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10. ADMINISTRASI KETATAUSAHAAN SEKOLAH
Authors: asifa putri , Afriansyah Hade
Published: April 2020

The administration is part of the whole administrative process, in the form of all mechanisms that can help, expedite, increase the activity and efficiency of the administrative process by providing all necessary data and information, so that the administration runs smoothly.Administrative administration is an organizational subsystem, in this case the school organization. Its main activity is to take care of all forms of school administration, from correspondence to inventory of goods. When viewed from the above understanding, the administration does not only concern the activities of correspondence but also involves all material information and information in the form of letters.Administrative work includes a series of activities to collect, record, manage, duplicate, send and store the information needed in each cooperative effort.
Survey Instrument Validation Rating Scale
Authors: Oducado Ryan Michael Flores
Published: April 2020

This paper presents a rating scale that can be used by researchers in the validation of research instruments or survey questionnaires.
Visual working memory and sensory processing in autistic children
Authors: Stevenson Ryan A , Ruppel Justin , Sun Sol Z. , Segers Magali , Ncube Busisiwe , Bebko James , Barense Morgan , Ferber Susanne
Published: April 2020

Atypical sensory processing one of the more ubiquitous symptoms in autism spectrum disorder, the exact nature of these sensory issues remains unclear, with different studies showing either enhanced or deficient sensory processing. Using a well-established continuous free-recall task that assesses visual working memory, the current study provides novel evidence reconciling these apparently discrepant findings by showing both enhanced and impaired sensory processing in the same individuals on distinct aspects of the same task and stimuli. Autistic children exhibited perceptual advantages in both likelihood of recall and recall precision relative to their typically-developed peers. When autistic children did make errors, however, they showed a higher probability of erroneously binding a given colour with the incorrect spatial location. These data indicate that although the initial perceptual representations of sensory inputs were maintained with enhanced fidelity, the subsequent cognitive process of binding multiple features of sensory information into one percept was impaired. These data align with neural-architecture models for feature binding in visual working memory, suggesting that atypical population-level neural noise in the report dimension (colour) and cue dimension (spatial location) may drive both the increase in probability of recall and precision of colour recall as well as the increase in proportion of binding errors, respectively. These changes are likely to impact core symptomatology associated with autism, as perceptual binding and working memory play significant roles in higher-order tasks, such as communication.
“Second guessing yourself all the time about what they really mean…”: Cognitive differences between autistic and non-autistic adults in understanding implied meaning
Authors: Wilson Alexander C , Bishop Dorothy Vera Margaret
Published: April 2020

This study investigated cognitive differences between autistic and non-autistic people in understanding implied meaning in conversation using a novel computerized test, the Implicature Comprehension Test. Controlling for core language ability, autistic participants (N = 66) were over twice as likely to endorse a non-normative interpretation of an implied meaning and over five times as likely to select ‘don’t know’ when asked about the presence of an implied meaning, compared to non-autistic participants (N = 118). A further experiment suggested that the selection of ‘don’t know’ reflected a cognitive preference for certainty and explicit communication, and that the normative inference could often be made when the test format was more constrained. Our research supports the hypothesis that autistic individuals can find it challenging to process language in its pragmatic context, and that cognitive preferences play a role in this.
Examining the Conceptual and Empirical Distinctiveness of Agreeableness and “Dark” Personality Items
Authors: Vize Colin , Miller Josh , Lynam Donald
Published: April 2020

Objective: A growing research literature has focused on what have been termed “dark” personality traits/constructs. More recently, the “dark factor” of personality has been proposed as a unifying framework for this research (Moshagen et al., 2018). To date, little work has rigorously investigated whether the traits/constructs investigated in the context of the dark factor can be captured by existing models of normative personality, namely Agreeableness from the Five-factor Model. Thus, the “dark factor” may be an instance of the “jangle” fallacy, where two constructs with different names are in fact the same construct. Method: We used a preregistered approach that made use of bass-ackwards factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and nomological network analysis to investigate the distinction between the D factor and Agreeableness. Results: Agreeableness and the D factor were similar in their coverage of antagonistic personality content, strongly negatively related (latent r = -.90), and showed near perfect profile dissimilarity (rICC = -.99). Conclusion: The results suggested that the D factor can be understood as the opposite pole of Agreeableness (i.e., antagonism) and not as a distinct construct. We discuss the implications for researchers interested in continuing to advance the study of antagonistic personality traits.
Experience Sampling and Daily Diary Studies: Basic Concepts, Designs, and Challenges.pdf
Authors: Horstmann Kai Tobias
Published: April 2020

Experience sampling and daily diary methods have become increasingly popular among psychologists. The repeated assessment of persons in their daily lives allows capturing how a person feels, thinks, or behaves or what he or she desires in the very moment. The current chapter describes basic concepts of experience sampling studies, gives an overview of possible designs and challenges that may be encountered when setting up the first experience sampling study. To overcome these challenges, three basic questions can be answered: (A) What is the construct being measured? (B) What is the purpose of the measure? (C) What is the targeted population of persons and situations? Finally, practical advice is given on how to think through and pilot test an experience sampling study before data collection begins.
Enacting Environments: An Ethnography of the Digitalisation and Naturalisation of Emissions
Authors: Lippert Ingmar
Published: April 2020

