bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Effect Of Prospective Teachers Problem Solving Beliefs On Self-Efficacy Beliefs About Mathematical Literacy
Authors: Memnun Dilek Sezgin , Akkaya Recai , Hacıomeroglu Guney
Published: March 2016

This study examines prospective teachers beliefs in their own abilities and effectiveness to impart mathematical literacy to their students, their beliefs about mathematical problem solving, and the relationship between these two belief systems. A total of 567 prospective teachers, majoring in mathematics, science and elementary teacher education programs volunteered to participate in the study. The Self-Efficacy Beliefs Scale about Mathematical Literacy and the Beliefs about Mathematical Problem solving instruments were administered to prospective teachers. Results of the study revealed that there was a significant relationship between the beliefs about mathematical problem solving and self-efficacy. Findings of this study indicated that prospective teachers beliefs about mathematical literacy were an important predictor on the beliefs about mathematical problem solving.
Qualidade de produtos e serviços turísticos em eventos: uma proposta para análise de conteúdos do twitter
Authors: Neves Augusto José Waszczynskyj Antunes das , Marchiori Patricia Zeni
Published: March 2016

Ao se considerar a crescente adoção de mídias sociais e seu uso estratégico em organizações, o trabalho objetiva discutir o uso da análise de conteúdo no Twitter como recurso para a avaliação da qualidade percebida de produtos e serviços turísticos em eventos. Metodologicamente, o estudo se caracteriza como qualitativo, tendo caráter exploratório e descritivo. A partir do levantamento de literatura pertinente voltada à exploração dos impactos do Twitter, especialmente na atividade turística, sugeriu-se uma estrutura de análise de conteúdo – baseada na técnica Análise de Avaliação/Evaluation Assertion Analysis (EAA) – a qual foi aplicada a uma amostra de postagens feitas por usuários do Twitter durante os Jogos Olímpicos de Londres de 2012. Tal estrutura, embora apresente aplicabilidade restrita por necessitar de mão de obra especializada e o investimento de horas de trabalho para a sua operacionalização, mostra-se útil para determinar as percepções/atitudes de usuários expressadas no Twitter em relação aos produtos e serviços turísticos consumidos quando da participação em eventos. Uma possibilidade de continuidade desta investigação estaria no efetivo levantamento e comparação de algoritmos que viabilizam a análise de conteúdo em ferramentas automatizadas, verificando-se o alinhamento destas a uma metodologia “clássica”. Os resultados da investigação podem, igualmente, oferecer subsídios para a criação de uma ferramenta que alie a estrutura da EAA à eficiência da operacionalização de processos decorrentes da automação.
Bibliotecas públicas brasileiras: panorama e perspectivas
Authors: Freitas Marilia Augusta de , Silva Vanessa Barbosa da
Published: March 2016

A biblioteca pública brasileira tem sofrido diversos problemas que ao longo dos anos afetaram seu desempenho e contribuíram para o cenário crítico atual. Este trabalho faz uma síntese do panorama atual da biblioteca pública no Brasil, mostrando que as bibliotecas públicas apesar de serem pensadas para funcionar em prol do desenvolvimento cultural do país, se tornam, muitas vezes, grandes depósitos de livros. Com isso, é preciso repensar o papel da biblioteca pública e do bibliotecário para a sociedade, de apoio e transformação.
Gestão do Conhecimento, Ciência da Informação e Biblioteconomia: uma análise bibliométrica da produção científica
Authors: Bem Roberta Moraes , Coelho Christianne Coelho de Souza Reinisch
Published: March 2016

A comunicação científica é representada pela produção bibliográfica, evidenciando a importância da recuperação, estudo e avaliação desta produção. Para tanto, tem-se a bibliometria como área que faz estudos estatísticos da produção científica. Desta forma, o presente artigo analisa quantitativamente as produções científicas resultantes de uma busca que associou os descritores “gestão do conhecimento” e biblioteconomia (ou “ciência da informação”). O protocolo de busca envolveu quatro bases de dados, resultando em 453 artigos. Observou-se um boom de publicações no ano de 2008, sendo 17 periódicos considerados mais produtivos, num universo de 241. Entre os autores mais produtivos destacaram-se os seguintes países de filiação: Austrália; Reino Unido; África do Sul e Irã. Entre as palavras mais presentes nos textos, 30 foram elencadas, entre elas, bibliotecas, sistemas, organização, aprendizagem, saúde.
Um sistema livre para automatização do Padrão de Descrição da Informação
Authors: Nakagawa Elisa Yumi
Published: March 2016

A organização e a disseminação de conhecimento contido em acervos históricos têm sido uma constante preocupação; entretanto, há uma carência de sistemas de software para esse domínio. Nesse contexto, foi desenvolvido um sistema web, baseado no Padrão de Descrição da Informação, que viabiliza a representação integrada de informações de diferentes tipos de acervos. Este artigo apresenta a experiência no estabelecimento desse padrão e no desenvolvimento desse sistema. Sendo um software livre, espera-se que pesquisadores e a sociedade em geral se beneficiem desse sistema.
Entre a materialidade do livro e a interatividade do leitor: práticas de leitura
Authors: Goulart Ilsa Do Carmo Vieira
Published: March 2016

