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Prolog: Tradisi Lisan Sebagai Penguat Identitas dan Harmoni
Authors: Maknun Moch Lukluil , masfiah umi
Published: January 2022

Hubungan agama dan budaya sangat kental. Agama dan budaya juga terkait dalam menghadapi konflik. Di antara produk budaya yang bertemu dengan agama adalah tradisi lisan. Berbagai tantangan dihadapi untuk menghidupkan tradisi lisan di nusantara. Tradisi lisan yang berkembang di masyarakat memiliki fungsi-fungsi tertentu yang berguna bagi kehidupan bermasyarakat.
Literatur Keagamaan Rohis dan Wacana Intoleransi
Authors: Maknun Moch Lukluil , Hidayat Roch Aris , Ridlo Subhan , mustolehudin  , Huda Nurul , Noviani Nur Laili , Samidi  , masfiah umi , Ruchani Bisri
Published: January 2022

Alasan mengkaji rohis disebabkan karena isu radikalisme sudah mengarah pulakepada generasi muda (pelajar). Usia remaja identik dengan kondisi yang mengedepankan emosi dibanding penalaran, sehingga pengajaran agama yang secara doktrinal bersentuhan dengan emosi akan mudah berpengaruh bagi mereka. Rohis adalah lembaga keagamaan Islam tingkat sekolah yang memfokuskan diri pada pengajaran keagamaan Islam kepada para siswa, dan beberapa hasil kajian menyebutkan bahwa pola pengajaran keagamaan di rohis menciptakan sikap dan pola keberagamaan tertentu. Salah satu hal yang sangat berperan dalam pengajaran rohis adalah teks atau bahan bacaan keagamaan di dalamnya. Teks bacaan berperan penting dalam membentuk wacana yang merepresentasikan diskursus ideologi, utopia, dan bahkan jaringan dari sumber kepada penerima. Oleh karenanya, kajian pada teks-teks yang menjadi sumber bahan kajian bagi siswa rohis tersebut menjadi fokus. Selanjutnya corak intoleransi yang ditemukan pada bahan bacaan rohis menjadi pijakan awal dalam menganalisa pemahaman mereka terhadap teks.
Mpemba Effect Demystified
Authors: Tier Ren
Published: January 2022

The Mpemba Effect (ME) is known as the counter intuitive effect of faster freezing of a beaker of warm water than the same but colder sample, under apparently same conditions (e.g. in the freezer, Aristotle will have done it outdoor).The astonishment about this misled all the investigations and explanations intuitively into looking for water/ice/solidification properties, and the key, the heat transfer, was not adequately taken into account. If we trust classical physics and energy conservation, faster freezing of water must be primarily associated with a greater heat flow, not with mystical water properties or behavior.It is shown that the trivial conductivity through the bottom of the beaker adequately explains the ME.
Embracing sensorimotor history: Time-synchronous and time-unrolled Markov blankets in the free-energy principle
Authors: Virgo Nathaniel , Rosas Fernando , Biehl Martin
Published: January 2022

The free-energy principle (FEP) builds on an assumption that sensor-motor loops exhibit Markov blankets in stationary state. We argue that there is rarely reason to assume a system’s internal and external states are conditionally independent given the sensorimotor states, and often reason to assume otherwise. However, under mild assumptions internal and external states are conditionally independent given the sensorimotor history.
Creative Omnivores: An Experience Sampling Study of the Variety and Diversity of Everyday Creative Activities
Authors: Silvia Paul , Cotter Katherine N. , Christensen Alexander P.
Published: January 2022

Studies of everyday creativity suggest that some people are like creative omnivores, dabbling in a broad range of creative pursuits, but others are like picky eaters, focusing on a single creative passion. A week-long experience sampling study examined the breadth vs depth of 125 university students’ everyday creative activities. Several times a day, people were asked if they were doing something creative, and if they were, to describe what they were doing. Diversity statistics quantified the variety and balance of their creative activities. The sample varied widely in both aspects of diversity, reflecting differences in whether people’s creative efforts were relatively broad or focused. Notably, people who were high in openness to experience showed significantly higher variety (they did more kinds of creative activities) yet lower balance (one or two activities predominated), suggesting that they had a broad creative diet but a few favorite foods.
Moroccan Women as a Visual Subject in Sociology of Cinema: A Critical Endeavor to Establish knowledge beyond Aesthetic Criticism, JiL Journal of Human & Social Sciences, N° 82, pp. 127-145
Authors: ANDALOUSSI Hamza
Published: January 2022

