bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Lifestyle Intervention in Danish Obese Pregnant Women With Early Gestational Diabetes Mellitus According to WHO 2013 Criteria Does Not Change Pregnancy Outcomes: Results From the LiP (Lifestyle in Pregnancy) Study
Authors: Vinter Christina A. , Tanvig Mette H. , Christensen Maria H. , Ovesen Per G. , Jørgensen Jan S. , Andersen Marianne S. , McIntyre Harold D. , Jensen Dorte M.
Published: July 2018

OBJECTIVE

To study effects of lifestyle intervention on metabolic and clinical outcomes in obese women fulfilling the World Health Organization (WHO) 2013 diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in early gestation.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS

Secondary analysis of data from the Lifestyle in Pregnancy (LiP) study, a lifestyle randomized controlled trial in 304 pregnant women with BMI ≥30 kg/m2. Early GDM (week 12–15) was diagnosed according to modified WHO 2013 GDM criteria: fasting venous plasma glucose ≥5.1 mmol/L and/or 2-h capillary blood glucose (CBG) ≥8.5 mmol/L (75-g oral glucose tolerance test [OGTT]). Women with treated GDM fulfilling local Danish GDM criteria (2-h CBG ≥9.0 mmol/L) (n = 16) and women with normal OGTT (n = 198) were excluded.

RESULTS

Of 90 women with early GDM, 36 received lifestyle intervention and 54 standard care. All were Caucasian, and median age was 29 years (interquartile range 27–33) and BMI 34.5 kg/m2 (32.3–38.1). All baseline characteristics were similar in the lifestyle intervention and standard care groups. At gestational week 28–30, the women in the lifestyle intervention group had significantly higher fasting total cholesterol and fasting LDL. All other metabolic parameters including measurements of glucose, insulin, and HOMA of insulin resistance were similar. There were more planned cesarean sections in the lifestyle intervention group (22.2 vs. 5.6%), but all other obstetric outcomes were similar.

CONCLUSIONS

Lifestyle intervention in obese women fulfilling WHO 2013 GDM criteria in early pregnancy was not effective in improving obstetric or metabolic outcomes. Future studies should focus on interventions starting prepregnancy.
El ahorro y la previsión y su relación con la toma de decisiones de los empresarios de las mipymes / Avings and forecasts and their relationship with the decision making of the businessmen of the Mipymes
Authors: Dolores Ruiz Erika , Salazar Gómez Julio Fernando
Published: July 2018

En México, así como en todo Latinoamérica, el componente primordial económicamente hablando son las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas (mipymes). Según Carriedo (2017), 72 % del empleo los genera este sector, al igual que aporta 52 % del producto interno bruto. Sin embargo, en materia de previsión y ahorro, de cultura financiera, existe una alarmante preocupación en dicho sector. En ese sentido, el presente estudio se enfocó en analizar cómo el ahorro y la previsión influyen en la toma de decisiones en la administración de las mipymes en Tierra Blanca, Veracruz. Este estudio busca, además, obtener información que contribuya a la vinculación del sistema tecnológico con el sector empresarial para establecer convenios de colaboración interinstitucional
Conceptualización, retos, dificultades y posturas de aprendizaje en cursos / MOOC Conceptualization, challenges, difficulties and learning postures in MOOC courses
Authors: Fernández-Rodríguez Juan Carlos , Miralles Muñoz Fernando , Cima Muñoz Amable
Published: July 2018

En el presente artículo se expone una revisión de los cursos MOOC. Antes de dar paso a las posibles ventajas de esta forma de aprendizaje, los inconvenientes, las metodologías pedagógicas y las distintas herramientas utilizadas, así como los principales retos de estos cursos en el futuro inmediato, se realiza un recorrido sobre su definición, nacimiento, historia y clases. Y a manera de cierre, se presentan distintas conclusiones en cuanto a la validez pedagógica, de calidad y viabilidad económica respecto a esta modalidad educativa.
Réplica a "Algunos límites al primer principio de la justicia en la "Teoría de la justicia" de J. Rawls" de Montserrat Salomón Ferrer
Authors: Luévano Cayón Régina
Published: July 2018

La Teoría de la justicia de John Rawls ha suscitado un sinfín de críticas y, con ello, nuevas propuestas. Precisamente el objetivo de este estudio es hacer un análisis de la investigación hecha por Montserrat Samolón entorno a las dificultades que se desprenden entre el primer principio de la justicia y el principio de la diferencia de Rawls, siguiendo la crítica que Amartaya Sen hace de los bienes primarios como indicadores de justicia dentro de una sociedad, la cual da pie a la Teoría de las capacidades.
Explorando el comunitarismo cosmopolita de la ciudadanía europea. Una lectura analógica
Authors: Jiménez Lobeira Pablo
Published: July 2018

