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The image and the terrorist
Authors: Watts O.
Published: November 2024

A number of artists in America have been arrested and detained in the last few years on the suspicion of terrorism. Using Clinton Boisvert as a primary example this paper provides metapictures to explain the difficult job of defining and imaging ‘the terrorist’. Certain issues arise at the nexus of criminology and visual culture, in relation to terrorism. First, the visual representation of terrorism and the terrorist has become an important addition and a ‘dangerous supplement’, in Derridean terms, to anti-terrorist legislation. Visual culture has become a primary site in which legislative terms have been confronted both as concept and affect. Second, the site of collision, where art has been mistaken as the terrorist act, helps illustrate the relationship between sovereignty and outlaw, between friend and enemy and to use more recent parlance between the patriot and the terrorist. In addition to the written character of the law, the iconic character of the law, is also seen to be a site of negotiation for legal scholarship.
Would you like to play on the seesaw?
Authors: Lassonde Julie
Published: November 2024

I am a performance artist and a social justice lawyer. From 2014 to 2017, I developed a performance and installation series entitled Counterbalance, which involved a seesaw. The first phase of the series occurred at a law school and the second phase at a courthouse. In this essay, I share elements of my process creating the artwork and discoveries made through this process. More precisely, I examine how the Counterbalance series revealed the potential for traditional legal institutions to open up to a wider range of performances. I start by describing each project phase. Comparing these phases, I then move to what the Counterbalance series highlights about different legal spaces, their meaning and normative power. Finally, I explore strategies for further developing our understanding of performativity and capacity to deploy its potential within legal spaces.
Somewhere between being and doing, I understand performativity as a powerful capacity that human beings have, to assert their identity through action or to situate themselves within a normative framework while affirming, modifying, or challenging this framework through their actions. The Counterbalance series allowed me to use my performative skills to present a different take on how people can inhabit traditional legal spaces. The fact that a law school and a courthouse welcomed Counterbalance and were willing to go beyond what they had imagined could occur in their respective space comforts me. However, I am aware that my project involved producing discomfort. To reduce discomfort associated with different people behaving differently within legal spaces and make such spaces more inclusive, I suggest developing our performative skills through practices such as physical presence, listening and an emphasis on non-verbal language.
About Libraries: A Jurisographer’s Notes on Lives Lived With Law (in London and Sydney)
Authors: Genovese Ann
Published: November 2024

This essay, like much of my recent writing, is concerned with explaining how I go about my work, by reflecting on what I have inherited from others, how I have conducted my own practices over time as feminist, jurisprudent, and historian, and how those personae join together. The central thread of this self-consciously explanatory writing, and the histories of jurisprudence and feminism that accompanies it, is to make plain that the personae I inhabit when I write, as much as what I write about and how, have a literal genealogy, are a matter of inheritance, as much as reimagination. The purpose of addressing this as a central concern in my work is neither to offer ‘personal experience’, as a confessional or Romantic gloss, nor as a political device. It is to train myself in the activity of writing within the conduct of life tradition; and to imagine forms of writing adequate to the engagements I believe are a necessary part of my own life as a scholar in contemporary Australia (Genovese 2013; Genovese 2014).
Three Poems
Authors: Virr P.
Published: November 2024

Circumsolar Forgotten gods Are buried under the city. Fragments of their splendour Are recovered from the darkness In new foundations, An immortality forever incomplete, Displaced from the written surface Where temples have been overlaid With offices and houses....
Three Poems
Authors: Bay H.
Published: November 2024

Paganism CONSTELLATIONS BY WHICH TO steer the barque of the soul. "If the Moslem understood Islam he would become an idolworshipper" --Mahmud Shabestari. Eleggua, ugly opener of doors with a hook in his head & cowrie shells for eyes, black santeria cigar & glass of rum -- same as Ganesh, elephant-head fat boy of Beginnings who rides a mouse. The organ which senses the numinous atrophies with the senses. Those who cannot feel baraka cannot know the caress of the world. Hermes Poimandres taught the animation of eidolons, the magic in-dwelling of icons by spirits -- but those who cannot perform this rite on themselves & on the whole palpable fabric of material being will inherit only blues, rubbish, decay....
Mapping Australian Postcolonial Landscapes: From Resistance to Reconciliation?
Authors: Harris M.
Published: November 2024

From the earliest point of the white invasion of Australia the process of colonisation has been inextricably interwoven with an attempt to deny or erase any signs of Indigenous2 presence in the landscape. This article examines the manner in which the meanings accorded to space and place in post-colonial Australia are constructed. As Ashcroft et al (1997: 353) put it: ‘Place and displacement are crucial features of the postcolonial discourse.’ Importantly they emphasise the fact that the term place is not merely synonymous with landscape. There are a host of meanings that can be attributed to the writing of the stories of place in Australia. From the outset it should be noted that the experience of the settler societies can be distinguished from other colonial nations such as India or Jamaica, in that the colonisers have remained, there has been no return to the metropolitan centre. A consequence of the enduring presence of the colonisers is the fact that there remains disquietude, a tension between those who have been displaced and those who have replaced them. In seeking to explain how non-Indigenous Australians have sought to reconcile the erasure of Indigenous Australians from the Australian landscape and history W E Stanner, the eminent anthropologist, reflected that it is: … a view from a window which has been carefully placed to exclude a whole quadrant of the landscape. What may well have begun as a simple forgetting of other possible views turned under habit and over time into something like a cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale. We have been able for so long to disremember the aborigines that we are now hard put to keep them in mind even when we most want to do so (1972: 25).
‘Shoot the Boer’ – Hate Speech, Law and the Expediency of Sound
Authors: Erlmann Veit
Published: November 2024

