanied by a legitimising discourse which essentialises and otherises these countries. After observing how this mechanism has operated in Southern Europe, the paper turns on discussing how to abandon this regime of power.
Rights in a State Of Exception. The Deadly Colonial Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights
Authors: Coleman Lara Montesinos
Published: May 2019

It is widely accepted that voluntary corporate responsibility for human rights is a means of continuing “business-as-usual”. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been denounced as “whitewash”, with little effect in practice. I claim here that voluntary CSR is far worse than “whitewash”: it actively bolsters corporate impunity by rendering the violence of development illegible and equating resistance with irrationality or subversion. It thrives upon the state of exception that provides the permissive context of human rights violations. I make this argument by returning to the birthplace of corporate responsibility for human rights: BP’s Colombian oilfields, combining ethnographic research with trenchant critique of the colonial myths informing mainstream discussion of business and human rights. The UN has responded to the potential of voluntary CSR to detract from abuses by emphasising the importance of judicial remedy. What the analysis here reveals is how voluntary measures and provision for judicial remedy may work in opposite directions.
The construction of the Spanish immigration policy
Authors: Santi Pereyra Silvana Estefanía
Published: May 2019

This article reviews the historical background of the Spanish immigration policy, by focusing on the periods both before and after 1985 (i.e., the year of enactment of the first immigration law). The main goal is to explore the legislation and political ideas about foreigners that have shaped the relevant laws. The analysis pays particular attention to the connections with the priority international areas of the Spanish foreign policy: Latin America and the European integration. For this purpose, the article first presents a brief overview of the debate since 1970s; subsequently, it especially concentrates on the 1985-1996 period. By means of a qualitative approach, this article employs official documents, regulations, laws, and political speeches as the main sources of information.
Women’s Court of Canada Act and Rules
Authors: Buckley Melina
Published: May 2019

This paper explores the issue of how a feminist court could operate through the device of a model statute and rules for the Women’s Court of Canada. The Women’s Court of Canada is a feminist legal project bringing together academics, activists, and litigators to "rewrite" Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms equality jurisprudence. Over the course of more than a decade, the members of this virtual 'court' have reconsidered leading equality rights decisions, rendering alternative judgments with the aim of articulating fresh conceptions of substantive equality in judgment form. Here, the author takes a step away from the substance of equality rights law to focus on legal institutions and procedure.
Accessing Court Files as a Feminist Endeavour
Authors: McDonald Elisabeth , Benton-Greig Paulette
Published: May 2019

In this piece, we reflect on the significance of accessing court records for feminist endeavours. We discuss two examples that illustrate the value of accessing and critiquing court processes. Feminist judgment writing, as a feminist endeavour, demonstrates the significance of hearing women’s stories as well as the importance of nuanced factual analysis that takes account of the lived experiences of women. Access to the court file in one of the rewritten judgments exposed missing relevant facts in the appellate decision, and demonstrates how the appellant’s story was never fully reflected in the judgment or verdict. In our rape trial research, access to court records makes visible the complainant’s evidence and the response of the judge to her as a person. It also allows inquiry as to how the rules of evidence enacted for the protection of the complainant, such as non-disclosure of their occupation, are actually working in practice.
Transiting Planets Near the Snow Line from Kepler. I. Catalog∗
Authors: Kawahara Hajime , Masuda Kento
Published: May 2019

We present a comprehensive catalog of cool (period P ≳ 2 yr) transiting planet candidates in the 4 yr light curves from the prime Kepler mission. Most of the candidates show only one or two transits and have largely been missed in the original Kepler Object of Interest catalog. Our catalog is based on all known such candidates in the literature, as well as new candidates from the search in this paper, and provides a resource to explore the planet population near the snow line of Sun-like stars. We homogeneously performed pixel-level vetting, stellar characterization with Gaia parallax and archival/Subaru spectroscopy, and light-curve modeling to derive planet parameters and to eliminate stellar binaries. The resulting clean sample consists of 67 planet candidates whose radii are typically constrained to 5%, in which 23 are newly reported. The number of Jupiter-sized candidates (29 with radius

) in the sample is consistent with the Doppler occurrence. The smaller candidates are more prevalent (23 with

, 15 with

) and suggest that long-period Neptune-sized planets are at least as common as the Jupiter-sized ones, although our sample is yet to be corrected for detection completeness. If the sample is assumed to be complete, these numbers imply the occurrence rate of 0.39 ± 0.07 planets with

and

per FGK dwarf. The stars hosting candidates with

have systematically higher [Fe/H] than do the Kepler field stars, providing evidence that giant planet–metallicity correlation extends to

