bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Assessment of climate change effects on vegetation and river hydrology in a semi-arid river basin
Authors: Ougahi Jamal Hassan , E. J. Cutler Mark , J. Cook Simon
Published: August 2022

Climate change plays a key role in changing vegetation productivity dynamics, which ultimately affect the hydrological cycle of a watershed through evapotranspiration (ET). Trends and correlation analysis were conducted to investigate vegetation responses across the whole Upper Jhelum River Basin (UJRB) in the northeast of Pakistan using the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), climate variables, and river flow data at inter-annual/monthly scales between 1982 and 2015. The spatial variability in trends calculated with the Mann-Kendall (MK) trend test on NDVI and climate data was assessed considering five dominant land use/cover types. The inter-annual NDVI in four out of five vegetation types showed a consistent increase over the 34-year study period; the exception was for herbaceous vegetation (HV), which increased until the end of the 1990s and then decreased slightly in subsequent years. In spring, significant (p<0.05) increasing trends were found in the NDVI of all vegetation types. Minimum temperature (Tmin) showed a significant increase during spring, while maximum temperature (Tmax) decreased significantly during summer. Average annual increase in Tmin (1.54°C) was much higher than Tmax (0.37°C) over 34 years in the UJRB. Hence, Tmin appears to have an enhancing effect on vegetation productivity over the UJRB. A significant increase in NDVI, Tmin and Tmax during spring may have contributed to reductions in spring river flow by enhancing evapotranspiration observed in the watershed of UJRB. These findings provide valuable information to improve our knowledge and understanding about the interlinkages between vegetation, climate and river flow at a watershed scale.
Arboreal snail genus Amphidromus Albers, 1850 of Southeast Asia: Shell polymorphism of Amphidromus cruentatus (Morelet, 1875) revealed by phylogenetic and morphometric analyses
Authors: Lee Chi-Tse , Huang Chih-Wei , Hwang Chung-Chi , Sutcharit Chirasak , Jirapatrasilp Parin
Published: August 2022

Species of colourful arboreal snails of the genus Amphidromus from Southeast Asia commonly exhibit high intraspecific variation in shell morphology. Although highly polymorphic Amphidromus specimens with different colouration have been collected at the same locality and were revealed to possess similar genital organs, there is yet no morphometric or DNA analyses of these different shell morphs. This study is the first to reveal that both striped and stripeless morphs of A. cruentatus from Laos and Vietnam belong to the same mitochondrial (COI and 16S rRNA) lineage. Although the shell colouration between the striped and stripeless morphs is markedly different, morphometric and shell outline-based analyses indicated an overall similarity in shell shape. We also revised the systematics of A. cruentatus, in which we treated similar related species, namely A. eudeli, A. fuscolabris, A. thakhekensis, A. gerberi bolovenensis, A. goldbergi, A. pengzhuoani, A. eichhorsti and A. pankowskiae as junior synonyms of A. cruentatus. Amphidromus daoae, A. anhdaoorum, A. stungtrengensis, A. yangbayensis and A. yenlinhae, which were formerly regarded as junior synonyms, are considered as species different from A. cruentatus based on shell morphology and morphometric analyses. Preliminary phylogenetic analyses also retrieved some Amphidromus species groups as distinct mitochondrial lineages.
Repeated computed tomography scanning reveals morphological development of burrows produced by the tiger pistol shrimp Alpheus bellulus
Authors: Umehara Miyu , Seike Koji , Furuyama Seishiro
Published: August 2022

The burrow morphology of endobenthic organisms reflects their subsurface ecology. In this study, we observed the three-dimensional development of burrows produced by the tiger pistol shrimp Alpheus bellulus in a tank using an X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanner. CT scanning was performed at 10–30 min intervals immediately after the start of burrow construction. The three-dimensional morphology (surface area, volume, depth, length, and diameter) of burrows at each observation time was imaged and measured. In addition, the rate of increase of each parameter was calculated. Surface area, volume, length, and depth rapidly increased immediately after the start of the experiment in all burrows. Subsequently, there was a reduction in the rate of increase at 40 min after the start of excavation for burrow depth, at 75 min for length, and at 90 min for surface area and volume. Although there were large differences in burrow diameter among the burrows immediately after the start of the experiment, all burrows reached nearly identical diameters after 90 min. Changes in burrow morphology were not observed in most of the burrows more than 210 min after the start of the experiment, meaning that A. bellulus can create burrows that are sufficient for survival within this time period. The use of CT scans in this study clarified the developmental process of the three-dimensional structure of A. bellulus burrows and is applicable to various burrow-producing organisms. Our results provide new insights into the development of burrow structures.
X-ray directional dark-field imaging using Unified Modulated Pattern Analysis
Authors: Smith Ronan , De Marco Fabio , Broche Ludovic , Zdora Marie-Christine , Phillips Nicholas W. , Boardman Richard , Thibault Pierre
Published: August 2022

