bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Phytochemical properties and heavy metal accumulation in wheat grain after three years’ fertilization with biogas digestate and mineral waste
Authors: Różyło Krzysztof , Świeca Michał , Gawlik-Dziki Urszula , Kwiecińska-Poppe Ewa , Andruszczak Sylwia , Kraska Piotr
Published: October 2017

Non-standard materials used for plant fertilization, require characterization to reduce any possible undesired effects. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of fertilization with biogas digestate (BD) and mining waste (carboniferous mudstones (MS) from coal mine) on wheat yield quality and the bioaccumulation of heavy metals in wheat grains in relation to conventional fertilization (NPK) and no fertilization. Using the co-application of waste (MS+BD), the highest yield was obtained in the first and second year, but in the third year, a slight decrease in yield was observed compared to NPK. In all years, BD and MS+BD fertilization increased the content of protein, wet gluten, and phenols in wheat grain compared to NPK and no fertilization. Waste fertilization had a positive effect on the antioxidant capacity index of grain but only in the first year. The bioaccumulation index (BAI) demonstrated that NPK decreased BAI for Zn, B, Cd, and Mn, whereas MS+BD decreased BAI for Cu, Sr, Pb, Co, Ba, and Cr.
Electric energy consumption of milking process on some Finnish dairy farms
Authors: Rajaniemi Mari , Jokiniemi Tapani , Alakukku Laura , Ahokas Jukka
Published: October 2017

The aim of this study was to examine the electric energy consumption of milking process on dairy farms and to evaluate the methods to improve the energy efficiency. The electricity consumption of the milking process was measured on three dairy farms in Southern Finland, and it varied between 37–62 Wh kg-1 milk.  The largest energy saving potential was identified in milk cooling and the heating of cleaning water. Even simple methods, such as placing the condenser of the refrigeration system outside, may reduce the energy consumption of milk cooling by 30%. Efficient milk pre-cooling can reduce the energy consumption of the whole milking process by more than 25%. Even larger energy savings are possible with a sophisticated milk cooling – water heating systems. It was concluded that there is a significant potential to reduce the energy consumption and energy costs of the milking process, and thus to improve the profitability and sustainability of the sector at the same time.
The effects of legume seeds on the lactation performance of dairy cows fed grass silage-based diets
Authors: Ramin Mohammad , Höjer Annika , Hetta Mårten
Published: October 2017

The aim was to study if locally produced organic legume seeds as protein supplement could improve the performance of dairy cows. The experiment was a cyclic change over design were the control diet consisted of grass silage and barley (60:40) on a dry matter (DM) basis. Barley was replaced with rapeseed expeller (RSE), or isonitrogenous supplements of peas, untreated field beans (UFB), heat-treated FB (TFB) or a lower level of TFB (TFB-low) that provided the same dietary metabolizable protein concentrations as of UFB. None of the legume protein supplementations had effect on DM intake (DMI) neither on energy corrected milk yield compared to control. The RSE treatment increased milk (24.8 vs. 23.6 kg d-1) and protein yield (913 vs. 863 g d-1) compared to other protein supplements. Heat-treated FB had no effect on DMI, milk or protein yield compared to UFB. Only RSE resulted in improvements in dairy cows performance in relation to the control diet.
Mortgage Selection: Interactive Effects of House Price Appreciation and Mortgage Pricing Components
Authors:   Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Furlong Frederick T. , Takhtamanova Yelena ,   Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Lang David ,   Stanford University, Center for Education Policy Analysis
Published: October 2017

Research has shown evidence of a link between house price appreciation and the selection of mortgage financing options: Higher appreciation is associated with higher take-up rates for adjustable-rate mortgages relative to fixed-rate mortgages. Research also finds that mortgage interest rates and their underlying components are important determinants of take-up rates among mortgage financing options. In this paper we show that house price appreciation can have important interactive effects with those other determinants of mortgage financing outcomes. We focus on the period from 2000 to 2007, an episode marked by rapid house price appreciation along with a persistent and notable increase in the use of adjustable-rate mortgage financing, including alternative mortgage products. Empirical analysis indicates that higher house price appreciation dampened the estimated effect of the mortgage pricing components on the probabilities of mortgage financing outcomes. The results, which are especially robust for fixed-rate and adjustable-rate mortgages that are fully amortized, are not driven solely by markets with especially high rates of house price appreciation. Moreover, after taking into account the interactive effects with mortgage pricing components, house price appreciation has relatively little additional effect on take-up rates among mortgage financing options.
Derivation of Van Aerde Traffic Stream Model and Studying the Effect of Ramp Metering
Authors: Arora Karan , Saidi Saeid , Khondaker Bidoura , Kattan Lina
Published: October 2017

