bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
“Kemampuan Tanaman Hias Hidrofit (Elodea Canadensis) dalam Menurunkan Kadar Kromium (Cr) pada Limbah Cair Industri PT. Sermani Steel” di Makassar”
Authors: Fadlya Tisa Nurul , Hamsir Hamsir
Published: October 2019

Pencemaran air adalah masuk atau dimasukkannya makhluk hidup, zat, energi dan atau komponen lain ke dalam air atau berubahnya tatanan air oleh kegiatan manusia atau oleh proses alam, sehingga kualitas air turun sampai ke tingkat tertentu yang menyebabkan air menjadi kurang atau sudah tidak berfungsi lagi sesuai dengan peruntukannya. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui kemampuan tanaman hias hidrofit (Elodea Canadensis) dalam menurunkan kadar logam berat Krom (Cr) pada limbah cair industri. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian eksperimen, sampel dalam penelitian ini adalah air limbah 20 liter yang mengandung kadar logam berat Krom (Cr) yang dipaparkan dengan tanaman Elodea Canadensis dengan biomassa 250 gr dan 350 gr selama 14 hari. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa tanaman Elodea Canadensis pada biomAssa 250 gr dengan volume 20 liter mengalami penurunan kadar krom (Cr) sebesar 85,225 dengan persentase 20,30%. Sedangkan pada biomassa 350 gr dengan volume 20 liter mengalami penurunan kadar krom (Cr) sebesar 184,450 dengan persentase 43,95%. Adanya penurunan kadar logam berat krom (Cr) pada air limbah dikarenakan kemampuan tanaman Elodea Canadensis dalam menyerap kadar logam berat melalui akar dan seluruh tubuhnya karena karena Elodea Canadensis memiliki kutikula sangat tipis yang memudahkan pengambilan logam berat dari air. Kesimpulan menunjukkan bahwa tanaman Elodea Canadensis dapat menyerap kadar logam berat Krom (Cr) limbah cair industri untuk mencegah terjadinya pencemaran lingkungan.Kata kunci : Tanaman Elodea Canadensis, logam berat Krom (Cr), limbah cair industri
KONDISI SANITASI KOLAM RENANG JE’NE TALLASA SILEO DESA PARAIKATTE KECAMATAN BAJENG KABUPATEN GOWA
Authors: Widiyanti Widiyanti , Ruhban Andi
Published: October 2019

Kolam renang merupakan tempat umum yang harus mendapatkan pengawasan dan perhatian sanitasi, karena memiliki potensi sebagai tempat terjadinya penularan penyakit, pencemaran lingkungan, atau gangguan kesehatan lainnya.                                  Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui kondisi sanitasi Kolam Renang Je’ne tallasa Sileo Desa Paraikatte Kecamatan Bajeng Kabupaten Gowa. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan bersifat observasional dengan pendekatan secara deskriptif yang akan memberikan gambaran tentang kondisi sanitasi kolam renang Je’ne tallasa Siloe.                                                                                                                                                            Dari hasil penelitian kolam renang Je’ne tallasa Sileo untuk keseluruhan variabel diperoleh hasil 89%. Adapun variabel untuk persyaratan kesehatan lingkungan memperoleh hasil 74%, persyaratan kesehatan kamar/ruang 88% dan fasilitas sanitasi 76% dari variabel ketiga tersebut telah memenuhi standar akan tetapi untuk variabel karyawan memperoleh 0% dan kualitas air kolam 9% ini berarti hasil tersebut tidak memenuhi standar.                                                                                                             Kesimpulan penelitian adalah kolam renang Je’ne tallasa sileo Desa Paraiksatte Kecamatan Bajeng Kabupaten Gowa tidak laik sehat menurut Permenkes 32 Tahun 2017. Saran sebaiknya pengelola kolam renang memperhatikan kondisi sanitasi, melakukan pemeriksaan bakteriologis secara berkala dan bagi peneliti selanjutnya meneliti lebih lanjut mengenai pengaruh perilaku pengunjung akan kualitas kolam renang.Kata Kunci : Sanitasi Kolam Renang
AKUNTABILITAS PUBLIK PENGADAAN BARANG/JASA PEMERINTAH SECARA ELEKTRONIK (E-PROCUREMENT) DI PEMERINTAH DAERAH DAERAH ISTIMEWA YOGYAKARTA
Authors: Nugroho Yanuar Siswo , Zulkifli Zulkifli
Published: October 2019

E-Procurement has animportant role in the implementation of development. Although the e-Procurement in the regional government of the special region of Yogyakarta has been done, however, it is often an instrument that is theoretically good, but in its implementation still has weaknesses and obstacles.The aim of this research is to analyze public accountability of e-Procurement. The instrument that used in this study is accountability dimensions of Koppell and the principles of procurement of goods or services are based on Presidential Regulation Number 16 of 2018. The object of this research is the e-Procurement in the LPSE and ULP Units in the regional government of the special region of Yogyakarta. This study uses a qualitative approach. The research data was obtained through interviews and documentation studies. The results of the study indicate that the implementation of e-Procurement in the regional government of the special region of Yogyakarta has implemented the principle of effective efficiency and open competition and non-discriminatory. The achievement of public accountability in the implementation of e-Procurement in the regional government of the special region of Yogyakarta in general has also been going well.
PENGARUH KEDISIPLINAN KERJA DAN KINERJA KARYAWAN TERHADAP PENERAPAN TOTAL QUALITY MANAJEMEN DI OEMAH DJOWO CLASSIC OTO RESTO YOGYAKARTA
Authors: Hadipranata Qurrata A’yunina C.
Published: October 2019

