bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Introduction: Language and schooling in India and Sri Lanka: Language medium matters
Authors: LaDousa Chaise , Davis Christina P. 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
This article introduces a special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language focused on the topic of language medium, pervasive in the nations comprising South Asia. This introduction provides a brief overview of sociolinguistic scholarship on education in India and Sri Lanka, a short sketch of the phenomenon of language-medium schooling, a review of the articles included in the special issue, and a summary of the theoretical contributions of the articles.
English medium education, patriarchy, and emerging social structures: Narratives of Indian women
Authors: Sandhu Priti 
Published: August 2018

AbstractThis article adopts an intersectional, narrative analytic framework to analyze the autobiographical narratives of five North Indian women and examines how they associate their Hindi medium education (HME) with their socioeconomic marginalization in personal and social domains. Data were collected in face-to-face interviews. Analysis of participants’ stories revealed how they narratively constructed specific worldviews within which they reported multiple subordinations resulting from their HME, their gender, and their location in a traditional patriarchal society increasingly influenced by material considerations. The long-established practice of dowry was re-imagined to include “good” jobs and salaries of prospective brides. These, in turn, were portrayed as crucial for successful marriage negotiations and for agreeable post-marital relationships. The women linked HME to an inability to secure “good” jobs and salaries and thus constructed it as saliently responsible for deepening their gender- and class-based marginalization. Analysis also revealed the varying degrees to which they resisted such subordinations.
English immersion and Bangla floatation? Rendering a collective choice private
Authors: Majumdar Manabi , Mukhopadhyay Rahul 
Published: August 2018

AbstractThis article aims to revisit the importance of nurturing reciprocal relationships of equality and enrichment between Bangla and English in the school life of children residing in the Indian state of West Bengal. We couple the descriptor “immersion” with English and “floatation” with Bangla to serve as metaphors for language ideology. After a brief review of the language in education policy in the country and in Bengal in both colonial and post-Independence periods, we draw on conversations with schoolteachers about the preference for English and the relative disregard for Bangla to present three basic arguments. First, there is no reason to be forced to choose between English and Bangla in Bengali education. There is even less reason – indeed, there are greater costs – to follow the policy of immersion in English and mere floatation in Bangla. Second, the equity-enhancing potential of “empowering people with English” may get neutralized if a disproportionate burden falls on the poor of purchasing minimal proficiency in English in schools providing “have-little” English. Third, unless English language training happens in the company of Bangla, children in schools of Bengal will lose a great opportunity to cultivate their freedom of self-expression.
The Perils of Omnisignificance: Language and Reason in Mesopotamian Hermeneutics
Authors: Frahm Eckart 
Published: August 2018

AbstractThe article discusses the Mesopotamian commentary corpus, assesses its intellectual underpinnings, explores its place within Mesopotamia’s scholarly tradition, and addresses the question of whether Mesopotamian hermeneutics should be considered a “philosophical” pursuit. It is argued that the cuneiform commentaries are characterized, on one hand, by certain limitations and, on the other, by an overabundance of interpretational opportunities, and that the answer should therefore be negative; but it is admitted that, depending on what one considers the defining features of philosophy, other views are possible.
Modeling the creep damage effect on the creep crack growth behavior of rotor steel
Authors: Ye Ting , Wang Zhengdong , Xuan Fu-Zhen 
Published: August 2018

AbstractTo evaluate the fracture life of steam turbine HP-IP rotors more accurately, an understanding of the creep damage effect on creep cracking performance of service-exposed rotor steel, and a proper creep crack growth (CCG) model considering the creep damage effect, is essential. In the present work comparative CCG tests were carried out on virgin and rotor steel that had been in service for 16 years, to examine the differences in creep crack microstructure and CCG rate between these two specimen types. Test results showed that the CCG rate of service-exposed steel is accelerated by creep damage due to metallurgical deterioration. Based on the CCG model derived by Webster, an improved CCG model is proposed by replacing the constant exponent with a creep-damage-related variable. To validate the improved model, a comparison of da/dt vs. C* between experiment data and the CCG models was conducted. The predictive result of the improved model is in better agreement with the experiment results than the classical CCG and Webster models for the service-exposed rotor steel. With decrement of C* value within the improved CCG model, the remaining life of HP-IP rotors may be predicted more accurately.
A practical ID-LC-MS/MS method for the most commonly analyzed steroid hormones in clinical laboratories
Authors: Yesildal Fatih , Serdar Muhittin , Ozgurtas Taner 
Published: August 2018

