bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A DINÂMICA MIGRATÓRIA NO ESPÍRITO SANTO E AS POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS
Authors: Dota Ednelson Mariano , Coelho André Luiz Nascentes , Camargo Danilo Mangaba de
Published: February 2019

Este artigo aborda os movimentos migratórios que impactaram o Espírito Santo ao longo da década de 2000 e que foram captados pelo Censo Demográfico brasileiro de 2010. De forma a alcançar os objetivos de divulgar para a comunidade dados de difícil acesso de forma simples e acessível, foi elaborado um conjunto de indicadores e um atlas comentado, no formato digital, em nível de município, cujos dados espacializados permitem estabelecer relações com outras dinâmicas da sociedade contemporânea e em outros níveis de análise.  Os resultados apresentados revelaram que existem grandes variações entre as regiões do Estado, possivelmente associadas as principais atividades econômicas de cada área e do resultado dos processos em vigência, ressaltando a relevância de se considerar a migração no planejamento das políticas públicas municipais e regionais.
Capacitação de profissionais socialmente vulneráveis em microgeração solar fotovoltaica
Authors: Valentim José Américo Valentim Américo
Published: February 2019

A geração solar fotovoltaica está em expansão, devido aos benefícios ambientais, custos decrescentes, nova legislação, fabricação de painéis solares no mercado nacional e aumento da tarifa de energia elétrica. Para facilitar a implantação em residências e no comércio é essencial haver consumidores conscientes e mão de obra capacitada para dimensionamento, comercialização, instalação, comissionamento e manutenção. O Laboratório Solar Fotovoltaico da UFJF conta com ampla experiência acumulada em atividade de ensino, pesquisa e demonstração da tecnologia. Em virtude da necessidade de popularizar e transferir o conhecimento em ciência e tecnologia, foi elaborado e ministrado o presente curso. Este trabalho inicialmente contextualiza a importância da microgeração solar fotovoltaica e os principais objetivos do curso. Em seguida, são descritas as principais etapas dos preparativos e da execução do projeto. Uma análise detalhada dos resultados revelou que foi possível alcançar o público alvo e as pessoas que receberam o certificado foram adequadamente capacitadas.
Counter/acting the Body Politic: Leonor de la Cueva's "La firmeza en la ausencia"
Authors: Cruz Anne
Published: January 2019

Although women protagonists in male-authored Spanish comedias were cast in pivotal roles, they remained as objects for which the male protagonists competed and contended. It has not been until recently that women playwrights have been studied by feminist critics, who have shed light on the reestablishment of the relational union of men and women. Nonetheless, while these female-authored comedias counter male authority, they often seemed to act out the part of the patriarchy.  My analysis of Leonor de la Cueva’s La firmeza en la ausencia intends to measure the impact of women’s destabilizing force as it is introduced and asserted in the play. Through the female protagonist’s constancy, Cueva’s play counters the political authority as it is represented by the male protagonists—her king, her lover, and her lover’s friend.  Moreover, in its geopolitical proximity to Cueva’s own time, the play acts out its realism, inverting the male-authored comedia’s motifs of honor, homosocial bonding, and mirror of princes. In the end, it is her body that disrupts the political and moral order, acting as both destabilizing factor and catalyst that calls the political body to order, and that is itself mirrored in the body of the text as poetic difference.
REPRESENTATION OF “NORTHERN LIGHTS” IN THE OLD GERMANIC TEXTS
Authors: Chulkova Ekaterina Aleksandrovna
Published: February 2019

The article deals with the investigation of the phenomenon of the northern lights as a part of the language world image represented in the Old Germanic texts dated back to the VIII-XIII centuries. Its linguistic peculiarities have also been analyzed. As a result of the research of this astronomic and natural phenomenon the main ways of its metaphoric transferring have been elicited. We attempt to describe two prevailing models of metaphoric transferring, which are used to provide a familiar image of the northern lights by means the Old Germanic languages had at their disposal. According to the data there are two metaphoric models - based on the images of animals and natural phenomena, and the latter prevails.
METAPHORICAL REPRESENTATION OF SOFT POWER CONCEPT IN THE MODERN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Authors: Shekhovtseva Tatiana Mikhailovna , Kamyshanchenko Elena Anatolievna , Taranova Elena Nikolaevna
Published: February 2019

The article is devoted to the analysis of one of the concepts of new forms of political communication - SOFT POWER concept, introduced by Joseph Nye and representing a political metaphor. The authors analyze the history of the emergence and encyclopedic information about this concept. In the focus of our attention are the mechanisms of metaphorical representation of SOFT POWER concept. The most productive means of its objectification in the political media discourse is the subject metaphorical model. High frequency of the conceptual metaphor SOFT POWER → RESOURCE proves the “resource” understanding of “soft power”.
PRESENT SITUATION WITH THE KURDISH LANGUAGE
Authors: Ameen Rizgar Muhammad
Published: February 2019

