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On the rise and decline of ‘indigenous psychology’
Authors: Jahoda Gustav
Published: May 2016

The origins of ‘indigenous psychology’ go back mainly to Asia during the 1990s. Its declared objective is to arrive at psychologies which, unlike the American mainstream, are adapted to the needs of particular cultures/countries. The literature dealing with it, including both journals and books, is critically surveyed. Accounts are provided of the ways in which specific topics are treated, such as: definitions of ‘Indigenous psychology’; its relation to cross-cultural psychology, and how the former’s goals might be achieved. Most of the ideas discussed remain at a high level of abstraction, and a striking lack of consistency in the views of different authors is demonstrated. There are frequent suggestions that a universal psychology will eventually be created from indigenous psychologies across the globe, but no sensible ways in which that might happen are mentioned. It is the general lack of realism in the proposals, and the fact that it is questionable whether any indigenous psychologies actually exist, which help to explain the subsequent decline of the movement. Nonetheless, it did leave a legacy in so far as the term ‘indigenous psychology’ has become part of the vocabulary.
National curricula in Norway and Finland: The role of learning outcomes
Authors: Mølstad Christina Elde , Karseth Berit
Published: May 2016

The core curricular category of learning outcomes has entered the educational policy scene in Europe. While content-oriented curricula have dominated the Nordic countries, a shift towards outcomes can also be observed. In this article, we describe the fundamental distinctions between Didaktik and learning outcomes and examine how learning outcomes are incorporated into written national curricula for compulsory schooling in Norway and Finland. We find that learning outcomes are integrated in both countries; however, the Norwegian curriculum is positioned further away from a Didaktik-based model than that of Finland. The Norwegian approach neglects an essential distinction between matter and meaning by employing an outcome-oriented curriculum.
A third wave of European education policy: Transnational and national conceptions of knowledge in Swedish curricula
Authors: Wahlström Ninni
Published: May 2016

The aim of this article is to examine how transnational concepts within educational policies influence national curricula in the reconceptualisation of educational policy into concrete curriculum texts. Based on a critical discourse analysis and the concepts of recontextualisation, convergence and divergence, a third wave of European policy discourse has been identified, emphasising an increasing interest in compulsory school and curriculum. Analyses of policies and pedagogical texts show a convergence between a European and a Swedish knowledge discourse concerning standards, basic skills and a performance-based curriculum; however, there is a divergence in terms of transversal skills in transnational policy documents compared to an emphasis on school subjects in the Swedish curriculum. In the transnational arena, the concept of knowledge is mainly interpreted in terms of competencies, while in the Swedish curriculum – the Curriculum for the Compulsory School, Preschool Class and the Leisure-Time Centre 2011 – knowledge is understood in more traditional terms and includes abilities within subjects.
Curriculum on the European policy agenda: Global transitions and learning outcomes from transnational and national points of view
Authors: Sivesind Kirsten , Wahlström Ninni
Published: May 2016

This special issue examines curricula and their histories as they have evolved throughout the 21st century as part of transnational and national education policies. With a specific focus on the policy transitions that are taking place in Europe, the articles demonstrate how curriculum making processes move in different directions, following their own reform cycles despite globalization and internationalization. At the same time, a third wave of transnational policy transitions seems to be taking place, such that international organizations like the European Union have intervened in curriculum decisions regarding compulsory schooling within national contexts. The articles within this special issue draw on different epistemologies and methodologies and, thus, contribute to analytical frameworks and provide a variety of lenses for understanding and exploring how curriculum making processes respond to and re-contextualize processes and expectations beyond national and global contexts.
Transnational policy transfer over three curriculum reforms in Finland: The constructions of conditional and purposive programs (1994–2016)
Authors: Sivesind Kirsten , Afsar Azita , Bachmann Kari E
Published: May 2016

This article examines how three national curricula for basic education in Finland reflect transnational policy perspectives from 1994 to the present. By developing a conceptual apparatus for curriculum analysis, we examine how national curricula in Finland can be interpreted as modifications of transnational policy transfers shaped by international comparisons in today’s society. Transnational policy has been the subject of numerous studies, but ongoing curriculum modifications of policy transfers across reform periods have rarely been examined. Using a systems theory approach, we seek to understand how curriculum revisions are designed as combinations of conditional and purposive orientations. The most important contributions of this paper lie in its use of a mixture of these orientations, and its demonstration of the particular functions that these orientations play in both facilitating and constricting transnational policy transfer as evidenced by our analytical apparatus.
Baseline geophysical data for hazard management in coastal areas in relation to earthquakes and tsunamis
Authors: Murthy KSR
Published: May 2016

