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Top Management Support for Talent and Culture on Career Changers’ Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction
Authors: Kim Eun-Jee , Park Sunyoung
Published: December 2018

Top management support for talent is critical to foster organizational competitiveness by developing and promoting employees. This study investigates the relationships among top management support for talent, organizational culture, and organizational commitment and job satisfaction of employees who have experienced a career change. Using a sample of 484 employees in South Korea, this study found that top management support for talent was positively associated with organizational culture. In addition, there were positive associations between organizational culture and job satisfaction, and between organizational culture and organizational commitment of career changers. Finally, the findings demonstrated that the links between top management support for talent and job satisfaction and organizational commitment of career changers were mediated by organizational culture. Based on the results, implications for career research and practice were provided.
Interaction Effect of Tourism and Foreign Exchange Earnings on Economic Growth in Nigeria
Authors: Matthew Oluwatoyin A. , Ede Christian , Osabohien Romanus , Ejemeyovwi Jeremiah , Ayanda Tunde , Okunbor Joshua
Published: December 2018

Deteriorating nature experienced in the level of economic activities in Nigeria is evident in most sectors of the economy, including the tourism sector. But there is a need to develop the tourism industry because of its potentials for job creation, and the Nigerian government should make vital efforts to diversify the economy from oil production to other viable sectors in order to create wealth for the nation. Against this backdrop, this study examined the interaction effect of tourism and foreign exchange earnings from the tourism industry on economic growth in Nigeria. The study engaged time series data sourced from the World Development Indicators for the period 1980–2016 and employed the fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) and Johansen cointegration econometric technique of analysis. The empirical results from the FMOLS showed that revenue generated from tourism have a significant and positive effect on Nigeria’s economic growth; the interaction effect of tourism and foreign exchange earnings on economic growth in Nigeria is positive which implies that an increase in the tourism and foreign exchange earnings will lead to an increase in economic growth. Thus, based on these findings, the study recommended that as a matter of priority, the Nigerian government should encourage diversification through tourism promotion to achieve the desired level of economic growth and ensure that foreign exchange earnings from tourism transmits to the improvement of amusement parks and recreational centres which will significantly open new opportunities for tourism patronage and hence boost economic growth.
The framing of charitable giving: A field experiment at bottle refund machines in Germany
Authors: Neumann Robert
Published: December 2018

This article investigates the decision of consumers at bottle refund machines to either reclaim their bottle deposit or to donate the refund to a non-profit organization. The study documents the unique pre-intervention data on donating behaviour and introduces a field experiment to increase donation levels. The design comprised the strategic framing of the situation by highlighting different cues about the normative, descriptive and local expectations of charitable giving as well as cues about the warm glow of donating money. The experiment took place in 20 supermarkets in Germany and lasted for 12 months. By varying the experimental design and using different modelling approaches, the study arrives at the conclusion that individuals largely act consistent with the assumption having self-regarding preferences that are stable and difficult to change. Hence, our pre-test and post-intervention data stand in sharp contrast to results from lab experiments.
A hypothesis: CRISPR-Cas as a minimal cognitive system
Authors: Yakura Hidetaka
Published: December 2018

Concerning what signifies the minimal requirements for a process to be designated cognitive, various criteria have been proposed, but the problem has not been settled. The important thing to consider in establishing the criteria is which criterion has stronger explanatory power. Recent developments in immunology demonstrate that the immune system is omnipresent in the realm of living beings, including bacteria and archaea. Although the structural characteristics of immune systems are significantly different among species, the fundamental functional components, namely, recognition, information integration, reaction, and memory, are well conserved. Interestingly, these adaptive features are superimposed on those of the central nervous system. Given that adaptive cognitive ability is a prerequisite for the existence and the survival of living organisms, these results may be compatible with the idea that in bacteria without an apparent nervous system, the immune system performs neural-like functions. The presence of the clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR associated protein (Cas) systems as a cognitive system in the earliest living organisms suggests that one of the fundamental functions is conserved throughout evolution. Furthermore, this interpretation can evade the critiques against the current biological paradigm that demand that cognitive mechanisms be preceded by organisms in the earlier stages of evolution, thus providing better and stronger explanatory power. I thus propose that genetic and biochemical machinery represented by the bacterial immune system serves as a minimal cognitive system.
Intraoperative Torque Test to Assess Syndesmosis Instability
Authors: Gosselin-Papadopoulos Nayla , Hébert-Davies Jonah , Laflamme G. Yves , Beauséjour Marie , Ménard Jérémie , Leduc Stéphane , Nault Marie-Lyne
Published: December 2018

Background:

In this cadaveric study, a new “torque test” (TT) stressing the fibula posterolaterally under direct visualization was compared with the classical external rotation stress test (ERT) and lateral stress test (LST).