X-ray directional dark-field imaging is a recent technique that can reveal a sample’s small-scale structural properties which are otherwise invisible in a conventional imaging system. In particular, directional dark-field can detect and quantify the orientation of anisotropic structures. Here, we present an algorithm that allows for the extraction of a directional dark-field signal from X-ray speckle-based imaging data. The experimental setup is simple, as it requires only the addition of a diffuser to a full-field microscope setup. Sandpaper is an appropriate diffuser material in the hard x-ray regime. We propose an approach to extract the mean scattering width, directionality, and orientation from the recorded speckle images acquired with the technique. We demonstrate that our method can detect and quantify the orientation of fibres inside a carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) sample within one degree of accuracy and show how the accuracy depends on the number of included measurements. We show that the reconstruction parameters can be tuned to increase or decrease accuracy at the expense of spatial resolution.
Competing health risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and early response: A scoping review
Authors: Baral Stefan , Rao Amrita , Rwema Jean Olivier Twahirwa , Lyons Carrie , Cevik Muge , Kågesten Anna E. , Diouf Daouda , Sohn Annette H. , Phaswana-Mafuya Refilwe Nancy , Kamarulzaman Adeeba , Millett Gregorio , Marcus Julia L. , Mishra Sharmistha
Published: August 2022

Background

COVID-19 has rapidly emerged as a global public health threat with infections recorded in nearly every country. Responses to COVID-19 have varied in intensity and breadth, but generally have included domestic and international travel limitations, closure of non-essential businesses, and repurposing of health services. While these interventions have focused on testing, treatment, and mitigation of COVID-19, there have been reports of interruptions to diagnostic, prevention, and treatment services for other public health threats.

Objectives

We conducted a scoping review to characterize the early impact of COVID-19 on HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, sexual and reproductive health, and malnutrition.

Methods

A scoping literature review was completed using searches of PubMed and preprint servers (medRxiv/bioRxiv) from November 1st, 2019 to October 31st, 2020, using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms related to SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 and HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, sexual and reproductive health, and malnutrition. Empiric studies reporting original data collection or mathematical models were included, and available data synthesized by region. Studies were excluded if they were not written in English.

Results

A total of 1604 published papers and 205 preprints were retrieved in the search. Overall, 8.0% (129/1604) of published studies and 10.2% (21/205) of preprints met the inclusion criteria and were included in this review: 7.3% (68/931) on HIV, 7.1% (24/339) on tuberculosis, 11.6% (26/224) on malaria, 7.8% (19/183) on sexual and reproductive health, and 9.8% (13/132) on malnutrition. Thematic results were similar across competing health risks, with substantial indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and response on diagnostic, prevention, and treatment services for HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, sexual and reproductive health, and malnutrition.

Discussion

COVID-19 emerged in the context of existing public health threats that result in millions of deaths every year. Thus, effectively responding to COVID-19 while minimizing the negative impacts of COVID-19 necessitates innovation and integration of existing programs that are often siloed across health systems. Inequities have been a consistent driver of existing health threats; COVID-19 has worsened disparities, reinforcing the need for programs that address structural risks. The data reviewed here suggest that effective strengthening of health systems should include investment and planning focused on ensuring the continuity of care for both rapidly emergent and existing public health threats.
Annotations of novel antennae-expressed genes in male Glossina morsitans morsitans tsetse flies
Authors: Bwana Billiah K. , Mireji Paul O. , Obiero George F. , Gakii Consolata , Akoth Modesta O. , Mugweru Julius N. , Nyabuga Franklin N. , Wachira Benson M. , Bateta Rosemary , Ng’ang’a Margaret M. , Hassanali Ahmed
Published: August 2022

Tsetse flies use antennal expressed genes to navigate their environment. While most canonical genes associated with chemoreception are annotated, potential gaps with important antennal genes are uncharacterized in Glossina morsitans morsitans. We generated antennae-specific transcriptomes from adult male G. m. morsitans flies fed/unfed on bloodmeal and/or exposed to an attractant (ε-nonalactone), a repellant (δ-nonalactone) or paraffin diluent. Using bioinformatics approach, we mapped raw reads onto G. m. morsitans gene-set from VectorBase and collected un-mapped reads (constituting the gaps in annotation). We de novo assembled these reads (un-mapped) into transcript and identified corresponding genes of the transcripts in G. m. morsitans gene-set and protein homologs in UniProt protein database to further annotate the gaps. We predicted potential protein-coding gene regions associated with these transcripts in G. m. morsitans genome, annotated/curated these genes and identified their putative annotated orthologs/homologs in Drosophila melanogaster, Musca domestica or Anopheles gambiae genomes. We finally evaluated differential expression of the novel genes in relation to odor exposures relative to no-odor control (unfed flies). About 45.21% of the sequenced reads had no corresponding transcripts within G. m. morsitans gene-set, corresponding to the gap in existing annotation of the tsetse fly genome. The total reads assembled into 72,428 unique transcripts, most (74.43%) of which had no corresponding genes in the UniProt database. We annotated/curated 592 genes from these transcripts, among which 202 were novel while 390 were improvements of existing genes in the G. m. morsitans genome. Among the novel genes, 94 had orthologs in D. melanogaster, M. domestica or An. gambiae while 88 had homologs in UniProt. These orthologs were putatively associated with oxidative regulation, protein synthesis, transcriptional and/or translational regulation, detoxification and metal ion binding, thus providing insight into their specific roles in antennal physiological processes in male G. m. morsitans. A novel gene (GMOY014237.R1396) was differentially expressed in response to the attractant. We thus established significant gaps in G. m. morsitans genome annotation and identified novel male antennae-expressed genes in the genome, among which > 53% (108) are potentially G. m. morsitans specific.
Optimal reduction and conversion of range-difference measurements for positioning
Authors: Hou M.
Published: August 2022

