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Spousal Communication and Contraceptive Use among Married Couples in Rural Areas of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
Authors: Asa U. A. , Nkan V. V. , Okoro G. I. 
Published: January 2018

AbstractThe study ascertained the influence of spousal communication about family planning on contraceptive use among married couples in the rural areas of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Data for the study were obtained from one hundred and fifty married couples using multi-stage sampling procedure. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multiple regression. Results indicate that 71.3% of the respondents were females with an average age of 38 years while 28.7% of them were males with an average age of 49 years; fourteen years was the respondents’ average years of marriage. Findings also show that barrier methods, hormonal contraceptives and injectables were the contraceptive methods highly used by the respondents; and majority of the married couples had a favourable spousal communication about family planning disposition. Multiple regression analysis result shows that contraceptive use by the respondents was significantly influenced by their spousal communication about family planning. It is recommended, among others, that intervention programmes of Governmental and Non-Governmental agencies in Akwa Ibom State emphasize the importance of spousal communication about family planning in their programmes and encourage same among targeted beneficiaries of such programmes.
Adult Basic Education and Training in South Africa: The Perspectives of Rural Women, in Khotso
Authors: Tawiah Sampson , Ngmenkpieo Frederick 
Published: January 2018

AbstractThe aim of the study was to understand the perspectives of rural women in Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET), in Khotso. Rural women in the area lag behind in knowledge and skills for livelihood. The aim of ABET was to provide the educationally disadvantaged individuals, especially rural women, with knowledge and skills for livelihood in the countryside. Despite this initiative, rural women still lack skills for better living. Without basic education, these rural folks can be condemned to perpetual poverty and desolate. A qualitative research method in the form of a case study was designed to understand the issues from the point of view of the participants in context-specific settings. This qualitative design gives the authors, in-depth understanding of the phenomenon under study. A sample of sixteen women participants was purposively selected from four ABET centres. This sampling method was used to help the researchers focused on the real life situations of participants in their natural environment which delved better into their experiences. Data were collected through individual and focus group interviews. The two sets of interviews were audio recorded with the permission from the participants. Content analysis techniques were used to analyse data. The findings indicated that rural women were left desolate due to some obsolete cultural practices and perceptions. Based on the findings the paper recommends that ABET programmes should be revamped to make them more effective in terms of skills training to improve the lives of the participants.
An Investigation of Poetic Techniques from Stanzaic Forms to Fourteen-line Narratives in IsiZulu Poetry
Authors: Thwala Jozi Joseph , Twala Mandla Alfred 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
The objectives of this article are to survey and explicate the poetic techniques that are functional in stanzaic forms and fourteen-line narratives in isiZulu. Various types of stanzas, namely: expanding, bulging, mixed, diminishing and regular are selected for analysis. The stanzaic forms start from four-line stanzas to fourteen-line narratives. Detailed discussions on the lines are the major focus of the article. Relevant examples are cited to display the stanzaic forms, types and sonnets. The differences among various sonnets are structurally highlighted to show the poetic techniques. The formalist approach is appropriate for this poetic discourse from the counting of lines, stanzas to fourteen-line narratives. Despite the poetic techniques that are fundamental in this analysis, the selected poems have a sound didactic principle that broaden human experiences, acquaint the reader with language proficiency and awaked new reality. They have artistic values that enhance coherence, social truth and descriptive imagery.
Environmental Favorability: Evidence in the Brazilian Context of Consumer Generations
Authors: Veiga-Neto Alipio Ramos , Ferreira Nilo Lourival , Nodari Cristine Hermann , Barreto Miranda Ana Lucia Brenner 
Published: January 2018

