bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Pointwise approximation of modified conjugate functions by matrix operators of their Fourier series with the use of some parameters
Authors: Szal Bogdan , Lenski Wlodzimierz
Published: May 2020

We extend and generalize the results of Xh. Z. Krasniqi [Acta Comment. Univ.Tartu. Math. 17 (2013), 89-101] and the authors [Acta Comment. Univ. Tartu.Math. 13 (2009), 11-24], [Proc. Estonian Acad. Sci. 2018, 67, 1, 50--60] aswell the jont paper with M. Kubiak [Journal of Inequalities and Applications(2018) 2018:92]. We consider the modified conjugate function  $\widetilde{f}%_{r}$ for $2\pi /\rho $--periodic function $f$ . Moreover, the measure ofapproximations depends on \textbf{\ }$\mathbf{\rho }$\textbf{ - }differencesof the entries of matrices defined the method of summability.
Assessment of women’s situation on the labour market in EU countries
Authors: Malina Anna
Published: May 2020

The aim of the article is to analyse and evaluate the changes in women’s situation on the labour market of European Union countries in the years 2005–2018. The analysis focused on the economic activity of women and men and the following selected aspects of the labour market: the employment and unemployment rates and the relation between women and men’s wages. A hypothesis that women’s situation on the labour market improved, and the pay discrimination against women shrank in EU countries, has been formulated. The study utilised statistical data from the Eurostat Data Base. The evaluation of women’s situation was performed by means of a synthetic measure whose values were determined using the non-standard formula. That measure served as the basis for the linear ordering of EU countries according to the situation of women on the labour market. The study demonstrated that overall, women’s situation on the labour market improved in most EU countries in the analysed period. In all EU countries, the employment rate of women remains lower than the employment rate of men, and additionally, the former strongly varies throughout EU countries. The indicator which differentiates between the women’s and men’s labour markets to a large extent is the percentage of persons employed part-time. Part time employment is more popular in Western European countries and concerns women to a much greater extent than men. The study indicates that the levelling of women’s and men’s wages is taking place; nevertheless, women’s wages in nearly half of EU countries still do not exceed 80% of men’s average wages.
Sales tendencies in modern and contemporary art in the world market
Authors: Białynicka-Birula Joanna
Published: May 2020

The aim of the paper is to identify and examine changes in the modern and contemporary art market in the world in 2009–2015. The source data for the performed analyses are statistical data compiled annually by Artprice and ArtTactic. In order to identify the changes in sales values in the world market for modern and contemporary art, single-base and chain dynamics indicators were used in the first place. Next, in the framework of a dynamic analysis, the trend function analysis method was adopted, which enabled mathematical models of the trend function in linear and exponential forms, describing the changes in the global market of modern and contemporary art, to be constructed. The paper also shows changes in the sales of the world’s largest auction houses, namely Sotheby's and Christie's, in the years 2000–2015. The sales of modern and contemporary artworks were compared with the sales of other types of artworks. In addition, the author focused on those contemporary artists whose works were sold for the highest prices at auctions in the most recent auction seasons. It was empirically proven that the world market for modern and contemporary art is developing dynamically. The collected data enabled the author to formulate the conclusion that the value of sales of modern art at the Sotheby’s and Christie’s auction houses grew both dynamically and significantly.
Information environment of official statistics
Authors: Oleński Józef
Published: May 2020

The aim of the paper is to examine the influence of the information environment of a society or economy on public statistics, as well as demonstrating how official statistics can affect the quality of information environments of modern societies and economies in the context of global technologies and IT systems. In modern information societies and knowledge-based economies, the quality of information environments in which citizens, economic entities, public administration institutions and international organisations are functioning has a decisive influence on the political, social and economic order. These environments are shaped by interest groups which control information systems and processes at the local, national, international and global levels. The above-mentioned groups take advantage of the fundamental law of information, i.e. that poor quality information overrides good quality information, to eliminate any information that could make it more difficult for them to control the behavior of people, including social groups, and entities created by people, which participate in the political and economic processes. The paper examines the effects the contamination of the social information environment has on the political and social life and the economy. Attention has been drawn to the influence of the quality of information environment on official statistics and the perception of statistical data, as well as to using reliable statistical data to disinform and contaminate social and economic information environments by manipulating these data. The paper also shows how public statistics can influence information environments and its significance for the safety of the general public.
Prediction of scour depth around bridge
piers in tandem arrangement using M5
and ANN regression models
Authors: Rahul M. , Baldev S.
Published: May 2020

