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AFRICAN WOMEN AND FORBIDDEN GROUNDS: FEMALE SEXUALITY AND SELF-DETERMINATION IN AFRICAN LITERATURE
Authors: Otu Oyeh O.
Published: January 2018

This article examines how female conditioning and sexual repression affect the womanâ€™s sense of self, womanhood, identity and her place in society. It argues that the womanâ€™s body is at the core of the many sites of gender struggles/ politics. Accordingly, the womanâ€™s body must be decolonised for her to attain true emancipation. On the one hand, this study identifies the grave consequences of sexual repression, how it robs women of their freedom to choose whom to love or marry, the freedom to seek legal redress against sexual abuse and terror, and how it hinders their quest for self-determination. On the other hand, it underscores the need to give women sexual freedom that must be respected and enforced by law for the overall good of society.
INTERVIEW WITH PETINA GAPPAH
Authors: Mkwesha Faith
Published: January 2018

This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, South Africa. Petina Gappah is the third generation of Zimbabwean writers writing from the diaspora. She was born in 1971 in Zambia, and grew up in Zimbabwe during the transitional moment from colonial Rhodesia to independence. She has law degrees from the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Graz. She writes in English and also draws on Shona, her first language. She has published a short story collection An Elegy for Easterly (2009), first novel The Book of Memory (2015), and another collection of short stories, Rotten Row (2016).Â  Gappahâ€™s collection of short stories An Elegy for Easterly (2009) was awarded The Guardian First Book Award in 2009, and was shortlisted for the Frank Oâ€™Connor International Short Story Award, the richest prize for the short story form. Gappah was working on her novel The Book of Memory at the time of this interview.
Female chauvinist and male patriarchs: a critical analysis of gender relations in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story
Authors: Tugume Benon
Published: January 2018

This article examines gender relations in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story (henceforth Changes).  The novel depicts a gender crisis among the educated and career-oriented women working in government offices in Accra. The focus is on women’s education, sexuality, marriage, and marital rape. The three women protagonists, Esi, Opokuya and Fusena, find the institution of marriage challenging and hold the view that it hampers their career development. Esi is highly educated compared to the other female characters. She is a female chauvinist, who feels too powerful to be controlled by a man. She finds herself in the most complicated situation in her marriage, because of her feminist views, which she acquired from Western education. Although she abhors the dominance of men over women, her sexuality naturally brings her into relationships with male patriarchs. Her views about love and marriage are superficial and irreconcilable with the realities of her society. She divorces her first husband because of marital rape and goes into a polygamous marriage, which she also finds unfulfilling. In this article, I argue that Esi’s problems in her first marriage are due to her uncompromising character and her inability to engage her husband in order to strike a balance between family obligations and career goals. In addition, I argue that Esi does not realise her expectations in the second marriage because she emotionally and selfishly goes into it without understanding the rules that govern polygamous marriages.
LITERATURE AS CELEBRATION: THE ZULU (EMPEROR SHAKA) AND MANDINGO (SUNDIATA) EPIC
Authors: Makaudze Godwin
Published: January 2018

The relationship between literature and society has long been recognised. In light of this, African literature is viewed as partly a celebration and partly an expression of African values. Literature set in the past is to some degree seen as an attempt to unearth, convey and uphold socio-economic, political and religious values of the time. Using the Afrocentricity theory and epic texts, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (Niane, 1965) and Emperor Shaka the Great: A Zulu Epic (Kunene, 1979), the article posits that a study of such epic texts indeed offers a glimpse of the peopleâ€™s philosophy of life and their values.
MEDIATING SOUTHERN AFRICAN IDENTITIES IN A TRANSMUTING AGE: AN ELUSIVE PURSUIT
Authors: Mkandla Sikhululekile
Published: January 2018

This article tries to unpack the complexities of reconciling an African, and particularly a Southern African identity in a globalising age. It departs by drawing parallels between one of Africaâ€™s first generation of literary giants, Chinua Achebe and one of post-independent Africaâ€™s most radical critics, Phaswane Mpe. The two, separated by at least 40 years, reveal how mediating African identity has transmuted over the years from the linear Achebean colonial era pursuit of an almost clearly defined and nearly homogenous sense of Africanness, to a more elusive and monolithic task in the post-independence Mpe-era. In this Mpe-era it is no longer possible to speak of identity, but identities, as â€˜identityâ€™ proves fluid, overlapping and evasive. In a departure from the seemingly stable Achebean quest for the restoration of African identity and masculinity, Mpe challenges the reader to the more complex reality of what may be termed â€˜a multi-identities individualâ€™.
GOOD WIVES AND BAD WIVES: IBEZUTE’S VICTIMS OF BETRAYAL, THE TEMPORAL GODS AND DANCE OF HORROR
Authors: Awuzie Solomon
Published: January 2018

This article is a ‘masculinist’ reading of Chukwuma Ibezute’s Victims of Betrayal, The Temporal Gods and Dance of Horror. The article contends that African literature has always focused on Africa’s socio-political situation until a group of “activists in feminist movement” started agitating for a proper representation of women in literature. Unlike in Europe and America where the ideology is not challenged, in Africa it was challenged by a group of scholars who called themselves ‘masculinists’. Using Ibezute’s three novels, the ‘masculinist’ ideology is demonstrated. While in Ibezute’s Victims of Betrayal it is revealed that men are play-things in the hands of their bad wives, in The Temporal Gods it is depicted that bad wives can go extra miles to impose their decisions on their husbands. In Dance of Horror, it is shown that the kind of woman that is married into a family determines the fate of that family. The article concludes that the implications of these situations as represented in the novels are that while the roles of some husbands in African homes are becoming more and more passive, the fate of some African homes and families are in the hands of wives.
MYTHOLOGIZING YORUBA ORATURE: LOBOTO MIZING SWIVELLED PULSES OF LAUGHTER IN NIYI OSUNDAREâ€™S WAITING LAUGHTERS AND REMI RAJIâ€™S A HARVEST OF LAUGHTERS
Authors: Akingbe Niyi
Published: January 2018

