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“Not Just a Taxi”? For-Profit Ridesharing, Driver Strategies, and VMT
Authors: Anderson Donald N.
Published: July 2018

The spread of GPS-based location services using smartphone applications has led to therapid growth of new startups offering smartphone-enabled dispatch service for taxicabs, limousines,and ridesharing vehicles. This change in communicative technology has been accompanied by thecreation of new categories of car service, particularly as drivers of limousines and private vehicles usethe apps to provide on-demand service of a kind previously reserved for taxicabs. One of the mostcontroversial new models of car service is for-profit ridesharing, which combines the for-profit modelof taxi service with the overall traffic reduction goals of ridesharing. A preliminary attempt is heremade at understanding how for-profit ridesharing compares to traditional taxicab and ridesharingmodels. Ethnographic interviews are drawn on to illustrate the range of motivations and strategies usedby for-profit ridesharing drivers in San Francisco, California as they make use of the service. A rangeof driver strategies is identified, ranging from incidental, to part-time, to full-time driving. This makespossible a provisional account of the potential ecological impacts of the spread of this model of carservice, based on the concept of taxicab efficiency, conceived as the ratio of shared vs. unshared milesdriven.
Communicating through Translation with Arab Migrants in Australia
Authors: Studies AWEJ-tls for Translation & Literary , Chakhachiro Raymond
Published: July 2018

Translation in countries with a large migrant population plays a significant role in providing social services and in helping migrants and refugees who do not speak the language of their host countries be aware of their rights and responsibilities. This paper investigates the translation of community texts into Arabic in Australia, which aims at providing social justice to migrants and maintaining their languages and cultures. Despite the existence of an established national body and institutions that accredit and train translators, translation for Arab migrants still suffers from problems that hinder these goals and render lip service to the Arabic language because of the prevalence of subjective interference and inappropriate transfer process. This paper discusses the challenges, and investigates the competency of translators and their ability to deal with the cultural dominance of the host country. It investigates and suggests solutions to the factors that impact on the process of producing accurate and accessible translation. As such, it addresses the peculiarities of the types, styles and language of texts requiring translation, as well as the peculiarities of the Australian public service system and terminologies.
William Golding's Free Fall as a Künstlerroman
Authors: Journal Arab World English , Al-Madi Noura
Published: July 2018

Psychoanalysis has been a research field for authors a long time ago. The human psyche is complicated; it is a mix of emotions, instincts, actions ad reactions. The 20th century is revolutionary, new inventions and discoveries were trending, with the new way of living people started to lose faith. William Golding's Free Fall as Künstlerroman is tracing the development of the artist Sammy Mountjoy's character from childhood until he matures. The things he faced and the factors that reshaped his life. He was chastened by suffering as he learned from the school of life. In this non-thesis paper, a study of the character of Sammy as he grows up is explored with examining the factors that affected his personality. The introduction illustrates Künstlerroman as a subgenre of Bildungsroman and explains them as a theoretical framework, the difference between them and their characteristics. Also, it discusses psychoanalysis definition. Chapter I will focus on Sammy's childhood living in Rotten Row and his friends, the role of his parents and moving to the art school where he met Beatrice. Chapter II will discuss Sammy the man when he was investigated in prison. It deals with mature Sammy who wants to fix his mistakes and feels free from guilt.
Cultural meanings and the aggregation of actions: the case of sex and schooling in Malawi
Authors: Frye Margaret
Published: July 2018

How can cultural understandings simultaneously diverge from and contribute to aggregate patterns of action? On one hand, shared cognitive associations guide people’s everyday actions, and these actions comprise the behavioral trends that sociologists seek to measure and understand. On the other hand, these shared understandings often contradict behavioral trends. I address this theoretical puzzle by considering the empirical case of sexual relationships and school dropout in Malawi. Moving recursively between longitudinal survey data and in-depth interviews, I compare statistical patterns and cultural beliefs about the relationship between sexual relationships and school dropout. Interviewees emphasized ways that relationships render girls incapable of continuing in school, whereas survey data provide limited support for these posited causal processes. However, these shared beliefs about the detrimental effects of relationships for school performance have real effects: teachers, parents, and students act as if these narratives were true, and these behavioral responses sustain the broader antinomy between sex and schooling. This analysis reveals new insights into how cultural understandings—and the various ways people respond to and enforce them—contribute to the demographic patterns we observe using survey data.
Research on Study Abroad, Student and Staff Mobility, and Student Exchange in Comparative Education Scholarship
Authors: Streitwieser Bernhard , Rust Val , Le Emily
Published: July 2018

For many years there has been research on study abroad, student and staff mobility and international student exchange, however in the last two decades the volume and scope of this work has increased significantly. By now there are specific academic journals, a host of new books each year, expansive reports by international research organizations, and an increasing number of annual conferences that are all publishing on trends and issues related to this phenomenon. Yet surprisingly, in the comparative education scholarship much of this research still appears relatively infrequently in its main journals. This paper examines the seeming contradiction of, on the one hand, more student, staff and institutional participation in worldwide international education each year and new research accompanying this trend and, on the other hand, the relative scarcity of reflection on this activity in the core comparative education journals. In this article we take stock of international education themed research that has appeared in the past in a selection of comparative education journals, share the advice of the editors of these journals to future authors seeking to submit research on these areas, and conclude with our own reflections on the future nexus of scholarship in international education and comparative education.
Are Universities Patent Trolls?
Authors: Lemley Mark
Published: July 2018

