Aspects Of Coherence Research Articles

The Effect of Reading Interest and Achievement Motivation on Students’ Discourse Analysis Competence

Discourse analysis involves analyzing the language being used. This research investigates the effect of reading interest and achievement motivation on students’ discourse analysis competence. To obtain the required data, questionnaires on reading interest and achievement motivation, and discourse analysis were used to test the aspects of cohesion and coherence and were administered to a group of 60 students of the English language study program at Bina Darma University in Palembang. Students’ reading interest and achievement motivation are some of the most crucial issues in the field of education. To analyze the data, path analysis was used and the results showed a positive direct effect on (1) reading interest of students’ discourse analysis competence with a coefficient value 0.253, and (2) achievement motivation on students’ discourse analysis competence with a coefficient value 0.284. The magnitude of the direct effects of reading interest and achievement motivation on students’ discourse analysis was 44.6%.

Coherence in Machine Translation Output

Coherence is a cognitive process. It plays a key role in argumentation and thematic progression. To be characterised by appropriate coherence relations and structured in a logical manner, coherent discourse/text should have a context and a focus. However, it receives little attention in Machine translation systems that considers the sentence the largest translation unit to deal with, the fact that excludes the context that helps in interpreting the meaning (either by human or automatic translator). In addition to that, Current MT systems suffer from a lack of linguistic information at various stages (modelling, decoding, pruning) causing the lack of coherence in the output. The present research aims at, first, capturing the different aspects of coherence, and second, introducing this notion in texts generated by machine translation based on sentence-by-sentence basis, in order to see and discuss the several phenomena that can lead to incoherent document translations with different language pairs.

Research on Interdisciplinary Characteristics: A Case Study in the Field of Artificial Intelligence

In order to show the interdisciplinary laws of the subject fields and analyze the interdisciplinary structure of the field and the contents of knowledge research, a clear-structured framework of interdisciplinary feature recognition is constructed. Taking the field of artificial intelligence as an example, this paper analyzes it from the aspects of disciplinary diversity and disciplinary coherence. Disciplinary diversity is characterized by the distribution of disciplines, Shannon entropy and Rao-Stirling index. Disciplinary coherence is based on network analysis, which mainly includes discipline citation network and core, important and marginal discipline-keyword cooccurrence network at a finer granularity level. These two levels more comprehensively show the distribution and flow of discipline knowledge in this field. Through empirical research, it is found that the field of artificial intelligence involves a variety of disciplines, and its interdisciplinary situation evolves over time, forming clusters of disciplines with tight knowledge flow. In addition, the cross-topic domains of disciplinary research are also different. The results show that the framework system has certain reliability and can provide reference for related research.

Validity of the Gastropods Popular Scientific Book in the Pulau Sembilan Kotabaru Coastal Area for High School Students

The cognitive abilities of Indonesian students are still low based on The Learning Curve in 2013, so the quality of education should be improved. One of them with environmental-based learning. Most Indonesians live in coastal areas, and some use snails as alternative dishes. Therefore, snails in coastal areas can be used as a source of learning. Interest in reading Indonesian students is also low, so the need to develop an interesting book and easily understood so that students are interested to read it. So developed a Book of Popular Scientific-based Diversitas Gastropoda in Coastal Areas. This research is the early stage of development research, which is the validation of popular science books. The purpose of this research is to develop a valid popular science book. Validation is done with three experts by giving a validation sheet of popular science books. Validation data were analyzed descriptively categorization. Suggestions and comments from validators become the reference for product revisions. Validation complete when obtaining minimum category valid. The results showed coherence aspect; legibility; active and passive sentences; method; applications and implications; definitions and explanations; and other styles the device obtains very valid category. Aspects of vocabulary; avoid dubious words; and the format obtains a valid category. Based on the results of this study, the popular scientific books developed have met the rules of popular scientific writing that is interesting and easy to understand, so this popular scientific book can be used by the community and students.

