bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
STRUCTURE DES PEUPLEMENTS NATURELS DE PTEROCARPUS ERINA- CEUS POIR. DANS LE DOMAINE SOUDA- NIEN, AU NIGER ET AU BURKINA FASO
Authors: Rabiou Habou , Diouf Abdoulaye , Bationo Babou André , Segla Kossi Novinyo , Adjonou Kossi , Kokutse Adzo Dzifa , Radji Raoufou , Kokou Kouami , Mahamane Ali , Saadou Mahamane 
Published: December 2017

Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir. est une espèce endémique des zones sahélo-soudanienne et soudano-guinéenne, recherchée pour son bois, son fourrage et son intérêt médi- cinal. Ces usages se traduisent par une mu- tilation répétée des individus, entraînant une dégradation sensible des peuplements naturels. Les structures démographiques de P. erinaceus selon les zones pédoclima- tiques et l’effet des principales variables environnementales et de l’intensité d’ex- ploitation sur ses effectifs ont été évalués au Niger et au Burkina Faso. Des mesures dendrométriques (diamètre, hauteur to- tale, hauteur du fût, diamètres perpen- diculaires du houppier) sur les individus d’un diamètre supérieur ou égal à 5 cm à 1,30 m du sol ont été effectuées dans huit forêts. Dans chacune, les mesures ont été conduites selon deux transects perpendi-culaires. La densité de P. erina- ceus augmente de manière significative (P < 0,003) de la zone sahélo-soudanienne à la zone soudano-guinéenne : 1,2 ± 0,7 pied/ha dans la zone sahélo-soudanienne ; 2,6 ± 2,2 pieds/ha dans la zone nord-sou- danienne ; 6,1 ± 4,6 pieds/ha dans la zone sud-soudanienne ; 15,0 ± 1,1 pieds/ha dans la zone soudano-guinéenne. L’analyse des structures en diamètre et en hauteur révèle une augmentation de la fréquence des indi- vidus jeunes suivant le gradient pluviomé- trique. Par contre, l’intensité de l’exploita- tion est plus élevée dans les zones les moins arrosées, où l’espèce s’avère menacée.
PELATIHAN MANAJEMEN DIRI DAN PROKRASTINASI AKADEMIK PADA MAHASISWA
Authors: Purwanto Mohamad Arif , Rangkuti Anna Armeini 
Published: December 2017

The research was aimed to determine influence of perception of leadership styles toward job satisfaction among the employee in Blitzmegaplex Teras Kota. Dimensions of leadership styles in this research are participative, caregiver, authoritarian, bureaucratic, and task-oriented leadership styles. Dimensions of job satisfaction are hygiene factors and motivators. Methods of data collection in this research used leadership styles and job satisfaction scales. Sampling technique was purposive sampling to obtained a sample of 30 people. Analysis of the data used is regression analysis. The result of this research explain that there is a significant influence of perception of leadership styles toward job satisfaction among the employee in Blitzmegaplex Teras Kota, with a correlation coefficient (rxy) is 0,523 and R Square (R2) is 0,273. The magnitude show that the variable of job satisfaction accounted for by variable leadership styles as much as 27%. This means that as much as 27% of the leadership style variables influence to job satisfaction, and vice versa. This can be used as guidelines for companies to improve the style of leadership in order to increase employee job satisfaction, and maintain company productivity. From this result, it is suggested that other variables which have not been revealed such as the fulfillment of expectations of salary, interpersonal relations, work environment and physical condition, can be further studies.
Language Supportive Teaching and Textbooks (LSTT) for Bilingual Classrooms Mathematics Teaching and Learning in Tanzania
Authors: William Francis , Ndabakurane Jesse 
Published: December 2017