Every literary work emerges from the particular alternatives of its time. This is ostensibly reflected in the attempted innovative renderings of these alternatives in the poetry of contemporary Nigerian poets of Yoruba extraction. Discernible in the poetry of Niyi Osundare and Remi Raji is the shaping and ordering of the linguistic appurtenances of the Yoruba orature, which themselves are sublimely rooted in the proverbial, chants, anecdotes, songs and praises derived from the Yoruba oral poetry of Ijala, Orin Agbe, Ese Ifa, Rara, folklore as well as from other elements of oral performance. This engagement with the Yoruba oral tradition significantly permeates the poetics of Niyi Osundareâ€™s Waiting laughters and Remi Rajiâ€™s A Harvest of Laughters. In these anthologies, both Osundare and Raji traverse the cliffs and valleys of the contemporary Nigerian milieu to distil the social changes rendered in the Yoruba proverbial, as well as its chants and verbal formulae, all of which mutate from momentary happiness into an enduring anomie grounded in seasonal variations in agricultural production, ruinous political turmoil, suspense and a harvest of unresolved, mysterious deaths. The article is primarily concerned with how the African oral tradition has been harnessed by Osundare and Raji to construct an avalanche of damning, peculiarly Nigerian, socio-political upheavals (which are essentially delineated by the signification of laughter/s) and display these in relation to the countryâ€™s variegated ecology.
TOWARDS PEACE, HEALING AND RECONCILIATION IN ZIM-BABWE: THEATRICALISING POLITICAL VIOLENCE THROUGH RITUALS (2011)
Authors: Rwafa Urther , Mushore Washington , Vhutuza Ephraim
Published: January 2018

This paper explores the reconciliatory possibilities of the theatrical piece Rituals (2011) penned by Stephen Chifunyise and directed and produced by Daves Guzha. The Ritualsâ€™ theatrical piece memorialises as well as condemns a culture of violence demonstrated during the 2008 harmonised elections in Zimbabwe. Through â€œritualizedâ€ performance, a community embarks on a metaphysical journey focused on exorcising the ghosts of political violence still haunting individuals, communities, politicians, and the nation as a whole. These day-to-day modes of healing and reconciliation, dramatised through Rituals, suggest that communities can create platforms for peace, cultivate tolerance and permit dialogue to prevail if victims are brought face-to-face with perpetrators of violence with the hope of ironing out political differences. It is going to be argued in this paper that although the political drama in Rituals, centralises politicians as major culprits that fomented violence, its failure to go beyond political meta-narratives constricts its capacity to explore the complexities of violence in Zimbabwe. These complexities are informed by factors such as lack of voter education, existence of age-old grudges, and fragmentation of community values, among others. Another critical strand to be explored in this article is one that interrogates Ritualsâ€™ potential to reach out to the wider audiences at grassroots levels, since the political drama in Rituals speaks to the â€œupper classâ€ and intellectual circles, thereby foreclosing critical debate and â€œvoicesâ€ that should emerge from â€œbelowâ€ which are communiÂ­ties many of whom were directly involved. By adopting a down-top methodological approach, the article seeks to place communities at the forefront in confronting questions of violence, peace-building and reconciliation in Zimbabwe.
CONTESTATION OF HEGEMONIES THROUGH PROPAGANDA THEATRE IN POST 2000 ZIMBABWE: THE CASE OF MADÂ¬ZOKA ZIMBABWE AND THE COUP
Authors: Vhutuza Ephraim , Rwafa Urther
Published: January 2018

This paper discusses the state-) citizen contestations in Zimbabwe and examines the role of theatre in legitimising and/or resisting state hegemonies in the context of the post 2000 Zimbabwean cultural struggle. Using the theory of hegemony, the paper argues that, after ) the repossession of land by the majority of the black population in 2000 and the constitutional referendum held in February 2000, whose â€œNoâ€ vote challenged the hegemonic discourses and patriotic history of the ruling ZANU PF party, what followed was a largely polarised society split between the pro-hegemonic civic society such as ZNLWA on one hand, and an equally vociferous anti-hegemonic civic society that supported the ruling cultural formations (Raftopoulos and Mlambo 2009; Ravengai 2008). The pro-hegemonic(agree) civic society sought to stabilise and legitimise state authority and its discourses on sovereignty, land reform and the removal of sanctions, while counter-state hegemonic actors such as ZimRights agitated for the respect of human rights, constitutionalism and democracy. Individual theatre practitioners took a cue from these opposing civic society bodies and critically dialogued among themselves, thereby creating some form of binaries characterised by those who also sought to stabilise and maintain the prevailing status quo on one hand, and those that resisted and questioned the legitimacy of the prevailing hegemonies on other hand. In this paper, the polarised state of the theatre is represented by two opposing agitational propaganda performances, Madzoka Zimbabwe and The Coup.
THE POLITICS OF HETERONORMATIVITY FOR INDONESIAN WARIA IN YOUTUBE VIDEOS
Authors: Epley Jennifer L
Published: January 2018