Algunos posnacionalistas, como Habermas, han sugerido la ciudadanía europea como un camino para superar los nacionalismos, fundamentando la pertenencia política en el cuerpo de las leyes que los miembros de la política pos-nacional generen en el espacio público. Comunitaristas cosmopolitas como Bellamy, piensan que los ciudadanos de la UE deberían formar una mancomunidad mixta, en la que la pertenencia política esté basada en las naciones. Argumentaré que la segunda opción es más deseable, y presentaré el carácter análogo de algunas ideas posteriors de ciudadanía, identidad y política. El comunitarismo cosmopolita promete fundar de mejor manera la riqueza de la diversad europea: cultural, religiosa, histórica, política, legal y lingü.stica y, al mismo tiempo, mantener una cierta unidad para formar una política mixta.
Rafael García Pavón y Catalina Elena Dobre. Søren Kierkegaard y los ámbitos de la existencia. México: Bonobos Editores 2011, 203 pp.
Authors: Palavicini Sánchez Azucena
Published: July 2018

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Respuesta a Mariana Flores Rabasa
Authors: Cházaro García Laura
Published: July 2018

Las reflexiones de Mariana Flores sobre la racionalidad científica y la dimensión social se basan en el argumento de que la dimensión social del conocimiento distorsiona a la filosofía de la ciencia. Puesto así, lo social perturbaría la dimensión racional del conocimento, impidiendo establecer criterios universales de racionalidad. Recurro a la historia, para mostrar que los significados usos del concepto racionalidad no son ajenos a culturas situadas y localizadas. Se han reunido evidencias de que los siginifcados de racionalidad científica están implicados en historias globales  donde el conocimiento no es producto de una sola sociedad ni de épocas definidas.
Algunos límites al primer principio de la justicia en la "Teoría de la justicia" de J. Rawls
Authors: Salomón Ferrer Montserrat
Published: July 2018

Este trabajo revisa la propuesta política de John Rawls a la luz de las insuficiencias que revelan los trabajos de Sen y de Daniels, con el propósito de conciliar los principios de la justicia y las nociones de libertad e igualdad. Finalmente, las críticas de estos autores al pensamiento político de Rawls serán, a su vez, revisadas con vistas a una modificación de la teoría rawlsiana que permita una propuesta social más igualitaria.
La filosofía en la sociedad de la ciencia y la interpretación. Entrevista a Alejandro Vigo
Authors: González Ginoccio David , Lecón Rosales Mauricio
Published: July 2018

Alejandro G. Vigo (Buenos Aires, 1958) es Licenciado en Filosofía por la Universidad de Buenos Aires (1988) y Doctor por la de Heidelberg (1994) con una tesis sobre la teoría de la acción aristotélica, escrita bajo la supervisión del Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wieland (cfr. Vigo, 1996). Ha impartido cursos de griego clásico, filosofía antigua, Kant y neokantismo, fenomenología y hermenéutica, teoría de la acción y ética. Ha estudiado y traducido a Platón y Aristóteles. Sobre ellos y autores como Heidegger, Suárez, Fichte, Hegel, Husserl y Gadamer ha publicado alrededor de cien artículos, voces en diccionarios, reseñas especializadas, notas en prensa, etc. Actualmente es profesor ordinario del departamento de filosofía de la Universidad de Navarra. Ha sido coeditor de Méthexis: International Journal for Ancient Philosophy y es Miembro Titular del Institut International de Philosophie, École Normal Supérieur – CNRS; participa en los consejos editoriales de revistas especializadas como Escritos de Filosofía, Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía,$QXDULR)LORVyÀ- co, Méthodus, Tópicos y Open Insight. En el pasado simposio de la Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Bamberg, 24-27.III.2011) recibió el Premio de Investigación Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, que reconoce anualmente la trayectoria científica de académicos de todas las áreas. El prof. Vigo realiza actualmente una estancia de investigación en la Universidad de Halle para estudiar la teoría de la acción de Kant.
La objetivación en la Modernidad y su ruptura en la empatía. Taylor, Husserl e Illich en diálogo.
Authors: Rosales Meana Diego I.
Published: July 2018

Este trabajo está dividido en dos grandes partes. En la primera, planteo la problemática de la objetivación de la persona en la Modernidad. A partir del diagnóstico de algunos filósofos como Taylor, Husserl o Illich, explico algunos de los aspectos de la racionalidad moderna que contribuyen a tal objetivación, a saber: la matematización galileana, el dualismo, la razón instrumental, y la prevalencia de la economía. En la segunda parte intento proponer, desde una perspectiva fenomenológica, a la empatía como uno de los factores que componen una alternativa de racionalidad que permita comprender al ser humano no como un objeto sino como una persona.
El martillo de los ídolos. Acerca de un ensayo titulado “De la razón” escrito por Charles Péguy
Authors: Rosales Meana Diego I.
Published: July 2018

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Heidegger y la concepción del «espacio-tiempo» en la teoría de la relatividad especial
Authors: Simesen de Bielke Martin
Published: July 2018

