bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Isolation and Characterization of Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii Strains from Finished Drinking Water
Authors: Menezes Carina , Valério Elisabete , Botelho Maria João , Dias Elsa
Published: January 2020

In the summer of 2015, an intense cyanobacterial bloom producing geosmin/2-methylisoborneol (MIB) occurred in the Roxo freshwater reservoir in Alentejo, Portugal. The drinking water supplied from the Roxo water treatment plant (WTP) exhibited an unpleasant odor/taste and a significant cyanobacteria density was detected in the finished water at the exit of the WTP. Cyanobacteria were not evaluated downstream of the WTP, namely, at the city reservoir. The aim of this work was to isolate and characterize viable cyanobacteria present in finished water (exit of the WTP and city reservoir) that withstand conventional water treatment. Treated water samples collected at both sites were inoculated in Z8 culture medium to provide the conditions for putative cyanobacterial growth. After 30 days, filamentous cyanobacteria were observed in cultures inoculated with samples from the exit point of the WTP. Viable trichomes were isolated and identified as Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii by morphometric and molecular analysis. None of the isolates were cylindrospermopsin/microcystin producers, as confirmed by ELISA and amplification of corresponding genes (PS/PKS and mcyA-cd/mcyAB/mcyB). ELISA results were positive for saxitoxin, but saxitoxin and derivatives were not detected by liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection (LC-FLD), nor were their related genes (sxtA/sxtA4/sxtB/sxtM/sxtPer/sxtI). To our knowledge, this is the first report on the establishment of cultures of C. raciborskii that resisted water treatment processes.
Evaluation of the LIAISON XL Zika Capture IgM II for the Diagnosis of Zika Virus Infections
Authors: Pérez-Olmeda Mayte , Sánchez-Seco María Paz , Vázquez Ana , Balfagón Pilar , de la Fuente Jesús , Murillo María Ángeles , Minguito Teodora , de Ory Fernando
Published: January 2020

The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance characteristics of the LIAISON XL Zika Capture IgM II. For this purpose we tested 128 samples obtained from recent infections caused by the Zika (ZIKV; 74 samples), dengue (DENV; 10 samples), chikungunya (CHIK V; 11 samples), rubella (RUBV; 10 samples) and measles (MeV; 10 samples) viruses, as well as human parvovirus B19 (HPVB19; 13 samples). The results of the assay under evaluation are compared with those obtained from an indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) assay, and the discrepancies are resolved by considering other laboratory results (PCR and a plaque-reduction neutralization test). The LIAISON showed excellent sensitivity (100%). The specificity (91.25%) was hampered by some false-positive results in recent dengue virus, chikungunya virus, measles virus and human parvovirus B19 infections. The method evaluated is adequate, but the low specificity makes it necessary to consider the clinical and epidemiological contexts of patients, as well as other laboratory results.
Obstetric Ultrasonography to Detect Fetal Abnormalities in a Mouse Model for Zika Virus Infection
Authors: Forster Dominik , Schwarz Jan Hendrik , Brosinski Katrin , Kalinke Ulrich , Sutter Gerd , Volz Asisa
Published: January 2020

In 2015 Zika virus (ZIKV) emerged for the first time in South America. The following ZIKV epidemic resulted in the appearance of a clinical phenotype with microcephaly and other severe malformations in newborns. So far, mechanisms of ZIKV induced damage to the fetus are not completely understood. Previous data suggest that ZIKV may bypass the placenta to reach the fetus. Thus, animal models for ZIKV infection are important to facilitate studies about ZIKV infection during pregnancy. Here, we used ultrasound based imaging (USI) to characterize ZIKV induced pathogenesis in the pregnant Type I interferon receptor-deficient (IFNAR-/-) mouse model. Based on USI we suggest the placenta to be a primary target organ of ZIKV infection enabling ZIKV spreading to the fetus. Moreover, in addition to direct infection of the fetus, the placental ZIKV infection may cause an indirect damage to the fetus through reduced uteroplacental perfusion leading to intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) and fetal complications as early as embryonic day (ED) 12.5. Our data confirmed the capability of USI to characterize ZIKV induced modifications in mouse fetuses. Data from further studies using USI to monitor ZIKV infections will contribute to a better understanding of ZIKV infection in pregnant IFNAR-/- mice.
Numerical Investigation of Vortex Induced Vibration for Submerged Floating Tunnel under Different Reynolds Numbers
Authors: Jin Ruijia , Liu Mingming , Geng Baolei , Jin Xin , Zhang Huaqing , Liu Yong
Published: January 2020

A 2D numerical model was established to investigate vortex induced vibration (VIV) for submerged floating tunnel (SFT) by solving incompressible viscous Reynolds average Navier-Stokes equations in the frame of Abitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE). The numerical model was closed by solving SST k-ω turbulence model. The present numerical model was firstly validated by comparing with published experimental data, and the comparison shows that good achievement is obtained. Then, the numerical model is used to investigate VIV for SFT under current. In the simulation, the SFT was allowed to oscillate in cross flow direction only under the constraint of spring and damping. The force coefficients and motion of SFT were obtained under different reduced velocity. Further research showed that Reynolds number has not only a great influence on the vibration amplitude and ‘lock-in’ region, but also on the force coefficients on of the SFT. A large Reynolds number results in a relatively small ‘lock-in’ region and force coefficient.
Exploring Proper Spacing Threshold of Non-Submerged Spur Dikes with Ipsilateral Layout
Authors: Gu Zhenghua , Cao Xiaomeng , Gu Qiaoya , Lu Wei-Zhen
Published: January 2020

