bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Faktor-Faktor Yang Mempengaruhi Minat Karir Sebagai Atlet Pada Siswa Tunanetra
Authors: Awaludin Iqbal Indra , Solikah Nur Luthfiatus , Purnamasari Ira
Published: March 2024

Pembibitan atlet disabilitas menjadi poin penting dalam mempertahankan prestasi olahraga bagi disabilitas, salah satunya dengan penggambaran minat siswa di SLB untuk memilih berkarir sebagai atlet. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui minat dari siswa penyandang tunanetra untuk berkarir sebagai atlet. Penelitian deskriptif kuantitatif ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan kuisioner, peneliti mengevaluasi siswa tunanetra (n=18) yang bersekolah di SLBN Citeureup, Kota Cimahi. Fokus pertanyaan kuisioner berupa expressed interest, manifest interest, tested interest, dan inventoried interest. Penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa siswa tunanetra yang tertarik dengan olahraga (67%) dan yang ingin menjadi atlet (50%). Secara umum, olahraga yang diminati oleh siswa tunanetra yaitu lari (33%), renang (28%), sepakbola (22%), sedangkan siswa yang tidak mengikuti olahraga (17%). Tetapi semua siswa tersebut tidak ada yang mengikuti pelatihan olahraga secara khusus. Sedangkan 67% siswa dapat menunjukkan teknik olahraga dan hanya 56% siswa yang dapat menjelaskan mengenai olahraga yang digemari, namun dari 18 siswa yang berminat dalam olahraga lari, sepakbola, dan renang tidak ada siswa yang mengikuti pertandingan dan memiliki prestasi olahraga. Dari penelitian ini siswa tunanetra yang menggemari olahraga lari, sepakbola, dan renang tidak ada yang memiliki keinginan untuk berkarir sebagai atlet. Tetapi para siswa tunanetra dapat mempraktikkan olahraga yang digemari dan mempunyai minat untuk mengikuti olahraga.

Kata kunci: Minat, paralimpiade, disabilitas, tunanetra
KRISIS MONETER 2008: PERAN PEMERINTAH DAN KEBIJAKAN ISLAM
Authors: Adelia Disyah , Zaidah Ghina Rizki , Sari Maya Eka Rahma
Published: March 2024

Krisis moneter di Amerika Serikat pada tahun 2008 disebabkan oleh adanya masalah pada kredit dibidang properti yang mengakibatkan beberapa Lembaga keuangan bangkrut. Masalah ini berdampak pada perekonomian global. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis peristiwa moneter pada tahun 2008 dan solusi yang diberikan oleh pemerintah, serta solusi yang dapat diterapkan menurut perspektif Islam. Penelitian ini menggunakan penelitian kepustakaan, sehingga metode yang digunakan adalah studi Pustaka. Pencarian studi Pustaka dengan memanfaatkan jurnal, buku, dokumen, majalah dan sumber-sumber lain tanpa adanya riset lapangan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa peran pemerintah sangat diperlukan dalam mengatasi krisis moneter. Dengan hal itu, pemerintah dan bank sentral melakukan Upaya untuk mengatasi krisis dengan cara realokasi anggaran, menurunkan harga bahan pokok yang menjadi mahal. Sedangkan solusi dalam Islam jika terjadi krisis moneter adalah dengan tidak menerapkan sistem bunga dalam pembiayaan-pembiayaan dan menerapkan zakat untuk mengatasi masalah ekonomi.
Geszár király, egy tibeti füstáldozati szöveg alapján
Authors: Windhoffer Tímea
Published: March 2024

Nincs olyan Belső-Ázsiát kutató szakember, aki ne hallott volna már Geszár király illetve Geszer kán alakjáról. Az alábbi tanulmány egy az ő tiszteletére íródott füstáldozati rítusszöveg alapján próbálja bemutatni Geszár alakját, ikonometriai jellegzetességeit. A kutatáshoz két elsődleges forrást használtam . Az egyik kézirat a Hopp Ferenc Ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum tulajdona, aminek fordításához párhuzamos szövegként a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Keleti Gyűjtemény tulajdonában lévő szöveget hívtam segítségül.
Chemisorption of toxic effluents from electroplating in residual gypsum from civil construction
Authors: Marinho Jefferson Luiz Alves , Teixeira Victor Feitosa , Teixeira Raimundo Nonato Pereira
Published: March 2024

Some industrial sectors have an index of pollutants that are more degradable to the environment, for example, the electroplating industries. The treatment of its effluents is essential before it is released into water bodies. The purpose of this work is to test construction waste as possible adsorbents of toxic metal ions. Plaster was used as study material. Specimens were made with plaster moistened with contaminated solutions of Cu2+ and Pb2+. ions. The specimens were submitted to flexural strength tests and the results showed a small decrease in the strength of this type of material when compared to gypsum moistened with drinking water. Adsorption tests were also carried out using gypsum board residues. Kinetic studies showed an adsorption of the Pb2++ ion in a time of approximately 30 minutes. The adsorption isotherm tests showed an adsorptive capacity of approximately 88 mg/g New analyses should be carried out to verify the efficiency of the adsorption of other metal ions such as Cr, Ni and Cd from gypsum as adsorbent and other construction residues.
Contabilidad ambiental para el desarrollo sostenible de una fábrica de plásticos
Authors: Ayala Rodolfo Fernando Oliver , Rivas César Daniel Paiva , Saldivar Luz Belén Mareco , Olmedo María Luisa Hermosilla de , Hermosilla Jaqueline Olmedo
Published: March 2024

