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The Effect of the Rate of Longitudinal Compression on Selected Wood Properties
Authors: Báder Mátyás , Németh Róbert 
Published: December 2018

Abstract
Longitudinal compression of wood and relaxation after compression (held compressed for a while) is called pleating and results in improved bending properties. The examinations conducted on the longitudinal compression of air-dried oak (Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) and beech wood specimens (Fagus sylvatica L.) revealed the effects of different compression rates (10, 20, 40, 60 mm/min). The comparison of the various treatment methods showed that the stress in wood specimens during longitudinal compression increases with the rising compression rate. The remaining length reduction due to pleating slightly decreases and the bending modulus of elasticity increases at higher compression rates. The highest deflection of the specimens during the 4-point bending tests lowers with the increasing compression rate, while the change of modulus of rupture is negligible. Taking into account the differences between these results and the industrial effectiveness of the treatment according to the compression rates, it can be stated that a procedure with a higher rate should be preferred.
Use of classification and regression trees (CART) for analyzing determinants of winter wheat yield variation among fields in Poland
Authors: Iwańska M. , Oleksy A. , Dacko M. , Skowera B. , Oleksiak T. , Wójcik-Gront E. 
Published: December 2018

Summary
Wheat is one of the modern world’s staple food sources. Its production requires good environmental conditions, which are not always available. However, agricultural practices may mitigate the effects of unfavorable weather or poor-quality soils. The influence of environmental and crop management variables on yield can be evaluated only based on representative long-term data collected on farms through well-prepared surveys.The authors of this work analyzed variation in winter wheat yield among 3868 fields in western and eastern Poland for 12 years, as dependent on both soil/weather and crop management factors, using the classification and regression tree (CART) method. The most important crop management deficiencies which may cause low wheat yields are insufficient use of fungicides, phosphorus deficiency, non-optimal date of sowing, poor quality of seeds, failure to apply herbicides, lack of crop rotation, and use of cultivars of unknown origin not suitable for the region. Environmental variables of great importance for the obtaining of high yields include large farm size (10 ha or larger) and good-quality soils with stable pH. This study makes it possible to propose strategies supporting more effective winter wheat production based on the identification of characteristics that are crucial for wheat cultivation in a given region.
Robust H
∞ Filtering for Neutral Systems with Multi-Delay and Application in the Flexible System
Authors: Fu Xingjian , Pang Xinrui , Huang Yinghua 
Published: December 2018

Abstract
The residual vibrations in flexible structure system model can cause errors. In addition, the parameters in the system are also changed. For the problem of residual vibration, robust H∞ filter is designed for neutral systems with multi-delay. Based on Lyapunov stability theory, the sufficient condition for the existence of filter is given. For the permitted uncertainty and multi-delay, the designed filter can guarantee the robust asymptotically stability and satisfy H∞ performance index for the filtering error dynamic system. Finally, the designed filter is applied to the flexible system, and the result shows that the filter is effective.
Developmental and biochemical analyses of in vitro drought stress response in ornamental European Bluestar (Amsonia orientalis Decne.)
Authors: Acemi Arda , Duman Yonca Avcı , Karakus Yonca Yuzugullu , Özen Fazıl 
Published: December 2018

Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the effects of drought stress on Amsonia orientalis, an endangered ornamental plant with a limited natural distribution in Europe. Effects of polyethylene glycol (PEG)-mediated drought stress (-0.15, -0.49, -1.03 and -1.76 MPa osmotic potentials) were tested on in vitro cultures. In general, root lengths and numbers, total protein, chlorophyll a and carotenoid contents were negatively influenced at elevated levels of the stress factor. The successive decrease in the tested osmotic potentials resulted in gradually higher H2O2, malondialdehyde (MDA) and proline contents. Activities of the antioxidant enzymes, peroxidase (POD) and catalase (CAT), were found to be enhanced in response to the decreasing osmotic potential tested, whereas increased superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity was observed at the -0.15 MPa osmotic potential. Strong activation of POD enzymes under drought stress suggests that POD enzymes might have a major role in regulating the H2O2 content, while CAT has only a supplementary role in A. orientalis. These results indicated that although A. orientalis is susceptible to long-term drought, the species may survive during mild drought stress because the development of the plant was not totally inhibited but only limited. Nevertheless, the species should be introduced to well-irrigated lands, after evaluation of the soil’s water status, in order to ensure the continuation of its generations.
Multiculturalism and Ostalgie
Authors: Figus Alessandro , Pisaniello Andrea , Mustica Stefano 
Published: December 2018

