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Literature: A Step in the Right Direction
Authors: McNamara Noela
Published: July 2017

Literature offers the opportunity to encounter worlds beyond one’s own circumstances, environment, and situation. As an intercultural phenomenon, literary critique and analysis without borders can only be achieved by recognising cultural borders. Reading the literature of different cultures opens literary discourses to cross-cultural dialogue, but for too long, the lack of Indigenous literature within Australian literary discourses stymied the social potential of this intercultural phenomenon. Pressure from the global literary community has necessitated a vast shift of white consciousness to actively embrace narratives of different cultural dimensions, and novels that highlight cultural borders have become a key feature of Australian literature. Invisible literary borders have become apparent through exposure to the once silent voices that now emphasise messages of difference. Indigenous writers including Alexis Wright, Sally Morgan, Kim Scott, Jackie Huggins, Anita Heiss, Larissa Behrendt and Alice Nannup have opened reader consciousness to a broad scope of Indigenous perspectives. Within the arena of literary theories, the writer, reader and novels themselves have all had moments of glory, and while particular texts or authors have been immortalised, others have slipped into oblivion. Through the first person narrative of a non-Indigenous woman, this paper reveals how an intercultural literary experience revealed the restrictions of standard literary critique practices and inspired the creation of a relational discourse to engage with Indigenous voices as part of a methodological process. This intercultural literary process has the potential to inspire cultural awareness through acceptance and understanding of difference to overcome cultural unconsciousness. Such development has the capacity to destabilise invisible borders embedding lasting change in the consciousness of Australian readers and provide a foundational and fundamental step toward sustainable outcomes for Indigenous people.
Wabu Gadun Bulmba Gurriny Mukanji Centre: A Case Study of Intercultural Design Practice
Authors: Fantin Shaneen , Fourmile GudjuGudju
Published: July 2017

In 2011 GudjuGudju Fourmile, elder of the Gimuy Walubara Yidinij people, asked me to work with him, as an architect, on the conceptual design for a facility for Indigenous people with acquired brain injury. I have been working with Indigenous people on projects since 1995, but this is the first time that I have worked as a sub-consultant to an Indigenous Design Manager. This is a critical change from being engaged by non-Indigenous organisations, or the Government, to provide services to or with Indigenous people. Being directly instructed and lead by Indigenous Construction and Training Company (ICTC) and guided by the Fourmile family has lead me to an experience of intercultural design practice; an experience full of new learning, excitement and challenges, patience and respect.
Indigenous and Transnational Values in Oceania: Heritage Reappropriation, From Museums to the World Wide Web
Authors: De Largy Healy Jessica , Glowczewski Barbara
Published: July 2017

What is the value of heritage? A source of explosive emotions which oppose the “value” of so-called Western expertise – history of social and human sciences and constant reevaluation of the heritage market – versus the values in “becoming” of the people who recognise themselves in this heritage and who claim it as a foundation for an alternative and better life? In this paper, we examine some of the ways in which different groups in the Pacific reinterpret their heritage in order to redefine their singular values as cultural subjectivities: individual, collective and national, diasporic or transnational in the case of some Indigenous networks (Festival of the Pacific Arts, Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, etc).
Designs on the Future: Aboriginal Painted Shields and Baskets Of Tropical North Queensland, Australia
Authors: Aaberge Bård , Barnard Trish , Greer Shelley , Henry Rosita
Published: July 2017

Iconic painted shields and baskets made by Aboriginal people of the North Queensland rainforest region have been collected and placed in museums all over the world. We describe the historical ethnographic context of the production and use of these things and explore transformations in their value through time. These things are of value to museums and were of value to the collectors who originally procured them. They were also of value to the Aboriginal producers and are of value today to their descendants. We reflect upon the concept of value by considering the different values that inform how the shields and baskets were valued in the past, and how their worth continues to be evaluated today.
Notes on Contributors
Authors: Dalsgaard Steffen , Otto Ton
Published: July 2017

Notes on contributors.
Editorial
Authors: Lewthwaite Brian , Lim Lai Kuan , Carter Margaret
Published: July 2017

Editors' Preface to the Special Issue.
Representing Earth Science Concepts through Slowmation: Influences on Conceptual Change
Authors: Mills Reece , Tomas Engel Louisa , Lewthwaite Brian
Published: July 2017