The confluence of two significant developments in modern patent practiceleads me to write a paper with such a provocative title. The firstdevelopment is the rise of hold-up as a primary component of patentlitigation and patent licensing. The second development in the last threedecades is the massive surge in university patenting. At the confluence ofthese developments is a growing frustration on the part of industry withthe role of universities as patent owners. Time and again, when I talk topeople in a variety of industries, their view is that universities are thenew patent trolls.In this paper, I argue that Universities should take a broader view oftheir role in technology transfer. University technology transfer ought tohave as its goal maximizing the social impact of technology, not merelymaximizing the university's licensing revenue. Sometimes those goals willcoincide with the university's short-term financial interests. Sometimesuniversities will maximize the impact of an invention on society bygranting exclusive licenses for substantial revenue to a company that willtake the invention and commercialize it. Sometimes, but not always. Atother times a non-exclusive license, particularly on a basic enablingtechnology, will ultimately maximize the invention's impact on society byallowing a large number of people to commercialize in different areas, totry out different things and see if they work, and the like. Universitypolicies might be made more nuanced than simply a choice between exclusiveand nonexclusive licenses. For example, they might grant field-specificexclusivity, or exclusivity only for a limited term, or exclusivity onlyfor commercial sales while exempting research, and they might conditioncontinued exclusivity on achievement of certain dissemination goals.Finally, particularly in the software context, there are many circumstancesin which the social impact of technology transfer is maximized either bythe university not patenting at all or by granting licenses to thosepatents on a royalty-free basis to all comers.Finally, I think we can learn something about the raging debate over who'sa patent troll and what to do about trolls by looking at universitypatents. Universities are non-practicing entities. They share somecharacteristics with trolls, at least if the term is broadly defined, butthey are not trolls. Asking what distinguishes universities from trolls canactually help us figure out what concerns us about trolls. What we ought todo is abandon the search for a group of individual companies to define astrolls. In my view, troll is as troll does. Universities will sometimes bebad actors. Nonmanufacturing patent owners will sometimes be bad actors.Manufacturing patent owners will sometimes be bad actors. Instead ofsingling out bad actors, we should focus on the bad acts and the laws thatmake them possible.
The difference on word makes: Imagining sexual orientation in graduate school application essays
Authors: Strunk Kamden K , Bailey Lucy
Published: July 2018

Past researchers in implicit racial bias illuminated how changes of even a single word in such writing samples as job applications and syllabi can shape perceptions and behavior. In the present study, a multi-staged experiment was undertaken to expand the work in implicit racialbias by using a similar research design focused on sexual orientation. We attempted to elicit sexual orientation identification one-word changes (wife, partner, or husband to refer to significant other) in graduate school admission essays and investigated differences inparticipants’ ratings of those essays on a number of relevant dimensions. Results indicate that essays referring to a partner or husband were perceived as more feminine/less masculine and more gay/less straight versus those referring to a wife. We also found that the essays mentioning the partner or husband were rated as being a poorer “fit” to the university versus those referringto a wife. These results have implications for research, as this introduces a useful research paradigm for LGBTQ work, and for practice as it highlights the ways that single-word variations can elicit sexual subjectivities and impact subsequent decisions about admissions and fit.
In Living Color: Crystal Bridges and its American Color Plate Collection
Authors: Dean Jason W.
Published: July 2018

Since opening, Crystal Bridges has generated a great deal of interest from the public and cultural institutions. From the construction of a 185,000 square foot facility in the bottom of a ravine, to the much-discussed art acquisitions and features in national media, this attention is hardly surprising. However, beyond the building and the art, Crystal Bridges also has an art research library with many rare books and the most important collection of American color printed books in North America. These diverse resources presented unique challenges to the librarians, as well as to the cataloger, specifically in accurately researching and describing these significant items.
Taking lemons for a trial run: Does type of job exit affect the risk of entering fixed-term employment in Germany?
Authors: Biegert Thomas , Kühhirt Michael
Published: July 2018

A central argument for the deregulation of employment contracts is that fixed-term contracts boost employment of job seekers with uncertain productivity by giving employers a tool to screen such applicants over a longer period of time before permanent hire. We test this proposition by comparing the risk of entering fixed-term employment for individually laid off workers with that for individuals who have left their previous job for other reasons. This strategy is based on the assumption that in the German context individual layoffs create uncertainty about job seekers' productivity. We use data on work exits and subsequent labour market re-entry of the prime-age workforce in Germany from waves 2000-2013 of the Socio-Economic Panel. Our results show that the risk of fixed-term employment is substantively smaller after voluntary job exits but reveal only a small and statistically insignificant risk difference between individual layoffs and workplace closures after adjusting for differences in socio-economic background and characteristics of the previous job. These findings challenge the view that employers use fixed-term contracts as an instrument to screen specific groups of workers whose productivity is highly uncertain, at least with regard to recent career disruptions.
Enhancing Academic Writing Skills through “Reading to Learn” Strategy
Authors: Journal Arab World English , Listyani
Published: July 2018

