bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Different Aspects of Involving Family in School Life
Authors: Blândul Valentin-Cosmin
Published: January 2018

The school has come to not have a huge credibility even, sometimes being abandoned, primarily because, nowadays, no matter hierarchy and is not perceived as a value. The actual society no longer has trust in the educational establishment, the values acquired and ranked by the amount of learning embedded in it. Such an attitude is reflected by the relationship between “parent - teacher” and “student - teacher”. Based on these findings, the present study aims to investigate the main features of the relationship that is established between school and family, concerned how parents can get involved in school life effectively. The lot of subjects was represented by 212 teachers from secondary schools in Bihor, Romania and the instrument used in the research was a questionnaire consisting of 46 objective and subjective items. The results are very interesting and shows that many respondents argue that parents show indifference to the formal education of their children, not involved in the didactic or extracurricular activities and in school life, not take part in parent meetings or when called for, is difficult to communicate with parents etc. There are some cases when, because of the family economic situation is poor, parents send their children to work, offering less time and interest in their education and instruction.
Cracking novel shared targets between epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease: need of the hour
Authors: Garg Nitika , Joshi Rupa , Medhi Bikash
Published: January 2018

Epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are interconnected. It is well known that seizures are linked with cognitive impairment, and there are various shared etiologies between epilepsy and AD. The connection between hyperexcitability of neurons and cognitive dysfunction in the progression of AD or epileptogenesis plays a vital role for improving selection of treatment for both diseases. Traditionally, seizures occur less frequently and in later stages of age in patients with AD which in turn implies that neurodegeneration causes seizures. The role of seizures in early stages of pathogenesis of AD is still an issue to be resolved. So, it is well timed to analyze the common pathways involved in pathophysiology of AD and epilepsy. The present review focuses on similar potential underlying mechanisms which may be related to the causes of seizures in epilepsy and cognitive impairment in AD. The proposed review will focus on many possible newer targets like abnormal expression of various enzymes like GSK-3β, PP2A, PKC, tau hyperphosphorylation, MMPs, caspases, neuroinflammation and oxidative stress associated with number of neurodegenerative diseases linked with epilepsy. The brief about the prospective line of treatment of both diseases will also be discussed in the present review.
Investigation of three-body wear of dental materials under different chewing cycles
Authors: Yılmaz Efe Cetin , Sadeler Recep
Published: January 2018

This paper investigates the three-body wear resistance rates of five restorative dental composite materials at different mastication cycles and compares the results with that of an amalgam material. Five specimens of each material were exposed three-body wear tests using a computer-controlled chewing simulator with steatite balls as the antagonist (1.6 Hz, 49 N load; 120,000, 240,000 and 480,000 mechanical cycles; and thermal cycling between 5 and 55°C at 5 min/cycle and 3000 cycles) immersed in a poppy seed slurry (three-body wear environment). Initially, the microhardness values of the composite materials in the Vicker’s hardness (HV) scale were determined. The mean volume loss of the worn surfaces was measured with a three-dimensional profilometer. Means and standard deviations were calculated, and statistical analysis was performed using one-way ANOVA (α=0.05). Additionally, scanning electron microscopy analysis was performed to examine the wear tracks on the surface. The interactions between the composite resin and mean volume loss were found to be significant. The three-body wear rates for the composites Durafil and Kalore composite were significantly higher than those of the other composites and the amalgam irrespective of the number of mastication cycles. Filtek Z250 and Filtek Supreme composite resins had good three-body wear resistance similar to that of the amalgam. However, this study suggests that the correlation between Vicker’s hardness and three-body wear resistance is not significant.
An Imperfect Mahlerite
Authors: Mugmon Matthew
Published: January 2018

As one of the chief representatives of French music in the early twentieth century, Nadia Boulanger is typically ignored in discussions of the reception of Gustav Mahler’s music, which—like most studies of reception—focus primarily on press accounts and public events. Moreover, Boulanger is usually considered in the context of a broader French aversion, in the first half of the twentieth century, to Mahler’s late-Romantic Austro-German idiom. But a range of documentary evidence concerning her attendance at the 1920 Mahler festival in Amsterdam, including previously unexamined correspondence as well as scores annotated in her hand, reveals that, motivated by a post-World War I spirit of internationalism, Boulanger contributed materially to the study and performance of Mahler. She encouraged audiences to consider his music’s emotional power and analyzed it in a way that drew attention to its orchestration and the horizontal aspects of its construction. She also introduced such figures as Aaron Copland to Mahler’s music, preparing him to approach it in a way that centered on the vocabulary of neo-classicism. Boulanger’s engagement with Mahler not only contributes to our picture of the composer’s reception, but also reveals the historiographical value of discourses that take place behind the scenes.
The Relative Importance of Aural and Visual Information in the Evaluation of Western Canon Music Performance by Musicians and Nonmusicians
Authors: Griffiths Noola K. , Reay Jonathon L.
Published: January 2018