For positioning an object with m references, there are m−1 linearly independent range differences and measuring them is essential. However, none of m(m−1) possible range differences should be considered redundant unless their measurements are free of noise and locations of the references are exactly known. From all available range-difference measurements, m range measurements are obtained for positioning based on the least squares principle. The problem formulation treats missing and weighted range-difference measurements simultaneously. The exact relationships among several formulations of least squares positioning are established. A numerical example illustrates the results.
Socio-demographic, institutional and governance factors influencing adaptive capacity of smallholder irrigators in Zimbabwe
Authors: Mwadzingeni Liboster , Mugandani Raymond , Mafongoya Paramu L.
Published: August 2022

The provision of resilience and adaptation to climate change to smallholder irrigation communities is a critical component in implementing common pool resource management. Institutions in many smallholder irrigation schemes in developing countries are diverse and have potential to contribute to building climate resilience and improving livelihoods of smallholder irrigator. Human behaviour, institutional capacity and culture play important roles in shaping adaptive capacity of communities to climate change. Although much is known about how these contribute to this adaptive capacity, research focusing on their interaction is limited. In order to close this the gap, this study seeks to explore how socio-demographic, governance and institutional factors influence adaptive capacity in Exchange, Insukamini and Ruchanyu irrigation schemes. Questionnaire-based interviews, group discussions and key informant interviews were used for data collection. Adaptive capacity calculated using the livelihood vulnerability model was used as the dependent variable for this study. Ordinary least square regression was used to assess socio-demographic, institutional and governance factors influencing adaptive capacity in the smallholder irrigation scheme. The study reveals that adaptive capacity is influenced by age, gender, education, land tenure security, irrigation committee satisfaction, cooperatives, and interaction of factors. The link between age and gender were negatively moderated by awareness of irrigation policies, access to credit and land tenure security. Assessing factors influencing adaptive capacity help to improve the livelihoods of scheme farmers in the face of climate change.
Prognostic value of preoperative serum alkaline phosphatase for predicting 3-year mortality in patients undergoing kidney transplantation: A retrospective study
Authors: Yoon Hei Jin , Ko Da Eun , Nam Sang Beom , Song Young , Yun Byung Hwan , Ham Sung Yeon
Published: August 2022

Serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) levels are related to high-turnover bone disease and reflect vascular calcification and inflammation. ALP has been reported to have a prognostic impact in various cohorts including chronic kidney disease. This study investigated whether preoperative serum ALP level could be used for predicting mortality in patients undergoing kidney transplantation. We retrospectively reviewed 1,718 patients who underwent kidney transplantation between November 2005 and June 2017. Finally, 1,533 patients who met the inclusion criteria were classified into tertiles based on preoperative serum ALP level (< 51, 51–72, > 72 IU/L). The incidence of mortality was compared among the three tertiles, and a stepwise logistic regression analysis was performed to evaluate the predictors for mortality. The incidence of 3-year mortality was the highest in the third tertile (1.0% vs. 2.5% vs. 4.4% in the first, second, and third tertile, respectively, p = 0.003). The third tertile of ALP level (odds ratio [OR] 1.855, 95% CI 1.192–2.886, p = 0.006), age (OR 1.052, 95% CI 1.022–1.082, p = 0.011), and history of hypertension (OR 0.401, 95% CI 0.210–0.765, p = 0.006) remained as independent predictors of mortality. Preoperative serum ALP level was significantly higher in the non-survivor group than in the survivor group (58.00 [44.00–76.00] vs. 75.00 [56.25–113.00], p = 0.003). The optimal cut-off value of serum ALP to predict 3-year mortality was 71 IU/L (area under the curve 0.636, 95% CI 0.554–0.719, p = 0.003). Therefore, preoperative serum ALP level was an independent predictor of 3-year mortality in patients undergoing kidney transplantation.
A EXPERIÊNCIA DO GRUPO EDUCAÇÃO POSTURAL E BEM-ESTAR NA REDE FEMININA DE COMBATE AO CÂNCER DE BLUMENAU (SC): PARA CUIDAR MELHOR DE SI, DO OUTRO E DA NATUREZA
Authors: Ceccato Monica Weiler , Aita Cléria Becker
Published: August 2022

The Postural Education and Welfare Group is an Extension Project of the Regional University of Blumenau. Its purpose is to contribute to the promotion of the health and well-being of women in the Blumenau / SC Women's Cancer Network. It is a health education with a practice of groups and workshops. This project has as main area the axis Health and sub-areas: Women's Health and Worker's Health. In relation to the Sustainable Development Goals, the relationship with ODS 3 Good Health and Well-being and, indirectly, with others, to be seen as a health promotion and quality of life is related to the various dimensions of sustainable development. Participating women are more likely to relate to activities of daily living, body awareness, and lack of care for the environment.
Game Design with RFiD Reader and Disc Tag in Positioning Player In Game World
Authors: Appiah Frank
Published: August 2022

This article is describing a game world where player's position is implemented by radio frequency identification reader along a wall of 5 disc tags placed on plate in cardinal way. Such we have north, south, east and west disc tags being similar to left, up, down and right keyboard. In the nutshell, radio mimicking of keyboard navigation with disc tags in positioning a player movement.
[RETRACTED: Using Deep Learning with Different Architectures to Recognize Triplex DNA Structures]
Authors: Luper Tsenum Joseph , Poptsova Maria , Oganya Ogenyi Deborah
Published: August 2022