.
Discovery of Six New Class II Methanol Maser Transitions, Including the Unambiguous Detection of Three Torsionally Excited Lines toward G 358.931–0.030
Authors: Breen S. L. , Sobolev A. M. , Kaczmarek J. F. , Ellingsen S. P. , McCarthy T. P. , Voronkov M. A.
Published: May 2019

We present the unambiguous discovery of six new class II methanol maser transitions, three of which are torsionally excited (v

t
 = 1). The newly discovered 6.18 GHz 17−2 → 18−3 E (v

t
 = 1), 7.68 GHz 124 → 133 A− (v

t
 = 0), 7.83 GHz 124 → 133 A+ (v

t
 = 0), 20.9 GHz 101 → 112 A+ (v

t
 = 1), 44.9 GHz 20 → 31 E (v

t
 = 1), and 45.8 GHz 93 → 102 E (v

t
 = 0) methanol masers were detected toward G 358.931−0.030, where the known 6.68 GHz maser has recently been reported to be undergoing a period flaring. The detection of the v

t
 = 1 torsionally excited lines corroborates one of the missing puzzle pieces in class II maser pumping, but the intensity of the detected emission provides an additional challenge, especially in the case of the very highly excited 6.18 GHz line. Together with the newly detected v

t
 = 0 lines, these observations provide significant new information that can be utilized to improve class II methanol maser modeling. We additionally present detections of 6.68, 19.9, 23.1, and 37.7 GHz class II masers, as well as 36.2 and 44.1 GHz class I methanol masers, and provide upper limits for the 38.3 and 38.5 GHz class II lines. Near simultaneous Australia Telescope Compact Array observations confirm that all 10 of the class II methanol maser detections are co-spatial to ∼0.2 arcsec, which is within the uncertainty of the observations. We find significant levels of linearly polarized emission in the 6.18, 6.67, 7.68, 7.83, 20.9, 37.7, 44.9, and 45.8 GHz transitions, and low levels of circular polarization in the 6.68, 37.7, and 45.8 GHz transitions.
Two new species of the ant genus Acanthomyrmex Emery, 1893 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from Thailand
Authors: Jaitrong Weeyawat , Asanok Lamthai
Published: May 2019

Acanthomyrmex Emery, 1893 is a small myrmicine genus of the tribe Crematogastrini. Seventeen species of the genus have been recorded from Southeast Asia. Herein, two new species from Thailand (Acanthomyrmexmalikulisp. n. and Acanthomyrmexmizunoisp. n.) are added to this genus. Both species belong to Acanthomyrmexluciolae species group. Acanthomyrmexmalikuli was collected from hard dead wood on forest floor, while A.mizunoi nested in soil.
La relation apprenant – formateur au service du développement personnel de l’étudiant ?
Authors: Foli Olivia
Published: May 2019

Un dispositif de parole a été élaboré pour assurer, dans un Master 2, le suivi de l’expérience professionnelle des étudiants menant, en cabinet-conseil, des missions d’accompagnement de changements organisationnels en interaction avec des clients. L’alternance université – entreprise met en tension l’étudiant sur les plans pratiques, subjectifs et identitaires, tant l’intégration est maillée d’épreuves intégratives. L’enjeu est la création d’un espace d’élaboration qui ne laisse pas l’expérience professionnelle aux portes des salles de cours mais ouvre une médiation pour un accompagnement individuel et collectif des trajectoires. Un retour d’expérience à 5 ans questionne l’ingénierie de formation, ses objectifs et enjeux communicationnels, ainsi que son potentiel de développement d’un certain type de réflexivité.
Les attitudes à l’égard de la carrière : une typologie explicative des dispositions évaluatives des salariés
Authors: Mainhagu Sébastien
Published: May 2019

La mobilité professionnelle est un enjeu important pour les dirigeants pour accroitre l’adaptation des entreprises à leur environnement. De nombreuses recherches portent sur ce sujet, mais les outils conceptuels sont l’objet de critiques. Dans cette contribution, nous proposons le concept d’attitude à l’égard de la carrière. Nous le définissons comme une disposition évaluative favorable ou défavorable à un type de projet et de parcours professionnels, incluant la mobilité et la stabilité. L’attitude à l’égard de la carrière se développe grâce à une activité cognitive et émotive d’évaluation des expériences passées et du projet de vie, réalisée par les salariés. Elle intègre des informations sur le contenu de leur travail, qui servent à construire leur identité. Nous justifions ce concept en traitant des informations recueillies dans trois entités d’une association du secteur social. Quatre types d’attitudes à l’égard de la carrière sont déduits : indépendance, authenticité, honorabilité et stabilité. Nous expliquons cette typologie par trois déterminants : les conditions de travail et d’emploi, le projet professionnel et la reconnaissance. Nous proposons enfin plusieurs enchainements d’attitudes à l’égard de la carrière, dépassant les limites du modèle des étapes de Super.
Comparison of the Accuracy of Newer Intraocular Lens Power Calculation Methods in Eyes That Underwent Previous Phototherapeutic Keratectomy
Authors: Yagi-Yaguchi Yukari , Negishi Kazuno , Saiki Megumi , Torii Hidemasa , Tsubota Kazuo
Published: May 2019

