bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Question And Answer Controller Composition (Qacc): A Technique for Developing Students’ Writing Skill
Authors: Asmara Rekha 
Published: September 2017

Abstract: This study aimed at investigating whether or not there was a significant difference in writing achievement between the students who were taught by using Question and Answer Controller Composition (QACC) technique and that of those who were not. A quasi-experimental method was conducted toward the eleventh grade students in Senior High School YPPG Tanjung raja in which forty-two students were involved as the sample which was divided into two groups. In collecting the data, a written test was administered. Before giving the test, the test was tried out to non-sample students in order to know its validity and reliability. Then, the data were analyzed using t-test through SPSS 16. The result showed that t-obtained was 4.788 at the significant level 0.05 and the critical value of t-table was 2.0211. Since t-obtained (4.788) was higher than t-table (2.0211) and pvalue (0.000) was less than αvalue (0.002), it could be concluded that the null hypotheses (Ho) was rejected and the research hypotheses (Ha) was accepted. In other words, there was a significant difference in writing achievement between the students who were taught by using Question and Answer Controller Composition (QACC) technique and that of those who were not. Key words: Question and Answer Controller Composition technique, report writing
Students’ Morphological Errors in Writing Recount Text at Muhammadiyah University of Metro
Authors: Kusumawati Fitri Palupi 
Published: September 2017

The objectives of this research are to find out the kinds of students’ morphological error in writing recount text and to find out the difficulties faced by the student in writing recount text. This research is a descriptive qualitative. It means this study focused to describe and analyze the students’ error. Based on the result that mentioned previously, the researcher found that the number of students’ omission and misformation errors are high. The highest students’ errors made in misformation are about 51, 19 %. Most of the students used wrong form of morphological in their writing. The second is the students errors made in omission are around 32, 74 %.The students not adding bound morpheme, they omit the necessary item in their sentences. The third, the students made errors in addition and misordering are about 13, 69 % and 2, 38 %. The students add unnecessary item and put incorrect placement of morpheme in their writing. On the other hand, according to table 4.2 the researcher conclude that the number of error is five or 31, 25 % students made error in global error and 11or 68, 75 % students made in local error. Key Words: Morphological errors, students’ writing
POLITENESS PRINCIPLE ANALYSIS IN CARTOON MOVIE ENTITLED STAND BY ME DORAEMON
Authors: Mulyono Eko 
Published: September 2017

This article examines the use of politeness principle in cartoon movie entitled “Stand By Me Doraemon”. It aims at giving a description on the use of politeness principle in this movie so that this is the source of data as well. The data are collected by note taking technique and then analyzed descriptively. After analyzing the data, the researcher finds the use of politeness principle in the movie script. They are utterances of the use of politeness principle covering the kinds of maxim in politeness principle. The utterances covey the use of tact maxim, generosity maxim, approbation maxim, modesty maxim, agreement maxim, and sympathy maxim. Then, it focused also in politeness scale such as formality scale, hesitancy scale, and equality scale. The finding result showed that there are 25 politeness principle found in cartoon movie “Stand By Me Doraemon”. 1 tact maxim, 3 generosity maxim, 6 approbation maxim, 1 modesty maxim, 2 agreement maxim, 3 sympathy maxim, 2 formality scale, 4 hesitancy scale, and 3 equality scale. Approbation maxim is the maxim of the most numerous in the movie. This is because the characters in this film seek to avoid conflict and create an environment that is comfortable in communication. Key words: politeness principle, cartoon movie, utterance, maxim, scale.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING TASK BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING (TBLT) IN TEACHING THE STUDENTS’ ENGLISH SPEAKING ABILITY AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF SMK PENERBANGAN AAG ADISUTJIPTO YOGYAKARTA
Authors: Baihaqi Yasmika 
Published: September 2017

