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Women’s Rights as Proletarian Rights
Authors: Faison Elyssa
Published: May 2018

Yamakawa Kikue (1890–1980) is famous for having worked relentlessly to critique Japan’s prewar socialist movement for its lack of attention to women’s issues. In addition to her continual presence as an oppositional figure operating simultaneously at the margins and the center of Japanese socialist political and organizational activities, she also offered similarly relentless critiques of what she considered “bourgeois” women’s groups and their pursuit of liberal political rights like suffrage that would benefit primarily elite women. She was highly ambivalent during the prewar period regarding the importance of advocating for women’s suffrage. But with the end of the war, and thus the end of the authoritarian and militarist state against which she had fought her entire adult life, Yamakawa could embrace the cause and the reality of suffrage without hesitation. This marked not a radical shift, but a continuation of her commitment to democratic and anti-authoritarian principles.
Rethinking Japanese Feminism and the Lessons of Ūman Ribu
Authors: Shigematsu Setsu
Published: May 2018

This essay reflects on the lessons of the 1970s Japanese women’s liberation movement (Ūman ribu) and Japanese feminism in relation to transnational feminism. The author discusses the need for a praxis of critical transnational feminism (CTF) in order to maintain the critique inherent to transnational feminism. Specifically, the chapter revisits Ūman ribu‘s approach to women and violence to contribute to a praxis of CTF. The second half of the chapter discusses Japanese feminism more broadly in relation to race, nationalism and imperialism and interrogates the status of Japanese feminists in relation to non-Japanese feminists within Japan. In the final part of the chapter, the author discusses the limits of Ūman ribu‘s anti-imperialist feminism and suggests that decolonial feminism can offer renewed direction for feminism in Japan and beyond.
On Rethinking Japanese Feminisms
Authors: Kano Ayako
Published: May 2018

The conclusion begins by considering the historical and political context of the 2013 conference at Emory University that inspired the edited volume. It questions the meaning of “Womenomics” proposed by Prime Minister Abe Shinzō after his return to power in 2012, and asks what it means to rethink feminism as well as the category of “Japanese” at this historical juncture. Weaving together ideas from the keynote addresses of Ueno Chizuko, Barbara Molony, and Vera Mackie, the chapter considers the issues of canonization of feminist voices versus contention among feminists, the national versus the transnational dimensions, as well as the optimistic versus pessimistic arc in narrating the history of feminism in modern Japan. It concludes by considering the challenges in the present moment, when the growing gap between the rich and poor makes it more difficult to imagine a single vision of feminist utopia shared by all.
Inheritances
Authors: Sasges Gerard
Published: May 2018

Indochina’s alcohol regime was shaped by two crucial inheritances. One was the institution of the tax farm, which allowed officials to raise revenue while consolidating a co-dependent relationship between the colonial state and ethnic Chinese enterprise. The resulting Chinese monopolies provided both a model and a target for French officials in the years to come as they created their new alcohol regime. Another inheritance was the Department of Customs and Monopolies. From the earliest days of the French presence, the Department played a central role in establishing and consolidating French control. It operated not just to actualize Indochina’s borders by implementing French customs laws, but also, by enforcing the alcohol monopoly, to actualize French rule in the lives of Indochina’s people. Much like the tax farms that preceded it, violence was a crucial part of enforcing the new alcohol regime and establishing a new French order.
The Great Service
Authors: Sasges Gerard
Published: May 2018

Driven by the attempt to create a centrally planned market in alcohol, the Department of Customs and Monopolies expanded rapidly after 1897, employing thousands of European and indigenous agents who staffed not only large urban offices but also some of the state’s most far-flung outposts. The Department enforced two very different types of legislation: the first entailed techniques of regulation and management, while the second required direct and often violent intervention that saw tens of thousands of ordinary Indochinese searched, fined, and incarcerated. Indigenous Customs agents were central to the Department’s operations. The stories of these indigenous agents illustrate the complex and overlapping ways identities were articulated in colonial Indochina, and how they evolved under the impact of education, increasing professionalization, new forms of association, and new habits of consumption and leisure.
The Political Economy of Alcohol
Authors: Sasges Gerard
Published: May 2018

When A.R. Fontaine arrived in Tonkin in 1886, he was quick to see the potential of applying new technologies to a traditional industry, and to grasp the importance of state protection for the success of his fledgling enterprise. From modest origins, he built a business empire that included everything from distilleries to coal mines to bicycle factories. Fontaine’s was one of the colonial conglomerates that played a central role in the economy’s “Indochinese moment,” introducing new technologies and familiarizing Indochinese with new ways of working, consuming and being. However, the downturn that began in Indochina in 1928 exposed the weakness of many of these enterprise groups. When A.R. Fontaine was forced to step down as President of the SFDIC in 1932, it signified the start of a new era of economic development directed not from Hanoi or Saigon, but rather from Paris.
Koreans in the United States
Authors: Jo Ji-Yeon O.
Published: May 2018

