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An Investigation of Secondary Schools’ Readiness towards the Implementation of Life Skills Education: A Study of Trans-Nzoia County, Kenya
Authors: Simiyu R. S. , Kirwok E. , Thinguri R. W. 
Published: January 2017

<div><p><em>Life skills education was introduced by the Kenya government to replace the HIV and AIDS education which was not positively perceived by its implementers. The purpose of this study was to investigate Secondary schools’ readiness towards the implementation of life skills education in Trans-Nzoia County. The main objectives were to determine teachers’ training on life skills education implementation in Trans-Nzoia County, to assess the availability of teaching and learning materials and infrastructure for the implementation of life skills education in Trans-Nzoia County, to evaluate teachers’ attitude towards the implementation of life skills education in secondary schools of Trans-Nzoia County, and to establish school management attitude towards the implementation of life skills education in secondary schools of Trans-Nzoia County. The study was guided by Work readiness theory by Catherine, Walker, Mathew and Cathy. This study employed concurrent triangulation study design with mixed methodology, where a target population of 2,234 teachers was studied. The study used concurrent sampling technique. Probability sampling with a simple random sample was used to sample thirty percent of schools. It further purposively sampled out thirty percent of secondary schools principals, deputy principals, guidance and counselling heads of department and teachers assigned to teach life skills who participated in the study. Instruments of data collection included interview schedule, observation guide and document analysis guide. A pilot study was carried out to establish the reliability of research instruments. Data was analyzed descriptively and thematically. The study was significant in contribution to the formulation of policies for life skills education in secondary schools, recognition of life skills education in the development of the nation by the stake holders, consideration of school management and teacher factors that are related to the teaching of life skills education by curriculum developers and also serve as a reference material to potential researchers in the related field of study. The findings of the study indicated inadequate training of teachers in life skills education, inadequate use of teaching learning materials, some element of unwillingness by teachers in the implementation of life skills education in secondary schools of Trans-Nzoia County. There was also inadequate supervision and support towards teachers by administrators towards the implementation of life skills education in Secondary schools of Trans-Nzoia County. The recommendations were that the government should put a policy in place as an affirmative action to train teachers in the implementation of life skills education. Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development should review the implementation programme in terms of time and curricular and nationally evaluate the subject. </em></p></div>
Quality of Life in Bilateral Vs. Unilateral End-Stage Ankle Arthritis and Outcomes of Bilateral Vs. Unilateral Total Ankle Replacement
Authors: Desai Sagar J. , Glazebrook Mark , Penner Murray J. , Wing Kevin J. , Younger Alastair S.E. , Pinsker Ellie , Daniels Timothy R. 
Published: January 2017

Background:We performed a retrospective cohort study to compare preoperative health-related quality of life (HRQoL) between patients with bilateral and those with unilateral end-stage ankle arthritis. We also compared midterm outcomes in a subgroup of patients who had undergone staged bilateral total ankle replacement (TAR) with the outcomes in the group treated with unilateral TAR.Methods:The HRQoL before surgical treatment was compared between 53 patients with bilateral end-stage ankle arthritis identified from the Canadian Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Prospective Ankle Reconstruction Database and 106 patients with unilateral arthritis selected from the same database. Short Form-36 (SF-36) and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Foot and Ankle Module (AAOS-FAM) scores were used to assess preoperative HRQoL. Midterm outcomes (implant survival, HRQoL, and reoperation and revision rates) were compared between 37 patients who had undergone staged bilateral TAR and 106 patients treated with unilateral TAR; all patients were followed for at least 2 years.Results:Preoperatively, patients with unilateral disease had a higher prevalence of posttraumatic arthritis, whereas patients with bilateral disease had a higher prevalence of primary and secondary arthritis (p < 0.001). The mean preoperative SF-36 physical component summary (PCS) score in the unilateral group was higher than that in the bilateral group (p < 0.002). The mean postoperative follow-up (and standard deviation) was 5.0 ± 2.0 years in the bilateral TAR group and 4.0 ± 1.8 years in the unilateral TAR group. The patients who underwent either unilateral or staged bilateral TAR demonstrated improved SF-36 PCS scores between the preoperative and postoperative evaluations (p < 0.001). The postoperative SF-36 PCS scores were similar between the patients with unilateral TAR and those with bilateral TAR (p = 0.70). Six ankles (6%) in the unilateral cohort and 6 ankles (8%) in the bilateral cohort required revision of the metal component (p = 0.52). The mean implant survival time was 10.9 years (95% confidence interval [CI] = 10.1 to 11.7 years) in the bilateral cohort and 9.2 years (95% CI = 8.5 to 9.8 years) in the unilateral cohort (p = 0.60).Conclusions:Preoperative SF-36 scores demonstrated that bilateral end-stage ankle arthritis is a more debilitating condition than unilateral arthritis. Patients who underwent staged bilateral TAR benefited as much as patients who underwent unilateral TAR, despite having a worse preoperative health status. Metal component revision rates and implant survival were similar between the 2 groups.Level of Evidence:TherapeuticLevel III. See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.
ANALISIS PENGARUH HARGA CRUDE PALM OIL (CPO) DUNIA TERHADAP NILAI TUKAR RIIL RUPIAH
Authors: Aprina Hilda 
Published: January 2017