Heidegger sostiene que la relatividad no ha superado las limitaciones de la metafísica tradicional porque Einstein aún concibe el tiempo como parámetro, escala, serie irreversible de instantes ho- mogéneos y como espacio, lo mismo que Aristóteles en su Física. En este artículo, se discute con Heidegger la noción de tiempo en la relatividad especial, par- ticularmente el sentido y alcance de la «espacialización» del tiempo. Se sugiere que la relatividad de espacio y tiempo se pueden interpretar por medio del con- cepto de «analogía», como proporción y mediación entre espacio y tiempo. 
Investigação do perfil de personalidade em trabalhadores voluntários
Authors: Hiendlmayer Carolina , Sette Catarina , Carvalho Lucas
Published: July 2018

O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar o perfil de personalidade patológica de trabalhadores voluntários, comparando também ao perfil de não voluntários. O estudo foi composto por 90 participantes, divididos em dois grupos. O grupo 1 engloba 42 pessoas que prestam serviço voluntário sendo 74% pertence ao sexo feminino, com média de idade de 34,24 anos (DP=14,09). O grupo 2 foi constituído por 48 pessoas que não desenvolvem atividade voluntária e 77%  pertence ao sexo feminino, com média de idade de 31,67 anos (DP=11,67). Para tanto, foram utilizados o Questionário de Identificação e o Inventário Dimensional Clínico da Personalidade (IDCP-2). Os resultados encontrados sugerem um perfil de personalidade mais severo para o grupo de não voluntários, apresentando maiores médias em grande parte das dimensões. No grupo de voluntários foi observado diferenças nas características altruístas e egoístas, porém com perfil similar nas demais dimensões do IDCP-2.
Trabalho, adoecimento e rotatividade: investigação de uma central de teleatendimento a urgências
Authors: Arantes Bruno Otávio
Published: July 2018

O teleatendimento tem apresentado um crescimento consistente. Somente em Belo Horizonte, nos dois últimos anos, foi o maior gerador de vagas no setor de serviços. Apesar de sua crescente importância econômica, estudos recentes estabelecem relação entre o trabalho no teleatendimento e o adoecimento, sendo a atividade considerada potencialmente danosa à saúde. Nesse sentido, o trabalho é compreendido como categoria social estruturante, na medida em que é produtor da condição humana e representa um eixo de sua historia. Este artigo tem por objetivo compreender os altos índices rotatividade e adoecimento em uma central de teleatendimento a urgências. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio das observações do trabalho e entrevistas. A investigação teve como resultado principal que o adoecimento e a rotatividade estão associados às condições e a organização do trabalho. Nas conclusões são apresentadas algumas sugestões para a modificação desses elementos, visando reduzir, pelo menos em parte, esses índices.
Urban Sufism, Media and Religious Change in Indonesia
Authors: Makhasin Luthfi
Published: July 2018

In this paper, I contend that Sufism is only preoccupied with initiating new disciples and performing emotive religious rituals. By focusing on Naqshbandi-Haqqani, I argue that Sufi group actively involves in propagating its teaching to the general public. I also argue that Sufi movement actively involves in public campaign, along with other Muslim groups with similar religious outlook, to respond the perceived growing influence of Salafism and political Islamism among Indonesian Muslims. It represents contemporary public face of Sufism and Sufi activism in Indonesia. At the heart of the argument of this chapter is to examine collective efforts to maintain Sunni orthodoxy (Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah) as a dominant religious norm, reclaim Sufism as a legitimate voice within Sunni orthodoxy and general Muslim community, oppose to Salafism and political Islamism, and rationalise Sufism to academic community in Indonesia. This chapter will demonstrate that active propagation through the internet plays a significant role in generating new Islamic consciousness with greater appreciation toward Sufi tradition among Indonesian Muslims. Sufism contributes not only to shape public religious discourse/morality, influence consuming patterns of urban upper-middle class Muslims, but also maintain moderate and peaceful Islam in Indonesia.
State Role Model in Regulating Market in Indonesia on Islamic Perspective
Authors: Rokan Mustapa Khamal
Published: July 2018

Background of this research is the traditional market alienation due to unbalance compete with modern market on the retail market in Indonesia. Limited capital, business management simple and limited networks make traditional markets are not able to compete with the modern market. This research use qualitative methods and use a case-based approach (statute approach) the Commission’s decision number 09/KPPU-L/2005 and the Commission’s Decision No. 03/ KPPU-LI /2000 and history approach, the history of the market Prophet Muhammad’s time and during the time of the Islamic empire. In addition, this study also helped to pull through direct surveys in several markets in Jakarta and Medan. The result of this research is models of the pressing role state (sadd) by prohibition of monopolistic practices, intervention of price and the location, state role with a capital acces (fath) by empowering, providing capital assistance, as well as collaboration (jam’u) to encourage cooperation between traditional and modern market.
Perilaku Penggunaan Tas Belanja pada Ibu Rumah Tangga Tidak Bekerja dalam Perspektif Theory of Planned Behavior
Authors: Volva Ludhini , Djamaludin Djemdjem
Published: July 2018

