bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Food Security and Biofuels Regulations: the Emulsifying Effect of International Regime Complexes
Authors: Orsini Amandine , Godet Claire
Published: May 2018

International institutions are proliferating over a wide range of issue areas, creating what have recently been described as regime complexes. More than complicated arrangements, regime complexes are structures: they are more than the sum of their parts, i.e. individual international regimes. While the concept of international regimes holds strong promise in this direction, academic research on regime complexes has mostly focused on how agents shape regime complexes but less on how complexes influence agents. This contribution aims at filling this gap by studying the effects that regime complexes might have on global governance, focusing more narrowly on the effects of regime complexes on non-state actors’ (NSAs) strategies with regard to agenda setting for new international regulations. More precisely, we hypothesise that regime complexes create an ‘emulsifying effect’ for pro-active NSAs to push for new regulations whereby the collective effect of non-state actors within and across regime complexes become greater than the sum of their individual effects within individual regimes. We use the examples of food security and biofuels regulations at the international level as a case study with a special focus on the European Union.
LOS MODOS DE LA MIRADA. APORTES PARA UNA EPISTEMOLOGÍA CRÍTICA DE LA OBSERVACIÓN EN LA INVESTIGACIÓN SOCIAL
Authors: Hendel Verónica
Published: May 2018

La cultura occidental ha privilegiado el sentido de la vista entre sus herramientas perceptivas, y este privilegio se ha extendido al dominio de la ciencia. No cabe duda de que la observación es una práctica transversal a todos los campos del saber (experimental y sociocultural). Si bien la misma tiene sus orígenes en el mundo de la vida cotidiana, fueron las ciencias experimentales las primeras en trasladarlas a su ámbito y, posteriormente, las ciencias socioculturales. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar algunos orígenes de las prácticas de observación en el campo de la ciencia, a los fines de problematizar la relación entre las prácticas de observación y la construcción de nuestra perspectiva de análisis en las ciencias sociales, a partir de la reflexión en torno a algunos aspectos de nuestra experiencia de trabajo de campo en el marco de una investigación llevada a cabo recientemente en espacios rurales.
PRÁCTICA ANTROPOLÓGICA DEL OTRO LADO DEL MUNDO: UNA ARGENTINA EN NEPAL
Authors: Grimaldi Andrea
Published: May 2018

Este artículo propone que en grupos sociales donde las relaciones de género determinan fuertemente las interacciones de los miembros de una comunidad, estas relaciones van a extenderse y envolver al investigador también, determinando la percepción que se tiene de él y afectando sus propias interacciones, particularmente cuando la investigadora es mujer. A partir de la reflexión de mi posicionalidad dentro del trabajo de campo realizado en Pipariya, una aldea del sur de Nepal, pude incluir una perspectiva de género en mi investigación sobre la migración internacional de hombres nepaleses. Esa perspectiva me ayudó a comprender mejor y complejizar las tensiones generadas en hogares de la comunidad tharu por la administración de las remesas en un contexto de grandes cambios culturales y económicos.
Analisis Kelayakan Finansial Jambu Biji (Psidium guajava L.) Varietas Cristal
Authors: Astrini Carmelita , Djuwendah Endah , Karyani Tuti , Wiyono Sulistyodewi Nur
Published: May 2018

Crystal guava is one of guava variety which currently has the high opportunity and potential to be developed in Indonesia. Waaida Farm as a company engaged in crystal guava farming in Sumedang District can only meet 5,71% of its demand every year. Therefore, Waaida Farm needs to expand the cultivation area to optimize the crystal guava potential. The expansion constrained by financial source. Crystal guava farming in Waaida Farm is not bankable yet eventhough the business itself has run for six years. The objective of this research is to analyze financial feasibility of crystal guava farming at Waaida Farm. The research was conducted using qualitative descriptive design and case study technique. The data collection methods used were observation, interview and literature study. From the financial aspect, crystal guava farming at Waaida Farm is feasible to be implemented, based on the calculation results of investment criteria using interest rate of 18,75%. The calculation results of NPV is positive which is Rp 5.982.165, IRR is over the established interest rate which is 28,43%, Net B/C is greater than 1 which is 1,59, and payback period is 5 years, shorter than the project term analysis which is 10 years. The sensitivity analysis showed that the variable of the decreasing of production number is more sensitive than the variable of the increasing of production cost. Nevertheless, the 10 percents change of every variable still make the crystal guava farming feasible to be implemented.Keywords: Crystal Guava, Financial Feasibility
STUDI JENIS DAN KELIMPAHAN TERIPANG (HOLOTHUROIDEA) DI EKOSISTEM PADANG LAMUN PERAIRAN DESA KAHYAPU PULAU ENGGANO
Authors: Oktamalia Oktamalia , Purnama Dewi , Hartono Dede
Published: May 2018