Methods:

The anteroinferior tibiofibular ligament (AiTFL), the interosseous membrane (IOM), and the posteroinferior tibiofibular ligament (PiTFL) were sectioned sequentially on 10 fresh-frozen human ankles. At each stage of dissection, instability was assessed using the LST, ERT, and TT under direct visualization. Anatomical tibiofibular diastasis measurements were taken directly on cadavers and compared using the Wilcoxon signed rank test.

Results:

All 3 tests showed statistically significant motion in the syndesmosis when at least 2 ligaments were sectioned. The mean increase across diastasis with a 2-ligament section was 3.0 mm ( P = .005), 3.2 mm ( P = .005), and 4.8 mm ( P = .005) for the LST, ERT, and TT, respectively. The largest mean increase in diastasis was obtained with a complete injury using the TT and was 6.2 mm ( P = .008). With the TT, a 3.5-mm tibiofibular diastasis was 90% sensitive and 100% specific when 2 or more syndesmotic ligaments were sectioned.

Conclusion:

The TT was a more sensitive and specific tool for detecting syndesmosis instability than classic LST and ERT.

Clinical relevance:

Stressing the fibula in a posterolateral direction created a larger distal tibiofibular diastasis, which would be easier to detect in the intraoperative setting. The TT was more sensitive and specific to detecting a 2-ligament syndesmotic injury than the classic test and required less force to perform.
Unsettling Transcription Through “Event Memory”: Problem and Possibility in Exploring the Phenomenological Question
Authors: Sinclair Meredith N.
Published: December 2018

This article works to unsettle the use of transcription in qualitative inquiry by troubling the truth claims of transcribed text. Building on the hermeneutic phenomenology of Van Manen, it explores the way the researcher might “write through” transcribed text to return to the two-dimensional text space a more honest reading of lived experience. It also draws on Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomatic thinking to explore the “gruesome multiplicities” present in reality—and the ways we might honor that multiplicity in research texts. Excerpts from an inquiry into the phenomenon of “reading as not a reader” are used to illustrate.
Interface tension-induced stress field around periodic nano-inclusions of arbitrary shape
Authors: Yang Hai-Bing , Wang Shuang
Published: December 2018

This paper investigates the plane deformation of periodic nano-inclusions of arbitrary shape embedded in a homogeneous isotropic material. A representative unit cell (RUC) with periodic boundary conditions imposed on its edges is used to represent the periodicity of the structure. Residual interface tension is incorporated into the deformation model so that the normal and tangential stresses have to jump across the matrix–inclusion interface, despite that the displacement can generally be treated as continuous across that interface. The stress field in the entire RUC is obtained by using the complex variable methods with the assistance of conformal mapping, series expansion, and collocation techniques. Numerical examples are presented for three different inclusion shapes. The results show that the interface tension-induced stress field can be greatly influenced by the shape, elastic modulus, and volume fraction of the inclusions.
Where is the real trap? Domination and mutualism in Teetl’it Gwich’in sensibilities about trapping
Authors: Wishart Robert P
Published: December 2018

Teetl’it Gwich’ins, NWT, Canada have consistently positioned trapping as a valuable exercise despite fluctuations in the price of furs. Materialist anthropological theories applied to the trapping economies of boreal forest First Nations created an image of trapping as an activity that necessarily leads to individualism, alienation, nucleated family structures and disenchantment because the furs were being produced for trade in the world economy. The rise of anti-fur sentiments and Canadian industrial intrusions helped cement this imaginary of the trapper as corrupt but, instead of simply being the victims of European domination, they were positioned to have abandoned the ‘traditional’ sensibilities of trust and reciprocity to adopt the cruelties of the steel trap. In contrast with these conjectural world histories, the author argues that trapping as it is practiced today is far from being an alienating practice. Indigenous trappers work with animals in ways that suit their pre-existing practices. In order to dispel the imaginary of the cruel dominator of animals, more recent thoughts on mutualism in human–animal relationships help but it would be difficult to argue that this activity does not require some deception. Indigenous trappers will create methods and tinker with their traps in ways that are counterintuitive to some of the human–environment dualisms found in the deception paradigm that posits that the human presence and the intention to trap is hidden from the animal and tricks it into making a fatal error. The author argues that trapping is effective and valued because it plays upon the signs and expectations which lie between the past and the present, and between domination and mutualism.
A transparent cancer classifier
Authors: Hartono Pitoyo
Published: December 2018

