bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Состояние развития рынка моркови столовой
Authors: Литвинов Станислав Степанович , Разин Анатолий Федорович , Иванова Мария Ивановна , Шатилов Максим Витальевич
Published: March 2019

В статье проанализированы показатели производства моркови столовой в странах мира, БРИКС, Евразийского экономического содружества и России (по округам, субъектам федерации и категориям хозяйств). Несмотря на уменьшение посевных площадей, валовой сбор увеличился в 2015 г. до 1,78 млн т (с учётом Крымской области) против 1,35 млн т в 2007 г. (на 32 %). Валовой сбор товарных корнеплодов в 2015 г. составил 712 тыс. т (443 тыс. т в сельхозорганизациях и 269 тыс. т в фермерских хозяйствах), или 40 % общероссийского объёма. Урожайность за 2007 – 2014 гг. возросла до 23,9 т/га (на 12,7 %). Показано влияние ценового фактора на производство и реализацию корнеплодов моркови столовой, а также объёмы её переработки. Сопоставительный анализ помесячных производственных и потребительских цен за 2015 г. показал, что доля производственной цены в потребительской цене моркови столовой может быть увеличена без повышения потребительской цены. Производство овощных (закусочных, салатных, обеденных) консервов с 377 млн усл. банок в 1990 г. понизилось до 279 млн усл. банок в 1999 г. и до 230,9 млн усл. банок в 2009 г. В 2014 г. их производили лишь в 17 субъектах Федерации общим объёмом 69,2 млн усл. банок при рекомендованной медицинской норме в 104 усл. банок на человека в год. Предложены пути увеличения объёмов и снижения стоимости производства моркови столовой.
Пути повышения эффективности осеменения в скотоводстве в Кабардино-Балкарии
Authors: Таов Ибрагим Хасанович
Published: March 2019

Целью работы являлось изучение эффективности первичных и повторных осеменений коров черно-пестрой породы в разные периоды после отела с учетом условной эмбриональной смертности. Для проведения работы по принципу аналогов были сформированы соответствующие группы животных в зависимости от срока их осеменения и учтена его результативность за три года (2012 – 2015 гг.). Приведен подробный анализ полученных результатов. Установлено, что до 25-го дня после отела приходили в охоту от 16 до 28,9 % коров, при этом эффективность осеменения коров оказалась самой низкой (11,8 – 14,7 %). Наибольшее число коров (33,6 – 51,8 %) пришло в охоту на 26 – 45-й день после отела, однако оплодотворяемость была также низкой (22,4 – 35,6 %). В последующие сроки осеменения показатель оплодотворяемости увеличивался и в группе коров с послеотеловым периодом более 91 дня составлял уже 70 – 100 %. Эффективность повторных осеменений оказалась разной во всех подопытных группах (30 – 60 %). Здесь она также была самой низкой в первой группе (30 – 38,2 %), в остальных группах — выше (33,2 – 60 %). Наилучшее сочетание индексов осеменения и сервис-периода отмечено в группе коров с послеотельным периодом 46 – 65 дней. По этой же группе коров эффективность как первичных, так и повторных осеменений находилась в пределах 50 %.
Pengaruh Metode Pembelajaran Inkuiri dan Diskusi pada Materi Pokok Bentuk Aljabar terhadap Kemampuan Komunikasi dan Kemampuan Pemecahan Masalah Matematika
Authors: Wear Ali Sadikin , Indrawati Renny
Published: March 2019

The research is aimed to know; 1) interaction of inquiry learning  method application and discussion on communication ability and student’s mathematics  problem solving skills on multivariate. 2) the impacts of learning method on mathematics communication ability on univariat.3) the impacts of learning method on mathematics problem solving skills on univariat. This research is false experiment used non equivalent control group design with 2 factors  measurement technique. The instrument is essay test (problem solving and communication question). This research was conducted at public SMP in Palmerah distric, west Jakarta. The sample is the students of class VIII about 140 students. Data analyze used MANOVA analysis. The result of this research is: 1) there are significant impacts of learning method on communication ability and mathematics problem solving skills on multivariate. 2) there are significant impacts of learning method on mathematics communication ability on univariat 3) there isn’t significant impact of learning method on mathematics problem solving skill.
Persepsi Siswa Atas Kompetensi Sosial Guru dan Minat Belajar terhadap Prestasi Belajar Matematika
Authors: Asmar Asmar
Published: March 2019

The purpose of this study was to determine the impacts of student’s perception on teacher’s social competence and learning interest on mathematics learning achievement. The research was conducted on students of class VII in Imanuel Junior High School and Pa Van Des Teur Junior High School, Pondok Melati, East Jakarta. This study is corelasional survey research with regression analysis. Based on research results, it can be concluded that both of student’s  perception on teacher’s social competence and learning interest give positive influence and significantly on mathematics learning achievement and also together student’s perception on teacher’s social competence and learning interests give positive impacts and significantly on mathematics learning achievement.
Pengaruh Model Pembelajaran Berbasis Masalah terhadap Kemampuan Berpikir Kritis Siswa
Authors: Fedi Sebastianus , Gunsi A S , Ramda A H , Gunur B
Published: March 2019