Ao questionar se os livros tiveram os mesmos sentidos e funções para os homens, em diferentes tempos e lugares, este texto assume como objetivo compreender as variadas finalidades atribuídas ao livro como suporte material de leitura. Neste contexto, o trabalho procurará traçar, de maneira restrita, um pouco da história do livro e destacar o como e o quanto a materialidade desse objeto, em suportes distintos, pode estar relacionada com o leitor e ser desencadeadora de práticas de leitura no decorrer do tempo. Para tanto, o trabalho fundamenta-se nos estudos de Chartier (1990, 1994, 1998, 1999) e de Darnton (1990) sobre a história e a materialidade do livro.
Sistema de registro de termos: proposta de contribuição à pesquisa terminológica temática
Authors: Mardegan José Carlos , Cervantes Brigida Maria Nogueira
Published: March 2016

A pesquisa terminológica temática é o ponto de partida para a criação de vocabulários controlados. Apresenta uma proposta de construção de um sistema de registro de termos com base em um banco de dados relacional para automatizar algumas das etapas da pesquisa terminológica temática. Para concretizar essa experiência foi necessária a elaboração de uma pesquisa terminológica temática que serviu de teste para a ferramenta proposta. Este estudo tem natureza exploratória, e o corpus da coleta foi composto por vinte duas referências, incluindo os dicionários e glossários usados na validação dos termos. A fundamentação teórica foi direcionada à compreensão dos conceitos capazes de explicar os pressupostos teóricos envolvidos tanto na pesquisa terminológica temática quanto na construção do sistema de registro de termos. Cento e onze termos foram extraídos do corpus da coleta durante a pesquisa terminológica temática, obtendo-se um índice de validação de 72% número considerado relevante no contexto geral. O sistema de registro de termos demonstrou-se eficiente apresentando soluções de recuperação dos termos cadastrados em várias opções de buscas e emissão de relatórios. O estudo enunciou, ainda, procedimento visando à continuidade do projeto com a criação de outros mecanismos para a manutenção da base de dados, disponibilizando-a, inclusive, para a comunidade em geral por meio da internet.AbstractThematic terminology searches are the starting point for the creation of controlled vocabularies. To introduce a construction method for the recording system terms with grounds in a relational database to automate some steps of the thematic terminology search. To materialize this experiment it was necessary to elaborate thematic terminology searches that served as a trial to the proposed tool. This study has an exploratory nature, and the collection corpus was composed of twenty-two references, including dictionaries and glossaries used for the terms validation. The theoretical grounding was directed towards the understanding of concepts able to explain the theoretical assumptions involved in both thematic terminology searches and also in the construction of recording system terms. A hundred and eleven terms were extracted from the collection corpus during the thematic terminology research obtaining a validation figure of around 72% a relevant number in the global context. The recording system terms were shown to be efficient at presenting recovered solutions of recorded terms in various search options and report emissions. The study even found a process that enhanced the continuity of the project with the creation of other mechanisms for maintaining the database, and making it available to the general public via the Internet.KeywordsControlled vocabulary; Registration System terms; thematic terminology Research.
Avaliação do tesauro do Tribunal de Contas do Distrito Federal a partir dos usuários
Authors: Caribé Rita de Cássia do Vale , Oliveira Evelaine Santos de
Published: March 2016

Estudo consiste em pesquisa qualitativa realizada junto aos usuários do Tesauro de Contas que integra o sistema Processo Eletrônico (e-TCDF), do Tribunal de Contas do Distrito Federal, Brasil. Foram realizadas 20 entrevistas orientadas, utilizando perguntas abertas e fechadas de múltipla escolha. Por se tratar de uma pesquisa exploratória, pois não foram detectados estudos de avaliação de tesauros a partir do usuário na literatura sobre o assunto. Esta pesquisa possibilitou a caracterização das principais dificuldades enfrentadas pelos usuários, a coleta de sugestões que permitem o aprimoramento do instrumento, bem como a compreensão quanto à utilização do Tesauro pelos usuários. Foi detectada a necessidade de treinamento e de aprimoramento no sistema.AbstractThis study consists of a qualitative survey among users of the Tesauro de Contas which is part of e-TCDF (Electronic Process System), of the Tribunal de Contas of Distrito Federal, Brazil. Twenty guided interviews were conducted using open and multiple choice questions. This could be considered an exploratory research because we’re not detected studies on evaluating thesaurus from the user in the literature on the subject. This research allowed the characterization of the main difficulties faced by the users; suggestions were collected that allow the improvement of the instrument, as well as understanding how the Thesaurus is used by users. The need for training and improvement in the system was detected.KeywordsEvaluation of thesaurus; Information user; Tribunal de Contas do Distrito Federal; Distrito Federal (Brazil)
Nas causas de um sintoma social o bibliotecário atua: a mediação e uso da informação como fonte de interposição sobre o vírus HIV
Authors: Oliveira Alessandra Nunes de , Castro Jetur Lima de
Published: March 2016