PURPOSE:

To evaluate the accuracy of intraocular lens (IOL) power calculations using ray tracing software in patients who had undergone phototherapeutic keratectomy (PTK).

METHODS:

In this retrospective case series, 37 eyes of 22 patients (mean age: 69.4 years; range: 56 to 85 years) who underwent cataract surgery after PTK were reviewed. The prediction error, defined as the difference between the estimated postoperative spherical equivalent and the postoperative manifest refraction at the spectacle plane, was calculated using the following formulas: OKULIX (Tedics, Dortmund, Germany), PhacoOptics (IOL Innovations ApS, Aarhus, Denmark), Barrett True K No History (NH), and Camellin-Calossi. The PhacoOptics formula was used in three different ways: historical method (H), no history method (NH), and C-constant method (C). The median values of the arithmetic and absolute prediction errors among these six IOL calculation methods were compared.

RESULTS:

The median arithmetic errors (in diopters [D]) and percentages of eyes within ±0.50 D of the absolute errors were as follows: OKULIX (0.33, range: −2.20 to 2.50, 30.6%), PhacoOptics (H) (−0.12, range: −3.28 to 4.85, 22.2%), PhacoOptics (NH) (−0.25, range: −2.08 to 1.70, 48.4%), PhacoOptics (C) (0.04, range: −1.40 to 2.18, 48.5%), Barrett True K (NH) (−0.35, range: −1.90 to 1.89, 48.6%), and Camellin-Calossi (−0.19, range: −1.78 to 1.47, 59.5%).

CONCLUSIONS:

The PhacoOptics, especially the C-constant method (C), and Camellin-Calossi formulas were good options for calculating IOL powers in eyes that underwent PTK.

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J Refract Surg.
2019;35(5):310–316.]
The right stuff? Personality and entrepreneurship
Authors: Hamilton Barton H. , Papageorge Nicholas W. , Pande Nidhi
Published: May 2019

We construct a structural model of entry into self‐employment to evaluate the impact of policies supporting entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self‐employment due to the nonpecuniary benefits of running a business and not necessarily because they are good at it. Other literature has examined how socio‐emotional skills, such as personality traits, affect selection into self‐employment. We link these two lines of inquiry. The model we estimate captures three factors that affect selection into self‐employment: credit constraints, relative earnings, and preferences. We incorporate personality traits by allowing them to affect sector‐specific earnings as well as preferences. The estimated model reveals that the personality traits that make entrepreneurship profitable are not always the same traits driving people to open a business. This has important consequences for entrepreneurship policies. For example, subsidies for small businesses do not attract talented‐but‐reluctant entrepreneurs, but instead attract individuals with personality traits associated with strong preferences for running a business and low‐quality business ideas.
The Morphological Research of the Basalt and Loess Covered Plateaus in the Bakony Mts. (Transdanubian Middle Mts. – Hungary)
Authors: János Móga , Németh Róbert
Published: May 2019

