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The Experience of Establishing Data Sharing & Linkage Platforms for Administrative, Research and Community-Service Data
Authors: Manhas Kiran Pohar , Cui Xinjie , Tough Suzanne C 
Published: February 2019

IntroductionInnovative data platforms (e.g. biobanks, repositories) continually emerge to facilitate data sharing. Extant and emerging data platforms must navigate myriad tensions for successful data sharing and re-use. Two Alberta data platforms navigated such processes and factors regarding administrative, research and nonprofit data: the Child & Youth Data Laboratory (CYDL) and Secondary Analysis to Generate Evidence (SAGE).
ObjectivesTo clarify the social and policy factors that influenced CYDL and SAGE establishment and implementation, and the relationships, if any, between these factors and data type.
MethodsThis paper involves a qualitative secondary analysis of two developmental evaluations on CYDL and SAGE establishment. Six-years post-implementation, the CYDL evaluation entailed document review; website user analysis; informant interviews (n=30); online stakeholder survey (n=260); and an environmental scan. One-year post implementation, the SAGE evaluation included 15 interviews and document review. We used thematic analysis and comparisons with the literature to identify key factors.
ResultsThree (not mutually exclusive) categories of social and policy factors influenced the navigation towards CYDL and SAGE realization: trusting relationships; sustainability amidst readiness; and privacy within social context. For these platforms to be able to manage, link or share data, trust had to be fostered and maintained across multiple, dynamic and intersecting relationships between primary data producers, data subjects, secondary users and institutions. Platform sustainability and readiness required capacity building and innovation. Privacy and information sharing evolved culturally and correspondingly for these data platforms, which required constant flexibility and awareness.
ConclusionsThis commentary calls for more empirical research on the value of data re-use or the detriment in not re-using data. While the culture of information sharing is progressing towards greater openness and capacity for data sharing and re-use, successful data platforms must advocate, facilitate and mobilize analysis and innovation using data re-use while being cognizant of social and policy influences.
Sähköiseen terveyskyselyyn vastaamatta jättäneet yliopisto-opiskelijat - katoanalyysi
Authors: Ritakorpi Minna , Kaunonen Marja , Kaila Minna , Paldanius Susanna , Seilo Noora 
Published: February 2019

Ylioppilaiden terveydenhoitosäätiö (YTHS) lähettää ensimmäisen vuoden yliopisto-opiskelijoille sähköisen terveyskyselyn. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää, miten sähköiseen terveyskyselyyn vastaamatta jättäneet yliopisto-opiskelijat eroavat kyselyyn vastanneista terveydentilan, terveystottumusten ja sosiaalisten tilanteiden kokemisen suhteen. Lisäksi tarkoituksena oli saada tietoa opiskelijoiden syistä jättää vastaamatta sähköiseen kyselyyn. Kohdejoukkona oli lukuvuonna 2011–2012 sähköiseen terveyskyselyyn vastaamatta jättäneet opiskelijat, joista 498 satunnaisesti valitulle opiskelijalle tehtiin puhelinhaastattelu. Puhelinhaastattelussa opiskelijoille esitettiin sähköisessä terveyskyselyssä olleita kysymyksiä terveydentilasta, terveystottumuksista ja sosiaalisten tilanteiden kokemisesta. Vastauksia verrattiin niiden opiskelijoiden vastauksiin, jotka olivat vastanneet sähköiseen kyselyyn samana lukuvuotena (N=8750). Määrällinen aineisto analysoitiin tilastollisin menetelmin ja avoin kysymys laadullisella sisällön analyysillä.
Sähköiseen terveyskyselyyn vastaamatta jättäneet opiskelijat kokivat terveydentilansa ja mielialansa paremmaksi sekä sosiaaliset tilanteet positiivisemmin kuin terveyskyselyyn vastanneet opiskelijat. He kokivat myös vähemmän yksinäisyyttä. Vastaamatta jättäneissä opiskelijoissa oli vastanneita enemmän ylipainoisia. Yleisimmät syyt jättää vastaamatta kyselyyn olivat, että opiskelija ei muistanut saaneensa kutsua vastata kyselyyn, ei ehtinyt vastata, ei pitäneet vastaamista tärkeänä tai koki terveydentilansa riittävän hyväksi. Tutkimuksen tulosten perusteella vaikuttaa siltä, että katoon ei jää enemmän terveydentilansa heikommaksi kokevia tai psyykkisesti oireilevia.
ONLINE INSTRUCTION AS LOCAL EDUCATION: CUNY'S ONLINE BACCALAUREATE
Authors: Otte George 
Published: February 2019

