bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Implementing a health research communication program in a low resource country: Experience from Uganda’s Makerere University School of Public
Authors: Bakyawa Jennifer , Devlin Micheal , Serwadda David , IJsselmuiden Carel
Published: March 2017

This field note presents what transpired in 18 months joint health research communication project at Makerere University School of Public Health. The project was the first of this nature at the university, in Uganda and probably in East Africa. Information on how the project was conceived, implemented and its results is given. It gives an overview of a communication framework that resulted from the process that informs anyone considering investing in research communication in a low resource institution or country. The note provides key themes of advocacy, community and user participation, influencing policy, fundraising and networking that arose from observations, interaction and activities and a situation review of the post project. It concludes that research communication in Uganda is still low and ill coordinated.  Cette note de champ présente ce qui s'est passé dans le projet de communication recherche 18 mois mixte sur la santé à Makerere University School of Public Health. Le projet a été le premier de cette nature à l'Université, en Ouganda et probablement en Afrique de l'est. Informations sur la façon dont le projet a été conçu, mis en œuvre et de ses résultats est donné. Il donne un aperçu d'un cadre de communication qui résulte du processus qui informe toute personne tenant compte investir dans la communication de la recherche dans une institution de faibles ressources ou un pays. La note fournit les thèmes clés de la défense, la participation communautaire et l'utilisateur, peuvent influencer les politiques, la collecte de fonds et de réseautage qui découle des observations, interaction, des activités et une situation d'examen du projet post. Il conclut que la communication de la recherche en Ouganda est encore faible et mal coordonnée.
African Researcher 2.0: Using New Technologies to Join Global Academic Conversations
Authors: Conteh-Morgan Miriam
Published: March 2017

Researchers in Africa have typically been regarded as consumers, not producers, of academic information. More recently, open access publishing has been advanced as a way of getting research from Africa more easily and widely available, but there needs to be more than just changes to the dissemination outlet. This article discusses how researchers in Africa can join global academic conversations through a rethinking of their research work flows, and how they can strategically position themselves and their research in knowledge streams for rippling impact.
Availability and Accessibility of Research Outputs in NARS: A case study with IARI
Authors: Tandon Gitanjali , Poluru Lalitha , Gutam Sridhar , Mishra A K , Chandrasekharan H , Pandey P S
Published: March 2017

This article focuses on the trends in publication, authorship pattern, availability, and accessibility of articles during 2008–2010 from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), a constituent of the National Agricultural Research System in India. The data reveal that during the period of study, researchers from IARI produced 1,833 publications, most of which were jointly authored, and that the most preferred journal for publication by researchers is the Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, which is now an Open Access journal. While publications from IARI are available to subscribers of the Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture (CeRA), public availability to IARI publications is very meager. Hence, in order to make their research output more accessible and available to a wider audience, IARI researchers should deposit their work in IARI’s Open Access repository Eprints@IARI. However, making such a deposit requires an Open Access policy, which IARI is yet to adopt.
Engineers: Problem Solving in Society
Authors: McMartin Dena Wynn
Published: March 2017

Engineering is an often mysterious profession. For me, engineering is a rewarding and challenging career where I can see that my work has a positive impact on the natural environment and the people who use it and sometimes even make a mess of it.
Ways of Reading, Models for Text, and the Usefulness of Dead People
Authors: Liu Yin
Published: March 2017

The definition of text is still a live issue with important implications for emerging forms of digital textuality. This paper proposes that no single definition of text is sufficient to account for all manifestations of textuality. Medieval textuality is a test case: four different models for text are offered, corresponding to ways in which modern medievalists approach medieval texts. Studying medieval texts has value not only to support historically informed theories of reading and writing, but also to suggest alternative models of organizing, representing, and processing textual information.
Readers Read, Readers Write: A Methodology for The Study of Reading Practices in Media Convergence
Authors: Ortega Élika , De la Rosa Javier , Suárez Juan Luis
Published: March 2017

In this article we propose a set of methodologies to study emerging reading practices in narratives developing simultaneously in various media. We have taken the data by readers of the Spanish-Argentinian project Orsai in the form of blog comments, download rates, and print-run volumes as “reading traces.” We believe these traces shed much light on what is sparking readers’ attention (narrative developments, frequency of publication, interaction with other readers and authors), and in what fashion (comment frequency, volume, and type). Our methodology includes network analysis and visualizations of reading traces in the comparative setting of our case study, and is susceptible to being adapted to other convergence media projects.
Academic Prototyping as a Method of Knowledge Production: The Case of the Dynamic Table of Contexts
Authors: Ruecker Stan , Adelaar Nadine , Brown Susan , Dobson Teresa , Knechtel Ruth , Liepert Susan , MacDonald Andrew , Peña Ernesto , Radzikowska Milena , Roeder Geoff G. , Sinclair Stéfan , Windsor Jennifer
Published: March 2017