Concerning the clustering of spur dikes on river systems, the spacing thresholds of twin spur dikes are important parameters to influence the estimations on the impact scales of spur dike groups and the overall responses of river systems. In this study, both numerical investigations and experimental measurements are proceeded to quantify the influence of the spacing threshold of non-submerged twin spur dikes with ipsilateral and orthogonal layout in a straight rectangular channel. Through dimensional analysis, three normalized indices, i.e., Froude number Fr, ratios of channel width to dike length B/b, and ratios of channel width to water depth B/h are identified as the main influencing factors of the relative spacing threshold Sc/b, i.e., dike spacing threshold to dike length. The simulation results indicate that the similarity of mean velocity along the water depth nearby the tips of twin spur dikes is determined by the criterion of the spacing threshold of non-submerged twin spur dikes with ipsilateral and orthogonal layout in straight rectangular channel. The results also show that: Fr plays the least impact among the three influencing factors; with the fixed values of Fr and B/h, the relative threshold Sc/b sharply increases first and then decreases slightly as B/b factor increases, with which the relationship presents approximately convex quadratic function; while both Fr and B/b are fixing, the Sc/b changes oppositely, i.e., slightly increasing first and then sharply decreasing as B/h increases, which, again presents a convex quadratic function. Hence, the normalized empirical formula of spacing threshold can be deduced by multivariate regressions and verified by the corresponding measurements in good agreements. Such empirical formula further suggests that the reasonable spacing threshold ranges from 24b to 130b, which is wider than the recovery area scales found in literature. The outputs of this study provide foundation for the characterization of impact scales of spur dike groups.
Rural Women and Information on Natural Resources: Rural Women in Aceh’s Struggle for Agency
Authors: Muthaleb Abdullah Abdul
Published: January 2020

Rural women have the potential to mobilize herself and her community towards a sovereign and just rural community. However, rural women frequently face form of discrimination that impede them to achieve their maximum potential. In the midst of forest and land degradation, those gender-based discrimination also prevent women from participating in land and forest governance that is vital for the rural community’s livelihood. An example of form of gender-based discrimination experienced by women in several regions in Aceh is discrimination in accessing public information. This article describes and analyses several Aceh women’s experiences in using the rights-based approach on access to information. The women in this article have used the Law on Public Information as the basis for their advocacy towards the land and forest governance in their residential area. These experiences of the rural women have shown shows that women have not only interests upon the information on natural resources, but they also possess capability, perseverance, and will to obtain such information.
An increase of the mechanical strength and hardness of polymeric materials radiation-crosslinked by X-ray radiation from an gaseous electric discharge
Authors: Novikov G. K. , Fedchishin V. V. , Smirnov A. I.
Published: January 2020

The problem of investigation of mechanical and electrophysical properties of polymeric materials crosslinked by X-ray radiation from a gaseous electric discharge is considered. The effect of radiation crosslinking on the mechanical strength and hardness of polymers is presented by the example of samples of various thicknesses (from 0.08 mm to 10 mm) of LDPE and HDPE made using crosslinking technology by X-ray radiation from a barrier gaseous electric discharge proposed in [1]. Experimental data obtained on samples of low molecular weight LDPE-107-02K and high molecular weight HDPE-271-82K made in the form of dumbbell, cut in accordance with GOST IEC 60811-2-1 from PE plates, are considered. To study the electrophysical properties and the depth of semi-absorption of X-ray radiation from gaseous electric discharge, LDPE and HDPE samples in the form of disks of different thicknesses were used.

The depth of penetration of X-ray radiation from a gaseous discharge into LDPE-107-02K and HDPE-271-82K was estimated.

Comparative studies of changes in the electrophysical properties of mechanical strength and hardness of cable LDPE under the influence of X-ray radiation from gaseous discharge and under the influence of an electron beam are carried out.

It is shown that the mechanical strength and hardness of LDPE and HDPE can be increased by at least 30% and 60% respectively via radiation crosslinking by X-ray from a gaseous discharge.
KETERAMPILAN BERPIKIR KREATIF SISWA DALAM MENYELESAIKAN SOAL OLIMPIADE MATEMATIKA BERDASARKAN LEVEL METAKOGNISI
Authors: Tohir Mohammad
Published: January 2020

