bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
POSSIBILITY OF THE MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF COUNTERACTION APPLICATION TO THE ASSESSMENT OF TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY LEVEL
Authors: Dormidontov A. V. , Mironova L. V. , Mironov V. S.
Published: July 2018

The air transport infrastructure objects security is the state level problem as the part of national and public security of the country. One of the directions in this field is the vulnerability assessment procedure for transport infrastructure objects and on the basis of this procedure the elaboration of ensuring their safety recommendations takes place. The mathematical substantiation of recommendations and their possible implementation is an important part of the marked problem. The possibility of mathematical model of counteraction application, which assesses the offender’s potential and the security’s potential based on evaluative dimensions of the offender and the security system, is under consideration. Assume as a basis the mathematical description model of interaction nature between defender-offender system components, the model known as the competition predator-prey model with quantitative qualitative characteristic parameters of the two systems is taken. The model is modified classical model of Lotka-Volterra competition, which allows us to estimate changes in the danger level formation with reference to the transport infrastructure object and the object security level. The analysis of possible model states is made. The control parameters of the model are described. The mathematical apparatus, which is able to evaluate the danger level, the level of transport infrastructure objects protection, to reveal parameters reducing security system potential and to perform the control parameters data is given. The presented mathematical model identifies the parameters which reduce the security system potential and controls these parameters. The management can be carried out for the purpose of system transfer from one steady state to another, preservation of its operability, increase of its operation cycle and compliance to modern safety requirements. The system of Defender-offender equations correct usage allows us to justify the configurable security system of transport infrastructure objects on the basis of the specified security level.
Rolling back Modernity: Selective Tradition and Contemporary Literary Politics in the South Pacific
Authors: Lawn Jennifer
Published: July 2018

This article relates Raymond Williams’s concept of “selective tradition” to the shaping of literary history in Aotearoa New Zealand. It makes the case for the ongoing salience of Williams’s narrative of modernity as a “long revolution,” and his sense of the threats to democratic and cultural participation around the turn of the 21st century, as a framework for situating recent cultural politics. The article closes with some suggestions for possible future directions for the development of locally-based materialist literary criticism.
An Overlapless Incident Management Maturity Model for Multi-Framework Assessment (ITIL, COBIT, CMMI-SVC)
Authors: Aguiar João , Pereira Ruben , Braga Vasconcelos José , Bianchi Isaias
Published: July 2018

Aim/Purpose: This research aims to develop an information technology (IT) maturity model for incident management (IM) process that merges the most known IT frameworks’ practices. Our proposal intends to help organizations overcome the current limitations of multiframework implementation by informing organizations about frameworks’ overlap before their implementation.

Background: By previously identifying frameworks’ overlaps it will assist organizations during the multi-framework implementation in order to save resources (human and/or financial).

Methodology: The research methodology used is design science research (DSR). Plus, the authors applied semi-structured interviews in seven different organizations to demonstrate and evaluate the proposal.

Contribution: This research adds a new and innovative artefact to the body of knowledge.

Findings: The proposed maturity model is seen by the practitioners as complete and useful. Plus, this research also reinforces the frameworks’ overlap issue and concludes that some organizations are unaware of their actual IM maturity level; some organizations are unaware that they have implemented practices of other frameworks besides the one that was officially adopted.

Recommendations for Practitioners: Practitioners may use this maturity model to assess their IM maturity level before multi-framework implementation. Moreover, practitioners are also incentivized to communicate further requirements to academics regarding multi-framework assessment maturity models.

Recommendation for Researchers: Researchers may explore and develop multi-frameworks maturity models for the remaining processes of the main IT frameworks.

Impact on Society: This research findings and outcomes are a step forward in the development of a unique overlapless maturity model covering the most known IT frameworks in the market thus helping organizations dealing with the increasing frameworks’ complexity and overlap.

Future Research: Overlapless maturity models for the remaining IT framework processes should be explored.
A System Architecture for Live Immersive 3D-Media Transcoding over 5G Networks
Authors: Doumanoglou Alexandros , Zioulis Nikolaos , Griffin David , Serrano Javier , Phan Truong Khoa , Jiménez David , Zarpalas Dimitrios , Álvarez Federico , Rio Miguel , Daras Petros
Published: July 2018

The upcoming 5G networks, bring Network Function Virtualization (NFV) capabilities enabling deployment of application service intelligence on their Next Generation Core (NGC). Application specific logic is packaged into Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) so that their instantiation and deployment can be done at any node of the NGC, with their management and orchestration being maintained by the 5G infrastructure. However, such management cannot be optimal without application context. In this paper, we propose a 5G oriented system architecture for a next generation augmented virtuality tele-immersive two-player video game. In the presented video game, real-time 3D-Reconstruction technology is utilized to create 3D avatars of the players and embed them inside the game environment. The application also supports real-time spectating of the game action by a considerable amount of spectators that join the live game via client software designed for desktop PCs, smartphones and tablets, connected through mobile or fixed access networks. To distribute the 3D traffic to such a number of consumers that have different device capabilities and are located at varying geographical locations while offering the highest possible Quality of Experience, is a challenging task. One contemporary way to address this problem is via adaptive streaming. To realize this concept, real-time 3D-Media Transcoders need to be employed. The proposed system architecture considers packaging the aforementioned 3D-Media Transcoders as VNFs that can be deployed on 5G infrastructure. In the paper, it is shown that such an architecture can decrease costs for a given level of offered QoE, with evident benefits for the game service's shareholders. While the application type presented in this paper is fixed, the proposed system architecture can be adopted by other applications of similar context with similar benefits gained from the flexible deployment of virtualised applications in 5G networks.
Disability-Adjusted Life Year attributable to paratyphoid fever in 2015 for 5-14 year-old males
Authors: Guefradj Najet
Published: July 2018

