bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Implementing Web-Based Learning and Teaching Using Mobile Technology
Authors: Ojokoh Bolanle Adefowoke , Isinkaye Folasade Olubusola , Doyeni Olubimtan Ayo
Published: November 2019

Mobile technologies have increasingly become pervasive in everyday life over the past few decades. As a result of their affordability and wide availability, mobile devices have become commonly used by several people. Efforts are being made by researchers and institutions to provide infrastructure, content, and resources related to the integration of mobile devices into learning environments are worthy of note. These have led to the provision of more learner motivation, better interaction between learners and teachers, thus leading to an improved educational experience. This book chapter emphasizes on the benefits of mobile learning and also presents a case study of the development of a mobile learning system that facilitates interactive learning in a University environment. The system provides for the student, mobile access to various functions that can improve the process of learning including assessment and provision of feedback to learners. The system was tested and evaluated with satisfactory results.
A Learning Theory Rubric for Evaluating Mobile Learning Activities
Authors: Parsons David , MacCallum Kathryn
Published: November 2019

Learning theories underpin the expectations of meaningful outcomes that any given learning task should have. However, educators' understanding and application of such theories is likely to vary with their own experience and context. In this article, we explore the potential value of a rubric for the design of mobile learning activities that is based on a core set of six learning theories, which we have identified from the literature as being highly relevant to the context of mobile learning. The key concepts of these theories have been used to create the evaluation rubric, which supports the analysis of learning activity design from the perspective of each of the chosen learning theories. The application of this rubric is explored from two perspectives. First, we apply it to an existing mobile learning activity to evaluate to what extent the activity embodies the theories within the rubric. Then we propose a redesigned activity by using the rubric as a guiding framework for improving the task design. This process demonstrates the potential value of applying such a rubric to designing mobile learning activities, to ensure that they adequately leverage the components of one or more relevant theories.
Mixed Reality Simulations
Authors: Murphy Kristin M. , Cook Amy L.
Published: November 2019

Implementing a curriculum that supports students' social-emotional development alongside academics is essential. Social-emotional learning (SEL) promotes positive outcomes across social and emotional skills, attitudes towards self and others, positive social behavior, conduct problems, emotional distress, and academic performance. In spite of what research tells us and what we as educators know intuitively through our practice, social and emotional development has long been known to many as a missing link in U.S. public schools. Teachers' concerns include whether they have the time, resources, and access to professional learning necessary to implement high quality SEL instruction, particularly in light of academic content instruction pressures. This chapter discusses the application of mixed reality simulations as a next generation digital tool that offers active learning opportunities in social-emotional learning in conjunction with dialogic reading sessions to foster social-emotional competencies and literacy.
Makerspaces and 3D Printing
Authors: Trust Torrey , Maloy Robert , Edwards Sharon
Published: November 2019

This chapter presents a professional development model for introducing preservice and inservice teachers to makerspaces and 3D printing. The model is based on a 3D Printing 4 Teaching & Learning project, a school/university partnership focused on maker and 3D learning. In the project, 13 inservice teachers were paired with 10 preservice teacher candidates and charged with integrating hands-on physical makerspaces and 3D modeling and printing activities into existing elementary, middle, or high school curricula. Two day-long workshops introduced participants to makerspace experiences. Teachers then completed projects with students organized around history/social studies or science/mathematics topics. Three primary recommendations emerged for integrating maker-based and 3D technologies into preservice and inservice teacher learning: 1) a growth-in-practice model, 2) preservice/inservice teams, 3) multiple approaches to the adoption of new technologies.
Mix Marketing
Authors: Hervey Mvele Sigismond
Published: November 2019

The objective of this work is to contribute to the decompartmentalization of knowledge resulting from practitioners' experiences in religious marketing. Through an exploratory survey among six leaders of new churches and 90 of their worshippers, the authors tried to provide the basis for a reflection on the relevance of the use of religious marketing in a context of poverty. For this purpose, they use a thematic content analysis and a descriptive analysis. Results show that the religious field is just a field of social life experimentation, characterized by the expression of economic interests. This work provides a model for understanding church followers.
Engendering Multiliteracies Using Digital Games and Digital Literature
Authors: Bazinet Nolan
Published: November 2019

Recent calls for critical education in regards to social and digital media argue for the importance of 21st century media and literacy skills (Butler, 2017; Storksdieck, 2016). These calls join a chorus of academics who have long been calling for the importance of multiliteracy development in education (Cope & Kalantzis, 2000; Lankshear & Knobel, 2011; New London Group, 1996). In searching for texts that may facilitate multiliteracy development, digital games has emerged as an option in formal education, given the complex critical thinking, learning, and literacy practices they can afford (Beavis, O'Mara, & McNeice, 2012; Gee, 2007; Squire, 2008; Steinkhueler, 2010). The chapter explores the multiliterate affordances when using digital literature and digital games at an English language college in Quebec. Results show that the implications of using digital games to engender multiliteracy development are substantive.
Game Mechanics Supporting a Learning and Playful Experience in Educational Escape Games
Authors: Menon Divya , Romero Margarida
Published: November 2019