The research aims to describe the level of creative thinking ability of students in solving mathematics olympiad problems based on students' metacognition levels by using the qualitative descriptive approach. The subjects of this study were the students at State of Junior High School (SMPN) 2 Jember involving the learning of Olympiad mathematics. The data collection was carried out based on the student's creative thinking ability test sheets, interviews, and observations. Test questions given to the students were mathematics olympiad questions. The analysis of the Miles and Huberman models were used for data analysis. The results exhibited that the level of creative thinking skills of the students in solving mathematics Olympiad questions were 29.41% (less creative), 41.18% (quite creative), 11.76% (creative) and 17.65% (very creative). On the other hand, the metacognitive level of SMPN 2 Jember students were 64.71% at level 2 (aware use), 23.53% at level 3 (strategic use) and 11.76% at level 4 (reflective use). In addition, the literatures indicate that there are several factors affectting the creative thinking skills and metacognition level, among them is an understanding of the information of the problem, compiling an appropriate strategies, skills of the chosen strategy, skills of answer elaboration, mastery of the Mathematics Olympiad material and a tendency to rely on the memorization or imitations based on previous or discussed solutions.
PENERAPAN MODEL ARIMA DALAM PERAMALAN ANAK USIA 5–14 Th YANG TERINFEKSI HIV DI INDONESIA
Authors: Hariadi Wigid , Sulantari Sulantari
Published: January 2020

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is dangerous diseases for humans, and until now has not found a cure. Virus HIV is attacks the human immune system so that someone is susceptible to disease. This causes if someone is infected with HIV, then the person can experience an danger condition, it will even effect is death. In recent years, the number of children aged 5 – 14 years old that infected with HIV continues to increase. Therefore the author was moved to write about the application of the ARIMA model in forecasting the number of children aged 5 – 14 years old that infected with HIV in Indonesia by 2023. With the hope that the public or the govermment can find out the potential dangers of HIV disease, especially in children aged 5 – 14 years old. So that the public and govermment can jointly eradicate the spread of the HIV virus, especially in chidren. the result are obtained that the model that is suitable for use in forecasting is the ARIMA(0,1,2) models, with error value obtained is 0.057429. with the forecast value of the number of children aged 5 – 14 years old that infected with HIV in Indonesia from 2019 – 2023 in a row is : 570.82, 647.12, 734.14, 823.85, 944.83.
DESAIN MOZAIK PADA BINGKAI BELAH KETUPAT DENGAN MOTIF FRAKTAL DAN KONSTRUKSINYA PADA MATLAB
Authors: Roifah Miftahur
Published: January 2020

Mosaics are the artistic creations made from pieces of shape which are then arranged and affixed to a plane and designed using a tiling pattern with a basic pattern of geometric objects.. The progress of science and technology enables innovations especially after the invention of computers, one of which is fractals. Fractals are widely used in computer graphics to create amazing shapes. Mosaic designs can also be made with fractal concepts. The aims of this research are to get the procedure for mosaic design on circle and rhombus frames by hexagon and Pinwheel tiling with fractal motif. The research method covered the design of basic form for mosaic in the interior of circle and rhombus. Furthermore fill the basic form of mosaic wuth some fractal motif. The results of this research are the procedure to design some basic form of mosaic with the following steps. Firstly, divide the interior area of the circle and rhombus. Secondly, identify the symmetrical basic form. Thirdly, design the basic form of mosaic. Whereas procedure to fill the basic form of mosaic with fractal motif with the following steps. Firstly, choose the specify fractal motif. Secondly, fill the motif into each basic form. Thirdly, fill motif on the background. Then the final step is programmed the mosaics with Matlab 7 software.
PENGARUH HARGA DAN KUALITAS PRODUK TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN PEMBELIAN TEH CELUP SARIWANGI (Studi Kasus di Retail Kota Palembang)
Authors: Sari Dewi Purnama , Naruliza Esty
Published: January 2020

Unilever Indonesia produces a variety of products, one of which is SariWangi Teabag. To stay afloat in the competition of SariWangi Teabag must continue to innovate starting in terms of price and product quality. Price is a monetary unit that is exchanged in order to obtain ownership rights or use of an item or service, and Product quality is a necessity that must be maintained and improved if a company wants to exist in sales competition. This research was made to analyze the effect of price and product quality on purchasing decisions partially and simultaneously. This study uses multiple linear regression analysis. In this study the population is infinite. The sampling method used is accidental sampling.The data used are primary data by distributing questionnaires directly to consumers of SariWangi Teabag in Palembang City Retail. The sample used was 272 respondents. The test is done in three stages, namely validity and reliability, classic assumption and hypothesis testing. The results of this study indicate that the coefficient of determination (R2) is 0.505 or 50.5% and the remaining 49.5% is influenced by other variables. The results of this study indicate that 50.5% of purchasing decisions can be explained by variable prices and product quality. Price variable (X1) is 38.6% and Product Quality variable (X2) is 11.9%.both partially and simultaneously Product Prices and Quality have a significant effect on purchasing.
Meeting East Asia
Authors: Motoh Helena
Published: January 2020

The current issue of Poligrafi focuses on this historical period and explores different aspects of the contact with East Asian religions at that time. The text by Chikako Shigemori Bučar focuses on the visits Alma Karlin made to the temples and shrines in Japan and the traces that remain of those visits in her work and her collection. Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik focuses on how Alma Karlin met with Chinese funerary rituals and mourning practices and how she interpreted them. In the third paper Byoung Yoong Kang provides a detailed reconstruction of the events behind an image in Alma Karlin’s collection that depicts a Korean funeral. In the fourth paper, Klara Hrvatin analyses Japanese musical instruments from the collection of Alma Karlin and their relation to religious music. The last paper, by Helena Motoh, talks about the many ways in which Confucian tradition was understood and interpreted in pre-WWII Slovenia.
THE APPLICATION OF QAWALIB METHOD TO IMPROVE THE SKILL OF WRITING SIMPLE SENTENCES IN BAHASA ARAB MU’ASIROH AMONG FORM TWO STUDENTS, SEKOLAH AGAMA MENENGAH HULU LANGAT, CHERAS, SELANGOR
Authors: Baharum Azlan Shaiful , Md Zyadi Siti Munyra Alhaj
Published: January 2020

