Bringing The Poster Presentation Model into Classroom

Making students to speak English in a large classroom becomes a big challenge for teachers. On one hand, there is no enough time for all students speak equally. On the other hand, most students are lack of confidence and English competence. As a result, the students tend to be reluctant toward the speaking activities. There have been many research under the speaking classroom activities, however, modeling professional activity into classrooms has been rare. The recent action research on a Poster Presentation model aims to make students participate in the classroom activities actively by considering their characteristics. From the individual interview and classroom observations of the 17 passive students enrolled on the four Speaking for Academic Purposes classrooms at Sarjanawiyata Tamansiswa University, Indonesia, the researchers found that the Poster Presentation model with two rules applied, i.e. no talk no grade and interrelated questions motivated the students’ participation in the speaking classroom activities. However, the Poster Presentation model did not work on those who have never experienced in natural speaking practices before. Thus, managing the classroom using the present model brings double facets among students

Livelihood Vulnerability of the Informal Food Sector to Climate Extremes in Camarines Sur, Philippines

The informal food sector is regarded as a huge contributor in local economic development. However, since they directly get their supplies and raw materials from agricultural produce in the local markets, they become vulnerable to the uncertainties of nature. The purpose of the study is to assess the level of livelihood vulnerability of the informal food sector as an input in enhancing the livelihood resiliency of the informal food sector in Camarines Sur, Philippines. The study uses and modifies the existing livelihood vulnerability index where seven indicators are used in determining the vulnerability: socio-demographic profile, livelihood strategies, social network, health security, food security, access to utilities, and disaster experience. The data is composed of a random sample of 200 informal food enterprises from three market areas in Camarines Sur. The livelihood vulnerability index is used to describe the vulnerability level. The study reveals a low to moderate vulnerability level of the informal food enterprises. The result is attributable to their ability to withstand disaster experience and high adaptive capacity to areas such as livelihood diversification, years in business experience and income factor. Findings suggest the need to highlight technical and social areas for intervention to further enhance their business resiliency to climate extremes

The revised SNIP indicator of Elsevier's Scopus

The modified SNIP indicator of Elsevier, as recently explained by Waltman et al. (2013) in this journal, solves some of the problems which Leydesdorff & Opthof (2010 and 2011) indicated in relation to the original SNIP indicator (Moed, 2010 and 2011). The use of an arithmetic average, however, remains unfortunate in the case of scientometric distributions because these can be extremely skewed (Seglen, 1992 and 1997). The new indicator cannot (or hardly) be reproduced independently when used for evaluation purposes, and remains in this sense opaque from the perspective of evaluated units and scholars.Comment: Letter to the Editor of the Journal of Informetrics (2013; in press

The Tradition of Frigate Mackerel (Auxis thazard) Processing as Balinese Local Wisdom

Bali is a small island that is a world tourist destination. Bali is surrounded by ocean. The ocean has an enormous potential in the fishery field. One of the fish potentials is frigate mackerel. This research aims to describe the handling process and the processing of frigate mackerel in the central of fish boiling, Kusamba village, Bali. This research is designed in an observational descriptive study. Observation conducted on the handling process and the processing of frigate mackerel from its catching located at Amed beach, take a three-hour drive to Kusamba until the processing to be a boil frigate mackerel in the central of fish boiling Kusamba village. Quality test of frigate mackerel processed results at Kusamba Village consists of microbiological, chemical, and organoleptic quality conducted at the laboratory of fisheries and marine of Bali Province. Observation results will be elaborated qualitatively in the photos form and narratives, laboratory results are described in tables and analyzed using Indonesian national standards. The results showed that the process of frigate mackerel handling in Bali is still using a simple method with traditional equipment. Although by using simple equipment, the quality of the boil fish product of Kusamba village is proven has a good quality and meet the Indonesian national standards

Coverage analysis of Scopus: A journal metric approach

Our aim is to compare the coverage of the Scopus database with that of Ulrich, to determine just how homogenous it is in the academic world. The variables taken into account were subject distribution, geographical distribution, distribution by publishers and the language of publication. The analysis of the coverage of a product of this nature should be done in relation to an accepted model, the optimal choice being Ulrich’s Directory, considered the international point of reference for the most comprehensive information on journals published throughout the world. The results described here allow us to draw a profile of Scopus in terms of its coverage by areas – geographic and thematic – and the significance of peer-review in its publications. Both these aspects are highly pragmatic considerations for information retrieval, the evaluation of research, and the design of policies for the use of scientific databases in scientific promotion

Scopus database

Relativno je velik broj čimbenika koji određuju iskoristivost određene baze podataka. Budući da je ponuda baza podataka velika, potrebno je provesti analizu pojedinih njihovih svojstava kako bi se utvrdilo koji od njih imaju najveći utjecaj pri izboru baze. Ovaj rad analizira svojstva baze podataka Scopus u odnosu prema zahtjevima korisnika te iznosi njezine prednosti i specifičnosti. Zastupljenost časopisa u najrelevantnijim sekundarnim publikacijama, elektroničkim bazama podataka, jedan je od temeljnih pokazatelja njegove važnosti. Pretraživanjem baze Scopus na primjeru časopisa Polimeri dan je prikaz analize prisutnosti znanstvenih i stručnih časopisa u međunarodnom znanstvenom svijetu.There exist a relatively large number of factors determining the usability of a certain database. Since there are many scientific databases, it is necessary to analyze some of their characteristics in order to determine which of them play the determining role in the selection process. The present paper analyzes the characteristics of the Scopus database relative to user requirements and explains its advantages and specifics features. Also, the representability of scientific publications can be determined with fairly good accuracy. Scopus has been used to generate a representation of the presence of the Polimeri journal in the international scientific arena