The aim of this study was to assess the impact on teaching and learning using the LSTT (Language Supportive Teaching and Textbooks) project’s bilingual Mathematics textbook chapters among Form One students in selected rural community secondary schools in Tanzania. LSTT project was introduced in Tanzania in 2013 to enhance language supportive teaching among the disadvantaged rural groups identified as less competent in foreign languages. The study employed both quantitative and qualitative approaches in data collection and analysis. It employed a bilingual approach whereby Kiswahili was used as a resource in learning mathematical concepts in English language. Its major findings indicated that the students’ post-test performance in Mathematics was higher in Dodoma and Lindi Regions compared to their pre-test performance. The study concluded that having been oriented through LSTT textbook, the students were likely to start doing the exercises in the textbook without the facilitator’s or researcher’s support. Evidently, most of the students gained confidence and interest in Mathematics, having used the user friendly LSTT material.
Runoff prediction in ungauged catchments in Norway: comparison of regionalization approaches
Authors: Yang Xue , Magnusson Jan , Rizzi Jonathan , Xu Chong-Yu 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
Runoff prediction in ungauged catchments has been a challenging topic over recent decades. Much research have been conducted including the intensive studies of the PUB (Prediction in Ungauged Basins) Decade of the International Association for Hydrological Science. Great progress has been made in the field of regionalization study of hydrological models; however, there is no clear conclusion yet about the applicability of various methods in different regions and for different models. This study made a comprehensive assessment of the strengths and limitations of existing regionalization methods in predicting ungauged stream flows in the high latitudes, large climate and geographically diverse, seasonally snow-covered mountainous catchments of Norway. The regionalization methods were evaluated using the water balance model – WASMOD (Water And Snow balance MODeling system) on 118 independent catchments in Norway, and the results show that: (1) distance-based similarity approaches (spatial proximity, physical similarity) performed better than regression-based approaches; (2) one of the combination approaches (combining spatial proximity and physical similarity methods) could slightly improve the simulation; and (3) classifying the catchments into homogeneous groups did not improve the simulations in ungauged catchments in our study region. This study contributes to the theoretical understanding and development of regionalization methods.
Guanylate Cyclase C: A Current Hot Target, from Physiology to Pathology
Authors: Uranga Jose Antonio , Castro Marta , Abalo Raquel 
Published: December 2017

Background:
Guanylate cyclase C (GC-C) receptor is a transmembrane receptor,
predominantly expressed in intestinal epithelial cells, which is considered to play a main role
in homeostasis and function of the digestive tract. The endogenous ligands for this receptor are
the paracrine hormones uroguanylin and guanylin. Upon ligand binding, GC-C receptors increase
cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) levels, regulating a variety of key cell-type
specific processes such as chloride and bicarbonate secretion, epithelial cell growth, regulation
of intestinal barrier integrity and visceral sensitivity. It has been suggested that GC-C acts as
an intestinal tumor suppressor with the potential to prevent the initiation and progression of
colorectal cancer. In fact, loss of ligand expression is a universal step in sporadic colorectal
carcinogenesis. Interestingly, the role of GC-C is not limited to the digestive tract but it has
been extended to several other systems such as the cardiovascular system, kidney, and the central
nervous system, where it has been involved in a gut-hypothalamus endocrine axis regulating
appetite.

CObjetive:

In this review we summarize the physiology of the GC-C receptor and its ligands,
focusing on newly developed drugs like linaclotide, and their suggested role to reverse/prevent
the diseases in which the receptor is involved.

Conclusion:
Available data points toward a relationship between uroguanylin and guanylin
and their receptor and pathological processes like gastrointestinal and renal disorders, colorectal
cancer, obesity, metabolic syndrome and mental disorders among others. Recent pharmacological
developments in the regulation of GC-receptor may involve further improvements in
the treatment of relevant diseases.
Effects of Successive Annual Training on Aerobic Endurance Indices in Young Swimmers
Authors: Arsoniadis Gavriil G. , Botonis Petros G. , Nikitakis Ioannis S. , Kalokiris Dimitrios , Toubekis Argyris G. 
Published: December 2017

