bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
2013 Salaries in General Education: Cross-Regional Analysis, Trends and Outlooks
Authors: Tipenko Nataliya 
Published: July 2015

Data obtained in the Electronic Monitoring of Education Development has been used to analyze the teacher salary trends that had evolved by 2013 and to compare teacher pay to the average regional pay levels. The 2013 data reveals that the regions find it ever harder to increase teacher pay to conform to the average economy-wide salary rate, as required by various decrees. In particular, this is confirmed through the size of year-end premiums, which often turn out to be rather high. Month-to-month monitoring of this parameter provokes tensions in the work of governing bodies at different levels and encourages “manual management” used to achieve the desired result. Such practice conflicts with the standard planning and budgeting procedure. Budget expenditure indexes are used to compare salary levels across the subjects of the Russian Federation. When comparing the pay levels in different regions, monitoring of budget expenditure indexes allows for a deeper insight into the status of teachers and complements the parameter “deviation of teacher pay from the average pay level in the subject of the Russian Federation”. The author also discusses specifics of regional policies on incentive payments as an instrument of influencing the education quality, analyzes changes to teacher workload as an indicator of labor intensity, and gives an assessment of how regional budgets and the pursued national transfer payment policy affect the prospects of teacher pay rise in different groups of regions. All in all, analysis of the data obtained in the Electronic Monitoring of Education Quality has proved the teacher pay pattern to be extremely irregular. Regional differences depend little on the selected remuneration model, while financial constraints become an ever more dominant factor.
On Modifying the Prescriptions for Teaching Literature in Contemporary School (Comment by E. Abelyuk)
Authors: Pavlovets Mikhail , Remorenko Igor 
Published: July 2015

A survey of first-year philology students was conducted in autumn 2008 at Moscow Humanitarian Pedagogical Institute (MHPI) with a purpose to explore their reading interests and to get an idea of how they had read the required school reading books — whether in full, in short summaries, or in excerpts. The same survey was conducted in 2013 among first-year philology students of the Institute of Humanities at Moscow City Pedagogical University, of which the MHPI became part in 2012. We discovered that high-school students did not read all dramatic and epic required reading books in full and showed little interest towards books telling about the painful points of the Russian history (collectivization, repressions, famine, etc.) or stories with complicated plots. The list of particularly important books has changed insignificantly, consisting almost entirely of required school reading books and foreign books, with their number reduced by a third for the last five years. The scope of reading interests also proved to involve mainly foreign literature and to have shrunken in the last five years. The required reading list and the number of books actually read by high-school graduates do not coincide: even philology-oriented school students read many books in excerpts or simplified versions. Literature as a school subject does not create enough motivation to read what is referred to as national literary classics. We find it necessary to revise the conventional attitudes to state prescriptions for teaching literature, to refuse from rigid required reading book lists, and to switch to a competency-based model of literary education outlined in the Federal State Literature Standards. A transition like that will require revision of the existing approaches to testing reading and speaking competencies of school leavers through the Unified State Examination.
THE IRISH DIASPORA IN CANADA
Authors: Cruz Patrícia Lane Gonçalves da 
Published: July 2015

In this work, I analyze the theoretical boundaries between the concepts of immigration and diaspora as represented in Brian Moore’s novel The luck of Ginger Coffey. This novel raises the possibility of discussing different concepts of diaspora and immigration, as well as various aspects, like the perception of the experience, the fluidity of terms regarding mobility, the criteria that define diaspora and immigration, the concepts of home and homeliness, and assimilation.
IS THE WAR OVER? MEMORY AND OBSESSION IN J. G. BALLARD’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WAR NARRATIVES
Authors: Groppo Pedro 
Published: July 2015

A experiência de J. G. Ballard (1930-2009), que passou sua infância em Xangai durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, influenciou a sua ficção de maneira marcante. Mesmo que a guerra tenha um papel proeminente no imaginário de Ballard, passaram-se quase quarenta anos até que ele escrevesse um romance semiautobiográfico, Império do sol. Ecos de suas experiências são comuns em suas obras, e certos eventos até são narrados mais de uma vez em diferentes contos e romances. Partindo de um desses eventos iterativos, o presente artigo analisa os principais textos autobiográficos e semiautobiográficos de Ballard de modo a elucidar a sua intrigante fusão de memória e imaginação.
“Snake”: JURIDICIDADE, SOBERANIA E HOSPITALIDADE EM JACQUES DERRIDA
Authors: Pinto Gabriel Rezende de Souza 
Published: July 2015