Purpose: Due to an increase in a number of bridges being constructed, scour depth
around bridge piers is gradually being recognized as one of the possible reasons for bridge
failure. According to [1] about 53% of bridge failures in the US were caused due to floods
and corresponding scour in the rivers. Lots of work has been carried out around the single
pier but in the case of group piers, the work is very less. Hence, it becomes necessary to
calculate the actual scour depth around the bridge piers considering the close location of
bridges as well.
Design/methodology/approach: Recognizing the need for research in this direction,
an experimental study was planned and conducted in the Hydraulics Laboratory of Civil
Engineering Department of National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India. Experiments
were conducted in a standard recirculating tilting bed water flume 15 m long, 0.4 m wide,
and 0.60 m deep. The orientation of more than one pier, namely Tandem pattern was
employed for the work. Two pier models, 62 mm and 42 mm diameter were used for the
experimental study. The mobile bed used in the experiments had an average mean size,
d50 = 0.23 mm, 0.30 mm and 0.50 mm.
Findings: The outcomes of the ANN function and M5 model analysis have been used to
compare with experimental results. From the earlier studies, it was concluded that, when
the clear spacing between the pier models was greater than 0D the scour depth around the
piers increase with a rapid rate. However, in the case of modelling techniques, M5 models
show higher predictive accuracy than ANN models.
Research limitations/implications: It is a significant area of research. However,
the present study has been a time and facility- constrained study. Therefore, there is a
large scope to conduct further studies on the subject, Different pattern i.e. Side by Side;
Staggered and Group of piers can be adopted for further investigations.
Originality/value: Sufficient work has been done by number of researchers around the
single bridge pier. But due to rapid urbanization a number of bridges constructed in close
proximity to each other which affects the scour depth of each other. Modelling techniques
used in hydraulic engineering are not always effective in practice. The present study
discusses the effect of spacing on scouring around piers in a tandem arrangement using
experimental as well as modelling techniques. To predict the scour depth of the Tandem
arrangement 89 laboratory data sets have been used.
Additive and hybrid technologies for
products manufacturing using powders
of metals, their alloys and ceramics
Authors: Dobrzański L.A. , Dobrzański L.B. , Dobrzańska-Danikiewicz A.D.
Published: May 2020

Purpose: The paper is a comprehensive review of the literature on additive and hybrid
technologies for products manufacturing using powders of metals, their alloys and ceramics.
Design/methodology/approach: Extensive literature studies on conventional powder
engineering technologies have been carried out. By using knowledge engineering methods,
development perspectives of individual technologies were indicated.
Findings: The additive and hybrid technologies for products manufacturing using powders
of metals, their alloys and ceramics as the advanced digital production (ADP) technologies
are located in the two-quarters of the dendrological matrix of technologies "wide-stretching
oak" and "rooted dwarf mountain pine" respectively. It proves their highest possible potential
and attractiveness, as well as their fully exploited attractiveness or substantial development
opportunities in this respect.
Originality/value: According to augmented holistic Industry 4.0 model, many materials
processing technologies and among them additive and hybrid technologies for products
manufacturing using powders of metals, their alloys and ceramics are becoming very important
among product manufacturing technologies. They are an essential part not only of powder
engineering but also of the manufacturing development according to the concept of Industry 4.0.
Intermedial Laughter
Authors: Lu Xiaoning
Published: May 2020

The first wave of film comedy in socialist China enjoyed only an ephemeral presence amidst the Hundred Flowers Campaign. This chapter turns attention to the intersection of and interaction between cinema and the traditional Chinese performing art of xiangsheng in the mid-1950s, seeking to tease out an innovative strand of comic filmmaking in the Mao era. Specifically, it takes as its case study the xiangsheng dianying (crosstalk film) of 1956, Wandering in the Zoo, Awaking from a Dream (Youyuan jingmeng), starring the well-known xiangsheng duo of Hou Baolin and Guo Qiru. Through an introduction of xin xiangsheng, a new type of xiangsheng created for the new Chinese society and a careful textual analysis of this particular xiangsheng dianying, the chapter illustrates that the interplay of xiangsheng and film, as seen in Wandering in the Zoo, Awaking from a Dream, transfigured each of the two media, increased much of the viewing pleasure of this film, and provided an understanding of the specificities of both xiangsheng and film. This rather ingenious experimentation of dynamical intermediality demonstrates that laughter under Mao could be innovative and experimental.
Fantastic Laughter in a Socialist-Realist Tradition?
Authors: Zhu Yun
Published: May 2020

With an aim to shed some light on the regulated yet not necessarily homogenized laughter of the pre-Cultural Revolution Maoist years, this chapter examines the nuanced deployment of laughter in the popular children’s novella The Magic Gourd (Bao hulu de mimi) by the literary humorist Zhang Tianyi (1906–1985) and its eponymous film adaptation by Yang Xiaozhong (1899–1969). Contextualizing these texts both in the larger tradition of modern Chinese literature and culture and in the specific socio-cultural milieu of the late 1950s and the early 1960s, I look into how, without apparently challenging the dominant socialist-realist model, they tactfully relieve the stress between the politically repudiated comic mode of “satire” (fengci) and the purposefully promoted mode of “extolment” (gesong). Whether intended or not, the keen relevance the texts bear to the political and economic hyperboles of the Maoist era adds further ambiguities and ironies to the already layered laughter.
Propaganda, Play, and the Pictorial Turn
Authors: Crespi John A.
Published: May 2020

