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Hippocampal Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress: Novel Target in PTSD Pharmacotherapy?
Authors: Nova Mahendra Agung , Adi Jaya Putra I Nyoman
Published: September 2018

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that occurred in individual who had experienced severe traumatic stresses. This disorder is accompanied by functional impairments in daily activities, comorbidities (such as depression) and increased risk of suicide. Some studies also demonstrate that PTSD is linked to structural and functional impairment of hippocampus. Hippocampal defect has been found in PTSD model, especially in single-prolonged stress (SPS)-induced animal model, with excessive or prolonged endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress-induced neuronal apoptosis as a proposed mechanism. Unfortunately, this cellular event has not been studied and validated in humans suffering from PTSD. Two chaperones known as glucose-regulated protein 78 (GRP78) and sigma-1 receptor (Sig1R) have been demonstrated to exhibit central roles in mitigating the effects of severe ER stress on cell survival. Several selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), such as fluvoxamine and sertraline, are also found to be an agonist and antagonist of sigma-1 receptor (Sig1R) in animal brain cells, respectively. There is also link between antidepressant use and risk of suicidal ideation. Therefore, the authors propose that hippocampal ER stress may be involved in PTSD pathobiology. Pharmacodynamics of currently available therapeutic agents for PTSD and its comorbidities on hippocampal ER stress should be clearly elucidated to promote therapy optimization and drug development.
Profile of Liver Function in Mice After High Dose of Psidium guajava Linn. Extract Treatment
Authors: Muda Iskandar , Atik Nur
Published: September 2018

Psidium guajava Linn. is a cultivated and herbal medicines from tropical and subtropical areas that extensively consume around the world as a food and folk medicine. Recent study showed that extract of P. guajava increased the number platelets in thrombocytopenia mice model. The purpose of this research is to know the profile of liver function after high dose treatment of P. guajava extract in mice. The test of acute toxicity was based on up and down procedure of OECD 425. The 7 female mice was divided into 3 groups. The first group was taken as a control with distillated water treatment, the second group as a test group with 2000 mg/kg b.w of P. guajava. extract and the third group as a test group with 5000 mg/kg b.w of P. guajava. extract treatment. Blood of all mice was collected to analyze biochemical test, including ALT, AST and Total Bilirubin. We found that the observation of biochemical tests by statistical approach is no differences in levels of ALT, AST and Total Bilirubin from control and both treatment groups (p≥ 0.05). The extract of P. guajava is safe for liver function.
Towards the Design and Development of an Embedded System for Detecting Silent Aspiration
Authors: G Anitha , N Sneha , A. P. Krishnaraj
Published: September 2018

This design describes a mobile prototype for detecting silent aspiration in children, people with neurological disorders using various biosignals such the measurement of the respiratory rate, pulse rate and oxygen saturation. Pulmonary Aspiration is when food or other particles enter from the pharynx into the larynx, often leading to pneumonia or rarely, fatal asphyxiation. In some patients with dysphagia, silent aspiration occurs, where the aspirating patient does not show any sign such as coughing at all. It is common in stroke patients and infants with neurological disorders such as down syndrome and cerebral palsy. The prototype provides signals that can be displayed with NI-myDAQ (LabVIEW). The signals are acquired with the help of a prototype respiratory belt tied around the chest containing a piezo sensor that senses pressure sending electric signals that will help analyse the breath pattern of the patient. The prototype is fitted with a sensor for measuring the pulse rate of the patient through photoplethysmography. They are all connected to a primary Arduino Nano Microcontroller based on the ATmega328P. Housed in a portable container which also contains an LCD display that can display the real time data. The device has an alert system by means of an LED and a Buzzer, the LED signals whenever there’s a pressure and the alarm sounds when there is a gap in the respiratory movement of the patient due to aspiration.
Medical emergency management
Authors: Jones G , Bridle C
Published: September 2018

Are oral and maxillofacial surgery staff up to date with their awareness?
Falling from hospital property
Authors: Wheeler Robert
Published: September 2018

Each month we take a close look at a recent legal case with implications for the surgical profession.
Computed tomography in the assessment of the acute abdomen
Authors: Nachiappan S , Mortimer R , Howlett DC
Published: September 2018

Current limitations in service provision and potential future solutions.
Improving surgical recommendations with a little insight from behavioural economics
Authors: White S H
Published: September 2018

Can a better understanding of heuristics and biases enable us to avoid irrationality and improve clinical decision-making both for population healthcare and individual patients?
The BAPRAS Innovation Group
Authors: Dobbs T , Dheansa B , Perks G , Kerstein R
Published: September 2018

We describe the formation of the BAPRAS Innovation Group, the first ever specialty-specific innovation group designed to foster innovation among its members and provide an environment for innovation to flourish.
Curating conclusions in ‘Among Us’: Collaborative Twitter fiction and the implied author
Authors: Segar Emma
Published: September 2018