This layer represents the percentage of total Disability-Adjusted Life Year attributable to paratyphoid fever for 5-14 year-old males in 2015.

One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of "healthy" life. The sum of DALYs across a population help to quantify the burden of disease, and to evaluate the gap between current health status and an ideal health situation. Data for other age ranges are also available in the table.

Estimates and additional related resources can be found in the Global Burden of Study here: http://ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-2015

For more information, visit the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation website: http://www.healthdata.org/gbd

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Antalya-Finike yöresi portakal bahçelerinde kullanılan sulama sularının kalitelerinin belirlenmesi
Authors: Öktüren Asri Filiz , Demirtaş Elif Işıl , Arı Nuri
Published: July 2018

Türkiye portakal üretiminin % 25’i Antalya ilinde
gerçekleştirilmektedir. İlçeler arasında Finike portakal yetiştiriciliği
açısından ayrı bir öneme sahiptir. Yetiştiriciliği etkileyen önemli
faktörlerden biri olması nedeniyle, bu çalışmada portakal bahçelerinde
kullanılan sulama sularının kalite özellikleri incelenmiştir. Bu amaçla bölgedeki
20 adet kuyu suyundan su örnekleri alınarak pH, EC, Ca+2, Mg+2,
Na+, K+, CO3-2, HCO3-,
CI-, SO4-2 ve B analizleri yapılmıştır. Analiz
sonuçlarına göre sodyum adsorpsiyon oranı (SAO), % Na ve bakiye sodyum karbonat
(BSK) değerleri hesaplanarak kalite sınıfları belirlenmiştir. Araştırma
sonuçlarına göre incelenen örneklerin % 75’inin C2 (250-750 µmhos/cm
aralığında yer alan 15 örnek) ve % 20’sinin C3 (750-2250 µmhos/cm
aralığında yer alan 4 örnek) tuzluluk sınıfına girdiği belirlenmiştir. Sulama
suyu örneklerinin tamamı sodyum adsorbsiyon oranı (SAO) açısından 1.sınıf
sulardır. Sonuç olarak incelenen sulama suyu örneklerinin portakal
yetiştiriciliğinde verim ve kalite kayıplarına yol açmadan kullanılabileceği
belirlenmiştir.
Penyadapan Tanaman Karet (Hevea brasiliensis Muell Arg.) di Kebun Sumber Tengah, Jember, Jawa Timur
Authors: Ismail Muhamad , Supijatno .
Published: July 2018

Tujuan dari kegiaatan magang adalah untuk meningkatkan keahlian teknik dan manajerial. Kegiatan magang dilaksanakan dari bulan Februari sampai Mei 2012 di Perkebunan Sumber Tengah, Jember, Jawa Timur. Metode magang yang digunakan adalah metode langsung dan tidak langsung. Pengumpulan data yang dilaksanakan pada kegiatan magang menggunakan metode langsung (data primer) dan metode tidak langsung (data sekunder). Data primer adalah informasi yang didapatkan secara langsung melalui pengamatan di lapangan maupun diskusi dengan KHL, mandor dan asisten kebun, sedangkan data sekunder diperoleh dari berbagai literatur. Sistem penyadapan tanaman karet yang dilakukan di Kebun Sumber Tengah sudah cukup baik mulai dari kapasitas penyadapan sampai sistem pengangkutan. Rata-rata persentase pohon tersadap di Afdeling Sumber Jambe yaitu 90.98%. Usia, pendidikan, dan pengalaman penyadap tidak menentukan kelas sadap. Kedalaman sadap di Afdeling Sumber Jambe yaitu 0.9-1.2 mm/sadap sudah sesuai dengan rekomendasi dari Balit Getas yaitu 1-1.5 mm/sadap. Ketepatan dosis stimulansia cair yang digunakan di Afdeling Sumber Jambe sudah sesuai standar yang dianjurkan yaitu 1 g/pohon/bulan tetapi ketepatan waktu aplikasi belum sesuai dengan sistem sadap yang digunakan. Terdapat beberapa aplikasi stimulansia gas yang tidak sesuai dengan standar. Kapasitas pengangkutan lateks dan lump di Afdeling Sumber Jambe sudah cukup.
Manajemen Pemupukan Tanaman Kelapa Sawit (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) pada Area Marjinal di Kabupaten Kotawaringin Timur, Kalimantan Tengah
Authors: Octaviany Weni Riska , Hariyadi .
Published: July 2018