This research is aim to compare the students critical thinking skills who engaged in a problem-based learning model with students who engaged in conventional learning. This is experimental research, with posttest only control group design. The population is 50 of Accounting XI students in Widya Bhakti Vocational School in Ruteng, Flores. Samples grouping on nonprobability sampling, that is saturated sampling where all of this population members are used as samples. The sample in the experimental class was all 24 students of class XI Accounting 1 who received treatment problem-based learning, while the control class sample was all 26 students of class XI Accounting 2 who received conventional learning. Data is collected through tests in the form of description questions.
A prerequisite test was carried out before testing the research hypothesis: the normality test and the homogeneity test. The results of these prerequisite test are data in two groups indicated as normally distributed and both are homogeneous. Then, the research hypothesis was tested using t-test. Obtained and on a significance level of and degrees of freedom. Because then is rejected while is acceptable. In this case,  the average value of critical thinking skills in the experimental class,  the average value of critical thinking skills in the control class. The meaning of the results of this analysis are: (1) when compared to conventional learning models, the problem-based learning model has a more positive and significant influence on the formation of students' critical thinking skills; (2) The value of t-count = 4.005 indicates that the average value of critical thinking skills of students using problem-based learning models is so higher than the average value of conventional learning students' critical thinking abilities.
Translation Methods and Procedures in Bilingual Storybooks
Authors: Hidayat Arif , Harmoko Danang Dwi
Published: March 2019

ABSTRACT

This research is aimed at finding the procedures and method of three bilingual storybooks. The research method used is descriptive qualitative with content analysis. Based on the theory of Newmark about translation method and procedures, it is found that the frequently used procedures are literal, modulation, shift, addition and reduction. The translation on the first book indicated that the translator uses shift modulation, couplet, cultural equivalent, addition. In the second book, the procedures used are literal, addition, modulation, reduction, transference, expansion and couplet. Whilst, in the third book, there couplet, literal, addition, reduction, modulation, cultural equivalent, shift, synonymy, expansion procedures are found. On the other hand, the most dominant procedure used is literal and the translation method used is semantic translation.  The method shows the translation orientation of the translators.

Keywords: Translation procedures, translation method, Newmark, bilingual storybooks
The Relationship Between Advanced Placement Mathematics Courses and Students’ STEM Career Interest
Authors: Warne Russell T. , Sonnert Gerhard , Sadler Philip M.
Published: March 2019

Increasing the number of students choosing a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) career is a national educational priority. One way thought to increase interest in STEM is with advanced STEM courses in high school, especially Advanced Placement (AP) courses. Using data from 15,847 college undergraduates, we investigated the relationship between participation in AP mathematics courses (AP Calculus and AP Statistics) and student career interest in STEM. After controlling for covariates, the strongest effect ( d = 0.13) showed that students who took AP Calculus had a modestly higher career interest in engineering and mathematics/computer science. However, the relationship between most AP mathematics courses and most STEM career outcomes was negligible. Most differences in outcomes between AP and non-AP students are likely due to preexisting differences between the two groups.
Concerto Grosso Arrangements of Geminiani's Opus 1 Violin Sonatas
Authors: Avison Charles
Published: March 2019

Charles Avison was the leading advocate of the Italian concerto-grosso style in England during the eighteenth century. A pupil of Francesco Geminiani and a friend to many other Italian musicians who immigrated to England during this period, Avison wrote more than fifty works in the genre, including his well-known orchestral transcriptions of Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas, and he was happy to assume the role of the genre's staunchest defender. Avison's arrangements of Geminiani's Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo, op. 1 (1716) were unknown to us until 2002, when they were discovered in the second of two of his workbooks that reappeared after being hidden for more than two hundred years. These works represent a significant addition not only to the repertoire and reputation of Avison, but also to our understanding of the influence of the Italian concerto-grosso style in England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Cantatas with Violins, Part 1
Authors: Gasparini Francesco
Published: March 2019

Francesco Gasparini (1661–1727) was an unquestionably important musical figure of his time: he was a leading composer and theorist—active in Venice and Rome—and an esteemed teacher, and his continuo treatise, L'armonico pratico al cimbalo (Venice, 1708), was reprinted throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The present edition includes all of Gasparini's extant cantatas with violins and basso continuo. These works divide into two groups: the first comprises four cantatas dating from his first stay in Rome (in the 1680s), when he was a member of the congregazione of S. Cecilia and enrolled in Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili's orchestra; the second is a united set of sixteen cantatas composed in Rome in 1716–18 for Prince Ruspoli. Together they provide an interesting means of comparing Gasparini's early and late compositional styles and techniques, and they fill in a tessera in the complex mosaic of the Italian Baroque cantata during the early eighteenth century, a crucial period in the development of cantata aesthetics and musical style.
Sacred Music, Part 2
Authors: Boesset Antoine
Published: March 2019

