bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Духовные основы хоровой школы К. К. Пигрова и традиции «православной кантаты» в творчестве С. И. Танеева
Authors: Litvinenko Olena 
Published: July 2018

Статья посвящена рассмотрению духовных основ хоровой школы К.К. Пигрова, органично соединившего в своей методике светскую и церковную традиции хорового пения, что в совокупности способствовало развитию не только профессиональных дирижерских и вокально-певческих навыков музыканта, но и его духовного мира. Составной частью «школы К.К Пигрова» можно также считать ее репертуарную специфику, в рамках которой существенное место принадлежит музыке С.И. Танеева, в частности, феномену «православной кантаты».Ключевые слова: хоровая школа К.К. Пигрова, кантата, «православная кантата», творчество С.И. Танеева.
Музично-інструментальна культура трипільської цивілізації (до питання реконструкції)
Authors: Oliinyk Olha 
Published: July 2018

Стаття присвячена питанням реконструкції ударних і духових інструментів раннього та середнього етапів існування Трипільської цивілізації (4600-3700 рр. до н. е.). На основі порівняльного інструментознавчого аналізу у сакральних комплексах трипільської кераміки виявлено різні типи барабанів, що мають аналоги серед однотипних керамічних інструментів народів світу. Духові інструменти трипільців реконструйовані на основі чисельних однотипних інструментів різних археологічних культур (палеоліту – доби бронзи) та народними технологіями їх виготовлення. Ключові слова: трипільські музичні інструменти, музична археологія, барабани, духові інструменти.
Духовное мироощущение С.С. Прокофьева и его проекции в хоровом творчестве
Authors: Lysenko Nataliya 
Published: July 2018

Статья посвящена анализу генезиса и специфики духовного мировоззрения С.С. Прокофьева, его связям с русской духовно-религиозной и философской традицией, а также их проекциям в кантатно-ораториальных сочинениях композитора.Ключевые слова: хоровое творчество С.С. Прокофьева, кантата, оратория, архетипы советской культуры, Christian Science.
Салонная традиция в формировании клавирного символизма пианистического искусства С. Рахманинова – исполнителя и композитора
Authors: Androsova Daryа 
Published: July 2018

В данной статье выделена пианистическая позиция С. Рахманинова как тенденция «клавиризации» фортепиано, что роднит его с А. Скрябиным и учителем обоих Н. Зверевым, – в соответствии с «духом времени» установки на модерн в искусстве и в мыслительных операциях в целом. Систематизированы материалы по исполнительским прочтениям Рахманиновым собственных сочинений и композиций других авторов в направленности на модернистский принцип мышления. Также выделены в композиторской позиции Рахманинова соответствующие стилевые установки в поддержку пианизма модерна.Ключевые слова: салонная традиция, символизм, фортепианный стиль, исполнитель, композитор.
Специфика проявления принципа программности в фортепианных циклах Э. Гранадоса И М. Мусоргского
Authors: Zayats Nataliya 
Published: July 2018

Статья посвящена анализу специфики проявления принципа программности в фортепианном цикле «Гойески» Э. Гранадоса и в «Картинках с выставки» М. Мусоргского. Названные произведения возникли на пересечении музыкальной и художественной традиции (Ф. Гойя, В. Гартман) и рассматриваются в контексте жанрово-стилевых исканий русской и испанской культуры второй половины XIX – начала ХХ веков.Ключевые слова: программность, «Гойески» Э. Гранадоса, «Картинки с выставки» М. Мусоргского, Ф. Гойя, В. Гартман, романтизм, Ренсимьенто.
Model Penentu Market Price of Share Pada Sektor Manufaktur Yang Terdaftar di BEI
Authors: Deitiana Tita , Chriselda Renata 
Published: July 2018

