bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Analisis Kemampuan Berpikir Kritis Siswa Berdasarkan Pembelajaran Klarifikasi Nilai (VCT) pada Mata Pelajaran PPKn di SMA Negeri 1 Widang
Authors: - Sukisno , Suharsono  , Sumarno
Published: December 2020

Aktivitas pembelajaran PPKN di sekolah menengah atas harus ditekankan pada nilai-nilaiyang dapat mengembangkan kemampuan berpikir kritis dan analitis, tetapi di lapanganmasih banyak pembelajaran yang di dominasi dengan metode ceramah sehinggakemampuan berpikir siswa belum maksimal, terutama kemampuan berpikir kritis.Klarifikasi nilai merupakan salah satu alternatif model pembelajaran yang dapatmeningkatkan kemampuan berpikir kritis. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk menganalisiskemampuan berpikir kritis siswa melalui model pembelajaran klarifikasi nilai pada matapelajaran PPKn. Metode Penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian deskriptif kualitatif.Hasil penelitian menunjukkan kemampuan berpikir kritis pada aspek yang tergolongtinggi pada aspek mengidentifikasi sebanyak 23 siswa (79,32%) dan aspek menganalisissebanyak 24 siswa (82,75%). Simpulan pembelajaran klarifikasi nilai dapatmeningkatkan kemampuan berpikir kritis.
USE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES BY INSURANCE MARKET ENTITIES. TELEMATICS IN CAR INSURANCE
Authors: Ignatovich Liliya
Published: December 2020

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the need for the use of innovative technologies by participants in the insurance market, namely, telematics in car insurance. The current state of the financial services market requires insurers to raise standards of work through the introduction of innovative products. It is determined that increasing the competitiveness of an insurance company should focus on providing the best personal services and meet the requirements of modernity and modern social trends, and therefore, make full use of the Internet: marketing and innovation. In view of this, the key task of the insurer’s innovation activity is the maximum approximation of insurance services to the existing needs of the insured in insurance protection. It is possible to reach stable demand for this or that insurance service under the conditions of application of the world innovative insurance programs providing balance of qualitative and quantitative parameters of the insurance contract only. The relevance of the topic is that the Ukrainian insurance companies are forced to look for new opportunities to meet the needs of their customers in order to maintain competitive advantages and work effectively in the conditions of innovative development of insurance activity in the world. A promising area of further research is to assess the readiness of insurance market participants to use innovative insurance services. Methodology. The essence of telematics in car insurance is investigated. The state of the CASCO insurance market in Ukraine is analyzed. The main advantages of telematics use by the subjects of the insurance market of Ukraine are determined. Practical implications. It is proved that the introduction of innovative technologies opens new opportunities for the growth of additional premiums, improving the quality of service and minimizing insurance risks. Theoretical provisions on the need for ways to improve the innovative activities of the insurer have been further developed.
Interlinkages between Indicators of Sustainable Development Goals: Evidence from Seven Low Income and Lower Middle-Income Countries
Authors: Liu Suyu
Published: December 2020

In 2015, 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by member states of United Nations as a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. Up to date, the global indicator of framework of SDGs has 247 indicators (including repetitive indicators), which monitor progress of achieving the SDGs. The interlinkages and integration of SDG indicators have attracted attention from scholars and practitioners, however, there is limited existing knowledge of the interlinkages and interactions between SDG indicators in low income and lower middle-income countries.

This article therefore uses data from seven low income and lower middle-income countries to analyze the interlinkages between SDG indicators 9.2.1 and 9.4.1, which monitors the level of industrialization and energy efficiency in manufacturing sector respectively. It is widely believed that higher level industrialization will reduce energy emission per manufacturing value added. However, the results suggest that beyond traditional knowledge, in the seven selected countries, SDG indicators 9.2.1 and 9.4.1 are positively associated with each other. A possible reason of this unconventional finding is the country context, as in low income and lower middle-income countries the manufacturing industries are usually not energy-extensive, although not technology-intensive either. This article also calls for holistic and integrated approaches to use and interpret SDG indicators in line with the national and regional context.
Pengaruh Kepemimpinan Transformasional terhadap Kinerja Karyawan: Peran Kesiapan untuk Berubah Sebagai Mediator
Authors: Asbari Masduki , Novitasari Dewiana , Silitonga Nelson , Sutardi Didi , Gazali
Published: December 2020

ABSTRAK

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengukur pengaruh kepemimpinan transformasional terhadap kinerja karyawan industri otomotif di Tangerang yang dimediasi oleh kesiapan untuk perubahan. Pengumpulan data penelitian kuantitatif ini dilakukan dengan teknik simple random sampling dan hasil kuesioner yang kembali dan valid adalah 217 sampel. Pemrosesan data menggunakan metode SEMdengan perangkat lunak SmartPLS 3.0. Hasil penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa kepemimpinan transformasional tidak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap kinerja karyawan, tetapi kepemimpinan transformasional berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kesiapan untuk berubah. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan juga bahwa kesiapan untuk berubah memiliki pengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap hubungan antara kepemimpinan transformasional dan kinerja karyawan. Kesiapan untuk berubah sebagai full-mediator. Penelitian ini mengusulkan sebuah model untuk membangun kinerja karyawan di antara karyawan industri otomotif di Tangerang melalui peningkatan praktik kepemimpinan transformasional dengan kesiapan untuk berubah sebagai mediator. Penelitian ini dapat membuka jalan untuk meningkatkan kesiapan karyawan dalam menghadapi era revolusi industri 4.0.