Through this study, we aim to examine what the research bibliography provides on the subject of the portrayal of women and gender issues in films. We will critically analyze the available studies so that we could probe into the limits of what has been written on the subject so far. In fact, our critical reviews have led us to infer that the field of film studies in the Arab world in general and Morocco in particular are still experiencing a scarcity at the quantitative level. Actually, there are very few researchers in sociology who are interested in the field of cinema and visual culture, and their complex phenomena, in which the aspirations of directors and the aesthetics of their works meet the expectations and reactions of the audience. Furthermore, we will try in this study to show the realistic motives that require directing the research compass towards giving more importance to cinema issues. We will also try to prove the scientific effectiveness of "cinema sociology" as a study that can go beyond the value judgments that normally occur in the writings of art criticism about women’s cinema, and which can also overcome the deficiency that characterizes semiological approaches which confine themselves to analyzing the internal content of films only.
Psychotic-like experiences in the lonely predict conspiratorial beliefs and are associated with the diet during COVID-19
Authors: Terenzi Damiano , Muth Anne , Losecaat Vermeer Annabel B , Park Soyoung Q
Published: January 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic has increased the occurrence of conspiracy theories. It has been suggested that a greater endorsement of these theories may be associated with psychotic-like experiences (PLEs), as well as with social isolation. In this preregistered study, we investigated whether both PLEs and measures of social isolation (e.g., loneliness) can predict conspiratorial beliefs and, if so, which of these variables can mediate the association with conspiratorial beliefs. Furthermore, based on previous studies on schizophrenia, we explored whether the diet is associated with PLEs and conspiratorial beliefs. Participants (N=142) completed online questionnaires measuring PLEs, social isolation, mental well-being, and conspiratorial beliefs. They also submitted their daily food intake for a week using a smartphone app.We found that loneliness predicted the endorsement of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 lockdown. Strikingly, the proneness to experience subclinical psychotic symptoms played an underlying mediating role. In addition, these subclinical symptoms were associated with lower fruit, carbohydrate and iron intakes, as well as with higher fat intake.Our results add insights into how conspiratorial beliefs can affect individuals’ mental health and relationships. Moreover, these results open the avenue for potential novel intervention strategies to optimize food intake in individuals with psychotic-like experiences.
On philosophy and schizophrenia: the case of thought insertion
Authors: Feyaerts Jasper , Kusters Wouter
Published: January 2022

Philosophers have often turned towards schizophrenic experience as a way to empirically substantiate philosophical assumptions regarding the essential nature of selfhood. In this context, the phenomenon of thought insertion (TI) has served as a particularly privileged example, as it is commonly assumed to reveal, in a pathological or negative way, the nature of ordinary self-experience. In this paper, we critical discuss one such philosophical account that attempts to explain thought insertion as involving a loss of a ‘sense of agency’ that is presumed to characterize ordinary thinking. In the second part, we furthermore critically revisit the more general assumption that schizophrenia can be understood as a ‘via negativa’ into overlooked evidences and experiences that would permeate ordinary life. Instead, we advance the idea that both philosophy and schizophrenia share a basic kind of hyper-reflexive attitude towards ordinary life. In conclusion, we detail the implications of this idea for current accounts of thought insertion and sketch the general lines of an alternative model that puts more emphasis on the shared nature of philosophical and schizophrenic reflection, and the dialectical paradoxes that may arise in such reflection.
Caregiver perspectives of risk and protective factors influencing early childhood development in low-income, urban settings: a social ecological perspective
Authors: Draper Catherine , Cook Caylee , Howard Steven , Makaula Hleliwe , Merkley Rebecca , Mshudulu Mbulelo , Tshetu Nosibusiso , Scerif Gaia
Published: January 2022

South Africa is a diverse country characterised by stark inequalities that undermine early childhood development (ECD). Caregivers of young children play a critical role in providing nurturing care to mitigate against risks to ECD. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore caregivers’ perceptions of factors influencing ECD in a low-income, urban South African setting, from a social ecological perspective. Individual interviews were conducted with 15 caregivers of 3-5-year-old children from three low-income communities in Cape Town, and a reflexive thematic analysis approach was adopted. In the family and home context, caregivers spoke about their role in developing, nurturing, providing, protecting, and disciplining their children. Risks in this context included low socioeconomic status, dysfunctional relationships, and caregiver mental health; resources related to early learning and social support. In the preschool / school context, caregivers discussed the value of early learning, and priorities for selecting early childhood care and education settings. In the community context, risks included violence and crime, whereas resources mentioned were social support, community programmes, and infrastructure. Caregivers also shared perceptions of the community’s role in their child’s development. These findings should be considered in light of the structural violence experienced in low-income settings in South Africa in order to holistically address risks and amplify protective factors for promoting ECD and the provision of nurturing care in these settings.
The Temporal Relation of Arousal and Perceived Rejection in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder and Depressive Disorders: An Experience Sampling Approach
Authors: Heekerens Johannes Bodo , Schulze Lars , Renneberg Babette , Enge Juliane , Röpke Stefan
Published: January 2022

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by high levels of arousal and perceived rejection by others. The temporal relation between these constructs, however, remains largely unclear. Based on predictions derived from the dynamic affect model and the rejection sensitivity model, we expected increases in arousal and perceived rejection to predict subsequent increases in perceived rejection and arousal, respectively. To investigate this topic, we assessed current self-reported affective arousal and perceived rejection in patients with BPD (n = 42), patients with depressive disorders (DD; n = 43), and healthy controls (HC; n = 40) for 52 times within 13 hours (ca. every 15 min). In line with previous studies, dynamic structural equation model results indicate significantly higher trait levels of arousal and perceived rejection in patients with BPD compared to participants in the DD and HC groups. In addition, we found substantial autoregressive and cross-lagged effects for arousal and perceived rejection. Other than expected, the magnitude of these effects did not significantly differ across diagnostic groups. Our findings suggest close temporal relations between arousal and perceived rejection. In patients with BPD, these effects unfold against the background of substantially elevated trait levels of arousal and perceived rejection. Future ambulatory assessment studies should provide additional context information (e.g., through monitoring rejection events) to investigate how patients with BPD perceive rejection in everyday life and how this affects subsequent levels of arousal.
Individual-Level Cognitive and Personality Predictors of Ideological Worldviews: The Psychological Profiles of Political, Nationalistic, Dogmatic, Religious, and Extreme Believers
Authors: Zmigrod Leor
Published: January 2022