The City University of New York is taking a new, local approach to online instruction: offering an online baccalaureate for degree completers, designed for NYC students who have “stopped out” in good academic standing and need the “any time” flexibility of asynchronous learning to finish the degree. What is especially distinctive about this online program is its goal of access for local students, its core constituency and mission. Though CUNY is addressing a local problem, online access to higher education for local students may address nation-wide problems with rates of degree completion and progress towards completion. As more institutions provide online instruction, localness may well be the key to access and timely completion for local students, with time and not distance being the key obstacle it overcomes.
RESEARCH ON ONLINE LEARNING
Authors: Swan Karen 
Published: February 2019

The second session of the Sloan-C Summer Workshop focused on research and how it might help us meet this challenge. In particular, presenters in this session were charged with addressing what the research to date can tell us about student, faculty and institutional change, what directions for future research seem most promising, and what we really need to do to move research on online learning to more rigorous and more informative levels.The papers they wrote are collected in this section. They include: a critical review of what the research literature can tell us about blended learning relative to each of Sloan-C’s five pillars of quality in online learning; two papers on one of the more promising lines of research in online learning, research involving the Community of Inquiry framework; an intriguing look at what very large data sets and innovative methodologies can tell us about our students and their reactions to blended course offerings; and an equally provocative thought piece on research on online learning in general which asks us to reconsider how we frame that enterprise, arguing that research on online education might generate more meaningful outcomes. The papers are both informative and thought-provoking, and although they may generate more questions than they answer, they clearly suggest directions for future research that could move ourunderstanding of online education forward in interesting and important ways.
UNDERSTANDING AND FOSTERING INTERACTION IN THREADED DISCUSSION
Authors: Williams Robert S. , Humphrey Rachel 
Published: February 2019

This study (N=2,826 postings from 92 participants) examines the phenomenon of interactivity in asynchronous computer-mediated communication (ACMC), also known as threaded discussion, in the context of master’s level Teaching English as a Second Language (MATESL) and Teaching English as a Foreign Language (MATEFL) courses. The study, which is grounded in a group of interrelated pragmatic, learning community, and pedagogical theories, attempts to determine when and under what conditions interactivity, here defined as a response to a previous posting, occurs. We focus on conditions that are present in interactive threaded discussions, those with low rates of serial monologuism and high rates of participant uptake. Taking interactivity as the dependent variable, we test a number of properties of individual ACMC postings to determine their relationships to interactivity. These variables include biographical properties of the writers (gender and first language (L1), role in the course) and a group of individual ACM posting properties, such the content of the posting (course related, phatic, both), whether or not the posting is interactive, the length of the posting, its intended audience, and whether or not the posting contains indicators of social presence (use of social speech, humor, naming, and more), face-threatening speech acts, and direct questions.Data used in the study were collected from ACMC, part of a web-based graduate introduction to second language acquisition and research methods courses. Participants in the courses were from various L1 backgrounds, including American English, Polish, Korean, and Arabic. Among our findings is that while social presence markers do not predict interactivity, there does seem to be some relationship between indicators of social presence and the quality of interaction.
O papel do estágio curricular supervisionado na formação profissional do acadêmico
Authors: Lima Paulo Gomes 
Published: February 2019