Academic prototyping, like ethnography or bench studies, is a way of producing new knowledge about an idea. It is a phase in a critical process. In fact, it is perhaps better to speak of academic prototyping, rather than of academic prototypes. In this paper, as an example, we discuss the Dynamic Table of Contexts, an academic prototyping project that has served for many years as a focus of ideas about what it means to remediate and improve on a venerable print tradition.
Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights: Strategic Alliances to Advance Knowledge and Social Change
Authors: Nicol Nancy , Gates-Gasse Erika , Mule Nick
Published: March 2017

The Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights research project involves working collaboratively with community partners, both local and international. This article presents the research currently being conducted and some of the challenges in undertaking knowledge engagement between academia and the community with the project’s Canadian, African, and Caribbean partners by means of participatory action research (PAR). Specifically, the article gives examples of the project’s work and explores the following topics: work with Global South partners and marginalized communities; strategic alliances; knowledge production and mobilization; and methodologies that have contributed to successes or challenges. Knowledge engagement at the international level, with its variances in resources, power, and autonomy, increases the demands of such work and the need for sensitivity in reaching the goals of the project and those of all of its stakeholders.Résumé: Le projet Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights implique le travaille en collaboration avec des partenaires communautaires, à la fois locaux et internationaux. Cet article présente les recherches actuellement menées et des défis à entreprendre l’engagement de connaissances entre le milieu universitaire et nos partenaires communautaires canadiens, africains et des Caraïbes. Le document donne des exemples de notre travail et explore les thèmes suivants : travailler avec les partenaires du Sud planétaire et les communautés marginalisées; les alliances stratégiques; la production de connaissances et son mobilisation; les défis de la recherche participative; ainsi que des méthodologies qui ont contribué à nos succès ou défis. L’engagement de connaissances au niveau international avec des écarts en matière de ressources, de pouvoir et d’autonomie contribue aux défis d’un tel travail et le besoin de sensibilité pour atteindre les objectifs du projet et l’ensemble de ses parties prenantes.
Building Alternative Scholarly Publishing Capacity: The Renaissance Knowledge Network (ReKN) as Digital Production Hub
Authors: Powell Daniel James , Siemens Raymond G.
Published: March 2017

The Renaissance Knowledge Network (ReKN) is a major scholarly initiative designed to develop digital capacity within early modern studies. In this paper, we present an outline for the development of ReKN as an integrated scholarly research environment devoted to early modern scholarship. Additionally, we focus extensively on the prospects for scholarly production within such a holistic environment in the form of editions, criticism, and middle-state publication.
Expert/Crowd-Sourcing for the Linked Modernisms Project
Authors: Ross Stephen , Christie Alex , Sayers Jentery
Published: March 2017

Though “Building Partnerships to Transform Scholarly Publishing” has never officially been part of the mandate of either the Modernist Versions Project (MVP) or Linked Modernisms (LiMo), upon reflection, it has turned out to be among their key functions. Advancing new ways of doing scholarship within the field of modernist studies has driven us to explore novel approaches to publishing, and demonstrated the utter necessity of partnerships to make those approaches effective. In what follows we will provide a quick introduction to the Modernist Versions Project and some of the tools we use, consider what sort of inquiries appear at scale, and give an overview of the Linked Modernisms Project. We will attend in particular to how this suite of projects has led us to rethink traditional scholarly publishing practices, and how partnerships have become indispensable to mobilizing our research.
Digital Bibliography and Global Shakespeare
Authors: Estill Laura
Published: March 2017

Although there is currently “much ado about” global Shakespeare studies, this field has been thriving for decades – even centuries. This article outlines the role of the World Shakespeare Bibliography Online (WSB Online) in the past and future of global Shakespeare studies, exploring how digital scholarly practices, including open access periodicals and institutional repositories, are changing the bibliography’s workflow and presentation of materials. Ultimately, the digital nature of the World Shakespeare Bibliography further opens the door to global Shakespeare studies and participates in recovering early research in the field. The WSB is the result of global scholarly collaboration; it is itself an early global Shakespeare studies project that works to foster further scholarship in the field.
Meeting Scholars Where They Are: The Advanced Research Consortium (ARC) and a Social Humanities Infrastructure
Authors: Grumbach Elizabeth , Mandell Laura
Published: March 2017

The Advanced Research Consortium (ARC) is the central organizing force for several virtual research environments (VREs). ARC is the hub for these period-specific nodes, which offer digital project peer review, aggregation and search technologies, and forms of community engagement. The mission of both ARC and the nodes is to construct and support a “social system” for the humanities in which the digital and the traditional can come together to develop a working social humanities infrastructure. This article discusses how the ARC infrastructure evolved from the framework of scholarly engagement developed by NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) and explains how the consortium assists the scholarly community: through digital project peer review, aggregation and search, and outreach services.
OJS Implementation and development of the Scientific Journals Site of the School of Humanities and Education Sciences of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Authors: Unzurrunzaga Carolina , Rozemblum Cecilia , Pucacco Cristian , Parente Gustavo , Esterellas Mauricio
Published: March 2017

