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Armenian Alienated Society: from Diagnosis to Action
Authors: HARUTYUNYAN Manuk 
Published: December 2017

The article in concentrated form, presented our monographic work “the Modern Armenian society and the philosophy of alienated consciousness.” The study shows that the alienation is of systemic nature. The mood of alienation is inherent not only to the legislative, executive and judicial authorities but also political parties, public organizations, mass media, and electoral system.
The article may be of interest to specialists in problems of alienation, undergraduates, graduate students and teachers of humanitarian higher educational establishments.
The Factors of Efficiency of Social-Economic Management of Higher Education
Authors: SARGSYAN Hasmik 
Published: December 2017

The sphere of education is in the center of attention of modern scientific research and political observations. The list of developed countries of the world has always been leading countries that are able to create a highly efficient and up-to-date and a flexible educational system. Practically all countries, which show a rapid economic growth, the development of education is one of the priorities of the state policy. In the context of modern financial constraints, it is necessary to effectively use the existing financial potential. In this regard, one of the most important components of public administration is budget management directed to the development of the education sector.
In this research are presented some issues of effective management of higher education system and is analyzed the international experience in this field. Also the peculiarities of Armenian Higher Education sector are given from the point of view of state policy.
USING ECLECTIC APPROACH TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION
Authors: Burhanuddin Wildhan 
Published: December 2017

The research aimed to find out the improvement of students’ reading comprehension in terms of finding main ideas and meaning of words at the students’ of SMPN 4 Libureng in the 2012/2013 academic year. This research used A Classroom Action Research that consisted two cycles. The sample of this research consisted of 22 students, those consisted of six women and twelve men.The researcher obtained the data by using reading test and observation sheet. The results of the student's reading test in cycle I and cycle II had significantly different scores. There was a better increase of gains by students at the end of the action in the second cycle. In the cycle, I, the students’ achievement of main ideas was 6,09, but after evaluation in cycle II, the students’ reading comprehension become 7,62.The other hand the students’ meaning of words was improved too from cycle I to cycle II, whereas in the students’ achievement of the meaning of words was 6,13, but after evaluation in cycle II, the students’ achievement becomes 7,74. From the findings indicated that there was the improvement in the students’ reading comprehension from cycle I to cycle II, whereas in cycle I students’ achievement reading comprehension was 23,81, but after evaluating in cycle II the students’ reading comprehension became 25,69. While the standard target achievement KKM 66. From these findings, the researcher made the conclusion that by using an eclectic approach could improve the students’ reading comprehension achievement. Key Word: Eclectic Approach, Improve, Reading Comprehension
IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ACCURACY THROUGH “LSE 9.0 SOFTWARE VERSION”
Authors: Firman Firman , Ul Haq Muhammad Zia 
Published: December 2017

The objective of the research was to find out the improvement students’ speaking accuracy through Learn to Speak English 9.0 Software Version at SMK Negeri 1 Pattallassang Gowa. This research used classroom action research that consists two cycles. The research object was the first year electric students’ of SMK Negeri 1 Pattallassang Gowa academic year 2011/2012. The object of this research consisted of 32 students. The researcher obtained the data by using the speaking test in the diagnostic test, the cycle I and Cycle II. The results of the student's speaking test in cycle I and cycle II had significantly different scores. There was a better improvement of gains by students at the end of action cycle II. The research findings indicated that use of Learn to Speak English 9.0 Software as teaching media could improve the students’ speaking accuracy after evaluation in cycles I and II, the means scores in diagnostic test is 5.21 and then it became 5.95 in the cycle I and 7.10 in the cycle II. It can be stated that the students’ speaking accuracy at the first year electric students’ of SMK Negeri 1 Pattallassang Gowa was in poor level after the test in the diagnostic test with mean score 5.21 had improved to fairly good level after the test in the cycle II with mean score 7.10.Keyword: Speaking, accuracy, LSE 9.0 software version
IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION USING TIERED TASKS STRATEGY
Authors: Natsir Ratu Yulianti , Asrawiah Asrawiah 
Published: December 2017