This study is intended to find out that the task based language teaching method is effective in improving the students’ speaking ability at the eleventh grade students of SMK Penerbangan AAG Adisutjipto Yogyakarta in the academic year 2012/ 2013. The population of this research is the eleventh grade students of SMK Penerbangan AAG Adisutjipto Yogyakarta in the academic year 2012/ 2013. The researcher in this case takes two intact classes with a total number of 63 students selected as the samples of the study. To collect the data, the researcher utilizes a test and questionnaire. The test is employed to reveal the students’ speaking ability while the questionnaire is used to collect the data of the students’ learning activities during the teaching and learning process. The data are analyzed utilizing descriptive and inferential statistics. The task based language teaching (TBLT) method is effective on the students’ speaking ability at the eleventh grade students of SMK Penerbangan AAG Adisutjipto Yogyakarta in the academic year 2012/ 2013. It is supported from the mean of the pre test and post test for experimental group and control group. This study yields the mean in pre-test for experimental group is 37.13 and 34.71 for control group. In the post test, the mean of the experimental group becomes 69.13 and 37.94 for control group. The t-test value showed 20.509 with the degree of freedom 62. It was higher than the value of t-table (2.000) at the significant level of 0.05. It means that TBLT method is more effective than teacher’s own method to teach speaking. Key words: TBLT, Speaking Ability, Teaching and Learning Process.
THE AUTHENTICITY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT FOR THE TWELFTH GRADERS OF SMK(VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL) NEGERI 4 SURAKARTA
Authors: Hidayati Nurul 
Published: September 2017

The new curriculum applied in Indonesia recommended the use of authentic assessment. This study deals with the authenticity of English assessment. This research aims at finding empirical facts about what type of assessments are used, describing the authenticity of the assessments, showing teachers’ understanding to the assessment system and identifying problems encountered in applying authentic assessment. The method used is qualitative research, and the data was collected by observation, interview and content analysis. The findings are firstly, the teacher used three types of assessment : (a) Formative Test covering affective-cognitive-psychomotoric aspects (b) Mid Term Test (c) Semester Test. Secondly, the Formative Test had high level of authenticity, while the Mid Term Test and Semester Test had low authenticity. Thirdly, the scoring system used was the Criterion Reference Test which refers to Minimum Mastery Criteria. (4) There were at least four problems in applying authentic assessment : (a) the teacher felt overburdened with too many assessment formats (b) the inconsistency in regulation cause confusion for teachers (c) insufficient learning facilities caused ineffectivity (d) insufficient IT system needed improvement. The school had been doing efforts to overcome the problems. Keyword: authenticity, assessment, and authentic assessment
ERRORS IN NARRATIVE TEXT COMMITTED BY STUDENTS IN GRADE XI OF VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL (SMK) STATE 4 SURAKARTA
Authors: - Eko Mulyono 
Published: September 2017

This study aimes to identify the types of errors in the students’ writing, to know the frequencies of each type of errors, and to investigate the causes of errors. There are three types of errors occured in the students’ writing namely lexical error, syntactical error, and discourse error. The errors can be categorized into twenty four subcategories of errors: wrong spelling words (10,35%), wrong selection words (15,53%), omission verb (0,74%), omission v-ing after preposition for (0,55%), addition unnecessary verb (0,74%), using simple present tense refers to simple past (22,37%), use simple future instead of past future (2,40%), using irregular past verb tense after to infinitive (2,40%), addition final ed after to infinitive (1,85%), addition v-ing after to infinitive (1,11%), addition double marking verb (1,66%), omission to be (11,65%), addition to be (1,29%), omission s/es in the use of plural noun (2,40%), addition s in singular noun (1,29%), omission article (6,47%), addition unnecessary article (1,66%), wrong article (1,11%), wrong subject pronoun (2,03%), wrong object pronoun (0,55%), wrong possessive pronoun (2,03%), generic structure (2,96%), reference (2,03%), wrong selection conjunction (4,81%). The most dominant error is in syntactical error i.e. using simple present tense refers to simple past with the percentage 22,37%. Those errors are caused by four aspects, they are overgeneralization, incomplete application of rules, ignorance of rule restrictions, and false concept hypothesized.
Transformaciones territoriales en ámbitos rurales del Noroeste Argentino y la Región Pampeana hacia finales del siglo XX e inicios del XXI
Authors: Garay Ana , Krapovickas Julieta , Mikkelsen Claudia 
Published: September 2017