This article describes how the journal site of the School of Humanities and Education Sciences at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata was implemented and developed, so that our experience may be useful for anyone embarking on a similar undertaking. We first review the experience of the School in terms of scientific journal publication and the tasks performed by the Library to help its visualization. Secondly, we mention the work of the Under-Secretariat of Publication Management and Dissemination (PGEyD; its acronym in Spanish) of the School to make launching the site a reality. Special reference is made to software customization, massive information upload to the system (users and previous issues), and the procedures that enable the semi-automatic inclusion of the site content in the institutional repository and in the Web catalogue. Then, we discuss the work that is being carried out in connection with editors’ training and support, and the results obtained after one year of labour: the creation of 10 journals, the migration of the entire works of four titles and the inclusion of 25% of the contributions published in the journals edited by FaHCE. Finally, we point out a series of challenges that the Under-Secretariat has set itself to improve the site and to optimize intra- and inter-institutional workflow.
Study on Perspectives Regarding Deposit on Open Access Repositories in the Context of Public Universities in the Central-Eastern Region of Argentina
Authors: San Martín Patricia Silvana , Bongiovani Paola Carolina , Casali Ana , Deco Claudia
Published: March 2017

This article presents the results of a survey and qualitative study of needs and practices of open access scholarly works dissemination.The survey and study focused on different issues related to usability, navigation, and accessibility of institutional repositories, which have guided the design of an experimental prototype in the context of a regional project that joins three universities in Argentina. In such academic practices, the teaching community offers various types of production and simultaneous application areas for digital objects. Thus, there is a technological requirement to enable users to carry out their self-archiving process of different objects, in a user-friendly way, allowing them to upload these objects in various collections. A prototype was implemented and tested in order to obtain an initial assessment of the proposed model.L’article présente les résultats d’un sondage et d’un diagnostic qualitative sur les besoins et les pratiques de publication en accès libre. Il fait le point sur différents problèmes d’utilisabilité, de navigation et d’accessibilité rencontrés dans les archives institutionnels qui ont motivé la conception d’un prototype expérimental dans le cadre d’un projet regroupant trois universités en Argentine. Dans ces pratiques académiques, la communauté d’enseignants propose des types de production diverses et des champs d’application simultanés pour un même objet numérique. Il y a donc un besoin technologique pour l’enseignant-chercheur d’auto-archivage et de description de son objet numérique à travers une interface conviviale qui prenne en charge les champs d’application simultanés. La mise en place et le test du prototype permettront unepremière évaluation du modèle proposé.
Transformation Through Integration: The Renaissance Knowledge Network (ReKN) and a Next Wave of Scholarly Publication
Authors: Powell Daniel , Siemens Raymond G. , Bowen William R , Hiebert Matthew , Seatter Lindsey
Published: March 2017

This article reflects on the first six months of funded research by the Renaissance Knowledge Network (ReKN), focusing especially on the possibilities for interoperability and metadata aggregation of diverse digital projects, including but not limited to Early English Books Online—Text Creation Partnership; the Iter Bibliography; the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory; the Advanced Research Consortium network; Editing Modernism in Canada; the INKE working groups; and several other, smaller projects. This article also considers how internetworked resources and a holistic scholarly environment should incorporate and build on existing publication and markup tools. Key to this process of facilitating new forms of scholarly production are including possibilities for middle-state publication; exporting both primary and critical content; and forming new types of technologically facilitated scholarly communities.
Wikipedia and the ecosystem of knowledge
Authors: Vandendorpe Christian
Published: March 2017

Thanks to a vibrant community united by a few core principles, plus detailed policies and safeguards against trolls and vandalism, Wikipedia has already become a piece of the knowledge ecosystem. Like science, its aim is to propose a synthesis of existing knowledge and conflicting interpretations of reality. It also changes the way people interact with knowledge thanks to its extensive use of hyperlinks, portals, and categories. As a consequence, I suggest academics contribute to articles in their field. They could also use Wikipedia as a course assignment and make sure that the topics related to their discipline are fairly presented in this encyclopedia.
Creating Narrative Space: New Modes of Navigation for Online Scholarly publications
Authors: Lane Richard John
Published: March 2017

Navigating online scholarly publications is theorized here as an active journey that readers embark upon and undertake, creating personal meaning through narrative structures that, in turn, make sense of the online data that has been individually explored. The concept of the “eversion” is examined as a useful way of understanding how readers interact with data via networked smart objects, and through different interface designs and mechanisms. The passageways and “border exchanges” between analogue and digital worlds are sites that illuminate how people engage with information seeking and digital sensemaking; coupled with the centrality of the contemporary digital self, the article argues for a humanistic outcome in this focus on human engagement with inverted analogue and digital worlds.
Why Fabricate?
Authors: Sayers Jentery
Published: March 2017

