bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Health Education With A Balanced Nutrition Pocketbook For Pregnant Women In The First Trimester
Authors: Dian Kumalasari Elis , Nurrasyidah Rahmi , Kuswati Kuswati
Published: February 2025

Introduction: Chronic energy deficiency can affect the growth of the fetus. Based on a preliminary study, 80% of pregnant women do not understand nutrition in early pregnancy. health education aims to make pregnant women healthier than before. The pocketbook has more flexible characteristics, is easy to carry anywhere, and can be read anytime.
Objective: This study aims to determine the effect of health education with pocketbooks on knowledge of balanced nutrition in pregnant women in the first trimester.
Method: This is a quantitative research type, pre-experiment one group pre-post test design without control. The population in this study were all pregnant women in the first trimester at the Independent Practice of Midwife Noris Hadi in February – March including 25 pregnant women. The sampling technique used was total sampling. The intervention was health education with the lecture method and discussion with pocketbook media. Data were analyzed univariately and bivariately. The instrument used a questionnaire that had been tested for validity and reliability.
Result: Almost all respondents are aged 20-35 years, pregnant women with a college education are very low, and most are working women. there were no pregnant women in the first trimester who experienced a decrease in scores after being given health education. The average increase in the score of 24 pregnant women was 12.5 points. There was 1 pregnant woman in the first trimester who had the same pre-test and post-test results.
Conclusion: there is a difference in test results before and after being given Health Education with a pocketbook regarding knowledge of balanced nutrition for pregnant women.
KẾT QUẢ PHẪU THUẬT ĐIỀU TRỊ GÃY Ổ CỐI, SAI KHỚP HÁNG THỂ TRUNG TÂM
Authors: Vũ Anh Dũng , Phạm Ngọc Thắng , Phạm Tiến Thành , Vũ Nhất Định
Published: February 2025

Mục tiêu: Đánh giá kết quả phẫu thuật điều trị gãy ổ cối, sai khớp háng thể trung tâm do chấn thương ở người trưởng thành. Phương pháp nghiên cứu: Nghiên cứu tiến cứu, điều trị phẫu thuật kết xương bên trong bằng nẹp vít cho 12 trường hợp (TH) bị gãy ổ cối, sai khớp háng thể trung tâm do chấn thương tại Bệnh viện Quân y 103 từ tháng 01/2021 - 01/2024. Kết quả: Đối tượng từ 44 - 70 tuổi gồm 8 bệnh nhân (BN) nam và 4 BN nữ. 11/12 TH tổn thương do tai nạn giao thông, 1/12 TH do ngã cao. 3/12 TH gãy loại 62B, 9/12 TH gãy loại 62C. 3/12 TH bị tổn thương trực tràng, 1/12 TH tổn thương bàng quang. Kết quả sớm: 9/12 TH vị trí của chỏm xương đùi cân đối với bên đối diện, 3/12 TH còn bị di lệch lên trên và vào trong. Kết quả xa: 8/12 TH đạt kết quả tốt và rất tốt, 1/12 TH đạt kết quả trung bình, 3/12 TH đạt kết quả kém. Kết luận: Phẫu thuật đưa chỏm xương đùi về vị trí giải phẫu, nắn chỉnh phục hồi giải phẫu ổ cối, kết xương cố định ổ gãy bằng nẹp vít với đường chậu bẹn là lựa chọn an toàn, hiệu quả.
PHÂN TÍCH ĐẶC ĐIỂM MỘT SỐ BIẾN ĐỔI DI TRUYỀN GENE KRAS, BRAF VÀ HSP110 Ở BỆNH NHÂN UNG THƯ ĐẠI TRỰC TRÀNG
Authors: Vũ Sơn Giang , Nguyễn Thị Thân , Nguyễn Lĩnh Toàn , Hồ Văn Sơn
Published: February 2025

Mục tiêu: Xác định tỷ lệ đột biến gene KRAS, BRAF, HSP110 và mối tương quan với phân type mô bệnh học ở nhóm bệnh nhân (BN) polyp đại trực tràng so sánh với ung thư đại trực tràng (UTĐTT). Phương pháp nghiên cứu: Nghiên cứu mô tả cắt ngang sử dụng kỹ thuật Real-time PCR xác định tỷ lệ đột biến KRAS, BRAF và HSP110 trên 149 BN được chẩn đoán mắc UTĐTT và 109 BN polyp tại Bệnh viện Quân y 175 từ năm 2022 - 2024. Kết quả: Đã xác định được tần suất đột biến KRAS, BRAF và HSP110 ở nhóm UTĐTT tương ứng là 36,9%, 5,4% và 17,4% so với nhóm polyp lần lượt là 21,1%, 2,8% và 37,6%; sự khác biệt có ý nghĩa thống kê (p < 0,05). Đột biến KRAS có mối tương quan với phân type mô bệnh học (p = 0,049). Ngoài ra, đột biến KRAS có xu hướng xuất hiện cùng đột biến HSP110, trong khi không có mẫu bệnh phẩm nào dương tính với cả KRAS/BRAF hay HSP110/BRAF. Kết luận: Tỷ lệ mang đột biến KRAS, BRAF tăng lên ở BN UTĐTT trong khi đột biến gene HSP110 giảm. Có sự khác biệt giữa tỷ lệ đột biến KRAS ở các nhóm BN khác nhau về phân type mô bệnh học. Các đột biến BRAF và HSP110 là ngẫu nhiên giữa các nhóm BN UTĐTT.
TÌNH TRẠNG DINH DƯỠNG TRƯỚC PHẪU THUẬT CỦA BỆNH NHÂN UNG THƯ ỐNG TIÊU HOÁ THEO TIÊU CHUẨN GLIM TẠI BỆNH VIỆN QUÂN Y 103
Authors: Nguyễn Duy Đông , Nguyễn Thị Thuý An
Published: February 2025