The study case of 4 weeks aims to study the effectiveness of the application of qawalib method to improve the skill of writing simple sentences in bahasa arab mu’asiroh among students of secendory religious school. Sample of the study is 32 students of Form 2 Tarmizi studying in Sekolah Agama Menengah Hulu Langat (Sekolah Kluster Kecemerlangan). The questionnaire distributed to the sample to get their response towards the capability to write sentences in Arabic. The result shows that they really like to learn Arabic but the problem occurs in lack of vocabularies and limited words to write correct Arabic sentences grammatically. It hopes that from the suggested method, students can apply in their learning session and help them to minimize their weakness in writing Arabic sentences.
THE INTONATION OF CONDITIONAL AND INTERROGATIVE PROMISES IN JORDANIAN ARABIC
Authors: Alsmadi Khalid , Yunus Kamariah , Almadani Yasmeen
Published: January 2020

This study aimed at investigating the intonation of interrogative and conditional utterances used to perform a promising speech act in Jordanian Arabic through analysing the utterances involved acoustically. Actually, it attempted to figure out the interrogative and conditional constructions carried out in the performance of a promising speech act along with the accompanying intonational patterns. The study data were composed of a definite number of recorded utterances by five Jordanian Arabic native speakers. The data were analyzed using “PRAAT software” (version No. 5304). Focusing on the measurements of the F0 (pitch), the results indicated that a promising speech act would be performed using the first conditional, second conditional (fals promise), formal wh-question and informal wh-question used along with tones such as the high-fall, low-fall, and rise-fall tunes.
CLASSROOM ETHNOGRAPHY: ADAPT OR ADOPT?
Authors: Abdullah Amnah , Ishak Mohd. Zaki , Peters Robert Francis , Kasan Aisah
Published: January 2020

Ethnography, in general, is a methodology that has been well known to many as conducted to study a culture-sharing group that could provide an understanding of a larger issue. However, ethnographic research in an educational setting is defined as research on and in educational institutions based on participant observation and/or permanent recordings of everyday life in naturally occurring settings. Then again, classroom ethnography who possess a family resemblance to ethnography is not well understood to many qualitative researchers in this region. Its value in the body of knowledge is not well understood also. In order to appreciate the value of this methodology, the history and development of this research with relation to science education could better enlighten the research community of its value and appropriateness in this region rich in its diverse culture and ethnicity. Different scholars have different scope and perspectives in understanding ethnography. The aim of this article is to open up new research directions in research methodologies for potential local postgraduates.
MAZHAB SYAFIE: ITS INFLUENCE AND PROGRESSION IN THE ARCHIPELAGO
Authors: Ibrahim Mohd Yusri
Published: January 2020

This article discusses the history of the Syafie sect, the emergence and character of the Syafie sect and the influence of the Syafie sect in the archipelago in the context of the impact and impilations on the Syafie sect on Muslims and the country in maintaining the harmony of the Ummah. This study involves qualitative studies from document analysis including Islamic scholarly books. The results of this study provide a statement that the Syafie sect is an element of the unity of the various societies in the Archipelago. The Shafie sect also had a profound impact on the unification of people of various races and ethnicities by embracing this sect in all areas of Muslim life in the Archipelago.
MALAY LANGUAGE USE IN THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF GENERAL SUBJECT IN PRIVATE HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTIONS
Authors: Mashudi Rohaidah , Razak Mohd Hairul Anuar , Rahmat Hawa , Abd Hamid Nor Huda , Rahmat Nurhazlini , Idrus Azean Idruwani , Wahid J Sham
Published: January 2020

Mata Pelajaran Umum (MPU) or Genaral Subject was introduced at Private Higher Learning Institutions to replace Mata Pelajaran Wajib (MPW). There are several subjects that must be handled in Malay as directed by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia such as Tamadun Islam dan Tamadun Asia, Hubungan Etnik, dan bahasa Kebangsaan A. The focus of this study is given on the use of Malay language in the teaching and learning of the MPU. The purpose of this study is to examine the use and understanding of students in the learning of MPU. Questionnaire was conducted and distributed through google form to 366 students from different backgrounds. The findings showed that there was significant correlation between respondents' perceptions towards MPU and the use of Malay language in the teaching and learning of MPU subjects. Thus, students can understand the teaching and learning of MPU in Malay. The findings of this study can serve as a good move to IPTS to help restore the glory of the Malay language in the country by offering a program through the process of teaching and learning in Malay language.
MAQASID AL- SHARIAH: THE HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND CONTRIBUTION OF THE SCHOLARS OF USUL AL-FIQH AWALIN AND MUTA’AKHIRIN
Authors: Ibrahim Mohd Yusri
Published: January 2020