Aural and visual information have been shown to affect audience evaluations of music performance (Griffiths, 2010; Juslin, 2000); however, it is not fully understood which modality has the greatest relative impact upon judgements of performance or if the evaluator’s musical expertise mediates this effect. An opportunity sample of thirty-four musicians (8 male, 26 female Mage = 26.4 years) and 26 nonmusicians (6 male, 20 female, Mage = 44.0 years) rated four video clips for technical proficiency, musicality, and overall performance quality using 7-point Likert scales. Two video performances of Debussy’s Clare de lune (one professional, one amateur) were used to create the four video clips, comprising two clips with congruent modality information, and two clips with incongruent modality information. The incongruent clips contained the visual modality of one quality condition with the audio modality of the other. It was possible to determine which modality was most important in participants’ evaluative judgements based on the modality of the professional quality condition in the clip that was rated most highly. The current study confirms that both aural and visual information can affect audience members’ experience of musical performance. We provide evidence that visual information has a greater impact than aural information on evaluations of performance quality, as the incongruent clip with amateur audio + professional video was rated significantly higher than that with professional audio + amateur video. Participants’ level of musical expertise was found to have no effect on their judgements of performance quality.
Lithic Assemblages from Nakovana (Croatia)
Authors: Forenbaher Stašo , Perhoč Zlatko
Published: January 2018

A large and complex lithic collection from Pelješac, a peninsula on the eastern Adriatic seaboard of southern Croatia, provides extensive information about raw materials, formal typology, and technology of flaked stone artifacts from the Early Neolithic up to the Iron Age. Most of the evidence comes from two stratified sites: a cave named Spila and the hillfort of Grad, both located on the Nakovana Plateau. The most conspicuous characteristic of the Nakovana lithic collection is continuity, both in production technology and in the choice of raw material. Changes are manifest in frequencies of lithic artifact classes, rather than in kinds of lithic artifacts. Virtually all the lithics are made of cherts imported from the Gargano Peninsula, which testifies to persistent trans-Adriatic connections throughout post-Mesolithic prehistory. Prismatic blades were brought to Nakovana as finished products. They are present from the Early Neolithic, their frequencies peak during the Copper Age, and they disappear from the record soon after the transition to the Bronze Age. An ad hoc flake-production technology is present throughout the sequence, but its importance diminishes as the prismatic blade technology takes over. After the disappearance of prismatic blades, Bronze Age lithic assemblages consist mainly of flakes and expedient flake-based tools. While the Nakovana sites did not yield any Mesolithic finds, comparison with other eastern Adriatic sites indicates that raw material procurement patterns changed radically at the time of the transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic, which also coincided with the introduction of prismatic blade technology.
Apresentação
Authors: Gordiano Carlos Adriano S. Gomes
Published: January 2018

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Sonhar-te e(m) vidas. (Des)narr-ar...
Authors: Andrade Elenise Cristina Pires de , Romaguera Alda Regina Tognini
Published: January 2018

Minha alma de sonhar-te anda perdida‖. Lançamo-nos às cores, aos sentidos do non-sense, à fuga à representação. Como explorar em sons, conhecimentos, pensamentos esses ARes com a filosofia de Deleuze? Pretender ex-vaziAR na potência de vida do insuportável da negação. Esparra-mar-se na experimentação política de Bartleby: I would prefer not to. VentAR na experimentação por sonhos, sombras, restos. CriAR-te e(m) educação-pensamento numa (des)narrativa a fabular vidas pelas escritas e imagens.
KOMPARASI KEPUASAN PENERIMA KARTU BANTUAN PANGAN NON TUNAI DAN PENERIMA RASTRA DI KECAMATAN CAKUNG, JAKARTA TIMUR
Authors: Junaidi Mayang Shahira
Published: January 2018

Tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu untuk menganalisis tingkat kepuasan penerima Bantuan Pangan Non Tunai (BPNT) dan penerima Beras Sejahtera (RASTRA), serta untuk menganalisis apakah tingkat kepuasan penerima BPNT lebih tinggi daripada penerima RASTRA. Metode penelitian yang digunakan yaitu survei dengan multistage random sampling untuk pengambilan jumlah sampel penelitian. Pemilihan sampel dilakukan secara proportional sampling dan random sampling. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan wawancara menggunakan kuesioner terstruktur. Metode analisis data yaitu analisis Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) dan uji hipotesis z. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat diketahui bahwa Nilai CSI kepuasan penerima BPNT sebesar 74,3%, sedangkan pada RASTRA sebesar 62,9%. Hasil perhitungan uji hipotesis z signifikan pada taraf 5%. Nilai kepuasan penerima BPNT lebih tinggi daripada kepuasan penerima RASTRA. Interpretasi nilai CSI pada BPNT tergolong dalam kategori cause for concern, sedangkan pada RASTRA tergolong dalam kategori very poor. Sebaiknya, pemerintah mengevaluasi dan menambah jumlah persediaan sembako dan e-Warong pada Program BPNT agar dapat meningkatkan kepuasan penerima program. Hal ini untuk mengurangi ketidaknyamanan dan mengurangi risiko penerima manfaat tidak mendapatkan sembako.

