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Distinguishing Stratospheric Sudden Warmings from ENSO as Key Drivers of Wintertime Climate Variability over the North Atlantic and Eurasia
Authors: Polvani Lorenzo M. , Sun Lantao , Butler Amy H. , Richter Jadwiga H. , Deser Clara
Published: November 2016

Stratospheric conditions are increasingly being recognized as an important driver of North Atlantic and Eurasian climate variability. Mindful that the observational record is relatively short, and that internal climate variability can be large, the authors here analyze a new 10-member ensemble of integrations of a stratosphere-resolving, atmospheric general circulation model, forced with the observed evolution of sea surface temperature (SST) during 1952–2003. Previous studies are confirmed, showing that El Niño conditions enhance the frequency of occurrence of stratospheric sudden warmings (SSWs), whereas La Niña conditions do not appear to affect it. However, large differences are noted among ensemble members, suggesting caution when interpreting the relatively short observational record. More importantly, it is emphasized that the majority of SSWs are not caused by anomalous tropical Pacific SSTs. Comparing composites of winters with and without SSWs in each ENSO phase separately, it is demonstrated that stratospheric variability gives rise to large and statistically significant anomalies in tropospheric circulation and surface conditions over the North Atlantic and Eurasia. This indicates that, for those regions, climate variability of stratospheric origin is comparable in magnitude to variability originating from tropical Pacific SSTs, so that the occurrence of a single SSW in a given winter is able to completely alter seasonal climate predictions based solely on ENSO conditions. These findings, corroborating other recent studies, highlight the importance of accurately forecasting SSWs for improved seasonal prediction of North Atlantic and Eurasian climate.
A Comparative Analysis of Data Derived from Orbiting MSU/AMSU Instruments
Authors: Swanson R. Eric
Published: November 2016

Spencer and Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) recently introduced a new method to process MSU/AMSU satellite brightness temperature data with their version 6 (v6) data. A comparison of UAH v6 north polar lower stratospheric (TLS) data with that from Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) is presented, indicating a possible bias between 1986 and 1988. Comparing UAH and NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research (NOAA) TLS data produces a similar result. An additional analysis utilizing midtropospheric (TMT) data also found a similar bias. Comparing the NOAA TMT data for the May 2016 release against UAH and RSS TMT evidenced another excursion, dated at the middle of 2005, that was corrected in later releases. These comparisons reinforce the concerns expressed by other analysts regarding the merging procedure for UAH v6, repeating similar concerns regarding the earlier UAH v5 products. Any biases in the UAH, RSS, or STAR products would impact the trends calculated for these products and could explain the differences between these trends. Biases in the UAH series would also impact the UAH TLTv6 lower-troposphere product, which is a linear combination of the UAH TMT, tropopause temperature (TTP), and TLS series.
Impact of CYGNSS Ocean Surface Wind Speeds on Numerical Simulations of a Hurricane in Observing System Simulation Experiments
Authors: Zhang Shixuan , Pu Zhaoxia , Posselt Derek J. , Atlas Robert
Published: November 2016

The NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) was launched in late 2016. It will make available frequent ocean surface wind speed observations throughout the life cycle of tropical storms and hurricanes. In this study, the impact of CYGNSS ocean surface winds on numerical simulations of a hurricane case is assessed with a research version of the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting Model and a Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation analysis system in a regional observing system simulation experiment framework. Two different methods for reducing the CYGNSS data volume were tested: one in which the winds were thinned and one in which the winds were superobbed.

The results suggest that assimilation of the CYGNSS winds has great potential to improve hurricane track and intensity simulations through improved representations of the surface wind fields, hurricane inner-core structures, and surface fluxes. The assimilation of the superobbed CYGNSS data seems to be more effective in improving hurricane track forecasts than thinning the data.
Prospects of Travel and Trade across the India–Pakistan Line of Control (LoC)
Authors: Singh Priyanka
Published: November 2016

The article primarily seeks to understand the relevance of cross-Line of Control (LoC) trade and travel in its present shape and determine its salience in the overall ambit with regard to Kashmir issue for India and Pakistan. Simultaneously, it looks at whether the cross-LoC initiative is reflective of the larger issues pending between India and Pakistan at the bilateral level. It attempts to study the nuances related to the role of cross-LoC trade/travel and takes a retrospective view to see whether the opening up of the LoC has eased the situation. The article gauges limitations of the cross-LoC exchange and later draws suggestions to better the process.
Continental East–West and Global North–South? Re-imagining (B)orders in Globalization
Authors: Konrad Victor
Published: November 2016

A perspective from border studies imagines an emerging global order based on how an increasing number, extent and intensity of borders, bordering practice and borderlands interact with the forces of globalization. The result of this interaction is an evolving, richly textured and complex layering of global transition in which several processes are apparent with spatial signatures. These are related to and explained by new conceptualizations of borders and an emerging theory of borders in motion. Foremost among the conceptualizations is the notion of shifting: borders and borderlands are not necessarily where they appear to be or where they once were. Another is positioning: imposition and superimposition that creates constantly changing border spaces, bordering practices and border places. Finally, packing develops intensities of border function and articulates variable border production. These conceptualizations of borders in motion offer a new credence and framework of inherited and enhanced territorial differentiation and compilation, which elevates the discourse beyond cardinality, colonialism and continentality, interrogates these ingrained notions, and suggests that the world is indeed evolved and evolving (b)ordered space.
Border and Bordering Practices from the Cinematic Lens
Authors: Misra Shubhi
Published: November 2016