This article focuses on the history of the existence of the maqasid al-shariah from the era of the Prophet Muhammad S.A. W to the contemporary world. The understanding of the maqasid al-shariah is an important prerequisite for a person to affirm and give the people understanding of the taqlid. This article also looks at how this concept was implemented by the Prophet Muhammad S.A.W especially in interpreting the quranic verse involving legal texts either qat'i or dhoni in new issues that are not qat'i due to the passage of time and current developments. Therefore, this paper concentrates on qualitative research by emphasizing the focus of this study on the approach of the concept of al-shariah in the daily life of the Muslim community in Malaysia in terms of its practice and its approach in contemporary jurisprudence. The results of this paper provide a clear and concise understanding of maqasid al-shariah's interpretations of historical context, applications from the era of the Prophet Muhammad to contemporary times on the need for Islamic jurisprudence to be revitalized in dealing with the issues of taqlid that baset the Muslims.
PERCEIVED SERVICE QUALITY, SATISFACTION AND BEHAVIOURAL INTENTION OF MASS RAPID TRANSIT (MRT) IN MALAYSIA
Authors: Mohamed Monizaihasra , W Ab Rahman N Alia Fahada , Sulong Farizah
Published: January 2020

The main aim of this study was to identify factors that influence the behaviour of consumers of the relatively new public transit system operating in Malaysia, the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT). Specifically, the objective of this study was to examine the relationship between perceived service quality, satisfaction and behavioural intention of MRT users in Malaysia. The structured questionnaire will be used as the primary method for collecting data from MRT users around the Klang Valley. They will be selected based on simple sampling techniques. The questionnaire developed will use instruments taken from previous studies. Feedback from MRT users to be collected at a mall intercept around Klang Valley will be analysed using Structured Equation Modelling (SEM) technique. The findings of this study are expected to help policy makers, especially transport policy to determine the direction of developing the public transport industry in Malaysia to improve the quality of life of the public service users in Malaysia, as well as contribute to the development and economy of the local and national population.
TRANSFORMATIONAL AND TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP STYLES TOWARDS ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT IN THE HOTEL INDUSTRY
Authors: Toh Pei Sung , Liew Wan Joo , Abdul Rahim Iklima Husna , Sondoh Stephen
Published: January 2020

In the hotel industry, high service quality has become a concern to the hotel service providers as a means for gaining a competitive advantage since hotels provide similar services. Apart from that, hotels need to have committed staff towards improving the quality of service. In this context, the organizational commitment of operational employees is necessary for providing better services for the guest. The leadership styles in the hotel industry can provide different motivators that lead to organizational commitment. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to examine the perception of the relationship between leadership styles (transformational and transactional) and organizational commitment. The quantitative approach was applied in this study by using questionnaires through a survey. The data analysis was tested by using the SmartPLS 3.0 software. The results suggested that transactional leadership style and transformational leadership styles have a positive relationship with organizational commitment.
PENGGUNAAN HUMOR DALAM DAKWAH KOMUNIKASI ISLAM
Authors: Wandi Wandi
Published: January 2020

AbstractThe use of humor in da'wah of Islamic communication is something that is widely practiced by some preachers whether it is through religious pulpits or through the internet media called social media, humor is aimed to attract the attention of the audiences and be a part that is always awaited by the audiences in da’wah even though in fact, humor is only a complement in an Islamic da’wah, which is nothing else but to get attention from the audiences. However, the use of humor in the da'wah of Islamic communication sometimes backfires for those who do not pay attention to the standard criteria of humor such as ethical and aesthetic. Thus, based on the results of the analysis of the author that the use of humor in da’wah of Islamic communication is permissible and it becomes a good way as long as the preacher observes that in slipping his humor, he does not forget the propriety set out in the Qur'an and hadith. Keywords: humor, da’wah, Islamic communication
Sprawozdanie z polemiki Leszka Kołakowskiego z Józefem Marią Bocheńskim na łamach „Kultury” paryskiej oraz kilka wniosków dotyczących filozofowania w ogóle
Authors: Breczko Jacek
Published: January 2020

W artykule tym przedstawiam skróconą historię „intelektualnych kontaktów” Józefa Innocentego Marii Bocheńskiego i Leszka Kołakowskiego (pomijam młodzieńczą, ortodoksyjnie marksistowską, napisaną w 1952 roku, krytykę Kołakowskiego książki Bocheńskiego Der sowjetrussische dialektische Materialismus oraz życzliwą recenzję Bocheńskiego książki Kołakowskiego „Główne nurty Marksizmu”). Koncentruję się na zdecydowanej polemice, która pozwala dostrzec różnice filozoficznych stanowisk i „stylów filozofowania”. Zaczyna się ona sporem o znaczenie Erazma z Rotterdamu na konferencji w Rapperswillu w roku 1986; jej kontynuacją była krytyczna ocena książki Bocheńskiego Sto zabobonów. Jerzy Giedroyc w liście do Kołakowskiego zauważył: „Rzeczywiście trudno z większą elegancją zniszczyć autora. Wyobrażam sobie jaka będzie reakcja  Bocheńskiego”. Zaiste reakcja Bocheńskiego była gwałtowna, opublikował w roku następnym dwa artykuły, które były – przeważnie „nie wprost” – zdecydowaną polemiką z Kołakowskim i próbą precyzyjnego przedstawienia własnego stanowiska. Spór ten można potraktować jako ilustrację słynnego rozróżnienia Kołakowskiego na dwa typy aktywności w kulturze: kapłana i błazna.
Harcerstwo na emigracji wobec końca odwilży października ’56 w krajowym ZHP
Authors: Baran Adam F.
Published: January 2020

