bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Counseling- and mHealth-Based Physical Activity Intervention for Pregnant Women With Diabetes: The Fit for Two Pilot Study (Preprint)
Authors: Larsen Britta , Micucci Stephanie , Hartman Sheri J , Ramos Gladys
Published: March 2020

BACKGROUND

Diabetes during pregnancy poses serious health risks to both mother and child. Regular physical activity can reduce these risks, yet few clinic-based interventions of physical activity for pregnant women with diabetes have been attempted.

OBJECTIVE

The purpose of this single-arm pilot trial is to assess the feasibility and acceptability, and explore the potential efficacy of a counseling- and mobile health–based physical activity intervention for pregnant women with diabetes.

METHODS

Participants (N=17) who had type 2 or gestational diabetes, could read and speak in English or Spanish, and were between 10 and 27 weeks of gestation were recruited from the University of California San Diego Diabetes and Pregnancy Program. Participants engaged in a one-on-one counseling and goal-setting session immediately following a clinic visit with their physician. They were given a Fitbit and shown how to use the Fitbit app, including entering personalized step goals, and were encouraged to build up to 10,000 daily steps. Daily steps were recorded for 12 weeks, until they were 36 weeks’ gestation, or until 1 week before they gave birth, whichever came first. Feasibility was measured by recruitment, retention, and adherence, and acceptability was measured using consumer satisfaction questionnaires and follow-up interviews. Potential efficacy was explored by examining changes in daily steps over time.

RESULTS

The participants were primarily Hispanic (13/17, 76%), had public insurance (15/17, 88%), and had type 2 diabetes (12/17, 71%). Of the 17 patients who began the intervention, 76% (13/17) completed a follow-up visit, and 71% (12/17) continued wearing the Fitbit regularly after 8 weeks in the intervention. Adherence in wearing the Fitbit was relatively high, with a median wear adherence of 90% of days. The intervention was generally well accepted, with 85% (11/13) indicating that they were motivated to exercise more following the counseling session, 85% (11/13) indicating that the Fitbit helped increase their activity, and 92% (12/13) recommending the program overall. Mean daily steps increased from baseline (mean 6122, SD 2439) to week 3 (mean 6269, SD 2166) and then decreased through week 12 (mean 4191, SD 2228).

CONCLUSIONS

High acceptability, retention, and adherence suggest that this may be a promising approach to delivering a simple, low-burden intervention in a clinical setting to a high-risk, underserved population. A randomized controlled trial is needed to determine whether this approach is effective in slowing the reduction in activity typically seen throughout pregnancy.

CLINICALTRIAL

ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03302377; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03302377
Evaluation of Machine Learning Approaches for Automated Diagnosis of COVID-19 using X-Ray images (Preprint)
Authors: Mohammed Mazin , Hameed Abdulkareem Karrar , S. Maashi Mashael , A. Mostafa Salama A. Mostafa , Baz Abdullah , Arbaiy Nureize , Garcia-Zapirain Begonya , Alhakami Hosam , Alhakami Wajdi , Alhakami Wajdi , de la Torre Díez Isabel , Idrees Abdulmaged Alyaa
Published: March 2020

BACKGROUND

In most recent times, global concern has been caused by a coronavirus (COVID19), which is considered a global health threat due to its rapid spread across the globe. Machine learning (ML) is a computational method that can be used to automatically learn from experience and improve the accuracy of predictions.

OBJECTIVE

In this study, the use of machine learning has been applied to Coronavirus dataset of 50 X-ray images to enable the development of directions and detection modalities with risk causes.The dataset contains a wide range of samples of COVID-19 cases alongside SARS, MERS, and ARDS. The experiment was carried out using a total of 50 X-ray images, out of which 25 images were that of positive COVIDE-19 cases, while the other 25 were normal cases.

METHODS

An orange tool has been used for data manipulation. To be able to classify patients as carriers of Coronavirus and non-Coronavirus carriers, this tool has been employed in developing and analysing seven types of predictive models. Models such as , artificial neural network (ANN), support vector machine (SVM), linear kernel and radial basis function (RBF), k-nearest neighbour (k-NN), Decision Tree (DT), and CN2 rule inducer were used in this study.Furthermore, the standard InceptionV3 model has been used for feature extraction target.

RESULTS

The various machine learning techniques that have been trained on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) dataset with improved ML techniques parameters. The data set was divided into two parts, which are training and testing. The model was trained using 70% of the dataset, while the remaining 30% was used to test the model. The results show that the improved SVM achieved a F1 of 97% and an accuracy of 98%.

CONCLUSIONS

:. In this study, seven models have been developed to aid the detection of coronavirus. In such cases, the learning performance can be improved through knowledge transfer, whereby time-consuming data labelling efforts are not required.the evaluations of all the models are done in terms of different parameters. it can be concluded that all the models performed well, but the SVM demonstrated the best result for accuracy metric. Future work will compare classical approaches with deep learning ones and try to obtain better results.

CLINICALTRIAL

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Cloud-Based System for Effective Surveillance and Control of COVID-19: Useful Experiences From Hubei, China (Preprint)
Authors: Gong Mengchun , Liu Li , Sun Xin , Yang Yue , Wang Shuang , Zhu Hong
Published: March 2020

BACKGROUND

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been an unprecedented challenge to the global health care system. Tools that can improve the focus of surveillance efforts and clinical decision support are of paramount importance.

