bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Extracting Rules for Decreasing Body Fat Mass Using Various Classifiers from Daily Lifestyle Habits Data
Authors: Ushikubo Sho , Kanamori Katsutoshi , Ohwada Hayato
Published: November 2016

This study was performed to extract rules and factors for reducing body fat mass and to compare Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) and common classifiers to provide necessary steps for the healthcare system. Many researchers have focused on lifestyle-related diseases; however, few have attempted to extract rules and factors for decreasing body fat mass. The authors obtained lifestyle habits data. This data includes a variety of features (e.g., sleep, exercise, and nutrient intake). These features are easier for patients to understand. ILP and common classifiers are applied to this data. In terms of accuracy, random forest outperformed all other methods, and random forest is suitable for extracting factors among common classifiers. However, in terms of rules, ILP is more suitable than others, because ILP can extract rules covering many positive and negative examples, and it is easy to apply to the healthcare system because these rules cover a range of features.
Shift Towards Next Generation Networks (NGNs) for Sustainability
Authors: Rafay Abdul , Khan Arsala
Published: November 2016

This paper examined the shift towards the Next Generation Networks (NGNs) like 4G from 2G and the role of technology for sustainable development in the telecommunication sector of Pakistan. WARID was one of the four cellular companies of Pakistan. All the big players in the market had auctioned for 3G/4G licenses but WARID remained distant from the process of spectrum auction. The paper investigated issues and decisions involved when WARID decided to launch 4G/LTE nationwide due to its technology neutral license. It was also studied that how this decision was necessary and beneficial for all internal and external stakeholders of the organization in terms of sustainability, customer satisfaction, technological advancements etc. The study used secondary data as well as unstructured interviews where interaction with the management/employees of the organization was deliberated to stimulate discussions and opinions.
Digital Divide
Authors: Idiegbeyan-ose Jerome , Nkiko Christopher , Idahosa Mary , Nwokocha Nwanne
Published: November 2016

This paper discussed digital divide, issues and strategies for intervention in Nigerian libraries. It defined digital divide as the gap that exist between countries, within countries, individuals, families and so on in their access and usage of Information Technology facilities such as the internet, computers, laptops, various handheld devices, application software etc. The paper also discussed the causes of digital divide comprising finance, level of education, location of the individual and language as well as discussing the effects of digital divide to encompass inequality in access to information; ineffective services to users, libraries being unable to satisfy their clientele. The paper went further to discuss the present state of ICT facilities adoption and use by Libraries in Nigeria, compared to their equals in developed countries. The paper pointed out that most Nigerian libraries are far from full automation and Internet connectivity; the staff lack technical skills to build and maintain ICT for enhanced service delivery; libraries in rural areas of these developing countries are more neglected as available ICT facilities and internet connections are mostly available and accessible in the urban areas thus, those leaving in the rural areas are cut off from the numerous benefits of ICT. The paper concluded that Digital divide is a menace that affects information availability and access; growth and development in between countries and within countries and has led to inequality in access and use of ICT facilities as such, Nigerian libraries should wake up to their responsibilities by providing the required infrastructure needed to bridge the gap to prevent the escalation of digital divide. The paper finally recommended the formulation and implementation of ICT policy, adequate funding of libraries by those concerned, education and training of human resources to build and maintain ICT facilities, curriculum innovation by library schools so as to inculcate ICT courses for skills acquisitions of the professionals, improvement of maintenance culture and eradication of corruption in the entire system to enable developing countries take advantage of ICT facilities, make progress and move along with modernity and global sophistication.
Cross-Case Analysis of Top Management Characteristics and Enterprise Information System Success
Authors: Alkraiji Abdullah I.
Published: November 2016

Although a large portion of the literature explains various supports by top management to enhance the overall success of the implementation of enterprise information systems, there remain some limitations in studies pertaining to how the characteristics of top management can have an influence on successful acquisition. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of top management characteristics on the overall success of enterprise information systems. It aims to offer an in-depth understanding of the necessary characteristics through a cross-case analysis approach based on two contradictory government organizations in Saudi Arabia—one with successful implementation and the other with a failed enterprise resource planning system. The results expose various characteristics such as those related to business leadership and abilities and technological cognition and awareness. The results can be developed into a strategy to enhance awareness as well as top management participation.
10th International Congress on Peritoneal Surface Malignancies
Authors: Editors The
Published: November 2016

Abstract Book of the 10th International Congress on Peritoneal Surface Malignancies.Washington, DC, November 17-19, 2016
Organizational Infrastructure in the Collegiate Athletic Training Setting, Part I: Quality-of-Life Comparisons and Commonalities Among the Models
Authors: Mazerolle Stephanie M. , Eason Christianne M. , Goodman Ashley
Published: November 2016

Context: Some anecdotal evidence has suggested that organizational infrastructure may affect the quality of life of athletic trainers (ATs).