This article uses the author’s experiences of preparing and curating ‘Among Us’, a 24-hour collaborative Twitter fiction, to examine the role of creators and contributors in producing a consistent narrative with a coherent thematic focus. It draws upon the concept of the ‘implied author’ as it applies to blog fiction and other forms of networked digital storytelling. It outlines the processes that brought participants together, and explores the ways in which they sought out ideological suggestions in the curator’s prompts, predicting, supporting, resisting or commandeering these in their contributions in order to ultimately collaborate on the conclusions and act as a single, recognizable ‘implied author’.
Beyond cinema: Daphne du Maurier’s intermedial experiments in ‘The Little Photographer’ (1952)
Authors: Reynier Christine
Published: September 2018

Among the short stories du Maurier wrote, ‘The Birds’ and ‘Don’t Look Now’ stand out. The first has famously been singled out by Alfred Hitchcock and the second by Nicolas Roeg for their respective film adaptations. The fate of these two short stories confirms Elizabeth Bowen’s statement according to which the short story, apart from being close to other literary genres, such as poetry and drama, developed alongside cinema. Although du Maurier has often been acclaimed as a peerless storyteller, critics have generally focused on these two short stories, especially ‘The Birds’, and almost entirely neglected the others. This article takes a close look at ‘The Little Photographer’ (1952) and explores its affinities with other art forms than cinema, namely, photography. Beyond the motif of photography and the visual qualities of the narrative, the mediating function of photography within the narrative will first be analysed. The manipulative skills of the photographer and the narrator will then be confronted and the dialogue between the art of photography and writing explored. Finally, du Maurier’s ability to work across media will be shown to reverberate on her perception and (re)definition of modernism.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Breaking the imperial-anthropological time
Authors: Generani Gustavo
Published: September 2018

While Dracula can be thought of as a vehicle of British Imperial ideology, the novel also evinces the emergence of a political unconscious which subverts that intention through projections, inversions and displacements, making Dracula both a representation of British imperialism and its other. This is enacted through a conflict between two temporal representations: a linear present time, congruent with a Social Darwinism that postulates western civilization at the peak of evolution and science as a guarantee of social order and progress; and a circular past time, which is associated with the permanence of barbarism and atavism, the supernatural, and religious spirituality returning cyclically with the force of the repressed. At the end of the nineteenth century, the signs of the times are so complex and their limits so blurred, confusing and ambiguous, that they are associated both with the Crew of Light and the uncanny, sublime Dracula. They are symptoms of the crisis of Modernity and the imperial Victorian decay, in which – following Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History – civilization implies barbarism (Benjamin 1985).
Book Reviews
Authors: Jackson Kimberly , Sanna Antonio
Published: September 2018

The Writing Dead: Talking Terror with TV’s Top Horror Writers, Thomas Fahy (2015) Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 168 pp., ISBN: 9781496813251, p/bk, $30.00

Horror Cinema, Jonathan Penner and Steven Jay Schneider (2012) Edited by Paul Duncan Köln: Taschen, 192 pp., ISBN 9783836534581, h/bk, €19.99
Blood effects in Grand-Guignol and horror performance: Making the right kind of splash
Authors: D’Arcy Geraint
Published: September 2018

This is a study of the practicalities of staging blood effects for horror performance with particular reference to the Grand-Guignol theatre. It explores the production challenges in several key examples of staging the Grand-Guignol and the balances between dramatic and technical logistics in the pursuit of horrific realism.
‘I keep saying “brains”’ – posthuman zombie narratives
Authors: Heise-von der Lippe Anya
Published: September 2018

The article reads a number of recent zombie narratives that include conscious/sentient zombies as narrators or focalizers in the light of posthumanist theory (most prominently Rosi Braidotti’s work). The main argument revolves around the meta-narrative construction of these texts, based on posthuman consciousness, suggesting that they allow readers/viewers to engage with questions of the human and its Others beyond the possibilities of traditional, non-conscious zombie texts.
Joke Gestures (Make a Mess, Clean it Up)
Authors: Gordon Melissa
Published: September 2018

Melissa Gordon’s paintings and silkscreens deal with the relation of a body to paint. Her paintings often use as subject matter the material processes of a studio practice. In an ongoing series titled ‘Material Evidence’ she paints reproductions of details of studio surfaces: walls where brushes are wiped, floors with paint spills and tables where colours are mixed. These are painted in pairs and groups with photographic relations to each other such as zooms, crops and pans with repeats and overlaps.