Desde las últimas décadas del siglo XX, los sectores rurales argentinos son escenario de profundas transformaciones socioproductivas ligadas a la expansión de las actividades económicas intensivas en el uso de capital. Entre ellas podemos mencionar la agricultura para exportación, la vitivinicultura y la minería. Tanto en el Noroeste Argentino (NOA) como en la Región Pampeana, estas actividades productivas, así como los procesos de acaparamiento, privatización y concentración de la tierra son particularmente visibles. El objetivo del artículo es analizar las transformaciones territoriales del campo argentino comparando los procesos en el NOA y en la Región Pampeana entre la última década del siglo XX y la primera del siglo XXI. El estudio involucra a diez provincias, que comprenden el 35 % de la superficie del país, cuentan con 170.000 explotaciones agropecuarias e incluyen al 60 % de la población rural del país.
En este sentido, el artículo tiene como objetivo analizar algunas de las transformaciones territoriales características del campo argentino actual, comparando los procesos en el Noroeste Argentino y en la Región Pampeana en la primera década del siglo XXI. El estudio involucra a diez provincias, las cuales comprenden el 35% de la superficie del país, cuentan con 170.000 explotaciones agropecuarias e incluyen al 60% de la población rural del país. Particularmente se analizan el desigual acceso a la tierra considerando las continuidades y rupturas a lo largo de los veinte años que transcurren desde 1988 a 2008, empleando para ello los censos nacionales agropecuarios 1988, 2002 y 2008 y datos del Sistema Integrado de Información Agropecuaria.
Information literacy and the Workforce: A Review
Authors: Weiner Sharon 
Published: September 2017

This paper is a review of reports on information literacy and the workforce. There is a substantial body of literature on information literacy in K-16 educational settings, but there is much less literature on implications for the workplace and job-related lifelong learning. The topical categories of the reports are: the importance of information literacy for the workforce; how information literacy differs in work andeducational settings; and barriers to information literacy in the workplace. The paper concludes with recommendations for practice and for further research.
Evaluating the Constructive or Destructive Role of PowerPoint in Accounting Education
Authors: Imran Muhammad , Sharif Shumaila , Batool Faryal 
Published: September 2017

Objectives:With change in technology teaching methodology also changed and technology penetrates into the class rooms. The most commonly used computer aided teaching methodology in class rooms is PowerPoint presentation. It replaces the traditional method of teaching i.e. whiteboard and marker. This study measure the impact of PowerPoint presentation on student' performance.
Methodology:We choose 282 students studying accounting courses in various universities of Multan, Pakistan. We used SPSS and Microsoft Excel to analyze the data.
Result:We found that PowerPoint has negative impact on the student's performance. But on the other hand, students feel tiresome with traditional method of teaching. Students prefer to take quantitative courses via traditional method, and they prefer to take qualitative courses by PowerPoint presentation.
Information Content of Earnings Managements: Implications on Growth and Value Companies
Authors: Mulyasari Windu , Sugiri Slamet , Herdhayinta Heyvon 
Published: September 2017

Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the pattern of earnings management on growth and value companies in Indonesia. This study predicts that earnings management has information contents. Therefore, earnings management tends to degrade the quality of earnings, then affect the future profitability. This study analyzes the effect of earnings management information content to the company's future profitability. This study provides an understanding about accounting information at certain market price levels for growth and value companies.
Findings: Findings of this study indicate the differences between earnings management influence on growth and value companies. The results also support the differences of relative incremental information content of earnings management on growth and value companies. The growth firms tend to do earnings management and have higher profitability compared to the value firms. The implication is that the incremental information content of earnings management on growth firms is lower than those of the value firms to predict future profitability.
Implication: The contribution of this research is to provide an in-depth review on earnings management study associated with company life cycle (growth and value), as well as to give additional understanding about the existence of incremental information content of earnings management. Thus, firms show different earnings management behaviors and ultimately those behaviors affect the quality of profit to predict future earnings
Stress and velocity fields in glaciers: Part II. Sliding and basal stress distribution
Authors: Blatter Heinz , Clarke Garry K. C. , Colinge Jacques 
Published: September 2017

