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Sanger sequencing of ILDR1 exon 7 v1
Authors: Tlili Abdelaziz , Fahd Al Mutery Abdullah , Mahfood Mona , Kamal Eddine Ahmad Mohamed Walaa , Bajou Khalid
Published: August 2017

Sanger sequencing was performed on available samples from all affected family members to determine whether the potential mutation in the causative gene co-segregated with the disease phenotype. In order to amplify exon 7 of the ILDR1 gene, we designed the following primers: ILDR1-7F: TTGATGTCCTGATTCTGAGG and ILDR1-7R: CTCTGTGGTGGAATGAGAGG. The amplified products were then purified using Wizard SV Gel and PCR Clean-up system (Promega, USA) and were consequently sequenced using BigDye Terminator v3.1 Cycle Sequencing Kit (Applied Biosystems, Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA). The resulting sequencing reactions were then purified and precipitated using Ethanol/EDTA/Sodium acetate precipitation method. Capillary sequencing was performed in a Genetic Analyzer 3500 (Applied Biosystems, Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA) and the data were analyzed using Sequencing Analysis software. The sequences were aligned with the published sequence of the ILDR1 gene (NM_001199799.1).
In silico analysis of DNA variants v1
Authors: Tlili Abdelaziz , Fahd Al Mutery Abdullah , Mahfood Mona , Kamal Eddine Ahmad Mohamed Walaa , Bajou Khalid
Published: August 2017

In order to determine the consequence of ILDR1 reported mutations on splicing and translation initiation, we used Human Splicing Finder (version 3.0) (http://www.umd.be/HSF3/) and ORF finder (http://www.geneinfinity.org/sms/sms_orffinder.html) respectively.
Developing an intelligent Decision Support System for environmentally optimized irrigation management using Sensors, Remote Sensing and Meteorological Forecast
Authors: Syropoulou Panagiota , Symeonidou Machi , Tekes Stavros , Wawer Rafal , Kazantzidis Andreas , Crnojevic Vladimir , Bruggeman Adriana
Published: August 2017

Globally, agriculture makes use of 70% of all water withdrawn from aquifers, streams and lakes. Agriculture accounts for 22% of freshwater abstraction in Europe, outnumbered only by freshwater abstraction for cooling in energy production (45%). In the light of the real need to practically improve the environmental performance of irrigation systems and prevent the misuse of water, the overall aim of ENORASIS is to develop an intelligent, integrated Decision Support System (ENORASIS Service Platform and Components) for environmentally optimized and thus, sustainable irrigation management to be used by farmers and water management organizations. ENORASIS system targets to motivate irrigation farmers to optimize the use of water, whereas it also provides (irrigation) water management organizations with intelligent tools and services to effectively forecast and manage irrigation water resources, cover irrigation demand and charge customers (farmers) on the basis of an intelligent system of motives and incentives that exploits irrigation demand side fluctuations. To achieve so, the ENORASIS project will develop and integrate a bouquet of advanced technologies, methodologies and models in the fields of: (i) weather prediction systems that exploit satellite observations; (ii) irrigation optimization techniques and (iii) smart irrigation systems; and (iv) wireless sensor networks (functioning with solar energy) as key enabling technology for field measurements and monitoring conditions.
The Night-Death Binomial as a Poetic Ploy - A Cross-Cultural Look from the Graveyard Poets to Expressionism
Authors: Simon-Schuhmacher Lioba
Published: August 2017

The essay describes the use of the Night-Death binomial and tracks its evolution from the eighteenth century to Expressionism across Great Britain, Germany, Spain, and Austria, at the hand of poems such as Edward Young’s Night Thoughts (1745), Novalis’s Hymnen an die Nacht, (1800), José Blanco White’s sonnet “Night and Death” (1828), and Georg Trakl’s “Verwandlung des Bösen” (1914). Romanticism brought along a preference for the nocturnal: night, moonlight, shades and shadows, mist and mystery, somber mood, morbidity, and death, as opposed to the Enlightenment’s predilection for day, light, clarity, and life. The essay analyses how poets from different national contexts and ages employ images and symbols of the night to create an association with death. It furthermore shows how, with varying attitudes and results, they manage to convert this binomial into a poetic ploy.
Viagens noturnas: as rotas da exclusão em Lasar Segall e Hieronymus Bosch
Authors: Ayub João Paulo
Published: August 2017

A Nave dos loucos (1503-1504), de Hieronymus Bosch, e o Navio de Emigrantes (1939-1941), de Lasar Segall, registram de modo singular a fragilidade que sustenta a humana condição dos condenados ao não-lugar. As obras encontram no tema da morte a rica possibilidade de diálogo e exploração daquilo que Michel Foucault identificou, na História da Loucura, como “jogos de exclusão”. Neste trabalho, a leitura e interpretação dos quadros citados destacará a operação sub-reptícia que engendra a partilha objeto/abjeto, purificação/exclusão, sob a qual os sujeitos excluídos – seja na figura do louco, do leproso, do emigrante ou do refugiado – experimentam a morte.
O outro “otro” de Borges: o perigoso historiador-crítico lê Facundo na “unánime noche”
Authors: Miranda Breno Anderson
Published: August 2017