Kegiatan penelitian telah dilaksanakan pada bulan Februari hingga Mei 2012 di Kotawaringin Timur, Kalimantan Tengah. Kegiatan penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan pengetahuan tentang budidaya kelapa sawit, memperoleh pengetahuan teknis dan manajerial perkebunan kelapa sawit, serta secara khusus mempelajari manajemen pemupukan tanaman kelapa sawit. Pengumpulan data dan informasi dilakukan dengan metode langsung dan metode tidak langsung. Metode langsung dilakukan untuk memperoleh data primer di lapangan melalui pengamatan mulai dari persiapan pemupukan sampai pelaksanaan pemupukan dengan prinsip 5T, diskusi langsung dengan manajer dan asisten kebun sebagai pekerja. Metode tidak langsung dilakukan untuk memperoleh data sekunder seperti kondisi umum perusahaan, kondisi iklim dan jenis tanah, kondisi tanaman, struktur organisasi, data produksi dan data yang terkait dengan kegiatan pemupukan. Data primer dan sekunder dianalisis dengan metode deskriptif dan kuantitatif. Pelaksanaan pemupukan di kebun ini secara umum belum cukup baik mulai dari pengadaan pupuk sampai pelaksanaan pemupukan. Efektifitas dan efisiensi pemupukan belum sepenuhnya sesuai prinsip 5T. Oleh karena itu pengawasan yang lebih baik dari mandor pupuk dan asisten kebun harus ditingkatkan guna memperbaiki kualitas pemupukan berikutnya.
Pengusahaan Mawar Potong di di Mayungan, Bali
Authors: Sudarsono Wahyu Arif , Sukma Dewi , Kartika Juang Gema
Published: July 2018

Mawar merupakan salah satu produk tanaman hias unggulan Indonesia. Tanaman ini memerlukan pengelolaan yang intensif dari persiapan bahan tanam hingga pengelolaan pasca panen. Kegiatan magang bertujuan untuk meningkatkan pengetahuan, kemampuan, dan keterampilan mahasiswa dalam budidaya mawar potong. Kegiatan penelitian dilaksanakan pada bulan Februari hingga Juni 2009 di Mayungan, Bali. Data primer dan sekunder yang bersifat kuantitatif (numeric) seperti pertumbuhan, panjang tangkai, dan hasil produksi dianalisis dengan menggunakan analisis kuantitatif menggunakan rata-rata dan standar deviasi, sedangkan data yang bersifat kualitatif dianalisis dengan menggunakan analisis deskriptif. Penanganan pasca panen yang meliputi pengumpulan bunga yang telah dipotong, pengangkutan ke packing house, sortasi dan seleksi kualitas, pengikatan, pembungkusan, penyimpanan, dan pengangkutan.
ANÁLISE BIBLIOMÉTRICA DE PUBLICAÇÕES NA TEMÁTICA DO BIG DATA UTILIZANDO O VOSviewer
Authors: Correa Sara Rodrigues , Machado Ricardo Luiz
Published: July 2018

Este trabalho teve como objetivo identificar a ocorrência do tema Big data associado aos negócios em pesquisas de natureza científica. Para atingir seus objetivos foi realizada uma pesquisa bibliométrica, utilizando o software VOSviewer. Os dados foram extraídos da plataforma Web of Science. Os resultados obtidos permitiram identificar as palavras com maior índice de ocorrência nos artigos, as datas em que foram publicados e os autores com maior número de pesquisas realizadas na área. Como principal conclusão do trabalho foi constatado que ainda é baixo o índice de publicação de trabalhos científicos associando o termo big data aos negócios.
Os Policiais foram alocados com justiça? A percepção de justiça organizacional sobre a alocação funcional de Agentes e Escrivães da Policia Civil do Distrito Federal.
Authors: Pedron Helder Arns , Torres Cláudio Vaz , Nascimento Thiago Gomes
Published: July 2018

A percepção de justiça tem sido apontada como um dos aspectos fundamentais a serem investigados nas organizações e que tem implicações diretas para a satisfação dos empregados, seu comprometimento, desempenho, dentre outros fatores relacionados ao comportamento organizacional. Neste estudo se investiga a percepção de justiça com relação Ã  alocação da força de trabalho, ou lotação funcional, da Polícia Civil do Distrito Federal (PCDF) dentre os postos existentes em sua estrutura, sob o enfoque da abordagem tridimensional de justiça organizacional: justiça distributiva, de procedimentos e interacional. O assunto possui alta relevância tanto para os servidores, os quais possuem diversas motivações para trabalhar em um posto ou outro, quanto para a sociedade, a qual anseia por um serviço público de qualidade. Uma versão adaptada da escala de percepção de justiça organizacional (Mendonça et al., 2003) foi administrada a 125 policiais dos dois maiores departamentos de atividade fim da PCDF. Análises fatoriais exploratórias e confirmatórias sugeriram que a estrutura fatorial da escala foi adequada para descrever a percepção de justiça organizacional na instituição. Os policiais relataram mais justiça interacional (M=3,01; DP= 1,09); seguida pora justiça distributiva (M=2,19; DP= 1,04); e justiça de procedimentos (M=2,10; DP= 1,02). Foi observada diferença significativa em relação Ã  justiça distributiva e de procedimento, de maneira que os policiais do Departamento de Polícia Circunscricional relataram maior percepção de justiça quanto Ã s lotações do que os do Departamento de Polícia Especializada. Observou-se ainda que as mulheres perceberam mais justiça distributiva do que os homens. Os resultados são discutidos em termos de inovação nos mecanismos de alocação da força de trabalho, considerando-se os efeitos da percepção de justiça organizacional sobre os policiais.
Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung ja, aber wie? Standards für qualitätsvolle Beteiligungsprozesse.
Authors: Arbter Kerstin
Published: July 2018