The article considers the interface between border and popular culture by examining five selected films. Borders are those establishments which not only mark the limit of territory but also are the entities within and around which the interplay of integration and differentiation takes place. Are the existing borders disappearing in the wake of transnational activities, thereby transforming the world into a borderless space, or have they assumed a metamorphosed less visible yet stringent form? There is a clear indication of evolving (b)ordered spaces in the complex web of everyday bordering practices in the society at multiple levels. The article involves critical engagement of events, activities, exchange and other transactions occurring around border, borderland and bordering space. Out of the three tenets of critical geopolitics, the article looks at popular geopolitics and indulges in the cinematic manifestation of borders and related cross-border instances. The article relies upon the Internet Movie Data base (IMDb) as the source of films on border issues.
India’s Diverse Borders and Diverse Threats
Authors: Pathak Shreesh K.
Published: November 2016

As India successfully positions itself as one of the core, influential nations of the world, its security scenario has become more vulnerable and complex. The roots of India’s security challenges lie not only at the regional and international levels but also from within. These threats can be dealt with by securing the borders efficiently. However, the borders of India and their associated problems, geographical, social and cultural, are vivid and varied. Each border receives a different kind of treatment in accordance with the existing mutual relationship across the border. If the border people cannot connect with the country’s mainstream, national security is affected. Indian policymakers face a hard challenge to formulate an integrated policy for borderlands and borders. While there are many common cross-border issues, chiefly non-security threats, there are other cross-border issues which are border specific. Besides, soft approaches to economic and cultural cross-border interactions are beneficial. The border security approach focuses on defending the borders from various threats but the border management approach involves protecting the interests of the country across the border.
Space and Territoriality
Authors: Sarma Bikash
Published: November 2016

Territorial modernity signifies the transformation of the space of fluidity into territories or geometric grids of permanence. Border in International Relations with its constructed disciplinary gaze performs the role of a spatial unit and a decidable between a set of mutually reinforcing dualisms. In mainstream IR theory encrusted within the Western hegemonic discourse, transformations that exemplify the process of territorialization supplements the grammar of territorial epistemology. However, the ontology of the modern bounded ‘political’ marginalizes and makes invisible alternative mode of being. In post-colonial practices of South Asia, the dispositif of territorial modernity as a universal discourse and the ‘international’ is suggestive of resistance and contestations articulated via certain categories of bodies. This is prominent at the periphery of the post-colonial nation-states, as the actions of certain recalcitrant bodies often problematize the reified international. By taking the case study of the chars or river islands that often shift their location along India–Bangladesh riverine border, the paper also seeks to understand the political in these zones of indistinction and its (dis) association with the normative space that territoriality enacted in the first place.
India–Bangladesh Border Governance
Authors: Bhardwaj Sanjay K.
Published: November 2016

All Westphalian states have a right to demarcate and defend their borders in attempt to protect their sovereignty and territoriality. However, there is a significant variation in border control priorities. Military defence and economic regulations have traditionally been central border concerns, but due to the problems of trans-national migration, infiltration, terrorism and insurgencies, many of the states are re-tooling and reconfiguring their border regulatory apparatus. The complex nature of the India–Bangladesh border and its regulation/management has always been vital for both states. Nevertheless, the new definitions of security, emphasizing human security, combined with the forces of globalization have led to restructuring of the traditional notion of border management in the recent past. In delivery, the policies of promoting border trade, market, joint ventures and business-related infrastructure have become the priorities of the governments which will improve the Human Development Index and employability among the borderland people. Linkages between internal security and the regional security environment have made the border vital for the national security strategy. However, this has vitiated the environment and impeded the emergence of cordial and development-oriented India–Bangladesh relations.
Later start time for teens improves grades, mood, and safety
Authors: Wahlstrom Kyla L.
Published: November 2016

A recent study by the University of Minnesota looked at eight high schools across the U.S. that chose later start times, from 8:00 a.m. to 8:55 a.m. The study found significant decreases in absences and tardiness as well as greater academic benefits for schools with the latest start times. Among the 9,395 students in the study, those who slept eight or more hours each night were less likely to report symptoms of depression and fall asleep in class. Moreover, after the change to a later start time, the number of car crashes in the districts studied decreased by 13%. Included are recommendations for schools and districts considering changing their high school start times.
More time for learning
Authors: Magaña Alex , Saab Michelle , Svoboda Valerie
Published: November 2016

In 2012, things weren’t looking good for Grant Beacon Middle School in Denver, Colo. Enrollment numbers were declining, students weren’t reaching required academic levels, and the Denver Public Schools district designated the school as on watch. By implementing a plan that emphasized expanded learning opportunities — adding five hours to the school week during which students engage in enrichment activities — the school turned around. Attendance and test scores are up, suspensions are down. Key elements of success were starting with a vision, choosing the right partners, including student voice, hiring a full-time coordinator, and offering high-quality programming.
Time for teacher learning, planning critical for school reform
Authors: Merritt Eileen G.
Published: November 2016