Unlike Korean Chinese and CIS Koreans, who migrated to their diaspora countries before 1945, the majority of Korean Americans migrated to the United States between the 1970s and the 1990s. This chapter traces Korean American history from the early twentieth century, when the first organized migration to the United States took place, to the present, illuminating how Korean/Asian Americans have continuously been positioned as “foreigners” in the racial landscape of the United States. In navigating racial relationships in the United States, Korean Americans developed an equivocal stance toward the maintenance of the Korean language and ethnic Korean identity: on the one hand, they consider the Korean language to be integral to ethnic identity, and they also take pride in their Korean ethnicity; on the other hand, they actively differentiate themselves from native Koreans and have created their own intraethnic hierarchy for Koreans in Korea and Koreans in the United States.
Diaspora and Identity
Authors: Nishida Mieko
Published: May 2018

Much has been published on the history of Japanese immigration to Brazil, Japanese Brazilians in Brazil, and Japanese Brazilians’ “return” labor migrations to Japan (known as dekassegui). Yet none has gone beyond and above the essentialized categories of “the Japanese” in Brazil and “Brazilians” in Japan. This book demonstrates that Japanese Brazilian identity has never been a static, fixed set of traits that can be counted and inventoried.  Rather it is about being and becoming, a process of identity in motion responding to the push-and-pull between being positioned and positioning in a historically changing world.  The book is based on the author’s painstaking research in Brazil and Japan between 1997 and 2013, involving extensive life history interviews (and follow-ups) with 116 Japanese Brazilians of several generations and diverse social backgrounds, in combination with substantial archival research and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork.  This book examines Japanese immigrants and their descendants’ historically shifting sense of identity that comes from their engagement or experience of historical changes in socioeconomic and political structure.  Each chapter illustrates how Japanese Brazilian identity is in formation, across generation, across gender, across class, across race, and in the movement of people between nations.
Identification of Optimal Environments for Cotton Cultivars in the Brazilian Cerrado
Authors: Teodoro Paulo Eduardo , Correia Farias Francisco José , de Carvalho Luiz Paulo , Nascimento Moysés , de Azevedo Peixoto Leonardo , Cruz Cosme Damião , Bhering Leonardo Lopes
Published: May 2018

Core Ideas

There are genotype × environment interaction for cotton in Brazil

Genotype + genotype × environment interaction identified essential environments in Cerrado.

Brazilian Cerrado is divided in two mega‐environments.

In Brazil, cotton cultivars are tested annually in different environments at the final stages of breeding programs. Thus, identifying groups of environments with similar edaphoclimatic characteristics is crucial to determine the environments with higher discriminating ability of genotypes, known as essential environments. This work aimed to divide the Brazilian Cerrado environments into mega‐environments in relation to fiber yield of cotton genotypes and identify essential environments for the conduction of trials in each mega‐environment. Fiber yield was evaluated in 19 competition trials of cotton cultivars in the 2013–2014 and 2014–2015 seasons. The experimental design was a randomized block with 12 treatments and four replications. After verifying significant genotype × environment (G×E) interaction, mega‐environments and essential environments were identified using the genotype + G×E (GGE) biplot method. Two mega‐environments were detected. Mega‐environment 1 was formed by Santa Helena do Goias–Goiás State (GO), Primavera do Leste–Mato Grosso State (MT), and São Desidério–Bahia State (BA). Mega‐environment 2 was formed by: Trindade–Minas Gerais (MG), Campo Verde–MT, Pedra Preta–MT, Luiz Eduardo Magalhães–BA, Magalhães de Almeida–Maranhão State (MA), Teresina–Piauí State (PI), and Chapadão do Sul–Mato Grosso do Sul State (MS). Primavera do Leste in mega‐environment 1 and Pedra Preta in mega‐environment 2 are the optimal sites to conduct trials with cotton genotypes because due to high yield discriminating ability and more representative. This information is useful for breeders to plan the next steps for trials in the Brazilian Cerrado, minimizing resources, such as labor and trial time.
Impact of Flow Velocity on Transport of Graphene Oxide Nanoparticles in Saturated Porous Media
Authors: Zhang Chunli , Yan An , Wang Gang , Jin Chao , Chen Yanhua , Shen Chongyang
Published: May 2018

Core Ideas

We examined the influence of flow velocity on transport of graphene oxide nanoparticles (GONPs).

Attachment efficiency (α) increased with increasing flow velocity for GONPs.

Hydrodynamic shear cannot release the attached GONPs, even from nanoscale asperities.

Increasing flow velocity increased attachment of GONPs at concave surfaces.

Saturated column experiments were conducted to systematically examine transport of graphene oxide nanoparticles (GONPs) in sand porous media at different solution ionic strengths (ISs) with different flow velocities. Results show that deposition of GONPs increase with decreasing IS. However, the Derjaguin–Landau–Verwey–Overbeek (DLVO) interaction energy calculations using a surface element integration technique show that the energy barrier increases with increasing IS for the sheet‐shaped colloids interacting with a planar sand surface. In contrast, the presence of nanoscale protruding asperities (NPAs) can cause a decrease in the energy barrier with increasing IS, which facilitates the attachment in primary minima at higher IS. At a given IS, increasing flow velocity increases attachment efficiency on the rough sand surfaces. Torque analysis shows that the maximum hydrodynamic torques are smaller than the adhesive torques, even for GONPs located on the NPAs where the adhesions are the lowest. Consequently, the attachment efficiency cannot be reduced by increasing flow velocity. Additional column experiments confirm that deposited GONPs cannot be detached by increasing flow velocity. Conversely, increase of flow velocity may enhance approaching of GONPs in low‐flow regions such as concave areas of sand surfaces and subsequent attachment. Although it has been recognized in the literature that the presence of NPAs can cause decrease of attachment efficiency with increasing flow velocity for spherical colloids under both unfavorable and favorable chemical conditions, our results highlight a different role of surface roughness in attachment and detachment of sheet‐shaped colloids under unfavorable conditions.
Periodic Solution and Stability Behavior for Nonlinear Oscillator Having a Cubic Nonlinearity Time-Delayed
Authors: El-Dib Yusry Osman
Published: May 2018