Recently, many neural network models have been successfully applied for histopathological analysis, including for cancer classifications. While some of them reach human–expert level accuracy in classifying cancers, most of them have to be treated as black box, in which they do not offer explanation on how they arrived at their decisions. This lack of transparency may hinder the further applications of neural networks in realistic clinical settings where not only decision but also explainability is important. This study proposes a transparent neural network that complements its classification decisions with visual information about the given problem. The auxiliary visual information allows the user to some extent understand how the neural network arrives at its decision. The transparency potentially increases the usability of neural networks in realistic histopathological analysis. In the experiment, the accuracy of the proposed neural network is compared against some existing classifiers, and the visual information is compared against some dimensional reduction methods.
Patient-reported data and the politics of meaningful data work
Authors: Langstrup Henriette
Published: December 2018

Patient-reported outcome data have moved from the realm of research to center stage in efforts to provide patient-centered care. In a Danish context, health authorities are seeking to promote and standardize the use of patient-reported outcome data. This involves normative articulations of what counts as meaningful data work in a healthcare system characterized by intensified data-sourcing. Based on ethnographic material, I suggest that an assemblage of actors, both human and technological, has accomplished the articulation of meaningful data work, with patient-reported outcome as being dependent on the active application of data in clinical trajectories—in contrast to supplying data “passively” for secondary use for research or governance. This normative articulation of “Active patient-reported outcome” legitimizes the Danish patient-reported outcome assemblage by showing alignment of the concerns of patients, clinicians and health authorities. At the same time, “Active patient-reported outcome” foreshadows challenges in making data work meaningful in local practice.
Feasting in a time of famine: The English Premier League, ‘conspicuous consumption’ and the politics of austerity
Authors: Webber David M.
Published: December 2018

Since 2010, successive Conservative-led governments have imposed a series of austerity measures in an attempt to curb levels of public spending and bring Britain’s national deficit back ‘under control’. Despite this political imperative, however, there remains within certain areas of economic and social life, a persistence of what Thorstein Veblen famously termed ‘conspicuous consumption’. The English Premier League is, I argue here, one such example, and this article offers a reworking of Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class to explore some of the ways in which England’s elite football clubs have continued to demonstrate a ‘propensity for emulation’ and ‘conspicuous consumption’, specifically, by spending considerable sums acquiring new players and redeveloping their stadiums. Under these conditions of public austerity, the private wealth of English football’s global leisure class has soared, leaving these clubs disembedded from their predominately working-class neighbourhoods, and the self-same communities that have borne the brunt of these government cuts and welfare reforms. Precarity, economic anxiety and acute social vulnerability are now everyday experiences for those living in the shadows of England’s wealthiest clubs. Politically too, however, this is also significant since the sealing-off of this leisure class reveals the limits of austerity itself. Exposing it as an ideological choice rather than ‘economic necessity’, these class relations demonstrate in stark terms that ‘we’ as a nation – let alone ‘a football nation’ – are not ‘all in this together’. Cut adrift from the clubs that they historically sustained, these communities have been left to navigate this latest crisis of capitalism alone.
Enhancing Capacity of Community–Academic Partnerships to Achieve Health Equity: Results From the CBPR Partnership Academy
Authors: Coombe Chris M. , Schulz Amy J. , Guluma Lello , Allen Alex J. , Gray Carol , Brakefield-Caldwell Wilma , Guzman J. Ricardo , Lewis Toby C. , Reyes Angela G. , Rowe Zachary , Pappas Lisa A. , Israel Barbara A.
Published: December 2018

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an equitable partnership approach that links academic researchers, community organizations, and public health practitioners to work together to understand and address health inequities. Although numerous educational materials on CBPR exist, few training programs develop the skills and knowledge needed to establish effective, equitable partnerships. Furthermore, there are few professional development opportunities for academic researchers, practitioners, and community members to obtain these competencies in an experiential co-learning process. In response, the Detroit Community–Academic Urban Research Center developed the CBPR Partnership Academy, an innovative, yearlong capacity-building program facilitated by experienced community and academic partners, involving an intensive short course, partnership development, grant proposal preparation and funding, mentoring, online learning forums, and networking. Three diverse cohorts (36 teams) from 18 states and 2 tribal nations have participated. We describe the rationale and components of the training program and present results from the first two cohorts. Evaluation results suggest enhanced competence and efficacy in conducting CBPR. Outcomes include partnerships established, grant proposals submitted and funded, workshops and research conducted, and findings disseminated. A community–academic partner-based, integrated, applied program can be effective for professional development and establishing innovative linkages between academics and practitioners aimed at achieving health equity.
Development and Implementation of a Student-Led Lifestyle Medicine Curriculum
Authors: Kaye Shaina , Pathman Joshua , Skelton Joseph A.
Published: December 2018