Coherent Aspects of Multifaceted Eco-friendly Biopolymer - Polyglutamic Acid from the Microbes

Coherent Aspects of Multifaceted Eco-friendly Biopolymer - Polyglutamic Acid from the Microbes

An Analysis of Paragraph Writing Abilities of English Department Students UNM

Studies on the errors of linguistic elements in students’ writings have been carried out. Students learning English as a Foreign Language from various universities seem tomake the time same type of errors, for example in aspects of tenses, verb forms, perpositions, subject-verb agreement, word order, and passive contrainst (Rahman et al. 2016; Murrow, 2004; Rahman, 1994; & Rahman & Rasyid). This study is expected to find the weaknessess of students of English Department, Faculty of Languages and Literature in terms of paragraph writing. In particular, this research examined the ability of students to write or develop paragraphsin terms of unity, coherence, and development aspects. The findings of this study will be useful for instructors/lecturers of Writing couses especially in developing syllabus and effective writing exercises.

Dimensi Epistemologis Tafsir al-Qur’an Aktual Karya KH. Musta’in Syafi’i

This article attempts to reveal epistemological dimension of Musta’in Syafi’i’s interpretation in his work Tafsir al-Qur’an Aktual. It employs the perspective of truth theory which has been widely known within the philosophy of science. As a product of interpretation, Musta’in’s work has been a result of scientific work whose validity can be critically evaluated on the basis of three standards of truth, namely coherence, correspondence, and pragmatic aspect covered in the work. The study finds that the validity of interpretation of Musta’in is measurable. The measurability of this work can be seen within its coherence in presenting propositions systematically, logically, and consistently. The coherence of propositions and argumentative facts show us that Musta’in’s work is correspondently accurate. Musta’in’s work, moreover, is pragmatically advantageous as it corresponds to scientific expediency when it worthily contributes to provide the society solutions and answers to their social problems and other aspects regarding Islamic laws.

HUBUNGAN MEDIA SOSIAL DENGAN KETERAMPILAN MENULIS PARAGRAF ARGUMENTASI MAHASISWA DI POLITEKNIK NEGERI BATAM

This study aims to determine the relationship between social media and the argumentative paragraph writing skill of Politeknik Negeri Batam students. This study employs a descriptive method, with 70 students as the research subjects. In this study, students were asked to do a practice in the form of writing an argumentative paragraph. An analysis from the obtained data is then conducted to find out their mastery in composing a paragraph. As the basis for the assessment, scores in unity, coherence, and development aspect were assigned to each paragraph. These three aspects were then collected and summed up to find the mean of the data, which had been grouped and assigned score before, to determine their mastery level in writing an argumentative paragraph. Subsequently, the data were inserted into a table. Based on the table, which recapitulates the mastery level in writing an argumentative paragraph, the results are as follows: 43 % of the students have a high level of mastery, with 58 % of them having access to social media; 37 % of the students are in the medium level of mastery, with 28 % of them having access to social media; 20 % is in the low level of mastery, with 13 % of them having access to social media. The results of this study show that students who are active in social media have the ability to write a good argumentative paragraph. This might be due to the fact that activities in social media enhance their writing skill, which is closely related to the four aspects of language competencies, which consist of observing, reading, listening, and writing.

Making al-Qa’ida legible: Counter-terrorism and the reproduction of terrorism

Why did America’s counter-terrorism strategy in Yemen fail to contain al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula in the years prior to the Yemeni government’s collapse in 2015? Moreover, why did the US administration think that its strategy was successful? This article draws from field research in Yemen and a diverse array of other Yemeni sources to argue that the answer lies in the fact that there are two broad, but ultimately irreconcilable, ontologies of what al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula ‘really is’: one legible, organisationally rational and thus governable; and one not entirely so. I argue that by targeting tangible elements of al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (such as its leaders, sources of revenue and bases) in partnership with the Yemeni state security apparatus, the strategy strengthened the group’s less coherent aspects. As a result, Western counter-terrorism practices target a stripped-down, synoptic version of the group while missing, even empowering, the shadowy appendage of state or hegemonic power that animates popular Yemeni discourses. This article is concerned with what al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula looks like when we prioritise Yemeni observations about how it emerged and is reproduced. I argue that seeing al-Qa’ida as at least partly illegible removes counter-terrorism’s obvious targets, making it more suited to quelling anxieties than actually preventing terrorism.

Governance for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: How important are participation, policy coherence, reflexivity, adaptation and democratic institutions?