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) can perform their regulatory roles by forming triple helices through RNA-DNA interaction. Although this has been verified by few
in

vivo and
in vitro methods,
in silico approaches that seek to predict the potentials of lncRNAs and DNA sites becoming a triplex forming structure is required. Triplexator have also predicted vast amounts of lncRNAs and DNA sites that has the potentials of becoming a triplex structure. There is also an emerging experimental evidence that the presence of epigenetic marks at DNA sites and lncRNAs can facilitate the formation of RNA:DNA triplex structures. There is therefore, a huge demand for computational approaches such as deep learning that can make novel predictions about RNA:DNA triplex structure formation. In this study, we developed fourteen (14) deep neural network models that can predict the potentials of lncRNAs and DNA sites to form triple helices genome-wide, by taking lncRNAs, DNA sites, and histone modification marks as our features. While taking lncRNAs and DNA sites as our features, our data was first passed through the Triplexator to screen out lncRNAs and DNA sites with low potentials of forming triple helices. We used different deep learning architectures to build our models, including two-layer convolutional neural networks (CNN), residual neural networks (ResNN), long short term memory-recurrent neural networks (LSTM-RNN) and multilayer perceptron (MLP). Among these deep neural network architectures, our lncRNA_CNN and LSTM3-RNN both performed best at a mean AUC of 0.99 for the lncRNA features when 32 Kernel size and learning rate of 1e-3 was used. For our DNA site based-features, our DNA_CNN performed best at a mean AUC of 0.98 at 32 Kernel size and learning rate of 1e-3. Lastly, for our histone modification marks based-features, our DNA2_CNN performed best at a mean AUC of 0.78 at 32 Kernel size and learning rate of 1e-3. Our deep neural network models revealed several novel lncRNAs and DNA sites, including HOTAIR, MEG3, PARTICLE, DACOR1, MIR100HG, FENDRR, ANRIL, TUG1, MALAT1, LINC00599, TINCR, NEAT1, roX2, DHFR, OTX2-AS1, Xist, SNHG16, ATXN8OS, BCYRN1, TERC, Khps1, that have the potential of forming triplex structures, thereby confirming previous experimental results and that of the Triplexator. The performance of our models also supports previous findings that histone modification marks can help in identifying lncRNAs and DNA regions that have the potentials of forming RNA:DNA triplex structures. In conclusion, we showed that different deep learning architectures can recognize lncRNAs and DNA that have the potentials of forming RNA:DNA triplex structures.
Review on different COVID-19 vaccines approved for Emergency Use Listing by WHO until 11 July 2022: characterization, pharmacological properties, mechanism of action and adverse events.
Authors: Hagar Eman , Hassan Hagar Walaa
Published: August 2022

Background: Since the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus in Wuhan and its transformation into a global pandemic, the main concern of medical systems has been to find vaccines to help the immune system overcome the virus or, at the very least, to prevent COVID-19 positive cases from deteriorating into serious conditions necessitating hospitalization. The pace of COVID-19 vaccine production accelerated, resulting in the development of the first FDA-approved vaccine (Pfizer vaccine) in less than a year. By July 6, 2022, WHO has approved 11 vaccines for emergency use. These vaccines differ in their characterization, pharmacological properties, and mechanism of action. Before vaccines can be used, their effectiveness and safety must be evaluated. Vaccine manufacturers strive for efficiency of at least 50%. To assess the vaccine's safety, manufacturers must report any adverse events that occur in trials before license approval and in populations after license approval.

Main body of the abstract: The review article discussed the general approach for vaccine production, beginning with the pre-clinical stages and progressing to the approval and manufacturing stages, as well as the general types of vaccines. By July 11, 2022. WHO approved 11 vaccines for the COVID-19 emergency use listing. The review discussed these vaccines' characteristics, efficiency, shelf-life, storage temperature, structure, mechanism of action, and potential adverse events.

Conclusion: According to the review article, all of the vaccines were able to stimulate immune response against the novel corona virus. Vaccine adverse events are typically similar and mild, disappearing spontaneously within a few days after vaccine administration.
“Don't Look at Me!”: Deviance and the Uncontrollable Image of Black Motherhood in Moonlight
Authors: Wooten Terrance
Published: August 2022

Contemporary movements against state-sanctioned violence have used rhetorical refrains to mark and practice dissent, as evidenced by the proliferation of “hands up, don't shoot”; “#sayhername”; and “#blacklivesmatter.” These refrains provide a specific discourse through which critiques of violence, surveillance, and economic injustice are galvanized, connecting activists and demonstrators across geospatial and temporal landscapes. Political refrains are more than just rallying cries; they also function as edicts, as commands that often disrupt the very practices they name. In this article, I argue that Barry Jenkins's use of the “Don't look at me!” refrain in Moonlight, expressed by Little/Black's mother, Paula, functions to name and obfuscate the racialized and gendered surveillance of Black deviance throughout the film. Set in the midst of the War on Drugs, culture of poverty thesis, and a post-Moynihan Report political culture that blamed the failure of the Black community on the Black matriarch, Moonlight offers an alternative reading strategy that instead of re-pathologizing Black motherhood and queer sociality actually renders visible and mutable the controlling images used to surveil and flatten Black subjectivity. Paula's “Don't look at me!” attempts to render her own body out of sight in order to ask viewers to look beyond her, to shift the pathologizing lens away from her to instead think of the various systems of power operating that inform her choices and epidermalize her body as a problem.
Moving through Trauma: Black Queer Vulnerability in Moonlight
Authors: Tracy Maurice
Published: August 2022