Through the lenses of structuration and gender performativity, this article investigates how select YouTube videos speak to the complexities of waria identities and the politics of heteronormativity. Waria are male-to-female transgendered individuals in Indonesia. Although the YouTube videos often try to â€˜humaniseâ€™ and â€˜normaliseâ€™ waria to non-waria viewers with the hope that such exposure can lead to greater tolerance and support, the videos present particular images and messages that, at times, reinforce a heterosexist gender binary framework, while on other occasions resisting that system or duality. Using an interpretative approach, the analysis treats the videos as data and texts. The general orientation of this type of content analysis is to uncover patterns of actions and meanings. This article pays special attention to the ways in which identity is socially constructed, and how the YouTube videos both support and challenge current dominant discourses about gender in Indonesia.
KEEPING IT SECRET: MOTHERSâ€™ CONCERNS IN DEALING WITH THE UNDISCLOSED PATERNITY OF THEIR CHILDREN
Authors: Manyatshe Livhuhani , Nduna Mzikazi
Published: January 2018

Children who grow up not knowing their biological fathers blame their mothers for being secretive and alienating them from their fathers. Research on undisclosed fathers has not shed light on why mothers would not inform the children of their fathersâ€™ identities. This study, set in South Africa, explored maternal non-disclosure with the specific aim of creating an understanding of womenâ€™s motivations for withholding information or not introducing a child to his/her father. The research employed an exploratory qualitative approach and used an interpretive approach to garner from narratives of mothers and guardians their experiences of living with non-disclosure. Eight, one-on-one in-depth interviews were conducted with participants aged 33 to 60. Through thematic analysis, womenâ€™s first-hand accounts could be described and the essence of the phenomenon for all the participants collated. The findings suggest a supposition that there were broader challenges for mothers on how to go about the disclosure in terms of what to say to the child, and at what age it would be appropriate to start discussing the father. The fleeting discussions that did at times occur around the father indicate that disclosure is not a static event, but rather a fluid and an ongoing process. Based on the findings of our research this article provides insight into supportive strategies that may be devised to aid mothers who wish to disclose
THE EVOLUTION OF A FEMININE STEREOTYPE: WHAT TINKER BELL TEACHES CHILDREN ABOUT GENDER ROLES
Authors: Jones SuneÃ©
Published: January 2018

Research has shown that some childrenâ€™s stories may contain subversive cultural messages and that, by consuming them, children are unconsciously socialised and unwittingly influenced to accept cultural norms relating to, among other things, gender roles, race relations, power structures and class distinctions. This process of socialisation is especially effective through the medium of childrenâ€™s literature, especially those stories that make use of generic elements such as the archetypes found in fairy tales, and the fairy tales re-imagined and produced as films by the Walt Disney Company. A literature review confirms that gendered messages are present in the entertainment provided to children and highlights the most universal preconceptions of feminine roles in Western society. To determine if these gender stereotypes have evolved in recent years, the depiction of a beloved childrenâ€™s character, the fairy Tinker Bell, first imagined by author J.M. Barrie and later refashioned by Disney to become part of our collective imagination, is explored. A close analysis reviews the depiction of Tinker Bell in three different texts: Barrieâ€™s 1911 novel, Peter Pan , Disneyâ€™s 1953 animated classic of the same name, and the first instalment of Disneyâ€™s more recent series of movies in the FairiesÂ  franchise, Tinker BellÂ  (2008). The results indicate that the original Tinker Bell is a nontraditional female portrayed as a negative stereotype, but that the latest version of Tinker Bell is a non-traditional female portrayed in a positive manner. This shift in emphasis may indicate that gender stereotypes in the 21stÂ  century are consciously being reviewed.
INCARCERATION, TRANSFORMATION AND AWARENESS IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN NOVEL
Authors: Youssef Mariam
Published: January 2018

Â This article examines the theme of black male incarceration in the African American novel. Black male incarcerated characters are frequently presented as the most socially aware characters in the novel, in spite of their isolation. In different African American novels, black male incarcerated characters experience a transformation as a result of their incarceration that leads to a heightened awareness of their marginalisation as black men. Because of their compromised agency in incarceration, these characters are not able to express black masculinity in traditional ways. Using novels by Richard Wright, James Baldwin, John A. Williams and Ernest Gaines, I argue that black male incarcerated characters use their heightened awareness as an alternative method of expressing black masculinity.
Front Matter and Table of Contents
Authors: Journal BOSS
Published: January 2018

Introduction to BOSS
Springsteen, Tradition, and the Purpose of the Artist
Authors: Wolff William
Published: January 2018

In 2012, Bruce Springsteen delivered the keynote address at the South By Southwest Music Conference and Festival. His task was daunting: reconnect authenticity to a traditional approach to creating art. By bringing together ideas on authenticity, creativity, and culture, Springsteen’s talk joins a lineage of essays that defend poetry, creativity, and culture, including famous works by William Wordsworth and T.S. Eliot. In this article, I connect Springsteen’s ideas to the “folk process,” which leads to considering Wordsworth’s ideas on the voice of the common citizen and Eliot’s ideas on historical tradition. In the end, I consider Springsteen’s legacy as cultural ambassador for the arts.
Springsteen as Developmental Therapist: An Autoethnography
Authors: Dieser Rodney
Published: January 2018

