bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Oil
Authors: Powe Lucas A.
Published: September 2018

This chapter discusses the legal battles over oil and mineral rights in Texas. In the first half of the twentieth century the discoveries of mass oil fields boosted the Texas economy. With oil at three dollars per barrel, Texas voters, in a 1917 addition to the state constitution, gave the legislature the power to pass all necessary legislation to conserve and develop the state's natural resources. In 1931, Texas Governor Ross Sterling declared martial law. Eugene Constantin filed a lawsuit, claiming an unconstitutional interference with his property rights. The chapter examines this case, Sterling v. Constantin, and three important legal events that occurred affecting Texas oil by the time the Supreme Court heard arguments for it. It also considers the significance of Sterling v. Constantin for constitutional law. Finally, it analyzes two other cases, Panama Refining v. Ryan and United States v. Texas.
School Finance
Authors: Powe Lucas A.
Published: September 2018

This chapter discusses the legal battles over school finance in Texas. Texas was an Anglo-ruled state with two minorities as second-class citizens: blacks and Hispanics. Hernandez v. Texas and the history of discrimination against Hispanics illustrate why any desegregation remedies had to consider Hispanics as well as blacks. That was the ruling in Cisneros v. Corpus Christi Independent School District, but the major case involving Hispanics was not litigated as racial discrimination but rather as a wealth discrimination case. The chapter examines this case, which involved the Edgewood Independent School District that filed a lawsuit claiming that it has been discriminatorily treated under the Equal Protection Clause. It also considers two other cases filed by Edgewood parents including Demetrio Rodriguez, called Edgewood II and Edgewood III, as well as the legal tussle over property taxes as a source of school funding in Texas and whether education was a fundamental right.
Immigration
Authors: Powe Lucas A.
Published: September 2018

This chapter examines Supreme Court cases that were filed over the issue of immigration in Texas. Undocumented immigrants pay in-state tuition at Texas's public universities. The state led the charge against allowing undocumented parents of American citizens to work legally. In 1975, Texas lawmakers passed legislation allowing school districts to deny admission and therefore education to any student who could neither prove lawful residence in the United States nor pay the requisite tuition. It was clear that the legislature wished to deter illegal immigration. The chapter discusses the legal challenge to this policy, focusing on the case Plyler v. Doe, and Texas's lawsuit against the Obama administration over Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA), one of two memoranda issued by the president on immigration and deportation.
Freedom of Speech and the Press
Authors: Powe Lucas A.
Published: September 2018

This chapter examines Supreme Court cases that were filed over the issue of freedom of speech and the press in Texas. In 1943, the Texas legislature passed the anti-labor Manford Act, which required labor unions and union agents to register and file comprehensive annual reports, while also forbidding them from making political contributions. The Manford Act was immediately put to the test by R. J. Thomas, president of the United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implements Union and vice president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The chapter first discusses this case before analyzing other cases that followed, including those involving John Stanford, Louis C. Acker, Ray Hill, and Billie Sol Estes. It also considers Allee v. Medrano, Texas v. Johnson, and the issue of license plates in Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Prosecuting Consensual Adult Sex
Authors: Powe Lucas A.
Published: September 2018

This chapter examines the legal battles in Texas over the issue of prosecuting consensual adult sex. In a 1963 revision of the Texas Penal Code, the state legislature liberalized the prohibitions on deviant sexual behavior. Sodomy was decriminalized for heterosexual couples, along with bestiality. Hence, a human could legally have sex with an animal but not with another human of the same sex. In the ensuing years there were halfhearted efforts to repeal and all were unsuccessful. The chapter discusses the 1998 case of John Lawrence, Tyron Garner, and Robert Eubanks relating to the issue of homosexuality, and more specifically, private homosexual conduct. It also considers the adoption of constitutional amendments on same-sex marriage in Texas and other states.
Tom DeLay’s Redistricting
Authors: Powe Lucas A.
Published: September 2018

This chapter examines the Supreme Court case stemming from the issue of redistricting in Texas. After the 2002 election, Texas's congressional delegation consisted of seventeen Democrats and fifteen Republicans. After the 2004 election, the delegation was eleven Democrats and twenty-one Republicans. This change was the result of the 2003 redistricting effort demanded and orchestrated by United States House majority leader Tom DeLay. It completed the process of making Texas a Republican state. In 2003, Representative Joe Crabb of the House Redistricting Committee introduced a redistricting bill that would spark a legal battle between Republicans and Democrats in Texas. The chapter discusses the Democrats' legal challenge to this bill over the issue of gerrymandering as well as the winners and losers from the litigation.
Conclusion
Authors: Powe Lucas A.
Published: September 2018

This chapter concludes that the book has discussed Texas's influence on all the doctrinal areas of modern constitutional law, showing that constitutional cases litigated by and in the state capture the major themes of the relation of law and politics in the entire country. In addition to representing all doctrinal areas of constitutional law, Texas cases revolve around the major issues of the nation, from race to wealth and poverty to civil liberties and the relationship of the states and the federal government to war. This conclusion summarizes some of those important cases, including City of Boerne v. Flores, an exercise in judicial review striking down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act as it applied to states; Texas v. Johnson (flag burning); Reagan v. Farmers' Loan and Trust (railroad rates); Lawrence v. Texas (homosexual sodomy); and Roe v. Wade and Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt (abortion).
Argentina's Missing Bones
Authors: Brennan James P.
Published: September 2018