D.H. Lawrence articula, no poema “Snake”, uma série de figuras ligadas ao pensamento político de Jacques Derrida. Este artigo argumenta que uma certa leitura cruzada entre essas duas extremidades poderia enxergar uma nova alegoria do Direito que, por sua vez, desestabilizaria as alegorias tradicionais do pensamento político-jurídico ocidental.
UMA POÉTICA DA ASTÚCIA: AFFONSO ÁVILA
Authors: Silva Rogério Barbosa da 
Published: July 2015

Procura-se aqui estudar as relações existentes entre a poesia de Affonso Ávila e seus textos críticos, demonstrando as tensões que ambos estabelecem com os textos barrocos, modernos e os procedimentos criativos através dos quais eles produzem uma investigação mais acurada das tradições literárias brasileiras e dos "resíduos" históricos da cultura mineira.
Sobre a violência cultivada no jardim (Imagem)
Authors: Rodrigues Rodrigo Freitas 
Published: July 2015

<p class="Default">Sobre a violência cultivada no jardim</p> <p class="Default"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Fomos maus expectadores da vida se não vemos <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>também a mão que delicadamente – mata!”</p> <p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nietzsche</p> <p> </p> <p>As pinturas que compõem o livro intitulado “Sobre a violência cultivada no jardim” são fruto de uma pesquisa artística que se interessa pelas formas veladas de violência. Não é por acaso que a casa, com seus objetos e arredores, fornece a matéria prima para a realização desse trabalho, no qual o espaço doméstico se torna palco para as tensões e equilíbrios instáveis que permeiam as relações cotidianas. “Sobre a violência cultivada no jardim” é um trabalho que dialoga com o as artes plásticas e, de maneira especial, com o cinema, do qual derivam muitas das imagens desse livro de pinturas. Desse diálogo entre as artes, as referências se entrecruzam, se ampliam, permitindo a construção de novas leituras para cada imagem, que silenciosamente deixa entrever a violência coerciva presente sobretudo no contexto familiar.</p>
Sub-Saharan Women Affected by HIV/AIDS: The Perfect Storm of Risk Factors
Authors: Arroyo Isabel , Yaya Sanni 
Published: July 2015

<div class="page" title="Page 8"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>This paper explores women’s health in the prevalence and incidence rates of </span><span>HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. The risk factors presented in the literature that are hypothesized to be responsible for the increasing rates of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan African women are identified. Risk factors discussed include biological factors, parasites, malnutrition, lower socioeconomic status, inti- mate partner violence, war, gender inequality and lack of education. These risk factors relate to multiple determinants of health: income and social sta- tus, education and literacy, employment, physical environment, gender and culture. The authors present their perspectives on mediating this epidemic, which involves reducing the ramifications of poverty on sub-Saharan women. </span></p></div></div></div>
Queers in the Classroom: The Role of Sexual Identity in the Academic Experiences of Gay Male Graduate Students
Authors: Ecker John 
Published: July 2015

<div class="page" title="Page 19"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>The experiences of three self-identified gay male graduate students were explored to understand the role that sexual orientation played within their academic lives. Through semi-structured interviews, the participants were able to share their experiences of being a gay male graduate students and the effects on their educational experience. The transcribed interviews were analyzed using a modified grounded theory approach. Three main themes emerged: a) choosing to disclose sexual identity within the academic set- ting; b) challenges encountered when interacting with classmates; and c) benefits of being a gay male graduate student. Findings suggest that manag- </span><span>ing and expressing one’s sexual identity are important processes that inter- </span><span>act with several aspects of the life of gay male graduate students</span><span>. </span></p></div></div></div>
Human responsibility towards environment in the Quran
Authors: Wahyudi Deni 
Published: July 2015

