bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Developing mature empathy among first-year students: The learning potential of emotional experiences
Authors: Konow Lund Anne-Sophie , Heggestad Anne Kari Tolo , Nortvedt Per , Christiansen Bjørg
Published: August 2017

Nursing students’ ability to develop mature empathy requires emotional work, usually associated with caring experiences in relation with patients and next of kin. This article is based on qualitative in-depth interviews with 11 first-year students, and the research questions were: What characterizes situations in a nursing home that evoke strong emotional reactions in first-year students? What is the learning potential of these experiences? Findings show that facing emotionally challenging situations during their first clinical placement in nursing education aroused strong feelings and commitment among the students. The students tried, however, to find ways to handle emotionally challenging situations both with support in scientific literature, as well as from experience. Nurses were important role models, but could also exemplify characteristics of less empathic behaviour. Developing ‘mature empathy’ requires emotional work so that the students learn to adapt themselves to what will be demanded of them as professional nurses. The findings of this and other studies should alert nurses as well as teachers to the importance of helping students develop empathy as part of their learning trajectory in nursing education.
Choosing Wisely in Oncology: Are We Ready For Value-Based Care?
Authors: Rocque Gabrielle , Blayney Douglas W. , Jahanzeb Mohammad , Knape August , Markham Merry Jennifer , Pham Trang , Shelton Jeremy , Sudheendra Preeti , Evans Tracey
Published: August 2017

Introduction:

In 2012, ASCO created the Top Five Choosing Wisely (CW) list of low-value tests and procedures for which there is little evidence of benefit. ASCO’s Quality Oncology Practice Initiative, an oncologist-led practice-based quality assessment program, includes measures on the basis of these recommendations.

Methods:

CW test measures from spring and fall 2013, spring 2014, and spring 2015 were evaluated for concordance rates, change in the concordance over time, and variability by practice characteristics. Practice characteristics recorded included geographic location, academic affiliation, number of new cases, number of medical oncologists, and rounds of participation in Quality Oncology Practice Initiative. Medians, interquartile ranges, and percentages were calculated for concordance with recommendations and practice characteristics. Change in recommendation concordance over time was assessed using linear regression models.

Results:

From 2013 to 2015, 341 unique oncology practices abstracted the CW measures. Performance varied for specific recommendations. The median concordance was best for measure 1 (patients with low or undocumented performance status who received chemotherapy), where concordance ranged from 78.4% to 83.3%. The lowest concordance was for measure 3 (use of biomarkers or advanced imaging tests for surveillance in early breast cancer), where concordance ranged from 67.7% to 74.2%. Performance on CW measures varied markedly by individual practice. Variability over time and by practice characteristics was observed.

Conclusion:

Performance on ASCO’s CW demonstrates room for improvement. Concordance rates varied substantially by practice. Further education on CW measures is needed to improve patient care and enhance value.
Big Books, Big Data, and Reading Literary Histories
Authors: Ezell Margaret J. M.
Published: August 2017

This essay examines the ways in which the single-authored, period literary history has been challenged since the original Oxford History of English Literature series appeared in the mid twentieth century. The volumes in the new Oxford English Literary History appearing in the twenty-first century, intended for the “general reader,” must negotiate charges of imposing a reductive grand narrative whose scholarship is rapidly outdated on one hand, and of working with too small a sample of texts to make historical claims on the other. The advent of electronic databases such as EEBO and ECCO invite new forms of history writing, from “distant reading” by computer, to more inclusive documentary-style formats that emphasize richness of the particular and idiosyncratic as well as reveal the larger patterns.
Stranger Anxiety: Failed Legal Equivalences and the Challenges of Intimate Recognition in Taiwan
Authors: Friedman Sara L.
Published: August 2017

This article examines the power of law to constitute which intimacies are deemed legitimate for a larger project of national reproduction. It focuses on two contested marriage cases in Taiwan that involved a transnational union and a transgender marriage. The article introduces the concept of “stranger anxiety” to underscore the legal and bureaucratic work necessary to constitute heterosexual marriage as the basis for citizenship inclusion. Working from these two cases, the article analyzes how the Taiwanese government produces an equivalence between heterosexual unions and citizenship eligibility and how it uses law to mold diverse intimacies to fit normative models of domesticity and binary sex/gender. By asking what social imaginaries and intimate relations are foreclosed as a consequence, the article interprets these proliferations of law and bureaucratic discretion as signs of intense anxiety concerning the status of the heterosexual family and the place of the stranger within the nation.
Arlie Hochschild Interviewed by Harel Shapira
Authors: Shapira Harel
Published: August 2017

Harel Shapira interviews Arlie Hochschild about her recent book Strangers in Their Own Land. They discuss the contemporary right wing—who they are, what they believe, and how we can and should study and write about them.
Caught on Camera
Authors: O’Neill Kevin Lewis
Published: August 2017

Across Guatemala City, Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers warehouse users (often against their will) in the name of salvation. This essay, in response, details how pastors deploy digital media to assess a user’s relative fitness for a Christian life. Of particular interest is how pastors insist that photographs and videos allow the faithful to read users for signs of the soul. Contributing to the criminalization and mass incarceration of drug users, these images organize the outer edges of today’s war on drugs.
“We Are Sensemakers”: The (Anti-)politics of Smart City Co-creation
Authors: Zandbergen Dorien
Published: August 2017