Missing Bones: the ‘Dirty War ’in Córdoba examines the history of state terrorism during Argentina’s 1976—83 military dictatorship in a single place: the industrial city of Córdoba, Argentina’s second largest city and the site of some of the dirty war’s greatest crimes. It examines the city’s previous history of social protest, working class militancy and leftist activism as an explanation for the particular nature of the dirty war there. Missing Bones examines both national and transnational influences on the counter-revolutionary war in Córdoba. The book also considers the legacy of this period and examines the role of the state in constructing a public memory of the violence and holding accountable those responsible through the most extensive trials for crimes against humanity to take place anywhere in Latin America.
Threats
Authors: Brennan James P.
Published: September 2018

The city of Córdoba, site of the 1969 social protests the Cordobazo, encapsulated perhaps more than anywhere else in the country what the military viewed as the subversive influences that threatened the country’s sovereignty and its natural traditions, its cultural identity. A radicalized youth culture, liberation currents within the Catholic Church, and a militant labor movement targeted by the left for recruitment of party activists, collectively threatened the city’s conservative, Catholic culture. The military, Catholic Church hierarchy, business and the Peronist labor bureaucracy all viewed Córdoba as locus of radical ideologies and leftist activism.
Dictatorship
Authors: Brennan James P.
Published: September 2018

The military undertook a thorough militarization of the city following the 1976 coup, not just in waging the dirty war but by taking control of the government bureaucracy and university. Various sectoral interests and institutions (the press, the judiciary, business, the Catholic Church) were complicit in the state terrorism, some actively others through their silence. The army commander, Luciano Benjamín Menéndez consolidated the various intelligence services to monitor and undertake the clandestine war, one that was heavily concentrated in the working class and student neighborhoods.
Institutional Dynamics
Authors: Brennan James P.
Published: September 2018

Responsibility for waging the dirty war in Córdoba rested almost solely with the army’s Third Corps, other branches of the armed forces, unlike the case of Buenos Aires province and the federal capital, played a minor role. The military government compartmentalized the anti-subversive campaign, the Third Corps was assigned the largest and most difficult section of the country. Those conscripts performing their obligatory military service were often themselves victims of the state terrorism. Córdoba’s share of the victims of the dirty war numbered some 1100, overwhelming young and many with a recognized political activism.
Transnational Dynamics
Authors: Brennan James P.
Published: September 2018

The transnational influences on the Third Army Corps and the military government’s waging of the dirty war drew heavily on French theories of counter-revolutionary war. US influences was considerable but more at the ideological level, inculcating theories of a global Cold War, of a confrontation between east and west. Strictly domestic influences also counted greatly on the military’s institutional culture and the Catholic-nationalist ideas that animated its particular definition of “subversion.”
Assigning Blame
Authors: Brennan James P.
Published: September 2018

Unresolved debates on responsibility for the dirty war are clouded by myths and an imperfect historical understanding of the period. The CONADEP truth commission report, for all its ethical worth, simplified history. Historical scholarship, with a few signal exceptions, has been guilty of a failure to confront the moral contradictions inherent in any rigorous analysis of the causes of the violence and the dirty war.
Epilogue
Authors: Brennan James P.
Published: September 2018

The victory of the Center-Right alliance that supported candidate Mauricio Macri in the November 2015 presidential runoff elections ushered in a new era in the human rights movement in Argentina. The welter of bills crafted and passed by the kirchnerista legislative majority in the weeks between the election and the December 10, 2015, inauguration of the new president included a little-noticed law creating a bicameral committee to investigate those business accomplices of the dictatorship who had thrived under military rule and cooperated with the activities of the security forces whose murderous tactics fell disproportionately hard on labor activists and the working class generally. Opposed for diverse reasons by the Unión Cívica Radical, dissident Peronists not aligned with ...
Introduction
Authors: Kirsch Stuart
Published: September 2018

The introduction examines the varieties of engaged research practices in anthropology. It defines engagement in terms of interventions into politics, especially in relation to concerns about social and environmental justice. It also describes the resulting innovations. In addition, it emphasizes the importance of reflexivity for analyzing engaged research practices. Many of the examples in the book address property disputes and their resolution through the law.
How Political Commitments Influence Research
Authors: Kirsch Stuart
Published: September 2018

This chapter is based on long-term research with people affected by the Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea, including involvement in a lawsuit seeking to halt its destructive environmental impact. It considers examples of ethnographic refusal, when anthropologists do not write about events that might harm their informants. It also examines relationships between engaged anthropologists and colleagues, lawyers and law, corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and communities. This chapter and the next address these questions in the context of long-term research projects, while the other examples in the book consider these issues in relation to short-term, problem-focused research, which have their own challenges and opportunities.
The Search for Alternative Outcomes
Authors: Kirsch Stuart
Published: September 2018

This chapter examines a conservation and development project in Papua New Guinea in the mid-1990s. These projects were intended as alternatives to more destructive forms of resource extraction, including logging and mining. In this case, the four sociolinguistic groups living in the area could not agree on a shared agenda, forestalling the project. This suggests the importance of understanding regional history before establishing conservation areas. Although I correctly diagnosed the challenges facing implementation of the project, my desire for an alternative to destructive forms of development tempered my assessment of the project. In subsequent work, I began to focus on corporations responsible for environmental degradation.
How Analysis of Local Contexts Can Have Global Significance
Authors: Kirsch Stuart
Published: September 2018

