bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Assessment of the effect of beaver foraging activities on the alteration of waterside forests in northern and middle taiga of Russian Karelia
Authors: Fyodorov Fyodor 
Published: August 2020

The territory of the Republic of Karelia is latitudinally elongated and traversing two boreal subzones such as the northern and middle taiga. Pine and spruce stands predominate in the northern taiga, while forests in middle taiga are more diverse, represented by secondary stands, and often dominated by deciduous species. These factors define the foraging behaviour of beavers and their role in alteration of riparian forests. Dispersing in the northern taiga, beavers tend to choose waterside areas with a higher proportion of deciduous species. However, such habitats occupy less than 1% of the forested area in this subzone, so the overall effect of beaver foraging on forest stands would be minor. On the other hand, inside beaver colonies, stand alteration is far more pronounced than changes in colonies in the middle taiga, and the effects are the following: 1) waterside forests in the northern taiga lose 2.5 times more deciduous trees than those in the middle taiga (61.4 and 26.3 %, respectively); 2) in waterside stands, aspen is totally removed, the share of conifers is doubled, and the share of birch is reduced (in the middle taiga, the share of birch around beaver colonies slightly increases, and the share of aspen is reduced by a factor of 1.5); 3) beavers in the north of Karelia consume thick birch trees more often than in the south of the region; 4) the regeneration capacity of damaged trees in the north is lower than in the south of Karelia.
Key words: beavers, foraging activities, waterside forests, northern and middle taiga, tree stands
RANCANG BANGUN MEDIA PENGENALAN HURUF HIJAIYAH UNTUK ANAK USIA DINI BERBASIS ANDROID
Authors: Sari Nova Noor Kamala 
Published: August 2020

Learning hijaiyah letters is one alternative to understand Arabic. Basically it is used to read Al-Qur’an in the initial stages. The introduction of hijaiyah letters is an important element to educate the children in comprehending religious knowledge. Therefore, it needs an appropriate learning method or media and exact strategy to deliver it in early childhood stage so that it will contribute well in the learning process.
The purpose of this study is to create a media to introduce and to learn hijaiyah letters with 2D animation on android-based to facilitate that knowledge especially for children. This application is equipped with cartoon characters image and quiz menu to practice children’s ability in recognizing hijaiyah letters. This application can produce sound pronunciation of hijaiyah letters and the children can learn to write the letters as well. This application is created using Android Studio, wavePad sound editor and CorelDRAW X7 for drawing and coloring. The method used is Luther-Sutopo, while the data collection applies literature search and interviews.
This application can be installed on smartphones with the Android operating system for at least 4.2 (Jellybeand) version. The results of the questionnaire show that the responses from the users are in average value of 92.67% so that this application is worthy to be the appropriate hijaiyah letters learning
PERANCANGAN SISTEM INFORMASI PENERIMAAN PESERTA DIDIK BARU (PPDB) DAN REGISTRASI ONLINE BERBASIS WEBSITE PADA SMP NEGERI 6 PALANGKA RAYA
Authors: Oktaviyani Enny Dwi , Dwipitaloka Dilla Ayu , Sylviana Felicia , Licantik Licantik 
Published: August 2020

SMP Negeri 6 Palangka Raya has a new student admission activity every year. The Implementation of New Student Admissions for SMP Negeri 6 Palangka Raya is a routine activity to recruit prospective new students who come from elementary or MI. So far, it is known that at SMP Negeri 6 Palangka Raya, the system for accepting new students and re-registering new students is still done manually, namely prospective students come to school with the registration requirements in the form of a Certificate of Original National Graduation Result, a copy of the Family Card, and a photo
This makes the registration of new students and re-registration is ineffective and inefficient, because a lot of time, money and energy is wasted to register as new students and re-register at the school. Therefore we need a reliable, effective and efficient system that makes it easy for prospective new students who wish to register at the school and re-register when it is accepted to be accepted at the school, and also makes it easy for schools and committees in managing data of prospective new students quickly and efficiently and making credible reports, so that new student registration can be carried out properly
The software development method used is a waterfall, system analysis using data flow diagrams and entity relationship diagrams, program code using PHP and MySQL. Based on the results of testing using the blackbox, the new student admission information system can be used properly
Vida, movimento e memória: linhas de fuga xamânicas
Authors: Dodebei Vera , Andrade Tesla Coutinho 
Published: August 2020

