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PENGEMBANGAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN PRAKTIK BERBASIS KOMPETENSI BERORIENTASI PRODUKSI
Authors: Mursid R.
Published: February 2017

Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan model pembelajaran praktik berbasis kom- petensi berorientasi produksi yang layak digunakan dalam pembelajaran praktik dan efektif dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar mahasiswa pada mata kuliah teknologi permesinan. Hasil penelitian dan pengembangan menunjukkan bahwa (1) model pembelajaran dapat meningkatkan kompetensi mahasiswa yang berorientasi produksi; (2) model pembelajaran tersebut efektif dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar pada pembelajaran praktik; (3) model pembelajaran tersebut dapat menciptakan iklim belajar yang memposisikan mahasiswa sebagai centre learning dengan segala aktivitas yang dilakukannya, memotivasi belajar mahasiswa melalui ide-ide yang konstruktif, mendorong dan membangkitkan keberanian belajar dan bekerja yang didasari komitmen yang tinggi dan berdisiplin, meningkatkan kecepatan belajar, motivasi belajar, semangat belajar, kerja sama kelompok, kreatifitas, dan inovasi. Kata Kunci: model pembelajaran praktik, berbasis kompetensi, orientasi produksi DEVELOPMENT OF PRACTICE LEARNING MODEL COMPETENCY-BASED ORIENTED PRODUCTION Abstract:This research aims to develop practice learning model competency-based production oriented which is fit for use in teaching practice and effective can improve student learning outcomes on subjects machining technology. Results of research and development show that (1) the instructional can improve student competency-oriented production; (2) the instructional model can effectively improve learning outcomes in practice learning; (3) the learning modelcan be; create a learning climate which is positioning as a student learning center with all the activities done, motivate students to learn through constructive ideas, facilitate and encourage the willness to learn and work which is based on a strong commitment and disciplined, increase the speed of learning, motivation to learn, enthusiasm for learning, teamwork, creativity, and innovation. Keywords: models of practice learning, competency-based, orientation of production
UPAYA PENINGKATAN KECERDASAN EMOSI SISWA SEKOLAH DASAR MELALUI PENDIDIKAN JASMANI HARMONI
Authors: R. Rustiana Eunike
Published: February 2017

Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendapatkan bukti bahwa Pendidikan Jasmani Harmoni efektif meningkatkan kecerdasan emosi siswa SD. Penelitian ini berdasar pada teori kognitif sosial dari Bandura. Materi Penjas Harmoni terdiri atas permainan, olahraga, dan tarian masal (tari Saman). Subjek penelitian adalah siswa kelas V enam SDN yang berbeda, dengan tiga kelas sebagai kelompok intervensi yang diajar penjas Harmoni, dan tiga kelas sebagai kelompok kontrol yang diajar penjas reguler. Perlakuan berlangsung selama 14 kali pertemuan. Kecerdasan emosi diukur sebelum dan sesudah perlakuan dengan Skala Perasaan modifikasi dari Bar-On EQ inventory. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan nbahwa Penjas Harmoni efektif meningkatkan kecerdasan emosi siswa SD, yaitu kecakapan intrapersonal, interpersonal, penyesuaian diri, pengelolaan stres, dan sikap positif. Tidak ada pengaruh jenis kelamin, namun ada pengaruh bersama antara tingkat akreditasi sekolah dan jenis perlakuan terhadap peningkatan kecerdasan emosi. Penjas Harmoni disarankan untuk dipakai guruguru penjas SD di Semarang guna melengkapi KTSP 2006. Kata Kunci: Pendidikan Jasmani Harmoni, kecerdasan emosiEFFORTS TO INCREASE THE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS THROUGH HARMONY PHYSICAL EDUCATIONAbstract: This study is aimed to ascertain the effectiveness of Harmony Physical Education (HPE) program to increase primary school students’ emotional intelligence (EI). This study is based on Bandura’s social cognitive theory, The material of HPE is consist of games, sports, and group dance(Saman Dance). The subjects of the study were fifth grade students from different Public Elementary Schools. They were randomly assigned into control group (three classrooms) who received regular PE program, and intervention group (another three classrooms) who received HPE program. The treatment was conducted in 14 weeks. Emotional intelligence was assessed before and after the treatment using Emotional Scale that was modified from Bar-On EQ inventory. The results show that HPE Program is effective in increasing primary school students’ Emotional Intelegency which consists of intrapersonal, interpersonal, self adjustment, stress management, and positive attitudes. There were no gender role, but there is a relation between school acreditation level and the treatment used towards the improvement of emotional intelegency. Harmony Physical Education is recommended to be used by teachers in semarang as a supplement for KTSP 2006Keywords: harmony physical education, emotional intelligence
Corporate governance listing requirements: protecting investors from fraudulent financial reporting
Authors: Aljifri Khaled , Grove Hugh , Victoravich Lisa
Published: February 2017