Penelitian ini dilakukan di perairan pantai Kahyapu Pulau Enggano Provinsi Bengkulu pada bulan September sampai November 2013. Hasil pengamatan ditemukan 7 jenis yang termasuk kedalam kelas Holothuroidea, dengan dua ordo yaitu Apodida dan Aspidochirotida dan dua famili yaitu Holothuridea dan Synaptidae, serta 4 Genus yaitu Opheodesoma, Synapta, Eupta, dan Holothuria. Dengan kelimpahan tertinggi pada bulan September dan November stasiun 1 sebanyak 153,33 dan 520 ind/ha, terendah stasiun 1 dan 2 sebanyak 13,33 ind/ha. Pada stasiun 3 masing-masing 13,33 ind/ha. Pada bulan September maupun November kepadatan tertinggi masing-masing berjumlah 0,1- 1,333 ind/25m², dan 1,071 – 2,933 ind/25m². Indeks dominasi bulan September dan November berkisar antara 0,343 – 1 dan 0,120-0,524. Indeks keanekaragaman bulan September dan November berkisar antara 0-0,918 dan 1,52-1,979. Indeks keseragaman bulan September dan November berkisar antara 0-0,918 dan 0,576-0,765. Hasil pengukuran faktor abiotik didapatkan suhu rata-rata 27,63 oC, kecepatan arus rata-rata 0,2 m/s, kedalaman rata-rata 25-33 cm, kecerahan mencapai 100 %, salinitas rata-rata 30,53 ppm, derajat keasaman (pH) rata-rata 6,78. kandungan padatan tersuspensi berkisar antara 1,720-1,950 mg/l dan kandungan bahan organik dalam sedimen berisar antara 1,63-3,86 %.
IDENTIFIKASI SPESIES UDANG MANTIS (STOMATOPODA) DI PERAIRAN KOTA BENGKULU
Authors: Situmeang Nopia Santri , Purnama Dewi , Hartono Dede
Published: May 2018

Udang Mantis merupakan salah satu jenis crustacea yang memiliki kandungan nutrien yang cukup tinggi yaitu protein 43,91%;  lemak 12,35%; serat kasar 16,01%. Udang ini hidup diantara susunan terumbu karang yang sangat kompleks. Udang Mantis dapat hidup di air laut maupun air payau. Habitat sebagian besar Udang Mantis adalah pantai dan senang hidup di dasar air terutama pasir berlumpur. Populasi Udang Mantis tersebar di kota Bengkulu tetapi tidak banyak dikonsumsi oleh masyarakat Kota Bengkulu maupun di luar kota Bengkulu karena dagingnya sedikit. Selain itu pengetahuan tentang kandungan dan juga manfaat udang ini belum banyak diketahui oleh masyarakat kota Bengkulu dan juga pemasarannya masih sangat jarang sekali bahkan hampir terbilang tidak ada yang memasarkannya. Dilihat dari segi ekologinya Udang Mantis (Stomatopoda) merupakan makhluk yang memiliki peran penting dalam ekosistem terumbu karang dengan menjaga populasi dan memelihara semua spesies yang ada baik secara langsung maupun tidak langsung. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi spesies Udang Mantis (Stomatopoda) di Kota Bengkulu.adapun lokasi penelitian yaitu di Pantai Zakat, PPI Pondok Besi dan PPI Pulau Baai. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian yang telah dilakukan di 3 Stasiun peneliti menemukan Udang Mantis di Perairan Kota Bengkulu yang kemudian diidentifikasi sampai ke tingkat spesies. Dari 36 sampel yang diidentifikasi hanya ditemukan satu spesies yaitu Harpiosquilla raphidea. Daerah penangkapan Udang Mantis berlokasi di sekitar perairan yang tidak jauh dari pantai.
Prolactina cervicovaginal en la predicción de parto pretérmino
Authors: Rondón-Tapia Martha , Reyna-Villasmil Eduardo , Mejía Montilla Jorly , Reyna-Villasmil Nadia , Torres-Cepeda Duly , Fernandez-Ramírez Andreina
Published: May 2018

Objetivo: establecer la utilidad de las concentraciones cervicovaginales de prolactina en el segundo trimestre para la predicción del parto pretérmino. Métodos: las muestras cervicovaginales se tomaron entre 24 y 28 semanas de embarazo. Todos los embarazos fueron seguidos hasta el parto y divididos en grupos A (parto pretérmino) y B (parto a término). Se evaluaron las características generales, concentraciones séricas de prolactina y eficacia pronóstica. Resultados: la edad gestacional al momento de la determinación de la toma de muestra cervicovaginal fue de 26,2 +/- 1,1 semanas para el grupo A y 25,9 +/- 1,1 semanas para el B (p = ns). No se encontraron diferencias estadísticamente significativas en la edad materna, índice de masa corporal y antecedentes de parto pretérmino (p = ns). Las pacientes del grupo A (1,6 +/- 0,8 ng/mL) presentaron concentraciones cervicovaginales significativas más altas de prolactina comparadas con las del grupo B (0,5 +/- 0,3 ng/mL; p < 0,0001). Un valor de corte de 1 ng/mL presentó un valor por debajo de la curva de 0,87 con sensibilidad 73,1%, especificidad 91,6%, valor predictivo positivo 44,7% y valor predictivo negativo 97,3%. Conclusión: las concentraciones cervicovaginales de prolactina son útiles en la predicción del parto pretérmino.
Malformación arteriovenosa cerebelosa en paciente pediátrico. Presentación de autopsia
Authors: Bonilla Juan Carlos , Baracaldo Rafael Leonardo , Escobar Paula Cristina
Published: May 2018

Se presenta un paciente masculino de 6 años de edad, quien consultó por cefalea de inicio súbito posterior a un acceso de tos y asociado con síntomas comportamentales. Comentan los padres que en los dos días previos se quejó de odinofagia y tos seca ocasional, sin alteraciones al examen físico de ingreso ni antecedentes clínicos de importancia con posterior fallecimiento. A continuación se presentan los hallazgos de autopsia tanto macroscópica como microscópicamente y una breve discusión teórica del tema.
Research and development of acacia hybrids for commercial planting in Vietnam
Authors:   Former Director of the Research Centre for Forest Tree Improvement (RCFTI),now the Institute for Forest Tree Improvement and Biotechnology (IFTIB), Le Dinh Kha , Ha Huy Thinh ,   Director of IFTIB (belong to Vietnam Academy of Forest Science)
Published: May 2018