This research aimed to explain the students’ achievement in literal reading comprehension using Tiered Tasks Strategy, as well as to explain the students’ achievement in interpretative reading comprehension using Tiered Tasks Strategy. This research used Classroom Action Research and applied to cycles in the application, they are cycle 1 and 2 with 4 meetings in every cycle. The improvement of students’ ability to write narrative text using Tiered Tasks Strategy had an effective effect. The researcher found that before the application of tiered tasks strategy the students’ score is 52.53(fair) but after using the method the students’ score in cycle I is 62.14 and in the cycle, II become 77.18. So, the improvement of the students’ score of d-test to cycle I is 18.93% whereas the development of the students’ ability of d-test to cycle II is 47.80% and the improvement from cycle I to cycle II is 24.22%.Keywords: Reading, Tiered, Strategy
PENGEMBANGAN BAHAN AJAR BERBASIS ADVANCE ORGANIZER UNTUK MENINGKATKAN PRESTASI BELAJAR MATEMATIKA DI IKIP PGRI BOJONEGORO
Authors: Mayasari Novi , Noeruddin Ali 
Published: December 2017

Tujuan Secara umum penelitian ini adalah untuk meningkatkan mutu pendidikan, khususnya pada mata kuliah persamaan differensial di IKIP PGRI Bojonegoro. Dan secara khusus target yang ingin dicapai melalui penelitian ini adalah untuk mengembangkan buku ajar berbasis advance organizer dalam upaya meningkatkan kemampuan berpikir dan pemahaman mahasiswa terhadap konsep-konsep persamaan. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode penelitian pengembangan (research and development). Validasi yang digunakan untuk buku ajar 1) uji ahli materi meliputi kelayakan isi, kelayakan penyajian, penilaian bahasa dan Penilaian Advance Organizer; 3) uji mahasiswa kelompok kecil; 4) uji mahasiswa kelompok besar; 5) uji lapangan. Akan tetapi pada saat ini penelitian baru sampai pada tahap uji mahasiswa kelompok kecil. Metode pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan dokumentasi, angket dan tes hasil belajar. Data dianalisis dengan analisis deskriptif dan analisis kuantitatif dengan uji t. Hasil dari analisis data pada uji coba produk pada kelas besar diperoleh uji hipotesis pada kelas eksperimen dan kontrol diperoleh thitung= 2,13 dengan ttabel = 1,997. Karena thitung > ttabel maka H0 ditolak sehingga dapat disimpulkan penggunaan buku ajar berbasis advance organizer lebih efektif dibandingkan dengan pembelajaran tanpa menggunakan buku ajar berbasis advance organizer.
KEEFEKTIFAN MODEL ELICITING ACTIVITIES (MEAs) BERBANTU MACROMEDIA FLASH TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN PEMECAHAN MASALAH
Authors: S Rina Dwi , U Rizky Esti , Rachman Nurfitriana 
Published: December 2017

Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui apakah hasil belajar antara Eliciting Acitivities lebih baik dari pada pembelajaran konvensional, prosentase ketuntasan belajar, dan untuk mengetahui pengaruh keaktifan terhadap kemampuan pemecahan masalah siswa. Berdasarkan analisis dari perhitungan Anava diperoleh hasil ada perbedaan hasil belajar siswa yang menggunakan MEAs dengan bantuan Macromedia Flash dengan rata-rata 74,5 dan konvensional dengan rata-rata 56,7. Dari perhitungan uji Post Hoc diperoleh hasil belajar siswa MEAs dengan bantuan Macromedia Flash lebih baik dari pembelajaran konvensional. Dari perhitungan uji regresi diperoleh hubungan positif dan signifikan dengan . Persentase ketuntasan belajar klasikal kelas eksperimen II sebesar 89,29% dan presentase ketuntasan belajar kelas konvensional sebesar 14,71%. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini adalah model pembelajaran Problem Based Learning dan Eliciting Activities lebih efektif diterapkan dalam pembelajaran di dalam kelas dibanding dengan penggunaan model pembelajaran konvensional.
Teaching Trans*: Strategies and Tensions of Teaching Gender in Student Affairs Preparation Programs
Authors: S Jaekel Kathryn , Nicolazzo Z 
Published: December 2017

Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this article is to outline a pedagogical framework we as trans* educators utilize to center trans* identities and epistemologies in classrooms alongside graduate students.

Background: Little has been written about the experiences of trans* educators in classroom spaces, in particular how gender mediates pedagogical approaches.

Methodology	: This article is conceptual in nature, and as such, does not draw on any particular methodology. Instead, we draw from our ongoing experiences as trans* educators in the classroom.