Objective: To compare ATs' perspectives on work-life balance, role strain, job satisfaction, and retention in collegiate practice settings within the various models.

Design: Cross-sectional and qualitative study.

Setting: National Collegiate Athletic Association Divisions I, II, and III.

Patients or Other Participants: Fifty-nine ATs from 3 models (athletics = 25, medical = 20, academic = 14) completed phase I. A total of 24 ATs (15 men, 9 women), 8 from each model, also completed phase II.

Data Collection and Analysis: Participants completed a Web-based survey for phase I and were interviewed via telephone for phase II. Quantitative data were analyzed using statistical software. Likert-scale answers (1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree) to the survey questions were analyzed using the Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney U, and Cohen f tests. Qualitative data were evaluated using a general inductive approach. Multiple-analyst triangulation and peer review were conducted to satisfy data credibility.

Results: Commonalities were communication, social support, and time management and effective work-life balance strategies. Quantitative data revealed that ATs employed in the athletics model worked more hours (69.6 ± 11.8 hours) than those employed in the medical (57.6 ± 10.2 hours; P = .001) or academic (59.5 ± 9.5 hours; P = .02) model, were less satisfied with their pay (2.68 ± 1.1; χ2 = 7.757, P = .02; f = 0.394), believed that they had less support from their administrators (3.12 ± 1.1; χ2 = 9.512, P = .009; f = 0.443), and had fewer plans to remain in their current positions (3.20 ± 1.2; χ2 = 7.134, P = .03; f = 0.374). Athletic trainers employed in the academic model believed that they had less support from coworkers (3.71 ± 0.90; χ2 = 6.825, P = .03; f = 0.365) and immediate supervisors (3.43 ± 0.90; χ2 = 6.006, P = .050; f = 0.340). No differences in role conflict were found among the models.

Conclusions: Organizational infrastructure may play a role in mediating various sources of conflict, but regardless of facilitators, ATs need to be effective communicators, have support networks in place, and possess time-management skills.
Defects of colour vision: A review of congenital and acquired colour vision deficiencies
Authors: Hasrod Nabeela , Rubin Alan
Published: November 2016

Colour vision deficiencies (CVDs) can be categorised as being congenital or acquired. Some CVDs are already present at birth, as inherited conditions that are the result of changes at the photo-pigment level and are non-pathological, incurable and do not change over time. Examples are red-green defects which are inherited as an X-linked recessive trait. Acquired CVD develops secondary to ocular and systemic conditions or as a side effect of certain medications or sometimes toxic effects of chemicals, and trauma and ageing can also be important in some CVDs.
Passenger choice attributes in choosing a secondary airport: A study of passenger attributes in using Lanseria International Airport
Authors: Kriel Elmarie , Walters Jackie
Published: November 2016

Background: The economic deregulation of the airline industry in South Africa in 1991 was a landmark event and brought about various changes in the air transport market, both locally and internationally. One important after-effect of deregulation was the entry of low-cost carriers (LCCs) in 2001, which increased competition in the market and offered passengers the freedom to choose between full-cost carriers and LCCs. It is generally accepted that LCCs have been very successful across the globe, and the main reason for this lies in their simplified lower cost business models. One way of achieving lower costs is for LCCs to operate from secondary or alternative airports. This trend is observed in most regions of the world. In South Africa, and more specifically the Gauteng province, Lanseria International Airport is considered as an alternative airport to OR Tambo International Airport (the main international airport of South Africa and located about 30 km east of the Johannesburg Central Business District [CBD]). Currently, two LCCs operate from this airport with a third LCC airline indicating that it will shortly begin operations from this airport.Objectives: The research presented here reflects on the aspects passengers consider when selecting a secondary airport for their travel needs. It also compares the research findings of passenger attributes when choosing Lanseria Airport as a secondary airport in 2010 to a similar study in 2013 after another LCC commenced operations from the airport.Method: In this exploratory research a face-to-face survey was used as the quantitative data collection method in order to identify the factors that influenced passengers’ airport choice decisions at Lanseria International Airport.Results: From this research it emerged that when airports in a metropolitan area are close to one another, one of the main considerations for passengers is access time when selecting an airport. Even after a second LCC started operating from Lanseria International Airport, the attributes passengers regard as important in their decision to fly from the airport remained unchanged.Conclusion: The aim of the research is to gain a deeper understanding of the factors involved in secondary airport selection and, building on this knowledge, to assist airport owners and managers in positioning their airports in a multi-airport competitive environment. Similarly, the findings of the research could assist airlines in their decision-making process to operate from secondary airports
The relationship between computed tomography measurement of the optic nerve sheath diameter and elevated intracranial pressure in non-trauma patients
Authors: Luyt Daniël , Hurter Delmé , Joubert Gina
Published: November 2016