The usage of reusable shopping bag is one of pro-environmental behavior which needs to be encouraged to reduce plastic waste. This research aimed to analyze the influence of sample characteristic, attitude towards behavior, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, and intention towards the usage behavior based on the theory of planned behavior. This research used cross-sectional design. The purposively selected locations were Cijujung Village and Panaragan Village which represent village and city area respectively. The sample in this research were 100 non-working housewives. The results showed that attitudes towards behavior, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and intention was in the moderate category. The result of regression test showed that the perceived behavioral control had a significant positive effect towards intention. The other result of regression test showed that the frequency of use is influenced positively by intention, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control meanwhile it is affected negatively by the attitude towards behavior.
Views of students on marriage and family: a review of Russian studies
Authors:   Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology  of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tarchenko Vera Sergeevna , Biyzhanova Eliza Kamchybekovna ,   Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology  of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Published: July 2018

The paper analyzes Russian research on the ideas of students about gender and matrimonial relations. The authors review different works of leading experts in family and youth issues concerning the attitude of young people towards marriage and cohabitation, motives for marriage, the desire/unwillingness to have children, interethnic marriages, and gender equality. The researchers identify the following problems of the above-mentioned studies: the locality, the use of various variables and samples, the lack of monitoring studies on reproductive and parenting roles among upper-year students, the challenge of considering interethnic marriages in Russia, the lack of research into the dynamics of gender stereotypes. The analysis of domestic works related to the matrimonial attitude of the youth demonstrates the changing views on the role of women and men in the family, tolerance towards cohabitation before marriage and conscious child-free choice, postponed marriages and pregnancies. At the same time, the authors note several positive aspects of students’ family attitudes: love is the basic motive for marriage; the students plan to have 2–3 children in the future.
Risks of the welfare state dynamics in modern society
Authors:   Moscow State University of Education, Limonova Mariya Aleksandrovna , Sinyaev Maksim Viktorovich ,   Moscow State University of Education
Published: July 2018

The study looks at the evolution problems of the institution of the welfare state in the modern world. The reasons for the emergence of a welfare state, its historical evolution and national models are examined. The paper analyzes the causes of the crisis of this institution associated with the establishment of a new technological paradigm and, as a consequence, the changing characteristics of the social environment where there is a welfare state. The authors argue that the crisis of the welfare state in the modern world is a result of an increasingly complex society: when different risks are combined, it leads to their mutual mitigation, on the one hand, and their mutual intensification, on the other. There is no opportunity to predict the risks and develop the control strategy in this context. The complication of the social system results in the creation of the new risk’s zones that are free of government control. This problem can be solved by a shift from a hierarchical model of social policy to a network strategy; however, it can generate new unknown risks and problems.
Developing the intercultural component of communicative competence in students majoring in Economics
Authors:   Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Burikova Svetlana Aleksandrovna
Published: July 2018

The paper deals with the development of the intercultural component of communicative competence in students majoring in Economics. The relevance of the study is determined by the challenges of globalization and the modern labor market environment. The emphasis is placed on the distinctions between mentality and its linguistic aspects in Russian, Britain, and American culture. The author presents several exercises taken from textbooks and used in English classes by students of School of Economics and Institute of World Economy and Business of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. These exercises facilitate the development of the intercultural component of communicative competence in students. It is concluded that the academic staff trains future business experts who can both speak English in the context of business community and successfully communicate with colleagues with different cultural backgrounds. At the same time, business communication is not based on the rules of native or international culture. In the author’s opinion, business partnership will be successful if the participants of communication know communication etiquette as well as respect values of both cultures and preserve their cultural identity.
Interethnic harmony in a multi-ethnic region (based on social research in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra)
Authors:   Surgut State University, Markhinin Vasily Vasilyevich , Purtova Viktoria Sergeevna ,   Surgut State University
Published: July 2018

The paper deals with the set of public opinion on interethnic relations in both host and migrant communities. Basing on the series of focus groups in the municipalities of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra, the authors analyze the views of different ethnic, age and gender groups upon the problems of the lack of social support, labor market competition and extremism in the context of extensive migration. The research is to shed light upon the attitudes of migrant and host communities towards ethnic discrimination, anti-extremist policies and the role of diasporic structures in public life. The authors argue that public opinion of both communities contains elements reflecting interethnic harmony and probable tensions.
The correlation study of parental tolerance
Authors:   Kurgan State University, Ovcharova Raisa Viktorovna
Published: July 2018