A formação do acadêmico em seu percurso inicial ou continuado requer, necessariamente a integração entre teorias e práticas, vivências e capacitação constantes. Sabe-se que uma das grandes lacunas do ensino superior no Brasil é a ênfase relativizada quanto a tais eixos, daí ser necessário retomar tal discussão em distintos quadros de referências para centrar o estágio curricular supervisionado como espaço e tempo em que o profissional se constrói e se prepara para a sua devolutiva social: engajando-se profissionalmente e atendendo aos cidadãos em distintas áreas do conhecimento.
COMPORTAMIENTO ESTRUCTURAL DEL BLOQUE UNO DE EDIFICIO DE POST GRADO DURANTE EL TERREMOTO DEL 16 DE ABRIL DE 2016
Authors: Aguiar Roberto 
Published: February 2019

El comportamiento estructural de una edificación depende de la interacción de tres aspectos fundamentales, el sismo, el suelo donde se asienta y la configuración estructural. En el caso del edificio de Postgrado de la Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí, que tiene aproximadamente 10 años de existencia, el sismo de diseño fue el recomendado por el Código Ecuatoriano de la Construcción del 2000; tiene tres bloques estructurales y uno de ellos se encuentra muy próxima a un talud que no se encuentra reforzado; la estructura responde al nivel de conocimientos actuales ya que las columnas tienen continuidad en todos los ejes del bloque analizado, vigas descolgadas de la misma sección en ambos sentidos. Además presenta una losa alivianada de 25 cm de espesor. En el bloque analizado hubo daño localizado en elementos del mezanine, al contrario de la mampostería en la que si hubo agrietamientos y colapsos en algunas.Se realizó el análisis sísmico de la estructura considerando el espectro obtenido en la ciudad de Manta, del terremoto del 16 de abril de 2016, que tuvo una magnitud de 7.8 grados. Este espectro presenta ordenadas más altas que el espectro que reporta la Norma Ecuatoriana de la Construcción NEC-15. Se realizó considerando mampostería pesada y con mampostería liviana, pensando en que la reconstrucción de las paredes debe realizarse con Gypsum.
Conjunction of ANN and threshold based wavelet de-noising approach for forecasting suspended sediment load
Authors: Nourani Vahid , Rahimi Aida Yahyavi , Nejad Farzad Hassan 
Published: February 2019

Information on suspended sediment load (SSL) is fundamental for numerous water resources management and environmental protection projects. This phenomenon has the inherent complexity due to a large number of vague parameters and existence of both spatial variability of the basin characteristics and temporal climatic patterns. This complexity turns into a barrier to get accurate prediction by conventional linear methods. On the other hand, the extent of the noise on hydrological data reduces the performance of data-driven models like Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Although ANNs could capture the complex nonlinear relationship between input and output parameters, being data-driven method positioned it in a state of need to preprocessed data. In this paper, the application of ANN approach focusing on wavelet- based denoising method for modeling daily streamflow-sediment relationship was proposed. The daily streamflow and SSL data observed at outlet of the Potomac River in USA were used as the case study. Achieving this purpose, Daubechies (db) was used as mother wavelet to decompose both streamflow and sediment time series into detailed and approximation subseries. Decomposition at level ten via db3 and at level eight via db5 were examined for streamflow and SSL time series, respectively. At first, the appropriate input combination with raw data to estimate current SSL was determined and re-imposed to ANN with denoised data.Â The comparison of results reveals that in term of determination coefficient, the obtained result by denoised data was improved up to 23.2% with raged to use noisy, raw data and this exhibits that denoised data can be employed productively in ANN-based daily SSL forecasting.
Role of Organizational Flexibility in Enhancing Sustainable Green Management Practices: A Study in Emerging Market Context
Authors: Rauth Bhardwaj Dr. Broto , Deshmukh A.R. 
Published: February 2019

