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USAGE OF ICT IN EU CULTURE SECTOR AS A TOOL OF CULTURAL PARTICIPATION
Authors: ARDIELLI Eva 
Published: February 2020

Culture is not only an inherent part of human life but it also creates the potential for economic growth, employment and innovation. For this reason, the European Union considers the development of culture sector and Cultural and creative industries as very important. Nowadays the culture sector is confronted with the penetration of Information and communication technologies. The widespread use of Internet and Information and communication technologies implies more participatory behaviours on the side of users, who are increasingly involved in cultural activities electronically.

The presented article is focused on the issue of electronic cultural participation in European Union member countries. The aim is to evaluate the usage of Information and communication technologies for cultural purpose. For the purpose of this aim the selected multi-criteria decision-making method MAPPAC is applied. In the result is presented the ranking of European Union member countries according to the participation of citizens in culture through Information and communication technologies. In the research there was confirmed the importance of Information and communication technologies in European Union culture sector. High involvement of individuals in electronic cultural participation is obvious in developed European Union countries; in less developed countries the electronic cultural participation is habitually lower.
INCLUSIVE GROWTH BY MEANS OF SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAINS: A CASE STUDY OF THE DABBAWALAS OF MUMBAI, INDIA
Authors: George Babu 
Published: February 2020

As India emerges to become a major player in the global economy, it is essential to understand some of the unique business models that have emerged interacting with its cultural economy and found a place in its developmental trajectory. Of these, the dabbawalas of Mumbai is worth a special mention. The dabbawalas constitute a lunchbox delivery and return system that delivers hot lunches from homes and restaurants to people at work in India. Based on primary research and more recent literature, this paper provides updated perspectives on the dabbawala business with special focus on the sustainability of their business model. It discusses the dabbawala system performance along multiple aspects of sustainability. The basis of competitive advantage of the dabbawala business model is presented an emergent phenomenon from the cultural logic of the ecosystem.
DETERMINING THE FACTORS OF THE EMPLOYEES’ INTENTION TO STAY OR LEAVE IN THE SLOVAK'S SMES
Authors: Rozsa Zoltan , Formánek Ivo , Maňák Radim 
Published: February 2020

A large number of Slovak small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are confronted with often-leaving employees. This situation can have a devastating effect; thus, the ability to predict and early detect the employees' intention to stay or leave to another organisation provides them with a competitive advantage.
Paper aims to determine how employer attractiveness influences the employees' intention to stay or leave to another organisation. The online questionnaire survey was conducted to collect data during the September and October 2019 among 357 Slovak SMEs' employees. The employees' values were described by EmpAt's five dimensions scale. Binary logistic regression was used to predict which employer attractiveness factor leads to an intention to stay in the organisation within the next 6 months. Results show that to the employee's decision to stay working for the organisation contribute Application Value (AV Odds Ratio=2.53), followed by Economic Value (EV Odds Ratio=2.36), Interest Value (IV Odds Ratio=2.23), and Social Value (SV Odds Ratio=1.48). We did not find statistically significant associations between Development Value (DV) and the employees' intention to stay or leave (ISL).
This study makes several contributions to extant human resource management literature. First, it extends the research on employer attractiveness and employee retention. Second, it expands the knowledge about the predictors of employees' intention to stay in organisations. On the managerial level, it recommends that the employees' intent to stay or leave should be regularly measured.
El estilo de aprendizaje y su relación con el desempeño académico en estudiantes de arquitectura de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Authors: Cantú Irma 
Published: February 2020