Quality is a major factor in order to survive in the business’s competition. So the quality being the main things that should be done by each company. In order to increase the quality of human resources, corporate can implement total quality management (TQM), by which an employee should do a job better, more effective and more efficient in producing the products with high quality. This research was aimed to know the influence of working discipline, working performance and the implementation of total quality management (TQM) at Oemah Djowo Classic Oto Resto Yogyakarta.This research method used is the quantitative approach. The populations in this research were 40 people and all were respondents. The result showed that working discipline and working performance has a significant influence for the implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM) at Oemah Djowo Classic Oto Resto Yogyakarta.
Characteristic of Protein Hydrolyzate Starch of Snakehead Fish (Channa Striata) Head
Authors: Tartar Sri Udayana , Mahendradatta M , Mursalim Prof , Adiansyah Prof
Published: October 2019

The making of protein hydrolyzate of snakehead fish head by using spray drying method and it is encapsulated with maltodextrin in which a final product in the form of starch is expected to ease the process of storage and extend the shelf-life of the product. This research was aimed to determine the quality of protein hydrolyzate starch of snakehead fish head with inlet temperature treatment of spray drying 1200C and outlet temperature of 800C and the addition of maltodextrin. The design used is independent t-test. It was conducted to compare the average value of sample composition. Experimental data were processed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) 21.0 for Windows. The best treatment from the research is a comparison of snakehead fish starch and maltodextrin 95%:5%. The characteristic of physicochemical of snakehead fish starch as produced in the form of white starch with a yield of 21.35%, white degree L 97.73, water content 4.52%, ash 7.92%, protein 75.25%, fat 0.60%. Based on this, the protein hydrolyzate of snakehead fish head has the potential to be applied as a flavoring or flavor enhancer and it can be developed as a source of essential amino acids in food products because they contain almost complete essential amino acids.
Dental Visit, Dental Diseases, and Dental Therapist Pattern in The Implementation of NHI at Private Clinics
Authors: Heningtyas Afina Hasnasari , Dewanto Iwan
Published: October 2019

Introduction: Since 2014 through the National Health Insurance (JKN) program, the pattern of health financing in Indonesia has been changed, in the first level health facilities (FKTP), from the fee for service payment to capitation payments system. Reports from the Public Health Office of Yogyakarta City showed that in 2014 there was an increased in basic dental services in the city of Yogyakarta by 68.01% from 2013. The Firdaus Pratama Clinic Yogyakarta is a primary clinic with medical and dental services as one of the providers of the JKN program since 2015.

 

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the implementation of the national health insurance program in dentistry at Firdaus Pratama Clinic, Yogyakarta.

 

Methods: The type of this research was descriptive observational study, with the method used in the form of secondary data observation. Secondary data was obtained through electronic medical records at Firdaus Pratama Clinic. This research was conducted at the Firdaus Pratama Clinic in Yogyakarta which has been working with BPJS since 2015.

 

Results: The number of participants and the number of dental visits at the Firdaus Pratama Clinic continued to increase. The 3 diagnoses in dental services at the Firdaus Pratama Clinic that frequently found in the form of consultation were necrosis of pulp, dental caries, and pulpitis.

 

Conclusion: The category of dental visits at Firdaus Pratama Clinic was high, which found more than 2% utilization based on the number of participants and dental visits
The Effect of Presto Cooker as an Alternative Sterilizer Device for Standard Dental Equipment
Authors: Djais Ariadna Adisattya , Theodorea Citra Fragrantia
Published: October 2019

Introduction: In the suburb area of Indonesia, autoclaves as a sterilizer could not been used optimally due to inadequate electrical capacity. An alternative sterilizer such as a pressure cooker (presto) have been choosen because it has same principle as an autoclave, but it doesn’t required the electrical supply. Nevertheless, the procedure of presto in dentistry remain unclear.

 

Objective: To obtain a standard procedure by using presto for dental instrument.

 

Methods: The effect of presto was observed on aerobic (S. aureus ATCC 25923T), facultative anaerobes (S. mutans ATCC 25175T), anaerobes (P. gingivalis ATCC 33277T) and yeasts (C. albicans ATCC 10231T) which are exposed to the dental mirror. Each dental mirror (triplo) was dipped for 3 minutes on media containing bacteria (106 bacteria/ mL). Furthermore, the dental mirrors were cooked at presto (MAXIM, 7 L, Indonesia) which contained 500 mL of water, for 15, 30 and 45 minutes. Bacterial growth analysis were observed visually and microscopically after Gram staining.

 

Results: In the S. aureus ATCC 25923T and C. albicans ATCC 10231T groups, up to 30 minutes the color of the media showed cloudy but remained clear when sterilized for 45 minutes. Likewise, these groups showed appereance of bacterial growth for 15-30 minutes but didn’t appear to grow in 45 minutes. While in the S. mutans ATCC 25175T and P. gingivalis ATCC 33277T groups, up to 15 minutes the color of the media showed cloudy but remained clear after being sterilized for 30 minutes. In addition, these groups showed appereance of bacterial growth for 15 minutes but absence in 30-45 minutes.

 

Conclusion: Presto can be used as one of alternative equipment to sterilize dental instrument, effectively. The optimal killing time of bacteria and yeast was 45 minutes.
Inteligencia artificial para la transparencia pública
Authors: Puncel Chornet Alfonso
Published: October 2019

Los informes de Transparencia Internacional, año tras año, califican la corrupción como uno de los grandes problemas que lastran las economías de numerosos países y se convierte en uno de los elementos de la decadencia de la política y de la baja calidad democrática. La lucha contra la corrupción y el fraude requiere políticas de prevención y control en las que colaboren todos los órganos que tengan competencias en este objetivo, destinando recursos a la anticipación y el acompañamiento a la gestión de las Administraciones Públicas tanto como a la persecución y al castigo.

