bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
EXTENT OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ON EFFECTIVENESS OF DEBT COLLECTION IN COMMERCIAL BANKS.
Authors: Kitonga Peter 
Published: September 2020

Purpose: The study aimed to examine the extent of information management on effectiveness of debt collection in commercial banks.Methodology: The research was carried out through descriptive survey design. The total population of the study was 1118credit managers/supervisors or branch managers of the 37 commercial banks. A sample size of 118 respondents was selected through random sampling technique, which represents a 10% of the population. The study used both secondary and primary data specifically the study used a questionnaire as the preferred data collection tool. The questionnaire had close ended questions only. Secondary data on the level of Nonperforming loans/Gross loans was also collected. This study used the quantitative method of data analysis. Quantitative methods of data analysis included inferential and descriptive statistics. Descriptive statistics included frequencies and measures of tendency mainly mean. Inferential statistics include correlation and regression analysis. The tool for data analysis was Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20 program. The results were presented using tables and pie charts to give a clear picture of the research findings.Results: Results also led to the conclusion that management information system of the bank has been crucial in assisting employees to enhance their performance and productivity. It was possible to conclude that that the relationship between information technology management and non-performing loans is negative and significant. The findings imply that information technology has significant negative effect on non-performing loans.Policy recommendation: it is recommended that staff competence be emphasized in the banks as it has an effect on the overall achievement of effective debt collection practices. Therefore the management is urged to encourage sharing of potentially sensitive information on costs, quality, and productivity on financial performance with other employees.
THE MODERATING EFFECT OF SENSITIVITY TO MARKET RISK ON INTERNAL FACTORS AFFECTING FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF SAVINGS AND CREDIT SOCIETIES IN KENYA
Authors: Barus Jane J. , Muturi Prof. Willy , Kibati Dr. Patrick , Koima Dr. Joel 
Published: September 2020

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to establish the moderating effect of sensitivity to market risk on internal factors affecting financial performance of savings and credit societies in Kenya.
Methodology: The study employed an explanatory research design. The target population was 83 registered deposit taking SACCO’s in Kenya that have been in operation for the last five years. The sample size for the study was all 83 SACCOs that have remained in existence since 2011-2015. Census methodology was used in the study. Both primary and secondary sources of data were employed. Multiple linear regression models were used to analyze the data using statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) and STATA. Descriptive and inferential analysis was conducted to analyze the data. The data was presented using tables and graphs.
Results: The moderation results indicated that the interaction effect of sensitivity to market risk on the relationship between the independent variables (except management efficiency) and dependent variable was significant. Since the calculated p value of the interaction was 0.000<0.05, and thus sensitivity to market risk has a statistical significant moderating effect on internal determinants of financial performance of savings and credit societies in Kenya.
Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The study recommended that SACCOs should monitor the variations in market risks, especially interest rates and inflation rates. These macroeconomic factors tend fluctuate often and, hence it’s important for the organizations to observe them.
EFFECT OF TOTAL CONTRIBUTION ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF PENSION SCHEMES IN KENYA: A SURVEY OF PENSION SCHEMES IN KENYA
Authors: Ichingwa Beatrice I. , Mbithi Dr. Shedrack M. 
Published: September 2020

Purpose: Financial performance of pension funds in Kenya is wanting and thus, raises doubts whether they can be able to ensure access to regular or lump sum income for retirees. The pension should provide an adequate replacement income for the remaining life of the member or partner and remove the risk that the member outlives the resources. Poor performance of pension schemes jeopardizes this role and hence the retired people will not be able to have high degree of retirement income security. Therefore, this study sought to analyze the effect of total contribution on financial performance of pension schemes in Kenya.
Methodology: The target population for this study was all the registered occupational pension schemes in Kenya which according to the Retirement Benefits Authority report are 818 by the end of the year 2016. Random sampling method was applied to come up with the sample size of 261 registered occupational retirement benefits schemes. The study used secondary data which was analyzed using inferential and descriptive statistics.
Results: The study findings established that total contribution has a positive and significant effect on financial performance of pension schemes.
Policy recommendation: The study recommends that Pension Schemes in Kenya should invest more in systems to recruit more members to increase the total contributions as it positively affects financial performance.
INVENTORY CONTROLS AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF GARISSA COUNTY GOVERNMENT, KENYA
Authors: Nur Mohamed Hussein , Koori Dr Jeremiah 
Published: September 2020