The purpose of this study to investigate the factor that influence Market Price of Share in Manufacture companies. The second objective is to identify influence independent variable to dependent variable.
Data for this study is the financial ratios calculated from the financial statement of Manufacture in Indonesia Stock Exchange over the five year period 2010 until 2014. The number of sample with purposive sampling method are 8 company as part of 119 Manufacture company. This study also measured by multiple linear regression method with software E-views 7.2.
The result show that there is significant relationship between Dividend per Share, Earnings per Share, and Book Value also there is not a significant relationship between Dividend Payout Ratio, Return on Networth, Price Earnings Ratio and Size with Market Price of Share.
Keyword: Market Price of Share, Dividend per Share, Earnings per Share, Book Value, Dividend Payout Ratio, Return on Networth, Price Earnings Ratio, and Size
Sex-Related Reserve Hypothesis in Alzheimer’s Disease: Changes in Cortical Thickness with a Five-Year Longitudinal Follow-Up
Authors: Lee Juyoun , Cho Hanna , Jeon Seun , Kim Hee Jin , Kim Yeo Jin , Lee Jeongmin , Kim Sung Tae , Lee Jong-Min , Chin Juhee , Lockhart Samuel N. , Lee Ae Young , Na Duk L. , Seo Sang Won 
Published: July 2018

Background: Sex effects on the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have received less attention than other demographic factors, including onset age and education. Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate whether sex affected cortical thinning in the disease progression of AD. Methods: We prospectively recruited 36 patients with early-stage AD and 14 people with normal cognition. All subjects were assessed with magnetic resonance imaging at baseline, Year 1, Year 3, and Year 5. We performed cortical thickness analyses using surface-based morphometry on magnetic resonance imaging. Results: Women with AD showed more rapid cortical thinning in the left dorsolateral frontal cortex, left superior temporal gyrus, bilateral temporo-parietal association cortices, bilateral anterior cingulate gyri, bilateral medial frontal cortices, and bilateral occipital cortices over 5 years than men with AD, even though there was no difference in cortical thickness at baseline. In contrast, there were no regions of significantly more rapid atrophy in men with AD. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that women deteriorate faster than men in the progression of AD.
Enhancement of learning through field study
Authors: Kandamby Tesila 
Published: July 2018

Learning is more concerned in engineering education as students need to do deep learning to understand the engineering principles for practice. Engineering is a practicing profession. Therefore, providing learning environment is required for the subjects of engineering disciplines to enable students to learn in depth. By knowing this phenomenon, field study was conducted as a group study for the civil engineering subject of building construction allowing students to learn and gain knowledge by observing construction activities in construction projects in addition to the lectures in usual classroom. At the end of the study, it is found that field study is useful for learning and students acquire knowledge and understand the application of theory at real situation. In addition, students develop skills for working as a team by organizing their works, sharing knowledge, discussing with relevant technical personnel at work site and achieving the targets within the given time frame. It is realized that teacher’s role is vital to make the study successful in the ways of organizing field study, conducting discussion classes to assist students, monitoring the progress and giving the feedback of the students’ performance during the course of field study producing excellent results while satisfying the objectives of both teacher and students.
Ultrasonic Excitation – Fiber Bragg Grating Sensing Technique for Damage Identification
Authors: Li Cai , Yue Xiaoguang 
Published: July 2018

Nondestructive testing plays an important role in on-line equipment inspection. Traditional nondestructive testing methods have been widely utilized for this. Ultrasonic excitation-fiber Bragg grating sensing technique is based on well-developed optical fiber grating technology, which has a good prospect of damage detection for mechanical equipments. However the corresponding research is still at the starting stage and further research work is necessary. The main contribution pursued in this investigation is to establish a detection system based on fiber Bragg grating sensing under ultrasonic excitation and predict the damage position through time delay on the plate structure. Differencing from the conventional approaches, a new way of damage detection utilizes fiber Bragg grating sensors and a position algorithm by two-dimensional method is derived. Moreover, wavelet transform is adopted in the subsequent signal processing. Finally, a platform for experiment is built to verify the theoretical analysis of the sensing characterization of the fiber Bragg grating sensor in ultrasonic excitation. Experiment results show that the wavelet transform is effective for signal denoising and our localization algorithm is feasible.
Use of anti-gonadotropin-releasing hormone vaccines in African elephants (Loxodonta africana): A review
Authors: Bertschinger Hendrik J. , Lueders Imke 
Published: July 2018