Background: The early detection and treatment of raised intracranial pressure (ICP) is critical in the prevention of mortality and morbidity as a result of secondary ischemic brain injury. Measuring the optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) on computed tomography (CT) to predict raised ICP may be useful in cases where routine CT investigations of the brain are indicated and invasive ICP monitoring is not available, or a lumbar puncture (LP) is contraindicated.Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine if the ONSD can be measured on digital images obtained by routine CT investigations of the brain, to identify patients with non-traumatic causes of elevated ICP, and to provide the observer with a non-invasive, objective measurement to predict elevated ICP.Method: We conducted a cross-sectional, retrospective analysis of anonymised patient data, comparing the ONSD on CT imaging with the opening pressure manometry during LP on patients who presented with focal neurology or with a Glasgow coma scale score of less than 15. The study sample consisted of 67 patients, ≥18 years of age, treated at the emergency department of the Kimberly Hospital Complex from 01 March 2013 to 31 December 2014.Results: An ONSD measurement of ≥4.8 mm identified patients with an elevated ICP with a sensitivity of 92.9% and a specificity of 97.6%, using a 95% confidence interval. Raising the ONSD cut-off value to ≥5.0 mm decreased the sensitivity to 85.7% but increased the specificity to 100%, eliminating all patients with a normal ICP.Conclusion: The ONSD can be measured on digital images obtained by routine CT investigations of the brain to predict elevated ICP in non-trauma patients, ≥18 years of age, with acceptable sensitivity and specificity.
The unbearable lightness of diff�rance: The ethos of deconstruction
Authors: Meylahn Johann-Albrecht
Published: November 2016

The unbearable lightness of diff�rance is in reference to Milan Kundera�s famous book, The unbearable lightness of being. Being is unbearably light, if interpreted as Heidegger did as either the meaning of Being or the truth of Being, yet in Derrida�s response to Heidegger he argues that diff�rance is �older� than the meaning of Being, even older than the truth of Being, and thus one could argue that diff�rance is even lighter than Being and thus even more unbearable. What possibilities does such an unbearable lightness of diff�rance offer to human being-with (Mitsein) in a global village faced with so many socio-economic and environmental challenges? The unbearable lightness could be absolute relativism and particularism as Rawls has interpreted it or it could be the unbearable lightness of auto-deconstruction. The unbearable lightness of diff�rance opens a socio-political space with an ethos of deconstruction and thereby response or ibility towards the other. This lightness of diff�rance can be interpreted as a difficult liberty (difficult liberty as Levinas interprets it) or even an unbearable liberty of infinite broken chains of signifiers and yet a freedom that is held to account (that responds) to the other. This liberty is an infinite responsibility towards the other and therefore infinite responsibility towards justice (dik�). Diff�rance is liberty as all there is, is text, but this liberty is not licentiousness of absolute disconnection, but the difficult liberty of being only responsible towards the other. The question this article will grapple with is: what ethical implications can be gathered from this state of being-with, this unbearable lightness of diff�rance in the global village?Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: Philosophy and philosophy of religion. The article focusses on the conversation between Heidegger and Derrida, with regards to diff�rance and Austrag.
The Effects of Competitiveness on Trade Balance: The Case of Southern Europe
Authors: Bajo-Rubio Oscar , Berke Burcu , Esteve Vicente
Published: November 2016

According to conventional wisdom, “peripheral” Southern European members of the euro area (Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain) suffer from a problem of competitiveness. Since their membership of the euro area renders devaluation impossible, adjustment should come through decreasing wages and prices in these countries, which, by improving the trade balance, should lead to a recovery of previous levels of employment and growth. In this paper, the authors estimate trade balance equations for the Southern European countries, both for total trade and for the trade performed with the European Union, taking three alternative measures of the real exchange rate, based on consumption price indices, export prices and unit labour costs, respectively. Their main conclusion is that demand seems to be more relevant than relative prices when explaining the evolution of the trade balance.
Refusing to be Complicit in our Prison Nation: Teachers Rethinking Mandated Reporting
Authors: Meiners Erica , Tolliver Charity
Published: November 2016

Ensuring that Black Lives Matter in schools requires seismic shifts including excavating the ongoing practices and policies that reproduce heterogendered white supremacy in schools. However, what is too often erased in these movements is the key way the profession of teaching facilitates racialized surveillance and criminalization. Teachers are mandated reporters who are required by law to report suspected negligence and abuse. While on paper this charge looks neutral, this essay illustrates why teachers should rethink their roles and organize against mandated reporting laws. To teach to ensure that all Black Lives Matter requires refusing to be complicit in the mechanisms that contribute to the destruction of too many families and communities.
Race, Housing, and the Federal Government: Black Lives on the Margins of the American Dream
Authors: Hughes Richard
Published: November 2016