Writing in a second language is different from writing in one’s mother tongue. Writing in a second or foreign language is undeniably more difficult than writing in the first language. Therefore, it is imperative for teachers to understand that there are many differences between first language (L1) and second language (L2) writing. Second language writing is complexified by the addition of new resources and norms (new structural elements of the new language, new rhetorical conventions, and some other things). On that ground, teachers should select the most appropriate teaching methods and strategies in their writing classes, one strategy that teachers can apply in their academic writing class is Reading to Learn strategy. This study presented information on a teaching strategy named Reading to Learn applied to one group of Academic Writing class. One group was taught using Reading to Learn teaching strategy, with the hope of helping students improve in both their reading and writing skills. This study was conducted in a writing course consisting of 20 students. Academic Writing is the highest writing class before students go to thesis proposal writing at the English Department of UKSW Indonesia. One central question to be answered is: How effective is Reading to Learn strategy when it is used to teach Academic Writing students? Instruments used were pre-test, post-test, direct as well as video-recorded observations, weekly journals, and interviews. In Indonesia, not many studies dealing with Reading to Learn have been done. One study was conducted by Samanhudi and Sugiarti (2013). This study reports the effectiveness of using Reading to Learn program in teaching critical writing to teacher candidates in English Language Teaching Department, Sampoerna School of Education, Jakarta. From the statistical analysis as well as from students’ perceptions, several conclusions can be drawn. First, Reading to Learn is effective to teach Academic Writing. Secondly, not all tertiary students like working cooperatively. Some prefer working individually. The next conclusion is students perceive peer review as an important part of their essay writing.
An anthropological perspective on the climate change and violence relationship
Authors: Shaffer L. Jen
Published: July 2018

Purpose of Review: This review explores the complex climate change-violence relationship through an anthropological lens, focusing on the interacting social and environmental conditions that constrain individual choices for violence. Evidence and methods used by anthropologists to identify violent events, as well as anthropological theories regarding why individuals choose violence, are discussed. A general social-environmental model is presented and explored through four case studies, two archaeological and two ethnographic.Recent Findings: Recent research with historic and contemporary case studies suggests that resource uncertainty interacts with a complex array of pre-existing social and environmental conditions, including environmental degradation, poor governance, and social inequality, to promote violent responses both before and following climatic changes. Individuals may choose to avoid violence where supporting, cooperative mechanisms exist.Summary: Given that individuals make choices to respond violently or not based on their perceptions of these complex, interacting social and environmental conditions, violence in response to global climate change is not inevitable.
Beneficial effects of small-sided games as a conclusive part of warm-up routines in handball
Authors: Iacono Antonio Dello , Vigotsky Andrew David , Laver Lior , Halperin Israel
Published: July 2018

The aim of this study was to compare the effects of small sided games (SSG) and traditional warm-up strategies on the mechanical, physiological, and perceptional responses of handball players. Using a randomized and counterbalanced design, 12 elite male handball players completed a general 8 min warm-up which was concluded with an 8 min section of either specific handball shooting drills or 3 × 2 min of SSG with a passive recovery of 1 min between bouts. Countermovement jumps and plyometric press-ups were assessed before and immediately after the warm-up regimens using a force plate. Heart rate (HR) was assessed during the warm up regimens, and rating of perceived effort (RPE) was assessed after the regimens. Meaningful differences favoring SSG were observed in most of the kinetic variables in the countermovement jumps and plyometric press-ups (|Hedges’ g| = 0.26–1.42). Conversely, no meaningful differences were found between warm up regimens in RPE or HR responses (z-scores = 0.45 and 1.88, respectively). These results indicate that concluding warm-ups with SSGs offer greater benefits compared to a more traditional warm-up routine, despite similar HR and RPE responses even when matched for duration among elite level handball players.
Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage and Hypertrophy: A Closer Look Reveals the Jury is Still Out
Authors: Schoenfeld Brad Jon , Contreras Bret
Published: July 2018

This letter is a response to the paper by Damas et al (2017) titled, “The development of skeletal muscle hypertrophy through resistance training: the role of muscle damage and muscle protein synthesis,” which, in part, endeavored to review the role of exercise-induced muscle damage on muscle hypertrophy. We feel there are a number of issues in interpretation of research and extrapolation that preclude drawing the inference expressed in the paper that muscle damage neither explains nor potentiates increases in muscle hypertrophy. The intent of our letter is not to suggest that a causal role exists between hypertrophy and microinjury. Rather, we hope to provide balance to the evidence presented and offer the opinion that the jury is still very much out as to providing answers on the topic.
The myth of the team captain as principal leader: Extending the athlete leadership classification within sport teams.
Authors: Fransen Katrien , Vanbeselaere Norbert , De Cuyper Bert , Broek Gert Vande , Boen Filip
Published: July 2018

