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International Student Satisfaction and Loyalty: A Comparative Study of Malaysian and Australian Higher Learning Institutions
Authors: Sultana Seyama , Momen Abdul 
Published: December 2017

Abstract

Purpose – Factors affecting international student satisfaction and loyalty are crucial for higher learning institutions of Malaysia as the country wants to become a global education hub. The purpose of this paper is to determine the most contributing factors affecting the level of international student satisfaction and how these factors affect loyalty of the students. These factors are academic issues, economic considerations, image and prestige and infrastructure of the university. The study involved the same research in Australia in order to compare situations in these two nations.

Methodology – A structured questionnaire was used to collect data to determine the significant factors affecting the level of satisfaction and loyalty of international students of Malaysian and Australian public universities.

Findings – The primary results demonstrated that towards international students, academic issues and economic considerations are more important than rest of two other factors in Malaysia where in Australia image and prestige are quite significant.

Value – This study contributes to the research of Malaysian educational field and research of Malaysia as a global educational hub as it involves comparison with a developed country like Australia.
Storia e fortuna di una similitudine nazianzenica: οἷόν τι πέλαγος οὐσίας ἄπειρον καὶ ἀόριστον
Authors: Settecase Marco 
Published: December 2017

AbstractAfter clarifying the theological implications of the phrase τὸ πολὺ πέλαγος τοῦ καλοῦ in Plat.Symp. 210d4 and demonstrating that it cannot be considered the archetype, the article aims to examine theNachlebenof Gregory of Nazianzus’ expression πέλαγος οὐσίας ἄπειρον καὶ ἀόριστον (Or. 38.7 and 45.3): not only is it spread in late antique and mediaeval literature both Greek and Latin, but it is also present in Dante’sCommedia. The huge diffusion of this image across time and space, supported by a careful examination of the use that is made of it by authors who pick it up, makes it possible to demonstrate that πέλαγος οὐσίας ἄπειρον καὶ ἀόριστον became a very well known proverbialtoposin the Christian world.
Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP): role in peripheral nerve regeneration
Authors: Jung Albert M. 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is a neuropeptide that has an important anti-inflammatory role in the immune system. Research has shown that CGRP is an integral part in peripheral nerve regeneration by (1) suppressing tumor necrosis factor-α, (2) forming an initial nerve bridge by increasing fibroblast motility and extracellular matrix synthesis, (3) vascularizing the spinal cord injury site, and (4) inducing Schwann cell (SC) proliferation. In this treatise, the following hypotheses will be explored: (1) CGRP is induced by c-Jun to regulate SC dedifferentiation, (2) CGRP promotes the chemotaxic migration of SCs along the nerve bridge, and (3) CGRP induces myelinophagy by activating various signaling pathways, such as p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase and Raf/extracellular signal-regulated kinase. These processes provide a framework for understanding the role of CGRP in peripheral nerve regeneration, which may be important in developing better strategies for nerve repair and gaining further insight into demyelinating diseases.
Expected genetic gain and genotype by environment interaction in almond (Dipteryx panamensis (Pittier) Rec. and Mell) in Costa Rica
Authors: León N. , Murillo O. , Badilla Y. , Ávila C. , Murillo R. 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
Almendro (Dipteryx panamensis (Pittier) Record & Mell.) is one of the native tree species with higher wood density planted in Latin American tropical region, which has given it a reputation and international acceptance in the wood-floors markets. The tree has also a remarkable ecological value, as an important food source and habitat for several endangered fauna. This research studied the potential for genetic improvement and stability of a collection of 29 open-pollinated families of Dipteryx panamensis at 48 months of age. The materials came from three different local native populations northern from Costa Rica. Individual heritabilities for commercial volume registered moderate values, between 9 % and 22 %, while mean family heritability, ranged between 47 % and 74 % for the traits evaluated. No significant genetic differences among provenances for none of the traits evaluated were observed. The genetic correlation for commercial volume between both sites showed a value of r = 0.96, which suggests low G × E interaction. If selected the top 20 individuals from the genetic ranking in commercial volume, an expected genetic gain above 50 % in year 4 can be obtained. The use of improved almendro seeds could have great impact and motivate plantations with this tree species in tropical regions. It is concluded that a unique breeding program for the whole country is feasible.
Spiritualität und Seelsorge in der Gesundheitsversorgung von Muslimen
Authors: Ilkilic Ilhan , Göksu Ahmet 
Published: December 2017