As historians have increasingly explored the complex historical relationship between race, class, and institutions such as the federal government in shaping contemporary American society, historical sources such as the Federal Housing Association’s Underwriting Manual (1938) provide provocative opportunities for teaching. Brief excerpts from the Manual are a small window through which to examine the underappreciated role of the U.S. federal government in creating and sustaining a racialized version of the American Dream. The result is an opportunity to equip students, as citizens, with the historical thinking skills and sources to examine the enduring historical arc of racial injustice and resistance in the United States that serves as the foundation for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Teaching Celia in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Authors: Byrd Brandon R.
Published: November 2016

The emergence of Black Lives Matter has introduced a language of black liberation to a new generation of students. In doing so, it has provided an opportunity for historical study. Teacher-scholars can and should take advantage of the renewed interest in systemic threats to black life in the United States when teaching about past victims of state-sanctioned violence including Celia, an enslaved teenager executed for killing her master after years of sexual abuse. In doing so, they can not only draw useful connections between the past and present but also lay the foundations for a more meaningful study of black radicalism and black resistance in the United States.
#SayHerName Loudly: How Black Girls Are Leading #BlackLivesMatter
Authors: Jiménez Ileana
Published: November 2016

In the style of a black feminist roundtable, black girls at LREI (Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School), the famous progressive school from which Angela Davis was graduated in 1961, discuss the ways in which they are leading the #BlackLivesMatter movement by using an intersectional feminist lens to create poetry and film to resist systems of oppression and to #SayHerName as well as their own.
Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies by Carmen Kynard
Authors: Hall Ted
Published: November 2016

Vernacular Insurrections Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies is a masterful study of race, literacy, rhetoric and composition that deserves the widest readership. Building on four decades of scholarship that reexamine the Student-led, Black Protest phase of the 1960’s movement, Vernacular Insurrections underscores the critical role of Black student organizations and the Black Arts Movement in the development of African American Literacies, Rhetorics, and Resistance.
Introduction: Teaching Black Lives Matter
Authors: Austin Paula , Cardwell Erica , Kennedy Christopher , Spencer Robyn
Published: November 2016

An introduction to Radical Teacher, Issue 106: Teaching Black Lives Matter. This issue brings together a diverse collection of articles exploring educator’s responses, strategies, and stories on how #BlackLivesMatter has informed their teaching practice, the content of their courses, and their personal relationship to colleagues, family, friends, and self.
Poetry
Authors: Carroll Peter Neil
Published: November 2016

If the Tiger Sleeps and All I Desire by Peter Neil Carroll
Contributors’ Notes
Authors: Vogt Leonard
Published: November 2016

Contributors’ Notes for RT 106: Teaching Black Lives Matter
Translating Politics
Authors: Chambers Samuel
Published: November 2016

This article attends to the process of translating politics—both in the writings of Jacques Rancière and in their reception. I argue that Rancière's project seeks not just to change the meaning of politics in a given conceptual framework or language but to think politics in a different language or paradigm entirely. I stage a working through of three different “cases” of translating politics, as I look at three terms: “aisthēsis,” “politics,” and “the political.” I conclude by emphasizing “politicalness,” a word that helps to capture Rancière's dynamic, nonontological sense of the unpredictable disruption of the police order by politics. A certain project of translation plays a central role in the Rancièrean thinking of politics. No master dictionary can assure or secure translation across languages and contexts, and no political ontology can undergird or safeguard the historical happening of politics.
The Intimate Schoolmaster and the Ignorant Sifu: Poststructuralism, Bruce Lee, and the Ignorance of Everyday Radical Pedagogy
Authors: Bowman Paul
Published: November 2016

This article explores the rhetorical underpinning of the pedagogics of unlearning by way of a consideration of three figures: first, “the ignorant schoolmaster” as constructed by Jacques Rancière in The Ignorant Schoolmaster; second, “the intimate schoolmaster,” as fantasized and feared by a diverse range of theories and theorists (but attention will specifically go to this figure as he features in a key moment of poststructuralism, namely Derrida's Dissemination); and third, “the ignorant sifu,” as a figure that exemplifies a strong impulse in many modern movements in approaches to martial arts, self-defense, and combat training. I represent these three figures by way Joseph Jacotot, Plato/Socrates, and Bruce Lee, using them as a way to explore an undecidability at the heart of the binary ignorance/knowledge. Ignorance, I maintain, has always been a key (even if unacknowledged) premise of the dominant textual and discourse approaches of poststructuralism, and there are good reasons why we might try to unlearn some of our dominant understandings of or assumptions about the political and cultural importance of pedagogy.
Un-What?
Authors: Rancière Jacques
Published: November 2016

