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Bioinformatics Education in Greece: A Survey
Authors: Paraskevopoulou-Kollia Efrosyni-Alkisti , Bagos Pantelis G
Published: April 2017

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field, placed at the interface of Biology, Mathematics and Computer Science. In this work, we tried for the first time to investigate the current situation of Bioinformatics education in Greece. We searched the online resources of all relevant University Departments for Bioinformatics or relevant courses. We found that all the Departments of Biological Sciences include in their curricula courses dedicated to Bioinformatics, but this is not the case for Departments of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Medical Schools. Despite the fact that large Universities played a crucial role in establishing Bioinformatics research and education in Greece, we observe that Universities of the periphery invest in the field, by including more relevant courses in the curricula and appointing faculty members trained in the field. In order for us to “triangulate” we didn’t confine ourselves to online resources and descriptive statistics but we also included interviews so as to have a more spherical view of the subject under discussion. The interviews provided useful insights regarding the teaching methods used by bioinformatics tutors, their attitudes and the difficulties they encounter. The tutors mentioned also the material that they choose, the audience’s attraction techniques and the feedback they receive.
Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Activities of Resins and Essential Oil From Pine (Pinus merkusii, Pinuso ocarpa, Pinus insularis) and Agathis (Agathis loranthifolia)
Authors: Tillah Mardho , Batubara Irmanida , Sari Rita Kartika
Published: April 2017

The most common human pathogen that colonizes in a third of healthy people around the world are Staphylococcus aureus, and one of the materials allegedly able to overcome the pathogen is resin. Resin has been used in folk medicine for thousands of years to treat diseases. The antimicrobial activity of natural resins can be associated with a variety of organic compounds contained in them such as diterpenoids and triterpenoids. This research aimed to explore the antibacterial and antioxidant activities of Pinus merkusii, P. oocarpa, P. insularis, Agathis loranthifolia resins and essential oil. Resin was separated by distillation process to get essential oil and the residue was extracted using n-hexane, ethyl acetate (EtOAc), and methanol (MeOH). Antioxidant activity was performed by DPPH (1,1diphenyl-2-picryl hydrazyl) radical scavenging method. The antibacterial activity of resins and essential oil of the samples determined using the disc diffusion method against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli. The results showed that the yield of resin extract was ranging from 8.44 % to 95.56%. All extracts and essential oil could not inhibit E coli growth but inhibit the S. aureus growth. This experiment concluded that resin n-hexane extract from P.oocarpa was the most potent as antibacterial activity against S. aureus. All of the samples used had less potential antioxidant activity compared to positive control ascorbic acid. Result of this study show that pine resin from Indonesia has potential as an antibacterial agent. 
Grouping of Mangifera indica L. Cultivars of Subang West Java by Leaves Morphology and Anatomy Characteristics
Authors: Cahyanto Tri , Sopian Ahmad , Efendi Muhammad , Kinasih Ida
Published: April 2017

The wide distribution and high species diversity produce large variation in morphology, anatomy and genetics of local mangoes. Until now, most mango classification system is based on the generative character while the vegetative character is neglected. Inventory of mango cultivars in Subang rarely studied, therefore the purpose of this study is to development foundation of identification methods basedthe anatomy and morphology of leavesof mango cultivars of  Subang. The data could futher develop as baseline information about mango cultivar diversity in Indonesia. During study, 21 mango cultivars found in Subang, West Java. Leave samples were collected from the field and soaked in 70% alcohol. Leaf anatomy preparats made by whole-mount method and paraffin. The shape and type, location, size, density and index of stomata were observed. The results showed high similarity of all sampels.There are three variations of vascular tissues on petioles, letter U shape (planoconvex),U lobed (highlyconvex) and round (circular) with the type of drus crystal form, small cubes, and prismatic. All cultivars have actinositic stomata and hypostomatatic leaves. It could be concluded that density, size and stomata index are less powerful to be apply as characters to identified cultivars of mangoes   however the presence of oxalate crystals can be use to the grouping mango cultivars in Subang. 
Molecular Identification of Fish Larvae from East Plawangan of Segara Anakan, Cilacap, Central Java, Indonesia
Authors: Nuryanto Agus , Pramono Hendro , Sastranegara Moh Husein
Published: April 2017

Correct identification of fish larvae from East Plawangan is very difficult to be done due to undefined of their morphology, while correct name is an important information for management of that area as spawning and nersery ground. Therefore, so far no scientific report on what species that utilize East Plawangan as their spawning and nursery ground. Cytochrome c oxidase 1 gene provide a precise tool for correct larvae identification. This study aims to test the accuracy of the cytochrome c oxidase 1 gene on fish larvae identification. The COI gene were amplified and sequenced. The homology of sequences were checked using Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST). Genetic distances were calculated with the help of MEGA 6 software. Taxonomic tree was reconstructed using neighbor-joining and maximum parsimony methods with 1000 bootstraps repeats. A sum of 24 morphotypes were identified, indicating high diversity of fish that utilize East Plawangan as their spawning and nursery ground. BLAST result showed that seven morphotypes were convincingly identified into species level, while three remaining morphotypes could only be identified at generic level. Taxonomic tree shows clear discrimination among morphotypes. This proved that cytochrome c oxidase 1 gene showed high accuracy on larval species discrimination.
Accurate Classification of Protein Subcellular Localization from High-Throughput Microscopy Images Using Deep Learning
Authors: Pärnamaa Tanel , Parts Leopold
Published: April 2017