La evolución de la tecnología de la información y las comunicaciones, así como los avances en las ciencias del comportamiento, permiten utilizar gran cantidad de datos y establecer con ellos patrones de conducta que permiten identificar malas prácticas que son, en definitiva, las condiciones para que se den casos de fraude o corrupción.
Etnobotani Tumbuhan Upacara Adat Etnis Ngadha di Kecamatan Jerebu’u Kabupaten Ngada, Propinsi Nusa Tenggara Timur
Authors: Sada Mariana , Jumari Jumari
Published: October 2019

Etnis Ngadha merupakan salah satu kelompok masyarakat tradisional terbesar di Kabupaten Ngada. Kehidupan masyarakatnya ditengah arus globalisasi dan modernitas masih tetap berpegang teguh pada adat-istiadat warisan leluhur, salah satunya adalah upacara adat yang menjadi ciri khas komunitasnya. Penelitian ini telah dilakukan pada bulan Februari – Mei 2016 di desa Tiwuriwu, Watumanu dan Dariwali Kecamatan Jerebu’u, Kabupaten Ngada. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengiventarisasi jenis-jenis tumbuhan dan makna tumbuhan dalam pelaksanaan upacara adat serta upaya pelestarian yang dilakukan oleh masyarakat. Metode pengumpulan data dilakukan secara eksploratif, observasi partisipatif dan wawancara. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian diperoleh 60 jenis tumbuhan yang tergolong dalam 26 famili yang digunakan dalam upacara adat. Famili yang paling banyak digunakan adalah Poaceae 15 jenis, Fabaceae 8 jenis, Arecaceae 6 jenis, Musaceae dan Solanaceae masing-masing 3 jenis, sedangkan famili lainnya antara 1 sampai dengan 2 jenis. Masing-masing jenis memiliki makna spesifik dalam setiap upacara adat sesuai dengan maksud dan tujuan upacara tersebut. Bentuk kegiatan konservasi yang dilakukan masyarakat adalah membudidayakan tumbuhan tersebut di sekitar pekarangan rumah, kebun atau ladang milik mereka.
Application of pulsed ultrasound velocity profiling for measuring flow of black liquor in recovery boiler spraying nozzles
Authors: HAAVISTO SANNA , SALMELA JUHA , JÄRVINEN MIKA , KANKKUNEN ARI , KOPONEN ANTTI
Published: October 2019

In this study, we apply ultrasound velocity profiling (UVP) for obtaining velocity data inside
black liquor nozzles. We demonstrate the capability of this technique for online measurement of black liquor flow properties and viscosity behavior. The experiments were carried out on an operating recovery boiler where the black liquor from pulping softwood was taken directly from the boiler liquor system and sprayed through a customized splash-plate nozzle.
Organic material dissolved during oxygen-alkali pulping of hot water extracted birch sawdust
Authors: LEHTO JONI , ALÉN RAIMO
Published: October 2019

Untreated and hot water-treated birch (Betula pendula) sawdust were cooked by the oxygen-alkali method under the same cooking conditions (temperature = 170°C, liquor-to-wood ratio = 5 L/kg, and 19% sodium hydroxide charge on the ovendry sawdust). The pretreatment of feedstock clearly facilitated delignification. After a cooking time of 90 min, the kappa numbers were 47.6 for the untreated birch and 10.3 for the hot water-treated birch. Additionally, the amounts of hydroxy acids in black liquors based on the pretreated sawdust were higher (19.5-22.5g/L) than those in the untreated sawdust black liquors (14.8-15.5 g/L). In contrast, in the former case, the amounts of acetic acid were lower in the pretreated sawdust (13.3-14.8 g/L vs. 16.9-19.1 g/L) because the partial hydrolysis of the acetyl groups in xylan already took place during the hot water extraction of feedstock. The sulfur-free fractions in the pretreatment hydrolysates (mainly carbohydrates and acetic acid) and in black liquors (mainly lignin and aliphatic carboxylic acids) were considered as attractive novel byproducts of chemical pulping.
STUDI PREVALENSI RISIKO DIABETES MELITUS PADA REMAJA USIA 15–20 TAHUN DI KABUPATEN SIDOARJO
Authors: Andini Ary , Awwalia Evy Sylvia
Published: October 2019

Abstract: Worldwide number of adolescents diagnosed with diabetes mellitus has increased everyyear means that a prevention to reduce the prevalence of diabetes mellitus is required. The aim ofthis study was to determine the prevalence of diabetes mellitus risk in adolescents in Sidoarjo city,East Java and Diabetes Mellitus risk factors. Total population used in this study is composed by 150men and women aged 15–20 years who reside in various locations in Sidoarjo city. The obtaineddata were analyzed descriptively with cross-sectional design. The results showed the prevalence ofdiabetes risk in adolescents in Sidoarjo is about 42% with average glucose levels 104.35 ± 13.01mg/dl. The prevalence of non-diabetes mellitus in adolescents is 58% with the average glucose79.26 ± 7.01 mg/dl. The risk factor which lead to high risk of diabetes mellitus is fast-food consumption (71%), soft drink consumption (31%) and smoking (5%).
Application of irrigation and negative pressure wound therapy (INPWT) to treat diabetic foot gangrene:
a case report
Authors: Chen Ai-hua , Liu Huiling , Zhang Chunmei , Zou Ping
Published: October 2019