In this essay I look at Barry Jenkins’ film Moonlight and reflect upon how the film employs trauma and the anticipation of trauma to develop a complex depiction of Black cismale identity informed by Black queer masculinity rooted in tenderness, caring, and vulnerability.
Citizen and Pariah
Authors:   University of the Western Cape, Tevera Daniel
Published: August 2022

Citizen and Pariah is the title of a book by Vanya Gastrow that is based on her doctoral and postdoctoral research. In the preface Gastrow informs the reader that “the book investigates violent crime affecting Somali shopkeepers, their ability to access informal and formal justice mechanisms, and efforts to regulate their economic activities”.
SAVINGS BASED INTEREST-FREE FINANCING SYSTEM THROUGH A MARKETING PERSPECTIVE
Authors: KILINÇ Kazım
Published: August 2022

Expectations and sensitivities of consumers have caused a new approach in marketing financial support, which has become more popular in the recent years, has arisen. This approach which is financially defined as "the cooperation system" or "the savings based interest-free financial system", can be considered in marketing respect as "participatory marketing approach or system". This marketing approach is implemented by enterprises completely based on service marketing approach.
The purpose of this study is to present what this system which can be called in marketing respect as participatory marketing and financially as cooperation or savings based interest-free financial system, is through a marketing perspective. In addition to this, the strengths and weaknesses of the participatory marketing system and the way of operation are tried to be explained. As a result of the study, execution of the system through an interest-free basis, not exposing consumers any additional burden and determining installments in accordance with the solvency of consumers are considered as the grounds for the success of this marketing approach. The issues considered as the factors restricting operation of the system are that the system is completely based on trust, the establishments implementing the system are private firms and there is not any state guarantee.
MİSİ KÖYÜ’NÜN (BURSA) TURİZM POTANSİYELİNİN İRDELENMESİ
Authors: KOÇAN Nurhan , BİLGİÇ Buse
Published: August 2022

Doğal alanların mevcut durumlarının kayıt altına alınması, yapılan çalışmalarla tanınırlıklarının artırılması, bu alanların kullanımlarının kontrolünü sağlama ve sürdürülebilir turizm için önem taşımaktadır. Bu çalışma Misi Köyü’nün doğal ve kültürel turizm potansiyellerinin belirlenmesi ve bu potansiyellerin korunarak geliştirilmesi için hazırlanmıştır. Misi Köyü geçmişten günümüze kadar doğal yapısını ve kültürel özelliklerini korumuş bir alandır. Bu nedenle kırsal peyzaj alanları içerisinde önemli bir yere sahiptir. Çalışma alanının bu ender özelliklerinin korunup geliştirilerek kayıt altına alınması ve planlı kullanımla daha fazla kitleye hitap edebilir duruma getirilmesi düşüncesiyle alan çalışma alanı olarak seçilmiştir. Araştırma kapsamında yerel halk ile ziyaretçilerin görüşleri alınmış ve yerel halktan 92, ziyaretçilerden 100 kişiyle anket yapılmıştır. Anket sonuçları ile yerinde yapılan gözlem ve değerlendirmeler sonucunda alan için öneriler geliştirilmiştir. Çalışma Misi Köyü’nün kullanılan doğal ve kültürel peyzaj alanlarının koruma kullanma olgusuna uygunluğu, kırsal turizm potansiyellerinin belirlenip değerlendirilmesi ve turizm açısından öneriler geliştirilerek bölge potansiyelinin arttırılması açısından literatüre katkı sağlayacak ve benzer çalışmalara temel kaynak oluşturacaktır. Çalışma sonucunda sorunlu noktaların belirlenip çözüm üretilmesi bölge halkı ve yerel yöneticiler açısından da yararlı olacaktır.
TÜKETİCİLERDE FOMO’YU (FEAR OF MİSSİNG OUT) TETİKLEYEN FAKTÖRLER VE SATIN ALMA DAVRANIŞLARINA ETKİSİ
Authors: ŞEKER Arzu
Published: August 2022