High-throughput microscopy of many single cells generates high-dimensional data that are far from straightforward to analyze. One important problem is automatically detecting the cellular compartment where a fluorescently-tagged protein resides, a task relatively simple for an experienced human, but difficult to automate on a computer. Here, we train an 11-layer neural network on data from mapping thousands of yeast proteins, achieving per cell localization classification accuracy of 91%, and per protein accuracy of 99% on held-out images. We confirm that low-level network features correspond to basic image characteristics, while deeper layers separate localization classes. Using this network as a feature calculator, we train standard classifiers that assign proteins to previously unseen compartments after observing only a small number of training examples. Our results are the most accurate subcellular localization classifications to date, and demonstrate the usefulness of deep learning for high-throughput microscopy.
A simple HPLC method for the determination of butorphanol tartrate and ondansetron hydrochloride in patient-controlled analgesia solution
Authors: Fang Bao-xia , Wang Lin-hai , Chen Fu-chao , Li Peng , Shi Xiao-ya
Published: April 2017

A simple and rapid high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method was established for simultaneous determination of butorphanol tartrate and ondansetron hydrochloride in analgesic mixture samples used for patient-controlled analgesia (PCA). The separation of butorphanol tartrate and ondansetron hydrochloride in PCA solution was carried out on phenomenex C18 column (4.6 mm × 150 mm, 5 μm) using 50 mM sodium acetate (pH 4.0) buffer and acetonitrile (72:28, v/v). Flow rate was 1.0 mL min−1 with a column temperature of 30 °C, and detection wavelength was carried out at 280 nm and 306 nm. Validation of the method was made in terms of specificity, linearity, accuracy, and intra- and inter-day precision, as well as quantification and detection limits. The developed method was successfully used to evaluate the chemical stability of butorphanol tartrate and ondansetron hydrochloride in analgesic mixtures at the usual concentration used for PCA.
Information security of children and adolescents in the modern world: psychological aspects of the problem
Authors: Budykin S.V.
Published: April 2017

The authors focus on identifying the psychological aspects of the problem of information security of children and adolescents in the modern world. It is noted that new technologies are penetrating deeper into our lives, become cultural means of socialization and human development, contribute to the formation of new social practices in everyday life, require a certain style of life. Draws attention to the fact that the impact of these technologies varies in age groups, the most vulnerable are children and adolescents.
After Western researchers of problems of information security of children and adolescents, identifies the category of risk associated with Internet communication: 1) risk associated with the content of the materials provided on the Internet; 2) the risk due to contacts with others; 3) the risk arising in connection with the illegal downloading of materials. 4) risks resulting from the use of personal data, children and adolescents often provide personal information.
Demonstrates the necessity of analyzing how users of new technologies to diagnose risk associated with the use of technology such as the Internet, and what behavioral strategies they adapt. Stresses the importance and the need to examine how the immediate environment of children and adolescents interpreterpath information security and suggests how to counter the threat, coupled with the use of the Internet.
Forms of psycho-pedagogical work to overcome the negative factors in professional self-determination of teenagers with deviant behavior
Authors: Nikitskaya E.
Published: April 2017

The article examines the problem of professional orientation of students of adolescence with deviant behavior in secondary school. The author emphasizes the importance of understanding that without psycho-pedagogical assistance to professional orientation component development of "difficult" teenagers is very difficult and often even impossible. These difficulties caused by both objective reasons – the complexity of the process of professional selection in the current socio-economic situation and subjective age and personality characteristics of adolescents with deviant behavior. In this regard, the article describes the main factors affecting the formation of deviant adolescents the ability to professional self-determination, and proposes to the understanding and application of some form of psycho-pedagogical work on overcoming difficulties in professional self-determination of this category of students. The forms were tested in real teaching practice.
Family identity of teenagers from families of various type
Authors: Strokova S.S.
Published: April 2017

This article reflects part of the research devoted to studying family identity in adolescents from different types of family. The article discusses the relationship between features of family identity and adolescents by type of family in which they are raised. This issue is relevant to research in contemporary discourse of family psychology, which quite often raises the problem of family crisis associated with the demographic situation in the country, the number of divorces, the spread of alternative forms of marital unions, etc. It is traditionally believed that the family crisis could have a negative impact on the experience of his family belonging in children and adolescents, creating a social risk for them. The research method is a questionnaire specifically designed for research purposes. According to the results of empirical research the conclusion about the lack of direct links between specific experiences of belonging to his family in adolescents, i.e., their family identity, and family type in which they are raised.
Official loyalty as the factor of official activity: administratively-legal and phenomenological approaches
Authors: Gornostaev S.V.
Published: April 2017