Mục tiêu: Đánh giá tình trạng dinh dưỡng của bệnh nhân (BN) ung thư ống tiêu hoá trước phẫu thuật tại Bệnh viện Quân y 103 theo tiêu chuẩn Sáng kiến ​​Lãnh đạo Toàn cầu về Suy dinh dưỡng (Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition - GLIM). Phương pháp nghiên cứu: Nghiên cứu mô tả cắt ngang trên 55 BN ung thư ống tiêu hoá trước phẫu thuật có chuẩn bị tại Khoa Phẫu thuật Ống tiêu hoá, Bệnh viện Quân y 103, từ tháng 01/2023 - 01/2024. Tình trạng dinh dưỡng được đánh giá bằng tiêu chuẩn GLIM. Các thông tin chung, tình trạng bệnh, nhân trắc, một số chỉ số xét nghiệm cũng được thu thập. Kết quả: 60% BN có tình trạng suy dinh dưỡng theo tiêu chuẩn GLIM. Sự khác biệt có ý nghĩa thống kê giữa tình trạng dinh dưỡng với vị trí ung thư, giai đoạn ung thư, chu vi giữa cánh tay (mid-arm circumference - MAC), chu vi phần cơ giữa cánh tay (mid-arm muscle circumference - MAMC), chu vi bắp chân (calf circumference - CC), thiếu máu, lympho máu và NLR. Phân tích hồi quy logistic đa biến về các yếu tố ảnh hưởng tới tình trạng dinh dưỡng ở BN, MAMC thấp và NLR cao là những yếu tố dự báo độc lập. Kết luận: Tỷ lệ suy dinh dưỡng ở BN ung thư ống tiêu hoá trước phẫu thuật có chuẩn bị chiếm 60%. Có mối liên quan giữa tình trạng dinh dưỡng với vị trí ung thư, giai đoạn ung thư, MAC, MAMC, CC, thiếu máu, lympho máu, NLR. MAMC thấp và NLR cao là những yếu tố dự báo độc lập tình trạng suy dinh dưỡng trong phân tích hồi quy logistic đa biến.
KẾT QUẢ ĐIỀU TRỊ HÓA XẠ TRỊ ĐỒNG THỜI UNG THƯ THỰC QUẢN GIAI ĐOẠN TIẾN TRIỂN TẠI CHỖ TẠI VÙNG
Authors: Vũ Anh Hải , Nguyễn Thị Hoan
Published: February 2025

Mục tiêu: Đánh giá kết quả hóa xạ trị đồng thời điều trị ung thư thực quản (UTTQ) giai đoạn tiến triển tại chỗ tại vùng và phân tích một số yếu tố liên quan. Phương pháp nghiên cứu: Nghiên cứu hồi cứu, mô tả, không đối chứng trên 61 bệnh nhân (BN) ung thư biểu mô vảy thực quản, được hóa xạ trị đồng thời kỹ thuật xạ 3D và phác đồ hóa chất Paclitaxel-Carboplatin (PC) chu kỳ hàng tuần tại Bệnh viện Quân y 103 từ tháng 01/2019 - 11/2022. Kết quả: Tuổi trung bình là 56,8 (32 - 75); 100,0% là nam giới. BN thuyên giảm và không còn triệu chứng sau điều trị chiếm 80,3%. Triệu chứng nuốt nghẹn giảm rõ rệt sau điều trị (p < 0,001). Đánh giá đáp ứng khách quan theo tiêu chuẩn RECIST 1.1, tỷ lệ đáp ứng chung là 81,9%, BN đáp ứng một phần chiếm tỷ lệ cao nhất (55,7%), tỷ lệ tiến triển khi hóa xạ trị thấp (3,3%). Phác đồ an toàn, chỉ gặp biến chứng nhẹ, viêm da có tỷ lệ cao nhất (67,0%). Phân tích ghi nhận thể trạng người bệnh tốt hơn, giai đoạn bệnh theo T (Tumor), theo N (Node) và TNM (Tumor - Node - Metastasis) sớm hơn là những yếu tố tiên lượng đáp ứng tốt hơn sau điều trị (p < 0,05). Kết luận: Hóa xạ trị đồng thời tiền phẫu và triệt căn có hiệu quả khả quan, dung nạp tốt.
MỐI LIÊN QUAN GIỮA TÌNH TRẠNG VIÊM LỢI VÀ CÁC YẾU TỐ LIÊN QUAN TRÊN BỆNH NHÂN CHỈNH NHA TẠI BỆNH VIỆN QUÂN Y 103
Authors: Đinh Viết Thắng , Trần Thu Giang , Hà Phan Lâm
Published: February 2025