The PhD thesis and its related publications address how a carbon footprint of a multinational company was enacted. Related publications draw out a range of implications of this analysis for, inter alia, the sociology of the environment, Science and Technology Studies (STS), social studies of Big Data, the sociology of numbers and quantification.
Everyday Life and Everyday Communication in Coronavirus Capitalism
Authors: Fuchs Christian
Published: April 2020

In 2020, the coronavirus crisis ruptured societies and their everyday life around the globe. This article is a contribution to critically theorising the changes societies have undergone in the light of the coronavirus crisis. It asks: How have everyday life and everyday communication changed in the coronavirus crisis? How does capitalism shape everyday life and everyday communication during this crisis?

Section 2 focuses on how social space, everyday life, and everyday communication have changed in the coronavirus crisis. Section 3 focuses on the communication of ideology in the context of coronavirus by analysing the communication of coronavirus conspiracy stories and false coronavirus news. 

The coronavirus crisis is an existential crisis of humanity and society. It radically confronts humans with death and the fear of death. This collective experience can on the one hand result in new forms of solidarity and socialism or can on the other hand, if ideology and the far-right prevails, advance war and fascism. Political action and political economy are decisive factors in such a profound crisis that shatters society and everyday life.
What Is Lost and What Is Gained: A Travelogue of Tours of Hydro-Affected Communities in Northern Manitoba
Authors: Konefall Jessica Jacobson , Kulchyski Peter , Neckoway Ramona
Published: April 2020

In 2014, Peter Kulchyski and Ramona Neckoway began touring hydro-impacted Ininew communities. This now annual hydro tour is an intense seven-day circuit filled with long drives, boat tours, discussion, revelation, outrage, and—above all—kindness and generosity. Relationships on the hydro tour involve engagement with bush dispositions, with ways of life developed in and through an engagement with the temporalities, spatialities, subjectivities, languages, and knowledges of egalitarian gathering and hunting peoples. In the city, hydroelectricity is taken for granted; it is seen through the possessive, instrumental rationality that underlines people’s roles as workers and citizens. This contrasts with the face-to-face encounters between community- and urban-based activists, artists, and academics that occur during the hydro tours. Those participating may witness Ininew performances and embodied practices that are both culturally specific and fundamentally human. The relationships developed on the hydro tour enact performances of care and vulnerability in which ethical concern responds to festering social wounds. Perceiving vulnerability and responding to it with care is labour, the work of relationship. Distribution of social wealth is unequal, raced, and gendered, yet it can be transformed through caring practice; such transformations require Ininew leadership.
The Story of Extractivism
Authors: Bilodeau Chantal
Published: April 2020

The story of extractivism is so embedded in our culture that most of the time, we don’t see it. Yet it informs our behaviours and shapes how we relate to each other and the world. The same is true in the theatre, where traditional narratives, venues, and presentation formats emerged from, and feed into, an extractive system without us noticing it much. As storytellers and culture makers, we have a responsibility to break through this inertia and search for a new story that will replace the promise of endless riches promoted by extractivism. Since we can no longer deny the painful consequences of this narrative, we must replace it with a new one that is more inclusive and regenerative. One way to do that may be to take clues from the Indigenous concept of ceremony.
A Plenary of Acknowledgements: The Hemi Encuentro Work Group on Resisting Extractivism, Performing Opposition
Authors:   the From Relajo to Refusal: Resisting Extractivism, Performing Opposition Work Group
Published: April 2020

The “From Relajo to Refusal: Resisting Extractivism, Performing Opposition” Work Group came together to think through extractivism in the academy and beyond. In this article, we share a land acknowledgement we wrote and performed collectively. This acknowledgement attempts to unsettle the practice of land acknowledgements through relajo and refusal, without undermining this practice.
Spawning in Concrete: Bridging Urban and Wild withUninterrupted: A Cinematic Spectacle
Authors: Dunn Katrina
Published: April 2020

Every evening from 28 June to 24 September 2017, twenty-five minutes of digitally mapped and projected images transformed the concrete undersurface of Vancouver’s Cambie Street Bridge into a wild river filled with migrating salmon. Billed as a hybrid form that blends “cinematic storytelling and high-tech art installation” (Uninterupted.ca), the work spun a complex web of relations between humans, non-humans, and places, with a goal of inciting activist-style commitment to the issue of salmon depletion. The article argues that Uninterrupted manifests a civic imaginary in which urban infrastructure, a major catalyst of environmental degradation, can participate, through aesthetic intervention, in an act of recovery of biotic life.
Morphology Control During Heat Treatment of GeTe-PbTe Alloys
Authors: Ebrahimi F. , Liu D. , Engelhardt H. , Rettenmayr M.
Published: April 2020

