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Sejarah Agraria: Sebuah Pengantar
Authors: Ahmadin
Published: April 2022

Sepanjang perjalanan sejarah umat manusia, tanah sering menjadi penyebab terjadinya konflik antarindividu maupun golongan yang berbeda persepsi dan kepentingan. Kenyataan seperti ini, berlaku sejak kehidupan manusia masa purba hingga era modern sekarang. Bahkan kehidupan masa mendatang pun dipastikan akan lahir konflik-konflik agraria dengan motif yang berkisar pada dua problem mendasar yakni perbedaan persepsi dan kepentingan. Kompleksitas masalah agraria yang berhubungan politik, ekonomi, sosial, budaya, hukum, dan berbagai dimensi kehidupan manusia lainnya, menyebabkan topik ini selalu mengundang perhatian banyak pihak untuk menelaahnya. Dengan demikian, kehadiran buku ini menjadi penting untuk memperkaya khasanah konsep tentang agraria. Bahkan sistem kepemilikan dan pengelolaan tanah, bagi hasil, konflik agraria, kondisi agraria masa kolonial Belanda, masa pendudukan Jepang, masa orde lama, dan masa orde baru, yang dikaji secara historis, akan menghamparkan suatu dinamika kehidupan sosial ekonomi yang menarik. Buku ini tidak hanya relevan dengan mata kuliah Sejarah Agraria, akan tetapi dapat dijadikan referensi bagi mata kuliah lainnya dalam kajian sejenis.
Turbulence structure and the development of secondary outer-bank flow cells at multiple discharges in a meander bend
Authors: Hackney Chris , Parsons Dan
Published: April 2022

The erosion of the outer-banks of meander bends is mediated by the form roughness of the bank topography, which has been shown to affect near bank three-dimension flow structures and shear stresses. As the scales of bank roughness is known to vary vertically from bank toe to bank edge variations in flow discharge are likely to driver changes in near-bank flow velocities and turbulent structures in the near-bank zone. However, to date field observations of three-dimensional flow in the near-bank zone across multiple discharges remain limited. Here, we report observations of three-dimensional flow characteristics in the near-bank zone of a meander bend at a range of discharge levels; low (9 m3 s-1), mid- (23 m3 s-1) and bankfull (90 m3 s-1). Our results reveal that the relationship between the presence of a secondary outer-bank flow cell (SOC) and magnitudes of turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) and shear stresses vary with discharge. At high flows, the presence of a SOC is related to increased TKE, whilst at mid-flow discharges SOCs are associated with reduced TKE compared to transects where SOCs are absent. At low flows there is no observed pattern between TKE and the presence/absence of a SOC. We attribute these patterns to the role that failed material at the bank toe plays in deflecting and modulating near-bank flows. This work highlights how important detailed flow data across multiple discharges is in terms of understanding flow through meander bends and thus the impact these flow processes will have on longer term bend morphodynamics.
Disentangling action vigor from motivational orientation to foods: approaching is more than just going
Authors: van Alebeek Hannah , Veling Harm , Blechert Jens
Published: April 2022

Background: Training motor responses to food images can influence subsequent evaluations of the food and even consumption. One important question in the literature is whether training people to approach versus avoid food items is different from training people to respond (‘go’) versus not responding (‘no go’) to food items. Therefore, we systematically investigated whether action vigor, i.e., withholding responses vs. mere go responses, and motivational orientation, i.e., approach and avoidance, differentially change stimulus valence.Methods: In 73 healthy participants, we contrasted approach, avoidance, and non-responses with the same neutral go response in their potential to change food liking ratings and affective facial responses. Results: Training approach responses to stimuli increased their valence compared to merely going to stimuli as was evident from explicit liking ratings and facial corrugator activity. Unexpectedly, not responding to stimuli or avoiding stimuli did not decrease their valence relative to go stimuli. Conclusion: The current results suggest that approach responses may be more effective to increase the valence of food items than mere go responses and that Approach-Avoidance Interventions may be more effective for aims to increase consumption e.g., of healthy foods rather than for aims to reduce consumption e.g., of unhealthy foods. They further suggest that the devaluation of non-responded stimuli that is often found in the literature may not become visible in the current task set-up where the Go/No-go training is administered on a touchscreen.
Monthly correlates of longitudinal child mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic according to children and caregivers
Authors: Rappaport Lance M. , Mactavish Alexandra , Mastronardi Carli , Babb Kimberley A. , Menna Rosanne , Amstadter Ananda B , Battaglia Marco
Published: April 2022