OBJECTIVE

The aim of this study was to illustrate how new medical informatics technologies may enable effective control of the pandemic through the development and successful 72-hour deployment of the Honghu Hybrid System (HHS) for COVID-19 in the city of Honghu in Hubei, China.

METHODS

The HHS was designed for the collection, integration, standardization, and analysis of COVID-19-related data from multiple sources, which includes a case reporting system, diagnostic labs, electronic medical records, and social media on mobile devices.

RESULTS

HHS supports four main features: syndromic surveillance on mobile devices, policy-making decision support, clinical decision support and prioritization of resources, and follow-up of discharged patients. The syndromic surveillance component in HHS covered over 95% of the population of over 900,000 people and provided near real time evidence for the control of epidemic emergencies. The clinical decision support component in HHS was also provided to improve patient care and prioritize the limited medical resources. However, the statistical methods still require further evaluations to confirm clinical effectiveness and appropriateness of disposition assigned in this study, which warrants further investigation.

CONCLUSIONS

The facilitating factors and challenges are discussed to provide useful insights to other cities to build suitable solutions based on cloud technologies. The HHS for COVID-19 was shown to be feasible and effective in this real-world field study, and has the potential to be migrated.
The Impact of Pretrained Language Models on Negation and Speculation Detection in Cross-Lingual Medical Text: Comparative Study (Preprint)
Authors: Rivera Zavala Renzo , Martinez Paloma
Published: March 2020

BACKGROUND

Negation and speculation are critical elements in natural language processing (NLP)-related tasks, such as information extraction, as these phenomena change the truth value of a proposition. In the clinical narrative that is informal, these linguistic facts are used extensively with the objective of indicating hypotheses, impressions, or negative findings. Previous state-of-the-art approaches addressed negation and speculation detection tasks using rule-based methods, but in the last few years, models based on machine learning and deep learning exploiting morphological, syntactic, and semantic features represented as spare and dense vectors have emerged. However, although such methods of named entity recognition (NER) employ a broad set of features, they are limited to existing pretrained models for a specific domain or language.

OBJECTIVE

As a fundamental subsystem of any information extraction pipeline, a system for cross-lingual and domain-independent negation and speculation detection was introduced with special focus on the biomedical scientific literature and clinical narrative. In this work, detection of negation and speculation was considered as a sequence-labeling task where cues and the scopes of both phenomena are recognized as a sequence of nested labels recognized in a single step.

METHODS

We proposed the following two approaches for negation and speculation detection: (1) bidirectional long short-term memory (Bi-LSTM) and conditional random field using character, word, and sense embeddings to deal with the extraction of semantic, syntactic, and contextual patterns and (2) bidirectional encoder representations for transformers (BERT) with fine tuning for NER.

RESULTS

The approach was evaluated for English and Spanish languages on biomedical and review text, particularly with the BioScope corpus, IULA corpus, and SFU Spanish Review corpus, with F-measures of 86.6%, 85.0%, and 88.1%, respectively, for NeuroNER and 86.4%, 80.8%, and 91.7%, respectively, for BERT.

CONCLUSIONS

These results show that these architectures perform considerably better than the previous rule-based and conventional machine learning–based systems. Moreover, our analysis results show that pretrained word embedding and particularly contextualized embedding for biomedical corpora help to understand complexities inherent to biomedical text.
Application of Magnetic Resonance Image Intelligent Data Acquisition in Ovarian Cancer (Preprint)
Authors: Liang Tingting , Dong Yanlei , Zhao Xinrui , Wang Lu , Xu Hui , Marshalla Osborn
Published: March 2020

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As a diagnostic method with no radiation, high resolution of soft tissue, and different imaging methods, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) intelligent data acquisition is more and more widely used in the examination of abdominal, pelvic, and other organ lesions. In order to study the diagnostic effect of multi-mode magnetic resonance intelligent data acquisition on ovarian cancer and the ovarian cancer model modified based on p53-/-+Myc+ASAP1 gene, NSG mice were selected as experimental subjects in this study. 293FT cell lines packaging p53, Myc, and ASAP1(ArfGAP with SH3 domain, Ankyrin repeat and PH domain 1) recombinant lentivirus were inoculated into mouse ovarian epithelial cells to construct mouse ovarian epithelial cell tumor cell lines and their performance was analyzed. According to the different injection cell lines, they were divided into the experimental group and the control group. Tumor samples were collected and the mice were analyzed using immunofluorescence staining and MRI. The results showed that, in the detection of protein expression in genetically modified cell lines, for p53-/-+Myc+ASAP1 fully modified cell lines, the high expression of ASAP1 and Myc functional proteins was detected after the lentivirus containing p53-/-, ASAP1, and Myc were introduced into mouse ovarian epithelial cells, while the expression of p53 protein decreased significantly; after inoculation into mice, it was found that the expression of ASAP1 protein and Myc protein in the experimental group was significantly higher than that in the control group, while the expression of p53 protein in the experimental group was significantly lower than that in the control group, with significant statistical difference; further MRI diagnosis of two groups of mice showed that the ADC (Apparent dispersion coefficient) value of the experimental group was significantly higher than the control group, there were statistically significant differences. Therefore, it was found that p53 gene expression was down-regulated and Myc and ASAPl genes were overexpressed in the tumor tissues and tumor cells formed, and tumor formation differences between the two groups of mice could be obviously found after MRI intelligent data acquisition, which provided experimental basis for early diagnosis of breast cancer in the later clinical stage.
Predicting Current Glycated Hemoglobin Levels in Adults From Electronic Health Records: Validation of Multiple Logistic Regression Algorithm (Preprint)
Authors: Alhassan Zakhriya , Budgen David , Alshammari Riyad , Al Moubayed Noura
Published: March 2020

BACKGROUND

Electronic health record (EHR) systems generate large datasets that can significantly enrich the development of medical predictive models. Several attempts have been made to investigate the effect of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) elevation on the prediction of diabetes onset. However, there is still a need for validation of these models using EHR data collected from different populations.

OBJECTIVE

The aim of this study is to perform a replication study to validate, evaluate, and identify the strengths and weaknesses of replicating a predictive model that employed multiple logistic regression with EHR data to forecast the levels of HbA1c. The original study used data from a population in the United States and this differentiated replication used a population in Saudi Arabia.

METHODS

A total of 3 models were developed and compared with the model created in the original study. The models were trained and tested using a larger dataset from Saudi Arabia with 36,378 records. The 10-fold cross-validation approach was used for measuring the performance of the models.

RESULTS

Applying the method employed in the original study achieved an accuracy of 74% to 75% when using the dataset collected from Saudi Arabia, compared with 77% obtained from using the population from the United States. The results also show a different ranking of importance for the predictors between the original study and the replication. The order of importance for the predictors with our population, from the most to the least importance, is age, random blood sugar, estimated glomerular filtration rate, total cholesterol, non–high-density lipoprotein, and body mass index.

CONCLUSIONS

This replication study shows that direct use of the models (calculators) created using multiple logistic regression to predict the level of HbA1c may not be appropriate for all populations. This study reveals that the weighting of the predictors needs to be calibrated to the population used. However, the study does confirm that replicating the original study using a different population can help with predicting the levels of HbA1c by using the predictors that are routinely collected and stored in hospital EHR systems.
Leadership Amidst Transition and Liminality: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Former Yugoslavia
Authors: Tešan Jesenko , Davison Joan
Published: March 2020

A history of empires and communism created a liminality in the former Yugoslavia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). When leaders throughout the Soviet Bloc began to discredit communism, an opportunity opened for the leadership of B&H to unify the popular will and transition to democracy. Yet, the appropriate leadership, a master of ceremonies from van Gennep and Turner’s perspectives, a philosopher from Plato’s view was absent. Politicians instead repackaged themselves as nationalists and supported extremists and divisive actions, culminating in war. Subsequently, the mechanisms associated with the Dayton Peace Accords conceived to return B&H to normalcy instead made the divisive liminality a new normal as power sharing elites benefitted if they held to nationalist claims and ignored societal reintegration. This, study examines the reasoning and tactics of elites who rejected the mantle of good leadership and now abuse the spirit of the constitutional and institutional power sharing mechanisms to maintain the schizophrenic division and conflict. It also introduces the type of virtuous leader states needed for transition.
Asymmetric Shocks Patterns in the Central African Economic and Monetary Community
Authors: Ouyang Hongbing , Dongfack Laetitia P. Sokeng
Published: March 2020

Assessing the economic efficiency of countries’ participation to a currency union has become a relevant topic since the introduction of the Optimum Currency Area (OCA) theory by Mundell (1961). This paper attempts to evaluate the performance of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CAEMC) as a currency union in the context of exposure to asymmetric shocks. We first identify structural macroeconomic shocks within the region using the Blanchard and Quah Method. We find that aggregate demand shocks fluctuations display more symmetric patterns than those of aggregate supply shocks. Chad is the apparent outlier, as it is the only economy in the monetary union to experience negative supply shocks. This suggests that the loss of monetary sovereignty might result in significant adjustment costs.
Outcome-Based Education Experiences on Business Administration Courses
Authors: Esquivel - Santos Ma. Germina
Published: March 2020

This study determined the Outcome-Based Experiences on Business Administration Courses. The study is Descriptive in nature. Survey questionnaire attached with a consent form and Convenience sampling were utilized in data gathering. For the Data treatment and analysis, frequency count, percentages and weighted mean were utilized. The results of the study revealed that Business Administration students always have Outcome-Based Education experiences on their courses. Though there are factors possible for enhancement.
HERDING BEHAVIOUR AROUND FED FUND RATE ANNOUNCEMENTS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Authors: Arisanti Ike
Published: March 2020

This study aims to detect herding behavior in the Southeast Asian capital market after the announcement of the fed fund rate in 2018. The population used in this study are all companies listed on the Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines stock exchanges. The sample collection technique in this study used purposive sampling. The method used to detect herding behavior using CSAD was developed by Chang, Cheng, and Khorana (2000). The results of the study found a herding behavior. . Empirical test results from the regression showed the coefficient γ2 is negative and meets the level of confidence at the level of 95%. The ability of the regression results to meet the expected level of confidence, then empirically this can conclude the existence of herding behavior. This means supporting the hypothesis in Hi, thus in aggregate it appears that during the observation period herding behavior occurred after the Fed Fund Rate 2018 was announced Keywords : Fund Fed Rates, Herding, Southeast Asia
EVALUATION OF THE SUCCESS OF THE VEHICLE ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM AND ONLINE TAX (SAKPOLE) WITH MODEL DELONE & MCLEAN (Study of success SAKPOLE according to the Central Java provincial Motor vehicle taxpayers)
Authors: Farizi Musyafa Al , Widiarto Ardian , Putri Alvianita Gunawan , Kusuma Septian Yudha , Sari Mella Katrina
Published: March 2020

This research aims to evaluate the success of the Online Tax Vehicle Administration System (SAKPOLE) with the model approach DeLone and McLean. The analysis method used to test the relationship between variables is the analysis path and analysis tool Amos 22.0. In this study the population was taxpayers of vehicles throughout the province of Central Java. While sampling using purposive sampling methods as well as in collecting data with the error Slovin formula 5% data is obtained and can be processed as much as 360 samples.Based on the results of the analysis obtained the conclusion that only the quality of information and services effect positive and significant against the use of the SAKPOLE system. The quality of information and services of SAKPOLE have a positive and significant impact on the taxpayer satisfaction while the quality of the system is not. In addition, the use of SAKPOLE has positive and significant effect on taxpayer satisfaction. And there is a reciprocal relationship between the satisfaction and the use of SAKPOLE against taxpayers ' benefits
SPECIFIC ANTI RULE AVOIDANCE (SAAR): HOW DOES IT AFFECT TAX AVOIDANCE?
Authors: Haryanti Agustin Dwi , Amalia Firda Ayu , Suprapti Eny
Published: March 2020

This study aims to empirically prove the influence of the Specific Anti Avoidance Rule (SAAR), namely transfer pricing, thin capitalization, controlled foreign corporations (CFCs), the use of tax heaven countries, and treaty shopping on tax avoidance. SAAR is a special rule to minimize tax avoidanceThe sample in this study is multinational companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the 2015-2017 period. The method used is multiple linear regression with SPSS version 24. The results show that transfer pricing, thin capitalization, controlled foreign corporations (CFCs), utilization of tax heaven countries, and treaty shopping have no effect on tax avoidance. The absence of influence of the five independent variables on tax avoidance is due to the sample company data and also the proxy used. The results of the study are expected to contribute especially to the government regarding whether SAAR is sufficient to minimize and overcome tax avoidance and can also be a consideration for the government to implement the General Anti Avoidance Rule (GAAR) to cover the weaknesses of SAAR.
ADOPTION OF FREE/OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PRODUCTS IN HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY: AN INDONESIAN CASE STUDY
Authors: Putratama Surya Handika , Ali Syaiful
Published: March 2020

Industri layanan kesehatan secara luas menggunakan produk-produk Sistem Informasi Manajemen Rumah Sakit (SIMRS) tidak berbayar/open source sebagai alternatif dari produk-produk SIMRS komersial. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengidentifikasi faktor-faktor yang membuat institusi mengadopsi produk SIMRS tidak berbayar/open source. Kerangka Teknologi-Organisasi-Lingkungan (TOE) diterapkan untuk memeriksa fenomena adopsi produk tersebut. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan studi kasus. Data dikumpulkan menggunakan pendekatan tatap muka dan wawancara telepon. Tujuh responden dari tiga lembaga berpartisipasi dalam penelitian ini. Hasil menunjukkan tiga faktor utama untuk mengadopsi produk, yaitu (a) biaya adopsi yang terjangkau, (b) fitur produk lengkap, dan (c) dukungan dari pengembang produk. Faktor-faktor lain seperti pengembangan kolaboratif dan dorongan peraturan pemerintah Indonesia juga menentukan keputusan untuk mengadopsi HMIS tidak berbayar/open source.
ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE DETERMIN BANKING ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEM USING STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS IN BANKS
Authors: Azkadela Rachel
Published: March 2020

Sistem Informasi Akuntansi (SIA) dapat menambah nilai bagi suatu perusahaan dengan menghasilkan informasi yang akurat dan tepat waktu. Untuk menghindari kegagalan sistem, maka perlu diketahui faktor-faktor apa saja yang mempengaruhi suatu sistem informasi. Tujuan yang hendak dicapai dari penelitian ini adalah Untuk mengetahui faktor keterlibatan pemakai dalam pengembangan SIA, kemampuan teknik personal, dukungan manajemen puncak, dan program pelatihan dan pendidikan pemakai berpengaruh pada Bank Konvensional. Metode pengumpulan data diperoleh secara langsung yang diperoleh melalui kuesoiner. Data primer yang dikumpulkan oleh penulis adalah jawaban kuesioener oleh para karyawan yang bekerja pada bank konvensionel yang menjadi sampel. Hasil dari penelitian faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi kinerja sistem informasi akuntansi pada Bank Konvensional 2019 adalah keterlibatan pemakai dalam pengembangan SIA dan program pelatihan dan pendidikan pemakai, sedangkan kemampuan teknik personal dan dukungan manajemen puncak tidak berpengaruh.
The Cold War and Africa’s Political Culture
Authors: Kalu Kenneth
Published: March 2020