Od chwili nawiązania kurtuazyjnych stosunków na linii Warszawa – Londyn w marcu 1957 roku, poprzez wymianę korespondencji pomiędzy przedstawicielami władz krajowego ZHP, a przedstawicielem Naczelnictwa ZHP poza granicami Kraju (ZHPpgK) relacje te miały charakter dwojaki. Oficjalne, które ze względu na ostrożność władz ZHPpgK nie zostały nigdy doprowadzone do jakiegoś formalnego sposobu współpracy (umowa, uchwała itp.) oraz nieoficjalnie, o których wiemy jeszcze stosunkowo niedużo. O ile dotychczasowe wyniki badań na ten temat starałem się ogłosić w wydanej ostatnio książce pt. Z tymi co zostali… Harcerskie relacja Warszawa – Londyn (1945–1990) [Warszawa 2016], to publikacja ta – przedstawiające ustalenia dotyczące lat 1957–1959 – ma charakter uzupełniający.Istotną rolę w opisywanym tu okresie odegrały także ówczesne władze światowego skautingu, które w 1957 roku, a potem dwa lata później starały się wzmocnić swoimi działaniami „siłę” argumentów stojących po stronie władz ZHPpgK. Zaproszenie na dwa kolejne światowe zloty skautingu (Jamboree) delegacji Polaków z ZHPpgK, było tego realnym potwierdzeniem i przypuszczalnie próbą naprawienia swoich decyzji sprzed lat wobec harcerstwa działającego wśród Polaków na emigracji. Ostatecznie, w kwietniu 1959 roku w nowo uchwalonym statucie krajowego ZHP (podczas II Zjazdu Walnego ZHP) pojawił się zapis, że organizacja ta rozwija swoją działalność na obszarze Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej oraz, że „współdziała z młodzieżą Polonii zagranicznej”. Był to zapis biegunowo odmienny od tego, który został uchwalony w grudniu 1956 roku na tzw. Zjeździe Łódzkim, tj. że „ZHP wyciąga braterską dłoń do Polaków harcerzy żyjących poza granicami naszej Ojczyzny”. Po dwóch latach „koegzystencji” w zupełnie odmiennych warunkach dwóch organizacji o tej samej nazwie nie było już mowy ani o deklarowanym braterstwie, ani o fakcie istnienia w świecie organizacji, która nadal była pełnoprawnym spadkobiercą przedwojennej organizacji na gruncie legalizmu. Zmiany, które dokonały się wtedy w krajowym ZHP zamknęły w sposób formalny kolejny etap społecznej odwilży, która po Październiku ’56 dotknęła także krajowego harcerstwa. Władze ZHP działającego poza granicami kraju (związane z emigracyjnym rządem w Londynie) poprzez swoją nieugiętą postawę w stawianych ocenach wydarzeń zachodzących w Polsce mogły mieć satysfakcję, że był to – jak często podkreślano – etap w kierunku odrodzenia, a w żadnym wypadku odbudowa ZHP.
IMPLEMENTATION OF FOREIGN EXPERIENCE OF BENCHMARKING IMPLEMENTATION IN THE ACTIVITY OF DOMESTIC AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES
Authors: Yatsiv Ihor , Bobrovnyk Denys
Published: January 2020

Іn the article were formulated a set of basic determinants of the impact of benchmarking on increasing the level of competitiveness of agrarian enterprises by identifying, grouping and describing the content, which allowed to identify certain areas in the activity of such economic entities that have the potential for transformations in the process of using the results of organizational and organizational implementation. benchmarking mechanism. It is emphasized that the results of studying foreign experience is that one of the modern and promising tools for improving the management of the processes of adaptation of the enterprise is benchmarking, which ensures the achievement of a given level of competitiveness in the short and long term.
Performance analysis of the Symfony framework for creating modern web application based on selected versions
Authors: Wójcik Aleksander , Wolski Mateusz , Smołka Jakub Bartłomiej
Published: January 2020

The subject reached in the article is to check the performance of the Symfony framework for creating web applications. An overview of the literature about Symfony and the most popular modules. Based on the created three identical test applications written in the Symfony 2.8, 3.4 and 4.2 frameworks, they were compared with each other in terms of performance. The test application was written in the blog format. The software architecture style known as the API has been used. Related to this, it is possible to conduct scheduled tests. Symfony's performance testing for individual versions was based on, the time of loading data from the database and their search in the data collection, additional tests were to download data from a csv file and save them to a csv file.
WebAssembly as an alternative solution for JavaScript in developing modern web applications
Authors: Suryś Dawid , Szłapa Piotr , Skublewska-Paszkowska Maria
Published: January 2020