Tentaremos mostrar nesse artigo, que na “unánime noche” de Borges, as Luzes que se abrem ao raiar do dia não devem ser descartadas, e funcionam como relevantes documentos para o historiador-crítico borgeano. Aliás, são nelas que os pesadelos mais sombrios da escuridão transformam-se em artes e práticas cotidianas, para o bem ou para o mal. Se os anos 1960 e 1970 continuam os sonhos de Sarmiento, como no prólogo de Borges a Facundo; os vazios da calada da noite podem revelar encontros dos mais incompatíveis. O jovem revolucionário, leitor de Marx, Engels e Evita, por exemplo, sabe que a leitura da obra de Borges, proibida, pode ser mais prazerosa do que imagina; e a literatura de Borges, como disse David Viñas, sabe muito bem que não é nada inocente (como qualquer outra), em sua leitura do mundo. Assim, reciprocamente, no exílio à “unánime noche”, elas almejam ir ao encontro da utopia revolucionária do outro “otro”. Sonho ou realidade?
Overtness-covertness in advertising gender metaphors
Authors: Velasco Sacristán Marisol
Published: August 2017

This paper aims at demonstrating that weak communication (overt and covert) can have an important influence on the choice, specification and interpretation of ideological metaphors in advertising. We focus here on a concrete type of ideological metaphor, advertising gender metaphor. We present a description of advertising gender metaphors, subtypes (cases of metaphorical gender, universal gender metaphors and cultural gender metaphors) and crosscategorisation in a case study of 1142 adverts published in British Cosmopolitan (years 1999 and 2000). We next assess “overtness-covertness” in the advertising gender metaphors in our sample. In considering this we also look at the conventional-innovative scale of these metaphors, and examine their discrimination against men and women. The intended value of this paper lies in its examination of both weak overt and covert types of communication in relation both to cognitive and pragmatic theorising of metaphor, and, more generally, to theorising advertising communication.
More than words : drama and spectrality for the articulation of trauma
Authors: Gil Cuder Eva
Published: August 2017

The anti-logocentric nature of traumatic memory has traditionally brought about the conclusion that there is an indestructible barrier separating trauma from understanding. The impossibility to find the right words to articulate the trauma or for the victim to come to terms with his traumatic experience has generated the assumption that neither witnesses, nor victims will be allowed to access their traumatic history due to its undecipherable character. With this taken for granted belief in mind, this paper analyzes three works by British playwrights Caryl Churchill, Sarah Daniels and Sarah Kane in which the female characters suffer from repeated traumatic regressions. I will argue that trauma finds a most appropriate means of expression in theatrical representation, as the genre allows for alternative means of articulation beyond verbal language and words (which, given their rational and necessarily limited dimension, do not offer a valid solution for the possible formulation of the repressed trauma). These authors evidence that theatrical language offers effective strategies to communicate the experience of trauma and that these anti-naturalistic rhetoric seems to be the best response to the chaotic and irrational nature of traumatic memory.
Beyond belief : the crisis of faith in A.S. Byatt's fiction
Authors: Johnson Jennifer Anne
Published: August 2017

A. S. Byatt’s Ragnarök (2011), a retelling of the Norse myth of the downfall of the gods and the end of the world, would seem to be a departure from her fictional narratives set in the nineteenth or twentieth century. However, this book is a natural development from her earlier novels that explored the Victorian crisis of faith resulting from the loss of religious certainty in the face of scientific discoveries. The author’s writing over the last twenty years has become increasingly involved with science, and she has long acknowledged her rejection of Christian beliefs. Byatt used the nineteenth century as a starting point for an exploration of twenty-first century concerns which have now resurfaced in the Norse myth of loss and destruction. This paper revisits "Possession" and "Angels and Insects" within the framework of her more recent writing, focusing on the themes of religion, spiritualism and science.
Structure and design of the British Law Report Corpus (BLRC) : a legal corpus of judicial decisions from the UK
Authors: Marín Pérez Mª José , Rea Rizzo Camino
Published: August 2017

The aim of this paper is to describe and justify the structure and design criteria to create a legal English corpus of judicial decisions. The authors, lecturers of this ESP variety, decided to engage into specific corpus design due to the small variety of teaching materials and corpora available. Judicial decisions are essential wheels in the legal machinery of common law systems and, precisely because of that fact, they are fundamental as a legal genre. This is why we intend to compile a 6m word legal corpus of UK judicial decisions in order to establish the core vocabulary of the genre and use it for further linguistic analysis and the elaboration of didactic materials.
Passion beyond death? Tracing "Wuthering Heights" in Stephenie Meyer's "Eclipse"
Authors: Miquel Baldellou Marta
Published: August 2017

Stephenie Meyers’ Twilight tetralogy has lately become an enormously successful phenomenon in contemporary popular fiction, especially among a young adult readership. Regarded as a mixture of genres, the Twilight series can be described as a paradigm of contemporary popularculture gothic romance. Stephenie Meyer has recently acknowledged she bore one literary classic in mind when writing each of the volumes in the series. In particular, her third book, Eclipse (2007), is loosely based on Emily Brontë’s Victorian classic Wuthering Heights (1847). This paper aims at providing a comparative analysis of both Brontë’s novel and Meyer’s adaptation, taking into consideration the way the protofeminist discourse that underlines Brontë’s text is not only subverted but also acquires significantly reactionary undertones in Meyer’s popular romance despite its contemporariness.
'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit': on punning styles of Shakespeare's pedants and jesters
Authors: Adamczyk Magdalena
Published: August 2017