The research aims to describe the view of Islam about human relation with theenvironment according to the verses related to the duties and functions of thehuman being. This is interesting issue in the middle of allegations that the religionand the human perspective is one of the roots of the ecological crises thathappen in the world. By doing research on verses on the concept of humanbeing, concept of the environment and interaction between human theenvirontment, wil be drawn islamic teachings on relationship between humanbeing and the environment. The research will figure out comprehensive islamicconcept on the functions and duties of human being toward environment. Islambelieves that man and nature are interdependent and has an obligation to maintainthe balance of nature as manifestation of the faith and at the same time ashis mission as ‘abdulla&gt;h and successor of god (khali&gt;fatulla&gt;h) the earth.Kajian dalam artikel ini bertujuan untuk menguraikan pandangan Islam mengenaiinteraksi manusia dengan lingkungan hidup menurut ayat-ayat terkait tugas danfungsi manusia. Isu ini menarik di tengah tuduhan bahwa agama dan cara pandangmanusia merupakan salah satu akar dari berbagai krisis ekologis yang dihadapioleh dunia. Dengan melakukan kajian terhadap ayat-ayat fungsi dan tugas manusia,pengertian lingkungan hidup dan interaksi antara manusia dan lingkuangannyaakan tergambar ajaran islam tentang hubungan antara manusia dengan lingkungan hidup. Dengan menguraikan ayat-ayat yang membahas fungsi dantugas manusia serta ayat yang terkait lingkungan hidup akan tergambar bahwaIslam memiliki pandangan yang komprehensif mengenai hubungan mansuia danlingkungan hidup dan tugas-tugasnya. Islam memandang bahwa manusia danalam merupakan satu kesatuan dan saling tergantung serta memiliki kewajibanuntuk menjaga keseimbangan sebagai manifestasi dari keimanan seorang hambasebagai ‘abdulla&gt;h dan khalifah di muka bumi.
Religious practices in trauma coping
Authors: Razali Khairil 
Published: July 2015

<p>Disasters happen in Indonesia current days bring the country into a very disaster-<br />prone country in the Ring of Fire cataclysm. Mega event devastating 2004 tsu-<br />nami in Aceh Province and Nias have serious consequences for vulnerable groups<br />of parents and children. This paper examines the presence of children in any<br />catastrophic events, especially related to the psychological impact as well as<br />adequate treatments to reduce and eliminate the prolonged psychological trauma.<br />The 2004 tsunami in Aceh and a number of other natural catastrophic disasters<br />have strengthened the effects of traumatic for children in Aceh and elsewhere in<br />Indonesia. A series of earthquakes has built a-sustainable traumatic attitudes<br />within children. This qualitative study learned from children from children cen-<br />ters in Aceh towards their coping strategies and roles of religious practices. In<br />conclusion that it should be a concern to establish social support systems for<br />children to lessen the impact in the future.</p><p>Bencana yang terjadi di Indonesia dewasa ini menjadikan negara yang sangat<br />rawan bencana dalam Ring of Fire bencana alam. Peristiwa mega dahsyat Tsu-<br />nami 2004 di Provinsi Aceh dan Nias telah berdampak serius bagi kelompok rentan<br />yaitu orang tua dan anak-anak. Tulisan ini mengkaji tentang keberadaan anak-<br />anak dalam setiap peristiwa bencana terutama terkait dengan dampak psikologis<br />bagi mereka serta penanganan yang memadai untuk mengurangi dan<br />menghilangkan trauma psikis yang berkepanjangan.</p><p>Bencana tsunami 2004 dan sejumlah peristiwa bencana alam lainnya telah<br />memperkuat dampak-dampak traumatis bagi anak-anak di Aceh dan tempat-<br />tempat lain di Indonesia. Serangkaian gempa bumi telah membangun sikap<br />traumatis yang berkesinambungan dalam diri anak-anak. Hal ini perlu menjadi<br />perhatian dari sistim dukungan social sekitar anak-anak untuk mengurangi dampak<br />tersebut di masa yang akan datang.</p>
Religious non-governmental organizations and philanthropy in Indonesia
Authors: Alawiyah Tuti 
Published: July 2015