Globally, educators are striving to find innovative ways of engaging their learners and ensuring that they accomplish the desired learning outcomes. Among the various game-based learning approaches that have come up in recent years, escape games are being widely used in a variety of learning contexts. As an entertainment activity, these games seem to be popular among players of all ages and backgrounds. This chapter introduces escape games and provides a literature review on their possible benefits and limitations. The game mechanics and learning mechanics that enable these games to be a potentially playful activity for teaching and learning will be discussed. This chapter provides educators and researchers with the required information backed by various studies to consider the integration of educational escape games with their current learning methods.
Balancing Entertainment and Educational Objectives in Academic Game Creation
Authors: Egert Christopher A. , Phelps Andrew M.
Published: November 2019

Production experiences are important to the educational progression of game design and development students. Coursework that leads to a quality deliverable is highly desirable by students, faculty, and industry for both pedagogical and portfolio purposes, including a focus on multi-disciplinary teamwork, and professional practice at scale. Despite the impetus to provide meaningful production experiences, successful execution within an academic context can be difficult. The situation is further exasperated when the result of the production experience is more than just an entertainment product – i.e. a game that embodies and facilitates a learning outcome. This chapter presents the successes, challenges, and lessons learned from two cases in which the authors created a production-oriented classroom experience utilizing a game studio model. The authors also address the balance between entertainment goals and learning outcomes in educational game production, including how such balance influences faculty and learner comprehension of design and process techniques.
The Importance of Teacher Bridging in Game-Based Learning Classrooms
Authors: Asbell-Clarke Jodi , Rowe Elizabeth , Bardar Erin , Edwards Teon
Published: November 2019

Advances in game-based learning and educational data mining enable novel methods of formative assessment that can reveal implicit understandings that students may demonstrate in games but may not express formally on a test. This chapter explores a framework of bridging in game-based learning classes, where teachers leverage and build upon students' game-based implicit learning experiences to support science classroom learning. Bridging was studied with two physics learning games in about 30 high-school classes per game. Results from both studies show that students in bridging classes performed better on external post-tests, when accounting for pre-test scores, than in classes that only played the game or did not play the game at all. These findings suggest the teachers' role is critical in game-based learning classes. Effective bridging includes providing teachers with common game examples along with actionable discussion points or activities to connect game-based learning with classroom content.
Implementation of Games in Primary School Social Studies Lessons
Authors: Hegediš Polona Jančič , Hus Vlasta
Published: November 2019

This chapter presents the implementation of games in teaching social studies in primary schools. In Slovenia, social studies lessons combine educational goals from the fields of geography, sociology, history, ethnology, psychology, economy, politics, ethics, and ecology with the national curriculum based on the constructivist approach. Game-based learning enables an optimal learning environment for students. This chapter researches games in social studies. Results show teachers rarely use didactic games in social studies and that games are most commonly used at the beginning of lessons to achieve greater motivation and concentration of students and for more diversified classes. Most respondents' students like game-based learning in social studies and also estimate that games are not played often enough.
Achievement Unlocked?
Authors: Vu Phu , Fye Marissa A.
Published: November 2019

Even though game-based learning is trending both in research and in practice, there is still a limited understanding about the relationships between teachers' and students' perceptions of academic achievement, levels of learning engagement, and challenges implementing this pedagogical approach in a PK-12 setting. Data used for this research project were extracted from responses to an annual online survey administered to teachers and students at middle schools and high schools in a Midwest state in America. The authors' results indicate that teachers and students agree that students were more engaged in class learning activities if they were managed like games, and GBL helped improve student academic performances. Finally, “Insufficient time” was the most common barrier to the teachers' effort of implementing GBL in their classrooms.
Social Media
Authors: Garg Priyanka , Pahuja Saloni
Published: November 2019

In this age of digitisation social media has become an integral part of our lives. It is an important tool for business decision makers as it enables them to stay connected with their consumers. The firms intend to make profitable use of social media applications such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Mobile Apps. This chapter details out the concept of social media, how it differs from traditional media, the specific categories such as content communities, micro blogging, collaborative websites, social networking sites, live casting, virtual game and social worlds, etc. Further the impact of social media on youth is highlighted. This chapter presents guidelines regarding optimum utilization of social media. Also the strategies to handle different social media activities are discussed
Indicator-mineral content of bedrock and till at the Gibraltar porphyry Cu-Mo deposit and the Woodjam porphyry Cu-Au-Mo prospect, south-central British Columbia
Authors: Plouffe A , Ferbey T
Published: November 2019