“Acacia hybrids” refers to the inter-specific hybrids of A. mangium and A. auriculiformis, including natural, artificial and polyploid ones. The superiorities of selected acacia hybrid are fast growth, straight stem form, small branches, high productivity, and high ratio of wood utilisation. Acacia hybrids are recognized as having a higher pulping potential and greater soil improvement ability than that of the parental species, which may be shown to have 2.5-13 times larger numbers of nitrogen - fixing nodules on its roots in nursery stage. Mass propagation technology using both cutting and tissue culture has been successfully developed for acacia hybrid, enabling large-scale clonal forestry to improve plantation productivity and quality. The area of acacia hybrid plantations up to 2016 was estimated to be 500,000 ha, with an annual increase of 30,000-35,000 ha, making it the most widely planted forest tree variety in Vietnam. Acacia hybrids and propagation technologies have also been introduced in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. The research and development of acacia hybrid breeding can be considered as a revolution in the forestry sector and has created new and advanced approaches for both research and training in tree breeding in Vietnam.
Outstanding achievements of medicine and pharmacy in Vietnam during the period of 2011-2015
Authors:   Chairman of the National Program of Applying Advanced Medical and Pharmaceutical Technology in Vietnam, Pham Gia Khanh
Published: May 2018

Based on the success of research that applies advanced international medical and pharmaceutical technology to projects of Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology, the author presents some outstanding achievements in science and technology in medicine and pharmacy during 2011-2015. These results contribute significantly to the healthcare of the community; raises Vietnam’s medical science to keep up with developed countries, provides a great socio-economic significance, and also indicates the important position of science and technology as well as the benefits of scientific investment into medical and pharmaceutical fields.
Deteksi Dini Hipertensi dan Pertolongan Pertama pada Penderita Stroke di Desa Amadanom Kecamatan Dampit Kabupaten Malang
Authors: Wandi Wandi , Amin Isman
Published: May 2018

Stroke merupakan salah satu penyakit tidak menular yang prevalensinya tinggi di dunia, dimana stroke menempati urutan ketiga penyebab kematian setelah penyakit jantung koroner dan kanker, bahkan di Indonesia stroke menempati urutan teratas penyebab kematian di Indonesia diiringi oleh TBC dan hipertensi. Tujuan umum dilaksanakannya pengabdian masyarakat ini adalah masyarakat mampu melakukan deteksi dini hipertensi dan pertolongan pertama pada penderita stroke. Dari hasil pengabmas tersebut dapat disimpulkan hasil penyerapan materi oleh peserta sangat baik, telah dibentuk pengurus forum komunikasi peduli hipertensi dan stroke di Desa Amadanom. Bagi masyarakat umum agar secara rutin dapat berperan aktif untuk dilakukan deteksi terhadap tekanan darahnya minimal 1 bulan sekali atau bila ada tanda-tanda kenaikan tekanan darahnya.
Kelompok Pendukung Air Susu Ibu dan Pengetahuan Ibu Menyusui
Authors: Wahyuningsih Sri , Suminah Suminah , Anantanyu Sapja
Published: May 2018

Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian observasional analitik dengan metode cross sectional .Subjek penelitian adalah ibu menyusui yang ikut kelompok pendukung ASI, yang diambil menggunakanfixed-exposure sampling, jumlah sampel yang memenuhi kriteria inklusi berjumlah 115. Teknikpengumpulan data primer diperoleh melalui pengisian kuesioner. Data di analisis menggunakan analisisregresi ganda dengan p value < 0,05. Hasil penelitian terdapat pengaruh yang sangat signifikanantara keanggotaan ibu dalam kelompok pendukung ASI terhadap pengetahuan (p = 0,000), dan terdapatpengaruh yang signifikan antara keanggotaan ibu dalam kelompok pendukung ASI terhadap menyusui(p= 0,002). Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini ada pengaruh yang signifikan antara keanggotaan ibudalam kelompok pendukung ASI terhadap pengetahuan dan menyusui.
Peta Lektur Agama Islam di Universitas Brawijaya Malang
Authors: Firmanto Alfan
Published: May 2018

Books are a means of transmitting science and thought as well as ideology. Through diverse books of thought disseminated from the liberal, moderate to the radical. This paper intends to see the diversity and the tendency of discourse of thought contained in various Islamic books that are in public college, which at this time should get serious attention related to the issues of radicalism movement and its ideology that spread in college campus public. Brawijaya University of Malang is one of the leading state universities in East Java, which has a strategic location in the center of East Java province, so it needs serious attention related issues of ideology of radicalism. From the research map of Islamic religious director in Brawijaya University is expected to be mapped the theme of Islamic religious books in Universitas Brawijaya Malang, and can be known the themes of the most popular Islamic religious books in Universitas Brawijaya, and can be identified the tendency of thought in the theme Books of Islam in Universitas Brawijaya Malang.

Keywords: Lektor Islam, Universitas Brawijaya,

Buku adalah sarana transmisi ilmu pengetahuan dan pemikiran se-kali¬gus ideologi. Melalui buku beragam pemikiran disebarluaskan dari yang liberal, moderat hingga yang radikal. Tulisan ini bermaksud melihat keragaman dan kecenderungan wacana pemikiran yang terkandung dalam beragam buku Islam yang berada di perguruan tinggi umum, yang saat ini harus mendapat perhatian serius terkait adanya isu-isu gerakan radikalisme dan fahamnya yang merebak di kampus-kampus perguruan tinggi umum. Universitas Brawijaya Malang adalah salah satu universitas negeri ternama di Jawa Timur, yang memiliki lokasi strategis di tengah provinsi Jawa Timur, sehinga perlu mendapat perhatian serius terkait isu-isu ideologi radikalisme. Dari penelitian peta lektur agama Islam di Universitas Brawijaya ini diharapkan akan dapat dipetakan tema buku-buku agama Islam yang ada di Universitas Brawijaya Malang, dan dapat diketahui tema-tema buku agama Islam yang paling diminati di Universitas Brawijaya, serta dapat diidentifikasi kecenderungan pemikiran dalam tema buku-buku agama Islam di Universitas Brawijaya Malang.