Starting with the assumption that humanities research frequently renders three-dimensional objects two-dimensional for the sake of reference and communication, this essay articulates four research areas where humanities practitioners may wish to fabricate tactile objects as part of their work: 1) data physicalization, 2) remaking old technologies, 3) cultural studies of negotiated endurance, and 4) infrastructure studies by way of shared social concerns (as opposed to shared technical specifications). These four research areas are anchored in ongoing examinations of both the technical and cultural dimensions of digital fabrication, including methods for additive and subtractive manufacturing.
Implementing a Social Knowledge Creation Environment
Authors: Hiebert Matthew , Bowen William R. , Siemens Raymond
Published: March 2017

“Social knowledge creation,” an emergent area of research interest for digital humanists, promotes experimental critical interventions into more traditional knowledge production processes. The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria with Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (University of Toronto Scarborough) have iteratively prototyped a Web-based platform for social knowledge creation called Iter Community. This article discusses the platform’s implementation as a critical intervention in scholarly production and publication, specifically how it provides new opportunities for research and serves as a model to allow for greater involvement of scholars and the public in knowledge creation.
The Museum as Knowledge Environment
Authors: Nelson Brent
Published: March 2017

Early modern cabinets of curiosities (precursors of the modern museum) were sites for collecting and generating object-centred knowledge in the early days of empiricism, but they were equally dependent on text-based ways of knowing and disseminating knowledge. These collections thus provide an important historical point of reference for thinking about the possibilities of new knowledge environments for representing cultural heritage objects on the Web, which presents new possibilities for textual and visual representation. After elaborating the historical context of early modern collections as knowledge environments, this paper concludes with some principles for representing cultural heritage objects to support scholarship in the humanities.
Social Paper: Retooling Student Consciousness
Authors: Glass Erin
Published: March 2017

Among the many emerging forms of digital scholarship, “Networked Participatory Scholarship” (NPS) is garnering increased attention for its potential to liberate scholarly communications from the slow, closed, and expensive methods of the pre-digital era. This paper will argue that different forms of NPS contribute to different forms of student consciousness, or how students conceive of the role of their scholarship, and the means of producing and communicating that scholarship in both the academic and public sphere.
“Faster Alone, Further Together”: Reflections on INKE’s Year Six
Authors: Siemens Lynne , Group INKE Research
Published: March 2017

Background: This article examines Implementing New Knowledge Environments’ (INKE) experiences as a mature, large-scale collaboration working with academic and non-academic partners and provides some insight into best practices. It looks at the sixth year of funded research.Analysis: The study uses semi-structured interviews with questions focused on the nature of collaboration with selected members of the INKE research team. Data analysis employs a grounded theory approach.Conclusion and implication: The interviewees found the experience of collaborating within INKE to be positive with some ongoing challenges. The team is winding down as it moves into the final year of funded research. This suggests an arc of collaboration, with intensity of collaboration building from the first year to the most intensive time in the middle years and then winding down in the last years of grant funding. This article contributes to those lessons about collaboration by exploring the lived experience of a long-term, large-scale research project.
Re-Created Radio Dramas as Innovative Knowledge Environments
Authors: Barber John
Published: March 2017

Background  The author describes his efforts to re-create vintage radio dramas as participatory knowledge environments in which to explore both their context and original production, and to provide engaging listening opportunities for sound, the most ephemeral of all media.Analysis  These efforts promote new knowledge environments for outreach, creative problem solving, rapid prototyping, and the social development of new literacies and skills.Conclusion and implications Because it is an intensely active experience, listening to sound and engaging directly with the imagination can promote direct listener involvement/engagement in a (re)new(ed) knowledge environment with increased opportunities for pedagogy and scholarship.
Revisiting Open Source Software Development Models for Community-Based Digital Humanities Research Generation
Authors: Lane Richard J.
Published: March 2017

Enmeshed modes of digital communication are based on public disclosure and the exposed space of the digital, that is to say, where an idea shared is always already an idea utilized by someone else.Background: Community-based practices of open source software development offer a model for enmeshed private-public digital humanities (DH) research that can balance the demands of macro or global digital disruptive forces with the needs of everyday learning communities.Analysis: In the space of enmeshed modes of digital communication, knowledge is not owned, since it is essentially discovery-based.Conclusion and implications: Digital literacy is key for contemporary DH knowledge production, yet also needs to be active (not a passive information technology awareness or ability) about building, making, and improving, as well as functioning within an open environment.
Introduction, New Knowledge Models: Sustaining Partnerships to Transform Scholarly Production
Authors: Arbuckle Alyssa , Christie Alex , Siemens Lynne , Mauro Aaron , Group INKE Research
Published: March 2017

On January 19th-20th 2016, researchers, students, librarians, and other participants came together for the third annual Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE)-hosted gathering in Whistler, BC, Canada, for “New Knowledge Models: Sustaining Partnerships to Transform Scholarly Production.” Thematically, discussions revolved around the many facets of digital scholarship: creativity, implementation, institutional interface, opportunities, challenges, audience, initiatives, sustainability, and more. We provide a conceptual overview of the gathering, and the papers presented there that are now included in these proceedings.
Do directors’ outside appointments hurt board effectiveness: An analysis under familial dominance in the Taiwan case
Authors: Chou Shuching , Yang Hui-Lan , Tong Jian-Jhang
Published: March 2017

