Passivity: True or False? Fact or Opinion?

The purpose of this study were to (1) describe the ability of students to determine the sentence facts through intensive reading class X-SMAK SMK Padang, (2) describe the ability of students to determine the sentence opinions through intensive reading class X-SMAK SMK Padang, (3) describes the differences of students' ability to distinguish between fact and opinion sentences through intensive reading class X-SMAK SMK Padang. The data of this research is a test answer sheet that was held on December 6, 2012. Tests to be objective about the amount of about 30 grains of matter, which consists of 15 questions and 15 questions facts opinions. The data sources of this study are writing as a source of primary sources of the student-SMAK SMK Padang. Data collected view of providing intensive reading test paragraphs of the matter abjektif given researchers. The findings of the study showed that there is a difference in determining the sentence facts and opinions. The ability to determine the facts sentences (69.80%) and subjective (63.88%) .

Despite the interdisciplinary bent of legal scholars, the academy has yet to identify an empirical methodology that is uniquely its own. We propose that one standard social science technique - content analysis - could form the basis for an empirical methodology that is uniquely legal. It holds the potential for bringing social science rigor to our empirical understanding of caselaw, and therefore for creating what is distinctively a legal form of empiricism. To explore this potential, we collected all 122 examples we could find that use content analysis to study judicial opinions, and coded them for pertinent features. Legal scholars began to code and count cases decades ago, but use of this method did not accelerate until about 15 years ago. Most applications are home-grown, with no effort to draw on established social science techniques. To provide methodological guidance, we survey the questions that legal scholars have tried to answer through content analysis, and use that experience to generalize about the strengths and weaknesses of the technique compared with conventional interpretive legal methods. The epistemological roots of content analysis lie in legal realism. Any question that a lawyer might ask about what courts say or do can be studied more objectively using one of the four distinct components of content analysis: 1) replicable selection of cases; 2) objective coding of cases; 3) counting case contents for descriptive purposes; or 4) statistical analysis of case coding. Each of these components contributes something of unique epistemological value to legal research, yet at each of these four stages, some legal scholars have objected to the technique. The most effective response is to recognize that content analysis does not occupy the same epistemological ground as conventional legal scholarship. Instead, each method renders different kinds of insights that complement each other, so that, together, the two approaches to understanding caselaw are more powerful that either alone. Content analysis is best used when each decision should receive equal weight, that is, when it is appropriate to regard the content of opinions as generic data. Scholars have found that it is especially useful in studies that question or debunk conventional legal wisdom. Content analysis also holds promise in the study of the connections between judicial opinions and other parts of the social, political, or economic landscape. The strongest application is when the subject of study is simply the behavior of judges in writing opinions or deciding cases. Then, content analysis combines the analytical skills of the lawyer with the power of science that comes from articulated and replicable methods. However, analyzing the cause-and-effect relationship between the outcome of cases and the legally relevant factors presented by judges to justify their decisions raises a serious circularity problem. Therefore, content analysis is not an especially good tool for helping lawyers to predict the outcome of cases based on real-world facts. This article also provides guidance on the best practices for using this research method. We identify techniques that meet standards of social science rigor and account for the practical needs of legal researchers. These techniques include methods for case sampling, coder training, reliability testing, and statistical analysis. It is not necessary to practice this method profitably only at its highest level. Instead, we show that valuable uses can be made even by those who are largely innumerate.

This article analyses the text marks which show the student's opinion in their text production, the linguistic resources that are available in these text productions, aiming for contribution to indicate the predominant subsystem of the Theory of Evaluation. This work is characterized as a deductive, qualitative and quantitative research, with exploratory character, and it is considered a case study. The corpus of this research is constituted by 22 text productions or, in other words, interpretations of texts produced by students of the ninth grade of the Basic Education of a school in Santa Maria, RS. After choosing the corpus, we began to analyze it and to interpret it to find the results. Most students presented their opinions based on the emotion when facing a controversial fact, with the predomination of the attitude subsystem. We didn’t expect that so many occurrences would happen in the graduation subsystem. We noticed that the Appraisal System is common mainly in texts and that the evaluations we make show not only our opinion, as they also express rules, conducts and principles considered right for some, wrong for others and vice-versa.

