bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Whole-Class Implementation of the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction in Inclusive High School Mathematics Classes
Authors: Raley Sheida K. , Shogren Karrie A. , McDonald Annette 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
Skills associated with self-determination (e.g., self-regulation, problem solving, goal-setting, planning) are infused throughout all secondary content standards, including career and college readiness standards for which all students are responsible. Given research demonstrating the link between self-determination and positive school and post-school outcomes, there is a need to examine the implementation and outcomes of instruction related to self-determination in inclusive general education classrooms. This article reports findings of a one-group, pretest-posttest design examining the impact of the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction (SDLMI), a model of instruction designed to be implemented by teachers to support students to learn skills associated with self-determination, on goal achievement of adolescents with and without disabilities in inclusive high school Algebra classrooms. Findings suggest that participants with and without disabilities attained educationally-relevant goals related to math following intervention. Directions for future research and practice are discussed.
iJobs Summer Work Experience: A Pilot Transition Program to Enhance Job-Readiness Skills Using Evidence-Based Practices
Authors: McConnell Amber E. , Osmani Kimberly J. , Williams-Diehm Kendra L. , Pulos Joshua M. 
Published: August 2018

AbstractSecondary transition planning and service coordination using evidence-based practices (EBPs) are a focus at the national, state, and local level to facilitate positive postschool outcomes and higher rates of inclusion for individuals with disabilities. However, research indicates schools and service providers are not effectively implementing EBPs. This study investigated a summer job experience program for students with disabilities as a means to incorporate EBPs and increase student job-readiness skills. Results indicated the vast majority of students gained critical skills and experiences across eight EBP categories. Parents felt student employability skills increased, and host business partners expressed willingness to repeat the summer iJobs experience. Future research, implications for practice, and limitations are discussed.
Universidad y política en la coyuntura del Gran Acuerdo Nacional (1971-1973)
Authors: Mendonça Mariana 
Published: August 2018

El período inaugurado por Lanusse en mayo de 1971 marcó un giro en la política nacional y, consecuentemente, en la vida universitaria. En este artículo nos proponemos analizar el proceso de creación de universidades nacionales que se llevó a cabo entre 1971 y 1973 en el marco del Gran Acuerdo Nacional, haciendo especial hincapié en el contexto de un fuerte proceso de radicalización política en el que la juventud ocupaba un rol destacado. Para ello, utilizaremos fuentes primarias y secundarias. Específicamente, recurriremos a entrevistas personales, diarios de tirada nacional, y documentos oficiales atinentes a la vida universitaria (planes de desarrollo, leyes, políticas educativas, entre otros).
¿Cómo pensó Tulio Halperin Donghi la política de entreguerras?
Authors: Hora Roy 
Published: August 2018

Este ensayo analiza de qué manera Tulio Halperin Donghi abordó la historia política argentina del período 1916 - 1943 . De acuerdo a este historiador, una exploración cuidadosa de la etapa que corre entre el final del orden oligárquico y el ascenso del peronismo –y en particular de la así llamada «década infame»– resulta fundamental para comprender las causas de la inestabilidad institucional de la segunda mitad del siglo XX . El artículo explora de qué modo Halperin Donghi analizó este período, enfatiza las diferencias de enfoque con sus estudios sobre el siglo XIX , y pone de relieve sus principales argumentos.
La transición antes de la transición: el diario Clarín ante la cuestión de los Derechos humanos (1981-1983)
Authors: Iturralde Micaela 
Published: August 2018

El presente artículo se interroga por los modos en los que la cuestión de los Derechos Humanos fue representada, evocada y elaborada en los discursos construidos por Clarín entre 1981 y 1983 . A partir de un análisis de lo publicado por el diario, el abordaje propuesto focaliza en un conjunto de escenas que se considera condensan algunas de las principales apuestas, desafíos y tensiones propias del contexto. La indagación concluye que el diario Clarín intervino ensayando nuevos relatos e interpretaciones sobre el presente, sobre el pasado y sobre su sobre el presente, sobre el pasado y sobre su propia actuación durante el régimen dictatorial, así como en relación al porvenir, que le permitieron erigirse en un interlocutor válido dentro del nuevo consenso transicional.
ECOREGIONAL INFLUENCES ON THE AMPHIBIAN ASSEM- BLAGE OF RESERVA NATURAL LAGUNA BLANCA, DEPARTAMENTO SAN PEDRO, PARAGUAY
Authors: Smith Paul 
Published: August 2018

