bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
GEOGRAPHYCAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS) BASED EMPLOYEE MAPPING PT ASTRA DAIHATSU MOTOR
Authors: NIRWAN SAEPUDIN
Published: August 2018

PT Astra Daihatsu Motor consisting of Stamping Plant, Engine Plant, Casting Plant, Assembly Plant, Head Office and Part Center that contain many employee about nine thousand spread at JABODETABEK'S region. Since often its happening disaster as accident of flood at territorial JABODETABEK makes PT.Astra Daihatsu is Motor as corporate as professional, issuing policy to give compensation to employee one strikes that accident. Human Resources Development (HRD) that have task in brings off and service employee perceive handicap to give compensation to employee in point since haven't marked sense data about employee domicile.To it at makes database that valid to know employee mapping at a given location. Method that is utilized in final task writing this by use of modelling tool as Flow is Folder (Documents Flowing charts), DFD (Flow's Data Diagram) and data collecting tech with pervading form domicile, observation trick, and interview. Meanwhile application development tool database utilizes Mysql and with programming languages PHP for webite's application and Flash for map. Result to this scheme is one System which given by name Geographycal Information System (GIS) Based Employee Mapping PT.Astra Daihatsu is Motor .
Menyoal Pembentukan Produk Hukum Daerah tentang Pelarangan Aktifitas Jamaah Ahmadiyah
Authors: Sihombing Eka NAM
Published: August 2018

Penerbitan Peraturan Daerah/Peraturan Kepala Daerah, Keputusan Bersama dsb di wilayahnya sebagai respon untuk menjabarkan lebih lanjut ketentuan SKB MenteriAgama, Jaksa Agung dan Menteri Dalam Negeri tentang Peringatan dan Perintah kepada Penganut Anggota dan/atau ANggota Pengurus Jamaah Ahmadiyah Indonesia dan Warga MAsyarakat menimbulkan pro kontra dari berbagai kalangan masyarakat, hal ini berkaitan erat dengan asas kesesuaian antara jenis dan materi muatan peraturan perundang-undangan. terhadap pembatasan HAM tersebut harus diatur dengan instrumen hukum yang tepat yakni Undang-Undang, bukan dengan jenis peraturan perundang-undangan lainnya termasuk Perda, apalagi SKB yang notabene bukan merupakan salah satu jenis peraturan perundang-undangan
RANCANG BANGUN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BERBASIS WEB (PENGELOLAAN SUMBER DATA SEBAGAI PENDUKUNG PENGETAHUAN)
Authors: NIRWAN SAEPUDIN
Published: August 2018

This Project discuss assembling about application portal knowledge management in higher university, like we know about in higher university is location to interaction for people studied. Various to follow open knowledge. The higher university have had competition level and high demand form stakeholder, that is increase quality although transparency in management organization. With competition is very expert, the higher university must have skill to absorbknowledge that had civitas academic, in order that knowledge who there is in area university can kept with explicit, shaped to make dissemination knowledge. To reach necessity about that project so did program architecture knowledge management for system to used in tools as support management knowledge management in higher university. Knowledge management had facilities to made collaboration, repository and dissemination knowledge who have in every civitas academic, in example is case Politeknik Pos Indonesia. The planning started with observe necessity system, specification and software and grow up prototype where able bridge between running system to resource data with knowledge management portal is development.
ALL SYMBOLS WORD GENERATED BY CFG
Authors: Nguyen Thinh D.
Published: August 2018

We show that it is NP-complete to determine if a given context-free grammar can generate a word containing all symbols of its alphabet with each symbol only once.
ANALISIS PENGARUH KINERJA KEUANGAN TERHADAP HARGA SAHAM PT. BISI INTERNASIONAL TBK PERIODE 2011-2015
Authors: Manggu Sri Astuty Ratnasari
Published: August 2018

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana pengaruh kinerja keuangan terhadap harga saham pada PT. Bisi Internasional Tbk. Pada penelitian ini digunakan analisis rasio keuangan yaitu Return On Asset (ROA), Earning Per Share (EPS), dan Price Earning Ratio (PER). Periode penelitian ini dimulai dari tahun 2011-2015. Hipotesis yang dikemukakan pada penelitian ini adalah terdapat pengaruh kinerja keuangan terhadap harga saham secara parsial dan secara simultan juga terdapat pengaruh kinerja keuangan terhadap harga saham. Metode analisis yang digunakan untuk melihat pengaruh kinerja keuangan terhadap harga saham pada PT. Bisi Internasional Tbk adalah analisis statistik deskriptif.Pengujian hipotesis dilakukan dengan uji statistik secara parsial (Uji T) dan uji statistik secara simultan (uji F) dengan α = 5%. Penganalisaan data menggunakan software pengolahan data statistik yaitu SPSS 23.00 for windows. Hasil uji secara parsial (uji T) menunjukkan bahwa kinerja keuangan yang diwakili rasio Return On Asset (ROA) dengan signifikansi 0,03< α 0,05 dan Price Earning Ratio (PER) dengan signifikansi 0,000 < α 0,05 berpengaruh signifikan terhadap harga saham, sedangkanEarning Per Share (EPS) tidak berpengaruh terhadap harga saham dengan signifikansi 0,482 > α 0,05. Hasil uji secara simultan (uji F) menunjukkan bahwa semua variabel independen yaitu Return On Asset (ROA), Earning Per Share (EPS), danPrice Earning Ratio (PER) berpengaruh signifikan terhadap harga saham dengan signifikansi 0,001 < α 0,05. Nilai koefisien determinasi sebesar 58,1% yang berarti hubungan antara variabel bebas Return On Asset, Earning Per Share dan Price Earning Ratio secara bersama-sama terhadap harga saham memiliki hubungan yang erat.
Skipping the Replication Crisis in Visualization: Threats to Study Validity and How to Address Them
Authors: Kosara Robert , Haroz Steve
Published: August 2018