Kata kunci : Lektur Islam, Universitas Brawijaya,
Pengaruh Product Knowledge dan Brand Association Terhadap Purchase Intention Kawasan Kampung Kreatif Dago Pojok
Authors: Ridwan Luthfi Maulana , Solihat Ani , Trijumansyah Andry
Published: May 2018

Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui gambaran pengaruh “Pengaruh Product Knowledge dan Brand Association terhadap Purchase Intention pada Kawasan Kampung Kreatif Dago Pojok”. Adapun yang menjadi target populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah seluruh pengunjung kampung kreatif dago pojok dan sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini sebanyak 60 orang responden. Dalam penelitian ini metode yang digunakan adalah Deskriptif Verifikatif dan alat analisis yang digunakan adalah Regresi Linear Berganda yang bertujuan untuk mengukur sejauh mana pengaruh hubungan antara variabel satu dan lainnya dan juga menggunakan Uji Hipotesis F dan T yang bertujuan untuk melihat pengaruh Variabel product knowledge, brand association dan purchase intention berpengaruh secara parsial ataupun simultan. Persmaan Regresi Linear didapatkan berdasarkan hasil uji statistik pada program SPSS yaitu Y = 7.846 + 0.279 (X1) + 0.261 (X2) dan hasil koefisien Korelasi R sebesar 0.564 yang menunjukan bahwa terdapat pengaruh yang kuat antara masing-massing variabel. Sedangkan hasil Koefisien Determinasi R2 sebesar 0,375 yang berarti bahwa Product Knowledge dan Brand Association mampu mempengaruhi Purchase Intention dengan persentasi 37.5% sedangkan sisanya 62.5% dipengaruhi oleh variabel lain yang tidak dijelaskan dalam penelitian. Dapat disimpulkan bahwaa dari hasil uji SPSS bahwa semua Variabel bebas mempunyai pengaruh yang signifikan bila di uji scara bersama-sama ataupun di uji scara parsial. Kata Kunci : Product Knowledge, Brand Association, Purchase Intention ABSTRACT The research was purposed to find out the description of ), Influence of Product Knowledge and Brand Association towards to Purchase Intention of Dago Pojok the Creative Village Area The population target in this research are all of consumers of Dago Pojok the Creative Village Area and took 60 respondentsas sample.This research used verification descriptive as the method and multiple linear regression as analysis tool. That was purposed to measure the influence between the variable ang the other one, and also used Hypotesy test F adnd T to found out the influence of advertising variable, Sales Promotion and Quality Of Product would be influenced partially or simultanously. Linear regression equation was gotten based on statistical result at SPSS Program. They are Y = 7.846 + 0.279 (X1) + 0.261 (X2) and th Correlatio Coefficient R at 0.564. This is shows that there is a significant influence among variable. Where as the result of determination coefficient R2 at 0,375. It means that Product Knowledge and Brand Association capable of Purchase Intention decision with percentage value 37.5%. And the remains of it 62.5% are influenced by this research. It can be concluded from the SPSS test result that all of independent variables have significant influence if they are tested simultanously or partially. Keywords : Product Knowledge, Brand Association, Purchase Intention
Kajian Kesesuaian, Daya Dukung dan Aktivitas Ekowisata di Kawasan Mangrove Lantebung Kota Makassar
Authors: Rini Rini , Setyobudiandi Isdradjat , Kamal Mukhlis
Published: May 2018

ABSTRAK

Kawasan ekosistem mangrove Lantebung merupakan contoh kawasan rehabilitasi mangrove yang cukup berhasil sejak tahun 2010 hingga sekarang. Kini, ekowisata mangrove akan dikembangkan sebagai bentuk pengelolaan yang tepat untuk menjamin keberlanjutan konservasi dan rehabilitasi sekaligus mendorong ekonomi masyarakat lokal. Sehingga, tujuan penelitian ini adalah menghitung indeks kesesuaian wisata, menghitung daya dukung kawasan dan mengidentifikasi kegiatan ekowisata yang dapat dilakukan di dalam kawasan. Perhitungan indeks kesesuaian kawasan menggunakan rumus IKW = [∑Ni/Nmaks] x 100%, perhitungan daya dukung kawasan dengan menggunakan rumus DDK = K x [Lp/Lt] x [Wt/Wp] dan identifikasi kegiatan ekowisata dilakukan dengan identifikasi visual dan wawancara. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kawasan mangrove Lantebung sesuai (S) untuk kegiatan wisata dengan nilai kesesuaian sebesar 66,67%. Panjang kawasan yang dapat dimanfaatkan 2 km atau seluas 12 ha dan daya dukung sebesar 182 orang/hari (buka 8 jam/hari), jika berdasarkan pada jam buka pengelola (12 jam/hari) maka daya dukungnya menjadi 274 orang/hari. Untuk jenis kegiatan wisata yang dapat dilakukan berjumlah 7 kegiatan, yaitu fotografi (photography), tracking, pengamatan satwa burung (bird watching), pengamatan mangrove (education), pembibitan (education), wisata perahu (boating) dan menikmati suasana matahari tenggelam.