It is well known that students arrive in science classrooms with pre-instructional ideas about science phenomena, and that often students’ ideas are not scientifically accurate representations of these phenomena. This research project will engage Year 9 Science students in the creation of a slowmation to represent an Earth Science concept that has been misrepresented in popular culture, in an effort to support their conceptual change towards an accepted scientific understanding. A slowmation representation is a form of stop-motion animation. During the process of creating a slowmation representation, students will manipulate and photograph a range of materials to represent an Earth Science concept, and display the photographs in quick succession to create an animation. Students will then add their own narration that explains the concept. This research aims to determine: (1) Does the process of creating a slowmation representation have a significant effect on students’ conceptual development in Earth Science? (2) How does the process of creating a slowmation representation influence students’ conceptual development? and (3) To what extent does students’ interest generated by the project influence their conceptual development? The project responds to calls for more in-depth research into the value of student-generated animation in science education (Hoban, Loughran, & Nielsen, 2011; Hoban & Nielsen, 2012), and contributes to the few studies that investigate the relationship between interest and conceptual change (Sinatra & Mason, 2013; Treagust & Duit, 2008).
Changing Times: Problematising Social Science Curriculum Implementation
Authors: Biancotti Stefanie , Halbert Kelsey
Published: July 2017

By 2016, all schools across Australia will have transitioned from state-based to national curricula. Given the current dynamic period of curriculum change that schools are undergoing, there is a need to investigate how this change is implemented by and impacts on teachers. This research investigates the implementation of Australian History and Geography curriculum initiatives by a junior secondary school department (Years 7-10) in North Queensland. It systematically and critically reviews the Australian curriculum implementation processes and outcomes, within one Social Science department, through a case study methodology (Koshy, 2010; Yin, 2003). Actor Network Theory (ANT) (Fenwick & Edwards, 2010) will be utilised as the theoretical framework for this research. The Actor Network theoretical framework will identify the actors (including lead researcher, teachers, administrators and objects such as Curriculum into the Classroom (C2C) materials) in the curriculum translation network and how the interactions between them shape the network and its processes. This article explores the historical context of curriculum change, maps the network of History curriculum actors and then details some of the implications that have emerged such as redefining the place of the History and Geography disciplines, the place of particular actors and the enabling and constraining factors in actors’ engagement and agency during the implementation. Researcher observations, interview and survey data provide insights into the ways in which teachers shape their own professional practices in response to curriculum change.
Negotiating the Dominant Discourses of Explicit Instruction and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in the Far North Queensland Context:A Teacher’s Journey
Authors: D’Aietti Karen , Lewthwaite Brian , Chigeza Philemon
Published: July 2017

This study took place on a remote Torres Strait (TS) island in Far North Queensland (FNQ). It focused on my teaching journey in a grade 6/7 classroom. Through an Action Research (AR) methodology the study documents my efforts to navigate and respond to two teaching models – Explicit Instruction (EI) and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP), both of which inform policy statements in the region. As well, this study highlights the tensions that arose as a result of navigating this space. Using a reflective journal, informal student dialogue sessions, yarning circles, student work samples and teacher observations, I endeavoured to adjust my practice to determine how best to meet my learners’ needs, preferences and learning styles. Through on-going critical reflective practice, data collection and analysis my teaching practice underwent transformation. In addition to the critical reflective practice of my own teaching, I frequently engaged with other work colleagues, the aim of which was to both improve and transform my teaching to better serve the needs of my learners, for my overriding intention throughout this journey was not to simply accept, without question, what I was being mandated to teach, but rather to question by truly listening and responding to my students’ voices (Hattie, 2012). The findings of this study strongly suggest that practitioners cannot blindly forge ahead with the EI model, but rather this model must be adjusted if practitioners are to truly consider their students from a culturally responsive viewpoint.
The Power of Two: Sharing Leadership for School Improvement in Indigenous Education
Authors: Wilkinson Louise , McGinty Sue
Published: July 2017

Australian schools are now under constant pressure to improve student results, particularly those of Indigenous students. To this end, successful school-community interrelationships are considered especially significant. This research focuses on a microcosm of such relationships, that is the one between Indigenous Education Workers (IEWs)/Community Education Counselors (CECs) and principals in the North Queensland educational region (NQR). It aims to examine and transform the professional relationship between these key people as they respond to and address implementation issues of ‘Closing the Gap’. A qualitative participatory action research multi-site case study guided by a critical theorist framework will be conducted using a mixed methods approach. The research will be used to highlight best practice in educational leadership through planning and action. It has the potential to provide a new way of looking at educational leadership within the case study schools, NQR, and potentially to the wider system in the state of Queensland.
Australia’s Education Futures and the East-Side Neighbours
Authors: Boulard Florence Monique
Published: July 2017

In 2014, the importance of providing all young Australians with opportunities to be actively engaged with and literate in the cultures and languages of Asia continues to be evident in curriculum documents and the media. Whilst there is wide spread agreement that the study of Asian perspectives is important for the successful future of many young Australians, one could question why none of the countries located to the east of Australia have been mentioned in either the Melbourne Declaration (Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs, 2008) or the Australian curriculum, as these countries are also some of Australia’s closest neighbours. If Australia, as a nation, is truly aiming to develop its young people to be global citizens through the teaching and learning of different cultures and beliefs, then it does not seem unreasonable to say that young Australians also need to develop an appreciation for their East-side neighbours. However, as it stands the curriculum is argued as a crowded place; adding might result in the loss of something else. This article demonstrates how the French language classroom can be used as a means to contribute to developing the international-mindedness of young Australians in regards to their East-side neighbours without adding to the crowding of the current Australian Curriculum.
Understanding the Social Experience of Education from Adult Learners in South Australian Rural Communities
Authors: Marchant Jillian Marchant , Taylor Pauline
Published: July 2017

