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Before the former Yugoslavia was divided by wars, its inhabitants successfully lived side by side in peace. This collection seeks to explain how former neighbors became enemies, with the hope that understanding what drove these peoples apart will help us discover ways for them to coexist in peace again.Contributors analyze political cartoons, psychiatry, the arts, visual media, and law to present a diversity of views on the conflicts in Yugoslavia. While the chapters in this book deal with regional developments, they are not so much focused on politics as they are concerned with how values and attitudes are altered and new identities formed. Thus, this volume goes beyond recent journalistic accounts and should remain relevant for years to come.This book began as a special issue of the journal Anthropology of East Europe Review. Most of the contributors to that issue have revised their chapters for this collection, and new chapters have been added, including one on the recent war in Kosovo. Essays range across all of former Yugoslavia, emphasizing the variability and diversity of ethnic relations throughout its history: Joel M. Halpern & David A. Kideckel (eds.)

This Media Matters International Report analyzes all media coverage collected from Cambodian print media outlets in 2013 and serves as an example of our company’s capability to collect and synthesize large quantities of data. The report puts special emphasizes on the leading issues that were discussed in the Cambodian media throughout the year but also provides a quantification of all the other data that Media Matters’ team of analysts has analyzed during the selected period.

The Payroll and HR (Human Resources) departments in organizations coordinate various functions like salary hikes, bonus payments, recruitment, benefit deductions, firing employees and vacation leaves. They also need to maintain data that is confidential in nature like employee information, home addresses, financial data and social security numbers. They need to take care that such confidential information is not accessed by unauthorized companies or individuals. The payroll and HR software is a fully integrated functionality that enables the payroll and HR department to operate, access, manage and process organization’s various payroll and HR functions. It also helps decision makers to gain a clearer insight of organization’s resources even in turbulent situations. The various modules in the software are customized depending upon the needs of organization and minimizes the amount of time spent on the administration work by the staff members.
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During the last few years, cloud technology has gained tremendous importance leading to the rapid growth in use of cloud technology in various industry verticals. Industries manage and rely on huge amount of data for the quality performance and services. Shared cloud model is a new trend being followed by many companies. Along with it, many government offices across the globe are spending significant amount on the adoption of these technologies. For instance, agencies and government organizations such as Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and General Service Administration (GSA) have already started investment and use of commodity cloud technology. Thus, the adoption of the community cloud technology is expected to increase in coming years. The community cloud technologies are developed with the use of cloud computing technologies. Increasing need for single regulatory and network security norm across the globe is significant factor for the growth of this market.
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Occupy Wall Street was a movement of many faces. Its impact on the public debate was significant, sparking support and criticism from a variety of sources. The occupation of the park, a ‘privately owned public space’, awoke the interest of the media, triggering nationwide media coverage and generating significant online activity.

Behind an almost two-month occupation of a 3,100 m2 park in downtown Manhattan, an element crucial to Occupy Wall Street gaining scale and achieving significant media coverage emerges: Its discourse. Acknowledging that a discourse encompasses a set of ideas, values, identities and activities signified by the use of certain semiotic choices, this paper explores how the different bits and pieces of the Occupy Wall Street discourse play out in the social, political and communication arenas. The methodology is based on empirical and exploratory research. Interviews are conducted with professors, activists, protesters, journalists and editors, most of them based in New York City. Meanwhile a media analysis is performed based on online activity, mainstream media coverage and tag clouds generated out of hundreds of articles from three leading newspapers of various types and political inclinations.

Results reveal a social movement represented by protesters whose one common aspect was their frustration with the economic, social and political systems in the United States. This responds to an ideology named “the critique of capitalism.” Despite lacking a single, unified message, Occupy Wall Street managed to deliver strong semiotic choices behind the narrative of “We are the 99 percent,” ultimately producing a compelling, media savvy discourse.

OWS also accomplished influencing the public conversation by relying on social media networks. This was reinforced by the very occupation of Zuccotti Park, which would symbolically reenact the movement’s narrative and serve as a storefront for journalists to gather constantly changing stories. In contrast, OWS’ depiction in the news varied considerably, showing a constantly shifting and volatile narrative particularly subject to events of a violent or unsettling nature. This generated increased media coverage, but ultimately affected both public support and the movement’s morale. Still, if there is one thing that Occupy Wall Street indisputably achieved, it is bringing back the public debate on the aggravating issue of economic inequality and its repercussions on the American people.