V članku poročamo o morfoloških raziskavah na puhlični planoti Tési in z bazaltom prekritim kraškim območjem v okolici gore Kab na južnem delu gorovja Bakony. Skoraj 600 m visoka gora Kab, prekrita z bazaltom, izstopa iz hribovitega predela južnega dela gorovja Bakony. Površina gore, ki meri kakih 35-40 km², je prekrita z različno debelim bazaltom. Na bazaltnem površju so razvite psevdokraške oblike (depresije), ki so posledica zakrasevanja apnenca pod bazaltom. Z združevanjem glede na morfologijo in hitrost razvoja ter študijem korelacije genetskih značilnosti nastalih združb, smo izluščili nove kraške procese, kjer smo lahko depresije različnih oblik intepretirali kot različne stopnje iste razvojne poti. Mezozojske kamnine planote Tési le redko pogledajo na površje izpod pokrova puhlice. Blizu vrhov so nastajale udorne in ponorne vrtače z zelo omejenim območjem napajanja. Raziskave procesov, oblik in pojavnosti pokritega krasa gore Bakony so pokazale, da je nastanek recentnih jaškov povezan s skritimi litološkimi mejami. Pomembno vlogo pri razvoju površinskih oblik pokritega krasa imajo tudi paleokraški kanali, ki so se reaktivirali še pred nastankom puhlice.   We have conducted our morphological researches on the loess-covered Tési plateau and on the basalt covered karst area around Mt. Kab in the southern part of the Bakony Mts. The nearly 600 m high basalt covered Mt. Kab emerges high from the undulating mountains and hilly areas of the Southern Bakony Mts. Its surface, an area about 35-40 km² is covered by basaltic rocks of different thickness. Pseudokarstic landforms (depressions) developed on the basalt surface due to the karstic corrosion of the buried limestone layers. Grouping the objects of different morphology and evolution rate, and studying in corellation the genetic marks of the significantgroups,a special karst process can be drawn, in which the depressions of various form can be understood as different stations of the same evolutionary series. The Mesosoic rocks building up the 60 km² Tési plateau emerge to the surface rarely above the loess cover. There is agricultural activity on most part of the plateau. Typical covered karstic landforms developed on the 3-5 m thick loess cover. Subsidence dolines or alluvial streamsink dolines with a small catchment area were formed on the summits. We studied the processes, forms and occurrence of recent covered karst of Mt. Bakony, and these studies shows that on the covered karst surface of the Tési-plateau the recent pit formation along with baticapture connected to hidden and real rock boundary, as well as the opening and activation of paleokarstic passages developed before loess formation also play a role in the evolution of the covered karst surface forms of the Tési-plateau.
Monitoring of Active Tectonic Structures – Project COST 625
Authors: Šebela Stanka
Published: May 2019

Za zahodno Slovenijo je značilna zmerna zgodovinska in recentna seizmičnost. Glavni cilj pridružitve Slovenije k projektu COST 625 je bil, da bi z izmenjavo izkušenj in metodologije ugotovili aktivnost ali neaktivnost določenih prelomov v zahodni Sloveniji. V okviru projekta smo se odločili za večletni monitoring, zato smo v zahodni Sloveniji namestili štiri ekstenziometre TM 71. V prvi polovici letu 2004 smo v Postojnski jami na dinarski prelom, ki je od Predjamskega preloma oddaljen okrog 1 km severno, postavili dva inštrumenta. Tretji inštrument je postavljen na Raškem prelomu na JV pobočju Vremščice in četrti v dolini Učje na Idrijski prelom. Peti inštrument TM 71 bo postavljen na Kneškem prelomu, ki se nahaja južno od Ravenskega preloma. Prvi rezultati v Postojnski jami kažejo na manjše horizontalne premike velikosti do 0,05 mm v enem letu.   For Western Slovenia moderate historical to recent seismicity is characteristic. The principal aim for Slovenia to join the COST 625 project was to exchange the experiences and methodology and in this way to determine the activity or non-activity of selected faults in Western Slovenia. Within the project frame we decided for several years of monitoring, and in this sense four TM 71 extensometers were installed in Western Slovenia. In the firsthalf of the 2004 two TM 71 instruments were installed in Postojnska Jama on the Dinaric oriented fault that is situated about 1 km North from Predjama fault. The third instrument was installed on Raša fault on the SE slope of Vremščica and the fourth instrument in Učja valley on Idrija fault. The fifth instrument TM71 will be set upon Kneža fault that is situated south from Ravne fault. The firs tresults from Postojnska Jama are showing the small horizontal movements for 0.05 mm in one year.
Postcolonial or Not?
Authors: DeCorse Christopher R.
Published: May 2019

What do the labels “Historic period,” “historical archaeology,” and “Colonial” imply about the source materials drawn on, the time periods covered, and the conceptual vantages taken in interpre­ting the West African past? The historiographies presented are equally relevant to the understanding of the past—that is, the impacts of European contact, the Atlantic slave trade, and colo- nization—as they are to the present; the social, economic, and cultural landscapes of modernity, and how our views of the past shape these landscapes. This essay considers the varied episte­mological threads represented and their interpretive implica­tions. Although the hegemonic and transformative nature of Afri­ca's intersection with the Atlantic World is underscored, the need to situate these developments within the wider scope and tem­poral depth of the African past is also emphasized. Archaeology's central role in providing a holistic understanding of the temporal depth and complexity of African history, as well as archaeology's unique contribution to the understanding of the Atlantic world, is underscored.
Contrefaire, subvertir. Portrait de Frobenius / Shrobénius dans Le Devoir de violence de Yambo Ouologuem
Authors: Devevey Éléonore
Published: May 2019