Teachers are dedicated, wise, and thoughtful change agents who need more time to identify problems they see in their schools or classrooms and work individually and collectively on solutions. They need both more time for individual planning and time to collaborate with colleagues who teach the same grades or the same subjects. A productive day of teaching requires substantial planning time to choose effective strategies, design lessons, prepare materials and collaborate with others. Any good teacher will tell you this, and they do, whenever they are asked. Some possible ways to provide more time for planning without breaking the school budget are by shortening the school day for students, embedding more teacher work days into the school calendar, or creatively increasing staff.
It’s instruction over place — not the other way around!
Authors: Kauffman James M. , Badar Jeanmarie
Published: November 2016

Full inclusion of students with disabilities focuses on where students are taught, not on instruction. The idea that all students, including those with disabilities, can and should be taught together in the same class and school is a highly prized myth. Focusing on inclusion rather than on appropriate instruction and on a continuum of alternative placements is illogical as well as illegal. It’s also stressful for teachers, most of whom are unable to teach such a learning-diverse group of students in a single classroom and do it well. Responsible inclusion requires recognizing individual differences and being more concerned about appropriate, effective instruction than about where a student is taught.
Backtalk
Authors: Lytle James H.
Published: November 2016

Discussions and research on the achievement gap and equal opportunity rarely consider the amount of time that students from different income groups and from different race and ethnicity groups are engaged with education-related activities. Students in inner-city high schools spend about 25 hours a week in school; students in private schools may spend triple that amount. The amount of engaged time may have a much closer relationship to school outcomes than other considerations. The contrasts among student experiences in inner-city, suburban, private, and boarding schools illustrate how dramatic the differential is and how these differentials relate to college and career success.
The Ground Was Always in Play
Authors: Tahir Madiha
Published: November 2016

Without the people from Pakistan’s Tribal Areas to narrate the visual evidence, one wouldn’t necessarily know what one was looking at in the photos or videos of the aftermath of drone attacks. To tell their stories, they had moved through a territory pockmarked by bombs and checkpoints and drones and troops and fighters, but to those sitting in Islamabad or New York or London, these things signified that the territory was “wild” and its people therefore probably faithless. The doubt was unequally distributed, and the judgment was always made against the backdrop of a relentless distrust. A bitter pill: they endured the containment zone, but their experiences of it rendered the testimonies of their experiences unstable. As they were made mute, the forensic experts were called in to make objects speak.
Drawing Lines, Enacting Migration: Visual Prostheses of Bordering Europe
Authors: van Reekum Rogier , Schinkel Willem
Published: November 2016

Migration cannot be readily seen. Yet the study of contemporary migration control and border management, particularly with respect to Europe, abounds in the use of ocular terminology, such as surveillance and monitoring. We approach these issues by asking how the visualization of border lines and their crossings is enacted. More specifically, we seek to conceptualize the visual infrastructure through which border lines and movement lines are drawn, deployed, and authorized. We show how deceptibility and a dispersal of identity documents are constitutive of the specific modes of visuality at play in border crossing. Subsequently, we analyze two ways of visualizing cross-border migration. The first—medical visualization—works by permeating space with a contrast medium. The second—statistical visualization—works by composing systemic migration patterns out of migration data.
Do Wasps Just Want to Have Fun? Darwin and the Question of Variation
Authors: Armstrong Nancy
Published: November 2016

This essay follows the question of variation—why are no two natural beings the same?—from its subordinate role in Darwin’s early theory of natural selection to a dominant but carefully restricted role as a positive incentive to reproduction in his later theory of sexual selection. The author wants to see Darwin’s career-long fascination with the coevolution of orchids and their insect pollinators as the emergence within his theory of an alternative to natural selection—a positive force of attraction that works both on and through variation. The currency of the orchid-wasp relationship in contemporary critical theory suggests that such an alternative motor for history is beginning to surface there as well.
Historical Melancholy, Feminine Allegory
Authors: Schlumpf Erin Shevaugn
Published: November 2016

This essay examines Marguerite Duras’s Moderato cantabile (1958) and Wang Anyi’s The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (1995) to propose a feminine melancholy manifested in these novels. It argues that the work of Duras and Wang functions allegorically, revealing a tension between the globalizing present (France during the period from 1945 to 1973 known as the Trente glorieuses and China during the period following 1989 known as the Post–New Era) and the traumatic past (the German Occupation of France and the Tiananmen Square incident in China). Whereas Walter Benjamin draws his theory of allegory from the male perspective of Charles Baudelaire, this essay initiates the possibility of a feminine melancholy and a feminine allegory. This melancholic feminine allegory reveals a new conception of time and a new focus on aural perception, the eternal return, and the resounding cry of trauma reverberating in the era of globalization.
Lipwork
Authors: Huffer Lynne
Published: November 2016