Replications are rare in visualization research, but if they were more common, it is not unreasonable to believe that they would show a similar rate of unreproducible results as in the psychological and social sciences. While a replication crisis in visualization research would be a helpful wake-up call, examining and correcting the underlying problems in many studies is ultimately more productive.In this paper, we survey the state of replication in visualization research. We examine six threats to the validity of studies in visualization and suggest ways to address them. Finally, we describe possible models for publishing replications that satisfy the novelty criterion that can keep replications from being accepted.
PEMBUATAN APLIKASI SISTEM PAKAR UNTUK DIAGNOSA PENYAKIT MATA PADA MANUSIA BERBASIS WEB
Authors: NIRWAN SAEPUDIN
Published: August 2018

The eye is the organ which gives us the sense of vision, with eye human can recognize people, object, differentiating color and miscellaneous its. Eye is including to part of that sensitive body organ, hence from health of eye have to be taken care of and paid attention with as good as possible in order not to lessen eye performance. By exploiting growth of information technology in computer area hence made an "Making an Application of Expert System For Diagnose Eye Disease At Human Base on Web". This Application aim to provide information concerning types disease of eye at human completely like definition, symptom, medication and cause for the disease of eye. Besides, this application also provide a facility to diagnosed disease of eye. Method which is used in making of this application is method of forward chaining. While for the method of modelling system use flow map (schema emit a stream of document) and UML (Unified Modelling Language). Software which is used in making of this application is programming of PHP5, and MySQL as databases server. With existence of this expert system application expected can water down society in getting information concerning types disease of eye and also can assist society in doing inspection to disease of suffered eye.
PEMBUATAN APLIKASI INVENTORY DI PT KURIOS UTAMA
Authors: NIRWAN SAEPUDIN
Published: August 2018

Application Inventory is application of computer software that used at some business planning especially sector industry/manufacturer and company that have some warehouse that each other in effort target one unity integrated system and have one clear operation link an arranged where concept of job begin at purchasing phase to saving goods to warehouse are arranged in standard system operation. Application Inventory this made by using programming PHP 5, and for the display use Smarty Template Engine. Language program PHP 5 by it self haves ability to conduct goods ordering to supplier, also on the contrary supplier will be easier conduct supplier goods to storage PT Kurios Utama. Application will identify to stock goods, and will preset message if goods has came up with minimum amount. Base this application testing can run in local area network or intranet, and internet. At client computer must provided with browser facility to access this application.
PALINDROMIC WORD PUZZLES
Authors: Nguyen Thinh D.
Published: August 2018

We show that it is NP-complete to determine if a given set of strings can be arranged to form a palindrome.
MODUL HUMAN RESOURCES SAP 01 FUNDAMENTAL_SAEPUDIN NIRWAN_2015
Authors: NIRWAN SAEPUDIN
Published: August 2018

SAP 01 Fundamental, Unit 6, Create an organization unit and vacant position
Materi Kuliah Psikologi Antropologi
Authors: AA ABDUL LATIF
Published: August 2018

psikologi antropologi adalah kajian psikologi dalam kaitannya mengkaji persinggungan aspek psikologis dan antpologi
Getting value from artificial intelligence in agriculture, over the next 10+ years
Authors: Smith Matthew James
Published: August 2018

Every aspect of society and industry seems to be examining the potential benefits from applying artificial intelligence. In this paper I examine the likely benefits to agriculture from applying artificial intelligence and discuss some of the challenges. I end up identifying around 22 different areas, which imply that the highest value capabilities seem to be those where multiple different areas of AI developments are brought together to form new capabilities such as farm robots, digital twins and supply chain traceability.
Sidoarjo (Indonesia) Mud Volcano in the Perspective of Aristotle's Virtues Ethics
Authors: Dewantara Agustinus
Published: August 2018

The Sidoarjo (Indonesia) Mud Disaster in Ethical Perspectives of Aristotelian Virtue aims to find analytically the meaning of the Sidoarjo mud disaster philosophically, and reflect it for the appreciation of values of virtue in society. Aristotelian ethics is chosen as a formal object because philosophically there is a value that is violated in the emergence of the disaster. This research is needed so that philosophy can contribute many good understanding for the improvement of human life in the world.The research used in this paper is qualitative research in the field of philosophy. The research model used is qualitative research by conducting a study on Aristotelian philosophy to analyze fact of mud disaster of Sidoarjo. Hermeneutics then used to find meaning in this research. The results of the hermeneutical analysis will then become material in order to find its contribution to a more ethical world life.
Pengaruh Reward dan Punishment Terhadap Kinerja Karyawan
Authors: Astuti Winda Sri , Sjahruddin Herman , Purnomo Susenohadi
Published: August 2018

