bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Modern Approaches to the Diagnosis and Management of Children With Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
Authors: Baranov A. A. , Namazova-Baranova L. S. , Vishneva E. A. , Selimzyanova L. R. , Simonova O. I. , Sereda E. V. , Rozinova N. N. , Tzygina E. N. , Katosova L. K. , Lazareva A. V. , Gorinova Yu. V. , Kustova O. V.
Published: July 2018

The article presents the most modern positions of healthcare delivery for children with primary ciliary dyskinesia. Symptoms of this pathology in clinical practice vary that is conditioned by genetic heterogeneity of the disease. The most common disease manifestation in children is frequent inflammatory diseases of the upper and lower respiratory tract. They are recorded in most patients, especially in young children, and the diagnosis is often determined untimely due to a low awareness of specialists about this nosology. Differential diagnostic approach is described in detail, peculiarities of treatment and management of children with this nosology are specified. The material is based on clinical guidelines developed and approved by the professional association «Union of Pediatricians of Russia».
Acute Abdominal Pain in Children: Causes and Development Factors
Authors: Romanova E. A. , Namazova-Baranova L. S. , Dyakonova E. Yu. , Romanov A. Yu. , Mezhidov K. S. , Dokhshukaeva Z. I.
Published: July 2018

Currently differential diagnosis of acute abdominal pain syndrome in children at prehospital care units is vital and urgent problem which requires solution. Unfortunately, embarrassing mistakes are still followed by late or inadequate treatment and complications as a result. The problem solution requires both medical stuff alert and diagnosis algorithm revision and improvement. Improvement of technical equipment and availability of instrumental diagnostic methods at the out-hospital settings is a pressing need. The article provides a classification, detailed pathogenesis, and clinical presentation of acute abdominal pain in children under different nosologies (therapeutic and surgical). We considered the problem of adequate differential diagnosis of acute abdominal pain in children when the diagnostics is performed by primary care physicians and specialists of emergency medical services at the prehospital stage.
THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET: CARDIOPROTECTIVE EFFECTS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
Authors: Tsygankova D. P. , Krivoshapova K. Е. , Barbarash O. L.
Published: July 2018

Mediterranean diet is one of the most effective in prevention of cardiovascular pathology. It has been approved evidently in the countries of the Mediterranean region, and demands for efficacy evaluation in populations of other climatic and geographic circumstances, with specific ethnic and religious traditions. In this article, the main studies are explored, in the investigation of Mediterranean diet in countries of non-Mediterranean areas. The problems discussed, of the inhabitants of these countries that interfere with high adherence to such model of nutrition.
Intervenção telefônica para manejo da ansiedade de pacientes oncológicos: ensaio clínico randomizado
Authors: Stamm Bruna , Girardon-Perlini Nara Marilene Oliveira , Pasqualoto Adriane Schmidt , Beuter Margrid , Magnago Tânia Solange Bosi de Souza
Published: July 2018

Resumo Objetivo Avaliar a eficácia da intervenção telefônica realizada por enfermeira na diminuição dos escores de ansiedade de pacientes em tratamento radioterápico. Métodos Ensaio clínico randomizado realizado em ambulatório de radioterapia com seguimento de 15 dias. A amostra foi composta por 39 pacientes em tratamento radioterápico (20 no Grupo Intervenção e 19 no Grupo Controle). As intervenções foram realizadas por meio de dois contatos telefônicos. Para coleta de dados, utilizaram-se questionário com questões sociodemográficas e clínicas, e Inventário de Ansiedade Traço-Estado. Os dados foram analisados pelo pacote estatístico Statistical Package for Social Sciences. O teste t de Student para amostras pareadas foi utilizado para comparar os momentos pré e pós-intervenção. Resultados Houve redução significativa dos escores de ansiedade após as ligações telefônicas (p<0,027) para os pacientes do Grupo Intervenção. Conclusão O uso do telefone durante seguimento de 15 dias mostrou-se estratégia eficaz para a diminuição dos escores de ansiedade de pacientes em tratamento radioterápico. Registro Brasileiro de Ensaios Clínicos – REBEC: RBR-8wn8ck
Dynamic Backtracking
Authors: Ginsberg M. L.
Published: July 2018

Because of their occasional need to return to shallow points in a search tree, existing backtracking methods can sometimes erase meaningful progress toward solving a search problem. In this paper, we present a method by which backtrack points can be moved deeper in the search space, thereby avoiding this difficulty. The technique developed is a variant of dependency-directed backtracking that uses only polynomial space while still providing useful control information and retaining the completeness guarantees provided by earlier approaches.
FLECS: Planning with a Flexible Commitment Strategy
Authors: Veloso M. , Stone P.
Published: July 2018