AbstractThis study aimed to analyze the variables of environmental favorability, identifying and comparing their importance and differences within the consumers of the segments of the Baby Boomers, X, Y and Z generations in the Brazil. A factorial analysis showed that the highest averages found were related to the environmental responsibility of the companies and society. The lower averages are linked to the skepticism about advertising and advertising on labels of environmental products. The factors with higher scores refer to the environmental responsibility of society and the environmental conscience pointing out the concern of the interviewees about pollution, deforestation and the climatic consequences that can attack the environment. On the other hand, the lower averages are linked to the credibility in the environmental communication geared towards advertising and the veracity in the labels. Finally, the limitations and opportunities of future work are presented.
Corporate Entrepreneurship in Colombia: An Approach from Resources and Capabilities
Authors: Henao-García Edwin , Arias-Pérez Jose , Lozada-Barahona Nelson 
Published: January 2018

AbstractCorporate entrepreneurship refers to entrepreneurship activities that take place within established firms. Such activities have attracted the interest of researchers in the area of management and business for several years now. The aim of this work is to examine the influence of individuals’ resources and capabilities on corporate entrepreneurship in Colombia, using data from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2013 and including 3,394 observations. The study draws on the Resource-Based Theory and uses logistic regressions in its methodology, considering differences between resources (entrepreneurial skills and competencies, entrepreneurial experience, personal networks and education) and capabilities (entrepreneurial intention and opportunity identification). This work offers theoretical and empirical contributions. Theoretically, it contributes to the development of the literature in the field of corporate entrepreneurship in Latin American emerging markets. Empirically, it serves as a guide for those managers wishing to foster corporate entrepreneurship in their firms.
Factors Influencing Students’ Preferences to Pursue International Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences
Authors: Seys Ranola Trisha , Margolis Amanda , Kraus Connie 
Published: January 2018

The Problem: To improve the quality of the international APPE program and facilitate growth, a questionnaire was developed to identify perceived barriers for selection of and ways to increase interest in international APPEs. Survey Design: A questionnaire was administered to two consecutive third-year classes to gauge interest, perceived barriers and possible facilitators for engagement in international APPEs. Key Findings: Cost and need to travel independently were most frequently identified as barriers to participating in international APPEs. Suggestions to increase participation in international APPEs include: schools of pharmacy actively developing funding support, pairing students for international APPEs, and earlier targeted marketing.
Disclosures: None
Type: Note
SITUASI DIGLOSIA SUKU BONAI DI PROVINSI RIAU
Authors: Yance Imelda 
Published: January 2018

Suku Bonai (suku terasing dan minoritas di Provinsi Riau) merupakan masyarakat yang dwi/multilingual. Mereka berpotensi menjadi masyarakat yang diglosik karena menguasai dan menggunakan lebih dari satu bahasa dalam komunikasi. Untuk mengetahui potensi tersebut, kajian ini difokuskan pada kediglosiaan suku Bonai. Tujuannya adalah untuk menentukan dan mendeskripsikan status kediglosiaan suku Bonai dari segi fungsi, prestise, warisan budaya, pemerolehan, standardisasi, stabilitas, leksikon, dan sistem fonologis. Kajian ini bersifat kuantitatif dan kualitatif. Data diperoleh melalui survei dengan menggunakan kuesioner dan studi kepustakaan. Sampel berjumlah 78 orang, ditarik dengan teknik acak bertujuan. Data kuantitatif diolah dengan program Excel dan SPSS sedangkan data kualitatif dengan diolah dengan analisis wacana. Dari analisis data, suku Bonai dapat dikategorikan sebagai masyarakat yang diglosik sekaligus bilingualisme. Simpulan tersebut didasari oleh aspek fungsi, prestise, pemerolehan, standardisasi, leksikon, dan sistem fonologis. Dari analisis data juga terungkap bahwa bahasa Indonesia merupakan kode H (high) sementara bahasa suku Bonai merupakan kode L (low). Walaupun demikian, situasi diglosia pada suku Bonai belum mantap dari segi stabilitas karena belum berlangsung dalam masa ratusan tahun. Di samping itu, juga terjadi ketirisan diglosia (diglossia leaked), yaitu penyusupan kode L ke ranah-ranah kode H atau sebaliknya.
PENGELOLAAN SUMBER DAYA AIR MINUM DALAM KEMASAN (AMDK)
Authors: Istiqomah Laelatul 
Published: January 2018