Background: Androgen-related aggressive behaviour and musth cause serious problems in captive African elephant bulls and often lead to human and animal injuries, and damage to property.Objectives: To review the work carried out with anti-gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) vaccines to control androgen-related behaviour and fertility in captive and free-ranging elephant bulls and the induction of anoestrus in elephant cows.Method: In the first study, an anti-GnRH vaccine from Pepscan was tested in six bulls (four captive and two free-ranging). Once the vaccine Improvac® became available, the effect on behaviour, the reproductive organs and semen quality was tested. Improvac® was also used to attempt induction of anoestrus in elephant cows.Results: The first study proved that aggressive behaviours are significantly associated with increased faecal androgen concentrations. Musth (n = 1) and aggressive behaviour (n = 2) were down regulated and correlated with a decline in faecal androgen concentrations. Aggression and musth could be controlled with Improvac® (600 µg), but were more consistent when the dose was increased to 1000 µg administered every five to six months. The same dose down regulated testicular function and bulls (n = 17) were rendered infertile within 12 months after commencement of treatment. Initial attempts to induce anoestrous with 600 µg in free-ranging elephant cows gave inconclusive results, but 1000 µg in captive cows delivered five-monthly was successful.Conclusion: The treatment of elephant bulls with Improvac® resulted in the successful down-regulation of androgen-related behaviour and sperm production in captive and wild elephant bulls of various ages (≤ 34 years). Preliminary studies to induce anoestrus in cows with Improvac® appear to be successful.
Good practices, drawbacks and improvement strategies in external peer monitoring and evaluation: A case of Uganda National Council for Higher Education
Authors: Ssentamu Proscovia N. 
Published: July 2018

Background: Growing demand for higher education by national governments and their citizens, and the growth of public and private higher education institutions resulting from increased enrolment have augmented the demand for monitoring and evaluation (M&E). Consequently, the National Council for Higher Education in Uganda was established and mandated to among others monitor, evaluate and regulate higher education institutions.Objectives: To explore good practices, drawbacks and improvement strategies in the external peer M&E of higher education institutions.Method: Using the qualitative research design, data were collected from 15 peers invited by the Council to participate in external M&E visits to higher education institutions.Results: Several categories of good external peer M&E practices and drawbacks emerged including statutory provisions for the external M&E exercise by the Council; purpose, planning and capacity for undertaking external M&E activities; involvement of peers and professional bodies; and political and legal interference.Conclusion: Despite availability of an M&E framework and involvement of peers, the current external M&E model is centralised, bureaucratic and summative and therefore generally not supportive of continuous institutional improvement based on feedback from M&E visits. The current Higher Education Law should be amended; the Council M&E framework and practices should be periodically reviewed to match trends and needs, a gradual shift from compliance to participatory and performance-based M&E, and creation of a good policy environment to nurture the growth and development of institutional self-monitoring and evaluation mechanisms geared towards a culture of continuous self-improvement.
Record-keeping: Challenges experienced by nurses in selected public hospitals
Authors: Mutshatshi Takalani E. , Mothiba Tebogo M. , Mamogobo Pamela M. , Mbombi Masenyani O. 
Published: July 2018