This article offers a preliminary overview of a study that investigates the experiences of adult learners residing in rural communities in the state of South Australia. Online delivery of adult education is growing, allowing more individuals who are remote from learning sites to engage with further education. Increased educational opportunity to participate in learning as well as social policy developments with an emphasis on continuing education offers a chance in research to understand the developments generated by adult education. The work presented here shows a way of investigating social engagement offered through education, especially those that allow rural students to enhance their chances across the life course. It does so through engaging with the reports from adult students. Understanding the role of education through the social experiences of adult students in rural communities highlights the role of education in the areas of personal, social and community development.
Facebook: An Affinity Space for Young People’s Environmental Learning and Action
Authors: Field Ellen
Published: July 2017

This paper draws on my dissertation research, that is focused on elucidating the substance, structure, and dynamics of how youth are engaging in interest-driven environmental peer-to-peer learning and activism within social networking “affinity spaces”. Affinity spaces – virtual or physical - are locations where groups of people are drawn together because of an engagement or shared interest in a common activity (Gee, 2005). My research is situated within a constructivist research paradigm and employs ethnographic methods to gain “insider” understandings of teen social media practices that relate to environmental learning and action, as experienced by the teens themselves (Lankshear et al, 2011). Drawing upon data obtained from surveys, social media observation, and interviews with youth from 11 different interest-driven environmentally-focused Facebook groups, I will discuss variations of the networks and interactions. Specifically, I will explore the network structure and various interactional dynamics related to: scale of network, leadership, membership, and adult facilitators. Along with these findings, I will offer some recommendations for adult facilitators in regards to fostering environmental learning and action in youth-driven affinity spaces.
Behind the Scenes: Transversality of Invisible Lines and Knowledges
Authors: Lundberg Anita , Glowczewski Barbara
Published: July 2017

This special issue draws on ideas from two international meetings of the TransOceanik Associated International Laboratory (LIA). One was held in Paris at the Collège de France in 2014, and the other in Brazil at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, in 2013. The meetings explored the themes ‘Behind the scenes’ (L’envers du décor) and ‘Blurred Interfaces’ (Interfaces troubles).The papers and filmed discussions presented here show the emergence of lines between transoceanic scenes which have been rendered invisible by colonial history. These threads begin to appear in various forms, including through resistance and Kriolisation in Indigenous North-Western Australia (Préaud); or through the tracing of political histories of colonial territories and slavery across the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans, and their connection with the contemporary neoliberal order and slavery (Vergès). Also analysed are different forms of performance of historical invisibility: the Carnival of Martinique, for instance, is a stage for the interstitial spaces of French colonialism in the Caribbean islands (Bruneteaux); while the Umbanda Afro-Brazilian cult is encouraging the emergence of indigenous entities alongside the African Orixas in Manaus, Brazil (Montardo). The voice of indigenous people is also coming out from invisibility through different political scenes such as the cosmopolitical discourse of a Yanomami Association in Brazil (Araujo). Despite discrimination and violence faced by many indigenous peoples, Brazil encourages lines of connection and difference through various initiatives, such as a film festival residency programme in Recife that brought together two indigenous film makers, one from Brazil and one from Australia (Athias). Included in this collection is a filmed discussion (Vimeo and Transcript) between four indigenous scholars – three from Brazil (Antunes, Narciso & Tschucambang) and one from Australia (Lenoy) – as they share experiences of the political struggles involved in bringing their cultural heritages into visibility.This special edition of Etropic seeks to sketch these cartographies of lines of existence and their translocal connections that, although ‘invisibilised’ by history and the current economic and political stage, are threading their way to the front, or working to make a better life in the back stage.
A Cartography of Invisible Lives
Authors: Vergès Françoise
Published: July 2017

Slave trade and slavery can be looked at as the first instance of the organization on a global scale of a mobile, racialized and gendered workforce that disrupted social and cultural categories of “free” and “unfree” labor, gender, sexuality and race. Looking at the long history of the entanglement between free and bonded labour renews our understanding of why trafficking human bodies and enslavement coexist alongside the post-Fordist organization of international divisions of labor.
The Others and My Image: Debate on Indigenous Representation with Martu and Pankararu Filmmakers
Authors: Athias Renato
Published: July 2017