Although coaches and players recognize the importance of leaders within the team, research on athlete leadership is sparse. The present study expands knowledge of athlete leadership by refining the current classification and exploring the importance of the team captain. An on-line survey was completed by 4451 players and coaches within nine different team sports in Flanders (Belgium). The results revealed that the proposed additional role of motivational leader was perceived as clearly distinct from the already established roles (task, perceive their captain as the principal leader on any of the four roles. These findings underline that the leadership qualities attributed to the captain as the team‟s formal leader are overrated. It can be concluded that leadership is spread throughout the team; the social, and external leader). Furthermore, almost half of the participants (44%) did not informal leaders rather than the captain take the lead, both on and off the field.
Sprint Running Performance and Technique Changes in Athletes during Periodized Training: An Elite Training Group Case Study
Authors: Bezodis Ian N. , Kerwin David , Cooper Stephen-Mark , Salo Aki
Published: July 2018

Purpose: To understand how training periodization influences sprint performance and key step characteristics over an extended training period in an elite sprint training group. Methods: Four sprinters were studied during five months of training. Step velocities, step lengths and step frequencies were measured from video of the maximum velocity phase of training sprints. Bootstrapped mean values were calculated for each athlete for each session and 139 within-athlete, between-session comparisons were made with a repeated measures ANOVA. Results: As training progressed, a link in the changes in velocity and step frequency was maintained. There were 71 between-session comparisons with a change in step velocity yielding at least a large effect size (>1.2), of which 73% had a correspondingly large change in step frequency in the same direction. Within-athlete mean session step length remained relatively constant throughout. Reductions in step velocity and frequency occurred during training phases of high volume lifting and running, with subsequent increases in step velocity and frequency happening during phases of low volume lifting and high intensity sprint work. Conclusions: The importance of step frequency over step length to the changes in performance within a training year was clearly evident for the sprinters studied. Understanding the magnitudes and timings of these changes in relation to the training program is important for coaches and athletes. The underpinning neuro-muscular mechanisms require further investigation, but are likely explained by an increase in force producing capability followed by an increase in the ability to produce that force rapidly.
Evolution of vesicular transport in kinetoplastids: dynamics and novel gene products
Authors: Venkatesh Divya
Published: July 2018

The membrane trafficking system mediates delivery of macromolecules and metabolites to discrete intracellular compartments from their site of uptake or synthesis. For many pathogens the trafficking system has a special relevance as it is responsible for maintaining the host-pathogen interface, i.e., the cell surface. Both the surface and the underlying trafficking apparatus are intimately connected with immune evasion in many parasites including those belonging to the highly divergent order Kinetoplastida. Kinetoplastid parasites are etiological agents of several neglected tropical diseases such as African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and Leishmaniasis. Newly available sequences of many kinetoplastid genomes were used to reconstruct evolution of trafficking across this lineage, using three central paralogous trafficking families: Rabs, SNAREs and Rab-GAPs, which have defined roles in specific trafficking events. Further, proteomics was used to analyse a representative SNARE complex to explore compositional conservation between kinetoplastids and Opistokhonts.Overall there is little evidence for large scale expansions or contractions of these protein families, excluding a direct association with parasitism or changes to host range, host immunosophistication or transmission mechanisms. The data indicate a stepwise sculpting of the trafficking system where the large repertoire of the basal bodonids is mainly retained by the cruzi group, while extensive lossses characterise other lineages, particularly the African trypanosomes and phytomonads. Kinetoplastids possess several lineage-specific Rabs but all retain a core canonical Rab set; by contrast there is little novelty within the SNARE family even though certain canonical endosomal SNAREs appear to show a considerable degree of sequence divergence. Proteomics suggests that SNARE complex composition is largely conserved. The major changes in Rab and SNARE repertoires are associated with endosomal and late exocytic pathways, which is consistent with the considerable evolution of surface proteomes. Therefore, despite the absence of a transition per se associated with parasitism, adaptation of membrane trafficking is likely under active selection where it meets the host environment.
Implications of intraspecific behavioral interactions on the evolution of the mbuna cichlids of Lake Malawi and the effects of a small class intervention on a group of at-‐risk undergraduate students
Authors: Mellor David Thomas
Published: July 2018