A systematic study of geophysical data of the Eastern Continental Margin of India was taken up to identify the land–ocean tectonic lineaments over the east coast of India and the possible neotectonic activity associated with them. These studies helped in delineating the offshore extension of some of the coastal lineaments. Analysis of magnetic, gravity and shallow seismic data, combined with reported seismicity data, indicates moderate seismicity associated with some of these land–ocean tectonics of the Eastern Continental Margin of India. The coastal/offshore regions of Vizianagaram (north of Visakhapatnam) and Ongole of the Andhra Pradesh margin and the Puducherry shelf of the Tamil Nadu margin have been identified as zones of weakness where neotectonic activity has been established. Bathymetry data over the Eastern Continental Margin of India revealed the morphology of the shelf and slope of this margin, which in turn can be used as the baseline data for tsunami surge models. Detailed bathymetry map and sections of the Nagapattinam–Cuddalore shelf (from 10.5° to about 12°N) indicate that one of the main reasons for the higher run-up heights and inundation in the Nagapattinam–Cuddalore coast during the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26 December 2004 could be the concave shape of the shelf with a gentle slope, which might have accelerated the tsunami surge to flush through at a rapid force. Structural control also appears to be a contributing factor for the tsunami surge.
Effect of artificial seagrass on wave attenuation and wave run-up
Authors: John Beena Mary , Shirlal Kiran G , Rao Subba , Rajasekaran C
Published: May 2016

Natural processes like wave action, tides, winds, storm surges, and tsunamis constantly shape the shoreline by inducing erosion and accretion. Coastlines with intact vegetated dunes, mangroves, and reefs act as a buffer zone against wave attack on beaches. This article discusses the effect of simulated seagrass on wave height attenuation and wave run-up through an experimental study. The tests were carried out with submerged artificial seagrass subjected to varying wave climate in a 50-m-long wave flume. Measurements of wave heights along the seagrass meadow and the wave run-up on a 1:12 sloped beach were taken for wave heights ranging from 0.08 to 0.16 m at an interval of 0.02 m and wave periods 1.8 and 2 seconds in water depths of 0.40 and 0.45 m.
Diagnostic yield of array CGH in patients with autism spectrum disorder in Hong Kong
Authors: Siu Wai‐Kwan , Lam Ching‐Wan , Mak Chloe Miu , Lau Elizabeth Tak‐Kwong , Tang Mary Hoi‐Yin , Tang Wing‐Fai , Poon‐Mak Rachel Sui‐Man , Lee Chi‐Chiu , Hung Se‐Fong , Leung Patrick Wing‐Leung , Kwong Karen Ling , Yau Eric Kin‐Cheong , Ng Grace Sui‐Fun , Fong Nai‐Chung , Chan Kwok‐Yin
Published: May 2016

Background

Chromosomal microarray offers superior sensitivity for identification of submicroscopic copy number variants (CNV) and it is advocated to be the first tier genetic testing for patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In this regard, diagnostic yield of array comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) for ASD patients is determined in a cohort of Chinese patients in Hong Kong.

Methods

A combined adult and paediatric cohort of 68 Chinese ASD patients (41 patients in adult group and 27 patients in paediatric group). The genomic DNA extracted from blood samples were analysed by array CGH using NimbleGen CGX‐135K oligonucleotide array.

Results

We identified 15 CNV and eight of them were clinically significant. The overall diagnostic yield was 11.8 %. Five clinically significant CNV were detected in the adult group and three were in the paediatric group, providing diagnostic yields of 12.2 and 11.1 % respectively. The most frequently detected CNV was 16p13.11 duplications which were present in 4 patients (5.9 % of the cohort).

Conclusions

In this study, a satisfactory diagnostic yield of array CGH was demonstrated in a Chinese ASD patient cohort which supported the clinical usefulness of array CGH as the first line testing of ASD in Hong Kong.
Reflections on the call for a global “ecological turnaround”
Authors: Simonis Udo E.
Published: May 2016

This paper is about excessive overuse of resources and about serious environmental impacts, and the need for a global ecological turnaround. Ideas about a social contract for sustainability are being discussed, and examples given of resource decoupling and impact decoupling. Global environmental governance is seen as being insufficient and in need of vigorous reform. It seems that only through improved planetary cooperation can a collapse of the global ecosystems be prevented and global sustainability be secured.
In Defense ofVineland: Pynchon, Anarchism, and the New Left
Authors: O’Bryan Michael
Published: May 2016

Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland (1990) met with a lukewarm critical reception. Critics fond of the novelist’s postmodern theatrics rejected its political didacticism, whereas politically didactic critical opponents of postmodernism rejected its lingering individualism and antiauthoritarian thinking. Caught between this rock and hard place, the novel became a casualty of an ongoing battle within the Left between postmodernists and proponents of Old Left structure. Neither camp accurately assessed Vineland, however, because the anarchist politics on which it is structured have been poorly understood in the academy. Turning a historicist eye toward the novel’s portrayal of the sixties, we see that it dramatizes actual debates among the New Left between anarchist figures, such as Paul Goodman and Murray Bookchin, and emergent neo-Leninist factions such as the Weather Underground and Progressive Labor Party. Speaking to contemporary leftists, the novel concludes that decentralist and grassroots anarchist politics can mediate between the New Left’s entropy and the Old Left’s hierarchy.
“My Trespass Vision”: Disability, Sexuality, and Nationality in Hart Crane’s Versions of “The Idiot”
Authors: Bellew Paul Bradley
Published: May 2016