Contribution: Due to the lack of theorizing or empirical work about trans* educators in classroom spaces, this article serves as an entry point into thinking what we as authors describe as ‘teaching trans*.”

Findings: This article is broken into three theoretical components: teaching as trans*, teaching about trans*, and teaching with trans* epistemologies.

Recommendations for Practitioners: Through this article, we as authors encourage practitioners to be aware of how gender is always already present in all spaces, including in classrooms. Thus, it becomes incumbent upon practitioners to use expansive notions of gender through pedagogical strategies, materials, and praxis.

Recommendation for Researchers: This article promotes a deeper understanding of how one’s gender identity, expression, and/or embodiment mediates and can enhance classroom teaching. While this article starts to address an under-theorized and under-researched area of study, more should be done to address how gender influences pedagogy.

Impact on Society: Due to the omnipresence of gender binary thinking, this article has implications not just for classroom spaces, but for student affairs graduate preparation programs, as well as society writ large.

Future Research: This article opens the door for further research into student resistance to trans* and gender nonconforming educators’ pedagogy.
Staging Romanticism and Dissidence in Howard Brenton’s Bloody Poetry
Authors: Farhadi Ramin , Mozaheb Mohammad Amin 
Published: December 2017

Staging history is an approach of historicism that is widely practiced by the post-1968 British playwrights. Historical playwriting not only helps to identify and unmask repressive power institutions, but also to question the conventional trends in writing history in general. One of these playwrights is Howard Brenton. By staging the history of romanticism in the early nineteenth century and the self-imposed exile of Romantic figures in his play Bloody Poetry (1984) Brenton attempts to achieve multiple purposes. By using literary analysis and historical reading, the researchers identify the causes of Shelley-Byron circle’s self-exile and the way in which a dissident discourse is formed as an opposition to the mechanism of disciplinary power and one of its powerful discourses which is journalism. In addition to this, they explore Brenton’s main politics of representation of the role and function of poet-intellectual in public and how literature as a dissident discourse may function under the administration of Margaret Thatcher in the UK in the 1980s.
The Effect of Roundtable and Clustering Teaching Techniques and Students’ Personal Traits on Students’ Achievement in Descriptive Writing
Authors: Sinaga Megawati 
Published: December 2017

The Objectives of this paper as an experimental research was to investigate the effect of Roundtable and Clustering teaching techniques and students’ personal traits on students’ achievement in descriptive writing. The students in grade ix of SMP Negeri 2 Pancurbatu 2016/2017 school academic year were chose as the population of this research.. The research design was experimental research by using factorial design 2x2. The students were divided into two experimental groups. The experimental group was treated by using Roundtable teaching technique and control group was treated by using Clustering teaching technique. The students are classified into the introvert and extrovert personal traits by conducting the questionnaire and the students’ achievement in descriptive writing was measured by using writing test, namely ‘Analytic Scoring’ by Weigle. The data were analyzed by applying two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) at the level of significance α = 0.05. The result reveals that (1) students’ achievement in descriptive writing taught by using Roundtable teaching technique was higher than that taught by Clustering teaching technique, with Fobs = 4.59>Ftab=3.97, (2) students’ achievement in descriptive writing with introvert personal trait was higher than that with extrovert personal traits with Fobs=4.90 Ftable=3.97, (3) there is interaction between teaching techniques and personal traits on students’ achievement in descriptive writing with Fobs =6,58 Ftable=3.97. After computing the Tuckey-Test, the result showed that introvert students got higher achievement if they were taught by using Roundtable teaching technique while extrovert students got higher achievement if they were taught by using Clustering teaching technique.
Mild Ring Contractions of Cyclobutanols to Cyclopropyl Ketones via Hypervalent Iodine Oxidation
Authors: Sun Yan , Huang Xin , Li Xiaojin , Luo Fan , Zhang Lei , Chen Mengyuan , Zheng Shiya , Peng Bo 
Published: December 2017

