Bad Examples Research Articles

Pemimpin: Sebuah Komposisi Karawitan

The Leaders. This karawitan compotition based on the current situations of Indonesian political leaders andgovernment. As we can see from printed and electronic media, there are political leaders and government peoplewho corrupt, violate the laws, and so on. This has inspired the writer to write a piece of karawitan compositionentitled “The Leader”. In this composition, the writer is trying to criticize the situations, give some moral messages,and ask people not to follow the bad examples of those leaders. The process of composition has involved phaseslike exploration of the ideas, improvisation, and composition. This composition is played softly in laras pelog patetbarang and it can take the form of ladrang, ayak-ayak, lancaran and playon.

Good and bad examples of qualitative research

Good and bad examples of qualitative research. Not all the research papers are of good quality and contribute to the development of the knowledge. Good and less good examples of qualitative research are presented and commented on, exploring their contribution to the knowledge of a subject, and motivating why the research can be considered a good or less good example.

Bad Examples: Children, Servants, and Masturbation in Nineteenth-Century France

B e i t i n t h e i n t e r e s t o f r o u s s e a u i a n frankness or in pursuit of a succes de scandale, Andre Gide opens his autobiography, Si le grain ne meurt (If It Die, published in 1926), with a particularly provocative scene of child’s play. The year is around 1874, and a five-year-old Andre and his little friend of the same age are hiding under a table covered with a tablecloth. Their activity is a cause of concern for Andre’s nursemaid: “‘what are you up to under there?’ my nurse would call out. ‘Nothing; we’re playing.’ And then we would make a great noise with our playthings, which we had taken along for the sake of appearances [pour la frime].” The word choice of the nursemaid’s enquiry, “Qu’est-ce que vous fabriquez la-dessous?,” suggests that the boys may be engaged in some form of pernicious yet purposeful work. Andre’s response, meanwhile, is to assert on the contrary an absence of activity—the boys are doing “nothing”—which is apparently synonymous with play—“we’re playing.” Yet that play is, we quickly learn, a sham; the toys the boys shake have been brought pour la frime, as a decoy. In truth, of course, the boys are masturbating, or engaging in what Andre will later learn are called “bad habits” (mauvaises habitudes). This activity is, nevertheless, not entirely unlike play: it is itself a kind of fun (“we amused ourselves otherwise,” Gide observes, teasingly), and, as Michael Lucey points out, the boys’ “way of noisily shaking their toys is inevitably metonymically associated with their masturbation.” The substitution of autoeroticism for social play—the boys masturbated, Gide insists, together but separately, “beside each other but not with each other” (l’un pres de l’autre, mais non l’un avec l’autre pourtant)—is an

REAL WORLD DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION IN THE STUDENTS FIRST DATABASE COURSE

All Computer Information Systems programs require a database course for their majors. This paper describes an approach to such a course in which real world examples, both design projects and actual database application projects are incorporated throughout the semester. Working on real projects for real users gives the students valuable experience. Database consulting scenarios are also discussed, showing both good and bad examples of real issues a real consultant encountered. Students are expected to apply the traditional database concepts to actual database storage problems. The design of the database is emphasized and a number of “tricks” are offered to aid the student in this process. User interaction is required in connection with the student’s actual individual database project. The details of a database written by the Author to organize all information surrounding the student’s project are presented. Course content is discussed and recommendations are made.

Wayward Sons and Failing Fathers:

It has been a long time since anyone has taken seriously the possibility that a literary source might ever be identified for Chaucer’s Cook’s Tale. The reason for this is not simply that this tale has been preserved only in what appears to be an accidentally truncated form.1 Even at fifty-eight lines long, it remains a substantial “stub,” and it provides a number of potential clues to the nature of the story that Chaucer probably intended to tell.2 Indeed, it defines its dramatis personae and its thematic concerns so fully as to create what is actually quite a detailed profile for the identity of its source, and it is perhaps precisely because this profile is so detailed that it has always seemed so difficult to find an exact enough match for it among all the classical or medieval stories that Chaucer is likely to have known. In other words, it is not an absence of

Sprawling and urban transportation system: impacts in the city of londrina, parana, brazil

