JOB VACANCY DISCOURSE: Seeking an Opportunity for English Department Alumni in Newspapers

This study aims to analyze the discourse of recent job vacancy ads in the newspaper and seeks for the opportunity of employment for the English departments\u27 alumni. This study also tries to iden- tify the highest frequently of job positions and requirements. The data collection based on 7.381 job vacancy ads during March- 2015 in 2 largest newspapers in Riau Province. Using Content analysis in discourse analysis area as the framework, this study reveals the different quantities of ads found both in teaching and non-teaching category offered an opportunity for the alumni. This study indicates an opportunity for the English departments\u27 alumni in a non-teaching category (33.9%) and teach- ing category (3.03%) from the total JV ads. This study also found the highest frequently of positions offered as English teachers in several institutions and non-teaching categories and the 10 highest frequently requirements to apply for the positions

The Effect of Ire (Initiation-response-evaluation) Strategy in Teaching Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text at the First Grade of Sman Olahraga Riau Pekanbaru.

The students at first grade of SMAN Olahraga Riau Pekanbaru had some problems in reading narrative text. Based on observation, the researcher tried to solve the phenomena by using IRE (Initation-Response-Evaluation). The purpose of this study was to find the effect between students taught with IRE (Initation-Response-Evaluation) by not using a strategy. Measuring the tested the effectiveness of the IRE (Initation-Response-Evaluation) Strategy in teaching narrative text reading. This type of this research is Quasi Experiments. The population of this study is the first grade of SMA Olahraga Riau Pekanbaru. The population is 99 students. The samples there are 48 students: Xis1 25 students as control class and Xis4 23 students as experiment class. The experimental class result in the average pre-test is (60.00) while the control is 61.40. It was explain that the experiment class value is lower. After the researcher did the treatment with IRE strategy, showing that the average experiment class is higher than the control class with an average of experiment class was 69.78 while in the control class 66.40 from the test results. Researcher got sig value (0.000) < (0.05). In conclusion, there is an effect between students taught by using the IRE strategy by not using a strategy. This strategy is effective in teaching narrative text reading

Classroom Action Research: Using Semantic Mapping in Teaching Descriptive Paragraph

This classroom action research conducted to 38 participants at the seventh grade class D of SMPN 29 in 2011/2012 academic years. It tries to improve their writing skill by applying semantic mapping strategy. The researcher collecting writing tests, observations, field notes, and interview as the instrument. The date reveals that improvement exists after the treatment on the students' writing skill. The data indicates that some factors influenced their improvement. The first was brainstorming process that led them easy to convey and think about the ideas. The second was the categorization process that made them easy to determine kinds of the idea. The third was the mapping process made them easy to write a good descriptive paragraph. The last was the teacher's roles facilitated them to have an effective class

Tatalaksana Penyakit Ginjal Kronik pada Anak

Penyakit ginjal kronis adalah suatu keadaan menurunnya laju filtrasi glomerolus yang bersifat tidak reversible dan terbagi dalam 5 klasifikasi sesuai dengan jumlah nefron yang masih berfungsi. Kasus initidak jarang ditemukan pada anak. Penyakit ginjal kronis pada anak dapat disebabkan penyakit kongenital, didapat, genetik, atau metabolik. Penyebab yang mendasari penyakit ginjal kronik berkaitan erat dengan usia pasien saat penyakit ginjal kronik pertama terdeteksi. The Kidney Disease Outcome Quality Initiative (K/DOQI) telah mengeluarkan pedoman klinis praktis untuk evaluasi, klasifikasi dan stratifikasi Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)/penyakit ginjal kronis. Clinical Practice Guidelines on CKDK/DOQI tahun 2003 memuat mengenai stadium, penilaian klinis berdasarkan hasil laboratorium, dan pembagian tingkatan risiko akibat penurunan fungsi ginjal. Pedoman ini disusun untuk memudahkan penerimaan secara universal dan dapat memberikan penanganan yang optimal bagi penderita penyakit ginjal kronis. Tujuan dari penulisan sari pustaka ini adalah untuk memperkenalkan definisi penyakit ginjal kronis serta tatalaksana menurut K/DOQI tahun 2003 dan penerapannya pada pasien anak. Prognosis pasien dengan penyakit ginjal kronis adalah bervariasi menurut stadium dan penatalaksanaan yang dilakukan. Dengandeteksi dan penatalaksanaan dini, morbiditas dan mortalitas penyakit ginjal kronis pada anak diharapkan dapat diturunkan

The challenges of monitoring national climate policy: learning lessons from the EU