The article discusses the administrative-legal and phenomenological approaches to understanding the official loyalty. Official loyalty is being considered under the administrative-legal approach as adherence to formal official duty, which is a system of obligations, taken together with official status, the source of which are: normative base of service activity, legal requirements of the head and public interests. Lists of the limitations of administrative-legal approach to understanding the of official loyalty: weak underdeveloped concept, the failure to take into account the wide range of situations, operation with a models rather than actual processes. Discusses the advantages of the phenomenological approach in studying the performance of loyalty: its psychological advantages, the existence of a theoretical framework, the work with the real phenomena. Within the phenomenological approach official loyalty is defined as psychological-behavioral integration of the employee in the group operating in the service sector, on the basis of a common cause of activities. Possibilities of sharing of the considered approaches for the decision of problems of optimization of official activity are designated.
The personal dispositions of violent extremism
Authors: Davydov D.
Published: April 2017

The paper presents the differences in the nature of extremism and radicalism, and the necessity of introducing the concept of "violent extremism." It is shown that the ideology is the explanation of extremist behavior, rather than its cause. The ideology of extremism often eclectic, contradictory and can easily be transformed by changing the object of hostility, depending on the situation. For the description of the psychological causes of extremism it is proposed to use the concept of personal disposition. Disposition is the preferred way to subjective interpretation of reality and reflects both the specific needs of a person as well the typical social situations where it realized and personal experience. Considered the following dispositions of violent extremism: the Cult of force and aggression, Intolerance, Out-group hostility Conventional coercion, Social pessimism and destructiveness, Mystical, Fighting and overcoming, Nihilism to law, Anti-subjectivism. It is proposed to use these dispositions as diagnostic criteria and for preventing and correcting.
Criminal tendencies and psychological testing
Authors: Sobchik L.
Published: April 2017

Methods of psychological diagnostics closer to the psychology main research areas, which involve measuring the accuracy and statistical reliability. A set of methods that includes questionnaires should be complemented with projective tests in which the stimulus material is verbal in nature. The article presents the results of surveys of different groups of persons in conflict with the law, as well as screening tests contingent of youth groups and adolescents. High performance, spontaneously manifested aggressiveness, traits, emotional immaturity, low self-control and primitive-the requirement of the hierarchy of values at statistically significant level are identified in the data psychodiagnostic study, thus allowing to allocate the risk of wrongful conduct and to develop preventive measures of psycho-pedagogical and social nature. Psychological testing is an effective tool in the study of criminal predisposici and gives the key to a science-based approach in the development of preventive measures aimed at reducing crime.
The formation of life strategies juvenile probation: the program and methodological principles
Authors: Kozhevnikova E. , Simakova T.A.
Published: April 2017

The article deals with the possibility of extension of psycho-pedagogical Toolkit of prisoners through the establishment of programs of formation of their life strategies. The definition of the concept of life strategy conditionally convicted minors. Reveals the need for an integrated impact on the personality of the convict subject to various conditions and factors. Describes in detail the methodological principles of the organization of psychological correctional work. Explains the development and use in education methodology of the subject-citizen participation approach. Along with a review of various programs of correction of the person convicted, describe the purpose, tasks, methods and techniques of the program of formation of life strategies probation and parole of juveniles. It is concluded that the programs of psychological support and correction, along with controls and constraints play a major role in the process of correction and re-socialization of conditionally convicted juveniles, and their development and application become one of the most popular areas of the modern prison psychological science and practice.
About the mutual trust of the employees of the penal system and convicts women
Authors: Uzlov N.D. , Aman N.
Published: April 2017

The article presents the results of a study of trust between employees of a penal colony (inspectors and employees of the production zone), and women who are serving sentences for the crimes of 1) small and moderate, 2) such grave and particularly grave crimes. There were used a modification of the methods of assessment of trust/distrust by A. B. Kupreychenko, M. Rosenberg's Faith in People Scale, Acceptance of Others Scale by William F. Fey and J. Campbell’s Benevolence Scale. The fact of greater confidence on the part of employees of the production department to the women who are serving a sentence for a grave or especially grave crime was fixed, it was explained the specifics of their interaction in the work. The general trend to exercise greater trust by inmates to employees of the penal system was detected than their response reaction that appear of a greater degree of distrust.
Formation of the phenomenon of stigmatization against individuals affected in emergencies from representatives of various social groups
Authors: Zakharova N. , Baeva A. , Gurin I. , Shkurko V.
Published: April 2017