Regression analysis is constructed for capturing the effect of reward and punishment on employee performance. We use its result in multiple regresion to find out the effect of reward and punishment on 92 employees performance from Hasamitra rural banks in Makassar City .The results of this study explaining the reward has a significant negative effect on employee performance. in addition to the punisment to be significant and positive.
Is this my group or not? The role of ensemble coding of emotional expressions in group categorization
Authors: Goldenberg Amit , Sweeny Timothy , Shpigel Emmanuel , Gross James
Published: August 2018

When exposed to others’ emotional responses, people often make rapid decisions as to whether these others are members of their group or not. These group categorization decisions have been shown to be extremely important to understanding group behavior. Yet, despite their prevalence and importance, we know very little about the attributes that shape these categorization decisions. To address this issue, we took inspiration from ensemble coding research and developed a task designed to reveal the influence of the mean and variance of group members’ emotions on participants’ group categorization. In Study 1, we verified that group categorization decreases when the group’s mean emotion is different from the participant’s own emotional response. In Study 2, we established that people identify a group’s mean emotion more accurately when its variance is low rather than high. In Studies 3 and 4, we showed that participants were more likely to self-categorize as members of groups with low emotional variance, even if their own emotions fell outside of the range of group emotions they saw, and that this preference is seen for judgements of both positive and negative group emotions. In Study 5, we showed that this unique preference for low group emotional variance is special to group categorization and does not appear in a more basic face categorization task. Our studies reveal unexplored and important tendencies in group categorization based on group emotions.
Emotional Sharing on Social Media: How Twitter Replies Contribute to Increased Emotional Intensity
Authors: Goldenberg Amit , Gross James , Garcia David
Published: August 2018

Emotional sharing is thought to be a driver of social movements on social media. But how does this work, particularly given how quickly emotions usually decay? In the present research, we test the hypothesis that emotional sharing in twitter replies shapes “appropriate” emotional responses, thereby supporting social movements. In Study 1, we consider a negative context (the Ferguson unrest) and show that replies are more negative than original tweets, and that this process is mainly driven by replies to positive and neutral tweets. We further show that replies that are more negative than original tweets are rewarded by more likes and shares. In Study 2, we consider a positive context (Trump supporters celebrating his election victory) and show that replies are more positive than original tweets, and that this positivity is rewarded by more likes and shares. Combined, these two studies reveal emotional sharing processes that may drive social movements.
Men, Women, and STEM: Why the Differences and What Should Be Done?
Authors: Stewart-Williams Steve , Halsey Lewis G.
Published: August 2018

It is a well-known and widely lamented fact that men outnumber women in a number of fields in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths). The most commonly discussed explanations for the gender gaps are discrimination and socialization, and the most common policy prescriptions target those ostensible causes. However, a great deal of evidence in the behavioural sciences suggests that discrimination and socialization are only part of the story. The purpose of this paper is to highlight other aspects of the story: aspects that are commonly overlooked or downplayed. More precisely, the paper has two main aims. The first is to examine the evidence that factors other than workplace discrimination contribute to the gender gaps in STEM. These include relatively large average sex differences in career and lifestyle preferences, and relatively small average differences in cognitive aptitudes – some favouring males, others favouring females – which are associated with progressively larger differences the further above the average one looks. The second aim is to examine the evidence suggesting that these sex differences are not purely a product of social factors but also have a substantial biological (i.e. inherited) component. A more complete picture of the causes of the unequal sex ratios in STEM may productively inform policy discussions. Link to published version: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0890207020962326
Beyond Emotional Similarity: The Role of Situation-Specific Motives
Authors: Goldenberg Amit , Garcia David , Halperin Eran , zaki jamil , Zhang Danyang , Golarai Golijeh , Gross James
Published: August 2018

It is well established that people often express emotions that are similar to those of other group members. However, people do not always express emotions that are similar to other group members, and the factors that determine when similarity occurs are not yet clear. In the current project, we examined whether certain situations activate specific emotional motives that influence the tendency to show emotional similarity. To test this possibility, we considered emotional responses to political situations that either called for weak (Studies 1 and 3) or strong (Study 2 and 4) negative emotions. Findings revealed that the motivation to feel weak emotions led people to be more influenced by weaker emotions than their own, whereas the motivation to feel strong emotions led people to be more influenced by stronger emotions than their own. Intriguingly, these motivations led people to change their emotions even after discovering that others’ emotions were similar to their initial emotional response. These findings are observed both in a lab task (Studies 1-3) and in real-life online interactions on Twitter (Study 4). Our findings enhance our ability to understand and predict emotional influence processes in different contexts and may therefore help explain how these processes unfold in group behavior.
Indices of Effect Existence in the Bayesian Framework
Authors: Makowski Dominique
Published: August 2018