Damit Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung der Öffentlichkeit, der Politik und der Verwaltung nützt, muss sie qualitätsvoll durchgeführt werden. Daher entwickelte eine interministerielle Arbeitsgruppe unter Beteiligung von Ministerien, Interessenvertretungen, NGOs und externen FachexpertInnen im Rahmen eines Projekts im Auftrag des Bundes­kanzler­amtes und des Lebensministeriums "Standards der Öffentlich­keits­beteiligung". Die Standards wurden im Juli 2008 vom Ministerrat beschlossen und damit im Bereich der österreichischen Bundesverwaltung zur Anwendung empfohlen. Sie sollen nun VerwaltungsmitarbeiterInnen bei der konkreten Durchführung qualitätsvoller Beteiligungsprozesse unter­stützen. Die Standards der Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung wurden selbst in einem partizipativen Prozess entwickelt. Zu Beginn wurde ein gemeinsames Begriffsverständnis zur Öffentlichkeit und zu den drei Intensitätsstufen der Beteiligung (Information, Konsultation und Kooperation) geschaffen. Danach wurden Standards zu den drei Phasen eines Beteiligungsprozesses, der Vorbereitungsphase, der Durchführungsphase und der Monitoring- und Evaluierungsphase nach Abschluss des Prozesses, formuliert. Erste Anwendungsversuche – einerseits beim Konsultationsprozess zum Entwurf der Standards selbst, andererseits bei einem ersten Pilotprojekt – zeigen, dass die Standards der Öffentlich­keitsbeteiligung durchaus praxistauglich sind. Auch für elektronisch unterstützte Beteiligungs­prozesse sollen die Standards ein hilfreiches Qualitätsfundament bieten.
Sustainable E-Participation through participatory experiences in education
Authors: Maier-Rabler Ursula , Huber Stefan
Published: July 2018

The understanding of participation as a political matter has changed back and forth over the years. The latest twist back to appreciative attributions towards participation is fuelled by the development of the Internet, and especially the Social Web. Citizen participation is unanimously seen as an essential precondition for Deliberative-Collaborative eDemocracy (Petrik, 2010) enabled by Web 2.0. This paper considers participatory culture and its specific political, cultural, societal, and educational characteristics as a prerequisite for e-participation and argues that social media literacy is indispensable for e-participation to be sustainable. Young people’s affinity spaces (Jenkins, et.al., 2006) can only lay down the foundations for social media literacy, but their further development depends on education. Political Education would be well advised to adapt innovative pedagogical approaches to the acquirement of new media literacy. This paper introduces an exemplary educational tool – predominately but not exclusively for political/civic education – namely the website PoliPedia.at. Teachers can use it to deliberately create a balanced space for collaboration between Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives. PoliPedia – as a participative online tool – has the potential to facilitate participation experience in political/civic education and supports social media education. Thereby the embedding of technology in pedagogical and societal conceptualizations is crucial.
The Expressive Turn of Citizenship in Digital Late Modernity
Authors: Svensson Jakob
Published: July 2018

The purpose of this paper is to connect the idea of expressive rationality to current debates on citizenship and political participation online. Socializing, cultural consumption/ production, identity management, information and publication strategies are both different and accentuated in digital, networked and late modern environments. In the paper I argue that the kind of network sociability that is emerging today favours an expressive form of rationality. I also claim that expressive rationality transcends the bipolar instrumental – communicative dimension that has been so important for normative theorizing in Political (and Social) Sciences and hence is a more rewarding theoretical concept for understanding political participation in digital late modernity.
Public Agility and Change in a Network Environment
Authors: Van Engers Tom , Boer Alexander
Published: July 2018

Preparing for change is increasingly core business for governmental organizations. The networked society and the increasing connectedness of governmental organizations have as much impact on the complexity of the change process as the complexities of the corpus of law. Change is not only driven by changes in the law; changes in the organization’s environment often create a need to redesign business processes, reallocate roles and responsibilities, and reorder tasks. Moreover, preparations for change are not limited to the internal processes and systems of these organizations. Propagation of changes to network partners and redesign of network arrangements can be an enormous challenge. In the AGILE project, we develop a design method, distributed service architecture, and supporting tools that enable organizations - administrative and otherwise - to orchestrate their law-based services in a networked environment. This paper explains the Agile approach and describes some of its key principles.
Simply slacktivism? Internet participation in Finland
Authors: Christensen Henrik Serup
Published: July 2018