Indonesia is a biggest producer of Crude Palm Oil (CPO) in the world. Production and export volumes continued to increase from year to year. CPO products have an important role in the Indonesian economy, one of them as the country’s largest foreign exchange earner in the plantation sector. Given that Indonesia has adopted a floating exchange rate regime since 1978, the export of commodities such as palm oil will have an important influence on the real exchange rate. Therefore, this study aimed to see how much the world price of CPO influence the development of the real exchange rate of rupiah. The analytical method used is a simultaneous equation model using time series data from 1984 to 2011. The results showed that the increase in CPO price will lead to real exchange rate rupiah appreciated. Therefore, Indonesia as a major producer of CPO should be able to control the world price of crude palm oil in order to control the stability of the real exchange rate of the rupiah. Keywords : world CPO price, simultaneous equation model, the real exchange rate of rupiah.JEL Classification: E2
TRANSMISI DAMPAK MELALUI JARINGAN PERDAGANGAN: PENDEKATAN ASIAN-IO
Authors: Ibrahim Ibrahim , Winarno Tri , Grace Melva Viva , Fitri Yan 
Published: January 2017

Global financial crisis which began in the US in the latter part of 2008 hit a lot of countries in both trade and finance. In trade aspect, the crisis spread widely; in Indonesia, the total export value in 2009 dropped to 14,3%. Therefore, the economy of China, tightly linked with Asian countries including Indonesia, which rapidly rose before the crisis but slowed after it should be monitored as this condition, could indirectly hold down Indonesia’s GDP. Applying RAS method to update Asian IO data, this research has attempted to describe the trade structure of Asian countries in 2010. Also, it implemented a simulation of the impact of US and China’s GDP decline and US exports on Indonesia’s GDP, both at aggregate and sector levels. The result of the mapping shows that Indonesia is getting more dependent on China. Generally, the link between Indonesia’s exported products and global production chain is weak. Indonesia’s export commodities which are mostly of intermediate goods have low contribution towards value added. Moreover, the result of the simulation shows that 1% decrease in China’s GDP has greater impact on Indonesia’s GDP (0,14%) than that of the US (0,05%) and EU (0,07%) though with similar point. Keyword: Trade Interactions, Input Output Model JEL Classification : F16, R15
Listy z podróży, czyli "Listy o Adamie" Antoniego Edwarda Odyńca
Authors: Fedorowicz Irena 
Published: January 2017

‘Travel Letters’ or ‘Letters about Adam’ by Antoni Edward Odyniec The article presents the background of Odyniec’s Travel Letters and their reception. The author above all focuses on the chronological analysis of Letters and their significance in the shaping of Adam Mickiewicz’s biography reception.
O tym, na co „formuł stylu nie ma”. Norwid i doświadczenie świętości
Authors: Skalińska Ewangelina 
Published: January 2017