This paper analyzes the corporate governance listing requirements of major global stock exchanges to assess the level of investor protection from investment disasters, such as corporate fraudulent financial reporting (e.g. Enron, Lehman Brothers, Satyam, and Parmalat) and the 2008 financial crisis which destroyed over $1 trillion in market capitalization of U.S. companies. This investor protection issue is especially critical for emerging stock exchanges that are trying to attract foreign investors, such as in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Russia. This issue is assessed by comparing the corporate governance listing requirements of the well-established stock exchanges in the United States (both the New York Stock Exchange or NYSE and the over-the-counter-stock-exchange or NASDAQ), United Kingdom (London), and Singapore to the listing requirements of the emerging stock exchanges in the UAE and Russia. The effectiveness of these corporate governance listing requirements in protecting investors is assessed by determining how they address ten common corporate governance factors which represent lessons learned from recent fraudulent financial reporting scandals. These ten factors have been divided into two groups of five. The first five common factors were the same ones found in a 2010 Commission on Corporate Governance report, sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange, to investigate the 2008 financial crisis. This paper has called them “structural” factors and labelled the other five common factors as “behavioral” factors. The global listing requirement comparisons reveal that investors seem to be quite well protected from the five “structural” factors but not the five “behavioral” factors. The paper concludes with listing requirement suggestions to protect investors from these five “behavioral” factors. Investor protection from all ten factors is still needed as recent U.S. and global surveys have indicated that financial reporting manipulations are ongoing
The Cross-Sectional Area of Paraspinal Muscles Predicts the Efficacy of Deep Brain Stimulation for Camptocormia
Authors: Sakai Waka , Nakane Shunya , Urasaki Eiichirou , Toyoda Keisuke , Sadakata Eisaku , Nagaishi Akiko , Fukudome Takayasu , Yamakawa Yuzo , Matsuo Hidenori
Published: January 2017

Background: Camptocormia, a disturbance of posture, is a well-described clinical feature of PD and other parkinsonian syndromes. Previous reports have shown that DBS of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) or globus pallidus internus is effective in treating camptocormia. However, the efficacy of DBS for camptocormia varies.

Objective: To determine a clinical marker for selecting an appropriate therapy for camptocormia, a disabling manifestation of Parkinson’s disease (PD) that has a variable response to systemic and local therapies.

Methods: We obtained pre-operative lumbar magnetic resonance imaging of 14 consecutive PD patients with camptocormia who underwent subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) in this retrospective-designed study. Lumbar MRI was performed three to six months prior to the operation. We measured the cross-sectional area (CSA) and width of each participant’s paraspinal muscles.

Results: Four (28.6%) patients were effective (EF), five (35.7%) were partially effective (PE), and five (35.7%) were non-effective (NE) to STN-DBS. The lumbar paraspinal CSA and width were significantly larger in the EF group than in the PE and NE groups.

Conclusions: The CSA of paraspinal muscles and erector spinae width can be good predictive markers for improving camptocormia in patients with PD after deep brain stimulation.
Objective Colonic Dysfunction is Far more Prevalent than Subjective Constipation in Parkinson’s Disease: A Colon Transit and Volume Study
Authors: Knudsen Karoline , Fedorova Tatyana D. , Bekker Anne C. , Iversen Peter , Østergaard Karen , Krogh Klaus , Borghammer Per
Published: January 2017

Background: Gastrointestinal function has received increased interest in the context of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Constipation is among the most frequent non-motor symptoms, but our understanding of the underlying pathology is limited. Subjective constipation correlates poorly with objective markers.

Objective: The aims were to evaluate colonic transit time and volume in PD and to correlate these measures with subjective symptoms and gastric emptying.

Methods: Thirty-two PD patients and 26 controls were included. Colonic transit time, computed tomography-based volume estimation, and gastric emptying were performed as objective markers of gastrointestinal function. Subjective gastrointestinal symptoms were evaluated by three different questionnaires.

Results: Seventy-nine percent of PD patients displayed prolonged colonic transit time ( p < 0.0001) and 66% of patients had significantly increased colonic volume ( p = 0.0002). Particularly the transverse and rectosigmoid segments were affected. There was no difference in gastric emptying time between groups. The prevalence of subjective constipation in PD patients was significantly lower and ranged from 3% to 38% depending on the type of questionnaire.

Conclusions: Significantly delayed colonic transit time and increased volume were frequent findings in PD patients, and objective dysfunction was considerably more prevalent than subjective constipation symptoms. Also, the prevalence of subjective constipation varied widely depending upon which questionnaire was employed. These findings highlight the need for more research on how to define constipation in PD and also the need for improved understanding of the relationship between subjective symptoms and objective dysfunction.
Rapid diagnostics of urinary iodine using a portable EDXRF spectrometer
Authors: Mikhailov I.F. , Baturin A.A. , Mikhailov A.I. , Borisova S.S. , Reshetnyak M.V. , Galata D.I.
Published: January 2017

