bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Free Will Belief as a Predictor of Self-Handicapping
Authors: Jettinghoff William
Published: July 2018

The present research explores free will belief as a causal antecedent to self-handicapping. The overarching goal of this work is to increase our understanding of why some individuals faced with a threatening assessment in an important ability domain will increase effort to ensure success, whereas others will engage in self-handicapping. Previous work has established that uncertainty aroused by non-contingent success feedback encourages the use of self-handicapping. We theorize that when faced with uncertainty and potential failure, those with weaker free will beliefs will be more likely to resort to self-handicapping. In other words, that self-handicapping necessitates that an individual feels a lack of free will and control over future performance and outcomes. Thus, we predicted that stronger belief in free will would be negatively associated with self-handicapping. Study 1 (N = 137) used a correlational design and measured trait self-handicapping, belief in free will, and perceptions of control, among other relevant dispositional variables, in an MTurk sample. The results indicated that belief in free will was negatively correlated with trait self-handicapping. Study 2 (N = 132) replicated this same pattern using a correlational design with a college student sample. Study 3 (N = 98) used an experimental design and manipulated belief in free will using an autobiographical memory task in which participants were asked to recall a time in which they experienced control and freedom of choice, or a lack thereof. We predicted that experimentally inducing a weaker free will belief would increase claimed self-handicapping. Results showed that the memory task did not produce differences in belief in free will, making us unable to test our causal hypothesis. However, we did replicate the correlations found in Studies 1 and 2. The free will manipulation and the implications of the correlational data are discussed.
Represión del gobierno del D.F a la protesta en el periodo 2012-2014
Authors: Coca Rios Itzel
Published: July 2018

Between 2012 and 2014, there were ten events in Mexico City that were repressed through arbitrary arrests which affected 365 persons. Through data analysis about the protest in that period it’s verified a change in police strategy by means of more selective tactics of repression and protest disarticulation. A sample of massive demonstrations with more than 2 thousand assistants was taken to test the hypothesis of repression as a response to two main characteristics of the events: 1) a protest directed to the federal scope, that local government cannot negotiate with, and 2) that threatens public order and status quo through: violence, several claims directed to many authorities, and radical petitions. The binomial logistic regression with “rare events” package and QCA tests reveal that the federal scope of the claim and the presence of violence from the protestors are necessary conditions for the repression to occur, while radicalism and variety of claims receive partial support. The study concludes with a nested analysis of the cases of December 1st 2012 and 2013.
Feminist Shakespeares: Adapting Shakespeare for a Modern Audience in the Hogarth Shakespeare Project
Authors: Etman Colleen
Published: July 2018

The Hogarth Shakespeare Project presents a way to view Shakespeare’s plays through a different lens. These books allow for a feminist reading of Shakespeare, looking at some of Shakespeare’s ill-treated female characters to construct a new idea of female characterization. Three of the plays adapted, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and The Taming of the Shrew, were adapted by female authors. By investigating how these plays are being adapted for a more contemporary audience, with modern conceptions of feminism and gender roles, we can gain insight as to how these concepts have changed since Shakespeare’s time. By looking at these modern adaptations, we can interrogate how modern audiences as a whole conceptualize and, potentially, idealize Shakespeare, as well as understanding the progression of treatment of women in contemporary culture since Shakespeare’s time. The novels addressed in this project are The Gap of Time by Jeannette Winterson, Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood, and Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler. The project concludes that, of the three, Vinegar Girl does the most effective job addressing the problematic aspects of its adapted play in a new way, distinguishing it from previous adaptations of The Taming of the Shrew. This project also investigates the role that adaptation theory plays in addressing Shakespeare adaptations, particularly the Hogarth Shakespeare Project.
Electronic and magnetic properties of strontium ruthenate thin films
Authors: Lushcheva Kseniia
Published: July 2018

SrRuO3 is an itinerant ferromagnet with a Curie temperature of ~160K. There has been a sharp increase in scientific interest towards this material and its intriguing features, such as its magnetic anisotropy, and anomalous transport properties which are incompatible with Drude model. In this study, several thin films of strontium ruthenate were grown and characterised in quality and quantity, employing techniques such as X-ray diffraction and atomic force microscopy. The results are presented and described as crystallographic and topographic findings; finally, based on the findings, adjustments and further study are proposed.
Whom do you trust? Personality and previous behavior of the counterpart as determinants of trust and cooperation in a trust game
Authors: Petrova Dafina
Published: July 2018

This experiment investigated cooperative behavior in a two-person one-shot trust game by manipulating two types of information about the players - personality and previous behavior. When information about the counterpart was consistent, participants used the simple strategy to trust and reciprocate to trustworthy individuals and do the opposite with untrustworthy ones. When information was inconsistent, mainly behavioral information determined the decision to trust. Personality information mattered more for the choice to reciprocate. Different response patterns emerged depending on whether the participants were trusted with a big or a small endowment. Results support intention-based models of cooperative behavior, confirming that people use the opportunity to punish and reward. The Machiavellian personality scale designed to detect non-cooperators was administered but previous findings were not replicated.
Visualising Interpolations of Dynamic Phenomena Observed by Mobile Sensors
Authors: Nüst Daniel
Published: July 2018

