bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Changes in reproductive organs, semen characteristics and intra-testicular oxidative stress in adult male rats caused by azithromycin
Authors: El-Sayed Mossad , Kandiel Mohamed , Ebied Dalia
Published: July 2017

This study aimed to evaluate the numerous azithromycin (as a member of macrolides) effects on the male reproductive organs, spermio-gram, testicular oxidative stress markers of adults’ male albino rats. Azithromycin was administered orally once daily to male rats (200-250 b.wt.) at a dose of 45 mg (therapeutic) or 90 mg/kg b.wt. (double-therapeutic) for three or six days and scarified at the first, thirty and sixty days after the last dose of administration. A significant decrease as the index weight of the reproductive organs as well as sperm motility, livability and cell concentration, but sperm abnormalities increased at varying times post-treatment with azithromycin administration. Testosterone hormone level did not vary significantly after azithromycin dosing for three days along the experimental period. However, it differed at the first day after the end of azithromycin dosing for six days. The intra-testicular oxidative stress alteration mostly occurred at the thirty-day post-treatment in the three- and six-days protocols. In the three-days protocol, there was a significant decrease in malondialdehyde level and superoxide dismutase enzyme activity in a double-therapeutic group. In the six-days regimen, there was an increased activity of catalase enzyme, accompanied with a significant decrease in malondialdehyde levels as well as glutathione peroxidase enzymes. Double therapeutic dose for six days’ treatment was associated with vascular congestion and perivascular inflammatory cells and ho-mogenous eosinophilic material infiltration into the stroma of testes. The lumen of seminiferous tubules and epididymis showed azoo-spermia. From these results, it could be concluded that azithromycin administration has hazard effects on male adult’s rats’ fertility governed with the spermiogram, oxidative stress and the histopathological alternations during the post-treatment period.
Assessing the dimensionality and educational impacts of integrated ICT literacy in the higher education context
Authors: Tadesse Tefera , Gillies Robyn M , Campbell Chris
Published: July 2017

The purpose of this paper is threefold: first, to introduce a conceptual model for assessing undergraduate students’ integrated information and communication technology (ICT) literacy capacity that involves 12 items generated from the modified version of the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE) questionnaire (Coates, 2010); second, to illustrate the construct validity and internal consistency of the model as implemented in a sample of undergraduate students (n = 536) enrolled in two colleges within a large Ethiopian university; and third, to further demonstrate the criterion validity of the model by examining predictive validity of the identified ICT literacy factors on student learning outcomes. A multi-method approach is used, which comprises correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis and structural equation modelling (SEM) techniques. The main finding is the support found for the 4-factor model consisting of ICT use, cognitive process, reading task and writing task. Results of the multi-method approach provide specific guidelines to higher education (HE) institutions using this approach to evaluate ICT literacy capacity and the resultant learning outcomes among their undergraduate students. The paper provides a conceptual model and supporting tools that can be used by other HE institutions to assist in the evaluation of students’ ICT literacy capacities.
Place-based collaboration: Leadership for a changing world
Authors: Hambleton Robin
Published: July 2017

Placeless power, meaning the exercise of power by decision-makers who are unconcerned about the impact of their decisions on communities living in particular places, has grown significantly in the last thirty years. A consequence is that societies are becoming more unequal. Even in the wealthy global cities modern capitalism is increasing inequality at a formidable rate. In a new book the author provides an international, comparative analysis of the efforts being made by place-based leaders to create inclusive, sustainable cities. This article draws on the evidence presented in the book to suggest that place-based leaders can play a significant role in advancing social justice, promoting care for the environment and bolstering community empowerment. An opening section introduces the idea of place-based power, providing a context for the subsequent discussion. A second section sets out a new way of conceptualising the roles of place-based leaders in any given context, a framework described as the New Civic Leadership. This distinguishes five different realms of civic leadership. The third section provides an example of place-based leadership in action. It outlines the way local leadership has brought about a remarkable transformation of the central area of Melbourne, Australia. A final section presents a comparative discussion of three themes relating to place-based leadership and local collaboration: (i) the changing possibilities for place-based leadership in our rapidly globalising world, (ii) the need for outward-facing local government leadership given the changing nature of public policy challenges and (iii) the role of place-based leadership in bringing about radical public innovation.
Shared services – shared necessity: Austerity, reformed local government and reduced budgets1
Authors: Lloyd Greg
Published: July 2017

Shared services are now established as a core delivery model in local and regional governance arrangements. Shared services have emerged as a ‘common sense’ delivery vehicle with attendant efficiency and effectiveness gains. There is, however, a more complex intellectual provenance to a reliance on shared services. In essence, shared services are the logical outcome of the deliberate turn to neo-liberal thinking and the various iterations of the new public managerialism methodology which has progressively established itself in local and regional governance over the past thirty years or so. This paper explores the neo-liberal provenance of shared services and considers the consequential vulnerabilities to austerity, administrative reform and reduced public sector budgets. The central proposition of the paper is that while neo-liberal ideas have created the justification for shared services, this has embedded a set of systemic tensions in the delivery model.
Possible impacts of zoosporic parasites in diseases of commercially important marine mollusc species: part I. Perkinsozoa
Authors: Gleason Frank H. , Lilje Osu , Dang Cecile , Geraci-Yee Sabrina , Collier Jackie L.
Published: July 2017