Background:The magnitude of long-term changes on aerobic endurance indices provides useful information for understanding any training-induced adaptation during maturation.Objective:The aim of the present study was to compare changes in different aerobic endurance indices within two successive training years.Methods:Eight swimmers, (five male, three female; age: 14.1±1.5, height: 163.8±9.9 cm, body mass: 55.8±10 kg) were tested at four time-points, before and after the 12-week specific preparation period, within two successive training years (at year-1: start-1, end-1, at year-2: start-2, end-2). In each time-point were timed in distances of 50, 200 and 400 m front crawl to calculate the critical speed (CS). Subsequently, performed 5x200 m front crawl progressively increasing intensity and the lactate concentration was determined after each repetition. Using the individual speedvs.lactate concentration curve, the speed corresponding to 4 mmol.L-1concentration (V4) and the speed corresponding to lactate threshold (sLT) were calculated.Results:Aerobic endurance was increased from year-1 to year-2 (effect of time, p<0.05) and no difference was observed between V4, sLT and CS at all time-points of evaluation (p>0.05). In year-1, V4, sLT and CS were unchanged even after the 12-week period (p>0.05). During year-2 of training it was only V4 that was increased from start-2 to end-2 (p<0.05), whereas sLT and CS were unchanged at the same period (p>0.05).Conclusion:The aerobic endurance indices change similarly throughout a two-year training, independent of the maturation. Possibly, V4 is more sensitive to detect training adaptations during the specific preparation period in young swimmers.
Conflict Resolution and Democratisation in the Aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami: A Comparative Study of Aceh and Sri Lanka
Authors: Stokke Kristian , Törnquist Olle , Sindre Gyda Marås 
Published: December 2017

The earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra on 26 December 2004 unleashed a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that affected more than a dozen countries throughout South and Southeast Asia and stretched as far as the northeastern coast of Africa. The two worst affected areas - North-East Sri Lanka and the Aceh region in Indonesia - have both been marked by protracted intra-state armed conflicts. In the immediate aftermath of the tsunami, international journalists and humanitarian actors argued that the disaster could actually constitute and opportunity for conflict resolution, as the scale and urgency of humanitarian needs should bring the protagonists together in joint efforts for relief, reconstruction and conflict resolution. In contrast, research on the impacts of natural disasters often concludes that disasters tend to deepen rather than resolve conflicts. Four years after the tsunami it can be observed that Aceh and North-East Sri Lanka have followed highly divergent trajectories. In Aceh, a Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Indonesia and Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM) was signed shortly after the tsunami and has been followed by peace and a process od political integration into Indonesian democracy. In Sri Lanka, the tsunami created a humanitarian pause from the gradual escalation of hostilities and an attempt to create a joint mechanism between the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for handling humanitarian aid, but Sri Lanka has since the returned to full-scale warfare between the GOSL and LTTE. This brief article, which is based on work in progress, will highlight some key lessons and preliminary conclusions for each of these research quetions: (1) How and to what extent has reconstruction/development been linked to processes of conflict resolution and rights based democratization?; (2) How and to what extent has a process of rights based democratization been related to the parallel processes of revonstruction/development and conflict resolution?; (3) How and to what extent have the parallel processes of reconstruction/development, conflict resolution and democratization generated political transformations of the armed insurgency movements?
A Decade of Reformasi: Unsteady Democratisation
Authors: Samadhi Willy Purna , Warouw Nicolaas 
Published: December 2017

This article is based on two surveys on the state of democracy in Indonesia in order to assess the progress made by actors of democracy following the reformasi, bringing the authoritarian rule under Soeharto to an end after almost three decades in power. The efforts were a response to a conference in January 2002 on the democracy movement from which a recommendation assigned a task force to carry out an academically sound nationwide survey that would facilitate the discussion of a fresh agenda for democratisation. The task force appointed a team of researchers and constituted Demos, a research group, to support the research and follow up the results. The first survey had been carried out in two rounds, in 2003 and 2004, while the second was conducted in 2007. The report of the first survey has now been published as Making Democracy Meaningful: Problems and Options in Indonesia (Priyono et.al. 2007) suggesting a deficit in Indonesia's democracy Indonesia through the widening gap between, on the one hand, comparatively remarkable civil-political freedoms and, on the other, by the poor condition of operational instruments.
Reorienting the Study of Citizenship in Sri Lanka
Authors: Wickramasinghe Nira 
Published: December 2017