La investigación "Contabilidad Ambiental para el Desarrollo Sostenible de una Fábrica de Plásticos" se enfocó la relevancia de la contabilidad en torno a fábricas de plásticos. Unidad I indagó el impacto ambiental de la industria del plástico a nivel global y local, abordando su evolución, tipos, influencia económica y efectos ambientales. Unidad II definió el desarrollo sostenible, desglosando su concepto, componentes y objetivos para lograr equilibrio económico, social y ambiental. Unidad III exploró la contabilidad ambiental, abordando su concepto, utilidad, costos, aplicaciones, reporting e indicadores de desempeño ambiental. En el marco legal, considerando leyes, decretos, resoluciones y ordenanzas en la industria del plástico y gestión ambiental, incluyendo regulaciones locales. La investigación adoptó un enfoque cuantitativo, basándose en la recopilación y análisis de datos para evaluar aspectos cuantificables de la contabilidad ambiental. Mediante un enfoque descriptivo, se dedujo conclusiones que destacaban la esencialidad de la contabilidad para impulsar el desarrollo sostenible en fábricas. Se propuso un cuestionario con preguntas cerradas, que reflejaron comprensión de la importancia de la Contabilidad Ambiental en el ámbito empresarial y su impacto en el desarrollo sostenible. Los encuestados demostraron disposición hacia prácticas contables y divulgación de información ambiental.
Selection of Staphylococcus aureus DNA replication inhibitors
Authors: Diniz Roseane Costa , Silva Luís Cláudio Nascimento da , Costa Marilene Mendes , Santos Fábio Augusto Siqueira dos , Sousa Luan Victor Pereira de
Published: March 2024

Introduction: S. aureus is an important pathogen that causes nosocomial infections, food poisoning by release of enterotoxins and toxic shock syndrome through the injection of super antigens into the bloodstream. The β-clamp protein of S. aureus is a process-promoting factor for most enzymes in prokaryotic DNA replication and its dimerization is essential for the deleterious action of the pathogen. Objective: In this work, we report the application of the double hybrid system to select β-clamp dimerization inhibitors of S. aureus from Caatinga plant extracts, especially Buchenavia tetraphylla. Material and Methods: (1) preparation of organic extracts of Buchenavia tetraphylla was prepared as previously reported (2) The β-clamp-β-clamp interaction was evaluated using a hybrid double bacterial system (BTH), based on the reconstitution of the activity of the enzyme adenylate cyclase (cya) from Bordetella pertussis and cloned in Escherichia coli. (3) The antimicrobial activity of active extracts was evaluated by determining the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) against S. aureus 8325-4 (4) To identify compounds potentially responsible for the activity, the active extracts were subjected to a non-segmented analysis by LC-MS/Q-TOF (5) The in silico studies were carried out by searching for the ligand structures, construction and validation of the 3D model of the β-clamp and molecular docking between ligands and protein target of S. aureus and the human CYP3A4 hepatic system. Results and Discussion: There was a high interaction (in the order of 4,800 kcal/mol) between buchenavianine and analogues with β-clamp with no significant difference between them. On the other hand, the interaction between buchenavianine and human CYP3A4 analogues was (of the order of 2,200 kcal/mol) following the same principles of electronegativity of the elements. The purpose of this analysis is to understand how the β-clamp protein interacts with the main human liver metabolization protein. The interaction between buchenavianine and human CYP3A4 analogues was 2 times lower than buchenavianine and S. aureus β-clamp analogues, and this shows that between the two targets studied here (S. aureus β-clamp and human CYP3A4) the ligands will be preferentially attracted to the S. aureus β-clamp, which ratifies them as viable inhibitors of the S. aureus DNA replication process. Conclusion: The combination of microbiological, chemical and computational resources allowed to indicate molecules present in the plant extract capable of interacting with the β-clamp of S. aureus. The approach presented here promotes a rational biochemical screening for ligand selection with better possibilities for subsequent bench tests, saving financial resources and optimizing results in drug research and development.
Development Of Book Selection Criteria Based On The Fifth Graders' (Boys) Reading Interest
Authors: Bonto Joanna Marie T. , Arias Mila J. , Macahilig Heidi B.
Published: March 2024

This study developed book selection criteria  based on the reading interest of Grade 5 male students.  The criteria were drawn from the results of the survey  conducted among the fifth graders from selected exclusive  boys' schools in the National Capital Region (NCR).  The participants, who belonged to two sections from  each school, were chosen randomly through the fishbowl  sampling technique. The findings revealed that Grade 5  boys have a wide range of reading interests in terms of  content, genre, and format design. They are also interested  in informational texts like almanacs, encyclopedias, and  magazines as well as realistic fiction.
Analysis of the Student Teaching Program of Selected Teacher Education Institutions and Its Alignment with the Professional Standards for Teachers
Authors: Calapardo Romelie  Ann B. , Balagtas Marilyn V. , Dacanay Antonio G.
Published: March 2024