One of the hallmarks of Shakespeare’s stylistic uniqueness is undoubtedly his dexterous use of puns. Besides being skilfully woven into the dramatic texture of his plays, their great strength lies also in the fact that they are carefully tailored to cater for both dramatic and conversational needs of individual characters. The paper attempts to zoom in on two distinctive punning styles of Shakespeare’s dramatis personae, as developed by pedants (here represented by Holofernes from Love’s Labour’s Lost) and jesters (exemplified by Feste from Twelfth Night). By way of examining the peculiarities of their punning in terms of its amount, semantics, conversational dynamics and participant configuration, the study demonstrates that the two figures represent the opposite poles of the punning art. Whereas the jester proves a virtuoso punster trading witty repartees whenever opportunity offers, the pedant’s puns, being overly sophisticated and erudite, appear highly impenetrable and flat in effect.
Urban representations of african Nova Scotia: the reconquest of space in George Elliott Clarke’s Red
Authors: Eguíbar Holgado Miasol
Published: August 2017

This paper explores a series of five poems from the collection Red (2011) by Nova Scotian writer George Elliott Clarke. It focuses on the central role that place, and more specifically, urban space, plays in the construction of the region he significantly renames “Africadia”, from the perspective of the black community. Although people of African descent have lived in the island since the seventeenth century –forming the vastest African community in Canada– this presence tends to be unacknowledged or deliberately erased –as is the case of the razing of the neighbourhood of Africville–. In these poems, Clarke vindicates this denied space, imbuing it with the lives and experiences of its Africadian inhabitants.
‘Foretelling the judgements of God’: authorship and the prophetic voice in Elizabeth Poole’s A Vision (1648)
Authors: Font Paz Carme
Published: August 2017

A Vision: Wherein is Manifested the Disease and Cure of the Kingdome (1648) is Elizabeth Poole’s account of the prophecies she delivered before Cromwell and the Puritan Army’s General Council as they debated the regicide of Charles I at the end of the first English Civil War in 1648-49. This article discusses the prophetic voice in Elizabeth Poole’s texts as she uses strategies of ‘self’ and ‘others’ to establish her authority before her audience and her own sectarian group. While the circumstances surrounding Poole’s participation in the Whitehall deliberations are unclear, her appearance represents a rare case of a woman’s direct involvement in the mid-seventeenth-century discussions of the scope and legitimacy of government. With her defying anti regicidal speech, Poole builds her authorial voice beyond the divine mandate of her prophetic identity.
On third thoughts: the ambivalence of border crossing in Tommy Lee Jones’ "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada"
Authors: Ibarrola Armendáriz Aitor
Published: August 2017

The tragic story of Melquiades Estrada in Tommy Lee Jone’s prize-winning 2005 film could easily be one of the case histories in Oscar Martinez’s already classic Border People (1994), which brings togetherpersonal narratives that deal with cross-border migration, transnational interaction, irregular labor, ethnic confrontation and border control. Born and raised on the Texan-Mexican border, Jones is not unfamiliar with these dynamics taking place in border regions, which prove to be a unique human environment deeply marked by transnational processes and, yet, also signs of resistance on both sides to fully embrace or reject the other culture. The Three Burials is a serious attempt at incarnating the spirit of the place, documenting accurately its mixed culture, and describing the pain that most of its inhabitants suffer from. Several reviewers have rightly argued that Jones’ film, like Unforgiven (1992) and Lone Star (1996), “offers another twist on the Western genre, breaking conventions and proving that there is vast unexplored territory within the traditional gun-slinging setting of the frontier.” Elements such as the laconic use of language, the central role played by landscape or the paramount importance of violence and death are clearly reminiscent of a genre whose main conventions are still being fruitfully used for new purposes. Nevertheless, it would be an unpardonable critical blunder to think of Jones’ film as a mere continuation of a tradition that was mainly characterized by its excessive Manichaeism and its conviction that justice will be eventually recovered. This article argues that the message that Jones eventually sends to the audience is one full of ambivalence and ambiguity, and if some degree of justice is established at the end of the film, as Roger Ebert (2006) has noted, it is a ‘poetic justice’ more than a literal one.
The semantics of solidarity and brotherhood in Chinua Achebe's "No longer at ease"
Authors: Bengoechea Bartolomé Mercedes , Castillo García Gema Soledad
Published: August 2017

We intent to shed new light on the role of Pidgin, one of the languages used by Achebe's characters in No Longer at Ease. We suggest that, contrary to what some literary critics have interpreted, Pidgin, far from being the language of triviality or of the uneducated alone, represents in Achebe's work an honourable rite of passage from rural life into urban development in a multilingual post-colonial nation, and a bridge between conflicting worlds, Africa and Europe, tradition and innovation. Furthermore, a close consideration of the semantics of solidarity in the novel reveals the importance of the roles played by two languages, Ibo, and, more outstandingly, Pidgin, as vehicles of fellowship and brotherhood. This is revealed by examining the use of three of the linguistic varieties present in No Longer at Ease: Ibo, conversational English, and Pidgin. Our analysis discloses a transfer of legitimacy from English to a communally owned Pidgin.
Camel bird's "The White Garden" : symbols and images in a space of their own
Authors: Rodríguez Fernández María del Carmen
Published: August 2017

The White Garden shows the most worked, formal and contained use of the language existing in the chasm between the conscious and the unconscious. This is the territory that the novel explores because the female characters adopt different personifications and they subvert the personalities of the women they stand for enjoying the status of deluded women. The boundary between the conscious, the symbolic order superimposed by Goddard, and the unconscious, the pre-Oedipal phase in which the dreams strive to appear from the subconscious in the privacy of the cell becomes the mainstay of the novel. The outcome of all this is a rich and profuse web of influences and cross-referencing; a transposition of systems of signs that results in a dense and complex relationship whose imagery is achieved by means of the white garden, a representation of female freedom and triumph.
Eurocentrism in hybridity : a critique of Charles Van Onselen's "The Seed is Mine: the life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper 1894-1985"
Authors: Worsfold Brian
Published: August 2017