The article is devoted to the current situation with Kurdish, the language of one of the biggest and most unlucky nations[10] in the world. While language is an integral part of nation building for most peoples, it is still a means of national identity formation for the Kurds who have been trying a lot to protect their mother tongue from death for the last 100 years. It is shown that Kurdish is still banned in Turkey, has a hope to develop in Iran and is recognized as an official language in the Kurdish regions in Iraq and Syria. The novelty of the research is in presenting the situation with the Kurdish language not only in one of the parts of Kurdistan but in four different countries.
CLASSIFICATION OF DISHES’ NAMES IN THE ASPECT OF THE RUSSIAN GERMANS’ LINGUOCULTURE
Authors: Korbmakher Tat’yana Vladimirovna
Published: February 2019

The article aims to consider dishes’ names in the Russian Germans’ culinary recipes (by the material of V. V. Schmidt’s book). The basis of the research is the method of continuous sampling and statistical analysis of culinary recipes’ texts. The material of the study is culinary recipes’ texts. As a result of the analysis of the Russian Germans’ dishes’ names, the author determines the classification of 273 lexical units, which are divided into 12 thematic groups. The analysis makes it possible to determine the percentage ratio of the lexical units by the thematic feature and the degree of the foreign language environment interference.
GRAMMATICAL AND SYNTACTIC ANOMALIES IN THE ENGLISH LITERARY TEXT AND PECULIARITIES OF THEIR TRANSLATION INTO THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
Authors: Soshnikov Aleksandr Olegovich
Published: February 2019

In the article, the comparative analysis of the structural and semantic organisation of the text in William Faulkner’s novel “The Sound and the Fury” and its Russian translation is carried out. The presence of deviations from grammatical and syntactic norms in the text of the original is an important figurative and expressive means enabling the author to achieve the effect of the stream of consciousness that would be impossible while maintaining the linear theme-rheme sequence. The studied grammatical and syntactic anomalies of the English and Russian texts are considered in the context of their emotional impact on the reader, and an attempt to identify the degree of the correlation of the translation text with the original one in terms of the choice of translation strategies is made.
SCOTTISH NAMING TRADITIONS: A NEW TURN
Authors: Ivanchenko Natal'ya Yakovlevna
Published: February 2019

The paper presents the results of a research project conducted in January 2017 among the members of a few Facebook and Quora groups dedicated to Scottish culture. The research aimed at exploring public awareness and perception of the so called traditional Scottish child naming patterns and identifying the socio-cultural factors that influence naming practices in modern-day Scotland. After the traditional Scottish onomastic patterns had been identified and the Scottish naming pool defined, the findings of the online survey were analysed and juxtaposed to the official statistics. The research project results confirm that there is evidence of the ongoing reinventing of the Scottish naming traditions.
FIGURATIVE-METAPHORICAL REPRESENTATION OF NATURAL LANDSCAPE IN TOURISM ADVERTISING NARRATIVE
Authors: Men’shikova Ekaterina Evgen’evna
Published: February 2019

The article is devoted to the study of the figurative-metaphorical means of representing natural landscape in tourism advertising narrative. In the course of the material analysis, it has been found out that most geographical objects are used as a source of the metaphorical representation of natural landscape: forests, mountains, volcanoes, rivers, waterfalls, lakes, seas, oceans, etc. The author shows that metaphors, comparisons, epithets and personification are the most common figurative-metaphorical means of describing natural landscape.
SEMANTIC SPACE OF MATERIAL CULTURE VOCABULARY IN THE MODERN SAKHA LANGUAGE (BY THE MATERIAL OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS)
Authors: D’yachkovskii Fedor Nikolaevich , Pinigina Ol’ga Nikolaevna
Published: February 2019

The article deals with the semantic space of the lexemes included in the lexical-semantic group with the meaning “housing”. Housing as one of the most important components of the people’s material culture is of great interest in terms of determining the importance of semantic features in an ethnic group’s spiritual culture. After analysing the lexemes that form the notional field “housing”, we can say that the lexical-semantic group “housing” of the Sakha language represents ethnic ideas related to the people’s economic-cultural activity not only in the structure of the primary nomination, but also in the methods of the secondary nomination of real-world facts.
METHODS OF PROBLEM-BASED PROFESSIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING TO STUDENTS OF THE FIELD OF STUDY “TOURISM”
Authors: Belkina Elena Pavlovna
Published: February 2019

In the article, the possibility of realising the potential of speech self-expression by 3rd-year students of the field of study “Tourism” in the process of solving professional problem tasks formulated in the form of questions is shown. The author singles out four types of professional problem situations (unethical behaviour of a hotel employee, unexpectedness, contradiction, incomprehensible explanation) and offers the ways to solve them. Professional problem situations were identified by analysing fiction texts. The methods of problem-based professional teaching have been developed; they consist of 3 stages: selection of solutions to a problem task, comparison of solutions to the problem, arguing.
INDIVIDUAL EDUCATIONAL ROUTE’S REALISATION FOR LISTENING SKILLS DEVELOPMENT OF NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN BLENDED LEARNING CONTEXT
Authors: Evseeva Arina Mikhailovna
Published: February 2019

The article deals with educational process organisation issues within the “Foreign Language” discipline in a non-linguistic higher education establishment in the blended learning context. The author identifies the advantages of using the blended learning model with the aim of realising students’ individual educational routes and shows the possibilities of its construction for the development of non-linguistic university students’ listening skills. The paper substantiates the need to differentiate the methods, techniques and means of teaching depending on the level of students’ foreign-language proficiency; examples of listening tasks in the LMS Moodle e-learning environment are given.
SEMANTIC ORGANIZATION OF THE CATEGORY OF COMPATIBILITY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Authors: Kozhokina Angelina Viktorovna , Silant’eva Veronika Georgievna
Published: February 2019