It is widely accepted that the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) depends on effective governance arrangements. However, it is less clear which modes and aspects of governance are important for which of the 17 goals. Until now, empirical research has mostly studied individual cases, with comparative studies largely missing. Here, we conduct a comparative analysis among 41 high and upper-middle income countries for the year 2015, drawing on the Sustainable Governance Indicators, the Global SDG Indicators Database and other official sources. Using multiple regression, we test the influence of different aspects of governance, namely participation, policy coherence, reflexivity, adaptation and democratic institutions on SDG achievement at the national level, controlling for the effects of additional socio-economic conditions. Of the tested factors, democratic institutions and participation as well as economic power, education and geographic location serve to explain SDG achievement.

Coherence Aspects Within Efl Essay

<p>The purpose of this research is to discover Indonesian undergraduate students’ understanding in composing a coherence English essay. The subjects of the research are essay texts written by thirty undergraduate students using theme “Students’ attitude toward Indonesian language” chosen randomly. The analysis has revealed that s coherence aspects have not used properly, more over there is one aspect is not used. The coherence aspects consist of repetition key noun, using consistent pronoun, transition signals and logical order. This research is designed as library research using content analysis method. Data are analyzed to investigated the coherency in students’ essay.</p><p>Key words: essay, coherence</p>

Adaptive Quantum Optics with Spatially Entangled Photon Pairs.

Light shaping facilitates the preparation and detection of optical states and underlies many applications in communications, computing, and imaging. In this Letter, we generalize light shaping to the quantum domain. We show that patterns of phase modulation for classical laser light can also shape higher orders of spatial coherence, allowing deterministic tailoring of high-dimensional quantum entanglement. By modulating spatially entangled photon pairs, we create periodic, topological, and random patterns of quantum illumination, without effect on intensity. We then structure the quantum illumination to simultaneously compensate for entanglement that has been randomized by a scattering medium and to characterize the medium's properties via a quantum measurement of the optical memory effect. The results demonstrate fundamental aspects of spatial coherence and open the field of adaptive quantum optics.

Krisztina Károly. Aspects of Cohesion and Coherence in Translation

Krisztina Károly. <i>Aspects of Cohesion and Coherence in Translation</i>

Entanglement production by the magnetic dipolar interaction dynamics

We consider two qubits prepared in a product state and evolved under the magnetic dipolar interaction (MDI). We describe the dependence of the entanglement generated by the MDI with time, with the interaction parameters, and with the system’s initial state, identifying the symmetry and coherence aspects of those initial configurations that yield the maximal entanglement. We also show how one can obtain maximum entanglement from the MDI applied to some families of partially entangled initial states.

Ineffectiveness of Sentences in Bilingual Books in Children’s Literature

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What does scalp electroencephalogram coherence tell us about long-range cortical networks?

Long-range interactions between cortical areas are undoubtedly a key to the computational power of the brain. For healthy human subjects, the premier method for measuring brain activity on fast timescales is electroencephalography (EEG), and coherence between EEG signals is often used to assay functional connectivity between different brain regions. However, the nature of the underlying brain activity that is reflected in EEG coherence is currently the realm of speculation, because seldom have EEG signals been recorded simultaneously with intracranial recordings near cell bodies in multiple brain areas. Here, we take the early steps towards narrowing this gap in our understanding of EEG coherence by measuring local field potentials with microelectrode arrays in two brain areas (extrastriate visual area V4 and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) simultaneously with EEG at the nearby scalp in rhesus macaque monkeys. Although we found inter-area coherence at both scales of measurement, we did not find that scalp-level coherence was reliably related to coherence between brain areas measured intracranially on a trial-to-trial basis, despite that scalp-level EEG was related to other important features of neural oscillations, such as trial-to-trial variability in overall amplitudes. This suggests that caution must be exercised when interpreting EEG coherence effects, and new theories devised about what aspects of neural activity long-range coherence in the EEG reflects.

Electronic literary text: cohesion and coherence aspects

The article deals with the questions of electronic literary text cohesion and coherence specifity. Development of informational and communicational technologies in modern world transformed the text materiality. Nowadays its basic categories relate mostly to the electronic communication features. Electronic text became significant in all spheres of human communication. This factor makes this phenomenon relevant for the research and educational options on the topic. The research materials include several electronic texts (based on different platforms and technologies such as Adobe Flash, Scalar, HTML 5) that demonstrate the use of conceptually valid poly-code elements in their semantic structure. The basic characteristics of the text (printed or electronic) are the categories of cohesion and coherence. The cohesion specifity results from dual (verbal and non-verbal) structure of electronic literary text. The author suggests that the structural aspect of the electronic literary text semantic cohesion is not isolated from the other types of verbal and nonverbal elements correlations because it is not semantic self-contained and complete. The semantic cohesion of electronic literary text poly-code elements is usually represented in both structural and identifying aspects.