This chapter considers claims about culture loss at hearings of the Nuclear Claims Tribunal in the Marshall Islands, including the impact of nuclear weapons testing on the people of Rongelap Atoll. The concept of cultural property is used to identify the referents of discourse about culture loss, including local knowledge, subsistence production, and connections to place. For example, the absence of breadfruit and pandanus trees on the atolls where the people from Rongelap were relocated prevented them from teaching subsequent generations how to build their distinctive sailing canoes, contributing to the decline of long-distance voyaging and the loss of knowledge about navigation by the stars and wave patterns. These discussions have been taken up by international debates about noneconomic loss and damage resulting from climate change, a matter of considerable significance for the people living in the Marshall Islands, given their double exposure to both nuclear radiation and rising sea levels.
The Risks of Intervention
Authors: Kirsch Stuart
Published: September 2018

A striking feature of debates concerning the disposition of Native American human remains is their invocation of the conventional domains of science, property, and kinship. Strong political claims about repatriation tend to assert the primacy of one domain over the others. Yet in contemporary North American social contexts, these domains have heterarchical relations, in which no single perspective dominates, rather than hierarchical relations organized by a fixed ranking system. Resolving disputes in heterarchical systems requires negotiation across domains rather than privileging a single domain. This requires the participants in these debates to understand how and why competing claims are fashioned. Yet deconstructing the terms of reference in heated debates may result in political backlash even when the goal of the analysis is to identify common ground.
Dilemmas of an Expert Witness
Authors: Kirsch Stuart
Published: September 2018

This chapter presents two affidavits submitted to the Inter-American Court. The first case was concerned with the negative consequences of Suriname’s refusal to recognize indigenous land rights, including the establishment of a nature reserve that become a de facto open-access zone on indigenous land. The second addressed problems associated with indigenous land tenure in Guyana under the Amerindian Act of 2006. Comparing the two cases allows the chapter to make several observations about the dynamics of short-term ethnographic research conducted for expert-witness reports. This includes the need to make affidavits legible to the three overlapping frames of the legal system, the communities seeking recognition of their rights, and anthropology. The chapter also considers the narrative choices in these affidavits, the political dilemmas of being an expert witness, and the compromises of short-term ethnography.
THE BAOBAB TREE
Authors: KUMAR Dr. D. SURESH
Published: September 2018

Trees are known to live for many years. Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment while meditating underneath a peepal tree (Ficus religiosa). A branch of the original tree was rooted in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka in 288 B.C. and is known as Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi. It is the oldest plant in the world. Long-living plants are found in many parts of the world. The Baobab tree is one among them. Baobab is the common name of a genus of trees (Adansonia) distributed in Madagascar, Africa, Australia and India. The Baobab is the national tree of Madagascar. The Baobab is also known as “bottle tree”, “the tree of life”, “upside-down tree”, and “monkey bread tree”.
Oraciones hendidas: identificación y significado procedimental
Authors: Raga Gimeno Francisco José
Published: September 2018

En el presente trabajo se propone que las oraciones hendidas, como ocurre en realidad con todos los tipos de oraciones, presentan una doble interpretación referencial, en términos de caracterización y de identificación, ligada esta última directamente a la estructura informativa. Y se plantea que lo propio de la naturaleza gramatical de las oraciones hendidas es la dominancia de la interpretación identificadora, con una influencia recesiva de la interpretación caracterizadora. Se propone la posibilidad de establecer una escala de menor a mayor restricción del ámbito de la identificación, pero se descarta que las oraciones hendidas se caractericen funcionalmente por ubicarse en un nivel específico de dicha escala. Finalmente se plantea que, desde un punto de vista enunciativo, lo propio de estas oraciones es que cuentan con un significado procedimental que consiste en realzar la relevancia de la oración hendida como apoyo a un argumento previo.
Ai Santiago!
Authors: Larson Pär
Published: September 2018

Nuova lettura di una cantiga apparentemente di tema religioso di Pai Gomez Charinho, in cui si propone una interpretazione basata su una duplice lettura delle invocazioni padron sabido e padron provado,
Growth Hormone Therapy for a Child With Severe Cognitive Impairment
Authors: Horne Vincent E. , Sandberg David E. , Gardner Melissa , Lantos John D. , Allen David B.
Published: September 2018

The expansion of growth hormone therapy over the last 3 decades has allowed for treatment of short stature for more children, resulting in increased height for many. However, treatment of idiopathic short stature remains controversial. Treatment decisions for disabled children with idiopathic short stature are even more complicated. We discuss a specific case of short stature in a disabled child and grapple with the ethical issues involved in the use of growth hormone.
Species diversity of the genus Riccia L. (Marchantiales, Ricciaceae) in Maranhão state, Brazil
Authors: Silva José Augusto dos Santos , Fernandes Rozijane S. , Pinheiro Costa Denise
Published: September 2018

Ricciaceae is a little-known liverwort family in northeastern Brazil. Fieldwork in 4 localities in Maranhão state yielded 4 species of Riccia, with 2 taxa, R. mauryana and R. weinionis, representing new state records. This paper describes the species diversity of the genus Riccia in Maranhão state, and provides descriptions, ecological notes, and illustrations for each species.
Czynności przeszukania w pomieszczeniach kościołów i innych związków wyznaniowych. Zatrzymanie dokumentów i innych rzeczy
Authors: Tomkiewicz Małgorzata
Published: September 2018