In this article the authors consider the phenomenon of stigmatization as one of the unfavorable socio-psychological results of emergency situations raising the level of personality vulnerability though not studied enough so far. A study was made to reveal stigmatization with relation to persons who had suffered from emergency situations, among the inhabitants of the two regions exposed to terroristic attacks: that of North Ossetiya (the town of Beslan and the city of Vladikavkaz) and the Central Region (the city of Moscow). Analysis of the obtained data permitted one to make a conclusion of the presence of signs of stigmatization in both groups of respondents, of insufficient awareness in society of the specificities of individual forms of response to stress, of manifestations of post-stress mental disorders, as well as a transfer of social stereotypes related to persons with mental disorders to the victims. Socio-demographic factors causing outward stigmatization have been defined. A degree of expression of stigmatization tendencies depends on a respondent’s social status as well as on the past traumatic experience.
Psychological jurisprudence as an interdisciplinary science and the area of psychological practice
Authors: Pozdnyakov V.M.
Published: April 2017

The article convincingly demonstrates that Russia is increasingly began to publish monographs lawyers on key legal and psychological phenomena, and in dissertations in the formulation of the provisions on the protection of delatsya criticism of "Westernization" of the state legislation and upheld psychologicaland position. At the same time, critically, it is noted that in the field of legal ideology and policies, and in making innovations in the law still, as in Soviet period, dominated by legal dogma, and psychological realities are taken into account in fragments. The reason for this state of Affairs is that still within the framework of University training and further education of local lawyers, in contrast to international practice, insufficient attention is paid to the development of psychological culture, but in the end no full-fledged dialogue between lawyers and psychologists. Taking into account possibilities of integrative methodology justified the subject of psychological law as an interdisciplinary science and the field of psychological practice focused on the identification of regularities and mechanisms of development of legal awareness and legal existence of various actors in the legal activity aimed at the development of psychologically informed interventions for the improvement of legal ideology and politics, systems of law-making, law enforcement and crime prevention, psycho-technical methods and techniques in activities of law enforcement officials. For constructive development of psychological jurisprudence identified the key areas of research and nodal practicerelevant problems.
How to build substantive judicial-psychological examination
Authors: Safuanov F.S.
Published: April 2017

The methodology of the subject types of forensic examinations with the application of psychological knowledge is analyzed. The history of the formation of subject types of forensic psychological examination and a comprehensive forensic psychological and psychiatric examination is considered. Shows their transformation and expansion under the influence of changes of domestic legislation. Based on the definition of the research subject of a legal expert- psychologist, concluded that the first step of building the subject of a separate judicial review should be the analysis of its legal significance. Discussed options for legal consequences and the role of expert opinion in in making judicial decisions. The second step is expertelligence analysis. It is the allocation of the psychological characteristics of legal rules (legal criteria). The third stage of psychological analysis consists in the correlation of concepts with expert knowledge in scientific psychology. The need of adaptation and transformation of scientific psychological knowledge (as basic science) in forensic psychological expertise (special knowledge of the expert) are shown. Discusses ways of formation of special knowledge of the expert-psychologist and the limits of its competence.
Reasonable risk as a problem of legal psychology
Authors: Sitkovskaya O.
Published: April 2017

The article is devoted to the reasonable risk (article 41 of the Penal code of Russian Federation), as an important issue requiring the attention of specialists working in the field of legal psychology. Presented the psychological characteristics of the concept of «reasonable risk», describes the mechanisms of decision making in situations of risk and classifications of situations of risky behavior by the nature of activity and character that are significant to criminal law. Understand options for risk situations, which can take place of the circumstances excluding criminality of act. Deals the capabilities and competencies of psychological assessment, tasks, questions for expert-psychologist, as well as the opportunities, especially use of the court expert to address the issue of criminal responsibility. The conclusion is made about necessity of further development of the methodological basis of the application of forensic psychological examination of the reasonableness of risk.
Group training as a method of development of professionally important qualities
Authors: Lavreshkin N.V.
Published: April 2017

The article is devoted to the definition of the role of group training in the development and formation of professionally important qualities (PIQ) of the legal psychologist. Produced comparison of the main approaches to the concept of "professional qualities" in psychology and a model of professionally important qualities of a legal psychologist, consisting of 5 groups of PIQ. We analysed the features of the development of professionally important qualities of students of the Faculty of Legal Psychology as well as methods of their development, are used during education at university. Designed the program of socio-psychological training, aimed at the development of PIQ of first-year students, who study on Faculty of Legal Psychology. By the using of the method of forming experiment, identified the possibilities of group training in the formation and development of PIQ of a legal psychologist. Developed recommendations.
Impacts of Firms’ Internal Information Environment on Tax Avoidance (Case Study: Companies Listed In Tehran’s Stock Exchange)
Authors: Ghafoori Jahanbakhsh , Rahmani Mahmood
Published: April 2017