In recent years, “Shoot the Boer” (“Dubul’ ibhunu”), a well-known protest song from the apartheid era, experienced an unexpected revival in the streets of South Africa—and the courts. The article traces the history of the intersection of the song and the law as it meandered through an intricate topography of cases, rules and regulations ranging from the common-law crime of high treason, apartheid “anti-terrorism” and “anti-communism” law, post-apartheid constitutional law and the Broadcasting Code of Conduct. In contrast to established judicial practice where hate speech is reduced to its verbal dimension and sound serves as an expedient and abject to be invoked and discarded at will, the article focuses on sound as an equally pertinent criterion for regulating expressions such as “Shoot the Boer.”
how are you today by the Manus Recording Project Collective
Authors: Parker James EK , Stern Joel
Published: November 2024

This essay is about how are you today, an artwork produced by six men then detained on Manus Island, along with their collaborators in Melbourne (together, the Manus Recording Project Collective). The work was commissioned in 2018 for an exhibition called Eavesdropping at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, at the University of Melbourne, the largest University-based museum in Australia. Each day for the fourteen weeks of the show, one of the men on Manus made a sound recording and sent it ‘onshore’ for swift upload to the gallery. By the exhibition’s end, there were eighty-four recordings in total, each ten minutes long. The result is an archive of fourteen hours—too large and diverse to synthesise, yet only a tiny fraction of the men’s indefinite internment. In this essay we introduce how are you today along with a series of reflections on it, including by two of the artists. We see our task as twofold. First, to document the work’s conception, production, and key realisations, both for the record and to spare the pieces that follow the trouble. Second, to offer a curatorial perspective in the process, since we were the ones who commissioned how are you today at the end of 2017.
Sound and Fury Signifying Brexit
Authors: Watt Gary
Published: November 2024

“Acoustic Jurisprudence” seeks to move our appreciation of the operation of sound in law beyond the merely metaphorical use of acoustic language to the audible quality of the soundscape itself. In this article, I connect the linguistic-metaphorical to the audible-sensory. My context is the ‘Brexit’ dispute as it has been played out in the UK Parliament, the UK Supreme Court, and elsewhere, especially as that dispute came to a crescendo on three occasions in the latter part of 2019. To describe those three occasions as moments of crescendo indicates that they can be appreciated as acoustic occasions, and specifically as acoustic occasions in a musical sense. The analogy of choral singing is the key musical analogy to which I will resort, not least in order to affirm the fundamentally important distinction between unison and harmony. To make peace after the discord of Brexit, we need to acknowledge that there can be no harmony when everybody sings the same tune. Harmony depends upon difference.
Manuel Quintín Lame: Legal Thought as Minor Jurisprudence
Authors: Lemaitre Julieta
Published: November 2024

Manuel Quintín Lame (1880-1967) was an indigenous peasant leader in southern Colombia who wrote profusely about law and justice, mostly petitions to authorities, but also open letters about land rights for his followers and sympathizers. He demanded collective land rights for the remaining indigenous peoples, based on a creative interpretation of existing statutory law, on a strategic use of neo-scholastic jurisprudence and on his own reported visions and hallucinations. Lame’s lawyering de-territorialized legal expertise by claiming to be both indigenous and a lawyer, performing that authority in tandem with appeals to poetry and emotion. In his alternative vision, the social contract is not a pact among equals, but instead a fragile armistice between an invading army and a vanquished people, justified in their disobedience by the very theory he challenges. Can Lame´s writings be read today as jurisprudence, in the intriguing mode of a minor jurisprudence? Perhaps: he is certainly speaking from a minor location, from a situated, historical subordinate position that uses the dominant language of law, its ideas and canon, not to represent or speak-for a group, but instead to destabilize the complacency of the majority, and suggest alternatives.
Visual Perceptions
Authors: Tzavaras A.
Published: November 2024

The most perplexing aspect of the ‘war through terror’ or the ‘war against terror’ is the imperceptibility of the enemy, the lack of a defined combat zone and a clear-cut border between ‘them’ and ‘us’ that creates a social anxiety interface in the interactive multicultural nature of the Australian ethos. The notion of terror as a strategy with the aim of affecting public opinion is aided by popular media, the nefarious images that metamorphose into the privacy of our home: scenes of torture, brutality and death, acts of willful profanity that undermine basic human and moral principles.
Iconistory
Authors: Bunt B.
Published: November 2024

Iconistory is software for representing complex historical events in highly simplified terms. More specifically, it enables the user to represent events as 32 x 32 pixel icons with short accompanying text descriptions. At one level it is intended as a piece of deadpan parody, adopting the guise of anonymous desktop software in order to push the current state of media to an absurd extreme. But also, in a less ironic fashion, it is concerned with discerning layers of hidden significance within the obvious and schematic.
Terrorist v Sovereign: Legal performances in a state of exception
Authors: Rogers N.
Published: November 2024