What interests us in this paper is to explore some issues related to the genre of documentary that we usually call the "ethnographic film" focused on the experience of two indigenous filmmakers on a residence project during the 5th International Ethnographic Film Festival of Recife (FIFER) in 2013. The Martu-Pankararu Project was an “exchange” programme between a filmmaker of the Martu people, from Central Australia, and a filmmaker of the Pankararu people, from the interior of Pernambuco in Brazil. The result of this activity is closely linked with the concept of representation used in the disciplinary field of visual anthropology.
In Defence of the Dingo
Authors: Caltabiano Nerina
Published: July 2017

At dusk on the 17th August 1980, a Sunday, in the heart of the Australian continent at Ayers Rock, Lindy Chamberlain cried out “My God! My God! The dingo’s got my baby!” Lindy, wife of Michael Chamberlain, a Seventh Day Adventist minister, and mother of two sons Aidan and Regan, was referring to her third child, daughter Azaria, who was just nine weeks old. The ensuing inquests, court cases and media furore, in which culpability for the disappearance of baby Azaria was attributed to members of the Chamberlain family, or persons unknown, or the dingo, resulted in Lindy being convicted and charged with the murder of her baby, and husband Michael being given a suspended sentence as an accessory. Over seven years later, after several appeals, both were acquitted. The precise nature of Azaria’s fate has never been established and her body was never recovered.
Tropic Days: Literature and Art of North Queensland
Authors: Pierce Peter
Published: July 2017

The following is a transcript of the 2004 Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Lecture presented at Mackay by Profesor Peter Pierce, Chair of Australian Literature at James Cook University.
2007 Colin Roderick Lecture
Authors: Rothwell Nicholas
Published: July 2017

Let me thank my audience for coming to listen to me today: let me thank the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies for inviting me to give this year’s Colin Roderick Lectures.I like to think that Professor Roderick would have looked kindly on the choice of a lecturer drawn from the bleak, ambiguous demi-monde where journalism and literary endeavours meet - for he was involved, as many of you will know, during his days as an editor at Angus and Robertson, in the celebrated libel case in 1961 over “The Bandar-Log,” a novel, still unpublished, by the distinguished Canberra press gallery journalist, Alan Reid. Roderick’s own writings had a strong influence on me at a particular point in my path as an author: but the one act of his that resonates most strongly in my thoughts is the decision he made, 40 years ago, to establish a centre for the study of Australian writing here in the North.
Le sentiment d’incompétence pédagogique des enseignants en début de carrière et le soutien à l’insertion professionnelle
Authors: Martineau Stéphane , Presseau Annie
Published: July 2017

Les premières années dans une carrière sont cruciales pour quiconque. Cela est d’autant plus vrai pour la profession enseignante. On qualifie souvent l’entrée dans la carrière de « période de survie ». Le « choc de la réalité » s’accompagne généralement de la sensation d’être vulnérable. Durant leurs premières années, de nombreux enseignants éprouvent de multiples difficultés dans leur quête d’accomplissement professionnel. Ce court texte rend compte des résultats de deux recherches exploratoires menées entre 1999 et 2001. Dans la première, l’objectif général était d’exposer la nature et les caractéristiques du sentiment d’incompétence ressenti par les enseignants nouvellement en exercice dans les écoles secondaires québécoises. Dans la deuxième, nous avons recueilli le point de vue de quelques directeurs d’école.
The Use of Think-aloud Methods in Qualitative Research An Introduction to Think-aloud Methods
Authors: Charters Elizabeth
Published: July 2017

Think-aloud is a research method in which participants speak aloud any words in their mind as they complete a task. A review of the literature has shown that think-aloud research methods have a sound theoretical basis and provide a valid source of data about participant thinking, especially during language based activities. However, a researcher needs to design a process which takes into account a number of concerns, by selecting a suitable task, a role for the researcher, a source of triangulation, and, most importantly, an appropriate method of interpretation. This paper argues that think-aloud research can be effectively interpreted through a qualitative lens. A qualitative approach also has implications for the choice of participant(s) and the treatment of the data. Participants should be treated as quasi-researchers, and their efforts rewarded with reciprocity.
Forming Social Justice Projects: Student Activists Reflect on Coalition-Building
Authors: E. Lund Darren
Published: July 2017

Student activists share their experiences with racism and more specifically, their attempts to form school diversity initiatives. The author outlines a problematic lack of engagement of student activists in the scholarly literature on social justice, particularly related to their undervalued role as leaders in school-based antiracist coalitions. Excerpts from in-depth interviews with seven student participants in western Canadian schools offer new understandings on the potential of school-based activists. They explain the challenges and successes in building and sustaining activist coalitions and in pursuing their social justice efforts beyond school. Their contributions represent new voices to join the ongoing conversation in educational research and community activism.
Complete Issue (W. Richard Bond Editor)
Authors: Bond W. Richard
Published: July 2017