The phylum Perkinsozoa includes well-known parasites of commercially important species of molluscs in aquaculture, such as
One-pot synthesis of annulated 1,8-naphthyridines
Authors: Bardasov Ivan N. , Alekseeva Anastasiya U. , Yaschenko Nataliya N. , Zhitar Svetlana V. , Lyshchikov Anatoliy N.
Published: July 2017

Annulated 1,8-naphthyridines were synthesized by one-pot reaction of aromatic aldehyde, malononitrile dimer and enehydrazinoketone.
Impact of spatial correlations on the surface estimation based on terrestrial laser scanning
Authors: Jurek Tobias , Kuhlmann Heiner , Holst Christoph
Published: July 2017

In terms of high precision requested deformation analyses, evaluating laser scan data requires the exact knowledge of the functional and stochastic model. If this is not given, a parameter estimation leads to insufficient results. Simulating a laser scanning scene provides the knowledge of the exact functional model of the surface. Thus, it is possible to investigate the impact of neglecting spatial correlations in the stochastic model. Here, this impact is quantified through statistical analysis.

The correlation function, the number of scanning points and the ratio of colored noise in the measurements determine the covariances in the simulated observations. It is shown that even for short correlation lengths of less than 10 cm and a low ratio of colored noise the global test as well as the parameter test are rejected. This indicates a bias and inconsistency in the parameter estimation. These results are transferable to similar tasks of laser scanner based surface approximation.
Segmentation of Brain Tumour Based on Clustering Technique: Performance Analysis
Authors: Agrawal Ritu , Sharma Manisha , Singh Bikesh Kumar
Published: July 2017

Manual detection and analysis of brain tumours is an exhaustive and time-consuming process. Further, it is subject to intra-observer and inter-observer variabilities. Automated brain tumour segmentation and analysis has thus gained much attention in recent years. However, the existing segmentation techniques do not meet the requirements of real-time use due to limitations posed by poor image quality and image complexity. This article proposes a hybrid approach for image segmentation by combining biorthogonal wavelet transform, skull stripping, fuzzy c-means threshold clustering, Canny edge detection, and morphological operations. Biorthogonal wavelet transform and skull stripping are essential pre-processing steps for analysis of brain images. Initially, biorthogonal wavelet transform is used to remove impulsive noise and skull stripping is employed to eliminate non-cerebral tissue regions from the acquired images, followed by segmentation using fuzzy c-means threshold clustering, Canny edge detection, and morphological processing. The performance of the proposed automated system is tested on standard datasets using performance measures such as Jaccard index, Dice similarity coefficient, execution time, and entropy. The proposed method achieves a Jaccard index and Dice similarity coefficient of 0.886 and 0.935, respectively, which indicate better overlap between the automated segmentation method and manual segmentation method performed by an expert radiologist. The average execution time and average entropy values obtained are 1.001 s and 0.202, respectively. The results obtained are discussed in view of some reported studies in terms of execution time and tumour area. Further work is needed to evaluate the proposed method in routine clinical practice and its effect on radiologists’ performances.
Radiochemical separation of 231Pa from siliceous cake prior to its determination by gamma ray spectrometry
Authors: Dalvi Aditi A. , Verma Rakesh
Published: July 2017

A simple and fast radiochemical method for the separation of protactinium (231Pa) from siliceous cake for its determination by gamma ray spectrometry is described. The method involves (a) a novel approach, the fusion of the siliceous cake with sodium peroxide, (b) the dissolution of the fused mass in nitric acid and (c) the co-precipitation of 231Pa with manganese dioxide formed in-situ by the addition of solid manganous sulfate and potassium permanganate to the solution. The fusion, effected in a single step, is simpler and highly effective in comparison to methods reported hitherto in literature. The radiochemical yield of 231Pa, determined using 311.9 keV gamma ray of 233Pa radiotracer is quantitative (~90%). The decontamination factors calculated using gamma ray spectrometry and energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence measurements show that the separation from the interfering radionuclides is high whereas separation from major and minor elements is good. Separation by ion-exchange method in hydrochloric acid, hydrofluoric acid and oxalic acid media have comparatively much lower yields. The concentration of 231Pa in the siliceous cake measured using interference-free 283.6 keV gamma ray was found to be (6.4±0.33) μg kg−1. The measured concentration of 231Pa was well above the limit of quantitation whereas the coefficient of variation was ~5%. The improvement in the limit of detection was due to the reduction in spectral background. Systematic evaluation of various uncertainty parameters showed that the major contributors to the combined uncertainty were efficiency of the high purity germanium detector and the counting statistics. The present sample decomposition and separation methods are robust, simple to perform and can be effectively used for the determination and hence source prospecting of protactinium.
On the concept of “sign” in the Hebrew Bible
Authors: Cantor Robert
Published: July 2017

In this paper, we examine the use of signs as instruments of thought in Semitic languages of the ancient Near East. We employ a Peircean concept of “sign” together with derived typologies based upon Categorical (after Peirce), temporal, and effectual relations between events, as conceived by the intended interpreter. Following a brief discussion of the “sign” concept as attested in extinct Semitic languages and in Biblical Hebrew, we perform a typological analysis of the use of signs in Biblical narrative. On this basis, we infer that some Biblical writers had a tacit awareness of a tripartite concept of “sign.” Furthermore, we demonstrate that different Biblical writers had different preferences for the use of signs: symbolic (abstract) signs were favored in the Torah and iconic (embodied) signs were favored by the Major Prophets.
Semiotics of textscapes and cultures
Authors: Stockinger Peter
Published: July 2017