Significant contributors to rising health care costs are diseases influenced by lifestyle, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer. Unfortunately, American medical education devotes disproportionately little time training future doctors in prevention. Approach. With the support of medical education leadership, medical students collaborated with a faculty advisor at Wake Forest School of Medicine to test the feasibility of a broad-based, student-led lifestyle medicine curriculum. After 3 introductory sessions delivered to an entire medical school class, a smaller pilot series with 16 first-year medical students was held after-hours, featuring experiential learning in nutrition and cooking, physical activity, and sleep. The 8 modules were designed to improve student health, wellness, and knowledge of health behaviors. Feedback. The program was implemented into the first-year medical school class. An unforeseen benefit of the pilot was increased student volunteering in community-based wellness activities and research. Two components of success were the hands-on, experiential modules and being student-led. Details on curriculum development, schedule, and content are provided.
Neurohospitalist Practice, Perspectives, and Burnout
Authors: Probasco John C. , Greene James , Harrison Amy , Jensen Judd , Khot Sandeep , Klein Joshua P. , Simpson Jennifer , Wold Jana , Josephson S. Andrew , Likosky David
Published: December 2018

Background and Purpose:

Neurohospitalist neurology is a fast-growing subspecialty with a variety of practice settings featuring neurohospitalist models of care. Since inception, the subspecialty has responded to new challenges in resident training, hospital reimbursement, practice, and burnout.

Methods:

To characterize neurohospitalists’ current practice and perspectives, we surveyed the neurohospitalists and trainees affiliated with the Neurohospitalist Society using an electronic survey distributed through the society listserv.

Results:

Of 501 individuals surveyed by e-mail, 119 began the survey (23.8% response rate), with 88.2% self-identifying as neurohospitalists. Most neurohospitalists (63%) are 10 years or less out of training, devoting 70% of their professional time to inpatient clinical activities while also performing administrative or teaching activities. Only 38% are employed by an academic department. Call schedules are common, with 75% of neurohospitalists participating in a hospital or emergency call schedule, while 55% provide telemedicine services. The majority (97%) of neurohospitalists primarily care for adults, most commonly treating patients with cerebrovascular disease, seizures, and delirium/encephalopathy. The majority (87%) are overall pleased with their work, but 36% report having experienced burnout.

Conclusions:

Neurohospitalists are a diverse group of neurologists primarily practicing in the inpatient setting while performing a variety of additional activities. They provide a wide array of clinical expertise for acute neurological diseases and neurological emergencies that require hospitalization, including stroke, seizure, and encephalopathy. Neurohospitalists in general are very pleased with their work, while burnout, as in neurology and other areas of medicine, remains a concern.
Two Social Functions of Stepwise Transitions When Discussing Ideas in Workplace Meetings
Authors: Tiitinen Sanni , Lempiälä Tea
Published: December 2018

Using conversation analysis and audio recordings of workplace meetings, we analyze stepwise transitions in discussions about ideas during meetings. We demonstrate that, in this context, stepwise transitions have functions related to maintaining cooperative social relationships by offering a way to (a) resist the presuppositions of the presented idea without explicit disagreement and (b) smoothly bypass ongoing or evolving disagreements when assessing the idea. Thus, the mundane view of stepwise transitions as a random disruption to meeting interactions is misleading. We discuss the results in relation to the literature on group interaction related to idea development and topic management and disagreements in workplace meetings.
Characterization of CuO-doped tin dioxide thin films prepared by pulsed-laser deposition for gas-sensing applications
Authors: Naji Iqbal S
Published: December 2018

The influence of doping level of tin oxide films with different amounts of CuO additives (5%, 10%, 15%, and 20%) on structural, optical, and electrical properties is investigated. The films were prepared by pulsed-laser deposition method. X-ray diffraction patterns show the polycrystalline structure for all films with tetragonal phase for SnO2 and monoclinic phase for CuO, and no reaction between them. The surface morphology of films was analyzed and it revealed nano-sized grains for samples doped with 10% and 15% CuO. Hall’s effect measurements show increasing conductivity with increase in the CuO ratio and transfer the type of charge carriers from n- to p-type with 20% CuO. The H2S sensing properties are influenced by the CuO ratio in the SnO2 films as well as the operation temperature. The SnO2 sensor loaded with 10% CuO is extremely sensitive to H2S and the best operation temperature is 50°C, and it exhibits fast response speed of 7 s and recovery time of 20 s for trace level (10 ppm) H2S gas detection.
Oncology Drug Shortages—What We Have Versus What We Expect to Have? A Critical Scenario of Pakistan
Authors: Elahi Ehsan , Andleeb Sidrah
Published: December 2018

Drug shortages in tertiary care hospitals always limit the health system’s ability to provide quality care to the patients. Immediately following the existing shortage of 5 different oncology drugs in Pakistan, numerous patients are finding themselves in a desperate state of no cure for their illness. Cardinal factors responsible for this unfortunate situation include interruption in vendor supplies and regulatory authorities’ issues related to approval and pricing. Effective review of policies by regulatory authorities for availability of drugs will certainly avoid this miserable condition in the future and ensure continuation of high-quality care to patients by health care systems.
A Survey on Mobile Cloud Computing: Mobile Computing + Cloud Computing (MCC = MC + CC)
Authors: Somula Rama Subbareddy , R Sasikala
Published: December 2018