The article analyses the semantic category of compatibility, the specificity of its linguistic representation in the modern English language. The novelty of the work is conditioned by the lack of knowledge on this category in modern English. The authors conclude that this category combines sociative and comitative categories, which, in turn, are its components. The result of the study is the separation of functional-semantic (or conceptual) compatibility field, the definition of the main means of compatibility relations expression at different levels of the English language (lexical, syntactic, word-formation).
LINGUOCULTUROLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE STUDY BY FOREIGN STUDENTS
Authors: Panina Elena Igorevna
Published: February 2019

The article analyses the features of the implementation of the linguoculturological approach to teaching Russian as a foreign language by using the works of the Russian classical literature. It emphasizes the topicality of the problem of addressing a fiction text as material for study in classes of linguoculturology, which are becoming more and more common in the practice of Russian as a foreign language. The author focuses mainly on such issues as the selection of fiction and literary pieces, the compilation of linguistic and country-specific commentaries, working out a system of exercises aimed at the development of monological and dialogical speech, as well as translation skills.
RECEPTION OF TRADITIONAL MOTIVES OF THE EAST-SLAVIC FAIRY TALE IN DANA SYDEROS’S LYRICS (BASED ON “THE FOOL’S APPRENTICE” COLLECTION)
Authors: Livskaya Evgeniya Valentinovna , Volkhonskaya Mariya Andreevna
Published: February 2019

The article attempts to consider the poetry of the modern Russian author Dana Syderos in the context of the postmodernist fairy-tale tradition. While maintaining the linear fairy-tale plot, the fixed roles-functions of the characters, Syderos is experimenting with the subject-object organization of the text thus “opening” the text of the fairy-tale to a reader, who becomes an active participant in the act of creativity, since it is his interpretation that “complements” and “completes” the composition. The saturation of the “author’s tale” text with allusions to folklore, literary, cultural-historical collisions and images complicates its intertextual layer thereby contributing to the diversity of readings and interpretations.
ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR (1914-1918). UNDERSTANDING THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN THE WORKS OF THE WESTERN EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN WRITERS OF THE 20-30S OF THE XX CENTURY
Authors: Grigor’yants Tat’yana Pavlovna , Sitnova Larisa Ivanovna
Published: February 2019

The article attempts to comprehend the events of the First World War through the lenses of the perception of the great writers of the XX century: Remarque, Aldington, Hemingway, Faulkner. The common themes for all the selected novels are war, soldier, enemy, guilt, causes of war, “lost generation”. However, each writer speaks about the war in his own language, using the original manner of narration. The writers, independently from each other, create a new socio-psychological type of a hero-soldier of the First World War. The authors present a generalizing artistic portrait of a warrior compiled on the basis of the analysed novels.
Применение микроколоночной ВЭЖХ-УФ для анализа Glycyrrhiza uralensis и препаратов солодки
Authors: Оленников Даниил Николаевич , Зилфикаров Ифрат Назимович , Vennos Cecile
Published: February 2019

Разработана методика количественного анализа 7 соединений (ликвиритин-2″-О-глюкозид, ликвиритин, изоликвиритин-2″-О-апиозид, изоликвиритин, ликорицесапонин G2, юнганозид Е2, глицирризиновая кислота) в корнях Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch. методом микроколоночной ВЭЖХ с УФ-детектированием (МК-ВЭЖХ-УФ). Для анализа применяли сорбент ProntoSIL-120-5-C18 (1 ×60 мм, 1 мкм) и градиентную элюентную систему 4,1 М LiClO4/0,1 M HClO4 – ацетонитрил. Валидационный анализ показал, что методика обладает удовлетворительными метрологическими показателями. Методика была применена для исследования корней G. uralensis, произрастающей в Сибири, а также количественного анализа глицирризиновой кислоты в 28 коммерческих препаратах солодки.
Влияние альбендазола на процессы свободно-радикального окисления липидов у больных эхинококкозом печени
Authors: Михайлова Л. А. , Масленникова Н. А. , Тихонова Елена Петровна
Published: February 2019