Why are some brains more easily gripped by ideological doctrines than others? An emerging research program on the psychological underpinnings of ideological thinking suggests that domain-general individual differences in perception, cognition, and personality can predict people’s ideological orientations. Traditionally, the relationship between ideological attitudes and psychological attributes was primarily assessed in the domains of cognitive ability, self-reported cognitive style, or the Big Five personality attributes. Yet a new wave of cognitive and computational research indicates that the tools of cognitive psychology and neuroscience can be harnessed to measure a wider range of individual differences, including cognitive and perceptual traits on flexibility, caution, inhibition, working memory, and sensory evidence accumulation. This review systematically synthesizes theory-driven and data-driven research on the psychological profiles of ideological worldviews including ideological extremism, dogmatism, political conservatism, nationalism, patriotism, religiosity, authoritarianism, system justification, and social dominance orientation. Summaries of the individual-level cognitive and personality predictors of over a dozen ideological orientations are outlined, and core psychological similarities and differences between these ideologies are compared and discussed. The review depicts subtle nuances between the psychological profiles of interrelated ideologies as well as common cognitive, affective, and personality signatures that underpin ideological thinking regardless of the mission of the ideology. The findings illustrate that individual differences in low-level psychophysical perceptual traits shape the dogmatism, extremity, and substance of individuals’ ideological beliefs. Addressing pertinent debates in the field, the results depict clear differences in the psychological profiles of dogmatic and conservative ideologies. Consequently, expanding the conceptual and methodological vocabulary with which cognitive dispositions are linked to ideological worldviews is a critical step in widening and deepening our theories on the origins and consequences of ideological thinking – as well as what makes some minds particularly susceptible to adopting particular ideologies.
Metacognition and Causal Inference in Audiovisual Speech
Authors: Kimmet Faith , Pedersen Samantha , Cardenas Victoria , Rubiera Camila , Johnson Grey , Sans Addison , Odegaard Brian
Published: January 2022

In multisensory environments, our brains perform causal inference to estimate which sources produce specific sensory signals. Decades of research has revealed the dynamics which underlie this process of causal inference for multisensory (audiovisual) signals, including how temporal, spatial, and semantic relationships between stimuli influence the brain’s decision about whether to integrate or segregate. However, presently, very little is known about the relationship between metacognition and multisensory integration, and the characteristics of perceptual confidence for audiovisual signals. In this investigation, we ask two questions about the relationship between metacognition and multisensory causal inference: are observers’ confidence ratings for judgments about congruent, McGurk, and rarely integrated speech similar, or different? And do confidence judgments distinguish between these three scenarios when the perceived syllable is identical? To answer these questions, 92 online participants completed experiments where on each trial, participants reported which syllable they perceived, and rated confidence in their judgment. Results from Experiment 1 showed that confidence was highest for congruent speech and lower for McGurk and rarely integrated speech. In Experiment 2, when the perceived syllable for congruent and McGurk videos was matched, confidence scores were higher for congruent stimuli compared to McGurk stimuli. In Experiment 3, when the perceived syllable was matched between McGurk and rarely integrated stimuli, confidence judgments were similar between the two conditions. Together, these results provide evidence of the capacities and limitations of metacognition’s ability to index multisensory causal inference.
Introduction to International Journal of Testing special issue on equity and fairness in testing and assessment in school admissions
Authors: Woo Sang Eun , Wille Bart , Sireci Stephen
Published: January 2022

This is an introduction to International Journal of Testing special issueon equity and fairness in testing and assessment in schooladmissions.
The Stigma of Diseases: Unequal Burden, Uneven Decline
Authors: Best Rachel Kahn , Arseniev-Koehler Alina
Published: January 2022

Has disease stigma declined? Our ability to answer this question has been hampered by the lack of comparable data across diseases and over time. Using word embeddings, we analyze 4.5 million news articles to create new measures of stigma for 107 health conditions. We find that in the 1980s, most diseases were marked by strong connotations of disgust, danger, impurity, and negative personality traits. Since then, stigma has declined dramatically for most physical illnesses; cancers, neurological conditions, genetic diseases, and many other conditions have shed most of their negative connotations. But this decline was uneven: mental illnesses, eating disorders, and addictions saw no stigma declines, and stigma declined more slowly for infectious diseases than for chronic conditions. Using multivariate regression, we find that patients’ activism explains some but not all of the variation in stigma. Stigma has transformed from a sea of negative connotations surrounding most diseases to a narrower set of judgments targeting conditions where the primary symptoms are aberrant behaviors.
The Polarization of Real Estate Ownership and Increasing Wealth Inequality in Spain
Authors: Boertien Diederik , López-Gay Antonio
Published: January 2022