With increase in population, demand for traffic is increasing tremendously. As a consequence congestion on urban freeways or highways during the morning and evening peak hours is always increasing. This research examines the traffic condition on Highway 2(i.e Deerfoot Trail), Calgary,Canada by providing ramp metering (funded by Government of Canada in Collaboration with MITACS Globalink Program). In order to accommodate increasing traffic demand, constructing new highways and adding lanes is not always the best option. Instead proper management of transportation system can help in increasing its efficiency. It is therefore important to increase our understanding of traffic flow models to help estimating the efficiency of different road facilities and therefore prepare us to make enlightened decisions in the design process of new road facilities or improving older ones.
Repair of PCCP By The Gunnite Method
Authors: Elnakhat Hassan A.M. , Hamdan Adel
Published: October 2017

Repair an affected pipes with mortar coating delaminating using the Gunnite method, where the method applied on the affected pipes which the surface area of affected Coating delaminating reach up to entire pipe body, this method applied on more than 480 affected pipes in Man-Made River Project in desert of Libya.
Simulation, Analytical and Experimental Investigation of Power Distribution Across Step-Up Auto-Transformer Under Linear Loading Conditions
Authors: Taci Mehmet Salih , Tayebi N.
Published: October 2017

This paper presents determining the actual values of the effective resistance and reactance components of a single phase auto-transformers, the measured values of voltages and currents were used for the calculation of R and X components for fundamental frequency of the system. The obtained values are simulated in the PSpice environment and then how the currents, voltages and power are distributed between them is explained based on calculations.
Micropropagation and Attempts to Develop RAPD Molecular Markers for Salt Tolerant Cultivars of Pearl Millet
Authors: Lakshmi T.V. Rajya , Naji Mohammed , Abdul-ma'abood Bilal , Al Ghazali Mahmoud , Nazir M.
Published: October 2017

Differences were observed among four salt tolerant cultivars of pearl millet to in vitro culture media. Among the four cultivars, Cv IP 6098 is the most salt sensitive had maximum number of multiple shoots (15)/ seed, and the more salt tolerant cvs IP 6106 and IP 22269 developed 3-6 shoots/seed while cv IP 19612 the seeds remained single shooted in MS+3.0mg/L media up to 7 months. The multiple shoots 20% of cv IP 6098, flowered in 5 months with the reduction in hormone concentration (MS+1.0 mg/L BAP) whereas, the other three cultivars did not flower under the tested conditions.

The present study was carried to detect genetic differences among the four cultivars of pearl millet at molecular level through RAPD PCR markers. RAPD analysis was carried with 12 primers, each 10-mer, only 7 primers were amplified showed polymorphism for the four cultivars. Primer OPM 16 revealed a single unique band of approx. 485bp in the genotype IP 22269 and three polymorphic bands in the genotype IP 6106. The results were repeatable, and further studies in this direction may enable to link the single band in the genotype IP 22269 to a morphological trait or physiological condition like salt tolerance.
The Possibility of Determining the Level of Performance in the Faculty of Education at Kuwait University Using the ‘Balanced Scorecard’ from the Perspective of Faculty Members
Authors: Aldaihani Sultan G.
Published: October 2017

This study aimed to identify the possibility of determining the level of performance in the Faculty of Education at Kuwait University using the ‘Balanced Scorecard’ from the point of view of faculty members. The study used the descriptive methodology through a tool which was applied to (98) faculty members in the College of Education at Kuwait University. The results showed that the ‘vision and action strategies’ have obtained an average performance, while the rest of the dimensions were of poor performance. There were statistically significant differences due to educational degree in favor of professors, and years of experience in favor of 21 years and above. The level of performance about the vision and action strategies can be predicted in the College of Education based on the level of performance using the ‘Balanced Scorecard’. The effect of the domain ‘the internal operations’ was statistically insignificant and was less influential on the ‘vision and action strategies’; while ‘the financial management’ was the highest in impact. In conclusion, the study proposed some important recommendations and suggestions.
The Effectiveness of a Group Career Counseling Program Based on the Information Processing Theory to Improve Self Efficacy and Making Career Decision Skills among Tenth Grade Students in the Educational Directorate of Markah
Authors: Abueita Siham Darwish , Al-Kousheh Faiez
Published: October 2017

This study aims at testing the effectiveness of a group counseling program based on the information processing theory to improve self-efficacy and making career decision skills among tenth grade students. The study sample were selected from Marka high school. It was divided randomly into exprerimental group (10) students, and control group (10) students. To achieve the objectives of the study, self-efficacy and decision-making career inventories were prepared. A validity, reliability and have been established. A program of career counseling has been prepared according to the theory of information processing consisting of (14) sessions and then validated. The progam was applied to the experimental group. Analysis of covariance was used to statistically evaluate the results. The findings indicated that there was statistically significant difference in improving the effectiveness of selfefficacy, and improving the career decision-making skill in favor of the experimental group. The study concludes that more research in the field of self-efficacy career, and decision-making career may be conducted with other grade students and the program in this study generalized and teachers trained to use such program.
The Role of Private School Principals in Total Quality Mangagement and its Relation with Educational Leadership Style
Authors: AlAni Maha A. , Al Attar Asaad T.
Published: October 2017