Antoine Boesset (1586–1643), surintendant de la musique de la chambre to Louis XIII, has long been known as one of the most important composers active in early seventeenth-century France, but until recently he was believed to have produced only secular airs de cour. This edition presents for the first time Boesset's newly identified sacred works, a repertory of some seventy compositions for the nuns of the Royal Abbey of Montmartre, Paris. Scored for multiple high voices, bass, and basse continue, Boesset's works include three complete mass ordinary settings (through-composed and alternatim), Te Deums and Magnificats (again both through-composed and alternatim), psalms, and a number motets for important feasts and ceremonies at Montmartre. Montmartre was also one of the first religious houses to adopt so-called “plain chant musical,” a type of newly composed or modified chant. Several works of the edition make particular use of this kind of chant, most notably the alternatim hymn settings, which use unusual metered versions of the newly composed hymn chants in alternation with the polyphony. Boesset's compositions for Montmartre represent by far the largest single repertory of sacred music from the reign of Louis XIII, and, while not showing the influence of the newest Italian practices, nevertheless anticipate several of the musical techniques previously associated with Henri Dumont, in particular the use of the basse continue. These works thus fill a significant gap in our understanding of musical developments in seventeenth-century France and demonstrate that sacred music of the highest quality emerged during a period that scholars have long dismissed as being of little interest.
Cifras selectas de guitarra (Facsimile)
Authors: de Murcia Santiago
Published: March 2019

This edition presents a detailed study and transcription of the manuscript “Cifras selectas de guitarra” (1722) of Santiago de Murcia (1673–1739), as well as a complete facsimile provided separately. While the study contributes new information about Murcia and fresh perspectives on the circulation of baroque guitar music, particularly between Spain and the New World, the facsimile and transcription are intended to allow performance of the works in the collection by both baroque and modern guitarists. This source, found by the editor in Santiago, Chile, during research undertaken between September 2003 and August 2004, supplies a good number of new pieces, as well as alternative versions of others included in Murcia's previously-discovered sources—namely, the manuscripts “Passacalles y obras de guitarra” (1732) and “Códice Saldívar no. 4,” and the print Resumen de acompañar la parte con la guitarra (1714).
Cantiones sacrae (1578), Part 3
Authors: Pevernage Andreas
Published: March 2019

With his Cantiones aliquot sacrae . . . quibus addita sunt elogia nonnulla (1578) Andreas Pevernage issued the fruit of fifteen years' work as chapel master at the Church of Our Lady in Kortrijk. The volume is a remarkable one, both from a musical and a historical standpoint. It is large for a music book of its time, consisting of sixty-three Latin motets, forty-eight of which are “cantiones sacrae,” i.e., sacred songs, and twenty-five of which are “elogia,” i.e., occasional and homage motets. The sacred pieces fall into two groups, those for the temporale and those for the sanctorale and general use. It is the large body of occasional pieces, though—some written to honor national figures such as Margaret of Parma, the archbishop, and the duke of Croÿ; and others to mark important events in the lives of Pevernage's fellow citizens—that constitutes the most unusual and historically significant aspect of the volume. This book presents a musical record of a sixteenth-century composer's activities both in his role as director of church music and as musician to the citizens of his town during the 1560s and '70s.
PERBEDAAN INVESTASI FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET DI NEGARA ASEAN-5 MELALUI ANALYSIS INDICATION OVERREACTION DAN UNDERREACTION
Authors: Alamsyah Lutvi
Published: March 2019

ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengamati kejadian overreaction, underreaction, serta calendar anomalies yang terdapat pada foreign exchange market di negara ASEAN-5. Penelitian ini mengacu kepada metode yang dilakukan pada penelitian Parikakis dan Syriopoulos (2008) dalam melihat ada tidaknya anomali yang terjadi pada foreign exchange market dengan melakukan uji terhadap average cumulative abnormalreturn dari tiap mata uang yang masuk sebagai objek penelitian dan juga mengamati pola extreme exchangerate changes yang terjadi berdasarkan pola harian dan bulan. Pada penelitian ini ditemukan bahwa terdapat indikasi danya gejala overreaction dan underreactionnamun tiadak signifikan statistik. Terdapat juga hasil yang mengambarkan adanya calendar anomalies pada kejadian extreme exchange rate changes namun hanya beberapa yang dapat dibuktikan signifikan secara statisitk. Dari hasil penelitian ini juga disimpulkan bahwa contrarian strategyakan terlalu beresiko jika digunakan dalam perdagangan pada foreign exchange market di negara ASEAN-5.
Jurnal - tanggung jawab hukum pencemaran dan pengrusakan lingkungan, - Patawari
Authors: Dr. Patawari SHI.
Published: March 2019

Undang-Undang Nomor 23 tahun 1997 (UUPLH No. 23/1997) tentang pengelolaan lingkungan hidup. mencamtumkan perlunya pemanfaatan sumber daya alam yang berwawasan lingkungan, agar dapat menunjang kehidupan masyarakat secara berkesinambungan. berbagai tindakan pencemaran lingkungan dilingkungan masyarakat, sekalipun ada regulasi namun tidak menjadi bagian yang mampu menyelesaikan pencemaran lingkungan pemerintah sebagai regulator, dan sebagai penegakan hukum adalah bertanggung jawab terhadap pencemaran lingkungan hidup yang seyogyanya berdasarkan pada aturan yang berlaku.
Daniel Tjoanoto 130316222 B
Authors: Tjoanoto Daniel
Published: March 2019