Content Propagation in Online Social Networks

The Cretan tourism sector has been characterised by a large and rapid growth from 1970 to 2000 and has gone on the primary industry of the island. Despite the fact that this growth has seemed stagnant over the last few years, tourism is still of vital importance for the local economy. Agricultural industries are strongly linked with tourism activities and usually derive numerous benefits from them. Understanding tourists’ opinions and demands plays a crucial role in implementing appropriate and sustainable future agricultural offer strategies on the island in the future. As several studies have previously indicated, the current global economic and financial crisis has deeply cut household expenditure and 2009 has been predicted to be a difficult year for the tourism industry. This research was carried out in the western prefecture of Crete, Chania, which is characterised by its high number of mass-tourism infrastructures located in the northern coast and by its mountainous rural areas delaying development in the inland and in the southern part of the prefecture. The aim of this work is first, on the basis of data on tourists’ attitudes and preferences compiled in a specific face-to-face survey conducted in August 2009, to report on the profile of the tourists that have spent their holidays in Crete; then, regarding their local product consumption and preferences, to understand the way tourism has helped Cretan agricultural demand and try to make the future management of the sector easier. Finally, an exploratory study on the short-term economic crisis effects will be undertaken by the authors in order to uncover changes in the nature of tourists’ spending patterns and trends.

This study was conducted in order to evaluate Ministry of National Education Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum according to the opinions of mathematics teachers who work in Science and Art Centers in terms of gifted students’ education. The study group consisted of 111 mathematics teachers working at 52 Science and Art Centers which located in six regions of Turkey in 2017-2018 academic year. In this study, a quantitative research method was used. The data collection tools of the study consisted of “Teacher Opinions Scale for Gifted Education Programs” conducted with the teachers. The data obtained from the teachers was analyzed with SPSS 22 package program. As a result of the current study, mathematics teachers working in Science and Art Center thought that Mathematics Curriculum was adequate for the education of gifted students. The teachers gave similar answers according to the gender variable and evaluated the curriculum as appropriate or the education of gifted students. According to the Professional seniority variable, it was determined that there was a significant difference between all the elements of the program and the views. This difference was due to the fact that the teachers who have 21 or more seniority level according to other Professional seniority did not participate in the suitability of the curriculum for the education of gifted students. According to the teachers who have bachelor's degree, teachers who have master's degree and doctorate degree in the educational status variable, have lowered the suitability of the curriculum in terms of the education of gifted students. There is no significant difference in the region variable and the mathematics teachers in the six regions evaluated the curriculum as suitable for the education of gifted students. Taking this data into consideration, the study included suggestions for program development experts, teachers, institutions and researchers in the field.

Increasing public support for stem cell researchers may increase their influence over science policy decisions and lead to more favorable policies regarding stem cell research. Yet, until recently there was little scholarship on public opinion about the roles stem cell researchers should play in crafting science policy. A national survey of US adults found that Americans are generally supportive of stem cell researchers as policy advisers but that support is uneven throughout the public. Specifically, attitudes about stem cell researchers as policy advisers depend on gender, political beliefs, age and religiosity. Surprisingly, familiarity with science has a negative effect on attitudes about stem cell researchers as policy makers. This suggests that rather than simply “teaching” the public more scientific facts, science outreach and communication may be most effective when it is narrowly tailored to the match the interests of specific social groups. It also suggests that attitudes about stem cell researchers are rooted in deeply-held cultural dispositions and that widespread changes in public opinion are likely to occur slowly.

Ultrasound is the most sensitive method for detecting hip pathology in the first year of life. However, it has been shown that neonatal sonography, or combined sonographic-clinical screening, can cause some over-diagnosis which, when not used properly, can lead to over-treatment. We developed the concept of 'true developmental dysplasia of the hip' on the basis of our experience. Despite the still-growing popularity of Pavlik's method in the treatment of the condition, we were unable to find a study dealing with the relationship between sex, sonographic and clinical pathology, age at the start of treatment, and duration and outcome of treatment. To answer these questions, we assessed patients we had treated using Pavlik's method in a 5-year period at a special developmental dysplasia of the hip clinic. The influence of sex, clinical stability, severity of sonographic pathology and age when treatment was started was assessed according to duration, outcome of treatment and rate of avascular necrosis. In spite of the relatively small number of hips treated in this study, some conclusions can be drawn. The short period of treatment for clinically unstable hips can be surprising. As treatment was started before the age of 14 weeks, the favorable results can be attributed to this fact. There are hips which, according to our theory, will not improve spontaneously to normal; therefore, we believe that our figures reflect the real results of treatment using Pavlik's method. Practically 0% avascular necorosis for all the treated population (only one child had transient avascular necorosis of type 1) is, in our opinion, due to this fact. The high rate of success (98%) can also be attributed to early treatment.