The article describes the impact of using WebAssembly on the performance of web applications. A Blazor framework based on WebAssembly was used. The paper shows that it is possible to create fully functioning Single Page Application using C# programming language. The second application was made using Angular framework. Both applications implement the same functionalities. For prepared applications loading time and size of transferred data was measured. The impact of using browser cache memory and gzip compression was examined. The performance of handling http requests using GET and POST methods were measured. The performance of WebAssembly against JavaScript code in task of sorting a list of N objects was compared. The performance of modifying html DOM was examined. Selected code metrics of written applications were compared. JavaScript presents better performance with tasks related with browser API. WebAssembly was better for computing.
Confidence-based Security System for Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad hoc Networks
Authors:   Department of Electronics Engineering, DKTE’S Textile & Engineering Institute, Ichalkaranji. Maharashtra, India., Patil S. J. , Admuthe L. S. ,   Department of Electronics Engineering, DKTE’S Textile & Engineering Institute, Ichalkaranji. Maharashtra, India., Patil M. R. ,   J.A.G.M. Institute of Technology, Jamkhandhi, Karnataka, India.
Published: January 2020

A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is an infrastructure-less network of wireless nodes. The network topology may change quickly with respect to time, due to node mobility. The network is a disintegrated network, activities such as delivering messages by determining the topology essential to be implemented by the nodes themselves i.e., the routing activity will be unified into mobile nodes. Due to the lack of centralized administration in multihop routing and open environment, MANET’s are susceptible to attacks by compromised nodes; hence, to provide security also energy efficiency is a crucial issue. So as to decrease the hazards of malicious nodes and resolve energy consumption issues, a simple confidence-based protocol is built to evaluate neighbor’s behaviour using forwarding factors. The reactive Ad-hoc on-demand multipath distance vector routing protocol (AOMDV), is extended and confidence-based Ad-hoc on-demand distance vector (CBAOMDV) protocol, is implemented for MANET. This implemented protocol is able to find multiple routes in one route discovery. These routes are calculated by confidence values and hop counts. From there, the shortest path is selected which fulfills the requirements of data packets for reliability on confidence. Several experimentations have been directed to relate AOMDV and CBAOMDV protocols and the outcomes show that CBAOMDV advances throughput, packet delivery ratio, normalized routing load, and average energy consumption.
Small Human Group Detection and Validation using Pyramidal Histogram of Oriented Gradients and Gray Level Run Length Method
Authors:   Asst. Professor, Dept. of ISE,DSATM, Bangalore, India, K. Seemanthini , S. Manjunath S. ,   Professor & HOD, ATME, Mysore, India
Published: January 2020

Over the decade’s human detection in security and surveillance system became dynamic research part in computer vision. This concern is focused by wide functions in several areas such as smart surveillance, multiple human interface, human pose characterization, person counting and person identification etc. Video surveillance organism mainly deals with recognition plus classification of moving objects with respect to several actions like walking, talking and hand shaking etc. The specific processing stages of small human group detection and validation includes frame generation, segmentation using hierarchical clustering, To achieve accurate classification feature descriptors namely Multi-Scale Completed Local Binary Pattern (MS-CLBP) and Pyramidal Histogram Of Oriented Gradients (PHOG) are employed to extract the features efficiently, Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) classifier helps to classify the features into human and group in a crowd, To extract statistical features Gray Level Run Length Method (GLRLM) is incorporated which helps in group validation.
Energy Efficient Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks using Mobile Sink Node
Authors:   Assistant Professor, Yadavindra College of Engineering, Guru Kashi Campus, Talwandi Sabo, Bansal Meenakshi , Bathla Ashok Kumar ,   Assistant Professor at Yadawindra College of Engineering, Guru Kashi Campus, Talwandi Sabo
Published: January 2020

The wireless sensor networks consist of numerous small nodes which are also called as energy resource-constrained sensor nodes. The communication of these nodes can be done in a various way. There is also the processing of signal tasks which is done through the various computational resources provided by the networks. The energy of the sensor nodes gets consumed when transmit the data or receive data from the network. To reduce energy consumption of the network various techniques has been proposed which are known as clustering techniques. In the proposed work the mobile sink is deployed in the network which reduces overhead in the network. Experimental results shows that the proposed work outperforms the existing one in terms of reduced energy consumption of the network, increased throughput of the network, reduced delay in the network.
Data Analyzing Immigration to Canada using Predictive Analysis Multiple Linear and Non Linear Regression
Authors:   Department of Computer Science Engineering SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India, Deeraj P. , Kiran K. Hari ,   Department of Computer Science Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India, Varma M. Hemanth ,   Department of Computer Science Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India, Priya J. Siva ,   Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India
Published: January 2020

The immigration to Canada impacts the government in different manner like increase in population, waste, fossil fuel and it also benefits like increase economic growth, trade which will increase the GDP value of Canada, increase in workforce of country, open market, globalization, technologies and adapt to different cultures, food, and people[1] . These would result in a decrease in discrimination and aware about their rights and duties. The immigrants are more interested in entrepreneurship than others [2]. Which would impact increase in development in the country. The work explores the impact of immigration to Canada from all around the world. The top 5 countries that immigrate to Canada is analyzed by using Jupyter notebook. The prediction is done only for the top 5 countries that immigrate to Canada by analyzing the previous immigrants from 1980 - 2013. The multiple linear regression is used to analyze the data.
Impact of Scrum Adoption on Enterprise in Transition for Software Development
Authors:   Department of Computer Applications, Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, India., Buduri Reddaiah , K. Srinivasa Rao ,   Department of Computer Applications, Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Published: January 2020