Stephen Sewell’s (2003) play Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America (hereinafter Myth) depicts the fate of Talbot, an Australian academic working in New York, whose outspoken criticism of American complacency in the post–September 11 environment is ruthlessly punished by a representative of the state known only as the Man. The task of the Man is to reveal to Talbot that he, Talbot, is blinded by myth and propaganda, in his case the myth of liberalism and its associated rhetoric of human rights, and that it is in fact violence and power which define truth in contemporary America. The Man identifies himself only as Talbot’s ‘ judge and jury’, his ‘confessor’, with the stated role of ‘facilitat[ing his] return to reality’ (Sewell 2003: 20).
Rites of passage?
Authors: McAllan F.
Published: November 2024

As legal discourse and legislation in Australia remains solidly weighted with representations of Indigenous subordination, I want to look closely at how the binary of recogniser/recognisee continues to operate using homogenous notions of national sovereignty and indigeneity. The assumption of a fixed foundation for the nation of Australia was grounded with sovereign legislation, ensuring its continuance with British law. In The Sovereign Event in a Nation’s Law, Motha (2003) points to the doctrine of tenure operating in the form of a ‘skeletal principle’ that enables the sovereign body to extend its expanding laws over a differing topography in order to preserve its sovereignty. Motha argues that the sovereign event is not unitary but split from the outset.
Data Mining on the Crawl Frontier: Metaphor in Cybernetic Capitalism
Authors: Ström Timothy Erik
Published: November 2024

This essay explores how the intangible operations of networked computing-machines are frequently described through tangible metaphors. After looking at their origins in military bureaucracies, this analysis steps through the material operations of Google’s famous search-engine, noting the various metaphors that are used to make sense of it, and the way they frequently draw on colonial and extractive imagery. I give an account of the company’s rise to power, emphasising how their immense profits became possible because of their control of intellectual property rights, as well as over the ‘terms and conditions’. Across this critical analysis, I show how these metaphors embody the dominant worldview of cybernetic capitalism and demonstrate how they serve as ways to cope with the extreme abstractions increasingly enmesh us.
Metaphor, Marx, Agamben and International Law: The Jamaican Quashee/ Quasheeba, the Necessity of Labour, and the Subjectivity of Emancipated Slaves
Authors: Bikundo Edwin
Published: November 2024

In the Grundrisse Karl Marx wrote of how what ‘was the living worker's activity becomes the activity of the machine’ and that ‘the appropriation of labor by capital confronts the worker in a coarsely sensuous form; capital absorbs labor into itself – “as though its body were by love possessed”’. Marx drew this metaphorical quotation from Goethe’s Faust literarily describing a poisoned swollen-bellied dying rat. The line mattered enough to Marx (and Engels) to be present too in the first volume of Capital. What work this metaphorization does and how it indirectly relates to Giorgio Agamben’s enigmatic notion of inoperativity (also translated as inactivity, or inoperativeness and referencing human potential as incorporating both the capacity to do and the capacity not to do) is the central task of this paper. The paper argues that the abstracted notion of the emancipated slave who is not inclined to work for money but only works as is necessary was proffered by Marx, and is also proffered by Agamben, as an exemplary metaphorical model for general emancipation. If this is true, it would place the material conditions necessary for both Marx’s and Agamben’s theorisations in the concrete context of the Jamaican Quashees of the 19th Century Caribbean, and neither in classical antiquity (a fact relevant to the charge, unfounded or not, of Agamben’s Eurocentrism), nor in biblical exegesis (a fact relevant to the charge, unfounded or not, of Agamben’s mysticism).
Review Essay - At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror
Authors: Laforteza Elaine
Published: November 2024

I remember my first reading of the inspiring anthology, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color (1983) at the recommendation of a university professor. This anthology, edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, gave voice to the feelings of displacement I encountered as a Filipina migrant to a settler nationstate like Australia. Although I read this book twenty years after the first edition was published, the stories, poetry, and illustrations etched across its pages spoke of what I was never encouraged to admit as a Filipino immigrant to Australia: that is, being a racialised female was something that merited acknowledgement, not derision, apathy or effacement. The anthology was a call to arms that deployed a communal invitation to stand up, speak out, and redress the ongoing colonial and imperial acts of violence that reduced ‘women of color’ as ‘less than’, even within supposedly pro-women feminist spaces. In her chapter, ‘Speaking In Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers’, Anzaldúa begins with ‘Dear mujeres de color’ (women of color) (1983: 165), already positioning this anthology as a text that negotiates and challenges the normative English-language centrism of the academe and white, western feminist spaces.
Alex & I: In proximity to the Other of politics
Authors: Sivanesan Sumugan
Published: November 2024