In Sri Lankan scholarship the second component, namely 'citizenship' is virtually absent from the public discourse. The obvious reason for the elusive presence of citizenship is, as previously mentioned, the inevitable invasion in every sphere of peoples lives of issues of nationalism, subnationalism and conflict in the past thirty years owing to the Tamil insurrection in the North and East of the island. In the 1980s and 1990s while the world was embroiled in debates over cosmopolitan and multicultural citizenship Sri Lankan studies were concerned with issues of power and democracy and remained locked in outdated analytical frameworks of nation, ethnicity, and community. For historical reasons citizenship has not had in the Sri Lankan scholarly field the seminal and near obsessive presence that nation and state have occupied. Another reason may be that liberal and radical scholars - defenders of minority rights - have been suspicious of majoritarian appeals to some ideal of 'good citizenship' where minorities will eventually be expected to play by majority rules. Although by the 1990s the terms had become a buzzword amongst thinkers in the North, citizenship remained in fact one of the least theorized notions in Sri Lankan studies where a generally instrumental understanding of the term that includes common defense of personal freedom, establishment of basic conditions of social justice and maintenance of civil peace prevails. In Sri Lanka, the tie between citizenship and nationhood, however, can never be wholly deconstructed or ignored. In this light, this paper will proposes future possible areas of study.
Putting Democracy Under An Ethnographic-lens: Understanding of 'Democracy' and Popular Politics of JHU in Sri Lanka
Authors: Silva Premakumara De 
Published: December 2017

My main premise is that for anthropologists of post-colonial societies (but not only), 'democracy' should be regarded as one of many traditional ethnographic topics (such as kinship, religion, Caste, etc.) which ethnographers study to unpack the socio-cultural institutions and practices of the societies under investigation. The hypothesis behind this approach is that the moment democracy enters a particular historical and socio-cultural setting it becomes what Michelutti calls "vernacularized", and through vernacularisation it produces new social relations and values which in turn shape political rhetoric and political culture (2007). The process of vernacularisation of democratic politics, she means the ways in which values and practices of democracy become embedded in particular cultural and social practices, and in the process become entrenched in the consciousness of ordinary people (2007: 639-40). Democratic practices associated with popular politics often base their strength and legitimacy on the principle of popular sovereignty versus the more conventional notions of liberal democracy. These popular forms of political participation are often accompanied by a polarisation of opinions and political practices between the so-called 'ordinary people' and the elites. Looking at democratisation processes through the prism of vernacularisation will therefore help to understand how and why democracy grounds itself in everyday life and becomes part of conceptual worlds that are often far removed from theories of liberal democracy.
Otra concepción de la historia. Las posiciones críticas de R. E. Betances y J-A Firmín
Authors: Arpini Adriana María 
Published: December 2017

Con el propósito de apreciar críticamente aspectos del proceso revolucionario del Caribe insular del siglo xix, en este artículo se abordan textos de Ramón Emeterio Betances (1827-1898) y Joseph-Anténor Firmin (1850-1911), quienes dialogan con las ideas imperantes en su época respecto del sentido de la historia, de las relaciones de reconocimiento y subordinación, de la diversidad de las razas. La exposición se organiza en tres momentos: en el primero se examina la construcción europea y moderna de la noción de “historia universal” y del lugar que ocupa el concepto de “raza”; en el segundo, la práctica de relatar “historias singulares”, tal como surge de la pluma de Betances; en el tercero, la respuesta disruptiva de Firmin, quien cuestiona la tesis de Gobineau sobre la desigualdad de las razas, e introduce un criterio de interpretación histórica que anticipa la noción de “acontecimiento”.
Territorialidades
Authors: Castillo Cisneros Juan Eduardo , Gordillo Díaz Alonso 
Published: December 2017