This article presents a general outline of a theoretical and methodological framework for analyzing textscapes. Textscapes are signifying perceptual surfaces that form the interface with the meaning universe of a semiotic eco-system (of, for instance, the life-world of a social actor such as a person, a social group, a community, etc.). In this sense, textscape descriptions and comparisons are of central importance for a semiotics of cultures understood as a text- or discourse-based approach to the description of meaning systems that possess a constitutive and normative status for a semiotic eco-system. The description of such meaning configurations composing the doxa (visions, beliefs, values and norms, know-how, etc.) of a social actor has to rely on a structured approach for dealing adequately with textscapes as the principal data to be studied. Research tasks include the identification of relevant textscapes, the techniques for collecting and conserving them, the analysis of corpora of textscapes or the experimentation with textscapes. In order to illustrate our purpose, we will study two examples of textscapes in a broad sense, understood as signifying 3D-surfaces of the lifeworld of social actors: a typical European open market in Vienna and a middle-class European kitchen. A third example in Hong Kong studies a modern urban communicational textscape.
Able leaders and fallible men: success and excess in Iliadic battle exhortations
Authors: Kyriakou Poulheria
Published: July 2017

Battle exhortations are found throughout the fighting books of Homer’s
Bells and the Problem of Realism in Ravel’s Early Piano Music
Authors: Kieffer Alexandra
Published: July 2017

Early in his career Maurice Ravel composed two pieces that take bells as their subject: “Entre Cloches” from Sites auriculaires, composed in 1897, and “La vallée des cloches,” the final movement of the 1905 work Miroirs. Although these pieces can be contextualized within a nineteenth-century lineage of French piano pieces that depict bell peals, they also set themselves apart by virtue of their heightened attention to the particularities of bell sonorities. Relying heavily on repetitive ostinato patterns, quartal harmonies, and intense dissonances, these pieces play in the nebulous space between transcription and composition.

Ravel’s experimentation with bell sonorities in his piano music can be understood in relation to a broader discourse surrounding the sound of bells in nineteenth-century France. A complex sonic object, bell resonance lent itself to different modes of listening: the harmoniousness of bell peals was a common refrain among romantic poets, Catholic clergy, and campanarian historians, but toward the end of the century it became increasingly common for physicists and popular-science publications to complain that bells were inherently discordant. In this context Ravel’s depictions of bells in “Entre cloches” and “La vallée des cloches” suggest a shift in the place of musical listening in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cultures of aurality. Ravel’s musical listening entailed heightened attentiveness to the empirical qualities of non-musical sound; his pieces negotiate in new ways the boundary between musical composition and the protean sonic world outside of music. This reorientation of musical listening participates in a broader questioning by early twentieth-century modernists of the nature of music and its sonic material.
Constructing a Plan for Survival: Scientology as Cold War Psychology
Authors: Genter Robert
Published: July 2017

Developed in the early 1950s by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology was part of the larger postwar therapeutic culture that blended religion and psychology in a search for mental well-being. Unlike contemporaneous self-help gurus such as Norman Vincent Peale and Harry Overstreet, however, Hubbard painted a much bleaker portrait of modern life, one rife with forces of psychological and social control. Railing against communists, homosexuals, and feminists as well as against the decay of the family and the rise of the welfare state, Hubbard argued that Americans suffered from a waning sense of ontological security, living in a world that provided no support for self-identity. Hubbard refused, however, to shrink from such changes and lapse into nostalgia for a pre-modern, pre-technological world like Peale and others did; instead, he offered a way for individuals to appropriate the dynamism of modernity for themselves. As advanced industrialization erased distances between societies, revolutionized transportation, and computerized information systems, Hubbard reimagined the self as spiritual being possessing precisely those powers to manipulate time and space and to remake the world at large. Borrowing freely from Eastern religious ideas, cybernetic theory, and German idealism, Hubbard produced a philosophy that was staunchly libertarian, spiritual, and future-oriented, one that tapped into Cold War fears about psychological manipulation and waning personal autonomy and into dreams about the immanent power of human beings.
Childhood thyroid function, body composition and cardiovascular function
Authors: Barjaktarovic Mirjana , Korevaar Tim I M , Gaillard Romy , de Rijke Yolanda B , Visser Theo J , Jaddoe Vincent W V , Peeters Robin P
Published: July 2017

Objective

The cardiovascular system is a known target for thyroid hormone. Early-life cardiovascular alterations may lead to a higher risk of cardiovascular disease in adulthood. Little is known about the effects of thyroid hormone on cardiovascular function during childhood, including the role of body composition in this association.

Design

Population-based prospective cohort of children (n = 4251, median age 6 years, 95% range: 5.7–8.0 years).

Methods

Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and free thyroxine (FT4) concentrations were measured to assess thyroid function. Left ventricular (LV) mass was assessed with echocardiography. Arterial stiffness was assessed with carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (CFPWV). Systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP) was measured. Body composition was assessed by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scan.

Results

FT4 was inversely associated with LV mass (P = 0.002), and with lean body mass (P < 0.0001). The association of FT4 with LV mass was partially mediated through variability in lean body mass (55% mediated effect). TSH was inversely associated with LV mass (P = 0.010), predominantly in boys. TSH was positively associated with systolic and diastolic BP (bothP < 0.001). FT4 was positively associated with CFPWV and diastolic BP (P < 0.0001,P = 0.008, respectively), and the latter association attenuated after adjustment for CFPWV.