Background. Multiple reviews identify the broad, pervasive initial impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of children, who may be particularly vulnerable to long-term psychiatric sequelae of the ongoing pandemic. However, limited longitudinal research examines persistence of, or change in, children’s distress or psychiatric symptomatology.Methods. From June 2020 through December 2021, we enrolled two cohorts of families of children aged 8 to 13 from Southwestern Ontario into a staggered baseline, longitudinal design that leveraged multi-informant report (N=317 families). In each family, one child and one parent or guardian completed a baseline assessment, 6 monthly follow-up assessments, and one final follow-up assessment 9 months post-baseline. At each assessment, the child and parent or guardian completed the CoRonavIruS health Impact Survey and measures of child anxiety, depressive, irritability, and posttraumatic stress syndromes.Results. Results indicate a broad impact of the pandemic on children’s mental health, which fluctuated over the study period. Elevated local monthly COVID-19 prevalence, hospitalization, and death rates were associated with monthly elevations in children’s reported worry about contracting COVID-19 and stress related to non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI). In turn, both elevated monthly worry about contracting COVID-19 and NPI-related stress were associated with monthly elevations in child- and parent- or guardian-report of children’s psychological distress and psychiatric syndromes.Conclusions. This study illustrates the importance of, and informs the potential design of, longitudinal research to track the broad, sustained impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of children, who may be particularly vulnerable during the ongoing global crisis.
Looking for Ties with Secret Agendas: Conspiracy Mentality is Associated with Reduced trust in Political, Medical, and Scientific institutions – but not in Medical Personnel
Authors: Nera Kenzo , Mora Youri Léon , Klein Pit Pol Lou Emile , Roblain Antoine , Van Oost Pascaline , Terache Julie , Klein Olivier
Published: April 2022

In a pre-registered research, we examined the relationships between conspiracy mentality (i.e., the individual susceptibility to endorse conspiracy theories, Bruder et al., 2013) and trust in three actors of the COVID-19 crisis: 1) Political institutions, 2) scientific and medical institutions, and 3) the medical personnel. While the two former groups have played a direct or indirect role in decisions related to public health measures, the latter has not. We expected all these relationships to be negative, and to be mediated by the belief that the pandemic is instrumentalized by authorities to pursue secret agendas. In a study conducted with Belgian (N = 1136) and French (N = 374) convenience samples, conspiracy mentality negatively predicted trust in political institutions, and trust in scientific and medical institutions. These relations were partly mediated by belief that the pandemic is instrumentalized by authorities. In addition, distrust in political, medical and scientific institutions were highly and positively correlated, suggesting that these groups may be viewed as part of a same supra-ordinate category – the “Elites”. By contrast, we found a small negative relationship between conspiracy mentality and trust in the medical personnel in the Belgian sample, but not in the French sample. Trust in the medical personnel was unrelated to the belief that the pandemic is instrumentalized, and only weakly related to distrust in political institutions. This suggests that individuals with a susceptibility to believe in CTs may not have a propensity to distrust all actors involved in the management of the pandemic, but only those directly or indirectly tied to decisions pertaining to public health measures.
Parenting in a Pandemic: A Qualitative Exploration of Parents’ Experiences of Supporting their Children During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Authors: Waite Polly , Shum Adrienne , Burgess Lowrie Caitlin Hulley , Pearcey Samantha , Lawrence Peter J , Klampe Marie-Louise , Cattel Claire
Published: April 2022

This qualitative study examined parents’ experiences of supporting their children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Seventeen parents of children aged 2-16 years from diverse backgrounds, living in the UK, were interviewed one-to-one about their experiences. Ten professionals working with children and families were also interviewed to gain a broader perspective of parents’ experiences. Using Reflexive Thematic Analysis, we identified four central themes: a) worries and uncertainties; b) mental exhaustion; c) resources available to cope with the challenges; and d) finding the positives. Findings revealed the worries and uncertainties that parents faced regarding how best to support their child and the long-term consequences of the pandemic, as well as feelings of mental exhaustion from juggling multiple responsibilities. The impact of Covid-19 on parents’ wellbeing was varied and parents identified several factors that determined their ability to support their children, such as space in the home environment, support networks and their personal mental health. Despite the challenges, some parents reported positive experiences, such as strengthened family bonds during the pandemic. Our study emphasizes the importance of flexible work arrangements and family-friendly employment policies, as well as support for parents to enable them to support their children and look after their own wellbeing.
Sentiment Analysis of Public Tweets Towards the Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant: A Social Media Analytics Framework
Authors: Mahyoob Mohammad , Algaraady Jeehaan , Alrahaili Musaad , Alblwi Abdulaziz
Published: April 2022

While different variants of COVID-19 dramatically affected the lives of millions of people across the globe, a new version of COVID-19, "SARS-CoV-2 Omicron," emerged. This paper analyzes the public attitude and sentiment towards the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant on Twitter. The proposed approach relies on the text analytics of Twitter data considering tweets, retweets, and hashtags' main themes, the pandemic restriction, the efficacy of covid-19 vaccines, transmissible variants, and the surge of infection. A total of 18,737 tweets were pulled via Twitter Application Programming Interface (API) from December 3, 2021, to December 26, 2021, using the SentiStrength software that employs a lexicon of sentiment terms and a set of linguistic rules. The analysis was conducted to distinguish and codify subjective content and estimate the strength of positive and negative sentiment with an average of 95% confidence intervals based upon emotion strength scales of 1-5. It is found that negativity was dominated after the outbreak of Omicron and scored 31.01% for weak, 16.32% for moderate, 5.36% for strong, and 0.35% for very strong sentiment strength. In contrast, positivity decreased gradually and scored 16.48% for weak, 11.19% for moderate, 0.80% for strong, 0.04% for very strong sentiment strength. Identifying the public emotional status would help the concerned authorities to provide appropriate strategies and communications to relieve public worries towards pandemics.
The profile of “super-helpers”? Findings from the Generational - Transmissions in Finland survey
Authors: Hämäläinen Hans , Tanskanen Antti O , Danielsbacka Mirkka
Published: April 2022

