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The Origins of Missouri English
Authors: Strelluf Christopher , Gordon Matthew J.
Published: January 2025

Missouri lies at a regional crossroads where the Midwest meets the South and the West begins. The contemporary dialect picture of the state reflects this blend of influences. Depending on their backgrounds, Missourians may share speech features with Chicagoans, Kentuckians, or Californians. The authors explore the history behind this current linguistic variation by listening to the voices of Missourians born between the 1880s and the 1930s. Drawing on a corpus of archival recordings, this book documents the unique linguistic features that characterized Missouri dialects over a century ago. State-of-the-art techniques in sociophonetics are applied to track patterns in pronunciation with a focus on regional differences related to vowel sounds. The study presents detailed examinations of several vocalic mergers and chain shifts heard today in various regional dialects. The evidence uncovered in the speech of older Missourians challenges prevailing ideas about the history of these particular features and about the origins and spread of sound change more generally. In addition to providing insight into the development of Missouri English and other American dialects, the book serves as a model for the application of large-scale sociophonetic analysis to the study of language history.
Historical Dictionary of Peru
Authors: Klarén Peter F.
Published: January 2025

With 10,000 years of history, Peru, with its formidable Inca and pre-Inca civilizations and its rich colonial and post-colonial past, formed the very foundations of multi-ethnic South American history and society. It is a country rich in natural and human resources, but has been largely confined to a state of underdevelopment for much of its history. However, since 2000 Peru has shown significant signs of economic and political progress as its economy grew rapidly and it polity democratized. The Historical Dictionary of Peru packages in a unique way the course of Peru’s evolution and recent trajectory, with substantial sections devoted to describing and analyzing the country’s history, politics and social order, combined with shorter entries on the important people and events that have contributed to its current state of affairs. It also includes a comprehensive profile of the country based on an array of data, tables and statistics. In short, PERU will be an indispensable introduction and source for high school, college and graduate students, travelers and tourists and American government and business personnel with Peru as a destination.

The Historical Dictionary of Peru contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Historical Dictionary of Gabon
Authors: Yates Douglas A.
Published: January 2025

This new fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of Gabon brings up to date the political affairs of the country, since the accession to power of Ali Bongo, eldest son of Omar Bongo, the former president-for-life, who died in 2009 after the publication of the third edition. Themes of “continuity” and “change” are present throughout the entries, not only as the Bongo family continues its half century of dynastic rule (there are a dozen Bongos in this new edition), but as the rare primeval tropical rainforests continue to dominate the landscape yet are menaced by destructive logging and palm oil plantations, and as this former French colony after independence continues to collaborate with the French African sphere of influence yet seeks new partners from America and Asia (China, Singapore), and as the country’s numerous ethnic groups perpetuate a multicultural mosaic that is nevertheless threatened by globalization of communications and cultural convergence.

This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Gabon contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Gabon.
Creating the New Right Ethnic in 1970s America
Authors: Moss Richard
Published: January 2025

This work analyzes the "New Ethnicity" of the 1970s as a way of understanding America's political turn to the right in that decade. An upsurge of vocal ethnic consciousness among second-, third-, and fourth-generation Southern and Eastern Europeans, the New Ethnicity simultaneously challenged and emulated earlier identity movements such as Black Power.

The movement was more complex than the historical memory of racist, reactionary white ethnic leaders suggests. The movement began with a significant grassroots effort to gain more social welfare assistance for "near poor" white ethnic neighborhoods and ease tensions between the working-class African Americans and whites who lived in close proximity to one another in urban neighborhoods. At the same time, a more militant strain of white ethnicity was created by urban leaders who sought conflict with minorities and liberals.

The reassertion of ethnicity necessarily involved the invention of myths, symbols, and traditions, and this process actually served to retard the progressive strain of New Ethnicity and strengthen the position of reactionary leaders and New Right politicians who hoped to encourage racial discord and dismantle social welfare programs. Public intellectuals created a mythical white ethnic who shunned welfare, valued the family, and provided an antidote to liberal elitism and neighborhood breakdown. Corporations and publishers embraced this invented ethnic identity and codified it through consumption. Finally, politicians appropriated the rhetoric of the New Ethnicity while ignoring its demands. The image of hard-working, self-sufficient ethnics who took care of their own neighborhood problems became powerful currency in their effort to create racial division and dismantle New Deal and Great Society protections.
The Biafran Humanitarian Crisis, 1967-1970
Authors: Omaka Arua Oko
Published: January 2025

This book focuses on the Biafran humanitarian crisis of 1967–1970 which generated a surge of human rights anxieties and attracted the attention of world humanitarian organizations. For the first time in recent history, different church groups and humanitarian activists around the world came together for the sole purpose of alleviating human suffering and saving lives regardless of theological differences, race, ethnic affiliation, nationality, and geographical distance. Despite their role in shaping the course and outcome of the conflict, most scholars of the Nigeria-Biafra War treat the humanitarian aspect of the war as a footnote, making it appear less important among other issues of interest in the conflict. Notable exceptions, however, include Joseph Thomson’s American Policy and African Famine, which focuses on American policy on the humanitarian aid, and Reverend Tony Byrne’s Airlift to Biafra.