Trata da importância que o profissional bibliotecário possui como mediador da informação, frente à realidade dos casos sociais, no que se refere aos conceitos sobre o HIV/AIDS. E a sua seriedade em grupo, para levar assistência através das informações, como alicerces contra as crendices e equívocos a respeito do vírus HIV. A temática é relevante para todas as áreas, pois, apresenta as discussões sobre os preconceitos e mitos no início dos anos 80. Sobretudo tem seus objetivos pautados em abordar a formação social dos próprios profissionais da informação, sobretudo a contribuição do bibliotecário diante de ações sociais concernentes ao contexto e a disseminação do vírus HIV. A metodologia utilizada foi exploratória sobre uma revisão bibliográfica dos, Almeida Júnior (1997) e Marques (2002), entre outros. Em resumo a pesquisa utilizou duas fontes de informações como as bases a MEDLINE, e BVS em que buscou artigos publicados na década de 80, dentre outros encontrados artigos referentes às drogas inibidoras do Vírus HIV entre elas a chamada Zidovudine (AZT). Os resultados mostram a falta de informação, o preconceito no qual ainda perduram no contexto social. Porquanto os profissionais da informação, neste ponto ressalto o bibliotecário, que é imprescindível neste contexto, onde contribui com os profissionais da saúde, para tirar as incertezas, auxiliando nas informações convalidadas para os próprios portadores do vírus e a sociedade.AbstractIt is of importance that the professional librarian has as a mediator of information vis-à-vis the reality of social cases, with regard to concepts about the HIVAIDS. And their seriousness in-group, to bring assistance through the information, as foundations against the superstitions and misconceptions regarding HIV/AIDS. The theme is relevant to all areas therefore presents the discussions about prejudices and myths in the early 80. Above all have their goals based on addressing the social formation of own information professionals, especially the contribution of the librarian on social action for the context and the spread of the HIV virus. The methodology was a bibliographical revision about the exploratory, Almeida Júnior (1997) and Marques (2002), among others. In summary, the research used two sources of information such as the bases MEDLINE, and VHL in that sought articles published in the Decade of 80, among others found articles about the drugs that inhibit HIV among them called Zidovudine (AZT). The results show a lack of information, in which prejudice still linger in the social context. Because information workers at this point rebound the librarian, which is essential in this context, where it contributes to health professionals, to take the uncertainties, assisting on the information convalidadas to the virus carriers themselves and society.KeywordsMediation of information; Social action; Information worker; Librarian; HIV.
O Card Sorting no ensino de biblioteconomia: uma experiência em sala de aula
Authors: Solano Viviane de Oliveira , Rocha Janicy Aparecida Pereira
Published: March 2016

Este artigo demonstra a experiência na aplicação da técnica do Card Sorting em sala de aula no âmbito de duas disciplinas da graduação em Biblioteconomia, na Escola de Ciência da Informação da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais: Modelagem conceitual a partir dos princípios de Ranganathan e Arquitetura de informação e acessibilidade digital. Foram utilizados os aportes da categorização no contexto da Organização da Informação, salientando elementos que subsidiam a discussão em torno do delineamento do Card Sorting. Percebeu-se que é importante o entendimento e domínio da técnica supracitada para os profissionais da informação atuarem no tratamento, categorização e organização da informação em ambientes informacionais digitais como também, na estruturação do fluxo navegacional nesses ambientes. Do ponto de vista do ensino de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da informação, a experiência mostrou o potencial de uma prática interdisciplinar, na execução de trabalhos integrativos e de parceria entre diferentes disciplinas.AbstractThis article demonstrate the experience in the application of Card Sorting technical´s at the classroom, in a context of two courses of undergraduate Library Science, School of Information Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais: Conceptual modeling based on the principles Ranganathan and Information Architecture and Digital Accessibility. The contributions of categorization were used in the context of Information Organization, highlighting elements that support the discussion on the design of the Card Sorting. It was noticed that are essential understanding and mastery of the aforementioned technique for information professionals will engage in treatment, categorizing and organizing information into digital information environments but also in structuring the navigational flow of these environments. From the point of view of the teaching of Library and Information Science, experience has shown the potential for interdisciplinary practice in the implementation of integrative work and partnership between different disciplines.KeywordsCard Sorting. Information organization. Categorization. Education.
A bibliometric analysis as a basis to evaluate research of «Library methodological activities» topic
Authors: Khrokolo Yu. V.
Published: March 2016

The article gives the document flow characteristics on the problem of libraries methodical activity for 2008-2013 based on the documents bibliometric analysis, as well as on generalization, comparison, and a typological method. The author gets a representation on the microflow quantitative changes, its thematic, specific, geographical and publishing structures, and printing activity of certain researchers. Microflows of non-periodical editions (books and brochures) and articles from periodicals are considered separately from each other. Articles prevail in the flow. The volume of books and brochures microflow makes the tenth part of the total number of documents selected for research. The identical highly productive directions in thematic structure of two microflows are found: experience of introducing information-communication technologies and techniques to perform library-bibliographic processes. The perspective directions of researches are revealed: libraries analytical activity, library innovatics theory, library innovations legal regulation and economy. In 2013 the positive tendency on the volume of documents release was outlined in both microflows. In the books-brochures flow it was detected types of editions which aren't defined in the state standard specification: methodical, scientific-practical, scientific-methodical manuals and methodic recommendations. The main circle of magazines and conference proceedings publishing researches on libraries methodical work is defined. E. N. Guseva, T. V. Dergileva, V. G. Sviryukova, Yu. B. Avrayeva, I. Yu. Krasilnikova, N. V. Peregoyedova and N. S. Redkina are noted with the greatest printing activity. The author concludes that studying documentary support of this library activity direction is a basis for its further planning and is necessary under conditions of continuously changing information and social environment.
Development Status and trend of HPV vaccine
Authors: Guo Shuyang , Wang Yunpeng
Published: March 2016