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine inventory controls and financial performance of Garissa county government, Kenya.
Methodology: The study adopted a descriptive research design. The target population of the study was all the 250 employees in the Garissa county treasury department. The sample size was 70 employees in the Garissa county treasury department who was selected using stratified random sampling. Primary data was collected through the administration of the questionnaires.
Results: The study found that that inventory recording have a positive and a significant effect on financial sustainability. The study also found that stock taking has a positive and a significant effect on financial sustainability. Also the study found that E-procurement had a positive and a significant effect on financial sustainability. Lastly, the study found that inventory management training has a positive and a significant effect on financial sustainability.
Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The study recommends that the county governments adopting e-procurement ought to scale down on traditional procurement activities if the benefits of e-procurement are to be realized. Additionally, it is recommended that county governments should focus more on streamlining e-tendering, e-requisitioning and e-sourcing because a strong and significant relationship exists between those e-procurement processes and procurement performance in supermarkets.
The Intersectional Challenges of Indigenous Women's Leadership
Authors: Ryan Tess 
Published: September 2020

AbstractThis article investigates, from the findings of previous doctoral research, the intersectional challenges that ultimately contribute to developing and determining the strong voices of Indigenous women's leadership in the Australian context. Utilizing Indigenous women's standpoint theory as the guiding frameworks for the research, 20 Indigenous women were interviewed as part of a broader project investigating Indigenous women's leadership. A number of themes emerged in understanding what it means to be an Indigenous woman leading in the present day. The article concludes that Indigenous Australian women face unique challenges in their leadership trajectory and attempts to reframe some of those challenges into opportunities.
The Historic Importance of the Koala in Aboriginal Society in New South Wales, Australia: An Exploration of the Archival Record
Authors: Cahir Fred , Schlagloth Rolf , Clark Ian D. 
Published: September 2020

AbstractThe principal aim of this study is to provide a detailed examination of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century archival records that relate to New South Wales Aboriginal peoples' associations with koalas and gain a greater understanding of the utilitarian and symbolic significance of koalas for Aboriginal communities as recorded by colonists during the early period of colonization. Anthropological discussions about the role and significance of koalas in Australian Aboriginal society have been limited, some sources are unreliable and interpretation is at times divisive. Many scholars have previously highlighted how using only historical sources as its reference point it is difficult to discern with great specificity that Aboriginal peoples in other regions of New South Wales commonly ate the koala and used its skin. Through a critique of historical sources, we demonstrate that the ethno-historical evidence is inconclusive as to whether they were an integral food source for much of the time period covered by this paper in the area now called the state of New South Wales. Furthermore, this study demonstrates that the extent of their use varied across regions and between tribal groups and was likely to have been traditionally associated with lore specific to certain cultural groups, and may have involved dreaming stories, and gendered roles in hunting and resource use, and other aspects of spiritual belief systems.
Accumulation, Cultural Capital, and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Authors: Sciullo Nick J. 
Published: September 2020

AbstractMuseums have long been important to cultural understanding as well as sites of cultural conflict. One of the issues that is most pressing and straddles the expanse of the cultural understanding/conflict spectrum is Native American remains in the United States. A recent Department of Interior rule clarifying the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has strengthened the rights of Indian tribes, Native Hawaiian organizations, and lineal descendant by making clearer their rights and their ability to ask questions of museums holding certain Native American remains and artifacts. I argue that a Marxist perspective can help explain the rule, and that such an explanation may be a foundation for improving ongoing discussions about Native American remains and artifacts in museums. Through a Marxist museology, I unpack the ways in which museums continue to function under a logic of capital accumulation despite the rule's necessary corrective.
First Peoples and Demographic Change in Australia: Was the Constitutional Statement of Recognition Too Easily Discarded?
Authors: Radavoi Ciprian Nicolae 
Published: September 2020

Abstract
First Peoples in Australia have rejected a constitutional statement of recognition, preferring instead a constitutional “Voice.” I look back at the discarded solution and I discuss its opportunity (would constitutional recognition really have meant surrender?), feasibility (would it really have not gathered enough votes at the referendum?), and necessity.
Reevaluation of Salivary Lymphadenoma: A Subgroup Identified as Warthin-like Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma Following Molecular Investigation for MAML2 Rearrangement
Authors: Zhang Chunye , Gu Ting , Hu Yuhua , Sun Jingjing , Xia Ronghui , Tian Zhen , Wang Lizhen , Li Jiang 
Published: September 2020

Context.—
Both salivary lymphadenomas (LADs) and Warthin-like mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) contain components of epithelium and lymphoid stroma and their differential diagnosis can be difficult on the basis of morphology alone.

Objective.—
To clarify whether Warthin-like MEC was diagnosed as a LAD, and to compare their clinicopathologic features.

Design.—
A total of 16 LAD cases were analyzed for MAML2 rearrangement by using fluorescence in situ hybridization, and the clinical, histologic, immunohistochemical, and prognostic features were compared between MAML2 rearrangement–positive and MAML2 rearrangement–negative groups.