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Paper Review Citation berdasarkan Artikel, PE kp B Maria Natasha Jostan 130316041
Authors: Jostan Maria Natasha
Published: March 2019

Tugas paper review Citation berdasarkan artikel "The Development of Digital Economy in Indonesia" untuk mata kuliah Perekonomian Indonesia Universitas Surabaya Fakultas Bisnis dan Ekonomika, disusun oleh Maria Natasha Jostan NRP 130316041
Pemikiran Ekonomi dan Bisnis
Authors: Gunawan Cynthia
Published: March 2019

Masyarakat di Indonesia rata rata sudah menjadi pengguna internet yaitu 50% dari populasi.Generasi milenial ini sangat akrab dengan digital economy dan menjadi target potensial untuk meningkatkan pangsa pasar.
Slow response times undermine trust in algorithmic (but not human) predictions
Authors: Efendic Emir , van de Calseyde Philippe , Evans Anthony M
Published: March 2019

Algorithms consistently perform well on various prediction tasks, but people often mistrust their advice. Here, we demonstrate one component that affects people’s trust in algorithmic predictions: response time. In seven studies (total N = 1928 with 14,184 observations), we find that people judge slowly generated predictions from algorithms as less accurate and they are less willing to rely on them. This effect reverses for human predictions, where slowly generated predictions are judged to be more accurate. In explaining this asymmetry, we find that slower response times signal the exertion of effort for both humans and algorithms. However, the relationship between perceived effort and prediction quality differs for humans and algorithms. For humans, prediction tasks are seen as difficult and effort is therefore positively correlated with the perceived quality of predictions. For algorithms, however, prediction tasks are seen as easy and effort is therefore uncorrelated to the quality of algorithmic predictions. These results underscore the complex processes and dynamics underlying people’s trust in algorithmic (and human) predictions and the cues that people use to evaluate their quality.
Is a System Motive Really Necessary to Explain the System Justification Effect? A Response to Jost (2019) and Jost, Badaan, Goudarzi, Hoffarth, and Mogami (2019)
Authors: Owuamalam Chuma Kevin , Rubin Mark
Published: March 2019

The debate between the proponents of SIMSA and SJT does not pivot on whether system justification occurs – we all agree that system justification does occur. The issue is why it occurs? System justification theory (SJT; Jost & Banaji, 1994) assumes that system justification is motivated by a special system justification motive. In contrast, the social identity model of system attitudes (SIMSA; Owuamalam, Rubin, & Spears, 2018) argues that there is insufficient conclusive evidence for this special system motive, and that system justification can be explained in terms of social identity motives, including the motivation to accurately reflect social reality and the search for a positive social identity. Here, we respond to criticisms of SIMSA, including criticisms of its social reality, ingroup bias and hope for future ingroup status explanations of system justification. We conclude that SJT theorists should decide whether system justification is oppositional to, or compatible with social identity motives, and that this dilemma could be resolved by relinquishing the theoretically problematic notion of a system justification motivation.
Best Practices for Managing Turnover in Data Science Groups, Teams, and Labs
Authors: Sholler Dan , Das Diya , Hoces de la Guardia Fernando , Hoffman Chris , Lanusse Francois , Varoquaux Nelle , Garcia Rolando , Geiger R. Stuart , McDevitt Shana , Peterson Scott , Stoudt Sara
Published: March 2019

Turnover is a fact of life for any project, and academic research teams can face particularly high levels of people who come and go through the duration of a project. In this article, we discuss the challenges of turnover and some potential practices for helping manage it, particularly for computational- and data-intensive research teams and projects. The topics we discuss include establishing and implementing data management plans, file and format standardization, workflow and process documentation, clear team roles, and check-in and check-out procedures.
Pre-Service Teachers’ Integration into Teachers’ Community during Teaching Practicum
Authors: Afrianto Afrianto
Published: March 2019

Abstract: Teaching practicum is a strategic place where pre-service teachers transformthemselves from being pre-service teachers (PSTs) to become novice teachers. Datafrom a case study on how a group of PSTs experience integrate into teachers’community during teaching practicum in Indonesian context shows that their journeyis not linear; it encompasses a complex process, enriched by tension and conflict beforesome of them hold a sense of belonging to teachers community in their placementschools. Their ample engagement and participation with members of schoolcommunity during teaching practicum program have effectively played as a significantfactor behind their integration and identity transition.Keywords: teaching practicum, pre-service teachers, identity construction, teachers community, integration, identity in transition
The Concept of Intellectual Property As Al Mal: An Islamic Perpective Approach
Authors: Mohd Arif Mohd Izzat Amsyar , Hanapi Hisham
Published: March 2019

The idea of legally acknowledging and protecting the intellectual property is prevalently known inany legal system in the world, but not many people know how this idea is dealt in Islam. Islam asthe religion of wholeness (syumul), deals with almost all aspects of life and aims at protecting fivemain objectives of syariah3 (maqasid al syariah) namely religion (al din), life (al nafs), intellect(al aqal), lineage (al nasl) as well as property (al mal). As the time goes by, people started torealize that human intelligence and creativity shall not be the object of manipulation, thusnecessitated them to come up with some sort of protection for their invention by legallyacknowledging it as ‘intellectual property’. This paper will try to discuss the position of intellectualproperty in the Islamic jurisprudence by determining its ‘maaliyyah’ (capable of being consideredas property).
Headteachers Conflict Management Styles and Teachers Job Satisfaction in Malaysian Primary Schools
Authors: Izham Mohd , Sahadila Nurul , Hanim Aida
Published: March 2019