ZusammenfassungDer Beitrag untersucht das Konzept von Spiritualität und Seelsorge bei der Versorgung muslimischer Patienten. Hierzu werden eingangs das muslimische Menschenbild, Krankheitsverständnis und Krankheitsdeutungen behandelt. Durch die Erörterung des Seelenbegriffs in der islamischen Geistestradition werden Anknüpfungspunkte an den wissenschaftlichen Diskurs von Spiritual Care und Seelsorge dargestellt und anhand des gegenwärtigen Bedarfs deren Aktualität aufgezeigt. Im nächsten Schritt wird die Praxis der muslimischen Krankenseelsorge ausgearbeitet und anhand von Beispielen der seelsorgerischen und spirituellen Betreuung durch Imame in Deutschland konkretisiert. Abschließend werden darüberhinaus islamische Rituale bei Sterbenden und Verstorbenen nachgezeichnet, um so einen Überblick über die professionelle Arbeit der Imame zu geben. Es wird die Position vertreten, dass eine professionelle spirituelle und seelsorgerische Betreuung und Begleitung muslimischer Patienten mit der Verwirklichung des hier aufgezeigten Programms in deutschen Krankenhäusern sehr wohl möglich und erforderlich ist.
Zum Imam oder zum Psychotherapeuten?
Authors: Balci-Sentürk Emine , Freund Henning 
Published: December 2017