This is the complete issue compiled in one downloadable file.
Overcoming the Stress Cycle through Relational Teacher Development
Authors: Kitchen Julian
Published: July 2017

There is little doubt that teachers in Ontario, like their peers throughout the industrial world, have experienced considerable stress during an era of wholesale educational restructuring. When systemic change is compounded by school and personal factors, stress can become overwhelming for some teachers. Troman and Woods (2001), who conducted a qualitative study of twenty teachers who felt they were suffering from anxiety, depression o r stress-related illness, reported the "drip, drip" effect of change and criticism meant that

"The teachers felt humiliated, tormented, disparaged and overloaded" (p .63).
Action Research: Traditions and Perspectives
Authors: Smith Mark , Doyle Michele
Published: July 2017

In the literature, discussion of action research tends to fall into two distinctive camps. The British tradition - especially that linked to education - tends to view action research as research oriented toward the enhancement of direct practice. For example, Carr and Kemmis provide a classic definition:
Health Education Re-conceptualized and Its Implications for Ontario School Health Education Curriculum
Authors: Lu Chunlei
Published: July 2017

A health crisis alarm is sounding across North America. As Rob Merrifield, the Chair of the Standing Committee on Health of the House of Commons of Canada declared, “For the first time in recorded history, our younger generation are expected to live shorter lives than their parents due to obesity. New and aggressive action is required to address this complex, and ultimately very costly, problem (House of Commons of Canada, 2007). Physically inactivity significantly worsens as children grow older, and Canada has received a failing D grade for the third straight year in 2007 (Active Healthy Kids Canada, 2007).
Thermal environment and microhabitat of ornate box turtle hibernacula
Authors: Milanovich Joseph R. , Struecker Brock P. , Warcholek Stanislaw A. , Harden Leigh Anne
Published: July 2017

Box turtle populations are under significant threat from historic and current alterations of land‐use where remaining populations often occur in remnant patches of suitable habitat surrounded by a heterogeneous mixture of anthropogenically altered, unsuitable habitat. Ornate box turtles Terrapene ornata are a prairie‐dependent species, are considered Near Threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and are Endangered or Threatened within many US states. Since their range exists largely in northern latitudes, aspects of hibernacula are particularly important for winter survival. How box turtles select hibernacula within prairies is likely of great importance to better understand which microhabitats are selected for and to identify areas of suitable habitat for management purposes. Using radio telemetry in conjunction with temperature dataloggers (iButtons), we examined the phenology and thermal characteristics of box turtle hibernation, and quantified microhabitat selection of their hibernacula in remnant prairie patches. We monitored hibernation initiation/termination phenology and turtle carapace temperatures, and quantified vegetative and soil microhabitat variables of hibernacula for seven turtles in 2014/2015 and 18 turtles in 2015/2016. Box turtles initiated (descended into hibernacula) and terminated (ascended out of hibernacula) at similar time periods across two years. Although the ambient thermal environment consistently experienced temperatures below freezing, turtle hibernacula offered a buffer against those temperatures and thus the temperature of turtle carapaces never fell below freezing. Turtles selected microhabitat hibernacula with higher percentages of sand, leaf litter and bare ground, and lower percentages of clay, silt, shrubs and herbaceous ground cover. Our study suggests the phenology of box turtle hibernation may be similar across years and that hibernacula selection is driven by above‐ and belowground characteristics that ultimately lead to a more stable and warmer thermal environment.
Analysis of Factors Affecting Second Language Acquisition
Authors: Adwani Priya , Shrivastava Sanjay
Published: July 2017

The purport of this paper is to provide an overview of five factors affecting second language acquisition (SLA). The factors include vocabulary, grammar, and interference of mother tongue (L1), self-efficacy and motivation. These factors are vital to research for the process of acquiring second language. Language is composed of vocabulary words which are synchronized by grammar affected by first language .Self efficacy is a consequential component of social cognitive and this entire process of second language acquisition is possible by the factor of motivation. Motivation is additionally a consequential contributor to language achievement in terms of linguistic outcomes.Study of these factors synthesize in the process of acquiring second language resulting with possible suggestions.Int. J. Soc. Sc. Manage. Vol. 4, Issue-3: 158-164
The Development of Accelerated Learning System to Enhance Motivation in Business English Learning for Undergraduate Programs
Authors: Thapphet Saowanee , Prachyapruit Apipa , Bovornsiri Varaporn
Published: July 2017