This study considers “super-helpers,” namely older adults who help others in the private and public spheres. Although super-helpers can be important actors at individual, community, and social levels, only a few studies have evaluated their characteristics. We explored the profiles of super-helpers by drawing upon population-based data of older Finns (n = 2,174) and examined their provision of: 1) instrumental help (i.e., practical help or personal care) to friends and relatives; 2) financial aid to friends and relatives; and 3) public support (i.e., through volunteering or charitable giving). Of the respondents, 75% provided instrumental help, 44% provided financial aid, and 65% offered public support. Overall, 26% were considered super-helpers, that is, they were engaged in providing all three types of support. Having a partner, higher level of education, better perceived financial condition, being religious, and having a larger number of close relatives increased the probability of being a super-helper. The results are interpreted in light of opportunity structures and role extension approaches.
Collocation Networks of Selected Words in Academic Writing: A Corpus-Based Study
Authors: Jaafar Eman Adil
Published: April 2022

This study aims at shedding light on the linguistic significance of collocation networks in the academic writing context. Following Firth’s principle “You shall know a word by the company it keeps.” The study intends to examine three selected nodes (i.e. research, study, and paper) shared collocations in an academic context. This is achieved by using the corpus linguistic tool; GraphColl in #LancsBox software version 5 which was announced in June 2020 in analyzing selected nodes. The study focuses on academic writing of two corpora which were designed and collected especially to serve the purpose of the study. The corpora consist of a collection of abstracts extracted from two different academic journals that publish for writers from different countries around the world. This corpus-based study aims at examining the significance of chunks of language in texts. The concept of collocations is crucial in corpus linguistics to identify semantic relations. This can help in the teaching and learning processes. Furthermore, this study is conducted to answer the following research questions; first, whether the three words study, paper, and research are used interchangeably in the corpora or not? Second, what are the shared collocational associations surrounding the selected nodes? Finally, it is worth noting that the study of collocations highlights the linguistic features of texts through computational analytical tools that can save time and help to gain objective results systematically. The findings show that ‘research’ and ‘study’ are used rather interchangeably in the writing of the abstracts; however, ‘paper’ has fewer shared collocations in the same academic context.
Investigating the Effects of Critical Reading Skills on Students’ Reading Comprehension
Authors: Roomy Muhammad A. Al
Published: April 2022

Critical reading is an indispensable learning skill that students need both inside and outside the classroom. Even though many attempts haave been made to unravel the impact of critical reading on Second Language (L2) reading, there is a paucity of investigations examining the effect of critical reading combined with students’ active role. The study raises three questions. They are: 1) What are the students’ views about reading comprehension and critical reading skills? And2) What difficulties do students encounter when they read? And3) how can critical reading strategies improve students’ reading comprehension? Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate how critical reading skills can enhance students reading’ comprehension while working in groups. For the sake of this study, data were gathered from an open-ended questionnaire distributed to university students before intervention, learning logs, and participant observations. The results of the study revealed significant effects of critical reading skills on students’ reading comprehension at different levels. Students viewed reading as an active dynamic process that motivated the activation of higher order thinking skills and helped students tap into their prior experiences to approach the reading materials. It also showed how implementing a rich repertoire of critical reading skills enabled students to overcome reading problems as they could read not just what is directly stated but what is being communicated between and beyond the lines. The findings offered several pedagogical implications and recommendations for further research.
Saudi Politeness: Request and Apology in the Context of Study and Work at King Abdulaziz University:A Pragmatic Study
Authors: Farrag Nahed Moussa
Published: April 2022

The present study investigates the frequently used speech acts related to positive and negative politeness techniques employed in requests and apologies by faculty members at King Abdulaziz University. Social interaction on University Campus reflects Hejazi culture located in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia. The significance of the study arises from its focus on university-life interaction between faculty members as it provides an investigation of positive and negative politeness strategies. The paper tries to answer two questions: 1) Is there a relationship between the faculty’s years of experience and the request strategies employed? 2) Is there a relationship between the faculty years of experience and the apology strategies used? To answer these questions, a Discourse Completion Test was developed and given to 30 faculty members. The findings of the study show that social power, which is derived from having more years of experience, affects the request and apology strategies used among Saudi female faculty members. Faculty members of an older generation tend to use syntactically more extended sentences in requests compared to their younger colleagues, to alleviate the sense of their social power and save others’ sense of face. In contrast, the more youthful faculty members tended to use syntactically longer sentences in apologies compared to their older colleagues to show more respect. The study was conducted in Women Campus, and it is recommended to implement it on a larger scale with more participants to get more complete results.
Challenges of Short Sentence Writing Encountered by First-Year Saudi EFL Undergraduate Students
Authors: Alsalami Ahmed Ibrahim
Published: April 2022

