bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Widening inequalities in premature mortality in Australia, 2006-16
Authors: Adair Tim , Lopez Alan 
Published: May 2020

Background Increases in Australia’s life expectancy have slowed since 2003. Within this context, it is important to analyse whether socio-economic and geographic inequalities in premature mortality have changed in recent years.
Aim The aim is to measure the extent of and change in inequalities in premature mortality (under 75 years) by area socio-economic status and remoteness in Australia from 2006-16.
Data and methods This study uses Australian death registration data from 2006-16. We identify area socio-economic quintile (Q1 lowest to Q5 highest) and remoteness (major cities, inner regional, outer regional/ remote/very remote) for each decedent. Age-standardised death rates (ASDR) at ages 35-74 and 0-34 years are calculated and smoothed over time.
Results ASDR decline at ages 35-74 years has slowed markedly, and from 2011-16 Q1 ASDRs stagnated. The Q1:Q5 ASDR ratio for females rose from 2011-16 for males (1.97 to 2.11) and females (1.78 to 1.98), and also widened in the Q2:Q5 and Q3:Q5 comparisons for females. ASDRs outside major cities stagnated from 2011-16 and inequalities compared with major cities widened to be 40% higher in 2016. ASDR declines at 0-34 years were quicker than for 35-74 years and inequalities widened slightly.
Conclusions Slowing declines in premature mortality in Australia are accompanied by substantial and widening socioeconomic and geographic inequalities. Without reductions in mortality in lower socio-economic groups and outside capital cities, future life expectancy growth in Australia will likely be hampered.
COVID-19 and Radiologist: Image Wisely
Authors: Mahajan Abhishek , Sharma Prerit 
Published: May 2020

AbstractOn March 11, 2020, coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) was announced as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO urged for international action and co-operation in the following key areas: adequate preparation and readiness; detection, protection, and treatment; reducing transmission; and innovation and learning. As this disease has caused a significant impact on our lives, the health-care workers are the worst hit, both mentally and physically. In such hours of crisis where this pandemic is spreading rapidly, our role is to prudently use the health resources and relieve any extra burden on the health-care workers. This article reviews the role of imaging in the management of COVID-19 and also discusses the recommendations and guidelines for judicious use of imaging.
Bagaimana Menjadi Garam dan Terang Melalui Media Sosial?
Authors: Christianto Victor 
Published: May 2020

Abstract. For those of us born before the 90s, we may often see millennials or Z generations or alpha generations as a group of young people who are less concerned about the environment, absorb themselves because they are too busy with devices and so on. Maybe this is true, because those who were born after the 1990s from childhood have become accustomed to PCs, laptops or devices owned by parents, so the devices have become an extension of their hands. This is certainly not healthy, but also a challenge for us: how to convey the truth of the Good News and especially to be salt and light to that generation? Through this article the author wants to convey how to teach the truth to millennials so that our generation is not lost from contact with them over the times.Abstrak. Bagi kita yang dilahirkan sebelum tahun 90an, mungkin sering melihat generasi milenial atau generasi Z atau generasi alpha sebagai sekumpulan anak-anak muda yang kurang peduli lingkungan, asyik sendiri karena terlalu sibuk dengan gawai dst. Mungkin hal tersebut ada benarnya, karena mereka yang lahir setelah tahun 1990an dari kecil sudah terbiasa dengan PC, laptop atau gawai milik orangtua, sehingga gawai telah menjadi kepanjangan tangan mereka. Ini tentu tidak sehat, namun juga suatu tantangan bagi kita: bagaimana menyampaikan kebenaran Kabar Baik dan terutama menjadi garam dan terang kepada generasi tersebut? Melalui artikel ini penulis ingin menyampaikan bagaimana mengajarkan kebenaran kepada generasi milenial sehingga generasi kita tidak terhilang seiring perkembangan zaman.
Ucapan Bahagia dan Hubungannya dengan Khotbah di Bukit Secara Keseluruhan
Authors: Sapan Naomi 
Published: May 2020