American modernist Hart Crane’s poem “The Idiot” details the poet’s real-life encounters with a young man with a cognitive disability. Beginning in 1926, Crane worked on the poem through different versions through letters, manuscripts, and magazine publications until about 1932. Crane shuttled the geographic setting of the poem back and forth across the border between Florida and Cuba. With a focus on the material instantiation of these versions, this essay highlights the complex relationship between Crane’s queer speaker and the intellectually disabled man as it moves across national borders. This identification between two people with differently marginalized—and inherently sexualized—identities shifts within and outside the border of the United States, and, in this, Crane explores the nature of social marginalization as it relates to US national identity.
Intravital imaging reveals new ancillary mechanisms co-opted by cancer cells to drive tumor progression
Authors: Vennin Claire , Herrmann David , Lucas Morghan C. , Timpson Paul
Published: May 2016

Intravital imaging is providing new insights into the dynamics of tumor progression in native tissues and has started to reveal the layers of complexity found in cancer. Recent advances in intravital imaging have allowed us to look deeper into cancer behavior and to dissect the interactions between tumor cells and the ancillary host niche that promote cancer development. In this review, we provide an insight into the latest advances in cancer biology achieved by intravital imaging, focusing on recently discovered mechanisms by which tumor cells manipulate normal tissue to facilitate disease progression.
On the question of improvement of the state financial control: Economic and legal aspects
Authors: Гладкова Вера , Gladkova Vera
Published: May 2016

Article deals with actual issues of modern law-making in financial (budgetary) control in the Russian Federation. The author highlights unsystematic character of regularization of relations developing in the field of financial (budgetary) control, and distinctive inadequacy of its development. The author formulates specific offerings for maximizing productivity of control actions in the financial sphere. The legal and legislative systems cannot be characterized as identical. There are distinctions and discrepancies between these systems, which allow speaking more in detail about their relative independence. In a general way these distinctions can be classified as follows: volumes are not the same; different ratio of objective and subjective; diverse backbone factors; different level of structural orderliness and integrity (the legal system is self-organizing); various ratio of static and dynamic properties (the legislation system is less steady than legal system); regularities of functioning and development of these systems also differ. In other cases, reverse situation takes place, when the set of relevant rules of law exists, but there is no the branch of law. For example, the financial law, the right to social insurance, agricultural law and others can be classified as such branches. These branches of law have no codification act, while legislative and other laws and regulations that need unification of legal regulation in this area are scattered in other codification acts, which unify the rules of law specific legal sub-sectors (for example, Budget Code of the Russian Federation, Tax Code of the Russian Federation).
Incentives and restrictions of enterprise activity in domestic economy
Authors: Гладкова Вера , Gladkova Vera , Репкина Ольга , Repkina Olga
Published: May 2016

The article considers value and essence of business and enterprise activity in work of

economic entities. Enterprise activity is covered in total with business activity and their

interrelation and interdependence are considered. The logic of research of a problem begins

with prerequisites of emergence and degree of need of the considered types of activity for

successful function of the economic subjects carrying out economic activity, and develops in

definition of a place of enterprise activity in domestic economy. The article opens the question of

possibility of successful existence of organization without the elements of business activity and

considers objective and subjective factors and conditions impacting on development and

realization of enterprise activity. It is noted that "civilized" business that includes an

indispensable element -business and enterprise activity, creates conditions of competitive

interaction, creation of the new benefits of society, and influences over its dynamics of

development. The spesial attention is paid to incentives and restrictions of enterprise activity in

domestic economy and to possible prospects of its development.

Enterprise activity can be understood as some kind of business activity. Economic

motives underlie in a basis of both of them. Authors study the prerequisites of emergence and

degree of need of the considered types of activity for successful function of the economic subjects

carrying out economic activity.

Is it possible the successful existence of the organization without elements of business

activity? As far as business activity is the cornerstone of dynamics, defines the directions of

development of the organization and directly effects on formation of its competitiveness, so

naturally, success of the organization depends on its business activity. It is theoretically possible

to assume that emergence of the organizations was, to some extent, a consequence of

manifestation of business activity. Thus, business activity – a necessary element of activity of the

organization.
Justification of the priority directions of structural transformations of the regional consumer market
Authors: Ветрова Екатерина , Vetrova Ekaterina , Литвинова Елена , Litvinova Elena , Данилова Вероника , Danilova Veronika
Published: May 2016

studies. The most important development indicators of the level and quality of life of the

population in the region are the state and tendencies of development of consumer market in the

conditions of establishment of market relations.