There has been evidence that least-commitment planners can efficiently handle planning problems that involve difficult goal interactions. This evidence has led to the common belief that delayed-commitment is the "best" possible planning strategy. However, we recently found evidence that eager-commitment planners can handle a variety of planning problems more efficiently, in particular those with difficult operator choices. Resigned to the futility of trying to find a universally successful planning strategy, we devised a planner that can be used to study which domains and problems are best for which planning strategies. In this article we introduce this new planning algorithm, FLECS, which uses a FLExible Commitment Strategy with respect to plan-step orderings. It is able to use any strategy from delayed-commitment to eager-commitment. The combination of delayed and eager operator-ordering commitments allows FLECS to take advantage of the benefits of explicitly using a simulated execution state and reasoning about planning constraints. FLECS can vary its commitment strategy across different problems and domains, and also during the course of a single planning problem. FLECS represents a novel contribution to planning in that it explicitly provides the choice of which commitment strategy to use while planning. FLECS provides a framework to investigate the mapping from planning domains and problems to efficient planning strategies.
Flexibly Instructable Agents
Authors: Huffman S. B. , Laird J. E.
Published: July 2018

This paper presents an approach to learning from situated, interactive tutorial instruction within an ongoing agent. Tutorial instruction is a flexible (and thus powerful) paradigm for teaching tasks because it allows an instructor to communicate whatever types of knowledge an agent might need in whatever situations might arise. To support this flexibility, however, the agent must be able to learn multiple kinds of knowledge from a broad range of instructional interactions. Our approach, called situated explanation, achieves such learning through a combination of analytic and inductive techniques. It combines a form of explanation-based learning that is situated for each instruction with a full suite of contextually guided responses to incomplete explanations. The approach is implemented in an agent called Instructo-Soar that learns hierarchies of new tasks and other domain knowledge from interactive natural language instructions. Instructo-Soar meets three key requirements of flexible instructability that distinguish it from previous systems: (1) it can take known or unknown commands at any instruction point; (2) it can handle instructions that apply to either its current situation or to a hypothetical situation specified in language (as in, for instance, conditional instructions); and (3) it can learn, from instructions, each class of knowledge it uses to perform tasks.
Rule-based Machine Learning Methods for Functional Prediction
Authors: Weiss S. M. , Indurkhya N.
Published: July 2018

We describe a machine learning method for predicting the value of a real-valued function, given the values of multiple input variables. The method induces solutions from samples in the form of ordered disjunctive normal form (DNF) decision rules. A central objective of the method and representation is the induction of compact, easily interpretable solutions. This rule-based decision model can be extended to search efficiently for similar cases prior to approximating function values. Experimental results on real-world data demonstrate that the new techniques are competitive with existing machine learning and statistical methods and can sometimes yield superior regression performance.
The Difficulties of Learning Logic Programs with Cut
Authors: Bergadano F. , Gunetti D. , Trinchero U.
Published: July 2018

As real logic programmers normally use cut (!), an effective learning procedure for logic programs should be able to deal with it. Because the cut predicate has only a procedural meaning, clauses containing cut cannot be learned using an extensional evaluation method, as is done in most learning systems. On the other hand, searching a space of possible programs (instead of a space of independent clauses) is unfeasible. An alternative solution is to generate first a candidate base program which covers the positive examples, and then make it consistent by inserting cut where appropriate. The problem of learning programs with cut has not been investigated before and this seems to be a natural and reasonable approach. We generalize this scheme and investigate the difficulties that arise. Some of the major shortcomings are actually caused, in general, by the need for intensional evaluation. As a conclusion, the analysis of this paper suggests, on precise and technical grounds, that learning cut is difficult, and current induction techniques should probably be restricted to purely declarative logic languages.
Bias-Driven Revision of Logical Domain Theories
Authors: Koppel M. , Feldman R. , Segre A. M.
Published: July 2018

The theory revision problem is the problem of how best to go about revising a deficient domain theory using information contained in examples that expose inaccuracies. In this paper we present our approach to the theory revision problem for propositional domain theories. The approach described here, called PTR, uses probabilities associated with domain theory elements to numerically track the ``flow'' of proof through the theory. This allows us to measure the precise role of a clause or literal in allowing or preventing a (desired or undesired) derivation for a given example. This information is used to efficiently locate and repair flawed elements of the theory. PTR is proved to converge to a theory which correctly classifies all examples, and shown experimentally to be fast and accurate even for deep theories.
SCREEN: Learning a Flat Syntactic and Semantic Spoken Language Analysis Using Artificial Neural Networks
Authors: Wermter S. , Weber V.
Published: July 2018

Previous approaches of analyzing spontaneously spoken language often have been based on encoding syntactic and semantic knowledge manually and symbolically. While there has been some progress using statistical or connectionist language models, many current spoken- language systems still use a relatively brittle, hand-coded symbolic grammar or symbolic semantic component. In contrast, we describe a so-called screening approach for learning robust processing of spontaneously spoken language. A screening approach is a flat analysis which uses shallow sequences of category representations for analyzing an utterance at various syntactic, semantic and dialog levels. Rather than using a deeply structured symbolic analysis, we use a flat connectionist analysis. This screening approach aims at supporting speech and language processing by using (1) data-driven learning and (2) robustness of connectionist networks. In order to test this approach, we have developed the SCREEN system which is based on this new robust, learned and flat analysis. In this paper, we focus on a detailed description of SCREEN's architecture, the flat syntactic and semantic analysis, the interaction with a speech recognizer, and a detailed evaluation analysis of the robustness under the influence of noisy or incomplete input. The main result of this paper is that flat representations allow more robust processing of spontaneous spoken language than deeply structured representations. In particular, we show how the fault-tolerance and learning capability of connectionist networks can support a flat analysis for providing more robust spoken-language processing within an overall hybrid symbolic/connectionist framework.
A Principled Approach Towards Symbolic Geometric Constraint Satisfaction
Authors: Bhansali S. , Kramer G. A. , Hoar T. J.
Published: July 2018