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts of firms’ internal information environment on tax avoidance. The research method includes a data panel and is generally of semi-experimental fashion. The population of research is consisted of the entire companies and firms listed in Tehran’s stock exchange as 496 firms from the beginning of 2007 until the end of financial year of 2014. Among the population, a number of 86 firms were selected as the sample through systematic omitting method. For the purpose of data analysis, the tests of T and multivariate linear regression were incorporated into the study. Results indicate that impact of quality of internal information on tax avoidance is higher in those companies in which information play a more important role. Firms which operate under geographic dispersion make more use of the quality of their internal information, because this information helps them towards reduced tax avoidance. High quality of internal information and commercial dispersion force these firms towards avoiding larger taxes. In addition, quality of internal information is not effective on firms which are under reconstruction status.
The Effects of Organizational Justice and job Motivation on Organizational Citizenship Behavior and its Impact on Taxpayers
Authors: Ghazi Mobina , Jalali Seyed Mahdi
Published: April 2017

This study investigate the impact of organizational justice and job motivation on organizational citizenship behavior and its impact on satisfaction and loyalty of taxpayers. The statistical population of this study was formed by 7191 tax affairs of Tehran employees. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis method was used to evaluate the construct validity and standardization of research. Cronbach's alpha coefficient of questionnaire that calculated 0/97 was used to achieve Reliability of study. Therefore in this study, based on previous research and literature, the conceptual model and hypotheses were developed and tested on a sample of 401 person. Results of data analysis using structural equation modeling showed that all job related characteristics (except for feedback) on all aspects of job motivation, job motivation and organizational justice (except interactional justice) on OCB and Finally OCB is significant because of the satisfaction and loyalty of taxpayers and were confirmed.
Study the Attitude, Knowledge and Experience of Coaches of Karate Federation Islamic Republic Of Iran toward Sport Psychology Counseling
Authors: Rahmati Shahnaz Sheikh , Bahari Seyyed Mohiadin , Ahmadi Pejman
Published: April 2017

The purpose of this study was study the attitude, knowledge and experience of coaches of Karate Federation Islamic Republic of Iran toward sport psychology counseling. For this purpose, 150 official coaches (75 women and 75 men) of karate Federation of Islamic Republic of Iran who had grade 1 and 2 of certified coach and had participated in the senior Championships of Iran, championship adolescents of young people and under 21 years, national team qualifiers and teams participating in premier League, had participated in this research as individual. In order to collect the required information the researcher made and the research questionnaire Sports coaches on sports psychology was used. Research results by using a two variable Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there is meaningful relationship between experience and attitude to sport psychology consulting and as well as between knowledge and attitudes toward sport psychology consulting that is (p=0.001,p=0.001 respectively). also results of research using independent t-tests showed that there is not meaningful relationship between male and female attitudes towards sport psychology consulting (p=0.207) while there is meaningful difference between adult and youth educators' attitudes towards sports psychology counseling (p=0.001). It seems that according to common concerns that exist between coaches and athletes perhaps existence sport psychology can be effective to athletes and coaches in reducing stress and achieve the desired result.
A Study on the Relationship between Proprietorship Concentration and Profit Management in the Companies Listed in Tehran Stock Exchange
Authors: Ranjbarian Soghra , Rezaei Akbar Zavari , Azizi Asghar
Published: April 2017

The presence of institutional investors may change the behaviors of companies. The impact of institutional investors on management decisions on financial affairs have been proven in other studies; yet, the present study aims to investigate the relationship between lack of information symmetry an concentration of proprietorship with profit management in the companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. The period under study included years 2004 to 2009. Rahavard Novin Computer application was utilized to collect the data; then they were calculated using Microsoft Excel.  SPSS computer application was used to test research hypothesis and conduct other statistical analysis using statistical methods like descriptive statistics, correlation (correlation coefficient, coefficient of determination), regression analysis and testing its coefficients, correlation analysis and test of coefficients and significance of the difference between two correlation coefficients. A total of 109 active companies in the stock exchange were selected as the sample of the study. Results on the first hypothesis revealed that the relationship between concentration of proprietorship and lack of information symmetry. In case of the second hypothesis, it is predicted that there is a significant relationship between profit management with lack of information symmetry and concentration of proprietorship. According to research results, investors and analysts ought to pay attention to factors like proprietorship composition, the level of information symmetry along with the figures published by the companies when making short and long-term decisions.
Forward Time Centered Space Scheme for the Solution of Transport Equation
Authors: Alebraheem Jawdat
Published: April 2017

Transport phenomenon is central for understanding many procedures in numerous sciences, transport phenomena can be described by the partial differential equation. Forward Time Centered Space scheme give ample numerical solutions of the transport equation. In this paper, we apply Forward Time Centered Space scheme to solve a non-trivial transport problem using different step sizes of time (t) and space (x). We use MATLAB software to get the numerical results. The numerical simulation presents that the FTCS scheme is more stable and closer to the exact solution when we decrease step sizes of t, x and more and more.
Reduction of cholesterol and fasting blood sugar levels by one month supplementation of fresh garlic in diabetic Libyan patients: A double blind, baseline controlled study
Authors: Banigesh A , Hamad A , Dihom A , El-Mahdi I
Published: April 2017

Background: The therapeutic effects of fresh garlic remain controversial. The aim of this study is to investigate whether supplementation of fresh garlic could improve blood glucose and cholesterol profile in Libyan diabetic patients with moderate blood cholesterol.