The study aimed to explore the roles of private school principals in total qualitymangagement and its relation with leadership style from the perspective of the teachers. A random sample of teachers (N=100) was selected from private schools in Muscat during the academic year 2015/2016. Two instruments were tailored to achieve the objective of the study. One, measured the role of principal in total quality management, and the other measured leadership style. The results revealed that principals of private schools use total quality management to a medium level and they follow the democratic style in their leadership. Also, there was a relationship between TQM and leadership style. The study offered few recommendations that may help implement TQM in private schools.
O MAPEAMENTO DE UMA CADEIA EXTRATIVISTA NA AMAZÔNIA: ARAPAIMA GIGAS EM RESERVAS DE DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL
Authors: Ferreira Gleriani Torres , Guedes Luis Fernando
Published: October 2017

O sistema fluvial amazônico abriga mais de um quinto da água doce do planeta, o que instiga governos e sociedade a explorar, estrategicamente e de modo responsável, o gigantesco potencial econômico desse ecossistema. Este estudo foi desenvolvido no berço da região da Amazônia brasileira e, por meio de 47 entrevistas em profundidade elaboradas ao longo de seis turnos de viagens à região, mapeou, de forma inédita, a cadeia produtiva extrativista de uma das mais importantes espécies de peixes da região, o Arapaima gigas, conhecido como pirarucu da Amazônia. Buscou-se reunir o estoque de conhecimento científico ao saber popular, elevando o entendimento acerca de uma cadeia produtiva com grande potencial econômico e social e diminuindo o risco de extinção da espécie. Observou-se, ao longo da pesquisa, que a cadeia extrativista de pescados é operada fundamentalmente por pequenas empresas e famílias ribeirinhas com objetivo fundamental de garantir subsistência. A despeito das práticas de manejo e beneficiamento terem se mostrado eficazes para a geração de renda e desenvolvimento local, o potencial econômico dessa cadeia, em especial para abastecimento de outras regiões do Brasil, é sensivelmente restringido pela ausência de uma cadeia produtiva consolidada. Os dados da pesquisa sugerem que a ausência de cadeias produtivas completas e de ações estratégicas de governos e empresas restringem severamente o potencial econômico dos produtos da região. Notou-se, contudo, que tal cenário mostra sinais de mudança, particularmente por meio da estruturação de programas dedicados à organização de sistemas de produção em Reservas de Desenvolvimento Sustentável.
O ESTADO DA ARTE DA ASSEGURAÇÃO DOS RELATÓRIOS DE SUSTENTABILIDADE: UM ESTUDO DAS EMPRESAS DO ÍNDICE DE SUSTENTABILIDADE EMPRESARIAL (ISE) 2016
Authors: Silveira Gabriela Borges , Alberton Luiz , Rodrigues Vicente Ernesto Fernando
Published: October 2017

O objetivo geral desta pesquisa foi descrever o estado da arte da asseguração externa dos relatórios de sustentabilidade das empresas que compõem o ISE 2016. Este trabalho caracteriza-se como descritivo, de caráter quali-quantitativo, mediante uma pesquisa documental, com dados secundários coletados dos relatórios de sustentabilidade e de asseguração externa. Das 35 empresas que compõem a amostra, 28 submeteram seus relatórios de sustentabilidade ao processo de asseguração externa. Os resultados desta pesquisa demostraram que, dos 16 setores distintos de atuação, 61% das empresas atuam em setores regulados, e 58,3% pertencem ao nível de governança Novo Mercado. No entanto, o teste exato de Fisher, em nível de significância de 5%, não suportou a hipótese de que os setores regulados e o segmento do Novo Mercado estariam associados à opção das empresas em assegurar os seus relatórios de sustentabilidade. Quanto aos tipos de relatórios, observou-se a predominância do GRI em 97,14% dos relatórios de sustentabilidade analisados, e ainda uma forte tendência das empresas em divulgar, de forma integrada, as informações de natureza financeiras e não financeiras. Dentre os normativos utilizados pelas prestadoras de garantia, a norma de auditoria contábil NBC TO 3000 (CFC) esteve presente em 71,43% dos trabalhos realizados. Ressalta-se que 82,1% dos trabalhos de asseguração foram feitos por empresas de auditoria independente, o que reforça o know-how por parte das empresas de auditoria contábil neste segmento.
Syntax overview at units’ level: Syntagma, sentence, phrase, and some correlations with the order of Greek-Albanian constituents in Th.Mitko’s Phrase Book (1887-1888)
Authors: Bramo Elvis
Published: October 2017