This essay reflects on the arguments developed in Lynne Huffer’s recent book Are the Lips a Grave? It focuses specifically on the politics of dissensus, nondialectical thinking, the disciplining of knowledge, and institutional gatekeeping that have come to define philosophy, women’s studies, intersectionality, and desubjectivation. The reflections are motivated by a desire to take seriously feminist theory’s antifoundationalist foundations in reapproaching the ethical rifts that have divided queer theorists from feminists. In place of a liberatory sexuality or a new materialist privileging of life itself, the essay argues for a conception of eros as strange, an erotic undoing that reimagines ethics as a Foucaultian limit-attitude to help us negotiate the problems of our time.
Lipthink, Anyone? On, Lips Apart, Disagreeing with You . . . for a Queer Feminist Rectification?
Authors: Lee Kyoo
Published: November 2016

“What does queer feminism bring to sexual thinking and practice today that is surprising and transformative?” Lynne Huffer asks in Are the Lips a Grave? This essay on queer fem(inist) “lipthink” seeks to elucidate how and where, in Huffer’s ethics of eros, the post-Cartesian-Foucaultian legacy of “mad” bodily thinking gets rearchived, recharged, and resuscitated; and why this ethical madness, and queer feminist eros in particular, persists as a problem haunting the (para)cogitational void between one and the other, especially that queer living zone between bios and thanatos. It is as if the gaily autodephallicizing rectum, to which this or that queer feminist returns “fistingly,” itself needs rectifying.
An Ethics of Desubjectivation?
Authors: Edelman Lee
Published: November 2016

Engaging Lynne Huffer’s attempts to produce a queer feminist ethics based on Foucault’s notion of desubjectivation, this essay attends to the gap that such an ethics seeks to bridge: the gap between the unlivability that desubjectivation entails and the ethical investigation of how we are to live. It argues that Huffer’s work is driven by the tension between these positions and it identifies the drive itself as the reason that tension remains irresolvable.
Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Properties of Regioisomeric Xanthone-Based Twisted Intramolecular Charge-Transfer Luminophores
Authors: Lee Jiyoung , Park In Seob , Yasuda Takuma
Published: November 2016

Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters consisting of a xanthone acceptor unit and a para-, meta-linked tercarbazole donor unit were developed. The influence of the regioisomeric donor–acceptor structures on their photophysical and TADF properties was studied. Blue organic light-emitting diodes employing these TADF emitters showed high external electroluminescence quantum efficiencies of up to 14.4% with suppressed roll-off characteristics.
Οι αντιλήψεις παιδιών σχολικής ηλικίας για την οικονομική κρίση
Authors: Akrivou Evangelia , Bonoti Fotini , Dermitzaki Irene
Published: November 2016

The aim of this study was to investigate elementary school children’s perceptions about the phenomenon of the financial crisis. The sample consisted of 160 school-aged students attending the fifth and sixth grade in schools in a medium-sized Greek city. Initially, students completed a questionnaire examining their views on the financial crisis. In particular, children were asked to define and interpret the economic crisis through two open-ended questions. Then, they were asked to answer 45 Likert-type questions, which examined their perceptions regarding the economic crisis and its impact on their psychosocial development, behaviour, school life, family relationships and society. They were then asked to draw a picture representing whatever comes to their mind when they hear the words economic crisis. The study was completed by conducting interviews among a sample of 10 students, aiming at a deeper understanding of the topic under investigation. During the interviews, children were asked to communicate their views about the economic crisis, their associated feelings and the changes observed in their lives. The analysis of children’s responses to the questionnaire showed that they have linked the economic crisis primarily with its economic impact and secondarily with issues relating to social impacts, political life and the psychological state of the Greek people. Similarly, an analysis of the drawings revealed that their perceptions on the economic crisis are related to the social and economic impact, politics and peoples’ psychological condition. In the interviews, students communicated their thoughts and their emotions which reveal an intense psychological load. Το conclude, our results indicate that children hold the belief that the consequences of the economic crisis adversely affect many areas of their life and as a result people have to deal with multiple crises and not just one.
CONSORCIO MEXICANO DE REVISTAS DE INVESTIGACIÓN EDUCATIVA
Authors: Cantoral Uriza Ricardo Arnoldo
Published: November 2016

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NÍVEL DE CONHECIMENTO EM PROBABILIDADE CONDICIONADA E INDEPENDÊNCIA: UM CASO DE ESTUDO NO ENSINO SECUNDÁRIO PORTUGUÊS
Authors: Carvalho Maria José , Freitas Adelaide
Published: November 2016

Partiendo de dos situaciones problemas que refieren a la probabilidad condicional, la independencia y eventos mutuamente excluyentes, se cuantifica, en paralelo, el grado de desempeño y el grado de rigor científico de una respuesta usando dos medidas ordinales en la escala de Likert. Un análisis descriptivo de las medidas, en 43 estudiantes del año terminal del liceo, determinó el grado de conocimiento de los alumnos en los referidos conceptos y apuntó que no siempre una respuesta correcta está descrita con rigor. Del análisis interpretativo de las respuestas se concluye que persisten, en la enseñanza en Portugal, conflictos en la interpretación y en el cálculo de la probabilidad condicionada y en los conceptos de independencia y de eventos mutuamente excluyentes. El estudio recomienda más prácticas involucrando la formulación matemática de problemas de probabilidad condicional y más énfasis en el carácter probabilístico que está asociado al concepto de independencia.
EL PAPEL DE LA TECNOLOGÍA EN EL PROCESO DE MODELACIÓN MATEMÁTICA PARA LA ENSEÑANZA DE LAS ECUACIONES DIFERENCIALES
Authors: Rodríguez Gallegos Ruth , Quiroz Rivera Samantha
Published: November 2016