The rock-dwelling cichlids of Lake Malawi, the mbuna, are a model system of rapid, sympatric diversification of vertebrates. Though sexual selection has often been invoked to explain their radiation, the best evidence to date suggests that female choice and male-male interactions act to reinforce incipient, allopatric divergence upon secondary contact. First, I expand on the evidence previously gathered on male-male interactions at the inter-population level, by examining within-population behavioral patterns that could explain the diversification of this lineage. Specifically, I measure female preference for conspecific males who are in social isolation and those who are in groups of interacting males. I found that females show preference for males who score higher in male-male contests. In chapter two, I measure the effect of these male-male interactions on female choice and show that these interactions do affect female preference. By controlling the outcome of each male-male interaction, I show that female preference is affected by the male-male contests themselves. In chapter three, I measure the reflectance of brightly colored, territorial males and look for a correlation between color-similarity and level of aggression between two males. Males show more aggression towards similarly colored conspecific rivals than they do towards rivals who are more differently colored. In chapter four, I measure male reproductive success and the chromatic, behavioral, and territorial traits that affect it. Male color does predict reproductive success. Given my desire to integrate scholarship into every aspect of my academic career, I undertake an investigation on students who are at risk for leaving college because of low academic performance. I describe the social and psychological issues affecting the high rate of college attrition and the effects of a small scale class intervention on student retention, GPA, locus of control, and academic self-efficacy.
Metacommunity phylogenteic structure along environmental gradients
Authors: Provete Diogo
Published: July 2018

Phylogenetic information has increasingly been included in studies of local communities and also at broad spatial scales. Despite recent criticisms in the last four years, phylogenetic relationships may still provide insights into theorganization and assembly of ecological communities. The objectives of this study were 1) to review the history of the use of phylogenetic information, as well as criticisms and perspectives of its use in community ecology; 2) understand how the size and shape of phylogenetic trees and the phylogenetic structure of metacomunidaes affect the amount of variation accounted for by a eigenvectorbasedmethod used to describe the phylogenetic composition of metacomunidaes (PCPS); 3) to test the effect of diversity of evolutionary history (MNTD and MPD) and species richness as predictors of three variables of freshwater ecosystemfunctioning (productivity, respiration, and decomposition); and finally 4) to test how environmental gradients, especially pond canopy cover, influence the phylogenetic structure of an anuran metacommunity from southeastern Brazil. Ifound that the structure of metacommunities had greater impact on eigenvalues of PCPS than tree shape metrics, such as symmetry and stemminess. In addition, decomposition and respiration were best predicted by MNTD as a linear function, while productivity was affected by the quadratic term of MNTD. Finally, pond canopy cover and floating vegetation strongly affected the phylogenetic structureof the anruan metacommunity, influencing lineage sorting. These findings 1) can help users interpret the results of PCPS; 2) provide better understand of the effectof species loss in multitrophic, freshwater ecosystems; and 3) improve our knowledge about the effect of canopy cover on the lineage composition in anuran metacomunities.
Predicting Fuel Properties from Infrared Spectra
Authors: Baird Zachariah
Published: July 2018

Because experimentally measuring fuel properties is usually time consuming and costly, property values are often estimated using correlations. And yet, even when predicting these values input data must still be measured. This makes methods based on infrared spectra an attractive alternative because infrared spectra can be measured quickly and continuously, even within an existing process.Although fuel properties have long been predicted from infrared spectra, the focus has been almost entirely on quality parameters of the fuel. Instead, this research focused specifically on determining the properties that are needed for modeling a fuel’s behavior in industrial processes and in the environment. In this work the predictive models based on infrared spectra were created using machine learning techniques. Support vector regression was the main method used. Models were created for predicting 11 different properties: specific gravity, the refractive index parameter, average boiling point, average molecular weight, carbon content, hydrogen content, sulfur content, hydroxyl group content, pour point, the thermal expansion coefficient and viscosity. Experimental data for creating the models were measured as part of a larger project.The performance of the infrared models was compared to that of conventional bulk (or average) property correlations commonly used. Predictions based on infrared spectra had a comparable or better accuracy for all the properties compared, except viscosity. This shows that predictive methods based on infrared spectra can perform well enough to be used as a substitute for conventional predictive methods. Further analysis also indicated that the main factor limiting the accuracy of the models was the accuracy of the experimental data used in regression.Because many important fuel properties vary with temperature or pressure, and predicting properties at different temperatures was also investigated. To model temperature dependence, the coefficients of an algebraic equation were found using infrared spectra. The results showed that the models obtained can be used to predict temperature dependent properties over a wide range of temperatures, which allowed density and viscosity to be predicted with accuracies comparable to the models for predictions at a single temperature.An eventual goal would be to predict parameters for equations of state from infrared spectra. As the results presented here indicate, this is possible. However, limitations discussed in this work need to be taken into account.
DETERMINATION OF SELECTION CRITERIA FOR TOMATO (SOLANUM LYCOPERSICUM L.) YIELD COMPONENT IN THE LOWLAND BASED ON PATH ANALYSIS
Authors: Mustafa Marlina , Syukur Muhamad , Sutjahjo Surjono Hadi , Sobir S.
Published: June 2018

The shifting of tomatoes cultivation from upland to lowland led to a significant decrease of tomatoes production, particularly on tomatoes varieties which are not able to adapt to lowland. Genotypes selection based on appropriate selection criteria is the most effective method to obtain tomatoes genotypes with high production in the lowland. The aim of this study was to determine appropriate selection criteria in the lowland based on high heritability value, high phenotype and genotype  correlation to production component, and character relationship closeness with production component through path analysis. This study used a randomized block design with three replications. Selection criteria was chosen based on high heritability value, significant correlations in phenotype and genotype and its high direct impact on fruit weight per plant which were the number of fruits per plant and weight per fruit characters
Petri Dish Deceptions: A Search for 100% Veracity in Rimini Protokoll’s Statistical Portrait of Montreal
Authors: Windeyer Richard C.
Published: June 2018