Religious non-governmental organizations (RNGOs) and philanthropic activities<br />in Indonesia have a long history. They existed prior to the creation of the nation<br />state. Social, political and economic changes in this country have influenced the<br />development of non-profit organizations for more than sixty years after the Inde-pendence of the Republic Indonesia in 1945. Modernization and development<br />projects during the President Suharto era influenced the development of Non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In more recent years, RNGOs have largely<br />developed as a response to the socio-economic crisis after the downfall of Presi-dent Suharto regime. Discovering the dynamics of RNGOs in a broader context of<br />non-profit organizations in Indonesia provides insights into the strengths and<br />weaknesses of philanthropic activism in recent years. An historical overview of<br />non-profit organizations, legal structures, functions, and financial resources are<br />among the themes that are described in this paper.<br />Organisasi Agama Non Pemerintah (RNGOs) dan kegiatan filantropi di Indonesia<br />memiliki sejarah yang panjang. Mereka ada sebelum penciptaan negara bangsa.<br />Perubahan sosial, politik dan ekonomi di negara ini telah memengaruhi<br />perkembangan organisasi nirlaba selama lebih dari enam puluh tahun setelah Kemerdekaan Republik Indonesia pada tahun 1945. Modernisasi dan pembangunan<br />proyek-proyek selama era Presiden Soeharto memengaruhi perkembangan<br />organisasi non-pemerintah (LSM). Dalam tahun-tahun terakhir, RNGOs sebagian<br />besar telah dikembangkan sebagai tanggapan terhadap krisis sosial-ekonomi<br />setelah jatuhnya rezim Presiden Soeharto. Menemukan dinamika RNGOs dalam<br />konteks yang lebih luas dari organisasi nirlaba di Indonesia memberikan wawasan<br />ke dalam kekuatan dan kelemahan dari aktivisme filantropi dalam beberapa tahun<br />terakhir. Sebuah gambaran sejarah organisasi non-profit, struktur hukum, fungsi,<br />dan sumber daya keuangan adalah salah satu tema yang dijelaskan dalam<br />makalah ini
Wettability of the Montney Tight Gas Formation
Authors: Lan Qing , Dehghanpour Hassan , Wood James , Sanei Hamed 
Published: July 2015

