Report of the Stanford Linked Data Workshop

The Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) with the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) conducted at week-long workshop on the prospects for a large scale, multi-national, multi-institutional prototype of a Linked Data environment for discovery of and navigation among the rapidly, chaotically expanding array of academic information resources. As preparation for the workshop, CLIR sponsored a survey by Jerry Persons, Chief Information Architect emeritus of SULAIR that was published originally for workshop participants as background to the workshop and is now publicly available. The original intention of the workshop was to devise a plan for such a prototype. However, such was the diversity of knowledge, experience, and views of the potential of Linked Data approaches that the workshop participants turned to two more fundamental goals: building common understanding and enthusiasm on the one hand and identifying opportunities and challenges to be confronted in the preparation of the intended prototype and its operation on the other. In pursuit of those objectives, the workshop participants produced:1. a value statement addressing the question of why a Linked Data approach is worth prototyping;2. a manifesto for Linked Libraries (and Museums and Archives and …);3. an outline of the phases in a life cycle of Linked Data approaches;4. a prioritized list of known issues in generating, harvesting & using Linked Data;5. a workflow with notes for converting library bibliographic records and other academic metadata to URIs;6. examples of potential “killer apps” using Linked Data: and7. a list of next steps and potential projects.This report includes a summary of the workshop agenda, a chart showing the use of Linked Data in cultural heritage venues, and short biographies and statements from each of the participants

THE EFFECT OF USING TRANSITION – ACTION – DETAILS (TAD) STRATEGY TOWARD STUDENTS’ SKILL IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT OF THE SECOND YEAR OF SMAN 1 KAMPAR TIMUR KAMPAR REGENCY

Based on the writer’ preliminary study, found that some of the students are not able to write narrative paragraph. This problem was caused by some factors. For Example, some of the students are not able to write good tenses in a sentence based on the types of text and not able to do develop narrattive paragrpah. So, the writer was interested to carry out a research about this problem. The aim of the research is to find out the significant effect in using Transition – Action – Details (TAD) Strategy toward students’ writing narrative paragraph skill at the second year of SMAN 1 Kampar Timur of Kampar Regency. There are three formulations of the problem in this research that are how is the students’ writing narrative paragraph skill taught by using Transition – Action – Details (TAD) Strategy , how is the students’ writng narrative paragraph skill taught witout using Transition – Action – Details (TAD) Strategy, and is there any significant effect on students’ writing narrative paragraph skill between the class who is taught by using Transition – Action – Details (TAD) Strategy and the class who is taught without using Transition – Action – Details (TAD) Strategy. This Research was conducted in SMAN 1 Kampar Timur of Kampar Regency. The subject of the Research was the secon years students of SMAN 1 Kampar Timur, and the object of the research was the effect of using Transition – Action – Details (TAD) Strategy. The research was included to Quasi – Experiment. The population of the research was all the second year students. The total Number of the second year students was 298 students. The writer used Cluster Random Sampling that take two classess as the sample: XI IPA 2 consisted of 30 students as the control class, and XI IPA 4 consisted of 30 students as the experimental class. So, the total number of the sample was 60 students. To analyze the data, the writer used t-test formula by using SPSS 17 Version. After analyzing the data, the writer found that the significant effect of Transition – Action – Details (TAD) Strategy to improve the skill of writing narrative paragraph of the second year students SMAN 1 Kampar Timur, where was T obtained 14.409. Because of t obtained (14.409) < t table at significant level 5% (2.00) and 1 % (2.65) it means that the Null Hypothesis (H o ) was rejected and the Alternative Hypothesis (H a ) was accepted

Seeking Coherence and Integrity: Personal and Professional Demands and Expectations of Senior Women Professors

This study of 26 senior women professors at a large research university suggests that, while their negotiation of professional and personal commitments involved calculated balancing acts and strategies, they primarily described searches for integrity and coherence in life. More effective personal management strategies, modified and more realistic expectations, and a refusal to dwell on past decisions were among the themes identified. Respondents described an almost uniform and longstanding self-sufficiency and acknowledged having more control over aspects of their work, lives, and time. However, for many, time was also increasingly spent on some level of attention to health, and retirement preparation