Mục tiêu: Đánh giá mối liên quan giữa tình trạng viêm lợi và các yếu tố liên quan ở bệnh nhân (BN) chỉnh nha tại Bệnh viện Quân y 103. Phương pháp nghiên cứu: Nghiên cứu mô tả cắt ngang trên 94 BN chỉnh nha mắc cài ít nhất ba tháng từ tháng 6/2022 - 8/2024. Thu thập dữ liệu bao gồm chỉ số lợi (gingival index - GI), chỉ số mảng bám (plaque index - PLI) và chỉ số chảy máu rãnh lợi (sulcus bleeding index - SBI). Các biến số bao gồm tuổi, giới tính, thời gian đeo mắc cài, thói quen vệ sinh răng miệng, sử dụng các công cụ hỗ trợ vệ sinh răng miệng và lấy cao răng định kỳ. Kết quả: Có 78,8% BN có tình trạng viêm lợi từ trung bình đến nặng. Chỉ số GI, PLI và SBI ở nhóm < 15 tuổi cao hơn nhóm > 15 tuổi. BN sử dụng các công cụ hỗ trợ làm sạch có chỉ số GI, PLI và SBI thấp hơn đáng kể (p < 0,05). Ngoài ra, thời gian đeo mắc cài và tần suất chải răng, lấy cao răng định kỳ cũng là những yếu tố quan trọng ảnh hưởng đến mức độ viêm lợi. Kết luận: Duy trì vệ sinh răng miệng đúng cách thông qua việc chải răng thường xuyên và sử dụng các công cụ hỗ trợ, lấy cao răng định kỳ có thể giảm thiểu tình trạng viêm lợi ở BN chỉnh nha.
Nutritional Enhancement and Organoleptic Assessment of Gluten-free and Millet-based Murukku Fortified with Chia Seeds (Salvia hispanica L.)
Authors: Srivastav Shubhangi , Singh Pragati , Chauhan Ekta Singh
Published: February 2025

Murukku is a spiral-shaped, savoury snack mainly popular in Southern parts of India. It is a deep-fried delicacy made out of rice flour, black lentils and seasoning. However, the use of millets in developing everyday snack is a better way to incorporate varieties of cereals in the diet. The study aims to design a gluten-free millet murukku enriched with Chia seeds powder in different proportions in order to evaluate its nutritional and sensorial characteristics. The recipe was optimised and developed to undergo standardised laboratory procedures and 9-point hedonic scale rating. The conventional recipe and the modified variants were analysed for organoleptic scores through ANOVA (Analysis of Variance). A total of 3 variants were prepared having chia seeds powder in 5%, 10% and 15% proportions respectively. The most acceptable sample was found to be variant T2, with an overall acceptability quotient of 8.78±1.63, depicting a notable increase in moisture (7.41 g/100g), fibre, (13.48 g/100g), carbohydrate (54.15 g/100g), calcium (131.13 mg/100g) and iron (4.33 mg/100g) but a slight increment in protein and a significant decrease in fat (13.96 g/100g) content when compared with the control sample of murukku. The baked version of this gluten-free, millet-based snack offers a healthier alternative to health-conscious consumers looking for nutrient-dense, palatable and functionally satisfying snack food. This study enhances the concept of mindful snacking that caters to individuals with dietary restrictions.
Tensionamentos entre gênero, sexualidade e educação na formação de pedagogos
Authors: Rebouças Willame Anderson Simões , Silva Yatamuri Rafaelly Cosme da
Published: February 2025

Esta pesquisa partiu do intuito de debater os temas envolvendo gênero, sexualidade e educação na formação de pedagogos, tendo como base a literatura especializada encontrada sobre o assunto. Com vistas a cumprir com o que foi proposto, seguiu por uma abordagem qualitativa de estudo, como também, pelo viés da pesquisa bibliográfica. Assim, foi realizado um levantamento de artigos científicos e publicações em livros em duas bases de dados principais, sendo elas, Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) e Google Scholar (Google Acadêmico). O principal critério seletivo foi a aproximação dos trabalhos ao tema da pesquisa, a partir da leitura de resumos, objetivos e resultados das obras. Após selecionar os trabalhos mais relevantes, o passo seguinte foi a leitura integral desses materiais, identificando resultados e principais considerações a respeito do tema deste artigo. Resultou da análise o entendimento que o despreparo social com a diversidade de expressões de gênero e de sexualidade se alinha a um desconhecimento não apenas quanto aos temas envolvendo gênero e sexualidade, mas também sobre as tantas possibilidades para se experienciar o gênero e a sexualidade. Trazendo para a formação em pedagogia, compreendeu-se que os conhecimentos em gênero e sexualidade são emergenciais para o fazer dessa atuação na pedagogia, pois, ao entrarem nas instituições educativas, os alunos não retiram o gênero ou a sexualidade de si, eles o acompanham e, portanto, trarão seus questionamentos pessoais para esse espaço escolar. Em conclusão, considera-se necessário refletir de maneira crítica com relação às prioridades curriculares na formação de pedagogos, haja vista que, são profissionais fundamentais na sociedade.
Estructura de entrevista para niños como herramienta en la promoción de técnicas de cepillado dental adecuadas
Authors: Morales Gabriela , Valdez Grissel , García Serna Erick
Published: February 2025

La placa dental se forma a partir de una película adquirida como resultado de la alimentación que se deposita sobre las superficies dentales, por lo que un buen cepillado dental ayuda a mitigar los problemas a futuro que podría causar. La enseñanza y práctica de medidas preventivas en salud bucal desde la infancia es fundamental, por lo que los padres son los principales responsables durante esta etapa, ya que los niños carecen de conocimientos y aprenden de lo que observan para hacerlo por sí mismos. Este estudio propone una serie de preguntas para una entrevista dirigida a alumnos de preescolar con el fin de conocer su percepción y prácticas relacionadas con la salud bucal. La metodología del estudio se basa en un diseño de investigación no experimental y documental, utilizando fuentes secundarias y la observación sistemática en un preescolar. Se realizó una revisión de literatura para identificar los aspectos centrales a considerar en el diseño de la entrevista y se elaboró un registro anecdótico de las interacciones de los infantes y su capacidad para responder preguntas sobre salud bucal. Finalmente, se contrastaron los hallazgos de la revisión y la observación para diseñar la guía de entrevista, que incluye preguntas abiertas y cerradas, así como opciones de respuesta visuales para facilitar la participación de los niños. La guía de entrevista busca recopilar información relevante sobre los hábitos de higiene bucal en niños de edad preescolar, con el fin de identificar áreas de mejora y promover prácticas adecuadas de cepillado dental.
IMPLEMENTASI PAMERAN KARYA SENI RUPA SEMESTER AKHIR SISWA KELAS X DI SMK MUHAMMADIYAH 2 BONTOALA MAKASSAR
Authors: Ardiansyah Irwan , Kadir Irsan , B pasyah Soekarno
Published: February 2025