Reserva Natural Laguna Blanca (RNLB) has recently been proposed as Paraguay’s first Important Area for the Conservation of Reptiles and Amphibians. The reserve lies within the Atlantic Forest ecoregion of Paraguay as currently understood. A similarity analysis was performed to assess which of the ecoregions most influence upon the community of amphibians. It was concluded that the amphibian fauna of the reserve is most strongly influenced by the Cerrado ecoregion and it should thus be considered a southern fragment of this ecosystem. The results suggest that the inventory of the amphibian fauna of the Paraguayan Cerrado is not yet complete. This study highlights the utility of local scale biogeographical analysis as a conservation tool for conservation planners, land managers and biologists for designating national priority areas for conservation and identifying potential areas of endemism in under–sampled regions.
Reafirmar la hegemonía en Asia Central: las políticas rusas en Kirguistán tras 2010
Authors: Lewis David 
Published: August 2018

Aunque ha habido un foco internacional considerable en las enérgicas políticas exteriores rusas en Ucrania y el Cáucaso meridional, la creciente influencia de Moscú en los antiguos estados soviéticos de Asia Central ha recibido mucha menos atención. El cambio en la política tras 2010 ha sido especialmente exitoso en el desarrollo de una relación mucho más profunda de Rusia con Kirguistán, un estado que previamente había desarrollado una política exterior moderadamente pro-occidental y que juega un papel estratégico clave en la región. Kirguistán ha rebajado los lazos políticos y de seguridad con los estados occidentales, se ha unido a la Unión Económica Euroasiática (UEE) dirigida por Rusia y ha desarrollado vínculos de seguridad más estrechos en la Organización del Tratado de Seguridad Colectiva (OTSC). Este artículo analiza estos cambios en la política y califica la nueva actitud rusa como «hegemónica», señalando tanto el dominio militar, político y económico ruso en la relación como el considerable apoyo popular en Kirguistán para tener vínculos más estrechos con Moscú. La política rusa ha confiado en un acercamiento integrado a la política exterior que incluye iniciativas en los campos de seguridad, economía y política, así como formas de «soft power» e influencia cultural. El caso de Kirguistán sugiere que estudiar la política rusa dentro del marco de la hegemonía es un modo útil de analizar tanto el potencial de tener una mayor influencia como las considerables restricciones que se encuentran los responsables de las políticas rusos en el área de Eurasia.
En busca de coherencia y resultados: la política europea de vecindad en Moldavia y Georgia
Authors: Arnanz Liz 
Published: August 2018

Los dos Estados más comprometidos con la Política Europea de Vecindad en el Este, Moldavia y Georgia, son un buen ejemplo de que dicha política puede tener un cierto impacto positivo en la sociedad, economía y política de los Estados socios a través de la promoción de reformas democráticas y económicas. No obstante, su impacto hasta ahora ha sido considerablemente limitado cuando se trata de resolver los conflictos secesionistas de estos países: Transnistria en el caso de Moldavia, y Abjasia y Osetia del Sur en el caso de Georgia. A lo largo de este trabajo se intentará defender que la razón de ello reside en el hecho de que los intereses de algunos Estados miembros superan los intereses comunes de la UE, especialmente cuando temen las reacciones coercitivas del Kremlin, debido a la importancia energética de Rusia.
Os modelos didáticos de licenciandos em ciências da natureza no estágio e as imbricações com suas concepções de natureza da ciência
Authors: Soares Lemos Shaw Gisele 
Published: August 2018

Diversas investigaciones indican que las concepciones de naturaleza de la ciencia de los profesores influyen en los modelos didácticos de enseñanza-aprendizaje que adoptan en la clase. Inclusive, que esos modelos definen el nivel de desarrollo profesional docente. Basados en los modelos didácticos de enseñanza-aprendizaje propuestos por García y Porlán (2000), identificamos los modelos presentados por cuatro estudiantes de un curso de formación de profesores en ciencias naturales durante su proceso formativo. Relacionamos esos modelos a sus concepciones epistemológicos e identificamos un determinado nivel de desarrollo profesional. La toma de datos se hizo durante una materia de pedagogía también en el transcurso de la práctica docente de los participantes. Utilizamos videograbación de aulas, relatorías de práctica docente y entrevistas individuales. Estudiamos los datos mediante técnicas de análisis textual discursiva. Encontramos que tres de las participantes desarrollaron prácticas cercanas al modelo didáctico de enseñanza-aprendizaje por descubrimiento y una de ellas abordó prácticas relacionadas al modelo didáctico investigativo. Adicionalmente, identificamos tres de las participantes en un nivel intermedio de desarrollo profesional y una de ellas en un nivel superior.
Les Juifs vus par un prêtre français en exil: l’antijudaïsme dans les Mémoires de l’abbé Pochard (1796-1830)
Authors: Fischer Jérémie 
Published: August 2018

