bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Engraved
Authors:   , McCormick Alanah
Published: July 2022

Rural architecture echoes a fixed pre-determined place and time, and thus permanent symbolic position. As laborious foundations to a community’s identity within their initial construction, the buildings and interiors that remain elude to regional and national identity. Interior spaces are established in co-existence with society’s progressed development relying on social, economic and ethical impact to ensure their existence. They are a documentation of time, where heritage invites contemporary interior interventions to heal and extend their narrative of identity. Layers within the macro scale of communal community, micro in the context of individual trace, heritage is the signifier to memory, connection and homage to a place. As direct dialogues to an element of time, they resist demise through relating to things that is not only associated to the building itself.

Place is the binding factor for resolution of interior intervention. This thesis looks into the search for responsible answers to rural interior interventions, to actively encourage participation in securing cultural identity and regeneration. The interior is the main participant in resolving cultural heritage and identity within a built construct. Facades denote an exterior protection but, the interior of an identity resembles its true honesty and integrity. Interiors represent and contain the conflict of growth, the heart of development and the desire to transform.
Teachers' beliefs about the teaching, learning and assessment of mathematics and their relationships with both students' achievement, and teachers' summative judgments
Authors:   , Vaile Shelley
Published: July 2022

Teachers in New Zealand are required to make judgments of students’ achievement in reading, writing and mathematics against the National Standards and to report these to the Ministry of Education annually (Ministry of Education, 2009b, 2013). The process for making these judgments is complex and there are many factors that contribute to the variability of teachers’ judgments (Smaill, 2013; Ward & Thomas, 2013, 2015). It is likely that the beliefs teachers hold about effective pedagogy in mathematics, about the primary purpose of assessment and about the nature of students’ ability in mathematics will contribute to the variability of teachers’ judgments against the mathematics standards.

This research explored the beliefs teachers hold about four elements of effective pedagogy in mathematics; the extent to which teachers endorse a discrete approach, a connectionist approach, a procedural approach and a conceptual pedagogical approach. Teachers’ beliefs about the primary purpose of assessment and the nature of students’ ability in mathematics were also explored.

The purpose of this research was to elucidate relationships between teachers’ beliefs and their application of assessment criteria when making summative judgments of students’ achievement in mathematics. An additional purpose was to elucidate any relationships between these elements of teachers’ beliefs and increased students’ achievement and in mathematics.

The degree to which teachers are conservative in their application of assessment criteria when making “at the standard” judgments of students’ achievement was found to be related to a coherent set of beliefs. Increased students’ achievement was found to be only weakly related to teachers’ beliefs about the nature of students’ mathematical ability.
Agglomeration and Bricolage Towards Regeneration
Authors:   , Beauchamp Anna
Published: July 2022

This thesis explores a local approach to town regeneration. It is a reaction to the “zombie town” urban phenomenon affecting New Zealand North Island towns, evidenced by ageing populations, declining rates base and diminishing civic institutions. It proposes an architectural framework to re-identify these towns, adapting the urban planning method agglomeration and the design technique bricolage.

The framework requires managed retreat of local infrastructure, re-consolidating recipient sites with resources from donor sites, a new process termed the Donor Recipient Exchange. The detailed integration of donated materials to recipient sites is resolved using bricolage to craft construction methodology.

The framework is tested through an architectural case study based in Edgecumbe, Bay of Plenty. A trade school and supporting facilities attract a young population to the town and equip locals to assist in the revival of the civic facilities.

The architectural experiment reveals the importance of an organic catalyst to shape managed retreat. It introduces a weighted approach to construction staging and depicts curated integration of repurposed materials resulting in a discerned formal identity.
The Robotic Craftsman: Robotic Fabrication for Complex Timber Connections
Authors:   , Heesterman Mikayla
Published: July 2022

Timber is one of the most sustainable and renewable construction materials; coupled with computational tools engineered timber has the potential to be redefined as a digital-age material for non-standard architecture. This research employs contemporary digital design and fabrication techniques to develop complex, CNC based parametric connections for engineered timber construction Whilst CNC joinery that utilises machines with between three and five axes is increasingly common, the introduction of the six-axis robotic arm as a machining tool provides greater freedom of movement and a wider range of complex procedures. As a result, there is more design potential for interlocking timber- only connections that were previously inefficient to fabricate. This research draws from traditional Japanese timber craftsmanship, which offers unique structural and sustainable advantages. Combining this knowledge with computational tools has led to new complex customisable connections suitable for contemporary fabrication, and a revitalisation of timber craftsmanship in this digital age.
Gardening Assemblages
Authors:   , Wright Victoria
Published: July 2022