Cervical cancer causes significant morbidity and mortality world widely, and human papilloma virus is the major factor that causes cervical cancer incidence. The carcinogenic proteins of HPV can induce malignant metastasis of cervical squamous epithelial cells. There are currently two human papilloma virus prophylactic vaccines listed, but the protection offered by current vaccines is primarily against HPV types used to derive the vaccine. So we review the status and progress of the HPV vaccine in recent years, and the potential clinical application of the vaccine.
Methodological investigations and quality evaluations on the method of interference test of the bacterial endotoxin test in Chinese Pharmacopoeia
Authors: Pei Yusheng , Cai Tong , Zhang Yuchen , Gao Hua
Published: March 2016

 Objective: By comparing the Chinese Pharmacopoeia and the United States, Europe, Japan Pharmacopoeia bacterial endotoxin gel interference test whether there are differences in test methods for the Chinese Pharmacopoeia revised to provide a scientific basis. Methods: 1748 times interfere with assay data respectively Chinese Pharmacopoeia 2010 edition methods and the United States, Europe, Japan and the existing experimental results to determine the methods, summarize all the experimental data using SAS software in accordance with the "two detection methods rank ordered symmetry test data "for statistical analysis. Results: The Chinese Pharmacopoeia methods and the United States, Europe, Japan and the symmetry test methods test coefficient P = 0.0001, the difference was not statistically significant. Two experimental methods weighted kappa value was 0.9530, the results have a good consistency. Conclusions: The gel test methods amendments disturbance tests for the United States, Europe, Japan model, coming bacterial endotoxin test "in Table 1 gel interference test solution preparation" in the C series "LAL marked sensitivity control series" parallel parallel 4 revised 2, does not affect the results, experimental operation can be simplified to avoid waste of resources limulus reagent. I can also make domestic endotoxin test further with international standards.
Recent Advances in Clinical Trials of HCV Vaccines
Authors: Luo Yongneng , Jiang Limin , Mao Zi'an
Published: March 2016

  Hepatitis C virus infects nearly 3% of the global population, and spreads to 3-4 million new people annually. HCV infection is a leading cause of liver cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, and end-stage liver diseases and causes liver-related death in more than 300,000 people each year. Unfortunately, there is currently no vaccine for HCV prevention (prophylactic vaccine) or treatment (therapeutic vaccine). Circulating HCV is genetically diverse, and therefore a broadly effective vaccine must target conserved T- and B-cell epitopes of the virus and induce strong cross-reactive CD4+/CD8+ T-cell and neutralizing antibody responses in preventing or clearing HCV infection. So far, a few of vaccine development approaches are successful and some of the HCV vaccine candidates have reached human clinical trials, including those modalities mainly based on recombinant proteins (envelope proteins and core protein subunit), synthetic peptides, DNA (plasmid) and viral vectors (virosome). Encouraging results were obtained for those HCV vaccine formulations consisting of prime-boost regimen involving a live recombinant viral vector vaccine alone or in combination with DNA or subunit vaccine. Among several other vaccine strategies under preclinical development, the most promising one is virus like particle based vaccine that will be moving into human studies soon.
Study on the recovery of CTN-1V5 strain rabies virus with reverse genetics system
Authors: Wang Yunpeng , Cao Shouchun , Shi Leitai , Li Jia , Dong Guanmu
Published: March 2016

Use molecular cloning techniques. The CTN-1V5 strains of rabies virus genome is divided into six fragments in order to cloned into Eukaryotic expression vector PVAX 1.0(+). Recombinant full length genomic cDNA was flanked by a hammerhead ribozyme and hepatitis delta virus ribozyme. four helper plasmids encoding the nucleoprotein, phosphoprotein,Glycoprotein and the large protein were constructed and co-transfected with a plasmid containing the full-length CTN viral genome into Vero cells. Recombinant CTN-1V5 virus was successfully recovered from the cloned cDNA under the control of a CMV promoter driven by RNA polymerase II. The recovered CTN-1V5 virus was identified by direct Immunofluorescence technique with anti-nucleoprotein monoclonal-antibody. A group of mice was challenged with the recombinant-strain by intracerebral inoculation, resulting in 100% morbidity.and the titer of the recombinant CTN-1V5 virus was 5.0 log LD50/mL.
Study on the Quality of Lyophilized Human Diploid Cell Rabies Vaccine Using Microcarrier Technology
Authors: Cai Yong , Zhou Rong , Li Shengyou , Huang Qiong , Yang Gangqiang , Feng Xiao , Hou Wenli
Published: March 2016