Appointing directors to affiliated companies is common practice to reinforce control or build connections under the familial-oriented culture in East Asia. This paper investigates whether outside appointments entrench board monitoring effectiveness on management investment behaviour for Taiwanese firms. The results show that investments are significantly related to internal cash flow. However, no economically significant relationship exists between multiple directorships and investment-cash flow sensitivity, indicating that the outside appointments of chairpersons neither aggregate nor alleviate managerial discretion problem on investment in this sample. We also provide explanations for the results.
Are American Universities Mismanaged?: Tenure vs Non-Tenure Faculty Employment Decisions
Authors: Sav G. Thomas
Published: March 2017

This paper empirically tests the extent to which public universities in the United States are potentially mismanaged. The focus rests with university managerial employment decisions regarding the continuing substitution of less costly non-tenure track teaching faculty for tenured and tenure track faculty and the extent to which those decisions affect student graduation success. Panel data covering ten academic years, 2004-05 through 2013-14 are employed using ordinary least squares and stochastic frontier analysis specifications. The latter provides tests of the inefficiency effects of managerial employment decisions and academic year estimates of technical efficiency. In both cases, the results provide statistically strong evidence that tenured faculty lead to increased student graduation success while increases in non-tenured faculty have negative effects on student graduation rates. The stochastic results provide strong evidence of efficiency gains due to tenured faculty and increased inefficiency arising from non-tenure track faculty employment. While universities appear to have managed efficiency gains as a possible result of the Great Recession, those gains quickly evaporated in both 2012 and 2013. Separate estimates for research vs. lower level comprehensive universities, indicate that the former maintain greater operating efficiencies. Given that public universities are being subject to new funding models that tie funding to the production of student success rates, the continuing non-tenure track employment substitution suggests that universities are potentially mismanaged in generating funding support for faculty employment and student success.Keywords: Tenure, non-tenure, faculty employment, stochastic frontier, university
Frequency and distribution of scabies in Vojvodina, Serbia, 2006-2015
Authors: Ristic Mioljub , Strbac Mirjana , Dragic Natasa , Seguljev Zorica , Dragovac Gorana , Ilic Svetlana , Petrovic Vladimir
Published: March 2017

Introduction/Objective. Scabies is a major dermatological and a public health concern worldwide. The aim of this study was to evaluate the trend of scabies, the age-specific incidence and seasonality of scabies in Vojvodina Province, Serbia. Methods. We investigated the epidemiological characteristics of scabies in Vojvodina (northern region of Serbia). We carried out a descriptive study over a 10-year period (from 2006 to 2015) and covered 21,996 patients. Results. The average incidence rate of scabies was 113.9/100,000 inhabitants with the evident increasing trend among all age groups, and especially among patients 15?19 years old. The highest incidence rate (323.9/100,000 inhabitants) was registered among children younger than 14 years. Most cases of scabies were registered during the cold months of the year, with peak activity throughout December (14.4/100,000; 95% CI: 12.2?16.6). Conclusion. A high frequency and increasing trend of scabies in Vojvodina indicates that more attention should be paid to this problem.
Internet piracy and consequences for victims
Authors: Savic Miljan , Petrovic Nikola
Published: March 2017

After the evolution of technology made it possible to perform actions via the
Internet that constitute copyright violations, the analysis of the effects of
internet piracy on social welfare became the subject of academic polemics.
The main and the biggest victims of Internet piracy are the holders of
copyright and related rights, however, the damage that piracy causes them
comes from multiple sources, is difficult to quantify and is only a part of
the total social cost of piracy. However, there are other categories of
victims, such as those whose honor was besmirched as a result of piracy, and
who suffer the consequences in the form of negative emotional reactions, loss
of job as well as those who subsequently commit suicide. The object of this
paper is to describe the effects of internet piracy on the victims of this
phenomenon, and the goal is the analysis of the various direct and indirect
effects of piracy on victims and their motivation for future creation, as
well as analysis of prevention measures, with special emphasis on the
Republic of Serbia.
The femicide as a part of the culture of violence
Authors: Pavicevic Olivera , Glomazic Hajdana , Ilijic Ljeposava
Published: March 2017

In the paper femicide is analyzed as a gender-based violence whose origin is
in feminicide. Feminicide is a term which designates social, cultural and
ideological construction which survives in the continuity of institutional
weakness. Gender-based violence appears as a mixture of institutionalized
misogyny, patriarchate and abolition of women`s rights as human rights. The
paper starts from the assumption that the basis of feminicide is in the
continuity of the culture of violence and ideological matrices which promote
adversarial discourse toward women, where amplified social and cultural
tensions move to the sphere of gender-based violence. Femicide, as a visible
and manifest violence, derives from the invisible institutional structure in
which violence is continual, cyclical and reproductive. The subject of this
paper is the attempt to get an insight into the invisible background of
femicide as a form of violence rooted in feminicide. Its aim is
contextualization of femicide into the existing structure of violence, and an
analysis of some aspects of its social and cultural origin.
The right to the truth of victims of a repressive regime in the international public law
Authors: Stevanovic Miroslav
Published: March 2017