The purpose of this study was to investigate the conflict management styles among head teachers and the relationships between the styles and teachers job satisfaction. The study also examined the head teachers conflict management styles and teachers job satisfaction based on the demographic characteristics. A questionnaire was administered to 120 respondents in 5 primary schools in the district of Tampin, Malaysia. Descriptive and Manova statistics were used to examine the levels and differences of conflict management styles used among head teachers and teachers job satisfaction in terms of their demographic characteristics. The findings showed that the head teachers used all the five conflict management styles: cooperating style, adapting style, compromising style, bargaining style, and problem-solving style. Most head teachers preferred cooperating style as compared to bargaining style. Further, the findings showed that there was no difference for all the five conflict management styles in relation to the head teacher demographic characteristics. However, the findings showed that there was a significant difference for teachers job satisfaction in terms of years of service and no difference for teachers job satisfaction in terms of other demographic characteristics. Implications for all policymakers to improve future policy related to leadership training for all head teachers in schools were discussed.
Culture Shocks Experienced by Indonesian Students Studying Overseas
Authors: Ernofalina Ernofalina
Published: March 2019

This qualitative study is aimed at investigating culture shocks experienced by Indonesian students studying overseas in both academic and non-academic settings. It is intended to answer three research questions: 1) What stages of culture shocks did they experience?; 2) How did culture shocks affect their life?; 3) How did they solve the problems of culture shocks? Data were collected by distributing a questionnaire to 40 respondents and conducting an in-depth interview with selected respondents. Data were analyzed by categorizing information, sorting out similar information, and interpreting information. The data were validated by triangulation, member checks, and as clear description as possible. The findings showed that the students experienced culture shock in varying levels; initial euphoria, irritation, gradual adjustment, acceptance and integration. The study revealed that language was the most problematic aspect experienced by the students. Culture shocks affected students’ life in both academic and non-academic settings. Lack of confidence in class participation was the effect of culture shocks experienced by most of the students because of the language problem. To survive in host country, students solved the problems through various activities, such as by interacting with Indonesian people staying in host country, communicating with family and friends, consulting lecturers, academic advisor and counselor, tolerating with cultural differences, understanding host culture as well as introducing Indonesian culture, having positive attitude towards culture shocks, writing journals, and  keeping physically and mentally healthy.
Nipah Virus (NiV) Infection: An Emerging Zoonosis of Public Health Concern
Authors: Reddy KR
Published: March 2019

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Functional Outcome of Intra-articular Fractures of Distal Radius: ORIF with Locking Plate vs CRPP
Authors: Shrestha Bhola , Sapkota K , Kandel IS , Dhakal RM , Bista K
Published: March 2019

Background: Distal radius fractures are common, costly, and increasing in incidence. Closed reduction and percutaneous K wires fixation and ORIF with locking plate fixation are two of the mostly used surgical treatments for dorsally displaced distal radius fractures. However, there is uncertainty which of these treatments is superior.

Methods: This is a prospective study on 40 patients. Twenty patients had closed reduction and percutaneous pinning (CRPP) with K wires (Group A) and 20 patients had open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) with locking plate and screws (Group B). Evaluation were done in the means of DASH scores and ROM of operated wrist on 1.5 months, three months and six months follow up period.

Results: Though the overall functional outcome is comparatively better with Group B, the significant difference for most variables like DASH Scores, extension, supination and ulnar deviation were found at early part of treatment only. The flexion and radial deviation bear no significant outcomes at all intervals of evaluations. Superficial wound infection was more common in patients treated with K-wires but otherwise no difference in complication rates was noted.

Conclusion: Locking plate fixation provided lower DASH scores and reduced total postoperative complications compared to CRPP group over six months follow-up period. However, these differences were significant in early part of treatment. Further research is required to better delineate the confirmation.
Decreased Level of Vitamin D is Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients from Western Region of Nepal
Authors: Tamrakar Basant Kumar , Karki D , Nagila A
Published: March 2019

Background: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a progressive, chronic type of autoimmune disease and the role of vitamin D in the pathogenesis of RA is under investigation.

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the vitamin D deficiency in patients with RA as compared to healthy controls and to assess the relationship between serum vitamin D and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibody levels in patients with newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis.

Methods: The study was conducted between January 2017 to February 2018 at Fishtail Hospital and Research centre. A total of 63 patients with early RA diagnosed and a control group of 56 healthy participants, not on vitamin D supplements were recruited from Department of Internal Medicine. Five ml of blood samples were drawn from cubital veins. Blood glucose, creatinine, uric acid, calcium, RA factor, 25-hydroxy vitamin D, anti-CCP antibody, and erythrocyte sedimentation rates were measured in a centralized laboratory of Fishtail Hospital and Research centre.