This research aimed to 1) analyse the situations and problems of Business English instruction, 2) examine the accelerated learning system to enhance motivation in Business English learning for undergraduate programmes by means of a focus group of 10 people, and 3) evaluate the accelerated learning system to enhance motivation in Business English learning for undergraduate programmes. The sample consisted of 30 Chairs of Management, the focus group with 10 experts, and the experimentation with 34 students, while the three steps of the research process included 1) the examination of concepts and theories, 2) the learning system development, and 3) the learning system experimentation. The data were analysed using percentages, mean, standard deviation, and t-test (dependent samples), and the paired difference was analysed using LSD and one-way analysis of variance. According to the results of the learning system development, the system consists of the following components: 1) input, 2) process, and 3) output and feedback. Meanwhile, the system process elements include the: 1) principles, 2) objectives and 3) evaluation and assessment of training, contents, training activities, and roles of instructors and learners. The learning system evaluation results reveal that the pre- and post-trial difference of learners’ Business English knowledge to be at the statistical significance level of .05. Also, the pre- and post-trial motivation was different with an increase at the statistical significance level of .05. With respect to the level of satisfaction towards the learning system, the learners’ satisfaction towards the learning system was found to be at the highest level.Int. J. Soc. Sc. Manage. Vol. 4, Issue-3: 185-191
Factors Affecting Innovative Work Behavior of Employees in Local Administrative Organizations in the South of Thailand
Authors: Chatchawan Rutchapong , Trichandhara Kanon , Rinthaisong Idsaratt
Published: July 2017

This study aimed to develop a conceptual framework of factors affecting innovative work behavior of employeers in local administrative organizations. The study was conducted through a review of literature and document analysis. The results were presented in a form of descriptive analysis. The results show that team climate inventory, learning orientation, organizational supoortiveness, and transformational leadership play a direct role in developing innovative work behavior. Meanwhile, organizational supportiveness indirectly affects team climate inventry and transformational leadership indirectly affects learning orientation. Int. J. Soc. Sc. Manage. Vol. 4, Issue-3: 154-157
In, Of, and Beyond Diaspora? Mapping, Migration, and the Production of Space among Nigerian Pentecostals
Authors: Coleman Simon , Maier Katrin
Published: July 2017

We explore the production of space and place among Nigerian Pentecostal members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God by looking at tensions and overlaps between diasporic and Pentecostal identities as verbally expressed or mapped by believers based in London, England. In doing so, we examine the utility but also the ambiguities involved in analyzing such Christians through theoretical frames suggested by scholars of diaspora. Spatial tropes of “homeland,” “horizon,” “city,” “nation,” and “globe” form much of the focus of our study as we show how they are invoked within and beyond church activity, and contribute to complex forms of mapping that are evident not only in conventional physical representations but also in sermons, conversations, and other narratives. We see such mapping as indicating the shifting saliences diasporic and Pentecostal identities may have in believers’ lives over time. Overall, we argue that it is possible to see informants as moving between different perspectives as they are positioned, and position themselves, “in,” “of,” and “beyond” a Nigerian diaspora.
Migration, Diaspora, and Religious Pilgrimage in Comparative Perspective: Sacred Geographies and Ethical Landscapes
Authors: Liebelt Claudia , Shenar Gabriele , Werbner Pnina
Published: July 2017

Against Ghassan Hage’s theorization of migration “guilt”—the view that migration entails a sense of rupture, animating an unfulfilled desire to recapture a lost, imaginary, subjective wholeness—this article explores the conjunctures of migration and religious pilgrimage in the creation of new, transcendent moral subjectivities away from “home.” Taking four case studies—Christian Filipino migrants working in Israel, Muslim Pakistani immigrants to the United Kingdom, Indian Jewish Bene Israel immigrants to Zion, and Hadramati Sufi itinerant migrants across the Indian Ocean—we reflect on a central theme animating the theorization of religion and diaspora: that of movement away from home as religious and moral exile, and the sense of subjective alienation and yearning it entails. By going on pilgrimage, we show, migrants deny the rupture migration has entailed, creating their own sacred geographies that recapture and renew an imaginary wholeness. They redefine their sufferings, hard labor, and difficult living conditions as a religious sacrifice or sacred journey, imbuing the act of abandoning a former home or homeland and its familiar surroundings with ethical meaning. By becoming pilgrims, migrants of diverse origins travel across international borders while extending trans-local pilgrimage cults as they migrate internationally. Migration and pilgrimage are thus, we argue, mutually reconfigured as embodied and subjectively transformative forms of movement.
Diaspora by Design? Multiple Allegiances and Belonging in Contemporary Global Catholicism
Authors: Gallo Ester
Published: July 2017

