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Birlasoft Inc. — Sales Force Automation at Crisis: Software as a Service (SaaS) or Software as a Product (SaaP) (A) & (B)
Authors: Jain Shilpi , Jaiswal Mahadeo P. 
Published: March 2016

Case (A) Birlasoft, a Global IT major, had been facing massive challenges in monitoring its sales force spread over 20 global locations. Owing to the strong client base spread all over the world and the massive sales force, the organization needed to focus on a more efficient sales tracking system. Ravi Kathuria, Senior Vice president — Global Marketing & Alliances of Birlasoft was keen to align the organization’s dispersed sales force through Sales Force Automation (SFA) system. In this context, SFA was expected to provide transparency and clear visibility of the sales pipeline. There was also an expectation that SFA would help in improving efficiency of global sales force in terms of reporting and customer analysis. At first, the organization decided to implement a home grown sales force automation system, which turned out be a failure, owing to both internal and external factors. This led Kathuria to explore other options which could meet their system requirements and could be implemented in shorter time frames with minimum budget. They evaluated multiple options and are debating on which system to opt for. This case examines the various software delivery methods in the decision on new software procurement. Several software and vendor parameters and the analytical structure and process for evaluating software vendors are included for consideration. This case underlines an innovation which has introduced a complete paradigm shift in information application acquisition, that is, instead of buying software as a product, organizations are increasingly procuring it as a service. Case (B) Following from Case A, the team in Birlasoft appraised multiple options and the majority of the team members were inclined towards SaaS-based SFA. This case discusses various processes and parameters considered by Birlasoft while deciding on a new software vendor.
A Point Mutation in the Iron-Responsive Element of the L-Ferritin in a Family with Hereditary Hyperferritinemia Cataract Syndrome
Authors: Wong Karen , Barbin Yousef , Chakrabarti Subrata , Adams Paul 
Published: March 2016

BACKGROUND: Hereditary hyperferritinemia cataract syndrome is an autosomal dominant condition that is characterized by a high serum ferritin level and bilateral early-onset cataracts in the absence of iron overload. The genetic abnormality is identified as a mutation in the 5' regulatory region of the L-ferritin messenger RNA known as the iron-responsive element (IRE). The IRE controls ferritin synthesis in response to cytoplasmic iron pools by interacting with regulatory proteins called iron responsive proteins. Mutations in the IRE decrease its affinity for iron responsive proteins, leading to the constitutive synthesis of L-ferritin which results in hyperferritinemia and the intracellular accumulation of ferritin in the lens and eventual cataract formation.PATIENTS AND METHODS: A 22-year-old woman who was being investigated for hyperferritinemia was diagnosed with hereditary hyperferritinemia cataract syndrome after an extensive workup, including genetic testing for hemochromatosis and a liver biopsy to rule out iron overload. She developed anemia with phlebotomy treatments and subsequently developed symptomatic cataracts. The pedigree of her family affected with cataracts was consistent with an autosomal dominant transmission pattern. DNA was extracted from peripheral leukocytes of eight family members, four of whom were affected by cataracts. Polymerase chain reaction amplification of the 5' region of the L-ferritin gene was performed and a heterozygous point mutation (G32T) was identified in the bulge region of the IRE.CONCLUSION: The combination of early-onset cataracts and an elevated ferritin level should suggest this genetic syndrome.
Experimental Approach to Process Optimization of Preschool Children’s Communicative and Personnel Development
Authors: Волгина  , Volgina V. , Серебрякова  , Serebryakova Tatyana , Хворостинина  , Khvorostinina N. 
Published: March 2016

The article presents the results of empirical research focused on the study of the level of communicative and personal development of preschool
children. The subject of organized research activity is a communicative sphere of the person at baseline levels of ontogeny, the means and ways
of its effective development. The result of the pilot study was the selection of basic parameters of the communicative development of preschool
children, a diagnostic cutoff, which showed the need to develop the system of measures for optimizing the development of communicative sphere
of children. The program of activities is given.
PASAR: SIMPUL PERSEBARAN BUDAYA DI KABUPATEN BANTUL, DAERAH ISTIMEWA YOGYAKARTA
Authors: Marlina Endy , Roland Arya , Sudaryono S , Dharoko Atyanto 
Published: March 2016