A method for urinary iodine diagnostics using a portable energy-dispersion X-ray fluorescent (EDXRF) spectrometer is proposed. The principle of the method consists in excitation of the sample atoms fluorescence by the energy spectrum intentionally formed from the spectrum of an X-ray tube using an optimized X-ray scheme. The optimization by the criterion of the minimum detection limit for L-series iodine fluorescence lines included the calculation of optimal atomic numbers for materials of a re-radiator and a filter, and their thicknesses, the collimation system parameters, and an X-ray tube voltage. Experimentally achieved detection limits were 45 and 75 μg/L by I- Lα and I- Lβ lines, respectively, at the theoretically extreme value 30 μg/L. This sensitivity is found to be sufficient for urinary iodine diagnostics in the range from 50 to 200 μg/L. The results obtained from different patients have shown the satisfactory convergence for the iodine concentration determination by Lα and I- Lβ fluorescence lines. The simple sample preparation procedure and comparably small sizes of the apparatus allows rapid researches directly in clinical settings.
BPF-type region-of-interest reconstruction for parallel translational computed tomography
Authors: Wu Weiwen , Yu Hengyong , Wang Shaoyu , Liu Fenglin
Published: January 2017

The objective of this study is to present and test a new ultra-low-cost linear scan based tomography architecture. Similar to linear tomosynthesis, the source and detector are translated in opposite directions and the data acquisition system targets on a region-of-interest (ROI) to acquire data for image reconstruction. This kind of tomographic architecture was named parallel translational computed tomography (PTCT). In previous studies, filtered backprojection (FBP)-type algorithms were developed to reconstruct images from PTCT. However, the reconstructed ROI images from truncated projections have severe truncation artefact. In order to overcome this limitation, we in this study proposed two backprojection filtering (BPF)-type algorithms named MP-BPF and MZ-BPF to reconstruct ROI images from truncated PTCT data. A weight function is constructed to deal with data redundancy for multi-linear translations modes. Extensive numerical simulations are performed to evaluate the proposed MP-BPF and MZ-BPF algorithms for PTCT in fan-beam geometry. Qualitative and quantitative results demonstrate that the proposed BPF-type algorithms cannot only more accurately reconstruct ROI images from truncated projections but also generate high-quality images for the entire image support in some circumstances.
Response of Medium and Long Duration Boro Rice Variety (Oryza sativa L.) to Nitrogen Fertilizer
Authors: Khatun Amina , Quais M K , Begum A A , Saleque M A , Bhuiya M S U
Published: February 2017

A field experiment was conducted during November 2009-April 2010 in Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, Bangladesh to examine the response of two rice (Oryza sativa L.) varieties (BRRIdhan28 and BRRI dhan29) to six N rates of nitrogen fertilizer viz. 0, 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250 kg ha-1. The experiment was conducted in a RCB design with three replications. Grain yields of both BRRI dhan28 and BRRI dhan29 increased significantly in a quadratic fashion with N rates. The highest grain yields were obtained from 150 kg N ha-1 in both the varieties. More than 1 t ha-1 yield was obtained in BRRI dhan29 (6.34 t ha-1) at the same rate of N indicated BRRI dhan29 as a nitrogen efficient variety. However, the predicted economic optimum doses of N appeared to be 156 and 158 kg ha-1 for BRRI dhan28 and BRRI dhan29, respectively. The grain yield was mainly influenced by the number of panicles per hill, which was found to increase with the increase of N rates in both the varieties. The Agriculturists 2016; 14(2) 48-60
Le piégeage lumineux, moyen d'approche de la faune entomologique d'un grand fleuve (Ephéméroptères, en particulier)
Authors: Fontaine Josette
Published: January 2017

Trois types de pièges lumineux, utilisés en particulier pour l'étude des Ephéméroptères, sont décrits. Tous sont équipés d'une lampe émettant des radiations ultra¬ violettes et visibles, d'un dispositif servant à canaliser les insectes attirés vers une chambre de capture contenant un bac à eau servant à récupérer les pontes éventuelles des femelles.

La température de l'eau et de l'air, la vitesse et la direction du vent, l'hygrométrie et la pression barométrique sont enregistrées afin de permettre l'interprétation des résultats, très influencés par les conditions météorologiques.

Une campagne de piègeage a été particulièrement menée sur le Rhône à Lyon, depuis 1958 jusqu'à nos jours. Les résultats en cours de dépouillement montrent que le piègeage lumineux est une méthode intéressante d'approche de la faune entomologique d'un grand fleuve.
Years of Experience as a Predictor of Nurse Faculty Technology Use
Authors: Kotcherlakota Suhasini , Kupzyk Kevin A. , Rejda Patrick
Published: January 2017

Background:

Many nurse educators are reluctant toward technology changes and view it as a burden. An emerging crisis factor among nursing colleges is the average age of faculty members being older than 51 years. The purpose of this study is to describe nurse faculty preferences about the use of technologies and to examine relationships between their preferences and years of experience.

Method:

One hundred eighteen faculty members from a midwestern U.S. nursing college participated in national studies on faculty technology use across 2 years.

Results:

The study results indicated negative relationships between years of faculty experience and attitudes toward the value of obtaining increased skills for technology integration within the curriculum. Newer faculty were more likely than experienced faculty to have positive attitudes for increased technology use and adoption.