Kata kunci: daya dukung kawasan, ekowisata mangrove, indeks kesesuaian wisata, Lantebung

ABSTRACT

Ecosystem mangrove of Lantebung is an example of mangrove rehabilitation area which is quite successful since 2010 until now. Now, mangrove ecotourism will be developed as an appropriate form of management to ensure the sustainability of conservation and rehabilitation while driving the economy of local communities. Thus, purposes of this study are to calculate the tourist suitability index, calculate the carrying capacity and to identify of ecotourism activities that can be done within the area. The calculation of suitability index using the formula IKW = [ΣNi / Nmaks] x 100%, calculation of carrying capacity using DDK = K x [Lp / Lt] x [Wt / Wp] and identification of ecotourism activities conducted with visual identification and interview. The results showed that the suitable mangrove area of Lantebung is suitable (S) for tourism activities with a value of suitability of 66.67%. The length of the area can be used 2 km or 12 ha and its carrying capacity is 190 persons/day (open 8 hours/day), if based on the management hours (12 hours/day) then its carrying capacity is 286 persons/day. Type of ecotourism activities that can be done totaling 7 activities, namely photography, tracking, bird watching, mangrove observation (education), seeds nursery (education), boat tours and enjoy the sunset.

Keywords: carrying capacity, mangrove ecotourism, tourism suitability index, Lantebung
EXPLORING INTERCULTURAL VALUES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF WESTERN-ASIAN WAY OF LIFE -A STUDY OF LILTING FILM-
Authors: Pratiwi Widya Rizky
Published: May 2018

People are not born with the genetic imprint of particular culture because it is the set of knowledge and behavior and the interpretation of both as habits acquired and learned by the members of society through interaction and socialization by using different media such as film.  Lilting is a film that presents the issue of cultural value. It is a British drama that cultivate a vibrant dynamic between Western way of life and Asian stories. This qualitative descriptive research focused on the exploration of intercultural values from the perspective of Western-Asian Way of Life to find out the differences among British, Chinese and Indonesian culture. Data were obtained from audio visual material of lilting film and other documents, e.g. newspaper and journal about lilting film. The techniques of data analysis were done by watching, writing some notes, data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusion. The result shows that lilting contains some cultural knowledge especially the difference of western and Asian way of life, language used by England and China, cultural biases (ethnocentric, stereotype, discrimination and prejudice), people’s perception about homosexual, the way people look at kissing in public place, the way to offer food, the way people speak up in direct conversation, the process of assimilation and acculturation to a new culture, the function of a professional translator, and the most important lesson of how difficult to communicate when we do not have little bit knowledge and information of other language and culture.
THE APPLICABILITY OF THE ECLECTIC METHOD ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORAL PRODUCTION
Authors: Marcillo Mayra Alejandra , Palacios Galo Alejandro
Published: May 2018

Developing our students’ English oral expression in Public Institutions is a process that needs to be carefully analyzed by teachers. It is more than selected a method, it is more than following step by step what a theory says. It is going beyond our students’ needs. It is a deeply study of what a student really can do and needs to learn. Based on a post-method pedagogy which provides teachers the ability to break down barriers to the imposition of a specific method and make the teaching process more effective, this paper proposes the application of the eclectic method for the development of the oral expression of public high school students encouraging teachers to see the teaching process from a different and modern perspective. By analyzing the principles and features of this method, this paper describes the research made on a Public Institution with students in third year. With the goal of improving each one of the principal components of the English oral expression: range, accuracy, fluency, pronunciation and coherence, there were used selected methods, techniques and strategies based upon the students’ learning styles and needs. The observation and Interview techniques were used on data collection and the parameters of Inferential and descriptive statistic were applied in order to analyze the results achieved. They showed that even though not all of the group of the students could achieve the B1 level in reference to the Common European Framework and required by the Ministry of Education, a large number of them were able to increase their English oral expression. According to this data, this paper concludes that the selection of objectives, the modern teacher‘s and student’s role, the use of different but selected methods, the linguistic input activation and the contextualization had a significant impact on learners´ learning.
Optimal doping for d-wave superconducting ground states within the generalized Hubbard model
Authors: Millan Benjamin , Perez Luis Antonio , Millan Jose Samuel
Published: May 2018

A single-band generalized Hubbard model that describes two-dimensional superconductivity with d-wave symmetry on a square lattice within the BCS formalism is considered. For a set of Hamiltonian parameters and varying the ratio between nearest-neighbor and next-nearest neighbor hoppings (t'/t), an optimal doping (nop) can be found for each t'/t value, where the critical temperature is maximum (Tc-max). After calculating the superconducting gap at T=0K and the corresponding ground state (Eg ) for all the carrier concentrations, a ground state energy minimum (Eg-min) is found close to half filling. Since Tc-max is the highest critical temperature for a given ratio t'/t, the minimum of all the Tc-max values defines a supreme of this set of temperatures, named as Tc-max-sup. The corresponding optimal doping for Tc-max-sup will be called nop-sup, and the the results show that  Eg-min is located at nop-sup. The Fermi surface (FS) is analyzed for carrier concentrations close to nop-sup and it is suggested that the location for over (OD) and under (UD) doping regimes (nOD>nop-sup>nUD) could define a pseudogap zone for high critical temperature superconductors.
Recovery of transit times and frequencies of multiple pulses via the Short-Time Fourier Transform
Authors: Manzanares-Martinez Jesus , Ham-Rodriguez Carlos Ivan , Manzanares-Martinez Betsabe
Published: May 2018

In this work, we present a study to determine the transit times and frequencies of pulses by usingthe Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT). We consider the case of an acoustic signal composed offive Gaussian pulses which have a high overlapping in time but oscillate at different frequencies. Weproceeded in three steps. First, we illustrate how the STFT calculated through a sliding windowproduces a spectrogram where transit time is on one axis and frequency on the other. Second, wederive an exact analytical solution of the STFT to develop an intuitive vision of the mathematicaltechnique. Finally, in a third step, we present an experiment to demonstrate that the STFT is auseful technique to characterize a complex acoustical signal.
The Elsewhere War: Art, Embodiment, and the Spaces of Military Engagement
Authors: Cahill Susan
Published: May 2018