Conclusions

At the age of 6 years, higher FT4 is associated with lower LV mass (partially through effects on lean body mass) and with higher arterial stiffness, which may lead to higher BP. Our data also suggest different mechanisms via which TSH and FT4 are associated with cardiovascular function during early childhood.
2016 METŲ SEIMO RINKIMŲ IŠŠŪKIS PARTINEI SISTEMAI IR POLITOLOGAMS: KAIP NUMATYTI ŽEMĖS DREBĖJIMĄ?
Authors: Jastramskis Mažvydas
Published: July 2017

Šiuo straipsniu pradedama akademinė diskusija dėl to, ką Lietuvos partinei sistemai reiškė 2016 m. Seimo rinkimai. Atnaujinant rinkimų kaitu­mo rodiklius ir partijų konkurencinės erdvės žemėlapį (pagal rinkėjų verti­nimus) teigiama: stabilizacija, nurodoma kalbant apie 2012 m. Seimo rinki­mus, buvo labai santykinė (Vakarų politologai tikriausiai jos neįžvelgtų) ir, įvertinant visą 1992–2016 m. laikotarpį, panašesnė į išimtį. Taigi, 2016 m. rinkimai tiesiog grąžino nestabilią Lietuvos partinę sistemą į savas vėžes – nepaisant gana apgaulingos mažos naujų partijų sėkmės, matyti, kad padidė­jo tiek bendras, tiek išorinis (parodantis partinės sistemos silpnumą) nestabi­lumas. Konkurencinėje erdvėje išryškėjusios dvi dimensijos vėl meta iššūkį Lietuvos tradicinių partijų gebėjimui integruoti naujokus. Akivaizdu, kad yra niša ir kartu poreikis toliau tirti rinkėjų elgesį, tad antroje straipsnio dalyje aptariami esminiai klausimai, kuriuos rinkimų politologijai (politinei socio­logijai) pateikia 2016 m. Seimo rinkimai: rinkėjų kaitumo individo lygmeniu logika, (besikeičiantis?) rinkimų sistemos vaidmuo, partijų ir visuomenės (ne)susikalbėjimas, rinkimų kampanijos įtaka rinkimų rezultatui. Esant tiek nežinomųjų, siūloma kritiškai žiūrėti į galimybes prognozuoti rinkimų rezul­tatus ir vedama paralelė tarp politologų ir seismologų: smarkūs žemės dre­bėjimai, kaip ir tokie rinkimai, sunkiai numatomi iš anksto. Kaip sprendžiant trijų kūnų problemą, nestabilios sąveikos tarp pasiūlos, paklausos ir rinkimų sistemos veda į neprognozuojamą rinkimų rezultatą. Tačiau būtent dėl to ir reikia toliau tęsti tyrimus.
MANDATAS AR DIKTATAS? ES FINANSŲ KRIZĖS VALDYMO PRIEMONIŲ LEGITIMUMO ANALIZĖ
Authors: Bartašiūtė Ugnė
Published: July 2017

Pagrindinis klausimas, į kurį siekiama atsakyti šiame straipsnyje, yra: ar ir kiek ES finansų krizės suvaldymas buvo (ne)legitimus? Analizei pa­sirinkta konkreti finansų krizės suvaldymo priemonė – finansinės paramos teikimas ES valstybėms. Straipsnyje analizuojamos septynios valstybės, kurios gavo finansinę paramą: Vengrija, Latvija, Rumunija, Airija, Ispanija, Portugalija ir Graikija. Tyrime iškeliamos dvi hipotezės: H(1): finansinės pa­ramos teikimo priemonė ES valstybėms narėms buvo nelegitimi todėl, kad ES piliečiai neturėjo įtakos priimant sprendimus; H(2): finansinės paramos teikimo priemonė ES valstybėms narėms buvo nelegitimi todėl, kad nedavė teigiamų rezultatų. Analizei pasirinktas Fritzo W. Scharpfo demokratinio le­gitimumo vertinimo teorinis modelis. Remiantis šiuo modeliu, nagrinėjamos dvi politinio proceso dalys: sprendimų įeigos ir išeigos. Atliktas tyrimas pa­ramos teikimo legitimumo įeigų dalyje leidžia patvirtinti hipotezę H(1) ir iš dalies paneigti hipotezę H(2).
OPTIMALISASI PENGATURAN PERIKANAN LEMURU BERDASARKAN MEKANISME SUPPLY DAN DEMAND DI SELAT BALI
Authors: Sari Yesi Dewita , Koeshendrajana Sonny , Nababan Benny Osta
Published: July 2017