Methods: Forty-six diabetic patients were randomly assigned to either fresh garlic alone (≈2 grams/day), or fresh garlic in combination with glibenclamide taken on an empty stomach every morning for a month. Serum blood glucose, cholesterol and blood pressure were measured before starting treatment and after the end of the treatment period.

Results: Fresh garlic alone was able to decrease the mean serum cholesterol levels by 26 mg/dl (84% of the original base values), while the combination of fresh garlic and glibenclamide produced a 28 mg/dl decrease in the mean serum cholesterol (85% of the original base values). Fresh garlic alone was able as well to decrease the mean blood glucose levels by 20 mg/dl (85% of the original base values), while the combination of fresh garlic and glibenclamide produced a 60 mg/dl decrease in the serum glucose levels (72% of the original base values). Neither treatment had a significant effect on the mean systolic or diastolic blood pressures after 30 days of treatment.

Conclusion: Administration of fresh garlic every morning for a month significantly reduced the blood cholesterol and fasting blood glucose levels in diabetic patients. Thus administering dietary fresh garlic daily to diabetic patients might have cardio-protective effects on diabetic patients.
Pengaruh Metode Pembelajaran dan Tipe Kepribadian Terhadap Hasil Belajar Bahasa Arab (Studi Eksperimen Pada MAN 1 Semarang)
Authors: Ulya Nur Maziyah
Published: April 2017

AbstractThis study aims to analyze: (1) The difference of students‟achievement between students studying at cooperative learning class and those studying at conventional learning class; (2) The difference of students‟ achievement between the introvers and the extroverts; (3) The interactive influence between learning method and students‟ personality type toward students‟ achievement in Arabic language. This research used experimentaldesign conducted at MAN 1 Semarang.. The result of this research shows that: (1) There is significant difference in students‟ achievement between students studying at the cooperative learning class and those studying at conventional learning class; (2) There is no significant difference in students‟ achievement between the introvers and the extrovers; (3) There is significant interactive influence between cooperative learning method andstudents‟ personality type toward students‟ achievement in Arabic language. Based on these results, the first and third research hypotheses are received, while the second research hypothesis is rejected.AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis: (1) Perbedaan prestasi siswa antara siswa yang belajar di kelas pembelajaran kooperatif dan mereka belajar di kelas pembelajaran konvensional; (2) Perbedaan prestasi siswa antara introvers dan ekstrovert; (3) Pengaruh interaktif antara metode pembelajaran dan 'tipe kepribadian terhadap siswa berprestasi dalam bahasaArab. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain eksperimen yang dilakukan di MAN 1 Semarang Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa: (1) Ada perbedaan yang signifikan dalam prestasi siswa antara siswa yang belajar di kelas pembelajaran kooperatif dan mereka belajar di kelas pembelajaran konvensional; (2) Tidak ada perbedaan yang signifikan dalam prestasi siswa antara introvers dan extrovers; (3) Ada pengaruh interaktif yang signifikanantara metode pembelajaran kooperatif dan 'tipe kepribadian terhadap siswa siswa berprestasi dalam bahasa Arab. Berdasarkan hasil ini, hipotesis penelitian pertama dan ketiga diterima, sedangkan hipotesis penelitian kedua ditolak.
Konsep Pendidikan Islam dengan Paradigma Humanis
Authors: Subaidi Subaidi
Published: April 2017

Education is a rehumanisme, that was oriented to form individuals who able to understand the reality itself and the surrounding communities. The aim of education is to create significant social change in the life of mankind. One of the contents of the national education goals is to appreciate the reality of humanity and the potential that owned learners (human). Islam in its victorius was a center of the study of various discipline. It was proved by the emergence of Muslim scientists. But over time, the Islamic intellectualism began to decline along with cultural understanding and taqlid, whereas al-Qur`an have many signaled to examines all disciplines, not limited to the religious sciences. It can be seen from the verses of al-Qur`an that ordered to examine the verses kauniyah. Thus Islamic comprehensive assessment is a paradigm of Humanist Islamic Education or in other words, humanize human accordance with the primary task of man as a khalifah on earth.Abstrak:Pendidikan merupakan pemanusiaan kembali manusia (humanisasi) yang berorientasi pada bentuknya individu yang mampu memahami realitas dirinya dan masyarakat sekitarnya serta bertujuan untuk menciptakan perubahan sosial secara signifikan dalam kehidupan umat manusia. Salah satu isi dari tujuan pendidikan nasional adalah menghargai realitas kemanusiaan dan berbagai potensi yang dimilki peserta didik (manusia). Islam pada masa kejayaannya menjadi pusat kajian berbagai disiplin ilmu, hal ini terbukti dengan bermunculannya para ilmuwan muslim. Tetapi seiring dengan berjalannya waktu, intelektualisme Islam itu mulai redup seiring dengan pemahaman dan budaya taqlid, padahal al-Qur`an banyak memberikan isyarat agar mengkaji semua disiplin ilmu, tidak terbatas ilmu-ilmu agama saja. Hal ini bisa dilihat dari ayat-ayat al-Qur`an yang memerintahkan untuk mengkaji ayat-ayat kauniyah. Dengan demikian Pengkajian Islam secara komprehenshif baik ilmu agama maupun umum adalah sebagai Paradigma Pendidikan Islam Humanis atau dengan kata lain memanusiakan manusia sesuai dengan tugas utama manusia sebagai khalifah di muka bumi.
Prestasi Belajar Siswa Madrasah Aliyah Negeri (MAN) X Sleman Yogyakarta Ditinjau Dari Dimensi Religiusitas
Authors: Amrih Latifah Sutipyo R Dan
Published: April 2017