The next generation of porphyry Cu deposits to be discovered in the Canadian Cordillera are likely to be found underlying glacial sediments. The recovery of minerals diagnostic of porphyry Cu mineralization, termed porphyry Cu indicator minerals (PCIM), in till
and stream sediments will contribute to the discovery of buried mineralization. To identify minerals that have the potential to be used as PCIM, thirteen bedrock samples from the Gibraltar porphyry Cu-Mo deposit and ten from the Woodjam porphyry Cu-Au-Mo prospect were examined after producing
mid-density (2.8-3.2 SG) and heavy (>3.2 SG) mineral concentrates. Chalcopyrite, a common Cu ore mineral, is abundant in bedrock and till in the Gibraltar and Woodjam areas making it a key PCIM. Jarosite, common in leached cap and supergene zones of porphyry Cu deposits, is generally more
abundant in till near the known mineralized zones compared to surrounding regions and therefore, should be considered a PCIM diagnostic of the oxidized portion of porphyry mineralization. Other Cu (azurite, malachite, covellite, chalcocite) and Mo (molybdenite) minerals are present in mineralized
bedrock but are rare or absent in till, limiting their utility as PCIM at these two study sites, but they could be important PCIM if found in detrital sediments at other sites. Other minerals (e.g. tourmaline, apatite and rutile) present in till and bedrock need to be characterized geochemically in
order to be classified and used as PCIM.
Interesting examples in $\mathbb{C}^2$ of maps tangent to the identity without domains of attraction
Authors: Lapan Sara
Published: November 2019

We give an interesting example of a map in

\mathbb{C}^2

that is tangent to the identity at the origin, but that does not have a domain of attraction along any of its characteristic directions at the origin. This map has three characteristic directions, two of which are not attracting while the third attracts points to that direction, but not to the origin. In addition, we show that if we add higher degree terms to this map, sometimes a domain of attraction along one of its characteristic directions will exist and sometimes one will not.
Dimensions of equilibrium measures on a class of planar self-affine sets
Authors: Fraser Jonathan M. , Jordan Thomas , Jurga Natalia
Published: November 2019

We study equilibrium measures (Käenmäki measures) supported on self-affine sets generated by a finite collection of diagonal and anti-diagonal matrices acting on the plane and satisfying the strong separation property. Our main result is that such measures are exact dimensional and the dimension satisfies the Ledrappier–Young formula, which gives an explicit expression for the dimension in terms of the entropy and Lyapunov exponents as well as the dimension of a coordinate projection of the measure. In particular, we do this by showing that the Käenmäki measure is equal to the sum of (the pushforwards) of two Gibbs measures on an associated subshift of finite type.
Play Experiences of Children With a High Level of Physical Disability
Authors: Graham Naomi , Mandy Anne , Clarke Channine , Morriss-Roberts Christopher
Published: November 2019

Importance: This research provides practitioners with an understanding of play from the perspective of children with a high level of physical disability.

Objective: To explore the experience of play for children who have a high level of physical disability as a result of cerebral palsy.

Design: Interpretative phenomenological analysis. Children participated in three interviews each to discuss their experience of play. Visual methods, such as use of video and drawings, enabled a greater depth of discussion.

Setting: Participants’ homes.

Participants: Six children ages 6–11 yr with a high level of physical disability, recruited via snowball sampling and charities working with children with cerebral palsy.

Results: We found that making choices and controlling play were important for the children, that they often experienced play differently than their peers, and that they connected with others in play through humor and communication skills.

Conclusions and Relevance: Occupational therapy practitioners can respond to the findings by understanding the embodied unit, recognizing vista play, enabling expression of each child’s imagined self, supporting negotiation of identity and disability, recognizing participation in play through watching, enabling opportunities for belonging, enabling development of component skills for play, and supporting strategies for connection.

What This Article Adds: This article provides occupational therapy practitioners and other professionals with an understanding of play from the perspective of children who have a high level of physical disability.
Puisi Selatan
Authors: Campbell Ian
Published: November 2019

Puisi selatan is a small selection of Sydney poet Ian Campbell’s Indonesian language poems taken from the author’s larger collection titled Selatan-Sur-South of Indonesian language poems - which appeared in PORTAL in 2008 - but now supplemented, for the first time, with English language versions which have been rendered by the poet himself from the ‘starting point’ of these original four Indonesian language poems.

 

In all there are here now eight poems – four in Indonesian and four in English – with the common thread, for the poet, of being written ‘in the south’. For the poet also, they now interact, across languages, as a set of poems which consider the ways in which the actions of ‘memorialising’ are often intertwined with specific responses to the natural environment.

 

The poems ‘Semenanjung Bilgola’ and ‘Bilgola headland’ are poems reflecting upon the efforts the poet’s parents made in the late 1960s-early 1970s to restore the natural environment on a headland of one of Sydney’s northern beaches which had been donated to the National Trust. The Indonesian language original poem was read by the poet himself and by Indonesian poets in cities in West Java in 2004 and also at the first Ubud Writers Festival in 2004 by Indonesian female poet, Toeti Heraty,

 

The poems ‘Berziarah di Punta de Lobos, Chile’ and ‘Pilgrimage to Punta de Lobos’ are also memorialising poems and reflect upon the idea of ’pilgimage’ to a natural location near Pichilemu on the Chilean coast which is popular with surfers. In contrast, the poems ‘Simfoni angin’ and ‘Symphony of the winds’ describe the sights and sounds of a rural area near Purranque in the south of Chile, but here too the poet reflects upon the ways in which present evokes past.