On these for which ‘the style formula isn’t there’ [‘formuł stylu nie ma’]. Norwid and the experience of sainthood The article is an attempt to decipher certain spiritual motifs in Cyprian Norwid’s writings. The attempt is based on Rudolf Otto’s religious studies considerations, and the analysis concerns fragments of the following pieces by the Polish poet: Jasność i ciemność, Czarne kwiaty, Białe kwiaty and the poem Krzyż i dziecko.
Dlaczego Cyprian Kamil Norwid przeciął pamiątkowy rysunek z Egiptu od Juliusza Słowackiego ? O prywatności w Czarnych Kwiatach
Authors: Szczeglacka-Pawłowska Ewa 
Published: January 2017

Why Cyprian Norwid tore a souvenir drawing from Egypt from Juliusz Słowacki? The article treats of the issues of privacy and informality in Cyprian Norwid’s Czarne kwiaty [Black Flowers]. The poet wrote about events from the lives of individuals whose status was public. He wrote, among others, about informal meetings, universalising their meaning. He published the piece in a monthly insert to Czas daily newspaper. A question arises whether Norwid had the right to unveil the privacy of these people. Did he ask them to let him exploit very private moments from their lives? A scene from the drama, where the narrator (the author of Czarne kwiaty) cuts a souvenir drawing from Juliusz Słowacki – he sends one half to Poland and keeps the other to himself – reveals the quintessence of the piece. By cutting the drawing from Egypt Norwid made it into two pieces; at the same time he destroyed a souvenir from Słowacki and, in a certain sense, those things that were the most private in relationships with particular people.
Accounting and Accountability in Religious Organizations: An Islamic Contemporary Scholars’ Perspective
Authors: Basri Hasan , Siti-Nabiha Abdul Khalid , Abd. Majid M. Shabri 
Published: January 2017

The purpose of this article is to discuss the views and opinions of contemporary Muslim scholars on organisational accountability in Islam. The paper is based on in-depth semi-structured interviews and a review of the relevant documents. Eighteen interviews with twelve Muslim scholars, two ulamas (mufti), two organisational donors, and two relevant government officers, both in Indonesia and in Malaysia were, respectively, conducted. The Muslim scholars interviewed perceived that accounting and accountability activities are not contradictory to Islamic teachings. The accountability relationship in Islam is viewed as not only fulfilling the legal requirements, but also fulfilling the relationship with God. The findings clearly indicate that a formal accountability mechanism is strongly encouraged in Islam, and financial reporting is viewed as essential in enhancing the accountability of Islamic religious organizations. Therefore, any organization dealing with community funds must demonstrate its financial accountability formally; i.e., through written reports. Thus, public or community trust in the organisation cannot replace the accountability mechanism.
O urbanismo e o seu outro: raça, cultura e cidade no Brasil (1920-1945)
Authors: Lira José Tavares Correia de 
Published: January 2017

Este trabalho explora algumas matrizes do pensamento social brasileiro em sua abordagem da formação do espaço urbano no país, em particular no que concerne às relações raciais, étnicas e culturais nas cidades. Parte da hipótese de que, a partir dos anos 20, o discurso urbanístico encontra na eugenia e no regionalismo bases confiáveis ao realinhamento nacionalista de sua intervenção técnica no espaço e na cultura de cidades complexamente divididas. Tendo em vista a problemática contemporânea das renovações urbanas, examina as questões de segregação social, distribuição no espaço e identificação cultural de grupos étnicos, nacionais e regionais em estudos e trechos de estudos sobre cidades de Oliveira Vianna, Gilberto Freyre, José Mariano Filho, Donald Pierson e Samuel Lowrie. Palavras-chave: urbanismo; cidade; nação; pensamento social brasileiro; relações raciais; etnicidade; eugenia; culturalismo; regionalismo. "Urbanism and its alter: race, culture and the city in Brazil (1920-1945)" Abstract: This paper deals with some important sources of the social thought in Brazil as they refer to the formation of the urban space in the country, particularly in respect to racial, ethnic, and cultural relations in the city. It raises the hypothesis that the urbanistic discourse, from the 1920s onwards, finds in eugenics and regionalism some reliable basis for the nationalistic realignment of its technical intervention in complexly divided urban spaces and cultures. Having in mind the contemporary question of urban renovation, it specially examines matters of social segregation, spatial distribution and cultural identification of ethnic, national and regional groups in some writings of Oliveira Vianna, Gilberto Freyre, José Mariano Filho, Donald Pierson and Samuel Lowrie. Keywords: urbanism; city; nation; Brazilian social thought; racial relationships; ethnicity; eugenics; culturalism; regionalism.
Discursos da sustentabilidade urbana
Authors: Acselrad Henri 
Published: January 2017