Results: The level of serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D were significantly lower in RA group (20.03 ±9.97 ng/mL) in comparison to the control group (24.46 ±8.45 ng/mL) (p<0.003). Our result indicates the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency was more in RA group compared with control group (47.61% vs. 33.16%, p <0.002). The level of Anti-CCP is significantly high in RA group than control group. In RA patients serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D levels were negatively correlated to anti-CCP antibody levels (rs = 0.72, p <0.001), and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (rs = 3.95, p <0.005).

Conclusion: In RA patient vitamin D deficiency is quite common and serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D level was negatively correlated to anti-CCP antibody level. Our results suggest that vitamin D level is a motivation factor rather than a consequence of RA activity.
Is Routine Histopathological Examination of Appendix Mandatory?
Authors: Acharya A , Basnet RB , Singh RR , Bastakoti R , Paudel SR
Published: March 2019

Introduction: No age is immune for appendicitis and appendicectomy. Appendicectomy is one of the most common operations done all over the world. Emergency surgeries are more common than elective. Histopathological examination of every excised tissue is strongly recommended but trained manpower and laboratory for histopathological examination is not available in every hospital in our country.

Methods: It is a prospective observational study of appendectomy performed at Bir Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal country over a period of three years. Histopathological examination reports and preoperative findings were collected. Histopathological examination was performed by postgraduate pathologist at different hospitals and laboratory centres. Peroperatively appendices were categorized as non malignant looking appendix and suspicious malignant looking appendix by operating surgeons at different hospitals. Histopathological examination reports were compared with peroperative categorization.

Results: Eight hundred and fifty five appendectomies performed during the study period were analysed. Eight hundred thirteen (95.1%) cases had non-malignant looking appendix and 42 (4.9%) cases had malignant looking appendix peroperatively. Seven (0.8%) cases were found malignant and 848 (99.2%) cases were found non-malignant on histopathology report. All seven (16.67%) malignant cases were from 42 suspicious malignant looking cases.

Conclusion: Routine histopathology examination is mandatory for only peroperative suspicious malignant looking appendix.
Mindfulness based interventions for depression and anxiety in Asian Population: A systematic review
Authors: Thapaliya S. , Upadhyaya K.D. , Borschmann R. , Kuppili P.P.
Published: March 2019

Introduction: Mindfulness based interventions (MBIs) have emerged as effective interventions for various psychiatric conditions including depression and anxiety. Asia being home to Buddhist tradition, it will be interesting to explore the trend and efficacy of MBIs in Asian population in Asian settings. The aim of this study is to perform a systematic review of mindfulness based interventions (MBIs) for management of depression and anxiety (disorders or symptoms) in Asian population.

Material And Method: Two researchers independently searched for literature published between January 2007 to December 2018 in Medline, Google Scholar, PsychInfo and Cochrane library using the search terms - ‘Mindfulness/Vipassana’ combined with ‘meditation’, ‘intervention’ ‘therapy’, ‘depression', ‘anxiety’ ‘Asia’ etc. Further, publications were also identified from the references recited in the retrieved articles. After screening 185 articles and applying the eligibility criteria, 40 articles were finally selected for the systematic review.

Results: Out of 40 selected articles, 33 articles were controlled trials and 7 had a pre-post test design without any control group. Most of the published studies have evaluated MBCT and MBSR for depressive and anxiety symptoms in different settings. Some of the studies have tested traditional Buddhist meditation and modified models. Overall, MBCT and MBSR seem to be efficacious over ‘routine treatment’ or ‘no treatment’ control for reducing depressive and anxiety symptoms at the end of the treatment. Studies which have modified MBIs based on MBCT/MBSR models have also demonstrated their feasibility and short term efficacy in specific populations like medical professionals with evidence for short term efficacy.

Conclusion: Overall, there is emerging evidence of MBIs for depression and anxiety across diverse settings in Asia. Future research should address methodological limitations of current research to strengthen the evidence.
Maternal Stress of Hospitalized Children in A Hospital of Rupandehi, Nepal
Authors: Dhungana M. , Kachapati A.
Published: March 2019

Introduction: Illness and hospitalization are often critical events that a child is faced with and the stress of it can affect all family members. Maternal stress and anxiety can also affect the child in two ways, transferring stress to the child and interfering with the mother’s ability of childcare. Researcher sought to find out the maternal stressors of hospitalized children in a hospital of Nepal.

Material and Method: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted to find out the maternal stressors of hospitalized children among one hundred and five mothers selected through non probability purposive method. The data was collected by using semi-structured interview schedule and data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics with SPSS software version 16.

Results: The findings of the study revealed that more than half of the mothers 62.8%, 58.1%, 63.8%, 90.4%, 88.6%, 78%, 83.8% and 87.7% had very high stress related to child factors; child appears lethargic, weak and pale, prolongation of hospitalization, uncertain try about future of child’s medical condition, fear of relapse, child irritability and crying, in concern about IV fluids and tubes connected, child’s pain, and about laboratory and imaging respectively. Majority of mothers had stress related to social and economic aspects, 59% for failure to provide comfort to other children due to child illness, 82.8% had stress regarding being away from work and living place. Regarding stressors related to environmental factors, Majority 54.2% mothers had very high stress from equipments, 84.7% mothers had very high stress on unfamiliar environment, 68.5% had very high stress for lack of adequate sanitation and air pollution, 59% had very high stress that no room to rest for visitor. Regarding stressors related to hospital staffs, 78% mothers had very high stress for giving the responsibility for monitoring IV fluids, 74.2% had very high stress for turning over responsibility for collecting samples to mothers by nursing staffs, 60.9% mothers had very high stress on lack of attention from nursing staffs about mother’s problem and 68.5% had very high stress on lack of proper nutrition for hospitalized children.