 

The final poems ‘Buenos Aires’ - rendered as the title in both languages - explore the ways in which the Argentinian café becomes a place in which memories of the city are revealed anew through the processes of inversion of light and shadow, of internal and external shapes and sounds, as if through a camera lens.

 

Puisi selatan can be rendered in English as ‘poetry of the south’ as all poems derive their impetus from settings in Australia or in Latin America, specifically either Chile or Argentina. They were originally written in Indonesian as part of the poet’s interest in using Bahasa Indonesia as a language of creative writing.
Gringos Mexicanos
Authors: Dwyer Angelique K.
Published: November 2019

This creative non-fiction piece written in Spanglish called “Gringos Mexicanos" stems from feelings of nostalgia and unrest within biculturalism and national identity. The piece centers around the degrees of belonging that two Americans siblings raised in Mexico have when contrasted to each other and to (Mexican or American) peer groups. The narrative voice in this piece provides a unique perspective broadening dialogue(s) on Mexican American identity.
A Soul Divided: The UN’s Misconduct Over West Papua
Authors: McKinlay King Julian Alec
Published: November 2019

The soul of Papua is divided. Separated by an arbitrary line established during the early colonial period, the communities in the west are now regarded as part of Indonesia and live under military oppression described by legal scholars and human rights advocates as systematic terror and alleged genocide whilst those in the east enjoy their legitimate freedom and independence. This paper revisits the creation of Indonesia after the Pacific War with the training, resources, and Fascist ideology of the Japanese Imperial Army and how it has maintained control of the archipelago to the present day. With a focus on West Papua it asserts that the people of this island archipelago have been denied their rightful independence. As a result of multiple breaches of the Charter of the United Nations covertly orchestrated by the United Nations Secretariat in collusion with Sukarno the people of West Papua were illegally transferred to Indonesia. It is advanced that the method of maintaining control over West Papua and the entire Indonesian archipelago is via a systematic programme of military oppression perpetrated by a neo-fascist military dictatorship on behalf of the US government.
Ripples of Decolonisation in the Asia-Pacific
Authors: Hawksley Charles , Ward Rowena
Published: November 2019

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Optimizing a dynamic fossil fuel CO2 emission model with CTDAS (v1.0) for an urban area using atmospheric observations of CO2, CO, NOx, and SO2
Authors: Super Ingrid , Denier van der Gon Hugo A. C. , van der Molen Michiel K. , Dellaert Stijn N. C. , Peters Wouter
Published: November 2019

Abstract. We present a modelling framework for fossil fuel CO2 emissions in an urban environment, which allows constraints from emission inventories to be combined with atmospheric observations of CO2 and its co-emitted species CO, NOx, and SO2. Rather than a static assignment of average emission rates to each unit-area of the urban domain, the fossil fuel emissions we use are dynamic: they vary in time and space in relation to data that describe or approximate the activity within a sector, such as traffic density, power demand, 2 m temperature (as proxy for heating demand), and sunlight and wind speed (as proxies for renewable energy supply). Through inverse modelling, we optimize the relationships between these activity data and the resulting emissions of all species within the dynamic fossil fuel emission model, based on atmospheric mole fraction observations. The advantage of this novel approach is that the optimized parameters (emission factors and emission ratios, N = 44) in this dynamic model (a) vary much less over space and time, (b) allow a physical interpretation of mean and uncertainty, and (c) have better defined uncertainties and covariance structure. This makes them more suited to extrapolate, optimize, and interpret than the gridded emissions themselves. The merits of this approach are investigated using a pseudo-observation-based ensemble Kalman filter inversion setup for the Dutch Rijnmond area at 1 × 1 km resolution. We find that the dynamic fossil fuel model approximates the gridded emissions well (annual mean differences
The Langston Hughes Archive: Perspectives on Future Research
Authors: Kutzinski Vera M.
Published: November 2019

Vera M. Kutzinski’s essay “The Langston Hughes Archive: Perspectives on Future Research” explores challenges and opportunities regarding future scholarship on Langston Hughes. Kutzinski argues that, despite significant scholarship devoted to Langston Hughes, there are many critical problems that need to be addressed. Kutzinski provides a broad overview of Hughes scholarship, including recent trends and developments as well as copyright issues that pose difficult challenges for scholars, especially writers interested in Hughes’s poetry. Kutzinski pays careful attention, though, to opportunities in the Langston Hughes Papers (LHP) at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Using her own experience as a concrete example, Kutzinski demonstrates how examining the LHP can lead to serendipitous interests and insights. In addition, she identifies various miscues, opportunities, and reasons for studying translations that Hughes published and translations others did of his writings.
Gastric Dilatation Organoaxial Volvulus in a Dog
Authors: Paravicini Patricia Veronica , Gates Kathryn , Kim James
Published: November 2019