Kata Kunci: Kepemimpinan transformasional, kesiapan untuk berubah, kinerja karyawan

 

 

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to measure the effect of transformational leadership on employee performance of the employee of anautomotive industry in Tangerang which are mediated by readiness for change. Data collection was done by simple random sampling technique and the returned and valid questionnaire results were 217 samples. Data processing was used SEM method with SmartPLS 3.0 software. The results of this study concluded that transformational leadership have not significant effect on the employee performance, but transformational leadership have a positive and significant effect on readiness for change.This study conclude also that readiness for change have a positive and significant effect on relationship between transformational leadership and employee performance. Readiness for change as fully mediator. This new research proposed a model for building employee performance among the employee of anautomotiveindustry in Tangerang through enhancing transformational leadership practice with readiness for change as a mediator. This research could pave the way to improve employee readiness in facing the era of industrial revolution 4.0.

 

Keywords: Employee performance, readiness for change, transformational leadership.
Sexualität oder Gender
Authors: Seifert Edith
Published: December 2020

Der Artikel reagiert auf die Kritik des aktuell tonangebenden transsexuellen Philosophen P.B. Preciado, wonach die Psychoanalyse entscheidende Veränderungen ihrer Zeit versäume: das Phänomen der durch die neuen Technologien entstandenen neuen Körper und die damit verbundene Neuordnung der Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen. Die Psychoanalyse beharre ungeachtet aller Neuerungen auf einer binären Geschlechtsordnung.
Weit mehr als eine »Perle«: Die Klitoris
Authors: Metzger Sabine
Published: December 2020

Inspiriert von und kritisch bezugnehmend auf Anne Zacharys Publikation Die Anatomie der Klitoris (2019) werden die zentralen Thesen des Buches zusammengefasst (die Wiederholung der Muster der Verschüttung und Wiederentdeckung des Wissens über weibliche Sexualität und Lust aus Abwehrgründen), kritisch diskutiert (vor allem ihre Darstellung weiblicher Identität und Aggression, ihre Interpretation der psychischen Dimension der Klitoris und ihr Mangel an Präzision in der Darstellung der weiblichen psychosexuellen Entwicklung und Selbstverwirklichung sowie in der Untersuchung von Penisneid und Kastrationsangst), um dann – auch anhand der Reflektion eigener emotionaler Reaktionen im Schreibprozess sowie vertiefender Recherchen – unbeachtete und unbewusste Aspekte der Thematik genauer zu fassen und die Lücken zu schließen. Diese Lücken selbst stellen sich als zentral für das Verständnis der Konflikte, mit denen man sich als Psychoanalytikerin beim Forschen über Weiblichkeit auseinanderzusetzen hat, heraus. Es werden Bezüge zur psychosexuellen Entwicklung der Frau mit ihren weiblichen Genitalien, ihren spezifisch weiblichen Ängsten und Bewältigungsmöglichkeiten hergestellt. Zentral im Zusammenhang mit der Klitoris ist die Frage nach der weiblichen Subjektivierung jenseits der Mutterschaft in einer männlich codierten, phallozentrischen Welt, Sprache und Wissenschaft, die immer noch von massiven Verleugnungen und (unbewussten) Identifizierungen eingeschränkt ist. Beispiele aus der Kunst werden zur Verdeutlichung herangezogen. Abschließend gibt es einen Ausblick auf Desiderate für die psychoanalytische Theoriebildung, kreative Formen der Aneignung und die Mythologie.
Influence study of mixture composition «polyisocyanate—polyether—foamer» on polyurethane foam properties
Authors:   Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russian Federation, Arzhakov Maxim , Yakovlev Pavel , Lopatkin Alexander ,   «Interscol—Polymer Technologies», Ltd, Moscow District, Khimki, 141400, Russian Federation
Published: December 2020

The influence of the base mixture composition (polyisocyanate — polyether — foamer) on density, thermal conductivity, mechanical parameters and thermal shrinkage of polyurethane foams has been studied. The unshrinkable foams with thermal conductivity comparable with thermal conductivity of the air were obtained. A variation of the ratio between polyisocyanate and polyether allows one to control thermal shrinkage of the foamed material in the range from 0 to 78%.
The Decisive Instants in News-making: Individual and Collective Temporalities in Broadcast Journalism
Authors: Oliveira Elane Gomes da Silva , De Oliveira Jocélio , Júnior Alfredo Eurico Vizeu Pereira
Published: December 2020

This paper proposes clues to understanding the "temporalities in broadcast journalism" and how they affect the process of television production. We understand temporalities as discontinuous flows of time, which can be experienced collectively and individually in the newsroom: from production and investigation to decision making by the editor with the news program on air. Thus, time functions as productive operator, and temporality as a value for the realization of broadcast journalism. We made a participant observation in the newsroom of TV Cabo Branco, Globo affiliate in João Pessoa and interviewed the journalists who make JPB 1st Edition.
Social Theory and Media Theory: Contributions of Schutz to the Understanding of New Social Realities
Authors: Martins Ana Beatriz , Piaia Victor
Published: December 2020

This article aims to contribute to the debate about time and the new social realities resulting from recent changes in the media field. For this, we propose a rereading of a well-known author in social theory: Alfred Schutz.