: In the article “Syntax overview at units’ level: Syntagma, sentence, phrase, and some correlations with the order of their Greek-Albanian constituents in the tri-lingual Talking Dictionary of Th. Mitko”, the author, pedagogue of the Modern Greek Language in the University of Tirana, Elvis Bramo, brings the level of the language as the main topic of this research, that is the syntactical level, starting from the syntagma unit (as a building unit), different types of sentences, some phrases with predicative components, and some bilingual segments: Albanian-Greek, to identify several peculiarities of word order. This comparative study between the two languages ( the Talking Dictionary has been compiled in three languages) aims at achieving some partial conclusions about the construction of the syntagma, their types as far as syntax connecting ways are concerned, and the valences that merge them into classes of words; It aims to identify the types of sentences with the grammatical elements of the question, with question words, with the denial grammatical tools, as well as the characteristics of the verbs as the heart of the syntatical organization in the communicated unit-phrase. Regarding the phrase (period), Bramo has pointed out the relationship of the phrasal components merging, their functioning together with their thematic and rematic role, on the basis of the Prague School. The language research from this viewpoint of Th.Mitko’s work, one of the most famous Albanian folklorists, has also brought in a comparable plan some models of syntactical phrasal and compound structures, to show that although the Greek and the Albanian languages are natural languages with a free word order (SVO), they do have parametric changes regarding the consituent parts of the sentence, particularly in the connoted constructions.
Review of Georgian Leasing Market and Perspectives for Development
Authors: Orjonikidze Nino , Liparteliani Nino
Published: October 2017

At contemporary stage leasing has formed as one of the dynamically growing trend that encourages investment progressions throughout the world business development. In the modern world, leasing acts as a multimillion industry. 80% of companies in developed countries use this financial instrument. 1/3 of investments in fixed assets are accomplished by means of leasing. Leasing companies have quite diverse business and operations. All these depend on lease term, type of relation, form of object, organizational structure of a company, etc. Leasing essentially is a whole complex of three simultaneously executed operations (lease, crediting and material support). At certain point, leasing is similar to credit, which is given to buy an object. Consequently, it may be called a property credit. Nowadays, in Georgia, banking credit is more well-known than leasing, in spite of the fact that for entrepreneurs leasing is more convenience than banking credit.
Key Features of Personalized Learning
Authors: Çullhaj Salian
Published: October 2017

The term personalized learning, or personalization, refers to a diverse variety of educational programs, learning experiences, instructional approaches, and academic-support strategies that are intended to address the distinct learning needs, interests, aspirations, or cultural backgrounds of individual students.
Illustration in Explanatory Dictionary
Authors: Feraj Asime , Albania Arjan Llanaj
Published: October 2017

This paper has treated the syntagmatic level in the explanatory dictionaries, in the monolingual and bilingual as well, since the syntagmata in the dictionary can be dealt with as being unnoticed, because it is considered as less important than explanations or definitions or equivalents (when the dictionary is bilingual). But, if, for example, it can’t be said in the explanation that a verb or adjective can be linked with words that refer to alive and not alive objects, than the user can see the illustrative examples (the weather became cold/cold (distant) from his friend; a cold room/a cold person; a man walks/ the horse walks ; the time passes/ the work goes on; ecën koha (ecën puna). Nowadays, when the society is developing so fast and thoroughly, the use and utilisation of monolingual, bilingual, multilingual, linguistic or encyclopaedic dictionaries, is the most common and inevitable phenomenon, because these works not only are recorders of the word and phraseology, of semantic and lexical fortune, national and international one, but also have their determining importance in the acquirement of the language and in the expansion of the linguistic and communicative competence, in finding an unknown word and its semantic definition, or in finding lexical and semantic units with which creates semantic, paradigmatic, word-forming and stylistic relations etc. The illustrative examples are helpful for the full exploration of meaning and serve as an additional instrument for the characterisation of the word, showing the area of use and the typical grammatical lexicon enclosure. They also prove the stylistic evaluation and grammatical characteristic that is given to the word. The main purpose of this paper is that by relying in the subject that is offered by these kind of irreplaceable works, it will treat the importance of the syntagmatic level of the explanatory dictionary as an important part for knowing the word and its significance, to increase the lexical and semantic competence of the users of these dictionaries.
The Effectiveness of Using Song Theraphy İn Increasing Year 5 Primary Pupils’ Engagement İn Science Classroom
Authors: Mai Mohammed Yousef
Published: October 2017