A 9 yr old castrated male mixed-breed dog was presented for acute vomiting. Abdominal radiographs appeared to show a normal positioned stomach with marked gas dilation, which persisted despite frequent suctioning with a nasogastric tube. An abdominal ultrasound showed splenomegaly, malpositioning of the spleen, and the pyloroduodenal junction. A ventral midline celiotomy revealed an organoaxial gastric volvulus, rotating on the gastroesophageal, and pyloroduodenal junctions. The omentum was not overlying the stomach, typically seen in mesenteroaxial gastric volvulus. The body of the stomach was derotated with no evidence of gastric necrosis noted. The spleen was in the right cranial abdomen and returned to its normal anatomic position after derotation of the stomach. The patient recovered uneventfully and was discharged the next day. To the authors’ knowledge, organoaxial gastric volvulus has not been reported in dogs. This is rare in humans but occurs most commonly in children <5 yr of age associated with hernias. The recommended treatment is surgical in majority of cases. As a result of the unusual orientation of the stomach, the diagnosis of gastric dilatation-volvulus was challenging. Organoaxial gastric volvulus demonstrates the need for further imaging and evaluation in cases of persistent gas dilation.
Outcomes Following Balloon Dilation of Benign Urethral Strictures in Dogs: Eight Cases (2005–2018)
Authors: Gin Taylor Estes , Secoura Patty , Harris Tonya , Vaden Shelly
Published: November 2019

Balloon dilation has been described infrequently as a treatment for benign urethral strictures in dogs but is often a first-line therapeutic option for humans. Additional evidence is needed to evaluate the potential role of this procedure in veterinary medicine. The aim of the study was to describe the techniques used and evaluate the response to balloon dilation of benign urethral strictures in dogs. Medical records were reviewed from eight client-owned dogs who underwent balloon dilation of a benign urethral stricture over a 13 yr period in this retrospective case series. Clinical signs improved for five of eight dogs after a single balloon dilation during a follow-up period of 1 wk to 3 yr. After a second procedure, an additional dog demonstrated improvement for 5.5 yr. Adverse outcomes included urinary incontinence in two dogs and recurrent bacteriuria in four dogs. Findings suggest that balloon dilation is an effective, minimally invasive procedure for the treatment of benign urethral strictures in dogs. Urinary incontinence, urinary tract infection, and stricture recurrence are potential outcomes for dogs undergoing this procedure either as a result of the nature of the underlying disease or as a result of the procedure.
Las ciencias de la naturaleza en la primera edición de la “Teoría pura del derecho” de Hans Kelsen
Authors: Beresñak Fernando
Published: November 2019

Hans Kelsen comienza su “Prólogo” a la Teoría pura del Derecho afirmando que tuvo como objetivo depurar al derecho de las intromisiones extrajurídicas provenientes de las ciencias de la naturaleza y de toda ideología política. A partir de esa consideración, el canon crítico posterior insistió principalmente en el segundo aspecto de la depuración. Es cierto que la pretensión de posicionar el análisis de la ciencia jurídica por fuera de toda ideología es sumamente problemática (aunque, como veremos, el objetivo era más complejo de lo que muchas veces se enuncia). Pero consideramos que, sin atender la depuración relativa a las ciencias de la naturaleza, no se puede comprender cabalmente el sentido ni las operaciones que se están llevando a cabo en la teoría kelseniana. De allí que aquí analizaremos cómo esta obra, una de las máximas representaciones del iuspositivismo, con el objetivo de delinear su propia territorialidad, mantuvo un diálogo tenso con las implicancias de las antiguas y modernas filosofías y ciencias de la naturaleza.
Analysis of Bed Occupancy Rate (BOR) in Terms of Internal Factors (Procedures, Doctor, Nurse, Facilities and Infrastructure)
Authors: Siyoto Sandu , Tule Albert Ronald
Published: November 2019

The purpose of the study was to describe service procedures, doctor services, nurse services, facilities and infrastructure, and Bed Occupancy Rate (BOR) and to determine the effect of service procedures, doctor services, nurse services, facilities and infrastructure on bed occupancy rates (BOR). This research was conducted at Caruban Hospital with a sample of 214 people drawn randomly from 480 populations, data were collected by questionnaire and analyzed by descriptive and ordinal regression. The results of the data analysis show that service presiders, doctor services, nurse services, facilities and infrastructure, and bed occupancy behavior (BOR) are in the “good” category and there is an influence of service procedure, doctor services, nurse services, and facilities and infrastructure on behavior bed occupancy (BOR).
Investigating the Role of Foreign Language Anxiety in Explicit and Implicit L2 Knowledge
Authors: Zhang Runhan
Published: November 2019

Empirical studies have provided evidence for the negative role of foreign language anxiety in language proficiency measured via final course grades, self-assessments, objective language tests, and GPAs. However, its role in language proficiency from the perspective of explicit and implicit L2 knowledge is under-investigated. The current study therefore investigates the relationship between foreign language anxiety and explicit and implicit L2 knowledge in an English as a foreign language context. Participants were 156 university-level non-English majors. The results of the t test and multiple regression analyses showed that foreign language anxiety has a negative role in implicit L2 knowledge and also can predict it, but it was not found to have a significantly negative role in explicit L2 knowledge. The nature of the tests and knowledge may account for the results.
Generalized (p,q)-Fibonacci-Like Sequences and Their Properties
Authors: Taşyurdu Yasemin
Published: November 2019