For a brief period of time Sanjeev ‘Alex’ Kuhendrarajah gained international notoriety as the self-styled spokesperson for 254 Sri Lankan Tamils who refused to disembark from a small wooden cargo boat, KM Jeya Lestari 5, docked off the Indonesian port of Merak from October 2009. The boat, which was detected by Australian authorities while floundering in international waters off the Sunda Strait, was intercepted by the Indonesian navy at the request of the then Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd. The charismatic asylum seeker, who introduced himself as Alex at a dockside press conference, quickly became a favourite with journalists for his command of English and his ‘raw and defiant’ manner (Allard 2009).
Untitled
Authors: Kelly Elaine
Published: November 2024

The function of a title, as Jacques Derrida tells us, circumscribes, borders, orients, locates, and contains; it becomes ‘a code of legibility’ (Derrida 1986: 197). When we give something a title, we attempt to centre the capacity of the author to determine meaning in the content. In a word – ‘anchored’, ‘unanchored’, ‘home’, ‘bounded’, ‘horizons’ – the author (I) can ease the reader into a text, give them a sense of meaning and purpose. 'A title takes place only on the border of a work: were it only to let itself be incorporated in the corpus it entitles, were it only to be a part, like one of its internal elements or one of its pieces, it would no longer play the role of having title-value. Were it completely outside, detached and separated from the body by a distance greater than that which the law, right, and code ordain, there would be no more title' (Derrida 1986, 197).
Hospitality and Maternal Consent
Authors: Lymer Jane , Utley Fiona
Published: November 2024

'Law is not justice. Law is the element of calculation, and it is just that there be law, but justice is incalculable, it demands that one calculate with the incalculable; and aporetic experiences are the experiences, as improbable as they are necessary, of justice, that is to say of moments in which the decision between just and unjust is never insured by a rule' (Derrida 2010: 244). There is a growing literature outlining deep concerns that a woman’s basic right to give informed consent and, consequently, the capacity to determine what happens to her body, that is, herself, in the course of her own medical care, is being compromised. Covering a range of jurisdictions, but in particular reflecting on the US situation, concerns range from a perceived extortion of consent from uninformed and often unwilling women (Baker 2009-2010), to accusations of the perpetuation of violence against women by the obstetric profession as a whole (Charles 2011), and, in some cases, obstetricians and hospitals are choosing to request court orders to perform medical interventions that override an autonomous women’s informed consent on the basis of a growing conception of ‘foetal rights’. These moral rights are situated as being in perceived conflict with a woman’s legal right to decide what happens to her body and, increasingly, there is medical and political pressure being bought to bear upon the law to attend to this moral dilemma in a range of cases.
An Australian
Authors: Leong H.
Published: November 2024

[photo-essay on being Australian]
‘Swansong’ and ‘ Losing Yourself’: meditations on life, death and the liminal
Authors: Duhaime Cristal
Published: November 2024

This article considers two very personal audio documentaries that reflect on love and identity via the liminal space between life and death. Swansong, by award-winning UK radio producer Hana Walker-Brown, is set in a hospital, as Hana and her father bear witness to her grandmother’s dying and celebrate her joyful life. Losing Yourself, by US producer Ibby Caputo, is a revelatory account of dealing with a cancer diagnosis.
Swansong is a picture of a person fondly remembered but Hana elevates it beyond eulogy into a multi-layered meditation. Her grandmother Joan’s voice flutters in and out of ethereal recreations of the jazz hall parties of her youth. Waves of drone and sparkle transition us from one spirit world to the next. Rhythms are made of Joan’s breath, bringing us back to the body; to earth.
In Losing Yourself, Ibby Caputo interweaves audio diaries and retrospective narration to create a vivid picture of a young person coping with the unexpected threat of imminent death. An audio diary objectively documents and leaves ample subjective space for the listener. And for that authenticity it remains one of the more powerful forms in radio.
Whereas Swansong builds its experience through layers, the emotional intensity of Losing Yourself comes from its bareness. We are invited into an eavesdropping experience made all the more uncomfortable because of the stripped-down production of the piece: there are no music swells to escape into, no montages to distract. When all is stripped to the bone and made bare, we might indeed see/hear ourselves for who we actually are.
Intimate Moments: Dispelling the Cancer Myth with Real Life - Summer Rain by Nanna Hauge Kristensen.
Authors: Townsend Sophie
Published: November 2024

Nanna Hauge Kristensen’s Summer Rain is a small piece in length and in scope. It is intimate, almost fragmentary. It is simply a story of a woman, who is a mother, and a daughter, and who has cancer; a woman undergoing treatment, and raising her child, and dealing with the ramifications of what cancer treatment means. An anthropologist by training, Kristensen’s observational, almost distanced approach style, allows us to glimpse her life, but also to feel it. There is something very empirical about what she’s doing in this piece, and she allows us no room to pretend that her cancer is anything more than an illness with its repercussions, its difficulties and its pain. Its power lies in the size of its canvas, its observational mood, and its rawness.
Listening to our Inner Breath: the Acoustic Architecture of Avec le Vent (With the Wind)
Authors: Romero Laura
Published: November 2024