Представлены результаты исследования показателей перекисного окисления липидов и составляющих звеньев антиоксидантной системы у 30 пациентов обоего пола старше 18 лет с эхинококкозом печени до и после проведенной противопаразитарной терапии альбендазолом (внутрь 400 мг 2 раза в сутки по схеме в течение 28 дней, 3 курса в год). Контроль — 30 относительно здоровых лиц того же возраста. Определяли концентрацию малонового диальдегида (МДА), церулоплазмина, мочевой кислоты; активность супероксиддисмутазы, глутатионпероксидазы, каталазы. По сравнению с пациентами контрольной группы у пациентов с эхинококкозом выявлено повышение уровня МДА в плазме и в мембранах эритроцитов в 2,4 раза и 4 раза, соответственно, снижение уровня церулоплазмина на 40 % (p < 0,01). После проведенного курсового лечения уровень промежуточного продукта перекисного окисления липидов — МДА — значимо не изменился. Отмечено увеличение концентрации церулоплазмина на 23 % (p < 0,05) и активности каталазы на 92,2 % (p < 0,01), но снижение активности супероксиддисмутазы и ферментов глютатионового комплекса в среднем на 32,3 – 59,4 % (p < 0,01). Результаты факторного анализа показали, что проводимая этиотропная терапия изменяет степень вовлеченности различных составляющих антиоксидантной системы для поддержания баланса процессов свободно-радикального окисления липидов у больных эхинококкозом печени. Противогельминтная терапия альбендазолом не изменяет количество продукции перекисного окисления липидов, но приводит к активации синтеза антиоксидантного белка церулоплазмина, синтезируемого гепатоцитами, что свидетельствует о нормализации функциональной и синтетической активности печени после гибели паразитов.
Влияние индивидуальных соединений листьев толокнянки обыкновенной на выделительную функцию почек крыс
Authors: Куркин Владимир Александрович , Зайцева Елена Николаевна , Рязанова Татьяна Константиновна , Дубищев Алексей Владимирович
Published: February 2019

Толокнянка обыкновенная [Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng., семейство Вересковые — Ericaceae], традиционно применяется в качестве диуретического, противовоспалительного, антисептического средства для лечения инфекционных заболеваний мочевыводящих путей. В ходе исследования было изучено влияние отвара из листьев толокнянки и индивидуальных соединений, выделенных хроматографическими методами из исследуемого лекарственного растительного сырья, на экскреторную функцию крыс в эксперименте. Выявлено, что 1,3,6-тригаллоилглюкоза в дозе 10 мг/кг способствует значительной стимуляции диуреза на 34 % (p = 0,014) и натрийуреза на 37 % (p = 0,015) в течение 4 ч эксперимента, дополнительно стимулируя калийурез и креатининурез в течение 24 ч опыта на 36 % (p = 0,048) и на 48 % (p = 0,003), соответственно. Арбутин в дозе 20 мг/кг стимулирует диурез и салурез за 24 ч опыта в среднем на 37 % (p = 0,021).
The Muslim community of Prokopyevsk in the 1930–2010th years: memory and continuity of generations
Authors: Starostin A. N. , Bikchantaev T. A.
Published: February 2019

The article is devoted to little-known facts of the history of the Muslim community of Prokopyevsk, Kemerovo region, which arose from the Stalinist repressions of the 1930s from among the exiles and dekulakized and managed to preserve its ethno-religious characteristics right up to the collapse of the USSR. On the basis of archival sources and historical interviews with religious and religious figures for the first time, the activity of representatives of the Muslim clergy during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, the peculiarities of the interaction of the community with authorities at different historical stages and the fate of the local Muslim community in the context of the transformation of state policy in relation to Muslims.
Ibn-Rushd (Averroes). On the Methods of Proof for the Principles of Creed. Part Two
Authors: Ibrahim T. , Efremova N. V.
Published: February 2019

This is a continuation of the publication [1] of the translation into Russian of a treatise by Ibn Rushd (Averroes 1126–1198 AD). In this treatise he criticizes the principles of Kalam theology, especially those of Asharites. They are juxtaposed to the Qur’anic arguments. The present chapter deals with the Divine attributes, such as the God’s Unity Kalam argument cataphatic descriptions. Critically assessed is the main argument of the`ilm al-kalamthedalil at-tamanu`(proof of mutual prevention). In the chapter are also discussed the fundamental theological issues of whether the Qur’an (as Divine Speech) is eternal or created as well as the relationship between the Divine attributes and His essence.
Arabic-speaking manuscript from Sterlibashevo
Authors: Salakhov A. M.
Published: February 2019

The article provides a concise description of a collection of texts in Arabic. The copy is preserved in the Ibragimov Institute of Language, Literature and Art of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Kazan, Russian Federation. The copy originates from the Sterlibash district / Bashkortostan. The MS book comprises a collection of works on tajwid (recitation of the Holy Qur’an), Islamic creed and medicine. The aim of the publication is to introduce another hitherto unknown item, since the general descriptions available are far from being satisfactory. The item has entered the collection in 2017 under the shelfmark 7879 and assigned to the collection no. 39. The description offered provides titles of the work, their contents and authorship as well as the summary of the contents. The text in the MS was compared to the printed text of the same works (subject to availability). The cataloguer came to the conclusions as follows: the Tatars based their education on classical Islamic works in Arabic and Persian. The education was modelled after the system used in Central Asia. In the areas located remotely from the centres of education people also had a recourse to the texts, which comprised information, which was different from that from the “orthodox” writings. The Tatar medical writings used both local and classical medical texts.
Conference “Islam in the Urals” reaches qualitatively new level
Authors: Starostin A. N. , Kashaf K. Sh.
Published: February 2019

In article the analysis of the second interregional scientific and practical conference with the international participation “Islam in the Urals is given: history, the present, calls”, taken place on November 14, 2018 in Yekaterinburg. Relevant threats to Muslim community of the Volga region, the Urals and Siberia reveal, activity of the Islamic extremist and terrorist organizations and effective ways of ideological counteraction to Islamic promotion is analyzed, various directions of cooperation of public authorities and Muslim religious organizations in preservation of cultural heritage and spiritual and educational work among various categories of the population are analyzed and also the review of the latest works in the field of studying of history and the current state of the Muslim communities and Islamic infrastructure of the Volga region, the Urals and Siberia is given.
PENGARUH TEKNOLOGI TERHADAP PERKEMBANGAN HUKUM HAK KEKAYAAN INTELEKTUAL DI INDONESIA
Authors: anggraini Kiki
Published: February 2019