This article examines embodiment as a strategy of meaning-making that can generate alternative narratives about Canada’s participation in the War on Terror. It takes as its point of entry Canadian artist Barb Hunt’s series Camouflage, which adapts worn camouflage military fatigues into artworks. The three pieces from this series discussed here—Incarnate, Fodder, and The Old Lie—make material the bodily forms of war to Canadian museum-goers in order to challenge the perceived disconnection of Canadian civilians from wars fought in the spaces of the Canadian elsewhere (i.e., outside of and remote from the “home” space of Canada). This paper examines Hunt’s practice as enabling a context for an embodied encounter that activates a critical and empathic engagement. Specifically, it explores the intersections of art, embodiment, and critical empathy as a provocation that can disrupt familiar ways of being-in-the-world, particularly in relation to the sense of war as occurring in a dislocated and distanced elsewhere. In this way, the intersection of Hunt’s art and embodied knowledges provides new insights into thinking through Canadians’ relationship to and implication in ongoing military activities occurring elsewhere.
“The Real Toronto”: Black Youth Experiences and the Narration of the Multicultural City
Authors: Davis Andrea
Published: May 2018

Looking back at more than 45 years of official multicultural policy in Canada, this article asks us to reflect on how the experiences of Black male youth in Toronto and the ways in which race, class, age, and gender intersect to alienate them from full access to educational and employment opportunities disrupt the construction of Canada as an “ideal” and “exceptional” multicultural democracy, built on unchallenged assumptions of inclusivity and impartiality. While Canadian multiculturalism promises respect for cultural differences, free education, and access to jobs for all citizens regardless of national origin or ethnicity, this promise is not borne out in the lives of poor black youth. The article centres the voices and perspectives of these youth by drawing on the documentary The Real Toronto, filmed during the “Summer of the Gun” in 2005, and on the findings from a three-year transnational study of the effects of violence on Black youth in Canada and Jamaica, collected eight years later in 2013. The article argues that Black urban male youth, by situating their precarious life experiences on the margins of a set of core Canadian values, destabilize our understanding of Canadian society by revealing the ways in which they are routinely criminalized and pathologized, and by demanding greater access to upward mobility.
Authoritarian Populism and Canada’s Conservative Decade (2006–2015) in Citizenship and Immigration: The Politics and Practices ofKenneyismandNeo-conservative Multiculturalism
Authors: Carlaw John
Published: May 2018

Focused on the politics and policies of citizenship, immigration, and multiculturalism in Canada, this article employs the concepts of Kenneyism (Kenney-ism, named after Jason Kenney, Canada’s prominent former minister of citizenship, immigration, and multiculturalism) and neo-conservative multiculturalism to reconcile the Conservative Party of Canada’s long-term outreach efforts aiming to incorporate many new, ethnicized, and racialized Canadians into a “minimum winning coalition” with the exclusionary policies and creative discourses the party espoused and implemented during its time in office, 2006–2015. As forms of politics that Stuart Hall termed authoritarian populism, the emphasis on the “authoritarian” dimension of conservative populism foregrounds the often anti-democratic nature of the project both symbolically and substantively. This article outlines the roots of Kenneyism and neo-conservative multiculturalism within a discussion of the party’s evolution from its Reform and Alliance Party predecessors. It discusses five key characteristics and trends of the party’s political and governmental approach that demonstrate both their creative outreach and forms of disciplinary politics and social exclusion—particularly but not only with respect to Muslims, refugees, and temporary foreign workers. It concludes with reflections on the party’s record and the future of Kenneyism as a form of politics after the party’s 2015 electoral defeat and 2017 leadership contest.
Alexis de Tocqueville, the modern democratic nation-state, and its competitors
Authors: Morgan Glyn
Published: May 2018

This paper draws on Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to distinguish three different types of modern democracy—(i) the democratic nation-state, (ii) the post sovereign, multinational democracy, and (iii) the populist national democracy. The paper argues that all three have characteristic deficits—respectively, a security deficit, a democratic deficit, and a liberal deficit. The paper discusses the likely impact of Brexit and Trump on these forms of democracy in modern Europe. The paper concludes that while Trump—and more especially, “Trumpism”—poses a challenge to the European Union, Brexit presents an opportunity to demonstrate to its own citizens the benefits of this type of polity.
Before and beyond the masses. Simmel, Benjamin, and the sociology of crowds
Authors: Mele Vincenzo
Published: May 2018

Georg Simmel (1858-1918) and Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) belonged to two successive generations of thinkers and cultural critics who formulated their ideas on the urban crowd and worked externally and internally, respectively, to the “short” twentieth century. Their points of view on the crowd as the typical social form of the modern metropolis represent two highly significant lines of thought in the history of the twentieth century, which at its beginning gave rise to a hope in the proliferation and flowering of individuality, but later deteriorated into the conventionalism of mass culture and the “colonization of consciousness” brought about by totalitarianism. The perspectives of these two thinkers on the question of the crowd stemmed, in Simmel’s case, from a perspective before the crowd: a defense against the dangers that it represented for seventh-to-nineteenth-century individuality, whose dynamics are at the heart of his work. Benjamin, witnessing the impotence and inadequacy of the principium individuationis to withstand the reactionary regimes of the masses, would find in the waning of this principle, find hope—soon to be disappointed—for a new era of the masses and an ill-defined “new collective body” beyond the crowd.
Mob, people, crowds, and masses: Mass psychology and populism
Authors: Chiantera-Stutte Patricia
Published: May 2018