There is now a general agreement that the Bayesian statistical framework is the right way to go for psychological science. Nevertheless, its flexible nature is its power and weakness, for there is no agreement about what indices should be computed or reported. Moreover, the lack of a consensual index of effect existence, such as the frequentist p value, possibly contributes to the unnecessary murkiness that many non-familiar readers perceive in Bayesian statistics. Thus, this study describes and compares several indices of effect existence, provide intuitive visual representation of the "behaviour" of such indices in relationship with traditional metrics such as sample size, effect size and frequentist significance. The results contribute to develop the intuitive understanding of the values that researchers report and allow to draw recommendations for Bayesian statistics description, critical for the standardization of scientific reporting. We also provide a beginner-friendly implementation of automatic reports within the psycho R package.
Functions of consciousness
Authors: Seth Anil
Published: August 2018

A major challenge for the successful naturalization of consciousness lies in locating its biological function, or functions. Although common sense suggests that conscious experience has many important functional roles in our lives, experiments and theoretical arguments challenge these everyday intuitions. Many human behaviors can occur in the absence of consciousness, and the natural world contains many creatures capable of engaging in complex behaviors, at least some of which may be doing so entirely without consciousness (e.g., mollusks, microorganisms). While consciousness is a real phenomenon whether functional or not, without any defensible function its scientific study is made even more difficult than it already is.We begin with some necessary conceptual ground-clearing, reviewing the possibility that consciousness does not have a function and dealing with ambiguities in the meaning of ‘function’ and of ‘consciousness’. We then consider in detail a range of putative functions for consciousness, covering both cognitive perspectives and proposals grounded in neural dynamics. We start with the intuitively appealing ideas that consciousness functions to initiate voluntary behavior and/or to mediate rational actions, before turning to more recent candidates, for example that consciousness functions to integrate information or to mediate planning and flexible behavior in response to novelty. Finally, we consider the possibility that consciousness, as a constellation concept,may have multiple functions. [The reference for this chapter is Seth, A.K. (2009). Functions of consciousness. In W.P. Banks (ed.) Elsevier Encyclopedia of Consciousness. Vol 1: 279-293.]
Media Multitasking Negatively Impacts Cognitive Flexibility
Authors: Lopez Jesus , Orr Joseph M
Published: August 2018

Given the prevalence of multitasking today, it is critical to understand how multitasking affects the mind. Recent studies have suggested that frequent multitaskers perform worse on tasks requiring cognitive control. Nevertheless, others have suggested that frequent multitasking may lead to an improvement of parallel processing abilities, perhaps at the expense of serial processing. The current study examined whether the degree to which a person engages in media multitasking affects the balance between serial and parallel processing styles. Moreover, we examined the idea that heavy multitaskers would be biased toward the parallel processing of tasks. For this study, parallel processing was indexed by the divergent thinking paradigm, the AUT (Alternative Uses Task), and serial processing by the convergent thinking paradigm, the RAT (Remote Associates Test). Our hypothesis was that people who frequently media multitask would display higher measures of divergent thinking, while those who media multitask to a lesser degree would in turn display higher measures of convergent thinking. 528 college students completed the Media Use Questionnaire in order to compute their Media Multitasking Inventory (MMI) score, as well as the RAT and AUT. A negative relationship between MMI score and AUT scores was found, indicating that more time spent media multitasking was associated with less divergent thinking. There was no significant effect of MMI and RAT scores. Subjects who completed the AUT online performed significantly worse than their in-person counterparts. These results suggest that the more an individual media multitasks, the poorer cognitive flexibility they command. Further, the context and environment in which these heavier media multitaskers operate in may influence their degree of cognitive flexibility.
The fall and rise of consciousness science
Authors: Seth Anil
Published: August 2018

At the birth of psychology as a science, consciousness was its central problem. But throughout the twentieth century, ideological and methodological concerns pushed the explicit empirical study of consciousness to the sidelines. Since the 1990s, studying consciousness has regained a legitimacy and impetus befitting its status as the central feature of our mental lives. Nowadays consciousness science encompasses a rich interdisciplinary mixture drawing together philosophical, theoretical, computational, experimental, and clinical perspectives. While solving the metaphysically ‘hard’ problem of why consciousness is part of the universe may seem as intractable as ever, scientists have learned a great deal about the neural mechanisms underlying conscious states. Further progress will depend on specifying closer explanatory mappings between (first person subjective) phenomenological descriptions and (third person objective) descriptions of biological and physical processes. Such progress will help reframe our understanding of our place in nature, and may also accelerate clinical approaches to a wide range of psychiatric and neurological disorders.
Theopreneurship
Authors: Sudibjo Kusman
Published: August 2018

The study of blending of theology and entrepreneurship with biblical truth to unfold the secret for Christian businessmen or Theopreneurs on how to utilize their talents to exercise the resources from God as a steward and not an owner to bless people and fulfill God’s plan for their lives through business .Successful Christian businessman have the opportunity to influence the lives of many people:employees, suppliers, business associates, family and friends, community leaders, governmental officials, and others.This will give significant impact upon the laws, policies and proceedures in our communities
Depressive Traits and Theory of Mind in Healthy Individuals: A Mediation Study
Authors: Rowark Nicholas James
Published: August 2018