The study analyzed the profile and  extent of alignment between the components of the  Student Teaching Program (STP) and the domains and  performance indicators of the National Competency-  Based Teacher Standards (NCBTS) as possible input to  the improvement of the program including the appraisal  system for practice teachers. Participants of the study  were three purposively selected teacher education  institutions (TEIs) in Metro Manila with 387 stakeholders  surveyed. Document analysis verified through survey  and unstructured interview examined the alignment of  the components reflected in the documents of the STP  of the sampled institutions. The study concluded that  the STP of sampled TEIs is not fully aligned with the  professional standards for teachers. Hence, a standardsbased  pre-service teacher education curriculum, STP, and  performance appraisal system for practice teachers are  recommended to address this non-alignment of the STP  components with the professional standards for teachers  and to increase readiness of the graduates of teacher  education programs to enter the teaching profession.
Australian Geomechanics – State of the Journal
Authors: Acosta-Martinez Hugo
Published: March 2024

It is my great pleasure and honour to introduce this issue of Australian Geomechanics. Following the resignation of previous Editor Bre-Anne Sainsbury, I offered to take on the Interim Editor role from the June 2023 issue to ensure continuity of the publication. The task duration has extended and based on the work completed to produce the latter three issues of the 2023 calendar year, this brief note presents some basic journal analytics, discusses current challenges facing Australian Geomechanics and aims to encourage the membership to prepare submissions for the benefit of the readership and the wider Australian geomechanics community. The sections about challenges and initiatives include references to discussions and brainstorming exercises held during my time at the AGS National Committee (2013-2019) and input from past Chairs and committee members during that period is acknowledged.
Guidance note: Assessing historic assets that are proposed to be demolished or partially demolished
Authors:   Conservation Accreditation Register for Engineers (CARE)
Published: March 2024

This note, authored by CARE in conjunction with the IStructE and ICE, is intended to provide clear guidance for engineers who are requested to inspect and report on historic assets.
Historical defects in buildings – No. 5: Wood-wool formwork
Authors: Docherty Hugh
Published: March 2024

In this latest note, Hugh Docherty discusses the use of wood-wool slabs as permanent formwork to reinforced concrete slabs and the potential problems that can arise in this form of construction.
Disaggregating Fatal and Non-Fatal Shootings in Boston, 2015-2023
Authors: Piquero Alex R. , Wheeler Andrew
Published: March 2024

Community gun violence is a serious public safety issue. Unfortunately, limitations surrounding data on shootings have made it difficult for members of the public and the research community to understand the nature and trends associated with gun violence and have also hampered policy officials' attempts to reduce the incidence of shootings. This paper makes use of shooting data from the Boston Police Department that contains the location of the shooting as well as whether the shooting was fatal or non-fatal. Results show that two police districts, Roxbury and Mattapan, account for over half of the shootings and that the risk of being fatally shot in these two districts for a black male is almost double that in other districts. Findings have implications for police allocations as well as policy interventions.
Oportunidades de mejora en el tratamiento jurídico-administrativo del secuestro y almacenamiento de carbono derivado de la gestión forestal
Authors: Durán Sánchez José Luis
Published: March 2024

Resumen:

Los bosques son piezas claves en la captación y almacenamiento de carbono. Los avances científicos en las metodologías de medición de saldos netos de carbono presentan un valor indiciario sobre la potencialidad del manejo forestal para aumentar la capacidad de almacenar carbono.

Estos avances deben tener prudente acogida en el mundo jurídico. En el presente trabajo se analizan las distintas alternativas de tratamiento jurídico administrativo de la cuestión y se contienen propuestas para impulsar la gestión forestal como medio de absorción y de obtener otras ventajas en el estado de conservación de los montes y en la prevención de incendios forestales.

Abstract:

Forests are key players in carbon capture and storage. Scientific advances in methodologies for measuring net carbon stocks provide an indication of the potential of forest management to increase carbon storage capacity.

These developments should be judiciously welcomed by the legal world. The present paper analyses the various options for legal and administrative treatment of the issue and makes proposals for promoting forest management as an absorption medium and a way to get other benefits in forest conservation status and forest fire prevention.

Palabras clave: Derecho ambiental. Gestión forestal. Secuestro de carbono. Contratación pública.

Keywords: Environmental law. Forest management. Carbon sequestration. Public procurement.
Nutritional Properties, Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activity of Seed and Peel Extracts of Grapefruit (Citrus paradisi) on Some Selected Clinical Organisms
Authors: Anyiam Ifeoma Vivian , Opara Christiana Ngozi , Ezelarry Tochi Paschaline
Published: March 2024