Kata kunci : BULOG, RASTRA, BPNT, CSI
Experimental Study on Geomechanical Dilation of Oil Sands During Cold–Water Injection
Authors: Wang Xinkui , Chalaturnyk Rick , Huang Haibo , Leung Juliana
Published: January 2018

Steam-assisted-gravity-drainage (SAGD) processes become effective only after thermal and hydraulic communication between an injection and production well has been established during the startup operation of the well pair. Conventional steam-circulation startup operations typically take 2 to 3 months to achieve interwell communication, but reductions in the startup time can have a favorable impact on project economics. Enhancement of interwell permeability using fluid-injection (water, or steam, or solvent) strategies to promote geomechanical dilation of the oil sands has been proposed as a startup technique. These fluid-injection processes will produce complex interactions of thermal, geomechanical, and multiple-phase flow behavior in the interwell formation region. Understanding better the role that these interactions play in establishing well-pair communication will provide opportunities to improve SAGD recovery performance.

A triaxial experimental program has been designed and executed to explore whether cold-water injection would be sufficient to induce enhancements in effective permeability to water from geomechanical dilation mechanisms. Sample preparation techniques were modified to allow the preparation of reconstituted, very dense water-wet/bitumen sand specimens with different fluid saturations and almost identical porosities. Reclaimed/cleaned tailings sand from oil-sands mining operations was used to prepare artificial specimens, which are representative of McMurray Formation oil sands. A water-wet or bitumen sand core plug was then tested in an environmental chamber to simulate reservoir boundary conditions in terms of stress state, temperature, and pore pressure. A set of experiments was carried out in a triaxial cell under either initial isotropic or initial anisotropic stress state. Experimental results highlight the promising potential to dramatically enhance effective permeability to water and porosity in the dilated zone using cold-water injection at modest levels of stress anisotropy. The experimental results also provide support for the development of numerical models used in predicting SAGD startup performance and proactive utilization of the dilation as startup process for in-situ oil-sands development.
Of Kings and Officers — The Judicial Development of Public Law
Authors: Selway Bradley
Published: January 2018

The relationship of the King to the persons who actually perform the work of government has changed profoundly over the last 250 years. The purpose of this article is to analyse those changes and to analyse how the common law reacted (or failed to react) to them.

For this purpose I propose first to consider the structure of English government in about 1750. Although the structure was already evolving into a more modern form, in 1750 it was still a relatively simple governmental structure based upon a sovereign Monarch and upon public officers, many of them in regional areas.

At that time the common law clearly distinguished between the Monarch and his officers. Although the extent and importance of the various legal powers and immunities of the Monarch are now often overstated, the Monarch did possess special powers and immunities which reflected or, at least, were derived from his sovereignty.
The Constitutional (In)Validity of Religious Vilification Laws: Implications for their Interpretation
Authors: Aroney Nicholas
Published: January 2018

In this article, I address the question whether religious vilification laws are contrary to the implied freedom of political communication affirmed in the High Court's decision in Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation. I will focus on three key issues. First, can the implied freedom extend, in principle, to religious speech, meaning speech that is motivated by religious belief as well as speech that simply deals with religion or religious topics? Secondly, do religious vilification laws place a relevant burden upon communication about political or governmental matters? Thirdly, are religious vilification laws reasonably appropriate and adapted to achieving some legitimate objective in a manner which is compatible with the constitutionally prescribed system of representative government? The latter two questions derive directly from the test formulated by the High Court in Lange for determining whether a law is contrary to the implied freedom of political communication.
Overcoming the Institutional and Constitutional Constraints of Australian Federalism: Developing a New Social Democratic Approach to the Federal Framework
Authors: Guy Scott
Published: January 2018

This article investigates the possibilities for promoting and implementing a more progressive or essentially social democratic political and constitutional agenda within the existing institutional and constitutional constraints of federalism. Although this question has been a long debated and much discussed one in social democratic political and constitutional theory, this article seeks, indeed, to bring new light to this (traditional social democratic) perspective by emphasising the potential advantages of federal theory and the federal structure for a developing and contemporary social democratic agenda. Particular attention is devoted to the progressive possibilities which inhere in the States and their accompanying (State) constitutions and the consequent potential which State constitutionalism has to support a renewed and more distinctively progressive political (and constitutional) practice.
Finding Fault in Marital Property Law: A Little Bit of History Repeating?
Authors: Alves-Perini Nell , Harrison Margaret , Rhoades Helen , Swain Shurlee
Published: January 2018