Abstract
“Ostalgie” is coming from a German word referring to nostalgia for aspects of life in East Germany, and not only. It is a new multipurpose and new expression related the German terms “Nostalgie” (nostalgia in Italian) and Ost (East). Its anglicised equivalent, ostalgia, it is rhyming with “nostalgia” and it is also sometimes used. The collapse of Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall destruction, was the concept protected concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from ‘61 to ’89, It especially divided West and East European countries, the wall cut off West Berlin from almost all of surrounding East Germany and East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989. Formally its demolition began on 13 June 1990 and finished in 1992 and coincides in some generation from the Warsaw Pact countries, legally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation with the “Mutual Assistance” URSS of the birth of “ostalgie”, that it goes against with modern principle of multicultural society and globalisation of the world. At the eighth congress of the communist party Lenin recognized the right to self-determination of the populations of the empire and promised them significant concessions, although its final intent was to reach the true dictatorship of the proletariat which would have rendered the ethnic-national distinctions useless. The Soviet Union became the incubator of new nations with the dissolving of the Russian nation in the Soviet state. Does the “ostalgie” refer to the USSR, is this compatible with multiculturalism? Is it compatible with that plurality of tending different cultures that coexists in mutual respect and which implies the preservation of their specific traits by rejecting any type of homologation or fusion in the dominant culture?
Synthesizing of models for identification of teletraffic Markov chains by artificial neural networks and decision tree method
Authors: Balabanova Ivelina Stefanova , Georgiev Georgi Ivanov , Sadinov Stanimir Michaylov , Kostadinova Stela Savova 
Published: December 2018

Abstract
Imitation modelling processes of telegraphic systems on the Markov chains with unlimited and limited queues were made. For this purpose, the Java modeling tool simulation environment is used. With a fixed number of client stations and a number of system users, data are accumulated about the telegraphic system parameters as: customer ID, arrival time, server ID and exit system. Artificial neural networks (ANN) with backpropagation algorithm and decision tree (DT) method for identification of the studied Markov chains in MATLAB were applied. Training of the structural identification models to determine of the membership of the obtained parameters in telegraphic simulation to both unlimited and limited systems was carried out. The results of the training and synthesis of ANN and DT models are presented. Sufficient results have been obtained for telegraphic identification confirming the successful application of the proposed synthesized classification models, approximately 91% for DT and 99.2% for ANN.
Data Organisation and Process Design Based on Functional Modularity for a Standard Production Process
Authors: Salgado David , Esteban M. Elisa , Novás Maria , Saldaña Soledad , Sanguiao Luis 
Published: December 2018

Abstract
We propose to use the principles of functional modularity to cope with the essential complexity of statistical production processes. Moving up in the direction of international statistical production standards (GSBPM and GSIM), data organisation and process design under a combination of object-oriented and functional computing paradigms are proposed. The former comprises a standardised key-value pair abstract data model where keys are constructed by means of the structural statistical metadata of the production system. The latter makes extensive use of the principles of functional modularity (modularity, data abstraction, hierarchy, and layering) to design production steps. We provide a proof of concept focusing on an optimisation approach to selective editing applied to real survey data in standard production conditions at the Spanish National Statistics Institute. Several R packages have been prototyped implementing these ideas. We also share diverse aspects arising from the practicalities of the implementation.
Assessing the Quality of Home Detection from Mobile Phone Data for Official Statistics
Authors: Vanhoof Maarten , Reis Fernando , Ploetz Thomas , Smoreda Zbigniew 
Published: December 2018