Background: Patients’ records provide a trace of care processes that have occurred and are further used as communication amongst nurses for continued management of patients. Nurses have the responsibility to ensure that records are accurate and complete in order to effectively manage their patients. In hospitals, nurses have to record a wide range of information in the patient’s records and this leads to increased workload on the part of nurses that compromises accurate record-keeping.Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the challenges experienced by nurses with regard to record-keeping at selected public hospitals in the Vhembe district, Limpopo Province, South Africa.Method: A qualitative, explorative and descriptive research design was used. Nurses working in selected public hospitals were purposively selected and semi-structured interviews were conducted until data saturation was reached. Data were analysed using the Tesch’s open-coding method.Results: Nurses working in public hospitals experience record-keeping as a challenging activity owing to a variety of challenges which include lack of time to complete the records, increased patients’ admission and shortage of recording material.Conclusion: Record-keeping is not done properly which is problematic, and it is recommended that there should be continuous training, monitoring and evaluation of nurses on record-keeping issues, supply of adequate recording materials and proper time management amongst nurses to improve record-keeping challenges. The need for comprehensive record-keeping remains fundamental in public hospitals in order to improve patient care.
Uncovering the strengths and weaknesses of outsourcing core business deliverables: the case of selected state-owned enterprises in South Africa
Authors: Magagula Marcia , Zondo Robert W.D. 
Published: July 2018

Background: The outsourcing phenomenon is one of the extensive areas of business in the world. It is a practice among both private and public organisations and an important element in business strategy. Consequently, the execution of maintenance and repairs of equipment are core business deliverables of the power plant maintenance (PPM) department of the selected state-owned enterprise (SOE). Whilst internal employees normally perform such functions, the PPM department outsources them to external service providers. Objective: This study explored the contributing factors influencing outsourcing of core business deliverables. Method: The study was conducted in the PPM department of the selected SOE. Of the 152 individuals located across eight of the provinces in South Africa, identified for participation in the study, 135 participated. It was cross-sectional in nature and included participants from the management of the PPM department as well as its technical officials. Descriptive, correlation and regression analysis were used to test the three objectives, namely to assess the contributing factors influencing outsourcing of core business deliverables, to establish the effect of outsourcing core business deliverables on business performance and to examine the risks of outsourcing core business deliverables. Results: Outsourcing core business deliverables provide flexibility to the PPM department by enabling it to meet unexpected demands. However, it results in the leaking of confidential information to external service providers. Conclusion: Organisations that decide to outsource, must consider the benefits and risks carefully and take measures to mitigate the related risks.
An Adventure with Client-Side XSLT to an Architecture for Building Bridges with Javascript
Authors: Ford Katherine , Thompson Will 
Published: July 2018

This paper describes the development process we undertook to extend the capabilities of an XML-based authoring and publishing system. Originally designed to deliver content for print and the web, we transformed it into one that delivers fully interactive web-based wizards whose steps are generated automatically based on logic encoded into the source documents. To meet our requirements for the application, we rejected conventional top-down XML or JavaScript frameworks and instead sought to unite JavaScript and XSLT to leverage the strengths of each.
Despite being underutilized as a client-side technology, XSLT is still a valuable tool in the development of modern web applications. Its expressive nature, continuing support in browsers, and ability to integrate with a modern virtual DOM-based user interface framework allowed us to build a complex legal forms application that was simpler and more productive than more conventional approaches. Our application demonstrates opportunities for symbiosis with client-side XSLT that has potential beyond legal forms and for an architecture with implications beyond XSLT.
Molecular distributions of dicarboxylic acids, oxocarboxylic acids and α-dicarbonyls in PM2.5 collected at the top of Mt. Tai, North China, during the wheat burning season of 2014
Authors: Zhu Yanhong , Yang Lingxiao , Chen Jianmin , Kawamura Kimitaka , Sato Mamiko , Tilgner Andreas , van Pinxteren Dominik , Chen Ying , Xue Likun , Wang Xinfeng , Simpson Isobel J. , Herrmann Hartmut , Blake Donald R. , Wang Wenxing 
Published: July 2018