Results.—
Among the 16 cases investigated, 9 harbored a MAML2 rearrangement and were reclassified as Warthin-like MEC. The remaining 7 cases were classified as LADs with 1 nonsebaceous and 6 sebaceous cases. The patients with Warthin-like MEC had a wider age range (10–75 years) than the patients with LADs (36–68 years). Histologically, 2 of the 9 Warthin-like MECs (22.2%) showed focal invasion, whereas all the LADs had complete capsules. Warthin-like MECs exhibited a diverse epithelial cell morphology, including basaloid, glandular, cuboidal, epidermoid, with mucinous cells, although these cytologic features were seen only focally in some cases. Nonsebaceous LAD was composed of basaloid and glandular epithelial cells predominantly. In sebaceous LAD, the epithelial cells were composed of basaloid and large foamy sebaceous cells. In all cases, the stroma was composed mainly of lymphocytes accompanied by lymphoid follicles, although plasma cell infiltration could be much heavier in Warthin-like MEC. All the patients had a good outcome after a longer follow-up (3–166 months).

Conclusions.—
Warthin-like MEC can be misdiagnosed as a LAD owing to overlap in clinicopathologic features of the 2 entities. Careful histologic evaluation and detection of MAML2 rearrangement can facilitate their differential diagnosis.
Using Timestamp Data to Assess the Impact of Voice Recognition on the Efficiency of Grossing Biopsies
Authors: Ye Jay J. , Tan Michael R. , Shum Chung H. 
Published: September 2020

Context.—
Studies on the adoption of voice recognition in health care have mostly focused on turnaround time and error rate, with less attention paid to the impact on the efficiency of the providers.

Objective.—
To study the impact of voice recognition on the efficiency of grossing biopsy specimens.

Design.—
Timestamps corresponding to barcode scanning for biopsy specimen bottles and cassettes were retrieved from the pathology information system database. The time elapsed between scanning a specimen bottle and the corresponding first cassette was the length of time spent on the gross processing of that specimen and is designated as the specimen time. For the first specimen of a case, the specimen time additionally included the time spent on dictating the clinical information. Therefore, the specimen times were divided into the following 2 categories: first-specimen time and subsequent-specimen time. The impact of voice recognition on specimen times was studied using both univariate and multivariate analyses.

Results.—
Specimen complexity, prosector variability, length of clinical information text, and the number of biopsies the prosector grossed that day were the major determinants of specimen times. Adopting voice recognition had a negligible impact on specimen times.

Conclusions.—
Adopting voice recognition in the gross room removes the need to hire transcriptionists without negatively impacting the efficiency of the prosectors, resulting in an overall cost saving. Using computer scripting to automatically enter clinical information (received through the electronic order interface) into report templates may potentially increase the grossing efficiency in the future.
Miniature Objects of Cultural Covenant: Portraits and First Nations Sitters in British North America
Authors: Huneault Kristina 
Published: September 2020

Au début du XIXe siècle, le portrait miniature fait partie d’une culture matérielle dynamique, au sein de laquelle les biens servent à la médiation et à la consolidation de liens de cordialité et d’appartenance sociale. L’analyse de ces processus a fréquemment comme contexte le milieu des élites métropolitaines britanniques et nord-américaines. Cependant, les ramifications culturelles du portrait miniature s’étendent bien au-delà de l’univers des Européens nantis. Jusqu’à 1840, parmi les nombreuses peintures qui évoquent l’Empire sur les murs de la Royal Academy, la moitié des portraits de non-Européens sont des miniatures.
Le présent article traite de trois oeuvres de ce type : le portrait du guerrier et diplomate mohawk John Norton, réalisé par Mary Ann Knight en 1805, et les portraits du ministre et diplomate ojibwé Peter Jones, peints par Matilda Jones en 1831 et 1832. Nous prenons pour point de départ l’hypothèse de Marcia Pointon selon laquelle « historiquement, les portraits miniatures relèvent essentiellement de l’oscillation entre le soi et l’autre ». En ce qui concerne l’Amérique du Nord britannique, les paramètres de cette oscillation révèlent des courants complexes d’assimilation et de différence, qui divisent les sociétés autochtone et blanche. Invoquant la notion psychanalytique d’objet transitionnel et les théories post-coloniales sur la traduction, cet article avance que les miniatures ont servi de gages tangibles, en étant les témoins d’une reconnaissance mutuelle au sein de rapports marqués par la différence culturelle et la violence coloniale. Par les conditions qui en marquent la commande et l’exécution, par l’histoire de leur échange et de leur circulation, ainsi que par leurs qualités propres en tant que représentations, ces portraits éclairent la dialectique singulière de l’attachement et de la séparation que met en oeuvre la miniature peinte.
Concerning the Origin of the Virgin of Humility Theme
Authors: Polzer Joseph 
Published: September 2020