Perkembangan Ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi dapat menjadikan manusia lebih kreatif dan inovatif. Kreativitas ini mencakup segala bidang, sehingga dengan kemampuan ini, banyak muncul penghargaan terhadap prestasi tersebut. Betuk dari perlindungan dan penghargaan seperti ini dikenal dengan istilah hak kekayaan intelektual. Hukum hak kekayaan Intelektual menjadi sangat penting untuk menggairahkan laju perekonomian dunia yang pada akhirnya membawa kesejahteraan umat manusia. Indonesia dikenal memiliki keragaman hayati yang tinggi, namun tanpa disadari banyak asset dan kekayaan intelektual lokal telah terdaftar diluar negeri sebagai milik asing. Pelanggaran Hak Kekayaan Intelektual baik berupa pembajakan, pemalsuan, dalam konteks hak cipta, merek dagang dan pelanggaran hak paten jelas merugikan secara signifikan bagi pelaku ekonomi, terutama si pemilik sah dari hak kekayaan intelektual tersebut. Begitupun konsumen dan mekanisme pasar yang sehat juga akan terganggu dengan adanya pelanggaran terhadap hak kekayaan intelektual tersebut. Kata Kunci : Pengaruh; Teknologi; Hak Kekayaan Intelektual
3D ultrasound imaging of residual limbs with camera-based motion compensation
Authors: Ranger Bryan , Feigin Micha , Zhang Xiang , Moerman Kevin Mattheus , Herr Hugh , Anthony Brian
Published: February 2019

Ultrasound is a cost-effective, readily available, and non-ionizing modality for musculoskeletal imaging. Though some research groups have pursued methods that involve submerging the transducer and imaged body segment into a water bath, many limitations remain in regards to acquiring an unloaded volumetric image of an entire human limb in a fast, safe and adequately accurate manner. A 3D dataset of a limb is useful in several rehabilitative applications including biomechanical modeling of soft tissue, prosthetic socket design, monitoring muscle condition and disease progression, bone health, and orthopedic surgery. This paper builds on previous work from our group and presents the design, prototyping, and preliminary testing of a novel multi- modal imaging system for rapidly acquiring volumetric ultrasound imagery of human limbs, with a particular focus on residual limbs for improved prosthesis design. Our system employs a mecha- nized water tank setup to scan a limb with a clinical ultrasound transducer, and 3D optical imagery to track motion during a scan. The iterative closest point algorithm is utilized to compensate for motion and stitch the images into a final dataset. The results show preliminary 2D and 3D imaging of both a tissue-mimicking phantom and residual limbs. A volumetric error compares the ultrasound image data obtained to a previous MRI method. The results indicate potential for future clinical implementation. Con- cepts presented in this work could reasonably transfer to other imaging applications such as acoustic tomography, where motion artifact may distort image reconstruction.
Experiential Learning through Video Tasks in Learning Speaking (Case Study: Students at LP3I Medan)
Authors: Lubis Tasnim
Published: February 2019

Learning speaking deals with routine practically. Students need situation where they are able to achieve the lesson in long term memory. One of the methods is experiential method because it deliberates human’s thought, feeling, ideas and actions. The objective of the study is to provide the innovative concept of learning speaking by using technology through video tasks. The study was a case study at LP3I Medan. The population was the students from two classes that consist of four majors (Official Management (OM), Accountant, IT, and Design Animation (DA). The data were collected by using questioner and students’ video tasks. They were analyzed by using Likert scale and Experiential Learning stages that proposed by David Kolb (1984), they are: Concrete Experience (CE), Reflective Observation (RO), Abstract Conceptualization (AC), and Active Experimentation (AE). The result of questioner from two classes showed that the score are 465 and 456. These score is close to the highest score (728). It meant that more than half students were enjoy and happy learning speaking through video Task. Besides, the video task more obvious and able to encourage them to speak. From the product of their video task, students were able to speak more bravely and more creatively.
Students’ Reading Ability toward TOEIC Score
Authors: Lubis Tasnim , Syahril S
Published: February 2019

This paper presents students’ ability in reading toward TOEIC score. SQ3R method was used to improve LP3I students’ reading score in TOEIC test. In LP3I, students have to reach score 450 minimally as a consideration to conduct their final project and to be a job applicant when they are promoted by LP3I after they graduated from LP3I. The data were taken from students’ pretest and posttest of TOEIC test. Then, the data were analyzed by using Miles and Huberman analysis. SQ3R method was implemented in order to guide students in reading a text by following some steps; survey, question, reading, review and recite. Through giving motivation and keeping practice using SQ3R, students would improve their reading score in TOEIC test.
Towards the creation of a marine protected area in the Aeolian Islands. Results of the 2018 Aeolian Expedition
Authors: Álvarez Helena , Perry Allison L. , García Silvia , Blanco Jorge , Aguilar Ricardo
Published: January 2019