The current paper investigates the dynamics of the dissipative system with a cubic nonlinear time-delayed of the type of the damping Duffing equation. A coupling between the method of the multiple scales and the homotopy perturbation has been utilized to study the complicated dynamic problem. Through this approach, a cubic nonlinear amplitude equation resulted in at the first-order of perturbation; meanwhile, a quintic equation appears at the second-order of perturbation. These equations are combined into one nonlinear quintic Landau equation. The polar form solution is used, and linearized stability configuration is applied to the nonlinear amplitude equation. Also, a second-order approximate solution is achieved. The numerical illustrations showed that the damping, delay coefficient, and time delay play dual roles in the stability behavior. In addition, the nonlinear coefficient plays a destabilizing influence.
Assessing the performance of American and European Leveraged Exchange Traded Funds
Authors: Tsalikis George , Papadopoulos Simeon
Published: May 2018

Leveraged Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) (LETFs) are a recent and highly successful financial innovation; yet, investors and several studies criticized them for not performing as advertised, especially in the long term. Τhis paper discusses their unique characteristics and their path-dependent price dynamics, which may result in unexpected returns. Furthermore, the authors evaluate the performance of a large sample of European and American leveraged ETFs since each fund’s inception and show that they perform as intended for daily holding periods. Leveraged ETFs are also successful in delivering the promised performance over holding periods of up to one week, their performance starts to deviate when the holding period increases to one month. Empirical evidence suggests that bear (short) ETFs deviate from their target return more quickly than their bull (long) counterparts as the holding period lengthens. A possible explanation for this is that transaction costs, which are related to daily re-balancing activity, are higher for bear funds. When comparing the daily performance of European vs American funds, the authors find them both to be equally efficient in replicating their benchmarks, although European leveraged ETFs are much smaller in their Assets Under Management (AUM) compared to US LETFs.
O Papel dos Ativos Territoriais e da Inovação no Desenvolvimento de Cidades Criativas
Authors: Gallas Juliana Cristina , Ghedine Tatiana , Gonçalo Cláudio Reis , Rossetto Adriana Marques
Published: May 2018

O objetivo deste ensaio teórico é discutir o papel do desenvolvimento territorial, através dos ativos territoriais, e da inovação no desenvolvimento de cidades criativas. Para isso buscou-se estabelecer possíveis ligações entre ativos territoriais e inovação territorial como forma de alavancar o desenvolvimento de cidades criativas. Percebeu-se que os ativos territoriais (tangíveis e intangíveis) podem ser entendidos como as entradas do sistema de inovação territorial que geram como saída inovações que podem alavancar a produtividade e o desenvolvimento do território. Consequentemente, estas inovações serão colocadas a prova no ambiente e permitirão ou suportarão mudanças em todos os ativos territoriais que com elas estiverem relacionadas, gerando e difundindo conhecimento que poderá tornar o sistema de inovação territorial mais eficiente e eficaz, favorecendo o desenvolvimento de cidades criativas.
Decision Making and Agriculture: A Recent Review of Organic Farming
Authors: Ayala Durán Carlos , Garcez Wives Daniela
Published: May 2018

This paper presents a review of recent literature covering decision-making and organic farming. Given that this topic has not been widely researched, both the Science-Direct and SCIELO databases were used to search for studies within the 2005-2015 period. A total of eighteen documents were found and used for this paper. Special attention has been given to the methodology used in the studies separating them between general analysis and descriptive statistics in one hand and inferential statistics /mathematical methods in the other. The paper concludes with a few considerations that may be useful to promote organic farming studies involving decision-making.
A relação entre Capital Intelectual, Capacidade Absortiva e Inovação: Proposta de um Framework
Authors: Engelman Raquel , Schreiber Dusan
Published: May 2018

O ambiente de mercado, de crescente competição entre os agentes econômicos, está, cada vez mais, complexo e multifacetado. Na medida em que as organizações diversificam a oferta de produtos e serviços, os consumidores constituem nichos específicos, que exigem, na maioria das vezes, a concepção de soluções customizadas, sem custos adicionais. Este aparente trade-off requer das organizações investimento em processos de inovação, que se apoiam em conjunto de recursos organizacionais que facultam a sua operacionalização, com destaque para as pessoas. Diversos estudos evidenciam que o eixo estruturante da inovação é o conhecimento. Para estimular a manifestação do conhecimento individual, seu compartilhamento e combinação, facultando a constituição do conhecimento organizacional, conduzindo, pari passu, ao desenvolvimento da capacidade de inovar, a organização deve apresentar a Capacidade Absortiva. Trata-se de um desafio relevante, que depende, em grande parte, de investimentos da organização, para o desenvolvimento do Capital Intelectual. A reflexão acerca da influência do Capital Intelectual para potencializar a Capacidade Absortiva Organizacional, para criar o ambiente favorável para a inovação, constitui o eixo estruturante para este trabalho, em formato de ensaio teórico, que resulta em proposição de um framework, a ser testado empiricamente.
Governança Desgovernada: uma história econômica do Plano Real a partir de sua incoerência teórica (1994-1999)
Authors: Miranda Victor Garcia
Published: May 2018