Abstract

Background
Analysis of steroid hormones rapidly and reliably remains a challenge in clinical laboratories as this plays an important role in evaluation of many endocrine disorders. The aim of this study was to create a steroid profiling panel by using a liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method which was composed of the most commonly analyzed steroid hormones in clinical laboratories.

Materials and methods
Protein precipitation was performed for sample preparation. Ultra performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) system and an analytical column with C18 selectivity was chosen for chromatographic seperation. Atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) ion source was preferred for ionization, and tandem MS with triple quadrupole was used. MS scan was performed using the selected reaction monitoring mode in positive polarity. During the method validation process, test performance was evaluated for each steroid hormone, and 40 serum samples were used for method comparison with immunoassays available in our core laboratory.

Results
An isotope dilution (ID)-LC-MS/MS method was developed, in which 13 steroids can be analyzed in the same run. Test performance was quite good for the 11 steroids (cortisol, DHEA, DHEAS, total testosterone, progesterone, androstenedione, 11-deoxycortisol, cortisone, corticosterone and dihydrotestosterone) while estradiol and aldosterone performance was suboptimal considering the precision and trueness.

Conclusion
This ID-LC-MS/MS method would be useful in clinical laboratories, especially for the immunoassays having insufficient test performance and when checking for interferences in available immunoassays.
A Brain without Brakes: Reduced Inhibition Is Associated with Enhanced but Dysregulated Plasticity in the Aged Rat Auditory Cortex
Authors: Cisneros-Franco J. Miguel , Ouellet Lydia , Kamal Brishna , de Villers-Sidani Etienne 
Published: August 2018

AbstractDuring early developmental windows known as critical periods (CPs) of plasticity, passive alterations in the quality and quantity of sensory inputs are sufficient to induce profound and long-lasting distortions in cortical sensory representations. With CP closure, those representations are stabilized, a process requiring the maturation of inhibitory networks and the maintenance of sufficient GABAergic tone in the cortex. In humans and rodents, however, cortical inhibition progressively decreases with advancing age, raising the possibility that the regulation of plasticity could be altered in older individuals. Here we tested the hypothesis that aging results in a destabilization of sensory representations and maladaptive dysregulated plasticity in the rat primary auditory cortex (A1). Consistent with this idea, we found that passive tone exposure is sufficient to distort frequency tuning in the A1 of older but not younger adult rats. However, we also found that these passive distortions decayed rapidly, indicating an ongoing instability of A1 tuning in the aging cortex. These changes were associated with a decrease in GABA neurotransmitter concentration and a reduction in parvalbumin and perineuronal net expression in the cortex. Finally, we show that artificially increasing GABA tone in the aging A1 is sufficient to restore representational stability and improve the retention of learning.
Leadership Strategies for Embedding Sustainability and Resilience in Organizations with an Emphasis on Sustainable Energy
Authors: Alibašić Haris 
Published: August 2018

<p><strong>E</strong>mbedding sustainability in an organization is often linked to effective leadership. By design, changes in leadership within the organization may lead to changes in commitment or perceived importance of sustainability in organizations. While some leaders in organizations are interested in embedding sustainability within an organizational structure, other leaders believe in putting their own stamp on sustainability efforts. Using a mixed methodology approach to interviews and literature review, to confirm or dispel the underscored notion of the importance of leadership play in embedding sustainability within city organization. The research inquiry includes in-person interviews with top city staff and elected officials in a large Midwestern city, and a review of the internal documents and reports from the past 5 years, to examine the role that elected and appointed officials have in embedding sustainability within cities, and whether a change in leadership may have an impact on continuity of sustainability implementation and long term viability of such policies. The paper focuses on the implementation of sustainable energy policies within a municipal organizational structure as a mean of constructing a better understanding of leadership on sustainability implementation and embedment. While the further inquiry is needed, the research points out that an active partnership between city managers, administrators, and elected officials must be in place to support integrating sustainability from within and that sustainability thrives where exhaustive leadership support such initiatives and efforts. </p><p> </p>
Corporate Leadership in Sustainability: A Green Ranking Performance-Based Approach to Understanding the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Positive Marketing Impact
Authors: Davis Justin L. , Alibašić Haris , Norris Sam 
Published: August 2018