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of song theraphy in increasing students engagement in Science classroom. The researcher used questionnaire on students engagement items to analyze students level of engagement after using song theraphy in teaching science. The questionnaire has three sub categories, (1) cognitive engagement, (2) affective engagement and (3) behavioral engagement. The participants are total of 82 students from both controlled group (38.1% males and 61.9% females) and experimental group (45.0% males and 55.0% females). The data were analyzed using both descriptive (mean, frequency and percentage) and inference (Independent sample t-test, paired sample t-test and Kruskal-Wallis). The findings showed that students engagement after using song therapy is higher than before using it between the pretest and posttest for experimental group. Besides that, students’ engagement has increased after using song therapy to experimental group students compared to without using it to controlled group. Moreover, the mean between gender female and male is not much difference and not significant in comparing gender on the effectiveness of using song therapy for experimental group. In addition, the findings showed that the students level of engagement in Science classroom after the posttest is not effected by their level of achievement in Science test.
Role of Human Resources Function in Successful Organizational Transformations for Efficiency Improvement
Authors: Al-Shaiba Abdulla Saleh , Koç Muammer
Published: October 2017

Organizational efficiency is generally defined as a measure of relation between the input resources and output generated within a system. Organizational efficiency in public and private sector enterprises and communities plays a key role in ensuring value creation, and thereby, ensuring economic and social sustainability of societies with effective and minimal use of resources, reduced waste and small ecological footprint. Transforming an organization is all about changing a laggard organization to an agile and responsive entity, which foresees changes, willing and adaptive to changes proactively rather, being reactive to changes, which are forced by the operating environments. A proactive organization with visionary leadership foreseeing the challenges establishes mitigation plans to overcome or reduce the impact triggered by operational challenges, while a reactive organization will be impacted by the operational challenges before it initiates changes based on the impact assessment. Transformation of an organization reduces operational costs by eliminating duplications and non-value adding processes (Robbins, 2012). The paradigm of sustainable transformation of organizations has three main components which are interactively functioning: leadership and management, human resources, and organizational culture. Sustainability is defined as ‘responsibility of an organization in sustained generation of economic, environmental and social benefits’ (Gardelliano, 2005). Organization management often gets caught in the contradiction between sustainability and profitability. The shareholders / stakeholders would want short term profitability of an organization while societies around the world are increasingly demanding corporations to be environmentally and socially responsible in its operations with utmost importance being given to their human and natural resources and communities that they operate in. Sustainability also depends on Innovation and Knowledge Development. In a knowledge economy, key engine of growth is knowledge. An economy in which knowledge is acquired, created, disseminated and applied to enhance economic development is known a knowledge economy (Building Knowledge Economy, WBI, 2011). An effective ecosystem which nurtures innovation is based on outputs generated from knowledge centers like universities, research centers, schools, consultancy agencies and other organizations engaged in similar endeavors. The knowledge generated in such centers is applied though right tools to enhance the wellbeing of humans and sustainability of organizations. This paper focuses on the impact of human resource function on the organizational transformation for efficiency improvement.
Like a Bridge over Troubled Waters: the Death of the Mother a Comparative Study in Literature Between USA and French Feminist Poetry
Authors: Karasavvidou Eleni
Published: October 2017

The power of fear and the need for happiness are equal, wrote Adorno in Minima Moralia (2001, p. 223) describing in a phrase the inevitable contradictions of the human condition. Mother and motherhood reflect both, fear and need, transforming eachother in a constant dialogue that mediates the various expressions of our sociopsychological transformations. A dialogue unready to be completed as long as our worldviews sustain hierarchies that manipulate the need and the fear.
Domestic Anti-Avoidance Legislation in Relation to Tax Treaty Law
Authors: Asllani Shkumbin
Published: October 2017

In today’s international taxation most of the developing countries enter into tax treaties which are drafted in line with the OECD MC to eliminate double taxation. Yet, is well-known fact that tax treaties in practice are abused by tax payers, therefore, majority of states have introduce legislation specifically designed to prevent tax avoidance and protect their domestic interests. In legal practice and literature the act of overriding international tax treaties and denying treaty benefits in favour of domestic law provisions threatens main principle of international law and therefore is questionable to what extend the relationship between domestic law and international tax treaty agreements bridges the international norms.
Citizen Participation in Local Government Services: İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Example
Authors: Akyıldız Fulya
Published: October 2017