In the wake of 2016—the year of ‘post-truth’ and ‘fake facts’—Rimini Protokoll’s participatory theatre work, 100% Montréal, attempted to reveal what the city’s census data had failed to capture about the lives of its citizens. This article examines how their theatrical juxtaposition of a city’s demographic data with the onstage testimonies of 100 residents reveals important underlying factors that have plagued the pursuit of accuracy in census-taking throughout history. In doing so, 100% Montreal effectively stages the conditions under which contemporary definitions of ‘truth’ become increasingly mutable and elusive, while underscoring the extent to which the public disclosure of accurate and truthful testimony relies on a trustworthy culture of respect and privacy protection between the surveyors and the surveyed.
Foreign Radical
Authors: Carlson Tim , Waller Jeremy , Mesiha David , Flaherty Kathleen , Lim Milton , Khakpour Aryo , Barrett Florence , Andrade Cande
Published: June 2018

Theatre Conspiracy’s Foreign Radical is an interactive, multimedia theatre show with multilingual elements in Farsi and Arabic. Thirty participants enter an intriguing theatrical game that explores security, profiling, freedom of expression, and privacy in the age of cybersurveillance. Mobile throughout the performance, the participants collaborate, compete, investigate, debate, and spy on each other. The Foreign Radical set is divided into four quadrants where participants, depending on personal and group responses to various questions posed by the game’s ‘host,’ witness different perspectives on the action. They are at times divided into groups or left all alone to gather evidence from dramatic scenes and documentary media that colour their views and how they play the game. Each performance is unique in that the audience dynamic influences the outcome. The show was co-created by Theatre Conspiracy artistic producer Tim Carlson (writer), Jeremy Waller (director), Kathleen Flaherty (dramaturge), David Mesiha (sound design/original music/technical direction), Cande Andrade (video design), Florence Barrett (stage management), and performers Milton Lim and Aryo Khakpour. It premiered at The Cultch in Vancouver in 2015 and has been presented by the Carrefour festival in Quebec (2017), Canada Hub at Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2017), and High Performance Rodeo in Calgary (2018). It has been awarded the 2015 Critics Choice Innovation prize in Vancouver and an Edinburgh Fringe First Award 2017, as well as being chosen by Quebec critics as one of the top-five shows from outside the province in 2017.
3D Structural Analysis of Selected High-Temperature Materials
Authors: Jäntsch U. , Klimenkov M. , Möslang A. , Reinauer F. , Reiser J. , Rieth M.
Published: July 2018

Research and development projects on materials for applications exposed to high temperatures and radiation include comprehensive mechanical and metallographic examinations as well as analysis methods based on electron microscopy investigations using SEM (scanning electron microscope) and TEM (transmission electron microscope). In addition to 2D EDS and EBSD analyses in the μm range, the imaging 3D analysis method has become more and more important in the past few years. Particularly, the combination of SEM images with simultaneously obtained EDS and EBSD data during 3D analyses is a test method which complements previous material testing and produces clear results since much larger data sets are used in order to determine the composition of a material and the phases present in its microstructure. Since 2014, our institute has been working with a workstation (FIB/SEM) from the company Zeiss, a crossbeam AURIGA 40 with 3D analysis.

This paper will present unparalleled results of the investigations carried out on the structural and high-temperature material 12Cr0.36Ta steel, nanocrystalline tungsten and intermetallic NiAl-Cr alloys using the above-mentioned 3D technique.
Measurement of Brain Activity Rate Based on Electroensefalographical Signals on Smokers
Authors: Setiawan Herry
Published: July 2018

Indonesia as a country with 255,182,144 people (Central Bureau of Statistics, 2015) with the number of smokers reached 46.16 percent in the third rank with the largest number of smokers in the world after China and India, there are some elements in cigarettes one of them is nicotine, it will be one of the addictive additives. It's why smokers want to continue smoking cigarettes on a regular basis. It bounds to the brain receptors and in other organs. Increased activity in the orbitofrontal area of the cortex occurs when a smoker wants a cigarette, while in the prefrontal cortex experiences an increase in activity when smokers smoke cigarettes. Increased activity in the area will produce electrically along the scalp that can be measured using Electroencephalography (EEG). The voltage difference of the ion current will give the addiction level information to the cigarette so it can be classified. Classification is done in 4 classes namely low dependence, Moderate dependence and high dependence. From the results of the study we found that the level of brain activity of the frontal cortex increased. 52% of the 40 sampled data showed the highest increase in activity by reaching 53.17% in the highly dependent addiction category.
Optimasi Server SIMAK Menggunakan Memcached dan Mirror Server Untuk Meningkatkan Kecepatan Akses Layanan Akademik Universitas Siliwangi
Authors: Hidayat Eka Wahyu , Rahmatulloh Alam
Published: July 2018