Microstructural evolution of GexPb1–xTe (x=0.5, 0.87, 0.9) alloys with respect to spinodal decomposition and continuous/discontinuous precipitation is investigated. Solution treatment at 630 °C for 10 days leads to a single-phase grain structure with homogeneous concentration distribution. In Ge0.5Pb0.5Te, after aging at 300, 400, and 450 °C for 3 days a lamellar spinodally decomposed microstructure was observed. For the alloys with higher Ge content, a diffusion controlled decomposition of the supersaturated solid solution occurs, during which two different microstructures form either simultaneously or separately. Inside the miscibility gap, but outside the spinodal line, a nucleation and growth mechanism leads to continuous and discontinuous precipitation at the grain boundaries, followed by continuous precipitation in the grain interior.
Actualización de la Migraña
Authors: Solano Mora Andrea , Ramírez Vargas Xinia , Solano Castillo Andrés
Published: April 2020

La migraña es un trastorno de episodios de dolor de cabeza y síntomas neurológicos, su etiología abarca los distintos estilos de vida, trastornos del sueño, dieta e incluso un componente hereditario. Según la tercera edición del “The International Classification of Headache Disorders” (ICHD-3) se puede clasificar en migraña con aura y migraña sin aura la cuál es la presentación más frecuente en un 75% entre los pacientes. En cuanto a la fisiopatología se postula dos diferentes teorías, la vascular y la neurovascular; se propone también la participación de moléculas como el péptido relacionado con el gen de la calcitonina (CGRP) y, en menor grado, el péptido activador de la adenilato-ciclasa pituitaria (PACAP). El tratamiento debe basarse en medidas generales que modifica hábitos de vida del paciente y la elección de los fármacos depende de la frecuencia de las crisis, preferencia del paciente, presencia de otros síntomas como náuseas y vómitos; no se debe olvidar los grupos especiales como la migraña en el embarazo la cual se debe tratar con mayor precaución; cabe destacar que en algunos casos de migraña se ha propuesto técnicas no farmacológicas como la acupuntura.
Human Connection in the Light of the Writings of Karl Marx and Amartya Sen
Authors: Mukhopadhyay Simantini
Published: April 2020

This article uses Karl Marx’s notions of alienation and antagonism to understand human connection, defined as the interrelationship between human beings that helps transcend self-interest and fosters the sense of solidarity. The Marxian notions are revisited using the works of Amartya Sen, particularly those on identity and violence. Sen’s critique of rationality is discussed, invoking his notions of sympathy, antipathy, and commitment. The article uses two texts, Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Manik Bandyopadhyay’s Ekannoborti, as vantage points to understand the key concepts of Marx and Sen. It then discusses the backgrounds of the authors and the political interpretations of their work and shows how the overriding importance ascribed to a particular identity may convolute the literary motivation of an author.
Faten Hamama and Hind Rustom: Stars from Different Heavens
Authors: Makdissi Jean Said
Published: April 2020

One of the current topics in critical discussions on the Arab cinema is the gendered nature of nationalist and national themes. It has been repeatedly said that in the Egyptian cinema, Egypt itself is often represented by an idealized woman. Both Viola Shafik (1998) and Lina Khatib (2006) make much of this idea, and investigate it with reference to particular films. In this context the idealizing title sayidat al-shasha al-arabiyya, (i.e. the lady of the Arab screen) has been universally granted to Faten Hamama, the grande dame of the Egyptian cinema and one of the most prolific of its actresses, and thus she is the ideal embodiment on the screen not only of Egyptian and Arab womanhood, but also of Egypt’s view of itself and of the Arab world. To study the output of Faten Hamama is to have an idea of how Egyptians – and perhaps all Arabs – like to see themselves, and especially their women. But to arrive at a clearer idea of the self-definition of the Arab world and its fantasy of the feminine ideal I believe it would be helpful to contrast her work with that of Hind Rustom, who both in her physical appearance and the persona she represents on screen is almost directly antithetical to Faten.
Tomorrow You Will See How Beautiful Our Home Is
Authors: Kassab-Hassan Hassan
Published: April 2020

I fear, when I talk about Fairouz, that I might slip into a nostalgic mode, or slip unwittingly into that translucid spot where childhood images mesh with the scents and sounds of cities, and that I might begin my discourse about Fairouz and end up by confounding Beirut with Damascus.
Alone With Them All
Authors: Abiad Lina
Published: April 2020

On the steps of the Fine Arts building. I rediscover this campus after fifteen years of absence.I see a woman step forward. She should be in her mid-fifties. I have the impression of someone who is walking in another space, another time. There is nothing usual or common about her. The way she dresses, the strong red colour of her hair, but most strikingly the way she moves.
Kamilya Jubran’s Solo Journey: Lemon by Lemon and Cigarette by Cigarette
Authors: Khoury Amy
Published: April 2020

When Mounira al-Mahdiyya began to sing publically in Egypt in 1893, she was said to be the first Arab woman to do so in the modern age. She was followed shortly after by Umm Kulthum. Since no women were allowed onstage prior to that, no female singing tradition existed yet at that time. Singing softly, or sweetly “like a girl”, was unheard of. Singing was something learned from male mashayikh (i.e. religious figures). If you ever hearUmm Kulthum recite the Qur’an you will understand. This is no nightingale, this is not a lullaby, this is not Fairouz. Their voices had to be strong, assured, and dead precise in key and diction. They had to carry religious songs and qasa’id (i.e. epic poems) comfortably. They had to project across a wide space to reach an audience well before microphones could do the work.
Performing the Body: Haifa Wehbi in the becoming
Authors: Meskaoui Zena
Published: April 2020