Sinkronisasi Kebijakan Nasional REDD+ dengan Kepentingan Para Pihak pada Tingkat Sub-nasional

REDD+ has been developed since 2007, but its implementation has not been run effectively. Synchronizing all related stakeholders\u27 interest, either horizontally or vertically becomes major challenge to support the effectiveness REDD+ implementation. The result of the gap analysis showed that unsynchronized REDD+ national policy with stakeholders\u27 interest in subnational and site level lead to ineffective REDD+ implementation. This is particularly when REDD+ is developed through subnational approach by which provincial government plays as a main actor in its implementation. For instance, ban of carbon market system has caused some REDD+ projects in the site level initiated by private sector to be stagnant. Enabling conditions should be built up to synchronize related stakeholders\u27 interest in all levels. The aforementioned conditions are including simplified REDD+ regulations so that REDD+ can be adopted, existance of regional REDD+ institutions to bridge communication between central and provincial government, clear domestic funding and incentive mechanism to deal with uncertainty global agreement, as well as increasing outreach of REDD+ strategies and policies in sub-national and site levels. REDD+ telah diinisiasi sejak tahun 2007 tetapi sampai saat ini pelaksanaannya belum berjalan secara efektif. Sinkronisasi kepentingan para pihak yang terlibat baik secara vertikal maupun horizontal menjadi tantangan besar untuk mendukung efektivitas pelaksanaan REDD+. Analisis gap pada penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa terdapat ketidaksinkronan antara kebijakan REDD+ di tingkat nasional dengan kepentingan para pihak di tingkat subnasional dan tapak. Hal tersebut menjadi penghambat pelaksanaan REDD+ di lapangan, khususnya ketika pendekatan REDD+ yang dilakukan adalah pendekatan subnasional dimana pemerintah provinsi menjadi aktor penting dalam pelaksanaan REDD+. Sebagai contoh, pelarangan sistem pasar karbon di Indonesia telah menyebabkan beberapa proyek REDD+ di tingkat lapangan yang diinisiasi pihak swasta mengalami stagnasi. Sinkronisasi kebijakan REDD+ nasional dengan kepentingan para pihak dapat diwujudkan apabila kondisi pemungkinnya sudah terbangun. Adapun kondisi pemungkinnya adalah peraturan teknis dan administratif REDD+ yang mudah untuk diadopsi oleh para entitas REDD+ sesuai dengan kondisi di lapangan, tersedianya institusi pelaksana REDD+ yang jelas di tingkat subnasional, adanya mekanisme pendanaan dan insentif dalam negeri untuk mengantisipasi ketidakpastian kesepakatan global serta peningkatan sosialisasi strategi dan kebijakan REDD+ ke daerah

Learning Community Coordinator Efforts to Address Students with Potential Psychiatric/Psychological Disabilities

In structuring and providing leadership for learning community programs, learning community coordinators must address myriad issues and situations in order to create an experience that aids student learning and success. All types of students participate in learning communities, including students with psychiatric/psychological disabilities; however, learning community coordinators may not proactively consider ways of addressing the needs of this particular student population. This qualitative study explored the experiences of learning community coordinators working with students with psychiatric/psychological disabilities within the specific context of the learning community and sought to identify successes, challenges, and recommendations for working with these students. Participants highlighted the value of student self-disclosure, the benefits of utilizing peer mentors, colleague challenges, successes they experienced working with students with psychiatric/psychological disabilities, and recommendations for other learning community coordinators

New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply

Recent evidence on the large variance in teacher effectiveness has spurred renewed interest in teacher labor market policies. A substantial body of prior research documents that more highly qualified teachers tend to work in more advantaged schools, although this literature cannot determine the relative importance of supply versus demand factors in generating this equilibrium outcome. To isolate the importance of teacher labor supply, we attended three large teacher job fairs in Chicago during the summer of 2006 and collected detailed information on the specific schools at which teachers interviewed. We document a substantial variation in the number of applicants per school, with some schools having fewer than five applicants and others schools having over 300 applicants, even after controlling for the number and type of positions advertised at the school. We show that the demographic characteristics of schools strongly predict the number of applicants to the school in the expected direction. Interestingly, the geographic location of the school is an extremely strong predictor of applications, even after controlling for a host of observable school and neighborhood characteristics.