For decades, contributors to the literary discourses of South Africa, writers, critics and commentators alike, worked to end apartheid. Now that apartheid is over, new discourses must evolve. For this reason, at this critical time of transition, all literary works coming out of South Africa are crucial to the continuity of South African literatures. Charles van Onselen's work would be a remarkable social history at any time but, coming as it does in the immediate post-apartheid period, it takes on a special relevance. This fictionalised social history which records the survival of a MaSotho peasant farmer in the western Transvaal during the pre-apartheid and apartheid periods gives a unique insight into an area of human existence that remains virtually unrecorded and only touched on in Sol T. Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa, written in 1910. This minutely-documented account of Kas Maine's story reflects the human condition of the Black population in rural South Africa as the screws of proxy European colonisation are tightened by South Africa's neo-colonialists. More significantly, van Onselen reconstructs the rural Black South African man whom apartheid not only degraded but also concealed from view. To what extent, however, is this reconstruction that of a White South African and what are his reasons for producing a model at this moment in South Africa's history?
Contradiction and ambivalence : Virginia Woolf and the aesthetic experience in "The Duchess and the Jeweller"
Authors: Lojo Rodríguez Laura María
Published: August 2017

In the midst of the terror waged on Europe by Nazi demonstrations of power and racial extermination Virginia Woolf published a most contrevorsial short story -"The Duchess and the Jeweller" (1938)- which was originally entitled "The Duchess and the Jew" but was changed at the request of Woolf's American publisher for its racist connotations. The story has been neglected by the critics on account of two major reasons: on the one hand, it does not partake of those innovative narrative devices that most of Woolf's fiction presents; on the other such an apparently Anti-Semitist piece of work is inconveniently at odds with the oeuvre of a writer who so ardently and energetically rejected Fascism in her pamphlet Three Guineas which was curiously simultaneous in date of composition and publication to "The Duchess and the Jeweller". Despite the fact that Woolf may have been airing her personal prejudices of race and class in the characters of Oliver Bacon and the Duchess of Lambourne, the present paper does not aim to do away with such incoherence, ambivalence and contradiction, but rather focuses on the jewel imagery which structures the narrative and which addresses questions such as the 'art for art's sake' doctrine versus the material commodity of beauty
The semantic representation of possesseed-raising constructions in terms of reflexivity
Authors: Martínez Fernández Beatriz
Published: August 2017

This paper aims to provide arguments in favour of the widely discussed idea that English causative alternating constructions of the type "John broke his arm/His arm broke" are, at least partly, reflexive. As we shall see, several constraints condition this proposal, namely the actor/non-actor category of the first argument of the activity predicate and the concept of control. In addition, I will argue that the recurrent association of this particular causative formal composition to the above mentioned reflexive meaning leads us to consider this alternation as a new construction within the wider scope of causatives. This construction has been labelled as the Possessed-Raising construction
The Moor's Last Sight : Spanish-Moorish exoticism and the gender of history in British Romantic poetry
Authors: Saglia Diego
Published: August 2017

Legends and tales of Islamic Granada were among the most frequently re-elaborated exotic subjects in British Romantic literature. A popular theme in the early decades of the nineteenth century, Spanish Orientalism attracted both famous writers such as Lord Byron, Joanna Baillie, Washington Irving, Felicia Hemans or Letitia Landon, and less familiar ones such as Lord Porchester, George Moir and Lady Dacre. This essay concentrates on one component of the myth of Granada which enjoyed great diffusion in Romantic-period literature, the tale of the Moor's Last Sigh and the tears shed by the last Muslim monarch on leaving his capital forever after the Christian conquest in 1492. The aim is to illustrate how, in migrating from its original context, this tale comes to signify and emblematize issues of gender and notions of history as progress specific to British culture. The poetic texts examined here employ the Spanish-Orientalist myth to elaborate ideas of masculinity and femininity, as well as reflections on power and its extinction, the fall of empires and the emergence of new states. Thus King Boabdil's tears were exotically popular also because they were removed from their original meaning and import, and refashioned into vehicles for ideological concerns proper to British Romantic-period culture
Diane Larsen-Freeman. 2000. Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching. Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 189 pp.
Authors: Dueñas Vinuesa María
Published: August 2017

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Discurso, Análise do Discurso e Discurso Político: ponderações conceituais
Authors: Teles Tayson Ribeiro
Published: August 2017

O singelo ensaio acadêmico tem o desiderato de, em sede de revisão bibliográfica, servir de plataforma dissipadora de reflexões sobre conceitos básicos relativos a discurso, análise do discurso (o método) e discurso político, especificamente o eleitoral. A metodologia, portanto, é a prospecção bibliográfica, levada a efeito sob o plasma do método dedutivo. Usamos pensamentos de Orlandi (2015), Foucault (2014), Maingueneau (2015), Charaudeau (2015), entre outros. Os resultados demonstram ser premente firmar em nossas mentes que tudo é motivado, bem como ideológico, e, por isso, nenhum ato discursivo humano tem significação automática, sendo necessário sempre interpretarmos e analisarmos os signos que nos chegam de forma percuciente. Tal comportamento pode nos livrar de existirmos em situação de subsunção extrema aos discursos ocultos maléficos, provenientes dos poderosos ou dos que querem ao poder chegar.
Particularidades flexionais de número nos substantivos em língua portuguesa: explicações histórico-gramaticais
Authors: Oliveira Thiago Soares de
Published: August 2017

