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El Sistema Nacional de Investigadores en México: 20 años de producción científica en las instituciones de educación superior (1991-2011)
Authors: Rodríguez Miramontes Jorge , González Brambila Claudia N. , Maqueda Rodríguez Gabriela
Published: January 2018

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar cómo un sistema de estímulos económicos y de reconocimiento a las actividades de investigación en México ha impactado la productividad científica de las instituciones de educación superior (ies) a nivel nacional. Este análisis emplea una base de datos con información de 27,667 investigadores mexicanos que han formado parte del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (sni), al menos por un año, en el periodo 1991-2011, e integra 122,406 artículos publicados por dichos científicos en revistas isi. A fin de determinar la cantidad y calidad de la productividad de las ies, se consideraron como unidades de medida los artículos de publicaciones científicas y las citas bibliográficas. Los resultados indican que  únicamente el 28% de las ies analizadas emitieron uno o más artículos en el periodo de estudio. Adicionalmente, nuestros resultados muestran que en diez universidades se agrupa tanto la mayor cantidad de artículos publicados, como la mayor cantidad de citas bibliográficas. Por otra parte, se muestra que la edad máxima de productividad es a los 58 años para el caso de las investigadoras y 57 años para los investigadores. Finalmente, una de las contribuciones de este trabajo es que muestra que las actividades de colaboración están en continuo crecimiento entre los investigadores.
Interdisciplinaridade interníveis: Uma experiência empreendedora
Authors: Vianna Simone Cristina Gonçalves , Bondioli Ana Cristina Vigliar
Published: January 2018

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo descrever a trajetória de três projetos sobre empreendedorismo implantados no ENIAC: I) Projeto Pequenos Empreendedores no Ensino Fundamental; II) Projeto Jovens Empreendedores no Ensino Médio Técnico e III) Projeto Midiatização de Eventos realizado pelos cursos de Marketing e Publicidade e Propaganda do Ensino Superior. Os referidos projetos foram conduzidos colaborativamente, com o objetivo de promover diálogo entre diferentes níveis de ensino. A metodologia para a coleta de dados baseia-se na observação da experiência de implantação dos referidos projetos e em sua posterior descrição qualitativa. Atuando em sinergia, estes estudantes, responsáveis pelas ações de marketing no ambiente digital trabalharam com os pequenos e jovens empreendedores, do ensino fundamental e médio técnico, respectivamente, para que os eventos realizados fossem midiatizados com sucesso. Atuaram de maneira interdisciplinar, utilizando-se das ações destes dois eventos como insumos para elaborar campanhas que foram desenvolvidas e apresentadas como seus projetos de conclusão de módulo. De maneira transversal os três níveis de ensino do ENIAC se movimentaram com engajamento, produzindo resultados expressivos que promoveram o empoderamento dos estudantes, no desenvolvimento, desde a mais tenra idade, de atitudes e competências pessoais empreendedoras, tornando-os capazes de atuar no mundo do trabalho, de maneira competitiva, seja nas organizações empresariais de outrem ou em seus próprios empreendimentos, propiciando assim um futuro de sucesso.
Prevenção de perdas no varejo supermercadista
Authors: Santos Nardo Gonçalves dos , Machado Júnior Celso , Bazanini Roberto , Mantovani Daielly Melina Nassif , Yoshimura Claudia Cristiane Cruzato , Aurélio Rony Roberto
Published: January 2018

A presente pesquisa apresenta como objetivo identificar as práticas de prevenção de perdas no setor de varejo supermercadista. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa apoiada em um estudo de caso único por se tratar de apenas uma empresa, mas que, no entanto, analisa diferentes lojas da rede. A empresa pesquisada atua no setor de varejo supermercadista de grande porte com atuação nacional. As práticas de prevenção de perdas apresentam, em grande parte, sinergia potencializando assim os resultados positivos. Como práticas de gestão de Prevenção de Perdas identificou-se uma estrutura organizacional voltada a esta atividade, com um processo de comunicação entre a alta gestão e o nível operacional da loja, entre as diferentes unidades da organização. Utiliza-se procedimentos e protocolos, que abordam metas de desempenho, destinados a realização da atividade de prevenção de perdas, uniformizando assim as ações de todos os envolvidos. O continuo treinamento e um sistema informatizado de prevenção de perdas asseguram a acuidade da gestão.
ERGONOMIA EM RÓTULOS DE MEDICAMENTOS
Authors: Blum Arina , Merino Eugenio Andrés Díaz , Merino Giselle Schmidt Andrés Díaz
Published: January 2018

Este artigo apresenta o estudo que objetivou analisar as questões ergonômicas visuais relativas ao rótulo de medicamentos. Partiu da problemática que buscou entender se definições que concernem a ergonomia visual estão contempladas na regulamentação específica. Como resultados, são apontadas características que podem assinalar futuras proposições de melhorias em embalagens de medicamentos.
Diabetes in Youth—Looking Backwards to Inform the Future: Kelly West Award Lecture 2017
Authors: Dabelea Dana
Published: January 2018

The Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology is presented in honor of the memory of Kelly M. West, widely regarded as the “father of diabetes epidemiology.” Harry Keen described West as characterized by “generosity of spirit, deeply human and humorous, deliberate of address, modest, conciliatory and untiringly persevering. Few people have done so much to change the landscape of diabetes” (1). The award and lecture recognize a leading epidemiologist in the field of diabetes. Dana Dabelea, MD, PhD, received this award at the American Diabetes Association’s 77th Scientific Sessions, 9–13 June 2017, in San Diego, CA. She presented the Kelly West Award Lecture, “Diabetes in Youth—Looking Backwards to Inform the Future,” on Sunday, 11 June 2017.
Random Versus Systematic Errors in Reaction Enthalpies Computed Using Semi-empirical and Minimal Basis Set Methods
Authors: Kromann Jimmy , Welford Alexander , Christensen Anders Steen , Jensen Jan H.
Published: January 2018

The connectivity-based hierarchy (CBH) protocol for computing accurate reaction enthalpies developed by Sengupta and Raghavachari (Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 2576) is tested for fast ab initio methods (PBEh- 3c, HF-3c, and HF/STO-3G), tight-binding DFT methods (GFN-xTB and DFTB), and NDDO-based semiempirical methods (AM1, PM6, PM6-DH+, PM7, and OM2) using the same set of 25 reactions as in the original study. For the CBH-2 scheme, which reflects the change in the immediate chemical environment of all the heavy atoms, the respective MUE relative to G4 for PBEh-3c, HF-3c, HF/STO- 3G, GFN-xTB, DFTB, PM3, AM1, PM6, PM6-DH+, PM7, and OM2 are 1.9, 2.4, 3.0, 3.9, 4.5, 4.8, 5.5, 5.4, 5.3, 5.2, and 5.9 kcal/mol, with a single outlier removed for HF-3c, PM6, PM6-DH+, and PM7. The increase in accuracy for the NDDO-based methods is relatively modest due to the random errors in predicted heats for formation.
PERFIL EPIDEMIOLÓGICO E CLINICO DE VÍTIMAS DE TRAUMA EM UM HOSPITAL DO DISTRITO FEDERAL
Authors: Praça Wlyana Reis , Brandão Matos Matheus Costa , Magro Márcia Cristina da Silva , Hermann Paula Regina de Souza
Published: January 2018

Objetivo: identificar o perfil epidemiológico das vítimas de trauma atendidas na sala vermelha do Pronto-Socorro gerenciada pelo SAMU-DF no Hospital de Base do Distrito Federal. Método: trata-se de um estudo descritivo. Os dados foram obtidos dos prontuários eletrônicos e ficha de atendimento pré-hospitalar após aprovação do Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa. Resultados: houve predomínio do sexo masculino (77,9%), na faixa etária de 20 a 49 anos (66,3%), com maior número de ocorrências nos meses de Fevereiro (20,4%), Abril (20,4%) e Maio (21,2%), quinta-feira (18,6%), vespertino (35,4%), em via pública urbana (46,1%). Predominou o politrauma fechado (52,2%) envolvendo acidentes automobilísticos (66,4%). Conclusão: as vítimas são adultos jovens do sexo masculino, politraumatizado por acidente automobilístico atendidas por unidades de suporte básico e avançado de vida e a maioria sobreviveram.
INFECÇÕES HOSPITALARES RELACIONADAS A PROCEDIMENTOS INVASIVOS EM UNIDADES DE TERAPIA INTENSIVA: REVISÃO INTEGRATIVA
Authors: Sousa Marcos André Siqueira de , Nascimento Glícia Cardoso , Bim Felipe Lazarini , Oliveira Layze Braz de , Oliveira Adélia Dalva da Silva
Published: January 2018

Objetivos: discutir a partir da produção cientifica internacional a relação entre procedimentos invasivos e infecções hospitalares em Unidades de Terapia Intensiva. Método: revisão integrativa, com vistas á responder a seguinte questão: Qual a relação entre uso de procedimentos invasivos de longa permanência e o desenvolvimento de infecções hospitalares em Unidades de Terapia Intensiva? Foi realizada nas bases: PUBMED, Science Direct e Web of Science, considerando-se os critérios de inclusão e exclusão. Resultados: foram selecionados dez artigos. A natureza do procedimento, o ambiente, a técnica e o tempo de permanência do cateter foram destacados como principais fatores de risco. Os principais dispositivos relacionados com o desenvolvimento de infecções são a cateterização urinária, intubação endotraqueal, ventilação mecânica e cateteres intravasculares. Conclusão: Ainda existe uma certa escassez de estudos que contemplem de forma mais aprofundada a relação infecção hospitalar e procedimentos invasivos, principalmente com abordagem simultânea de todos os procedimentos invasivos inseridos.
Respuesta de variedades de maíz (Zea mays L.) a diferentes fuentes de fertilización en el Valle de Puebla.
Authors: Alvarado Teyssier Rafael , Aceves Ruiz Ernesto , Guerrero Rodríguez Juan De Dios , Olvera Hernández José Isabel , Bustamante González Ángel , Vargas López Samuel , Hernández Salgado José Hilario
Published: January 2018