Effect of time, moisture content, and substrate amount on sorbitol production using entrapment of Lactobacillus plantarum (BAA-793) in sodium alginate beads

Agro-industrial wastes such as Meranti wood sawdust (MWS) have great potential as substrates for the production of sorbitol and other biochemical products. In this study, treated cellulose from MWS was used as a substrate to produce sorbitol via solid state fermentation (SSF) process using immobilized cells of Lactobacillus plantarum strain (BAA-793), entrapped in sodium alginate. The effect of fermentation time, moisture content, and substrate amount on sorbitol concentration were studied at the following ranges (fermentation time: 2–8 h, moisture content: 40–80%, and substrate amount: 0.5–2.5 g). The results show that the fermentation time of 4 h, substrate amount of 2 g and moisture content of 50% yielded 8.396 g/L of sorbitol. With a moisture content of 50%, substrate amount of 2 g, and fermentation time of 6 h yielded 4.726 g/L of sorbitol. The highest concentration of sorbitol (13.607 g/L) was obtained at the optimized condition of fermentation time 4 h, moisture content 50%, and substrate amount 1.0 g. These results indicate that the fermentation time, moisture content, and substrate amount are important factors to be considered in order to achieve high sorbitol yield

A study of reverse osmosis reject water at Bukit Gambir, Tangkak Haemodialysis Centre

Water is categorized by their few aspects according to the specific feature and it function usage in a certain compatible condition. Yet with rapidly population growth increasing around the world by about 85 million per year, the accessibility for fresh water supply per persons keep declining [1]. The increasing clean water demand causes the increasing environmental risks, costs and economic exploitation as it may disturb surrounding nature which leads into the more distant sources or greater depth. At this state, the minimization of waste water produce should be focused on to prevent it become worsen

Influenced factors in the delignification process of red meranti wood sawdust

Lignocellulosic biomass are plants that include forestry residue and agricultural residues that are mainly composed of cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin. Red Meranti wood sawdust (RMWS) are one of lignocellulosic biomass that rich-cellulose content. To obtain cellulose, the pretreatments are needed to extract it from outer layer of lignin and hemicellulose by using the acid-chlorite delignification procedure aided with design of experimental from Design Expert 7.1 software. Four factors were selected in design of experiment using two level with half fraction factorial analysis were came out with total of 8 runs. The factors contributed were ratio acetic acid (AC) to RMWS (0.45 and 0.6), ratio sodium chlorite to RMWS (0.6 and 1.64), reaction time (4hr and 6hr) and temperature (55°C and 75°C). The results obtained were showed that the design model was substantial resulting with a coefficient of determination value of 0.9963. Two factors that generated the highest to the process were ratio SC to RMWS (B) and temperature (D). The percentage error between the actual and predicted value for lignin removal at 0.79% and 4.92%, which found to be less than 5%, and thus, the model was successfully validated

Awareness on 3R practice: a case study at UTHM Pagoh residential college

Solid waste can be defined as any scrap material; or unwanted surplus substance; or rejected products arising from the application of any process [1]. This also includes any substance required to be disposed of as being broken, worn out, contaminated or otherwise spoiled. Over the years, the problems of solid waste generation are increasing all over the world. In the year 2016, cities around the world generated 2.01 billion tonnes of solid waste, amounting to a footprint of 0.74 kilograms per person per day [2]. With rapid population growth and urbanisation, the annual waste generation is expected to increase to 3.4 billion tonnes by year 2050. The same trend can be seen in Malaysia. The waste generation rate in this country has been steadily increasing from 12.3 million tonnes in year 2013 to 13.9 million tonnes in year 2018 [3]. This amount is expected to increase to 14.4 million tonnes by year 2020