In every product development companies should be aware about the quality and customer’s satisfaction of the product that they are developing. To get high quality product based on the customer and circumstances of development, suitable process model has to be used in development. Scrum framework is the one which focus on maximize flexibility and minimize transparency in project development. Most of the companies are going with Scrum as it is simple to use and it is a tool rather than process model. When new process models are chosen, they need to be adopted into the enterprise and has to go for a change. As adoption is a continuous process, at least for some period the behavior and new culture of the new framework has to be managed in its early days. When new concept is introduced there should be smooth transition from exiting to new ones. In this work impact of Scrum adoption in developing value-added card products and in financial services is discussed.
In Retrospect of Cloud Security Issues
Authors:   Phd Scholar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kl Deemed to be University, Guntur, India., Arundathi Jvs. , Satyanarayana K.V.V. ,   Professor, M. Tech Coordinator, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kl Deemed to be University, Guntur, India.
Published: January 2020

Popular computing technologies like Distributed ,Parallel ,Grid etc., have already reached their peaks in providing services and now a hybrid aspect is capturing the focus which is a combination of traditional computing technology and network technology and termed to be “Cloud Computing ”.A desperate demand for data sharing and handling enterprise applications have called upon for cloud computing .A blocking wind for leveraging cloud computing technology is the aspect of security .But the passion towards adopting cloud have overridden the security threats. This paper glances over various security threats, risks, challenges along with their resistance capabilities to overcome the vulnerabilities in the cloud and also some of the encryption techniques that are used in the cloud.
Anaerobic Degradation of Raw Coconut Waste for Biogas Production
Authors:   Department of Civil Engineering, BMS college of Engineering, India,, V Priya , C Sampath kumar M. ,   M C,Department of Civil Engineering, BMS college of Engineering, India
Published: January 2020

Disposal of coconut coir waste has been a difficult task for the coir industry. Coir pith is being piled up in the outskirts of the coir industry. A solution to the coir pith disposal is the biogas production from it. Raw coir pith without any treatment was tested for its potential to produce biogas. There was very little biogas generated from raw coir pith. Due to the constraints of high electrical conductivity and high lignin content, direct anaerobic treatment of raw coir pith cannot be an efficient solution. Treatment of coir pith is required for increasing the quantity of biogas produced.
Effect of Temperature on 60nm and 100nm Nanosphere Size Standard using Dynamic Light Scattering
Authors:   Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia., Zakaria Nor Dyana , Karim Izzati Zahidah Abdul ,   Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia., Ahmad Azimah ,   Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia., Hossain Md. Sohrab ,   Environmental Technology Division, School of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Penang, Malaysia.
Published: January 2020

It is difficult to use kinetic motion as a measurement tool without temperature affecting the results. In this study, the size of a known nanosphere was used to monitor the effect of temperature towards particle size determination using dynamic light scattering principles. Temperature deviations are always picked up by size measurement using the principle of Brownian motion. The particle size of 60nm and 100nm polystyrene latex nanoparticles in 10mM NaCl solution was measured at four different temperatures set points of 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40°C using dynamic light scattering mechanism. As a result, the size of polystyrene latex nanoparticles was increased with the increases of the temperature. Therefore, for particle size analysis using dynamic light scattering mechanism the temperature of the test must be maintained at 25°C in order to obtain accurate measurement.
In Silico Molecular Modeling & Docking of Phytochemical Compounds with Odorant Binding Proteins (OBP1) of Culex Quinquefasciatus
Authors:   Asst.Professor, Department of Zoology, University College of Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India., Rao J.Venkateshwara
Published: January 2020

Malaria, Dengue Fever, West Nile Encephalities, Sleeping Sickness, Leishmaniasis, Japanese encephalitis (JE) are the widest large range of diseases causing highest mortality to human beings at Global level and they belong to the group Vector borne diseases (VBD). It is estimated that more than one million deaths were happening every year mostly in tropical regions of South America, Africa & Asia due to these vectors i.e., mosquitoes and mites, which are main disease transporting vectors from one host to another. A remarkable effort has been made to develop various types of insecticides and insect repellents. To control VBD, a bio-defense strategy methods have been employed which were found to be more costly and labour intensive, recurring and time consuming. A new class of repellents were made based on structure based rational approaches of ligand molecules based binding efficiencies with Odorant binding proteins (OBPs) or other olfaction inhibitory compounds with attractive characteristics. But, with very limited knowledge available to screen photo-chemical compounds to design novel mosquito repellents employing a very high-throughput Insilco computational biology methods. Therefore, in this context, we attempted to screen out 3 phytochemicals from different plants exhibiting mosquito repellent activities reported from published literature and various public domains & molecular docking studies, aiming at the Odorant Binding Proteins of Culex quinquefasciatus. The N, N-Diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET) was widely used mosquito repellent chemical chosen as standard reference to validate the binding affinities and specificities of selected compounds aligned with Odoront Binding Proteins. A total of such 50 compounds including DEET were docked against the active site of OBT models or Crystal Structures using AutoDock. Among 5 phytochemical compounds, sum of 3 compounds have resulted in high affinity binding energies & high no of hydrogen-bonds as compared to standard reference of DEET. Among the selected Citronellol, Saponin, and Azadirachtin, are showing the highest docking scores which secure to develop more effective and safer mosquito repellents in future prospect.