Penelitian ini mengeksplorasi implementasi pameran seni rupa sebagai metode pembelajaran di SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Bontoala Makassar. Kegiatan pameran ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan keterampilan teknis dan non-teknis siswa, seperti kreativitas, kerja sama tim, dan manajemen acara. Dengan pendekatan kualitatif, data dikumpulkan melalui observasi, wawancara, dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pameran seni rupa tidak hanya meningkatkan apresiasi seni tetapi juga membangun karakter dan keterampilan manajerial siswa. Siswa belajar merencanakan dan melaksanakan pameran dengan tanggung jawab, mulai dari pengelolaan karya hingga promosi acara. Dukungan dari pihak sekolah dan guru seni budaya menjadi faktor penting dalam keberhasilan pameran ini. Penelitian ini menyoroti manfaat pameran seni rupa dalam memotivasi siswa untuk menghasilkan karya berkualitas tinggi dan meningkatkan kepercayaan diri mereka. Kegiatan ini juga memberikan ruang untuk mengeksplorasi potensi individu sekaligus memperkuat kolaborasi antar siswa. Meskipun demikian, beberapa tantangan seperti keterbatasan anggaran dan koordinasi antar panitia tetap menjadi perhatian. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa pameran seni rupa adalah strategi pembelajaran inovatif yang efektif dalam membentuk lingkungan belajar yang dinamis dan inspiratif. Hasilnya diharapkan dapat memberikan kontribusi terhadap pengembangan pembelajaran seni rupa di tingkat sekolah menengah.
Polygonal symplectic billiards
Authors: Albers Peter , Banhatti Gautam , Sadlo Filip , Schwartz Richard , Tabachnikov Serge
Published: February 2025

In this article, we study polygonal symplectic billiards. We provide new results, some of which are inspired by numerical investigations. In particular, we present several polygons for which all orbits are periodic. We demonstrate their properties and derive various conjectures using two numerical implementations.
Integral and rational representations of forms
Authors: Duke William
Published: February 2025

Criteria are given for the integral representation of a binary quartic form by certain integral ternary quadratic forms and its rational representation by some discriminant forms. These conditions depend on integral or rational solutions of a Weierstrass equation associated to the forms.
4-strand Burau is unfaithful modulo 5
Authors: Gibson Joel , Williamson Geordie , Yacobi Oded
Published: February 2025

We introduce a new algorithm for finding kernel elements in the Burau representation. Our algorithm applies reservoir sampling to a statistic on matrices which is closely correlated with Garside length. Using this we exhibit an explicit kernel element in the Burau representation on 4-strands reduced modulo 5.
Improving the Quality of Civic Education Learning Through the Application of Audio-visual Media
Authors: Rahmawati Eka Fitri , Yayuk Chayatun Machsunah , Sutarum Sutarum
Published: February 2025

This study aimed to improve the quality of learning through the application of audio-visual-based learning media. Using the ADDIE instructional design, the results of the study indicated that in achieving learning objectives, planning is an essential step in creating effective and efficient learning. Planning is an activity carried out by the teacher in the classroom before the lesson begins, starting with the analysis phase, which aims to identify potential causes of a performance gap in the learning process. The design phase aims to verify the learning capabilities and the appropriate teaching methods. The development phase aims to create and validate the chosen learning resources. The implementation phase is intended for the teacher to prepare the learning environment and engage students effectively in the learning process. The evaluation phase aims to assess the quality of the product and the teaching process, both before and after the implementation. This study produced an audio-visual learning media product to enhance the motivation and interest of 5th-grade students at SD Negeri 1 Kramat in Civic Education learning. Through the use of audio-visual learning media, students can engage with educational content in a more enjoyable and interactive way, enhancing their comprehension of the material. The findings of this study highlight the potential for such media to enrich the learning experience. It provides meaningful insights for teachers and policymakers focused on advancing education, as well as researchers in the field. Recommendations emphasize the importance of enhancing technical support, improving teacher competencies, and fostering better coordination to ensure the effective integration of instructional design-based learning media, ultimately aiming to elevate the quality of education in schools.
Comparison of Analytical Hierarchy Process and Analytical Network Process Methods In Determining The Best Tourist Attractions In West Sumatra Province
Authors: Kurnia Kana , Rama M. Bryant , Subakja Triyawan Bagus , Sastrawan Syukri , Septiandri Yogi , Ilham Muhammad Igo
Published: February 2025

A tourist attraction is a place visited for its natural beauty, culture, history, or recreation, such as beaches, mountains, national parks, historical buildings, museums, and amusement parks. Each has its unique charm, with some becoming iconic symbols and major tourist destinations. Tourist attractions are vital to the tourism industry, boosting economic growth and preserving cultural and natural heritage.West Sumatra is one of the provinces in Indonesia that is rich in natural and cultural beauty. In an effort to develop the tourism industry in this area, the selection of the right tourist sites is very important. There are 5 references in determining the best tourist attractions in West Sumatra Province, which include Natural Beauty, Cultural Diversity, Infrastructure, Price, and Cleanliness. Meanwhile, there are 5 alternatives that are used as references in determining the best tourist attractions in West Sumatra Province, namely Padang Beach, Carocok Beach, Sianok Gorge, Harau Valley, and Anai Valley. From the experiments that have been carried out, the rank changes that occur with the AHP and ANP methods are shown in Table 13. It can be seen that the AHP method has a higher percentage of sensitivity with a total percentage of 0.25% compared to the percentage of 0.14% in the ANP method. This proves that the AHP method is better than the ANP method for determining tourist attractions in West Sumatra Province.
Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms in Diabetes Risk Classification
Authors: Dwinnie Zairy Cindy , Dwynne Zaira Cindya , Islam Mohammed Jahidul , Noviarni Noviarni
Published: February 2025