<p>This paper analyzes several foundational concepts and questions regarding corporate social responsibility (CSR). Its primary contribution is a statistical examination of fundamental correlations between CSR and Newsweek's 2012 Green Rankings using forensic-based financial and accounting measures. It slightly replicates a previous study and further introduces new variables in looking at CSR from an economic perspective. The paper is interdisciplinary in that it synthesizes preceding studies' conceptions of CSR through finance, consumer behavior, branding, and ethics — a mix which has so far been regularly neglected — in an attempt to better characterize and measure corporate social responsibility.</p><p><strong> </strong></p>
A ATUAÇÃO DO BIBLIOTECÁRIO NA MEDIAÇÃO IMPLÍCITA DA INFORMAÇÃO EM BIBLIOTECAS UNIVERSITÁRIAS
Authors: Santos Fabiana Pereira dos , Renault Leonardo Vasconcelos 
Published: August 2018

Este trabalho discute a mediação implícita no contexto do trabalho bibliotecário. Em um primeiro momento se discute os aspectos introdutórios do conceito de mediação e sua categorização em explícita e implícita. Logo em seguida se aprofunda na conceituação de mediação implícita e sua configuração no mundo do trabalho bibliotecário. Na seqüência, faz-se uma discussão sobre as funções exercidas pelos bibliotecários e suas implicações para a mediação implícita no contexto das bibliotecas universitárias. O argumento utilizado é da necessidade de conscientização do bibliotecário da relevância de sua ação mediadora implícita. Dessa forma, se demonstra a importância das atividades de desenvolvimento de coleções, processamento técnico e preservação como atividades de mediação implícita, complementares às de circulação e referência como atividades explícitas. Neste sentido, a conscientização visa tornar o profissional bibliotecário protagonista de suas ações e com a dimensão do impacto social que podem gerar. Dessa forma, se problematiza a suposta neutralidade em que se ancora, por exemplo, a atividade de processamento técnico, visto que, a indexação traz consigo uma subjetividade inerente que, ao invés de ser combatida, deve ser compreendida e por vezes enfrentada.
PESQUISA EM EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL E QUESTÕES EPISTEMOLÓGICAS: ENFRENTAMENTOS CONTEMPORÂNEOS
Authors: Feiteiro Cavalari Rosa Maria , Schilling Trein Eunice 
Published: August 2018

Neste artigo expomos as discussões ocorridas no âmbito do Grupo de Discussão de Pesquisa (GDP) – Pesquisa em EA e Questões Epistemológicas – durante o IX Encontro de Pesquisa em Educação Ambiental (IXEPEA), realizado em Juiz de Fora (MG), no período de 13 a 16 de agosto de 2017.
Temporal organization of speech utterance: a c/d model perspective
Authors: Fujimura Osamu 
Published: August 2018