The article explores the semantic and experiential meanings of diaspora within the context of global Catholicism. Drawing from research conducted in Italy, the United Kingdom, and Turkey with the reformist movement known as the Neocatechumenal Way (NCW), the analysis delves into the broader question of how the refashioning of global religions is transforming the relation between people, places, and belonging and is contributing to the emotional, practical, and organizational dimensions of diaspora. The discussion first delves into the role of new missionary subjects in cementing a new proximity between the world Catholic population and Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern holy centers of Catholicism. Second, it draws from current definitions of diaspora to consider how a diasporic identity is constructed by dispersed NCW communities in daily lives and rituals. The analysis goes beyond the dimensions of ethnicity and migration, and claims the need to reassert the importance of religious case studies in our understanding of contemporary diaspora. The case of the NCW holds relevance here, insofar as it unravels how a reformist movement, by gaining progressive institutionalization within the Catholic Church, is also undermining some of its consolidated features by creating renewed cartographies of religious belonging. The article argues that the traditional semantics of diaspora—those developed in religious paradigms—deserve renewed attention in the social sciences in order to map ongoing transformations in world religions, and the attendant shifting identifications that characterize even more institutionalized religions like Catholicism.
Shrines and Identities in Britain’s Nepali Diaspora
Authors: Gellner David N. , Hausner Sondra L. , Laksamba Chandra , Adhikari Krishna P.
Published: July 2017

This article examines the tension between publicly affirmed religious identification and private religious practice among Britain’s Nepali diaspora population. It compares census and survey figures for religious affiliation with religious shrines in people’s homes. In some cases there is complete congruence between religious affiliation and home worship (most strikingly in the cases of Sherpas, whose affiliation and shrines are unequivocally Buddhist). Among many other groups, however, there is plenty of evidence of multiple belonging. The most common case is singular identification for census purposes and multiple practice, but there are also many instances of multiple identification when offered the opportunity. For example, when asked for their religion, Gurungs often affirm a Buddhist identity, but when given the option to be both Hindu and Buddhist, they frequently embrace it as it more closely describing their actual practice. Many Kirats keep no shrine at home because they believe that their tribal tradition is properly aniconic. Our material clearly shows that the distribution of ecumenical attitudes is not random, but reflects particular ethnic, regional, and caste histories within Nepal. The ethnic/caste makeup of Britain’s Nepali diaspora is not identical to that of Nepal, mainly because of the history of Gurkha recruitment, and this demographic shift is reflected in the higher proportion of Buddhists in Britain. Nonetheless, we suspect that the findings of this study would be replicated in an urban context in Nepal.
Transnational Associational Life and Political Mobilization of Ecuadorians and Argentines in Spain and Italy: What Role for Sending State Policies?
Authors: Margheritis Ana
Published: July 2017

To what extent and how can sending states encourage migrant organizational efforts and transnational political engagements? This study addresses this question for the cases of Ecuadorians and Argentines in Spain and Italy. The findings show that both sending states have recently innovated, reaching out to citizens abroad through a similar combination of policy instruments: rhetorical changes, institutional developments, enfranchisement, and linkage programs. The scope, intensity, and results of outreach efforts differ not only across migrant communities but also localities, suggesting the need to explore factors such as domestic and intrastate politics, migrants’ socioeconomic and educational profile and perceptions of state institutions, spatial distance, and the type of private-public policy networks at migrant destinations. The conclusions indicate that states have been relatively effective in tapping into migrants’ symbolic and emotional attachments to the homeland, but they have obtained meager results in terms of grounding such attachment in strong organizations, persistent transnational political engagement, and partnership links. The modality of policy implementation resulted in a sporadic and “sentimental” political mobilization of both Ecuadorian and Argentine emigrant communities, which still confront serious organizational problems and remain far from working as strong influential groups at home or ethnic lobbies in receiving countries.
Forage Plant Ecophysiology: A Discipline Come of Age
Authors: Matthew Cory , Techio Pereira Lilian
Published: July 2017

The first use of the term “ecology” is credited to German scientist Ernst Haekel in 1866, who used the word to describe the total science of relationships between organisms and their environment [1].[...]
Novel Method Based on Spin-Coating for the Preparation of 2D and 3D Si-Based Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries
Authors: Gabard Marie , Zaghrioui Mustapha , Chouteau David , Grimal Virginie , Tillocher Thomas , Ghamouss Fouad , Poirot Nathalie
Published: July 2017

The present study describes a novel strategy for preparing thin Silicon 2D and 3D electrodes for lithium ion batteries by a spin coating method. A homogeneous and stable suspension of Si nanoparticles (SiNPs) was prepared by dispersing the nanoparticles in 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) or in the room temperature ionic liquid 1-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (Pyr14TFSI). This proposed methodology was successfully employed to prepare 2D and 3D with different aspect ratios electrodes. Both 2D and 3D materials were then used as anode materials. The 2D SiNPs anodes exhibit a high reversible capacity, which is close to 3500 mAh·g−1 at C/10. For a higher discharge rate, the capacity of the 2D anode is considerably improved by dispersing the nanoparticles in Pyr14TFSI instead of NMP solvent. In order to further improve the anode performances, graphene particles were added to the SiNPs suspension. The anodes prepared using this suspension method exhibit relatively low columbic efficiency during the first few cycles (less than 30%) and low reversible capacity (2800 mAh·g−1 at C/10). The 3D SiNPs (NMP) electrode shows a higher intensity during cyclic voltammograms and a better stability under galvanostatic cycling than the 2D SiNPs (NMP) electrode.
On Increased Arc Endurance of the Cu–Cr System Materials
Authors: Gershman Iosif , Gershman Eugeniy , Mironov Alexander , Fox-Rabinovich German , Veldhuis Stephen
Published: July 2017