Haifa Wehbi is a Lebanese singer who started her career as a model. She was the first runner up for Miss Lebanon in 1995. She became known in the Arab world after the release of her first album Huwa al-Zaman (i.e. it is time). In 2006 she was on People magazine’s list of the 50 most beautiful people.
Performance & I
Authors: Kazoun Marya
Published: April 2020

I had organized a photo shoot for an installation I  “finished” in 2003 entitled Steady Breath. I had made an outfit but I was not quite sure why I had made it nor what its purpose was. I was wearing it and got into one of the pictures of the installation to show the scale of my work. When I got my slides back from the photographer and looked carefully at them, it suddenly hit me. It all made sense: I felt that the work needed me to support it, to help it sustain itself.
Aqbal Al-Khayr: The First Women Only Play in Saudi Arabia
Authors: Sakkaf Noura
Published: April 2020

The Janadriyya festival is a cultural event hosted by the Saudi National Guard and held annually at a location 45 minutes outside the capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh. The location is a housing complex especially created for the festival and consists of replicas of traditional houses and buildings from the different regions of the kingdom as well as a large hangar-like structure for theatrical performances. Each year artisans from all over the Kingdom are invited to attend and demonstrate the various wares that are created in their specific regions.
Lecture: “Let Women Rule” - June 20, 2008 / Dream She Is: Monodrama for a Woman’s Voice - July 12 & 13, 2008
Authors: American University Lebanese
Published: April 2020

Lecture: “Let Women Rule” - June 20, 2008On June 20, 2008 H.E. Ambassador Swanee Hunt, Director of the Women andPublic Policy Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Chair of theInitiative for Inclusive Security,and former US Ambassador to Austria from 1993 to 1997, gave a lecture at the Lebanese American University (LAU) titled “Let Women Rule”. Dream She Is: Monodrama for a Woman’s Voice - July 12 & 13, 2008The Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World at the Lebanese American University (LAU) sponsored a Monodrama entitled “Dream She Is” which was performed in Universite Saint Joseph (USJ) theater on July 12th & 13th, 2008.
Arab Women in Latin America
Authors: Abdelnour George
Published: April 2020

This special volume of al-Raida on “Arab Women in Latin America” makes a timely contribution to the scholarship of Levantine migration to what used to be called the New World, and which has inexorably linked the Levant and Latin America for well over a century now. It is well-known that the collapse of the late Ottoman Empire at the turn of the last century and the open immigration policies of Latin American countries were the main drivers behind Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinian migration to the region. Much less understood, however, are the experiences of Arab women and the role they played in both cultural preservation and integration into the distinct host societies, in large measure due to a lack of archival documentation and the implicit unreliability, however useful, of oral family histories. It is this largely ignored lacuna that the following pages attempt to address.
A Patriarchal Rite of Passage: Arab Women’s Migration to the Dominican Republic and the Gendered Politics of Immigration History
Authors: Román Stephanie , Mayes April
Published: April 2020

This article aims to further the understanding of gendered migration practices as well as the complex factors that structure the gendered creation of memory among Arabs in the Dominican Republic. More precisely, we focus on the patriarchal erasure of female migration, racial politics, and the gendered family institution through a critical analysis of oral and archival sources. We will show that the silencing of Arab women as unnamed, though implicitly obedient and subservient wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters, is a product of contemporary tensions over how Arabs integrate and incorporate themselves into the racial landscape of Dominican society.
Women in Arab-Palestinian Associations in Chile: Long Distance Nationalism and Gender Mixing
Authors: Baeza Cecilia
Published: April 2020

This article examines a nearly century-long women’s involvement in the associations of the Palestinian community in Chile (1920-2010). By reconstituting the long course of action followed by women in these institutions we intend to analyze the transformation that gender roles have undergone, especially with respect to women’s increasing politicization in support of the Palestinian cause. Did “long-distance nationalism” (Anderson, 1998), so far a male-exclusive domain, allow the women of the diaspora to renegotiate their roles within the community’s associations?
Immigrant Arab Women in Chile during the Renaissance (Nahda), 1910s-1920s
Authors: Limorté Sarah
Published: April 2020

Levantine immigration to Chile started during the last quarter of the 19th century. This immigration, almost exclusively male at the outset, changed at the beginning of the 20th century when women started following their fathers, brothers, and husbands to the New World. Defining the role and status of the Arab woman within her community in Chile has never before been tackled in a detailed study. This article attempts to broach the subject by looking at Arabic newspapers published in Chile between 1912 and the end of the 1920s. A thematic analysis of articles dealing with the question of women or written by women, appearing in publications such as Al-Murshid, Asch-Schabibat, Al-Watan, and Oriente, will be discussed.
Violence Against Women in Morocco
Authors: Ennaji Moha
Published: April 2020

One of the most alarming issues in Muslim societies appears to be gender-based violence. The violence directed at women linked to their womanhood is gender-based. It is violence intended to establish or reinforce gender hierarchies and perpetuate inequalities. Violence against women seems to be a cause and a consequence of gender perceptions. Gender-based violence affects men’s and women’s perceptions of each other.
Citizenship and Gender in the Arab World
Authors: Sensenig-Dabbous Eugene
Published: April 2020