The relevance of the study on parental tolerance is explained by the fact that it is a resource to prevent child abuse and increase the quality of children’s education and the level of the family’s well-being in general. Therefore, it is important to understand this phenomenon as a factor in the development of the child’s personality. The psychological structure of parental tolerance was studied in a sample of 105 families having children aged 5–10 by means of six techniques. The correlation study results confirmed the original model of the psychological structure of parental tolerance as an integral unity of three components (cognitive, emotional and behavioral ones). The research identified its core components and elements which had an impact on the effectiveness of family education. The leading manifestations of the parental intolerance were determined, the relationship between the parental tolerance and the child’s personality development was established.
The representation of emotional states in literary discourse: morphology of fear in the story “The Life of Vasily Fiveysky” by L. Andreyev
Authors:   Ural State Forest Engineering University, Petrov Vasily Borisovich , Musiychuk Maria Vladimirovna ,   Magnitogorsk State Technical University
Published: July 2018

The paper discusses the emotional state of fear by a case study of the story “The Life of Vasily Fiveysky” by L. Andreyev. The keen interest in and the lack of knowledge of this phenomenon are the reason for studying fear not only in purely clinical and psychological practice but also in literary discourse. The works of Leonid Andreyev due to the personal characteristics of the author and his creative preferences (propensity for all kinds of psychological experiments) provide a wide range of materials for consideration of various mental phenomena. The theme of challenges and moral feat that is typical for everyday literature has been qualitatively changed in the story “The Life of Vasily Fiveysky” by L. Andreyev, as the very existence of heroes is fatally predetermined. This generates their existential fear of life, the impossibility to fulfill themselves and fulfill, as they think, their destiny. The research on the above-mentioned phenomenon allows one to reveal the external symptoms and the deep mechanism of the impact of this experience on the person and determine its effects in a vivid artistic form as well. The study of emotions in literary discourse makes it possible to identify the original artistic psychology of individual authors and realize the structure of emotional states.
The Effect of Studying Physical Education Teaching Methods Course on Improving Students' Teaching Skills from the View Point of Students
Authors: Thiyabat Mohammed K.
Published: July 2018

The study aimed at identifying the effect of a physical education teaching methods course on improving teaching skills from the view point of students. It also aimed at examining significant differences in the effect of studying the course due to gender and academic level. The sample of the study consisted of 60 students enrolled in the physical education college at Yarmouk university during the first semester of academic year 2016/2017. The researcher used descriptive research methodology that matches the nature and aims of the study. To gather the data, the researcher used a questionnaire of 36 items categorized into four areas (planning, teaching methods, implementation and evaluation). The results of the study revealed the positive effect of studying the physical education teaching methods course on improving students, teaching performance. It also showed that there are no statistically significant differences in the effect of studying the teaching methods course attributed to gender and academic level. Finally, the researcher recommend including the teaching methods course in the curriculum due to its importance in updating the content of the course and encouraging training students to use modern teaching strategies.
Our Children’s Literature Under the Microscope
Authors: Atallah Salma
Published: July 2018

The literature of children is characterized by the privacy of adhesion to the name of the recipient, and by portraying ideas, feelings, experiences and imaginations that agree with their recognitions and reflect  their linguistic, intellectual and emotional level. Because literature is in this status of importance in our lives and the lives of our children, it was necessary to read in reality and visions, starting from some statistics and previews. We have found that it is relatively weak and few, and even suffers a crisis of existence, for many reasons, ranging from ideological to educational and academic. Factors include the tyranny of materialism and digital culture on Arabic human life, the breakdown of the linguistic power and the loss of identity, the outbreak of conflicts and wars, as well as the non-permanent presence of the favorable environment and the deviation of some educational approaches because of the lack of creative writers, and the association of this literature with non-free educational axes, the adoption of difficult models and curricula with topics that are consumed and sometimes denied, and the wrong approaches and methodologies that are limited to mere understanding, indoctrination and non-systematic explanation. The Arab countries must overcome individual initiatives and develop a comprehensive national and educational policy that reinforces the human sciences from the margin of life to its center, giving the Arabic language the necessary importance, activating the role of culture, securing the supportive environment, and developing malleable programs and methodologies that consider life issues, and the need for regularity of literature in a correct and good course by focusing on modern theories such as active, self-learning, differentiated and indirect, as well as modern monetary theories and communication, functional, interactive and logical trainings.
Psychometric Properties of Working Memory Test for Cycle Two (Grades 5-7) of Basic Education in Muscat Governorate in Oman
Authors: Albalushi Faiza G. , Almehirzi Rashid S. , Al Zubaidi Abdulqawi S.
Published: July 2018

The study aimed to develop a test to measure working memory for students in grades 5-7 in Basic Education and examine its psychometric properties. The study aimed also to develop the required norm scores for score interpretation. The sample consisted of 300 male and female students from grades  5, 6 and 7 in Muscat governorate. The validity of the working memory test was examined through face validity, construct validity, predictive validity and concurrent validity. The results supported the validity of the test. Confirmatory factor analysis showed the fit of data to the factorial structure of the working memory. In addition, the test showed high predictive validity of student achievement for several subjects. The reliability of the test was examined using Cronbach alpha reliability and test-retest reliability. Cronbach Alpha reliability ranged between 0.62 and 0.86 for the three grades. Similarly, test-retest reliability was between 0.35 and 0.75. The norm scores were computed using standardized scores and percentile ranks for each of the three subtests within each grade.
Grade Inflation: Analatical Study About the Grades of Shaqra University Students
Authors: Al Kaabnh Nayel O.
Published: July 2018