AbstractNumerical methods are used to examine the interaction between the spatial distribution of the basal shear traction and the corresponding basal velocity for an inclined slab geometry. In our improved treatment, we reject the common assumption that basal velocity is a simple function of local variables in favour of a non-local treatment that includes normal deviatoric stress and takes basal velocity to be an integrated response to spatially varying influences. Computationally, one must either iterate the basal velocity with a friction parameterization that relates basal shear traction to basal velocity or, alternatively, prescribe the basal shear traction that results from bed decoupling and substrate déformation.The average of basal shear traction over the entire bed of the ice mass is invariant under changes in sliding distribution and thus constitutes a useful reference; any local relative reduction of traction leads to basal movement, either sliding over the bed or moving with a deforming subglacial layer. The local stress réduction is accompanied by a concentration of traction up-and down-glacier of the moving base. Growth, decay and possible migration of basal stress concentrations may be closely related to short-lived sliding events and to surges.
Hinge-line migration of Petermann Gletscher, north Greenland, detected using satellite-radar interferometry
Authors: Rignot Eric 
Published: September 2017

AbstractThe synthetic-aperture radar-interferometry technique is used to detect the migration of the limit of tidal flexing, or hinge line, of the floating ice longue of Peter-mann Gletscher, a major outlet glacier of north Greenland. The hinge line is detected automatically from differential interferograms using a model-fitting technique based on an elastic-beam theory. The statistical noise of the model fit is less than 3 mm, and the hinge line is mapped with a precision of 30 m. Following automatic registration of multidate image data to a precision of 5m, hinge-line migration is subsequently detected with a precision of 40 m in the horizontal plane across the glacier width. The results show that the hinge line of Petermann Gletscher migrates back and forth with tide by ±70m, in excellent agreement with the migration calculated from ocean tides predicted by a tidal model combined with the glacier surface and basal slope measured by an ice-sounding radar. Superimposed on the short-term hinge-line migration due to tide, we detect a hinge-line retreat of 270 m in 3.87 years which varies across the glacier width by ± 120 m. The retreat suggests glacier thinning at a rate of 78 + 35 cm ice a−1. Coincidentally, an analysis of ice-volume fluxes indicates that the hinge-line ice flux of Petermann Gletscher exceeds its balance flux by 0.88±1km3 ice a−1, which in turn implies glacier thinning at 83+95cm ice a−1 in the glacier lower reaches. Both methods therefore suggest that Petermann Gletscher is currently losing mass to the ocean.
Measurement of temperature in a margin of Ice Stream B, Antarctica: implications for margin migration and lateral drag
Authors: Harrison W. D. , Echelmeyer K. A. , Larsen C. F. 
Published: September 2017

AbstractIce temperature was measured in and around the chaotically crevassed south margin of Ice Stream B, Antarctica, from 1992 to 1994. The temperatures at 30 m depth in the chaotic zone are about 12 K lower than in the adjacent uncrevassed ice, due to the ponding of cold winter air. At depths greater than 150 m, there is clear evidence of internal heating of the ice due to the large shear déformation rate in the marginal zone. Analysis of the depth of cooling below the crevasses and of the internal heating gives two pieces of information. First, over the last half century the lateral shear stress averaged 2.0 x 105 Pa in the top third of the margin and, second, the margin moved outward at an average rate of 7.3 m a−1. These values do not involve any assumptions about the How law of ice. The uncertainties are roughly 20%. The value of lateral shear stress indicates that the most of the drag on the ice stream is along its sides.
A theory of ice-sheet surges
Authors: Fowler A. C. , Schiavi E. 
Published: September 2017

