Duplication Of Content Research Articles

RETRACTED: Response of steel moment and braced frames subjected to near-source pulse-like ground motions by including soil-structure interaction effects

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. It has come to our attention that there is significant duplication of text and content between this Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering article and an earlier paper by the same authors, "Response of Steel Moment and Braced Frames Subjected to Near-Source Pulse-Like Ground Motions by Including SoilStructure Interaction Effects" by Pooriya Ayough, Sara Mohamadi, Seyed Ali Haj Seiyed Taghia, Civil Engineering Journal (Vol. 3, No. 1, January, 2017, Page 15-34, http://civilejournal.org/index.php/cej/article/view/254/pdf. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that the paper is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.

Analysis of Safety Education Contents of 『Field of home life』 in Technology · Home Economics Textbook developed by the revised curriculum in 2009

본 연구의 목적은 2009 개정 중학교 기술 · 가정 교과서의 ʻ가정생활 영역ʼ에서 안전교육 내용 분석을 통해 중학생에게 실질적인 도움이 되는 안전교육의 내용을 선정하고 개선하기 위한 기초자료를 제공하는데 있다. 분석대상은 2009개정 교육과정으로 12개 출판사에서 각각 집필된 중학교 교과서 12종 총 24권이다. 분석기준은 교육부(2015)에서 제시한 안전교육 7대 표준안을 바탕으로 안전교육 관련 선행연구를 참조하여 학자들의 검토를 토대로 하여 연구자가 개발하였다. 이러한 분석기준으로 각 교과서를 읽고 ʻ안전ʼ이라고 직접 언급한 단어, ʻ심리적 안전ʼ과 ʻ행복한 삶ʼ을 의미하는 단어, ʻ주의ʼ, ʻ유의ʼ, ʻ안정ʼ과 관련된 단어 등 안전교육 분석기준의 내용과 관련이 있는 단어들을 모두 추출한 후 가정교과서 단원에 따른 안전교육 내용을 분석틀로 하여 빈도와 퍼센트를 내는 내용분석법을 사용하였다. 교과서 분석결과, 안전교육 내용 쪽수는 기술･가정 교과서 12종의 총 쪽수 3412쪽 중 336.3쪽으로 9.8%로 나타났고 권별로 안전교육 관련 내용의 비중을 분석하여 보면, 1권의 경우 안전교육 내용 비중이 총 224.9쪽, 2권의 안전교육 내용 비중이 총 111.9쪽으로 학년이 올라갈수록 가정 교과서의 안전교육 비중이 낮아졌다. 안전교육 내용 가장 많은 단원은 ʻ청소년의 자기관리ʼ 단원으로 3개의 안전교육 영역을 포함하고 있었고 ʻ청소년의 생활ʼ, ʻ녹색생활의 실천ʼ 단원 등과 같이 주로 실천과 체험, 실습이 강조되는 단원의 경우 ʻ생활안전ʼ영역의 안전교육 내용을 많이 다루고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 학생들이 가장 많이 당하는 안전사고와 관련 있는 가정 내 사고(1.4%), 실험･실습사고(0.3%)등에 대한 내용은 낮은 편으로 나타났고, 유니버설주거와 학교폭력 내용은 교과서 1권과 2권에 중복해서 제시되었다. 12종 교과서에서 가장 많이 다른 안전교육 내용은 바람직한 성태도, 식생활문제, 가족 갈등, 식품의 선택이며, 가장 적게 다룬 안전교육 내용은 유해약물, 가정 복지, 인터넷 중독, 산업재해보상보험 등이었다. 본 연구는 2009 개정 교육과정을 중심으로 개발된 교과서 12종을 분석하였기에 2015 개정 교육과정에 의해 집필된 교과서와의 비교를 통해 안전교육의 내용 체계를 분명히 하고 내용의 중복을 피할 수 있는 후속 연구가 필요하다. 또한, 교과서를 보조할 수 있는 안전교육 프로그램을 개발하여 보급할 필요가 있다.The Purpose of this study is to present the basic data for selecting and improving the safety education contents which help practically middle school students through analysis of contents of safety education in ʻfield of home lifeʼ of 2009 revised middle school textbooks. The subjects of analysis are 12 types of middle school textbooks: in total 24 books written by 12 publishers in terms of the revised curriculum in 2009. The analysis criteria is developed by the researcher referring to preceding studies regarding safety education based on the seventh safety education standard presented by the Ministry of Education (2015). With such analysis criteria, all words related to the contents of the safety education of analysis criteria were extracted from each textbook, such as words directly mentioned as ʻsafetyʼ, words mean as ʻpsychological safetyʼ and ʻhappy lifeʼ, words related to ʻattentionʼ, ʻnoteʼ, ʻstabilityʼ etc. Under the analytic frame of safety education contents according to a home economics textbook, content analysis method was used for producing the frequency and percent of those words. The textbook analysis shows that the number of pages regarding safety education is 336.3 pages, as 9.8% in total 3,412 pages of 12 types of technology and home economics textbooks. As following the analysis of each textbook volume of the proportion in the contents related to safety education, 224.9 pages are on the first volume and 111.9 pages are on the second volume. As grades increase from year one to year three, the proportion of safety education in home economics textbooks is decreased. The highest number of safety education contents unit is ʻSelf-management of youthʼ which includes three parts of safety education. In the case of a unit for emphasizing practice, experience and practical exercise such as ʻLife of youthʼ and ʻPractice of eco-livingʼ, safety education content in the area of ʻlife safetyʼ are mostly contained. Safety accidents related to the most student experienced, Household accidents (1.4%) and experiment or practice accidents (0.3%) are presented in a low figure. The contents of universal housing and school violence are duplicated on first and second volume of text. The most presented safety education content in the 12 types of textbooks are proper sexual attitude, dietary problems, family conflict and food choice. The least common contents are dangerous drugs, family welfare, internet addiction and industrial accident compensation insurance. As this study is to analyze 12 textbooks developed in 2009 revision curriculum, it is necessary to compare it with the textbook written by the revised curriculum in 2015 and to clarify the contents system of safety education and to avoid duplication of contents. In addition, it is necessary to develop and distribute a safety education program that can support textbooks.