After nearly 80 years since the construction of its core, represented today by the city’s central area, Londrina, located in the state of Parana, has the appearance of a new city but its features and trends of planning policies depict the bad examples of Brazilian cities. With a booming urban growth, from north to south of the county, the urban interstices represented by big voids in the middle of the city created speculation and the concept of an ideal city slowly disappeared. With a metropolitan appearance and, at the same time, with small town aspects, Londrina stands out as an automobile-oriented city, a fact that has impacted the livelihood of the population, generating environmental impacts for all social classes. This paper discusses how the form of occupation in Londrina, characterized by the sprawl phenomenon and its relation to car preference as a mode of transportation has generated urban environmental impacts. It was concluded that the choice of using cars in Londrina, as well in other medium-sized Brazilian cities studied by the comparative method, has increased and has generated bottlenecks in traffi c. As a consequence, there is a constant expropriation of properties for widening roads and at the same time, the presence of various densities and urban voids that form an uneven urban space and an obstacle to effi cient urban planning.

Connectedness and connectivity of the Natura 2000 network of protected areas across country borders in the European Union

We studied the spatial connectedness of Natura 2000 site boundaries and the functional connectivity of the Natura 2000 network across the 34 terrestrial borders of the European Union. Connectivity was measured by the dispersal success of 192 reptile, amphibian, invertebrate and plant species from Annex II of the European Union Habitats Directive, based on the presence of same species on both sides of the borders. Connectedness and connectivity varied greatly between state borders, with good and bad examples found in all parts of the European Union. Connectedness and connectivity were positively correlated. However, a few outlying examples showed that good connectedness is not necessarily associated with good connectivity and that good connectivity is not always possible because of different habitats and/or different management on both sides of border. In 13 out of 34 borders the connectivity measure was 100% and in 11 other borders it was over 50%. Very few of the geographical and political factors tested to explain variation in connectedness and connectivity were significant. Better connectedness and connectivity, both at the border and site-pair level, was correlated with the rivers forming the border. The time since the designation of the second site in a site-pair was nearly significant, suggesting that connectivity might have always existed in nature but the ‘documentation of it’ required some time for additional site inventories. It seems that each country border has its own history with a unique subset of factors influencing Natura 2000 site selection and management thus generalising our findings to other international borders would be difficult. We did not find substantial differences in trans-boundary connectivity among taxonomic groups. The application of our method elsewhere in the World would perhaps bring interesting results at a large (continental or sub-continental) scale, provided that similar data are available.

Sprawl e o modal de transporte motorizado: impactos na cidade de Londrina, PR

Após cerca de 80 anos desde a construção do seu núcleo, representado hoje pela área central da cidade, Londrina, no interior do Estado do Paraná, configura-se como uma cidade nova, porém com características e tendências de políticas de planejamento que reproduzem os maus exemplos das cidades brasileiras. Com uma ocupação urbana em franca expansão, o crescimento de norte a sul do município agrega vazios urbanos e especulação imobiliária nos seus interstícios que delineia uma cidade longe da ideal, conforme pensada nos seus primórdios. Com um ar metropolitano, e ao mesmo tempo com aspectos interioranos, Londrina é marca de uma ocupação orientada por políticas excludentes e interesses imobiliários, fato que tem impactado o modo de vida da população e gerado impactos ambientais para todas as classes sociais. Esta pesquisa discute a forma de ocupação urbana de Londrina, caracterizada pelo fenômeno de sprawl e sua relação com o modo de expansão observado e as implicações do uso intensivo de automóveis. A opção pelo uso do automóvel em Londrina tem sido crescente e gerado congestionamentos no trânsito. Como consequência, tem-se a desapropriação constante de imóveis para alargamento de vias e, ao mesmo tempo, a presença de vazios urbanos e densidades diversas formando um espaço urbano desigual e dificultando um planejamento urbano eficiente.

Mixed messages in learning communication skills? Students comparing role model behaviour in clerkships with formal training

Background: Medical students learn professional communication through formal training and in clinical practice. Physicians working in clinical practice have a powerful influence on student learning. However, they may demonstrate communication behaviours not aligning with recommendations in training programs.Aims: This study aims to identify more precisely what differences students perceive between role model communication behaviour during clerkships and formal training.Method: In a cross-sectional study, data were collected about physicians’ communication performance as perceived by students. Students filled out a questionnaire in four different clerkships in their fourth and fifth year.Results: Just over half of the students reported communication similar to formal training. This was especially true for students in the later clerkships (paediatrics and primary care). Good examples were seen in providing information corresponding to patients’ needs and in shared decision making, although students often noted that in fact the doctor made the decision. Bad examples were observed in exploring cognitions and emotions, and in providing information meeting patient's pace.Conclusions: Further study is needed on actual physician behaviour in clinical practice. From our results, we conclude that students need help in reflecting on and learning from the gap in communication patterns they observe in training versus clinical practice.