Following an initial euphoria over the democratising potential of the Internet, sceptic voices contend that participation via the Internet may increase existing inequalities and even weaken the influence of citizens. A central critique claims that the digital activities are nothing more than slacktivism, i.e. activities that enhance the feel good factor of the participant but have no impact on real life political outcomes. This study examines three accusations of slacktivism levelled against online participants: that they are detached from formal politics and therefore do not aim to influence political outcomes, that they are lazy citizens choosing easily accessible digital forms of engagement over more effective traditional activities, and that they are incapable of comprehending the functioning of the political system. The results suggest that there is little reason to be worried over any negative impact of the Internet on civic engagement, since the virtual participants are both active and competent citizens. In this sense, the accusation of slacktivism against the participants appears to be misguided.
The Potential of Metadata for Linked Open Data and its Value for Users and Publishers
Authors: Zuiderwijk Anneke , Jeffery Keith , Janssen Marijn
Published: July 2018

Public and private organizations increasingly release their data to gain benefits such as transparency and economic growth. The use of these open data can be supported and stimulated by providing considerable metadata (data about the data), including discovery, contextual and detailed metadata. In this paper we argue that metadata are key enablers for the effective use of Linked Open Data (LOD). We illustrate the potential of metadata by 1) presenting an overview of advantages and disadvantages of metadata derived from literature, 2) presenting metadata requirements for LOD architectures derived from literature, workshops and a questionnaire, 3) describing a LOD metadata architecture that meets the requirements and 4) showing examples of the application of this architecture in the ENGAGE project. The paper shows that using metadata with the appropriate metadata architecture can yield considerable benefits for LOD publication and use, including improving find ability, accessibility, storing, preservation, analysing, comparing, reproducing, finding inconsistencies, correct interpretation, visualizing, linking data, assessing and ranking the quality of data and avoiding unnecessary duplication of data. The Common European Research Information Format (CERIF) can be used to build the metadata architecture and achieve the advantages.
Determining Citizens’ Opinions About Stories in the News Media
Authors: Wandhöfer Timo , Taylor Steve , Walland Paul , Geana Ruxandra , Weichselbaum Robert , Fernandez Miriam , Sizov Sergej
Published: July 2018

We describe a method whereby a governmental policy maker can discover citizens’ reaction to news stories. This is particularly relevant in the political world, where governments’ policy statements are reported by the news media and discussed by citizens. The work here addresses two main questions: whereabouts are citizens discussing a news story, and what are they saying? Our strategy to answer the first question is to find news articles pertaining to the policy statements, then perform internet searches for references to the news articles’ headlines and URLs. We have created a software tool that schedules repeating Google searches for the news articles and collects the results in a database, enabling the user to aggregate and analyse them to produce ranked tables of sites that reference the news articles. Using data mining techniques we can analyse data so that resultant ranking reflects an overall aggregate score, taking into account multiple datasets, and this shows the most relevant places on the internet where the story is discussed. To answer the second question, we introduce the WeGov toolbox as a tool for analysing citizens’ comments and behaviour pertaining to news stories.  We first use the tool for identifying social network discussions, using different strategies for Facebook and Twitter. We apply different analysis components to analyse the data to distil the essence of the social network users’ comments, to determine influential users and identify important comments.
Fostering eGovernment as State Social Responsibility (SSR): Case Study of an Australian City Council
Authors: Karna Sinara Rao , Gupta Divya Kirti
Published: July 2018

Democracies around the world now face Citizen-apathy. This is a concern now more than ever faced by countries around the globe. eGovernment is undoubtedly a platform to deliberate and enable citizens regain confidence and faith in democratic  processes. Citizens now seek Verifiable, Open, Transparent, Empathetic, Responsive and Sensitive Electronic Democracy and Government (VOTERS EDG, Karna, 2012). Similar to corporate world, there are voices stressing on govenments for the need to understand the stakeholders, their involvement, relationships and responsibilities of a state in eGovernance. Citizens everywhere now demand Verifiable, Open, Transparent, Empathetic, Responsive and Sensitive Electronically Democratic Government as a State Social Responsibity (SSR). Peoples movements and outbursts against authorities with the help of Word of Mouse (Karna, 2012) have established that transparent and open governance is the need of the hour. This paper presents findings of the study conducted in an Australian City Council for preparing the city council for ‘City e-readiness’ to initiate e-Government activities. We propose the idea of ‘Centrality of Citizens’ in context of eGovernment. We further build upon the original concept of deeming eGovernment as ‘State Social Responsibility’ (SSR) (Karna, 2010), by governments at all levels.
The Impact of Public Transparency in Fighting Corruption
Authors: Vieira James Batista
Published: July 2018

This paper is an attempt to shed light on the causes of corruption through empirical analysis of the impact of public transparency mechanisms on the frequency of improbities in Brazilian municipalities. First, we have presented a new model of corrupt agent´s utility function to better explain the results, and then some empirical evidences in favor of the hypotheses that E-government mechanisms are negatively associated with improbities in Brazilian local government.
Internet Aggregators Constructing the Political Right Wing in Japan
Authors: Kaigo Muneo
Published: July 2018