O presente texto visa analisar o processo operacional do Plano Real e seus efeitos mensurados na economia e na política brasileira no momento de existência da chamada âncora nominal baseada na paridade cambial entre a moeda nacional e o dólar (1994-1999). Interpreta-se o Plano Real como projeto que buscava a estabilidade da economia por meio do combate à hiperinflação e que esteve envolvido também num arranjo conjuntural específico, que demanda interpretação histórica – não somente técnico-econômica. Partindo do pressuposto de que houve influência da teoria neoclássica da escolha de instrumentos e objetivos de estabilização macroeconômica de Robert A. Mundell (1932- ), o presente texto busca apurar a manifestação histórica de efeitos econômicos e políticos do Plano Real e se houve coincidência entre o que fora escrito por um teórico que influenciou a formação dos “pais do Real” e a realidade da experiência de âncora cambial desenvolvida no Brasil a partir de 1994. A pesquisa realizada indica que houve profunda incoerência entre a presunçosa teorização de Mundell e os efeitos historicamente encontrados, desmontando-se a concepção de infalibilidade das teorias neoclássicas. Pelo contrário: tais efeitos provocaram aprofundamento da condição de dependência do país frente ao cenário do capitalismo internacional daquele momento, por meio do agravamento da crise no balanço de pagamentos e da financeirização do déficit público da União.
Access to drinking water: time matters
Authors: Cassivi A. , Johnston R. , Waygood E. O. D. , Dorea C. C.
Published: May 2018

Despite the reported achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with respect to drinking water, lack of access to water remains widespread worldwide. The indicator used there to measure access to water in the MDGs refers to the use of an improved water source. However, the amount of time spent in collecting water is high in countries where access to drinking water supplies located on premises is not common. 26.3% of the world's population did not have such access in 2015. Thus the need to travel to a water point, possibly queue, fill water containers, and carry them home is prevalent. The amount of time and effort used in water collection can be considerable, and household surveys increasingly provide data on collection time. This study aims to demonstrate the effect of adding a 30-minute collection time component to monitor access to drinking water. This study draws on household surveys from 17 countries to highlight the widespread burden of fetching water and its significant impact on estimates of coverage. The proportion of the population with access decreased by 13% on average for these 17 countries when collection time was added as a consideration.
Pyrazole and imidazo[1,2-b]pyrazole Derivatives as New Potential Antituberculosis Agents
Authors: Meta Elda , Brullo Chiara , Tonelli Michele , Franzblau Scott G. , Wang Yuehong , Ma Rui , Baojie Wan , Orena Beatrice S. , Pasca Maria R. , Bruno Olga
Published: May 2018

Background:

We screened a large library of differently decorated imidazo-pyrazole and pyrazole derivatives as possible new antitubercular agents and this preliminary screening showed that many compounds are able to totally inhibit Mycobacterium growth (>90 %). Among the most active compounds, we selected some new possible hits based on their similarities and, at the same time, on their novelty with respect to the pipeline drugs.  Methods: In order to increase the potency and obtain more information about structure-activity relationship (SAR), we designed and synthesized three new series of compounds (2a–e, 3a–e, and 4a–l).

Conclusion:

Performed tests confirmed that both new pyrazoles and imidazo-pyrazoles could represent a new starting point to obtain more potent compounds and further work is now underway to identify the protein targets of this new class of anti-TB agents.
Infarto agudo do miocárdio silencioso associado a aneurisma de artéria coronária decorrente de doença de Kawasaki: relato de caso / Silent acute myocardial infarction associated with coronary artery aneurysm due to Kawasaki disease: case report
Authors: Ibrahim Samir Duarte , Potente Ana Laura Lopes , Maiolini Fernanda Pereira
Published: May 2018