State regulations of the consumer market is performed, on the one hand, through

automatic advantages, i.e. offering and demand, prices and competition, and, on the other hand,

presents by the factors management appointments. Using administrative methods of influence,

the regional governments regulate such processes as privatization, the deployment of new

enterprises, and the attraction of foreign capital. The integrated approach allows ensuring the

normal functioning of the regional consumer market.

Trade is the most important sector of the consumer market. In this regard, the realization

of the major areas of functioning and development of regional consumer market is closely

connected with the strategy of trade development.

Combined methods and forms of regulation should be the basis of the modern regulation

of the market of consumer goods and services, therefore, in order to improve the effectiveness

and implementation of unified state policy it is necessary to create the Concept of development of the consumer market of Moscow region The need for the development of the concept of marketing management is determined by

the structural characteristics of the regional consumer market at present and observed change in

the payment demand of the population.

The article offers directions of implementation of this concept that will allow realizing

the goals and objectives of all market participants. The necessity for using marketing tools in the

regulation of the consumer market at the macro and meso-levels is caused by the goals of the

state, among which the most important is the significance of its social policy, focused on

improving the welfare of the population
Voluntary participation in the expenses of the municipality in the form of self-taxation
Authors: Литвинова Елена , Litvinova Elena , Ветрова Екатерина , Vetrova Ekaterina
Published: May 2016

Questions of increase in revenues of the budget of municipality remain actual throughout

the entire period of carrying out the budgetary reform. To local authorities the legislation

assigned more than 30 types of powers, thus only the part is really financed, for bigger it is not

enough means. Municipal budgets lack the significant own income allowing to guarantee really

financing of specific questions of local value. It forces to use other sources, including means of

self-taxation of citizens. Self-taxation of citizens in the conditions of a lack of budgetary funds

can become the real mechanism of partial financing of the most significant questions of local

value for the population, especially in territories of rural settlements.

In work practice of self-taxation, historical and modern experience of its application is

discussed. Process of transformation of self-taxation in the second half of the 1920th years is

considered. Results of researches of legislative regulation of self-taxation and its submission to

tasks of a tax policy of the Soviet state are given. The statistical data characterizing experience

of active realization of self-taxation in a number of regions of Russia at the present stage are

widely submitted.

The aspect of voluntariness of payment of contributions to the solution of questions of

local value at the present stage is considered. The special attention is paid to need of the

accurate formulation of a question, which is submitted for a referendum at making decision on

self-taxation, and development of an economic justification of voluntary collecting. The main

problems of introduction, application and fund raising of self-taxation of citizens in

municipalities in modern economic conditions, and risks, which local governments need to

consider at making decision about expediency of introduction of self-taxation of citizens of the

subordinated territory, are systematized and considered.

Authors believe that the part of the specified problems corresponds to legislative

regulation of self-taxation of citizens at the federal level and consider expedient addition of

certain articles of the Federal law "About the general principles of the organization of local

government" with the relevant provisions, which accurately would define the legal nature of

means of self-taxation of citizens.
Approaches to the definition of concept "customer loyalty" in hospitality industry
Authors: Поправкина Анастасия , Popravkina Anastasiya , Морозова Любовь , Morozova Lyubov , Чернова Джавания , Chernova Dzhavaniya
Published: May 2016

The article raises the question of the research methods of consumer loyalty level in the hospitality industry and considers the main approaches to this concept. In recent years the Russian market of hotel services has expanded. The authors present the indicators of activity of collective accommodation facilities in 2000-2014 and consider the development trends in hotel business. The process aiming at developing customer loyalty is the bedrock of brand management and formation of hospitality industry. This process is created through emotional and functional benefits; as a result, the article discusses the steps of the formation of customer

loyalty. The authors disclose the concept of "loyalty", both domestic and foreign authors, and on the basis of diversity of interpretations of this term give the terms “consumer loyalty” and “customer loyalty”.

Consumers of hotel services are one of the factors of competitiveness of the enterprise, and the factor of customer loyalty is becoming a leading element, all of this cause the necessity to study this phenomenon. The article presents main points that define loyalty as a customer orientation. Based on the fact that the hospitality companies are fighting for customer loyalty, the authors have examined four concepts, which are focused on the consumer (the concept of"4C"), as well as forms of loyalty and objects, through which customer loyalty can be measured. In order to keep their client, enterprises of hospitality industry need to improve

service quality, improve service levels, and concepts of building loyalty contribute to this.
Current problems of incoming tourism in Russia
Authors: Силаева Анна , Silaeva Anna , Коновалова Елена , Konovalova Elena , Леонова Валентина , Leonova Valentina
Published: May 2016

Incoming tourism brings more and more money to economies of the countries, most

popular with tourists, as people even more often travel abroad. However, the share of Russia in

the international tourism is steadily reduced, despite the natural interest of foreigners in the

country with rich history and high rates of development of infrastructure.