This case study summarises the treatment of a patient with diabetic foot gangrene. By undergoing irrigation and negative pressure wound therapy (INPWT) with moist dressing, foot amputation was avoided. The treatment process included: the comprehensive assessment of systemic and local condition; choosing suitable debridement such as sharp surgical debridement; preventing the spread of infection; applying INPWT to reduce endotoxin absorption; and active treatments of primary disease such as controlling blood sugar and blood pressure, and improving microcirculation and nutrition. After 2 months of vigorous INPWT, the patient’s wound bed improved. After the application of a moist dressing, the wound closed and healed successfully at 3 months.
Management of Chest Trauma in Bangladesh Perspective: Experience of a Decade
Authors: Md Anisuzzaman - , Hosain Suman Nazmul , Reza Md Mohsin , Kibria Md Golam , Ferdous Shahnaz
Published: October 2019

Background: Thoracic trauma is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. In this study, we present our 10-year experience in the management and clinical outcome of 437 chest trauma cases as a result of blunt and penetrating injuries in two medical college hospitals of Bangladesh.

Methods: We reviewed 437 cases of chest trauma between January 2006 and December 2015.The mean age of our patients was 33 ± 15 years mostly males with blunt injuries. Patients were evaluated and compared according to age, sex, etiology of trauma, thoracic and extra-thoracic injuries, complications, and mortality.

Results: The leading cause of the trauma was road traffic accident (61%) followed by violence (23%). Hemothorax (62%), Pneumothorax (51%), rib fractures (38%), and lung contusion (35%) were the most common types of injury. Associated injuries were documented in 35% of patients (extremities 18%, abdomen 12%, head 5%). Minority of the patients required thoracotomy (6%), and tube thoracostomy (56%) was sufficient to manage the majority of cases. Mean hospital stay was 5.5 ± 4.8 days. The overall mortality rate was 3.6%.

Conclusion: Road traffic accident was the most common cause of chest trauma rather than violence in this series, this necessitates epidemiologic or multi-institutional studies to know what are the causes of RTA contributes to chest trauma in Bangladesh. The number of fractured ribs can be used as simple indicator of the severity of trauma.

Cardiovasc. j. 2019; 12(1): 3-8
Study of Cardiac Troponin I level in Acute Coronary Syndrome and its correlation with Left Ventricular Systolic Function
Authors: Hossain Mohammad Jakir , Asaduzzaman Khondoker , Hossain Solaiman , Alam Muhammad Badrul , Hossain Nur
Published: October 2019

Background: In the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome, cardiac troponin I is highly reliable and widely available biomarker. Serum level of cardiac troponin I is related to amount of myocardial damage and also closely relates to infarct size. Our aim of the study is to find out the relationship between cardiac troponin I and left ventricular systolic function after acute coronary syndrome.

Methods: Total of 132 acute coronary syndrome patients were included in this study after admission in coronary care unit of Sir Salimullah Medical College, Mitford Hospital. Troponin I level was measured at admission and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) was measured by echocardiography between 12-48 hours of onset of chest pain.

Results: There was negative correlation between Troponin I at 12 to 48 hours of chest pain with LVEF in these study patients. With a cutoff value of troponin I e”6.8 ng/ml in STEMI patients there is a significant negative relation between 12 to 48 hrs troponin I and LVEF (p<0.001). Sensitivity of troponin I e” 6.8 ng/ml between 12 to 48 hours of chest pain in predicting LVEF <50% in STEMI was 93.75% and specificity was 77.78%. In NSTEMI sensitivity of troponin I e” 4.5 ng/ml between 12 to 48 hours of chest pain in predicting LVEF <50% was 65% and specificity was 54.05%.

Conclusion: Serum troponin I level had a strong negative correlation with left ventricular ejection fraction after acute coronary syndrome and hence can be used to predict the LVEF in this setting.

Cardiovasc. j. 2019; 12(1): 24-29
Chronic Venous Disorders: A Contemporary Review
Authors: Muhammad Bashar Abul Hasan
Published: October 2019

Chronic venous disease is a common medical condition of the lower limbs that affects a large number of people in every part of the world including the Indian subcontinent. The disease is insidious in nature and therefore often ignored in the early stages. In advanced stages, it causes significant discomfort in the affected limbs which adversely influences quality of life, work hours and treatment expenses. The present article reviews the various aspects of the disease including its pathophysiology and recent management updates.

Cardiovasc. j. 2019; 12(1): 59-63
Simple Radiography can Rescue from Dilemma
Authors: Chowdhury Naharuma Aive Hyder , Sultana Sharmin , Shamsuddin Abul Kalam , Chanda Prasanta Kumar
Published: October 2019

24 year old young lady came to us with a diagnosis of atrial septal defect (ASD) secundum who lost her follow up since her 4 years of age. Later her history, physical findings and investigations change the diagnosis into supracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage. Typical ‘snowman sign’ in chest x-ray and transthoracic echo helped to review the case. Proper history taking and careful evaluation by investigation is needful for each individual.

Cardiovasc. j. 2019; 12(1): 75-78
Utilización del Diseño de Experimentos para la Optimización de Mezclas
Authors: Ulibarrie Néstor Oscar , Beltramini Loreley Betina , Defagot Victoria , Bourquen Natacha Ludmila , Andrés Federico
Published: October 2019

Se presenta una propuesta para convertir desechos de material celulósico en compuestos con un valor agregado que tengan un potencial uso en la industria de la construcción. El desarrollo se basa en la producción de paneles de revestimiento interior a partir de la mezcla de tres componentes: residuo de celulosa, cemento y agua.