Leadership and political systems in most of Africa have been described in several negative ways. Paternalism, clientelism, dictatorship, corruption and such pejorative labels have been used to described the type of politics prevalent in most of Africa today. A number of studies have explained Africa’s political challenges in the context of the choices of postcolonial African leaders. Others have pointed to European colonial exploitation and its destructive legacies as the foundations of the perverse political culture that define contemporary Africa. While these factors play important roles in defining the type of politics that has endured in the continent during the past half century, this paper takes a look at another epoch that had significant impacts on Africa’s political culture. The paper argues that the foreign policies of the United States and USSR - two major actors in Africa during the Cold War - had some of the most significant impacts on the political culture that evolved in postcolonial Africa. In pursuit of ideological supremacy, these foreign actors focused on undermining each other, with little consideration on how their actions in Africa were shaping the continent’s political development. By providing military support to opposing forces in African countries, the Cold War actors institutionalized a violent political culture in postcolonial Africa.
Narrative and Critical Imaginations in International Relations
Authors: De Oliveira Jessica da Silva C.
Published: March 2020

Narrative strategies have gained growing attention in IR. One key promise is mobilizing a diversity of interpretations and exploring the politics contestedness in ways that support the view of IR as focused on the multiplicity of the world(s) of international and global affairs. This article brings a broad map of the use of narrative approaches in IR and connects it with Edward Said’s notion of “worldliness” in order to highlight the political aspects of writing and representation within academia. It situates this “narrative turn” within the complexities of a broader context of crisis in Eurocentric forms of knowledge and representation. In addition, it reveals a double movement of scholarly disenchantment and re-enchantment that signals towards the productivity of intellectual unease about representational practices and the place of the “I” voice in academic writing. Bearing in mind these reactions and shared pursuit of a more empathetic relationship between researcher and researched, scholars and the public in general, teachers and students, I thus briefly tell the experience of openly discussing and practicing a narrative approach in the classroom and how students tended to engage (or not) with narrative as a way of making sense of their “I” in IR.
Nigeria - South Africa Rivalry in Quest for Regional Power Status: from Material Potential to UN Security Council Membership
Authors: Omoruyi Ikponmwonsa , Idahosa Stephen Osaherumwen , Mugadam Mahamat Mugadam , Sidibe Oumar
Published: March 2020

The paper explores the role and the power potential of Nigeria and South Africa with special attention to their comparatively high military, economic, political capabilities that enable them to shape and dominate regional agenda. It also analyses the internal, regional and external dynamics within Africa, particularly in Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Southern African Development Community (SADC). The paper further thoroughly examines the hegemonic contest for the UN Security Council membership among the dominant African states through the lens of Ezulwini Consensus, as well as the Pan-African credentials of Nigeria and South Africa in accordance to their contribution to ensuring peace, stability and development on continental and sub-regional levels. Nigeria and South Africa are the most important actors on the African continent, but there are obvious constraints undermining their ability to play an effective regional role. Thus, the research was guided by the comparison case-study of Nigeria and South Africa in crucial for understanding power potential areas. The study concludes that although Pan-Africanism stands of Nigeria and South Africa are commendable, both powers mostly follow this strategy for advancing their national interests. Taking into account the whole set of internal and external factors, both countries need to unite their efforts and practical strategies to advance the common goal of Africa development, peace and security.
The UN Development Decades (1961-2000): Evolution of Appraisal Systems in the Context of Development Theories
Authors: Larionova Marina Vladimirovna
Published: March 2020

The article explores the review and appraisal systems’ dynamics in the period from the First to the Fourth UN Development Decades in the context of the dominant developmental theories’ evolution. To reveal possible interrelations the author uses the methods of comparative assessment and periodization. The overview draws on analysis on resolutions and documents of the UN General Assembly adopted in 1960-2000, expert materials, academic research and international institutions’ reports. Development concepts which emerged in 1960-2000 had an undoubted influence on cooperation for development and the review and appraisal parameters. Developmental stages theory and modernization theory defined the priorities and parameters of the First Development Decade’s (1961-1970). In 1970s, growing economic interdependence, detente and the outcomes of the First Decade’s which showed that development could not be driven exclusively by modernization, industrialization and economic growth, determined emergence of the dependence theory and the alternative development concept. The new thinking was reflected in the provisions of the Second Development Decade. The Third Development Decade (1981-1990) provisions were built on a compromise between the dependence theory, modernization theory and the alternative development concept. For the first time concrete parameters of social development, eradication of poverty and inequality were specified. The Fourth Development Decade provisions revealed the influence of the neoliberalism in its “post-Washington consensus” reincarnation and the sustainable development concept. In the nineties the human development discourse put equality, wellbeing and freedom at the core of the development, bringing a new focus on the social and human development indicators.
Davidson, A.B. (Eds.). (2019). Africa in the Fate of Russia, Russia in the Fate of Africa. Moscow: Politicheskaya encyclopedia publ., 606 p. (In Russian)
Authors: Gavristova Tatiana Mikhailovna
Published: March 2020