Diabetes is a disease in which blood sugar levels are excessive without insulin control so that body functions do not function normally. Diabetes is also a disease that many people suffer from and is one of the main causes of death throughout the world. For this reason, we need to know the factors that are indicators of someone suffering from diabetes. This research compares the Decision Tree, Logistic Regression, and K-Nearest Neighbors algorithms with accuracy and Confusion Matrix parameters to determine diabetes sufferers in 520 data with the main indicator attributes supporting diabetes. From the test results of the three algorithms, the Decision Tree and K-Nearest Neighbors models have the highest accuracy of 86%. The Logistic Regression Algorithm has a fairly good accuracy of 83%.
Performance Evaluation of Machine Learning Algorithms in Predicting Global Warming: A Comparative Study of Random Forest, K-Nearest Neighbors and Support Vector Machine
Authors: Putri Anisa , Martiansah Refri , Safiesza Qhairani Frilla F. , Abduh Muhammad Fahri
Published: February 2025

Global Warming is a global warming phenomenon that has a significant impact on human health and the environment. This research aims to apply Machine Learning algorithms, namely the Random Forest algorithm, K-Nearest Neighbors (K-NN), and Support Vector Machines (SVM) in predicting global warming. First, global warming data downloaded from Kaggle via dataset is used as research material. Then, a global warming prediction model is built using this algorithm and then evaluated using criteria such as Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Mean Squared Error (MSE), Root Mean squared error (RMSE), R2, and Confusion Matrix. Finally, based on the evaluation results, research confirms that the K-NN algorithm shows the best performance, with the highest R2 value and low prediction error compared to other algorithms, such as Random Forest which shows the lowest performance. In terms of classification, K-NN achieved the highest accuracy (96.55%) and excellent performance in the confusion matrix and classification report. Overall, the findings of this study emphasize the dominance of K-NN in this context, thereby providing a strong basis for selecting models for predicting global warming phenomena.
Implementation of Supervised Learning Algorithm on Spotify Music Genre Classification
Authors: Fiqri Muhammad , Lizen Farhan Bin Siddik , Ikrom Muhammad
Published: February 2025

Spotify is a music streaming application that has been around since 2008. In the application, users can compile a playlist of songs they want to listen to. Users can determine the name of the singer, type of music, music genre and tempo of the music they want to listen to play as needed. The genre received by each user from his device will produce different recommendations, this is due to the classification process based on music listening behavior, such as songs that are often, rarely, or even never listened to or played at all by users. Therefore, the process of classifying music genres on spotify with the help of machine learning using supervised learning algorithms with algorithms namely Naïve Bayes, K-Nearest Neighbors (K-NN), Random Forest and Decision Tree with the aim of comparing the accuracy of each algorithm so as to get the best model for calcification. The results of this study obtained Random Forest has the highest accuracy value of 79.40%, followed by Decision Tree at 79.30%.  In the next position Naïve Bayes with an accuracy value of 77.28%, the algorithm with the lowest accuracy is K-NN with an accuracy value of 60.74%. Meanwhile, evaluation with the t-test algorithm with the best performance is obtained from the Random Forest algorithm with a value of 0.794. It can be concluded that the best algorithm in music genre classification on Spotify is using Random Forest.
KARAKTERISTIK BAMBU APUS BANYUWANGI LAMINASI SUSUNAN LURUS BERDASARKAN KUAT TEKAN DAN KUAT LENTUR
Authors: Solikin Toha Fikri Rafsanjani , Rifqi Mirza Ghulam
Published: February 2025

Bambu merupakan salah satu bahan yang dapat digunakan sebagai alternatif pengganti kayu, dengan masa panen paling cepat berumur 3 tahun. Bambu memiliki kekuatan yang besar namun belum dikembangkan secara maksimal, untuk mengatasi hal tersebut maka dikembangkan teknik pengolahan bambu menjadi laminasi balok. Berdasarkan hasil pengujian fisik dan mekanik bambu Apus memiliki karakteristik mirip dengan jenis bambu Jawa, Ampel dan Kuning sedangkan berdasarkan pengujian bambu laminasi, kelas kuat bambu Apus laminasi pada penelitian ini memiliki karakteristik yang mirip dengan kayu Meranti, Sungkai, Keruing, dan Merbau. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kuat tekan pisau bambu rata-rata sebesar 387,90 kg/cm² dan kuat tarik pisau bambu Apus diperoleh rata-rata sebesar 3.109,11 kg/cm². Dari hasil pengujian kuat kuat laminasi bambu Apus menghasilkan nilai rata-rata sebesar 299,51 kg/cm², pengujian kuat tarik laminasi bambu Apus menghasilkan nilai rata-rata sebesar 5.481,85 kg/cm², sedangkan untuk kuat lentur laminasi bambu Apus menghasilkan nilai rata-rata sebesar 704,58 kg/cm², dan untuk nilai modulus elastisitas dari pengujian ketahanan diperoleh nilai rata-rata sebesar 25.634,20 MPa. Dari hasil pengujian bambu Apus laminasi susunan lurus berdasarkan kuat tekan, kuat tarik dan kuat lentur maka karakteristiknya mendekati pendekatan kelas kuat kayu III dan memiliki kode mutu kayu E25.
Software testing for peer-to-peer systems: Challenges and the state-of-the-art
Authors: E. R. Garcia Bruno , R. S. Souza Simone
Published: February 2025

Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, characterized by their decentralized architecture, have become crucial to various applications such as file sharing, content distribution, and blockchain technologies. Due to their dynamic and heterogeneous nature, ensuring their reliability and robustness presents challenges. Such an issue has motivated researchers to develop testing techniques for these systems. Despite advances in research about software testing for distributed systems, there is a lack of data about their applicability and which features from P2P systems are highlighted by the proposed testing approaches. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art software testing for P2P systems. We systematically examine the inherent challenges and situations. Our findings show that some aspects of P2P systems can make the software testing activity difficult, such as validation of global properties and consensus, peer churn, a large volume of data, malformed data, reproducibility, and non-determinism. Several testing techniques have been used in this context, such as model-based testing, fault injection, fuzzing, stress testing, differential testing, conformance testing, and concurrency testing. We highlight fuzzing for testing malformed data, global properties, parallel events, and model-based testing as a powerful technique to abstract the complexities and varieties of P2P applications during the testing activities. Moreover, blockchain applications are the most addressed P2P application explored by the studies, where most papers were published in 2023, highlighting the theme’s relevance.
Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860
Authors: Krill Rosemary Troy
Published: February 2025

Winterthur Museum is world renowned for its decorative arts collections and its exceptional educational programs. Adapted from the training materials developed at the museum, the revised and enhanced Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860: A Handbook for Interpreters is an indispensable guide for anyone involved with interpretation of decorative arts collections. Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860 elucidates the principles of public interpretation, explains how to analyze objects, and defines the concept of style. Eighteen chapters provide comprehensive descriptions of decorative arts including furniture, ceramics, textiles, paintings and prints, metalwork, glass, and other objects. Many museums and historic sites display such collections to thousands of visitors annually. Guides, interpreters, educators, and collection managers will find this book a helpful summary and a guide to further research. This enhanced edition includes now includes a CD featuring beautiful color images of the more than 170 black-and-white photographs in the book, bringing the Winterthur collections to life on your computer and in your classroom. Published in cooperation with Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.
The Eastern Archaic, Historicized
Authors: Sassaman Kenneth E.
Published: February 2025

The Eastern Archaic, Historicized offers an alternative perspective on the genesis and transformation of cultural diversity over eight millennia of hunter-gatherer dwelling in eastern North America. For many decades, archaeological understanding of Archaic diversity has been dominated by perspectives that emphasize localized relationships between humans and environment. The evidence, shows, however that Archaic people routinely associated with other groups throughout eastern North America and expressed themselves materially in ways that reveal historical links to other places and times. Starting with the colonization of eastern North America by two distinct ancestral lines, the Eastern Archaic was an era of migrations, ethnogenesis, and coalescence—an 8,200-year era of making histories through interactions and expressing them culturally in ritual and performance.
Notes from the Center of Turtle Island
Authors: Champagne Duane
Published: February 2025

Duane Champagne has been presenting a series of comments on Indian policy, history, and culture since October 2006 in the newspaper Indian Country Today. This book provides a compilation of many of these editorials, plus two chapters not previously published. The contemplative writing by this well-respected scholar are comments and thoughts on a variety of issues that have arisen in his academic work and the classroom, but mainly through his direct contact and work with tribal communities. The purpose of these thought-provoking editorials is to create discussion about the issues that confront indigenous peoples and to educate a broad audience about the complexities of American Indian issues. Students, policy makers, and all people interested in American Indian or indigenous people's issues will find this book to be an interesting and stimulating read.
Sacred Games, Death, and Renewal in the Ancient Eastern Woodlands
Authors: Byers A. Martin
Published: February 2025

The book presents an account of the Ohio Middle Woodland period embankment earthworks, ca 100 B.C. to A.D. 400, that is radically different from the prevailing theory. Byers critically addresses all the arguments and characterizations that make up the current treatment of the embankment earthworks and then presents an alternative interpretation. This unconventional view hinges on two basic social characterizations: the complementary heterarchical community model and the cult sodality heterarchy model. Byers posits that these two models interact to characterize the Ohio Middle Woodland period settlement pattern; the community was constituted by autonomous social formations: clans based on kinship and sodalities based on companionship. The individual communities of the region each have their clan components dispersed within a fairly well-defined zone while the sodality components of the same set of region-wide communities ally with each other and build and operate the embankment earthworks. This dichotomy is possible only because the clans and sodalities respect each other as relatively autonomous; the affairs of the clans, focusing on domestic and family matters, remain outside the concerns of the sodalities and the affairs of the sodalities, focusing on world renewal and sacred games, remain outside the concerns of the clans. Therefore, two models are required to understand the embankment earthworks and no individual earthwork can be identified with any particular community. This radical interpretation grounded in empirical archaeological data, as well as the in-depth overview of the current theory of the Ohio Middle Woodland period, make this book a critically important addition to the perspective of scholars of North American archaeology and scholars grappling with prehistoric social systems.
The Picnic
Authors: Levy Walter
Published: February 2025

Picnics are happy occasions and have always been a diversion from every day cares. We think of the picnic as an outdoor meal, set on a blanket, usually in the middle of the day, featuring a hamper filled with tasty morsels and perhaps a bottle of wine, but historically picnics came in many forms, served any time of the day. This first culinary history reveals rustic outdoor dining in its more familiar and unusual forms, the history of the word itself, the cultural context of picnics and who arranged them, and, most important, the gastronomic appeal. Drawing on various media and literature, painting, music, and even sculpture, Walter Levy provides an engaging and enlightening history of the picnic.
Listening to Sea Lions
Authors: Meltzoff Sarah Keene
Published: February 2025