This study underlines that the international humanitarian aid largely contributed to the internationalization of the war. The efforts of the churches from thirty-three countries which remain virtually unexplored was not just the first of its kind in the developing world but also the largest civilian airlift in history. While the paucity of scholarship on the humanitarian aspect of the Biafra war could be attributed to the newness of this field of enquiry, the increase in conflicts in different parts of the world has just opened humanitarian aid studies as a new frontier in academic study. This book is a masterful example of scholarship in this newly emergent field.
The Ladies of Llangollen
Authors: Brideoake Fiona
Published: January 2025

The Ladies of Llangollen is the first book length critical study of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, whose 1778 elopement and five decades of “retirement” turned them into eighteenth century celebrities and pivotal figures in the historiography of female same-sex desire. Debates within the history of sexuality have long foundered over questions of what constitutes “proof” of past sexual desires and practices, and the nature of Butler and Ponsonby’s intimacy has been deemed inimical to productive critical consideration. In this ground-breaking study Fiona Brideoake attends to the archive of their shared life—written, performed, and enacted in the vernacular of the everyday—to argue that they embodied an early iteration of female celebrity in which their queerness registered less as the mark of some specified non-normativity than as the effect of their very public, very visible resistance to sexual legibility. Throughout their lives and afterlives, Butler and Ponsonby have been figured as chaste romantic friends, prototypical lesbians, Bluestockings, Romantic domestic archetypes, and proleptically feminist modernists. The Ladies of Langollen demonstrates that this heterogeneous legacy discloses the queerness of their performatively instantiated identities.
Pariah in the Desert
Authors: Garth Todd S.
Published: January 2025

This is the first book in English on Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay 1878-Argentina 1937), a canonical author whose works are read by all advanced students of Spanish in the US and many other countries. The study examines Quiroga’s work through the theoretical lens of the heroic—a lens elaborated in part by means of Quiroga’s own disquisitions on the subject—and the complementary phenomenon of the monstrous. This lens serves to elucidate many evidently obscure and self-contradictory aspects of Quiroga’s work and its relation to the context in which he lived. That context included the neo-colonial social and economic milieu of Argentina’s fast-changing, immigrant-charged, increasingly materialistic society; the growing influence of foreign cultural discourses, particularly Hollywood film; the conflict between the genders in a society that embraced modernity but resisted changes in gender roles; the weight of new scientific discourses, especially Darwinian evolution, in social and political thought; and the impact on pedagogical theory and practice of these multiple changing discourses. This study discloses the extraordinary range of Quiroga’s work, which includes erotic romance, science fiction and fantasy, psychological occult, social satire, a great variety of juvenile literature, outdoor adventure and—most familiar to readers in the United States—gothic and naturalist horror. The book concludes that Quiroga’s consistent imperative of the heroic is essential to reconciling these various, evidently incompatible aspects of Quiroga’s poetics, revealing its theoretical and ethical coherence.
Lady Anne
Authors: Krog Antjie
Published: January 2025

Lady Anne: A Chronicle in Verse by Antjie Krog is the first English translation of an award winning book published in Afrikaans in 1989. It engages critically and creatively with a key moment of colonial history—the time Lady Anne Barnard spent at the Cape of Good Hope, from 1797 to 1802. Usually mentioned merely as a witty hostess of fabulous parties, Anne Lindsay Barnard, the daughter of a Scottish Earl and the wife of a colonial administrator, was an independent thinker and a painter and writer of genius. She left diaries, correspondence and watercolors documenting her experiences in this exotic land, the contact zone of colonizers and indigenous peoples. Antjie Krog acts as bard and chronicles an epic about this remarkable heroine’s life in South Africa, and intertwines it with life two hundred years later in the same country but now in the throes of anti-apartheid anger and vicious states of emergency. Krog’s powerful and eloquent bringing together of the past and the present, and the historical and the poetic embodies an experience that is as pertinent and compelling today in a democratic but still turbulent South Africa, as it is in the USA and other places where the intersections of race, identity, power, and language lie at the center of civic life.
Effeminate Years
Authors: Kavanagh Declan
Published: January 2025

Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain investigates the gendered, eroticized, and xenophobic ways in which the controversies in the 1760s surrounding the political figure John Wilkes (1725-97) legitimated some men as political subjects, while forcefully excluding others on the basis of their perceived effeminacy or foreignness. However, this book is not a literary analysis of the Wilkes affair in the 1760s, nor is it a linear account of Wilkes’s political career. Instead, Effeminate Years examines the cultural crisis of effeminacy that made Wilkes’s politicking so appealing. The central theoretical problem that this study addresses is the argument about what is and is not political: where does individual autonomy begin and end? Addressing this question, Kavanagh traces the shaping influence of the discourse of effeminacy in the literature that was generated by Wilkes’s legal and sexual scandals, while, at the same time, he also reads Wilkes’s spectacular drumming up of support as a timely exploitation of the broader cultural crisis of effeminacy during the mid century in Britain.