This empirical-critical study looks at the Air Quality Egg project, a Euro-American effort focused on the collaborative creation of a “smart” air quality sensor network. While widely celebrated as a “best practice” example of bottom-up smart city making, the involvement of a US software company that turned the data platform into a full-blown for-profit service suggests a very different reading. Yet why did the project’s serving both corporate and anticorporate agendas not cause significant conflict among participants themselves? Which practices, forms of imagination, discourses, and types of experiences enabled this collaboration against all odds? This article addresses these questions by looking at the ambiguous ways the group’s meetings mobilized the principles and practices of open source, prototyping, and a focus on doing, configuring the gatherings as spaces of transformational possibility, detached from the networks, roles, and institutions of daily life.
An Uneasy Union: Women Teachers, Organized Labor, and the Contested Ideology of Profession during the Progressive Era
Authors: D’Amico Diana
Published: August 2017

During the early years of the Progressive Era, women teachers in urban centers across the United States bound their fight for equal pay and voice within the schools to a broader social and political activism, each propelled by an image of the professional woman: independent and autonomous in and outside the schools. Without the right to vote, these women turned cautiously toward organized labor to achieve their goals. However, the union between labor associations and organized teachers was troubled from the start and complicated by gender and class. As this article chronicles, affiliation with labor brought increased power and visibility to teachers nationwide but also thwarted the aspirations of early teachers as it severed the connection between teachers’ labor organizations and women’s political activism.
Imaging Findings in a Rare Case of Leiomyomatosis Peritonealis Disseminata with Malignant Transformation
Authors: Syed Moinullah , Parida Bikash , Mankeshwar Tejas , Patil Akhil
Published: August 2017

Background: Leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata (LPD) is a rare condition characterized by formation of multiple leiomyomas in the abdominal and pelvic peritoneum. Malignant transformation of LPD is an extremely rare occurrence. We hereby report a case of a middle-aged female who was subsequently diagnosed with leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata with a few of the lesions showing malignant transformation.

Case Report: A forty-year-old female with a history of hysterectomy presenting with vague abdominal pain was completely evaluated with ultrasound (US), computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and was subsequently diagnosed with leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata. The imaging findings of leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata were correlated with and confirmed by a histopathologic examination of the excision biopsy specimen.

Conclusions: The imaging findings were found to be specific for leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata with a malignant transformation.
Bacterial lipids: powerful modifiers of the innate immune response
Authors: Chandler Courtney E. , Ernst Robert K.
Published: August 2017

The innate immune system serves as a first line of defense against microbial pathogens. The host innate immune response can be triggered by recognition of conserved non-self-microbial signature molecules by specific host receptor proteins called Toll-like receptors. For bacteria, many of these molecular triggers reside on or are embedded in the bacterial membrane, the interface exposed to the host environment. Lipids are the most abundant component of membranes, and bacteria possess a unique set of lipids that can initiate or modify the host innate immune response. Bacterial lipoproteins, peptidoglycan, and outer membrane molecules lipoteichoic acid and lipopolysaccharide are key modulators of the host immune system. This review article will highlight some of the research emerging at the crossroads of bacterial membranes and innate immunity.
Service evaluation of the implementation of a digitally-enabled care pathway for the recognition and management of acute kidney injury
Authors: Connell Alistair , Montgomery Hugh , Morris Stephen , Nightingale Claire , Stanley Sarah , Emerson Mary , Jones Gareth , Sadeghi-Alavijeh Omid , Merrick Charles , King Dominic , Karthikesalingam Alan , Hughes Cian , Ledsam Joseph , Back Trevor , Rees Geraint , Raine Rosalind , Laing Christopher
Published: August 2017

Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), an abrupt deterioration in kidney function, is defined by changes in urine output or serum creatinine. AKI is common (affecting up to 20% of acute hospital admissions in the United Kingdom), associated with significant morbidity and mortality, and expensive (excess costs to the National Health Service in England alone may exceed £1 billion per year). NHS England has mandated the implementation of an automated algorithm to detect AKI based on changes in serum creatinine, and to alert clinicians. It is uncertain, however, whether ‘alerting’ alone improves care quality.

We have thus developed a digitally-enabled care pathway as a clinical service to inpatients in the Royal Free Hospital (RFH), a large London hospital. This pathway incorporates a mobile software application - the “Streams-AKI” app, developed by DeepMind Health - that applies the NHS AKI algorithm to routinely collected serum creatinine data in hospital inpatients. Streams-AKI alerts clinicians to potential AKI cases, furnishing them with a trend view of kidney function alongside other relevant data, in real-time, on a mobile device. A clinical response team comprising nephrologists and critical care nurses responds to these AKI alerts by reviewing individual patients and administering interventions according to existing clinical practice guidelines.