The aim is to study the potency, purity, safety, and stability of the lyophilized human diploid cell rabies vaccine (HDCV). The viruses were harvested from infected human diploid cells (MRC-5 strain) which were cultured in a microcarrier bioreactor. After harvest, purification, inactivation and lyophilization, HDCV was produced. The potency of vaccines was measured by NIH method; the bovine serum protein residual content and the antibiotic residues were tested by ELISA method; the endotoxin content was detected by semi quantitative gel method; the safety of vaccine was determined in vivo. Among 6 batches of HDCV, the lowest immunizing potency was 4.79 IU/ml, whilst the highest was 6.03 IU/ml; the lowest bovine serum protein residual content was 12.41 ng/dose, whilst the highest was 31.74 ng/Dose; the content of antibiotic residues was from 2.20 ng/ml to 4.00 ng/ml; endotoxin levels were all lower than 50 EU/dose. All the mice and guinea pigs vaccinated were all alive, and the body weight of each mouse also increased. The stability was investigated by determining the water content and potency of the vaccine placed in 37±1 °C for 4 weeks and 2-8 °C for 48 months, respectively. The results indicate all the quality index accords with the standards of “Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China 2010, 3 Volumes”. HDCV shows satisfactory potency, purity, safety, and stability.
MERS-CoV: current research progress and prospect
Authors: Zhang Ronghua
Published: March 2016

Coronaviruses (CoVs) are enveloped viruses, and belong to the family Coronaviridae, the order Nidovirales. CoVs distribute widely among animals and primarily cause the respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases. Since 2012, an outbreak of new human coronavirus, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Saudi Arabia has spread to 26 different countries and become a global threat. Here this article reviewed recent studies about the emergence, reservoir of MERS-CoV, and the animal models and treatments for MERS-CoV.

 
The Research Progress of the Fuctional Cure of AIDS
Authors: Xu Tingting , Luo Dan
Published: March 2016

The Research Progress of the Fuctional Cure of AIDS
Soil Physical Properties, Nitrogen, and Crop Yield in Organic Vegetable Production Systems
Authors: Cogger Craig G. , Bary Andy I. , Myhre Elizabeth A. , Fortuna Ann‐Marie , Collins Doug P.
Published: March 2016

Organic vegetable crops require intensive management, posing challenges for managing N and maintaining organic matter. This experiment was designed to evaluate effects of cropping systems, amendment N sources, and tillage types on soil organic matter, nutrients, physical properties, N availability, and crop yield in organic vegetable production. The experiment was established in 2003 in Puyallup, WA, with cropping system as main plots (fall‐planted cereal–legume cover crop, relay‐planted legume cover crop, and low‐input short‐term grazed pasture), tillage type as split plots (conventional and rotary spader), and amendment as the second split (broiler litter– low C input, and mixed compost–high C input). Vegetable crops were rotated across beds within plots. Yield, available N, soil C, nutrients, bulk density, infiltration, and compaction were measured. Soil C was greater with mixed compost (24 g kg−1) than broiler litter (18 g kg−1), and lower in the low‐input pasture than the cover crop systems. Soil physical properties were most affected by the presence or absence of tillage, and compaction was less with spader tillage. Short‐term N availability was similar between amendments and between fall and relay cover crops. Long‐term N availability was greater with mixed compost compared with broiler litter. Significant differences in crop yield occurred in 12 of 26 harvests. Yield differences among cropping systems were most common, with N availability and competition likely causes. Amendment and tillage affected yield in only 3 of 26 harvests. These results provide farmers with options for organic vegetable production in the maritime Pacific Northwest.

Broiler litter and mixed compost soil amendments produced similar vegetable yields.

Broiler litter maintained soil C, whereas mixed compost increased soil C.

Cover crops did not increase soil C.

Nitrogen supply from the fall and relay cover crops were similar.

Spader tillage reduced soil compaction compared with conventional tillage.
Determining the Role of Plant‐Parasitic Nematodes in the Corn–Soybean Crop Rotation Yield Effect Using Nematicide Application: II. Soybean
Authors: Grabau Zane J. , Chen Senyu
Published: March 2016

Corn (Zea mays L.)–soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] crop rotation is well‐known to increase yields of both crops and is called the rotation effect. This study was conducted to determine the role of plant‐parasitic nematodes—particularly soybean cyst nematode (SCN, Heterodera glycines),—in the rotation effect for soybean. Research was conducted at a site in Waseca, MN, that was established in 1982 to study corn–soybean rotation. Included in the study were treatments in 1 to 5 yr of SCN‐susceptible soybean monoculture following 5 yr of corn, continuous SCN‐susceptible soybean monoculture, and continuous soybean with SCN‐resistant cultivars since 2010. Granular nematicides have been applied to half of each plot since 2010 to minimize nematode populations across crop sequences as a way to determine the role of nematodes in the rotation effect. Because nematicide was similarly effective in each crop sequence, it was not effective for determining if SCN damage varied by crop sequence. Soybean cyst nematode populations increased (P ≤ 0.05) in soybean monoculture and were negatively correlated with soybean yield (P ≤ 0.05). Pratylenchus (lesion nematode) populations decreased significantly in soybean monoculture particularly when comparing first and second year in soybean (P ≤ 0.05). Helicotylenchus (spiral nematode) and Xiphinema (dagger nematode) populations were significantly decreased in continuous soybean compared to most sequences in 5 or fewer years of monoculture (P ≤ 0.05). Trends in nematode populations suggest SCN may have had a role in the rotation effect for soybean yield, but that Pratylenchus, Helicotylenchus, and Xiphinema did not.