Este artigo objetiva explicar determinadas motivações histórico-gramaticais que resultaram em algumas particularidades flexionais de número nos substantivos da língua portuguesa, visando à elucidação dessas excepcionalidades gramaticais a professores de português e alunos de cursos de Letras. A fim de dar conta do escopo delimitado neste estudo teórico, adotam-se a pesquisa bibliográfica e o método histórico como forma de delineamento metodológico. Conclui-se que diversas nuances da flexão numérica portuguesa podem ser explicadas como herança latina, encontrando na evolução da língua o esclarecimento para determinadas marcas morfológicas.
Editorial
Authors: Santos Gildenir Carolino , Souza Regina Maria , Passos Rosemary
Published: August 2017

Bem vindos ao volume 9, número 2 da ETD: Educação Temática Digital, da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Estadual de Campinas. É com muita satisfação que ao final do primeiro semestre de 2008, estamos lançando mais um número para contribuir um pouco mais com as pesquisas e estudos do campo educacional e áreas afins. Trazemos na seção ARTIGOS, com um total de oito trabalhos, várias temáticas abordando as áreas da “Biblioteconomia & Ciência da Informação” ; “Cidadania & Movimentos Sociais”; “Educação, Comunicação & Tecnologia”; “Educação & Diversidade”; “Filosofia da Educação” e “História da Educação”. Na primeiro artigo de autoria de Claudia da Cunha Ribas e Paula Ziviani, apresenta-se o texto“Mediação, Circulação e uso da Informação no Contexto da Redes Sociais”, onde as autoras buscam compreender a utilização de tecnologias de informação e comunicação - TICs na organização do contexto das redes sociais...
Novas tecnologias de comunicação e de informação: o que dizem as revisões acadêmicas canadenses, norte-americanas e a experiência brasileira?
Authors: Souza Marilene Proença Rebello de , Souza Denise Trento Rebello
Published: August 2017

Este artigo tem por objetivo contribuir na ampliação das discussões atualmente presentes no campo acadêmico referentes à utilização de novas mediações tecnológicas de informação e de comunicação para educação. Mais especificamente, apresentará as principais discussões e levantamentos presentes no campo da educação online (online instruction), a partir de pesquisa bibliográfica recente das produções canadense e norte-americana. Além disso, tem como objetivo estabelecer diálogo com a literatura brasileira e com experiência recente e de grande impacto no estado de São Paulo, nesta área de conhecimento, ao apresentar um programa de formação inicial de professores que utiliza as chamadas novas tecnologias da informação e comunicação (TIC) e que se realiza com a participação de universidades brasileiras de grande influência.
Del sujeto de la verdad a la verdad del sujeto
Authors: Passone Eric Ferdinando
Published: August 2017

Este artículo pretende introducir el análisis de los discursos, a partir de cuestionamientos sobre la verdad del sujeto del deseo y apuntar algunas de sus consecuencias, principalmente, en lo que respecta a la elaboración y diseño de políticas y programas educativos de atención y atendimiento infante-juvenil. Se aprovecha para presentar las dislocaciones del pensamiento de Jaques Lacan sobre la práctica psicoanalítica y la diferencia entre seguir los modelos y hacer de la diferencia un camino propio, la existencia.
Dark Energy and Inflation from Gravitational Waves
Authors: Marochnik Leonid
Published: August 2017

In this three-part paper, we show that gravitational waves (classical and quantum) produce the accelerated de Sitter expansion at the start and by the end of the cosmological evolution of the Universe. In these periods of time, the Universe contains no matter fields but contains classical and quantum metric fluctuations, i.e. it is filled with classical gravitational waves and gravitons. In such gravitational wave and graviton dominated eras of evolution of the Universe, the de Sitter state is the exact solution to the self-consistent equations for gravitational waves and gravitons and background geometry for the empty (with no matter fields) space-time with FLRW metric. In both classical and quantum cases, this solution is of the instanton origin since it is obtained by Wick rotation with the subsequent analytic continuation to real time. The cosmological acceleration from gravitational waves and gravitons provides a transparent physical explanation to the coincidence and threshold paradoxes of dark energy avoiding recourse to the anthropic principle. The cosmological acceleration from gravitons/gravitational waves at the start of the Universe evolution produces inflation which is consistent with the observational data on CMB anisotropy.
Quasi-Static and Tensile Behaviors of the Bamboos
Authors: Gong Baoming , Cui Shaohua , Fan Ziye , Ren Fuguang , Ding Qian , Sun Yongtao , Wang Bin
Published: August 2017