The need for new antimicrobial agent is linked with the emergence of strains that are restraint to most antibiotics and plants are safer alternative source of antimicrobials. This study aimed at determining the nutritional properties, phytochemical constituents, antioxidant and antimicrobial  activity of seed and peel Citrus paradisi. The test organisms were obtained from a tertiary hospital were analyzed using conventional microbiological methods. The ethanol and aqueous extracts of C. paradisi was obtained using the rotary evaporator. Antimicrobial activity was determined using agar well diffusion method. Proximate composition of seed and peel of C. paradisi were moisture, protein, ash, fibre, lipid and carbohydrates. Qualitative phytochemical constituents revealed the presence of alkaloids, saponin, tannin and flavonoids, and Quantitative phytochemical constituents revealed 19.41 mgGallic acid equivalent/g and 8.07 mgGallic acid equivalent/g of total phenols of ethanolic and aqueous peel extracts respectively. The ethanolic extract of seed had phenolic content of 3.73 mgGAE/g. The ethanolic peel and aqueous seed extracts showed higher 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) antioxidant activity of 35.32%  and 25.32% respectively. The ethanolic seed extract of C. paradisi exhibited antimicrobial activity against all the bacterial test isolates at different concentrations. At 500mg/ml and 250mg/ml, P. aeruginosa showed the mean zone of inhibition of 18mm respectively. The largest mean zones of inhibition for S. aureus and E.coli were seen at 500mg/ml and 250mg/ml with 20mm and 27mm respectively. The ethanolic peel extract of C. paradisi exhibited antimicrobial activity at 500mg/ml against P. aeruginosa and  S. aureus, with the largest zones of inhibition of 25mm and 20mm respectively. At 250mg/ml, E. coli, had the largest mean zone of inhibition of 25mm. No antimicrobial activity was observed for both ethanolic peel and seed extracts of C. paradisi against Aspergillus spp. The aqueous extract of the seed of Citrus paradisi at the different concentrations showed no antimicrobial activity against both the bacterial and fungal isolates. The aqueous extract of the peel had antimicrobial effect on P. aeruginosa at 125mg/ml with mean zone of inhibition of 15mm. At 500mg/ml S. aureus and E. coli exhibited zones of inhibtion of 15mm and 20mm respectively. No zone of inhibition was observed with Aspergillus spp. This investigation indicates the peel of C. paradisi has medicinal activity and holds the potential as therapeutic agent for treating microbial infections.
La resocialización como un fracaso inminente en el sistema penitenciario peruano
Authors: Barragán Huamán Hernán Yonathan
Published: March 2024

Hoy el Estado peruano vive una crisis carcelaria que está afectando principalmente a la dignidad de los presos, nótese que el Tribunal Constitucional, declaró esta situación como estado de cosas inconstitucional. El tratamiento penitenciario ofrecido a los condenados no es lo suficientemente idóneo esto por el hacinamiento que existe, la precaria infraestructura que posee, además las ofertas a los programas de resocialización son limitadas, lo cual hace que muchos reos pierdan la oportunidad de rehabilitarse adecuadamente, es por ello que esta investigación tiene el objetivo analizar y difundir la idea de que la técnica curativa que propone el Estado peruano es un fracaso inminente. Ahora bien, para la elaboración de esta investigación el enfoque adoptado fue cualitativo con la finalidad de estudiar la realidad en su contexto (Díaz, 2018)
Penanganan Kawasan Kumuh di Kelurahan Kutoarjo, Kecamatan Kutoarjo, Kabupaten Purworejo
Authors: Rachmawati Yusrina
Published: March 2024

Kecamatan Kutoarjo merupakan salah satu kecamatan di Kabupaten Purworejo yang masuk ke dalam SK Kumuh Bupati Purworejo. Kawasan kumuh di Kecamatan Kutoarjo berada di Kelurahan Kutoarjo dengan luasan total 48,92 Ha. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah Metode SWOT dan dilanjutkan dengan pengkajian alternatif menggunakan Teknik Bardach. Berdasarkan hasil analisis diperoleh strategi yang digunakan untuk menangani permasalahan permukiman kumuh di Kelurahan Kutoarjo yaitu dengan Penanganan fisik kawasan, melalui peningkatan jumlah rumah layak huni serta peningkatan akses terhadap infrastruktur. Strategi tersebut kemudian dijabarkan dalam program dan kegiatan serta dilakukan monitoring serta evaluasi guna mengetahui realisasi pelaksanaan program dan kegiatan yang telah direncanakan.
Analisis Pengaruh Investasi dan Ekspor Terhadap Pertumbuhan Ekonomi di Jawa Barat
Authors: Annisa Nur
Published: March 2024

Pertumbuhan ekonomi merupakan salah satu faktor penting untuk melihat kemakmuran pembangunan suatu negara. Jawa Barat merupakan provinsi yang menempati posisi pertama sebagai wilayah dengan jumlah Penanaman Modal Asing (PMA) terbesar se-Indonesia. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pengaruh Penanaman Modal Asing (PMA), Penanaman Modal Dalam Negeri (PMDN), dan Ekspor terhadap  pertumbuhan ekonomi di Jawa Barat. Penelitian ini menggunakan data time series dengan periode waktu  triwulan, dimulai dari triwulan I-2014 – triwulan IV-2021 dan data dianalisis dengan teknik ARDL serta uji asumsi klasik. Berdasarkan hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa Penanaman Modal asing (PMA) dan Penanaman Modal Dalam Negeri (PMDN) berpengaruh negatif tidak signifikan terhadap PDRB di Jawa Barat. sedangkan Ekspor berpengaruh Positif tidak signifikan terhadap PDRB di Jawa Barat.
Kajian Elemen Pembentuk Brand Identity untuk Meningkatkan Branding UMKM di Kabupaten Purworejo
Authors: Dicky Prastomo Agustinus , Lenny Setyowati Bernadeta
Published: March 2024

Bertumbuhnya brand UMKM di Kabupaten Purworejo memberi kontribusi pendapatan daerah. Artikel ini berupaya menjelaskan proses branding dari Kopi Semi terhadap potensi konsumennya. Neumeier (2013) mencatat bahwa brand merupakan produk, jasa, konsep maupun pembeda yang dikomunikasikan kepada pasar dengan penyerta identitas brand. Melalui diskusi forum terfokus, wawancara, pelacakan literatur, dan penyebaran kuesioner, Kopi Semi dianalisis secara bertingkat mulai tinjauan deskriptif, formal, interpretatif dan tahap evaluasi. Hasil riset menunjukkan bahwa Kopi Semi dan forum kopi lainnya belum optimal dalam berkomunikasi kepada konsumennya melalui identitas brand melalui logo, aktivitas berpameran yang inovatif, dan cerita yang menarik . Manfaat dari riset ini dapat memberi masukan kepada Kopi Semi dan komunitas kopinya untuk mengembangkan identitas brand yang kuat di benak konsumennya.
Tingkat Kepuasan Pengguna terhadap Pelayanan Online di Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (Studi Kasus Aplikasi Jogjakita)
Authors: Ahdarrijal Yujitia
Published: March 2024