Günümüzde kitle iletişim araçlarının gelişmesi, insanların sosyal ağlarda çok fazla zaman geçirmesine neden olurken, bir tür psikolojik kaygı olan ve FoMO (Fear of Missing Out) denilen kaçırma korkusunun artmasına veya oluşmasına da yol açmıştır. Bu korku, doğrudan veya dolaylı olarak insan davranışını etkilemektedir. Pazarlama dünyası ise, FoMO’nun satın alma davranışlarına olan etkilerini incelemeye başlamıştır. Bu çalışmada FoMO’ya sahip olan bireylerde, bu kaygıyı harekete geçiren ya da arttıran etkenlerin ve satın alma davranışlarına etkilerinin saptanması nitel yöntemle araştırılmıştır. Amaçlı örnekleme yöntemi kullanılarak 41 katılımcı ile yüz yüze görüşülmüş, FoMO ölçeğindeki sorular yöneltilerek aralarından FoMO’ya sahip olduğu saptanan 30 katılımcıyla derinlemesine mülakat gerçekleştirilmiştir. Betimsel olarak analiz edilen verilerden ait olma ihtiyacı, gösterişçi tüketim ve kıtlık algısı gibi belirgin temalar ortaya çıkmıştır. Bu temaların, bireylerde FoMO’yu artırdığı veya tetiklediği ve satın alma niyetlerini olumlu yönde etkilediği anlaşılmıştır. İşletmelerin de satışlarını artırmak için hedef kitlelerine iletmek istediği pazarlama mesajlarını, bu olguları dikkate alarak gerçekleştirmesi gerektiği önerilmektedir.
Mengapa Rezim Internasional Gagal? Analisis Legalisasi “Lima Poin Konsensus ASEAN” tentang Myanmar Pasca Kudeta Militer 2021
Authors: Kusumawardhana Indra
Published: August 2022

Assessing the effectiveness of international regimes has become a central topic for scholars and policymakers. Realist argues that national interests determine whether or not states comply with international regimes. This article offers an alternative account by analyzing the anatomy of the agreement. Using the case study of the “ASEAN Five-Point Consensus” on Myanmar, this article employs the concept of legalization derived from institutionalist theory which is used to assess the degree of institutionalization of the international agreements characterized by three dimensions; obligation, precision, and delegation. The central thesis of this article is that the “ASEAN Five-Point Consensus” on Myanmar is a sort of soft law due to its strong weakness in three dimensions. It implies that the agreement will not be properly implemented by ASEAN member countries, especially by Myanmar’s military junta. This article concludes that the effectiveness of the “ASEAN Five-Point Consensus” on Myanmar depends not only on the states’ national interests but also on the degree of institutionalization of this agreement. The soft law character of this agreement is strongly influenced by the culture of ASEAN’s decision-making mechanism which puts a strong emphasis on the consensus in crafting non-obligatory agreements.
Peran Paradiplomacy dalam Presidensi G20 Indonesia: Studi Kasus Diplomasi Kota Jakarta pada Urban 20
Authors: Fathun Laode Muhammad
Published: August 2022

This article aims to explain the role of paradiplomacy in utilizing the Indonesian presidency in the G20. Using the case study of the Provincial Government of DKI Jakarta, this article argues that the role of DKI Jakarta’s paradiplomacy through city diplomacy has the opportunity to get positive results. This can be seen from the role of Jakarta as an actor in city diplomacy capable of conducting city-level diplomacy at U20. This diplomacy aims to discuss strategic issues at the city level such as mobilization, health, labor, Covid 19 and other issues. With city diplomacy, it is able to become a means of sharing experiences between cities in the world to solve a number of strategic problems at the city level. In addition, Jakarta can play a role as a safe, comfortable place to live through a number of strategic policies, especially in the environmental field. The role of this paradiplomacy through urban diplomacy is a form of motivation, strategy, level of collaboration and level of involvement to assist the central government in solving increasingly complex world problems.
Upaya Indonesia dalam Mendorong Prioritisasi Perekonomian Negara Berkembang melalui G20: Perspektif Hyper-Globalist
Authors: Imannulloh Ervin Ramadhan , Rijal Najamuddin Khairur
Published: August 2022

This study aims to discuss the role of Indonesia in the G20 as a representative of developing countries in designing global economic policies with priorities for developing countries. In addition, this study examines Indonesia’s involvement in the G20 which has always been pro-active in drafting global economic policies. Furthermore, this article will discuss Indonesia’s strategic position in the 2022 G20 Presidency. This article also tries to prove that the cooperation carried out by countries in the world benefits all parties. This is a rebuttal to the skeptics’ statement that cooperation only benefits developed countries. The concept used in this research is the globalist concept using the neoliberal institutionalism theory. This article uses a descriptive method with literature study research techniques. The results of this study found that the designs of Indonesia’s economic policies in the G20 had a major impact on the sustainability of the economic growth of other developing countries. In addition, the results of this study will also prove that cooperation in the form of an international forum such as the G20 benefits all parties, as stated by the hyper-globalists.
Kejahatan Lintas Negara Perdagangan Orang: Studi Kasus Pekerja Migran Asal Nusa Tenggara Barat
Authors: Rustam Ismah , Sabilla Kinanti Rizsa , Rizki Khairur , Estriani Heavy Nala
Published: August 2022

This article examines victims of human trafficking from the province of Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB). Existing research on human trafficking has been studied in general terms and rarely includes Indonesian migrant workers. In fact, perpetrators of human trafficking targeted migrant workers. This research was conducted using a qualitative descriptive method and literature study which aims to describe human trafficking of migrant workers from NTB. In addition, this study analyzes underlying factors of human trafficking within the circle of migrant worker groups from the province of NTB. This article employs several concepts as analytical tools, such as the concept of human trafficking and transnational organized crime. This articles contributes to provide recommendation for policy makers in regulating Indonesian migrant workers.
Ekonomi Politik Jepang di Asia Tenggara: Resensi Buku
Authors: Alunaza Hardi , Putri Anggi
Published: August 2022