The Aeolian archipelago, off the northern coast of Sicily, has long been recognised as a major area of importance for marine biodiversity. The waters surrounding these volcanic islands are characterised by steeply sloped bottoms that host a wide array of habitats – including seagrass meadows, seamounts, and hydrothermal vents – over a large depth range, and are home to iconic species such as loggerhead sea turtle, sperm whale, swordfish, and bluefin tuna. In 1982, the Aeolian Islands were formally identified under Italian law as the site of a potential marine protected area (MPA). Years later, in 2016, the Italian government committed to establishing an Aeolian MPA and began the official process to create it. Critically, this process depends on in‑depth knowledge about marine life in Aeolian waters. However, only limited research had been carried out on deep‑sea ecosystems in the archipelago. While earlier studies by Oceana and others had suggested the presence of important deep‑sea ecosystems in Aeolian waters, detailed information was lacking. To address this data gap, Oceana carried out a one‑month research expedition in 2018. Surveys were conducted across the Aeolian archipelago, using a combination of methods to study seabed habitats and species down to a depth of 989 m. The expedition documented a wide variety of ecosystems, ranging from meadows of seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the shallowest areas, to gardens of gorgonians (such as Bebryce mollis, Swiftia dubia, and Villogorgia bebrycoides) and forests and aggregations of black corals (such as Antipathes dichotoma, Antipathella subpinnata and Leiopathes glaberrima) at intermediate depths, and glass sponge aggregations (Farrea bowerbanki) on the deepest rocky bottoms surveyed.
The Kinzers Formation (Pennsylvania, USA): the most diverse assemblage of Cambrian Stage 4 radiodonts
Authors: Pates Stephen , Daley Allison C.
Published: January 2019

Radiodonta, apex Cambrian predators such as Anomalocaris, have been known from the Kinzers Formation for nearly 100 years. Work over the last 10 years mainly on radiodont material from the Chengjiang (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 3 - Yunnan, China) and Burgess Shale (Cambrian Series 3, Sage 5 - British Columbia, Canada), has greatly improved our knowledge of the diversity and disparity of radiodonts and their frontal appendages, including the description of new species, genera, and families. Previous work identified two species of radiodont from the Kinzers Formation: Anomalocaris pennsylvanica Resser 1929 and Anomalocaris? cf. pennsylvanica based on isolated frontal appendage material (Briggs 1979). A restudy of Kinzers Formation material shows that only some of the specimens can be confirmed as Anomalocaris pennsylvanica, and a number of specimens previously attributed to Anomalocaris in fact belong to other more recently discovered radiodont genera Amplectobelua and Tamisiocaris. This reinterpretation makes the Kinzers Formation the most diverse Cambrian Stage 4 Burgess Shale Type Lagerstatten in terms of number of radiodont species. This assemblage includes the youngest known Tamisiocaris and the first from outside Greenland, the only Amplectobelua from Stage 4 and the oldest from Laurentia, two specimens tentatively assigned to the recently described Chengjiang genus Laminacaris, and the endemic Anomalocaris pennsylvanica. The identification of these new radiodont taxa increases the known diversity of the Kinzers Formation to more than 10 species, and so it should now be considered a Tier 2 Lagerstatten.
Adaptive memory distortion in visual working memory
Authors: Chunharas Chaipat , Rademaker Rosanne L. , Brady Timothy F. , Serences John
Published: February 2019

When holding multiple items in visual working memory, representations of individual items are often attracted to, or repelled from, each other. While empirically well-established, existing frameworks do not account for both types of distortions, which appear to be in opposition. Here, we demonstrate that both types of memory distortion may confer functional benefits under different circumstances. When there are many items to remember and subjects are near their capacity to accurately remember each item individually, memories for each item become more similar (attraction). However, when remembering smaller sets of highly similar but discernible items, memory for each item becomes more distinct (repulsion), possibly to support better discrimination. Importantly, this repulsion grows stronger with longer delays, suggesting that it dynamically evolves in memory and is not just a differentiation process that occurs during encoding. Furthermore, both attraction and repulsion occur even in tasks designed to mitigate response bias concerns, suggesting they are genuine changes in memory representations. Together, these results are in line with the theory that attraction biases act to stabilize memory signals by capitalizing on information about an entire group of items, whereas repulsion biases reflect a tradeoff between maintaining accurate but distinct representations. Both biases suggest that human memory systems may sacrifice veridical representations in favor of representations that better support specific behavioral goals.
Segregated brain state during hypnosis
Authors: Tuominen Jarno , Kallio Sakari , Kaasinen Valtteri , Railo Henry
Published: February 2019

Can the brain be shifted into a different state using a simple social cue, as tests on highly hypnotisable subjects would suggest? Demonstrating an altered brain state is difficult. Brain activation varies greatly during wakefulness and can be voluntarily influenced. We measured the complexity of electrophysiological response to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in one “hypnotic virtuoso”. Such a measure produces a response outside the subject’s voluntary control and has been proven adequate for discriminating conscious from unconscious brain states. We show that a single-word hypnotic induction robustly shifted global neural connectivity into a state where activity remained sustained but failed to ignite strong, coherent activity in frontoparietal cortices. Changes in perturbational complexity indicate a similar move toward a more segregated state. We interpret these findings to suggest a shift in the underlying state of the brain, likely moderating subsequent hypnotic responding. [preprint updated 20/02/2020]
How to detect high-performing individuals and groups: decision similarity predicts accuracy
Authors: Kurvers Ralf , Herzog Stefan Michael , Hertwig Ralph , Krause Jens , Moussaid Mehdi , Argenziano Giuseppe , Zalaudek Iris , Carney Patty , Wolf Max
Published: February 2019