Para generar la mezcla optimizada de estos componentes se optó por la utilización de un Diseño de Experimentos, que permite reducir la cantidad de muestras a fabricar tomando como punto de referencia una superficie de respuesta optimizada.

A partir del análisis de resultados se observa una relación directa entre la conductividad térmica y la densidad del material ya que, a medida que la densidad aumenta también lo hace el coeficiente de conductividad térmica. Se espera que los paneles formen parte de la arquitectura sustentable que promueve el uso responsable de la energía para el acondicionamiento de las viviendas.
After the Disruption: The Recovery of the National Church of Scotland, 1843–1874
Authors: Brown Stewart J.
Published: October 2019

In 1843, the established Church of Scotland was broken up by the Disruption, as nearly a third of the ministers and perhaps half the lay adherents left to form the new Free Church. Many predicted the ‘remnant’ established church would not long survive. This article explores the remarkable recovery of the Church of Scotland during the three decades after the Disruption, with emphasis on the church extension campaign and parish community ideal of James Robertson, the movement initiated by Robert Lee for the enrichment of public worship and ecclesiology, and the efforts, associated with Norman Macleod, John Tulloch, John Caird and Robert Flint, to provide greater theological freedom and openness to social and cultural progress, including a willingness to question the Reformed doctrinal standards of the Westminster Confession of Faith.
Introduction
Authors: Carrière Marie , García Zarranz Libe
Published: October 2019

Introduction
Translation on Edge: The Wager of Multilingual Poetics in Tessera’s Last Volumes (2002-2005)
Authors: Basile Elena
Published: October 2019

As a feminist bilingual journal dedicated to experimental writing, Tessera’s fostering of a concerted dialogue between Francophone and Anglophone women writers played a pioneer role between the 1980s and 1990s in inscribing the question of translation at the heart of feminist discourse. Critical attention has been steadily directed at the work of the journal’s mostly Anglophone first collective (1984-1993), which promoted a hopeful erotics of translation, driven by ‘sextual’ pleasure in the polysemic variances of languages and a deep seated trust in translation’s capacity to modify different languages’ topographies of sexual difference in profound ways. Tessera, however, published regularly for over twenty years and had three different collectives working at its helm. This paper seeks to address the critical imbalance by focusing on the poetics of translation promoted in the last years of Tessera’s life (2002-2005), when operations shifted from Toronto to Montreal and a mostly Francophone Editorial and Advisory Board took over. Indeed, against the optimism of the early bilingual experiments that emphasized common cross-cultural understandings of writing in the feminine, the texts published in the early 2000s consistently draw attention to the constitutively exilic relation to linguistic diversity held by diasporic queer bodies that live in the interstices of overlapping cross-cultural norms. Nathalie Stephens (now Nathanaël), a poet featured prominently in Tessera’s last volumes, is possibly the most significant writer to perform the un-decidable dimensions of such interstitial dwelling.  In particular, I analyze a multilingual text by Stephens published in Tessera in 2002, whose overt intertextual allusions to Nicole Brossard and Suzanne de Lotbinière-Harwood’s bilingual text Sous la langue/Under Tongue provide an interesting terrain of comparison with previous translation poetics. Contrary to the utopic ‘dream of a common language’ of Sous la langue/Under Tongue bilingual cross-contaminations, Stephens’ jagged multilingualism weaves lesbian desire with questions of bodily and cultural/linguistic exile, which provoke a radical queering (and querying) of such dream. At the crossroads of erotic and genealogic affinities Stephens gestures towards a space of collapsed translation, where the ideal “fusion” of tongues evoked by Brossard and de Lotbinière morphs into a painful and yet necessary con-fusion of languages marked by transversal alliances that anchor the text’s ‘je’ to the provisional rootedness of a diasporic memory. Despite the marked shift in tone, at the end of the essay I argue that both Stephens and her predecessors participate in Tessera’s consistent commitment to inscribing translation as a creative practice of heterotopic displacement and semiotic proliferation. A commitment, I would argue, which remains to date singularly feminist and singularly productive.
Transgressive Textualities: Translating References to Gender, Sexuality and Corporeality in Nelly Arcan’s Putain and Paradis, clef en main
Authors: Henry-Tierney Pauline
Published: October 2019

In this paper I examine how transgressive references to gender, sexuality and the body are translated in two texts by the Québécoise writer Nelly Arcan, her debut autofictional narrative Putain (2001) and her final (retroactively auto)fictional title Paradis, clef en main (2009). Throughout her oeuvre, Arcan seeks to liberate women from stereotypical frameworks of reference by asserting women’s gendered, sexual and corporeal subjectivities in previously taboo discourses on prostitution, incest, sexuality, anorexia, matrophobia and suicide. Through her candid and explicit writing style, Arcan elaborates her own specific écriture au féminin which incorporates a linguistic, thematic and physical visualization of women within her texts.These two novels have been translated into English as Whore (2005) by Bruce Benderson and Exit (2011) by David Scott Hamilton respectively. However, analysis of the target texts suggests that neither translator adopts a gender-conscious approach which compromises the specificity of Arcan's idiolect in the Anglophone context. Through a comparative analysis of examples from the source texts and translations under the categories of gender, sexuality and the body, I discuss how the translation practices work counterproductively to obfuscate Arcan’s textual visualisations of women. In terms of references to gendered identity, by removing or neutralising Arcan's grammatically feminised language in Putain, the translator obfuscates Arcan's idea of the importance gender plays in shaping maternal relationships. Similarly, in Exit, Arcan's subversive feminist wordplay is distorted resulting in women being reinserted into patriarchal frameworks of reference. My analysis on Arcan's portrayal of sexuality underlines how sexual euphemisms in the translation downplay the narrator's potential for sexual agency in Whore, while misleading translation choices for feminist neologisms relating to women's sexuality in Exit eschew Arcan's efforts to verbalise women's lived sexual realities. Lastly, inconsistency in the translation of female corporeal vocabulary distorts the neutral tone Arcan employs in Putain to ensure women's bodies are not eroticised and the translator's decision to condense references to the female body in Exit undermines the significance Arcan places on corporeal connections between women. Thereafter, I move on to consider the wider implications of the translative process such as how paratextual elements also have an impact upon Arcan's reception in the target culture. I argue that in both Whore and Exit, the paratranslators intentionally sensationalise the autofictional elements of Arcan's texts. In short, my analysis contends that through a non-gender conscious translation practice, the celebrity of Arcan is promoted in the Anglophone context but to the detriment of Arcan’s écriture au féminin.
Postcolonial Betrayal? Mysticism and the Past in Nicole Brossard’s Hier and Diane Schoemperlen’s Our Lady of the Lost and Found
Authors: Vautier Marie
Published: October 2019

Nicole Brossard’s Hier and Diane Schoemperlen’s Our Lady of the Lost and Found were published in 2001. Both novels explore contemporary “turns” in the humanities—turns that can be seen as a betrayal of the secular worldview and the focus on the New World that dominated our literary concerns of the late twentieth century. Brossard’s text “betrays” contemporary literary and cultural considerations in its foregrounding of accumulated Old World knowledge and religious art. In Hier, Brossard makes multiple references to two religious figures of Catholicism: Marie Guyart—Marie de l’Incarnation, the founder of the Ursuline order in Québec—and the Virgin Mary. In this novel, Brossard is beginning to explore the idea of looking to those women associated with the mystical world, knowledge of whom is buried in our collective memories, in order to turn to mysticism as a way of accessing that “high” provided by metaphysical experiences. Diane Schoemperlen’s novel, Our Lady of the Lost and Found (Our Lady), reveals a number of similar preoccupations to those found in Brossard’s Hier. In Our Lady, a narrator/writer, is “visited” by the Virgin Mary near the beginning of the novel, and the text then alternates between credible domestic scenes and stories of other Marian apparitions, most of which, as Schoemperlen assures us in an afterword, are “based on actual documented accounts” (Our Lady 339). Our Lady contains many reflective passages: comments on historiography; philosophy; and reflections on the nature of story, truth, science and history. The didactic impulse is very strong in both novels, and the urge to teach is centered on works of religious art from Old World civilizations. Faced with the turmoil of the contemporary world, the narrator of Our Lady explores that other world: the world of miracles, Marian apparitions and the thin place to which the act of writing takes one. In this article, Marie Vautier explores how these two 2001 novels highlight mystical women of the religious past, in their discussion of art, culture, the Old World versus the New World, and the limits of the contemporary worldview in a (re)turn to mysticism and summa plus ultra experiences.
Les trahisons montréalaises dans Le manteau de la femme de l’Est
Authors: Harel Simon
Published: October 2019

Les expressions de la ville créative et mondialisée sont à la mode. De Richard Florida à Saskia Sassen, sans oublier à Montréal même un Simon Brault, les intellectuels, commentateurs de l’actualité et nouveaux propagandistes de l’universalisme des villes sont légion. De Francfort à Shanghai, de Barcelone à Montréal, ce sont pratiquement les mêmes discours qui prévalent. La culture dite locale se doit d’être « branchée », « connectée » aux flux du mondialisme que représente une marche forcée, de plus en plus rapide, comme si le sujet post-identitaire se devait en quelque sorte de vivre dans un archipel, une métaspora (selon l’expression du poète Joël Desrosiers). Nous souhaitons interroger dans cet article les expressions têtues, parfois répétitives d’une pauvreté qui échappe à toute forme d’embourgeoisement et qui tient lieu de foyer de résistance (ce qu’est l’Est montréalais), alors que l’on promeut le principe salvateur de cette créativité mondialisée dans les nouvelles villes post-identitaires. Dans ce contexte, la gentrification culturelle, au nom de la mobilité et de l’hybridité du sujet, ressemble assez à une injonction autoritaire. Or, les écrits de Danielle Roger sont de véritables récits de résistance à l’égard de ce qu’il faut bien appeler un universalisme des villes mondialisées. À ce sujet, les récits de Danielle Roger décrivent avec une concision et une ironie douce-amère ce repli du sujet dans l’univers d’un quartier qui ne paie pas de mine, qui n’est pas, comme le Plateau Mont-Royal ou le Mile-End, un haut lieu de l’attraction touristique montréalaise. Certes, la date de publication du Manteau de la femme de l’Est n’est pas à négliger. À la fin des années quatre-vingt-dix, l’éloge des transhumances et des nomadismes, s’il faisait partie des expressions consacrées de l’écriture migrante, n’était pas encore devenu un fonds de commerce, un assemblage de lieux communs.  Le manteau de la femme de l’Est est l’expression de vies minuscules, la description de la saleté des « faits divers» de la Cité, la narration des multiples trahisons qui voient le jour dans les quartiers déshérités de la ville de Montréal. Dans ce récit peu connu de Danielle Roger, il est question, comme chez Pauline Harvey et Josée Yvon, d’une littérature qui prend la forme d’un récit dans lequel la dignité et l’indignité s’opposent, par le biais des diverses figures de l’exploitation de la violence, ce que l’on appellera à défaut d’un autre terme la misère.
Manifesto
Authors: Quartermain Meredith
Published: October 2019