Schutz highlighted the importance of media and the modification of the concept of time. The author did not think of time only descriptively. Instead, he opened a deep dialogue about consciousness and social relations, in perspective with the concepts of space and time, conceptually elaborating these relations.

The article has two sections, each corresponding to an approach to time made in media theories and recent social theories. The first one discusses a possible acceleration of time, and the second one discusses the relation of time to memory. We bring the debates to the article, and Schutz's contributions to them, fostering the debate between social theory and media theory, as well as contributing conceptually to recent reflections.
The Temporality of (Serialized) Romantic Comedy
Authors: Amaral Carolina Oliveira Do
Published: December 2020

Romantic comedies have a temporal structure based on suspense that I call temporality of the almost: the micro-narrative structure that repeatedly makes erotic resolution almost happen at several points in the story. This article analyzes how this temporality of constant and continual deferral functions as a retardatory structure posing obstacles apparently in order to keep characters apart, but, in fact, increasing the desire between them, and also between narrative and spectators.
Introduction to Standard Issue
Authors: Anderson Bissie
Published: December 2020

This standard issue features six contributions from postgraduate and early career scholars working at the intersections of media, communications, education, sociology, and technoculture. The articles differ in their objects of inquiry – from sound in digital games, social networking sites, and digital technology in education, to broadcast journalism and romantic comedies, but they broadly converge around a common focus on temporality and time. Between them, the contributions present a good mix of empirical work and significant conceptual development, moving forward theoretical debates in the fields of media and communications. Concepts are either developed, through in-depth engagement with the extant literature (Amaral 2020; Martins & Piaia 2020), or tested through empirical studies using a variety of methods – from surveys (De Andrade & Calixto 2020) to digital ethnography (Polivanov & Santos 2020) to participant observation and interviews (Gomes, Vizeu, & de Oliveira 2020). In some cases, altogether innovative methodological approaches for analysing artefacts are proposed, as in Luersen and Kilpp (2020), whose article opens this standard issue of the journal.
Land disputes between the Kirghiz-Kaisaks and the Orenburg Cossacks in the Novolineyny District of the Orenburg Region for second half of the 19th century
Authors: Kortunov Aleksey , Godovova Elena
Published: December 2020

The article is devoted to the characterization and solution of land disputes continuing throughout the second half of the 19th century. in the Novolineyny region of the Orenburg province between the Orenburg Cossacks and the Kyrgyz-Kaisaks nomadic in this territory. The article was written on the basis of archival materials from the funds of the Russian State Historical Archives, the State Archives of the Russian Federation and the State Archives of the Orenburg Region. Most of the documents are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The authors come to the conclusion that the creation of the Novolineyny district, on the one hand, resolved the interethnic border conflicts between the Bashkirs, the nomads of the Younger Zhuz and the Cossacks living nearby in this territory, but on the other hand led to land disputes between the Orenburg Cossacks resettled here and the Kyrgyz-Kaisaks who roamed here. The confrontation lasted until the beginning of the twentieth century, namely, until the Kirghiz-Kaisaks were resettled to another territory.
“Disenfranchised” Sart: everyday life of a Turkestan woman at the turn of the 19th - 20th century
Authors: Brezhneva Svetlana , Shaidurov Vladimir , Nikulina Irina
Published: December 2020

The article is devoted to the daily life of the Saratov people, who disappeared from the historical arena as a result of the national division held in 1924. The authors ' interest is focused on the gender aspect of the problem. The main attention is paid to the way of life, customs, and character of the Sarti women, as the least known part of the Muslim society of Turkestan. The sources used are the works of ethnographers, historians, Orientalists, and simply eyewitnesses who visited or lived in Turkestan at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries.
A Review of Performance Analyzing on Public and Private Blockchain Platforms
Authors: Firdaus Muhammad
Published: December 2020