Recent research has shown that differences in the distribution of real estate wealth across households are the most important explanation for cross-national variation in wealth inequality. We extend this line of research by quantifying to what extent real estate wealth can also explain increases in wealth inequality over time. Our analysis is based on data from the Spanish survey Encuesta Financiera de Familias covering the period 2002-2017. We show how real estate ownership is becoming increasingly polarized: both the share of households without any property at all as well as the share of households with multiple properties is increasing. Decomposition models show, first, that inequality between home owners and non-owners is becoming a more important component of wealth inequality between households. Second, whereas real estate that is not used by households as their main residence constituted a relatively small part of wealth inequality in 2002, its absolute contribution had almost doubled by 2017. We conclude that household investments in non-residence real estate are an important channel through which wealth inequality increased over time in Spain.
Teaching epidemiology: An overview of strategies and considerations
Authors: Hossain Md Mahbub
Published: January 2022

Epidemiology is one of the foundational subjects of public health sciences that is widely taught in academic and non-academic settings. Considering a growing interest in epidemiology in diverse learners, the scholarly community should learn and use effective strategies for teaching epidemiologic concepts and methods. This article reviewed the existing literature and explored useful approaches for teaching epidemiology such as determining the scope of teaching epidemiology for learners with varying learning needs and interests, using conceptual frameworks, allocating academic resources, using realistic epidemiologic studies, deploying innovative educational technologies, strengthening mentoring capacities, using problem-solving practices, promoting experiential and team-based learning, developing academia-practice partnerships, and facilitating continued epidemiologic education. These strategies should be contextualized based on the academic and practical needs of the learners in different contexts. Moreover, implementation research on epidemiologic education is recommended for better understanding the operational challenges and opportunities for teaching-learning practices. Lastly, inclusive and collaborative approaches should be adopted to ensure epidemiologic education and practice continuum that may improve public health policymaking and outcomes.
Platform Drama: ‘Cancel Culture,’ Celebrity, and the Struggle for Accountability on YouTube
Authors: Lewis Rebecca , Christin Angèle
Published: January 2022

Recent years have witnessed debates about so-called ‘cancel culture,’ and more broadly about online accountability practices. Here we revisit this topic through a study of YouTube ‘drama,’ a hybrid genre where creators provide commentary on the scandals, scams, and feuds between YouTube celebrities. Drawing on cultural studies scholarship, and based on qualitative interviews and content analysis, we argue that YouTube drama embodies a range of cultural and moral negotiations that take place on social media platforms. We conceptualize accountability practices on YouTube as an ongoing ‘platform drama’ in which creators engage in perpetual and highly visible power struggles with celebrities, audiences, legacy media, other creators, andYouTube itself. Within the context of this ‘platform drama,’ structural issues and interpersonal conflicts become blurred, as do accountability practices and monetized spectacles. We analyze ‘cancelation’ on YouTube as a ritualistic practice in which structural tensions are publicly negotiated and performed, even as accountability itself remains largely elusive.
PERILAKU BULLYING PADA REMAJA DAN FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHINYA
Authors: BUDIMAN ARIEF
Published: January 2022

Kajian dalam buku ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan menunjukkan pada distribusi frekuensi pengaruh faktor kepercayaan diri menunjukkan bahwa responden yang pernah atau yang sedang menerima perilaku bullying sebagian besar berusia 14 tahun sebanyak 45 responden dengan presentase 24,9 % pada kategori sangat rendah. Sedangkan pada distribusi frekuensi perilaku bullying menunjukkan mayoritas usia berada pada usia 14 tahun sebanyak 49 responden dengan presentase 27,1% pada kategori rendah. Selanjutnya dari penelitian yang telah dilakukan pada siswa dan siswi di SMP Negeri 5 Samarinda, menunjukkan jumlah siswa laki-laki sebanyak 79 orang (43,9 %) dan siswa perempuan sebanyak 102 orang (56,4%).
BUKU AJAR ANALISIS PERANCANGAN KERJA
Authors: Tumanggor Agustina Hotma Uli
Published: January 2022

Puji dan syukur kami panjatkan kehadirat Tuhan Yang Maha Esa, atas limpahan berkah dan rahmat-NYa ModulPembelajaran Mata Kuliah Analisis Perancangan Kerja dapatdiselesaikan. Dengan adanya modul ini diharapkan dapatmenambah pengertian dan meningkatkan pengetahuanmahasiswa dalam mempelajari Mata Kuliah Analisis PerancanganKerja.
LITERASI KEUANGAN (TEORI DAN IMPLEMENTASINYA)
Authors: ARIANTI BAIQ FITRI
Published: January 2022