Conclusion: Based on the study findings, it is concluded that mothers were passionate in taking care of their child. Most mothers had recognized that illness and hospitalization of their children had an overwhelming psychological and emotional impact on their own behavior and they did not have enough control over their reactions. Therefore, special attention should be given to identify the stressors in nursing care, planning and parents’ education, moving stressors and treatment in the same direction and the factors that can reduce the mother’s ability to provide childcare and delay in treatment progress.
Attribution and health seeking behavior of family members towards Conversion (Dissociative) Disorders
Authors: Sawant S. , Karki U.
Published: March 2019

Introduction: Patients with Conversion (Dissociative) disorders are frequently seen in different communities and hospitals of Nepal. How people attribute illness determines what treatment will be received. Hence this study was conducted to identify attributions and health seeking behavior towards Conversion (Dissociative) disorder.

Material and Method: This is a hospital based cross-sectional and exploratory study. Purposive sampling method was used. Duration of study was 6 months from 1st January 2017 to 30th June 2017. Total number of participants was 57. Diagnosis was made using ICD 10 criteria. Self developed questionnaire was used which assessed knowledge and help seeking behavior.

Results: The findings showed that the percentage of trance and possession (33.3%) and dissociative convulsions (29.8%) compared to other groups were higher. Illiterate participants were high followed by high school level and intermediate respectively. Among total participants, 47.4% took more than 2 weeks to visit a mental health professional, 31.6% took 48 hours to 2 weeks, and 21.1% visited within 48 hours. Participant’s response to conversion disorder as neither mental illness nor physical illness and response to conversion disorder as mental illness was 43.85%. However response to conversion disorder as a physical illness was 38.6%. Participant’s response to the treatment of conversion disorder for faith healing was higher (52.63%) than to medical and psychosocial treatment (33.33%).

Conclusion: Communities in Nepal are still grounded to ethnic practices and faith healing. Conducting awareness program and working in collaboration with faith healers is crucial.
The Complex Racial Politics ofSmart People
Authors: Wooden Isaiah Matthew
Published: March 2019

Working from the premise that theatre and performance can yield valuable insights about the operations of race, this article explores the dramaturgical strategies Lydia R. Diamond deploys in her 2014 comedy, Smart People, to interrogate the complexities of racial politics in the twenty-first century. I trace how, through the intertwined narratives it weaves for its four protagonists, Smart People engages important debates about the rebiologization of race, the psychic costs of stereotyping, and the vexed representational politics of US theatre, thereby bringing into sharp relief the ways in which narratives of racial progress obscure the material ramifications of race in contemporary life. Even as it trades in the signs of progress the United States has made on race matters, Smart People illustrates for its audiences why a proper reckoning with racial formations, ideologies, attitudes, practices, and beliefs remains as urgently needed as ever. In so doing, the play participates in and extends a long tradition within black expressive culture of using theatre and performance to provoke social action and change.
Reconstituting Canada: The enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of ‘Indians,’ circa 1837–1900
Authors: Kirkby Coel
Published: March 2019

The constitutional history of Canada and First Nations is often told as the promise fulfilled of Aboriginal rights and treaties. I will challenge this story by recovering the story of the enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of ‘Indian’ subjects in the first three decades of Canadian Confederation. Far from forgotten actors in a foretold play, ‘Indian’ voters were crucial to determining the outcome of three closely contested federal elections and challenging settler ideas of the nascent Canadian nation. The question of the ‘Indian’ franchise was always embedded in competing constitutional visions for Confederation. The Canadian dream of transforming and assimilating Indigenous peoples would give way to a cynical idea of segregation under the permanent regime of the Indian Act. If the ‘Indian’ franchise was the apotheosis of assimilation, its revocation marked the start of racial segregation. I juxtapose these Canadian constitutional visions with two alternative possibilities. The Anishinaabe-dominated Grand General Council accepted the franchise as part of its vision of reconciling membership in both their treaty-recognized nations and the Canadian state. The Confederacy Council of the Six Nations, in contrast, rejected the franchise as an existential threat to Haudenosaunee self-rule mediated by a treaty relationship with the Canadian and imperial governments. Recovering the constitutional contests driving ‘Indian’ enfranchisement and disenfranchisement shows us how the successful imposition of a single vision of a white democracy silenced alternative visions of multinational coexistence. It also reminds us of the multiplicity of constitutional possibilities for a common future.
Motor activity of students of modern education institutions: biomedical and physiological-hygienic aspects of its assessment and optimization
Authors: Serheta I. V. , Drezhenkova I. L. , Stoyan N. V.
Published: March 2019