The introduction of ‘no-fault divorce’ in Australia in 1976 promised unhappy spouses a ‘dignified’ way to end their marriage without the need to assign responsibility for the relationship's demise. But in 1989, Richard Ingleby's study of matrimonial breakdown hinted that the reformers of the 1970s had failed to appreciate the non-mutuality of the uncoupling process, and that the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) ('Family Law Act’) had not been ‘able to prevent divorcing parties feeling the need to consider issues of fault'. Since that time a growing body of research evidence has revealed that blame and recrimination remain salient issues for divorcing couples, and academic commentators have suggested that battles over children and property are often proxies for unresolved relationship grievances. In this climate, legal scholarship has witnessed a renewed interest in the issue of spousal conduct, with radical proposals to construct ‘disloyalty’ in marriage as a legally relevant matter in divorce settlements, and consumers of the family law system have called for the law to pay greater heed to the moral dimensions of intimate relationships.
Marriage and Civil Unions: Legal and Moral Questions
Authors: Zanghellini Aleardo
Published: January 2018

In December 2006, the Civil Partnerships Bill 2006 (ACT) was introduced in the ACT Legislative Assembly that would extend to same-sex (and heterosexual) couples who have declared their commitment to each other by entering a ‘civil partnership’ the legal consequences that ACT laws attach to ‘domestic partnerships’ (what other Australian jurisdictions call ‘de facto relationships’). The Bill was introduced in response to the Howard Government's disallowance, in June 2006, of the Civil Unions Act 2006 (ACT) ('Civil Unions Act’), passed by the ACT Legislative Assembly almost exactly one month before. The Civil Unions Act had created an institution paralleling heterosexual marriage but open to both same-sex and different-sex couples. A civil union was similar to marriage both to the extent that a ceremony was required for it to be brought into existence and because a validly contracted civil union was to be treated like marriage for the purposes of all ACT laws.
Regulation of Animal Welfare in Australia and the Emergent Commonwealth: Entrenching the Traditional Approach of the States and Territories or Laying the Ground for Reform?
Authors: White Steven
Published: January 2018

Human treatment of other animals has been the subject of intense scholarly and more general public deliberation for many years, especially in the wake of the 1975 publication of Australian philosopher Peter Singer's book Animal Liberation. In the United States, this debate has permeated the discipline of law to the extent that there are now more than 90 animal law courses conducted in universities around the country, a significant and growing scholarly literature, multiple edition textbooks and dedicated law journals. Despite the Australian provenance of a major contributor to the contemporary philosophical debate, the Australian legal academy has shown relatively little interest in this important area. The aim of this article is to contribute to the fledging Australian legal scholarship in animal law by critically analysing the respective roles of the Commonwealth, States and Territories in the regulation of animal welfare, focussing principally on the welfare of companion and farmed animals.
Sex Discrimination, Courts and Corporate Power
Authors: Thornton Margaret
Published: January 2018

The concept of equality has been a familiar tenet of democratic theory since antiquity, but it has always been a skewed notion. In Athens, the birthplace of democracy (demokratia: the power of the people), women and slaves were excluded from ‘the people’ so far as life in the polis was concerned. Aristotle believed that this exclusion was justified because women and slaves were inferior in phusei (by their natures). The idea that ‘justifiable’ discrimination may be invoked selectively to derogate from equality continues to be the case today. What is justifiable is determined by those with power, just as it always has been. Equality between human beings, therefore, is a contingent and permeable notion; absolute equality belongs only in the world of the quantifiable and the mathematical. While women and Others have been ‘let in’ to public life, the heritage of the past continues to lie like a dead weight on equal participation.
It’s About Time — for a New Regulatory Approach to Equality
Authors: Smith Belinda
Published: January 2018

In March 2007, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission ('HREOC’) concluded that ‘it's about time for a new approach’ to the problems faced by men and women in respect of work and family responsibilities in Australia. Based on two years of consultation, HREOC issued its final report, It's About Time: Women, Men, Work and Family, noting that many Australians struggle to combine work and family and that workers with family responsibilities experience significant discrimination and inequality. HREOC concluded that the federal government could do more to address the difficulties faced by workers trying to satisfy both their work and family responsibilities and put forward a wide array of recommendations to this effect. Its central recommendation was the enactment of new federal legislation to promote cultural change through greater protection and support for workers with family responsibilities. The Family Responsibilities and Carers’ Rights Act would serve to bolster the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of carers’ responsibilities and provide employees with a right to request flexible working arrangements.
Section 92 and the Regulation of E-Commerce: A Casenote on Betfair Pty Ltd V Western Australia
Authors: Ball Eli
Published: January 2018

The internet is a new and ubiquitous tool for conducting business. In the age of e-commerce, distance and physical borders mean very little. The Constitution, however, was drafted at a time when trade and commerce was characterised by important geographical considerations, the most significant being the geo-political boundaries between the several colonies that became the States. The internet has all but destroyed whatever remnants of that age might have survived the previous 100 years. This tension between recent technological advancement and long established constitutional jurisprudence confronted the High Court in Betfair Pty Ltd v Western Australia.