This article addresses the question of what is at stake in learning and unlearning. It starts by showing that practices of learning have often been bound up with the explicative order, which always teaches the difference between intelligence and unintelligence, between the ignorant and the learned. But these traditional practices of learning cannot simple be erased, so that we would start with a tabula rasa; such an approach only reconstructs the stultifying principle of singularity by which there is one correct point of view. Hence the emancipatory potential of practices of unlearning. But unlearning must be grasped in a very specific way. Unlearning depends on a principle and a practice of unexplaining. To “unexplain” means to undo the opinion of inequality, to challenge it with the assumption of equality. Yet unexplaining cannot be taken up as a negative form of criticism (it is not a method) any more than unlearning can become an institutionalized pedagogy. Instead, unlearning delinks the acts of teaching and learning. It means first, that you learn from somebody or something that never taught you, and second, that you do not teach what you have learned. Rather than teaching it, you tell it, and out of that telling others may learn from you something else, something that you do not know.
Architectural Space and the Failures of “Complete” Houses in Heartbreak House
Authors: Johnson Allan
Published: November 2016

This article argues that Heartbreak House (1919) complicates the familiar modernist narrative of returning home for redemption by placing its central action in a bizarre, nautical-themed home that parodies key understandings of the design and uses of architectural space that arose following World War I. Drawing upon Shaw's own engagements with architecture and interior design, the article examines how the play creates an image of totality and completeness through Captain Shotover's home before it depicts this space's literal and metaphoric splintering. The troubled and troubling relationship that characters have to the space around them stands as a metaphor of their own understanding of social organization and its radical reestimation in the early decades of the twentieth century.
A Minister's Wife: A Bittersweet Adaptation of a “Pleasant Play”
Authors: McGovern Derek
Published: November 2016

A Minister's Wife is a 2009 musical adaptation of Shaw's 1895 “Pleasant” play Candida, and was conceived by Michael Halberstam, artistic director of the Illinois-based Writers' Theatre. Halberstam's rationale was to provide Shaw's play with a contemporary sensibility, and the result—a single-act chamber musical version—is, perhaps inevitably, a more somber work than the original. This is partly the result of book writer Austin Pendleton's decision to excise the comic character of Burgess. It also reflects the complex nature of composer Joshua Schmidt's and lyricist Jan Levy Tranen's score, which eschews conventional musical theater song structure for a mostly fragmented approach. In this analysis of the musical play's unpublished score and book, the article examines the impact of the play's compression of Candida's dialogue, and the loss of Burgess, in particular, while arguing that the work's music and lyrics faithfully delineate Shaw's remaining characters and serve his thematic concerns.
Pilgrims and Adventurers: Herman Melville on Spontaneous Order and Teleocracy
Authors: Peyser Thomas
Published: November 2016

Melville's depictions of non-Western tribes suggest his keen appreciation of spontaneous orders as described by Hayek, and his masterpiece Moby-Dick likewise exhibits a Hayekian esteem for the modern market order. Moreover, the Pequod's transformation from an element in that order to an instrument of revenge suggests an allegory of America transformed, to use Oakeshott's terms, from the nomocracy envisioned by founders like Madison into a teleocracy. Written at a time of mounting skepticism, Moby-Dick depicts the vulnerability of liberal institutions whose spirit may fail to align with the people's hunger for a substantive, collective purpose.
Educar para quê? Observações acerca da educação e cultura a partir do pensamento de Friedrich Nietzsche
Authors: Dias Luciana Da Costa
Published: November 2016

O presente artigo tem por objetivo discutir a relação entre cultura e educação em Friedrich Nietzsche, filósofo conhecido pelo caráter intempestivo de seus escritos e profundo crítico de sua época. Sua abordagem da questão da educação é, na verdade, um profundo questionamento da própria função e propósito da prática educativa, que ele diagnosticou como estando, já em sua época, cada vez mais submissa e atrelada aos interesses de uma economia de mercado, mero adestramento e preparação para o mercado de trabalho, uma vez que seu discurso se constrói com base em uma visão extremamente crítica ao surgimento do ensino profissionalizante, naquele período, na Alemanha.
Conhecimento, currículo e poder: um diálogo com Michel Foucault
Authors: Oliveira Jane Cordeiro
Published: November 2016