Artykuł dotyczy tytułowej problematyki przeszukania w pomieszczeniach należących do kościołów i innych związków wyznaniowych oraz zatrzymania należących do tych podmiotów dokumentów i innych rzeczy. Poprzez analizę obowiązujących uregulowań prawnych publikacja zawiera próbę odpowiedzi na pytanie, czy rozwiązania normatywne istniejące w porządku prawa polskiego dopuszczają możliwość dokonywania przeszukiwań w obiektach sakralnych i innych pomieszczeniach należących do kościołów i innych związków wyznaniowych oraz, czy ewentualnie ujawnione w trakcie tych czynności pisma i dokumenty będące w posiadaniu podmiotów konfesyjnych podlegają jakiejkolwiek ochronie. Czy kościoły i inne związki wyznaniowe obowiązane są do wydawania na żądanie służb każdej, mogącej stanowić dowód w sprawie rzeczy, którą służby te wskażą, i czy same czynności przeszukania są uregulowane w sposób niebudzący wątpliwości i z pełnym poszanowaniem gwarantowanych konstytucyjnie praw jednostki?W artykule wskazano zagadnienia sporne i budzące zastrzeżenia oraz zawarto propozycję rozwiązań de lege ferenda.
Short- and long-term results of low cost trauma training in a low-income resource-poor country
Authors: Oussi Ninos , Sadeghi Mitra , Qureshi Javeria S. , Mabedi Charles , Elbe Peter , Enochsson Lars
Published: September 2018

This article was migrated. The article was not marked as recommended. Introduction:Malawi is among the world's least developed countries. There are 2.1 physicians per 100 000 people and a high trauma-related mortality and morbidity. The lack of healthcare resources requires essential high capacity trauma training at a low cost. Methods:A one-week trauma course was conducted at the Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi. 15 students (13 interns and 2 chief nurses) attended the course. They were trained in initial trauma care, triage and basic practical procedures. Thereafter, evaluated through an identical multiple-choice exam, pre- (PRE) and post-course (POE), following a similar exam 6 months post-course (6MPOE). Prior to, and after the course a confidence-based questionnaire was completed. Results:The participants presented significantly higher test-scores after the course in both POE (26.9±2.6 vs. 22.8±1.6; p=0.0002) and 6MPOE (25.7±2.4 vs. 22.8±1.6; p=0.0028). We also identified the nurses to improve significantly after the course. The highest score of improvement was 27.3%. Higher confidence scores were noticed after the course. Conclusion: This study shows that any healthcare personnel in a low-income setting could benefit from a designed course in trauma management. Thus, we emphasize that healthcare staff undertake similar course to orient towards correct management and assessment of initial trauma patients.
Performance of modified lightweight aggregate concrete after exposure to high temperatures
Authors: Ma Qianmin , Guo Rongxin , He Kecheng , Du Haiyun , Lin Zhiwei , Yan Feng , Zhao Zhiman , Bai Yun
Published: September 2018

Lightweight expanded clay aggregates (ceramsites) were modified by coating a thin layer of alkali-activated fly ash binder. The modified aggregates were used to prepare concrete specimens, which were exposed to room and high temperatures. Spalling of the concrete specimens during heating and their mechanical properties after exposure were tested. Furthermore, hydration products of the alkali-activated fly ash and microscopic structures of the concrete specimens after exposure were also tested. In addition, in situ images of the concrete specimens were collected to demonstrate the formation and propagation of cracks in the specimens with increasing temperature. All the results were compared with results obtained for concretes prepared with normal lightweight aggregate and with crushed limestone. The results show that, unlike the reference concretes, nearly all the modified concrete specimens were intact, even at a temperature of 1200°C, without spalling and retained good mechanical properties. Nepheline was detected in the alkali-activated fly ash after heating at 800°C. Probably as a result of the strengthening of the alkali-activated fly ash coating, high temperatures induced cracks in the modified concrete that extended along the interfacial transition zone, but did not penetrate the interior of the aggregates.
Extraction of alarm substance in zebrafish v1
Authors: Xavier do Carmo Silva Rhayra , Prado Rocha Sueslene , Gomes Lima-Maximino Monica , Maximino Caio
Published: September 2018

Alarm substance, or Schrekcstoff, is an mixture of compounds produced by specialized club cells in the epidermis of Ostariophysan fish. When lesioned, these cells release the substance, which acts as an aversive olfactory stimulus capable of evoking intense behavioral responses (alarm reaction) in other fish in the shoal (Maximino et al. 2018). Alarm substance is used as an aversive stimulus to study fear-like behavior in Ostariophysan - especially in zebrafish. The present protocol describes a technique to easily extract alarm substance for acute exposure.
Pengaruh Implementasi Kebijakan E-procurement dan Pelayanan Terhadap Efektivitas Kerja pada Bagian Pengadaan Barang/Jasa
Authors: Supardi Suparmin
Published: September 2018

Di Indonesia pelaksanaan e-procurement diatur melalui Peraturan Presiden Nomor 8 Tahun 2006 dan mulai diterapkan sejak tahun 2007 dengan berdirinya Lembaga Kebijakan Pengadaan Barang/Jasa Pemerintah (LKPP), Aplikasi e-procurement adalah suatu aplikasi yang digunakan untuk mengelola pengadaan barang/jasa berbasis internet yang didisain untuk mencapai suatu proses pengadaan barang/jasa yang efektif, efisien dan terintegrasi.Permasalahan yang diteliti dalam penelitian ini berkaitan dengan implementasi kebijakan e-procurement, pelayanan, dan efektivitas kerja pegawai, serta pengaruh implementasi kebijakan pada Bagian Pengadaan Barang/Jasa di Pusat Penelitian dan pengembangan Sumber Daya Air Bandung.Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode descriptive survey dan metode explanatory survey. Penelitian ini menguji apakah implementasi kebijakan e-procurement dan pelayanan berpengaruh terhadap efektivitas kerja pada bagian pengadaan barang/jasa di Pusat Penelitian dan Pengembangan Sumber Daya Air. Teknik penarikan sampel yang digunakan adalah secara keseluruhan (sensus) yang berjumlah 43 orang. Tehnik analisis menggunakan path analysis.Berdasarkan hasil penelitian diketahui bahwa pengaruh variabel implementasi e-procurement terhadap variabel efektivitas kerja positip yang signifikan sebesar 11.073% dan. Pengaruh variabel pelayanan ke efektivitas kerja positip yang signifikan sebesar 33.389%. Sedangkan pengaruh implementasi e-procurement dan pelayanan dengan efektivitas kerja secara bersama-sama sebesar 44.4%, sedangkan faktor lain sebesar 55.6%. Untuk dapat meningkatkan efektivitas kerja sebaiknya Bagian Pengadaan Barang/Jasa Pusat Penelitian dan Pengembangan Sumber Daya Air melakukan sosialisasi e-procurement kepada penyedia jasa.
PENGARUH KEPEMIMPINAN VISIONER DAN PEMBERDAYAAN PEGAWAI TERHADAP KINERJA PEGAWAI DI DINAS TATA RUANG DAN PERMUKIMAN KABUPATEN CIANJUR (Studi Terhadap Persepsi Pegawai di Lingkungan Distarkim Kab. Cianjur)
Authors: Warsidi Warsidi
Published: September 2018