In this visual essay Gordon presents a new body of work made specifically for the Journal of Contemporary Painting entitled Joke Gestures (Make a Mess, Clean it Up). Each piece is made by cleaning a specific surface – a table, a floor of a room, a kitchen counter, etc. These shapes retain their architectural details, showing the edges and gaps created by the negative space of furniture, sinks, toilets, etc. Paint is poured on plastic sheets covering the surface and then the gestures are made by ‘cleaning up’ the mess with sponges, brooms and mops. The plastic remnant is then exposed directly to light onto a silkscreen, which in printing produces a painterly ‘image’ of the act of cleaning. Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Maintenance Art Manifesto 1969! is re-printed to draw attention to the dichotomy that Ukeles sets out between the act of maintenance and production in art and exhibition. Ukeles’ text’s poignancy and humour in a contemporary discourse around the ‘invisibility’ of labour also sets a stage for Gordon’s practice, which is engaged in a feminist discourse: to make abstraction through the bodily acts of maintenance (and through the emergence of the ‘invisible’ image in a photographic medium such as silkscreen) as a humorous take on contemporary painting discourse on authorship, abstraction and vitality.
On the Leper Squint paintings of Michael Simpson
Authors: Price A. R.
Published: September 2018

This text reproduces the lecture on Michael Simpson’s Leper Squint Paintings that was delivered as part of the Culture & Psychoanalysis Seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, in October 2016. The lecture came in celebration of Squint (19), which, three months previously, had been selected as the winner of the John Moores Painting Prize. The Journal of Contemporary Painting is printing this text following Simpson’s solo show at Blain|Southern Berlin in September 2017.
Embedded still lifes: Mexican American heritage in the art of Maria Tomasula
Authors: Kang Soo Y.
Published: September 2018

Maria Tomasula’s oil panel still lifes evoke European painting tradition in subject and in style, but the artist also referred to her Mexican Catholic upbringing as a major source of her art. This article discusses the syncretic nature of her works that are embedded in both European and Mexican traditions. It traces the symbolic use of skulls in the European Catholic teachings and in the indigenous Mesoamerican practices. It also relates her images to the altar offerings that are integral part of Mexican and Mexican American experience. As such, her art represents a more expansive case of Latino/a art and of contemporary American art as called for by Tomás Ybarra-Frausto.
Review
Authors: Maclean Mary
Published: September 2018

‘Kerry James Marshall: Mastry’, The Met Breuer, New York, 25 October 2016–29 January 2017
Application of soil amendments and their effect in the growth of heliconia
Authors: Linares Gabriel Ariadna , López-Collado Catalino Jorge , Hernández-Chontal Mario Alejandro , Velasco-Velasco Joel , López-Romero Gustavo
Published: September 2018

The Heliconias have a great potential as a cut flower and for this reason an adequate management of the crop is important. The objective of this research was the application of soil amendments (Biol and superabsorbent polymers - SAP) and the analysis on their effect in the growth of Heliconia psittacorum cv. Tropica. An experiment was established using a completely randomized design with four treatments and five repetitions: SAP (1 g plant-1), biol (20 mL plant-1) + SAP (1 g plant-1), biol (20 mL plant-1) and one control (without application). A 20 cm rhizome was planted per pot and were evaluated the height of the plant, the number of leaves, the leaf area and the number of shoots were measured. The analysis of variance did not show statistical differences (p ≤ 0.05) between treatments for the variables of the height of the plant, the leaf area and the number of shoots, but statistical differences were found for the variable number of leaves (p ≤ 0.05), and the best treatments were Biol, SAP, and Biol + SAP. With the application of the biol and SAP amendments, it was not possible to increase the plant height, the leaf area and the number of Heliconia shoots. Regarding the application of SAP to the not found significant results in Heliconia, it is expected that treatments with SAP show a better effect in the dry season.
‘Watching the Waters’: Tropic flows in the Harlem Renaissance, Black Internationalism and other currents
Authors: Peake Jak
Published: September 2018

The ‘Harlem Renaissance’ is now a dominant term for what is commonly used to describe a cultural movement that emerged between the First and Second World Wars. The term became the hegemonic around the early 1970s, displacing similar, yet distinct, alternatives including the New Negro, the New Negro movement and the Negro/Black Renaissance.