Visualisation is an important tool in explorative analysis and new technologies provide an unprecedented amount of live environmental sensor data. Interpolations derive data with high spatial coverage from these in-situ observations. This work develops methods to combine the visualisation of sensor platforms and interpolations based upon their observations to increase the understanding of the observed dynamic environmental phenomenon. These techniques span across visual variables such as animation, colour or size, and are supplemented with a variety of visual aides to facilitate interpretation in a three-dimensional real-time visualisation environment. A software prototype joins existing technologies to present new techniques for visualisation on a virtual globe. It successfully renders live data from an unmanned aerial vehicle in a test deployment. A user study investigates the developed solutions. This study supports the hypothesis that a user’s understanding of a phenomenon can be improved with a real-time, integrated visualisation of sensor positions and interpolation. An extensive discussion identifies the useful techniques, features and architecture components for the targeted application.
Przemiany szaty roślinnej w rejonie doliny Malhawy koło Iwano-Frankiwska (dawnego Stanisławowa) na podstawie analizy palinologicznej
Authors: Kawecka Jagoda
Published: July 2018

Analiza pyłkowa wykorzystywana jest do odtwarzania warunków środowiskowych, które wywołane są czynnikami naturalnymi lub antropogenicznymi. Metoda ta może być stosowana zarówno przez palinologów, jak i archeologów, których zainteresowania związane są z przyrodniczą rekonstrukcją zdarzeń. Celem niniejszej pracy było ukazanie przemian szaty roślinnej w regionie Ukraińskiego Podkarpacia. Badany obszar położony był w zachodniej Ukrainie, w obrębie Podkarpacia, w strefie granicznej lasu i lasostepu. Analiza pyłkowa została przeprowadzona na podstawie rdzenia osadów biogenicznych, pobranego z torfowiska w dolinie rzeki Malhawy, ok. 30km na południowy wschód od Iwano-Frankiwska, dawnego Stanisławowa. Wynikiem interpretacji diagramu pyłkowego była rekonstrukcja obrazu szaty roślinnej. Wskazano na dwa etapy - starszy, który charakteryzuje się znaczną przewagą roślin z grupy AP oraz młodszy, w którym zaznacza się przewagą roślin z grupy NAP. W analizie rdzenia najważniejszą kwestią była zaznaczająca się malejąca różnica między ilością drzew i krzewów w stosunku do roślin zielnych. Nierozstrzygniętym zagadnieniem pozostaje odpowiedź na pytanie czy do ukształtowania takiego stanu w zapisie przyczyniły się czynniki naturalne (klimatyczne) czy też jest on wynikiem ingerencji człowieka. Specyfiką pobranego do analizy rdzenia była bardzo niska koncentracja sporomorf, z których ponadto wiele uległo dużemu zniszczeniu. Liczba zarejestrowanych w spektrach sporomorf ograniczyła interpretację, obarczając ją zwiększonym błędem statystycznym.Niemniej przeprowadzona analiza dała podstawy do przeprowadzenia pierwszych na tym obszarze rekonstrukcji zmian szaty roślinnej.
-hóhta'hané: Mapping Genocide & Restorative Justice in Native America
Authors: Lucchesi Annita
Published: July 2018

This thesis explores critical decolonial cartography as a possible language for communicating and better understanding complex, intergenerational experiences of genocide and colonialism among Native American peoples. Utilizing a self-reflexive methodology, this work makes interventions in Native American and indigenous studies, comparative genocide studies, historiography, and geography to argue for more expansive languages with which to grapple with Native experiences of genocide. In so doing, this paper also asserts the need for indigenous narrative self-determination, development of decolonial epistemologies and praxes on genocide, and languages for violence that are specifically designed to facilitate dialogue on healing. For that reason, this work not only positions cartography and maps as a particularly useful language for understanding indigenous experiences of genocide, but documents the development of this language, with the intent of supporting and guiding others in creating alternative languages that best fit their nation, community, family, and selves. Finally, the larger aim of this work is to make the case for languages on genocide that heal, rather than re-traumatize, and give a more holistic understanding of the ways in which genocide ‘takes place’ spatially and temporally, with the hope of creating a larger, more inclusive, less violent space for imagining and crafting restorative justice.
Do inimaginável: cinema, direitos humanos, cosmopoéticas
Authors: Ribeiro Marcelo R. S.
Published: July 2018