AbstractA simplified model of a two-dimensional ice sheet is described. It includes basal ice sliding dependent, on the basal water pressure, which itself is described by a simple theory of basal drainage. We show that this simple but sophisticated model predicts surges of the ice mass in realistic circumstances, and we describe these surges by solving the problem numerically. We also are able to describe some parts of the surge analytically. The numerical solution of the model is a delicate matter, and highlights pitfalls to be avoided if more complicated models are to be solved successfully.
Elevation, volume and terminus changes of nine glaciers in North America
Authors: Sapiano J. J. , Harrison W. D. , Echelmeyer K. A. 
Published: September 2017

AbstractNine glaciers in Alaska and Washington, U.S.A., originally mapped as part of the International Geophysical Year (IGY) in 1957—58, were re-mapped between 1993 and 1996, eight using airborne surface elevation profiling and the ninth using ground-based kinematic global positioning system methods. Elevation, volume and terminus changes were determined for the approximately 38 year period between the IGY mapping and the profiling, All nine glaciers showed substantial thinning at lower elevations; seven of the nine thickened at higher elevations. None of the glaciers had a significant net volume increase; two had close to zero change, and the others had a decrease. For the eight glaciers for which we could obtain quantitative information, the mean thickness change was -10 m with a large scatter, 8 m standard deviation. The volume and terminus changes had no clear geographic pattern, and no simple relationship between volume change and terminus advance or retreat was identified. The largest error in the estimated volume changes is due to map errors.
The structural glaciology of Kongsvegen, Svalbard, and its role in landform genesis
Authors: Glasser Neil F. , Hambrey Michael J. , Crawford Kevin R. , Bennett Matthew R. , Huddart David 
Published: September 2017

AbstractMapping of the structural glaciology of Kongsvegen, Svalbard, reveals evidence for four main deformational structures. These are stratification, longitudinal foliation, thrusts and crevasse traces. These structures are considered in terms of their contribution to debris entrainment, transport and subsequent landform development. Stratification is associated with small amounts of supraglacial debris that has been folded with flow-parallel axes; longitudinal foliation in places incorporates basal glacial sediments along folds with flow-parallel axes; and thrusts transport basal debris to the glacier surface. Crevasse traces are not significant in terms of debris entrainment. The entrainment of basal debris along longitudinal foliation is not a universally recognised process. At Kongsvegen this process is attributed to the development of a transposition foliation, in combination with incorporation of debris-rich basal ice or soft basal sediment in the fold complex. Mapping of the landforms in the proglacial area shows that debris incorporated along longitudinal foliation is released as “foliation-parallel ridges” and that transverse ridges mark debris-bearing thrusts. The role of longitudinal foliation in landform development has never been documented in this manner. Although the preservation potential of such ridges may be limited, recognition of foliation-parallel ridges in the Pleistocene landform record has important implications for the interpretation of the dynamics of former ire masses.
Physical and chemical studies in the region of the southern slope of Mount Elbrus, Caucasus
Authors: Bazhev A. M. , Rototaeva O. , Heintzenberg J. , Stenberg M. , Pinglot J. F. 
Published: September 2017

AbstractFor glaciological and meteorological reasons Mount Elbrus, Caucasus, was chosen as a site for physical and chemical pilot studies of ice cores. This study was the first step towards systematic studies of impurities in glacier ice on Mount Elbrus. In 1900 two ice cores, each 17 m deep and spaced 10 m apart, were taken at an elevation of 4100 m on the Bolshoy Azau glacier on the western slopes of Mount Elbrus. The cores were used for different physical and chemical analyses. Structure, texture and ice microstructure were studied. Chemical analyses of major ions (SO42−, NO3−, K+ and Na+) and measurements of insoluble light-absorbing material and radioactivity (137Cs and total β activity) were made. With the results of the physical and chemical analyses of these two ice cores, the possibilities of utilising the ice for the study of trace substances deposited after long-range transport from Europe were explored. Ice-stratigraphic methods made it possible to establish the annual accumulation rate. A reference horizon was established from the depth variation of 137Cs and total β activities that showed a well-defined peak of their activities coinciding in time with the 1986 Chernobyl accident. The results of this study show that Mount Elbrus is a useful archive for atmospheric composition downwind of Europe.