Abstract. The Beatitude is often misunderstood as a beautiful words yet irrelevant and impossible to practice in daily life. However, in the context of the rest of the Sermon on the Mount and Discourses of the entire book of Matthew, the Beatitude is important because the beatitude is the fundamentally values of the citizens of the Kingdom of God. The happiness as the citizen of God’s Kingdom is very began in their inner life because they are be connected to God, so the happiness is only possible if the people have a fellowship with God who extending and flowing His happiness to them. When the people of the Kingdom of God be connected to the world and living in the daily life their function as salt and light to be realized in practical ethics that relating to all aspects of the social and religious community where they are. The condition of 'happiness' is not related to ownership of something material but happiness or be blessed is identical to their identity as citizens of the Kingdom of God. Happiness that begins when someone responds to the calling of repentance and begins life as a citizen of the Kingdom in fellowship with God. Happiness is also not determined by the promise that following. The following promise is a result of their attitude heart as the blessed one. Regarding to the promise, it must be understood as an eschatological expectations; in eschatology "already but no yet", it has begun but its fulfillment is towards to the future and keep them living to be blessed one.Abstrak. Ucapan bahagia itu sering disalahpahami sebagai kata-kata indah namun tidak relevan dan mustahil untuk dipraktikkan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Namun, dalam konteks sisa Khotbah di Bukit dan Khotbah dari seluruh kitab Matius, Ucapan Bahagia penting karena ucapan bahagia adalah nilai-nilai fundamental dari warga negara Kerajaan Allah. Kebahagiaan sebagai warga Kerajaan Allah sangat dimulai dalam kehidupan batin mereka karena mereka terhubung dengan Tuhan, sehingga kebahagiaan hanya mungkin terjadi jika orang-orang memiliki persekutuan dengan Tuhan yang memperluas dan mengalirkan kebahagiaan-Nya kepada mereka. Ketika orang-orang Kerajaan Allah terhubung ke dunia dan hidup dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, fungsi mereka sebagai garam dan cahaya untuk diwujudkan dalam etika praktis yang berkaitan dengan semua aspek komunitas sosial dan keagamaan di mana mereka berada. Kondisi 'kebahagiaan' tidak terkait dengan kepemilikan sesuatu yang material tetapi kebahagiaan atau diberkati identik dengan identitas mereka sebagai warga Kerajaan Allah. Kebahagiaan yang dimulai ketika seseorang menanggapi panggilan pertobatan dan memulai hidup sebagai warga negara Kerajaan dalam persekutuan dengan Allah. Kebahagiaan juga tidak ditentukan oleh janji yang mengikutinya. Janji berikut ini adalah hasil dari sikap hati mereka sebagai yang diberkati. Mengenai janji itu, harus dipahami sebagai harapan eskatologis; dalam eskatologi "sudah tetapi belum", itu telah dimulai tetapi pemenuhannya menuju masa depan dan membuat mereka hidup untuk diberkati.
A Case Study of Internationalization in Chinese Non-government Institutions
Authors: Wang Mei , Conner Lindsey , Rogers Bev 
Published: May 2020

China’s non-government Higher Education sector has experienced 40 years of growth but has faced a range of problems in recent years. There is an urgent need to think carefully about future directions and approaches that non-government universities might take. Internationalization is changing the world of education and has become important strategically for Higher Education institutions across the world. This research explores what internationalization might mean and provides an understanding of internationalization in the context of Chinese non-government universities. Under the internationalization framework in Western academic literature, this study investigates the practice from a case study university in China. Data were collected through semistructured interviews along with document analysis. Participants indicated that internationalization is learning, integrating initiatives for mutual benefit and can be an accelerator for overall development of universities. Furthermore, the government and society need to work together to create a more equitable government policy that positively encourages China’s non-government Higher Education institutions to bolster internationalization.Keywords: China, non-government institutions, internationalization
Marking Schemes for an Authentic Group Project, Trial by Statistics - A Case Study
Authors: Bryceson Kim 
Published: May 2020

This study is an analysis of two different marking schemes for an ‘authentic’ Group Project worth 50% of a first year undergraduate university agribusiness course at The University of Queensland (UQ). A number of different marking schemes for the Group Project had been trialled over the last ten years in an effort to obtain an equitable method of marking individual students doing the Group Project. In 2019, a marking scheme for the Group Project that had been successfully used previously was advertised for 2019 prior to the commencement of semester. However, issues during the semester within some of the Groups meant that students requested a Peer Evaluation marking scheme be employed. Eventually, for a class of 105 students, both marking schemes were used in assessing students’ work and a Pearson Correlation coefficient was run on the results of the final project mark to determine how equivalent the two marking schemes were. A good correlation (0.75) between the two schemes was returned, which was also reflected in a good correlation in the comparison for the final overall mark for the whole course (0.87). These statistical results suggest that there is a good argument for the existing marking scheme to continue to be used rather than a peer evaluation, which can have behavioural issues associated with it that are difficult to resolve.
On strategies to improve student engagement
Authors: García Maria Asunción , Valle Ana María 
Published: May 2020

