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Effectiveness of control measures of Mikania micrantha on grassland: a case study from grassland in Sauraha area of Chitwan National Park
Authors: Aryal U. , Wagle B. H. , Lamichhane B. , Parajuli A. , Thapa P. 
Published: July 2018

The spread of Mikania micrantha is causing a serious threat to native ecosystem in the tropical and sub-tropical parts of Nepal. The main objective of the study was to analyse the effectiveness of different control measures applied in the grasslands of Chitwan National Park (CNP) by comparing number and coverage of M. micrantha and native grass species. The three experimental sites were grassland of the CNP. These sites were delineated from Etrex 30, Global Positioning System (GPS) and GIS 10.3.2 in April, 2013. A block with size of 100 m x 100 m was separated by fire line on all sides for each treatment in each site. Systematic sampling with random start was used to establish sample plots within each block. Six sample plots were established in each block. The size of each plot was 2 m x 0.4 m (0.8 m2). The distance between one sample plot to another sample plot was 40 m. Three treatments applied in three blocks of each site were controlled fire, manual cutting and control (no treatment).Seedlings of M. micrantha and native grasses were counted and their coverage assessed in each plot. The coverage and number of native grass species were higher in controlled fire plot than in manual cutting and control plots. The study concludes that controlled fire is better than manual cutting and control treatments for the management of grassland. This study will help to different stakeholders to control its outreach, make polices, proper management of grasslands that are being affected by the invasion of M. micrantha. Banko JanakariA Journal of Forestry Information for Nepal Special Issue No. 4, 2018, Page: 144-149
Special rights within universal welfare
Authors: Brunovskis Anette 
Published: July 2018

Over the past two decades, several measures have been developed to provide assistance to persons defined as victims of trafficking. This article describes and discusses the organization of barriers and access to assistance (such as housing, medical assistance and subsistence support) for this group in Norway, taking as its starting point the daily practice of social workers and using an institutional ethnographic approach. Of great significance to access to assistance are the different administrative statuses that trafficking victims are assigned and move between, thus having rights granted or taken away. The negotiation of these administrative categories and navigation of conflicting legislation become a central aspect of social workers’ daily practice. Persons defined as ‘trafficking victims’ are eligible for a special residence permit, while assistance in Norway in practice is provided through the universal welfare system. ‘Human trafficking’ and ‘trafficking victim’ are operational categories in criminal law and immigration legislation, but they are not administrative categories for welfare provision. Instead, being defined as a trafficking victim functions as an inroad to assignation of other administrative categories (also dependent on residence and registration statuses) that determine what assistance is or is not available. Gaps and inconsistencies between institutional and legal complexes arise when one small group of people are awarded special measure rights within a universal system, creating a bureaucratically complicated and ‘messy’ path to assistance. This ‘messiness’ does not mean that it does not always work. However, it appears to work best for those who fit well with the modern Norwegian bureaucracy, e.g. in terms of being able to document identity and stay within one administrative status, and worst for those who do not. Hence, the system for victim assistance appears to be the least accessible for some of the least privileged members of the group it is intended for.
Peningkatan Pertumbuhan Bibit Pisang Barangan dengan Aplikasi Fungi Mikoriza Arbuskular
Authors: Khafiz Khafiz , Suswati Suswati , Indrawati Asmah 
Published: July 2018