This thesis examines how architecture can encourage sustainable food consumption habits within the city. Urbanisation is continuously increasing the demand for food within cities while separating the users from its source. This disconnect creates the need for food packaging, which is disposed of as soon as we consume the food within, without further thought of the environmental harm the waste will cause. This thesis uses architecture to create a food-related experience that celebrates the objects of food and waste, through edible horticulture. The design aims to provoke human consideration towards sustainable consumption, through bodily interaction with the planting. A ‘design-as-research’ methodology is used to explore the proposition, through an iterative process with critical reflection upon each design outcome to refine the design. Alongside the design process, ‘research-for-design’ is also undertaken. A literature review and case study analysis provide a theoretical and pragmatic context for the relationship between humans and the objects of food and waste within the city architecture. The thesis then moves into three design stages, which increase in scale. The first exploration is an installation-scale, creating a 1:500 abstract city model integrating urban horticulture derived from waste found on-site. The mid-scale experiment introduces a programme of a vertical infill garden and urban eatery within a food-producing architecture to reconnect users with their food source. The final design experiment creates a gardening assemblage system of pavilions connecting to a biogas infrastructure, integrating food producing architecture with waste management. This thesis concludes that while architecture can create an experience to promote sustainable consumption, it comes down to our sense of social responsibility and policies to enforce sustainable movements, to eliminate the burden of our consumption on the environment.
Culture at the Edge: an Exploration of Cultural Adaptation and Sense-Making Across Workgroup Boundaries in Complex Organizations
Authors:   , Harmer Brian Martin
Published: July 2022

The nature and conduct of relationships between functionally specialised workgroups in complex organization is explored in this dissertation. Interviews with twenty eight individuals and two entire workgroups from four large organizations are used as the basis for an experiential phenomenological study that seeks to understand the essences of the lived experience of being a member of such a workgroup. The situated outcomes of the phenomenological study are scrutinised in the light of the literatures of organizational theory, organizational communication theory, and social identity theory. These literatures are used as lenses to explore the possibility that problematic dimensions of intergroup relations might be diminished by the deployment of technology mediated communication channels between the groups concerned. The research finds that, with few exceptions, workgroup membership is a strong part of the individual's sense of social identity. This is consistent with the key elements of social identification theory and self-categorization theory. It also finds that the construction of stereotypes creating mutually oppositional beliefs of positive distinctiveness is unavoidable. Further, the research tends to confirm that individuals in workgroups believe that they are performing their allotted tasks as well as possible. Such beliefs are not necessarily consistent with the expectations of management, but they address issues related own self image and perceived role-performance. Although perceived issues of media richness associated with presently available technologies tend to undermine perceptions of technological solutions in the participant organizations, the research points to useful future opportunities for more effective selection and deployment of appropriate technologies as a basis for the conduct and management of intergroup relationships.
I just want to be myself: Rethinking Pacific climate change adaptation
Authors:   , Walker Janie
Published: July 2022

Climate change is now being presented as the biggest future threat to humanity. Many people living in the Pacific Islands are experiencing this threat through the extreme negative impacts of climate change without largely having produced the human-induced causes. The Fijian Government has brought this Pacific narrative to global attention and seeks to utilise additional funding and resources to support Fijians affected by climate change.

The 2010 Cancun Adaptation Framework mandates that adapting to the impacts of climate change must now receive the same priority as mitigating the rate of long-term global warming. One mechanism for delivering climate change adaptation in the Pacific is the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation into the Fiji Government’s current concentration for progress in development. Responses to this concentration for progress are mixed: some consider that this strategy has and will deliver good results for Fijians, and some feel this strategy is incongruous with a Pacific way of thinking.

The ability to adapt to the impacts of climate change depend on the nature and level of development. This thesis contributes to discussion on the linkages between adaptation and development by exploring the question, ‘To what extent do local community concerns, with regard to climate, inform adaptation policy and outcomes in Eastern Fiji?’ The findings from five months of cross-context research in Fiji indicate that there is room for improvement in adaptation policy and outcomes so that the best features of the Pacific can be protected. A journey through Pacific ways of knowing and doing may offer guidance in how adaptation can be adjusted.
Cook Islands Dance and the Introduction of Wearable Technology: How can wearable technology be appropriately integrated into traditional Cook Islands dance performance?
Authors:   , Hockin Rachel
Published: July 2022

This thesis records my journey through designing Cook Islands dance costumes with the enhancement of wearable technology. In my research I aim to demonstrate cross-cultural awareness of rich indigenous traditions, such as the Cook Islands performing arts, combined with the futuristic quality of wearable technology practices.

This area of research is not widely explored, so I travelled to the Cook Islands to expand my basic knowledge of costume design. Applying an ethnographic approach to the topic, I interviewed past and present costume makers, and documented their processes. The first trip was timed to coincide with the annual self-governance celebrations in the Cook Islands, Te Maeva Nui. Groups from all islands in the Cook Islands travel to the capital, Rarotonga for a week of celebration and trade: the highlight of which is the much anticipated dance performances, which runs every evening through the week. The weeks before the performances were spent observing and taking part in the costume making process with one of the teams participating in the event. I investigated the difference between ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ materials utilized in Cook Islands costume making. The second trip to Rarotonga was to refine my experiments based on field research and create my final garment, Ta’akura. This was informed by my in-depth research into traditional methods of costume design, as well as practical experimentation with cutting-edge technologies.

What I found in my research is that the combination of digital wearable technology and traditional costume design can result in a unique marriage that is contemporary, yet still acknowledges and respects the fundamental values and tradition of Cook Islands dance performance. My experiments throughout the course of this research have integrated this technology cautiously. Notwithstanding the paramount cultural context in which Cook Islands dance costumes (and any modification thereof) must be considered, wearable technology can be applied in the same manner that modern materials are integrated into the costumes of today: discreet yet still effective.