Usaha Mikro Kecil dan Menengah (UMKM) penting dalam pemerintahan dan kunci dari perekonomian. UMKM menerapkan collaborative governance sebagai solusi pandemi Covid-19. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui implementasi collaborative governance oleh Dinas Koperasi dan UKM Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, menguji pengaruh dari regulasi, kepemimpinan, sumber daya manusia, Metode yang digunakan pada penelitian ini adalah mix method, campuran antara pendekatan kualitatif dan kuantitatif. Hasilnya penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa regulasi, kepemimpinan, dan sumber daya mempengaruhi implementasi collaborative governance dengan tingkat pengaruh yang moderat dengan nilai R-Square 0.462. Dan ditemukan bahwa variabel kepemimpinan tidak berpengaruh secara positif dan signifikan terhadap implementasi collaborative governance, sedangkan regulasi dan sumber daya manusia berdampak positif dan signifikan pada penelitian ini.
Analisis Bibliometrik Tingkat Kemiskinan di Provinsi Papua Tahun 2017-2022
Authors: Padoma Orlando , Ahdarrijal Yujitia
Published: March 2024

Kemiskinan adalah permasalahan yang terjadi di beberapa kalangan masyarakat dalam kategori menengah kebawah. Peran pemerintah perlu dilakukan untuk menekan angka kemiskinan yang semakin melanda pada saat ini apalagi kemiskinan merupakan salah satu Indeks dalam pembangunan daerah yang baik dan dalam mencapai good governance. Kemampuan masyarakat dalam memenuhi kebutuhan permasalahannya menjadi sebuah tolak ukur dalam mengetahui sejauh mana pemerintah di provinsi papua dalam berupaya meningkatkan kapasitas hidup masyarakat papua dan menakan angka kemiskinan ini. Metode penelitian ini ialah menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif melalui kajian Pustaka. Data yang telah dikumpulkan yakni dengan mengakses 40 artikel bersitasi dengan mengambil kurung waktu lima tahun terakhir dari 2017 sampai dengan tahun 2022. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwasannya tingkat kemiskinan di provinsi papua di pengaruhi oleh ketersediaan mata pencaharian yang masih kurang ditengah masyarakat yang menyebabkan banyaknnya pengangguran yang nantinya akan berakibat akan tingkat kemiskinan yang menjulang tinggi di pemerintah provinsi papua. Hal yang demikian akn memperparah dan angka kemiskinan akan semakin meningkat di daerah papua.
Políticas educativas del estado para el fortalecimiento de la participación ciudadana en el Perú
Authors: López Navarro Lindbergh , Cáceres López Roslem , Cruz Chagmani Carmen
Published: March 2024

Las políticas educativas del estado para el fortalecimiento de la participación ciudadana en el Perú han posibilitado una identificación precisa del tema de estudio en la deficiente participación ciudadana. Al respecto se preguntó ¿Cuál es la relación de las políticas educativas del estado con el fortalecimiento de la participación ciudadana en el Perú? En este contexto, se centró en establecer la conexión entre las políticas educativas estatales y el fortalecimiento de la participación ciudadana en Perú; así como se estableció que las políticas educativas del estado se relacionan en grado significativo con el refuerzo de la involucración de la población en el Perú. En ese contexto se obtuvo que el 92% reconoce que las políticas educativas estatales comprenden un conjunto de medidas destinadas a mejorar las prácticas en el campo de la educación; asimismo el 92% acepta que la participación ciudadana implica una participación activa de los habitantes en la toma de decisiones y la supervisión de asuntos relacionados con su ámbito de competencia. Se concluye que las políticas educativas del estado se relacionan en grado significativo con la participación ciudadana.
Participación Ciudadana para la dinamización de la Gestión de Residuos Sólidos Municipales de Moche, Trujillo
Authors: Espinoza Polo Francisco Alejandro , Chunga Pingo Gaby Esther , Cerna Muñoz Carlos Alfredo , Vejarano Campos Martín Desiderio
Published: March 2024

Este estudio tuvo como propósito determinar el efecto de la colaboración ciudadana en la administración de los desechos sólidos en la Municipalidad de Moche, Trujillo. El estudio es de carácter vinculativo explicativo, con bosquejo básico transeccional descriptivo vinculacional causal y se empleó un enfoque de orientación cuantitativa. La población de estudio integrada por 31,500 pobladores que residen en la zona urbana de Moche. La selección muestral fue por conformidad e interés de los investigadores. El proceso de acopio de datos fue la encuesta, y se crearon dos herramientas para tal fin, los cuales fueron: la herramienta para mensurar la participación ciudadana y la herramienta para mensurar la gestión de residuos sólidos. Los resultados encontrados en este estudio han establecido que existe un nexo enormemente significativo positivo entre la colaboración ciudadana y la administración de desechos sólidos; ya que se ha anotado un índice de vinculación de Rho Spearman de r=0,589**; como también el efecto de la primera variable en la segunda variable. Como conclusión es indispensable fortalecer acciones centradas en la colaboración ciudadana para acrecentar la administración de residuos sólidos.
PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SANITARY QUALITY OF WHEAT CULTIVARS SEEDS SUBJECTED TO CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SEED TREATMENTS
Authors: Paraginski João Antônio , Toebe Marcos , Kulczynski Stela Maris , Moraes Mariana Poll , Zanatta Thais Pollon
Published: March 2024