Tanaman pisang Barangan adalah komoditi penting yang sangat berperanan mendukung diversifikasi sumber pangan, ekonomi dan aktifitas budaya di Sumatera Utara dalam pengusahaannya penyakit Darah Bakteri yang disebabkan oleh Blood Disease Bacterium (BDB) Phylotipe IV dan Fusarium oxysporum f.sp.cubense (Foc) menjadi penyebab utama turunnya produksi pisang Barangan ini dan menyebabkan terkontaminasinya lahan tanam oleh propagul patogen.Untuk itu telah dilakukan penelitian tentang peningkatan pertumbuhan bibit pisang Barangan dengan Fungi Mikoriza Arbuskular. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menggali informasi tentang kemampuan FMA dalam meningkatkan pertumbuhan bibit pisang Barangan yang diperbanyak secara in-vitro. Rancangan yang digunakan adalah Rancangan Acak Lengkap (RAL) dengan 4 perlakuan dan 5 ulangan yaitu 1= Kontrol ( tanpa FMA ), 2 = Glomus tipe-1, 3= Acauluspora tipe-4, 4= Multispora. Parameter pengamatan: Persentese kolonisasi akar, Efektifitas simbiosis, Kepadatan Spora FMA, tinggi tanaman, jumlah daun.Hasil Penelitian menunjukkan bahwa semua dosis FMA yang digunakan sangat baik untuk membantu pertumbuhan dan tinggi tanaman pisang, Pengaplikasian FMA Glomus tipe-1, Acauluspora tipe-4, Multispora sangat berpengaruh nyata untuk parameter tinggi tanaman, jumlah daun dan berat basah tanaman pisang dan berpengaruh nyata untuk parameter berat shoot tanaman dan tidak berpengaruh nyata untuk berat basah root
Hubungan Lingkungan Kerja Non Fisik dengan Kepuasan Kerja pada Perawat RSJ Prof.Dr.Muhammad Ildrem Sumatera Utara
Authors: Nasution Najmah Medina Sari , DR Maqhfirah 
Published: July 2018

<p>Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji hubungan lingkungan kerja non fisik dengan kepuasan kerja pada perawat di Rumah Sakit Jiwa Prof. Dr. Muhammad Ildrem Provinsi Sumatera Utara. Lingkungan Kerja Non Fisik adalah lingkungan kerja yang tidak dapat ditangkap dengan panca indera manusia tetapi dapat dirasakan oleh para pekerja melalui hubungan-hubungan sesama pekerja maupun dengan atasan.Kepuasan Kerja merupakan suatu sikap, persepsi atau emosi yang dimiliki seseorang terhadap pekerjaannya.Subjek penelitian adalah perawat di RS. Jiwa Prof. Dr. Muhammad Ildrem Provinsi Sumatera Utara sejumlah 150 perawat. Pendekatan yang dipergunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan kuantitatif. Pengambilan sampel dalam penelitian ini dengan total sampling. Berdasarkan hasil perhitungan Analisis Korelasi Product Moment, dapat diketahui bahwa terdapat hubungan positif yang sangat signifikan antara lingkungan kerja non fisik dengan kepuasan kerja. Hasil ini dibuktikan dengan koefisien korelasi r<sub>xy</sub> = r<sub>xy</sub> = 0,510 ; sig 0,000. Dengan demikian maka hipotesis yang diajukan, dinyatakan diterima. Lingkungan kerja non fisik memberikan pengaruh terhadap kepuasan kerja sebesar 26%. Dari hasil ini berarti diketahui bahwa masih terdapat 74% pengaruh dari faktor lain.</p>
Changes in Energy Metabolism from Prepregnancy to Postpartum: A Case Report
Authors: Pereira Leticia C.R. , Elliott Sarah A. , McCargar Linda J. , Bell Rhonda C. , Prado Carla M. 
Published: July 2018

Purpose: Energy metabolism is at the core of maintaining healthy body weights. Likewise, the assessment of energy needs is essential for providing adequate dietary advice. We explored differences in energy metabolism of a primigravid woman (age: 30 years) at 1 month prepregnancy (“baseline”), during pregnancy (33 weeks), and at 3 and 9 months postpartum. Measured versus estimated energy expenditure were compared using equations commonly used in clinical practice. Methods: Energy metabolism was measured using a state-of-the-art whole body calorimetry unit (WBCU). Body composition (dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry), energy intake (3-day food records), physical activity (Baecke questionnaire), and breastmilk volume/breastfeeding energy expenditure (24-hours of infant test–retest weighing) were assessed. Results: This case report is the first to assess energy expenditure in 3 different stages of a woman’s life (prepregnancy, pregnancy, and postpartum) using WBCU. We noticed that weight and energy needs returned to prepregnancy values at 9 months postpartum, although a pattern of altered body composition emerged (higher fat/lean ratio) without changes in physical activity and energy intake. For this woman, current recommendations for energy overestimated actual needs by 350 kcal/day (9 months postpartum). Conclusion: It is likely that more accurate approaches are needed to estimate energy needs during and postpregnancy, with targeted interventions to optimize body composition.
Dietetic Staffing and Workforce Capacity Planning in Primary Health Care
Authors: MacDonald Werstuck Michele , Buccino Jennifer 
Published: July 2018