Auxin signaling: a big question to be addressed by small molecules.

Providing a mechanistic understanding of the crucial roles of the phytohormone auxin has been an important and coherent aspect of plant biology research. Since its discovery more than a century ago, prominent advances have been made in the understanding of auxin action, ranging from metabolism and transport to cellular and transcriptional responses. However, there is a long road ahead before a thorough understanding of its complex effects is achieved, because a lot of key information is still missing. The availability of an increasing number of technically advanced scientific tools has boosted the basic discoveries in auxin biology. A plethora of bioactive small molecules, consisting of the synthetic auxin-like herbicides and the more specific auxin-related compounds, developed as a result of the exploration of chemical space by chemical biology, have made the tool box for auxin research more comprehensive. This review mainly focuses on the compounds targeting the auxin co-receptor complex, demonstrates the various ways to use them, and shows clear examples of important basic knowledge obtained by their usage. Application of these precise chemical tools, together with an increasing amount of structural information for the major components in auxin action, will certainly aid in strengthening our insights into the complexity and diversity of auxin response.

Kinetic mixing between a Higgs boson and a nearly degenerate dark scalar: Oscillations and displaced vertices

Extensions beyond the Standard Model allow for a gauge singlet scalar to be kinetically coupled with the Higgs. We consider kinetic mixing between a Dark scalar gauge singlet \emph{nearly degenerate} with the Higgs, focusing on the \emph{dynamical} aspects of the mixing phenomena. The renormalization program is carried out by obtaining the one-loop effective action which yields an effective non-hermitian Hamiltonian to study the dynamics of mixing. The scalar Higgs becomes a coherent superposition of the mass eigenstates, thus kinetic mixing leads to oscillations and common decay channels in striking similarity with neutral meson mixing. Near degeneracy yields an \emph{enhancement} of the kinetic coupling. For small kinetic mixing we find that the mass eigenstates feature different lifetimes which result in a wide separation of time scales of evolution along with important coherence aspects from Dark scalar-Higgs interference. The wide separation of scales is manifest as displaced decay vertices which could potentially be a telltale experimental signal of kinetic mixing.

Reconciling Agency Fee Doctrine, the First Amendment, and the Modern Public Sector Union

Few institutions have done more to improve working conditions for the middle class than labor unions. Their efforts, of course, cost money. To fund union activities, thousands of collective bargaining agreements across the nation have long included provisions permitting employers to require employees to pay fair share, or fees. In public unions when the employer is the government this arrangement creates tension between two important values: the First Amendment's protection against compelled expression, and the collective benefits of worker representation. When confronted with this tension nearly forty years ago in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, the Supreme Court struck an uneasy compromise, allowing public sector unions to recoup expenses for collective bargaining, not for political activity. For decades, the decision has been a lightning rod, with some scholars calling for its reversal and others insisting on its preservation. In the meantime, the realities of modern public sector collective bargaining have changed, and First Amendment jurisprudence has evolved. The Supreme Court has recently signaled an interest in revisiting the issue, and test cases are making their way through the circuit courts. The time has come to reconsider Abood's fragile compromise. This Article offers a new way forward within the First Amendment, one that honors the importance of both union activity and free expression. It proposes a way to reconcile these twin interests while also updating the doctrine to account for state legislative efforts, modern union realities, and First Amendment jurisprudential developments. Specifically, the Article argues that agency fees should be brought into step with current political contribution and campaign finance jurisprudence. Under this approach, some agency fees but only those that are closely drawn to avoid unnecessary expressive infringement will remain lawful. This approach, a middle ground, may not satisfy those who ardently oppose agency fees of any kind, or those who want Abood's rule fully upheld. Still, it emerges as the best way forward through a difficult terrain: It avoids the false dichotomy between union and political activities, respects state legislatures that craft innovative collective bargaining statutes, and grounds public sector agency fees with other coherent aspects of First Amendment jurisprudence.