Abstract. Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) samples collected at Mount
(Mt.) Tai in the North China Plain during summer 2014 were analyzed for
dicarboxylic acids and related compounds (oxocarboxylic acids and α-dicarbonyls) (DCRCs). The total concentration of DCRCs was 1050±580
and 1040±490 ng m−3 during the day and night, respectively.
Although these concentrations were about 2 times lower than similar
measurements in 2006, the concentrations reported here were about 1–13 times
higher than previous measurements in other major cities in the world.
Molecular distributions of DCRCs revealed that oxalic acid (C2) was the
dominant species (50 %), followed by succinic acid (C4) (12 %)
and malonic acid (C3) (8 %). WRF modeling revealed that Mt. Tai was
mostly in the free troposphere during the campaign and long-range transport
was a major factor governing the distributions of the measured compounds at
Mt. Tai. A majority of the samples (79 %) had comparable concentrations
during the day and night, with their day–night concentration ratios between
0.9 and 1.1. Multi-day transport was considered an important reason for the
similar concentrations. Correlation analyses of DCRCs and their gas
precursors and between C2 and sulfate indicated precursor emissions and
aqueous-phase oxidations during long-range transport also likely play an
important role, especially during the night. Source identification indicated
that anthropogenic activities followed by photochemical aging accounted for
about 60 % of the total variance and were the dominant source at Mt. Tai.
However, biomass burning was only important during the first half of the
measurement period. Measurements of potassium (K+) and DCRCs were about
2 times higher than those from the second half of the measurement period. The
concentration of levoglucosan, a biomass burning tracer, decreased by about
80 % between 2006 and 2014, indicating that biomass burning may have
decreased between 2006 and 2014.
Understanding terrestrial water storage variations in northern latitudes across scales
Authors: Trautmann Tina , Koirala Sujan , Carvalhais Nuno , Eicker Annette , Fink Manfred , Niemann Christoph , Jung Martin 
Published: July 2018

Abstract. The GRACE satellites provide signals of total terrestrial water storage (TWS)
variations over large spatial domains at seasonal to inter-annual timescales. While the GRACE data have been extensively and successfully used to
assess spatio-temporal changes in TWS, little effort has been made to
quantify the relative contributions of snowpacks, soil moisture, and other
components to the integrated TWS signal across northern latitudes, which is
essential to gain a better insight into the underlying hydrological
processes. Therefore, this study aims to assess which storage component
dominates the spatio-temporal patterns of TWS variations in the humid regions
of northern mid- to high latitudes. To do so, we constrained a rather parsimonious hydrological model with
multiple state-of-the-art Earth observation products including GRACE TWS
anomalies, estimates of snow water equivalent, evapotranspiration fluxes,
and gridded runoff estimates. The optimized model demonstrates good
agreement with observed hydrological spatio-temporal patterns and was used
to assess the relative contributions of solid (snowpack) versus liquid
(soil moisture, retained water) storage components to total TWS variations.
In particular, we analysed whether the same storage component dominates TWS
variations at seasonal and inter-annual temporal scales, and whether the
dominating component is consistent across small to large spatial scales. Consistent with previous studies, we show that snow dynamics control
seasonal TWS variations across all spatial scales in the northern
mid- to high latitudes. In contrast, we find that inter-annual variations of
TWS are dominated by liquid water storages at all spatial scales. The
relative contribution of snow to inter-annual TWS variations, though,
increases when the spatial domain over which the storages are averaged
becomes larger. This is due to a stronger spatial coherence of snow
dynamics that are mainly driven by temperature, as opposed to spatially
more heterogeneous liquid water anomalies, that cancel out when averaged
over a larger spatial domain. The findings first highlight the effectiveness
of our model–data fusion approach that jointly interprets multiple Earth
observation data streams with a simple model. Secondly, they reveal that the
determinants of TWS variations in snow-affected northern latitudes are scale-dependent. In particular, they seem to be not merely driven by snow
variability, but rather are determined by liquid water storages on
inter-annual timescales. We conclude that inferred driving mechanisms of
TWS cannot simply be transferred from one scale to another, which is of
particular relevance for understanding the short- and long-term variability
of water resources.