Nowadays, there are biologically sustainable options that can partially replace synthetic fertilizers and reduce production costs. To test the response of 18 maize varieties to synthetic fertilization (FQ), synthetic fertilization plus inoculant (FQB) and synthetic fertilization plus compost (FQC), in 2010 two experiments were established in rainfed conditions in the Valley of Puebla, with a completely randomized design, under a split plots arrangement, with three replications. Type of fertilization was assigned to the main plot and maize genotypes were the split plot. No differences were found in grain and stover yield by type of fertilization. There was a strong interaction between varieties and type of fertilizer as well as between varieties and location in grain and stover yield. For the interaction between variety and type of fertilization, it was found that 56% of the varieties showed higher yields with FQC, in while 27.8% had higher yields with FQB and 16.7% yielded better with FQ. The highest stover yield was obtained in San Andrés Calpan with FQC (8.8 Mg ha-1), while in San Pedro Tlaltenango it was obtained with FQB (15.3 Mg ha‑1) and FQ (15.4 Mg ha‑1). The use of both synthetic fertilization and inoculant or compost maintains and increases maize grain and stover yield, compared with using only synthetic fertilizer.
Integrating Interdisciplinary Thinking and Practice: a Case Study of a Victorian University in Australia
Authors: Iyer-Raniga Usha
Published: January 2018

The value of interdisciplinary approaches to curriculum have been considered successful along multiple fronts; including reducing administrative burden from inter departmental collaboration, providing “intellectual” solutions to problems and breaking academic discipline boundaries. Criticism from industry often focuses on educators not preparing graduates for work in the real world. A major reason underpinning this criticism is that the students are not exposed to the requisite skills to make them work- ready. Despite the pressures to include interdisciplinary approaches from an ethical perspective, putting it into practice is difficult. This paper presents the findings of involving students from three different schools from a Victorian university in Australia: built environment, business and computer science. The project was developed as part of a state government competitive fund where industry, staff and students worked together to support each other and realize mutual benefits. The aim of the study was to develop an approach involving students in a theory-practice model of a real world project by selecting a building within the university as a case study to arm students with real world knowledge focusing on sustainability outcomes. The objective was to assist in preparing students from different disciplines for better workplace experiences, where they can bring in interdisciplinary thinking and practice into their day-day operations. The outcomes for the university, in using this building as a living laboratory, was to capture lessons learned through the process of improving future building developments from a sustainability perspective. Student involvement was successful, but true interdisciplinary engagement was not achieved.
Form and Performance: Tall Concrete Structures and Apartment Quality in Melbourne’s Residential Towers
Authors: Marfella Giorgio , Martel Andrew , Helal James
Published: January 2018

Does the structural configuration of tall buildings affect the quality of apartment design? The architecture of tall buildings relies strongly on quantitative inputs. Yields of development, overturning moments, dynamic responses and lift-waiting periods are, for instance, items numerically measurable. The built form of tall buildings has to work within these strict and seemingly unchallengeable constraints. Yet, these same parameters should not be an impediment for spatial quality. Four case studies, taken from the recently proliferating stock of high rise apartment towers in Melbourne, are used to highlight the missed opportunities that follow from a partial application of performance-based design, where façade concepts, structural and construction inputs prevail over those of an overarching spatial integration. The mandate of performance- based design, if driven chiefly by mono-disciplinary concerns, remains incomplete, unless qualitative concerns, able to discern broader criteria for end-users, integrate as a high-level priority in the design process. A sample of apartments currently under construction in Melbourne’s CBD indicates that the emphasis on marketing, structural and construction demands is a key driver of the current built outcomes, relegating spatial quality and functionality of the dwellings produced to a third rank of priority. Some recently introduced built form controls with public benefit provisions make Melbourne an ideal environment to test, evaluate and discuss within the industry a new range of typologies. However, such guidelines should start by acknowledging a broader and more evidence-based concept of innovation, design quality and performance in design.
A Framework for Property Developers to Survive in a Recession
Authors: Parambath Zunoon , Udawatta Nilupa
Published: January 2018

Recession is considered as a major threat to the economy as it slows down economic activities. The property development sector is extremely responsive to these economic conditions. Thus, it is crucial to understand causes, effects and strategies for property developers to survive in a recession without any ill effects. Thus, this research aimed to develop a framework for property developers to identify appropriate survival strategies in recession. A comprehensive literature review was conducted in this research to achieve the above mentioned aim. The results of this study indicated that recession prompts negative impacts on property development sector resulting in unemployment, lower demand, production and revenue, decline in resources and high level of competition. According to the results, the survival strategies were classified into short-term and long-term strategies. The short term strategies include: implementing management tactics, cut down of operating costs, keeping financing lines set up, timely repayment of debts, setting vital new objectives for the future, undertaking shorter time span developments, specialisation in favoured market, renegotiating deals and contracts. The long-term strategies include retrenchment, restructuring, investment and ambidextrous strategies. Similarly, attention should be paid to predict any changes in the economic environment that can influence property development activities and it is necessary to carefully evaluate investment activities to increase sales, profits and market shares of property developers. Preparing for a crisis is doubtlessly the ideal approach as it can facilitate both survival and growth. Thus, the property developers can implement these suggested strategies in their businesses to enhance their practices.
Structural Equation Model of Strategies for Successful Stakeholder Management in PPPs
Authors: Jayasuriya Sajani , Zhang Guomin , Yang Rebecca
Published: January 2018

Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) have become an increasingly popular choice for the delivery of infrastructure facilities in the recent years. With the involvement of multiple numbers of stakeholders in a PPP project, stakeholder management (SM) plays a decisive role in project success. However, many issues in the recent PPP projects in Australia as well as around the world can be directly or indirectly related to the SM concerns of a project. The correct selection of SM strategies and a proper framework will help to solve most of the current SM related issues in PPP projects. In an attempt to understand these preemptive SM strategies and their links to SM management related issues in PPP projects, a hierarchical structural model was established. Subsequently, by employing the structural equation modelling technique, the model adapts a total of 34 SM strategies and 12 SM related issues. Based on the survey data collected across the industry experts who have exposure to a various number of PPP projects in Australia the results of the model confirmed that the stakeholder engagement is a key to minimize the SM related issues in the PPP projects. Further, interestingly stakeholder monitoring and SM related issues has a positive significant relationship suggesting that more the stakeholder monitoring might lead to more issues. Finally, the relationships between the main tasks of SM were confirmed via the model. With a clear understanding of the significance of these SM strategies in PPP projects the findings could potentially contribute to the PPP project success.
Towards Managing Iterative Changes in BIM Collaboration Workflows
Authors: Shafiq Muhammad Tariq , Lockley Steve
Published: January 2018

Collaboration on Building Information Models (BIMs) requires iterative and distributed processes that make maximum reuse of the information being exchanged directly between models in a platform independent model collaboration environment. BIMs are subject to constant evolution where information is created, coordinated and exchanged concurrently, allowing multiple users to manipulate information whilst requiring the data to be synchronized in a shared data repository. As the information in a BIM grows during an iterative design and production process and even beyond into maintenance, a critical issue is how to manage the iterative changes because of the collaboration operations and workflows that involves various project participants and heterogeneous applications. This paper highlights the overall problem of managing iterative changes in BIMs and discusses various issues and challenges involved in controlling the collaboration transactions on a BIM data repository in a multi-model collaboration environment. This positional paper describes that model matching and comparison strategies are the key to solve the problem of iterative change management, which may have better solutions in other knowledge domain such as software engineering. The future research is exploring Software Source Control (SSC) strategies to devise a signature-based model comparison approach for IFC models that can lead to potential solutions for effective management of collaboration operations with BIMs.
Preparing Students for a Disruptive Construction Future
Authors: Hardie Mary
Published: January 2018

Many industries have felt the impact of disruptive change on their profitability and established practices. Examples of disruption have been documented in industries as diverse as transportation, photography, newspapers, retailing, recorded music and computer graphics. The construction industry has mostly avoided large-scale disruption because, in spite of the globalisation evident in mega projects, most construction is locally-based and delivered within a specific national context and regulatory system. This may be about to change. The forces of digitisation, industrialisation and globalisation are combining to generate the potential for disruptive enterprises which will grab market share and shake up existing business models. As academics striving to prepare students to be employment-ready, we need to open their eyes to the potential of the new economy to support new business models that are quite different from traditional construction companies. Students will need to be entrepreneurial in seeking out opportunities and identifying market niches. In two new and developing units/subjects at an Australian university these issues are being raised. Students are challenged to identify markets and market strategies enabled by social enterprises, collaborative systems, the ‘Internet of Things’ and even ‘Brutal Innovation’. Using student feedback and reflective practice, the lessons from the first two offerings of the new units are identified and teased out. In general, students respond well to the challenge of strategic thinking which relates to their future careers. While predicting the future is always fraught with difficulty, not attempting to do so could leave us vulnerable to disruptive change.
Rural Construction Management for Developing Economies: Implications for Professional Education - the Case of Assam
Authors: Week David , Doloi Hemanta
Published: January 2018