“Propaganda, Play, and the Pictorial Turn” re-visits the early Peoples Republic of China cartoon by contextualizing this form of popular art within the media ecology of the illustrated magazine. Focusing on the first several years (1950-1952) of the satire pictorial Cartoon, the essay questions the tendency to read early Mao-era cartoon art strictly in terms of Cold War binaries, arguing instead for attention to cartoons as just one among many dynamically interrelated, heterogeneric elements comprising the print genre of the illustrated magazine or huabao. Cartoon is to a significant extent a lineal descendent of Republican-era, Shanghai-based huabao whose varied imagetext contents encouraged forms of spectatorship historically linked to practices of urban consumerist play. The primary concern for the artists and editors of Cartoon, then, was adapting this existing visual technology of print to promote active forms of socialist play aligned with the political and educational goals of mass mobilization.
The Revolutionary Metapragmatics of Laughter in Zhao Shuli’s Fiction
Authors: Chan Roy
Published: May 2020

Characters’ use of humor in Zhao Shuli’s Yan’an period fiction demonstrates an ironic metapragmatic awareness of language use; in turn, such humor critiques how ingrained speech conventions uphold social hierarchy. Laughter indexes the collapse of these conventions and stages the possibility of recalibrating not only language use, but social relations as well, toward a more egalitarian ideal. Zhao Shuli’s fictional humor is thus closely tied with revolutionary social transformation. This chapter uses a sociolinguistic approach to examine how Zhao Shuli’s fiction displays critical awareness of the pragmatic effects of language use through the use of humor, and how humor can unravel forms of social power embedded in speech conventions. It analyzes two stories: “The Rhymes of Li Youcai” and “The Marriage of Little Erhei.”
Introduction
Authors: Barker Thomas
Published: May 2020

The remarkable return of local filmmaking and the growth of its audience has been one of the success stories of reformasi, which marked Indonesia’s democratic transition after 1998. To account for these changes, this chapter argues for a reconceptualization of Indonesian cinema as pop culture responsive to the market. It considers the emergence of the youth market throughout the New Order and its maturation in the years after reformasi. By conceptualising the process of market engagement and commercialisation as going mainstream, this chapter argues for a new approach to the study of cinema by bridging film studies with cultural studies.
From Indie to Mainstream
Authors: Barker Thomas
Published: May 2020

New creative work began to appear in the 1990s through television culminating in the breakthrough feature film Kuldesak (1998). It became the watershed for a new generation of young Indonesians to make their own films, often through an indie philosophy. At first being indie and independent were important values, but over time and with the regularisation of production, the need for consistent capital meant more filmmakers turned to big production companies for capital. A new accommodation between creativity and capital has become the dominant mode of production in the post-1998 film industry.
Horrifying Youth
Authors: Barker Thomas
Published: May 2020

Horror film is one of the most popular genres in the new mainstream Indonesian cinema. Dismissed by most critics as cheap and commercialised, this chapter draws on scholarship that links horror cinema to allegorical representations of historical and national trauma. Through an examination of the narrative features of post-1998 horror, this chapter shows how horror films are used by the young generation of filmmakers to suggest and evoke the collective trauma of the New Order regime and its violence, especially the mass killings of 1965-1966 and the urban riots in May 1998. Two decades after reformasi, horror films remain as popular as ever, but have pointed towards more tangible efforts in justice and historical reconciliation.
Audiences without Cinemas
Authors: Barker Thomas
Published: May 2020

Indonesia remains underserviced by cinemas with a comparatively low cinema to population ratio. For much of the late New Order and after reformasi, exhibition remained dominated by the 21 Group, a crony company with film import monopoly rights. Recently, new investment has flowed into exhibition from the Blitzmegaplex company which is revealed to be well connected to New Order military figures. More recently new players have entered the industry including South Korea’s CGV who bought Blitz, the domestic conglomerate Lippo, and Raam Punjabi’s Platinum Cineplex chain, introducing both competition and global capital into the sector.
Negotiating Inseparability in China
Authors: Grose Timothy
Published: May 2020

This book describes and theorizes the experiences of Uyghur graduates of the “Xinjiang Class” national boarding school program. These experiences reveal how young, educated Uyghurs strategically and selectively embrace elements of the corporate Chinese “Zhonghua minzu” identity in order to stretch the boundaries of a collective Uyghur identity. More specifically, Xinjiang Class students establish cross-regional bonds with Uyghur classmates and non-Xinjiang Class Uyghurs in inner China (neidi) and transnational bonds based on shared faith with foreign Muslims living in Chinese cities. These networks activate and perpetuate a transregional and often transnational ethno-national identity that is regularly communicated through Islamic practice.
Introduction
Authors: Grose Timothy
Published: May 2020

We must make fighting separatism our top priority in a bid to safeguard Xinjiang’s social stability and closely guard against and severely crack down on the ‘three evil forces’.