In recent years, the mobile devices become popular for communication and running advanced real time applications such as face reorganization and online games. Although, mobile devices advanced for providing significant benefits for mobile users. But still, these devices suffers with limited recourses such as computation power, battery and storage space due to the portable size. However, The Cloud Technology overcome the limitations of mobile computing with better performance and recourses. The cloud technology provides enough computing recourses to run mobile applications as storage computing power on cloud platform. Therefore, the novel technology called mobile cloud computing (MCC) is introduced by integrating two technologies (Mobile Computing, Cloud Computing) in order to overcome the limitations(such as Battery life, Storage capacity, Processing capacity) of Mobile Devices by offloading application to recourse rich Remote server. This paper presents an overview of MCC, the advantages of MCC, the related concepts and the technology beyond various offloading frameworks, the architecture of the MCC, Cloudlet technology, security and privacy issues and limitations of mobile cloud computing. Finally, we conclude with feature research directions in MCC.
Execution Analysis of Spatial Data Storage Indexing on Cloud Environment
Authors: S Karthi , S Prabu
Published: December 2018

Cloud computing overcome the GIS issues are huge storage, computing and reliability. Cloud computing with SpatialHadoop framework gives high performance in GIS. This paper presents spatial partition, global index and map reduce operations were studied and described in detail. Bloom filter R-tree index in the Map-reduce for providing more efficiency than the existing approaches. The BR-tree index on Map-Reduce is implemented in SpatialHadoop process that reduces intermediate data access time. Global index decreases the number of data accesses for range queries and thus improves efficiency. It is observed through experimental results that the proposed index along cloud environment performs better than existing techniques
Parallel seed selection method for overlapping community detection in social network
Authors: R V Belfin , Kanaga E Grace Mary
Published: December 2018

Social network analysis is one of the key areas of research during modern times. The social network is growing with more users and the ties between them day by day. This reason brings out many research queries and new conclusions from this area. Overlapping community detection in the social network is one such research problem which has acquired interest among researchers nowadays. Earlier, the investigation was in finding out algorithms to detect communities in the network sequentially. There are many distinguished findings toward overlapping community detection. Due to the velocity of data in the current era, the available algorithms will be a bit sluggish in processing the data. The proposed algorithm uses parallel processing engine to resolve this delay problem in the current scenario. The algorithm in parallel finds out the superior seed set in the network and expands it in parallel to find out the community. The work shows amazing improvement in the runtime and also detects quality groups in the network.
Energy-Efficient Real-Time Scheduling Algorithm for Fault-Tolerant Autonomous Systems
Authors: El Ghor Hussein , Hage Julia , Hamadeh Nizar , Hage Chehade Rafic
Published: December 2018

For the past decades, we have experienced an aggressive technology scaling due to the tremendous advancements of Integrated Circuit technology. As massive integration continues, the power consumption of the IC chips exponentially increases which further degraded the system reliability. This in turn poses significant challenges to the design of real-time autonomous systems. In this paper, we target the problem of designing advanced real-time scheduling algorithms that are subject to timing, energy consumption and fault-tolerant design constraints. To this end, we first investigated the problem of developing scheduling techniques for uniprocessor real-time systems that minimizes energy consumption while still tolerating up to k transient faults to preserve the system's reliability. Two scheduling algorithms are proposed: the first scheduler is an extension of an optimal fault-free energy-efficient scheduling algorithm, named ES-DVFS. The second algorithm aims to enhance the energy saving by reserving adequate slack time for recovery when faults strike. We derive a necessary and sufficient condition that must be efficiently checked for the time and energy feasibility of aperiodic jobs in the presence of failures. Later, we formally prove that the proposed algorithm is optimal for a k-fault-tolerant model. Our simulation results demonstrate that the proposed schedulers can efficiently improve energy savings when compared with previous works.
Introduction to the Special Issue on Mobile Cloud Applications and Challenges
Authors: Rajasekaran Rajkumar
Published: December 2018

We are happy to present this special issue of thee Scientific Journal Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience. In this special issue on Mobile Cloud Applications and Challenges (Volume 19 No 4 December 2018), we have selected five papers, which gone through a peer review according to the journal policy. All the papers represents novel results in the field of Mobile and Cloud Applications.