Esta tese interroga a relação entre cinema e direitos humanos, com base em uma abordagem fundamentalmente teórica e conceitual que tem como objetivo último a abertura de um programa mais amplo de pesquisa: a elaboração do que denomino atlas cosmopoético. Historicamente, os principais modos de relação entre cinema e direitos humanos consistem nos usos de imagens como documentos para denunciar violações e como parte do trabalho de memória em torno dessas violações. Nesse tipo de contexto, o cinema participa da construção de um arquivo do mal, contra o qual a “consciência da humanidade” declara os princípios de dignidade universal do projeto cosmopolítico dos direitos humanos. Ao mesmo tempo, o cinema participa da construção de um arquivo do comum, no qual os princípios dos direitos humanos assumem forma sensível. Ao interrogar o problema do devir- sensível da “consciência da humanidade”, é preciso reconhecer que um dos motivos recorrentes da relação entre cinema e direitos humanos consiste no tema do inimaginável e no problema das imagens que faltam. Introduzido a partir da leitura da Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos de 1948, o exemplo histórico paradigmático das imagens dos campos nazistas e da experiência concentracionária assume um lugar central entre os diversos objetos estudados, numa análise do processo de arquivamento das imagens dos campos como evidências sensíveis do inimaginável e das formas de montagem das imagens dos campos como tentativas de pensar seus sentidos e de construir o arquivo de sua memória. Enquanto a ficção tende, com Samuel Fuller e Orson Welles, por exemplo, a revisitar o arquivo e a reorganizar seus elementos em função de narrativas e de interesses alheios aos contextos originários das imagens, o documentário encontra na denegação do arquivo o seu impulso, como evidencia a obra de Claude Lanzmann. Entre o rearquivamento ficcional e a denegação, emergem possibilidades experimentais de remontagem do arquivo, com base na abertura anarquívica que desestrutura e reorganiza suas imagens, em filmes de Alain Resnais, Mikhail Romm e Jean-Luc Godard. Assim como o projeto cosmopolítico dos direitos humanos depende do devir-sensível da “consciência da humanidade” para sua disseminação universal, conceitos jurídicos como “genocídio” e “crime contra a humanidade” encontram nas imagens cinematográficas uma de suas formas privilegiadas de inscrição sensível.
The Writing Exam as Index of Policy, Curriculum, and Assessment: An Academic Literacies Perspective on High Stakes Testing in an American University
Authors: Smith Jennifer Freeman
Published: July 2018

Academic literacy is a policy goal universities implement through curricular and assessment decisions that are generally discipline-based. Disciplinary genres are traditionally seen as relatively fixed entities, easily evaluated by practiced members of the field and able to be emulated and mastered by students with training. This study examines the interplay of policy, curriculum, and assessment as they concern academic literacy in higher education and explore how writing assessment is employed in the maintenance and verification of academic literacy. The research took place at a small university known primarily for its pharmacy school and preparation for careers in the sciences and health sciences. The university is unusual in that it requires that students pass a writing proficiency exam in order to graduate. This research employed ethnographic methods and textual analysis to discover the interaction between university writing policy and its real-world effects. Data was collected in the form of fieldnotes of my observations of the Writing Center and interactions on-campus; ethnographic interviews with faculty, administrators, and students; course syllabi and other site documents; and exam bluebooks.This study looks at the use of the five-paragraph theme as an assessment tool, an academic genre rarely seen outside of composition classrooms and essay exams. It also evaluates the social and institutional function of a high-stakes testing policy, and how the policy serves to balance curricular ideologies with other constraints. It shows how universities, increasingly working under a business model, make curricular and assessment decisions in the interest of balancing hiring costs, academic ideology, and so on, in an iterative process. The results of this research have implications for evaluating writing policy in higher education institutions, and the use and structure of writing assessment in other arenas as well.
[EL ARTEFACTO] Ergonarrativas y la construcción ficcional a partir de lo ausente.
Authors: Ponce-Díaz Romano
Published: July 2018

Trabajo Terminal de Grado para obtención el grado de Maestro en Estudios Visuales en la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. Aborda a los videojuegos desde la perspectiva Ergódica propuesta por Espen Aarseth y explora la relación entre "lo que se cuenta" y "lo que no se cuenta" y la manera en que el lector ergódico tiene la capacidad de generar su propia "verdad ficcional" y conocimiento a partir de la interpretación y el "Dasein" el acto de ser y estar ahí. Se acuñan diferentes términos para estabilizar conceptos ausentes en diversos estudios críticos de los videojuegos. Igualmente se proponen niveles de "Dasein" o "Metempsicosis" que suceden en los videojuegos, buscando aplicar el modelo teórico en el diseño y elaboración de una Ergonarrativa o videojuego, utilizando elementos de simbolismo hermetico, con la finalidad de abonar y explorar las diferentes interpretaciones que pueda provocar la narrativa en el lector ergódico. El documento fue elaborado en el periodo de tiempo de septiembre de 2011 y agosto 2013 en el marco de la Maestría en Estudios Visuales de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México en Toluca, México, con apoyos del Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Conacyt).
Predicting the actions of other agents
Authors: Colling Lincoln J
Published: July 2018