After Bologna declaration, the change of roles between student and instructor in Spanish Higher Education has meant the search of new strategies to improve student engagement. In fact, they are trying to transform the previous extremely instructor-centred model to a learner-centred model. In this line, many courses of Higher Education have used new learning methods, such as problem-based learning, project-based learning or flipped classroom, during the last decade. Faculty also is able to count on new tools, for example, virtual classrooms. In this paper, we analyse the use of a virtual classroom in an elective course of the Degree in Mathematics at the University of the Basque Country to detect the assignments to improve student engagement and the impact on achievement of competences. We conclude that the inclusion of collaborative assignments in virtual classrooms increases their use and, hence, student engagement. Moreover, the acquisition of competences is also getting stronger, as the percentage of students that pass the course increases.
Helping tomorrow’s social professionals to learn about social robotics
Authors: Share Perry , Pender John 
Published: May 2020

This paper identifies that social robotics and autonomous technologies will inevitably impact on the field of care for human beings. Those currently employed in caring roles, and those about to enter these roles, are generally ill-prepared to respond to this challenge: whether it is to develop the skills to work alongside such technologies or to critically engage with their development. The paper outlines a current Erasmus+ funded international project (PRoSPEro) that brings together social roboticists, educators, learners, practitioners and policymakers in order to develop, pilot, assess and deploy innovative pedagogical materials to address the gap in provision. It also describes a locally-generated learning opportunity within futures studies that facilitates learners to engage directly with these new technologies. The paper provides ideas for strategies and techniques to successfully engage learners from social science and therapeutic-based fields to engage with urgent contemporary technological issues.
Future competencies for digitally aligned specialties: coping intelligently with global challenges
Authors: Libin Elena 
Published: May 2020

The main goal of any education is to prepare students for future professional and life challenges. What is missing, however, from current curricula is the subject that deals with developing core competencies that are cross-cutting and focused on building the skills necessary for any specialties - technological, medical or humanities. Main results from presented joined projects - Robotic Psychology &amp; Robotherapy Study, and the Coping Intelligence Project - build a configuration for a shared knowledge databank on human-technology interface, as well as on how coping intelligence impact academic achievements, professional expertise and life success. Evidence suggests that generalized efficient and inefficient problem solving in college students majoring in science, CS &amp; IT, and mathematics is associated with various profiles that differ by learning experiences with STEM disciplines, academic locus of control, and the level of academic achievements. Furthermore, implementing a coping intelligence approach in academic curricula elucidates the transformative role of core competencies, required for the successful management of risks and challenges associated with a variety of digitally aligned professional activities.
The Challenge of Research Supervision: The Experience of Lecturers in Various Academic Disciplines
Authors: Wright Angela Siobhan 
Published: May 2020

Research supervision is the highest level of teaching for academics. Yet, in many cases, academics are allocated supervision without any formal training. For many supervisors, their supervision approach will be a mirror of what they have experienced themselves at post-graduate levels. Many supervisors consider that this form of teaching is stressful and onerous due to the responsibility placed on it by the Higher Education Institution and the student ultimately. What can be done to support supervisors in their supervisory journey? There is a void in the academic literature on research supervision with scant aids available to the supervisor (Cullen, 2009). Brew and Boud (1995) outline the importance of instructor knowledge; however, supervisors only gain extensive supervisory experience over the years. The aim of this study is to better understand the supervisory process. Data was gathered from 12 lecturers engaged in supervision across various disciplines. Findings indicate that supervisors need to adopt and continually change to differing circumstances and different student personalities while supervising. It is essential that formal supervisory training be provided for all supervisors. The findings from this evaluation are novel and will be beneficial to research supervisors across various disciplines. Keywords: Research Supervision, Multi-Disciplinary, Reflection.
Chart for Flexible Curriculum in terms of Time and Similarity
Authors: Neira Embus Manuel Fernando , Camacho Tamayo Jesus Hernán , Guzmán Pardo María Alejandra 
Published: May 2020

Within the framework of the evaluation of curricular reforms made in the programs of the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, this proposal is designed as an evaluation tool for a flexible curriculum, to characterize the enrollment behavior of students and their possible relationships with demographics and academic success. The principle consists of plotting the median time and similarity coefficients of each student in the program on the axes of a two-dimensional Cartesian plane. On the X-axis, the time coefficient was plotted, consisting in the relationship between the time proposed by the program curriculum for each course, and the time when the student takes it. On the Y-axis, the similarity coefficient was plotted, consisting in the number of courses that were taken at the time indicated in the curriculum grid. The conclusions suggest that, for the program analyzed, there are no demographic biases. However, the findings of this study suggest that even though students seek to take the proposed curriculum with the highest possible similarity, they spend more time than the estimated to achieve academic success
Arranging bodies for photographs: Professional touch in the photography studio
Authors: Mondada Lorenza , Tekin Burak S. 
Published: May 2020