El estudio tuvo el propósito de conocer la relación que existe entre el estilo de aprendizaje predominante del alumno de arquitectura —así como las subcategorías presentadas por Alonso, Gallegos y Honey (estilo activo, estilo reflexivo, estilo teórico y estilo pragmático)— y su desempeño académico, en función de la importancia que, desde el punto de vista pedagógico, sus resultados podrían tener para redefinir los enfoques didácticos en áreas del conocimiento con las características teórico-prácticas como las de la arquitectura y el diseño. Se trata de un estudio cuantitativo, descriptivo y correlacional, que utiliza una muestra probabilística estratificada de 288 sujetos. El instrumento utilizado fue el Inventario de Estilos de Aprendizaje, de Honey-Alonso. Se utilizó la prueba de dependencia P2 (Ji cuadrado), para estudiar la relación entre el estilo de aprendizaje predominante del alumno y su desempeño académico y el coeficiente de correlación r de Pearson para el estudio de cada una de las subcategorías de los estilos de aprendizaje del alumno y su relación con su desempeño académico.
Los resultados obtenidos demostraron que el desempeño académico de los estudiantes expresado por el rendimiento, es influido, para algunos positivamente y para otros negativamente, por el estilo de aprendizaje; se concluye en términos generales que existe una correlación significativa entre el desempeño académico y el estilo de aprendizaje institucional.
Penerapan Logika Fuzzy pada Sistem Cerdas
Authors: Setia Bayu 
Published: February 2020

Logika fuzzy telah dikembangkan sejak lama dan digunakan di banyak bidang oleh para ahli dan insinyur. Pada awalnya, logika fuzzy digunakan di beberapa bidang, hanya, seperti penyakit, mendiagnosis sistem (dalam madicine); pemodelan sistem pemasaran, penelitian operasi (pada ekonomi); kontrol kualitas air, prediksi gempa, klasifikasi dan pengenalan pola. Penggunaan logika fuzzy dalam bidang sistem daya juga telah dilakukan, seperti analisis probabilitas, prediksi dan pengendalian beban, identifikasi kesalahan generator dan penjadwalan, pemeliharaan generator. Makalah ini menjelaskan penerapan logika fuzzy di bidang sistem cerdas.
Klustering Jumlah Penumpang pada Halte Bus Rapid Transit Kota Tangerang
Authors: Dianawati Erni , Yanti Putri Previa , Suryandari Yulia 
Published: February 2020

Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Trans Tangerang is a local public transportation system developed in the main corridor of the Tangerang City area as well as a feeder for Transjabodetabek and rail transport. BRT Trans Tangerang is one part of the Bus Rapid Transit program which is implemented and launched by Department of Transportation. The BRT Trans Tangerang system began operating at the beginning of December 2016. Some problems faced by Trans Tangerang Bus Rapid Transit such as the number of passengers that need to be increased to reduce congestion in the city of Tangerang and the placement of the right bus stops to attract passengers. Therefore, to overcome this problem, data and information about BRT Trans Tangerang are needed to find patterns of passenger distribution. The process of finding this information can be done by using data mining method. Within this method, there is a clustering technique which is useful to clustering all data in groups which have similar data. The algorithm used to classify the data is called simple k-means algorithm. In this study, all the data will be clustered into five cluster. The clustering results have almost the same nature between the data in one cluster, namely the total number of passengers per month, so that by performing clustering characteristics, knowledge of the busy schedule of passengers in one day can help related parties to anticipate the density of passengers on certain days.
Essay: Protection of Civilians (POC) During War
Authors: Afzal Sikander , Rashid Imran 
Published: February 2020