Betfair is one of a long line of cases dealing with the freedom of interstate trade and commerce enshrined in s 92 of the Constitution, the most litigated section of Australia's highest document of government. But it is also truly unique: Betfair is the first time that the freedom of interstate trade and commerce has been considered in an e-commerce context. Presented with this opportunity, the High Court has elaborated upon the approach to s 92 set down nearly 20 years ago in Cole v Whitfield. The outcome has significant consequences for both State and Commonwealth internet regulators.
The Definition and Discovery of Facts in Native Title: The Historian’s Contribution
Authors: Carter Anne
Published: January 2018

The relationship between law and history has long been the subject of academic interest. Both disciplines have occasion to turn to the past, yet their purposes and methods for doing so often vary. Some commentators have noted the similarities between the two disciplines, describing them as ‘intellectual cousins’ who share a ‘natural affinity'. Yet, equally, commentators have noted the tensions between the two disciplines, depicting them not as allies but as strangers or enemies. These scholars have painted a picture of competing logics, suggesting that the clash between the law's ‘logic of authority’ and the historian's ‘logic of evidence’ creates an uneasy relationship.

Although capturing the attention of both judges and commentators, the intersection between law and history continues to elude precise definition.
Whither Patent Use without Authorisation in Australia?
Authors: Nielsen Jane , Nicol Dianne
Published: January 2018

Patents provide inventors and their assignees and licensees with a fixed period of market exclusivity, during which they can exclude others from use of their inventions and charge monopoly prices on the sale of their products. In return, inventors are required to disclose to the public the nature of their inventions and the best methods of performing them. This public bargain provides the underlying justification for the patent system: patents are good for society because they provide the incentive to innovate and innovation benefits society. If inventors can recover the costs put into research and development and earn rewards through product pricing and licence fees, they will be encouraged both to take their inventions through to commercial production, and to engage in further innovation. Full disclosure further encourages innovation by allowing others to use the invention once the patent has expired.
Replacing Traditional Enhancement Solutions with Alkaline Electrolyzed Water Does Not Improve Pork Shelf Life
Authors: Rigdon Macc , Hung Yen-Con , Stelzleni Alexander M.
Published: January 2018

Sixty-four whole pork loins (Institutional Meat Purchase Specifications 413) were procured from a national supplier and randomly assigned to 4 treatments across 2 replications to evaluate the use of alkaline electrolyzed reduced water as a replacement for traditional salt and phosphate based enhancement solutions. Treatments included: alkaline electrolyzed reduced water (EOH; pH≈11.5), EOH plus 2.5% potassium lactate (EOK), industry standard (IS; 0.35% Sodium Tri-polyphosphate, 0.14% sodium chloride, 2.5% potassium lactate), and no enhancement (CON). After enhancement to a target of 110% raw loin weight, chops were cut (2.54-cm), vacuum packaged, and placed in simulated retail display for 30 d to determine treatment effects on objective and subjective shelf life color and lipid oxidation. Despite the alkaline nature of the enhancement solution, EOH chops were lighter in color (L*; P < 0.05) and less red (P < 0.05) but had greater proportions of deoxymyoglobin (P < 0.01) than IS chops across all days of retail display. Subjective color panelists rated the average color of EOH chops as brighter purplish-pink (P < 0.05) with less muscle darkening (P < 0.05) than both IS and CON. Additionally, EOH enhanced chops exhibited greater (P < 0.05) lipid oxidation than all other treatments. Although the addition of potassium lactate to EOH (EOK) was intermediate to EOH and IS for most measures, the use of alkaline electrolyzed reduced water as a pork enhancement solution was not able to maintain similar color or lipid oxidation properties when compared to a traditional salt and phosphate based enhancement solution and is therefore not recommended.
Om interesser og den symbolske magts relative autonomi
Authors: Bourdieu Pierre
Published: January 2018

On Interests and the Relative Autonomy of Symbolic Power:

A Rejoinder to Some Objections

This article is a rejoinder to different attempts to apply the framework of Bourdieu’s theory. In order to clarify the many misconceptions of his work, he spells out once again his notions of “interest“ and “strategy“ as being an integral part of his theory of habitus. The relation between habitus and the field(s) and social po¬sitions that produced it is explained as a sort of ontological complicity, a complicity that manifests itself in what is called the sense of the game, an in¬tentionality without intention, which functions as the principle of strategies devoid of strategic design. A major question of this article is various mis¬un¬derstandings concerning Bourdieu’s theory on the relative autonomy of symbolic power. To condense his argument: when he writes “knowledge“, his critics read connaissance connaissante, scholarly knowledge, conscious knowledge; the specific mode of thought of the scientist, is projected into the mind of the observed agents. This is what Bourdieu calls the scholastic fallacy: encouraged by the situation of scholé, the practical bracketing of the necessities of practice. Another reason for his critics misunderstanding Distinction is that they read the empirical analyses in a realist and substantialist way and thereby reduces, what Bourdieu un¬derstands as “the specific logic and autonomy of the symbolic order“, to a mere reflection of the social order. In the final section of the article he comments on the problem of social classes and a number of other specific question.
Den frit vælgende ældre
Authors: Højlund Holger
Published: January 2018