We propose a mixed methods service evaluation of the implementation of this care pathway. This evaluation will assess how the care pathway meets the health and care needs of service users (RFH inpatients), in terms of clinical outcome, processes of care, and NHS costs. It will also seek to assess acceptance of the pathway by members of the response team and wider hospital community. All analyses will be undertaken by the service evaluation team from UCL (Department of Applied Health Research) and St George’s, University of London (Population Health Research Institute).
Jaak Põldmäe 75
Authors: Lotman Mihhail
Published: August 2017

Jaak Põldmäe 75
Distribution of tensor anisotropy of cosmic rays near the neutral current sheet
Authors: Гололобов Петр , Gololobov Peter , Кривошапкин Прокопий , Krivoshapkin Prokopy , Крымский Гермоген , Krymsky Germogen , Григорьев Владислав , Grigoryev Vladislav , Герасимова Сардаана , Gerasimova Sardaana
Published: August 2017

We analyze time profiles of isotropic intensity, components of vector and tensor anisotropies of cos-mic rays (CR) when Earth crosses the neutral sheet of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) in solar activity cycles 23–24. The moments of the crossings are de-termined from Wilcox Observatory synoptic charts and IMF data. Periods of Forbush decreases and ground level enhancements are excluded from the analysis. The events are analyzed for the epochs of positive and negative signs of the Sun’s general magnetic field. During each epoch, the crossings from the positive sector to the negative one and vice versa are separated. In total, 213 crossing events have been selected. The first two spherical harmonics of the angular CR-distribution are obtained using the global survey method. In each case, the average number of stations is equal to 32. The analysis shows that the temporal change of the isotropic component is caused by a magnetic mirror. For the first time, the zonal harmonics are reliably distinguished, and the existence of the antisymmetric diurnal CR-variation in a low energy range, which is oriented along IMF, is recognized. We compare our results with those obtained earlier.
Diurnal, seasonal, annual, and semi-annual variations of ionospheric parameters at different latitudes in East Asian sector during ascending phase of solar activity
Authors: Ван Чжэн , Wang Zheng , Ши Цзянькуй , Shi Jiankui , Ван Гоцзюнь , Wang Guojun , Ван Сяо , Wang Xiao , Жеребцов Гелий , Zherebtsov Geliy , Романова Елена , Romanova Elena , Ратовский Константин , Ratovsky Konstantin , Полех Неля , Polekh Nelya
Published: August 2017

We analyzed ionospheric parameters including the critical frequency of the F2 layer (foF2), the peak height of the F2 layer (hmF2), and the scale height at hmF2 (HT) from 2006 to 2012 (ascending phase of solar activity) at Hainan (19.5° N, 109.1° E, MLat. 9.7° N), Irkutsk (52.4° N, 104.3° E, MLat. 42.5° N), and Norilsk (69.2° N, 88.0° E, MLat. 59.8° N) stations (low, middle and high latitudes). We have used manual scaled digisonde ionogram data. Studies of foF2 and hmF2 di-urnal-seasonal variations continue those made earlier for East Asia. Features peculiar for the ascending phase of solar activity are mostly consistent to those for de-scending phase, except for the features of sunset and nighttime hmF2 variations. Features of annual and semi-annual variations recorded by a digisonde agree with those obtained by a satellite occultation and TEC map. We also obtained seasonal, diurnal, annual, and semi-annual variations of the ionospheric parameter HT (scale height at hmF2) from digisonde data, which differ from foF2 variations and hmF2 features.
Communication between primary and secondary care
Authors: Pannell Laura MK , Tyrrell-Price Jonathan
Published: August 2017

Background

Up to date patient data is a cornerstone of optimal safety and care, so admission to hospital requires transfer of data held in the community to secondary care. Despite the advent of electronic medical record systems such as Connecting Care and EMIS, the telephone remains the mainstay of communication.

Methods

A prospective cross-sectional quality improvement project was conducted to assess the time taken in telephone communication between primary and secondary care doctors and determine if access to the electronic shared system, Connecting Care, would improve efficiency. As part of normal junior doctor activity, fifty GPs were contacted between September 2015 and February 2016 to obtain medical data on patients admitted to UH Bristol. Time taken to contact each GP and the duration of the conversation was recorded. One hundred patient records were accessed using Connecting Care between October 2015 and February 2016 and the length of time taken to access information documented.

Results

Out of 50 phone calls 27 resulted in direct transfer to a GP with time to transfer ranging from 12 seconds to 19 minutes 51 seconds (mean 8 minutes 10 seconds, median 7 minutes 16 seconds). A total of 28 messages were left with the receptionist with 16/28 phone calls being returned and time taken for the call to be returned ranged from 34 minutes to 21 hours 3 minutes (mean 5 hours 50 minutes 4 seconds, median 4 hours). Information was available for 88/100 patient records accessed using Connecting Care with a mean duration to access information required of 1 minute 47 seconds. This was significantly shorter than the mean duration of conversation with GPs (4 minutes 22 seconds), mean total duration of telephone call and mean total duration of time to achieve aim of call with GP practices of 13 minutes 18 seconds and 2 hours 14 minutes 11 seconds respectively.