Abstract
Mobile phone data are an interesting new data source for official statistics. However, multiple problems and uncertainties need to be solved before these data can inform, support or even become an integral part of statistical production processes. In this article, we focus on arguably the most important problem hindering the application of mobile phone data in official statistics: detecting home locations. We argue that current efforts to detect home locations suffer from a blind deployment of criteria to define a place of residence and from limited validation possibilities. We support our argument by analysing the performance of five home detection algorithms (HDAs) that have been applied to a large, French, Call Detailed Record (CDR) data set (~18 million users, five months). Our results show that criteria choice in HDAs influences the detection of home locations for up to about 40% of users, that HDAs perform poorly when compared with a validation data set (resulting in 358-gap), and that their performance is sensitive to the time period and the duration of observation. Based on our findings and experiences, we offer several recommendations for official statistics. If adopted, our recommendations would help ensure more reliable use of mobile phone data vis-à-vis official statistics.
Augmenting Statistical Data Dissemination by Short Quantified Sentences of Natural Language
Authors: Hudec Miroslav , Bednárová Erika , Holzinger Andreas 
Published: December 2018

AbstractData from National Statistical Institutes is generally considered an important source of credible evidence for a variety of users. Summarization and dissemination via traditional methods is a convenient approach for providing this evidence. However, this is usually comprehensible only for users with a considerable level of statistical literacy. A promising alternative lies in augmenting the summarization linguistically. Less statistically literate users (e.g., domain experts and the general public), as well as disabled people can benefit from such a summarization. This article studies the potential of summaries expressed in short quantified sentences. Summaries including, for example, “most visits from remote countries are of a short duration” can be immediately understood by diverse users. Linguistic summaries are not intended to replace existing dissemination approaches, but can augment them by providing alternatives for the benefit of diverse users of official statistics. Linguistic summarization can be achieved via mathematical formalization of linguistic terms and relative quantifiers by fuzzy sets. To avoid summaries based on outliers or data with low coverage, a quality criterion is applied. The concept based on linguistic summaries is demonstrated on test interfaces, interpreting summaries from real municipal statistical data. The article identifies a number of further research opportunities, and demonstrates ways to explore those.
The use of the biological method for treating iron containing underground waters
Authors: Kvartenko Oleksandr , Sabliy Larysa , Kovalchuk Nataliya , Lysytsya Andriy 
Published: December 2018

AbstractThe use of the biological method is promising for treating underground waters from iron compounds. Iron bacteria used in the process are widely spread in weak acidic and neutral underground waters containing iron ions (II), dissolved carbon dioxide and minimum concentrations of oxygen. The relevant direction of present-day biotechnology is the use of iron bacteria for treating underground waters. The goal of this research is to compare the efficiency of using the biological method for treating underground iron containing weak acidic and neutral waters under different conditions. As the test-objects, Gallionella and Lepthotrix iron bacteria were used. The sedimentation of bio-minerals was obtained from the washout waters of the biological deironing station. Calcium soda was used as an additional source of inorganic carbon for bacteria. As a result of the studies it is established that the use of the non-reagent method gives the possibility to achieve only 80% efficiency in removing iron compounds while the use of sodium carbonate results in increasing efficiency up to 93%. To determine the contribution of biological purification of ground water from iron compounds, the bacteria were inhibited with the preparation of polyhexamethylene guanidine (PHMG) chloride. It was found that inhibition of Gallionella and Lepthotrix led to the reduction of 50% of the iron removal effect. The mechanism was developed of inhibiting the process of iron bacteria metabolism by PHMG (polyhexamethylene guanidine). The new technology of arranging a block-module station for treating underground waters is proposed.
Can Counter Histories Disturb the Present? Repohistory’s Street Signs Projects, 1992–1999
Authors: Donnelly Mark 
Published: December 2018