The aim of this study is to demonstrate citizen participation in local government services in Turkey, for example in İzmir Metropolitan Municipality. In accordance with the amendments made in the Municipal Law and the Special Provincial Administration Law in 2005, the Regulations published by the Ministry of Interior in 2006 opened the way for citizen participation in the execution of public services in local governments. Despite the past decade, citizen participation in local services is still in its infancy, with few exceptions today. Programs that include citizen participation in İzmir Metropolitan Municipality which is one of these exceptions are analyzed with this study and it is presented as an example to other local administrations. A reason for the selection of a metropolitan municipality within the scope of the study is that the metropolitan municipalities of 30 provinces, which are metropolitan with an amendment made in Law No. 6360 in 2012, are responsible for providing services on the provincial property boundary. In spite of the increased service obligation and responsibility of the metropolitan municipalities, the cost of services has also increased, and at the extreme, it seems difficult to take local services effectively and efficiently. The study suggests that the metropolitan municipalities should make widespread use of this method in the welfare services that affect people's daily life and quality of life. Citizen participation in services has a critical prescription for the success of local programs and for institutional performance. In the study, voluntary participation in local services is linked to the New Public Service (NPS) approach within the framework of democracy, citizen participation and democratic governance concepts. Among public service delivery and distribution methods is very important, and although the New Public Management approach is an alternative model to privatization practices, the citizen participation in public services has been underestimated in Turkey. This study aiming to fill this gap aims to attract the attention of the academic field to this topic and to give new ideas to the local politicians and practitioners. In this context, first of all, the issue of NPS approach and citizen participation in the services is discussed. Later, information on citizen participation in local government services in Turkey is given and the existing applications of the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality are examined. Following the presentation of the findings and suggestions, a general evaluation is made and the study is terminated.
The Over-Patologization and Over-Medicalization of Children: a Current Problem
Authors: Taborda Alejandra , Labin Agustina
Published: October 2017

Currently vertiginous modifications carve tense coexistence between old and new paradigms. Embedded in the hasty, unprecedented subjective expressions appear on the scene, with such celerity that the existing linguistic categories are not enough to embrace them, to name them, to describe them as such - at best - are partially thought out. The empty spaces left by language promote the languages of segregation. The over-patologization and over-medicalization of children due to school difficulties and / or attentional difficulties are privileged ways of expressing exclusion movements. The Argentina Mental Health law (Nº 26657) open spaces for reworking the parameters and conceptual matrices involved in psychodiagnostics, in order to promote readings of transdisciplinary interrelations centered on human rights. In order to understand the theoretical and clinical complexity of the psychodiagnosis of children, the ongoing research project, endorsed of the San Luis University (Argentina) included: 1. Epidemiological studies of the consultation. 2. Development of diagnostic and therapeutic resources. 3. Etiological review of the symptom. 4. Analysis of therapeutic effectiveness. 5. Comparison of two psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic modalities (parallel group of parents and children versus individual treatment of the child. The clinical and empirical studies allow us to propose, within the framework of an extended diagnostic device, a new diagnostic indicator: the evolution of attentional difficulties - after six months to one year of psychotherapy - before resorting to pharmacological treatments. It is emphasized that diagnosis in a person's life is never neutral, therapeutic or iatrogenic.
Primary School Children's Practices of Watching Cartoons and Their Perceptions About Cartoon Character
Authors: İlhan Vahit
Published: October 2017

Relation between television and children is, to a large extend, associated through cartoons. Cartoons are in the leading preferential position of children audience from pre-school period to adolescence. Having been accessible all through 24 hours after the appearance of thematic children channels, cartoons have been opening doors of hundreds of various worlds. Stories, designed within the framework of global or domestic codes, are transmitting their messages through characters at first place. This research on audience was performed in Kayseri and is aimed to define the children's habits of watching TV and cartoon and their perceptions about cartoon characters. A survey has been applied to 420 student from various age groups in 3 different schools ensampling three different socio-economic levels. According to the results gained, the most watched cartoon TV by primary school children is TRT Çocuk, most watched cartoon is Rafadan Tayfa and Keloğlan is the most loved character among 96 different cartoon characters. It was determined that national productions are in the forefront but generally the international productions dominate. It was also determined that children define the behaviors of cartoon characters with adjectives such as good, nice...etc. Otherwise the characters have extraordinary features appears to be a factor which causes increase in the ratings. Moreover, it is suggested in the research that gender is an important determinant within the context of cartoon selection and adoption of cartoon characters.
Does Top Executive Gender Diversity Affect Earnings Management?
Authors: Purnomo Paskah Ika Nugroho , Novilia Oni
Published: October 2017

This research examines the influence of female CEO, female CFO, female board of commissioners, and female audit committee on accrual based earnings management. This research presume that man and woman would act differently to solve a problem. This research using a sample of 304 companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange that selected based on purposive sampling method. Hypothesis testing is performed by using multiple linier regression to examine the effect of each independent variable on the dependent variable. The result of this research showed that the position of CFO who is held by female have a significant negative effect on accrual based earnings management. While the position of female CEO, female board of commissioners, and female audit committee have no significant effect on accrual based earnings management.
Preservice Student-Teachers’ Perceptions of Themselves as Teachers- Experience from Teaching Practicum
Authors: Fotopoulou Vasiliki
Published: October 2017