Este artigo discute o modelo C/D na qualidade de quadro teórico lingüístico visando a descrever as características temporais de enunciados com referência à organização prosódica geral. Um trem de pulsos sílaba/fronteira, com magnitudes controladas, representa o esqueleto da função de base de um enunciado, determinando completamente sua organização métrica. Contornos vocálicos, tonais e demais contornos fonéticos representam a melodia da função de base. O padrão temporal de sílabas individuais é calculado pela distribuição de suas magnitudes, levando-se em consideração a intervenção de fronteiras com magnitudes controladas. A magnitude da sílaba é realizada como duração juntamente com outras propriedades fonéticas tais como um componente de abertura da mandíbula e forças incrementais de gestos vocálicos e consonantais. Além disso, a constituição de um padrão prosódico envolve um controle tonal independente. A fonologia lexical pode especificar características acentuais (magnitude da sílaba), tonais ou ambas, dependendo da língua, mas toda língua usa as duas características ao nível da frase. A natureza inerentemente dinâmica da fala é fundamental nesta nova abordagem.
Considerations on some aspects of the relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic time in two 4-year-old-children’s and one adult’s speech for duration in brazilian portuguese
Authors: Gama-Rossi Aglael Juliana Aparecida 
Published: August 2018

O trabalho tem como objetivo verificar as diferenças entre duas crianças de idade média de 4 anos e 5 meses e da professora delas na implementação do parâmetro acústico de duração. Crianças e professora são falantes do português brasileiro (PB) e foram gravadas num experimento de repetição de sentenças a partir de modelo fornecido pela pesquisadora. A duração tem se mostrado o principal parâmetro acústico na implementação do acento lexical no PB. Uma drástica redução dos segmentos acústicos em posição pós-tônica tem sido observada no contorno duracional da fala adulta. Entretanto, a literatura sugere, e os dados aqui apresentados vão nessa direção, que crianças abaixo de 6 anos ainda não reduzem tais segmentos como os adultos, principalmente devido ao processo, em curso, de maturação neuromotora. Os dados mostram como as duas crianças aqui estudadas implementam o contorno duracional do PB diferentemente da professora e também com diferenças entre elas, sendo que a questão é sempre como lidar com a redução dos segmentos acústicos nas posições não-acentuadas, a partir de suas capacidades neuromotoras quando da gravação. Com isso, põe-se em discussão a relação entre tempo intrínseco (ou da unidade dinâmica adotada na análise, o gesto articulatório) e tempo extrínseco (ou dos relógios no nível da sílaba e do sintagma ou frase entoacional que interagem com o tempo do gesto articulatório), considerando,para tanto, como as crianças implementam o parâmetro de duração no segmento, na palavra e no contorno duracional da sentença. É proposto que um relógio extrínseco no nível da frase é ajustado antes do relógio extrínseco no nível da sílaba, sem que seja necessário postular um relógio extrínseco no nível do acento lexical, uma vez que as palavras, principalmente na fala da criança menor aqui estudada, parecem estar sendo tratadas como frases entoacionais. Tudo isso pode ser acomodado num modelo dinâmico do ritmo como aquele proposto por Barbosa (2001).
PEMBUATAN DAN KARAKTERISASI KOMPOSIT RESIN – ABU GOSOK DAN RESIN – SEKAM PADI
Authors: Pattersons Muhammad Lawrence , Naripa Arin , Winarno Sendiko Janu , Abhan Siti Mawaddah , Sanjaya Edi 
Published: August 2018

Abstrak
Telah dilakukan proses pembuatan dua buah material komposit dengan masing-masing filler berupa abu gosok dan sekam padi, matriks berupa resin. Pada komposit resin – abu gosok, perbandingan volume antara filler dan matriks adalah 1:1, sedangkan pada komposit resin – sekam padi digunakan tiga perbandingan volume antara filler dan matriks, yaitu 1:1, 1:2, dan 2:1. Setelah proses pembuatan selesai, dilakukan pengujian TGA dan pengujian kelenturan tiga titik untuk setiap jenis komposit yang dihasilkan. Pada hasil pengujian TGA, didapatkan bahwa penurunan bobot paling besar yang pada komposit resin – abu gosok terjadi pada temperatur 390,29 ºC, sedangkan pada komposit resin – sekam padi terjadi pada temperatur 399,86 ºC. Hasil pengujian kelenturan tiga titik menunjukkan bahwa modulus elastisitas untuk sampel komposit resin – abu gosok adalah sebesar 4,97 109 N/m2, sedangkan untuk sampel-sampel resin – sekam padi berada pada orde 108 N/m2 dan 106 N/m2. Secara keseluruhan, dapat dikatakan bahwa komposit resin – sekam padi yang dihasilkan memiliki ketahanan temperatur yang lebih baik dan lebih elastis dibandingkan komposit resin – abu gosok.
Kata-kata kunci: komposit, resin, abu gosok, sekam padi.