Zusammenfassung
Zahlreiche Studien deuten auf einen hohen Bedarf an psychosozialer Versorgung bei Migranten hin. Häufig wird jedoch in diesen Studien die Religiosität außer Acht gelassen, obwohl eine besondere Bedeutung der Religiosität hinsichtlich der psychischen Gesundheit bekannt ist. Empirische Untersuchungen zur psychosozialen Versorgung von Muslimen sind nur eingeschränkt zu finden. Die vorliegende explorative Studie untersucht das Hilfesuchverhalten von Muslimen in Deutschland. Einen Schwerpunkt stellt hier die Inanspruchnahme von Beratung bei Imamen und weiblichen Religionsbediensteten (BI) sowie die Inanspruchnahme von Psychotherapie bei nichtmuslimischen Psychotherapeuten (PNMP) dar. Es wurde vermutet, dass vor allem die Zentralität der Religiosität einen Einfluss auf das Hilfesuchverhalten hat. An der Onlinebefragung nahmen insgesamt 579 Personen muslimischen Glaubens teil. Die Vermutungen zum Einfluss der Zentralität der Religiosität konnten bestätigt werden. Hochreligiöse Muslime suchen bei belastenden Problemen häufiger Imame und weibliche Religionsbedienstete auf als Psychotherapeuten. Die logistischen Regressionsanalysen deuten darauf hin, dass die Wahrscheinlichkeit, BI in Anspruch zu nehmen, mit einer Zunahme der Zentralität der Religiosität steigt, wobei die Wahrscheinlichkeit PNMP in Anspruch zu nehmen hierbei sinkt. Praktische Implikationen der Ergebnisse werden im Kapitel Diskussion ausgeführt.
Reservoir Evaluation Technology During Underbalanced Drilling of Horizontal Wells in Gas Reservoirs
Authors: Wei Na , Zhao Xiangyang , Meng Yingfeng , Li Gao , Xiang Hua , He Jun , Sun Wantong , Tang Zhiguang 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
This paper describes a method for real-time reservoir characterization during underbalanced drilling. Therefore, this study considers wellbore and formation as a system and establishes wellbore multiphase flow calculation and formation fluid-flow models. To acquire the basic data for the characterization in a timely way, the study develops and adopts the system of ground-monitoring devices to measure the formation fluid flow into the wellbore and to the surface in real time. The proposed mathematical models, construction parameters, and wellhole structure were used to calculate the downhole underbalanced pressure. Using the measured gas production and formation fluid-flow model, the permeability can be calculated. The mathematical models also reveal the actual formation fluid flow during the drilling phase, and thereby we could identify fracture characteristics (such as fracture development and heterogeneity) using a plot of permeability versus well depth. The proposed method was adopted to evaluate a depth range of 4,092 to 4,285 m in the Yingcheng formation of well X in the Jilin oil field and acquired the permeability according to the depth of the horizontal well in the gas reservoir (the average permeability was 0.059 md and microcracks were well developed). The proposed technique, which combines the recognition of formation parameters and monitoring of wellbore pressure and fluid flow, can improve the precision of underbalanced drilling control, and the calculated permeability truly reflects the fluid-flow situation during the drilling processes.
Life Cycle Energy Impacts of Automotive Electronics
Authors: Cassorla P. , Das S. , Armstrong K. , Cresko J. 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
The projected growth in automotive electronics content is anticipated to be higher than worldwide automotive fleet growth. New vehicle models are becoming more electrified, using more sensors and electronic control units (ECUs), approximately 40–70+ of each, with premium vehicles using the most. Electrical and electronic content value will account for 50 % of vehicle manufacturing value by 2025; that growth would represent a higher energy share of electronics in vehicle manufacturing. A representative ECU was used to estimate life cycle energy impacts of these electronics systems. The analysis was based on a teardown of a medium price-segment (standard) vehicle, and shows that an average of 50 ECUs per vehicle represents 5 % (or 8.5 GJ/vehicle) of the total vehicle manufacturing embodied energy. The ECU manufacturing energy share of total vehicle manufacturing embodied energy is projected to increase by ∼1.6 times if the electronics content increases to today's premium vehicle segment's electronics content, i.e., 76 ECUs per vehicle. From the vehicle life cycle energy perspective, the ECU use phase contributes to ∼63 % of total life cycle impacts. The energy impacts of automotive electronics recycling (yet to be developed) was found to be similar to the automotive steel recycling with the current automotive materials recycling focus by its weight.
Retrieval Demands Adaptively Change Striatal Old/New Signals and Boost Subsequent Long-Term Memory
Authors: Herweg Nora A. , Sommer Tobias , Bunzeck Nico 
Published: December 2017

The striatum is a central part of the dopaminergic mesolimbic system and contributes both to the encoding and retrieval of long-term memories. In this regard, the co-occurrence of striatal novelty and retrieval success effects in independent studies underlines the structure's double duty and suggests dynamic contextual adaptation. To test this hypothesis and further investigate the underlying mechanisms of encoding and retrieval dynamics, human subjects viewed pre-familiarized scene images intermixed with new scenes and classified them as indoor versus outdoor (encoding task) or old versus new (retrieval task), while fMRI and eye tracking data were recorded. Subsequently, subjects performed a final recognition task. As hypothesized, striatal activity and pupil size reflected task-conditional salience of old and new stimuli, but, unexpectedly, this effect was not reflected in the substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area (SN/VTA), medial temporal lobe, or subsequent memory performance. Instead, subsequent memory generally benefitted from retrieval, an effect possibly driven by task difficulty and activity in a network including different parts of the striatum and SN/VTA. Our findings extend memory models of encoding and retrieval dynamics by pinpointing a specific contextual factor that differentially modulates the functional properties of the mesolimbic system.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENTThe mesolimbic system is involved in the encoding and retrieval of information but it is unclear how these two processes are achieved within the same network of brain regions. In particular, memory retrieval and novelty encoding were considered in independent studies, implying that novelty (new > old) and retrieval success (old > new) effects may co-occur in the striatum. Here, we used a common framework implicating the striatum, but not other parts of the mesolimbic system, in tracking context-dependent salience of old and new information. The current study, therefore, paves the way for a more comprehensive understanding of the functional properties of the mesolimbic system during memory encoding and retrieval.
Grammatical and Communicative Competences as one: a study on symbouletic modality
Authors: Strey Claudia , Monawar Monica 
Published: December 2017