Kajian dalam buku ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bahwa literasi keuangan merupakan kemampuan dalam membuat penilaian informasi dan mengambil keputusan yang efektif tentang penggunaan dan pengelolaan uang. Literasi keuangan juga merupakan kombinasi dari kemampuan individu, pengetahuan, sikap dan akhirnya perilaku individu yang berhubungan dengan uang serta bisa membedakan kebutuhan dan keinginan. Jika seseorang memiliki literasi keuangan yang rendah maka pengetahuan tentang keuangan juga rendah, hal ini sangat penting bagi seorang individu agar tidak salah dalam mengelola keuangannya. Pengetahuan tentang keuangan yang kurang mengakibatkan kerugian bagi individu karena terjadinya kesalahan dalam mengelola keuangannya seperti kesalahan dalam penggunaan kredit/utang yang tidak tepat, penggunaan kartu kredit yang tidak bijak, tidak adanya perencanaan keuangan yang baik dan sebagainya. Keterbatasan financial dapat menyebabkan stress dan rendahnya kepercayaan diri. Literasi keuangan yang kian mendapat perhatian terutama di negara – negara maju semakin menyadarkan kita betapa pentingnya “melek” keuangan. Maka dari itu pihak – pihak yang terkait terutama kepada pihak OJK dan lembaga keuangan lainnya harus melakukan edukasi secara merata dibidang keuangan kepada masyarakat indonesia bukannya hanya pada masyarakat kota namun juga pada masyarakat yang terpencil agar mereka dapat mengelola keuangan secara cerdas, sehingga rendahnya pengetahuan dan pemahaman tentang industri keuangan dapat diatasi serta masyarakat tidak mudah tertipu dengan produk – produk investasi yang menawarkan keuntungan tinggi dalam jangka pendek tanpa mempertimbangkan resikonya. Pengetahuan dan pemahaman tentang keuangan pribadi dibutuhkan individu agar dapat membuat keputusan yang benar dalam keuangan, sehingga mutlak diperlukan setiap orang dapat secara optimal menggunakan instrumen – instrumen serta produk keuangan yang tepat. Kurangnya pengetahuan literasi keuangan menjadi masalah serius dan menjadi tantangan besar bagi masyarakat indonesia.
Minoritas Muslim Rohingya di Indonesia (Eksistensi, Pandangan Lokal dan Stigma Tanpa Kewarganegaraan)
Authors: Irwansyah Irwansyah , Muary Rholand
Published: January 2022

Krisis pengungsi Rohingya akibat aksi genosida di Myanmar telah menarik perhatian dunia internasional. Keberadaan kelompok minoritas etno-religius ini resmi mengalami diskriminasi yang berujung pada pengusiran paksa oleh pemerintah Myanmar pada tahun 1982 dengan keluarnya UndangUndang (UU) kewarganegaraan yang menyatakan menolak kewarganegaraan Rohingya atau tidak diakui sebagai salah satu etnis resmi di Myanmar. Maka, etnis Rohingya terpaksa mengungsi dari negaranya menuju negera lain termasuk Indonesia. Kajian ini menunjukkan bahwa sikap tokoh agama di Indonesia cenderung menerima keberadaan etnis Rohingya karena ada kesamaan identitas keagamaan dan atas nama kemanusiaan meskipun belum ada solusi jangka panjang mengenai masa depan mereka. Selain itu, etnis Rohingya di Indonesia sebagai stateless (tanpa kewargangeraaan) mengalami proses akulturasi, stigmaisasi, perkawinan dengan warga negara Indonesia (WNI), dan membangun strategi bertahan hidup karena sudah ada yang menetap selama lebih dari delapan tahun di Indonesia.Kesimpulannya, etnis Rohingya selama di Indonesia mengalami kondisi ketidakpastian dalam hidupnya karena tidak memiliki status kewarganegeraan dan berharap diberangkatkan ke negara ketiga oleh UNHCR.
Archaeological Artifacts from the Stone Age Solve the Mystery of the First Native Americans
Authors: Byun Dae Jung
Published: January 2022

Many scholars have sought to uncover the mysteries relating to the origins of the earliest Native Americans. Among many hypotheses, the Beringian Standstill Hypothesis and the Kelp Highway Hypothesis claim that the first Native Americans stayed in Beringia during the Last Glacial Maximum, before migrating to the New World by boat as the climate warmed. Unfortunately, neither hypothesis was devised with tangible supporting evidence, such as archaeological artifacts; as such, both remain controversial. To address this issue, this paper compares and analyzes the genetic data related to the first Native Americans and the data of six archaeological artifacts from the Stone Age. The results show that both hypotheses are correct, but the first Native Americans stayed in Southern Korea rather than Beringia on their journey to America. Genetic and archaeological data converge to show the first Native Americans came from Southern Korea.
Advances in Parapsychological Research 10 edited by Stanley Krippner, Adam J. Rock, Harris L. Friedman, and Nancy L. Zingrone
Authors: Broderick Damien
Published: January 2022