There is a place for traditional, if you want to be traditional, and there is a place for creativity and you can combine the two. (Tuara, 2014)
Edge-scapes; An enquiry into coastal edges, design process & landscape architecture practice.
Authors:   , Wrigglesworth Jessie
Published: July 2022

As the landscape architecture discipline grapples with the immense challenges of our anthropocenic world, it concerns itself with the solving of extremely complex environmental, climatic, socio-political-economical and cultural challenges that blanket the concept of landscapes. Responding to this, landscape architecture pedagogy, academia and parts of practice have turned to systems design, ‘instrumentality’, quantities and data with a focus on large-scale strategy and planning. While this might be a necessary step in engaging with our world’s ever-present issues, it is problematic if this is at the expense of important other realms of landscape design. Fundamental to landscape design is our ability to articulate landscape spaces for human use and experience and that the discipline acknowledges that central to this placemaking is how to engage with the uniqueness of the pre-existing landscape. What it struggles to conceptualise, however, is the nature of this uniqueness and this points to a need for further interrogation of practice. This research proposes that the relationship between the human body and its environment is central to this and that an embrace of affect is the way to re-think and re-orient design practice in way that will allow it to engage with uniqueness and in a manner suited to the complex and perplexing demands of the current era.

1. How can the landscape designer experiment with the complex experience of a coastal edge?

2. How can landscape architecture experiment rigorously with the pre-existing landscape?
Inhabiting ‘Prosperous Suzhou’ - Interrogating ancient artwork and documents to manifest tangible and intangible heritage
Authors:   , Xu Qiaoliang
Published: July 2022

The research investigates digital landscape heritage. It focuses on the application of Virtual Reality (VR) in a game engine. The aim is to aid the understanding and interpretation of ancient principles relating to sensitive and appropriate interaction of the built form and its associated landscape. The principles have at their root harmony of human inhabitation, the built forms and the landscape they are surrounded. This understanding can lead to re-application within a contemporary context, and the VR environment has the potential to augment and enrich it. This research has reinterpreted a classical depiction of Suzhou, in an 18th-century handscroll painting - “Prosperous Suzhou”, into a three-dimensional immersive virtual environment. It proposes that VR can be a way to experience and increase understanding of heritage landscapes; in our case one that now only exists in an ancient idealised painting. The reinterpretation aims to enhance the users’ experience and understanding of the Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage. The spatialised scene is augmented through the integration of other historical information, such as poems and travel notes, to embed intangible aspects into the gardens and landscapes. The reinterpretation process can be summarised as being in two stages, representing the site context and the site content. Context refers to the geometry and built forms of the world, whereas content includes the intangible social and cultural heritage. It is demonstrated that the immersive and interactive virtual reality environment enhances the user experience through the informed interpretation of both the tangible and intangible. Reinterpreting the painting in VR enables an immersive, continuous, first-person journey through the designed space where the environment changes as the viewer moves through it. This immersive experience enables users to gain a greater understanding of the heritage of the scholar garden as a landscape design form and of this particular garden, Suichu Garden, which is an important example of lost heritage for Suzhou.
Sustainability Taking Flight
Authors:   , Campbell Alex
Published: July 2022

This research project, Sustainability Taking Flight, explores the paradoxical relationship between the aviation industry and environmentally sustainable architecture. Developed around the middle of the twentieth century as an expression of modernism, today the continual growth of air travel makes it one of the largest contributors to global greenhouse emissions. This makes the airport itself both an expression of the modern and globalized and a celebration of a manifestation identifying the unsustainable. This research portfolio assumes that sustainable architecture has become an idea of paramount importance, and therefore uses the airport as a tool to examine what constitutes sustainability for an airport complex. Through literature, design evaluations and design explorations this research portfolio attempts to develop a design for an airport which communicates and embodies environmental responsive outcomes. Technology, programme analysis, art and educational design processes become unlikely contributors toward the sustainable design of the airport as well as applications of passive and site responsive design techniques, biophillic design principles and inclusion of local historical influences. Despite the paradox of the aviation industry and environmental sustainability, the airport complex can successfully embody at least some aspects of environmental sustainability through careful design development of the whole complex, rather than just the building in isolation.
Research on the Teaching Quality Management of “Xindi Applied Piano Pedagogy”
Authors: Ye Lanqing , Hongmei Yang
Published: July 2022

Xindi Applied Piano Pedagogy (XAPP) is one of the key achievements of Chinese music education reform in recent years, reflecting the booming of piano education in China. Twenty years after its establishment, the pedagogy has been widely accepted by society. Based on the PDCA (plan-do-check-act) cycle, the paper studies XAPP in relation to teaching quality management, hoping to achieve quality teaching results by improving teaching models and quality. In order to investigate the XAPP teaching process, a closed-loop management on XAPP’s teaching quality is formed, and the questions are divided into different modules: teaching team building, curriculum design, course in effect, teaching materials selection, teacher assessment and rectification, customer satisfaction survey, as well as teaching evaluation and feedback. The application of the PDCA cycle in XAPP’s teaching quality management is then analyzed, with an aim to optimize applied piano teaching management and improve XAPP’s teaching system, curriculum design, teaching materials, and theoretical framework. This paper also studies XAPP from a management perspective, which not only promotes the development of music education, but also expands the research field of music education management.
Good Life and Value Leadership
Authors: Xiao Jie , Chang Wang
Published: July 2022