Este artigo tem o objetivo de demonstrar como o currículo se revela como instrumento de discurso do poder refletido nos comportamentos adotados em instituições educativas. O currículo reflete o conhecimento escolar e torna-se o discurso oficial adotado nas instituições educacionais. Com base nas teorias de Foucault (1986, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010), é possível reconhecer currículo e conhecimento como instrumentos de poder presentes em instituições educativas. Portanto, apresentamos as seguintes questões: como o conhecimento é considerado instrumento de poder, segundo Foucault? Como o currículo, definido em Foucault, é revelado? Como o currículo é considerado como instrumento de poder? Percebemos que o poder está imbricado nos discursos e comportamentos daqueles que estão na escola. Bernstein (1996) e Ball (1994) apontam a influência das teorias de Foucault em seus trabalhos. Bernstein afirma que o discurso pedagógico é formado
por regras de comunicação. Ball considera os discursos das políticas como sendo as políticas. As considerações finais apresentam um tecido de relações complexas de poder tanto nas relações domésticas como em grandes instituições e pelo Estado. E como instituição educativa, a escola está inserida nesse tecido, representado pelo currículo como forma de poder discursivo.
Awareness of Radon-222 and its Health Hazards in Jordan
Authors: Khalidi Reem S. , Taweel Faris M.
Published: November 2016

Many studies addressed radon (Rn222) gas concentration levels in a number of locations in Jordan. But, none investigated the level of awareness of Jordanians of radon and its harmful effects on public health. In this study, a sample of 200 participants has been tested for their knowledge of radon and its effects on human health. The authors estimated that 63.1% are unaware of this gas and its respective effects on their health
Determinants of Corporate Hedging: Evidence from Emerging Market
Authors: Vural-Yavas Cigdem
Published: November 2016

The main purpose of this study is to understand the determinants of corporate hedging in emerging markets. The dependent variable, hedging, is estimated by a categorical variable. This process necessitates the usage of logistic regression. The analysis is conducted using data from non-financial companies listed in Borsa Istanbul (BIST) between 2010 and 2014. Evidence reveals that the cost of underinvestment has the highest impact on the likelihood of hedging. Firms with higher cost of underinvestment are more likely to use financial derivatives. The second most important determinant of hedging is growth opportunities. Interestingly, firms with greater growth opportunities are less likely to use derivatives in emerging markets. Results indicate that firm size, foreign sales, profitability, and dividend yield are the other predictors that increase the likelihood of hedging. On the other hand, growth opportunities, free-float rate, interest coverage ratio, and leverage have a negative relationship with the possibility of using financial derivatives.
Valuation of Interacting Time-to-Build and Growth Real Options in Infrastructure Investments
Authors: Adetunji Olubanjo Michael , Owolabi Akintola Amos
Published: November 2016

This paper argues that real options approach presents a better valuation approach for valuing infrastructure investments when compared to traditional discounted cash flow approach. Managerial flexibilities, in various forms of real options, can be incorporated into infrastructure projects to expand the projects’ values. The paper identifies two key types of real options present in infrastructure investments as time-to-build and growth options and extends an earlier developed closed-form option valuation formula to value these options. The paper uses a numerical case of investment in railroad infrastructure project and shows that both types of real options, when embedded in infrastructure projects, add values to the projects. It however shows that the value of growth option is far more than the value of time-to-build option as growth options create opportunities for follow-on investments. It also shows that when the two options are present in an infrastructure investment, the time-to-build real option interacts with the growth option to reduce the latter’s value.
Modelling Discretionary: The Development of Automated Financial Service Industry
Authors: Guo Xiaomin
Published: November 2016

This research focuses on modeling the investment manager behavior in investments planning, and explores the trend of the current human-based financial planning industry. In the recent decade, the replacement of human financial service with automated financial solution grows rapidly. This paper provides a model of automated investments procedure to detect the possibility of substituting the human-based portfolio management with a machine-dominated process. The major contribution of this research is the algorithm of discretionary, which is the major obstacle of the machine-based portfolio control. The conclusion of this paper can serve as the logic flow of the investment management program.
Nonlinear Control of Underwater Robotic Vehicle in Plane Motion
Authors: Garus Jerzy
Published: November 2016

A control system supporting motion of an underwater robotic vehicle along a reference trajectory in the horizontal plane is presented in the paper. A waypoint line-of-sight scheme and nonlinear PD control law are applied to calculate command signals. Parameters of the proposed control law are tuned using genetic algorithms. The validity and advantages of the approach are illustrated through numerical simulation results.
Concept of Semi -Markov Process
Authors: Grabski Franciszek
Published: November 2016

This paper provides the definitions and basic properties related to a discrete state space semi-Markov process. The semi-Markov process is constructed by the so called Markov renewal process that is a special case the two-dimensional Markov sequence. The Markov renewal process is defined by the transition probabilities matrix, called the renewal kernel and an initial distribution or by another characteristics which are equivalent to the renewal kernel. The counting process corresponding to the semi-Markov process allows to determine concept of the process regularity. In the paper are also shown the other methods of determining the semi-Markov process. The presented concepts are illustrated a simple example.
Study of the Corrosion Resistance of Ship Aluminium Alloys
Authors: Jurczak Wojciech
Published: November 2016