The article is an attempt to show the leading elements of the attitude towards Jews, the attitude of Father Claude-Antoine Pochard (1766-1833), tutor in the family of a Gniezno governor Joseph Skórzewski. Numerous trips across Polish territories and neighboring countries enabled him to come into direct contact with Jewish issues in Central and Eastern Europe, and his up till now unpublished memoirs shed light on some interesting aspects of the history of European Jews.The article consists of three parts. The first part presents direct or indirect contacts of Father Pochard with Jews during his trip to Bavaria, Saxony, Prussia, Wielkopolska, the land annexed by Russia and Lithuania. The second part shows Fr. Pochard’s reactions to the presence of Jews – dislike and avoiding closer contacts. There is also an attempt to show the difference in the positions of both the Catholic side, represented by Fr. Pochard, and the Jewish side, the climate of hostility and mutual prejudices. The third and last part shows cases where Fr. Pochard revises his views in contact with professionalism and honesty encountered in traveling Jewish innkeepers and merchants, and also other specific moments when there was escalation of tension in his relations with the Jews. The whole article is an interesting panorama of Christian-Jewish relations in the first half of the nineteenth century, when there were economic contacts but no cultural exchange.
Simultaneous prediction in the generalized linear model
Authors: Bai Chao , Li Haiqi 
Published: August 2018

AbstractThis paper studies the prediction based on a composite target function that allows to simultaneously predict the actual and the mean values of the unobserved regressand in the generalized linear model. The best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP) of the target function is derived. Studies show that our BLUP has better properties than some other predictions. Simulations confirm its better finite sample performance.
Two asymptotic expansions for gamma function developed by Windschitl’s formula
Authors: Yang Zhen-Hang , Tian Jing-Feng 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
In this paper we develop Windschitl’s approximation formula for the gamma function by giving two asymptotic expansions using a little known power series. In particular, for n ∈ ℕ with n ≥ 4, we have

Γ

x
+
1

=

2
π
x

x
e

x

x
sinh
⁡

1
x

x

/

2

exp

∑

k
=
3

n
−
1

a

n

x

2
n
−
1

+

R

n

x

$$\begin{array}{}
\displaystyle
{\it \Gamma} \left( x+1\right) =\sqrt{2\pi x}\left( \tfrac{x}{e}\right) ^{x}\left(
x\sinh \tfrac{1}{x}\right) ^{x/2}\exp \left( \sum_{k=3}^{n-1}
{\frac{a_{n}}{x^{2n-1}}}+R_{n}\left( x\right) \right)
\end{array}$$

with

R

n

x

≤

B

2
n

2
n

2
n
−
1

1

x

2
n
−
1

$$\begin{array}{}
\displaystyle
\left\vert R_{n}\left( x\right) \right\vert \leq \frac{\left\vert B_{2n}\right\vert }{2n\left( 2n-1\right)
}\frac{1}{x^{2n-1}}
\end{array}$$