The contribution will attempt to reflect on the interplay in recent theories of populism and crowd psychology between the ideas of mob and crowd on the one hand, and those of mass and people on the other. Using an approach deriving from the history of ideas, it will outline two fundamental aspects of the complex and ambivalent interaction between the concepts of people, crowds, masses and mob: first, the transformation of the protesting crowd or mob into “the people,” the legitimate source of sovereignty; second, the distinction between regressive crowds and mobs and progressive masses and peoples, stated both explicitly and implicitly in crowd psychology and populist theory. This article will also aim to highlight an idea that has come to the fore in much of the recent literature on populism. It has long been observed that populism opposes “corrupted” elites and the “honest” people. But it has recently been observed that a major source of populist mobilization is a distinction, within “the people,” between a “positive” people and the “others,” the plebs who are left outside the dynamics of any kind of political representation. The article will show that this distinction is fundamental in order to understand not only the construction of populist political identity, but also the dynamics of the mobilization of new movements, which claim to take charge of the political processes and change the rules of the game.
And what if Tocqueville was wrong?
Authors: Kahan Alan S.
Published: May 2018

What if Tocqueville was wrong and the coming of democracy was not a “Providential Fact” but a mere blip in humanity’s aristocratic history? What if the idea that all people are basically equal is already on its way out? Education was supposed to be the great equalizer, but now it divides the gentry from the plebs. The revolution in gender roles was supposed to be about greater equality, but the result of birth control pills and professional women marrying professional men has been a concentration of wealth in small families. The great future struggle will be between the new international aristocracy of education and wealth and the nation-state. Liberal democracy will be the loser.
La psychologie des peuples d’hier à aujourd’hui
Authors: Reynaud-Paligot Carole
Published: May 2018

L’idée d’attribuer à chaque peuple des caractères psychologiques spécifiques est ancienne mais à la fin XIXe siècle, l’essor des sciences naturelles et le développement des études d’anthropologie raciale lui donnent une nouvelle dimension. Durant l’entre-deux-guerres, la psychologie des peuples connaît une grande vogue en France et connaît des prolongements au-delà de cette période. Elle demeure imprégnée des postulats raciologiques du siècle précédent : hérédité raciale, influence du milieu géographique et du climat dans la formation du « caractère national », représentation inégalitaire de la différence. Elle émane des milieux les plus académiques et de milieux idéologiques divers, des milieux nationalistes aux républicains progressistes. La psychologie des peuples trouve également un terrain fécond au sein du monde colonial. Elle est impulsée par les autorités coloniales qui mettent en œuvre des politiques publiques différenciées qui se veulent adaptées à la psychologie de diverses populations. En véhiculant des représentations dépréciatives de certaines populations, en définissant celles qui sont « assimilables », la psychologie des peuples participe également à l’élaboration des politiques d’immigration.
Solubility of Some Mineral Salts in Polyethylene Glycol and Related Surfactants
Authors: McGarvey Peter W. , Hoffmann Markus M.
Published: May 2018

The ambient solubility of the mineral salts NaCl, KCl, CsCl, KBr, K2SO4 and CuSO4 is reported as a function of composition of mixed binary solvents consisting of water with polyethylene glycol (PEG 200), ethoxylated C9–11 alcohols (C10E6) and ethoxylated, or propoxylated C10–12 alcohols (C11E6P1). Solubility gradually decreases with decreasing water content and follows the order PEG 200 > C10E6 > C11E6P1. Solubility of CsCl and KBr was found to be surprisingly high in neat PEG 200, on the order of 1 mol kg−1, and in neat C10E6, on the order of 0.1 mol · kg−1. The observed solubility trends are explained by the theory of hard and soft acids and bases under the consideration of the polarity of the surfactants.
Effect of Surfactants on the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction with Ninhydrin as Organic Substrate
Authors: Mondal Sukanya , Mandal Bholanath
Published: May 2018

The effects of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and Brij 35 on the oscillations of the cerium-catalyzed Belousov-Zhabotinsky (B-Z) reaction with ninhydrin as the organic substrate at 30 °C were described by following the change in absorbance of the reaction mixtures at 357 nm. The behavior of the oscillatory parameters was determined: (i) the induction period (IP) increases first and then decreases with increasing the concentration of all used surfactants (ii) the number of oscillations decreases with the SDS concentration, while for Brij 35 and CTAB it remains nearly constant, and (iii) the mean amplitude of the oscillations decreases with increasing concentration of CTAB and SDS, while it varies irregularly with that of Brij 35. The ability of micelles to selectively shield ions and molecules may explain their effect on the oscillation parameters of the studied B-Z system.
Антибіотикорезистентність клінічних штамів Enterococcus faecalis у хірургічних стаціонарах України: результати багатоцентрового дослідження (2011-2015)
Authors: Salmanov A.G. , Usenko A.Yu.
Published: May 2018

Мета роботи — вивчити антибіотикорезистентність клінічних штамів Enterococcus faecalis, виділених у пацієнтів, госпіталізованих у хірургічні стаціонари в різних регіонах України.

Матеріали і методи. Досліджено 87 273 клінічних штами E. faecalis, виділені від пацієнтів, госпіталізованих у хірургічні відділення 47 багатопрофільних стаціонарів у м. Києві та 24 областях України у 2011—2015 рр. Вивчено чутливість штамів E. faecalis до 34 антибіотиків (пеніцилін, ампіцилін, амоксицилін, оксацилін, ампіцилін/сульбактам, амоксицилін/клавуланат, цефазолін, цефалексин, цефуроксим, цефоперазон, цефотаксим, цефтріаксон, цефтазидим, цефепім, іміпенем, меропенем, гентаміцин, амікацин, нетилміцин, еритроміцин, кларитроміцин, азитроміцин, лінкоміцин, кліндаміцин, тетрациклін, доксициклін, ванкоміцин, офлоксацин, лефлоцин, норфлоксацин, гатифлоксацин, ципрофлоксацин, пефлоксацин, лінезолід) відповідно до рекомендацій Інституту клінічних та лабораторних стандартів США (Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)).