<span class="hps"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Amasis MT','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: IN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-AU">The study which aimed to uncover the values underlying the creation and development of the market in Bantul regency is base on the idea that space can be viewed as a space (physical form that can be seen visually) and as a place (the container of human activities that may reflect cultural values of the user them). This study was conducted with the paradigm of phenomenology and found that pekenan as a mobilization system of economic in the Javanese community in the district of Bantul, dominated by social values that develop a market as a socioeconomic space. Market as an economic activity container has a major role as a social networking nodes and important node in order to disseminate of culture in the district of Bantul. This study also found that the cultural values underlying the economic activity in the market is togetherness, partnership, civility, and harmony, they are local wisdoms of the people which are able to maintain the sustainability of the system of pekenan - mobilization system of the economic activity in the district of Bantul.</span></span>
Various mental images about the geographical extension of Central, Southeast and Eastern Europe
Authors: Tamás Hardi 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
Central Europe, Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Southeast Europe as macro- region space concepts are not regions designable by physical geography; the geographical content of these concepts is drawn and re-drawn by historical, cultural and geopolitical processes. Debates on the extension and content of the macro-regions featured intensify every now and then, especially in crisis periods - it is enough to think of the years before, during and after the world wars, the regime change, and these days. Our paper, with the brief summary of the preliminaries, highlights, from the perspective of our age, the geopolitically determined transformation and demonstrates the findings of our empirical research. During our research we made a questionnaire survey in which we recorded mental maps of the university students of Hungary and its seven neighbour countries, looking at where the respondents put their own countries and what image of the respective macro-regions lived in their minds. Our findings may be subject to debates but clearly show the convergent or divergent directions of the respective countries, at least as regards the judgement by the youth.
ГИС-ПОДХОД ДЛЯ ОЦЕНКИ ВЛИЯНИЯ ОБЫЧНЫХ И СДВОЕННЫХ КОЛЕС НА ТВЕРДОСТЬ ПОЧВЫ
Authors: Zhukov A. V. 
Published: March 2016

<p>GIS-APPROACH application has allowed establishing that usual wheels of machine-tractor units carry out considerable influence on soil which exceeds visible borders of a track of wheels on the dimensions. This influence shows in augmentation of soil penetration resistance at 100-155 % in comparison with the control on depth of 0-10 cm and on 20-30 % on depth of 45-50 %. It is impossible to exclude that influence of wheels proceeds more deeply, than tests have been conducted. Critical for cultivated plants value of soil penetration resistance in 3 MPa under the influence of usual wheels of agricultural machinery comes nearer practically to a surface. Character of profile changes of hardness in various regions influences of wheels allows assuming the long season of a relaxation of soil for achievement of background values of soil penetration resistance. The further researches are necessary for an establishment of concrete indicators of dynamics. Negative influence of an overstocking does not confine only deterioration of conditions of growth of assemblages of rootlets of plants. Infringement of processes of moving of moisture in the soil, the accelerated evaporation and the slowed down processes of a filtration and an infiltration, destruction of modular frame, activization of erosive processes is possible. The understanding of these processes will give the chance volume understanding of real influence of running systems of machine-tractor devices on bedrock. Region intensive influence of dual wheels is circumscribed by the top soil layers (0-15 cm). The major feature of influence of dual wheels is absence of an overstocking above critical levels. It is impossible to exclude possible positive influence of moderate inspissations of soil under the influence of dual wheels for growth of agricultural crops and moisture conservation in soil. The cumulative negative effect on soil crossed vehicles traces is probable. The long season of a relaxation of soil after anthropogenic transformation can create a network of traces of vehicles in the field. In region crossings of traces negative effects considerably increase.</p> <p><em>Keywords: hardness of bedrock, GIS-TECHNOLOGY, technique influence</em></p>
Bocavirus-Nachweis bei 4 Wochen alten Welpen mit akutem Durchfall
Authors: Neiger R. , König M. , Rudolf S. 
Published: March 2016

ZusammenfassungZwei 4 Wochen alte, weibliche Dobermann-Welpen wurden mit akutem Durchfall und Erbrechen vorgestellt. Zusätzlich zeigten sie Niesen und Nasenausfluss. Aufgrund der klinischen Präsentation und einer Neutropenie bestand der hochgradige Verdacht einer Parvovirose. Die Tiere blieben mehrere Tage hospitalisiert und wurden symptomatisch therapiert. Eine parasitologische Kotuntersuchung sowie eine virologische Untersuchung des Kots auf eine Parvovirusinfektion (Polymerasekettenreaktion [PCR] und Immunelektronenmikroskopie) verliefen negativ. Mithilfe einer weiteren, neuen PCR ließ sich das Bocavirus identifizieren, sodass eine Infektion mit diesem Erreger als mögliche Diagnose infrage kommt. Dieser Fallbericht beschreibt eine noch wenig bekannte virale Welpenerkrankung mit erfolgreichem Therapieverlauf.
Do Anti-Corruption Educational Campaigns Reach Students? Some Evidence from Russia and Ukraine
Authors: Denisova-Schmidt Elena , Huber Martin , Leontyeva Elvira 
Published: March 2016