Depression has been associated with poor social cognitive functioning, including impaired performance on measures of theory of mind. However, the association between depression and theory of mind performance has been removed when controlling for differences in executive functioning, which is also impacted by depression. Among these executive functions, inhibition of prepotent response has been demonstrated as enabling success on theory of mind tests. In the context of these findings, the current investigation tested whether a relationship could be found between depressive traits and theory of mind in a non-clinical sample, and whether this relationship was mediated by differences in executive control of inhibition. Theory of mind was assessed in 31 healthy individuals using an audio-presented false-belief reasoning task, which also tested baseline performance in non-mental-state reasoning. Inhibition of prepotent response was assessed with interference measures on a Stroop colour-word task, and depressive traits were self-reported through the second version of the Beck Depression Inventory. Mediation analysis revealed that executive control of inhibition did not significantly mediate an indirect effect of depressive traits on theory of mind. It was interpreted that relationships previously found between major depression, executive and social-cognitive functions do not generalise beyond clinical boundaries. However, these findings are discussed in terms of the small sample size, limiting statistical power, and several methodological limitations. Future research should assess the relationship between depressive traits and theory of mind using alternative measures of mental representation, or include a neurocognitive battery assessing executive functions other than inhibition.
Assessment Practices in Mathematics: Local to Global Contexts
Authors: Lamichhane Basanta Raj
Published: August 2018

The main purpose of this paper is to explore the present mathematics assessment practices in local and global contexts. For this, I decisively review educational policies, practices, curricular documents and contemporary researches. In doing so, I select the Finland, China, USA, as they have stood in the significant positions in an international comparative study such as TIMSS, PISA and Nepal. It reveals that the assessment practices in mathematics are not an isolated phenomenon that have been executed by an external authority at the end of the academic sessions to quantify the individual attributes relating to mathematical performances. It is largely embedded in educational activities from the very beginning and simultaneously works throughout the programme for enriching mathematical outcomes and performances of students. I capture two major trends of assessment practices of these countries; post-positivist approaches of assessment and integral approaches of assessment. The post/positivist perspective incorporates summative evaluation techniques and assessment of learning whereas integral perspectives concentrate on assessment for learning as having broad goals of reconstructing, reframing and transforming the entire programs. These trends of assessment practice largely blend with philosophy of mathematics education. The comparing and contrasting views of assessment practices would be helpful for the policy makers, educators, mathematicians and other related personnel for critically re-evaluate their respective assessment practices and thus encourage to transform the deep-rooted conventional assessment practice that is one of the major hindrance to sanction the mathematics education within the positivistic paradigm. The Sapta Gandaki JournalVol. IX, 2018 Feb. Page: 1-16
Women with Disabilities in Nepal
Authors: Timilsana Binod Khanda
Published: August 2018

The women who have one or more impairments and experience barriers in society are the women with disability (WWD). Disabled women of all ages, in rural and urban areas, regardless of the severity of the impairment, sexual preference and cultural background or whether they live in the community or an institution are recognized as the WWD. As the Person with Disabilities are deprived, isolated, marginalized and excluded groups of the society, the women who have disability are one of the components of them. The social status of disabled women varies according to individual circumstances and to the country in which they live. Being a member of United Nations, Nepal recognized the human rights of people with disability in the year 1981. Accordingly, it enacted a special law known as the Disabled Persons Protection and Welfare Act, 1982 but even after 36 years of existence, the people with disabilities are often excluded from the mainstream of society and denied their human rights. Nepal is rich with legislative provisions but there is discrepancy between legislation and practices. Social security system is very poor in Nepal; disabled as well as economically marginalized people have not received any kind of social protection (food, shelter, clothes, health, education, and training). The strongest rights to social security may turn out to be nothing more than unfulfilled promises. Again most of the services are situated in urban areas and disabled people from rural areas at more risk. So it is mandatory to cater necessary services to all women with disabilities living in any part of Nepal for the respect, protect and fulfilling the commitment of government by human rights Instruments. The Sapta Gandaki JournalVol. IX, 2018 Feb. Page: 17-25
Effect of Gender Exploitation and Violence on Health Status of Women and Girls in Chitwan District
Authors: Parajuli Govinda Prasad , Chapagain Sarita
Published: August 2018

This study aimed to findout forms and causes of gender exploitation and violence as well as reveal the effect of gender exploitation and violence on the health status of women and girls. The researcher collected secondary data from District Police Office and Women Cell of the same office of Chitwan. Primary data was collected from purposive sampling method. The study reveals that majority of the victims of exploitation and violence suffers from grave physical health problem, psychological and mental health problem and reproductive health problems. Similarly, the study also reveals that the causes of gender exploitation and violence are economical, political, educational and social backwardness. From the research, it is concluded that women and girls are dominated due to lack of education, patriarchal society, polygamy society, sexual dissatisfaction and dowry. Moreover, women are discriminated from birth. This study also shows that literate women are equally victimized as well as the illiterate women and girls. The Sapta Gandaki JournalVol. IX, 2018 Feb. Page: 26-33
Funding Gap in Hydropower Projects of Nepal: Does Internal Finance Matter?
Authors: Subedi Kapil Deb
Published: August 2018