An important problem in geometric reasoning is to find the configuration of a collection of geometric bodies so as to satisfy a set of given constraints. Recently, it has been suggested that this problem can be solved efficiently by symbolically reasoning about geometry. This approach, called degrees of freedom analysis, employs a set of specialized routines called plan fragments that specify how to change the configuration of a set of bodies to satisfy a new constraint while preserving existing constraints. A potential drawback, which limits the scalability of this approach, is concerned with the difficulty of writing plan fragments. In this paper we address this limitation by showing how these plan fragments can be automatically synthesized using first principles about geometric bodies, actions, and topology.
Teleo-Reactive Programs for Agent Control
Authors: Nilsson N.
Published: July 2018

A formalism is presented for computing and organizing actions for autonomous agents in dynamic environments. We introduce the notion of teleo-reactive (T-R) programs whose execution entails the construction of circuitry for the continuous computation of the parameters and conditions on which agent action is based. In addition to continuous feedback, T-R programs support parameter binding and recursion. A primary difference between T-R programs and many other circuit-based systems is that the circuitry of T-R programs is more compact; it is constructed at run time and thus does not have to anticipate all the contingencies that might arise over all possible runs. In addition, T-R programs are intuitive and easy to write and are written in a form that is compatible with automatic planning and learning methods. We briefly describe some experimental applications of T-R programs in the control of simulated and actual mobile robots.
On Partially Controlled Multi-Agent Systems
Authors: Brafman R. I. , Tennenholtz M.
Published: July 2018

Motivated by the control theoretic distinction between controllable and uncontrollable events, we distinguish between two types of agents within a multi-agent system: controllable agents, which are directly controlled by the system's designer, and uncontrollable agents, which are not under the designer's direct control. We refer to such systems as partially controlled multi-agent systems, and we investigate how one might influence the behavior of the uncontrolled agents through appropriate design of the controlled agents. In particular, we wish to understand which problems are naturally described in these terms, what methods can be applied to influence the uncontrollable agents, the effectiveness of such methods, and whether similar methods work across different domains. Using a game-theoretic framework, this paper studies the design of partially controlled multi-agent systems in two contexts: in one context, the uncontrollable agents are expected utility maximizers, while in the other they are reinforcement learners. We suggest different techniques for controlling agents' behavior in each domain, assess their success, and examine their relationship.
Characterizations of Decomposable Dependency Models
Authors: De Campos L. M.
Published: July 2018

Decomposable dependency models possess a number of interesting and useful properties. This paper presents new characterizations of decomposable models in terms of independence relationships, which are obtained by adding a single axiom to the well-known set characterizing dependency models that are isomorphic to undirected graphs. We also briefly discuss a potential application of our results to the problem of learning graphical models from data.
A New Look at the Easy-Hard-Easy Pattern of Combinatorial Search Difficulty
Authors: Mammen D. L. , Hogg T.
Published: July 2018

The easy-hard-easy pattern in the difficulty of combinatorial search problems as constraints are added has been explained as due to a competition between the decrease in number of solutions and increased pruning. We test the generality of this explanation by examining one of its predictions: if the number of solutions is held fixed by the choice of problems, then increased pruning should lead to a monotonic decrease in search cost. Instead, we find the easy-hard-easy pattern in median search cost even when the number of solutions is held constant, for some search methods. This generalizes previous observations of this pattern and shows that the existing theory does not explain the full range of the peak in search cost. In these cases the pattern appears to be due to changes in the size of the minimal unsolvable subproblems, rather than changing numbers of solutions.
Incremental Recompilation of Knowledge
Authors: Gogic G. , Papadimitriou C. H. , Sideri M.
Published: July 2018

Approximating a general formula from above and below by Horn formulas (its Horn envelope and Horn core, respectively) was proposed by Selman and Kautz (1991, 1996) as a form of ``knowledge compilation,'' supporting rapid approximate reasoning; on the negative side, this scheme is static in that it supports no updates, and has certain complexity drawbacks pointed out by Kavvadias, Papadimitriou and Sideri (1993). On the other hand, the many frameworks and schemes proposed in the literature for theory update and revision are plagued by serious complexity-theoretic impediments, even in the Horn case, as was pointed out by Eiter and Gottlob (1992), and is further demonstrated in the present paper. More fundamentally, these schemes are not inductive, in that they may lose in a single update any positive properties of the represented sets of formulas (small size, Horn structure, etc.). In this paper we propose a new scheme, incremental recompilation, which combines Horn approximation and model-based updates; this scheme is inductive and very efficient, free of the problems facing its constituents. A set of formulas is represented by an upper and lower Horn approximation. To update, we replace the upper Horn formula by the Horn envelope of its minimum-change update, and similarly the lower one by the Horn core of its update; the key fact which enables this scheme is that Horn envelopes and cores are easy to compute when the underlying formula is the result of a minimum-change update of a Horn formula by a clause. We conjecture that efficient algorithms are possible for more complex updates.
Cached Sufficient Statistics for Efficient Machine Learning with Large Datasets
Authors: Moore A. , Lee M. S.
Published: July 2018