This article presents a summary of years of research of corrosion resistance and corrosive-stress marine materials and their joints. Aluminium alloys and marine steels including the austenitic have been the subject of research in terms of resistance of these materials for electrochemical corrosion in sea environment. Under certain conditions austenitic steels and aluminium alloys show low susceptibility to corrosion due to the protective oxide film which form itself spontaneously on their surfaces and which became a part of monitoring corrosion of these materials. Unfortunately, the real conditions of ship structures loads and the impact conditions of the sea environment show the need to search for the new materials or to modify those already used in order to increase their corrosive-stress resistance. The welded joints of the above mentioned materials were the special subject of corrosive research and nowadays their friction stir welding joints. Modifying the structure of the origin materials by the alloyed elements, changing the parameters of the heat treatment, using the suitable protective paints or selection of the proper adhesives to connect these materials are the methods used in the following research to increase the corrosion resistance of the aluminium alloys. However, monitoring corrosion based on the patent US 2167 23 states a particular point of these research.
Populära kärl och användbara skärvor Spåren av återbrukad keramik i centralplatsen Uppåkras kärna
Authors: McAulay Sophie
Published: November 2016

Popular vessels and useful shards. Traces of use and recycling of pottery from the Iron Age site of Uppåkra in south Sweden.  During the early migration period at the central settlement of Uppåkra, in south Sweden, people reused pottery shards as tools. As this is a fairly uncommon area of study regarding prehistoric Scandinavian pottery, the traces of use and recycling on pottery found in other prehistoric and historic contexts were compared to traces on these shards. This resulted in a discussion on possible areas of use for the reused pottery pieces, and what kind of reuse generates these traces. Several shards were interpreted as having been reused as tools of different kinds, and some types of pottery appear to have been more popular for this purpose, such as thin walled, slightly harder fired vessels. Signs of reuse on shards from pottery vessels include: thin vertical striations perpendicular to the fracture, beveled fracture surface, polish, discoloration, various forms of attrition, and retouching. The shards might have been utilized as scrapers or as a potter’s tool in the production of new vessels. The theory that pottery was seen as a resource even after a pot was broken, is confirmed by some small collections of unused and reused pottery shards that were located within the boundary of house no. 21 at Uppåkra.
Liv og død i Hierapolis Norske utgravninger i en hellenistisk–romersk–bysantinsk by i Lilleasia
Authors: Brandt Rasmus J. , Ahrens S. , Wenn C. C. , Hagelberg E. , Bjørnstad G. , Bortheim K. , Kiesewetter H. , Russ H. , Cappelletto E. , Indgjerd H. , Wong M. , Richards M. , Selsvold I. Ringheim , Hill D. , Nyquist A.
Published: November 2016

Life and Death at Hierapolis. Norwegian excavations in a Hellenistic–Roman–Byzantine town in Asia Minor From 2007 to 2015 the University of Oslo, invited by The Italian Archaeological Mission at Hierapolis in Phrygia, conducted archaeological research in the North-East Necropolis at Hierapolis. The aim of the project was to document all visible tombs and sarcophagi of the necropolis and excavate selected tomb areas and tombs. The research, including osteological, DNA- and isotope-analyses, investigated the life of the inhabitants over a long period of time (ca. 100–1300 A.C.) with reference to tomb architecture, landscape perception, organization, entrepreneurship, ritual practices, genetic relations and origins, demography, health, sickness, diets, and individual movement patterns. Many of the aims are answered in the article, here shall only be mentioned two important discoveries: cremation has been documented as late as the 5th/6th centuries A.C., in periods of crisis perhaps used to signal pagan opposition to imposed Christian practices; the life conditions in the Roman/Early Byzantine period were much better than in that of the Middle Byzantine period.
Norsk Arkeologisk Selskaps tur til Russland (St. Petersburg, Staraja Ladoga, Novgorod og Gorodisjtsje) 1. – 8. mai 2015
Authors: Robøle Sonja Vibeche
Published: November 2016

Sammendrag fra Norsk Arkeologisk Selskaps tur til Russland (St. Petersburg, Staraja Ladoga, Novgorod og Gorodisjtsje) 1. – 8. mai 2015
EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA NA EJA: DESAFIOS E POSSIBILIDADES
Authors: Goldschmidt Filho Francisco , Cruz Lucas Lopez da , Bossle Fabiano
Published: November 2016

Este artigo visa analisar e discutir a produção acadêmico-científica sobre a EFI e a EJA em periódicos nacionais, Dissertações de Mestrado e Teses de Doutorado. A revisão sobre o estado da arte da referida temática foi realizada no portal de periódicos e no banco de teses da CAPES. Foram realizadas buscas nas áreas da Educação e Educação Física. O baixo número de estudos encontrados (12) revela que a temática ainda necessita de uma maior problematização. Entendemos que a EFI na EJA deve preocupar-se em auxiliar no processo de emancipação do aluno, através do desenvolvimento da sua conscientização, autonomia e criticidade.
General and domain-specific contributions to creative ideation and creative performance
Authors: An Donggun , Runco Mark A.
Published: November 2016