 

The first paper presents overview of mobile cloud computing, cloudlet technology, security and privacy issues and limitations of mobile cloud commuting. The second paper presents a spatial partition, global index and map reduce operation were studied. The trail results that the proposed indexing cloud framework performs improved results. The third paper proposes an authentication model along with data security in a public cloud storage environment which successful detects the unauthenticated access or any anomaly in data. The fourth paper analyses the student success ratio which uses a cloud based technology to implement and design SaaS. Graph based complex network are used for analysing the course. The fifth paper presents Overlapping community detection in social networks. The proposed algorithm uses parallel processing engine to resolve the delay problem.
O pirotécnico Murilo Rubião: apontamentos introdutórios
Authors: Gama-Khalil Marisa Martins , Simões Maria João , Cezar Adelaide Caramuru
Published: December 2018

Apresentação
Sob os domínios do animal: um estudo do conto “Os dragões” de Murilo Rubião
Authors: Silva Antonia Marly Moura
Published: December 2018

Valendo-se da linguagem alegórica e simbólica, a literatura contemporânea tem prestigiado a representação de novos monstros e dramas humanos, invocando seu receptor para uma abertura dos horizontes de expectativa. Neste contexto, o valor atribuído aos personagens animais parece intensificar significações contidas na fronteira entre a imaginação e a realidade, afiançando o “sentimento do fantástico” a que se refere Roger Bozzetto (2001). No conto “Os dragões” (1965) de Murilo Rubião, animais expressam sentimentos e sensações tipicamente humanas, sustentando o efeito de estranhamento e de irrealidade da história narrada. Configurado com um caráter de fábula, o tom narrativo de Rubião potencializa a transgressão da realidade no movimento circular entre o normal e o anormal, o verdadeiro e o falso, o possível e o impossível, enaltecendo o estatuto da indecidibilidade que marca o fantástico contemporâneo. Sob tal perspectiva, este trabalho pretende analisar o referido conto, dando destaque ao modo de figuração do fantástico à luz do pensamento de autores como Finné (1980), Julio Cortázar (1993), David Roas (2001, 2011, 2014), Remo Ceserani (2006) e Irene Bessière (2005).
Os lados do círculo em “Os três nomes de Godofredo”, de Murilo Rubião
Authors: Colaço Raul Da Rocha
Published: December 2018

Este trabalho se pauta na investigação da figura geométrica do círculo no conto “Os três nomes de Godofredo”, de Murilo Rubião. Para isso, dialogamos com diversas áreas do saber (Matemática, Artes Plásticas, Física, Psicologia, entre outras) e dividimos o trabalho nos seguintes tópicos: 1) Andando em círculos: o ciclo labiríntico do espaço, da ação e do tempo (abarca tanto as ações repetitivas dos personagens e os seus deslocamentos circulares, quanto o tempo que se aproxima do mítico, no qual passado, presente e futuro constituem um só tempo); 2) Circunferência retabular (resgate da ideia de "tudo ao mesmo tempo e agora", todos os eventos expostos num mesmo plano); 3) Círculo escrito, circunscrito (análise das menções às figuras circulares e a tudo o que remete a elas); 4) Circuito em série: a relação texto e epígrafe (abrange a influência recíproca entre as epígrafes e a narrativa abordada, num jogo circular infinito). Assim, nos foram úteis, principalmente, os estudos de Robert Cumming (1996), de Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1998), de Carl Gustav Jung (2008) e de Jorge Schwartz (1981). No que concerne aos resultados, assinalamos que o círculo funciona como elemento norteador do conto ora analisado, na medida em que Rubião se aproveita do círculo para deformá-lo, abrindo, assim, fendas para a inserção do leitor no seu texto.
Curta Murilo: Insólitas pirotecnias entre textos e tela
Authors: Cunha Maria Zilda , Fontana Baseio Maria Auxiliadora
Published: December 2018

É fato que Murilo tornou-se um dos mais importantes escritores do conto fantástico no Brasil e que sua escritura projeta reflexões sempre novas acerca das configurações do insólito tal como se constrói em suas narrativas. Compreende-se com David Roas (2004) que a irrupção do insólito implica experiência inquietante no leitor ante a falta de sentido revelada pela fratura de “representação” referencial da realidade vivida, conduzindo à necessidade de questionamento da validade dos sistemas de percepção do real. O propósito deste ensaio é discutir, à luz dos Estudos Comparados de Literatura, na perspectiva das possibilidades oferecidas pela tradução intersemiótica, proposta por Julio Plaza, as projeções do insólito na narrativa literária de Murilo e na obra fílmica de Olímpio Costa. O conto de Murilo Rubião, “O Ex-mágico da Taberna Minhota”,inserido no livro de estreia do escritor mineiro, assinala a irrupção do inesperado, mostrando-se como “uma literatura do contra”, conforme Candido (2011). Essa narrativa reverberou variadas transposições intersemióticas, entre as quais a animação de Olímpio Costa, que, à sua maneira, reinventa a genialidade muriliana fazendo casamentos inusitados entre os contos “Teleco” e “O Ex-Mágico”, em um roteiro permeado pela atmosfera estética.
Analysis of Rice Imports in Indonesia: AIDS approach
Authors: Widarjono Agus
Published: December 2018