Parmi les diverses représentations visuelles de la Vierge à l’apogée de son culte, à la fin du Moyen-Âge, se trouve le thème populaire de la Vierge de l’Humilité. Son origine est souvent associée à la fresque de Simone Martini peinte v. 1335–40 au-dessus de la porte sous le porche occidental de la cathédrale d’Avignon. La fresque montre la Vierge tenant l’enfant Jésus dans ses bras, assise sur la terre : humus = humilitas. L’examen attentif de l’art italien précédant indique que le type de la Vierge posée au sol fut inséré dans les scènes de la Vie de la Vierge antérieurement à la fresque de Simone Martini. Par exemple, dans la fresque de Giotto à Padoue la Vierge de l’Annonciation s’agenouille devant l’archange Gabriel, alors qu’auparavant elle se tenait presque toujours debout, et la Vierge s’évanouissant dans la Crucifixion, en partie soutenue par les Maries, descend sur ses genoux avant de s’étendre complètement au sol, ce que l’on voit, par exemple, dans la Crucifixion d’Ambrogio Lorenzetti du Musée Fogg à Cambridge. Aussi, dans la peinture populaire contemporaine italienne, la Vierge est souvent représentée assise sur le sol dans les représentations de la Sainte Famille. En coïncidence avec l’origine de la Vierge de l’Humilité, dans le livre de Pétrarque conservé à la bibliothèque Ambrosienne à Milan, Simone Martini a représenté Virgile, poète lauréat, assis dans la nature. Il semble qu’à cette époque la terre, ou la nature, perdait en partie son sens religieux négatif qui se voyait remplacé par l’idée d’une force créatrice et inspiratrice. Mon étude met aussi en lumière le patronage du petit polyptyque pliable « Orsini » de Simone Martini par le cardinal Napoléon.
L’Institutionnalisation de l’histoire de l’art en France au XIXe siècle
Authors: Therrien Lyne 
Published: September 2020

This article examines the beginnings of art history instruction in France in a wide range of institutions of higher, or specialized, learning, as they relate to the disciplines introduction in the university. These other sites included the Collège de France, founded in the sixteenth century; the École des chartes, specializing in the analysis of historic documents; the École des Beaux-Arts and the École du Louvre; state-sponsored schools of archaeology in Athens and in Rome; and the École Pratique des Hautes Études which, from the 1860s, offered seminars in archaeology. A substantial body of scholarship was also produced through individual research and archaeological networks like that initiated by Arcisse de Caumont, though Émile Mâle claimed in 1894 that this corpus remained unknown in the university setting.
However unevenly, the process of disciplinary formation was one that unfolded from without to within the university as it was articulated across institutions with divergent missions and organizational forms. As an emergent field within the university, the position of art history was marked by relations both of dependence and tension in regard to classical archaeology. Ancient art figured earliest in university art history teaching because of its links with the humanist tradition and the discipline of history. The art of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and, eventually, later periods gained legitimacy in the university under the aegis of history. Crucial here was recognition granted by university historians in enabling art history to achieve status as a separate discipline, characterized by its own methods, beside the fields of history and philosophy.
Peer Pedagogies on Digital Platforms
Authors: Dezuanni Michael 
Published: September 2020

How a popular entertainment genre on YouTube—Let's Play videos created by Minecraft players—offers opportunities for children to learn from their peers.
Every day millions of children around the world watch video gameplay on YouTube in the form of a popular entertainment genre known as Let's Play videos. These videos, which present a player's gameplay and commentary, offer children opportunities for interaction and learning not available in traditional television viewing or solo video gameplay. In this book, Michael Dezuanni examines why Let's Play videos are so appealing to children, looking in particular at videos of Minecraft gameplay. He finds that a significant aspect of the popularity of these videos is the opportunity for knowledge and skill exchange.
Focusing on Let's Play practices, the videos themselves, and fans' responses, Dezuanni argues that learning takes place through what he terms peer pedagogies—a type of nonhierarchical learning that is grounded in the personal relationships fans and players feel toward one another. Moreover, the Let's Play platform is part of a larger digital ecosystem that enables children to learn from one another in unique ways. Dezuanni explores how Let's Players enable learning opportunities, examining digital literacies, the Let's Play genre, and peer pedagogies. He then presents case studies of three successful family-friendly Let's Players of Minecraft: Stampylonghead, StacyPlays, and KarinaOMG, microcelebrities in a microindustry. Dezuanni analyzes the specific practices and characteristics of these players, paying particular attention to how they create opportunities for peer pedagogies to emerge.