Conclusion:

Providing faculty with opportunities to foster innovative integration of technology is encouraged. Future research is needed to explore links between faculty experience, age, and attitudes toward technology adoption. [
J Nurs Educ.
2017;56(2):115–119.]
Quality Concerns for Success of Vocational Education Programme
Authors: Veeraiah P.
Published: January 2017

Education is an important human activity. It was born with the birth of the human race and shall continue to function as long as the human race lives. It is an essential for human virtue. Human becomes 'human' through education. It has been rightly said that without education, human is a splendid slave, reasoning savage. Education is fashions and models of human for society. Human cannot be conceived merely in terms of his/her biological existence. Education brings into focus the social aspect of human. It signifies human's supreme position in the society. It brings about the integration of these separate entities. It teaches what human lives and struggles for. It cultivates an integrated life. Education is a sign of superiority. Education is an essential basis of good life. Man/women become a human being in the real sense when he/she is transformed from primarily an animal being into a human being. It improves the value of humanity in the society. This chapter therefore discussed quality concerns for success of vocational education programmes in developing countries. The chapter also presented transactional methodology for teaching the vocational subjects, listed out challenges for effective teachers training, analyzed the need for competency based skill training and evaluated the process of instructional systems design for testing the vocational education teacher's performance.
Characterization and Multi-Response Morphological Optimization for Preparation of Defect-Free Electrospun Nanofibers Using the Taguchi Method
Authors: Ramis Jopeth M. , Pajarito Bryan B. , Deocaris Custer C.
Published: January 2017

The study presents a method on producing defect-free polyvinyl alcohol-gelatin (PVAG) nanofibers by considering multiple morphological characteristics of the produced nanofibers using the Taguchi method. Aside from minimizing the average fiber diameter, the method was also used to produce consistent, monodispersed PVAG nanofibers without the usual defects of beading and splattering. The experiments are performed considering the effect of polymer composition (PVAG ratio and solvent ratio of water, formic acid, and acetic acid H2O:FA:HAc) and process factors (tip-to-collector distance TCD and solution flow rate) on fiber morphology. Fiber morphology is measured in terms of 4 responses: average fiber diameter, standard deviation of fiber diameter, occurrence of beading, and occurrence of splattering. Results show that maximum overall desirability for electrospinning PVAG nanofibers at smallest average diameter and deviation (26.10 ± 9.88 nm) with chance of moderate beading and zero splattering is predicted at PVAG mass ratio of 6.5:3.5, H2O:FA:HAc solvent volume ratio of 4:4:2, TCD of 12.5 cm, and flow rate of 1 ml h-1. Results of confirmatory run agree with the predicted factor levels at maximum desirability, with average fiber diameter and standard deviation measured to be 26.95 ± 6.39 nm. PVAG nanofibers of the confirmatory run are also both bead-and splatter-free. Results suggest the application of Taguchi method can offer a robust and rapid approach in deriving the conditions for production of new and high-quality PVAG nanofibers for tissue engineering scaffolds.
The Effect of Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) in Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Reconstruction Surgery
Authors: Utomo Dwikora Novembri , Purwati  , Tinduh Damayanti , Wibowo Nanang Hari
Published: January 2017

A torn in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) caused by interference with the proprioceptive function of the knee joint can result in decreased function and other joint structure degradation that ultimately affect to daily activities. Platelet rich plasma (PRP) is widely used in recent studies to improve the healing of soft tissue injuries because it contains a lot of growth factor. This study was to determine the effect of platelet rich plasma in ACL reconstruction surgery. ACL reconstruction patients either with or without PRP were evaluated with Joint Position Sense (JPS) and Threshold To Detection of Passive Motion (TTDPM) measurements and the results were compared. From this study found 20 patients who had ACL reconstruction performed either with or without PRP. The test results showed statistically significant differences JPS in patients with ACL reconstruction who given PRP and not, at angle of 30˚ (p=0,037) and 45˚ (p=0,034). It also obtained a non-significant difference TTDPM in both groups (p=0,172). The conclusion obtained in this study is the addition of platelet rich plasma in patients with ACL reconstruction of knee joint can improve the function of JPS at an angle of 30˚ and 45˚, while the function of TTDPM is not increased significantly.
Normative Data for the NeuroCom Sensory Organization Test in US Military Special Operations Forces
Authors: Pletcher Erin R. , Williams Valerie J. , Abt John P. , Morgan Paul M. , Parr Jeffrey J. , Wohleber Meleesa F. , Lovalekar Mita , Sell Timothy C.
Published: January 2017

Context:

Postural stability is the ability to control the center of mass in relation to a person's base of support and can be affected by both musculoskeletal injury and traumatic brain injury. The NeuroCom Sensory Organization Test (SOT) can be used to objectively quantify impairments to postural stability. The ability of postural stability to predict injury and be used as an acute injury-evaluation tool makes it essential to the screening and rehabilitation process. To our knowledge, no published normative data for the SOT from a healthy, highly active population are available for use as a reference for clinical decision making.

Objective:

To present a normative database of SOT scores from a US Military Special Operations population that can be used for future comparison.

Design:

Cross-sectional study.

Setting:

Human performance research laboratory.

Patients or Other Participants:

A total of 542 active military operators from Naval Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen (n = 149), Naval Special Warfare Command, Sea, Air, and Land (n = 101), US Army Special Operations Command (n = 171), and Air Force Special Operations Command (n = 121).

Main Outcome Measure(s):

Participants performed each of the 6 SOT conditions 3 times. Scores for each condition, total equilibrium composite score, and ratio scores for the somatosensory, visual, and vestibular systems were recorded.