The break-up with the repressive regime, and above all rehabilitation of the
consequences for victims, includes determining the truth about the character,
carriers and methods of systematic violation of basic human rights. Many
international instruments, which deal with the problem of victims of
repressive regimes and the state discontinuity with repressive governance,
proclaim the concept of the right to the truth. The paper deals with the
normative contents of the right to the truth and different aspects of this
concept that international courts recognize in relation to victims of
repressive regimes. The results of the analysis indicate that the concept of
the right to the truth sets before the states requirements to try to provide
institutional preconditions for individual and collective victims to find out
and access the truth, but that the case-law does not recognize as enforceable
any authorisation which stems from the right to the truth. Currently, the
right to the truth presents a principle that relates to realising some
internationally protected rights of a person, but there are indications that
it has been normatively shaping in order to become a legal principle of
transition.
The Pathophysiology of Hyperglycemia in Older Adults: Clinical Considerations
Authors: Lee Pearl G. , Halter Jeffrey B.
Published: March 2017

Nearly a quarter of older adults in the U.S. have type 2 diabetes, and this population is continuing to increase with the aging of the population. Older adults are at high risk for the development of type 2 diabetes due to the combined effects of genetic, lifestyle, and aging influences. The usual defects contributing to type 2 diabetes are further complicated by the natural physiological changes associated with aging as well as the comorbidities and functional impairments that are often present in older people. This paper reviews the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes among older adults and the implications for hyperglycemia management in this population.
KAJIAN INTENSITAS PENAUNGAN DAN PENJARANGAN BUAH TERHADAP HASIL TANAMAN ARBEI Fragariasp
Authors: Suryaningsih Dwie Retna
Published: March 2017

This study was done in Materia Medica, Technical Implementation Unit East Java Health Service Bureau, Batu, East java, from May to December 1995. It has an altitude of approximately 750 m above sea level. This study has the objective of determining light intensity and fruit thinning which maximize strawberry yield of high quality. A three replicate two factors experiment, laid out in a completely randomized design with repeated measurements were. The first factor was shading intensity consisting of three levels: unshaded, shading intensity of 40 percent and 65 percent. The second factor was fruit thinning consisting of three levels: no fruit thinning applied, fruit thinning of 40 percent and 60 percent. The result indicated that: (1) maximum growth and yield of strawberry was attained at 40 percent incoming light, (2) removing 40 percent of fruits in a cluster increased weight of individual fruit, (3) shading which passed 40 percent of incoming light coupled with fruit thinning of 40 percent was the best combination, (4) shading increased vitamin C content of strawberry fruit, and (5) yield components might be predicted from tiller number, flower number per plant, and fruit weight average.
EFEK AMFETAMIN TERHADAP ULTRASTRUKTUR SEL SPERMATOGENETIK TIKUS
Authors: Hayati Alfiah
Published: March 2017

The research was conducted to evaluate the effect of amphetamine as pshycostimulan drug on ultrastructure spermatogenic cells of male rats (Rattus norvegicus L.). Ultrastructure spermatogenic cells described from six male rats of Wistar strain. They were divided in to 2 groups (control and treatment group). Four mg/kg/days amphetamine were given sub-cutaninjection. In control to injection with physiologic saline. The last of the treatment the rat were killed after 100 days the amphetamine injection. The testis were released into fixative solution. Ultrastructure morphologic analysis of the testis were evaluate of quantitative to assess the effect of amphetamine on spermatogenic cells. Observation of spermatogenic cells (Spermatogonia, Spermatocyte, and Spermatyd cells) were done under the electrone microscope. The result of this experiment showed different morphologically from the amphetamine- treated group and their respective control. In the treatment groups, Spermatogonia, Spermtocyte, and spermayd cells less endoplasmic reticulum than normal spermatogenic cells (control). More vacuolization in membrane line of Spermatogoium cells and in cytoplasm of Spermatocyte, and Spermatic cells than normal spermatogenic cells (control).
EKSPLORASI DAN UJI BIOLARVASIDA FRAKSI DAUN TANAMAN MARGA Annona TERHADAP LARVA NYAMUK Aedes aegypti DAN Culex quinquefasciatus
Authors: Hamidah Hamidah
Published: March 2017