This paper is set up to outline the most common challenges in writing short sentences encountered by the first-year students at the English language departments at Al-Baha University campuses. The study is considered necessary because it raises the awareness of both students and instructors to improve their sentence writing. A mixed approach (quantitative and qualitative) was used to collect the data using questionnaires and interviews. Approximately122 students who study English as a Foreign Language (EFL), (%50.4 females and %49.6 males), together with 30 EFL instructors (15 males and 15 females) who were randomly selected. The paper addresses three questions. They are: 1) What common challenges do students face when writing short sentences?, 2) What are the most frequent challenging short sentence components among the students?, and 3) What are the differences between male and female students regarding difficulties in writing short sentences?. The study found significant challenges in constructing short sentences, distinguishing between active and passive voice, and using conjunctions, punctuation, quantifiers, and appropriate auxiliary verbs. Additionally, students encountered difficulties in building short sentences. Moreover, the study revealed that a high percentage of students have very low English writing skills practice. To overcome any obstacles and push students forward in their learning later, this study highly recommended that EFL instructors should pay more attention to the development of writing skills. Thus, extra written activities and peer assessment must be granted to students in writing short sentences. Moreover, more research should be done to explore and evaluate the most prevalent problems and barriers that first-year students encounter using written samples and paperwork.
The Responses and Attitudes of the University of Nottingham Students toward Learning Styles
Authors: Talib Pawan Asghar
Published: April 2022

This research was carried out to add to the current literature on learning styles by explaining various understandings of the topic and the previous research on it. Studies and information on learning styles and strategies are abundant, and the need for more research stems from the recent move towards student-centered classes. This paper is an attempt to do more specific research on the subject and answer the question of what the correlations are between learning styles and different factors such as gender and learner’s cultural background. This study was conducted at the University of Nottingham. Seventy students have participated in the survey, 34 males and 36 females. The participants’ nationalities were mixed, which was essential for the study; Kurdish (20%), British (40%), European States (10%) and Asian (17.1%). The questionnaire results were analysed by using IBM SPSS Statistics 21 software. Frequency tests, Correlation analysis, T-Tests, and One-way ANOVA test of the available data were studied. The findings show that Kurdish learners are auditory learners compared to other nationalities. Also, the study showed that language learners are more visually inclined learners than learners from the other majors. Finally, future researchers may expand on the findings of this paper by getting a larger sample.
Linguistic Landscape of Bilingual Shop Signs in Saudi Arabia
Authors: Alotaibi Wafa Jeza , Alamri Ohoud
Published: April 2022

Shop signs are a visible indication of the linguistic landscape of a place, hence the need for public policies to control, particularly, bottom-up signs in situations where there are issues, such ensuring consistency and correct representation in the second language. To investigate the linguistic landscape of bilingual shop signs in Saudi Arabia, this study examines the lettering in bilingual shop signs in shopping malls in Riyadh and Jeddah in terms of relative size, information, and the quality of English-Arabic (E-A) and Arabic-English (A-E) transliteration or translation. This was done in view of the national policy in Saudi Arabia which aims to ensure correct Arabisation when inconsistencies have been observed in the Arab world. Moreover, it gives an indication of the linguistic landscape, which is necessary given the need to prepare the kingdom for the Saudi 2030 Vision and cater to the growing number of international visitors. Altogether, 184 signboards were observed and categorised, of which 68 were shortlisted for further analysis. Of these, 54 were A-E signs and 17 were E-A signs, with two in both categories. The majority (83.3%) of signs were bilingual with slight variation in relative size and display of information. Same sized lettering was displayed in 66.7%, and the same information in 64.8%. Remedial suggestions are given for language policy-makers to address the issue found of a few inconsistent and erroneous transliterations and spellings, which together accounted for 9.3%. Overall, the case is not as bad in Saudi Arabia as noted in some other Arab countries.
Educators’ Attitudes toward Teaching Western Literature to Saudi University Students
Authors: Al-Matrafi Huda B.
Published: April 2022

Numerous studies have investigated the issue of teaching in EFL classrooms and the relationship between educators and students; some focus on the pedagogy used to teach English, while others center on students’ attitudes. This study fills an existing gap in the literature on educators’ attitudes toward teaching Western literature in non-Western settings. It surveys educators’ backgrounds and perspectives toward teaching Western cultural, social, and religious issues in Saudi Arabia and identifies which variables influence their attitudes toward teaching Western literature. It examines educators’ goals in teaching Western literature within the Saudi context, in line with the progressive Vision 2030 and the ongoing process of globalization. It investigates the present state of teaching Western literature in the English departments of eight Saudi universities through a mixed-methods approach, analyzing data from a questionnaire completed by 99 educators. This study highlights the significance of teaching Western literary texts in Saudi bachelor (BA) teaching programs. The results yield some valuable pedagogical implications on what Western literature can offer English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) students in Saudi universities. They demonstrate the educators’ positive attitudes toward teaching Western literature in EFL classrooms, believing that it can achieve objectives that transcend the boundaries of language and text. These findings are rewarding in a broader sense and particularly so in this globalized era. Accordingly, this study recommends the teaching of Western literature as a means of bridging the East/West divide, a matter of increasing significance in the current era.
Investigating the Low English Proficiency of Saudi EFL Learners
Authors: Alshammari Hammad Ali
Published: April 2022