The authorities and business elite of many countries are extremely interested in

increasing of tourist flows and try to attract tourists with the most various ways. The economic

recession of 2014 which became result of both structural problems of the Russian economy, and

sharp deterioration of a foreign policy situation, extremely negatively reflected in the tourism

market, including the incoming. And after all, today incoming tourism is one of the priority

directions of tourist sector.

Political and economic events of the last two years have bared need to intensify process

of realization of tourist capacity of our country. In 2016 the tendency to optimization of tour

operator activity in Russia based on recession of the Russian economy and recession of

consumer activity will proceed. At preservation of the present economic situation growth of

incoming tourists will proceed.

However, the analysis of a condition of the sphere of tourism indicates the insufficient

level of its development in many indicators, existence of limiting factors of development of

incoming tourism. The article represents an attempt in general to consider as affairs with

incoming tourism in Russia, what problems in its development exist, and how to overcome them.
Socio-cultural differentiation of youth in tourism
Authors: Гозалова Марина , Gozalova Marina , Середина Мария , Seredina Mariya
Published: May 2016

The article discusses the role of youth groups in the socio-cultural differentiation of youth in the field of tourism and the importance of the social role of youth in tourism. The emergence of youth tourism industry, social and cultural differences in travel motivation of young people makes it important the analysis of youth tourism. Tourism is an indicator of the differences between social stratums of youth, therefore important to talk about the social and cultural differentiation of young people in tourism and analysis of the main approaches to the essence of differentiation in tourism. The authors consider the main theoretical component of the need to use the concept "socio-cultural differentiation" and its application in tourism concerning the youth. Needs of young people with similar socio-cultural characteristics and interests are the basis of the study of the socio-cultural aspects of the differentiation of youth in tourism. Within this framework, the concept of "group" is considered as collection of people based on common values, interests, standards, constant interaction, goals, interests, and limited with criteria of membership. Socio-cultural differentiation of youth is characterized by the cultural component of this process. As a result of the foregoing, it is necessary to study the basic aspects of group relations and the role of youth in the development of society. The main elements, typical for group relations of youth in tourism, are based on leisure interests. Development of a scientific approach to solving the problems of youth, as well as availability of social and public policy in tourism are the important elements of the issue of social and cultural differentiation. In such a case, youth is viewed through the prism of group relationships based primarily on common interests.
Professional roles of hr manager: Modern look
Authors: Богачева Татьяна , Bogacheva Tatyana
Published: May 2016

The necessity for specialists in the field of human relations arises when management

companies and their personnel need for an intermediary regulation of social and labor issues.

Appointments that are similar in function to the duties of the modern HR-specialists emerged in

the early twentieth century. At that time the main task of human resource managers included the

rapid accumulation of experience and knowledge, the mastering of management tools. Later,

many companies felt the need to form a comprehensive human resource management systems:

motivation, adaptation, evaluation, effectiveness of staff and others.

Professional role of HR manager in modern conditions increases significantly and

includes everything that is connected with the activities of personnel at the enterprises. This

places HR-specialists before challenges to adapt to rapid changes in the external environment of

the organization, to adapt the management skills to the aims and objectives of the rapidly

developing business.

Currently, at the enterprises with established management processes came to the fore

"soft factors", so-called virtual reality business, when main attention is paid to the climate in the

team, staff loyalty, values and motivational settings of employees. The use of these factors

demands from the НR manager the acquisition and expansion of professional competences.

Modern HR-specialist should be able to make decisions and take responsibility, to convince and lead the team. HR manager has moved to the rank of equitable manager, which may affect a

business strategy of company. His professional role in tourism enterprise has increased, and it

forces HR-manager to work on his image, improve his professional skills and develop personal

qualities.
Immediate Improvement in Severe Mitral Regurgitation After Aortic Valve Replacement for Severe Aortic Insufficiency
Authors: Zeeshan Ahmad , Zhu Mojun , Elefteriades John
Published: May 2016

A 57-year-old male with ascending aortic aneurysm, severe aortic regurgitation, and severe mitral regurgitation (MR) underwent ascending aortic replacement and aortic valve replacement. MR in this patient with normal mitral valve morphology was considered secondary to aortic valve incompetency. Consequently, a surgical approach to restore aortic valve function was adopted with successful MR resolution. This case report demonstrates the possibility of reversing early functional mitral regurgitation without surgically approaching the mitral valve.
Sociodemographic correlates of BMI categories among female University students of Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University
Authors: Zaidi Uzma , Awad Salwa Saad , Abdelsalam Eman Mortada , Qasem Hind Diouri , Kayal Ghalia Fahad
Published: May 2016