Summary
The abundant hydrocarbon resources in low-permeability formations are now technically accessible because of advances in the drilling and completion of multilateral/multifractured horizontal wells. However, measurement and modeling of petrophysical properties, required for reserves estimation and reservoir-engineering calculations, are the remaining challenges for the development of tight formations. In particular, characterizing wettability (wetting affinity) of tight rocks is challenging because of their complex pore structure, which can be either in hydrophobic organic materials or in hydrophilic inorganic materials.
We conduct comparative and systematic imbibition experiments on 10 twin core plugs from the Montney tight gas formation, which is an enormous tight gas fairway in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Both contact-angle and imbibition data indicate that the formation has a stronger affinity to oil than to water. However, the ratio between oil and water uptake of these samples is usually higher than what capillary-driven imbibition models predict. This discrepancy can be explained by the strong adsorption of oil on the surface of a well-connected organic-pore network that is partly composed of degraded bitumen. We also define a wettability index on the basis of the equilibrium oil and water uptake of the twin samples. Oil-wettability index is positively correlated with total organic carbon and clay content of the rocks, which generally increase from the upper Montney to the lower Montney.
Risk factors for calcium carbonate urolithiasis in goats
Authors: Nwaokorie Eugene E. , Osborne Carl A. , Lulich Jody P. , Fletcher Thomas F. , Ulrich Lisa K. , Koehler Lori A. , Buettner Michelle T. 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
Objective—To identify demographic or signalment factors associated with calcium carbonate urolith formation in goats.
Design—Retrospective case series and case-control study.
Animals—354 goats with calcium carbonate uroliths (case animals) and 16,366 goats without urinary tract disease (control animals).
Procedures—Medical records of the Minnesota Urolith Center were reviewed to identify case goats for which samples were submitted between January 1, 1984, and December 31, 2012. Control goats evaluated at US veterinary teaching hospitals in the same time period were identified by searching Veterinary Medical Database records. Age, breed, sex, reproductive status, geographic location, season, and anatomic location of collected uroliths were analyzed to identify risk or protective factors associated with calcium carbonate urolithiasis.
Results—Nigerian dwarf goats had higher odds of developing calcium carbonate uroliths than did Pygmy goats (reference group). Several breeds had lower odds of this finding, compared with Pygmy goats; odds were lowest for mixed, Anglo-Nubian, and Toggenburg breeds. Breeds of African origin (Pygmy, Nigerian Dwarf, and Boer) comprised 146 of 275 (53%) case goats with data available. Goats of African descent had a higher risk of developing calcium carbonate uroliths than did goats of non-African descent (reference group). Males and neutered goats had higher odds of calcium carbonate urolithiasis, compared with females and sexually intact goats, respectively. Age category, geographic location, and season were associated with detection of calcium carbonate uroliths.
Conclusions and Clinical Relevance—Goats with calcium carbonate uroliths were typically neutered males, > 1 year of age, and of African descent. This study identified factors associated with calcium carbonate urolithiasis in goats; however, these associations do not allow conclusions regarding cause-and-effect relationships.
Text–Independent Speaker Recognition Using Two–Dimensional Information Entropy
Authors: Božilović Boško , Todorović Branislav M. , Obradović Miroslav 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
Speaker recognition is the process of automatically recognizing who is speaking on the basis of speaker specific characteristics included in the speech signal. These speaker specific characteristics are called features. Over the past decades, extensive research has been carried out on various possible speech signal features obtained from signal in time or frequency domain. The objective of this paper is to introduce two-dimensional information entropy as a new text-independent speaker recognition feature. Computations are performed in time domain with real numbers exclusively. Experimental results show that the two-dimensional information entropy is a speaker specific characteristic, useful for speaker recognition.
Construction of Error Control Run Length Limited Codes Exploiting Some Parity Matrix Properties
Authors: Farkašová Katarína , Farkaš Peter , Rakús Martin , Rušický Eugen , Silva Adāo , Gameiro Atílio 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
Error control codes (ECC) as well as translation codes (TC) are used today in many different systems such as computer storages, communications systems and consumer electronic devices. ECC introduce redundancy into the encoded digital sequence in order to decrease the number of errors at output of its decoder [1]. TC introduce redundancy, in order to translate any digital sequence at the input of TC encoder to such output sequence, which fulfills constrains deduced from practical requirements. It is possible to construct codes, which have both of these properties, so called Transcontrol codes or their subclass error control run length limited (ECRLL) codes. In this manuscript a new approach to construction of EC-RLL codes is presented. The new construction is based on some parity check matrix properties of a linear binary block code from which the new EC-RLL code is obtained.
Tillich on the Ambiguity of Spiritual Presence: More Protestant Principle Than Catholic Substance?
Authors: Slater Peter 
Published: July 2015

Abstract: In his Systematic Theology, volume 3, Tillich's existentialist ontology led him to emphasize fragmentary moments in politics of individual realizations of theonomous (vs. autonomous or heteronomous) culture, rather than religiously grounded social agendas. By comparison with William Temple's religious socialism, Tillich's privileged the Protestant principle against idolizing leaders rather than the Catholic substance of sacramentally incarnated commonwealths.
Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic based dosing of ciprofloxacin in complicated urinary tract infections
Authors: Sabo Ana , Tomas Ana , Tomić Nataša , Mikov Momir , Horvat Olga , Popović Radmila , Tomić Zdenko 
Published: July 2015

<p>Ciprofloxacin is often used in treatment of complicated urinary tract infections in areas with high rates of resistance to first line agents. The aim of this study was to evaluate efficacy of ciprofloxacin in standard dosing regimens in treatment of complicated urinary tract infections. Plasma concentration curves were simulated and minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and post-antibiotic effect were determined. Ciprofloxacin MIC ranged from 0.0156 for Gram-negative and to 0.125-0.5 µg/mL for Gram-positive bacteria. Both dosing regimens were suitable for eradication of Gram-negative bacteria, with slight supremacy of 750 mg/12 hours over 500 mg/12 hours dosing regimen. Even though all strains were fully susceptible to ciprofloxacin, pharmaco-kinetic/pharmacodynamic parameters did not meet target thresholds for pathogens with MIC over 0.1-0.2 µg/mL regardless of the administered dose. Ciprofloxacin remains an excellent choice for treatment of complicated urinary tract infections caused by Gram-negative bacteria, but in infection caused by Gram-positive strains, deeper analysis is necessary in order to achieve optimal results.</p><p> </p>