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Hino, Н., Langer, A., Lonsdale, J. & Stewart, F. (Eds.). (2019). From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures. Reflections on Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 447 p
Authors: Zabella Anastasia Aleksandrovna
Published: March 2020

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Gupta, P. (2019). Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World. History and Ethnography. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 160 p
Authors: Soboleva Elena Stanislavovna
Published: March 2020

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USSR and Zanzibar in the Years of Its Struggle for Independence and Unification with Tanganyika (Based on Archival Sources)
Authors: Balezin Alexander Stepanovich
Published: March 2020

Based on documents from the Russian archives - the Archive of foreign policy of the Russian Federation, the State archive of the Russian Federation, and the Russian state archive of modern history, the article examines the relations of the USSR with Zanzibar in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Soviet-Zanzibar relations are examined against the background of a complex period in the history of the island state, which included the stages of inter-party rivalry during the struggle for independence, the Zanzibar revolution itself, and the unification with Tanganyika. The author also draws attention to the ethnic composition of the Zanzibar population in the years before the start of the national liberation movement, the history of the origin of ethnic groups in the archipelago and their traditional relationships. The author examines in detail the composition and political orientation of the parties that took part in the struggle for independence. He also considers the influence of the political spectrum and the international situation of the Cold War period on the decisions of national leaders in choosing a support side for further development. The author also considers actions of two leading actors of the bipolar system, the USSR and the USA, in the struggle for influence on the young national elites of Zanzibar in particular, and then Tanzania as a whole. The author conducts a detailed analysis of the United States actions and its allies to intervene the party struggle within Zanzibar society and the further reaction of the USSR to these steps. He also considers the reasons for the decline in Soviet influence on Zanzibar and the events that led to the closure of the Soviet diplomatic missions. The author points out the ambiguity of Zanzibar and Tanganyika’s unification, which could be perceived as an artificial political act supported by interested global forces than the process of voluntary unification of the two young countries. A number of issues are considered almost for the first time in Russian historiography.
Local Hegemony: China’s Special Economic Zones in Mauritius and Zambia
Authors: Nesmashnyi Alexander Dmitrievich , Nikitina Yulia Aleksandrovna
Published: March 2020

Chinese Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Africa are part of the Belt and Road Initiative. They account for a fledgling research area in International Relations, with not much research on the topic. The authors regard traditional approaches in research of SEZs as incapable of grasping the difference between domestic (designed by the state on its own territory) and foreign (designed by a foreign state) SEZs. The concept of territoriality, though applicable only to foreign SEZs, has little to offer in terms of generating new knowledge. The research paper endeavours to offer new theoretical and conceptual frameworks for the study of foreign SEZs. The research is based on concepts of hegemony by different schools of thought, including Hegemonic Stability Theory, the three types of hegemony by Yan Xuetong and Neo-Gramscianism. The authors introduce the concept of “local hegemony”. The authors also highlight the fact that most foreign SEZs emerge in territories of limited statehood (or create them). In order to prove vitality of the concept, comparative research of China’s SEZs in Mauritius and Zambia is conducted. The authors point out relatively poor institutional development of Zambia and the existence of stable democratic institutions in Mauritius. The success of the Chinese SEZ in Zambia is also partially attributed to copper mining. Deriving from economic and institutional empirical data the authors try to detect success conditions of SEZs and analyze the related spillover effects that contribute to the development of African nations. The reasons behind the failure of the Chinese SEZ in Mauritius are traced. Authors conclude that the concept of local hegemony is suitable for studying foreign SEZs and suggest that zones of local hegemony could be sustainable and effective in terms of development.
Development of sustainable resource ties in the agrifood industry: the case for the Polish fruit and vegetable industry
Authors: Wiśniewska-Paluszak Joanna A. , Paluszak Grzegorz T.
Published: March 2020

This paper contributes to the overall discussion on the relational resources then, in particular, attempts to recognize inter-firm investments in the agrifood industry. It is essentially grounded in an integrative approach which combines relational and resource-based views. Our goal in this paper is to find out if and how relational investment contributes to a sustainable relational advantage of business relationships in the agrifood industry. Producers, processors and traders who undertake investments in conjunction with their contractors were queried. The main areas of these investment activities and the potential of a sustainable relational advantage are explored. On this basis, a model of resource-based sustainable relational advantage in agrifood business relationships was executed. It was found that relational investments aimed at optimization of supply and provision as well as food safety and social responsibility create and sustain a relational advantage. Those aimed at technology and ecology implicate an unexploited relational advantage. Subsequent human, financial and real capital investments implicate a temporary relational advantage. The added value of this study lies in the implementation of an integrative approach to investigating the development potential of sustainable resource ties in the agrifood industry.
David Glassberg's 'American Historical Pageantry'
Authors: Nye David E.
Published: March 2020

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William S. McFeely's 'Frederick Douglass'
Authors: Tamminen Seppo
Published: March 2020