—Nur Bekri, Former Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region People’s Daily, March 6, 2011

Although still boasting the name of an impressive landmark, the International Grand Bazaar in Ürümchi, Xinjiang,...
Meeting in the Shadow of Heroes? Personal Names and Assembly Places
Authors: Baker John
Published: May 2020

This chapter examines the likelihood that celebrated individuals were commemorated in the names of assembly sites as part of a display of political authority or cultural affiliation. Focusing primarily on the names of Domesday hundreds, it draws comparisons with the personal names in other well-established Anglo-Saxon corpora (including charter bounds, narrative sources, Domesday Book and place-names), in order to assess the social context of those individuals commemorated in hundred-names. The chapter then evaluates the probability that such names could carry specific political or cultural resonance at the time of naming, and there are clear indications that this may sometimes have been the case, perhaps especially in the first half of the 10th century. While the evidence implies that the hundred-names arose in a number of different circumstances, the analysis suggests that reference to heroic figures may have been one motivating factor in the naming of sites of assembly.
Living Near the Sea: The Organisation of Frisia in Early Medieval Times
Authors: Knol Egge
Published: May 2020

Across the North Sea from England was a land that was known in the early Middle Ages, as part of it is today, as Frisia. This largely marshy land was a good place to live for those who managed to adjust to its potentially extreme but fertile habitat. Despite many archaeological observations and finds, our view of their social organisation is not very clear, and in part derived from better-documented parallels elsewhere. This chapter will first briefly describe the former landscape and its archaeological record, before dealing with the organisation of Frisia. Its focus will be on the northern part of Frisia. The aim of the chapter is to offer a general picture, based on recent research, of this country oriented towards the North Sea and its maintaining of close links to early medieval England.
Matthew Parker and the Practice of Church History
Authors: McMahon Madeline
Published: May 2020

The Elizabethan archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker is best known for his efforts to collect medieval manuscripts, which had changed hands or been repurposed after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and to construct from these sources a new history of the church in England. This essay looks at the complete process by which Parker and his circle collected, used, and printed books for their historical project. It argues that Parker’s work was not as pointedly confessional as it has typically been seen, in part because of the shifting sands of early modern religious discourse and in part because of how Parker engaged with the medieval sources he encountered. He learned from what he read—perhaps especially from late medieval historians. His practices in constructing church history reveal the extent to which he viewed himself in a continuous historiographical tradition, even as he sought to reform an ecclesiastical one.
Becoming Heterodox in 17th-Century Cambridge
Authors: Levitin Dmitri , Mandelbrote Scott
Published: May 2020

This chapter charts Isaac Newton’s path to heterodoxy by contextualising a crucial, but previously unknown, piece of evidence: the ‘Determination’ upon Newton’s 1677 Cambridge theology disputation conducted by the Regius Professor of Divinity, Joseph Beaumont. This Determination provides the earliest secure evidence of Newton’s engagement with theology. The Determination (printed and translated as an Appendix) is important in itself, but its witness allows us to go further and to propose that the university context proved crucial for shaping the way in which Newton conducted his theological reading. The essay begins by charting the transformations in Cambridge theological pedagogy in the half century before Beaumont and during the period of his dominance after the Restoration. It emphasises in particular the rise of an obsession with ante-Nicene Christian antiquity at the University, partly in response to inter- and intra-confessional dispute. The second half of the essay shows that much of Newton’s early theological writing can be read as a response to these developments, and to the world of orthodox theology that existed around him.
CANZUK, the Anglosphere(s) and Transnational War Commemoration: The Centenary of the First World War
Authors: Mycock Andrew
Published: May 2020

This chapter examines commemoration across the Anglosphere of the centenary of the First World War, which has drawn attention to the critical ordering and articulation of shared transnational collective memories and historical narratives. Tensions between national and transnational manifestations of war commemoration reveal the legacies of the British Empire, revealing the intersections between post-imperial and post-colonial constructions of history and memory across the Anglosphere and Commonwealth. The chapter argues that although Anglospheric war commemoration is located in remembrance of past conflicts, it is intimately connected with the present and future, thus meaning its context and meaning are prone to periodic reinvention in response to contemporary geopolitical circumstances. Commemoration of the First World War across the Anglosphere highlights the layered, hybridised, porous, and contested boundaries of the so-called ‘CANZUK’ union of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK, the ‘core’ Anglosphere which includes the United States, a less well defined Anglosphere, and the Commonwealth. It concludes that a ‘politics of war commemoration’ both binds and divides the Anglosphere and other parts of the former British Empire, highlighting the contentious and contested nature of transnational historical narratives and memory cultures informing diverse national commemorations of the First World War centenary.
The Anglosphere and Indigenous Politics
Authors: Smits Katherine
Published: May 2020

This chapter examines the challenges posed by the heritage of imperialism and colonisation to the concept of the Anglosphere. It explores transnational cooperation and collaboration between indigenous communities, arguing that indigenous peoples have created a transnational counter-public sphere. This indigenous public sphere has developed in the context of globalised norms of indigeneity and collaborative work in drafting the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). It reflects shared cultural values, and the common experience of colonisation, as well as recent shared activism. It demonstrates collaboration beyond the purported borders of the Anglosphere, and challenges the assumption of homogeneous and shared public cultures in each Anglosphere state. It also counters the argument that Anglosphere countries have a common and shared relationship between public culture and political values and institutions. The chapter focuses on the relationship between New Zealand Maori and Indigenous Australians, and their recent collaboration in advocating for constitutional change and Indigenous recognition in Australia.
The Anglo-American Worldview and the Question of World Order
Authors: Gamble Andrew
Published: May 2020