Результати та обговорення. У досліджених хірургічних стаціонарах 37 % штамів E. faecalis були резистентними до тестованих антибіотиків. Найактивнішими щодо штамів E. faecalis були лінезолід, ванкоміцин, меропенем, лефлоцин та іміпенем. Високу частоту резистентності відзначено до цефалексину (56,4 %), пеніциліну (47,9 %), цефуроксиму (47,4 %), цефоперазону (47,0 %), норфлоксацину (43,1 %), кларитроміцину (42,6 %), цефтазидиму (41,6 %), доксицикліну (40,5 %), кліндаміцину (39,7 %), цефотаксиму (39,5 %), амікацину (38,1 %), гентаміцину (37,4 %) та азитроміцину (37,6 %). Резистентність штамів E. faecalis до ванкоміцину становила від 8,0 до 49,4 % (у середньому — 20,8 %).

Висновки. Антибіотикорезистентність клінічних штамів E. faecalis у досліджених стаціонарах — важлива терапевтична та епідеміологічна проблема. Найбільшою активністю щодо нозокоміальних штамів E. faecalis характеризуються лінезолід, ванкоміцин, меропенем, лефлоцин та іміпенем. З огляду на постійні зміни рівня резистентності нозокоміальних штамів E. faecalis у регіонах України необхідно проводити постійний моніторинг за резистентністю до антибіотиків у кожному стаціонарі та на підставі отриманих локальних даних розробити лікарняний формуляр антибіотиків. Політику використання антибіотиків у кожному хірургічному стаціонарі слід визначати залежно від локальних даних щодо резистентності до протимікробних препаратів. Необхідно налагодити систему епідеміологічного нагляду за мікробною резистентністю на локальному, регіональному та національному рівнях.
Антимікробна резистентність провідних збудників інфекцій сечових шляхів у Києві (Україна)
Authors: Salmanov A.G. , Rudenko A.V.
Published: May 2018

Мета роботи — вивчити резистентність до антибіотиків бактеріальних збудників інфекцій сечових шляхів (ІСШ), виділених у пацієнтів урологічного стаціонару в м. Києві.

Матеріали і методи. Досліджено 1612 штамів бактерій, виділених із сечі хворих з ІСШ (цистит, уретрит, пієлонефрит), госпіталізованих в урологічне відділення ДУ «Інститут урології НАМН України» у м. Києві протягом 2016 р. Серед пацієнтів переважали жінки — 1201 (74,5 %). Вік хворих становив від 17 до 74 років. Для збору даних використано медичну документацію лікарні. Мікробіологічні дослідження виконано у лабораторії мікробіології ДУ «Інститут урології НАМН України». Аналізували результати культурального дослідження зразків сечі, зібраних за наявності клінічних ознак ІСШ. Дослідження клінічного матеріалу та інтерпретацію отриманих результатів проводили загальноприйнятими методами. Вивчено чутливість уропатогенів до 31 антибіотика дискодифузійним методом відповідно до рекомендацій Інституту клінічних та лабораторних стандартів США (Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)).

Результати та обговорення. Аналіз мікробного спектра сечі виявив домінування серед уропатогенів штамів Escherichia coli (32,0 %), Enterococcus faecalis (19,5 %), Klebsiella pneumoniae (10,9 %), Staphylococcus epidermidis (8,9 %), S. haemolyticus (6,5 %) та Pseudomonas aeruginosa (6,4 %). Частка Enterococcus faecium, Enterobacter aerogenes і Streptococcus viridans становила відповідно 2,5, 2,2 і 1,6 %, Enterobacter cloacae, Klebsiella oxytoca, Acinetobacter baumannii, Proteus vulgaris та Providencia rettgeri — менше 1,0 %. У більшості випадків (69,7 %) мікроорганізми виділено у монокультурі, у решті випадків — у мікробних асоціа- ціях. Високу резистентність до тестованих антибіотиків виявили штами E. aerogenes (45,1 %), E. cloacae (45,7 %), E. faecium (40,9 %), E. faecalis (40,7 %), E. coli (39,9 %), P. aeruginosa (34,0 %), K. pneumoniae (28,6 %). Найбільш активними до уропатогенів були іміпенем (E. coli — 87,6 %, P. aeruginosa — 75,7 %, E. cloacae — 67,3 %, E. aerogenes — 72,6 %, K. pneumoniae — 93,2 %), меропенем (E. coli — 89,1 %, P. aeruginosa — 76,7 %, K. pneumoniae — 82,6 %), лефлоцин (E. coli — 74,5 %, ентерококи — 78,7 %, P. aeruginosa — 76,7 %, E. cloacae — 73,9 %, E. aerogenes — 80,4 %, K. pneumoniae — 83,5 %), амоксицилін/клавуланат (ентерококи — 84,6 %), фурагін (ентерококи — 82,6 %), цефоперазон (K. pneumoniae — 89,2 %, P. aeruginosa — 73,8 %), цефтріаксон (K. pneumoniae — 80,1 %).

Висновки. Антибіотикорезистентність збудників ІСШ — важлива терапевтична проблема. Найбільшою активністю до уропатогенів характеризуються іміпенем, меропенем, лефлоцин, амоксицилін/ клавуланат, фурагін, цефоперазон, цефтріаксон, які можна розглядати як препарат вибору для призначення стартової терапії ІСШ. Необхідно здійснювати постійний моніторинг за резистентністю до дії антибіотиків. Політику використання антибіотиків у кожному стаціонарі слід визначати залежно від локальних даних щодо резистентності до протимікробних препаратів.