The ability to predict the actions of other agents is vital for joint action tasks where the actions of two actors must be coordinated in a timely fashion. Recent accounts suggest that action prediction might be implemented by a system that allows actors to generate predictions about perceived actions by emulating those actions using their own motor systems. In particular, it has been suggested that actors are able to use their own inverse models for action to predict what actions another agent might select in order to realise a particular goal, and that actors are able to use their own forward models for action to generate predictions about the unfolding dynamics of perceived actions. The body of this thesis is divided into three sections (Part II–IV) and examines the empirical support for these hypotheses as well as their theoretical implications. In Part II, Chapter 2 confirms that observers are able to generate more accurate predictions when their own movement dynamics more closely match the movement dynamics of the observed action. Further more, the results also suggest that the output of the prediction system is available in a timely fashion suggesting that it can be used for joint action coordination. Chapter 3 examines what factors might assist observers to reconstruct the motor codes responsible for generating perceived actions by specially examining the inìuence of limb and joint in formation on the prediction of perceived actions. The results suggest that limb and joint information allows observers to generate more accurate predictions about observed actions, but that this effect is limited to those observers who have motor experience with the observed actions. Chapter 4 rules out an alternative explanation for the results obtained in Chapter 2, that differences in action prediction can be explained by self-similarity in action production between the action production and subsequent action prediction phases of the experiment. In Part III, Chapter 5 presents a framework for understanding joint action coordination wherein an attempt is made to extend well understood mechanisms of action control into the domain of joint action. This framework might assist with trying to understand the phenomenology of joint action and experiences such as group flow. In Part IV, Chapter 6 examines the role of action prediction mechanisms in a domain other than traditional conceptions of joint action. Specifically, it examines the role of action prediction and action synchronisation in musically evoked emotion. Finally, the implications of this thesis are discussed as they relate to our understanding of the nature of joint action, phenomenology of joint action, functions of the mirror-neuron system, and the role of sensorimotor systems in cognition.
Perceiving Failure: The Absurdity of a Cultural Obsession
Authors: Leeson Madison
Published: July 2018

Skewed perceptions of success and failure flourish in Canadian and American culture, often through the myth that hard work and intelligence guarantees success. This myth has, in part, motivated the "American Dream" - the idea that one person can rise from rags to riches through sheer force of will alone. This paper explores the perceptions of success and failure (independent of quantifiable results) that are inevitable in a society that esteems success with such an aversion to failure.
The orthodox recovery of a heretical proof-text: Athanasius of Alexandria's interpretation of Proverbs 8:22-30 in conflict with the Arians
Authors: Clayton Allen
Published: July 2018

The purpose of this study is to examine how Athanasius "recovered" Prov 8:22ff for the life of the emerging Nicene church. What devices of interpretation and of argument did he employ that enabled him to show that Prov 8:22-25, which seemed to lend itself more naturally to Arianism, was not Arian in meaning at all?
AN EXAMINATION OF THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT FOR THE MIGRATORY TRANSITION OF ELITE YOUNG SOCCER PLAYERS IN AN ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE ACADEMY
Authors: Rattle Matthew
Published: July 2018

ObjectivesThe purpose of this study was to investigate the perception of and support for players who come into a Premier League academy from a foreign country by the staff at the academy.Design Four members of staff from one Premier League academy were interviewed, selecting those who were involved with the transitioning players. MethodThese interviews were conducted at the Premier League academy and were audio recorded. The interview data formed a case study view of the support provided from this Premier League academy. ResultsThe findings showed that the staff recognised the difficulties of acculturating to the new country and the new club. They suggested that the main difficulties facing acculturating players were the language barriers, accommodation, adjusting to playing style, adapting to expectations and loss of social support. Support for the incoming players began in the period prior to the signing of the player and continued into the initial phase of acculturation. However, this support was unstructured, informal and lacked in the psychosocial element which may have led to problems for the players during their post transition adaptation period. ConclusionsThese findings suggest that there should be a formal, structured form for the support for incoming foreign players to help them deal with the psychological and psychosocial parts of the transition into the new country and new club that could help the players to perform better, due to the presence of a reduced amount of challenges, that can create higher confidence, motivation and less stress.
‘GENDER INEQUALITY IN KENYA’
Authors: jayceket@yahoo.com
Published: July 2018

ABSTRACTThis research project offers an analysis of gender inequality in Kenya. Despite many years of academic analysis and practical feminist activity, the progress towards achieving gender equity is painfully slow especially in Kenya. Given the scope and the speed of this change, it is essential to keep the change patterns of gender relations under continuous scrutiny to monitor the extent to which progress is being made towards women emancipation and their integration in development in Kenya. The subject matter of this research is prompted by the assumption that gender inequalities make Kenyan women to become victims and have no or little role in development due to their victimization. The general objective of this research is to analyze the key areas of gender inequality in Kenya; these areas include; the health and Education sector, Economy and workplace, Culture and religion. To this end, the specific aims of this research are to analyze the effects that gender inequality has on Kenya’s development and whether the integration of women will contribute to the development process, And if equity in Kenya can be achieved through resocialization and cultural reorientation.'Statistics alone cannot make policy. Some rich countries have no poor people but have high levels of inequality while some poor countries have low levels of inequality.'-Dr Edward Sambili
ISLAM DI BIMA Implementasi Hukum Islam Oleh Badan Hukum Syara Kesultanan Bima (1947-1960)
Authors: Murtadha Rahmah , Mutawali Muhammad
Published: July 2018