A doença de Kawasaki é caracterizada por uma vasculite aguda sistêmica que ocorre na grande maioria dos casos em crianças menores de cinco anos de idade. A doença tem curso autolimitado e tratamento baseado no uso de imunoglobulina intravenosa e salicilatos. A principal gravidade se dá pelas possíveis complicações, sendo a mais grave a formação de aneurismas de artérias coronárias. O presente trabalho visa relatar o caso de uma paciente que não recebeu o diagnóstico de doença de Kawasaki na infância. Na vida adulta, durante ecocardiograma diagnosticou-se uma hipocinesia de parede inferior e parte distal do septo inferior. Em posterior angiografia, verificou-se artéria coronária direita ectásica em toda a sua extensão. Trata-se de um caso raro devido à formação de aneurismas coronarianos não tratados, após anos de doença, e sua manifestação isquêmica.Palavras-Chave: Síndrome de linfonodos mucocutâneos; Doença das coronárias; Infarto do miocárdioABSTRACTKawasaki disease is characterized by the presence of acute systemic vasculitis that occurs in most of cases in children under five years of age. The disease has an auto-limited path and the treatment is based on intravenous immunoglobulin and salicylates. The main gravity is due to the possible complications, and the most serious is the formation of coronary artery aneurysms. The present work aims to report the case of a patient, who did not receive the diagnosis of Kawasaki disease in childhood. In adulthood, an inferior wall hypokinesia and a distal part of the inferior septum were diagnosed by echocardiogram. In a subsequent angiography it was verified a ectasia right coronary artery throughout its extension. This is a rare case due to the formation of untreated coronary aneurysms after years of illness associated with ischemic manifestations.Keywords: Mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome;  Myocardial infarction; Coronary disease
Attention and Cognitive Bias Modification Apps: Review of the Literature and of Commercially Available Apps (Preprint)
Authors: Zhang Melvyn , Ying JiangBo , Song Guo , Fung Daniel SS , Smith Helen
Published: May 2018

BACKGROUND

Automatic processes, such as attentional biases or interpretative biases, have been purported to be responsible for several psychiatric disorders. Recent reviews have highlighted that cognitive biases may be modifiable. Advances in eHealth and mHealth have been harnessed for the delivery of cognitive bias modification. While several studies have evaluated mHealth-based bias modification intervention, no review, to our knowledge, has synthesized the evidence for it. In addition, no review has looked at commercial apps and their functionalities and methods of bias modification. A review is essential in determining whether scientifically validated apps are available commercially and the proportion of commercial apps that have been evaluated scientifically.

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this review was primarily to determine the proportion of attention or cognitive bias modification apps that have been evaluated scientifically and secondarily to determine whether the scientifically evaluated apps were commercially available. We also sought to identify commercially available bias modification apps and determine the functionalities of these apps, the methods used for attention or cognitive bias modification, and whether these apps had been evaluated scientifically.

METHODS

To identify apps in the published literature, we searched PubMed, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and Scopus for studies published from 2000 to April 17, 2018. The search terms used were “attention bias” OR “cognitive bias” AND “smartphone” OR “smartphone application” OR “smartphone app” OR “mobile phones” OR “mobile application” OR mobile app” OR “personal digital assistant.” To identify commercial apps, we conducted a manual cross-sectional search between September 15 and 25, 2017 in the Apple iTunes and Google Play app stores. The search terms used to identify the apps were “attention bias” and “cognitive bias.” We also conducted a manual search on the apps with published evaluations.

RESULTS

The effectiveness of bias modification was reported in 7 of 8 trials that we identified in the published literature. Only 1 of the 8 previously evaluated apps was commercially available. The 17 commercial apps we identified tended to use either an attention visual search or gamified task. Only 1 commercial app had been evaluated in the published literature.

CONCLUSIONS

This is perhaps the first review to synthesize the evidence for published mHealth attention bias apps. Our review demonstrated that evidence for mHealth attention bias apps is inconclusive, and quite a few commercial apps have not been validated scientifically.
Incidence and Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease in Black and White Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes
Authors: Gerber Claire , Cai Xuan , Lee Jungwha , Craven Timothy , Scialla Julia , Souma Nao , Srivastava Anand , Mehta Rupal , Paluch Amanda , Hodakowski Alexander , Frazier Rebecca , Carnethon Mercedes R. , Wolf Myles Selig , Isakova Tamara
Published: May 2018

Background and objectives

Type 2 diabetes and associated CKD disproportionately affect blacks. It is uncertain if racial disparities in type 2 diabetes-associated CKD are driven by biologic factors that influence propensity to CKD or by differences in type 2 diabetes care.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

We conducted a post hoc analysis of 1937 black and 6372 white participants of the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) trial to examine associations of black race with change in eGFR and risks of developing microalbuminuria, macroalbuminuria, incident CKD (eGFR<60 ml/min per 1.73m2, ≥25% decrease from baseline eGFR, and eGFR slope <−1.6 ml/min per 1.73 m2 per year), and kidney failure or serum creatinine >3.3 mg/dl.

Results

During a median follow-up that ranged between 4.4 and 4.7 years, 278 black participants (58 per 1000 person-years) and 981 white participants (55 per 1000 person-years) developed microalbuminuria, 122 black participants (16 per 1000 person-years) and 374 white participants (14 per 1000 person-years) developed macroalbuminuria, 111 black participants (21 per 1000 person-years) and 499 white participants (28 per 1000 person-years) developed incident CKD, and 59 black participants (seven per 1000 person-years) and 178 white participants (six per 1000 person-years) developed kidney failure or serum creatinine >3.3 mg/dl. Compared with white participants, black participants had lower risks of incident CKD (hazard ratio, 0.73; 95% confidence intervals, 0.57 to 0.92). There were no significant differences by race in eGFR decline or in risks of microalbuminuria, macroalbuminuria, and kidney failure or of serum creatinine >3.3 mg/dl.