The Matome Saito are edited popular topic threads of the Ni-Channel anonymous bulletin board. The information on the Matome Saito is efficiently and concisely edited for those who do not usually access the vast Ni-Channel forum. This paper overviews the state and mechanism of the Ni-Channel forum of Japan, the edited blogs of Ni-Channel called Matome Saito, and aggregation of Matome Saito in relation to online aggregation and politics, with a focus on Japan and the December 2012 election.  This paper examines the tone argument of the Matome Saito aggregation by conducting a content analysis of 148 politically related threads from November 16, 2012 to December 20, 2012 spanning the time period following the dissolving of the Japanese government by Prime Minister Noda to five days after the election.
Parliamentary Information Visualization as a Means for Legislative Transparency and Citizen Empowerment?
Authors: Papaloi Aspasia , Gouscos Dimitris
Published: July 2018

The objective of this article is to highlight the contribution and importance of parliamentary information visualization (PIV) with a view to legislative transparency and citizen empowerment. The constant appeal for parliamentary openness regarding information on laws and bills and accountability of elected representatives calls for transparency in parliamentary procedures and at several areas of parliamentary informatics, in order to enhance democratic control and re-establish constituents’ trust. On the other hand, the provision of easy to understand and analyze information plays a central role to the achievement of transparency. In this respect, this paper provides an overview of the characteristics and capabilities of information visualization that can contribute to delineating the institutional, but also technical possibilities and constraints of achieving legislative transparency. On the basis of this overview, it is attempted to highlight some causal relationships between parliamentary openness, legislative transparency and parliamentary information visualization, and discuss the potential and limitations of PIV not only in terms of technical solutions but also with respect to human factors and political aspects that need to be considered as further determining the success or failure of PIV efforts. In this line of thought, the concluding section of the article provides a discussion on the strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats that can be identified for parliamentary information visualization, as well as on dimensions and specific checkpoints that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of PIV efforts, as regards the end objective of citizen empowerment.
From "open up the policy-making process" towards “open policy designs”
Authors: Cruz-Rubio Cesar N.
Published: July 2018

Due progressive influence of the Open-Government (OpGov) movement as an emerging paradigm over several nation state-reforms and over debates and processes around the world (Ramírez-Alujas & Cruz-Rubio, 2012) this paper seeks to identify and explore the main elements in defining and analyzing policy designs in the face of the Open Government perspective. Specifically, this effort addresses several questions: What policy-design dimensions (tools, instruments and rationales) may define a policy design as an “open policy design”? What directions should take policy-research in order to cope adequately with this (presumably) new subject of study?
The Enabling Effects of Open Government Data on Collaborative Governance in Smart City Contexts
Authors: Bartenberger Martin , Grubmüller Verena
Published: July 2018

The term "smart city" has been strongly promoted since the late 1990s, yet its concrete meaning remains blurry. In this article, we shed light on two elements that many “smart cities” claim to pursue: open data and collaborative/participatory governance. Notably, we investigate whether smart city models that are based on an open data approach constitute a suitable environment for collaborative governance processes. Therefore, we introduce a comprehensive model of collaborative governance which allows us to derive theoretical assumptions regarding the influence of open data on collaborative processes in a smart city context. Based on a case study model, we try to find empirical evidence for our assumptions in three cities. However, only minor evidence for an existing influence can be found, which we explain with insufficient understanding about the potentials of open data and therefore lacking strategies how to use them for fostering collaborative processes.
Towards a Methodology for Publishing Linked Open Statistical Data
Authors: Petrou Irene , Meimaris Marios , Papastefanatos George
Published: July 2018

The number of open government initiatives and directives around the globe with focused interest on publishing large amounts of data on the Web as “open” is increasing rapidly in the recent years. Opening up data aims for citizens, scientists and organizations to easily access, discover and exploit the data and consequently to benefit out of them. As a result, there has been an emerging need of integrating and representing those data in transparent and reusable ways, with high degree of interoperability which will further facilitate the discovery of new connections and insights by linking data coming from disperse sources. Statistical data published either by government bodies or by national statistical authorities are used for policy and decision making purposes, as they present important socioeconomic indicators. In this paper, we present a generic methodology describing the basic steps and overall model to publish statistical data coming from tabular data sources or relational databases in the form of Linked Open Data.
What’s in a name? A comparison of ‘open government’ definitions across seven Open Government Partnership members
Authors: Clarke Amanda , Francoli Mary
Published: July 2018

No longer restricted to access to information laws and accountability measures, “open government” is now associated with a broad range of goals and functions, including public participation, open data, the improvement of public services and government efficiency. The 59 country strong Open Government Partnership (OGP) suggests that consensus on the value of open government is emerging amongst public officials. Similarly, academics have shown a renewed interest in open government as they discuss, debate and critique the meaning and role of open government reforms today. Yet, despite the diverse aims and tools characterizing contemporary open government, public officials and academics typically approach the subject as a cohesive unit of analysis, making sweeping—and generally non-empirical—claims about its implications, without accounting for the homegrown flavours that may characterize open government in practice. Simply put, the practice and study of contemporary open government suffers a lack of definitional clarity: what exactly is open government today, and how does it vary across governments? In response to these questions, this paper analyses the content of open government policy documents in seven OGP member states (Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, Netherlands, Kenya, United Kingdom, and the United States), providing the first systematic, empirically-grounded multi-country comparison of contemporary open government. The paper suggests where the term departs from and retains its original meaning, and how its definition varies across different governments
Social Media for Enhancing Civil Society and Disaster Relief: Usage by Local Municipalities in Japan
Authors: Kaigo Muneo , Tkach-Kawasaki Leslie
Published: July 2018