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the variables influencing the role of organizational flexibility in enhancing sustainable organization (SO) by adopting green management practices. The empirical research study identifies the characteristics of internal environment to enhance sustainable green management practices in firmsoperating in an emerging economy, such as India. Design/methodology/approach The authors studied a sample size of 62 firms all over India and measured the internal environment for enhancing sustainable green management practices. In total, 142 responses were collected.Using SPSS tool, the authors measured the impact of these variables on sustainable outcomes.Findings It was found that the critical variables with respect to Indian context included management support, a nd organizational flexibility for developing environmentally sustainable organization.Research limitations/implications Further confirmatory research needs to be conducted to establish the stability of these factors. The results need to be tested on a larger sample size. Moreover, the tool developed needs to be tested for other emerging economy context too for generalization. Practical implications Organizational flexibility would enhance the sustainable capability of the companies to compete by enhancing their competitiveness in emerging economies by adopting green management practices. Therefore, it would be critical to study the role of green management practices in enhancing the sustainability and competitiveness of the firms operating in the Indian economy. Originality/value Earlier studies have not included two important parameters, including role of organizational flexibility and management support as drivers of sustainable development even in the developed country context. Moreover, the influence of organizational flexibility on green management practices needs to be studied in the context of sustainable development which was missing in the earlier literature.
The Activity-based costing (ABC) in a Public Higher Education Institutions (HEI): Stakeholders perceptions
Authors: Hashim Jamalludin Helmi 
Published: February 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences in perceptions, i) on the usefulness of costing information produced by ABC and the traditional costing system, and ii) between users and preparers. The respondents were selected using disproportionate stratified random sampling method among staff in the biggest public university in Malaysia with a multi-campus university system. Twelve branch campuses across the country. The data was collected using structure postal questionnaires that were distributed to 153 respondents across all of their campuses. The results indicated that respondent perceived the information produced by ABC system as of higher functionality as compared to the traditional costing system information. The finding also showed that there was no significance difference between users and prepares with regards to the quality of ABC system, but users perceived the ABC information is of higher functionality than do the preparers.
Evaluating the performance of Kuwait International Bank "An analytical study of the effects of the convert from the conventional system to the Islamic system "
Authors: Al-Ethawi Ahlam , Rbaiaan Manal Al 
Published: February 2019

This research aimed to recognize the extent of reflecting the application of Islamic banking system on the financial performance of banks. It's also helps to find the feasibility sought by the conventional banks by directing to converting to the Islamic system through evaluating the financial performance of the conventional banks before and after its shift; by using the financial indicators and the personal interviews that answered the main question of the research which is; Is there a difference in the bank's performance before and after the shift from the conventional system to Islamic system? The most important research results were that the pre-preparation of the bank shift plan and the creation of its employees is one of the most important factors in the success of the process. Also the possibility of banks converting in the state of Kuwait is available and enacted with laws that regulate working therein. The financial ratios are also main indicators to identify the performance of the bank. The professional vision of the bank converting experience has also suggested the right decision to turn to the Islamic regime to achieve the desired end of all the technical aspects, including banking, financial and legal ones.
Block Cipher Based Cryptographic Algorithm For Data Security
Authors: Hasan Syed Hamid , Trigui Mohamed Salim , Ali Alquraishee Anser Ghazzaal 
Published: February 2019

The process of protecting the accessibility, reliability, and secrecy of information is called Information security. We see a great increase in accessing of computer databases for stored information. Increasing number of companies are storing individual and business information on computers. Most of this information is not meant for the public eyes and is very sensitive. The following paper discusses the development of a block cipher based cryptographic algorithm that uses the logical gates like XOR and other shifting operations. The results of the experiment prove the algorithm to be efficient and secure.
The Effect of Corporate Life Cycle on Financial Reporting Quality Companies Listed in Tehran Stock Exchange
Authors: Zadband Vahid Khosravi , Omrani Hamed 
Published: February 2019