One of the distinctive features of the idea of an Anglosphere has been a particular view of world order, based on liberal principles of free movement of goods, capital and people, representative government, and the rule of law, which requires a powerful state or coalition of states to uphold and enforce them. This chapter charts the roots as well as the limits of this conception in the period of British ascendancy in the nineteenth century, and how significant elements of the political class in both Britain and the United States in the twentieth century came to see the desirability of cooperation between the English-speaking nations to preserve that order against challengers. This cooperation was most clearly realised in the Second World War. The post-war construction of a new liberal world order was achieved under the leadership of the United States, with Britain playing a largely supportive but secondary role. Cooperation between Britain and the US flourished during the Cold War, particularly in the military and intelligence fields, and this became the institutional core of the ‘special relationship’. The period since the end of the Cold War has seen new challenges emerge both externally and internally to the Anglo-American worldview.
The Anglosphere, Race and Brexit
Authors: Namusoke Eva
Published: May 2020

As the UK looks towards an uncertain future outside of the EU, the conversations surrounding the Anglosphere and interchangeably the Commonwealth have been centred on reconnecting with mostly white ‘kith and kin’. These conversations are distinctly backward-looking, while also featuring a sometimes nostalgic view of the British Empire and ‘Old Commonwealth’. This chapter focuses on the contemporary Commonwealth as a key insight into the ideology surrounding the modern Anglosphere, and posits a closer examination of race in the UK–Commonwealth relationship following the campaign and result of the 2016 EU referendum. The issue of immigration is used to examine the ways in which different white, black and Indian Commonwealth citizens have been treated in Britain. This chapter also includes a reflection on the 1960s and 1970s EEC applications, the contentious role played by India in challenging white, British-centric Commonwealth politics, and the connection between the far right and Old Commonwealth or Anglosphere-supporting Brexit campaigners.
Correlation between Curriculum and Employing Testing for Secondary School Teachers in Home Economics Subjects
Authors: Lee EunYoung , Kim Jisu , Na Youngjoo
Published: May 2020

This study analyzes the teacher certification examination from 2014 to 2019. The research methods are summarized as follows. First, the questionnaire on tests conducted from 2014 to 2019 was divided into ‘Teacher Eligibility Criteria’, ‘Assessment Area’, and ‘Evaluation Content Elements‘ for detailed analysis. Second, the examination for the 2019 school year from the 2014 school year compared the 2009 curriculum with the yearly question items in order to examine the correlation between the secondary school curriculum and test items. Third, this study examined the home economics department reflected in the curriculum of the five national universities. The results of the study are summarized as follows. First, according to the results of the questionnaire survey conducted from 2014 to 2019, the field of Home Economics education showed the highest rate of 25% or more in all years. Second, in order to examine the correlation between secondary school curriculum and Home Economics test items, this study compared the results of the 2014 - 2019 school year examination with the 2009 curriculum. Third, as a result of analyzing the curriculum of the five universities of the National College of Education, the basic courses were properly established at all colleges of education. As a result, the correlation was high overall, even within subcategories, the rate of exams was high only incertain attendants and the frequency of exams was low at some attendants.
A Mediating Effect of Peer Relations on the Association between Parental Achievement-Oriented Expectation and Depression among High School Students
Authors: Shin Youngmi , Chin Meejung
Published: May 2020

This study examined the effect of parental achievement-oriented expectation on high school students’ depression and verified the mediating effect of peer relations on relations. Data were derived from the 7th wave (2016) of Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey (KCYPS), and 1,979 high school students were included. Descriptive statistics analysis, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, and a Sobel test were conducted using STATA. The main results were as follows. First, male adolescents perceived higher parental achievement-oriented expectation, lower peer relations, but lower depression than female adolescents. Second, parental achievement-oriented expectation was negatively related to adolescent peer relations but positively related to adolescent depression. This implies that adolescents whose parents have a higher level of achievement-oriented expectation have lower level of peer relations and higher level of depression. Third, adolescents’ peer relations significantly mediated the relation between parental achievement-oriented expectation and high school students’ depression. The result of Sobel test supported the significance of the mediating effect. The results highlighted a negative impact of parental achievement-oriented expectation on adolescents’ mental health, and addressed how parental achievement-oriented expectation affects adolescents’ depression by showing an important mechanism of peer relations, which was missed in previous research.
Longitudinal Effects of Preschool Children’s Media Exposure and Maternal Depression on School Adjustment during First Grade: Mediating Effect of Attention Problem
Authors: Suh Bo Lim , Han Heesoo , Kim Tae Ryun , Jo Jinsil , Kang Min Ju
Published: May 2020