Saudi students studying English as a foreign language often do poorly in their English courses, and despite a growing number of studies on this issue the root causes have remained a mystery. To gain a more comprehensive perspective, this study investigated the underlying reasons for Saudi EFL learners performing poorly in English by including all major stakeholders. This study attempts to find out the potential underlying reasons for the low performance of Saudi EFL learners. The researcher conducted qualitative interviews with two educational consultants, six university teachers, six graduate students, and six high school teachers. In addition, quantitative data came from high school students via a questionnaire addressed to 100 participants. The data revealed a shared chain of factors related to objectives, learners, teachers, curricula, assessment, and practicality. The findings suggested a gap between the theories consultants used to set class objectives and actual practice. This gap stemmed from consultants not consulting with or directly evaluating people in the field, such as educators, students, or university staff. The study recommends researchers get an overview of Saudi English learners at the macro level rather than focusing solely on their performance in one language skill. That should produce more valid, reliable, and practical suggestions to improve Saudi EFL learners’ performance.
Drama-Based Approach in English Language Teaching
Authors: Bessadet Latéfa
Published: April 2022

The present study investigates the benefits of implementing drama techniques in English language teaching. It also focuses on the means and strategies of creating a learner-centered classroom to enhance English as Foreign Language learners’ communication skills. Two dramatic techniques used in the research are exploiting a scripted play and improvisation. Teacher-researcher conducted a qualitative research method through a case study of First-Year Master Students of English Literature and Civilization studying English as a foreign language in Dr. Moulat Tahar University of Saida, Algeria. The present study reveals the positive impact of teaching English through drama on student’s physical, emotional, social, and cognitive development. It sheds light on the method of putting learners in authentic situations to help them discover their hidden creativity and overcome their fears. In addition to promoting their sense of collaboration, including discussion, negotiation, and performance.
Parents’ Perspectives towards Implementing English-Medium Instruction at Tertiary Education in Oman
Authors: Al-Riyami Thuraya Khalifa , Dayananda Chinthana Sandaruwan
Published: April 2022

This study investigates parents’ perspectives towards using English as a medium of instruction (EMI). Hundred and seventeen (117) parents who had children studying at higher education institutions (HEIs) in the Sultanate of Oman answered a questionnaire featuring 40 items with a 5-point Likert-scale response key. Findings indicate that, while many parents displayed favorable attitudes towards implementing EMI in HEIs, approximately half of them asserted that their children’s English is not good enough to cope with EMI. Therefore, most of them believed that some courses at least should follow Arabic medium instruction. The study explores the advantages and disadvantages of EMI, and findings reveal that the majority of the respondents identify more advantages. It was also found out that the respondents assisted their children in several ways to cope with EMI. For instance, by financing their children to learn English in private institutions, encouraging children to translate their course materials into the Arabic language, and seeking the support of parents’ friends to explain doubts and what children have not understood in the classroom.
Migrating Vs. Decentralizing MOOC-based e-content to Teaching MA Language and Communication Students
Authors: Ghobrini Rafik El Amine , SARNOU Hanane
Published: April 2022

Never before has education been more tech-oriented, cloud-based, and online-driven, especially with this new pandemic-altered educational environment. However, new regulations worldwide limit physical interaction inside the bounds of educational institutions, which pushed Algerian university teachers to operate mainly online under unsuitable conditions. Therefore, our prime objective is to devise a MOOC-based teaching modal that primarily palliates the current dire problems regarding students’ equity. One of the solutions proposed in this paper is two equitable, to some extent, tech-enabled modalities of instruction that leverage the available first-rate Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) e-content to teach Master of Arts (MA) students: language and communication students of English department at Mostaganem University in Algeria. There were two online groups, the first one regards migrating to the MOOC itself and letting students operate on the MOOC provider. The second e-group decentralizes the e-content to a closed Facebook group where students can access the e-pedagogical materials directly from the social-media-mediated landscape. To this end, a pedagogical action research based on the comparative approach is used to undertake this study that comprehended 44 students to compare the two e-groups through different working situations. Findings revealed the difference between the two e-modes of teaching. They presented a framework enabling instructors to choose which one to leverage according to students’ digital skills and access to internet bandwidth, thus serving as a guideline for any instructor wishing to participate in such an educational endeavor. Finally, implications of these two technologized modes of instruction on the teaching profession overall are set forth.
Making Sense of Texts: EFL Students’ Intercultural Competence and Interpretation Depth
Authors: Alyeksyeyeva Iryna , Chaiuk Tetyana , Kovalchuk Iryna , Galitska Elizaveta
Published: April 2022