Blockchain is a promising new technology, generating widespread interest, and receiving considerable attention in the research community, such as academia and industry. This interest started with the success of Bitcoin but took speed with the promise of smart contracts and a vast number of applications. While there is a broad interest in developing blockchain systems for specific use cases, there is a lack of tools to perform their evaluation and implementation decisions may hamper fast progress. This report provides the review of security and performance of public and private blockchain framework, where each of which is represented by the two well-known papers, the first is titled “On the Security and Performance of Proof of Work Blockchains” and the second paper is titled “BLOCKBENCH: A Framework for Analyzing Private Blockchains”. The first paper introduces a novel quantitative framework to analyze the security and performance implications of various consensus and network parameters of PoW blockchains. The framework allows for capture existing PoW-based deployments as well as PoW blockchain variants that are instantiated with different parameters, and to objectively compare the tradeoffs between their performance and security provisions. In the second paper, the authors describe BlockBench, the first evaluation framework for analyzing private blockchains. BlockBench measures overall and componentwise performance in terms of throughput, latency, scalability, and fault-tolerance. Next, BlockBench is used to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of three major private blockchains: Ethereum, Parity, and Hyperledger Fabric. Furthermore, there are gaps in performance among the three systems which are attributed to the design choices at different layers of the blockchain’s software stack.
The roles of conduit redundancy and connectivity in xylem hydraulic functions
Authors: Mrad Assaad , Johnson Daniel M , Love David M , Domec Jean-Christophe
Published: December 2020

1. Wood anatomical traits shape a xylem segment's hydraulic efficiency and embolism spread resistance due to declining water potential. It has been known for decades that variations in conduit connectivity play a role in altering xylem hydraulics. However, evaluating the precise effect of conduit connectivity has been elusive. The objective is to establish an analytical linkage between conduit connectivity and grouping and tissue-scale hydraulics.2. It is hypothesized that an increase in conduit connectivity brings improved resistance to embolism spread due to increased hydraulic pathway redundancy. However, an increase in conduit connectivity could also reduce resistance due to increased embolism spread speed with respect to pressure. We elaborate on this trade-off using graph theory, percolation theory, and computational modeling of xylem. The results are validated using anatomical measurements of Acer branch xylem.3. Considering only species with vessels, increases in connectivity improve resistance to embolism spread without negatively affecting hydraulic conductivity. The often measured grouping index fails to capture the totality of the effect of conduit connectivity on xylem hydraulics.4. Variations in xylem network characteristics, such as conduit connectivity, might explain why hypothesized trends among woody species, like the ‘safety-efficiency’ trade-off hypothesis, are weaker than expected.
Inovasi Menghadapi Pandemi Covid-19
Authors: Sofanudin Aji
Published: December 2020

Penggunakan term “melawan” dan “berdamai” dengan Covid-19 hemat kami tidak tepat. Istilah tersebut mengesankan kita sedang perang atau kondisi chaos. Padahal tidak demikian. Mungkin lebih tepat istilah “menghadapi” dan “beradaptasi” dengan pandemi Covid-19. Kita tidak sedang “diserang” ataupun “menyerang” tetapi kita sedang bersama-sama menghadapi pandemi. Sebisa mungkin kita beradaptasi: sering cuci tangan, menggunakan masker, menjaga jarak dan stay at home.Kebijakan belajar, bekerja dan beribadah di rumah perlu didekati dengan suasana gembira. Lebih penting juga menghadapinya dengan pikiran jernih, penuh kreativitas dan inovasi. Terkadang, kesuksesan tak jarang bermula dari kondisi “keterpaksaan”. Terpaksa bekerja, belajar, dan beribadah di rumah bisa memunculkan kreativitas. The power of kepepet potensial memunculkan ide-ide, cara-cara, dan metode baru.
PENERAPAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN RECIPROCAL TEACHING UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MEMBACA PEMAHAMAN PADA SISWA KELAS IV SD INPRES BANGKALA III KOTA MAKASSAR
Authors: Ahmad Nurfahmi
Published: December 2020

ABSTRAKNurfahmi, 2020. Penerapan Model Pembelajaran Reciprpcal Teaching untuk meningkatkan kemampuan membaca pemahaman pada siswa kelas IV SD Inpres Bangkala III Kota Makassar. Skripsi dibimbing oleh Jusmawati dan Cayati.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kemampuan membaca pemahaman siswa pada Kemampuan membaca penerapan model pembelajaran Reciprocal Teaching di kelas IV SD Inpres Bangkala III kota makassar. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan yaitu penelitian tindakan kelas dan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif. Instrumen penelitian yang digunakan yaitu observasi, tes, dan dokumentasi.Hasil penelitian pada siklus I dan II. Dimana pada siklus I Kemampuan Membaca siswa dengan nilai rata-rata pada 60 – 100 dengan presentasi 62,25% dengan kategori Cukup. Sedangkan pada siklus II terdapat Kemampuan Membca siswa dengan nilai rata-rata 60 - 100 presentasi 82,75% berada pada kategori sangat baik. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa penggunaan model Pembelajaran Reciprocal Teaching dapat meningkatkan Kemampuan membaca Pemahaman Pada siswa kelas IV SD Inpres Bangkala III Kota Makassar. Kata Kunci : Penerapan model pembelajaran reciprocal teaching, meningkatkan kemampuan membaca.
Duby: Dual Binding Semantics
Authors: Rapoport Yoori
Published: December 2020