Diante de um cenário social catastrófico, apresentamos alguns resultados de nossas pesquisas sobre o ciclo vital dos objetos ou organismos, tanto no mundo analógico como nas plataformas digitais. De um ponto de vista ecológico, o ensaio se baseia em três enunciados formulados a partir do cruzamento do pensamento de Bergson, Ingold, Deleuze e Guattari e de Kopenawa: a) a vida é transformação permanente, portanto, criação; b) a vida é movimento e pressupõe as condições de penetração do passado no presente; e, c) a vida se dá pelos encontros de corpos no mundo. Buscamos uma convergência possível entre os conceitos de duração, fluxo, malha e rizoma, atentos sempre às singularidades, devires, acontecimentos, espaços-tempos e, principalmente, com o olhar voltado às linhas de fuga que, para esse ensaio, denominamos xamânicas, ao lado das ideias de movimento, vida e memória.
Que(e)rying Youth Suicide: Sexism, Racism, and Violence in Skim and 13 Reasons Why
Authors: Froese Jocelyn Sakal , Greensmith Cameron 
Published: August 2020

This paper troubles positivist and pathological discourses surrounding youth suicide through critical engagement with young adult fiction: Skim and 13 Reasons Why. These texts offer opportunities for readers to dwell on and question youth suicide prevention and intervention through an engagement with affect, gender, queerness, and race. Skim (2008, Groundwood) and 13 Reasons Why (2017) counter ‘it gets better’ stories: they interrogate the inevitability of bullying, question the predictable approaches that schools take in their response to violence, and assert that the issue at hand is more systematic. Together, these analytics que(e)ry youth suicide by asking: how does the biopolitics (or necropolitics) of livability fit into popularized understandings of youth suicide? Read together, Skim and 13 Reasons Why provide opportunities to meaningfully question livability through the characters of Skim and Courtney—two Asian girls who bear the brunt of racist and sexist violence. Skim becomes a ‘project’ of white girls’ anti-suicide campaign and Courtney is barely living as she attempts to secure the plaform of ‘model minority.’ Both girls are queer, too. In its entirety, this paper arguse that popularized models of suicide intervention continue to ignore the pressing needs of queer Asian girls—such as Skim and Courtney.
Scale breaks of suspended sediment rating in large rivers in Germany induced by organic matter
Authors: Hoffmann Thomas O. , Baulig Yannik , Fischer Helmut , Blöthe Jan 
Published: August 2020

Abstract. Understanding the transport of suspended sediment and associated nutrients is of major relevance for sustainable sediment management aiming to achieve healthy river systems. Sediment rating curves are frequently used to analyze the suspended sediments and their potential sources and sinks. Here we use more than 750 000 measurements of suspended sediment concentrations (SSCs) and discharge (Q) collected at 62 gauging stations along 19 waterways in Germany based on the suspended sediment monitoring network of the German water and shipping authority, which started in the 1960s. Furthermore, we analyze more than 2000 measurements of the loss on ignition (LOI) of suspended matter at two stations along the rivers Moselle and Rhine to provide a proxy for the relative contributions of mineral load and organic matter. SSC and LOI are analyzed in terms of the power-law rating curve to identify discharge-dependent controls of suspended matter. Our results indicate that for most studied gauging stations, rating coefficients are not constant over the full discharge range, but there is a
distinct break in the sediment rating curve, with specific SSC–Q domains
above and below this break. The transition of the rating exponent likely
results from increased supply of mineral suspended sediments from hillslope
erosion at high flow and a shift of the organic matter sources from aquatic
biomass-derived organic matter (i.e., high % LOI) at low flow, to
mineral-associated organic matter with low % LOI eroded from hillslopes
at higher flow. Based on these findings we developed a conceptual rating
model for large (>10 000 km2) and low-turbidity (SSC < 1000 mg L−1) rivers separating the mineral and organic fraction of the suspended matter in German waterways. This model allows evaluating the sources of the mineral and organic fraction of the suspended matter and facilitates new insights into the first-order control of discharge on the quality and quantity of suspended sediments.
De ‘Gulden Route’ in de realiteit
Authors: Clercx Maartje , Keulen-de Vos Marije , van Bussel Hyacinthe 
Published: August 2020