Air adalah sumber daya alam yang vital bagi kehidupan yang merupakan kepemilikan umum. Akhir-akhir ini air menjadi lahan bisnis yang menjanjikan diantaranya adalah produk air minum dalam kemasan (AMDK) yang dikelola swasta. Pengelolaan air yang dikuasai oleh swasta akan menimbulkan masalah karena swasta semata-mata berorientasi profit. Perlunya intervensi pemerintah dalam pengelolaan sumberdaya air mengingat air adalah kebutuhan hajat orang banyak. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menganalisis pengelolaan AMDK yang dikuasai swasta, pendekatan penelitian dengan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan studi pustaka. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan perlunya intervensi pemerintah dalam pengelolaan AMDK, dan merekomendasikan BUMDes sebagai media pengelola guna kesejahteraan umat. Water is a natural resource that is vital to the life which is public ownership. Recently, water becomes promising business area including a produc to bottle water (AMDK) are privately managed. Water management is controlled by the private sector because the private sector will lead to problems because of their solely profit-oriented. The need for government intervention in the management of water resources given of water as livelihood needs of people. The purpose of this study was to analyze the management of drinking water that is controlled by the private sector using qualitative method. The results showed the need for government intervention in the management of drinking water, and recommends BUMDes as media to manage water for the welfare of the people.
Matching Jobs and Resumes: a Deep Collaborative Filtering Task
Authors: Schmitt Thomas , Caillou Phillipe , Sebag Michele 
Published: January 2018

This paper tackles the automatic matching of job seekers and recruiters, based on the logs of a recruitment agency (CVs, job announcements and application clicks). Preliminary experiments reveal that good recommendation performances in collaborative filtering mode (emitting recommendations for a known recruiter using the click history) co-exist with poor performances in cold start mode (emitting recommendations based on the job announcement only). A tentative interpretation for these results is proposed, claiming that job seekers and recruiters $-$ whose mother tongue is French $-$ yet do not speak the same language. As first contribution, this paper shows that the information inferred from their interactions differs from the information contained in the CVs and job announcements.The second contribution is the hybrid system \XX (MAtching JObs and REsumes), where a deep neural net is trained to match the collaborative filtering representation properties. The experimental validation demonstrates \XX merits, with good matching performances in cold start mode.
The Architecture of Inference from SMT to ETB
Authors: Shankar Natarajan 
Published: January 2018

Modularity plays a central role in logical reasoning. We want to beable to reuse proofs, proof patterns, theories, and specializedreasoning procedures. Architectures that support modularity have beendeveloped at all levels of inference: SAT solvers, theory solvers,combination solvers and rewriters, SMT solvers, simplifiers, rewriters,and tactics-based interactive theorem provers. Prior work has mostlyfocused on fine-grained modular inference. However, with theavailability of a diverse range of high-quality inference tools, it hasbecome important to systematically integrate these big components intorobust toolchains. At SRI, we have been developing a framework calledthe Evidential Tool Bus (ETB) as a distributed platform for thecoarse-grained integration of inference components into flexible,scriptable workflows. The talk describes the architecture of ETB alongwith some motivating applications.
MiniAgda: Integrating Sized and Dependent Types
Authors: Abel Andreas 
Published: January 2018

Sized types are a modular and theoretically well-understood tool for checking termination of recursive and productivity of corecursive definitions. The essential idea is to track structural descent and guardedness in the type system to make termination checking robust and suitable for strong abstractions like higher-order functions and polymorphism.To study the application of sized types to proof assistants and programming languages based on dependent type theory, we have implemented a core language with explicit handling of sizes. New considerations were necessary to soundly integrate sized types with dependencies and pattern matching, which was made possible by modern concepts such as inaccessible patterns and parametric function spaces.
Incorporating Hypothetical Views and Extended Recursion into SQL Database Systems
Authors: Aranda Gabriel , Nieva Susana , Saenz-Perez Fernando , Sánchez-Hernández Jaime 
Published: January 2018