El presente artículo tiene como intención mostrar el papel de la tecnología escolar en el tránsito por las diversas etapas de la modelación matemática. Desde 2008, en el Tecnológico de Monterrey, se implementó la modelación matemática en un curso de Ecuaciones Diferenciales como principal medio para el aprendizaje de este tema. Se reporta el diseño de una situación específica en el contexto de circuitos eléctricos RC donde se utilizan diversos recursos tecnológicos en el desarrollo de las actividades. A través del estudio de las praxeologías del ciclo de modelación matemática, se describen los tipos de tareas incorporadas gracias a la tecnología utilizada y el papel que dichos tipos de tareas pueden tener para un mejor tránsito entre los dominios de dicho ciclo. Finalmente, se presentan algunas implicaciones pertinentes a las que se llegan y futuras líneas de investigación.
Qualidade de vida e nível de atividade física de idosos normotensos e hipertensos cadastrados na estratégia de saúde da família
Authors: Silva Paula , Tibana Ramires , Sousa Nuno , Pinheiro Viviane , Santos Renata , Bastos Érick , Trevisan Eliane , Peirera Guilherme , Prestes Jonato
Published: November 2016

O objetivo desse estudo foi comparar a qualidade de vida (QV) e o nível de atividade física em idosos normotensos e hipertensos. Trata-se de um estudo quantitativo do tipo transversal realizado em 80 idosos, divididos em dois grupos: hipertensos (n=40; 69,5 ± 13,3 anos) cadastrados no programa HIPERDIA e normotensos (n=40; 67,4 ± 13,5 anos) cadastrados na estratégia de saúde da família por meio cartazes e folders. A pesquisa foi realizada no domicílio de cada paciente. Para avaliar a QV foi utilizado o questionário World Health Organization Quality of Life e para avaliar nível de atividade física o Questionário Internacional de Atividade Física (IPAQ). O escore total de QV dos normotensos foi melhor em comparação aos hipertensos (p = 0,022). O grupo normotenso também apresentou escore no domínio físico superior ao grupo hipertenso (p = 0,039). Para os domínios psicológico, social e ambiental não foram observadas diferenças significativas nos escores (p > 0,05). Os dois grupos foram classificados como “sedentários” pelo IPAQ, independentemente dos valores de pressão arterial. Em conclusão, idosos hipertensos possuem pior percepção de QV do que idosos normotensos, enquanto que, todos os idosos foram classificados como sedentários.
Níveis dos sintomas climatéricos em mulheres fisicamente ativas e insuficientemente ativas
Authors: Probo Ana , Soares Nathanael , Silva Vernon , Cabral Patrícia
Published: November 2016

O objetivo do estudo foi avaliar o nível de sintomatologia em mulheres fisicamente ativas e insuficientemente ativas. A amostra foi composta por 60 mulheres entre 40 a 60 anos (média 49,4), sendo 30 fisicamente ativas e 30 insuficientemente ativas. Características sociodemográficas e clínicas foram avaliadas por instrumentos padrão, a sintomatologia climatérica pelo Índice Menopausal de Blatt-Kupperman (IMBK) e o nível de atividade física, pela versão curta do International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). O programa SSPS, versão 18.0, foi utilizado em abrangências descritivas e inferenciais.  O Test t student e o Test χ² revelaram diferenças não significativas em características sociodemográficas entre os grupos (p>0.05). Dados do IMBK e os referentes a todos os sintomas, com exceção da depressão e zumbidos, revelaram níveis significativos, sendo todos mais baixos para as mulheres ativas (p<0.05).  Uma Análise de regressão linear relativa aos sintomas climatéricos mostrou que a prática regular de atividade física, pode reduzir o valor do IMBK até 12 pontos. A atividade física regular faz diminuir a intensidade dos sintomas climatéricos em mulheres de meia idade.
Exergaming-based exercise program for people aged 50 years or older
Authors: Guimarães Alexsander , Meneghini Vandrize , Barbosa Aline
Published: November 2016

The purpose of the program "Video games for people aged 50 years or older" is to create free opportunities for older adults to engage in motivating and enjoyable physical activity, and to stimulate their functional fitness and cognition. This program has been carried out in the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina since March 2014 and involves undergraduate and postgraduate students in the physical education department. The program follows the school semester, with approximately 36 people from the community participating each semester. The program consists of exercises that use video games that simulate sports activities, called exergames. Participants engage in a 60-minute session two or three times a week and on alternating days. Participants are evaluated at the beginning and end of each semester for functional fitness and cognition and the findings are presented to them. We expected that this program can be expanded and spread to other communities.
Abordando Saúde Coletiva no curso de bacharelado em Educação Física: Relato de experiência
Authors: Loch Mathias
Published: November 2016