Book Review: Living Journalism: Principles & Practices for an Essential Profession

Rich Martin Living Journalism: Principles & Practices for an Essential Profession. Scottsdale, AZ: Holcomb Hathaway, 2011. 169 pp.We have all seen the headlines and heard stories about an erosion of respect for and for those who practice it. A Google search for the term public trust in journalism returned more than 8 million hits linking to articles or blogs with such provocative headlines as,* Why Should the Trust Journalists?* Restoring Journalism Trust: Is It Too Late?* American Journalism Is in a Crisis.And the trend is not new. Those headlines appeared in 2000, 2005, and 2008, respectively. A January 2010 conference at the University of Missouri-Columbia followed a premise that Public Trust in Journalism Has Been Eroding for Decades.In such a climate, the time could not be better for a book that celebrates the best of and offers aspiring journalists a guide for following the most vaunted traditions in the field. Such are the achievements of the new book by Rich Martin, a longtime self-described newspaperman and now head of the University of Illinois- Urbana/Champaign department.Martin's book offers sixteen chapters of information, hints, and ideas on many essential aspects of the journalistic enterprise-from how to nurture your curiosity and ask good questions to the importance of being accurate and admitting mistakes when they occur. Martin interweaves general precepts with many compelling and pertinent stories from practitioners of their proudest moments as well as illustrative cautionary tales of what they learned from mistakes. While Martin celebrates the best of journalistic practice and its transformative potential for communities and society, he is not an apologist for the profession and cites bad examples along with exemplary ones.Martin's tome would be a useful and inspiring guidebook for professionals, particularly those with less experience. However, it is focused with the student audience in mind. Each chapter ends with a checklist, highlighting key points in the chapter, along with two or more suggested assignments for learning or reinforcing the lessons on each topic. Yet despite the focus for a student audience, this book would be more appropriate for advanced classes than for beginners. It is not organized for those just learning elements such as AP style, attribution, leads, and nut graphs. It would be a wonderful primary or secondary text for, say, an advanced reporting course in which students are delving deeper into learning professional practice and have already had a chance to try what they have learned in introductory classes. …

Challenges When Establishing a Seismic Network

The number of seismic stations worldwide has increased enormously over the past decades and continues to rise as new and denser networks are installed. The increase in station numbers has gone in parallel with instrumental developments, so that today broadband seismometers and high dynamic range digitizers are the standard for most applications. While the decision to acquire high-spec instruments may appear obvious, there are other requirements for the successful and sustainable operation of a seismic network. Over the years we have seen good and bad examples of seismic networks, and we believe it is time to reflect on our experience and address some issues not normally covered in textbooks. This will not be a name and shame exercise. We will also avoid a distinction between developed and developing countries because the issues are similar, although possibly more pronounced in the latter where it is more likely that a completely new network will be established. Skills and knowledge, and a sufficient operational budget, are essential to sustain a seismic network. It often seems that too little emphasis is spent on this part; instead one mostly worries about the initial investment. We have over the years contributed to workshops and training courses, mostly on the operation of seismic networks and processing of earthquake data, and as authors of the SEISAN analysis software we have provided a substantial amount of user support. We have thus had plenty of communication with network operators and people working in data processing around the world, mostly in developing countries. From places where it seems that insufficient training was received we frequently get questions about topics such as the correction for instrument response and general earthquake processing (phase picking, location, magnitude). We …

The Possible Dream: Perfecting Bilingual Law Dictionaries by Distinguishing Better Examples from Bad Examples

As the practice of law crosses national (and linguistic) borders with increasing frequency, the need for tools that facilitate the transnational practice of law becomes more acute. Bilingual legal dictionaries (BLDs) are one critical such tool, as they offer access to legal systems as well as the languages of these systems. Unfortunately, librarians have offered scant criticism of BLDs, many of which are not particularly useful. This article summarizes critical problems with BLDs and offers an approach to resolving these problems by focusing upon the quality of the entries, or definitions, that BLDs provide.