This paper aims to examine the current status of investment and availability of financing to hydro power companies in Nepal. Using pooled cross sectional data of NEPSE listed companies; a regression equation has been estimated to determine the effect of financing constraints on investment decisions of hydro companies. The study results confirm that internal cash flows and leverage are the major determinants of investment decisions in Nepalese hydro companies. Moreover, the coefficient of internal cash flow is significantly strong and positive showing its interdependency in financing new investment projects of hydro companies. This relationship strongly supports the financing constraints hypothesis that indicates the capital market frictions as the major obstacle of hydro investment in Nepal. Although the companies have access to banks and foreign capital, still the financing gaps persist and they are highly dependent on their internal cash flows for investment. Additionally, the volatility of cash flows and sales of hydro companies along with their long gestation period pose a significant credit risk to banks and lending institutions that hinder them to provide as much credit as they demand. Besides, the cyclical variations of net worth and collateral values of hydro companies during the tough economic period also resist them to obtain enough finance for further investment. Hence, the government should ensure with appropriate policies, information systems and regulatory mechanism that enable well functioning of capital markets to efficient flows of funds either in the form of equity or debt to boost up the hydropower investment in Nepal.The Sapta Gandaki JournalVol. IX, 2018 Feb. Page: 34-52
A Survey of Investors Preference on Stock Market : A Case of Nepal Stock Exchange
Authors: Pokharel Post Raj
Published: August 2018

This paper shows investors preference on stock market of Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE). The study is based on survey method using structured questionnaire. The results demonstrated that investors were found to have investment interest in secondary market. The reasons for selecting shares are mostly liquidity and high rate of earning. The investors' perception regarding the influencing factors for the investment decision in secondary market of NEPSE is the advice of brokers and then movement of indices. The news in daily newspaper and market sentiments are viewed as least influencing factors for investment decision. Most motivating factors prioratized by respondents were capital gains, then liquidity and then dividend, safety and bonus shares. The motivating factors like tax benefits and rights shares were under least preference by the respondents. The Sapta Gandaki JournalVol. IX, 2018 Feb. Page: 53-61
Microfinance Intervention and Livelihood Status: A Case of Gramin Bikash Bank Limited
Authors: Chapagain Ramkrishna , Aryal Rishikesh
Published: August 2018

This paper attempts to focus on the impact of micro finance intervention on livelihood status of the people taking samples of 60 respondents of microfinance intervened and 60 non intervened population of Grameen Bikash Bank which lies on remote area of Pokhara, Leknath Metropolitan city and nearby VDCs. The study is based on the randomized control trial approach and data were collected through researcher administered questionnaire. Respondents were taken through stratified sampling. The research finds that microfinance intervention has association with occupational status, micro enterprise creation, frequency of loan taken and occupational change. Independent sample t-test shows micro finance intervention increases income level, capital expenditure, consumption expenditure and saving. The regression analysis shows that micro finance intervention changes the livelihood status of women of rural areas of Pokhara Municipality and nearby VDCs. The Sapta Gandaki JournalVol. IX, 2018 Feb. Page: 62-72
Economic Perspectives of Trademarks
Authors: Chapagai Rishi Ram
Published: August 2018

Primarily, this paper examines the role of trademark in global economy, as an intellectual property the value of trademark and brand in the global marketplace, and the economic potentiality of trademarks to generate more value and surplus in the economy. This paper also discusses the contribution of the trademarks for creating brand and value of business enterprises. The article is basically conceptual and descriptive in nature. Based on the literature review, the purposes of this paper are; to assess the perceived value of a trademark and brand, to examine the trademark roles for creating brand and value and to understand the impact of trademark on economy.The article deals with trademark and its economic perspectives. This article is valuable to understand the value of trademark in marketplace. The article helps academicians and practitioner to know the concept of trademark as an intellectual property and to understand that it can be used by market economy to generate more income, value, and surplus in the economy. The economic perspective of trademark can be applicable to many segments of Nepalese business context; ranging from manufacturing to service sector and importantly for the entrepreneurship development. Finally, the article is recommending for further empirical research study to examine the impact of trademark protection system for the countries’ economic growth. The Sapta Gandaki JournalVol. IX, 2018 Feb. Page: 73-83
फाटो कथामा अनुभूतिको संरचना Fato Kathama Anubhutiko Samrachana
Authors: मरहट्टा कोइराला Marahatta Koirala प्रभा Prabha
Published: August 2018

पश्चिमी चिन्तक रेमन्ड विलियमले विकास गरेको साहित्यको समाजशास्त्रीय अध्ययन गर्ने सैद्धान्तिक अवधारणाअनुभूतिको संरचनालाई मुख्य आधार बनाइ यस लेखमा फाटो कथामा संरचित अनुभूतिहरु खोजी गरिएको छ । फाटोकथामा प्रतिबिम्बित पिढीगत अनुभूतिहरु र प्रभुत्वको परिवेश, अधिनस्थ पिढीका अनुभूतिहरु, दवाबजन्य अनुभूतिहरुतथा तनावजन्य अनुभूति आदिका कोणकाट कथाको विश्लेषण गरिएको छ । यी विविध कोणबाट प्रस्तुत कथाविश्लेषण गर्दा फरक फरक पिढीगत अनुभूतिहरु संरचित भएको पाइन्छ ।The Sapta Gandaki Journal Vol. IX, 2018 Feb. Page:84-90
सुम्निमा उपन्यासको परिवेशीय मिथक Sumnima Upanyasko Pariweshiya Mithak
Authors: Poudyal पौड्याल वस्ती Bindu बिन्दु
Published: August 2018