In this paper, we define the generalized (p,q) -Fibonacci-Like sequences Sp,q,n  associated with the (p,q) -Fibonacci and the (p,q) -Lucas sequences and then we get some fundamental identities and sums formulas involving odd and even terms of the generalized (p,q) -Fibonacci-Like sequences. We obtain the Binet's formula to find the n th general term of generalized (p,q) -Fibonacci-Like sequences Sp,q,n . Also, the generating functions of these sequences are presented and proved.In this paper, we define the generalized (p,q) -Fibonacci-Like sequences Sp,q,n  associated with the (p,q) -Fibonacci and the (p,q) -Lucas sequences and then we get some fundamental identities and sums formulas involving odd and even terms of the generalized (p,q) -Fibonacci-Like sequences. We obtain the Binet's formula to find the n th general term of generalized (p,q) -Fibonacci-Like sequences Sp,q,n . Also, the generating functions of these sequences are presented and proved.
Complying with display rules: the ‘managed heart’ in restorative justice
Authors: van Stokkom Bas
Published: November 2019

Complying with display rules: the ‘managed heart’ in restorative justice

In this theoretical study it is argued, first, that ritual theories – at least those which are dominant in restorative justice literature – place too much emphasis on the potential positive impacts of emotional bonding. The author discusses some critical issues with respect to emotional bonding and points out that mutual understanding is rather the result of narrative re-appraising and re-assessing. Secondly, to explain the rather low emotional temperature of many (youth) conferences, emphasis is placed on emotion management theory, thereby suggesting that participants’ reservations and discomfort are related to rather demanding display rules (enact a sincere and authentic role; enact cooperativeness; etc.). The author identifies reasons why (young) participants cannot get grips on these rules and resort to a resigned ‘offstage’ performance. It is argued that display rules form an integral part of a relatively compelling ‘emotional regime’, a specific set of affective behavioural norms which define the ‘manners’ during the meeting. In this regime there is considerable social pressure to conform to norms and standards how to express emotions, which contradicts the restorative justice rhetoric of voluntary and spontaneous dialogue.
Four of five tuberculosis patients experience catastrophic costs related to TB diagnosis and care in Timor-Leste
Authors: Viney K. , Amaral S. , Marques E. Baptista , Siroka A. , Lopes C. , Nery S. Vaz
Published: November 2019

SETTING: Seventeen health care facilities that report to the national tuberculosis (TB) programme in Timor-Leste. Participants were TB patients.OBJECTIVE: To determine the proportion of TB patients who experienced catastrophic costs due to their TB diagnosis and care,
and the magnitude and composition of these costs.DESIGN: This was a cross-sectional health facility-based survey, conducted in 17 DOTS centres between October 2016 and March 2017. TB patients were interviewed by trained nurses using a standardised questionnaire.RESULTS:
Among the 457 TB patients who participated (response rate 96.6%), the median age was 32 years; 39.2% were from the capital, Dili. The patient was the main income earner in 26.3% of households. Annual individual and household incomes before and after TB diagnosis decreased by respectively 30.4%
and 31.1%. Using a cut-off of 20% of annual household income, 83.0% of patients experienced catastrophic costs related to their TB diagnosis and care. Income loss and nutritional supplementation accounted for respectively 40.7% and 37.9% of these costs.CONCLUSION: Four of five TB
patients in Timor-Leste experienced catastrophic costs related to TB diagnosis and care. Financial and social protection to mitigate against these costs are urgently needed, in addition to universal health coverage.
Prevalence and risk factors of tuberculosis disease in South African correctional facilities in 2015
Authors: Jordan A. M. , Podewils L. J. , Castro K. G. , Zishiri V. , Charalambous S.
Published: November 2019