The Gold Standard is not reality – The progress of leave during TBS
Rehabilitation of hospitalized offenders is a stepwise process ideally achieved through four consecutive types of leave: supervised, unsupervised, extra-institutional and a probational leave. However, in reality this sequence may often be deviated from. The current study was undertaken to examine the most common deviations and the relationship with how the treatment ended (e.g. positive/negative). File information of 422 offenders previously admitted to a high-secure forensic hospital was used. Deviations from the standard sequence are relatively common. Probational leave is often missing, and one in ten sequences contains a suspension of leave. The relevance for forensic and legal professionals is discussed.
Nut en noodzaak van toezicht op artificiële intelligentie
Authors: van Bruggen Frans , Beckers Joep 
Published: August 2020

Nut en noodzaak van toezicht op artificiële intelligentie
Artificiële intelligentie (AI) is een revolutionaire technologie die een grote impact heeft op ons leven. Naast de aanzienlijke voordelen die AI ons oplevert, gaan ook significante risico’s met deze ontwikkeling gepaard. Tegen deze achtergrond zien we dat steeds meer toezichthouders zich aantoonbaar bezighouden met AI. De hamvraag voor veel toezichthouders is hoe zij zich moeten verhouden tot AI. Dit is geen eenvoudige zoektocht. Met onze bijdrage hopen wij deze zoektocht te faciliteren door de risico’s die gepaard gaan met AI-toepassingen overzichtelijk op een rijtje te zetten en vervolgens een zestal handvatten aan te reiken die toezichthouders kunnen gebruiken bij het inrichten van hun toezicht op AI.
Kijken naar het toezicht op de politie
Authors: Helsloot Ira , van Lochem Peter 
Published: August 2020

Kijken naar het toezicht op de politie
De Inspectie Justitie en Veiligheid (Inspectie JenV) houdt toezicht op de politie. In dit artikel kijken we of dat toezicht voldoet aan daaraan te stellen eisen van selectiviteit, responsiviteit en prudentie. Aan de hand van de zaak Hümeyra concluderen we dat de Inspectie JenV kennelijk niet heeft overwogen om de evaluatie over te laten aan interne of (andere) externe toezichthouders en zich ook niet heeft gebaseerd op een voorafgaande risicoanalyse (selectiviteit). Daarnaast heeft de Inspectie JenV haar onderzoek maar zeer beperkt in dialoog en interactie met de politie uitgevoerd en niet (ook) het perspectief vanuit de politie in beeld gebracht (responsiviteit). Bovendien heeft de Inspectie JenV geen rekening gehouden met de bijzondere positie van de politie (prudentie).
Digital danning med m-læring?
Authors: Fuglseth Kåre 
Published: August 2020

Sammendrag: Artikkelen presenterer og drøftar m-læring i lys av danningsdidaktiske teoriar for å utvikle kunnskap om lærarens profesjonsfaglege digitale kompetanse. M-læring er læring med mobile einingar som mobiltelefon og nettbrett. Artikkelen byggjer på resultat frå eit prosjekt gjennomført blant RLE-lærarstudentar om digitale læringsressursar i filosofi- og etikkundervisning. I utgangspunktet starta prosjektet med ei skeptisk haldning, men vi vart positivt overraska. Terskelen for bruken er særs låg, og dei teknologiske løysingane er stabile, enkle og intuitive. Særleg dei kreative og aktiviserande verktøy som ligg i desse, gjev nyttig danningspotensiale. Artikkelen viser òg til ei rad klassiske danningsdidaktiske problemstillingar som i møte med digital teknologi får ny aktualitet, og som er til god hjelp for læraren. Det er lett å gløyme at innhaldselementet i undervisninga legg premiss for undervisningsmetoden. Danningsteorien om undervisning som «peiking» frå den tyske pedagogen Klaus Prange blir ei særleg god hjelp til å forstå det som skjer i m-læring.
Nøkkelord: IKT, danning, m-læring, religion og livssyn, etikk, filosofisk samtale, dybdelæring
La educación ambiental en la agenda de las políticas públicas brasileñas: un análisis desde el concepto de ciclo político
Authors: Vieira Solange Reiguel , De Morais Josmaria Lopes , Torales-Campos Marilia Andrade 
Published: August 2020