AbstractAn iodine‐mediated oxidative ring contraction of cyclobutanols has been developed. The reaction allows the synthesis of a wide range of aryl cyclopropyl ketones under mild and eco‐friendly conditions. A variety of functional groups including aromatic or alkyl halides, ethers, esters, ketones, alkenes, and even aldehydes are nicely tolerated in the reaction. This is in contrast with traditional synthetic approaches for which poor functional group tolerance is often a problem. The practicality of the method is also highlighted by the tunability of iodine oxidation system. Specifically, combining the iodine(III) reagent with an appropriate base allows the reaction to accommodate a range of challenging electron‐rich arene substrates. The facile scalability of this reaction is also exhibited herein.magnified image
An Aluminum–Sulfur Battery with a Fast Kinetic Response
Authors: Yang Huicong , Yin Lichang , Liang Ji , Sun Zhenhua , Wang Yuzuo , Li Hucheng , He Kuang , Ma Lipo , Peng Zhangquan , Qiu Siyao , Sun Chenghua , Cheng Hui‐Ming , Li Feng 
Published: December 2017

AbstractThe electrochemical performance of the aluminum‐sulfur (Al‐S) battery has very poor reversibility and a low charge/discharge current density owing to slow kinetic processes determined by an inevitable dissociation reaction from Al2Cl7− to free Al3+. Al2Cl6Br− was used instead of Al2Cl7− as the dissociation reaction reagent. A 15‐fold faster reaction rate of Al2Cl6Br− dissociation than that of Al2Cl7− was confirmed by density function theory calculations and the Arrhenius equation. This accelerated dissociation reaction was experimentally verified by the increase of exchange current density during Al electro‐deposition. Using Al2Cl6Br− instead of Al2Cl7−, a kinetically accelerated Al‐S battery has a sulfur utilization of more than 80 %, with at least four times the sulfur content and five times the current density than that of previous work.
(Radio)fluoroclick Reaction Enabled by a Hydrogen‐Bonding Cluster
Authors: Zeng Xiaojun , Li Junling , Ng Chin K. , Hammond Gerald B. , Xu Bo 
Published: December 2017

AbstractWe have developed a widely applicable nucleophilic (radio)fluoroclick reaction of ynamides with readily available and easy‐to‐handle KF(18F). The reactions exhibited high functional‐group tolerance and needed only an ambient atmosphere. This 18F addition to C−C unsaturated bonds proceeded with extraordinarily high radiochemical yields.
Z‐Scheme Photocatalytic Water Splitting on a 2D Heterostructure of Black Phosphorus/Bismuth Vanadate Using Visible Light
Authors: Zhu Mingshan , Sun Zhichao , Fujitsuka Mamoru , Majima Tetsuro 
Published: December 2017

AbstractSpontaneously solar‐driven water splitting to produce H2 and O2, that is, the conversion of solar energy to chemical energy is a dream of mankind. However, it is difficult to make overall water splitting feasible without using any sacrificial agents and external bias. Drawing inspiration from nature, a new artificial Z‐scheme photocatalytic system has been designed herein based on the two‐dimensional (2D) heterostructure of black phosphorus (BP)/bismuth vanadate (BiVO4). An effective charge separation makes possible the reduction and oxidation of water on BP and BiVO4, respectively. The optimum H2 and O2 production rates on BP/BiVO4 were approximately 160 and 102 μmol g−1 h−1 under irradiation of light with a wavelength longer than 420 nm, without using any sacrificial agents or external bias.
Mild Pyrolysis of Manually Pressed and Liquid Nitrogen Treated De‐Lipid Cake of Nannochloropsis Oculata for Bioenergy Utilisation
Authors: Ali Mehmood , Watson Ian A. 
Published: December 2017