In this paper, quasi-static axial compression tests are performed on the nodal Moso bamboos to study the size effect on energy absorption of the bamboos and the damage pattern of the multiple bamboo columns. Experimental results show that under the same moisture content, growth age and growing environment, the specific energy absorption (SEA) of the test samples increases with the increase of the out-diameter and thickness of the bamboo columns, indicating that size effect exists for energy absorption of the Moso Bamboos. For the multiple bamboo columns, there are mainly three failure modes for the constituent single bamboo columns: splitting above the node, splitting below the node and splitting through the node. Also, the tensile tests are conducted on three kinds of dog-bone shaped bamboo samples to investigate the macroscopic tensile fracture mode in the longitudinal direction of Moso bamboos. Results show that there is no direct relationship between the fracture pattern and moisture content of the bamboos, as well as the growth age of the bamboos. However, the tensile loading rate and the shape of the dog-bone shaped bamboo sample could affect the macroscopic fracture pattern of the bamboos in some cases.
On the Anisotropic Mechanical Properties of Selective Laser Melted Stainless Steel
Authors: Hitzler Leonhard , Hirsch Johann , Heine Burkhard , Merkel Markus , Hall Wayne , Öchsner Andreas
Published: August 2017

The thorough description of the peculiarities of additively manufactured structures represents a current challenge for aspiring freeform fabrication methods, such as the selective laser melting (SLM). All of which have an immense advantage in the fast fabrication (no special tooling or moulds required), the geometrical flexibility in the design of components, and their efficiency when only low quantities are required. However, designs demand the precise knowledge of the material properties, which in case of additively manufactured structures are anisotropic and, under certain circumstances, in addition of an inhomogeneous nature. Furthermore, these characteristics are highly dependent on the fabrication settings. Within this study, the anisotropic tensile properties of selective laser melted stainless steel (1.4404, 316L) are investigated: The Young’s modulus ranged from 148 GPa to 227 GPa, the ultimate tensile strength from 512 MPa to 699 MPa and the breaking elongation ranged, respectively, from 12% to 43%. The results were compared to related studies, in order to classify the influence of the fabrication settings. Furthermore, the influence of the chosen raw material was addressed by comparing deviations on the directional dependencies reasoned by differing microstructural developments during manufacture. Stainless steel was found to possess its maximum strength at a 45° layer versus loading offset, which is precisely where AlSi10Mg was previously reported to be at its weakest.
Geometric Analysis on Stone Façades with Terrestrial Laser Scanner Technology
Authors: Corso Juan , Roca Josep , Buill Felipe
Published: August 2017

This article presents a methodology to process information from a Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) from three dimensions (3D) to two dimensions (2D), and to two dimensions with a color value (2.5D), as a tool to document and analyze heritage buildings. Principally focused on the loss of material in stone, this study aims at creating an evaluation method for loss control, taking into account the state of conservation of the building in terms of restoration, from studying the pathologies, to their identification and delimitation. A case study on the Cathedral of the Seu Vella de Lleida was completed, examining the details of the stone surfaces. This cathedral was affected by military use, periods of abandonment, and periodic restorations.
Science Process Skills-Based Integrated Instructional Materials to Improve Student Competence Physics Education Prepares Learning Plans on Teaching Skills Lectures
Authors: Desnita Desnita , Susanti Dwi
Published: August 2017

Abstract

Integrated learning materials was developed, consisting of syllabus revision eddition, One Semester Plan, module, student work sheet, and student performance appraisal sheet for Physics Teaching Skills course. The subject matter have been developed are the skills to ask and skill explain. This research product has been validated by colleagues in Physics Education program of Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of Universitas Negeri Jakarta. Friends of colleagues agreed to use this research product in lectures on teaching skills. The student's response to teaching materials was measured using a questionnaire consisting of 14 number of statement, the average score of the students' assessment of 88.86 teaching materials means the student's response to the excellent teaching materials. This teaching material trains the science process skills of physics education students and also provides experience to the students to independently assess performance. The results of the product test on the students gave excellent results, where the average score of student performance for questioning skills was very good 85.3; While the average student performance score for the skills explained 87.9 it’s same category. The results of the experiment proved that the integrated teaching materials development outcomes are worthy of use in the course of Physic Teaching Skills.

Keywords: integration learning materials, science process skills, physic teaching skills.

Abstrak

Telah dikembangkan bahan ajar terintegrasi, yang terdiri dari revisi silabus, Rencana Perkuliahan Satu Semester  (RPS), modul, lembar kegiatan mahasiswa, dan lembar penilaian kinerja mahasiswa untuk mata kuliah Keterampilan Mengajar Fisika. Bahan ajar terintegrasi yang telah dikembangkan, untuk keterampilan bertanya dan keterampilan menjelaskan. Produk penelitian ini sudah divalidasi oleh teman sejawat pada program Studi Pendidikan Fisika FMIPA Universitas Negeri Jakarta. Teman sejawat sepakat untuk menggunakan produk penelitian ini dalam perkuliahan Keterampilan Mengajar. Respon mahasiswa terhadap bahan ajar diukur menggunakan angket yang terdiri dari 14 butir, rata-rata skor penilaian mahasiswa terhadap bahan ajar 88,86 artinya respon mahasiswa terhadap bahan ajar sangat baik. Bahan ajar ini melatih keterampilan proses sains mahasiswa pendidikan fisika dan juga memberikan pengalaman kepada mahasiswa untuk menilai kinerja secara mandiri Hasil ujicoba produk terhadap mahasiswa memberikan hasil sangat baik, dengan nilai rata-rata kinerja mahasiswa untuk keterampilan bertanya 85,3 sangat baik; sedangkan rata-rata nilai kinerja mahasiswa untuk keterampilan menjelaskan 87,9 juga sangat baik. Hasil ujicoba membuktikan bahwa bahan ajar terintegrasi hasil pengembangan layak digunakan pada mata kuliah Keterampilan Mengajar Fisika.