The study is aimed at exploring Master’s students’ sense-making of various second language (L2) texts and its correlation with interpretation depth and the students’ intercultural competence. The significance of this research lies in the fact that it provides an insight on culture-specific issues challenging for advanced and proficient Ukrainian learners of English when they make sense of L2 vocabulary, interactions, public, mass and social media discourse. The study is based on a questionnaire with open-ended questions filled in by forty Ukrainian Master’s students. The subjects were asked to interpret several English vocabulary items, idioms, linguistic landscape signs as well as mass media and social media texts. The findings suggest that the students’ intercultural competence rests on the information obtained from English textbooks as well as from current mass and social media content. When facing ambiguity or uncertainty, the students tend to show a lack of cultural awareness and resort to first language (L1) assumptions in their sense-making, which may entail a wrong or inaccurate understanding. The students’ interpretation of public, mass and social media texts reveals their insufficient background knowledge of L2 culture, which does not lead to inaccuracies in sense-making but prevents comprehensive understanding of messages. The study argues that Master’s students majoring in English need to enhance their cultural awareness, to develop their intercultural competence and to be prepared for continuous learning of L2 cultural schemata.
Housing Instability in an Era of Mass Deportations
Authors: Pedroza Juan
Published: April 2022

The current era of mass deportation has disrupted a record number of families and households in immigrant communities. In most cases, when a parent is deported, the rest of the family stays in the United States. Among those who remain in the US, deportations can have broad ramifications for housing stability. I use linear regression models with metro area and year fixed effects to examine metro residents responding to the Current Population Survey (2013- 2016) and merge these observations with contextual, administrative data from the implementation of a national immigration enforcement program (Secure Communities). I find metro residents in shared households (i.e., households with multiple families) are more likely to experience housing instability in high deportation areas. The positive association between instability and deportations holds only among residents in Hispanic households where noncitizens are present. By contrast, other residents – including those living with non-Hispanic noncitizens, Hispanic U.S. citizens, or non-Hispanic U.S. citizens – are not more likely to report instability in high deportation metros. I discuss possible explanations for these findings and the implications of this study for housing inequality.
Vpliv elektromagnetnih motenj na delovanje informacijsko-komunikacijske tehnologije – študija primera
Authors: UI revija Admin , Bodlaj Gašper , Werber Borut
Published: April 2022

Prispevek obravnava področje zanesljivosti in varnosti informacijsko-komunikacijske tehnologije s stališča ogroženosti zaradi elektromagnetnih vplivov Sončevih izbruhov, izbruhov koronske mase, solarnih energetskih delcev ter solarnih vetrov, ki s svojim delovanjem vplivajo na delovanje elektronskih naprav na Zemlji. Zaradi enajstletnih ciklov dejavnosti na Soncu je danes to pogosto prezrta grožnja. V dobi interneta stvari (IoT) in samovodljivih vozil, ko veliko naprav deluje avtonomno s pomočjo satelitskih navigacij in povezav v omrežja (3G, 4G, Wi-Fi), lahko elektromagnetni vplivi Sončevih dejavnosti privedejo ob neustrezni zaščiti do katastrofe. Prispevek opisuje študijo telekomunikacijskega podjetja, v katerem so zaradi vpliva solarnega izbruha izvedli testiranje produktov. V ciklu izboljšav so vsi novi produkti prejeli ustrezno elektromagnetno zaščito. V sklepnem delu so podane ugotovitve, kako obravnavano tematiko spremljajo v nekaterih razvitih državah in s kakšnimi ukrepi poskušajo zmanjšati verjetnost katastrofe ob naslednjem večjem Sončevem izbruhu.
Analiza uporabnosti podatkov iz družbenih omrežij
Authors: Blagus Neli , Žitnik Slavko , Bajec Marko
Published: April 2022

Z razvojem svetovnega spleta in družbenih medijev smo vse bolj vpeti v uporabo interneta v vsakdanjem življenju. Družbena omrežja, različni forumi in splet na splošno spreminjajo način komunikacije in sodelovanja med nami. Podatki iz takšnih medijev so bogata zakladnica mnenj, ki nam ob pravilni obravnavi omogočajo celovitejše razumevanje družbe. V članku predstavljamo pet popularnih družbenih medijev: Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google+1 in YouTube. Raziskali smo njihove možnosti pridobivanja podatkov ter za izbrane ključne besede analizirali razlike med mediji in tematikami ključnih besed. Izkazalo se je, da sta najbolj uporabljena družbena medija Twitter in Facebook, a med njima obstajajo razlike, saj na Twitterju uporabniki raje objavljajo, na Facebooku pa komentirajo. Uporabniki, ki so pretežno moškega spola, v splošnem največ pišejo o znanih osebnostih ter politikih, objave pa so v večini v angleškem jeziku.
Decentralizirano in odporno dinamično posodabljanje mikrostoritev
Authors: Meznarič Jan , Jurič Matjaž Branko
Published: April 2022