O objetivo deste texto foi relatar algumas experiências e impressões sobre a disciplina “Educação Física e Saúde Pública” que ministro para o curso de bacharelado em Educação Física da Universidade Estadual de Londrina. Esta disciplina é ofertada no terceiro ano e tem carga horária de 75 horas. No texto são apresentadas a descrição de algumas atividades que são trabalhadas nas aulas em que se busca alguma inovação a partir dos procedimentos de ensino adotados, entre os quais a discussão de pequenos textos, o relato e síntese das experiências dos alunos como usuários do Sistema Único de Saúde, um exercício que simula uma atividade de apoio matricial e aulas em que os alunos assistem alguns documentários (seguido pela discussão). Espera-se que este relato auxilie na reflexão daqueles que trabalham com temáticas semelhantes e que os cursos de bacharelado em Educação Física se sensibilizem para a importância da discussão destes conteúdos nos cursos.
The Metalog Distributions
Authors: Keelin Thomas W.
Published: November 2016

The metalog distributions constitute a new system of continuous univariate probability distributions designed for flexibility, simplicity, and ease/speed of use in practice. The system is comprised of unbounded, semibounded, and bounded distributions, each of which offers nearly unlimited shape flexibility compared to previous systems of distributions. Explicit shape-flexibility comparisons are provided. Unlike other distributions that require nonlinear optimization for parameter estimation, the metalog quantile functions and probability density functions have simple closed-form expressions that are quantile parameterized linearly by cumulative-distribution-function data. Applications in fish biology and hydrology show how metalogs may aid data and distribution research by imposing fewer shape constraints than other commonly used distributions. Applications in decision analysis show how the metalog system can be specified with three assessed quantiles, how it facilities Monte Carlo simulation, and how applying it aided an actual decision that would have been made wrongly based on commonly used discrete methods.

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Long-Term Values in Markov Decision Processes and Repeated Games, and a New Distance for Probability Spaces
Authors: Renault Jérôme , Venel Xavier
Published: November 2016

We study long-term Markov decision processes (MDPs) and gambling houses, with applications to any partial observation MDPs with finitely many states and zero-sum repeated games with an informed controller. We consider a decision maker who is maximizing the weighted sum ∑t ≥ 1 𝜃trt, where rt is the expected reward of the t-th stage. We prove the existence of a very strong notion of long-term value called general uniform value, representing the fact that the decision maker can play well independently of the evaluations (𝜃t)t ≥ 1 over stages, provided the total variation (or impatience) [Formula: see text] is small enough. This result generalizes previous results of the literature that focus on arithmetic means and discounted evaluations. Moreover, we give a variational characterization of the general uniform value via the introduction of appropriate invariant measures for the decision problems, generalizing the fundamental theorem of gambling or the Aumann–Maschler cav(u) formula for repeated games with incomplete information. Apart the introduction of appropriate invariant measures, the main innovation in our proofs is the introduction of a new metric, d*, such that partial observation MDPs and repeated games with an informed controller may be associated with auxiliary problems that are nonexpansive with respect to d*. Given two Borel probabilities over a compact subset X of a normed vector space, we define [Formula: see text], where D1 is the set of functions satisfying ∀ x, y ∈ X, ∀ a, b ≥ 0, af(x) − bf(y) ≤ ‖ax − by‖. The particular case where X is a simplex endowed with the L1-norm is particularly interesting: d* is the largest distance over the probabilities with finite support over X, which makes every disintegration nonexpansive. Moreover, we obtain a Kantorovich–Rubinstein-type duality formula for d*(u, v), involving couples of measures (α, β) over X × X such that the first marginal of α is u and the second marginal of β is v.
The Relation Between Intellectual Functioning and Adaptive Behavior in the Diagnosis of Intellectual Disability
Authors: Tassé Marc J. , Luckasson Ruth , Schalock Robert L.
Published: November 2016

Intellectual disability originates during the developmental period and is characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior as expressed in conceptual, social, and practical adaptive skills. In this article, we present a brief history of the diagnostic criteria of intellectual disability for both the DSM-5 and AAIDD. The article also (a) provides an update of the understanding of adaptive behavior, (b) dispels two thinking errors regarding mistaken temporal or causal link between intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior, (c) explains that there is a strong correlational, but no causative, relation between intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior, and (d) asserts that once a question of determining intellectual disability is raised, both intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior are assessed and considered jointly and weighed equally in the diagnosis of intellectual disability. We discuss the problems created by an inaccurate statement that appears in the DSM-5 regarding a causal link between deficits in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior and propose an immediate revision to remove this erroneous and confounding statement.
Participation and Intellectual Disability: A Review of the Literature
Authors: Dean Evan E. , Fisher Kim W. , Shogren Karrie A. , Wehmeyer Michael L.
Published: November 2016

Participation is a central aspect of human functioning and a key focus of research and practice in the intellectual disability field. However, there is not an accepted definition of participation that guides research and practice. To inform the development of a definition, a scoping review of the intellectual disability literature from 2001−2015 was conducted. Findings suggest that existing research rarely uses definitions of participation, but does examine participation across multiple domains and addresses issues of access and inclusion. Less focus was placed on individual aspects of participation such as meaning, responsibility, and choice. Based on the findings, implications for future research and practice are provided.
Women's Pathways to Abortion Care in South Carolina: A Qualitative Study of Obstacles and Supports
Authors: Margo Judy , McCloskey Lois , Gupte Gouri , Zurek Melanie , Bhakta Seema , Feinberg Emily
Published: November 2016

CONTEXT

Women seeking timely and affordable abortion care may face myriad challenges, including high out‐of‐pocket costs, transportation demands, scheduling difficulties and stigma. State‐level regulations may exacerbate these burdens and impede women's access to a full range of care. Women's reports of their experiences can inform efforts to improve pathways to abortion care.