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan jumlah alat tangkap yang dioperasikan pada perikanan lemuru di Selat Bali, yang didasarkan pada mekanisme keseimbangan supply dan demand. Pendugaan parameter biologi dilakukan menggunakan model CYP, pendugaan kurva supply menggunakan model Clark dan pendugaan kurva demand menggunakan model Salvatore. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa keseimbangan supply dan demand terjadi pada tingkat harga Rp 5.889 dengan jumlah produksi 10.149 ton per tahun. Sementara itu, berdasarkan hasil survei diperoleh data bahwa harga ikan lemuru berkisar antara Rp 1.500 – 2.000 dengan rata-rata jumlah produksi (tahun 1990-2007) 30.254 ton dengan rata-rata upaya penangkapan 16.934 trip per tahun. Pada kondisi Maximum Sustainable Yield diperoleh maksimum jumlah tangkapan adalah 21.418 ton per tahun dengan jumlah upaya penangkapan 8.023 trip per tahun. Jumlah upaya penangkapan ini setara dengan 81 unit purse seine dengan asumsi setiap unit purse seine memiliki 99 trip per tahun. Mengacu kepada jumlah produksi pada kondisi MSY, maka dengan jumlah produksi 10.149 ton per tahun pada kondisi keseimbangan supply dan demand, hanya 38 unit purse seine yang diperlukan di Selat Bali. Kebijakan pembatasan jumlah upaya penangkapan di lokasi tersebut diharapkan mampu memulihkan sumberdaya ikan lemuru, dan dalam jangka panjang eksploitasi dapat dilakukan secara optimal. Tittle: Optimalization of Governing ‘Lemuru’ Fishery Based on the Supply and Demand Mechanism in the Bali Strait.This research aimed to know amount of fishing effort for capturing lemuru in the Bali Strait based on supply demand equilibrium. Biology parameters were estimated by using CYP model, supply curve was estimated using Clark model and demand curve wos estimated using Salvatore model. Results show that supply demand equilibrium is reached at Rp 5,889 of price and 10,149 MT per year of harvest. Based on survey, price of lemuru was around Rp 1,500 – 2,000 with average of harvest (1990-2007) was 30,254 MT per year. At maximum sustainable yield (MSY), maximum harvest were 21,418 MT per year and fishing effort 8,023 trip per year. Fishing effort at MSY were 81 unit purse seine assuming that one unit purse seine operated 99 trips per year. Based on fishing effort and harvested fish at the MSY, with 10,149 ton per years at the equilibrium point of supply and demand of that particular fish, it required 38 units of purse seine in the Bali Strait. Limiting number of fishing effort in the Bali Strait is to be expected by which enabling to recover lemuru required in the long-run optimal exploitation rate of the lemuru.
DAMPAK PENINGKATAN KONSUMSI PRODUK PERIKANAN TERHADAP PEREKONOMIAN NASIONAL
Authors: Tajerin Tajerin
Published: July 2017

Upaya pemerintah untuk meningkatkan konsumsi rumah tangga khususnya pada produk perikanan merupakan langkah penting dan strategis, terkait dengan peningkatan peran pasar dalam negeri dalam mengatasi tekanan krisis keuangan global yang sedang melanda Indonesia dewasa ini. Kajian bertujuan untuk menganalisis dampak peningkatan konsumsi rumah tangga pada produk perikanan terhadap perekonomian nasional. Kajian ini menggunakan data sekunder Tabel Input-Output 2005, Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS). Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa peningkatan konsumsi rumah tangga pada produk perikanan sebesar 11,54% akan berdampak meningkatkan output perekonomian sebesar Rp.10.031.490, pendapatan rumah tangga sebesar Rp.1.166.463 dan penyerapan tenaga kerja sebanyak 151.133 orang. Pemerintah hendaknya dapat mengimplementasi semua kebijakan dan program peningkatan konsumsi ikan dengan lebih sungguh-sungguh dan konsisten, sehingga konsumsi ikan per kapita per tahun dapat lebih ditingkatkan lagi. Di samping berdampak positif terhadap perekonomian, upaya peningkatan peran pasar domestik ini terkait dengan upaya untuk keluar dari tekanan krisis keuangan global. Tittle: Impact of the Increase in the Fisheries Product Consumption to National Economy.Increasing household consumption especially for fisheries sectors' product is an urgent and strategic government effort, since it is heavily linked to the goal of nullifying the threat of the recent global financial crisis through an effective role of domestic marketing. For that purpose, this research is aimed at analyzing the depth of the economic impact of raising household domestic consumption of fisheries sectors toward the Indonesian Economy, using Input Output analysis with secondary data (2005 I-O Table) acquired from BPS. Results showed that an 11.54 % raise in household consumption of fisheries sectors produce, could impact on a Rp. 10,031,490 increase in the total output, a Rp.1,166,463 increase in household income, and a 151,133 increase in new labor absorption. Thus, our government should implement every possible policy and program that increase fish consumption whole-heartedly and consistently, so that the annual per capita fish consumption could be pushed forward, since it is positively affecting the whole economy as well as it is importantly linked to the effort of getting out of the pressure of the global financial crisis.
DINAMIKA PERAN SEKTOR PERIKANAN DALAM PEREKONOMIAN INDONESIA: Analisis Input-Output 1990-2005
Authors: Tajerin Tajerin
Published: July 2017

Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis dinamika peran sektor perikanan dalam perekonomian Indonesia, khususnya dalam output perekonomian, pendapatan rumah tangga dan penyerapan tenaga kerja. Data yang digunakan adalah data sekunder yang diperoleh dari buku Tabel Input-Output (I-O) Tahun 1990, 1995, 2000 dan 2005. Analisis data dilakukan dengan menggunakan pendekatan model (I-O) melalui perolehan nilai koefisien angka pengganda. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa secara umum peran sektor perikanan dalam perekonomian Indonesia menunjukkan kecenderungan peningkatan pada era sebelum, transisi dan setelah berdiri Departemen Kelautan dan Perikanan (DKP). Namun secara spesifik, peran sub sektor perikanan sekunder lebih besar dalam pembentukan output perekonomian dan pendapatan rumah tangga dibanding sub sektor perikanan primer. Sementara dalam penyerapan tenaga kerja, peran sub sektor perikanan primer lebih besar dibanding sub sektor perikanan sekunder, khususnya pada era sebelum berdiri DKP, namun kemudian lebih besar peran sub sektor perikanan sekunder pada era transisi dan setelah berdiri DKP. Tittle: Dynamic of Fisheries Sector’s Role in the Indonesian Economy: Input-Output Analysis 1990-2005.This study was focused on analyzing the dynamic of fisheries sector's role in the Indonesian economy, especially on economic output, household income and labor absorbsion. Secondary data used in this study were obtained from Input-Output (I-O) Table of 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2005 published by the Central Bureau of Statistics Indonesia, and later on analyzed through I-O approach and its multiplier coefficients result. Results showed that in general, the role of the fisheries sectors in Indonesian economy has tended to increase– be it before. During the transition and after the estabilishment of the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF) era. Specifically, the role of secondary fisheries sub sector was more dominant than the primary fisheries sub sector in the formation of economy's output. As for the labor absorbsion, the role of primary fisheries sub sector was more dominant than secondary fisheries sub sector, especially before the estabilishment of MMAF; however, this dominance went a vice versa during the transition and after the estabilishment of MMAF.
ANALISIS HUBUNGAN KARAKTERISTIK SOSIO-EKONOMI DENGAN KETAHANAN PANGAN IKANI: Pendekatan Model Product Moment Correlation
Authors: Lindawati Lindawati , Yusuf Risna
Published: July 2017

Penelitian bertujuan untuk menganalisis hubungan karakteristik sosial ekonomi dengan ketahanan pangan ikani yang telah dilakukan pada bulan Juni sampai dengan Agustus 2008. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan non parametrik dengan menggunakan model Product Moment Correlation. Responden dipilih menggunakan metode proportional random sampling berdasarkan jenis alat tangkap. Secara umum hasil penelitian menunjukkan terdapat hubungan yang nyata antara karakteristik sosial ekonomi yaitu peubah pendidikan, budaya makan ikan, nilai aset dan pendapatan berhubungan positif dan nyata dengan tingkat ketahanan pangan ikani rumah tangga perikanan tangkap laut skala kecil. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat disarankan bahwa pemerintah dapat meningkatkan ketahanan pangan ikani melalui peningkatan mutu pendidikan dan pengetahuan pangan dan gizi, budaya makan ikan, pendapatan rumah tangga dan aset rumah tangga. Tittle: Analysis of the Relationship between Socio Economic Characteristics and Fish-Food Security: Product Moment Correlation Model Approach.Research aimed at analyzing the relation between socio-economic characteristics and fish-food security was carried out during June to August 2008. The research was using non-parametric approach with the property of Product Moment Correlation model. Respondents epresenting variety of fishing unit being used were chosen using proportional random sampling method. In general, the study showed that there was significantly relationship between socio-economic characteristic and fish-food security especially education, eating fish culture, asset value and income on small scale capture fisheries industry. Base on the study, it can be suggested they the government could increase fish-food security through improvement programs on education and knowledge of food and nutrition, eating fish culture, income and asset value.
Moda Produksi Pelelangan Sumberdaya Perikanan Perairan Umum Lebak Lebung
Authors: Nasution Zahri , Sastrawidjaja Sastrawidjaja
Published: July 2017

Perairan umum lebak lebung (PULL) merupakan habitat perairan tawar yang berupa sungai dan daerah banjirannya (river flood plain) yang membentuk satu kesatuan fungsi dan mempunyai banyak tipe habitat yang dapat dibedakan antara musim kemarau dan musim penghujan. Di Sumatera Selatan (Sumsel), PULL merupakan kawasan penghasil ikan air tawar utama bagi kebutuhan masyarakat. Tipe perairan ini paling banyak dan luas terdapat di Kabupaten Ogan Komering Ilir (Kab. OKI), yang terletak di bagian timur Provinsi Sumatera Selatan. Akses usaha penangkapan ikan di PULL dilakukan dengan cara lelang yang telah berlangsung sejak lama. Makalah ini membahas moda produksi yang terbangun dalam rangka pemanfaatan sumberdaya perikanan PULL dan menganalisa terjadinya dominasi pemerintah daerah terhadap masyarakat nelayan. Dukungan fakta bahwa rasionalitas yang digunakan pemerintah hanya didasarkan kepada rasionalitas ekonomi dan belum didasarkan atas rasionalitas eko-sosial. Kondisi ini mengakibatkan rendahnya pendapatan masyarakat nelayan (lebih rendah dari upah buruh harian). Sistem pengelolaan sumberdaya perikanan PULL melalui sistem pelelangan belum mendukung upaya pemanfaatan sumberdaya perikanan berkelanjutan.
The Neojihadist Cell as a Religious Organization: A Melbourne Jema’ah Case Study
Authors: Lentini Pete
Published: July 2017