This paper introduces new algorithms and data structures for quick counting for machine learning datasets. We focus on the counting task of constructing contingency tables, but our approach is also applicable to counting the number of records in a dataset that match conjunctive queries. Subject to certain assumptions, the costs of these operations can be shown to be independent of the number of records in the dataset and loglinear in the number of non-zero entries in the contingency table. We provide a very sparse data structure, the ADtree, to minimize memory use. We provide analytical worst-case bounds for this structure for several models of data distribution. We empirically demonstrate that tractably-sized data structures can be produced for large real-world datasets by (a) using a sparse tree structure that never allocates memory for counts of zero, (b) never allocating memory for counts that can be deduced from other counts, and (c) not bothering to expand the tree fully near its leaves. We show how the ADtree can be used to accelerate Bayes net structure finding algorithms, rule learning algorithms, and feature selection algorithms, and we provide a number of empirical results comparing ADtree methods against traditional direct counting approaches. We also discuss the possible uses of ADtrees in other machine learning methods, and discuss the merits of ADtrees in comparison with alternative representations such as kd-trees, R-trees and Frequent Sets.
Half-full or Half-empty? Financial Institutions, CDS Use, and Corporate Credit Risk
Authors: Caglio Cecilia , Darst R. Matt , Parolin Eric
Published: July 2018

We construct a novel U.S. data set that matches bank holding company credit default swap (CDS) positions to detailed U.S. credit registry data containing both loan and corporate bond holdings to study the effects of banks' CDS use on corporate credit quality. Banks may use CDS to mitigate agency frictions and not renegotiate loans with solvent but illiquid borrowers resulting in poorer measures of credit risk. Alternatively, banks may lay off the credit risk of high quality borrowers through the CDS market to comply with risk-based capital requirements, which does not impact corporate credit risk. We find new evidence that corporate default probabilities and downgrade likelihoods, if anything, are slightly lower when banks purchase CDS against their borrowers. The results are consistent with banks using CDS to efficiently lay off credit risk rather than inefficiently liquidate firms.
¿Debemos ir de la educación especial a la educación inclusiva? Perspectivas y posibilidades de avance
Authors: Cruz Vadillo Rodolfo
Published: July 2018

The present work is the result of an investigation that had as objective to analyze the beliefs about the inclusion of people with disabilities in the teaching of a disabled student. The purpose of this text is to problematize the idea that inclusive education is a discursive and representational space that has been given thanks to the transition or continuity of special education. The methodology is qualitative with a descriptive scope from an interpretative paradigm. A questionnaire was used with 13 open questions made to 61 teachers of compulsory education, all students of the master in Pedagogy of a Higher Education Institution in the city of Puebla. The results were given a speech type of analysis. The results indicate that although some discourses have shown an almost antagonistic division, for teachers mixing and complementing is necessary, that is, the knowledge of special education complements the principles of equality, equity and non-discrimination of the inclusive education. The reached conclusions show the need for complementarity between inclusive education and special education to advance in a human development project.
Formación docente en Educación Especial: hábitos de estudio y práctica docente
Authors: Zacarías Gutiérrez Mauricio , Luna Denicia Ma. Juana Eva
Published: July 2018

The present research was carried out with students of the degree in Special Education of the normal school Fray Matías de Córdova, located in the city of Tapachula de Córdova and Ordóñez, Chiapas; Mexico. The objective of the article is to give an account of the study habits that the students have and the opinion they have of the teaching practice that the professors that form them perform. The results presented here were retrieved through a questionnaire applied to 101 students enrolled in the semester August 2015-January 2016. It was found that these students have as study habits mainly the realization of summaries and graphic organizers to appropriate the academic content of the anthology, which is a compilation of readings elaborated by a team of academics or by the teacher of a subject. At the same time, it was also found that the physical space of the house is the place where they especially perform the process of attending school tasks; As for the opinion students have of the teaching practice of the teachers, they pointed out that the student's oral presentations, the individual participation, the delivery of works and the written exam are daily practices in the professors that form them. It is concluded that the study habits and the teaching practices of the teacher trainers are interwoven in the training of teachers in special education.
Yeşim Ustaoğlu Sinemasında Kadın Karakterlerin Özgürlük Arayışları
Authors: İLBUĞA Emine Uçar
Published: July 2018