This essay traces a genealogy of such terms, metanarratives and historiographical currents. The aim here is to demonstrate how the hegemony of the term Harlem Renaissance is linked to its institutionalization as a subject and the rise of Black studies in the United States. The weighting of Harlem as a geographical reference point both localized and nationalized the subject area which resulted in a selective historiography and diminished the transnational dimensions of the New Negro and the Negro Renaissance. The framework is trans-American and the scope transnational, while the chronology covers an inner 1890s–1940s period, and a broad outer period which begins in 1701 and spans post-WWII writing. In marking these flows, this essay problematizes the notion of distinct political or cultural channels of the ‘movement’ or ‘movements’. Recent scholarship attentive to some of the limitations of earlier Harlem Renaissance studies has illustrated the intertwined relationship of political, often radical, and artistic-aesthetic aspects of early twentieth-century black cultural activity and the key role played by Caribbeans. Drawing on these insights, this essay outlines that the transnational aspects of a black-centred cultural phenomenon have been better understood through a greater emphasis on Caribbean cross-currents.
Trends in the ʼLivingʼLaw Development in Russia: The Lawmaking of Other Authorities
Authors: ADYGEZALOVA Gyulnaz Eldarovna , KURDYUK Petr Mihajlovich
Published: September 2018

This article defines key directions of the lawmaking development in modern states that are conditioned by peculiarities of the legal development of society. The Presidential, Governmental and other executive authorities have particular importance for the legal regulation.

Lawmaking problems remain relevant both in legal science and legal activity. Currently, there are many controversial issues in this area, including the correlation between the federal and regional lawmaking, application of sociological methods in the lawmaking process, observance of legislative techniques, identification of law-forming interests and provision of the balance between them, problem of law conflicts, etc.

In this article we drew our attention to two real-life problems of the modern lawmaking process in Russia. In the first place, it is a hierarchical violation of statutory enactments on legal force. Secondly, it is an improper provision of laws with by-laws. In our opinion, the trends in the lawmaking development manifested in the Russian legal system are a consequence of the following factors: political, social and economic situation in the society; the state position on the international stage; internal processes of the law system development.

This research mainly aims to identify trends in the development of the modern law making in Russia.
Actual Issues of Legal Assistance in Republic of Kazakhstan
Authors: AKHMETZAKIROV Nail R. , OMAROV Yerbol A.
Published: September 2018

Legal assistance is an integral part of the cooperation of states. As it helps to provide assistance in civil, family, criminal cases, which require execution of procedural actions in the territory of more than one country. Therefore, the authors considered and considered this important question. The main goal that the author has put before him is to determine the categories of pre-trial investigations. After the analysis of international documents, it was established that the number of cases on which the terms of the pre-trial investigation were interrupted (suspended) for the last 5 years is directly dependent on the number of instructions sent to foreign countries. In some criminal cases, the terms of the investigation are extended without taking into account the time necessary for the receipt of these cases to the law enforcement agencies of the requested state. It was determined that in relation to 11 citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, courts of foreign states were convicted (5 – deprivation of liberty, 4 – conditional punishment, 1 – fine, 1 – with amnesty).
Historical Aspects of the Formation of the Jury Trial in Russia
Authors: BUSHNAYA Natalya Viktorovna , PERSHINA Elena Anatolyevna , KABAKOVA Oksana Vasilyevna , STANKEVICH Galina Viktorovna , CHUNIKHA Anzhelika Arslanovna
Published: September 2018

The relevance of the scientific analysis of the formation of the jury trial is due to the processes of updating the legal system, which are extremely complex and contradictory in legal, political and social aspects. The reform of the judicial system affects the most important areas – economic, social, political, and legal ones. Therefore, it becomes necessary to comprehend the rich theoretical and practical historical experience of Russia.

The complexity of the processes of transformation of Russian statehood makes certain demands – a judicial reform should be theoretically justified both in the context of the traditions of Russian legal doctrines, which will allow proposing new approaches to the study of a legal doctrine, and in the context of the general theory of law, the methodology of which will allow using doctrines of the past for modern research of state-legal phenomena.

The authors pursued the goal of revealing the features of the genesis of the jury trial in the conditions of the judicial reform of the second half of the nineteenth century. Such cognition methods as historical, comparative-legal, system-structural, logical, formal-legal ones have been used to achieve this goal.

During the study, the authors made a conclusion that the historical aspect of the formation and development of the jury trial in Russia created prerequisites for analyzing the ʼadvantagesʼ and ʼdisadvantagesʼ of this form of legal proceedings in modern conditions.

The novelty of the stated area of research is that within its framework, the problems and trends of interaction of Russian juridical science and the reform process in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been analyzed, and this is of great practical and scientific importance. The article focuses on considering the accumulated rich historical experience in order to identify the facets of the interface of juridical science and practice, determine the extent of its influence on the government direction of reforms, the ability to put the achieved level of gained knowledge to good use and respond to the social order of the time. Modern jurisprudence plays the same role; therefore, it is necessary to identify the problems that Russian legal scholars faced in the nineteenth century in order to avoid them now and in future, which is the aim of this research project. Therefore, the article is a comprehensive analysis of the trends of interaction and interdependence of juridical science and the process of in-depth reforming of the Russian state in the second half of the nineteenth century by the example of the formation of the jury trial.
Features of Technical and Criminalistic Support of Investigative Actions in the Investigation of Crimes Related to Terrorism
Authors: CHUKUMOV Galymzhan Baurzhanovich , DILBARKHANOVA Zhanat Rakhimzhanovna
Published: September 2018