Results:

Differences were present across all groups for SOT conditions 1 (P < .001), 2 (P = .001), 4 (P > .001), 5 (P > .001), and 6 (P = .001) and total equilibrium composite (P = .000), visual (P > .001), vestibular (P = .002), and preference (P > .001) NeuroCom scores.

Conclusions:

Statistical differences were evident in the distribution of postural stability across US Special Operations Forces personnel. This normative database for postural stability, as assessed by the NeuroCom SOT, can provide context when clinicians assess a Special Operations Forces population or any other groups that maintain a high level of conditioning and training.
Estimating Burdens of Neglected Tropical Zoonotic Diseases on Islands with Introduced Mammals
Authors: de Wit Luz A. , Croll Donald A. , Tershy Bernie , Newton Kelly M. , Spatz Dena R. , Holmes Nick D. , Kilpatrick A. Marm
Published: January 2017

Many neglected tropical zoonotic pathogens are maintained by introduced mammals, and on islands the most common introduced species are rodents, cats, and dogs. Management of introduced mammals, including control or eradication of feral populations, which is frequently done for ecological restoration, could also reduce or eliminate the pathogens these animals carry. Understanding the burden of these zoonotic diseases is crucial for quantifying the potential public health benefits of introduced mammal management. However, epidemiological data are only available from a small subset of islands where these introduced mammals co-occur with people. We examined socioeconomic and climatic variables as predictors for disease burdens of angiostrongyliasis, leptospirosis, toxoplasmosis, toxocariasis, and rabies from 57 islands or island countries. We found strong correlates of disease burden for leptospirosis, Toxoplasma gondii infection, angiostrongyliasis, and toxocariasis with more than 50% of the variance explained, and an average of 57% (range = 32–95%) predictive accuracy on out-of-sample data. We used these relationships to provide estimates of leptospirosis incidence and T. gondii seroprevalence infection on islands where nonnative rodents and cats are present. These predicted estimates of disease burden could be used in an initial assessment of whether the costs of managing introduced mammal reservoirs might be less than the costs of perpetual treatment of these diseases on islands.
Epidemiological Investigation of a Diarrhea Outbreak in the South Pacific Island Nation of Tuvalu During a Severe La Niña–Associated Drought Emergency in 2011
Authors: Emont Jordan P. , Ko Albert I. , Homasi-Paelate Avanoa , Ituaso-Conway Nese , Nilles Eric J.
Published: January 2017

The association between heavy rainfall and an increased risk of diarrhea has been well established but less is known about the effect of drought on diarrhea transmission. In 2011, the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu experienced a concurrent severe La Niña–associated drought and large diarrhea outbreak. We conducted a field investigation in Tuvalu to identify factors that contributed to epidemic transmission in the context of a drought emergency. Peak case numbers coincided with the nadir of recorded monthly rainfall, the lowest recorded since 1930. Independent factors associated with increased risk of diarrhea were households with water tank levels below 20% (odds ratio [OR] = 2.31; 95% confidence interval = 1.16–4.60) and decreased handwashing frequency (OR = 3.00 [1.48–6.08]). The resolution of the outbreak occurred after implementation of a hygiene promotion campaign, despite persistent drought and limited water access. These findings are potentially important given projections that future climate change will cause more frequent and severe droughts.
Solar panels in Brazil: a feasible public policy
Authors: Pissaia de Souza Henrique
Published: January 2017

Brazil has a huge area with constant and long solar exposition. The country is already facing some energy bottlenecks and need to expand its energy matrix. In this context the implementation of photovoltaic solar panels, in houses’ rooftops, is a viable initiative that should be encouraged by government. This paper proposes a public policy intervention to incentive the use of photovoltaic solar panels. It provides an analysis of Brazilian background, further consumption and planning, the policy intervention, the needed tools, political feasibility and implementation. The logic model will be used showing the main inputs, activities and results. The data was collected from official sources. The main limitation is the missing mathematical approach in the cost-benefit analysis that can be extended in the future. The paper presents a new approach to the energetic problem in Brazil and shows that the proposal is feasible with some goodwill from authorities.
Editorial — O Direito Transnacional: Circulação de normas e relações jurídicas transnacionais
Authors: De Andrade Priscila Pereira
Published: February 2017

Editorial — O Direito Transnacional: Circulação de normas e relações jurídicas transnacionais
From English to Chinese, Japanese, and Russian: extending research visibility with language translations of a conference slide presentation
Authors: Hoffecker Lilian , Abbey Dana
Published: January 2017