Avec Le Vent (With the Wind) is a radio art composition directed, edited and mixed by Jeanne Debarsy, about the story of exile and memories of three Armenian people living in Brussels and Paris. This review is an attempt to describe how the author breaks with verbal discourse to create an experience of transportation for listeners, through the musical use of layers of breaths coming from the characters and the sound effects caused by instruments of wind, such as the duduk, a potent symbol of Armenia. It is a poetic approach to the experience of uprooting and the need to return to roots, which is still present today: a story that keeps repeating itself, like the zig-zag of the wind, the waves of the sea... the sound of our breath.
Nigeria's Untold Stories at a Moment of Change: An interview with audio storyteller FayFay
Authors: Wincott Abigail
Published: November 2024

Odudu Efe, known as FayFay, is a Lagos-based audio producer and sound designer and also the founder of NaijaPod Hub, a network dedicated to supporting audio producers and promoting high quality audio storytelling in Nigeria. This interview with FayFay shows how her career in many ways reflects the challenges and promise of Nigerian audio storytelling at this moment in time. Like many freelancers, she takes on branding and imaging, tidies up sound and produces studio-based talk podcasts. But increasingly she’s being commissioned to work on complex historical documentaries and documentary-dramas. And this for FayFay is key, because like others in her field, she now wants to tell Nigerian stories that have too long gone untold – or too long been told by outsiders – and she wants to tell them in creative and absorbing ways that ‘chatcasts’ cannot satisfy. FayFay’s work draws on globally recognisable documentary conventions but also incorporates Nigerian TV and film sound tropes, in what might prove to be an emerging Nigerian audio-documentary style. She remains frustrated by the tendency for so many in the media to hide away in studios, when a roving microphone in the hands of a greater range of people might better capture the richness of lived experience in this hyper-diverse country.
The Dead Poet and the Non Artist: A Review of Notes on a Scandal
Authors: Hanif Mohammed
Published: November 2024

Fifty years ago a famous poet Mustafa Zaidi receives his lover and muse Shahnaz Gul in his apartment in Karachi. The next day he is found dead; she is unconscious. Gul is charged with murder and her trial becomes a main distraction from an impending war. Tooba Masood and Saba Imtiaz tried to piece together a social history of seventies Pakistan in what is now the country's first true crime podcast.
One story, told week by week: episodic podcast storytelling and The Habitat
Authors: De Beauvoir Charlotte
Published: November 2024

The rise and success of podcasting introduced episodic storytelling in the world of non-fiction sound narrative. Delivering a story in different entries is very different from producing a one-off piece. What concrete implications does this have for the narrative? And what keeps an audience listening to a podcast, episode through episode? This article offers some answers to these questions via a case study of The Habitat, a 2018 podcast by the American network Gimlet.
Say It Louder For The People In The Back: A Review of NPR Music’s Louder Than A Riot
Authors: Fox Kim
Published: November 2024

National Public Radio’s Louder Than A Riot billed itself as investigating “rhyme and punishment in America”. At a glance, it might appear as if this could be a short series podcast with 1-2 episodes, but the podcast managed to eek out 11 narrative nonfiction stories in the later half of 2020. The podcast is focused on carceral capitalism, which has been around since before the privatisation of the prison system in the US, and the collision with hip hop. However, it’s not the number of episodes that make this podcast stand out, but the depth of each case that is thoroughly examined.
Radio Drama Takeover 2: Claybourne
Authors: McMurtry Leslie
Published: November 2024

By building a sense of community and creating a unique storyworld through imagination, Claybourne (1998) was also a harbinger of things to come. The “proudly New Zealand” serialized radio drama, broadcast on commercial radio, was designed as stealth drama for its radio station’s demographic. Reborn as an audio drama in the digital age, Claybourne anticipated many of the qualities that have characterized some of the most popular podcast dramas of recent years.
Destination Unknown: Yvette Janine Jackson’s “Freedom”
Authors: Mindel Gabriel
Published: November 2024

In the wake of 2020's unprecedented protests for racial justice, electroacoustic composer Yvette Janine Jackson released Freedom, a collection of two experimental radio operas exploring the Middle Passage and its wake. Inspired in part by the mid-century radio plays produced by Richard Durham, Johnson’s work offers a counterpoint to his affirming narratives of Black achievement and contributions to American history. By contrast, Jackson explores the hidden and murky depths of Black freedom struggles, collapsing the past and the present into melancholic and mysterious compositions that push the limits of genre.
Variasi Ukuran Kerang Hijau (Perna viridis) Di Pesisir Tambak Lorok,Semarang
Authors: Hakim Ghani Hakim , Taufiq-Spj Nur , Redjeki Sri
Published: November 2024