The importance and significance of the role of pre-service teachers’ education in building up their identity formation is well-recognized. This work investigates one dimension of this complex formation: how pre-service teachers perceive themselves as teachers in a pre-service teacher education compulsory course of teaching practice in Greece. An experience report from a teaching practicum is presented based on a qualitative analysis of anonymous questionnaires (N=144). Our analysis reveals that student-teachers are engaged in a process of transformation which encompasses from the academic preparation to the teaching reality. We identify three interconnected stages in this transformation process: i) first contact (e.g., choice and field of their studies, relation between theory and practice), ii) familiarization (e.g., get in touch with teaching activity, with the space and the operation of kindergarten, collaboration with teachers), and iii) function (e.g., interaction with pupils, acquiring experience, acting as teachers). According to the data analysis, preservice teachers tend to attribute greater importance to specific elements of each stage. More specifically, the choice and field of their studies as well as the teaching activity (planning, implementation and feedback) were underlined as very important elements in the second and third stage respectively, while a great number of preservice students highlighted the interaction with students in the classroom as well as their act and operation as teachers in the third stage. Summing up, our findings indicate that pre-service teachers perceive themselves as teachers through four-correlated to each other in a bidirectional manner- issues: the academic framework, the teaching activity, themselves acting as teachers, and the students. Furthermore, the aforementioned four issues point out that pre-service teachers’ perceptions are not stable but are subjected to a transformative process that take place during their teaching practice. Accordingly, the findings of this study could provide a conceptual framework that incorporates pre-service teachers’ perceptions and examine teachers’ identity formation from this specific perspective of pre-service studies.
The Role of Technological Teaching Methods Used in Education on the Development
Authors: ÖZTOPCU Aslı , ENEREM Diğdem
Published: October 2017

Different teaching methods are used to make individuals' learning easier and effective. Technological teaching tools are often used in this context. Technological teaching methods create socioeconomic effects while increase human capital, because investments made in human beings provide benefits, both for individuals and society in a long term. In this study, firstly the use of technological teaching methods is investigated and secondly, the role of the gains obtained in the development is analyzed. According to the results obtained, technological teaching methods cause externalities such as reduction of crime rates, revitalization of the economy thanks to investments, increase in the quality of relations of civil society, increase in HDI and increase in employment.
Financial mediation and its impact on the Albanian economy
Authors: MUCI Adrian , BECI Benet , SALKO Aida
Published: October 2017

This article aims to present the importance of financial intermediation to real economic growth in the case of Albania. The article analyses the main indicators of financial intermediation and through the application of statistical and econometric methods gives their impact on economic growth. Findings show that there is a mutual relationship between economic growth and private sector credit growth. Also, the effect is a chain, because the positive impact that one indicator gives on another indicator is associated with a positive effect on the indicator itself that gave this effect earlier. On the other hand, besides the positive performance of financial intermediation indicators in Albania, as a result of the growth of lending to the economy, deposits in the Albanian banking system have increased throughout the period of study. The recent financial and economic crisis had its negative impact mainly on the growth of problem loans but not on the deposit market that continued to grow.
Interplay Between the Human Resource Development Activities and Organizational Commitment
Authors: Ovesni Kristinka , Matović Nataša , Luković Ivana
Published: October 2017

This mixed methods research was aimed to explore relationship between the human resource development activities and the commitment of employees. In the research, we applied explanatory sequential design using nested samples for the quantitative and qualitative components of the study to foster deeper understandings of these relationships. In the quantitative component, data were obtained with scales, and analyzed from 609 employees in different companies in Serbia, while for qualitative component semi-structured interviews were conducted with 29 respondents from the same sample. The collected data were subjected (in the first component) to a few common (frequencies, std. deviation, means, etc.) and more complex statistical proceedings (canonical correlation analysis), and in the second component were subjected to the qualitative content analysis. The quantitative results indicate complex interaction of affective, continuance, and normative components of organizational commitment with different human resource development activities, while the qualitative data revealed deeper meaning of these connections.
Analysis of the use of Google Classroom, in the students of System Engineering of the Instituto Tecnologico de Mexicali
Authors: Ocampo Jesus Francisco Gutierrez , Quevedo M.C. Jose Antonio Camaño , Perez Corina Araceli Ortiz , Castillo Berenice Yanet Muniz
Published: October 2017

.Google Classroom is a new tool that allows the student to work online with various file formats such as MP3 audios, Videos, Photos, images, PDF files, which are intended to be a valuable tool in the teaching process The objective of this quantitative research is to measure the impact on the users of the systems engineering career of the Instituto Tecnológico de Mexicali with 402 student enrolled and to make a diagnosis, based on the results of a survey applied to a 71 students of the career of Systems Engineering of the Instituto Tecnológico de Mexicali.
The Role of Content Strategy in Social Media on Brand Post’s Popularity: A Case of Higher Education Institutions in Turkey
Authors: Demirer Dilek Penpece
Published: October 2017