Conclusions

This study identifies areas of potential improvement in current methods of communication between primary and secondary care. Direct telephone contact will always have an important role in sharing information. However, access for secondary care doctors to electronic patient records, with patient consent and consideration for confidentiality, would improve efficiency and alleviate time pressures on both busy primary and secondary care doctors. This would have a positive impact on patient care and safety.
SHG of giant pulse with changed state of polarisation: the case of neodymium laser passively Q-switched with Cr4+:YAG crystal
Authors: Kir’yanov A.V. , Aboites V.
Published: August 2017

In recent years, interest to passive Q-switching of neodymium lasers does not fade, especially it concerns lasers with saturable absorbers (SA) on Cr4+:YAG crystals.
Pressure Tuning of Thermal Lensing: Application to High Brightness Source Development
Authors: Liao Yan , Armstrong Michael , Bruner Barry , Liu Jiaren , Franjic Kresimir , Dwayne Miller R. J.
Published: August 2017

The development of high power diode-pumped solid-state lasers (DPSSL's) with diffraction limited beam quality has been significantly hampered by pump induced inhomogeneous temperature profiles in the laser gain medium which results in thermal lensing and birefringence.
Revisores 2016
Authors: De la Fuente Arias Jesús
Published: August 2017

Revisores 2016
Development and Evaluation of a Reflective Log Assignment Designed to Enhance Postgraduate Psychology Students’ Learning Experience
Authors: Powell Rachael , Vlachopoulos Panos , Shaw Rachel
Published: August 2017

This paper describes the development and evaluation of a reflective log assignment introduced on a taught postgraduate psychology programme. Whether the reflective logs were an effective tool to enhance thinking and learning across a module was examined and how valuable students found the logs was explored. Logs of 13 students were examined using content analysis to establish the extent of reflective writing. Students demonstrated high levels of reflection across the course. Eight students participated in focus groups which explored their experiences of completing logs, and focus group transcripts were analysed thematically. Participants generally viewed the log positively, using it to aid retention, voice opinions and further deep thinking. Preference for the log to count towards course credits was voiced. The logs therefore proved to be effective learning aids and were acceptable to, and valued by, postgraduate psychology students. Further consideration as to how logs are assessed is required.
Online Peer Mentoring and Collaborative Reflection: A Cross-institutional Project in Sports Coaching
Authors: Stoszkowski John , McCarthy Liam , Fonseca Joana
Published: August 2017

In recent years, calls have grown for the use of digital technologies to transform coach education and enhance student learning; however, empirical research evidence for their efficacy is lacking. This paper describes our initial experiences of a Higher Education Funding Council for England funded project, designed to facilitate online peer mentoring and collaborative reflection between bachelor degree students at two separate UK universities. So far, the pedagogical approach has been differentially effective, with three categories describing our current perceptions of successful and/or unsuccessful student engagement in it. Namely, students require an adequate knowledge base, an appropriate technological and personal skillset, and the attitudinal dispositions to deploy them effectively.
Efficacy and safety of radioiodine treatment of Graves’ disease in children and adolescents
Authors: Rumiantsev Pavel O. , Sheremeta Marina S. , Kiyaev Alexey V. , Kurmyshova Luydmila A. , Chikulaeva Olga A.
Published: August 2017

There are three methods in treatment of Graves’ disease in children and adolescents – antithyroid drugs, surgery and radioiodine therapy (RIT). However, treatment protocol of children and adolescents doesn’t exist. In the present case series study we have evaluated the effectiveness and safety of RIT in children and adolescents. We have observed totally 25 patients in age 11–17 years old (mean 14.8 years) with Graves’ disease. Ten patients were treated with RIT in Endocrinology Research Centre (Moscow) in 2016 year with activities 550–920 MBq. Follow-up period varied 6–11 months in this subgroup. The second subgroup (15 patients) was treated in radiology department in Nijniy Tagil rural hospital (Ural region) in the period 2005–2012 years. Follow-up period varied 3.5–11.5 years (mean 8.5 years). RIT was executed in all patients without any complications, direct or long-term. In two patients having endocrine ophtalmopathy in non-active phase it was no any signs of worsening in result of RIT. In 17 (68%) of 25 patients the hypothyroidism occurred through 6 months. In one case – euthyroidism. In remain 7 observations the hyperthyroidism recurred. Patient subgroups didn’t differ in mean age, gender ratio, thyroid size and autoantibodies to TSH receptor levels, but were differed in treatment 131I activities (subset from ERC – 550–920 MBq; subset from Nijniy Tagil – 168–400 MBq). However the treatment efficacy did not differ significantly (p = 0.99): 68% and 73%, accordingly. In conclusion, RIT of Graves’ disease in a safe and effective method of treatment for hyperthyroidism in children and adolescents. It’s necessary to prolong study in numerous patients cohort, longer-lasting follow-up period as well as to improve RIT efficiency.
La formación transdisciplinaria en el grado universitario: una experiencia de la asignatura de Análisis de la Sustentabilidad Ambiental de Proyectos
Authors: Mihura Enrique , Campanella Sandra Romina
Published: August 2017