Based on differing theories of moral development proposed by Lawrence Kohlberg, Martin Hoffman, and John Gibbs, this paper posits that listening to Bruce Springsteen’s music can increase moral growth. Scores of Springsteen songs parallel psychological techniques used to increase moral development, such as being exposed to two or more beliefs that are contradictory, social perspective-taking by listening to moral dilemmas, gaining empathy with the distress that another person experiences, hypothetical contemplation, and meta-ethical reflection. Through qualitative-based autoethnographical storytelling, the author outlines how his moral development was enabled through such Springsteen songs as “Factory,” “Highway Patrolman,” “Independence Day,” “Johnny 99,” and “Used Cars,” as well as two self-disclosures from Springsteen’s Live 1975-85 album.
Contributors
Authors: Journal BOSS
Published: January 2018

Contributors to BOSS
The Theological Virtues According to Bruce Springsteen
Authors: Gardner Andrew
Published: January 2018

Bruce Springsteen’s relationship to his Roman Catholic background is complex and multifaceted. This paper seeks to analyze the artist’s understanding of the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love as seen in the album Wrecking Ball (2012). By juxtaposing Springsteen’s understanding of these virtues with Catholicism’s Thomistic tradition, scholars can see how he draws upon this tradition while creating a more robust role for the virtue of hope. This analysis of Springsteen’s engagement in a theological discourse around the virtues of faith, hope, and love offers a fuller understanding of the artist’s commitment to visions of the American Dream.
Reviews
Authors: Authors Various
Published: January 2018

Reviews of Springsteen on Springsteen, Outlaw Pete, and Leading the Life You Want.
Diagnosing Discrete Event Systems Using Nominal Models Only
Authors: Pencolé Yannick , Steinbauer Gerald , Mühlbacher Clemens , Travé-Massuyès Louise
Published: January 2018

Complex technical systems usually show a dynamic behavior that is often conveniently represented with a discrete event model. Such a behavior is the result of dynamic components which interact with each other. Due to the complexity of technical systems faults are not totally avoidable. In order to deal with such faults diagnosing the system at run-time is of great interest. To perform such a diagnosis it is common to use fault models. Such models are in practice often hard to obtain. To address this problem we show a diagnosis approach for discrete event systems which uses the model of the nominal behavior only. In order to perform this diagnosis we adopt the well known idea of consistency based diagnosis.
The qSafe Project – Developing a Tool for Current Practice in Functional Safety Analysis
Authors: Grigoleit Florian , Holei Sebastian , Pleuss Andreas , Reiser Robert , Rhein Julian , Struss Peter , von Wedel Jana
Published: January 2018

Functional safety analysis (FSA), that is checking whether a designed artifact will perform safely even under the presence of failing components, has gained significant importance in different areas, including aeronautic and automotive systems. The same applies to failure-modes-and-effects analysis (FMEA) and fault-tree analysis (FTA) as the major contributing processes. FSA is labor- and time-consuming as well as error- prone, and would benefit from computer-based tool-support. Work on qualitative model-based systems has developed principled solutions, particularly to FMEA, but did not achieve the step to industrial practice. Rather than novel technical contributions, this paper discusses reasons for this fact and describes the qSafe* project, which aims at overcoming the obstacles and at making a major step towards producing tools that can support current practice.
A Pilot Study on the Use of Pronouns in Oral Productions of Spanish as a Second Language
Authors: Collewaert Kim , Vande Casteele An
Published: January 2018

In this paper, some preliminary results on the use of pronouns in oral discourse of language learners of Spanish will be discussed. The article mainly focuses on the use of different kinds of personal pronouns and the pro-drop phenomenon, namely the existence of a null subject, typical of the Spanish language. The absence of an explicit subject due to a rich verbal conjugation opposes Spanish to other languages, such as French, English and Dutch, where an explicit subject pronoun is obligatory.

As to investigate the use of the pronouns by language learners of Spanish, we compiled a corpus of oral productions of second language learners of Spanish who are all native speakers of Dutch and also learned French and English, which means that for them the pro-drop phenomenon is new. We will investigate which kinds of pronouns are used in which syntactic contexts and indicate in what contexts the use of a pronoun is not required. Next to this, we observe in our learners’ corpus an unnecessary repetition of proper names and an over-use of personal pronouns as subjects. This can be related to the concept of "over-explicitation" or "overspecification", whereby learners of a second language tend to use more explicit forms than necessary.
An improved diagnostic method for probabilistic consistency-based diagnosis
Authors: de Paula Bueno Marcos Luiz , Hommersom Arjen , Lucas Peter
Published: January 2018

In consistency-based diagnosis (CBD), abnormal behavior is sorted out based on de- viation from a normal behavior specification. Probabilities have been added to CBD for quantifying uncertainty on, e.g., the behavior of faulty components. While resulting in more complete models, the requirement of such uncertainty parameters goes in opposition to the original CBD motivation. The conflict measure stands closer to CBD by comput- ing solutions without the need of priors on candidates, however, its results might not be suitable when only partial observations are available. In this paper, we propose a method called the diagnostic coefficient, which better solves the partial observability case, while needing the same parameters as the conflict measure. The diagnostic coefficient is based on the idea that observations are conflicting if the observed outputs are discrepant with respect to alternative outputs that could have been observed. We report experiments with logical circuits where the diagnostic coefficient shows promising results compared to the conflict measure under various settings with missing observations.
Asymmetric Diagnosability Analysis of Discrete-Event Systems
Authors: Zanella Marina
Published: January 2018