It’s been a long, strange road, especially for those who died but came back for another circuit, or remained alive and pursued mystic abilities for secret national intelligence service sponsors, or carefully tried to influence the past or forecast the future, or struggled with quantum theory because it looked eerily similar to magic in its weirdness even though mathematical experts denied any meaningful resemblance. Since 1977, this tussling with the improbable has been tracked in a series of volumes edited by Dr. Stanley Krippner, a Fellow in five American Psychological Association divisions. They are devoted to essays condensing and confronting claims of paranormal phenomena—to use a term deplored by many who regard such anomalies as normal, less Sixth Sense than First but frustratingly skittish. But the strange long road seems often to be covering the same rutted stretch, and its explorers grow weary. While the second volume appeared a year after the premier, pace slowed in the next seven volumes, and seemed all but exhausted by number 9, published sixteen years after its predecessor. The latest volume paused for eight more years. Granted, Dr. Krippner is now 88 years old, but still diligent and adventurous. So are his fellow editors and contributors, although sadly two of them (Professor William Roll, 1926-2012, and Professor Michael Persinger, 1945-2018) are dead and incommunicado. The most startling recurrent theme in this tenth volume is how much hard and conscientious empirical work in a number of varieties of psi leads to the conclusion that many psychic phenomena just are not as substantial as researchers have claimed for more than a century.
Unfathomed Dangers from Aluminum — Alzheimer’s? Autism? Multiple Sclerosis?
Authors: Bauer Henry
Published: January 2022

That aluminum is fatally toxic is beyond doubt, demonstrated by mass human poisoning at Camelford in Cornwall in Britain in 1988 (chapter 18) and by occasional fish kills (p. 49). Aluminum may also be a contributing factor in a number of human diseases, in particular those involving brain and nerves (p. 124) — autism, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) (chapter 14), Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis. Aluminum salts used in kidney dialysis may be responsible for dialysis-related encephalopathy (pp. 38, 79).

Aluminum adjuvants in vaccine can cause macrophagic myofasciitis (MMF: inflammation and associated microscopic muscle necrosis at the injection site) as well as such whole-body ailments as chronic fatigue syndrome and marked cognitive deficits (Rigolet et al. 2014); one middle-aged individual injected with five aluminum-adjuvanted vaccines within 4 weeks became work-disabled (pp. 72-73).

Studying the possible dangers associated with aluminum adjuvants in vaccines is complicated by the fact that aluminum acts as an antigen as well as an adjuvant — the immune system generates antibodies against aluminum itself, so that later exposures to aluminum might produce an antibody cascade capable of damaging any of the tissues in which aluminum had accumulated (pp. 73-76).

Christopher Exley has studied aluminum in relation to human health for some 35 years. This book summarizes his work and cites the pertinent primary publications (some 200) in appropriate peer-reviewed journals. The book also offers quite convincing evidence of the determined efforts by a variety of vested interests to disparage and suppress Exley’s work and findings.

In my opinion, the published work summarized in this book makes a plausible case based on empirical evidence that aluminum may be a contributing causative factor in neurological and nerve diseases. Further, Exley suggests fully detailed mechanisms and quite plausible for how that comes about. Beyond that, he points to a quite fundamental a priori reason why aluminum, among all the other elements and metals, might be so uniquely dangerous. It is the third most abundant element in the Earth’s crust (after oxygen and silicon), yet there are no known biological uses of aluminum. By contrast, several other metals and non-metals are essential components of some biological systems, for example, iron in hemoglobin in blood (pp. 5-6, 11). Those two facts make it far from implausible that absorption of aluminum could be biologically harmful, by competing with or replacing other metals, or perhaps just because of its chemically oxidative properties.

But if all that is so, how has the Earth’s biosphere flourished for billions of years without succumbing to the toxicity of the super-abundant aluminum?
Smile of the Universe: Miracles in an Age of Disbelief by Michael Grosso
Authors: Hayen Todd
Published: January 2022

Smile of the Universe (2020) by Michael Grosso is a delightful book filled with magic and intrigue for the inquisitive reader. Grosso starts our journey with citing many historical events that have been deemed “miraculous” not only by the Catholic church, which seems to have had the corner on miracles since the Church’s beginnings, but also those that fall out of the realm of organized religion. What made this book delightful for me is that Grosso’s own particular interest in miracles resonates with mine, and I am fairly certain will resonate with many other readers.

In the opening pages of Grosso’s book he immediately makes it clear that he personally has experienced a miracle, several in fact. The reader then knows that this book is not just a documentation of dry historical events, but rather of a topic that presents phenomena that the author himself has been personal witness to. We are immediately engaged in both the subjective and the objective: story telling at its best. And what are miracles but human stories created around a set of unexplainable material events? A dream, what most believe to be pure subjective containing no material substance at all, is not considered a miracle. But if that dream manifests in material form, then indeed it becomes miraculous. Not all miracles are first dreams of course, but all miracles do have a material construct, and what makes them a miracle is their stubbornness in ignoring the set, presently known, laws of nature.
JSE 35:4 Winter 2021 Whole Issue PDF
Authors: Erickson Kathleen E
Published: January 2022

Journal of Scientific Exploration Whole Issue PDF
Fixed Point Theorems for Pemetaan Nonexpansive, Nonspreading, and Hybrid Mappings in Hilbert Space.
Authors: Riansyah Firman
Published: January 2022

A Firmly nonexpansive mapping is a map which is closely related to equilibrium problems Nonexpansive, nonspreading, and hybrid mappings are nonlinear mappings in Hilbert spaces. In this paper, we show the existence of a fixed point of nonexpansive, nonspreading, and hybrid mappings in Hilbert space using The Banach limit.
What Changes the Youth of Southeast Sulawesi (Indonesia) after Living Abroad
Authors: Rachman Muhammad Kurniawan
Published: January 2022