Este articulo presenta una revisión analítica de la agenda política de la Educación Ambiental (EA) en Brasil. Tiene el objetivo de apoyar una (re)elaboración de la evaluación de los resultados y de los procesos de EA, por medio del ciclo de políticas (Ball & Bowe, 1992). La Educación Ambiental ha estado en la agenda política brasileña desde 1970, donde el problema ambiental se ha convertido en una agenda importante para los organismos internacionales. El análisis muestra que la noción de sustentabilidad ambiental está contemplada en los textos de la legislación y determina su presencia en los debates sociales y en sistema de enseñanza brasileño. Sin embargo, la Educación Ambiental hoy en día ha sufrido un silenciamiento y una desarticulación institucional a nivel federal. Se deduce que la Educación Ambiental tiene una fuerza importante en el contexto escolar, lo que favorece el desempeño/implementación y desarrollo de procesos de evaluación de las políticas públicas.
Exploring Constraints Faced by Women Entrepreneur in India: An Overview
Authors: Chunera Anjali 
Published: August 2020

Background: Women entrepreneurship is essential for societal as well as country development. But women entrepreneurs in India come across multiple challenges which obstruct them from working.
Aims: This study aims to investigate the constraints faced by women entrepreneurs in India. The paper engages in a comparative literature review of constraints from several states in India.
Methods: A cross selection survey.
Results: The major constraints faced by women entrepreneurs in India are the social constraints like gender inequality and discrimination, family discouragement, lack of social acceptance and male dominance, etc. Personal constraints include lack of self-confidence, motivation and risk-bearing capacity, dual role performance at home and job, fear of failure and criticism and many more, financial constraints were inadequacy of working capital, lack of awareness of sources of finance, lack of credit facility and lack of knowledge about finance etc., and environmental constraints like inadequate institutional support, non-availability of good workers/employees, lack of managerial education etc. hamper the pathway of women entrepreneurs.
Conclusion and Recommendation: This study makes certain recommendation such as constraints faced by women entrepreneurs need to be addressed as top priorities to have unhampered women development by conducting gender-specific training, awareness workshops, vocational skill courses, utilization of social media for information dissemination, skill development should be done by government and policymakers should come up with various policies and programmes focusing on creating a conducive environment for the success of women entrepreneurs.
Causality and Causal Explanation: The Constitution of Sufficient Reasoning in Social Research
Authors: Fred Ssemugenyi , Nuru Tindi Seje , Robert Leso Iki 
Published: August 2020

As Social Researchers, we have for the last one and half decades witnessed a disturbing lag in the existing body of literature for causal explanations. The majority seem to contradict and provide no clear-cut explanations about the relevancy of applying causal techniques to understand social patterns. Much as it is true that understanding social processes and patterns is in many ways more challenging than understanding the physical world, social researchers need to provide a justification to these complexities through scientific inquiry using causal techniques and interpretations. Many times social researchers concentrate on the simple linearity between cause and effect and yet its ability to explain reality is doubtable. This sounds to reason that, our focus as social experts should be on what form of social interactions extend over time in the social world to establish the links between cause and effect. Again, how relevant is the available evidence to claim that social factor X causes a change in social factor Y? In other words, is social factor Y a function of social factor X? To establish a scientific conclusion and perhaps shed light on why things in the social world are the way they are, one must logically identify a competent X that can independently predict a change in Y through covariates. In light of this, social researchers can vividly offer logical explanations to various social processes which often seem to be beyond human description.

In this paper, the researchers offer a scientific explanation concerning the various errors in reasoning within the social world and provide a distinction between various types of social explanations, articulate causal reasoning behind social processes, events and patterns in order to draw conclusions that are based on evidence.
Reading Habits of Freshmen of Gedu College of Business Studies
Authors: Wangchuk Chencho , Wangchuk Nima , Sharma Dhanapati , Dorji Phub 
Published: August 2020