Purpose: Youth is considered a crucial period for launching positive health and social behaviours. It is a life stage when young people are experiencing rapid emotional, physical and intellectual changes, and when they begin the transition from childhood to adolescence to independent adulthood. The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity worldwide urged the authors to study the sociodemographic factors that might work as causal factors for obesity among young Saudi female university students. The study aimed at unveiling the causes of obesity among this group and to find out the association of normal and overweight with socio-demographic variables.Material and Method: A total of 500 female students were participated in this study from February to Novembers 2015. Weight and height were measured to determine the Body mass Index (BMI), the socio-demographic variables were examined by using sociodemographic form. Data was gathered from female students (N=500) enrolled in bachelors program during the period of November 2014-October 2015.Results: The findings of the BMI measurements had shown that there is 54% of the university students were in the normal weight whose BMI is 24 or below and 35% were showing a BMI that is over 24 and were in the range of overweight or obesity.Conclusion: This study concluded that there is an urgent need for guidance of university students regarding a healthy lifestyle and for fostering physical activity and nutrition programs on the campus to reduce and to keep the healthy weight.
CERTAINTY-UNCERTAINTY AND “ADDITIONAL” INFORMATION AS FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO A CHANGE IN DECISION IN THREE GROUPS OF PARTICIPANTS – BETTING SHOPS, STUDENTS OF HUMANITIES AND ECONOMICS/ENGINEERING
Authors: Sarmány-Schuller Ivan , Kiššová Adriana
Published: May 2016

The aim of the research was to find out the preferred decision in an economic game. Our sample comprised 433 participants (students of humanities and economics/engineering and customers of betting shops) who were administered this game twice. The wording for the second choice was changed according to two theorems based on this game (Samuelson and Rabin theorems). Our aim was to find out if there were differences in the choice of game between the groups of participants, and if uncertainty and change of wording was related to change in decision. Results show that the most preferred possibility in all three groups of participants was to not play any game. Participants did not make any changes to their decisions even in repeated choice when the wording was changed; they still adhered to their previous choice. Self-assessment of certainty and uncertainty proved significant only in the case of students of humanities (psychology and social work), where assessing the decision as uncertain led to its change. On the contrary, if a decision was assessed as certain, it was not subject to any change later. Students of humanities had significantly higher score of pathological certainty (C3) than other degrees of the Uncertainty-Certainty Scale, which is related to a higher willingness to play the offered games.
IMPOLITENESS IN: “A 14 YEAR OLD GROOM” BY ANDON Z. ÇAJUPI
Authors: Beqo Aulona
Published: May 2016

Various studies have been carried out on The Impoliteness Theory, in various contexts as well as in works of art where dialogue is present. One reason why it is considered as a source of humor would be the fact that it encourages willingness to read, another reason would be the fact that characters appear with a variety of behaviors, alongside Politeness we meet Impoliteness. This paper aims to analyze the dialogue between Tana and Kote, two female characters from “A 14 year old groom” written by Andon Z. Çajupi . The Impoliteness super strategies, the face threatening acts, the fulfillment of Grice’s Cooperation Maxims, turn- taking in dialog, the sentence structures and the lexical units will serve as the basis for this analysis. Through the dialogue analysis of these two characters, it is seen how the Impoliteness  is realized in the works of the Albanian author and the other dimensions of the characters’ behavior it provides us with, adding thus to the totality of a characters’ behavior.
International legal cooperation of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the cultural and humanitarian spheres – important part of international relations
Authors: Mamajonov Nuriddin
Published: May 2016

The article is devoted to the International legal cooperation of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the cultural and humanitarian spheres. Analysis of the influence of the cultural and humanitarian spheres in the international relations of the states, including Uzbekistan, was carried out in the article. Additionally, more and more growing role of the so-called “culture factor” in the international politics is discussed in it. The analysis is based on the legal base of the Republic of Uzbekistan, international legal documents, research works of domestic and foreign scholars in such areas as culture, education, science, tourism and medical science.
MONITORING OF THE EDUCATIONAL ADULT CENTER: SEEKING WAYS FOR IMPROVING THE ACTIVITY WITH PEOPLE OF "THE THIRD AGE"
Authors: Erkin Isimbaev , Dubrovina Inna , Konkashev Marat , Mukanova Rose
Published: May 2016

The authors discuss the experience of the educational adult center in the context of the idea - "education throughout the life". In the frame of the last three years the Centre organized the monitoring and analytical work to create a system of education and finding ways to improve the efficiency of working with people of "the third age". The article presents the facts and analytical conclusions on the results of the monitoring.
COMPLEX MONITORING QUALITY OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR PEDAGOGICAL WORKERS OF SMALL SCHOOLS
Authors: Akisheva Ayslu , Zeynelova Aygul , Makitova Mara , Imanova Aliya
Published: May 2016