Objective: The research demonstrates that a conference slide presentation translated into non-English languages reaches significantly larger and different audiences than an English presentation alone.Methods: The slides of a presentation from the Medical Library Association annual meeting were translated from English to Chinese, Japanese, and Russian and posted along with the English version to SlideShare, an open slide-hosting website. View counts, traffic sources, and geographic origins of the traffic for each language version were tracked over a twenty-two-month period.Results: Total view counts for all 4 language versions amounted to 3,357 views, with the Chinese version accounting for 71% of the total views. The trends in view counts over time for the Japanese, Russian, and English versions were similar, with high interest at the beginning and a rapid drop and low level of viewing activity thereafter. The pattern of view counts for the Chinese version departed considerably from the other language versions, with very low activity at the beginning but a sharp rise 10 months later. This increase in activity was related to access to the presentations via a Taiwanese website that embedded the SlideShare website code.Conclusions: Language translation can be a difficult and time-consuming task. However, translation of a conference slide presentation with limited text is an achievable activity and engages an international audience for information that is often not noticed or lost. Although English is by far the primary language of science and other disciplines, it is not necessarily the first or preferred language of global researchers. By offering appropriate language versions, the authors of presentations can expand the reach of their work.
Marketing for Special and Academic Libraries: A Planning and Best Practices Sourcebook
Authors: Simonson Marian T.
Published: January 2017

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Sub Specie Aeternitatis. An Actualisation of Wittgenstein on Ethics and Aesthetics
Authors: Varga Somogy
Published: January 2017

This article will present an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s understanding of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics. In extension, it will inform recent discussions regarding a special kind of nonsensicality, which forms a central part of ethical and aesthetical expressions. Instead of identity between ethics and aesthetics, we should understand the relationship in terms of interdependence. Both attitudes provide a view sub specie aeternitatis and thus permit a view of the world as a whole. Employing the vocabulary of Charles Taylor and Harry Frankfurt, it must be remembered that rather than a neutral view from nowhere, such wholeness arises out of strong evaluations that are made against the backdrop of a constitutive framework of intelligibility. At this point, the epistemic gain of actualizing Wittgenstein will reveal itself: it will put us in a position where it is possible to differentiate between ethical and aesthetical forms of identification that Taylor and Frankfurt neglect. However, in order to actualize Wittgenstein’s ideas, it is necessary to argue that Tractatus should not be understood in a Kantian fashion as suggested by Tilghman for instance.
Light and the Aesthetics of Perception
Authors: Volf Carlo
Published: January 2017

Light seems to be a very changeable size in our build environment. Being an immaterial building stone, light takes a very liquid shape in our design-vocabulary. It consists of an invisible material – photons – and therefore it takes no specific form in itself but is only articulated through the meeting with form. Therefore, since form has been the major theme for the aesthetics up until now, giving form to light is a complex and challenging task and reducing it to Lux and measurable numbers only an escape from facing what is actually perceived. In this way light seems to suffer from what can be called the dichotomy between the aesthetics of the objects and the aesthetics of the perception – as stated by Boehme. To improve practice this article conducts a study of our perception, focusing more on the effects of light and less on the physical light (lux). By doing so the article tries to give a better understanding of the differences of the regional lighting cultures and the influences creating the differences. The article tries to establish a link between the regional daylight and the use of artificial lighting, showing that daylight, as a background, along with our perception, are determinant factors for how the artificial lighting and the brightness of the room is perceived. The articlehereby suggests that light is not an absolute factor. This means the end of the dichotomy between daylight and artificial light – often expressed by artificial light replacing daylight – instead this article tries to establish a dialogue between the daylight and the artificial lighting. The article describes how light – this intangible building block – can become a more workable size in the aesthetic and architectural practice of today.
An Ethically Nonindifferent Aesthetics. An Interview with Mieke Bal
Authors: Lund Jacob
Published: January 2017

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The Liquidation of Art in Contemporary Art
Authors: Bergande Wolfram
Published: January 2017

In this paper, the concept of liquidation (Verflüssigung) from the chapter on Self-consciousness in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit is reconstructed and then used to deconstruct the systematic transition from sculpture to painting in the passage on the “System of the individual arts” in G.W.F. Hegel’s Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art. The aim is to show that such a deconstructed version of Hegel’s art philosophy provides a valid conceptual framework for the analysis of modern, particularly postmodern and contemporary art, which results as liquid or liquidated art. Damien Hirst’s For the Love of God is discussed as major evidence for the concomitant neo-Hegelian claim that modern art has discursive reflection as its necessary supplement.
A Nightmare on the Brains of the Living: Repeating the Past and Imagining a Future
Authors: Rasmussen Mikkel Bolt
Published: January 2017

In a historical situation characterised by crisis, wars and widespread protests the question of the relationship between past Left-revolutionary endeavours and present political challenges is of utmost importance for the possibility of mounting an anti-systemic challenge to capitalism. T. J. Clark’s essay ‘For a Left with No Future’ argues that the future-oriented stance of the 19th and 20th Century Left turned the Left into a disastrous dobbel- gänger of capitalist modernity causing havoc and death instead of being a genuine opposition to capitalism. The great refusals have to be replaced with a ‘modest’ and more ‘realistic’ approach, Clark argues, enabling the Left to understand the human propensity to violence and therefore engaging in a kind of anti-war activism. This article rejects Clark’s analysis and tries to save the revolutionary perspective Clark is trying to get rid of arguing that it is indeed the Left that we have to bury. Juxtaposing Clark’s argument with a reading of Michèle Bernstein’s ‘Victories of the Proletariat’ made as part of the 1963 Situationist exhibition ‘Destruction of RSG-6’ the article attempts to contribute to the re-formulation of a contemporary revolutionary position on the basis of the breakdown of the programmatic Left.
Modernism and “Aesthetic Experience”: Art, Aesthetics – and the Role of Modernism
Authors: Kyndrup Morten
Published: January 2017