Distinguishing between high- and low-performing individuals and groups is of prime importance in a wide range of high-stakes contexts. While this is straightforward when accurate records of past performance exist, such records are unavailable in most real-world contexts. Focusing on the class of binary decision problems, we use a combined theoretical and empirical approach to develop and test a novel approach to this important problem. First, we employ a general mathematical argument and numerical simulations to show that the similarity of an individual’s decisions to others is a powerful predictor of that individual’s decision accuracy. Second, testing this prediction with several large data sets on breast and skin cancer diagnostics, geopolitical forecasting, and a general knowledge task, we find that decision similarity robustly permits the identification of high-performing individuals and groups. Our findings offer an intriguingly simple, yet broadly applicable, heuristic for improving real-world decision-making systems.
Development of holistic episodic recollection
Authors: Ngo Chi , Horner Aidan J , Newcombe Nora , Olson Ingrid R.
Published: January 2019

Episodic memory binds together the diverse elements of an event into a coherent representation. This property allows for the reconstruction of multidimensional experiences when triggered by a cue related to a past event—a process of pattern completion. Such holistic recollection is evident in young adults, as shown by dependency in the retrieval success for different associations from the same event (Horner & Burgess, 2013, 2014). Preschool-aged children show fragile episodic memory, which undergoes robust gains during early and middle childhood. However, the ontogeny of pattern completion is uncharted in children. Here, we found that 4- and 6-year-old children retrieve complex events in a relatively holistic manner, i.e., retrieval accuracy for one aspect of an event predicted accuracy for other aspects of the same event. Nevertheless, the degree of holistic retrieval increased from age 4 to adulthood, suggesting a protracted refinement of pattern completion that may underlie episodic memory development.
An Integrative Approach to Estimating Productivity in Past Societies using Seshat: Global History Databank
Authors: Turchin Peter , Currie Thomas E. , Collins Christina , Levine Jill , Oyebamiji Oluwole , Edwards Neil R. , Holden Philip.B. , Hoyer Daniel , Feeney Kevin , Francois Pieter , Whitehouse Harvey
Published: January 2019

This article reports the results of a collaborative effort to estimate agricultural productivities in past societies using Seshat: Global History Databank. We focus on 30 Natural Geographic Areas (NGAs) distributed over 10 major world regions (Europe, Africa, Southwest Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Central Eurasia, North America, South America, and Oceania). The conceptual framework that we use to obtain these estimates combines the influences of the production technologies (and how they change with time), climate change, and effects of artificial selection into a Relative Yield Coefficient, indicating how agricultural productivity changed over time in each NGA between the Neolithic and the 20th century. We then use estimates of historical yield in each NGA to translate the Relative Yield Coefficient into an Estimated Yield (tonnes per hectare per year) trajectory. We tested the proposed methodology in two ways. For eight NGAs, in which we had more than one historical yield estimate, we used the earliest estimate to anchor the trajectory and compared the ensuing trajectory to the remaining estimates. We also compared the end points of the estimated NGA trajectories to the earliest (the 1960s decade) FAO data on crop productivities in the modern countries encompassing Seshat NGAs. We discuss the benefits of this methodology over previous efforts to estimate agricultural productivities in world history.
Social impacts of peer-to-peer energy trading: a rapid realist review protocol
Authors: Fell Michael James
Published: February 2019

This document outlines our approach to conducting a rapid realist review to identify evidence for potential impacts on people and society of peer-to-peer energy trading (and of distributed ledger technology used in this context). Our motivation for the study is to help anticipate who might stand to win or lose (and how and why), inform policy/regulation to help maximize benefits and minimize harm, and identify research gaps. While our focus is in the energy sector, we also plan to draw on evidence (where relevant) from examples of sharing economy models in non-energy sectors. We have already developed and engaged around a provisional programme theory (presented as a set of Context-Mechanism-Outcome statements), which we will develop as the review progresses. We set out where and how we will seek to identify evidence (through online searching, reference checking and calling for evidence). In line with our exploratory and iterative approach, we propose broad inclusion criteria. We will assess evidence quality subjectively on the basis of relevance and rigour for each Context-Mechanism-Outcome group, not at document level. Synthesis will be achieved through developing our programme theory and connecting evidence to it. We will disseminate findings through an academic paper (or papers), one or more policy briefings (with associated engagement events), one or more public blogs, and materials will be openly shared on an ongoing basis through an Open Science Framework page.
A New Approach to Computing
Authors: Basu Nirmalya
Published: February 2019

I have proposed here a new scheme of representing information which is that any physical quantity with a specific identity can be considered to uniquely represent a distinct piece of information (a piece of information different from the one that the physical quantity itself conveys which is that of its identity). Doing so is expected to bring advantage to computing.
Nasal Colonization of Staphylococcus aureus and their Antibiograms among School Children in Bharatpur, Nepal
Authors: Adhikari Sanjib , Khadka Sujan , Parajuli Ashish , KC Anjana , Mishra Rajani , Kandel Puspa , Tiwari Ashik
Published: February 2019