A corpora-based detection of stylistic inconsistencies of text in the targeted subgenre

Any text, be it written by humans or generated by computers, must choose a specific style and be consistent. Textual style is based on the genre to which the text should belong. Each genre has its unique characteristics based on the style of narration, the topic, the target audience, and the author’s intentions. Thus, in order to write or produce better passages, a finer-grained style checker sensitive to differences among genres is to be developed. We propose a foundational method for this purpose: the flexible accumulation of data of the style features of atomic expressions based on any kind of contrastive sets of texts representing the good and bad examples for the targeted genre, an analysis of a given text using the style features, and a visualization to effectively help the author detect anomalies for the targeted genre. Any type of genre-sensitive style checker will implement our method or similar ones.

Categorization of good and bad examples of natural scene categories

Categorization of good and bad examples of natural scene categories

An evaluation of object oriented example programs in introductory programming textbooks

Research shows that examples play an important role for cognitive skill acquisition. Students as well as teachers rank examples as important resources for learning to program. Therefore examples must be consistent with the principles and rules of the topics we are teaching. However, educators often struggle to find or develop objectoriented example programs of high quality. Common examples are often perceived as not fully faithful to all principles and guidelines of the object-oriented paradigm, or as not following general pedagogical principles and practices. Unless students are able to engage with good examples, they will not be able to tell desirable from undesirable properties in their own and others' programs. In this paper we report on a study in which experienced educators reviewed a wide range of object-oriented examples for novices from popular textbooks. This review was accomplished using an on-line checklist that elicited responses on 10 quality factors. Results show that the evaluation instrument provides a sufficiently consistent set of responses to distinguish examples. The paper then goes on to examine some of the characteristics of good and bad examples and how this study will influence the evolution of the evaluating instrument.

Processes that influence noncondom use behaviour of adolescents in KwaZulu Natal

Objectives: The objective of this study is to determine the processes that influence individual determinants of non-condom use behaviour of adolescents and the processes that are involved in deciding to have safer sex in adolescents in a cohort of schools in KwaZulu-Natal. Methods: A semi-structured interview schedule that is based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour taking contextual factors in consideration was developed. 36 in-depth interviews and 9 focus group discussions were done in 9 schoolsin KwaZulu-Natal. Results: Characteristics of condom use behaviour in five types emerged. The types were: i) Strong intention to have safer sex - due to parents, fear, future plans or self-respect; ii) Strong intention to have safer sex - learning through experience and bad examples; iii) Unsafe sex - impact of male dominance and sexual power; iv) Unsafe sex - multiple factors interacting with sexual behaviour and v) Almost safer sex. Conclusions: This study clearly demonstrates the heterogeneity within the groups studied. It also shows the importance that the specific context and heterogeneity through community involvement is taken into account when developing intervention.Key words: Adolescents; Condom-use; HIV

Prototypeneffekte im Grenzbereich von Phonologie und Morphologie

This article presents names in science fiction and fantasy stories with problematic morphological structures as well as manufactured names which produce sound symbolic effects. The examples show a continuum from sound shape to recurring groups of sounds to morphemes. Not only individual phonemes, but also gestalts seem to constitute a level in language processing. Psychologically oriented approaches, e.g. prototype theory, deal with exactly these problems, structured categories, good and bad examples as well as continua between categories, even sound symbolism. They try to find systematicity where traditional linguistic approaches fail.

Editors’ message: The housing crisis from underground—damage to a historic town by geothermal drillings through anhydrite, Staufen, Germany