Summary
This paper argues that where appropriations or invocations of the past have contributed to projects of social and political change, they have usually done so with little or no recourse to the historical past. Instead, activists and campaigners have used various forms of vernacular past-talk to unsettle those temporary fixings of ‘common sense’ that limit thinking about current political and social problems. The example of such past-talk discussed here is the work of the art-activist collective REPOhistory, which sought between 1989 and 2000 to disrupt the symbolic patterning of New York’s official and homogenized public memory culture by making visible (‘repossessing’) overlooked and repressed episodes from the city’s past. In effect, they challenged the ways in which history’s dominance of past-talk within the public sphere was constituted by exclusions of subjects on grounds of gender, ethnicity and socio-economic status. REPOhistory fused politically-engaged art practices with Walter Benjamin’s belief in the redemptive potential of dialectical encounters between past and present. To assess the value of their art-as-activism projects (“artivism”), this article will situate REPOhistory’s practices within a frame of ideas provided by Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Ernesto Laclau, and Chantal Mouffe. In a series of street sign installations that mixed visual art, urban activism, social history, and radical pedagogy, REPOhistory exemplified why the past is too important to be trusted to professional historians.
Messianism and UFO Sightings as Counterfactual Strategies of Enchantment of the World
Authors: Urbanowicz Piotr 
Published: December 2018

Summary
In this text, I argue that there are numerous affinities between 19th century messianism and testimonies of UFO sightings, both of which I regarded as forms of secular millennialism. The common denominator for the comparison was Max Weber’s concept of “disenchantment of the world” in the wake of the Industrial Revolution which initiated the era of the dominance of rational thinking and technological progress. However, the period’s counterfactual narratives of enchantment did not repudiate technology as the source of all social and political evil—on the contrary, they variously redefined its function, imagining a possibility of a new world order. In this context, I analysed the social projects put forward by Polish Romantics in the first half of the 19th century, with emphasis on the role of technology as an agent of social change. Similarly, the imaginary technology described by UFO contactees often has a redemptive function and is supposed to bring solution to humanity’s most dangerous problems.
Komunikasi Interaktif Grup Facebook Komunitas Suwec Startup Ekonomi Kreatif
Authors: Rahardi Rachmad 
Published: December 2018

In order to control the numbers of a Surabaya’s population whose numbers are increasing every year,the Surabaya City Government implementsFamily Planning program. Currently, family planning program has run well and 99.74% of the acceptors are women (wives). Whereas for families whose wives have problems with various family planning methods, they choose not to use family planning program. To encourage the number of acceptors of male family planning programs, the Surabaya City government will launch an advertisement about it. To support the effectiveness of these advertisements, the emotions of the male receptors is studied. The results show that the positive emotions when using male contraception were 79%. Emotions with the highest valuesshould be considered when designing ads.Keywords:Emotion, Family Planning Program, Man FP
Research on the One-Stop Information Service Model for University Library
Authors: Hu Qing 
Published: December 2018

Abstract:Â Following the advent of and continuous progress of technology, computer network and information management have gradually being incorporated into the daily operation and management of university libraries all around the world. The service system of university libraries have also transformed from the conventional reference consulting model into a knowledge-based service model. This transformation has improved the professionalism and individualism of university libraries. Therefore, establishing a competent one-stop information service model has significant and important values. In this work, we analysed the basic functionalities and the feasibility of one-stop information service model for university libraries. We also discussed in details the construction methodology for different modes, for reference only.Â
POLA MAKAN DAN UMUR KEHAMILAN TRIMESTER III DENGAN ANEMIA PADA IBU HAMIL
Authors: Astuti Dwi , Kulsum Ummi 
Published: December 2018