A noção de sustentabilidade remete antes à lógica das práticas, em que efeitos práticos considerados desejáveis são levados a acontecer, do que ao campo do conhecimento científico, em que os conceitos são construídos para explicar o real. Aplicada ao espaço urbano, a noção de sustentabilidade tem acionado diversas representações para a gestão das cidades, desde a administração de riscos e incertezas ao incremento da “resiliência” – a capacidade adaptativa – das estruturas urbanas. O que parece organizar analiticamente o discurso da “sustentabilidade urbana” seria sua distribuição em dois campos: de um lado, aquele que privilegia uma representação técnica das cidades pela articulação da noção de sustentabilidade urbana aos “modos de gestão dos fluxos de energia e materiais associados ao crescimento urbano”; de outro, aquele que define a insustentabilidade das cidades pela queda da produtividade dos investimentos urbanos, ou seja, pela “incapacidade destes últimos acompanharem o ritmo de crescimento das demandas sociais”, o que coloca em jogo, conseqüentemente, o espaço urbano como território político. Palavras-chave: sustentabilidade; planejamento urbano; política ambiental."Discourses on Urban Sustainability" Abstract : The idea of sustainability recalls the logic of practice, where practical effects viewed as desirable are made to happen, rather than the field of scientific knowledge, where concepts are constructed to explain reality. When applied to urban space, the idea of sustainability has generated different representations and perspectives for managing cities, from the administration of risks and uncertainties to the increase of "resilience" – the adaptive capacity – of urban structures. What seems to organize analytically the discourse of "urban sustainability" is its division into two fields: on the one hand privileging a technical representation of cities by combining the notion of urban sustainability with the "modes of management of the flows of energy and materials associated with urban growth"; on the other hand defining the unsustainability of cities by the drop in productivity of urban investments, that is, by the "incapacity of the latter to keep up with the rate of growth of social demands", which consequently places urban space in jeopardy as a political territory. Keywords: sustainability, urban planning, environmental politics.
O paradigma das global cities nas estratégias de desenvolvimento local
Authors: Compans Rose 
Published: January 2017

Este artigo trata das novas estratégias de desenvolvimento econômico para as cidades no contexto da reestruturação produtiva. Ele enfoca o papel atribuído às cidades como centros de gestão dos fluxos de capitais, o qual permite uma articulação entre o local e o global sem a intermediação das esferas regional e nacional. Primeiramente, apresenta as contribuições teóricas no Terceiro Mundo que mais têm influenciado o debate urbano sobre a emergência de uma economia de fluxos, cuja organização em rede impõe as cidades como nós de conexão. Em seguida, analisa a construção paradigmática das global cities, com base na generalização de alguns pressupostos teóricos e de tendências empiricamente observadas. Finalmente, examina as estratégias que estão sendo difundidas por consultores internacionais e relacionadas à vocação inexorável das cidades para o terciário avançado.Palavras-chave: desenvolvimento local; gestão urbana; globalização; cidades mundiais. " The Paradigm of 'Global Cities' in Local Development Strategies" Abstract: This article discusses the new development economic strategies for cities in the productive restructuration context. It focuses the role of the great cities like management centers of the capital fluxes which allows an articulation between the local and the global spaces without the mediation of the regional and national spheres. At first it introduces some theoretical contributions about the emergence of an flux economy, which net organization format requires that the cities turn themselves connection points, as a strong influence in Third World urban debate. Afterwards it analyses the paradigmathical arrangement of the "global cities" with the support of general concepts and empirical dates. At last but not least, the paper also argues the supposed natural vocation of the cities nowadays for the advanced Tertiary, as show the several strategies diffused and recommended by international experts. Keywords: local development; urban management; globalization; global cities.
Reflexões sobre a hiperperiferia: novas e velhas faces da pobreza no entorno municipal
Authors: Torres Haroldo Da Gama , Marques Eduardo Cesar 
Published: January 2017