The authors are engaged in a three-year project, funded by the State of Assam, India, to develop new postgraduate qualification in construction management for Assam, and to research housing and infrastructure strategies aimed at improving rural life. The collaboration between the University of Melbourne and the State mirrors a common arrangement in international development assistance in which an institution from the Global North is invited to assist an institution from the Global South in improving the wealth and welfare of certain constituencies of the latter. However, the historical relationships between the North and South, and the way in which they play out in such arrangements has been critiqued from multiple perspectives. Those critiques suggest that the North-South divide is rooted in colonial history, is based on a privileging of the North over/against the South, and works to place the South at a perpetual disadvantage. It is important in undertaking this work for Assam that such critiques be acknowledged, and that educational products developed be as free as possible of such biases. This paper outlines the process by which the Project seeks to identify Assamese problems interests, source useful examples globally, and collect and synthesise them to create products that are tailored to Assam. The key findings: standard professional education is Eurocentric and does not relate to the construction needs of Assam's population, helps drive rural-urban and South-North brain drain, but that models are available to counter these tendencies, and can be used to create Assam-centric construction management education.
A Comparative Study of Traditional and Compressed Scheduling on Undergraduate Construction Students’ Performance
Authors: Naismith Nicola , Tookey Lara , Tookey John
Published: January 2018

There is a continual need to modify the way tertiary institutions do business to meet the needs of a changing society. The focus has been on success and retention whereas the new strategy in New Zealand supports wider economic growth and prosperity. There is a need for tertiary organisations to think about existing models and means of delivery, inclusive of new and emerging technologies as well as a continued expectation of the ability for tertiary institutions to deliver content via time and cost efficient means. Traditional scheduling involves concurrent enrolment in numerous courses with less contact time over a 16- week timeframe, whereas compressed scheduling focusses on 2 courses per 8 weeks with more instructional time per week. This paper evaluates the use of compressed scheduling methods for first and second year courses on an undergraduate programme in construction in New Zealand. The quantitative study compares end of course exam results, gender, age enrolment and residency status of 2 first year courses and 3 second year courses for the students from 2011 to 2016. The outcomes are consistent with the literature and support the proposition that a similar student learning experience can be achieved in traditional and compressed courses. The findings of the study suggest that concerns associated with offering courses or providing alternative teaching pedagogies associated with traditional and compressed scheduling are unfounded. Interestingly the females in the study performed better in a compressed schedule as compared to a traditional schedule and warrants further research.
Overview and Analysis of Digital Technologies Designed for Construction Safety Management
Authors: Guo Brian H.W. , Scheepbouwer Eric , Yiu Tak Wing , González Vicente
Published: January 2018

Digital technologies are increasingly used to support safety management in the construction industry. Previous efforts were made to identify digital technologies for safety in the construction industry. However, limited research has been done to conceptualize the roles played by digital technologies in safety management and accident prevention. This paper surveys state-of-the-art research between 2000 and 2016 in order to categorize digital technologies for construction safety, identify research trend, and analyse their roles in accident prevention. The research employs a systematic process to review the existing literature on digital technologies in the area of construction safety. Five academic databases, Science Direct, Taylor & Francis, the ASCE Library, Engineering village, and Web of Science, were selected for the survey due to the comprehensive coverage of relevant academic papers. The survey identified 15 digital technologies: real-time location system and proximity warning, building information modelling, augmented reality, virtual reality, game technology, e-safety-management-system, case-based reasoning, rule-based reasoning, motion sensor, action/object recognition, laser scanning, physiological status monitoring, virtual prototyping, geographical information system, and ubiquitous sensor network. Three emerging safety functions claimed and/or promoted by DTs were discussed: enhanced safety planning, real-time hazard management, and safety knowledge engineering. It is concluded that DTs have great potential to improve safety performance by engineering resilience and adaptiveness at the individual level, while how DTs embody safety values and how safety values in turn influence the adoption of DTs remain an open question.
COMPARISON OF CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATION ESTIMATION USING TWO DIFFERENT ALGORITHMS AND THE EFFECT OF COLORED DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER
Authors: Nababan Bisman
Published: January 2018

The effect of colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) on the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor(Sea WiFS) OC4v4 and the MODIS algorithms used to estimate chlorophyll-a was studied using satellite and situ data collated during seasonal cruises in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico between 1997 and 2000. For chlorophyll-a concentrations 50 mg m, OC4v4 generally overestimated chlorophyll-a concentration by up to 300 percent. The MODIS algorithm provided better estimates of high CDOM concentration, found typically nearshore in noterhn summer and spring. For oceanic waters where chlorophyll-a concentrations 1.0 mg m, both OC4v4 and MODIS algorithm had errors within the Sea WiFS mission specification (35 percent) during fall. The OC4v4 algorithm is more susceptible to artifacts due to CDOM absorption of light at 443 mm. Keywords: chlorophyll-a, Mississippi River Plume, Sea WiFS, upwelling, OC4v4.
MULTITEMPORAL LANDSAT DATA TO QUICK MAPPING OF PADDY FIELD BASED ON STATISTICAL PARAMETERS OF VEGETATION INDEX (CASE STUDY: TANGGAMUS, LAMPUNG)
Authors: Parsa I Made , Dirgahayu Dede
Published: January 2018