Reference counting is a simple and efficient method for garbage collection. One disadvantage of reference counting is the possible creation of reference cycles. We propose a dynamically typed compiled programming language called Duby, in which values can be bound to either an automatic variable or to a unique hierarchical path. The separation of variable binding forms allows Duby to implement reference counting for automatic variables which refer to values bound to unique hierarchical paths without creating reference cycles. Another advantage of explicit binding of values to unique hierarchical paths is the ability to provide a paradigmatic implementation of programming concepts using filesystem-like abstractions.
Psychological Network Analysis of General Self-Efficacy in High vs Low Resilient Functioning Healthy Adults
Authors: Schueler Katja , Fritz Jessica , Dorfschmidt Lena , Van Harmelen Anne-Laura , Strömer Eike , Wessa Michele
Published: December 2020

Resilience to stress has gained increasing interest by researchers from the field of psychology and psychiatry. Several studies have investigated resilience from a network perspective. General self-eﬃcacy constitutes an important resilience factor. High levels of self-eﬃcacy have shown to promote resilience by serving as a stress buﬀer. However, little is known about the role of network connectivity of self-eﬃcacy in the context of stress resilience. The present study aims at filling this gap by using psychological network analysis to study self-eﬃcacy and resilience. Based on individual resilient functioning scores, we divided a sample of 875 mentally healthy adults into a high and low resilient functioning group. To compute these scores, we applied a novel approach based on Partial Least Squares Regression on self-reported stress and mental health measures. Separately for both groups, we then estimated regularized partial correlation networks of a ten-item self-eﬃcacy questionnaire. We compared three diﬀerent global connectivity measures - strength, expected influence, and shortest path length - as well as absolute levels of self-eﬃcacy between the groups. Our results supported our hypothesis that stronger network connectivity of self-eﬃcacy would be present in the highly resilient functioning group compared to the low resilient functioning group. In addition, the former showed higher absolute levels of general self-eﬃcacy. Future research could consider using partial least squares regression to quantify resilient functioning to stress and to study the association between network connectivity and resilient functioning in other resilience factors.
Bevacizumab treatment of patients with breast cancer is associated with differential expression and up-regulation of the thyrotroph embryonic factor, TEF.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: December 2020

Bevacizumab (Avastin) is an approved treatment option by the European Medicines Agency (1) for more than a quarter billion women in the European Union, and despite having its indication withdrawn by the Food and Drug Administration in 2011 is still utilized in clinical trials in the United States (2, 3). We mined published microarray data (4) from the PROMIX trial to understand in an unbiased fashion genes most transcriptionally perturbed by bevacizumab administration and how this interacted with a standard anthracycline and taxane chemotherapeutic regimen, epirubicin and docetaxel. We report here the differential and increased expression of the thyrotroph embryonic factor, HLF, in the primary tumors of women treated with bevacizumab for breast cancer. We have recently described the differential expression and up-regulation of TEF in the tumors of breast cancer patients with bevacizumab. Thus, treatment with bevacizumab results in transcriptome-level differential expression and transcriptional induction of two PAR bZIP transcription factors in the tumors of patients with breast cancer.
International disparities in open access practices in the Earth Sciences
Authors: Pourret Olivier , Hedding David , Ibarra Daniel , Irawan Dasapta , Liu Haiyan , Tennant Jonathan
Published: December 2020

Background. Open Access (OA) describes the free, unrestricted access to and re-use of research articles. Recently, a new wave of interest, debate, and practice surrounding OA publishing has emerged.Objectives. The paper presented here focuses on international disparities in OA publication practices of the Earth Science community. We aim to provide an overview of actual publication practices and comparison between several countries with the intention of stimulating further debate and raising awareness to aid the decision-making processes for the further development of OA practices in the Earth Sciences.Methods. Number of OA articles, proportion of OA articles by countries and journals’ selection was performed using the Scopus and Web of Science indexing databases.Results. In 2018, only between 24 and 31% of total articles were available as OA. The ten top journals for Earth Sciences that publish OA articles are mostly fully OA (6) or hybrid journals (4). Fully OA journals are mostly published by emerging publishers and have a large range of Article Processing Charges (APCs) from less than $US 1000 up to $US 3000.Conclusions. The rise in OA publishing has potential impacts for the profiles of researchers and tends to devolve publication costs from organizations to individuals. Until the Earth Sciences community makes the decision to move away from journal-based evaluation criteria, it is likely that such high costs will continue to impose financial inequities upon this research community, especially for researchers from least developed countries. However, Earth Scientists could more widely choose legal self-archiving as an equitable and sustainable way to disseminate their research.
Influence of the processing method on basic physical and mechanical characteristics of the fibrous material
Authors: Marchenko Roman , Shurkina Valentina
Published: December 2020

The article presents a brief analysis of various processing methods for fibrous materials
ZOOSEMIOTICS
Authors: JISH ELS
Published: December 2020

Zoosemiotics was proposed by Thomas A. Sebeok. Thomas Albert Sebeok (born Sebők, Hungarian: [ˈʃɛbøːk]; 1920–2001) was a Hungarian-born American polymath, semiotician, and linguist. As one of the founders of the biosemiotics field, he studied non-human and cross-species signaling and communication. He is also known for his work in the development of long-time nuclear waste warning messages, in which he worked with the Human Interference Task Force (established 1981) to create methods for keeping the inhabitants of Earth away from buried nuclear waste that will still be hazardous 10,000 or more years in the future.
PARALANGUAGE AND WRITING
Authors: JISH ELS
Published: December 2020