AbstractDue to the damaging impacts of continued use of fossil fuels, there is global interest in developing sustainable biofuel production to reduce society's dependency on carbon based energy resources. Microalgae cultivation can contribute to CO2 fixation from the atmosphere, while simultaneously producing a source of lipids from the biomass for third generation biodiesel fuel production. The residual de‐lipid cake left after lipid extraction can be treated with thermochemical techniques (such as mild pyrolysis) to produce solid biochar as an end product with a higher energy density and lower moisture content offering advantages for downstream processing or carbon sequestration. De‐lipid cake was produced by solvent extraction from Nannochloropsis oculata that had been manually pressed and/or treated with liquid nitrogen (LN2). The de‐lipid cake was thermally treated at 200 °C or 300 °C under partial vacuum in an oxygen free atmosphere. The solid biochar produced had a reduced moisture content (MC) resulting in a mass reduction of 25 and 66 wt % of de‐lipid cake without LN2 and treatment at 200 °C and 300 °C, respectively, while with LN2 treated cake the mass reduction was 23 and 67 wt % at 200 °C and 300 °C. The higher heating value of the control sample (without any manual pressing or LN2 treatment) was 23.35 MJ kg−1, while for the control sample it was enhanced to 26.82 and 30.56 MJ kg−1 with treatment at 200 °C and 300 °C, respectively. With LN2 treated samples with pressing the HHV was 21.98 MJ kg−1 for control sample as compared to 25.90 and 28.72 MJ kg−1 at 200 and 300 °C respectively, where the lower values were observed because of the lipid removal. The measured gas pressure developed, likely due to the production of CO2 and CH4 as major gases,, was 0.19 and 0.53 bars without LN2 treatment samples, while it was 0.13 and 0.58 bars with LN2. The torrefaction process (mild pyrolysis) energy analysis showed that the ER (energy ratio) without LN2 treatment sample with 0.485 at 200 °C was the highest and the lowest 0.407 energy ratio was found with LN2 treated sample at the higher treatment temperature (300 °C).
Three-dimensional modeling of the Ca II H and K lines in the solar atmosphere
Authors: Bjørgen Johan P. , Sukhorukov Andrii V. , Leenaarts Jorrit , Carlsson Mats , de la Cruz Rodríguez Jaime , Scharmer Göran B. , Hansteen Viggo H. 
Published: December 2017

Context. CHROMIS, a new imaging spectrometer at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST), can observe the chromosphere in the H and K lines of Ca II at high spatial and spectral resolution. Accurate modeling as well as an understanding of the formation of these lines are needed to interpret the SST/CHROMIS observations. Such modeling is computationally challenging because these lines are influenced by strong departures from local thermodynamic equilibrium, three-dimensional radiative transfer, and partially coherent resonance scattering of photons.
Aim. We aim to model the Ca II H and K lines in 3D model atmospheres to understand their formation and to investigate their diagnostic potential for probing the chromosphere.
Methods. We model the synthetic spectrum of Ca II using the radiative transfer code Multi3D in three different radiation-magnetohydrodynamic model atmospheres computed with the Bifrost code. We classify synthetic intensity profiles according to their shapes and study how their features are related to the physical properties in the model atmospheres. We investigate whether the synthetic data reproduce the observed spatially-averaged line shapes, center-to-limb variation and compare this data with SST/CHROMIS images.
Results. The spatially-averaged synthetic line profiles show too low central emission peaks, and too small separation between the peaks. The trends of the observed center-to-limb variation of the profiles properties are reproduced by the models. The Ca II H and K line profiles provide a temperature diagnostic of the temperature minimum and the temperature at the formation height of the emission peaks. The Doppler shift of the central depression is an excellent probe of the velocity in the upper chromosphere.
MEG sensor patterns reflect perceptual but not categorical similarity of animate and inanimate objects
Authors: Proklova Daria , Kaiser Daniel , Peelen Marius V. 
Published: December 2017

AbstractHuman high-level visual cortex shows a distinction between animate and inanimate objects, as revealed by fMRI. Recent studies have shown that object animacy can similarly be decoded from MEG sensor patterns. Which object properties drive this decoding? Here, we disentangled the influence of perceptual and categorical object properties by presenting perceptually matched objects (e.g., snake and rope) that were nonetheless easily recognizable as being animate or inanimate. In a series of behavioral experiments, three aspects of perceptual dissimilarity of these objects were quantified: overall dissimilarity, outline dissimilarity, and texture dissimilarity. Neural dissimilarity of MEG sensor patterns was modeled using regression analysis, in which perceptual dissimilarity (from the behavioral experiments) and categorical dissimilarity served as predictors of neural dissimilarity. We found that perceptual dissimilarity was strongly reflected in MEG sensor patterns from 80ms after stimulus onset, with separable contributions of outline and texture dissimilarity. Surprisingly, when controlling for perceptual dissimilarity, MEG patterns did not carry information about object category (animate vs inanimate) at any time point. Nearly identical results were found in a second MEG experiment that required basic-level object recognition. These results suggest that MEG sensor patterns do not capture object animacy independently of perceptual differences between animate and inanimate objects. This is in contrast to results observed in fMRI using the same stimuli, task, and analysis approach: fMRI showed a highly reliable categorical distinction in visual cortex even when controlling for perceptual dissimilarity. Results thus point to a discrepancy in the information contained in multivariate fMRI and MEG patterns.