Kerang hijau (Perna viridis) merupakan salah satu kerang yang hidup di daerah estuari, teluk, dan daerah mangrove yang memiliki substrat pasir berlumpur dengan salinitas yang sedikit lebih rendah. Kerang hijau merupakan salah satu kerang yang mampu bertahan hidup dan berkembang biak pada tekanan ekologis yang tinggi tanpa gangguan dan tanpa persediaan pakan. Kerang hijau tersebar luas di wilayah perairan Indonesia dan spesiesnya melimpah di wilayah pesisir, mangrove, dan muara sungai. Kawasan Tambak Lorok Kecamatan Semarang Utara merupakan wilayah pesisir di wilayah Pantai Utara. Daerah tersebut memiliki sumberdaya hayati berupa kerang hijau (Perna viridis). Adanya perbedaan ukuran panjang, tebal cangkang, dan berat daging dipengaruhi oleh kondisi perairan dan waktu pemijahan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mengetahui variasi morfometri ukuran kerang hijau (Perna viridis). Metode yang digunakan pada penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif eksploratif. Hasil perhitungan hubungan panjang dan berat kerang hijau (P.viridis) dari Sampel pertama dan kedua memiliki nilai konstanta b<3 yang berarti allometrik negatif yaitu pertumbuhan panjang lebih dominan daripada pertumbuhan berat. Hasil pengukuran menunjukkan ukuran panjang, tebal cangkang, dan berat daging P.viridis beragam pada setiap stasiun pengambilan sampel. Frekuensi kehadiran P.viridis dalam berbagai ukuran selama dua Sampel pada dua stasiun tersebut juga bervariasi,selalu ada perbedaan ukuran P.viridis yang di ambil dari perairan Tambak Lorok. Green mussel (Perna viridis) is one of the shellfish that live in estuaries, bays and mangrove areas which have muddy sand substrates with slightly lower salinity. Green mussel is one of the shellfish that are able to survive and reproduce under high ecological pressure without disturbance and without food supplies. Green mussel is widespread in Indonesian waters and the species is abundant in coastal areas, mangroves and river estuaries. The Tambak Lorok area, North Semarang District, is a coastal area in the North Coast region. This area has biological resources in the form of green mussel (Perna viridis). The differences in length, shell thickness and meat weight are influenced by water conditions and spawning time. The aim of this research is to determine the morphometric variations in size of green mussel (Perna viridis). The method used in this research uses an exploratory descriptive method. The results of calculating the relationship between length and weight of green mussel (P.viridis) from the first and second Sample have a constant value of b<3 which means negative allometric meaning that length growth is more dominant than weight growth. The measurement results showed that the length, shell thickness and meat weight of P.viridis varied at each sampling station. The frequency of presence of P. viridis in various sizes during the two Sample at the two stations also varied, there was always a difference in the size of P. viridis taken from Tambak Lorok waters.
Morfometri dan Hubungan Panjang Berat Kerang Batik (Paphia textile) dari TPI Kerang Bungo Kabupaten Demak Jawa Tengah
Authors: Prihindrasto Hafizh , Setyati Wilis Ari , Nuraini Ria Azizah Tri
Published: November 2024

Kerang Batik (Paphia textile) merupakan komoditas yang berpotensi dalam pertumbuhan ekonomi dan penyedia nutrisi yang baik bagi masyarakat. TPI Kerang Bungo yang berada di Kabupaten Demak, merupakan salah satu penyedia kerang batik. Penelitian tentang morfometri dan hubungan panjang berat kerang batik masih sangat jarang ditemukan. Penelitian bertujuan untuk mengukur dan mengetahui kelas panjang, berat dan lebar serta mengetahui hubungan panjang berat kerang batik dari TPI Kerang Bungo. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode deskriptif kuantitatif. Sebanyak 257 individu sampel kerrang batik diambil secara random. Pengukuran panjang dan lebar cangkang menggunakan kaliper dengan ketelitian 0,01 mm dan penimbangan berat total dengan menggunakan timbangan digital dengan ketelitian 0,01 gr. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa panjang maksimal kerrang batik adalah 53,9 mm dan minimal 35,8 mm dengan rata-rata 49,85 mm. Berat maksimal yang didapatkan 14,61 gr. dan berat minimal 3,84 gram dengan rata-rata 9,21 gr. Lebar maksimal yang didapatkan 32,9 mm dan minimal 18,1 mm dengan rata-rata 28,2 mm. Hasil perhitungan kelas panjang, kelas berat dan kelas lebar pada Kerang Batik (Paphia textile) menghasilkan 9 kelas. Interval pada kelas panjang sebesar 2,02 mm, interval pada kelas berat sebesar 1,20 gr. dan interval pada kelas lebar sebesar 1,65 mm. Hubungan panjang berat Kerang Batik (Paphia textile) memiliki persamaan  dengan nilai b sebesar 2,2725 sehingga pertumbuhan kerang batik bersifat alometri negatif.  Carpet Clam (Paphia textile) is one of the potential commodities for economic growth and nutrition resources for community. Bungo Fish and Clam Auction Market in Demak Regency is one of supplier of carpet clam. Research about carpet clam morphometric is still rare to find. This research aims to measures and know about length, weight and wide also length-weight relation of carpet clam from Bungo Fish and Clam Auction Market. Descriptive quantitative method is used in this research and 257 individu of clam were sampled randomly. Length and wide measured by a calipher with 0,01 mm accuracy and weight measured by a scale with 0,01 gram accuracy. The result of research showed that the maximum length of the clam is 53,9 mm and minimum length is 35,8 mm with average of 49,85 mm. Maximum weight as resulted is 14,61 gram and minimum weight is 3,84 grams with average of 9,21 gram. Maximum wide as resulted is 32,9 mm and minimum is 18,1 mm with average of 28,2 mm. Class of length, weight and wide of Carpet Clam (Paphia textile) divided by 9 class. Length class interval is 2,02 mm, weight class interval is 1,20 gram and wide class interval is 1,65 mm. The length-weight relation of Carpet Clam (Paphia textile) has an equation by  with b value is 2,275 with result that carpet clam growth is negative allometric.
Analisis Morfometrik Siput Lola (Rochia nilotica L.) di Pulau Enggano, Bengkulu dan Pulau Sumbawa, Nusa Tenggara Barat
Authors: Utami Risnita Tri , Nasir Muhhamad , Hardono Ichtineza Halida , Pardiansyah Dedi , Triandiza Teddy , Nurhabib Asro
Published: November 2024