Frente a la crisis ambiental contemporánea es necesario contribuir a la construcción de una "Nueva Sociedad". Para que esto se logre, es necesario generar cambios en los patrones de comportamiento de los sujetos que diariamente conviven en ella. Frente a esta situación y como motores de producción de conocimiento, las universidades no pueden estar excluidas sino que, por el contrario, deben ser unpilar fundamental para lograrlo.Formar profesionales para un funcionamiento diferente de la sociedad es un gran desafío. Desde esta perspectiva, se trabaja desde la asignatura Análisis de la Sustentabilidad Ambiental de Proyectos de la carrera de Ingeniería Ambiental de la UNL en pos de generar nuevas herramientas para la sociedad actual. La asignatura está incluida como práctica de Extensión Experiencial de la UNL, y dentro de este marco se propone una metodología transdisciplinaria que pretende generar un acercamiento a las problemáticas actuales de la sociedad y buscar las vías y actores más acordes para resolverlas.
Sinergia entre extensión y docencia en la Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias de Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Authors: Ferrer Guillermo , Barrientos Mario
Published: August 2017

Este trabajo aborda una experiencia realizada por un grupo de universitarios que, en parte, comparten dos proyectos, uno docente vinculado a la constitución de un “área de consolidación” con la cual los estudiantes de agronomía finalizan sus estudios, y otro de extensión a partir de un proyecto de intervención que, desde una de sus líneas de trabajo, brinda apoyo a unidades de producción familiar entransición agroecológica, organizadas en ferias francas.Podemos concluir que se ha generado una importante sinergia entre el proyecto de extensión y el espacio curricular de la citada área de consolidación. Por el lado del proyecto de extensión, se ve fortalecido porque los productores reciben propuestas de posibles modificaciones tendientes a mejorar su emprendimiento y desde el aspecto pedagógico se cuenta con unidades de producción que posibilitan a los estudiantes la elaboración de una propuesta técnico–productiva que constituye una verdadera síntesis de carrera.
As contribuições de um projeto de extensão na formação inicial do professor de Matemática
Authors: Mandler Marnei Luis , Munhoz Regina Helena , Bihuna de Azevedo Eliane , Moro Graciela
Published: August 2017

Este texto apresenta as contribuições proporcionadas por um projeto de extensão universitária junto ao processo formativo de uma futura professora de Matemática.Trata-se de um projeto em andamento, desenvolvido por pesquisadores brasileiros da Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC), no âmbito de um Programa de Extensão intitulado “Ensino de Ciências e Matemática: abordagens interdisciplinares”. Por meio da intervenção proporcionada por um Clube de Matemática, a professora em formação é responsável por abordar conteúdoscurriculares de Matemática junto a alunos do Ensino Básico, sua futura área de atuação profissional. Acreditamos que, ao proporcionar o contato semanal como ambiente escolar, explorando conceitos matemáticos de forma lúdica e com o apoio de materiais didáticos variados, a extensão universitária contribui para a integração entre universidade e escola, colaborando para a formação docente com um olhar voltado à prática profissional e diretamente relacionado com atividades de ensino e de pesquisa.
Educación experiencial en Psicología Clínica
Authors: Jorge Elizabeth , Guzmán Macarena , González Cristina , Gentes Gladis
Published: August 2017

El presente trabajo busca reflexionar sobre la práctica de extensión como un espacio adecuado de educación experiencial para los alumnos de la cátedra de Psicología Clínica en la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. En primer lugar se describe en qué consiste el proyecto extensionista llevado a cabo hasta el momento. A continuación se exponen los cambios que implicó la decisión de incluir alumnos de grado en la práctica extensionista y los fundamentos teóricos que permitieron definir el tipo de formación que se busca para los estudiantes. Por último, se plantean breves comentarios sobre el análisis de la propia práctica docente.
Una experiencia de formación universitaria en relación con organizaciones sociales. Reflexiones sobre la práctica docente
Authors: Abramovich Ana Luz , Da Representação Natalia , Fournier Marisa
Published: August 2017

Este artículo presenta reflexiones sobre las implicancias de la tarea docente en una experiencia de vinculación entre la Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento y organizaciones sociales de la Región Metropolitana de Buenos Aires. El “Laboratorio: Redes Sociales y Condiciones de Vida”, que comenzó a funcionar en el año 2005, es una materia obligatoria en la que los estudiantes realizan un trabajo de investigación y/o intervención para las organizacionessociales. La materia busca que los estudiantes pongan en juego capacidades para el trabajo profesional con grados significativos de reflexión crítica y compromiso social. El rol docente implicado en esta tarea se diferencia del habitual. Supone la capacidad para acompañar el proceso de intercambio y de aprendizaje de los estudiantes y de las organizaciones, la posibilidad de distanciarse de unamirada única para resolver problemas complejos y la capacidad de incorporar la incertidumbre como una variable central del proceso.
El desafío de articular una experiencia extensionista a la currícula del taller de diseño
Authors: Bomrad Martín , Gorodischer Horacio , Torres Luyo Silvia , Oliva Mariana
Published: August 2017