Abstract
We have done the fabrication of two kinds of composite material the fillers that we used rub ash for one type of composite and the husk of rice for another, the matrix for both is resin. The resin – rub ash composite, the volume ratio of filler and matrix is 1:1, while in the resin – husk of rice composite we used three volume ratios, those are 1:1, 1:2, and 2:1. After the process of fabrication was done, we did TGA test and three points flexural test for every composite we fabricated. The results of TGA test show that the most significant weight decrease of resin – rub ash composite occurred at 390,29 ºC, while the resin – rub ash composite's most considerable weight decrease occurred at 399,86 ºC. The results of three points flexural test show that elasticity of resin – rub ash composite is 4,97 x 109 N/m2, while elasticity modulus of all kinds of the resin – husk of rice composite is in order of 108 N.m2 and 106 N/m2. Overall, we can conclude that the resin – husk of rice composite is more heatproof and more elastic than the resin – rub ash composite.
Keywords: composite, resin, rub ash, the husk of rice.
PENCITRAAN TOMOGRAFI SEISMIK 3-D UNTUK STRUKTUR INTERNAL DI BAWAH GUNUNGAPI MERAPI MENGGUNAKAN SOFTWARE LOTOS-10
Authors: Sari Ayu Wita , Suparta Gede Bayu 
Published: August 2018

Abstrak
Telah dilakukan penelitian pencitraan tomografi seismik 3D untuk stuktur internal di bawah Gunung Merapi dengan empat stasiun pencatat gempa dan gempa vulkanik sebagai sumber sinar gelombang. Penelitian ini menggunakan perangkat LOTOS-10 (Local Tomography Software 10) untuk inversi tomografi seismik 3D. Karakteristik medium bawah Gunung Merapi dapat digambarkan oleh parameter fisis seperti kecepatan gelombang primer dan sekunder. Hasil pengolahan data seismograf menunjukkan metoda tomografi seismik dapat mengungkap struktur bawah permukaan Gunung Merapi melalui distribusi anomali deviasi kecepatan dan Vp/Vs ratio. Kualitas citra yang dihasilkan dengan menggunakan gelombang primer lebih jelas resolusinya dan waktu yang digunakan lebih efesien, sehingga dapat digunakan sebagai informasi mitigasi bencana sebelum gempa erupsi terjadi. Daerah anomali negatif yang diperoleh terletak di bawah puncak Gunung Merapi pada kedalaman 3 - 5 km mempunyai karakter fisis yaitu zona lemah, kurang kompak, panas dan heterogen. Daerah anomali tersebut dapat diinterpretasikan sebagai keberadaan zona materi panas yang berasosiasi dengan sisa dapur magma dangkal.
Kata-kata kunci: Gunung api Merapi, sifat fisis, tomografi seismic, lotos-10.
Abstract
3D seismic tomography imaging research conducted for internal structures under Merapi Volcano with four earthquake recording and volcanic earthquake stations as a source of wave rays. This study used LOTOS-10 (Local Tomography Software 10) for 3D seismic tomography inversion. Characteristics of the medium under Merapi Volcano described by physical parameters such as primary and secondary wave velocities. The result of seismograph data processing shows seismic tomography method can reveal the subsurface structure of the Merapi Volcano through the distribution of deviation anomaly speed and Vp / Vs ratio. Image quality generated by using primary wave more clearly the resolution and time used more efficient, so that can be used as disaster mitigation information before earthquake eruption happened. The negative anomaly area obtained under the peak of Merapi Volcano at a depth of 3 - 5 km has the physical characteristics of weak, less compact, hot and heterogeneous zones. The anomalous region can interpret as the existence of a zone of heat material associated with the rest of the shallow magma kitchen.
Keywords: Mount of Merapi, physical character, Seismic of Tomography, lotos-10.