Lola snails (Rochia nilotica L.) are economical marine biota that can be found in tropical coral reef areas spread across the Indo-Pacific region including Indonesia. However, over the past few decades it has been overexploited. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the growth patterns and condition factors of lola snails in Bengkulu and West Nusa Tenggara waters. Data were collected in July-August 2024 in Enggano Island, Bengkulu and Pasaran Island and Kaung Island, West Nusa Tenggara using purpossive sampling method. The total number of lola snails obtained was 103 individuals with a diameter of 63.85-113.9 mm; height 67.7-113.22 mm' and weight 102-496 g. The length-weight relationship in Enggano Island, Bengkulu with a value of W = 0.000147L3.1947, Pasaran Island, NTB is W = 0.10649L 2.2378, and Kaung Island (NTB) with a value of W = 0.002221L2.6166.  The results of this study indicate that the growth pattern of lola snails on Enggano Island is a positive allometric model which means that weight growth is faster than height growth. While the growth pattern of lola snails on Pasaran Island and Kaung Island is a negative allometric model which means that height growth is faster than weight growth. The condition factor is 1.0048-1.0130, indicating that the Bengkulu and West Nusa Tenggara regions are still a suitable environment for the growth of lola snail.
Comprehensive overview of host plant resistance and its progress in wilt resistance in castor bean (Ricinus communis L.)
Authors: Hari Haran R , Venkatachalam S R , Arutchenthil P , Saravanan P A , Natarajan S K
Published: November 2024

Castor bean, a non-edible monotypic species known for its unique hydroxy fatty acid, is susceptible to a range of pathogens. Wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ricini is the most complex and destructive disease. Chemical control of wilt has proven ineffective due to the systemic nature of the disease and the seed and soil borne nature of the pathogen. Physical, chemical, biological, and integrated management methods have shown only limited success in controlling wilt. Host plant resistance, however, stands out as the most promising strategy, offering a viable pathway for the genetic improvement of castor beans for wilt resistance. Screening techniques are well established, and several resistant donors have already been identified. While significant progress has been made in understanding the inheritance of wilt resistance, a complete understanding of its genetic mechanisms still requires further research. Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) markers and genomic regions linked to wilt resistance have been successfully identified. Reniform nematode (Rotylenchulus reniformis) has been identified as a predisposing factor for wilt, and genomic regions linked to nematode resistance have also been identified. However, Marker-assisted selection has not yet been utilized to develop wilt-resistant castor varieties. Further research is required to explore the pathogen diversity, host-pathogen interactions, and mechanisms underlying wilt resistance including the metabolites responsible for preventing the emergence of new pathogenic races and ensuring long-term protection against wilt.
Bark ringing in fruit crops - A review
Authors: Nithiya S S , Saraswathy S , Rajamanickam C , Vijayasamundeeswari A , Anitha T
Published: November 2024

Bark ringing or Girdling, a horticultural technique involving the removal of a strip of bark around the trunk or branches of fruit trees, has been widely studied and utilized to influence various aspects of fruit crop management. This practice primarily enhances fruit production, regulates canopy growth, and improves fruit quality. By interrupting the downward flow of nutrients and hormones, girdling can stimulate root development in hardwood cuttings and modify vegetative growth patterns. For instance, it has effectively reduced canopy shoot growth in vigorous apple cultivars, thereby improving fruit yield and quality. Additionally, girdling techniques such as notching and scoring control shoot growth and promote scaffold development in young trees. The method also has implications for nutrient distribution, as it can impact the formation of callus tissue and affect recovery processes. Despite its benefits, girdling can lead to undesirable outcomes, such as basal sprouting below the girdle. This abstract summarizes the critical applications, effects and considerations of girdling in fruit crop management, highlighting its role in optimizing fruit production and tree health.
In silico prediction of the pharmacological potential of new 7-alkyl-8-hydrazine derivatives of 1,3-dimethylxanthine
Authors: Mosula L. M. , Mosula V. S. , Korobko D. B.
Published: November 2024