I de senere år er frit valg blevet præsenteret som den foretrukne vej til markedsgørelse af den offentlige sektor. Frit valg er samtidig præsenteret som borgernes mulighed for at blive involveret i velfærden beslutningstagning. En nærmere analyse af en lovreform på ældreområdet viser, at frit valg åbner for modsatrettede tendenser i rolleforventningerne til ældregruppen. Det handler om betingelserne for inklusion af de ældre samt om præmisserne for de interne differentieringer på området. Med afsæt i den organisatoriske del af systemteorien vil artiklen undersøge, hvordan frit valg skaber spændinger i velfærdens beslutningsgrundlag. Som det vigtigste mellem beslutninger i hverdagens konkrete velfærdsudøvelse og beslutninger i de administrative systemer omkring velfærden.
Druk, bajere og løgnehistorier – om humor og fællesskab på en byggeplads
Authors: Baarts Charlotte
Published: January 2018

Humor er leg og en vigtig del af det sociale spil mellem mennesker. Den såvel inkluderer som ekskluderer individer fra fællesskaber. I arbejdsfællesskabet på en byggeplads udgør humor dog mere end en fælles-skabende funktion, idet den træder frem som en særlig ekspressiv sproglig stil. Igennem denne sproglige stil udtrykker arbejdsfællesskabets medlemmer forskellige særinteresser i forhold til de standarder, herunder normer og værdier, der gælder for fællesskabet. Gennem humoren praktiserer medlemmerne af arbejdsfællesskabet en sproglig habitus igennem hvilken såvel praktiske handlinger som talehandlinger bliver reguleret. Humoren er altid dobbeltbladet – den er sjov, men den er også dødsens alvorlig.
THE USE OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) AS THE TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL (TAM) OF MOBILE BANKING
Authors: Radnan Paulus Yokie , Purba John Tampil
Published: January 2018

Information Technology services in banking business which is very dynamic and advanced makes the bankers must adjust to the presence of this technology. In this paper, the authors will explain the role of Mobile banking technology which is provided by CIMB Niaga in servicing its customers for banking transactions. The methodology used in this paper is quantitative with the purposive sampling one. Instrument used the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as developed by Parasuraman and Davis by modifying them to fit the state of the research object. This research was conducted in Jakarta and several other places. Research and data collection took 6 months from November 2015 to April 2016. The variables included trust, perceived use (PU), perceived ease of use (PEU), attitude toward use (ATU), Intent to use (ITU), and actual use (AU). After the data were collected, the regression analysis was performed. From the analysis result it was found that trust and perceived use (PU) variables did not positively and significantly influence the intent to use (ITU) variable, as well as the perceived use variables (PU) and perceived ease of use (PEU) which have no significant and positive effect on attitude variable on usage (ATU). For that case, the authors propose an improvement strategy to maintain and grow this business forward.
PENGARUH PERCEIVED RISK TERHADAP CUSTOMER LOYALTY MELALUI SWITCHING COST
Authors: Kaligis Windy
Published: January 2018

The objective of this study is to examine and analyze the effect of perceived risk on customer loyalty through switching cost of PT Go Jek Indonesia customers. The samples being used in this study is 154 respondents. Data collection method that is used in this study is purposive sampling. Hypothesis testing is conducted using Structuctural Equation Model (SEM). The findings of this study are perceived risk has negative effect on customer loyalty, perceived risk has negative effect on switching cost, switching cost has positive effect on customer loyalty, and perceived risk has positive effect on customer loyalty through switching cost.
THE SINS OF THE FATHER: GENDER- BASED VIOLENCE IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
Authors: Snodgrass Lyn
Published: January 2018

This article explores the complexities of gender-based violence in post-apartheid South Africa and interrogates the socio-political issues at the intersection of class, â€˜raceâ€™ and gender, which impact South African women. Gender equality is up against a powerful enemy in societies with strong patriarchal traditions such as South Africa, where women of all â€˜racesâ€™ and cultures have been oppressed, exploited and kept in positions of subservience for generations. In South Africa, where sexism and racism intersect, black women as a group have suffered the major brunt of this discrimination and are at the receiving end of extreme violence. South Africaâ€™s gender-based violence is fuelled historically by the ideologies of apartheid (racism) and patriarchy (sexism), which are symbiotically premised on systemic humiliation that devalues and debases whole groups of people and renders them inferior. It is further argued that the current neo-patriarchal backlash in South Africa foments and sustains the subjugation of women and casts them as both victims and perpetuators of pervasive patriarchal values.
ANNE TANYI-TANG AND BOLE BUTAKE: TWO ANGLOPHONE CAMEROONIAN PLAYWRIGHTS WITH CONTRASTING VISIONS OF WOMEN
Authors: Nkealah Naomi
Published: January 2018