The addition of Registered Dietitians (RD) to primary health care (PHC) teams has been shown to be effective in improving health and economic outcomes with reported savings of $5 to $99 New Zealand dollars for every $1 spent on nutrition interventions. Despite proven benefits, very few Canadians have access to dietitians in PHC. This paper summarizes the literature on dietetic staffing ratios in PHC in Canada and other countries with similar PHC systems. Examples are shared to demonstrate how dietitians and others can utilize published staffing ratios to review dietitian services within their settings, identify gaps, and advocate for additional positions to meet population needs. The majority of published dietetic staffing ratios describe ranges of 1 RD: 15 000–18 500 patients, 1 RD for every 4–14 family physicians, or 1 RD for every 300–500 patients with diabetes. These staffing ratios may be inadequate as surveys report ongoing issues of limited access to dietetic counseling, under-serviced populations, and a shortage of dietitians to meet current population needs in PHC. Newer projection models based on specific population needs and ongoing workforce data are required to identify professional practice issues and accurately estimate dietetic staffing requirements in PHC.
Accuracy of two Generic Prediction Equations and One Population-Specific Equation for Resting Energy Expenditure in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury
Authors: Andersen Ross E. , Sweet Shane N. , Reid Ryan E.R. , Sydney Florence , Plourde Hugues 
Published: July 2018

Purpose: The primary aim was to assess the accuracy of common prediction equations, the Harris-Benedict (HB) and the Mifflin St. Jeor (MSJ) equations, for estimating resting energy expenditure (REE) among people with spinal cord injury (SCI) against actual REE measurements. The secondary aim was to cross-validate the Buchholz et al. energy prediction equation created for people with SCI. Methods: A metabolic cart with canopy was used to measure the actual REE. The HB, MSJ, and the Buchholz et al. equations were used for the prediction of REE. Results: Thirty-nine participants (31 males and 8 females) were enrolled in this cross-sectional study. The REEs significantly differed from one another, F(1.52, 57.68) = 52.04, P < 0.001, where both the HB (M = 1703.06, SD = 265.1) and the MSJ (M = 1628.92, SD = 233.8) energy predictions were significantly higher (P < 0.001) than the measured REE (M = 1394.05, SD = 298.7). In contrast, the Buchholz et al. equation did not differ from the measured REE. Conclusions: Our data show that the HB and MSJ equations do not accurately predict the energy needs of this community. Using a SCI-specific equation would improve estimates of REE, such as the Buchholz et al. equation. More research into energy equations for this population may help health care professionals better tailor dietary requirements for weight management.
Kinesiology taping for breast lymphoedema after breast cancer treatment: A feasibility randomised controlled trial
Authors: Collins Siobhán , Bradley Nora , Fitzgibbon Sarah , McVeigh Joseph G. 
Published: July 2018

PURPOSE: The primary aim of this study was to determine the feasibility of conducting a randomised controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of kinesiology tape (KT) and usual care versus usual care alone in the treatment of breast lymphoedema (BLE). METHODS: Fourteen participants with BLE were randomly assigned to either the KT and usual care group or usual care alone group. Both groups received three sessions of manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) once per week for three weeks, with the KT group additionally wearing the KT for two seven-day periods in between MLD sessions. Safety and acceptability of the KT were assessed by recording adverse events, skin changes and compliance with KT. Outcomes included were: ease of recruitment, attrition and acceptability of KT, percentage breast tissue water, patient-reported breast heaviness/fullness, breast discomfort and breast redness. RESULTS: Recruitment for this study was an average of 2.8 participants per month. There were no dropouts from either group. No adverse events or major skin side effects were recorded in either group. Minor skin redness was the most common dermal change ( n = 5). Compliance with KT was excellent. Percentage tissue water in the worst affected breast quadrant reduced, on average, by 15.14% and 10.43% in both the KT group and the usual care group respectively. CONCLUSION: This feasibility RCT into the use of KT in BLE has shown that recruitment to a larger scale RCT is feasible. It has been demonstrated that KT is a safe and acceptable intervention with no adverse events and minor dermal changes. A large, multi-centred RCT is now necessary to accurately assess the effect of KT in BLE.
Establishing Legal Title for Non-Accessioned Collections: All Collections Matter
Authors: Roberts Katherine , Nakano Jessica , Falquero Kelsey 
Published: July 2018