Paralanguage (vocalics) is a part of non-verbal communication. It’s not about what you say, but how you say it. The study of paralanguage is Paralinguistic. However paralanguage is more closely connected with verbal communication than, for example, nonverbal gestures. While gestural, proxemics, and other modes of nonverbal communication can be used to transmit messages independently of language, paralanguage is communication which always occurs simultaneously with verbal messages (Notd, 1995:248). There is also a verbal communication in Indonesian tradition. Some oral traditions are still maintained within modern society in South Sulawesi, such as ritual speeches, annual traditional celebrations including the ‘maulid’ ceremony and traditional festivals (Rahman, 2017). Nonverbal communication such as literary text can provide more knowledge to the reader as Rahman stated in his journal article that literature is a source of learning and entertainment for readers. (Rahman, Amir P., & Tammasse, 2019).
Why victimized by peers promotes cyberbullying in college students? Testing a moderated mediation model in a three-wave longitudinal study
Authors: Zhang Ming-Chen , Wang Lin-Xin , Dou Kai , Liang Yue
Published: December 2020

Cyberbullying is a major youth social problem over the world and it has been associated with a variety of negative outcomes. However, few studies investigated how offline peer victimization affect cyberbullying and the potential relations between family factors and cyberbullying remains unknown. The current study addresses this gap in knowledge by examining the victimized by peers is associated with higher moral disengagement which further promotes college student’s bullying online. A three-wave longitudinal study, each wave spanning six months apart, was conducted in a sample of 521 Chinese college students (Mage = 22.45, SD = 4.44, 59.3% girls). Results of moderated mediation model shown that peer victimization at T1 predicted more cyberbullying at T3 through moral disengagement at T2, after controlling for demographic variables and cyberbullying at T1. T2 moral disengagement significantly mediating the association between T1 peer victimization and T3 cyberbullying. In addition, high level of negative parenting strengthened the effect of moral disengagement at T2 on cyberbullying at T3. The prevention and intervention for both offline and online bullying victimization are discussed.
Beliefs for Human-Unique Social Learning
Authors: Richardson Hilary
Published: December 2020

Phillips et al. argue that understanding what others know is central to social cognition across species and that this understanding underlies human-unique accumulation and transmission of cultural knowledge. Knowledge representations can’t be both what we have in common with our evolutionary ancestors and what sets us apart from them. Belief representations are necessary for human-unique social learning.
Microtargeting as Information Warfare
Authors: Dawson Jessica
Published: December 2020

Foreign influence operations are an acknowledged threat to national security. Less understood is the data that enables that influence. This paper argues that governments must recognize microtargeting – data informed individualized targeted advertising – and the current advertising economy as enabling and profiting from foreign and domestic information warfare being waged on its citizens. The Department of Defense must place greater emphasis on defending servicemembers’ digital privacy as a national security risk. Without the ability to defend this vulnerable attack space, our adversaries will continue to target this for exploitation.
An Interactional Space of Permanent Observability: WeChat and Reinforcing the Power Hierarchy in Chinese Workplaces
Authors: Tian Xiaoli
Published: December 2020

Does digital media empower or disempower workers? In existing studies on how information and communication technologies influence work, researchers investigate work-life boundaries and how workers use digital media to obtain more control. This article focuses on how digital media influences daily interpersonal interactions in the workplace: how does social media use influence workplace hierarchies and power dynamics? Based on 56 in-depth interviews with WeChat users in Chinese workplaces, I find that lower-ranked individuals were compelled to constantly express loyalty and appreciation, and publicly submit to their superordinates by clicking “like” or commenting on their WeChat posts. They also had to provide immediate and polite responses to their superordinates in WeChat group chats after work hours or to non-work-related issues. The distinctive features of online interaction—lack of physical interaction spaces, recordability of past conversations, and n-adic nature of online disclosures—created an environment where past encounters were omnipresent and accessible, and placed workers under permanent observability. This social interaction environment leaves little room for forms of resistance and, in response, employees retreat into cynical performances of submission. This study finds that, under certain circumstances, WeChat use actually intensifies workplace hierarchies and power dynamics, thereby sharpening social inequality, rather than eliminating it.
Educational Inequalities in Labor Market Exit of Older Workers in 15 European Countries
Authors: Mäcken Jana , Präg Patrick , Hess Moritz , Ellwardt Lea
Published: December 2020