Regulation of Cell Division.

The challenging task of mitotic cell divisions is to generate two genetically identical daughter cells from a single precursor cell. To accomplish this task, a complex regulatory network evolved, which ensures that all events critical for the duplication of cellular contents and their subsequent segregation occur in the correct order, at specific intervals and with the highest possible fidelity. Transitions between cell cycle stages are triggered by changes in the phosphorylation state and levels of components of the cell cycle machinery. Entry into S-phase and M-phase are mediated by cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks), serine-threonine kinases that require a regulatory cyclin subunit for their activity. Resetting the system to the interphase state is mediated by protein phosphatases (PPs) that counteract Cdks by dephosphorylating their substrates. To avoid futile cycles of phosphorylation and dephosphorylation, Cdks and PPs must be regulated in a manner such that their activities are mutually exclusive.

Standardized Evaluation of Candidates Before Liver Transplantation With the Transplant Evaluation Rating Scale

The Transplant Evaluation Rating Scale (TERS) was developed to provide a standardized evaluation of the psychosocial functioning of patients, before transplantation. Yet, the first 2 items of the TERS are based on psychiatric diagnoses referring to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)-III-R, which leads to a duplication of disorder-specific and symptom-specific contents, that makes it complex to rate. Moreover, the TERS has not been updated to DSM revisions and DSM is not used for the official clinical routine documentation in several European countries. The objective of this study was, therefore, to investigate the psychometric properties of a diagnoses-corrected version of the TERS (items 1 and 2 omitted). In 85 patients awaiting liver transplantation, the discrimination capacities, predictive value, convergent validity, and interrater reliability of the original version (TERS10) and the diagnoses-corrected version (TERS8) were analyzed. In both versions, patients with psychiatric diagnoses (69.4%) exhibited significantly higher TERS mean values than patients without psychiatric disorders. This also held for patients who were temporarily not found eligible for transplantation in the psychosocial evaluation (25.9%) compared with patients who were eligible for listing for transplantation. Furthermore, the area under the curve was >0.90 for both versions and a cutoff of 32.25 is suggested for TERS8 (sensitivity of 90.9% and specificity of 87.3%). Our results substantiate good psychometric properties of the revised (diagnoses corrected) TERS, which is of great benefit for standardized psychosocial evaluation before liver transplantation. Further, validation of TERS8 and its cutoff in other samples of (liver) transplantation patients is needed.

Recording the past: heritage inventories in England

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the history of heritage inventories in England and look at the requirements for a future vision of networked, digital heritage inventories to support heritage protection in England as outlined in the Heritage Information Access Strategy (HIAS). The strategy, led by Historic England, the UK Government-funded agency for heritage in England, is proposing a more formalized network where the prime sources of data relating to non-designated heritage assets will be the local authority historic environment records. Design/methodology/approach – This paper looks at the historic development of the inventories from paper-based publications to digital data sets and the proliferation of data. The Monument Inventory Data Standard Heritage will also be discussed in the context of providing a common framework. Findings – The present loose network presents several challenges for the multiple organizations maintaining similar data sets on disparate IT software, namely, the duplication of content, ownership of content and different approaches to recording practice and standards. There is a need for common data standards and controlled vocabularies in order to facilitate data exchange and interoperability across the network. Practical implications – The findings are based on the common experience of heritage inventory providers in England, but are relevant to any country where multiple inventories exist. It is anticipated that the implementation of the HIAS will provide a future-proofed environment for a shared national inventory. Originality/value – This paper presents the HIAS in its historic context. It is hoped that this may be of value to inventory programmes from outside the UK.