The way of human existence is to live meaningfully. A good life fundamentally reflects a harmonious and beautiful way of existence and state of being. People’s need for a good life is not only a question of how to meet that demand, but also of how to guide it correctly. The new era of good life is a lifestyle that abandons and transcends modernity, highlighting the human orientation of socialist modernization and manifesting the people-centered practical purpose and value implications.
The Construction and Implementation of a Compound Foreign Language Talent Training Model
Authors: Li Jing
Published: July 2022

With increasing global exchanges and cooperation, there is an increasing demand for foreign language interdisciplinary talents. The cultivation of interdisciplinary foreign language talents is a long-term, complicated methodical endeavor, which requires constant exploration by experts in foreign language circles. In order to cultivate compound foreign language talents in colleges and universities, it is important to change the educational concept, enhance the teaching staff, and innovate the talent training mode. In the training of compound foreign language talents in colleges and universities, a compound talent training model of “foreign language + major or direction” should be established, and beginning from the actual situation of the major, the bold exploration and implementation of the transformation of the concept of compound foreign language talent training should be followed through, while strengthening the construction of teaching staff, optimizing the professional curriculum, updating the teaching content, as well as enriching the methods and measures of teaching.
Incidence of Diabetes in Hepatitis C Patients in Remote Areas of Pakistan: Effect of Co-Morbidity on HCV Treatment Outcomes at Selected Secondary Care Hospitals
Authors: Khan Muhammad Khalid , Tofeeq ur Rehman
Published: July 2022

The management of Hepatitis C (HCV) varies greatly due to co-morbidities. Association of Type II Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) and HCV infection is momentous, however, only limited studies available from remote areas of Pakistan. This study aimed to assess the incidence of T2DM in Hepatitis C patients, and to measure the treatment outcomes of anti-HCV therapy in co-morbidity of diabetic patients in remote areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan. A cross-sectional retrospective analysis of HCV patients (n=449) was conducted in the District Hospitals of Bannu and Lakki Marwat, Pakistan. Patients diagnosed of HCV infection and having T2DM as comorbidity were included in the study. The demographic information and laboratory parameters, such as viral load (VL), hemoglobin (Hb), alanine amino transferase (ALT), and platelet count were collected to measure treatment outcomes. T2DM was found in 33.18% of patients and significant association (p ? 0.05) was found with HCV infection as a co-morbidity. Sofosbuvir (SOF) and Ribavirin (RBV) therapy reduced the mean (SD) VL (x103) from baseline 357.1±26.23 IU /mL to 14±2.3 IU/mL and 1.3±0.3 IU/mL at 3rd and 6th months of therapy, respectively. Conventional Interferon and Ribavirin (RBV) therapy reduced VL from a baseline 234.57±13.5 IU/mL to 72±7.9 IU/mL and 62 ±3.7 IU/mL at 3rd and 6th months of therapy, respectively. PEG-Interferon+ Ribavirin (RBV) therapy reduced baseline VL from 337±16.27 IU/mL to 18±2.8 and 4±1 at 3rd and 6th month of therapy, respectively. Similarly, Hb, ALT, and platelet count showed variations in all the studied groups. T2DM was highly prevalent and significantly associated with HCV in patients of 40 years or above and SOF+RBV combination therapy showed a better response, both in the diabetic and non-diabetic HCV patients compared to earlier the therapies. To further confirm the finding, a study using a larger population of HCV patients with T2DM should be conducted.
Exploring the Care Experience of a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Team in the Management of Debilitating Syndromes in Older People
Authors: Bai Chan
Published: July 2022

This study was conducted to investigate the clinical effects of applying the integrated geriatric assessment team approach on the care of elderly patients with debilitating syndromes. This study was conducted in Xi’an Jiaotong University hospital from January 2021 to January 2022. Around 50 patients with the geriatric debilitating syndrome were selected and retrospectively were analyzed, and psychiatrists, geriatric nurses, pharmacists, medical specialists, physiotherapists, and dieticians were selected to form a comprehensive geriatric assessment team. The patients were then assessed, a treatment plan was developed, and care was provided according to the actual situation, and the effectiveness of the clinical intervention was analyzed. This study demonstrated that, of the 50 patients in this study, the longest hospital stay was 15 days, while the shortest was 4 days, and the average length of stay was 10.23±4.37 days. Around 40 of the patients were able to eat on their own and consume food as prescribed, with a compliance rate of 80%, showing the effectiveness rate of the geriatric assessment team. In summary, the use of a comprehensive geriatric assessment team to treat and care for patients with debilitating syndromes in the elderly is an effective way, and this can significantly improve the life quality of the patients.
A Comprehensive Analysis of a Case of Internal Carotid Artery Stenting
Authors: Sun Meng , Wang Jun , Wang Yamei
Published: July 2022

With the development of science and technology and the continuous progress of interventional equipment, internal carotid artery stenting has become increasingly popular among patients in view of its advantages, which include high efficiency, minimally invasive, and fast postoperative recovery. It has grown importance as a surgical method for the treatment of severe internal carotid artery stenosis. This paper discusses a rare case of severe internal carotid artery stenosis and its management, where various types of pre-dilatation balloons were not able to be positioned in the stenting process. Relevant solutions have also been proposed in hope to provide a more theoretical and practical basis for clinical work.
Analyzing the CT Features of Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax and Its Application Value
Authors: Zhang Duo , Xiao Kuo
Published: July 2022