This study examined the longitudinal effect of preschool children’s media exposure and maternal depression on first-grade children’s school adjustment and the mediating effect of attention problem. Longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Korean Children (PSKC) collected by the Korea Institute of Child Care and Education (KICCE) was used to examine this hypothetical model. The subjects of the study included 2,150 children (1,091 boys and 1,059 girls) and their mothers across 2013 (5 yrs.) through 2015 (7 yrs.). The Structural Equation Model (SEM) was estimated using SPSS 25.0 and Amos 25. The results of this study were as follows. First, higher level of preschool children’s media exposure and maternal depression were related to higher attention problems after a year and lower level of children’s school adjustment during first-grade. Second, preschool children’s media exposure and maternal depression had an indirect effect on first-grade children’s school adjustment via attention problem. The results of this study will provide supporting evidence to many educators and parents for the implementation of effective practices for first-grade children to enhance their school adjustment. Furthermore, this study emphasizes the importance of maternal psychological wellbeing and the risk of indiscriminate media exposure during early childhood on first-grade’s school adjustment.
DIGITAL MUSIC USE AS ECOLOGICAL THINKING: METADATA AND HISTORICISED LISTENING
Authors: Pedersen Andreas Helles
Published: May 2020

In claiming that metadata possess the power to put historical awareness into the act of listening, this article examines digital music use as an aesthetic situation driven by potentialities of becoming. Working from a theoretical foundation amalgamating digital music archives and metadata as environments the article discusses Georgina Born’s notion of musical assemblages alongside the concept of virtuality, and by letting these meet the article argues for a musical assemblage built from sensibilities of becoming rather than layers of mediation. The inner workings of digital music use constitute an ecology in which recorded music history moves and reconnects, and this makes the historicity of recorded music be fluid, thus turning listening into a historicised action. In exemplifying this, the article discusses some of the strategic programming of metadata on the digital music platform Diskoteket, and through an analysis of sampled music, the prospects of recorded music’s historicity are shown as affective capacities.
Att höra röster: Tre faser av lyssnande
Authors: Stjernholm Simon
Published: May 2020

English abstract: This article describes and discusses an ongoing attempt to listen better to the meaning-making potential that is not only inherent in words, but also in human speech’s auditory dimensions. Through a presentation of three chronologically ordered phases of listening, with particular focus on various forms of Muslim preaching, a string of fruitful analytical paths for aurally oriented studies of religion are expounded. The empirical examples include listening practices within a contemporary Sufi order, digitally disseminated oral Islamist messages, and media-adapted Muslim preaching with varying ideological content and communicative strategies. The article also relates these examples and analyses to a wider research field within the study of religion with attention to sound and voices.

svensk  resume: Denna artikel beskriver och diskuterar en pågående strävan efter att lyssna bättre till den meningsbärande potential som inte enbart ryms i ord, utan även i det mänskliga talets auditiva dimensioner. Genom en presentation av tre kronologiskt ordnade faser av lyssnande, med särskilt fokus på olika former av muslimsk predikan, utläggs en rad fruktbara analytiska spår för auditivt orienterad religionsforskning. De empiriska exemplen inkluderar lyssningspraktiker inom en nutida sufiorden, digitalt förmedlade muntliga islamistiska budskap, samt medieanpassad muslimsk predikan med varierande ideologiskt innehåll och kommunikativa strategier. Artikeln relaterar även exemplen och analyserna till ett bredare religionsvetenskapligt forskningsfält med uppmärksamhet mot ljud och röster.
Fred Von Lohmann
Authors: Albadalejo Carlos , Porta Laura
Published: May 2020

Este número a uno de los asuntos más candentes del panorama mundial en lo referente a cuestiones digitales: la polémica de la propiedad intelectual. Para conseguirlo, hemos entrevistado a cuatro nombres que tienen mucho que decir en este mundo: Cory Doctorow, Fred Von Lohmann, Georg C.F. Greve y Raquel Xalabarder.
Niko Demo
Authors: Marín Antoni , Albadalejo Carlos
Published: May 2020

Niko Demo es el responsable de la serie de animación en Flash más exitosa de España. Cálico Electrónico comienza a ser un referente inevitable del sector castellano de la Red. En esta entrevista el autor nos explica cómo trabaja y qué será del super héroe digital en un futuro inmediato.
COMPARISON OF HEAT TRANSFER & FLUID FLOW IN THE MICRO-CHANNEL WITH RECTANGULAR AND HEXAGONAL CROSS SECTION
Authors: Emami Sajjad , Hosein Dibaei Bonab Mohammad , Mohammadiun Mohammad , Mohammadiun Hamid , Sadi Maisam
Published: May 2020

Due to the shrinking of the industrial equipment, the heat transfer and cooling of these devices are of particular importance. Therefore, this paper studies fluid flow and heat transfer in a micro-channel. In this study three-dimensional laminar numerical simulations, based on the Navier–Stokes equations and energy equation, are obtained for pressure drop and heat transfer in these micro-channel heat sinks under the same conditions. In this article, the first step is to investigate the effect of channel shape and geometry on the heat transfer and pressure drop in micro-channels. In, the second step, the effect of undefined heat flux and distinct input condition is investigated, and third step, the effect of increasing the number of channels is checked to do an ideal form of heat transfer in a micro-channel. According to the results, heat transfer using a hexagonal micro-channel is improved 20% on the rectangular microchannel (with equal hydraulic diameter).
THE INFLUENCE OF OCEAN TIDES TO DETERMINE THE EARTH'S ORIENTATION PARAMETERS
Authors: Orihan Maja , Borisov Mirko , Marinković Goran , Petrović M. Vladimir
Published: May 2020