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Norman K. Denzin's 'Images of Postmodern Society: Social Theory and Contemporary Cinema'
Authors: Clark William J.
Published: March 2020

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Anthony Summers' 'Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover'
Authors: Schmidt Regin
Published: March 2020

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Annette Wernblad's 'Brooklyn Is Not Expanding: Woody Allen's Comic Universe'
Authors: Ahokas Pirjo , Lahti Martti
Published: March 2020

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Max Oelschlaeger's 'The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age Ecology
Authors: Nye David E.
Published: March 2020

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Creación de una metodología de proyectos en Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación en la Universidad Estatal a Distancia
Authors: Chaves Ledezma Marco A.
Published: March 2020

Este trabajo resume la ruta tomada por la Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED) con el fin de que cuente con una metodología de proyectos en Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación (TIC), esto en cumplimiento al mandato de la Contraloría General de la República de Costa Rica (2007),  el cual en el punto 1.5 dicta: «la organización debe administrar sus proyectos de TI de manera que logre sus objetivos, satisfaga los requerimientos y cumpla con los términos de calidad, tiempo y presupuesto óptimos preestablecidos».

Con el fin de crear esta metodología, se emprendió la tarea de diseñarla a partir de una revisión de literatura de las metodologías PMBOK®, SCRUM, ÁGIL, PRINCE2® y la realización de una pasantía en la Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM), en Chile.

La aplicación de la metodología de proyectos TIC permite a las instituciones el uso de buenas prácticas, comprobadas internacionalmente, que aseguren su éxito.
Principles of Business Marketing Communications
Authors: Fill Chris , McKee Scot
Published: March 2020

The main aim of this chapter, and the next, is to develop an understanding of the principles and characteristics of marketing communications. From an exploration of its role and tasks, the chapter considers some of the strategic issues and explores mar- keting communications strategy from a business audience perspective. A framework for the development of marketing communication plans follows. B2B branding and integrated marketing communications are explored before examin- ing marketing channel-based communications. If channels are to operate successfully and inter-firm relationships are to be developed for the benefit of all channel members, then sound trade channel communications are crucial. The chapter concludes with an examination of relationship-based marketing communication, and in particular, the nature, role and dynamics associated with client/agency based relationships.
Personal Selling and Key Account Management
Authors: Fill Chris , McKee Scot
Published: March 2020

The importance of personal selling in the B2B communications mix should not be underestimated. Although all the tools can play a significant part in an organisation’s overall marketing communications activities, personal selling, delivered through a sales force, has traditionally been the most potent. Personal contact and selling can be critical for the development of meaningful collaborative relationships between customers and suppliers. In this final chapter, consideration is given to the role and characteristics of personal selling. However, the main thrust is centred on the impact of selling on interorgani- sational relationships and how the other communication tools can be blended to provide cost and communication effectiveness. In addition, issues concerning the management and organisation of the sales force are explored before concluding with an examination of key account management.
Settlement of Construction Dispute in Building Bridge through the Indonesian National Arbitration Agency (Bani)
Authors: Haspada Deny
Published: March 2020

In a construction work contract, legal disputes often occur during the implementation of the construction work contract, because there are achievements that are late and cannot satisfy one of the parties in the contract. Construction disputes have an impact on legal issues that result in time, cost losses and hinder the contribution of the construction sector in economic growth. The growth of the construction market in the era of globalization is also accompanied by high levels of legal disputes. With the issuance of the Law No. 2 of 2017 regarding Construction Services, it is hoped that problems relating to construction disputes will be more quickly resolved.
PEMAHAMAN KONSEP MATEMATIS PESERTA DIDIK MELALUI MODEL PEMBELAJARAN TARI BAMBU DIPADUKAN DENGAN CRH
Authors: Suherman Suherman , Diana Nirva
Published: March 2020

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui pengaruh model pembelajaran Tari Bambu dipadukan dengan CRH terhadap kemampuan pemahaman konsep matematis siswa pada materi segi empat dan segitiga. Populasi penelitian ini berjumlah 160 siswa. Jenis penelitian ini adalah Quasy Eksperiment Design. Instrumen pengumpulan data berupa soal tes pemahaman konsep, wawancara, dokumentasi dan observasi. Teknik analisis data menggunakan uji Anova Satu Jalan dan dan analisis kualitatif deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menyebutkan bahwa kemampuan pemahaman konsep matematis siswa yang menerapkan model pembelajaran Tari Bambu dipadukan dengan CRH lebih baik daripada menerapkan pembelajaran konvensional. Model Tari Bambu dapat memberikan informasi secara merata. Model pembelajaran CRH mampu membuat siswa menjadi senang ketika pembelajaran berlangsung.
DESKRIPSI EFEKTIVITAS KEGIATAN PRAKTIKUM DALAM PERKULIAHAN KIMIA DASAR MAHASISWA TEKNIK
Authors: Rahayu Chichi , Eliyarti Eliyarti
Published: March 2020