Current database systems supporting recursive SQL imposerestrictions on queries such as linearity, and do not implement mutualrecursion. In a previous work we presented the language and prototypeR-SQL to overcome those drawbacks. Now we introduce a formalizationand an implementation of the database system HR-SQL that, in addition to extended recursion, incorporates hypothetical reasoning in a novelway which cannot be found in any other SQL system, allowing both positive and negative assumptions. The formalization extends the fixpointsemantics of R-SQL. The implementation improves the eciency of theprevious prototype and is integrated in a commercial DBMS.
Towards Constraint-Solving over Higher-Order Unbounded Datatypes using Formal Methods Tools
Authors: Leuschel Michael 
Published: January 2018

We argue that formal methods such as B can be used to conveniently express a widerange of constraint satisfaction problems. We also show that some problems can be solvedquite eectively by existing formal methods tools such as Alloy or ProB. We illustrate ourclaim on several examples. Our approach is particularly interesting when a high assuranceof correctness is required. Indeed, validation and double checking of solutions is availablefor certain formal methods tools and formal proof can be applied to establish importantproperties or provide unambiguous semantics to problem specications. The experimentsalso provide interesting insights about the eectiveness of existing formal method tools,and highlight interesting avenues for future improvement.1
The Thousands of Models for Theorem Provers (TMTP) Model Library - First Steps
Authors: Sutcliffe Geoff , Schulz Stephan 
Published: January 2018

The TPTP World is a well established infrastructure that supports research,development, and deployment of Automated Theorem Proving (ATP) systems forclassical logics.The TPTP world includes the TPTP problem library, the TSTP solution library,standards for writing ATP problems and reporting ATP solutions, and itprovides tools and services for processing ATP problems and solutions.This work describes a new component of the TPTP world - the Thousands ofModels for Theorem Provers (TMTP) Model Library.This is a library of models for identified axiomatizations built fromaxiom sets in the TPTP problem library, along with functions for efficientlyevaluating formulae wrt models, and tools for examining and processingthe models.The TMTP supports the development of semantically guided theorem provingATP systems, provide examples for developers of model finding ATP systems,and provides insights into the semantics of axiomatizations.
Generic CDCL -- A Formalization of Modern Propositional Satisfiability Solvers
Authors: Hölldobler Steffen , Manthey Norbert , Philipp Tobias , Steinke Peter 
Published: January 2018

Modern propositional satisfiability (or SAT) solvers are very powerful due to recent developments on the underlying data structures, the used heuristics to guide the search, the deduction techniques to infer knowledge, and the formula simplification techniques that are used during pre- and inprocessing. However, when all these techniques are put together, the soundness of the combined algorithm is not guaranteed any more, and understanding the complex dependencies becomes non-trivial.In this paper we present a small set of rules that allows to model modern SAT solvers in terms of a state transition system. With these rules all techniques which are applied in modern SAT solvers can be modeled adequately. Furthermore, we show that this set of rules results is sound, complete and confluent. Finnaly, we compare the proposed transition system to related systems, and show how widely used solving techniques can be modeled.
HyReach: A Reachability Tool for Linear Hybrid Systems Based on Support Functions
Authors: Ben Makhlouf Ibtissem , Hansen Norman , Kowalewski Stefan 
Published: January 2018

We present HyReach, a MATLAB-based toolbox for reachabilityanalysis of linear hybrid systems based on support functions. Themain goal of HyReach is to provide a single graphical user interface foreasily configurable reachability analysis on different systems. HyReachoffers a number of known algorithms for the computation of reachablesets within modes. These are combined with various approaches of handlingmode invariants, guard intersection computations and transitionstrategies. Furthermore, plug-ins like the MPT and CVX toolboxes complementthe existing MATLAB optimization toolbox to increase the varietyof optimization algorithms for the computation of support functions.HyReach supports both textual and graphical inputs and outputs, allowingfor flexibility and seamlessness in workflow and processing of data.We illustrate these features with examples in this paper.
BDI: A New Decidable First-order Clause Class
Authors: Lamotte-Schubert Manuel , Weidenbach Christoph 
Published: January 2018