(विश्वेश्वरप्रसाद कोइराला आधुनिक नेपाली कथा जगत्को मुर्धन्य व्यक्तित्व हुन् । उनले मनोविश्लेषणात्मक उपन्यासहरुकोसिर्जना गरेका छन्, जसमध्ये सुम्निमा पनि एक हो । किँराती र आर्य संस्कृतिका पात्रहरुको सिर्जना गरी त्यसमाकिँराती र आर्य समाजका मिथकहरुको संयोजन गरेर उपन्यासको कथावस्तुलाई जीवन्त बनाइएको छ । यस उपन्यासकोविषयवस्तुगत पृष्ठभूमि अति प्राचीनतम् हुनुका साथै किँराती जनश्रुति र मिथकलाई समायोजन गरी अतीतको धमिलोसंस्करणत्मक कल्पनाको स्वैरकल्पित, प्रतीकात्मक र सङ्केतात्मक प्रस्तुतिमा अभिव्यक्ति हुन गएको स्पष्टतः देखापर्छ । उपन्यासकारले विषयवस्तु सुरू हुनभन्दा अगाडि नै उपकथा शीर्षकमार्फत यसको कथावस्तुलाई सत्य र असत्यकोतराजुमा नजोखिने एउटा यात्रा वृत्तान्त हो र यसको महइभ्व पौराणिक छ, सङ्केतमय र प्रतीकात्मक भने तापनिकिँराती मिथकलाई अगाडि सारेर लेखिएकाले यस उपन्यासलाई निकै रोचक र मिथकप्रधान मान्न सकिन्छ ।)The Sapta Gandaki Journal Vol. IX, 2018 Feb. Page: 91-100
पारिजातको ‘शिरीषको फूल’ उपन्यासको सांस्कृतिक अध्ययन Parijatko Shirishko Phul Upanyasko Sanskritik Adhyayan
Authors: दवाडी Dawadi सरोज Saroj
Published: August 2018

(शिरीषको फूल पारिजातद्वारा रचित उपन्यास हो । विसङ्गतिको बीच रङ्गिएको जीवनलाई उपन्यासमा प्रस्तुत गरिएको छ । यसमा युद्धभूमिबाट भागेर आएका भगौडा सैनिकको नारीप्रतिको दृष्टिकोण र एक निस्सारवादी युवतीको जीवनकथालाई मर्मस्पर्शी ढङ्गबाट चित्रण गरिएको छ । निर्मम युद्ध संस्कृतिबाट प्रभावित सुयोगको पुरुष चरित्र कठोर, निर्दयी र परपीडकअनि नीच रहेको देखिनु साथै उसमा प्रतिशोधी पुरुष प्रवृत्ति हनु, त्यस्तै परम्परागत नारीभन्दा भिन्न स्वभाव भएकी र विद्रोही विचार प्रस्तुत गर्ने बरीमार्फत् प्रस्तुत उपन्यासमा उग्र नारीवादी चेतना पनि प्रस्तुत गर्नु, निस्सारवादी, शून्यवादी जीवनदृष्टि प्रस्तुत हुनु, त्यस समयको अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय परिस्थिति र राष्ट्रिय सामाजिक, राजनीतिक परिवेशका कारण निर्मित तत्कालीननेपाली जीवनको प्रभाव परेको पाइनु जस्ता सांस्कृतिक पक्षहरू यस उपन्यासमा रहेका छन् ।)The Sapta Gandaki Journal Vol. IX, 2018 Feb. Page: 101-108
Beauty Queens and Hindu Militants: Indian Women’s Negotiation with Neoliberalism and Hindu Nationalism
Authors: Hussein Nazia , Hussain Saba , Hussain Saba , Hussein Nazia
Published: August 2018

Through a review of the 2012 documentary film The World before Her directed by Nisha Pahuja, this article provides a critical reflection on how neoliberal governmentality appropriates women’s bodies and subjectivities in two women’s boot camps in India: the Miss India contest and the Hindu militant Durga Vahini camp. Studies on appropriation of women’s bodies in the neoliberal ideology of the market and in varied religious ideologies have generated rich feminist insights into the structures of women’s oppression across the world. Feminist academic research has traditionally looked at market- and religion-based oppressions separately. In this critical reflection we articulate how women’s bodies get incorporated into the service of varied ideologies, namely neoliberal capitalism and religious fundamentalism, through processes of ritualisation, responsibilisation and subjectivation. Drawing on the shared elements of neoliberal (capitalism) and Hindutwa (Hindu fundamentalism) ideological projects, this article proposes a renewed analysis of the location of women in various ideological projects and the nature of women’s negotiation of these power structures or women’s agency within these structures.
Treatment and Rehabilitation of Substance Use Disorder: Significance of Islamic Input in Malaysia
Authors: Mohamed Mahmood Nazar , Marican S
Published: August 2018