Yeşim Ustaoğlu bağımsız auteur yönetmen olarak ilk filmlerinden itibaren
‘öteki’ ve ‘kimlik’ konularını kendisine tema edinmiş, toplumun farklı bölgelerinden,
farklı etnik ve kültürel gruplardan gelen farklı statü ve farklı eğitsel
koşullara sahip kadınların sorunlarını sinemaya taşımıştır. Çalışma Yeşim
Ustaoğlu’nun Pandora’nın Kutusu, Araf ve Tereddüt filmleri ile sınırlı
tutulmuştur. Her üç filmde taşra, kent karşıtlığı, birey, kadın olmak,
geleneksel yaşam ve hayalleri arasına sıkışmış kadınların varoluş sancıları,
beklentileri, özgürlük arayışları üzerinden ilerler. Filmlerin ortak noktası
kadınlardır ve kadınların birbirlerine paralel yaşamları, sorunları,
mücadeleleri önem taşır. Bu çalışmada Pandora’nın Kutusu, Araf ve Tereddüt
filmlerinin feminist kuram temelinde tartışılması hedeflenmektedir.
Influence Analysis in Social Networks: Examining Safety and Privacy Risk Levels of the High School Students to Personality Measures
Authors: BAKAN Uğur
Published: July 2018

The sexual abuse
of children or any sexual contact with them by an adult or older adolescent is
not a new phenomenon. Sexual assault does not always involve physical contact –
acts such as voyeurism and exhibitionism yet it can be regarded as unwanted
sexual attention. Sexual assault is arguably one of the few crimes for which
high school students are at greater risk than the general population. With the
widespread use of the Internet forming a global network, a heterogeneous social
network that allows interaction between individuals and communities residing in
different regions has been created. Social media provides many possibilities
for researchers as an area in which information, views, and interests representing people's identities are shared through
virtual communication. The purpose of this study was to determine specifically
how to protect high school students from sexual assaults and awareness of
privacy. This paper is expected to shed light on a relatively similar subject,
however, in a whole new environment that emerged along with the digital era. This
study is a descriptive one and it was figured with survey method. The test is
to be taken within a 45-minute period. This scale is used in the virtual
environment to determine the attitudes of the individuals and the cognitive
factors affecting the media choice of the individual. Total 600 students
(Male=293, Female=307) answered an online questionnaire during the May 2016. Our
findings point to the complex ways in which young people use social media,
identity and the sexual assault risk on SNSs.
Sosyal Medya Kullanımının İletişim Kaygısı Bağlamında Değerlendirilmesi
Authors: TAMER GENCER Zekiye
Published: July 2018

Bu çalışmanın temel amacı, son yıllarda epeyce yoğun bir
kullanıcı kitlesine ulaşmış olan sosyal medya araçlarını kullanan bireylerin,
kendilerini ifade etme ve diğer bireylerle etkileşim kurma, kurulan
iletişimdeki kaygıları açısından incelemektir. Dünyada olduğu gibi Türkiye’de
de yoğun bir kitle tarafından kullanılan sosyal araçların yüz yüze iletişimin
kısmen önüne geçmiş olması, bu araçlar üzerinden kaygı incelenmesine neden
olmuştur. Çalışmada sosyal medyanın tarihi gelişim sürecine yer verilmiş ve kavramsal
olarak kaygı ve iletişim kaygısı tanımlanmıştır.

Araştırmada, yaşları 18 ile 25 arasında değişen, üniversite
öğrencilerinden oluşan bir grup ile anket yöntemi kullanılmıştır. McCroskey
(1982) tarafından geliştirilen ve Dünya’da birçok araştırmacı tarafından da
kullanılan “İletişim Kaygısı Ölçeği” ilgili öğrenci grubuna uygulanmıştır.

Anket içeriğinde katılımcıların sosyal ağları kullanma biçim,
neden ve sıklıkları ile bu ağlardaki etkileşimlerinde duydukları iletişim kaygı
düzeylerine dair sorular yer almıştır. Bireylerin yüz yüze iletişim yerine
tercih ettikleri sosyal medya iletişiminin kaygı düzeyleri ile ilişkisinin
ölçülmesi amaçlanmıştır. Tüm katılımcılardan onay alınmış ve onayları
doğrultusunda demografik bilgilerine de ulaşılmıştır. Araştırma bulguları SPSS
programı ile analiz edilerek gerekli sonuçlara ulaşılmıştır. Bu çalışma
sonuçlarına göre, cep telefonu ve akıllı cihaz sahipliği son derece yüksek bir
orandadır (98,1). Ayrıca sosyal medya ortamlarına erişebilmek için gerekli olan
internete bağlanma da çoğunlukla bu cihazlar üzerinden sağlanmaktadır
(%39,1).  Bir çok amaç için kullanılan
sosyal medya ortamlarında geçirilen sürenin de çoğunlukla iki saat ve daha
fazla olduğu göz önüne alındığında bireylerin bu özgür ve rahat iletişim
ortamlarına daha çok ilgi gösterdikleri aşikardır. Demografik özellikler
açısından öğrencilerin sosyal medya üzerinden kurdukları iletişimde kaygı
düzeyleri arasında anlamlı farklılıklar olmaması sosyal medyadaki eylemleri
daha sık ve aktif hale getirmektedir. İletişim kaygısı ölçeğinde (51-120 puan
aralığı) ortalama puanın 72,21 olması sosyal medya iletişimin kaygı düzeyini
yükseltmediğini göz önüne sermektedir. Bu durum da sosyal medya üzerinden her
konuda bilgi ve fikir paylaşımının artmasını sağlamaktadır.
O heroísmo e a proletarização dos homens de letras no século XIX * The heroism and the proletarianization of the men of letters in the 19th century
Authors: Saiol José Roberto Silvestre
Published: July 2018