ABSTRACT Religiosity is an important element because religiosity as a “drive” in  person's life. Religiosity, also expected to affect a person's success in learning. This study took place in a Madrasah Aliyah Negeri X Sleman, Yogyakarta. The method used quantitative approach to research subjects students of class XI with a total of 118 students with a sample of 84 people. The results showed a positive relationship with the Islamic Religiosity student achievement Madrasah Aliyah Negeri X SlemanYogyakarta, but the relationship is very low with indicated Pearson correlation value of 0.094. After the regression test, the result shown that Islamic religiosity can not be used as a predictor to  rise and fall on the students' learning achievement of the MAN.ABSTRACTReligiusitas adalah unsur penting, karena religiusitas sebagai drive dalam kehidupan seseorang. Religiusitas, diperkirakan juga mempengaruhi keberhasilan seseorang dalam belajar.  Penelitian ini mengambil setting di sebuah Madrasah Aliyah Negeri X Sleman Yogyakarta. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode survei dengan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan subyek penelitian  siswa kelas XI dengan jumlah total siswa 118 orang dengan sampel 84 orang.Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan ada hubungan positif Religiusitas Islami dengan prestasi belajar siswa Madrasah Aliyah Negeri X SlemanYogyakarta, namun hubungan tersebut sangat rendah dengan ditunjukkan nilai korelasi Pearson sebesar 0,094. Setelah dilakukan uji regresi, ternyata Religiusitas Islami tidak dapat dijadikan prediktor akan naik turunnya prestasi belajar pada siswa MAN tersebut. Kata kunci :
qPCR detection versus microscopy observations for assessing presence–absence of Didymosphenia geminata in Quebec rivers (Canada)
Authors: Tiam Sandra Kim , Laderriere Vincent , Gillis Carole-Anne , Fortin Claude , Lavoie Isabelle
Published: April 2017

Microscopic versus qPCR (quantitative polymerase chain reaction) analyses were compared for the detection of Didymosphenia geminata in biofilms and water filtrates from seven Gaspésie rivers (Canada). For the qPCR approach, two DNA extraction kits (QIAamp DNA Micro Kit, Qiagen and PowerSoil DNA Isolation Kit, Mo Bio Laboratories) and two pairs of primers were considered. The pair of primers D602F/D753Rext did not amplify D. geminata DNA whereas the pair of primers D602F/D753R was specific for D. geminata. Presence-absence diagnosis based on qPCR and microscopic analyses were consistent: D. geminata was detected in six of the seven rivers, both in the biofilm and filtrate samples. However, technical replications were needed at certain sites to observe the presence of D. geminata cells by microscopy. This underscores the necessity of replicate analyses, which is cost-effective to achieve when using qPCR due to the capacity to process tens of samples in a single PCR run in the context of a large scale assessment.
A GIS-based assessment of the Byzantine water supply system of Constantinople
Authors: Ruggeri F. , Crapper M. , Snyder J. R. , Crow J.
Published: April 2017

Despite the extensive archaeological surveys carried out in the last decades, little attention has been paid to one of the longest water supply systems of ancient times – the Byzantine water infrastructure which fed Constantinople from the mid-late fourth century ad. This work uses modern satellite terrain data and Global Positioning System (GPS) data to assess this system and provide an improved description of its route, total length and gradient profile. Forty-four validated GPS Control Points were correlated with ASTER GDEM V2 digital satellite data and archaeological information in a Geographic Information System (GIS) environment. We concluded that the total length of the water supply system was 426 km, and possibly even 565 km if the fifth-century aqueduct continued in parallel all the way to Constantinople rather than merging with the fourth-century aqueduct. The gradient of the channels varied across their length, being steepest near the spring sources, with a gradient mostly in the region of 5 m/km, and flattest at around 0.4 m/km in the most downstream section nearest the City. This reconstruction of the gradient profile provides valuable insight into the physical characteristics of the system, allowing future study of its hydraulic function.
Experimental study and artificial neural network modeling of tartrazine removal by photocatalytic process under solar light
Authors: Sebti Aicha , Souahi Fatiha , Mohellebi Faroudja , Igoud Sadek
Published: April 2017