Growing soybean in monoculture decreases yield.

Growing soybean in monoculture increases soybean cyst nematode populations.

There was some evidence that soybean cyst nematode can be involved in monoculture yield decline for soybean.
Bond strength and interfacial morphology of orthodontic brackets bonded to eroded enamel treated with calcium silicate–sodium phosphate salts or resin infiltration
Authors: Costenoble Aline , Vennat Elsa , Attal Jean-Pierre , Dursun Elisabeth
Published: March 2016

Objective: To investigate the shear bond strength (SBS) of orthodontic brackets bonded to eroded enamel treated with preventive approaches and to examine the enamel/bracket interfaces.

Materials and Methods: Ninety-one brackets were bonded to seven groups of enamel samples: sound; eroded; eroded+treated with calcium silicate–sodium phosphate salts (CSP); eroded+infiltrated by ICON®; eroded+infiltrated by ICON® and brackets bonded with 1-month delay; eroded+infiltrated by an experimental resin; and eroded+infiltrated by an experimental resin and brackets bonded with 1-month delay. For each group, 12 samples were tested in SBS and bond failure was assessed with the adhesive remnant index (ARI); one sample was examined using scanning electron microscopy (SEM).

Results: Samples treated with CSP or infiltration showed no significant differences in SBS values with sound samples. Infiltrated samples followed by a delayed bonding showed lower SBS values. All of the values remained acceptable. The ARI scores were significantly higher for sound enamel, eroded, and treated with CSP groups than for all infiltrated samples. SEM examinations corroborated the findings.

Conclusions: Using CSP or resin infiltration before orthodontic bonding does not jeopardize the bonding quality. The orthodontic bonding should be performed shortly after the resin infiltration.
Fulfilling the Cultural without Forsaking the Commercial: University Presses in the Philippines from the Perspective of Three Directors
Authors: Sagun Karryl Kim , Luyt Brendan
Published: March 2016

This paper departs from the mostly Western research focus in the area of scholarly publishing and the book trade. We investigate Philippine university presses and how their publishers operate in the context of a developing country. From semi-structured interviews with three university press directors, we find that Philippine university presses operate under less pressure from administration to be financially self-supporting and are hence able to concentrate on their cultural roles—a marked difference from their Western counterparts, which struggle for money. Other findings reveal that university publishers in the Philippines 1) have weaker professionalization standards, 2) operate in a small industry with intense competition, and 3) are still in the experimental stage in ebook publishing. Results of this study provide a non-Western perspective on university press publishing and offer lessons for professionals in the scholarly publishing enterprise.
On the Behavior of Different PCMs in a Hot Water Storage Tank against Thermal Demands
Authors: Porteiro Jacobo , Míguez José , Crespo Bárbara , De Lara José , Pousada José
Published: March 2016

Advantages, such as thermal storage improvement, are found when using PCMs (Phase Change Materials) in storage tanks. The inclusion of three different types of materials in a 60 l test tank is studied. Two test methodologies were developed, and four tests were performed following each methodology. A thermal analysis is performed to check the thermal properties of each PCM. The distributions of the water temperatures inside the test tanks are evaluated by installing four Pt-100 sensors at different heights. A temperature recovery is observed after exposing the test tank to an energy demand. An energetic analysis that takes into account the energy due to the water temperature, the energy due to the PCM and the thermal loss to the ambient environment is also presented. The percentage of each PCM that remains in the liquid state after the energy demand is obtained.
Quality Management Practices in Lifelong Learning Programs at German Higher Education Institutions
Authors: Mörth Anita
Published: March 2016

This chapter gives an overview of quality management activities in German universities engaging in lifelong learning. Projects funded within the German-wide funding competition “Advancement through Education: Open Universities” aim to open universities to lifelong learning and to increase permeability between vocational and academic pathways. They range from development of concepts for part-time courses, further education and blended learning study formats to new kinds of cooperation with institutions outside university. Quality management activities have to be developed and implemented in all projects. The chapter presents the findings of an action research process including a quality management workshop with different universities involved in the funding competition and the resulting recommendation paper, complemented by a document analysis, which show the variety of quality assurance and quality management activities within academic continuing education in German higher education.
The Business Process Management Systems to Support Continuous Improvements
Authors: Renna Paolo , Izzo Carmen , Romaniello Tiziana
Published: March 2016