It was widely anticipated that the end of Cold War will herald the general state of positive peace and that the world will yield the benefits of ‘peace dividends’. However, such manifestations were not witnessed. In evidence, between 1989 and 2000, more than 4 million people died in violent conflicts around the world. To this end, Gupta and colleagues (2002) noted that international terrorist attacks increased from a yearly count of 342 (during 1995-1999), to 387 per year (during 2000-2001). Underdeveloped and developing countries bore the major brunt of the violence. Conflicts that were ideological and had their roots in power management were largely resolved through the diplomatic statecraft or through use of military force. However, the conflicts that were unconventional in nature grew and gave rise to more complex and multidimensional intrastate conflicts. The new dimension in these conflicts can be identified through common features that generally include the use and spread of violence on the civilians, causing great loss of life and serious breaches in the International Humanitarian Law (IHL). The history of IHL can be traced to the work of Henry Dunant and Guillaume-Henri Dufour in 1860s (ICRC, 2017). This law has a deep rooted connection with the discourse of the Protection of Civilians (PoC). The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is playing a key role in its implementation along with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The term ‘protection’ encompasses the fragments of International Refugee Convention (IRC) and International Human Rights Law (IHRL). The institutional implementation of this ‘protection’ by the UNHCR and ICRC is clear in their mandate regarding operational strategies. They have developed themselves as the ‘lawfully oriented and diplomatic channels of influential engagement with state and non-state actors.
This essay will focus on the importance of PoC by the armed forces in connection with the aforementioned international institutions. It also highlights the role of civil society and different sections of the civilians and how they are affected during the war. This will be followed with the recommendations and conclusion.
Gender-Based Barriers for Male Students in Nursing Education Programs: Prevalence and Perceived Importance
Authors: O’Lynn Chad Ellis 
Published: February 2020

To meet the recent call to increase the number of nurses by recruiting men, nursing education programs will need to reduce gender-based barriers. No study found has adequately quantified the prevalence and perceived importance of barriers to men in nursing education programs. These barriers create an academic environment that is unfriendly to men. As such, I defined a new construct, “male friendliness,” as a function of the presence and importance of these barriers.The aims of this study were to describe the prevalence and perceived importance of barriers and to develop a tool to measure male friendliness in nursing programs. A pilot tool addressing 33 barriers, which were obtained from the literature, my experience, and a panel of nurse educators, was mailed to 200 male nurses. The findings revealed that seven barriers were importantly different in prevalence between different subsamples of male nurses, and no barrier was rated unimportant by more than 20% of respondents. The similarities in findings between groups of male nurses, diverse in geography, school attendance, and graduation dates, suggest that the barriers men face in nursing school are pervasive, consistent, and have changed little over time. From the findings, the Inventory of Male Friendliness in Nursing Programs (IMFNP) was developed.
Using ground radar overlaps to verify the retrieval of calibration bias estimates from spaceborne platforms
Authors: Crisologo Irene , Heistermann Maik 
Published: February 2020

Abstract. Many institutions struggle to tap into the potential of their large archives of radar reflectivity: these data are often affected by miscalibration, yet the bias is typically unknown and temporally volatile. Still, relative calibration techniques can be used to correct the measurements a posteriori. For that purpose, the usage of spaceborne reflectivity observations from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) platforms has become increasingly popular: the calibration bias of a ground radar (GR) is estimated from its average reflectivity difference to the spaceborne radar (SR). Recently, Crisologo et al. (2018) introduced a formal procedure to enhance the reliability of such estimates: each match between SR and GR observations is assigned a quality index, and the calibration bias is inferred as a quality-weighted average of the differences between SR and GR. The relevance of quality was exemplified for the Subic S-band radar in the Philippines, which is greatly affected by partial beam blockage. The present study extends the concept of quality-weighted averaging by accounting for path-integrated attenuation (PIA) in addition to beam blockage. This extension becomes vital for radars that operate at the C or X band. Correspondingly, the study setup includes a C-band radar that substantially overlaps with the S-band radar. Based on the extended quality-weighting approach, we retrieve, for each of the two ground radars, a time series of calibration bias estimates from suitable SR overpasses. As a result of applying these estimates to correct the ground radar observations, the consistency between the ground radars in the region of overlap increased substantially. Furthermore, we investigated if the bias estimates can be interpolated in time, so that ground radar observations can be corrected even in the absence of prompt SR overpasses. We found that a moving average approach was most suitable for that purpose, although limited by the absence of explicit records of radar maintenance operations.
FORests and HYdrology under Climate Change in Switzerland v1.0: a spatially distributed model combining hydrology and forest dynamics
Authors: Speich Matthias J. R. , Zappa Massimiliano , Scherstjanoi Marc , Lischke Heike 
Published: February 2020