Objective: To explore the performance characteristics of CT examination in primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) and the effect of pleurodesis on patients with PSP. Methods: Sixty-four patients with PSP, who received medical care in the Affiliated Hospital of Hebei University from January 2017 to December 2021, were selected as the research subjects, of which 40 were male and 24 were female patients. All 64 patients were examined by X-ray and CT; the density, enhancement, and morphology of the pneumothorax were observed and analyzed, and the classification of pneumothorax was done. Results: The clinical analysis of 64 patients with PSP showed that the number of cases with unilateral pneumothorax was 42, accounting for 65.63%, whereas the number of cases with bilateral pneumothorax was 22, accounting for 34.37%. Among the cases of unilateral pneumothorax, the number of cases with left pneumothorax was 26, accounting for 61.90%, whereas the proportion of cases with right pneumothorax was 38.10%. When examined by CT, the diagnostic coincidence rate of 64 patients with PSP was 73.44%; using X-ray examination, the diagnostic coincidence rate of 64 patients with PSP was 92.19%. Conclusion: The detection accuracy of CT is higher than that of X-ray examination, which may improve the treatment effect in PSP, ensure the accuracy of findings, and facilitate follow-up treatment as well as the effect of postoperative analysis.
Effects of Different Doses of BDNF on Postoperative Cognitive Function in Aged Rats Undergoing Abdominal Surgery
Authors: Zhang Yuming , Wang Hui , Lu Kai , Wang Jun , Bai Ning
Published: July 2022

Objective: To investigate the effects of different doses of BDNF on postoperative cognitive function in aged rats undergoing abdominal surgery. Methods: 72 aged healthy male SD rats of SPF grade were selected. According to the random number table method, the rats were randomly divided into the control group, model group, low dose BDNF injection group, and high dose BDNF injection group, with 18 rats in each group. The model group, low dose group, and high dose group underwent abdominal surgery after anesthesia, and 5?L/time of BDNF was intranasally administered to the rats in the low dose and high dose groups 6 hours after abdominal surgery, of which the dose of the low dose group was 0.1 g/L, while that of the high dose group was 0.2 g/L. The drug was administered alternately through both nostrils, with an interval of 2 minutes each time, for 5 times. The control group did not undergo surgery after anesthesia. The escape latency and swimming distance of the four groups of rats were compared before surgery, the first day, the third day, and the seventh day after surgery; similarly, the BDNF protein expression level in the hippocampus of the four groups of rats was compared on the first day, the third day, and the seventh day after surgery. Results: The escape latency and swimming distance of the control group were not statistically significant on the first day, the third day, and the seventh day after surgery, p > 0.05; the escape latency and swimming distance of the model group, low dose group, and high dose group on the first day, the third day, and the seventh day after surgery were statistically significant, p < 0.05. Before surgery, the escape latency and swimming distance of the four groups were not statistically significant, p > 0.05; on the first day, the third day, and the seventh day after surgery, the escape latency and swimming distance of the model group > low dose group > high dose group > control group, p < 0.05. The BDNF protein expression level in the hippocampus of the control group on the first day, the third day, and the seventh day after surgery showed no statistical significance p > 0.05; the expression level of BDNF protein in the hippocampus of the model group, low dose group, and high dose group on the first day, the third day, and the seventh day after surgery was statistically significant, p < 0.05. On the first day, the third day, and the seventh day after surgery, the expression level of BDNF protein in the hippocampus of the model group < low dose group < high dose group < control group, p < 0.05. Conclusion: Compared with 0.1 g/L of BDNF, 0.2 g/L of BDNF can improve the postoperative cognitive function of aged rats undergoing abdominal surgery.
Therapeutic Potential of Stem Cells in Regenerative Maxillofacial Surgery – A Review
Authors: Pendharkar Seema S
Published: July 2022

Research in regenerative therapy has gained momentum recently and has led to remarkable advancements in molecular biology field. Stem cells are special type of cells having unique ability of self renewing and potency. These cells with appropriate biochemical modulation can get converted into desired cells. Stem cells can be successfully isolated from various human tissues and used in curing various diseases as well as in regeneration of tissues. The future is regeneration of whole body organs; that which was once thought to be a fiction can now be possible using stem cell based regenerative therapy. This article aimed to briefly review the literature on stem cells on the basis of their properties, classification, culturing, storage and preservation. Emphasis was given on the stem cells obtained from maxillofacial region and their applications in treating the maxillofacial defects.
Knowledge, Awareness and Attitude towards Prosthodontic Rehabilitation among the General Population in Bengaluru City - A Cross-Sectional Survey
Authors: Sharan Smitha , K Brunda , Chandra K Pradeep , T V Sreeharsha , M S Kruthi
Published: July 2022