Conclusions

Black participants enrolled in a randomized controlled trial had lower rates of incident CKD compared with white participants. Rates of eGFR decline, microalbuminuria, macroalbuminuria, and kidney failure did not vary by race.
Effects of English Teaching with Interactive Whiteboards in the Elementary English Classrooms
Authors: Lin Ching-Ying , Chu Jo-Ting
Published: May 2018

The purpose of the study was to probe the effectiveness of English language teaching through Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs). Three specific factors were probed: (a) the results from immediate test and retention test; (b) students’ perceptions related to the utilization of IWBs; (c) the advantages and disadvantages of the technology-supported instruction. Forty-three students from Grade 3 students in Sahes Elementary School in Taiwan were engaged in either technology-supported group or none technology-supported group. The results revealed that the experimental group through technology-supported instruction significantly outperformed the control group on students’ immediate test and retention test. Moreover, students’ perceptions related to the IWBs indicated that most of them enjoying learning English in the technology-supported classrooms. Finally, the results also showed the advantages and disadvantages through the IWBs instructions. The study revealed that teaching through technology was an effective way to help students in English learning.
Displacement in Sea of Poppies
Authors: DİNÇ Derya BİDERCİ
Published: May 2018

In Sea of Poppies, Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh presents the nineteenth-century British imperialist activities including the cultivation of opium as a cash crop in India for the Chinese market, the transportation of the Asiatic to work on sugar plantations in Mauritius Island, the introduction of the free trade, and the approach of opium wars. This paper will look how the environmental injustice created social injustice. British imperialists’ intensification of the production of the poppy planton the bank of the River Ganga to maintain the opium trade between India and China transformed local people first to peasant labour and then to the indentured workers. Ghoshre imagines their loss of local place and dispersion in global place as the indentured labour. He plots the afterlife of a former slave ship, the Ibıs, which was in the service of the East Indian Company to carry the indentured labour. This paper sets out to discuss how its traumatic movement to sugar plantations characterized diaspora; the ship became shared past, home, parent for the diverse characters. The emphasis will be put on Ghosh’s construction of identity in relation to the place from postcolonial eco critical perspective. In his engagement with the connection of place and people, both place and displacement are the essential parts of identity construction. Both places and identities are related and changed through the experience of displacement, mobility. The characters went beyond developing personal identification, fixity, and attachment to a local place within a national border, they were situated in a world of mobility and flexibility which promoted cultural and self-development.
El birrete de santa Teresa y la ciencia infusa. Creación y expansión de un nuevo modelo femenino en el arte novohispano
Authors: Rubial García Antonio
Published: May 2018

En el siglo XVIII novohispano se extendieron de manera notable las representaciones en las cuales santa Teresa portaba como uno de sus atributos el birrete doctoral de teología; dicho objeto era un atributo propio de los varones universitarios que estaban vinculados con dicha facultad. El tema estaba muy relacionado con una propuesta escolástica: las mujeres podían conocer los misterios divinos, sin mediar el estudio de los textos sagrados, gracias a la ciencia infusa. La vida y obra de santa Teresa de Ávila se insertó en ese supuesto y, al ser considerada sabia, comenzó a representarse no sólo en su papel de escritora, sino también en el de doctora de la Iglesia. En la Nueva España se volvió muy común en el siglo XVIII colocar un birrete doctoral de teología en las imágenes pintadas y esculpidas de la santa de Ávila para simbolizar su sabiduría, la cual se mencionó también en diversos sermones. Dicho atributo, al igual que la pluma, el tintero y el escritorio, comenzaron a difundirse tanto en otras representaciones de mujeres santas, como en algunas de escritoras contemporáneas. El enorme influjo mediático de santa Teresa pudo influir en una nueva perspectiva sobre la capacidad femenina para el conocimiento.
Me transformo: efectos de los talleres psicoeducativos y clínicos en mujeres víctimas de abuso psicológico en República Dominicana
Authors: Liranzo Soto Patricia , Noboa Lanfranco Joan , Moreno Pérez Libia
Published: May 2018

El objetivo de este estudio consiste en determinar la relación que existe entre el nivel de asertividad y la ideología de género en mujeres víctimas de abuso psicológico. Cabe destacar que este trabajo es la continuación de una investigación  sobre el tema de  Asertividad de género en mujeres victimas de abuso psicológico (Liranzo & Moreno, 2017). El estudio tuvo un enfoque mixto y un Diseño Explicativo Secuencial (DEXPLIS), en dos fases. Los instrumentos empleados fueron cuatro escalas: Escala de Abuso Psicológico, Escala de Ideología de Género, Escala de Asertividad y Cuestionario de Evaluación a Víctimas de Violencia Intrafamiliar. Las técnicas de recolección de datos aplicadas fueron los talleres exploratorios y diagnósticos, el diario de campo y la observación participante. Los resultados apuntan a que solo algunas participantes identificaban ser víctimas de abuso psicológico; la mayoría tenía una ideología de género tradicional; en su totalidad, no manifestaron un comportamiento asertivo. Los talleres de intervención clínicos y psicoeducativos demostraron tener un efecto positivo en las participantes en los aspectos de: habilidades comunicativas y asertivas, expresión emocional y modificación de sus actitudes hacia una ideología de género más igualitaria.
Coarse-grained distinguishability of field interactions
Authors: Bény Cédric
Published: May 2018