En el taller de Diseño III de la carrera Licenciatura en Diseño de la Comunicación Visual, en la Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo de la UniversidadNacional del Litoral, el cuerpo docente trabajó los contenidos curriculares de la materia adaptándolos y aplicándolos a una situación real y concreta en elmarco de un Proyecto de Extensión de Cátedra. El desafío que se presentaba era doble: por un lado, poder cumplir con el proceso de aprendizaje habitual, respondiendo a los contenidos y consignas fijadas en el programa de la materia, y por el otro, atender a las especificidades del caso con el objetivo de satisfacer las expectativas y necesidades reales del comitente. El proceso del proyecto y losalcances obtenidos demostraron que cumplir con el desafío era una tarea posible.
Cuando el territorio se hace texto: protagonizando la Tecnicatura Universitaria en Economía Social y Solidaria en la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes
Authors: Sena Selva , Sansón Dalila , Berón Stella , García Daniel
Published: August 2017

La Universidad Nacional de Quilmes creó en Argentina la primera Tecnicatura Universitaria en Economía Social y Solidaria en 2011. Desde 2012, la Tecnicatura se articula con el Diploma de Operador Socioeducativo en Economía Social y Solidaria, oferta curricular de la extensión universitaria, surgida en el marco de vínculos de la Universidad con actores y organizaciones de la Economía Social y Solidaria. Nos proponemos dar a conocer aquí reflexiones y síntesis conceptuales sobre la formación en las Prácticas Profesionalizantes (PP) de la Tecnicatura y su articulacióncon determinadas experiencias de extensión (por ejemplo: Curso de Extensión).Pretendemos aportar a la comunidad educativa a partir de repensar las prácticas pedagógicas en la Universidad y su responsabilidad social y ofrecer perspectivas analíticas de la complejidad, vínculo con el territorio y fortalecimientode habilidades subjetivas y colectivas desde una experiencia concreta, con la pretensión de escalar criterios y aspectos generalizables a otras trayectorias de formación similares.
Integralidad: tensiones y perspectivas
Authors: Cano Menoni Agustín
Published: August 2017

Universidad de la República. Comisión Sectorial de Extensión y Actividades en el Medio. (2010). Cuadernos de Extensión.,(1). Montevideo: UdelaR. 108 páginas. Disponible en versión digital.
Integración docencia y extensión. Otra forma de aprender y de enseñar
Authors: Boruchalski Valeria
Published: August 2017

Menéndez, G. y otros (2013). Santa Fe: Ediciones UNL. 98 páginas. Disponible en versión digital.
Universidad, territorio y transformación social. Reflexiones en torno a procesos de aprendizaje en movimiento
Authors: Fiorda Luciana
Published: August 2017

Elsegood, L y otros (2014). Avellaneda: Undav Ediciones. 114 páginas. Disponible en versión digital.
Escuela Internacional de Extensión de la UNL
Authors: Buscemi Amelia
Published: August 2017

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Soal Ujian Bahasa Arab dengan Teks Braille: Studi di Pusat Pengembangan Bahasa UIN Sunan Kalijaga
Authors: Harimi Abdal Chaqil
Published: August 2017

This study conducted from a Research and Development (R&D) method developed by Borg and Gall. The step of this research is started by identifying the research problem, then followed by gathering the information/data, design validation, trial of the product, revision of the product, trial of the usage, revision of the product, and mass production. Methods of collecting data used are interview, observation, and testing. Descriptive qualitative model by Miles and Huberman is used as a method of data analysis. The result shows that the Braille questionnaire for final examination (UAS) is accessible for the student with visual disabilities because of the clarity and neat presentation of the product. Therefore, students with visual disabilities support the development of the Braille model questionnaire because they can do the examination comfortably and independently. [Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian pengembangan yang berdasar pada model Borg and Gall yakni research and development (R&D) dengan prosedur penelitian dimulai dari potensi dan masalah, mengumpulkan informasi/data, validasi desain, perbaikan desain, ujicoba produk, revisi produk, ujicoba pemakaian, revisi produk, pembuatan produk masal. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah wawancara, observasi/ pengamatan, dan tes. Analisis data yang digunakan adalah analisis data deskriptif kualitatif dengan model Miles dan Huberman. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa soal UAS Braille ini mudah digunakan dalam arti aksesibel digunakan mahasiswa tunanetra karena tulisan memang jelas dan rapi. Selain itu mahasiswa tunanetra sangat mendukung keberadaan model soal seperti ini karena hal ini akan membuat mereka mengerjakan soal dengan nyaman dan mandiri.]
The Guilded Classroom: Using Gamification to Engage and Motivate Undergraduates
Authors: Gressick Julia , Langston Joel B.
Published: August 2017

There is a breadth of psychological research that points to potential cognitive benefits of game play. Games engage and motivate learners while promoting mastery of skills and content knowledge. Further, thoughtfully applying gaming elements and structures to classroom environments, an approach called gamification, has the potential to optimize learning. This paper discusses theory-driven classroom gamification innovations implemented in an undergraduate educational psychology course and uses a case study approach to understand how these changes impacted students’ in-class learning experiences in positive ways. We will discuss specific interventions, students’ perceptions of these interventions, instructor reflection of the effects on student learning outcomes, and implications for classroom practice.
Shaping your Identity as a Speaker of English: The Struggles of a Beginner Language Learner
Authors: Ortiz Medina Janeth María
Published: August 2017