Bab pertama dalam buku ini merupakan paparan mengenai politik yang dilakukan Jepang di Kawasan Asia Tenggara. Pembahasan secara menyeluruh berfokus kepada hubungan yang dibangun Jepang dengan ASEAN. Bab kedua dalam buku ini membahas sejarah singkat atau awal mula dari hubungan Jepang dengan ASEAN, diikuti dengan bagaimana Jepang memandang ASEAN terhadap hubungan-hubungan yang dijalinnya dalam kerangka politik luar negeri Jepang itu sendiri. Bab selanjutnya dalam buku ini membahas mengenai perihal yang tertera pada judulnya yaitu tentang kontestasi ataupun persaingan aktor-aktor politik akan ekonomi-politik ataupun proses pembuatan kebijakan luar negeri Jepang khususnya terhadap Kawasan Asia Tenggara. Bab terakhir dari buku ini memberikan pembahasan berupa paparan terhadap pergeseran ataupun perubahan kebijakan politik internasional Jepang. Adanya anggapan bahwa Jepang pada dasarnya adalah politik yang reaktif karena anggapan ini tidak menghiraukan beberapa kebijakan proaktif yang telah pernah diambil Jepang.
PEMODELAN KURS DOLLAR AMERIKA SERIKAT TERHADAP RUPIAH MENGGUNAKAN REGRESI PENALIZED SPLINE DILENGKAPI GUI R
Authors: Wangsih Gina , Suparti Suparti , Sudarno Sudarno
Published: August 2022

United States Dollar (USD) exchange rate movement against Rupiah is the main guideline for economic actors in making decisions. Exchange rate movement of USD against Rupiah is a time series data. One of the statistical methods that can be used for modelling time series data is ARIMA. ARIMA method data must be stationery and residuals must be normally distributed, independent, and constant variance, which means an alternative model is needed so that it is not bound by any assumptions, namely a nonparametric penalized spline regression model. Selling rate data of USD against Rupiah is modeled using nonparametric penalized spline regression because the assumptions in the ARIMA model are not fulfilled. Penalized spline regression modeling is using full search algorithm in determining knot points. Lambda values are tested from 0 to 100000 on order 2, 3, and 4. Optimal penalized spline model is a model with minimum GCV value. R GUI facilitate the process of selecting the best model. Data is divided into 2 parts, namely in sample data for model formation and out sample data for evaluating the best model performance based on MAPE value. Penalized spline regression modeling produces the best model, namely optimal penalized spline model with minimum GCV value achieved on 3rd order with 35 knot points and lambda value = 2007. 96,20% value of R Squared model indicates the model is a strong model. In the evaluation of the best model, the MAPE data out sample value is 0.65%. MAPE value indicates the model has very good forecasting ability.
Kernel K-Means Clustering untuk Pengelompokan Sungai di Kota Semarang Berdasarkan Faktor Pencemaran Air
Authors: Azizah Anestasya Nur , Widiharih Tatik , Hakim Arief Rachman
Published: August 2022

K-Means Clustering is one of the types of non-hierarchical cluster analysis which is frequently used, but has a weakness in processing data with non-linearly separable (do not have clear boundaries) characteristic and overlapping cluster, that is when visually the results of a cluster are between other clusters. The Gaussian Kernel Function in Kernel K-Means Clustering can be used to solve data with non-linearly separable characteristic and overlapping cluster. The difference between Kernel K-Means Clustering and K-Means lies on the input data that have to be plotted in a new dimension using kernel function. The real data used are the data of 47 rivers and 18 indicators of river water pollution from Dinas Lingkungan Hidup (DLH) of Semarang City in the first semester of 2019. The cluster results evaluation is used the Calinski-Harabasz, Silhouette, and Xie-Beni indexes. The goals of this study are to know the step concepts and analysis results of Kernel K-Means Clustering for the grouping of rivers in Semarang City based on water pollution factors. Based on the results of the study, the cluster results evaluation show that the best number of clusters K=4
GUI R UNTUK ANALISIS KERANJANG BELANJA DENGAN ALGORITMA APRIORI PADA SUATU PERUSAHAAN E-COMMERCE
Authors: Anugrah Ryan , Widiharih Tatik , Sugito Sugito
Published: August 2022

Technological developments help people live easier. One of the technological developments is being able to trade digitally or it can be called e-commerce. To increase revenue, e-commerce companies collect consumer sales history data that can be analyzed and obtain information about consumer habits. One of the analyzes that can be used is shopping basket analysis which aims to find a pattern in transaction data. In data processing and analysis is done using the R program computation and GUI R is made with a recommendation system simulation. The results of the shopping cart analysis produce as many as 22 rules using a minimum support of 0.06 and a confidence of 0.5. The greater the support value, the more often the product or rule is purchased by consumers from all data transactions and vice versa. Meanwhile, the greater the trust value, the more often the products purchased under the regulation are purchased together. Thus, the information can be used to help carry out promotions to increase sales by the company.
PERAMALAN HARGA EMAS DUNIA DENGAN MODEL GLOSTEN-JAGANNATHAN-RUNCLE GENERALIZED AUTOREGRESSIVE CONDITIONAL HETEROSCEDASTICITY
Authors: Hasanah Uswatun , Rusgiyono Agus , Santoso Rukun
Published: August 2022