This study aimed at defining  grade inflation among  Shaqra University students. A number of 819 randomly chosen grade records of Shaqra University students enrolled between 2010- 2015, were analyzed. The results show the average of students who get high grades (including A+, A, B+) according to the grading system of the university. Meanwhile, the results show a decrease in the average number of students who got the grades B, C+. It has been also noticed that the average of the student who got the grades C, D+, D increased, whereas the average of those who got F decreased.The results of this study have shown also that the successional deviation for the percentage average of the students who got these grades A+, A, B+, B, C, D+, D, was positive, and negative for grades B, C+, F for the same period. Moreover, the results have shown a significant difference of (α=0.05)  for students who got these grades A+, A, B+, B, C+, D+, F. This lead to conclude that the percentage average for students getting high grades increase respectively resulted in grades inflation.
Constructing a Scale for Test Taking Strategies of Yarmouk Univer¬sity Students
Authors: Al Zubi Amal A.
Published: July 2018

The study aimed at constructing a valid and reliable scale to diagnose test-taking strategies used by students at Yarmouk University, and to investigate the effect of gender, achievement level, and college. To achieve these objectives a scale was developed with 40 items distributed across five domains. The validity was assessed using factor analysis and expert judgments, and the reliability was assessed by Cronbach alpha. The study findings were:  Student’s utilization of test-taking strategies were moderate. Also, there were statistically significant differences in test-taking strategies due to gender, achievement level, and college. The researcher recommended that more studies be conducted to identify the factors that stand behind the low level of student utilization of test-taking strategies.
Un análisis de la energía emocional en catas de vino (Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Authors: Palumbo Mariana
Published: July 2018

En este artículo describo y analizo, desde un abordaje cualitativo, el aumento de la energía emocional —bajo los términos de Randall Collins— durante la interacción que tiene lugar en catas de vino desarrolladas en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (Argentina). Estos eventos son un ámbito donde mujeres y varones cis heterosexuales, adultos/as, sin pareja y de sectores medios concurren para sociabilizar erótica y/o afectivamente. Las situaciones de interacción donde la energía emocional aumenta se registra luego de la tercera copa, a partir de la cual se observa un corrimiento del umbral de desinhibición.
The Effectiveness of Scientific Approach Using E-Module Based on Learning Cycle 7E to Improve Students’ Learning Outcome
Authors: Istunıngsıh Wahyu , Baedhowı Baedhowi , Bayu Sangka Khresna
Published: July 2018

The application of scientific ap-proach in the student-centred learning process requires the role of the teacher as a facilitator to support the creation of active learning by using a variety of media. One way to create such learning is to use e-module media based on learning cycle 7E. The purpose of this research was to find out the effectiveness of scientific approach by using e-module based on learning cycle 7E on high-school-students' learning outcomes. The research was an experimental research using one-group pretest-posttest pre-experimental design. This study used a sample of Mathematics and Science (MIA) students of Senior High Schools in Karanganyar Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling while the data-collection technique was using test, that are pre-test and post-test. The data test were then analysed using t-test (Independent Simple t-test) with SPSS 17.0. The results of the analysis showed that the application of scientific approach using E-Module based on learning cycle 7E is effective to use.
Intra-abdominal complications following intestinal anastomoses by suture and staple techniques in dogs
Authors: DePompeo Christine M. , Bond Laura , George Yelena E. , Mezzles Marguerite J. , Brourman Jeff D. , Chandler John C. , Murphy Sean M. , Pike Fred , Mason David R.
Published: July 2018

OBJECTIVE To compare the incidence of intra-abdominal complications in dogs following resection and functional end-to-end stapled anastomosis (FEESA) versus anastomosis with an end-to-end sutured technique for treatment of enteric lesions.

DESIGN Multicenter, retrospective descriptive cohort study.

ANIMALS 180 dogs.

PROCEDURES Medical records of dogs undergoing intestinal resection and anastomosis at 3 nonaffiliated private practice specialty centers were retrospectively reviewed. Preoperative clinical variables, indication for surgery, surgical technique (sutured end-to-end anastomosis vs FEESA), and evidence of postoperative anastomosis site leakage (dehiscence) were recorded. Variables of interest were analyzed for associations with dehiscence.