for all x > 0, where an
has a closed-form expression, B
2n
is the Bernoulli number. Moreover, we present some approximation formulas for the gamma function related to Windschitl’s approximation, which have higher accuracy.
Synthesis and investigation of nonlinear optical properties of Para Red: Z-scan technique and quantum mechanical calculations
Authors: Mostaghni Fatemeh , Abed Yasaman 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
In this study, we present a systematic study of linear and nonlinear optical properties of Para Red with the aim of Z-scan technique and quantum mechanical calculations. The Z-scan experiments were performed using a 532 nm Nd: YAG (SHG) CW laser beam. Para Red exhibited a strong nonlinear refractive index, nonlinear absorption coefficient and third-order nonlinear susceptibility 3.487 × 10−6 cm2/W, 2.341 × 10−1cm/W and 2.157 × 10−4 esu, respectively. Also, quantum chemical analysis was used for the calculation of the dipole moment μ, dipole polarizability α, anisotropy of polarizability Δα and molecular hyperpolarizabilities (β,γ). The results revealed that Para Red has large first and second hyperpolarizabilities. However, from the obtained results, it was found that Para Red can be a promising material for applications in the development of non-linear optical materials.
The Nitrogen Contained in Carbonized Poultry Litter is not Plant Available
Authors: Steiner Christoph , Harris Keith , Gaskin Julia , Das K.C. 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
Pyrolysis of biomass, reduces its volume, mass, odour, and potential pathogens, while concentrating nutrients in the resulting biochar. However, the plant availability of nutrients in particular of nitrogen remains largely unknown. Therefore, we investigated the nutrient availability of carbonized poultry litter. A nutrient poor soil was either fertilized with poultry litter or poultry litter carbonized at 500°C at the rates of 1.5, 3 and 6 t/ha. These organic amendments were compared with corresponding rates of mineral fertilizers (NH4NO3, KCl, CaHPO4, MgSO4) in a pot experiment. After four successive harvests of ryegrass (Lolium sp.) in a greenhouse we analyzed plant nutrient uptake and nutrient concentrations in the soil. While all treatments showed a linear increase in plant growth and nitrogen uptake, the plants fertilized with carbonized poultry litter did not show such a response. The carbonized poultry litter treatment produced more biomass than the unfertilized control, but the tissue concentration of nitrogen was below that of the control. Mehlich 1 extractable nutrients in the soil showed that there is more available phosphorus, potassium, calcium and magnesium in the soil fertilized with the carbonized poultry manure, but these available nutrients were not utilized due to the nitrogen limitation to plant growth. The results clearly show that nitrogen contained in carbonized poultry litter is not available for plants
A Note on the Name of Nicopolis ad Istrum
Authors: Topalilov Ivo Simeonov 
Published: August 2018