The study deals with arc resistance of composite Cu–Cr system materials of various compositions. The microstructure of materials exposed to an electric arc was investigated. Despite varying initial chromium contents, the same structure was formed in the arc exposure zones of all the tested materials.
Potential Arbitrage Revenue of Energy Storage Systems in PJM
Authors: Salles Mauricio , Huang Junling , Aziz Michael , Hogan William
Published: July 2017

The volatility of electricity prices is attracting interest in the opportunity of providing net revenue by energy arbitrage. We analyzed the potential revenue of a generic Energy Storage System (ESS) in 7395 different locations within the electricity markets of Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland interconnection (PJM), the largest U.S. regional transmission organization, using hourly locational marginal prices over the seven-year period 2008–2014. Assuming a price-taking ESS with perfect foresight in the real-time market, we optimized the charge-discharge profile to determine the maximum potential revenue for a 1 MW system as a function of energy/power ratio, or rated discharge duration, from 1 to 14 h, including a limited analysis of sensitivity to round-trip efficiency. We determined minimum potential revenue with a similar analysis of the day-ahead market. We presented the distribution over the set of nodes and years of price, price volatility, and maximum potential arbitrage revenue. From these results, we determined the breakeven overnight installed cost of an ESS below which arbitrage would be profitable, its dependence on rated discharge duration, its distribution over grid nodes, and its variation over the years. We showed that dispatch into real-time markets based on day-ahead market settlement prices is a simple, feasible method that raises the lower bound on the achievable arbitrage revenue.
Study on Electrode Potential of Zinc Nickel Single-Flow Battery during Charge
Authors: Yao Shouguang , Liao Peng , Xiao Min , Cheng Jie , Cai Wenwen
Published: July 2017

In this study of zinc nickel single-flow batteries (ZNB), the ion concentration of the convection area and the electrode surface of the battery runner were investigated first. Then, the relationships between the electrode over-potential (or equilibrium potential) and the charge time were studied. This was based on the electrochemical reaction rate equation and the equilibrium potential equation, from which a mathematical model of the stack voltage (as affected by the internal parameters of the battery) was obtained. By comparison with experimental data, it was determined that the relative error of the simulated stack voltage of a 300 Ah battery was restricted to <0.62% while charging under the condition of 100 A constant-current charging. This shows that the mathematical model can accurately describe the dynamic characteristics of the battery stack voltage, and is very accurate for predicting the stack voltage of the battery during charging under 100 A constant-current charging conditions.
Modeling the Effect of Physical Activity on Obesity in China: Evidence from the Longitudinal China Health and Nutrition Study 1989–2011
Authors: Zhang Tao
Published: July 2017

Although physical activity has been widely recognized as an important influential factor in determining the risk of obesity, the results in the existing literature empirically examining such issue are mixed. Especially for China, relevant studies are rarely found. One aim of this study is to test the direction of effects between obesity and physical activity. It uses longitudinal data to investigate the relationship and causality between physical activity and obesity for both children and adults in China. The longitudinal data and dynamic panel model used here can yield more solid results than the other studies employing cross-sectional data, particularly considering strict endogeneity and self-selection. It is discovered that obesity does not affect children’s physical activity but that obese children are more sedentary. For adults in China, physical activity can significantly reduce the weight, but not in the opposite direction.
PGK1 Drives Hepatocellular Carcinoma Metastasis by Enhancing Metabolic Process
Authors: Xie Huijun , Tong Guihui , Zhang Yupei , Liang Shu , Tang Kairui , Yang Qinhe
Published: July 2017

During the proliferation and metastasis, the tumor cells prefer glycolysis (Warburg effect), but its exact mechanism remains largely unknown. In this study, we demonstrated that phosphoglycerate kinase 1 (PGK1) is an important enzyme in the pathway of metabolic glycolysis. We observed a significant overexpression of PGK1 in hepatocellular carcinoma tissues, and a correlation between PGK1 expression and poor survival of hepatocellular carcinoma patients. Also, the depletion of PGK1 dramatically reduced cancer cell proliferation and metastasis, indicating an oncogenic role of PGK1 in liver cancer progression. Further experiments showed that PGK1 played an important role in MYC-induced metabolic reprogramming, which led to an enhanced Warburg effect. Our results revealed a new effect of PGK1, which can provide a new treatment strategy for hepatocellular carcinoma, as PGK1 is used to indicate the prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).