Effect of curriculum changes to enhance generic skills proficiency of 1st-year medical students

Background. Curriculum review is a dynamic, iterative process, and the effect of change may not always be wholly predictable. At Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa revision of the MB,ChB curriculum was undertaken to meet enhanced and changing educational and medical practice, and to provide opportunities to enhance optimal generic skills underpinning effective learning, implemented in 2008. Objective. To determine the extent to which the newly implemented revised curriculum had an effect on experience in necessary generic skills of students in their first year of study. Methods. Students provided annual formal end-of-module evaluation in addition to focus group interviews. Evaluation by teaching staff was conducted by individual in-depth interviews. A validated generic skills questionnaire completed at the end of each academic year monitored the effect on students’ generic learning skills experience. Results. Feedback from these different evaluation methods identified specific needs in the newly implemented revised curriculum, including contextualisation of interventions, unnecessary duplication of content and malalignment of assessment. This led to minor curriculum changes and an educational capacity-building programme. These responsive curriculum changes after evaluation had the intended positive effect on students’ self reported acquisition of generic learning skills. Conclusion. The objective of the curriculum evaluation was to monitor content output and the acquisition of crucial generic learning skills. Implementation of a revised curriculum combined with ongoing responsive changes aligned with careful multimodality evaluation can ensure that, in addition to scientific knowledge and skills, generic learning skills development of students is facilitated.

Copy Detection of Multimedia Contents in Cloud

In Cloud, we describe the ways to enable protection of Multimedia contents from redistributing. Web has billions of documents including video, audio and images, but there is no central management system, where duplication of contents is more common . It is said that each and every document has a duplicate copy. This is more prevelant in videos stored in multiple formats, versions, size etc. and are found unaware by content creators when modified and republished using Video Editorial Tools. This may lead to security problems and also reduplicating the identity of owners and also loss of revenue to content creators. This also occupies a enormous space over the web. In cloud storage too it is more common involving both public and private clouds. But the private cloud is said to be more secure when compared to the public cloud. So to avoid this situation some of the techniques have been used to avoid duplication of contents and focused mainly over the 3D-video contents.

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Multimedia contents such as images, videos, audio, and texts are easy to available for download through internet in worldwide. Duplication of multimedia contents is to create using different software. This type of operation some time created problem of copyright and ownership authentication. Digital watermarking techniques are usedto protect multimedia contents. This paper gives various watermarking techniques in transform domain and sparse domain for protection and authentication of multimedia contents.

Why Creating a Digital Library for the History of Medicine is Harder than You'd Think!

Why Creating a Digital Library for the History of Medicine is Harder than You'd Think!

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This and the following two articles constitute a mini-dossier analysing the nature and significance of the controversy over Australian academic and sound performer Simon Hunt's Pauline Pantsdown persona (as enacted on recordings, in public appearances and publicity material) and its relationship to Australian right-wing politician Pauline Hanson. Jon Stratton's extended analysis is complemented by two supporting articles, an interview with Simon Hunt conducted by Stratton and an essay by Hunt submitted to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation at their invitation. Stratton's article serves as an introduction to the interview and Hunt's essay (avoiding unnecessary duplication of content between the pieces)

I'M A BACK DOOR MAN

This, the previous and the following articles constitute a mini-dossier analysing the nature and significance of the controversy over Australian academic and sound performer Simon Hunt's Pauline Pantsdown persona (as enacted on recordings, in public appearances and publicity material) and its relationship to Australian right-wing politician Pauline Hanson. Jon Stratton's extended analysis is complemented by two supporting articles, an interview with Simon Hunt conducted by Stratton and an essay by Hunt submitted to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation at their invitation. Stratton's article serves as an introduction to the interview and Hunt's essay (avoiding unnecessary duplication of content between the pieces).