The twin plant method is central in every research whose focus is checking the diagnosability of discrete-event systems (DESs). Although the property of diagnosability has been extended over time, and several proposals have been advanced to perform a distributed analysis, diagnosability checking still relies on the exploitation of the twin plant method. However, the twin plant structure is redundant, which is a drawback, above all if the considered DES observation is uncertain: in such a case, several distinct twin plants have to be built in order to check the diagnosability for increasing levels of uncertainty. A higher uncertainty level requires a twin plant of larger size. The paper first gives some preliminary thoughts to the reduction of the twin plant size. Next, on the ground that no contribution in the literature has altered the original state-based representation of the twin plant, the paper shows how to transform such a representation into a transition-based one. Finally, it reports some investigations aimed at reducing the effort needed to produce each twin plant: a twin plant inherent to a higher uncertainty level can be produced by incrementing the twin plant relevant to the lower level.
Flower Classification using Texture and Color Features
Authors: Shaparia Riddhi , Patel Narendra , Shah Zankhana
Published: January 2018

In this research paper, we have used texture and color features for flower classification. Standard database of flowers have used for experiments. The pre- processing like noise removal and segmentation for elimination of background are apply on input images. Texture and color features are extracted from the segmented images. Texture feature is extracted using GLCM (Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix) method and color feature is extracted using Color moment. For classification, neural network classifier is used. The overall accuracy of the system is 95.0 %.
Confined Masonry – Analysis, Design and Comparison
Authors: Desai Kushal , Patel S. B. , Agrawal V. V.
Published: January 2018

Considering the present scenario, it is observed that the response of the unreinforced masonry building during the earthquake conditions have resulted into significant damages in buildings and subsequent life loss. The conventional method of masonry construction adopted so far utilizes the same construction material as in confined masonry, however the construction technique differs for both. This study has considered the analysis, design and comparison of confined masonry wall with unreinforced masonry wall. The differences in the method of construction and the performance of both, under the seismic conditions has been considered through the study on a sample building. A user friendly tool in the form of Microsoft excel worksheet is to be generated to design a confined masonry wall. The study is aimed at determining the more economic construction between the unreinforced and confined masonry.
The Emerging Parties' Manifestos for the 2015 Spanish General Elections: a Comparative Analysis of Lexical Choices
Authors: Skorczynska Hanna
Published: January 2018

The study looks into the lexical choices made in the political manifestos of two new political parties participating in the 2015 Spanish general election: Ciudadanos and Podemos, which share similar programmatic goals and aim to reach voters dissatisfied with the dominating two big parties: the conservative PP and the socialist PSOE. The two manifestos are compared using the ‘compare corpora’ tool of Sketch Engine, and the keywords and their collocational patterns are analyzed with a special focus on evaluative adjectives. Finally, the two manifestos are also compared to the Spanish presidents’ inaugural speeches. The results suggest that the manifestos rely on distinct lexical choices, pointing to differences in the ideological stance. The manifesto of Podemos clearly breaks away from the traditional political discourse in Spain, while Ciudadanos is more conventional in this sense.
Use of That-Clauses After Reporting Verbs in Asian Learners’ Speech and Writing: Frequency, Verb Type, and That-Omission
Authors: Ishikawa Shin'Ichiro
Published: January 2018

That-clauses after reporting verbs (VTHAT) are widely used in L2 and L1 English. Previous studies have examined their frequency, common reporting verbs, and omission of the complementizer, but how varied learners use VTHAT in their writing and speech and how they differ from native speakers in usage of VTHAT has not been wholly elucidated. Therefore, using the International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English (ICNALE), we compared the uses of VTHAT by six groups of Asian learners of English (ALE) at different L2 proficiency levels and English native speakers (ENS). Our analyses have revealed that ALE use VTHAT less often than ENS, omit the complementizer more often both in speech and writing, and tend to use reporting verbs such as “think,” “believe,” “agree,” and “know.”
Leo-III Version 1.1 (System description)
Authors: Benzmüller Christoph , Steen Alexander , Wisniewski Max
Published: January 2018

Leo-III is an automated theorem prover for (polymorphic) higher-order logic which supports all common TPTP dialects, including THF, TFF and FOF as well as their rank-1 polymorphic derivatives. It is based on a paramodulation calculus with ordering constraints and, in tradition of its predecessor LEO-II, heavily relies on cooperation with external first-order theorem provers.

Unlike LEO-II, asynchronous cooperation with typed first-order provers and an agent-based internal cooperation scheme is supported. In this paper, we sketch Leo-III's underlying calculus, survey implementation details and give examples of use.
Study of Dynamic Response of Wall Panel Subjected to Blast Load
Authors: Shukla Palak , Desai Atul , Modhera Chetankumar
Published: January 2018