<p>En este artículo se indaga en las percepciones teóricas de los conceptos territorio y territorialidad para comprender los procesos de los individuos inmersos en una transformación territorial constante.<br />Se formuló una metodología de investigación narrativa para conocer los elementos cualitativos que caracterizan el territorio y la territorialidad con el fin de abordar las demandas arquitectónicas de la<br />comunidad Sauceda de la Borda, Zacatecas.</p>
Colonial education in the Congo - a question of “uncritical” pedagogy until the bitter end?
Authors: Depaepe Marc 
Published: December 2017

Our approach is a historical, and not a theoretical or a philosophical one. But such an approach might be of help to understand the complexities and ambiguities of the pedagogical mentalities in the course of the twentieth century. As is usually the case in historical research the groundwork has to precede the formulation of hypotheses, let alone theories about the nature of pedagogical practices. Therefore, since the 1990s, “we” (as a team) have been busy studying the history of education in the former Belgian Congo. Of course since then we have not only closely monitored the theoretical and methodological developments in the field of colonial historiography, but have ourselves also contributed to that history. This article tries to give an overview of some of our analyses, concentrating on the question to what extend the Belgian offensive of colonial (i.e. mainly Catholic) missionary education, which was almost exclusively targeted at “paternalism”, contributed to the development of personal life, individual autonomy and/or emancipation of the natives. From the rear-view mirror of history we are, among other things, zooming in on the crucial 1950s, during which decade thoughts first turned to the education of a (very limited) “elite”. The thesis we are using in this respect is that the “mental space” of colonialism was not of a nature as to have a very great widening of consciousness among the local population as its effect.
Transforming Catholic women's education in the sixties: Sister Catherine Wallace's feminist leadership at Mount Saint Vincent University
Authors: Macdonald Heidi 
Published: December 2017

Sister Catherine Wallace (1917-91) was president of Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU), Canada’s only degree-granting women’s post-secondary institution, from 1965 to 1974. Wallace’s appointment coincided with a transformative era not only in the North American post-secondary landscape, but also in the Roman Catholic Church and the women’s movement. Wallace was acutely aware that this combination of factors would require a transformation of MSVU itself for the institution to survive the next decade. Wallace ultimately strengthened MSVU’s identity and gave it a more outward-looking vision by embedding many of the goals of second-wave feminism, including the recommendations of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada (1970), in the University’s renewal. She also gave the university a more national profile through her work on the executive of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC), including in 1973 as their first woman president.
Acompañamiento escolar de hijos por sus madres que trabajan en el Ministerio de Salud del Distrito de Huancayo
Authors: Vilcas Baldeón Luz María 
Published: December 2017

El propósito fue determinar cómo se da el acompañamiento escolar de hijos por sus madres que trabajan en el Ministerio de Salud del Distrito de Huancayo. Nivel descriptivo, tipo básica, diseño no experimental, transaccional y descriptivo. Instrumento utilizado cuestionario. Para la validez del contenido del instrumento se evalúa con el juicio de ocho expertos y la validez estadística se realizó con el coeficiente V de Aiken y con el coeficiente de correlación ítem–test corregida r de Pearson, la confiabilidad se realizó con el coeficiente alfa de Cronbach y para la confiabilidad del instrumento se evalúa con los resultados de la aplicación del instrumento a una muestra, con el coeficiente de consistencia interna alfa de Cronbach obteniendo que en lo referido a la dimensión de supervisión un 58% en lo referido a las madres, en las dimensiones de Comunicación y vigilancia de la escuela manifiestan una baja participación por la limitada interacción y comunicación de las madres con los maestros y 53% no establece reglas para el control del cumplimiento de tareas de sus hijos, así mismo el 61% no se involucra en la formación de hábitos de estudio de sus hijos.Concluyendo que la vigilancia como aspecto de interacción, comunicación y control entre los padres y los maestros denota el punto más crítico por la falta de tiempo, ausencia y poco involucramiento en la escuela.