The authors investigate the effect of anti-corruption educational materials — an informational folder with materials designed by Transparency International — on students’ willingness to participate in an anti-corruption campaign and their general judgment about corruption in two cities in Russia and Ukraine by conducting experiments. During a survey of 350 students in Khavarovsk (Russia) and 600 students Lviv (Ukraine), young people were randomly exposed to either a folder with information about the negative effects of corruption in general and in the higher educational system in particular (treatment group), or a folder with corruption-irrelevant information (control group). The effects were statistically significant in the total sample in Khabarovsk and only in some social groups in Lviv. The results might be interesting not only for scholars, but also for policy makers and practitioners.
Using Technology To Leverage Your Lectures Stickiness
Authors: King Chula G. 
Published: March 2016

Increasingly, universities are scrambling to take advantage of online technologies. This article describes one such technology that can be used to capture the video and audio of a PowerPoint lecture. The specific technology is a software program called Camtasia. With Camtasia one can simultaneously capture in a movie file everything that is occurring on a computer screen along with the audio narration. Once captured, the video and audio can be produced as a streaming video and uploaded to a web server for online viewing.
Promoting Character At Institutions Of Higher Education And In Their Academic Units
Authors: McCraw Harrison , Volkan Ara , Bird Bruce 
Published: March 2016

Employers are highly interested in the character traits of college graduates. They recognize that these attributes will be an important determinant in the degree of success their organizations will experience. Unfortunately, a significant proportion of students enrolled in public institutions of higher education are not prepared academically, behaviorally, or emotionally for the college experience. In addition, lack of academic integrity on campus poses its own set of problems. Employers also realize that special ethical obligations exist for employees with financial reporting responsibilities. Accountants are required to generate accurate and timely information to stakeholders both inside and outside of the organization. Employers are keenly interested in hiring accountants who are willing to assume the responsibility for promoting integrity throughout the firm. To compete in today’s educational market place, many institutions of higher learning focus upon beautifully manicured grounds, impressively designed and technologically advanced buildings, and learned faculty. Alternatively, do these institutions dedicate adequate resources and expend the necessary levels of energies to promote character and other desirable traits in students? Isn’t character just as important in public higher education as critical analysis or technical skills? This article proposes the development and use of creeds by departments, colleges, and/or universities to underscore the importance of character, scholarship, and performance to students. A creed is a statement of institutional expectations, beliefs, principles, and values. It is a public pronouncement of what a department, college or university holds to be important. It is meant to inspire and encourage commitment to stated ideals and help develop appropriate attitudes across campus. Two versions of a proposed creed, a long and short version, are presented.
Inconsistencies In Textbook Presentation Of Capital Budgeting Criteria
Authors: Elston Frank 
Published: March 2016

Corporate finance textbooks state conflicting criteria for capital budgeting projects. There are three main versions of the criteria, which contradict one another. Some texts advocate accepting all projects with a positive or zero net present value (equivalently, all projects with internal rate of return exceeding or equaling the required rate of return). Other texts call for accepting only positive NPV projects and rejecting those with zero NPVs. Still other texts advocate indifference when NPV is zero. The texts then are inconsistent with one another in a matter of straightforward theory. Moreover, a number of textbooks are internally inconsistent, stating rules for the case of NPV equals zero that are at odds with their stated rule for the IRR criterion. In practical finance, the implications of this theoretical difference will be very limited. For pedagogy, however, the failure to state theory correctly and clearly can have a greater impact upon learning.
An Ecological Model for Counselor Pedagogy Incorporating Service Learning
Authors: Shupe Margery J. , O'Connell William P. 
Published: March 2016

This pilot study examined how one Graduate Counseling Program initiated improvements in counselor training pedagogy through incorporating a service-learning project with computer technology into an entry-level course for graduate students. The service learning experience was designed to advance university and community collaboration and teach students about social justice and advocacy in the field of mental health. Students were placed in several agencies that represented grossly underserved populations. A holistic approach incorporating both qualitative and quantitative procedures was utilized for the analysis of this study. The authors developed a non-standardized questionnaire containing specific questions pooled from the CACREP guidelines for counselor training.
The Continued Relevance Of Teaching To Transgress: Education As The Practice Of Freedom
Authors: Bullen Pauline E. 
Published: March 2016