The paper deals with the themes of the Earth's orientation and rotation. The parameters of the Earth's orientation can be determined by several methods. The emphasis in this paper is the influence of ocean tides to determine the parameters of the Earth's orientation with one of the space-geodetic techniques, called Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). After determining the parameters, the results obtained using the VLBI were compared between reference system VieVS and Vrf2008, as well as influence of ocean tides and without its impact.

When processing the data, the obtained results were compared using different reference systems and various that influence their changes were analyzed. The used data belong to different series of programs that are continuously observed. The results are the product of software VieVS with data from a continuing series CONT14.
NATURAL CRUSHED ROCK AS AGGREGATE FOR ULTRA HIGH STRENGTH CEMENT CONCRETES
Authors: Kekanović Milan , Đurić Neđo , Pištalo Sreten
Published: May 2020

Because of strong competition and new trends of concrete construction, cement industry isstarting to offer cement of high class in world markets (62.5; 72.5; 82.5) with whom production ofultra hard concretes of 100 MPa up to 250 MPa of withstanding is possible. To achieve suchwithstanding, not only cement of high class are needed but also rock aggregates of at least 30% higherrigidity than the required rigidity of concrete. Technological solutions for this kind of concrete will behighly demanded by the cement industry, civil engineering industry and industry for the exploitation ofraw mineral materials. Production of such crushed aggregates will find its use in the production of ultrahigh rigidity concretes and will open new surroundings.This paper offers the overview of tests in laboratories conducted on samples of aggregates made ofgabbro rock under Nero Zimbabwe’s name, as an initial phase of research. In later phases itcovers a larger number of above mentioned samples from various excavation sites, with a specialaccent on these kinds of sites in former Yugoslavia. It is expected that these premises may havereserves of rock aggregate resistant to pressures of 150 MPa to 330 MPa which would openpossibilities of constructing ultra high rigidity concretes.In addition to analyzing the required production of ultra high strength concrete, the authors consciouslypoint out the problem of interpreting the mechanical characteristics of the material. The technicalprofession does not consider the physical state of the investigated materials, where the compressivestrength of concrete is in the form of relative strength. From the aspect of legal sciences, the concept ofrelative at the construction of large and small objects can cause legal consequences for the constructorand its profession.
APPLICATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM
Authors: Buljubašić Sanel
Published: May 2020

Freshwater water resources are not inexhaustible [1]. In recent decades, more and more facts point to this statement from the European Charter for Water. Uncontrolled drinking water interventions, losses in water supply and climate change indicate the problem of sufficient quantities of drinking water [2]. Looking at this problem, it is hard to believe that new quantities of drinking water can be produced. The model of integrated water management has been increasingly used in recent years. The application of new technologies in water supply creates conditions for the controlled management of water intakes and losses in water supply. Each water sapply system needs to develop its own model for integrated water management.
COLUMN SORPTION OF TOXIC IONS IN VARIOUS QUARTZ SAND - PACKED COLUMNS
Authors: Bekényiová Alexandra , Danková Zuzana , Hegedüs Michal , Mitróová Zuzana , Dolinská Silvia , Znamenáčková Ingrid
Published: May 2020

In this study the adsorption of As(V), Cu(II) and Zn(II) ions from multi-species model solution was tested in dynamic conditions in sand columns containing a thin layer of bentonite (B), iron-based sludge (IS) and synthetic magnetic particles (MP). Adsorption experiments were performed in order to evaluate the removal efficiency and selectivity of the individual layers in the column. The model solution with concentration of 10 mg/L Cu(II), Zn(II) and As(V) ions of each representing the real wastewater concentration was percolated through the columns of different beddings. In columns filled only with QS/B and QS/IS the removal effect for Cu(II) and Zn(II) ions was comparable while for As(V) ions more efficient column was IS bearing.

The columns with B/IS and B/MP layer showed opposite effect for removal of individual ions. While IS layer showed higher affinity towards Cu(II) and Zn(II) the MP layer enhanced the removal of As(V). The highest removal effect for all ions was obtained by QS/B/MP column. For As(V) the removal effect achieved 90 % after 4 percolation cycles. After the third percolation cycle the removal effect of QS/B/IS column decreased from 100% to 58, 90 and 77 %, for As(V), Cu(II) and Zn(II) ions, respectively. By repeating of the percolation cycles the removal of As(V) by QS/B/MP column slight decreased, up to 90 % after four runs. In spite that after the third cycle almost 100 % of As(V) was removed. For Cu(II) and Zn(II) the decrease from 100 % to 76 and 62 % was detected after four cycles, respectively.
NEW SPECIES IN THE ARACHNOFAUNA OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA FROM THE PROTECTED HABITAT OF GROMIŢELJ, VELINO SELO
Authors: Stanković Mihajlo , Ćurĉić Milenko
Published: May 2020

According to data given by [1], 165 spider species from 27 families and 103 genera are known in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. So far in B&H, according to [1] a total of 11 species have been registered from Fam.Aranidae and 2 species from genus Araneus; a total of 11 species from Fam.Thomisidae; a total of 11 species from Fam.Lycosidae and one species from genus Lycosa; 15 species from Fam.Theridiidae and 3 species from genus Steatoda.