Za zagotavljanje neprekinjenega delovanja aplikacije je potrebno vpeljati dinamično posodabljanje programske opreme, ki med procesom posodobitve ne povzroča izpada storitev. V arhitekturi mikrostoritev za dinamično posodabljanje običajno uporabimo centralizirana orodja za orkestracijo vsebnikov. Članek opisuje izsledke raziskovalnega dela, v katerem razvijamo decentralizirano metodo za dinamično posodabljanje mikrostoritev. Predlagana metoda definira koordinatorje posodobitve za decentralizirano upravljanje procesa posodobitve, ki z mehanizmi za izboljšanje odpornosti na napake izvedejo evalvacijo nove verzije mikrostoritve. Z evalvacijo preprečimo namestitev nedelujoče verzije mikrostoritve, s čimer se izognemo izpadu delovanja aplikacije, posledično pa izboljšamo proces razvoja programske opreme.
Resource saving technologies in education: A step towards a green society
Authors: Pavlova Inna , Kavčič Alenka
Published: April 2022

This article discusses the actual problems of modern society – environmental degradation and inefficient use of resources, as well as possible ways of resource conservation – from the educational perspective. A brief literature review of green technologies in education is presented in the first part. Next, we describe a didactic module for training future informatics teachers in resource-saving activities. The module aims to form their readiness to use novel educational methods in schools with a special focus on green information technologies as well as to develop a general resource-saving culture.
Predicting kills in Game of Thrones using network analysis
Authors: Stavanja Jaka , Klemen Matej , Šubelj Lovro
Published: April 2022

TV series such as HBO’s Game of Thrones have a high number of dedicated followers, mostly due to the dramatic murders of the most important characters. In our work, we try to predict killer and victim pairs using data on previous kills as well as additionalmetadata. We construct a network where two character nodes are linked if one killed the other, then use a link prediction framework to evaluate different techniques for kill predictions. Lastly, we compute various network properties on a social network of characters anduse them as features in conjunction with classic data mining techniques. Due to the small size of the dataset and the somewhatrandom kill distribution, we cannot make accurate predictions with standard indices alone, although using them in conjunction with additional rules based on degrees has yielded results that are more reliable. The features we compute on the social network help theclassic machine learning approaches; however, they do not yield very accurate predictions. The best results overall are achieved using indices that use simple degree information, the best of which result in the Area Under the ROC Curve of 0.875.
Tehnologije navidezne in obogatene resničnosti, kot orodje za predstavitev novih idej in produktov na sejmih: primer Mahepa
Authors: Kolmanič Simon , Marksel Maršenka , Mongus Domen , Žalik Borut
Published: April 2022

Navidezno in obogateno resničnost lahko uporabimo tudi na področju predstavitev novih izdelkov in idej širši javnosti. Z njima lahko uporabnike in potencialne kupce seznanimo z izdelkom že v času njegovega razvoja. V članku opisujemo naše izkušnje s predstavitvijo rezultatov projekta MAHEPA. Gre za evropski projekt v okviru programa Obzorje 2020, znotraj katerega se razvijata dva hibridna pogona za letala prihodnosti. Ker so leti s tema pogonoma predvideni šele v letu 2020, je bilo možno napredek v razvoju obeh pogonskih sistemov letal na  letalskem sejmu AERO 2019 predstaviti zgolj s pomočjo virtualnih modelov. V članku predstavljamo naše izkušnje s pripravo predstavitve, temelječe na navidezni in obogateni resničnosti, ter pokažemo, da so takšne predstavitve konkurenčne klasičnim in predstavljajo cenovno ugodnejšo alternativo. Predstavitev smo razdelili v tri sklope, pri čemer smo uporabljali očala HoloLens, čelado HTC Vive, s kodami QR pa smo krmilili tudi predstavitev na mobilnih napravah. Vse tri predstavitve so bile izdelane z igralnim pogonom Unity.
Iz Islovarja
Authors: Puc Katarina
Published: April 2022

Islovar je spletni terminološki slovar informatike, ki ga objavlja jezikovna sekcija Slovenskega društva INFORMATIKA in ga najdete  na naslovu http://www.islovar.org.  Vabimo vas, da tudi vi prispevate svoje pripombe, predloge ali nove izraze.
Integracija strukturnih omejitev pri izpeljavi gensko regulatornih omrežij
Authors: Pušnik Žiga , Moškon Miha
Published: April 2022

Inferenca gensko regulatornih omrežij (GRO) iz ekspresijskih podatkov je še vedno težak problem. Število genov je velikokrat večje od števila poskusov, kjer gensko izražanje še dodatno spremlja določena mera šuma. Zato predlagamo uporabo strukturnih omejitev pri izpeljavi GRO na podlagi predhodnega znanja v obliki referenčnih omrežij. Naša ideja izvira iz dejstva, da vsebujejo GRO vzorce, tako imenovane motive, ki se pojavljajo bistveno pogosteje, kot bi to pričakovali v naključno generiranih omrežjih. Uporabo predhodnega znanja dosežemo s spreminjanjem uteži posameznega gena v cenovni funkciji linearne regresije. Uteži spreminjamo iterativno z gradientnim spustom. Naš pristop temelji na že uveljavljeni parcialno korelacijski metodi SPACE. S spreminjanjem uteži na podlagi prisotnosti motivov, porazdelitve stopenj genov in pričakovanega števila regulatornih genov za odtenek izboljšamo točnost, natančnost, priklic in F 1 oceno omrežij izpeljanih iz GRO bakterije E. coli.
Kategorizacija uporabnikov na podlagi njihovega z informacijsko varnostjo povezanega znanja, stališč in vedenja: pilotna študija
Authors: Fujs Damjan , Vrhovec Simon , Vavpotič Damjan
Published: April 2022