This main focus of this article is a case study that analyzes social media usage by a local municipality in Japan, and on the possibilities and problems of complementary communication channels such as social networking services for promoting civil society activities and linking civil society organizations. We examine how in the past, Japanese municipalities have been using social media and social networking services for enhancing civil society and how social networking services are a potential tool that can provide vital information and connect citizens, municipal governments and civil society. This article focuses on the first phase of the Tsukuba Civic Activities Cyber-Square [Tsukuba Shimin Katsudō no Hiroba] on Facebook Experiment in 2012 and how it functioned during and after the May 6, 2012 Tsukuba city tornado disaster for the subsequent relief and support activities during May 2012.
OGD Heartbeat: Cities’ Commitment to Open Data
Authors: Nahon Karin , Peled Alon , Shkabatur Jenniver
Published: July 2018

This paper develops and tests a theoretical model, which proposes to examine cities’ commitment to the concept of open government data (OGD) according to three typical levels. Level 1, Way of Life, indicates high commitment to OGD; Level 2, On the Fence, represents either a low or erratic commitment; Level 3, Lip Service, refers to either scarce or no commitment. This study shows that these types exhibit distinct behavior in four key indicators: (1) Rhythm, (2) Coverage, (3) Categorization, and (4) Feedback. This theoretical framework is examined using longitudinal mixed-method analysis of the OGD behavior of 16 US cities over a period of four years, using a corpus of municipal quantitative metadata and primary qualitative data. This methodology allows us to represent, for the first time, cities’ evolving OGD commitment, or “OGD heartbeat”.
Sustainable Business Models for Public Sector Open Data Providers
Authors: Welle Donker Frederika , Van Loenen Bastiaan
Published: July 2018

Abstract: Since 2009, Open Government Data initiatives have been launched worldwide and the concept of open data is gaining momentum. Open data are often associated with realizing ambitions, such as a more transparent and efficient government, solving societal problems and increased economic value. However, between proposing an open data policy and successful implementation are some practicable obstacles, especially for government agencies required to generate sufficient revenue to cover their operating costs, so-called self-funding agencies. With lost revenue due to open data, there is a real risk that the update frequency and the quality of data may suffer or that the open data policy may even have to be reversed. This article has researched the financial effects of open data policies for self-funding agencies on their business model. The article provides some hands-on proposals for self-funding agencies having to implement an open data policy whilst ensuring their long-term sustainability.
Designing a Semantic API for Open City Data
Authors: Degbelo Auriol , Bhattacharya Devanjan , Trilles Sergi , Granell Canut Carlos , Kray Christian , Schiestel Nikolaus
Published: July 2018

Many countries currently maintain a national data catalog, which provides access to theavailable datasets – sometimes via an Application Programming Interface (API). These APIs play acrucial role in realizing the benefits of open data as they are the means by which data isdiscovered and accessed by applications that make use of it. This article proposes semantic APIsas a way of improving access to open data. A semantic API helps to retrieve datasets according totheir type (e.g., sensor, climate, finance), and facilitates reasoning about and learning fromdata. In order to inform the design of such an API, the article explores the different categoriesof datasets made available in 40 European open data catalogs. The results show that theprobability of inter-country agreement between open data catalogs is less than 30 percent, andthat few categories stand out as candidates for a transnational semantic API.
Linked Information Visualization for Linked Open Government Data. A Visual Synthetics Approach to Governmental Data and Knowledge Collections
Authors: Windhager Florian , Mayr Eva , Schreder Günther , Smuc Michael
Published: July 2018

Open government data initiatives provide citizens with access to the information that governments have about their countries (such as data about people, resources, infrastructure, or  services) upon which they act. Information visualizations can help to make sense of these complex data and knowledge collections, but are mostly used to shed light on subselections of data only, without coordinated efforts to connect them to bigger pictures up to now. In analogy to linked data initiatives, this article discusses methods and strategies to link information visualizations in the government data realm and thereby to connect widely available local pictures and insights into more coherent global mental models. We expect related developments to provide benefits for communication professions like civic education and political journalism, and to open up enhanced methods for cross-domain exploration and reasoning for (linked) open government data. Thus linked information visualizations aim for supporting students, readers, and citizens to meet a widening range of macro-cognitive challenges, which complex societies are facing in increasing amounts.
Playing (with) Democracy: A Review of Gamified Participation Approaches
Authors: Thiel Sarah-Kristin , Reisinger Michaela , Röderer Kathrin , Fröhlich Peter
Published: July 2018