METHODS

In 2014, semistructured qualitative interviews were conducted with 45 women obtaining abortions in South Carolina, which has a restrictive abortion environment. Interviews elicited information about women's pathways to abortion, including how they learned about and obtained care, whether they received professional referrals, and the supports and obstacles they experienced. Transcripts were examined using thematic analysis to identify key themes along the pathways, and a process map was constructed to depict women's experiences.

RESULTS

Twenty participants reported having had contact with a health professional or crisis pregnancy center staff for pregnancy confirmation, and seven of them received an abortion referral. Women located abortion clinics through online searches, previous experience, and friends or family. Financial strain was the most frequently cited obstacle, followed by transportation challenges. Women reported experiencing emotional strain, stress and stigma, and described the value of receiving social support. Because of financial pressures, the regulation with the greatest impact was the one prohibiting most insurance plans from covering abortion care.

CONCLUSIONS

Further research on experiences of women seeking abortion services, and how these individuals are affected by evolving state policy environments, will help shape initiatives to support timely, affordable and safe abortion care in a climate of increasing restrictions.
Model dan Metoda Arsitektur pada Sistem Tanya Jawab Medis
Authors: Suwarningsih Wiwin , Supriana Iping , Purwarianti Ayu
Published: November 2016

Pada makalah ini, akan dilakukan survey beberapa penelitian yang membahas mengenai sistem tanya jawab dengan domain pada bidang medis (medical question answering = MedQuAn). Sistem MedQuAn mengolah pertanyaan yang diajukan dalam bentuk teks bahasa alami dan kemudian sistem akan memberikan jawaban yang relevan. Makalah ini mencoba menelaah modul konseptual MedQuAn, bahwa sistem tanya jawab terdiri dari tiga komponen inti yang berbeda beserta metoda/ pendekatan yang digunakan. Ketiga komponen inti tersebut adalah klasifikasi pertanyaan, pencarian dokumen, dan ekstraksi jawaban. Hasil akhir dari survey ini adalah sebuah kontribusi untuk pengembangan penelitian di masa mendatang di domain MedQuAn khususnya untuk sistem tanya jawab medis dengan menggunakan bahasa Indonesia.
Metoda Adaptive Beamforming untuk Cognitive Radio
Authors: Subekti Agus
Published: November 2016

Salah satu peluang pemanfaatan spektrum secara bersama antara  secondary users dan primary users adalah  dengan memanfaatkan  perbedaan sudut datang sinyal (Angle  of  Arrival-  AoA).  Dengan  aplikasi multi antena, arah berkas dari masing-masing dibentuk dan dapat diatur sehingga terfokus dan tidak saling mengganggu karena memberikan interferensi. Pada tulisan ini diusulkan teknik beamforming di sisi penerima. Arah berkas dari larik dibuat maksimum pada arah datang sinyal dan minimum pada arah referensi. Dengan algoritma LMS (Least Mean Square), pembobot dihitung secara iteratif agar memberikan nilai MSE (Minimum Square Error) dari sinyal keluaran larik dan sinyal referensi yang minimum. Algoritma yang diusulkan selanjutnya dicoba disimulasikan untuk beberapa nilai parameter step size.
Model Pengukuran Proses Bisnis CRM Berbasis eTom dan IT-IL
Authors: Saragih Lihardo Ranjaliba , Suprayitno Gendut , Dahlan Dahmir
Published: November 2016

Saat ini perusahaan Telekomunikasi melakukan transformasi model bisnis melalui Manage service, untuk mengurangi beban biaya perusahaan. Perusahaan telekomunikasi sangat melekat dengan teknologi mutakhir dan padat modal, maka transformasi perlu dilakukan dengan pendekatan khusus sehingga dapat mempertahankan daya saing, bukan sekedar outsourcing karyawan umumnya. Hal ini kemudian mengubah paradigma outsourcing dalam industri telekomunikasi global dalam sebuah istilah Manage service.Perusahaan menyadari bahwa Manage service ternyatarumit didefinisikan apalagi dieksekusi, sehingga perlu dilakukan pengukuran tingkat kematangan dalam skala aktivitas atau proses bisnis yang akan dialihdayakan. Penelitian dilakukan untuk mengukur tingkat kematangan proses bisnis dalam Manage services, menghasilkan penataan ulang model bisnis perusahaan.Peneliti menggunakan framework eTOM dan IT-IL dalam mengukur unit bisnis "Customer Relationship Management - Customer Care" yang akan menerapkan Manage service. Hasil studi adalah berbagai aspek identifikasi terkait dengan layanan potensial outsourcing yang dikelola, saran restrukturisasi tata kelola sesuai dengan referensi tingkat kematangan, dan memberikan rekomendasi kebijakan yang tepat.
CIELab Color Moments: Alternative Descriptors for LANDSAT Images Classification System
Authors: Kusumaningrum Retno , Manurung Hisar Maruli , Arymurthy Aniati Murni
Published: November 2016