Notwithstanding significant macro-level research into neojihadist groups like al-Qaeda and DAISh, and their theology/ideology and tactics, there is significantly less information on micro-level actors, especially how they function as religious organizations. Drawing on rare (terrorism trial transcripts) and unique (listening device and telephone intercept transcripts of recorded terrorists’ conversations) primary source materials, this paper examines how religious authority structures and agency structures functioned within a Melbourne jema’ah (group or cell) that Australian authorities disrupted in 2004-05. The paper argues that the jema’ah was a stable vehicle for transmitting religious authority, but its agency structures were under-developed. In cases wherein the two clashed, the former always prevailed. Its findings suggest that while religious organizations require strong religious authority structures, they also need effective agency structures to increase their opportunities to achieve their objectives. The study intends to contribute to new, enhanced understandings of both neojihadism and religious organizations.
‘How Much Do I Want the Apocalypse to Happen and Just Wipe this All Clean?’: The Use of Apocalyptic Narratives by Non-religious Youth
Authors: Cook Julia
Published: July 2017

Although the ways in which young adults relate to their own futures has been studied at length, the question of how they perceive the long-term, societal future has received comparatively less attention. This article considers how young adults relate to the long-term, societal future with reference to the concept of apocalypse. It draws on an analysis of 28 interviews in which religious and non-religious young adults were asked to discuss their perceptions of the long-term future. By comparing the eschatological depictions cited by religious respondents to the wider sample’s views of the future, the findings of this study highlight the presence of a secular apocalyptic narrative. Moreover, while many of the non-religious respondents’ understandings of apocalypse were derived from popular culture, this narrative was utilised in ways that extended beyond entertainment-based functions, and could be used to provide insight into the ways in which they related to the societal future.
The Ambiguity of the Sacred: Revisiting Roger Caillois’s L’Homme et le sacré
Authors: Falasca-Zamponi Simonetta
Published: July 2017

This article focuses on the ambiguity of the sacred and looks at Roger Caillois’s L’Homme et le sacré as a fundamental text for understanding the role of ambivalence in the dynamic relationship involving the duo sacred and profane. Due to the paucity of critical commentary in English on Caillois, the article first seeks to restore Callois’s insights to our critical vocabulary. It then evaluates his work’s analytical potential both substantively and historically, also in connection with the resurgence of Durkheimian studies. Finally, it argues that Caillois’s emphasis on the relationship between pure and impure is fundamental for rethinking the dualism of sacred and profane, more specifically the oppositional logic by which the profane excludes the sacred.
Survey on TB patients in rural areas in China: tracing the role of stigma in psychological distress v1
Authors: Xu Minlan , Markström Urban , Lyu Juncheng , Xu Lingzhong
Published: July 2017

This is part of the project to survey the rural TB patients in China, which we focus on the role of stigma in psychological distress.
Ipari eszközökkel megvalósított automata elektropneumatikus rajzgép
Authors: Szabó László , Tóth János , Husi Géza
Published: July 2017

A feladat célja egy elektropneumatikus rajzgép tervezése, összeállítása és működtetése, melynek irányítását egy PLC végzi el úgy, hogy PC-s kezelő felületlétrehozására is sor kerül. A rajzgép mind kézi, mind automatikus rajzolási folyamatokat képes végrehajtani.
Study of breastfeeding practices and problems among postnatal mothers: a hospital based study
Authors: Mise Pooja J. , Mise Aditya J. , Mise Sangamesh J. , Siddappa Margol
Published: July 2017

Background: Breastfeeding has many health and developmental advantages for infant and mothers. Breastfeeding remains the simplest, healthiest and least expensive feeding method that fulfils the infant’s needs.Methods: 112 mothers having infants of age group less than 1 year were included in the study. Self-administered questionnaire was used to collect information on breastfeeding practices in the initial six months of birth of the child. Study population were postnatal mothers in KIMS Hubli, Hospital IPD and OPD.Results: 112 lactating mothers were included in the study. Majority of subjects 86 (76.7%) were in the age group 21-30 years. About 43 (38.4%) lactating mother initiated breast feeding practices within 1 hour after the delivery. 63.4% of the infants received exclusive breast feeding. Lactation failure 40% and unsatisfactory growth of baby 50% were the main reasons for early weaning. Most common cause of delay in initiation in breast were caesarian section and delivery complication (53.12% and 21.88% respectively) Only 27 (24.1%) babies were given pre-lacteal feed.Conclusions: There is a need of giving information regarding breast feeding during antenatal visits to inform the mothers regarding proven facts of advantages of exclusive breastfeeding, as undesirable cultural practices such as giving pre-lacteals, late initiation of breast feeding are still prevalent among the community and these should be discouraged. For successful feeding, mothers need active support, care and privacy during pregnancy and following birth, not only of their families and communities but also of the entire health system.
Determinants of utilization of antenatal and postnatal care services in Telangana
Authors: Singh Neelima , Ponna Satyendra Nath , Upadrasta Venkata Prasad , Dudala Shankar Reddy , Sadasivuni Renuka
Published: July 2017