Brazilian wheat farming is characterized by a high occurrence of seed-transmitted diseases that can cause significant damage to grain production. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of seed treatments on the physiological and sanitary quality of wheat cultivar seeds. Seeds from three commercial wheat cultivars (TBIO Sossego, TBIO Sinuelo, and TBIO Toruk) were used, along with four seed treatments (Control, Chemical, Biological, and Chemical + Biological). The physiological quality of the seeds was determined based on first germination count, germination percentage, quantification of abnormal seedlings, shoot and radicle length, whole seedling dry weight, and emergence velocity index (EVI). The sanitary quality was assessed using the Blotter test. Overall, the chemical treatment combined with the seeds of the TBIO Toruk cultivar provided better indices of physiological and sanitary quality.
America's First Plague
Authors: Watson Robert P.
Published: March 2024

As disease spread, the national government was slow to react. Soon, citizens donned protective masks and the authorities ordered quarantines. The streets emptied. Doubters questioned the science and disobeyed. The year: 1793. The place: young America from Baltimore to Boston but especially in Philadelphia, the nation’s largest city and seat of the federal government. For 3 long months yellow fever, carried by mosquitoes let loose from a ship from Africa, ravaged the eastern seaboard The federal government abandoned the city and scattered, leaving a dangerous leadership gap. By the end of the pandemic, ten percent of Philadelphians had died.

America's First Plague offers the definitive telling of this long-forgotten crisis, capturing the wave of fear that swept across the fledgling republic, and the numerous unintended but far-reaching consequences it would have on the development of the United States and the Atlantic slave trade. It is an intriguing tale of fear and human nature, a tragic lesson of how prejudice toward blacks was so easily stoked, an examination of the primitive state of medicine and vulnerability to disease in the eighteenth century, and a story of the struggle to govern in the face of crisis. With eerie similarities to the Covid pandemic, historian Robert P. Watson tells the story of a young nation teetering on the brink of chaos.
Federalism, Preemption, and the Nationalization of American Wildlife Management
Authors: Baier Lowell E. , Baier Lowell
Published: March 2024

Environmental law expert Lowell E. Baier reveals how over centuries the federal government slowly preempted the states’ authority over managing their resident wildlife. In doing so, he educates elected officials, wildlife students, and environmentalists in the precedents that led to the current state of wildlife management, and how a constructive environment can be fostered at all levels of government to improve our nation’s wildlife and biodiversity.
The Lived International
Authors: Chan, OBE Stephen
Published: March 2024

The Lived International is a poetic account of Stephen Chan’s personal engagement in International Relations. It speaks to the inadequacy of an abstract voyeurism while the problems of the world are death, devastation and underdevelopment. Drawn from a lifetime of travel and engagement, and from both published and hitherto unpublished poetry, forming a parallel list to the author’s academic works, the book seeks to inject into debate the sense that language, spoken and written discourse alone, are not a sufficient claim to ‘bearing witness’, and that even activism from afar can often fail to understand a human condition that afflicts the majority of the world’s population. Chan demonstrates that a life of praxis, living international relations, yields more insights than a life of theory alone.
Christian Social Ethics
Authors: Nass Elmar
Published: March 2024

World events have made clear that liberal society must become more resilient in the face of totalitarian challenges. But how is liberal society to do that? In this groundbreaking work, social ethicist Elmar Nass presents the ethical and anthropological foundations of a liberal social order within a Christian conception of humanity and society in an ecumenical spirit. In doing so, Nass revives the long-neglected discussion on the ethics of order.

Christian foundations and claims are currently confronted with alternative social-ethical concepts from other religions, traditions, and social philosophies. Nass argues that Christian social ethics has a critical role to play as it engages the world.

Nass vividly discusses fundamental and concrete social challenges for human dignity, freedom and justice (such as peace, integrity of creation, euthanasia, family, social justice, digitalization, behavioral economics, and many more) in the light of the threefold Christian responsibility (before God, before oneself, before one another). He articulates ethical orientations derived with clarity from a Christian foundation of values.

The Christian social ethics system presented by Nass is a transparent value template that can be applied to ever new challenges in the present and in the future. With this understanding of social responsibility, questions of racism, migration, gender and sexuality, the environment, and public health and pandemics, among many others, can thus be addressed and answered.

Nass offers a full-throated and robust Christian position for the value discussions of our time.
Sex and the City
Authors: Evelina Nicole
Published: March 2024

An insightful look at the cultural impact of the television phenomenon Sex and the City.

Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, one word was on everyone’s lips: sex. Sex and the City had taken the United States, and the world, by storm. Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha influenced how a generation of women think, practice, and talk about sex, allowing them to embrace their sexual desires publicly and unlocking the idea of women as sexual beings on par with men.