This article examines country differences in the association between education and voluntary or involuntary labor market exit and whether these country differences map onto institutional characteristics of the countries. Work exit is defined as involuntary based on the reasons of exit. Four different types of institutional factors, push and pull, aiming for an earlier work exit and need and maintain factors to retain older workers in employment are considered. Using data from 15 European countries from the longitudinal Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), discrete- time event history models with a categorical outcome are estimated for each country separately. In a second step, we add macro-level indicators and conduct meta-analyses to analyze country differences. Results show that in almost all countries a social gradient in involuntary work exit exists but not in voluntary exit. Lower-educated workers are more likely to involuntarily exit the labor market. Institutional factors, especially those supporting older workers’ retention in employment, are associated with a smaller social gradient in work exit. Our findings suggest that investments in active labor market expenditures, especially in lifelong learning and rehabilitation for lower educated workers, may help to reduce the social gradient in involuntary work exit.
Doing ethnographic research in the digital age
Authors: Markham Annette
Published: December 2020

This working paper introduces key issues and challenges for ethnographic research of digitally saturated social environments, online social contexts, or digitally-mediated phenomena. It focuses on empirical approaches used by ethnographers and sociologists studying digital culture. In the context of digital social research, this may involve observing or collecting actual behaviors and actions in social networking platforms or studying use and interactions with and around digital devices, technologies, and media in naturalistic environments. It might also involve recording and observing in contrived settings, like workshops, focus groups, experiments, or interviews. The target of one’s study could include people in their physical forms or just data produced through human behaviors, movements, or flows of information. The study might seem small scale, whereby one is looking at a single case, instance, individual or small group, or largescale, when exploring patterns in aggregated datasets, analyzing upswells or shifts of interest in events or crisis, examining how ideas flow or emerge through various groups, platforms, or networks. With such a broad range of topics, approaches, choices, there will obviously be different theories, concepts, methods, ethics, and best practices. This paper provides a good starting point. It is a variation of a chapter for a forthcoming Handbook of Qualitative Research. Update: as of 2022, the Handbook has not yet been published.
Authors: Sudarmo Fatiyah
Published: December 2020

Abstrak

Kebebasan memeluk agama dan beribadah yang telah dijamin dalam konstitusi nampaknya mengalami kesulitan ketika berada pada ranah implementasi. Tindakan diskriminasi dan intolerensi tidak jarang mereka dapatkan, baik dari keluarga inti, lingkungan pertemanan, tempat kerja, dan lingkungan sosial mereka. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis dan mengetahui akar terjadinya perbedaan perlakuan (diskriminasi) terhadap para mualaf baik ketika sebelum sampai pasca konversi agama. Serta bentuk-bentuk atau pola perilaku diskriminasi yang dilakukan oleh struktur di dalam masyarakat terhadap para mualaf. Pendekatan adalah pendekatan kualitatif dengan tipe penelitian studi kasus intrinsik. Penentuan partisipan purposive sampling. Data dikumpulkan dengan cara wawancara mendalam, observasi, dan dokumentasi. Analisis data secara interaltif mengacu kepada tahapan yang dijelaskan Miles dan Huberman: (1) reduksi data, (2) penyajian data, dan (3) penarikan kesimpulan atau verifikasi. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian (1) latar belakang menjadi mualaf secara individual yang dialami oleh para informan yaitu kekosongan rohani, mempertanyakan eksistensi Tuhan dan ketidakyakinan pada agama terdahulu, (2) respons dari keluarga yang memunculkan konflik berupa pertentangan, penolakan secara keras, penolakan secara halus dengan tujuan mengajak kembali ke agama asal, dan dikucilkan, (3) adanya diskriminasi dari lingkungan sosial atau komunitas masyarakat, berupa perubahan sikap ramah kemudian berubah menjadi menjauhi.
Kaʻu Community Asthma Management Program
Authors: Luzviminda Banez Miguel Luzviminda Banez
Published: December 2020

The “Kaʻu Community Asthma Management
Program” (KCAMP) is a quality improvement and
evidence-based practice Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project. KCAMP’s objective was to determine whether community-based asthma education, self management,
self-efficacy, an asthma action plan, journal writing, and use of peak flow meters reduce
asthma exacerbations. The literature supports these effective interventions for asthma control (Andrews, Jones, & Mullan, 2014; Chen, Sheu, Chang, Wang, & Huang, 2010; Federman et al., 2013). KCAMP was designed with community-based interventions to
improve the practice of management of asthma, decrease hospital and doctors’ visits’ costs, and improve the lives of people who have asthma. Fourteen adult residents with asthma from the Kaʻu District, ages 28 to 75, participated in the program. There were
64% (n = 9) females and 36% (n = 5) males. The racially diverse group included ten Hawaiians, three Asians, and one Caucasian.
Effects of Breastfeeding on Stress Measured by Saliva Cortisol Level and Perceived Stress
Authors: Mizuhata Kiyoko , Taniguchi Hatsumi , Hikita Naoko , Shimada Mieko , Morokuma Seiichi
Published: December 2020