Wajah hukum di daerah (Kesultanan) Bima dibentuk oleh dua komponen, yaitu adat Mbojo dan hukum Islam. Transformasi dan perpaduan aturan hukum yang terjadi tidak membawa ketegangan-ketegangan, hukum Adat Mbojo sebagai tuan rumah dan hukum Islam sebagai ajaran agama yang datang kemudian saling melengkapi, menjadi satu-kesatuan dalam menjamin tegaknya hukum di Bima. Tulisan ini menguraikan sisi penerapan hukum Islam di Bima, khususnya berkaitan dengan hukum kelurga, pernikahan, perceraian, dan kewarisan. Temuan ini mengemukakan, bahwa pelaksanaan hukum Islam dalam Badan Hukum Syara‘ Bima berlaku efektif, hal ini terbukti dalam kasus-kasus, seperti kasus dalam pelanggaran taklik talak yang terjadi antara Im dan suaminya Smdn yang diputus talak satu oleh Badan Hukum Syara‘ dikarenakan Smdn sebagai suami telah melanggar ikrar taklik talak yaitu meninggalkan isteri selama 7 (tujuh) bulan tanpa nafkah lahir dan batin, demikian juga dalam kasus kewarisan, hukum Islam merupakan dasar dan sumber hukum dari penyelesaian kasuskasus tersebut. Bentuk perpaduan antara adat dengan Islam di Kesultanan Bima, yaitu kecenderungan mengambil alih ketentuan-ketentuan hukum Islam dan menyebutnya sebagai adat.
STRATEGI PEMBELAJARAN POLA RITMIS DRUM BAND LANSIA DESA BANDUNGHARJO DONOROJO JEPARA
Authors: Unnes eprint-sendratasik , Lestari Puji , Sinaga Syahrul Syah
Published: July 2018

Di wilayah kabupaten Jepara pada umumnya kelompok drum band diajarkan pada anak usia sekolah atau di sekolah-sekolah formal, namun drum band yang terdapat di Desa Bandungharjo ini sedikit berbeda karena pembelajaran ditujukan pada orang lanjut usia. Tentunya keberhasilan dalam mencapai tujuan pembelajaran sangat dipengaruhi oleh strategi pembelajaran yang diterapkan instruktur didalamnya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan strategi pembelajaran dan faktor yang menjadi pendukung serta penghambat dalam pembelajaran pola ritmis drum band Lansia di Desa Bandungharjo. Metode yang digunakan adalah kualitatif deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan dengan segala keterbatasan pemain maupun instruktur hanya materi pola ritmis sederhana yang diajarkan, dengan menyebut “Nan” untuk memukul instrumen menggunakan tangan kanan, “Ri” dengan tangan kiri dan “Bram” kedua tangan memukul bersamaan. Sedangkan strategi pembelajaran yang diterapkan adalah: (1) Strategi pembelajaran ekspositori dengan langkah-langkah persiapan, penyajian, korelasi, menyimpulkan, dan mengaplikasikan (2) Strategi penguatan yang diberikan secara verbal dan non-verbal. Dalam pelaksanaannya instruktur mengkombinasikan dengan beberapa metode yaitu metode ceramah, demonstrasi dan driil. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian disarankan sebaiknya para pemain dapat datang tepat waktu saat latihan, fokus dan konsentrasi lebih ditingkatkan saat pembelajaran berlangsung dan dapat saling menghargai atas waktu dan tenaga yang telah diberikan agar tercapainya tujuan pembelajaran.
Taxonomic Checklists as Biodiversity Data: How Series of Checklists can Provide Information on Synonymy, Circumscription Change and Taxonomic Discovery
Authors: Vaidya Gaurav
Published: July 2018

Taxonomic checklists are a fundamental and widely-used product of taxonomy, providing a list of recognized taxa within a taxonomic group in a particular geographical area. Series of taxonomic checklists provide snapshots of recognized taxa over a period of time. Identifying and classifying the changes between these checklists can provide information on rates of name, synonym and circumscription change and can improve aggregation of datasets reconciled to different checklists.To demonstrate this, I used a series of North American bird checklists to test hypotheses about drivers of splitting rates in North America birds. In particular, I asked if splitting was predominantly undoing previous lumping that happened during the heyday of the modern synthesis. I found that bird species have been split at an accelerating rate since the 1980s. While this was partially the result of previously lumped species being resplit, most splits were unrelated to previous lumps and thus represent new discoveries rather than simply the undoing of previous circumscription changes. I also used a series of North American freshwater algal checklists to measure stability over fifteen years, and found that 26% of species names were not shared or synonymized over this period. Rates of synonymization, lumping or splitting of species remained flat, a marked difference from North American birds. Species that were split or lumped (7% of species considered) had significantly higher abundance than other species in the USGS NAWQA dataset, a biodiversity database that uses these checklists as an index. They were associated with 19% of associated observations, showing that a small number of recircumscribed species could significantly affect interpretation of biodiversity data.To facilitate this research, I developed a software tool that could identify and annotate taxonomic changes among a series of checklists, and could use this information to aggregate biodiversity data, which will hopefully facilitate similar research in the future. My dissertation demonstrates the value of taxonomic checklists series to answer specific questions about the drivers of taxonomic change ranging from philosophical and technical changes to characteristics of species themselves such as their abundance.
De Netwerkstructuur van Resilience: Positief Affect in Relatie tot Emoties
Authors: Naberman Jasper
Published: July 2018