The Education and Outreach (E&amp;O) Collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) contains around 125,000 specimens and objects representing all seven of NMNH’s research departments: Anthropology, Botany, Entomology, Invertebrate Zoology, Mineral Sciences, Paleobiology, and Vertebrate Zoology. The primary source of the E&amp;O Collection is the NMNH’s former Naturalist Center (NC) that began in 1976 and closed in 2011. Almost a year after the NC’s closure, the Collection was repurposed as the core of the E&amp;O Collection for the new science learning center, Q?rius, at NMNH. The E&amp;O Collection was designated a collecting unit that needed to meet the Smithsonian Institution’s standards of care, holding non-accessioned collections to the same principles as accessioned collections.
For museums to claim full legal title, all acquired collections require proof of offer from the donor, acceptance by the museum, and physical custody of the objects. Title status is necessary to comply with the exceptions and regulations surrounding intellectual property rights and to fulfill legal and ethical obligations. E&amp;O collection items derived from several different sources, including donations, purchases, exchanges, collecting trips, and most commonly from former NC docents who routinely deposited items into the Collection.
At the start of 2013, the E&amp;O Collection’s team along with graduate-level interns from The George Washington University began the legal title project for the E&amp;O Collection. In order to ensure that NMNH holds full title to the E&amp;O Collection, interns research original acquisition records and federal and international regulations on cultural and biological materials. In 2016, through the Collections Care Preservation Fund, a contractor was hired to: 1) create a comprehensive digital and paper record to re-enforce the integrity of the non-accessioned collections and their future actions for exhibition, loan, or disposal, and 2) conduct thorough research and review of collection items’ acquisition histories to record that NMNH has done its due diligence to understand what is in the E&amp;O Collection and how it arrived there.
Over the past five years, we have investigated legal title for over 9,000 collection lots and worked with over 44 interns. We have digitized over 1,097 transaction records and have linked over 20,090 catalog records to a transaction. Ultimately, the E&amp;O legal title research process ensures collection items have full legal title, mitigates risk of losing collection data by digitizing acquisition records and legal title research, and promotes best practices for acquired but not accessioned education collections.
Plants and People: How Plant Collections can Connect Artefacts and Culture
Authors: Smith Catherine , Lowe Bronwyn 
Published: July 2018

The identification of plant materials used to make artefacts is often problematic due to the changes made to them during processing into textiles, such as retting, dying and stripping. However, the ability to identify these plant materials can provide essential provenance information, as well as information about the lifeways and inter-relationships (such as trade and plant procurement methods) among groups of people. In a New Zealand context, the ability to identify plants used to make Māori textiles reveals the diversity of plants used, the importance of plants in pre-European society, and the creativity of textile makers.
This paper will discuss the methods developed at the University of Otago, Dunedin to enable the identification of plant materials in Māori artefacts, as well as how access to collections of plant materials held at herbaria have contributed to this project. Over a 15 year period researchers at the Centre for Materials Science and Technology, University of Otago, have explored numerous methods of plant materials identification in artefacts (development of Atlas of Plant Materials and Fibres in New Zealand and Pacific He Rārangi Whakaaturanga o Ngā Taonga Rākau; micro computed tomography; Polarised Light Microscopy, PLM) with different levels of success. We will provide an overview of the development of a PLM identification method that has had the greatest success in application to plant identification in artefacts, and the kinds of connections this has brought about between founder cultures and their objects in museums collections. In doing so we will discuss how herbarium collections have contributed to the development of these methods, and what kinds of plant materials and botany collections have value for connecting people to their artefacts in cultural institutions.
Verifying dynamic Kano’s model to support new product/service development
Authors: Borgianni Yuri 
Published: July 2018