Gold investment is considered safer and has less risk than other types of investment. One of the important knowledge in investing in gold is predicting the price of gold in the future through modeling the price of gold in the past. The purpose of this study is to model the gold price in the past so that it can be used to predict gold prices in the future. The world gold price data is a time series data that has heteroscedasticity properties, so the time series model used to solve the heteroscedasticity problem is GARCH. This study has an asymmetric effect, so the asymmetric GARCH model is used, namely the Glosten-Jagannathan-Runkle GARCH (GJR-GARCH) model to model the world gold price data. The data is divided into in-sample data from January 3, 2012 to December 31, 2018 to create a world gold price model and out-sample data from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2020, which is used to evaluate model performance based on MAPE values. The best model is the ARIMA(1,1,0) GJR-GARCH(1,1) model with a MAPE data out sample value of 18,93% which shows that the performance of the model has good forecasting abilities.
PERAMALAN INDEKS HARGA KONSUMEN INDONESIA MENGGUNAKAN METODE SEASONAL-ARIMA (SARIMA)
Authors: YAHYA ARYA
Published: August 2022

The pattern of changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is very important to observe from time to time because it is closely related to economic indicators such as the amount of money in circulation, exchange rates, interest rates, and other economic indicators. This study aims to form a model and predict the Indonesian Consumer Price Index using the SARIMA method. The data used in modeling are monthly CPI data for the period January 2012 to February 2022. The best model for predicting Indonesia's CPI is the SARIMA (0,1,1)(0,1,1)12  model. This study examines the CPI value in January and February 2022 which is not included in the estimation model, the estimation results (108,08 and 108,20) are very close to the actual CPI value issued by the Central Statistics Agency.
The Gospel of Thomas and Early Christian Monasticism in Egypt
Authors: Vukomanović Milan
Published: August 2022

This article tackles the issue of the possible Egyptian provenance of the Gospel of Thomas (GTh). By the beginning of the third century, GTh already circulated in the Christian circles of Alexandria. Furthermore, at least one version of this document had been transmitted to Oxyrhynchus before 200 C.E., that is, prior to the terminus ad quem for one of the Greek manuscripts of Thomas. In order to reassess this hypothesis, the author delves into the problem of origin of Egyptian monasticism and examines the earliest attestations about the use of GTh in Alexandria (Origen) and Asia Minor (Hippolytus). This inquiry leads to a negative result concerning the possible Egyptian birthplace of Thomas, and allows for the existence of an earlier stratum of sayings in GTh deriving from a first-century source. Due to the paucity of historical data, such a hypothesis would hardly be tenable in the Egyptian context. Therefore, the most one could suggest at this point of research is that the GTh reached Alexandria from Palestine or Asia Minor, where it had already been known in the first half of the second century.
Současné pokusy o interpretaci evangelia 1966–1993
Authors: Macek Petr
Published: August 2022

Josef Smolík’s endeavour to make the current theological stage available to all who might be interested both in the author’s homeland and elsewhere attained a popular response and was translated into other languages. Its publication had a number of editions in which the content has been gradually extended and in some instances reduced. The heading of some sections is puzzling, not all insights are convincing and some items remained unnoticed. This, however, has not diminished the value of this study text. The theological base and the value criteria of the study as they were expressed in its concluding section have remained the same.
Liberating Voices for Equity – Exploring Cultural Minority Students’ Experiences in an Integrated Classroom
Authors: Kudakwashe Kapofu Lifeas , Angela James , Michelle Stears
Published: August 2022

This study foregrounds cultural minority learners’ voices in the exploration of accomplishment of socio-cultural redress in basic education. The resonating global call within the socio-cultural movement is for the inclusion of marginalised voices and epistemes in curricula reformation and transformation overtures. Heeding the latter, this study within the context of decolonisation, ethical professional practice and equity sought to establish experiences of cultural minority learners’ experiences in an integrated South African school. Conceptually framed within Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP) as strategy for pedagogical equity and pursued through a naturalistic methodology scaffolded by observation and interviewing the study elevates cultural minority learners’ voices about the pedagogic setting. The study found that minority students regarded the architecture of teaching and learning context as structured by their teachers as: marginalising; alienating, disenchanting; emasculating; constraining, not attendant to their intrinsic motivation needs nor their socio-political identities. Findings revealed that though the legislated architecture for equity through cultural inclusivity exists vestigial classroom practices not attuned to these aspirations for equity still persist. Such findings highlighted the need for an escalation of deliberate interventions to overturn these historically nuanced inhibitions to create equitable pedagogic settings.
Discovering How to Do Reflexivity and Self-Reflexivity: A Longitudinal Empirical Research Findings
Authors: De Verlaine Emmanuelle
Published: August 2022

Reflexivity is known to be a mental process where a person takes distance to oneself to analyze and take a critical perspective over own feelings, actions and intentions in order to realign own practice.   Reflexivity is therefore a form of metacognitive brain functionality reaching a state of mind’s sense of acute awareness.  The reflexivity’s functionality has been recognized as valuable to improve professional practices.  The main gap in research and literature is to explicate how to do reflexivity and most of all, how to apply it to all aspects of human life toward self-actualization.  This research aims at answering at: How to Do reflexivity and Self-Reflexivity?  To answer this question a 17 year-long longitudinal Action-Research investigations reveals how to learn and practice reflexivity.  This paper also reveals how reflexivity can be applied to aim at one’s well-being and self-actualization.  The discussion addresses the long-term impact of practicing reflexivity coupled with mindfulness as an ability to reach self-liberation.