Sistem Informasi Akademik Universitas Siliwangi (SIMAK) menjamin transparansi penggunaan sumber daya informasi berbasis internet untuk layanan dan operasional akademik day-to-day. Kendala klasik yang sering terjadi dalam penyelenggaraan sistem berbasis internet adalah jumlah pengguna sistem akan mempengaruhi kinerja dan kecepatan sistem dalammemberikan layanan. Peningkatan jumlah mahasiswa di Universitas Siliwangi berimbas kepada banyaknya user system yang meng-akses sistem akademik dan menurunnya kecepatan response sistem dalam menangani request dari pengguna. Kondisi ini dapat ditangani dengan optimasi sistem dengan Memcached dan Mirror Server. Memcached adalah suatu script tambahan yang diletakkan dalam suatu Server Mirror sebagai jembatan (bridge system) antara server utama dengan web service. Sehingga saat penggunaan, setiap kali komunikasi data terjadi,request dari pengguna akan di seleksi apabila permintaan tersebut tersedia di Cached Memory pada Mirror Server maka langsung ditampilkan ke antarmuka pengguna tanpamelalui eksekusi ke database sehingga beban sistem utama dan database berkurang. Hasil pengujian Memcached dan Mirror Server menggunakan Jmeter dengan skenario standar adalah terjadi peningkatan throughput sekitar 490transaksi per menit lebih besar dibandingkan sebelum implementasi yaitu 171 transaksi per menit.
Content-Based Image Retrieval Menggunakan Metode Block Truncation Algorithm dan Grid Partitioning
Authors: Khrisne Duman Care , Yusanto Mohamad David
Published: July 2018

Dampak Image-Sharing melalui Internet, menyebabkan semakin meningkatnya volume dari basis data yang berisikan data gambar di Internet. Sehingga dalam melakukan pencarian gambar tidak dapat dilakukan secara manual. Para ahli mengemukakan dua teknik dalam proses temukembali gambar, yaitu Text-Based Image Retrieval dan Content-Based Image Retrieval. Penggunaan Content-Based Image Retrieval digunakan untuk mengatassi kelemahan Text-Based Image Retrieval yang membutuhkan sumber daya manusia yang banyak saat mendeskripsikan sebuah gambar. Content-Based Image Retrieval melakukan pencarian gambar berdasarkan pendekatan konten yang dimiliki gambar sendiri. Metode Block Truncation Algorithm (BTA) dan Grid Partitioning digunakan sebagai teknik ekstraksi ciri sebuah gambar uji, jarak Euclidean digunakan dalam pencocokan gambar uji terhadap gambar yang terdaftar dalam basis data. Hasil pengujian dinilai berdasarkan perbandingan antara Recall dan Precision yang disajikan dalam grafik analisis ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristics), hasilnya gabungan kedua metode yang diusulkan memiliki nilai presisi 53% dan recall 11,8% dan dalam daerah analisis ROC dengan nilai ‘Good.’
Sistem Informasi Satuan Kredit Partisipasi pada STMIK STIKOM Indonesia
Authors: Githa Dwi Putra , Ariana A.A. Gede Bagus
Published: July 2018

STMIK STIKOM Indonesia (STIKI) merupakan institusi pendidikan tinggi yang sedang berkembang. Secara ideal, dosen tetap STIKI seharusnya mencatat dan melaporkan segala bentuk kegiatan yang berkaitan dengan Tri Dharma perguruan tinggi. Pencatatan dan pelaporan tersebut digunakan sebagai evaluasi kinerja masing-masing dosen. Dalam pelaksanaannya, sebagian besar dosen belum mengetahui dokumen penunjang yang harus dilengkapi untuk memperoleh angka kredit penuh pada evaluasi diri. Saat melakukan perhitungan dosen mengalami kesulitan menghitung angka kredit yang telah dikumpulkan dalam satu periode pelaporan. Hal ini menyebabkan proses mengurus kepangkatan dosen di STIKI menjadi terkendala. Kegiatan penelitian dimulai dengan melakukan pendefinisian masalah yang ingin diselesaikan. Setelah mendefinisikan masalah yang ingin dipecahkan langkah berikutnya adalah melakukan pengumpulan data untuk mendukung penyelesaian permasalahan yang dihadapi. Setelah data yang diperlukan terkumpul, data dianalisis sebagai dasar dalam pembuatan aplikasi. Tahapan pembuatan aplikasi terdiri dari perancangan database, antarmuka, dan pembuatan kode program. Kegiatan terakhir adalah melakukan input data sample untuk menguji sistem. Sistem yang dirancang dan dibangun adalah sistem pencatatan portofolio yang dapat memberikan informasi, mencatat dan menghasilkan laporan mengenai evaluasi kinerja dosen. Diharapkan sistem dapat membantu dosen untuk mencatat portofolio dalam pelaksanaan Tri Dharma perguruan tinggi dan membantu Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian pada Masyarakat (LPPM) STIKI dalam memantau pencapaian kinerja dosen dan menjadi landasandalam proses pengajuan kepangkatan dosen ke Direktorat Jendral Pendidikan Tinggi.
Sistem Ujian Online Berbasis Website
Authors: Saraswati Ni Wayan Sumartini , Putra Desak Made Dwi Utami
Published: July 2018