Background: The prosthodontic health status and prosthodontic rehabilitation of Bengaluru city’s local population are not well documented. As prosthodontists, it is important to know how much concerned the people are towards oral health and what is their attitude, how aware are they about various available treatments and how much knowledge do they have about its importance in order to give them oral health education, create awareness and help develop the practice guidelines. Hence, the aim of the survey was to assess the knowledge, awareness and attitude of the general population in Bengaluru city towards prosthodontic rehabilitation. Material and Methods: We divided Bengaluru city (total area of about 286 sq. miles) arbitrarily into four zones, namely, North zone, South zone, East zone and West zone. A total of 2516 subjects belonging to the age group of 35 to 74 years from all the four zones were surveyed with a questionnaire which was either in English or in Kannada (local language) with sixteen closed-ended questions. The statistical analysis of the data collected through the questionnaire was done using SPSS (V-22) software. Results: The age of the subjects who participated in the survey ranged between thirty-five to seventy-four years. Among the 2516 subjects, 1283 were male subjects and 1233 were female subjects. It was found that most of the subjects (77.2%) visited the oral health care provider only when they had any dental problems. About 54.4% of the subjects who participated in the survey had not got their missing teeth replaced. About 74.9% of the subjects had restrained themselves from getting the treatment thinking that the prosthetic treatment is expensive. Conclusion: On summarizing the data obtained from the survey, it was understood that there is a strong requirement to create awareness among people about the prosthodontic rehabilitation of missing teeth. Even though there are many government programs and schemes that offer the essential dental treatments for free of cost, due to lack of awareness and knowledge regarding the same, the general public is still not approaching for the improvement of their oral health status and ignoring their dental problems thinking that the treatment is too expensive. Therefore, it is of utmost importance for the dentists to reach out to the general public, create awareness about the importance of oral health and various facilities available from the government for the dental treatments and extend the treatment hoping to improve their future quality of life through dental camps and prosthodontic outreach programs.
Sistem Rekomendasi Wedding Organizer Menggunakan Metode Content-Based Filtering Dengan Algoritma Random Forest Regression
Authors: Pratiwi Dewi Ayu , Qoiriah Anita
Published: July 2022

Dewasa ini, jasa vendor pernikahan banyak diminati calon pengantin dalam mempersiapkan acara pernikahan agar efisiensi waktu dan biaya. Selalu ada problematika ketika memilih penyedia jasa pernikahan diantaranya adalah budget dari pengantin akan mendapat fasilitas apa saja dari konsep acara yang diinginkan serta wedding organizer mana yang akan dipilih yang sesuai dengan budget dan letaknya tidak jauh. Untuk memudahkan calon pengantin dalam menemukan wedding organizer yang sesuai maka diperlukan perhitungan khusus dengan kriteria tertentu dari calon pengantin. Maka dilakukan penelitian dengan membentuk sistem rekomendasi wedding organizer dalam mendukung pengambilan keputusan. Sistem rekomendasi merupakan aplikasi yang menyediakan serta merekomendasikan item ketika user menentukan keputusan. Sistem rekomendasi disini menggunakan metode Content-Based Filtering dan algoritma Random Forest Regression. Content-Based Filtering merupakan metode yang biasa digunakan untuk membangun sistem rekomendasi. Content-based filtering pada penelitian ini memberikan rekomendasi berdasarkan hasil analisis kemiripan item di beberapa atribut yang akan menghasilkan nilai kesamaan berupa cosine similarity. Kemudian cosine similarity akan diproses dengan metode Random Forest Regression sehingga menghasilkan model yang mampu menghitung nilai kesamaan dari dua paket wedding organizer. Nilai kesamaan yang tertinggi akan menjadi hasil rekomendasi. Digunakannya Random Forest Regression karena merupakan algoritma machine learning yang bagus dalam memecahkan masalah klasifikasi maupun regresi. Dari pengujian menggunakan pemodelan Random Forest Regression memeproleh  hasil akurasi  83,750% dengan nilai MAPE sebesar 16,249% pada pengujian K=10 dalam 100 tree random forest.  Penelitian dengan membentuk sistem rekomendasi wedding organizer ini diharapkan dapat memudahkan calon pengantin dalam memilih wedding organizer untuk kelancaran dalam menyiapkan pesta pernikahan.

Kata Kunci— Wedding Organizer, Sistem Rekomendasi, Sistem Pendukung Keputusan, Content-Based Filtering, Random Forest.
Analisis Reliabilitas Multiserver Menggunakan Load Balancing dengan Metode Denial Of Service
Authors: Erlangga Mochamad Dimas , Prihanto Agus
Published: July 2022

Abstrak — Pada saat ini jaringan komputer memiliki ancaman yang begitu besar, ancaman tersebut berupa Serangan Denial of Service. Dengan cara membebani server atau jaringan komputer serangan ini dilakukan dengan mengirim lalu lintas yang tidak berguna dan juga besar secara terus menerus pada satu server yang telah menjadi target serangan, sehingga server yang menjadi objek serangan harus menghabiskan begitu banyak waktu dan juga menambah beban kerjanya dalam menangani serangan lalu lintas. Web server merupakan salah satu sistem yang berpotensi terkena serangan, seperti serangan Denial Of Service berjenis Slowloris. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meminimalisir serangan DOS dengan menggunakan Load Balancing traffic kearah server menggunakan teknologi docker container. Dalam persiapan pengujian sistem, terdapat beberapa kebutuhan untuk analisis reliabilitas ini, diantaranya adalah Web Server berjalan pada OS Ubuntu dalam Virtual Machine, localhost http server sebagai alamat host website yang diserang, php dan python sebagai bahasa pemrograman, Slowloris sebagai tools penyerangan DoS, Docker sebagai sarana untuk mengaplikasikan Load Balancing, NginX sebagai Load Balancer, dan juga Wireshark sebagai alat monitoring anomali jaringan.