This article considers the features of technical and criminalistic support of crime scene examination and interrogation at the investigation of crimes related to terrorism. Technical and criminalistic support of investigative actions as a category of criminalistics is widely studied in works of well known criminalistic scientists. However, the features of this category in relation to the investigation of individual crimes, in particular, the act of terrorism, under Article 255 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, are not sufficiently studied. At the moment, in the context of the activation of Islamic extremism around the world, the investigative bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan must be ready to any of its manifestations, so the research conducted in the framework of the present article is very timely and relevant.

The aim of this study is to identify and explore the possibilities of technical and criminalistic tools in the investigation of acts of terrorism when carrying out the examination of a crime scene and interrogation. The solution of such problems as the clarification of the essence of the phenomena under consideration and their characteristics, and the optimization of the conceptual apparatus will contribute to the achievement of this aim.

The author explores the topic of the crime scene examination and interrogation in the investigation of acts of terrorism, based on the opinions of scholars, legal norms, law enforcement statistics, scientific-practical materials containing the data on the modern technical and criminalistic methods and equipment used in the investigation of acts of terrorism, experience of their application abroad. The author draws a number of important conclusions, in particular, about the necessity for interagency cooperation and involvement in the investigation of a wide range of experts, and puts forward some practical suggestions on the use of technical and criminalistic tools and tactics in the practical activities at the investigation of acts of terrorism.
Mitigation of Cyber Risks in the Field of Electronic Payments: Organizational and Legal Measures
Authors: DUDIN Mihail Nikolaevich , ZASKO Vadim Nikolaevich , FROLOVA Evgenia Evgenevna , PAVLOVA Natalya Georgievna , RUSAKOVA Ekaterina Petrovna
Published: September 2018

The issues of ensuring the electronic payments’ security are currently in the limelight of participants in the monetary system and the scientific expert community. The goal of this paper is to develop organizational and legal measures aimed at improving the security of electronic payments in the Russian Federation.

Research methods include the analysis of retrospective data describing the development of the payment system and electronic payments using bank cards, as well as the method of statistical observations and analysis of secondary data from surveys of Russian and foreign companies covering the information security.

Through solving the research problems, the author managed to draw a number of conclusions:

Dynamic development of the electronic payment system causes the growth of cybercrime and cyber risks in payment systems;

Despite quite active actions of state bodies and the Bank of Russia, the legal framework and infrastructure for electronic payments are still in the development stage;

Cyber attacks cause significant damage not only to financial institutions, but also to companies from a non-financial sector, as well as to ordinary citizens using electronic payment systems.

In the opinion of the author, the key organizational and legal measures aimed at mitigating cyber risks in electronic payments may be measures to form the centralized payment infrastructure of the Bank of Russia, introduce the corporate cyber threat management systems, improve policies and procedures for the protection of personal data at the corporate level, as well as train the employees in the field of information security of electronic settlements.
Features of Financial and Legal Incentives of Investment Activities in the Regions
Authors: POPADYUK Nikita K. , PANINA Olga V. , EREMIN Sergey G. , GALKIN Andrey I. , SAVELYEV Alexander A.
Published: September 2018

Research of features of financial and legal incentives of investment activities in the regions. Methodological basis of the study raised issues were the following: general scientific methods of cognition generalization, analogy, analysis and synthesis, elaboration, comparison, logical method, etc. Conducted interdisciplinary analysis of literature and sources on stimulating investment activities, with particular emphasis given to the Institute financial and legal incentives. Formed the author's definition of the term ʼfinancial and legal stimulus of investment activity of regionsʼ. Studied types of financial and legal incentives of investment activities of the regions. Analyzed regional legislation and judicial practice on the subject of study places financial incentives in the legal field of regional legislation. Identified conflicts in the system of financial and legal incentives of investment activities of the regions. A proposal to optimize the preliminary control of the Prosecutor's offices of the legality of the investment legislation, in particular, the structure of which has different financial and legal incentives of investment activities in Russian regions.
Professional Development of Civil Servants of Russia: Legal and Organizational Aspects
Authors: PROKOFIEV Stanislav E. , BOGATYREV Evgeniy D. , BELYAEV Alexander M. , EREMIN Sergey G. , BARMENKOVA Natalia A.
Published: September 2018