Dinas Tata Ruang dan Permukiman merupakan unsur pelaksana otonomi daerah di bidang tata ruang, bangunan, perumahan dan permukiman, air bersih dan teknik penyehatan lingkungan, dipimpin oleh seorang Kepala Dinas yang berada di bawah dan bertanggungjawab kepada Bupati melalui Sekretaris Daerah. Dinas Tata Ruang dan Permukiman mempunyai tugas melaksanakan sebagai urusan pemerintah daerah di bidang penataan ruang, bangunan, perumahan dan permukiman, air bersih dan teknik penyehatan lingkungan pemukiman berdasarkan azaz otonomi dan tugas pembantuan. Tujuan penelitian ini ialah untuk mendeskripsikan kepemimpinan visioner, pemberdayaan pegawai, dan kinerja pegawai, serta bagaimana hubungan dan pengaruh diantara variabel kepemimpinan visioner, pemberdayaan pegawai,dan kinerja pegawai Dinas Tata Ruang dan Permukiman Kabupaten Cianjur.Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah deskriptif dan eksplanatori survei. Teknik sampel yang digunakan berupa simple randomsampling (SRS). Teknik pengumpulan data antara lain dengan cara penyebaran angket (kuesioner), wawancara terbatas, dan observasi. Alatpengumpulan data berupa angket. Teknik analisis data menggunakan analisis regresi.Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa hubungan kepemimpinan visioner dan pemberdayaan pegawai dengan kinerja pegawai bersifat positif. Makna hubungan positif disini adalah jika kepemimpinan visioner dan pemberdayaan pegawai meningkat, maka kinerja pegawai di Distarkim Kab. Cianjur juga akan meningkat. Kepemimpinan visioner berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kinerja pegawai di Distarkim Kab. Cianjur. Pemberdayaan pegawai berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kinerja pegawai di Distarkim Kab. Cianjur. Kepemimpinan visioner dan pemberdayaan pegawai berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kinerja pegawai di Distarkim Kab. Cianjur. Faktor lain yang diduga turut mempengaruhi penelitian ini misalnya budaya organisasi, kompetensi kerja pegawai, dan pelatihan kerja.
PENGARUH SISTEM ADMINISTRASI PERPAJAKAN MODERN TERHADAP KEPATUHAN WAJIB PAJAK
Authors: Masyhur Hadi
Published: September 2018

Keberhasilan penerimaan pajak, dalam perspektif administrasi perpajakan sejauhmana fiskus dapat: (1) meningkatkan kepatuhan para pembayar pajak, dan (2) melaksanakan ketentuan perpajakan secara seragam untuk mendapatkan penerimaan maksimal dengan biaya yang optimal. Pengukuran efektifitas administrasi perpajakan dengan mengamati tax gap, yaitu selisih antara penerimaan yang sesungguhnya dengan pajak potensial dengan tingkat kepatuhan dari masing-masing sektor perpajakan. Penelitian ini menelusuri sejauhmana implementasi sistem administrasi perpajakan modern di Indonesia dan kepatuhan wajib pajak. Metode yang digunakan deskriptif dan inferensial dengan pendekatan kuantitatif. Instrumen utama yang digunakan adalah kuesioner. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa Wajib Pajak memiliki tanggapan yang sangat bagus terhadap implementasi sistem administrasi perpajakan modern. Sistem administrasi perpajakan modern mempunyai pengaruh besar terhadap kepatuhan Wajib Pajak. Modernisasi struktur organisasi memberikan kontribusi pengaruh yang terbesar, Modernisasi budaya organisasi dan modernisasi strategi organisasi memberikan pengaruh lebih rendah. Terdapat pengaruh yang positif dan signifikan antara implementasi sistem administrasi perpajakan modern dari dimensi modernisasi struktur organisasi, modernisasi prosedur organisasi, modernisasi strategi organisasi, dan modernisasi budaya organisasi terhadap kepatuhan wajib pajak.
ANALISIS PENGUKURAN KINERJA PEMASARAN MELALUI FINANCIAL METRICS (Studi Kasus Untuk Produk CN-235 di PT. Dirgantara Indonesia)
Authors: Astami Wulan Sari
Published: September 2018