Hasil pengujian menunjukkan bahwa pada skenario jika tanpa menggunakan Load Balancing terdapat RTO yang telah dihitung rata-ratanya mencapai 1,333655 detik sedangkan dengan menggunakan Load Balancing terdapat RTO yang telah dihitung rata-ratanya mencapai waktu delay 0,83699 detik. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa RTO berhasil diminimalisir dengan menggunakan Load Balancing jika dibandingkan dengan tanpa Load Balancing karena semakin tinggi RTO maka kualitas TCP kurang baik.
Implementasi Metode MOORA Untuk Penentuan Wisata Surabaya Terbaik Di Masa Pandemi COVID-19
Authors: Virgiant Roy Belmiro , Rochmawati Naim
Published: July 2022

COVID-19 atau Coronavirus disease 2019 penyakit menular yang mengakibatkan pandemi diseluruh dunia memberikan banyak sekali dampak pada seluruh kegiatan masyarakat. Kegiatan perekonomian dan pariwisata menjadi salah satu elemen yang terdampak oleh pandemi ini. Pariwisata merupakan elemen penting bagi perekonomian masyarakat. Sebagai usaha untuk memutus rantai penularan COVID-19 di pariwisata, pemerintah mengeluarkan aturan seperti pembatasan pengunjung hingga penerapan protokol kesehatan. Beberapa tempat wisata di Surabaya, sudah dibuka selama pandemi. Penelitian ini melakukan perhitungan untuk mendapatkan rangking wisata yang buka selama pandemi di Surabaya. Data yang diuji merupakan delapan wisata luar ruangan di Surabaya yang dikumpulkan dari sumber seperti situs pemerintah, media sosial wisata, dan survey ke lokasi. Perhitungan perangkingan menggunakan metode MOORA atau Multi Objektive Optimization On The Basis Of Ratio Analysis sebagai metode perhitungan. Perhitungan diimplementasikan menjadi aplikasi berbasis web dengan bahasa pemrogamman PHP dan framework Codeigniter. Perhitungan MOORA menggunakan sebanyak enam kriteria yang diberi bobot setiap kriterianya. Ke-enam kriteria tersebut merupakan penerapan protokol kesehatan, fasilitas, waktu buka, batas pengunjung, jarak dari pusat kota dan harga tiket masuk. Hasil perhitungan sistem menunjukkan Taman Flora menjadi wisata terbaik di Surabaya selama pandemi dengan perolehan nilai 0.176971, urutan ke-dua ditempati oleh Wisata Perahu Kalimas dengan nilai 0.167378 dan urutan ketiga Ekowisata Mangrove Wonorejo dengan nilai 0.166685. Pengujian menggunakan Confusion Matrix membandingkan hasil perhitungan manual dengan perhitungan sistem mendapat hasil akurasi sebesar 75%.
Analisis Keamanan Data Pada Aplikasi Android Menggunakan HTTP Canary (Studi Kasus : Siakadu UNESA Mobile)
Authors: Rahman Ismansyah Putra Muhammad Arief , Prihanto Agus
Published: July 2022

Abstrak— Saat ini, Teknologi berkembang pesat dan kita harus beradaptasi dengan cepat, salah satu teknologi tersebut adalah Internet, manusia dapat mencari informasi apapun dengan mudah, transaksi jual beli, dan sebagainya menggunakan website. Unesa sebagai Lembaga Pendidikan juga menggunakan website sebagai sumber informasi, untuk lebih memudahkan pengguna, Unesa mempunyai Siakad Unesa versi mobile, dalam Siakad Unesa versi mobile Mahasiswa bisa mendapatkan informasi seperti absensi, jadwal kuliah, lokasi kelas, nama Dosen, hasil nilai studi, riwayat pembayaran spp, profile Mahasiswa, dan lain sebagainya. Pada aplikasi yang menggunakan REST API tentunya membutuhkan koneksi internet untuk mengirim dan mendapatkan informasi dari server.  Aplikasi yang tidak menerapkan standar keamanan akan dengan mudahnya dimodifikasi atau diretas oleh pihak yang tidak bertanggung jawab. Dalam penelitian ini penulis menganalisis keamanan API pada aplikasi dengan menggunakan MitM untuk sniffing dan REST CLIENT untuk uji coba REST API serta saran untuk menghindari hal seperti yang telah disebutkan terjadi. Http Canary sebagai MitM dapat merekam seluruh traffic antara client dengan server, Postman sebagai REST CLIENT digunakan untuk uji coba REST API. Dari hasil pengujian yang telah dilakukan oleh penulis, aplikasi Siakad Unesa versi Mobile dinilai kurang aman, yakni hanya dengan menggunakan HTTP Canary sebagai MitM, MitM dapat merekam seluruh aktifitas aplikasi walaupun ber-SSL, dan server tidak memerlukan autentikasi pengguna dari aplikasi saat melakukan request API, selain itu tidak adanya pembatasan untuk melakukan request API sehingga seseorang dapat melakukan request berulang tanpa hambatan serta tidak adanya proses validasi NIM pengguna yang sedang login dengan yang diminta ke server sehingga Mahasiswa dapat meminta informasi tentang Mahasiswa lain.
Implementasi Algoritma Collision Detection dan A*(A Star) pada Non Player Character Game World Of New Normal
Authors: Yohanes Dian Novita , Rochmawati Naim
Published: July 2022