The goal of this article is the study of legal and organizational aspects for professional development of civil servants of Russia and searching for possible ways of improving the existing mechanism of planning, organization and implementation of professional development of civil servants. Methodological basis of the study of the problem of steel General scientific methods such as induction, deduction, analysis, synthesis, grouping, etc. Conducted interdisciplinary analysis of literature and sources on the subject of professional is mand professional development, particularly in relation to public servants. Identified relevant legal issues hindering the process of professional development of civil servants in the context of further education. The proposed solution according to the decision of legal issues, professional development of civil servants. Particular emphasizes placed on finding ways of improving the existing mechanism of planning, organization and implementation of professional development of civil servants at the local level. A proposal about the organization of educational space with in the institutions of various levels of subordination. The leading trend in the development of the principle of professional development of state personnel policies is the requirement for continuous enhancement of the professionalism of the work force through continuous professional development of civil servants, the development of competencies is replaced by installing the development of professional competences and improvement of professional competence. Despite the high level of scientific elaboration of the Institute of professional development of civil servants, as well as the recommendations of the legislator in this direction, the development of modern professionalism of the civil servant becomes the task of the civil servant and the institution where he serves. The study showed that at the present stage, a considerable part of the problema rises in the system of additional professional education of state civil servants, which are by law mandatory. Basically, it is the problems of organizational and legal nature, and their solution requires not just changes at the state and municipal levels, and the drastic reorganization of the existing system of training of civil servants. The beginning of the process can be laid at the local level. In addition to the ʼglobalʼ recommendations for improving the system of professional development of civil servants, a proposal to organize their own educational space with in the institutions of various levels of subordination. The training center will allow not only to optimize the entire mechanism of civil servants' training process and management, but also increase their motivational level for self-development, and the main activities that can increase the efficiency and effectiveness of operations in general
Theoretic and Legal Approaches to the Definition of Religious Extremism
Authors: Rakhimbekov Meiram
Published: September 2018

The article deals with issues related to the effective counteraction to religious extremism – one of the most dangerous types of extremism. The author examines the approaches of Kazakh and foreign scientists to the scientific and practical definition of the concept of ‘religious extremism’. Nowadays there is no clear legislative consolidation of the concept of ‘religious extremism’ which does not contribute to the targeted and substantive resistance to this phenomenon and does not provide a unified, consistent law enforcement practice. The author offers obligatory and alternative criteria (signs) allowing to distinguish religious extremism among other types of crime. It is proposed to fix as a form of extremism-the motivation of citizens to refuse to perform civil duties or commit other illegal acts.
Legal Regulation of Educational Activities in Public Schools
Authors: ROMANOVA Svetlana A. , GULAYA Tatyana M. , GERASIMENKO Tatyana L.
Published: September 2018

In the paper it notes: the quality of education is a series of systemic-social qualities and characteristics that define the system of education adopted requirements, social norms, the state educational standards. The authors believe that quality education depends on the quality of requirements (goals, standards and norms), quality resources (programs, personnel potential, contingent of entrants, logistics, Finance, etc.) and the quality of the educational process (scientific and educational activities, management, educational technology), which directly provide the training. The novelty of this work is that the country's accession to the Bologna process has resulted in the need for corresponding harmonization of the current quality assurance system of higher education to the commitments made. Quality assurance of higher education at the state level is achieved by development of normative-legal, organizational, methodological and other documents regulating the system of state quality control of education. The authors note that in the implementation of many activities that should contribute to quality assurance in higher education. The subject of the study is that the current quality assurance system (external expert evaluation of activities of higher education institutions) is now at the stage adaptation of the national system of quality assurance standards and guide lines for quality assurance in the European higher educatio narea. In particular, the formation of the monitoring system and definition of rating of higher educational institutions, which in the assessment activities of the University focuses on international indicators (indicators). Even today, some universities are turning to international accreditation agencies. The study's findings is that the system of legal acts regulating the functioning of higher education, while maintaining a certain level of state regulation of activities in the field of higher education, provides an opportunity to ensure greater compliance with the professional qualification level of training of specialists for the requirements of the social division of labor and mobility system of training of specialists on the labor market. At the same time, the analysis of normative-legal acts on higher education shows that, despite the progressive legal instruments adopted in recent years aimed at the development of the education system, they still characterized by inconsistency, ambiguity, and the impossibility of monitoring the implementation of certain provisions. For the solution of problems a rising in the process of quality management of higher education, the need for further improvement and development framework. Important measure to improve the quality of education and management is the implementation of quality management systems in higher education institutions.
Models of Institutional Organization of Budgetary Control in Foreign Countries
Authors: SARKISYAN Zhaklin M.
Published: September 2018