Albeit a wide range of e-participation platforms being already available, the level of public participation remains low. Governments around the world as well as academia are currently exploring new ways to design participation methods that are more engaging to use and will foster participation. One of the strategies is gamification. By adding game elements to e-participation platforms it is hoped to motivate for citizens to engage. This paper reviewed a large number of e-participation platforms, seeking to provide an overview of the current state of the art of so-called gamified participation initiatives. Our results show that while about half of the review projects can be categorized as game-related, only a small amount employs gamification. Moreover, current gamified participation initiatives seem to focus on reward-based gamification, a strategy which is said to come with risks. In this paper we further provide recommendations for future gamified participation projects.
Direct Parliamentarianism: An Analysis of the Political Values Embedded in Rousseau, the ‘Operating System’ of the Five Star Movement
Authors: Deseriis Marco
Published: July 2018

This article focuses on the technological affordances and use of Rousseau, the decision-making platform of the second largest Italian political party, the Five Star Movement. Crossing an empirical observation of the platform’s functionalities with data regarding its use and qualitative data collected during the 2016 and 2017 national meetings of the Five Star Movement, the essay argues that Rousseau supports an emerging “direct parliamentarianism,” which allows party members to entertain an ostensibly direct relationship with the party in public office, at the expense, however, of deliberative processes that may allow them to influence the party agenda. Thus Rousseau leaves the deliberative, and strictly parliamentary moment in the hands of elected representatives and party leaders, leaving to the party base the task of choosing between options that have been defined elsewhere.
A Teaching Method of Basic Mathematics Subject for Students of Business Administration
Authors:   The Korean School Mathematics Society, Shin Hyun-Ju , Pyo Yong-Soo
Published: July 2018

In order to propose effective learning methods to teach basic mathematics course for students of business administration, we conducted the survey on recognition and attitude on mathematics subjects, and analyzed academic achievements of the business mathematics as a basic mathematics course in relation to the results of the survey. First, we investigated learning contents and problems difficult for students to understand in the course, and presented the instructional method and significance of them with examples. These learning contents and problems were collected from the students using the mathematics cafe. Furthermore, we analyzed types of the incorrect answers on the midterm and final examinations in the business mathematics. Although it is difficult to generalize the finding to all of the business administration students due to differences in academic level and educational environment, much work has been put in to present learning method of the business mathematics for students of business administration.
A Study on Elementary Mathematics Education in the age of Enlightenment.
Authors:   The Korean School Mathematics Society, Cho Youngmi
Published: July 2018

This paper summarizes the changes in elementary school mathematics education that took place at the national level during the Enlightenment Elementary Mathematics Education period from 1876 to 1910. For this purpose, we divide the enlightenment period into three periods and examined major changes related to elementary school mathematics education at each period. The necessity of arithmetic education began to be recognized before the reform of the Taoist reform, and arithmetic education became a national curriculum in the beginning of the Taoist reform period. Particularly, during the reforming period of the Gap, the elementary mathematics textbooks of mixed Korean and Chinese were published. In the period when the intervention of the Japanese imperialism began, the arithmetic education has been reduced or weakened in accordance with the education policy of 'simple' and 'use'. It is also remarkable that an arithmetic book for elementary teachers was published at this time.
THE FIRST TRANSLATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN CLASSICS IN JAPAN: FROM FUNNY INCIDENTS TO NATIONWIDE RECOGNITION
Authors: Sadokova Anastasiya Ryurikovna
Published: July 2018

The article studies the history of the Japanese’s acquaintance with the works of Russian classical literature at the end of the XIX century. Specific examples show how tough this process was and what difficulties arose when translating the Russian classics through the “intermediary language”. The main stages of familiarizing the Japanese intelligentsia with Russian literature are revealed. The author determines the role of the first professional translators in the formation of stable interest in Russian literature and culture in the Japanese society, which later exerted tremendous influence on the creation of new Japanese literature.
SOCIOPHONETIC DIRECTION IN FOREIGN LINGUISTICS
Authors: Goncharova Oksana Vladimirovna
Published: July 2018

As modern research shows, sociophonetics is a multi-factor research area and its integrating methodological basis enables this section of linguistics to aspire to the role of one of the basic phonetic sciences. This article is devoted to a brief overview of the formation and evolution of the socio-phonetic direction in foreign linguistics, from the pioneers of dialectology of the XIX century to modern theories illustrating a complex spectrum of external factors that have a systematic influence on the phonetic and phonological form.
PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSING “IDEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF I. GASPRINSKI’S LANGUAGE”
Authors: Koroglu Lenura Ablyamitovna
Published: July 2018

The article highlights the principles of composing “Ideographic Dictionary of I. Gasprinski’s Language”. The paper considers the foreign and domestic attempts of the ideographic description of vocabulary, by the example of which the scientific systematization of the lexicon of one of the most famous personalities of the Turkic world is realized. The creation of the dictionary lexical field is carried out by examining the array of words of the newspaper “Terciman” and sampling the lexical units, semantisized by the author, from it. The author’s explanatory constructions in the dictionary are distributed among six main classes: “person”, “nature”, “geographical objects”, “artifacts”, “time” and “measurements”. The interpreted meaning and definition are interconnected by synonymous or equivalence relations.