TWO PAULINES TO CHOOSE FROM

This interview and the previous two articles constitute a mini-dossier analysing the nature and significance of the controversy over Australian academic and sound performer Simon Hunt's Pauline Pantsdown persona (as enacted on recordings, in public appearances and publicity material) and its relationship to Australian right-wing politician Pauline Hanson. Jon Stratton's extended analysis is complemented by two supporting articles, an interview with Simon Hunt conducted by Stratton and an essay by Hunt submitted to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation at their invitation. Stratton's article serves as an introduction to the interview and Hunt's essay (avoiding unnecessary duplication of content between the pieces).

Fragile watermarking with permutation code for content-leakage in digital rights management system

In this paper, we present a new scheme of digital rights management (DRM) system employing the fragile watermarking with permutation code for the image distribution via network. General DRM systems are designed to protect the copyright of contents and to trace the source of the illegal distributors based on the user-side watermarking. However, in the typical DRM systems, the original digital contents are temporarily disclosed without the watermarking information inside user's system by the decryption process. Therefore, the user can copy the leaked original content inside the system and illegally redistribute via network without the permission of the content providers. Our work describes the idea of a DRM method which is composed of the incomplete cryptography based on permutation codes and user identification mechanism to control the quality of digital contents. There are two fundamental steps in our proposed cryptography: incomplete encoding and incomplete decoding. These two steps will create the scrambled content that is used as trial content and the watermarked content that is used to prevent unauthorized duplication or business of digital contents, respectively. Experimental results show that the proposed method is suitable for DRM in the network distribution system.

News Diversity and Minority Audiences

The rapid growth of Hispanics in the United States, the parallel growth of Spanish-language media, and the difficulties that this population continues to experience in terms of important socio-demographic indicators such as education, immigration, healthcare, and criminal justice, requires research that investigates the ways in which Spanish-language news outlets are delivering the information needed by this group in terms of providing a public service and contributing to democratic notions of the press. Democratic theories of the press posit that in order for a democracy to function properly, all groups should be provided with news coverage that reflects the voices, concerns, and interests of their communities. However, it has often proved difficult for news industries undergoing rapid growth and increasing corporate concentration to serve audiences with diverse news and information needs. In order to examine the extent to which Spanish-language news outlets are providing a diverse range of news and topics relevant to their audiences, researchers used software that gathers Real Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds to archive, organize, and analyze over 10,000 news stories posted to 28 Spanish-language news websites during October 2012. The results show some diversity in the range of topics covered, but the widespread duplication of content across platforms owned by a small handful of media conglomerates found in the results raises important questions about the impact of increasing news homogenization in the digital age and the potential implications for minority audiences.

Morphogenesis checkpoint kinase Swe1 is the executor of lipolysis-dependent cell-cycle progression

Cell growth and division requires the precise duplication of cellular DNA content but also of membranes and organelles. Knowledge about the cell-cycle-dependent regulation of membrane and storage lipid homeostasis is only rudimentary. Previous work from our laboratory has shown that the breakdown of triacylglycerols (TGs) is regulated in a cell-cycle-dependent manner, by activation of the Tgl4 lipase by the major cyclin-dependent kinase Cdc28. The lipases Tgl3 and Tgl4 are required for efficient cell-cycle progression during the G1/S (Gap1/replication phase) transition, at the onset of bud formation, and their absence leads to a cell-cycle delay. We now show that defective lipolysis activates the Swe1 morphogenesis checkpoint kinase that halts cell-cycle progression by phosphorylation of Cdc28 at tyrosine residue 19. Saturated long-chain fatty acids and phytosphingosine supplementation rescue the cell-cycle delay in the Tgl3/Tgl4 lipase-deficient strain, suggesting that Swe1 activity responds to imbalanced sphingolipid metabolism, in the absence of TG degradation. We propose a model by which TG-derived sphingolipids are required to activate the protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A(Cdc55)) to attenuate Swe1 phosphorylation and its inhibitory effect on Cdc28 at the G1/S transition of the cell cycle.

Piloting a blended model for sustainable IL programming

Purpose – This paper aims to describe the MacEwan University Library’s successful pilot of a fully blended information literacy (IL) instruction program for first-year English courses. Development, implementation and assessment of the pilot prior to full implementation are discussed. Design/methodology/approach – The new sustainable blended model for the English Library Instruction Program reduced duplication of content and effort, incorporated online and in-person instruction and promoted self-directed learning opportunities through a new Learning Commons. This model places essential instruction online while maintaining personal relationships for students with the English Librarian and the Library through multiple points of interaction. Face-to-face instruction efforts were concentrated on developing critical thinking skills through a hands-on source evaluation activity and on providing point-of-need support. Librarians worked closely with English faculty to encourage early voluntary adoption of the new model for the Fall 2013 pilot. Findings – The voluntary early-adopter model worked well for garnering and maintaining support from the English department: the authors had 42 per cent of English sessions piloting the new model for Fall 2013, surpassing the initial target of 25 per cent. Students scored well on an assessment of their ability to identify scholarly sources. Librarian preparation time has been greatly reduced. Originality/value – Many academic libraries are looking to asynchronous online tutorials as a more sustainable model for delivering IL instruction. This case study demonstrates that it is possible to move some instruction online while maintaining the personal relationships librarians have forged with students and faculty.