Paddy  field  has  unique  characteristics  that  distinguish  it  from  other  plants.  Before it planting, paddy field is always flooded so that the appearance is dominated by water (aqueous phase). Within the  growth  of rice, field  conditions  will  be  increasingly  dominated  by  greenish rice  plants.While at the end, the rice plants will turn yellow indicating for harvesting. During flooding stage, the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) of pady field is negative. The negative value of NDVI of paddy field will ultimately increase to the maximum value at the maximum vegetative growth. TheNDVI of paddy field will decrease from generative phase until harvest and after harvest. The objective of  this  study  was  to  perform  the vegetation  index  analyses for multitemporal  Landsat  imagery of paddy field. The results showed that the difference of vegetation index values (maximum - minimum)of  paddy  field  were greater than the  difference  of vegetation index  values of  other land  uses.  Such differences values can be used as indicator to map land for rice. The evaluation results with reference data showed that the mapping accuracy (overall accuracy) was of 87.4 percent.
FISHPOND AQUACULTURE INVENTORY IN MAROS REGENCY OF SOUTH SULAWESI PROVINCE
Authors: Marini Yennie , Emiyati - , Prayogo Teguh , Hamzah Rossi , Hasyim Bidawi
Published: January 2018

Currently, fishpond aquaculture becomes an interesting business for investors because of its profit,  and  a  source  of  livelihood  for  coastal  communities.  Inventory  and  monitoring  of  fishpond aquaculture provide important baseline data to determine the policy of expansion and revitalization of the fishpond. The aim of this research was to conduct an inventory and monitoring of fishpond area inMaros regency of South Sulawesi province using Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre (SPOT -4) and Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Apeture Radar (PALSAR). SPOT image classification process was performed using maximum likelihood supervised classification  method and  the  density  slice  method  for ALOS  PALSAR.  Fishpond  area  from  SPOT data was  9693.58  hectares  (ha),  this  results  have  been  through  the  process  of  validation  and verification by the ground truth data. The fishponds area from PALSAR was 7080.5 Ha, less than the result  from  SPOT  data.  This  was  due  to  the  classification  result  of  PALSAR  data  showing someobjects around fishponds (dike, mangrove, and scrub) separately and were not combined in fishponds area  calculation.  Meanwhile, the  result  of  SPOT -4  image  classification  combined object  around fishponds area.
Editing Poems in Letters
Authors: Karlin Daniel
Published: January 2018

This chapter discusses the editorial treatment of poems contained in letters. Not poems enclosed with letters, as discrete items, but poems enclosed by letters. The essay focuses on John Keats’s long journal-letter of 14 February-3 May 1819 to his brother George and sister-in-law Georgiana.
Wordsworth’s Sweating Pages: The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth
Authors: Wilson Frances
Published: January 2018

In 1977, an exchange of thirty-one letters between William and Mary Wordsworth, written in 1810, was discovered by a stamp dealer in Carlisle. Their subject is what Wordsworth describes as ‘the lively gushing thought employing spirit stirring passion of love’ between husband and wife. This chapter explores how the discovery of these letters has changed our understanding the domestic life of Wordsworth, a man described by Coleridge as ‘by nature incapable of love.’
A History of Islam in Indonesia
Authors: Kersten Carool
Published: January 2018

This is the first single-volume study of the Islamisation of Indonesia from the first evidence of the acceptance of Islam by indigenous peoples until the present day. It offers an overview of the religion’s growing significance in the formation of what is now the largest and most populous Muslim country in the world, the greatest political power in Southeast Asia, and a growing player on the world scene. With close to a quarter of a billion Muslims, Indonesia is still overlooked by historians of Islam and other specialists in the Muslim world, while Southeast Asianists often underestimate the importance of Islam in the shaping of Indonesia. This survey provides a comprehensive insight into the different roles played by Islam in Indonesia throughout history: From the earliest evidence of its presence in the late thirteenth century; the importance of Indian Ocean networks for connecting Indonesians with the wider Islamic world; the religion’s role as a means of resistance and tool for nation building; and postcolonial attempts to forge an ‘Indonesian Islam’.
Law, Lawyers, and Humanism
Authors: Cairns John W
Published: January 2018

The first of two volumes, this collection of essays on Scots law represents a selection of the most cited articles published by Professor John W. Cairns over a distinguished career in legal history. It is a mark of his international eminence that much of his prolific output has been published outside of the United Kingdom, in a wide variety of journals and collections. The consequence is that some of his most valuable writing has appeared in sources which are difficult to locate. This collection covers the foundation and continuity of Scots law from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Scotland through the eighteenth-century influence of Dutch Humanism into the nineteenth century and the further development of the Scots legal system and profession.
Attitudes to Codification and the Scottish Science of Legislation, 1600–1830
Authors: Cairns John W
Published: January 2018

This chapter traces the developments in Scots law from 1600 to 1830. The mindset of Scottish lawyers changed significantly over the course of the eighteenth century. In 1700, Scots law was best understood as representative of the usus modernus Pandectarum; there had developed in the seventeenth century, out of the older view of the ius proprium and the ius commune a Roman-Scots law, in which the ius civile was progressively integrated with Scottish material, all justified and rationalised by the ius naturale and the ius gentium. By 1800, however, the view that ‘the Civil Law was our Common Law’ seemed quite outdated. While well into the eighteenth century the term ‘common law’ had meant the Romano-Canonical ius commune, now it was used, rather in the fashion of England, in opposition to statute law: the lex non scripta as distinct from the lex scripta.
The Origins of the Glasgow Law School: The Professors of Civil Law, 1714–1761
Authors: Cairns John W
Published: January 2018