RESULTS Dehiscence rates of sutured and stapled anastomoses were 12 of 93 (13%) and 4 of 87 (5%), respectively; odds of postoperative dehiscence were significantly lower for dogs with FEESAs than for dogs with sutured anastomoses (OR, 0.28; 95% confidence interval, 0.09 to 0.94). Among dogs that underwent surgery for treatment of intestinal dehiscence after surgery at another facility, subsequent dehiscence developed in 3 of 5 with sutured anastomoses and 0 of 11 with stapled anastomoses. Dehiscence rates varied significantly among clinics. No other variable was associated with risk of dehiscence. Eleven of 16 dogs with dehiscence were euthanized without additional surgery. Impaction at the anastomosis site was identified months or years after surgery in 3 dogs (4 anastomosis sites) that had FEESAs.

CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE Odds for dehiscence were significantly greater for sutured end-to-end anastomoses than FEESAs, and dogs undergoing surgery for previous dehiscence were significantly more likely to experience a subsequent dehiscence with a sutured anastomosis. However, variability of procedure types and dehiscence rates among clinics suggested further research is needed to confirm these findings. Obstruction at the anastomosis site was identified as a potential long-term complication of FEESA.
Use of cystoscopic-guided laser ablation for treatment of unilateral ureterovesicular stenosis and secondary orthotopic ureterocele in a female dog
Authors: Auger Mylene , Bua Anne-Sophie , Carmel Éric Norman , Dunn Marilyn
Published: July 2018

CASE DESCRIPTION A 4-year-old spayed female Beagle was evaluated because of a 2-month history of intermittent pollakiuria, stranguria, dysuria, and abdominal pain. A diagnosis of bacterial cystitis was initially made, but clinical signs persisted despite appropriate antimicrobial treatment, so the dog was referred for further evaluation and treatment.

CLINICAL FINDINGS Abdominal ultrasonography revealed a large, thin-walled, cystic structure in the urinary bladder at the level of the expected right ureterovesicular junction that communicated with the uniformly dilated right ureter. Severe right-sided pyelectasia was also detected. A presumptive diagnosis was made of a right-sided orthotopic ureterocele with secondary hydroureter and pyelectasia.

TREATMENT AND OUTCOME Cystoscopy revealed a large cystic structure in the region of the right ureterovesicular junction without obvious communication between the ureter and urinary bladder. Portable C-arm fluoroscopy was used to confirm the presence of an intramural orthotopic tract and to measure the diameter of the ureter and renal pelvis via retrograde contrast ureteropyelography. Complete laser ablation of the ureterocele was performed by incising it circumferentially near its base. Clinical signs resolved immediately following the procedure. Six weeks later, the dog remained free of clinical signs and abdominal ultrasonography revealed resolution of hydroureter with persistence of mild right-sided pyelectasia.

CLINICAL RELEVANCE Cystoscopic-guided laser ablation of an orthotopic ureterocele secondary to ureterovesicular stenosis was a safe and effective minimally invasive treatment for the dog of this report, resulting in immediate and continued improvement of clinical signs and ultrasonographic changes. Laser ablation should be considered as an alternative to surgery for the treatment of orthotopic ureteroceles in dogs.
US Presidents: Personal Dimension
Authors: Yengibaryan R. V.
Published: July 2018

Introduction. The personality of any US president due to his enormous constitutional authority and the place in the government structure of the country has always been considered extremely significant, even if in reality he did not quite measure up to the high moral and political criteria that both voters and the international community wanted him to meet.

Materials and methods. Various scientific methods such as comparative-legal, systemic and a number of others form the methodological and research basis of the article.

Results of the study. The US President, who is also the head of the Federal Government, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and the US Navy is not only the first executive person of the country, but also the leader of one of the two leading political parties with enormous political and moral impact on the whole country, and the entire world community. During his term in office as President of the United States, all America and the whole world watch him on television, read and hear about him almost daily. To some extent he sets standards for men’s official fashion and behavior in society and in the family, he is a epitome of virtue and justice. How successful he is in this capacity is another question, but the fact is that the world community discusses his actions, words and behavior, wants to be like him or, on the contrary, criticizes him and does not agree with him, and this is an undeniable fact.

Discussion and conclusion. With the date of the next presidential elections approaching and especially in the midst of the presidential campaign a large number of popular scientific and other publications are published in the United States and around the world on the institution of the US Presidency, its amazing stability and the ability to effectively lead the most dynamic branch of the three powers provided by the US Constitution the executive power.
On the necessity of improving legislative technique (evidence of Federal Act no. 54-FZ of June 19, 2004 “On meetings, rallies, demonstrations, marches and picketing”)
Authors: Gagloev D. V.
Published: July 2018

Introduction. The article considers an important issue of the modern institute of public events the ambiguous understanding of a number of definitive provisions of Federal Act No. 54-FZ of June 19, 2004 “On meetings, rallies, marches, demonstrations and pickets”

Materials and methods. The methodological basis of the work is a number of general and specific scientific methods of cognition. The formal legal and logical method is of particular importance for the achievement of the goal.