Abstract. We present FORHYCS (FORests and HYdrology under Climate Change in Switzerland), a distributed ecohydrological model to assess the impact of climate change on water resources and forest dynamics. FORHYCS is based on the coupling of the hydrological model PREVAH and the forest landscape model TreeMig. In a coupled simulation, both original models are executed simultaneously and exchange information through shared variables. The simulated canopy structure is summarized by the leaf area index (LAI), which affects local water balance calculations. On the other hand, an annual drought index is obtained from daily simulated potential and actual transpiration. This drought index affects tree growth and mortality, as well as a species-specific tree height limitation. The effective rooting depth is simulated as a function of climate, soil, and simulated above-ground vegetation structure. Other interface variables include stomatal resistance and leaf phenology. Case study simulations with the model were performed in the Navizence catchment in the Swiss Central Alps, with a sharp elevational gradient and climatic conditions ranging from dry inner-alpine to high alpine. In a first experiment, the model was run for 500 years with different configurations. The results were compared against observations of vegetation properties from national forest inventories, remotely sensed LAI, and high-resolution canopy height maps from stereo aerial images. Two new metrics are proposed for a quantitative comparison of observed and simulated canopy structure. In a second experiment, the model was run for 130 years under climate change scenarios using both idealized temperature and precipitation change and meteorological forcing from downscaled GCM-RCM model chains. The first experiment showed that model configuration greatly influences simulated vegetation structure. In particular, simulations where height limitation was dependent on environmental stress showed a much better fit to canopy height observations. Spatial patterns of simulated LAI were more realistic than for uncoupled simulations of the forest landscape model, although some model deficiencies are still evident. Under idealized climate change scenarios, the effect of the coupling varied regionally, with the greatest effects on simulated streamflow (up to 60 mm yr−1 difference with respect to a simulation with static vegetation parameters) seen at the valley bottom and in regions currently above the treeline. This case study shows the importance of coupling hydrology and vegetation dynamics to simulate the impact of climate change on ecosystems. Nevertheless, it also highlights some challenges of ecohydrological modeling, such as the need to realistically simulate the plant response to increased CO2 concentrations and process uncertainty regarding future land cover changes.
Roots of (African American) Rhetorical Theory in Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom
Authors: Bridges D'Angelo 
Published: February 2020

ABSTRACT
This article explores the roots of (African American) rhetorical theory through an examination of Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom. Rhetorical theory in this case is a forcible call for antislavery unity between races that at the same time rejects notions of the body as a racial essence. This essay attempts to make Douglass's rhetorical theory clear so that we can better understand how the key term functions today.
Theory Again
Authors: Mailloux Steven 
Published: February 2020

ABSTRACT
Critical theory is motivated by exigencies internal and external to academic disciplines. This essay discusses some of these motivations, in particular the need to address extreme divisions and polarized conflicts within the wider culture, especially in the domains of politics and religion. Theory can articulate the conditions of possibility for dialogue across radical difference. Such rhetorical theorizing is illustrated in the work of Jacques Derrida and Gaston Fessard, both concerned with political theology. In these two figures, with their different relations to religion and ontotheology, we see notable ways that critical theory emerged out of secular late modernity and its others. That emergence includes a break with earlier forms of philosophical reflection on how communication is accomplished across cultural differences and how the boundary between the secular and the religious is traversed, but the particular content of this transformation also demonstrates a political-theological continuity.
Pleidooi voor het invoeren van incidenteel hoger beroep in het Caribische fiscale procesrecht
Authors: Muller P.E. 
Published: February 2020