The research aim wants to know: (1) Lethal Concentration (LC90) leaves fraction of Annona muricata, Annona squamosal, and Annona reticulate that caused death of third instar larvae of Aedes aegypti and Culex quinguefasciatus. The experimental method was used in research with completely random design. Each concentration was replicated five times. After introducing bioassay was done, five concentration used at real bioassay. For knowing LC90 from leaves fraction of Annona muricata, Annona squamosa and Annona reticulata, the data was analyzed by probit analysis. The result from this research showed that LC90 of leaves fraction methanol of leaves fration methanol was the highest of Annona squamosa (404 ppm) and the lower LC90 was leaves fraction n.heksa Annona reticulata (1894 ppm).
PENGGUNAAN AMILOGLUKOSIDASE DALAM PRODUKSI GULA CAIR DENGAN BAHAN DASAR UBIUBIAN
Authors: Khusniyati Tatik , Choliq Abdul , Djajakusuma E , Sastraatmadja D
Published: March 2017

Sugar cane limitation was found in refined sugar production, so it needed other alternative in sugar production with various cassava. Taro, sweet potato and cassava as high carbohydtrate of various cassava can be used in liquid sugar production by using microbial enzyme. Amiloglucosidase Mucorjavanicus can degrade various cassava carbohydrate. To know liquid sugar quality of various cassava, the use of amyloglucosidase Mucorjavanius in liquid sugar production with various cassava were researched. Observation were conducted with six treatments of amyloglucosidase concentration, that is 0.00 percent (control); 0.05 percent; 0.10 percent; 0.15 percent; 0.20 percent and 0.25 percent. the liquid sugar quality was detected by measuring reduction sugar (DNS method), water content (AOAC), pH, colour, and amyloglucosidase activity (Samogeny titration method). Statistical analysis used Complete Randomized Design. The result showed that the highest reduction sugar and amyloglucosidase activity on each sugar were found on liquid sugar 0.20 percent enzyme (p less than 0.05). the highest reduction sugar and amyloglucosidase activity, was respectively on Taro 323 mg/100ml and 54.91 unit/100 ml; sweet potato 242 mg/100 ml and 47.72 unit/100 ml; and cassava 188 mg/100 ml and 41.09 unit/100 ml. the lowest total solid or the highest water content between three sugars was on taro liquid sugar 0.20 percent enzyme, that is 64.97 percent and 35.03 percent respectively (p less than 0.05). pH liquid sugar onthree various cassava was on range between 5.78-6.01. the best colour was on taro liquid sugar, that is brown to yellow. From three sugars with different raw material, the best sugar quality was tari liquid sugar with 0.20 percent.
Family Business
Authors: Sanders John
Published: March 2017

National statistics across countries suggest that 60% to 70% of all small firms (less than 50 employees) are family-owned. However, family firms can be difficult to define and categorize, as they participate in a myriad of activities and take many forms. Despite this diversity, common patterns and characteristics of working occur amongst family-owned firms. To appreciate family businesses requires an understanding of these unique characteristics and how they develop. The unique characteristics possessed by family businesses include the influence of family relationships, company culture and succession planning. Investigating the scope of family business research conducted is also worthwhile, as there are many gaps in our understanding of how family companies operate.
Effect of habitat heterogeneity on bird assemblages in a grassland-forest ecotone in Brazil
Authors: Lima André De Mendonça , Boschilia Solana Meneghel , Silva Jorge Bernardo , Baldissera Ronei
Published: March 2017

The present study evaluates differences in alpha and beta diversity and guild structure of bird assemblages along the ecotone between grassland and Araucaria forest in Southern Brazil. Birds were sampled by point counts (radius of 25 m) disposed in the grassland, in the grasslandforest edge, and in the forest interior, grouped in three blocks. Grassland presented low bird richness and abundance, and the bird composition and guild structure in grasslands were different from the edge and the forest interior. Grassland showed more granivores, while forest interior presented more omnivores, insectivores and insectivores/ frugivores. Notwithstanding, there was an overlap on the occurrence of some forest bird species in the edge and grassland, evidencing that the grassland plant structure composed of small forest patches and shrubs could facilitate bird movements, which, in turn, could influence forest expansion dynamics over the grassland.
Influence of Managing the Number of Tag Bits Transmitted on the Query Tree RFID Collision Resolution Protocol
Authors: Landaluce Hugo , Perallos Asier , Angulo Ignacio
Published: March 2017

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is increasingly becoming popular, for its widespread use and more sophisticated applications. The coexistence of tags sharing the communication channel requires solutions to message collisions, which degrade bandwidth, and increase the number of transmitted bits. A new methodology called ‘window’ is presented to manage the number of bits transmitted by a tag. The aim is show how the query tree (QT) protocol is influenced by this feature, and how the performance of the novel protocol, query window tree (QwT), improves when the tag ID distribution is correlated. Therefore, we have performed a fair comparison of the Query Tree and the new proposed QwT protocol for various tag ID distributions. Simulations show that the QwT positively decreases the total number of bits that are transmitted by tags.
Escisión y dos modos de ser “Madres de Plaza de Mayo”: tensión y complejidad en la socialización de la maternidad
Authors: Morales María Virginia
Published: March 2017