AbstrakBerdasarkan data DINKES (Dinas Kesehatan) Kabupaten Jepara jumlah ibu hamiltahun 2012 sampai dengan bulan September jumlah ibu hamil 18154 ibu hamil dengan ibu hamil Anemia sebanyak 4847 ibu hamil (26,7%). Data dari Puskesmas Bangsri di desa Bangsri Kecamatan Bangsri Kabupaten Jepara pada tahun 2012 s/d bulan September ibu hamil sebanyak 143 ibu hamil yang mengalami Anemia sebanyak 68 ibu hamil dari 68 ibu hamil 24 orang Trismester pertama, 10 orang Trismester dua dan 34 orang trismester tiga. Sedangkan untuk AKB (Angka Kematian IBU) diwilayah Puskesmas Bangsri I sampai dengan bulan September tahun 2012 desa Bangsri sebagai urutan pertama dengan kematian ibu 2 orang, Kedungleper 1 orang, Jerukwangi 1 orang, Bondo, Wedelan, Banjaran dan Banjaragung tidak ada kematian ibu. Kata Kunci:Pola makan, umur kehamilan, kejadian anemia AbstractData DINKES (Department of Health) Jepara number of pregnant women. 2012 until September 18 154 the number of pregnant women pregnant women pregnant women with anemia as 4847 pregnant women (26.7%). Data from the health center in the village Bangsri Bangsri Bangsri Jepara district in 2012 s / d in September as many as 143 pregnant women pregnant women have anemia as many as 68 pregnant women from 68 pregnant women trimesters first 24 people, 10 people 34 people trimesters trimesters two and three . As for the IMR (MOM Mortality) region I Bangsri Health Center until September 2012 as the first order Bangsri village with 2 maternal deaths, Kedungleper 1 person, 1 person Jerukwangi, Bondo, Wedelan, Banjaran and Banjaragung no maternal deaths Keywords: diet, gestational age, the incidence of anemiaPOLA MAKAN DAN UMUR KEHAMILAN TRIMESTER III DENGAN ANEMIA PADA IBU HAMIL
Visualizing Teacher Education as a Complex System: A Nested Simplex System Approach
Authors: Ludlow Larry H , Ell Fiona , Cochran-Smith Marilyn , Newton Avery , Trefcer Kaitlin , Klein Kelsey , Grudnoff Lexie , Haigh Mavis , Hill Mary F. 
Published: December 2018

Our purpose is to provide an exploratory statistical representation of initial teacher education as a complex system comprised of dynamic influential elements. More precisely, we reveal what the system looks like for differently-positioned teacher education stakeholders based on our framework for gathering, statistically analyzing, and graphically representing the results of a unique exercise wherein the participants literally mapped the system as they perceived it. Through an iterative series of inter-related studies employing cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling procedures, we demonstrate how initial teacher education may be represented as a complex system comprised of interactive agents and attributes whose perceived relationships are a function of nested stakeholder-dependent simplex systems. Furthermore, we illustrate how certain propositions of complexity theory, such as boundaries, heterogeneity, multidimensionality and emergence, may be investigated and represented quantitatively.
Local Wisdom of Taboos in Karo Language
Authors: Barus Jumat , Sibarani Robert , Saragih Amrin , Mulyadi Mulyadi 
Published: December 2018

This research aims to explore local wisdom of taboos in Karo language. Taboo is more than prohibitions and avoidance in tradition; it normally arises from social restrictions on individual behaviour that can lead to inconvenience and danger. Taboo was created as a control for community to avoid personal and family conflict. The research was conducted in five sub-districts of Karo, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia. It was carried out by using a qualitative approach with ethnographic methods. The data of local wisdom were obtained from the interview method from nine key informants who mastered and used Karo language and culture well in their daily activities and the writer played a role as the native speaker so that he could directly feel how the culture was implemented in the daily lives of Karo society. It was found that the local wisdoms of taboos in Karo culture were attitude and eagerness to do the best for the community, since taboo rules provide a picture for them about how to express dignified words and behave glorious deeds and how to avoid mentioning disgusting words and behaving impolite manners. The rules become controls for social harmony to be maintained properly. Taboo rules were imposed not to make the society difficult to communicate with each other, but to provide a sense of security and peace for them so that they can live peacefully and harmoniously.