The role and influence of Modernism is the focus of this article. Modernism’s lasting and unforeseeable influence is due to its key importance to the development of the general conditions of art within modernity. Along with Modernism, the implications of the modern system of art became visible for real. Modernism produced the necessity of rethinking the distinction between “art” and “the aesthetic,” based on their original foundations in the 18th century, respectively – a call for a “divorce” after the long-lived marriage between the two, installed by Romanticism. Furthermore so-called postmodernism and today’s contemporary art have in fact not, as often assumed, really broken with high Modernism. What we see is rather a transformation of a time-based modus into a more spatially defined approach. The interpretations of Modernism itself are thus being altered, when regarded with a postmodern awareness of its surrounding enunciative space. The interrelationship between the modernisms, and what followed, is therefore achieving the character of an entanglement rather than that of a straight and clear development. Modernism’s influence, it is finally asserted, is seemingly not at its conclusion, but rather at its reoccurring beginning.
Meaning in the Weaving: Mapping and Texture as Figures of Spatiality and Eventness
Authors: Paavolainen Teemu
Published: January 2017

Advocating a dramaturgical ontology of events rather than objects – or ecologies rather than cartographies – the article defends the metaphors of texture and weaving as intuitive, non-anthropocentric alternatives to current idioms of becoming and emergence. Already popularized as the very definition of “dramaturgy” by Eugenio Barba, these are specifically traced through Tim Ingold’s recent anthropology of weaving and S. C. Pepper’s philosophical pragmatism: where Ingold’s ecology of lines admits to “no insides or outsides [...] trailing loose ends in every direction”, Pepper’s “contextualistic world” of events admits “no top nor bottom” to its strands and textures. Intended only as a theoretical introduction to the implications of a certain family of metaphors (complete with a graphic representation thereof ), this article distinguishes the eventness of texture from certain notions of spatial “mapping” and discusses the “ecological” range of the metaphor through the concepts of textural fusion and spread.
Perfil da dor em pacientes com síndrome do manguito rotador
Authors: Dias Daniela , Rodrigues Eder Pereira , Sena Eduardo Pondé de , Gomes Neto Mansueto
Published: January 2017

Introdução: a dor no ombro é um problema musculo-esquelético comum. Estudos apontam uma prevalência estimada de 14 a 21% na população geral. Dados do Instituto Nacional de Seguridade Social (INSS) mostram a concessão de 202.832 benefícios por incapacidade relacionados a problemas do ombro. O objetivo deste estudo é avaliar o perfil da dor no ombro em pacientes com síndrome do manguito rotador. Metodologia: estudo transversal, descritivo, com base em dados colhidos de prontuários clínicos de 103 pacientes atendidos em uma clínica privada de fisioterapia na cidade de Salvador, Bahia, no período de maio de 2006 a maio de 2007. Resultado: do total dos 103 pacientes estudados com lesão do manguito rotador no ombro, 71% dos pacientes foram do sexo feminino. A média de idade dos pacientes foi de 49,2+15 anos. A intensidade da dor foi mensurada através da escala visual analógica (EVA) e teve média de dor de 6,2 ± 2,2, dos quais 50,5 % dos pacientes cursaram com dor no ombro durante seis meses ou mais. Conclusão: pacientes com lesões do manguito rotador apresentam dor moderada principalmente no ombro dominante.

 
Strength‐limiting mechanisms in high‐confinement brittle‐like failure: Adiabatic transformational faulting
Authors: Renshaw Carl E. , Schulson Erland M.
Published: February 2017

Brittle‐like failure under high confinement impacts many geophysical phenomena, including earthquakes at depths beyond a few tens of kilometers. We reanalyze recent observations of high‐confinement brittle‐like failure of nominally thermodynamically stable ice and antigorite and show that the brittle‐like failure only occurs when the strain rate within an incipient adiabatic instability accelerates to the point that the attendant increase in localized temperature approaches a phase transition temperature, initiating transformational faulting. We test a closed‐form model for this process based on independently measureable parameters by comparing model predictions to observations of brittle‐like failure of ice and antigorite under high confinement. Model results do not constrain the mechanism of transformational faulting. However, the similarity of brittle‐like failure characteristics across a variety of geologic materials suggests a similarity of process. We propose that localized heating due to an adiabatic instability initiates dynamic recrystallization near the phase transformational temperature. Transformational superplasticity during recrystallization concentrates plastic strain ahead of the transformed region, causing dynamic recrystallization there and propagating slip in an autocatalytic manner. The newly recrystallized grains rapidly harden as strain accumulates, limiting the stress drop. As the recrystallized grains harden and the stress increases, localized heating reinitiates the adiabatic instability in the still warm region, concentrating plastic strain due to thermal softening and initiating another wave of dynamic recrystallization and partial stress drop. This process, termed adiabatic transformational faulting, could explain how deep earthquakes can propagate beyond the metastable wedge since the propagation of slip is due to dynamic recrystallization rather than to the primary phase transformation.
Redox‐Activatable ATP‐Depleting Micelles with Dual Modulation Characteristics for Multidrug‐Resistant Cancer Therapy
Authors: Wang Hebin , Li Yang , Zhang Miaozun , Wu Di , Shen Youqing , Tang Guping , Ping Yuan
Published: February 2017