Cet article s’attache au personnage de Fritz Shrobénius, ethnologue de passage dans l’empire ouest-africain imaginaire du Nakem, dont Le Devoir de violence de Yambo Ouologuem (1968) est la chronique sanguinaire. Savant bouffon dont le nom est démarqué de celui de l’ethnologue allemand Leo Frobenius, ce personnage secondaire permet à l’auteur d’incriminer le primitivisme mercantile qui se met en scène sous des dehors scientifiques. Mais il lui permet aussi de marquer ses distances, par la relecture critique qu’il engage de l’œuvre de Frobenius, avec les partis anthropologiques des écrivains de la négritude, pour qui Frobenius était une référence centrale. Il constitue enfin une façon de faire voler en éclats, par les moyens de la fiction et les ressources de l’intertextualité, l’idée d’un sens unique – direction et signification – de la relation ethnographique.
Barriers to and expectations of performing physical activity in female subjects with Type 2 Diabetes
Authors: Van Rooijen A. J. , Rheeder P. , Molatoli H. M.
Published: May 2019

The aims of the study were to establish in a cohort of female patients with Type Diabetes the knowledge and perceptions of exercise, personal and environmental barriers to doing exercise and the outcome expectations of performing physical activity. The sample consisted of 28 patients between the ages of 48 and 70 (mean =60.2, SD = 6.6) years and 11 ethnic groups, attending the Mamelodi Hospital Diabetic Outpatient Clinic. The duration of the disease ranged from I to 22 years and 82% of the patients were using oral hypoglycaemic agents. Demographic and qualitative data were captured by means of focus group interviews. Demographic data were summarized with descriptive statistics. Qualitative data were analysed by means of well described principles of qualitative data analyses. A percent agreement was performed and data were re-coded until the inter-rater reliability was 85%. All 28 subjects reported that they saw doing household chores and walking as ways of exercising. Sixty one percent of the subjects indicated relief from arthritis as a benefit of exercise. The main environmental barrier was the absence of a convenient venue (61%). Tiredness (36%) and arthritis (36%) were the main personal barriers to doing exercise. All subjects indicated a better quality of life and improvement of functional capabilities as outcome expectations of taking part in an exercise program. Subjects had positive attitudes towards exercise, wanted to have control in the program and also expressed the need for social support.
Coloured Neretin groups
Authors: Lederle Waltraud
Published: May 2019

We give sufficient conditions for a subgroup of a tree almost automorphism group to be isomorphic to the topological full groups of a one-sided shift in the sense of Matui. As an application,we show that almost automorphismgroups of trees obtained from universal groups constructed by Burger and Mozes are compactly generated and virtually simple. In addition, using the approach of Bader, Caprace, Gelander and Mozes we show that some of these almost automorphism groups do not have any lattice.
Invariant measures for actions of congruent monotileable amenable groups
Authors: Cecchi Paulina , Cortez María Isabel
Published: May 2019

In this paper we show that for every congruent monotileable amenable group

G

and for every metrizable Choquet simplex

K

, there exists a minimal

G

-subshift, which is free on a full measure set, whose set of invariant probability measures is affine homeomorphic to

K

. If the group is virtually abelian, the subshift is free. Congruent monotileable amenable groups are a generalization of amenable residually finite groups. In particular, we show that this class contains all the infinite countable virtually nilpotent groups. This article is a generalization to congruent monotileable amenable groups of one of the principal results shown in [3] for residually finite groups.
Limit multiplicities for ${\mathrm {SL}}_2(\mathcal{O}_F)$ in ${\mathrm {SL}}_2(\mathbb{R}^{r_1}\oplus\mathbb{C}^{r_2})$
Authors: Matz Jasmin
Published: May 2019

We prove that the family of lattices

{\mathrm {SL}}_2(\mathcal{O}_F)

,

F

running over number fields with fixed archimedean signature

(r_1, r_2)

, in

{\mathrm {SL}}_2(\mathbb{R}^{r_1}\oplus\mathbb{C}^{r_2})

has the limit multiplicity property.
$\mathbb{Z}^{d}$-odometers and cohomology
Authors: Giordano Thierry , Putnam Ian F. , Skau Christian F.
Published: May 2019

Cohomology for actions of free abelian groups on the Cantor set has (when endowed with an order structure) provided a complete invariant for orbit equivalence. In this paper, we study a particular class of actions of such groups called odometers (or profinite actions) and investigate their cohomology. We show that for a free, minimal

\mathbb Z^d

-odometer, the first cohomology group provides a complete invariant for the action up to conjugacy. This is in contrast with the situation for orbit equivalence where it is the cohomology in dimension

d

which provides the invariant. We also consider classification up to isomorphism and continuous orbit equivalence.