Information-theoretical quantities such as statistical distinguishability typically result from optimisations over all conceivable observables. Physical theories, however, are not generally considered valid for all mathematically allowed measurements. For instance, quantum field theories are not meant to be correct or even consistent at arbitrarily small lengthscales. A general way of limiting such an optimisation to certain observables is to first coarse-grain the states by a quantum channel. We show how to calculate contractive quantum information metrics on coarse-grained equilibrium states of free bosonic systems (Gaussian states), in directions generated by arbitrary perturbations of the Hamiltonian. As an example, we study the Klein-Gordon field. If the phase-space resolution is coarse compared to h-bar, the various metrics become equal and the calculations simplify. In that context, we compute the scale dependence of the distinguishability of the quartic interaction.
ANALISIS KOMPARASI NILAI TAMBAH PRODUK OLAHAN NENAS PADA AGROINDUSTRI DI KABUPATEN MUARO JAMBI
Authors: Hanum Anita , Damayanti Yusma , Elwamendri Elwamendri
Published: May 2018

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui gambaran agroindustri berbahan baku nenas di Kabupaten Muaro Jambi, untuk mengetahui besarnya nilai tambah yang diperoleh dari usaha pengolahan nenas menjadi dodol nenas, nenas goreng dan selai nenas di Kabupaten Muaro Jambi, untuk membandingkan nilai tambah yang diperoleh dari usaha pengolahan nenas menjadi dodol nenas, nenas goreng dan selai nenas di Kabupaten Muaro Jambi, dan untuk membandingkan nilai tambah yang diperoleh dari usaha pengolahan nenas pada setiap agroindustri yang terdapat di Kabupaten Muaro Jambi. Metode deskriptif digunakan untuk mengetahui gambaran umum agroindustri berbahan baku nenas, untuk menghitung nilai tambah digunakan metode Hayami dan untuk membandingkan nilai tambah digunakan uji statistik Analisis Varians Satu Arah (one way ANOVA). Hasil penelitian diperoleh besarannya nilai tambah yang diperoleh dari usaha pengolahan nenas menjadi selai nenas ialah sebesar Rp. 4.587,12, pengolahan nenas menjadi dodol nenas ialah sebesar Rp. 13.717,77 dan pengolahan nenas menjadi nenas goreng ialah sebesar Rp. 17.937,10. Persentase perbedaan nilai tambah yang dihasilkan dari pengolahan produk selai nenas dan dodol nenas adalah 65%, perbedaan nilai tambah yang dihasilkan dari pengolahan produk dodol nenas dan nenas goreng adalah 27% sedangkan perbedaan nilai tambah yang dihasilkan dari pengolahan produk selai nenas dan nenas goreng adaalah 74%. Persentase perbedaan nilai tambah yang dihasilkan dari pengolahan produk nenas goreng pada agroindustri “A” sebesar 14%, “B” sebesar 14%, “C” sebesar 16%, “D” sebesar 15%, “E” sebesar 19% dan “F” sebesar 23%. Namun setelah dilakukan uji statistik analisis varians satu arah (one way ANOVA) perbedaan nilai tambah tidak nyata (signifakan).

Kata Kunci : Selai Nenas, Dodol Nenas, Nenas Goreng
Hubungan Faktor-faktor Alih Fungsi Lahan Padi Sawah dan Perbedaan Tingkat Penerimaan Usahatani Petani Di Kecamatan Keliling Danau Kabupaten Kerinci
Authors: Peniarti Peniarti , Rosyani Rosyani , Elwamendri Elwamendri
Published: May 2018

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui hubungan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi alih fungsi lahan sawah pada tingkat petani dan mengetahui perbedaan penerimaan usahatani petani yang mengalihkan lahan sebelum dan sesudah alih fungsi di Desa Koto Dian dan Koto Tuo. Faktor-faktor alih fungsi adalah tingkatusia, lama pendidikan, luaslahan, jumlah tanggungan, dan pengalaman bertani. Metode pengambilan data diambil dari data primer dan sekunder. Data diolah dan dianalisis menggunakan analisis deskriptif untuk menggambarkan hubungan faktor-faktor alih fungsi lahan sawah, kemudian digunakan analisis uji beda dua rata-rata untuk mengetahui perbedaan penerimaan usahatani petani yang mengalih fungsikan lahan sawah sebelum dan sesudah alih fungsi lahan. Dengan jumlah responden sebanyak 37 petani yang mengalihkan sebagian lahan dan 20 petani responden yang mengalihkan semua lahan. Hasil analisis deskriptif yang menggambarkan hubungan faktor-faktor alih fungsi lahan adalah semakin tinggi tingkat usia, maka semakin tinggi tingkat alih fungsi lahan; semakin rendah tingkat pendidikan seorang petani, maka semakin tinggi tingkat alih fungsi lahan; semakin luas kepemilikan lahan, maka peluang petani untuk mengalih fungsikan lahannya lebihkecil; semakin banyak jumlah tanggungan yang harus ditanggung, maka alih fungsilahan akan semakin tinggi; dan semakin lama pengalaman dalam berusahatani, maka akan semakin berat dalam pengambilan keputusan untuk alih fungsi lahan.