La nueva etapa de lucha que iniciaron las Madres de Plaza de Mayo con el retorno de la democracia atravesó una situación límite que devino en su escisión en 1986. Este artículo reconstruye la emergencia del organismo durante la dictadura (1976-1983) para luego detenerse en el análisis de la escisión y de los dos organismos de Madres que se conformaron. Mediante un análisis discursivo centrado en conceptualizaciones de Judith Butler, adquirirán especial énfasis las implicancias que la socialización de la maternidad trajo aparejadas en la dimensión identitaria del organismo y de sus miembros.
INVENTORY OF HERPETOFAUNA IN REGIONAL GERMPLASM PRESERVATION IN PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY OGAN KOMERING ILIR REGENCY SOUTH SUMATRA
Authors: Noberio Denny , Setiawan Arum , Setiawan Doni
Published: March 2017

The research aims to determine of herpetofauna in Regional Germplasm Preservation, PT. Bumi Mekar Hijau, Ogan Komering Ilir Regency, South Sumatra. The research was conducted in May until June 2015, conducted on 4 transect observation purposively determined by considering the type of habitat herpetofauna and the results of a preliminary survey. The method used in this research is the Visual Encounter Survey (VES). Observations carried out in the morning and evening. The total number of herpetofauna were found during the observation as many as 15 species of 9 families. The number of amphibians was found as many as 6 species of 3 families and reptiles as many as 9 species of 6 families. There are two species categorized as Vulnerable in IUCN 2015 and Appendix II CITES which are the Siebenrockiella crassicollis and Cuora amboinensis cuoro Keywords : Inventory, herpetofauna, regional germplasm preservation, industrial plantation forest
DIVERSITY OF SOIL ARTHROPOD IN GREEN BARRIER AREA PT. PUSRI
Authors: Hidayat Arif , Zulkifli Hilda , Irsan Chandra
Published: March 2017

The research was conducted to inventory and identify as well as acknowledge the correlation between vegetation type with soil arthropods in the Green Barrier area of PT Pusri. PT. Pusri green Barrier area is 28 hectares and dominated by 10 types of vegetation, such as, the Angsana (Pterocarpus indicus Wild), Bambu (Bambusa Sp), Beringin (Ficus benyamina), Buah Roda (Hura crepitans L), Jati (Tectona grandis L), Kelampayan (Neolamarckia cadamba) , Ketapang (Terminalia catappa L), Mahony (Swietenia macrophylla King), Pulai (Alstonia scholaris), and Sengon (Paraserianthes falcataria L). Soil arthropods were collected by using pit fall traps and funnel barlese-tullgren in every type of vegetation, between July-August 2015. Identification of arthropod genera Identification has been done in Entomology Laboratory of the Agriculture Plant Disease Faculty Sriwijaya University, and analysis of soil organic in the Laboratory of Soil Faculty of Agriculture Sriwijaya University. The results were obtained into 3 classes of soil arthropods belonging to the 10 orders, 28 families and 35 genera. The diversity index value of soil arthropods in various types of vegetation is classified moderately (H= 1-3), and no type of soil arthropods were dominant, mean that soil arthropods with different types spread over in the various types of vegetation in the area of Green Barrier PT. Pusri. Light intensity abiotic factors play an important role in the life of the soil arthropod communities in vegetation Sengon (Paraserianthes falcataria L) with a correlation coefficient 1.00Keywords: soil arthropods, community structure, a biotic factors, Green Barrier PT. Pusri
PLANT GROWTH OF EGGPLANT (Solanum melongena L.) IN VITRO IN DROUGHT STRESS POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL (PEG)
Authors: Siaga Erna , Maharijaya Awang , Rahayu Megayani Sri
Published: March 2017

Drought stress is one of the important issues related to the global warming that demand for the development of drought tolerant crops. Eggplant is one of the agricultural commodities which can be developed in dry land so plant growth of eggplant need to be learned. The objectives of this study were to study the effect of several concentrations of polyethylene glycol (PEG) on the in vitro growth of eggplant, and to find the drought tolerant eggplant accessions in dry land. The experiment  was conducted at the Laboratory of Tissue Culture, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Bogor Agricultural University. The experiment was laid on a completely randomized design with one factor. The factor was eggplant accessions. The results showed that PEG in vitro media significantly affected the survival percentage, the percentage of callus, developed the bud and the number of leaves of eggplant. Callus in eggplant explants as a way of avoiding drought stress.
THE BIRDS OF PALEMBANG PUNTI KAYU RECREATION FOREST, SOUTH SUMATRA, INDONESIA
Authors: Iqbal Muhammad , Setiawan Doni , Prasetyo Catur Yuono
Published: March 2017

The Punti Kayu Recreation Forest is artificial pine forest designated as “lungs” and  park in Palembang City. The birds recorded in Punti Kayu were reviewed to looking at the importance of the forest for natural habitat of birds. A total of 44 species from 24 families of bird was recorded here. This critical reviewed is constitutes first compilation made ever for birds Punti Kayu Recreation Forest.Keywords: Checklist, birds, Punti Kayu, pine forest, South Sumatra.