Currently, the biogas production from organic waste (OW) refuses through AD has been and continues to be one of the most widely used processes for energy production. Usually, AD is carried out in thermophilic (TC) or mesophilic conditions (MC); some authors claim that it is far better to work in TC than MC, others explain that there are no major differences, while some others affirm that the MC has highest performance. Even if each in of single case, the statement is true, it is necessary nowadays to have a valid and objective criterion in order to compare different studies and mainly to assess the energetic sustainability of AD. To this purpose, in this paper, an Energy Sustainability Index (ESI) parameter is candidate. The ESI is the ratio between the energy obtained under form of H2 and/or CH4, and that spent as direct energy to heat the fermenting broth at the working temperature and when present, the energy spent as heat in the broth pretreatment. In Author’s opinion this fact is the first check toward sustainability of AD technology as mean to produce energy. Only in the case of ESI > 1, it is possible to consider others energy spent to produce the energy, in fact, for ESI < 1 the energy obtained is less than the spent one, i.e. the process is unsustainable. About 30 studies were initially taken into account, but only 15 of them provided the necessary information to carry out the study. Among 15, only 3 studies proved to be truly energetically sustainable, with an ESI > 1. The ESI here proposed represents the first step of a more detailed energy sustainability evaluation procedure, performed using a LCA (life cycle assessment) approach.

The anarchist way of thinking considers human to be above all institutions and hierarchical authorities. It strongly argues against any kind of subjugation that the human beingmay be subject to. In the modern period this approach has generated a new stream of opinion among the Christians in the West. This new movement which defines itself as‘Christian Anarchists’ is especially widespread among the intellectual Protestants who combat against the Church authoritarianism. The Bible itself, according to them, containsanarchist principles and as their most influential epresentative Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) says, in fact Christ’s life and teachings symbolize the anarchist approach. The present paper will also highlight the fact that a similar image of Jesus is present in the narratives of the early period Islamic sources which were penned during the time of supremacy struggles.

The aim of this paper is to analyze how italian newspapers reported 2007 economic crisis main events. Everyone gave its version of the facts. Every newspaper worked as a filter. Everyone played his game dressing the Keynesian or Liberist shirt. Every newspaper chose a very specific paradigm to follow. In some cases, showing off it as a banner throughout the long story of the crisis, in other cases changing opinion during the events. Every newspaper workesd as a spokesperson for its own vision of the facts. On the one hand, the liberists, the supporters of the market and laissez faire, the paladins of austerity, on the other hand, the Keynesians, the supporters of the welfare state and of interventionism. Both, face to face on a mediatic and conceptual battlefield where every director seeked to assert his own position. A dividing line marks this long story where it is even possible to find similar positions.

&lt;b&gt;The Hadith and Sunnah Perception of Shatibi&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;This article deals with the opinions of Shatibi on the Hadith and sunnah with deep analyzing. The main target of the study is to fix out the fact that where Shatibi has been standing in the context of his thought about the hadith and sunnah. It is well known that Shatibi has examined systematically the theories of maqasid alshariah in usul al-fiqh. Here, we have tried to find out how he had applied his theory to the hadiths. It is a significant question that whether he identified the hadith with sunnah. In addition, Shatibi's position in the perception of Sunnah along with the Qur'an is considerable fact. There are also other matters such as whether he has considered the Habar al-Wahid as a practical source and whether he has reckoned it as the sunnah.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.marife.org/marife/article/view/182"&gt;https://www.marife.org/marife/article/view/182&lt;/a&gt;

Transient transforming growth factor β1 modulation in monocytes and natural killer cells following plasma or plasma-platelet apheresis donation procedures.

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China has proposed the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), initiating a key turning point in the international finance system. Unfortunately, its design at present is quite problematic, for several reasons: it limits participation by Western countries, effectively locking in China as the undisputed leader; the lack of a Board of Directors in residence; the potential for a conflict of interest if the AIIB will fund projects within China; the potential of China to use AIIB for political purposes; the relationship the AIIB will have with already-existing international financial institutions; and the potential for a weakening of “best practices” in order to compete against the other international finance institutions. For these reasons, it was the right decision for Japan not to join as a charter member in order to negotiate the MOU; nevertheless, Japan should maintain the option of joining the AIIB in order to have leverage over the architecture of the AIIB.