From the Galapagos to the depths of Patagonia and up along the stark desert coast of Chile, Listening to Sea Lions’ empathic ethnography carries the reader directly into the heart of the ocean world of Latino coastal people. Sea lions are the fellow denizens in nature who share the perpetual changes and are seen as metaphoric selves. Meltzoff uses storytelling rather than explicit theory to help explain local struggles and survival strategies wrought by extreme El Niño events and shifting political climates. Embedded within the six multi-sited ethnographies are global themes in coastal communities, from boom-and-bust fisheries to the rivalries among fisheries, tourism, conservation interests. The overall picture is sea-change and impermanence as a local way of life by the ocean.
Catholic Spirituality and Prayer in the Secular City
Authors: Burns Robert A.
Published: February 2025

In the United States, against the background of secularization, the religious atmospheres have changed radically in the past 40 years. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Immigration and Naturalization Act, which opened America's doors to immigrants from all over the world. As a result, approximately one million immigrants legally enter the United States each year and bring with them religions traditions such as Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Catholic Spirituality and Prayer in the Secular City presents the role of religion and spirituality in a rapidly changing religious scenario. Author Robert A. Burns explores ways Catholics have been called upon to develop their spiritual lives in the most religious pluralistic society that has ever existed. Burns acknowledges the struggle that many people face when seeking a deeper spirituality and do not now where or how to begin, and seeks to guide readers through the confusion and back to the meaning of spirituality. This book leads readers through the various approaches taken to achieving a deeper spiritual life by presenting and discussing the religious philosophies of spiritual leaders throughout history. Ultimately, Catholic Spirituality and Prayer in the Secular City provides readers with the ability to see themselves in a proper context by offering a new avenue for deeper spirituality.
The Culture of Jazz
Authors: Salamone Frank A.
Published: February 2025

The Culture of Jazz is a collection of essays that view jazz from an anthropological perspective. It focuses on aspects of jazz culture and the ways in which jazz scrutinizes the American lifestyle. Jazz musicians filter their perspective on culture based on African roots. They have an obligation to tell truth to power and provide views of alternative realities. These essays explore many dimensions of the jazz life and its perspectives on cultural realities. Heavily influenced by the perspectives of Neil Leonard and Alan Merriam, The Culture of Jazz covers a broad range of topics making it an unparalleled compilation.
Makiguchi and Gandhi
Authors: Sharma Namrata
Published: February 2025

Makiguchi and Gandhi explores ideas about Japanese educator Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (1871-1944) and Indian political leader Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) as examples of inspiration for large mass movements in the 20th century. Based on research done in Japan, India, Hawai'i, and the United Kingdom, this book breaks new ground by examining and theorizing the fate of dissident thinkers and raises the question often asked by both Gandihan and Soka scholars alike- were they truly radical thinkers?
In the Forest
Authors: Pandya Vishvajit
Published: February 2025

There are always at least two 'histories' of encounter or contact, as each party would tell the story differently, but where and when is it really the 'first contact' and for whom? This book deploys an analytical framework developed from Semiotics to have both sides of the story address each other. It is ethnography of dialogue, emerging from textual representation by outsiders and its relationship to visual response and presentations by the Andaman Islanders that this book aims to present as the critical 'ethnography of history.' The section on Visuality looks at how the 'Other' is incorporated into an organized knowledge-system, including Ongee myths and songs about outsiders and the early photographs of tribal people by British settlers and ethnographers. The section on Materiality concerns the investment in things made, to influence natural processes or to distinguish the human body, and discusses how they are transacted between cultures that come into contact. The concluding section on history addresses encounters and developments in which the experiences of both tribal and settler are implicated more thoroughly than in the transaction of objects. Thus juxtaposing alternative perspectives on change indicates areas of experience unaccounted for in the dominant discourse and shows the provisionality of images.
Every Pot Has a Cover
Authors: Salamon Michael J.
Published: February 2025

Every Pot Has a Cover intends to help individuals achieve the insight needed to find and keep a suitable life partner. There is finally solid research that indicates why some marriages are successful and others are not—the key is compatibility. A successful marriage demands a commitment to understanding one's own unique personality profile and realizing that while opposites have certain attractions, life mates should share many similarities. This book explains current research and enables readers to assess levels of personality compatibility. For over 20 years, Dr. Michael J. Salamon has worked as a clinician and researcher whose primary interests have been personality relationships and life-satisfaction. As a result, this book focuses mainly on the following areas; an understanding of personality traits, attributes and disorders and how they impact relationships, a test to measure personality compatibility, and how to strengthen a relationship once there is compatibility.
Exploring Intimacy
Authors: Robins Suzann Panek
Published: February 2025

Building off the idea that when we are happier, we tend to be healthier, Robins explains the phenomenon of how our intuitive knowing fosters healthy relationships that contribute to our physical, mental, and emotional health. Readers learn to utilize a variety of pathways that will change their responses to others and will produce lasting, more rewarding, and closer relationships in all areas of their lives. This book is designed to aid readers in looking inward and experiencing how their intuitive sixth sense informs their ability to be intimate without the negative triggers of past experiences. Through a considered and thoughtful approach, Robins offers insight into cultivating a truly integrated self so that one may lead a more fulfilling and healthful life.
Toward a New Paradigm of Sustainable Development
Authors: Jensen Jeri
Published: February 2025