Purpose: The effects of breastfeeding on postpartum depression symptoms and stress using physiological measures require investigation.
Background: Breastfeeding suppresses the secretion of cortisol. Oxytocin levels correlate negatively with symptoms of postpartum depression.
Aim: To investigate the effects of breastfeeding on stress and postpartum depression.
Methods: We examined 79 breastfeeding women using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, the Perceived Stress Scale-10, and the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale, and measured the salivary cortisol levels before and after breastfeeding.
Findings: There was a negative correlation between the duration of suckling and changes in salivary cortisol levels following breastfeeding (rs = −0.333, p < 0.05). Salivary cortisol levels immediately following breastfeeding were significantly lower compared to mothers who used mixed feeding methods (p < 0.001).
Breastfeeding mothers had lower perceived stress than mothers using mixed feeding methods (β = −0.260, p < 0.05). There was no association between breastfeeding and postpartum depression; however, there was an association between postpartum depression and perceived stress (β = 0.622, p < 0.001).
Conclusion: Salivary cortisol levels significantly decreased following breastfeeding, with longer suckling times correlating with lower cortisol levels. Breastfeeding reduced stress and increased breastfeeding self-efficacy.
Introduction to Special Abstract Section on Disseminating New Knowledge and Practices for Asian and Pacific Islanders
Authors: Kealoha May K.
Published: December 2020

We are very pleased to publish our first special section of student and community abstracts and brief reports. Students of all disciplines and community
members interested in disseminating new knowledge and practices submitted their papers. By accepting abstracts as well as short papers, a new opportunity
was afforded for students, faculty, and community members to share their scholarship relative to the health of Asian/Pacific Islanders. The Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal is pleased to support and promote their scholarly endeavors particularly from
those of Asian/Pacific Islander background.
Congratulations to S. Robert Spence Jr., a DNP-FNP student at Washington State University, who was awarded the first student scholarship for publication in the APIN student/community papers special issue. He is the first author for the abstract
“Gaining Entrée into a Micronesian Islander-Based Community Organization Through Culturally Responsive Team Building and Reflection.”
Panic, Don’t Panic: Poetry and Affective Politics from the Cold War to Trump
Authors: Beardsworth Adam
Published: December 2020

In both the Cold War and the Trump era, the fear of future threat has provided politicians with a carte blanche for generating anxiety among American citizens. This essay examines how poets in each era responded to the political cultivation of private insecurity, a practice that proliferates the fear, the anxiety, and the weariness that are grounded in the possibility of future threat. For many poets of both the Cold War and Trump eras, political critique lies not in the desire to express rational opposition to irrational policies but in the ability to make tangible the affective consequences of the cultivation of national insecurity.
“That’s Our Word”: National Identity in Vaughan and Skroce’sWe Stand on Guard
Authors: Gordon Neta
Published: December 2020

Brian K. Vaughan and Steve Skroce’s 2015 comic, We Stand on Guard, explores American foreign policy relating to national security, imperial military activity, and resource policy. The comic critiques early twentieth-century American oil policy, referring to the American incursion into Canada as “blood for water” while also alluding to “War Plan Red,” a plan developed in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s to invade Canada. Via the funhouse mirror of distorted, hackneyed images of Canadians, the comic criticizes the American “character,” portraying Canada as a nation of inclusion and diversity, of “ordinary” civilian love of nation and integrity, and as the target of violent American invasion and occupation.
Veterinary Student Self-Assessment of Basic Surgical Skills as an Experiential Learning Tool
Authors: Tobias Karen M. , Bailey Misty R.
Published: December 2020

Mastery of basic skills is critical for surgical training. Such training is best obtained by experiential learning, which requires an element of self-reflection. Self-reflection is not always an automatic process, however; guidance may be required. This article sought to determine whether guided self-assessment would help facilitate student mastery of learned skills in a veterinary basic surgery course. The course consisted of 18 lectures and eight laboratories. Students were provided with written notes and presentation slides before the course. At the end of each lab, students completed a self-assessment of their skills. Skills were practiced in multiple labs; at the end of the course, each student was given a graded, practical examination to evaluate skills mastery. Statistical analysis was performed to compare students’ mean self-assessment over the eight labs and to determine whether self-assessment scores correlated with examination grades. Results from 80 students were included. Students’ overall self-assessments improved significantly from lab 1 to lab 8, and their self-assessment of two specific skills (closed gloving and simple continuous suture pattern) also improved. Students’ self-assessments after the eighth lab were predictive of their practical exam scores. These results suggest guided reflection in the form of self-assessment could help facilitate student mastery of basic surgery skills. Correlation between self-assessment and practical examination results suggests instructors may use these self-assessments to detect students who need extra practice or instruction.
The Fundamental Thermal Equation of Metal Strip Cooling
Authors: Lenz W. , Schleupen M. , Pfeifer H.
Published: December 2020

The cooling process of metallic strips in cooling section of continuous annealing lines can be calculated using an equation which is based purely on the fundamentals of engineering heat transfer and can be solved by simple numerical methods. It includes thermal conduction, convective cooling, radiative cooling and phase changes. Several issues of plant- and process engineering can be considered with this equation. The effects of different measures to increase the cooling rate by changing the fluid flow velocity, the ambient temperature, the temperature of the cooling fluid and the properties of the cooling fluid can be investigated directly using solutions of the presented equation. The risk of a premature start of the cooling due to heat conduction in the direction of strip flow can also be calculated. Numerical solutions for the equations are given for applications in process modelling or plant design.