O artigo discute o deslocamento no estatuto social dos artistas no século XIX. Essa mudança foi tema de vários textos, da filosofia à crítica literária. Damos enfoque especial à conferência proferida por Thomas Carlyle sobre o heroísmo dos homens de letras, o qual considera uma das formas mais anômalas de heroísmo na História, resultado da paralisia espiritual do século XVIII. Consideramos ainda, entre outros textos, o famoso romance de Louis Reybaud Jérôme Paturot à la recherche d’une position sociale, em sua edição ilustrada de 1845.
Memória e (trans)gênero: sobre a autobiografia de Herculine Barbin * Memory and (trans)gender: on Herculine Barbin’s autobiography
Authors: Resende Marcelo Branquinho
Published: July 2018

O presente artigo visa questionar, por meio da teoria da performatividade de Judith Butler, somada às teorias da memória de Bergson e Maurice Halbwachs, o quanto a memória coletiva influencia na modulação da subjetividade de si mesmo e da forma como nos relatamos enquanto sujeitos em narrativas autobiográficas ou confessionais. Para isso, tomaremos como corpus a autobiografia de Herculine Barbin, uma das primeiras a serem publicadas de autoria de pessoas designadas intersexo/transgênero da qual se tem conhecimento.
Mulheres e militância na ditadura militar brasileira: uma análise historiográfica * Women and militancy against the brazilian military dictatorship: historiographical analyses
Authors: Sousa Príscila Paula de
Published: July 2018

Buscando as trajetórias das mulheres na militância contra a ditadura militar no Brasil (1964-1985), debrucei-me sobre obras importantes sobre o período. Interessa-me especificamente nesse trabalho verificar quem são tais personagens e como suas memórias e resistências foram tratadas por Jacob Gorender em Combate nas trevas – a esquerda brasileira: das ilusões perdidas à luta armada. Tendo encontrado poucas informações nesse livro sobre as mulheres que nele apareceram, conhecer melhor a história dessas mulheres tornou-se imperativo. Com isso, faço aqui uma breve apresentação de suas histórias particulares. Para engendrar uma pesquisa sobre esse tema, trago para a discussão as questões de gênero e como suas diferenças se apresentaram às essas mulheres militantes em sua vida familiar, social, política e no trato recebido pela repressão.
Editorial História e Cultura. v.7, n.1, 2018.
Authors: Rodrigues Beatriz , Medeiros Carlos Gabriel Sardinha de , Helfenstein Janaína , Oliveira Julia Souza , Lima Vinicius Soares de
Published: July 2018

Texto do Editorial da Revista História e Cultura.
Apresentação do Dossiê História e Gênero: representações e simbolismos
Authors: Atallah Gianne Zanella , Matos Júlia Silveira
Published: July 2018

Texto de Apresentação do Dossiê História e Gênero: representações e simbolismos.
The Impact of the Telecommunications Regulatory Agency on Consumer Protection in Nigeria
Authors: Okom Dr. M. P. , Enyia Jacob O.
Published: July 2018

The vulnerability of the consumer in the market place has been attributed largely to the superior position of the manufacturers or suppliers of goods and services. Regulatory Agencies in telecommunications are part of the administrative mechanism for strengthening the position of a Nigerian consumer who almost always is shortchanged by poor services and exploitative prices. The deregulation of the telecommunications sector despite its attendant utilities is still bedeviled with substantial consumer problems. Issues of drop calls, unsolicited adverts, network failure, and ineffective consumer complaint mechanism abound. This and many other problems have continued to attract the comments, remarks and opinions of members of the public and legal writers on the potency or otherwise of the regulatory agencies in telecommunications. This work appraises the legal relevance of the regulatory agencies in telecommunications with a view to repositioning them for better sector consumer protection. The work espouses that there is an urgent need to review telecommunications regulations particularly with respect to competition and unsolicited advertisements. The need for a review of the NCC Act, 2003 and the domestication of US TCPA 1991 has become inevitable
The Effect of Transformational Leadership, Self Efficacy and Self Learning toward Lecturers Job Performance at STAIN Curup Rejang Lebong Regency of Bengkulu Province
Authors: Warlizasusi Jumira , Supriyati Yetti , Karnati Neti
Published: July 2018