This research focuses on the application of an artificial neural network (ANN) to predict the removal efficiency of tartrazine from simulated wastewater using a photocatalytic process under solar illumination. A program is developed in Matlab software to optimize the neural network architecture and select the suitable combination of training algorithm, activation function and hidden neurons number. The experimental results of a batch reactor operated under different conditions of pH, TiO2 concentration, initial organic pollutant concentration and solar radiation intensity are used to train, validate and test the networks. While negligible mineralization is demonstrated, the experimental results show that under sunlight irradiation, 85% of tartrazine is removed after 300 min using only 0.3 g/L of TiO2 powder. Therefore, irradiation time is prolonged and almost 66% of total organic carbon is reduced after 15 hours. ANN 5-8-1 with Bayesian regulation back-propagation algorithm and hyperbolic tangent sigmoid transfer function is found to be able to predict the response with high accuracy. In addition, the connection weights approach is used to assess the importance contribution of each input variable on the ANN model response. Among the five experimental parameters, the irradiation time has the greatest effect on the removal efficiency of tartrazine.
Solar radiation (PAR, UV-A, UV-B) penetration in a shallow maturation pond operating in a tropical climate
Authors: Dias Daniel F. C. , von Sperling Marcos
Published: April 2017

Solar radiation is considered the primary route for disinfection of pathogenic bacteria in maturation ponds. There is scarce information on depth profiling and attenuation of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), UV-A and UV-B in shallow maturation ponds operating in tropical climates. Measurements of solar irradiance of the three wavelength ranges, together with turbidity, have been acquired from different depths for over 1 year in a shallow maturation pond (44 cm of depth) operating in Brazil. UV-A and UV-B were still detected at 10 cm from the surface, but from 15 cm both were undetectable. PAR was still detected at 30 cm of depth. Irradiation attenuation showed to be related to turbidity. Attenuation coefficients were calculated and simple models without turbidity (traditional structure) or including log10 of turbidity are proposed for predicting PAR irradiance attenuation as a function of depth.
Theoretical Analysis of Semiconducting Sm1-xEuxS under Pressure
Authors: Dubey Ritu , Persai Nikita
Published: April 2017

We have investigated the phase transition pressure and associated volume collapse in Sm1–XEuXS alloy (0≤x≤1) which shows transition from discontinuous to continuous as x is reduced. The calculated results from present approach are in good agreement with experimental data available for the end point members (x=0 and x=1). The results for the alloy counter parts are also in fair agreement with experimental data generated from the vegard’s law. An improved interaction potential model has been developed which includes coulomb, three body interaction, polarizability effect and overlap repulsive interaction operative up to second neighbor ions. It is found that the inclusion of polarizability effect has improved our results.
Social Networking Sites- An Addiction among Youth
Authors: Tiwari Archana
Published: April 2017

The last decade witnessed an explosion of social networks such as Facebook, twitter, Instagram etc, which added a new social dimension to the web. While such networks have made people, communities and groups with shared interests stay more “connected”. Internet addiction and surfing so many social network sites on internet is an addiction and moreover this particular also started being recognized as psychological disorders all over the world. While several 90′s studies focused on Internet addiction, the next decade saw the growth of a new addiction related to all manner of social networking sites, especially the current king of the jungle: Facebook.

This study investigated the existence of Internet addiction among youth and how users are becoming addicted to the Internet in much that same way that others became addicted to drugs or alcohol which resulted in academic and what are the advantages and disadvantages of social networking sites.
ANALISA PENGGUNAAN NILAI MATA KULIAH UNTUK CLUSTER MAHASISWA PERGURUAN TINGGI DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN EM CLUSTERING
Authors: Utomo Andy Prasetyo
Published: April 2017

ABSTRAK Nilai mahasiswa dapat digunakan sebagai acuan dalam menentukan atau menyarankan mata kuliah yang diambil sesuai dengan kemampuan atau potensi mahasiswa dengan melakukan clustering. Mahasiswa dengan nilai baik dapat diarahkan untuk mengambil tipe pendidikan intensif dan sebaliknya. Selain nilai mahasiswa, mata kuliah juga mengalami clustering kedalam kelompok kelompok jenis keilmuan, sehingga diharapkan mahasiswa mendapatkan kelompok keilmuan yang tepat sesuai dengan kemampuannya masing masing. Dengan itu perguruan tinggi dapat menciptakan mahasiswa yang berkualitas baik. Dalam makalah ini, teknik clustering yang digunakan adalah EM algoritihm dan menghasilkan 6 langkah pembuatan cluster. Kata kunci : WEKA, clustering, EM algoritihm, nilai mahasiswa, kelompok keahlian, prediksi mata kuliah..