***Competências gramatical e comunicativa integradas: um estudo da modalidade simboulética***O presente artigo busca a conscientizar sobre a importância de uma abordagem integrada de semântica e pragmática no ensino, especialmente a respeito da competência linguístico-comunicativa na sala de aula de língua adicional. Para dar suporte a isto, discutimos a modalidade simboulética, um fenômeno da linguagem natural que ocorre precisamente na interface entre forma e uso. Primeiramente, discutimos o arcabouço teórico de Kratzer (1981, 1991, 2012) para a modalidade em linguagem natural, além da proposta de Yanovich (2013a, 2013b) para a modalidade simbulética. Depois, discutimos as ferramentas da pragmática cognitiva para analisar o processamento da linguagem, especialmente em relação ao significado procedural e conceitual, baseados na Teoria da Relevância, de Sperber e Wilson (1995). Finalmente, via esta ilustração, reforçamos nosso argumento original, esperando construir uma ponte que diminua a distância que por vezes é encontrada entre a pesquisa em linguística e a pedagogia de língua adicional.
Uproszczona metoda delimitacji wektorowej
Authors: Grabiński Tadeusz 
Published: December 2017

The paper presents a graphical procedure for sorting and grouping objects described by a single variable taken in the form of cross-sectional, time series or panel data. This method draws on the classical taxonometric method developed over 100 years ago by Jan Czekanowski. The advantages of simplified vector delimitation are that it is not labour intensive but is intuitive and can be handled with simple spreadsheet functions. The method was used for the taxonomic analysis of a set of 28 EU countries described by three characteristics: the unemployment rate, poverty risk and life expectancy for the two years 2010 and 2015.
Inteligencia militar en Argentina. Reflexiones desde un archivo naval/ Military intelligence in Argentina. Reflections since a naval archive
Authors: Muzzopappa María Eva 
Published: December 2017

El rol de las fuerzas armadas, y particularmente, el ámbito de acción de la inteligencia militar constituyen un eje de debate que reaparece en el escenario político argentino, tensionando los límites establecidos al accionar castrense por la legislación vigente. Particularmente, en la última década se ha debatido en torno a lo que se denomina “militarización” de los cuerpos policiales y “policiamiento” de las fuerzas armadas, fenómeno que desdibujaría los roles tradicionalmente asignados a las diferentes instituciones. En un contexto de redefinición global de las actividades de inteligencia, este trabajo indaga un archivo naval que resultó ser el hito a partir del cual la inteligencia militar fue reformulada institucionalmente en Argentina. A partir de este archivo, el trabajo desanda la relación entre las prácticas de inteligencia y la atribución de un rol “policial” para las fuerzas armadas argentinas y retoma el concepto de “policiamiento”, que actualmente alude a la propuesta de intervención de las fuerzas armadas en el enfrentamiento del terrorismo y el narcotráfico, para examinar sus antecedentes históricos como propuesta y práctica política.

Abstract
The role of the armed forces, and particularly the scope of action of military intelligence, is an axis of debate that periodically reappears in the Argentine political scene, stressing the limits established for military action by current legislation. Particularly in the last decade there has been debate about what is called “militarization” of police forces and “policing” of the armed forces, a phenomenon that would blur the roles traditionally assigned to different institutions. In a context of global redefinition of intelligence activities, this work explores a naval archive that turned out to be the milestone from which military intelligence was institutionally reformulated in Argentina. From this archive, the work deviates the relationship between intelligence practices and the attribution of a “police” role for the Argentine armed forces and retakes the concept of “policing”, which currently alludes to the proposal of intervention of the forces armed in the confrontation of terrorism and drug trafficking, to examine their historical background as a proposal and political practice.
Incertidumbres del análisis dimensional de la inteligencia/ Uncertainty of dimensional analysis of intelligence
Authors: Payá Santos Claudio Augusto , Delgado Morán Juan Jose 
Published: December 2017