This chapter examines the establishment of legal education in the University of Glasgow in 1714 and its development over the next five decades. The University of Glasgow established a chair in Civil Law in 1713, gaining funding through an allocation by the Crown from ‘King William's Gift’. Although the University was allowed to appoint the first professor, the chair was thus a Regius Chair, with appointments thereafter made by the Crown. This was to cause problems for the law professors when they tried to ensure the appointment of candidates whom they favoured. The chapter considers why the University of Glasgow founded a chair in Law; how the first professor, William Forbes, came to be appointed and why he desired the position; his tenure of the chair; and the appointment and tenure of his two immediate successors, William Crosse and Hercules Lindesay.
Philip Roth’s Kinds of Writing
Authors: Tandon Bharat
Published: January 2018

This chapter explores The New Yorker's distinctive relationship with the Manhattan cityscape within which it was conceived and produced. It suggests ways in which both the magazine's treatments of the value of readable social indicators, and the larger cultural cachet of the magazine itself in the 1950s and 1960s, offered the young Philip Roth an early engagement with ideas that were to become defining imaginative preoccupations across his fictional and critical oeuvre, from Goodbye, Columbus to Nemesis. The chapter shows how there remains an important difference between textual cityscapes and Times Square in the middle of the twentieth century. Reading a nineteenth-century poster or a handbill may have been fascinating or disorientating to a passerby, but for the most part, the implicit power relationship of conventional reading would not have been challenged.
Spark’s Proofs
Authors: Bowman Deborah
Published: January 2018

This chapter talks about how Muriel Spark was keen to draw attention to ‘anything so trivial as evidence and documents’. By the time she published the story of her first thirty nine years and sold her papers, Spark's archive had provided the raw materials out of which she could create an autobiography, and her autobiography — Spark's need to assert the lines of her own life against the actual or possible distortions of others — had motivated the creation and maintenance of an archive. In between them she had discovered a defence against the ‘inaccuracies’ of even her own records, a place to ‘confirm, modify and elaborate on what I had written’, where she could muster ammunition as well as pan for the gold dust of corroborated fact: a magazine.
Sports at The New Yorker
Authors: Boddy Kasia
Published: January 2018

This chapter illustrates how, in the years leading up to the launch of The New Yorker, sport had assumed an increasingly important place in American mass leisure. Joseph Pulitzer became the first publisher of a New York daily paper to establish a distinct sports department — one of a series of measures that saw the circulation of the World rise from 11,000 in 1883 to 1.3 million in 1898. Although Pulitzer recruited regular contributors on forty different sports, it was the popularity of baseball and boxing (decried as barbaric on the editorial page but heavily represented in the sports pages) that transformed casual readers into fervent fans. William Randolph Hearst followed Pulitzer's example when he took over the New York Journal in 1895, expanding the sports section and even placing sports stories on the front page.
Kathy Acker
Authors: Colby Georgina
Published: January 2018

Kathy Acker’s body of work is one of the most significant collections of experimental writing in English. In Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible, Georgina Colby explores the compositional processes and intricate experimental practices Acker employed in her work, from early poetic exercises written in the 1970s to her final writings in 1997. Through original archival research, Colby traces the stages in Acker’s compositional processes and draws on her knowledge of Acker’s unpublished manuscripts, notebooks, essays, illustrations, and correspondence to produce new ways of reading Acker’s works. Rather than treating Acker as a postmodern writer this book argues that Acker continued a radical modernist engagement with the crisis of language, and carried out a series of experiments in composition and writing that are comparable in scope and rigor to her modernist predecessors Stein and Joyce. Each chapter focuses on a particular compositional method and insists on the importance of avant-garde experiment to the process of making new non-conventional modes of meaning. Combining close attention to the form of Acker’s experimental writings with a consideration of the literary cultures from which she emerged, Colby positions Acker as a key figure in the American avant-garde, and a pioneer of contemporary experimental women’s writing.
Writing-through: Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream
Authors: Colby Georgina
Published: January 2018

Chapter 3 reads Acker’s Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream as a form of non-procedural ‘writing-through’, a term that has its roots in the procedural practices of John Cage and Jackson Mac Low, discussed in chapter one. Acker’s literary experiment in Don Quixote is related to abortion as a literary trope, and is positioned in contrast to models of male-to-male literary insemination and canon formation. The chapter draws on the contemporary scholarship surrounding conceptual practice, such as the work of Caroline Bergvall, and addresses the tendency of critical studies on Acker’s work to use the term ‘appropriation’ as a blanket term. Acker’s experimental practices in Don Quixote are readdressed, paying attention to the complexity of those strategies. Reading the work with attention to Acker’s practice of abstraction, experimentation with translation, paragrammatic play, and the protosemantic, a method of writing through emerges whereby voice is imbricated with the negation of language. In Don Quixote experimental practice displaces centralized narrative and offers a new feminist temporality.
Ekphrasis, Abstraction, and Myth: ‘From Psyche’s Journal’, Eurydice in the Underworld, ‘Requiem’
Authors: Colby Georgina
Published: January 2018