Rice is a staple food for Indonesian households. After achieving self-sufficiency of rice in 1984, Indonesia still had to import rice because the domestic rice consumption always exceeded the domestic rice production.Â  This study attempts to analyze a rice import during the 1998-2014 period. The rice import was analyzed based on the main partner of Indonesian rice imports encompassing of Vietnam, Thailand, USA, Other countries. This research applied the demand system method using Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS). The results indicate that price elasticity of rice import from Vietnam and Thailand was inelastic while from other countries, they were elastic. Based on the expenditure elasticity of rice import, rice is the normal goods for rice import from Thailand and USA. The policy simulation shows that the increase in the price of rice import leads to the decrease of rice import.Â  However, rice import from certain countries such as Thailand still increase. Rice is the staple food, therefore, the government must set up policy to increase domestic rice production for reducing dependency on rice imports.
Analysis of the success factors for MSME succession in Surabaya: A principal component analysis
Authors: . Candraningrat , . Oktaviani , Suhandiah Sri -
Published: December 2018

This study aims to find success factors for succession in family-based MSMEs in MSMEs in Surabaya, Indonesia, where Surabaya is a metropolitan city that allows entrepreneurs to develop and be sustainable for the next generation of family businesses. The research method used is factor analysis which is an analysis technique that forms the latent variables that have not been determined before the analysis, the results of anilisation will find any factors that influence the success of succession in MSMEs. Sample in this study amounted to 100 MSMEs of family businesses that could be met in Surabaya or incidental sampling, while respondents in this study were second generation family business owners. The method of data collection is a survey with a questionnaire instrument that has been tested for validity and reliability. The data analysis technique used is the Principal Component Analysis Factor Analysis with SPSS software. The results of this study found that six factors that determine the success of succession in MSMEs in the city of Surabaya are succession preparation procedures, successor characteristics, readiness of previous generations, communication in the succession process, relationships between family members, and introduction to the business environment. This research is expected to provide references on the sustainability of family business to the next generation in the city of Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.
Recognition and disclosure of environment maintenance activity PT. Pertamina Geothermal Energy
Authors: Irwan Achmad Yanuar , Satia Utama Anak Agung Gde
Published: December 2018

Global warming, climate change, carbon emissions, disaster, threatened species, waste, etc are externalities of growth and development of the industries and human activities and needs. Sustainable Development is a concept that is offered to achieve balance and sustainability. Company as one of the contributors in environmental damage responds it by corporate social responsibility and environmental management system. This study aims to explore the implementation of environmental accounting for sustainable value creation and explore the recognition and disclosure of the maintenance activities within the PT. Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGE). The research method is qualitative exploratory. The results show that the company has been carrying out various environmental activities either directly or indirectly related to the production process. Accountability for the implementation of these activities encourage creating sustainable added value for the company. PGE perform recognition and disclosure of environmental activities and costs according to the principles of environmental accounting and PSAK No. 33. PGE has environmental income from the sale of carbon credits CDMâ€™s program is recognized as other income. In addition, PGE has been compiled Sustainability Report according to the guidelines of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
The influence of secure image, rate and charges, and variation of product towards customer interest in selecting certain banks and the role in net-interest margin in Indonesia
Authors: Tjandrasa Benny Budiawan
Published: December 2018

The purpose of this paper is to prove the influence of the secure image on the interest of customers in selecting certain banks, and to explore the role of the secure image in net interest margin in Indonesia. This research uses a triangular approach which is a combination of a scientific approach and a naturalist approach. The number of questionnaires collected is 300, using simple random sampling, and the hypothesis test uses logistic regression. The results of the research include two things: statistical test result indicates the secure image variable affects the interest of customers in choosing a particular bank; and the exploratory research can explain the role of the secure image variable in Net Interest Margin in Indonesia. The implications of this research are: first, banks and other financial institutions can improve competitiveness by enhancing secure image through enhanced security technology and maintaining the company's reputation in terms of security. Second, the role of the secure image variable in net interest margin can be explained through the application of demand-supply theory. The originality of this research is the verification of the effect of the secure image variable on customer interest in a particular bank and its role in NIM
Balanced scorecard recontruction through value of Khalifatullah fil Ardh â€“ Abdullah
Authors: Nurindrasari Diana , Triyuwono Iwan , Mulawarman Aji Dedi
Published: December 2018