Results. The federal law under consideration, which is the main subject of research,fulfilsthe most important legal function – it concretizes the provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The complexity of clarifying and correctly perceiving the letter of the lawsignificantlycomplicates both thescientificand theoretical comprehension of a number of its provisions and introduces verysignificantshortcomings into law enforcement practice and into the practice of realization by citizens of the Russian Federation of their constitutional rights to organize and participate in public events. In this regard, thedefinitiveapparatus needs to be substantially refined.

Discussion and Conclusion. The problem addressed in the study has been the “generic” feature of the institution of public events for many decades. For example, it is interesting, for example, that the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR No. 9306-11 of 28.07.1988 “On the Procedure for Organizing and Conducting Meetings, Street Processions and Demonstrations in the USSR” did not clearly delineate such concepts as rally or picketing, procession or demonstration either. Misunderstanding the specifics of a particular form of public event local government bodies often suggested that the organizers and citizens hold a meeting instead of, say, a rally, or a procession instead of demonstration assuring people that there was nothing terrible in such a replacement. At the same time in practice there were cases when law enforcement officers, when making decisions on cases of violations of public order during mass events, referred not to the norms of the existing substantive law, but to the Ozhegov Russian language dictionary.
Genesis and progression of obligations, arising from unjust enrichment: comparative law research
Authors: Ivanchak A. I. , Kupreenkova A. A.
Published: July 2018

Introduction. The article presents a comparative legal analysis of the genesis of the institution of obligations arising from unjust enrichment in countries belonging to different legal families. English and American law as vivid examples of the precedent system of law were chosen for comparison. The comparative research revealed the general and special features of the institution under study, as well as the trends in its functioning and development.

Materials and methods. The methodological basis of the research consists of the general scientific and special methods of cognition of legal phenomena and processes in the sphere of international private law: the method of the system-structural analysis; the method of synthesis of social and legal phenomena; the comparative legal method; the formal-logical method; the historical method and others.

Results of the study. The results of the research revealed that the institution of obligations arising from unfounded enrichment was embodied in the 20th century in the laws of Russia, the UK and the USA, but still remains at the stage of active development. Formation of the unjust enrichment institution was based in the named countries on the same

principles borrowed from Roman law. This approach made a basis for uniformity in the definition of the concept and the actual composition of the unjust enrichment institution. A significant difference in functioning of the unjust enrichment institution was revealed in the mechanism of rights protection.

Discussion and conclusion. The institution of obligations arising from the unjust enrichment is a unique institute of civil law that provides for the fullest realization of a person’s right to protection. This legal institution continues to develop, to which the study of its genesis and a foreign experience contributes immensely.
Competence approach to the implementation of additional professional education programs for state civil servants
Authors: Mastushkin M. Yu.
Published: July 2018

Introduction. The article deals with the implementation of effective programs for additional professional education of state civil servants, carried out in accordance with the list of priority areas for additional professional education of federal state civil servants, and also within the framework of the state order. The peculiarity of the implementation of such programs is the need to ensure compliance with the general list of training program themes approved by a specially authorized state body and to provide certain educational results through the application of the competence approach.

Materials and methods. Practical materials are used for the implementation of additional professional education programs implemented at the MGIMO in 2012-2015 on the order of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation. The theoretical basis for the study is general scientific and special methods, such as the dialectical and formal-logical method, as well as comparative analysis and synthesis.

Results of the study. Based on the analysis of applicable normative legal acts, as well as the experience of implementing specific educational programs, it is shown that one of the main approaches to their implementation is a competence approach that allows integrating the requirements to the level of qualification (competence) of a civil servant into the state training programs, implemented by the leading universities of the country. The use of the competence approach also allows coordinating the educational results of various types of training programs with the requirements of their initiators and employers.

Discussion and conclusion. As a result of the analysis, it is concluded that there is a need for a systematic approach to the implementation of various types of supplementary professional education programs for federal state civil servants based on the creation of unified program descriptors as well as on lists of the competencies of civil servants, which makes it possible to coordinate the content of programs and requirements for their educational results.
Exploring government internet financial reporting in Indonesia
Authors: Diptyana Pepie , Rokhmania Nur'aini
Published: July 2018

Government financial reporting as public accountability and transparency is important. Previous research show that almost all local government in Indonesia have their official website, which is active use as presenting news, local potentials, and local government services. Unfortunately, there are still limited local governments which are disclose their financial information as well as budgeting reports and financial statements on their websites. This research aims to explore whether political competition, local asset, local dependency, population density, and information openness award have influenced IFR practice in government in Indonesia. We investigate financial report and budget report as of internet financial reporting (IFR) data of 32 provincial government websites. Indonesia consists of 34 provinces, which are 32 provincial websites consistently accessible and use as sample in this research. The empirical results show that local dependency toward central government and Information Openness Award positively significant influence IFR practices in provincial level in Indonesia. There is no significant influenced of political competition, local asset and population density to IFR in Indonesia Provinces website. Our research contribution is to extend previous research by concerning Information Openness Award as independent variable which influenced to IFR practice in local government.