The book begins with the scandals and agitations surrounding Wilkes, and ends with readings of Edmund Burke’s (1729-1797) earliest political writings, which envisage political community—a vision, that Kavanagh argues, is influenced by Wilkes and the effeminate years of the 1760s. Throughout, Kavanagh shows how interlocutors in the political and cultural debates of the mid-eighteenth-century period in Britain, such as Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) and Arthur Murphy (1727-1805), attempt to resolve the problem of effeminate excess. In part, the resolution for Wilkes and Charles Churchill (1731-1764) was to shunt effeminacy onto the sexually non-normative. On the other hand, Burke, in his aesthetic theorization of the beautiful privileges the socially constitutive affects of feeling effeminate. Through an analysis of poetry, fiction, social and economic pamphlets, aesthetic treatises, journalism and correspondences, placed within the latest queer historiography, Kavanagh demonstrates that the mid-century effeminacy crisis served to re-conceive male heterosexuality as the very mark of political legitimacy. Overall, Effeminate Years explores the development of modern ideas of masculinity and the political subject, which are still the basis of debate and argument in our own time.
“Happy Eating” and Food Addiction in American Advertising
Authors: Danowski Debbie
Published: January 2025

This book explores the addictive techniques used in advertisements for ultra-processed foods, which promise consequence-free eating to consumers while at the same time encouraging over-consumption of unhealthy food. Debbie Danowski presents an analysis of promotional techniques in the context of food addiction characteristics and behaviors through an exploration of the themes used in this type of advertising. These thematic messages include using food to rebel, to play, to relax, to achieve happiness, to replace exercise, to achieve good health, to increase intelligence, to show love, to bond with others, and to create environmental change. Ultimately, Danowski argues that these competing and contradictory messages have had long-term negative ramifications for American habits of consumption, both literally and figuratively. Scholars of communication, advertising, media studies, and food studies will find this book particularly useful. For more information, check out this conversation between the author and Susan Branscome, host of Food Addiction: The Problem and The Solution.
Cries from the Wilderness
Authors: Pocta David
Published: January 2025

One of the most prevalent challenges in contemporary Christianity is navigating the relationship between the individual and their faith community when the Christian enters spiritually challenging times: periods of aridity, misunderstanding, suffering, or darkness. This problem is amplified because of the growing angst that many feel with organized religion. When loyalty to the church gets tested during a personal faith crisis or honest intellectual query, many leave disenchanted, claiming a desire to be spiritual but not religious.

Cries from the Wilderness: Reimagining Church Culture in an Age of Uncertainty explores the memoirs of three contemporary sojourners (Rachel Held Evans, David Gushee, and Macy Halford) asking: What postures were common in his or her journey that helped them navigate their spiritual wilderness? David Pocta then argues that a primary problem is that many faith communities rarely see themselves in the spiritual wilderness. The author’s contention is that spiritual communities are often ill-equipped to nurture the spiritual life of disoriented or questioning Christians. By acknowledging their own spiritual journey and drawing lessons from healthy wilderness postures they would be better positioned to transform and mature their community while creating a nurturing environment for individual sojourners.
Italian Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Twentieth Century
Authors: Fanning Ursula
Published: January 2025

This book highlights the centrality of the autobiographical enterprise to Italian women’s writing through the twentieth century—a century that has frequently been referred to as the century of the self. Ursula Fanning addresses the thorny issue of essentialism potentially involved in underlining links between women’s writing and autobiographical modes, and ultimately rejects it in favor of an argument based on the cultural, linguistic, and literary marginalization of women writers within the Italian context. It is concerned with Italian women writers’ various ways of grappling with constructions of subjectivity throughout the century and sets out to explore them. Fanning reads autobiographical writing as subject to many of the same constraints as fiction and, in doing so, draws attention to the significance of the recurring use of the terms “pure” and “impure” in many critical and theoretical discussions of the autobiographical (where “pure” is used to suggest a truthful representation of a life, while “impure” suggests the messy undertaking of mixing lived experience with fiction).

Recurring patterns and paradigms are found in the works of the various writers considered (eighteen in all), and these paradigms are analyzed through close readings of their works. These close readings offer insights into approaches to the constructions of subjectivity in the narratives and are informed by feminist theories. The chapters focus on selves in relationship, taking their lead from the patterns unfolding in the writers’ work, hence the subjects are constructed as daughters (with different views of the self in relation to fathers and mothers), within the confines of the romantic relationship (which involves reconsiderations and rewritings of the romance plot), as maternal subjects, and as writers (with an eye on their relationship to the literary canon, as well as to the relationship with readers).

This book argues that there is such a thing as gendered subjectivity and that its constructions may be traced through the texts analyzed.
Theology and Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Authors: Dickinson Colby
Published: January 2025

This book aims to put modern continental philosophy, specifically the sub-fields of phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, deconstruction, critical theory and genealogy, into conversation with the field of contemporary theology. Colby Dickinson demonstrates the way in which negative dialectics, or the negation of negation, may help us to grasp the thin (or non-existent) borders between continental philosophy and theology as the leading thinkers of both fields wrestle with their entrance into a new era. With the declining place of “the sacred” in the public sphere, we need to pay more attention than ever to how continental philosophy seems to be returning to distinctly theological roots.

Through a genealogical mapping of 20th-century continental philosophers, Dickinson highlights the ever-present Judeo-Christian roots of modern Western philosophical thought. Opposing categories such as immanence/transcendence, finitude/infinitude, universal/particular, subject/object, are at the center of works by thinkers such as Agamben, Marion, Vattimo, Levinas, Latour, Caputo and Adorno. This book argues that utilizing a negative dialectic allows us to move beyond the apparent fixation with dichotomies present within those fields and begin to perform both philosophy and theology anew.
The Ecclesiology of Thomas F. Torrance
Authors: Tyler Kate
Published: January 2025

This book provides a constructive analysis of Thomas F. Torrance’s ecclesiology. Holding the doctrine of the Trinity to be the “ground and grammar of theology,” Torrance viewed the doctrine of the Trinity as foundational for all ecclesiological reflection: What does it mean to be the people of the God whom Christians name as Father, Son, and Spirit? Tyler examines Torrance’s development of the rich potential of the metaphor koinonia, involving both a vertical dimension––the Church’s union with Christ through the Spirit––and a horizontal dimension––its visible existence in human history, lived out in space and time, and considers how the relationship between these two dimensions informs the structured forms of the Church’s life, its ecumenical breadth, and its missional vision.
Die Verwendung von Algorithmen im Einstellungsverfahren
Authors: Herpich Nils
Published: January 2025

The use of algorithms in the recruitment process raises issues in relation to the GDPR, the German General Equal Treatment Law (AGG) and the AI-Act. Concerning data protection law, the focus lies on the prohibition of automated decisions (Art. 22), the right to information (Art. 15), the right to compensation (Art. 82) and fines (Art. 83). Employers may be liable for damages and compensation for discriminatory decisions in accordance with § 15 I, II AGG. Transparency regulations under data protection law can help applicants to prove this, as can the right to an explanation of the decision-making process in individual cases under Art. 86 of the AI-Act. Algorithmbased systems can be considered "high-risk-AI systems" within the meaning of the AI-Act and give rise to further obligations for employers.
Grundrechte
Authors: Michael Lothar , Morlok Martin
Published: January 2025

Für die 9. Auflage wurde das Werk nicht nur aktualisiert, sondern grundlegend neu gegliedert und bearbeitet. Die allgemeinen Grundrechtslehren wurden „vor die Klammer“ gezogen. Um den Einstieg in die Grundrechte zu erleichtern, wurde dem „dreistufigen Grundrechtsaufbau in Standardfällen“ ein eigener Teil gewidmet (2. Teil). Auch die Verfassungsbeschwerde wurde nach vorne gezogen (3. Teil). Der Tradition dieses Lehrbuchs folgend werden aber auch komplexere Fragestellungen einschließlich der Grundrechte im Mehrebenensystem (7. Teil) vertieft.
Analisis Business Model Canvas (BMC) pada Usaha Undangan Digital Untukmu
Authors: Andisa Gany , Al Hapid Nabil Malik , Kuntari Wien
Published: January 2025

The development of digital technology has brought significant changes in the invitation industry, replacing conventional paper invitations with digital invitations that are more environmentally friendly and efficient. This study aims to analyze the business model of the Untukmu digital invitation business using the Business Model Canvas (BMC) framework. BMC includes nine key elements, namely customer segments, value propositions, channels, customer relationships, revenue streams, key resources, key activities, key partners, and cost structures. The results of the analysis show that the personalization approach, interactive features such as RSVP and photo galleries, and digital promotion strategies through social media are the main competitive advantages of this business. This study also identifies the challenges faced, such as market competition and limitations of UI design, and provides strategic recommendations to overcome these obstacles. With this analysis, it is hoped that the Untukmu digital invitation business can increase its competitiveness and business sustainability.
Analisis Tingkat Kebugaran Jasmani Peserta Ekstrakurikuler Futsal di SMA Negeri 1 Pesanggaran Kabupaten Banyuwangi
Authors: Ramadhani Taufiqur , Amiq Fahrial
Published: January 2025

Kebugaran jasmani adalah kondisi yang diinginkan oleh semua manusia. Dengan memiliki kebugaran jasmani yang baik, seseorang bisa dilihat lebih dinamis dan penuh semangat, serta meningkatkan produktivitas kerja individu. Futsal adalah olahraga tim yang mengandalkan aktivitas dan intensitas tinggi, sehingga memerlukan atlet dengan kebugaran jasmani yang baik. Pemain futsal yang ideal memiliki kondisi fisik dan kemampuan yang baik, seperti memiliki daya tahan, daya ledak otot tungkai, kecepatan, dan kelincahan. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui dan mengkaji tingkat kebugaran jasmani. Penelitian ini menerapkan metode survei memakai desain deskriptif kuantitatif dalam bentuk persentase. Subjek penelitian ini yaitu seluruh peserta yang mengikuti ekstrakurikuler futsal di SMA Negeri 1 Pesanggaran sebanyak 30 siswa. Instrument penelitian ini menggunakan Tes Kebugaran Jasmani Indonesia (TKJI) usia 16-19 tahun dan instrument non-tes berupa observasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa dari 30 siswa yang di survei, 1 siswa memiliki persentase 3,3% termasuk dalam klasifikasi “baik sekali”, 9 siswa dengan persentase 30% tergolong dalam klasifikasi “baik”, 7 siswa mempunyai persentase 23,3% tergolong klasifikasi “sedang”, 11 siswa presentase 36,7% masuk dalam klasifikasi “kurang”, 2 siswa memiliki persentase 6,7% tergolong dalam klasifikasi “kurang sekali”. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa peserta ekstrakurikuler futsal SMA Negeri 1 Pesanggaran mempunyai tingkat kebugaran jasmani tergolong dalam kriteria “kurang”. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini bahwa peningkatan kebugaran jasmani sangat penting untuk mendukung prestasi siswa. Penelitian ini diharapan dapat meningkatkan kesadaran siswa untuk menjaga kebugaran jasmani dan memotivasi mereka untuk meningkatkannya.
Perencaanaan dan Proses Pemasaran yang Dilakukan Xpander
Authors: Natasya Azahara  , Hendra Riofita
Published: January 2025

Effective marketing planning is the key to success for companies, especially in the increasingly competitive automotive industry. This research aims to analyze the planning and marketing process carried out by Mitsubishi Xpander. The method used is a literature review, which involves analyzing various reference sources related to marketing and business strategy. The findings show that Mitsubishi Xpander has successfully implemented a planned marketing strategy, including product adjustments, competitive prices and effective promotions. Additionally, in-depth market analysis helps companies in understanding consumer preferences and identifying opportunities in the market. The implications of this research highlight the importance of implementing marketing strategies that are adaptive and responsive to changing consumer trends to increase competitiveness and business sustainability. The results of this research can provide insight for other companies in formulating more effective and efficient marketing strategies.
Kualitas Laporan Keuangan Konsolidasi : Pengaruh Pengendalian Internal dan Struktur Kepemilikan pada Perusahaan Publik
Authors: Rifat Thufail Achmad  , Hendra Witanto  , M. Masrukhan
Published: January 2025

This study aims to analyze how internal control and ownership structure influence the quality of consolidated financial statements in public companies in Indonesia. The research adopts a literature review approach to analyze the impact of internal control and ownership structure on the quality of consolidated financial statements in public companies. Data was obtained through relevant secondary literature, such as academic papers, books, and research reports related to the impact of ownership structure changes on the consolidated financial statements of companies in Indonesia. The researcher conducted a literature search through online databases, such as Google Scholar, using relevant keywords and only considering trustworthy and relevant findings. The researcher also expanded the review by considering various perspectives to gain a more comprehensive understanding. The results of the study are divided into several main sections, including the quality of financial statements, consolidated financial statements, and the impact of internal control and ownership structure on public companies. The study concludes that strong internal control has a significant positive impact on the quality of consolidated financial statements, acting as a mechanism to prevent fraud and maintain the integrity of financial data. Strict controls improve compliance with accounting standards, making the reports more transparent and reliable. In addition, institutional ownership has been proven to have a significant positive impact on the quality of financial statements, as it encourages transparency and external oversight. However, managerial ownership does not show a significant impact, indicating that the incentives from managerial stock ownership are not strong enough to influence the improvement of financial statement quality.
Pengaruh Gadget Terhadap Perilaku Anak Kelas VI SD IT Al-Maqom
Authors: Putri Auliya  , Suci Padilah Sukmawati  , Sri Mulyeni
Published: January 2025

The purpose of this study is to find out how the behavior of students at SD IT Al-Maqom in relation to gadgets. Along with technological advances, the use of gadgets has become an important aspect of daily life, even for students. This study uses quantitative methodology using direct regression method, involving 70 students as samples.Data were collected through the distribution of questionnaires that measure the influence of gadgets on the behavior of students.The results of the analysis show that the use of gadgets has a significant influence on the behavior of students of SD IT Al-maqom, with a level of influence of 76.3%.Although gadgets have a considerable impact, this study also realizes that other factors such as environment, parenting style, and genetic factors also influence the behavior of students, although these factors are not examined in this study.The conclusion is that gadgets have a significant influence on the behavior of students of SD IT Al-Maqom.
Model Indeks Kekuatan Negara dengan Regresi Beta: Analisis Pengaruh Stabilitas Ekonomi, Demografi, dan Infrastruktur Teknologi Terhadap Kemampuan Pertahanan dan Keamanan
Authors: Muflih Al Faruq  , Alief Syahnur Almaida  , Khoirul Fajri  , Anggit Naufal Nararya Fawwaz Tyaga
Published: January 2025

Power Index is a strategic indicator measuring a nation's military, economic, and geopolitical capabilities, closely tied to national defense and security. This study examines key factors such as currency exchange rates, GDP, education levels, and technology penetration in shaping the Power Index. Economic stability underpins defense development, while advanced education and digital infrastructure drive innovations in military technology and cybersecurity. Developed countries dominate defense capabilities due to robust technological infrastructures, while developing nations show potential through investments in education and technology. Beta distribution regression, with its suitability for bounded variables, was utilized to model the Power Index. The study provides insights into the interplay between economic, educational, and technological factors, supporting strategic policymaking to strengthen national defense in a dynamic global landscape.
“In the Script It Is Written and On the Screen It’s Pictures”:
Authors: Morton Drew
Published: January 2025

The goal of this videographic moving poem is to explore teaching adaptation as an intertextual dialogism through Alberto Moravia and Jean-Luc Godard’s versions of Contempt (1954, 1963) by juxtaposing those texts with a third – Rosario Castellano’s poem “Chess.” This juxtaposition is not only a further illustration of already inherent quality of both original texts’ reflections on Homer’s The Odyssey, but also attempts to highlight and reframe a distinction facet of Godard’s adaptation: female subjectivity.
A Story About You
Authors: Kvistad Erika
Published: January 2025

The idea that reading fiction is central to our development of empathy, our ability to feel for and with others, is a common one both in literary criticism and in literature pedagogy. In the Norwegian school curriculum fiction is consistently positioned as a way of better understanding the perspectives and feelings of others, suggesting that, as cognitive critic Maria Nikolajeva writes, "[i]n plain words, reading indeed makes us better human beings" (2014, 228). But what does empathy really mean in this context? This video essay approaches this question through a textual genre that has a peculiar relationship to this term - small-scale, often text-based digital games that focus on capturing the creator's own experiences and that are sometimes, controversially, called empathy games, with the suggestion that these games give you a felt sense of an experience that might be outside the player's own. These games use text and game mechanics to evoke powerful feelings in the player - but do they actually make us feel with the game creator? Using text excerpts from the games and voiceover narration, A Story About You aims to play with the connection that we as readers and teachers of literature often make between reading and empathy.
Artslære gjennom lyriske tekster
Authors: Norendal Audhild
Published: January 2025

This video essay explores how lyrical language can serve as a gateway to teaching children about biodiversity and raising their awareness of the ongoing environmental crisis. The starting point is a hypothesis that poetry can offer a forgotten language for what we are on the verge of losing. The central question is how nature poetry can create an emotional connection to the natural world and help children understand the value of species at risk of extinction. The text material consists of six poems by Norwegian poets, which children aged 12 and 15 in the project read aloud. The children also reflect on their experiences with the poetry readings. The film recordings of plants and flowers were made in a cultural landscape, and the video essay also includes plant illustrations and the children's own drawings of the flowers as visual material. The project demonstrates that nature poetry and lyrical language can enhance children's understanding of nature and their learning of species names through a personal and emotional connection. This can further lead to Emmanuel Lévinas' idea of an ethical responsibility in encountering the "face of the other" in all living beings. Methodologically, the essay draws on Christian Keathley's perspectives on how personal involvement and subjective, emotional aspects can bring an additional dimension to research, thus enriching the understanding of a field of study. The video essay has connections to other contributions in this publication, such as Music and Place by Tatjana Kielland Samoilow and The Most Beautiful Sea by Evelyn Kreutzer. The video essay has a didactic aim, with the purpose of demonstrating how language and literature can be used to enhance children's knowledge of nature and contribute to awareness about sustainable development.
Segmentation of a CFRP weave structure for material characterization and simulation
Authors:   Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH, Boos Benedikt ,   Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH, Chen Kuo-Ching ,   Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH, Gebhard Andreas ,   Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH, Gurka Martin
Published: January 2025

Phase contrast X-Ray imaging is state-of-art for micro-structural elucidation for carbon fiber reinforced composites (CFRP). Understanding the micro-structure of CFRP is important because it significantly influences its processing as well as its application properties on component length scale. Two prominent examples for this multiscale relationship are the permeability of fiber woven fabrics as semi-finished parts, affecting its processing behaviour or the fatigue behaviour of the final composite, determining the usability and life-time of a composite product. CT provides a valuable tool for microstructure analysis, but is inherently limited to a certain length scale, while the important features of a CFRP specimen range from μm to several mm. The results presented in this article constitute the first steps in the development of a multiscale approach to bridge the gap over those 5 orders of magnitude on the length scale, to provide a digital representation of an actual CFRP sample, to be able to derive the aforementioned parameters. In a first step, a high-resolution μCT scans was performed on a woven carbon fiber specimen with a Zeiss Versa 520. The scan data were exported into three image stacks. These stacks were segmented into 0°-fibers, 90°-fibers and matrix. A structure-tensor-based approach, which used the 3D volume and an AI-based approach, which used the cross sections, where one fiber direction pierces the image surface, were chosen to perform the segmentation.
Impact of JPEG compression on the metrological characteristics of industrial CT data
Authors:   University of Stuttgart, Kieß Steffen ,   Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Trostorf Robin ,   University of Stuttgart, Tran Hieu ,   University of Stuttgart, Guhathakurta Jajnabalkya ,   University of Stuttgart, Simon Sven ,   Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Neuschaefer-Rube Ulrich
Published: January 2025

The basis of metrology with computed tomography (CT) are volume datasets with increasing sizes in the two- or three-digit GB range due to the increasing detector resolutions in the double-digit MPixel range. Handling these large amounts of data poses a considerable challenge in metrology in terms of sufficiently fast visualization, analysis and data transfer via networks (local networks or over the Internet) as well as cost- and energy-efficient archiving of TB to PB data volumes. Therefore, this work investigates the impact of lossy compression of volume data on the metrological quality of CT datasets using JPEG, which reduces the amount of data by more than one order of magnitude. The JPEG compression standard is used for compression here because it is available in CT voxel data viewers and its compression artifacts are well known from its widespread use for image compression. It is shown that the impact of JPEG compression artifacts on the metrological quality of CT datasets is limited, how the measurement uncertainty contribution due to compression can be determined and how its acceptability for metrology in general can be evaluated.
Denoising and deconvolving CT images of unknown origin: comparing linear Wiener-deconvolution with deep convolutional neural network Noise2Inverse
Authors:   Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Zabler Simon ,   University of Grenoble (UJF)-Alpes, Klos Antoine ,   University of Grenoble (UJF)-Alpes, Lhuissier Pierre ,   University of Grenoble (UJF)-Alpes, Salvo Luc ,   Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Farahmandi Maziyar ,   Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Wittl Simon
Published: January 2025

Low-dose CT scans are very fast, but they feature strong pixel noise which, in turn, invites for efficient denoising the same way that strong image blur invites for sharpening the images. Wiener-deconvolution serves as a starting point, combining these two operations in a linear Fourier filter. It may apply in 2D or 3D and requires merely estimates of the Signal-to-Noise Ratio SNR2 as well as the system Modulation Transfer Function (MTF). Meanwhile, any linear filter is unable to adapt to local contrast variations in the images. Therefore, convolutional neural networks (CNN) such as MSDnet or UNet can significantly improve reconstructions from low-dose CT scans thanks to their non-linear nature. The Noise2Inverse framework allows for training these CNN using a split-and-merge of two subsets generated from one raw CT dataset. This study investigates denoising by N2I with respect to the input data quality, the CNN network architecture and the fidelity of the features in the resulting denoised volume images. Unlike Wiener filtering, N2I is far more effective in removing pixel noise. Yet, these models give the vague impression that they might generate ghosts of small features (pores or spots) in the object. Image quality metrics like Fourier Shell Correlation and SNR2 power spectra show clear improvement. In particular, Noise2Inverse preserves the signal power spectrum of all scans reliably. Nevertheless, locally inspecting image features must remain a core technique when the CNN models are applied, i.e. for industrial inspection.
Glovebox-CT to Enable 3D Imaging of Reactive or Hazardous Samples
Authors:   diondo GmbH, Brierley Nick ,   diondo GmbH, Zanke Darius ,   diondo GmbH, Peche Luke ,   M. BRAUN Inertgas-Systeme GmbH, Habenschaden Peter
Published: January 2025

In the development of new technologies, sophisticated materials often require a highly pure inert atmospheres, for example with less than 1 ppm of oxygen and moisture. Additionally, special protection for operators is frequently necessary due to the health and environmental risks posed by these materials. To address this need, diondo and MBRAUN have been collaborating to develop an X-ray CT scanner system that allows reactive or hazardous materials to be scanned in a highly sealed inert atmosphere. The innovative setup merges a diondo CT system with an MBRAUN glovebox. With a leakage rate of Class 1 according to ISO 10684-2, the glovebox functions as an ultra-tight containment, ensuring the integrity and safety needed for handling challenging materials, whilst the radiation enclosure ensures operators and bystanders are protected from X-rays during scanning. Combining the two forms of containment with the X-ray imaging chain is non-trivial, especially considering sample manipulation, ergonomics and maintenance. This contribution will describe the solutions adopted to meet these challenges.
One-Shot Segmentation of Battery Cells with Gradual Learning
Authors:   Fraunhofer Research Institution for Individualized and Cell-Based Medical Engineering (IMTE), Engster Johann Christopher ,   Fraunhofer Research Institution for Individualized and Cell-Based Medical Engineering (IMTE), Blum Nele ,   Fraunhofer Research Institution for Individualized and Cell-Based Medical Engineering (IMTE), Hellwege Laura ,   Fraunhofer Research Institution for Individualized and Cell-Based Medical Engineering (IMTE), Buzug Thorsten M. ,   Fraunhofer Research Institution for Individualized and Cell-Based Medical Engineering (IMTE), Stille Maik
Published: January 2025

Due to the growing importance of electric vehicles and battery energy storage systems, battery safety must be ensured during and after production. One aspect is the visualization of inner structures, which can be achieved by computed tomography (CT) as a non-destructive testing (NDT) method. Deep-learning tools can learn and perform different image processing tasks in the obtained volume quickly. However, in most settings, generating labeled data needed to train these tools is expensive. Therefore, this work addresses the segmentation of anodes and cathodes in CT volumes through Gradual Learning (GL), a technique that requires a single annotated slice of the volume only. The technique exploits the high similarity between adjacent slices and is applied to both battery stack cells and cylindrical cells. For the stack cells, translational similarity is used, which resulted in an average gain of 0.09 Intersection over Union (IoU) points. For cylindrical cells, sequential segmentation along the rotated center slices is proposed. This led to a higher initial IoU of 0.78 vs. 0.73 for stack cells before GL application. While the IoU gain of 0.01 IoU points through GL was smaller for cylindrical cell types, the qualitative samples showed improvement as the remaining artifacts were removed.
Differentiable Few-view CT-Reconstruction for Arbitrary CT-Trajectories including Prior Knowledge
Authors:   University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Schneider Linda-Sophie ,   Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), Waldyra Adrian ,   University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Sun Yipeng ,   University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Maier Andreas K.
Published: January 2025

Computed tomography (CT) is widely used in non-destructive testing (NDT), but the increasing flexibility of robot-based CT systems often results in more sparse and unevenly distributed projection data. This sparsity introduces significant challenges in reconstructing high-quality images. This paper presents a novel two-step pipeline for few-view CT reconstruction that combines discrete prior generation with differentiable optimization. First, the Discrete Algebraic Reconstruction Technique generates a binary volume that provides robust prior information about the object’s structure. This prior is then integrated into a fully differentiable reconstruction framework through two distinct strategies: gradient update cropping, which focuses optimization on regions identified by the prior, and prior-informed initialization, which uses the binary volume to create an informed starting point. Together, these approaches guide the iterative refinement of the reconstruction using known operator learning. Experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate the efficacy of the approach. Compared to conventional methods, the proposed framework achieves significant improvements in reconstruction quality. The results highlight the method’s ability to leverage sparse projection data, providing high-quality reconstructions even in challenging industrial scenarios.
Safeguarding accuracy for CT imaging with industrial robots: Efficient calibration methods for arbitrary trajectories
Authors:   Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Weiss Anton ,   Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Wittl Simon ,   Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Herl Gabriel ,   Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Zabler Simon ,   University of Augsburg, Trauth Anna ,   University of Augsburg, Sause Markus G. R.
Published: January 2025

Conventional industrial computed tomography (CT) systems are constrained in their choice of acquisition trajectories due to their mechanical design. These systems are very precise instruments since they do only move on primarily highly accurate rotational stages. In order to be able to scan an arbitrary Region of Interest (ROI), regardless of the position, size and weight of the specimen, conventional industrial robots can be used as flexible 6 degrees of freedom (DOF) manipulators. For example in a twin robot computed tomography system, acquisition geometries with arbitrary tool poses can be realized. In scientific applications, the quality of the CT volume image is of primary interest, whereas in an industrial environment it is often a matter of balancing quality and acquisition time. Common industrial robots cannot achieve the required positional accuracy without calibration to generate an ideal reconstruction. In the presented study, methods for the geometric correction of CT scans are compared. Image based correction is compared to general machine calibration and full pose tracking by laser trackers. Image quality metrics such as the Modulation Transfer Function, Shannon entropy and Tenengrad variance are utilized to evaluate and compare the reconstruction quality of the various correction and calibration approaches. The assessment of the reconstruction quality revealed a comparable reconstruction quality between the approaches, with the machine calibration approach emerging as one of the best, while also reducing the time-intensive correction overhead.