This research aims to analyze direct effect of transformational leadership, self efficacy and self learning toward lecturers Job performance at STAIN Curup. This research is newest research by using research model about lecturer’s performance which was surveyed from  the effect of transformational leadership (indicators: effectiveness, productivity and usefulness),  self efficacy factors  (indicators: mobilize motivation, cognitive resource, job difficulty level and attitude selection), and  self learning (indicators:  self assesment, self improvment and self reinforcement). This research used quantitative approach with survey method and path analysis technique.  Population  was 96 civil servant lecturers. Findings of the research  showed that there is a positive effect of transformational leadership toward  lecturer’s  job performance with value of 0.2390, positive effect self  efficacy and lecturers job performance with value of 0.3040 and positive effect of self-learning torward  lecturers job performance with value of 0.2720, there is also dirrect effect of transformational leadership toward self learning with value of 0.2740, self efficacy toward self learning with value of 0.4920, and   transformational leadership toward  self efficacy  with value of 0.2670.
A study on financial performance (Selected Liquidity Ratios & Management performance ratios) of BAG Films and Media Ltd
Authors: Sekar Dr.S. , Saranya Mrs.B.
Published: July 2018

Finance is the lifeblood of any business. The present study deals with the “Financial Performance Evaluation of BAG Films and Media Ltd”. It is necessary to evaluate the financial performance for further improvement in their strategies. As the title indicates, this is a study of the evaluation of financial performance of selected companies. The purpose of this study is to explain the actual accounting information and make analysis through different accounting techniques. In the present study, the Researcher has discussed the selected liquidity ratios & management ratios. Every possible effort has been made to examine the financial performance of the company.
Effect of sowing dates, mulching and seed rates on nutrient uptake and productivity of soybean in sub - humid Punjab, India
Authors: Sikka R. , Deol J. S. , Kaur Jagmohan , Singh D.
Published: July 2018

A field experiment was conducted for three years to study the effect of sowing dates, mulching and seed rates on nutrient uptake and productivity of soybean under irrigated conditions in sub-humid Punjab on a silty clay loam soil which was low in available N, medium in available P and available K. The experiment was conducted in a split plot design with the combination of three sowing dates and mulch in main plots and three seed rates in sub-plots with three replications on fixed site. The results revealed that sowing on June 30 and mulching recorded the highest number of pods plant-1.There was no significant influence of seed rates on yield attributes. Seed yield also remained at par under different sowing dates, mulching and seed rate treatments. Stover yield however, was significantly higher under the earlier sowing dates and mulching. Highest total N uptake was observed under June 30 sowing date whereas total P and K uptake was highest in May 20 sowing date. No significant effect of mulching was observed on total N and K uptake. Among seed rates maximum total N uptake was observed under 75 kg seed ha-1. The results suggest that soybean performed better when sown with 60 kg seed rate ha-1 on June 30 and mulched with wheat straw.
Heterosis and combining ability studies for economic traits in garden pea (Pisum sativum L.)
Authors: Katoch Viveka , Bharti Akanksha , Sharma Akhilesh , Rathore Neha , Kumari Vedna
Published: July 2018

A line × tester analysis comprising of 7 promising lines and three testers having wider genetic base was carried out for pod yield and related horticultural traits in garden pea (Pisum sativum L.) Among parents, line 17, line 14 and Palam Triloki were observed as best general combiners for pod yield and majority of component traits. Cross, line 17 x Arkel showed high heterosis and SCA effects for pod yield and related horticultural traits. The cross combination line 17 x Palam Triloki was most promising for early flowering and green pod picking. For most of the traits including pod yield per plant non-additive gene actions were of prime importance.
Polymorphic SSR marker identification for water use efficiency in groundnut (Arachis hypogea L.)
parental lines
Authors: Nandini C. , Savithramma D. L. , Doddaraju Pushpa , Kumar Pavan
Published: July 2018

Groundnut is world important oilseed crop; productivity is low in the semi-arid regions due to frequent occurrence of drought. Identification of genotypes that have a greater ability to use limited available water is important to enhance productivity of the crop. Water Use Efficiency (WUE) is one such important trait, which increases yield under drought situation. Low level of DNA polymorphism has been detected in most of the laboratories due to allotetraploid nature. In the present study two parental lines of Recombinant Inbred line population NRCG12568 and NRCG12326 diverse for WUE related trait, such as Carbon Isotopic Discrimination (D13C), Specific Leaf Area (SLA) and SPAD chlorophyll meter reading were studied for polymorphism using 350 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. Out of these, only 119 (34%) markers showed polymorphism in NRCG12568 and NRCG12326. Detection of polymorphism opens up the possibility of use of these markers for QTL map development for D13C in groundnut.
Evaluation of native Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viceae of pea plants (Pisum sativum L.) for nodulation efficiency and yield promotion in lentil crop (Lens culnaris Medik.) under acid soil
Authors: . Christy , Sangma B. K. , Thakuria Dwipendra
Published: July 2018

Most leguminous crops including lentil require neutral to slightly acidic range of soil pH for favourable nodulation and nitrogen fixation. The quest for acid soil compatible Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viceae strain is important for promotion of lentil crop under rice-lentil rotation in acid soil regions. In this investigation, native R. leguminosarum strains were isolated from the nodules of pea plants grown in pots using acid soil and isolated native Rhizobium strains were confirmed on CRYEMA (congo red Yeast Extract Mannitol Agar) media. Four native R. leguminosarum strains (NR1, NR2, NR3 and NR4) obtained from four acid soil types were further screened for nodulation efficiency and yield attributes of lentil crop against a reference exotic strain R. leguminosarum CK1 (ER). The results indicated that the performance of native Rhizobium strain (NR2) was the best among native isolates and performed on par with the reference strain (CK1) in acid soils of Meghalaya.
Reflejo De La Psicología Revolucionaria En El Comportamiento Del Individuo En Las Obras Literarias De Mariano Azuela E Isaac Bábel
Authors: Sadovska Julia
Published: July 2018