According to Central Bureau Statistic of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, 24.15 % of citizens aged 7 until 24 years old decided to stop pursuing education. This data shows how critical building the willingness of citizens in Southeast Sulawesi to see the world as a competitive game where education takes a vital role. There have been many efforts to solve this problem, one of them is the effort of the country to send people to study abroad by scholarship or fellowship. This research tried to unveil the perspectives of people in Southeast Sulawesi who have experience studying or doing an internship abroad. The study used open-ended questionnaires from fifty alumni of scholarships and fellowships from Southeast Sulawesi. This report tried to unveil alumni stories of experiencing the culture and values and living abroad and how they applied them after returning to the country. In general, they showed positive feedback from the scholarship or fellowship experience they had. However, they perceived some critiques toward some cultures and system after returning to their homeland.

Keywords: Youth, Living abroad, Scholarship and Fellowship, Culture.
La competencia investigativa básica. Una estrategia didáctica para la era digital
Authors: Juárez Popoca Diana , Torres Gastelú Carlos Arturo
Published: January 2022

Este artículo propone una caracterización de la competencia investigativa básica y presenta los resultados de la implementación de una estrategia didáctica de investigación formativa cuyo propósito es el logro de dicha competencia. Se trata de una estrategia de carácter general y flexible, articulada bajo la metodología de proyectos formativos en la que se incorporó la actividad de curación de contenidos para optimizar la gestión de información digital, aspecto fundamental de la competencia investigativa básica. En la implementación participaron tres grupos de estudiantes de distintas carreras del área de educación y tres docentes, obteniendo resultados positivos en todos los indicadores de la competencia. Además, en el análisis estadístico de las experiencias, se identificaron diferencias que apuntan tanto a fortalezas como a debilidades en la implementación, las cuales pueden ser solventadas por los docentes, mejorando sus habilidades en el uso de las herramientas e incrementando su interacción con los estudiantes en las actividades en línea.
Dynamics of changes in the main indicators of reproductive health of women receiving chemotherapy for malignant breast tumors
Authors: Shamrai V. A. , Misiurko O. I. , Grebeniuk D. I.
Published: January 2022

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in the world and the most common cancer among women. The use of chemotherapy as a component of comprehensive treatment leads to the development of chemoinduced premature ovarian failure. The aim of the study was to examine the dynamics of changes in the main indicators of reproductive health of women who received chemotherapy for malignant neoplasms of the breast. Reproductive health of patients (levels of antimullerian hormone, estradiol and follicle-stimulating hormone, ovarian volume and number of antral follicles) before chemotherapy and one, two, and three years after completion of chemotherapy was studied according to the purpose and objectives of the study. The obtained data were processed using the statistical software package SPSS 20.0 for Windows. Quite significant changes in the reproductive health of women in the study group were manifested in the form of menstrual disorders (oligomenorrhea, amenorrhea), involuntary abortions, inability to conceive. Changes in hormonal status were characterized by a progressive decrease in antimullerian hormone and estradiol levels and an increase in follicle-stimulating hormone levels. In addition, there was a decrease in ovarian volume and a decrease in the number of antral follicles. The dynamics of changes in the studied indicators was characterized by a sharp deterioration during the first year after chemotherapy, followed by less rapid progression. This trend is explained by dystrophic changes in ovarian tissue after chemotherapy, and at a later date – in addition, the age-related involution of the ovaries. The dynamics of changes in the main hormonal and ultrasound parameters of the ovarian reserve indicates significant impairment of reproductive function in women receiving chemotherapy for malignant neoplasms of the breast.
Prevalence of nutritional deficiency in patients with oral and oropharyngeal cancer
Authors: Kushta A. O.
Published: January 2022

Tumors of the mouth and oropharynx are a significant group of malignant neoplasms characterized by a progressive increase in morbidity. Almost every patient has dysphagia and accounts for 90-95 % of cases. Problems with swallowing in head and neck cancer may be associated primarily with the type and size of the tumor itself, which impairs the ability to eat. Therefore, the question of the presence of malnutrition in patients with oral and oropharyngeal cancer in the preoperative period and methods for detecting nutritional insufficiency remains open significant criteria for nutritional status violation. The aim of our study was to evaluate the frequency of nutritional insufficiency in patients with oncopathology of the oral cavity and oropharynx in the preoperative period and to identify the most significant criteria for nutritional status disorders. The results of nutritional status assessment of 46 patients with oncopathology of the oral cavity and oral pharynx in the preoperative period were analyzed. Somatometric (body mass index, shoulder circumference, skin-fat clot thickness) and laboratory (total blood protein, albumin, transfers, absolute lymphocyte count) methods were used. Mean values were reduced only for albumin and the absolute number of lymphocytes. Anthropometric indicators in the study group, with the exception of a moderate decrease in the size of the skin and fat folds in men, were within normal limits. Analyzing the data obtained, it was found that 85 % (39 patients) of patients were malnourished. In 32 patients the disorders were mild, in 6 – moderate and one had severe malnutrition. When assessing the trophological status, it was found that one indicator was reduced in 35 % (16/46), two – in 28 % (13/46), three – in 31 % (14/46), four – in 4 % (2/46), five – in 2 % (1/46). Malnutrition was detected by assessing the absolute number of lymphocytes in 71 % and blood albumin in 63 %, the thickness of the skin and fat clot in 50 %. BMI assessment revealed grade I malnutrition in 7 patients, while malnutrition was detected in 85 %. Thus, comprehensive study revealed in the preoperative period in patients with oncopathology of the oral and oropharynx a high incidence of malnutrition (85 %). The main contribution to the change of trophological status is a decrease in the cellular component of immunity and albumin.
Secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor as a marker of proinflammatory response in children with community-acquired pneumonia
Authors: Dudnyk V. M. , Pasik V. Yu.
Published: January 2022