Hasil observasi dari guru Biologi kelas X SMA Persada Bandar Lampung, diketahui bahwa dalam proses pembelajarannya siswa lebih banyak menerima informasi dari guru (teacher centered), sehingga berpengaruh terhadap aktivitas belajar dan penguasaan materi siswa yang belum optimal. Salah satu upaya untuk memaksimalkan aktivitas belajar dan penguasaan materi siswa yaitu dengan  menggunakan model pembelajaran TGT dengan media Kartu Bergambar.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untu mengetahui pengaruh model TGT  dengan media Kaartu Bergambar terhadap aktivitas belajar dan penguasaan materi siswa. Desain penelitian ini adalah pretest-posttest non equivalen dengan sampel siswa kelas X3 (27 siswa) sebagai kelas eksperimen dan X1 (30 siswa) sebagai kelas kontrol yang terpilih secara cluster random sampling. Data penelitian ini diperoleh dari pretes, postes, lembar observasi aktivitas siswa dan angket tanggapan siswa. Analisis data menggunakan uji-t dengan program SPSS 17.

Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa rata-rata persentase aktivitas belajar siswa dalam semua aspek yang diamati pada kelas eksperimen (77,62%) lebih tinggi dibandingkan kelas kontrol (62,78%), dengan rata-rata N-Gain penguasaan materi 65,89 pada kelas eksperimen dan 38,65 pada kelas kontrol. Selain itu, 27 siswa menyatakan senang mempelajari materi pokok Virus dengan menggunakan media Kartu Bergambar. Dengan demikian, pembelajaran menggunakan model TGT dan media Kartu Bergambar berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap aktivitas belajar siswa dan penguasaan materi pokok Virus.

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TGT, Kartu Bergambar, Penguasaan Materi, Aktivitas Belajar, Virus

This study aims to understand the impact of reading Harry Potter on the literacy of the young adult audience in Malaysia by examining the effects reading Harry Potter has on developing the interest of its 13-17 year
old Malaysian fans in reading, particularly in the fantasy genre, and the factors concerned with reading Harry Potter which influence the 13-17 year old Malaysian fans to write fan-fiction.

For millions of people worldwide, nurses are the difference between life and death, self-sufficiency and dependency, hope and despair. But a lack of understanding of what nurses really do--one perpetuated by popular media's portrayal of nurses as simplistic archetypes--has devalued the profession and contributed to a global nursing shortage that constitutes a public health crisis. Today, the thin ranks of the nursing workforce contribute to countless preventable deaths.

This fully updated and expanded edition of "Saving Lives" highlights the essential roles nurses play in modern health care, even as their profession is often marginalized by contemporary culture. Through lively prose and compelling examples drawn from television, advertising, and news coverage, the authors detail the media's role in reinforcing stereotypes that fuel the nursing shortage and devalue a highly-educated sector of the workforce. Perhaps most important, the authors provide a wealth of ideas to help reinvigorate the nursing field.

As U.S. health care undergoes its greatest overhaul in decades and many nations confront aging populations, the role of nurses-as autonomous, highly-skilled practitioners--has never been more critical. Accordingly, "Saving Lives" addresses the misperceptions that still surround nursing and prescribes measures to improve understanding of this vital work.

Critical Political Economy of the Media provides a clear, comprehensive and insightful introduction to the political economic analysis of contemporary media. Jonathan Hardy undertakes a critical survey of political economy scholarship encompassing worldwide literature, issues and debates, and relationships with other academic approaches. He assesses different ways of making sense of media convergence and digitalisation, media power and influence, and transformations across communication markets. Many of the problems of the media that prompted critical political economy research remain salient, he argues, but the approach must continue to adapt to new conditions and challenges. Hardy advances the case for a revitalised critical media studies for the 21st century.

У статті розглянуто проблеми форми та жанрової структури ілюстрованих видань, що виходили наприкінці 20-х – на поч. 30-х рр. ХХ ст. в Німеччині та радянській Україні. Особливу увагу звернуто на морфологію як чинник та індикатор ідеологічної ситуації доби. Підкреслено як подібні риси українських та німецьких часописів (жанрову структуру, гетерономію тексту та зображення), так і їхні відмінності (більш і менш регулярна архітектоніка, різний рівень стандартизації, практика пародіювання стандарту).

Ключові слова: ілюстрована преса, морфологія видання, ідеологія, УСРР, Ваймарська республіка.

The article considers the problems of form and genre structure in the illustrated magazines published in the late 1920s and early 1930s in Germany and Soviet Ukraine. The attention is focused on morphology as a factor and indicator of the ideological situation of the time. The emphasis rests upon both similarities (genre structure, the heteronomy of text and picture) and differences (more vs. less regular architectonics, different levels of standardization, practices of parodying the standard).

Keywords: illustrated press, press morphology, ideology, Soviet Ukraine, Weimar Republic.