There are few topics as emotionally charged as the issue of full citizenship rights for women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Today, in no country in the Arab world do women enjoy the same rights as men with respect to transferring citizenship to their children and spouses. This form of discrimination not only taints the family life of hundreds of thousands of Arab women, it also severely burdens their “alien” children and husbands, blocking their access to education, welfare services, career advancement, social and political integration, and cultural assimilation. Viewed from the perspective of the host society, an Arab woman who marries outside the confines of her respective nation-state transitions from the authority of her father’s house to that of an alien household. She is now ostensibly under the control of the cultural norms and legal codes of her husband’s homeland.
Reforming Citizenship Law: Reports from Tunisia, Algeria, and Egypt
Authors: American University Lebanese
Published: April 2020

The following three public presentations on the experiences of reforming nationality law were given at a workshop entitled “Towards Reforming the Nationality Law in Lebanon” held in Beirut on March 10, 2009. The workshop was organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the National Committee for the Follow Up on Women Issues within the “Lebanese Women Rights and the Nationality Law” Project.
Car Flirting and Morality Cruising: Neurotic Gazes and Paranoid Glances in Contemporary Iranian Art
Authors: Mameni Sara
Published: April 2020

Iran’s public sphere has been segregated along gender lines since the Islamic Revolutionin 1979 and is regularly policed by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. Thisarticle considers the ways in which the resulting homosocial spaces appear in the worksof contemporary artists working in Tehran. Looking at video and photographic worksby three Iranian artists, I argue that contemporary art is hyper aware of being undersurveillance and addresses itself to multiple viewers. I bring queer viewing strategiesas a method of viewing these artworks in order to point to the continuum betweenhomosocial and homoerotic spaces that permeate contemporary Iranian art.
Is a “Father Friendly Workplace” Possible in the Middle East? A Personal Report from the Front
Authors: Sensenig-Dabbous Eugene
Published: April 2020

Work-life balance has been on the agenda for almost half a century throughout the Western, industrialized world. More recently, assisting working fathers to reconcile their career and family needs has also gained the support of governments, the social partners (labor and business associations), NGOs, and the media in North America, the European Union, Australia, Japan, and more recently in the new democracies of Europe and Latin America. The international business community has become aware that family-friendly hiring, scheduling, and promotion schemes are good for business. Expanding the logic of family friendliness from a uniquely women’s issue to a genuinely gender mainstreamed approach has boosted productivity, sales, and retention rates and thus benefited employers, employees, customers, and the public sector servicing all three. The bottom line doesn’t lie. In the case of the family-friendly workplace, the interests of profits and people go hand-in-hand.
Gender Quotas in Parliament: A Global View
Authors: Krook Mona Lena
Published: April 2020

Women occupy 18.5 percent of the seats in national parliaments around the world (Inter-Parliamentary Union, 2009). While this is a small minority of all representatives, the degree of women’s exclusion from political office varies enormously across the globe. However, most countries have registered increases in recent years in the numbers of women elected. In many cases, a crucial drive for change has been the adoption of quota policies to facilitate the selection of female candidates. All the same, not all quotas are equally successful in increasing women’s political representation: some countries experience dramatic increases following the adoption of new quota regulations, while others see more modest changes or even setbacks in the proportion of women elected.Further, quotas appear to have mixed results for women as a group: some have positive consequences for public policy, while others appear to undermine women as political actors.
Women, Politics, and Gender Quotas
Authors: Moghadam Valentine M.
Published: April 2020

The argument for gender quotas – made by women’s rights activists across the globe has come about in response to women’s continued collective marginalization from political power. According to data from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (2005), the global average for women’s parliamentary representation is 18 percent, with high rates in the Nordic countries, Rwanda, and Argentina, and low rates in the Arab region and Iran.In the vast majority of countries, political power – legislative, juridicial, and executive rests in the hands of men. In recent decades, therefore, the worldwide growth of a population of educated, employed, mobile, and politically aware women, combined with the diffusion of the UN-sponsored global women’s rights agenda, has increased calls for women’s political participation and representation. One of the mechanisms to realize this objective is the gender quota. Feminist groups around the world favor the implementation of the gender quota – which may come in the form of a constitutional quota, an electoral quota, or a political party quota – but it remains both controversial and elusive, especially in the Middle East.
The intensity of changes in the activity of enzymes in the tissues of the colon in piglets in different phases of postnatal ontogenesis
Authors: Terenteva Mayya , Mardareva Nataliya
Published: April 2020