One of the most central and novel features of the new climate governance architecture emerging from the 2015 Paris Agreement is the transparency framework committing countries to provide, inter alia, regular progress reports on national pledges to address climate change. Many countries will rely on public policies to turn their pledges into action. This article focuses on the EU’s experience with monitoring national climate policies in order to understand the challenges that are likely to arise as the Paris Agreement is implemented around the world. To do so, the research employs – for the first time – comparative empirical data submitted by states to the EU’s monitoring system. Our findings reveal how the EU’s predominantly technical interpretation of four international reporting quality criteria – an approach borrowed from reporting on GHG fluxes – has constrained knowledge production and stymied debate on the performance of individual climate policies. Key obstacles to more in-depth reporting include not only political concerns over reporting burdens and costs, but also struggles over who determines the nature of climate policy monitoring, the perceived usefulness of reporting information, and the political control that policy knowledge inevitably generates. Given the post-Paris drive to achieve greater transparency, the EU’s experience offers a sobering reminder of the political and technical challenges associated with climate policy monitoring, challenges that are likely to bedevil the Paris Agreement for decades to come

The politicisation of evaluation: constructing and contesting EU policy performance

Although systematic policy evaluation has been conducted for decades and has been growing strongly within the European Union (EU) institutions and in the member states, it remains largely underexplored in political science literatures. Extant work in political science and public policy typically focuses on elements such as agenda setting, policy shaping, decision making, or implementation rather than evaluation. Although individual pieces of research on evaluation in the EU have started to emerge, most often regarding policy “effectiveness” (one criterion among many in evaluation), a more structured approach is currently missing. This special issue aims to address this gap in political science by focusing on four key focal points: evaluation institutions (including rules and cultures), evaluation actors and interests (including competencies, power, roles and tasks), evaluation design (including research methods and theories, and their impact on policy design and legislation), and finally, evaluation purpose and use (including the relationships between discourse and scientific evidence, political attitudes and strategic use). The special issue considers how each of these elements contributes to an evolving governance system in the EU, where evaluation is playing an increasingly important role in decision making

Research on nonlinear optical materials: an assessment

The seven papers making up this assessment are based on the Workshop on Nonlinear Optical Materials held in April 1986

Policy monitoring in the EU: The impact of institutions, implementation, and quality

Policy monitoring is often seen as a crucial ingredient of policy evaluation, but theoretically informed empirical analyses of real-world policy monitoring practices are still rare. This paper addresses this gap by focusing on climate policy monitoring in the European Union, which has a relatively stringent system of greenhouse gas monitoring but a much less demanding approach to monitoring policies. It explores how institutional settings, policy implementation, and the quality of information may impact the practices and politics of policy monitoring. Drawing on quantitative regression models and qualitative interviews, it demonstrates that policy monitoring has evolved over time and is itself subject to implementation pressures, but also exhibits learning effects that improve its quality. In further developing both everyday policy monitoring practices and academic understanding of them, there is a need to pay attention to their design—specifically, the impact of any overarching rules, the institutional support for implementation, and the criteria governing the quality of the information they deliver. In short, policy monitoring should be treated as a governance activity in its own right, raising many different design challenges

On modified simple reacting spheres kinetic model for chemically reactive gases

Versão dos autores para esta publicação.We consider the modiffed simple reacting spheres (MSRS) kinetic model that, in addition to the conservation of energy and momentum, also preserves the angular momentum in the collisional processes. In contrast to the line-of-center models or chemical reactive models considered in [1], in the MSRS (SRS) kinetic models, the microscopic reversibility (detailed balance) can be easily shown to be satisfied, and thus all mathematical aspects of the model can be fully justi ed. In the MSRS model, the molecules behave as if they were single mass points with two internal states. Collisions may alter the internal states of the molecules, and this occurs when the kinetic energy associated with the reactive motion exceeds the activation energy. Reactive and non-reactive collision events are considered to be hard spheres-like. We consider a four component mixture A, B, A*, B*, in which the chemical reactions are of the type A + B = A* + B*, with A* and B* being distinct species from A and B. We provide fundamental physical and mathematical properties of the MSRS model, concerning the consistency of the model, the entropy inequality for the reactive system, the characterization of the equilibrium solutions, the macroscopic setting of the model and the spatially homogeneous evolution. Moreover, we show that the MSRS kinetic model reduces to the previously considered SRS model (e.g., [2], [3]) if the reduced masses of the reacting pairs are the same before and after collisions, and state in the Appendix the more important properties of the SRS system.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologi