bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Mycology of Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media at Tertiary Care Centre of Nepal
Authors: Chaurasiya Ajay Kumar , Pradhananga Rabindra Bhakta , Mandal Dipendra Kumar , Mahato Manoj , Sah Niranjan Prasad , Rijal Basista Prasad , Pokhrel Bharat Mani
Published: March 2021

ObjectiveThis study was designed to find out the fungal aetiological agents in chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) patients attending tertiary care centre of Nepal. ResultTotal 123 samples of 117 patients, outdoor as well as indoor from Department of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery (HNS) TUTH, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu those specimens were processed and among them, 23(18.7%) was found potassium hydroxide (KOH) mount positive whereas positive growth was in 27 specimens. The prevalence rate of fungus was 21.95 percent in which the main pathogen was Aspergillus species (51.8%), followed by Candida species (14.8 %). Keywords: CSOM, KOH, Fungal culture, Aspergillus
Traits of cancer patients and CAM usage
Authors: Dufter Sabine , Hübner Jutta , Ahmadi Emadaldin , Zomorodbakhsch Bijan
Published: March 2021

Background: The use of Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM) Methods is increasing and therefore gaining importance also in conventional western medicine. Identifying personal traits to make out by whom and why CAM is used can help physicians in successful physician-patient interaction, and thus improve patient´s compliance and trust towards their physician. Patients and Methods: A questionnaire was passed on to cancer patients in an ambulant clinical and a rehabilitation setting. Multiple regression analyses were run to examine possible predictors for CAM usage such as gender, age, level of education, spirituality, attentiveness, self-efficacy and resilience. To differentiate within CAM users two dependent variables were created: „holistic and mind-body methods“, such as Yoga, meditation or Homeopathy and „material based methods“, such as food supplements or vitamins. Results: Higher level of education, younger age and attentiveness were significant predictors for the use of „material based methods“. Female gender, higher education and spirituality were detected as significant predictors for „holistic and mind-body methods“. Conclusion: This study is among the first to take a more detailed look at how numerous personal traits are associated with the usage of CAM methods and differentiate between the applied methods. Our finding should be considered by conventional health care providers and could be integrated into a holistic assessment, in order to offer information about complementary medicine and meeting patients’ needs.
Machine Learning Methods for "Small-n, Large-p" Problems: Understanding the Complex Drivers of Modern-Day Slavery
Authors: Lavelle-Hill Rosa , Mazumder Anjali , Goulding James , Smith Gavin , Landman Todd
Published: March 2021

40 million people are estimated to be in some form of modern slavery across the globe. Understanding the factors that make any particular individual or geographical region vulnerable to such abuse is essential for the development of effective interventions and policy. Efforts to isolate and assess the importance of individual drivers statistically are impeded by two key challenges: data scarcity and high dimensionality. The hidden nature of modern slavery restricts available datapoints; and the large number of candidate variables that are potentially predictive of slavery inflates the feature space exponentially. The result is a highly problematic "small-n, large-p' setting, where overfitting and multi-collinearity can render more traditional statistical approaches inapplicable. Recent advances in non-parametric computational methods, however, offer scope to overcome such challenges. We present an approach that combines non-linear machine learning models and strict cross-validation methods with novel variable importance techniques, emphasising the importance of stability of model explanations via Rashomon-set analysis. This approach is used to model the prevalence of slavery in 48 countries, with results bringing to light the importance predictive factors - such as a country's capacity to protect the physical security of women, which has previously been under-emphasized in the literature. Out-of-sample estimates of slavery prevalence are then made for countries where no survey data currently exists.
Unity of the system of state universities in today’s Russia
Authors:   St. Petersburg State University, Belov Sergei A. , Linskaya Yulia V. ,   St. Petersburg State University, Kropachev Nikolay M. ,   St. Petersburg State University
Published: March 2021

The constitutional right to education includes legally guaranteed opportunities for every resident of the Russian Federation to get higher education, necessary for professional activity and meeting the requirements of the modern labor market, regardless of their place of residence, educational institution or educational program. Today, in the education system of Russia the assets and financial funds are administratively distributed among state universities, which concurrently maintain wide autonomy. Meanwhile, the practice of cooperation and collaboration between state universities is not properly elaborated; it does not secure collective access to the resources which, if exploited jointly, would increase their effectiveness. This causes a considerable misbalance of resource allocation between a group of flagship universities and other state universities, disproportion of regional development, and, in the long run, violation of an individual right to get quality education in different state universities. The authors suggest a set of measures that address the above-mentioned problems and provide the transition of the state universities education management system in Russia to a new up-to-date quality for regulatory and administrative support of education.
Adchocratic approach to management in the higher education system: Case of the Astrakhan State University
Authors:   Astrakhan State University, Akhunzhanova Inna N. , Lunev Aleksander P. ,   Astrakhan State University, Tomashevskaya Yulia N. ,   Astrakhan State University, Koshkarov Aleksander V. ,   Astrakhan State University, Gamidov Sanan S. ,   National Research University Higher School of Economics
Published: March 2021

Currently, state institutions of higher education are under pressure from business, the population and the state, which leads to the creation of conditions for dynamic changes in the internal environment of universities. This contradiction between the internal and external environment of universities in the conditions of dynamically changing markets at the post-industrial stage has a negative impact on institutional efficiency, and in these conditions, with the acceleration of instability, a third managerial structure begins to appear that can satisfy the demand for innovations organizations to hybrid universities, which combine a professional, administrative bureaucracy and adhocracy, with no severe restrictions in its structure. In this regard, the authors adapted the features of adhocratic organizations to the conditions of higher education, considered the possibility of applying an adhocratic approach to building the structure and design of an organization on the example of the Astrakhan State University, and identified a number of factors that limit the spread of adhocracy in Russian universities. The main results of the study and the following conclusions were obtained: the organization of training should be carried out on the principles of teamwork for the implementation of complex innovative projects, for which it is necessary to create and develop an appropriate facilities and resources; socialization is one of the key practical models for preparing students in the context of project-based learning and an adhocratic approach; any adhocratic system is a self-learning system, the formation of which requires the creation of appropriate conditions for training and development of university staff; the transition from a professional university to an adhocratic one must be carried out gradually, combining both forms of bureaucracy and adhocracy.
“The Object ‘Pavilion’”: The re-exposure in the bunker in Smolny in honor of the 75th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War
Authors:   St. Petersburg State University, Amosova Alisa A. , Konysheva Tat’iana M. ,   The Smolny Museum
Published: March 2021

The article is devoted to the analysis of the updated museum exposition entitled “The Object ‘Pavilion’”, implemented in a bomb shelter under the building of the St. Petersburg administration for the anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, by May 9, 2020. The authors study history of The Smolny Museum, as well as its current expositions and memorial spaces available for visitors within the walls of the government building: the exposition “From the history of women’s education in Russia. Smolny Institute for Noble Maidens” and “December, 1. Shot in Smolny”; V. I. Lenin’s study and the room in which he lived with his wife, N. K. Krupskaya; The white-column assembly hall, where in the fall of 1917 the II All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers ‘and Soldiers’ Deputies was held. The period of the war and the siege of Leningrad (1941–1944) occupies an important place in the museum’s theme. One of the most attractive memorial spaces of the museum is the underground bunker located under the territory of the Smolny garden, museumified in 2019. The article describes the technical parameters of the underground structure and considers its history, studies and compares two versions of the bomb shelter exposition (“Bunker A. A. Zhdanov”, 2019 and “The Object ‘Pavilion’”, 2020). The updated exposition is distinguished by a significant expansion of the exposition space, an emphasis on demonstrating the previously hidden functional premises of the bunker (dining room, disinfection room, rest room, etc.), a more detailed display of the historical events of the blockade related to the management of the city and the front, the introduction of multimedia technologies. The article is based on the historical sources of the museum origin.
In search of ethnographical reality (regarding the peculiarities of the traditions of the Russian school of Indology in St. Petersburg)
Authors:   Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography Peter the Great (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnodembskaya Nina G.
Published: March 2021

The ethnographic focus of the Russian Indological school was mainly developed in St. Petersburg and, above all, in the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (MAE). The author identifies five main stages of its development. Thus, the purpose of the article is to determine the time frame, the main life circumstances of a particular stage, the main actors, the tools and tasks of scientific activity, key scientific activities and the main result/product of labor. The first period refers to the last third of the XIX century and is associated with the name of Ivan Minaev (1840–1890), founder of the Russian Indological School. The next stage is connected with the names of the director of the MAE Vasily Radlov and the Indologists Alexander and Lyudmila Mervart, who carried out a special ethnographic expedition to Ceylon and India in 1914–1918, for the reorganization of the scientific and educational activities of the museum. The early Soviet period (from 1917 to the middle of the 20th century) was connected with the separation of MAE from world science and other restrictions, but Indologists (Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Valery Krasnodembsky, etc.) at that time found ways to acquire new ethnographic knowledge, the directions of scientific research were partly expanded. The revival of all areas of MAE Indological activity occurred after the liberation of the countries of South Africa from colonial dependence. The current state of affairs in the MAE inspires a certain optimism. There is a well-prepared team of Indologists and the most important traditions have been preserved.
Research on local history and the museum as a tool to preserve heritage in a region with a broken economy: On the example of the Mama village in the Irkutsk region
Authors: Silchenko Vladimir V. , Litvin Tatyana A. ,   St. Petersburg State University
Published: March 2021

The article is devoted to the history of museums and the modern development of local history work in one of the northernmost districts of the Irkutsk region. The article briefly describes the circumstances of the foundation of a mica mining enterprise on the banks of the Vitim and Mama rivers in the late 1920s as well as the history of production being stopped and the degradation of settlements in the post-Perestroika period. In 1965, a mineralogical museum was established in the Mama village. In 2003, it was converted into a local history museum. In recent decades, the functions of the modern museum have changed, but this has manifested itself in the work of a local history museum of the Mama village only in the form of concentrated pedagogical activities. Important functions for studying the heritage of the Soviet time, documenting the modern life of the district, working with society, in particular, with an older audience, were gradually taken over by a group of enthusiasts who founded the voluntary Mamskoe Historical and Local History Association (MICRO) in 2008. Over the past twelve years, the Association has organized about twenty museum and street exhibitions, published a number of monographs, stories about the residents of Mama, and published two photo albums. Photos have been published as well as archival documents, and oral histories of local elders, many of whom are descendants of repressed peasant families forcibly resettled here in the early 1930s. Participation in district and regional conferences on local history helps to influence the social situation and supports the proper level of cultural life of the region. The article touches on such modern museological concepts as “social inclusion”, “intangible cultural heritage” and “participatory practices”. The authors hope that in the future, experts will be able to discuss the possibilities of developing the tourism sector in this area.
Museum as a dialogue space for the sociocultural project “St. Nicholas. Yaroslavl heritage”
Authors:   P.G.Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Marasanova Viktoria M. , Krivosheeva Yulia A. ,   P.G.Demidov Yaroslavl State University
Published: March 2021

The article considers the extensive practical experience in implementing the sociocultural project dedicated to the identification, presentation, actualization and popularization of the tangible and intangible historical and cultural heritage associated with the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the Yaroslavl region. The project “St. Nicholas. Yaroslavl Heritage” has been carried out since 2016 with the support of the Yaroslavl Historical Museum, Yaroslavl Art Museum and Moscow Kremlin Museums which have been constant partners of P. G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University in the implementation of socially significant initiatives for many years. The modern museum has become an active participant in public life making its visitors focus on urgent issues. The implementation of sociocultural projects within the museum space has allowed not only to present the conducted academic research in an attractive format accessible to the target audience, but also to use all possible mechanisms to achieve socially significant goals and objectives set during the project. The activity of museum specialists and the academic community, architects, journalists and historic preservation activists, on studying the heritage connected with the name of St. Nicholashas covered a wide range of theoretical issues in the field of protection of historical and cultural monuments, and also made it possible to implement a number of practical measures to preserve the St. Nicholas heritage within the Yaroslavl region. The appeal to acute and topical issues of the existence of monuments has contributed to the growth of public and government interest in the fate of unique objects of religious architecture, fine art and urban toponymy. This has allowed for the interaction of various parties, participants in the sociocultural project, and also has made it possible to create a special dialogue and communication space on the basis of the Yaroslavl Historical Museum.
Instrumental support for designing mechanisms of institutional interventionism
Authors:   Belarus State Economic University, Kristinevich Sergey
Published: March 2021

The interaction of participants in the political-economic process cannot always be successfully described in terms of mechanisms of market coordination and is not always based on principles of a voluntary and mutually beneficial exchange that increases well-being. The fact is that economic actors are not uniform in the possession of power. Accordingly, activity for the rational use of limited resources is not based on competition between homogeneous economic entities in a spontaneous economic order, but on conflict between subjects with different power potentials in a hierarchical structure. Thus, power acts as a competitive advantage, which rational subjects tend to use for the purpose of force redistribution. One of its forms is institutional intervention — a behavioral model based on a coercive strategy through the establishment (change) of rules. The article describes the potential use of optimization and equilibrium models to describe the behavioral interventionist strategies. Optimization models characterize the interventionist behavior at the initial stage of institutional design, and equilibrium models determine possible variation in interactions between interventionists and victims during the redistribution of power. Methods for quantifying effects of institutional сhange are systematized. The proposition that violent equilibrium is not a specific distribution of mutual gains from cooperation, both with voluntary exchange and coordination level of tolerance (the maximum value of costs that the victim is willing to sacrifice) and a threshold (the lowest possible) values interventionist legitimacy, is substantiated. As guidelines for the evaluation of deviations from the equilibrium levels, we offer levels stability, efficiency, and legitimacy of institutional design.
Recent trends in the implementation of trade and development strategies in developing countries
Authors:   St. Petersburg State University, Popova Antonina
Published: March 2021

Globalization in the 21st century, like any profound process occurring in society, brings both new opportunities and risks. One tool that helps countries overcome continued economic uncertainty is strategic planning. Despite the fact that the scientific community is still debating whether the state should coordinate a country’s economic processes, in practice the number of strategic trade and economic initiatives is constantly growing. This article analyses trends in the design of trade and economic strategies in developing countries from 2000 to 2015, reasons for growing interest in implementing such initiatives, and changes in the structure of strategic documents. Calculations are based on systematic and graphic analyses of data published by the International Trade Centre and the World Bank. The results of this analysis show that increasing interest in implementing trade and development initiatives in the 2000s was preceded by a World Bank policy aimed at alleviating the burden of high-indebted by poor countries. This policy required beneficiaries to have a poverty reduction strategy (e.g. the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers — PRSP). The development of PRSPs helped to create and/or restore institutional mechanisms needed to implement such initiatives, which had been lost back in the 1980s. The promotion of the global development goals—Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2000–2015 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2015–2030, adopted by 193 UN member states — served as a trigger for scaling up the development of strategic initiatives. Such initiatives adopted in developing countries, with the support of international organizations, were focused mainly on solving the food and nutrition problems and improving basic social services. Their successful implementation improved existing planning practices and increased the effectiveness of state institutions in developing countries. At the same time, the first positive results returned faith in the effectiveness of these strategic programs for the development of a country’s economy. This created an impulse for the capacity of developing countries to implement later trade and economic strategies without the support of third organizations, giving them the autonomy to allocate resources in high valueadded sectors. Nevertheless, despite all the efforts in developing countries, the weak points of these initiatives remain poor elaboration of action plans and the lack of financial resources to achieve stated objectives.
The role of the internet in the proliferation of new acronyms in the Russian language
Authors:   Trier University, Bruns Thomas
Published: March 2021

This paper focuses on a special form of English borrowing: the use of acronyms with phraseological meaning. The Russian computer language, more precisely the Russian computer slang, is unthinkable without the influence of English. This influence is manifested at various language levels and in a variety of forms (borrowings, calques and half-calques, univerbats, reverse derivatives, alphabetic and alphanumeric abbreviations, “distorted forms” of both full names and acronyms). Based on the English abbreviations, first the meaning of the respective full form is explained in English and then its fate is illustrated in the Russian host language. Comparison with German, which also borrowed a large number of such abbreviations, shows similarities and differences in the processing of these phraseological units. The term “digital communication” here refers not only to communication on the Internet in a narrower sense (chats, forums, e-mail, etc.), but also to such channels as SMS, Twitter, WhatsApp, and others. The Internet plays a double role in the development of the modern Russian language: firstly, as a means of mass communication that provides an opportunity to popularize new linguistic phenomena in the shortest possible time and with maximum range, and secondly, as a generator of new linguistic forms that would be impossible without the Internet itself. One part of these neologisms refers to the technical features of digital communication and the tools necessary for it, while the other part refers to the implementation of a new communicative style that is clearly different from analogue communication in its oral and written forms.
Good seeds land on fertile soil: On the equivalence of vocabulary and phraseology
Authors:   Institut für Slawistik der Universität Greifswald, Walter Harry
Published: March 2021

The article is devoted to the problem of equivalence/inequivalence of words and phrases. This problem is still very acute for modern phraseological science and especially for phraseographic allotage practice. The original language for the analysis is modern German and the historical aspect of the German language. Four phraseological units are described both semantically and by the degree of their equivalence / nonequivalence in the Russian language. The first (German: Unkraut vergeht nicht — lit. ‘Weeds do not leave; weed grass does not die’) has practically no exact equivalents in the Russian language, the plot of the second (German: Wenn du aufisst, wird morgen [wieder] schönes Wetter — lit. ‘If you reach the end, tomorrow (again) will be nice weather’ — A call to the child to eat food on a plate to the end) continues the line of nonequivalent German phraseology, in other languages it is impossible to find phrases with the same figurative basis. The third unit (German: zu etwas kommen wiе die Jungfrau zum Kind — lit. ‘Get something like a virgin a child’) reflects the biblical story, which in this form does not exist in Russian, and in other languages we also do not see a similar motif of the image of a virgin in the above sense. The last (auf fruchtbaren Boden fallen — lit. ‘to fall on fertile soil’) is devoted to the biblical expression, which is fully equivalent in German and Russian. Due to the biblical origin of the expression, it is known in many languages.
Corpus-based approach to phraseology research: New evidence from parallel corpora
Authors:   Russian Academy of Sciences, Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, Dobrovol’skij Dmitrij O. ,   Russia Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistics,   Russia Stockholm University
Published: March 2021

The present paper discusses the possibility of using parallel corpora in the study of phraseology. The results of the analysis support the assumption that the use of corpus data not only significantly improves cross-linguistic descriptions, but also changes the very idea of the specifics of phraseology as a subsystem of the lexicon. Parallel corpus data make it possible to identify the language-specific features of idioms that were traditionally considered completely equivalent. As the empirical bases, parallel subcorpora of the Russian National Corpus (RNC) are used: Russian-German and primarily German-Russian. In some cases, the material of the main corpus of the RNC is involved. In addition to the task of identifying similarities and differences between semantically similar idioms of German and Russian, the paper also addresses general issues, in particular the question of the boundaries of the concept of crosslinguistic equivalence and ways to operationalize it. At least two different types of equivalence have to be distinguished: equivalence at the level of the language system and equivalence at the text level. The proposed method includes a subsequent comparison of individual pairs of correlating idioms of different languages based on corpus data. It aims at identifying differences between them, including semantic, syntactic, pragmatic and combinatorial ones. The results of the performed analysis may find application in bilingual lexicography.
Comparative Slavic phraseology and paremiology: Cornerstones and stumbling blocks
Authors:   Belarussian State University, Norman Boris Ju. ,   Ural Federal University
Published: March 2021

The comparison of phraseological units of various Slavic languages is based on a unified system of concepts and their oppositions. Czech and Russian, Polish and Russian, Russian and Bulgarian, and Russian and Ukrainian idioms and paremias are studied in the article. Russian idioms such as белая ворона, паршивая овца and Polish biały kruk, czarna owca, Czech idioms obĕtní beránek and Russian жертвенный агнец, козел отпущения are examples of comparison. The sources of the material for the study are published bilingual dictionaries of phraseological units, as well as articles by linguists from different countries on this topic. Numerous semantic differences (connotations) were found that confirm the idiomatic character of each language. The equivalence of phraseological units is hindered by their polysemy and different semantic scope. And the content of proverbs reflects more the morality of society at a certain stage of its history than the linguistic image of the world. The influence of the national cultural background on the phraseological productivity (“phrasemogeneity”) of lexemes is demonstrated in the work. In particular, the words цървул, калпак, бъклица, трън, denoting the facts of rural life, are productive for Bulgarian phraseology. An attempt is made in the article to systematize the differential features that distinguish phraseological units of different languages. These are such oppositions as: “person” — “object”, “space” — “time”, “spiritual” — “material”, “assessment: approving/disapproving/neutral”, “external manifestation” — “internal state”, “scale: general — private”, and “stylistic coloring: from rough to sublime”. The depth and thoroughness of the semasiological analysis revise the thesis about the universal phraseological fund. The article discusses and develops some provisions of professor Valery Mokienko’s concept.
OPTIMASI GEOMETRI BERDARASKAN GAYA-GAYA DALAM PADA JEMBATAN PELENGKUNG BETON
Authors: Almulianur Almulianur , Aminullah Akhmad , Muslikh Muslikh
Published: March 2021

ABSTRACT This study discusses geometricoptimization based on internal forces that occur on concrete arch bridges. Geometric optimization is viewed from the use of the ratio between the height to the length of arch. Optimum ratio based on the internal forces that occur on concrete arch bridge. The ratio between the height and the length of arch are made on the concrete arch bridge with the span of 150 m, variation of the ratio performed 1: 2 to 1: 8 with interval of 0.25. Modeling of concrete arch bridge was made on softwere SAP 2000 with 25 models due to the difference of ratio interval variation. Based on the results of internal forces with variation of the ratio, the results for the most optimum geometry are 1: 4 to 1: 7,25.Keywords: concrete arch bridge, geometry,optimization, ratio   ABSTRAK Pada kajian ini membahas tentang optimasi geometri berdasarkan gaya-gaya dalam yang terjadi pada jembatan pelengkung beton. Optimasi geometri dilihat daripenggunaan rasio antara tinggi pelengkung terhadap panjang pelengkung. Rasio yang paling optimum berdasarkan gaya-gaya yang terjadi pada jembatan pelengkung beton. Rasio antara tinggi pelengkung dan panjang pelengkung akan dilakukan pada jembatan pelengkung beton dengan bentang 150 m. variasi rasio dilakukan antara 1 : 2 sampai 1 : 8 dengan interval 0.25. Pemodelan jembatan pelengkung beton dilakukan pada softwere sap 2000 dengan 25 model akibat perbedaan variasi interval rasio. Berdasarkan hasil gaya-gaya dalam dengan variasi rasio didapatkan hasil untuk geometri yang paling optimum berada antara rasio 1 : 4 sampai 1 : 7,25.Kata kunci: jembatan pelengkung beton geometri, optimasi, rasio
PENGARUH PERBEDAAN UKURAN KARET BAN BEKAS TERHADAP SIFAT MEKANIK
Authors: Nasution Multilawati , Aminnullah Akhmad , Suhendro Bambang
Published: March 2021

ABSTRAKBan bekas sulit diurai karena salah satu bahan penyusunnya adalah karet sintetis. Ban bekas digunakan untuk kerajinan tangan, namun besar peluang penggunaan ban bekas sebagai material konstruksi. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk membedakan ukuran karet ban bekas berdasarkan lolos saringan no.#4 (4.8 mm) dan lolos saringan no.#8 (2.3mm). Objek kajian ini adalah kuat tekan dan modulus elastisitas dengan benda uji slinder (&15 cm x 30 cm), kuat lentur dengan benda uji balok (10 cm x 10 cm x 50 cm),  serta kuat tarik dengan benda uji dogbone. Salah satu penyusun mortar adalah karet ban bekas pengganti sebagian dari volume pasir. Kadar karet yang di ambil dari kajian ini adalah 0%, 20%, 40% dan 60%. Kajian ini tidak didapatkan perbedaan yang signifikansi yang besar antara penggunaan karet ban bekas lolos saringan no.#4 (4.8 mm) dan lolos saringan no.#8 (2.3mm).Kata kunci: ban bekas, kuat tarik, kuat tekan, kuat lentur, modulus elastisitasABSTRACTUsed tires are difficult to decompose because one of the constituent materials is synthetic rubber. Used tires are used for handicrafts, but there is a big chance of using used tires as construction materials. This study aims to differentiate the size of used rubber tires based on sieve No. 4 (4.8 mm) and sieve # 8 (2.3mm). The object of this research is compressive strength and modulus of elasticity with slinder test specimens (15 cm x 30 cm), flexural strength with beam test specimens (10 cm x 10 cm x 50 cm), and tensile strength with dogbone specimens. One of the compilers of the mortar is a used tire rubber which partially replaces the volume of sand. The rubber content taken from this study is 0%, 20%, 40% and 60%. There was no significant difference between this study between the use of used rubber tires that passed filter No. #4 (4.8 mm) and passed filter # 8 (2.3 mm).Keywords: used tires, tensile strength, compressive strength, flexural strength, modulus of elasticity
DESAIN SABO DAM TIPE CONDUIT SEBAGAI PENGENDALI DAYA RUSAK ALIRAN DEBRIS
Authors: Fajarwati Yuli , Fathani Teuku Faisal , Faris Fikri , Wilopo Wahyu
Published: March 2021

ABSTRAKSungai Air Kotok di Kabupaten Lebong, Bengkulu memiliki litologi batuan yang rapuh akibat pengaruh panas bumi, kondisi tersebut menyebabkan rentan mengalami pergerakan massa tanah/batuan. Oleh karena itu, diperlukan upaya mitigasi untuk mengurangi risiko bencana dengan perencanaan bangunan pengendali aliran debris berupa sabo dam. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk merencanakan desain sabo dam tipe conduit yang dirancang secara seri dan mengevaluasi stabilitas sabo dam berdasar SNI 2851:2015. Hasil perhitungan menunjukkan debit puncak untuk kala ulang 100 tahun sebesar 171,21 m3/detik. Empat seri sabo dam memiliki dimensi lebar pelimpah rerata ± 40 m, kedalaman aliran debris sebesar 1 m, dan tinggi pelimpah ialah 2,4 m. Stabilitas sabo dam saat banjir diperoleh faktor aman untuk stabilitas geser dan guling sebesar 3,46 ; 1,62. Adapun faktor aman terhadap pengaruh aliran debris untuk stabilitas geser dan guling adalah 3,30 ; 1,58. Berdasarkan hasil analisis, empat seri sabo dam tipe conduit yang dirancang mampu mengendalikan daya rusak banjir maupun aliran debris.Kata kunci: Hidraulika sungai, aliran sedimen, bangunan sabo, stabilitas sabo ABSTRACTAir Kotok River in Lebong Regency, Bengkulu Province has the lithology of weathered rock which is a result of geothermal process, this condition causes to be susceptible to land / rock mass movements. Therefore, the mitigation efforts are needed to reduce the risk from disaster by design debris flow control such as sabo dam. This study aims to design series of conduit type sabo dam and evaluate the stability based on SNI 2851: 2015. The calculation shows that the peak discharge for the 100-year return period is 171.21 m3 / sec. The four sabo dam series have dimensions of spill width of ± 40 m, debris flow depth of 1 m, and overflow height of 2.4 m. The stability of sabo dam has safety factor in flood condition for shear and overturning stability are 3.46; 1.62, while in a debris flow condition for shear and overturning stability are 3.30; 1.58. Based on the results, the four series of conduit sabo dam are able to control the destructive power of floods and debris flows.Key word: River hydraulic, sediment flow, sabo building, stability of sabo
STATE OF THE ART PERSELISIHAN KONTRAK KONSTRUKSI DI INDONESIA
Authors: Ilma Dede Amar Udi , Fitriyanti Fadia , Ma’arif Faqih , Baldah Nasrun , Utoyo Bambang
Published: March 2021

ABSTRAKPaper ini membahas tentang state of the art penyelesaian sengketa konstruksi di Indonesia yang meliputi jenis sengketa, indikasi potensi sengketa, dan perbandingan peraturan penyelesaian sengketa jasa konstruksi. Metode yang digunakan adalah mix method yang terdiri dari expert judgment, studi literatur dengan memperbandingkan riwayat penyelesaian perselisihan kontrak konstruksi mengacu kepada UU No.02/2017, Perpres No.16, UU No. 30 / 1999, dan PP No. 22/2020, dan Dispute Resolution Management Matrix (DRM-Matrix). Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa dua hal pokok penyelesaian sengketa yaitu pilihan penyelesaian sengketa dan penyelesaian sengketa di luar pengadilan (litigasi dan non litigasi). Penyempurnaan diberlakukan dalam PP No.22 Tahun 2020 yang menjelaskan tentang tahapan penyelesaian sengketa yang menyangkut mediasi, konsiliasi, dan arbitrase, juga terkait dengan penunjukkan dewan sengketa.Kata kunci: kontrak, konstruksi, perselisihan, state of the art ABSTRACTThis paper discusses of state of the art construction dispute resolution in Indonesia, which includes types of disputes, indications of potential disputes, and comparison of construction service dispute resolution regulations. The proposed method is a mixed-method consisting of expert judgment, literature study by comparing the history of construction contract dispute settlement referring to Law No. 02/2017, Presidential Decree No. 16, Law No. 30/1999, and PP. 22/2020, and the Dispute Resolution Management Matrix (DRM-Matrix). The results show that there are two main issues for dispute resolution, namely the choice of dispute resolution and dispute resolution outside the court (litigation and non-litigation). Improvements are enforced in Government Regulation No.22 of 2020 which explains the stages of dispute resolution involving mediation, conciliation and arbitration, as well as the appointment of a dispute board.Keywords: contract, constructions, dispute, state of the art
The impact of job satisfaction on the employees turnover intention at public universities (Northern Border University)
Authors:   Human Resource Department, Northern Border University, Arar, Saudi Arabia, AL-Maaitah Dirar Abdulaziz Atallah , Al-Maaitah Tamara Adel Muslem ,   Human Resource Department, Northern Border University, Arar, Saudi Arabia
Published: March 2021

Job satisfaction has been one of the tops extensively studied central elements of the organization in terms of organizational success. In the present study, the primary objective is to examine job satisfaction in the context of the non-academic (administrative staff) in Northern Border University (NBU) in Saudi Arabia, measured through their level of job satisfaction. The study focuses on the turnover amongst the employees in an attempt to develop an incentive initiative via increased remuneration. Based on the findings, administrative staff job satisfaction level was high and such level was influenced by gender, with male staff members being more satisfied than their female counterparts. The findings also showed that staff with shorter tenure had higher levels of job satisfaction than long-tenured staff. The same higher job satisfaction held true for those with lower qualifications and job levels, in comparison to those with high qualifications and job levels.
Medical Food Assessment Using a Smartphone App With Continuous Glucose Monitoring Sensors: Proof-of-Concept Study
Authors: Roux de Bézieux Hector , Bullard James , Kolterman Orville , Souza Michael , Perraudeau Fanny
Published: March 2021

Background

Novel wearable biosensors, ubiquitous smartphone ownership, and telemedicine are converging to enable new paradigms of clinical research. A new generation of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices provides access to clinical-grade measurement of interstitial glucose levels. Adoption of these sensors has become widespread for the management of type 1 diabetes and is accelerating in type 2 diabetes. In parallel, individuals are adopting health-related smartphone-based apps to monitor and manage care.

Objective

We conducted a proof-of-concept study to investigate the potential of collecting robust, annotated, real-time clinical study measures of glucose levels without clinic visits.

Methods

Self-administered meal-tolerance tests were conducted to assess the impact of a proprietary synbiotic medical food on glucose control in a 6-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled, 2×2 cross-over pilot study (n=6). The primary endpoint was incremental glucose measured using Abbott Freestyle Libre CGM devices associated with a smartphone app that provided a visual diet log.

Results

All subjects completed the study and mastered CGM device usage. Over 40 days, 3000 data points on average per subject were collected across three sensors. No adverse events were recorded, and subjects reported general satisfaction with sensor management, the study product, and the smartphone app, with an average self-reported satisfaction score of 8.25/10. Despite a lack of sufficient power to achieve statistical significance, we demonstrated that we can detect meaningful changes in the postprandial glucose response in real-world settings, pointing to the merits of larger studies in the future.

Conclusions

We have shown that CGM devices can provide a comprehensive picture of glucose control without clinic visits. CGM device usage in conjunction with our custom smartphone app can lower the participation burden for subjects while reducing study costs, and allows for robust integration of multiple valuable data types with glucose levels remotely.

Trial Registration

ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04424888; http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04424888.
Physicians’ Use of the Computerized Physician Order Entry System for Medication Prescribing: Systematic Review
Authors: Mogharbel Asra , Dowding Dawn , Ainsworth John
Published: March 2021

Background

Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems in health care settings have many benefits for prescribing medication, such as improved quality of patient care and patient safety. However, to achieve their full potential, the factors influencing the usage of CPOE systems by physicians must be identified and understood.

Objective

The aim of this study is to identify the factors influencing the usage of CPOE systems by physicians for medication prescribing in their clinical practice.

Methods

We conducted a systematic search of the literature on this topic using four databases: PubMed, CINAHL, Ovid MEDLINE, and Embase. Searches were performed from September 2019 to December 2019. The retrieved papers were screened by examining the titles and abstracts of relevant studies; two reviewers screened the full text of potentially relevant papers for inclusion in the review. Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods studies with the aim of conducting assessments or investigations of factors influencing the use of CPOE for medication prescribing among physicians were included. The identified factors were grouped based on constructs from two models: the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model and the Delone and McLean Information System Success Model. We used the Mixed Method Appraisal Tool to assess the quality of the included studies and narrative synthesis to report the results.

Results

A total of 11 articles were included in the review, and 37 factors related to the usage of CPOE systems were identified as the factors influencing how physicians used CPOE for medication prescribing. These factors represented three main themes: individual, technological, and organizational.

Conclusions

This study identified the common factors that influenced the usage of CPOE systems by physicians for medication prescribing regardless of the type of setting or the duration of the use of a system by participants. Our findings can be used to inform implementation and support the usage of the CPOE system by physicians.
Molecular Identification of Begomovirus Infecting Angled Luffa
Authors: Giovanni Alvina Clara , Hartono Sedyo , Sulandari Sri , Somowiyarjo Susamto
Published: March 2021

Begomovirus was reported as one of the most aggressive and destructive viruses on several commercial crops, including cucurbits in Indonesia. Plants that infected with Begomovirus show the mosaic symptom on the leaves, change in leaf shape, stunts, change in color and shape of fruit. It was recently observed in cultivated angled luffa [Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb] around Yogyakarta and Central Java. The aim of this research was to identify the virus by using Polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The result of Begomovirus amplification from the total DNA samples amplification using primer Krusty-Homer showed that DNA of Begomovirus from angled luffa was amplified at ~580bp. The DNA sequencing of angled luffa’s leaf isolate GD1 had 97.8% homology with SCLV-China isolate MC1. However, amplification of DNA seed samples using the same primer showed negative result. It was concluded that Begomovirus was not a seed borne virus. This is the first molecular report on the occurence of Begomovirus in angled luffa in Yogyakarta.
Implementation of Pancasila Value for Generation Z in Technology Development
Authors: Manurung Evelyn Angelita Pinondang , Maria Osmunda Eawea Monny
Published: March 2021

As the ideology of Indonesia, the existence of Pancasila is not without any challenges. In the development of science and technology, the existence of Pancasila is full of struggles. One of the challenges is the rapid social development that have happened nowadays has brought some changes in social activities. These social changes are marked by the development of the generation based on the needs for science and technology. Generation Z nowadays is known as the most active in their activities that depends on the technology devices and for this reasons generation Z needs strong guidelines in utilizing it. The implementation Pancasila value for Generation Z must be in accordance with the needs of Generation Z that are vulnerable for the ethics and morality. The knowledge of Pancasila value with dynamic ways for Generation Z is important so the moral value in Pancasila can be reflected in the personality of Generation Z. The research aims to implement the value of Pancasila that is important for the development of generation Z in the rapid progress of technology nowadays. This research used qualitative method. The implementation of moral science and characters based on Pancasila for Generation Z should be dynamics in accordance with the development of technological era. The implementation of Pancasila value based on their needs and characters of Generation Z is an anticipative way so the value of believe in God, humanity, unity, democracy and social justice still exist and create young generation that have the moral value of Pancasila.
Public Perceptions of Legal Aspects of Price Tagging of Balinese Betutu Chicken
Authors: Simon Nahak  , Agus Darma Yoga  , Umiyati Mirsa
Published: March 2021

This study aims to determine community perceptions about the legal aspects of price tagging in Balinese chicken Betutu sales. The population of this study was housewives in Banjar Anyar, Sumertha Kelod Village, East Denpasar District, Denpasar, Bali. This study used a survey sample (cross sectional study). The variables of this study are: (1) The importance of giving price tags; (2) Without the label violating the law; (3) The constitution on the sale of goods. Based on the analysis, the results of this study indicate that as much as 65% of respondents consider the price tagging important in sales and 3.9% of the 103 respondents consider that the price tagging in selling Balinese chicken Betutu is less important. Meanwhile, at the level of understanding without labels violating the law, 55.3% of respondents did not know that without a label in selling Balinese chicken betutu was against the law and only 14.6% of respondents knew that without a label in selling Balinese chicken Betutu was against the law. At the level of understanding of the laws on the sale of goods, 77.7% of respondents did not know about the laws on selling goods and only 4.9% of respondents knew about the laws on selling goods. Based on these results it can be concluded that there are still many people who do not know the importance of labeling a business product and the legal aspects of labeling a business product.
PENENTUAN BILANGAN PEROKSIDA MINYAK RBD (REFINED BLEACHED DEODORIZED) OLEIN PT. PHPO DENGAN METODE TITRASI IODOMETRI
Authors: Yeniza  , Asmara Anjar Purba
Published: March 2021

This study aims to determine the quality of RBD olein produced by PT. PHPO according to the peroxide number which refers to SNI 01-3741-2002. The sample used is a yellow liquid fraction obtained by fractionation of RBD palm oil or crude palm oil CPO which has undergone a refining process. The sample was analyzed using the iodometric titration method. The results of the calculation of the average peroxide number of RBD olein oil is 0.282 mg O2 / 100 g. Based on these data, Olein RBD oil meets the company quality standard and SNI 01-3741-2002.