SETTING: Sixteen South African correctional facilities.OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of and risk factors for tuberculosis (TB) in South African correctional facilities using data collected during a TB screening program in South African correctional facilities
in 2015.DESIGN: Inmates in 16 South African correctional facilities were screened for TB from January to December 2015. Inmates reporting ≥1 TB symptom or having an abnormal computer-assisted digital chest X-ray (CXR) provided sputum. Abnormal CXRs were interpreted by a radiologist.
Sputum was tested for Mycobacterium tuberculosis using Xpert® MTB/RIF. Data from 16 South African correctional facilities were used in regression analysis, and prevalence estimates calculated for 12 South African correctional facilities with >30% screening coverage.RESULTS:
In 12 South African correctional facilities included in the prevalence estimates, 837 inmates had TB disease (2653/100 000) as indicated by current TB treatment or screening-identified TB by radiologist or Xpert. Previous TB was associated with increased odds of screening-identified
TB in HIV-positive inmates (OR 4.3, 95%CI 2.5–7.3). For HIV-negative inmates, previous TB (adjusted OR [aOR] 4.9, 95%CI 1.7–14.1) and self-reported symptoms vs. none (1 symptom, aOR 8.8, 95%CI 1.2–67.7; >2 symptoms, aOR 21.7, 95%CI 3.0–158.8) were independently associated
with increased odds of screening-identified TB.CONCLUSIONS: Routine TB screening, including CXR, is needed in South African correctional facilities to identify and refer inmates with active TB.
Diagnostic yield of active case finding for tuberculosis at human immunodeficiency virus testing in Haiti
Authors: Rivera V. R. , Lu L. , Ocheretina O. , Jean Juste M. A. , Julma P. , Archange D. , Moise C. G. , Homeus F. , Phanor P. D. , Petión S. , Cremieux P-Y. , Fitzgerald D. W. , Pape J. W. , Koenig S. P.
Published: November 2019

SETTING: The Groupe Haïtien d'étude du Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infections Opportunistes (GHESKIO) Centres, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, facilitate “test and treat” strategies by screening all patients for tuberculosis (TB) at human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
testing.OBJECTIVE: 1) To determine the proportion of patients with chronic cough at HIV testing diagnosed with TB, stratified by HIV test results; and 2) to evaluate the additional diagnostic yield of Xpert® MTB/RIF vs. sputum microscopy.DESIGN: We conducted
a retrospective cohort analysis including all adults tested for HIV at GHESKIO from August 2014 to July 2015.RESULTS: Of 29 233 adult patients tested for HIV, 2953 (10%) were diagnosed as HIV-positive. Chronic cough lasting ≥2 weeks was reported by 1116 (38%) HIV-positive
patients; 984 (88%) were tested and 265 (27%) were diagnosed with TB. Chronic cough was reported by 5985 (23%) HIV-negative patients; 5654 (94%) were tested and 1179 (21%) were diagnosed with TB. Of all bacteriologically confirmed cases, 27% were smear-negative and Xpert-positive. Among all
TB patients, 81% were HIV-negative.CONCLUSIONS: Screening for TB at HIV testing was high-yield, among both HIV-infected and HIV-negative individuals. Testing for both diseases should be conducted among patients who present with chronic cough at HIV testing.
Literackie (kraj)obrazy Jane Austen a angielska estetyka malowniczości
Authors: Borowska-Kazimiruk Sylwia
Published: November 2019

The main inspiration for the article dedicated to aesthetics of picturesqueness in Jane Austen’s novels is W. J. T. Mitchell’s Introduction in Landscape and Power, where he defines a landscape not as a noun, but as a verb. In this context, this term becomes a cultural medium, by which the new political and social meanings of the epoch are transmitted and sanctioned. Selected parts of Austen’s works, in which long descriptions of nature have been replaced by dialogues about a landscape as an artistic, picturesque object, will allow to describe the consequences of the reconceptualization of the nature within English theory of aesthetics.
Jak znaleźć męża między żywymi trupami a krwiożerczymi ośmiornicami? Mash-up, czyli „klasyczne romanse z okresu regencji” z domieszką elementów nadnaturalnych (na przykładzie Pride and Prejudice and Zombies oraz Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters)
Authors: Przybysz Iwona
Published: November 2019

In this article, the author confronts two mash-up novels (novels, in which new motives and elements are added to the masterpieces of world’s literature) – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters. The author shows how the new elements (zombies and sea monsters) are added to Jane Austen’s novels and underlines which elements have to be left in their original form, and which can be changed. The author also describes how the development of the new motives affects the ways of describing the world of the novel and its characters.
Comparative Study of Building Envelope Cooling Loads in Al-Amarah City, Iraq
Authors: Al-Yasiri Qudama , Al-Furaiji Mushtaq A. , Alshara Ahmed K.
Published: November 2019

In recent years, the summer season in Iraq has become longer and hotter than before, leading to high cooling loads inside buildings and increased demand for electrical energy. The use of sustainable energy and insulation techniques for building envelopes are reasonable solutions for overcoming harsh weather conditions and reaching acceptable thermal comfort levels. In this study, a survey on more than 60 residential buildings in Al-Amarah City, Iraq, was conducted on 21 July 2018 to examine the nature of the most common construction materials used in the building envelopes. Furthermore, the cooling loads of building envelope elements, e.g. roof, external walls and windows, was calculated using the cooling load temperature difference/solar cooling load/cooling load factor method of ASHRAE. The results were tabulated and compared for each combination of elements. The results showed that reflective glass is the optimal choice for exterior windows. The 'clay"“insulation"“fired clay bricks"“cement mortar' and 'cement mortar"“thermo-stone bricks"“cement mortar"“gypsum mortar' combination layers performed well for roof and external wall installations, respectively. Several recommendations were deduced from this study, which can be used as guidelines for construction authorities in Al-Amarah City and individuals interested in energy-efficient buildings.
Kinetics on Organic Removal by Aerobic Granular Sludge in Bubbled Airlift Continuous Reactor
Authors: Yulianto Andik , Zakiyya Nida Maisa , Soewondo Prayatni , Handajani Marisa , Ariesyady Herto Dwi
Published: November 2019

An assessment of aerobic granular sludge (AGS) in a bubbled airlift continuous reactor (BACR) was done to determine the AGS growth kinetics in the continuous reactor and the impact of varied hydraulic retention time (HRT) against the AGS structure. Sodium acetate was used as the sole carbon source with a 100:20 ratio of COD/N synthetic water. The system was operated at five variations of HRT, i.e. 12, 10, 8, 6, and 4 hours, with organic loading rate (OLR) ranging from 1.6 to 4.8 g COD/day in the BACR. Organic removal decreased from 73% to 52%, along with the increment of OLR, while HRT decreased from 12 hours to 4 hours. The kinetics of organic removal in the BACR were examined to get a better understanding of organic removal trends by AGS in a BACR. The models used for biomass growth analysis were the Monod, Contois, Grau second-order, and Stover-Kincannon kinetic models. This study showed that the best suited models for organic removal in BACR were the Grau second-order kinetic model with an a value of 0.1382 and a b value of 1.0776, and the Stover-Kincannon kinetic model with an Rmax of 5.8 g COD/L.day and a KB of 6.24 g COD/L.day.
Drought Event Analysis and Projection of Future Precipitation Scenario in Abaya Chamo Sub-Basin, Ethiopia
Authors: Gebeyehu Ayele Elias , Chunju Zhao , Yihong Zhou , Wagasho Negash
Published: November 2019

Monthly observed and future precipitation magnitudes were subjected to statistical trend analysis to examine possible time series behavior. Future precipitation was downscaled from large-scale output through statistical downscaling. The observed and downscaled future precipitation was analyzed for drought events using the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) method. In the Abaya Chamo sub-basin, Ethiopia precipitation is explained by below average magnitudes in most of the low land area, characterized by moderate to extreme drought episodes. Nine drought events were discerned during the period of 1988 to 2015, i.e. once in three years, resulting in harvest failure and subsequent food insecurity. The NCEP-NCAR and CanESM2 model predictors were used to statistically downscale the precipitation data. The monthly observed and downscaled precipitation magnitudes were in good agreement. The RCP-2.6, RCP-4.5 and RCP-8.5 long-term future scenarios were computed to evaluate future drought patterns. The mean annual precipitation scenario decreased by 0.2% to 13.7%, 0.5% to 6.4% and 0.1% to 1.3% for the period from 2016 to 2040, 2050s and 2080s respectively. The increase in mean precipitation was projected to be 0.7% to 12.2%, 0.2% to 11.7% and 0.1% to 17.8% for the period from 2016 to 2040, 2050s and 2080s respectively. The present analysis may provide useful information associated to drought events to decision makers and can be used as a basis for future research in this area.
Underwater Acoustic Power Around Submerged Body in Shallow Water Using Boundary Element Method
Authors: Fatkhurrozi M. , Brodjonegoro Irsan S.
Published: November 2019

Underwater acoustic power around a submerged body in shallow water was investigated using the Boundary Element Method (BEM). The model domain simulated a nearshore environment with shallow water conditions. The seabed was assumed flat and sound velocity was constant over depth. The boundary element method was combined with eigenfunction expansion to model radiation boundary conditions. Underwater acoustic power was calculated from the underwater acoustic potential in the domain. Several cases were investigated in this study: cases with variation of submerged body distance from the seabed, variation of submerged body location from the underwater acoustic source, and variation of submerged body length.
Das SK-Prinzip für partizipative Gruppenentscheidungen in Organisationen
Authors: Visotschnig Erich
Published: November 2019

Systemisches Konsensieren wurde nicht nur - wie die meisten der davor entwickelten Gruppenentscheidungsverfahren - mit dem Schwerpunkt auf logische Konsistenz entwickelt. Es standen zusätzlich und gleichwertig gruppendynamische, ethische und praktische Gesichtspunkte im Blickfeld. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Folgen dieser neuen Zielsetzungen untersucht. Vor allem wird herausgearbeitet, inwieweit Ansprüche von Organisationen an gemeinsame Entscheidungen mehrerer oder eine partizipative Einbindung der Mitarbeiter dadurch erfüllt werden.
Parlamentarier als Beruf
Authors: Reiher Martin
Published: November 2019

The fact that politics has become a profession is inferred in the theoretical part of this work and substantiated in the empirical part with extensive data. Within its institutional framework, political professionalisation has led to the social figure of the professional politician. From the author's point of view, it is remarkable that the trend towards this professionalisation has not led to significant changes in the recruitment patterns and career paths of members of parliament. On the contrary, Herzog’s career types still prove valid today and have only had to be moderately refined. This shows an astonishing continuity in the formation of political elites. Germany’s very stable institutional framework, which determines access to and the attractiveness of political careers, has obviously also led to the stabilisation of career types.