Drug addiction is a chronic relapsing disease which can be treated. Treatment, however is dependent on many variables; the drug of choice, severity of drug use, individual and personality characteristics such as religiosity; community and environmental factors, familial and social support, employment and many more. Many countries used the supply and demand reduction strategies, nonetheless some are successful, and some are not. The advent of HIV-Aids among IDUs forces treatment specialist to look at other alternatives. Harm reduction offer pragmatic approaches though sometimes controversial avenues to provide solutions to the HIV and substance users. Drug Substitution Therapies for people using opioids have proven to be more effective with other non-medical approaches such as contingency management, behavioral interventions and spiritual/religious enhancement. This paper reports the experience of Malaysia in its approach to SUD treatment and providing Islamic religious input to treatment and rehabilitation programs in government and non-government facilitiesInternational Journal of Human and Health Sciences Vol. 02 No. 04 October’18. Page : 209-216
Dynamics of Permanent Exit from Welfare in Ontario, Canada: Duration Dependence and Heterogeneity
Authors: Shibuya Kumiko
Published: August 2018

Monthly administrative data on welfare recipients in Ontario, Canada, are used to examine the propensity to leave welfare permanently with time spent on welfare. Nonparametric hazard models with parametric and nonparametric frailty assumptions are used to control for the effects of individual, family, community, and labour market factors as well as for unobserved population heterogeneity. The pattern of declining hazards with time, which is consistent with the duration dependency hypothesis, is most prominent among single childless men but less clearly evident among single mothers and single childless women. Policy implications are discussed.
Can “Self-Financing” Redeem the Basic Income Guarantee? Disincentives, Efficiency Cost, Tax Burdens, and Attitudes
Authors: Kesselman Jonathan Rhys
Published: August 2018

Recent proposals have been advanced for “self-financing” a basic income guarantee (BIG). This article critically assesses claims that this method of finance would alleviate the economic issues of incentives and efficiency and the political issues of taxpayer burdens and support that challenge all major BIG schemes. The self-financing methods are shown merely to obscure the adverse impacts on marginal effective tax rates that would otherwise require explicit increases in income tax rates. Increased efficiency costs are shown by examples to be extremely large. The self-financing structure is also found to concentrate burdens on middle-income taxpayers. Public opinion surveys further suggest scant public support for the taxes that would be needed to finance such schemes. The article reviews the economic basis for categorical treatment, with BIG benefits focused on those who are unable to work and policies supporting work, earnings, and human capital investment for employable persons. This approach could be financed with lesser taxpayer burdens while according more closely with public values about work; it would also directly address the long-run causes of poverty rather than just the symptoms.
Statistical analysis of micropore size distributions in Al–Si castings evaluated by X-ray computed tomography
Authors: Garb Christian , Leitner Martin , Tauscher Markus , Weidt Moritz , Brunner Roland
Published: August 2018

In general, micropore size acts as one of the most significant influencing factors on the fatigue strength of aluminium castings. Hence, an in-depth knowledge of the occurrence of micropore sizes and their local distributions in different locations in complexly-shaped lightweight components is of great interest to the casting industry. In this work, the local properties of AlSi8Cu3 and AlSi7Cu0.5Mg cylinder heads and AlSi8Cu3 crankcases were analyzed. Extensive X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans of three specimen positions revealed significant differences in micropore size and distribution. Two CT scan resolutions were selected, with respect to different micropore size populations in the cast components, to enable accurate detection of the microporosity, in addition to an adequate scanning volume, in order to achieve a statistically approved parameter study. Thereby, specimen positions exhibiting smaller mean micropore sizes were scanned at 3 μm/voxel scanning resolution and ones with larger micropore sizes at 8 μm/voxel. A statistical assessment of all of the alloy specifications and specimen positions indicates that the general extreme value and lognormal distribution appropriately describe the micropore size distributions. Finally, an extensive sensitivity study is presented, aimed at examining micropore size characteristics, such as the porosity, sphericity, maximum and mean values and standard deviation, and to investigate their relationships in the investigated cast specimens.
Nanophase formation during the heat treatment of Al-13Si-5Cu-2Ni-1Mg alloy and the abnormal enhancement of its tensile properties
Authors: Tian Lusha , Guo Yongchun , Li Jianping , Xia Feng , Yang Wei
Published: August 2018

Two T6 (500°C × 3 h, water quenching and 210°C × 6 h, air cooling) samples of Al-13Si-5Cu-2Ni-1Mg alloy were furture heated to 350°C and 420°C, respectively for various times. The tensile strength of the alloy, measured at both room temperature and 350°C is observed to abnormally increase, especially for the samples that were heated to 420°C. Al11Cu5Mn3 nanoparticles that form stably during these heating processes exhibit a higher volume fraction after the exposure to 420°C than that obtained by the exposure to 350°C. These nanoparticles were responsible for enhancing the alloy's tensile properties because of the precipitation strengthening effect of the second nano-phase.
Synthesis of ZnO nanomaterials with different morphologies by hydrothermal method
Authors: Yuan Binxia , Xia Yangchun , Li Min , Zhu Qunzhi
Published: August 2018

We obtained ZnO crystals with different morphologies through a simple hydrothermal method by adjusting the solution pH. We characterized the ZnO crystals by means of scanning electron microscopy and found several different morphologies, including strip-like, flake-like, cone-like, and six-sided prism shaped particles. The reaction mechanism of the ZnO crystal growth was also investigated. The absorption properties of the ZnO samples were studied using ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy. The studies of the optical properties indicated that the absorption peaks of all samples were located at 377.9 nm. However, there was some variation in the absorption spectra of the ZnO particles with different morphologies.