V tem prispevku predstavljamo pristop za kategorizacijo uporabnikov, ki temelji na preverjenem vprašalniku o človeških vidikih informacijske varnosti (HAIS-Q). Na tej podlagi smo izvedli razvrščanje uporabnikov (N= 165). Analiza je pokazala tri skupine uporabnikov (uporabniki z nizkim, zmernim in visokim tveganjem). Izračunali smo indeks silhuete (0,44) za potrditev kakovosti razvrščanja, ki kaže na ustrezno kakovost razvrščanja. Naš pristop (kombinacija HAIS-Q in razvrščanja v skupine) omogoča prilagojeno usposabljanje uporabnikov, ki dosežejo najnižje vrednosti pri HAIS-Q in 2) uporabnikov, ki dosegajo splošno nizko tveganje, vendar se na nekaterih področjih odrežejo nekoliko slabše. V primerjavi s sorodnimi pristopi je naša prednost enostavnost uporabe in ublažitev pristranskosti, saj je pristop namenjen analiziranju skupin in ne posameznikov. Poleg tega naš pristop omogoča razvrščanje na podlagi prioritizacije spremenljivk, medtem ko obstoječe raziskave obravnavajo vse spremenljivke enako pomembne.
Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Pelvic Lymphadenectomy for Primary Gynaecologic Chylous Reflux
Authors: Siddighi Sam , Jackson Renae , Haase Victoria , Sultana Raza Anwar , Schrader Lacey , Siddighi Sam
Published: April 2022

Background: Gynaecologic chylous reflux is a rare condition with significant impact on patient quality of life and nutritional status. While no long-term treatment options have been successful this article looks at the possibility of using robotic-assisted surgical management as a less invasive option for treatment.
Case Report: This patient had milky vaginal discharge which contained high levels of triglycerides. A robot-assisted pelvic lymphadenectomy was performed which resulted in resolution of discharge for eight months before returning to pre-surgical volume. Symptoms significantly improved after a second operation and dietary modification.
Conclusion: Robot-assisted lymphadenectomy may be a minimally invasive approach for the treatment of primary gynaecological chylous reflux.
The Pierce Field Structure
Authors: Sonnenberg Stephen A.
Published: April 2022

The Permian Lyons Sandstone is oil productive in a number of anticlinal structures in the Denver basin. The Pierce field has produced in excess of 10,200,000 barrels of oil and 488,000 Met gas from an asymmetric anticlinal closure. Approximately 100 ft of structural closure is present at Lyons level. The field has a gentle west flank and steeply dipping northeast and southeast flanks. The axis of the asymmetric anticline is concave to the west. The structure in the field is Laramide in age and is interpreted to result from force folding of sedimentary layers over a high side corner of a rotated basement fault block. An understanding of the type of basement structure involved may provide a key to further exploration in the Lyons Sandstone in the Denver basin.
Hydrodynamic Control on an Oil Entrapment in Channel Sandstones of the Dakota Sandstone, South Cole Creek Field, Converse County, Wyoming
Authors: Moore W. Richard
Published: April 2022

South Cole Creek field, located in the southwest Powder River Basin of Wyoming has produced 11 million barrels of oil from the Dakota Sandstone. Detailed mapping of rock and reservoir properties including sandstone isopachs, initial potentials, cumulative production, and porosity-permeability data, reveals the existence of channel sandstones with excellent reservoir properties which are surrounded by marine rocks of poorer reservoir properties. The areal extent of the accumulation is controlled by factors other than structure and stratigraphy, as water-bearing channel sandstones exist lateral to and up-dip of producing channel sandstones. By comparing the known accumulation to the theoretical model for fluid flow, it can be shown that hydrodynamics has played an important role in modifying the accumulation at South Cole Creek field.
LEARNING LOSS DAN FAKTOR-FAKTOR PENYEBAB DI SEKOLAH MENENGAH PERTAMA (SMP)
Authors: Sovayunanto Riski
Published: April 2022

Distance learning in North Kalimantan has been going on for one year, this is one of the impacts of the spread of covid-19. Prolonged school closures are feared to lead to decreased student learning competence and lead to learning loss, which is a condition where students lose knowledge, abilities and skills. The purpose of this research was to determine how many junior high school students in North Kalimantan were at risk of learning loss. The importance of this research is to be the basis of decision making to overcome learning loss in North Kalimantan. The Research method used quantitative descriptive approach. The research sample consisted of 610 junior high school students, where the sampling techniques used cluster sampling. The results of the study found a total of 111 students in North Kalimantan identified learning loss, then as many as 408 students were at great risk of experiencing learning loss. The remaining 91 students did not experience learning loss.