This paper is based on a study that intended to explore how three young adult learners of English constructed their identities as speakers of English through their positioning in oral tasks in an English class.  It focuses on the story of one of the participants of the study: a beginner female English learner. Data collection methods used included class video and audio-recordings, interviews, and diaries kept by the participants.  Findings indicated that learners’ positioning in spoken interactions not only directly affected their use of English, but also led them to non-linear transformations of their identities as speakers of English. These results pinpoint the need to gain awareness of the centrality of students’ identities in both their learning process and in language teaching practices and the need to observe how positioning operates in the language classroom.
Strategies of Metalinguistic and Recast Feedback on Learner Uptake during Oral Interactions in Upper-Intermediate Level Foreign Language Students
Authors: Tamayo Monica Raquel
Published: August 2017

Corrective feedback has attracted much attention in recent years, this with a particular emphasis on meaning-focused language instruction. In order to compare the effectiveness of the strategies of Metalinguistic and Recast feedback in student uptake during oral interactions, an eight-week quasi experimental study was conducted. This study comprised thirty participants distributed in two classes. One group of 16 students was exposed to metalinguistic feedback and the other group of 14 students to recast. Throughout the study students remained constant in each group, this means they were not mixed. The selected students were aged from 18 to 20 year-old and they were attending the Eighth course of the English Foreign Language Program in ESPE [Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas] during the semester October 2015 to February 2016.  To compare the effectiveness of the two aforementioned feedback strategies, four target structures were adopted, these were: omission of subject, auxiliary use in questions, subject-verb agreement, reported statements. The selected structures emerged from a survey which was administered to a sample of EFL teachers from the Language Center of ESPE.  The findings of the study revealed that learners who were exposed to metalinguistic feedback outperformed their counterparts who were exposed to recast feedback.
Expression of an Activated Form of Integrin β2 Chain CD18 in Cardiac Surgical Operations
Authors: Kudlová Manuela , Koláčková Martina , Kuneš Pavel , Lonský Vladimír , Manďák Jiří , Andrýs Ctirad , Krejsek Jan
Published: August 2017

Background: Myeloid cells are extensively activated in patients undergoing cardiosurgical operations. It is supposed that this activation is more profound in patients operated with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) („on-pump“) in comparison with patients operated without CPB („off-pump“). Aims: To evaluate changes in the expression of a novel activation marker expressed on myeloid cells recognized by MEM-148 antibody. Patients and Methods: The expression of MEM-148 positive myeloid cells was evaluated by flow cytometry in 40 patients who underwent coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) randomly assigned to „on-pump“ or „off-pump“ technique. Results: The relative and absolute number of MEM-148 positive myeloid cells is significantly diminished during „on-pump“ surgery. A significant increase in their number in postoperative period in both „on-pump“ and „off-pump“ patients was found. There were no significant differencies between „on-pump“ and „off-pump“ patients. Conclusions: The very trauma of surgery seems to be more relevant in starting on activation of myeloid cells them CPB itself.
Simultaneous Hydatid Cysts of Both the Right Atrium and Right Ventricle
Authors: Arslan Caner , Cantürk Emir , Duygu Egemen , Bozkurt Ahmet Kürsat
Published: August 2017

Hydatid disease in both chambers of the heart is very rare. Mobile right atrial and right ventricular hydatid cysts were diagnosed incidentally in the etiologic work up for a transient ischemic attack in a 77-year-old man with a history of a hepatic hydatid cyst operation. Transthoracic echocardiography was very successful in the diagnosis of both hydatid cysts. Transesophagial echocardiography and computed tomography confirmed the diagnosis. Both right atrial and right ventricular hydatid cysts were removed under cardiopulmonary bypass to prevent morbidities and potentially fatal complications.
The Economic Rise of China
Authors: Wang Zhaohui
Published: August 2017

This paper examines the symbiotic but asymmetric relationship between the United States as the core and China as the semi-periphery. It argues that China’s policy response in both domestic and international domains after the global financial crisis reveals that China as a rising power is no longer a rule-taker, but between a rule-maker and a rule-breaker that adds incremental reforms to current international institutions.
Chinese Firms’ Troubled Relationship with Market Transformation in North Korea
Authors: Hastings Justin V. , Wang Yaohui
Published: August 2017

The coping strategies that small Chinese firms operating in North Korea have chosen involve insinuating themselves into North Korean political and social networks, and structuring their investments so as to minimize their exposure to North Korean infrastructure, workers, and institutions. As a result, it is unlikely that Chinese firms will be the main drivers of market transformation in North Korea.
The Politics of Population Aging in Singapore and Taiwan
Authors: Sciubba Jennifer Dabbs , Chen Chien-Kai
Published: August 2017

Regime type—from authoritarian to democratic—is an important factor in determining the politics of aging and can explain why Singapore has embraced a “Confucian welfare state” model that emphasizes society’s responsibility, while Taiwan has gone from a similar system to a social welfare state more reminiscent of European countries.
Does a Working Memory Load Really Influence Semantic Priming? A Self-replication Attempt
Authors: Heyman Tom , Goossens Kirsten , Hutchison Keith A. , Storms Gert
Published: August 2017