This paper focuses on the analysis of the psychology and the model of human behavior reflected in the works of M. Azuela and I. Babel. The novels "The ones of down" (M. Azuela) and "Red Cavalry" (I. Babel), dedicated to the revolution and the civil war, are explored within the framework of the social psychology. Theories of human behavior in the revolution, the aspect of motivation, and the socio-psychological mechanisms of its massive impact on the individual are considered. Similarly, the state of emotional stress that forces the masses to move was investigated. In the process of the "emotional whirlpool" and the "circular reaction" in progress, the voltage increases, which inevitably result to an explosion at the end (most of the time - of a violent nature). The parallel analysis of the researched works reveals that human behavior is determined by belonging to the consciousness of the masses or to the individual conscience. Individual consciousness and mass exist in a certain unity, but mass psychology, conquers the individual. In this case, a person becomes the "bearer of the mask" of the revolution.
Pendampingan Implementasi Kurikulum 2013 untuk Peningkatan Mutu Pembelajaran Guru-guru (POKJA RA) Poncol di Magetan
Authors: Mukhibat Mukhibat , Fitri Noor Faizatul , Hartati Afiatun Sri
Published: July 2018

The lack of assistance to the RA Working Group (POKJA RA) Poncol in the implementation of Curriculum 2013, causing the implementation of can not be realized. Base on this, the teachers of RA in sub-district Poncol Magetan urgently require the empowernent in the form at training/assistance continously so that the teacher are able and understand the lgic of preparation of leraning tool according to K-13, the are at least four inportance change of this devotion program, i.e: 1) teacher can fulfil their duties and responsibilities in creating a scientific, creative, and meaningful learning. 2) the emergence of awarness that the development of  leraning resourches becames imperative, this is proven by the succesfull communication built with Perpusda Magetan which has never been thought of at all. 3) PTK material has raised awareness and and understanding that improvement in learning should always be done by teacher so that the learning problem that have been faced found the way out. 4) teachers at POKJA RA Poncol have on Permendikbud RI No. 146  year 2014 about K-13 PAUD.
China's One Belt and One Road Initiative: The Response to Western Globalization?"
Authors: Boriçi Dr. Sc. Gjon
Published: July 2018

Since the opening reforms of 1978, China has made a remarkable and outstanding advance in all the fields of life. Forty years ago China's leaders after the death of Mao Zedong found the courage and the strength to put no limits to their country in order to find the proper place in the international arena. China was not going to be anymore a taboo to the world. My paper is focused on a comparative study, for understanding better the differences and the common things between Western globalization and the new China's initiative. One of the main question I have raised in compiling this paper is that if one of the two initiatives of strategies will rule the world or will they be cooperating together? This paper will basically rely in politics, economics, social and diplomacy fields. These four topics are in my opinion the key to understand China's success within the country and abroad and the true challenge of the Western globalization. The XXI century is said that it will be the Chinese century in every aspect. But to prove this, there are required a lot of efforts and above all a lot of good understanding if China will take on the world, not forcefully but peacefully.
An Embodied Conversational Agent for Unguided Internet-Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Preventative Mental Health: Feasibility and Acceptability Pilot Trial
Authors: Suganuma Shinichiro , Sakamoto Daisuke , Shimoyama Haruhiko
Published: July 2018

Background

Recent years have seen an increase in the use of internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy in the area of mental health. Although lower effectiveness and higher dropout rates of unguided than those of guided internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy remain critical issues, not incurring ongoing human clinical resources makes it highly advantageous.

Objective

Current research in psychotherapy, which acknowledges the importance of therapeutic alliance, aims to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability, in terms of mental health, of an application that is embodied with a conversational agent. This application was enabled for use as an internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy preventative mental health measure.

Methods

Analysis of the data from the 191 participants of the experimental group with a mean age of 38.07 (SD 10.75) years and the 263 participants of the control group with a mean age of 38.05 (SD 13.45) years using a 2-way factorial analysis of variance (group × time) was performed.

Results

There was a significant main effect (P=.02) and interaction for time on the variable of positive mental health (P=.02), and for the treatment group, a significant simple main effect was also found (P=.002). In addition, there was a significant main effect (P=.02) and interaction for time on the variable of negative mental health (P=.005), and for the treatment group, a significant simple main effect was also found (P=.001).

Conclusions

This research can be seen to represent a certain level of evidence for the mental health application developed herein, indicating empirically that internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy with the embodied conversational agent can be used in mental health care. In the pilot trial, given the issues related to feasibility and acceptability, it is necessary to pursue higher quality evidence while continuing to further improve the application, based on the findings of the current research.