In deze studie is gekeken naar de netwerkstructuur van resilience. Hiervoor is gebruik gemaakt van netwerkanalyse om enkele eigenschappen van resilience in netwerkmodellen te schatten. Extra aandacht is er voor positief affect, welke naar de broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions (Fredrickson, 1998) een centrale rol zou spelen in resilience. Er deed een totaal van 31 deelnemers mee waarbij twee weken lang driemaal daags time series data werd afgenomen naar de experience sampling method. Er werden temporal en contemporaneous individuele netwerkmodellen geschat, waaruit bleek dat positief affect een minder centrale rol vertolkt dan op basis van de broaden- and-build theory of positive emotions werd verwacht. De aanwezigheid van partiële correlaties geeft een indicatie van causaliteit tussen de knopen van de netwerken.
Using Personality Measures for Selection Decisions: Predictive Utility and Applicants' Faking Behaviour (Thesis)
Authors: Krammer Georg
Published: July 2018

Aim of this publication-based dissertation was to scrutinize the use of personality measures for selection decisions. This was done in three studies examining personality measures used for selection decisions to teacher education. First, Study 1 evaluated the predictive utility of personality measures for differentiated facets of academic achievement. In accordance with a large body of research, personality measures retained their predictive utility over and above other determinants of academic achievement. With Study 1 supporting the usefulness of personality measures for predicting future academic achievement in the academic field examined, Study 2 then addressed the prevalence of applicants' faking behaviour on the personality scales used for selection decisions. Study 2 showed that applicants increased their raw mean test scores in nearly all personality scales examined, and that applicants' faking behaviour could detrimentally affect applicants' rank order. Based on the findings of Study 2, Study 3 aimed to shed light on the effects of applicants' faking behaviour on the psychometric properties of the personality scales. Measurement invariance analyses revealed that applicants primarily faked by increasing their responses to selected items. The more heterogeneously the responses were increased, the more measurement properties were detrimentally affected. As the synopsis of the three studies, theoretical and practical implications for the use of personality measures for selection decisions are discussed.
MARCHING BAND SMP PANGUDI LUHUR DOMENICO SAVIO SEMARANG KAJIAN : ARANSEMEN DAN MANAJEMEN
Authors: Lestari Puji
Published: July 2018

Marching Band adalah kegiatan ektrakurikuler SMP Pangudi Luhur Domenico Savio Semarang. Marching Band tersebut dahulu pernah aktif dan berkembang, seiring dengan berjalannya waktu Marching Band tersebut vakum selama delapan belas tahun. Dengan dukungan dari pihak orang tua wali, alumni, dan pihak sekolah Marching Band dapat kembali aktif dan berprestasi. Perolehan prestasi tidak lepas dari segi musikalitas, yaitu aransemen lagu dan manajemen dalam Marching Band Domenico Savio Semarang. Dari masalah tersebut peneliti tertarik pada aransemen dan manajemen, tujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana aransemen dan manajemen yang ada pada Marching Band Domenico Savio Semarang.Penelitian ini bersifat kualitatif. Bersifat kualitatif karena prosedur pemecahan masalah dilakukan dengan cara menganalisa, menggambarkan, keadaan objek, dengan menggunakan pendekatan musikologi dan manajemen pertunjukan. Teknik mengambil data dengan teknik observasi, wawancara, dan dokumentasi. Teknik analisis data dengan teknik reduksi data, penyajian data, dan verifikasi data.Hasil penelitian ini adalah sebagai berikut: aransemen pada bagian ritme sebagian besar menggunakan tiga pola yaitu A,B, dan C pola ritmenya yang dimainkan snare drum terdapat bagian yang memakai not triol pada bagian lagu, snare drum dan quartom pada aransemen tersebut banyak menggunakan teknik ring shoot dan teknik roll dan pola ritmenya pun menggunakan sinkopasi pada pertengahan lagu yang menuju ke bagian interlude. Pada bagian melodi, pemegang melodi utama adalah mellophone dan ada nada yang ditiup sangat panjang yaitu selama 24 ketuk, melodi iringan lagu terdapat nuansa musik jawa, pada vibraphone nada yang dimainkan nada pembalikan akor secara arrpegio. Pada akor menggunnakan akor sekunder dan pembalikan dimainkan oleh tuba dan baritone secara long tone dan stacato, nadanya sangat rendah. Manajemen ternyata sudah diterapkan, sehingga perencanaan, pengorganisasian, penggerakan, dan pengawasan dapat berjalan dengan baik dan pihak dari luar Marching Band Domenico Savio Semarang, yaitu perwakilan orang tua murid serta para alumni dilibatkan untuk mengelola Marching Band Domenico Savio Semarang dalam kepengurusan.Saran dari peneletian ini, peserta harus latihan sangat ekstra untuk memperoleh teknik permainan alat musik yang baik, ini menyebabkan peserta akan kekurangan waktu untuk belajar pelajaran akademik. Dalam manajemen sudah berjalan baik dengan menerapkan aspek dasar menajemen untuk mengelola Marching Band Domenico Savio Semarang, namun terdapat kekurangan pada peremajaan alat dimana masih banyak alat yang belum diperbaiki.
Why Boredom is Interesting
Authors: Westgate Erin Corwin
Published: July 2018