Kata-kata kunci: bahan ajar terintegrasi, keterampilan proses sains, keterampilan mengajar fisika.
Influence of Scaling Up Nutrition Education towards Knowledge and Attitude of Students at Santa Elisabeth Medan School of Health Sciences
Authors: Silalahi Rani Gartika Holivia , Tambunan Yesshi
Published: August 2017

AbstractMarriage at young age and lack of knowledge in parenting are among the causes of nutrition problem. The students in Santa Elisabeth Medan School of Health Sciences were found less knowledgable about it. This study aimed to analyze the influence of Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) education towards knowledge and attitude of students at Santa Elisabeth Medan School of Health Sciences 2016. This study was quasi experimental with one group pre-test and post-test design. The population was students of the Santa Elisabeth Medan School of Health Sciences. Sampling was done by purposive sampling method, which consisted of 115 students at third level of Diploma III in Midwifery. Education class was conducted four times within two weeks by using lecture and discussion methods. This study used visual media (slides) and module. The influence of education towards students’ knowledge and attitude was analyzed by paired sample t-test (p value=0.05). The results showed that only 1.7% students had high knowledge and 45.2% students had unfavorable attitudes. After nutrition education, there were 85.2% students who had high knowledge and 100% students had favorable attitudes. In conclusion, there are significant differences between students’ knowledge and attitude after SUN education given. AbstrakTingginya angka pernikahan pada usia remaja yang disertai dengan rendahnya pengetahuan tentang pola asuh merupakan salah satu pemicu terjadinya masalah gizi. Remaja merupakan orang tua masa depan. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh pendidikan 1.000 hari pertama kehidupan terhadap pengetahuan dan sikap mahasiswi Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kesehatan Santa Elisabeth Medan tahun 2016. Penelitian ini menggunakan kuasi eksperimental dengan desain one group pre- dan post test. Metode pengambilan sampel dengan metode purposive sampling sebanyak 115 mahasiswi tingkat III program studi Diploma III Kebidanan. Pendidikan dilakukan di kelas sebanyak 4 kali dalam 2 minggu dengan menggunakan metode mengajar dan diskusi. Penelitian ini menggunakan media visual (slides) dan modul. Pengaruh pendidikan terhadap pengetahuan dan sikap dianalisis dengan uji paired sample t-test (nilai p=0,05). Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa 1,7% mahasiswi memiliki pengetahuan baik dan 45,2% sikap tidak mendukung. Setelah pendidikan kesehatan, terdapat 85,2% mahasiswi memiliki pengetahuan yang baik dan 100% mahasiswa memiliki sikap yang mendukung. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa terdapat perbedaan secara signifikan antara pengetahuan dan sikap mahasiswi setelah diberikan pendidikan 1000 hari pertama kehidupan.
The Profile and Determinant Factors of Quality of Life in Patients with Diabetic Neuropathy
Authors: Zalukhu Marta Lisnawati , Pinzon Rizaldy Taslim , Adnyana Kadek Sinthia Grahita
Published: August 2017

AbstractNeuropathy is one of the most common complications in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). Neuropathy has contributed to some impacts of quality of life (QOL), general health status, and socio-economy level. Therefore, it is important to understand more about this issue, so appropriate treatment could be taken to improve QOL of patients with diabetic neuropathy. This study aimed to measure the profile of a patient’s life quality in DM with neuropathy. This study was a observational study using Short Form 8 (SF-8) Health Survey Standard Indonesia to measure the QOL in patients with diabetic neuropathy that were treated consecutively from March to August 2016 in the Department of Neurology in Bethesda Hospital, Yogyakarta. Fifty seven patients with diabetic neuropathy were enrolled as subjects in this study. Most of them were women (52,6%). The mean age of subjects was 57.3 ± 5.85 years. The lowest QOL score in patients with diabetic neuropathy were observed in general health perceptions category (45.26%), followed by bodily pain (57.19%), vitality or energy (69.12%), physical functioning (69.82%), social role functioning (74.03%), mental health (78.59%), physical role functioning (80.70%), and emotional role functioning (81.05%). Patients with diabetic neuropathy have poor QOL. Sex and age were not significantly related to the QOL in patients with diabetic neuropathy. AbstractNeuropati merupakan salah satu komplikasi tersering pada diabetes melitus (DM). Neuropati dapat memengaruhi kualitas hidup, derajat kesehatan, maupun tingkat ekonomi. Oleh karena itu, penting untuk mengetahui kualitas hidup pasien DM dengan neuropati beserta dampak yang ditimbulkannya terlebih dahulu agar mendapatkan penanganan yang tepat demi meningkatkan kualitas hidup pasien. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui profil kualitas hidup pasien DM dengan neuropati. Penelitian ini merupakan studi observasional menggunakan Short Form 8 (SF-8) Health Survey Standard Indonesia terhadap pasien diabetes melitus dengan neuropati yang diambil secara konsekutif pada bulan Maret hingga Agustus 2016 di Poli Saraf Rumah Sakit Bethesda, Yogyakarta. Terdapat 57 subjek yang dimasukkan dalam penelitian ini. Sebanyak 52,6 % di antaranya adalah perempuan dengan rerata usia 57,3 ±5,85 tahun. Skor kualitas hidup pasien neuropati DM yang paling rendah terdapat pada kategori kesehatan umum (45,26%) disusul nyeri pada tubuh (57,19%), vitalitas atau energi (69,12%), fungsi fisik (69,82%), fungsi sosial (74,03%), kesehatan mental (78,59%), kemampuan peran dengan masalah kesehatan fisik (80,70%), dan kemampuan peran dengan masalah emosi (81,05%). Jenis kelamin dan usia tidak berhubungan secara signifikan terhadap kualitas hidup pasien DM dengan neuropati.
Effects of Contraceptive Use on Productivity of Women Labor at PT. Bomar Makassar Industrial Area
Authors: Mappajanci Masni , Misnawati Andi , Darmawansyah Darmawansyah
Published: August 2017