Annotation. The purpose is сlarification of patterns of age-related changes in the activity of aspartate aminotransferase (AsAT), alanine aminotransferase (AlAT), gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT), α-amylase, alkaline phosphatase (AlP) and acid phosphatase (AP ) in tissues of different parts of the cecum in piglets of large white breed, in different phases of nutrition of the early postnatal period of systemic genesis of pig. Methods. Enzyme activities were determined spectrophotometrically (UV-1800) and using a set of reagents from the OJSC Vital Development Corporation, St. Petersburg. The activity of the enzymes AsAT and AlAT was determined by the method of Wrightman and Frenkel, GGT – by the unified colorimetric method at the “end point”. The α-amylase activity was measured by the method of Karavei. The level of AP, AlP was determined by the Bessey – Lowry – Brock method. Results. The degree of structural and chemical changes in the tissues of the cecum in piglets is high in the early phases of the postnatal period, during the first four months of life. They are especially pronounced in transitional phases of nutrition. The most intense age-related changes in metabolic processes in the tissues of the cecum in piglets were revealed between the milk and colostrum and first milk, between the first and second milk, between the third milk and milk-definitive, as well as between the first and second definitive phases. The timing of stabilization of the activity of individual enzymes in the tissues of the cecum is determined. They are detected in piglets in the later phases of feeding. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that the nature and intensity of age-related changes in the activity of aspartate and alanine aminotransferases, gamma-glutamyl transferase, α-amylase, acidic and alkaline phosphatases in tissues of different parts of the cecum in growing piglets were revealed.
Sobre los fundamentos del Estado liberal de derecho
Authors: Papa Benedicto XVI , Margenat Peralta S.I. José María , Marzolf Hedwig , Senent De Frutos Juan Antonio
Published: April 2020

Comentarios de José M. Margenat S.I., Hedwigh Marzloff y Juan A. Senent al discurso ante el Parlamento de la República Federal Alemana Sobre los fundamentos del Estado liberal de derecho de Benedicto XVI
"Globalización y Derechos Humanos"
Authors: Porras del Corral Manuel
Published: April 2020

Recensión de la obra de: Bartlett, E. R. y Bardají, M. D. (Coords.) (2010) Globalización y Derechos Humanos. Barcelona, Librería Bosch S.L., 141 pp.
"Liderazgo orientado a resultados en las ONG. Estrategia, sistemas de medición y cuadros de mando"
Authors: Morales  Gutiérrez Alfonso Carlos
Published: April 2020

Reseña de la obra de: CARRERAS, I., IGLESIAS, M., SUREDA M. (2011) Liderazgo orientado a resultados en las ONG. Estrategia, sistemas de medición y cuadros de mando. Barcelona, Instituto de Innovación Social de ESADE con la colaboración de la Fundación PricewaterhouseCoopers, 198 pp.
DETERMINING OPTIMIZED CONDITIONS FOR REMOVAL OF CHLOROPHYLL IN EXTRACTED LIQUID FROM NEEM LEAVES BY DISTILLED WATER BY RESPONSE SURFACE METHOD
Authors: Vu Do Van , Nguyen Nguyen Hong , Nguyen Tri Ly Minh
Published: April 2020

Chlorophyll content in liquid ethanol extract of neem’s leaves has bad effect on quality and storage time of the extract. In this study, we tried to remove remaining chlorophyll in the liquid ethanol extract of neem’s leaves by distilled water. The results showed that after chlorophyll removing, the liquid extract still retained almost all the biological activity ingredients (limonoid). Three effecting factors, i.e., (i) The time to cool to precipitate chlorophyll in the extracted liquid, (ii) The initial content of chlorophyll; (iii) The ratio between the extracted liquid and distilled water added all affect chlorophyll removal efficiency, have been studied. The Response Surface Method (RSM) showed that, the optimal conditions for removing chlorophyll process, the ratio between extracted liquid and distilled water respectively is 16.8 μg/ml and 1.3 (13:10; v:v). The time to cool to precipitate chlorophyll in the extracted liquid didi not have significantly affect on the performance of the removing chlorophyll’s contents.
Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis Mimicking Cyst Hydatics
Authors: Ağababaoğlu İsmail , Ersöz Hasan , Çetinkaya Ethemoğlu Filiz Banu , Şanlı Aydın
Published: April 2020

Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) is a less frequent form and rarely has been reported in normal immune system cases. They do not constitute radiologically cystic structures. A 53-year-old male who was engaged in stock farming and agriculture has no additional disease or habit in the patient history that would compromise the immune system. In thorax computed tomography, a 11x8x10 cm diaphragmatic invasive cystic lesion was seen in the middle and lower lobes of the right lung, was reported that there may be hydatid cyst. The patient underwent right lower bilobectomy and diaphragm resection, diaphragm was reconstructed with a dual mesh. Histopathologic diagnosis was reported as invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. There was no complication or recurrence in the case in the 24-month follow-up period. Thus, a cure was provided for our patient with invasive pulmonary aspergillosis, which was coincidentally diagnosed by pathology in the postoperative period.
Skipping Breakfast Everyday Keeps Well-being Away
Authors: Mohiuddin Ak
Published: April 2020

Breakfast, the first meal of the day, is considered the most important meal throughout the day.  As nutritionist Adelle Davis famously put it back in the 1960s: “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper”. Breakfast is most commonly skipped meal more than lunch and dinner specifically in the young adult in the university study period and those who wake up late. Lack of time is the main reason behind skipping meals, in general, lack of appetite, inability to cook, fasting/religion, and not being hungry. Many people are used to be in a hurry for job, business, children’s’ school in the morning where a filled stomach may prevent them to walk a long way. It is obvious that the irregular omission of breakfast may be effective in energy intake reduction over the next 24 hours and in this day, exercise performance may be compromised. There is no evidence that breakfast skipping reduces overeating or prevent weight gain. Some people argue that breakfast and good health is a marketing strategy by breakfast companies.
The Estimated Number of Occupational Diseases and Work-Related Diseases in Turkey
Authors: Kalaycı Defne , Alagüney Mehmet Erdem , Yıldız Ali Naci
Published: April 2020

Objective: The number of occupational diseases are lower than expected in Turkey. We aimed to estimate the number of occupational diseases, work-related diseases, and deaths due to occupational exposures by using international estimations of attribution of workplace in this descriptive study.