The final chapter of the study examines Acker’s practices of ekphrasis and reappropriation of mythology in her final works. Chapter six offers a close reading of ‘From Psyche’s Journal’, Acker’s creative critical piece on Cathy de Monchaux’s sculptural work, examining the ekphrastic impulse of the work. Ekphrasis is read as enabling Acker to access the materiality of sculpture in her writing. Acker’s writing practices are placed within the context of postwar abstract sculpture by women, with a particular focus on Eva Hesse’s idea of absurdity that ‘is not a “thing” but, “the sensation of the thing.”’ Acker’s ekphrastic practice is brought into dialogue with her practice of the reappropriation of mythology, and the conceptual practice that is termed here ‘literary calisthenics’, which arises from her experiments with language and bodybuilding. Acker’s two later texts, Eurydice in the Underworld (1997) and Electra (1997) are addressed in light of Elaine Scarry’s work on the difficulty of expressing physical pain. Acker’s experiments that move towards a non-verbal language against ordinary language, and the silent languages of the body, facilitate the voicing of pain, and in particular the relation between physical pain and imagining.
Who Were These People? A Sideways View and a Non-answer of Political Proportions
Authors: Gibson Alex
Published: January 2018

This paper is a review of a broad range of evidence for burial practice in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain. The author asks the difficult question – who were these people – in relation to the nameless dead found during excavations. A broad range of evidence is reviewed, including inhumations, cremations and conjoined bodies, and the fixed lines between these categories are questioned. The use of modern concepts such as ‘burial’ are also queried. Set within a chronological framework, this paper offers a challenging and fresh approach to archaeological understandings and interpretations of burial practice.
Obligation in Exile
Authors: Baron Ilan Zvi
Published: January 2018

Questions arose about what it meant to support a country whose political future the author has no say in as a Diaspora Jew. The questions became all the more pronounced the more I learned about Israel’s history. Many Jews feel the same way, and often are uncomfortable with what such an obligation can mean, in no small part because of concerns over being identified with Israel because of one’s Jewish heritage or because of the overwhelming significance that Israel has come to have for Jewish identity. Israel’s significance is matched by how much is published about Israel. Increasingly, this literature is not only about trying to explain Israel’s wars, the military occupation or other parts of its history, but about the relationship between Diaspora1 Jewry and Israel.
The Death of the ‘Big Lie’ and the Emergence of Postmodern Incredulity in the Spy Cinema of the 1960s
Authors: Willmetts Simon
Published: January 2018

In the 1960s American spy cinema underwent a profound transformation: out went the austere state-sponsored narratives of the semi-documentary format that proclaimed their historical authenticity due to their reliance upon official sources, and in came a new type of spy cinema, epitomised by the James Bond films, that was tongue-in-cheek, “camp”, and which revelled in artifice. Though ostensibly apolitical, this formal shift in the way in which Hollywood portrayed American secret intelligence was the beginning of a profound shift away from the state as the arbiter of authenticity and towards a new politics of incredulity, marking the onset of postmodernity in the United States.
No Going Back: Continuity and Change in Australian Documentary
Authors: Williams Deane , Hughes John
Published: January 2018

This chapter discusses how, over the years, Australian filmmakers have responded to the public broadcaster's control over documentary funding, forms, production, and distribution patterns. It assess the evolution of the role of Australian television by focusing on a group of films dealing with asylum seekers, refugees, and immigration. Here, independence is not only understood in terms of production and distribution patterns, but also in terms of political stance and social commitment. The chapter examines two projects: one that sits at the commencement of official government filmmaking, and another, a television series emblematic of recent developments in Australian factual programming. Both of these projects, Mike and Stefani (1952) and Go Back to Where You Came From (2011) address Australian responses to asylum seekers and refugees.
Contesting Consensual Memory: The Work of Remembering in Chilean Autobiographical Documentaries
Authors: Goursat Juliette
Published: January 2018

This chapter analyzes how four films containing a strong autobiographical dimension break with the consensual and normative image the transition fashioned out of the past: En Algún Lugar del Cielo (dir. Alejandra Carmona, 2003), Calle Santa Fe (dir. Carmen Castillo, 2007), Mi Vida con Carlos (dir. Germán Berger-Hertz, 2010), and El Edificio de los Chilenos (dir. Macarena Aguiló, 2010). It argues that the rupture lies in the work of memory these films bring to the foreground. Whereas the transition passively referred to the past and evoked it without question, these filmmakers not only receive an image of the past, they search for it. In this quest, the autobiographical form plays a decisive role, allowing them to reveal the work of remembering and sometimes to undertake a critical scrutiny of memory, as Carmen Castillo does in Calle Santa Fe.