Aim: The main purpose of this study was to determine college students’ attitude towards reading against the backdrop of perceived poor habit of reading among Bhutanese students and evidences showing decline in attitude towards reading observed among students as they matured.
Study Design: Descriptive survey.
Place and Duration of the Study: Gedu College of Business Studies (GCBS), a constituent college under the Royal University of Bhutan, during the 2019 academic session.
Methodology: The authors administered Elementary Reading Attitude Survey (ERAS) questionnaire to 500 freshmen.
Results: A descriptive statistical analysis of questionnaires returned revealed a positive attitude towards reading. Specifically, from the two types of reading, the respondents preferred recreational reading slightly more than the academic reading. In addition, an independent-samples t-test revealed a statistically significant attitudinal differences between genders towards reading. In both cases, female-respondents were found more positive towards both recreational and academic reading than their male counterparts.
Conclusion: Analysis of the data revealed that the freshmen of GCBS held positive attitude towards reading with slight preference being given to recreational reading. Also, from the two genders, independent-samples t-test showed that females were more positive towards reading than males.
Determination of Green Tea Recovery Percentage and Its Relation to Different Weather Parameters
Authors: Arefin Md. Riyadh , Hossain Md. Ismail , Rahaman Md. Rayhan-Ur- 
Published: August 2020

Aims: Green tea is one of the most popular drinks and millions of cups are consumed every day in entire world. In Bangladesh, people mainly prefer CTC (Crush-Tear-Curl) black tea but now-a-days health conscious people are being habituated to green tea due to its beneficial effect to health. Since our green tea production is very little compared to black tea production, our concept and knowledge about green tea is also very low. This experiment was conducted with two main objectives: to determine the green tea recovery percentage and to find its relation to different weather parameters.
Study Design: This experiment was conducted by following Factorial Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with four replications.
Place and Duration of Study: This experiment was conducted at Miniature Factory of Bangladesh Tea Research Institute (BTRI) Sreemangal, Moulvibazar-3210 from March 2017 to November 2017.
Methodology: BTRI recommended green tea manufacturing process (Green Leaves→ Steaming→ Cooling→ Rolling→ Drying) was followed in this experiment to calculate the recovery percentage. Weight of green leaves after each stage and recovery percentage were calculated. Monthly weather data of four parameters: temperature (°C), rainfall (mm), relative humidity (%) and sunshine hour were also collected. Correlation Coefficient (r) was calculated by Pearson’s mathematical formulation to quantify the degree of relationship. Linear regression equation was also generated to predict recovery percentages against different weather parameters only when the relationship was significant.
Results: In case of BTRI recommended green tea manufacturing process the average recovery percentage was 19.19% with an average moisture content of 3.72%. Among four weather parameters, temperature (°C) has negative insignificant (correlation coefficient, r=-0.43 and P=0.2523) relation on recovery percentage. But there was a strong significant (P=0.000146) negative effect (r=-0.942) of rainfall on recovery percentage. While a moderate non-significant (P=0.322807) negative relation (r=-0.37) of relative humidity and a considerable high positive non-significant (P=0.073687) relation (r=0.62) of sunshine hour on recovery percentage was found in this study.
Conclusion: Green tea recovery percentage was 19.19% with an average moisture content of 3.72% which can be different with different weather conditions in every month. Among four weather parameters, mainly rainfall was responsible for the variation of recovery percentages in different months.
Monochoria africana N.E.Br. [Family Pontederiaceae]: Probable Reasons for Limited Distribution of This Rare Species in Kenya
Authors: Njenga Peter K. , Muchuku John K. 
Published: August 2020

Monochoria africana N.E.Br. is an extremely rare plant with limited distribution in Kenya. Rare plant species are often specialists for a rare microhabitat and there is all likelihood that Monochoria africana is a habitat specialist. Our research on distribution of this species in Kenya has so far located it in a very small isolated microhabitat in the Tana River delta, coastal region of Kenya. So far, this plant has only been located in one community farm in a small village called Ozi, near Kipini, Latitude 2°30’33’’S and Longitude 40°27’20’’E. The methodology used in this study entailed direct observations, line transects, meander and patterned searches in its narrow area of endemism.
In this short communication, the authors hypothesize various reasons for the limited distribution of this rare species. Viz: diverse edaphic factors, inbreeding depression, low levels of seed set, genetic bottlenecks, specialized pollination systems etc. At the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) department of Botany greenhouses, we have embarked on some studies to try and unravel probable reasons for rarity of Monochoria africana.