In recent years, most universities are facing with the problem of quality management in higher-education systems and institutions. The Countries that have signed the Bologna Declaration are enforced to implement an internal system for quality assurance. One of the key element of a quality management system is the process modelling with delineation of responsibility, authority, procedures and plans. This chapter describes the use of the Business Process Management to support the higher Education Management System at University of Basilicata. The case study developed concerns the following steps: visualizing, measuring, analysing by a simulation environment, and improving the management system. The original contribution of the research concerns the development of a simulation environment using BIZAGI modeller based on BPMN notation in order to analyse and improve the performance of the case study investigated. Moreover, the use of a software based on BPMN can improve quality (error rate reduction), efficiency (saving of time) and agility (implementation of processes of changes).
Integrative Learning toward Social Responsibility in Teaching Engineering
Authors: Martín-Sánchez Domingo A. , García-Laso Ana , Muñoz-van den Eynde Ana , Lopera-Pareja Emilia H. , Cornejo-Cañamares María , Muñoz-Ruiz Emilio
Published: March 2016

Technical University of Madrid, within the Spanish context, has profited of the introduction of a System of Internal Quality Assurance to build a road on the grounds of previous work on the culture of ethics in engineering. This way may drive the students training to incorporate in their curricula instruments leading to the recognition and acquisition of social responsibility. The road is paved with various educational elements, either mandatory such as the Mentoring project (aiming to minimize the gap in the transit between high school and university from a logistical point of view), or optional such a set of three: Monitoring (a system of academic support for improving the performance of in the students in their learning outcomes when face difficulties), Service Learning and Social Entrepreneurship, Ethics and Values in Engineering. This strategy combined with the convergence to the European Higher Education Area allows the selection of students able to integrate in their professional assets the idea and the commitment of making the human development more sustainable.
Exploring the Mediating and Moderating Role of Services Marketing Strategy and Safety and Security Measures in the Tourism Industry
Authors: Mostafa Rania B. , Hefny Lamiaa I.
Published: March 2016

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating and moderating role of innovative services marketing strategy and safety and security measures in the tourism industry. Data were collected from 104 managers of travel agencies operating in Egypt. Mediation and moderation analysis were carried out to test the research hypotheses using Hieratical Regression method. Findings reveal that a travel agency's ability to transform its customer orientation and/or innovation orientation into enhanced business performance depends on its ability to offer innovative service marketing strategy. Moreover, this study supported the importance of safety and security measures in improving the firm performance because they strengthen the positive effect of the tourism strategy, namely innovative services marketing strategy on the marketing performance. The research highlights the importance of innovative services marketing strategy and safety and security measures for academics, travel agency's managers and policy makers.
Student Participation Behaviour outside the Classroom
Authors: Elsharnouby Tamer H.
Published: March 2016

Drawing on literature pertaining to services marketing, branding and higher education, this study empirically identifies the antecedents of student attitude towards university brand and examines the influence of brand attitude on student participation behaviour in the university services provision. With data collected from 379 students from a leading university in the Gulf region and using structural equation modeling, the study identifies three key antecedents of students' attitude — namely, perceived faculty competency, quality of interactions among students and quality of student–administrative/IT staff interaction. The study results also suggest that a favourable evaluation of university brand in students' minds will enhance their propensity to participate actively in university services provision. The paper concludes by discussing the managerial implications of the findings, and some directions for future research are suggested.
Cloud-based Driver Monitoring and Vehicle Diagnostic with OBD2 Telematics
Authors: Amarasinghe Malintha , Muramudalige Shashika Ranga , Kottegoda Sasikala , Arachchi Asiri Liyana , Bandara H. M. N. Dilum , Azeez Afkham
Published: March 2016

A cloud based, vehicular data acquisition and analytics system for real-time driver behavior monitoring, trip analysis, and vehicle diagnostics is presented. The system consists of an On Board Diagnostics (OBD) port to Bluetooth dongle, an app running on a smartphone, and a cloud-based backend. Based on OBD data, Complex Event Processors (CEPs) at both the smartphone and backend detects and notifies unsafe and anomalous events in real time. For example, CEP at the smartphone alerts drivers about rising coolant temperature and rapid fuel drops. It also provides a trip log and filter out messages to be sent to the backend, saving both the bandwidth and power. Backend CEP detects reckless driving in real time. Backend also uses historical data to detect driving anomalies and predict impending sensor failures. The system is tested on actual vehicles and tests demonstrate that the computing, bandwidth, and power consumption of the smartphone are reasonable.
Signature Restoration for Enhancing Robustness of FPGA IP Designs
Authors: Long Jing , Zhang Dafang , Liang Wei , Bi Xia'an
Published: March 2016

Many watermarking techniques for intellectual property (IP) protection are not resilient to tampering or removal attacks, especially for field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based IP cores. If attacked, the damaged watermarks cannot provide sufficient evidence in front of a court. To address this issue, the authors present a signature restoration scheme. The thought of secret sharing is introduced to share the signature into small watermarks. These watermarks are encoded with Reed-Solomon (RS) codes and embedded into unused lookup tables (LUTs) of used slices. Unlike most of existing techniques, the proposed scheme can restore the signature only by extracting parts of watermarks. So, it is tolerant to some damaged watermarks caused by removal attacks. The experiments show that the proposed scheme incurs no extra hardware resource and timing overhead. The robustness against attacks is much better by comparing to other schemes.
Determinants of Cost Efficiency and Productivity Growth of the Indonesian Insurance Industry
Authors: Viverita  , Wulandari Shinta , Cabanda Emilyn
Published: March 2016