Kinerja pemasaran merupakan dampak dari hasil strategi pemasaran yang dilakukan oleh suatu perusahaan. Pengukuran kinerja pemasaran akan menjadi factor yang penting karena dapat digunakan sebagai evaluasi dan tolak ukur bagi kegiatan pemasaran. Salah satu alat pengukuran kinerja pemasaran dapat dilakukan dengan menggunakan marketing metrics¸ dimana marketing metrics tersebut dapat mengukur secara financial metrics dan non-financial metrics.  Pengukuran dengan menggunakan financial metrics salah satunya adalah menghitung bagaimana profitabilitas, biaya pemasaran yang digunakan untuk memroduksi CN-235 dan juga ROS.Metode yang digunakan untuk melakukan penelitian ini adalah dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif analisis. Dimana dalam penelitian ini akan mengupas mengenai proses srategi pemasaran CN-235. Data yang diperoleh melalui wawancara dengan supervisor bagian pemasaran dan juga keuangan. Selalin itu data diperoleh melalui studi dokumen tasi dan juga observasi langsung dengan bagian pemasaran PT. DI.Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, PT. DI melakukan proses strategi pemasaran yaitu dimulai dengan analisis situasi stratejik, perencanaan strategi pemasaran, program pengembangan startegi pemasaran, dan implementasi strategi pemasaran. Berdasarkan perhitungan financial metrics maka terlihat bahwa biaya pemasaran sangat tinggi sejak tahun 2003 hingga 2006, namun setelah 2008 hingga 2011 biaya pemasaran cenderung berada pada tingakatan yang sama. Profitabilitas untuk CN-235 hanya terdapat pada pesawat CN-235 seri 43, seri 21, seri 54, seri 55. Begitupun dengan perhitungan ROS yaitu untuk seri 43 sebesar 0,81, seri 21 sebesar 0,01, seri 54 sebesar 0,05 dan untuk seri 55 sebesar 0,63.
SINGLE INDEX MODEL SEBAGAI ALAT ANALISIS OPTIMALISASI PORTOFOLIO INVESTASI SAHAM (Studi Kasus pada Kelompok Saham LQ-45 di BEI Tahun 2009-2011)
Authors: Triharjono Sigit
Published: September 2018

Penelitian ini bertujuan 1) Untuk menentukan sekelompok saham LQ-45 untuk dibentuk menjadi portofolio yang optimal dengan menggunakan single index model. 2) Untuk membuktikan bahwa mendiversikasikan sekelompok saham-saham dalam satu portofolio investasi saham akan menurunkan risiko lebih kecil daripada risiko saham-saham tersebut apabila ditransaksikan secara individual. Teknik pengambilan sampel penelitian ini menggunakan metode sampling purposive. Teknik pengumpulan data penelitian ini menggunakan cara dokumentasi dengan data sekunder. Metode analisis data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah Single Index Model. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan 1) Dengan menggunakan Single Index Model diperoleh hasil portofolio optimal dan perusahaan yang termasuk kedalam portofolio optimal adalah saham perusahaan Astra Argo Lestari,Tbk (AALI) dan Aneka Tambang, Tbk (ANTM). 2) Terbukti bahwa dengan diversifikasi dalam suatu portofolio saham dapat menurunkan risiko daripada risiko saham-saham pembentuk portofolio apabila ditransaksikan secara individual.
THE EFFECT OF JOB SATISFACTION AND MOTIVATION ON EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF OF BANDUNG STATE POLYTECHNIC
Authors: Kari Andi
Published: September 2018

The research purposes to measure the level of job satisfaction and motivation and its influence on employee engagement PNS administrative staff of Bandung State Polytechnic, amounting to 293 employees spread across 15 units and work.Determination by cluster random sampling technique method and samples were taken at random (random) that required 168 samples. Methods of research done by the survey, the data obtained by distributing questionnaires to the pegawaits. While the research model depicted in the form of the relationship between variables: Variable Satisfaction (X1) and work motivation (X2) on Employee Engagement (Y).The results generally show that the effect of the level of employee satisfaction "high", the level of employee motivation "very high", and the level of employee engagement "very high". Anova test results showed a difference in strata on aspects of job satisfaction, work motivation, and engagement of employees, but not significantly. Regression Test Results and Test t, partially shows that three variables affect each other positively. F test results and the coefficient of determination shows that simultaneous job satisfaction and motivation influence employee engagement.
ANALISIS CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE DAN LIFESTYLE MODEL TERHDAP KEPUTUSAN MENONTON FILM (Survei Terhadap Member Bioskop Blitzmegaplex Paris Van Java Bandung)
Authors: Vitry Dwi Dina Rahma
Published: September 2018

Penonton adalah pelaku utama pembuat keputusan untuk menonton di bioskop dalam industri hiburan. Namun beberapa tahun terakhir terjadi penurunan pertumbuhan jumlah penonton bioskop BlitzMegaplex Paris Van Java Bandung. Hal ini terjadi karena lambatnya laju pertumbuhan jumlah penonton setiap bulannya dan sebagai bioskop yang memiliki konsep beyonds experience, dimensi customer experience BlitzMegaplex Paris Van Java Bandung kurang baik. Melalui upaya penilaian customer experience diharapkan BlitzMegaplex dapat mengevaluasi dimensi customer experience dan memahami lifestyle model penonton pada saat ini. Adapun tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui: (1) gambaran customer experience BlitzMegaplex Paris Van Java Bandung (2) gambaran lifestyle model penonton bioskop BlitzMegaplex Paris Van Java Bandung (3) gambaran keputusan menonton bioskop BlitzMegaplex Paris Van Java Bandung(4) besarnya pengaruh customer experience dan lifestyle model terhadap keputusan menonton di Bioskop BlitzMegaplex Paris Van Java Bandung.Metode penelitiannya menggunakan deskriptif dan verifikatif. Sumber data yang dipergunakan adalah primer dan sekunder. Populasi dari penelitian ini adalah member bioskop BlitzMegaplex Paris Van Java Bandung sebanyak 943.164 orang dan diambil sampel penelitian sejumlah 165 orang menggunakan Simple Random Sampling dan Probability Sampling merupakan teknik pengambilan sampel yang penulis pilih. Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui wawancara, observasi, kuesioner. Untuk mengukur besarnya pengaruh customer experience dan lifestyle model digunakan teknik analisis Regresi Linear Berganda.Hasil penelitian mengungkapkan bahwa analisis customer experience cukup tinggi. Lifestyle model cukup tinggi, dan keputusan menonton cukup tinggi. Customer experience memiliki pengaruh positif terhadap keputusan menonton di bioskop BlitzMegaplex Paris Van Java Bandung. Lifestyle model memiliki pengaruh positif terhadap keputusan menonton di bioskop BlitzMegaplex Paris Van Java Bandung
Analisis Tingkat Work-Life-Balance Dan Penilaian Kinerja Terhadap Motivasi Kerja Dan Organizational Citizenship Behavior Karyawan Pt. Buma Apparel Industry Di Subang
Authors: Durahman Acep
Published: September 2018