Now a days due to increase in the terrorist activities, it becomes necessary to study the response of building when subjected to blast loading. The front wall of the building has direct effect of blast load. In the present study typical reinforced concrete wall panel was consider for dynamic analysis under blast load scenario. The dynamic analysis was carried out using Single Degree of Freedom Blast Effects Design Spreadsheets (SBEDS). The parametric study was carried out to study the effect of compressive strength of concrete, percentage reinforcement, thickness of wall and unsupported length of wall on response of building under blast load scenario. The results were presented in form of displacement time history and pressure impulse diagrams. The results indicate that the displacement of RC wall panel decrease as the increase in the thickness of wall panel, grade of concrete and percentage of reinforcement, but with the increase in unsupported length of RC wall panel, the displacement increases. The mode of failure of RC wall panel under blast load scenario was predicted using pressure impulse diagram. It was observed that as the increase in unsupported length of shear wall, the shear wall was prone to fail in flexural failure mode in impulsive as well as quasi-static region. The results also indicate that as the increase in thickness of wall, percentage reinforcement and compressive strength of concrete, the shear wall was prone to fail in direct shear mode in impulsive region and flexural mode in quasi-static region.
Vibration Control of Building Subjected to Harmonic Excitation
Authors: Makwana Narayan B. , Mevada Snehal V. , Patel Vishal B.
Published: January 2018

This paper includes the study of behavior of a single degree of freedom system with viscous dampers subjected to harmonic excitation. In this study one story building is considered. The mathematical model of building subjected to harmonic excitation is obtained and its solution is obtained by state space method. The viscous damper is considered for the building with different percentage of damping. The response of building under resonance and non-resonance condition is obtained and it is observed that it can be significantly reduced by installing viscous damper. It is further observed that the linear viscous damper is more effective in reducing the responses for resonance case.
Model-Based Diagnosis Meets Combinatorial Testing For Generating an Abductive Diagnosis Model
Authors: Pill Ingo , Wotawa Franz
Published: January 2018

The diagnosis model is certainly a key element for any model-based diagnosis process. Experience shows though that in practice we often have no such model available for one or the other reason, so that in many projects we cannot draw on diagnosis processes when tackling problems. In this paper, we thus show how to improve on available automated processes for deriving a diagnostic model from standard simulation models as usually created during development. We delve in particular into the question how research in the context of combinatorial testing and fault injection can help in this respect, and consider several questions that arise.
Inexpensive Cost-Optimized Measurement Proposal for Sequential Model-Based Diagnosis
Authors: Rodler Patrick , Schmid Wolfgang , Schekotihin Konstantin
Published: January 2018

In this work we present strategies for (optimal) measurement computation and selection in model- based sequential diagnosis. In particular, assuming a set of leading diagnoses being given, we show how queries (sets of measurements) can be computed and optimized along two dimensions: expected number of queries and cost per query. By means of a suitable decoupling of two optimizations and a clever search space reduction the computations are done without any inference engine calls. For the full search space, we give a method requiring only a polynomial number of inferences and guarantee- ing query properties existing methods do not provide. Evaluation results using real-world problems indicate that the new method computes (virtually) optimal queries instantly independently of the size and complexity of the considered diagnosis problems.
On Active Learning Strategies for Sequential Diagnosis
Authors: Rodler Patrick
Published: January 2018

When diagnosing a faulty system one is often confronted with a large number of possible fault hypotheses. Sequential Diagnosis (SD) techniques aim at the localization or identification of the ac- tual fault with minimal cost or effort. SD can be viewed as an Active Learning (AL) task where the learner, trying to find some target hypothesis, formulates sequential queries to some oracle, thereby e.g. requesting additional system measurements. Several query selection measures (QSMs) for de- termining the best query to ask next have been proposed for AL. To date, few of them have been translated to and employed in SD. In this work, we account for this and analyze various QSMs wrt. to the discrimination power of their selected queries within the diagnostic hypotheses space. As a result, we derive superiority and equivalence relations between these QSMs and introduce improved versions of existing QSMs to overcome identified issues. The obtained picture gives a hint about which QSMs should preferably be used in SD to choose a query from a pool of candidates. Moreover, we deduce properties optimal queries wrt. QSMs must satisfy. Based on these, we devise an efficient heuristic search for optimal queries. As (preliminary) evaluation results indicate, the latter is especially beneficial in applications where query generation is costly, e.g. involving logical reasoning, and hence a pool of query candidates is not (cheaply) available.
EFEKTIVITAS PENGGUNAAN MODUL KERANG MUTIARA BERBASIS PENDEKATAN SAINTIFIK TERHADAP HASIL BELAJAR SISWA PADA MATA PELAJARAN BUDIDAYA DI SMKN 1 LEMBAR
Authors: Suryaningsih Septi , Muhlis Muhlis , Jamaluddin Jamaluddin
Published: January 2018

Abstrak. Penelitian ini bertujuan: untuk mengetahui efektivitas modul kerang mutiara berbasis pendekatan santifik terhadap hasil belajar siswa pada mata pelajaran budidaya di SMKN 1 Lembar, Lombok Barat. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode eksperimen semu. Penelitian ini dianalisis secara deskriptif persentase. Tingkat ketuntasan klasikal siswa 100 % dengan rata-rata hasil belajar siswa sebesar 88,74 %, Sehingga modul kerang mutiara berbasis pendekatan saintifik yang dikembangkan memenuhi kriteria standar penilaian bahan ajar dan efektif digunakan dalam pembelajaran siswa kelas XI SMKN 1 Lembar berbasis kemaritiman yang memiliki KKM Ã¢â°Â¥80.ÃÂ Kata Kunci: Modul kerang mutiara, Pendekatan Saintifik, Evektifitas hasil belajar
PENGARUH MODEL PEMBELAJARAN BERBASIS MASALAH (PBM) BERBANTUAN MULTIMEDIA TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN BERPIKIR KRITIS PESERTA DIDIK KELAS VII SMP NEGERI 2 MATARAM DITINJAU DARI KEMAMPUAN AKADEMIK
Authors: Susilawati Susilawati , Jamaluddin Jamaluddin , Bachtiar Imam
Published: January 2018