The general objective of this study was to reexamine two views of creativity, one positing that there is a general creative capacity or talent and the other that creativity is domain-specific. These two views were compared by (a) testing correlations among measures of domain-general and domain-specific creativity and (b) examining how the general and the specific measures was each related to indices of knowledge, motivation, and personality. Participants were 147 college students enrolled in a foreign language course. Data were collected on participants’ domain knowledge, motivation, and creative personality, as well as four measures representing “General or Domain-Specific Creative Ideation” or “Creative Performance and Activity”. Results indicated that the four measures of creativity were correlated with one another, except for “General Performance and Activity” and “Domain-Specific Ideation.” A canonical correlation indicated that knowledge, motivation, and personality were significantly correlated with the four creativity measures (Rc = .49, p < .01). Multiple regressions uncovered particular relationships consistent with the view that creativity has both general and domain-specific contributions. Limitations, such as the focus on one domain, and future directions are discussed.
Cognition about the creative process – Interview with Dr Andrew P. Allen
Authors: Allen Andrew P. , Loughnane Lynda
Published: November 2016

What is the relationship between the creative process and cognition and perception? Lynda Loughnane, a master’s student in Art and Process in Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland interviewed Dr Andrew P. Allen about the subject. Areas covered include mindfulness, Type 1 and Type 2 thinking, stage theories of creativity, engagement with the art process and the artwork, phenomenology and consciousness with and without self report. The interview was constructed to cover a wide range of subject matter, so as to gather as much information as possible in layman's language about the cognitive process in relation to creativity and interaction with art.
The relationship between neurocognitive functioning and occupational functioning in bipolar disorder: A literature review
Authors: Duarte Walace , Becerra Rodrigo , Cruise Kate
Published: November 2016

Neurocognitive impairment in Bipolar Disorder (BD) has been widely reported, even during remission. Neurocognitive impairment has been identified as a contributing factor towards unfavourable psychosocial functioning within this population. The objective of this review was to investigate the association between neurocognitive impairment and occupational functioning in BD. A literature review of English-language journal articles from January 1990 to November 2013 was undertaken utilising the PsychINFO, Scopus and Web of Knowledge databases. Studies that made specific reference to occupational outcomes were included, and those that reported on global psychosocial measures were excluded. Majority of the papers reviewed (20 out of 23) identified an association between neurocognitive impairment (particularly in executive functioning, verbal learning and memory, processing speed and attention) and occupational functioning. Several methodological issues were identified. There was a discrepancy in the measures used to assess neurocognitive function across studies and also the definition and measurement of occupational functioning. The clinical features of the samples varied across studies, and confounding variables were intermittently controlled. The review focused on English-language papers only and hence there is a bias toward the Western labour market. These limitations therefore influence the generalizability of the interpreted findings and the reliability of comparisons across studies. Neurocognitive impairment in BD appears to play a role in occupational outcomes. The findings of this review highlight the challenges for future research in this area, particularly in the measurement of neurocognitive and occupational functioning. Incorporating neurocognitive interventions in the treatment of BD, which has traditionally focussed solely on symptomatic recovery, may advance the vocational rehabilitation of these patients.
James Bernauer and Robert A. Maryks, Eds. “The Tragic Couple”: Encounters between Jews and Jesuits
Authors: Ruff Mark Edward
Published: November 2016

No abstract is available.
Los orígenes de la tecnología a debate: una revisión de las primeras industrias líticas.
Authors: Cueva Temprano Arturo
Published: November 2016

Durante muchos años, la comunidad científica ha considerado la producción de artefactos líticos como privativa del género Homo. Sin embargo, recientes hallazgos realizados en yacimientos africanos han aportado unos resultados que parecen poner en duda esta cuestión, retrasando la cronología de aparición de las primeras industrias líticas hasta más allá de los 2.6 Ma. planteados por el yacimiento de Gona. A partir de una revisión de estos yacimientos, el presente trabajo pretende realizar una reflexión sobre la posible autoría de estas primeras tecnologías, enmarcadas en un contexto paleoantropológico de creciente complejidad, y quizás atribuibles a miembros de otros géneros.

For many years, the scientific community has considered the production of lithic artifacts as a unique characteristic of the genus Homo. However, recent discoveries made in African sites have provided results that seem to put this issue in doubt, delaying the appearance time of the first stone industries to beyond the 2.6 Myr. posed by the deposits of Kada Gona. This paper aims to make a review on these sites, trying to consider the possible authorship of that early technologies, which are framed in a high complexity paleoanthropological context, and perhaps are attributable to members of other genres.