This paper provides new empirical evidences on determinants of cost efficiency and productivity performance of life and property-casualty insurance firms in Indonesia. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) method is used to investigate the cost efficiency and Total Factor Productivity (TFP) among a balanced panel of 118 insurance firms (35 life insurance and 83 property-casualty insurance) over the period of 2006-2008. Results show that on average, insurers were operating at a low level of cost efficiency. However, by constructing the Malmquist Indices, this research finds a positive productivity change for the two types of insurance firms due to an increasing use of technological advances. Furthermore, the paper estimates the influence of some environmental variables on the cost efficiency using a multiple regression analysis. New findings indicate significant negative effects among types of insurance, size, and solvency on the firm's cost efficiency. Meanwhile, market share and ownership structure have positive but insignificant effects on the firms' efficiency. These findings are additional empirical evidences for the efficiency analysis of life and property-casualty insurance in a developing country.
Inter-Organizational Knowledge Sharing System in the Health Sector
Authors: Al-Busaidi Kamla Ali
Published: March 2016

This study aimed to investigate the physicians' attitude toward inter-organizational knowledge sharing system (IOKSS) deployment in the health sector in Oman. IOKSS in the health sector can be very crucial and results in several operational, strategic, social and economic benefits for healthcare providers and physicians. Previous research on inter-organizational systems (IOS) has focused on organizational adoption, particularly on vertically-linked organizations. Identifying major issues that are critical to physicians, the end users and key stakeholders, is crucial for IOKSS deployment. Based on data collected from physicians in Oman, results indicated that peers, the sector and knowledge workers, are critical factors to physicians' attitudes toward IOKSS. The study also indicated that physicians' attitudes were positively associated with their intention to share implicit, explicit, exploratory and exploitive knowledge. These results are valuable for organizational designing, planning and decision-making regarding their adoption of IOKSS in the health sector.
Enhanced-Adaptive Pattern Attack Recognition Technique (E-APART) Against EDoS Attacks in Cloud Computing
Authors: Thaper Rohit , Verma Amandeep
Published: March 2016

Cloud Computing is most widely used in current technology. It provides a higher availability of resources to greater number of end users. In the cloud era, security has develop a reformed source of worries. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and Economical Denial of Sustainability (EDoS) are attacks that can affect the ‘pay-per-use' model. This model automatically scales the resources according to the demand of consumers. The functionality of this model is to mitigate the EDoS attack by some tactical attacker/s, group of attackers or zombie machine network (BOTNET) to minimize the availability of the target resources, which directly or indirectly reduces the profits and increase the cost for the cloud operators. This paper presents a model called Enhanced-APART which is step further of the authors' previous model (APART) that can be used to mitigate the EDoS attack from the cloud platform and shows the nature of the attack. Enhanced-APART model offers pre-shared security mechanism to ensure the access of legitimate users on the cloud services. It also performs pattern analysis in order to detect the EDoS caused by BOTNET mechanism and includes time-based and key-sharing post-setup authentication scheme to prevent the replication or replay attacks and thus results in mitigation of EDoS attack.
The Primer of Social Media Analytics
Authors: Wamba Samuel Fosso , Akter Shahriar , Kang Hyunjin , Bhattacharya Mithu , Upal Mohammed
Published: March 2016

This article is intended to serve as a primer of social media analytics. The paper explores different dimensions of social media analytics by drawing on a review of the literature. Specifically, the paper sheds light on the definitional aspects, types of social media data and types of analytics to improve firm performance. The findings of the paper will help the reader to grasp the fundamentals of social media analytics.
Design and Development of Intelligent Decision Support Prototype System for Social Media Competitive Analysis in Fashion Industry
Authors: Ngai Eric W.T. , Lam S.S. , Poon J.K.L. , Shen Bin , Moon Karen K.L.
Published: March 2016

This paper describes the design and development of an intelligent decision support system (IDSS) for competitive analysis of social media in the fashion industry. A web-based prototype system is designed and developed to assist in monitoring the growing Internet media, protect fashion brands and products, and provide support for social media competitive analysis in the fashion industry through social media. In this study, a social media value grid that allows managers to use social media technology in the fashion business and add value for managers is proposed. Four propositions are presented as the research agenda in examining the ability of social media technology to improve the operations management of a fashion company.
Eliminated the Internal Stress in Molybdenum Oxides by Ultraviolet-Ozone Treatment and its Application to Organic Solar Cell
Authors: Qin Ping Li , Fang Guo Jia , He Qin , Ke Wei Jun , Lei Hong Wei , Liu Qin , Yang Guang , Zhao Xing Zhong
Published: March 2016

A simple and efficient method has been developed to eliminate the internal stress in molybdenum oxides by an ultraviolet ozone treatment. The results of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy, and Raman spectroscopy indicate that oxygen vacancy was a determining factor of the compressive stress in MoO3, which can be released by ultraviolet ozone treatment. Based on this hole-transporting layer, the photovoltaic power conversion efficiency up to 3.91% was achieved, which is 22% higher than that without ultraviolet ozone treatment. And ultraviolet ozone treatment on MoO3 is a useful method to embellish the interface to enhance the ability of collecting hole of hole-transporting layer to improve the performance of OSC with MoO3 film as hole-transporting layer.