In 1994, bell hooks work, Teaching to Transgress - Education as the Practice of Freedom was first published and this work re-examines it for its intent to counter the devaluation of teaching and on the basis that it addresses the urgent need for changes in teaching practices. Because of the intransience of racism and the various isms that are part of our everyday culture, hooks work remains relevant, particularly for those who find themselves in the position of the lone soldier in the war to effect equitable system change forever conspiring and scheming in order to accomplish equity in education. This re-examination of hooks work is also offered to those who face disempowered collective backlash (p.31) - backtracking, ostracization and belittlement designed to dissuade paradigm shifts. It is offered to individuals who are seeking freedom individuals who are seeking to define and contextualize their experiences, their struggle, and to those trying to cope with a society eager to return to an age of narrow nationalism, isolationisms and xenophobia (p.28). And finally, this work is for those who are seeking to teach their children, their students, how to transgress - how to confront a culture of domination with a lack of meaningful access to truth (p.29) and which necessarily promotes an addiction to lying and denial (p.29).Teaching to Transgress is a strategy that suggests revolution and speaks to ones determination, strength and commitment. It is a strategy that casts the teacher and the student recipient of the teachings, in the role of revolutionaries - agents of change. Education as the Practice of Freedom speaks to the need to pursue, as a professional business, the job of freeing oneself from oppression - one should practice or work at critically examining our world and our experiences on a local and global level.[AU1] I was asked about bell hooks name and sent my response with an attachment about the scholar and her work to your journal. bell hooks name is NOT capitalized. Thank you.
The Effects Of High Scientific Literacy, Self-Efficacy, And Achievement Motivation On Teachers Ability To Compose Effective Tests: Case Study From Manado, Indonesia
Authors: Poluakan Cosmas 
Published: March 2016

This research was conducted to determine the effects of high scientific literacy, self-efficacy, and achievement motivation on teachers ability to compose effective tests. It was conducted among junior high school science teachers in Manado, North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, from April to September 2011, using a cross-sectional survey design. The instruments used in this research consist of questions to measure scientific literacy and teachers ability to make tests, and questionnaires to investigate the self-efficacy and achievement motivation of teachers. A path analysis was used to test the hypothesis that there are direct positive effect of high scientific literacy and self-efficacy, as well as indirect effects through achievement motivation, on teachers ability to compose effective tests. The results show positive influences of (1) high scientific literacy on achievement motivation; (2) self-efficacy on achievement motivation; (3) high scientific literacy on teachers ability to make tests; and (4) achievement motivation toward teachers ability to make tests. However, self-efficacy does not directly affect ability to make tests. The implications of this research are important for inservice/onservice programs (in which inservice refers to academic upgrading and onservice, to on-the-job training) for teachers, especially for those with teaching certificates (as opposed to teachers hired under the common practice of using honorary teachers, paid by stipend not salary, or volunteers).
The roles of CCR5delta32 allele on HIV/AIDS epidemic in native Africans
Authors: Nasir Idris Abdullahi , Babayo Adamu , Ahmad Abdurrahman Elfulaty , Okechukwu Emmanuel Chisom , Ojeamiren Iduda Nadia 
Published: March 2016

<p><span>Studying the replication pattern of Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is essential to understand modalities that could halt its survival <em>in-vivo</em>. The CC chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) is exploited by HIV to gain entry into CD4+ cells. There are several polymorphisms in CCR5; the major coreceptor of HIV that has major influence on HIV transmission and progression to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). CCR5 genes that code for the CCR5 differ in humans, some individuals acquire mutant form of this genes with 32 base pair deletion through mendelian inheritance pattern. Individuals who are homozygous for this gene are completely resistant to HIV infection while heterozygous individuals had extended life span while being infected for an average of 2 to 3 years. CCR5delta32 allele is young in evolutionary time, yet it has reached relatively high frequencies in Caucasians but very low among native Africans. These properties indicate that the mutation has been under intense pressure selection. Surprisingly, there has not been any categorical explanation for this genetic selection. The absence or rare occurrence of CCR5delta32 allele among native Africans may be an explanation for the high HIV transmission rate and disease burden in this race. There are very limited CCR5delta32 studies from Africa thus, justifies the need for researchers to embark on more CCR5delta32 projects in order to establish full range of mutant CCR5 genes that may exist in our societies.</span></p>