This study aims to reconstruct the basis and perspective on the balanced scorecard. The basic assumptions and perspectives in the balanced scorecard only prioritize material aspects. Yet, Â the reality of a performance is also influenced by non-material aspects such as the existence of God, society, and the environment. Therefore, it shows an imbalance. The reconstruction is done by using the values contained in the qiyam. This research was conducted in two main stages, namely conducting a literature study on the fundamentals and perspectives on the balanced scorecard. Then, the values in the qiyam are synchronized to produce a new balanced scorecard construct. The results of the reconstruction show the goals and perspectives of a more complete and sustainable performance measurement through the basic concepts of responsibility and trust in the dimensions of Khalifatullah fil ard and Abdullah. The performance measurement is intended to fulfill the mandate to God, the universe, and fellow humans. The formulation of performance measurement objectives produces new perspectives: Â human resources, business processes, distribution, environment, and society. The reconstruction of the balanced scorecard contributes to the managerial side of the company in drawing up the company's performance measurement framework. The results of this study can also be used as the development of knowledge in academics, especially accounting and management.
Permission to use prohibited and unclean items and its role in Islamic economy
Authors: G Abolfazl Alishahi , Hosseini Bi Bi Zeinab , Tamini Isa
Published: December 2018

The ruling prohibiting the use of prohibited and unclean items is found in the Holy Qur'an and the hadiths from the infallible imams (AS). The jurists consider the cause of the ruling of permission and prohibition of things to be their benefits and harms. The question is whether such benefits and harms making up the prohibition and permission of the use are fixed and permanent or they may change in the nature and subject matter? In the past, due to the lack of scientific and technical advancements, the benefits and uses of the prohibited items were not discovered or, in those circumstances, such uses were not possible, but the harmful aspect of prevailed. A number of jurists have categorically prohibited the use of prohibited and unclean items. Others, however, believe that in some cases, such as necessity, duress, etc., their use is permissible. A third group of jurists also believe that such uses are subject to conditions. With regard to the dynamic nature of Islamic jurisprudence, the role of time and place, and the change in the subject matter of the rulings and their instances in ijtihad, it would seem possible to issue a permission to use such items; so that in this way, solutions can be provided in cases such as treatment, job creation, and industry prosperity as well as the release from economic and livelihood bottlenecks.
The impact of artificial wall climbing as a recreational activity on children's locus of control
Authors: Yıldız Nuh Osman , Özen Güçlü , Özsoy Ahmet
Published: December 2018

The aim of this research is to determine the effects of artificial wall climbing - which was performed by primary school students- as a recreative activity on children’s locus of control. Artificial wall climbing represents itself as a learning point beyond a sportive activity while creating an opportunity for participants to discover the limits of their own and that of others’, and opening a path for learning through experience by rendering the participants active rather than passive.The research was designed as one group pre-test – post-test model. The sample of the study is the same as the study population. 40 (15 female, 25 male) students studying in 7th and 8th grades of primary school attended voluntarily in this study.  Climbing practices were determined according to students' free time. Climbing practices were planned to be 90 minutes each. It is organized two days in a week between at least twenty-four hours. The test lasted 6 weeks in total. The activity which started with warm-up exercises suited for the age group was configured as a developmental schema as it started with top rope and extended to lead climbing route again on the climbing routes suited for the age groups. During the practice, it was ensured to provide knowledge and skills for not only climbing skills but also for other topics such as basic knowledge of climbing techniques, basic knots and belaying. The practice lasted six weeks and the questionnaire was applied before and after.To determine whether participants had a tendency towards externalizing or internalizing bias, "Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale" was used.As a result of the statistical analysis, it was observed that there are significant differences between pre-test and the difference of differences regarding the gender discrepancy and between pre-test and post-test scores regarding the total scores (p<0.05).The group of activities carried out for the artificial wall climbing led to a positive development in the children’s perception of locus of control and it was seen that children's beliefs on what’s happening around them is under their control and they can turn their lives in whichever direction they want were positively influenced.
A Neural Network Method for Nonlinear Time Series Analysis
Authors: Lee Jinu
Published: December 2018

This paper is concerned with approximating nonlinear time series by an artificial neural network based on radial basis functions. A new data-driven modelling strategy is suggested for the adaptive framework by combining the statistical techniques of forward selection, cross validation and information criterion. The proposed method is fast and simple to implement while avoiding some typical difficulties such as estimation and computation of nonlinear econometric models. Two applications are provided to illustrate the benefits of using the neural network method in time series analysis. First, the proposed modelling method is applied to a neural network test for neglected nonlinearity in conditional mean of univariate time series. A simulation study is carried out to show how the size of the test is improved in finite samples. Further, the new test is compared with alternative popular tests to demonstrate its superior power performance using a variety of nonlinear time series models. Second, the proposed method is applied to obtain a nonlinear forecasting model for daily S&P 500 returns. Forecast accuracy is compared with that of a linear model and other neural network models used in the literature.