Game adalah bentuk penerapan bidang multimedia yang dirancang dengan menerapkan algoritma – algoritma tertentu yang dapat membuat game menjadi semakin menarik dan menimbulkan kepuasan batin bagi penggunanya. Semakin menarik game maka akan semakin banyak pengguna yang memainkannya. Pada penelitian kali ini peneliti akan membuat sebuah game yang di beri nama World Of New Normal dimana game ini akan bercerita tentang seorang anak kecil bernama DIAN yang harus bertahan hidup di era kenormalan baru dengan menjaga pola hidup sehat agar tidak terserang virus Covid. Pada game World of New Normal akan menerapkan Algoritma A* (A star) dan juga Algoritma Collision Detection pada NPC enemy. Algoritma A*(A Star) digunakan untuk menetukan jalur terpendek yang bisa di lalui NPC menemukan target dengan menghitung harga terkecil yang harus diambil. Algoritma Collision Detection digunakan untuk mendeteksi adanya tabrakan antar objek agar dapat memproses perintah aturan game selanjutnya. Algoritma A*(A Star) dan Collision Detection akan diterapkan pada setiap NPC yang ada dari permainan level 1 hingga level 3. Selain itu dilakukan pula beta testing untuk mengetahui apakah game dapat berjalan dengan baik dan mengetahui tingkat kepuasan pengguna dalam memainkan game World Of New Normal, hasil uji kepuasan pengguna yang diperoleh dari 50 responden yang terlibat dalam pengujian game adalah cukup memuaskan dengan persentase  81%.

 

Game is an application from multimedia which is designed by applying of some algorithms that can make the games more interesting and satisfiying for its users. The most interesting game, always played by more users. In this study, the researcher will make a game called World Of New Normal. This game will tell the story of a child named DIAN who must survive in the new normal era by maintaining a healthy lifestyle so as not to be attacked by the Covid virus. In the World of New Normal game the A*(A Star) algorithm used to determine the shortest path that can be passed by NPC to find the target by calculating the smallest price that must be taken. Collision Detection algorithm is used to detect the collisions between objects to process the next rules of the game.  the A* (A star) And Collision Detection Algorithm will be applied to every NPCs from level 1 until level 3. we also do the beta testing to make sure the game will run well and determine the level of user satisfaction in playing the World Of New Normal game, the result of user satisfaction testing from 50 respondents involved are quite satisfactory with a 81% of percentage
Pengaruh Penggunaan Antena Grid Terhadap Kekuatan Sinyal dan Throughput Serta Jangkauan Pada RT/RW Net di Ponpes Kanzul Ulum
Authors: Bariqi Aldi , Prihanto Agus
Published: July 2022

Abstrak — Penggunaan internet pada saat ini sangatlah besar dan sudah menjadi kebutuhan pokok oleh semua kalangan masyarakat. Internet juga bisa dijadikan sebagai suatu sarana untuk memudahkan pekerjaan masyarakat seperti proses belajar mengajar, rapat secara online dan lain sebagainya. Maka dari itu dibutuhkan sebuah koneksi internet yang kuat supaya masyarakat pengguna internet tersebut merasa nyaman dalam melakukan pekerjaan mereka. Ponpes Kanzul Ulum merupakan yayasan yang berisi beragam siswa-siswi mulai dari TK sampai dengan SMP. Siswa-siswi tersebut membutuhkan akses ke internet yang stabil namun beberapa ISP yang menawarkan fasilitas Wi-Fi tidak bisa menjangkau yayasan tersebut. Pada penelitian ini peneliti akan membuat sebuah jaringan internet untuk yayasan tersebut. Peneliti menggunakan jaringan RT/RW Net sebagai sumber internet dengan memasangkan antena Grid sebagai penguat sinyal supaya sumber internet tersebut tersampaikan secara maksimal.

Dari hasil pengukuran ke-empat parameter QoS dan kekuatan sinyal pada jarak 100 meter, 200 meter dan 300 meter didapatkan nilai rata-rata throughput 721.092 Kb/s untuk jaringan tanpa menggunakan antena dan 1,168,197 Kb/s untuk jaringan menggunakan antena. Rata-rata delay 7.87 ms untuk jaringan tanpa menggunakan antena dan 6.99 ms untuk jaringan menggunakan antena.  Rata-rata jitter 9.60 ms untuk jaringan menggunakan antena dan  6.99 ms untuk jaringan  tanpa menggunakan antena. Rata-rata packet loss 0% untuk jaringan tanpa menggunakan antena dan 0.0056% untuk jaringan menggunakan antena. Rata-rata kekuatan sinyal -60 dBm untuk jaringan tanpa menggunakan antena dan -50 dBm jaringan menggunakan antena. Sehingga dapat dikatakan bahwa kualitas layanan jaringan internet menggunakan antena grid memiliki kualitas jaringan lebih bagus berdasarkan perbandingan total nilai rata-rata.