AbstractThis paper deals with the hypothesis of why Nicopolis ad Haemum, a town established to glorify the victory of Trajan over the Dacians and their Sarmatian allies south of the Danube, was renamed at the beginning of Hadrian’s rule as Nicopolis ad Istrum. The author believes the change happened in 118/119 AD after a victory of the emperor near the Danube over either Roxolani or Iazyges, with a preference for the latter. This, along with the unfortunate fate of the main person responsible, Q. Marcius Turbo, predetermined the confusion in later historical narratives and the connection of this battle to the Trajanic Dacian Wars, although no such victory is ever attested.
Inferences and Indirectness in Interaction
Authors: Drew Paul 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
I explore some of the interconnections between inferences that participants make about one another’s (verbal) conduct, the implications they attribute to prior turns at talk, and the indirectness with which recipients may respond to enquiries - in short, the interconnections between inference, implication and indirectness. These are explored in the context of naturally occurring conversations (UK and US), from the methodological perspective of Conversation Analysis. Because inference has come to be associated closely with Grice’s concept of implicature, I begin by setting out my reasons for not following Grice’s path, preferring instead to revert to ‘implication’, namely the implication that a recipient finds in and attributes to a prior turn. My purpose here is to avoid the cognitive conceptualisation of speakers’ intentions that Grice supposed are associated with implicature. I argue that inference features in the understanding of and response to all turns at talk; it is not restricted to some special kind of utterance, as seems to be conveyed in Grice’s conceptualisation. The inferences that recipients make are evident in cases in which they respond not to what the prior speaker asked ‘literally,’ but to the inferred agenda of an enquiry. Moreover, recipients may respond indirectly to prior enquiries, thereby ‘side-stepping’ implications they attribute to those enquiries. In various ways, inference and indirection may on occasions be associated with practices for avoidance in conversation.
When ‘You’ Means ‘I’: The German 2Nd Ps.Sg. Pronoun Du between Genericity and Subjectivity
Authors: Auer Peter , Stukenbrock Anja 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
In this paper, we first present a close analysis of conversational data, capturing the variety of non-addressee deictic usages of du in contemporary German. From its beginnings, it has been possible to use non-addressee deictic du not only for generic statements, but also for subjective utterances by a speaker who mainly refers to his or her own experiences. We will present some thoughts on the specific inferences leading to this interpretation, making reference to Buhler’s deixis at the phantasm. In the second part of the paper, we show that non-addressee deictic du (‘thou’) as found in present-day German is not an innovation but goes back at least to the 18th century. However, there is some evidence that this usage has been spreading over the last 50 years or so. We will link non-addressee deictic du back historically to the two types of “person-shift” for du discussed by Jakob Grimm in his 1856 article “Uber den Personenwechsel in der Rede” [On person shift in discourse]. Grimm distinguishes between person shift in formulations of “rules and law” on the one hand, and person shift in what he calls “thou-monologue” on the other. The subjective interpretation of non-addressee-deictic du in present-day German may have originated from these “thou-monologues”
“The Mass on the World” on a Winter Afternoon: Contemporary Wilderness Religious Experience and Ultimacy
Authors: Bratton Susan Power 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
Contemporary studies of wilderness spirituality are based primarily in quantitative social science, and disagree over the relative influence of shared stories and religious traditions. In a study of visitors to California’s national parks and trails, Kerry Mitchell found that backpackers reported heightened perceptions, fueled by such dichotomies as the encounter with the spectacular rather than the mundane, and with divine organization rather than human organization in wilderness. I argue wilderness experience informed only by natural scenery falls short in encountering ultimacy. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s “The Mass on the World” offers a unified rather than a fragmented vision of divine relationship to the natural and the human. Multiple readings can inform the wilderness sojourner, including a basic, open reading as a prayer shared with all nature; an environmental reading considering suffering and the act of Eucharistic offering; and a constructive reading to address dichotomies and fuse humanity and nature into an integrated cosmic future
Fetal Echocardiography in Uncommon Prenatal Cardiac Anomalies: Right Atrium Diverticulum, Interventricular Septal Aneurysm, Left and Right Ventricle Diverticulum – Report from Referral Center for Fetal Cardiology in Poland
Authors: Płużańska Joanna , Respondek-Liberska Maria 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
The prenatal detection of congenital anomalies of heart walls is very rare. We present a unique series of 8 cases with prenatal echocardiographic monitoring, treatment and postnatal follow-up, providing new insight into this “mysterious” heart problem
Liability for Autonomous and Artificially Intelligent Robots
Authors: Barfield Woodrow 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
In the backdrop of increasingly intelligent machines, important issues of law have been raised by the use of robots that operate autonomous from human supervisory control. In particular, when systems operating with autonomous robot’s damage property or injure humans, it may be difficult to determinewho’s at fault and therefore liable under current legal schemes. This paper reviews product liability and negligence tort law which may be used to allocate liability for robots that damage property or cause injury. Further, the paper concludes with a discussion of different approaches to allocating liability in an age of increasingly intelligent and autonomous robots directed by sophisticated algorithms, analytical, and computational techniques
Genossenschaftsbanken im ländlichen und städtischen Raum
Authors: Maurer Thomas , Thießen Friedrich 
Published: August 2018

ZusammenfassungRegional tätige Genossenschaftsbanken weisen systematische Effizienzunterschiede zwischen städtischen, halbstädtischen und ländlichen Instituten auf. Dies liegt im Wesentlichen am Zinsergebnis, da ländliche Institute in der Regel höhere Zinserträge bei gleichzeitig niedrigeren Zinsaufwendungen haben. Die in der Literatur genannte geringere Wettbewerbsintensität kann jedoch nur eingeschränkt bestätigt werden. Weiter werden Schlussfolgerungen zur optimalen Betriebsgröße der Institute gezogen.
Effizienz der Banken
Authors: Richter Frank , Christians Uwe , Hartl Friedrich 
Published: August 2018

Zusammenfassung
Ein in der Kreditwirtschaft gängiges Maß zur Quantifizierung effizienten Wirtschaftens stellt die Cost-Income-Ratio (CIR) dar. Allerdings wird diese Kennzahl in der Literatur schon seit längerer Zeit kritisiert. Daher wird im Rahmen dieser Studie zunächst ein moderneres Maß zur Bestimmung von Effizienz entwickelt. Eine deskriptive Analyse der Effizienzwerte liefert erste empirische Erkenntnisse zu möglichen Erfolgsfaktoren. Anschließend werden Ähnlichkeitsstrukturen mittels Multidimensionaler Skalierung visualisiert. Mit Hilfe dieser Methode zeigt sich noch genauer, ob effiziente Banken einer bestimmten Systematik folgen.