The article discusses the experience comprehensive monitoring of the effectiveness training teachers small schools. The aim is to determine the comprehensive monitoring of quality course preparation and post-cycle. Treatment monitoring studies makes it possible to identify the actual needs of teachers to organize and advance future efforts to improve the content training sessions and the teaching quality. It presents a synthesis of the study educational needs, expectations and degree readiness of students to learn during the upcoming training course. Research results obtained make it possible to identify the shortcomings in the work and comply with all the requirements of students. The facts and analytical report on the results of the monitoring.
Supporting infection control and patient safety
Authors: Shackleton Rosanna , Pollard Lorraine , Smith Sinéad
Published: May 2016

Healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) are a significant burden to the NHS. They cause distress to patients, increase length of stay, and in extreme cases can even prove fatal. To reduce mortality rates associated with these infections, the Department of Health made infection control and prevention a top-tier ‘must do’ target for the NHS ( Department of Health, 2000 ). One national initiative to tackle HCAIs is the Saving Lives programme ( Department of Health, 2005 ; 2007 ), which provided hospital trusts with audit tools and resources to embed robust infection prevention and control across their organisation. When Saving Lives was first implemented at the trust concerned, it was a labour intensive paper-based process. Thus, there was an impetus to change the system to reduce the workload on NHS staff. A bespoke online tool was designed and developed within the trust. After a two-month development period and consultation with key stakeholders, a new online system was launched. This online tool sat on existing trust servers, so required no additional investment. The new Infection Control Audit online system has been welcomed and endorsed by staff responsible for conducting the audits, having generated numerous time efficiency savings.
The impact of 12-hour shifts on team effectiveness
Authors: Bradley Margaret
Published: May 2016

This article aims to illustrate the potential impact of 12-hour shifts on teamworking by focusing on the restrictions such shifts create in developing effective and engaging team communication processes. It does this through presenting research on work with multiprofessional mental health teams, both communityand ward-based. It is proposed that 12-hour shifts can contribute to teams being ‘pseudo’ teams rather than ‘real teams’, and draws on the input–process–output model of team effectiveness to illustrate the points made. The premise of the paper is that team shift patterns (as an input) mediate the extent to which teams can participate in effective and engaging communication processes, which, in turn, impacts on the outputs of team effectiveness, including outcomes for patients, such as quality of care, and outcomes for staff, such as staff wellbeing.
The impact of an orthopaedic specialist registrar on A&E wait times
Authors: Brown Phil , Murray John
Published: May 2016

Meeting the four-hour wait target is a challenge for many accident and emergency (A&E) departments. We examined the effect on patient flow through our minor injury department following the introduction of a new scheme which based an orthopaedic registrar in department at peak times. This retrospective analysis of prospectively gathered data looked at 3432 patients coded with minor injuries suitable to have been seen by the registrar. We examined waiting time, time in department and final disposal. Overall, there was no significant decrease in waiting times. Patients seen by the registrar passed through the department no quicker than those seen by the A&E senior house officer and advanced nurse practitioners. There was, however, a reduction in patients breaching the 4 hour target in comparison to the comparable period without the specialist registrar in A&E.
Troop the colour for the Queen
Authors: Neville Sarah
Published: May 2016

The government has asked early years settings to promote British values; these lend themselves to various important activities based on the Queen's official 90th birthday.
Parts of the body: B is for Brain…
Authors: Hammond Paula , Lillie Stephen
Published: May 2016

This month, we continue our series that takes the form of an extended alphabetical adventure around the body, helping children to get to know themselves a little better.
One big happy family
Authors: Chalmers Debbie
Published: May 2016

We have all seen the dynamic within families change when children become siblings, often bringing a range of emotions and differing behaviour, and we can embrace these changes.
Morphological study of some Euphorbia taxa in Iran
Authors: TALEBI SEYED MEHDI , NOORI MITRA , DAVIJANI SOMAYEH SHOJAEI
Published: May 2016

Abstract. Talebi SM, Noori M, Davijani SS. 2016. Morphological study of some Euphorbia taxa in Iran. Nusantara Bioscience 8: 103-110. Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae) has nearly 2000 species and great morphological diversity present between its members. For this reason, species of this genus are classified into different infrageneric ranks. In the present study, morphological characteristics of fifteen taxa of this genus were examined in Iran. Thirty one qualitative and quantitative morphological characteristics from the vegetative and reproductive or­gans of the studied taxa were examined. ANOVA test showed significant variations for all of studied quantitative features. PCA-biplot of the studied traits confirmed that some of them were very useful for identification of the treated taxa. In addition, the obtained results did not confirm species classifications in sections/subsections according to Flora Iranica as well as Flora of Turkey and proved high morphological variations between these species; therefore traditional classification of species in subsection must be changed and our results confirmed previous molecular studies.
Eletrorresistividade na prospecção de aquíferos fraturados
Authors: Gallas José Domingos Faraco , Giardin Arnoldo
Published: May 2016