Methods: The attributable fraction values to occupation for selected diseases and deaths were compiled from the literature. Information on these diseases and deaths in Turkey was obtained from national burden of disease studies and statistics of Turkish Statistical Institute. The estimated number of occupational diseases, work-related diseases and deaths due to occupational exposures were calculated by using the number of diseases and deaths in Turkey and by the fraction of occupational exposures by using literature.

Results: Based on the data of national burden of disease studies in Turkey; 321,868 musculoskeletal disorders, 79,232 to 95,845 circulatory system diseases, 38,994 to 56,992 chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, 14,563 to 19,858 asthma cases, 29,550 hearing losses, and 4,902 to 16,341 cancer cases are estimated to be work-related. According to the Turkish Statistical Institute data, the number of deaths due to occupational causes was estimated to be 8,143 in circulatory system diseases; 1,913 in malignant tumors; and 2,130 in respiratory system diseases. However, the lowest and the highest number of occupational diseases announced by the Social Security Institution between 2007 and 2016 is 371 and 1,208, respectively.

Conclusion: There are deficiencies in the diagnosis and reporting of occupational diseases. In order to plan and implement preventive actions, data should be reported in a large scale and reliable manner.
Tp-e interval and Tp-e/QTc ratio are significantly increased in patients with brain death
Authors: Demirtaş Abdullah Orhan
Published: April 2020

Objective: We aimed to investigate whether there is a change in Tpe interval, Tpe/QT and Tpe/QTc ratios in patients with brain death.

Materials and Methods: Fifty brain death patients and 50 age and sex matched healthy controls were included in the study. In addition to routine evaluation, Tp-e interval, Tp-e / QT and Tp-e / QTc ratios were measured in 12-lead electrocardiography. Tp-e was measured in the precordial leads using the Tail method; the time from the peak of the T wave to the point where the wave reached the isoelectric line.

Results: White blood cell, aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase and high sensitive c reactive protein levels were significantly higher in patients with brain death. The frequency of patients with QTc prolongation, Tp-e interval, Tp-e/QT and Tp-e/QTc values were significantly higher in patients with brain death (p <0.05). Tp-e interval, Tp-e/QT and Tp-e/QTc values were found to be positively correlated with HsCRP (p<0.001 for all). The cutoff value of Tpe/QT ratio obtained by ROC curve analysis was 0.225 for prediction of brain death (sensitivity: 64.0%, specificity: 84.0%). The area under the curve (AUC) was 0.824 (p<0.001).

Conclusion: Tp-e interval, Tp-e / QT and Tp-e / QTc ratios are increased in patients with brain death compared to healthy controls. This may be related to the effect of the changing neuroendocrine state in patients with brain death.
Pain Managment of Multiple Rib Fractures on the Basis of Early Reduction and Fixation in Patients without Intensive Care Unit.
Authors: Ağababaoğlu Ismail
Published: April 2020

Objective: Blunt thoracic traumas are often complicated with rib fractures. The decision-making process of the treatment approaches not clear for clinicians. So, we aim to investigate the effect of surgical intervention on pain managment of patients as treatment indication.

Methods: Cases with 3 or more rib fractures were evaluated in our study. 84 patients underwent open reduction from 2014 to 2018  and 127 patients were treated conservatively from 2014 to 2018 included in the study. Surgery was performed for all cases in first 24-36 hours and no patient needed intensive care. The results of hospitalization time, pneumonia, rates, thoracic deformity rates on 6.month thorax computerized tomography, intercostal blockage requirement, postoperative 6.month quality of life questionnaire for pain and clinical outputs of two groups were retrospectively analyzed.

Results: The average  hospitalization was found that it was significantly different in favor of the surgical group (z = 6.674; p <0.001). Thoracic deformity rates, intercostal blockage requirement was found to be different between the surgery and non-surgery groups (χ2=7.149;p<0.001), (χ2=22.462;p<0.001). Pain and quality of life scores had also significant difference in favor of the surgical group, respectively (z = 9.270; p <0.001) and (z = 8.796; p <0.001). Additionally there was statistical difference in pneumonia rates (p= 0.020). We did not reach a statistically significant result between the early and late groups in pain 1 and pain 2 results (p1: 0.727, p2: 0.069).