Poem
Parole de femme en Ontario français : subjectivité, agentivité et transgression dans les Carnets de déraison de Guylaine Tousignant
Authors: Melançon Johanne
Published: October 2019

Peu de femmes, et surtout peu de poètes, ont pris la parole en Ontario français dans les années 1970, 1980 et même 1990. Au tournant du siècle, de nouvelles voix ont émergé. Parmi elles, Guylaine Tousignant dont le premier recueil de prose poétique, Carnets de déraison (Prise de parole, 2005), met en scène une narratrice qui, malgré sa difficulté à dire « je », dans une parole que l’auteure qualifie de « pluri auto bio graphique », arrive à exprimer son agentivité non pas surtout dans le propos, mais bien dans l’écriture même par la différenciation et l’hybridation génériques, le dédoublement rhétorique du sujet, le recours à différentes stratégies discursives comme le dialogue intérieur et le micro-récit, ainsi que par l’intertextualité. L’écriture s’inscrit d’abord dans l’écrit intime, déjà suggéré par le paratexte. Le texte se déploie en fragments qui permettent l’expression du mouvement de la pensée qui hésite et doute; au point de vue du genre, cette écriture s’avère une hybridation de la poésie, des carnets, du livre de raison, du journal intime et de la confession. Tout au long du récit poétique, le sujet, qui se dédouble, porte un regard critique sur soi, ce qui l’oblige à affirmer son agentivité. Les stratégies discursives permettant cette affirmation de soi vont du dialogue intérieur, avec une mise en scène de l’autre, au micro-récit qui permet de s’inventer des histoires, en passant par un choix de verbes d’action. Quant à la subversion, elle s’inscrit surtout dans l’intertextualité et est donnée d’entrée de jeu par l’exergue de Descartes, puis par l’allusion à Camus. Dans ce recueil, l’écriture constitue le moyen et le lieu d’une quête de soi. Elle permet d’assumer toutes les voix qui obligent le «je» à se remettre en question, à se juger, mais qui construisent pourtant aussi ce «je» comme sujet. En ayant recours à ces stratégies, le texte finit par assumer pleinement le doute comme constitutif de soi mais parvient aussi à affirmer le droit à la déraison. Au bout du compte, c’est le travail de l’écriture qui aura permis au «je» d’affirmer son agentivité.
Two Reclaimed Territories
Authors: L'Abbé Sonnet
Published: October 2019

From Sonnet’s Shakespeare: 154 Ecolonizations
Update on the Evaluation of the Anti-Obesity Effect of Green Tea (Camellia sinensis)
Authors: SULTANE Halima Tarassinga Abiba , CAMBAZA Edgar
Published: October 2019

Objective: Obesity is a worldwide rising risk factor for numerous incommunicable illnesses. The most common interventions have been ineffective from a public health perspective. Green tea (Camellia sinensis) seems to be an effective well-known alternative but there is a need to see the most updated and reliable information on the matter. The study aimed to verify how effective is green tea as reductor of human body mass index (BMI).Methods: This meta-analysis reviewed recent controlled randomized trials on the effect of catechin and caffeine in the BMI of adult male and female subjects. The analysis did not include studies including alternative therapies or drugs potentially affecting BMI. The studies presented the quantity of catechin and caffeine (mg). Body mass index and waist circumference were measured before and after the interventions. The trials lasted two to eight months, depending on the study designs.Results and conclusion: Five studies met the criteria for the current analysis. In one study, the subjects took oral capsules of green tea extract (379mg). Overall, daily doses of catechin varied from 208-1200mg, and caffeine from undetectable levels to 480mg (the tea products were either enriched, capsules or canned with known levels). All showed reduction in body weight, the average BMI reduction was 0.68 kg/m2, and waist circumference was 1,5cm. There was a direct relationship between the concentration of catechin and reduction of BMI, but the BMI appeared to drop to a certain threshold of “optimal” weight, close to values considered as normal weight by the World Health Organization (WHO). There were few cases suggesting abdominal discomfort, but there they did not require additional treatment or hospitalization. Green tea consistently showed ability to reduce weight to a less risky level for health. Yet, it is now necessary to develop dose-response models for its active compounds and clarify the dynamics of the dosage over time. Furthermore, green tea is perhaps more effective in synergy with well-known methods to maintain or reduce weight, such as balanced diets or physical exercise.
The Role of Nicotinic Anti-Inflammatory Pathway in Prostaglandin Mediated Inflammatory Response in Sepsis: A Short Review
Authors: BARIŞ Elif , ARICI Mualla Aylin , HAMURTEKİN Emre
Published: October 2019

Sepsis is a severe and multifaceted condition of body in response to an infection, which affects multiple organs systems that makes it difficult to treat and enhances the mortality rates. Release of inflammatory cytokines can initiate an inflammatory response during sepsis. However, the response can be modified by the control mechanism inside the body that are essential for the keeping the balance and survival. The cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway is defined as a comprehensive neurohumoral pathway that diminishes pro-inflammatory cytokine release through the vagus nerve and cholinergic receptors, predominantly α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (α7nAChR) that expressed on inflammatory mononuclear cells. Thus, cholinergic agonists might be a part of prospective treatment approach in inflammatory diseases such as sepsis. This review covers the role of cholinergic system in prostaglandin mediated inflammatory response.
PEMBEKALAN MEMASUKI DUNIA KERJA ATAU KULIAH
Authors: Husda Nur Elfi
Published: October 2019