A fast adenosine triphosphate (ATP)‐depleting micellar system that is activated by intracellular redox for the codelivery of anticancer drug paclitaxel (PTX) and small interference RNA (siRNA) targeting polo‐like kinase1 (PLK1) is developed to address the key challenges of multidrug‐resistant (MDR) cancer therapy. The ATP‐depleting micelle is self‐assembled from a redox‐responsive amphiphilic polymer (termed as bPEG‐SS‐P123‐PEI (PSPP)) that is composed of biocompatible branched polyethylene glycol (PEG) with 8 arms (bPEG), ATP‐depleting Pluronic P123 (P123), and cationic low molecular weight polyethylenimine (PEI) blocks. Upon critical micelle concentration, the PSPP unimer self‐assembles into a well‐ordered multilayered nanostructure and is able to load PTX and siRNA targeting PLK1. The cleavage of disulfide linkages at intracellular glutathione‐rich reduction milieu not only promotes PTX and siRNA release, but also activates the fast ATP‐depletion action that is critical in preventing intracellular PTX efflux by multidrug‐resistant cancer cells. The combination of ATP depletion and siRNA inhibition by PSPP micelles is found to provide dual modulations for resensitizing multidrug‐resistant cancer cells for PTX treatment. As a result, the codelivery of PTX and PLK1 siRNA exerts a stronger combinational effect against tumor growth in MDR tumor models in vivo. The development of fast ATP‐depleting nanomicelle represents an original delivery strategy for the distinctive dual modulation of cancer MDR with spatial and temporal control.
Chromate Binding and Removal by the Molybdate‐Binding Protein ModA
Authors: Karpus Jason , Bosscher Michael , Ajiboye Ifedayo , Zhang Liang , He Chuan
Published: February 2017

Effective and cheap methods and techniques for the safe removal of hexavalent chromate from the environment are in increasingly high demand. High concentrations of hexavalent chromate have been shown to have numerous harmful effects on human biology. We show that the E. coli molybdate‐binding protein ModA is a genetically encoded tool capable of removing chromate from aqueous solutions. Although previously reported to not bind chromate, we show that ModA binds chromate tightly and is capable of removing chromate to levels well below current US federal standards.
Intermetallic Compounds as Potential Alternatives to Noble Metals in Heterogeneous Catalysis: The Partial Hydrogenation of Butadiene on γ‐Al4Cu9(1 1 0)
Authors: Piccolo Laurent , Kibis Lidiya , De Weerd Marie‐Cécile , Gaudry Emilie , Ledieu Julian , Fournée Vincent
Published: February 2017

Recently, non‐noble intermetallic compounds have shown promising catalytic performances in the partial hydrogenation of alkynes and alkenes. In this work, the properties of γ‐Al4Cu9(1 1 0) toward the gas‐phase hydrogenation of butadiene were investigated at total pressures of 2–20 mbar and temperatures of 110–180 °C. The model catalyst is active and 100 % selective to butenes. Moreover, although less active than Al13Fe4(0 1 0), which was evaluated previously for the same reaction, it is more selective and more stable. The combination of catalytic tests with pre‐ and postreaction Auger electron spectroscopy measurements and comparative tests with Cu(1 1 0) shows that Cu governs the reaction on γ‐Al4Cu9(1 1 0). However, the lower activity of the (more Cu‐rich) sputtered Al4Cu9 surface with respect to the annealed one and the differences between Al4Cu9 and Cu surfaces in terms of butene isomer distribution, butene conversion kinetics, and sensitivity to poisons, demonstrate the unique character of the intermetallic compound.
Renewable Surfactants through the Hydroaminomethylation of Terpenes
Authors: Faßbach Thiemo A. , Gaide Tom , Terhorst Michael , Behr Arno , Vorholt Andreas J.
Published: February 2017

A catalytic system was developed to enable the use of industrially available terpenes (e.g., β‐myrcene, β‐farnesene) in hydroaminomethylation to obtain renewable building blocks for surfactants in two steps. This homogeneously catalyzed tandem reaction includes both hydroformylation and enamine condensation steps, followed by hydrogenation. Under the optimized conditions, the Rh/1,2‐bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane catalytic system delivers products in high yields (70 %) after short reaction times (3 h) with unprecedentedly high turnover frequency (TOF) values for the hydroformylation of 1,3‐dienes of over 739 mol mol−1 h−1. This is the highest TOF reported to date for the hydroformylation of a 1,3‐diene. Furthermore, regioselectivities of 97 % and above were observed in the hydroformylation step, which is extraordinarily high for the conversion of 1,3‐dienes. The terpene‐derived amines obtained were further functionalized to quaternary ammonium compounds that were found to show surface activity quite similar to that of industrially available quaternary ammonium compounds. The hydroaminomethylation of terpenes achieves higher step efficiency than industrial means and makes use of an alternative, renewable feedstock to synthesize more environmentally friendly surfactants.