In Sex and the City: A Cultural History, Nicole Evelina provides a fascinating, in-depth look at the show’s characters, their relationships, and the issues the show confronted. From sexuality and feminism to friendship and motherhood, Evelina reveals how the series impacted viewers in the 1990s, as well as what still resonates today and what has glaringly not kept up with the times. The world has changed dramatically since the show originally aired, and Evelina examines how recent social movements have served to highlight the show’s lack of diversity and throw some of its storylines into a less than favorable light.

While Sex and the City had problematic issues, it alsochanged the world’s perception of single women, emphasized the power of female friendship, built brands, and influenced fashion. This book looks at it all, from the pilot episode to the spin-off movies, prequel, and reboot that together have built an enduring legacy for a new generation of women.
Untangling Your Marriage
Authors: Smith Nanci A.
Published: March 2024

Divorce is hard, but it doesn’t have to be so painful. Collaborative Divorce offers a different, more peaceful path to ending a marriage; this book shows you how to do it.

Divorce is like a death in the family, except no one is bringing you food.

This book is a myth buster, and an antidote to the negative messaging about divorce. It offers hope and encouragement for the reader to choose a divorce process that aligns with their own core values. Values such as dignity, mutual respect, integrity, and compassion. It offers the reader an introduction to Collaborative Divorce, both the mindset and the process, as it has been established and practiced for the past thirty years. Collaborative divorce is an interdisciplinary, non-adversarial divorce model. It is like mediation on steroids.

Divorce is a complex process. It involves legal, psychological, and financial considerations. Collaborative divorce uses an interdisciplinary approach, and it is not dominated by the lawyers and is more cost efficient. A skillful mental health coach addresses emotional issues such as anger, sadness, rage, betrayal, guilt, shame, excitement, relief, and acceptance for everyone in the family. The financial neutral will collect, organize, analyze, and present the financial resources of the couple in a way to ensure an equal understanding of what can often feel like overwhelming amount of data. The lawyers provide legal advice.

The core focus of the book is to reframe divorce from a shame and blame game to a paradigm where divorce is viewed through the lens of grief. It offers each reader an opportunity to show up for their divorce and present their best selves, even if they don’t feel like it. It emphasizes honor and respect for everyone involved.

This book is an open and honest portrayal of divorce from the perspective of a veteran divorce attorney, who has also been divorced. We live in a time of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. A divorce is just like that, and the antidote to those conditions include concepts like collaboration, deep listening, innovation, flexibility, and an ability to pivot.

Collaborative divorce is the best kept secret of family lawyers. It is an opportunity to emerge from a divorce, healthy and wholehearted, not bitter, and resentful. Learn how to do it here.
The Myth of American Inequality
Authors: Gramm Phil , Ekelund Robert , Early John
Published: March 2024

Everything you know about income inequality, poverty, and other measures of economic well-being in America is wrong. In this provocative book, a former United States senator, eminent economist, and a former senior leader at the Bureau of Labor Statistics challenge the prevailing consensus that income inequality is a growing threat to American society. By taking readers on a deep dive into the way government measures economic well-being, they demonstrate that our official statistics dramatically overstate inequality. Getting the facts straight reveals that the key measures of well-being are greater than the official statistics of the country would lead us to believe. Income inequality is lower today than at any time in post- World War II America. The facts reveal a very different and better America than the one that is currently described by policy advocates across much of the political spectrum. The Myth of American Inequality provides clear and convincing evidence that the American Dream is alive and well.
The Hope Raisers
Authors: Suthar Nihar
Published: March 2024

The poignant and inspiring true story of three young Kenyans who fought to transform their slum and improve the lives of those around them.

Korogocho is one of Kenya’s darkest slums, plagued by gang violence, food and water shortages, and rampant pollution. Most children have no future except for scavenging through trash piles or resorting to lives of crime. One day, a boy named Daniel Onyango decided to do more, creating a band called the Hope Raisers to inspire the kids of Korogocho. His friend, Mutura Kuria, quickly joined in.

In The Hope Raisers: How a Group of Young Kenyans Fought to Transform Their Slum and Inspire a Community, Nihar Suthar tells the amazing story of how Daniel and Mutura turned the band into a platform for change. They started teaching children on the streets how to express themselves through art and established a skating team after finding a pair of rollerblades in the dump. Suthar closely follows the story of one rebellious girl, Lucy Achieng, who refused to get married off at a young age and instead used competitive rollerblading to reach for her dreams. Lucy continues to inspire girls to stand up for themselves and challenge the longstanding practices in Korogocho of early marriage and prostitution.

The Hope Raisers is an eye-opening look into a world of poverty and violence where children receive only a basic education and are left with little to no means to get out. Yet it also reveals the remarkable impact that a few determined individuals can have on their community, even in the most challenging of conditions.

Part of the proceeds from all book sales will be donated to the Hope Raisers and toward improving the slum of Korogocho.
Making History
Authors: Betz Tim
Published: March 2024

While first person interpretation and historic crafts have long been part of the museum world, current movements in the maker movement in libraries and schools have occurred mostly outside of the museum world. Instead, Makerspace in Museums: Hands-On History in Museums and Historic Sites shows the importance of the Maker Movement for museums and historic sites, and presents a roadmap to building, planning, researching, and using a makerspace alongside more traditional museum programming. It calls for a revitalization of living history, which can be done through makerspaces and the maker movement.