In the course of our research on arachnofauna in and around Gromiţelj, in the 2008-2015 period, a total of 8 spider species new to Bosnia and Herzegovina were discovered in four families, namely, from Fam. Aranidae 4 species; Fam.Thomisidae 2 species; and 1 species each from Fam.Lycosidae and Fam. Theridiidae each.

Most widespread are Argiope bruennichi and Araneus angulatus that were registered in 20 sites, followed by Araneus quadratus, Synema globosum and Runcinia grammica registered in 6 sites. Sites with the most registered newly discovered species are Gromiţelj with 6 species, followed by Velino selo, Laketića vir, Prugnjaĉa, Begov put and other melioration channels with 5 species. By biotope types, the greatest number of species, six of them, were found in vegetation (wetlands, thicket, forest fringe and vegetation on the channel banks and along the roads).

The species Argiope bruennichi and Araneus angulatus also showed the greatest diversity of habitats, from wet meadows, thicket and reeds around the wetland, through forest fringes and vegetation along the channel banks and roads, to those urban like yards with ornamental shrubs. Of the registered species, only the species from Fam.Thomisidae are completely harmless to humans, while the other species belong to slightly poisonous species and have a local character bite. Slightly poisonous species include the species of the genus Steatoda, Araneus, Argiope and Lycosa.
Interfaces entre estruturas valorativas no Sul do Amapá: o sistema de aviamento e a organização comunitária
Authors: Silva José Bittencourt da , Alves João Paulo da Conceição
Published: May 2020

O presente artigo objetiva expor e analisar aspectos estruturais valorativos herdados do sistema de aviamento e presentes na conduta de moradores das comunidades tradicionais no sul do Amapá. São populações residentes em duas Unidades de Conservação de Uso Sustentável nas quais enfrentam grandes dificuldades para implementar processos de desenvolvimento social local. O trabalho configura-se como um estudo de caso duplo, com pesquisa de campo de cunho qualitativo realizada nas RESEX Cajari e RDS do Rio Iratapuru. Com instrumentos peculiares ao método etnográfico, foram utilizados caderno de campo, roteiro de entrevista e técnicas de observação in loco com uso de registros fotográficos. Com o material recolhido em campo, foi possível compreender que a herança valorativa pretérita do sistema de aviamento é marcante nestes territórios, o que pode ser observado nos discursos, na percepção estética, nas formas de atividades econômicas e nas relações cotidianas dos indivíduos em família. Essa realidade valorativa vem influenciando negativamente a construção de caminhos voltados às melhorias socioambientais nessas UC.
Review on Diagnostic Modalities in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
Authors: Banerjee Mousumi , Bhari Anju , Saluja Gunjan , Aalok Swati Phuljhele
Published: May 2020

IIH is a well-known but under investigated condition with an unclear etio-pathogenesis. An increase in the incidence of IIH has also been noted in the recent years, which necessitates the need for diagnostic tools to diagnose and monitor the progression of the disease. Various tests are there for IIH. The aim of this article is to discuss important aspects about each of these tests.
A Color Doppler Imaging Study of Ocular Haemodynamic Parameters in Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG)
Authors: Raini Atif Rahman , Masjood Mohd , Ashraf Humayoun , Ashraf Mohd. , Khalid Mohd.
Published: May 2020

Aims:

To study retrobulbar haemodynamics in primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) patients.

Methods:

It was a hospital based cross-sectional study carried out in Medical College Out Patient Department (OPD). A total of 26 patients with newly diagnosed POAG and 23 controls were randomly selected for the study. The haemodynamic parameters i.e. Peak systolic velocity (PSV), End diastolic velocity (EDV) and resistivity index (RI) were studied in ophthalmic artery (OA), central retinal artery (CRA) and short posterior ciliary arteries (SPCA) measured using Color Doppler imaging (CDI). Mean, standard deviation (SD) and Independent t-test was applied to compare the results between the two group.

Results:

The mean intraocular pressure (IOP) for the POAG group and control group was 26.31±4.51 mmHg and 17.04±1.26 mmHg, respectively (P < 0.001). The mean PSV for both OA and CRA, the mean EDV for all OA, CRA and SPCA were significantly lower whereas the mean RI in the CRA and SPCA were significantly higher in POAG than controls.

Conclusions:

Retrobulbar blood flow was significantly lower in POAG as compared to controls, thereby suggesting the importance of measuring the retrobulbar blood flow in POAG patients.