The major purpose of the current study was to investigate the effect of corporate life cycle on financial reporting quality of companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. Therefore, accruals quality and volume of abnormal accruals were utilized as measures to evaluate financial reporting quality. First, the statistical population was separated into firms at growth, maturity and decline stages using variables such as sales growth, dividend per share, capital expenditure and corporate age and then the hypotheses were tested via multiple-variable regression equations and mean comparison test. Results of studying 110 firms (1320 firms-years) during the time period 2002-2013 indicated that degrees of financial reporting quality in different stages of corporate life cycle (growth, maturity and decline) have a significant difference with each other.Â According to results of mean comparison test, financial reporting quality is at the highest level in maturity stage and at the lowest level in growth stage.
Profitability and Efficiency Analyses of Small Scale Rice processing units in Ngoketunjia Division, North West Region, Cameroon.
Authors: M.J Bime , D.E Fon , S.B Ngalim , J Ongla 
Published: February 2019

Rice production and processing over the years has been on an increase with more small holders entering the business. This study on profitability of processing and marketing of small scale rice processors had as objective to analyse the profitability levels of rice processing and marketing by small scale processors, determine the value added to the commodity at each stageÂ and also identify the constraints faced by these processors. The study used primary data collected using well-structured questionnaire from millers only, miller traders for white/parboiled rice through a multistage sampling technique. Results showed that the net processing income (3,151,201), value added (8,147,456) and efficiency (138) for miller-traders of white rice was highest, followed by miller-traders for parboiled rice and lastly millers only. Results further showed that millers only had Benefit/cost ratio of 0.4 indicating that milling only is not profitable due to small quantities milled, and high fixed cost. Miller-traders for parboiled rice had a benefit/cost ratio of 2.3 implying that their venture is most profitable. Based on the results, it was recommended that millers only should purchase large quantities of paddy to enable them reduce the overhead cost. Also the services of parboilers should reflect in the sales price of parboiled rice so that the parboiling services can be paid for.
LARVICIDAL ACTIVITY OFTITHONIA DIVERSIFOLIALEAF EXTRACT ONPERI-URBAN MOSQUITO LARVEA INABAKALIKI; ALTERNATIVE TO INSECTICIDE DEVELOPMENT.
Authors: CA UHUO , CN OKEREKE , ED NWELE , S.U OGBONNA , K.C NWANCHOR , F.N. OKOH 
Published: February 2019

The bioassay activitiesofTithonia diversifolia leave extract was conducted on the larvae of Anopheles mosquito collected at peri-urban areas of Abakaliki Ebonyi State, using the concentrations of the extract in dilutions at 50/100ml, 40/100ml, 30/100ml and 20/100ml introduced with 10 Anopheles mosquito larvae each in four replicates and allowed for 3hrs. Mean mortality rate of the larvae were observed after the first hour, thus 30%, 10%, 05% and 0% respectively while in the 2nd hour were 60%, 40%, 20% and 10% and in the 3rd hour were 80%, 60%, 50% & 30% respectively. The result thus revealed that the treatment is dose dependent and that the studied specie has some bioactive compounds that can be exploited for insect pests control hence observed to be sensitive in anopheles mosquito larvae. Therefore Tithonia diversifolialeaf extract could be used as a bioassay for the control of mosquito due to its active properties as this has exhibited adverse effects on the larvae thereby reducing the mosquito population and thus reducing the malarious infection associated with the bite of mosquito.
FACTOR ANALYSIS OF THE CO2 EMISSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Authors: Dias Olen , Vaninsky Alexander 
Published: February 2019

This paper applies the Generalized Divisia Index to decompose the CO2 emissions into eight components and uses the Factor Analysis to determine their clusters - the combinations of related components that play the leading role. Economic analysis of these clusters allows for the determination of the main drivers of the CO2 emissions. As a case study, we used the data of the United States from 1950 through 2040 separated into three periods: 1950 - 1980; 1981 - 2012, and 2013 - 2040, each characterized by a specific type of socioeconomic development: industrial, post-industrial, and information, respectively. Data for the last period are projections. As a result, we got an insight into the typology of the CO2 emissions and obtained recommendations on environmental policy aimed at their mitigation.