The highly competitive higher education market has turned to branding as a solution for dealing with today’s global challenges. One important tool of a sustainable brand strategy involves forming brand fan pages and attracting followers on social networking web sites. Implementing effective content strategy on brands’ fan pages can help to form and foster relationships with the target group. Thus the aim of this study is to understand the role that content strategy in social networking web sites plays in determining the popularity of brand posts’ created by leading higher education institutions in Turkey. Results indicate that the top ten higher education institutions in Turkey most commonly made posts representing the Text + image + link content type. The majority of posts to community members were created by the institutions themselves, involved university news and were primarily made on weekdays between noon and 18:00. Additionally, MANOVA analyses were conducted to investigate the role of various elements of content strategy on brand posts’ popularity. Results indicate that content type, content agility, content context, posting type, and posting day significantly impact the number of likes, shares and comments, which are indicators of brand posts’ popularity.
The Mirrors for Princes and Historical Codes of the Modern Leadership in the Middle East.
Authors: Altunok Mustafa
Published: October 2017

The Mirrors for Princes are administrative texts of ancient history. These texts, referred to by different names, are considered to be important because they have a function of projection, for rulers of the period. And their importance is not limited by this, because of its features. Since criticism and suggestions for the next ruler also shows the people's expectations, it is a reflection of the social and political characteristics of the period as well as texts. However, the Mirrors for Princes is not merely an object or the text to understand history or a period of time because these texts are elements of historical and social memory. From the text, written in the changing conditions and at different times, it can be understood that there were changing political and societal realities as well as unchanging elements. In this respect, the Mirrors for Princes can be considered not only an illumination of the past, staying in the dusty shelves of history, but also a relevant reflection that reaches to now. The main purpose of this study is to find out the secrets of leadership from this reflection. The main argument of this study is that this region has a historical code of the current leadership, which can be interpreted by the Mirrors for Princes. The backbone of the work depends on the interpretation and analysis of the Mirrors for Princes. This text was written in different times for different rulers; it raised powerful leaders from the Ottoman, Seljuk, Mongol, and Iranian societies. This research seeks to find out a different leader perception typology from commonalities despite social differences to different states and periodic variations. Considering that the Mirrors for Princes is an extensive literature, this study should be evaluated as a motivational tool for comprehensive successors.
Cooperative Learning Strategy in teaching Arabic for Non Native Speakers
Authors: Mei Suo Yan , Ju Suo Yan , Mohd Ayishah Binti
Published: October 2017

Cooperative learning is a teaching strategy that can help students to be successful in academic achievement and skills, as well as can assist the students to enhance the social interaction and human relation; however, this research explored the cooperative learning strategy in teaching Arabic for non native speakers, and will show the experiences for Arabic lecturers during their applying this method for teaching Arabic at sultan Idris education university Malaysia. The researchers will depend on the survey research design. The study will use a sample of 10 lecturers who are teaching Arabic language randomly selected from Sultan Idris education University Malaysia. The method will use data collection which included a 10-items questionnaire. Results show that majority of lecturers strongly support to apply the cooperative learning during the classes and outside of classes to help the students to improve their language skills, communication skills and social interaction.
Intergenerational Educational Mobility and Identity: a French-Argentine Comparative Study
Authors: Aparicio Miriam
Published: October 2017

This study forms part of the author’s longstanding research regarding social, educational and professional mobility observed in Argentina across three generations, associated with the factor of Education and with the greater flow of immigrants in the last century. This research encompasses various smaller studies. Here we mention one, a French-Argentine comparative study in which we worked with PhD s from different institutions and different social science PhD programs. Our objective was: a) to analyze what factors (quantitative) and what reasons (qualitative) positively and negatively impacted professional pathways (career mobility); b) to observe the level of educational mobility present in families with PhD s, taking the issue from different paradigms (reproductionist/interactionist): University of elites? University of the masses? The methodology was both quantitative and qualitative, using semi-structured surveys (which included open-ended statements so respondents could expand); the hierarchical evocation technique and interviews. Results: a) we observed the intergenerational educational mobility of PhD s (quantitative-descriptive level); b) we understood some of the “reasons” and “sense” that underlie said mobility and that have either acted as driving forces or have not acted as driving forces of social and cultural-educational promotion (qualitative level). c) We found similar levels of intergenerational educational mobility for PhD s in France and Argentina (graduates of various PhD programs). This result is interesting in the face of well-held myths of educational “hypo mobility” , intergenerational drops in mobility, stagnation, a lack of educational/cultural promotion under “plafond” effects, or a saturation of degree holders, above all in developed countries. From the point of view of identity, this high level of intergenerational educational mobility impacted national, institutional and micro individual identity; three planes in sustained interaction using the author’s theory: The Three Dimensional Spiral of Sense ((2015 a and b).