Abstrak. Pembelajaran berbasis masalah berbantuan multimedia merupakan model pembelajaran dan media pembelajaran yang dirancang secara terintegrasi. Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk mengetahui ÃÂ pengaruh model pembelajaran berbasis masalah (PBM) berbantuan multimedia terhadap kemampuan berpikir kritis peserta didik dan kemampuan akademik. Jenis penelitian ini adalah eksperimen semu (quasy experiment) dengan desain penelitain non Equivalent pretest-posttest control group design. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah peserta didik kelas VII SMP Negeri 2 Mataram Tahun Pelajaran 2017/2018, dan penentuan sampel dilakukan dengan ÃÂ Haphazard Sampling, sampel yang diambil dalam penelitian ini adalah peserta didik kelas VII sebanyak 4 (empat) kelas. Instrumen yang digunakan untuk mengukur kemampuan berpikir kritis adalah lembar observasi keterlaksanaan RPP dan tes uraian. DataÃÂ  dianalisis menggunakan uji Anova dua jalur (Two Way Anava). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa: (1) Model pembelajaran berbasis masalah berbantuan multimedia secara signifikan berpengaruh terhadap kemampuan berpikir kritis peserta didik; (2) Kemampuan akademik berpengaruh terhadap kemampuan berpikir kritis peserta didik; (3) Tidak ada interaksi antara model pembelajaran berbasis masalah berbantuan multimedia dengan kemampuan akademik terhadap kemampuan berpikir kritis.ÃÂ Kata Kunci: Model Pembelajaran Berbasis Masalah (PBM), Multimedia, Kemampuan Berpikir Kritis
PENGEMBANGAN PEMBELAJARAN SAINS BERORIENTASI IMAN DAN TAQWA
Authors: Wildan H.
Published: January 2018

Abstrak. Meningkatkan IMTAQ selalu muncul pertama sebagai tujuan pendidikan sains dalam setiap kurikulum pada semua jenis dan jenjang pendidikan. Namun, upaya guru untuk mengembangkan pembelajaranyang berorientasi kepada IMTAQ masih sangat sedikit, buku-buku pelajaran sains yang mengkaitkan antara materi sains dengan aspek imtaq sangat sedikit, kemampuan dan kemauan guru untuk mengembangkan pembelajaranberorientasi imtaq masih sangat kurang. Karena itu, guru dan/atau calon guru sains harus membekali dirinya, tidak hanya dengan penguasaan materi, pendekatan dan strategi pembelajaran yang cangkih, tetapi juga denganmenambah wawasan tentang pembelajaran (sains) yang berorientasi kepada imtaq, dan yang paling utama adalah kesadaran bahwa guru adalah profesi nurani.Kata Kunci: Pembelajaran Sains, ImtaqAbstract. Improving IMTAQ is always being the main objective of science education in every curriculum of all level of education. The teachersÃ¢â¬â¢ efforts to develop the IMTAQ-oriented teaching and learning, however, are very limited. Science books that relate the science with the IMTAQ aspect also very little. The teachers capacity and knowledge to develop the IMTAQ-oriented teaching materials is far from sufficient. For that purpose, teachers and teachers candidate should equip themselves not only with the material along with shopisticated teaching approaches and strategies , but also by exstending their ideas on teaching science that is oriented to improving the studentsÃ¢â¬â¢ IMTAQ, and by realizing that being teacher is heart-called profession.Keywords: Teaching Science, Imtaq
SERAPAN OPTIK POLIMER FILM PVA-TCA-MB YANG DIRADIASI SINAR GAMMA
Authors: Verawati Ni Nyoman Sri Putu
Published: January 2018

Abstrak: Pengaruh radiasi sinar gamma terhadap sifat optik dari poli vinil alkohol (PVA) yang dicampur dengan trichloro acetid acid (TCA) dan pewarna methilen blue (MB) dapat digunakan pada dosimetri dan pengukuran dosis radiasi sinar gamma telah dipelajari dengan menggunakan metode spektrofotometer. dosimeter telah diradiasi sampai dosis 14 kGy dengan menggunakan sinar gamma 60Co. Polimer ÃÂ film mengalami perubahan warna dari biru keunguan ke kuning akibat radiasi sinar gamma. Perubahan warna ini mengindikasikan terbentuknya asam kuat, dengan kenaikan dosis radiasi banyak ion klorin putus dari rantai karbon TCA dan akibat radiasi menyebabkan ion H+ dan OH- menjadi radikal bebas yang dihasilkan dari proses hidrolisis air dari molekul sampel, kemudian berkombinasi dalam bentuk asam. spektrum serapan telah diukur menggunakan spektrofotometer Uv-Vis pada rentang panjang gelombang 200-700 nm, menghasilkan penurunan serapan pada puncak 360 dan 440 nm dengan peningkatan dosis dan kenaikan serapan optik pada puncak 560 nm dengan kenaikan dosis radiasi.ÃÂ ÃÂ Kata kunci : Sifat optik, radiasi sinar gamma, polimer film PVA-TCA-MB, spektrum serapan optik.ÃÂ Abstract: The effect of gamma irradiation on optical propertiesÃÂ  of methylene-blue dyed poly vinyl alcohol (PVA) blended with trichloroacetid acid (TCA) for use in dosimetry and measurement of radiation dose in gamma rays have been studied using Uv-Visible spectrophotometer method. The dosimeters were irradiated for doses up 14 kGy using 60Co gamma rays source at a constant dose rate. The polymeric films undergo colour change from blue purplish to yellow due to radiation-induced. The changes of this colour indicated strong acid, by the increasing of radiation dose caused more chlorine ions break from carbon of TCA and radiation-induced H+ and OH- free radicals are generated from the hydrolysis of water molecules, they then combined to form acid. The absorption spectra were measured using Uv-Visible spectrophotometer in the wavelength range 200-700 nm, resulting in a decrease of the absorbance at 360 and 440 nm band peak with increasing dose and an increases of the absorbance at 560 nm band peak with increasing dose.ÃÂ Keywords: Optical properties, gamma irradiation, polymer film PVA-TCA-MB, optical absorption spectra.
PENGARUH MODEL PEMBELAJARAN KOOPERATIF TIPE TALKING STICK (TONGKAT BERBICARA) TERHADAP HASIL BELAJAR BIOLOGI SISWA KELAS X SMA NEGERI 2 LABUAPI TAHUN AJARAN 2011/2012
Authors: Hartati Nila , Artayasa Putu , Lestari Nur
Published: January 2018

Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh model pembelajaran kooperatif tipe Talking Stick (Tongkat berbicara) terhadap hasil belajar biologi siswa kelas X SMA Negeri 2 Labuapi Tahun Ajaran 2011/2012. Jenis penelitian ini adalah eksperimen. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah semua siswa kelas X di SMA Negeri 2 Labuapi dan sampel penelitian adalah kelas XA yang berjumlah 27 orang sebagai kelas eksperimen dan kelas XC yang berjumlah 30 orang sebagai kelas kontrol. Sampel ditentukan dengan menggunakan teknik cluster random sampling. Data hasil penelitian berupa hasil belajar kognitif (nilai Post-test), hasil belajarÃÂ  afektif (rubrik penilaian afektif) dan lembar observasi aktivitas guru. Untuk menguji hipÃÂ³tesis digunakan uji-t polled varians ÃÂ terhadap hasil belajar (Kognitif dan afektif) antara kelas ekeperimen dan kontrol dengan taraf kesalahan 5% menunjukkan nilai thitung > ttabel (2,583 >1,673). Maka dapat disimpulkan bahwa penerapan model pembelajaran kooperatif tipe Talking Stick (Tongkat Berbicara) berpengaruh terhadap hasil belajar biologi siswa kelas X SMA Negeri 2 Labuapi tahun ajaran 2011/2012.Kata kunci : pembelajaran kooperatif, Talking Stick (Tongkat Berbicara) , hasil belajar.Abstract: This research was to know the effect of cooperative learning model by Talking Stick type the result learn of biology to students grade anÃÂ  SMA Negeri 2 Labuapi in academic year 2011/2012. This type of research is an eksperimental. Population in this research were students in class X SMA Negeri 2 Labuapi and sample at this research are XA grade student amounting to 27 people as a class experimental and XC class student who numbered 30 persons as the control class. Sampel were determined using cluster random sampling technique. Data from studies of cognitive result larning (the post-test), affective result learning (affective assessment rubric), and teacher activity sheet. To test the hypothesis used polled varince t-test against the result of learning (Cognitive and Affective) between classes experimental and control with and error level of ÃÂ 5% shows the valueÃÂ  tcount > ttable ÃÂ (2.583 >1,673). It can be concluded that the effect of cooperative learning model types talking stick the result learn biology class X SMA Negeri 2 Labuapi academic year 2011/2012.Key words: Cooperative Learning, Talking Stick, Learning Outcome
PENGARUH PENERAPAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN DISKUSI KELAS DENGAN TEKNIK BUZZ GROUP TERHADAP PRESTASI BELAJAR SISWA KIMIA MATERI POKOK HIDROKARBON
Authors: Rahmayanti Nuril , Muntari Muntari , Siahaan Jackson
Published: January 2018

Abstrak: Penerapan model pembelajaran diskusi kelas teknik buzz group bertujuan meningkatkan prestasi belajar siswa materi pokok hidrokarbon. Penelitian dilaksanakan pada kelas X SMAN 1 Gunungsari.ÃÂ  Fokus penelitian ini adalah nilai post-test yang dianalisis dengan uji-t. Diperoleh thitung sebesar 2,23. Nilai thitung dikonsultasikan pada ttabel dengan taraf signifikan 5% diperoleh ttabel 1,684. Nilai thitung..> ttabel sehingga penerapan model pembelajaran diskusi kelasÃÂ  teknik buzz group berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap prestasi belajar kimia siswa kelas X SMAN 1 Gunungsari.Kata kunci : ÃÂ  model pembelajaran diskusi kelas, teknik buzz group, prestasi belajar.ÃÂ Abstract: The implementation of Class Discussion model through buzz group technique, in increasing studentsÃ¢â¬â¢ achievement in Hydrocarbon materials. The research is conducted on first year students senior high school at SMAN 1 Gunungsari. The focus of this research was on the post-test which analyzed by using t-test.ÃÂ  It found t-count is 2.23. The value of t-count consults to t-table with 5 % of level significant found t-table is 1.684. The value of t-count > t-table, that the implementation of Class Discussion model through buzz group technique has a significant influence toward studentsÃ¢â¬â¢ achievement chemistry course in first year senior high school at SMAN 1 Gunungsari.Key words: class discussion model, buzz group technique, learning achievement.