Levantamentos geofísicos de eletrorresistividade com arranjo dipolo-dipolo em áreas de ocorrência de rochas granito-gnáissicas foram realizados visando a detecção de estruturas do tipo falhas/fraturas ou outras de interesse hidrogeológico. Os resultados obtidos permitiram identificar estruturas que, em perfurações subsequentes, resultaram em 2 poços com excelente produção de água. Um terceiro poço foi perfurado, mas em local onde a assinatura geofísica poderia refletir um depósito de tálus, potencial bom aquífero ou rochas xistosas, potencial mau aquífero, sendo confirmada esta segunda possibilidade.
Development of a method for DNA extraction from oil palm leaves and the effects of pH and ionic strength on nucleic acid quantification
Authors: Ihase Leonard Osayande , Horn Renate , Anoliefo Geoffrey Obinna , Ralph Eke Chukwuemeka , Afolabi Abolade Samuel , Asemota Omorefe
Published: May 2016

Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) has benefited little from molecular marker technologies although the long generation time and the unpredictable variations due to allogamy make it a high priority for improving breeding efficiency. Progress would require an efficient, low cost and high-throughput deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) extraction method adapted for oil palm. A method for genomic DNA extraction from oil palm leaves that is simple and cost-effective was developed without the use of liquid nitrogen. A260/280 ratios between 1.987 and 2.078 were obtained. Furthermore, we could demonstrate that nucleic acid concentration and yield were inversely proportional to the pH and ionic strength of the solvent. The measured values varied significantly between 572 ng/µl and 496 ng/µl. DNA extracted with this method is stable and can be reproducibly amplified by PCR.
Transformation Temperatures, Shape Memory and Magnetic Properties of Hafnium Modified Ti-Ta Based High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys
Authors: Khan W.Q. , Wang Q. , Jin X.
Published: May 2016

In this study the modification effect of Hf content on the shape memory properties and magnetic permeability of a 75.5-77Ti-20Ta-3-4.5Hf alloy system has been systematically studied by DSC, three-point bend test, vector network analyzer and XRD. The martensitic transformation temperature, heat of reaction and recovery strain increases with the increase of hafnium and tantalum content. A stable high temperature shape memory effect was observed (Ms = 385–390 °C) during the two thermal cycles between 20 °C and 725 °C. Transformation temperatures and heats of reaction were determined by DSC measurements. Recovery strain was determined by three-point bend testing. Also an alloy, 70Ti-26Ta-4Hf, with higher tantalum content was produced to observe the effect of Ta on the shape memory properties. Permeability increases gradually from 1.671 to 1.919 with increasing content of hafnium modification and remains stable in the frequency range of 450 MHz to 1 GHz.
Effect of Rare Earth Cerium Addition on Microstructures and Mechanical Properties of Low Carbon High Manganese Steels
Authors: Jiang M. Z. , Yu Y. C. , Li H. , Ren X. , Wang S. B.
Published: May 2016

Low carbon high manganese steels with different Ce contents were melted in medium frequency vacuum induction furnace. The microstructures and mechanical properties of steels were studied by OM, SEM, EDS and mechanical property testing. The results showed that the microstructures of experimental steels were refined remarkably, inclusions distributed more finely and uniformly, the tensile strength and impact toughness of tested steels both improved greatly after the addition of Ce. Thermodynamic calculation results demonstrated that Ce contained inclusions were Ce2O3and Ce3S4, which agreed well with the results observed by SEM and EDS. By analysis of two-dimensional lattice disregistry, it was shown that the lattice misfit parameter between δ-Fe and Ce2O3, Ce3S4are less than 6 %, which indicated that Ce2O3and Ce3S4could effectively act as the heterogeneous nuclei of initial δ-Fe. Therefore, the microstructures were refined significantly and the mechanical properties were improved correspondingly in Ce-added low carbon high manganese steels.
Material Flow Behavior of Refill Friction Stir Spot Welded LY12 Aluminum Alloy
Authors: Ji Shude , Li Zhengwei , Wang Yue , Ma Lin , Zhang Liguo
Published: May 2016

A three-dimensional finite volume model was established by ANSYS FLUENT software to simulate material flow behavior of the refill friction stir spot welding (RFSSW) process. The RFSSW experiment was performed to validate the rationality of the simulation results. Simulation results show that the maximum velocity appears at the sleeve outer wall. The velocity becomes smaller as the increase of the distance to the tool walls. The material flow behaviors are verified by the cross section and microstructure of the RFSSW joint. Low flow velocity in the joint center leads to alclad concentration, which easily results in shear fracture. The sleeve plunge depth must be bigger than the upper sheet thickness in order to obtain joint with large bonding area. Both increasing the rotational speed and refilling speed accelerate the material flow while increasing the rotational speed is a more effective method.