The article discusses some of the features, showing that experts distinguish the following models of institutional organization of budgetary control: parliamentary control, administrative control, judicial control. Parliamentary control in the field of Finance to produce to the Commission or parliamentary committees or audit bodies, for example, the chamber. Exercising budgetary control committees have certain features in different States as the order of the information and competence. Administrative and financial control in the public sectors the head of state, government and specialized bodies, in addition, ministries and agencies. Judicial financial control in the public sector carry out so-called judicial or quasi-judicial bodies, for example, the court of accounts in France, Italy, Spain etc.
Liability for Administrative Offences: Standards of European Court of Human Rights and the Current State of the Legislation on Administrative Offences in Russia
Authors: SHISHKINA Olga E. , HABIBULINA Olga V. , REKHOVSKIY Aleksandr F.
Published: September 2018

Recently, there has been a substantial increase in the number of judgments delivered by the European Court of Human Rights with regard to the Russian Federation on the complaints filed by Russian citizens, including the complaints related to the liability for administrative offences. The characteristic tendency of the European Court of Human Rights to qualify administrative offences as criminal acts not only brings into focus the issue of ensuring procedural safeguards for individuals charged with administrative offences but also touches upon material aspects of the relation between criminal and administrative law-breaking in Russia as well as changes the traditional juristic view upon the essence of the legislation on administrative offence. Political and economic reforms of Perestroika and the first post-Soviet decade had a significant influence on the institution of administrative justice. Hence, on the one hand, its current state is caused by objective reasons. On the other hand, the legislator, having quite a broad discretion in determining whether to impose administrative or criminal sanctions in each particular case, has seriously blurred the material boundary between criminal and administrative offences. The problem of present-day legislation on administrative offences in Russia is a material hypertrophy of administrative liability together with continuous reduction of procedural safeguards and guarantees for individuals charged with administrative offences. The procedural norms of the existing Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation cannot provide for the adversarial nature of the administrative trial due to the fact that the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation is not methodologically aimed at regulating administrative (judicial) proceedings.
Peculiarities of the Organizational Changes in Higher Educational Institutions
Authors: Tsay Viktoriya , Kunanbayeva Dana , Sataev Sanat , Skiba Marina
Published: September 2018

The Universities in Kazakhstan are tasked to reach the world level in the development of science and education, which show a clear need for numerous innovations. Against the backdrop of the rapid changes that are taking place today in all spheres of our society, the higher professional education system’s task of innovative development becomes extremely important for achieving socially significant positive results. The development of new approaches is required, the main goal of implementation of which is a sharp increase in the quality of educational activity, the development of science and technology.In this article, the author reviews the main directions of the theory of change management, examines the main directions of changes occurring in the university’s process of introducing innovative educational technologies into the educational process, and there has been developed a model for introducing changes in higher education institutions.
Criminal Law Measures to Combat Violent Crimes: International Experience and National Trends
Authors: ZHOLZHAXYNOV Zhandos Bahtybaevich
Published: September 2018

The article is devoted to criminal law measures to resist criminal abuses related to violence. In modern society, the protection of individual rights and freedoms is one of the most important tasks. Within this task, the most critical issue is that of protection of the individual from criminal violence by criminal law measures. The problems of violent crime, despite all measures taken by the state and society, do not go into the past, but become relevant for modern society. Without exaggeration, they represent a social disaster that threatens the security of the individual, society and the state. The purpose of the article is to analyze the criminal law methods of combating violent crime, to study the criminal provisions relating to the use of violence in Kazakhstan's national criminal legislation and legislation in a number of foreign countries. The article examines the opinions of scientists on the nature and characteristics of criminal violence, the criminal law of Kazakhstan and the legislation of a number of foreign countries in terms of violent crimes, formulates conclusions and sets out the recommendations for the further improvement of the criminal protection of the individual against violent endeavors. On the basis of an examination of the theoretical material and experience of foreign countries in the field of countering violent crime, the author suggested ways of counteracting the mentioned crime, suggesting further improvement of the criminal legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in the sphere of protecting the individual from criminal violence. The main provisions and conclusions of the article can be used in science and practice in addressing crime prevention, comparative characteristics of the criminal regulations regarding violence in Kazakhstan and foreign countries, as well as the subsequent reform of the criminal law in the field of the physical integrity of the individual.
Incentivizing improvement or imposition? An examination of the response to gubernatorial school takeover and statewide turnaround districts
Authors: Welsh Richard O. , Williams Sheneka M.
Published: September 2018