Besides being able to work directly, vocational school graduates (SMK) can also continue to higher levels of education is  universities, but choosing majors in higher education certainly adjusts to the interests and abilities of students. The problem that often occurs is the lack of students' knowledge about future plans so that many SMK graduates are actually unemployed, this is due to a lack of knowledge about preparing to enter the workforce and if they want to a student of univerities a lack of information about the majors to take and how to choose a good and right universities. To deal with these problems need to be given guidance to students about preparing to enter the world of work or college. The service method that is carried out is discourse method with two meetings and four different speakers. The first meeting was about how to get job information, how to make a cover letter, interview techniques and job interviews and how to choose the right major in universities. The second meeting with material about financial reporting using MYOB. From the distributed questionnaire the results show that students are satisfied with the lesson given and hope to become a regular agenda at school before students finish their education.
Peningkatan Kapasitas Produksi Usaha Rumah Tangga Keripik dan Kue Bawang Bengkong Palapa
Authors: Fajrah Nofriani
Published: October 2019

Para Ibu Rumah Tangga (IRT) Bengkong Palapa ikut serta dalam membantu memenuhi kebutuhaan biaya rumah tangga. Hal ini dikarenakan keluarga di Perumahan Bengkong Palapa bergantung kepada perolehan pendapatan dari gaji bulanan kepala keluarga yang bekerja yaitu inovasi membangun usaha rumah tangga. Inovasi seeprti menjual makanan ringan seperti keripik dan kue bawang. Tujuan kegiatan pengabdian ini adalah meningkatkan kapasitas produksi yaitu dengan membina merencanakan produksi dengan membuat peramalan permintaan produk sehingga dapat dibuat rencana produksi. Metode pengabdian dibagi menjadi dua yaitu metode pelaksanaan kegiatan (penyampaian materi, praktek langsung (learning by doing) dan pendampingan) dan metode topik pengabdian (metode peramalan permintaan produk dan perencanaan produksi). Berdasarkan hasil kegiatan pengabdian ini, diperoleh bahwa Mitra Keripik dan Mitra Kue Bawang masih menggunakan metode perkiraan dan pengalaman hasil penjualan dalam menentukan rencana jumlah produksi. Selain itu, mitra keripik dan mitra kue bawang sudah mulai mencoba menerapkan perencanaan produksi dengan konsep peramalan. Berdasarkan hasil implementasi tersebut, mitra keripik dan mitra kue bawang dapat meminimasi pemborosan overproduction dan menjadwalkan produksi secara efektif dan efisien.
Penerapan Bioinsektisida Capsicum flutescens dalam Penanganan Serangan Hama Lalat Buah (Drosophila melanogaster)
Authors: Anggarini Ufafa
Published: October 2019

The Community Partnership Program is carried out at KSM Lamor Kelud Sejahtera, Laharpang, Puncu, Kediri, East Java, through the application of Capsicum Flutescens extract as bioinsecticides to overcome fruit fly pests that attack chili commodities. The extraction was carried out by the 7 cycle sokhlet method with a percentage of product yield reaching 48.57%. Socialization and demonstration of the use of bioinsecticides have been carried out. The optimum result is obtained with a combination of natural and synthetic insecticides. Increasing the sale value of chili products is done by processing become chili powder with product packaging innovation.
Backstepping Adaptive Neural Network Control for Electric Braking Systems of Aircrafts
Authors: Zhang Xi , Lin Hui
Published: October 2019

This paper proposes an adaptive backstepping control algorithm for electric braking systems with electromechanical actuators (EMAs). First, the ideal mathematical model of the EMA is established, and the nonlinear factors are analyzed, such as the deformation of the reduction gear. Subsequently, the actual mathematical model of the EMA is rebuilt by combining the ideal model and the nonlinear factors. To realize high performance braking pressure control, the backstepping control method is adopted to address the mismatched uncertainties in the electric braking system, and a radial basis function (RBF) neural network is established to estimate the nonlinear functions in the control system. The experimental results indicate that the proposed braking pressure control strategy can improve the servo performance of the electric braking system. In addition, the hardware-in-loop (HIL) experimental results show that the proposed EMA controller can satisfy the requirements of the aircraft antilock braking systems.
Sensitivity of Maize Yield in Smallholder Systems to Climate Scenarios in Semi-Arid Regions of West Africa: Accounting for Variability in Farm Management Practices
Authors: Freduah Bright , MacCarthy Dilys , Adam Myriam , Ly Mouhamed , Ruane Alex , Timpong-Jones Eric , Traore Pierre , Boote Kenneth , Porter Cheryl , Adiku Samuel
Published: October 2019

Climate change is estimated to exacerbate existing challenges faced by smallholder farmers in Sub-Sahara Africa. However, limited studies quantify the extent of variation in climate change impact under these systems at the local scale. The Decision Support System for Agro-technological Transfer (DSSAT) was used to quantify variation in climate change impacts on maize yield under current agricultural practices in semi-arid regions of Senegal (Nioro du Rip) and Ghana (Navrongo and Tamale). Multi-benchmark climate models (Mid-Century, 2040–2069 for two Representative Concentration Pathways, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5), and multiple soil and management information from agronomic surveys were used as input for DSSAT. The average impact of climate scenarios on grain yield among farms ranged between −9% and −39% across sites. Substantial variation in climate response exists across farms in the same farming zone with relative standard deviations from 8% to 117% at Nioro du Rip, 13% to 64% in Navrongo and 9% to 37% in Tamale across climate models. Variations in fertilizer application, planting dates and soil types explained the variation in the impact among farms. This study provides insight into the complexities of the impact of climate scenarios on maize yield and the need for better representation of heterogeneous farming systems for optimized outcomes in adaptation and resilience planning in smallholder systems.