Penelitian ini berjudul Analisis Tingkat Work Life Balance (WLB) dan Penilaian Kinerja Terhadap Motivasi Kerja dan Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB)  karyawan PT. Buma Apparel Industry Subang. Berdasarkan pengamatan dilapangan, peneliti menemukan adanya data turn over karyawan yang tinggi, sehingga diduga unsur tersebut termasuk kedalam indikator variabel-variabel yang teliti. Penelitian dilakukan dengan cara menyebarkan angket kepada karyawan yang berjumlah 100 responden. Metode sampling yang digunakan yaitu simple random sampling (Becker & Doyle, 2016). Deskripsi work life balance tertinggi pada indikator, pk merasa kurang ditilai oleh atasan pada indikator, sedangkan indikator tertinggi motivasi pada insentif, dan terendah pada persepsi gaji, sedangkan indikator OCB terendah pada indikator perilaku melebihi. Berdasarkan pengolahan data angket dengan metode analisis jalur (path analysis) dengan derajat kepercayaan  95 % (alfa 0,05) dapat disimpulkan bahwa tingkat Work Life Balance karyawan PT. Buma Apparel Industry berpengaruh positif terhadap tingkat Motivasi dengan nilai koefisien beta sebesar 0,543. Sedangkan pengaruh Penilaian Kinerja terhadap motivasi tidak signifikan. Pengaruh WLB dan PK terhadap OCB tidak signifikan (0,1), sedangkan tingkat motivasi terhadap OCB berpengaruh sebesar 0,2 yang temasuk kategori hubungan korelasi rendah.
Metode Service Quality (Servqual) dan Quality Function Deployment (QFD) sebagai Usulan Perbaikan Kualitas Pelayanan di PT. Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero)
Authors: Putri Solehatin Ika , Sumartini Sumartini , Sofia Alfira
Published: September 2018

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui gambaran tingkat kualitas pelayanan Kereta Ekonomi Lokal Lintas Barat, dan mengetahui indikator yang dapat menggambarkan dimensi kualitas pelayanan serta merancang usulan perbaikan kualitas pelayanan di PT. KAI (Persero).Metode Service Quality (Servqual) melalui 5 dimensinya digunakan untuk mengetahui tingkat kualitas pelayanan. Analisis faktor digunakan untuk menentukan indikator penentu dilanjutkan dengan Importance Performance Analysis (IPA) untuk mencari faktor prioritas. Rancangan perbaikan diusulkan setelah melakukan analisis dengan Quality Function Deployment (QFD). Kuesioner disebarkan pada 393 penumpang Kereta Ekonomi Lokal Lintas Barat dengan teknik convenience sampling.  Kualitas pelayanan Kereta Api Ekonomi Lokal Lintas Barat termasuk pada tingkatan sedang yang menunjukkan belum terpenuhinya kualitas yang diharapkan pelanggan. Terdapat 21 indikator yang dapat menggambarkan dimensi kualitas pelayanan dengan indikator terkait kesiapan petugas dalam mengarahkan tangga bantuan dari peron ke pintu kereta yang memiliki tingkat ketidakpuasan tertinggi. Usulan perbaikan yang menjadi prioritas berdasarkan hasil analisis QFD yaitu meningkatkan pengawasan pelaksanaan SOP dari para petugas.
Médiaeszközök használatának pszichológiai következményei a tanulással összefüggésben
Authors: Faragó Boglárka
Published: September 2018

A tanulmány egy szakirodalmi áttekintés, az utóbbi években megjelent (főként) nemzetközi kutatások eredményeinek összegzésével. Témája azoknak a pszichológiai tényezőknek az áttekintése, melyek a tanulás szempontjából is meghatározók, és amelyekre a modern infokommunikációs eszközök használata is hatást gyakorol. Két fő területtel foglalkozik; a média kognitív tényezőkre (pl. figyelem, információfeldolgozás), valamint érzelmi életre gyakorolt hatásaival. A tanulmány a veszélyek kiemelése mellett igyekszik a figyelmet ráirányítani a megfelelő eszközhasználatban megnyilvánuló lehetőségekre is, vagyis arra, hogy az elektronikus és médiaeszközök megfelelő, kontrollált használata esetén azok sok pozitív vonást is hordoznak magukban, melyek jó hatással lehetnek a tanulás és a mindennapi élet során.
NON-STATE SUBJECTS IN POLICE ACTIVITIES
Authors: Matvejevs Aleksandrs
Published: September 2018