What is boredom? According to the Meaning and Attentional Components (MAC) model investigated here, boredom signals a lack of meaningful attentional engagement and is the result of (a) an attentional component, composed of mismatches between cognitive demands and available mental resources and (b) a meaning component, composed of mismatches between activities and valued goals (or the absence of valued goals altogether). The MAC model generates a number of novel predictions, including that multiple types of boredom exist and motivate action according to their underlying attentional and meaning causes. Experimentally inducing meaning and attentional failure each separately lead to boredom (Study 1), and both over- and understimulation can lead to attentional failure that results in boredom (Study 2). Finally, different types of boredom lead to differing downstream consequences for people’s subsequent preferences for interesting versus enjoyable activities (Study 3). Much like pain, boredom provides unpleasant but important feedback about our lives, telling us whether we want and are able to focus on what we are doing.
Implementation of a Hydrodynamic Model for Salinity in Nueces and Corpus Christi Bays
Authors: Davis James C
Published: July 2018

The purpose of this research was to implement and calibrate a hydrodynamic model for Nueces Bay, Texas and use said model to predict how salinity and circulation in the bay could be affected by sea level rise and changes in freshwater input. The Nueces Bay estuary is fed fresh water from the Nueces River and connects to Corpus Christi Bay, which connects to the Gulf of Mexico. Salinities in Nueces Bay range from near 0 PSU at times of high riverine flow to over 50 PSU during drought periods. The model selected is the Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model (FVCOM), an unstructured grid, finite-volume, three-dimensional primitive equation ocean model developed for the study of coastal oceanic and estuarine circulation.An unstructured triangular mesh was created for the bay and bathymetry was interpolated to the mesh. Forcing inputs included water level, water temperature, salinity, wind speed and direction, and the flow rate of the Nueces River. Several software utilities were created to facilitate set-up and testing of the model. Predictions were compared with measured water levels and salinity at several locations in the study area for years 2008 & 2010.The model produced good results for water level predictions with a mean absolute error of 6.5 cm over the test period. The model also produced overall realistic currents and salinity variations in Corpus Christi Bay with a mean absolute error of 1.7 psu at Ingleside. However, the model predicted salinity poorly in Nueces Bay with a mean absolute error greater than 6 psu at all stations and a maximum absolute error of greater than 20 psu. While its initial goal was to investigate the impact of sea level rise on salinity levels, the study focused instead on model performance for salinity predictions in Nueces Bay. The investigation revealed that while freshwater from the Nueces River was entering the system at the correct rate, the model was not accurately reflecting salinity response in cells further down river and ultimately in Nueces Bay.
Property Testing and Probability Distributions: New Techniques, New Models, and New Goals
Authors: Canonne Clément Louis
Published: July 2018

In order to study the real world, scientists (and computer scientists) develop simplified models that attempt to capture the essential features of the observed system. Understanding the power and limitations of these models, when they apply or fail to fully capture the situation at hand, is therefore of uttermost importance.In this thesis, we investigate the role of some of these models in property testing of probability distributions (distribution testing), as well as in related areas. We introduce natural extensions of the standard model (which only allows access to independent draws from the underlying distribution), in order to circumvent some of its limitations or draw new insights about the problems they aim at capturing. Our results are organized in three main directions: (i) We provide systematic approaches to tackle distribution testing questions. Specifically, we provide two general algorithmic frameworks that apply to a wide range of properties, and yield efficient and near-optimal results for many of them. We complement these by introducing two methodologies to prove information-theoretic lower bounds in distribution testing, which enable us to derive hardness results in a clean and unified way. (ii) We introduce and investigate two new models of access to the unknown distributions, which both generalize the standard sampling model in different ways and allow testing algorithms to achieve significantly better efficiency. Our study of the power and limitations of algorithms in these models shows how these could lead to faster algorithms in practical situations, and yields a better understanding of the underlying bottlenecks in the standard sampling setting. (iii) We then leave the field of distribution testing to explore areas adjacent to property testing. We define a new algorithmic primitive of sampling correction, which in some sense lies in between distribution learning and testing and aims to capture settings where data originates from imperfect or noisy sources. Our work sets out to model these situations in a rigorous and abstracted way, in order to enable the development of systematic methods to address these issues.
New Courland, Tobago: A GIS analysis of a 17th-century settlement
Authors: Sumner Amanda
Published: July 2018

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Caribbean island of Tobago was contested by several European powers. Among them was an unlikely colonizer, the small Duchy of Courland, located in the western part of modern-day Latvia, which established the New Courland colony on the west coast of Tobago, in May 1654. The aim of this study was to determine the exact geographic location of this settlement through examination of historical texts, maps, and geographic information systems (GIS) data. Remote sensing and GIS methods were used to map the Courlander Fort Jacob on the site of an earlier Dutch fortification, Nieuw Vlissingen. Subsequently, a predictive model was created in ArcGIS to analyze the probability of a 17th-century animal-powered sugar mill location on the territory of an 18th-century British sugar estate. Several locales were identified as matching the model criteria. The results of this study contribute to the knowledge about the New Courland colony and can be used in the design of a future archaeological fieldwork project.
Forecasting of Corylus, Alnus, and Betula pollen concentration in the air in Poland
Authors: Nowosad Jakub
Published: July 2018