Purpose: Although firms try to shorten time-to-market, the duration of product development projects might anyway jeopardize the assumptions made at the beginning of the design process. This includes the definition of product attributes for ensuring customer satisfaction, thus forecasting techniques could be worthwhile. Within Kano’s method, trajectories of quality attributes have been identified and they can be potentially useful to the scope, but they have not been carefully verified.Design/methodology/approach: The paper takes on the above verification challenge by exploring studies of customer satisfaction conducted by means of Kano’s model regarding manifold industrial fields. The paper focuses on changes in the relevance of customer requirements reported in different contributions and analyses data statistically.Findings: The dynamic trajectories outlined in Kano’s model are partially confirmed and they are valuable in the mid-term to predict changes in customer preferences. The use of quantitative indicators portraying the extent of customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction leads to more reliable predictions.Research limitations/implications: In order to use as many data as possible, information has been used from different industrial fields, which can exhibit different paces in changes of customer preferences.Practical implications: The results benefit firms willing to have a clearer picture of customer main drivers for customer satisfaction at the time of market launch, although customer surveys are conducted at the beginning of product development projects.Originality/value: The paper puts into question previous assumptions about modifications of customer preferences, which, however are just empirically supported and assesses how these can be exploited in a reliable way.
L’Ami de la Religion et du Roi et El Restaurador, même combat
Authors: Dufour Gérard 
Published: July 2018

Journal « servil » fondé en juin 1823 par le P. Manuel Martínez, El Restaurador fut la version espagnole du journal ultraroyaliste et ultramontain créé en France en 1814 par M. Picot, L’Ami de la religion et du Roi. On y trouve ainsi les mêmes objectifs, et les mêmes thèmes, en particulier pour ce qui concerne l’exaltation des victimes des révolutionnaires, systématiquement et parfois difficilement élevées à la dignité de martyrs de la Foi. Et même si l’on peut noter une différence de traitement de l’information au sujet de la mort de Riego, les deux périodiques sont bien parfaitement semblables. En revanche, les motivations de leurs deux rédacteurs ne le sont pas : celui de L’Ami de la Religion et du Roi est ultraroyaliste parce que seul l’absolutisme monarchique peut assurer le triomphe de l’ultramontanisme qu’il souhaite voir régner en France ; celui de El Restaurador est ultramontain car c’est la seule façon de justifier l’absolutisme qu’il soutient.
Je t’aime pour toi, pas pour ta nationalité ! De la politisation du désir entre tolérance et préférence à Mascate, Sultanat d’Oman
Authors: Breteau Marion 
Published: July 2018

Depuis son accession au pouvoir en 1970, le Sulṭān Qābūs b. Sa‘īd s’efforce de promouvoir l’égalité des droits entre les Omanais, toutefois fondée sur la préférence nationale. Le registre politique tire également sa légitimité du religieux, en s’appuyant sur un idéal de la tolérance issue de la confession ibadite, religion d’État, jusqu’à pénétrer dans les représentations individuelles quant au choix du conjoint. Les fondements de l’identité nationale interrogent la notion de modernité, comprise comme un processus de transformation du mariage, où les choix individuels priment sur les préférences familiales. Cet article s’attache à observer comment s’opère une politisation du désir et de l’alliance à partir d’idéaux tels que l’égalité et la tolérance, en opposition à ceux de la préférence et l’exclusion.
Medieval Qalhāt, historical vs archaeological data
Authors: Rougeulle Axelle 
Published: July 2018

Qalhāt, in Oman, was one of the main hubs of the Indian Ocean trade at the time of the kingdom of Hormuz, in the 13th to 15th centuries AD. It is now an impressive archaeological site, a large ruined city about 35 ha wide. Excavations started there in 2008 with a French team under the authority of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture of Oman, and have since turned into an important development project with the final aim to create an archaeological park on site. Research have yielded considerable data about: the spatial organization and development of the town, its fortifications, the various quarters and main buildings including the Friday mosque, the daily life of its inhabitants and the trading activities of the port. Paralleled with literary sources they now give a clearer idea of the history of this main harbour of the medieval period.