One of the key problems of modern biomedical anthropology is the scientific substantiation of the prerequisites for the formation of a healthy lifestyle, the introduction of health-saving technologies that take into account its, psychophysiological and personality features. The aim of the study is biomedical and physiological and hygienic assessment of motor activity of students of modern institutions of higher education and scientific substantiation of ways of its optimization. 385 students aged 19 to 21 were under observation during the research. As quantitative criteria for assessing motor activity, the values of daily energy consumption, the number of locomotions in a daily cycle and the duration of the dynamic component in the daily budget of time were used. The qualitative description of the values of motor activity was carried out on the basis of studying the main types of locomotives and their distribution patterns with the allocation of zones of minimal (hypokinesia), optimal (normokinesia) and maximum (hyperkinesia) values. The statistical analysis of the received materials provided for the application of the standard package of applications “Statistica 6.1”. As the norms of motor activity of modern students, the following indicators are determined: daily energy consumption values – 9000-11000 kJ for young women and 11000-13500 kJ for young men; number of locomotions in a daily cycle – 14000-18000 steps for young women and 15000-19000 steps for young men; the duration of the dynamic component in the daily budget time – 130-180 minutes in young women and 140-190 minutes in young men. Among the leading ways of optimizing motor activity are: the implementation of continuous monitoring and individualized integrated assessment of habitual motor activity; taking into account the norms of motor activity of student youth, which provide a beneficial effect on the processes of formation of their health and adaptive capacity of the body of future specialists and the mandatory achievement of their values; development and implementation of a set of measures aimed at optimizing motor activity and rational organization of motor activity of modern students.
OS VÍCIOS DA REFORMA AGRÁRIA
Authors: Santos João Vitor Alves dos , Marques Heitor Romero , Borges Pedro Pereira
Published: March 2019

O presente artigo tem por tema a Política Pública de democratização ao acesso à terra, Reforma Agrária, e o fenômeno de polarização no âmbito político-social. O objetivo é analisar a execução da Reforma Agrária, identificar os vícios na sua implementação e propor intervenções às dificuldades apontadas pelos acampados e assentados, estes beneficiários diretos da Reforma Agrária. O método utilizado foi o dedutivo, com base em pesquisa bibliográfica, documental e base de dados dos órgãos Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária (INCRA) e Ministério Público Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (MPF/MS), além de visitas a Assentamentos e entrevistas informais com membros de movimentos sociais que reivindicam a execução da Reforma Agrária. Como resultados apontam-se a conclusão de que a polarização não ocorre no âmbito científico quando se fala da referida Política Pública, percebeu-se nas obras analisadas uma divisão tênue entre estudiosos com posicionamento direcionados mais para questões econômicas enquanto outros acreditavam que as questões sociais eram mais importantes. Já em relação aos resultados das propostas de Intervenção, foram enumerados os Vícios da Reforma Agrária, entre os quais se citam: Aquisição de terras inapropriadas para produção; falta de convergência entre os assentados; desqualificação técnica dos assentados entre outros e cada um desses tópicos foi enfrentado como se fosse um vício a ser sanado.
DUMPING SOCIAL, TERCEIRIZAÇÃO E QUARTEIRIZAÇÃO
Authors: Costa Ilton Garcia , Merheb Marcos Paulo dos Santos Bahig
Published: March 2019

O presente artigo visa o aprofundamento acerca dos temas do dumping social, terceirização e quarteirização, com a exposição de pontos-chave acerca da matéria. Para tanto, apresenta-se uma breve descrição de seus conceitos, juntamente com uma análise de suas fundamentações legais e do entendimento doutrinário e jurisprudencial sobre o assunto. Objetiva-se, com isso, uma maior conscientização com relação aos efeitos danosos trazidos por tais práticas aos direitos dos trabalhadores. Por fim, examina-se a repercussão no âmbi-to do Direito do Trabalho da nova legislação que agora regula a terceirização e quarteirização, com a inves-tigação do que poderá advir com a sua vigência.
PROTAGONISMO DE LUTA INDIGENISTA E A CONSTRUÇÃO DOS DIREITOS HUMANOS DOS POVOS INDÍGENAS
Authors: Oliveira Odete Maria de , Braun Helenice da Aparecida Dambrós , Giachin Isadora e Sá
Published: March 2019

A pesquisa ocupa-se com a proteção dos Povos Indígenas, esquecidos nos diferentes continentes do Planeta, durante séculos dizimados, violentados, excluídos pelos Estados e sociedades. O Direito Internacional e os direitos humanos buscaram o seu reconhecimento como sujeitos de direitos internacionais, mas com poucos resultados. O objeto desse estudo tenta refletir sobre essa abordagem, indagando: A variável de específicos direitos humanos indigenistas poderá resultar em uma eficiente medida? Usando o método hipotético-dedutivo e a pesquisa bibliografia, o texto estrutura-se em três partes: aborda a Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos, de 1948; primeiros instrumentos voltados aos direitos indígenas - Convenções de 1940, 1957, 1969 – e, finalmente, a trajetória da Declaração dos Direito dos Povos Indígenas adotada em 2007. Na conclusão são apresentadas considerações sobre a construção de autênticos Direitos Humanos Indigenistas como instrumentos de eficaz sustentabilidade.   