Highlights include:

Why museums and makerspaces are a natural fit togetherWays to organize and create a makerspace in a museum of any budgetCreating a makerspace and culture of making that is inclusive and for the entirety of the communityStrategies for researching historic making techniques and adapting them to the modern worldCreating meaningful makerspace-centered programming

The processes and methods explored in this book will help produce a sustainable makerspace that will help the museum or historic site that adopts it reach new audiences, creating growth and new museums stakeholders. Likewise, through calling for a recalibration of living history through the language of the makerspace, this project calls for new approaches to living history. Thus, it is a call for a disruption to the status quo and a push towards sustainable and meaningful living history.
Polyamorous Elders
Authors: Labriola Kathy
Published: March 2024

This book explores the unique group of elders, ages fifty-five and older, who practice some form of consensual nonmonogamy. It covers both the joys and challenges of multiple relationships for elders and explores how their relationships develop and evolve. Polyamorous elders have the complexities of juggling multiple relationships, as well as navigating all the issues of aging: managing medical conditions and disabilities (their own and/or their partners’); assuming caregiving responsibilities for aging relatives; grieving the deaths of parents, siblings, and partners; retiring from careers and starting new lives; and potentially moving into some form of senior living.

Drawing from her extensive clinical and personal experience working with this population, Kathy Labriola provides anecdotes from polyamorous elders’ lives, including the constellation of relationships surrounding each individual, couple, or triad. This guide will help health care and mental health clinicians, researchers, and professionals, as well as polyamorous elders and their loved ones, better understand the concerns and diverse lifestyles of this population to better represent and support them.
The Safe Library
Authors: Albrecht Steve
Published: March 2024

For over 22 years, Steve Albrecht has trained thousands of library employees around the country on the dos and don’ts of handling challenging, entitled, eccentric, demanding, harassing, or even threatening patrons. His articles, blogs, podcasts, and keynote speeches have helped empower equip library employees at all levels to be more empowered, assertive, and confident when helping users who are struggling with homelessness, mental health issues, trauma backgrounds, and substance use problems.

The Safe Library offers practical and realistic tools which will make every library facility a better, safer place to work. Readers will learn:

de-escalation skills,

communication tools

safe workplace habits

security measures

personal protection methods, and,

how to activate one’s best customer service skills, even under stress.

This book provides advice and support to help library employees best deal with sexually harassing patrons, unruly groups of students, thieves, Internet hogs, and others who can disrupt the safe library environment. It offers best practices for helping patrons experiencing homelessness to follow library rules while staff treat them with dignity and respect; helping staff stay motivated to deal with the same challenging patrons and their accompanying demands, day after day; protecting smaller or rural library facilities and keeping one-room, one-librarian facilities safe; working more effectively with onsite security guards and responding law enforcement officers, to create more consistent responses; and using daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly facility security checklists to regularly assess the state of your buildings and IT systems.

This book is for all levels of library employees, from longtime staffers to part-timers and even library volunteers. It will especially appeal to library directors, managers, and supervisors who have to manage different types of staffs and patrons in different types of facilities, ranging from downtown locations to rural library buildings.

Here's the book that answers the most common (and even uncommon) user behavior and customer service questions, or as many attendees have said after experiencing Steve’s dynamic training programs, “Here’s what they don’t teach you in library school.”
Atomic Friends
Authors: Keck Zachary
Published: March 2024

Should the United States prevent additional allies from developing atomic weapons? Although preventing U.S. allies and partners from acquiring nuclear weapons was an important part of America’s Cold War goals, in the decades since, Washington has mostly focused on preventing small adversarial states from building the bomb. This has begun to change as countries as diverse as Germany, Japan, South Korea, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, among others, have begun discussing the value of an independent nuclear arsenal. Their ambitions have led to renewed discussion in U.S. foreign policy circles about the consequences of allied proliferation for the United States. Even though four countries have acquired nuclear weapons, this discussion remains abstract, theoretical, and little changed since the earliest days of the nuclear era.

Using historical case studies, this book shines a light on this increasingly pressing issue. Keck examines the impact that acquiring nuclear arsenals had after our allies developed them. He examines existing and recently declassified documents, original archival research, and—for the Israel and especially Pakistan cases—interviews with U.S. officials who worked on the events in question.
Soccer Grannies
Authors: Duffy Jean
Published: March 2024

The inspirational story of an amazing group of soccer-playing South African grannies.

In rural South Africa, beloved humanitarian “Mama Beka” defied social convention and started a soccer team for the women in her community. The Soccer Grannies, as they came to be known, won over their families and villages who at first rejected the idea of older women playing soccer, and that single team quickly grew into dozens. Soon, the strength, tenacity, and pure joy of the Soccer Grannies had captured the attention of the world.

In Soccer Grannies: The South African Women Who Inspire the World, Jean Duffy, a soccer-playing mom herself, recounts how she and her team set to work to bring the Soccer Grannies to the U.S. after hearing their incredible story. Despite many obstacles that stand in their way, the Soccer Grannies finally arrive, and Jean describes the wonderful friendships and cultural exchanges that follow. But Soccer Grannies tells more than just the physical journey of the South African women; it also details the Grannies’ personal journeys, sharing poignant insights into the realities of women living in South Africa.

Life beyond the pitch has not been easy for the Grannies. They have persevered through apartheid, rampant poverty and unemployment, the loss of children to AIDS, domestic abuse, and more. But with the friendship and support of their fellow Soccer Grannies, these women face life’s challenges with dignity, humor, and hope. Their stories show to the world the power of sport and its unique ability to bring people and cultures together.