The present paper describes two attempts to replicate a recent study of ours in the semantic priming domain (Heyman, Van Rensbergen, Storms, Hutchison, & De Deyne, 2015). In that study, we observed that semantic priming for forward associates (e.g., panda-bear) completely evaporated when participants’ working memory was taxed, whereas backward (e.g., baby-stork) and symmetric associates (e.g., cat-dog) showed no ill-effects of a secondary task. This was the case for relatively long and short stimulus onset asynchronies (i.e., 1,200 ms and 200 ms, respectively). The results thus suggested that prospective target activation is, contrary to what some theories of semantic memory posit, not an automatic process. However, the two replication studies reported here cast serious doubt on this conclusion. A Bayesian analysis of all the available data indicated that there is at least substantial evidence for a priming effect in every condition, except for forward associates in the short SOA condition. The null hypothesis is still supported in the latter condition, though the replication studies weakened the evidence for a null effect. The theoretical implications of these findings are discussed.
Sound and the Social Aesthetics of Religious Pluralism in Southern Uganda
Authors: Hoesing Peter J.
Published: August 2017

This article examines sonic and social aesthetics of a cultural movement in Uganda whose innovative ritual strategies articulate a counter-narrative to religious hostilities and adversarial discourses of ritual healing in the country and the region. The Jjajja Ndawula Community takes a distinctive approach to the production of ideas about wellness and the reproduction of social relations to support wellness. They articulate a commitment to practices of ecumenical community presently quite rare in Uganda, crossing both ethnic and religious boundaries in favor of direct emphasis on mutual aid and good living. In particular, this study is concerned with the new sound these ritual strategies establish for a brand of social conviviality that emerges from an older and broader ritual healing repertory called kusamira.
Happiness Is Not Only Your Right; It’s Your Duty!
Authors: Stone E.
Published: August 2017

Salto Quântico is a rapidly growing religious movement based in Aracaju, Brazil. Syncretizing New Age, Spiritist and Christian precepts, the group exposes followers to spiritual discourse and ideology imparted by enlightened spirit guides through leader and medium Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar Machado. Followers are encouraged to embrace the adage, “Happiness is not only your right; it’s your duty!” This article will draw on ethnographic fieldwork and semi-structured interviews conducted in Aracaju in 2012 to depict a profile of the group. It will also critically consider and explore ways in which the group encourages adherents to seek happiness in the midst of the challenges of late-modern life in Brazil, through participation in the group’s spiritual community, progressive interpretations of sexual identity and sexuality, and spiritual discourse around happiness and the combating of depression.
Mimesis on Trial
Authors: Steinberg Justin
Published: August 2017

This essay argues that the celebrated realism of Boccaccio’s Decameron responds to the new prominence of verisimilitude in legal contexts in his time.
Specimen Poetics
Authors: Porter Dahlia
Published: August 2017

This essay argues that the modern literary anthology—and specifically its aspiration to delimit both aesthetic merit and historical representativeness—emerged as a response to changes in eighteenth-century botanical collecting, description, and illustration. A dramatic upsurge in botanical metaphors for poetic collections around 1800 was triggered by shifts in the geographies, aims, and representational practices of botany in the previous century. Yoking Linnaean taxonomy and Buffonian vitalism to Hogarth’s line of beauty, late eighteenth-century botanical illustrations imbued plucked, pressed specimens with a new vitality. Erasmus Darwin’s Botanic Garden (1789, 1791) translated the aesthetic reanimations of visual art into a collection of poetic specimens, spurring compilations that promote a vitalist standard of literary value. By rejecting aesthetic reanimation as the figurative ground for poetic collecting, Charlotte Smith and Robert Southey forward an alternative historical model of literary merit, one grounded in the succession and continuity of representative literary types. These competing metrics for selection and valuation underwrite the anthology as we know it today.
Labor factor barriers to seeking medical services among metropolitan workers: a cross-sectional analysis by sex using the J-SHINE study
Authors: Pei Liying , Toyokawa Satoshi , Kobayashi Yasuki
Published: August 2017

Objectives

There is limited evidence on the relationship between labor factors and the decision to refrain from seeking medical services. This study aimed to examine how labor factors are related to medical service access among male and female workers in Tokyo and surrounding areas.

Methods

We used data from 4,385 respondents to the survey in the Japanese Study on Stratification, Health, Income, and Neighborhood (J-SHINE), an ongoing epidemiologic household panel study. Surveys from 2010 to 2011 were analyzed. The outcome variable was whether or not an individual refrained from seeking medical services. Labor factors included employment type (permanent, temporary, or self-employed), company size (<100, 100-1,000, or >1,000 employees) and occupation type (white-collar, blue-collar).

Results

We included a total of 2,013 people after excluding those with missing data (analysis utilization: 45.9%). After adjusting covariates, we found that men working in small companies were more likely to refrain from seeking medical services than were those in medium or large companies (adjusted prevalence ratio [PR]: 1.19, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.04-1.37). Among women, however, those in self-employment (PR: 1.38, 95% CI: 1.08-1.77) and blue-collar employment (PR: 1.24, 95% CI: 1.04-1.47) were more likely to refrain than were those classified as permanent or white-collar workers.

Conclusions

The relationship between labor factors and refraining from seeking medical services differed among men by company size, and among women by employment type and occupation type.