O objetivo do trabalho é apresentar os principais resultados analíticos de uma aplicação de Sistemas de Informação Geográfica ao planejamento urbano. O trabalho centra-se na apresentação de diversas cartografias exploratórias relacionadas a variáveis demográficas, de risco urbano e de acesso a políticas públicas. Os resultados apontam para a superposição, em determinados setores censitários do município, de condições de extrema pobreza e risco urbanos, indicando a presença de fortes efeitos cumulativos de riscos urbanos e precariedade socioeconômica. Essa cumulatividade parece ser mais grave do que a indicada pela literatura: identificamos uma periferia mais heterogênea do que se considera comumente, incluindo espaços bem servidos e inseridos na malha urbana, e outros cuja população está submetida a condições talvez mais adversas do que a das periferias das décadas passadas.Palavras-chave: espaço urbano; condições de vida; periferia; população e meio ambiente; risco ambiental; segregação socioespacial. Abstract: The aim of this article is to present the main analytical findings of the application of GIS techniques to urban planning in Mauá, São Paulo. The paper is centre on several types of exploratory cartography related to demography, urban risk and accessibility to public policies in the 1990s. In certain census sectors of the municipality, the results show a superimposition of extreme poverty and urban risk conditions, pointing to the existence of very strong cumulative effects of urban risk and precarious socio-economic conditions. This cumulative effect seems to be more important than that indicated by the academic literature: a much more heterogeneous urban periphery than is commonly considered was identified, including areas that are very well served and included in social and urban terms, as well as others in which the population is submitted to more adverse conditions than those that characterised the metropolitan peripheries of previous decades. Keywords: urban space; living conditions; urban periphery; population and environment environmental risk; socio-spatial segregation.
De vila operária a cidade-companhia: as aglomerações criadas por empresas no vocabulário especializado e vernacular
Authors: Correia Telma De Barros 
Published: January 2017

A criação, por empresas, de aglomerações para abrigar seus funcionários é um capítulo importante e pouco conhecido da urbanização brasileira. Vila operária, fazenda, usina, bairro proletário, núcleo urbano, núcleo industrial, núcleo residencial, núcleo fabril, cidade operária, cidade-companhia, cidade-empresa e cidade nova são algumas das designações que esses lugares têm recebido no Brasil, dependendo de suas características quanto a tamanho, forma, localização e condição político administrativa, do tipo de atividade à qual estão ligadas e do momento em que surgem. Este trabalho discute essas diferentes denominações, investigando quando são introduzidas e o contexto em que são utilizadas. Tal abordagem não visa apenas fazer um mapeamento do vocabulário empregado para designar esses lugares, mas partir das diversas denominações para investigar o estatuto dessas aglomerações na urbanização brasileira.Palavras-chave: cidade; habitação; empresa; vocabulário especializado e vernacular. Abstract: The creation of urban agglomerations by companies to house their employees is an important and insufficiently studied chapter of Brazilian urbanization. The Portuguese equivalent of workers' tenement, farm, mill, workers' district or township, industrial centre, factory town and new town are some of the designations given to these places in Brazil. These terms often reflect particular characteristics such as size, form, location, political/juridical status and the type of industrial activity which gave rise to the agglomeration. The current paper studies some of these designations, regarding their respective contexts at the time when they were created. This approach not only attempts to provide a guide to the vocabulary used to name these places but also investigates the role these agglomerations have played in the process of Brazilian urbanization.Keywords: town; housing; company; specialist and vernacular vocabularies.