The Partnership for Growth (PfG) is one of the first experiments to operationalize the Obama administration’s strategy to bring greater programmatic coherence to U.S. trade and development initiatives in four countries—The Philippines, El Salvador, Ghana, and Tanzania. A key goal was to reinforce a country-led approach, but to also bring to the development table the considerably deeper pockets of non-aid actors, as well as what they are best at bringing—the jobs, training, new businesses, domestic supply chain, and market linkages that are the fundamental ingredients of any sustainable development strategy. This report argues that PfG began the paradigm shift toward a more coordinated and sustainable development strategy by highlighting the benefits of strategic coordination across agencies at the front end of an initiative. It also brought to light the difficulty of using development resources and tools to attract non-aid actors with what is still basically a government-to-government approach to development.
Prince of Foxes
Authors: Shellabarger Samuel
Published: February 2025

Set in the early 1500s in Renaissance Italy this novel is the story of Andrea Orsini, a peasant boy who rises far and becomes a secret agent for Cesare Borgia, who entrusts him with the most delicate political, military and romantic missions, Orson Welles was cast as Borgia, Tyronne Power as Orsini in the film version.
None Shall Look Back
Authors: Gordon Caroline
Published: February 2025

A study of the hero in his archetypal struggle against death, this novel follows the Civil War in the West through the career of Confederate Rivers Allard, a Kentuckian who rides with Forrest. Southern Classics Series.
Stonewall Jackson
Authors: Tate Allen
Published: February 2025

In this vivid portrait of one of the South’s ablest (and most enigmatic) commanders, Allen Tate portrays the warrior whom Lee would mourn as "his right arm." Southern Classics Series.
The Black Student's Guide to Colleges
Authors: Beckham Barry
Published: February 2025

A must for any black high school or college student.
Leaders of Men
Authors: Venzon Anne Cipriano
Published: February 2025

What was it that transformed the United States Marine Corps from a quasi-constabulary in 1861 to one of the world's elite fighting forces by 1918? As there was nothing terribly unusual about the Corps' organization or bureaucracy, the only conclusion left is that it must have been its extraordinary people. The Civil War attracted to the USMC a handful of young men who were natural leaders. These men then trained another cohort of talented, tenacious leaders, who, in turn, molded the men who led the Marine Corps into the twentieth century.

Many of their names have faded in the brighter lights of the campaigns in the Pacific, Korea, and Vietnam, but without men like Huntington, Cochrane, and Myers, there wouldn't have been Puller, Edson, or Pace in later years. Author Anne Cipriano Venzon selected ten men whose skills and leadership clearly contributed to the formation of the ethos, which became the modern Marine Corps. By examining each man's strengths and weaknesses, the continuum of leadership from the earliest days of the Corps becomes very clear for the reader.

Based on extensive research, most of it in little-used primary documents, the biographies of the ten men featured in Leaders of Men look both at the men and their role in various engagements and events. From Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and the search for the Alabama during the Civil War to the Battle of Belleau Wood and "peacekeeping" missions in China in the 1920s, the examination of these careers will give readers a better understanding of what it means to be a Marine.
The Kubrick Facade
Authors: Sperb Jason
Published: February 2025

Many of Stanley Kubrick's films are often interpreted as cold and ambiguous. Whether viewing Barry Lyndon, 2001, The Shining, or Eyes Wide Shut, there is a sense in which these films resist their own audiences, creating a distance from them. Though many note the coldness of Kubrick's films, a smaller number attempt to explore exactly how his body of work elicits this particular reaction. Fewer still attempt to articulate what it might mean to "feel" Stanley Kubrick's films. In The Kubrick Facade, Jason Sperb examines the narrative ambiguity of the director's films—from the voice-over narration in early works, including the once forgotten Fear and Desire—to the blank faces of characters in his later ones. In doing so, Sperb shows how both devices struggle in vain to make sense of the chaos and sterility of the cinematic surface.

All thirteen of Stanley Kubrick's feature-length films are discussed in chronological order, from the little-seen and long-neglected Fear and Desire to the posthumous release of Eyes Wide Shut. Sperb also discusses Kubrick's importance to Steven Spielberg's AI. While exploring all of Kubrick's films, the author concentrates in particular on The Killing, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut.

This is also the first book-length study that focuses considerable attention on Fear and Desire and its relevance to Kubrick's larger body of work. In this respect, The Kubrick Facade is one of the first truly comprehensive books on narrative in the maverick director's films. It is also the first book to integrate a discussion of AI, and the first to fully explore the importance of the consistent visual emphasis on blank, silent faces in his post-Lolita films.
Transported by Song
Authors: Bithell Caroline
Published: February 2025

The traditions of the Mediterranean island of Corsica have been well preserved and revitalized, yet little has been written about it in scholarly circles. This work represents the first treatise on Corsican music in the English language. Transported by Song: Corsican Voices from Oral Tradition to World Stage chronicles the evolution of Corsican music from the early 20th century to the present, charting its progression from the world of oral tradition to a vibrant new performance culture maintained by an expanding cohort of cosmopolitan players. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, comprehensive interviewing, and close observation of Corsican affairs, author Caroline Bithell maps out the social, cultural, economic, and political climate of Corsica in the 20th and early 21st centuries, offering insights into the way French cultural policy, decentralization legislation, and EU funding structures have impacted musical activity on the island. Key issues are explored through case studies of Corsican performing groups, allowing the reader to appreciate the musicians' inspirations and intentions, their ability to balance local and cosmopolitan frames of reference, and the relation of their new output to 'traditional' idioms and procedures. The book also offers new perspectives on debates about music and ethnicity and gender dynamics, and explores the use of modern technology in an oral idiom, and the psycho-physiological and transcendental experiences associated with polyphonic singing. Well researched and comprehensively written, Transported by Song also includes musical transcriptions, a glossary, discography, filmography, and bibliography.