Debido a las características particulares del mundo en el que nos encontramos se hacen especialmente importantes los análisis de inteligencia. En el presente trabajo se discute cómo funciona la mente humana en los análisis de inteligencia, centrando el objetivo en la incertidumbre, las valoraciones de la prueba, los juicios bajo presión y las limitaciones de tiempo, analizando cómo la estructura de nuestra maquinaria mental influye y constriñe los análisis de inteligencia. Nos ocuparemos del funcionamiento de la mente humana, y qué limitaciones encuentra centrándonos en cómo estas características cognitivas afectan a los analistas de inteligencia, cuando no se basan en hechos sesgados; además del impacto que el tiempo y la presión tienen en la exactitud de los resultados.

Abstract
Due to the particular characteristics of the world in which we find ourselves, intelligence analysis becomes especially important. This paper discusses how the human mind works in intelligence analysis, focusing on uncertainty, trial ratings, judgments under pressure and time constraints, analyzing how the structure of our mental machinery influences and constrict intelligence analysis. We will deal with the functioning of the human mind, and what limitations it finds by focusing on how these cognitive characteristics affect intelligence analysts when they are not based on biased facts; as well as the impact of time and pressure on the accuracy of results.
Mitochondrial respiratory chain deficiency in older men and its relationship with muscle mass and performance
Authors: Rygiel Karolina A , Dodds Richard M , Patel Harnish P , Syddall Holly E , Westbury Leo D , Granic Antoneta , Cooper Cyrus , Cliff Joshua , Rocha Mariana C , Turnbull Doug M , Sayer Avan A 
Published: December 2017

AbstractIntroductionSarcopenia is the loss of muscle mass and physical performance with age, and recognition of its importance in clinical practice is growing. Age‐related decline in muscle mitochondrial function has been described although less is known about the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in sarcopenia. The aim of this study was to investigate whether respiratory chain deficiency is associated with muscle mass and physical performance among a sample of healthy older men participating in the Hertfordshire Sarcopenia Study.MethodsWe used immunofluorescence on biopsies of the vastus lateralis to measure levels of the NDUFB8 subunit of complex I and the COX‐1 subunit of complex IV per fibre. We measured muscle mass using dual‐energy x‐ray absorptiometry. We assessed physical performance using grip strength, gait speed, chair rise time, timed up and go and standing balance time, and composed an aggregate performance score on the scale of 0 (worst) and 5 (best performance). We used linear regression with a cluster sandwich estimator to test relationships between complex I / IV and muscle mass / physical performance. Study approval was granted by the Hertfordshire Research Ethics Committee.ResultsSamples were available from 77 participants of mean age 72.6 (2.5) years. The median number of fibres analysed per participant was 157 (104, 237). We expressed complex I and IV levels as Z‐scores relative to that expected in young controls. The overall participant mean Z‐scores were 0.3 (1.3) and ‐1.5 (0.9) for complex I and IV, respectively. We saw no relationship between complex I or IV and muscle mass. Each unit (SD) increase in complex I was associated with an increase in aggregate performance score of 0.06 (95% CI: 0.02, 0.09, P = 0.003), whilst the relationship for complex IV did not reach significance.ConclusionWe saw marked heterogeneity in complex I and IV levels, both between and within participants, as well as lower overall levels of complex IV. The finding of a small but statistically significant positive association between complex I levels and physical performance suggests that mitochondrial dysfunction may have a role in the development of sarcopenia. These findings will help inform the design of future studies across a wider range of ages and in both women and men.
Da Ciência Biológica à Social: a trajetória da Antropologia no século xx
Authors: Laraia Roque de Barros 
Published: December 2017

A Antropologia surgiu no início do século XIX como uma ciência biológica. A partir da sexta década do século foi se transformando em uma ciência social, graças ao trabalho dos evolucionistas britânicos. Foi somente no século XX, graças à teoria da cultura, que ela realmente se transforma em uma ciência social. Este artigo trata dessa trajetória.