In this article, the author considers the non-state subjects of the police activity. In the article sums the position theoretical inclusion of civil structures in the law-enforcement system taking into account modern tendencies of development of relations in the Republic of Latvia, namely: the state policy of development and support of the institutions of civil society. Police activities are carried out by various actors: the police, public organizations, private enterprises, individual citizens. Together, they form a system of subjects of police activity, defining the place in which the police bodies occupy themselves as special executive bodies.
COMPENSATION OF NON-PECUNIARY DAMAGE CAUSED BY UNLAWFUL OR UNJUSTIFIED RESTRICTION OF LIBERTY
Authors: Kaļva Aldis
Published: September 2018

In this publication it was research non-pecuniary damages caused by law enforcement agency and its indemnification. As the goal of publication was set to discover and analyse the problem about non-pecuniary damages caused by law enforcement agency and its indemnification and to investigate whether the newly adopted law on Compensation for Damage Caused in Criminal Proceedings and Administrative violations eliminates pre-existing problems with indemnification of non-pecuniary damage caused by law enforcement agency. The raised aim was achieved. It was found, that law on Compensation for Damage Caused in Criminal Proceedings and Administrative Violations eliminates pre-existing problems when courts had problems determining the amount of compensation of non-pecuniary damages in accordance with Civil law article 5. However there are problems with fixed calculation of daily wages in the article 15. of the law on Compensation for Damage Caused in Criminal Proceedings and Administrative violations.The article uses the systemic, dogmatic and comparative method of studying and analyzing normative acts and court rulings.
The experience of estimating the aboveground productivity dynamics of grass communities in the Malaya Sosva River floodplain (Nature Reserve "Malaya Sosva") taking into account weather, climate and hydrological features
Authors: Tyurin Valeriy N.
Published: September 2018

This article is devoted to assessing the productivity of grass communities in the Malaya Sosva River floodplain (Reserve "Malaya Sosva"). The three-year studies (1986-1988) at six sample plots (SP) were conducted. The main goal was to evaluate the productivity and its relationship with hydrological and meteorological factors. The method of N.F. Khramtsova was used [1974], which allows to avoiding disturbance of vegetation on the SP, as well as performing statistical data processing. The obtained results reflected the close relationship of productivity with soil moisture, connecting to the position in the relief – aboveground biomass increases to the Malaya Sosva River. At the same time, the increase in biomass has a weak relationship with meteorological factors (temperature and precipitation), despite the weather contrasting seasons. The grass communities show relative stability by significant fluctuations in hydrological and weather conditions in different years. There is an inverse correlation between productivity and biodiversity. A similar trend was observed for the flood plain of the Ob River. But there is a significant range of values in the Ob River floodplain due to the extended flooding.
Del gobierno y las reformas en la Argentina
Authors: Britos Patricia
Published: September 2018

Este trabajo desarrolla algunos problemas que provocan los regímenes presidencialistas puros al sistema democrático, y la dificultad de alcanzar un consenso para cambiar el sistema político, en especial en la Argentina. Algunas medidas han reforzado el fuerte poder de la presidencia violando la separación de poderes en los últimos gobiernos, principalmente en los de los Kirchner. Y, lo más preocupante resulta ser el tremendo esfuerzo del kirchnerismo de lograr la re-reelección de con una nueva reforma constitucional.
La carga de la prueba frente al principio de presunción de inocencia en el estado colombiano
Authors: Caro Espitia Néstor Raúl
Published: September 2018

En materia probatoria, el Derecho privado se diferencia del Derecho penal porque en el primero corresponde a las partes la carga de la prueba, mientras que en el segundo es al órgano de investigación al que le corresponde demostrar los hechos en que fundamenta su acusación, para desvirtuar la presunción de inocencia, “sin que en ningún caso se pueda invertir esa carga probatoria”. No obstante, la Sala Penal de la Corte Suprema de Justicia y la Corte Constitucional han venido aplicando la teoría de las cargas dinámicas probatorias, propia del Derecho privado, lo cual genera no solo la inversión de la carga de la prueba sino la crisis del principio de la presunción de inocencia.
La participación del garante en el procedimiento sancionatorio contractual y en las declaratorias de incumplimiento
Authors: Sotelo Rojas Sandra Patricia
Published: September 2018

A través del presente artículo de investigación se analiza por qué no debería vincularse a las aseguradoras en aras de garantizarles el derecho al debido proceso tanto en el procedimiento sancionatorio contractual como en las declaratorias de incumplimiento de los contratos estatales amparados por póliza de seguro, tal como lo ha dispuesto el Estatuto Anticorrupción. Para ello, se expone el contexto normativo y jurisprudencial de esta obligación y se analizan el contrato de seguro y las condiciones de participación de los garantes en los demás mecanismos de cobertura del riesgo autorizados en Colombia (entidades financieras, bancos y fiduciarias), concretando a partir de ello las razones por las cuales, dadas la naturaleza y características de las pólizas de seguro, resulta todo un contrasentido el hecho de que las entidades sometidas al Estatuto General de Contratación de la Administración Pública (E.G.C.A.P.) tengan el deber de garantizar el debido proceso al asegurador, cuando únicamente deberían vincular al contratista en el procedimiento sancionatorio contractual y en las declaratorias de incumplimiento, máxime si se considera que esta garantía no fue extendida legalmente a los demás garantes. Al final del documento se enuncian las garantías del debido proceso que deben estar presentes en los procedimientos administrativos contractuales y los términos en que deben aplicarse por parte de las entidades, comparando este deber con la aplicación de la institución del debido proceso en el procedimiento contractual chileno