The development of new drug-like molecules based on 7-R-8-hydrazine derivatives of 1,3-dimethylxanthine is promising in view of the known pharmacological effect of theophylline and functional hydrazine derivatives. In silico methods make it possible to rationalize the synthesis and reduce the number of chemical compounds at the stage of virtual screening by eliminating potentially ineffective molecules.
The aim of the work was to carry out а virtual design and predictive evaluation of pharmacological activity of new 7-alkyl-8-hydrazine derivatives of 1,3-dimethylxanthine by in silico methods.
Materials and methods. To perform in silico prediction of the pharmacological potential of several new 7-alkyl-8-hydrazine derivatives of 1,3-dimethylxanthine, we used the online services. As 12 model compounds, we chose 12 derivatives of 5-(2-(1,3-dimethyl-2,6-dioxo-2,3,6,7-tetrahydro-1H-purin-8-yl)hydrazine)-5-phenylpentanoic acid with linear and branched alkyl substituents at the 7th position of the basic heterocycle: methyl-, ethyl-, n-propyl-, n-butyl, i-butyl, n-amyl, i-amyl, n-hexyl, n-heptyl, n-octyl, n-nonyl, n-decyl. The use of the freely available web tool SwissADME made it possible to calculate physicochemical parameters and to determine the drug-likeness properties of molecules. And other Internet platforms allowed to predict the spectrum of biological activity of the target compounds.
Results. In silico analysis of the pharmacological potential of model compounds was performed. Three biological actions (peripheral vasodilator, kidney function stimulant, lipoprotein lipase inhibitor) with high Pa values are predicted for all derivatives of the series. The ADME parameters of the molecules were evaluated and their potential drug-like properties were determined.
Conclusions. It was established that the extension of the alkyl substituent at the 7th position of the basic heterocycle should lead to a deterioration of the ADME parameters of the molecules, potentially reduce their oral bioavailability, but should not radically affect their biological activity profile. Compounds 1–3 and 5 are predicted to be orally bioavailable. They should be characterized by a wide spectrum of biological activity with the highest probability of vasodilator effect on peripheral vessels. In the future, it is advisable to carry out targeted synthesis of hit compounds and thorough in vitro, in vivo studies, and for compounds with violated physicochemical criteria – structural optimization of molecules in order to find a lead compound.
Cloud Actor-Oriented Database Transactions in Orleans
Authors: Eldeeb Tamer , Burckhardt Sebastian , Bond Reuben , Cidon Asaf , Yang Junfeng , Bernstein Philip A.
Published: November 2024

Microsoft Orleans is a popular open source distributed programming framework and platform which invented the virtual actor model, and has since evolved into an actor-oriented database system with the addition of database abstractions such as ACID transactions. Properties of Orleans' virtual actor model imply that any ACID transaction mechanism for operations spanning multiple actors must support distributed transactions on top of pluggable cloud storage drivers. Unfortunately, distributed transactions usually perform poorly in this environment, partly because of the high performance and contention overhead of performing two-phase commit (2PC) on slow cloud storage systems.

In this paper we describe the design and implementation of ACID transactions in Orleans. The system uses two primary techniques to mask the high latency of cloud storage and enable high transaction throughput. First, Orleans pioneered the use of a distributed form of
early lock release
by releasing all of a transaction's locks during phase one of 2PC, and by tracking commit dependencies to implement cascading abort. This avoids blocking transactions while running 2PC and enables a distributed form of
group commit.
Second, Orleans leverages
reconnaissance queries
to prefetch the state of all actors involved in a transaction from cloud storage prior to running the transaction and acquiring any locks, thus ensuring no locks are held while blocking on high latency cloud storage in most cases.
A Flexible Forecasting Stack
Authors: Januschowski Tim , Wang Yuyang , Gasthaus Jan , Rangapuram Syama , Türkmen Caner , Zschiegner Jasper , Stella Lorenzo , Bohlke-Schneider Michael , Maddix Danielle , Benidis Konstantinos , Alexandrov Alexander , Faloutsos Christos , Schelter Sebastian
Published: November 2024

Forecasting extrapolates the values of a time series into the future, and is crucial to optimize core operations for many businesses and organizations. Building machine learning (ML)-based forecasting applications presents a challenge though, due to non-stationary data and large numbers of time series. As there is no single dominating approach to forecasting, forecasting systems have to support a wide variety of approaches, ranging from deep learning-based methods to classical methods built on probabilistic modelling.

We revisit our earlier work on a monolithic platform for forecasting from VLDB 2017, and describe how we evolved it into a modern forecasting stack consisting of several layers that support a wide range of forecasting needs and automate common tasks like model selection. This stack leverages our open source forecasting libraries
GluonTS
and
AutoGluon-TimeSeries
, the scalable ML platform
SageMaker
, and forms the basis of the no-code forecasting solutions (
SageMaker Canvas
and
Amazon Forecast
), available in the Amazon Web Services cloud. We give insights into the predictive performance of our stack and discuss learnings from using it to provision resources for the cloud database services DynamoDB, Redshift and Athena.
Large-Scale Metric Computation in Online Controlled Experiment Platform
Authors: Xiong Tao , Wang Yong
Published: November 2024

Online controlled experiment (also called A/B test or experiment) is the most important tool for decision-making at a wide range of data-driven companies like Microsoft, Google, Meta, etc. Metric computation is the core procedure for reaching a conclusion during an experiment. With the growth of experiments and metrics in an experiment platform, computing metrics efficiently at scale becomes a non-trivial challenge. This work shows how metric computation in WeChat experiment platform can be done efficiently using bit-sliced index (BSI) arithmetic. This approach has been implemented in a real world system and the performance results are presented, showing that the BSI arithmetic approach is very suitable for large-scale metric computation scenarios.