Anne Tanyi-Tang and Bole Butake are two literary giants whose works have contributed immensely to the development of Anglophone Cameroonian drama. This article examines their plays from a feminist perspective, comparing their creative visions in terms of how they locate women in relation to survival politics and marriage. The article argues that, while Butakeâ€™s plays project a vision of women that is both sexist and romanticised, Tanyi-Tangâ€™s plays offer a more nuanced vision of women as assertive, rebellious and intelligent human beings who stage a successful resistance to patriarchy.
AN EXPLORATION OF THE REPRESENTATION OF IMMIGRANT WOMEN IN A SAMPLE FROM THE SPANISH PRESS
Authors: Lirola MarÃ­a MartÃ­nez
Published: January 2018

The number of women immigrating to Spain in search of a better life has increased in recent years. However, very few news items pay attention to the reasons why they emigrate. A corpus of 30 pieces of news related to immigrant women was collected from February 2012 to April 2013 from the digital version of the main Spanish newspapers El PaÃ­s, El Mundo and ABC. The main hypotheses in this research are: Immigrant women are not very visible in the Spanish press; they are mainly represented as vulnerable and as victims; and they are normally connected to social problems. To confirm or to disprove said hypotheses, this article employs critical discourse analysis, including visual grammar, to analyse the main topics of the pieces of news dealing with immigrant women, and the main linguistic and visual characteristics used to describe them. It transpires that immigrant women are portrayed in the Spanish press as dependent, passive and confined to their homes. Moreover, the majority of the articles on immigrant women associated them with prostitution. The partial representation of immigrant women observed in the corpus of examples does not favour the development of a society established on principles of democracy and equality. In this sense, it is necessary to rethink the depiction of immigrant women in the press, in order to question their role in modern-day migratory movements.
The Knowledge of Nurses on the Management of Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis at Primary Health Care Facilities: A Pilot Study
Authors: Singh Vikesh , Janse van Rensburg Elsie S
Published: January 2018

The decentralisation of the multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) programme to primary healthcare (PH) facilities in an Eastern Cape health district was implemented to improve the effectiveness of MDR TB services. Nurses working in TB units play a key role in M DR TB management; therefore, they should be equipped with updated knowledge. This study assessed the knowledge of PH nurses working in TB units regarding MDR TB management. A quantitative, cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted: data were collected using a structured questionnaire. Non-probability sampling was applied in this study. A convenience sampling technique was used and 25 of the 42 facilities were selected. Two nurses from each facility were recruited, resulting in 50 questionnaires being distributed. A total of 32 respondents completed the questionnaires. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the data. The overall scores were high with a mean knowledge score of 61%. Thirty eight percent of the nurses had been trained in MDR TB and only 28% did not know how to use an N95 mask. However, knowledge gaps were identified in respect of the management of side effects of MDR TB medication. Although most respondents demonstrated an efficient level of knowledge of MDR TB management, knowledge gaps were identified and recommendations were offered to address these gaps.
Investigation of Asphaltene Adsorption onto Zeolite Beta Nanoparticles to Reduce Asphaltene Deposition in a Silica Sand Pack
Authors: Kashefi Sepideh , Lotfollahi Mohammad Nader , Shahrabadi Abbas
Published: January 2018

Zeolite beta nanoparticles were used as a new asphaltene adsorbent for reducing asphaltene deposition during fluid injection into a silica sand pack. At first, the asphaltene adsorption efficiency and capacity of zeolite beta nanoparticles were determined by UV-Vis spectrophotometer. It was found that the proper concentration of nanoparticles for asphaltene adsorption was 10 g/L and the maximum asphaltene adsorption onto zeolite beta was 1.98 mg/m2. Second, two dynamic experiments including co-injection of crude oil and n-heptane (as an asphaltene precipitant) with and without use of zeolite beta nanoparticles in the sand pack was carried out. The results showed that the use of zeolite beta nanoparticles increased the permeability ratio and outlet fluid's asphaltene content about 22% and 40% compared to without use of nanoparticles, respectively. Moreover, a model based on monolayer asphaltene adsorption onto nanoparticles and asphaltene deposition mechanisms including surface deposition, entrainment and pore throat plugging was developed to determine formation damage during co-injection of crude oil and n-heptane into the sand pack. The proposed model presented good prediction of permeability and porosity ratios with AAD% of 1.07 and 0.07, respectively.
A Novel UV-C/XOH(X=Na or K) Based Highly Alkaline Advanced Oxidation Process (HA-AOP) for Degradation of Emerging Micropollutants
Authors: Verma Priyanshu , Samanta Sujoy Kumar
Published: January 2018