This study compares the image classification system based on normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) using CIELab color moments as image descriptors.  It was implemented for LANDSAT images classification by evaluating the accuracy values of classification systems. The aim of this study is to evaluate whether the CIELab color moments can be used as an alternatif descriptor replacing NDVI when it is implemented using LDA-based classification model.  The result shows that the LDA-based image classification system using CIELab color moments provides better performance accuracy than the NDVI-based image classification system, i.e 87.43% and 86.25% for LDA-based and NDVI-based respectively.  Therefore, we conclude that the CIELab color moments which are implemented under the LDA-based image classification system can be assigned as alternative image descriptors for the remote sensing image classification systems with the limited data availability, especially when the data only available in true color composite images.
Sistem Kendali Pengasutan Genset Portabel Dari Jarak Jauh Tanpa-Kabel
Authors: Anto Budhi
Published: November 2016

Karena menghasilkan emisi gas karbonmonoksida (CO) yang bersifat racun, genset portabel harus diletakkan di luar ruangan dan tidak di dekat pintu, jendela atau ventilasi udara. Kondisi ini menyebabkan posisi genset portabel berjauhan dengan saklar pemindahnya. Oleh karena itu suatu sistem kendali pengasutan dari jarak jauh tanpa kabel diperlukan untuk mempermudah operator dalam mengoperasikan genset portabelnya, sehingga dia tidak perlu berada di dekat genset untuk menyalakan atau memadamkan gensetnya. Dalam penelitian ini telah diupayakan untuk membuat sistem kendali pengasutan genset portabel dari jarak jauh tanpa kabel yang dapat dipasangkan pada genset portabel berbahan bakar premium. Sistem yang dibangun terdiri atas unit pengendali jarak jauh yang berukuran dapat digenggam dan unit aktuator yang secara permanen terhubung secara listrik dengan genset yang dikendalikan. Komunikasi antara unit pengendali jarak jauh dan unit aktuator terjadi secara simpleks menggunakan gelombang radio pita ISM pada frekuensi 433,92 MHz. Sistem yang dibuat telah diimplementasikan untuk menyalakan dan memadamkan genset portabel YMW4500XE merk YAMAWA dan genset tersebut dapat dikendalikan sampai jarak 70 meter dan juga genset yang berada di dalam bangunan berlantai tiga dapat dikendalikan dari dalam dan luar bangunan.
INTERVENÇÃO POLÍTICA NA SENTENÇA DO DIREITO? OS FUNDAMENTOS CULTURAIS DA PENA MÍNIMA1
Authors: Machado Maíra Rocha , Pires Álvaro P.
Published: November 2016

Este texto visa suprir uma lacuna na literatura sobre a “pena mínima”. Mais especificamente, este trabalho busca contribuir à reflexão sobre o conceito de pena mínima e sobre os fundamentos culturais desta prática legislativa. As questões centrais que norteiam este texto são as seguintes: (i) como observar e definir as penas mínimas? (ii) Quais são as justificativas que fundam essa prática legislativa de intervenção política na sentença do direito? E ainda, de ordem mais metodológica, (iii) como distinguir empiricamente as justificativas que fundam certa prática social das justificativas que não a fundam? Para responder a essas questões, este texto baseia-se no estudo sistemático da legislação brasileira, canadense e francesa, bem como na literatura disponível sobre o tema.
AS TRANSFORMAÇÕES ADMINISTRATIVAS, POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS E A EXECUÇÃO DO ORÇAMENTO GERAL DA UNIÃO – A FUNÇÃO DA CAIXA ECONÔMICA FEDERAL – CEF
Authors: Limberger Têmis , Quevedo Marcelo
Published: November 2016

A Caixa Econômica Federal (CEF) passou gradativamentea atuar como braço operacional do governo federal na efetivaçãodas políticas públicas. O surgimento dessa atividade peculiar, nãotipicamente financeira\bancária, está intimamente relacionada aoesforço do Estado para produzir respostas capazes de enfrentaros desafios advindos das constantes e profundas transformaçõessocioeconômicas que marcam o pós Constituição de 1988. A atuaçãoda empresa na atividade econômica tem se fundamentadona realização de um duplo interesse coletivo, com uma funçãosocial econômica e outra eminentemente social. Essa inovadoraforma de prestação de serviços públicos tem permitido a superaçãoda cultura patrimonialista e incorporado importantes valoresda visão gerencial sem abdicar do controle público sobre a operacionalização das políticas, balizando-se pela consecução dosobjetivos Constitucionais de forma a assegurar a centralidadedos direitos individuais e sociais, afastando a atuação da administraçãopública dos desvios de modelos baseados principalmente no interesse econômico privado.