Background: Variation exists in utilization of antenatal and postnatal care services in public health facilities of developing countries. Provision of antenatal and postnatal care services is the major function of public health delivery system of India to improve maternal health outcomes. The objective of this study is to estimate the determinants of utilization of antenatal and postnatal care services stratified by geographical region in Telangana.Methods: It is a cross-sectional study of District Level Health and Facility Survey-4 of the state of Telangana. Multistage, stratified, probability proportional to size sample with replacement was used. 3065 women, who delivered after the year 2008, were considered for analysis. Descriptive analysis of components of antenatal and postnatal care services stratified by geographical region was carried out. Binomial logistic regression was carried out to determine association of demographic, system level variables with adequate antenatal care.Results: Study reveals variation exists across four regions of Telangana in utilization of maternal health services. Reception of adequate antenatal care is low in South region (20.6%) and high in East region (31.5%). Pregnant women with secondary education were 66% more likely to receive adequate antenatal care services compared to illiterate.Conclusions: Short term and long-term goals to be adopted and implemented by government to address the demand-supply imbalance such as public health infrastructure and quality of services in underperforming districts of Telangana to increase utilization of maternal health services by training health staff and engaging local communities to seek health care services.
Recurrent Furunculosis: incidence of anaerobes and fungi
Authors: Narain Upma , Bajaj Ashok Kumar , Kant Arun
Published: July 2017

Background: The occurrence of recurrent furunculosis is common. However, the only cause for the infection reported till this date was aerobes and prior reported series did not identify anaerobes as causative organisms.Methods: A retrospective study of 1760 patients with furunculosis was to determine the incidence of recurrent furunculosis and its anaerobic etiology.Results: Between Jan 2006 and Nov 2016 we identified 41.76% case of recurrent furunculosis. Within this group aerobes were isolated in 29.53% cases, anaerobes were in 53.60% and fungus was in 16.87%. The genus Fusobacterium neucleatum (28.7%) predominates among anaerobes.Conclusion: This study emphasizes that anaerobes have their own importance in the cases of recurrent furunculosis.
Correlation of subjective and objective measurement of physical activity in young adult and assessment of general awareness of type 2 Diabetes mellitus in Pune urban population
Authors: Pawar Shubhadarshini , G. Pawar Priyadarshani , Kharche Jayashree S. , Ashok Pranita
Published: July 2017

Background: Measurement of physical activity is a challenging and complex procedure. Objective assessment of physical activity can help to overcome errors incurred by subjective methods like PAQs. Hence, this study was planned to compare measurement of physical activity subjectively using IPAQ and objectively using pedometer in young adults.Methods: Young adults in the age group of 18-22 years were included in the study. Detailed history of physical activity was taken using IPAQ (International Physical Activity Questionnaire) for subjective measurement of physical activity. Participant’s physical activity was measured with the help of pedometer for objective assessment of physical activity.Results: There was no statistically significant difference in measurement of physical activity by subjective and objective methods. IPAQ overestimates physical activity.Conclusions: In this study, there was no statistically significant difference in subjective and objective methods of physical activity assessment. Study concludes subjective method overestimates physical activity than objective method.
Assessment of knowledge of intern doctors of a medical college hospital in Karnataka on revised national TB control programme
Authors: L. Raghavendra , P. Subhas Babu , K. M. Shivakumar
Published: July 2017

Background: The medical interns usually are the first contact health care providers for patients in teaching hospitals and need to be sensitized towards newer diagnostic and treatment guidelines of various national health programmes. Revised National TB Control Programme is one such health programme which aims to reduce TB burden in our country. The present study was undertaken with an objective to assess knowledge level of medical interns, about recent guidelines of RNTCP pertaining to diagnosis and management of TB, including MDR and XDR-TB.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted at one of the Government Medical College in southern Karnataka in the year 2017 with the objectives to assess the knowledge of intern doctors on diagnosis of Tuberculosis as per RNTCP guidelines and to assess the knowledge of intern doctors on treatment of Tuberculosis as per RNTCP guidelines. A pre-tested structured questionnaire was distributed to 83 medical interns to assess their awareness on TB disease, RNTCP and DOTS guidelines. The data was entered in Microsoft office excel sheet and analysed. Analysis was done using descriptive statistics like percentages and frequencies.Results: A total of 83 out of 96 interns answered the questionnaire of which 50 were females and 33 were males. With regard to TB diagnosis, 79.51% of the respondents correctly identified the case definition of smear positive TB. Only 9.63% of the respondents could correctly mention all the objectives of the RNTCP programme.Conclusions: Awareness regarding updates on RNTCP is inadequate and needs to be constantly updated with a focus on interns who are first contact health care providers in medical college settings.
Clinical profile of patients undergoing coronary angiography with special reference to complications of coronary angiography
Authors: Raghav Lumb , Waghmode Parag , A. Parkar Matin , Pawar Shubhadarshini
Published: July 2017

Background: Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD’s) remain the biggest cause of death worldwide. Recent trends suggest that disease incidence has escalated and has started affecting younger age group also. Incidence of CVD’s has been on increasing trend not only in urban areas but in rural areas also. Aim of this research is to study clinical profile and complications in patients undergoing coronary angiography.Methods: 100 patients admitted in hospital who were planned for coronary angiography were selected. All routine investigations, Hba1c if patient is known diabetic, Serology, ECG, CXR were done at the time of admission. General physical and local examinations were performed at the end of procedure, after 12, 48 and 72 hours of coronary angiography.Results: Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) is the commonest indication for CAG in this study group. Out of 100 patients who underwent CAG, complications occurred in 29 individuals. Only 3 types of complications- Haematoma, Anaphylactoid reactions and Contrast Induced Nephropathy (CIN) are observed in this study.Conclusions: Hypertension, obesity, family history of IHD in first degree relatives and DM are important risk factors for IHD. Most common complication of CAG is haematoma. Females patients are more predisposed for all complications DM, HTN, advanced age and CHF are independent risk factors for developing CIN.