Background: Nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus has been linked to several community-acquired and nosocomial infections. The present study was undertaken to determine the prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of S.aureus colonizing the anterior nares of school children in Bharatpur, Nepal. Materials and Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 206 school children aged 3-15 years from fourteen different government schools in Bharatpur, Nepal were enrolled from January to May 2017. Prior to collecting sample, permission was sought from the administration of each school. All the participants were informed about the purposes of the study and the method of sample collection. Isolation of S.aureus and their antimicrobial susceptibility testing were performed by standard microbiological procedures. Results: S. aureus was isolated in 35(16.9%) cases of which 6 (17.1%) were methicillin-resistant S.aureus (MRSA) and 7 (20.0%) were multi-drug resistant (MDR). Prevalence of S. aureus and MRSA was higher in the age group 10-15 years (24.1% and 3.6%) compared to the age group 3-9 years (8.5% and 2.1%) (p=0.003).All the isolates were sensitive towards vancomycin and amikacin. Conclusions: Promotion of good hygienic practices among school going children can be suggested to abate the risk of spread and infections by S.aureus.Keywords: antibiotic resistance; MRSA; nasal carriage; S. aureus; school children.
Tamsulosin in Lowering Double J Related Symptoms
Authors: KC Sudeep Raj , Timilsina Bhusan Raj , Devkota Gaurav , Shah Rajiv , Lamichanne Nirmal
Published: February 2019

Background: Indwelling double J ureteral stents are used routinely in the resolution of ureteral obstruction caused by different etiologies. Evaluation of urinary symptoms related to double-J stent indicate that these affect 73-90% of patients. Aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of tamsulosin on the DJ related complications to improve the quality of life and render symptom free life. Material and Methods: Quasi experimental study was carried out in the department of urology in College of Medical Science, teaching hospital Chitwan, Nepal from 15th March 2017 to 15th March 2018. A total of 80 post operative patients were included in this study and were randomized into Group A and B with 40 patient in each group. Stent related symptoms, quality of life and IPSS (International prostate symptom score) were evaluated at the time of discharge and at the time of DJ removal. Pain was evaluated with the help of VAS at the time of discharge and at the time of DJ removal. Data were entered in MS-Excel and were imported to EZR software Version 3.4.1 for analysis. A p-value of less than 0.05 was considered significant. Results: Median age was 30.5 in Tamsulosingroup  and24years in placebo group. (p=0.68).At the time of discharge significant difference was noted in IPSS (p<0.001), butno significant difference wasnoted with QoL index (p=0.932) and VAS (p=0.68). At the time of DJ stent removal, significant difference was noted with IPSS (p<0.001), QoL index (p<0.001), VAS (p=0.004) in Tamsulosin group than in Placebo group.
Conclusion: Tamsulosin lowers stent related symptoms, pain and improves quality of life in patientswith indwelling DJ stent.
Key words: DJ stent; IPSS; Tamsulosin; VAS.
Relationship between MnS precipitation and respective effects of Ti-Mg bearing inclusions on the induction of intergranular acicular ferrite
Authors: Chen Xu , Hui Kong , Mingya Zhang , Mengwei Shan
Published: February 2019

The role of MnS in the nucleation of intragranular acicular ferrites (IAF) has been explored in Ti-Mg treated steel sample through scanning electron microscope (SEM) and energy dspersive spectrometer (EDS). When compared with a non-treated sample, Ti-Mg treatment evolves from Al-Mn-Si-O inclusion to Ti-Mg bearing inclusion and causes a reduction in pure MnS. In addition to this reduction in pure MnS, a precipitation of MnS around the Ti-Mg bearing inclusion can be observed. Moreover, after etching, it can be found that Ti-Mg bearing inclusions can induce IAF nucleation. Based on EDS line analysis and a comparison with Al-Mn-Si-O inclusion in non-treated sample, this effect can be explained by the presence of an Mn-depletion zone (MDZ) caused by the vacancy property and crystal structure of the inclusion. It should be added, however, that in the same sample, a similarly induced nucleation effect as well as an MDZ have not been observed around pure MnS. This comparison implies that the formation of an MDZ may be independent of MnS precipitation.
Microstructure and wear of FeCrC, SiC and B4C coated AISI 430 stainless steel
Authors: Gür Ali Kaya , Yildiz Tülay , Kati Nida , Kaya Sinan
Published: February 2019

The Taguchi procedure is an important method for obtaining high quality without increasing the cost in the optimization of the process parameters. In the Taguchi procedure, the orthogonal planes of the maximum effects of the controllable process parameters and the minimum effects of the uncontrollable process parameters were used. In this study, B4C, SiC, and FeCrC powders were alloyed on the surface of an AISI 430 ferritic stainless steel by plasma transfer arc (PTA) welding. The abrasive wear of the various specimens was measured by the mass loss at a load between 10 and 16 N using SiC abrasive paper with a 60 and 240 mesh and over distances between 20 and 30 meters. The effects of the parameters with respect to the lowest wear behavior as an important criterion were optimized by the lowest-the best control characteristic of the Taguchi method. The results were analyzed by graphical methods.