Although state-run school districts and gubernatorial school takeover have become popular turnaround strategies among some states, little is known about how district and school leaders perceive and respond to these changes in educational governance. Using Georgia as a case study, this paper employs sensemaking and exit, voice, and loyalty as frameworks to examine how district and school leaders interpret and respond to the threat of state takeover. Similar to prior studies, results indicate that urban schools and districts largely populated by low-income students and students of color are most likely to be affected by state takeover. Several themes emerge from district and school leaders’ interpretation of state takeover policy, including: (a) principals and teachers are to blame, (b) too many changes, too little time to reflect, (c) lack of trust between school districts and the state, and (d) market-based reforms and the illusion of choice. Although a non-trivial number of teachers and principals have expressed their intent to leave for charter schools or leave the teaching profession in response to the threat of state takeover, voice was the more common response, particularly among teachers in takeover-eligible schools who were more experienced and had students performing well on state tests. There are also noteworthy differences in the response of district and school leaders based on the eligibility for state takeover.
FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG BERPENGARUH TERHADAP KEBIJAKAN HUTANG PERUSAHAAN (Studi Empiris pada Perusahaan Manufaktur yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia Tahun 2012-2014)
Authors: Ifada Luluk Muhimatul , Yunandriatna Yunandriatna
Published: September 2018

Debt policy is one of the most important decisions for the company. It is thus important to figure out the determinants of debt policy. The main purpose of this study is to examine the effect of the size, free cash flow, managerial ownership, dividend policy on debt policy of Indonesian manufacturing public listed firms. Data collected from 195 companies from 2012 to 2014 were analyzed using multiple regression. Current study found that free cash flow and managerial ownership have negative effect on the debt policy. Furthermore, the study also found that dividend policy and company size positively affects the debt policy.
ANALISIS FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI TERJADINYA FINANCIAL STATEMENT FRAUD: PERSPEKTIF DIAMOND FRAUD THEORY (Studi Pada Perusahaan Perbankan Yang Terdaftar Di Bursa Efek Indonesia Periode 2014-2016)
Authors: Nugraheni Nella Kartika , Triatmoko Hanung
Published: September 2018

This study aimed to analyze the factors that encourage financial statement fraud with analysis of diamond fraud theory. This research analyzes the influence of variable pressure proxied by financial targets, financial stability, external pressure, personal financial need, the opportunity proxied by nature of industry, ineffective monitoring, razionalization proxied by audit opinion, and the capability to replace any directors proxies against financial statements fraud. The sample in this research are 105 samples of banking companies listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange in the period 2014-2016. The results showed that the variable of financial targets as measured by return on asset, external pressure as measured by the leverage ratio, personal financial need as measured by the ownership of shares by the board of commission influence the financial statements fraud. The study did not found financial stability pressures as measured by the ratio of change total asset, ineffective monitoring as measured by the ratio of affiliated commissioner, nature of industry as measured by the ratio of change receivables, the audit opinion as measured by obtaining unqualified opinion with explanatory language, and capability as measured by changes of directors influence on fraudulent financial statements.
ADAPTASI MASYARAKAT BAJO TERHADAP PERUBAHAN LINGKUNGAN DI TELUK BALIKPAPAN
Authors: Santosa Endratno Budi , Ramli Muhammad , Hidayati Agustina Nurul
Published: September 2018

This article trying to identify the Bajo people’s adaptation capacity regarding environmental change through vulnerable capacity index calculation and comparative analyze as well. Using indepth interview and fish bone diagram approaching, this research trying to find out the connectivity between new spreading industry activities, environmental change, and how the people can adapt.  We choosing of three Bajo people settlements, located around Balikpapan Bay as the cases study, and also using nine variables of vulnerable society. As the results, we can find if there were some significant physical-environment changes both  on quality and quantity aspects. After calculating vulnerability index, it shows that level of adaptation capacity at Penajam village better than its on Jenebora and Pantai Lango village as well.
ARSITEKTUR DAN DESAIN KOTA HIBRIDA PADA KANTOR POS DAN ALUN-ALUN DI MEDAN
Authors: Rukayah Siti , Juwono Sudarmawan
Published: September 2018

The traditional citi center in Java has a composition of the square. The philosophy of the city is as the center of the country which is lead by the king. The regency cities in Java adopt this concept with the similar composition. In the Dutch colonial era of the 18-19th century, the postweg line is connected the regency cities in Java, with the post office located near the city center. Medan in Sumatra becomes the case to eximen how the architectural concept of the post office and Merdeka field (resembling the square in Java) as the work of the Dutch government at that time. The purpose of this study is to uncover the concept of the post office located at the zero point of the city and Merdeka Field as the square in the city center. By using the historical and grounded research, it is found that Medan is a unique city. The hybrid architectural design of the post office classifies the shape of the old city center in Medan, which has the hybrid concept which has the philosophy  of meeting various cultures. The Java and Dutch concept for urban design is affected by Java, Malay, and Chinese for building design.
Zakorzenienie jako istotny warunek integracji szkolnej
Authors: Tersa Karolina
Published: September 2018

Embededness in local society is one of many factors, that can improve or even allow building inclusive environments at schools. Presented article is a theoretical search for roots of embedednes as a scientific term. It also reviews factors of its growth and distrophy. In conclusion, it shows impact of embededness in local society on level of social inclusion.