Pleidooi voor het invoeren van incidenteel hoger beroep in het Caribische fiscale procesrecht
Met ingang van 2016 kent het Caribische deel van het Koninkrijk een nieuw fiscaal procesrecht. In de procespraktijk werd de auteur geconfronteerd met de consequenties van het ontbreken van incidenteel hoger beroep in dit fiscale procesrecht. Dat heeft geleid tot het schrijven van een kort artikel waarin de situatie met het Nederlandse fiscale procesrecht wordt vergeleken en waarin de verschuiving van het recours objectif naar het recours subjectif wordt aangestipt en wordt gepleit voor invoering van incidenteel hoger beroep.
DNA barcoding reveals incorrect labelling of insects sold as food in the UK
Authors: Siozios Stefanos , Massa Annie , Parr Catherine L. , Verspoor Rudi L. , Hurst Gregory D.D. 
Published: February 2020

Background
Insects form an established part of the diet in many parts of the world and insect food products are emerging into the European and North American marketplaces. Consumer confidence in product is key in developing this market, and accurate labelling of content identity is an important component of this. We used DNA barcoding to assess the accuracy of insect food products sold in the UK.

Methods
We purchased insects sold for human consumption from online retailers in the UK and compared the identity of the material ascertained from DNA barcoding to that stated on the product packaging. To this end, the COI sequence of mitochondrial DNA was amplified and sequenced, and compared the sequences produced to reference sequences in NCBI and the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD).

Results
The barcode identity of all insects that were farmed was consistent with the packaging label. In contrast, disparity between barcode identity and package contents was revealed in two cases of foraged material (mopane worm and winged termites). One case of very broad family-level description was also highlighted, where material described as grasshopper was identified as Locusta migratoria from DNA barcode.

Conclusion
Overall these data indicate the need to establish tight protocols to validate product identity in this developing market. Maintaining biosafety and consumer confidence rely on accurate and consistent product labelling that provides a clear chain of information from producer to consumer.
Strategies to optimize stereotactic radiosurgery plans for brain tumors with volumetric‐modulated arc therapy
Authors: Wang David , DeNittis Albert , Hu Yibing 
Published: February 2020

AbstractPurposePrescription practice in SRS plans for brain tumors differs significantly for different modalities. In this retrospective study, the strategies to optimize SRS plans for brain tumors with volumetric arc therapy (VMAT) were presented.MethodsFifty clinically treated cases were stratified by the maximum target size into two groups (≥ 2 cm in 25 cases and <2 cm but ≥1 cm in 25 cases), which were optimized using traditional LINAC MLC‐based approaches with the average prescription isodose line (P‐IDL) of (91.4 ± 0.6)%. Four to five plans have been created for each case with variation of the P‐IDL from 65% to 90%. The optimization strategies to select an optimal P‐IDL, to use tuning structures within the target and beyond as well as to use NTO (normal tissue objectives), were applied to all new plans.ResultsThe optimal P‐IDL was found to be around 75%. After applying the new optimization strategies with an average P‐IDL of 74.8%, the mean modified gradient index (mGI) and V12 were reduced by 25% and 35%, respectively for both groups. The Paddick conformity index (PCI) was averagely improved by 8%. The average homogeneity index (HI) and focal index (FI) were increased by 22% and 50%, respectively. The mGI was inversely proportional to the PTV volumes. The shape of the dose distribution in target was also changed from concave to convex. The comparison of PCI with historical data from other institutes and modalities shows that the plans in this study have the best conformity near the target.ConclusionsWith the new optimization strategies for VMAT SRS plan of brain tumor more conformal plans in both high and intermediate dose region (~50% of the PD) were created, in which the dose in the core of the target was notably increased while V12 and mGI were significantly decreased, and PCI was improved. The mGI was inversely proportional to the PTV volumes. The optimal P‐IDL is around 75%. The average PCI is the best in this study compared with the published historical data. These strategies are applicable to treatment planning for multiple brain and liver tumors where sparing the tissue peripheral to the target is critical.