BDI (Bounded Depth Increase) is a new decidablefirst-order clause class. It strictly includesknown classes such as PVD. The arityof function and predicate symbols as well as theshape of atoms is not restricted in BDI. Insteadthe shape of "cycles" in resolution inferences isrestricted such that the depth of generated clausesmay increase but is still finitely bound.The BDI class is motivated by real world problemswhere function terms are used to represent record structures.We show that the hyper-resolution calculus moduloredundancy elimination terminates on BDI clause sets.Employing this result to the ordered resolution calculus,we can also prove termination of ordered resolution on BDI,yielding a more efficient decision procedure.
Formal Development of Distributed Enumeration Algorithms By Refinement-Based Techniques
Authors: Boussabbeh Maha , Tounsi Mohamed , Hadj Kacem Ahmed , Mosbah Mohamed 
Published: January 2018

The enumeration problem addresses a collection of important algorithmic issues related to distributed computations. Among existing solutions, we are interested on the seminal algorithm of Mazurkiewicz, based on local computations. Our paper contributes to the design of a correct-by-construction enumeration algorithm. The main idea relies upon the development of the problem following a top/down approachthat can be supported by an incremental process controlled by the refinement of models. Event-B modelling language is supporting our methodological. Our main objective is to provide a verified component for distributed enumeration inorder to be used and extended for solving other problems of distributed algorithms.
Constraint-Based Modeling in Systems Biology
Authors: Bockmayr Alexander 
Published: January 2018

The idea of constraint-based modeling in systems biology is to describe a biological system by a set of constraints, i.e., by pieces of partial information about its structure and dynamics. Using constraint-based reasoning one may then draw conclusions about the possible system behaviors.In this talk, we will focus on constraint-based modeling techniques for regulatory networks starting from the discrete logical formalism of René Thomas. In this framework, logic and constraints arise at two different levels. On the one hand, Boolean or multi-valued logic formulae provide a natural way to represent the structure of a regulatory network, which is given by positive and negative interactions (i.e., activation and inhibition) between the network components. On the other hand, temporal logic formulae (e.g. CTL) may be used to reason about the dynamics of the system, represented by a state transition graph or Kripke model.
A modified parallel F4 algorithm for shared and distributed memory architectures
Authors: Neumann Severin 
Published: January 2018

In applications of symbolic computation an often required but complex procedure is the computation of Gröbner bases and hence it is obviousto realize parallel algorithms to compute them. There are parallel flavours of the F4 algorithm using the special structure of the occurring matricesto speed up the reduction. In this paper we start from this and present modifications allowing efficient computations of Gröbner bases on parallel architecturesusing shared as well as distributed memory. To achieve this we concentrate on one objective: reducing the memory consumption and avoiding communication overhead.We remove unrequired steps of the reduction, split the columns of the matrix in blocks for distribution and review the effectiveness of the SIMPLIFY function.Finally we provide benchmarks with up to 256 distributed threads of an implementation which will be available at https://github.com/svrnm/parallelGBC.
On the constant domains principle and its weakened versions in the Kripke sheaf semantics
Authors: Skvortsov Dmitry 
Published: January 2018

Two weakened versions of the constant domains principle D are considered.The Kripke sheaf incompleteness of superintuitionistic predicate logics,obtained by adding these weakened principles to predicate versionsof superintuitionistic propositional logics of finite slices, is claimed.So a difference between these principles and the principle D is shown.The incompleteness proof uses the functor semantics.
The chess example in Turing's Mind paper is really about ambiguity
Authors: Fokker Jeroen 
Published: January 2018

In his paper `Computing machinery and intelligence',Turing introduces a rather trivial chess problem as aconversation piece in an example Turing test.The example is about much more than computers playing chess:it has a hidden message that is about resolving ambiguityand knowledge representation,probably inserted by Turing as an easter egg for us to find.