Understanding of the behavior of atmospheric pollen concentration, as well as developing predictive models, can greatly help allergic sufferers. The aims of this study were (i) to determine mean multi-year characteristics of temporal and space–time autocorrelation of the pollen counts of Corylus, Alnus, and Betula in Poland, (ii) to create and evaluate Corylus, Alnus, and Betula pollen concentration levels predictions based on previous pollen count values from given sites, and (ii) to develop spatiotemporal predictive models of Corylus, Alnus, and Betula pollen concentration levels, using preprocessed gridded meteorological data. The monitoring of the concentrations of Corylus, Alnus, and Betula pollen in the air was conducted in 11 cities in Poland. Additionally, AGRI4CAST Interpolated Meteorological Data were used as predictor variables. The autocorrelation and cross-correlation functions were used to investigate temporal and spatial patterns. Random forest method was used to predict the high pollen concentration level of Corylus, Alnus, and Betula. The study provided an understanding of the temporal and spatiotemporal autocorrelation of Corylus, Alnus, and Betula pollen counts. The final models also proved to be capable of pollen levels predicting in continuous areas rather than in a single location.
HUBUNGAN ANTARA KESENANGAN MENDENGARKAN MUSIK DANGDUT DENGAN TINGKAT PRODUKTIVITAS KARYAWAN HOME INDUSTRY TRIO DI DESA TEGALWANGI KABUPATEN TEGAL
Authors: Lestari Puji
Published: July 2018

Produktivitas merupakan aspek yang dimiliki oleh tiap insan manusia. Tingkatan antara manusia satu dengan lainya pun berbeda. Pada penelitian ini yang diteliti adalah tentang hubungan kesenangan mendengarkan musik dangdut dengan tingkat produktivitas karyawan Home Industry Trio Desa Tegalwangi Kabupaten Tegal.Masalah yang dikaji dalam penelitian ini adalah (1) adakah korelasi antara kesenangan mendengarkan musik dangdut dengan tingkat produktivitas karyawan Home Industry Trio Desa Tegalwangi Kabupaten Tegal, (2) seberapa besar kontribusi kesenangan mendengarkan musik dangdut dengan tingkat produktivitas karyawan Home Industry Trio Desa Tegalwangi Kabupaten Tegal, (3) adakah pengaruh mendengarkan musik dangdut dengan tingkat produktivitas karyawan Home Industry Trio Desa Tegalwangi Kabupaten Tegal.Penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian korelasi dengan pendekatan kuantitatif, Subyek yang digunakan adalah 30 karyawan yang dipilih dengan teknik random sampling. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan yaitu analisis deskriptif, uji prasyarat analisis meliputi uji normalitas dan linieritas, uji hipotesis 1 untuk mengetahui korelasi dan determinasi, uji hipotesis 2 untuk mengetahui persamaan regresi. Alat yang digunakan untuk menganalisa yaitu SPSS 16.0.Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa tingkat kesenangan mendengarkan musik dangdut karywan mempengaruhi tingkat produktivitas karywan Home Industry Trio. Dari hasil penghitungan menggunakan SPSS diperoleh nilai rxy= 0,662, r tabel N = 30 diketahui 0,361. Hasilnya r hitung> r tabel, jadi dapat disimpulkan terdapat hubungan yang signifikan antara kesenangan mendengarkan musik dangdut dengan tingkat produktivitas karyawan Home Industry Trio. Kesenangan mendengarkan musik dangdut berpengaruh terhadap tingkat produtivitas karyawan Home Industry Trio sebesar 41,8%, dengan persamaan regresi Y = 53,225 + 0,256 X.Mengacu dari penelitian, maka penulis memberikan saran bagi pihak pimpinan Home Industry Trio hendaknya lebih meningkatkan fasilitas-fasilitas yang menunjang produktivitas karyawan bagi dari segi tempat yang nyaman maupun hak-hak yang harus didapat oleh karyawan yang lain agar terjadi hubungan saling menguntungkan antara pihak yang satu dengan yang lainnya.
"Where Were You When They Killed Lara Bonilla?": Politics of Drugs and Peace in Colombia (1982-1984)
Authors: Shenk Jamie
Published: July 2018

This thesis traces the evolution of Colombian government policies toward violence, drug trafficking, and drug consumption during the presidency of Belisario Betancur (1982-1986). The first two years of Betancur’s presidency were marked by unrelenting optimism about the prospect of real political change, as Betancur’s promises of political reform reinvigorated a political system historically ruled by an insular elite. The rising influence Colombian cocaine traffickers during Betancur’s presidency, however, would complicate this process of political reform. The increasing power and ambition of the narco-elite silently transformed the drug trade from an industry run by wily entrepreneurs into a national security threat with devastating potential. The drug mafia’s assassination of Colombia’s Minister of Justice Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, on April 30, 1984, marked a crucial turning point in both Betancur’s presidency and Colombian history more generally. Lara’s murder marked the moment when these two forces—Betancur’s popular politics and narco-ambition—collided. The resulting total war between the state and the drug mafia forced the president to redefine his nationalist policies in order to balance the new threat of the narco-elite with his increasingly complicated peace process. Meanwhile, the symbolism of Lara’s murder and its decapitation of Colombia’s justice system compelled the country as a whole to reconsider its relationship with both the international drug trade and the drugs themselves.