Geothermal energy can be used for heating, electric power generation and other applications (e.g. Seyboth et al. 2008). The confidence of the public in this technology is currently compromised by several bad examples where inappropriate implementation of geothermal installations has caused avoidable damage. A dramatic but instructive case is presented here. This article is a plea both for the reasonable use of geothermal energy and for more geologic and hydrogeologic competence and education in geothermics. Connoisseurs of classical German literature know the historic town of Staufen (7,800 inhabitants; Fig. 1) as the town of Doctor Faust, immortalised by the eponymous drama written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749– 1832). The town is currently suffering severe damage that began immediately following geothermal drillings in the city centre. Staufen is located in the Upper Rhine Graben, within the tectonic transition zone between the central graben and the Black Forest. The graben is filled with several kilometres of sediments; the Black Forest mainly consists of crystalline rocks. In the transition or foothill zone (German: Vorbergzone), Mesozoic sedimentary rocks are present below the surface or crop out as ridges and hills, reflecting the fault pattern and tilting of the strata. In this region, the Upper Triassic (Keuper), which is also present below Staufen, includes gypsum and anhydrite layers and lenses of substantial thickness, which is common knowledge and documented in publications and geologic maps. Even a standard German-language textbook entitled Geologie von Mitteleuropa (Geology of Central Europe) mentions noteworthy anhydrite occurrences in this region (Walter 1992). Anhydrite transforms into gypsum when it comes in contact with water, resulting in a volume increase of up to 61% that can generate pressures of 5–10 MN/m. Geotechnical engineering books, including traditional German textbooks, discuss this problem and recommend avoiding any contact between anhydrite and groundwater in all types of construction activities (Prinz 1991). There are numerous well-studied examples, internationally and in southwest Germany, where swelling of anhydrite caused severe geotechnical problems during construction of roads, tunnels or buildings. In the USA alone, an oftcited study by Jones and Holtz (1973) calculated that shrinking or swelling materials inflicted at least $2.3 billion USD annually in damage to houses, buildings and roads. This geologic and geotechnical knowledge appears to have been ignored during the Staufen project, and a predictable disaster has run its course. In late 2007, seven boreholes, up to 140 m deep, were drilled into the gypsumand anhydrite-bearingKeuper formations, creating hydraulic contact between anhydrite and confined groundwater. The boreholes were cased in the uppermost part, while the deeper parts remained uncased. A few weeks after drilling, cracks started to form in nearby buildings. Geodetic measurements soon revealed that the ground was rising. Since then, the impacted area has increased steadily; 131 houses are currently affected, with some houses seriously damaged (Fig. 2). The highest uplift exceeds 1 cm/month, with no signs yet of slowing. The uplift rate and the degree of damage generally decrease with increasing distance from the drillings (statement to the press, released in December 2008 on the website of Staufen, www.stadt-staufen.de). One type of crack is particularly prominent and frightening: vertical, open cracks that seem to be oriented towards the area of the drillings and tend to cut the impacted buildings from the ceiling to the roof (Fig. 3). It is conceptualised that these types of radially divergent, vertical cracks also exists underground, caused by serious swelling of a cylindrical zone around the drillings. At the N. Goldscheider ()) Centre of Hydrogeology (CHYN), University of Neuchâtel, Rue Emile-Argand 11, 2009, Neuchâtel, Switzerland e-mail: nico.goldscheider@unine.ch Tel.: +41-32-7182645

O ensino-aprendizagem da relação médico-paciente: estudo de caso com esudantes do último semestre do curso de medicina

Tendo em vista a importância da relação médico-paciente nas dimensões técnica, humanística, ética e estética da prática médica, este estudo teve por objetivo conhecer como estudantes do último semestre do curso de Medicina de uma universidade federal do Sul do Brasil aprenderam a relação médico-paciente. Foi realizado estudo de caso de abordagem mista, por meio de entrevista semi-estruturada com 25 acadêmicos do universo de 47, selecionados aleatoriamente, por sorteio. Os aspectos percebidos como mais influentes no processo de ensino-aprendizagem da relação médico-paciente foram os bons e maus modelos, atendimentos realizados no dia-a-dia e relacionamentos interpessoais. As aulas sobre o tema foram consideradas escassas. Quinze estudantes (60%) referiram querer aprender mais sobre a relação médico-paciente durante o curso, em aulas com abordagem de situações específicas, tendo sido sugerida uma disciplina sobre o tema. Concluiu-se que o ensino-aprendizagem da relação médico-paciente poderia ser promovido pelo treinamento em habilidades de comunicação e pela criação de espaços para reflexão mediados por professores ou médicos ao longo do curso.

Leadership observations of an undercover fast‐food worker

PurposeThe article aims to provide a personal view of working in a fast‐food service environment.Design/methodology/approachThis is an opinion piece written by a professor at SUNY Buffalo's School of Management.FindingsThe author worked undercover as a crew member in one of the “big three” fast food companies, a site particularly rich with good and bad leadership examples which are summarised.Originality/valueThe article provides insightful examples of present employment relations and leadership skills in the American fast‐food industry.