Conclusions: There is no consensus on rib fractures. The results of our study suggest that open rib reduction and fixation can be better treatment option than conservative approach in terms of pneumonia rates, hospitalization time, thoracic deformity rates and pain management.
The Difference in Clinical and Prognostic Features Between De Novo and Recurrent Her2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients
Authors: Acikgoz Yusuf , Ergun Yakup , Ucar Gokhan , Dirikoc Merve , Uncu Dogan
Published: April 2020

Abstract

 

BACKGROUND: There are different data in the literature about the consequences of the development of metastasis as de novo or recurrent. In this study, we retrospectively investigated the clinicopathologic and prognostic characteristics of HER-2 positive de novo and recurrent metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: The data of patients admitted to our clinic between 1996-2017 were analyzed retrospectively. The baseline features, treatments and survival data were recorded. Recurrent metastatic patients were further categorized as disease free interval (DFI) <24 months and DFI >24 months. The features of two groups were analyzed by pearson chi-square test. Survival were calculated by using the Kaplan-Meier method with the Long-rank test. p <0.05 was considered statistically significant.

RESULTS: A total of 44 patients were included to study in which 20 patients in de novo HER-2 positive MBC group and 24 patients in recurrent HER-2 MBC group. There was no difference in baseline features between groups. The median OS in de novo and recurrent MBC group was 60.3 months and 43.9 months respectively (HR: 0.87, 95% CI 0.37-2.05, p=0.76). OS was not different between de novo MBC group and patients with DFI <24 months and with DFI > 24 months (p=0.135).

CONCLUSION: Our study showed that baseline features of patients with de novo HER-2 positive MBC and recurrent HER-2 positive MBC did not differ from each other. The presence of metastasis at the time of diagnosis or during follow-up did not change response to treatments.
Pathways and Inborn Errors of Bile Acid Synthesis
Authors: Obuz Ufuk Bozkurt , Lay Incilay
Published: April 2020

Bile acids are synthesized from cholesterol through 17 different enzymes located in different intracellular compartments of hepatocytes. Defects have been identified in the genes encoding the enzymes involved in the bile acid synthesis pathways and nine different diseases have been identified so far. In this review, four different biosynthetic pathway of bile acids together with disorders of bile acid synthesis is described. In inborn errors of bile acid synthesis clinical findings can range from liver failure to cirrhosis in infancy or progressive neuropathy in adolescence / adulthood. Laboratory analysis of urine profiling of bile acids is important in early diagnosis and early treatment.
Efek Neuroprotektor Kunyit pada Pasien Alzheimer
Authors: Gemiralda Rika Mutiara , Marlaokta Marlaokta , Marlaokta Marlaokta
Published: April 2020

Alzheimer merupakan penyakit neurogeneratif kronis progresif. Penyakit ini ditandai dengan gangguan fungsi luhur seperti bahasa, kalkulasi, kapasitas belajar dan sulit mengambil keputusan. ‘Pikun’ merupakan istilah yang digunakan masyarakat untuk menggambarkan penyakit ini. Kehilangan memori jangka pendek merupakan kekhasan dari penyakit ini yang menyebabkan penurunkan produktivitas. Alzheimer sering terjadi pada usia > 65 tahun dan juga ditemukan pada sekitar usia 40 tahun. Kunyit (Curcuma longa L.) merupakan tanaman yang berfungsi sebagai neuroprotektor karena dapat menghambat Protein Tau, akivitas asetilkolinesterase dan berfungsi sebagai anti agregasi Aβ dan β secretase inhibitor. Literature review ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan gambaran efek neuroprotektor pada kunyit terhadap pasien Alzheimer yang sudah dilakukan oleh peneliti sebelumnya. Metode yang digunakan dalam artikel ini adalah penelusuran artikel melalui database NCBI dan Google Scholar. Tahun penerbitan sumber pustaka adalah dari tahun 2001 sampai 2019 dengan 32 sumber pustaka.Tema dalam artikel yang dikumpulkan yaitu terkait gambaran efek neuroprotektor kunyit terhadap pasien Alzheimer. Hasil dari sintesa artikel yang telah ditemukan yaitu kunyit dapat mencegah penurunan kognitif pada pasien Alzheimer. Kata kunci : Alzheimer, Kunyit, Neuroprotektor EFFECT OF NEUROPROTECTOR TURMERIC ON ALZHEIMER’S PATIENTS ABSTRACT Alzheimer's is a chronic progressive neurogenerative disease. This disease is characterized by impaired noble functions such as language, calculations, learning capacity and difficulty making decisions. ‘Pikun’ is a word used by the community to describe this disease. Short-term memory loss is a spesific sign in the patient, this disease causes decrease in productivity. Alzheimer's often occurs at age> 65 years and is also found at around the age of 40 years. Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) is a plant that functions as a neuroprotector because it can inhibit Tau Proteins, acetylcholinesterase activity and function as anti-aggregation Aβ and β secretase inhibitors. This literature review aims to explain the description of the effects of neuroprotector on turmeric on Alzheimer's patients that have been done by previous researchers. The method used in this article is the search of articles through the NCBI and Google Scholar databases. The themes in the articles collected are related to the description of the effects of turmeric neuroprotector on Alzheimer's patients. The year of publication of library sources is from 2001 to 2019 with 32 library sources. The results of various articles included in this article are turmeric can prevent cognitive decline in Alzheimer's patients. Keywords: Alzheimer's,Turmeric, neuroprotector