Herein, a novel and comprehensible approach has been suggested to degrade the emerging micropollutants such as synthetic dyes. In this study, a continuous UV-C irradiation has been used to treat the aqueous matrix of synthetic pollutant dyes under highly alkaline environment (pH >13.0). In this HA-AOP, the treatment rate and degradation efficiency are primarily found to be affected by the type of pollutant dye present in the matrix, concentration of XOH or pH and UV-C fluence rate. In addition, the kinetic study indicates that HA-AOP or UV-C/XOH(X=Na or K) process follows zero order reaction kinetics during the degradation of parent pollutant species. The explored approach is quite auspicious due to its tremendous potential to handle versatile aqueous matrices containing natural organic materials, inorganic salts, fatty matters, surfactants and many more things. Overall, unlike other AOPs, this novel UV-C/XOH(X=Na or K) based HA-AOP could be highly utilized for the effective treatment of various alkaline wastewater streams.
Toward Expanded Diversity of Host-Guest Interactions via Synthesis and Characterization of Cyclodextrin Derivatives
Authors: Kellett Kathryn , Kantonen Samuel A. , Duggan Brendan M. , Gilson Michael K.
Published: January 2018

Researchers developing software to predict the binding constants of small molecules for proteins have, in recent years, turned to host-guest systems as simple, computationally tractable model systems to test and improve these computational methods. However, taking full advantage of this strategy requires aqueous host-guest systems that probe a greater diversity of chemical interactions. Here, we advance the development of an experimental platform to generate such systems by building on the cyclodextrin (CD) class of hosts. The secondary face derivative mono-3-carboxypropionamido-β-cyclodextrin (CP-β-CD) was synthesized in a one-pot strategy with 87% yield, and proved to have much greater aqueous solubility than native β-CD. The complexation of anionic CP-β-CD with the cationic drug rimantadine hydrochloride was explored using one and two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR); NOESY analysis showed secondary face binding of the ammonium moiety of the guest, based on cross-correlations between the amic acid functionality and the side-chain of rimantadine. Isothermal titration calorimetry was furthermore used to determine the standard free energy and enthalpy for this binding reaction, and the results were compared with those of rimantadine with native β-CD.
Introduction to BOSS
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Published: January 2018

Introduction to BOSS
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A Long Walk Home: The Role of Class and the Military in the Springsteen Catalogue
Authors: Robert Citino Michael Neiberg and
Published: January 2018

This article analyzes the themes of class and military service in the Springsteen canon. As a member of the baby boom generation who narrowly missed service in Vietnam, Springsteen’s reflection on these heretofore unappreciated themes should not be surprising. Springsteen’s emergence as a musician and American icon coincide with the end of conscription and the introduction of the All-Volunteer Force in 1973. He became an international superstar as Americans were debating the meaning of the post-Vietnam era and the patriotic resurgence of the Reagan era. Because of this context, Springsteen himself became involved in veterans issues and was a voice of protest against the 2003 Iraq War.
The MonPoly Monitoring Tool
Authors: Basin David , Klaedtke Felix , Zalinescu Eugen
Published: January 2018

MonPoly is a monitoring tool for checking logs against formulas of metric first-order temporal logic. We provide here an overview of the tool, including its usage and history.
FE Analysis of Curved Castellated Girder for Variable Thermal Condition
Authors: Pandya Saurabh , Dhankot Mazhar
Published: January 2018

Castellated girders having straight or curved profile are extensively used in structural application due to its aesthetics, versatility, economy and ease of use. The present paper is focused on Finite Element Analysis of curved castellated steel beam. The prime objective is to study the impact of opening and rise on behaviour of these curved steel beams. A parametric study has been conducted on arched castellated girder for various ratio of depth to opening for variable degree of curvature proportional to the span of the girder. The main focus of study in this paper is the temperature variation that exists between building interior and external environment. The FEA study reveals from the results that mid span deflection of beam increases with increase in size of opening. It is also observed that there is a sudden reduction of stresses when the span to rise ratio is reduced from 7 to 6.
Effect on Addition of Nano "Titanium Dioxide” (TiO2)on Compressive Strength of Cementitious Concrete
Authors: Sorathiya Jay , Shah Siddharth , Kacha Smit
Published: January 2018

Cementitious concrete has great practical difficulties in achieving high compressive strength and durability of high performance structures. But it becomes a challenge to increase the compressive strength and durability of particular cementitious composite and also maintaining basic desirable properties of concrete. This paper addresses these problems by the addition of nano-materials. In this study, an attempt is made to understand the effect of Anatase Nano Titanium Dioxide (TiO2), on Conventional Concrete (CC) of M20 grade with various proportions 0.5%, 0.75%, 1.0%, 1.25%, 1.5% in relation with the weight of cement. The Workability, Strength parameters at various proportions of Anatase Nano Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) are tested at different durations. The results obtained are being discussed in the paper.