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan kegiatan praktikum dalam perkuliahan kimia dasar mahasiswa teknik. Metode penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif. Populasi penelitian ini mahasiswa tingat I Fakultas Teknik dan Perencanaan Universitas Ekasakti pada mata kuliah Kimia Dasar. Teknik sample dengan random sampling. Instrumen pengumpulan data menggunakan lembar pengamatan dan kuisioner. Lembar pengamatan digunakan untuk memperoleh informasi selama kegiatan praktikum berlangsung. Kuisioner digunakan untuk memperoleh data perilaku yang dilakukan mahasiswa sebelum praktikum, saat praktikum, dan setelah praktikum. Hasil penelitian diperoleh sebelum mengikuti kegiatan praktikum Kimia Dasar mahasiswa masih kurang mempersiapkan diri, yaitu hanya 28,57%  mahasiswa membaca modul sebelum melakukan praktikum, 37,14% mahasiswa mengerjakan tugas pendahuluan dan 21,43% mahasiswa yang menjaga kesiapan fisik,  kedisiplinan waktu 42,73%, 68,7% mahasiswa memahami prosedur percobaan, namun 27,27% mahasiswa yang dapat mengerjakan praktikum dengan benar sesuai prosedur, Setelah praktikum selesai mahasiswa yang menyegerakan pengerjaan laporan praktikum masih rendah hanya 17,14%, dan mahasiswa yang memperoleh nilai laporan praktikum > 75 sebesar 39,39%. Hal ini menunjukan mahasiswa masih kurang memotivasi diri dalam kegiatan praktikum sehingga diperlukan perbaikan pembelajaran kedepannya.
PEMBELAJARAN DENGAN TEKNIK PEMAPARAN SESAMA UNTUK MENINGKATKAN SOFT SKILLS MAHASISWA
Authors: Winarni Dyah Setyaningrum , Nugraheni Diah
Published: March 2020

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kemampuan soft skills mahasiswa yang dikembangkan dalam pembelajaran science teacherpeneurship. Metode penelitian ini kualitatif deskriptif. Instrumen penelitian  menggunakan angket skala 5 dengan model rating scale. Subjek penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa Pendidikan IPA yang mengikuti mata kuliah science teacherpeneurship yang berjumlah 9 orang.  Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa pembelajaran dengan Teknik pemaparan sesama mampu meningkatkan soft skills mahasiswa secara simultan dalam kegiatan pembelajaran. Simpulan penelitian ini bahwa pembelajaran dengan teknik pemaparan sesama meningkat kemampuan soft skills mahasiswa.
Monilukutaito koodin purkajana: Ehdotus laaja-alaiseksi ohjelmoinnin pedagogiikaksi
Authors: Mertala Pekka , Palsa Lauri , Slotte Dufva Tomi
Published: March 2020

Tässä artikkelissa esitetään malli laaja-alaisesta ohjelmoinnin pedagogiikasta. Digitalisaation myötä algoritmit lävistävät yhä useampia elämänalueita ja sekä koulussa että sen ulkopuolella oppilaita hallitaan, ohjataan ja kontrolloidaan koodin ja algoritmien avulla. Tätä valta-asetelmaa ei kuitenkaan käsitellä perusopetuksessa vaan perusopetuksen opetussuunnitelman perusteissa ohjelmointi tarjotaan oppilaille näennäisen arvovapaina päättelyharjoituksina. Tilanne on ristiriidassa osallistumista, demokratiaa ja vaikuttamista korostavien opetussuunnitelmaperusteiden linjausten kanssa. Artikkelissa esitämme, että ohjelmoinnin moniulotteisempi käsittely onnistuu laajentamalla ymmärrystä ohjelmoinnista laajan tekstikäsityksen mukaisesti tekstitapahtumana ja koodista sosiomateriaalisena tekstinä, jolla on aina yhteiskunnallisia ja sosiaalisia seuraamuksia. Teoreettisesti artikkeli tukeutuu erityisesti monilukutaidon pedagogiikkaan, joka tarjoaa sekä pedagogisen viitekehyksen että konkreettisia välineitä siihen, miten ohjelmointiin liittyviä yhteiskunnallisia kysymyksiä kuten kriittistä toimijuutta algoritmisessa ja dataistuneessa mediaympäristössä voidaan käsitellä osana perusopetusta.
Strateginen viestintä ja organisaation tavoitteet: Mihin viestinnällä pyritään?
Authors: Juholin Elisa , Rydenfelt Henrik
Published: March 2020

Strateginen viestintä on 2000-luvun viestinnän tutkimuksessa noussut PR:n, yhteisöviestinnän, viestinnän johtamisen ja integroidun viestinnän rinnalle sekä osittain korvaamaan niitä. Tässä artikkelissa tarkastelemme, miten organisaatiot määrittelevät viestinnän tavoitteitaan ja millaisia strategisen viestinnän näkemyksiä ne kuvastavat. Tarkastelemme kysymystä sekä tutkimuskirjallisuuden että empiirisen aineiston valossa. Erittelemme tutkimuskirjallisuuden käsityksiä strategisen viestinnän käsitteestä ja sen kytköksestä organisaation tavoitteisiin sekä strategisen viestinnän ongelmista. Empiirisen aineiston osalta tutkimme, miten organisaatiot itse määrittelevät viestintänsä tavoitteet ja mikä viestinnän tavoitteiden suhde on organisaation strategiaan ja strategisiin tavoitteisiin.