Kata kunci: hubungan faktor-faktor, alih fungsi lahan sawah, penerimaan usahatani.
Diverse Ecological Pathways of Salmon Nutrients Through an Intact Marine-terrestrial Interface
Authors: Reimchen Thomas E.
Published: May 2018

Based on five years of field studies (1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2000), I quantified bi-directional movement of salmon nutrients through an estuary, stream, and old growth forest in a large protected reserve on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. In 1993, when most data were collected, about 6000 Chum Salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) entered the river of which 22% of the total biomass of senescent carcasses were swept downstream into the estuary and were scavenged by gulls (n = 350) and subtidal invertebrates. Of the 3700 salmon (10 000 kg) transferred by American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) to the riparian zone and partially consumed along the 800 m of stream channel, 5070 kg of salmon tissues abandoned by the bears were scavenged by Northwestern Crows (Corvus caurinus; n = 200) but mostly (4100 kg) by calliphorid blowfly larvae resulting in larval densities averaging 240/m2 throughout the riparian zone. Total nitrogen input to the soils from the combined effects of bear and scavenger activity as well as carcass input was 18 g/m2 within 10 m of the stream channel. δ15N of foliar tissues of Lanky Moss (Rhytidiadelphus loreus), Red Huckleberry (Vaccinium parvifolium), Salal (Gaultheria shallon), and Western Hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla) ranged about 15‰ to 20‰ among adjacent microsites in each species, with higher values occurring in salmon carcass zones. Total nitrogen in foliar tissues ranged from 1% to 2.4% among microsites and was best predicted by positive correlations with foliar 15N values and secondarily by presence/absence of salmon carcasses. This is the first study to integrate estuarine to riparian ecological processes in the cycling of salmonid nutrients and identifies a range of ecological baselines that can inform the multiple restoration programs underway in degraded watersheds in the North Pacific.
Impact of adversity intelligence and work commitment on cyberloafing behavior
Authors: Rahayuningsih Tri , Putra Ardian Adi
Published: May 2018

This study aimed to determine the effect of intelligence adversity and work commitment to cyberloafing behavior of  lecturer at the Asean Economic Community (MEA)’s era. So, this research beneficial to the development of theoretical science of industrial and organizational psychology about work behavior, as well as suggestions to keep the factors that make lecturer can avoid unproductive work habits that was cyberloafing, given the importance of the role of the faculty. This study used a quantitative method by spreading questionnaires to lecturers consisting of adversity intelligence scale,  work commitment scale, and cyberloafing behavior scale that researchers collated by self, and analyzed statistically to discussed the cyberloafing behavior of lecturers. According to Lim (2002) cyberloafing an employee volunteer activities in the office, in using the internet access that has no correlation in the work. The result of this research showed that there is correlation between adversity intelligence and work commitment with cyberloafing behavior based on p value = 0,042 hence acceptable hypothesis, and contribution of adversity intelligence and work commitment equal to 19% to cyberloafing behavior. It is expected to be a suggestion for Higher Education to improve the quality of lecturer in facing MEA.
How amazing music therapy in counseling for millennials
Authors: Situmorang Dominikus David Biondi
Published: May 2018

Most of millennials college students in Indonesia still think that undergraduate thesis is a terrifying final project. In the process of making the undergraduate thesis, they often do something non-productive, like procrastinating doing it and avoiding their supervisors. This excessive academic anxiety toward undergraduate thesis could lead them to do something irrational, e.g. suicide. As one of college’s internal agents of change, psychologists or educational counselors are expected to overcome the problem which frequently happens every year by giving the students an intervention in accordance with their interests and needs as millennials. Music, as one of millennials’ essential needs, can be used as an alternative to therapeutic healing medium. Conventional counseling strategy that has been conducted all this time, shows only ineffective result. That is why it is needed to be changed into modern approach that is more effective in reducing academic anxiety of the millennials college students, which is integrative approach through music therapy intervention in counseling.
“Context matters”: The challenges and opportunities of designing tertiary public and environmental health education in South Auckland
Authors: Kersey Kate , Lees Amanda B , Conn Cath , Cochrane Thom , Narayan Vickel , Williams Margaret
Published: May 2018

This article outlines a study protocol, detailing the proposed methodology and findings of our preliminary literature review, for co-design of future NZ public and environmental health education for the South Auckland campus of AUT University.  This research project aims to contribute to healthy communities and city, embrace emerging technologies, maximize youth employability, and develop an outstanding 21st Century tertiary environment. The proposed project will contribute to a significant re-conceptualization of curriculum; student learning and voice; and partnerships with communities and a fast-changing industry. Using a design based research approach to curriculum development, the research practitioners in this project will immerse themselves in the context of the project, be guided by emerging theory in developing design principles, construct features of an intervention and evaluate the impact on teaching and learning.   Situated in Kaupapa Māori and Pacific epistemologies and utilising collaborative design principles, the study will explore the diverse and complex context in which public and environmental health will be provided at AUT South. Of particular relevance will be an examination of the following drivers of tertiary, and public and environmental health, education in the 21st century: the unique South Auckland context, the need to embrace evolving concepts of public health, rapid technological change, and changing education paradigms.  Our ultimate goal is to develop co-designed interventions that accommodate the unique cultural and ethnic makeup of the South Auckland context with the opportunity for transferability across the tertiary sector, situated within a social constructivist philosophy appropriate for our new digital economy and environmental challenges.