Ujian berdasarkan kamus besar Bahasa Indonesia dapat berarti sesuatu yg dipakai untuk menguji mutu sesuatu (kepandaian, kemampuan, hasil belajar, dsb). Ujian selain dilaksanakan secara tertulis maupun lisan dapat pula dilaksanakan menggunakan alat bantu komputer. Jika pelaksanaan ujian menggunakan komputer dilaksanakan dalam sebuah jaringan komputer baik itu jaringan intranet maupun internet maka bisa dikategorikan sebagai ujian online. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah Pengkajian ilmiah dalam bentuk Penelitian Pengembangan, atau lebih tepat disebut Penelitian Rekayasa yang berupa Rencana (Plan), Rancangan (Design), Bangunan / kontruksi (Construct), Terapan (Applied), atau Hasil pengembangan (Development) dari suatu Model, Sistem, atau Produk. Dalam penelitian ini dilakukan proses rekayasa perangkat lunak sistem ujian online berbasis website. Luaran penelitian adalah analisis kebutuhan, rancangan serta produk perangkat lunak sistem ujian online itu sendiri.
Penggunaan Model Pembelajaran Ekspositori Dan Software Auto Synchronize (PluralEyes) Dalam Upaya Meningkatkan Prestasi Belajar Dalam Video Editing Pada Siswa Kelas XI MM
Authors: . Labasariyani
Published: July 2018

This research was done in SMK PGRI 4 DENPASAR with the subject of the XI MM2 grade students during the odd semester of the academic year 2014/2015. The aim of this reseach was to improve the students achievement through the implementation expository model and PluralEyes in the teaching and learning process of video editing. The quantitative data was gathered by using test which then analyzed descriptively. From the result of analysis it was found out that there was an improvement in the students learning achievement. It can be seen from the increasing mean score from 65,63 in the beginning to 68,85 in the first cycle and 72,75 in the second cycle. The conclusion is that the expository learning model can improve students of video editing.
Pengembangan Bahan Ajar Aplikasi Sensor Transduser Berbantuan Media Trainer Mikrokontroler
Authors: Ekayana Anak Agung Gde
Published: July 2018

Teknologi dalam bidang pendidikan dirasa sangat memberikan dampak yang signifikan terhadap kualitas pembelajaran dan mengefisienkan proses pembelajaran sehingga dapat mengoptimalkan tujuan pembelajaran. Pembelajaran merupakan suatu kegiatan terjadinya interaksi baik dari segi dosen dengan mahasiswa atau sesama pebelajar itu sendiri. Aktivitas utama STIKI adalah menyelenggarakan proses pembelajaran yang memberikan ilmu pengetahuan dalam bidang Informatika dan Komputer, memenuhi tuntutan sebagai lembaga pendidikan tentunya kegiatan perkuliahan yang diberikan kepada mahasiswa harus mempuni dan memiliki kualitas yang positif, baik dari segi pengajar, fasilitas perkuliahan maupun dari sistem akademik yang ada pada lembaga tersebut. Berdasarkan paparan diatas, maka diperlukan sentuhan teknologi dalam bidang pendidikan yaitu pengembangan bahan ajar aplikasi pada matakuliah sensor tranduser, dikarenakan manfaat sistem kendali, sistem otomatisasi, dan robotika saat ini makin dikembangkan untuk dapat menghasilkan produk yang dapat mengefisienkan tugas manusia. Harapan dari pengembangan bahan ajar aplikasi sensor tranduser yaitu membuat mahasiswa dalam proses pembelajaran lebih aktif dan mampu menyalurkan ide-ide kreatif.
What's Critical about Critical Phenomenology?
Authors: Salamon Gayle
Published: July 2018

This essay considers what is critical in critical phenomenology, and asks what features critical and phenomenological methods share. I suggest three fundamentally significant resonances between the critical and phenomenological enterprises. First is the suggestion that critique, like phenomenology, is an attempt to move beyond a dualism of inside and outside in order to extend into outer regions of what is known. Second is the insistence that what at first appears to be a purely negative endeavor, a finding of limit, is incomplete if, upon finding that limit, it comes to a stop. Just as the reduction is not a means to banish or negate the world, but rather the condition through which it can more fully emerge, critique cannot be merely a cataloguing of the limitations of the present situation.  Third is the openness to the possibilities of the world, a wonder or curiosity, that is revealed through the work of description in phenomenology, or Foucault’s characterization of philosophy not as an unmasking, but a making visible of what is visible. Finally I consider critical phenomenology’s futures:  How is a newly enlivened kind of scholarship emerging from these two forms of thinking, both of which have been dismissed as outmoded or irrelevant? The new work currently emerging in phenomenology, with its emphasis on its own reflexive self-consideration and decolonization, offers hope that it might yet be capacious enough to simultaneously encompass the revelation of its limitations as well as the expansion of its reach.