Evaluation of online health information on clubfoot using the DISCERN tool

The Internet has become a major source of health information on various aspects of clubfoot diagnosis and management. The World Wide Web becomes the first knowledge portal for a large number of anxious parents seeking information on clubfoot. Thus, a good quality webpage should provide necessary and comprehensive information on clubfoot so as to establish clarity in treatment options, compliance and bracing protocols. In contrast, modest quality information can induce bias and poor follow-up. We objectively evaluated online health information on clubfoot using the DISCERN tool. Using the universal search engine, Google, we conducted a Boolean search for the term 'clubfoot'. Only the first 50 sites providing health information on clubfoot were included in the study. We examined 334 links to include 50 of them. During analysis three websites were excluded because of duplication of content leaving 47 websites that were examined using the DISCERN tool. As per this tool, a score of less than 40% was graded as 'poor', 40-79% as 'fair' and at least 80% as 'good', whereas the overall quality was graded as 'low', 'moderate' and 'high' on similar standards. The overall quality of the publication was 'low' in 40% (19) websites, 'moderate' in 28% (13) and 'high' in 32% (15) of the websites we evaluated. Six (13%) of the publications showed good reliability; 25 (54%) showed fair reliability and 16 (33%) were unreliable. With regard to the quality of information on treatment choices, 44.7% (21) were 'good', 46.8% (22) were 'fair' and 8.5% (four) were 'poor'. We conclude that the quality of websites providing online health information on clubfoot needs significant improvement with emphasis on a universally acceptable template for disease information.

My Crash Course in Publication Ethics

My Crash Course in Publication Ethics

Retraction Note: Retraction of a Published Article ‘Vibration Response of Rotating Mechanical Systems Using Experimental Techniques and Artificial Neural Networks

A careful analysis of a co-authored article entitled “Vibration Response of Rotating Mechanical Systems Using Experimental Techniques and Artificial Neural Networks,” by Taplak H., Uzmay I., and Yildirim S published in Experimental Mechanics in 2005 (Vol. 45, No. 3, pp 259–269, 2005, Corresponding author: Taplak H.) shows extensive similarities with two other articles published by Uzmay I., and Yildirim S., with other coauthors in Mechatronics (Kalkat M, Yildirim S, and Uzmay I. Design of Artificial Neural Networks for Rotor Dynamics Analysis of Rotating Machine Systems, Mechatronics, 2005; 15(5), 573–588. Corresponding author: S. Yildirim (Retracted)) and International Journal of Rotating Machinery (Kalkat, M, Yildirim S and Uzmay, I. Rotor Dynamic Analysis of Rotating Machine Systems Using Artificial Neural Networks, International Journal of Rotating Machinery 2003, 9(4), 255–262. Corresponding author: M. Kalkat). Given the duplication of content described above, the Experimental Mechanics article in question is being retracted. We apologize to the readers that this was not detected during the submission and review process during 2004–2005.

BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER: NETWORKING HERITAGE INVENTORIES IN ENGLAND

Abstract. This paper will look at the requirements for a future vision of networked, digital heritage inventories to support heritage protection in England. The present loose network presents several challenges for multiple organizations maintaining similar datasets on disparate IT software: Duplication of content; ownership of content and different approaches to recording practice and standards. This paper will discuss the potential use of the Arches Heritage Inventory and Management System as part of the vision for better operation of this network. Arches was developed by the Getty Conservation Institute, World Monuments Fund and Farallon Geographics as an open source web-based geographic information system (GIS) to help inventorize and manage immovable cultural heritage. The system is based around internationally recognized standards from both the heritage and IT sectors. These include: ISO 21127: 2006, commonly referred to as the CIDOC-CRM (Conceptual Reference Model); the CIDOC Core Data Standard for Archaeological and Architectural Sites; Core Data Index to Historic Buildings and Monuments of the Architectural Heritage as well as Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. The proposed use of Arches as a data collection and exchange platform would provide effective and useful recording systems for small heritage projects lacking in-house IT support and the finances and skills to support their development. In addition it would promote standards to support cross-searching, data exchange and digital archiving and through its use of open source a community of IT developers, standards developers and content specialists can be developed to sustain the network.