The study of the secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor (SLPI) level in children with pneumonia is important because it may indicate protease-antiprotease imbalance and predict local regulation of proteolytic activity at different degrees of pneumonia in children. The aim of the study was to assess the level of SLPI as a marker of proinflammatory response in the serum of young children, depending on the severity of pneumonia, including the presence or absence of lesions of the hepatobiliary system. The study investigated the SLPI as a marker of the inflammatory response in children with community-acquired pneumonia, depending on the severity of the disease, lesions of the hepatobiliary system, age and sex. The level of SLPI in the serum was determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using a diagnostic test system from “IMMUNOTECH” (France). “IBM SPSS Statistica” Version 12 (20) was used for statistical processing of the results. It was found that the course of community-acquired pneumonia is accompanied by an increase in the serum level of SLPI in children in parallel with the severity of the disease. The development of a lesion from the GBS reduces the level of a protease inhibitor in the blood serum of children with pneumonia, which indicates a decrease in the body's defense systems. In children 1-12 months, the level of SLPI is higher than in children 13-36 months, which indicates more significant protective capabilities of the body of children in the first year of life. It has been shown that an increase in the level of SLPI correlates with an increase in the level of inflammatory cytokines, which indicates a unidirectional change in the formation of local immunity in response to damage to the lung tissue. At the same time, a negative correlation was found between the level of SLPI and the activities of AST, GGT and CRP (rxy= -0.054; rxy= -0.215; rxy= -0.215, respectively), which indicates a violation of liver function during the development of an infectious-inflammatory process in the body. Studies of the nature of the effects of cytokines and protease inhibitors (protective factors) on the development and maintenance of inflammatory process in the lungs in young children with community-acquired pneumonia with lesions of the hepatobiliary system may be the basis for predicting its course.
BAT SPECIES DIVERSITY OF THE JEWISH AUTONOMOUS REGION
Authors: Frisman L.V. , Gorobeiko U.V.
Published: January 2022

Bats represent one of the most diverse but poorly studied mammal groups in Priamurye and, in particular, in the Jewish Autonomous region, which is located on the left bank of the southern bend of the Amur (47°–49° N 130°–135° E). The collection and analysis of scientific information made it possible to summarize the bat finding data in the Jewish Autonomous region, to provide brief descriptions of their distribution and lifestyle, and estimate their species diversity, considering changes in the bat’s taxonomy in recent decades. Despite the minimal number of bat findings reflected in the literature, the bat fauna of the Jewish Autonomous region is characterized by relatively high species diversity, comparable to one in the neighboring territories of Priamurye (Amur Region and Khabarovsk Territory). According to modern views, the nine species belonging to four genera of the Vespertilionidae family reliably inhabit the Jewish Autonomous region: five species of genus Myotis, two species of genus Vespertilio, and one species of both genera Plecotus and Murina. In addition, it is possible to arealogically expect the presence of Murina ussuriensis and Eptesicus nilssonii in the area.
ORGANIC MATTER IN THERMAL, COLD GROUND AND SURFACE WATERS OF THE FAR EAST SOUTH CONTINENTAL PART (OXYGEN-CONTAINING COMPOUNDS)
Authors: Poturay V.A.
Published: January 2022

This article presents the composition and molecular weight distribution of medium volatility oxygen-containing organic compounds in the thermal, cold ground and surface waters of the continental part of the Far East south. Using the method of capillary gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, it is found 71 oxygen-containing compounds in thermal waters, belonging to 10 homologous series, and in cold ground and surface waters – 36 compounds, belonging to 7 homologous series. Their relative content in the medium volatility organic matter composition is about 55% in thermal waters and about 45% in cold ground and surface waters. Esters, carboxylic acids and aldehydes are widespread in hot waters. These compounds are widely produced in the biosphere and are probably of biogenic origin. The features of the carboxylic acids and aldehydes molecular weight distribution (the predominance of homologues with an even number of carbon atoms in the molecule) also show their biogenic genesis. The formation of ethers can as well be associated with the oxidation of organic matter in water-bearing rocks, and aromatic and nitrogen-containing components – with thermogenic processes occurring in hydrothermal systems. Esters, steroids and ketones also reach their maximum relative concentrations in cold waters. Steroids predominate in the oxygen-containing organic compounds composition in cold ground and surface waters where the carboxylic acids distribution is insignificant. Among the revealed compounds, in thermal waters there are some components – indicators of technogenic pollution. These are the compounds containing a tert-butyl group and DETA. However, their share in the composition of medium volatility organic matter is insignificant.