This paper describes a particular form of professional touch, through which photographers taking photographs of their clients/models arrange their bodies and orchestrate their poses. Our analysis demonstrates that photographers adopt a professional touch-cum-vision, which combines professional vision and professional touch. The former is achieved by the photographers adopting a specific perspectival posture, allowing them to see the photographed persons from a distance, in a way that is analogous to the perspective of the photographic eye, that is, to the perspective of seeing through a camera. The latter involves a specific form and trajectory of arms and hands, accountably shaped in a way that enables a touch that is both precise, targeting specific details of the body, and delicate, orienting to the normativity of touching the other’s body. The clients/models can docilely align with the photographers’ touch but can also display more agency, initiating and preempting the arrangement of details of the pose, as well as some resistance, prompting the photographers to minimize their touching interventions and to ask for permission, apologize, and thank.
Data are video recordings of photography sessions in professional studios, in which participants speak (Swiss) German and Turkish.
Creativity in Relation to Academic and Clinical Performance of Dentistry Students
Authors: Chifamba Timothy , Wijaya Christian 
Published: May 2020

Aims: This study sought to identify the level of creativity of dentistry students, to determine if there is a relationship between creativity and academic performance of dentistry students, and to determine if there is a relationship between creativity and clinical performance of dentistry students.
Study Design: Descriptive-Correlation Cross-sectional Study.
Place and Duration of Study: Adventist University of the Philippines College of Dentistry, between May 2015 and April 2016.
Methodology: Questionnaires were used to measure the level of creativity of Dentistry students from the Adventist University of the Philippines then correlations were done with academic and clinical performance. Participation was voluntary and we included 50 of the 63 students enrolled int the clinical phase of the dentistry program.
Results: There was no significant relationship found at the 0.05 level (2-tailed) between both Big C and small C creativity and academic performance of all clinicians with pearson correlation coefficients of -0.053 and -0.003 respectively. There was no significant relationship found at the 0.05 level (2-tailed) between the Big C and the small C creativity and clinical performance of all clinicians, with Pearson correlation coefficients of -0.192 and -0.042 respectively.
Conclusion: The findings reveal that the creativity of dentistry students is below average. They also suggest that both Big C and small C creativity are not significantly relatedto academic or clinical success in dental school. The researchers recommend further study with modified methodology.
Ethnobotanical Survey of Medicinal Plants Used in the Treatment of Cough in Akinyele Local Government Area, Oyo State, Nigeria
Authors: Ariyo O. C. , Usman M. B. , Olorukooba M. M. , Ariyo M. O. , Suleiman R. , Aasa O. S. , Adetunji A. J. , Oni O. B. 
Published: May 2020

Majority of people in developing countries rely on Traditional Medical Practitioners (TMPs) or herbalist, hunters and community elders for the treatments of various diseases and illness due to their vast knowledge of medicinal plant usage. There is need to protect the flora and fauna and also the knowledge database often stored in the memories of elders, ancestral and traditional healers. Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used in the treatment of cough was carried out in Akinyele Local Government with the aim to document plants and indigenous knowledge of local people in the treatment of cough. Eight villages were selected purposively due to the relics of forest in those villages. The villages are Ijaye, Onidundu, Otunagbakin, Moniya, Idi- ose, Apapa, Aroro and Olanla. Respondents were stratified into 2 strata in each of the villages, namely Traditional Medical Practitioners (TMPs) or herbalist and hunters. Within each stratum, a random selection of 10 respondents were carried out thereby making 20 respondents in each village and total number of 160 respondents as sample size. Semi structured questionnaire was used to obtain information from the respondents. The interview was conducted one-on-one using the local language (Yoruba). The data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics. The result showed that a total number of 16 plants belonging to 13 families were recorded and enumerated along with their botanical name, family and local name. Information on methods of preparation of the recipes, plant part used, form in which plant part is used, mode of administration, dosage and shelf life were also documented. There is need for domestication and conservation of these plants to prevent their extinction. The bioactive compound in some of these plants can be synthesized together to produce conventional drugs for cough. Further studies should also be carried out on these plant species to obtain more information on their bioactive properties.