AbstractWork productivity is potential on the survival of a company. The use of contraceptives may affect the physiology of every woman, so it can affect daily activities and resulted in labor productivity. The aim of this study was to determine the contraceptive use effect on labor woman productivity by controlling with age, education and work motivation. Study with cross sectional design involved 71 married women workers of PT. Bomar Makassar who had got married. Data were found by interview using questionnaire on May to June 2015, then analyzed using univariate, bivariate and multivariate analysis. The results of the study indicate that, there was an effect of contraceptive use on woman labor productivity after controlling for variables as age (p value = 0.011), education (p value = 0.022) and work motivation (p value = 0.028).Withouth being controlled by those variables, a significant result showing an effect of contraceptive use on work productivity was also found (p value < 0.05). The results of multivariable analysis indicate that there were two variables which consistenly affected the productivity, namely work motivation (p value = 0.010) and contraceptive use (p value = 0.010). In conclusion, there is an effect of contraceptive use on woman labor productivity. AbstrakProduktivitas kerja potensial pada kelangsungan hidup perusahaan. Penggunaan kontrasepsi dapat memengaruhi fisiologi setiap perempuan, sehingga dapat memengaruhi aktivitas sehari-hari dan akan berdampak terhadap produktivitas tenaga kerja. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh penggunaan alat kontrasepsi terhadap produktivitas tenaga kerja perempuan dengan mengontrol usia, pendidikan dan motivasi kerja. Penelitian dengan rancangan potong lintang melibatkan 71 pekerja perempuan PT Bomar Makassar yang telah menikah. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan wawancara menggunakan kuesioner pada bulan Mei sampai Juni 2015, kemudian dianalisis secara univariat, bivariat, dan multivariat. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat pengaruh penggunaan alat kontrasepsi terhadap produktivitas kerja setelah dikontrol dengan variabel usia (nilai p = 0,011), pendidikan (nilai p = 0,022) dan motivasi kerja (nilai p = 0,028). Tanpa dikontrol dengan variabel tersebut, juga terdapat hasil yang signifikan yang menunjukkan dampak penggunaan alat kontrasepsi terhadap produktivitas kerja(nilai p < 0,05). Hasil analisis multivariat menunjukkan bahwa terdapat dua variabel yang konsisten memberikan pengaruh terhadap produktivitas kerja yaitu motivasi kerja (nilai p = 0,010) dan penggunaan alat kontrasepsi (nilai p = 0,010). Dapat disimpulkan bahwa terdapat pengaruh penggunaan alat kontrasepsi terhadap produktivitas kerja.
Risk Differences between Elderly Men and Women toward Doctor-Diagnosed Diabetes Mellitus in Urban Areas in Indonesia: 2013 National Basic Health Research Data
Authors: Budiharsana Meiwita
Published: August 2017

AbstractDiabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the most common non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Indonesia. Reportedly that DM is associated with various risk factors. Notably, it seems that the rising prevalence rates reflect changes in urban lifestyle. This study aimed to examine risk differences in the prevalence of DM among men and women aged 15 years and older that lived in urban areas in Indonesia. Analysis used secondary data of 2013 National Basic Health Research, which applied a cross- sectional study design. The total of sample was 333,731 respondents. Data processing and analysis used multiple logistic regression method. In general, findings showed that doctor-diagnosed diabetes mellitus (DDDM) among urban men and women aged 15-39 years did not differ. However, the odds ratio of DDDM among older women aged 50-64 years was 30 times higher than women aged 15-39 years, while among the same age men was 21 times higher than younger men aged 15-39 years (p value < 0.001). In conclusion, entering the age of 50 years, women show a much higher risk of contracting DDDM than women with younger age, also much higher than older men towards younger men. AbstrakDiabetes melitus (DM) adalah salah satu penyakit tidak menular yang paling umum di Indonesia. DM disebabkan berbagai faktor risiko. Peningkatan prevalensi DM salah satunya disebabkan oleh perubahan gaya hidup di perkotaan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji perbedaan prevalensi DM yang didiagnosis dokter pada laki-laki dan perempuan usia 15 tahun keatas yang tinggal di daerah perkotaan di Indonesia. Analisis menggunakan data sekunder Riset Kesehatan Dasar (Riskesdas) 2013 dengan desain studi potong lintang. Total sampel sebanyak 333.731 responden. Metode analisis menggunakan regresi logistik ganda. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa DM yang didiagnosis dokter pada laki-laki dan perempuan usia 15-39 tahun di perkotaan tidak berbeda. Meski demikan, memasuki kurun usia 50-64 tahun, responden perempuan menunjukkan risiko terdiagnosis DM 30 kali lebih tinggi dibandingkan perempuan berusia 15-39 tahun, sementara laki-laki berusia 50-64 tahun berisiko 21 kali lebih tinggi dari laki-laki berusia 15-39 tahun (nilai p < 0,001). Penelitian ini menyimpulkan perempuan dan laki-laki berusia lanjut jauh lebih berisiko didiagnosa DM dibandingkan berusia lebih muda.